it's been too long

I know I know, Its been way too long.

I had a busy summer and after being a bit disillusioned with the world I decided to start blogging again.

I've been unemployed since September the 1st and I've been claimed jobseekers allowance. I haven't bandied this information around because I don't think its important. Next thing I know one of my childhood friends on facebook started bitching about people on "the dole" in her status. I don't think she knew about my situation. She was all "People on the dole make me sick, wasting tax payers money. Ughh just look at you you are gross". Uhhh where do people get off judging people for accepting help. Then a few days later a group appeared on facebook called " I better go to work, the people on the dole need my money" Its so annoying. Why are people like this. Yeah okay there are some people that abuse the system. But not everyone does! It's just not fair. I was claiming because I needed the money and I was desperate. It's just so unfair. It shouldn't be allowed.

People that have these views are the reason there is so much hate in this world. We might look different, and sound different but we all bleed, bruise, cry, laugh and most importantly love.

Never forget this!

A Photographic genius :)

Also check this dude out!


http://zanzimar.deviantart.com/

Me

So if you wanna see more of my tutes get on down to cutoutandkeep.et and try and find either sleepyglowstar or Amie D. I'm one of the two :) Well chuffed

Everynow and again....

Everynow and again I feel compelled to write. I am thinking and decide on something and want to tell the world about what I am thinking. On this occasion I am glad of my blog. Im reading "If You Could See Me Now" by Cecelia Ahern (you know her name because she also wrote P.S I Love You) and its a nice story about a woman who is so caught up in her life that she forgets how to love, and stuff like that. So she basically end up with an imaginary friend who she falls in love with. At the start of chapter 26 her imaginary friend called Ivan is talking about how all of his senses are all of a sudden alive (describing being in love with the woman, without saying this). My question is why do people always write about this kind of bullshit. Don't get me wrong, I understand that love is the greatest thing you can be blessed with in your life, but it doesn't happen the way they always say. I'm very much in love with my fiancee, but it was not love at first sight. He does not make every hair on my body stand on end, he does not make me shiver with delight. He doesn't make my every sense feel alive or anything like that. But he does make me smile every time I see him. He does make me laugh so hard I think I'll either wet myself, or cry, or faint, or all three. And he does make me feel safer than I have ever felt before. Love is real. It's all about learning about someone, and standing the test of time with someone. It's not about giving up at the first, second or even third hurdle!

Amie-Dillo
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Felt Flowers Hmmmm?

See Felt Flowers and 1000's of others - or share your own on Cut Out + Keep

Where's Fred Dibnah?

Yesterday we were chilling round mine, with a bit of booze, after eating a really yummy spaghetti bolognese. So my boyfriend was in charge of the music. Which was fine by me. He came across Lady GaGa- Boys Boys Boys. So yeah towards the end of the song The GaGa sings "Where's Fred Dibnah!"


:O

Tute Later x

StumbleUpon

I have stumbleupon, and I think my life would be alot duller if i didn't have the magnificent little toolbar :) Especially when I am bored. I do love the old stumbleupon. I don't really have much to write today. I finally got blood test results back. Im just anaemic. Well I say just but I'll be honest I am struggling with the whole sorting it out situation. Because I just don't do well at the old feeding myself malarky. I dunno I just get lazy, and I can never find anything yummy to eat.

I have an awful cold tonight too, and horrible dry skin on my nosey. I probably look rank, but I don't mind too much :)

New Needles!

Yeaaaah :)

I finally got around to buying the needles that I have been needing for MONTHS now. I am extremely happy with myself. But I have also just realised that I have made and extremely huge faux pas on my account. So you know the darts cabinet-cum-jewellery cabinet, I keep asking to go to b&q, wickes, focus, homebase etc. And yesterday we happened to land rigggght by one.
So I was all "ohh ohhh ohhh" and upon asking my grandparents if we could just nip in there quick I was told a no, and we drove off.

UNIMPRESSED

Anyway I'm sat waiting for the post and I was thinking about what website next, and it dawned on me....Homebase, Focus, Wickes, B&Q etc .com.............

DOUBLE UNIMPRESSED.

How could I have been this stupid. But never mind. I know now :)

Off to Reading tomoz, to play a few hours of darties :)

Enjoy

Amie-Dillo
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An Update

Hi everyone...

Im playing at sitting duck at the minute...

I think the pleurisy has gone now. but im not certain. I don't hurt to breathe anymore. But there is a major coughing thing going down :(

My darts team won 6-2 on Wednesday... Very proud of them as it was the first win of the season, and my first ever win as a captain. So it was really good. I look forward to lots more of these :) Thank you guys, Mr Amie-Dillo sorry you couldn't be there!

Sitting duck hey (I heard you say it)
My blood test results are back at the surgery after only 3 days of having the test, and of course the receptionist is only allowed to tell you if there is a doctors note on it...There was. It said "sending patient a letter".


YOU CRUEL DOCTOR

I'll just sit and wait then shall I....and wait....And Wait!

Not fair, but I shall be letting you know when I know I guess :)

So it's getting there....finally

The darts cabinet it looking more and more cream now, but it is taking ages to have to paint over and over and over. But I am enjoying the challenge :)

Has anybody got anything new going on at the minute??

I have a cool way of making necklaces/bracelets or earring and was wondering if a tute for those was in order?

Maybe hey!

Amie-Dillo
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A Darts Cabinet is no longer.

Okay I have all this jewellery, and no where to really put it all where I can still see it easily. So when I had a 12 Hour Darts Marathon, and a darts cabinet was one of the prizes I started to want the cabinet, and when at the end of the night it was still there (my friend donated it and I knew he didnt want it back) I took it home.

So my plan was this. Paint the big ugly black thing white, and then attach hooks from either side, and then use ribbon or something (maybe a trim instead) so I can hang necklaces and earrings in the cabinet. I have started painting it white (its gonna take a while, and alot of paint) but I'm enjoying it.

I may get some special glittery paint or something to cover it in also, to make it look even more special.

What do people think?

When its finished I shall upload pictures.

Amie-Dillo
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Votes, Pleurisy and Darts.

So life has been a bit hectic the last few weeks what with alot happening. The general elections took over my life, because I was panicking about who to vote for, but I think I voted for the right chappie.

Then Sunday the 9th of May I organised and took part in a 12 hour darts marathon. Phew that was hard work. But we raised £114.31 to be split between the Anthony Nolan Trust and the Brodey Centre. I am proud of this effort, and everyone did so so well. But the next day I woke up in a pretty bad way.

I had the worst pain when breathing in, all up around my shoulder, not good. So Friday it was off to the doctors, to be diagnosed with pleurisy, and to be given horsey sized tablets!

Amie-Dillo
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Cute Fishy Earrings

Okay I did promise to show you my tute on the fishy earrings. So here we goes..... Im not sure how good that it will actually be because it is my first but fingers and tentacles crossed.

You Need:

2 Wooden Fish Beads

4 Small Blue Glass Beads

2 Medium Dark Blue Glass Beads

A pair of earring Hooks

Wire or Thread

So here you can see the stuff I used. But well half of it, because by this point I had already made one of my earrings and then decided to write a tute :) You obviously don't have to use the exact bits I used on mine. You can use similar items.

Step 1

Take the wire or thread, and thread your fish onto it.

Step 2

Thread one of the small blue beads onto both ends of the thread, so the bead is nestling the fish's face.

Step 3

Then add the dark blue, and the light blue beads in the same way.

Step 4

Then you have to attach the little hooks to the dangly bead bit. I did this by winding the wire round and around the hole in the hook, and then tie it off making sure it will stay on.

So here we have the finished product. It looks so natural looking and the colours really do compliment each other :) Have funnnn x

Amie-Dillo

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Annoyed doesn't cut it to be honest :(

Hi Everyone. I'm sorry it's been so long. Anyway heres a short explanation...I was really ill and then I have been busy sorting my life out. I made a cool tute yesterday and was about to upload it when all of a sudden it went. I was not impressed. So I gave up. But it should appear soon :)
Annnyway my photography

Amie-Dillo
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A brand new?

Okay, you can probably see that I have indeed changed the name of the blog. Basically I was worried people would find the blog boring because it only says about trains....so it doesnt anymore :)

And when I am better, and don't taste or smell of sick anymore I will put some crafty tutes up.....

However my real craft is.....

Making fabric flowers.....Maybe a tute about how to create these? Whaddya think

Loves

xx

£14.00 for well needed protection

It's getting to the time of year again where we all have to go out to the shops, and buy some cream...Sometimes it smells nice, sometimes it has something in it to make you look brown. And if you don't wear one with a high enough number, well then your f****d.


Yeah it's suncream.....or sun tan lotion. Or sun block... Whatever you want to call the bloody stuff....

So late last night we went into tesco for our usual nightly gander....And the nivea suncream was out on this stand...On buy one get one free... I thought oooo Ill see how much it will be.

£14.00

£14.00

£14.00 for something I require to stop myself getting cancer. This is ridiculous...its terrible. Bloody £7 a bottle for something I need during the summer. I don't understand the need for it to be so expensive. The supermarkets, and indeed the consumer market know its a neccessity, just like fruit and veg, and bread. So why does it need to be priced so bloody high. I really don't get it. I myself will be shopping around before paying that much.....

Anyway hope everyone is okay. I not actually. Im quite ill. So I'm led on the couch writing this without moving much. Now I must go to sleep.

Night (except its not)
x

Sweetie You Had Me

Im frustrated. Its late at night and I can't get this out of my head.

I used to have this friend. I don't recall how we became friends. He was so funny, but intelligent like me. We used to bike everywhere and spend all this time together doing stupid things.... making videos and other stuff. We used to spend every evening together just hanging out. We even went to his mum to see his gorgeous little hamster.

Then I got a job, and I asked him to come meet me for my lunch hours so I didn't have to spend it alone, and so he did.

Then my year at school was choosing what it was doing after school, whether it was going on to sixth form, or college, or even apprenticeships.

I chose sixth form, and my friend was the only other person that did. So we went together on the first day, so we really wouldnt be alone. We made friends, but they were still in the same group.

He learnt to drive so we would go about in his car everywhere with another one of our friends.

Then the worst thing in the world happened.....

I started seeing the other boy....

Yeah I know it doesn't SEEM that major, it destroyed our friendship. I don't know why but it did. I still seem him when we all come back from uni now, but its like I'm not there. He is really close to my fiancee and one of my best friends, but now I feel like I'm being tolerated.

Im not one of these people that copes with rejection very well. I wish my best friend from secondary school still was, and I wish this boy still regarded me as a friend, but Im not. I don't know what I did.

But I guess I did something :(

A good deed

Okay everyone.....

9th May....

What you doing...

How about coming to The Swan in Banbury and joining me in playing some darts.... I'm gonna be there playing for 12 hours :) so i could seriously use some help ehehe :) add the event on facebook :)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=636961171#!/event.php?eid=113782795304783&ref=ts

Thanks everyone......
Alternatively

https://www.anthonynolanevents.org.uk/AmieDolton

Please help
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A Disgusting Appearance!

Tonight I witnessed something that really shocked me, and even appalled me.

Where I live Thursday nights are the nights everyone goes out, and I mean everyone!

So as we were walking along our highstreet, towards K.F.C we saw two girls. We were friends with these girls whilst as sixth form, and my fiancee was quite close with one of them (not that close!). They were obviously trollied but not enough to not realise what was going on. So obviously we gave them a shout, to say Hello.

They looked directly at us, and then entered the pub they were spending the evening in.

I couldn't believe how rude they were.

If either of you happen to read this I really hope how much you hurt us. I think your terrible, and if you think your better than either of us you are very much mistaken.

So get fucked!

Anyway for the rest of you heres an awesome video I found on StumbleUpon :
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/30/trololo-cat.htm

Enjoy him

x

Hi everyone :)

I just went on AOL to check my mail, but because im retarded or lazy or something, I always put in www.aol.com as opposed to .co.uk. So I was having a gander at the news stories quickly before I actually checked my mail. So a story flashed up, about how a woman was cooking dinner, and 5 minutes later her life was destroyed by her husband telling her it was all over.

So what?

This happens all the time. We know it happens, and I feel for the woman I really do. She must have been devasted. But why do we need to read about it on AOL news....

Its like when they report in the papers about a celebrity having cancer.....

So what?

I know quite a few people with/who had cancer. Ranging from 19-45 for first diagnosis. So why is it that the news reports on celebritys.

It does my bloody nut in. I dont wanna hear about the tragedy in peoples lives. Whaa Whaa Whaa.

I have my own problems.....

Anyway this was obviously a rant and I apologise. Please don't take this to mean I'm the kind of person who doesn't care about my friends problems, but tragedy happens. If you let it consume your lives then you never move on.

x

Run Around A Roundabout For a Pound???

Okay, so today is a horrible wet rainy day, but one of my friends came to visit from a neighbouring city. The plan was to just hide in the pub all day. We started playing on the games machine and ran out of cash so we remembered that I had bought a scratchy and won a fiver on it. So off we went to go and get the money for that. A couple of my friends were in the pub anyway so they looked after the stuff. The shops is only around the corner anyway.

So we were walking along, and the pub and shop are around the corner from each other, with a huge round about in the middle. And then it happened

I dropped the scratch card.

As I have already said it was a windy day, so i'm screaming, crouched over running to get this bloody scratch card.

It went into the road.....

This is possibly the busiest roundabout where I live, and the scratch card travelled into the middle of this bloody roundabout. Now we are laughing our head off as we run around trying to decide how to get our scratch card back. So we realised it was going towards the North Side of the roundabout (we were on the south side). We ran over the zebra crossings and made it into the central reservation on that road. It was about a metre on to the roundabout. It was a part of the road that cars didn't go over. I wasn't brave enough to go that far.

My friend was. Yeah he saved the day by getting this scratchcard that we so desperately wanted......

It was for £1

Another update from meeee.



I just had dinner, something mexican. Yeah it was okay but I still want home made garlic bread. I will be making it in a minute. Anyhow. I hope everyone is doing okay. As you know I like recieving comments, and I will always reply to them where I see fit. Basically whats im saying is if your comment was shit, i wont be replying hahaha.



Im watching Come Dine With Me and there is this annoying American woman on there. She was like "Calamari is one starter, not calamari and all these other things"



WELL THATS HOW WE DO OVER HERE LOVE OKAY.



Bloody joke! Tbh I don't think any of them are English pure breed. Lol. I don't think there are many people in this world anymore that are pure in any race or culture are they?



Find me one and you'll win a prize (proof of pureness needed) (:



Yazz Flute



Sorry that was on my mind. I wanna make this blog a bit better but I really don't know how.



Anyway my mum bought this thing called a DryBuddy. Its kind of like a tumble dryer except there is no tumble too it. Here it is in action:

Isn't it a beast hahaha. Its from JML and I think it cost my mum abotu £70. I think we should have just gotten a bloody tumble dryer, but hey ho. It reminds me of the kind of hire stuff you gget at hotels. Like tiny hairdryers or value irons that burn everything. Although this marshmallow has yet to burn my clothes. If it does it will be paying for them. I don't know if it has much money, but it will be paying, mark my words.

It's half term at the minute (mini party) and Im not working. I was speaking to this woman my mum works with and she asked me what I was doing in my holidays and I said nothing, She was like your not even working.... Why would I want to work during my holidays you fool. Who has 2 weeks of uni to spend working all the time. I just nearly lost this entire blog.So I would not have been impressed. I might have even screamed. Im thinking if turning this into a multipurpose blog, with a general chat everynow and again, recipes, and craft instructions.

I dunno it might happen although I might not.....

Report back sooon

Sleepyglowstarx

Hi guys.

So its a Tuesday, which for me is usually stay in bed day, but today I have nipped into work to do the weekly shop, and been tidying ever since.
Im not feeling very well today so I'm trying to take it easy. It seems to be everything, blurry vision, headaches, unsettled tummy. Anyway none of my readers are doctors so I won't bore you anymore.

I hope everyone is okay. I will try to rewrite my blog from the other night....it was funny.... but for now why dont I leave you with something to use when you are really bored.....

Google: StumbleUpon...

its a great website or you can down load the tool bar. You make an account and fill out your interests, and hey presto. a great deal of cool stuff....

Do it

IN THE PANTS!

Meeeee x

Those Zombie Eyes and the Late Night Ramblings

I had written a huge blog but it just got deleted...........................

GRRRRRRR

Bed now!

Stupidity and Captaincy

Okay. This one isn't actually from a train, and I am writing it a few days after the original paper copy was written.....but here goes me.

Im sat in a dingy social club on the estate where I live (not an estate like in Shameless, its alot more demure than that) and the social club is everything I hate. It looks like its not been decorated in about a hundred years, and it smells of damp. Anyway this has nothing to do with my blog. I'm here because my fiancees darts team have a match tonight, thier last match of the season. After the team played a few legs (a round of darts, so 701, 501 or 301) something came to my attention. A vital skill that darts players need is being able to count and add up. For example if you are left with 57 how can I score that. And there are plenty of darts players who can't do this. Even when its adding up thier three dart score they can't do it, and don't even talk to me about when they get doubles and triples. Now I don't understand this. There are several people in my darts teams who have played for years and years for county and so on..... so how is it they still can't add up. I doesn't add up lol.

So there is stupidity for you........

And captaincy...........

Our team captain has been away for a while, so as with anything the vice captain has of course stepped in to take over. Now the vice captain is a great bloke, and he's been giving me the job of sorting all the book and sheet out, because we have to record the score formally for the league website, and the book for our personal records. I have also been picking the placement thingys and so on. But the v.c has been telling me what to do every step of the way (i actually wrote day but then got embarrassed haha. stupid mistake huh?). So on Wednesday evening we were chatting, about how next season I would still like to be secretary, cause it really gives me something to do, and I enjoy it. The v.c just sat there and went "Well, do you want captaincy". I was so shocked and I said yes. So indeed. You are reading the blog of the Captain of The Swan Male Dart's team.(Yes the MALE team). I am really excited about this and I cant wait to get stuck it.

Now I am going to snuggle down in bed and read for a bit, and then post again in a few hours about whats been bothering me today

Bye xx

Well here's my new post. I don't really know what to say today but I'm just going to sit and type. Im sat on my own, with my messy house, not really knowing what to do. I'm watching Richard Hammonds something or other, and I remember reading a few weeks ago that someone had obviously gotten a high speed camera for christmas, and they just wanted to play with it.

I agree.

There isn't much point to this program because it isn't teaching me anything. But I am sat watching it. I don't know why. Its just making me sigh. I should be tidying, and drawing the curtains. Instead I'm watching Richard Hammonds something or other.

A tree branch is on fire.

I like fire.

I might actually get up and do something, and then come up with something witty to discuss.

Seeing you on the high speed!

Reservations and URLLLL

Oooookay. So. Here's blog number 2. (In real life that would have had a drum roll). Its 9:54 and someone was in my seat. This I could have done without at this time of the day. Not only was it a seat, it was a table seat.
Anyway, I say to the miscreant in my seat (oh and believe me he was a miscreant, but more about him later) "I'm sorry but you're in my seat" and this guy, just went "oh". He did get up but he also looked really really fed up about. WEEEELLLL I am sorry but its my bloody seat!

CHECK THE DISPLAY YOU MORON!

He was a miscreant too. He hugged his bag and had lots of piercings. He looked angry at 10:00 in the morning. BACK AWAY!

I'm pretty fed up today... ohhh announcements. Hahahaa the train manager has a proper west country accent. However I digress. I want a copy of the Metro. It's like a free informative drug. If there isn't one on the train I get edgy. I need my daily dose of the world. I've had a look around and there are none knocking about.

Seat reservation was the topic in hand though. I want to know why it is completely flawed. I'll help by listing some of the problems.

• you don't get the seat you specified (e.g. Facing, table specification, power socket, window seat or aisle)
• the display never works
• the seats get double booked
• someone else is sat in your seat and refusing to budge

I have experienced all of these accept the last one. Someone is sat in my seat.

"Hi, that's my seat"

"Um, no it's not! The display says nothing"

**shows ticket**"Yeeeesssss it is"

"Fine I'll move, but I don't believe you"

:o IT SAYS ON THE TICKET YOU DUMBASS!!!!!!

Yes this has really happened to me and one of my best friend. In all honesty my friend had the guys seat booked, but we didn't have the one next to it. We took it anyway.

I think miscreat just had a case fall on his head. I want to laugh but I honestly don't think it would be a wise move. He still looks angry.

So yeah. Seat res. It's double booked, or you book 2 tickets at the same time thinking common sense puts you together, except your not together. I was going down to Cardiff and there was no way I was sitting next to some randomer all the way down. Anyway it was a nice lady that had the other seat so she swapped with me. I personally have never had someone that refused to swap, or give me my seat but I have watched the consequences unfold. Some army lads had used this little old couples seat to store thier bags, and refused to give the seat back. The train manager became involved to no avail. Needless to say the couple had to find other seat.......

Verdict: Seat Reservations

FAIL

Catch you on the High Speed

:)

My First Post

Hi everyone. Okay first things first.....why is this called thoughts from a train?

This you may ask.....

Well I'm a commuter, or is it comutee... Anyway, I spend about 3 hours on a train, about 3 times a week, so I have alot of time to think. I decided I would write my blogs on the train, and upload them when I get home. I travel through Birmingham U.K alot, so you may see alot of stuff about that, but I don't really know what I might think about yet.

The second thing (or first issue I wanna chat about) is the "Unwritten Rules of Life". So I know your sat thinking "WHU?". You know like, how often is it okay to not have a bath for, how long is a respectable time to wait to start dating after a break up etc. Am I the only person who thinks about the "Unwritten Rules of Life"? Or do other people think, it would be really handy to have some kind of guide lines. Im pretty stuck on it. But if anyone have any idea then certainly let me know. Its always something that confuses me. Annnyway I do have to be on a train early tomorrow morning, so I am going to go to bed now, and write something new on the train tomorrow.

Catch you on the high Speed

Sleepyglowstar!