Fran is back online. In the end Dad replaced the power supply, which seems to imply that her blowout was a result of his botched repair attempt. She still whirs a little bit on boot-up occasionally so I suspect there may be a deeper problem with some other part of her internal workings, but for now it's not proving a problem and I'd rather not lose ( Read more... )

It's Sam's birthday today, so he had a party last night that he invited his friends to. I stayed upstairs like I normally do but when I headed down to get some of the pizza Chloe told me I should stick around and chat. Spent a few hours talking to her and her boyfriend Matt and having a few drinks. It's actually good to be having some social ( Read more... )

I'm still planning to write, I just haven't got round to it yet ( Read more... )

Yasmin text me last night; she wanted to tell me that when she'd claimed to not be lying at a party I don't recall because I was a drunk during a conversation about an event I don't really remember that well as it was five years ago she was lying. Confused? You should be ( Read more... )

So we were meant to be having a Halloween party at my place like the one from two years ago only without the drinking and immaturity and stuff; at some point the plan changed and the party was gonna be at Hanna's instead. So we spent the week or so before Halloween preparing costumes and renting movies and stuff.

Friday morning I met Hanna outside ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend round Ashley's. He arranged it about a week ago, thing is Yasmin and Hanna said they'd be going too and then both bailed at the last minute because they were sick. With Hanna I can genuinely accept it since she's been off school most of this last week and I went to see her twice and she was very sniffly and not at all up to a ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for the Judge's Choices )

Since Hanna's dad was down this weekend and Yasmin couldn't get the time off work I ended up going to Primark on my own; only spent about forty quid though so I still have plenty left over for when I go with Hanna in two weeks time ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for tonight's result )

Why does life hate me ( Read more... )