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NEW BLOG

2010-02-25T13:09:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone,

I still seem to be getting blog comments on this blog when in fact I have stopped writing on this one and have moved on to another!

www.letitbemadi.blogspot.com

is my new and -quite frankly- much better blog. Please delete this blog from your 'following' and follow the new one!

Thanks :)

HOLY MOLY!

2010-01-11T08:35:00.000-08:00

I have completely been OVERWHELMED by college and too tired/distracted/hungry/lazy to do any posts lately. I apologise.

I've decided to go in a new direction, with a new look and MOST IMPORTANTLY, a new blog.

Please visit it here...

LET IT BE MADI!!!

I'm not sure whether I will continue to write on this blog... but who knows!

So please instead follow my new blog which will be filled with little musings and/or anecdotes of my day.

Thanks!!

Madison
- aka Let It Be Madi ;)

Cupcake Crazy

2009-11-13T10:50:00.000-08:00

Recently my mum has started a cupcake business and it's been cupcake-crazy all day everyday! Today she made 100 cupcakes (i sampled two... you know, just to check...).

Do I hear bells? Yes, I do and they're just around the corner: Christmas is almost here and the lady in question has asked for 'anything Cupcake'. Seen anything 'cupcakey' which I could get my mum for Christmas?

Oddest Thing Of the Week

2009-11-12T08:35:00.000-08:00

More 'The Thing That Made Me Laugh This Week'.
You gotta love Heidi Seeker's creativity.

Legendary Night

2009-10-30T05:03:00.000-07:00

Greg invited us to his house for a party because his parents were away and it was SUCH a fun night :). We danced, we sang, we helped bully a smoker [ok, admittedly I was the one who stamped on his cigarette... but I saved a life, right?] ...

Overall, these photos say it all:

[This is the guy whose house it was. Sorry not very good english haha]

It's a little late

2009-10-25T10:15:00.000-07:00

But here it is. Yes, the clocks went back last night and suddenly it's getting darker earlier. So let's reminisce of those summer days by taking a look at the second day of Kirsty and my trip to Center Parcs, which I have just got round to editing/finishing. Enjoy.

Unfortunately I couldn't embed the video, so here's the link.

Oddest Thing Of the Week

2009-10-20T12:17:00.001-07:00

This furry fella is the WorryWoolie and is actually a notebook.

But not just any notebook, ooh no. This sure-to-shed cutesy has a purpose: it's 40 leaves of paper is there so you can write your worries down during the day!

Cool? I think so...

Getting chucked out of a cinema...

2009-10-19T10:15:00.000-07:00

Wowee have I been busy! Back to college and thankfully I have half term next week, in which I think I totally deserve it.

On Friday, Kirsty, Ambra, Sophie and I met up with some of the boys they know at college to go see Zombieland. All the guys seem really cool, though us girls were a bit outnumbered [ie 3 girls: 6 boys] but it was a really hilarious night. There was one thing that really annoyed me though: never in my life have the people at the cinema checked my ticket whilst I'm watching the film. I don't know about you but once I'm in I just chuck it at the bottom of the bag and forget about it. Well, suddenly this security guard came up to us and was like:

"Everyone get your tickets out."

Mass panic as we scrambled around in the dark trying to find our tickets. Trust me and Kirsty to have lost ours. We had to go through the embarrassment of walking out of the cinema, down the escalator to the busy cashier desk and the security dude asked the girl if she remembered serving us. Being an idiot she said no. [Totally unfair - if I was working there I would think, Man that has to be cringey and they look like alright girls; I'll just say yes...] Then the security guard patronisingly put a hand on Kirsty's shoulder:
"You seem like nice girls, did you honestly buy a ticket?" To which we irritatedly said yes! I could not believe it - we'd missed at least twenty minutes of the film, had been publicly humiliated and then didn't get an apology. Unfortunately a little too late we both found our tickets after the security guy sauntered off.

However, the night ended well as we went round one of the guys house and laughed a lot (especially kirsty). Phew, what a night!

On Saturday Kirsty and I went to Camden. We both love it there, though haven't been there in ages - not since that fire burnt down the market. I bought a lovely bangle and Kirsty bought a purse and hat. It was incredibly funny, and we made a movie, I just haven't got round to editing it yet, but will show you soon!

After our trip up London, Kirsty came back to mine and we had pizza and laughed hysterically over who knows what! It was sooo funny. We Facebook-stalked; youtubed Kyle (See below); went on webcam to Amy; sung our hearts out to online Karaoke and generally tackled each other to ruin one another's facebook, depending on who was logged on at the time...

Fun times but back to reality: have a media project to get on with and English coursework to finish.

Au Revoir Senoritas!

The Verdict

2009-10-15T08:59:00.000-07:00

PS. Am SO excited to see this!!!!!!!!!

The Chop

2009-10-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

So I have decided to get a fringe and my hairdresser is coming tomorrow so wish me luck!

Today was ok - woke up, watched Veronica Mars, showered, had a fight with sister, did homework, had lunch, went to college. English Language I just spent laughing with and generally distracting Kirsty from her work... One of our English teachers is a complete PATRONISING IDIOT, so don't worry Kirsty! I gave out lots of 'mini cupcakes' because my mum is still practising and we have all eaten too many so I needed to give them to some people haha. A lot of classmates are really surprised when I say:
"Does anyone want a cupcake?"

[one of my mum's cupcakes - delicious!]

Which just goes to show that generosity isn't common anymore...

By the way, is anyone excited for Halloween? I kind of love it. Last year I invited all my new college friends to a mini party and convinced them all that at the end of my living room there was a guy hiding behind my sofa, under the table-tennis table. They believed (mostly because I turned the lights off and said: "It's ok, they're a bit scared - don't come out yet) and it was hilarious. I must be good liar... Here are some photos from last year:

I'm not sure what we're doing this year - maybe going up London? I also want to watch some kind of horror film [I would LOVE to see Nightmare on Elmstreet, for the two simple reasons that it looks good; and it stars Kyle Gallner :p]. It's unfortunate that both Sophie and Ambra will be working :(.

But on to the important stuff: the costume. Last year I was an Evil Widow, the year before a Cat but this year I will [hopefully] be... Cleopatra. If we're going up London we'll be in our coats, so the costume will be simple: decorate just your head. I have my A Level Literature class to thank for my Halloween inspiration - we're currently studying Antony & Cleopatra by Shakespeare.

What are you going as this year?

OUCH

2009-10-12T08:19:00.000-07:00

Just another Manic Monday, I wish it was a Sunday...

For some very strange reason when Kirsty and I were queuing up for our Cervical-Cancer-Vaccination-Needle-Scary-Hurt-Thing we got very hyper. I think the nerves turned into Adrenalin which kind of made us cackle hysterically at absolutely nothing as we waited to get a needle stabbed into our arm. One of the girls in front of us was crying, the rest were pretty silent.

When it got to my turn I was quite ok except for the fact that in the chair next to me (shielded by what looked like a blue cardboard wall) was a girl crying heavily and generally hyperventilating, all of which I could hear. Suddenly the -very young I might add- woman said: "Ok.. Now it's over". It literally stung for like 2 seconds and I was like: "Woop that's it!". Then I marched to the chairs like the brave little soldier that I am.

It has ached all day, but apart from that, it was fine. Just another two to go! Yay.

So to anyone who is getting it done soon -or any other injection- it's absolutely fine. Also, you get sympathy from people (ie got home and was given a cupcake mix bowl to lick) which is always good when you haven't really done anything.

Also, feel free to sharply pinch any male form in the area for being the gender that doesn't have to go through as much pain as us sturdy ladies.

Girl Power!

[too gay...?]

2009-10-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

Have had such a busy week! Went round Kirsty's yesterday and it was hilarious. We spent pretty much the whole day on the laptop looking at funny videos/ dribbling over celeb crushes (btw have found a replacement for Topher Grace - Kyle Gallner. :p) We ate chocolate muffins and then tried to take a photo of ourselves doing a Herbal Essences hair flip. Don't ask why - I don't even know!

Tomorrow all us lucky ladies at college get our HPV jabs. Yay! Injections. Not. I'm ok with needles etc; it's just the waiting around for it that I hate.

Ooh, and I have decided to get a fringe. I know, I know. I'll probably grow it out, but what the hell - you only live once, right? [Ok, don't really know how this justifies why I should get a haircut, but whatever...] Will take some photos after Thursday to show you how it turns out (fingers crossed).

On a side note, am currently watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMHidjDB_Uk
Now I usually love College Humor. But this is just harsh (still made me laugh though!)

To fringe or not to fringe?

2009-10-05T11:10:00.000-07:00

Also known as 'bangs' to you super cool Americans, I am forming a decision.

I may get a fringe!

*alert* *alert*

Here's the story***. I have battled with this inner urge to get a fringe all my freaking life, having had one cut in (slowly followed by strenuous exercises of trying to grow it out) about 4 or 5 times in my life. Even my hair dresser is starting to wonder if I'm some kind of hair-scizophrenic... [haha! Take that english coursework - I just used a hyphenated adjective even though I didn't need to..]

I'm currently sick of my hair. I feel like I'm starting to look like one of those grunge type drummers that have curtains as their chosen look... So I want something different. Seeing as though a side fringe accentuates my hamster cheeks [so I'm skinny everywhere else - how does having chubba -yes chubba- cheeks make sense?] I thought - why not get a full but light not heavy fringe put in?

But then my face gets shiny quick so will grease my hair quicker. AHHHH - dilemma!!!

So to fringe or not to fringe?? TELL ME THE ANSWER.

so y'all know I'll get a fringe anyway and will totally hate it..

*** = of a lovely lady, with 3 lovely girls of blonde hair... or something of that sort - bonus points if you guess what theme tune I was trying to remember...

I'll be there for you

2009-10-04T04:26:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I had a really great day with the family. Me, my sister, her boyfriend, my parents and my grandparents set off early on the train up to taste a little New York in London...

After an hour and a half (!) of queueing outside the infamous coffee shop, we finally entered the legendary Central Perk. I loved it!! It was a precise replica of the one in New York and I got a Moccachino. I had my first ever coffee in Central Perk - how brilliant is that statement? All the props (e.g. the Turkey head that Joey/ Monica wore; Mock-o-late that Monica had to try and come up with a new recipe; the list for choosing Rachel by Ross; Rachel's bridesmaid dress etc) were in glass cabinets to stare in wonder at.

It was really only me, Brooke and Paul who could appreciate it fully - being crazy Friends fans. Yet we all had a brilliant time - especially sitting on the orange couch which you just *sunk* in to. Totally want to buy a replica when I'm older!

Once leaving the cosy cafe and being brought back to reality via the cold weather, we cruised down Carnaby Street and walked up to this Starbucks stall that were giving out free coffees and muffins!! Absolute heaven. Grabbed a GIANT blueberry muffin (my second ever, totally in love with them now), I relaxed on my cab home and munched...

Haha only joking - this cab was unfortunately not my ride home, instead it was next to the stall to advertise the New York Swap. Apparently this month, New York and London are swapping shops in the form of Pop-up shops so you can taste a little bit of the famous cities on opposite sides of the world... am totally going back. [Am sorry - am still totally impressed by the free muffin.]

We dawdled on to the Back Show. Doesn't sound as fun, right? We almost nabbed a free massage but other than that we tried not to get coaxed into a half hour sales pitch by all the assistants. [Thankfully we managed to find a way to sort my back out. Can't remember what it's called but am booking an appointment. Just in case you didn't know I have mild scoliosis of the spine + hypermobility. Which basically equals a back that gets sore quickly and clicks a lot!]

Our last stop was a trip to the Museum of Childhood, which was a lot of fun as me and Brooke looked at all the old toys we used to have. Also, there was a punch and judy theatre you could step in, some crazy mirrors, a jukebox and a wooden police car! A lot of fun.

Had a really great day, and already I want to go back to Central Perk [btw if you live in London there's only 3 days left of it and then it shuts so get there quick!]. Although I would much prefer to go to the one in New York. *Sigh*...

Winners this week...

2009-10-04T02:54:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I have to do a major bit of coursework today so this will only be a short post stating the winners of the KeyCap competition...

1. Kirsty
2. adubbskthx
3. Erika
4. yiqin
5. daisychain

Well done to Daisy Chain - the Key Cap will be sent to you very soon.

Look out for next week's competition some day next week haha. And my review of Central Perk ...

A little bit stressed

2009-09-30T10:08:00.001-07:00

After three weeks of going back to college, suddenly all the work is piling up. I'm reading three books, doing 'mini-essays' here, there and everywhere; and 10 page pieces of coursework's deadlines are only in two days!

I need to calm it, Kermit. I feel a bit all over the place: I still feel really ill and not quite right. I'm blundering through all my lessons and just about sticking to homework due dates. I just feel so tired. Gawd almighty - it must be winter!

I'm just looking forward to the weekend. To relax. I'm only 17 and seem to have a very hectic life. [Which is, by the way, not what my sister thinks: "Wait til you get in the REAL world, Madison..."] But talking of Brooke, yesterday my 21 year old sister came home from work and stated that she already had my christmas present. She said it was expensive and I would love it. I instantly asked:
"Tickets to America?"
To which that got a snort, rolling of eyes and a statement of: "Not that expensive!"
Well, a girl can keep on dreaming...

So, the next big thing: Halloween!! What's everyone got planned? My friend Dawn has a second home near the sea front, so we're hoping that we'll be able to have a spooky sleepover round there. All she needs is the permission of her Minister Halloween-hating mother. Hmm.

PS, don't forgot to enter this week's competition!! See the post below ;)

Competition Time!

2009-09-28T08:31:00.000-07:00

** As long as you have a blogspot account and you follow me via that I can contact you through there so don't worry ;) **

So whilst I am slowly getting better from my horrible cold I have achieved two things today. Firstly - another competition; secondly bought something on eBay for Dawn's pink party. It's a really nice pink shiny top, and you'll just have to be patient for 20th December to see it. (I know, I know, it is so far ahead but I like to be organised.)

Just found out via email today that I have literature homework due in tomorrow, so have to do that still. I also still haven't had any advice on my English Language coursework, which means I have only done a paragraph. The first draft = due in next week. Eeek, much?

And the winner is...

2009-09-27T09:32:00.000-07:00

Random Number Generator:
1. Erika
2. Leah
3. Kirsty
4. Daisy Chain

[Ricky you weren't included cos you didn't say the magic phrase: "I heart the 80's". If other peeps think this is unfair, don't worry I know this 'Melon Head' and I'm sure he didn't want the sunglasses haha ;)]

So well done Leah!!

I will get in contact with you shortly.

Meanwhile, I am afraid that I am really rather ill at the moment. Anyone got the cure for the commmon cold yet? All I need is a little rest, so will get back to blogging properly soon, and will even set another competition!!

If I were rich...

2009-09-25T09:24:00.000-07:00

I'd buy a hell of a lot!!

PS. Thank you all for helping me to try and find something that is pink to wear for Dawn's party. It's been really helpful. Am going London tomorrow, so will look out for some stuff there :)

Lots of Birthday Invitations

2009-09-23T10:32:00.000-07:00

Today I recieved two birthday invites: one for Dawn's party and one for Kirsty's [or at least I think so: Kirsty I think you sent it to my mum by mistake. I took it that it was meant for me, right?]

I'm excited for both - for both 18ths we are going in a limo up to London. Two limos in two months: not bad right?

There's only one problem, and that's with Dawn's party. Her theme is 'pink' and we have to wear accordingly. And guess what?

Yup, I know, how awkward am I? But I tend to stick to my favourite black clothing. Looking at my wardrobe is like looking into a black hole. My favourite colour is red, I think it suits me, and there are an assortment of different colours in there. But I don't wear pink.

So now I'm struggling to find a dress that is pink and that I'm going to wear again. Something that isn't too nauseating but still consists of something that actually is pink. I need help.

As you all know I am a HUGE fan of Zooey Deschanel, and I especially love her fashion. But it seems she shares my aversion to the difficult colour too:

However, I did find this one outfit in which she wears pink and LOVE it:

Ahh, has anyone seen anything similar anywhere?

Currently-

2009-09-22T10:41:00.000-07:00

I am a little annoyed with college.

Ok, by a little I mean a lot. I have four different classes in my week and out of all of them I am only enjoying one of them. One of the classes I have had no help in and been left to do NOTHING; another there is too many idiots and not enough villages; and the last one is a little bit pointless.

Also, found out cannot afford to go on holiday with my friends next year :(.

But with all this, at least:
- I love one of my lessons
- I have quite a good time table layout [meaning I don't have to go in til 12 on 3 out of 5 days...]
- I have hilarious friends that break up the day by being generally funny at lunch
- We are planning to go Glastonbury next year
- I think I am finally sorting my future out.

So I encourage you to look at that glass of water in your hand and see it as half full and not half empty.

Plus, if you really wanna be cheered up enter my competition to wear a pair of wayfarer sunglasses. Go to the previous post and comment before Saturday.

Happy Tuesday people.

Competition Time:

2009-09-17T12:50:00.000-07:00

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You know the rules-
Leave the 80's comment
Follow the blog
If you don't have a blog yourself, leave contact info.

Open to international followers.

Competition close date: Next Saturday.

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LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION WINNERS.

Well, a disappointing start to my lil competitions - only two people entered!! So, they both win the prize of promotion on this blog...

Competition rules: Describe your eye colour without stating the actual colour. First up we have Kirsty at www.giggly-cupcake.blogspot.com

Her description: "Dark Chocolate".

Her blog: Kirsty's blog centres around her life and her love of vintage fashion. Set out in the form of a diary, this lil blog keeps you updated with the typical college student's antics and buys from her frequent London trips...

Next we're off to Australia with www.thereisnosuchthingasperfect.blogspot.com [I'm sorry - I don't know your name!]

Her description: "Willy Wonka's Cocoa River"

Her blog: Filled with witty anecdotes of everyday life, this blog will entertain and inform you of what's going on in in the world of television, music and what's going on in a typical girl's life. A really interesting read, with quirky insights and honest truths...

That's all folks! Good luck with this weeks competition!

Strike A Pose.

2009-09-17T12:02:00.000-07:00

This was a while a back now but I just loved this party and couldn't miss out on sharing the awesome photos with you!

I had such a great time! It was a surprise 40th Birthday party for my Dad's cousin Karen and she was so shocked! Kirsty and I were the first on the dance floor with our official dance moves (ie Vogue, Robot, Llama, repeat). Even Karen's husband Simon came up to us and said: "If I don't speak to you two again tonight, I'd just like to thank you for getting everyody dancing!". Why thank you, we do try.

It was an incredibly good night, but I wish people had dressed up more - there was only about 40% in 80's outfit. Um, hello? It's a fancy dress party. Don't be rude and wear a green t shirt and jeans.

Urgh.

But on a lighter note - ooooooooooooooh I wanna dance with somebody!!

So I say Thank You for the-

2009-09-17T08:53:00.000-07:00

Thank you There's No Such Thing as Perfect for the Kreativ Blogger award. Wow, I guess I'd better
complete the questions...

7 things you don't know about me...

1. When I was younger I kept changing my mind about what I wanted to be when I grew up, but the main ones were: comedian, detective, and magician! So I put that altogether and now want to be: a writer. Yup, I know.

2. I have celebrity contacts in my phone. Which is kind of a lie - i've used code words for all my friends just to confuse people. For example, Kirsty is George Lamb in my phone, Debra is Mighty Huntress, Ambra is Champ Ambra etc etc.

3. I want to be an American. I have an obsession with America, just as some Americans have an obsession with London. Ever since going on holiday 3 times to the States I have wanted to live there. One day I'll get there...

4. Ok, this is the one I always use in them stupid 'let's get to know eachother' tasks at college: I was named after a mermaid. Madison? As in Splash? I only found out the other day that Madison wasn't considered a feminine name until Daryl Hannah's character decided to look at a street sign and choose the absolutely brilliant name of Madison.

5. I refuse to accept that I my eye sight is slowly deteriorating. Ok, that's a little dramatic but still - it's all blurry 5 metres in front of me. Yes I have glasses, and yes they give me perfect sight. But do I like wearing them? Noooo.

6. Out of all my family, apparently I am the Clever One. Haha, said by my ten year old cousin: "When I go round Tracy's, I'm going to ask Madison to help me with my algebra - she's the only clever one in this family..." I'm flattered!

7. I'm destined to be famous... Please don't get me wrong (ie the name of this blog) I'm not some fame hungry teen. I'd just like a lot of people to read my writing and be inspired. Anyway, in primary school my head teacher told me that I'd be: "The famous Madison G..."

Anyway enough about me: I pass this lovely award (in no particular order, 'cause you're all awesome) on to the following very talented bloggers -

Sally Jane Vintage

All this happiness

Le Love

Think someone you know deserves this award too?

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and put it on your blog.
3. Link the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things, people may not know about you.
5. Nominate as many other 'Kreativ Bloggers' of your choice.
6. Post links to the blogs which you nominated.
7. Leave them a comment to let them know they have been nominated!

Oddest Thing Of the Week...

2009-09-15T09:03:00.000-07:00

The David Bowie Night Light!!

This is just a little bit awesome. If only this was around when I was younger :(. I seem to have neglected my love of Bowie in favour of The Beatles at the moment, so this is for the continued appreciation of his magical music - I haven't forgot you Bowie!

[by the way I'm sorry I haven't been blogging as much - college just sweeps you up and makes any time for being creative disappear! Next week I'll be back properly, as I get used to my timetable...]

Madi's Mahoosive Clear Out

2009-09-07T07:58:00.000-07:00

I'm sick of my clothes. So I'm getting rid of them. 10 items a day til I can afford a new wardrobe. Take your pick here.

Don't forget to enter the mini competition - the prize for this is for me to do a blog entry about your blog! However, if this is popular enough I will be giving away an actual brilliant object next time. You have til wednesday.

worrying thought:I've had two dreams now where I have been with my friends and we're just about to get the train somewhere. But I know that the particular train we're about to get on is going to blow up, so I persuade them to grab the next one. Each time I save my friends and myself only, and watch as others around get on the train. Each time the train blows up. I've been somewhere different in both dreams, with different scenarios [ie the first time I was told by someone, the second time I 'had a feeling' and my friends believed me].

What does this mean? I've tried to disect it myself - maybe I subconsiously want to save my friends and I from doing something, because it's been bad for other people? I don't know... give me your thoughts.

In love with life

2009-09-06T03:27:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I am so happy with life. It is so simple and incredible and beautiful. I love the feeling of being alive, and having the freedom to do absolutely anything. My dad once said to me: "Achieve the impossible."

And you know what? I think I will.

Holy Shitzu, what colour are Ambra's eyes?!

2009-09-05T07:25:00.001-07:00

All of last night and continuing today I have been photoshopping for my little project (sssh Kirsty). Ambra is the main photo for this project and I was busy youtubing tutorials all night to get the perfect image.

Then this morning I looked at the photoshopped image I'd worked on all night and thought something looked quiet funny with Ambra. Observe:

Now if you know her, or have seen her in some of my photos already, you'll realise that her EYES AREN'T GREEN. I couldn't believe I'd made such a fatal mistake! I cursed myself for working when I was tired.

I figured out the problem though - when I was brightening her eyes I had to zoom in a LOT and the photo became a little pixelated. All I could see was a black pupil and then a fleck of green so for some reason assumed this was the colour of her eyes. Sorely wrong - they're brown.

Grr so all that work had gone to waste, but at least I'd realised my mistake before it was too late. Sorry Ambra - your eyes are obviously brown.

And this got me thinking - everybody's eyes are a mix of different colours, so I'm not such a tired idiot! I always thought my eyes were pure blue, but other's say grey and then on holiday I was told green! Noo, not green - that's my sister's eye colour. Ahhh! Run!!

So here's a contest for you:

Describe your eye colour WITHOUT using the name of a colour. E.g. my eye colour is: Ocean Fizz. Be as creative as you can and the person who is most creative I will do a blog entry on their blog. Open today until Wednesday!

Five for Friday

2009-09-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

Inspired by www.chronicallyvintage.com - Five for Friday. Not only is it alliterative, but it also gets my latest obsessions of my chest!

1. Adventureland
I've watched some clips on youtube and just find it fascinating for some reason. I really want to see it. I think it's my interest with the not-so-distant past, whether it be how they acted, what they wore or what they did. I'm also a sucker for an independent film.
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2. College Clothing
If only Forever 21 didn't have ridiculous postage charges to the UK...
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3. Lemon Curd
With toast. The newest fashion in breakfast - totally surpassing banana's on toast.
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4. Jamie Oliver's American Roadtrip
Ahh, my obsession with America is quenched with this little cookery programme. Sure Jamie Oliver annoys me a bit, but he inspired me to get his book to learn to cook. I just need to open it and soon 'creative culinary skills' can be added to my resume.
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5. Knee High Socks
Cos sometimes you just wanna geek out.
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GO see this film...

2009-09-03T11:18:00.000-07:00

It is seriously one of the best films I've seen all year :). CanNOT wait for the DVD - am craving seeing it again! Help! The beginning is brilliant. The middle is brilliant. The ending is brilliant.

So my favourite actress is in it and I've developed a crush on JGL - who says I'm biased here?

But seriously. Go see it.

Center Parcs

2009-09-01T11:54:00.000-07:00

I've just got back from my holiday to Center Parcs avec Kirsty and my family. I had such a great time - Kirsty and I could NOT stop laughing :).

I totally love Center Parcs anyway - you feel so free the whole time as there are no cars allowed inside the forest and you ride your bike everywhere! There's also the super cool swimming pool which sports three awesome slides and a rapids slide which is so powerful you get twisted along everywhere. It was the most fun ever!

This is not including all the activities you can do - from Zip wires to pedalos on the lake, as well as a treasure hunt and pretty much anything else you can think of! Me and Kirsty (and my family!) had such a brilliant time, but instead of my describing it to you, I'm making 4 individual youtube videos for the 4 days we spent there so you can see for yourself how much fun we had:

I will add the other videos onto here once I have completed them. I haven't finished them all yet, as I have actually been quite ill since I got back - just a cold and headache though, so nothing to worry about.

Have any of you been to Center Parcs of somewhere similar before?

So long, farewell, alf-whatever, Goodbye!!

2009-08-28T00:59:00.000-07:00

See you lot in 4 days - am going on holiday to Center Parcs avec Kirsty :). We will be riding our bikes around the forest, swimming in pool, travelling via horse and carriage, going yoga, seeing wildlife such as deer and pedalo-ing it on the lake! We will have a fantastic time, I'm so excited - am currently waiting for Kirsty to get here and then we are off.

So see you after the bank holiday

Desperately Seeking Costume

2009-08-25T10:38:00.000-07:00

Has anyone seen Desperately Seeking Susan? I really love it - and only got introduced to the film when researching what outfit I could have for the 80's party I'm going to soon. I totally fell in love with the costume and decided to buy the DVD to get more inspiration. It's one of my favourite films now, just because Madonna is so great in it and it has a great storyline. The film made me want to be all carefree like Madonna's character Susan is, and the costumes are gorgeous :)

So anyways I decided to dress like her character for the party and have been trying to find bits and pieces for my outfit. Today I found a perfect white dress in a store that was closing down - only £8! I have everything off the above list now minus the leggings and beads which I'll get tomorrow [trust me - I have the 'tude. The outfit feels so great already, even if I am missing a few bits!] In two weeks I'll post photos of me in my full outfit, and Kirsty too - who is going as a FAME girl (very appropriate with the new film coming out).

Yesterday I went shopping avec Kirsty, and today I went shopping avec Lauren. My bank balance is soooo low - haven't stopped ebaying for the past three days! Lauren and I also went to see The Time Travellers Wife. I started to read the book a few weeks ago, but I decided to do something I have never done before: waited for the film to come out. It wasn't that the book wasn't good, it was. But for once the film looked exactly like the book. Anyway, now I'm engrossed with the fantastic book Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern. Love her books!! Oh, and by the way GO SEE THE FILM - the Time Travellors wife is a tear jerker but a must see (I managed to stay dry eyed because of the full commitment I had to my non-waterproof heavy eye make-up.)

Tomorrow it's off to see Evita.

Don't cry for me Argentina...!

The sun will come out-

2009-08-23T11:22:00.000-07:00

TODAY.
If you could pick any of the days out of 2009 and state: "That was truly a summers day", then today would be it. My family came around for my grandparents 51st Wedding Anniversary and we had a delicious barbeque.

Kirsty is going to actually kill me after this but...

2009-08-22T10:19:00.000-07:00

I had the most random day yesterday avec Kirsty and Ambra. First me and Lamb 1 went to Sainsburys and decided our lunch was going to be uber [note - do people still use that word... or should it stay in the 90's?] healthy. So we picked a vegetable pizza, a salad (which in the end had VERY weird crutons in it) and a fruit salad. It only cost us about £2.30 each! Woop for cheap supermarket food.

After cooking (mostly Kirsty) and Ambra arriving we spent the best part of 5 hours on the internet and laughing like maniacs. Then, whilst having dinner we watched She's the Man. [incidently, if anyone wants this film renacted Ambra and Kirsty are the ones to call - they know EVERY line!! haha, in the end I learnt one - 'naked!'. Yay I feel special]. Then suddenly Kirsty states:

"Why don't we renact the film?" After me and Ambra swap confused glances she continues: "I don't mind being made into a man." You didn't have to tell us twice!! We tackled her into a chair and dressed her as a man. And then, feeling a little left out in the makeover stakes Kirsty then cried: " Let's all have make-overs." Ambra got turned into a Goth haha. [I do NOT know what Kirsty was trying to do - I had the right side of her face and was trying to make it 'pretty goth'. Then Kirsty comes along with the eyeshadow and literally drops the pot on half of ambra's face. So then I decided to write EMO on her forehead.]

Then it was my turn. These two girls should NEVER N E V E R N-E-V-E-R become make-up artists. As ambra stabbed me to death in the eye with mascara, Kirsty took it apon herself to make me into a CHAV. And then Ambra joined in. I don't think I have ever had that much make-up on in my life. Stuffing a pillow up my top and using Kirsty's hats for boobs, I was ready for photos. NEVER show these to anybody important people...

"Better go get your Llama, get your llama, get your llama, get your Llama". Listen to Battlefield by Jordin Sparks and you'll get this joke.

I've had a

2009-08-20T10:00:00.000-07:00

fantastic past two days :)

Yesterday was Debra and Ambra's joint birthday party at TGIF's in London. It was SUCH a hilarious night (me and Kirsty got a teensy bit hyper). It was such a good night (anyone remember Mexicanwave-powerpunch-mime-vogue it!) I couldn't stop laughing!

And then today was our results day for AS Levels (half an A level - so our overall mark isn't til next year).. I'm pretty happy with my results:
Media = A
English Language = B
Sociology (urgh) = B
and English Literature = C (i'm kinda disappointed in this... I was predicted an A and this is the subject I put most work into :( I also really enjoy it so TONGUES OUT TO THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT - am taking this next year :) even if I did get a better result in Sociology). All my friends did exceptionally well - very proud of them all :)

After the pressure of waiting for our results we went to the cutest lil park ever and had a picnic. It was so cute and delicious (salmon sandwiches, mum's cupcakes, chocolate from Kirsty, muffins from Dawn, cookies from Debra. Anyone say yum?)

Oh, and as you know, my mum is becoming quite the business woman with her cake business. So I have designed her lil business card:

[and she got two orders tonight alone! Currently she is working on a wrestling cake and an Alice in Wonderland cake.]

I overuse the word Inspiration too much but

2009-08-19T03:52:00.000-07:00

I can't help it!! At the moment EVERYTHING is inspiring me to be more free and creative. I'd like to thank Kirsty for reintroducing me (and pressuring me haha) to the blogging world. Blogs are so amazing - it's like looking into people's diaries and seeing their hidden thoughts that maybe they wouldn't have said in day to day world. I started up a blog last year (it was rubbish!!) because I wanted to vent my frustrations anonymously and be all clever and charming without the embarrassment of people knowing it was me.

But I think it's good to go openly into the blogging world, so you can actually meet some interesting people who are only on here to do what you do - vent. And that venting has got me so inspired - especially as I've been talking to some great people lately, who have so many interesting things to say. When you look into another person's world, their perspective could change your mind because they may have a way of thinking different from your own. Your world becomes more 3D with the knowledge that there are people who are also out there with their own opinions and it's not just you in a Truman-esque world.

So I'd like to say thank you. You are all an - and I know I overuse this word but what the hell - inspiration :)

Just a little experiment...

2009-08-18T07:46:00.000-07:00

Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows

2009-08-17T03:50:00.000-07:00

They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot

They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees - please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they've paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?

Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door swing,
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Now don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now now, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not, they paved paradise
They put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot

New favourite sport: star gazing...

2009-08-16T04:54:00.000-07:00

I've had a truly magnificent week... But let me give you a catch-up of what I haven't blogged about yet... Thursday: MEOW! Kirsty, Debra and myself went to London (I know, again) and had a great day. We were going to go to Portobello market but were embarrassed to see that it wasn't actually on. I feel we subtly got out of the situation by doing a sharp turn back to the station. We had a picnic in the sunny St James Park, visited some soldiers at Buckingham Palace for Kirsty, went to Covent Garden and generally shopped... Friday: I'm starting a project this month which will be revealed shortly (sssh Kirsty - it's a secret :), and for the project I did a photoshoot avec Ambra. See a sample of the photos I took below. The best are kept for the project. On this note would just like to wish Ambra a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, as she is 17 today! [Thanks to Dawn, Debra and Kirsty for being my helpers for the day... but they didn't get nothing for their work - have an eyeball at the cupcakes my mum made for us!] For the shoot, I used my Grandads super groovy expensive and brilliant camera, and got all artsy with the butterflies...[I took over 50] and my friends... Saturday afternoon/evening Kirsty came round and as we had the house to ourselves cooked some dinner. We got hungry after gossiping in the garden in the sunshine and decided to create a pizza. After getting very confused with the base mix, suddenly Kirsty was kneading away at the dough like she'd been doing it all her life. We guesstimated (correctly) the oven and crap and soon were decorating the pizza with tomato puree, lots of cheese (which melted easily because we forgot to let it cool after it came out the oven. Woops), slices of tomato and DELICIOUS mozzarella. We forgot to read the instructions again as it said you had to have all the toppings away from the edge, so we got major meltage... I think we needed to have rolled out the dough more as well as the toppings were piled quite high. I totally misjudged the time to cook the pizza so we ended up having cold pasta as well. Oh, AND I forgot that the grated cheese was meant for the pasta as well as the pizza, so I cut a cheese slice into bits and put it on top of the pizza... And you know what? It was delicious! Well done to me and Kirsty for surviving on our own. Whilst watching Stuck on You, we decided to play a really dated board game... Just Seventeen Kiss Chase, to see who our dates would have been in 1995...

It was actually pretty hilarious in the end, as we made up our own theme tune for all of the cards "Uh-ooooh!" and "It's question timeee!".

It was a beautiful evening so went into the garden and played Badminton whilst singing, making up own lyrics and then played Croquet. Which turned into an assault course ('James Bonding' it over the sunbed, high knees, jump, pose for the camera, throw pegs, sunbathe, jump and then High Five...). It was so fun and funny!!! Haha, that doesn't make sense but you get what I mean.

It had suddenly turned dark and so we lay on the sunbeds and gazed up into the sky. After having a toilet break and getting some jumpers ("Lamb 1! Lamb 1! Meet back in the garden!") we pushed the sunbeds to the back of the garden, and truly stargazed as it was almost pitch black in the garden. We played the game: "I've never..." [e.g. the example was "I've never fancied a ginger." which is of course "False!". Rupert Grint fan, remember?]. It was a brilliant night (not without drama - we ran out the front as I had spotted a Flare go up in the sky a few streets back, closely followed by a fire engine, police cars and helicopters!! Never found out the real story...) and it was such a perfect 'summer' night.

Sorry for such the long post but so much as happened!! haha :)

M is for Madison (is the best..)

2009-08-13T12:20:00.000-07:00

So as you know, for my 18th (5 months aways today people), I am having a fancy dress party. The guests have to come in something that begins with 'M'. There are INFINITE possibilities, and me and my family came up with loads. My friends want to see the list and so here is a good place to put it. If you have any ideas that aren't on the list, feel free to comment.

I'm going as Miss America [so this is taken people haha]. Here is the list:

Bob Marley
Lady Marmalade

M C Hammer
Mad Hatter
Mad Max
Madame Whiplash
Madonna
Mae West
Magpie
Maid
Majesty
Make Up Artist
Maltesters
Man of the cloth
Man U Fan
Maneater
Manicurist
Manuel
Map
Marilyn Manson

Mario
Mark Anthony
Marmite
Mars Bar
Marshmallow
Marvin Gaye
Mary Poppins
Mask
Massacre
Matador
Matilda
Matron
Mayor
McCartney
McIntyre
Measles
Mechanic
Medic
Meerkat
Mel B
Men in Black
Mermaid
Metal Mickey
Metalica

Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
Mickey & Minnie Mouse
Mickey from Only Fools and Horses
Mike Tyson
Milky Bar Kid
Milo
Mini cooper
Mini Me
Minotaur
Miss Congeniality
Miss Muffet

Miss Piggy
Miss Whiplash
Miss World
Mission Impossible
Misteeq
Mitchlin Man
Mobster
Model
Mole
Mona Lisa
Monk
Monkey
Monster
Monty
Moonface
Moonraker

Moose
Morph
Morticia
Mother
Mother Teresa
Motor Racer
Motown
Mouse
Mower Man
Mr & Mrs Smith
Mr Bean
Mr Benn
Mr Incredible
Mr Mallet
Mr McGoo
Mr Men
Mr Motivator
Mr Muscle

Mr Potato Head
Mrs Doubtfird
Mrs Marple
Mrs Moneypenny
Muhummad Ali

Mummy
Munchie
Muppet
Muscle Man
Muslim
Mutant
Mystery Man

Any more? Please comment ;)

Bowling and Pizza Hut haha...

2009-08-12T11:19:00.001-07:00

Hello, fellow bloggers. Have had a good day today - we met up with our old Secondary School friends Joe and Ricky. It was a very funny day, as us girls won at bowling (predictably. Oh and Ambra won btw).

We discussed what we were going to dress up as for my 18th (in January but I'm letting everyone know in advance so they can get a super groovy costume.) I am going as Miss America - in a top hat and tutu dress, cos I generally love America. My party theme is fancy dress BUT you have to dress up as something beginning with 'M'. [My names madison for all you slow people haha ;)). So you could come as Mario, Minnie Mouse, Madonna, The Mask, A marshmallow, Marmite, Map...etc the list is endless!! We also watched a man behind us bowl really funnily. You know how Fred Flinstone bowls?? Well, it's crazier than that.

We then went onto Pizza Hut and it was hilarious. Can't even remember what we spoke about it was really funny. We have also decided that Ricky, Joe and Dawn are going to form a band and I am going to be their official band journalist :P. Hehe.

Oh and for Kirsty's birthday we are going to dress up in ginger wigs and freckles. [REMEMBER: she loves Rupert Grint!!]. Oh, and guess what? Kirsty is deliriously happy as Ricky revealed today that he has had McDonalds with Rupert Grint and his cousin (and RG owes Ricky a £1!!). Ricky speaks to RG's cousin. I am going to try to get Ricky to get Rupert Grint's cousin to get Rupert Grint to turn up to Planet Hollywood on Kirsty's birthday. I'd be so happy for her!! Anyhoo after getting very confused when paying for Pizza Hut, we decided to go across the parking lot to Pets at home and looked at all the cute furry animals. I heart guinea pigs, never had one. I think I might be allergic to their fur, because my mum is allergic to them, and we are both together allergic to cat hair.

We then bopped over to MotherCare World, and suddenly Ambra shoved a cardigan up her dress and she was pregnant!! Apparently, the twilight CHARACTER Edward was the father and the baby was Edward Junior. We didn't go in in the end, but spent about 2 hours outside of Mothercare World chatting.

It was weird that we had only left school last year but we were reminiscing about the good ole days like we hadn't been there for 20 years. It was nice seeing Ricky and Joe again - they don't change AT ALL - as we used to see them everyday when we were at school.
Overall a fabulous day, old chaps.

Orphan

2009-08-12T00:52:00.000-07:00

Last night was my first ever time seeing anything remotely scary at the cinema (I usually wait for the dvd... smaller screens are safer!). Haha, and what a film to pick to see for your first horror.
I figured - it has a 15 certifcate, and I'm 17. Surely I'd be fine...

It was pretty damn creepy - but I think the music was the worst. At the beginning I was like: "right, I know the first 20minutes is all going to be hunky-dory.. so i can kind of pace myself." OMG the first scene put me off giving birth so badly.

ie: woman pregnant, in labour at the hospital... weird nurse pushes her in a push chair. Woman looks down and she is leaking LUMPS of blood on the floor behind her. It is truly gross. Me, Ambra, Dawn and Debra are already covering our faces with our hands!! It cuts to a surgery scene and the nurse says: "You may feels some tugging and ripping..." urgh and the sound effects!! It's a squelching mess and suddenly the nurse says: "Wait! You're baby is alive!" and she holds out this baby. The baby is grotesque - blood and guts and lumps dripping off it and squealing and the mum is screaming and-
And then the mum wakes up. This is only the first scene!!

Don't get me wrong, it's a really clever film - with an incredible twist. Not for the faint hearted. [Although the big screen and surround sound made it worse...] I just loved how all four of us girls s-l-o-w-l-y sunk down in our cinema seats and our hands covered our faces... Me and Ambra kept laughing cos we kept jumping at EVERYTHING (yes, even the fridge door closing got me jumping!). I thought I would be a nervous wreck by the time I got out of there...

I have to say the little girl who plays the Orphan is INCREDIBLE. She plays a nine year old but I have just found out she is only twelve in real life. The stuff she has to do!! OMG. I also like the way the movie plays on horror cliches. Like, when you have a view of the door and you know when they close the door someone is going to be standing behind it? Well, the music implies so.. and then there is nothing. And then when you least suspect it, little Esther is watching.

Please go see it - if only once! I just thank gawd that even though we went to an evening performance, it was light outside when we got out.

Though it didn't help I went back to a dark house and my dad answered the door saying:

"There's something wrong with Esther..."

Not amused.

Are you old and boring yet?

2009-08-10T12:29:00.000-07:00

Firstly, this is perhaps the most bizarre thing I think I have ever seen:

Second: oo-er missus, I've become all inspired!

So I've been reading various blogs all night, drinking hot chocolate and emailing friends when I come across this thing that states: THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE. And I'm like - wait a freaking second I have a book like that. Sure enough I do, but it's less morbid: '101 things to do before you're old and boring.' I am totally completing this and adding more.

What are some of the things you'd like to do before you're old and boring?

I missed out from Shopping today because I had a really bad stomach ache :(

2009-08-10T08:23:00.000-07:00

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?

Extract from Sick by Shel Silverstein

Kiss of Life by Friendly Fires

2009-08-09T04:50:00.000-07:00

Rub that line above the sand
I can see you closer
Closer than you’ll ever be
Rub that line above the sand
I know you think it’s over
Staring out into the sea

Don’t let go this could be so perfect.
Don’t let go if we hold onto it

Rub that line above the sand
Right before the tide comes
Washes you away from me

Ooh kiss of life

Could you wave goodbye to sun?
The sea the stars the waves the tide?
The wails inside that life has died.
But all you need is a kiss of life

Rub that line out of the sky
I can feel the night crawl
A broken drum and tambourine
Rub that line out of the sky
I can see the clouds form
Taking shape in front of me

Don’t let go this could be so easy
Don’t let go if you hold on to me

A thousand butterflies your lips to mine
...

Kiss of life.

Yay I love mini Theme Parks :)

2009-08-08T06:58:00.001-07:00

Oh my freaking gawd yesterday was one of my funnest nights EVER!! As promised we went to our closest theme park. (which only has one upside down rollercoaster, hence why I loved it so much). Dawn drove us in her groovy Hello Kitty car and all 5 squashed in to sing our hearts out (ok, it was mostly me in my 'strangling-a-cat-like' voice.) on the motorway. As we got nearer I -ahem- waved to the people in the car behind us who were not unsimilar to The Brady Bunch as they all waved back to Kirsty's embarrassment. I'm happy to say that I went on every single ride (bar two which were tooo crazy :)) and had a fabulous time. We ate chips on the beach front, sang our hearts out all over the park and generally had fun times. We also got randoms come up to us [see above] and take/star in one our photos. We have no idea who they were but it was pretty hilarious. Afterwards I found a photo of a random bloke on my camera!! Good times. It was so fun as we ran from one rollercoaster to another singing, taking photos and sccreaaming. In fact, you don't have to imagine it - The video will be posted shortly. .. watch this space :) Madison

Where has all the Sun gone?

2009-08-07T04:29:00.000-07:00

I've had another incredible week avec my friends. We went to Greenich, which was really fun. We walked around the shops (though there wasn't many) and then walked for aaaaaages trying to find Pizza Hut down these really dodgy streets. Soon we found it though and it was DELICIOUS. Just thinking about it now makes me hungry :(.

But lets move away from food shall we? After lunch we went on a BOAT along the Thames. It was really cool (although I honestly thought it would be a speed boat. Darn it.). Meanwhile, throughout the day, me and Ambra were trying to remember the tune of 'Never Forget'. It was so frustrating!! Ambra even phoned her sister up, and even after she hummed it to us. It took good old Sophie to get her iPhone out and youtube it. We couldn't stop singing it after that and vowed to learn the whole song (on reflection and after reading the lyrics it is a bloody long and complicated song. I'm just learning the chorus :)). After a starbucks we joggled off home and I got a lift with Dawn in her groovy Hello Kitty car.

On Wednesday me, ambra, kirsty, dawn and megan went to see the new Harry Potter film. It was really good. It was pretty funny because I was sitting next to Kirsty (remember the really big Rupert Grint fan??) and she was just in her own little paradise (unless the actresses went anywhere near him in which she had a murderous look in her eye...) and also we took everything that Dumbledore said the wrong way. ("take my arm, Harry.." "Have you got a girlfriend, Harry?") It was pretty damn funny.

Thursday I literally sat in the garden (in the SUN - omg can you believe it??) and read the rest of Confessions of a Shopoholic. Really good and easy book to read. Really enjoyable, deffo recommended. My mum was experimenting with cupcakes as well, so as the chief taster I ate 7. Yes. I know. [In case you're interested: 4 cinammon and apple ones, 3 chocolate ones and a hell of a lot of bowl licking ;)).

Tonight I'm off to the fairground with my mates and I can't wait!! I'm a wimp on any kind of ride though so I'll mostly be eating candyfloss.

TAKE THAT.

2009-08-03T10:49:00.000-07:00

I've never really been a fan of Take That - I've got nothing against them, I've just liked other music. In fact, I'm more of a fan of their newer stuff and am happy they've made it big again and left Robbie Williams to sulk wherever he may be sulking behind.

When my parents bought me tickets to see Take That the Musical [called 'Never Forget'] I was sceptical, though excited: who doesn't like musicals?? We drove down to the theatre and it was teeming with females - from kiddies to wrinklies and everthing in between. [There were also some blokes who looked liked they'd been dragged along for the party - including my dad... haha]

[Barry from eastenders wasn't in the one I went to, but the two guys on the right were. The one on the far right was hilarious. He was a stripper who kept getting his clothes off, and wasn't the brightest haha. Turned out he was gay lol!!]

And now I'm in love with all the old songs!! [as well as the guy who played the geeky one - he was soooo cute. why do I always go for the geeks - every other lady out there was going googly for the torso of one particular muscly guy, who happened to be playing the gay one!] Seriously, it was brilliant !! I can't rate it enough - from the explosive dance moves to the effects - it's raining at one point [I know - on the stage] and then in the rain it spelt out 'Never Forget' - it was incredible. Seriously - go see it now :).

The video below is of the musical when it first came out, and let me just say - the one I went to see was a lot better [no offense], with better looking actors. But still, you get the idea:

A long weekend :)

2009-08-01T03:19:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was an incredibly long day, and so will this weekend be - just because I have so much packed into each day.

My mum was cooking all day, making homemade everything from cupcakes to sausage rolls (and it was all freaking delicious!) for when my dad's cousins came round. It was going to be a day full of eight ladies sitting in the sunshine (!) eating. It was so funny - especially when my mum got the hula hoops out and my dad's aunt had a go! Everyone also had a go on my mum's motorized horse. Please don't ask. It was sooo funny - just because they had never seen anything like it!

After they all went home (not before giving me a box of Rose :P), me and Brooke went to the big shopping centre which is half an hour away. It took us and hour and a half in the end, as there was so much traffic on the motorway. But it was the perfect day to be stuck in traffic, because the skies were an incredible blue and we were surrounded by impossibly yellow cornfields. Brooke was singing along like mad to the radio (radio 1 of course), and when we finally got moving she screamed "WOOO HOO!" out the window, and all these men in the van next shouted back haha. [there was also an incident where I ended up writing 'I want to take you to a gay bar' on a sheet of paper and putting it on the window... we were bored ok? And it's a pretty cool song!]

Brooke treated me to this really incredible Cameo ring [pictures later] from River Island and also to dinner - I had some pasta called :"Nice and cheesy" and omg it was delicious. When we sat down to eat we noticed this little toddler in a pushchair sucking on the corner of the table quite cheerfully whilst her parents ate their meal blissfully unaware of their daughter's antics. It was so cute!!

When we both got home we were immensely tired, but Brooke had to go and pick my parent's up from the Station, as they had gone to a Next modelling competition and were 5 metres away from Alesha Dixon. I instead had a hot chocolate in bed whilst watching a Lee Evans DVD.

Today I got up at the crack of dawn to walk around a junksale and bought Mathilda on DVD, I love that film!! I also bought a polkadot dress for a £1 which I might be wearing tonight... Because I'm going to see Take That the Musical tonight haha. Should be excellent :). AND THEN tomorrow I have my grandparents coming round. Geez I'm too busy!!.

Btw all the pictures shown are from my ebay, which you can check out here or you can just click on them!

I must become a lion hearted girl

2009-07-30T06:12:00.000-07:00

The looking glass so shiny and new
How quickly the glamor fades
I start spinning slipping out of time
Was that the wrong pill to take (Raise it up)
You made a deal and now it seems you have to offer up

Here I am a rabbit hearted girl
Frozen in the headlights
It seems Ive made the final sacrifice

This is a gift it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife
Midas is king and he holds me so tight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight

I must become a lion hearted girl
Ready for a fight
Before I make the final sacrifice

We raise it up this offering
We raise it up

And in the spring I shed my skin
And it blows away with the changing wind
The waters turn from blue to red
As towards the sky I offer it

[Rabbit Hearted Girl by Florence and the Machine]

Allo Allo?

2009-07-29T06:52:00.000-07:00

[PLEASE PRESS PLAY AND THEN READ THE post - it will given this post a much needed french feel]

Oui, oui - J'adore le francais!!

OK, that just about exhausts my french speaking...(I got a B at GCSE - but that was a year ago).

Let's start from the beginning.

[you remember Ambra, right?]

Yesterday, I went to the cinema avec Ambra. It was great seeing her - it seems like aaaages since I've seen any of my mates. We saw Year One in the end and even though it was quite crap I had a really good time. We went shopping afterwards and Ambra forced me to buy things. Ok. That was unfair. Strictly speaking she didn't force me: more encouraged me, to which I obliged to quite cheerfully... So she bought this rather gorgeous purple and black bag that was £8 but at the till went down to £2!! Lucky moo. I bought this little black and white top that i LOVEEEEE, this black cinch belt and...

A BERET.

I know what you're thinking - girl, it's the middle of summer and you've just bought a woollen hat (I also hope you're thinking: girl, that looks good). I have two reasons for this purchase:
1. I am rebelling against the crap summer weather. Yeah! Take that clouds and general greyness.
2. Berets are cool. Full stop.

I suddenly feel like learning french properly, not just random phrases that the French probably only use when playing Pictionary. I want to be bilingual!! I think it must be sooo cool to be bilingual. Grr and now I fancy croissants (warm moist ones with dripping butter and homemade strawberry jam and- STOP STOP!! Must. Eat. Healthily.)

In other news I have just finished the book Johnny Be Good by Paige Toon, recommended to me by none other than Kirsty. It was really good, though I haven't read a book that finishes with a cliff hanger since primary school haha I give it 10/10 for general brilliance. WIll be getting the next book methinks. Omg and Kirsty actually got messaged on Facebook by Paige Toon. If you want to meet celebrities, befriend Kirsty: she has contacts coming out of her ears!! Seriously. It's incredible.

Anyhoo I have to get back to my eBay business to make up for all the money I spent yesterday.

Au revoir, mes amies.

And now I'm back. From out of SPAIN.

2009-07-26T07:44:00.000-07:00

Yes, as you can tell I'm back from Spain.

I really enjoyed my holiday, and so much happened that if I were to give you a full day by day account I think you'd full asleep. So i'm going to comprise two lists, one with the things I liked about the holiday and another with the things I didn't like as much about holiday.

Let's start with the positives shall we?

- THE SUN. England isn't famed for it's sunshine, in fact on 8 out of 10 cats the other day, a statistic stated that the thing English people are famous for talking about is the weather. We can't help it!! The weather here is like a hormonal teenager with extreme mood swings, mostly staying on the stroppy dark and dull mood more than any other.

- THE SIGHTS. Transparent shores, yellow sands, the bluest sky and occasionally a crisp white cloud. Perfection?

- THE FOOD. Oh my lordy the food!! My stomach is seriously rumbling in the bitter memory of delicious food all holiday and then coming back to fruit in England. Ahh. Also, they sold Churros!!! I fell in love with these sugary donut sticks in America. They. were. delcious. (However, I think that American churros are better than Spanish - the ones in America are softer and have cinammon all over them- Ok. I'm going to stop there cos I could seriously go on all day debating over Churros).

- RELAXATION. After a pretty busy year it's nice to kick back and relax. Ahh, I'm looking out at my window at the grey English skies and general stuffiness of the house and I'm thinking: why did I come back?

- THE TAN. Not only does the sun clear my face right up (YAY), but I look a lot healthier with browner skin than my usual deathly pal complexion. But remember kids - use that sun tan lotion. That's right Debra - even you!

So overall I had a fabulous holiday. In fact I'd go to say I had a brilliant time for 90% of the holiday. BUT, there were some ickle things that made me miss my stuffy room back in England:

- BB gun bullet. The one thing that spoilt my day: we were queuing up for Churros and there was a fair going on (hence the Churros). Well, whilst my parents were kindly treating me I stood back and looked around at the beautiful stalls with their intricate jewellry when I felt a really sharp really quite painful *ping* on my arm. I look up at the guns all these little boys are holding, standing in front of a gun firing game. A few of them are away from the crowd and still have their guns brandished. They stare back as I look up in shock and then they laugh. For some reason I feel embarrassed and look away, but now I wish I'd given them The Finger.

- Cochroach. AHHGH! Yes, I was the one (again) who spot the cochroach. It was black and huge and in our bathroom. My dad is usually good at picking up spiders etc from us screaming girls, but you'll understand the grossness of the bug in the fact that he refused to touch it and instead brushed it out of the apartment.

- Heat. As I say - an English gal is never used to hot weather, so even though I loved it for a bit, it did get too much. The heat was so strong it was almost solid and made all of us feel very lethargic.

- Sunglasses. My most heart breaking moment was when I got onto the coach outside Majorca airport and searched in bag for my sunglasses. As the coach set on it's way to our hotel my gut wrenched in panic as I turned to my mum and almost screamed: "I'VE LEFT MY SUNGLASSES ON THE PLANE!!!!!" My mum didn't seem too bothered until she saw my upset face. I'm a sunglass addict, and I finally found my perfect pair in Topshop - the black Rayban style ones with a floral print over them. I was really upset and it also meant that I had to spend two days of my holiday squinting into the harsh light as I searched for some temporary sunglasses. We've emailed the airport by I don't think they have them. RIP sunglasses :(.

BUT!!! Overall, I had a really nice time :). It was a fabulous break and I managed to get inspired by the Spanish cuisine, weather and people.

Now - bring on Center Parcs!!

So I say thank you for the-

2009-07-26T06:42:00.000-07:00

LEMONADE STAND.
Thanks Kirsty!! :)

[the award]

So here's what's going on. You gotta send this award to 12 other people and here they are in no particular order (I LOVE THEM ALL!):

1. The Clothes Horse
2. Liebemarlene Vintage
3. Casey's Musings
4. Blooming Leopold
5. Pigeons Look Silly When They Walk
6. The Cherry Blossom Girl
7. Sally Jane Vintage
8. The Stylish Wanderer
9. All This Happiness
10. Half Girl
11. Aurea Ness
12. The Paperdoll

If anyone wishes to pass this fun award onto other friends you are more than welcome to follow the instructions below:
1.) Accept the award; post it on your blog together with the name of the person who’s given it plus his or her blog link.
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4.) Contact the nominees to let them know they've been chosen for this award.

I'm going on holiday for a week!!

2009-07-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

Yes that's right - at 4:00am tomorrow morning I will be on my way to sunny sunny spain for some beach adventures.

{ok so this is a photo of when I went to Barbados, but you get the picture} :)

I WON!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-07-13T10:06:00.000-07:00

OH MY GOD!!! I WON THE COLLEGE POETRY COMPETITION.

SO I was really nervous and I finally got into the theatre hall. Not many people had turned up to watch but at least my friends had!! [thanks Debra, Ambra and Dawn - Kirsty you were there in spirit].

In the end people poured in so there was about 20 people altogether. Everyone's poems were really good - I was incredibly nervous because of that. Before everyone came in we got to practice our poems at the little podium with a microphone. Incredibly, doing the one practice calmed my nerves completely. Out of 10 people, i performed at number 9. When it got to my turn, I just thought sod it - they're going to be looking at the supercool slideshow I made anyway: not at me. So i did it a lot better than I thought (although I say that - I was filmed so it could be worse than i imagined!!).

After the beginning slideshow, and the finalists poems we got to listen to great music by two girls [they were so talented, it's unfortunate I didn't get their names. I think I recognised the short haired girl from the romeo and juliet play we saw... so maybe Kirsty knows...?]. Once the judges had made their decision and the runners up were called they then said:

"And now...it's the moment you've all been waiting for.. who the winner of the first poetry competition at this college is. I think you'll all agree this person deserves it [ :) ]... the winner is...

MADISON!"

After that it was pretty surreal - i could NOT believe I'd won!! I was so proud :)

I won a 'poetry for life' book and £30...I think that's in vouchers but wooop!

What a thing to put on your CV.

Thank you to everyone for their support [I had both Kirsty's and Ambra's good luck cards in my bag for good luck, as well as a post-it good luck which was stuck on my sandwich from my mum]. It was nerve wracking but a really good experience. I'M SO HAPPY!!!!

In other news, I sold my soul to the devil.

That's right - I got a facebook account.

AHHH! RUNN!!!

Everyone's been pressuring me for ages to get one (ESPECIALLY my mum. cringe.). So when I got in, after delirious congratulations, my mum took advantage of my good mood and said:
"Guess what. ANOTHER reason to get facebook - you can follow Nylon Magazine."

Well, i guess i was so happy and the love of Nylon made me get it.

And omg, the response I got (this is only some people. And yes, I didn't put my mum's comment down :P):

Down and out people.

Book Review

2009-07-12T04:05:00.000-07:00

I escape from myself, but I am not free of you, I know it. A vagabond, and free, I shall sometimes long for the shade of your walls...

Today I finished The Vagabond by Colette, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't usually like older literature, but this french translated into English book really gripped me. The descriptions used by the writer are exquisite, and the detailed similies and analogies made me copy some into my 'quote book' because I liked them so much.

It is a romance story like no other - the leading character, Renee, has been hurt once before by love and the story unfolds a sorrowful tale of 'once bitten, twice shy'.

A darling read, definitely recommended.

London, baby, YEAH!

2009-07-11T13:03:00.000-07:00

This photo sums up my day:

Anyway: we met up with Debra and her super new haircut (she hates it, we love it!) travelled towards the Lazy Oaf Michael Jackson Tribute at their shop. Unfortunately, Debra had to go... but it was for a friend's birthday so we hope she had fun too!

[Above - hilarious mates]

Soooo Kirsty got us there!! (me and ambra are hopeless at travel generally, though I admit that Ambra is an ickle bit better than me.... can anyone say 'clueless'?) It was a little bit quiet for a tribute but we still had hilarious fun at Carnaby street as well as buying some rather gorgeous items.

[From Accessorize and Vintage shop. I also bought a scarf and DVD from Oxfam - my first charity purchases ever!!]

It is always hilarious times when I'm out with my college mates (espesh the 'Abbs Cross Lot' as I call Ambra, Kirsty and Sophie when they're not there. SORRY!! lol). And you know what - we laughed sooooo much but I can't for the life of me think of ANYTHING we were laughing at. [though I recall me and Ambra pronouncing the restaurant 'HaHa' in about a million different ways really loudly down a random street... and the maths quiz we gave Kirsty on the way home... hehe.]

Aw gawd my memory sucks - we did so much today and had hilarious times but all went so quickly (time flies...). So, if you want to find out more juicy facts, let me direct you to... Kirsty's Blog!! Do it. Do it now.

Why can't all streets be colourful?

2009-07-11T12:39:00.000-07:00

Because most of England is dull.
:P

My eBay uploads...

2009-07-10T03:58:00.000-07:00

After splurging on delicious items that i didn't really need, I decided to upload some more items onto ebay to make up for the items I bought.

Did anyone ever watch that programme Life Laundry? Basically, this woman went to people's houses who hoarded stuff like mad. They would have rooms and rooms of objects that they didn't use and didn't need but they just couldn't get rid of it. The Life Laundry Lady would take every single thing outside onto their garden and tell them to be RUTHLESS. They would subsequently get rid of all their junk by other recycling, giving to charity or selling at car boot sales. Ever since I watched this programme, I've tried to be really ruthless with what I didn't need. I think it's quite a good thing to be. So, I'm selling the following items on eBay that I love, but I just don't use! (technically, the top is my sisters...)

I'm also getting rid of a whole load of Lady Luck Rules Ok jewellry - I have a hell of a lot of it so I figure: make some money on the pieces I don't wear. It's actually really refreshing getting rid of things - you should try it!

I once read in a magazine that if you got rid of an item in your house everytime you bought an item in a shop, you'd feel a lot less guilty for spending your money. And that's my tip for today. ;)

Check my ebay out here.

Mailbag

2009-07-09T07:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I don't need any more bags, purses or tights. But - sigh - I could NOT resist.

Ok, let's play a game - can anyone guess which item was the least expensive and which was the most??

This time last year...

2009-07-08T11:55:00.000-07:00

I've been reminiscing about Prom which was last year.

In the leading up to the big night I was convinced it was going to be crap. However, it was pretty damn excellent - being with my friends, dancing like crazy and basically LETTING GO.

I LOVED my prom dress (I have to say I think mine was the most unique :). But I admit I present some bias). I got it from the VERY cool Dolly Dagger, and post prom sent my photo in and I'm now on the website. Check it out here.

[To find me you go into the blog and then 'Dolly's friends'.

Sometimes we're on the run, sometimes we do it for fun.

2009-07-07T12:08:00.001-07:00

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If there's ever I time I wanted to be a millionaire, it is now.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a HUUUUGE fan of Zooey Deschanel. Well, I've just found out that she has bought out a sunglasses range. Not only are they FABULOUS, but if you blow on them, two 'kisses' come up.

If they weren't £200 i would buy them now.

WHY AREN'T I MILLIONAIRE (i want every pair in this advert!!}

Sunshine, Lollypops and- and, well Poetry.

2009-07-06T08:14:00.001-07:00

I got an email today from the college stating: "Well done! You're in the Top 10 for the poetry competition. The winner will be decided next Monday on not only the poetry but also the performance." AAAH! Don't get me wrong - I'm pretty proud that out of the whole college students that entered the competition I'm in the top 10. But I have to admit - I'm scared.

I've no problem with talking with a small group of people.. but in front of an audience I develop a stutter, splutter and a generally red complexion. However, I shall take the challenge by the horns [correct phrase..?] and do it. DO IT! [haha Kirsty - where did this come from??]

I have a meeting tomorrow with two teachers and the competition [ggrrr mean face, mean face]. This unfortunately means that I miss out on going to the Harry Potter Premiere with Kirsty who is Rupert Grint CRAAAAAAAZY!!!

[Unfortunately I egged on this obsession by buying her the pillow. Sorry Rupert! :P]

But anyways back to poetry, I shall try to get the confidence of one of my many inspirational people: Clara Bow.

Junk Sale Steals

2009-07-05T03:32:00.000-07:00

I got up early this morning (because of another Brooke drama - too much and too embarrassing to explain) so decided to mooch around a junk sale with my parents. I got treated to quite a lot of lovely stuff...

[Excuse the bra!! Also, my hand is covering up where there is a button missing... but my Nan's quite good at all that stuff so she'll fix it up in no time. Price? Drum roll please... 50 pence!]

[20 pence Birthday book - my mum encouraged me to get this because apparently hers has 'lasted me years!']

[Ok, there's quite a lot here. All the books i got were 20 pence, the two sheets of really expensive wrapping paper from Paperchase... 12 sheets for £1!! My mum got the rest for her. Also, the new Almost Famous DVD cost £2.]

The only problem with going somewhere where everything is really cheap is the disappointment in yourself you feel when you see something you bought the shops for triple the price. IE - today there was a huge stall with about a million woven hats all no more than £5!! And I bought mine for £17 in Accessorize... Gawd damn it!

EBAY

2009-07-04T12:33:00.001-07:00

Oh my gawd I haven't put anything on ebay in aaaages.
So here's what's new to the store:

And there's loads more but the one's above are what I'll be especially sad to see go. But alas we must move on in life...

View my items HERE!

What I did today...

2009-07-04T10:31:00.000-07:00

Today I helped my mum out at a school summer fair. I earnt a bit of money but... my nose got burnt. Bad times [i overestimated the protection my hat gave me]. I could be Rudolphs sister...

Anyhoo some of the kids were really cute but ONE little boy got on my nerves, being really cheeky and whatnot. ["OMG that's a rip off!! You should be selling that for 20p!" The item was - and was worth - a pound.]

The school we went to was HUGE, with like 3 huge fields and tennis and football courts. I kind of got lost finding the toilets #'_'#. But it was a great day for all the kids cos there was loads of games and bouncy castles. It was also sports day for the pupils at the school, which bought back the old nerves of my sports day. Urgh what school put me through...

It was a boiling hot day, but it went really quick. Finally - a proper summers day in England.

Madison

My Favourites

2009-07-04T10:03:00.001-07:00

I have so many items of mine that I'm loving at the moment... but here's 5 I'm REALLY digging...

1. My floral glasses from Topshop [plus my accessorize hat, portobello market pearl necklace AND H and M sale lace skirt ;)]

2. Life's Too Short to frost a Cupcake. Saw this in the college library and - yes, I know, - judged a book by it's title and bought it ;). It's £6.99 in shops but due to my expertise ebaying skills i managed to get it for £2.30 [and that's including postage and packaging!]

3. and 4. Nylon back copy, have wanted for ages but too expensive: Zooey Deschanel's interview in NYLON! Want to read it, but am saving it for holiday. Also, Colette's book The Vagabond. It's set in Paris, and it's making me want to go all French. Ooh La La indeed.

5. MY PYJAMAS. I couldn't resist with Lazy Oaf's Specials (all shirts £10 each instead of £24.50!!) So I bought these. I look sooo good in bed ;().

Sales Fleet in Oxford Street

2009-07-04T09:43:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I wandered up to London avec Kirsty and Sophie. We went to two art galleries which were really interesting and very different (take a video of a man dancing around naked on a TV at one gallery, and a walk in hut with a chandelier inside it in another).

Lunch was at Pizza Hut (we had Veggie Surprise or something...thinking maybe the vegetables would equal out the greasiness of the pizza. It didn't.) Absolutely delish, cept we JUST missed the lunchtime buffet gawd damn it. And the pizza took aaaaaages.

We met up with Ambra who had danced at Pineapple Studios and was really tired. However, although we were pretty exhausted we braved the sales in Topshop and H and M in Oxford street. It was sooo busy and hot, but we all bought some great finds. (Kirsty got a hat like mine!)

It was a pretty fun day, though sweltering hot. :)

Run Forest Run

2009-06-28T08:59:00.001-07:00

Today I went to a race avec my family. It was supposed to be my whole family running but it turned out to be just my dad and my sister's boyfriend Paul (Mum hurt her knee during the last race and Brooke has come down with the flu - hopefully not of the Swine type).

We arrived too early because my dad panicked as he had read on the website that there were limited places left. But it was lucky we did go early otherwise we wouldn't have had time to walk around the beautiful and twee street fair (or fayre - I always get confused with that one). We went there last year for the race and I had decided back then that I would love to live there in Thurrock at some point in my life. It's so cute and village-y. It instantly puts you in a happy mood and gives you a craving for pretty dresses and picnics.

I took MANY photos of the whole village - I want to write about this magical and enchanted place and my memory sucks, thank god for cameras!! Whilst dad and Paul started the race (unluckily the weather was very 'muggy' so it was an incredibly hard as the heat was overbearing) my mum, grandparents and me walked around, looked at the animals (we missed the ferret racing this year!) and - a tradition for myself in any fair (sp?) setting - ate fudge. [For fudge lovers out there I had the strawberry and cream; plain vanilla; chocolate; and chocolate and mint. It was freaking delicious].

Then all of a sudden it was 50 minutes later and people were coming in from the race. We situated ourselves on the pavement next to the road they were finishing and watched as sweaty men and women forced their way through the heat to the finishing line.

*THE BEST DRESSED RUNNER* goes to the cute guy wearing bright red socks and blue rayban wayfarers.

As the first lot came in I sat on the pavement and read NYLON. Then as the majority arrived I stood up and continued to clap my heart out for every runner. [Yes, at points I was the only one clapping.] I can't believe how many people were there: over 500 runners, and just think there must have been at least 3 watchers to every runner! Paul, followed by dad finished - they did really well - and were soaked with sweat. I made them sit in the back on the way home.

Latest Obsession

2009-06-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

I first heard about this wonderful band when I accidently recorded a show they were on on V+. I watched it in wonder as a mysterious - and seemingly shy - redhead belted out a song that belongs in another world. There's something very unique about her = and definitely her voice, and I love her music!!

Being Nylon, the best magazine in the world, there was an article about Florence and the machine and it was really interesting. Florence claims that she had 'Singing Tourettes' in school as she wouldn't be able to stop singing and would always get told off for it. She also revealed that her first success was when she was drunk in a nightclub's toilets and someone overheard her and booked her for a party.

She also appeared on Jonathan Ross this week. Thus her music is my latest obsession.

Thank George It's Friday

2009-06-28T06:50:00.000-07:00

SO Yesterday went to TGIF's in London avec Kirsty and Amy (or Amie - I still don't get which way she spells it :S). It was pretty damn hilarious ;) [IE Guess what they're thinking game included: "I'm secretly a spy"; "I'm going to keep on smiling so they can't see my pain"; "No one know's we're gay...so we're going down the back alley"; and finally "MUM! I told you not to put my white boxers in the dark wash". Hirarious].

It was a sweltering train journey up to London but during TGIF's [we all had burgers] it started to chuck it down! And I was only in my lil dress. We had an interesting conversation with the waitress who stated that she was from Brazil - imagine how she felt about this weather.

After dancing in the rain for 10 minutes (and waving at - we think - tourists on a coach. I stand by believing they were tourists because if they were English they wouldn't have waved back with so much passion. They were all waving to me and Amy's gleeful waves whilst Kirsty cringed ;P) we decided to go for a lil trot through leicester square, then H&M [bought a top and skirt for a tenner] and then onto Covent Garden. It was hirarious.

Amy departed leaving me and Kirsty to act like tourists [again] as we took ever more photos of us next to Big Ben etc. [We actually got asked by tourists where the boat with the fancy dress people was. As Kirsty explained that we saw some people in fancy dress back along the Thames, I just stood there confused. I thought the woman had said 'bar' instead of 'boat'. Anyhoo, after Kirsty explained the tourists looked at her and said: "Are you even English?"; which set us off into Hyena laughs as Kirsty explained: "Yeah I am - i'm just crap at talking."]

We also did a Michael Jackson tribute through London, singing the likes of 'Billie Jean', 'Thriller' etc as well as Boom boom pow. [Which WE think could be used in the Cats musical as a new song with the lyrical change of Boom Boom Meow].

Another incredibly funny day. [BTW: well done to Kirsty for surviving her first driving lesson yesterday].

Oh, also apologies for no photos - will add some later - my PC is doing a crazy thing in the fact that IT IS NOT UPLOADING ANYTHING. Ass.

Summer Daze

2009-06-26T04:47:00.000-07:00

Don't you just love those summer days?

After college on Tuesday 23rd we saw the Hangover (such a good film) and afterwards went to a pub.

Thanks Sophie for taking us there ;).

It was a hilarious night and will be one of my favourite memories.

I'm pretty sure the whole world has heard it...

2009-06-26T03:01:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning to the words of Chris Moyles: "...so we're sorry to listeners but we will have to keep repeating this news every 15 minutes so that people get it when they wake up. Trust me, I never thought I would be saying the words that Michael Jackson has died..."

I was incredibly shocked. I jumped straight out of bed and bashed into my sister's room to tell her the news. She couldn't believe it either. We turned radio 1 up loud so we could hear the news from the study as we looked at videos of what happened.
I'm not the biggest fan of Michael Jackson; yet I think that everyone loves at least one of his songs - and I love quite a few.

All I can say is I give my condolences to his family and friends (and fans). He has had such a hectic and dramatic life and I think it's nice to think that he is finally at rest now away from all his problems.

Rest in peace Michael Jackson.

Maybe it's because I'm a RANDOMER!

2009-06-21T06:33:00.000-07:00

Ok so what a really random week. We went back to college for three days (and the worst 3 days of my college life ever); then moi et the girls went to Portobello Market/ London generally and had a brilliant time. Then I went to Megan's 17th Birthday and - finally - yesterday Kirsty came round and we were in the mood for some DRAMA!!! So we made a little parody show which is below.

And btw - if you want to find any of my videos of youtube just type in (or copy and paste from this as it'll probably be easier): ZIRLINKSKI and you'll find my vidz ;)

ENJOY!

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

2009-06-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

After a pretty crappy day at college, I was invited by Kirsty to see Romeo and Juliet in the park [Anyone heard of it?? hehe]. We were worried all day that it was going to rain but thankfully it didn't.

Now, even though I'm a literature student and I LOVE to read, Shakespeare has always confused me and I have never particularly liked his writing. But - I don't know whether it's because I'm older or the fact that I was there with a mate - I really really enjoyed it last night. I think the grueling GCSE Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet texts put me off Shakespeare a bit (Let's face it, when you have a discussion over every quote in any book it's going to make you bored.)

I really enjoyed it (thanks for inviting me Kirsty), and although we got the giggles after the break [you know the ones - where you're trying so hard not laugh that you start to breathe really juddery. Then you can't look at the person you're laughing with - i.e. Kirsty - cos you see them trying not to laugh and that makes you want to laugh harder]. Thankfully, after the person we were laughing at [not meanly, I promise] 'died' in the play, it got a lot easier.

When Juliet killed herself and lay on Romeo I thought it was really beautiful how she positioned herself on him - like they were embracing and just napping. [After this point there seemed to be a LOT of speeches, so this was the only part I got bored with].

Suddenly it dark, the cast had bowed and I got a lift home from Kirsty's parents [thanks!] and I was home.

Thy love and cookies,

Madison

Blog Life Lesson Number 1

2009-06-18T09:07:00.000-07:00

BLOG LIFE LESSON NUMBER ONE: All that schools, colleges etc care about are GRADES, not the pupils. Don't be fooled.

Cynical right? Hey - I didn't write this lightly. I've had a LOT of experiences to back it up. But, most recently, my worst.

I won't go into any gory details but let me make a formal statement:

As a COLLEGE student, I got promised to be treated as an adult. Generally in life there is the freedom of CHOICE. So if I choose to NOT do something anymore (and the college allows us to do this) I do not expect three teachers to have a go at me for a collective amount of 30minutes. And make me cry.

Yeah, I know - what a wimp. But generally I don't like confrontations, and it really upset me that these people were talking to me quite rudely. [I got called 'stubborn for the sake of being stubborn', was told that the 'mature' way to go about the situation was to not do what I was doing, that I would be 'letting the group down' and a hell of a lot more of the above. Things keep comign back to me now and I just get so angry. The person even went: "I can see you're getting upset but..." and continued. Thanks for that.].

So after these two people had a go ["I know it seems like we're ganging up on you but..."] I decided to go to the person who I'm supposed to be able to confide in and get help. He basically said: "Yeah I agree. It's a NO." I didn't cry this time, but hell did I get angry. I walked out ready to shout at anyone who did anything to aggravate me. I was so angry and frustrated. College obviously doesn't support it's students very well - I didn't get any advice, I was spoken to rudely, treated like a child and - finally - got THREE no's to signing a form that the COLLEGE HAD CREATED so I could this thing that I wanted to.

Sorry - had to vent out somewhere...

I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to the only people I can rely on in college - my friends. Thank you to Kirsty, Debra and Dawn who were there with me and supported me.

George, Smint and Shortie ;)

Post Secret

2009-06-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

For all of you slow on the up-take, and have never heard of Post Secret you must visit it now. It is an online anonymous community where the creator Frank Warren invites the whole world to send a postcard with their secret on it to him.

He posts them on his website once a week on Sundays and shows a variety of secrets from the damn-right funny to the heart breakingly sad. I've been a fan of this website for over a year now and it fills me with hope, inspiration and makes me feel lucky about my situation if I'm down.

I encourage everyone to read the blog and support it, as Post Secret supports (and I think actually created) a suicide helpline and has helped to save many lives.

If there's one blog that you must visit once a week make it www.postsecret.com. If you already know about it, you're probably an addict like myself :).

Love and secrets,

Madison

Ask .. Uncle

2009-06-13T05:47:00.000-07:00

Had an INCREDIBLY busy day yesterday. The morning was ok - uploaded more stuff on ebay, washed my hair and got it cut by my hairdresser Lindsey.

[Kirsty takes random photos]

Then I went to the hall where my Uncle was having his party that night to decorate. We were there for aaaaaages. Putting up posters, etc. We also took the cakes to the hall which my mum had made for my Uncle. It was kind of a weird party because it was a joint 50th birthday joint 50th wedding anniversary joint 75th birthday. But whatever - my mum made three cakes, aswell as cookies, muffins and cupcakes. They went so quickly and they were all INCREDIBLY delicious.

[On a side note: My mum is now in business!! Woop woop. She got quite a few offers at the party - saying how professional her cakes are. She finally took an offer and is in the process of sorting out her pricing. If anyone wants any cakes or cookies or cupcakes made for them comment me and tell me and I'll give you my mum's email ;) ]

After which I went to the post office to visit my mate Nora ;) . Haha - she was ok this time, though not really a smile to be had again (although fair enough - I wanted stamps, and proof of posting on over 15 packages that were all different weights). By the time this all happened I had like 20 mins to get ready for Ask. Then my sister wanted me to curl her hair. After panicking and forgetting my camera, I finally made it to Dawn's who drove us to Ask.

It was so nice in there and the food was DELICIOUS :). I had Penne a la Gorgonzola. And showed off my Italian. Ahem. Anyway, I was planning to go to my Uncles party anyways and - quite frankly - didn't want to go on my own. I invited the group and they said yes (though all said they felt guilty for not having a card. *rolls eyes*) and thank gawd. It was a really good night (even though Dawn had to hop off to a music performance straight after the meal).

After grabbing food and drink we went outside onto the little car park and sat in the little hut think and talked all night. It was really funny and went too quick!

We must have been there from about 7 - midnight!

Overall a really good night and I finally got some of mum's cake - and still have loads to eat. It. Is. Delicious.

Love and Chocolate cake,

Madison

The romance, the hang over and the kids book

2009-06-12T02:21:00.001-07:00

Woke up, ate icing, posted bows online and now I'm craving films...

The first out of the films I want to see is WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE:

This just looks like one of those random films that is going to be treasured forever. I've never read the book but the trailer looks so endearing - someone please come see it with me ;)

Second film I want to see is one I've been waiting for for aaaages:

I'm a big Zooey Deschanel fan and so can't wait for this to come out. However, I think I read somewhere that it's not coming over to England until November. The lucky ole Americans get it in July/August methinks ( in SUMMER). Grrr.

And this just looks incredibly funny:

I'm really in the mood for these films and have gone back to my obsession of looking at pretty much EVERY SINGLE trailer there is on apple.com. Ahh - there's too many good films.

Oh, and did anyone get to see Watchmen? I wanted to but because I'm 17 instead of 18 never got to!

Other films I want to see: Coraline, Sunshine Cleaning, Adventure Land, Harry Potter, Toy Story 3, any films you wanna see?

Trust me, I'm English

2009-06-11T08:20:00.001-07:00

Ok so I know I sound totally freaking ebay mad but I was really bored and wanted to make a video. So after wrestling with the wires behind my PC i managed to dig out my dusty webcam and spend ages figuring out how to put sound on it. After about 10 mins of infuriating button clicking I figured out that all you had to do was tick the bloody Audio box!! Anyhoo - got it working in the end, so here it is: [btw excuse my voice - it seems to go Australian at points, but trust me - I'm English!!]

[Click here for my ebay account.]

Cinema, Ebay and Shopping

2009-06-11T06:41:00.000-07:00

So over the last three days I have:

Gone to the Cinema avec Courtney, Sophie, Debra, Ambra, Kirsty, Dawn :) We were incredibly indecisive and after going to sainsburys, coming back and waiting for Courtney to arrive we STILL couldn't decide. It was a flick between Night at the Museum 2, Drag me to hell ("NO!!!" - Kirsty), or Last Chance Harvey (I said a big NO to this one - saw a clip of it on Jonathan Ross and it looks cringey and - quite frankly - crap). And then X-Men Origins: Wolverine got thrown into the mix and we were like: YES. I've already seen it before but love it so much I encouraged this choice A LOT. Plus, I don't mind giving money to the genuinely nice Hugh Jackman. It was brilliant and I even picked up the line of "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do isn't very nice" which might not mean anything to you, but I watched a parody on youtube the other day which mentionded this. The girl kept saying to him - "So what do you do?" and he keeps repeating the line above. It's quite funny :)

The second out of these past three marvellous days I've had was spent Ebaying :). That's right - I earned £15 this week :). I wrapped up the items and posted them today - hope they arrive safely :)

As you can see my room is becoming quite consumed with this here lil business:

3. And then today I went shopping avec Megz and had a great time. We shopped around, debated what to buy and then ate some DELICIOUS food in BHS (sandwhiches, sausage rolls, cookies and danish pastry with mouthwatering melting icing adorned on it's surface. Um..yum anyone...???!) Megan got the black shoes and sunglasses she wanted whilst I bought a hat. For any of you people of the dark hair know how easy it is to get sunstroke in the sun (it happened to moi last week) because our hair is so bloody dark and it attracts the sun. This therefore gives me justification on buying a £16 hat. But it's so darn cute!! Also, when I got home a package had arrived and my mum had treated me to eyeko cream and lip balm !! YES!

A pretty fabulous three days, I have to say.

Love and Danish Pastries,

Madison

Day of Randomness

2009-06-09T04:38:00.000-07:00

Today has been a bit random. First I wake up at 10:00 (I know, but it's the first time in my two week break I've had a lie in) and what has arrived in the post but my new purse - Union Jack Style. It's smaller then I thought but it's just too darn cute :) .

Ok, so then I got downstairs and my mum is in serious decorating mode. She has always been into making and decorating cakes (since my first birthday, no less) but recently has been in uber cake mode. I tell her she should go into business but oh no, she doesn't charge for her cakes at all (just asks the person to buy the ingredients). Currently she is making/decorating three cakes for: my Uncle Kevin's 50th, his partner's parents 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary, and his almost father in law's 75th. Which are shown below:

[Due to the 75th cake being sponge instead of fruit it hasn't been made yet as it needs to be done nearer the party.]

Recently, she also made a really great 21st birthday cake for both my sister and her friend Laura. They are really well done and delicious :) . Go into business mum!!

After having a breakfast of cookies and leftover icing (bang goes eating healthily), I showered, ate some more and am now currently tending to my business (if you can call it that haha) of ebay. I've now uploaded more than 60 items.

[Shop for my ebay items here]

I'm a little worried to be honest: once my ebay auctions start to finish, I'm going to be in the post office practically everyday sending over 10 items each time. Now, the post office people are ok-ish (as long as you get the woman - the man is gruuuuuuumpy) but even the lady post office person gets annoyed. She seems to be really jolly with the people in front of me but as soon as I come along she has a facial expression that screams blankness. Also, I don't seem to be quick enough for her - I have to multitask by taking the sticker/stamp from her, taking and sticking the stamp or whatever to that particular package at the same time as then putting another parcel on the scales. I can almost see her tapping her feet with impatience as I juggle 10 parcels on a 30cm by 30cm tabletop. Grrr... I'll just have to wait and see...

Love and blue and yellow icing,

Madison

Nylon's Best Bits

2009-06-08T11:23:00.000-07:00

I read the mag so you don't have to :)

[The notorious magazine next to my new mustard bag]

So as you know, I've been reading Nylon practically all day and still haven't finished - it is so full of brilliance :). After devouring it, I felt I should share with you my favourite parts of the magazine so far...

1. Peaches Geldof AND 2. Fashion!

1. Ok, so firstly Peaches Geldof's page. A lot of people seem to really not like her but I think she's an actually very genuine person. And her page in Nylon is always really witty and interesting. Did anyone see her on GMTV this morning? She mentioned Nylon!! Haha, I squealed. This month's page was about Hollywood. Her last sentence: "The kids are taking over." Oh, yeah.

2. As always, Nylon has a fabulous range of fashion pages from drop dead serious catwalk crap to quirky little items that amuse people like me. And true words written on the t-shirt in the photo - homework DOES hurt trees!

3. Japan AND 4. Wayfarers

3. I always love the travel pages of Nylon because it's so different from any other English fashion magazines as I don't know of one which sends a ready journalist to experience a new culture and jump fully into the life of someone different. This month it was Japan (YAY) and the writer experienced Cosplay in the famous Harajuku district ["Harajuku girls you've got some wicked style, I like the way that you are, I am your biggest fan..." Gwen Stefani - Harajuku Girls]. It was really fascinating and I loved the photos.

4. I've always been a fan of Rayban Wayfarers (though not exactly sure if they suit me) and was excited to be informed that the people at Rayban have gone all creative and created pens for doodlers like myself to draw on their favourite pair of sunnies. Yay for creativity!

And that's about it (well, not really - I love the whole of the magazine, but you'll just have to buy it yourself to see the other excellent pages). At the moment am uploading more ebay items and waiting for Ashes to Ashes to come on - last one tonight.

Love and hot chocolate,

Madison

EBAY ALERT!

2009-06-08T10:18:00.000-07:00

Yes sirree have uploaded more items on my ebay (after spending more money that I don't have shopping today:) ). So, here they are (and the one above :) ):

These are my top 5 fave items on my ebay at the moment, but I'm selling over 40 items so check them all out here.

So, otherwise from shopping and reading Nylon, I have just lazed around. Urgh I hate wasting my time but I'm sooo lazy when I've got nothing planned so kind of just slob around :(. Tomorrow will be different. Shall exercise, go to Dawns and perhaps take a leaf out of Kirsty's book and learn to cook... maybe.

Anyone watching the Apprentice? Shock result: Yasmina won! I admit I was rooting for Kate all the way, but suddenly in the last two weeks Yasmina got really good and I think she deserved it. They were both on Chris Moyles this morning and it was hilarious (as usual) as Chris became certain that Yasmina had the hots for him because "she wasn't repulsed by me, which I always take as good".

Hilarious.

[Kate and Yasmina]

Love and Nylon flicking,

Madison

London

2009-06-07T04:37:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Me, Ambra and Kirsty went to LONDON. We have been way too many times, but each time is hilarious. We went to Covent Garden first, but for some reason we literally looked at it then said:
"Waterstones?"

And off we trotted to my FAVOURITE Waterstones (the only shop that I know of in England to sell my all time favourite magazine NYLON). After purchasing my mag, we went upstairs to Costa, nicked some seats from these old people and ordered some mighty fine ham and cheese paninis. Being England, June weather turned out to be grey and rainy but it got a lot better in the afternoon.

The rain did not stop us from the breaking the law though, so that's all good...

Ok, I say breaking the law but I think it didn't really matter that we scooted our way through these gates that police people had put up. Everyone was doing it. We just wanted to see ole Queenie (again).

We meandered around the outside of Buckingham Palace ["It's not much, but it's home."] for a while trying to figure out why there were so many flags up and gates in place. We saw lots of (much to Kirsty's delight) soldiers walking around outside the gates, but we never found out why there seemed to be extra protection and flag-age around the palace {even though Ambra and Kirsty forced me to ask the ice cream lady, to which she replied "Idno" and shrugged.}.

We lazed around St James park eating icecream, cookies and practicing our moonwalks for a while. After looking at Kirsty's infamous map we debated going to China town, but - alas - Ambra was not impressed with that idea so we instead went to PLATFORM 9 AND 3/4. For those of you not living on this planet, Kirsty is a HUGEEEEE Harry Potter (or namely Ron Weasley) fan and so she had experience on getting us there.

We were pretty darn exhausted after that, and so we made our way (s-l-o-w-l-y due to arriving at Barking Docks for some strange reason) home.

After munching on a salmon bagel and watching 8 out of 10 cats, Kirsty arrived and we looked at photos and watched home videos of when we both had WAY TOO THICK FRINGES. Ahhh, the good old days...

Crafty Cow

2009-06-05T09:16:00.000-07:00

[Ready for some crafting]

[Cutting and folding]

[Using Clara to keep the glued card flat. Clara Bow's biography is a fascinating book - read it!]

[Outlining and gluing]

So I didn't have much to do this afternoon, and I was feeling creative so (also in a very generous mood) I offered to jazz up a present my sister had got for her friend Nicole. She had just written on a piece of paper that she had given Nicole tickets to Dublin for a girly weekend. I decided it was my chance to test out this exploding box class . It worked out alright actually but we know who's going to get the credit for it...

[making the lid out of sturdy card]

[The box is ready!! Now for some decorating...]

[Getting book to rewrite her messages on the box]

[Finding some pictures and printing them out]

[Yes, my room got very messy!!]

And the final result in this video, so you can get the whole picture of how the exploding box works:

Love and glue-y hands,

Madison

Obsession of the week...

2009-06-05T02:57:00.000-07:00

EYEKO is what I'm completely obsessed over this week...

I first discovered this lovely make-up company in a magazine but only bought my first items at the CLOTHES SHOW. I now have the Vamp Polish (above) and the Creamy Cupcake lip gloss (below) that smells like CHOCOLATE!

I know it's bad but I'm so obsessed: I want EVERY SINGLE ITEM THEY SELL!!! (who said I wasn't spoilt...) But because I'm (always) broke, I've decided to treat myself to an item everytime I sell something on ebay (grr - spending my money before I've even got it... not a good habit.) But look at these lovelies:

Ahh, I'm obsessed!

Love and Eyeko Goodies,

Madison

P.s All photos taken from the eyeko website: www.eyeko.com

Shopping Alert.

2009-06-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

Oh my, spent more money today... but look at the fabulous items I bought above!!

Topshop silver braided headband
Badgal Lash Mascara
This faux-clock necklace (<3)
Black bangle that I absolutely LOVE!!!!!!!!!! I am going to be wearing this a LOT this summer... I can tell :)

EBAY ALERT!

2009-06-04T09:22:00.000-07:00

Had a lazy day today, sleeping in the sun :) (hey, I deserve it !) However, got to work on my lil business (ebay) and here are some items I've just uploaded:

Seeing as though there's not much going on today, entertain yourselves with a lil Clothes Show Video:

Love and Fruit Flakes,

Madison

Oh, George!

2009-06-03T11:35:00.000-07:00

I did two things today:

Went Shopping
Went to Kirsty's.

The day was fabulous :) Shopping avec mere and bought a new bag and sneakers (oh, yeah I know American ;) ).

Kirsty's was HILARIOUS. Here is a list of people we spoke and (yes) wrote lyrics about:

[Oh, George!]

Yes, watching Twilight and the talk of Bow Ties was how we spent our afternoon. And don't forget Ambra was there :)

With her DELICIOUS SHOES FROM TOPSHOP. (Yeah, you know the ones : with the bows gawd damn it!)

Let me just leave you with the note that Britney Spears' 'If you seek Amy' will NEVER be the same.

AND I'M GLAD.

Love and Bow Ties,

Madison

Once upon a time

2009-06-01T09:17:00.000-07:00

HELLO WORLD.

[Or probably just Kirsty.]

Where to begin...

Ok. How about:

GEORGE LAMB - that's right we SAW him at... wait for it... at the BLOOMING CLOTHES SHOW...

[ Unfortunately most of the photos were an ickle blurry, therefore this is the clearest which was a photo that was above his head :) ]

And did I mention that I have now had my back touched by Nicky from 10 Years Younger... and the Hairspray Musical Cast...?

Don't get TOO jealous, because - alas - I was soon plummeted back to reality (not before going to a fabulous 21st Birthday Party the day after the Clothes Show) by having a freaking AS Level Media exam.

But that was my last exam so... yay for no exams!!

I guess this is a pretty crappy way to start a blog (boasting about my celebrity 'friends', depressing talk of exams and whatnot) so perhaps I should lay down a few facts:

I. Am. Madison.
Nice to meet you :)
I'm at College.
(This means I am 17)
I like writing.
...

Well that pretty much sums me up for now ( I do paint quite a picture ). And on that note let me leave you with one last photo (I know - another one ... my photobucket account is pretty exhaustive).

Au Revoir World

[or probably just Kirsty]

Madison.