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I can't really be bothered to write anything....basically I went to Lizzy's house to see Hairspray, which was raaather good, and slept over and it was FUN.
I will summarise in quotes and photos.
Playing Trivial Pursuit:
*Immi reads question, something about a nickname for a New Zealandish rugby team*
Lizzy: Err..I dunno
Me: I think I could guess what it is
Immi: Well, it's a fruit
Me: Yeah, I know what it is. It's also a bird, Lizzy
Lizzy: *Confused*
Immi: It's a fruit...green...you have it in your lunch sometimes...you scoop it
Me: It's a little furry bird thing...long beak...also a green, furry fruit
Lizzy: *Confused*
Me and Immi: FRRUIIIT! BIIIRDD!! NEW ZEAALLAND!!!!!
Lizzy: Um...*insert name of some obscure fruit I can't remember here*
Me and Immi: No!!!
27 years and 530 clues later:
Lizzy: OH! KIWI!!
*Facepalms all around*
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Setting up Trivial Pursuit:
Me: We don't have a die..
Immi: ok...well....we can put all the cheeses in the pie, throw it, and however many pieces fall out, that's the number we go
Me: Um ok..
*tests*
*Puts cheese in hole wrong way*
Me: Immi! Immi it's stuck!
Immi: Bahahahahahhah!!!!
*19 years of prodding cheese with watches etc*
*Immi randomly throws pie*
Immi: OMG!! I DID IT!!!!
*Mucho laughter*
Me: Immi, there's another stuck one!
*Throws against wardrobe many, many times* *Cheese loosens, pulls out*
Me: YUSS!!!!! We should do this for a living!
Lizzy, later: What were you doing earlier?? You were screaming with laughter and banging stuff.
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"Thank you Captain OBVIOUS!"
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Immi: Grace doesn't even need to look silly to look silly.
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Me: I reckon it's spunk
Immi: Graaace! There are children!
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"OMG! WE SAW NIPPLE! WHY IS THIS A PG!?!?"
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"YOU'RE IN MY DOCUMENTARY!!"
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"SMOKING on these premises is strictly forbidden. Smoking ON these premises is strictly forbidden. Smoking on THESE premises is strictly forbidden. Smoking on these PREMISES is strictly forbidden. Smoking on these premises IS strictly forbidden. Smoking on these premises is STRICTLY forbidden. Smoking on these premises is strictly FORBIDDEN."
"At least choose a short sentence!"
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*Lizzy looks away, picks up random spoon*
*Me and Immi start doing chicken head movementness to song*
Lizzy, looking at spoon: Have I gone into another dimension?
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Me: Where is the pituitary gland?
Immi: Oooooh I know this...the...pancreas?
Lizzy: Immi, use your brain! Your BRAAIIN-UH!
Immi: Um...the kidney?
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Photo time! Just...don't ask.
God only knows what I'm doing in these.
Oh yeah, my niece was here the other day so here's a random shot or two of her.
GIANT STRAWBERRY!!!!!!!
That is all.
First thing I have to say...
I PASSED LATIN!! I...ME...IIII PASSSSEEED LAATTIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I seriously thought I was gonna fail!! I GOT A B!! A BEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Anyway....other results:
French - A (A*, A*, A*,B)
Spanish - A (Again: A*, A*, A*,B)Latin - B!!!!
Science - BB (only one I'm disappointed in, but my coursework let me down I think)
RE - A
Maths - A (One I was most nervous about)
English - AA
Drama - B (But I never really cared about Drama.)
So all in all =D.
And that's all I have to say about that.
It sort of feels like there should be an overvoice man with a deep voice and cheesy American accent going "Here it is folks! The moment you've all been waiting for!"
Yup, they're here.
The results.
The thing I've practically eaten my hands over - chewing the skin around my nails - for the past week or so.
This is gonna sound a bit weird but it feels exactly like when I got Harry Potter DH. I waited for what felt like eternity and when the moment finally came I didn't want it be there after all. It took me 3 hours to read anything other than the dedication of HP...who knows when I'll feel like opening The Envelope (I so feel like adding "of DOOOOOM")
I couldn't get to sleep last night until about 6...I just kept thinking about it...then when I did fall asleep I dreamt I got them, not really fair is it? I can't actually remember what happened in the dream though.
Right now I don't want to speak to anyone...I actually refused a call from my friend Immi this morning - sorry about that! - because I really don't want to know what anyone else got yet. Once I've read them I'll - hopefully - want to phone everyone I can though.
So anyway...as of yet I remain in the bliss of ignorance with an envelope still waiting to be opened.
Wish me luck..
Well.
The house I thought was ours is ours no longer.
They went and sold it to someone else, which you're allowed to do until the deeds and money change hands, which takes months.
I'm so annoyed.
I really really loved that house.
Oh well.
That's life.
ok, I got this from the wonderful Aristarionne's blog. I love these things.
Right, here goes:
Seven things you plan to do before you die
1. Go to Tokyo
2. Have kids
3. Get married
4. Have a job I love
5. Have some weird pet
6. Explore England
7. Have huge party with all my friends and family, even those I don't know very well, and just enjoy it.
Seven things you can do
1. Make one eye face inwards and one forwards
2. Translate 4 languages (I would say speak, but I can't speak Latin)
3. Calm down my cat when he's in one of his creeaaaazy moods
4. Go for a day or two without remembering to eat (Not a good thing, I know)
5. Talk to myself for hours and hours
6. Open jars/bottles etc no one else can
7. Play just about anything on the recorder by ear (I'm just that cool =P)
Seven celebrity crushes
1. Noel Fielding. I love him.
2. Tom Felton (until he cut his hair)
3. Daniel Radcliffe (until he...just became...not attractive = /)
4. Jude Law
5. Can I say Noel Fielding again??
6. Ohhh that Irish guy from Bend It Like Beckham.
7. Spencer from Skins.
Seven most repeated phrases/words
1. Like your face?
2. What are you doing?
3. XD (Does that count??)
4. All wrapped up in a nice little package-uh!
5. Well laa dee dah!
6. Kayz
7. Stop looking at me!! (I say that to my parents a lot)
Seven physical traits you look for in the opposite sex
1. Blue eyes
2. Dark hair
3. Taller than me
4. Cleverness
5. Nice arms (Look, I can't explain it, I just have this......arm thing.)
6. Fun.
7. Nice lips.
Seven tags to go to
Ya waaaah????
Three names you go by
1. Grace..
2. Gracious
3. Graceyloo
Three Screen names you've ever had
1. Bellatrix
2. Miss Potter
3. Graceyloo10081 (or something like that)
Three physical things you like about yourself
1. My height. Nice and...average.
2. My eye colour.
3. My lips.
Three physical things you don't like about yourself
1. My ribs..
2. My ears.
3. My feet...I just hate feet in general.
Three things that scare you
1. Crustaceans
2. Clowns
3. Not being able to understand something that's being said in a Maths lesson.
Three drinks (alcoholic or non)
1. Chocolate milkshake
2. Grenadine and lemonade
3. Virgin Piña Colada
Three of your everyday essentials
1. Internet access
2. Music
3. Conversation
Three things you're wearing right now
1. Skinny jeans
2. A dress thing
3. Glasses
Three of your favourite movies
1. Harry Potter...can't choose which one
2. Kill Bill volume 2 (Love the first one too though)
3. 12 Monkeys
Two truths and a lie
1. I'm listening to Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love
2. My bedroom is really dark
3. I'm morbidly obese
Three things about the opposite sex that appeal to you
1. They aren't bitchy
2. They seem to be much more genuine than girls
3. I can appreciate it so much more when they're good looking XP
Three careers you are considering, or have considered
1. Optometrist
2. Primary school teacher
3. Actress
Three people you would like to see take this quiz now
1. Immi
2. Dan/orangeacid
3. Errr those are the only people I know with blogs who haven't already done it XP
Well.
We've bought a house.
I absolutely love it.
It's got 3 stories which is really silly because my parents had been looking for a bungalow for about 2 months.
I really love moving house. Having never lived in one for more than 2 years, other than the current one - which we've been in for 4, I tend to get a bit bored being in the same one.
I mean, I don't like packing everything...something precious always gets lost or broken. But I love throwing out all the crap I've gathered in the bottom of my wardrobe and finding things I'd completely forgotten about.
I also hate the first few days in a new house. However nice it is, it feels completely alien and like you'll never be able to function normally.
Anyway,
I saw The Simpsons Movie yesterday.
Absolutely hilarious. I was pretty hyper though.
It was a lot better than I expected, I thought the spider pig song was going to be the funniest part.
Oh yeah, I have a new song. Over there <<<. It's not really my sort of genre but I love it.
I mentioned down there somewhere about 52 weeks, and how I'm doing a different colour each week. This week was orange so I used about the only orange thing I own - a tiger. No, not a real one, though that would have been fun. 
I don't really know what I think of it.
Again, it didn't turn out how I expected it, but they never do.
I hate yellow so next week is gonna be hard..
*Gasp* I nearly forgot! I'm going to Alton Towers on 2nd September with 2 of my friendies. I can't waaaaiiit. I wish it was sooner. But oh well, just more looking-forward-to-time. I'm so excited, it has the best rides everrrr. I'm such a thrill seeker. But a controlled-thrill sort of seeker heehee. So no white water rafting for me, ta very much.
Ummm yeah. That's pretty much it.
Au revoir, mes amis.
I just thought I'd write about a couple of films I saw recently that I really enjoyed. I have to say though, I wouldn't recommend either if you just wanna sit back, relax and enjoy.
The first was Pan's Labyrinth, or El Laberinto de Fauno as it's really called, I knew it was supposedly an adult's fairy tale but it was very different to how I imagined it. Firstly, it's very very graphic, gory and violent. I thought I was pretty much desensitised after watching Kill Bill and Battle Royale, but the scenes of gore were somehow much more real and although I could watch I certainly didn't find them pleasant.
It's also quite creepy. Not screamably (I made a word!) but The Pale Man was really freaky..
So anyway, I was expecting it to all be set in a weird and wonderful fantasy world but you're only taken there for maybe a total of half an hour in the whole film. It's actually set in some Spanish war (Don't ask me which one, I am le poopoo at history) in the 1940s and that's mostly what you see. If I had been told this beforehand, I never in a million years would have watched it but I actually found it gripping and loved the transition from it to Ophelia's fantasy world.
It was not the cheeriest of films but it left me with a lot of unanswered questions, and after browsing the IMDB boards, I've realised it's a pretty deep film. I think I'd give it 8.5/10.
Oh yeah, don't worry about the subtitles as you forget you're even watching a Spanish film after about 20 minutes. For me, having it in another language added to it absolutely.
Right, yes, so, next film
Requiem for a Dream. Saw it last night. Was completely blown away.
It left me staring at my laptop for a good 2 minutes, open mouthed, trying to sum up my feelings for what I'd just seen.
Thoroughly depressing. Engaging. Amazing.
The music, directing, camera work, acting and storyline were absolutely spot-on.
There were some very disturbing scenes but they were absolutely necessary to get the message of the film across.
I got completely sucked into the plot and began caring about the sorts of characters I never thought I would.
I'd give it 9/10, knocking off 1 because it did leave me feeling very very very very very depressed. But in a good way, if that makes any sense.
I know I've not said too much about the storylines of the two films...I just wanted to tell anyone reading how they affected me rather than what they're about...seems a better way to choose a film, to me.
Righto, that's all.
So, I've been doing this 52 weeks thing for a while now. I'm on week 22...that's almost half way. But I'm completely running out of ideas. I don't know how 365 days people do it, I'd get soo frustrated.
Anyway, to try and liven things up and get the creative juices flowing, I'm now doing a rainbow (sorry, that just had to be done) thing. Basically, for the next 7 weeks (Well, 6 now) each self portrait will have the theme of one of the 7 colours of the rainbow. Pretty simple, but I'm hoping it'll help me produce more interesting portraits.
Here's week 22 - Red:
Didn't really work out how I imagined it, but I'm happy with it.
So, that's about it. Next week is orange...hmmm..
Happy weekend, all!
Phwoof.
I'm back.
With about 1000 photos, a sunburnt tummy and the Titanic theme stuck in my head.
I have a few tales from my trip, gather round and I shall tell ye *Puffs on pipe*
Our cabin had a window, a window with a big sill part that could be sat in quite comfortably. Here, I'll show you:
Like that.
So, when we first got into our cabin, I climbed over a little table and sat on there, watching the port.
A few minutes later a voice comes out of nowhere saying "911 emergency services, how can I help?"
My mum realises I had stepped on the emergency button on the phone while getting onto the window so starts telling the curtains (obviously..) that I had stepped on it and apologising.
Then, the following day, my dad tried to order room service...only he pressed the wrong button and ended up asking emergency services for a ham sandwich and some crisps, please.
I don't think they were too happy with us.
I think it was day 3 that we arrived in Vigo, in Spain. We ended up in a shopping centre (I don't know how that happened *shifty eyes*) and eventually found a little cafe. I ordered two coffees and a coke absolutely fine but then my mum wanted to know if they had any cakes.
Feeling fairly confident I asked the waiter if we could see the "pastillas" He gave me a confused looks, but I persisted. Eventually he goes "You want to go to the pharmacy? You have a pain?" It was then that I realised I should have been asking for "pasteles" and not "pastillas", which are pills...
Anyway, just before boarding the ship again we went to a fish restaurant type place. I noticed they had a tank full of huuuge crabs and pointed them out to my mum. I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I am absolutely terrified of crustaceans. Anyway, I'm pointing away when the waiter comes over and says "You want to see them?" I quite clearly say "Nooo! NOOOOO!" but he walks over to the tank and PICKS ONE UP and starts walking towards me.
I was gone. There was nooo way I was hanging around. I ran right up the little street and stayed there til I decided it was safe to come back.
When I did come back the owner of the restaurant next door came over and started shouted in Spanish to the waiter at the place we were at, saying his fish wasn't fresh and so on. It was really funny.
Then he went off for a bit, only to come back and start accusing the other guy of taking cocaine. It was really odd.
So that was Vigo. I think I'll post about each place separately, I'll leave you with some Vigo photos.
G'night
A passing dog in a fountain near a castle:
