One of my friends just told me she only has her final chapter to properly write up for her dissertation and then she's done! Well, aside from tidying it up in between writing regular essays. Weeing myself now because I've only written my introduction in full and the rest is a very vague plan.

New Baby Nephew!

My brother's wife had a healthy baby boy (7lbs 2oz) on Sunday, 8th January! Apparently he looks like a (insert my surname here) baby. I'm not sure what that means. As my brother said earlier, "Here's a baby... I hope you like it!"

My mum was making a really good face in that last picture but I thought it was appropriate to make her anonymous too. Baby has tentatively been named Fraser Hunter (surname). Those of you that know me can decide what that name would sound like in full! My dad is somehow horrified by the middle name, which he says is because of his and his dad's vicious opposition to fox hunting. I think it's alright (the name, that is).

Merry New Year everyone! Here is a picture of Sim Voldemort having a picnic in the park and talking about ladybirds with his fellow old peeps (did this of his own free will, I might add):

Did I ever tell you that he ended up sleeping with lots of people (men and women, but mostly men) and they all started hating him because he ended up being a cheating slut? In the words of my blog title, "LOL". Let's hope 2012 is just as eventful.

Today I handed in my last essay of the semester (probably the worst thing I have ever written) and it feels GREAT! Came home to lunch of chicken nuggets and curly fries, now I'm about to spend all evening playing Sims 3 (remember all those dumb Sims updates I used to make? Real fun times). As Tea and Biscuits reminded me, we also had a mini Christmas Day in our house last week! Picture evidence:

Blurred picture of mini tree with presents and topped with angel made out of toilet roll and a dishcloth.

If you really know me, you might recognise my hands in this picture.

We went into town to check out the Christmas Fair (it finished the previous weekend), got hot chocolate, exchanged Secret Santa presents, had dinner (obviously), played board games (our favourite was Eye Know) and watched films. It was followed by the usual depressing period of realising that the day was over and we had to get back to work.

In other news, I've been told that my pregnant sister in law has been having 'baby twinges' so my Mum has disappeared off to help out and babysit - but for now the baby is sitting tight! I'm not quite sure when I'll get home yet, because of a mixture of this, access to cars and possible bad weather. Really hope to be back by Thursday though, at the latest! (I can't bear the idea of taking all my stuff on the train.)

And lastly, I'm going to try and take lots of pictures of my Christmas at home this year and maybe make a video of some parts. I don't know why, I think it's because talking with friends always reminds me how different everyone's experience is - and apparently no one else puts balloons up as decorations??? We've always done this. Anyway, I'm off to play Sims and for the next couple of days do whatever I want (although I'm supposed to be working on my ever present dissertation).

I really love being a History student sometimes because I get to do things like make references to Blackadder in my essays and write dramatic sentences like 'the monster of war had no class preference when it came to slaughtering that youthful generation'. World War One was no joke, however; read up on it. It was awful.

Okay, back to writing essays now, I just had this thought and obviously you wanted to know about it.
(PS - "the iron fist of autocracy" was also a past favourite. LANGUAGE RAAAARRRRGHHHH)

Remember, remember...

...that time we were dumb teenagers (Harmless Bizzle reminded me). I watched V for Vendetta the other day and I thought it was pretty good.

I feel like I apologise a lot for not posting much, but I don't think I post enough to substantiate that claim. I am sorry for not posting enough anyway, but as always my life revolves around essay writing at the moment. About a week and a half ago I actually wrote quite a long post about nothing and saved it to my drafts but never published it. Most of it is kind of irrelevant now though, mostly just me rambling about an essay on Charles I (which I have now finished), a new pair of boots that I'd bought and the fact I went home for a bit during my reading week. It was also really picture heavy but I can't remember why.
What I learned in life today is that suggesting counselling to a friend/housemate is a bad idea, that I am actually warming up to Latte's of all things (so far have tried Toffee Nut Latte from Starbucks and Creme Brulee Latte from Costa) and that searches in the library catalogue can often yield odd results:

The point of this post is that I am still alive and that's good. And I have to buy my own advent calendar for the first time ever which is bad.