Saturday, 9 February 2013

Charity Shopping

To prove to you that I don't spend all my time on the internet doing absolutely nothing I figured I'd spend part of my day today writing a little blog post about how I spent last saturday. I have Red Hot Chili Peppers playing, still in pyjamas and the internet has yet to decided to crash: lets begin.
So my mum was feeling generous last weekend and decided to take me shopping around these local charity shops (shhh I like thrifting) the problem was she hadn't told me this until I walked into her car after waking up at my friends house and skipping outside in only pyjamas. This led to me hastily putting my jeans over the top of my pyjamas and converse in the back of the car. I'm smart like that. The fun of only just waking up didn't stop there though, oh no I also had forgotten to brush my teeth and had no tooth paste on me so we were forced to stop at a friend of my mum's house and use their tooth paste.
Over an hour after first setting out we ended up in charity-shop-central. I was primarily looking for any nice clothes I could find - a friend of mine had recently found an Arctic Monkeys tour shirt in a charity shop so I was hopeful - but this didn't really go to plan.
We walked away from the charity shops about four hours later (not all shopping you have to stop for a cup of tea at some point) with no clothes. I did have seven books, 2 CDs and 2 DVDs though...all for under twenty pounds so quit complaining!
It took a lot to force my mum into buying me the DVDs though because apparently Reservior Dogs and Paranormal Activity aren't exactly family friendly. My mum was more sceptical about buying Paranormal Activity than Reservior Dogs (even though she thought it was Trainspotting). Mostly because my excuse for buying Reservior Dogs was jumping up and down saying "But John Travolta, but John Travolta, but John Travolta". After getting home I realised that he was in Quentin Tarantino's other film Pulp Fiction. I'm smart like that.
That last paragraph makes very little sense, sorry.
 Anyho, upon getting home we met my godmother at the door. Both her and my mother then roped me into looking for prom dresses (urgh prom) at a near by vintage shop. I'd been in there a lot but it turns out that there's a hidden room at the back filled to the brim with a dress from every different era. It's insane.
Alas none of the dresses were close to what I wanted or suited converse (unless they were picking out terrible dresses for me to try on which looking back is rather likely). The only thing I tried on that I would actually consider going to prom in was the Led Zeppelin shirt I came in with. So after an hour or so of looking like a fool we finally leave the shop...with a checkered shirt...
I am a lumberjack now.

Thanks for reading.

Sunday, 20 January 2013

50 books

If you expected a post up sooner than this you have more faith in me than I ever will. A post a month is quite lucky I'd say for someone who is terribly bad at doing anything other than being lazy whilst also revising for *sighs* GCSEs. Could someone please explain why they are still a thing because I don't understand, the whole system is pretty messed up really.
But I may just think that because I've spent too much time lately thinking about 42.
I'm sorry I won't put anymore crappy refrences into this (that's a complete lie).

Okay that's an intro of sorts now I best write about that thing in the title...
You may have heard of the fifty books challenge beforehand but if not I'll explain: You try and read fifty books in a year. Does that make sense or do I need to simplify it for you?
I succeeded last year and began straight after finishing (I completed it some time in October so am now three months in and 11 books down). It's safe to say that completing this is probably one of my greatest achievements espicially for someone so bad and keeping oin top of things (I have no clue how I'll survive as an 'adult'). So I'll apologise now because the rest of this blog shall just be a list of all the books I read.
Who knows you might even get a review of some of them in a while or the books I've read so far the second time around.

1. Abundance of Katherines
2. Return of the King
3. Will Grayson Will Grayson
4. The Fault in our Stars
5. Divergent
6. Dark Inside
7.13 Little Blue Envelops
8. Letters from the Inside
9. One Day
10. The Sky is Everywhere
11. The Name of our Star
12. This is not Forgiveness
13. The Fault in our stars (again)
14. The Book Thief
15. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
16. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
17. Bridget Jones Diary
18. The Sky is Everywhere (again)
19. A Study in Scarlet
20. The Sign of the Four
21. War Horse
22. The Five People you Meet in Heaven
23. The Hounds of Baskerville
24. The Valley of Fear
25. The Knife of Never Letting go
26. When God was a Rabbit
27. Wuthering Heights
28. The Lovely Bones
29. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
30. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
31. Lord of the Flies
32. An Inspector Calls
33. Catcher in the Rye
34. Clockwork Orange
35. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
36. "Wit" the Last Laugh
37. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban
38. Life of Pi
39. Charlotte's Web
40. Secret Garden
41. Pride and Prejudice
42. Atonement
43. The Great Gatsby
44. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
45. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
46. The Time Travellers Wife
47. Plague
48. The Fault in our Stars (yes again I know)
49. Fear
50. Rendezvous with Rama

Welp that's all for today; feel free to ask me about any of the books or wish for a review on any of them or just complain about my horrid spelling because I hate it too.
For now though I'm off so goodnight and goodbye.