Did ya miss me?

I've been away a long long time, mainly because of exams, and who would want to read a blog all about me complaining about my Psychology exam? Even though it's so hard! 
Its half term now and I've got 10 exams down and 3 to go, so exciting. And after all mine and my friends exams we are going to Thorpe Park, which shall be so relaxing, unless we go on the really scary rides, like the Saw Maze, I hope to never have to go on that again! We've already had an 'end of exams' party, which wasn't really celebrating the end of exams, but I wasn't revising at the time so it totally counts!
Also while I've been away I've been able to cross off three books from my reading list: Pretties and Specials by Scott Westerfield and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The books in the Uglies series were so good, the third was definitely my favourite, it has so much action compared with the others! I hope Extras which is the fourth in the series will be just as good, but it doesn't actually follow the same character as the one that was in the other three, so I have no idea what it will be like... The Lovely Bones was also very good, I liked the way she was in heaven, I just like the depiction of it (if that's the right word).
I read The Shadow of Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón a while ago, turns out it had a sequel, which was actually a prequel to the first called The Angel's Game. Its so good, the writer is just brilliant, I have no idea how he comes up with the some of the things in the book, Carlos Ruiz Zafón really is an awesome writer.

So did anyone watch Eurovision? I absolutely loved the song New Tomorrow by A Friend in London who did the song for Denmark (the singer had Jedward-like hair).Oh, and Jedward were pretty good too! 
Recently I've been watching, well waiting, for the Pirates of the Caribbean films. I had totally forgotten how awesome they were. I watched the third and had no idea what was going on so I made a pledge to find the rest of the films on tv. And guess what. They were on that week! I love it when things go to plan :). So i've got the second one recorded and I'm going to persuade my family that we should watch that, instead of Britain's got Talent, even though Simon does look so good in those V-neck shirts ;).
I should probably get back to revising for Psychology now, even though writing a blog post is way more interesting.
P.s. You remember Charlie? I totally failed at buying tickets to go see him. My Physics Friend and I were heartbroken! Hopefully we'll see him around sometime somewhere else </3

Haha, this photo made me laugh ^.^
I totally wasn't searching through Google for images of him

A Wedding

Yesterday was the eagerly awaited wedding of William and Kate.

I celebrated by going to my friends house to watch the ceremony, while commenting on what every one was wearing, eating lots of Haribo and chocolate, taking part in a Royal Quiz where I got only 5 out of 20 answers correct (one was thanks to last weeks Doctor Who), eating themed cakes which were incredibly delicious (especially the blue ones) and eventually playing Just Dance and Guitar Hero.

The box of Haribo my friend bought for the occasion looked almost untouched at the end! There were so many packets! And the cakes and lunch were delicious too. I was so full when I got home, I only ate a third of my dinner, but I made up for it afterwards with ice cream, a cream egg and a red cake I got to take home :).

As well as the cakes being themed, we had to dress in red, white and blue. This was a difficult task for me and I ended up being almost an hour late to the party! But I did get to make use of the white tights I bought a couple of years ago.

I was also really tired when I got home, I tried to nap but was awoken by the neighbours singing the national anthem... It was excruciating :| they should really have learnt to sing. Not that I can talk, I 'sang' most of time while playing Guitar Hero, and I sounded quite terrible. Luckily my voice was drowned out by my friends singing, which, although it was terrible, actually got us a lot of points, so we didn't do too badly. It was also incredibly funny, so I was laughing most of the time I should have been singing with her :P.

I hope everyone enjoyed their day yesterday, even if you didn't like the wedding. It was a welcome day off.

Reflexology

The other day my aunt came round, bringing with her a treatment couch and foot moisturiser, which I thought was kind of strange. I was complaining most of the day about how much revision I had to do, and it did not help that it was ICT, it's just so boring :|. So my aunt said I needed to relax and offered me some reflexology.
My aunt is currently taking a course and needs to do 100 case studies so she was pretty persistent about me having reflexology. Luckily, she got to my mum first but then my mum had to go out with my dad and I was left alone with my aunt. Then she took the opportunity to kidnap me...
Reflexology involves massaging the feet in places that correspond to parts of the body, like the back, eyes and even certain glands, like the hypothalamus, that are linked to stress.

This is a foot chart I found on Google.

This is another foot chart which I thought you should see
because I thought it actually looked pretty funny/weird/kinda disturbing(?).

It wasn't too bad, but I don't like people touching my feet so it wasn't the best experience in the world to me. And I was laughing almost all the way through because of the awkwardness of the situation... Not sure if I really felt calmed by it, I think it actually made me more tense having to have someone look at and touch my feet! But actually I did feel too relaxed over the next couple of days and hardly did any work :\.

As she was still learning, I had to fill out a questionnaire about how good/bad it was and whether I liked/disliked it and whether she had told me everything she was suppose to, like what reflexology is, what it involves and the after effects. This was a little awkward, so I just ticked yes for everything! Even though afterwards she was saying 'oh, I forgot to tell you that' even though I had already ticked that she had ^.^ hehe.

She also asked if i'd ever have it again. Yeah, I lied again...

Explore Your Genome

A little while ago my Physics Friend sent me a link to the Open University website where you can get some free magnets. They're the set of the 46 pairs of chromosomes we have in our DNA. And they are so awesome. I was worried they would take ages to come because it said they'd arrive within 28 days, luckily I only had to wait about three :).
This is what I got:

As well as the magnets, which aren't in that photo. But i'd already pulled them apart and stuck them on my fridge :) so it was too late to photograph.

It was so confusing when they came! It was just a sheet of chromosomes and I had no idea what to do with them, but looking through the rest of the stuff I was sent, I found a sheet that had all the chromosomes numbered and in order. So I spent half an hour pairing them up. Then I stuck them on my fridge:

Voilà. Yes, I know it looks good. That is one hot fridge. But seriously, I cleaned my fridge for you, so you better be grateful!

Also, I got this sniffing experiment card, which I did on line. It wasn't measuring your sense of smell as much as I thought it would be. There were maths questions and memory tests and I was a bit confused. There was also an attractiveness test, were you were shown faces and you had to rate them on their attractiveness. Most, in fact all, were about twice my age so that wasn't much fun...

So if you would like a free set of genome magnets, click here. I can guarantee at least an hour and a half of fun :).

The Neverending Story

A lot of old films have been on recently. Mainly on Channel 5 and ITV. It's so strange watching films you've watched as a child when your old enough to actually understand what is happening. I think it makes films a little more magical and I still haven't stopped wishing I could be the children in them!
A while ago I watched The Neverending story:

It's not never ending the way you'd think it would be. It's like if you were reading a book, the people in that book are real, just like you are, and your story is being read, as if you were a character in a book. So it's never ending that way. So this film does actually end ;).
So this boy, called Bastian, is being chased by bullies and hides in a book shop where he steals this book that this man told him we wasn't allowed to read. In the book the world of Fantasia is being consumed by a force called The Nothing, so the creatures of Fantasia try to find a hero. The hero turns out to be a boy, called Atreyu, who along with his horse, Artax, go to find a cure for the ill princess of Fantasia so she can stop The Nothing. He has a lot of trouble on his journey. His horse is swallowed by the swamps and the wisest being, Morla, directs him to the Southern Oracle, over 10,000 miles away! Just as he is also about to sink into the swamps he is saved by the luck dragon Falkor, who takes him right where he needs to be. He has to pass through gates, which are like trials, and they have destroyed warriors before him.
I don't really want to give away the whole story because it really should be watched. I've seen it repeated a lot on ITV2, I swear it was on twice in one day... So if you see it you should watch it. Its fun and the creatures are so strange and you know the oompa-loompa from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the one with Johnny Depp)? He is in it! Now if that doesn't get you to watch it, I don't know what will.

This is Falkor. Isn't he the cutest? ^.^

P.s. I hope everyone had a good Easter yesterday :). I certainly enjoyed the sudden acceptance of eating so much chocolate in one go. And I absolutely love Cream Eggs.

I'd better go eat more chocolate do some awesome revision ;).

So much chocolate, So little time!

I finally decided to open the giant box of Guylian chocolates.
They were delicious!

There were three selections of chocolates: Chocolate Sea Shells, Opus and Trufflina. The Sea Shells were lovely :) they're the ones i've usually had, i'd never tried the other two. Opus had the best looking chocolates, they were all so different, I think they were Egyptian themed. Trufflina was nice but they're quite rich (they're the ones underneath the foil, and in the second picture).
They've nearly all gone now, bad times. I opened them last Sunday because my brother had a friend round and me and my parents were bored so we opened up the chocolates, then the next day he went on a sleep over and couldn't have any chocolates then. By the time he eventually got a chance to have one there was a very limited choice ;).
If I finish them tonight I'll be ready for all the Easter Eggs tomorrow!
Oh, and Doctor Who is on tonight! So excited :D.

My parents went out...

And I was hungry and think I deserved a treat from all the 'revision' i'd been doing so I made myself a most wonderful snack :) :

Oh my, they were so delicious.
They consist of a chocolate chip cookie, covered in whipped cream and lovingly sprinkled with white choc chips. I didn't want to go crazy and use milk choc chips!
I hope you enjoy the pictures, they look as good as they tasted ;).