Hedgehog House #6 plus goin’ to Tara’s
Yes, I realise that this is basically all my posts are about my lubly hoggies these days, but I’m a very busy person with a huge social life. So meet Chubs who I got in San Gimignano!
My second trip to Italy brought upon a visit to our favourite little city in Tuscany. As we were walking about, as you do, we came across a shop with lots of stuffed toys inside. Well, being a sucker for stuffies, despite my age, I had to go inside! *coughs* I mean, my sister Kimmy dragged me in! We looked around for a while and saw some small animals that we couldn’t decide the species of. Then I looked a bit to the left and WOW! A huge, really fat, extremely cute HEDGEHOG! He was automatically christened Chubs for his chubbiness obviously. He still gets the most attention from people who see my vast collection as he sticks halfway out from the shelf. Below is a picture of me in shock as I hold my newly discovered tenant.
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Hedgehog House #5, plus my BCG
Yo my people! Meet Frizzle. I believe he’s the first hedgehog actually bought for my collection. Before that I had Gosha but he was a gift and I wasn’t really collecting. Then I saw this little dude in a little town in Loire Valley. (The location of Frizzle’s adoption had to be discussed for a good 5 minutes by my mother and me before we realised where he was from.) There were about 4 other little statues of the same make in various positions but his spoke to me. I saw him and said ‘Hey, I should really start that collection I was meaning to do. Can I have one?’ My lovely parental figures said yes, probably because he was only 6 euros. The tag is still attached to his bottom for authenticity. Ain’t he a cutie?
Now that you’ve met Frizzle, let me tell you about my recent INJECTION! It’s called a BCG and is against Tuberculosis, whatever that is. On Monday, I had something called a Scratch Test which is an injection that tells me if I actually need a BCG if it becomes a rash (which it didn’t). Well, I missed my appointment for it ‘cos AHEM no one told ME! But I got it done and it’s more painful than the actual immunization shot. Oh, and the lovely lady didn’t put it in properly at first and said (quote) ‘Oh, sorry, I missed. Just have to do it again’. HUH? Are they kidding me? This was an outrage! Trained professionals my arse.
Anyway, as I didn’t get a rash, I had to have my BCG done on Friday. I sat with all the other people in my year (Year 9) who had also missed their injectiony things last year. They were completely terrified and deemed me a freak for being so calm about it. I took no offense from this as it’s true and ‘cos they also said I’m ‘insanely brave’ which was nice. I promised them to go first to say what it’s like. So I went and, after telling me I had apparently ‘perfect’ arms, the ladies giving me the shot decided I was odd as well. They said I was ’strangely calm about all this’ but I could just hear their thoughts saying ‘OMG! What’s wrong with this girl?’
So, after asking me if I was pregnant (which they said they asked boys as well, the freaks) they gave me the shot. The needle was in my arm for a freaking 30 seconds. They kept talking to me during this which I don’t really like as I don’t think they actually care what I say and they’re just trying to distract me from pain. (For the record, I did not cry AT ALL. I only flinched.) After finally removing the needle, they put a cotton swab against the new hole in my arm for two minutes and it STUNG. But it was all okay really and I skipped out from behind the screen dividing the waiting area and injectification area. My classmates stared at me and said to each other but in a way meant towards me ‘And she just skips out, happy as can be!’ And I told them all it was quite long but the Scratch Test was worse.
And that’s how I got my BCG! The ladies told me it might go all weird and scabby in about 2 weeks and I know for a fact that I will always have a mark from it! YAY! Not. But my mum’s is like a beauty spot while my dad’s is as big as a quarter/50 pence coin. Well we’ll see how mine ends up later.
p.s. If you noticed that I put many words in CAPS it doesn’t mean I’m shouting the words, it just means I’m saying them in a different way but not an italic different…if you get what I mean. Which is hard to do as I honestly don’t myself…
Well cheerio my monkey boys!
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Hedgehog House #4
Now meet Richie, short for Richard but cuter. I got him in the French city/town/tortoise of Reims. I jsut saw him on his widdle dungarees (overalls for Americans) and had to have him! Mind he, he was rather expensive (apparently he’s part of a collectable animal collecty thingy) but he’s worth it. Lovely, cutesy hedgyhoggy thing! He was one of my rather early on hedgehogs and is still one of me favourites!
Well here he is, the charming fellow. But there’s not much more to say about him so HOW ABOUT I sing you all a song/crimp from a lovely show called THE MIGHTY BOOSH!
Bouncy bouncy, ooh such a good time!
Bouncy bouncy, shoes all in a line!
Bouncy bouncy, everybody somersault. Somersault, summertime. Everybody sing along!
Bouncy bouncy, ooh such a good time!
Bouncy bouncy, white socks slipping down!
Bouncy bouncy, stilettos are a no-no!
Bouncy bouncy, OOH! Bouncy bouncy, OOH!
Every time I bounce, I feel I touch the skyyyyyyyy!
There now wasn’t that lovely? I’m glad you liked it…
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Back to school. Oh joy. Yay.
*sighs* So school starts again tomorrow after my long and lovely break (Dec 18 to Jan 7). I can’t wait, really. The joy that fills me must be very obvious. *more sad sighing* Let’s recap what’s happened during the holidays:
I spent a lot of time watching TV with my warm duvet and the CHERUB series books handy for any commercials.
I went to visit our friends in Reading on the 27th and had a sleepover at my house the very same night with Eliza.
I went to see The Tale of Despereux (for free) with 3 of my friends (Eliza, Ella and Bea) and 2 of Kimmy’s plus their mums. This was after barely catching the bus because of good old Ella losing her mums car keys. It’s an okay film but I wouldn’t pay to see it or buy the DVD. (We got free T-shirts and I got one for each of the people in my crew, they were more than happy with them.) That night, Ella slept over and we watched Grease while writing all over a almost blank T-shirt that we plan to share. It will be making an appearance soon.
The O2 was visited my moi and the crew where we gave up on the idea of skating and ate Thai food and saw Yesman instead. Very funny film, gotta love Jim Carrey! After the film, we wandered around and eventually went to Livi’s where we watched pirates of the Caribbean TWO. Yes dad, when I went back to Livi’s, I checked. It was definitely the SECOND movie.
I went shopping with Livi and Tara on New Year’s Eve and bought a Wonder Woman T-shirt while Livi bought a Star Wars one. We plan to interchange them. After shopping, I got my top that Livi had borrowed a few months ago (and never worn) back and went home for a bit.
Then I spent that night at Peter’s with all of the lovely crew.
My New Year’s presents were two Hedgehogs, leg-warmers (which I had asked for), a black cardigan and a light white jacket. All very good presents in my opinion.
On the 3rd on January, another sleepover took place, this time at Anna’s, with (yes you guessed it!) the crew. So we like spending time with each other, sue us! We watched the Eye (not scary at all) and I discovered that I find ’scary’ movies funny. A bit odd, but okay! I was almost the last to fall asleep and that was at a little past 5am, mostly because I was near the talking ones. You see, the sofa had been overtaken by Robbie, who had fallen asleep all spread out. Me and Ella were smooshed so being the kind person I am, I told her I’d sleep on the floor so she’d have more space. She was also whining a lot so this made her be quiet. Oh well, she owes me now so all’s good. ANYWAY, I ended up next to talkier people who told me they went to sleep at 7. We all woke up at 7.46 (I’d checked my watch) so it wasn’t really enough sleep for them but OH WELL! The get-together ended with me accidentally stealing Elliot’s tie.
Everyone went into London yesterday except me for 3 reasons. I had a Typhoid injection for my China trip (Can I just say that my arm still hurts from the stupid shot but the injection itself didn’t!), I’d have to rush to make it and also, I just couldn’t be bothered. Instead, I watched Eragon, 10 Things I hate about you and Evan Almighty. Later on, I went to Eliza’s house to watch her debut on TV in M.I.High. It was cool but she wasn’t in it a lot, she said she will be later on. I’ve decided that I’m watching the show without her from now on as outbursts of “OMG! I’m in this scene!’ so get on the nerves a tad. Love you Eliza!
Right, that’s been my hols and I hope you had some great ones too! To end, here’s a funny rendition of Feliz Navidad (a bit late but who cares) by a brilliant singer, Dave Days who generally makes songs to make fun of Hannah Montana. This song doesn’t, don’t worry. Now you Hannah Montana lovers, I really do like the show but his songs are just brillo! Enjoy:
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New Year’s Nite/Morn
‘You and me baby ain’t nothin but-’ oh hello! Didn’t see ya there! Sorry, I was just singing tunes of goodnosity, my bad! So this New Year’s eve my parents let me hang out at my mates Peter’s house (love you peter!) and bring in 2009 there. Of course, my mum had to call his parents first and ask paranoid-y parent-type questions. But I got to go, whoo!
Most of our crew was there as well which was 5 people (Livi, Peter, Robbie, Anna, Tara) other than me. Oh, and Peter invited his mate, Elliot, as well. We spent most of the night listening to baaaad music on music channels. It was ‘non-stop new year’s eve party jams’. They sadly were non-stop. We watched the countdown in London on BBC1 and all did random things we’d wanted to do that year, before the countdown. At around 1am we were booted upstairs and at around 3 we were made to put on pj’s. We actually only fell asleep at a little after 6, we are rebels! During all these hours we tried to fit on one full-sized bed, the seven of us. We gave up on that after about an hour and took turns going on the floor in pairs. Hehe, I only spent about 10 mins on the floor so I lucked out.
Livi woke us girls up at 9, the evil person. I believe I fell asleep again till 10-ish and then we went into the guys room and watched The Mighty Boosh (WHOO!) and listened to music…which I was singing before.Here a few things that I either forgot to mention or um, shall just say now.
> My outfit rocked so much: funky top, polka-dotted black tights and jean shorts.
> I created the fashion of wearing watches on your ankle when it started annoying my wrist.
> I went ginger (redhead) from this really cool spray. it washes off but I still have a cool streak. Oh, Peter tried to give Elliot a streak (Elliot has mega sexy hair) but only managed to hit his neck so I think he’s now a vampire with a ginger neck.
> We took a pic of Peter while he was sleeping and it looks very ‘aww’.
I think that’s all I missed but I’ll add more if I remember. I’d just like to make a point that spending New Year with your mates is absolutely brill!
Thanks my parenty people!
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