2008-08-22
*cry* *scream* *grrr*
Before i explain the title, i'm gonna tell you all about my staying with Lewis in Malton (i know i previously said York, but that's because people know where York is, and Malton is near York). Lewis, if any of this is wrong..then tell me, cos i might have a few things a bit mixed up.
I've not made an entry since before i left because i couldn't access the interent at Lewis' house. Otherwise i would have documented each day as it happened.
I woke up unneccessarily early on the Saturday morning cos i had to catch the 8:12 train, so i decided i needed to be up at half 5 (i really don't know why i thought that). Even then, we were a little late leaving. I had to go all the way down to platform 13, then my dad insisted we wait outside incase the train left early (??!!). The journey there was ok: the carriage i was in was fairly empty so i kept two seats to myself, there wasn't much noise coming from any little kids or music blasting out of phones....i was just able to eat my apple slices, and read the God Delusion in peace.
I was met at Malton station (well, they call it a station, its only one platform and a car park) by Lewis, Bayes, Charli and Ollie. I gave Lewis and Charli a hug, gave Bayes a high five (cos i'd never met him before) and just kinda waved awkwardly to Ollie (cos i'd never seen, or spoken to him before, all i knew was that he was Charli's boyfriend). It was about half an hour's walk from the station to Lewis' house, and Lewis pulled my case for me *^_^* while i carried my little bag and Sabastian (my uke).
We did some filming for the two last episodes...just the bits that me, Lewis and Bayes were in, cos the guy playing the other character was on holiday. We went to Bayes' house and then to Orchard Fields, cos that was where i was getting shot. I still actually have 'blood' on my shoe from filming that scene. I had a big blood stain on my tshirt, and blood all over my hands, that took most of the night to get off (i don't think Bayes' mum really appreciated me getting a load of red food colouring in her sink). Walking back to Lewis' house was fun, cos we went past an old couple who seemed really concerned that i had a gun shot wound on my chest (well, yeah...who wouldn't). After that i decided i would cover myself with my jumper, even though it was white, and i didn't want to get red all over it.
Sunday was a lazy day.....me and Lewis went shopping with his family. We wandered around the Designer Outlet, going into random shops, pretending we were interested in what was in there. We went into the Cadbury shop twice.....and tried on some reading glasses....twice. Lewis bought Cloverfield, and i bought Sweeney Todd, and we watched Cloverfield that night. Although what did annoy me was his mum and new boyfriend came in half way through, turned on the light, turned down the sound, sat down on the same chair (after turning the lights off again), then just were talking for most of the time they were in there! About half an hour before the end, they went out, and me and Lewis were allowed to watch the rest of the film in peace. No disrespect to your mum Lewis, she's a lovely woman...that just annoyed me a bit.
Monday, we went to the church. We went to Barton and had to get the bus, which Lewis had never done, neither had Bayes. Luckily, one of their friends came along and told us he was getting the bus we needed. 10 fucking quid it cost us to get there!! For 3 returns to Barton, cost us £10! (although we didn't use the return bit cos we got as lift back from Lewis' grandad) The church was lovely, and we did the whole episode in one day. Although the last thing we filmed did take so much longer than it should have. Lewis' grandma cooked us all a fry up, which was so nice of her to do at such short notice, and we had ginger cake and custard. Lewis kept putting Bayes off eating by making really loud eating noises whenever he put any food into his mouth...i nearly didn't eat anything cos i was laughing so much. We were originally gonna get the bus back, so when we finished filming in the church, we realised we had just under an hour to get to the bus stop that was about 5 minutes away. So we walked up the lane as slow as we possibly could, until we got to Lewis' grandad's house, where he told us he would give us a lift back. We also went to the graveyard for a little while. But we needed to find a biggish gravestone for me to sit behind, and we didn't want people to come wandering over, so we went right into the corner and found one there. It was only a short scene anyway so we wern't there for long. That night we also did the scenes that needed to be filmed in Lewis' mum's shop's basement, which was dusty beyond belief. The brick support that me and Bayes had to be tied around was covered shite that just crumbled away as soon as you touch it. So our backs were covered in dust and our arms were hurting from having our hands tied together (which meant we had to have our arms pulled backwards so that they could reach). While Bayes went back home to get some handcuffs, me and Lewis roamed around the shop trying on hats and taking random pics of each other. It started raining when we were about to leave, and it was fairly dark, so Lewis phoned his mum for a lift, which didn't happen. So we had to walk all the way back to Lewis' house in the dark and rain. Bayes went the opposite way to us, so we just saw him disappear into the darkness. Lewis also gave me his jacket cos i didn't take one. I felt a little bit bad, cos then he just had a tshirt on....but i really liked his jacket so i kept it (i know i'm a selfish bitch :P). When we got home, me and Lewis stayed up til 3am watching Mhairi on blogtv, i nearly fell asleep on his shoulder. It wasn't even that exciting tbh.....i think it was just that there wasn't many people in the room and those who were there were biggish youtubers and were making loads of random remarks that made us laugh.
Tuesday morning....Lewis came into my room with his camera and said to me "i'm gonna show you something that might make you cry". He showed me the tape from the day before....nothing had recorded properly.
So for that day we had nearly no enthusiasm to do anything, let alone find somewhere to film my episode because the place we were gonna film had no lights. We did find a place, that was really run down; we went into the barn bit first, but most of the rooms had floors with holes in them and there was shit everywhere (not literal shit, but dust and bits of wood and wire and the like). I wasn't gonna be sitting on one of those floors to do filming. So we went into the little house next to it, which had a nice room upstairs, as well as a kitchen with running water and a dishwasher. There was a hole in the cieling, with what looked like insulation half falling through. The two little windows were not very see through, and there were no lightbulbs, so we had to make do with the poor natural light. We decided we needed a torch, so Bayes went home to get one. Just before he left, it started the throw it down, and didn't stop til after he got back. We did all our filming and made a quick vlog, by the end of the day we had some enthusiasm, well....enough that we got most things done. We watched Sweeney Todd that night, then talked about nothing really til nearly 2am.
Wednesday we needed to do my last episode, and a few bits of the one we did the day before and we needed to re-film the church one. We spent far too long on the little bits we needed to film. This mainly consisted of us jumping out of a second story window onto a trampoline. I supervised, while Bayes and Lewis moved it from the corner of the garden to under the window. It looked a lot higher than we'd thought, but he all had a go anyway. Lewis went first and loved it, saying how fun it was. Then Bayes went and hurt his arm on landing. I took ages. I got up on the windowsill, and sat there for about 10 minutes (all the while, the camera was recording) then managed to jump. I landed on my feet, my knees buckled, i started falling backwards, but not far enough cos i hit my chin really hard on my knee, then went flying back onto the trampoline, where i lay for quite a long while waiting for the pain to go a little so that i could go back in. Most of the fall is a blur to me....i barely remember pushing myself off the window sill, then i just remember landing and then the pain on my knee and chin. Everything between those is a total blank. I, eventually, sat up slowly and came to terms with what just happened. I could taste blood in my mouth from where i'd cut the inside of my lip with my teeth. Lewis and Bayes had gone back upstairs to put the video onto the computer, then Lewis came back down and gave me a hug. Then i managed to get off the trampoline and hobble up the stairs, where i collapsed onto Lewis' bed. My neck started hurting after a bit, so i must have got whiplash from falling back so fast. I just lay there, on his bed while they played with the settings of the recordings; slowing them down, playing them backwards etc. In that time i recovered enough to do the last bit of filming for that episode. It was just standing next to the window we jumped out of to do a little talky scene.
Then we had to decide whether or not to do the church filming again. As we deliberated, we went down to Orchard Fields to film my last episode. when we arrived, we found a little patch that wasn't too windy and wasn't crowded with nettles and set up there. Bayes then went off to find if we could film in another church, and as we waited, me and Lewis went over our lines. One of the joys of that script was that i got to slap Lewis several times (which he insisted when we rehearsed, i didn't want to til we were actually filming), which he deserved for all the mean things he'd been doing to me over the previous few days. Bayes got back and told us that we could only film in the other church if we wanted to sneak in the risk getting caught, so we decided to leave it and he took over filming that couple of scenes of me and Lewis. On one occasion, i actually slapped Lewis really hard and couldn't carry on cos i was apologising and laughing too much. The one we did after that was perfect (well, as perfect as it could have been), so we moved on to the little scenes in the "forest", which was just a clump of trees between fields. We needed a shot of me and Lewis walking down the path together, but we ended up going really far away from the camera, and then having to walk back a bit.
So that was all the filming done. I said goodbye to Bayes (even though i'd see him the day after) and walked home with Lewis to pack and get ready to leave. Lewis' lovely mum gave us a lift to the station, where we were about 10 minutes early. In the few minutes before the train came, we started arguing as to which way my train would be coming from.....i was wrong, but wasn't bothered...can't always be right ^_^
He helped me onto the train with my case, gave me a final hug and waved me off.
I didn't have a reserved seat on this train, so had to go along the whole carriage before getting to the door area, and ending up sitting on my bag. The next stop, however, i managed to grab a seat. There was a big group of people who got off at that stop, so i put my case into the little compartment, and sat myself down with Sabastian between my feet. I listened to Alex's album for most of the way home, and just thought about the amazing week i'd had. I met my mum and dad on the platform, hobbled up the stairs and through the rest of the station the get the tram home.
So my knee still hurts, my neck is really stiff and i can hardly move it, and under my chin hurts and is a bit swollen. I can just about walk properly now, and managed to walk all around town yesterday (info of yesterday will be in another entry).
To explain the title
I'm at work writing this. I really didn't want to come in at all, but my mum made me with the excuse she always uses
"take some paracetamol/ibruprofen and see how you are later"
I'm sick and tired of that, because i did that yesterday and my neck was hurting just the same all day. No change, no better.
I didn't actually take anything before i came bacause i knew it wouldn't make any difference, but my mum came in a few minutes ago and told me to take some paracetamol as well.
I'm in a really bad mood now, and have been since she told me i had to come to work because "i was needed". Well, they've coped without me for nearly a week, so surely they can cope for another week without me. I'm not even doing anything good today, just taking old patterns off the website (that's what i do, i work on a computer all day, typing the same thing over and over. It gets tedious very quickly).
My mum picked up on the fact that i was in a bad mood, and we've barely spoken today. I had better things planned than sitting here all day, being in pain and bored to tears.
I actually cried twice this morning. I don't really know why, probably because of the pain and i was going through possible arguments i might've have with my mum and it made me upset.
I've not done any proper work yet today. Mainly cos i've decided to strike (kind of) and cos i've spent over 2 hours writing this.
Its now 12:23pm and i'm ending this entry.
♥