I found a ring in your father's underwear drawer
WOO. I am being productive today. Only 12.30pm and I already have one of my aims for the day completed. I woke up at like, 6am, what, and went back to sleep. Obviously. Then I woke up again at like 10am and actually just decided to get up. Checked my emails and they were boring as hell and LJ is dead, so I decided to have a productive day. I went to get a bagel (breakfast, WHAT) and ate that while I watched an episode of Frasier; since I obviously cannot be productive while I am eating, I always watch stuff when I eat, lol. I then compiled this picspam, YAY! It is of various things that have accumulated over the past 6 weeks or so. Which is almost always how I produce picspams, ha!
This is from when Hell & I went to the beach. Lol her mum asked me what I like to see at the beach, and I was like "idk, I'm just interested to see what they're like here. In England they're so British, I just want to see what yours are like". I mean, ours are generally attached to towns and there's just a very particular feel to them. Particular sounds and smells. I mentioned the piers and she said they had them too. We were talking about different piers because this is what she was referring to. There was a bird hopping around and I wanted to catch this with him sitting in the middle but he moved :(
You can't tell, but all of those people are naked. Lolll. We walked down the beach and found somewhere to get lunch, and then when we were walking back there were suddenly people everywhere. It was so quiet when we got there! Then Hell goes "umm, are they naked?" and I looked and oh God, they were. And then we looked ahead and THERE WERE NAKED PEOPLE FUCKING EVERYWHERE AND APPARENTLY THIS WAS A HUGE NUDIST SECTION OF THE BEACH. AND THEY WERE ALL OLD PEOPLE AND OH MY GOD IT WAS TRAUMATIC YOU GUYS. Hilarious, but traumatic. Hell was like "LOOK AT THE GROUND, THE GROUND IS SAFE!" and there was an old lady like, bending over and WHY, GOD, WHY? Ironically, as we were walking down there, I asked where we were going and Hell said that she had no idea - she knew the beach as well as I did. WELL, EVIDENTLY. LMAO.
Different beach - we were driving back and took a longer route and we saw this awesome lighthouse and I loved it, so Hell stopped for me to take pictures :)
Lighthouse! Obviously.
An unattractive picture of my unattractive foot injury, woe! You're welcome. I absolutely hate my feet but I felt compelled to post this one in an attempt to garner delayed pity. Look at it! Nast.
A square near the cathedral in Antwerp, where we met Hell's parents to take us to dinner on my birthdaaay :D
A really fucking awesome fountain where we were waiting for them. It depicts the story behind where Antwerp got it's name, Hell explained it to me. The light was crap so yeah, you only get a silhouette of the top of it and the building behind, but it made for a kind of atmospheric photo anyway.
Taken in the square where I had cocktails with Sara (gentleflower) & Hell. Actually, taken WHILE I was having cocktails with Sara & Hell :)
Aaand again. Hell & I had lunch at one of those restaurants on my last day. I had a really awesome omlette, jsyk. I'm like, inexplicably obsessed with them lately.
Me & Sara, OMG!! ♥! I look like craaaap in these photos, but I don't care because I also look happy, and you guys I get paid in like two weeks and will be getting my hair cut and then spending the day shopping with Beth and being vain so obviously I will take many photos of myself and probably post a vlog. So you can just deal with my lack of vanity in these, lol. And really, in all seriousness, this makes me smile so much anyway because like I said - happy.
LOLOL OKAY SO. We went back to Sara's apartment. Which was awesome and I love it and it is just fucking adorable and so, so Sara, okay. Absolutely everything tells you something about the girl who lives there, it just feels so spot on, like it really is hers. She has so many photos and quirky little Sara things and everything is made of cute, pretty much. We played with her big fancy camera and she gave us smarties and these really amazing lollies. I opened my birthday present and she told me I had to wear my birthday badge every day until I'm 23. She also gave me the copy of Freckleface Strawberry that I sent her and asked me to write in it. So we had this absolutely lovely evening with her and then I got to go to her apartment and write in this book ♥
But the point of this picture. We were sitting to her table and she has this sellotape dispenser shaped like a snail, and she knocked him on the floor and he broke :(
But I was sure that I could fix him. Until I noticed that parts had actually snapped. But I "fixed" him anyway. Using the sellotape. Sara took this with my camera and I actually had no idea it existed until I went through my photos, hee. I love it, she so perfectly captured that cute ass little memory ♥
Aaand these are from yesterday. I don't even know what my deal was at all, but everything was making me really introspective and I was a little emo and just really wanted alone time and to cry and I don't know. So I went out at lunch and just wanted to sit. I wanted to be someplace quiet and peaceful and I had no fucking clue where I could go in walking distance. I was thinking about it as I crossed the river and looked down and saw all of these benches under some trees. It was so, so perfect. So I went down there and it was warm and the light was amazing - so much more so than these pictures make it look. It's a lovely little spot, I'm so glad I found it. Not that it was hidden, I just hadn't needed it or payed enough attention. I've only been working down there for 3 weeks, anyway.
Lol, the fucking Asda signs kinda ruin this a little. Not an Asda store, though. That's their headquarters... where I actually temped for a week a couple of years ago. I wanted to kill myself, it was the most boring week of my fucking life.
These looked so much more amazing in reality - there were all of these cobwebs on the railings and the way the light was catching them and how the water was sparkling was beautiful. It was so nice just to sit for half an hour.
jsdhfgadjs one thing that's beneficial about getting up at 6am at this time of year - you catch the sunrise. This was one day this week when I first woke up...
... And this was 30mins later. I fucking died. I have never seen anything like it, I don't think.
In other news, I watched District 9 last night. Didn't like it, honestly. I thought that it was massively overrated. It had potential and I did find parts of it disturbing, interesting or even moving, but it was incredibly inconsistent, the characters were largely two dimensional and underdeveloped and it completely lacked anything resembling conviction. It ditched whatever message it was trying to convey in favour of, for the most part, becoming a brainless action film full of plot holes. The protagonist was annoying as "fook" and I can't say I was in the least surprised to find out that he was a first time actor. It just had no real focus and I'm at a loss as to what it's aim was. It's a shame because it could have been really interesting, but the director completely lacked control. It was also incredibly jarring that he dropped the documentary style at the most random point and then reintroduced it sporadically for no real reason; there was no flow between styles whatsoever and it made the documentary format feel gimmicky. Then there was no real ending - just a borderline ridiculous action sequence and the the forgoing of a decent conclusion in favour of setting up a sequel. I mean seriously, it was infuriatingly obvious that they were doing that to the point that they may as well have thrown a disclaimer up on screen; "DW, GUYS. WE'LL WRAP THIS UP IN DISTRICT 10!"
Not a BAD film but just not, in my opinion, deserving of all the hype. Or of 8.6 on IMDb, what the fuck. 49th best film of all time my ass.
ANYWAY. I am now going to get lunch and start work on a fandomy picspam and maybe some icons, yay :D
This is from when Hell & I went to the beach. Lol her mum asked me what I like to see at the beach, and I was like "idk, I'm just interested to see what they're like here. In England they're so British, I just want to see what yours are like". I mean, ours are generally attached to towns and there's just a very particular feel to them. Particular sounds and smells. I mentioned the piers and she said they had them too. We were talking about different piers because this is what she was referring to. There was a bird hopping around and I wanted to catch this with him sitting in the middle but he moved :(
You can't tell, but all of those people are naked. Lolll. We walked down the beach and found somewhere to get lunch, and then when we were walking back there were suddenly people everywhere. It was so quiet when we got there! Then Hell goes "umm, are they naked?" and I looked and oh God, they were. And then we looked ahead and THERE WERE NAKED PEOPLE FUCKING EVERYWHERE AND APPARENTLY THIS WAS A HUGE NUDIST SECTION OF THE BEACH. AND THEY WERE ALL OLD PEOPLE AND OH MY GOD IT WAS TRAUMATIC YOU GUYS. Hilarious, but traumatic. Hell was like "LOOK AT THE GROUND, THE GROUND IS SAFE!" and there was an old lady like, bending over and WHY, GOD, WHY? Ironically, as we were walking down there, I asked where we were going and Hell said that she had no idea - she knew the beach as well as I did. WELL, EVIDENTLY. LMAO.
Different beach - we were driving back and took a longer route and we saw this awesome lighthouse and I loved it, so Hell stopped for me to take pictures :)
Lighthouse! Obviously.
An unattractive picture of my unattractive foot injury, woe! You're welcome. I absolutely hate my feet but I felt compelled to post this one in an attempt to garner delayed pity. Look at it! Nast.
A square near the cathedral in Antwerp, where we met Hell's parents to take us to dinner on my birthdaaay :D
A really fucking awesome fountain where we were waiting for them. It depicts the story behind where Antwerp got it's name, Hell explained it to me. The light was crap so yeah, you only get a silhouette of the top of it and the building behind, but it made for a kind of atmospheric photo anyway.
Taken in the square where I had cocktails with Sara (gentleflower) & Hell. Actually, taken WHILE I was having cocktails with Sara & Hell :)
Aaand again. Hell & I had lunch at one of those restaurants on my last day. I had a really awesome omlette, jsyk. I'm like, inexplicably obsessed with them lately.
Me & Sara, OMG!! ♥! I look like craaaap in these photos, but I don't care because I also look happy, and you guys I get paid in like two weeks and will be getting my hair cut and then spending the day shopping with Beth and being vain so obviously I will take many photos of myself and probably post a vlog. So you can just deal with my lack of vanity in these, lol. And really, in all seriousness, this makes me smile so much anyway because like I said - happy.
LOLOL OKAY SO. We went back to Sara's apartment. Which was awesome and I love it and it is just fucking adorable and so, so Sara, okay. Absolutely everything tells you something about the girl who lives there, it just feels so spot on, like it really is hers. She has so many photos and quirky little Sara things and everything is made of cute, pretty much. We played with her big fancy camera and she gave us smarties and these really amazing lollies. I opened my birthday present and she told me I had to wear my birthday badge every day until I'm 23. She also gave me the copy of Freckleface Strawberry that I sent her and asked me to write in it. So we had this absolutely lovely evening with her and then I got to go to her apartment and write in this book ♥
But the point of this picture. We were sitting to her table and she has this sellotape dispenser shaped like a snail, and she knocked him on the floor and he broke :(
But I was sure that I could fix him. Until I noticed that parts had actually snapped. But I "fixed" him anyway. Using the sellotape. Sara took this with my camera and I actually had no idea it existed until I went through my photos, hee. I love it, she so perfectly captured that cute ass little memory ♥
Aaand these are from yesterday. I don't even know what my deal was at all, but everything was making me really introspective and I was a little emo and just really wanted alone time and to cry and I don't know. So I went out at lunch and just wanted to sit. I wanted to be someplace quiet and peaceful and I had no fucking clue where I could go in walking distance. I was thinking about it as I crossed the river and looked down and saw all of these benches under some trees. It was so, so perfect. So I went down there and it was warm and the light was amazing - so much more so than these pictures make it look. It's a lovely little spot, I'm so glad I found it. Not that it was hidden, I just hadn't needed it or payed enough attention. I've only been working down there for 3 weeks, anyway.
Lol, the fucking Asda signs kinda ruin this a little. Not an Asda store, though. That's their headquarters... where I actually temped for a week a couple of years ago. I wanted to kill myself, it was the most boring week of my fucking life.
These looked so much more amazing in reality - there were all of these cobwebs on the railings and the way the light was catching them and how the water was sparkling was beautiful. It was so nice just to sit for half an hour.
jsdhfgadjs one thing that's beneficial about getting up at 6am at this time of year - you catch the sunrise. This was one day this week when I first woke up...
... And this was 30mins later. I fucking died. I have never seen anything like it, I don't think.
In other news, I watched District 9 last night. Didn't like it, honestly. I thought that it was massively overrated. It had potential and I did find parts of it disturbing, interesting or even moving, but it was incredibly inconsistent, the characters were largely two dimensional and underdeveloped and it completely lacked anything resembling conviction. It ditched whatever message it was trying to convey in favour of, for the most part, becoming a brainless action film full of plot holes. The protagonist was annoying as "fook" and I can't say I was in the least surprised to find out that he was a first time actor. It just had no real focus and I'm at a loss as to what it's aim was. It's a shame because it could have been really interesting, but the director completely lacked control. It was also incredibly jarring that he dropped the documentary style at the most random point and then reintroduced it sporadically for no real reason; there was no flow between styles whatsoever and it made the documentary format feel gimmicky. Then there was no real ending - just a borderline ridiculous action sequence and the the forgoing of a decent conclusion in favour of setting up a sequel. I mean seriously, it was infuriatingly obvious that they were doing that to the point that they may as well have thrown a disclaimer up on screen; "DW, GUYS. WE'LL WRAP THIS UP IN DISTRICT 10!"
Not a BAD film but just not, in my opinion, deserving of all the hype. Or of 8.6 on IMDb, what the fuck. 49th best film of all time my ass.
ANYWAY. I am now going to get lunch and start work on a fandomy picspam and maybe some icons, yay :D