Well, apparently I've been tagged. O.o That means I get to bore you guys with seven facts about me! ^.^ YAY!

1. I have two cats... Both of which have been neutered (we had the boy done today. ;.; My poor kitty! (cries))
2. I generally don't like girly things, but today I wore a dress for the first time in about ten years... (It's because of my luffly Doc Martens... They NEED to be worn with a dress to look right! ^.^)
3. I'm 17, female and live in England. But most of you already knew that.
4. *is running out of ideas because she's a boring person* Erm... My favourite characters tend to either be blonde, associated with green or traitors.  *shrugs* (Examples: Max Tate/Mizuhara, Richie Foley, Li Syaoran, Edmund Pevensie...)
5. Speaking of green, it's my absolute favourite colour, closely followed by blue (which is the colour of my eyes, btw! ^.^)
6. I was born with ginger hair, it turned blonde and now, due to a freak dying accident, it's ginger again. It's really irritating (on the other hand, no one assumes I'm an idiot!).
7. *sigh* I admit that I can (usually happily) slash ANYTHING. This does not mean I don't like het relationships or anything (hell, I'm -in- one), but I seem to be reaaaaaaaaally good at finding the SLIGHTEST hint at a relationship between two guys (or two girls) and blowing it out of all proportion. (Don't worry Max, not gonna be writing anything like that. *pats head*)

Now, who to attack... *cackle*

Because I never replied...

I'm a college student in England. ^.^; I'm almost 17.

I'm not dead! I just haven't been here for ages...

Ooh, I've been a member of the site for exactly 18 months today! O.o

And does anyone have any tips on getting 0.00:00 in the FFX chocobo race? I want the Sun Sigil dammit!

How is everyone? ^.^

Whee! I guess. Door Number 2 is now my TV.com emblem.

In other news, I'm on a bloody Magiranger/Mystic Force kick again. I keep watching an episode of Mystic Force, then go watch its Magiranger counterpart. O.o; Today's eps were Stranger Within Parts 1 and 2, or the Magiranger equivalent of Acts 11 and 12 (don't ask me to write Japanese, I will probably get it wrong).

Mystic Force was much better on the Vamp side of things, but Magiranger kicked butt with the music. Go Nai! Go Mae!

Bloody Friday Nightmare! Gotta love that song.

"You don't look ill, you don't seem ill - you seem depressed..."

How the hell do I tell my mum that I'm depressed because 99.99% of the time, she's a complete and utter git that I can't appease at all? That she makes me feel woefully inadequate? And the only time she's nice to me is when I'm ill. So it isn't a  physical sickness (though this aftertaste of egg is starting to get on my nerves... I haven't had egg in weeks!), but a mental one. Maybe a trip to the doctor's isn't a bad idea...

In brighter news, I'll be Level 9 pretty soon. Which is kinda cool. Though I'll miss my Super-Friend icon. ;-; Oh well, I'll get used to it, I suppose...

BTW, anyone like my new avvie? Shark and Hawk from A.T.O.M. (Shark's the blonde one, if ya didn't already know...)! I think it's a brilliant pic from the latest issue of the comic... Go Jackademus, woot! Great artist...

Wow, it's been ages since I blogged here. O.o; Go figure.

Well, for starters - I'm not dead! Very very tired, but not dead. I had to get up at 6am today (ungodly hour!!!) to be ready for college by 7.30...

Yeah, I kinda need to get running right now... (I'm not ready yet. I get up early so I can get in the shower first, but my Dad got up extra early to get in first today. "I'll only be ten minutes!" he says. Uh huh, sure, whatever. I got in the shower at 6.40, got out just now. -.-; )

Anyway, yeah, the reason for the title - college is back in session today. I'm a little bit annoyed at my mate (though I think you all know her by now, innit?) because she's taking -all week- off. We're only at college for two days this week and she can't make the bloody effort to come in? She can't possibly say that she was rushed to hospital from her house again - I live next door, we hear all the loud noises from outside. I did send her a text asking if she was alright (she was uncourteous enough to TEXT me when I live next door, so I'm not being the one to be all nice and go over. Pfft) but she hasn't replied yet. She sent it to me at about 4pm-ish yesterday and I replied at about 5, so she's had plenty of time and apparently can't be arsed. Argh.

But I admit I don't want to go in today. I have a mock exam in one class and have to hand in coursework in another. And my final lesson is about as exciting as watching a cat poop.

Who said that school days were the best of your life? They need shooting.

Weekends are the best days of your life.

No, seriously, what happened? I just popped my head in there and *wham!* it's like stepping into the A.T.O.M. section on ff.net (horrifying, to say the least). I suppose another way of putting it is watching An Audience With Take That... *shudders*

I literally put my head round the corner and ducked back out. It's been... overrun.

Meh, this is just me getting more and more intolerant of newbs, isn't it? I knew it would happen one day, but I didn't expect it to come so soon..

Someone whack me round the head? Please?

And please, folks, if you haven't done so already, go to the following link and read Geist! I need your thoughts!

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/straitjackit

Can anyone who wishes to help me go to this page (link will follow once I've finished yapping), click on the link "Geist" and read it? It's my English coursework and I need to do research on how the target audience reacts to it...

Meaning you lot.

So please? Comment on the site if you have an account, or leave feedback here. And be brutally honest, yeah?

Thanks guys! *glomp*

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/straitjackit

Go watch this! Make sure to do so in full screen! Follow the instructions carefully!

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=20757

Shame it only lasts a few seconds...

I need help, people! If you like Neopets at all, or even if you don't, would you help me by joining? I want to get a load of points, ya know, in retaliation for the many times it's screwed me over, and I could really use your help. If you sign up and perhaps buy stuff from my "shop", it'll be muchly helpful...

Please sign up via this following link, though, else it's all in vain...

Straitjackit's Referrals

I know it seems a little weird, but I WANT MY REVENGE!!!!!! MWAHAHA!

Ahem.

Please, and thank you.

Oh yeah, is the Turkey thing for Thanksgiving then? Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate it!

Archery *&^%ing rules! (And my aunt didn't come! YES!)

THIS is a sport I am going to love. It require patience, peace and no teamwork whatsoever. Seriously, something I am really going to love.

For anyone who's never done it and are thinking about it - go now! The basics are really easy to learn (hell, I got two bullseyes today and it was my first time shooting ANYTHING!) and it's really satisfying to hear the arrow connect with the board. *twang!* *thunk!*

Or, in the case of shooting ballons... *twang* *popthunk!*

So y'all know where I'll be from now on every Sunday morning (and the occasional Friday evening) - down at the archery range practising my archery!

Seriously now - at 12 yards, what I did obviously wasn't impressive at all, but even being able to shoot the darned thing was enough to make me happy. I suck at sports, but this is something I really can actually do! I'm good at defense in football (soccer to all you Americans), and I've got a pretty mean arm when it comes to shotputt. When given half the chance, I can be good at netball, basketball and hockey. But overall, I have a very clumsy nature and tend to trip over my own feet because people are yelling at me to do this, do that, yadda yadda yadda. And now, I find something that people don't do that in... I'm in total heaven.

I might still be very numb from standing still in the cold for four hours straight, but it's been some of the best four hours of my life.

Things for next week -

• Money for membership
• Two of everything I'm wearing
• Hair bobble (stupid wind...)
• Pack of balloons (XD)
• HOT DRINK IN A FLASK!!! (Brrrrrr...)

That's all for the update, folks! Thanks for checking in!

*starts practising shooting stance*

I'm going to begin my very first lesson of archery today. I'm slightly disappointed as I have now officially lost my only day of sleeping in late (unless I start the entire going-into-college-late-on-a-Friday thing again, but it's too expensive), but now I don't have to feel guilty about the fact that I really wanted have a Saturday job but it would mean not seeing my grandfather every week, or indeed ever (I'm going to be working as a volunteer at the British Heart Foundation charity shop, and Saturdays are the day I see my grandfather).

But now my dratted aunt is looming over me like a dark cloud of doom, waiting to rain on my parade - she wants to come too.

Doesn't that sound really childish? Hear me out, though.

My ENTIRE life, whatever I want to do, she'll be a half step behind me, following like an annoying little dog or a shadow. She won't enjoy whatever I'm doing, but she's so scared she'll miss out on something that it doesn't matter. Besides, I have NEVER had time with my grandfather alone, and it would have been really nice to spend some time with him by myself, you know? He's a brilliant thinker and can be funny when he's not making an idiot of himself, and I love talking to him. But the second we begin to talk about something interesting, my aunt pops up and asks for something stupid ("Can I have some crisps?", "Can I have a beer?" "No, you're too young!", "Can I play on the Playstation?"... Or other increasingly moronic things). I get really fed up - I want an aunt, not a little sister!

Anyway, that turned into a rant. Sorry peeps, all I seem to do is complain, even when I bring mildly-or-not-at-all interesting and happy news. And she might not even be coming (it is rather early... By the by, I'm the only person I know who would say "rather" if she were speaking this, because I write what I would say... O_o;; )...

Here's to hoping! I'll update this later on to let y'all know how it went!

Ack! I'm late! *runs away*

Admittedly all I seem to do on here is complain... But it's not like anything interesting/good ever happens to me...

Today's p'ed topic returns once again to a certain pain in the arse who loves to stand me up. The reason for the title is that she shows no consideration towards me whatsoever, even at the best of times (and this week certainly isn't the best of times, but I'm not going into THAT...).

Today marks the second time in as many days that's she's told me to meet with her then BUGGERED OFF without telling me! Yeah, sure, she SAYS she tried to call me, but even when my phone is turned off it registers calls to inform me later on that someone tried to call. And there's no hint of her on there.

Strike one - lying to get out of my bad books.

Then there's the fact that she specifically told me this morning that she wasn't going home early.
She left for home 45 minutes before she was supposed to meet up for me (and if she complains about not getting her EMA again, I'll be more than happy to point out that she bunked a lesson today!).

Strike two - leaving me to sit in the freezing cold, when I'm already ill enough, and leaving the threat of her undeserving moaning hanging over my head.

And, of course, there's actually not showing and once again breaking a promise.

Strike three.

She's bloody well OUT. I can't be dealing with her rubbish at the moment, so... well, insert something nasty but not life threatening here.

In other news (which is just as bad), I'm pretty sure I can name seven people who are deliberately pushing me out of their circle of friends, and at least four who are pushing me out unintentionally. I'm not being moody around them, despite current events, so it's not that. Which, of course, makes me further depresssed.

Oh, did I mention I'm on bloody antidepressants now? Joy... It's not like I'll ever remember to take them anyway...

I'm off to read A.T.O.M. issue 15 in the hopes it will cheer me up...

Laters...

Blame Sparky. -.-;; I just had to do it too...

I'm short: False - I'm actually slightly taller than average.
I have many scars: True - cats.
I tan easily: False
I burn easily: False
I wish my hair was a different color: True - green...
I wear glasses or contacts: True
I have 5 or more piercings: False
I have/had piercing in places besides my ears: False
I have freckles: Um... True, though you can only see them in the summer.

Relationships:

I'm in one right now: True *hugs Jimmy*
I miss someone right now: True - MAL!!!!! *hug* SHABNAM!!!! *hug*
I've gotten divorced: False
I've had a crush on a teacher: ...True... What, so did everyone else!
I've hugged a stranger: True - well, the drunken idiot was a stranger when he first gave me a hug!

Embarrassment:

Disney movies still make me cry: False
I've laughed so hard I've cried: True - I'll give you the link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riTN9iUkJTs
I've glued my hand to something: True - the most recent was a stapler. O.o
I've had my pants rip/drop in public: False, thankfully
I was born with a disease/impairment: True - hayfever.
I've sat in a doctors office with a friend: True
I've had my wisdom teeth removed: False
I've had a serious surgery: Does tooth removal count? False
I've had chicken pox: True

Experiences:

I've gotten lost in a city: True - my town is a big place for a 5 year old!
I've seen a shooting star: True
I've wished on a shooting star: True - I wanted to be a ballerina at the time... O.o I was like 6!
I've gone out in public in my pajamas: True - it was a school fundraiser. I even carried a toy rabbit around! And wore slippers! And it was the middle of winter! (I also then played football in this attire.. O.o)
I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator: True - just as I walked out
I've been to a casino: False
I've been skydiving: False (and HELL NO!!)
I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour: Likely to be True - what's a gallon in pints?
I've been in a car crash: False
I've caught a snowflake on my tongue: True
I've sat on a roof top at night: False
I've played chicken: True (man, was that stupid...)
I've played a prank on someone: True
I've ridden in a taxi: True (who hasn't, except Sparky? )
I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show: False (hope to change that soon!)
I've eaten Sushi: True - yummy! Alas, now I be veggie...
I've been snowboarding: False

Random:

I own something from Hot Topic: False
I own something from The Gap: False
I own something I got on E-Bay: False
I own something from Abercrombie: False
I own something from American Eagle: False
I own something from Anchor Blue: False... Could we have some British shops on here next time please?

More Random:

I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant: False
I watch the news: True, some of the time anyway...
I kill bugs: False
I curse regularly: True... Max, EC, shut it...
I sing in the shower: *sings* True! I love to sing Franz Ferdinand in the shower.
I'm a morning person: False - though I'm not exactly grouchy either...
I have listened to more than 30 CD's in a day: Eh heh... True...
My favorite color is either white, yellow, red, pink, or blue?: False...ish. I do love blue, but my fave is green or tan.
I've worn pajamas to school: True - see answer to the last pyjama question.
I know how to shoot: Shoot what? A gun? False. At pool? True.
I am really ticklish: True... Gah.
I play video games: True! SEND GAMES MY WAY NOW~!
I'm good at remembering names: False... It provides entertainment though...
I'm good at remembering dates: False... I can barely remember what day it is today. *checks* It's the 8th...

So you guys do it too! Please?

And the next time someone makes one... Add some British stores! Gah...

When I thought yesterday was bad enough...

Yes, folks, I'm back with more bad news from the land of Staurville.

Today's problems equal two.

Firstly, and least importantly in the grand scheme of things, the idiot drunk guy hasn't come to college yet, so his yelling at is well overdue. -.-;;

Secondly, and more importantly... How do I tactfully let a friend know that her boyfriend, who's already done the nasty, was snogging another girl at college today? I mean, seriously...

I think I'm just screwed, you know? Karma for something bad I've done - maybe all the lies I used to get out of homework and from going to school.

I'm really dreading tomorrow.

I hate Tuesdays.

I'm feeling guilty because I poked a hole in someone's art work and managed to pee them off. Don't get me wrong, I figure it's perfectly fair for her to be peed off as she worked on it for a week or something, and it was just that the page was a little bit overcrowded...

So I feel kinda guilty, because I already had a go at her last week (sort of) for rushing me on rewriting something. I understand that she just wants to read the next bit, and that it's her work too, but I need to take my time. I'm as much a perfectionist as she is, but the problem is I like to get it perfect BEFORE I post it, and I don't work well when I think someone is hassling me. Plus, college sucks arse and keeps giving me loads of work, AND my parents... well, lets just not go there. Between the fact that they don't get their lazy arses off the chairs they sit in and I don't sleep because of their "extra curricular activities", I'm mad at them.

So yep, that sinking feeling is setting in... Here's to hoping milk can solve all problems! *gulps down three pints*

EDIT: Oh yeah... drat, rubbish memory strikes again... This is what got me into trouble in the first place!!!

Wait, I remember! I'm also busy doing other stuff these people don't know I'm doing, but they hassle me in that account too... -.-;;

SECOND EDIT: Just shoot me. I shot down a second page of her artwork. -.-;; Way to go me. *unethusiastic whoop*

Remember my last post?

The git wasn't at college today! Yep, I could not confront him because he didn't show. So now I'm really mad.

Just wait till Monday... If he's lucky, the new ep of A.T.O.M. and the books I borrowed from the college library will make me calm a lot more...

But he's still freaking dead. I've been really paranoid.

I suppose Max and Jay are right. It is kinda funny... Except also not at all.