elizabeth's journal

stolen from wayne, it is. (ta!)

2007-12-30T20:07:27Z

1. Was 2007 a good year for you?
no, and yes at the same time. it was probably the worst year ever, on the whole, but lots of good and amazing things happened too.

2. What was your favorite moment of the year?
loads! spain with jess, getting baptised, being the back end of a horse-but perhaps it was when the driving examiner said "well done,
you've passed"!

3. What was your least favorite moment of the year?
easter time. nuff said.

4. What are your plans for 2008?
start being a weeny bit more organised both at work and at home. mark stuff as i go along. go to tanzania :D save up and go on holiday with the girls. move in with sarah. continue to salsa the night away and hopefully stop looking like a total plank. see more live bands.

5. What countries did you visit?
spain. ask me this next year-it will be better!

6. What date in 2007 will remain etched in your memory?
april 8th. may 13th. not for good reasons.
june 26th. again, not good.
aug 8th-15th :D
dec 5th.

7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
completing my nqt year. surviving. learning that i can be independent and i will not spontaneously combust living alone. passing my driving test. getting baptised.

8. What was your biggest failure?
not dealing with things the way i should of, in so, so many ways.

9. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
i walk into tables regularly, but nothing major. alcohol induced-a few times..

10. What was the best thing you bought?
mr. hood, my brummer car!

11. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
my children, mainly! although they aren't too bad really.

12. Where did most of your money go?
on driving lessons and driving tests!

13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
going to spain with jess, getting baptised, moving in with sarah, signing up to seeing the giraffes next year!
14. What songs will always remind you of 2007?

"umbrella" by rihanna-singing with the barman in spain.
"happy ending" by mika
the crazy "i-ee, i-ee" song from spain.
"the way i are" by timbaland-helen singing it in the car!

loads of others too, most likely!

15. Compared to this time last year are you:
a) Fatter or thinner? possibly the same, although it changes on a daily basis!
b) Happier or sadder? Happier and sadder, for lots of different reasons.
c) Richer or poorer? poorer, probably-driving has bled me dry!

16. What do you wish you'd done more of? seeing live bands-i'm astounded that i've not seen any this year!

17. What do you wish you'd done less of?
sitting around, spending money :p

18. How did you be spendChristmas?
in eastbourne, on the beach, with my family.

19. Which LJ/MySpace users did you meet for the first time?
nein.

20. Did you fall in love in 2007?
with my motorcar, mr. r. hood. and my fiorelli handbag.

22. What was your favourite TV show?
it hasn't changed. it is still too tragic to reveal though :p

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
nope

24. What was/were the best books you read?
time traveller's wife. we need to talk about kevin.

thousands of others, but these 2 stand out the most.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
lots lots lots. rediscovered music i love. mika was the best one this year, but i have extended my CD collection several times over this year :D

26. What did you want and get?
a pink driving license.

27. What did you want and not get?
can't really think of much, well, anything material anyhoo.

28. What was your favourite film this year?
i have no idea.

29. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
i was 22 and in spain with jess. we went to the beach all day, rolled home, went out for dinner, rolled home, then went back to kauai beach bar, to meet the beautiful bar men and a fantastic dane, then out to the avenue club. rolled in at 6am, meeting the germans in the lift who were off to the beach with their towels (i kid ye not!)

30. What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
hmm, i dunno. i'm crap at this, i is.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
at the beginning, jeans and a t kinda gal. then later, i found that i actually had legs. LEGS i say! so on the odd occasion, i'll wear a dress or a skirt. but mainly jeans and a t-shirt of some variety, although i can be feminine if the need arises.

32. What kept you sane?
my friends (although maybe did they keep me insane? who knows?) my housegroup, music.

33. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
mika (the shame, the shame).

34. Which political issue stirred you the most?
a few.

35. Who did you miss?
people from uni, some others also.

36. Did you treat somebody badly in 2007?
yes, unintentionally. but yes :-/

37. Did somebody treat you badly in 2007?
most likely. probably unintentionally too.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
that i am an independent person when i have to be. i can survive on my own, but i will end up talking to myself in the end.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year...
"What happens in vegas stays in vegas.."

furrybumcheeks @ 2007-02-17T23:53:00

2007-02-17T23:54:18Z

Argh! Noise again! Drunk kareoke from the pub down the road. I'm in my flat. the fifth floor. with double glazing. They may as well be singing from my living room. ARRGGHH!

furrybumcheeks @ 2007-02-17T10:12:00

2007-02-17T10:17:41Z

ARGH!! my neighbour has woken me up with their shitty music every day this week. the same shitty song, with the same crap bass line. every day. at the same time. IT'S HALF TERM! TURN IT OFF! I have one week. on monday, its back to the 6am starts and 12 hour days at work. gee, thanks, neighbours. it's either marlon, skanky stoner on one side who hangs out of the window so you can't open your own window, or the annoying couple the other side who smoke in the corridor because they don't want their flat to smell of smoke. why, thankyou.
i hate this place. our post goes missing, our bikes go missing. i guess the only bonus is that the people on this corridor are so stupid, they don't connect the tesco trolleys together when they abandon them in the corridor, i'm making loads of money, me :)

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-12-16T09:53:00

2006-12-16T08:53:50Z

On the twelfth day of Christmas, furrybumcheeks sent to me...

Twelve nuts drumming

Eleven dogs piping

Ten cats a-leaping

Nine iris dancing

Eight sparkles a-milking

Seven bis a-teaching

Six noodles a-reading

Five do-o-o-oc martins

Four pro plus

Three glow sticks

Two glowy things

...and a cheese in a skinny puppy.

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-09-17T01:37:00

2006-09-17T00:39:44Z

argh! there is a rave-esque party happening in a flat in the building up the road-its stoopid loud, phoned the council-they told me that they couldn't do anything, phoned the police, they told me its the councils job, phoned the council back, they told me they'd look into it in about half an hour..probably.
it's some dude with a big sound system pretending to be an mc. shitty mcshitty. and i feel rough too, nqt disease :(

argh!

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-09-07T23:37:00

2006-09-07T22:38:38Z

i am a REAL teacher. with a classroom and EVERYTHING. like CHILDREN.

WOO!

(now i just have to remember to leave school before 6..arriving at 7.30 and leaving at 7 is not healthy on a long term basis!)

thoroughly annoyed

2006-08-30T22:43:04Z

i am really, really, REALLY pissed off. some chavvy scumbag stole ben's bike from INSIDE our building, which was chained (twice) to the stair case on the FIFTH floor. this building which you need to have a key to get into. so, this means that either one of the other people has let one of their friends in, or someone in this building is a horrible, scummy shitty THIEF.
also, whilst on the topic of thievery, you people in flat 5, i'd like the card my grandparents sent me for my birthday, they are getting old ans addressed it wrong. i'm fully aware of the contents, so they'd better all be there. we've left you a note in your postbox (last week) and i know you've got it. how dare someone steal from a little old lady and gentleman. in fact, HOW DARE anyone steal anything! shitbags.

ben also lost his job today. woo.
i have been ridiculously underpaid, and as a consequence may end up stopping the driving for a while. although hopefully not.

i'm REALLY really hating where i live at the moment. it's full of people who are quite content to have 300 children and scam the system, and never ever want to actually have a job. and yet, it's us who end up paying.

AAAAARRRGGGHH.

i hate it.

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-08-16T14:44:00

2006-08-16T13:48:57Z

Four Jobs I have had in my life

1. playscheme worker
2. shop assistant/check out monkey
3. take away at harry ramsden's
4. teacher

Four movies I would watch over and over

1. just married
2. pay it forward
3. calendar girls
4. zoolander

Four Places I have lived

1. Arnold, Nottingham
2. Lanfranc, Canterbury
3. Mary Green, Canterbury
4. Chatham, Kent

Four TV Shows I love to watch

1. Casualty (the shame..)
2. Sorted
3. Jane Hall
4. Friends

Four Places I Have been on holiday

1. Eastbourne (it rules)
2. Italy
3. France
4. Spain

Websites visited daily

1. Livejournal.com
2. etiquette hell forum
3. tes website
4. bbc news

Four Of my favourite foods

1. noodles
2. curry
3. toad in the hole
4. cheese sauce

Four Places I would rather be right now

1. Nottingham
2. Driving!
3. Eastbourne
4. shopping.

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-08-15T19:28:00

2006-08-15T18:30:40Z

people! i drove a car! someone has let me loose in a mini cooper, to teach me to drive!

woo and yayness!

and..the best bit..I CAN DO IT! hoopla!

after two hours in the car today, i was trundling along at 30, in 3rd gear.

i love driving, so good, so good.

and i didnt hit anyone, which is good. still, there's always tomorrow. 4.30pm-KEEP OFF THE ROADS!

moving

2006-06-16T10:18:21Z

the bedroom in my new flat is an amazing shade a blue :D

however, it has nothing in it, and while ben is it nottingham picking up all our furniture, i have the lovely job of packing up our entire house. woo and yay. i now realise that i possibly should have dusted certain areas in the last two years. oops.

nevermind. summer ball tonight! have pretty dress at the ready! in other news, i did my last marked assignment/presentation yesterday, so although i have lectures till next wednesday, i've technically finished my degree! scary!

went to london yesterday with the music group, spent the morning being arty in the tate modern, the afternoon wandering around covent garden and saw stomp! in the evening. was tres fantastique, and i'm feeling very inspired as a music teacher now!

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-06-03T12:50:00

2006-06-03T11:51:46Z

ok. i think i may have broken my toe. it's a beautiful shade of purple. any ideas of what i can do which doesn't involve going to the hospital or the doctors (tis a weekend afterall)?

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-05-18T20:11:00

2006-05-18T19:12:43Z

national express suck, national rail suck, i want to go home, i want this essay to write itself, i don't want anymore comments on what i'm eating.

its just not good.

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-03-26T23:19:00

2006-03-26T22:28:55Z

i'm currently watching 'requiem for a dream' which is an absolutely amazing film with a soundtrack of amazingness, but is incredibly disturbing.

but, apart from that, i've had an ace week, going something like this:

Friday-got the previously mentioned job!

Saturday-work, which sucked, but the surprise visit from the parentals made it all better!

Sunday- work again, but then the boy took me to Wagamamas to celebrate the end of placement and employement joy, which was yummy.

Monday-the housemate and i went shopping, and bought the gorgeous boots of new jobness, along with the first of many pairs of shoes to create my new teaching wardrobe (twas a bargain too, £9 from dorothy perkins!) and some new make up :D

tuesday-we went to the gym. i thought i might die.

wednesday-dani's film premiere, absoulutely ace night. the films were brilliant, and the wine did floweth. as did the shots, wine and malibu in the afterparty. drunkness followed for all, as did a mass squashing in of people in our house!

thursday-not too much, everyone was a teeny bit hung over! apart from me, i'd like to add :p

friday-took my forms into school to get my contract sorted! then shopping and cake in chatham and rochester with my girlies!

saturday-not much in the morning, work in the afternoon, then went to the late night showing of final destination 3 with helz-funny as anything! then drunken late night chats with other housemates, before collapsing into bed.

sunday-not much, made carbonara for the first time in ages :)

and so, the rest of the week! tomorrow lisa is coming which will be brilliant as we haven't seen her in months! tuesday will be packing, then i'm going home on wednesday! woo and yay!

and thus, i stop.

i am a happy bunny!

2006-03-18T21:40:14Z

i got a job!
i'm staying in kent, baby! i'm teaching in walderslade, from july onwards!!! woo and yay!!

and, to make it better, my parentals surprised me tonight and came to take me out for dinner at my favourite restaurant! i knew they were in kent, but were in tonbridge, which is a trek! bless em! i'm so happy!!!

furrybumcheeks @ 2006-03-13T21:52:00

2006-03-13T21:52:55Z

teaching practice: loving it!

best thing from today? a parent who didn't know that people can be left handed...

ahh, memories..

2006-01-22T15:34:30Z

so, on this da, one year ago, i was pulling into birmingham bus station to meet my boyfriend (who was decidedly looking like he was about to mug an old lady with his hat on...) and james, having left canterbury at 10am that morning. yes, my friends, today is a year ago since i saw the mighty pwei!

i thought about how far i've come and how much i've done since then. for starters, i managed to get through that god-awful teaching placement with those hideous teachers, and passed it. i'm now on my final placement, with wicked teachers (who are just a teeny-bit insane...) and am loving it, despite the fact that i have to trek to gravesend and back everyday. my kids are mental, i love 'em. i just never wait outside for the van to pick me up due to the quite frankly shitty area i'm in...:p

i've also seen a few other bands..namely skinny puppy (who we met..holy cow! i've never seen ben so stastruck :p...i had no idea what they looked like, despite seeing them last year (well, they were all covered in stuff!) until he stopped a man in the street, and asked "cEvin?"...and lo and behold, it was cEvin key..and then we met bill too :D didn't meet oghr himself though..that is my next mission!)and iris at infest, which was highly amusing and good :D saw the azoic as well, which was my new found band of the year!

then, this year, i will graduate (fingers crossed) get a teaching job (again, fingers crossed) move house, and be a real person. eep.

but yes, anyhoo, last year was the year of pop will eat itself. i'm not entirely sure where this post came from, but the message i want to leave you with before i muster the energy to head to the library is that for the love of god, pwei, get off your collective arses and tour again!

so, there.

stolen from gem..

2006-01-15T22:50:03Z

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*blinks*

things i have learnt

2006-01-14T00:25:24Z

Things i have learnt this week:-

*don't write your dissertation in two days (however, it is possible..i managed to write 5000 words without making a single point)

*i wish i was a monkey

*children will eat tables, elastic bands and jumpers (not just suck, or chew..but eat. around 15 elastic bands..)

*friends are absolutely amazing, period. i now know that regardless of where in the country we all end up, they're still gonna be there.

*my take that and sugar babe albums should arrive tomorrow :)

*i'm going to be a teacher. soon. and i'm dead excited, me :D

i'm sure i've learnt more, however, due to the afformented dissertation writing situation, i'm knackered. night guys :)

furrybumcheeks @ 2005-11-25T03:01:00

2005-11-25T03:02:42Z

and this my friends, is just how disorganised my uni is. i have worked solidly for over a week, and yet i'm still working at 3am....:(

GIVE ME COFFEE!

furrybumcheeks @ 2005-11-23T14:57:00

2005-11-23T15:05:56Z

argh.

Name the Last Four Things You Have Bought:
1. coffee.
2. books yesterday :( too much money
3. parking metre
4. noodles

2) Name Four Drinks You Regularly Drink:
1. orange and mago squash
2. COFFEE
3. ribena
4. wine

3) Last Time You Cried? about an hour ago

4) What's In Your CD Player? south park

5) What's Under Your Bed? shoes, uni work, suitcases

6) What Time Did You Wake Up Today? 7am

7) Current Hair? messy

8) Current clothes? black sock, grey trousers, pink pwei top

9) Current Desktop Picture? grey swirly apple pic

10) Current Worry? essays, and lots of other stuff :-/

11) Current Hate? essays and lack of sleep

12) Favorite Places To Be? home, curled up with benjamin, horn in hand, wagamama, eastbourne.

13) Least Favorite Place? citizenship lectures, wilkos.

14) Play An Instrument? flute, keyboard, bass

15) Favorite Color(s)? pink, blue, silver

16) How Tall Are You? 5'8"

17) Favorite expression? "on that note.."

18) One Person From Your Past You Wish You Could Go Back And Talk To: hmm, dunno. probably rather not go there.

19) Favorite Day(s): sunny, warm, wine-filled days

20) Where Would You Like To Go? now? home.

21) Where Do you want to live when you get married? where i can get a job.

22) Favorite food? curry, noodles, pasta

23) Color of most clothes you own: blue and pink, and green.

24) Number of pillows you sleep with? 2

25) What do you wear when you go to sleep: my nudie pants

26) What were you doing 12AM last night: writing an english scheme of work, or sitting in helen's room, i can't remember.

27) How old will you be in 10 yrs: 30!

28) What do you think you'll be doing in 10 years: teaching

29) Do you have braces? no, never

30) Are you paranoid? hell yeah.

31) Do you burn or tan? tan

32) What is the brand of your wallet? diddle the mouse

33) First piercing/tattoo: n/a

35) Last person you yelled at? dunno

36) Last crush? ben, if he counts

37) Last thing you ate? topic celebration

38) The last time you had sex it was? shiny

39) Who do you like now? benjamin

and that, my friends, is what we call procrastination.

FINALLY!

2005-10-28T14:52:27Z

finally! i have come home from a professional studies lecture feeling inspired! i actually feel incredibly positive about being a teacher, and what kind of teacher i want to be. i have found my philosophy of education at last! pity it's three days after i handed in my application form, but oh well, something to pull out at the interview!
i feel so inspired to become a creative teacher! i can't believe that 6 hours of debating children's spirituality has done this to me, but i feel good! *dances*

anyway, gotta go out soon to buy a suit :D

so yeah, thats it.

furrybumcheeks @ 2005-10-14T20:04:00

2005-10-14T19:05:53Z

fu-hooooking hell! just watching "honey, we're killing the kids". i am APPALLED!!
this, this..WOMAN! has let her son smoke since the age of FOUR! FOUR YEARS OLD!
if a kid ever came into my class a smoker, i'm gonna call social service and beat the parents with a SPOON.

I.AM.APPALLED!

furrybumcheeks @ 2005-09-22T13:37:00

2005-09-22T12:38:15Z

Dr. Weird!
26% laziness, 13% immaturity, 25% intelligence, 43% evilness

You are Dr. Weird. You are a mad scientist who lives in an abandoned mental asylum on the rainy shores of southern New Jersey. You dress in a colorful outfit reminiscent of 1960s cartoon villains, complete with glass space helmet (his "Hair-arium"). You're favorite catch phrase is "Gentlemen, behold!" and is usually directed towards your lone lab assistant Steve. Your nonsensical inventions include a giant rabbit robot called Rabbot and a rainbow-making machine. A picture of your younger self with Frylock on Frylock's bookshelf suggests that you have some past ties with the Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 28% on laziness
You scored higher than 23% on immaturity
You scored higher than 41% on intelligence
You scored higher than 84% on evilness

Link: The Which Aqua Teen Character R U Test written by barberosa on Ok Cupid

furrybumcheeks @ 2005-09-19T23:14:00

2005-09-19T22:15:17Z

LJ Interests meme results

blue wkd:
tasty tasty tasty yum yum yum.
cheese:
see above
delirious?:
bit of a blast from the past, really.
fluff:
pink is best.
glowy things:
oooooh. i love glowy things...uv is wonderful.
iris:
bloody hell, they were brilliant this summer at infest. if you haven't heard 'em, get some now!
noodles:
mmmmmmmmmm......noodles are ze best!
placebo:
again with the blast from the past, although i still listen from time to time..and mr.molko may one day grow back his hair and be pretty again...
rainbow:
zippy, george, bungle, the lot. my childhood was great.
smirnoff ice:
tastes nice. it worries me that alcohol has appeared twice on a random list...bah :p

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

furrybumcheeks @ 2005-07-07T22:30:00

2005-07-07T21:36:19Z

holy cow. pretty much all i can say, really.
all a bit scary really, only know one person in london and he was shipped down the thames on a boat to get to the re-opened london bridgen station to get home.

it's fucking wrong, i tell you *angry face*

according to the security guard at work, who'd been getting in reports all morning, canterbury is on high security, being so close to london, and because of the cathedral(?!?)-suppose if they were religious fanatics? i dunno. that one confuses me, i'll bug him more tomorrow.

either way, its pretty scary, that anyone could possibly even *think* to do things like this.