~I'm not so manic now~

One of these days I actually WILL get down to the bank to cash in my £45 x.x Why do the banks have to close so early? Why aren't I better at organising my time? Why did I decide to eat an entire naan korma pizza for lunch? (Answer: it was tasty).

Aaanyway... I'm getting a little bugged with people having a go at me and getting all sarcastic because I've advertised that LJ petition... um... twice. The first time, I was defending LJ strongly, even, so I don't know why people feel the need to chew me out. What bugs me more is that those who chewed me out hardly even use their LJs, and certainly not to the extent that I use mine. No one's forcing you guys to sign it, so don't attack me for supporting it. The proposed changes might not matter to you (in fact, each of you even admitted that as long as it's somewhere to blog, you're happy), but that is YOUR opinion. Of course, you have every right to express that opinion, but when you express it in a way that implies that I'm foolish or childish for supporting the petition, that's unfair. So yeah, lay off, guys, okay? And that's not an attack, just a request. Don't get sarky at me for what I feel strongly about, and I won't get sarky at you for things you feel strongly about :P

And just 'cause I can :P Petition is here and has almost reached 10,000 signatures ^_^ (Whoops, guess I've advertised it three times now :P)

On the topic of LJ... I realized I've come a long way since I started this LJ. It wasn't my first, of course. My LJ before this was jamesmorgan (long since deleted), and I'm fairly sure I had LJs before that, although I don't remember. Since starting this LJ I've managed to gain around 50 new friends (which for me is a big accomplishment, as I don't actively search for new friends and I very rarely make the first move in friending people, being somewhat socially shy), have joined 25 communities, and have somehow managed to become a maintainer of four of those communities (well, one of those is a given as I created it XD)

( Random quizilla result thing )

Heh, with the depressive way I was answering the questions, I REALLY thought I'd get Shadow ^^; Seriously. I took that quiz last night when I was in a really crabby mood. ... hah, changing ONE answer DOES give me Shadow! XDDD Well, knowing even being all grumpy I can still get a Tails result cheered me up a bit ^^; My results ratio on quizzes tends to be mainly Tails, followed by Shadow and Knuckles. My temper gives me Knuckles points, and my moodiness gives me Shadow points XD Thank goodness for whatever it is that gives me enough Tails points to override those ^^;

Ooo, something else that was kinda cool... n.n I posted a drabble for the first time ever over at sonic_drive, in response to the [Sonadow] challenge (not a Sonadow drabble, don't worry XD the world would truly be over...), and I got a fair few comments on it. That pleased me... always good to get positive comments on my writing, even if it was just a drabble I threw together in a couple of minutes ^^; I really should write more often... I enjoy it, but I get lazy. Maybe I'll make an effort to respond to future sonic_drive challenges ^^

Okay, guess that's it for now ^^

~In a world full of people, only some want to fly~

I'm on a bit of a Disney kick and I've decided I really want to play Kingdom Hearts. Problem? :P I don't have the games. Actually, I don't even have a PS2. My brother does... but... yeah. Since we'll be living 300 miles apart in a matter of weeks, that doesn't help much. Aside, of course, from the fact that even when we're living together, me using his PS2 is practically impossible. But Jei said next time I visit her, we can play Kingdom Hearts... so... yay ^^ Looking forward to that. Hope it's soon.

Man, I should NOT have eaten curry for dinner after eating that whole naan korma pizza for lunch ^^; My stomach is now very angry with me. Oh well, I'll probably go snack on Hobnob cookies and hot chocolate in a few minutes anyway. Because that is my tradition, and you cannot stand in the way of the traditions of my people! ... er. Yeah. I reeeally need to get out more ._.;;

August needs to hurry up and get here. I mean, the Summer will almost be over by then, which is sad, but... I'll finally get to move away from here, hurrah!! Bring on Weston-super-Mare and Somerset county livin'! Living out in the country will be a REALLY nice change from this suburban slum. Living close to the Cheddar Gorge and the Mendips and all those other great places... limestone caves... market towns... nature hikes through rambling fields... strolls down the coast... and Wales is only a stone's throw away. I'm only 1/8th Welsh, but still... it'd be nice to see Wales... it's supposedly very beautiful ^^

Also, I was looking at the houses for sale out there in the country... it's amazing what you can get out there compared to what little it would buy you here in London. £450,000 gets you a 5-bedroom mansion-like house with several acres of land, stables, workshop buildings... @_@ Amazing. I saw one that had two seperate workshop buildings and a whole lotta land... I was thinking, if I buy a place like that when I'm rich, I would DEFINITELY turn one of those workshops into a hangar and keep my bi-plane (whichIshallalsohavewhenI'mrich) there, and have a landing strip on my land so I can fly whenever I want ^_^ Whoo! Anyway, to put it into perspective, I live in a fairly small end-of-terrace 3-bedroom house, no land except for a little garden out the back. It's worth about £300,000. Out in the country it would probably cost between £50,000 and £100,000 less. The cost of living in London sure is high.

Of course, the downside is my mom will be getting paid less than she would have been had she stayed here. If she stayed here, her salary would have been £41,000 per year. But her wages in Somerset are something like £36,000, which is significantly less, with her being the single earner. £5,000 per year less might not SEEM a lot, and should be partially balanced out by the cheaper cost of living... but for the first year she's also still going to be paying for the upkeep of this house in Sutton, while my brother does his A-levels. So we might be pretty tight on cash for that first year. But then we're selling up this place and we'll get a decent house in Somerset, and by then hopefully I'll have found my path too, so it'll all be okay ^^

The only other thing that concerns me about moving to the country is bugs. ^^; It's bad enough here in the summer. My main concern is those horrible leggy spiders ._.;; They are EVERYWHERE right now. I keep thinking I see them, and sadly half the time I'm right. They're so big ;_; ::Shudders:: There'll probably be even more spiders out there in the countryside, but hopefully we won't end up living directly on farmland or anything ^^;; I do so haaaate spiders @_@

Okay, done rambling :P