Art made science her bitch

kayla_holly @ 2007-09-06T12:36:00

2007-09-06T11:44:41Z

OK, so next time i decide that making sorbet is fun remind me that its much more fun to do lemon not strawberry. I have just spent haf an hour pushing strawberries through a seive! Although they did smell nice.

Restless today. Want to go now. Restless means i cant distract myself.

Last riding yesturday. It was good fun, went out for a ride round the fields. Lots a mad cantering and laughing. As much as working in the school is a good acomplishment, nothing beats a mad canter! And obivoulsy without merlin i haven't done it in ages. Plus I had to promise to return when i get back, so that jenny can iron out all the bad habits i will have invariably picked up!

Last day at sja also. We had a Happy 65th birthday Bletchley cadets, happy 16th birthday Luke and bye Kayla bbq. Lots of party games, food and cake. and cookies from Simon! I'm going to miss going there, although again I'm going back when i gert bakc. I med gases will have run out, so therefore they have told me i have too. LOL.

But all this means i am now reallyready to leave. Roll on Sunday!

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-09-03T19:51:00

2007-09-03T18:58:23Z

*grins*

I leave on Sunday!

Saw the last ep of Dr Who season 2 today. It was sad... But that puts me on season 3 now miss bexyfus. Aren't you impressed! not that I'll get to see much of that before I go away. But still! No torchwood yet I'm afraid. But I may have to give in and do DVD buy... but not for a year coz I'm going away on Sunday! (Just incase you forgot. Which actually lewis did do and booked to go paintballing with his friends on saturday until i pointed out we were going to the zoo to say bye to me. I will now just have to tell him much more often evidently!)

Put all the quotes on my walls today. Iahve:

Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry

It just takes some time, little gilr
Youre in the middle of the ride

Run and catch, run and cathc
the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch

you can't take the sky from me

On my walls now. Only spelt right... (i hope!)

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-09-03T17:55:00

2007-09-03T17:01:05Z

Ok, if no one minds i'm just gonna go get on a plane now, OK? I'm bored of waiting now. I waited a really long time, can't i just... fine. I'll wait till sunday. Spoil sports.

Wanna go now wanna go now wanna go now wanna go now.

Please!

Went on really really long shopping trip today. 5 hours! But I now have everything. Probably.

Is it sunday yet??

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-23T11:29:00

2007-08-23T10:32:52Z

My brother is a genis. 4 A's, 4 B's, 4 C's and a D. *claps* Go Lewis.

Can I go to South Africa now? I'm driving everyone mad with my rambling, I watched the entire Kenya DVD yesturday, which didn't help. Going to spain on Saturday is going to be interesting.... But hey, I'm excited!

I'm off to make fairy cakes for our picnic tomorrow now bexyfus! *gets excited* (Again...)

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-21T14:45:00

2007-08-21T13:53:15Z

I love serenity. Tis a great film.

Finished work yesturday. Don't know what I'm going to do with myself for the next few weeks with nought ot keep me busy. Although we are going to Spain on Saturday, which I keep forgetting about. I am going to kinda miss going to work. As much as Friday and Saturday nights were hell I did kinda enjoy it. (Shhhh, I know I complained alot, but they'r not that bad... ish...) The people were nice, even the managers on a good day.

Riding this morning too. Rode orbit inside. Quite successfully. And we have disovered a trick to get him listening for canter work. Change the rein. As soon as he misbehaves change the rein, change it back again and ask fro transition. He then gets so confused with which direction he;'s going he has no choice but to do as he's told. Thats the theory anyways. Not that I'll have long to put it into practice. As I only have one more lesson... Thats going to be odd.

Oxford on Friday Miss Bexy! You excited?

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-19T17:16:00

2007-08-19T16:20:00Z

3 weeks! Woot!

Have set up my travel journal travellingkayla not that it has anything in it yet. Why is this blue??

How odd, stop being blue! My PC has a mind of its own....

Booked my translux bus in South Africa. Malaria tablets tomorrow. Lots of money!

Kayla

ETA: It stopped being blue :)</div>

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-17T16:19:00

2007-08-17T15:25:30Z

*squees* I'm going to uni! This is very very exciting!

I'm not really feeling all that coherant...

Oh, and i get to take 10 soft toys to South Africa with me. They're doing a fund raising thing and have collected a load of toys in the UK and so they don't have to pay to transport them are sending them with volunteers. Means I do however find room for them.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-16T16:41:00

2007-08-16T15:48:02Z

*grins*

I got 3 B's. I'm going to University, isn't that good?

I may be a little excitable... possibley....

And everyone got what they needed. Fred was in the top 5% of the country! Mog got ABC, which is incredible considering she wasn't even in school for half the year. Torch got ABD meaning she can go to the uni she wanted. Everyone is happy and university going. Woot!

Also have new cmaera. Which is fun. Although I may decide its not so much fun after I try to understand how to use it!

3 Weeks and 2 days!

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-15T16:20:00

2007-08-15T15:23:21Z

Little bit nervous bout tomorrow...

OK, alot nervous about tomorrow...

But on the plus side I'm actually some way through a new firefly fic. Finally...

Have been doing fairly well all day forgetting about results day. Lots of icons too... and lots of Buffy watching...

I'll be fine. I'm sure I'll be fine.

But I'm still nervous.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-13T20:21:00

2007-08-13T19:26:46Z

3 weeks and 5 days...

Hehe.... 3 weeks and 5 days and I will be on my way to Qutar to catch my connection to South Africa.

4 weeks and I will be there. Thats less than a month....

:)

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-09T17:14:00

2007-08-09T16:21:27Z

4 weeks and 2 days, for anyone who's counting....

Went into town today and got most of the rest of my things. First aid kits and that kinda thing. All I now need is one pair of trekking trousers, one pair of respectable trousers and a cheap watch. I may be a little excitable.

Went riding this morning also. Did canter work on orbit. Which i am getting down, therefore it is getting more diffucult. We got in a bit of a tangle today. I was asking him to do diffucult things. And he didn't like it much. But I still got him to do it entually. Sarah did say she thought I was going to end up on the floor at multiple points. But I didn't and I made orbit sulk by the end of the lesson.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-06T16:09:00

2007-08-06T15:19:59Z

In 5 weeks I will have arrived in South Africa. This will be my second day at the base. How weird is that! 5 weeks, 4 weeks and 5 days till I leave. 33 days. Less than 2 boxes of cereal.

And I can't wait. If you handed me a plane ticket I'd be gone today.

Went back to work yesturday. They had mystery diner in. The managers served them and the report was crap. Service was crap, food was crap, management was crap. But this is our fault. I had my manager yelling at me for 5 mintues... have to say I'm glad I missed the first round of yelling. She threatened to sack me for asking customers as I was clearing their plates if everything was OK. Its not my fault that the potatoes were over cooked and actually i would be in deeper shit if i hadn't asked.

And it gave me great pleasure to respond with the fact that I've been offered a placement in South Africa begining in September and will be handing my notice in on Saturday. So a lack of hours, not really going to be an issue.

Stupid woman.

But Torch and Mog came in and I got off early so I sat and had a drink with them, which was fun. Don't think managment thought much of them but they were paying customers and had every right ot be there. Also went to lunch with mog today, which was also muchus fun.

Got a bit of fanfic writerts block atm... its a pain but is allowing me to improve my photoshopping skills.

Plus, South Africa in 4 weeks and 5 days!

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-04T10:09:00

2007-08-04T09:11:12Z

OK, how many places can a paintbrush hide? I can either be in the sink, on the draining board or in my new room. How diffucult can it be to find!

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-08-03T11:23:00

2007-08-03T10:37:23Z

Figured I should actually post something, having been home 3 days.

Austria was great fun. Getting de;ayed for 7 hours on the the way out was less fun... But we got there eventually. Spent alot of time mountain biking through the valley and a couplke of times upo the mountain. Well, actually down the mountain, we pout our bbikes on the ski lift up. Noit cheating at all. Did a coupel of days walking. Very very complicatied ridge walk, rivaling hwat we did in Venezuela but only for 4 hours and we got ice cream at the end.

Took family horse riding too. Mum swears she is never doing it again. I don't blame her really given the evilness of the horse they put her on. White water rafting was also good. But they made me get into the river to practice saving people and it was frezing! And Lewis took a really long time to rescue me given as he knew I was going to get in. Cayoning was terrifying. Next time I think it will be a good idea to go scrambling throguh a gorge full of water remind its a stupid idea. I was cold and wet and I had to keep jumping off high rocks. I'm glad I did it but never again thank you.

Finished Harry Potter. In the airport, so over a week ago. Then had to be quiet till Lewis finished... Not entirely sure what I thought of the ending. The epilogue bit, I wa smiling while i read it. Bit it kinda left me disappointed when I;d finished. having said that the rest of the book was very good and all the characters were wrapped up nicely and all developed. So I think it can be forgiven. Although the killing of Hedwig cannot! (Yes I know I should probably be more worreid about Fred or Tonks or Lupin but... Hedwig!)

Am spending today painting my room, as I don;t have to go to work tillSunday. And am therfore covered in purple paint.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-21T22:33:00

2007-07-21T21:45:37Z

Holiday holiday holiday, *dances*

I may be a little excited about my week in Austria. And not having to go to work till 12 tomorrow.

And Harry Potter. Which I almost don't want ot read.. but not enough not to want to read it...

Meh, sleep now... not coherant enough...

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-19T16:12:00

2007-07-19T15:19:03Z

Phew, feet touching ground again.

OK, what have I been up too... Went riding this morning before work. Sarah taugt me again, but I'm doing really well with her. So therefore I don't mind. Working on canter work, and managed to get right canter from Orbit. This is a very diffucult thing for me. We don't really know why, but for some reason me and orbit just can;t get it right. But we did today. Right canter on the right leg. And circling right and everything. Had a little blip at one point changing from left to right, having cantered a left circle. It is a diffucult manaovre anyway and he ust kinda said no. But once I'd reminded him I had a nice big stick and legs he decided maybe the answer was yes. My canter work is realyl improving. I'm getting it now so that the canter is nice and collected and slow, but with implusion.

Haven't really got anything else to say. Had nice chat with David from work at lunch today. He's off to Birmingham to do biomed this year.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-17T13:09:00

2007-07-17T12:17:14Z

I have absolutely nothing new to post. I could ramble about work again but that is ALL I seem to have to talk about...

So instead I'm going to get excited about holiday in a week. It's going to be so nice to see my family for an entire week! And the weather in Austria atm is majorly hot. Like 40 degrees kind of hot! Having said that its prob not so good for our mountain biking/walking holiday... we may melt slightly.

It looks like its going to be really good fun. We rent bikes for the week and we're going horse riding through the mountains and white water rafting and abseiling down waterfalls and cayoning. The place we're staying at is a ski resort during the winter, so its all geared up for sports like this. And we're staying in a gorgeous little hotel in the middle of the village. And you use the ski lifts to attach your bike too, so you take the lift up the mountain and then ride down.

*gets over excited*

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-12T18:47:00

2007-07-12T18:02:38Z

Work was more than a little manic today. Neither manager was in coz they had to go home (as in Birmingham) so we had another manager in. Which on a normal day ould have been fine, I managed it yestuday after all. But we had a tabel of 14 booked, so it was going to be a bit more manic. But still doable. Then another group of 14 arrived and asked for a table. OK, we can do that too... Then we wonder how we have a full resturant and no food coming out yet... so off we go to the kitchen, and they haven't got any orders through. After much confusion we realise they haven't turned on the printer... isn't technology wonderful. So now we have 25+ meals to be cooked all at once and a resturant of very pissed off customers! I am now very very good at appologising. The big boss man came in today too. Thankfully a little after our big problem. But he was very nice and actually came to thank me personally for my service and for selling up on desseerts and coffee.

I did however manage to spill an entire jug of milk all down me... half hour into my shift.....

And we had a funeral come in. I thought it was a very odd place to have a wake, but hey, thats what they wanted. They had a buffett so that wasn't too much work. Thankfully!

Starting work at 12 is good. It meant I could sleep in and have a long shower and get up slowly, rather than gettig up when the alarm goes off.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-10T16:08:00

2007-07-10T15:12:21Z

Banks are silly. They confuse my head and are boring. I have however been very productive today. I set up my account for my gap year, booked my Dr's appointment to get my injections, tablets etc and unlocked my phone to work abroad. Go me.

And we got photoshop back. Which means my fandomness may now expand to icons... possibley.

At work tomorrow I have to be incharge. Not completely coz that would be terrifying but my manager isn't going to be in, so I have to act all supervisory and organise people... whats the betting I burn it down again??

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-09T13:42:00

2007-07-09T12:45:15Z

Went riding this morning. Finally manged to ride outside! It's July and I have only managed 2 outdoor lessons! Normally I'm outside every week. Really good lesson. We worked on my canter work, as we're going to stick with flat work this summer, coz thats what I'll need when I'm away. And it actually went really well. I don't get enoguht chance to work on it so normally its awful. But i managed not to try and pull him round and just rode properly. It was really good fun.

Going to Freds later too. haven't seen her in a while, so it should be fun.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-08T18:38:00

2007-07-08T17:44:58Z

*squeaks* OK, remember how I was excited to get a job...

I need sleep. And not to have to walk anywhere for just a little bit... please!

6 day weeks are hard. Espcially when you haven't worked in a few months. My feet are killing me. ALthouhg I do now have new shoes, which may help.

Having said that, I can definatly handle 6 days a week better working in a resturant than i could have managed in shop. There's generally something to be getting on with an more freedom as far as food, drink and chat goes. You expect your waitresses to chat to each other, so much sot that we are encoraged to, and there is food about so its easier to do. Plus they feed me sunday lunch when I work sunday and its tasty. You don't have to go 4/5 hours without water... like i did at Let's eat.

Was really manically busy on friday night. We were fully booked and they filled the bar to the point that you could barely move through the building. I had a group of 25 to look after in the room past the bar. meaning in order to bring ouit that food I had to walk past the bar, which is not easy with huge heavy plates.

Don't really have anything else to say...

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-05T10:46:00

2007-07-05T09:52:17Z

Wow, there have been alot of posts in 24 hours! I wasn't away that long!

Guess who got an invitation to Chris and Ellen's wedding. *grins* I can't go, which they already knew, but they still invited me.

Don't actually really have anything else to say. Went to work yesturday. it was OK, not amazingly riviting, but OK. Mum and Dad went there to eat out last night and came to the conclusion that the manager is an arsehole. I'd already coem to this conclusion, but its good to know I'm not alone.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-03T12:54:00

2007-07-03T12:01:05Z

Ack, thunder... oooo, and lightening!

As much as this new type of British weather is driving me mad, I do love thunderstorms. They remind me of being little when my grandparents lived in Switzerland. They had the most spectacualr thunderstorms, and when they had them at night we'd all stay up and watch them and we'd have hot chocolate and marshmallows. Useful bit of information there for you...

I miss my pony... I am OK. Much better than yesturday morning. But I still wanna ride...

Liking my new Biffy Clyro CD. I love going into CD shop and just wandering slowly through the racks till something jumps out at you. Its the best way of music shopping. Its how I got into Jimmy and Placebo after all.

Look at my new Angela/Hodgins icon. Damn the lack of Bones season 2!

OK, I'm going to go find out when Dr Who repeats are shown, just for you miss Bexy.

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-02T19:02:00

2007-07-02T18:11:34Z

Got a little Hodgins obcession going here for the last few days... don't really know why, and it's annoying, coz unlike most other Jack fans I liked him more in season 2 than 1. Which I don't have and they won't hurry up and repeat.

Am also thinking I'm needing another Angela/Hodgins icon, coz I don't really like this one... *goes wandering for images*

Watched the Diana concert last night. Am i the only one finding the fact that Charles nor the Queen were there? I'm mean, I'm not complining, I can't stand the guy. And I know he divorced her and re-married and all that jazz. But parents come to watch you perform at small school plays, you'd think that if your sons put on a huge concert at wembley stadium you'd at least show up. (It is of course entirely possible that he was there and I just missed him... or he didn't appear on the TV, but given as they kept showing us Williams not girlfriend if he was I guess they would have shown him)

Yeah I don't really know why that even occured to me... given as my knowledge of the royal family is very very limited and I don't generally keep up with what they're doing...

Kayla

kayla_holly @ 2007-07-02T13:39:00

2007-07-02T12:43:02Z

Feeling a little better now. I had my cry and wimper and then went shopping. 2 hours and 2 cd's later I'm feeling OK. I spent a very very long time in HMV and Virgin, ended up with Biffy Clyro and The Flaming Lips. Will spend this afternoon putting them onto my pc and mp3...

Kayla