If the snow buries my, my neighbourhood

I would like to spam this post with snowy photographs. I think I've figured out that my camera problems were with the stupid memory card. I'm gonna have to send it back, stupid thing. So for now I'm down to taking them on internal memory which is a bit shitty cause internal memory only holds 8 pictures. Still, better than nothing right.

Chuggy






Frozen Tees

If anyone knows how to do that thing, whereby the pictures are clickable and you can see the full size images, pleeease help me out. Cause I dunno how to do it and its really irritating me. These pictures look so much nicer in their full glory.

Soo, its been snowing quite a lot, for quite a lot of time. Three weeks basically, on and off. The other week it looked like it was all disappearing for good, then another load of snow fell and it all came back again. I'm really enjoying it, at least I was till today, I think its all disappearing. For good it seems now (until next year maybe).
Today and yesterday seemed weird, yesterday it snowed a lot throughout the the night, and Saturday was really beautiful, it was all settled in the trees, in the gutter near my bedroom window, the old plant pots in the yard, every ones walls out the back. The chuggy at the end of my road (chuggy being the grassy park type area) was especially wonderful, the snow was really deep.
I attempted to make a snowman with Laura, but after about 15 minutes our feet and hands got too cold and we abandoned it. It was a small knee high mound. We planned to go back and finish it, but we ran out of time cause she had to go to work, and when we did go back some kindly folk and smashed it down. But never mind. Prior to that I went into town and down the riverside with my mam, to see the river Tees had frozen over. It was strange, but delightful. I remember when it froze over once in the 90's. Though today I read a news story about a man who died going onto the frozen river to try and get his dogs that had wandered on. The story was kind of unclear weather the dogs had fallen through, or if they just were walking on the ice and would have been fine coming back to dry land on their own. Generally I have no sympathy for people who have gone through the ice, its not like they don't know what they're doing, they should know better. But this story kind of made me feel quite sad, cause he was just trying to save his dogs. On the other hand though, he should have kept them on leads.

Anyway, today I awoke to the sound of dripping. The snow was all melting. There was still a lot of snow around, but it just didn't feel magical anymore. It had all fell from the trees, and it was sort of soggy underfoot. I would be happy if we got another huge snowfall and it all started over again.
On facebook loads of people have joined a group (lol facebook) called something along the lines of "it snowed, we loved it, now it can piss off"
People are such humbugs. We hardly ever get snow, and when we do its a miracle it even lays in the first place without melting straight away, I think this much snow should definitely be embraced and enjoyed. Theres nothing anyone can do about it, you might as well make the most of it while you can. Who knows when its gonna be like this again. Besides, didn't it always used to be like this every year, back in the day?

Anyway, the whole point of this post was that I thought it was the exact right time to post this video

The weather recently made me think of it, and I also concluded that its the worlds most perfect snow song.
Then I listened to it on repeat about 10 times, and re-concluded that maybe its the worlds most perfect song in general.

Um sure I had more to add, but I can't remember anything else now.
Blog concluded.

Im gonna make a new post soon

I figured I should make another post, It feels like its been a while. Though I don't think it has in reality.
I can't really think of anything much to put for this one. The other day I thought I'd lost my scarf, which normally I wouldn't have been too bothered about, but this one was my grandads scarf, (well a scarf my mam bought for him and he used to wear occasionally). Anyway, I found it today, by fluke, I wasn't looking for it exactly, actually I think I was looking for something else. But it was a huge relief. I had put it on my radiator, and then not so cunningly left a dress on top of that. But anyway, yep, glad I found it again, I will take more care, and tidy my bedroom more, in future.
Also on a down note, I'm pretty sure my new (since November) camera is fucked. On Sunday I took quite a few nice snowy pictures, the snow was fresh cause nobody had really been out in it. In conclusion, when I went to retrieve the pictures, they were all corrupt and I kept getting grey blanks and read errors, which was hugely frustrating. I had to format the card. Pretty gutted. Iv only really tried it a couple of times since, I can't stay with it long cause it just pisses me off too much. Sometimes I forget how much of a short fuse I have with things like this, but its pretty bad. I'll give it another go tomorrow, but I don't think its looking good. I'm not enough of a camera expert to know what to do or whats going on, but I think I'll be able to tell if its completely screwed. At least I can send it back I suppose.

On a good note, I'm starting to make a dent in the Christmas chocolates. Delicious, delicious chocolates. I hope I never become diabetic.

Sometimes I think that I'm bigger than the sound

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I think Cheated Hearts is my favourite Yeah Yeah Yeahs song.
Its really beautiful.
I love it.

Happy 2010

x

2009, elves, photo's, highlights, lowlights

Well, this is prrrobably gonna be my last blog of good old 09'.
I might make another one tomorrow, daytime, still in 09'. I might not get around to it. I don't know why I get the urge to cram in as many blogs as I can at this time of year, before the new one comes in. But ok.
Christmas wasn't bad this year. I woke up at about half 9, after about half an hour of shouting from my mam. You know you're lazy when you find it hard to pull yourself out of bed on Christmas morning.
The presents I got were pretty much just the usual stuff, chocolates, hairbrushes, socks, bath sets. There was nothing I especially wanted anyway so it wasn't disappointing. The only thing I did want, was a camera, and after not getting it for my birthday in September, I took it upon myself to just buy it when I got my first couple of elf wages in. Good craic.
Here's some photo's from the big day.

That's my dog Roxy, she loves ripping open presents, in this case my tin of heroes (did you know they now do creme egg twisted in there? Ace) Anyway yeah, Roxy, we wrapped up a present especially for her, but she opened it so quick I didn't get chance to snap it.

My mam and my auntie

Me looking like an ugly moonface. Good camera skills mam.


I'm only just realizing I didn't take that many pictures on crimbo day which is kind of a shame.
I'll just give you some others from the few days before or after Christmas. It snowed which was pretty lovely, it was even more lovely that it actually laid and didn't melt and then snowed even more.

These are from the sort of park, I guess, that's at the end of my street. Its not a proper park, its just a big sort of green, with a burnt out church in the middle. The church is just a ruin now, and its got a big fence around it so you cant get in, but last year and this year they held a kind of carol service in it one night a few days before Christmas, both times iv missed it for some reason, but I did see it prepared once, they'd put loads of lights inside and it looked really beautiful.

Here's some pretty immense icicles on a building in town.

Alright, I'm thinking I should break this up with a bit of text now. I was having a proper Killers fest earlier on when I was writing this, they're my total guilty pleasure, I know you shouldn't feel that way about bands you genuinely like, but I dunno, I think most people think they're lame. But not me, I love them, and I ain't afraid to admit it. Booyah.
So.
This year went fast, really fast on reflection. But it wasn't that great. I remember this time last year saying "I can't wait for 2009, cause 2008 has been shit". But oh well. Biggest disappointments of 09 for me include

- Lack of Leeds (or any) festival

- The post office in town having a total overhaul and losing the little desk at the front, and consequently losing the amazingly hot boy that I used to sneak a peek at whenever I went past. truly disappointing.

- Halloween being a total fail

-Lack of sprouts for Christmas dinner, I love them, and we had none. Gutted.

-MJ being dead

-nikki grahame not being.

On the other hand, highlights include

-my electric blanket

- mysterious valentines roses

-Yeah yeah yeahs gig

- Summer being pretty nice, weather wise

-Finding some pretty good things in charity shops

That about does it for lights. I've come up with a couple of resolutions for new year -

-Try black pudding. Not sure it counts as a proper resolution, but its something I really want to do. Because it smells amazing, and everyone says its really nice. I've just never been able to bring myself to even contemplate eating blood. But I will concentrate on how nice it smells. Maybe I'll discover my new favourite food.

-Learn to do the splits, cause I was at work the other week when I absent mindedly started sliding my feet across the floor in opposite directions in my slippy curly elf shoes. Anyway, I got pretty far down, my fellow elf Lauren said I'd got all the way down but I'm not sure I quite managed that. But I figure if I do it often enough, stretch the muscles and that, I can probably train my legs to do it, right? I'll try anyway, its gotta be more successful than my "handstand-a-day" idea. I did do handstands each day for a few weeks, but then I just let it go. I think splits will be easier, cause it takes less energy.

-Don't feel stupid taking photo's of things in public places. That ones pretty self explanatory.

-Get around to creating my bedroom exactly how I want it

-Drink more Vimto


I think that about covers it for wall of text. I'll bombard you with more photo's now. Elf photo's. I only thought to take my camera to work on my last day, such a doyle, I should have took it on various days and got pictures with everyone else. Anyway, these ones are of me, Lauren, and Stuart.

Inside the grotto

Converse under elf shoes makes for nice warm feet

It was nearly home time, on the last day, the postbox was too tempting

Im really gonna miss being an elf. I had a really good time there. Also I discovered dressing as an elf gets you hit on quite a lot. Theres and handy hint for anyone looking for love in the new year.
I hope everyone had a good christmas

x

P.s, I forgot to add the best photo of all, I didn't get a good one cause I was in a car at the time. This is in Darlington.

Yep, someone built an igloo. That might just have been the best thing I've seen all year, its genius. It would never have crossed my mind to build an igloo, but its so much cooler (no pun intended) than a snowman. Next time it snows, im gonna attempt to make one of these.

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All I want for Christmas

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is Lou...

(...is Garrel)

SHUT THE DOOR!!

When I was a kid, my first sentence was "shut the door".
But its a good sentence, I use it all the time, this is because my mam always goes out of the room and leaves the door open, Ironically (I think, I'm a bit unsure of how to use "irony" despite getting a B in English), whenever she's on the cordless phone, she never leaves the room and talks all over the T.V.

Anyway, that's pretty much all I've got on closing doors. I just find it amusing that it was my first sentence, and doors being left open, especially on cold December evenings, is of my pet peeves.

December is almost over, I've kind of neglected the ol' blog. But I'm gonna come back to it soon, in case yr interested.

Yeah Yeah Yeah's.com photo section

I have reached nirvana.

I know I should probably have celebrated my 100th blog post with something deep and meaningful or whatever, but Nick Zinner is more than worthy.
I said GodDAMN!