Looking at my old theme made me think about how much I must’ve changed since I started blogging: I don’t know what on earth possessed me to put such an atrocious theme on this blog, along with such a rubbish header and introduction box. If I went onto a website that had my old theme installed on it, I would probably leave, yet somehow 15 (ish) year old me decided that it was wonderful. The blue colour that I used on the blog, is the colour that I have used ever since I’ve owned this domain, and for sentimental reasons (or something like that) I didn’t really want to let poor old #3399CC go. However, I think I’ve grown up enough to choose a theme on the basis of appearance and usability, rather than a colour.

Thinking about how odd my choice of theme seems to be now prompted me to read back on my old posts to see what they were like…. I think ‘not amazing’ would be a very kind way to describe them. I’m not saying that I am an amazing blogger now – by no means are my blog posts fantastically interesting – but at least I use proper grammar and don’t type in such an annoying manner. Honestly, who the hell puts ‘”cya” after every post and an exclamation mark at the end of almost every sentence. How I loathe younger me.

Perhaps I am being a little hard on myself. I think that many people my age will read back on something that they wrote a year or two ago and think: “why on Earth would I write that!?” Our younger selves are of a constant embarrassment, in fact, I’ll probably read back on this post in a few years and immediately think, “hypocrite.”

That’s all for now. To younger me: sorry for insulting you, but please, have better taste. To future me: try not to be too mean when you’re judging me. Cya.

I’m late posting a vlog to the blog again, what of it? Though, as I’m typing this post, I cannot remember very much of what I said in the video, so I’m not entirely sure what to write. I swear most of my blog posts are simply a stream of consciousness; I’ve no idea if this all makes sense. This video is just a completely random vlog, which I made because I haven’t done a video in a long time. Watch it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGbnZt-rtWw

Anyway, the point of this post is to say thank you. Thank you to Beth (@_BethRose) for putting up with me for all this time, for not giving up on me and always being there for me no matter how much of a pain in the arse I am! You have made the past year absolutely amazing and I can’t wait for more!

Oh, and you can read mine and Beth’s blog here.

Thought it was about time that I updated this blog! This was a vlog I did a little while ago about dreams and why we have them. It was quite interesting finding out about why we do it and what they could mean (and it was great finding out some quite odd theories that there are) so I actually ended up learning quite a bit while vlogging! I was thinking about doing more vlogs like this as I enjoyed doing it… I just completely lost my train of thought there and I thought I should just carry on typing regardless! Ah, yes, if you want to suggest something for me to find out about then feel free to comment on this post (or talk to me in some other way) and next time I do one of those vlogs I might answer your question! Anyway that’s all, I’ll do another post soon as there is another vlog that I’ve done (that you can watch here) so, yeah, bye!

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I filmed a vlog a couple of weeks ago, well, I filmed most of it, then towards the end my memory card ran out of space so I had to delete some footage (see where this is going yet?) and in the process of doing that I managed to delete my actual vlog. I did re-film it immediately afterwards, but then I didn’t have a chance to edit it for a little while, then Beth came down for a week and I would have felt rude making her sit there and watch while I edit the video down in my quite slow, OCD fashion. So then came today, I have a few hours before my Maths exam (hooray!) and so I thought it would be a good chance to edit. I hadn’t actually watched the footage back until now and watching it back I really don’t think it was quite up to scratch.

Fine, I could’ve edited it anyway so that you get to see a video, but I’ve done that before (my second vlog – The Musical Internet) and that video is always going to bug me, sitting there not being very good at all, and if I watched all of my videos then I’m sure I could find another! I’m not taking that video down, though, because I think that would be cheating: I chose to upload the video and even though I don’t like it, that’s something I made and it’s staying up there!

So instead you’re just going to have to wait for a video if you want one, or re-watch one of my old ones if you’re that desperate (though I doubt anyone is!) to see me. I will try and upload one soon, that’s all I’m going to say, I’m not going to tell you, as I have in the past, that I will make a video every single week as long as I may live, without fail, because we both know that’s not going to happen. What I will do, is make a video next time I have a good idea and my dad’s camera is available for me to use. I want to put things on YouTube that I can be proud of, I’m going to be the one who gets blamed if it’s awful because it’s my video, and I don’t wanna have another video that I would really like to take down.

Well there you have it, an excuse post, it’s not the first I’ve done, and I highly doubt it’ll be the last, I just felt I owe it to you to explain. Actually, I doubt anyone has even bothered to read this far, I can’t imagine this is the most interesting thing ever, and you’ve all got better things to do! If you’ve got anything to say then leave a comment, I like to read them. That’s all for now, bye!

Right click link and click ‘save as’ to download the video.

This is a video myself, @Gazman162 and @HisLittleEmoo made for our year’s leavers assembly. It was really fun to edit (even though it took 6 hours) and I’m pretty pleased with the result so I thought I’d share it with you all.

[Update] I had to remove the video from YouTube as it included copyrighted music and I wanted to monetize my videos. It is still available to download if you would like, or you can simply click on the link and watch it.

So, this is the first vlog I’ve done in a very long time (not far off 2 months!) and it’s quite a long one… I talked about a lot more things than what actually made it into the vlog because there was too much to fit in, and it ended up long enough as it is!

We also went Austrian bowling, which is a lot of fun, instead of having 10 pins there are 9, and they are arranged more like this:

This, as you may guess, makes it a lot harder to score a strike, and that’s not all that’s different. Instead of bowling individually like you would normally do when you go out with your friends, you bowl in teams against each other. On the first bowl that each person has, they use their strongest hand – in my case my right – to bowl, as you would normally. However in the second one we have to use the hand that isn’t our strongest – for me my left. We then had to go through a series of different ways to to it (including bowling it through your legs, bowling it whilst having your arms round someone else and bowling it under someone else)

Another notable difference is that if you get the ball in the gutter, or throw it over the string that’s at the start of the lane, you get a black mark on your head from a block of wax that has been melted on a candle. By the end of the evening some people looked a lot like Dalmatians. So if you ever get a chance to go Austrian bowling I would definitely recommend it!

Anyway, that’s all that’s really worth mentioning in this blog, I shall try and vlog more consistently (I know I say that a lot…) but I have got exams coming up very soon so if I don’t do it often over the next few weeks… SORRY! Anyway, hopefully see you next Monday. Byeeeeeee

Not really much to say about this one, I made some pancakes on pancake day, put horrible things in them and then didn’t get round to editing the video until a week later. Cya

Right, are you done laughing at me now? Okay I’ll give you a minute…

So, that was me, having my hair straightened by my girlfriend, Beth. I will say one thing about hair straighteners: they’re hot. When Beth straightened parts of my hair next to my scalp I thought it was burning through my skull… But maybe that’s just because I’m not used to having my hair straightened. I don’t think I’ll do it again, I don’t really like how it looks, or how it feels, and it takes ages to do, so I don’t really see the point! Plus I don’t think I could deal with the Justin Bieber jokes.

Now, I realise I haven’t mentioned Beth on this blog before in name, but you may remember (though I doubt it) that way back in November last year, on the 7th to be precise, I wrote a post about how useless I was with girls. Well that post was aimed towards her and, despite it making me sound a bit pathetic (me then’s words) that somehow worked, and we’ve been together since that night. The funny thing was the next day I went into school, and Joy said to me “Carl, if you ever want to get a girlfriend delete that post on your website.”

How I met Beth was on twitter (her username’s @_BethRose) I can’t exactly remember who followed who first, but our whole relationship started with a tweet about viagra! You may have guessed by now that we’re not quite normal. Anyway I won’t bore you with all the details, but we were friends for a while (well, we pretended to kill each others in various ways over text, it was that kind of friendship) and then it ended up with us being together. Unfortunately, she lives over 200 miles away from me.

Obviously this makes things difficult, so even though it was at the beginning of November that we started going out (for want of a better term) it wasn’t until the end of December that we actually met, when she came down here for new years. Thankfully it hasn’t been that much time between when we get to see each other since then, but there’s still quite a few weeks in between, which isn’t easy. Now I’m not posting this to complain about how hard it is, because it is more than worth it for the time we get together, I’m just posting about it! I was at Beth’s house only a few days ago, as we were together for the last week of the easter holidays, and that was a really amazing week, but now it feels so weird being apart.

I’m at that stage of the evening where I’m not entirely sure if I’m making sense, and I’ve probably missed a lot of things out here, though I’m likely to post something about this in the future, possibly at a time when I can concentrate! Bye bye people who read this!

I love you Beth :}