Just No.

"But she was...

Blinded by the light,

Revved up like a deuce,

Another runner in the night."

Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

I know this was suposed to be a blog about Christmas and stuff but that's not as important as what I'm going to write. It won't interest half of you guys cause it's about Taggart but I need to type it.

So up until this morning my holidays have been really good. I've managed to write a three chaptered fic over the course of one week and reopen one of my older sets of one shots What A Certain Guy Does. Apart from last night when I was somewhy taking a staple out of my notebook and I kind of managed to pirce the top of my finger so it's stinging a bit, my life's been pretty good! Then it all came crashing down this morning. Kyle and I hadn't got to bed until 2 in the morning cause we had been watching the X Files so I didn't wake up til quarter to one today "/

It's a custom that on weekends and holidays my mum will leave a drink and the newsapaper on the ledge outside my bedroom just so I can flip through to see if there's anything mentioned about my obsessions and today was no different so I went to the toilet and took the newspaper through to my room before checking my phone for Twitter texts. I opened the paper and as well as the usual Page 3 tart there was an article with a picture of Colin McCredie who plays Stuart in Taggart. Unsurprisingly I got all excited because it's Taggart and I was thinking it might be something about when the next episode was going to be shown but within the first sentance I got scared because it said Colin had been axed. I thought it was going to go into saying something stupid about his character getting suspended or something. But no. Colin has actually been sacked. And that was when the tears started and the tweets.

I've managed to halt them for a while but I don't want to think about what I'll be like tonight when I'm alone in my room. Now don't get me wrong I cried when I read that Taggart may not have been getting recommisioned but that was nothing compared to how I was this morning. And I know he isn't my favourite character (Robbie and Jackie all the way) but it's Stuart. It won't be the same without him and for STV to have the guts to say that his character is getting moved to the fingerprint department and he won't be mentioned again is wrong! I don't know how I'll forgive the channel after this!

And this had to happen the day after I start writing out a fic centred on him. There is no chance my fics are getting rid of him. He'll be part of that team forever! I love you DC Stuart Fraser. I also think I may have broke at least 3 of my tweeps hearts this morning by announcing it but they needed to know!

Rant.

"Sally, take my hand

We'll travel south cross land

Put out the fire

And don't look past my shoulder."

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Well here goes. I don't even see why you would want to read this cause it is gonna be one long rant.

Lets start with my family situation. 

My mum and dad both come from families of five kids which means I have a lot of cousins etc. Out of the eight families I'm only in contact with my mum's oldest brother, his wife and their son, and one of my mum's other brothers' widow and that's basically it because there was a big bust up just after I was born with my mum and one of her other brothers so I've saw him about three times in my whole life and now it's coming to the point where her last brother is turning to that side as well. On my dad's side I occasionally see my granny but only about three times a year because my mum doesn't get on with any of that family and I don't know the story behind all this. So one of my dad's brothers' (whom we used to get on with) sons just had a baby and we got a phone call two days after telling us that he was called Murray and that's it. 

I've grown up with my mum constantly making fun of most of my aunts and uncles so now that I'm older she lets me join in and when we received a present from my granny me and my mum went into hysterics because we know by the shape that it isn't the customary box of Cadbury's Biscuit Selection things, and we're at the moment trying to persuade my dad to let us open it to see. Unsurprisingly these arguments between my family are some of the first things I can remember from being a kid and I have been unwillingly been brought into them over the past couple of years, and yeah it probably has fucked me up well and truly but even though me and my mum don't always get on I can't imagine what my life would be like if we did have the whole happy family thing going on.

Moving on to my ex-friend.

Right you probably all remember when I used to moan about my paper round every Friday and how the girl (Sara) I did it with was a complete bitch, and now how I'm much happier after quitting it. She has now turned into a psycho and her mother has always been one. My mum was on the phone to her mum and apparently Sara is being allowed to go by herself into Edinburgh to meet this guy she's been talking to on MSN and then go to Leith WaterWorld with him. Is it just me who thinks their parents may try to stop them or in the least go with them?! And now I'm probably being slightly hypocritical because I've spoke to people on the internet and I would go and meet Helen if I had the chance but that's different because I trust that she is who she says she is whereas Sara has only ever saw this guys display picture "/ And she isn't going to school anymore but is still being allowed to go for sleepovers and get pissed with her mates. I'm a tad confused as to why she is being granted these privileges.

Okay let's do some happy/random me-ish things. 

I was watching Six Days and Seven Nights that has Harrison Ford and David Schwimmer in it last night and I managed to scratch myself again with my cushy. It didn't puncture the skin this time which is a bonus but still stung like a bitch. 

I had spent ages reading the 400 pages of Candlemoth by R.J Ellory and after skimming through the middle 150 pages I finally finished it on Tuesday night. And I had bought Digital Fortress by Dan Brown on Friday so I had begun it on the bus home and then continued to read yesterday and finished the 500 pages, which proves that Candlemoth was one crap book.

Waiting for two o'clock so that I can see Lauren and get my poster that she had ordered me :) And also can't wait for 9 o'clock tonight for Taggart!!

Next blog will be in a couple of days, going into details of Taggart and the presents I've got for Christmas. Now away to work on fanfiction that I had a craving to write.

Love and Hugs.

Over and Out.

One pointless day.

"This is not what I intended

I always swore to you I'd never fall apart

You always thought that I was stronger

I may have failed but I have loved you from the start"

Fall For You - Secondhand Serenade

Yes I heart Secondhand Serenade far too much. John Vesely is awesome though! His lyrics are so cute and the simplicity of acoustic guitar, a little piano and his voice is incredible! <3

Thought I was going to be killed this morning because I found out that Fiddle Group concert rehearsals were first period when I was supposed to have a [failed] French writing exam so I went to see Miss Coquerelle but she was really nice about it and said that I'll do it after the holidays even though it won't make a difference to my grade.
All in all I missed French, Biology and Geography today. Couldn't have picked a better three myself. But orchestra sounds quite awful and the concert is tomorrow "/ There are only 13 of us, it just doesn't work!

Mr Macdonald's Christmas Thingmy is next Monday so the art department want Holly and I this year again. But Holly has suspected swine flu and has been off so if she isn't here then Sarah will take her place.

Today's Maths lesson...Oh Maths. Well the tables had been rearranged so I was still sitting next to Sarah but I also got the pleasure of having Lauren on the other side and David in front. Now, if you have any idea what Mr Saffhill's maths classes are like then it will be no surprise that when it got to the point of no work actually being done I said "I've not ripped any paper out off this jotter yet" and David and Lauren told me to open the centre pages and take a couple out. I failed to rip properly so they took over and the two pages ended up in about 7 different bits which we scrunched up and started throwing at each other, saying that it was snowballs. It was EPIC!

Then we got onto the topic of Lily Allen somehow and David asked if either of us put on strong London accents when we sing along to her and did a [very good] impression of her which caused me and Lauren to start laughing and then David randomly burst out singing "I spent ages giving head" which was completely beyond our control and even Saffo was wondering why we were crying with laughter. 
My Maths report is going to be someone else's copy and pasted apparently. I wanted a personalized one!!


My lunch times seem to get better every time because now Lauren has reserved the seat next to me so we can have Taggart chats and such like and nearly shouted at Briege when she was about to pull the seat out for herself! I love you girl! And by the way in response to our Maths chat about your upcoming [awesome] Taggart fanfic idea I don't mean to take over but you so should make it so that the one-night stands 'situation' is lied about just like I mentioned. True enough that's probably because there are so many fluff possibilities and it's me so what do you think I'll suggest :) It will be great no matter what you choose to do so ignore me by all means if you think it won't work as well!


Should be getting X Files collectors boxset on Friday, it's what me and Kyle want for our Christmas so my mum knows that we adore it and is willing to get us it.


On Saturday Lauren and I, and also Holly if she's well enough, are going to see St Trinians 2 yay!! David Tennant and Colin Firth in one movie :D

Mostly yesterday

Midway through work experience!
Cornbank is awesome to work at. Today I got to do sponge printing with the P2's and got to listen to what they want for Christmas - is it sad that I also want Lego Indiana Jones 2 the game, just the same as half the kids?! Before the school started Mrs Baxter, whose class I was working in today, said that I could come along to nativity rehersals after lunch but when I saw her then she said that I was to help Lorraine and Lesley [teaching assistants] make costumes for it. Sounds quite crap but actually enjoyed myself because they let me make head-dresses for the "wind".

Yesterday it was Peni High's netball game against Newbattle and I had been asked to go for moral support and ended up being appointed to Creative Director so sometime tonight I have to make a banner for us versus Carlisle. We won 14-4 even they had proper sporting uniforms and we were all wearing t-shirts and joggers.

Then it was the Girl Guides Christmas Service which me and Christy went along to just so we could see Lauren acting. We were going to sit up high so we could see Lauren getting changed but she forced us to move so we tried to find a different way back down and ended up sure that we could see Narnia in this pitch black staircase. We were hysterical the whole way through it and Christy made it worse when the minister was saying the final prayer and he said "Thank God for all the little girls" which she took to mean that he was a paedophile :L Then Lauren and I chummed Christy to the bus stop and went for a little wander while listening to Send Me On My Way and Nick Jonas + The Administration! We stood outside my house for ages and then I finally went in and my dad arrived a few seconds later and asked if Laurenn might want a lift home so we drove and found her round the corner. Then I got home, watched Paradox <3, and went to my bed.

Now I'm going to do my usual and try to write come fanfiction, then Waterloo Road which may be a little weird after working in a school for three days "/ then it starts all over again.

Love and hugs.

Over And Out.

Woke up this morning after about 9 hours sleep and checked my phone as usual. One hundred and sixty-nine unread texts! All Twitter updates 167 of which were from Helen and David! I love you but it takes a while to forgive you hahaa!

Work experience starts tomorrow, me and Kirsty are going to Cornbank Primary School for the week! The kids will have the same mental age as me so I'll fit right in. My teachers who I told this to have nervously laughed and then agreed!

Well some Prelim results;
Maths Credit - 74/84 = 1!
Biology Credit - 59/80 = 1
Music Credit - 37/60 = 2
Physics Int 2 - 55/100 Don't know what grade but top in my class with a pathetic score really
Geography - 2
French Reading - 1
French Listening - 2 just, cause I was on the pass mark

Don't have anything else to say so cya!

Well Spent Day

Here's an account of my day.
Woke up and spent about half an hour on my phone's internet before getting changed.
Got to school, complained to my non-interested friends about the ending of 'The Gift' by Cecelia Ahern then into a conversation about movies which have made me cry.
First period: English. Watched the same part of Chocolat that I have now watched three times in one week. Sounds extreme but it has Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche so it balances out. Johnny Depp *drool* in it to me looks like a kind of fit gay pirate :P
Second period: PSE. Waste of time. Found out that I'm apparently a "visual learner" but I'm not so it lied. Then had to fill in this thing saying what I pledge to do for Eco-fortnight for Ms McFadyen. She'll probably guess which Lee wrote it since my answer was "to live in the dark". Then played noughts and crosses with Sarah, James and Bethan.
Third period: Maths. I think I may have numbed Lauren into a state of no return with my talk about Taggart. At least she now knows what is included in Wages Of Sin *swoons*
Fourth period: Geography. The most pointless yet. A geography quiz in which my group won some chocolate and then a general knowledge quiz which wass taking up with football realted crap so my group failed since we're all geeks :L

Then after school;
Settled down to finish my songfic but failed when I read a message from Kim/Minbus on FF sending me a link to a TV forum board which I haven't really been off all day cause it is awesome, I can basically find at least one person who has the same shipping tendencies as me on this: Ed/Adelaide, Mulder/Scully, Boyd/Grace... I love it muchy!!
And lo-and-behold I have not really been working on my fic since this discovery, I'll try and do some now!

Bye. signing out message: my day was simply spent watching Johnny Depp then looking at Peter O'Brien pictures. Yum.

Prelim Week

Well my predictions on this past weeks prelims;
Friday: Music. Possible Pass, just.
Monday: English. Fail.
Tuesday: Maths. Falied Credit Calculator.
Wednesday: Geography. Failed Credit. French Reading. Pass I think.
Thurday: Edinburgh shopping trip. Pass. :)
Friday. Physics. Major Fail even though it was the one I was most hopeful about.

My predictions on next week's;
Monday: French Listening. Fail. Fail. Fail! Then playing in a concert at the Corn Exchange. Fail.
Tuesday: Biology. Is it not obvious I'm going to fail after spending 3rd year making fun of Mrs McFadyen and not listening to the lessons?!

And onto some good stuff

• I published my first Doctor Who fic which was an alternate ending to "Water Of Mars" because that should never have happened!
• I couldn't get to sleep last night so I stayed up til 12 on my phone's internet, saving a lot of pictures from Doctor Who and Mulder and Scully. So now I have a ton of Sarah Jane/10th Doctor pics and pics of David Tennant on it :) But in doing this I ended up reading random articles about what Ed meant when he said Adelaide would never forgive him and ended up crying into my Jack Skellington cushy, trying not to wake up any of the family.
• I stuck David's picture up on my boxes above my bed.
• I've got quite a few people's Christmas presents.
• Kyle let me make my own account on his laptop, because my computer is flipped (flip is my new word instead of swearing) so now I can have my docs saved without Kyle checking them and I have a Mulder/Scully background :)
• Kyle and I finished season 1 of the X Files which we adore more than anything else that we share. And we're allowed to get it for our Christmas out of HMV so we're ecstatic!
• I've started hearting Colin and Justin on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and am so annoyed people voted Colin out :(

Tags

So thank you to Helen and David who have chosen to tag our little crew with tasks. Let's do Helen's first;

7 Interesting Facts About Me
1) I love my Physics class
2) I'm addicted to Taggart (the relationship between Robbie and Jackie especially) and everything to do with it
3) I have all sorts on my iPod but I love my Bon Jovi collection most
4) I am terrified of hearing of how injuries, even as minor as a paper cut, are caused. I scream at people if they tell me their stories about thier cuts
5) I have an ambition to be a designer but I know I would never pass Advanced Higher Art so I'm not sure about my career path
6) I can play the violin and have done so since primary 4 but the word improvement doesn't really show that
7) My Twitter buddies mean more than most other things to me

7 Things I Love
1) Fan Fiction
2) Reading in general
3) Twitter
4) Taggart and The X Files
5) Romantic Comedies/Romance
6) My gorgeous friends ;)
7) Listening to music

And now David's;
    

Haha! Now I'm away to watch TV! Also I tag Lauren to do both these tag challenges!

Tiredom

This one goes out to the man who minds the miracles

This one goes out the ones in need

This one goes out the sinner and the cynical

This ain't about no apology

We Weren't Born To Follow - Bon Jovi

 
Because Caitlin thinks none of us blog enough, here goes!
 
Well just got back from MYO and found out that for Work Experience next month, I am going to Cornbank Primary. Me + little kids = probable disaster! But I cannot wait!
 
Mrs Mitchell poked me in the back of the head with her violin bow, that is twice in two terms now!!
 
I get Bon Jovi Circle album deluxe edition with DVD sometime this week! I love the above song from the album, I already know most of the lyrics and I only heard it for the first time on Saturday, the wonders of Youtube!
 
Caitlin and Kirsty can I remind you both of Music today and the 'Love Nest' :L Oh that was good fun and then the acapella Christmas songs!
 
Mine and Helen's conversations rock! Today it was one about Midsomer Murders and the great sidekicks that there's been! And then she saw Jason Hughes (DS Ben Jones) on the MSN homepage; coincedence?!
 
Oh two of the greatest things ever: TweetStats (ehh David?) and Social Interview (that really does give some great questions eg Would David Ritchie fit into the 1800s?)
 
I'll log off in a while so I can do my Biology homework. Tomorrow evening I have to help in Biology for the P7 Open Night (yeay), Thursday I'm going to Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre to see Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and on Friday I have an eco-clear up (the greatest thing I could have thought of to do in my spare time) and my paper round. This is going to be a fun few nights!
 
Erin has got the tickets for the opening day of New Moon!! We'll be with all the screaming fans and everything!!!

It arrived!!

Yayage!! It arrived this morning!

If you are wondering what I'm talking about: Taggart DVD set! 4 days since ordering, I'm impressed!

I'm quite ashamed of my reaction.

Early this morning my mum was like "The posties are back at work today" so I went "All I'm caring about is if they bring my Taggart" Then I had to go and do my paper round, when I came back and walked up the front path I saw a brown cardboard box on the inside window-sill. The car was away and my parents had went to the shops. And I was thinking "What if it's Taggart" I dismissed that idea until Kyle pointed at it when I got inside. I looked into the opened box and saw the one word that I had been hoping for. I started jumping up and down (Kyle was naturally disgusted by my behaviour) and squealing about double the recommended decibel level.
Kyle tried to calm me down by saying The Sarah Jane Adventures was repeated - since we missed it this week - in 5 minutes time. All that did was make me hug it to my chest and say that I was getting a drink and it was too precious for me to leave on the sofa.

Anyway now I'm doing my personal study, checking over my fic for tomorrow and I just finished a hazelnut hot chocolate drink. Yummy.

Oh well see ya's later. Oh Michael Buble on X Factor tomorrow and Bon Jovi next week, new Bon Jovi album next week and Mentalist DVD on the same day :D

Mixtures

Somehow I know that it’ll all turn out,
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out,

And promise you kid, I'll give so much more than I get, mmmm...

I just haven't met you yet.

Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Bublé

 

Yep I'm a new Michael Bublé fan! He's on the X Factor on Saturday!!!

 

Well the past couple of days. A mixture really. Yesterday I went to Ocean Terminal which is terrible now-a-days, it doesn't even have Athena any more! When I was looking for DVDs in HMV Mr Edie was there! So I hastily went to a different section of the shop, hoping that he didn't see me. I got new Gumy Air headphones which will hopefully last longer than my last one (2 days)!

 

Because no HMV in Edinburgh (or any other shop for that matter) have the Taggart DVD set I was looking for so I persuaded my mum to let me buy it over the internet and yipee I get it in a maximum of 14 days! Island, Judgement Day, Trust, Point of Light + A Study In Murder!!! That'll make me happy when I get them. Until then I have another 37/38(?) episodes on DVD/video tape (So Long Baby)!

 

Elliot Minor were doing a signing session in Princes Street yesterday and I missed it when I was having so much fun in Ocean Terminal!

 

Been watching Season 2/3 of F.R.I.E.N.D.S today and The One With The Flashback has prompted me to write a fic set in the scene where Monica and Chandler are hugging. It's just too cute, and it'll be my first one for them so that should be good fun.

I've actually got a few fics in progress: To Have and To Hold, More Than Just Lyrics, my Xmas/New Years one, the one where Robbie and Jackie are locked in a room, and one that I've never mentioned yet; kind of like In a Hospital but Robbie's the one injured and it should be a lot better but it'll be ages until publishing.

But I've been too busy reading Waking The Dead fics and shouting at this computer

 

Done all my Maths homework today. Well all as in all the stuff I can do without Sarah Law's jotter in front of me :L Same with Biology and French.

 

Remeber when I said my phone had been tangoed? Yeah well that's caused the power button to fail and recently it started to cut out whenever I slid the keyboard away. So my parents forced me to phone the helpline and send it away. I've begged my mum to let me use my old phone until I get mine back but she says that because I gave it to her, I'm not allowed it back. She hasn't used the bloody thing once since London in July!!!!! P***ed off at her.

My parents showed me their wedding photos earlier and since it was 28(?) years ago everyone looks so different! And I joked that my mum's eye make up was a little much and she sort of got annoyed at me :L

 

I know this has been long so bye bye!

 

 

Written with a headache

Well you aren't getting any lyrics today because if I listen to anything this throbbing pain in my head gets even worse, and it's unbearable without that added.

Been working on my personal study for English and unlike last year I still like this book on the second time around. I'm doing it on A Quiet Belief In Angels by R.J Ellory, I really like it because it's a crime novel and you have no idea what's going to happen throughout.

Went to Costco with the family earlier, they didn't even have any good taste samples!

Helen and I have been on a roll with our fanfiction in the past week or so: I have finished two of my chapter fics and already wrote two songfics for my new set :) I'm incredibly proud of myself. And this has just reminded me that I was going to watch Made of Honor today to give me ideas for To Have and To Hold, because I can't think of what to put in the next chapter of it.

Murderland is on tonight!! I feel lucky for you guys that I wasn't on this last February-ish because I had this major obsession with Sharon Small, I mean the Taggart obsession that I have now is probably just as bad but still... I don't even care what the storyline is in this programme I just want to see her amazing acting talents like in Mistresses (love that show SO MUCH), Inspector Lynley Mysteries (as usual my parents said that show was crap but I adored it) and just everything!

Watched some Season 2 F.R.I.E.N.D.S earlier, Monica and Chandler suited each other back then too, even if she was dating Richard. I didn't like Richard especially in the last episode of Season 6, he tried to steal her back!!

Might go and work on the fic that I'll publish next week, even if it is a Christmas/New Years one, I'm close to finishing it!

One [boring] day

Well I'm not listening to anything so no lyrics for this one!

PE today was a laugh. We had an odd number of people for the badminton tournament so I joked that Scott could take my place and I would just sit at the side, which didn't go down well with Ms Nicholson, she turned round sharply and said, and I quote, "That's always your attitude Lee and I don't like it at all." My friends and I were all trying to keep a straight face as she said it. And can somebody tell me why, for the past four years teachers have and still are getting mixed up between me and Kirsty?! We don't even look alike!

Kathryn didn't speak to me much at Midlothian Youth Orchestra because I joked that at least nobody else had to sit next to her for three periods of Geography every week.

And we had to do these powerpoint things in Music today and whenever any of us started to talk Mr Wilson would butt in and say exactly what we were just about to say, it was so annoying! But I think my slideshow on concerto grossos was the best because of the little smiley that reminded us of David on his guitar :P

I'm bored now so bye bye.

Can't Think

My boot scootin' baby is drivin' me crazy

My obsession from a western - my dance floor date

My rodeo romeo, a cowboy god from head to toe

Wanna make you mine better get in line 5-6-7-8

Steps - 5-6-7-8

Oh yess if you read my Twitter updates then you will already know about the recent Steps obsession that I'm back into. Can't believe they were only around for 4 years (1997-2001)! I'm on Youtube watching as many of the videos as I can because I have sadly lost my CDs - they are somewhere in my house but we have no idea where.

Anyway, I realised on Friday that I am overly obssesed with Robbie/Jackie and fanfiction when I looked at my Geography folder; if you can find a section on it that doesn't relate to my fics, Taggart love or John Michie love, then I'll be shocked. It's because Geography is a complete waste of time so I have to do something and because of what Helen refers to as my "one track mind" then that's what I write :)

This morning I did my Biology homework and finished my English character study, I have gave up on my French homework because I was at my violin lesson so I only have the basic plan.

Got a new shelf put up in my bedroom for my books! I have all my series' ones like Twilight, Harry Potter and Princess Diaries at the bottom, then I have all my encyclopedias that I never use then all the fiction ones that I love so much. And I finished reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo earlier so I'm going to start on The Lost Symbol sometime soon!

I have no idea what else to say so bye bye!

Oddness

Popular! You're gonna be popular!

I'll teach you the propper ploys, when you talk to boys,

Little ways to flirt and flounce, ooh!

I'll show you what shoes to wear! How to fix your hair!

Everything that really counts to be...

Popular - Wicked Soundtrack

Midlothian Youth Orchestra last night: yet another two wasted hours of my life that I shall never get back. At least in the past we've had things like the Popular soundtrack and stuff but no. We have to play stupid Scottish music since our Corn Exchange concert is on St Andrews Day!

French was awfully strange today. Miss Coquerelle said she would "show her teeth" if we didn't do her homework and actually growled! She still doesn't want to give me a 1 for my target grade, even though we both know that I can do it. I have to learn a poem in French by tomorrow and translate it, I really should have started earlier in the week.

Biology is different now since we don't have Mrs McFadyen any more. Not sure if it's a good kinda different, Miss Wotherspoon is nice and she can be a good laugh but it's just not the same.

We spent half of Geography doing absolutely nothing as usual but I am 1 of 6 people who don't have to go to the revision classes after school.

Lauren and I are still singing Perfect by Fairground Attraction far too much but tis great.

I was chatting to one of my friends in Geography the other day and she said that she finds it sick that one of her other friends fancied a celebrity, because he is about 50. I'm choosing not to inform her that the celebrity I fancy is 53 in just under one month, but who cares about age when it's John Michie :P

Short Account of Today

I don't want half-hearted love affairs,
I need someone who really cares
Life is too short to play silly games
I've promised myself, I won't do that again.
Perfect by Fairground Attraction

Yes my blogs from now on will all probably start with lyrics to what I'm listening to at the specific time.

Well today was fun (note the sarcasm guys). All the girls in fourth year got a shock when we found out we had our HPV vaccines today. My arm is still throbbing! Was fun making up Kirsty's plan to unbutton her top sexily though (yes she came up with the plan!)

It got better at lunch when Lauren and I heard Perfect by Fairground Attraction on the TV, we randomly started singing :)

Went to Tesco about an hour ago and bought Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, even though I have far too many DVDs this looks good. One day soon I'll have to go through my collection and get rid of some like Charlie's Angels and Rumour Has It; I've grown bored of them.

I should probably concentrate on writing essays for English and such like instead of writing fanfic, but tis too tempting! Especially when I have 600 words so far on a new one shot that I like. And for anyone who reads my stuff there will only be a maximum of 2 more chapters of What A Certain Guy Does because I don't like all the other promts and Growing Up will be discontinued after the next chapter!

Will have to have shower and watch Waking The Dead tonight! I don't care how crappy Waking The Dead is, I still have to watch it; it intrigues me!

Fanfic dude!

Okay so here's the full conversation between me and some guy on fanfiction, that I have never spoke to before or read anything by.

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Yoshino in the Moonlight2: Subject: Ideas related to fan-fiction...
Hello there? You seem to be a fan-fiction writer from the U.K., and well, Iwant to tell you that I have several ideas related to fan-fiction, and Iwonder if you would like to discuss with me about these ideas. I just want toshare these ideas with someone, and perhaps you could give me some additionalthoughts about these ideas. I also wonder if you take fan-fiction seriously, or if you don't really carethat much for it.

AlternativeRocker: Hi, I was just wondering, why don't you think I take fanfiction seriously? You have been on the site for about the same amount of time I have, and you have only wrote three fics whereas I have wrote twenty! And when I read the first part of your message I was actually looking forward to discussing ideas with you, but I'm quite annoyed by your last sentence.Please reply soon with some answers.

Yoshino in the Moonlight2: I actually have two ideas. First, I wonder what you think of the idea of a discussion forum about fan-works and fan-culture in general, to discuss about anything made by fans (mainly, fanfiction and fanart, of course). I have seen plenty of forums for fans of a show or movie or book, but I have never seen one for fans of fan-fiction and fan-art itself. What do you think of this idea?

AlternativeRocker: Can you just tell me why you think I don't take my fanfiction seriously first?

Yoshino in the Moonlight2: "Can you just tell me why you think I don't take my fanfiction seriously first?" I never wrote that. I was just asking whether you did or not.So, what do you think of my idea?

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Now that I read over it, I now believe that I may have been wrong in calling him evil, but it was just the fact that I was quite probably annoyed on that particular day for some reason or other ;)

Nothingness

"Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana,

There was U2 and Blondie and music still on MTV."

1985 - Bowling For Soup

^ Song I'm listening to just now ^

Well I was going to post a blog tomorrow but since I don't have to do my paper round tonight, i felt like writing something.

I've just realised I have nothing remotly interesting to say so here goes...

Lauren and I have been having terribly random conversations in our Maths lessons about everything from Twitter to Nate, her new boyfriend *laughs* and then at the end of the lessons we speak to David about their Poptart children haha!

Decided that between now and Christmas I have got two different cinema trips planned for Cirque Du Freak and New Moon, I'll have to buy Ghosts of Girfriends Past 'cause it looks good, and obviously the 25th anniversary collection of Taggart because it has all the episodes I really want to watch! Oh and I've got to write a lot of fanfic to get the Taggart archive up to 75 before Christmas; at 46 just now!

I've finally published the start of my 20th Taggart fic To Have and To Hold and Helen doesn't like me because I won't tell her what's going to happen!

I have completely forgotten to put this in previous blogs but a couple of weeks back I was reading The Sun newspaper and there was a big article about the new advertising rules for TV shows, and they had random pictures from shows that had been added to with different products that are now allowed to be shown. And one of them was a edited Taggart shot. It was from Lifeline (yes I am sad enough to know exactly which episode the still was from) and it was Jackie by herself in her flat. And the [cruel] people in the papers had put a pair of pink, fluffy handcuffs into it, just like I had put into my fic, Twelve Postcards For Twelve Months. I nearly squealed when I saw it!

Away to do something or other, speak to people on Twitter and get even more bored. This was an exceptionally small blog, I know. Bye.

My FanFiction Revealed

Well last night was the first time I've known every emotion (apart from anger) to be present in my body at the same time, because my friends in my 'real world' now know the URL for my FanFiction.net account.

I started to read fanfiction about a year and a half ago, with Casualty 'cause Maggie and Charlie were so cute together and there was a forum link to FanFiction.net and then I read stuff for Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Indiana Jones, Princess Diaries + Love Actually. It was around about this time that my Taggart obsession kicked in (I previously liked the show but that grew into what it's like now) and I realised the only stories (which were on a different site) I could find were for Robbie/Michael which I just felt literally sick at, so I felt a need to change that...

So I wrote my first story on the 5th September 2008. It was called Moving and it was for the lovely Robbie/Jackie pairing which I am still majorly addicted to. I never in a million years thought I would be willing to share my stories with people in my personal life, true enough I also never thought I'd meet one of the greatest people I know through it (Helen you rock my world!)

Over the past year and couple of weeks I have grown to be obsessed with the fanfiction world and could not imagine what life would be like without it. I love how there is such a great range of ideas even just for one show. If anyone took fanfiction away from me just now then I don't know how I could survive, and I'm truthfully not exaggerating; it means everything to me.

Maybe if you ask me in a year's time then my opinion will have changed but I still hope to be writing fics and reading brilliant ones curteousy of the wonderful writers on the site *cough* Helen *cough*

Don't get me wrong, I have always been proud of (some of) my stories on the site but I just couldn't have imagined what my friends would think of it if they read quite a bit of it.

So far I have wrote 19 fics, 16 of which are on Taggart, 2 are The Mentalist and 1 is for Princess Diaries (I now can't be bothered which this fandom, so I probably won't be writing more for it) I have my 20th one in the early stages, it will of course be a Taggart one and I have no idea if it will be an incredibly long one-shot or a chapter fic so watch this space.

Hey if anything, my fanfiction has inspired more people to write and we know have 42 Taggart fics on the site, with an ambition to have 75 up by Christmas.

The New Failed Cinema Trip

Here's a long blog to make up for the little one yesterday.

Today was supposed to be one of the best days ever; it was Lori's birthday party and we were going to China China and then to the cinema to see District 9.

It went from bad to good to worse really. We had decided yesterday to meet at the High School, none of us even suspecting that the road would be closed because of some parade or other, while Cameron had phoned Jonathan saying there had been someone stabbed and the main road in Penicuik was closed to all traffic including buses we asked a policeman and it was proven to be a lie.

Then we got to the bus stop and the space in the railing where people are supposed to get on the buses from was blocked by a stupid guy in a car. We got annoyed and suggested scratching his car when the bus appeared but then he drove off so we got on.

The bus journey was extremely fun. Lori got her iPod out and gave me a headphone. We went through her music playing all the cheesey songs like I Will Survive, I Am the One and Only, The Las Ketchup Song etc. I think the other passengers may have thought we had serious problems...They would be correct in this accusation. We also took pictures (look on Facebook) while on it and even one of a police officer 'cause he just randomly walked down the strret when I had my phone out.

The meal was really good, the ice cream was ice creamy lovlieness! We put my dark blonde and purple hair extensions in while we waited for our drinks to arrive, and £2.10 for a glass of Coke: are they taking the piss?!

Then the disaster happened: we went to the cinema in the Omni centre. The three boys (Jonathan, Kevin + Nathan) are all seventeen and they went up first to buy the tickets for themselves for the movie which is a 15. They got IDed so I, who is only 14, had no hope in hell of getting in. And surprise, surprise, I didn't. So Lori chose to go downstairs and buy me a ticket with her ID since she turned 15 yesterday. It worked, up until Jonathan handed over his ticket. A stupid woman with long hair asked who all had picture ID in our group, we told her that Emma and I didn't, the woman then goes "Well I can't let you two go in, so I'll let you have some time to discuss your options." Kevin and I came up with quite a few plans on how to annoy her, like covering her hair in popcorn and such like.


Lori and Jonathan phoned their mum for help and she suggested going to Fountain Park because she didn't think they asked for ID. We weren't so sure, so we wasted about half an hour wondering whether to go there or not. We decided on the latter because we wouldn't have enough time if Emma had to be back for half eight.


The bus journey back was terrible! We were all split up and I had to sit next to and old woman who kept going into her bag for life and pulling out bigger after bigger newspapers, and whenever she had to turn the page she would elbow me. So by the time I got to Penicuik I had about two thirds of my body floating in mid-air.

Now I'm back home, writing Robbie + Jackie fanfic as normal and on Twitter agreeing that Helen's Ewan should not be removed unless it's for a great reason! I now have lots of song fic ideas for the said couple because of listening to Hero and I Just Called To Say I Love You! But they won't be written for a long time.

Bye bye. Speak to you on Twitter or whatever ;)

In Pyjama Blog

Yes I am in my pyjamas at half past six!

Dunfermline shopping trip was actually quite rubbish, I began to get ignored about an hour into it by the so called 'friend' that I do my paper round with. But I did buy quite a nice dress thing out of Primark and my mum's friend who I have known for my whole life bought me a belt as part of my Christmas present and let me have it today :) I plan to wear both to Lori's birthday tomorrow.

I'm completely bored just now! Mum has Come Dine With Me on, which is one good point 'cause that show is goood!

Why can I not remember any of my Robbie/Jackie dreams any more. I know I have them but I have forgot them within two minutes of opening my eyes in the morning :( I miss mornings with them. They are also much better than moving down my bed while dreaming that I am falling, the problem is I am actually awake when this happens. It occurs about three times a week and I hate it; it's bloody terrifying!

Wooo now on to writing some of "Two Different Weekends", if you recall the naughtiness of "Undercovers" then multiply that by about 100 and add in strip poker and you might be getting on the right track! Will have it up sometime during this long weekend. And why do people want to encourage this and my fluffy writing, it shouldn't be allowed to grow, don't people get tired/annoyed of it?

My house's living room is actually turning into my dream room. It has red sofas, black and silver wallpaper on one wall, black curtains, pretty flowers and my mum is planning on getting black blinds as well!! I might go and grab my Jack Skellington cushy [cushion in normal people terms] from the other sofa :)

I know it's been a short blog but I will make a blog about Lori's party along with pictures for Helen whenever I have time in the next couple of days.

Late Introduction

I know I posted one only about an hour ago but I feel as though I should introuce myself more thoroughly.

I'm Lee, I'm a 14 year old teenage girl from the slightly pathetic town of Penicuik, near Edinburgh, in Scotland, in the UK, on the Earth. I am on the internet far too much, my 13 year old brother Kyle actually banned me from going on his laptop and changed the password to make sure. That also sums my relationship with Kyle, we argue, then we laugh and then we make fun of each other and their DVD collections.

I go to Penicuik High School, 4th year is actually going okay apart from the whole exams looming thing but still. Most of my teachers think I'm completely mad which may be true. I'm one of the few people who does enjoy Physics. I really don't like French, I can do it but I just find it quite boring. English is horrible but I have to take in 5th year with the course I'm doing :(

On to my friends now. There's Sarah, it is impossible to hate her, she lets me copy most of her work/homework because she knows I can do it and that I just can't be bothered. We are completely different; she likes sport while I like art etc. Holly is great, our personalities are so alike that it's quite scary. Lori is just so funny and we make fun of a certain Biology teacher all the time. Kathryn is my awesome other half on Bebo and although we are now only in Geography together, we still are great with each other. Others include my maths buddy Lauren, Physics friend James, Kirsty and Catlin and my Twitter and blog buddy David, basically everyone who I willingly speak to could be addded to this list :) Also Helen who you will learn about in the next paragraph.

I have been a member of fanfiction.net for just over a year, I was the first person to publish a story for Taggart, closely followed by Bethany who has now become a great friend. Then Helen came along and we just clicked. We now both review each others work no matter how good (all Helen's) or how bad (a few of mine) the chapter or one shot is. I then joined Twitter because I read that Peter Facinelli had it (he's one of my many gods!) and somehow found Helen on it and we message each other quite alot on it, we're also Bebo and Facebook friends :).

I'm obsessed with Taggart [TV show] as you may/may not know. I love the cases, characters and... Robbie and Jackie love! Yeah 16 out of 19 of my fics are about them and I made a fanvid for them and possibly saddest of all I have a playlist on my iPod of songs which remind me of them :) and I nearly forgot about my Facebook group haha. So you know do not get me into conversations about this couple because it will never end, or a conversation about John Michie *smiles devilishly* he's yummy in my opinion, and his voice is owned by Helen, Bethany and I because it's sexy. And once I had to give up on doing homework because I could hear his commentary on Big, Bigger, Biggest :P

Blah, blah, blah I know! Anyway enough of this, see ya's later!
Luv luv.

The Big [Torture] Day

Well hello again.

Just got home from school after having the worst Big Day that Penicuik High has probably ever thought of. It started by us going into house groups, I was the only 4th year in my group, and we had to first do some logic and maths puzzles then building a tower so that when a 6th year dropped an egg it wouldn't break. Could someone please tell me the point of this?! If you wish to see our tower then there are a couple of pictures on my Facebook.

Then it was our version of It's A Knockout. Hannah and I refused to take part in most of the activites (come on; the sack race and the wheelbarrow race!) so Mrs Schwartz nearly killed us, how can a tiny woman like her be scary?! What was entertaining though was Ms Redford doing the sack race and Miss Fleming doing the piggyback race, oh how we laughed!I just kept shouting over to Sarah that I hated it and asking if I could join her group so we could both have someone to talk to but Hannah pleaded with me to stay in her group so I did.

We got to choose a sprt activity after that so Holly and I chose to go on the dance mats, that was very fun though and watching Miss Adamson jumping around, not having a clue what she was doing was good.

The sponsered walk this year was longer but still the best part of the day, followed closely by the dancemats. Mrs McFadyen had made a Scavenger Hunt sheet for each class to do, that was also pointless. Then the path got quite muddy so I will have to put my Converse in the wash like last year. Had to keep waiting for James because Sarah ran on ahead as usual :) Ms Redford also ran away from me because I randomly said "I'm a dinosaur, rar!" when I was walking behind her.

Anyway enough about The Big Day...
Might be going to Dunfermline for shopping tomorrow then Lori's birthday party on Saturday! And I don't have to do my papers either tomorrow, I'm a happy child now! Hoping to have new chapter of some FanFic related story up this weekend.

Physics Panda and other randomness

For those who don't know, I'm Lee and I can get extremely hyper. Decided to write this, eventually, after reading the awesome ones written by Helen, Lauren and David.

I had homework for every subject today apart from Physics because we never get any for that so basically I was thankful for the extended morning break so I could do some of it then. And having the symptons of a really bad cold does not help acheive these tasks. Definately failed my plants test in Biology, it was confusing.

Well for the Physics lessons that I've had for the past two days, we have had a panda in our classroom. Okay, it's a soft toy but I got very protective over it especially when Ms Redford started tying cables round it's neck and body, saying they were "seatbelts". I started shouting "No!" then tried to smuggle him out of the class, it didn't work! And apparently we're not allowed him back in the class because he's a distraction and he is needed to answer the phones in the Science staff base when no one else is around.

People are starting to comment on how much my brother and I look alike, we do but I still don't like people saying it.

Yesterday was my first time at the netball club in the school and even though I hate PE normally, it was actually quite fun; still undecided whether to go next week or not.

The Eco-Schools barbecue last night, oh gosh where do I start with that?! I'm still trying to work out why I joined the group never mind how I got the level 2 John Muir award! My old Biology teacher Mrs McFadyen (who always unintentionally makes an idiot of herself) and her husband were there which made things horrible because Lori and I are always making fun of their relatonship so I tried to stay away from both of them for the whole evening, that failed as well. Apparently neither of them drinks at all which is untrue because she told us that he would get drunk all the time :S My primary school head teacher and deputy head were there although they didn't know who I was until I got presented with my certificate.

My lovely parents went to Dalkeith today and got me my pre-ordered copy of Dan Brown's new book The Lost Symbol, can't wait to start reading it but I'm in the middle of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Picture of Dorian Gray so I don't kow when I'll start.

Now I'm listening to 21st Century Breakdown album while trying to think of what to put into some of my in progress fan fics and catching up on The Mentalist archives because I haven't read them in so long.

Next blog will be a rant about my school's "Big Day" including the sponsered walk and other fun things like that tomorrow :(