October In Review

SPADE LIST ITEMS COMPLETED -

#10. Finish a drawing and like it

I don't actually know when I completed this one, but I did a drawing for art of someone breaking bricks and have recently come to the conclusion that I like it. :)

PROJECT 365 PHOTOS TAKEN -

Day 304 - *Zombie Noises*

Happy Halloween! :) So last night I was at Laurie's Halloween party, which was a lot of fun... although only some of us bothered dressing up, such as the *FIVE* people in this picture below... yep, there's four zombies... and a ninja! Well played Ninja Richard, well played.I know that these pictures were from last night, but some of them are from the early hours of this morning, such as this weird distorted pic of Jamie... which I kinda like!

Anyway, today Patrick, Leahy, Michelle and I were filming for SU. This one is entitled Patricio's Pumpkin. Click that link. Go on. Now. And then subscribe.

Day 303 - Farewell Bonnie Scotland!

Day two in Edinburgh. I went to see Edinburgh Napier, the university I'm hoping to go eventually, today. I really kinda like it! I hope I get in. I could see myself there. Going home tonight and then straight on to a Halloween party, dressed as a zombie. Whoop whoop! :D

Day 302 - Edinburrggghhhh!!

I'm in Edinburgh! And this is my wonderful cousin, Emma, who goes to uni not far from here. We were out shopping today, and Emma tried on nearly every hat in Topshop. That was fun! I was gonna upload all our hat pictures, but my internet is reaaalllyyy slow today. :( Bad times.It was fun hanging out with this lovely person here! Tonight we saw 'Life As We Know It' in the cinema... I liked it!

Day 301 - BOOM!

Today I was hanging out with this lovely young man here - we did lots of nice stuff like have lunch, walk along the prom, drink coffee / ginger beer and EXPLODE MENTHOS AND COKE ON THE BEACH!!! YEAAHHHHH!!!I've had a very good day! After our wee date he came back to my house to watch some Wacky Races (heck yeah we're awesome) and then we met up with Michelle and Leahy to hang out and play with some sparklers! :) I'm happy!

Day 300 - THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!

^See what I did there?

So last night, after everyone went home, my good mood was ruined by the news that I could no longer take a gap year with Pais Project, the volunteer organisation I was hoping to go to Canada with. I thought I would be able to apply at age 17 because I would be 18 at the time, but it turns out you cannot physically apply until you are 18. So I don't know what to do with my life any more. Thankfully, my youth leader is Canadian, so I've chatted to her about it and we might try to sort something out... I just really wanted to go with Pais.

Anyway, tonight I was at Crosspoint, for the Halloween party wooooo!!! I was unsure if it was fancy dress, so I quickly grabbed my duck cap that Patrick bought me from London (awesome!!) on the way out, figuring I could say my costume was that of a duck. My brilliant costume was beaten however... by COW!! :D It's like Cow and Chicken (epic TV show from my childhood) except not...

So I had a good night to take my mind off my whole 'no idea what to do with my future' situation.

Day 299 - Dinner With The Beffers

I took this photo just as the sun was rising this morning :) I'm quite pleased with it, as it was taken on my old camera, not a D-SLR. However, Manual Mode still worked a similar way, so I was able to capture the silhouette well. Tonight the wonderful people that are Michelle, Leahy and Patrick came to my house for dinner. It was a lot of bant! We ate and we chatted and we hung out, and then we went for a wee drive, and it was a lot of fun! :) I love you guys!

Day 298 - Spontaneous Best Friend Day!

So today I cycled into Newcastle to pick up a few things and dandered into Michelle's shop for a wee chat, not planning to stay long. I ended up not going home at all and just going back to her house for the bant! It was one of those spontaneous things, ya know? It was a lot of fun, doing absolutely crap all with my best friend! :D Mich practiced drawing cuts on mine and her arms for Halloween. It was pretty funny, often we'd both forget that we had fake cuts, and so would freak out for a split second when we saw each other's bloody, mangled arms! Mich, when I make a horror movie... you're hired as my make up artist. ;)And here's a nice dark scary photo... as a complete contrast to my mood!!

Day 297 - Meh!

Lazy day today! So I guess that deserves a lazy picture! It's a light through a window...

Day 296 - Pulling Faces!

My sister's a hilarious kid, and I love her to bits. I realise that I upload a lot of pictures of her, but she is always willing to pose (and I mean pose literally) for me.This photo makes me laugh!

Day 295 - Thus Begins The Fun!

Prize day does not motivate me in any way to want to do well in school. It's so boring. Ah well, I'm now on half term!!! Woooooo!!! This is gonna be a great half term. I have lots of plans!I did get a pretty sunset pic. :)

Day 294 - Waaaaaaaaaa!!

Don't you hate it when your pony gallops off and then you're like "waaaaaaaaaa??"

Sometimes I like posting things on this blog that will only make sense to one or two people. ;)

Day 293 - I Heart You

It is indeed another lazy phone pic of Michelle... I need to be more motivated! Today I had been wandering around with 'I HEART YOU written on the palm of my hand. This was a lot of fun because when I would wave at people like I normally do, they would start to wave back but then stop and smile when they saw the writing. Seeing them smile made me smile too. :)

Day 292 - I THINK SO.

This is a picture of Michelle making friends with a ghost. Taken on my phone, yeah I'm lazy.Tonight we were doing a theory part of a course for Karate - our Level One Junior Coach award. Soon to be more qualified than the coach of our rival club? I THINK SO.

Day 291 - Can You Paint With All The Colours Of The Wind?

I really kinda like this picture actually, because it looks like I've edited it to make the background really dull and the leaves really bright, when in reality I have not edited it at all. :) I just really like the colours I guess.

Day 290 - "A Plaster For Your Nose??"

Oh how I love filming for SU! Today four of us were filming for our latest Scripture Union epic. This one tells the story of Michelle and Leahy's adventure up a mountain, where they learn how to pray! :) It's pretty hilarious, we have many special effects ;)

This is a still from the film, during one of the clips.

Day 289 - Glub Glub Glub

So I've just been chilling at home today. And yeah it's another picture of water splashing. I guess I'm just unoriginal!

Day 288 - More Procrastination...

ADAM LEAHY AND ALI MCCULLOUGH, STOP READING MY BLOG AND DO SOME REAL WORK!!Just kidding, procrastination for the win. ;) Here's a picture of a leaf to amuse you two.

Day 287 - Loling At The Irony Of Life.

I'm feeling a lot less bummed about my eyes. Yeah, its annoying that I can't wear lenses for the next two weeks (and possibly rest of life), but the irony is now hilarious!! Oh my malfunctioning tear ducts!! It means that my world now looks like this - nice and blurry. :PTonight I had a great night. I was out with these three sexy people. My best friends :) We are some pretty darn awesome people. Anyways, we started off chilling in Tollymore, munching on some Chinese takeout, and then we chilled in Newcastle for a while. It was a lot of fun!! :DLove you guys!

Day 286 - I'd Cry Right Now But...

I sat on the prom today after my opticians appointment. The waves were gently lapping, the mis blocked the view of the mountains. Newcastle was pretty deserted. It was wierd. A Newcastle I hadn't seen in a long time. The tourists had left with the summer and now there wasn't much left, just the empty beach and occasional passer by. I was glad of the quiet though. My appointment didn't go well.I've often joked that I have malfunctioning tear-ducts, because I can't cry in public...

"oh Jo and her malfunctioning tear-ducts!"

Well today I was informed by my optician that I genuinely do have malfunctioning tear-ducts. The irony. My eye infections that I've been getting quite a few times this year? Not eye infections. Turns out my tear ducts don't release enough fluid when I blink, so my cornia is very dry. So when I put my lens in, it scratches at my dry patches and inflames my eye. Hence the stinging, bloodshot eyes. So I've been given artificial tears so I can artificially cry four times a day for the next two weeks. After that I'll be told whether I can ever wear lenses again...

I hate my -7 short sighted, conjunctivitis-prone, tear-duct malfuctioning eyes.

Day 285 - That's One Happy Coffee!

So I'm not much of a coffee drinker... but this makes me happy! :)So I'm going to the opticians tomorrow, see if he can sort my sore eyes out. Hopefully I'll be walking out of there smiling.

Day 284 - Pajama Jones

Pajama Jones popped into school today, but he got really angry and punched Mich and Leahy. Too bad Patrick wasn't there to stop him... :(

Only a few people will understand this post. ;) it's a FUSED thing.

Day 283 - 10:10 10/10/10

10:10 10/10/10 FTW!!!!! I love these random number days :D

I seem to have spent today texting and Skyping, and not much else. Well homework... meh.

Day 282 - *Smiles*

These are some flowers that Patrick bought me last night. :) They made me smile, so I've taken a picture of them today. :)

Day 281 - Galaxy Defenders!

Here come the men in black...Happy birthday to Ruth! It was her party tonight, and these are two of the guys that attended - Richard and Patrick. Lol, good times!

Day 280 - I Feel Loved :)

I woke up this morning feeling like crap, so I took the day off school to rest up and try not to throw up. I was resting most of the day, taking it easy but then at about 5pm I heard a bang on my window. I looked up and there were Michelle and Leahy pressing their faces up against my window waving erotically. I freaking love them! They had driven down to bring me a story they had written in private study for me to make me feel better. It was the story of how I had caught the infamous 'Piratitus' and so the other two went on a great adventure to find the cure. I laughed for a long long time reading it!

You know, it's all the random things like this that people do that make them your best friends. :)

Day 279 - Just Forget The World...

If I lay here... If I just lay here.... would you lie with me, and just forget the world?I had an amazing night tonight. After Crosspoint, Mr Leahy here picked me and Michelle up and we drove out to Tollymore. There we went for a walk in the dark, we had done this after our SU meeting on Thursday with Patrick and Vikki also, and it was a lot of fun. I probably should've blogged about that, 'cause it was awesome. Meh, too late now. Anyway, we went for a walk in the dark and it was great, and on the way back we saw a shooting star :) It was brilliant, we all started jumping up and down and screaming simultaneously! Upon arriving back at the car, we plonked ourselves down on the grass and did some stargazing (plural) where we saw another shooting star. More screaming ensued. It was one of those nights that I could have lain there forever. :) I didn't want it to end. I love you two.

Day 278 - Psycho!

Moving Image Arts. The only class when going to the cinema to watch a movie is an educational trip. And that's why I love it! So today our class went to QFT (Queens Film Theatre) to watch Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho... the original classic thriller. It was pretty good!! Okay, is it bad that the murder scenes were quite amusing? For a lot of it I had to close my eyes though. It's cause I was so scared!! Nah, not really, my eyes are sore again, so I wasn't able to watch the screen for long periods of time. Bummer :( I need to go to the opticians or something to get them checked out. It's getting very annoying.

Was out at karate again tonight. Ya know... Newcastle at night is rather pretty!

Day 277 - Stained Glass Masquerade...

Are we happy plastic people

Under shiny plastic steeples

With walls around our weakness

And smiles to hide our pain

But if the invitation’s open

To every heart that has been broken

Maybe then we close the curtain

On our stained glass masquerade

Casting Crowns lyrics. I'm going to go see them with the SU Committee in November! Wooooooooooooooo!! I'm excited!

Day 276 - SPOON

More cutlery today! Yeah, I'm feeling unoriginal. LOL SPOON.

I remember for our first year art exam we had to draw ourselves in the reflection of a spoon. I remember enjoying it, I wonder where that drawing is, it would be interesting to see it again! Speaking of art, I should probably do some. We got to pick our own themes this year, so I picked karate. Not sure whether I'm regretting that decision or not yet...

So today was one of those days I hate myself for not bringing a camera out everywhere. I went for a walk today with some good friends of mine, and at one point Patrick and I raced to the top of this hill. At the top there was a fantastic sunset and some deer and it would have made an AMAZING photo. For now however, you're gonna have to put up with a spoon. Good day though. I love my best friends :)

Day 275 - Happy Birthday To Mummy

It's Mumsie's birthday today! Happy birthday Mummy! :)
I got her a new book and some potpourri. I had no idea what potpourri was when I bought it but it looked like something she'd like... I think she did!

She was also bought a brand new set of cutlery, because we've been using mismatching cutlery for ages and it's killing that little bit of OCD in all of us!

Day 274 - Poor Birdy!

I thought this would make a pretty interesting picture. Apparently at some point today / yesterday a pretty large bird flew into my kitchen window... and left like a full on bird-print. You can see the wings and the feathers and if you look closely, you can kinda see the beak. I thought it was pretty interesting! Poor bird though...