Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Task for today...
Do you know where the quote below came from? Leave me a comment if you do. Warning: be prepared to be branded a geek if you know the answer! All will be revealed in a few days time!
Monday, June 26, 2006
Here's to the Crazy Ones
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Cute...
I hope Karen doesn't mind me stealing this and putting it up here! I just thought it was really sweet and a cool picture! I think it's an ad for converse or something!
Friday, June 16, 2006
Paris Photos
Well, our Flickr account is now up and running. So for Paris photos click on this link: www.flickr.com/photos/paris2006/
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Well I've finally mustered the energy to recount some things from Paris - I'm off work sick today (I know it sounds suspicious since I'm only back from my holidays, but I really am, I almost threw up in the shower!!). Some highlights from our trip:
Brian who wanted us to spend an hour in the park with him (we didn't by the way)
Antonio who made fun of my french but he said my name nice so he's forgiven
The old man on the train who was a source of all knowledge, showing us where Diana had her accident etc, but who then told us to 'have lots of white children' :-?
Our friends from America/Mexico who said we were the first girls they had met who didn't like to go clubbing
Sudden gusts of wind at Versailles which almost blew up my skirt - it took three of us to hold it down!!
Ok they were the funnies, now for some of my favourite places:
Versailles/Palace of Versailles. If you are in Paris for any more than a few days you HAVE to go here. The house is amazing (where the Treaty of Versailles was signed) but the gardens are the best. Versailles itself is also nice although we didn't see much of it. It takes a whole day but it's so worth it!
The top of the Eiffel Tower. I didn't like the journey on the lift much but the top was great, espcially the view. I don't understand why people propose up there though (aparently Tom Cruise did), I didn't find it that romantic, it was quite industrial looking! Romantic would be a cruise on the Seine (which we also did and it was fab too!)
The Metro. It's fantastic and so easy to use. We are now experts having taken at least two journeys a day so if you want to know how to use it, just ask me, Gayle or Lisa!
The Hobby Horses at Sacre Couer, they were just so old, and double-decker too!
Galleries Lafayette: our local department store was amazing. My favourite shop of all time, I spent most of my money there! To be honest our wee area (the Opera) was much better for shopping than the Champs Elysees (although you still have to go there for the experience). The Champs Elysees mainly consisted of cafes, car shops, cinemas, at the most 5 designer shops and about 6 or 7 shops like Virgin Megastores and Gap.
My other favourite shop was Sephora, a wee perfume/makeup/bodycare shop. When I say wee, it was actually massive (at least the Champs Elysee one was) and they sold every brand even Stila and such, but their own brand was the best, very reasonable as well!
Where I didn't like:
The restaurant where we ate on Sunday night, Lisa's chicken had blood in it and the waiter was very rude. I can't quite remember the name but I'll tell you where it is if you're going to Paris - avoid it like the plague!
Climbing up to the dome of the Sacre Couer. Don't attempt if you dislike any of the following: narrow enclosed spaces, winding staircases, dark places, dusty places, grafitti, spiders. To be fair i didn't actually see any spiders but it will be your constant thought if you are scared of them. I almost had a panic attack on the way up i think, and the stairs just kept going up and up! The view from the top was good and I took the time to recover and take some photos before running back down!!
Brian who wanted us to spend an hour in the park with him (we didn't by the way)
Antonio who made fun of my french but he said my name nice so he's forgiven
The old man on the train who was a source of all knowledge, showing us where Diana had her accident etc, but who then told us to 'have lots of white children' :-?
Our friends from America/Mexico who said we were the first girls they had met who didn't like to go clubbing
Sudden gusts of wind at Versailles which almost blew up my skirt - it took three of us to hold it down!!
Ok they were the funnies, now for some of my favourite places:
Versailles/Palace of Versailles. If you are in Paris for any more than a few days you HAVE to go here. The house is amazing (where the Treaty of Versailles was signed) but the gardens are the best. Versailles itself is also nice although we didn't see much of it. It takes a whole day but it's so worth it!
The top of the Eiffel Tower. I didn't like the journey on the lift much but the top was great, espcially the view. I don't understand why people propose up there though (aparently Tom Cruise did), I didn't find it that romantic, it was quite industrial looking! Romantic would be a cruise on the Seine (which we also did and it was fab too!)
The Metro. It's fantastic and so easy to use. We are now experts having taken at least two journeys a day so if you want to know how to use it, just ask me, Gayle or Lisa!
The Hobby Horses at Sacre Couer, they were just so old, and double-decker too!
Galleries Lafayette: our local department store was amazing. My favourite shop of all time, I spent most of my money there! To be honest our wee area (the Opera) was much better for shopping than the Champs Elysees (although you still have to go there for the experience). The Champs Elysees mainly consisted of cafes, car shops, cinemas, at the most 5 designer shops and about 6 or 7 shops like Virgin Megastores and Gap.
My other favourite shop was Sephora, a wee perfume/makeup/bodycare shop. When I say wee, it was actually massive (at least the Champs Elysee one was) and they sold every brand even Stila and such, but their own brand was the best, very reasonable as well!
Where I didn't like:
The restaurant where we ate on Sunday night, Lisa's chicken had blood in it and the waiter was very rude. I can't quite remember the name but I'll tell you where it is if you're going to Paris - avoid it like the plague!
Climbing up to the dome of the Sacre Couer. Don't attempt if you dislike any of the following: narrow enclosed spaces, winding staircases, dark places, dusty places, grafitti, spiders. To be fair i didn't actually see any spiders but it will be your constant thought if you are scared of them. I almost had a panic attack on the way up i think, and the stairs just kept going up and up! The view from the top was good and I took the time to recover and take some photos before running back down!!
Flickr address
Ok, we've got a flickr address (there's nothing on it yet so don't be rushing to check it!!). But when we do post our photos the address will be: www.flickr.com/photos/paris2006
Our Fantastic Holiday
I just got home from Paris yesterday, it was amazing! There's too much really to write about in my blog but I'm sure I'll tell you all about it when I'm talking to you! The plan is to put all our photos together and create a joint flickr site about our Paris trip (with captions!), so I will let you know when that's up and running. I'll put a wee taster photo up here tho!
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Bushmills Photos
Ok, so this is actually being posted on 14 June but just to keep things in chronological order (that's a big word for my blog!) AND SO THE PARIS STUFF GETS AT THE TOP, I put this date on it!! So here we go, the photos from our wee birthday North Coast trip:
You might not be able to see it but I'm wearing the sparkly thing from our icecream in my hair! This was saturday night in Morellis, was far too cold and windy to go near a beach!!
I really enjoyed my icecream sundae, even though I only ate a third of it!!
Sunday morning at the beach
I love the beach...
doing the Baywatch run... (shoes in tow!)
Lisa and Gayle at the wee cafe in Ballintoy - believe it or not there were more photos of lisa than this one, but she deleted them before they reached my computer.
Me and Gayle in the cafe
This wee dog was so funny! We had stopped in Cushendun after navigating Torr Head (not as scary as people made it out for the first half of the journey, but there were some hairy moments when passing cars on a hill later on!). Anyway the pooch trotted alongside us as we were driving out of the harbour, the poor wee thing was struggling to keep speed with the car but it kept going till the end of the road. Bless!
Monday, May 29, 2006
Girls on Tour
I was in portrush at the weekend. I FORGOT MY CAMERA!! So will have to wait until lisa and kerry send me their photos and then I will post photos and related stories!
Monday, May 22, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
I didn't want to make a big deal of this...but...I'M 21 NOW!!!! As of last thursday I became a proper grown up. Just don't expect miracles where maturity is concerned. ;)
I went out for dinner on Friday night with my family to Tony Romas. The food was amazing, I even tried a rib and it was nice! But the cheesecake...ooh it was to die for, but please don't, cos I love you people really! Here's some pictures, I'm afraid you'll have to be content with looking at me, because noone else would let me put the pictures on the web!!
in the cocktail bar waiting for a table.
At dinner
I went out for dinner on Friday night with my family to Tony Romas. The food was amazing, I even tried a rib and it was nice! But the cheesecake...ooh it was to die for, but please don't, cos I love you people really! Here's some pictures, I'm afraid you'll have to be content with looking at me, because noone else would let me put the pictures on the web!!
in the cocktail bar waiting for a table.
At dinner
I thought this was really artistic - fanta orange and soda and lime.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Yet again I'm up late doing work. This is not because my work has taken me extra-long to do (although at the rate i'm going it will) but because at 11oclock this morning i went to shop for a new top for the spring concert on Thursday nite and didn't get home till 5, then it took me the usual 4 hours to get started (if i was home at 12 that would have been 4 oclock ...) so here I am. I actually think i'm going to leave the assignment now for a bit and do all the other bits and pieces so ALL I have to do is juggle assignment and Cinderella practices. So right now I'm away to make a crown. Starting to be glad I'm Prince Charming now as my costume requires a lot less work than, for example, the ugly stepsisters.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Right this is the part where I tell you what's been happening in my life recently. I haven't been writing much about that for a while, because, well my life's been really boring and I wouldn't want to subject you to that, I also haven't got LeeAnne's knack of making the mundane sound really interesting!! But I haven't been that boring this week so I'll tell you about it.
For one of my modules this semester we have to put on a short play that could be performed by Key Stage One pupils (that's P1-P3 for all of you not in the know!!) Our group consists of me, jenny f, joanna, julie, jenny k, and steph so we hadn't really much of a chance from the start of being motivated enough to work until the last minute. But we did have enough randomness to make a very interesting play. We decided very early on what we were doing, so make way for the ALL singing, ALL Dancing, VERY Artistic and RHYMING CiNdErElLa!! I'm now very excited. Two days ago all we had was a script for rhyming Cinderella off the internet, and we had decided who was who etc (by the way I'm Prince Charming, not sure how I'm going to pull off the macho look, but we'll see...) but since then everything has just fallen into place and we have a whole play with lots of dances and songs and (a few overenthusiastic [in a good way] ugly sisters, a pair of most annoying blisters - jen and juls ;-) ) So anyway, we all decided yesterday afternoon that we'd go to Jenny F's about 9 to make some props and practise. Surprise surprise EVERYONE was free (which is very rare in our group). Bear in mind this was very last minute and inbetween I had to be in stran until 4 then do 4 hours work and manage to feed myself into the bargain. Anyway I got there about 9.30 with some gravy chips, Jenny was also in the middle of cooking delicious naan bread pizzas and we got the whole thing almost sorted. So we decided to keep working on and just stay over at Jenny's (with no pjs, no clean clothes, no anything in fact i slept in the same clothes I wore for the first half of today - hate that like!) You're probably getting bored by now so I'll take a new paragraph.
Result: I think i had at the most 3 hours of sleep on a settee. Interesting event from the night - driving over the Hightown road in the fog at midnight. Especially on the way back as the guy in front was driving really slowly and at the start of the road kept turning back and looking at us. This was really spooky as you can guess and it got even worse when we got into REALLY REALLY thick fog......which turned out to be smoke.......anyway, it turns out the guy wasn't trying to be freaky but just didn't know the hightown, at least we assumed that because we're still alive!
Today I went down to Claire's wee school to play piano for them. I love that school, there's only 3 teachers and one of them's the principal and everything's just so informal. If I ever get a job i want to work in a school like that.
For one of my modules this semester we have to put on a short play that could be performed by Key Stage One pupils (that's P1-P3 for all of you not in the know!!) Our group consists of me, jenny f, joanna, julie, jenny k, and steph so we hadn't really much of a chance from the start of being motivated enough to work until the last minute. But we did have enough randomness to make a very interesting play. We decided very early on what we were doing, so make way for the ALL singing, ALL Dancing, VERY Artistic and RHYMING CiNdErElLa!! I'm now very excited. Two days ago all we had was a script for rhyming Cinderella off the internet, and we had decided who was who etc (by the way I'm Prince Charming, not sure how I'm going to pull off the macho look, but we'll see...) but since then everything has just fallen into place and we have a whole play with lots of dances and songs and (a few overenthusiastic [in a good way] ugly sisters, a pair of most annoying blisters - jen and juls ;-) ) So anyway, we all decided yesterday afternoon that we'd go to Jenny F's about 9 to make some props and practise. Surprise surprise EVERYONE was free (which is very rare in our group). Bear in mind this was very last minute and inbetween I had to be in stran until 4 then do 4 hours work and manage to feed myself into the bargain. Anyway I got there about 9.30 with some gravy chips, Jenny was also in the middle of cooking delicious naan bread pizzas and we got the whole thing almost sorted. So we decided to keep working on and just stay over at Jenny's (with no pjs, no clean clothes, no anything in fact i slept in the same clothes I wore for the first half of today - hate that like!) You're probably getting bored by now so I'll take a new paragraph.
Result: I think i had at the most 3 hours of sleep on a settee. Interesting event from the night - driving over the Hightown road in the fog at midnight. Especially on the way back as the guy in front was driving really slowly and at the start of the road kept turning back and looking at us. This was really spooky as you can guess and it got even worse when we got into REALLY REALLY thick fog......which turned out to be smoke.......anyway, it turns out the guy wasn't trying to be freaky but just didn't know the hightown, at least we assumed that because we're still alive!
Today I went down to Claire's wee school to play piano for them. I love that school, there's only 3 teachers and one of them's the principal and everything's just so informal. If I ever get a job i want to work in a school like that.
I Won A Photography Competition Once
I think this picture is genius (if I do say so myself)!! You won't really understand the true genius until i explain what it is. It is a picture of the sea taken through a drainage hole in the wall around the carpark opposite Ballygalley (is that how you spell it?) castle. You can imagine the way i had to sit to get that picture (the hole is at the bottom of the wall) but i just felt like doing it. The only thing I don't like is that there isn't enough sea (because I just couldn't lie down in the middle of a carpark) and the background isn't in focus. This is a question for any photography experts... I know that to focus on the object that's not the automatic focus of a picture, you point the camera at it, focus, and then move before taking the picture. But in the case above, would I have had to put the camera on the other side of the wall, focussed, and then brought it back to take the photo??
Friday, April 21, 2006
Thicket's New Website
It's not quite finished but now we have one - click on the link to keep up to date with our happenings!!
Was trying to get the actual photo but it was a bit small when I copied it off the website!!
Friday, April 14, 2006
I promised photos of us at Springsteens last Thursday night so here is the only one worthy of putting up - the one of me and gayle is censored cos it's not a good photo of me, I'd rather you kept thinking I always look as good as in the photo below!! So here are my two good friends Lisa and Gayle. The three of us are going to Paris in June - how exciting!!! So they'll have to put up with me for a whole week, can you imagine it!! (Put up - hah! Who wouldn't want to spend a week with the sugar plum fairy who never stops talking...) Anyway, must go here I have to clear my bed before sleeping in it. Always. I just can't keep my room tidy and would love some tips on how to do this without too much effort...
Monday, April 10, 2006
Wedding Photos
Me and LeeAnne went to a wedding party on Friday night and thought we'd get a photo of ourselves, we tried various DIY photos (see below for the outtakes) but eventually gave up and had Danielle take our photo instead!
Baby Got Bible...
Not to be outdone by Dermo, here's my link on my own site! Big bibles are in folks!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Lisa and Laura's Road Trip!
Today I had a few things to do and got out of school at 12.30 so I asked Lisa to come along with me for a bit of fun. First of all we went to Abbeycentre and had lunch in O'Brien's. Lisa got a lovely chicken and stuffing wrap and I got a toastie which was supposed to be on white bread but ended up on brown bread, but sure that doesn't matter. Lisa thought she was me for about five minutes because she managed to spill our milk AND break a cup (now granted the table was wobbly!) She was very upset but I did tell her not to cry over spilt milk. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture, it would have been very funny! Then we went into Next because I had to get Kim and Trev a pressie for wee Josh, but I'll not put up a picture of it because that would be silly and also they might read this before I get to see them!! As it turned out, Lisa didn't know we were going to Town as well but she didn't need to be home till 5 so we went anyway.
First stop was Debenhams as I had to get a refund for my mum, this proved more difficult that I thought because apparently you can only get an exchange on something that's been reduced by 50% or more - I've only ever heard of not getting a refund in the sale in wee poky shops, like NV or one-off shops, but... Anyway, moving on, we heard a wee announcement that some guy was giving out free knives at a stand on the first floor. Now ordinarily I wouldn't really go for those things (ok some freebies, yes, but not a knife that I'll never use), but I happen to know how good this knife is - my mum got one about 2 years ago and it's brilliant so I thought I'd get her another one or else keep it in case I ever move out and persuaded Lisa to do the same. So we stood and listened to this man and watched him cut a hammer with the bigger version of this knife and so on and eventually he started handing out the free knives. And he had the cheek to ask was I over 21!! Silly me answered, 'yes but i know i don't look it' and then realised, hold on that's the answer I give for being over 18!! haha! But he was really nice and gave mine to Lisa for me (because he's giving them out free he's not allowed to give them to under 21s.) It's ok, I'll be 21 in just over a month anyway.
Well we went to Marks and Sparks to get another refund and then on to Boots so I could buy foundation and I had a wee browse while we were there. I got very excited because they FINALLY have Carmex in a tub and not a tube!! This is monumental because nowhere has had Carmex in ages (too many people becoming addicted) and those that had only had the tubes! Here is a picture of the king of all lipbalms that I haven't been able to get in months...
Gayle and I were just commenting tonight that it smells a little different, but I don't care as long as it keeps my lips soft!
Lisa and I both got very excited in Topshop and found that it's always when you have no money that the nicest things come out in the shops! There were so many things we could buy for Paris (did I mention I'm going to Paris??) We went to Oasis and then Next and suddenly realised that it was 4.20 and we had to leave (aww...) so we just went back to Castlecourt and drove all the way home.
Went to Springsteens tonight to meet up with Gayle who couldn't be a part of our road trip because she was being a good girl and revising (which I should be doing but leaving it until next week). I've a photo of us in Springers but it's not on the computer yet so will maybe add it with my next post!
Tomorrow night LeeAnne and I are going to a wedding party to boogie away, maybe get some photos to put up, Lisa is going to take a photo of us before we go anyway - I think we should do a before and after shot, just in case I repeat my antics of New Years Eve. Or not. (you'll have to be a friend of LeeAnne's to see that link - sign in with your hotmail address to find out if LeeAnne likes you or not ;-) ) Anyway, "Jarek" gets his wish - see the comments on this post - Jarek was a little joke of LeeAnne's designed to wind me up in case you're wondering. He doesn't exist. Well maybe he does but we don't know him and he didn't post on my blog!!
First stop was Debenhams as I had to get a refund for my mum, this proved more difficult that I thought because apparently you can only get an exchange on something that's been reduced by 50% or more - I've only ever heard of not getting a refund in the sale in wee poky shops, like NV or one-off shops, but... Anyway, moving on, we heard a wee announcement that some guy was giving out free knives at a stand on the first floor. Now ordinarily I wouldn't really go for those things (ok some freebies, yes, but not a knife that I'll never use), but I happen to know how good this knife is - my mum got one about 2 years ago and it's brilliant so I thought I'd get her another one or else keep it in case I ever move out and persuaded Lisa to do the same. So we stood and listened to this man and watched him cut a hammer with the bigger version of this knife and so on and eventually he started handing out the free knives. And he had the cheek to ask was I over 21!! Silly me answered, 'yes but i know i don't look it' and then realised, hold on that's the answer I give for being over 18!! haha! But he was really nice and gave mine to Lisa for me (because he's giving them out free he's not allowed to give them to under 21s.) It's ok, I'll be 21 in just over a month anyway.
Well we went to Marks and Sparks to get another refund and then on to Boots so I could buy foundation and I had a wee browse while we were there. I got very excited because they FINALLY have Carmex in a tub and not a tube!! This is monumental because nowhere has had Carmex in ages (too many people becoming addicted) and those that had only had the tubes! Here is a picture of the king of all lipbalms that I haven't been able to get in months...
Gayle and I were just commenting tonight that it smells a little different, but I don't care as long as it keeps my lips soft!
Lisa and I both got very excited in Topshop and found that it's always when you have no money that the nicest things come out in the shops! There were so many things we could buy for Paris (did I mention I'm going to Paris??) We went to Oasis and then Next and suddenly realised that it was 4.20 and we had to leave (aww...) so we just went back to Castlecourt and drove all the way home.
Went to Springsteens tonight to meet up with Gayle who couldn't be a part of our road trip because she was being a good girl and revising (which I should be doing but leaving it until next week). I've a photo of us in Springers but it's not on the computer yet so will maybe add it with my next post!
Tomorrow night LeeAnne and I are going to a wedding party to boogie away, maybe get some photos to put up, Lisa is going to take a photo of us before we go anyway - I think we should do a before and after shot, just in case I repeat my antics of New Years Eve. Or not. (you'll have to be a friend of LeeAnne's to see that link - sign in with your hotmail address to find out if LeeAnne likes you or not ;-) ) Anyway, "Jarek" gets his wish - see the comments on this post - Jarek was a little joke of LeeAnne's designed to wind me up in case you're wondering. He doesn't exist. Well maybe he does but we don't know him and he didn't post on my blog!!
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