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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 3rd 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.
