My 2006

Well 2006 has certainly been a busy year with many things happening throughout the course of it. Many changes have come to pass yet some things remain the same. I've changed from being at school to being at college and have a different group of friends now. I'm missing my old friends although I see some of them now and again, I do miss being at school occasionally and it still feels a little strange being at college but I am very glad that I have found a lovely group of people to be friends with, college wouldn't be much fun without them so despite the very small chance there is that any of you will read this I'd like to say thanks for welcoming me into your mad but wonderfull group.

On a different note, I've been to quite a few gigs and events, which I believe was one of last years resolutions ;P.

This year I've been to the following autograph shows -
Collectormania G-mex in Manchestor (Met 5 people from HP)
London Film and Comic Con (was in LOTR costume) (Met Elijah Wood)
Collectormania 10
Collectormania 9 (Met 4 HP people)
StarConUk (Met 2 HP people)

Premieres I've stood outside of -
POTC 2 (got no auto's but saw Orlando Bloom, Bill Nighy close and Johnny Depp from afar)
Driving Lessons (Got 4 autos of HP people)
Gigs -
Tabby & The Tsars
Alchemy/Tyler (x a few :P)
Alistair Griffin (x 2)
T4 on the beach
The View
Riccardi
The Storys
Paolo Nutini (x quite a few :p)
Larikin Love (Street teaming)
Spargo
The Feeling (x a few)
Various music events in London in the Summer (Canary Wharf, Clapham Common)
Few local things (Acoustic Fridays/BOTB)
Comedian - Ed Byrne

I've done a dance exam and been to the presentation to get a little award thingy lol, went to a casting for Harry Potter (HP), an animal aid fayre, did a sponsered walk, spoken to 3 Americans and someone from HP films at 4am in the morning on Skype and my question was played on the podcast (PotterCast.com), been made a moderator on a forum for the aforementioned HP podcast, have also sent filks and impersonations to said podcast though they weren't played I don't think lol, I started a HP fanfiction, done my GCSE's, went to my Prom, went to a few random parties, my mum made me a Hogwarts Robe and I've been collecting things for my Luna Lovegood and Captain Jack Sparrow Costumes, I went trick or treating and to bowling in a improvised Death Eater cloak lol, played Pool quite a bit and at College I have joined the Student Council which is something I knew I wanted to do before I went so was glad I didn't let my shyness stop me, though that and other things did stop me from doing other things but I hope to change that at some point or something.

Books read -

Lousise Bagshawe - Monday's child & Tuesday's child
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
HP books again probably lol
Books about J K Rowling

Books started but not finished lol -

LOTR
Johnny Depp - A kind of Illusion

Books I attend to read/finish next year -
LOTR
Wuthering Heights
Some more Jane Austen books
Billie Piper autobiography
Another Louise Bagshawe book

Films watched (for 1st time)-
2 versions of Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Kate & Leopold
Sweet Home Alabama
Casanova
Calender girls
Driving Lessons (in cinema)
POTC 2 (in cinema and on dvd)
Ladies in Lavender
Corpse Bride
Maid in Manhatten
In Her Shoes
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

So all in all I think it has been rather a busy year, I'm hopefully off to a party this evening (at which my new group of friends and bf will be) so should be a good way to bring in new year which will hopefully be a good one. Thanks to everyone who reads this who has helped in whatever way make this year a good one and I'd like to wish a Happy New year to everyone who reads my blog. Thanks :-)

Why do you have to go and make life so complicated?

O.k so quoting a certain Avril Lavigne song there but it is in a way appropriate although not entirely somebody else's fault yet there actions have indeed played a part in my recent sadness. Lets just say I am no longer with boy mentioned previously however I have found myself liking another which I now think/know is a feeling recipricated. So for various reasons my life appears to be a little less complicated and much happier at present, in that respect anyway. It does however appear to be somewhat busy hence the lack of updates recently. I have to comment on the content of my blogs before mentioning the reasons for my busyness as I have been reading back my posts and this one so far and it appears to me that my sentences are somewhat sophisticated in my use of words and the way in which I structure them, I believe I watch too many period dramas such as Pride and Prejudice which influence the way in which I like to speak. I do have, and think I have mentioned before that I do have a love of the ways of these type of programmes and films.

Anyhow back to why I'm busy, which is a little annoying considering I'd like to have met up with certain people this weekend and I am usually bored but this week I have several things to do. Firslty, the most important, yet the thing that I least wish to do, is my IT work, we have to write a specification for a computer workstation, which I'll admit to not finding atall easy and which was supposed to have been in yesterday. I hop to have it done before I go to college and see my teacher on Monday though. Before then I have a gig to go to this evening, a certain Paolo Nutini, o.k so I have seen him many a time but I couldn't resist going again. I managed to get them on ebay, I was outbid in the last minutes but gave in and increased my bid and managed to secure the tickets for a price only slightly over what normally would have been payed for them. I didn't want to buy some for an extortainate price from someone who was selling them only to gain profit. On Sunday, hope to perhaps visit London again, to go to something at which I hope to get christmas gift ideas. Talking of christmas it is fast approaching it seems, well lights are already going up everywhere and I have now started to open my Pirates of the Carribeann themed advent calender. :p :)