Summer Playlist.

Although the typical British weather may suggest otherwise, I have decided that now exams are over it is officially Summer and with a new Summer comes a playlist that I made because I got bored and have too much spare time...

About A Girl - The Academy Is...
Dakota - A Rocket To The Moon
I Got Love - The King Blues
Truth Or Dare - The Pink Spiders
As You Cry - The Hush Sound
Bigcitydreams - Never Shout Never
Keep It Simple - Cobra Starship
Time To Pretend - MGMT
I'm Doing Everything (For You) - The Rocket Summer
Drop Top - Mercy Mercedes
Memory - Sugarcult
Saturday - Kids In Glass Houses
Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
Weightless - All Time Low

Finally, I finish it off with: Monster - The Automatic.
It may seem like a weird choice but it brings back a lot of happy memories.

Top this whole playlist off by sticking Pretty Odd by Panic at the Disco on because that album really was intended for the summer...

XD

Special Occasions Come Gift Wrapped.

A lot of people would say that their favourite time of year is their birthday. Just a quick question that I have to ask... why? You become the centre of attention which is nearly always a bad thing, you end up feeling ill from eating too much, no one else can celebrate properly because it's not their birthday and then comes the worst of all horrors... you get a year older. For someone who wants to be like Peter Pan [aka me] minus the hideous tights, birthdays aren't exactly horrible but are usually quite embarrassing.

So what about Halloween? Personally, I always wanted my birthday to be on Halloween for the drama of it. Everyone secretly loves Halloween whether they'll admit it or not. The 31st October actually seems to get darker! And then there's the Trick or Treat spectacle. Up until last year I'd never actually been 'Trick or Treat'ing and then because I had my little sister with me everyone gave her sweets instead. 15-year-olds want sweet too! Well as much as I love Halloween, I never get sweets and my birthday happened to arrive on the 9th October instead. [But October blatantly is the best month of the year].

And that leaves us with Christmas. I have noticed that the actual Christmas day vanishes as soon as it begins and the best part is always that one month long build up to it where people start 'crazy shopping' and put up their tree and decorations. Then there's the advent calendars which basically give you an excuse to eat chocolate every day. However, because I'm not actually religious at all, I don't think I can truly appreciate Christmas for what it was intended to be... I just like the commercial side to it. [No offense to people who celebrate Jesus].

I haven't really learnt anything from this blog. I don't have a favourite day of the year. I like to enjoy all 365.

Exams.

I seem to have a slightly different opinion of exams than most people. Most people hate exams and can't wait until they're finished so it was no surprise when I walked out of the sports hall today and everyone looked like they had taken happy pills.

Everyone except for me that is. I don't know why and people will probably call me a loser for even typing this but I just like exams, okay? Do you have a problem with that? So what if I'm the only person happy to sit there and complete a two hour paper?

Now, I wouldn't go as far as to say that exams are fun, because they're not but I really cannot see the big fuss people make over them. You revise, you sit the exam. What is your problem? It's no different than being in lessons all day although saying that most people don't like lessons either. But I do!

Call me what you wish, but I have and always will like school.

Invaders Of The Path.

Picture this. It's dark. 11pm. There's nobody out, except for me and Shona [because stupidly we have a routine that involves taking our dog for a walk any time between 10pm and 12am]. Anyway, we round a corner only to find...

A bloody 6ft tall overgrown hedge taking up most of the path! I mean, freaking heck, there's having a hedge and then there's having a jungle by the side of your front lawn. It was a bloody beast!

If I'm rather ridiculously going for a late night walk I don't want to be attacked by a giant box of green leaves. It was like a wall of branches. I didn't know what was hiding on the other side. Anything could have been behind that leafy wall! Not to mention the fact that there were probably billions of tarantulas lurking in it's depths waiting for me to trip on a twig and be consumed by the hedge where they could devour me! [I do tend to trip on twigs].

Anyway, I might just go and take some shears to that thing. Chop it down I say! It's a danger to the community! Hedges. Always getting in the way...

Blatant Favouritism.

I had no idea that favouritism was spelt like that. It makes sense though. I guess I just say it funny...

I think we can all agree that there aren't many people in the world who can say they have animals that seem to be humans trapped in an animals body. It's just not really logical and some would say it's theoretically impossible... I think that I may beg to differ.

My family have a pet dog. Her name is Honey and we got her from a Rescue Home. She is possibly the laziest dog in existence, she's extremely greedy and she sleeps most of the day. All normal dog characteristics. However, sometimes she looks at me with this strange human awareness in her eyes and it's almost like she's telling me ''Holly, you're an idiot'' which I am but a dog isn't supposed to know that!

Anyway, that's not really the point. So, we've established that my dog is actually an old lady in a dog's body but seriously that gives her no right to patronize me. Yes, in a way you could say that my dog is a bully.

She ignores me all day, even when I talk to her.
She only pays me any attention when I a) have food, b)let her sleep on the sofa and c) am about to take her for a walk.
And she does this to everyone else too. With one exception...

My mum only has to call her name once and she comes trotting over, wagging her tail. The injustice. How is it fair that my own dog thinks she has the right to ignore me? It isn't I tell you! I will find a way around this and when I do Honey will pay me attention even when I don't have biscuits...

The Kerrang Awards 2009.

And so I told them "if you thought I would enter my real address then you were sorely mistaken. Unless you plan to send Gallows, Enter Shikari and The Blackout over to my house to play a set in my front room, you can think again about me entering my personal details." I didn't really say that, I just thought it.

Anyway, The K! Awards have rolled back round and I did a little bit of voting, not too much. I'll have to do some more later. But there were a lot of tough choices this year, seeing as you could vote for anyone.

Best Live Band:
Definitely the hardest one to choose. I do love any gig that involves Enter Shikari and they are a super fun live band to go see, not to mention one of my favourite bands. A tough choice though because...
The Blackout were definitely an enexpectedly good live band and I have the feeling they're gonna have a good chance of winning this award but...
I think the band I really have to vote for on this one is Gallows. The really are an amazingly entertaining live band.

Best British Band:
Hmm, so many but in a way my answer is obviously going to be Muse.

Best International Band:
A tricky one. Perhaps I will vote for a band who blatantly aren't going to win the award but I do like them very much. Cobra Starship.

And that's about it really. I couldn't be bothered to vote for any of the other awards. :)

Goodbye Social Networking Sites.

I just had a crazy fifteen minutes.

I deleted all those pointless social networking site accounts.

Perhaps the hardest to part with was my Bebo. RIP.

But to tell you the truth, it felt AWESOME!

And I don't need to worry. I'm still on Mypace, Facebook, Twitter and here of course.

:)

Oh The Humiliation!

So a little over or under an hour ago I got a call for my sister telling me that I should tell her that the person on the phone needed to speak with her. Currently, Shona [my sister] is at work and so because I didn't know how urgent this message was, I decided to call her.

Dialling the number I was greeted by someone answering the phone. Now being a little deaf when it comes to conversing through the phone I immediately assumed it was my sister and so I said a little too loudly and enthusiastly 'HELLO!' and the reply was a slightly confused hello back. Still thinking it was my sister on the phone and that she was just being a bit silly to not realise it was me, I then went on to say [still loudly] 'It's Holly!' and the reply to that was 'Sorry, who?'

It was around about this point I realised it wasn't my sister on the phone so my genius response came in the form of 'Oh, [long pause] is Shona there?'

How embarrassing. It was however also slightly funny as I think I may have genuinely scared someone.