miriam

Hi i'm
(Alice Avril Baynes)
and my name means "Sea of Bitterness".

i like...
summer holidays abroad with zoe, tea, cardigans, gigs, party rings, pink wafers, jam cream biscuits, choc-chip cookies... biscuits in general, the sound of music, the smell of paint, zoe, those flapjacks they sell at college,Fiona McNaughty, Andrew, the rest of my top friends, charity shops, taking lots of photos, mad people in san fransisco who play saxophones down alleyways for no reason at all, the kareoke taxi, grapes, wearing old lady style skirts as dresses, retro rehab's £3/2 for £5 sale rail, my bright blue coat that my mother hates, buttons, julie andrews, pinapples, pinnaple juice, the smell of carpet shops, Fionas food being my food, syrup sponge pudding, recieving post, recivieving text messages, the cribs, iForwardRussia!, guillemots, the maccabees, heidi seeker clothes, hamma beads, patterned fabric, knitting, that cheese greator, cutting up old magazines and making collages from them, makeup, my mushroom shoes, cookie dough ice cream, bright colours, scarves, hats, sausages, fishing in abney park, picnics, foreighn films, my £2.50 velvet cocktail dress, appletizer, tortoises, seals, my cats, andrew’s cat, hipbones, the colour orange, the colour green, seeing faces in everyday objects, when people just make me smile, people who read between the lines, slushy depressing films, vintage handbags, vintage dresses, “ most reality TV, rainbows, golden syrup, lorraine kelly, MTV2, “march of the penguins”, making sound of music tribute videos, making commemorative plates, making boy band videos, fiona's little killerwhale teeth, Fiona’s un-impressed face, Fiona’s grumpy face, Fiona’s large collection of dressing up clothes, dressing up, finding bargains, limited edition 50p coins, when people make things for me, people who are willing to talk to me in the early hours of the morning, Andrew's gravity defying hair, philosophy, drawing doodles all over my notes, coloured pens, M&S refridgerator cake, M&S rasberry jelly, addapted songs about certain members of the camel family, winning "family flip quiz", phone conversations with anyone who will talk to me, weather influanced designs. ie clouds, the cloud appriciation society, shopping on a Saturday, taking lots and lots of photos, bus journeys and biscuits with alice, dragging alice along to gigs, stockport SU on a good night, finding unexpected money in pockets, the shape of umbrellas, the snow, the smell of paint, sending people free samples of medical goods through the post, royal mail, clean smelling busses, jean paul gautier- fragile, autumn, feta cheese, my vivienne westwood neclacey thing, painting, being a “music bum”, meeting celebrities, £5 shoes, chocolate, glittery things, tetris, other people starting msn conversations, dufflecoats, my coat that "makes you look like a dalek", that peacock badge i lost, NOT loosing things, wearing dresses that no one else likes, this computer, intuitive people, talented people, things that make people just that little bit different, fleb-a-chinos, visiting museums and art galleries, volkswagon caravanettes, remembering something funny when im walking on my own and getting strange looks from passers by... as im laughing to myself, pasta, gnomes, souveneers, gift shops, the zoo, stockport’s air raid shelter tour, museums, art galleries, owning a neck brace, my melodiker, my accordion, that drum kit i never play, buying new stationary, olive oil and white wine vinnager, getting free things, badges of bands i actually like, my band t shirts that i never wear out of the house, carrot cake, instore signings, post it notes, the fact cheadle now has a costa coffe a subway AND a KFC (!), charm bracelets, stripy mugs, CAP LOCS when appropriate, when i get people in starbucks to make me a gingerbread late with caramel, photobooths, expensive shampoo, manchester, lifts home with lewis singing along to various boy bands and playing wham! At the students of cheadle ridge, annoying my whole street with loud music from lewis's car, my spiral staircase, paperchase, kazoos, innocent smoothies, bannana chips, candy floss, fairy lights, red lipstick, listening to CDs i havnt listend to in ages, penguins, mary poppins, smarties before they went “artificial colouring-free”, the old smarties tubes, the old smarties lids, OLD SMARTIES, nice old people, having money when shopping, shopping on a budget, playing music loudly in the kitchen, making my own complilation CDs, enflicting my own compelation CDs upon other people, “classic miriamisms”... to a certain extent, the countryside, the city, watching live music, the sound of a live orchestra, the smell of cold air, pets with really normal average names, stickers, welsh accents, prawn cocktail crisps, orchids, lilys, singing “you and me song” in the car with my dad, gouache paint, potato salad, take-away pizza, orange juice with bits, cheap lunches, chips with cheese, lots of salt and lots of vinager please, greek salad, being able to touch my nose with my tongue, getting money out of the bank, getting ready to go out, memories of cheadle hulme school’s choral society, the fact (miracle) that i acually passed my D of E bronze award, having fantastic ideas, russian dolls, polite-ness, long phone conversations, long msn conversations, long hair, good earings, good jewlery, comfy old sofas, keeping things for sentimental value, that time we drove a peddle-me-cart down OC boulevard playing “trains to brazil” very loudly and scaring the americans, hilarous people in america, 4am swimming in the sea with zoe, mine and zoes language, the way we have our own words and phrases for practically everything, musical soundtracks, the noise rainsticks make, the sound when you hit two halves of an easter egg together, the sound of crinkling tin foil, star shapes, cookie cutters, madeline, penny crayon, those pens that have like 10 different colours in one, how i have been friends with some people for so long, how im becoming better friends with new people all the time, the “mimmy and libby radio shooow!”, big old trees, when people take me on days out to new and interesting places, scrabble, internet scrabble and you... for reading this far!
i dont like...
my overly expressive face, toms impression of my confused face, most of the people you get on busses, when i loose things, the vast ammount of apalling photos of me there are out there, awkward conversations, being the centre of attention, duke of edinburgh award, cerial with milk, licking yoghurt lids, people who try to be "random", pointless insults, strangers who glare at you, people who judge other people loads, “the feeling”(the band), when im poorly, people who are needlessly rude, my state of a bedroom, films that drag on, the fact pastel colours make me look ill, that i cant drive, nuts, peanut butter, "fun sized" chocolate bars, llamas, smug people and "know it all"s.
(issues?)
i...
- get stressed and subconciously roll up bits of selotape and leave them lying around. - avoid walking past big ques of people.
- have to shut doors propperly.
- make cups of tea in a routine way.
- cant eat pointy ends on chips.
- hardly throw anything away.
- zoey says:
"how about your obsession with making tea so it fills right up to the brim?" ... yes, that too.