A Hard Days Night

OH WHAT A CRAZY NIGHT!!!!!
First things first. Josh Ritter rocked my face off!!!! Right off... I no longer have a face people! The show was very similar to the Regina one in a lot of ways but he changed it up a bit of course... there was the lights off bit in The Temptation of Adam (I was trying to record it and the lights when right out.... I was pissed! God I love that song... especially when he says "tempted!"), the disco and the slow dancing. The different bits were him having an AWESOME opener (Dawn Landes), he was singing with a broken rib (OMG) , oh and the bit where he talked to us! He was telling a story about the tour and when he said he was in Regina we shouted " REGINA!" This threw him off his game in a big way (your never expecting Regina kids.... we are like ninjas!) He replied by saying that Regina says "Hello!" THEN he said "This one is for everyone from Regina" followed by some ooohhhhing and a soft Regina! It was hilarious!!! He then went back to rocking my face off.
After the show is surprisingly where the night got really fucking crazy!! We missed our train so we had to sit outside the station until the next train came... at 5 am... it was 11 pm.... this SUCKED! IT WAS COLD. Like I would have rather been in a Regina snowstorm with a good coat then there in my tunic and Josh Ritter sweater, cold. BUT it gets fucking crazier still. Who would have thought that "sleepy old" Norwich would be the place that one would see, at 2 am mind, a guy get kicked in the chest and knocked to the pavement (chips every where!), and a guy looking for the police because his shirt and coat had been stolen right off his body. Crazier still is the fact that both the kicker and the coat thief was a guy we asked for directions (he was quite nice to us and told me in English that he did not speak English... after telling us that he LOVES England and soccer... but the Ukraine was still the best...in English). So after that Amanda and I both sort of froze to death. Then around hour 4 we both sort of... well we were doing mosh circles of two and head butting each other... so whatever you would call that. Anyways I am missing home a bit but not at all at the same time... it's an odd feeling. But I should sign off. This has cost me a £ and I still need to check my comics (I'm a HUGE nerd but guys like that right?). See you all soon... the next ones coming at you from Paris or from Dublin!
-Black Plaid

In Spite of All the Danger...

Really there isn't much danger. I think I'm pretty safe really.... what with being a street fighter and all. Nothing dodgy has happened so far. Except when we were walking past a bus stop and a creepy man was listening to some strange screeching sounds on his cell phone. Other then that, all good.
However I sometimes forget the way the cross walks work. Thank God for the little massages on the ground telling you which way to look before crossing. London has been super good so far and can only get better I'm sure. Here is a list of my favorite thing so far that I remember....

1. Amanda and I high fived on account of rocking something... finding the right bridge I think and a cute guy smiled to himself over our awesomeness.
2. There is a Robot Museum... we found Amanda's home!
3. There was a man at the Tate Gallery who thinks he could have painted most of it himself.
4. The CRAZY statue wizard!
5. The man who was making sand castles in the middle of the workday down by The River Thames.
6. When it stoped raining (for 5 seconds) and Amanda threw down the umbrella... "I don't need this anymore!"
7. Last night when Amanda was sleeping and I went down to the common area and sat with some Portuguese kids and a drunk Scottish man came and we all talked about the cellular age and it's effect on today's youth. Then he made them choose between friends and family and Indiana Jones... some chose Jones.

And that's just the stuff I remember! This post has cost me a pound! Crazy stuff.

-Black Plaid

She's Leaving Home

Well.... in a few hours I will be on a bus on the way to the plane that will take us to the other plane that will take us to London...shit (she said stuffing a semi-clean t-shirt into her half packed bag). I am SO not ready! But I'm surprisingly chill still. I got no worries (none at least that I am currently letting myself think about anyways... I'll think about these things when I come home, or not... maybe I wont care about my current worries when I come home. Time will tell I guess). Like I said I am totally worry free *rolles eyes*.
So what can I say to you before I go??? Lets see... OH I know! I stumbled across this on my computer yesterday while trying to find hiding spots for some files and stuff that I ... well want hidden. Anywho here is something that really took me back (for those of you that have NO idea what this is... it can still be funny if you try hard enough).

Red Cacti Hotel Rules
No peeing in the hotel pool
Everyone has a backup car and a hiding spot (person and car)
One ‘Big Wheel’ allotted to each person (‘Dixie Cup Big Wheels’ become ice-cream after one hour)
Anyone freaking out in the ballroom will be disposed of immediately (an appropriate disposal method will be chosen by the group at that time)
No murdering anyone unless the murderer is crazy or the decision is unanimous (majority rules)
No Satanic rituals (No Goats. Leave them home!)
All axes and croquet mallets are to be housed 3 miles away from hotel
No sleeping in room 273
No secret satanic rituals (goats or otherwise)
Everyone is entitled to their own room (sharing optional)
Finger friends permitted under the following conditions i)Not named Tony ii)Can’t take up more then a cubic meter iii)Does not reside in your mouth iv) Does not speak v)Not evil
No cannibalism/bugs/grasses/ferris wheels/moths/ very little things
House is to exorcised at the time of arrival and departure
Brushing teeth not optional
Pocket goats allowed (Don’t kill them! Satanic rituals are the devil)
No Beach Boys (old men singers)
Rule makers can bend rules (excluding death, pool, and teeth brushing rules)
No enemas
No brushing teeth while peeing
No spoons allowed other then that for "booping"
No Arnolds!!!!
No push ups
No butt fat
All killing must be referred to as billing (smack)
Jive dictionary will be provided and followed to a tee by penalty of death (bill and beth)
No gravy
No old people

Going to miss you all SO much but we will see each other in 3 weeks.-Sending all her loving to you, Black Plaid

How Do You Do It

More like how do I KEEP doing it? I just wrote a masterpiece of a blog. Worked on it for "hours!" It was lovely and moving and deep and truly award worthy. AND I FUCKING ERASED IT! ... AGAIN. I really really need to learn to save or just learn NOT to hit the "back" button. Damn! Well I guess I will just have to reproduce said blog tomorrow (if I can). I would now but this is the last night I have in my own bed for a while and I want to squeeze all the duvet goodness out of it tonight. If I don't get back to you tomorrow then see you all around. I will return bigger and better then ever and maybe I will have learned a thing or two about saving shit and/or not touching the damn back button while writing a blog.
Goodnight and Good luck
-Black Plaid

All Together Now...

..." Well Fuck!"

I have more then one reason to be saying this right now and these are them

• Europe is coming up fast (for those of you who don't know I'm going to Europe... next Tuesday in fact)
• I have just made a disaster of my family supper (soda bread and stew is to much for me apparently) (Also this was a meal meant for yesterday which was St. Patrick's Day. Instead of staying home to cook like a good Irish girl I went out like a bad Irish girl)

Which leads me to my final Well Fuck of the evening

• It's no secret, or at least it wont be after I say, that yesterday I went out, got a bit drunk, and after an oddly amusing punching game made out with a close friend. I don't want to talk about it really but I thought I had better at the very least acknowledge it.

Well there you go boys and girls I am a giant fuck! All Together Now... That Girl is a GIANT FUCK!!!!!

Ain't Nothing Shakin

I'm so bored today and after an attempt to read a magazine, sleep, watch TV and make interesting plans for tonight I turned to the Internet for some entertainment. I decided to waste my time with random YouTube Videos and here is the best thing I found

This is by a user named AgentXPQ I officially love him and wish I had his comic books.

All Things Must Pass

... Unfortunately!
I just finished reading The Sweet Far Thing and here is my dilemma ... I'm done. I have a love hate relationship with books in general but more to the point sets. Don't get me wrong I LOVE books deeply. My big issue however is that they have an annoying habit of ending. A set however gives you hope... "There is another book after this. No worries they will be back. There are more pages to turn and lives to read".
But alas a series can't go forever. (Unless you claim to be the Neverending Story... which I haven't seen a lot from lately!)
It's odd though how attached you can become to characters (even if they are silly school girl characters with magical powers). When it comes right down to it I'm pleased with the way the book ended and am glad to have all the mysteries and questions settled and solved. But, I don't want it to be over all the same. This is the trouble, I read to know the ending but I hate to see it end.
I will now make up a pro and con list to finishing a good book (why? because I can!)
Pros

• Having all the questions you had while reading answered and put to rest.
• The feeling of accomplishment
• The way you feel richer for reading it
• Knowing that now you can move on to the next read

Cons

• That feeling of missing all the people in the book (as irrational as that feeling is I often feel it deeply)
• Wondering what the characters did next and never knowing
• Not knowing where to go next

This feeling will pass in a day or two and I'll be off reading the next thing. But for now I feel mixed.

-Black Plaid

Act Naturally

A List of 50 Things I Have Done
1. Had blue hair
2. Talked to a boy I liked from a band I like
3. Had whooping cough
4. Fought a girl on the street
5. Slammed someones head into a car
6. Gone a month without wearing pants
7. Watched the streetlights change color while laying in the street
8. Ate a grapple
9. Drove a snowmobile
10. Been to a music festival
11. Missed my own grad party
12. Been present at two births that were not my own
13. Bike surfed
14. Eaten a third of a cake in a single sitting
15. Gone to the fair every year since I was born
16. Seen the same movie twice in a day
17. Drank alone because I was sad
18. Wished I was a cartoon character
19. Been lost in British Columbia by myself
20. Been optimistic even when I shouldn't
21. Been in love with a friend who didn't love me back
22. Slept in class
23. Talked about someone behind their back
24. Made things harder for someone else when I didn't have to/shouldn't have
25. Kissed a boy on the playground
26. Kissed a girl I'm not related to
27. Skipped a class
28. Found out a secret I shouldn't have (and wish I didn't know)
29. Faked a surprise that I knew about already
30. Been sure I was right
31. Gone up a mountain in a gondola
32. Cried on a bus
33. Broken my two front teeth
34. Rode a bus route all the way back to where I started
35. Sent someone I didn't like a love note
36. Loved a song so much it hurt
37. Sang in the shower
38. Lied when the time was right
39. Lied when the time was wrong
40. Regretted my actions
41. Watched porn on a huge TV
42. Laughed when it wasn't funny
43. Flirted with a drunk boy
44. Watched an entire season of TV in a day
45. Almost fell over when I saw a boy I like
46. Gotten in to deep
47. Took the blame so we could still swim
48. Took the blame so someone else wouldn't get hurt
49. Painted my dreams
50. Danced like no one was watching... even though they were
-Black Plaid