Hey hey,

Just an FYI, everyone - I don't really use LJ anymore. I have my own blog up at used-goods.net that serves my needs fine.

I've considered returning to old LJ for more personal entries, for art dumps, for the community.

But despite the community there's a huge amount of commercialism taking over - LJ's always had a huge commercial streak, but it's becoming suffocating for users who aren't willing to pay for an account.

So, though I might cross-post the odd entry here, really I'll be sticking to the main blog, and the forums.

See you there?

- E.Maree

Let me tell you all about my amazing morningtime adventure. It goes like this:

Ah, morning, that time when I am pretty much never awake. EXCEPT when the planets align and my sleep cycle flips backwards and I end up waking up anywhere from 3.30 to 6.30 every day for the last week. Fucking scary stuff, I'll tell ya.

Generally in these mornings, I get bored. Go on the laptop, read a book, do a bit of writing, ponder whether it's light enough to do some painting, avoid myself and the laptop being pushed off the bed by Dave, and eventually get cold and fall asleep again next to him.

BUT NOT TODAY. I was feel a little guilty about not going to Kuksulwon (how the hell do you spell that? o_o) and had alrady devised a few out-and-about plans, so ended up getting up, grabbing Gizmo, our dog, and heading into the great outdoors!

This quickly went from walking the streets, to hillwalking, to a trek through Craig Phadrig woods to find that Fort I am never able to find because I never look at the map.

All was well, and I was completely failing to understand what the colored posts everywhere meant and generally walking in the direction I'd seen the fort from earlier on lower ground. When suddenly:

Yours truly: Yay, this path is long! Long paths go places! =D
Gizmo: Fuck I'm tired. D=
*...insert a few minutes here...*
[SUDDENLY, A WILD MASS OF WATER APPEARS.]
Yours truly: OH MY GOD SEA WTF WTF HAAAXXX? SEA IN WOODS? SEA IN _WOODS_?!
Yours truly: *texts Dave going 'omg wtf there's a sea here', despite Dave being asleep and not actually knowing where she was, or that she wasn't downstairs xD*

So, because I am brilliant, I KEPT WALKING. =D WATER AHOY! THIS CAN ONLY MEANS PIRATES AND CHANCES OF DROWNING, AND 1 OUT OF 2 OF THOSE THINGS ARE ACCEPTABLE IN THE WORKPLACE. =DDDD

So yeah. I ended up in the middle of nowhere, with railway to one side and mysterious water substance to my other side, a single track road, derelict farms and no traffic. Despite worrying about getting hit by cars on unpaved single track roads like this, I still missed the utter lack of flashy motor vehicles. D=

Kinda lucky they didn't though, since Gizmo ignored my insistence that soft = good and decided to walk on the road. He is an EDUCATED DOG, he will not walk amongst the MUD, he takes the HIGH ROAD. Och aye ' n shit.

So, after a lot of wondering, I got bored and phoned Dad. Dad is a taxi driver.

Yours truly: *lists random bulding names*
Dad: I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU ARE. D=
Yours truly: wtf hax?
Dad: AHHH AHHH WHERE ARE YOU AHHHH.
*I ring Dave*
Dave: where are you?
Yours truly: I WENT TO THE WOODS AND THEN THERE WAS SEA AND THEN -
Dave: not downstairs?
Yours truly: Nope.
Dave: Oh. Where, then?
Yours truly: I DON'T KNOW AHHHH AHHH AHHH.
Dave: Oh. D=

So eventually, I found a rare perso living amongst the dwellings and asked them where I was. They informed me I was in Dalmore.

*I phone Dad*
Emma (yes, yours truly, I'm sick of typing that): Apparantly I'm in Dalmore.
Dad: I don't know where that is. AHHHHH.
Emma: AHHHHH.
*I phone Dave*
Emma: DAVE, GOOGLE MAP WHERE THE FUCK I AM.
Dave: Dalmore is in Alness.
Emma: FUCK I'M IN ALNESS WTF WTF ALNESS HOW? AHHH ALNESS.
Dave: I don't think you're in Alness. o_o;;
Emma: GOOGLE THAT HOUSE I JUST PASSED.
Dave: THE HOUSE IS NOT ON GOOGLE. D=
Emma: WHAAAAATTTT? DDD=

So then I kept walking down a hill, towards the SEA! I was clinging to the hope that there'd be a road somewhere, and lo and behold, above the howling of the trees came a far more familiar road.

Emma: MOTORWAY AHOY!
Gizmo: OH GOD NOISY CARS. D=

However, one last obstacle remained: the tricky-to-open/close-while-holding-a-dog-lead gates, and big scary STOP LOOK LISTEN signs of the railway crossing. Terrified that I might become the next one to meet the business end of a train, I prepared myself for the risky journey ahead, gathering togethor all my strength until...

Emma's Mobile: BRRRRRRR. (It's vibrating, donchaknow.)
Emma: lol hai.
Dad: CAN YOU SEE A RAILWAY CROSSING?
Emma: I AM CROSSING A RAILWAY CROSSING IT IS VERY SCARY. I THINK I MA BE IN CLACHNAHARRY ROAD.
Dad: THERE ARE RAILWAY CROSSINGS THERE. =D
Emma: OMG. =O

So with the car sent on what was hopefully the right direction this time, I braced myself and leapt heroically across the tracks. No shit. I think I figured trains couldn't hit me if I wasn't touching the ground. =P

THEN, LO AND BEHOLD: THE MAIN ROAD LAY AHEAD. AND THE CARS SAYETH UNTO THE EMMA, "VROOM WOOSH VROOM".

Gizmo: OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. *runs in circles. Again, no joke.*
Emma: CIVILIZATION. *picks up Gizmo and sits on the grass with him until the car arrives.*

By this point, due to my odd lack of temperature sense while moving, I had lost loads of my circulation and spent a good while drinking tea and stopping myself from shivering when I got home. Also, hugging Dave. Mmm, hugs. <3 All while trying to stop Gizmo from jumping up because all the trekking had him covered in mud.

Then we went upstairs and watched Billy Connelly in "The Man Who Sued God". Which is awesome, by the way.

THE END.

:D

Today was good. I actually slept through most of Geography, just put my head down in the spirit of 'fuck of' and nodded off. RE we were watching "Schlinder's List", we're onto the second disk where it keeps getting more interesting, but it's heartbreaking.

In English we were doing a writing exam, the task I chose was to write a story about an old couple. I went on auto-pilot for things like tense and person, which resulted in me writing in first person addresses to the reader, and in present tense, neither of which I'm particularly fond of but do automatically. Urg. It's variety for the markers, at least.

It ended up being a gothic-tinged (in other words, it has ghosts) story about this old couple in love, except the old lady was a horny bugger, the old man was a young man of sexy goodness, there was blatant emo talk from the old people and undertones about sanity, and it was good fun. All I wanted to do was write about a cute old couple who talked like teens in love. XD The result is a lot stranger.

In Admin I got my folio-project-thing ready and hung around chatting with the girl next to me. Now she knows I go drinking she was all AYE DID YE GO DRINKIN' THIS WEEKEND? and I was like 'um, no' (second person to ask that, first was in Computing XD), and kept her off by randomly nattering about the tour.

Also, Mikey mentioned that I had a Wikipedia page, and the girl next to me was like OH YEAH I HEARD A RUMOUR YOU WERE ON WIKIPEDIA. I was like 'wut old meme?' and had to double-check it to make sure it hadn't been vandalised to proclaim my lesbianity to the world or something scandelous like that. But no, it was the same page as last time I checked. People are easily amazed. XD But at that moment, even I found it kind of surreal that I had any place in an encyclopedia.

After that, there was town, and there was Kyle and dsfksdfjsdfkds MISSED HIM LOVED HIM SEXXED HIS FACE ON HAD FACE SEXXED ALL OVER OFF IN RETURN *death by happy* It was a fantastic afternoon hanging around with him. And I got Sonic Rush back because I was craving Sonic-y DS goodness.

I was wearing my Gerard Way Halloweeen costume, because I can wear that to town and just look scene. It's awesome. And because I'm dark and sensitive with low self esteem, and the way I dress makes every day feel like Halloween. :P That and I like the blouse and ties are sweet. <3

A day worth waking up for by far. <3

Is it wrong that I want to go to that? It's just like, 'LOL OMG IT'S A THISTLE ILY'.