Kathryn’s Blog

Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let’s pretend we’re just two people and
You’re not better than me
I’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We’re not dumb and we’re not blind
They’re all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter’s rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You’ve come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye

Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don’t know nothing bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You’d never take a walk with me
Would you

Say no to Jesus

is a really really creepy cult.

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Been a while!

Folks are off on holiday – I’m all by self and just totally self involved doing my own thing.

Went to the dentist the other week. Apparently my enamel is erroding and I’ve been given some prescription toothpaste…did you ever hear of that?! It’s not helping with my sensitive tooth though

They’re quite tasty actually.

So I’m waiting for an auction to end in Ebay (for a ds lite would you believe) and I’ve been wanting to do a nice big update – so here goes. I’ll make some attempt to be chronological about it all.

So the whole computer hoopla was kind of pointless. The nice computer fella who came out and fixed the computer after it fell off the back seat of my car (shhhhhhhh we’re not telling them that) suggested trying a floppy disk to retrieve my dads files (the whole reason for the arsing about with the hard drive tower in the car in the first place) – which worked. I then had to do a system recovery so I lost everything else but eh….made Oblivion run a hell of a lot better.

They’ve shuffled us about a work a little bit. We were going to have to move up a section (ie a few feet) but fortunately someone figured out that made no sense. So we didn’t However we did get more surnames (we work alphabetically) which sucks ass and we also got the laziest fucking cunt in the whole branch. The desk was empty before and between the 3 of us we kept it up to date. He comes in at 9.30 (except for those days when he phones in to say he’ll be late) leaves at 3.30 and I have no fucking idea what he does in the intervening hours because there’s precious little work done I can tell you. He’s been out of his training for a few months but he’s still asking really basic questions. I can’t understand a word he says and I’m constantly going “what?” “pardon?” and he STINKS of BO…it’s ridiculous! He has a girlfriend! Men with partners should not stink of BO! ahem. I feel a bit better now.

Went to Blackpool on Wednesday for the day and managed to get hideously sunburnt on my shoulders!

I’ve completed the main quest in Oblivion (today) so now I can just wander aimlessly around doing silly quests since I’m also Arch-Mage, Guild Master of the Fighters Guild, Guild Master of the Thieves Guild and Arena Champion! If only I could find out who gives me the jumbo potatoes quest. Here is a picture of my character (taken with a mobile as I haven’t been able to get the screen shot thing to work)

What else? Hmm I guess I should do an entertainment update?

I really really really want to see Pirates of the Carribean but I have been unable to get Ash to go due to financial issues. Might take myself off at some point. I don’t know why but I always feel a bit crap going to see a film by myself.

Watching:

X Men 3 – The Last Stand:
Not much to say. Good fun as long as you don’t think too much about it.

Reading:

Fool Moon (Dresden Files) – Jim Butcher: Can’t praise this series enough! It’s a little like Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel (more Angel since it’s a little more adult). I say a little so if you hated BtVS or/and Angel don’t let that put you off!

Scattered Suns (Seven Suns Saga) – Kevin J AndersonI always feel like apologising everytime I say I like this series and I shouldn’t. It’s described as a soap opera in space and that’s what it is. Easy to read (despite the volume of main characters) and nothing too stretching.

Priestess of the White (Age of the Five) – Trudi Canavan: Yes I did buy this book several months and yes I am only getting round to reading it now. I think it’s quite different from the Black Magician Series and I haven’t immediately fallen in love with it as I did with Black.

Listening to:

Eyes Open – Snow Patrol: I liked a couple of singles on this album but thought it would be one of those albums were you do only like the singles. WRONG! Ones to listen out for are Set the fire to the third bar and Make this go on forever as well as the gorgeous Chasing Cars.

Right-o I think that will do for now. My auction has nearly ended and I want to watch horse whisperer . I had a little panicky moment about 15 minutes ago when I could smell smoke and though my lap top had set fire to my bed. But no. Phew!

Playing too much Oblivion when you look at actual flowers and want to pick them to make potions with…...seriously!

I was going to put a couple of pictures up but I’m still trying to get stuff working after the big recovery

All fixed!

Got to start Oblivion again though

Well now…..the nice people on the telephone line said try taking it down to the store to see if they can do a backup. So I did. My dad stuck a gas tank in the boot of the car so I just stuck on the back seat. On the journey down the damn thing slid off the back seat and landed on the floor.

Anyways – went into the store (sans computer) to see if I could book it in. Booked in for Friday at 12. “Oh okay, my mum will be leaving it down?” “You could leave it in tomorrow evening if you wanted”. At this point I thought I would seem like a bit of a dick if I said “Here it’s in the car”, so I took it home. Now the girl had said write down exactly what file you wanted so i thought I’d plug it in to check it was okay and to find my oblivion game saves. It goes chuggachuggachuggachugga. FUCK!

So leave it down on Thursday evening. They phone me back that night “the hard drive seems to be gone, you’ll need to phone the helpline to get a technician sent out” (apparently the store don’t do repairs….yeah). Phone the helpline. “Do you have the computer there in front of you?”

Get the computer back on Friday and phone the helpline…..after about 20 mins the fella concedes it’s FUBAR’d and they’re sending out someone tomorrow.

Fingers crossed!

Son of a fucking bitch! My bloody PC is apparently “corrupted” I’ll need to do a system restore. “Back up any important files” the help guy said – I would but the fucking computer won’t register that there’s a blank cd in it, or a USB stick or even that there’s a friggin printer attached. I’m now waiting for a callback from PC World to see if I take it in can they do anything. Don’t know how long it will be though. I’m posting this from my lap top but as I don’t want my parents to know that I spent cash on a laptop I have to do it in secret. Sad Sad Sad

Tried posting a couple of days ago but it just wasn’t happening! I have been getting crap loads of spam to my blog recently (although it’s died down the last couple of days). I’m talking like 70 spam comments a day….ridiculous – of course they spam as much as they like cause I’m strictly approval only HAHAHAHA suck it up scum!

Playing

Been desperately trying to play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with no great success. Didn’t realise my computer wasn’t up to the job (graphics card/DVD drive)...however I did find this funky programme Oldblivion which will let you play. The characters sound like chipmunks but I’m not sure if that’s because of the programme or the dvd drive. Well anyways the game crashes quite a bit so I decided to try downloading the patch – unfortunately the oldblivion programme wouldn’t run anymore and I had to uninstall and reinstall the whole game – which now runs really really slowly. So I’ve uninstalled it again and deleted the Oldblivion programme – and then I’m going to reinstall/redownload. I get the feeling I’m on a lost cause – but I am persistant! I think I’m going to read the FAQ for oldblivion

Listening

Well no new albums bought however I have just purchased these
from ebay. I love ebay

Reading

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke: A story about a girl who’s father can read characters and objects out and into books. It’s for young adults and a good read.

Saucer by Steven Coonts: A team of surveyors uncover a spaceship buried in solid rock. The story is basically an adventure story about people trying to get the UFO - really the only sci fi thing about it is the actual saucer.

Watching

Da Vinci Code Don’t let the hype put you off. An enjoyable time killer which keeps pretty faithful to the book!

X-Men 3: The Last Stand Hoping to see this tomorrow. Got all the elements I like in a movie! Action, Science Fiction, good looking muscled blokes!

Web Wise

Bebo.com: The next big net craze (after myspace?). You can also put in what school you went to. which I did, but I didn’t recognise the majority of names listed there!

I shall leave you with a picture of my dad – I had been looking for one of my brother as well cause they really do look alike sometimes.

Okay WTF? Spammed to death today fucking arseholes! Death to spammers

I have come to the conclusion that the entire aim of the crap that is Big Brother is to get people to shag on tv…..

Anyhow – sums the who Da Vinci Code controversy nicely

Bah the deal or no deal game has died Now you just have to practice your parking!

Driving Fun

Dontcha love it when your computer decides to spontaneously reboot?

Back to work yesterday! Sadly I was just being screwed over tax and NI :(. I also seem to have this mountain of work which I just can’t seem to reduce. Blah!

Anyways…on with the show

Reading

The Hour of the Gate (Spellsinger Series) – Alan Dean Foster: To be honest I read this book a bit too fast to do it justice. I certainly enjoyed, thought it was a bit meatier than the first novel and a little more serious. I have the rest of the series to read now which I’m looking forward too.

Storm Front (Dresden Files) – Jim Butcher:
Well not quite finished this book. It’s a really good read. Think Columbo crossed with Charmed – only in a good way. Definitely recommend it!

Watching

SLither

Hmm weird sci-fi/horror/comedy. Reminded me a bit of Critters (humour wise) with typical dawn of the dead type gore. So I enjoyed it . I especially liked the deer fighting back!

That you kiss ! Hank’s ass

Anyhow – attempted to see Slither tonight

Went to the Movie House Cinema at Yorkgate as they do a late showing – there had been a fire (small) and it was closed. Decided to try the one on Dublin Road (although the movie had already started), right in the middle of Belfast – couldn’t get a parking space close enough. So tried Warner Village round in the Odyessy -they don’t do a late showing (we would of know that if my mum could read a paper!). We’re going to try again tomorrow.

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air

I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When the head of state didn’t play guitar,

Not everybody drove a car,

When music really mattered and when radio was king,

When accountants didn’t have control

And the media couldn’t buy your soul

And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air

I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When pop stars still remained a myth

And ignorance could still be bliss

And when God Save the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale

My mom and dad were in their teens

and anarchy was still a dream

and the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air

I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

When record shops were on top

and vinyl was all that they stocked

and the super info highway was still drifting out in space

kids were wearing hand me downs,

and playing games meant kick arounds

and footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air

I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

I was born too late to a world that doesn’t care

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair

I was all excited. I got paid today and I was expecting lotsa money! As I should have about 6 days overtime coming to me….which should be an extra £450 + (before tax). However I only seem to have got about £200 more in pay. Either I’ve been really stung by tax and NI or they’ve left off a couple of days (I’m hoping the latter but I suspect the former either way Im feeling pretty disappointed).

You know I really like the banner – it was completely unintentional – I tried putting a pattern on something with the width of 1 pixel (liquid satin I think) and this is the result!

Anyways – a little review on what I’ve been listening to/reading/watching lately.

Watching

Silent Hill: Never played the games, although I did once see a “trailer” for the original game. I really liked the movie – it was just a lot of maddness! Hated Sean Beans accent – seriously you’re not american stop trying to an american accent! I wanted to post a picture of Pyramid Head but I couldn’t find one

Stargate: SG1: Season finale! I’m running a little BehInd in geTTing tO Review a numbeR somE American Television Shows. A brilliant finale it was too – total cliffhanger though and so I have to wait ages and ages and ages for the new season.

The House of Wax: What can I say? A bunch of irritating kids get killed by the Mercenary fella off of threshold. Worth it to see Paris Hilton get a pole through her head though

Reading

Finished reading these not so long ago

Tailchaser’s Song – Tad Williams: Basically it’s about cats. Cats have their own society you know and real cats don’t have human owners – makes them fat and lazy and uncat like. The protagonist goes off to find his girlfriend risking life and limb – who, it turns out, was just getting all fat and lazy and un cat like. Okay so it doesn’t sound great there but it was quite enjoyable.

The Forever War – Joe Haldeman: From what I understand this is a science fiction response to the Vietnam War. Reminded me very much of Starship Troopers and to some degree The Ender Series by Orson Scott Card (also worth a read). Really enjoyed the book I must say.

Sir Thursday – Garth Nix: Part 4 of the Keys to the Kingdom series. Yes it is a kids book – absolutely love the series though. Extremely well written and Sir Thursday is no exception. It’s kind of hard to explain the series though – basically involves a young boy called Arthur, the house, the architect and the days of the week. The first novel in the series is Mister Monday. In this book he’s drafted to the Architect’s army!

Listening

Let Love in – Goo Goo Dolls: The new album from the Goos! Quite like some of the songs on it , the title song and better days. I’ll need to have a better listen though.

That’s all for now. Not really been reading since I’ve been off work and all the good movies seem to be out in May (well I say good, I mean movies I want to watch ).

I have stolen this from http://www.jackbauerfacts.com/view-twenty-four/

Jack Bauer wrote the Bible. That’s why its so violent.

Jack Bauer has a higher body count than Hitler.

Everytime jack bauer smiles, a terrorist loses his balls

Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours.

Jack and Jill went up the hill. Only Jack came down. Jill was a fucking terrorist.

If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.

Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.

The only reason you’re conscious right now is because Jack Bauer doesn’t want to carry you.

Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.

There were originally five horsemen of the apocalypse. Jack Bauer said he would travel by foot.

Jack Bauer sleeps with a gun under the pillow. But he could kill you with the pillow.

When Kim Bauer lost her virginity, Jack found it and put it back.

When life hands Jack Bauer Lemons, he kills Terrorists. Jack Bauer fuckin’ hates lemonade.

Jack Bauer doesn’t miss. If he didn’t hit you it’s because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.

As a boy, Jack Bauer interrogated his parents on Easter until they revealed the location and contents of each hidden egg.

After running out of ammo, Jack stood in the line of fire, took 3 shots to the chest, and used them to reload.

Nostradamus once predicted in his journal: “In the century 21st, the one known as Jacques will be the savior of the world… five seasons in a row.” Moments later, Jack Bauer knocked down the door, shot Nostradamus in the kneecaps, and yelled “WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?!”

On Jack Bauers Tax Returns, he has to claim the entire world as his dependants.

Jack Bauer has no friends, because as a child when he would play cops and robbers, the robbers would all be interogated and killed.

Superman has Jack Bauer pajamas.

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister walked into a bar… and Jack Bauer is going to find out why…

Jack Bauer’s last meal was on the California Presidential Primary in 2000. Now he gets his nourishment straight from the sun….like Superman.