Poofy

 

Gosh, you could almost call me lazy, huh?

Have a cookie:

Working on a short comic strip about life over here. That's what you have to wear here to survive in our house, especially on the mornings when the boiler's acting up. (or not acting at all, maybe.)

Also working on a huge drawing of someone riding a a bear in a forest, making some books, one of which I shall fill with drawings of buildings/interiors, as a small challenge for myself.

Uni starts for real tomorrow. There will be one unit that is going to revolve around a project, and we are encouraged to work with other people (we'll see about that bit. . .). I already have an idea, and it might become rather time-consuming since it would revolve around, y'know, building a website and so forth. I'll keep you updated.

(London pictures on their way :B)

Bloop!

We have some snow here right now, and according to BBC there shall be heavy snowfall tomorrow. Will be interesting to see what that means. At least it's a sunday, hopefully it will thwart the ensuing chaos a little.

We've been to London on a shopping spree, I found all kinds of interesting things, I shall make a coherent post complete with pictures for y'all to enjoy.

Oh, andI actually went swimming! Now I have a one year membership at the Leisure Centre, so for the sake of money spent I will have to go swimming again (I'm sort of aiming for once a week or something).

It's very calming to live in a house in which the heating starts to slack as soon as the temperature outside drops below the freezing point, i.e. when it is needed the most, really. It's just that the thermostat and boiler experience communication difficulties. If they had facebook pages I bet their relationship status would be stated as "It's Complicated". Thus far waving the thermostat in front of the boiler has solved the issue, so we're still alive, however barely.

Gimme an S

Our bathroom window is.. how do you put it, well it has a broken surface (intentional), some kind of relief pattern, so you can't see through it clearly. Moving on, looking through it I wondered about how both of our neighbours manage to dry a lot of white sheets at the same time, until my sleepy head realized that the "white sheets" in the middle must be our lawn and the roof of our shed. Then I realized it must be snow.

And snow t'was.

We're having a friend from school over for lunch today (a young British lady), let's hope she hasn't run into too many problems with her bus and train. Britain usually doesn't take snow very well.

TA-DAA

Alrighty then. After being back in England for almost a week, it's a good time to kickstart this blog again! Assessments behind, we still have around two weeks of holidays left, oh yeah!

I've got a project list I'm chipping away at. I've already vacuumed the house, made chocolate cupcakes and right now I'm boiling chickpeas (not really on my list, but extremely exiting nonetheless). Soon to come features are: swimming, building a gingerbread city, and colouring paper.

An eternity project is cleaning the computer and moving files to my new external hard-drive (it's small, and red, and houses one effing terabyte (!) I didn't know you could get such astounding amounts of space in such a small package.

Other christmas presents I got this year include approx 2kg of chocolate (half of which I've already devoured), the comic book Fables 2: Animal Farm, some other books (one about cupcakes, one about How to be British, and one I picked myself: Are You My Mother? (more comics)). I also happened to find a pair of ownerless leggings in my room at mom's. It's a very interesting room in the sense that many odd objects find their way there in one way or another. I also got lip balm in the shape of a moustache from lil' sis. Very handy disguise for avoiding unwanted encounters at town, or appear more British. Oh, and Roomie is stitching a cozy for my warmwater bottle. Also got all kinds of interesting spices. And a set for making raw chocolate (allegedly very much more healthy than regular chocolate, ahem). If I'm missing anything out, it's not because of spit but since I'm senile.

I practically excel at travelling back to England after Christmas break. Last year I had fever and sinusitis. This year, the night before the night before the day of departure I came down with the stomach flu, so I naturally felt a little giddy on travel day. But it seems I managed to get most things with me, and nothing dramatic happened during our trip, so all is well. I felt slightly giddy the next day too, but I managed to submit everything I needed for assessment. In the beginning of February we'll see just how giddy I was.

Not very much else going on, been playing some video games (got a whole lot from my sweet brother (who's travelling Eastern Asia with our cousin right now), and also rummaged the Steam sales. . .), but I tend to more video game and move comments in my deviantART journal instead.

A couple of days ago it was like spring here, now it's like autumn. Waiting for winter, they keep talking about snow on the forecasts. . .