"Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, and since we've no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! It doesn't show signs of stoppin, and I've brought some corn for poppin, and the lights are turned way down low, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!"
I think thats about right!
You know that the weather isn't quite right when you drive into college with ice forming up your helmet visor, ice forming on your eyelashes, and sheets of ice forming under your eyes... *crunch*
Today its snowed lots and lots, but hasn't settled as it melted near enough as soon as it landed! But I did make a snow man =) Tiny but amazing!
As Micheal Mcintyre said on the Royal Variety last night "Why does the slightest bit of snow take over the news?! The main headlines "Snow!" now the sport "Snow!" now the weather "Um I think you've all said it already... SNOW!"
We're obsessed with it when we get it, we're obsessed with it when we don't and everyone else does, and we're obsessed with it when no-one gets any of it at all! (As I have probably proved with this post...)
Sooo to round it off (as my Dad said in his cheesy intro for Let It Snow) "a weather report"...
Theres gonna be snow, with a touch of snow, and maybe even some more SNOW!!!
=) Muchin luvin!
Friday, 17 December 2010
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Mooosick!! The Love Of Ma Life!
Soooo I'm in a band... Marmalade Skies =) So much frickin fun playing with them - we've got a gig coming up on the 29th of December by the way random stranger who happens to read this to fill a mn between two important activities...!
Not pluggin it at all there... aahahaha!
So yeah love making music and recently I've been trying to help others get their music out there - for an area that has so many great sounding bands there really isn't enough opportunities for them to share their sound!
So I've started to organise gigs for local bands in the local area! The one on the 29th being the first (come along and listen tis only £3!...*coughs* sorry not plugging at all!) and hopefully more through January, Feb, and beyond! 15 bands signed up in 3 days isnt too bad though is it!
MUSIC!! GOTTA LOVE IT!
Not pluggin it at all there... aahahaha!
So yeah love making music and recently I've been trying to help others get their music out there - for an area that has so many great sounding bands there really isn't enough opportunities for them to share their sound!
So I've started to organise gigs for local bands in the local area! The one on the 29th being the first (come along and listen tis only £3!...*coughs* sorry not plugging at all!) and hopefully more through January, Feb, and beyond! 15 bands signed up in 3 days isnt too bad though is it!
MUSIC!! GOTTA LOVE IT!
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Pantomime 2010 - "Cinderella Was Sooo Last Year!"
Not being able to actually take part in the Pantomime this year due to a previous engagement I decided to help out backstage cause they're always saying they're in need of more people! All agreed with Mike (the guy who directs and generally runs it) that I would just be helping out out the back and being a general runner I put it to the back of my mind for a week. Next thing I know I'm being asked to do the curtains on the Saturday night due to Mark who normally is Curtain Boy had a gig with his band Shoot the Moon... cut a long story short I found myself turning up on Wed 1st, frozen on my ped at Nether Stowey village hall and getting myself organised to pull the curtains for every night and being put in charge of flashes... When I told my friends at college this and explained what flashes was they wondered about the sanity of the person who gave me the job... and I didn't blame them!
Now for those of you who don't know what "flashes" are I shall explain!
Basically they are small round plastic things with a black paper top and two little metal spikes underneath. This is put into a box, which can be pushed out onto stage using a very technical device (a stick...), which is connected by a wire to another black box. on this box you turn the key, flick the switches and then, at the right moment (and that bit is VERY important) hit the BIG RED BUTTON!
Outcome? BANG and a rather large FLASH! a.k.a Flashes!
Each show there were 3 flashes left by the big red button to be used in the panto which I used in all the right places (kinda) but on the saturday night I was allowed... well a little more freedom...
"Theres 30 underneath the make up table Alice - put one everytime Caraboss (the evil fairy) enters at least." 12 flashes were used on saturday night - may have been more if it wasn't for the fact that by the 6th and the end of the first half Dean up in the spotlight box couldn't see a thing so we decided to cut back down to the ones that should've been planned. Well I managed that but then 3 snuck in somehow... can't think how at all! *whistles and looks around innocently*
Ok well maybe I wanted to give by brother Dan a fright when he got dragged up on stage to do the music man (Thank you Dean!) so a large explosion at the end of their rendition right next to him may have made him jump a lil...!
I do apologize to Mike and Craig for setting one off right under their feet... It was an accident I promise! I honestly thought they had moved over to the other side of the stage so when Caraboss stormed off I slipped one in. Unfortunately they hadn't and made them jump a lil! But it gave them something to ad lib on while they were waiting for people to get in positions!
One chucked in for a lil surprise for Sharon as she entered the palace at the Fairy Queen (a turn of events for the person who usually ended up as the baddy!) may have made her and everyone else in the place jump a lil! But as I told her in the interval it was either as she entered or in the middle of her song... haha!
The little girl coming up to me just before the walk down saying "there aren't going to be any more bangs are there?" I do wish I could've said yes but unfortunately I'd run out by then!
Not sure I'm going to be asked back next year to do it if I can't actually perform in the panto but we'll see!
Didn't get round to wiring a load of flashes under Deans car though for scaring the life out of me though =/
But what does he expect when he walks onto stage saying "I'll pay for that damage"
me: "What damage?"
Dean: "Well I didnt think your bike was that close... I may have reversed a little too far..."
me: *stony faced* what's broken?
Dean: "well... the headlight, the back brake light, the kickstart, the stand, umm the panels... most of it"
me: "Its only just had a new engine put in it!"
Dean: "I'm joking!"
Me: "I'm going to kill you now! you just scared the life out of me!"
Dean: "Sorry!"
Well thats about all I can tell you now really but I'll leave you with a couple of quotes that made me chuckle...
Me: "How many kids on stage?"
Dean: "Theres only two kids on stage but thats just Mike and Craig and I'm not giving them any sweets!"
(Background: This year the production was Sleeping Beauty - Aurora being played by Georgie Youe, whereas last year was Cinderella - Cinderella being played by the pre mentioned Georgie Youe. If ya didn't already know!)
King Fisher: "Cinderella I fancy..."
Nurse N: "We all know who you fancy and it wasn't one of the ugly Step Sisters!"
Aurora: "Excuse me?! I thought this was MY story! Cinderella was sooo last year!"
Oh and Sharons hissy fit on stage about the spider on her wing - thanks Dad for pointing that out, she'd been waiting for the past three performances to have a hissy fit on stage about it and she got it on the last night! I couldn't see it but it sounded brilliant!
Night all!
Now for those of you who don't know what "flashes" are I shall explain!
Basically they are small round plastic things with a black paper top and two little metal spikes underneath. This is put into a box, which can be pushed out onto stage using a very technical device (a stick...), which is connected by a wire to another black box. on this box you turn the key, flick the switches and then, at the right moment (and that bit is VERY important) hit the BIG RED BUTTON!
Outcome? BANG and a rather large FLASH! a.k.a Flashes!
Each show there were 3 flashes left by the big red button to be used in the panto which I used in all the right places (kinda) but on the saturday night I was allowed... well a little more freedom...
"Theres 30 underneath the make up table Alice - put one everytime Caraboss (the evil fairy) enters at least." 12 flashes were used on saturday night - may have been more if it wasn't for the fact that by the 6th and the end of the first half Dean up in the spotlight box couldn't see a thing so we decided to cut back down to the ones that should've been planned. Well I managed that but then 3 snuck in somehow... can't think how at all! *whistles and looks around innocently*
Ok well maybe I wanted to give by brother Dan a fright when he got dragged up on stage to do the music man (Thank you Dean!) so a large explosion at the end of their rendition right next to him may have made him jump a lil...!
I do apologize to Mike and Craig for setting one off right under their feet... It was an accident I promise! I honestly thought they had moved over to the other side of the stage so when Caraboss stormed off I slipped one in. Unfortunately they hadn't and made them jump a lil! But it gave them something to ad lib on while they were waiting for people to get in positions!
One chucked in for a lil surprise for Sharon as she entered the palace at the Fairy Queen (a turn of events for the person who usually ended up as the baddy!) may have made her and everyone else in the place jump a lil! But as I told her in the interval it was either as she entered or in the middle of her song... haha!
The little girl coming up to me just before the walk down saying "there aren't going to be any more bangs are there?" I do wish I could've said yes but unfortunately I'd run out by then!
Not sure I'm going to be asked back next year to do it if I can't actually perform in the panto but we'll see!
Didn't get round to wiring a load of flashes under Deans car though for scaring the life out of me though =/
But what does he expect when he walks onto stage saying "I'll pay for that damage"
me: "What damage?"
Dean: "Well I didnt think your bike was that close... I may have reversed a little too far..."
me: *stony faced* what's broken?
Dean: "well... the headlight, the back brake light, the kickstart, the stand, umm the panels... most of it"
me: "Its only just had a new engine put in it!"
Dean: "I'm joking!"
Me: "I'm going to kill you now! you just scared the life out of me!"
Dean: "Sorry!"
Well thats about all I can tell you now really but I'll leave you with a couple of quotes that made me chuckle...
Me: "How many kids on stage?"
Dean: "Theres only two kids on stage but thats just Mike and Craig and I'm not giving them any sweets!"
(Background: This year the production was Sleeping Beauty - Aurora being played by Georgie Youe, whereas last year was Cinderella - Cinderella being played by the pre mentioned Georgie Youe. If ya didn't already know!)
King Fisher: "Cinderella I fancy..."
Nurse N: "We all know who you fancy and it wasn't one of the ugly Step Sisters!"
Aurora: "Excuse me?! I thought this was MY story! Cinderella was sooo last year!"
Oh and Sharons hissy fit on stage about the spider on her wing - thanks Dad for pointing that out, she'd been waiting for the past three performances to have a hissy fit on stage about it and she got it on the last night! I couldn't see it but it sounded brilliant!
Night all!
The Little Problems...
As I said when I first started writing this I really only decided to becuase I wanted a good rant which I then ran out of energy to do... But now I've decided not to - mainly because I am no longer in the bad mood I wan and because I have realised again since how little my problems in life really are. There are always people worse off than me out there so I really shouldn't be so stupid about it all!
So what I've got a ped which I have had to spend loads on to keep it on the road including a new engine because otherwise I will be stuck with no transport at all. And so what if I have no time to get most things done that I'd like to - I know for a fact that I waste too much of my time prevaricating and generally trying to not do things I should be to do things I want to do instead. And so what if you're supposedly seeing a guy you no longer see or really talk to! Theres bigger problems in the world than that! And if he's gonna be like that then his loss. So what you're behind on college coursework? You should've done it in the first place rather than messing around for a year before realising how far behind you are!
There are too many little problems in life that don't really matter that people really ought to learn to just suck it up and get on with the big problems in life!
This wasn't a rant, it was me just telling myself off.
Night!
So what I've got a ped which I have had to spend loads on to keep it on the road including a new engine because otherwise I will be stuck with no transport at all. And so what if I have no time to get most things done that I'd like to - I know for a fact that I waste too much of my time prevaricating and generally trying to not do things I should be to do things I want to do instead. And so what if you're supposedly seeing a guy you no longer see or really talk to! Theres bigger problems in the world than that! And if he's gonna be like that then his loss. So what you're behind on college coursework? You should've done it in the first place rather than messing around for a year before realising how far behind you are!
There are too many little problems in life that don't really matter that people really ought to learn to just suck it up and get on with the big problems in life!
This wasn't a rant, it was me just telling myself off.
Night!
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Inside the mind...
So.... decided to start a blog. Not that anyone will read it! But its like having a diary isnt it? You can write mindless things and hope that no-one will read it... Though I think I won't be as free in my writing of this as I am with the writing in my diary! And NO you may not read it! The diary that is...
Anyway! I'd give you a rough idea of what my life is like but a) you would fall asleep you'd be so bored, and b) I don't really want to right now, much too tired.
And so for now I will just go to bed rather than typing out the huge rant I had in mind while driving my moped (my time to think things through is when I'm driving my ped - probably not the best time to do it eh?!) and I think you'd prefer it!
So toodle pop!
Anyway! I'd give you a rough idea of what my life is like but a) you would fall asleep you'd be so bored, and b) I don't really want to right now, much too tired.
And so for now I will just go to bed rather than typing out the huge rant I had in mind while driving my moped (my time to think things through is when I'm driving my ped - probably not the best time to do it eh?!) and I think you'd prefer it!
So toodle pop!
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