enjoying your sunday evening?

:)

I got my Wii back on thursday! I've pretty much been living in mario world since then. It's really freaky though - if I play mariokart for too long in one day I go crazy. I hear the music EVERYWHERE! So if I'm trying to get to sleep or something all I hear is 'dun dun dun dun dundundun dun dun DA DUN da dun dun dadundun'.

Well, you all know the Mario music.

In the latest Sugar mag there was this really interesting article on teenage homelessness. One of the writers went round different places in England where there are homeless people and teens and spoke to them etc. Imagine how long the days would be if you didn't know where you were going to sleep that night, then spending the night in pure terror in case someone found you.

I'm thinking about all the people like that in Belfast right now.

Also, how people have all these prejudices/sterotypes/discrimination against homeless people. The main cause for homelessness in Northern Ireland is family and relationship breakdowns. One girl in Sugar said she ran away when her dad lost his jub, started drinking and getting violent with her and her mum. It's really sad.

And look at me, talking about how I got my Wii back a few days ago.. taking for granted there's a warm bed upstairs in a safe house...

We are all extremely lucky.

xoxo
kate

music therapy:
ignorance - paramore

Hii :)

So, did anyone see the Derren Brown thing last night? It didn't work for me. And I wanted SO much to be hypnotised. :(

For anyone who doesn't know who Derren Brown is, he's this physic/mind-reader/magician/brain-wiz guy. I think he is very very cool. I don't really believe he is physic but he defo has 'supernatural' powers and knows all about the subconcious mind. I love all that stuff :) Like, he could ask someone a question and then show them what he had predicted (that's very toned down though, he's much cooler than that) so it seems like he's predicted the future, but I think he's just written down something random and then send signals to they're subconcious to make them choose it. See what I mean?

Although last Friday he actually predicted the Lottery numbers correctly live on TV!!! He's amazing! When I'm 16 or 18 or however old you have to be my friends and I are going to try that because he showed you how to do it.

Right.. well YESTERDAY (Friday) he tried this thing where he would try and interact with the TV viewers and literally stick people to their seats. So they couldn't get up. I watched it and sat correctly etc. but I don't think my head was in the right 'zone' or whatever.

If you haven't a clue what I mean, sorry! I'm just wittering on to myself, really.

BUT whenever I stood up my legs were REALLY heavy.

He said there weren't any side effects, but after the show was over I felt really weird. I was pretty hysterical to be honest, I was screaming at my mum and dad and acting really unlike me. Then I pretty much had a panic attack and I was kind of freaked a bit. I was struggling for air and breathing really heavily, but I thought I'd calmed down, because I was absolutely wiped out and kept half falling asleep, then the breathing thing started again.

I'm not sure why though. I wasn't scared watching it, I was really willing to do it. I just think that since he was trying to get to people's deep subconcious mine was messed up a bit.

Wonder what he'll do next week :)

(btw, don't hate Derren Brown. I still think he's very cool!)

xoxoxoxox
kate :)

Hi. Sob.

SOO about 45 minutes ago my aunty and cousin left for Dublin airport. They're going back to San Diego and I've been crying like a.. thing that cries.

I miss them so much already. My grandparents house (that's where I've been for the past week, btw, in Dundalk) is so quiet without Aisling. I wish I could give her a big hug right now. OK, I'm crying now.

I'm a real cry-baby. I cry at everything. Normally I can control it if I'm in the cinema or something but I've just been sobbing and I can't STOP!! I just think of Ash or my aunty and it starts again. Every year as much as family as poss meet up to go on holiday somewhere, but we're dotted out in Ireland-America-Australia. It's really special when we meet up but then really sad saying goodbye. I'm off again.

Sorry for such a depressing post, I just needed to get that off my chest!!

Back to Belfast this afternoon :)

see ya xx

soo as you can see from the title I've been watching wimbledon.. & that I am slightly disappointed andy murray didn't beat the other dude.

This is kind of a 'see ya for a bit' post coz I'm away to Donegal tomorrow :) :) :) my aunty and little american cousin Aisling (ash-ling :P. I know, stupid hard to spell irish names) are there too and I am SO EXCITED to see them!!

I know. I don't know how you will survive without my ingenious wit and hilarity for two weeks either. Now, now calm down guys! I'll try to post while I'm away through this mobile blogger thing.

Soooo the other day I went to see My Sister's Keeper and it was tres tres good. Yeeah so I cried a little bit but had to control myself coz I didn't want to look like a panda with smudged mascara.. anyhow if you haven't seen it yet try to get to it because it's a really good movie :)

Right. This is goodbye. I told myself I wouldn't cry -- but...

LOL. Control yourselves people. BYEEEEEE!!!!!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkate

soo first day of (dun dun dun!) exams is over!! woop!!

spanish was HARD! do U ever get where you've been studying and studying, and then the paper goes in front of you and you just BLANK?!!

yeahh.. well that happened to me. There was this IR verb bit that didn't even give you the verb.. so I had to just leave it because what?? you can't go around changing verbs if U don't know what the verb IS!! but apparently the IR verb 'to go' was on the revision list.. anyhow it still should have been there!

maths was fine.. nothing much to say about it really.

tomorrow is just history coz I don't do Irish so we get two revision periods, which just DRAAAAG. history is mostly sources too so there isn't a whole lotta work I can do for that!!!

laterss
kate xx

hey :D

aaaaaaaah! I have exams next monday - friday.
And am kind of scared!!

I need more time to study!!

But I get myself too worked up about these things.. I admit it.

Just keeping you posted. And keeping myself from going crazy by venting things out into cyberworld. Same old.

have a nice weekend. And thank the Lord you have lives. I have to study. MORE. :(

xxxx

ACTUALLY change that :( into a :D. Summer is almost here.. one week of exams and then school goes how school should be - watching movies and messing around. It's amazing how even though my head is pounding with uses for urea formaldehyde (YES! I remembered) I can still focus on the positives. Mwahahahahaha.

kate xxxxx

Heya

Soo. Today we went on a geography trip in school for the whole day to the Glens of Antrim to study rocks and rivers.

Seriously!! I know!!

Why anyone would want to do this for a living I cannot fathom. We had to get rulers out, go stand in a scary fast moving river and measure the pebbles. Naturally I slipped.

It was actually a pretty good day 'coz I mostly just messed around.. :)

Unfortunately in Northern Ireland it rains. Quite a lot, actually. Yes, even in summer.

The rain didn't get me wet though, although my jeans are sticking to my legs which is rather uncomfortable. I have quite an, erm, competitive spirit (unless it's to do with sport!) and was trying to beat someone on how far they could go into the sea. I've been walking around with water sloshing about in my wellies for the whole day XD

Mostly though we walked up this big enormous gigantic huge massive mountain to look at waterfalls... I thought I was going to vomit. lol! At least we got exercise..

So, because I am so wet and my feet smell a little of seaweed, I am going to have a 30minute long shower!! :D

Hope you've had a nice, relatively dry day!

NOTE: the pebbles downstream are bigger than those upstream.

kate xx

music therapy
phoenix - lisztomania

Helloo

Haven't been on the computer in a few days.

what is happening to me?!!

I dunno. School etc. My friends and I were talking before we went into class after lunch, and it how it seems like our lives are just school, brief weekend break, mostly filled with homework, projects and assignments, then school.

What a cynical view, you have, for a thirteen year old girl, you say.

Mm. Cynical, negative. But I'm not one to mope about (for too long, anyway!) so we're going to make our lives more EXCITING!!

Cannot wait til summer.

Starting exam revision this weekend - woo. Not.

At least the Star Trek movie is out today!! haha!!

Times like this is when I embrace my nerdiness. Love it ;)

Have a nice weekend!

xoxo
kate

fiiinally!!

I did my violin grade 4 today. It went fine. Not distinction good but not failing bad (hopefully!).

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I'd be. Pieces went good, scales fine... aural OK except the examinor played a little extract and asked me to describe 'the mood and character'. I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to say, and after I mumbled a few things about minor keys and detatched to smooth notes - he laughed and said 'you haven't said anything about the mood or character yet!' so I decided to laugh it off (only way) and say 'sorry, I don't know how to answer that!'

Cringe. 

At least the thing's over.

Unfortuneatly in the life of a teenager when something stressful ends another happens. In this case it's exams.. even though they're not for a few months some teachers have already mentioned it.. ;(

On a more postive note - one more week left of school til Easter hols! I'm going to Spain - yay!

listening to my sis's miley cyrus 'breakout' CD.

I can't wait...to POST again!

kate

xox

 Heyy guys

Sozzies I haven't written in a while!

Someone sent me a virus through Windows Live - damn spammers. :(

It's making my computer super slow.. so I won't be able to blog so much, because it takes about 25 minutes just to get it going.

I'm determined to post at least one post per week though! 

Nothing much going on... same old!

xo xo

Kate

I am upset.

:(

Please comment! I haven't had a lot lately, and it's bringing me down, maan!

Aren't I interesting? Do you find me.. boring? I thought you liked my random ramblings?

No.. OK.

:'(

kate

x

My feet are sore.

My back is sore.

My toe is sore. (Please don't ask!)

School is tiring.

School is boring, dull and a little dreary.

School is painful on my feet and back. And, apparently, big toe. 

Wait, my toe is on my sore foot.

xo xo

kate

Last two periods every Friday, I have double maths.

It truly truly sucks! It's just so boring! Science is worse though...

Anyhooo - This hour of maths this afternoon was possibly the worst, yet funniest hour of maths in my grammar school life. 

First - a boy in my class was off yesterday, and he phoned someone to get the homework, but they only told him half of what we actually had to do. Mr. Hamilton (maths teacher, I call him Hammy for short) asked him who told him that, but the boy didn't want to say 'coz he felt he would betray his 'friend' or whatever. So Hammy told him to wait outside to 'think about it'. Typical teachers. Oldest trick in the book. We just stand out there and text someone or listen to iPods etc. 

Hammy must have been pretty annoyed (the boy - his name is Fionn ((pronounced Fin)) was being a good friend - it was a nice thing to do, trying not to get his mate in trouble, but Hammy just thought he was being inconvenient) so, in a spur of lets-annoy-the-adolescents moment, he moved everyone around. So instead of sitting beside one of my girlfs, I'm now stuck beside this dude who loads of my friends fancy! I'm basically the only one who doesn't. He picks his nose, for flips sake. And they know this! Love is blind, I s'pose. 

And then, while we were all grumbling, he decided to evaluate our skills with negative numbers by asking two questions to everyone. Amazingly I got away with both questions correct. Phew. 

He must have been having a real urge to make us hate him. He gave us twenty ridiculous questions to do for homework. Negative numbers again. And question 1 has four questions and each of the four questions in Q1 has like 15 parts to it. Minus minus 5 multipled by minus 8 added to 7 minus 9. Have I confused you enough?

So, there I was, stuck beside the nose-picker, taking these questions down, when, suddenly, a great big ker-thump-bash came from behind me. 

The two boys sitting at the desk behind me had been swinging on their chairs, but had gone too far and grabbed the table for support, bring it down with them. So when I turned around, all I saw was a desk, two chairs and two boys, with their feet up in the air. 

It was silent, apart from a few 'what happened's from the corner, and then a few titters, and then I burst out laughing. 

You cannot even fathom how funny they looked. It was so friggin' hilarious!!!!!!

I got the best view. I don't think anyone laughed as hard as me!

They got a two page essay on chair-safety though. I feel bad for them, and all, but it would have been worth it if it was me. 

The complete hilarity of the situation cancelled out the crap-ness of the first 45 minutes. 

Maths is so unpredictable.

xoxox 

OK, here's the dealio.

Second post yesterday, I said 'There are, like, 100 sites. God I just sounded American.'

And [tess], who is trés cool btw - her blog is awesome, said something along the lines of 'What's wrong with being/sounding American?'

Whoa whoa whoa whoa. There is nothing wrong with being American. What?!? I blog about my thoughts, my day, life etc. If I said 'There are like 100 sites' to a friend, they wouldn't say 'You sound American.' What's the difference? I want to live in America for flip's sake. As well as Paris and London. Rome probably too. 

But in my head, it sounded American. I don't know why either. HONESTLY I'm not thinking of excuses or anything. I said it in my head with an American accent. And typed down how I just sounded American. The word 'God' before it probably made it sound worse, like it was a bad thing. It was NOT. I was just blogging my thoughts.

And then I went on Tess's blog to leave a comment to apologise etc, and I kept clicking Post Comment but it wouldn't come up. I made her hits thing go from like 24 to 32 or something. Lol =). Anyhow on her blog she had posted about discrimination about Americans, and it was probably sparked off by me. I really was so upset. The whole post wasn't about what I'd said, obvs, but still. I was soo not assuming stuff, about most people not meeting American people and think they are stupid. I have met Americans, actually, I have a few relatives there and a few friends who either moved from America to Ireland or are born and bred Americans. 

So, to Tess mainly, but if there are any other American bloggers who happened to have stumbled across my last post and thinks I am some sort of discriminating bitch, I am SO SORRY if you were offended. I actually love America and can't wait til I go to Calafornia!!!

Please forgive me =( 

kate xxxxxxxx

Second day back at school. I'd forgotten how dull school tends to be.. :(

OK, OK, maybe I'm just feeling a bit pessimistic. It's good catching up with my friends and the mates I didn't see over the hols.. but we've exams next week and we've been getting stuck into the work. I wish we had exams before Christmas, then there's no stress about revising and when you're back you don't really do any work for a day or so... that would be better. Oh well :P

Plus my computer's sound is broken, so I can't listen to music or watch vids on YouTube until it's fixed. 

Hurry up weekend! Sorry for such a grumpy post, but it's good to get it out of my system!

I need something to cheer me up. I think there are KitKats in the fridge...

Later alligators xxxx