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Of all the things that I said I was going to do, I've done one and a half of them. The one was ficwriting, and the half was betaing. Haven't typed up the next bits of 3. Reconcilliation.

However, the ficwriting went weird. I was planning to write a really cute scene for my Kat/Kim fic (first kiss outside of dream, yay!), but I ended up doing all the build up to it and then not quite getting to the cute part. V_V I also did some more to my epic - and inserted some symbolism for state-of-affairs. XD

What did I do while procrastinating? Well, the first half of the week was spend in random cafes either writing or working on an AMV, and the second half was spent shooting various things and playing cards. And the entirety was spend with no sleep due to those fecking squirrels.

Speaking of noise, what is with babies? Everywhere, bawling, screaming, running! Hateful! I can definitely say that I get the perspective of the CF members of my f-list. 6_9

Ah well.

What else was there... Oh yeah: Paintballing. First game: got shot, put my arm up and started to walk back, and blokey on the green side keeps shooting me. Hence me doing the same thing to one of them in the next game. *evil* Second and third games: Attack/defend the castle. We had these giant boards to hide behind attacking, and had to gather puzzle pieces that were hidden around the outside of the castle (the defending team wasn't allowed outside except to make their way to the elimination zone).

Defending was harder - there was practically no shelter, and a green came around the walls and started shooting right through the window - even though we had been told that if a green came within five metres of the walls, all fire both ways on the ground floor was to cease. So I pointed out that we could see where he was from his feet under the walls, and we shot at the window and door whenever he got close to one: effectively pinning him.

Fourth game we had to get a box as close to the enemy base as possible, while they did the same with another box. I started off as an escort to the box-carriers, but it ended up with me and the bloke who was organising us carrying it and leaving the two boys behind. It ended up as a draw, but if we'd done a kamikaze dash right at the end (during the countdown) we could have won.

The last game was capture the flag, and again I was defending our base. Except, this time we had the big old boards and it ended up me and my sister holding off the attacking group. It was so American-style it was unbelieveable - the three greens were behind the same board, I was next to the boundary and

xxicenickyxx was near the centre, and we were all shooting so wildly that we were all pinned. Even though

xxicenickyxx had an extra hundred in a tube, in addition to the 200 in her hopper, she ran out of ammo first, so when I ran out the greens were free to just take it. V_V;;

I am really sunburnt, too. We've had record heat, and I only used suncream in the last two days (after my shoulders were burnt). So the front of my theighs, my shoulders and my outer arms are all red.

The Riding Lesson was a bit useless, really. We learnt things that I knew from reading those old Saddle Club books (though it's a hell of a lot different trying to do that when you're sitting on the thing!).