Day..... ahhhhh stuff it

You may have noticed I've given up. Did pretty well though, much better than last time, it's just a shame my life is so boring!

Have some photoz:

Day 42

I watched a lot of TV yesterday, mostly River Cottage, which makes me want to grow things and eat strange bits of animals. So I decided that I HAD to go and buy a chilli plant. so I did. Evil EVIL homebase however, won't let me leave without buying things I don't need, namely two packets of seeds and 6 fucia plants. With Hannah's help, my window ledge now looks pretty awesome, and I've not even planted everything yet....I don't even like spicy food

Day 41

Lovely lovely Elf let me use his washing machine AND cooked me a dinner AND came to the pub with me AND drove me about, AAAAAANNND gave me things. Things such as a loaf of bread and a slow cooker.

Elf is awesome.

I had a munch on last night though, and this was the reminants of the loaf Elf gave me. It was still warm from baking, I couldn't help it! I finished it off today too.

Day 40

Well, lets plug something!

Tumblr is awesome! Have a link to a post on there from Day 40 (Which is yesterday now, but shhh)

Linkey Linkey

Day 39

AWWW YEEEAHHHHH
^_^



Also, the wall is expanding! hehehehe :D

Day 38

I only ate half of it in the end, but I did eat it while watching Pretty Woman. Anybody else notice how the dress she's wearing on the cover is totally different colors to the one she wears in the film....

Day 37

I woke up at about 3, thought about going to jessops to pick up my prints, didn't, played fable, then went to work. So no photo.

Some exciting things happening on ebay though! Auction ends at 8.30 AM though, so that won't be fun.

Day 36

Look how fucked my eye is from playing xbox all day again!I'm such a raging Fable II geek, I love it.

Day 35

Awesome sandwich, I will admit, looks pretty minging. it's Fried Egg and Mushroom. I've spent all day on the xbox, mostly Fable II, and a bit of Beautiful Katamari.

That is all.

Day 34

eeeehehehehehe. aww yeahh.

Also bought some new house trousers because my shorts are WAY too big now, and they're niiiiiice, love them. Bought some wine glasses and a granite chopping board (9.99!). Woke up stupidly early coz I want with Sven to get his new tattoo. He didn't tell me it was at 9am til the night before and it was too late by then, so I've done quite a lot, this has included moving the fridge and doing the washing up!

Day 33

See Yesterdays post.


Had a nice day though, went out. :)

Day 32

This is how well tidying went today...
I did make some truffles though, kind of, the mix is still in Sven's fridge, i'll finish them tomorrow if he's not done it already. Probably wise though, I would have eaten them all in one go.




You may have noticed that I live a hermit-like existence. I like it for the most part, but I am looking forward to people coming back to Swansea in September.

Day 31

This view taunts me out of my window! A car I can't afford that's for sale (onlt £500!), and tasty foods that are bad for me and that I can't really afford.

Day 30

THIRTY DAYS! mad skillz. I was planning to take my camera to work and take some photographs of Saturday night Wind st for you, but I forgot my camera, and now I can't be ballsed.

I cant really be bothered to do anything, it's a mess here, bit I DID clean the toilet. I'm quite pleased with it.

Winona update: she's taken to cleaning out her own cage (noisily when I'm trying to sleep) by shoving wood-chippings that are not clean enough for her up the tube that goes outside her cage....

Day 29

Not gonna lie, Must Try Harder with these pictures!
Job interview today, interview outfit.

Then went to work, got drunk on line cleaning after, was so tired that it didn't take much, the shame.

Day 27 and 28

Day 27

MUTANT EGG! I made egg mayo with mutant egg and the other, more normal eggs. Mutant egg exploded a bit in boiling. Egg mayo was tasty.

I did do something more exciting today, I went to see Emz, YAY! I think I was a bit too excited to take a photo. yes, that's what it was. :D

Day 28


Came back to Swansea today, let Winona on the lawn, she got confused. Also, just now she escaped TWICE from her cage earlier, both times she just wandered around looking very confused, and looked quite pleased to be ushered in to her ball. bless. I hate commuters.

Day 26

Today I went in town with mum, did some shopping, had some dinner, then went to see Harry Potter!

I'd say read the book, before you see it, I hadn't and as such wasn't entirely sure what was going on in parts of it. From what I've heard the book is like, this film needed to be more violent, which is always a good thing. The acting was better at least, and the film was really really funny in places. So that coupled with an enjoyably large amount of Rupert Grint in this film made it okay. Definitely see it if you're a Potter fan, but don't try and convert someone who isn't with it, they'll think you're an idiot liking a film with no beginning or end.

Day 25

Still very little going on I'm afraid. I put up the tent and dried it out, then took it down and utilized some MAD SKILLZ in getting it, it's poles AND the pegs all back in the bag it came in. BOO-YA!

I also spent a lot of time sitting in the conservatory looking at the garden, much like a crazy old woman. I was thinking I'd love to get a cat the other day too....

I just watched Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Being a girl I am required to like this film, and it was good. I am now, however, very annoyed about boys, because you're all RUBBISH and I never know what you want me to do to make it as blindingly obvious what I want, and you never make it clear what you want, BAH! 

...aaaaand relax. Here's a lovely scene for you

Days 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24

Day 20

I came home today! Winona and I are hanging out with my parents, fun fun fun! :)

Have a somewhat crap photo or my room (Come oooonnn, I was tired!)

Winona was really good on the train too in her little box. Was asleep by Bridgend and pretty much didn't wake up again till I put her in her cage here! I'd started to worry she'd died from the stress. On a vaguely related note, thanks Sven for putting up with me being a rubbish whiney girl type and helping me, you're lovely!

Day 21

Preparations for 2000 Trees begins! People arrive, bags are packed, the weather turns...

Amongst all this excitement I make up some time with my cacti, who are all doing worryingly well having been re-potted recently by mum, they'll take the place over soon.

I make no apologies for being childish.

Day 22

2000 Trees!! wooooo! Up stupidly early and off for some beer, bands, buds and ..... photos. The weather is shite, but not so bad as to make it unbearable, the food is amazing, and I'm having lots of fun not being all sad and alone. Particularly enjoied Crazy Arm, Amplifier, The King Blues, Big Blue Sun and having a picture from last year in the program this year. Not so enjoyable was Rolo Tomassi, Fightstar, not being in the mood for the Headphone Disco, and....

 

... too many photographers! Jesus christ! I hardly took any, which is a shame, but I just felt so unnecessary. I took this while abusing my back-stage privileges and sitting on the inside of the barrier to watch The King Blues. 

Day 23

Day Two of festival and it's HELLO SUNSHINE! Woohoo! Lovely lovely, wandering about listening to a few bands, eating some pie from Pie Minister. Pie Minister are awesome, if you ever come across one of their shops or stalls, buy a pie, get mash and gravy too, amazing! I thought I like Pie Minister pie, but apparently Geoff loves it even more than I do!

Particularly enjoyed Oxygen Thief, Jim Lockey & the Solemn Son, Aspen Sails, Imperial Leisure, Dananananaykroyd (I was playing the 'snappy media way to sum them up' game in my head and got 'Cheerful Noise-mongering Scamps', come on NME, you know you want me), and Napoleon IIIrd, and most defiantly the time filling interlude from the Leaf Lounge Stage Manager.

Day 24

Get all packed and the tend down just in time for it to start shitting it with rain, skillz. Sorry to anyone who went to the welsh food place for a breakfast buttie after me, I had the last of the bread, muhahahaha! Got home nice and early before the shite weather set in.

The sunburn came up properly today, got some mad tan lines that include ones from my necklace, my glasses, and I've even burnt my fingers. Unprotected sunshine is BAD. The most strange to have to explain whenever i wear a skirt over the next few weeks is this:

Wellies, long socks, and leggns did this. Wear sun creme kids, this hurts, as does my face, and my finger.

what an epic post!

Day 19

FAIL! sorryyyyy!

Was going to be a pleasing interlude of some pictures of Winona anyway, so you've not missed much. I'm gonna have loooooaaaaads of pics from 2000 Trees after this weekend, so I hope that will make up for it. 

ta ta!

Day 18

Did quite a lot today. didn't leave the flat, have a wash, or get dressed though, so I'm still a disgusting failure of a human being. I watched the rest of Diary if the Dead (I'm getting better, this one was only 2 sittings), it was a bit shit, but the bonus disc was quite interesting, almost made up for it.

I then made two, yes TWO stews because the veg I had was going a bit funky (funky veggies, teehee). Think I've sorted out the issues with the recipe for what is Stew 2 here (the one closer). It usually has sausages in, but I'm not eating meat, so Quorn it is, all you need to do is whack in a MASSIVE LUMP OF BUTTER to make up for all the fat that comes out of sausages, haha.

yum! I'm serious, it's tasty.

I also cleaned out all of Winona's cage, she went a bit bonkers as she tends to whenever the opportunity arises.

Clean out Sharpey tomorrow and pack for Festival, woohoo!

Day 17

Day 16

To fill in or not :/

difficult. (not the form, I'm not simple)

Day 15

Back when I forgot* about day 11 I said I had something planned to make up for it. Inspired by Paul M Smith and the artwork for 'The Steal' by The Steal (who are awesome by the way), I did this:

I'll do some more of this I think, it's a lot easier on photoshop than I thought it would me, and it's fun. woohoo! Work later :(

Hyperlink-tastic!




*When I say 'forgot' I meant I was lazy and could be bothered to do a photo and upload it an all that. But lets see YOU keep this 'photo-a-day' shit up if you're gonna winge about me missing one day.

Day 13 & 14

Ahh what, last 'night' was mad! Ended 6am with me taking photos of the bin men because they were waving at us! But I've had some yoghurt and a Bueno, and I'm feeling okay now.

Day 13:
This shit makes me happy! I know it's kinda lame, but what with the kerfuffle about my not being paid and generally being lazy and poor, having a fridge full of food that's not rotting is one of the best things ever.

Day 14:

I was putting some CDs away in my book thing, and I can't help but think, shit man, this is a mad array of stuff. This page kinda sums it up really, and to add another layer of eclectic-ness I was listening to something Hospital Records (can't remember what exactly). I hate answering the 'what kind of music are you in to' question, people would get bored of me before I could properly finish answering it!

Another thing that I could help but notice was that ALL my stuff is in dire need of alphabetizing....

Day 12

Sorry for a lack of 'Day 11' I was away from my computer (still am) and I didn't take a photo. I'll do something extra another day, I've got something planned I think. What I did do that day was some food shopping and went to see 'Public Enimies' with Sven. Good film! So as you can see, a lack of photographic potential anyway.

Today was spent sitting about Sven's house doing very little. Eating his food, loling at Fail Blog. How exciting is my life eh! I'll upload today's picture tomorrow, because as I said, I'm not at my computer and this one has no image editing software and it'll take FOREVER to upload the RAW file. I'll spare you the overly techey detailed explanation of this.

See, did it!

Day 10

After very little sleep (see 'Day 9') I went off to Oakwood with Ericca. I was very excited, prepared for childish glee at something a bit crap. But, it's pretty good, and not that expensive, woohoo! I did, however, rain. lots of rain, big drops. This combined with a water ride that WILL get you wet, made us very VERY soggy.

Got back and got in the shower, have pretty much just been wrapped up in my duvet watching the telly. I'm really rather tired, I appear to have lost the ability of speach. Hope the weather is a bit better tomorrow, here's a photo.

Day 9

Day 8

Lame injuries time! I walked in to a drip tray at work (I work in a pub) and it bloody hurt! It's also totally so much worse than this makes it look like it is, it's all swollen and that! Sympathy? No?! Come oooonnnn. Fine then.

Sven got back from Glasto today, yay! I can wash my clothes now!

Day 7

Super mega bumper photo edition!

Geoff, Jess and Owen left halls today to move their stuff in to 'The House'. We're all gone! Sad times (for details of this, see the post from the other day). Belongings in the corridor :(

The shop near 'The House' sells all sorts of strange things, coke and relentless in glass bottles, they also had 440ml cans of Tango. I saw this and thought 'I'm on that!' The bloke in the shop pointed out this amusing acronym....

And finally! Nice Chinese for dinner. I LOVE banana fritters!
The weather was a bit pants today, but it was nice for it not to be so hot.

Day 6

Fail! I know I didn't do a blog or photo yesterday, I know I suck. We went to go and see Transformers (because apparently Ice Age 3 or The Hangover wasn't good enough, PAH!). It was.... funny. The plot was thin, but not so thin that it was horrible. I really want to sit here and slag it off, but it was a pretty okay action film, and it was pretty similar in quality to Star Trek, which I LOVED because it's Star Trek, maybe if I was a Transformers fan then i would have liked this. Two things about it though:

1) Everything any of the Auto-bots said had me laughing my ass off, and more often then not for the wrong reason, Prime's speech at the end a great example of this. and that inexplicably 'British' one (not the old one, the other one)! At one point he said something very American (like 'I'm gonna tear your ass apart' but maybe less gay) which was simultaneously hilarious and a bit offensive to me as an English person.

2) And could they not keep the camera still when two people had a conversation? STOP SPINNING! I FEEL SICK!

The acting was really quite good though, which I think is what kept it together, I was surprised.

I'd write more, but it's early in the day, so sod it.


TWO pictures later to make up for my failing of yesterday!

Day 5

I was going to do a really emo post about how I'd done nothing but watch DVDs and eat quiche and crisps for the last day and a half or so and how doing this is all difficult and I've no money and blah blah blah....

But!Winona sat in her food bowl (which she always empties the food out of to move it to another part of the cage) to clean herself! ^_^ ADORABLE!

day 4

Vera is going for my mac!

Seriously, it was symmetrical yesterday before it was moved! I'll have to keep an eye on it....

DVDs for £3 in HMV! So I'm sorted for a bit.

Day 3

I spent all day tidying today, so it looks pretty good here now. But I'm a messy person, so it feels kinda weird. People (Jess, Geoff, Owen and Dan) came over for dinner today, was nice. I really like to sit down and have dinner with people, especially home cooked food.

Todays photo isn't from that though!

Summer dress, flip-flops and a tubey-grip..... awesome. Yeah, I fucked up my ankle again while I was at work last night. Hopefully it'll be better by wednesday at most, for now I'm gonna have to look a bit mad when I go to the shop.

Day 2

Just got back from work. Walking past Oceana at 20 past 3 is interesting. Got a hefty subway (I think i've got my order down now, which is a bit sad, but a good sandwich is important damn it!) and a pint of ice tea (yeah, you heard, A PINT) and I'm watching Michael McIntyre's comedy roadshow, awesome! Today's photo:




I took better photos today, but I think this is the right one. Gave my key in today, so that's it, it's not my room any more. Went up to do that and have some BBQ with everyone, but I realised as I was going that I didn't really have any reason to go back up there, it was pretty sad. It's only been 9 months, but a lot has happened and I've met a lot of people, some awesome stuff and people, some.... not so much. hah! I wouldn't wanna go back to halls now that I'm here, but I'm so SO glad to have been there.

So it's goodbye H Floor!

And seeing how it's light out now, I think I should probably go to bed now.

9: A photo a day!

I tried this last year, but failed miserably, not surprising really. I'm gonna give it a proper go this year, might even go and buy a crap compact from toys r us. I thought I'd start today because it's the last day of term officially, not that I've been in for about a month already.

The first photo is a total lie, because I took it the other day....
it's my kitchen! Tomorrow I'll start properly, and hopefully go on until the first day of term on October.

I also got quite annoyed about the coverage Jackson is/was getting last night, but I can't be bothered to have a rant about that.

There's some new stuff up on my devART page, some of my uni stuff.

I love Kebabs!

That's all lies actually, they're NASTY. I'm supposed to do a veggie rant right now, but I won't.

Since writing the last post I've become somewhat obsessed (photographically) with going out on the piss. Had to do a photo-essay for uni last term and I did it on that. It's not the best essay ever, to be fair, I'd never done one before and it's a bit shite, but hey-ho, you learn. I did the 'end of the night' shots last (2 days before it had to be in, SO organised) and I love them! So, a blog that's supposed to be about my work is FINALLY gonna have some up on it!

I'm yet to work out how to put up pictures here so they don't look shitty. I'm gonna put more up on my devART which you can find here: http://hazelhatton.deviantart.com/

In other news, 2000 Trees want me back! what makes it more awesome is that Starkey and Owen are gonna come too! Fair play to Starkey ordering the tickets drunk! I think that's the biggest purchase I've known anyone to make while hammered, but it's all good. :D

You can look forward to a post about my recent trip to Budapest!

7: Out Wih The Lads

I hang out with guys quite a lot, I usually tend to have more in common with them, I dunno what it is. Not that I don't have friends who are girls, it just pans out that way, I kinda like it. Starkey's gone home for a few days, so Wednesday (student night) rolls round and I'm the only girl about in our group. No proper plans are made because she usually does that, but Owen and me decide to go out and get hammered, and leave to do so about a half an hour later. We can't go out just the two of us, so we go out with K Floor, which is all guys. Sounds a plan, so I stick on some jeans and a top that is majoritivly clean and go out (which appears to be what guys do when they get ready to go out!). I have a pretty cool night out just chatting and drinking and spending WAY too much money, and wake up this morning feeling like death.

All in all, I had a good time, but we had to go to Wind Street...

Every town or city has a street or an area like Wind Street, it's where all the clubs and bars are. It's a mecca for drunk, orange slags wearing tiny outfits that leave nothing to the imagination when they're getting escorted out of a club by security. 'Macho' blokes out on the pull, all wearing the same jeans/shoes/muscle shirt combo. THE place to go to binge drink your way to being £50 down and in bed with a total stranger the next morning with a head full of hangover and regret. At least they all know it I suppose, but it's just not my thing. It's not the obscene mating ritual, the shitty music, or the dickhead guys that I want to talk about though, it's the girls.

I'd always assumed that it was guys who were the rude ones, the ones who pushed unnecessarily at the bar, who were gonna try and start an argument, the ones who had no regard for people around them, but I'd be wrong.

A good while ago I went to go and see The Steal in Sigma with a couple of guys on the floor. It was one of the more hardcore punk shows I'd been to, and the band were shitting awesome. There's a very simple system at shows: stand at the front if you wanna get jostled and punched and go spare, stand at the back by the bar if you wanna have a pint, listen to the band, and watch the carnage at the front. Needless to say, I was by the bar. It was pretty busy, and where we were stood people would want to get past us. I wasn't being a dick, I was leaving room, someone comes up behind me, touches me on the shoulder to get past, I move, as is the way I'd assume people would do it, as all the guys who went past me did. But the girls! What the fuck, was I the only person with ovaries here who came to see this band rather than hit on guys!? (for the record, I wasn't, but from where I was stood, I was seriously in the minority). Every girl that tried to get past me just barged through like they were the best thing since orange juice, an amount of pint spilling ensued, and that's not even what bothered me. You knock in to someone, you turn around and apologise, it's all fine, we're stood by the bar, we don't wanna start some shit. Not these girls, oh no no! They've made and effort, they've done their hair and the face and made themselves appeal to you, cool punk guys with tattoos! They can clearly do no wrong, they are above such simple etiquette, because they're there to look like they'd have sex with YOU. Coz, you know, you've not come to see the band, all you think about is girls...

Clearly, girls, you're better than me because of this, because I've decided to turn up in the clothes I was already wearing, because I've decided to actually watch the band. You've graced this mild sausage-fest with your presence and we should be thankful! And as such, you're allowed to be a complete tool. I guess I just expected better, people at a show are all like-minded, right, you've all come for the same reason...

Anyway, I forgot about this, it's just a few girls being dumb, I'll know what to avoid in future. So that sat in the back of my mind, not really thinking about it for ages, until last night on Wind Street.

I'm not gonna start slagging these people off saying what they should and shouldn't be doing, because at the end of it, we're all probably just trying to do the same thing: have some fun, forget about stress, and maybe, if it goes well, have it off. So, you know, just do whatever makes you happy. The way I was dressed when we went, I expected to feel awkward and out of place, I expected to get a few looks, and that's fine. I was mostly ignored by guys, and looks I did get were more surprised than anything, certainly not hostile. Most of the looks I got from girls though were hostile, like I was threat to them, I've no idea why, I'm clearly not. Does my being covered up somehow threaten the acceptability of what you wear? I kinda hope so, but I just don't know. That, and at the bar it was PACKED in Varsity, it was fully rammed, everyone there trying to get to the bar, and it was all girls doing the pushing the jabbing with elbows to get to the bar, they do it everywhere. I had one guy be very nice to me about it and literally seconds after he took the space at the bar I give him, there was a girl the other side of him doing that old sly trick of planting your hand on the bar in the hope that somebody moves out the way so you can stand there.

I'm not saying I'm a flawless example of womanhood, far from it in fact, I'm just saying that I find it's usually girls being the proper dickheads, not the guys.

6: Sleep Patterns

My sleep is all over the shop, mostly because of the work I'm doing at the moment. Out around Swansea taking photos at night. Took my digital out too, they're not that high quality, but it gives an idea. Pretty much can't wait to get in to the dark room tomorrow and start printing! For now, bed, I'm shattered. I've not worked out how to format pictures so it doesn't look like balls on the page, so excuse the fact that these look like they're being displayed by a toddler.