Sunday, 6 March 2011

Bad Day

You know one of those days when everything seems to be going wrong even when it's not? 


I'm having one of those. A very strange product however came out of this, I wrote a very strange story and recorded it. You can hear it on my tumblr account - Audio Blog (The LaffyTaffy)


I was walking, in a field, and then all of a sudden I saw a marble the size of a hot air balloon, which then floated up into the sky and I stared amazed at this strange thing that was happening right before my eyes. It was incredible. I tried to fly after it but I couldn't as I had no wings and indeed if I had had a camera I would have taken pictures or filmed it. "Whatever is that?", My friend asked. In my awe at this magnificent event I'd forgotten that she was there, "I have no idea. I think it was a marble floating into the sky," I replied. "But, but that is impossible, surely the density of it would have kept it on the ground if it were a marble!"   .... I didn't know what to say. And then I woke up. I went to get my breakfast, which was coco pops - not real coco pops, the cheap kind, also known as chocko snaps. I watched as the milk I'd poured in slowly became chocolatey and brown. It looked so delicious. All of a sudden, I heard a crack. It was the bowl - it was falling into tiny little pieces! I began to panic as all the milk poured out onto my kitchen floor. The milk flooded the kitchen. It came all the way up to my knees. "How strange!", I thought, "The bowl must have been a tardis like container to have held this much milk!" It was very odd, I couldn't remember pouring this much milk into the bowl. Soon I was swimming around in the milk, wondering what I should do about this dilemma - then I had an epiphany! Of course! It was chocolatey milk, I could drink it. So I began to slurp and it was nearly down to the floor when - I woke up. It turned out that I had never woken up in the first place! I got out of bed, the floor was really cold on my bare feet. I thought that this was quite weird as my house had underfloor heating… As I stood up, I slipped and fell. I looked down to realise that my laminate flooring had been coated in a thick layer of ice. I slid out of my room and down the stairs. I got out my emergency ice skates, which I'd left in the bathroom, just in case.   I knew what had caused this - I had left the fridge freezer open again! "Silly me!, I thought, as I  skated into the kitchen. As I was skating, I found that I couldn't stop, and I skated right into my ladle cupboard. A tin opener fell off of the shelf and hit me on the head. "What is THIS doing in here?!" I thought, outraged, "Tin openers do not belong in a ladle cupboard." I suddenly realised that I was standing in my ladle cupboard, and I was sure that it wasn't this large the last time that I'd been in it. I scraped back the laydles on either side of me and they jangled quite loudly. And what I saw, was the back of the ladle cupboard. But there was something odd about this. There was a yellow button with a smiley face on it at the back of it. "Ooo. What does this button do?, I wondered. I pressed it, and there was a noise so loud; it was much louder than the jangling of the laydles. Someone had planted a bomb in the back of my ladle cupboard, I realised, as my arms and legs ejected from my body and my torso and head flew across the kitchen in all different directions. Then I woke up. Of course, it had only been a dream, I would never put a tin opener in my ladle cupboard. As soon as I got out of bed, I checked my ladle cupboard just to make sure I had not misplaced any of my tin openers. I thought, I feel like going to college today! So I skipped to the bus stop. Hmm, how weird. It was sunny outside. This is England, “Oh, this must be another dream,” I thought. However, I went to college and everything seemed normal. “Ugh, oh no. I have German with Helga Botsworth today!  So boring.” I went to the class anyway. She asked me if I had done my 2000 word essay on narrative theory, in German, not English of course! I hadn’t, so I quickly made up an excuse. “My hedgehog ate it.” This however, did not convince her. She began to yell at me, so I became angry and took my pen and stabbed her with it several times. Once in the eye, once through the heart and once up the nose. This was not enough. She was still yelling, so I stabbed her through the belly button. She keeled over and died. “What have I done?” I thought, worried. What a waste of a brand new pen. Oh well! It’s only a dream after all. An hour later, I am being interrogated by a policeman. I insist that this is only a dream and everything will be back to normal soon. “But it isn’t a dream. This is reality, Cindy.” He tried to tell me. However I was sure that it was a dream! “Cindy, I suggest that you pinch yourself.” So I did. I pinched myself as hard as I could. I was still in the police station. Sh*ttttttttttttttttttt!


I apologise for the lack of paragraphs and some incorrect punctuation, but it hurts my eyes if I look at it too long.


Anyways, you know when you feel like someone is rubbing something in and you're in that bad mood? It angers me so much, also when I feel like they're telling me what to do at the same time and making it sound like they have it really bad when they don't? I felt like that today! Sorry for being depressing, I just needed to get it out. Oh yeah, and worst of all, my Dad put cheese on my pasta! D:

I HATE CHEESE

But I ate it anyway. Then I had to sit in the car for an hour and fifteen minutes, listening to The Smiths. You know? That band that has songs called 'What difference does it make?' and 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now'. Today is the kind of day when I need dubstep! Or happy hardcore!

On top of everything else I feel extremely fat today.

Some of the good things from today were that I got to see my Dad's kittens for the first time, they didn't like me but they were cute. We went on a very long walk around a nature reserve and got lost, but got to see two little deer! We also saw loads and loads of Red Kites, which are a really awesome bird of prey. I might upload pictures at some point if I can be bothered! 


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Friday, 4 March 2011

Drawing

I find that whatever I do, one of the best ways that I can relax is if I draw.
I have a little sketch pad that I like to draw in when I'm worried or stressed or even bored, I drew this one when I was on a plane. I was worried because I'd had quite a lot of nightmares about the plane crashing before flying.

I like to draw things that I'm curious about, things that I love, my friends, my family. Anything really. I did go through a phase of drawing birds all the time. One thing I'm not too great at though has to be buildings - my brother is probably the one to go to for drawings of buildings or cars or whatever!


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Don't you just love that feeling, when you've just handed in a lot of work? It's so satisfying, it's like you can finally relax and do something you're fond of instead of wasting your precious time on essays and things. You can take the dogs for that extra long walk they've been looking forward to, spend more time with your family, make music, play music, have a rave. It's great! Sadly it doesn't last long, haha. But it's always there to look forward to. :)


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thursday, 3 March 2011

Relaxing Dreams

Do you ever find that you're worrying about something so much that it invades your dreams? 
Normally it isn't in a good way, sometimes you get those really realistic nightmares and you wake up panicking then realising it's a dream. But there are these occasional times when instead of having a bad dream, you have a good dream and it relaxes you about the whole thing!


I was really worried about a presentation I had to do, then I dreamt about having just done my presentation and I worried a lot less. In real life when I had to do my presentation, I managed to speak properly, I didn't laugh nervously (not as much as last time anyway) and I wasn't constantly paranoid that I was being laughed at (because believe me, that has happened a few times before, so embarrassing!)


< = me in a presentation.

I am beginning to find that blogging like this is a lot better than I thought! It's really helped my stress levels and it distracts me from worrying about things I shouldn't worry about! I don't know why I didn't really update it much before to be honest. 

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Friday, 25 February 2011

You're, your, there, their, they're

I really can't stand it when people mix them up!
I mean if they don't know then fair enough, but there are some people that do know that just can't be bothered, but it looks wrong! -.-

You're - You are
The apostrophe replaces the 'a'


e.g. You're a bumhole.
       You're really pretty.
       You're lovely.
       You're welcome. 


Your
e.g. Your cheese is in the fridge.
       I cooked your pizza for you.
       Your hair looks lovely today. 
       
There - T'here' (Where something is)
e.g. Your cheese is over there
       There it is!
       
They're - They are


e.g. They're being bumholes
       They're really nice
       They're awesome 


Their - something that belongs to 'them'


e.g. They left their socks here
       What's their problem? 


Sorry for being a bit of a grammar nazi! I just had to have a rant about it.


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ^.^

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Stress

I've noticed I've been having a hell of a lot of food dreams lately.
I think it is probably the combination of stress and trying to be on a diet...
Lately I've been eating a lot more fruit instead of junk, and a few days before half term, I got given a hell of a lot of work to do...

By a lot of work I mean storyboards, hazard and risk assessments, production logistics, shooting schedule, 1200-1600 word essay, 750 word essay, 500 word report, 1000 word essay and preparation for a presentation. Yay. All due in for the first week back! I would've been fine with this, but I had to go to Scotland with my Dad to see the Scottish side of the family! So that took a massive chunk out of my week off - I tried to do a lot of it in Scotland and planned to do it on the drive up, but Granny's house really isn't the best place for concentration, plus I get car sick and sleep on long journeys; a bit of a fail really.

So a result of me worrying about this?
I can't comfort eat in real life because of my diet - so I turn to my dreams.

Friday, 18 February 2011

Hmm...

I had a dream,
It was based around Hollywood - I thought it was pretty cool, until I realised it was just like the documentary we watched in film studies about Hollywood...

I was walking down the streets (some of these I think were definitely shots I'd remembered; I find it odd that I'd remembered them because we watched that documentary WAY before Christmas), and David Schwimmer was walking along, so I walked up to him and asked for his autograph, and then a picture. He refused the picture though, "No, no I don't get pictures taken." And then I came across Will Smith, but he was too busy to talk to, the paparazzi had him cornered. He didn't take well to the cameras...

I wish I had more dreams like that. That would be awesome.

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Complete change of subject now: Do you ever have those dreams that remind you of things that have annoyed or upset you in the past? 


E.g.
When you gave it everything and they didn't put in any effort?
When you were messed around?
When your parents split up?
When something you wanted to do never got done?


We all get that frustration when something doesn't go the way we want it to, and a lot of us (me included) definitely bottle it all up inside. Occasionally, these things will come and 'haunt' us in our dreams.

These are the sort of dreams that bug you for a whole day; like when you see a certain person's face or see their name. It could be anything, they could just say hi or something but if you're not aware it's not real then you panic, you don't know how to react and you just want them to leave you alone.

It's sort of like Todorov's narrative theory - you have an equilibrium and then suddenly you see them and it's a disruption to your mood, then you recognise that you shouldn't let this get to you, so you make yourself feel better, but you're still not quite the same.

Hm... quite a lot of things could be applied to Todorov's theory haha
Films (obviously)
Books (obviously)
Relationships!
Dreams...
Life!

Yeah so that was a bit of a tangent, oh well.
Gotta go,
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

Thursday, 20 January 2011

I just don't understand...

I just don't understand how people can update their blogs so often! It makes me feel so LAZY. z..z...Z...z

I have been having a lot of random dreams lately o.O
In one, a friend of mine from AS Film Studies was playing computer games with me, and then my mum came into the room and said, "CHLOE, WHY DO YOU HAVE SO MANY MAN SLUTS???" And stormed out. I have to say that in this dream I was very embarrassed, and then started a yelling match with her.