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Post by retro399 on Feb 3, 2006 18:32:39 GMT
(Emma again) Oooooo Oooooo I've got part of a story I have wrote, does that count? Tell me what ya think ^_^
I was so happy, that day at Hawthorne Manor. It was almost Christmas, so the Willerton family were hosting a ball to celebrate the festiveness of the upcoming celebration and snow was falling onto my long red dress - it was a beautiful day; one I will remember forever. My parents were also in the festive spirit, and were dressed up for the celebration - they were communicating with the family who lived in the cottage next to ours, whereas I was talking to a girl my age named Susannah - the only person who I talk to in my section at school. We were talking about the stars, and how fascinating the sky would look like at night, when the sky is clear - right now our village was inside a snow globe. An hour passed since me and my family arrived at the ball, and I had started to lose that exciting feeling that I had had an hour previously - I was getting rather bored. I strolled outside the large building where the laughter was no more. I could still hear the music though, and I turned my focus to the sky. It was beautiful, and the stars glittered as though they had just awoken from their sleep for the first time, and it must have been five minutes afterwards when I heard a bang from behind me. Then the music stopped. I needed to know what the sound was, but when I turned around I saw a young girl – in trousers (It was disgraceful! Truly horrid!) But I am used to the sight now, unfortunately. She looked so unusual, so unusual I could not forget how she looked. She was wearing some blue denim trousers, with a black shirt – and a ridiculous helmet on her head, covering her eyes. I thought she was about the same age as me though, which was amazing to how different we looked to each other. She stared at me, without saying a word. “Where are my parents? I demand to see my parents!” I had said, scared in case the child would harm me. ‘They are gone’ she had replied in an unemotional voice (if only I could have seen her eyes – I think she was crying) ‘Gone? How on earth could they go? Impossible, I demand to see them now!’ But the girl grabbed me by the wrist, and I screamed. She couldn’t do this to me! Then she put a white cloth on my mouth – that was when I fell asleep.
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Post by retro399 on Feb 4, 2006 13:36:44 GMT
hi,this is the real retro,i see emma has been at it again!!!!wait till i get my hands on her!!
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Post by Dory on Feb 6, 2006 12:04:38 GMT
lol its not a bad story, a few grammar, punctuation and a few little things and it would be great heh
but then again if ive typed stuff and not proof read it, the punctuation and grammar suffer somewhat...
ok, my ctrl+v:
Thanks to UNICEF's site...when wandering around on it, i found this.
We have 8 diary entries (inc some pics) from our main man about his trip to Malawi back in December.
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/1.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor walking through the rain to visit a child-headed household in the slum area of Ndirande, Blantyre.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry one:</b></p>
<p>“I’ve learned a lot about the struggle children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS face every day. The lack of food, care, love and medicines. They are no longer statistics to me but little children I’ve met who still had the strength to laugh and smile.</p>
<p>We saw three brothers and a sister who live near Blantyre in a township of sorts, a slum. It was pouring. It was a devastatingly sad visit to these boys’ home, which was a tiny mud hut no bigger than half the size of a small room. I’ve never seen a grimmer sight in my life.</p>
<lj-cut text="the rest"> <p>It was dirty, everywhere was covered in filth, and the blankets they sleep on were thick with grime and dirt. There were flies and fleas crawling on every surface, there were pots that had never been cleaned with flies crawling all over the remnants of food in them. The second room was full of junk, the roof was open and the rain was pouring in, and it stank.</p>
<p>The eldest boy was 17, the next boy was 13, I think the third boy was maybe six or seven and they had a one-and-a-half-year-old sister, this tiny little baby girl, and they lived in this hole. Their mother died in October, of AIDS and they’d watched her die. The eldest boy has epilepsy. I just felt bleak and empty and horrible: I couldn’t believe that a baby girl lives here.</p>
<p>The wee boy goes out begging – the 17-year-old who’s in charge of the family now – to try and raise enough money to feed his three siblings. He was covered in scars and cuts and bruises and burns from having fits and falling down. It was an enormously emotionally upsetting day. It certainly told a story of what life is like in Malawi for 700,000 AIDS orphans.”</p>
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/2.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor and children at Consol Homes Orphan Care.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry two:</b></p>
<p>“We drove to Consol Homes Orphan Care, which is a big centre that UNICEF has helped to support. It’s an incredible place, it really is: different projects within the one centre. There’s a day care centre for little children who’ve been orphaned by AIDS where their grandmother - or whoever is looking after them - can take them. There are some toys – not many, but enough to keep them occupied, and the carers play games with them.</p>
<p>It’s really simple what UNICEF does in these community-based child care centres. The community is in charge of finding and preparing a space for the orphans to be looked after on a day-care type basis. UNICEF sends over supplies: paper, paints and printing things, some educational books for the children, building blocks, a few toys – just very basic things that kids need to behave like kids. The head of the village is responsible for allocating a piece of land to be the garden, and there they grow maize or soy beans, and vegetables with which the carers cook so the kids get at least one proper meal a day.</p>
<p>We met some of the grandmothers and the widows; they’re being taught skills that they can take back to their villages that not only help feed the children they are looking after, but also maybe make them some money. A group of grandmothers were being shown how to pound nuts into a mush and then extract the oil, which they can cook with or sell at the market. Others were being taught how to make soap to sell.</p>
<table width=100% border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/3.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>The Memory Book by Martha Mbewe, a 16-year-old orphaned by AIDS.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>The Memory Book-</b>
<p>We met this fantastic girl, who was 16 and had lost both her parents to AIDS. She showed us a memory book, where the children can put down their thoughts and feelings about the parents they’ve lost and about how they feel and see themselves now. This girl’s book was full of incredible pictures of flowers and the word love, and a picture of herself playing with a football. She told us she considered herself to be a hero because after her parents died people were encouraging her to marry and have a child. She was 16 and said no, she wanted to stay at school, because one day she wanted to be a driver.</p> <p>Wonderful, really wonderful.”</p></td> </tr> </table>
<table width=100% border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/5.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor with children at Kawale Youth Centre, Lilongwe,looking at a book about Britain<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry three:</b>
<p>“Our first stop was the Kawale Youth Centre. We met a girl called Hope who’s 14 and she very proudly showed us round. It’s basically a small room, divided into two: on the right were lots of older boys very studiously reading newspapers and school text books, and on the other side of the partition the little kids were sitting on the floor reading children’s books. And it was so quiet - that’s the first thing that struck me: they were sitting there, quietly, without any teachers. In Africa, the kids have first hand experience of why they need education.”<br><br></td> </tr> </table>
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/6.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor talking with Hope Ganizini, fourteen-years-old at the Kawale Youth Centre, Lilongwe.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Information Note-</b><br> Nearly half of all new HIV/AIDS infections occur in young people between 15 and 24. In order to reduce new infection amongst young people UNICEF is scaling up its projects that give access to knowledge on HIV/AIDS and life skills for young people in and out of school. UNICEF’s ‘youth friendly’ projects help to raise awareness and give out information on HIV/AIDS to young people. UNICEF funds 50 of these ‘youth friendly services’ in Malawi. They give young people their own space and privacy as well as increased information on reproductive health.</p>
<p>“They have talks where people tell them how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS: it seems that one of the most important tools to fight against HIV and AIDS in Africa is educating children and young people on the truth about it – what it is and how you get it, how you can prevent yourself from getting it.”<Br><br></p>
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/7.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor with Dorica Makiyi and her newborn baby, Ndirande District Hospital, Blantyre.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry four:</b></p>
<p>“There are an estimated 511,000 births a year in Malawi with 95 per cent of pregnant women attending ante-natal clinics. Without care, one in three of Malawi’s HIV positive pregnant mothers will pass the virus on to their newborn babies during gestation, delivery or through breast milk. Since 2001, more than 40,000 pregnant women have accessed UNICEF’s prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services, receiving voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and counselling, infant feeding advice, improved delivery care practices, and quality post-natal and follow-up care.</p>
<p>UNICEF is working in hospitals all across Africa to provide medicines to stop mother-to-child transmission of HIV through childbirth. It’s really effective and very simple. The mother is given an anti-retroviral drug during labour, then the baby is given the drug in syrup form for the first two to three months of his life.</p>
<p>We travelled to the Ndirande District Hospital. They do pre-natal HIV screening for all pregnant women now, unless they’ve asked not to have it. Then they’ll be given counselling when they find out whether the test is positive or negative. There was a group of about 30 women sitting on benches in the quite large, dusty hall.</p>
<p>We were asked if we wanted to see one of these ladies having her HIV test. So I said, yes let’s go – and it was a tiny space. Suddenly I was standing inches away from this woman who was being counselled on what will happen if her test is positive. I felt really in the way, but the nurse and the lady who was being tested seemed fairly oblivious and carried on regardless. We asked the lady about her set-up: she was married, she had three children already, and she was pregnant with her fourth child. This was her second AIDS test – she had one before her third child was born, which was negative. I felt for sure that they would be negative this time too.</p>
<p>When we went back into the room the nurse talked to her in the local dialect for quite a long time. There was no reaction on the lady’s face. Then the nurse explained to us what was going on, she said that this test was positive, and I realised that this woman had just been told she carried the HIV virus and I was completely gob-smacked. It felt really wrong to be there. I tried to edge my way out and I stood in the doorway staring at this woman, trying to see what her reaction was, and kind of projecting what I assume my reaction would be on to her, I suppose. It’s very difficult to know whether the women are not showing their emotions for cultural reasons or maybe it's ignorance of the disease, but there doesn’t seem to be that worry about HIV here. Maybe they think the ARV drugs are miracle drugs which means it doesn’t affect your life as much as we know that it will. She said her husband had had the test but wouldn’t tell her what the results were.</p>
<p>UNICEF thinks that maybe less than 10 per cent of HIV-positive women giving birth to children are receiving the anti-retroviral treatment during labour. It’s a shockingly low percentage.”</p>
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/9.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor showing children images of themselves on his digital camera in Cedric Village near Blantyre.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry five:</b></p>
<p>“Next we travelled to Cedric Village, which had another community-based child care centre. It was very different to the one we saw up north at Consul homes. The children were sadder. It was a sadder place. The one we went to yesterday up near Lilongwe was very positive and optimistic and seemed quite shiny, but although we were welcomed equally here it was a quieter place, people seemed less hopeful.</p>
<p>The food crisis is much more serious here in the south and there’s also more AIDS. And it’s reflected in the faces of the people we met, and the children we saw. There were lots and lots and lots of small children there – easily 150. The slightly older children were learning how to use clay and were making things they would like to own, like mobile phones and radios. One boy said he would like to have a radio so he was making it out of clay. And again, there were widows and grandmothers sitting in the shade. The little kids were playing with things that you could find lying around – tin cans that they put sand in and a bit of water; they were playing at cooking and things like that.</p>
<p>Inside, their centre was the perfect example of one of the community-based children’s centres that UNICEF has been raising money for: it showed how little you need to make these children’s lives better. They’re using an old church building, so there wasn’t the cost of building a new one.</p>
<p>One group of children was drawing on paper with coloured pencils. Next to them was a group of children painting with paint brushes on paper, and the paint that they were using was made from the earth and clay surrounding the centre. And you could tell – the colours were all African earth colours. Then there were some children playing with building blocks that looked like they had been carved from wood that had been found lying around, so again that didn’t cost any money. There was a little sleeping room, there were some books – very few books, maybe 10 or 15 – and there was a bunch of kids reading quietly. And then down the way children were writing on slate boards with chalk.</p>
<p>The room must have had 100 children in, and they were playing, they were able to act like children, which is what they deserve to do. It was a fantastic feeling, it made me feel very proud – and very amazed at the strength of the people who look after the kids: these guys are all volunteers and they come from the community to help out because the children need it. Awesome.”</p>
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/11.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor with a three-month-old baby Stella Kantedza at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blantyre.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry six:</b></p>
<p>“Our last day today, and we visited Queen Elizabeth Hospital, one of the biggest in Malawi. There were a lot of British doctors there, and it’s run by an English woman. These doctors are amazing, unbelievable. We were in there for an hour and a half, maybe two hours, but the idea of being there day in and day out working with absolutely nothing – sometimes no drugs, sometimes no staff, and it’s absolutely cramped – well, it’s unbelievable. But the care that’s given is extraordinary, and although the statistics are terrible in terms of babies that die there – I think it’s at least one a day – there are babies who are made better.</p>
<p>I asked the doctors what percentage of children with HIV are seen here, do you think? They said they were seeing the tip of the iceberg, that for every baby they saw there were countless others in villages who weren’t being treated at all. Sometimes there are 300 babies a day in the paediatric ward, who are malnourished or who have AIDS, or both. Three hundred babies a day, so they’re stretched to the limit, but my God they’re amazing people.”</p>
<p><b>Diary entry seven:</b></p>
<p>“In the nutrition rehabilitation unit, which is sponsored by UNICEF, they’re dealing with children who are severely malnourished. The first thing they have to do is to allow the salt to get back into the blood, so for the first couple of days they don’t start feeding them up. They have to stabilise their bodies and get them ready to accept food again. If they get them through those critical first two days, by the time the baby has an appetite again they’re sent home. The doctor was saying that in our country they would keep them for much, much longer, but they have to send them home because there are so many other babies coming in behind them.</p>
<p>We met a very special child. We called him the bouncing boy because he was dancing around, but his mother lay very close to death; she had TB and AIDS.</p>
<p>She was 22, and had given birth to her son when she was 10. She was lying there holding his hand and she was coughing and coughing; she had the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen – she was a beautiful woman. But she was lying on a mattress that was uncovered and her possessions were all over the place, and it was clear that there was no-one looking after her. I asked the doctor, what’s going to happen to the little boy? The doctor shrugged. So when the lady dies, I said, that little boy, who’s 12, is just going to walk out of the hospital? And she said, yeah.</p>
<p>So now we’ve met AIDS orphans, and today we’ve met a little boy who’s about to become one.</p>
<p><table align=right width=260 border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=2> <tr> <td><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/16.jpg" border=1></td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor with three HIV-positive young people who work to raise awareness about the disease at the Thondwe Youth Centre.<br></i></td> </tr> </table><b>Diary entry eight:</b></p>
<p>“We visited so many different projects and places and met so many wonderful people, but it’s almost at a point where my brain can’t take in any more pain and suffering. The last thing we saw was a lovely youth centre. We met a great guy who’d lost both his sisters to AIDS, and who now looked after their six children. He was 32 years old and got married recently and is expecting his first child soon too.</p>
<p>He said “you can’t just walk away from your responsibilities”, which I admired because I’ve heard lots of stories about men who have done just that and walked away from their responsibilities. Now he ran this youth centre where they did voluntary HIV tests, and had a support group.</p>
<p>We met three incredible people who had tested HIV positive: a boy of 17, and women of 22 and 32. They were all unmarried and without children, but as soon as they found out they were HIV positive they decided to tell everybody and to go into the communities to try to educate people about prevention. They seemed really at peace.</p>
<p>I’m convinced that the most important thing of all is knowledge, and education. My hope is that we’ve have seen the peak of HIV and AIDS in Malawi on this trip and in 50 years time we’ll look back and say it’s history.</p>
<p>Children from this youth group put on a play: they used acting and theatre as a way of spreading the word and dispelling myths about HIV and AIDS. Everything that we learnt over the last four days was one way or another, in this play. And I looked round at the faces of the hundreds of children watching, and I hoped in my heart that they wouldn’t have to go through some of the things I’ve seen since I’ve been here, that this new generation will know about AIDS and will not sleep around and will use condoms when they have sex, and that AIDS will wane and Africa can become strong again. I really hope that. I really hope that.”</p>
<a href="http://www.unicef.org.uk/campaigns/take_action/hivaids/index.asp"><img src="http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/_e_w_a_n_3/unicef/signmeupbutton.gif" alt="Take Action"></a>
Pictures by: Caroline Irby for UNICEF 2005.
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oooohkay, i forgot that was in there...a post for my LJ community...too much html makes dory a sleepy girl lol
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Post by retro399 on Feb 7, 2006 9:50:04 GMT
it must have taken you ages to do that!!!
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Post by Dory on Feb 7, 2006 22:33:38 GMT
aye, it took a while, i had to do a lot of editing lol
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Post by retro399 on Feb 8, 2006 10:51:52 GMT
you must be so patient,i have no patience whatsoever!!
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Post by Dory on Feb 8, 2006 15:44:10 GMT
ahhh well, see thats where ya wrong heh...i have the patience and attention span of goldfish.
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oh...my god....talk about long!
ok..feel free to skim or even skip, i wouldnt blame ya heh id do the same ;O
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001. How many keys are on your keychain? i dont have one, but on outside of my purse is my front door, and on the inside is the backdoor, garage door and door chain
002. What makeup do you wear on a daily basis? eyeliner mainly
003. Is your AIM away message on? dont have aim
004. If you could eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? fajitas
005. What curse word do you use the most? shhhhh-ugar
006. Do you own an iPod? nope and dont want one
007. Who on your Myspace "Top 8" do you talk to the most? dj, butch, audioslave, soundgarden, vex red, septembre...cant remember the other two *goes and checks* i aint used MS in a while...BMR and Adam
008. What time is your alarm clock set for? aint set...but usually to remind me home and away is on
009. How many suitcases do you own? one and its sat in front of me actually...waiting to be taken to italy woo
010. Do you wear flip-flops even when its cold outside? er...i only wear em on holiday, cos i'm sad, i cant wear them without socks for too long cos the toe-post crucifies my foot and then i cant wear them at all
011. Where do you buy your groceries from? i dont buy them, parents do lol but tescos
012. Would you rather take the picture or be in the picture? take..i <3 taking pics...but i dont mind being in them as long as i dont have to be serious and i get to see the result before others do
013. What was the last movie you watched? er cant remember ;O *scans memory* aaah Bride & Prejudice
014. Do any of your friends have children? Well most of the ones that do aint my friends any more, but i know Kirsty does (from primary school), Gill and Amy do (from high school) and Claire does (more vickis friend than mine)
015. If you won the lottery, whats the first thing you would buy? The Tribe series 2 on dvd...been waiting for it for years...then probably a car
016. Has anyone ever called you lazy? all the time
017. Do you ever take medication to help you fall asleep faster? not with my knowledge
018. What CD is currently in your CD player? er i think its Secret Garden by David Sun
019. Do you prefer regular or chocolate milk? regular
020. Has anyone told you a secret this week? *day dreams about John Barrowman* sorry where was i? erm...nope
021. When was the last time someone hit on you? some drunk dude in maximes, cant remember exactly when, but a friday
022. Do you wear hoodies often? only when its cold or the weather/situation calls for it, ive had them for yeaaaaaars (before they became the weapon of choice for a certain group of people, when to me they were just winter clothing) but now hardly wear em lol
023. What color hair do you have? a normal colour(s) for me actually, dark chocolate brown, with light brown and blonde streaks
024. Can you whistle? quietly, yus
025. What is the first thing you see when you look to your left? my pillow, its Dory and Marlin ;D
026. Do you make your own jewelry? as she said, its <font size="5">J E W E L L E R Y</font>! tssk! and yus, i do, its cheaper
027. Have you ever participated in a protest? er...not the 'march down the street kind' but yyus
028. Who was the last person to call you? mum
029. What is your favorite ride at an amusement park? anything fun, i'm sad actually, i love the runaway mine train at alton towers...also like Air, Nemisis, Oblivion etc...i love me some white knuckle rides *cant get enough*
030. Do you think people talk about you behind your back? course they do
031. Have you ever dated one of your best friends? yus
032. What area code are you in right now? LYK IDS4Y
033. Did you watch cartoons as a child? hah yus, the only ones i watch now are Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents
034. How big is your local mall? hah hmm its still being built...i cant remember what the sign on the building site said about size, but the sorta one we got now, its kinda...this big *holds hands out*
035. What is your job title? Tax-payer-Leech
036. How many siblings do you have? one older bruv
037. Have you ever been so drunk that you threw up? hah unfortunatly yus...but i dont usually throw up due to drink anymore
038. Are you shy around the opposite sex? not particilarly
039. What is your biggest regret? *taps nose* nuh uh
040. Have you ever had Jamba Juice? huh? *scratches <s>butt</s> head* wha?
041. When was the last time you laughed so hard your sides hurt? at Harry Hill's tv burp on saturday
042. Favorite movie? hah depends on my mood...at the moment its probably Garden State, Virtual Sexuality or Breakfast Club
043. Do you own any band t-shirts? Tshirts = Vex Red (3 of), Audioslave, Green Day, InMe, Septembre (but i dont wear it anymore...cos its nutse lol) Hoodies = Stained, Deftones, Less Than Jake
044. What is your favorite candle scent? Marine Sea Air, well thats actually an incense, hmmm candle...any ocean ones i spose...or green tea
045. How many aunts and uncles do you have? on my dads side = 4 aunts, technically 2 uncles (by marriage) on my mums side = one uncle and one aunt(by marriage)
046. When was your last plane ride? never been on one
047. Have you ever eaten snow? yus lol
048. How many chairs are at your dining room table? our dining room table is in the garage so unless you include the chair at the side, my bike at the side of it and the 3 motorbikes in front of it as chairs....then none
049. What is your favorite salad dressing? salt lol
050. Do you read for fun? yus
051. Can you speak any languages other than English? not fluently no, can understand french but not speak so much...i need to brush up on my Italian again, imma need it
052. Where is your cell phone? mobile, MOBILE! *screams* ahem ok, on the bed beside me..its sitting here being filled with go-go juice...its all pretty and pink *strokes it*
053. Do you do your own dishes? sometimes
054. What color is your bedroom painted? ivory, warm apricot and sea blue
055. Are your parents divorced? nup, still married and living together...growin more alike than they realise hah oo ;O im in a minority! lol
056. Have you ever cried in public? sorta
057. Do you have a desktop computer or a laptop? Laptop...*pokes it* its neally fallin off my knee but i cant be arsed movin... also got a desktop, but thats in the other room
058. Which do you make: wishes or plans? both depending on the subject
059. Are you always trying to learn new things? once again, depends on the subjects, something are best left unsaid
060. what messenger programs do you have? i have got msn somewhere, but the only time i use it these days is to talk to mum cos i cant be arsed shouting or goin down the landing to the other room
061. Do you shower on a daily basis? nah, why bother? save energy, water, electricity, time and skin by doin what i do...do it every other day and if just your hair needs washin, then just lean over and wash it without havin a shower...too much washing skin can just destroy its natural moisture
062. Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos? well ive got the two lip piercings i wanted...i wouldnt mind my ears done again either, possible one on the cartlidge too, i would love my tragus done again, but the polava of it getting infected and healing up last time tssk...i also want some tattoos, 4 actually
063. Do you believe that the guy should pay on the first date? Not really, if he wants to or insists then fine...i aint gonna argue but i also dont get mad when i have to pay for myself
064. Can you skip rocks? a bit
065. Have you ever been to Jamaica? nups
066. What do you like to snack on at the movie theatres? water lol sometimes pringles, or a burger king meal, or donuts, or popcorn...or whatever im in-the-mood-for/have-with-me/someone-doesnt-want etc
067. Who was your favorite teacher? Mr Lynch (geography) and Mr Murphy (resistant materials)....because Mr Lynch was the best, we listened to music all lesson, did various other things and he let me sleep in lesson lol (in my leavers book he put 'dont fall asleep' heh) and mr murphy cos i had him wrapped round my little finger, i couldnt be arsed making something or cutting a piece of wood, so id just subliminaly ask and he'd do it, but he made everyone else do their own! muahahahhahahahhahaaaaaaa *chokes*
068. Have you ever dated someone out of your race? i dont race...;O i'm lazy, unless you include armchair racing...TSSK what kinda q is that...ok, seriously, yus
069. What is the weather like? spring!! yey gorgeous, sunny with a nice breeze! YEYEYEYEYEEYeye my favouritestestest weather
070. Would you ever date someone covered in tattoos? hell yeah...*dribbles*
071. Do you have an online journal? hmm no...its all mirage
072. Did you ever play Capture the Flag in school? yup
073. What is/was your favorite time of day? hah erm...i dunno
074. Do you enjoy traveling via airplanes? wouldnt know
075. What personality trait is a must-have in the opposite sex? sarcasm
076. Have you ever been attracted to someone physically unattractive? aye...personalities and sense of humour are much more important
077. When was the last time you slept on the floor? erm, properly slept? August 2002
078. What is your favorite alcoholic drink? Bud or JD i spose
079. Does your closest Starbucks have a drive-thru? the closest starbucks i know to me is in manchester and its in picadilly station, so no....
080. Do you like your living arrangement? aye, tis awreet ;D
081. Has anyone ever called you spoiled? hmm dont think so
082. What is your mothers hometown? ask her....oi, yus you...*points*
083. Did you ever go to the same school as your parents? nope
084. How many hours of sleep do you need to function? i can go on none for a while if i have to, but on averge 6/7 is alright, but i usually get around 9/10 a day doh heh
085. Do you eat breakfast daily? when i remember or im up early enough for it not to become brunch
086. What was the last thing to scare you? one of the cats
087. Do you own a Playstation? aye, an original playstation and a PS2
088. How many times have you brushed your teeth today? once...cmon its only 14:15
089. What is your usual bedtime? *shrugS* when i feel like, or depending on what time i gotta be up...usually around 12:30-2am these days
090. Do you know who Janice Dickinson is? who?
091. How many pairs of shoes do you own? my 5-inch-knee high platforms, my new rocks, DC's (and a spare old pair for decorating etc), Docs, mid-length pink fluffy boots, ive got some old white trainers with blue/grey flames on them somewhere but i dont wear em...so that makes 7...(or 10 if you include all my slippers)
092. Are your days full and fast-paced? oh yus...i get up ;O i make myself presentable! ;O (oh no! shocker), i watch tv, i eat, i watch more tv, maybe a film, i eat, i watch more random stuff, maybe read a bit, then sleep! so action packed i dont know what to do with myself!
093. Did you ever get in trouble for talking in class? all the time...i ALWAYS got told if i did as much work as i did talking, i'd be acing the subject...lol
094. Is there carpet, wood or tile in the room you're currently in? carpet, its blue...its purdy *strokes with feet*
095. Were you a "planned" child? Yup lol
096. What is your favorite fruit? Apple i spose or Kiwi
097. Do you pay attention to calories on the back of packages? only if im having lots n lots to eat in one sitting
098. What color underwear are you wearing? hmm i think *checks* black yeah
099. Do you know how to work a cash register? no
100. How much is gas where you live? i dunno, it runs freely in this house....but then again thats methane, so i dunno...
101. Are you picky about spelling and grammar? uh huh *nods* bad me
<i>------ *goes off and has dinner* -----</i>
102. What time is your curfew? dont have one...
103. Who is your bank account with? that one there *points*
104. If you had ONE wish, what would you wish for? i dunno, ya have to be careful what ya wish for....or be VERY specific and detailed..(watch Bedazzled *nods*)
105. Do you believe in life on other planets? uh huh, small plants or the like, yes
106. What does your mouse pad look like? its a laptop...so its no mouse tssk
107. Have you ever been to geauga lake? in my dreams....er? where the hell is that?
108. Who was the last person to pee you off? someone on the telly
109. Do you believe that God has a gender? where what where why now?
110. What was the last thing you ate? a mini kitkat chunky, a chilled kitkat and prior to that, french bread with dairylea, smoked ham and branston on mmmm
111. Can others make you cry easily? depends
112. Do you get along better with the same or opposite sex? opposite
113. What did you dress up as for your first Halloween? zombie
114. How did your parents pick your name? dunno, *askes* *Waits for answer to be posted*
115. Do you like mustard? yus
116. If you could enter a celebrity's mind, whose would you choose to enter? hmm dunno...too many to chose from
117. What do you tell yourself when times get hard? must. attack. clock. with. lighter....then time'll go soft wooo
118. Would you ever sky dive? yus, but i'd need prescription eyes protectors or whatnot, cos its pretty pointless if everything is blurred...
119. Do you sleep on your side, tummy, or back? all of the above...i dont lie still, never have, never will...
120. What character from a movie most reminds you of yourself? John Bender from Breakfast Club
121. Can you pop your knuckles? knuckles not on command no, but my toes and left ankle i can...my knees just do it all the time, if theyre not crackin, theyre grinding so...*shrugs*
122. Do you know what an IP address is? hmm difficult...is it, a bird? a plane? nooooo its a flying computer in underpants!
123. Have you ever bid for something on ebay? duh
124. What do you think of Angelina Jolie being pregnant? *shrugs* her choice lol but at least the kid'll have good genes (and jeans...they can afford them)
125. Do you enjoy giving hugs? i loves em! im a hug-a-holic
127. Would you consider yourself to be fashionable? not particularly
128. What song lyric, if any, is stuck in your head at the moment? <i>i'll top the bill, i'll earn the kill, i have to find the will to carry on</i> (funnily enough, in Nicole's voice)
130. Do you own a digital camera? yup..
129. If someone you had no interest in dating expressed interest in dating you, how would you feel? unlikely to happen so i have no opinions on that subject
130. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? natural butter, but erm...mint choc chip i spose
131. What's your favorite color? silver, pink, black, blue, green and purple....i can sing a raaaaaaaaaaainbow, sing a rainboooooooow...
132. What celebrities have you been compared to? er...
133. Who is your favorite Star Wars character? R2D2 actually lol
134. Does it annoy you when someone says they'll call but never do? no, it only annoys me when people say they'll call...i hate talkin on phones
135. What books, if any, have made you cry? none
136. Do you think you're attractive? *shrugs*
137. What are you allergic to? Pollen, nickel and dust
138. Are you a jealous person? not in particular
139. What is your favorite Christmas//winter movie? Home Alone 1 & 2
140. Have you memorized your Social Security Number? nope dont have one here...but we national insurance numbers and i know mine...
141. Did you vote in the last election? nope...and never have
142. Whats your opinion on sex without emotional commitment? *shrugs* sometimes it just has to be done hah
143. Do you dance? if thats what ya wanna call it..
144. Have you ever had the "falling" dream? yeah, but i sold it on ebay
145. Do you ever feel guilty after eating meat? nope...i likes ma meat! lol
146. If you were born the opposite sex, what would your name be? Andrew George
147. Did you ever celebrate "Pi Day"? ;O wigan has it own day? a whole pie day! wooooooooo *celebrates*
148. What is the time? 15:35
149. What generator do you use for your myspace? it was something by some dude called something but ive deleted everything now so...nothing
150. Who did you steal this from? <lj user=elyim>
ohhhhhhhhhkay! lol from my journal again
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Post by retro399 on Feb 9, 2006 10:33:16 GMT
0mg dory,that is a lot!i have a few things in common with you,i think!!i love incense as well,burn it every night,and ususally i have found that get on better with the opposite sex,as there is less b*tchiness than wih women,i think!i didnt know you hadn been on a plane before,dont worry,iam sure you will be just fine!just remember to suck n a boiled sweet when the plane takes off so your ears wont go funny!
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Dory
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I'm a puppet not a wh?re..
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Post by Dory on Feb 9, 2006 11:38:50 GMT
not likely to be on a plane for a while....cant afford to lol we're goin to italy by coach (same as last time)
my clipboard:
Months Of The Year : February
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excellent fan
I'm a puppet not a wh?re..
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Post by Dory on Feb 9, 2006 14:36:03 GMT
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Post by Leeny on Feb 9, 2006 15:05:03 GMT
interesting game you guys ... however do you think you could please keep whatever you paste to a minimum thank you
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Post by retro399 on Feb 10, 2006 10:28:42 GMT
ok.....like the pix,dory!
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Dory
excellent fan
I'm a puppet not a wh?re..
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Post by Dory on Feb 10, 2006 21:00:07 GMT
hah thats me....what can i say? i like things long lol sorry ;D
if theyre that long next time, i'll edit.
for now, i dont have anything in the clipboards
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Post by retro399 on Feb 11, 2006 11:13:30 GMT
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Dory
excellent fan
I'm a puppet not a wh?re..
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Post by Dory on Feb 15, 2006 18:48:24 GMT
my ctrl+p= hah my friend, DJ's just sent me pics from when he was doin some poker challenge thing, and they're all dressed up(or down, depends which way you look at it)....anywho this one wi Tiff made me laugh for some reason, dunno why:
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