So save your scissors, for someone else's skin

So, my new carpet comes today. I've had the carpet I currently own all my life and it is really past it. It was probably past it when I was about 15 (being a budding artist from a very early age and a klutz with chocolate milkshake took its toll over the years). I would like it to be here now. I would like everything in my room to be fitted and sorted so I can put my cds and books back in. That's actually the bit I look forward to the most. Reorganising my books and cds. It's silly but I enjoy it.

Something else I enjoy is buying treats for my ratties. I had to go out and buy some more food and I bought a little pot of popcorn, dried banana and dried kiwi fruit for them. Also a woven grass mat for them to snuggle on and chew. It's just nice buying things for them. I'm so glad I have them because they help me through a lot. If shit is hitting the proverbial then I know that just chatting to them will calm me down in that short period before my drugs make everything easier. I'm not sure if they like the kiwi though, they've never had it before so it's a little bit strange for them. I might give them some chocolate in a bit :3

In other news I've completed a secret project. Oooooooh. It's going to stay partially secret for a while though still. But I enjoy making little projects. If they are small then they are easier to complete :). Got another couple in my mind so I'll try and complete those soon and report back with pictures and everything :D

I've been reading a lot. I've read 16 books so far this year, which is pretty good going for me as I am not a quick reader anymore. I can't read when there is talking going on or the tv is on. It's too hard to concentrate on the words. But 16 is pretty good going, almost 3 a month. My percentage is of books that I've read of all my books is 57.4% which is terrible! I need to read more books than I buy :D. Hopefully I'll read loads over summer and get though a nice batch of stories and then I can buy more books without feeling a tiny bit guilty at having not read the ones I already own. Really the appropriate percentage is 80% read so I'm quite a bit off... almost 100 books off. So it'll be a couple of years before I get there but I'd like to get to 65% by the end of this year, maybe even 70%! That would be good.

Oh apparently even though the carpet should come today it won't be layed until the weekend. I'm hideously disappointed now. I was looking forward to putting quite a few things into my room finally. I can't help but be a little bit disappointed. Also when my room is done I'm getting a little bamboo plant :D well three sticks of bamboo in water. They grow like that though. I'm well excited. I might even be able to not kill it :p

Love y'all

Buttercup

xxxxx

I encourage your smiles, I expect you won't cry.

So I've started this blog twice now and to no avail. My writing just isn't happening today so I'll just put some shiz down and hopefully write down that and make a better blog later. I just want to get writing again. But to that in a bit. Maybe this blog will write itself :)

So first off I've started a mini exercise regime. I've only been going a couple of days (today was day two so I'm being literal :D). I've been feeling terribly lazy so I've started just doing little things to build on core strength. I've got absolutely no core strength. I can swim for about an hour solidly (breast stroke), and I can cycle for quite a while so I know I have endurance. I can dance my way through Zumba no problem but when it comes to holding moves in T'ai Chi my legs shake and my arms ache. I have no real strength there. So I'm going with the basics and so far this is what I am managing:

• 10 star jumps from crouching position
• 10 push ups (from knees, not full ones but I prefer from knees so nyeh).
• 10 squats
• 10 sit ups
• 3x10seconds planks

Yeah ok that looks pretty pathetic but I'm going to build up slowly and with what I have. I'm also going to play on my dance mat at least every other day and maybe start doing yoga at home. I'm just going to keep trying because I want to be fitter. I know that while I'm not terribly unfit, I could really do with being fitter. I'm also going to hopefully join a T'ai Chi group in Heaton and build on that. I've been terrible and not been going for a month or so whilst finishing my work but I would love to get it back into the swing of things.

I also read about a way of eating food, note this is not a diet but a thought process. But I think I will get back to you guys on that when I know more. It sounds interesting to say the least and things that are interesting are often worth having a look at :).

My Xbox360 has died, which is the ultimate of sadness, or it would be if I felt much. In theory it is very sad especially as Alice came on the same day it died. Seriously? The one game I've been waiting to play since I played the first one (although I didn't finish it because it was scary :P) and that's been since high school. And the instant it comes out, my console dies. It's just... a little frustrating is all. And to buy a new one is £180 and I'm not sure I can justify spending that kind of money at the moment. If I had a job then sure, I would go into Game and buy a sweet little 250gb slim and be very happy with my purchase, but as it is I'm just going to have to wait.

I was going to draw today but I never got round to it :/ I guess I may do some tomorrow. Got some designs to work out and then try out :D and I would like to do some general drawing. Apparently at one point I was almost vaguely competent at things like that. Now I'm not doing anything I think I will start to challenge myself more... if I remember. I should write a list!

Lists are awesome.

I'll upload some pictures if I get round to making any :)

I'm going to head to bed to read some more of The Beach by Alex Garland. It's rather good :D

Love from Buttercup

xxx

And the red ones make me fly and the blue ones help me fall.

Totally into Headfirst For Halos at the moment but that is starting from the middle of a story, one that may not be told by the end. Who knows. HELLO people *waves*.

So I've been mooching and not bloggerating and before that was the fault of university assignments but now they are no more. I am awaiting my marks so I cannot tell you if I've actually passed yet or not but I don't feel like anything major could go wrong.

There is a moth in the sitting room. It bothers me, less because of its nature because moths essentially aren't out to get me but try to fly towards light, but more because every so often something suddenly moves and that is bothersome. I wonder why moths don't fly during the day because whenever they come out at night fly towards lights, and surely it would make more sense for them to be out during the day when it is light.

So I am in the sitting room. Now this is of interest to those who understand my computer set up. I own, a rather large, upright, tower unit computer with a flat screen monitor (a usb mouse apparently by microsoft, a really old ps2 keyboard that clunks and says WIN95 in it's model code and a 5.1 speaker system that only was utilising 3.1 of it's 5.1 in case you wanted to know my entire setup).

P.S. The moth just flew by pretty close to my feet. I get a little worried that it will land on my foot and crawl up my trousers but that's just the paranoia talking.

I do not own a laptop, nor am I using one. My keyboard is clunkitying along nicely. Normally this would be coming from my bedroom but folks I have been dislodged from my hole! I am currently in the sitting room in front of my computer.

My brother has just come in to tell me I need to move the car. Neither of us drive. I guess it's time to go push... sigh. BRB.

Success, we just pushed the car like... a few inches. I clearly have strengths! He needed to put the garden bin out and the car was in the way and daddy was in bed so he moved the car out fine and put out the bin but couldn't shift the car back. Go team work go!

Mothy's back. Apparently it didn't go up my trouser legs which is good.

So yes I have been evicted from my bedroom. As have practically all of my possessions. This is because mama has decided it is time to redecorate. This is excellent because once it is redecorated I can have all of my books in my room again - the mold issue should be solved with things that we have done to the way like special paint and paper. This shall be excellent but it does mean that I can currently find anything because everything is in crates and that is a bother. Living you life in crates and stacks sucks. But I have made a little nest for myself in front of one of the chairs and that is good.

My music of the moment is really My Chemical Romance although I might be over listening them so I might cut back on  that. You never want to cause Chasing Car syndrome on the music you like because that is just bothersome. I'll have to make up a playlist or something. On the topic of playlists though I kind of want to make a mix tape (or at least a mix cd) of some good tunes but I don't have a cd player so I would burn the cd and put it into my computer... where all my music is stored. Sometimes technological advancements are a bother. I mean I look at my generation with the sudden rise of mp3 players, data dvds, iPads etc.. You can see where I am going with that. I feel all "back in my day" but I can't really help it. When we had our last day of compulsory school (year 11/gcses/age 16ish) some of us, myself included, used cameras with 35mm film to record the day. With possibly 24-32 exposures. I see some of my younger friends and their last day of school and they have hundreds of photos. All digital. I mean digital cameras were obviously available, daddy had access to one from school, but the difference is incredible. People take a lot more photos now because there is no physical object. No film is wasted, no money wasted through development. It's a blessing and a hindrance. Now everyone can be an instant artist with a camera but this is a lot of crap out there. I'm  guilty of that too. I dunno. Maybe it's like Blue told me the other day, maybe I'm having a quarter life crisis.

Although what happened in my teen years, what was that? Pre quarter life crisis?

Mothy was bothering Jona so he's now removed it from the room, possibly, it kinda vanished apparently. Mothy mothy mothy it's probably lying in wait upstairs.

This blog has very little point. I'm just rambling as usual. But it is pretty late, optimum rambling time as Panda knows because this is around when he is in from work and then I get to talk to him.

Aaaaanyway I'll try and update more often. I just keep forgetting, because I am terrible! =D

Next time there might even be pictures

See you around.

Love Buttercup xxx