User blog:SmudgyHollz/Power Cuts Suck.

Hello again! It's 06:16am but I'm really, really happy (if a little exhausted)!! Why? Well, first of all, I'm legally allowed on here! Hooray!! I turned thirteen on Sunday. It was a pretty amazing Birthday - apart from the fact that all of the snow melted. That was so unfair! There was a reasonable covering on Saturday, but during the night, it all went away. Apart from the ice. But who likes ice?

I got some very good presents - my favourite was probably a huge gigantic book about Harry Potter. It's amazing - apart from one small problem that annoys me so much. It's American, so it goes on and on and on about the `Sorcerer's Stone`. It's the Philosopher's Stone! It was named that for a reason!! I think I'm going to have to go through the whole book and score out the wrong title names and replace them with the original. Woah - I can see why people call me strange and obsessive now... That's not good!

For dinner, we had Markie's spaghetti meatballs - which was delicious! We had a homemade Italian hazelnut cake with melted chocolate drizzled over it for pudding. Then everybody settled down with a nice hot cup of tea to watch the Deathly Hallows Part 2, as my Dad hadn't seen it yet.

Anyway apart from just having had my Birthday, I am also excited about another thing. Power!! Yesterday I literally stepped in the door after having walked up the road from the bus and all of the lights went out.

"Where did I leave the matches? Oh, for goodness sake, who moved the candles?"

"I hate power cuts! I'm scared!!"

"What's that thing around my legs?! Oh, it's only the cat..."

"Where's the baby?!!"

"I'm holding her!"

"Where are you?"

"I don't know! Somewhere by the door!"

"Oh no! I left the stairgate open! Somebody close the stairgate! But whatever you do, don't fall down!"

Thump, thump, thump!

"I told you not to fall down!!"

"OWWWW!"

"Ah! Found the candles!"

That was exciting and slightly terrifying. And because we had planned to go over to my Grannie's house for dinner, we all had to stumble about with torches and try to get dressed in the light of a single candle. Did you know that that's incredibly tricky? Especially when you have no idea where your clothes are.

Fortunately, when we got to my Grannie's house, they had power. Unfortunately, we found that we were the only ones that had lost it. Anyway, we had dinner and my Dad phoned the power/electricity people to see when we'd get lights again. The mannie on the other end told him that it would be on by midnight. So we stayed until 22:30 and got home by 23:00, only to find that the electricity mannie was a liar. The power had been on for the past two hours! But I was so glad to get it back!!

I should be on here a decent amount now. Apart from perhaps today, because I have some serious studying to be getting on with.

Oh, and I chose my subjects yesterday! Nothing's final yet, but it's still incredibly exciting! I'm taking: Maths, English, French, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Art and History. I'm going to be busy! But I'm really pleased that you're able to drop P.E. and R.M.P.S.! I probably would have chosen P.E. to be honest, but we could only choose eight subjects.

Goodbye! I hope to see you all soon!! :)