The Queen Is Dead

Wii Injuries

2010-01-26T19:41:00.000-08:00

Oh my God, owwwwwwww.

So I got Just Dance for the Wii, for a fun party game. I borrowed out Mario Party, but it's not as fun as dancing around like an arsehole. I probably spent a good hour dancing, at least. You only really move your upper body (kinda the opposite to DDR), and consequently, my shoulders are KILLING me.

Still, it was good fun. Definately a good party game. I also got uSing, which could have had better songs, but singing to I Will Survive (without looking at the screen) was awesome, as were our heartfelt renditions of Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know'.

I think I need to host more Wii parties. Even if the injuries are a pain. Maybe next time we can play Brawl too. If we can stop dancing and singing, that is. Easier said than done.

Well, well, well.

2010-01-20T17:31:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time between drinks, blog.

So. What have I been up to? Let me see:
- Obsessively playing Ace Attorney
- Failing university
- Flipping burgers
- Trying not to fail at Legend of Zelda games (namely Phantom Hourglass and Ocarina of Time...HEY! HEY! HEY! LISTEN!)
- Falling out of love
- Watching 'There Will Be Brawl', which is truly epic
- Playing other games like Bowser's Inside Story, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, Pokemon Emerald, ELITE BEAT AGENTS LOL...but mostly the Ace Attorney games.

Oh wow, not much at all.

I've made all these grand plans and never finished them. Like that Twilight parody (I saw New Moon, by the way. It. Was. GARBAGE. Absolutely AWFUL.) with ninjas and pirates. But this current plan, which I'm hoping to see through, is a Let's Play. Textual, not video. What game shall we be playing? Pokemon SoulSilver. (I'm getting both, but I think SoulSilver will be the main one I play. HeartGold I'll use to get all the other Pokemon I need at first, like Kyogre/Groudon (in order to get Rayquaza), the starters (from Kanto, Johto and Hoenn), Latias/Latios (event Pokemon, I'll need both games to get both) e.t.c.

I'll be playing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth first, because YAY, but you can't do a Let's Play of that. So yeah, it'll practically be a story. With plenty of snark especially related to trading. "A mysterious egg just suddenly appeared when I went upstairs in the Pokemon centre, but that second Pidgey I caught for no reason is gone now. Oh well." e.t.c.
I'd love to do a video Let's Play one day, but Pokemon is one of the few games I DON'T fail at, and it's harder to do a video of when it would just be better to do a game like that textually.

Speaking of games, I played some Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon yesterday. UGH. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SPYRO OF MY CHILDHOOD? THIS SUCKS! *shudder* Honestly, terrible game.

Oh, and on Sunday I went to the Big Day Out. Oh my God, SO EPIC. Decemberists were one of my favourites, as were Powderfinger and, of course, Muse. Lily Allen was even enjoyable, too. Especially to be vindictive and sharpen my knives to. Ahh, good times were had. The sunburn and late night was worth it. The next day was not but it's all good.

Ummm. So, to finish this off, here's a video you've all probably seen. Phoenix Wrong: Last Stand, as created by AshfordPride on Newgrounds. Enjoy!

Massive Catchup: Partying Like It's 1899!

2009-07-09T01:42:00.000-07:00

Okay so I haven't had internet for quite a while. Now I have to try and remember what happened over the past week.
So, here I go:

After we left Parkes, I drove to West Wyalong and stood in the freezing cold while my sisters played on the playground...then drove, and drove, and drove some more, god, it was boring. Got to Echuca in the evening, a town firmly entrenched in the 19th Century. It's right on the NSW/Victorian border, on the Murray River, with old steamboats and the like. We stayed a night there, got up in the morning and went to a nice bakery and then went for a horse and carriage ride. Yes, you read that right. There were also the paddlesteamers...far out, I can't remember much of Echuca. It was cute and all but quite boring. I hate small towns, I could never live in one.
Then we drove on to Melbourne...that's in the next blog. =P

"I'm not having fun on this holiday!"

2009-07-02T00:05:00.000-07:00

Family Holiday from Hell, Day One:

So I'm currently sitting in a motel room in Parkes, gah, I have to share the room with my whole family. Three single beds for me and my sisters, a double bed for my mum and stepdad. I'm just glad they have free wireless internetz. Otherwise I'd probably have slit my wrists by now.

Anyhow, went to bed around 11:30 and was woken at 3:30. Fun. Had to shove my pyjamas in my bag because I'd completely forgotten to pack them, put my laptop and DS in my laptop bag, put stuff in the car and then settled in for a loooooong journey. I didn't realise how far away Goondiwindi was from Brisbane. We didn't get there until about 8. I was sooooo hungry. And cramped. Lack of legroom is not fun at all. Four year old sister went out in a purple tracksuit and pink fluffy slippers. uber-embarassing. My sister is a bogan.
Make that both of them, the other was in a pink tracksuit and gumboots.
Then there was driving until about 12 and stopping somewhere where there was a playground. Fun. Two year old sister decided I was good to hang out with on the playground.
But OH MY GOD AT ABOUT 2PM I WAS READY TO KILL MYSELF. It's amazing I survived as long as I did. My sisters were making my life hell in the back seat. I was going to drive but I was just too exhausted.
The quote in the title comes from my 4 year old sister, from some point when I was telling her off. Hah. I don't blame her for not having fun though, we drove from 4am to 4pm.
At least tomorrow will be shorter, and I'll get to drive. Yay.
Considering my brain has melted from being at the point of combustion (yes, that's probably physics-ly incorrect, so sue me David), I can't actually remember much else of what has happened today. Many Disney movies were watched and I read both Stardust, by Neil Gaiman, and The Tournament, by John Clarke, which was completely awesome and hilarious.
I apologise for the incoherency of this blog but like I said, my brain has melted. ):
ANYHOO, I had better sign off now. I'll keep you (blog) posted on how terrible this holiday is. ;D

SOMETHING INTERESTING. (oh wow)

2009-07-01T04:55:00.000-07:00

I'm heading to Melbourne tomorrow. Well when I say Melbourne I mean I have to get up at 4am to drive to Parkes. Then the next day, to Echuca. Saturday, to Melbourne (thank God), Sunday in Melbourne, pretty sure Monday is in Melbourne too, then to Mt Bulla, then back home via Dubbo so we can go to the zoo. We were going to go tomorrow but we decided we'd have more time on the way back. So all in all, going for 10 days.
And it's been 10 days, without you in my reach...and the only time I've touched you is in myyyyy sleeeeeeeep...
okay I'll stop.
Needless to say, I'm smuggling my laptop. My parents can't stop me, besides, I need to blog about my exciting *cough* bullshit *cough* holiday to keep my readers (yes all...3 of you) in the loop.
I'm excited about Melbourne, though, dreading the rest of it. D:
So here ends this blog entry with the promise of more. Might update from Goondiwindi (or however the fuck you spell it) McDonalds tomorrow morning at about 6am. Who knows.

I wonder if it's weird...

2009-06-25T01:14:00.001-07:00

...the fact that I LOVE exams. Seriously, I love them! You don't have to research, all you need to do is know pretty much what you're talking about (I'm good at that, never know the finely researched specifics but I'm very good with the general subject and I pick things up in class) and you're right. As long as you do know what you are doing, of course. I actually think I did fairly well in English, as for French...I think I passed. Which is a big deal for French.
Might be part of the reason I hate Journalism, no exams.
But seriously, these exams weren't bad at all. The worst part was French speaking - SO personal, and you had to be well prepared. Exams are wonderfully impersonal and so well structured.
Okay, I'm going to stop being weird.
Been to two movies lately: Year One and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Neither of which I can highly recommend, I'm afraid to say. Year One is crass and disgusting, I swear Alice and I were cringing the whole time and couldn't watch a good five minutes of it, it was that grotesque. I'm sure a lot of people could enjoy that but I just couldn't.
As for Transformers, I went as a favour to my boyfriend. Did not enjoy it at all. Not my cup of tea. Sure, the robots were cool and all, but I'm not all in to the giant robots, like some people I know.
Today, though, I bought a Nintendo DS Lite (it's pink and 2nd hand), Pokemon Platinum (hell yes) and the new Yves Klein Blue album, which I am listening to now. ^_^ I am quite enjoying it. (:

Why can't I be you?

2009-06-17T06:16:00.000-07:00

Fuck, I love The Cure.

Please excuse me from gym...

2009-06-17T06:09:00.001-07:00

I really like this cover.

'The Headmaster Ritual' by The Smiths, covered by Radiohead.
I'm...acquiring...The Smiths' back catalogue. Hooray and about bloody time.

slackness overkill.

2009-06-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

I'm terrible.

Okay sooooo, instead of studying and blogging or anything I've been pretty much doing absolutely nothing. Actually, I haven't done anything of note. Hence the lack of updates to this blog.

But what has been going on? Well...uh...I've bought a heap of new clothes and pretty much gone broke from shopping, yay. Planning on moving in to my dad's place for a while. Well, planning on spending a couple of weeks there over the holidays. May be a more permanent move in September, after my 18th. Stay tuned.

Been playing Pokemon, cause I'm that cool. At the moment it's LeafGreen. I just discovered that you can actually catch pokemon WITHOUT WEAKENING THEM AT ALL ZOMG.
Yes, sad I know.

Also, I've put on a fair bit of weight. I need to diet again. FML. D:

Apart from that, not much to say really. Semester's nearly over so I can go back to not doing anything...oh wait, I'm doing that already. FML. Again.

I accidentally created two blogs.

2009-05-13T23:23:00.000-07:00

With the same title.

Shame on me.

I'm an idiot, sometimes.

Actually, better make that a lot of the time.

Like, right now, I'm screwed for this whole first semester at uni, yet I procrastinate regardless. I seriously deserve to fail.

Aurgh, I wish my mother would let me do a straight Arts degree. But noooo, I have to do Journalism. Gah. And I picked French and I think I'd enjoy writing more so maybe I'll do a subject in summer semester, I don't even know. FAIL, EPIC FAIL.

So, this whole blogging thing, hey...

2009-05-10T04:38:00.000-07:00

Wow. I used to blog...if that's the correct term for wanky MySpace 'blogs', but I've never actually had a blog before. I feel so behind the times. In fact it's probably not cool anymore or I should use a livejournal or something (I tried using a livejournal before but it was too difficult to use for me because I'm a bit of a goober and don't really understand how to use it).
BUT ANYWAY, HERE I AM, PROCRASTINATING AS PER USUAL.
The first thing anyone learns about me is that I am an epic procrastinator. I set this up instead of studying. Except there's no chance of me studying tonight as I am so tired that I am seriously falling asleep right here. I suppose I am in bed. But yeah. It's not even 10pm yet. That's early. I never sleep before 11 anymore. I went to bed at 5am. So I've been a little bit out of it today.
So now I feel compelled to explain the name of my blog: no, it's not anti-monarchy sentiment. I find the monarchy...interesting, at least, even though they're kinda pointless here in Australia (although to change the system would be a pain in the arse, to put it lightly). No, it's not that at all. It's a reference to a song and album by The Smiths, which I hope some people got.
It's a great album, too. The Smiths are awesome. I recently borrowed Morrissey's 'Suedehead' album - gah, so in love.
Although I'm more a fan of The Cure, to be honest, but oh well. I've been 'Queen Camilla' since my MySpace days.
Again, not a monarchical reference. Label me with Camilla Parker-Bowles and I swear...*angry look*
Wow, so I'm not making any sense right now.
I guess this is just saying HEY HERE'S A BLOG LOOK AT ME EVERYONE I'VE TTLY GOT A BLOG I'M SO AWESOME YAY.
So yeah.