This month, as some of you may know, is NaNoWriMo.

I am six days in and already it's pulling my brain out of my ears; and I'm behind on my word count for today.

And I have to work tonight.

I'm so tired, but I think I'm doing well.

Good luck to all of you Nanoers out here

Happy Blogging to everyone else

Lots of Love,

Little Newman

xxx

Dorian Gray

I was talking to a girl in my English class about the film, and we both agreed that Ben Barnes (?) was not the person we pictured as Dorian but at the same time, we weren't sure who'd fit the bill.

Any thoughts?

Happy Blogging
Little Newman
xxx

It's hard to see here, but my hair is now burgundy.

So I don't look so superbly hot here, and you can barely see the burgundy of my hair but for Silverpistola, here is my hair,
I am extremely happy with it :D I've been wandering around like 'lalala lala I have burgundy hair'.

I also have new shoes from new look ^^ but I want to buy some more from River Island tomorrow...

Well, this is me, over and out :)

Happy Blogging :)
Yours Truly,
Little Newman :)
xxx

Strand Test

I did the strand test for my flaminco pink hair dye today. It's come out really nicely! I love the colour, and I can't wait to dye my hair ^^ hopefully I will have it done today or tomorrow...

Happy Blogging
Lots of Love
Little Newman
xxx

Howdy y'all.
Don't really have much to say, but I wanted to post.
This was taken at Big Chill, and it was the morning. I had already eaten, but I was eating again because I didn't want to have to take food home with me.

Oh, yeah, results on Thursday.
I got an A in English, a B in French, and C's in History and Classics. Better than expected but still.

And the bands I want to see:
Furnace Mountain playing at The Slaughtered Lamb on the 28th of September. It's a Tuesday, and a school day, I know, and after my grades I need to knuckle down, I know, but they're really cute. The Miserable Rich are playing at The Luminaire. Again, it's a weekday (Thursday, to be exact) but I don't want to miss them. I saw them at the Big Chill, but I had to leave before they finished because my bladder was making a huuge statement about alcohol =S
Finally, on the 15th of October, Mean Poppa Lean are going to be playing at Barfly Camden. Which'll be plain awesome. And it's a Friday. So I have to go.

I would like to see Fionn Regan, so I'll need to check out if he has any shows soon that aren't at Green Man (lucky Rechuisity gets to see him!)
I'm sad that I missed him and The Leisure Society play at Big Chill :')

Good luck to those waiting on GCSE results
Happy Blogging
Lots of Love,
Little Newman

So today, I feel like blogging again; to be honest, I'm not all to sure why.

What I did today.
I went to bed around four thirty/fivish, and was woken up at nine twenty something by my sister, asking me if I was on the bus, as I was meant to go to her house for breakfast.
I replied that sadly, I was not and that her call, in fact, had been the thing to wake me up.
She was not impressed, so we decided to reschedule. She said she'd call in the evening.
I then spent another few hours lying in bed.
Washed my hair, the end result of this being that I now (apparently) look like Lionel Ritchie. At least before I (apparently) only looked like someone in a Lionel Ritchie video.

I took my brother to my sister's house at around eight this evening, where my cousin already was.
It was really lovely, and they both kept me laughing. Those two really make me feel good.
And then I went home.
That is pretty much my day.

I really wanted to write today, some more of Edges Of Perfection, but I don't know if I can. I'll give it a damn good try though, for Leisha who spurred me on :') she is so lovely.

And I have some additions to my -already- disgustingly long reading list (which I've not shortened one jot over the course of this holiday).
They are:

• Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

As well as just some general Wodehouse.
I'll post my full reading list up here some day, so you guys can appreciate my true pain.

But now, with prawns long gone from my belly
And a head empty of ideas
But a leg filled with them
I'll bid you adieu
Hope you're days are as good as mine :D
Happy Blogging,
Lots of Love
Little Newman
xxx

Hello, my lucky lovelies :D two posts in as many days!
I don't know what brought this on, I just felt like posting, although I've done jack shit today. Actually, I think I do know what might be the cause of this incredible generosity. A certain Angeline Marie, who can be found here.
Currently, this post is titleless. I don't know if that's how it'll reach you guys, but as you know, I can't change a title without having another one to replace it, and to be honest, I'd rather no title at all than a bad one.

So my dad woke me up at 7:30 this morning. I had gone to sleep roughly three hours before. I know, it's hard times.
He woke me up to eat breakfast, so I ate like a zombie before traipsing back to bed and I didn't allow myself to wake up until around noon/one p.m. By which time I felt awful. I didn't actually get out of bed till two, which just sucked.
Did nothing much till six, when I start work.

BUTTTTT I am quite happy with a new character I've created, although to be honest, her story isn't really that well written, more's the pity. She is seventeen/eighteen years old, and her name is Jasmina. She decided, at the tender age of fourteen, that she needed to make life more interesting, and did so by picking up a few vices and dressing like she was a nineteenth century gentleman. I do like her and her younger sister quite a lot :)

Well anyway my dears, I hope you all have or will spend your days more productively than me...
Happy Blogging
Lots of love,
Little Newman
xxx

Hai!

My personal vocabulary hs once again, extended after spending the day with my dad's Polish friend and her two year old son :)

He is adorable, and very very friendly. He is also good- obediant, and he shares astoundingly well. Because he is so young, he doesn't differentiate between Polish and English, so when he spoke, it was in a mixture of the two, and I often found myself being casully chatted at in Polish, which was sweet. And so, on to my new words (which I shall have to hazard a guess at spelling). Pacha which means look, and tot which means this, but which I believe can also mean there. I remember these especially because his mother told me their meanings twice, and when we were dropping them back home, we saw a rainbow, and I was told by little Mimi (the little boy) 'opacha tot!' to look as the rainbow :)

I say I add them to my own personal vocabulary, because I like that my daily conversation contains elements of languages other than English (although I was embarassed the other day when I responed with 'hai!' to a friend's question, and she gave me the oddest look!) I often contain elements of French and German in my daily conversation- I keep it simple, no worries! Jut a 'nein' or 'danke-schon'. Sometimes I stretch myself further, to the limits of my French/German vocabulary.

Rechuisity Forceps taught me a very nice Yiddish word the other day- nu. It means 'is it not so' and I think it's very handy, and quicker to say than innit; more elegant as well.

Angie told me the other day she spontaneously replied in Latin to a question rather than in British!
I think that's brilliant! I only wish we spoke another language at home. I'd love to be bilingual.

On anther topic, I yesterday went on a day of Waterstones with Angie.
We went to the Gower Street Waterstones, which is the largest educaion bookshop in Europe (!!!) and then from there, we took a quick bus ride down to the flagship store in Piccadilly. I confess; our main reason for going there was to sit on the fifth floor, where a certain favourite indie-kid actor of ours sometimes spends time.

We were not prepared for the high levels of swank that met us when we got there! I was so nervous, I made us go downstairs while I regained my composure!
It was not the average Costa Coffee I had been expecting. Oh, no. That is the basement level cafe. I was exposed to the 'Fifth View, Bar and Restaurant'. The carpets were so plush I practically sank ankle deep in them, and they had all that reasonable extortionism one expects from a high class dedicated restaurant as opposed to an eatery on top of a bookshop!
But I confess, despite it having used pretty much ALL of my budget, I loved it there, and Angie and I fully plan to go and eat there so often that the waitresses recognise us.
In addition to this, the actual bookshop itself is lovely, very airy, and easy to find different things- Angie and I kept on losing ourselves in the History, Politics and Language sections, and I almost cried when I found the section devoted to linuistics.
So yes, I definitely include that on any London day trip 'to see list'.

Hope your yesterdays and todays were as nice and educational as mine!
Sitting on the floor of my bedroom with the laptop charger digging into my leg
Lots of love and
Happy Blogging!
Little Newman
xxx

Oh, and...

Today I sat alone in a coffee shop and did a little writing.
Proud of me :)
Even though it was accidental sitting-alone-in-a-coffee-shop-and-doing-some-writing…
I asked for my stuff to go but they gave me my hot chocolate in a glass (yeah, I don’t like those medio-glasses they have at costa…) and the guy said he’d bring my grilled emmenthal and mushroom sandwich to my table, so I stayed.
It was actually really nice.
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever properly been inside the Costa in Muswell Hill before. Except for that one time when they really wanted to close and my friend had to hang in there for ages because I was late.
Everyone was really friendly.
It seemed to me that everyone was a local, and loads of people just seemed to know each other. It was really nice, a really lovely atmosphere :)
I’ve so got to do it again.

Letter to my blog

Look, I'm sorry, okay? I know I've been awful, that I don't see you enough, that I ignore you for weeks, months at a time. But I love you. I really do. You make me happy, you're always there for me when I need to talk.
You understand, always, but you don't probe.
You're not needy, you don't complain, you're perfect.
And then I... I just wander off.
Break my promises without even so much as a 'goodbye'.
I'll try harder to be a better problem, to not let it happen again.
But it's just so hard, you know? So hard.

Yours,
Little Newman
xxx

Half term so far

It started pretty well on Friday.
Dan, Alex, Jake, Laura and a few other woodhouse people were meant to go bowling but we just ended up messing around in the arcade and going to nando's :D
Then I had to work D': it was awful, but Alex texted me throughout and kept me happy :D


Saturday was Roman's party, and if I do say so myself I looked quite alright (see picture to the left)
Tie was Cameron's. Big pearly necklace was Ayla's, lace cardigan thingy was Lydia's.
But the rest was mine :)

However I must confess I didn't have much fun at all.
The party was always going to be a bit awkward because of the mix (old Highgate friends with new La Swap friends) however it was alright for a while. However the majority of the Highgate people left early (Doug, Rufus, Cameron, Alison, Laura, Alex) and so I didn't have very many people to talk to (I was the sad loner girl shivering in the corner).
And then I woke up and brought that shit mood across into Sunday. I ate too much cake on sunday D: so I felt ill.

Monday was alright, I think. I don't quite remember what I did, so it probably wasn't anything special.


TUESDAY WAS AWESOME!!!!
Anna came over at about one thirty/ two-ish and we were going to go to American Apparel but it was all rainy and horrible and so we watched LOADS of Love Hina instead ^^
And ate pancakes :D

And then we went to see the lovely looking man on the side there :3
THE MISERABLE RICH, check them out ;)

It was soo amazing :D
I almost cried, and Ayla actually did (which is saying something)
So I <3 3="" href="http://mylemoncakecalledmike.blogspot.com/" nbsp="">Emily :D :D :D
We were meant to go Ice Skating but it was so completely packed that they stopped selling tickets! They had run out of about five different shoes sizes.
So we went to H&M instead, and bought ourselves some pretty stuff :D
I got me an oversized blue jean looking jumper and an equally oversized black vest top :D

And that leads us to today.
OMG MY SISTER IS MOVING OUT!
It means now neither of us will have clothes :'( plus I'll actually just miss her.
I DON'T WANT HER TO GO!

But c'est la vie, eh?

Happy Blogging :D
Lots of love,
Little Newman
xxx

=D is a state of being

Mean Poppa Lean last night were absolutely amazing.
Seriously, top form. They're not afraid to go all-out on stage, and as soon as they came on in their American Apparel hotpants, short, tight (and in some cases, ceverly revealing a left-nipple) shirts I knew I'd love it.

The night was spent, from that moment on, with the largest, happy smile on my face as I floated about ecstatically, jumping around and grooving away to their hot and funky beatzzz.

The venue was also really nice, it was a bar cum pub kind of thing with a main hall attached for live bands. The atmosphere was nice, and we're definitely going back there for a jam some time!

So, there's to a good night; I absolutely urge you all to check them out- they may well be just your kind of thing :) and if not, you'll hopefully at least be appreciative :D

Well,
Happy Blogging to the lot of ya ;D
Love you all, so very much,
Little Newman

Howdy doo, Buckaroo's!

This is mainly to detail the two highlights of my week:

• Mean Poppa Lean on thursday and
• SKATING on Sunday =D

Now sadly, skating on Sunday is not the usual coremilily trio but is, instead a group thing involving nine people. However, I'm looking forward to it, and I hope it's fun :) although I am slightly dubious...
But oh well.
Hope for the best, and I'm sure all will be awesome :D

Now MPL I am looking forward to so completely that I will cry if it gets all glitchy.
It's over eighteens, so I'm a year away but we're gonna try it. I think it will require me putting on a completely different face to the one I usually have (hopefully lipstick, because I never have a chance to slap that beautiful invention on ma bouche) and something pretty and lacey?
But with a gothic twist.
I don't know, I'm getting a wee bitty over excited.

Well, I hope your weeks are all as awesome as they can get and
Happy Blogging to you all,
Little Newman :D
xxx

Marina And The Diamonds

I really love Marina.
I have to thank Ayla for introducing me to her, and for making me go see her at Big Chill last summer.
Really, now I can see 'I knew about her before she was famoussssssss'
Sadly, I'm missing two opportunities to see her live (three, if you consider Bristol) but I can't pay twenty quid for gig tickets... I'm not that rich, sadly.
Check her out, she's awesome, and she's gonna be big.

In other news, MPL gig on the twenty first that we hope to be able to get into. We've had the tickets bought for roughly a month, and so... hopefully they'll believe the extra year on us.

And finally, we're wanting to go see The Miserable Rich in February. They're finally coming up here, and we knew about it before hand! I love them :)

Hope you all get to see any artists on your wishlists ;)
Happy Blogging,
Little Newman
xxx

After History. I know, we're amazing.

Happy Blogging (and History classes)
Little Newman
xxx