Teacakes and Coffee...

...a combination of ninja migranes and exam prep has meant i've barely been online for the past month or so xD.

Over the next few weeks i'll be moving over to maffyteacake , as the name's become available again and it irritates me that my lj doesn't match my name elsewhere on the web (OCD, much?). Hopefully i'll be a lot more active over there, also! 8D 

It is 10.30 and history coursework due in 1 hour = bad.

100 words under the 3,000 word limit = good!

Coursework is worth 30% of my total A2 History grade = baaad.

History techer told me everything is looking good except for the typos ( -_- ) = very good!

Still only have half a conclusion = baaaaaad.

asdfghjkl CAN I HAS 12 PM ALREADY? Dx

So, I managed to balls up my pre-pancake day dinner (I would be stuffing myself tomorrow, but I'm going up to liverpool to see the uni, whoo!) spectacularly, because SOMEONE put self-raising in the flour jar when I thought it was plain. Pancakes made with self-raising flour = FAIL. I managed to cook three but they were icky and slimy inside becase the stupid things rose in the pan and wouldn't cook properly.

8<



Alsooooo ~ I have an etsy shop! www.teacakestudios.etsy.com 8D! There are a few earrings and fandom inspired things there, namely Shockwave and the Fallen bracelet sets, and i'm hoping to have some books and things up by the weekend, once I get Liverpool out of the way.

Because I was tagged by rezykel ~

1.Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures.
2.Pick the 4th picture in that folder.
3.Explain the picture.
4.Tag 5 people to do the same.



( That looks dangerous... )Also nicked from rezykel ~

SNAPS FROM EVERYDAY LIFE:
Want to see something in my everyday life? Request with what you'd like me to take a picture of. It can be anything you want. My car, my favorite soft toy...anything! (Faces not included.) You can request as many as you'd like. I'll post the pictures in the comments after a few days!

We had to put our last rat, Galinda, out of her misery this evening. She had a huge tumour on her stomach, and we don't have £50 for the vet to put her down, so...

:(.

So, there seems to be an image of the Moviefied Fallen out on the interwebs now - I say seems to be because I'm not sure it's been confirmed yet. But if it is the Fallen, and that's how he's going to look in TF2? LOOOOOL.

Have a look for yourself here. (Holy armpits, batman!)


All I think of when I look at this pic is how much he looks like these guys. Separated at birth, maybe?

I don't think I'll be taking this movie very seriously, somehow. xD

EDIT: Doing some more hunting around, and PLEASE GOD NO. Just....no.

.........no.

Coming to the end of a particularly crappy few weeks for me. First, getting stuck with increasingly late shifts at work which left me exhausted for the next couple of days afterwards,  and by the time I felt awake again it would be another evening of pulling nonstop pints of Fosters.

Then I lost my job last thursday, which while solving the above problem nicely,  leaves me with the problem of finding another job in this shit economic climate. :/ Manager guy was really nice about it - we're social outside of work so I knew he was uncomfortable with letting me go, but as the last person hired, i'm automatically the first person to go.

Started looking for jobs over the weekend, and I even went back to good ol' Past Times (ha!), but they were cutting back staff already, so no luck there. I do have an interview at the Wetherspoons pub in the next town over on wednesday, which has cheered me up a bit, but I don't know how flexible they are with their hours as they're a huge national chain, so I'll see how that pans out over the next couple of days.

In other news-  James And Oz drink to Britain is amazing, and i've been killing myself that it's on on thursday evenings when i'm usually working. I'm just waiting for them to come down to Hertfodshire to try some AK (McMullen's - the pub I work in- signature beer, which they tote as being one of Britains oldest beers that is still in regular supply), and if this ever happens, James gets 1,000,000,000 bonus points if he describes it as disgusting. Which it is. 8)

Weird Al. Yep. 8D. Oh, and Anita Roddick, awesome mad lady who founded the Body Shop. Let's just say October 23rd makes some weird and wonderful people....>>....

(Also - I share my birthday with the guy who sung for Tarzan in the broadway show. Gah, he has such a nice voice...)

Also~ a meme! Nicked off of Siri.....

( Movie meme... )

I don't think i've ever been this sick in my life Dx. A week and a half, and three trips to the doctors, and I'm still feeling no better. Only good thing is that now it's developed into the mother of all ear infections, I have the good drugs. Mmmmmm, drugs....

School is going to kill me when I finally go back. :/

- Make 3 trays of truffles, one for the Watford Past Times Crew, one for school people, and one for work.
- Make christmas cake. (D8!)
- Gifties~ two iPod nano cases, two cube wallets, four tea wallets and a set of beaded jewellery.
- Fold ten origami gift boxes.
- GET 20 MORE XMAS CARDS.
- Get 20 brown paper bags from somewhere (might raid Boots if they'll let me...).
- Decorate room.
- Brush up on carols/xmas songs for SUPER MEGA XMAS KARAOKE COMPETITION. 8D
- A lot more things that i've probably forgotten....

Busy december is busy. Dx. At least my UCAS form has finally been sent off, and all I have to do now is wait for the offers to come in. 8) 

First up: the new profile page. Just......ew. LJ /really/ needs to realise how jarring the whole "EVERYTHING IN ITS OWN LITTLE BOX YAY 8D!" this is. :/

Second: WTF SCHOOL? Not only do you schedule the school nurse to give us all the "sex talk" AGAIN, you organise a chlamidya test for everyone in the sixth form. AND THEN YOU DON'T TELL US UNTIL THIS MORNING? Now, I'm /really/ sure I don't have it. No, really, since that requires y'know, having sex? I don't care how much of a 'scene' I have to make, i'm not queing up with the rest of the year with my pee in a cup.

D:<

Happy Birthday to me. :3


Out for birthday drinks with Dad in an hour, then Wagamamas and drinks in the Sibthorpe tonight. BBL 8D.

I've shown these to a couple of people, but I figured I'll put them up for other people to see.

( Pretties! 8) )
And since it's been circulating around my flist, a meme ~

( I've got the money, I've got the place... )

So, it's my 18th birthday a week on thursday. I had planned to have this day off school, and had already informed my music teacher. Now however, some plans have changed, and it turns out that if I /did/ have the day off, i'd be completely alone for most of the day.

.....do I spend my 18th birthday taking notes on baroque composers at one school, when all my friends attend another that day? Or do I spend it at home, or out, alone?

....help?

YESSS!   http://www.silvascreen.com/?p=116  (Still in long-hand link format because stupid vista is stupid -_-)

CAN'T. WAIT. 8D! OOD SONG FTW!

I think last night was one of the worst nights of my life. It started with a happy trip up to liverpoool...and ended with my mother, sister and I racing across the country to get back home.

Long story a little bit shorter, Liverpool University had their open day today, so were were going to go up to see it. Because it was so far away, we were going to drive up friday night, stay at my mum's fiancee's in Staffordshire, then make the last bit of the journey by train in the morning. Well, as my mum damaged her elbow and can't drive, David, my mum's fiancee, decided he would drive down and take us back to Stafford.

Cue one of the most /frightening/ car journeys ever. We nearly crashed into stationary traffic on the motorway at 70 mph because David 'forgot' to slow down, as "we were distracting him". Bracing yourself for a full on collision is not being distracting, idiot. Once we reached his house, we realised that he hadn't cleaned since he moved in two months ago. /At all/. It had been agreed before that me and my sister would be sleeping in a 'cabin' in the garden....which turned out to be a shed. A shed in which there was NO WAY you would fit two air mattresses and a portable heater. So we said we'd just sleep on the living room floor, thank you very much. And what happened then was the clincher- he point blank refused to have us (me and my sister) in the house, unless we were eating. It was the shed or nothing. My mum got really pissed, and said we'd find a hotel for the evening, if David could give her a taxi number. He just left the house without a word. Got in the car, and drove off.

We cleaned up the living room a bit, and sanitised the kitchen so it was possible to cook in there, thinking that if we've cleaned up he won't mind so much if we stayed in the living room, but no. He came back, asked my mum if she'd decided what she was going to do, and my mum asked again if we could stay in the living room. He refused, saying it "wasn't his job to pander to us". So we gathered together all our stuff, and started walking to the train station, intending to get the next train back to london. We managed to get a train to Euston, and then a train home from King's Cross, still carrying all our baggage (made slightly easier by the luggage trolley we stole from Euston station 8D!). We got quite a few weird looks as we trudged through the streets of London at 1am looking like we'd just done a runner.

The worst thing, though? Just as we were leaving David's, my little brothers showed up. It's a bid depressing when a ten year old can see /exactly/ what's going on, but his father can't. :<

A month from today i'll be a legal adult.

That's just scary. I feel like pulling a peter pan and staying in denial until i'm 30. 8).

-APLSKDJFHGJKL  0_0

Performing for the Queen in November.

(Can has nervous breakdown now plz? D:  We have /no/ music, and just found out about it today!)

Why is it impossible for me to find a university that I actually like, barring the one that I absolutely adore and cannot find anywhere else similar?

No, Past Times.

FUCK NO. D8<

Seriously, are they that incapable of ADDING correctly? I suspect they are. >8/