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Well it’s been a much less exciting month but I’ve still got a few things to bore you guys with 

WORK

The temp job is going really well, I’ve made a few friends and the tasks are varied enough so I don’t get too bored. It’s been extended until Christmas so I can afford to buy myself a PSP, the tattoo and some more clothes! Only thing is it isn’t permanent so I hope something crops up in the meantime 

HOME

As you might know I’ve had my hair cut a few weeks ago – I’ve got a thin fringe and it trimmed. This weekend I’m having a thicker fringe cut in, it heavily layered long at the front and short at the back coming down to the top of my shoulders/bottom of neck. I like the look of longer hair but I’m just sick of it and it’ll grow back quick if I don’t like it short 

I know I look really young here but most photos make me look young anyway so meh 

It’s my mum’s 40th next week – she’s old!  I’m gonna bake her some of my homemade flapjack, drizzled in white chocolate and with white chocolate buttons around it. I found some candles that spell out FORTY so I’m gonna pop those on top  She loves white chocolate, I bake fab flapjack – sorted!

And on another note I’ve gotta sort out my taxes – grr! I’ve been taxed since that temp job in August so I’ve got a hell of a job claiming everything back. And the tax office is only open Monday – Friday, 9-5…you know, when I’m at work  I’ve heard you can do it online but I’ve yet to check it out. Why can’t getting paid be really simple?

SOCIAL

Since turning 18 I’ve been to the pub a few times on a Friday night. Last week I went with Chantel (a mate from work) and Danny (childhood mate) – it was really good  I was only planning on staying for a few drinks but ended up getting home at 1am! I’ve decided though that I’m sick of feeling rough on Saturdays and it kinda ruins my day with Hero so I’m gonna lay off the pub for a while…maybe 

Flash Forward! I caught the first episode a few days ago and it’s wicked – can’t wait for the next one 

I bought the new Muse album on Amazon and saved 4 quid so I spent 4 quid on Derren Brown’s book, Tricks of the Mind. My mate had it a while ago and I read a bit on memory and thought it might be useful as I’m crap at remembering things. I’ve been reading a little each day and it’s so well written! An amusing read, I’d definately recommend it 

Gotta be Uprising by Muse – love it!❤

Has to be my current desktop background. I want to see the Northern Lights one day 

I dreamt a couple of days ago that there was a flood and huge waves. News story today? A ****ing tsunamio_O Holy crap I can dream the future *is all spooky* 

The new Muse album  I pre-ordered it on Amazon on Saturday and chose free delivery which is 3-5 working days. So I expected it to arrive anytime between the next Wednesday to Friday. Tuesday, the day after the release and it arrives! So chuffed with that! ^______^

So what’s been happening with me recently? Erm, unemployment and Swine Flu. Yep that’s just about it. Like many other people in our current economic climate I am pretty much flat out broke. I have been looking for a job and believe me there are none in my area, if I was to live near a city I would have a much better chance of finding paid employment but as I am a country bumpkin and cannot drive there is little hope for me. Seems I am stuck in a catch 22 situation, I have no job because I cannot afford a car, but I cannot afford a car because I have no job. Another alternative would be to move, I think this is the most likely outcome as I want to move out of my parents house anyway and if I can live in a city where there is paid employment then I can get a job and actually start living my life instead of being stuck here waiting for something to happen.

Anyway last week something did happen. However what this something was was a case of Swine Flu, not what I was hoping for really. I am a lot better now anyway otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this. Yeah I think I’m going to keep this short, I have promised to myself that I am going to be a lot more proactive and have set myself goals each day of what I’m going to get done in an effort to stop myself pissing time away. Incidentally I am counting any work I do for this site or a new site I have offered to contribute to newbreview as work, which it kind of is so I will (I know I’ve promised this a lot recently and not delivered) be writing more articles more frequesntly and if you are part of a gaming publication print or web then my services are offered to you whatever level you are just please e-mail me at braindead_hero@hotmail.com or alternitavely I’m @braindead_hero on twitter.

WORK

Early this month I did a data processing job. I’d done it a couple of years before – my mate James’ cousin runs it so I get offered a place each year. This year was really fun, I spent time with James, Nathan and Tommy and we had a good laugh The job only lasted 2 days as we finished all the work but I was quite relieved cause it’s really tedious just putting 0 or 1 and ENTER into a computer =_=” I still haven’t got a payment through which is quite worrying so that’s just another thing on my plate to sort out!

I also did a temp job at the NHS a few weeks back. It was supposed to last 2 weeks but I was on holiday for the last week – another relief as the job was filing and also quite tedious! I got on really well with my co-workers which made me realise something. When I quit the pizza shop my confidence was rock bottom – no-one there liked me…I’ve never been particularly liked at school but I thought things would change when I got into work and they didn’t. I was really worried that nothing would ever change and even when I got into the police I’d be unhappy. But it wasn’t that at all – it was the stupid teen workers at the pizza shop, not me. Everyone at the NHS was aged late 20’s to early 50’s and they were fab! I’ve just filled in some time sheets and I’ll have to sort out this P45 thingy – getting paid isn’t as straight forward as I thought!

FUN

I went to a gig with Amy and Pippa mid July and it was AMAZING! It was awesome spending time with them – I’ve never really had girl mates before and it’s great to finally have some We all dressed up pretty gothy as Birthday Massacre sounded like that kind of band! I got back home at 2am and woke up at 7am to start that NHS temp job…that was fun lol

We also saw Raggedy Angry and I loved their influence of retro games in the music!

The bassist reminded me of a chubbier, punkier version of Hero lol We met the band afterwards – got some photos and they signed our tickets

Lmao the front of the ticket violates Photobucket’s terms of use cause the lead singer drew a penis

I also got one of their t-shirts:

Here’s a web cam shot of me wearing it to put in my 10k post party:

Which brings me swiftly onto my next subject – I finally hit 10k!

Link to the thread – don’t post though or you’ll get a moderation

HOLIDAY

I got back from a week in Bulgaria yesterday – I went with my mum, her boyfriend, my brother, his best friend and Hero. It’s a first as I usually just go away with my family. It was amazing getting a week with Hero in the sun – we even had our own room ^____^ The hotel was fab and the beach was literally next door! I don’t like spending more than 10 mins lying in the sun so I picked up a light tan rather than a proper one – Hero’s only been on holiday once before when he was 5 and he’s really pale anyway so we didn’t overdo it and he’s picked up a healthy glow

We arrived at 4am local time so we unpacked and headed down to the beach to watch the sun rise. I’ve never watched the sun rise before, let alone with a partner so it was nice and romantic I got some crappy pics on my camera phone:

This was the view from our balcony:

To the left:

The beach and a football pitch

To the right:

The town – Obzor

I also took this photo at dusk one night:

We were on the top floor in some of the best rooms so our balconies were open

The pool:

You know how us Brits have the Spar shop? Over in Bulgaria they have Sparm lol

Hero decided to try out all the weird flavoured crisps like Paprika and we ended up loving these Star Snack bacon flavoured crisps – I hate meat flavoured crisps but those were gorgeous! We bought tons of packs back with us :3

I’ll get the photos off Mehregan’s (mum’s boyfriend) camera asap and post them in the next blog!

We usually had a few drinks in the evening every day (hurray for all-inclusive!) On Tuesday night Matt (brother), Connor (best mate) and Hero drank loads of Tequilas and even I tried my first one! Matt snorted salt off the table for 10 lev between us and it was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while Some French guy saw and started talking to us. He knew as much English as Hero knew French so we kind of got by and saw him on some nights after that

On Wednesday Hero woke up and was sick which I pinned down to the alcohol but when he hadn’t stopped by that afternoon we realised it was sun stroke. The poor sod was shut away in the room for the day and I (the bikini clad nurse) checked in every few hours, got more water etc. So that wasn’t a fun day for him but at least it got him out of the sun.

Neither of us burnt because we were careful with sun tan but we often forgot to wear sun hats which led to Hero’s sun stroke and me burning my scalp in a line where my parting was – that’s still painful!

Oh and on the first day I hadn’t slept in a day, my legs had been inactive sat on the plane and travelling and I decided to go for a swim in the sea with Hero. Bad idea – I went to put my feet down and the bottom wasn’t there and so my legs stretched too far and BAM! One of them cramped – it was by far the most excrutiating cramp I’ve ever had and my head started to go under the water. Luckily Hero was at hand to lift me up and carry me to shore like…well, a Hero Usually cramps wear away and I’m fine but I hobbled about for the rest of the day as my leg was that stiff =_=”

On another note we buried each other in the sand:

And we went out on a peddle boat on one of the days to find that there were jellyfish beyond the swim markers. They were clear and some were huge!

So we decided to return the next day with nets and buckets to catch them but we couldn’t find any nets in the shops so we hired the peddle boat and scooped them out the water with my brother’s sun hat. We didn’t have any buckets either so we thought it would be funny to put them down the slide on the boat and you know what? It was funny

All in all the holiday was a great laugh I miss Hero already but I’m looking forward to seeing him on my 18th birthday which is in 3 days now (on Wednesday) – woot!

MONTHLY BLOG STUFF

PROTOTYPE! Not much to say other than it’s ****ing awesome!

By Rache Engel on DeviantART. He was one of the first people I ever followed and I’m buying one of his prints for my birthday with I’ve loved for 4 years now ^____^ Hero wants a bear onesie like this :3

Sorry for another huge blog, my life shouldn’t be this exciting from now on!

A big cookie to all who read this:

WORK

Well I’ve quit my part-time job at the Pizza shop because I just wasn’t very good at it and the manager handled it in totally the wrong way, instead of helping me out he stuck me working only 1 half shift a week when the other girls were getting up to 2 full ones. For the sake of 15 quid a week I’d rather be unemployed for a while so I can find a job with more hours

I’ve been on the job websites everyday, handing out CVs locally etc. Littlewoods near KFC looks promising as all the students go back to uni in 4-6 weeks!

My exams are over now – all of them went quite well and although I hardly think about results day, I’ve had a lot of dreams where I either get As or Ds which is frustrating when I wake up and believe it for a second Even though I cut things quite short, when I eventually get revising I really focus. Here’s me and Hero revising for our Psychology papers

I thought the synoptic was gonna be rock solid and panicked for a few days before but it went really well I went to Hero’s house after (as it’s closer to college and I’d have to wait 5 hours for my bus to arrive to take me home) and we relaxed all afternoon:

(Oh yeh he had his hair cut a while ago – I showed the best pic I had of the last time he had it done to the hairdresser but the bloke cut his hair REALLY short! He looked about 10 when he came out which I found funny And suddenly he gets asked for ID to buy cigarettes now lol)

HOME

I found my old mp3 player the other day – it switches on but is kind of bricked so it doesn’t really work. After plugging it into my computer and it saying it won’t let me do anything (like format it) because I don’t have permission I decided to rip the casing off. Plugged it in again and it works as a 512mb flash drive now I wanna make a case for it, any ideas?

I want a hole cut out for the screen cause it looks pretty when it’s plugged in:

I think a NES controller case would look cool but the ‘flash drive’ is only 9cm from tip of the USB connecter to end. So I’d need a mini NES controller and something that could cut plastic for the screen

Oh my conclusion with this thing is that buttons are evil and one of them must’ve been poking in the wrong place and taking the casing off removed the buttons and allowed the flash drive to breath

I’ve also got into sewing! I started off by hand stitching this out of an old t-shirt that doesn’t fit me anymore:

I painted the teeth on with acrylic. I thought it was quite good for a first attempt at sewing ever! I made this next:

This one was stitched inside out and is filled with proper plushie filler Finally I’ve started making these:

I’m gonna be going to a Steampunk party soon but I don’t wanna wear Victorian stuff and I joked about saying I should go as a Steampunk Misty and everyone thought that was a good idea. This is my outfit:

I’ve already got the socks, shorts, trainers, vest and goggles:

The colour scheme is black and grey and the only wristband glove thing I’ve got is purple and black so I made my own out of the rest of that old t-shirt. It took me all day because I don’t measure much, I just pin and cut and pin again to make sure it’s the right fit. I’m surprised I didn’t stab myself putting my hand in a glove with pins sticking out of it

I’m gonna cut cog shapes out of an old white t-shirt I’ve got and sew them on

Speaking of things hand made, I found a 40p notebook from Tesco and I had a cool idea to ink ‘Death Note’ on the front with my silver marker – here’s the result

It’s only a mini one measuring 10.5cm x 15.5cm and I went back to the Tesco and they don’t stock them anymore which is a shame cause I was gonna make one for all my mates with little messages in them like “Good luck at uni” etc

I’m going on holiday with Hero and my family from the 24th of July for a week – to Bulgaria (hot part!), can’t wait! I’ve never been on holiday with a boyfriend before so it should be great

I’m also 18 in 5 weeks!

Pros:

Will be finally old enough to buy alcohol and old enough again to buy cigarettes (they changed the law a month after I turned 16!). I have loads of different stuff planned – I wanna go snowboarding at X-Scape, have sleepover with James, Josh and Tommy, have a party at Tommys, have a party at Heros, go out round town with Danny & my skateboarding mates and go to the pub with my main mates It’s gonna take up a good week!

Cons:

I’ll never be able to listen to Dancing Queen by Abba, I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles or Seventeen by Winger and pretend they’re about me ever again

I’ve given this site complete revamp – there’s new content, new appearance and new (more likeable) forums! Podcasts are also gonna resume again soon. If you have any news or reviews then send them to tofu-hero@live.co.uk as we find it difficult to produce tons of content between two people!

As for gaming I’m really into L4D atm – my Steam is tofulion91 if you want to add me I also picked up a copy of the Sims 3 which is good but I’m already bored of it! A good way of testing out the strengths and limitations in Sims games is to try and build an exact replica of your house – I’ve finished mine and screenshots will be up of tofu-hero.com soon

Oh and I was gutted to hear that MJ died, they’ll never be another like him

Thoughts go out to his family x

LOVE/SOCIAL
I went to Hero’s a couple of weeks ago and for the first time brough my computer – it took about 3 trips to the car to get everything in so it was a pain but it was fab having it with me – we played L4D over LAN…LAN party! Lol Well we were gonna have a mini one actually but Shaun couldn’t bring his PC round so we left it.

We also made smartie cookies which were delicious

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Has to be the painting I did last week – I haven’t painted in over a year so I thought I’d do some since I love it

It’s based off this photo I took on holiday this year:

I’m addicted to the Beatles at the moment and although I’ve got a lot of favourites, Hey Jude is the one I listen to most. It’s perfect I’m also accompanying my Beatles addiction with a spot of Abba (my old favourites alongside Queen). My favourite song atm is Chiquitita.

I’m going to see this band called Birthday Massacre with Amy and Pippa next month so I thought I’d look up some of their stuff – they’re ok actually, I expected to hate them. My favourite song is Blue.

How is everyone?

I’m totally smitten with Simon Baker from the Mentalist! I love that show, haven’t missed a single episode since it started I want to watch the Guardian but I don’t know when it’s on and the internet just shows the American times.

And finally, the word of the month is aubergine. Bye guys!

I should be fretting about my psychology exam on wednesday but I’m not. Well as much as I was. I just realised it’s pointless getting so worried about it because even if I fail my other exams from this and last year will pick my grade up. And even then I know tons of people in the police from just GCSE’s. I’m a worrier. It’s what I do. I worry about everything & anything and I’m always worrying about the future. Braindead_hero’s not a worrier at all and he’s always calming me down when I get in a state. Still I should’ve done revision tonight but I’ve relaxed and worked on this site

My photography teacher’s disappointed because he’s finally realised I’m not gonna get an A like I did last year. God knows what it was that made me motivated to do that much work last year but it certainly isn’t present this year. I don’t like to disappoint people but I’ve become more and more aware of how pointless education is recently. Exams are just tests of how well you can memorize and how much revision you do.

I’ve also being thinking of modern society in general. Everything’s so fast paced and I think it’s bad. We should have 3 day weekends and have some FUN in our lives. I think it would be really cool if kids ruled the world. I know that sounds childish measuring things on how fun they are not how beneficial they are but fun is important and adults forget that.

I wish college would end tomorrow. I’m sick of it. I just wanna get in the police and start the rest of my life

Up until a few days ago I was scared shitless about becoming an adult and getting a job and getting into the real world. Today I’m excited about it. I dunno whether that’s a random mood swing and I’ll go back to being scared tomorrow but we’ll wait and see

I told my photography teacher that there’s no way I’m working to the standard I did last year and I’d be happy leaving college with all C’s and he said he didn’t know how I could happily settle for that and it got me thinking. I don’t really expect much out of life in general – my life aim is to live comfortably, not rich and not having to worry about the bills. I think that’s where most people go wrong. There’s so much expectation about the adult world so they work really hard in school, in 6th form and in uni to get this DREAM job which turns out not to be a dream job at all. Then they’re left disappointed. Sure, some people get their dream job and do really well off it but must of us end up disappointed with what we get. Because we have too high expectations.

It’s like potential. Stay right away from that! It’s like Bill Bailey says “Potential is like your bank balance. There’s always less in there than you think”.

I know this general post seems very pessimistic but it’s not. I’m not unhappy with settling for things. I just want to live a nice comfortable life. I take my pleasure from the little things in life: smoke breaks, cups of coffee in the winter, chatting with my mates, snowboarding and other hobbies/habits. I don’t need this great fulfillment that is promised to use from being kids as long as we work hard and do as we’re told.

Anyways enough of that! Had the best weekend ever – me and Hero had been going out for 11 months on saturday so I stopped over and on sunday we made a cake! It’s a sponge cake with fizzy haribos in the mixture (which caremalised in the oven and turned into pockets of sugar!) with chocolate melted on top and M&Ms on top of that Enough to turn anyone diabetic!

See it’s got a heart and 11 in it – how cute! ^_^ Tehe