15 posts tagged “fun”

Yeah so I should probably write up my account of the weekend, eh?
Well on Friday night we went to Jess's to play shadowrun. Jess dragged me into the light so she could see my oddly coloured hair better. Luckily I had foreseen this and worn my special sun block specially developed for vampires to stop them crumbling to dust in the brightness. Andrew and Jess and I sat around talking and hugging Rascal and a floppy, itchy baby polar bear that is supposed to be a dog. Well, Jess and I did the hugging. Andrew isn't so great with cute fluffy animalcules. Dan turned up and we kept talking about random inanities, but eventually got down to the serious business of playing the game ... and I just lost the other one. So did you. Ha. Scott turned up at some point during the night. Anyway, I'll just do some highlights: Jess and Dan tried to figure out how the crystal bowl that brought nanites to life actually worked, and ended up killing Jess and resurrecting her in a new body. Funky. Dan cut the thigh off the girl that was trapped in the crystal tree, but it turned out that she was actually MADE of crystal. I spilled my drink about 3 times. No actually one of those times it was Scott. In any case, many tea towels were used and character sheets dampened. Somehow (much smashing was involved) they escaped, landing in some darkened waterway, followed by freaky thighless crystal zombie girl and dragging earless woman along with them too. Jess's character got into some serious trouble and nearly drowned, so Dan's character abandoned her and managed to find a submarine. He got in and locked the doors so that Jess and the others couldn't get in, charming, noble soul that he is. They drove the sub to a beach and met me there, and we went and dropped off the disembodied arm (somewhat the worse for wear) and the 'contact' (also somewhat the worse for wear), and got paid. Dan suddenly noticed that something was stuck to the back window: a tracking device. And I'd been to his house. Crap. So now we're living in a crappy hotel, and this weird magician guy turned up and tried to scare us, and we ended up making a deal to get the arm back from the people we'd just sold it to. Dargh. Magician dude did not take up my offer of staying and getting some rest. As he left, there was a gunshot. We went out to investigate, and who should it be but that crystal girl with a bullet through her forehead?
One word: WTF!!! (Or is that 3? Meh, who cares.)
The next day I picked up Gity and went to Jess's again. We sat around talking and hugging Rascal and a floppy, itchy baby polar bear that is supposed to be a dog. Well, Jess and I did the hugging. Gity isn't so great with cute fluffy animalcules (actually just dogs). Marie came and patted my hair, and we watched Wall-E. ZOMG it is as cute today as when I first saw it. One of my favourite movies ever for sure. Eeeeeee-va!
We made chocolate cake from a box. It feels like cheating, but is undoubtedly convenient. We played Cluedo while it cooked. Jess won : ) Then we played Uno for a bit. That game never gets old. Jess smashed an Easter bunny on her leg and we devoured it, face first, carnivores that we are. We watched the final episode of Battlestar Galactica until it was time for me to drive Gity home, and then finished watching when I got back. It is srzly epic. I almost cried at the end. Marie left before dinner because she had to pick up her mum from hospital :(
Jess and I watched the Top Gear polar special. Mmm, danger. Surprisingly, the car beat the dog team. I felt sorry for poor Hammond. We watched New Tricks and eventually went to bed.
The next day we had hot cross buns for breakfast, and Jess was showing me spore creations when Marie and then Josh turned up. There were some quite impressive ones. Some people are very good at making space ships resemble random things, like Harry on a broom or a Nintendo DS.  We started playing Uno and Sam turned up and joined us, and then Andrew. They were quite long games, too. Well shuffled. Mm, shuffle. Actually shuffle sounds like it would taste gross. Never mind. Jess smashed a bunny on her leg, but it didn't just smash, it exploded, all over the carpet and under the sofa. I collected most of it before the dogs could Hoover it up with their toothy little mouths and die. People ate the pieces despite the fact that they'd been dog haired. I was proud. Then we played Cranium Conga and I won, snatching victory from the grasp of Andrew, who'd been one piece from finishing for ages. Yay!
And I declared that there should be Speedmouse, and there was Speedmouse, and it was good. :O TINA!!!
There were very few Easter eggs to hide, but there were coins and bunnies. As we were trying to decide how to organise the hiding, Andrew said that he didn't want to go outside, whereupon it was immediately decided that we would all go and hide things and without Andrew and then force him to find them. And so the front garden was chocolatised, and Andrew was fetched with a red box to set about retrieving chocolate. It is always funny when people miss obvious things. We ended up playing hotter and colder. Much coinage was flung in mock-anger. One ended up going down Marie's back, and I told her to eat it because I wouldn't, so she put it in her bra, and the bra quotes flowed in abundance. After a while we all chipped in to help find things other people had hidden, and then things that WE had hidden, because our memories are clearly terrible and we couldn't even remember where we'd put things only minutes earlier. Andrew admitted that he had re-hidden some of the things he'd found, so we got a hunt of our own. Cheese-eating surrender monkeys that we are, we gave up when there were 6 or so coins still missing, and went inside to feast on the spoils of our labour. Well, pick halfheartedly at, anyway. People were quite sick of chocolate by the end of the day. I know, I know, I didn't think that was possible either. We played Ticket to Ride with Stargate in the background. Marie left before the end. Josh whupped our arses quite comprehensively, with nearly 200 points. We're getting better at this game. I remember when anything over 100 was amazing.
I drove the others home. Due to a collaboration of excellent navigation skillz, we ended up going the wrong way for Josh's house, so I dropped off Sam first. As we were driving up Gallaghers Road, there was an odd flicker. We all suddenly realised that all the street lights had gone out, and that it wasn't just our eyes being weird. On the way back the implication suddenly hit - the traffic lights weren't working. It took a while, but we got across the intersection and didn't die. It looked as if Josh was right on the edge of the powerless block, because his neighbours didn't have power but he did. I drove back along Highbury Road to avoid broken lights.
For the past few days I've been attempting to do a massive clean up of our house. I have come to the conclusion that there is too much furniture in our house. Most of it we just have because it was 'too good an offer to pass up'. Also our garbage bin is completely  full and recycling is more than half full. On the plus side, I haven't argued with my mum at all while this has been going on, which is something like a miracle. She's the only person in the world I argue with, but normally when I do something major we argue a LOT.
So yeah. Woot.
It was a good Easter.    

Marie covered much stuffs so I won't go in depth. Though mostly that's because I can't be bothered. My GPS is teh suck in the rain. I had to do a DIY detour around a crashed truck and got lost becuase it wasn't giving me directions. It was really nice seeing people like Dave and Bharat who I haven't seen since the reunion, but even better seeing people like Josh and you guys who I haven't seen for ... er ... a couple of days XD Josh was sitting against the side of those game whatsamahoosits instead of sitting on a chair like a proper person, so I pushed on his shoulders to try and make him collapse but only succeeded in forcing the whatsamahoosit to move with a loud and sudden grating sound. Oops ...
I totally sucked in the first darkzone game, even though I was a green. I kept shooting members of my own team accidentally. I did improve quite a bit in the second one though :) At one point I was crouching in a shadow waiting for someone to walk past so I could shoot them and this loud disembodied voice came out of nowhere and said "Stand Up Please". I stood up guiltily and moved on.
I had peanut butter and chocolate gelati. It was really nice. I just lost the game. I hate AJ but I hate Jess even more.
Would you rather it was raining darts or rocks the size of tennis balls? Still haven't decided.
Word association is AWESOME FUN! Our minds are, at times, strange and freakish places. Hm. Scratch "at times." Scott and Bharat planned an epic movie in which Josh and I fight over Scott to the death. *Nervous laughter*
We stood around for a while, and many hugs were distributed and recieved, many with enough force to cause overballancing, screaming and near misses with large glass windows.
I drove Scott home and we were watching Jess and Josh in the car in front rocking out to something. Scott tried to mime "turn the volume up", but it failed to do anything but looks like a strangely suggestive gesture. I realised that my P plates had fallen down and told Scott to put them up, and he got one out but just left it on the dashboard. I told him that if we got stopped by the police it would be his fault. Jess started making various hand gestures out the back window at us. I was somewhat puzzled, as it seemed to include even more suggestive hand gestures and the "Reivan ... Nekaun ... NNNNNH!" Thing from ages ago. I mimed some more back at her. Then Josh called Scott and said that our lights were off. I totally hadn't realised because we could see just fine, what with the street lamps and everything. Scott asked what they'd been rocking out to, but Josh had already hung up. Then we had to turn and stop following, which was disappointing. We discussed magic mushrooms, smoking and marathons. And kittens. Obviously.
Mum came with me to dog school this morning cos I was doing demos of dog dancing and agility, and she asked what time I'd got back. I said quarter past 12. "Rrrright. Hm." That led on to her discovering the fact that I'd got home at quarter past 5 on wednesday morning. For some reason, she found that hilarious. But YAY for parents who let me do what I want :D
Yeah. Parties are awesome fun. Any suggestions on what I should do for my birthday would be appreciated. Ima miss you guys :(

Well ... reunion.
I lamented the fact that no-one had brought playing cards. A lot. I now keep some in my purse.
Marie gave me a packet of sugar that she wasn't going to put in her irish coffee (or whatever it was), and I ate it and enjoyed it immensely. She went and got 3 more packets, to my delight; but AJ STOLE THEM! Incensed, I tried to yoink them back, and failed. We ended up in a tug of war which the packets lost, and sugar sprayed all over the carpet. It was a tragedy, but an amusing one, particularly as I wasn't the one who had to vaccuum up. I took the two mangled, depleted packets and downed the contents, and AJ secreted the third (unbroken) packet somewhere about her person. And WOULDN'T GIVE IT BACK! "Don't have it." She said, liar that she is. (When I asked for it as we were leaving, she realised that she really didn't have it anymore. Maybe it went to the same place as left socks do?)
 Marie spoke to Mr Tatnall, and I spoke to Mr Ross. He was reluctant to distract me from Josh. I think he thought we were a couple, or possibly just that we hadn't seen each other in forever. I guess it was the excessive glumphing.
We spent a while hovering around the finger food. There were untrustworthy-tasting spring roll-looking things, which I ate tons of simply because they looked like spring rolls and therefore should have been nice, as well as the other regular party whatsamits and very little vegetarian.Marie came in crowing that she had been challenged to a drinking competition and lost, and I won my bet. The rest of the night was all downhill. I pilfered Jess's scarf for a laugh, and hid it in Marie's purse. Then some dufus came along and spilt beer allllllll over it. *Shudders* Sorry Jess ... We tried to wash it in the sink. I don't think it worked very well. Marie started swearing loudly at everyone, repeatedly threatening to physically assault Will. After the millionth time, I said "Oh no, she's ghosting!" At one point she ran after him, screeching, and opened a door into her face. Jess and I tried to make sure she drank water and didn't fall over or yell anything that would get her killed, but those last two turned out to comprise an almost superhuman task. Will admitted to Jess that he wanted to make out with her, but wouldn't because it was his fault she was so drunk. That was something at least.
Everyone left fairly early.
Mm.

On Friday Marie had her party. I skipped work so I'd be able to finish my assignment and turn up at 3 at Jells Park. I packed the dogs in the car and went to pick up Gity. The front door was open but the flyscreen locked. I knocked, but no-one answered. I  tried again. And again. I called "Is anyone home?!" and got no reply. Worried, I turned to leave; but just then I heard a boy say something quietly inside, and a minute later Gity came to the door. We were a little late, but so were most people, so that was okay. Hugs were distributed. We had some nibbles and purloined the playground for a while. Jess amused herself by teasing Mystic with some dog food she found in her pocket. I managed to incite everyone but AJ and Jess to come on a walk with me, and we set off across the park. Andrew demanded to hold the leash of a dog, whereupon he leapt around like a maniac and fell over. I removed the leash and handed Merry to JR instead. We didn't get very far before it started to rain, and then to hail. I quickly realised that the hailstones were freaking massive, and JR and I picked up the dogs and everyone ran back. Well, I think Gity stayed behind on the swing. But most people. As the hail slowed down, the inevitable hail fight started; it was a battle of epic proportions and duration, inciting in the participants the most devious and conniving tricks to get those long-lasting stones down the back of people's necks. In short, it was brilliant fun. Luckily AJ, Jess and Josh had managed to rescue all our stuff and hide it in a little troll tunnel under the playground. As the hail slowly melted, our fight simmered down and we ended up (as always) surrounding the swings and chatting amiably. When the thunder started I suggested we bring the cars closer and (after a while staring gob-smacked at the sky like the peasants that we are) we did so. Andrew was convinced that it was going to be a brilliant storm, so we waited a while just in case the heavens decided to open so we could have the pleasure of getting throughly soaked and cold. Summer thunderstorms are absolutely brilliant. Sadly, this turned out not to be one. We had started playing forty forty when I had to leave to take Gity and the dogs home.
No-one answered the door at my house, so I went around the side and put the dogs through the catflap. I found mum and viv entrenched in some word game in the bottom room. "Hi," I said. No answer. "I'll be off then ..." Non-commital grunt. Nice to feel important :P
I went to Jess's house, only to discover that Jess and Josh were the only ones there - The others had had to go back to get a bag. Through a series of tense phonecalls, a drama unfolded - Marie's mum wanted her home. Nay, DEMANDED her home, and piffle to the fact that her friends were throwing her a party too. So AJ and Andrew turned up a while later, and Marie did not, and we had the second half of her party without her. She said we should eat her cake, so we did, and we sang and wished her a very merry un-birthday party as we did so. It was nice cake. We played clebrity heads, had chips and Andrew's bean salad for dinner, and watched "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" because one of my characters had been Sean Connery. It was good. I hadn't seen that movie in ages.
 The next day I went to see The Pirates of Penzance with Marie. Her mother was in hospital with high blood pressure [ :(  ], so my mum came with us instead. It was excellent. I freakin love that musical. Gilbert and Sullivan, u rok guyz. It would have been better if the actors had been given microphones, but oh well.
"So you said often, *frequently*."
"No I didn't, only once."
Hehe
Yeah
Played DnD last Saturday. There was a lot of trying to get into insanely hard to get into place which we knew was full of plague and corpses and violent giant mutant ware-rats and what have you. For no apparent reason. We got in, threw up, fought for our lives, rescused the last remaining inhabitants and then KEPT GOING against insane odds just for the vage mention of some mystical secret fridges or something. Which no-one would tell us how to find. And we fought for our lives, ended up trapped with some crazy masochistic bitch who killed a little girl and made Joanne go nuts, then killed our awesome but suicidal androgynous muscle-person (stand in for Betty) before leaping to her death. And then Joanne leapt after, using featherfall, and discovered that yes, the little girl WAS in fact dead and severely mangled. And now she's stuck. Sigh. I hinted that she should go cannibal and not starve, and then I went home.
The next day was the Royal Melbourne Show. The Excellent Snooker course was quite nasty. Merry found food on the ground as we walked into the ring - little kids were throwing stuff everywhere. Crap. After she'd choked on that for a while, I set her up and off we went ... Merry with her nose glued to the ground, looking for more food. but she still managed to finish the openeing sequence, right up until the last jump, which she knocked the bar off, because her nose was on the ground. Sigh. I started the closing sequence and she was with me until the end of the A-frame, whereupon she vanished in a blur as she did her superfast zoomies around the course. The crowd was loving it. Eventually she came back, and I tried to get her to go into the tunnel, but she wasn't having it. So, seeing as we'd already failed, I picked her up and shot her into the tunnel (like you do in training when you're building speed). She shot through, came out the other end and did more zoomies. Hoorah. She went and visited a kid by the fence and I picked her up and tried to get her to weave ... and off she shot again. I caught her the third time, smiled indulgently to the amused crowd, thanked the judge, and left. Ah well. There was a big break before my next run, so mum went and explored the show, and then sent me off to buy whatever I wanted from the animal pavilion next door. I got a shmackos showbag and some pig's ears, and admired the tolerand cats are ridiculous looking rabbits. Our second run of the day was Strategic Pairs. We weren't holding out much hope, since B'ellanna (Merry's partner) was having an even better day than she was. I was the one to start. The judge said "Go," I said "REaaaady? GO!!!" and dashed forwards ... leaving Merry firmly planted and blinking placidly at the crowd. I went back and, using my finest encouragement skills, finally got her to move. Off we went, jump, jump, tunnel, where's the dog gone? She'd stayed in the tunnel. I bent down to look in the tunnel and called her, and out she blazed ... from the wrong end. The crowd were pissing themselves laughing. I sent her through the tunnel again and over the next jump, then hel her collar while B'Ellanna started ... or didn't, as the case may be. She decided that she'd rather give the A-frame a miss, thanks all the same. On the 3rd attempt she finally went up, and the crowd cheered. With an excessive amount of cajoling, she managed the next 5 jumps, and it was Merry's turn again. Jump, weave ... or not. she went past them. The judge called a refusal, even though it's games and there technically are no refusals. Gr. B'Ellana went into the weaves, was gaing nicely ... and popped out at the second last pole. The crowd groaned sympatehetically. Merry had her turn again and did them perfectly, as she normally does, and the crowd cheered again. I realised too late that I was on the wrong side, and did a very sloppy cross-over, but we still managed to get through the jumps. B'Ellana was moving in slow motion, but still managed hers. I sent Merry through the tunnel, over the jump, into the chute (fingers crossed, please don't get tangled up ...) and she came out the right end! Just in time I remembered the last jump I had to do, and we raced off to finish that one. And over to B'Ellana ... who would rather give the dog walk a miss, thanks all the same. She got up on the FIFTH try, and over the very last jump. We finished in an incredible 3 minutes - 2 minutes over the time limit - only to discover that I had disqualified us right at the beginning when I'd crossed back over the start line to get Merry to go. Ha! Good thing it wasn't a good run then, hey what. Merry got her chicken and then went in her crate to sleep while mum took me to see the handicrafts, and then we went home. All in all, an amusing day.

Toodle pip.

Well, not holidays so much. But I haven't updated in ages, so YAY list

• Mum got me work experience with the detector dog program - they breed labradors to sniff out drugs at the airport. It was interesting at first, just seeing how they train their dogs (throw something and hope they fetch it). But after the hundredth hour of scooping diarrhoea, walking halfway across the muddy compound and blending it in the insinkerator, I was REALLY glad it was over.
• She also got me work experience with a veterinary behaviourist, Dr Debbie. She's nice. She does some training in a hall near our house, getting reactive dogs used to other dogs. There are a couple of nice dogs who've had bad experiences, and a couple who are just completely barking mad. Literally. She also does house calls, can she's let me come to a couple so far. It's really helpful.
• A lady who came to help Debbie asked if I would be an instructor at their dog school, so I'm now doing their short instructor's course.
  
• The RSPCA has been reaaaaally muddy. Luckily I have, by pure skill, avoided falling on my arse in it or (permanently) loosing any of my shoes in the depths of it .... although I did slip and fall on the electric fence. Youch ... I swear the cow was laughing at me.
• I went to RMIT for a day with Josh. He made me an awesome bracelet. I watched Imaginary Heroes on his laptop while he was supposedly listening to his lecturer. We went out to eat and I finished watching the movie in the library while he and his friends did "work". Then I went to a bookshop and found the next Artemis Fowl book. Yay ^_^
• We've done some DnD. It's awesome, particularly the bits where the characters go completely nuts and kill each other and Andrew is left tearing his hair out and on the verge of a breakdown. I love Order of the Stick and DM of the Rings very much indeed.
• Went to see Dark Knight. Marie and Jess and I bought tickets early then went for dinner, and were joined by AJ (after initially walking past each other once or twice) and Aparna and we went in. About 10 minutes into the movie, Scott turned up and I had to tell him we hadn't bought him a ticket because we didn't know he was coming. One major guilt trip later, he somehow managed to procure a ticket for the seat next to us (in an otherwise comletely booked out theatre.) I felt better after that. The movie was really loud and violent, but good.
  
• Went to Josh's place and we walked to AJ's. It started to rain so we ran and I lost a couple of Uno Stacko pieces. We found one but couldn't find the other, so we left it. We played scrabble and stacko and Josh taught us how to play eucha (I think that's how it's spelt) with the olympics as background noise, and then we watched Flight of the Concords until 1:30. It was nice. I didn't find the stacko piece on the way back, but we did get rained on again.
• The next day I went to Jess's early and looked for it again. I found it! ... On the road, completely squished.  XD Andrew bought  a massive number of Stargate DVDs, and we watched a few episodes and then some Doctor Who for the benefit of AJ and Marie. People insisted on torturing me by flinging a revoltingly intestine-like pink thing at me at random intervals. *Is scarred for life*
• Merry got lots of passes in agility. She's teh awesome  =D
• Have been to libraries and book stores etc quite a lot. Books are nice.
  
• I have no idea if that's all. I cannot remember when I last updated on stuff wot I 'ave done, and I have probably left stuff out. Never mind. Onwards and forwards!
  

I am a farmer who raise ducks and cows. The animals have a total of 9 heads and 26 feet. How many ducks and cows do I have?
Submitted by The BlueTie.

Well, if I was in maths class I'd say 4 cows, 4 ducks and 1 farmer. One of the cows may be his wife, I'm not sure. However, I've just been reading books with demons and mutants in and eating chinese food (mmm, non vegetarian) so I'll say 1 cow with 3 legs because one's been eaten, 1 cow with 4 legs because 2 have been eaten, 1 cow with 4 legs of which none have been eaten, 1 duck with 4 legs, 1 duck with 2 feet and 2 heads, 1 duck with 1 foot and 1 green, slimy pseudo-duck with 2 feet, and finally one 1 transgenic sheep-human hybrid with 6 legs. If you're wondering where the farmer went, the pseudo-duck ate him. Never trust anything with the right number of legs.
Creativity ftw.

On Thursday we went to see the new movie about the quest to save the talking badgers (aka Prince Caspian). I had a nightmare that I was late because I had got stuck babysitting, and it was so horrible that I woke up way too early. I got in the car at exactly the right time, but then discovered that my GPS had forgotten Gity's address, and it took me 7 minutes to program it in. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA to GPS's. So I was kind of late to Gity's, and then we got caught in an excessive number of traffic lights and couldn't find a parking spot. So we drove past the cinema and waved to everybody standing there waiting for us. Yay. For once in my life, I was the last one there. We watched the movie. It was moderately great. Then we went to The Glen, ate, talked and freaked Scott-Mr-KFC-Dude out by staring at him for ages as he tried do do his Mr-KFC-Dude work. Then I took Marie and Gity on a tour of the changes to the school. There aren't many. The toilets were painted over and quickly falling into disrepair and clouds of cigarette smoke again; the eye-sore of an incomplete fountain is now a completed eye-sore of a fountain. We saw Mr Edwards in the Sci Tech (wtf? WHY is he not in Canada yet?) so Gity and I talked to him. I discovered that he used to be a dog trainer and show his Weimaraners in competitions. (wtf? WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!) And then we went home.
On Sunday I had a dog massage workshop. That was informative.
On Monday I went to Jess's. My bus was 10 minutes late, leaving me shivering and miserable. It was great, in the purely nostalgic sense. I was just getting out my phone to tell Marie not to bother picking me up when it arrived. I got to the carpark at exactly the same time as Marie. Yay:) And so Jess, Scott, Andrew, Marie, me and eventually AJ played dungeons and dragons. It had taken Andrew a while to convince me to play, because I thought I would become addicted and wierd. Me and Jess were tied up for a large chunk of the game, and the b**ch of a captain took my dog-steed and has pet electric lizards which killed Jessica. I am now wierdly addicted to Dungeons and Dragons. So is Jess. Sigh. I feel, as Jess's uncle put it, 90's geeky. Other people went home but I stayed overnight to avoid more public transport. We watched some of the first season of Charmed and had scrambled egg for dinner, played playstation games, watched Tudors and spectacularly failed to do any of the work we both should have done. The following morning was spent making Spore creatures and sorting counters until people came. We watched some Doctor Who episodes until Caitlin arrived, whereupon we ordered pizza and started our Murder Mystery night. I was (please excuse the use of person in this, me is merely copyin'.) "Steph, a noble woman without any great title. You have lost your lands and your frtune to betting on the races, die, cards and other games. You are friends with the Lady Jessica, but have never met her husband Duke Andrew and are looking forward to doing so. The only reason you have been invited to the paty (is that) it is hosted by your cousin Marie. However, you almost didn't come. Greatly in debt and needing to fuel your gambling habits you are afraid that one of the loan brokers you owe money to, AJ, will be present. she is a member of the King's Guard and a soldier, but most of her large fortune comes from her other trade. If you don't pay up you are afraid of what AJ will do to you."
My first objectives were to start a gambling game with at least 3 other people, avoid being alone with AJ (actually just avoid her as much as possible) and talk to my friend Lady Jessica about my life.
Lady Jessica introduced me to her husband in her room, then we moved to the sitting room to meet the other guests. I was just about to start avoiding AJ when Cousin Marie started talking, forcing all of us to be seated. I amused myself by pinning Scholar Josh to my chair. As soon as Marie stopped talking, I released him and went to learn more about Lord Andrew (or should I say Lord Xavier Formulaic Acid); I may have been rather more interested than was strictly necessary. Interested enough that as soon as Jess walked past he grabbed her frantically and used her as an excuse to extricate himelf from my company. Muahaha. Then I started avoiding AJ. I talked to several people, including Jess, who was upset with her husband about something, and Marie, who apologised for her character's tendency to encourage me to gamble excessively. I got Scholar Josh relatively alone and I was rather more interested in his life than strictly necessary, but he was oblivious. I tried to interest him in a game of cards, but he refused. I turned to Marie and said "Could I interest you in a game of cards, cousin? You party is dreadfully dull." I suddenly realised that that was probably quite offensive, but she cried "YES!" and we went to set up. Somehow we managed to accumulate every other person at the party by the time we were ready. We played 21 (or whatever it was called back then), followed by Dragons (or whatever it's called. They probably didn't play it back then, but who cares? I won a round.) It was during these games that the great scandal came out - Marie had had an affair with Lord Xavier 10 years ago. AJ pointed out that they would have been 8 at the time. Every time people went to yell at each other in private I stole some coins from whoever was silly enough to leave them unguarded, but the last time someone stole all of Marie's coins so I had to give the 2 I had taken back. She was convinced that I had taken all of them. Humph. As if the desperately in debt gambling addicted cousin would do that. As we were finishing, Jess and Caitlin went off to talk in private. Caitlin emerged shortly afterwards crying out that Lady Jessica was dead, so we all rushed in to stare at her. She was laughing. "Oh no!" we all lamented. "Quick, make sure she's dead." I tested her pulse. "Yep, she's dead." Andrew sat beside her and tried to show his grief by pretending to beat his hands against her. "Yeah, well done Andrew, just stab the dead body to make sure." Everyone was cracking up. We left Andrew to "grieve" while Josh performed a medical examination to determine the cause of death (poison, he said.) We sat on the sofas and tried to decide whodunnit, trying unsuccessfully to pretend that our laughs were really sobs. After a while we went to check on them, and the door swung open to reveal Jessica's body lurching towards us. "AAAAAAAH!!" We screamed at the undead creature. She corrected us, "I'm the mute servant now."
"Ah." we said.
"She did it!" I cried.
She handed out new objectives. Mine was "Convince AJ to give you time to repay the money. Jessica is dead, but you are sure, in your desperate situation she would help you with your debt; attempt to rob her money out of her handbag." I went to the kitchen and took a butter knife, so that I could kill AJ if I felt like it. I tried to edge towards Andrew's private room, but everyone was by that stage sitting in the lounge in full view of the door, so I never even got close. I grabbed AJ and drgged her up the hall to try and make some excuse about how I was going to get a job tomorrow and pay her off. Unexpectedly, she offered to halve the amount due (I had to ask how much it was, and she dug around for her paper and we discovered that it was meant to be $3000, so it would now be $1500). I dug around in my pockets and found counters. It took a VERY long time to count them. I gave up at $1000, and she said that she could consider the $500 owing in view of my not saying anything about what had happened earlier. I didn't know what had happened earlier, but didn't really feel like mentioning it. I didn't quite know what to do with the knife in my pocket. I was a little disappointed to have no reason to kill anyone. After a little more circulation and speculation, Caitlin pulled me asside and enquired as to my relationship with AJ. I confided that I owed her (or him) some money, as I had seen Caitin pay him/her off earlier. Caitlin offered to lend me some money in exchange for a favour later on. I agreed, and she gave me the $500 I needed. I went and passed it on. Without a debt, I wasn't quite sure whether I should still go and nick money out of Jess's handbag. Andrew saw me hanging around and asked for a word. He pointed out the imaginary blood stain where Lady Jess had been lying. Servant Jess barged in and handed us our next set of objectives. "Look in the handbag," she hissed to Andrew, and left. We looked at each other for a moment, and then I reached for the bag. Andrew lunged forwardand pinned me to the wall with his cardboard tube sword to my neck. "DROP IT!" He thundered. "She did say to look in it." I opened it and found coins and a label belonging to Gail. I can't remember what we discussed, because my sleep deprived mind fogged it over, but it did involve me taunting him then saying "Oh wait, I forgot, I probably shouldn't anger a man with a sword to my throat." "Hehe yeah you forgot." "So are you going to kill me?" "No, but sonsider it a very stern warning." I left, very sheepishly. My third objective was to "Either repay the loan or get AJ off your back one way or another. If she tries to speak with someone, follow them and eavesdrop." I had been eavesdropping all night anyway. It hadn't really got me very far, most of what I overheard being "I think someone's listening." I guess I'm not very good at sneaking. After a long discussion with Marie, it was time for final favours to be called on. Caitlin told me that her favour for the money was that I should vote for myself as murderer. "But ... I would be hanged. That is SO not worth $500." I competely emptied my pockets, and started counting. After we had established that it was somewhere between $400 and $470, she got bored and said "Okay, since you've sort of payed off your debt, I will revise the favour to voting for Marie." "Did she do it?" "Yes." "Are you sure?" she nodded vehemently. "Okay then." I was wandering away when I heard a scream. I grabbed my trust knife and raced into the lounge room, where Marie was struggling with Andrew. They raced off before I got there, so I followed, which is how we ended up in the final scene, everyone standing in the hall with weapons drawn. "Having a concealed weapon is against the law." AJ informed us. "Well maybe you should tell us the laws BEFORE we break them." I said. AJ and Andrew withdrew to the study to confer, while the rest of us sat down to discuss final theories. AJ and Andrew were in there for a VERY long time. We took it in turns listening at the door to make sure there was no unauthorised hanky-panky. Unfortunately, there wasn't.
The final votes were cast and Marie got the most. "Yes, you're right, I did it." She said. "You did?" asked Caitlin. "You said you knew!" I said, scandalised. We took her to the deck to hang her, but she took too long trying to think of decent last words, so I just pushed her off to be done with it.
We sat down afterwards and everyone told their stories. Turns out AJ had been convinced I had seen her take all Marie's money and kindly kept quiet, when in fact I had only suspected her. I didn't enlighten her.
That was fun.
Then we played murder in the dark for hours. Twice when I was murderer I manged to perform mass murder, but lost count and said "Have I killed everyone?" Only to be met by the cry from the last survivor "Stephanie did it!" (Actually, the first time Andrew said "Jess did it!" HA.) In one of the games I ended up in the middle of a 3-person pile up.Josh was a really sneaky murderer, and would try to hand me a dog or wait for me to hug him and then grab my shoulder so I died. I love following people around and creeping them out, even when (especially when) I'm not the murderer. Oh it was so much fun :D
At 20 past midnight Josh decided that he probably should go home. Murder in the dark slowed and eventually stopped when no-one could stand up any more, except to dance. Which we did. Crazily. In the dark. Yay :)
We finally settled down for bed. Marie and I shared the sofabed next to the laundry. We were just drifting off when we heard music from the tv. "They're watching 300 ... at 2 am. Oh my god." Marie laughed. Jess went to tell them to turn it down, which they did. A few minutes later we heard her commenting on the effects. "Yup ... turn it down you freaks, it's 2am. *Sits down and watches movie with them*" I giggled. We eventually stopped hearing it and drifted fitfully in and out of sleep, woken occasionally by the barking dogs. The second time I let them out (which must have been about 7) they got out. "Help, I being mauled my wild beasts!!!" Squealed Marie. (Surprisingly, I learned later, no-one heard her). Rascal opened the hall door and disappeared, and Nagari (with a huge amout of effort) heaved herself up onto Marie and lay there for hours, squishing her lungs. She's such a cute dog. We were finally able to sleep properly and were woken up by the doorbell. Josh and Gity were bright and dressed, which contrasted comically with the rest of us, croaky with sleep and dressed in our pyjamas. We finished watching Doctor who episodes and ate pancakes for brunch. We played Taboo, and my team won because it had both AJ and Caitlin on it,  despite the other team cheating by going through a bunch of cards they'd had before. HA. Gail came home and people left, and Marie kindly dropped me and Gity home.
On Thursday morning Jess's mum called to say that she was sick, so I waited 5 minutes then called Marie to ask if she could pick up AJ and Andrew. She said she'd woken up 5 minutes ago. How ironic. I got texts from Phil and Josh saying they weren't coming. I called AJ to tell her MArie was picking her up and she said she MIGHT come. I said "If you don't ... it will be very lonely." Marie arrived at quarter past 11 with both AJ and Andrew in tow. Andrew decided that we should play pokemon master trainer. We laughed, realised he was serious, and got stuck in. I won, grâce à luck and good item cards. We then made muffins, with lumps of chocolate and marshmallow, so it would be like rocky road. In hindsight, we probably should have realised that marshmallows MELT in ovens. They were very sticky. But nice. And choclatey. After a false start, we figured out how to play labyrinth, and Andrew won. Then we played uno. It was a great game, ie it went on for AAAAGES. I think Marie won. AJ was not having her usual winning streak, which was kind of fun for us. We watched the last scene from Life of Brian, and while I was switching it off we stumbled across The Hoobs, which is one of those drug-induced children's shows. It was strangely fascinating, and I couldn't quite turn it off. After looking at washing powder adds on youtube and AJ discovering the joys of our cordless mouse, it was time for everyone to go.
And today I walked dogs at the RSPCA for 4 1/2 hours, and one of them was a mastiff cross that was way stronger than me, and I have a bruised wrist from walking it 150 metres out and 150 metres back (that was as far as I got before I realised that if I went any further he would probably pull me off my feet and escape).
So yeah. that post took a ridiculously long time to write up, it wasn't even detailed.
Life is fun.

WOW I haven't updated properly in ages. Alow me to reduce the past month into a conveniently compact list:

• Marie, Jess and my family went to see Richard III at the Athaneum. It wasn't their best play.
  
• Athough it was kind of amusing when lots of furry green things leapt onto the stage and started dancing during the big fight scene for no apparent reason. Very Knight of Ni.
•  Also when a whole ton of people crawled out of Richard's bed. How many people can you fit under one matress?
• Went to see a movie of Hamlet with AJ and Marie. I hadn't realised that it was a completely uncut version, with all the lines in - it went for an insanely large number of hours. We missed the last train and had to call Marie's dad to pick us up.
  
• It was moderately brilliant though. I loved Hamlet's manic episodes - he seemed almost like a normal human being (as opposed to a stuffed lyrical partridge).
  
• I bought a packet of fantails and made Marie eat them. Suffer. Muahaha.
• During intermission AJ went :S (I have officially been corrupted by MSN) and showed us the first sentence of an sms - "We was robbed!" We went :S. Then she showed the second half - "House a repeat." :|
• Had a psychology excursion to the museum. My teacher is, as I suspected, a fool. But I liked one of the other teachers, Donna. The museum was great. I learned stuff. Also, we got to try out a lie detector. I got caught. Aw. Also, my heart pattern is mildly retarded.
• I had an agility trial in Geelong. Merry got two titles ^_^
• Mystic has developed luxating patella (a dislocating kneecap). Poor baby :(
• Went on Distance Ed "Urban Camp". There is a school camp in Royal Park. I never knew that.
• Day 1: We stood in a circle (the 19 of us who turned up out of the hundreds of people who do distance ed. There was only 1 other year 12 there.) and attempted to learn each other's names. It didn't work particularly well. Then we went to Vic Markets and wandered around for a while. We got bored. All the boys bought toy guns, which they shot people with for the next 2 days. The teachers didn't seem to care, which was awesome. Then some people went to Galactic Circus and others - like me - went to the Eureka Tower. The skydeck is way overpriced, but the glass is truly awesome. It flickers :) After dinner we were allowed to do whatever so I tried to watch a movie, but the room was too loud and I couldn't hear. I was joined by an attractive young male teacher and, by exerting my full will power, managed not to hit on him even when he stretched out on the couch next to me and started discussing Arundhati Roy, then mentioned that he'd forgotten to bring his PJs. *Giggles*
• Day 2: Ate way too much toast. Went to the MCG sports museum, which I'm sure everyone would have loved had anyone had the slightest interest in sports. They had a games room where we could "try it ourselves". I got creeped out by the tourguide, who was a fat, bald old man who showed a disconcerting interest in my life. Was rescued by aforementioned teacher and managed to impress him with my grip on the "test your grip game". Still didn't hit on him. I think. Went to the museum, patted reptiles and amphibians. The tourguide informed us that snakes have 2 penises which are next to their anus and hidden behind "that scale riiight there". One of the boys cried "Wow! They have a neat little container for it all!". she spent a while swearing while trying to catch a turtle, managed, and then held it out for us to pat. We did so, and she then said "Yep, pretty neat, but don't put your finger near it's mouth because it's a bastard and it will bite the first joint of your finger clean off." Hmm, OH&S anyone? That night we watched movies. Unfortuantely the female teachers chose. "How to lose a guy in 10 days" was even worse than I remembered, but "Suddenly 30" was as great as ever.
• Day 3: couldn't be arsed going to the immigration museum so I left early. 'Ra being over 18 :)
• Had a "skilled drivers" course. It was basically "Don't do drugs. Now lets go slam the breaks on your car :D".  It was actually quite fun, doing hairpin turns and slaloms at 45kph and losing control of the car.

  "You are now 8 ... 9...10 metres into the imaginary petrol tanker that stopped in front of you. You are now dead. Lesson learnt." Hehe ... death.

• Had a TSFX psychology lecture.
• Had DECV psychology lecture. Got lost for 30 mins at the end because of my !@#$%ing GPS. But Donna gave us all lots of lollies, so that was okay. I know more about psychology than the teachers. They offered me a job.
• I quit TAFE. Yay.
• Had psych exam. Pwnt it.
• Had GAT. lolz. May have to attempt to recreate humerous essays sometime.
  
• Went to the city with Andrew and Marie to see Medieval Scripts. The line was freakishly long. We recited shakespeare, and then got a demand for an encore by the people in front of us. The scripts were pretty. I want to learn Latin, and how to use gold leaf. The besiary had a picture of an upsidedown elephant, because apparently elephants have no joints in their legs so when they fall over they can't get up again.
• Ha!
• Did not, in the end, buy doughnuts. Did get high on apple flavoured liquorice. I bought 2 books. T'was great. Marie, plz do account of The Lair.
  
• Movie on Thursday. Yay :)
  
• Have been roped into Dungeons and Dragons on Friday. Sigh @ peer pressure.
• Byeeeee
  

So, sunday. We played a word game - I forget the name. It was like taboo, but easier. I baggsed being on AJ's team. Woah big surprise, AJ Andrew and I won. Then some people went and fiddled with the keyboard while others played the castle building game. Scott won cos of all his lil farmer doods. We lit all the cupcakes on fire (well, their candles anyway. It might have smelt a bit elsewise.) and then ate cake. Jess turned a couple of balloons into instant breast implants. After that, a large part of the afternoon was devoted to boobs, nipples and sex changes. Yeah, we're SO mature.
Gosh, I hope someone got pictures of that ...
ANYWAY Parnie turned up a lot of hours late, even more than usual, and we played Totally Gross. This time I made everyone veto the spinning-around-til-you-fall-over card, simply for the sake of the floor (vomit and carpet make an uneasy mix). Aparna and I lost very badly, but at least we learned stuff - like the fact that Uranus is a planet. Wow :O
Then we watched Lano and Woodley. Ah, slapstick, how could we live without your brilliant crassness?
Parnie and Jess left before dinner, which was tacos, which we had mainly because they were the esiest things to have which didn't have egg... and AJ's cake didn't have egg in either ...DARN Aparna for not eating things we prepared with consideration of her *grumbles*.
We tried to play 1000 blank white cards, but we ran out of time so it was a very short game indeed. But it did involve 2 cards being eaten, so I think it was worth it. Then we went to Darkzone ... and accidentally left Andrew at my place. Hehe. Mum brought him along with my sister. We played one team game and one free-for-all. I prefered the team game better (mostly because I kicked ass :P ) It was fun running up and down all the masses of levels, lying in wait and then shooting people in the back. Except when they shot you in the back, like Andrew did. Sniper.
And then we went home.
Aw.

Yesterday I drove to Marie's place(yes, I did get lost), and Gity was there which made me very happy because I haven't seen her in months and months. We played Uno and watched My Family. It was awesome fun. And we ate cup-a-soup from bowls. That was also mildly amusing, in a foody kind of way. Then Gity and I went to Josh's (and yes, we got lost. Thank god for GPSs) to return the games he had left at my house on sunday. Gity wanted to go home rather than stay, but once I figured out that it was because she wanted to talk to "someone" I asked Josh to log her on to msn and then we were fine. We ate yummy biscuits and played scrabble. Josh whupped our arses, but he let me cheat so I had great fun.
And then
sigh
we had to go home.
Gity saw her brother walking home when we got near her house so she made me race so that she could get to the computer first. Hehe.

And now I'd better go to bed cos I have to get up freakishly early tomorrow.
G'night.

Yes, I have been lazy and haven't updated in aaaages. Well, here goes.

On Monday the 7th of April, we took Merry and Mystic to the vets - Merry to be desexed and Mystic to get her teeth cleaned. (They were originally booked in for March 10, but then someone suddenly realised that that was a public holiday.)
So we took them in on Monday, but at the end of the day they still hadn't been done. We took them home and took them back again the next day. They told us to pick them up at 6 pm, so we turned up then ... and their surgery had been done, but there weren't enough people to discharge the animals or some such rot. After an hour and a bit, we realised that I was going to be late for my lecture, so dad drove me there (luckily I was only 10 minutes late) and left mum behind. When he got back to her at 8:15, the dogs STILL hadn't been discharged. Grief ...
Anyway, we got them home in the end.
A few days later, and Merry was getting worse instead of better. By the time she started screaming whenever she moved, we were extremely concerned and mum took her back to the vets. They wanted to do x-rays and all sorts of stuff, but mum said "Could we just try a laxative first?"
A few hours and a large number of compacted shits later, Merry was feeling much better. Mum returned with the dog and the antibiotics and painkillers they had cleverly forgotten to give us when they handed back the dogs ...
Poor babies.
And then a couple of days after that they came down with kennel cough from being in cages for so long with all the sick dogs around. Luckilly they've had their vaccinations so they were only violently ill for a couple of days, instead of weeks.
I don't think much of vets. They can go hang. We took Merry's stitches out at home.

Aaaanywho. I also went to a two day seminar thing about T-touch for dogs, which is a bit like massage, and I had a methods sac which was crap and a psych sac which was fine.

On the 17th, I was going to go to a French trivia night with Marie, but then she realised she had to be home for the computer installation guys. I really didn't want to go to TAFE, so I went to AJ's place instead. I never did tell my parents about that change of plans. Oops :P

The Saturday after that, lots of peoples went out for lunch. It was supposedly Yum Cha, but we ordered form a menu. I think I ate more pork dumplings than everyone else combined. Despite sitting next to Jessica the entire time, I still don't like tea, which I guess means I never will. But the food was nice, and affordable too .. so we went and blew our leftover cash on gelati. Mmm, gelati. We ate it next to the library, where we met a slightly retarded but funny old guy with a nice dog. Andrew stole Jess's handbag and hid it up a tree. Several times. I love Jess-Andrew wars. Hehe.

Over April I had a few driving lessons at Frankston, with a driving instructor who was actually nice and didn't make me feel like I had all the driving ability of a week old turd. That was a nice change :)
On the 24th, I went for my hazard perception test. I kept on clicking too early. As I got further and further through it, I grew more and more certain that I had failed. When it got to the end, I turned to the lady and she said "You got 64%." Woops, I thought. Mum is going to hate me. "Which is great, and you passed." I did what now?!  So. 64% is a pass mark for that. You learn something new every day. So my driving test went ahead as planned, on the 2nd of May at Frankston. I drove around for an hour beforehand with my instructor, which was supposed to clam me down. I'm not sure it helped much. In my test, despite having my instructor with me and a very nice examiner, I clammed up and lost a few marks for giving way for too long at round abouts and driving too slowly. But I PASSED. OMG. And with better than 90% too :P
So the past few days, I've been driving myself places. I was warned that it was going to be very different, but the only difference I notice is that it's way quieter and calmer without my mother there.
But I do get lost a lot now.
Thank god for GPSs.

Now backtracking a bit ... I went to Thisiri's "birthday party" on the 26th. I turned up what I would consider late at 20 past 6, and there and there was a handful people from La Trobe there. I got to know them a little and wished I hadn't. They are so VAIN, self-obesessed, dumb ... gargh. Most, not all. When some more people turned up, they started drinking wine and champagne and turning up the music. I was just getting more and more akward. The saddest part was that so were most of the people there. As more people from Glen Waverley turned up, it ended up just being a huge room of people with IQs greater than 110 pretending that they had IQs less then 90 so that they could enjoy drinking, dancing and being really sociable with people who they didn't know. It wasn't working. I left as early as possible, just before 9, and there were still people turning up. Remind me never to go to anything like that again.

And on the 28th Marie, AJ and I went to see The Tempest at Monash. It was really well done. The guy who played Prospero was great, and they did magic tricks throughout the play. I want to learn how to do magic tricks now :P

Sam got a dog, a 9 month old rotweiler called Phoebe, so I'm helping him to train her every Tuesday now.

On the 4th was AJ's "surprise" party at my place. Jess and Josh turned up early with cupcakes, so we decided to stick the candles in them - but they wouldn't stay in their holders. So we melted wax into the holders first. That was so much fun that when other people turned up, I had to make them go outside to burn a musk sick. It didn't work very well, mainly because the match boxes were crap and the one lighter dad found was broken. I did discover that you can melt musk sticks in the microwave, however, and then they taste like lollipops. Kudos to Marie for bringing musk sticks :)
We moved to the bottom room, in theory to play a game, but in practice to spend a while popping balloons.

I shall continue this account later, but for now I must skedaddle.
Au revoir.

AJ, Marie, Andrew, Scott and I went to see Labyrinth at the Rooftop Cinema just over a week ago. They took the train, but I went by car via Heidelberg because I had oh-so-cleverly left my learner’s permit at my dog lecture the night before.

I found the right building, went up the stairs … lots of stairs. And then up some more stairs. And then up some more. There were some security guards and I wondered if I was meant to have a ticket first, so I asked whether this was the rooftop cinema and they said it was, and then ignored me. I hung around for about 10 minutes, got freaked out by being alone with all the people, and went all the way down to the bottom again to wait. After a while, no-one came, so I went allll the way back up again. I tried calling people, but my phone was totally out of credit. (I whacked myself severely over the head for that.) But eventually AJ called and I went down a level and found them, stopped behind the security guards. Apparently they had had their IDs checked twice and weren’t allowed up until they got tickets, which we got and went up.

I could’ve got in for free. Hehe …

It was a charming movie, in a mildly pathetic way. I liked the characters which were puppets (ie almost all of them). They were cute. Specially the fox, and his occasionally real dog-steed. “Come back right now Ambrotious! Now!!!” *dog keeps running* “Or I shall never feed you again!” *screeches to a halt and rushes back*.

But EWWWWWW David Bowie’s pants *burries head in sand*. They are the stuff of nightmares.

We caught the train back at 11-something and spectacularly failed to be mauled by hobos. I think we were the ones freaking out other people, with our incredibly loud and slightly insane banter, drug-rehab-looking wristbands and throwing of oat bars. Yay, I’m a juvenile delinquent!

On Saturday I went to Jess’s house and watched completely random stuff on TV until Andrew turned up, whereupon we watched him scaring the crap out of the dogs. When AJ came we switched to Blackadder, which was a slight improvement on an ancient Indiana Jones and scared-shitless dogs. When Marie and Caitlin finally arrived, we took the poor little puplets to the park to get parboiled by the disgustingly smug warm weather. We got back and lay around listening to soundtracks for a while, and made nachos. Just like the last time we went to Jess’s house, the sauce seemed impossible to open … but this time, we had a guy in the house. We gave it to him and he opened it. No more struggling for half an hour with bizarre jar opening devices for us. (Remind me to always invite at least one guy to a party if there’s going to be any jars or bottles involved.) When it got dark we went to the park and howled at the full moon, kicked the marvellously crappy lamppost (hopefully waking neighbours and fulfilling my teenage need to be socially unacceptable scum) and then hid 60 eater eggs. In hindsight, it probably would have been better to play while we could still see the blasted things. Especially as some people *coughCaitlincoughAJcough* randomly hurled them into the middle of nowhere. After a long time searching, our final haul was 52 eggs (although 2 of them later proved to be acorns). We lamented a while over the fact that animals would find the missing eggs, eat them, and die horribly because of us. To prove this point, a tiny baby possum poked its head out and started climbing the tree right in front of us. “Jessica! That poor thing is going to die because of you!” And then we all laughed, went home and ate lasagne and chocolate. We decided to play murder in the dark and eventually figured out rules which made it work, after which it was awesome. Particularly when Jess put on some atmospheric music … stalker music. Killing people is fun *evil grin*.

However, waiting in the dark for some unknown murderer to leap out and strike you down is scary. But also in an incredibly fun way. I learnt that Marie is crap at getting away with murder, and that AJ can be terrifyingly good at it. I managed to commit mass murder and get it pinned on one of the victims (possibly only because Andrew looks shifty, but that was still great.) My dad turned up after a while and we played 2 games with him before I had to go home.

Because in the morning I had a dog trial. In agility Merry got a pass (woohoo!) and 3^rd place. Go the little dogs! In her two jumping rounds, she ran beautifully and missed out on a pass by some negligible things. I was so proud :P And in pairs, Merry did well but her partner B’Ellanna completely fucked up. It was hilarious. That was a great day ^_^

On Monday I did stuff with my family, which was awesome because we’re hardly ever all together with nothing vital to do. We went out walking, but unfortunately it was still disgustingly hot. We went down to a river and were going to have lunch, but the dogs thought the leaves and floating scum looked solid and fell in … at the same time. Fools. HA! They looked very surprised and very bedraggled. We laughed at them for a while, then rescued them and took them up to an oval to run around and dry. Then we had lunch and went back home.

On Tuesday after work I got an unexpected call from Jess, asking me to come over to Andrew’s. My parents decided to let me out of going to grandma’s (again – we’ve been eating with her a LOT recently), so I went. I arrived at his house (stumped at first by the lack of a doorbell. People should have doorbells. It’s the LAW. Well, it should be anyway.) and somewhat bemusedly greeted Jess and Andrew. They were playing some random computer game which involved slitting people’s throats and stealing all their stuff. That was mildly fun. Then Jess went home to spend time with a family friend. Andrew and I did a sdskdfj,beirhva,szmjdz bfcz*&$%^$@ bug puzzle-thing (to the sound of Harry Potter arriving at Hogwarts). We won. Eventually. It was missing one piece. Yay. Then we had dinner, which was rather nice tacos, and played a game whose name I have forgotten but which had “gross” in the title. After a little while his brother and sister joined us. It was hilariously good fun, and I beat them all at spinning in circles really fast and not falling over. HaHA! Dad turned up before we had finished, so he had to go away again and come back a few hours later.

Which probably annoyed my parents, because they didn’t want to have to pick me up from Josh’s party yesterday, so AJ said I could sleep over at her place.

I drove to the Rollerama. It was PISSING down with rain – the flooding kind. We crept past an accident on the freeway – the emergency services weren’t there yet, so the motorcyclist was lying in the middle of the road with just a blanket over him. Mum gave me crap directions so I pulled into 2 wrong entrances before I got to the right one … and then there was no-one there for about 10 minutes, and then we had to wait another 10 before Josh and the others turned up.

But when they did it was fun. By the end of the hour and a half, I had almost learned to skate (so long as the music had a good beat to it). I fell over soundly on my bum once – but only once - Josh got a blister, Jess didn’t skate and Andrew won a kitkat in some daft game involving a stick. We all headed back to Josh’s place (me in Marie’s car, ignoring mum’s express instructions. Hehe …) and figured out how to play Imaginiff with 14 people … that game is like a tradition now. AJ won. It was good to catch up with people who I haven’t seen for a while, and to meet some new people. Everyone slowly trailed off, Marie and Cameron leaving last at about 11:40, but AJ and I hung around because we couldn’t be bothered moving. We hijacked his msn, which was briefly amusing, and listened to songs and fiddled around with mobile phones until it was eventually nearly 2am and we decided it was probably time to leave. I met the rats that AJ is babysitting. They are gorgeous.

I woke up at 9am, made toast, and watched A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie. I’m glad I’ve been to her house often enough to know where everything is, because otherwise I would have been bored until 11, when she finally woke up. Apparently she read for an hour after we got back. Sick people and 3am should not be mixed, in my opinion, but never mind. We couldn’t find the scrabble board. We played magic cards (which AJ won. Do I even need to say it?) Then I decided to go to Josh’s place again while AJ had a shower. We ate plums and persimmons with a fork (Who uses a fork to eat fruit? … erm.) and watched Neon Genesis. It has a lot of breasts in it. Josh’s sister informed me that that’s because all Asians are perverts. When AJ arrived we played scrabble using only 3 letter words, with no scoring and a mild amount of cheating. Cheating is fun. Then I went to the Glen with Josh and his sister. He told me that his parents think that I’m his girlfriend. Brilliant (lol).

I got home around 4:40pm. And I walked the dogs, had dinner, typed this and watched Life on Mars. Final episode next week. O.M.G.

Well, it would be if I didn’t know all the spoilers.

Damned spoilers -_-

My freaking internet is freaking broken at the moment. (I typed this in word and will post it when my internet stops being an ARSE.) (One of my current favourite words at the moment. Arse. It’s a good one.)

I’d better go find a book or some other form of old-fashioned entertainment, but not one so gripping that I read til 3am. Which I seem to do with disgusting regularity. 3am is not a good time to be awake.

OK, so it's Saturday night now. My internet is still an arse and I can't get onto msn, but at least I found some good books. Gripping enough to keep me reading until 12:30 but bland enough to then put down. I still don't have Locke Lamora. Tonight we're going to the neighbour's place for dinner and for Earth Hour. Yay to no electricity! So now I'm going to shut down the computer and turn it off at the wall.

Byeee

PS thanks to Jess for pointing out that this post had been doublepasted. Stupid cut and paste ...

Fixed now, I hope.