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March 14th, 2011

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Done it all in a one-er :')

15 day challenge.

Day 1 - introduce yourself

Hi, I'm Danielle Josephine Theresa McAlonan. I'm 15 and live in Paisley, Scotland. I live with my parents and my little sister, they're a pain but I love them. I'm spoiled a lot. I get a lot. I take a lot for granted. I'll be nice if you're nice to me. I can be a right bitch when I want to be but.. can't we all?

Day 2 - Explain your current relationship status.

Right now, and hopefully forever more, I have the best boyfriend in the world. I'm totally head over heels for him. He completes me :) I love Christopher McCulloch.

Day 3 - if you could only have one wish, what would it be?

To live closer to my Chris, so I could see him everyday.

Day 4 - if you could live anywhere in the world

I know I could say, I wish I could live in Australia with Chris for the rest of my life and be happy because he's there and I don't have to chose this place but.. Abronhill. I don't care if people don't like it, I don't care if it's overrun by neds, I don't care if it's the shittiest place on earth because when I'm there I forget about everything. I don't know why but the place has a really good effect on me.. Maybe it's not the place, maybe it's the people..

Day 5 - the most amazing thing that ever happened to you

Downloading "whoshere" on my iPod touch. Without that I wouldn't have met the most amazing guy in the world.

Day 6 - your best friend

I don't really have one. I have plenty of good friends, really good ones.. Jo, Heather, Morgan, Charlie, Nicole, Amber, Jennifer, Aimee, Carrie, Alix, Lucas.. But none of them stand out a's the "best friend". Maybe I just don't have one, maybe I don't need one because tbh, my closest friend, is my sister.

Day 7 - choose lyrics and explain why you chose them

"I said I'd never let you go and I never did, I said I'd never let you fall and I always meant it"
Have faith in me - ADTR

I adore this lyric because it really describes how I feel. Like.. I was never really over Chris the first time round.. Hence the "never let you go" because I couldn't, and didn't. And I'm soooooo glad I didn't!

Day 8 - if you could change anything about yourself, what would it be?

My hips. Theyre huuuuuge. If I could lose weight around my hips, I'd be happy.

Day 9 - someone you look up to.

Em.. There's a few. Ellie Goulding - I think she's amazing. She's gorgeous and has a really fantastic voice. I'd love to be like her. Laura McCulloch - SHE'S STUNNING. and for some reason I want to be just like her.. There's something about her. She's such a lovely person. And Kat Von D - she's so independent and I admire that :) she's fucking beautiful and I adore her tattoos.

Day 10 - your family.
Gran - Margaret McAlonan
Grandpa - James McAlonan (dead)
Their kids - Uncle Jim
Auntie Anne
Auntie Eileen
My dad
Auntie Maureen
Uncle Alan
My cousins - Grace
Amy
Alex
Adam
Emma
Caroline
Fiona
Gillian

Nana - Janet Humphries
Papa - William Humphries
Their kids - Uncle Billy
Auntie Janet
Auntie Marion
Auntie Caroline
My mum
Auntie Patricia
My cousins (their kids)- Tracy (Bethany and Jennifer)
Andrea (Andrew, Alannah, Alan)
Pauline (Callum)
Caroline (David, Emma)
Billy
Ryan
Robert
Pamela
Jack
Trevor (Aiden, Leah)
Joanna
Jonathon

Day 11 - google the meaning of your name

Danielle/Daniel - "God is my judge"

Day 12 - a famous person you've been compared to

Morgan compared me to Michael Jackson in a Barney costume.
In primary I used to get told I looked like Ashley Tisdale.

Day 13 - something that puts a smile on your face no matter what

Remembering that I have my Christopher, he's mine, I've got my second chance. And thinking "I'm not gonna mess it up this time."

Day 14 - what are you afraid of

Not being good enough. Not being skinny enough, or pretty enough, or smart enough. And losing the people that mean the most to me. I'm scared of dying. I have an irrational fear of the unknown and claustrophobia.

Day 15 - describe where you live

I like in Paisley, just outside glenburn. I pretty much hate it. I'm oo far away from my friends and I need to wake up earlier to get to school. My house is nice though. It's quite big and I have my own room. I used to share a room with my sister so I'm happy to have a space to myself, some privacy. All in all, it's not great.. But it could be worse.

ChrissyClutz
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This short story by Ian Crichton Smith tells us all about the escalating fear of two woman, one fat, one thin, as the elder draws closer to the two women’s houses, the elder is firmly holding an office telegram in his hand, which could contain the news that one of the woman’s sons have been killed at war.

Ian Crichton Smith uses two main themes in the short story, the first one is the relationship between the two woman, and the other is fear of losing one of their sons. Ian Crichton Smith portrays these themes by his use of Plot development, setting, the differences he shows between the two characters, and the unsuspected ending to the story.

To give a better understanding of the short story i will give a brief summary. The story starts with the two characters sitting in the thin woman’s house drinking tea, when they suddenly see an upright figure at the end of their street from the view of the window. The two woman keep a very mistrustful eye on the figure, it turns out to be the village elder delivering a telegram. The two woman, trying not to get worked up about the sight of the elder, go off focus and talk about their sons and how their different from one another. But as the elder gets closer to the women’s houses, they go completely off the topic of their sons, they start to talk about how ‘Malcolm Mackay’ crashed his car in the blackout. Ian Crichton Smith points out where the elder is at each moment in time by saying whose house he has passed, this makes the reader a lot more cautious about the elder. Near the end of the short story we as the reader get a surprise, and i suspect so do the two characters.

The main character we feel sympathy for is the elder, the reasons for this is because how the woman introduce him to us, they say that he is ‘proud’ of what he does, which at this moment in time in the story seems quite acceptable, but at the end of the short story, all of the bad things that the fat or thin woman said about the elder, turn to lies, and make us feel sympathy for the elder. The elder himself is introduced to the readers in a very unsympathetic way, he seems like a very dark, and heartless man, who, to us, seems to show no sympathy at all, as he is the one who has to go about telling grown adults that they have lost their child at war. From the thin and fat woman saying that he must like it, since he ‘knows before anyone else’ seems appropriate at this part of the story. Furthermore, in the end, it seems completely out of order.

March 14th, 2011
LauraVengeance_x
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aww danielle i just saw the wee bit about me !
fuck being like me, your gorgeous !:D xx

March 18th, 2011
SameOldDanielle
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@LauraVengeance_x nah, I'm proper jealous of you! :') you're too pretty :) thanks though, aha <3

March 18th, 2011