Dearest most darlingest ever readers,


I apologise for my lack of posts but our computer was infected by a VIRUS and is currently in bed in PC World drinking tea and chicken soup in a vain attempt to recover. The're also erasing the ENTIRE thing, including

• MSN - How am I supposed to talk to Claire/Deirdre/et. al. at 11.00p.m? And I have no idea how to reinstall it. My cousin did it for me the first time!
• ALL of my pictures
• ALL of my videos (well, if I had any they'd be gone)
• ALL of my Word documents
• ALL OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER MATTERED TO ME. (well, not really, but if you are a slightly melodramatic 14 year old it seems that way doesn't it?)

So as a result I am cranky, mopey, depressed, and my little brother and his Neanderthal friend spoiled my day at the movies and pizza resteraunt and my friend's house. It is so unfair.

Random note: Go to see Coraline but as soon as she goes into the room with her Other Mother and sees all the flashing kind of bug stuff STOP WATCHING. I didn't, and I screamed for the first time in my life at the cinema. It really was awful. And scary. My sister ended the movie literally sitting on my lap, and my best friend was actually shaking with fear. Yes, we should probably have been slightly more mature, but no, we weren't. But to be honest, I really want to see it again :D

Another random note: I am a pretty good haiku poet. Not the most challenging of poetry, but I really like it and bite-sized chunks of non-rhyming poetry are the perfect type for me.

Haiku by Laura Hammer, Completely copyrighted.

all of a sudden

poorly composed sentences

are just poetry

I made that one up. I actually wrote a load of them to Claire. Some are about Coraline, some are about last night when I was babysitting, and not all of them are very good. But they kept me amused. Feel free to type a few singing Randamusing's praise into the comments.

And this one is actually by Claire Boreanaz, but I love it and am therefore giving her 100% credit...

Haiku by Claire Boreanaz. Also completely copyrighted,

now i look outside

that nice flower just farted

and so did that one

If you have seen Barbie in Swan Lake the above will make perfect sense. Or not.

Anyway, I'm typing this on my dad's computer and I have to go... I think we're getting ours back on Tuesday. Today I sent our computer three boxes of tissues and a Get Well Soon card.

Randamusing, you are

so clever and well written

makes me laugh sometimes.

Over............................

.............................and out.

Ten Random Things You Never Knew About Me

Here we go.

Warning: Explosive revelations below may cause severe cranial trauma to those who watch Balamory and have twenty three cans of tuna in their pantry.

1. I detest my feet. Truly hate them. I haven't been barefoot in public for ages. Flip flops annoy me too although I like them a lot. They just show too much.

2. It annoys the heck outta me when people write "alot". A AND LOT ARE TWO DIFFERENT WORDS, PEOPLE. LEARN TO SPELL THEM PROPERLY AND THEY WILL BE YOUR BEST FRIEND.

3. I have not eaten a vegetable intentionally since I was four (except for bribed forays into the realm of vegetable). However, you probably knew this about me already.

4. My favourite Shakespeare play is either the Taming of the Shrew or the Twelfth Night. Someday I hope to read the original Shakespeare instead of the slightly condensed but good-for-studying book of Shakespeare I have.

5. Right now, I want an iPhone more than anything. Unfortunately this dream will probably never be fulfilled until I am a highly successful actress on Broadway raking in the Benjamins at which point I will not see the appeal of applications where you can play a leaf like a trombone.

6. I named our first hamster Nosie Rosie. She was a good hamster, until she died of old age when I was at a birthday party and Mom came to get me and did not tell me immediately that my dearest darling of the animal kingdom was dead. She has, however, been replaced as my dearest darling of the animal kingdom twice. Your spirit lives on, Nosie.

7. I used to adore apple juice. Then when I was sick for a while once (I was pretty young) I could eat and drink nothing but apple juice. I loathed it after that and switched to mango quickly. I only recently began drinking apple juice again. I still prefer mango but it's sadly unavailable here.

8. I loathe science fiction, I really do. Terminator the movie is as close to sci-fi that I've ever gotten. I watched the first episode of Battlestar Galcraptica (as I semi-affectionately refer to it as) but approximately one quarter of the way through I gave up and began playing Mario vs. Luigi with my sister.

9. I can count on my ten fingers the number of times I've gone to school this year without washing my hair the night before. I wouldn't describe myself as a clean freak, because my room is a mess, but the shower thing is kind of my personal obsessive-compulsive thing.

10. I think I am slightly psychic. Seriously. I can often predict things that are going to happen and most of the time they come true. I doubt it's supernatural though, it's probably just a wicked coincidence and good guesswork.

And Bonus Thing #11, because you probably all knew #3.

I love to talk about myself. This is the one subject I am completely knowledgable about. And I just had a crystal-clear vision of Claire rolling her eyes and saying, "really?"

APPENDIX #2

IF YOU WATCH A MOVIE ABOUT GIANT ANTS, ISN'T IT HUGELY APPROPRIATE TO CALL THEM


GIANTS?