I didn't have a computer last night, so I couldn't actually update. I had a pretty eventful day though. I'll give you the short story and then tell you basically what happened. (Now, when I say short, it usually turns out really long. This probably won't be any different.) The long and short of it is:
We broke a remote control helicopter, we got locked out, we nearly got attacked by a dog, we nearly fell off a garage roof and we started a fire in the forest, not realising that there were police at the end of the street.
So, Alfie invites me and Matt over because none of us have anything better to do. Got there about 11 in the morning after waking up at 8 coz my Mum decided that it would be a good idea to wash my hair before I left. Anyway, got there at 11, hadn't had any breakfast (not that I ever do) and I felt a little hungry. Of course, Matt wasn't there yet, so we couldn't get the pizza. We waited for about an hour and then called him. Unsurprisingly, he was still in bed. We gave up waiting and ordered the pizza. X-Large, which would mean we got 4 slices each, and they were pretty big bloody slices. We paid for it, splitting the money equally between three people, then Matt got there and decided he didn't actually want any. Stupid git. So, we ate pizza, watched a little Pirates of the Caribbean, then, we found Alfie's remote control helicopter and took it over the park, not bothering to check if it worked or not. I'm sure you're not at all surprised to hear that it didn't. So, we went back to his house from the park and changed the batteries. At first it still didn't work, so Matt picked it up to take a closer look at it and Alfie pushed the forward button and the blades started spinning, almost taking out Matt's eye. It was quite funny, tho I don't think Matt would agree with me. Anyway, we eventually gave up with that and went out in Alfie's back garden. The next door neighbours dog barked and scared the crap out of Matt. I went over to stroke it, Alfie did the same and just as Matt came along to join us, Riley (the dog) barked and Matt ran off.
For lack of anything better to do, we climbed on to Alfie's garage roof (despite mine and Matt's saying that the roof looked like it was about to collapse) and made a...well...it wasn't really anything...it was rope tied across from tree to tree. It was eventually turned into a slingshot and we used it to play an interesting game of fetch with the dog (well...we could have if it had worked every time and not just once in every ten). I did play fetch with Riley tho...I think he was kind of missing the point as the stick always seemed to end up at the other end of the garden...
It was while we were on the garage roof that we saw the big pile of wood beside it that Alfie's Mum and Alan clearly didn't want. Which gave us the idea of making a fire. We didn't use the wood in the end, we used some cardboard from the recycling box. That was only after we'd persuaded Matt to climb down from the roof, reassuring him that the dog would not attack him when he stepped onto the fence....
Anyhoo...the fire....We walked over to the Airpark with the cardboard and found a nice little place deep in the forest. The first place we found was in plain view of the Swimming Pool, so we quickly stomped the fire out and moved further in. It was pretty hard to find dry leaves, so using wet leaves made the fire smoke a lot, and chances were, you could probably still see it from the Swimming Pool anyway...we had to jump on it when it got a little out of control and then we quickly legged it out of the forest. Of course, it was only when we'd gotten out that we realised it was still going and that you could see it through the bushes. We just left it and quickly walked off. We'd have been pretty screwed if it had spread, so we stayed in the park by the forest just to make sure it didn't. Matt was the one who realised that there was a guy sitting on the bench by the park and would have seen us come out of the forest. We think (and hoped) that he was drunk.
When we got back to Alfie's house, he realised that he'd forgotten his key and after ringing the bell 5 times, we resigned ourself to the fact that Alfie's sister had gone out and that there was no way that we were going to get in through the front door. So Alfie climbed over the fence to the Alleyway and then into the garden, hoping that the back door was open. Luck was clearly not on our side seeing as it was closed. We changed tactics and Alfie passed the step ladder over the closed gates and then climbed onto the ledge above the door and then in through his sisters bedroom window. His Mum chose that moment to turn up in the car. It was all quite amusing. It was only then that we realised we all smelt of the fire...Luckily she didn't ask about it...
Toni (Alfie's sister) got back a few minutes later and sat down at the computer. When she was asked by their Mum what she'd been up to for the day, she said,
"MSN, down the shop for sweets oh, and by the way, the Police were at the door earlier coz of Alfie." After making the fire, we were still a little on edge and we thought for a moment that she was serious. When she told us that it was only a joke we probably looked more relieved than we ever had before in our lives.
So, after that, Alfie asked first if I could stay for dinner and then after that, he asked if I wanted to sleep over. Mum said yes, so we bought his PS2 downstairs and played 'Driver: Parallel Lines' for a couple of hours and then spent the rest of the night until 1am listening to Toni's music on the computer and watching 'Jungle Book' and singing along to all the songs. It was funny. Their cat (Ziggy) fell asleep on me when I laid down on the sofa and stayed there for 3 hours. I have massive scratches on my leg where I tried to get her off at 1 o'clock so that I could get to sleep.
We got up at 8:30 in the morning and...well after getting all of Illana-May's (Alfie's little sister) money out of the portable radiator so that it wouldn't catch fire when it automatically turned on at 3pm, I had to leave because Alfie was going to his Nan's.
After that, I went shopping, got my Xbox Mag. and the Top Gear mag. and new Rollerblades, which I'm not actually allowed until my birthday in 13 days. That really sucks. The Xbox mag. this week was rather odd. They put in some really odd reviews, but I've finally decided to make myself an Xbox 360 games wish list. It totalled up to 18 games which I definitely want and 5 that looked interesting. Only 8 of the 23 games were out now and 4 of them had no actual release date, but at least now I can keep track. 'Test Drive Unlimited' is at the top of my list, purely because of the fact that you can customise the cars enough to change the interior. That should be interesting. I may tell Mum that, that's the game I want from Duncan this year for my birthday.
Speaking of Duncan, he's scaring me slightly. He tried to talk me in to going to see him, and if he gets over this thing with Grandad, I may give it a chance. Or I'll wait for the barbecue he's having. Jess is going, so I'll have someone to talk to at least. I dunno, it'll be something that I think about...

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Thankfully, I'm on Alfie's boat for Narrow Boat weekend. After I found out that Alfie and Matt were together on James' boat I assumed that I would be with Arron, which would have just sucked, not that I don't like Arron or anything, it would have just been a little boring. Anyway, getting back to the point, I found out that Arron wasn't going, so Dave was putting the three of us together. Yay! Early morings to drive the boat. Three man crew. Should be fun. We have a radio this time and a TV thanks to Alfie. Woohoo!
And more good news, Crystal Palace just won at an Away game. Yay! (this is the luck that the three of us didn't have yesterday coming back to be nice to me!) We beat Southend 1-0...not the best score ever, but we still won...Woo!

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I've had a good day these last two days (probably because I haven't been at home) so I don't have any ranting to do. Except for my homework. Ugh...I just cannot be bothered to do it. Okay...I think that's it...