Apparently it’s independence day today. Dude. I NEVER knew that. However, yesterday was July 3rd and that actually holds some importance to me. 9 years and one day ago today we first arrived in Britain ^_^ Well actually I think it was the 4th of July but my sister said it was the 3rd and I’m gonna believe her- she was 10 then, and she does have the better memory. So yeah, in the words of Hamasaki Ayumi “time has passed”. Though 9 years is quite alot of time. Doesn’t seem so long. My 16th Birthday coming up too and all. Not looking forward to it much. Gonna have to pay full price on train tickets now. 
In regards to the title I should have blogged all about Leeds about two..or three…days ago but I’m feeling lazy and or emotional. More lazy. Most of the past week has been spent reading BL manga or doujinshi or just surfing the net. I work on my sites a bit. Nothing extraordinary. No Japanese learning. Lots of staying at home. Alas staying at home means my mom is around me alot, and she pisses me off to no end. But when she leaves me alone, and my dad leaves me alone too for that matter, it’s all rather peaceful. Can lost myself in… well BL and doujinshi. ＼（＾ ＾）／ I can’t believe I’m reading Doujinshi now. I mean it’s quite wierd, and I’ll never touch Harry potter DJ with a ten foot pole (eww), but at the same time..strangely enjoyable. The mirage of blaze ones with no smex are really sad too, and I read a Yami no Matsuei one that really got into the relationship of Muraki and Hisoka. Was something I would have liked to see in the manga, so reading it as a doujinshi was good.
Hmm… Well Leeds. Can’t remember the date, think it was Wednesday. Went to Leeds with my sister to check out- her new house o_o Really sunk in that she’s moving to uni next year. Gonna miss her. anyway- Leeds was amazing! Went with my sister, had to take the train..then the bus… about two or so horus traveling. Time passes quickly with my sister though. We talked alot and stuff. The scenery was nice, it’s yorkshire so there’s lots of fields and hills and stuff- either side of the motorway. Also driving through manchester got to see a bit of China town- and the city. Actually saw a chinese, brazillian, meditarrean (sp?), greek, indian… you name it between Manchester and Leeds saw alot of food places. Amazing. The city is very mulicultral too. Not like our village in the middle of nowhere. Lots of people, lots of cultures…it’s amazing. I love the city. So many people, so many strangers all trapped in their own bubbles not even caring for each other. I like that. I like that there’s so many places just to hide away, get lost in. I like it you could just wonder around and no one would give a damn, unless you’re an idiot and it’s late at night. hehe.
Well after nearly missing the bus we did eventually arrive in Leeds. It’s awesome. Such a huge city, rather nice too. There was alot of designer shops I noticed. The uni looks good, saw the outside. and there were alot of students hanging about, as well as lots of people…with suitcases. Always people with suitcases when you go to the city! We had to navigate our way to meet the first of my sisters friends. Got to see alot of the city that way. My sister would point out things she had been to before, when she came down to see her friend who is already in Uni. she was excited obviously. She had to stay behind a year at school so finally going to uni must be a great feeling. She pointed out the wierdest place. It was a church that had been converted into a nightclub- then dubbed “halo”. Apparently it’s really nice, as they’ve made the use of the altar to place the DJ and stuff. Still, strangest use of a church neh?
So we met up with her friend just outside the university, then we went to the estate agents and met the other guy. It was very hot though. And the real estate place we went to get the keys to her house was useless. We had to queue for well over an hour, in the boiling heat. I, only having eating a mcflurry and a ceral bar, began to feel a bit sick so I went and got cold drinks and snacks. Helped alot. Being inside the cool shop, drinking ice cold water. It’s the best when you’re overheating. Poor sister was despairing that she was gonna get burnt. I have no sympathy, told her just to put her sweater back on. Either way we’d be sweltering. And we weren’t moving much. By the time I went to the store and back they’d only gotten though one more person. I felt sorry for those behind us, and those right at the end. The queue was huge seriously. So we finally got inside, got to sit down (thankfully) and even then they told me sister she hadn’t made one of the payments, when she had. so they told us, who had spent £30 getting there, and waited hours that they couldn’t give the keys. My sister and her friends weren’t impressed. And the guy was eating pizza despite the queues, and the woman was picking her nails. And oh yeh, the payement had gone through they just hadn’t bothered to check. Bastards. I said to my sisters friends though as my sister went to speak to the guy, well hand him the phone with my dad on the line- “he’s gonna get it”. And get it he did. I can tell when my sister is on a warpath. and my dad too. Tht guy didn’t stand a chance.
So we finally got the keys and had to navigate to the house. My sister was obviosuly happy, she held me hand and messed around like she always does. We walked through a park. So pretty. Lots of parks, wide streets. Nice area. Also lots of supermarkets and food places nearby which should be handy. The place my sister is living is hilarious though. It’s like an estate from the 70’s! Washing lines across the street, square street names, red bricks, wide roads with the sidewalk…it’s all there! lol. It looks like a nice area. The house was beautiful, well not beautiful but it looked good! It was big enough to be comfortable for 4 people but not so big it will be hard to manage. Glad my sister is living someplace nice.
oh- my sisters housemates I met for the first time! The girl was verry pretty and she was really nice too. The guy was also extremly sweet, he talked to me a bit (aknowledged me existence…even if he only asked me name after I’d been queing with him for over an hour and walked all the way to the house with them), and also payed for our Taxi to the train station. They both show tolerance to my sister so I’m sure they’ll be able to live with her just fine. Haha. My sister is a handful, very selfish, but she’s also extremely sweet and alot of fun. If you know how to handle her you can survive. Suppose she’s been by my side for nearly 16 years though so I wouldn’t know life without her. When she goes to Uni it’ll be the first time I’ve been away from her than more than a month. Wierd. gonna be quiet as hell without her.
I’m glad she included me in this… “sisterly bonding” so to speak. It’s nice being with my sister. she accepts me alot more than my parents, knows how to act with me. I feel I can open up around her alot more.
Yeah but the bus on the way back took longer than we expected so we had to run to get the train. Not fun. But we eventually got home. So that was it. We basically spent most of the day getting there, then queuing. Eugh. Didn’t have a chance to go shopping, then again had no money so it wouldn’t have been fun. I was happy to be able to spend time with my sister, and I got a mcflurry anyway
Random trivia though- I spent 50p on going to the toilet -_- Seruioulsy it’s riduculous. the Manchester train station first made you pay 20p, then 25p and now it’s 30p. And the toilets aren’t that fucking good! The bus station in leeds was even more pathetic. because when we arrived there I payed up 20p to go to the toilet, only to discover they had free ones too. Epic fail. But it’s really ridiculous. Having to pay to go for a wee. I mean I’ve been to some really truly bad facilities, and these aren’t bad- but they arne’t so good you have to pay. Eugh.
I also realised just how badly lost i’m going to get if I ever try and get to Leeds by myself. I really have no clue. I would end up in Liverpool or…I dunno probably london or something. Not that that should be technically possible since the ticket guy should help but still. I’m hopeless with directions. Without my sister there I wouldn’t know where to go. Even she almost got lost trying to find the bus station in Manchester…
Well that was the most interesting thing this week. I’m now going into hermitisation/hibernation- aka not leaving the house, sleeping late, doing nothing. Reminds me of the ELLEGARDEN song Salamander- “wasting life” haha. It’s pathetic. I have too much time to think too, so feeling alot down. Can’t complain. This is better than going out or shit like that.
Lastly. New hostee and linky. check them out! I have way too many affliates now probably but oh well. More the merrier. I never comment but I like to stalk my affliates.
I used this smily ~ way too much.
ps. I WILL work on this site. Just not now. Not to mention I’m really stuck what to write for the about me page. It seems obligatory for this sort of site but it’s also really hard…
I wanted smaller, cuter ones. Incidentally this is the first time I’ve attempted to change the smilies in the entire two (? 
) years of owning this blog. 
Exactly. 
I would now like to remember some of these smilies, instead of always using the same ones (same three or four actually 
) Ok first here is a crying smilie 
Err…. here is the cute made one 
And here is one feeling sad: 
And a cute little confused one which is also the same as the questioning one 
cute little neautral (acutally looks annoyed but nvm) smily from here 
