Jaz Design

Just a quick note really, since I have so much to do…

I’m thinking for my May goal (I know it’s a bit late, but, moving!) I’m going to aim to eat at least 4 different fruits and veggies a day. I know they say you should have five, but, considering my number usually ranges between 0-2, it’s a change, and chances are if I’m thinking about it I will be more. I went to Sainsbury’s t’other day and spent way too much on fruit and veggies which will probably only last me until tomorrow anyway. That being the only food we have, my start’s been quite good. But thus far…

Sunday – sultanas, grapes, apple, cucumber, celery, whatever’s in a nut cutlet and a Grassington’s veggie waffle thing, sweetcorn.
Monday – sultanas, banana, grapes, cucumber, celery, red pepper, two satsumas…

It does look like I have massively failed with tracking my food, I haven’t been paying attention whatsoever. Well, I have in that I KNOW I haven’t accidentally eaten a desk or something, but I can’t remember really.

I went to Tesco last night in a hunt for some sweetcorn, corn on the cob, for some reason I’m craving yellow food, but they had none, and therefore, we are now at war with Tesco until they provide me with some sweetcorn.

I have also consumed roughly 15 waffles in the last two days, I have a feeling I’m going to turn into one soon. (So I guess I did pay attention…)

My hair is now half pink, yes, pink. And I love it. It’s so me. Amazing how sometimes you can forget how crazy you are, all it takes is hitting some kind of bottom and then remembering, oh, wait a minute, yes, I’m insane and I enjoy every minute of it, everyone else can just deal with it. There’s a photo on my MySpace and there’s a not so clear one as my DA ID. I will try and get some better photos tomorrow, since I’m going to London or something. Hopefully.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if, one summer’s day, when there was gridlock on the M25 and countless people were sitting with their windows down, waiting for the traffic to move, if, someone put a song on that everyone knew the words too, some kind of cult legend, like Bohemian Rhapsody, loudly, and started this chain of singing that moved through the traffic like wildfire. I think that would be awesome.

That’s what I thought when I was in traffic on the M1 yesterday anyway, singing along with Freddy Mercury.

April 2nd

Sugar Puffs
Sandwich – houmous and celery
Jelly bugs
Chocolate eggs
Half a box of chocolates
Roasted carrot, parsnips, garlic potatoes and broccoli with a Quorn mushroom and garlic escallop thing.
A few glasses of peach schnapps and lemonade

Another new month. Where does the time go? WHERE? I’d like answers!

So a goal for April, something to track. Since Easter is in April (a time of chocolate apparently) this is probably the worst possible time to start tracking this, but, food. I have a terrible diet. I’m a vegetarian, but more of a cheese-a-tarian really. I haven’t had chance to look into those two cookbooks I bought yet, however when I return from Harpenden that’s something I will start looking at. I found tracking expenses you really do question what you spend, so perhaps tracking food, I’ll start looking more closely at what makes me tick. I think I’ll split it into good and bad, I can only go so far with that but I don’t know how else to measure things.

We did another car boot sale this morning, I did fairly terribly. Seems people don’t want Beanie Babies and things anymore. Ebay and television have ruined car boot sales, everyone wants something for nothing. Cheeky. Getting up at half five for it seemed pointless, it was freezing, sunrise did not lighten my mood at all. Never mind, we shall prevail in the end I suppose! We’ll have to, one month until the move. Or 30 days.

Also, if you’d like to check it out, we have a preliminary website for my Enterprise group’s company, Clockwork Green. We aim to start trading after Easter so if you like things environmentally friendly, stylish and retro – check it out. Products will be available on Ebay and at sales in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

April 1st

Italics = bad

1 slice sunflower seed bread with lemon curd
2 small donuts
Some tortilla chips
Some Minstrels (chocolate)
1 sandwich (sunflower seed bread) with vegan edam, marg, houmous, celery (1 stick) and cucumber
Couple of slices of pizza (four cheese), oven fries, 2 veggie waffles, 1 red pepper, celery, cucumber
Chocolate chips
1 litre water
Tesco effervescent vitamins
A few yoghurt covered raisins

3 portions of fruit/veg – not brilliant. More than usual. Chocolate and donuts notwithstanding.

I completely lost track of my spending last weekend. All it takes it to stop doing something for one day and then you’re track’s completely broken. So, didn’t make it a month. Plus the spending I did on Tuesday would completely wreck my percentages.

That said, I’m very happy with my Tuesday purchases. I’ve been looking for some decent black jeans for about two years, plain black, not very dark grey. Black. I found some amazing ones in Bay. I also got this weird dress/top thing from New Look which looks really cool. I’m clueless with fashion, but the stuff that’s in fashion is a bit weird at the moment. I got some other things too… basically spent too much money, but for some reason I felt like I needed to.

I am managing to hold back on buying a new mobile phone. I really dislike my current phone, but until that breaks I really have no excuse to purchase an extravagance that costs 150 of the English pounds. It won’t offer me many benefits, better mobile internet, but who really needs to be connected 100% of the time… and it’s pink. And shiny. But. I’m going to wait until summer to make a decision about this, hopefully by that time I’ll be earning, and that would be the sensible thing to do.

Going home tonight. Easter break. Gonna get some Ben and Jerry’s on the way home and cuuuddllle up with mah hunnnie.

Redyed my hair – it’s now half black and I rebleached the other side so it’s really bright blonde. That side is going to go pink in a week or so

Yesterday the other half an I went to see 300. He likes Miller and knows about these things, whereas I have no clue about things like graphic novels and was mostly going because I liked the trailer, and I’ve dragged him to every shitty horror flick that’s come out since October. I was surprised, I thought the film was amazing.

It was certainly visually stunning, although I’m not so sure I’d have been so accepting of the obviousness of CG had I not known it was based on a graphic novel. Either way, they really went to town on it. I especially loved this technique that I’ve only just started noticing appearing in movies, where, for example, someone shoots an arrow, the camera pans in on the arrow, time slows down and it moves around the arrow before it speeds up again, drawing you in and making you feel a part of something otherwise quite flat. It’s almost 3D without being 3D.

Gerard Butler was impressive, I’ve only seen him as the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, it was very entertaining to see him do something so different, and do it so well.

The story wasn’t that strong, it was mostly about the fighting which is fair enough, but they did manage to put enough of a storyline in to have me crying by the end of it (I felt like I’d been hit with an emotional bus, but I think that may have just been me). There were some very touching moments, some downright scary moments, but mostly, a lot of bloody moments. But even then, they were well engineered bloody moments.

The soundtrack, the soundtrack, the soundtrack, I adored it. Rocky vs classical, always a winner with me. I thought it fit the movie very well. I’d recommend the movie, assuming you can deal with slow motion decapitation… or just generally a lot of slow motion. I read somewhere they filmed most of it at 50-150 frames per second – shows just how much slow motion they did or planned to use!

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I realise now on DA you get a free prints account, so I just messed around with the options to see what would happen, as a result, this photo of the sunset over Southsea is available as a print.

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All else is going alright. Got a lot of work on at uni, but it’s all good things. Thinking of things to write about for a dissertation, working up a design for a competition, running a business focussed on environmentalism (proper website and details available next week), it’s all good.

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Thursday 21st March

Nothing!

Wednesday 20th March

Chocolate chips 0.49
Pizza 1.15
Broccoli 0.46
Butter 0.46
Chips 0.88
Enterprise Investment 30
Car Insurance 476.04 (not including this in percentages as it tips it too much, just included for records)

Totals so far…
£235.35
Necessary £179.96 76.46%
Unnecessary £55.39 23.54%

Wednesday 20th MarchMilky Way Crispy Rolls 0.35
Mega Cheddar Baguette 3.30

Totals so far…
£201.91
Necessary £147.01 72.81%
Unnecessary £54.90 27.19%

Tuesday 20th March

Petrol £5.06
Milk £0.49

Totals so far…
£198.26
Necessary £147.01 74.15%
Unnecessary £51.25 25.85%

I’m not doing so well with the not spending unnecessary money it would seem. I’m going to try to rectify that since I only have about £100 to last me until April 16th…

I also missed a few expenses off of this, car insurance because while it’s come out of my account I’m still not 100% sure how much it was because they made changes. When it shows up on the statement I’ll consider it gone. Also, I ordered two books off of amazon – totaling about £12, but I plan to get reimbursed for that as Easter presents.

They were…

I’m working towards a goal of a more varied and healthy diet and I’d heard good things about these books. Once they arrive I’m going to aim to try one recipe a week and work out what I like, don’t like and can grow to like. I’m an incredibly fussy eater and a huge cheesatarian so it should be good to get some variation…

Monday 19th March

Broccoli £0.42
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream £2.50
Curly Fries £0.99
Waffles £1.69
Pepper £0.78
Organic Goats Cheese £1.29
Pasta £0.85
Crisps £0.48
Quorn Escallops £1.99
Bagels £0.70
Lindor Egg £0.50
Cheese Baps £0.20
Butternut Chunks £0.75
Houmous £0.99
Birthday Card £1.85
Gift Voucher £10

Totals so far…
£192.71
Necessary £141.46 73.41%
Unnecessary £51.25 26.59%

Friday 16th March

Petrol £5
Mini Eggs £0.99
Mars Eggs £0.99
Mother’s Day Card £2.95
Phone Credit £10

Saturday 17th March

Celebrations £2.87

Sunday 18th March

Mother’s Day Chocolate £4.97
Mother’s Day Thingy £0.99
Pizza £2.45
Cheese £1.84
Pepper £0.89
Cucumber £0.52
Spaghetti Hoooooops £0.46
Hula Hoops £0.34

Totals so far…
£166.73
Necessary £123.83 74.27%
Unnecessary £42.90 25.73%