The Year Is Nearly Over, Everything Seems To Be Coming To An End

X Factor finished last night. Joe won. And I'll admit, for the first time since the X Factor started, I'm gonna buy the winning single. I haven't brought the single for a winner of a talent show since Pop Idol 2. I hope Joe breaks the X Factor winners curse as it were. Where the male winners seem to be around for a few months then sink into nothingness and the female winners do really well. Like the reverse of the Pop Idol winners curse (but then with only two winners it's not much), where the male winners (I.E. Will Young) have done well, and the female winners (I.E Michelle McManus), haven't.

Anyway, my creative writing course has broken up for the Christmas break last week. And it's a long one. 4 weeks. But at least that gives me time to write the 1,500 word short story I need to write to hand in when we come back. I've made a start on it but it's very hard. I'm not very good at writing short stories with that many words.

Also I'm near to finishing the first draft of A Year In The Life Of Tori Susan Evans. I've noticed something about spending the year working on a first draft and that as it comes to an end, it's a little sad. Even if as soon as the New Year starts I'll be working on the first draft of the second Tori Susan Evans book. Maybe it's just me and my strangeness.

What else seems to be ending as the year ends? Not my time in retail that's for sure. My year of looking has come up with nothing so far. I didn't even get any response to all the cover letters I sent out to all the offices within a five mile radius of where I live. I've even started sending out cover letters to different retail stores in the hope they might give me a full time job. Somewhere that doesn't get too busy during the week. Maybe a book store. I'd like to work in a book store. Ok, so the Christmas season will still be busy, but I think I can cope with that.

First Draft Of Saving Christmas Is Finished!

Now all I have to do is edit it! I'm also looking for someone to Beta the first draft for me. I'll be doing some editing while someone is reading it through and then maybe do a big edit of it next year. Don't think I'd really be in the Christmas mood after Christmas to edit it so I would have to wait until next year when I am in the Christmas mood to do a big edit. But right now I have over two weeks to get some smaller edits in. So if anyone is interested in reading it through please comment and I'll see if we can work out some way to getting the first draft to you.

Christmas Time And Shopping Is Done!

Well nearly. Only a few little bits and pieces to do. A few little presents, a few bows and ribbons and I'm done. Now I can enjoy a bit of Christmas music (hopefully, with it playing all the time at work it might just start to get annoying), wrap some presents and enjoy the Christmas spirit. Oh and finish off my Christmas story and do some editing on it. If anyone wants to read the first and /0r edited version feel free to ask. I'll be happy to send it to you. Would like the feedback.

Sad News-Boarders The Bookshop To Close

I heard some sad news yesterday. My fave bookshop Boarders is to close. It's gone into liquidation or some other business term like that. So it will probably close. So more more Boarders. No more going to my local store and going up those wooden stairs that look like they were original from the building because even the building looks like it's been there for at least 100 years. A very sad time.

Back On Fanfiction.Net!

I've decided to get myself back on Fanfiction.Net, just because I had to write a Sarah Jane Adventures fanfic to get it out of my head!

http://www.fanfiction.net/~clarecg-a link to my profile.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5529575/1/The_Wedding_Of_Chrissie_Jackson-a link to my story if you're interested in reading it. Like to know what you think about it.

I Need Help! Please Help Me Find This Song!

At work there's this Christmas song that keeps playing that I really like. I first heard it last year when it played at work but never got the chance to find out the name of the song and who sings it. It sounds like it's sung by a boy band and I think the song is called All My Heart This Year. But I'm guessing that because it's the last line of the chorus. I wish I could remember all the lyrics so I could put them on here but when I heard it for the first time this year yesterday, I couldn't really hear the words that well, but I reconized the tune and knew it was the song. I tried to Shazam it (a company that you phone up, hold the phone out to loud music and then they hang up and text you the answer to the name of the song and who sings it), but the music wasn't loud enough for them to get it. If anyone has any idea who sings it and the name of the song, please, please help!

Halloween Photos! Only Nearly A Month Late!

The Pumpkin I made from the side.


The Pumpkin I made from the front.

I've Fallen Into The Christmas Spirit But Still...

It's only the 21st of November! The 1st of December is nine days away! And the Christmas music started in the shops at least a week ago, even if it was intertwined with non Christmas music. At work it started yesterday. But the worst thing is, the music channels. I've seen three that have Christmas music on already! And not Christmas music intertwined with non Christmas music! Just hours of Christmas music! Please why can't they wait until December before they start to send us crazy with all that! I'm gonna end up being sick of it all before December even starts if I have to kept hearing it. At least the music channels it's easy to avoid by not watching them but still, it's still November!!!!!!!

Anyway, this video seems to sum up my feelings right now in some ways:
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/13799-cf

I hope the link works.

I Really Should Start Planning For Christmas

I need to start planning my Christmas shopping. I need to think of what I'm gonna get everyone and but them and then get paper and bows and ribbons and stuff. Oh and I need to find Christmas cards to send to people at work. I've been looking for funny Christmas cards because I like sending funny cards but I can't find any good funny cards anywhere. And not packs with more than two designs on them. Not even a funny theme that has two different designs in a pack but has two packs with different designs in each pack. The search goes on I guess.

Backstreet Boys Concert!!

It was the coolest thing in the world! First, just a few minutes before the band came on, I heard screams and loads of people around me where looking up at the stands above us. I looked round, thinking the band were coming down from there. Instead it was the X-Factor finalists! I noticed John and Edward's hair first, then noticed them milking the attention from the crowd for all it's worth. Then I noticed Olly and then that guy in Simon Cowell's group who's name I can't remember but not the one with the Afro. In fact, Jamie Afro didn't seem to be there. Stacey and Lloyd were a bit shy and stayed mostly at the back but they didn't really ignore the crowd. And I saw Joe taking pictures of the crowd. They were only a few feet away from me up in the V.I.P stand, almost right above my head!

Anyway, The Backstreet Boys were amazing! Just the best. It was beyond words at how amazing it was. The dancing was totally cool, the little Movie spoof things they had showing during the costume changes were so funny. Brian doing Enchanted was probabaly the funniest, then Nick doing the Matrix, and AJ did Fight Club and Howie did Fast and Furious. It was so worth the just over 12 years of waiting to go and see them.