Restringing...

1. I bought some printer ink cartidges today. Woo hoo! I can now print the tabs for my solo performing...
2. String changing was a disaster. I couldn't get the high E string out of the guitar. Are those the fender bullet strings? Whatever they are - I'm avoiding them! After a phone call, a chat with Ian and a long, pointy allen key, the string was out out of the guitar. But things only got wose. For some reason I was changing the strings starting with high E, then to B and so on... I changed the first 3 strings then decided to chop off the remaining bits of string from all 3 as they were getting in the way. On the third string I slipped... I am now missing the high E and B strings... I have no spares... I feel rather silly... I'll have to buy those tommorrow... Anyway who needs those strings for a bit of punk rock!?
3. I'm sleeping at Siobhans tommorrow. I don't think I'm going to have a chance to do my blog! *SHOCK HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!* I might have to do a very early morning one where I have even less to say than usual... (Does this show that I have almost half a life every once in a while?)
4. I have exactly 60p in 1 and 2p's. Useless. What are you supposed to do with them other than hoard them? They aren't exactly the most spendable things in the world are they?
5. I own 28 screwdrivers. Do I really need so many? I don't think so... Although I do keep finding more and more uses for each one... Maybe you can never have too many...

Ready...Seperates...

1. Amy has discovered that my rather old, 10 hole, steel toed Dr Marten boots aren't waterproof. I wonder what state I'll get those back in?
2. I don't feel too good. I blame the bus. It was really hot on it. I felt like I was going to faint at one point!! Stupid thing.
3. I'm being miserable as usual. What else do you expect?
4. I spent ages in the guitar shop today. I only remembered that I actually meant to buy something when I got on the train. Oh well. It was only picks. I can get those on my next day of boredness which will probobly be Thursday/Friday.
5. My cds arrived. Yay. I can now stop saying rude things about the postman when he doesn't arrive before I leave the house as I'm not expecting anything to arrive. I don't like it how no post comes on bank holidays. This adds to the depressingness of them.

Obviously I'm not being very positive today!! Oh well!

Jenno.

I have now tidied up.

1. I want to move my amps to where my cds. There aren't any plugs where my cds are. Annoyingness.
2. I found a dead woodlouse under my bed. I removed it and put it in with last weeks Sunday Times, which I bought to get the free punk cd. Of course everyone else I knew bought it too - so I now have millions of copys of it.
3. Its still only 4 o clock. I think I need to do more tidying to waste more time. I also found lots of mouldy sweets under my bed. Yuck. Their in the bin now. Along with the box that their in. Why do I keep everything?
4. I think I might re-tidy up, getting rid of all of the stuff that I just shoved down the back of everything else.
5. Im going to put Little Man Tate on to help me with my tidying... They still never fail to make me smile...

I hate Bank Holidays.

Monday 28th May 2007.

1. Horray I can turn over my calender soon! I still have it on April because the picture of Billie Joe from Green Day on May was horrible - I couldn't stand to look at it!! His hair is rather poodle like and he has a red frilly blouse/shirt on. Not a good look.
2. I decided to play The Only Ones for my GCSE solo performing. Now I just need to learn to play it... It would be good if my printer had some ink so I could print off the tab... If I handwrite it I won't be able to read it... Just like how I can't read anything that I write!
3. Leigh's blog made me instantly find my 7" single copy of The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen... Since finding its way to the player it hasn't left... Its also on full volume. I bet my neighbors love hearing God Save The Queen and Did You No Wrong alternate all day. I may have to wear my GSTQ t-shirt tommorrow...
4. It seem that everyone else but me has a life. I've asked several people if they want to go out today. Every single one has said no. It would look sucpicious if I said I was going to Uxbridge again - 4 days in a row. Also no-one can give me a good reason why I'm not allowed on trains on my own... Oh well I'll just sneak about for a while longer... I'm very bored now though. Ive spent the last few hours playing the bubble game while eating love hearts. One of the love hearts said 'dishy' on it. Interesting.
5. I'm thinking its time to make some noise with my nice yellow strat now... The Pistols have played God Save The Queen enough times... Maybe I could really piss off the neighbors by turning my amp onto full volume with lots of distortion, turning The Pistols up even higher and playing along!

Expect another blog later. I'm that bored that this is possibly the most entertaining thing that I've done all day. Jenno.

1. Today I ended up in Eastcote on my random train journey. On the train 2 old ladies started talking to me. They were going to visit their cousin in Acton. They even waved at me when I got off the train. Scary.
2. I didn't expect to see anyone I knew down Eastcote high street. Of course I saw several people. Antony (A customer Pro Music) That suprised me! The other person was that teaching assistant that Christina thinks is her half sister. I also saw a bright yellow MG Midget. It matched my guitar. I love MG Midgets - I couldn't stop staring at that one!! I kind of want a yellow car...
3. I forgot to get off the train at Hillingdon station so I went to Uxbridge and ended up in HMV... Yesterday I was attempting to get hold of a copy of Wire - Pink Flag in there but couldn't find it... Today I walked in and the first thing I saw was a display of various punk cds including Pink Flag... The temptation was too much. I ended up buying Pink Flag and The Ramones first album which I strangely didn't own a cd copy of... Im still waiting for the other 3 cds that I bought on the HMV websites punk sale... Damn you HMV...
4. I've decided on a few songs that I might play for my GCSE solo performing piece. My two choices are The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever or The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet. I'm not sure which to choose... What do you, my non existant readers think?
5. Where shall I go next week? I'm thinking that I might go to my random place on a Saturday though... There was a quite interesting looking cd shop in Eastcote that was closed... Maybe I should go back during the week...

I like Trains.

I want blog titles. So the date will now go at the top of my posts.

Saturday 26th May 2007.

1. Siobhans dad let me go through his record collection!! I now have some Rich Kids, Stranglers, Elvis Costello and Tom Robinson stuff! I also seem to have taken home most of the dead spiders in their shed...
2. I played several different guitars/basses in teh shop today... That Line 6 Variax makes some great noises!! I also quite liked the Fender Jaguar and Gretsch Electromatic (I think that was the one!!) I didn't like the Yamaha bass very much...
3. While sitting at the station, someone on the train going in the other direction waved to me. Being the only person on the platform, I waved back. I still don't really know if I knew them or not!!
4. I don't know what to do tommorrow. I might get on a train and get off when I feel like it (then attempt not to get lost!) Today I was the only person in my carriage. I liked that. I hate Sundays. Nothing ever happens. If only Jess lived nearer...
5. I think I'm going to record something now. I don't know what yet. Maybe a less dodgy version of Wake Me Up When September Ends. (The last recording of that I did was really bad!)
The song drives me mad when listening to it, yet still I play it!!
Is there anyone out there who's able to record some drums for me?

Friday 25th May 2007,

1. Yay its half term. No school for a week. Brilliant. I still havn't quite adjusted to having to see everyone every single day after seeing no-one for 2 weeks after Work Experience. I like being on my own. Particularly when seeing people daily envolves seeing something like 900 screaming twats who irritate me in every way possible.
2. At lunch time Jenni and Mr Aldridge had a light switch fight. That was quite entertaining.
3. Phone calls to Siobhan are weird. I always end up organising days out with her mum instead of with Siobhan. Interesting. Of course her mum talks an awful lot - so I can never escape. Anyone reading this blog will probobly know that I'm not very good at phone calls. I forget that people can't see me nodding and can never think of anything to say anyway.
4. I'm in a better mood today. I've noticed that my last week or so of blogging has been nothing but me moaning. I like moaning. And if I moan on a blog no-one has to listen to me rambling on about my day...
5. Im going to put cds back onto my shelves in a minuite. I currently have quite a large cd pile in the middle of my floor. I keep tripping over it. That free turf I got a while back is also starting to get in my way. I'm not really too sure what to do with it. Its one of those things that I don't really want to throw away!!!

Thursday 24th May 2007 Number 2.

I've just been to Tesco and B&Q. So for some reason I'm gonna blog about it.
In Tesco's we spent ages looking for carpet cleaner. Of course my Dad won't even think about asking someone where it is. We never found it. So we went to B&Q to look for it. After finding tons of laminate floor cleaner - and two identical displays of it, we found the carpet cleaner. This took a while. In the mean time I had found a man who had one of those 'Learn to speak some odd language in 2 weeks' CD's. He was repeating the sentances out loud to himself! I found that quite entertaining.
Then in the queue to pay, someone was having a right moan that the lady on the till was so slow - of course they had only been standing there about 2 minutes! Then I looked behind me... And they worked there!!! I've discovered that B&Q is one of the places where all the nutters go...

Thursday 24th May 2007.

1. Today hasn't been a good day. More or less everyone that I've seen has annoyed me. Particularly The random person who asked who hit me - I still think they deserved the reply they got... Also the boy over from Abbotsfield who decided to sit in the practice room with me and Kat Pee at lunch time who had nothing better to do than untune, unplug turn the volume down and stuff to my guitar and spent the rest of them time when he wasn't doing this poking me. I left the room before he saw my temper which terrifies most people who are unfortunate enough to see it...
2. I wore low top converse today. I hadn't realised how annoying my jeans are. They're all ripped from where I've been walking on them and I normally wear DM's so can't feel their annoyingness...
3. Theres nothing good on at the cinema. I hate Pirates of the Carribean. I seem to be the only person who can't stand it. So we have no film to see tommorrow for Daisy Mae's birthday. So we're gonna go in a few weeks time when there is something on.
4. We ate Party Rings and Jammy Dodgers in music. We've decided to have snack time on Thursdays music lessons... This should be good! A time of day to eat crisps and biscuits? Brilliant!
5. Last night was the first night that I've had trouble sleeping because its too hot. Won't it be fun having little sleep until about September? *Moves to Antarctica*

Theres the picture of that acoustic guitar I was going on about. You can just about see how the front of it is coming away from the side of the body. I'm not sure how that happened. I expect its my fault though. I think saying goodbye to that may be the worst thing about leaving school next year...
anyway. my bullet points:

1. I finished my font. Its interesting. Its difficult to read but I don't care im going to use it anyway!
2. I still have a black eye. Oh well. Now that more or less everyone knows the questions have stopped. Only 2 or 3 people have asked what happened today.
3. Generation X - King Rocker is an addictive song to play.
4. For the schools production of We Will Rock You later in the year, the singers seem to be singing along to a backing track. How crap it that? Hardly worth seeing if you ask me.
5. The clouds are interesting today. Its got to that time of year where I spend ages stareing at clouds out of my window again!!

Tuesday 22nd May 2007.

1. I'm back. My bass strings are still all there.
2. This means that I can save my £20! Although I still want those strap locks... And have a spare Saturday morning... What a shame that its only Tuesday.
3. I took a picture of that acoustic guitar. I'll post it tommorrow. I'm too lazy to do it now.
4. I'm really sad. I'm making my own computer font. More on this tommorrow when I'll probobly upload it - when I've succeeded of course.
5. Does anyone else feel ridiculous wearing brighty coloured clothes? My guitar may be yellow - but if I wear a bright t-shirt i feel ridiculous! Whites alright. I have a few white ones. But black is definietely best.

Tuesday 22nd May 2007.

1. That speech thing is over. It was awful, but oh well.
2. Im playing bass at the school concert thing tonight. As its a school evening and me playing it, something will happen to one of the strings. It always does. But I don't have a spare £20 at the moment.
3. Im waiting for lots of things in the post. It would be great if some of it would arrive.
4. I was playing my favourite school acoustic guitar today. I love it because its in such a mess (most of the mess from my violent approach at playing it) I might take a picture of it later if I have a chance. Its so great that everyone needs to see it!!
5. 3 days left until half term. Thank god for that. Do I really need to go there for another year?

Monday 21st May 2007.

1. My guitars have taken over my life. All weekend I had guitar cravings, and now I don't want to do my English speech thing about my work experience because all I want to do is make a lot of noise. Plus the purple card that I'm writing this speech on doesn't fit in with my work experience does it? Maybe something brighter and less pastelly would be better...
2. Now I can't find a pen. But I can find that Chuckle Brothers ruler.
3. 15 minutes later I still don't want to write this speech. Next I have to do Maths homework. I may just give up now.
4. 4 days until half term. Why couldn't I have got a black eye next weekend? I'm fed up of explaining what I did. Today hasn't been a good day.
5. 20 mins and I've found my way to a certain yellow strat and amp... Oh well. Homework can be done later.

Ive done literally nothing all day.
Blog over.

And heres my eye...

I wonder how it will look tommorrow...

Saturday 19th May/Sunday 20th May 2007.

I want to do paragraphs today so I'm not going to do my usual bullet points.

We set off at 10am on Saturday. All started well. We walked. We went the wrong way, but corrected ourselves. Then I tripped over. I only hurt my knees and hands though so all was ok.It is now half past 12 and we are walking down a very steep hill. One minute I'm attempting to walk down the hill. The next minuite im face down on the ground, hitting my head/eye on a root. When I fall you don't notice that I've fallen until you hear the thud. I don't make a noise - so this came as quite a suprise to everyone!! I now have a very nice black eye.Of course, at this point we we're very low down, so had to walk back up the other side of the hill - but someone else was carrying my bag so all was more or less ok. We met up with the teachers in a pub in Peaslake. Odd place. Too quiet for my liking. Anyway I cleaned up my eye a bit in the pub and sat down. It was then decided that as it was a head injury i needed to go to hospital... So I did. They prodded it and did hospitally things and decided it was alright. The nurse also said not to do the walk the next day... So I didn't! That part made me happy... The hospital was right next door to Tesco. We stopped off in there. It was creepy doing the shopping with my teacher and her partner... We decided to use the self checkout thingy. Adrian (teachers partner) made a huge mess of this. He was calling the assistant person called Natasha over every 5 seconds! That was quite entertaining.

We then put the tents up and cooked. Nothing too much happened then. So I'll skip to Sunday.

So on Sunday we woke up and put tents down etc. Then all the other groups set off for their walk that day. As I wasn't walking I had to do the odd jobs like emptying the rubbish bins and doing the washing up. That was boring. We then drove around checking that the groups we're ok. I then bought a newspaper. The Sunday Times with a nice free Punk cd. It's a boring paper but I read it all day anyway. In the car the teachers were following the map very carefully, to the point that they were saying "And in a minuite the road will bend to the left." I found that a little strange and had trouble stopping myself from laughing. We also stopped for lunch in a pub. I had chips to go with my packed lunch. Yum. They were homemade too!
We then drove around more. I never want to see Surrey again in my life.

A picture of my eye will follow...

Friday 18th May 2007.

1. My fingers have now recovered after Jenni managed hit my fingers with her Science stool...
2. I bought some guitar strings. I also spent quite a while in the shop talking to Leigh and playing a Acoustic Telecaster and afterwards a Fender Jaguar...
3. I enjoyed the walk home. I prefer the walk between the shop and Hillingdon station from the walk between the station and my house.
4. Someone has nicked my Walk On By bass tab from my band folder. Well I havn't touched it for 2 weeks anyway...
5. Im going camping tommorrow. Meh. I really can't be bothered. A 15 mile walk over 2 days doesn't really appeal to me. Why did I sign up for this?

I'll do 10 bullet points on Sunday... Maybe.

Jenno

Thursday 17th May 2007.

1. I went to school today... Not as bad as usual I suppose.
2. Mr Butterworth (guitar teacher) has decided that I'm going to learn to solo in Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall.' I think a new set of strings will be needed after doing 5 fret bends, making fret 13 sound like fret 18!!
3. The new Johnny Panic album is rather good.
4. I feel like making a lot of noise tonight. Mwahahaha. In all the time that I've been playing the guitar, not one neighbor has complained - my mum has of course. Once she told me to stop playing as it was too late or something. The problem with that was that I wasn't actually playing. Lemmy from Motorhead was on the tv. I laughed.
5. Once again, I have nothing but bass parts to play at the next school concert thing. This sucks. It wouldn't be so bad if the pieces wern't so easy in the first place... Its annoying being the only person in the entire school who plays bass...

Wednesday 16th May 2007.

1. I had my hair cut today.
2. I havn't been at school because I'm ill.
3. I spent all morning listening to The Who - Tommy. I don't like the way that sides 1 and 4 are on the same disc and 2 and 3 are on the other. (vinyl!)
4. Ive done various guitarry things today.
5. The Itunes free single of the week has been quite good lately. I reccomend this weeks. Ruarri Joseph - More Rock 'n' Roll. I like it anyway.

Wednesday 16th May 2007.

Im ill.
I expect this is because of my awful cooking.
I'm not eating garlic bread again for a very long time.
Message to Kat Pee who doesn't even read the blog: There is no way im eating pasta with the stir in sauce at the weekend. I blame that tomato sauce I made as well as the garlic bread...

I wonder if the poor judges that also ate my cooking are still alive today?

Tuesday 15th May 2007.

1. Thankfully I didn't win the competition.
2. The walk at the weekend is 15 miles long... Can I die now? But thankfully this route avoids fields so no horses.
3. School is still crap. The next 2 weeks are going to go very slowly.
4. I've done even less today than I would have done if Karn was telling me millions of weird stories.
5. That basically means that I can't think of a point 4 or 5. E-mails would ve muchly apprechiated... Particularly ones that I can send a nice reply to... JenniferGDBC@hotmail.com... Im that desperate...

Monday 14th May 2007.

1. School was crap. Even worse than I expected it to be.
2. Everything seems different in an even worse than before way.
3. Do I really have to go back there tommorrow?
4. I'm camping in Surrey over the weekend. Pffft. I can't be bothered.
5. For some reason I've been entered for the young chef of the year competition at school. On the plus side I miss a lesson, English. On the downside if I win I have to go and compete against other schools in the borough. Anyway... I hopefully won't win...

Sunday 13th May 2007.

1. I had half cooked pasta for lunch. Yuck.
2. Jess sent me the picture of me with the chuckle brothers!
3. Im going camping on saturday and of course im thinking of all these things that i need to do next week like go out for lunch to avoid half cooked pasta and go and buy some strap locks.
4. Punk Rock is the way to go (Hesso! Take note of this next time i decide to write another 5 part song!!)
5. School tommorrow. Meh. Its going to suck.

Saturday 12th May 2007.

The last few weeks blogs have been quite interesting... Im back to school on Monday so they go downhill from just after this one...

1. Me and Hesso met The Chuckle Brothers!
2. Me and Barry Chuckle did a to you to me!
3. Hesso's coming back next month! Woo!
4. The Eurovision song contest wasn't as fun as last year.
5. Although I quite liked France, Sweden and Ukraines entrys...

Friday 11th May 2007.

I forgot something...
That free turf sample i arrived today.
Its bigger than i expected and came in 4 different varietys!!
Grass Park Junior
Turf Deluxe
Springfield Curl
Meadow Twist Emerald.

They gave me a laugh anyway...
I never realised that turf was so plasticky.

Friday 11th May 2007.

1. Esso and Arturo from The Lurkers and in Arturo's case 999 too came into the shop today! They helped us get a delivery of 54 guitars in!
2. Arturo's bass is incredibly heavy...
3. While me and Leigh were attempting to get the delivery into a better place than the middle of the shop, we closed. This upset many customers who knocked on the door when they saw we were in there. I wonder if it looked like we were slightly busy?
4. Im going to see the Chuckle Brothers with Hesso tommorrow! (oh wow she's Esso with an H!)
5. Work experience is over :-(

Thursday 10th May 2007.

1. Leigh wasn't here but Karn was... I now know even more about his life and more or less everything else...
2. Me and Esso from The Lurkers played White Riot, Teenage Kicks and 2 songs we made up yesterday with him on drums and me on guitar!
3. The dvd that was on all day has possibly driven me mad.
4. I put Harmonica's in a display case.
5. I found the mini recorders terrifying... At this point Karn made a police car noise with it... Terrifying.

Wednesday 9th May 2007.

Wow. Someone else has actually found my blog.


Heres the guitar:

Tuesday 8th May 2007

1. Teh new guitar had its bridge sorted out today. Along with a few other things...
2. We took down a drum kit for someone who recognised me from when I still had long hair and was 11. Scary.
3. From now on i'm going to say 'I am listening' when I answer the phone. Beware. Although seen as no-one phones me (I wouldn't phone me either!) It may be a while before I get to try this.
4. I'm going to record more stuff today. You might get to hear it. You might not. Seen as 'you' only refers to Jess as she's the only who loves me enough to actually look forward to reading my blog, you will actually definitely get to hear the recordings.
5. If anyone else actually does bother to read by blog send me a I READ YOUR BLOG! e-mail to JenniferGDBC@hotmail.com Im quite interested to know if anyone actually does... Ooooh Clazz does i think. 2 people love me!!

Monday 7th May 2007.

1. Meh. Bank Holidays.
2. I have spent the last few days and will spend the rest of the day spending my new guitar.
3. I might do a few recordings too, seen as my amp is still connected to the pooter.
4. It seems that no-one can help me with the dvd burning.
5. I can't make it to any of the previews of the new Joe Strummer film. Pffft.

I might do 5 more bullet points later. I havn't decided yet.

Oh. Yes. Antony meantioned my lovely new guitar on the radio last night, as part of his Ask Antony feature on the Iain Lee show. Woo.

Why do I do so little?
Oh well i'll just sit here doing random guitarry things all day.

Jenno.

Sunday 6th May 2007.

Earlier on, just as i started writing that blog earlier, I looked my calender. And had a meep! moment when I saw it was the 8th May. Of course I havn't turned over my calender yet. So ive now discovered that its actually the 6th!!!

Whoops!

Jenno.

Sunday 8th May 2007

I havn't updated for ages. So heres as many bullet points as I can manage.

1. My new guitar rocks.
2. Although it won't stay in tune for more than a couple of minuites.
3. I bought lots more playdough, in lots of different colours.
4. Every programme that burns dvds hates me.
5. I finally bought the 30th anniversary edition of The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
6. The Enemy are addictive.
7. Later on i'm going to reorder my cd collection into a different order.
8. Esso from The Lurkers showed us his new book cover the other day.
9. He also hit me on the head with it!!
10. Lots of people buy Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings.
11. I now have my record player plugged into the aux in socket of my fender frontman amp. I then have a guitar lead going from the headphones jack to the mic socket of my computer. Once ive got the volume levels correct this will rock.
12. The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy is a great album.
13. The Chuckle Brothers are next week! (Woo Jess!)
14. This guitar book has some very nice riffs in it. I could be playing them on the new guitar all day...
15. I might give the DVD burning another go later...

Friday 4th May 2007.

Hello.
I'm going to buy a Yellow Fender strat with a black scratch plate today.
The minute I saw it a few weeks back I knew I had to have it...
Everyone thinks I'm mental wanting a yellow guitar. They have no taste...
I will attempt to post a picture of it later.

Jenno.

Wednesday 2nd May 2007

1. I answered the phone lots today.
2. The people in the sandwich shop are terrifying.
3. They gave me a free banana.
4. I made sandwiches and pizza out of playdough today.
5. The till hates me.

Tuesday 1st May 2007.

1. Truss rods and the credit card machine seem slightly less scary.
2. My mum bought me cd-rs instead of dvd-rs. pfffffft.
3. I have left my Little Man Tate cd and Mescaleros dvd in the shop.
4. Watching people post letters in a wet postbox is rather funny, particularly as at that point it wasn't even wet anymore!
5. Im hungry.

My blog is rubbish today. I couldnt think of anything to say!

Monday 30th April 2007

Whoops i forgot to post this yesterday.

1. I started my work experience today.
2. We unpacked and priced lots of books.
3. I had a drum lesson with Esso from The Lurkers! (woohoo!)
4. I then spent most of the evening laughing at everyone who had a crap day.
5. I discovered that dvds take a very long time to rip.

And today, at half past 6 in the morning i had a moment. Getting a good recording of my guitars/basses suddenly seemed very easy. of course you just plug in the guitar as normal, then get another lead and plug it into your line out, get a thingy to convert the lead into a smaller jack, then plug it into the microphone socket on the computer!
Now its just vocals that are a problem... although I have an idea...
Of course my mic hardly works... this is a problem...
I'll test out my mic idea when everyones out, as it will make some lovely feedback noises.
Probobly not a good thing at 20 past 8 in the morning.