29/07/2012: shopping and a sunday full of awesomeness

Shopping with Meloner J

…or more like window shopping :]

I went up to town with Eleanor today, and had so much fun! I hadn’t seen her in ageeeesss, and I missed her so much. I waited for 10 minutes outside the ice cream shop in the pouring rain - it's the end of July and freezing. When she finally came over, after one minute of awkwardness ('Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…') we got over it and started talking like mad about school, friends, etc. We went to Starbucks and shared a caramel Frappuccino and had lunch. It was just so lovely! We then looked around the shops and each bought sparkly nail varnish from Claire’s in green. It’s so gorgeous, but really hard to fill in and get neat and tidy!

We were going to go to the library but then realised it’s closed on Sundays, so we went to Waterstone’s instead. We recommended books to each other and spent 20 minutes cross-legged next to the teenage books section just reading. She bought a book but I didn’t have enough money, but I saw some really good books there and next time I go out I’m going to buy two or three.

The first book that I’m definitely going to buy is After buy Morris Gleitzman. I practically screamed when I saw this. I’ve read the Once/Then/Now books (that I always thought was a trilogy) and then found out that it’s actually a quadrilogy! I was so happy. After has only just come out and I was so upset I couldn’t buy it straight away.

After the Nazis took my parents I was scared
After they killed my best friend I was angry
After they ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined
To get to the forest 
To join forces with Gabriek and Yuli 
To be a family
To defeat the Nazis after all

DOESN’T IT SOUND SO AMAZING. I honestly can’t wait to read it. It has the most gorgeous (but sad) red cover with two adults and a child holding hands. Oh, I want to read it so badly.

I saw a couple of other books as well. One was Uglies by Scott Westerfield. If you’ve been living under a rock, it’s about a future that revolves around plastic surgery and looking perfect. Everybody under 16 is natural and are called the ‘Uglies’. They live isolated by everybody 16 and over and feel like they’re not good enough. The main character can’t wait until she gets to 16 and becomes ‘Pretty’, but her friend isn’t so sure, and runs away. It sounds so good. I love dystopian books, as long as they’re not copied or based on the most popular ones, and this one sounds so original. I think I’ll love it.

After that we just looked around a bit more, then went home. I got back at around 4:15. Before I left I had been transforming the covers of my Wreck this Journal, and it looks like a beautiful mess right now. I’ll get photos to you soon! I’ve been watching Olympic synchronised diving, China are so good! It’s amazing looking at how in synch and together they are, and how they do complicated twists and somersaults without stepping out of line. Right now I think I might go on the Sims or just Twitter or Tumblr.

Bye! xox

~Sofia

25/07/2012: 'mr blue sky' by electric light orchestra

Sun is shining in the sky, there ain't a cloud in sight J

I told you I'd post every day! 

Today is so HOT. Gosh. It's even hotter than yesterday which was hot, I'm telling you. The title is a lie though, because for once there are actually clouds in the sky. All I want is to jump into a big pool of water, which Emma is apparently doing today with Mary. -cries-

I'm going on holiday next Friday though, for two weeks and a half, and hopefully the weather's going to be even hotter than it is now in Spain. I just want to dive into a massive pool of water and float for hours. :P Or run through a sprinkler.

Today hasn't been very interesting, I just went to the shops with my nan and iMessaging Jasmine, wondering whether to go on The Sims 3 or not. The Sims is so addictive, I'm telling you. I have no idea why Ruby owns it yet never plays it. You sit yourself down at 3pm and think, 'I will play The Sims for an hour.' and before you know it it's 10pm.

I'm also going to work on changing the colours of the title, background etc. on my blog, without changing the design at all. I'm going to try some yellows, oranges and reds, to match the sunny weather. I'm ashamed to say I stole Emma's layout and font, because Century Gothic is just too beautiful. Do you remember when I used to have the titles in a gradient (like my signature), and I always used to put an Instagram photo in every post? Or when I first got a blog, and my posts would literally be one sentence each ('I'm going to have hot chocolate.') - I mean, I might as well have got Twitter at that point. 

Anyway, so in this post I also thought I'd update you quickly on my life in the past few months. Nothing major has happened. I've been on my summer holidays since Monday. I've made better friends with lots of people at school I only 'knew', and I've been enjoying school a lot recently. It isn't full of chavs, I swear! We're getting a new head teacher from September which will hopefully be good for our school. Haha, I sound like a snob, don't I? :)

I didn't have any homework for the whole of last week, which was a relief. On Thursday, we had something called 'Form Activities Day'. Basically, we were in our forms for the whole day, and each period we had to do a different activity against other forms. Because we have vertical tutoring it was apparently good 'team building' (...) School on Friday ended at 12:45, and we had a nearly two hour end-of-year assembly. I swear I couldn't feel my bum after that. I don't have any homework for the whole of summer though, which I am insanely happy about. It's so POINTLESS.

I didn't do much at the weekend apart from going to Alice's party (not Alice from primary school, a different one) and frolicking in the sun. I got a Sims 3 expansion pack, too.

I've said this so many times already, but I'm so glad I'm blogging again! It's such a good feeling. I missed it so much. I guess it's just a way to keep in touch with all my primary school friends, especially Emma, because she keeps a blog herself. I wish I saw you all more often.

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Alrighty, I think that's about it. Keep an eye on the blog design for any colour changes. I'll be back tomorrow, and please please please post on the chat (click 'leave a message' below the title). Right now I'm going off to wreck my journal. Bye!

~Sofia

I almost forgot again!