An Obscure Weekend With An Old Friend

I've had quite a strange weekend, spent mostly with an old friend, Josh.

Josh and I used to be literally best friends id say, about 2-3 years ago and then we drifted apart after a falling out. It was over something completely stupid.

He had a bit of a thing for one of my cousins which is well... not wonderful but i wasn't too bothered. It only annoyed me when people started taking the piss out of my cousin for it: she was somewhat interested in Josh who is quite a big guy, not a looker.

Basically, they were making fun of my cousin so i tried to put a stop to it by being a total twat. I said to Josh to leave my cousin alone because people were being assholes about it and also because of the fact that she lives in France so yeh...

Anyway, he took it badly, then i got pissed off with him and we were just no longer friends.

It kinda remained that way for a few years but back in September when i moved into this new social circle i started to get on friendly terms with him again and as it stands, we're pretty much where we were a few years ago which is quite awesome coz he's a great guy.


That's the prelude.

This is the past few days.

I went to stay at Rob's on Friday, Josh was doing as well, and we had a massive Rock Band 3 sesh planned which kinda went ahead but then another guy, Nicholas, who i don't know very well came along and it was just really good fun. He's spoilt rich but one of the most random people i've ever met, i can never take him seriously at all.

I didn't get much sleep on Friday, about an hour max, because Rob's house is all over the place. I ended up sleeping on the floor next to Josh and Nicholas while Rob slept in a nice comfy bed.

Anyhoo, the inevitable chatting commenced and at some point i was asked who i was "interested" in. I never told them, i was never going to in the first place but all three of them pushed me really hard to find out. At some point Rob even said, "Is it guy?" but i was all, "Leave me alone, none of your business" kinda thing and the subject was eventually dropped.

Another something that came up was that Josh, Rob and Nicholas, all three of them, are of the opinion that i am the best looking in the whole group. I don't know how to react to that, i mean there are probably 20 of us in total. It's great that they think so but being modest as i am, i wouldn't say so but neither could i say who is the best looking. Weird :S

There's a strange thing about Nicholas which i feel i must mention. He has no problem being naked, and this is in the company of other guys. While not sleeping i found out that New York legalised gay marriage (and well done to them!) so i said, "Nicholas, with your antics, you'll be glad to know New York has made gay marriage legal" implying that he was gay, but he replied, "Not really, i'm against fags."

Yeh. But as i said, i can never take him seriously so i don't really know. I'll have to ask Josh, he knows Nicholas better. I'd be disappointed if he was really homophobic coz he's honestly a great guy.

But besides that and sleeping on the floor, it was quite a good night. Saturday, however, made the whole thing even more awesome.

Rob had to leave early to meet his girlfriend, an hour and a half away on the train. Yeh, dodgy story, i wont go into it.

So Josh, Nicholas and I were at Rob's house and he wasn't.

On an hours sleep, we proceeded to Nicholas' house. Now, i've met this guy about 3 or 4 times and i've never been to his house (which is bloody MASSIVE) and when i got there, Josh and I found a bottle a whiskey and had a glass of it each - his parents are away for 2 weeks. Random house. Whiskey. Midday. Yup.

What's more is, i even had a shower at the house. I don't tend to shower at others people's houses let alone houses i've never been to. But it was chill and i was even able to dry and straighten my hair.

If this wasn't random enough, Josh got a call from Bella - I know this is a lot of names going about just now, but i've mentioned Bella before, she's the really anti-homophobic girl - to go round to a party as it's her birthday in a few days.

"Why not?" I thought, and Josh and I stole a few beers from Nicholas' dad's cabinet - he's got loads, he wont miss a few.

We didn't get the chance to drink them coz Bella's parents were home but it was still great and was the 2nd house i visited yesterday which i never had before. Random.  Again, i don't even know Bella that well but i still felt bad for not getting her a present.

Loads of our friends showed up and it was an all out great atmosphere. Convinced me to try and get out a bit more this summer.

Anyhoo, it was late by the time i decided to go home and at this time i realised my parents hadn't heard from me all day so i called and i was in quite deep shit.

Even before we walked home from Bella's we still had to go back and collect some stuff from Rob's, so we did. I think we cockblocked him.

We had to wait a good few minutes after we knocked at his door and when we went up to his room, his girlfriend was just sitting there like, "Sup". Again, random.

By the time Josh and I got home it was rather late and my parents still didn't even know i planned for Josh to stay. I got a bit of a telling off but it was fine coz Josh was there; my dad tries to be Mr. Awesome in front of friends - he gave us a beer each and then... (wait for it) a little glass of whiskey. Haha, Josh and I couldn't believe it! 2nd of the day. We toasted the weekend.

It's certainly been one of the most eventful i've had in a good while. I don't generally do much at weekend. Maybe i should...

Anyway, i'm now going to Josh's on Thursday and i can't wait. I'm taking my bass and my massive amp and there'll be Rock Band 3, maybe beer. Gonna be fantastic.

The only not fantastic thing is that i'm quite sure he will ask me who i like again. And again, i wont tell him but i've got a feeling that i may well tell him i like guys... as well as girls? I don't know yet, we'll see but either way Josh seems like quite a trustworthy guy.


Gonna leave it there. Tired from the past few days and i've got a bit of a cold so i need to recover and i shall do so in style - I still have two beers that i nicked from Nicholas!


Rowan <3


P.S I've no idea about the situation with Bryan and his hair. I've heard nothing over the past few days. My guess is that he did get it cut but strangely, i'm not too bothered. Meh.

Damn It

Bad news. I didnt get much sleep last night and neither am i feeling any better this morning :(

I woke up and i could immediately sense that nothing had changed after my few hours of sleep.
My head is still sore, as well as my throat, my eyes are sore and heavy....

No way would i be able to sit any tests today.
I would absolutely fuck them up if i was to sit them. I am just not in the right frame of mind at all to be doing any tests.

So i went straight to mum and told her exactly that (minus the fuck) and she said i could stay off but questioned if i was unprepared for the tests to which i said i was ready for them.

I wanted to go in today. I wanted to get these tests done. Missing them is just going to cause all sorts of complications....

*sigh*

Dunno what else to say, just thought i would let you guys know


Rowan

Next (Short) Week

This week is going to be one day shorter as the Easter holidays start on Friday so only four days of school this week!
Which you may think is a good thing but seeing as there are only four days, the teachers have pretty much decided to cram everything they possibly can into this week.

Let's see, i have at least half a dozen tests in the space of these four days.

Tomorrow : 1st part of maths, then biology test, then 20% of my final media studies exam.
And those tests are right after one another by the way, no restbite tomorrow morning.

Tuesday has the 2nd part of the maths test and a music theory test. Both, incidentally, after each other as well.
Im good at music practical but so crap with theory....

Then Wednesday has the 3rd part of the maths test.


Really, the maths is the backbone of the week, covering three days.
It has also been called a "2nd prelim" and can be used in an appeal for the final exam.

Now, as you know, maths is not my strong point and naturally, i am still really worried about this test.
Also doubled with the fact that i feel quite unwell right now and have had 5 hours sleep in the past 48 hours doesnt help me at all.

I will be ok tho. Just a sore throat and head and some good night's sleep should see me ok tomorrow, or so i hope.
However, today is Sunday.....SSS much?
Never usually get much sleep on Sundays but i'm ready to nod off right now.


Anyway i find it quite strange how last week, quiet and boring, will be so different to this week.

*sigh*

School.....

I can't wait for these holidays.....actually it makes no difference, i still have easter school to attend during the holidays on a few different occasions, so thanks to school i can't really even have holidays....

*another sigh*

I knew these few months would be tough but it's only when you get there do you realise how tough it really is.
And i'm not even in the "eye of the storm" yet.
That comes during mid-May.

The music theory final exam is on 28th April but the exams come thick and fast starting May 13th with English.

I'll talk about my timetable closer to the time.....


Bur for now, im off to the land of nod.....hopefully.


Cheers,
Rowan


Fumy oak juice

Mondayzzzz

I was quite tired today, as i normally am on a Monday due to what i call Sunday Sleep Syndrome or SSS
I stay up till like 2/3am on Friday and Saturday night so i'm never tired when Sunday night rolls around and i tend to sit on my ipod until really late. Must have been about 2am last night so i only got about 5 hours of sleep.
It's not healthy for me i know, and sitting browsing the internet for hours on end reading random things really gets me in a deep thinking mood like it did last night.

I won't go into detail about what i was thinking last night, simply coz i'd rather not but the topics vary and cover a wide range and really leave my head in a mess on Monday.

So i hope you understand that Monday is hardly ever a good day.

Not that today was bad, just wasn't anything special.

Music is getting boring, as the exams are finished there is no need to play instruments any longer so all we will do from now until the exam is listening. *yawn*

Maths and Biology are gradually becoming my main priorities now, what with my low scores, i have to attend extra classes and stuff like that. It sucks but i do not want to be doing either next year so i am determined to pass them.
I think there is an extra maths class on tomorrow after school and there definetely is one for biology on Wednesday.
So i will be in attendance.

A cool thing happened today at lunch.
It was rather boring until Alex suggested we play thumb wars and arm wrestling lol.
This is where i want to introduce a new, very good friend of mine called Louis (French spelling but just pronounced like Lewis)
He is small and skinny with medium length, jet black hair.
To be honest my three best friends probably are Steven, Alex and Louis.

But back to the story - arm wrestling.
Steven, as i have mentioned, is all talk and wouldn't hurt a fly, he doesn't have the strength to haha, and this was proved when Louis beat him in an arm wrestling battle :P
Everyone really took the mickey out on Steven as i don't remember him winning a match but there ya go.

I wanted to challenge my cute friend Alan to a match today but he wasn't around, maybe tomorrow :D

Erm, PE was surprisingly good. We had exactly 22 people playing football so we got to make full teams and have a full game which is always fun, was sunny too, just a shame i was too tired to fully get into it....

That's all that really happened today, hope i get some better sleep tonight, i think i will, it's only usually Sundays that are a problem.

Cheers,
Rowan


P.S There is a new blog i want to let you guys know about. Drucloud has a blog. He comments regularly on here so it's the least i can do is link and  follow and i hope more people do so too.
Here is the link : http://thisishowitfeels-drucloud.blogspot.com/

Back to Shhhhhchool/Sweet Dreams

It's always awful going back to school after a week's holiday,

- You don't wanna go back
- You're getting used to not being there
- You're sleep pattern has been interrupted


It was mostly the 3rd one for me,

Over the past week i have been staying up to really stupid times such as 2/3am in the morning and waking up at about Noon.
The same applied this morning except i couldn't sleep till noon unfortunately, so i didn't end up having the best of days.

I did actually go to bed at the fairly reasonable time of Half Ten last night but i couldn't get to sleep for love nor money, so i just listened to music on my phone and tried to drift off. Still wasn't working so i switched the phone off.....still nothing.
So i layed there, eyes open and out of nowhere i had this flashback to when i was about 3 years old....one of my earliest memories of life.

I don't remember much of that time period of course but i remember this particular incident.
My best-friend at the time lived across the street and i had this tricycle that i used to ride on our pretty much car-less cul-de-sac street. One day, i was cycling (or tricycling it) across to my friends house and the next thing i know i'm staring at the front of a black BMW.  

And that's it! This memory just randomly occured and for some reason it prompted me to take a trip down memory lane and for the next hour or two i re-called various memories from my early childhood. I was actually surprsied at how much i could remember. It was the strangest thing!
I re-called my memories before school, then nursery/pre-school and the first few years of school. It was actually a really nice and peaceful experience, recalling this stuff while staring up at the sky, undisturbed, in complete silence.

This, however, did have it's consequences as i only got about 4 hours sleep and had to got to school, which pretty much killed me lol.

Nothing much eventful happened, apart from i learned that one of my favourite bands, Wolfmother, will be touring the UK in January, with tickets being released this Wed-Fri, so hoping to get some, me and Alex will probably go. Can't wait!

Also, i have my 2nd Music Prelim next Thursday on guitar, which i'm not so confident about. Hence why i made sure it was the 2nd Prelim, giving me longer to learn the pieces.

Will probably post again later this week, although it will be quite busy, i want to speak about the week beginning 9th November, which will be very eventful indeed, so that should hopefully come sometime after Wednesday :D

That's about it for now,

Cheers,
Rowan







P.S Here's a Wolfmother video for y'all (it's a bit out of sync)
















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