Tuesday 8 September 2009

If I could find a middle ground

Yo. Long time no blog. Quite a long time in fact, I haven't been on here in ages. Actually I don't really have any particular reason for not writing a blog, even though I do have a lot of (boring) material to blog about. A couple of weeks ago our Internet got cut off cause we didn't pay the bill, oops. Even though I could still sort of get on, thanks to whoever Belkin45 is, in dribs and drabs, its annoying to write when you could be cut off at any second, even though this auto saves every minute or so. Never mind. Haha just desperately clawing for excuses aren't I. I DON'T BLOODY HAVE ANY. Just being a lazy mofo I guess.
Anywayy, what have I got to write about. My mam woke me up at 10am today and asked if I fancied going to Redcar, so we did that. I was hoping to save save save what little money I have, but I must be easily persuaded. Better than doing nothing all day I guess. However, the downside to this was that I bought 4 dresses. I don't usually buy four dresses in four months, even though I love them. But all but one of them were from charity shops, which I guess is acceptable seeing as the most expensive one was £3.99. Anyway, I'll shut up about the dresses and save them for another post which will no doubt include pictures. Before I shut up though, I will mention the best dress of all, which I got a couple of weeks ago, from a charity shop again, but it is just so incredible, I can't wait till I get a chance to wear it. It only cost £3! And technically its not a dress, its a size 32 top. Anyway, its mainly black with loooads of bluey and green and silver sequins all over. Sounds not that nice, but the photo's will sort that out.

There is a bald cat on TV. I want to stroke one just to see what its like. It looks like a scrotum. I feel the urge to knit it a little woolly jumper, even though I can't knit cause I'm rubbish at it, and my mam gives up trying to show me how after about 3 minutes.

Uhm, anyway, on a more serious note, something happened to me today that kind of disappointed me.
I was in a Redcar charity shop with my mam, and this girl came in after us. I didn't think much of it, till we left and went into the one next door, which she also followed us into a few minutes later. I didn't actually see her face, I just sort of noticed her, she was roughly my age, maybe a little older, she was wearing, actually I have no idea what she was wearing on the top half, but on the bottom she was wearing, actually you know what fuck it, she was wearing just normal clothes I suppose, black tights, a dark blue and green tartan skirt, which was quite nice actually. She was just a bit of an Indie girl, totally normal. Then just as I was leaving the shop, I noticed that she had picked up and was looking at this sort of old lady-esq, vintage label debenhams top that I had been looking at before she came into the shop. I guess I wasn't into it enough to want to buy it, but it was pretty cool, gold and black patterned. Ohh that's why I didn't want it, I didn't like the viscosey material it was made out of.
But anyway, it just made me go "ohhh shit, Is that what I'm like?"
I don't want to be a stupid boring average indie girl. I don't want to be anything y'know, ugh it confuses my head thinking about it. When I was about 15, 16, I was a proper little mosher, wore the biggest jeans I could possibly find, proper loved the emo section of Tammy. Oh god, why am I publishing this on the Internet? No, on a serious note, what I'm getting at is, I guess I just grew out of that kind of stuff (except for listening to Blink 182) Actually I have no idea what I'm getting at, I dunno. Is this my version of an existential crisis?
Iv ran out of steam on this one now, I guess in conclusion, if I could find a middle ground between not being like everyone else, and being normal, then I would be happier. Make sense? Thought not.

I'm going to be 23 in exactly 20 days. This worries me. Maybe this is what sparked me off?! I'm not scared of another year older, I know, and feel that 23 is still proper young, even though everyone around me is a bit "wooah 23!!" I guess that's what comes from having a birthday in late September and being quite a lot of months older than everyone else in my age bracket. That's not it. What it is is, it just feels, and is, such a long time ago that I was 18, 19, and 20. I only really think of this when I think of famous people. The girl who won big brother is only 20, As if I'm 3 years older than her. Not that she's exactly famous but you know what I mean. Maybe its cause she looks older than me, I thought she was about 25. Ahh well, suck it up Bianca.

Mmm I'm pretty tired. We did a lot of walking around today. I found some ace shells on the beach, that I only just remembered, I was going to wash them when I got in, ahh well. Also we had to run for the train, it was that or wait 40 minutes for the next one. We made it in time though which was pleasant.

Blah blah, blog blog, I think this about covers it, I think I'm going to resume posting at a normal rate from now on.
P.s, If 'Anonymous boy' pays any visits to this, I wholeheartedly apologize for being a lazy procrastinating sod, and not replying to the comments! Sorry!

Adios amigo's

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

anonymous boy doesn't hold it against you - he's currently planning travelling (inc. getting an American visa...did I ever participate in any nazi war crimes despite being born in 1987... what?) so this is the first time I've checked your blog out in a bit of a while.
Yeah don't worry about the charity shop thing - generic indie girl was probably picking it up to see if it'd "fit in" with her image...as generic indie girl...whereas you probably wanted to know if it suited you and whether it was worth buying.

I'm writing for this kids' website at the moment, a few weeks ago I was typing some stuff up in a starbucks on northumberland street cos it was raining and my house reeked of paint. So as I sit there with my laptop a kid with bad hair walks in, pulls out a moleskine and sits down with a latte, before giving me a look of "Hey! You're like...an artistic type too...like me!! Yeah? Let's talk about how no-one understands us and girls don't like us and how we dance slowly to the smiths on our own at stonelove."
I went outside for a cigarette.
Ultimately it's the person you are that matters more than the stuff you wear, or your taste in writing places. You're obviously interesting because you write about everyday stuff in an interesting way. Generic indie kids...obv not. They suck the fun out of everything by making you worry you're becoming them just cos you happen to like the same stuff.
Anywayz y'aint a generic indie kid as far as I can see. You're you...and that's just fine. Definitely better than the indie girls I know. Although I never read their blogs...or listen to anything they say for that matter so who knows? And hopefully I'm better than some wannabe poet whose weekly food budget goes on extra shots, cheap fags/wine and nice notebooks that never get filled.
The middle ground's boring. Just be as much yourself as you possibly can. Cos I read that person's blog...and wouldn't if it was a boring indie cliche.

P.S I used to own a limp bizkit hoodie when I was 15. I feel your shame.

Merrick said...

Wow! Impressed by what anonymous said and I agree...:)

Bianca said...

Very sporting of ye old chap.
Bad hair kid sounds funny, maybe you should have made friends with him just for the craic, and also to sneakily find out what he was writing/drawing about.
Im over my small crisis now I reckon thankyou, Its kind of slipped my mind, not thought about it at all really. Good job I have lots of other silly thoughts in there to push it out of the way. Maybe it was the sea air doing strange things to my brain.

Limp bizkit eh, haha, thanks for joining me in my embarassing admissions. I managed to sell my blink hoodie on ebay a couple of years ago! Im glad it went to a good home, but it does beg the question, why did I keep hold of it for so long?! Hmm.
Good luck with the visa, it sounds like a right pain the arse. I think you should say yes to the nazi war crimes, Im curious as to what would happen...

Mary, thankyou toooo

Chris said...

I think... everyone cares what I think... that trying not to be like something is just as bad as trying to be like something. So just don't try.
people are probably going to sort you into some sterotype when they don't know you, like you did with generic indie girl. That doesn't really matter though, and there's better things to do than prove people wrong. probably.

Anonymous said...

anonymous' entire comment was nauseating

Anonymous said...

what...like so nauseating you read the entire thing?

Bianca said...

yeah I totally did do the same to her like I suppose. Does this count as karma?
Mmm anywayy, whats with the catfight? I actually think I know who anonymous2 is, but I doubt he'll ever come clean. No more digs unless yr gonna reveal yourself ok!?

I was gonna delete that comment when I first seen it, but I guess I left it cause I thought it would be slightly more exciting to have a bit of blog-drama. Hey, maybe it was bad hair kid from starbucks?! Anyway, I dont think the comment was nauseating, I liked it.

Laura said...

FIGHT ! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!