Nearly Christmas!

It's less than a month until Christmas now!!! =)

So here's a song for you.

Apologies for the Jessica Simpson version.... It was the best quality video I could find...





I have to do my Christmas shopping soon.
Dunno when I'll have time. I'm always at work on Saturdays.
But the shops will probably be open later so it should be OK...


I went back to Subway last week, and they still haven't changed the 'Sub of the Day'. And the nice guy wasn't there. How disappointing.

I think Subway would be a really cool place to work though.


On Friday Jay nearly killed us all in Chemistry by producing a lot of Chlorine gas in the lab. I guess she missed the bit that said, 'Do this part in a fume cupboard'.

Luckily nobody died. But it was really smelly. And it hurt our eyes a bit. And it got a bit difficult to breathe.

Luckily the only person with asthma was right at the front of the room.

Also, the boys burnt the sink by pouring something down it. We don't know what it was. They had quite a lot of test tubes, so they forgot what was in them all. It was quite a cool colour though.


Is it too early for me to start wearing my Father Christmas hat to school?



Oh....I think my Biology coursework is doomed.
There's been a little problem with my bananas.... I was ripening them at different rates, but they are all the same colour.

How irritating.

Never mind.

Surely if it all goes wrong, I can repeat it? Or make up the results?

Anyway, it's probably quite good to have some anomalies, because then you can talk about the possible reasons for them and all that other stuff, and so it gives you a chance to 'exhibit your knowledge'.
When I did my last physics coursework, all the results were perfect, so I had to change one of them to make it anomalous so I could have something to talk about in the evaluation. Maybe A Level is the same

The important thing is, I managed to somehow get a water bath into my experiment. The lab is freezing first thing in the morning (and we have to start at 8am!!!!!) so I can use it to warm my hands. =)

My Desk

I don't want to do my Chemistry exam papers, so I thought I'd make a labelled photo of my desk.

Because I know you're all dying to know what my desk looks like.

*ahem*

Hmmm....it won't go very big.

Thats kinda hard to read, isn't it?

Maybe it will go bigger of you click on it? Or maybe you'll just have get your magnifying glasses out?

OK, click on this link.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/AnnaNunn/Mydesk.jpg

I hosted it. Coz I'm so technical. =)

Really don't want to do those Chemistry papers. They make me feel stupid.

Hmmm.......

Honey likes it when I sing Whitney Houston songs to her.

...............mmmmmm...................

Windows Media Player is trying to put music onto the Digital Camera. WMP is always very enthusiastic about music. Anytime I plug anything into the computer, it immediately trys to force music into it.

I think that's commendable.

Though kinda silly in the case of a camera, which has no way of playing music back. I think.

..............

OK. I'm gonna do the chemistry now.

I'm such a good gardener!!!

I got some plants on my 16th birthday, to try and convince myself that I'm ready for responsibility, and can keep things alive etc.

I have 6 cactuses (I think the plural is meant to be 'cacti' but 'cactuses' sounds better), A little Christmas tree thing (I don't know what it really is) and a pink flowery plant thing (I also don't know the name of that).

I accidently sent the plants into a bit of a comatose state several times. Most of the time it wasn't my fault, coz I was on holiday or something.... But I kept on just about reviving them. I have one plant that is technically supposed to have lots of pink flowers on it, but it hasn't actually had any flowers in aaaaaages because I keep sending it back into a coma before it has a change to make any flowers.

BUT, I must've gone through a spurt of maturity or responsibility or something, because it has flowers again!!!!!!!

LOOK:

Admittedly, the Christmas Tree thing is dead and brown and crunchy on the front half, but the back half is very green and alive. (How does that happen? HOW? I think it's actually quite clever...)

But the plant has a massive pink flower.

And lots of little pink buds that will become massive pink flowers because I will continue to nurture the plant.

Here is a close up of the plant:

See? Thats a LOT of buds. It will look quite exotic if they all become big flowers...

I'll take another photo when they all become flowers.

I don't know what the screws are next to the plant. They've been there for ages. I think they might have been some extra screws from my wardrobe that I thought were unnecessary. Thats the awkward thing about Ikea furniture. I mean, I love Ikea and everything, but I sometimes wonder whether they accidently put in extra bits by mistake, because they make them very cheaply....

The wardrobe is staying up fine though.

Ohhhh..... they might be from my sisters old desk that I pulled apart?

Remembrance Sunday

Today is Remembrance Sunday.

I always get a bit philosophical around Remembrance Day.

Every year, I get closer to the age of the people who were sent out to fight in the wars. This year, some of my friends would have been sent out to fight. Thats so young.

I am nowhere near ready to die. I'm not afraid to die, but I haven't finished living yet. I still have a lot of things that I want to do. Places I want to visit, goals I want to achieve, things I want to experience.

There are people who sacrificed their lives so that I can have the life that I'm enjoying now.
Thats a really big deal.

"When you go home
Tell them of us and say,
'For your tomorrow,
We gave our today.'"

There aren't many war veterans still alive, and every year there are fewer. I think it's really important that we continue to remember the people who died in the wars - especially after there are no people who lived through them still around to remind us of what they had to go through to earn the freedom we take for granted today.

'They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.'

Hmmmmm....

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Toaster Heat

Do you know how irritating it can be, having a scientist for a father?

Probably not, so I'll tell you.


He is into global warming, and climate change, and saving energy in a big way.

Which I think is commendable. And I am into those things as well.

(Think back to the solar panels posts earlier...I'm putting up with cold showers when it's cloudy. Actually, he's switched it over to so that it's partly heated by the boiler now! =D )

Since we just got a real fire put in, Dad has decided that we don't need the central heating on yet. (Hence the fact that I'm sleeping with 3 duvets...).

This morning I came downstairs to eat breakfast in the kitchen, and it was FREEZING. So I asked Dad when he was planning to put the heating on. He said, 'Not yet! Don't be silly! You're such a wimp! It's 17C in here!'.

17C. That is below room temperatue. And I'm normally still cold at room temperature. I must have bad circulation or a slow metabolism or something.

So I went and plugged in a fan heater and switched it on, to try and make it bearable in there.

Then he said, 'You have no concept of energy, do you?'

(Btw, dnt you think it's a bit silly to say that to an AS Physics student? I must have some concept of energy....even if it is a bit flawed. Just coz i don't have a stuffy Physics PhD thing from Imperial College. Honestly... *sigh*)

So I said, 'Yes, I do actually.'

Then he looked at me and said, 'Well then, you'd know that the heater is 1000W.'

I smiled and nodded. (I did know it was 1000W. I just didn't really know how big that was).

He said, 'You know a light bulb is 60W, right?'
Erm...yes.....

'Think how many light bulbs that heater is equivalent to.'

..........*silence*................

'Do you care about global warming or not?'

I told him that I do care about global warming, I just care more about my own warming.

The I went and put some toast in the toaster, and he took the opportunity to dart across the room and turn off the heater.

I gave him an evil look.

'Well, the toaster is throwing out loads of heat now. You don't need the heater and the toaster. Don't you think thats a bit extravagant? Why don't you just put an extra jumper on?'


Weirdo.

Nobody uses a toaster to heat their house.

Bad Blogger

I know....I haven't blogged in ages. (Or whatever the appropriate verb should be).

But at least that shows I've been doing something with my life, and haven't just been sitting staring at the computer screen...

Today I left work at 3 coz she owed me some overtime that I did 2 weeks ago. =) It was wicked. I went shopping, which I haven't been able to do in ages (because I'm always working during shopping hours on Saturdays).

All the Christmas decorations are up in the shops, which is really exciting!

I should start my Christmas shopping. Wow. I love Christmas shopping. This is great!

Although I'm not very good at christmas shopping. Coz theres always so much stuff in the shops....I don't know what to choose.
Like, today, I went into Subway, and there is so much different stuff in there, that in the end I just said, 'I'll have the special'.
You have to be careful saying that, coz sometimes there is really skanky stuff in the special. But today it was OK.
Then he made me choose which type of bread I wanted. After thinking for an embarrassingly long time, I picked one, and then he looked all shifty and said, 'Actually, we're out of that kind...sorry'. So I picked another kind.
Then he said, 'Do you want cheese?'. I just nodded, in case I thought for ages again.
Then he said, 'do you want it toasted?'. I just said yes, so that he's put it in the toastie thing and stop asking me difficult questions. So he did.
I thought it was all gonna be over after that, but no.
'Do you want lettuce?'
'Erm.....yeah, why not?'
'Tomatoes?'
'Uhhhh....OK, yes please.'
'Sweetcorn?'
'.....uh.......Yeah....?'
'Olives?'
'What? With sweetcorn? Seriously?'
'OK, maybe not. Do you want anything else in it?'
'No thanks.'
'Are you sure?'
'Yep.'
'Positive?'
'YES!!! I'M POSITIVE!!!'
'What sauce do you want on it?'
(Panicking coz of all the questions.) 'Uhhh....What do you recommend?'
'Honey and Mustard?'
'Yep, go for it!'
'OK babe. Do you want a drink with that?'
'No thanks.'
'Are you sure?'
'Yes'
'Positive?'
'Yes.'
'Absolutely?'
'Yes....'
'OK, Sorry. Thats £2.10 please.'
'Thanks'
'Thats OK, have a good weekend!'
'You too!'
'Bye darlin'!'
'See ya!'


He was actually quite a nice man though.
I miss him.


Argh.
What am I saying?
I don't miss the Subway man.

I just think he was nice.

And I'm not gonna go back there tomorrow to see if he works on Sundays.
Coz I really don't care whether he works Sundays.
Because it's not like I'd go in there just to see him again or anything.