TNT

We beat TNT 2 - 0 today!!! =D

I had a look at the photos on the Fifa website, and I think the official photographer for this match had a great sense of humour.

They look like they are in some kind of anti gravity chamber.

You can see Theobald in the background there thinking, "Hmm...I wonder if Becks auditioned for Planet of the Apes?!"

Don't get me wrong, Beckham is hot stuff. Just not in the split second that photo was taken! haha.

Is it just me, or do you also think that it looks like Chris Birchall is trying to stab Wayne Rooney in the back with an imaginary knife?

No wonder they lost... It looks like their coach was having difficulty keeping track of the ball. Though it looks like he was concentrating quite hard.

If Pete hadn't made it in football, he could have had quite a promising career in figure skating.

Another unflattering pic of Dave - which is quite an achievement, since he ormally ends up looking amazing whatever he's doing. Whether it's watching his son's school nativity play, or wondering around with a fan hanging from the back of his neck. (haha. Anyone else remember that incident?!)

Crouch didn't approve of Edwards describing his girlfriend's figure during the game; he thought it was time wasting, but unfortunately the ref didn't call it.

Procrastination

I should really be revising right now. Seriously. I nearly cried in an exam this morning coz I didn't know anything. Nearly, but not quite. I haven't cried in an exam since our year 10 end of year Chemistry exam. And I think I only cried in that because quite a few other people were crying as well. So it seemed more natural.

Anyway.

I found a link on someone elses blog to a website that gives you a map of how all the other people in the country with your surname are distributed.

White means nobody has your surname. Then it kinda goes up the rainbow from there (skipping out blue and green) til purple. Purple is highest, yellow is lowest.
See the little red dot where South London approximately is?! I make up that!!! If I didn't exist, that red dot could be orange instead.
Its good to know that your life actually counts for something, isn't it?

I know that theres other people around here with the same surname as me, because I was trying to get a book out of the library once, and my card had expired coz I hadn't got a book out in 4 years, and they were trying to find all my details on their computer, and theres a woman called Judy with my surname, but she's married and has kids. So thats a whole family of people with my surname, who aren't related to me, and who I've never met. (Did you follow that?!)

I also need to tell you to ignore the tips I gave in my last post aboput how to keep cool at night. They are too good. For the past 2 nights, I've been waking up shivering. Wait until it gets hot again. =)

And an update on the wind turbine hugging front: The man came today to look at our roof and see where he's gonna put the solar panels. By the time I got home from doing nothing, he was in the kitchen finishing the paperwork. He said that he'd had problems getting into my brothers room to look at the roof. Poor man. I tried to borrow a pair of my brothers socks this morning, so I went up to find some.
It was the stench that hit me first - before I'd even managed to look in. Then, as his room actually came into view, I noticed that his bed was hidden behind a pile of dirty clothes. Looking around the dirty clothes, I noticed that there aren't actually any sheets on his bed. How long has he been sleeping on the bare matress?! And what happened to his duvet?!
I climbed on top of the layer of 'stuff'' on his carpet and staggered across to his chest of drawers. The drawers were kinda empty. Full of boxer shorts that he probably hasn't worn in a long time, because they look quite small, and some of them have cartoon characters on them which I would have recognised if I'd seen in the tumble drier recently.
There is probably a whole dish-washer load full of dirty cups, plates, bowls etc up there, and the smell is probably a mixture of man sweat (worse than boy sweat) and rotting food. And maybe decomposing rat carcases.

One thing in his favour though - it's not dark up there. Because the roof slants, theres not really much point in putting up curtains on the windows as they would just...erm....hang downwards. And not cover the window. Ages ago he was talking about putting a blind up there, but it looks like he never bothered.

Anyway, what was I saying?!
The solar panel man.
He told me that Josh would have to clear out his room, because the men were gonna have to do work on the roof. He also said that he thought something had moved under the bed, and he wasn't sure what it was since mum had said Josh was out. I tried to reassure him, but he left soon after that.

My brothers a bit embarrassed as well. He's actually had a bit of a clear out.

I hope that man didn't go in my room....

WORLD CUP FEVER!!!

The World Cup is now fully under way!

Its all very exciting. I think we have a really good chance of making it through the the semi-final at least!!! This may even be our year to win it!

I love the World Cup season, because everyone is united in their desire for England to win. Someone actually spoke to me in a bus stop on Saturday!!!

I was waiting in the bus stop to go to the Pub, because I'd been late for the cup (totally out of my control, but still very annoying) so I ran to the nearest pub which is very small, and it really stank of curry in there, and they were doing all the boring 'half time small talk' on TV, so I thought I'd go to the bigger pub.

As I was standing waiting for the bus, 3 blokes walked up to me and one of them said, 'Do you even know what the score is?!'
Uh, HELLO!!!!!!!!!
I'd actually just walked out of the same Pub as them. And it was obvious that I was a football fan, because I was wearing the right colours and actually had an England flag in my hand.
So I said, '1-0 to us'.
One of them said, 'Good girl, I'm impressed,' in the most patronising way possible.
Hate men. They are so bleurgh.

Especially now that we are in a heat wave (34C today!!!!), and they all seem to think that we are desperate to see their sagging beer bellies and fading tattoos without the camoflage of a t-shirt on top of them.

Please lads, keep the shirts on unless you're blessed with a body like Becks.
I've been courteous enough to keep my thighs covered in public so far, because I'm not in denial about the fact that they are probably the worst part of my body. So if you have a whole keg rather than a 6 pack, remember that you've got a larger surface area on show - thats more skin to get burnt by the blazing sun. I only say it because I care about you. (HAHA! =P)

However, if you do have a body like Becks, feel free to get it out as often as possible. ; )


And now in other news, I think my paddling pool has a hole in it. Its got different rings that you need to blow up, and they yellow one is completely flat. Also, there's no longer any water in it. Honey might have drank it all. Or it might have been used for something else. There is, after all, a drought order on at the moment.

GCSEs are going OK I guess. I'm kinda getting bored of doing exams every day, but I don't have one tomorrow!!! I have 3 hard science exams the day after though, so I spose I should really revise for them.

I need to type carefully because I've positioned a fan about 20cm from my face. Its keeping me nice and cool, but every time I lean forwards to reach the mouse, I feel like I'm gonna get my nose chopped off. And I'm probably gonna get very big hair if I keep this up for too long.

So far I haven't suffered any long term sun burn, which is excellent compared to how I got on last year.

Also, I have got over my phobia of not being able to sleep with my windows open, which is really good coz otherwise my room would probably turn into a sweat pit or something.
Last night I actually got cold, coz I changed the sheets on my bed, and I couldn't be bothered to put the duvet in the duvet cover, so I'm only sleeping with that. Also the windows were wide open and I was only wearing a bikini top (coz a T-Shirt was too hot - not because of any other reason you may be able to dream up...!), so my back got a bit cold. It was a nice kind of cold though - not a freezing kind of cold.
I also got to passively smoke all the neighbours fags and listen to them laughing their heads off all night, which wasn't so good.
But I recommend getting rid of the duvet.
It feels a bit weird telling everyone about my sleeping habits. But I hope you learn from my example, and don't wake up in the middle of the night, boiling hot...

Babies' Bottoms

(Did I pluralise the title correctly?!)

You know when people say, '...as smooth as a baby's bottom...'?!

Well, when does a bottom stop being smooth???

This has been bugging me. =/

(Yeah, I know thats sad, but I have to get it cleared up ASAP because its interfering with my revision...)

We are becoming Wind Turbine Huggers

....or close to it.

We're getting solar panels put on our roof.

Fortunately the back of our house faces south, which is good for 2 reasons:
Firstly, it will be really efficient coz it will get a lot of sun, and secondly, the solar panels will be on the back of the house so nobody has to know that we are wind turbine huggers.

I suppose it was kinda inevitable, considering there is a mad scientist in the family. And we may eventually get a small wind turbine in our garden. Unless its forbidden by health and safety in case we get our heads chopped off. Actually, you probably couldn't get the planning permission for that.

And I'm actually happy about it, because it means there will be plenty of hot water for showers, and also (slightly less important, but also worth taking into consideration) it's gonna help save the planet. And I'm not the one who is paying for them! hehe

Apparently the government sometimes gives people a grant if they want to get solar panels, but we don't get one for some reason.
I think its a conspiracy. The government hates us. I'm also not gonna be getting any money from the EMA next year. I told my dad that its not my fault he has a decent job, and that I think he should pay me to stay in school if the government won't. He's not going to though. He told me to get a job instead. And my so-called friends (most of whom will be getting loads of money from the EMA) all think thats funny. They have sick senses of humour.

Oh well. I'm getting a job. So there.

Although, at the rate my revision is going, I might end up being refused entry to 6th form, so I can get a full time job rather than just a Saturday one.

I made a really pretty copy of the periodic table though. i colour coded it and everything. However, my mum pointed out that it wasn't really time efficient, because I spent longer colouring it in than learning from it. And to be honest, theres only so much you can learn from a periodic table, even if it is a very attractive one....

Revision is so boring though. And I think I have a hole in my sleep tank, because I got about 12 hours of sleep last night, and by 3pm today I was really tired. I'm still really tired. My eyes are going fuzzy so I can't really see the screen. So I don't actually know if I'm typing the right keys...

It might be coz I've given up coffee, but I think that much caffeine makes me have really weird mood swings (as opposed to normal mood swings), so I'm trying to avoid it for a while.

My grand parents are now back from their cycling holiday in Austria. They cycled 60km per day. Surely thats not normal for 70 year olds...?! Anyway, I wouldn't mind it if they kept their exercise fanaticism to themselves, but they drag the rest of us into it. Yesterday they took my brother and sister to the Thames to go in their inflatable dinghy (is that even legal?!) and then 30 mins after they got back they went out to go swimming. Then by 11 this morning they'd come round to make us all go cycling to Hampton Court (as if they hadn't done enough cycling over the past 2 weeks). So I was forced to cycle 12 miles today - but actually outside in the fresh(ish) air.

This is London. If I want exercise, I'll go to a gym and use rowing machines, exercise bikes and treadmills like all the other normal people. I will not do the open air equivalent, coz thats just wierd when you live in a city.
I don't mind out door exercise if its football, or something like that, but for cycling and rowing, you kinda have to be out in the country. Every time I go out on a bike these days, I nearly get hit by a buses. And I know its not just me, coz whenever I'm in a bus, I see other bikes getting squished against the curb. And tbh, its normally the K2. When I was in yr 4, a yr 6 girl got run over by the K2. Not that I hold grudges or anything.