I know it's been a million years since I last posted -I'm so sorry! I promise I will get round to reading everyone's journal and commenting and saying hi to you all. I would post more often but LJ's becoming a bit of a pain in the arse to update since I'm a member of a few communities, have a good few friends and a tendency to ramble a bit. I thought with the easter break I'd have loads of time to update, and I have, but every time I go to do it it's like 'Meh, can't be bothered'. That's a pretty bad attitude isn't it?:-(
What I have been doing is having a hair crisis. I'm bored and fed up of it. It's always just a bushy mess and it's such a hassle to brush and knots loads so I've been thinking of changing it a bit. I saw a picture of me aged 12 when it was really short but it was straight and looked really nice, so I've been debating wheteher to have it like that again. Then there's the whole hairdresser complex-thing i have. I've come to the conclusion that my hair is just my cross to bear. Jesus had a real cross, Roosevelt had a wheelchair, i have my hair. I just have to deal with it.
On a happier note Claire got us season 2 of The Mighty Boosh and their live dvd, and so we've been watching that non-stop practically. Words cannot describe how brilliant Julian Barrett and Noel Fielding are as Vince and Howard. I cannot wait for season 3!!! I also have developed a strange love for Dave Brown, who plays Bollo/Joey Moose and basically any character he can. He's cute, I can't help it! Also with the help of The Lovely Catherine, Claire and I came up with or strategy for the Boosh.
Catherine marries Vince and becomes Queen of the Mods. Claire marries Naboo and becomes Mrs The Enigma. I marry Howard, then subsequently leave him for Dixon Bainbridge, inspiring his jazz and poetry, then I leave Dixon, taking all his money and ownership of the Zooniverse and end marrying Dave 'Bollo' Brown and living happily ever after. Then Síle marries Howard to become Mrs Jazz Maverick.
Random I know, I've had a lot of time on my hands.
Love, LJ (I love that nickname, i'm SO going to get everyone to call me it!)
Here's the Hitcher Song -Claire does this briliantly! I don't know if this'll work actually, I can't find the insert video button!!! <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7zWnLgXERPw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7zWnLgXERPw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Hello! Ok my excuse for not being around is exams ok! They were big, scary and horrible! But now I have a whole week of for chillaxing and the like. So here are the headlines: *cue jingle* First, Claire has become addicted to the Mighty Boosh. It's funny, it's bizzare, but when is too much Vince Noir too much? Also last Sunday, well the Sunday before the exams my Uncle took me to see Carmen at the National Concert Hall. It was the coolest thing EVER! It was a typical operatic plot really: Nice guy falls for bad girl, bad girl gets him in trouble, he's tormented, she goes off with someone else and in the end he kills her. It was great! Also Gina and I have become hooked onto the Panel, in particular the Bosco Moment. So i thought I'd include it to be very good to you all. Although you might not understand it if you don't know who Bosco is. He's basically an 80's puppet on a kids show, we all loved him, except now I'm afraid of him. As for Charlie Haughey, well he was a prick who was Taosaoich at one stage.
Well, I've not much else to say for myself. I promise I'll update when I have something interesting to say and I'll get around to all your journals asap! Love, Ellen XXX
Yello! I got the part I wanted in the school musical! Despite that fact that this year it's Fame I'm really happy! I actually didn't think i was going to get it -because I NEVER get the stuff I go for or win anything -so I'm still in shock. Unfortunately though Gina was robbed of her part as the lead, which was so due to favouritism that it's not even funny. Gina had the whole Carmen thing going-on, attitude, big voice, the look, plus she's really good at dancing, and the drama teacher goes and gives the part to one of her students outside of the school. Now, don't get me wrong, the girl who got Carmen is a good singer and she's really nice, but she's just not Carmen. She's a mouse compared to Gina. If anything she should have got my part, not that I don't want it, mind you. But don' t you worry Gina! Everyone knows that part was meant to be yours, even the music teacher wanted you instead! Rest assured that in about 5 years time you're gonna be accepting that Oscar (and thanking me, of course) and married to Joel! You look like a model, have the attitude of a star and have all the talent to back it up! i don't care what anyone else thinks! Without you I wouldn't have been able to get through that as well as i did. You always encouraged me and we stuck together. without you with me i definately would't have gotten my part. Thank you!!!
Put this in your own LJs oksies?! You can't use your name for the boy/girl name question though.
Your first initial: E
1. Actor/Actress: Errol Flynn 2. 4 letter word: Eggs 3. Street name: East Street (well, there's always one of those) 4. Color: Earl grey (yes I know it's tea!) 5. Gift/present: an Elephant! 6. Vehicle: Escort ( i think it's by ford) 7. Tropical Location: Easter Island 8. College Major: Enviornmental Studies 9. Dairy Product: Elderberry yoghurt 10. Thing in a Souvenir Shop: ??? 11. Boy Name: Evan 12. Girl Name: Eileen 13. Movie Title: Euro trip 14. Beer: Esczachz (it is actually real, I swear. I think it's Polish) 15. Occupation: European diplomat 16. Flower: Elis Lillies 17. Celebrity: Eva Longoria 18. Magazine: Enquirer 20. Band: Epica
Yello everyone! Now, aren't I so good for not taking so long to update?:-) I managed to blag a day off school today to go to the hairdressers. Strange you might think that a girl needs to take a whole day off for the hairdressers, but in my case it's very necessary. You see, I have a horrible phobia of the hairdressers, probably has something to do with my ridiculously sensitive scalp. A trip to the hairdressers for me usually entails crying/hyperventilation/both. Today wasn't that bad though. I managed not to cry at all, even when it was over. That's a personal best for me. Plus now my hair is really straight, which I love! Also managed to canoodle mum into a bit of a shopping trip. So I ended up with a new top and trousers, and a Tori Amos cd (which I paid for, ok?!). So I'm feeling pretty good, aside from the cold I currently have. I hate colds, they make me feel all groggy and icky! Also we have our parent teacher meeting today, so it will be interesting to see what people think of the 5th year me. Surely they realise they have a genius on their hands here! I don't expect any bad reports really, except from my biology teacher, who I apparantly constantly insinuate is wrong in class. WTF? Insinuate she's wrong? How? I don't even listen in Bio. I don't actually care about it. Teachers, huh? (no offence dracschick. I'm sure it's just Irish teachers:-)). Well that's allio, so I best be off to gain as much sympathy as possible by being sick
I officially HATE LCVP!!! Mainly because my stupid teacher is a bitch and can't teach for her LIFE! I had her for business last year and she was the most useless teacher possible. One day we'd be doing accounts the next day we'd be looking at insurance. She's a bloody joke! Thankfully I don't have her for business this, but Kym does and apparantly she's only covering work for the ordinary level students and completely ignoring the higher level students. See, she's a imbecile! But back to LCVP -the Leaving Cert. Vocational Programme... from Hell. I don't know why I chose to do it anymore. It's a fucking nightmare. And it doesn't help that my teacher is an idiot who can't explain anything. Last night I spent HOURS typing up my summary report, my CV and my career investigation, only to be told today that i had dome them totally wrong -when I HADN'T! I'm absolutely livid!!! I am having a bad week.
Well, thank you to everybody who read my post and was so nice to me:-) I feel a lot better now. I guess it was just one of those days where you just get a bit down. I'm NOT usually like that. I'm back to feeling better and more positive about things. I just needed to get some of those blues out of my system. Once again thank you everyone who was so nice and indulgent to me, it did help alot. That plus discovering this amazing Tori Amos song. *hugs!*
Not much news-wise this week. Just back to school really, yay.... It's been a pretty boring week actually, just school and homework. Today is pretty shite too, I've basically spent it consistantly bursting into tears at different times. It just been such a horrible week and today everything just fell around my head. Alot of things have been bothering me which I haven't been telling people and so now it's all sort of coming out and upsetting me. I know this seems like such a humourless emo rant, but I'm usually pretty chipper on lj so please just humour me this once. If you're not in the mood then don't read, this is just for me really. I just can't seem to do anything right anymore. I keep trying to make everybody happy and it just gets thrown back in my face. No one seems to mind hurting me or ignoring me, which really pisses me off since I always do my best to watch what I say and do so I don't do that to anyone. Sometimes I feel that everyone would be so much happier if I just left them alone. I'm just so tired of trying my best to compromise everything to suit all the people around me when I'm just left feeling like I'm wrong and selfish the whole time. I don't even tell people anymore if they do something that bothers me because any time I've done that it's just come back to bite me. I feel so horrible and lonely the whole time and I shouldn't. I just want to be happy. I want everybody else to be happy too, but that doesn't seem to work. I'm sorry. Now that I've said my piece I feel a little bit better anyway, thanks for indulging me. Love Ellie xxx
I was watching The Panel last night and discovered that Ireland, the tiny Catholic island that we are, has started producing pornography. And guess what they're calling it too, that's right:
Lepre-porn!
I think I've just lost all faith in my country... Lepre-porn? Are the serious?! How bloody irish can you get?!!! Aparantly it's very popular in America though -because the Americans love the irish accent. I am absolutely astounded and don't know what to say... so i'll just repeat what Jason Byrne on The Panel said: "S'story! S'story! S'story! S'story! Nice one!"
Happy belated Christmas and New Year everyone! Whoo-hoo 2007!
I know I haven't updated all through the holidays, but as you know holidays are all about being busy and visiting relatives you either don't know or dislike, so i have been preoccupied. -On a lighter note:
I GOT A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!!!!
Isn't that just the coolest thing ever! Every gals dream, huh?!
-But on a sad note, this holiday has consisted of more High School Musical than I'm quite frankily comfortable with. ICK! It's Grease for 7 year olds and everyone in our year is MAD for it! What the Hell?!
On a charitable note: Here's a very funny video by Bill Bailey:
Love, Ding Ding! xxx
I had a maths test today. But I'm not sad. Do you want to know why? Because my wonderful maths teacher wrote 'Happy Christmas' at the bottom of the test paper and then decorated it with little holly leaves. AH! She's so adorable! You'd just know she was a new, young teacher. I just love her! She's fabulous! The nicest comment I recieved from Ms Callan last year was 'I will KILL you for doing this!' underneath one of my mistakes. I'm serious, she actually did write that. In other news I was in Marks and Spencers yesterday and the black lady at the till asked Claire and I if we were twins. When we replied no she bade us come closer, so we did. She then proceeded to say 'Wow! You two look so alike you could be twins... except your fatter' . Guh?! WTF?! I'm not FAT!!!!!! I just laughed since I just didn't know how to respond and Claire nearly wet herself laughing (the little bitch). The thing is she said it in a really nonchalent way like being fat was a good thing, so I just couldn't get angry with her. We had a laugh anyway, so it was all good.
Well, hello there! I suppose I better let you folks in on what's circulating in my small world and my even smaller mind:-) First off last Sunday myself, Claire and the delightful Catherine went Christmas shopping in Dublin -ah, Dublin: The big schmoke, the bright lights of the big city, the shopping! The day was suitably fun, I managed to get Staples' present and my dad's so at least that's something. I also got lots of things for myself... I know, I know. I'm terrible, I can't help it, I'm WEAK! We had a blast though and I even got my picture taken in front of Condom-World, pretty cool, huh? I also spent the day making the lovely Catherine laugh at my constant attempts to get food. I can't help it if I have a HEALTHY appetite, ok?! Theeeeeeen.... on Wednesday myself, Ciara , Niamh 'Staples', Soph W and Gina all went to the Trinity College open day (once again: Dublin). It's so cool! It's all old fashioned and pretty. I went to the Pshycology lecture (because Gina ans Soph did and I had no where else to go), the music lecture (which just confounded me no end), the Italian lecture (because Gina, Ciara and I just wanted a place to sit down) and the drama lecture (which was CLASS! It's sounds amazing! -But really, really hard!). All in all I wouldn't mind going to TCD, it looks very cool, but the points to get in are CRAZY! Then afterwards we all went shopping on Grafton St, not that I had much money in me coffers. But we did decide to go into TK Max and ended up trying on identical pink OTT dresses just for the craic. We were all roasting and the dresses were all to small but we jsut laughed and laughed and laughed the whole time. It's was beautiful -we looked fabulous too!!!!
Well that's all that's happened here this week and as you can see; all of it in DUB=) Laters, Ellen, the Melon XXX
PS I brea liom Baile Átha Cliath!!!! Tá sé an-COOL!
PPS I failed my French test today. I'm preparing myself for the slaughter as I speak.
Right, I know I only updated yesterday, but ah well, I have stuff to say. Today my mother dragged us all up nice and early to take us to the Church Christmas Market which was happening in this house called Beaulieu House. I didn't think much of it -until we got to the house!!! The market itself was crappy, but the HOUSE! OMG! So gorgeous, it's not even funny. How come no one told me we had a place like this in Drogheda? The front hall had all these painting (GIANT paintings) of all the previous owners, this really cool chandelier, all the coats-of-arms witrh latin all over them, really cool ornate doorways with filigree carvings. I was in BBC Period Drama Heaven! I felt like Jane Eyre, well, as much as one can feel like Jane Eyre in a green jumper and converse. I'm telling you all this because I've decided that when I get a house I intend to have one just like that. I'm not sure how, but I suppose it'll have to be a combination of marrying well (and often) and sueing people for stuff they didn't do. It may take a while but it will be worth it. And I'm going to do it all big-time. Firstly my front hall will be filled with lots of antique paintings of these really solemn, fancy looking people ( no ugly people though), who I'm going to tell everyone are my ancestors, despute the fact that that would be a giant fib. There will also be latin coats-of-arms, ornate doorways, chandaliers and musty carpets to boot. As for the garden -big, rolling lawns, big trees and fab view will be as standard. But for the garden Piece de Resistance will be the massive chocolate fountain housed in a greenhouse. I saw one in the Vicar of Dibly so i want one. There will be strawberry bushes nearby and a store of marshmallows for dipping into the fountain also. As for the rest of the house, Claire has been commissioned to paint lots more paintings (Catherine you may have to help out there's LOTS to be done). Firstly there must one of the cast of Firefly -except Jayne. Jayne gets several of his own, one without the hat, one with the hat, one with the cowboy hat and one with Vera. Then there will be an entire LOST cast painting, with a seperate one for Charlie, Claire and Aaron. One will also be made of Jack and Kate which will be sent to Sophie's mansion by post. The a Prison break portrait with a seperate one of Michael, shirt on, shirt off, I haven't decided yet. And of cousre there wil be a portrait of Annie, to be placed in the kitchen, her favourite place in the world. And Molly gets one too, placed under the computer desk, her favourite place in the world.
Isn't my house going to be fabulous?! You can all come and visit me too, I'll have special guest-rooms made just for my LJ friends -in the stabes...
Hi y'all! Hope you're all feelin' shiney:-) Know I am. Life is good, I have everything I want and need (except all the stuff on my Christmas list, of course) so I am feeling pretty chipper. Unnaturally so, I think I'm starting to scare folks actually. Well.... I guess I better talk about my recording of my song etc. (Oh yeah, I wrote a song and recorded it with Síle and Catherine, I think I neglected to mention that before). We basically have been practising since late September and recorded 3 songs in a studio in Dundalk last Monday. Much fun was had actually, except that Síle had Red Bull was REALLY hyper (well, more than usual). As for the songs -they sound ok, I'm not extremely happy with the singing and overall sound but C'est la vie. Next time though, I'm not stopping 'till I'm fully happy with the damn singing!!! I did a song from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a Nightwish song and my original song called "Anymore". It's an ok song actually. But also last week we music student went on a trip -AGAIN! I love music this year seriously. We just talk constantly and the teacher doesn't mind and for the past few classes we've been watching "Amedeus" since we have to study Mozart. Life is good:-) And last Wednesday we went to see the Nutcracker Ballet in the Helix. Which translates as myself, Claire, Ciara, Síle and Sorcha in McDonalds and later goofing off during the ballet. It was actually pretty cool and not boring at all really.
That's all that's really goin' on in my world (now, if you can excuse me, I must be swallowed by Christmas list) Love, El-Mel xxx
Finally after a series of hitches and technical problems with this rutting computer, I'm back! God, this computer has let me down over the past few weeks. It's not all roses though, I'm not able to get onto allpoetry.com for some reason today, which is very annoying! In better news, Gina and I have taken to inventing our own slang. Ok, some of it is stolen from Firefly and Lost and Prisonbreak, but most of it's ours. And do you know what else? I'm not going to tell what any of it means, not a gorram thing, because Gina will hit me if I do. (Just kidding, Gina!) As you can probably tell i got Firefly on dvd, and WOW! I'm so happy I did! I had only seen the movie and 2 episodes but it's so fantastic! Fox cancelled this?????? Why? Why on Earth would anyone want to get rid of a series where the toughest guy on the ship is called Jayne? It's genius! I also got myself an Azam Ali cd today (even though I was meant to be buying presents), and well... It's probably the oddest purchase I ever made. It's all this ambient Asian sounding music, it's taking some getting used to but I'm starting to get into it. Speaking of music, lately i've been finding myself writing a lot of songs. It's weird because usually they only come to me randomly but recently they've just come to me constantly and fortunately I've been putting them all to tape. It feels pretty good actually, i don't feel like such a musical fraud:-) School's been pretty good lately too, I don't know if it's because I've finally improved my attitude towards it or my general outlook on life. I'm just enjoying it more. Enjoying my friends more. Enjoying being myself more. I'm not being so over-sensitive and gloomy, i'm actually feeling good and cheerful. I guess positive thinking works!!! LOL!
Hello everyone, she's BACK! Sorry the auld life's been a bit hectic so i haven't been able to update as oft as promised. I suppose I better tell you about my little adventure to the Irish Concert Hall last Tuesday. All the music students got to go, which meant it was myself, Ciara T, Síle and Sorcha unleashed on Dublin! What were they thinking?! Well, the actually concert was all well and good (lovely rendition of Nessun Dorma, guys) but the real adventure was the McDonalds, which led to us getting three free cokes and one free cookie. Sweet! Then on the way back we had a conversation about when Sorcha's mother took her to get birth-control. Nice. Then I better tell you about the gig. Really feckin' good, but sadly my mother forced me home early so i missed Fuze (basically the only good local band around). but next time I'm staying until they play!
There's not much else to say really, so I'll leave with the quote Ciara gave us in Dublin, in the finest Bogger/Culchie accent in Christendom:
The other day myself and my loyal followers were discussing the film we had watched at Halloween, "The Hills Have Eyes". Not really that scary, just really, really, really graphic! Well anyway, all of a sudden we started discussing the plot in bunny form, don't ask why, we just did ok?! It turned out to be a very funny conversation, so I thought I'd better transcribe it just for fun here.
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