I love this time of year, when the leaves start to turn and it gets colder.
Everything just gets so pretty.
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A good thing to note, walking along a main road, taking pictures of trees, gets you some weird looks. 🙂
Author: Sue
I have been writing in various forms since I was a child. I write about what is going on in my life, what I enjoy, and the struggles of dealing with chronic illness and mental health issues. I love live music, football (Scotland and Dunfermline Athletic), reading, Formula 1, Stock Cars, and eating lots of vegan crap.
Hey-o!
Been busy meeting up with friends, working and tidying up. These are the normal things that one must do in their lives.
To be honest, the work is essential for buying things and meeting up with mates makes it easier to go to work. Its like, if things get hard, focus on the positives. Which is something I try to do, so that the bad things seem better, because I am getting closer to doing something I want to.
It does sound silly, but it’s the way I am able to work through things. And it works.
Sometimes :S
*Good Charlotte from the Sprite live show- which was awesome*
Opinions
People seem to get confused on what an opinion is. If you state an opinion, it is your thoughts, who is anyone to tell you whether they are right or wrong.
But also, whilst people have no issues expressing their own opinion, they can’t accept that there is other opinions. For instance, last night I had a converstation with someone about Hannah Montana. Now whilst this tween phenomenon is not to my taste, I can understand why kids may like it. Its a girl who goes to school, who has a double life as a famous pop star. To me, its not much different than seeing Clark Kent’s double life, and wishing that was you. To have a boring normal life, and then be all fantastic and exciting at the same time? I mean every kid has wanted something like that.
Now I’m not saying Hannah Montana is a superhero, but you can see what kids would see in her.
But this girl, kept on saying that the show was terrible, and all her fans would grow up to be whores. I find that a huge stereotype. Its like saying that all kids who listen to rock music are self-harmers. Its not true, and it is there to make people feel better about themselves.
Almost as if that girl needed to validate whý she didn’t like Hannah Montana. Why do people have such a problem in just stating an opinion, without making excuses for themselves.
Trying to get used to using Google Chrome
I don’t think I like it. But I will give it a fair trial. Firefox seems to be getting a bit on the slow side, and is getting on my nerves a bit. So thought I would have a change. I think the whole ‘no options bar at the top’ is a bit strange, but its better than Safari. I think Google Chrome seems like a very ‘Apple’ browser, if that makes sense. It probably makes no sense, so I’ll move on from that.
I did do something healthy today (what is wrong with me?). Took a walk around Loch Ore, which is at Lochore Meadows, about 20 minutes away from where I live.
I know it doesn’t look very far here, but it is a 4 mile walk. Could feel the strain at the back of my legs. Mostly because they are not used to walking that far.
Happy Saturday
Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. I was working some overtime today, and am glad that it is finished. What have I been up to? Well–
**I spent this week getting reaquainted with this game. Queue, death of doing anything priductive online**
**I found a painting app for my phone. Found it to be completely useless, so deleted it**
**Tried to get used to using Google Chrome, but still love Firefox too much**
**Facebook crashed, I laughed**
**Tumblr and Twitter crashed, I thought my life was ending**
**Lost another cover for my blackberry, and started keeping it in a sock so it wouldn’t get scratched**
**Shouted over phone at bank, for not giving me bank charges back**
**Cried oved phone at bank, when after 2 hours talking, we were no further to getting me my charges back**
**Watched way too much Frasier and South Park**
**Fangirled excessively over Tony Lovato pole dancing in Good Charlotte video**
**Got laughed at by Tony for doing so, which ended up with me sending him the video**
**Read the Pelican Breid by John Grisham**
**Finished reading some fanfiction**
**Started writing some fanfiction**
**Got embarassed when Ranger beat Dunfermline 7-2**
**Got excited when Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath both won**
**Started planning GC fam Valentines card for Good Charlotte gig in Glasgow**
**Started planning accomodation for Good Charlotte gig in Glasgow**
**Bookmarked website for buying ticket for Good Charlotte gig in Glasgow**
All in all, I enjoyed this week. More please.
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Busy Busy
So I am working the next few weeks to try and get some more money. Try being the main word considering most of the ‘extra’ gets taxed of me. -.-
Other than that been pretty lazy. I have back ache, which I’ve had for a few weeks. So I have been acting like a bit of an invalid.
Meet Honey the hamster. She belongs to my sister, but I think she is adorable.
Over-excitement
I am doing my website.
Finally.
Okay, to be honest, I have felt so jaded with anything creative over the past few months. Like I couldn’t face it at all. But today I woke up, and thought I’d do some work on my website. So I started doing it, and got so excited. I was doing something productive, and it was coming to me so easily.
I think I got so happy because, because I have really struggled over the last few mionths.
Question: Why do I blog?
This is a question I get asked a lot, so I thought I would answer it today.
I started a personal blog, almost 6 years ago, on livejournal. I was 20, and I think it was when I started struggling with depression. I was at uni, training to be a Veterinary Nurse, but I struggled with the pressure. I was away from my folks, and was also being to struggle with handling myself in situations. I was always very critical of myself, and it became worse. But the job, of being with animals, helped. I loved that I was helping another creature, and it made me feel better about myself. I failed my exams and it was so expensive, that I couldn’t afford to do it.
It was hard. I mean working with animals was all I wanted to do as a kid. So I started working in a local bakery, so that I had some money coming in. Which was hard, because my head was all over the place. But I used to blog, and at that time, there wasn’t really any professional blogs, from what I was aware. So it wasn’t trying to be famous, it was letting go of all my emotion, and at the time, it was semi-private. Also, rather than feeling like I am pushing things on my friends, I can get it all out of my system, without feeling like I am forcing someone to listen. I feel guilty for forcing my problems on others.
The only people who would read your blog, would be people who use the site, and used it for similar reasons. So nobody would judge you for what you wrote. Now, I think that people start blogs just to get fans. I still have my Livejournal blog, which is still updated regularly, then I have this blog, which although the content is slightly less whiney, than my LJ, it is still me expressing myself.
And, ultimately, that’s what a blog should always be. It should be expressing yourself, writing about thoughts and feelings. I write my blogs, because it is a big release. When I am writing a blog, I am so focused on the task in hand, and sometimes blogging is the only thing that holds my attention. I love it though, blogging has become a major part of what I do online.
Its nice. You visit my Facebook, you can find out the basics about me, but visit one of my blogs, you get to actually know me.
Music Friday: Good Charlotte
This is the day where I get to talk about music, and recommend something to you, the reader. Well today I am talking about my favourite band, Good Charlotte.
Happy Friday.
Joel Madden
Benji Madden
Paul Thomas
Billy Martin
Dean Burtterworth
I am obsessed with this band, and have been that way for the last 9 years of my life. It sounds like how people were like with boybands in the 90s, but trust me its not like that. I listen to other bands, but I always come back to GC.
Their music has guided me through some hard times in my life, and I find their lyrics to be very relateable. That’s where most bands fall down, whereas their songs may hold meaning for a specific time in your life and that’s it. Good Charlotte songs are just us meaningful now, as they were when I first heard them. But that could always be because my perception of music changed as i got older.
Another huge thing of this band, are the fans. The fans are pure awesome. I have talked about them before, but I love these guys so I’ll do it again. 😛 The Good Charlotte community is pretty awesome, which has been around for the last 7/8 years. The band actually cottoned onto this fact, a few years ago, and have been interacting with their fans through the net. The talk to fans through twitter, the chat and forums on their site, and also do video chats.
They show a real sennse of appreciating their fans, and this is something that not a lot of bands do. Other bands say, ‘we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the fans’, but you know they are just saying it, they don’t let the fans feel it. But Good Charlotte do, I’m sure if they could find away to personally thank every fan, they would do it in a heartbeat.
Now in 2010, 14 years since Good Charlotte was formed, the guys are releasing their 5th studio album, Cardiology. It is released on November the 2nd, and the whole community is buzzing. Not to mention, the band are getting ready for tours all over the world. This is the time to check out Good Charlotte and the GCFam, because it is a good place to be right now.
Bang goes the schedule—cheers Youtube
So….I try to do a schedule, and apparently Youtube doesn’t like that. Braw…not.
I do have the Vlog ready and waiting, but after 4 attempts I have given up with Youtube, and will try again tomorrow. I can sense everyone is disappointed.
But, in my attempt to kinda keep my word, I am still going to recommend a website, and the vlog will be uploaded whenever I can get YouTube to behave.
So the first website is….Fearne Cotton’s website. For the uneducated, Fearne is a UK television and radio presenter. Her current projects include BBC Radio 1’s morning/afternoon show (Live Lounge), Sky One’s Must Be The Music and ITV’s Celeb Juice. She is a very busy girl, who I have grown up watching her over the last 13/14 years.
Other than being a person I kind of admire, I also really love her website. Fearne seems like a really artistic and that comes across on her website. I think that is a major highlight of this site, that it does seem to really show her personality. It’s the little unique touches that makes the site nice, like the small patterns and sketchy parts, which makes the site seem more ‘hand-made’. Which sounds stupid now I think about it.
I really love the drawing around the comment box.
The whole idea of showing personality through a site, is why I like this site so much.
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