I've just came back to Melbourne!

Hey hi didddly dooo! For the last few days I''ve been to Phillip Island and the prom (which isn't a beach front thingyyy) and it was absolutely amazing! I got to see so much wildlife that is unique to Australia! It was magical and I am so inspired for yet another story. I mean, come on, its impossible to be at the prom and not be inspired!
I'll start by telling you about Phillip Island.....
We stayed in this awesome ranch which dad said was a 'boy chillout zone' but I loved. It had great leather seats and saddles everywhere as well as dirt bikes (which I can't ride. You know, I can't even ride a bike! I just topple off every time....) bows and arrows and my ultimant favourite.... the dart board. I just love darts! I don't know why, but its just something to do with randomly throwing it and KAPOW! Suddenly its on the board! I absolutely deafeated my bro, mwhhaaa....
Moving on.... We saw sooo many possims as well as these completly EVIL seagulls which dived down and took you fish and chips..... Bah humbug.... We saw these absolutely beutiful Fairy Penguins though, down by the front and it was MAGICAL. They waddled out of teh water in the cover of night and then made a break for it up the beach until they came to their burrows. We got to watch them waddle up past us about [ ] that far away from us!
The Prom....
We were staying in my mums Aunts and Uncles second home which is on a massive expanse of land, wilderness land. Yeeeeeeehhaaa! On the first day me and my oldest brother went out exploaring with the ball of truth (a football) and stick of destiny (a twig). Before you ask, yes, we did get complety and utterly lost in the maze of trees and ferns and dead debrie that came up to our necks.... I'm amazed we're still alive because poisoness snakes and spiders inhabit that paticular area we went blundering into. *cough* We found this beautiful bee hive in a hollow log where you could actually see inside of! Bits of honey comb were poking out and bees were crawling everywhere!
The next day we went out driving in the national park and guess what we saw.... KANGAROOOSSS!!!! It was amazing! We saw this massive six foot one who put on a dominace show for us to warn us to stay back. Yet again we probably came close to being trampled...... Hey ho!

Well, thats all for now! In a few days I'm going to Bankok! Its amazing how quickly this holidays went....

~Katkin

Hello!

Hiya- just a quick note from Melbourne before I get carted to bed to snoooze. Well.... where to start....
My hol so far has been absolutely AMAZING. I've been to Hong Kong, Brisbane, Cairns, Port Douglaus, Sydney and now- Melbourne! At the min we're staying with some relatives of my Ma's and they're really, really nice! And they have a dog.... and a cat.... I took the dog (Zack- the cutest fluffy white dog EVER) for a walk before and he's strong! And loopy when he see's another dog...or anything that moves in the slightest.... Man, he has th eloudest bark EVER!
I've been away for two (three?!?!) weeks and although I miss my 'creature comforts' (mainly my laptop and the internet) it is sooooo worth it.
I mean- I've swam in the great barrier reef! (and got so badly sunburnt that all the skins peeling from my back in big chunks and I'm probably gonna get skin chancer and die....)
I've been so inspired by the places I've been- the daintree rainforest, being on the 42nd floor of a skyscarper while hurricane storms swept across hong kong- ya know?
Explanation for no posts sooner- No internet! Simple as! ;) My brothers have 'internet withdrawal syindrome' they're so grouchy!

Its weird because back home its something like 12am and here its 9:21pm!
As soon as I work out how to import the photos I'll do some detailed posts on the places I've been and sights I've seen!

Note: Wow...... hello new followers! I just looked at my blog for the first time in ages and poof! I suddenly had seven new lovely people reading my blog! Thank you so much guys!!!! Do you wanna cookie? ;D

~Katkin

Goodbye guys!

I'll next post in Hong Kong with some fab pics!
Woooooooooooow! I'm going on holiday today! Its weird because everyone else is still doing Finacial Capability at school *snort* My heart goes out to you, it really does!

*Imagine plane starting up* Ah! Sorry guys- my planes taking off!

~Katkin

The two of them....

I was experimenting on publisher the other day with a photo of a pic I drew (I don't have adobe photoshop or a working scanner, sigh....) I came up with this:

Its a scene from my book where Mizuki is showing Luke what its like in her world, thus the spacey background and wide staring eyes. Do you like it?

Urgh, I wish my scanner worked.... I drew the picture, took a photo of it, jiggled it about in publisher, transfered that to microsoft word, printed it out then took another picture of it, so please excuse the poor quality!

Wooow! Today I brought a new sketch book and pencils for holiday and I am soo excited to begin useing them! Tomorrow I'm going to Hong Kong so I'll keep you posted! When I return I shall have a ton of photos and pictures so please pretend you're excited so I can feel good! ;) (Teehee, I like feeling good...)
Anyways, I'll keep you posted on ma holiday!

~Katkin

Luke Chapman

God, I love Luke! He is such a cool person to hang out with and I'm soooo jealous of Mizuki who gets to be with him alll the time. Man- I love him! He's kind, caring (if not a little overprotected) has a short temper and sometimes comes across as a bit cocky. He's still trying to figure out who he is as a person, and Mizuki helps him with that a lot. *sigh* Well, I suppose Mizuki and Luke both need each other, so I'm glad they're in love.

Without further ado, here he is!

(Close up)

Sorry its a bit wrinkled- I've only just finished painting him. (yeah, I'm very impatient!) I really need to figure out how to use the scanner... the photos don't do the paintings any justice...

Yup, he's shirtless. He yelled at me when I began to draw him with a top on so, *shrugs*

Mizuki swoons a lot in his company. Man, I don't blame her. :D

~Katkin

Mizuki Ito

Well, Buttercup (my besto friendo!) told me (well, asked me very nicely) to draw my main character and post her picture on ma blog. So here she is....

(Close up shot)

Man, I love Mizuki! She's so wild, so different to me; a spirit that some may say needs to be tamed, but others say rock on! Thats part of the freedom of writing, you can create (okay, Mizuki, 'bring to life') people who are different from you in every way possible.

But really, Mizuiki rocks my socks off. I love her dudes, shes great! At the minute its like she's grabbed the pens and pencils from me and is commanding me to draw and type/ write her story. (Ah.... bliss)

I'm quite pleased about how its turned out, but I'm sure I can improve it by doing a background... I'm nervous though because I'd have to use more paints and if I do it wrong I'd have wasted two hours! I don't know what to do....

Hey ho... Tomorrow I'll post with a picture of Mizukis love interest, the lovely Luke Chapman.

Oh, before you go I just wanna show you what I started with....

Adios flamingos! (Yesterday I yelled that in form... it was humiliating, everyone stared at me for ages...)

Buzz-buzz-buzzing

~Katkin

I love drawing! (I'm not very good at it though....!)

Yeah, I just love the feeling when you are drawing and the image just flows from your mind and onto the page. Its magic; pure magic! I'm really into drawing in a manga/ anime style at the minute, so every now and then I'll post a drawing to remind myself to keep on going!
Well, I hope you'll enjoy these pictures, even if they are pretty darn awful....

Rain

Hahaha.... The hairdresser took loads off and left me with a really blunt edge that seems unatural (dun dun dunnnn!) Well, after I had had my hair cut I had to walk back home in the pouring rain! I saw this beautiful rainbow though, and listened to the, er, glorious sounds of booming thunder. Being outside in the downfall and getting drenched is awful fun though, don't you think? Theres a certain amout of magic in the air when your getting soaked listening to thuder and watching lightning and rainbows. *sigh with pleasure*

Well, goodnight folks!

Randoms...

I feel sick, waaaa.... I've just grossly munched my way through a massive caramel bar and feel all groggy.... Darn chocolate! I wallowing in self pity at the mo because I HAVE TO GET MY HAIR CUT! Waaaaaaa.... Mum says it'll only be a trim, but the last time I went he took off this:
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Much! NOoooooo.... If you know me then you know how much I love having long, waist lenght hair. I mean, come on man, I've been growing it since I was six!
Okay, about today....
Well, when I met up with my 'friends' they were all ignoring me and shooting me evil glares so I took the message and cleared off, hurrying off to school. I mean, what was their problem? Yeah, I feel a little sad that if one of my friends gets pissed at me they all gang up as a mighty whole, evil eyes and all.
Well, good news. In art I apologised (still don't know what I did to piss them off) and we're friends again.
We had our awards assembly today and I got £20 woooow! All for devoteing my life to reading... Well, why wouldn't I? So far thats £40 I've recieved from school. (from the writing competiton and this.) Mwhaaaaa.....
Okay, this is what my brain sounds like at the mo:
Write Katkin for ********* sake-write! How dare you neglect your imaginery friends (aka your 'beloved' characters) and ultimately kill off some of my babies.... My brain cells!!!!
Give it a rest brain..... (Ok, I'm freaking myself out now; who on earth talks to their brains?)
Well, I might do some writing, after all, Mizuki's being hilarious again....
Okay, cya- thanks for popping by on this fine day!

~Katkin

Well, today's been a strange day....

Well, a little thought has been nagging at the back of mind for ages now, that thought is really a question and that question is: Am I too dependent on my friends? Well, to be honest with you, I probably am, which is a good and bad thing. Good things first (I always like to look on the bright side) you always have someone to talk to and you're always there for each other. Bad things now (gulp) It stops you from developing into your own person because you're worried about what your friend will think. You see, there's this boy I like but I'm to scared to talk to him in case my friend either a) gets mad at me b) sneers or laughs at me. Also, there's always constant competition because if you start a new hobbie your friend takes it up to because your so similar you're interested in the same things. So, if one person excels in it leaves the other person (me, normally) feeling worthless and dumb. I mean, it must be great if your the person who's the best at it and rocks at everything, but it kinda sucks if your worse at it. For a long time I stopped drawing because I was glum about the fact that my friend was a gillizian times better than me at it, thus I lost out on a few years of vital drawing learning.
Anyway, today my friend and I seemed to break friends-she kinda ignored me at lunch and I was sitting on my own outside and she sat quite a bit away from me. I got fed up so I stood up and walked away to do my own thing- a first for me which is a bad thing because it shows how dependant I am on her. So, I went to the theatre and library and had fun, but when I went back to form whilst I was waiting to go in I hung out with other people- shock horror. Everyone leapt upon me and asked why I was ignoring my friend and leaving her out- huh? She was the one who had been doing that to me- when I was just being myself without being under the pressure of a close friendship. You know what? Being on my own and doing what I want to do independently was kinda liberating, and, well, fun.
I suppose you just need to get away from things from time to time and be yourself. Because, if you leave it to late to be your own person, if you suddenly start, people will leap on you and jump to assumptions, which is really quite irritating.
Well, that's my two cents!


~Katkin

A manga face using 'paint'

Yeah, I don't know how to use the scanner or put photos of drawings on 'da computer, so I'm going to share with you an awful pic I did using the paint program! (Honestly, its rubbish!)

I really don't like it...

~Katkin

Fun-fun-funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLE8uxKEJGc&feature=related

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwVy5-fNYo&feature=related

Teasers and Musical Monday

Okay, with my new book I'm going to have to a little bit of reasearch. Well, okay, quite a bit. Back to the point. If you care about this sorta thing then here are some teasers of what I'm going to have to research!

Space
Racsim
Revolts
Telescopes
Horse riding
Being someone your not
Change

Thats all I'm going to tell you! :)
I've already collected some muisc that describes my chracters perfectly, so heres a song that describes the relationship between my two main charcters, Mizuki Ito and Luke Chapman. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPqMpm5Eq8

~Katkin

Do teen authors suck?

Short answer: no, they do not.

Long answer:
I do not believe that teen authors are awful at writing. In fact, I believe some to be rather good. Although our grammar, spelling and prose may not be the best; isn't writing all a big learning process? Sure, even if your writing sucks, that doesn't mean that you, as an author, are rubbish. It just means you need to practise a little more! Where I don't think I'm amazing at writing, I am ready to accept that I have a seed of talent that I can nurture until it grows. By determination you can transform yourself from a 'bad' writing to a 'good' writer and then eventually an 'gob -smacking' author. Hey- you might even get published!
Back to the point. Are teen authors bad? No, they're just finding their feet in the world of writing. So what if their writing is a little bit shaky? That doesn't mean they're bad.
Teen authors are just starting out into the mysterious and chilling industry that is writing, discovering things that many adults are scared to prod; to explore.
You know what? Teen authors are brave starting out and putting pen to paper for the first time just for fun. With so much competition- adult competition- out there, whats stopping them from running away and cowering under a rock? Nothing. Yet they still keep at it.
All things considering, I think teen authors rock!

Just a thought that had been nagging at my head for a while now...
In kinda related news I just wanted to announce to the world that last night I hit 13,000 words! Yabadaba dooo! To celebrate that fact I just wanted to share with you the first paragraph from my new novel; my new baby project! (Thus disproving my point about teen authors being great.... hey ho....)

‘Why even bother looking up at me if he never smiles or waves?’ I thought grumpily, my slight smile slipping straight off my mouth. I sighed and sneaked one last glance at him- savouring his tousled black hair and kind eyes as he gazed out of his window. I nodded approvingly as I saw this; he was the only human I knew that actually appreciated the beauty of my home. He was always there, every single human night, staring up at the moon, his eyes always seeking out mine. My heart twisted as I focused on his dreamy smile, gently beaming up at the sky.

Well, hope you enjoyed it! As always critique is heartily welcomed! (Aka, please tell me all the bad things about it!)
Thanks much for stopping by today!

~Katkin

Free Books!!!!

Wow, theres so many free book competitons nowadays! Check out this one at http://cindypon.com/2010/tgifbm-feel-the-love-baby/ (or click on the title!) For SEVEN awesome looking books..... Must enter.... *drool*

A novel in 19 days

Yup, that is the ridiculous challenge I have set myself. To write a first draft of my novel by the 19th of July- starting today. If I am to reach my target of 50,000 words then I have to write 2,640 words a day. I've written 800. EEEEEKKKK! I need to get on with ma writing!

Yup, I'm starting a new book....again

No, Another Life isn't finished, far from. It has (I estimate) three chapters left to complete. But the thing is.... I'M FED UP WITH THE STORY! Sorry Willow, Caleb, you bore me. My new character on the other hand.... Mizuki Ito. A girl who knows nothing of the world; literally. Thats all I'm gonna say!
Yeah, but the thing is, Mizuki's been yelling at me in my head to stop being so lazy and to write the bloody book! She really scares me sometimes.... So now I'm gonna begin her story and not worry about formating, word cout ect... After all, its the story that counts-ain't it?!?!

~Katkin

Writers Blog

Howdy diddly! So, about the writers blog Chop-chop and Moocha, do you wanna make a seperate blog for it? Like, we could make up an email address and then we could all know the password and be able to post writing and stuff. Then other people (and each other!) can critique it and stuff- honest opinions! Yeah, so are you up for it?
Also, who would be in charge of making/ designing the blog?
Okaily diddly, leave your thoughts in the comments!
:-))))

~Katkin <3

Nerd Power!!!!

Yes, I admit it- I am a nerd. You know, I used to care about how everyone thinks I'm a freak and a weirdo for loving reading, writing, drawing, nature (gasp!) animie and sci-fi, but it was only until a few weeks ago when I stopped careing. You see, this girl who I'm meant to be friends with began picking on me and saying I was a weirdo, saddo and a freak (eccetra) and how no one likes me. Well, I stopped careing about how other people see me, because I used to try and be someone I'm not, which is weird and unatural. I am who I am and no one can change it. Yes I'm a nerd, yes I'm a geek, but who cares? This is me folks and I'm not changeing any time soon!
To celebrate my nerdiness I'm going to give a list of all the nerdy things about me!
1) I've watched sooo many T.V series. The X files, pushing daisys, battlestar galactica, house, V, Caprica, Lost, Greys Anatomy and many, many more. But I enjoy it, so *shrugs*.
2) I love sewing!
3) I enjoy school (most of the time) and I'm bothered about getting good grades.
4) I get in a huff when someones better at me in something. (Nerd alert!!!)
5) I do Ballet, Tap and Modern.
6) I write loads and draw animie loads.
7) I'm a teachers pet.
8) I'm love old music, and I really don't like all this new rap stuff *shudders*
9) I've never had a boyfriend and I'm to shy to go and tell a boy if I like them.
10) I get really mad at stuff that wouldn't bother 'normal' people.
11) I just strive to fit in!
12) I'm suprised when people remember my name or face.
13) In the mornings at school Moocha's the one that everyone says hi to, I'm an afterthought.
14) I have mini panic attacks when I have to speak in front of people who aren't extreamaly close friends.
15) I'm super shy, like I shake when I have to make new friends.
16) I'm a bit (make that very!) insecure about myself.
17) I've been called 'bread', 'penelopie', (you know, the pig faced girl from that movie), and pippi longstocking.
18) I hate but love at the same time being noticed.
19) I can't stand bullys.
20) I write more words a day than I actually say!

Well, this is me; like it or lump it.

~Katkin

Note to self

Never ever ever write pages and pages of your story in a notebook. Seriously people, it takes AGES to type up!

Visual inspiration

Well, I got this idea from http://betweenfactandfiction.blogspot.com/ and I thought it was great. As follows is my visual inspiration for Another Life.

(None are mine, they're from 'we heart it')

~Katkin

Just a quick quote.....

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down at us; pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill.

URGENT!

Did you know that we, the future generation, are being patronized as we speak?!?!? (Well, type!) I was just flicking through my dad's TES magazine (he's a teacher) and at the back they have this thing called 'yoofspeak'. What the?!? Since when have we been talkin like this yeah, yo ya no, do u wanna go2 da park? I'm insulted! At the back it said 'fam' (n) A close friend who you can share everything with. What the hell? I don't know that, I don't know any slang!
In fact, I don't know anyone who uses slang apart from adults trying to get down with the kids. Well any adults doing that, please stop, for all our sakes......

Wooty hoot hoot!

Today it was amazing. Yes, its not often you hear me say that about my day. Well, because me and Moocha are part of the G&T group we were invited to a special display of.... owls! Well, if you know me then you'll know that I'm obsessed with owls. I've made loads of owl toys, a owl bag and have numerous owl stationary! It was amazing seeing one, no three (!) in real life. There was a tawny owl, a african barn owl and a massive, and I mean MASSIVE western europian eagle owl. It. Was. Amazing. We got to stroke the massive eagle owl and feel its fur and feathers. Owls eyes are amazing, the tawny owl and barn owls eyes were black shining marbles but the eagle owls eyes were the trademark glistening amber. When you stared it in the eye, it was truly breath catching.

I can't wait to see what G&T have in store for us next.

~Katkin

My science teacher was in SUCH a mood!

Hee hee heeeee..... My science teacher today was really, and I mean really, grouchy today. I mean, he told me off. Lol, thats shows what a bad mood he was in! For those of you who don't know, I'm a kinda swot. Well, I don't think of myself like that, but that's what everyone tells me so, *shugs*. I just like doing well!
Well, the first time was when we were making a poster about the solar system and I wandered over to Moocha and asked to borrow some of her colouring pencils. Whislt she got out her pencil case I was just standing there, daydreaming. Then my teacher came over said, "what on earth are you doing out of your seat?!?!?" I decied to chance it and said, "I'm gettin some colouring pencils sir." I think it came out just a little bit cheeky.....
Then in our last lesson (Chemistry) We (me and moocha) were doing an expirement that we had no idea how to carry out! Sir came over again (the same teacher from this morning) and said, "Giiirrlsss whyyy weren'ttt yoooou paaaying attenitionnn laaast weeek???" Eh? I was tierd last week and to be honest I should've stayed at home, thats what the doctor had told me!

You know, you know, you know.... I HAVE TO GET INJECTIONS FOR HONG KONG!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *rocking backwards and forwards* no, no, no, no, noooo...... I think I have a phobia of needles.....

~Katkin

I'm Irritated!

Ya know, ya know, ya know.... (well, you don't, but thats beside the point) Today me and Moocha started the school drama club. (Yup, here in England we're not on holiday at the moment..... you lucky americans....) But sort of very late. Ish. You see, it started in September and its now June, and we have five weeks till the summer. *stands up and does a crazy dance* (no, really-I did!)
Wellll back to the point. I got sooo irritated because theres this boy in year eight (a year above us who's such a pervert) kept on calling me bread instead of my real name, not really the impression you want to make on your fist day at the drama club! Everyone now knows me as bread *sigh*
I'm also irritated cos my brother is using spotify and I want to use it cos I'm freaked by the silence and buzzing of my laptop. (That doesn't make sense, does it?)
Oooooh me and Moocha are making up a new mini movie! Last year we made one called 'A Twist In Time'- it was awesome- and we gave a copy to our Year Six teacher and she showed it to our class! Yeah, me and moocha sort of ran down the corridor and hid, cos A Twist In Time (TINT!) Was pretty strange.... Now were making a new one so we'll have two d.v.ds to put away and watch when we're 59 and three quarters. Yabadabadooooooo!

Yours hypely, you guessed it-
~Katkin!!!!!

Well done!

And its a draw!!!! Well done you two, you're both destined to be AMAZING authors! :D Can't wait to see your books in the bookshops!

Song Writing

Let me tell you a secret. I can't write songs! I don't even know why I try.... But still, two nights ago I decide to have a shot at writing one. It was a disater and I hate it! But I thought, "Nevertheless, the folks who read my blog might want to read and join me in laughter at the sheer rubbish-ness of it!" So here goes, prepare yourself for the worst song in the history of the world!

You said, that you would
See me around
But you left, me their
On the ground.
Oh sweet, how could
You do that to me
How could you leave
Me here,
On, my, knees....

Oh sweet, how could you?
Oh sweet, how cou-ould you?
Oh sweet, how could you, you, you
Do that to me?

How did I ever believe you
When you said you loved me?
When you sat, me down
By the oak tree
How did I ever, trust you, with my life?
You slit our bonds,
With a knife.....

I stood myself up,
Brushed off all the muck
That you left when
You left me behind.
When you left me alone
In the dark, I was scared
My life all around,
Tatters strewn everywhere.

Oh sweet, how could you?
Oh sweet, how cou-ould you?
Oh sweet, how could you, you, you
Leave me behind?

Oh no. That is even worse typed....

~Katkin

Katkin time #1

Well, howdy there! Bit of a silly title, as this blog is all about me! (Yeah, I'm big headed!) In this post I'm going to concentrate on what I'm like as a person. My hobbies, interests and greatest desires.
Well, here goes!

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I'm twelves years old and live in cold rainy England. No, I'm not a plant, but that's my nickname; Katkin and I like it! I have so many ambitions and desires that its hard to choose which one to focus on! I want to do so much with my life but I don't know where to start! You see when I'm 'older' (that phrase is sooo patronizing, why can't us youngest do what we aspire to do right now? Why wait until we're old and wrinkled? Granted we'll have more experience, but its never to early to start down the path of your choice!) I would like- no love- to be an author and have one of my books published. Imagine if your book was on a best seller list or even if just one person who you didn't know loved your work? Even if it was just one person, it would make a world of difference. One 'fan', one little girl savouring the words you have brought to life. *sighs with the daydream that may never occur*
Another thing I would quite like to do is to become a doctor. Yeah, if you know me then your probably snorting into your sleeves. Yeah, you see I fainted in Biology and I am incredibly squeamish. I suppose that's why it would be great to be a doctor! As well as helping to save lives I would be able to push and challenge myself against my squeamishness (is that even a word?) That would be so self satisfying!
I also love anything to do with art or creativity even though I'm not good at it one bit. you know Moocha? (Well, only two people read this so you both do know her!) She got a level 7 in art and shes only 12! (Yeah, normally its 17 year old's who achieve that!) I know that I've got no where near that I was sort of to *coughs* experimental in my exam.... It looked like a drunk chicken had been set loose in a paint factory!
I'm also a nature lover, I adore our world! I want to travel everywhere see everything, observe nature at's its fullest.
I want to make my life worthwhile.

~Katkin

Okayly doke,

The poll is up! Good luck Moocha and TheSOSperson, you're both excellent authors so lets see what the general public decides!

Note: You can vote, but I won't because Moocha's my best friend.

Good luck!

~katkin

Hey everyone!

Do you wanna take part in a fun writing challenge? If the answers 'yes!!!!' then all you need to do is write a story or paragraph about whatever you want! The prize is knowing for sure that you're a great writer! If you're interested then leave a link to your blog in the comments and post your story/ paragrah on your blog. :) Then on Wednesday I'll put up a poll with all the entrants name and we'll let the general public (and each other) vote for their favourite story! Good luck everyone!

Oh, and in the poll no voting for yourself! :-)

~Katkin

Best ever fun!

Howdy you wonderful people! I've just been to Moochas place and we had the most fun ever! We made millionare shortcake and it looked GORGEOUS! I can't wait to try some on Monday!
Friends rock!

I'm going to get fit.

Yes I am! I am very unfit at the moment, when I run for just a little while, a get a massive stitch. I also eat way to much chocolate, sweets and drink WAY to many fizzy drinks. Hey, the odd thing is, I'm not fat, I'm in fact quite skinny. But still! I need to get fit!!!!!!!!
Later today I'm going to the park with Moocha, so I'm going to get her to run and play tennis with me. My aim is that by the start of the summer holidays I will be able to run just as fast and far as her. (She has such amazing speed and stamina!)
Luckily for me, I love fruit and veggies, so all I need to do is convince Mum to restock the fruit bowl and bit the cans of pop, the bags of crisps and endless chocolate bars! Yup, you probably think I'm loopy, and when I'm out running I'll probably agree whole heatedly with you. ;-)
I'm going to get some cucumber....

~Katkin

Eeeek

This 150 things to do when your bored thing is harder than you think! I can barely do any of the things!

1# I don't own any marbles.

2# Ditto

3# You have to have a licence to sell stuff in England.... Bah humbug!

4# Ah, this is finally one I can do!

Adopt a word!

I adopted the word philargyrist. :) It means someone who loves money!

I went up to my brother and said: Don't you think dads a bit of a philargyrist?

It earned me a very weird look!

~Katkin

Okalidokecally...

I'm going to do one random thing from the 150 things to do when you're bored everyday! I'll post how I get on.... http://listsgalore.blogspot.com/2009/08/150-things-to-do-when-youre-bored.html

Okay, the answer to the riddle is an.....

UMBRELLA!

Groggy

Ugh.... Last night I slept for a total of one hour, I am so tired! Stupid shingles...... I was awake to hear the dawn chorus though (at 4:00 am lol) so that made it all worth while. Its really magical hearing all those birds sing their hearts out to the world at such an early time! Its weird- they sing every single morning, yet I never hear them cos I'm always sound asleep! Go on, no matter where you are in the world, set your alarm clocks for 4:00 am and listen to those birds; there singing deserves to be recognised as beautiful music!

~Katkin

Sore

Waaa..... I hate having the shingles, its no fun. Everyone else from my school is at sleepovers, the park, having fun, and I stuck in awful pain and a eternal state of ictyness. Ha, the funny (as if) thing is that they will be gone by Monday, so I'll be in perfect health for school. Yay. I have to swallow numerous tablets a day and put on this horrible cream five times a day. Plus I can't go outside in the heat, because that hurts even more. Arghhhhhhh! I wanna get better....... Why do I have to be the one in five, the rare case of shingles in a child whos immune system is perfectly fine thank you very much.
Why?!?!?!

~Katkin

I'VE GOT A POLL!!!!!!

GO VOTE! GO VOTE!

Please....?

A thought (or two)

If you say its opposite day on opposite day, therefore its not opposite day!

Also, can you crack this riddle (moocha, you're not aloud to answer as you know! :P)

What goes up a chimney down but can' t go down a chimney up?

In two days I'll post the answer, but only if no one guesses correctly!

~Katkin

Summer-y list

Now, this is gonna be a list of all the things I want to do in my summer hoildays at home, Hong Kong, Bankok and Australia.
1) Make a new friend
2) Eat the most disgusting thing on the menu
3) Roll down the biggest hill I can find
4) Shout 'hello world!' at the top of my voice when I'm in Hong Kong's market place
5) Keep a journal everyday
6) Go face to face with a deadly snake
7) Go swimming in a lagoon which may, or may not, be home to crocodiles
8) Blow all my savings on some seriously cool stuff!
9) Take millions of photos
10) Enjoy every single second
Lol, pretty lame eh? If you have any wacky suggestions then you'd be welcome to voice them in the comment section! I promise if their not that crazy I'll try my best to do them!

~Katkin

Illness

Turns out I have the shingles. Bah humbug! Its just my luck to get them in the half term holidays when I'm meant to be relaxing! I wil be fine for school next monday (argh!!!!) but at least I'll get to skip P.E and dancing. I won't be able to go on any sleepovers though.... :(
My backs really,really itcy......
I am rather unlucky though because 1 in 5 people get shingles in their life, and normally people over 50 catch it. Argh!!!!
The nurses kept commenting on how pale I looked.....

~Katkin

But now they're going down.....

I'm ill. Great. I have a temperature and an evil looking rash and I'm shivering even though its 20 degree's. Trust me to be ill in half term. *sigh* Mum says I have to go to the doctor's tomorrow....

Things are picking up.....

Hey guys, thanks for your concern for my last post. It really means a lot to me that real people are reading this wacko little blog and sympahising with some of my problems. Like the title suggests, things are picking up for me a little. My dad and I sort of made friends again yesterday when we went for a walk with my cousins down conway beach. So all I have to do now is hold my tongue when I'm about him and not set him off!
At the beach the tide was right in and I got drenched. I acted as a sheild for the rest of my family because when a massive wave came over the barrier it landed on me and didn't even touch anyone else. Grrr! Now I can see why people say 'the wind was roaring' because it does! Its like a wild beast is screaming and roaring inside your ear, numbing you to any other sounds. It really makes your ears ring!
We saw so many jellyfish! I counted around 50, all washed up under the foam. We saw this massive red one with really long teniticles- we could see its innards! It was absolutely amazing!

~Katkin

Glum

I should be happy because the exams are over, but that bout of happiness was short lived. I'm feeling depressed because I wanted to do some baking with my mum (millionare shortbread) but she got narked at me and told me that she didn't friggin want to bake with me. So I attempted to make it without her. The shortbread went crumblely and I left it in the oven for to long so it burnt. Mum came down at the burning smell, sighed and raised an eyebrow saying that I might as well finish off what i had started. So I made the caramel. Oh God..... It began to boil and I had a mini panic attack because it bubbled and frothed, burning my hands badly. Mum didn't paticully care, she sort of inclined with her body language that it was my fault. The caramel ended up being too runny with burnt bits in. I added too much butter to the chocolate so it ended up like nutella. I'm such an idiot. The baking session which I intened to be a fun activitey to do with my mum was a utter dissater and shes exasperated with me. Its complete roll reversal, because aren't the parents ment to be the ones who organise family activites? I'm 12 for God's sake, I should be the one getting looked after and included in family activies- not the one organising them! I'm coming to my wills end; soon I will stop doing stuff like this and stay in my room doing my own things. Why should I be the one trying to hold my family together? I'm going to let go and let my parents sort out the stuff.
I don't think my dad knows me. I'm not even sure if he loves me. He never wants to spend time with me or talk. He always snaps and says that what I do 'isn't good enough.' If I ignore him when he snaps, he says I'm sulking, if I reply in a civil manner he shouts 'don't take that tone of voice with me young lady!' Its a loose-loose situation. He needs to learn that although he's my father, he's not my master. I am not his slave, he can't bend me to do his will. The other day he tried to stop me from going to the park. I wish he would just bugger off!

~Katkin

Exams

I hate exams, who doesn't? I have umpteen things I need to be doing to prepare myself for tomorrows onslaught of exams. I have Drama, History and Dt. That's three hours folks! I completely mucked up my art exam today, I was, er, a bit too adventurous with my colour choice.... It was like someone had had a food fight and used my page as a shield! Honest! :P I don't see why we should be tested on art, art comes from inside of you and no one should put a mark on that! Every ones art work, however different, is brilliant. (I exclude myself from that because when it comes to art I'm like a clueless chicken in an paint factory!) My maths exam was AWFUL. Yet again I was working right up to the last second and I didn't get half of the questions. Yesterday I had Physics, Chemistry and French, speaking, reading and writing. I was awful at physics, found Chemistry easy and blew my French speaking. Sure, me and Moocha got level five, but all my 'sophisticated' *humph* answers flew in a torrent straight out of my head!
You all know how stupid I am, right? Well last week I volunteered to be in charge and make all the props for our evacuation drama test. That means: five gas mask boxes, six tags, six hats, scarves and jumpers and numerous sounds of gunshots. I'm a big fat dumbo! That's all due in tomorrow as well as all my History and Dt preparation. Great. You wanna know why part of me offered to make the props? I was making up for my script being rubbish and also kinda trying to impress this boy in my group..... But only slightly! ;)

~Katkin

Diarys

Do you keep a journal? I do, numerous in fact. Today (when I was meant to be reviseing!) I was looking through them all, curious at what my younger self thought of the world. Nothing really, I was, and am, very self centered.
I'm going to give you a taste of what I write (and wrote) in my diarys, because I'm feeling kind/evil.
Here goes!
School Dazs!
Today, the 23rd of January 2008, I went to school. Obviously! At school we had English with Mr Fennly we were writing letters about 'Heated socks'. how riveting! I did one about them socks and I was really proud of it!
After that we had maths, there was the normal scramble to get out of the classroom and into another classroom for our lesson. Today we had a test to test our knowledge. I think I did quite well but I made some mistakes.
Lunch time= playtime! A whole hour of it. This play we did our A.A club (Animal action) It was a big hit, we got ten new members! WOW!
After P.T me, A, A and L went around the school with our raffle, cancer reasearch. When we finished that we realised we had missed half of Art! Next time we will be more careful...
That was written when I was a boring little 10 year old.
When I was just 11.

18.12.08

Dear Diary,
Hello! Today I came 2nd place in a building site poster competition. I got £10 book voucher, and loads of other things. But the bad thing is that first place got an ipod shuffle, so close yet so far... In the morning we had an advent assembly. I GOT TO HOLD A CANDLE! Yay!

Hmm, I didn't lead a very exciting life....

When I was eleven, my summer diary.

18.7.09

Dear Cleo,

Today was the first day of the summer holiday! It is a Saturday so it does not really seem that diferent from normal weekends. Well, theres one slight difference. Today I do not have Ballet, Tap or Modern on! Yay! You see, every saturday I have three hiurs of dancing, Terrible tap, misrable modern, and last, and defently least, boring ballet.

Because last week was my last ever week in Primary school, Mum brought me a disposable camera. I took photos all week!

Ecetra, I won't bore you to death, as that entry is 12 pages long.

When i was 12:

25.12.09

Hiya! At the mo we are setting up a battlestar galactica board game. It looks very complicated, but, like all weird things, I bet it will end up being a laugh.

I can't believe Christmas day has gone so fast! It seems like seconds ago when I woke up and went to mum and dads room. I hate it when things go really fast- it leaves me feeling glum...

Zoom forward to my present day diary:

29.3.10

Dear Diary,

Hello, my name is Katkin and I am 12 years old. I am a aspiring author and at the moment I am writing a novel called 'Another Life'. I am 83 pages in, 25, 260 words. I am only just halfway through, if that. I have the feeling that this book may be able to be classed as an actual novel once I've finished it! It is my dream, my greatest ambition, to have a book published whislt I'm still in high school. Imagine how amazing it would be to have something you have written published and actually in book stores and in librarys. Imagine kids who are given book vouchers and choose to spend them on something that you have wrote and cherished, Imagine that feeling! I know odds are stacked against me, but, I have a feeling that my dream may one day actualy come true.

At school I entered a writing competition and I won first place out of the whole school. Surely that has to mean something?! My story was called 'hybrid of an angel' and although it wasn't the best thing I've ever wrote, I did quite enjoy writing it. Maybe my enjoyment came through in the actual story?

Ok, congratualations if you managed to wade through all those uninterseting diary entrys.

Cheerio!

~Katkin

Did you know...?

That sometimes I go off in a hype? Well now you do. :) Especially when I have an overdose of fizzy pop, blue bom-boms and sunlight. Which is happening quite often now. In RE particuly I sort of just chat and barely do any work, I still get top marks though, which is pretty bizarre, but great. I can do whatever I like because I'm such a goody-goody two shoes! On Friday my school ran out of water, so we got to go home at 1:00 o'clock- it was brill, and roasting. We had english before hand, so instead of doing work Miss took us all outside into the court yard and we were aloud to read! Normally I would jump at the chance to read for half an hour, but I was on such a hye that I could sit still, meek and obeying, so I chatted all lesson. The best thing is- I didn't get told off, unlike every one else who was. Wooo! It pays off being a swot!
Talking bout that, I really need to revise.... Next week I have exams. Arghhhh! Pesky little things, I always fail them.... I have to take a french exam for the first time ever and stupid little me decided to write a page for the speaking test. I have to memorise the whole page! Stupid little me.....

"Fail to prepare; prepare to fail.

~Katkin

I'm melting, I'M MELTING!

No, don't worry, I'm not the wicked witch of the west; but I am melting. You see, here in England it is 26 degree's c and it is ROASTING! I still had to go to Ballet though, my teacher is a slave driver! She worked us harder and harder until all the mirrors were fogged up with our sweat, it was gross. I swear that by the end of it I could have filled buckets by wringing out my leotard!

~ hot and bothered Katkin

Embarrasing moments and pushy teachers.

At Ballet today it was awful because I made such a fool of myself. You see, we were all parading and dancing and jetteying across the room, when I suddenly realised I was the only person in my line who was still dancing! I stopped but my dance teacher barked, "Keep dancing!" So I had no choice but to dance while everyone else from my line stood at the back of the room, laughing there heads off. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole, everyone was laughing- including my teacher! Eeeeeek! Why oh why did that have to happen? I am such an idiot!

One bad thing that happened today was in drama. Last night I slaved over a long and detailed script for our drama exam/ assessment, and I thought I had done quite well. Today in Drama my secondary drama teacher asked to see our piece, before we had ever read through the script. So, as you can imagine, we muddled through half blind like idiots, mumbling our lines and giggling. She basically said it was a load of crap, and that it wasn't very good at all. Yay for me, looked like I wasted my evening for nothing- I was ready to cry. She deleted three quarters of it, and for the other quarter she changed everything about it. I had put so much effort into that script, and researched the war in Afghanistan for so long. Bloody teacher, I don't think she realised how much she was hurting my feelings....

What's the point?

Isn't the reason why we're left to put together exam pieces so we can develop our own styles and find out what works and what doesn't through trial and error? I hate pushy teachers- why won't they let me develop and find stuff out in my own time? I get better results that way, I can't work to the best of my ability on something that teacher teared apart and changed to fit her personality.

Has anything like that ever happened to you?

~Katkin

Friendship

Friendship is like a great tapestry, the good bits and the bad. The little wonky stitches where bad things happen, the dark threads where the ill fated arguments grow, but most of all the bright threads are where the good, fun, memorable times happen. Good times will always triumphant above the bad!

"A friend is someone who knows everything about you- and still loves you regardless!"

"Truth and tears lead the way to a deep friendship."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all the goods in the world."

"Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless."

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I would be at the bottom to catch them."

Thank you Moocha/ Meatloaf for being such a great friend!

Aren't friends the best?

On a lighter thought...

I might be able to go horse riding with my besto friendo (eating pasta presto) for free! Yipeee! We can groom the horses, clean out the stalls and generally help out! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!

~Katkin

Just a passing thought.....

I seem to be growing more unpopular by the hour! On Friday I posted about how I was getting left out of things more and more, like at the birthday party. I wrote about how that weekend all my best buds were swarming off with each other to this country barn place- without me. I also sent an email to my best friend (who had basically arranged the whole thing) but she denied that they were all going as well, so I took down the post.

Guess what. Go on, guess.

Turns out she had lied about it. Monday morning one of the girls came over to me and my friend and handed her a pair of socks, saying, "here you go, you left these at the barn yesterday."
I was gutted. To be perfectly honest, I would have been fine (only a little mad) if my friend had told me straight out, but now I feel like she was going around my back. That sounds so controlling, but you know what I mean. I felt just a little betrayed- wouldn't you?

I'm sort of over it, but its driving me mad at school because they keep on talking about it. :(

I've probably bored you, so this is where this post ends!

~Katkin

Hiya...

I'm bored, so I'm doing a wee bit of sewing. I'll let you know how it turns out...

Wooo! 70,000 words- I'm on a roll! Another Life is almost finished- finally!

I'm lonely....

I feel really lonely at the minute- I wish I had someone to talk to... All my friends are at a coolio birthday party which I wasn't invited to. :( It's strange because the girl in question has been one of my friends all through out my school days- I even knew her in nursery! I invite her to every party I throw, so isn't it maybe just slightly common curtuesy to invite me to at least one of her partys? I'm dreading tomorrow, its always the same. Everyone will be talking about how brilliant the party was and I'll just be sitting at my desk wishing I was anywhere but there. Hmm, you probably think I'm stupid about getting hung up over this, but I'm always the loner; the one who always gets overlooked. I've sorta grown use to it so, hmm.

Better stop mopeing- what use will it serve me apart from making me even more glum?

If you havn't given up on reading this mopey post then you're an angel!

~Katkin

The Velvet Underground ROCKS!

Just though I'd let you know.

~Katkin

Ok, ok....

I'll do a proper post today- promise! :D Hmmm, what to write about... Nothing much has gone on in my life, I'm very, very boring.
The most exciting thing thats happened to me all week was last night when I went to art club with my best friend. We're making these pyramid lantern thingys and we have finished the basic structure of ours. We have also covered it with gloopy glue and tissue paper. Honestly, you don't want to meet me when I'm covered with glue up to my elbows. I go bonkers, honestly! I swear I'm getting clumsier by the day, I'm always rushing about like a headless chicken, bashing into stuff- and people! Ooops....
Got to go, I have to watch Outnumbered!
Wasn't house good on sunday? Can't believe towel is having yet another affair!

~Katkin

(Oh, I've almost finished my book! Yay!)

Musings

Theres more to life than books.....

But not much more.

Yay!

I've wrote 60,000 words of Another Life! :D


~Katkin

T-teeth

Please help me.... I've been to the dentists today and he told my that two of my canines were crooked and two big, so he had to WRENCH OUT two of my other teeth to make room for them. I'm twelve- I don't want my teeth to be pulled out! I'm not even going to be under anesfetics, only in my gum. I'm going to be awake when they enject a massive needle into my gum and pull out my teeth. Nooooooo! And I was dreading the school enjections, this is 10000000 times worse....

HELP ME!!!!!!

~Shaky Katkin

CARROTS!!!!!!

Yup, you guessed it- I've grown carrots! I've just picked them now, and god, I am amazed! Something that I have grown from a seed HASN'T DIED!!! We're are eating them for our tea tonight. The are quite small straggly things, but (in my amazing opion) way better than perfect supermarket ones. :)

I would show you a photo, but I don't have a camera lead thingy a bobby. I'll just show you an Internet (pah!) pic.

~Katkin

Doctor Who...

Wasn't it amazing? I was sooooo freaked out-and I watch 15 & 18's all the time! I remember the first time I watched blink was with my besto friendo and we were so scared. You know when you shut all your doors and windows and bury yourself under the covers in fright? And you're to afraid to come out until the middle of the afternoon? Yeah, that was when I watched BLINK.

Sacred bob? Coolio!

I think Amy Pond is going to turn into an angel. God it was so freaky when Bob said, I didn't escape, I'm dead. The angels snapped my neck, sir.

That sent shivers up my spine!

This was my beautiful cat Holly. Unfortunately she passed away a little under a year ago. :(

~Katkin

My to-do list

Helloooooo, this is my to-do this of all the things I want to do before my seventeenth birthday. (which is a looong way away!)

1) Have a massive food fight
2)Have a novel or short story published. (Not gonna happen!)
3) Blow all my pocket money on a massive hoard of sweets and throw a party.
4) Meet the best writer in the world- Marie-Louise Jensen!
5) Go sky diving!
6) Camp out in the woods with my besto friendo eating pasta presto
7) Pluck up enough courage to talk to a certain someone! :p
8) Read 500 books
9) Spend way more time outside on long long walks.
10) Get a dog

~Katkin

Running

Ballet just fininshed, and as I was coming out, I saw my car driving past the gates. So, what did I do? Did I wait for it to go back and around? No. Silly little dim witted me decied to chase after it. I opened the gate and ran as fast as I could, chasing my massive black car. It was like it was taunting me, stopping and then starting again just as I got near it. I ran for five minutes, chasing it down alleys and blocks, oblivious to the questioning stares of the locals. You must remember that I was in a leotard, tights and a crossover-as well as in my best satin ballet shoes. Finally I reached my car, puffing and panting, sweat dribbling down my forehead. I climbed in and mum said, "Gosh Kat, you must have run like the wind to catch up with me! You shouldn't have bothered though, I was coming back round any way!" I was lying back in my seat, gasping for breath, my heart thumping like a bird trapped in a cage. All I could do was nod, my calf's burning, my ankles twisted.

My brain is very strange. What made me chase after my car? Was it my subconscious trying to tell me something or was I just being a complete and utter idiot.

~Katkin

My banana!

I took this picture at the zoo a few months back-isn't he cute? He's guarding his banana from me, the evil alien wielding a strange device. AKA a camera. I love animals, especially monkeys. They're just so cheeky with their pink bottoms and goofy smiles! They're still not top of my animal list though. No no no.

1)Cheetahs are first,

2) Wolves are a definite second,

3) Monkeys come in at third!

What about you lot?

On a totally unrelated note-I'm watching Shrek 2 at the moment-it's so cool! I love donkey, he is the best, so inappropriate and dumb. :D I also love the blind mice and the three little piggies.

My favourite Disney movie of all time is The Little Mermaid. I love Sebastian and flounder- as well as Ariel! Of course! God, I have a thing with obsessions. Throughout my primary school years I was obsessed, I sang the songs every single second of every single day. :D

~Katkin

The Pen is mighty than the sword!

I don't know why I wrote that as the title, its just been playing on my mind all day! I suppose it is in a way, as you can write out death warrants and such with it.... and you can write storys!??!?

On the subject of stories, I'm doing a happy jig at the moment as I have wrote 46,200 words of my book which is roughly 124 pages! Its not really a lot.... Look, pick up the book nearest to you and turn to page 124. Its only a quarter of the way through, isn't it? Darn, I knew it... But still, I'm proud of myself, and quite pleased if I can say so myself. :D

How are your stories going? Feel free to comment, I would love to know!

~Katkin

Pssst, you see the 'follow' button at the side? Press it if you enjoy my blog! :D (which I really hope you do!)

The Zoo

These picture were taken at Chester Zoo. Normally I am totally against zoo's, but this zoo is great. It has spacious cages and a breeding program, so its actually trying to save the animals instead of making a cruel profit. I took this picture of a cheetah using the zoom feature of my camera, so thats why the pic's a bit blurry! I love Cheetah's, they are my favourite animal in the whole world. They are just so sleek and amazing, the speed they run up to is gobsmacking! We went into the butterfly house and it was majestic. So many beautiful, massive, colourful butterflies just flapping about, having fun, enjoying themselves. I darted around everywhere, trying to get the perfect shot and the, just as I was nearing the end, a massive blue butterfly was perching on the information board, just waiting for me.

I love animals, they are the best things in the world.

~Katkin

Nature

Don't you just love our world? All our forests, all our wildlife, all our amazing sea's..... Don't you think its a shame that we are destroying it?

Take a look at the Amazon Rain forest for example. We are mercilessly chopping down all the trees, destroying millions of habitats. Doesn't that make you feel just a tinsy bit bad?
We kill animals ruthlessly, we take elephants tusks, which are their TEETH, we kill tigers for their fur, the list is endless. Us humans are MONSTERS. We need to do something to stop this. Do we really want no wildlife? No tree's? No wonderful views? We need to protect our Eco-system now, before its to late.

We need to put a stop to the Amazon rainforest being chopped down. We need to put a stop to poachers. We need to put a stop to global warming.

We need to save our world!

Now this is just WRONG.

~Katkin

Do you ever get this...?

When you are so stupid that it can't be true? I've just come back from the park after getting EXTREAMALY worked up out a certain missing pen stick. On my pen stick I had half my book saved on it, as I am so stupid as I can never be bothered to save my book onto my hard drive. Imagine how hetic I was when i couldn't find it in my pocket. I searched for in for forty minutes, digging deep into sand, almost crying with sorrow, remember, I thought I had lost half of my book. I trooped home and mum and dad said, "have you checked in your pockets?" I had in all but one.

Guess where my pen stick was.

In that pocket.

I am such an idiot!! Please tell me that everyone has days like this!

Yours stupidly
Katkin

Ugh...

Do you ever get it when you just feel ill? Like all you want to do is drop down and go to sleep? Well you guessed it, thats how I'm feeling today!
I'm feeling really on edge today (as I always do on Wednesdays) because I know that tomorrow after school I have to go to my Ballet class. Its really irritating as it always hovers on the horizon, always keeping me from enjoying my day while I can. You get it, I hate ballet! I bet ya i won't enjoy tomorow one bit, I'll just be counting down the hours like I am now... *sigh*

~ Katkin

Blogs I like.

I'm feeling lazy lazy lazy today so I'm just going to post a few of my favourite blogs.

There's Lord Kiwi's fabulous blog all about writing.

Emily Martins (aka the black apples) wonderfly crafty blog.

Petchys craft/ photo blog.

and

The Angry Chicken blog. One of the best blogs there is!


Katkin

Hi!

Just thought I'd say hi to you wonderful people! :D
Howdy, hi, hello, bonjour, halla, howdy there partner, hiyiyango.....

I think I'm in a bit of a hypey mood today- I just can't keep still! I wanna go and run outside untill I get so tierd I drop down and fall asleep.

But one big, huge, gigantic, ginormous, monstorous problem. I. Have. Homework.
Arghhhhhhhh! So much of it as well..... Why do teachers have to dose it out by the wagon load? Can't they just trust that we actually listen to them in class? It would make all our lives much easier. After all, don't teachers always moan about the amount of homework they have to mark? Well that can be resolved by them not giving us any! What do ya think? :D

Yeah, lets all revive the ancient campaign that school kids have strived after for centuries.
DOWN WITH HOMEWORK! DOWN WITH HOMEWORK!

I don't even know why I'm complaining about it, it only takes me fifteen minutes to do it, but still; DOWN WITH HOMEWORK! DOWN WITH HOMEWORK!

On a totally unrealated subject, don't you looovve barbaques? And fires? You know, the ones that you toast marshmellows on? :D I have perfected my marshmellow toasting tequnique. Shhh, its a secret though!

Please tell me that you guys go all hyper like this as well? If you do feel free to leave a comment! :D

Yours Hyperly

Katkin

Goodnight!

Today was my last day of freedom, and I did nothing..... *sniff* I'm being made to go to bed way early 'to prepare me for the buisy day ahead of me'. Sniff.
This is Katkin, signing off.....

Back to school.....

Noooooooo! I really don't want to go back to school tommorow.... I've been getting up at around half ten every single day of this gorgeous Easter Break. How on earth am I going to cope getting up at seven o'clock?! I have so much homework to do, s much study for the end of term tests... Oh help..... Why can't we just have one great big extra long hoilday? Like if all our holidays joined together into a massive break.... So many days off... It would be heaven on Earth....
Whaaa....
Its hard to believe that this time last week I was in Harris, lounging around and eating chocolate! If only....
*News at ten music*
Breaking news! Katkin has now wrote 105 pages of her book! Yipeeee!

Katkin

Doctor Who & other stuff

Do you watch Doctor Who? I do and I'm loving it at the moment. I am a massive David Tennant fan (he is the best!) and although I am sad about him leaving, I have to admit that the new doctor is pretty darn good. He's a sort of bonkers science teacher who actually looks like an alien! Finally! The newest episode is really good, very fast pacing and funny, I think maybe a little better than RTD episodes. I do think it is edging towards a kids program again, which is a shame, but I am a kid and I do love Doctor Who!
Last night I finished watch House season five. I was so sad that House had halucinated everything and that him and Cuddy hadn't got together. I almost cried, I really love the T.V program it is so witty and clever. Now he's in a mental institution. I am so sad........ But its really inrritating because I have stupidly watched the season six trailers, so I know that he ends up back in the hospital! Oh darn....
In other news I am going to attempt to sew a dress. I have brought a pattern and everything, and now all I have to do is sew it.... Gulp!

Cya,

Katkin

Driving.....

Yesterday I got back from Scotland after a long, long borning drive. All we did was watch House (the greatest T.V show EVER invented), drink coke (yum!) and read.
Well, I did manage to write ten pages in the space of one hour (thats quite a lot for me, I'm a very slow typer) so I did feel that I had got something out of the drive.

Hoildays are great, if you know what I mean, but sometimes its just nice to be at home. You know, like what Dorothy said, "Theres no place like home." I completly agree with her! Its just so nice to be in my bedroom again with its fantastic view and with all my stuff around me.

Katkin

The Wonderful World of music...

Shorter post than usual today! I'm feeling lazy....

I love music so much! It just carries you away to different places... :D

One artist who does this especially is Regina Spektor. She is the best!!!

My favourite songs by her are:

1) Two Birds

2) Blue Lips

3) Dance Anthem of The 80's.

Really, if you have Spotify-check her music out!

Then of course there is my old favourite... The Beatles!!!

The best Album they have ever made is defiantly Revolver. Songs like 'Good day sunshine' and 'For no one' really make your heart beat so fast! They are the BEST!!!

Okay, I'm finished!

Katkin

Moo....

What you looking at?

Do you belive in Fairy's?

I do.

Its hard not too when you're in Skye! There is fairy related stuff every where you go, magic is in the air here. Yesterday I went to visit the fairy pools by the Kula mountains and they took my breath away. The beauty of them is astounding. Sure, I fell in to a stream and got soaking wet, but it didn't seem to matter when I finally arrived at the pools. Mini lakes surounded by barriers of limestone and rock. Waterfulls casading down wherever you look, fairy's MUST live there. Honestly. I think they play tricks on your mind to make you go the wrong way, because somehow me and my family ended up hiking half way up a mountain in the wrong direction, instead of going in the blatantly obvious right direction! Oh how clever the little fairys are!

It really is beautiful, isn't it? Well worth the mile and a half walk it takes to get there.

Katkin

Oh Holidays.....

I love Holidays!!!

I'm on an idylic holiday at the moment with calming oceans everywhere, mountains and hills and amazing wildlife. I'm staying in a fantastic boathouse which is just so beautiful! Oh joy, so many brilliant walks to choose from.....
One problem; its all so distracting from my book! But, hey ho, my book can wait, its not like I have to finish it anytime. :D

Katkin