i'm speaking now.

yes, we haven't reached as many posts as last month. we've done about half as much...hmm.

it's going to be november tomorrow. i love november. not just because my birthday's in november.

to annie - long live is a nice song, but i don't really understand the king and queen thing. but i LOVE the chorus. the verses are good too. :D:D:D:D

speak now is a great album...i'm totally going to buy it. :D

i especially like the lyrics "i was screaming long live/all the magic we made/and bring on all the pretenders/i'm not afraid". :)

but one of my favourite lyrics on the album "so this is me swallowing my pride /standing in front of you/saying i'm sorry for that night /and i go back to december all the time".

perhaps it strikes me because i'm just too prideful/proud. hmm. :/

i'd just like to say all shall be revealed tomorrow at school. you'll understand when i tell you.

BUT ANYWAY, speak now is a strange song. i also like mean.

you know what? i'll just rate (& comment on) them for you here.

1. mine - 4.5 stars; good song. great lyrics, though for people who don't like sappy-ISH stuff, i don't think you'll like it as much.
2. sparks fly - 5 stars; really good tune, cute lyrics. i totally love it!!! :D
3. back to december - 4 stars; apparently dedicated to taylor lautner. good song, but i'm not the type who likes many slow sad songs...still good though! worth a listen.
4. speak now - 3.5 stars; now, in this song, taylor has a strange voice. there's less instrumental in the background. it's okay.
5. dear john - 4 stars; it's dedicated to john mayer. it's a sad song, and i like it, strangely. the lyrics strike me...
6. mean - 4.5 stars; i thought i wouldn't like it at first. it sounds quite country-ish at the beginning, but there aren't pick-up trucks. catchy tune, i like the chorus. people can relate to this.
7. the story of us - 4.5 stars; i like this song, perhaps because of the more pop/rock-ish type instrumental compared to taylor's country/pop. have a listen (it has a great chorus)! [supposedly] dedicated to joe jonas.
8. never grow up - 3 stars; i sound kind of harsh, but i don't really like this song. i don't enjoy it as much...don't ask me why; i just don't.
9. enchanted - 5 stars; these lyrics just work. i love the chorus. this song makes me sad, though it's good, as usual for taylor. it's just a wonderful song.
10. better than revenge - 5 stars; hah. i LOVE this song. it's pretty cool. i reckon it's more me. well, more the rebellious side of me. :D definitely recommend.
11. innocent - 4.5 stars; it's good. it's dedicated to kanye west. hmm, well it's a sad song. this song also makes me feel sad...i really love the chorus though.
12. haunted - 5 stars; reminds of delta goodrem songs: the beginning doesn't sound country-ish at all. but i love it all the same.
13. last kiss - 3.5 stars; very slow song. kinda drags out...also supposedly dedicated to joe jonas. um, i just don't really like it.
14. long live - 4.5 stars; really happy song. i can totally see annie listening to this. i love the tune! strange lyrics, though. i don't understand the king and queen thing.
15. ours - 4.5 stars; okay song. i like the tune, and the lyrics are slightly cheesy. :/ it's cute too.
16. if this was a movie - 4.5 stars; it's good, though it reminds of some of her other songs...ish. it's strange, though still likeable.
17. superman - 5 stars; pop/rock-ish beat. the chorus has a nice tune. i just love it for some reason.

note: 15 onwards are featured as the first 3 tracks on the international deluxe edition bonus disc of speak now.

wow that took a while...i should sleep. school tomorrow, and my sister's last hsc exam.

goodnight to you all, and farewell to hallowe'en for this year.

rach xxx

windows live messenger will be the death of me.

Allow me to say that WINDOW LIVE MESSENGER THE NEW VERSION SUCKS BEYOND ALL SUCKAGE.
I am not even joking.
Hello? How do people survive?
It looks like some stupid little weird thing with random GOSSIP ON THE SIDE THAT I DON'T EVEN WANT TO READ, AND THEN WHEN I CLICK ON THE NON-GOSSIP AND JUST MY CONTACTS BIT...
IT STRIKES.
What can I say but DOUBLEYEW-- TEE-- EFF?!
Really. There is NOTHING ELSE I CAN SAY.
(eh, eh... gosh darn, do I hate Lady Gaga.)
AND NOW I'VE UNINSTALLED THE STUPID LITTLE THING AND IT'S TELLING ME TO RESTART MY DAMNED COMPUTER.
SO GOODBYE BLOG.
I NEED TO RESTART 'CAUSE LIFE SUCKS AND WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER THE NEW VERSION SUCKS EVEN MORE.
Somebody needs to tell the Messenger people how much their new version sucks beyond suckage.
Ew. I can't even think about it without wanting to throw myself off a cliff.
I HAVE TO DO MY STUPID MOVIE THING FOR MERCHANT OF VENICE--
BUT YOU!
WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER THE NEW VERSION!
IT'S YOUR FAULT I'M TAKING SO LONG
BECAUSE YOU'RE ANNOYING ME SO BADLY.
I shall finish with an ode to Windows Live Messenger The New Version:

ODE TO WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER THE NEW VERSION
Dear
Windows Live
Messenger the New
Version: I think you suck
beyond suckage and
should go drown in
the river Seine;
preferably
now.

OK, cool. The last time I did a diamante was in, like... year three?
AND--
I HAVE JUST REALISED--
HOW MUCH THE BLOGGER EDITING THING
SUCKS BEYOND SUCKAGE AS WELL.

However, I am short of time and I cannot go off on another tangent.
Must restart computer!
Onwards with The Merchant of Venice thing!
Farewell, my darlings!

happy hallowe'en!

it's hallowe'en today.

i'm not entirely sure how i feel about this though...i just hope there's only a few kids coming 'round for trick-or-treat-ing, so that i get the rest of the lollies.

so far today, i've done some sit-ups, taken a few photos of the sky...and one other thing.

i cut my nails.

it's kinda disappointing. it's kinda hard to type, but meh. my fingers look fat, short and stubby. i'm realised just how ugly my nails are...:( it's not good.

oh yes. i remember, i also did about 10 sudoku puzzles, or more, while listening to taylor swift's new album, Speak Now.

i've burnt her songs onto a disc and have been listening to her new songs all day long...

listen to this song (it's sparks fly, and it's really good. maybe not so much to jo, but yeah!)

yay. c'mon guys. listen! that's right. press the play button!

rach xxx

You know, this is the 63rd post -- the same amount of posts that I have on my other blog. Amazingly.

And so, I shall postz0rz!

Yup, tomorrow will be DOOMSDAY. Ooh ! :D

And yes, this is the event we dread the most.

It is.. *drumroll..*

YEARLIES WEEK! *gasp!*

I had to take drastic measures for this year's yearlies.

I closed down my Facebook account, but then I reactivated it knowing that it would be not very effective and handed my password to Michelle so she could do whatever she wanted and she could keep me off.

Even though my Mum was kinda iffy about that since she wants to contact her sister in Vietnam or America or Australia or I DON'T KNOW MY MUM HAS TOO MANY SISTERS. D:

But yeah, I'm facebookless. Until the end of yearlies, when mum decides to go mad and demand me for the password and then she'll be shocked when I say I don't have it hehe.

But anyway, I'm such a massive procrastinator! I was watching MOVIES yesterday. Though, however, I was watching it for a good cause. I was watching Donnie Darko to redo my music analysis.

It's one of the movies on I MUST WATCH THIS MOVIE BEFORE I DIE list or something along the lines of that.

Yeah. And it was pretty good. Actually, it was BRILLIANT.

I don't know if you guys are iffy on psychological thrillers, though. But I reckon Inception was a psychological thriller. I don't know, I'm pretty bad at categorising.

Anyway, it is so so so good. And there's Jake Gyllenhaal. I think Glo, Annie and I made fun of his last name once and had a parody character called 'Jake Sluttenwhore'? I think. Something along those lines.

He looks pretty cute in this movie. Then again, he was still quite very youthful.

Actually, he was twenty.

Anyway, he's actually a pretty good actor.

I want to watch Brokeback Mountain.

I don't think my parents will let though.

They were pretty iffy about Donnie Darko. And that's only M. And whenever my friends (yes, meaning you guys down below) and I go to the cinemas, we always end up watching some M movie, apart from the exception of Toy Story 3.

I'm obsessed with Donnie Darko, man ! This isn't cool .

Anyway, I have been persuaded into writing my email beforehand, which wasn't very useful since I finished and edited it in like ten minutes.

WOO DONNIE DARKO IS AWESOME. :D :D :D :D :D.

Anyway, I reckon I should stop swooning and start studying.

And guys, how do you study for English ?! No, Annie, I don't think memorising my essay will do, since I only got 17 for it. :(

Wow mango! I'm writing longer and longer posts by the day! Remember that post from like ages ago and it was like:

TITLE: (some word)
POST: I'm stupid. Bye. (or something like that.)

-

Yeah, that was pretty short.

This is UBER (pardon my use of the word uber for now) long. Compared to that. Above.

Anyway, what was I talking about? Doomsday, that's right.

Yay, light bags for a week.

NOOO, exams.

D:

Anyway, I recdkon I should go back and study or something.

jo;

L'intention fait le crime, pas la chance.

strike and inspire.

SO.

this blog hasn't been written on for, oh, twelve days or so???

amazing.

not really.

i guess we're all kind of busy...

but i have something to say.

well, something recently hit me.

no, it wasn't nikki.

it was an idea...a stroke of inspiration, if you will.

i've decided to start writing again. great, huh?

no. well, it's a slightly positive thing, i guess.

i know that i shall never reach annie's standard, but at least know that i've tried. or acknowledged it...

lately i've just been hearing little snippets of wording flowing through my head, though they weren't necessarily all happy little stories...

i've also been thinking of song lyrics too, but i know i'll never be a songwriter.

so, this is the end. i make my posts deceptively long, don't i? but they always turn out to be about a paragraph or two, with lots of spaces in between.

so i just thought i'd get that out of the way; out of my long-nailed, slightly creative, logical yet sometimes illogical system.

this post was just to inform everyone, which i might not have done nearly as well as if i had posted this on my other blog.

i think that last sentence made sense. i can't tell anymore...

rach xxx

wacko

oooooooohhhhhhhhh yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhh!!!! that reminds me of the pretend sex scene in easy a.

haha awkward... i can assure you though i am no olive penderghast.

Back to my   oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yyyyyyyeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
im on fire.
four posts on glenny's
i decided to write here coz it is a little like a ghost town.

wwwwwoooooooott

actually four posts seems tiny compared to the 100 that rach did a while back.

four is a lot though.

coz my some of my posts are super long.

anyways, thanks for reviving my cbox even if it was revived by mr thomsen errr...

guess since i'm bored and i don't feel like putting up another vid and this isn't really the right place to be vidding anyways so here are some pictures that i picked out randomly.

Glenny



 shut up and let me be taller than jo for once




beautiful rach and her beautiful camera

 









fighting over andrew again tut tut :)





hello i'm just here to annoy you.



video diary?

hmm, you know, i'm thinking of making a little video with me describing my 5-day camping trip...does that sound okay?

the idea just struck me on the second day of the trip...

so, i'm sorry, but i'm not going to say much about the camping trip until after i've put up my little video, which will come in a while...sorry.

rach xxx

no words can describe this.

So why did I not sleep?

OK, there are several reasons.

ONE. I'm kipping in the music room, and drum kits and grand pianos look seriously freaky at night. I just can't bring myself to turn the light off until... I don't know. Sometime.

TWO. Since I've started sleeping in the music room, I have heard BREATHING. Like, in my dream BREATHING. Like the Grim Reaper really is there and breathing all over my body. Like maybe it wasn't a dream.

And it's not my breathing... I don't think. I tested it, sort of, by holding my breath and seeing if the sound continued. AND IT DID.

THREE. I'm even scared to save a copy of the image... let alone include it in this post... but whatever.



DON'T YOU DARE MAKE ME LOOK AT IT AGAIN.

'salutations!' from mother nature.

Someone tell me what's wrong with me.

As I type this sentence, it's 5:23am. I haven't slept at all. I have no idea why I'm doing what I'm doing. At all. But this is seriously fun. Sadly, I think I have a dentist appointment sometime later today. Which is so weird, 'cause it just feels like a few hours ago when I was at my piano teacher's place and she drew a picture of me with a round face and weird freak-o dimples.

She said 'dude, stop sleeping so much and start playing piano more'. And I was like, 'what? How did she know I'd slept until two?' And then she sort of gave this knowing smile and says 'it's 'cause your face is round!'

And that somehow indicates that I've been sleeping a lot.

But now I haven't!

Gah, the birds are so loud. And there are so many, and they keep flying off to their buddies in neighbouring trees. And the sky is, like... overcast or something. It looks rainy. But that may be because it's still pretty early.

And the sun is supposed to rise in like... three minutes, according to Sunrise and Sunset for Australia, and... right now, I can't see it. But it's light. And... wow. I feel so excited even though there is nothing remotely exciting happening right now.

I know in a few hours time, I will be going 'should have slept... should have slept...' but right now, I shall bask in the glory of having woken at (or rather, stayed awake until) five! Or so!

And now my laptop clock says it's 5:31am, so the sun should be rising, but it isn't necessarily doing so, or maybe that clock is wrong, or maybe that website is wrong... but whatever.

I think there are ants on my back.

Ants are the worst creatures on the earth. But I'm just going to scratch without looking, and hope there are no creepy little critters crawling all over my skin...

And I think my neighbour may be spying on me.

AND A WHOLE FLOCK OF WEIRD BIRDS JUST ZOOMED PAST MY BRAIN. And now there's another one belting out some sort of mating call. And there's a gnat in the air.

Oh my gosh, now I feel really unhygienic.

Argh! That bird looks... suspicious. Very dodgy. It's the one with the mating call, but another one has started calling back to it. Cue some sort of romantic behaviour going on in the bushes over there.

OK, maybe I should go inside now. And sleep.

Seeing as Rach is going camping and my holidays have been somewhat boring, i decided to smuggle myself into her suitcase and go camping with her.

That would have been fun but... naahh. i think i might run out of air and rach would find my corpse slowly starting to rot in her suitcase full of awesome threadless shirts so i don't think i would want to ruin her shirts. So that's why i decided instead to go camping myself. Well not really myself and not really camping. I'm going away this afternoon to this lego retreat thingo which should be fun because not only are there no parents and i will be away from my brother for at least 2 1/2 days but i'm just going to hang with church buddies on a campish thingo so yeah. I'm bringing along that Allana book which i haven't started properly.
So yeah... we are going to have a sleeping bag movie night tonight. Jessie and I wanted to watch a horror film but everyone else was like "NOOOOOOOOOO" and jessie and i were like "AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!"

Wouldn't it be fun to be scared out of your mind the next day. I think it would be funny to see everyone looking soo damn paranoid eating breakfast. so yeah this is no joke i actually am going away till late sunday so yeah. no blogging, msning, hitrecording (i don't do that anymore anyways) and tweeting (unless i happen to find someone who has a phone that can tweet for me the yea.

I'm bringing my camera to catch everything on tape and to take a zillion pics if i can and maybe when i get back i will make the recording into a vid an upload it to glenny's. If the pics are good i will upload them here. I wanna get like a cam recorder. I'm obsessed with making vids. I have so many ideas. For example:

• you know how annie has a load of hilarious facial expressions well i have  lot of pictures of them and i was like why don't i make a video describing each expression and making fun of them (haha) and i was like well that would so totally work but i must ask annie first so yeah. Annie do i have your permission to make fun of you?
• Another vid on Glo and I but this time you will be able to see both of us on screen. I attempted this already but i did it wrong and i got super fustrated so i left it and i have a feeling it will take ages but yeah i will try it again later.
• Oh and there's another one where i talk about procrastination and give you examples.
• There another one but i can't remember it right now. haha guess what i did just then... i wrote write instead of right and then corrected it. i'm just imagining annie saying "you used the wrong right and laughing at me saying i sucked" haha i can imagine that.

Thanks for the cbox stuff on my dream post. I think i just really want to me up with them. Tony seemed so enthusiastic and them... BAM! he's gone.

Anyways, CYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAA! annie and jo i think you should post more considering rach and i are gone for the next couple of days. And jo just in case you haven't seen the cbox messages please send me the essay. Wait a sec... is jo away as well. wait a sec... she's sick! that's why. oh right. ok don't worry then. Annnie (shut up i put to many n's in) please fill in the emptiness while we are away and don't let our blog die in your arms through lack of company. We put our trust in you.

Goodbye my fellow er people,
Glenny
CHARLIE'S 20!!!!!