The Past Week at Home

It's been pretty awesome to be honest with you.

With my brother gone and my dad gone it's been a lot more quiet around the house and i've really enjoyed that.

Although they are due back within the hour and things will be back to their slightly busier and normal selfs.


But it has been good.

For example, me, my mum and sister have treated ourselves over the past 7 days to take aways and days out and lots of other stuff.
Like, a random outing to a cafe down the road, making hot chocolate together, making pancakes together.
Doing a lot of stuff that my dad wouldn't have done if it were he, instead of my mum here.

But as i've said, i have enjoyed the more quiet nature of the house in the past week.
It has been a lot more relaxed and a lot less busy.
My dad sorta has this "busy" presence about him like he's always doing something important and my brother hasn't been screaming down his Xbox headset so it has been nice to get a rest from that.

Also, one thing i only realised the other day - i've been the man of the house for the past week.
Not that i've done much to fulfill that role, but it's a nice title :P

My "manly" duties consisted of spending copious amounts of time watching movies, sitting on the computer, playing football with friends.
Just like normal.
But it felt like there was a bit more freedom to it and that was savoured however, it is just about at it's end now.


Anyhoo, i also wanted to address some issues from comments on the last post.

Dru - Hearing someone say Muse sound like Radiohead is a Muse fan's worst nightmare! Particularly after listening to a song as strange and unique as Megalomania.

The first album by Muse "Showbiz" had elements of Radiohead but since then....no
Megalomania is the closing track off the second album "Origin of Symmetry". Listen to that full album and try to tell me Muse sound like Radiohead. In fact, listen to any album except Showbiz and try to tell me that.

Sorry for the rant but Muse are nothing like Radiohead.
Plus, they're much better.


Southern, R.Jimlad - Ash Wednedsay, as far as i remember, is the marking of ash on the forehead to celebrate the "holy spirit" (a sort of fire thing) coming down from heaven and descending upon the heads of the twelve apostles of jesus.
I think only Catholics celebrate it.
I know it sounds crazy doesn't it?
Just like a lot of things in the Bible. You read it, and only then do people says that its not supposed to be taken literally.....
Well why didn't you tell me that before i read it?

And also, i didn't "give in" to religion.
I chose to get the Ash to save questions i couldn't be bothered answering so i simply wiped it off when i was out of sight.


And lastly, just as general news - My biology prelim got a 48%.
To be honest, i wasn't quite expecting that, i thought it would be a lot lower but now that it's only 2% away from half marks, i'm feel rather let down.
The pass mark varies from year to year but my teacher doesn't expect it to be as low as 48% so it looks like i've faled biology too.

Oh and we went over the second maths paper today and i stand by my "on a different day i could have passed" statement.
Like the first paper there was a load of careless mistakes and not knowing what to do. I took a tally of my careless mistakes which was about a dozen in total. In the right frame of mind i don't think i would have made them and i would have passed but you win some and you lose some.


So, i'll get back to everyone with my final round up of Prelim results after biology is confirmed but now i must welcome back my dad and brother and get back to normal life inside this normally busy and noisy house.


Cheers,
Rowan