Skins, the Phone & Giant Slide

*Warning* this post is all over the place because it's late and I am almost immobile and yes, I am feeling just a little sorry for myself. It's been a full week and I'm still not even close to feeling okay. Just deal with it and try not to get annoyed at the scattered thoughts here. Love you!! 


I will soon be going into the second season of Skins. OHMYGOSH. It's sooo bad, but so good. It's like british Gossip Girl meets Grey's Anatomy, except with a lot more english curses most of which I don't understand.


It's addictive. I really love Cassie, Effy, Maxxie and Sid and I think Tony should move to China (taking Abby with him) and just stay there forever and ever. He did come through for Effy though, so that's nice. 


Earlier tonight a really good friend of mine called me, just to say hi. Of course, with me being ridiculously sick, I answered the phone with a croak. 


It was awesome to hear from him because he's one of the very few people I know who I can have a long conversation with and be completely at ease, and because I haven't heard from him since about April and it's great to talk to someone who knows me so well and doesn't expect me to talk very much on account of the sore throat. 


It's kind of nice to have someone like that, especially since I'm super awkward on the phone. I will actually put off calling people so I don't have the weird interaction. I talk too fast or jumble my words, or sometimes my Afrikaans will mingle with the English in me and I'll start speaking a jumble of both. 


So for once I can actually just talk and it's not awkward, and we can carry on a conversation. It makes me wonder. 


Besides that call, the best parts of my week included watching Sword in the Stone, Atlantis and the Black Cauldron while curled up in the foetal position, and the GIANT INFLATABLE SLIDE they put in the gym today.


We took a big chunk out of Period 3 just to go slide on it! I got tangled in the nets and stuff, but it was still pretty good.


Speaking of the Black Cauldron, isn't Eilonwy just adorable? :D


I'm sorry, I should go now...maybe you can expect a sensible post from me soon? I hope so. Maybe I'll do a book review or something.


See you soon!

Friends. (yes, I have those)

Now that September is looming around the corner, I've been thinking about what it's like when you go back to school. Your old friends welcome you back with hugs and comments/tugs on your back-to-school outfits, and the new kids are paraded around like wares at a market for the cliques to claim them.

I've always been the kind of person who floats between the social groups. I know a lot of the popular people, I talk to them, but I always have found better friends in those who sing Disney songs loudly in public and who dress up to go to Harry Potter movies.

I don't always like to identify with just one group of people because that way I have a balance in the kind of things I take part in and the people I talk to.

Think about it, when you're in a group of people you act like they do. Most of the time you reflect the general opinions of the friends you have. So, if you have a large spectrum of friends, you have more opportunities to learn new things and develop new opinions.

On the other hand, the same can be said for bad friends.

If you hang out with someone who is a bad influence, they will change things in your life...

I guess the point of this post is to remember who your friends are and be careful about how much of you they influence, because it could be more than you realize.

Anyways, about September, I am kind of excited because tomorrow I will be doing one of my favourite things in the world; School Supplies Shopping.

It's not the excitement of going back to school that makes me love it, it's the fact that I get a brand new start! I am admittedly not the most organized person. I'm really quite disorganized, so I absolutely love it when I can buy new notebooks and USB Drives and all those wonderful things.

Plus, the stores that I normally go to for my scholarly needs is always full of adorable stationery and headphones with little ducks on them.

Now that I think about it....

School Supplies Shopping is the only reason I want to go back.

Darn.

PRODUCTIVE!

Can I just say, I’m quite proud of myself.

Now, this isn’t a post to brag about my extreme productiveness, it’s an example of how long it takes me to actually be productive.

All of this stuff I’ve put off for way too long and just recently have had a burst of energy and motivation. The books I unpacked? They've been in my basement for almost a year.

In the last two days I have sorted out all of my important files and accounts on my computer and online, filmed and edited footage for a video (that’s going to be awhile), completely ‘cleansed’ my room- as in, extreme deep-cleaning and organizing, unpacked and organized all my books and computer programs, watched 9 Disney classics and the first season of the British Office.

Oh, and I napped. And tore up a fireplace.

Where has my life gone?