I'm Caty. I live near Oxford, in England. It's alright, but I can't wait to move away and have my own house etc. I want to live near the sea, but ultimately I want to live in an Arabic-speaking country.

I don’t like school so much

I’m not looking forward to September. Everything’s changing. And I hate change. But hey, new start, probably what I need!

I love languages. Top of my list to learn is Arabic, but at the moment I’m working on Romanian because I’m going to a Romanian speaking country in the summer

I don’t enjoy parties. I would much rather be sat in my room watching NCIS or reading a book or just by myself walking or cycling around

My best friend left 4 years ago this summer. It’s still painful and sometimes feels like it only happened yesterday. I know that ultimately, it was the best thing for her. Every time I walk past her road, I remember going down there to see her every day and it makes me want to cry that I don’t have that kind of friendship with anyone any more. Every time I see her rug in my bedroom I remember that she didn’t have enough space for it and had to leave it behind. I still can’t play cards because it was ‘our’ game that she taught me to play. Same with Cluedo. I tried playing cards once after she’d left, but all I could hear was her telling me the way to play. I hope she knows that we miss her as much as she misses us.

My other best friend started to get violent towards me because of various issues that she had. It kinda destroys the trust and safety in a friendship when you’re too scared to be alone with her. I try to see her when I can, but we both lost each other somewhere along the line.

My family are crazy. Not in a good way. As in officially. As in with a doctor’s note, signed and dated.

NCIS keeps me sane. Or maybe it does the opposite. Either way, I love it. I guess it’s the only thing I can guarantee will be there each week (although not at the moment, but at least I know it will be back, unlike countless other unmentionable people). You know you’re addicted when you can’t take a ‘Rocky’ chocolate bar to school for lunch the day after the season finale because it will remind you of Rocky Carroll (Vance) and that will remind you that you have to wait until September for a new episode and that makes you sad. Or when you’re doing a maths exam and you’re doing the equations and when you see the letter ‘z’ in one of the equations, you immediately think of Ziva. Or when one of the questions says, “Tony and Jane are sharing sweets in the ration……” and your reaction is, “Skip the sweet sharing – why is Tony with Jane and not Ziva?!” All of the above have happened to me

So yeah, I get addicted to thing quickly and majorly. But that’s the way I like it. That’s why I think me and alcohol wouldn’t make a good couple……or would we?

Cold Case is good too. But it just doesn’t have that ‘thing’ that NCIS has that you can’t quite put your finger on. Same with Silent Witness, EastEnders and Bones.

I like the way Americans do TV. In England, a season (we call it a series though) lasts one and a half months if you’re lucky. In America it lasts about 8 months. Now that’s the way to give your audience some pretty serious withdrawal symptoms!

I like quotes. Happy quotes, sad quotes, serious quotes, quotes in another language. Today, I’ll write some of my happier quotes:

“My Father had a profound impact on me – he was a lunatic”

“I had a great evening, but this wasn’t it”

“I have the craziest dreams – who needs drugs”

For Emily: “The man who walks sideways through the airport door is going to Bangkok”

Friend: She thinks you’re sensible

Me: She’s obviously never looked in the wing mirror

“Get back in your bush!”

Comment written by friend under drawing she had done: “Caty is batty!”

Comment from maths teacher under drawing: “No!”

“Children in the dark cause accidents. Accidents in the dark cause children”

“Seriously, it’s like looking after a toddler!”

“She was unable to complete the task but died doing what she loved best with a smile on her face”

“Brian promised to love me forever, but then he told me about a Star Trek episode where they scientifically proved the possibility that forever might actually only last for a few days”

Scotty (Cold Case): We found her arm. We think the rest of her might be dead

Brenda: Miss sensitivity training, did ya?

Lilly (Cold Case): It’s detective and I completely earned it

Nikki (looking at results on a computer screen): Harry, I need you

Harry: How I have longed to hear those words

“Bad Shop”

Danny: What’s all this?

Ted: Tigger’s still missing

Danny: Proably dead

Maddy: No – he’s not! He’s just….out

Danny: Spread out, on the road

Maddy: No, don’t worry…he’s just….he’s just on his way

Danny: To Birmingham, on the bumper of a truck

Maddy: No, he’s not! He’s packing…he’s packing his little…catty things… in a little….rucksack…and….and….

Danny: How does he put that on?

We have clearance Clarance

Roger roger

What’s our vector Victor?

Surely you can’t be serious?
I am serious……and don’t call me Shirley

“Why hostess, I speak jive!”

(Yes, I’m an Airplane fan too!)

Karen (when performing a funeral service for a dead mouse): May the force be with you because you’re worth it

Ben (Outnumbered): “We could put beavers through the window and they could eat the door!” (When his little sister Karen is trapped in the toilet)

Ziva: I’ve got a lead!

Tony: A real lead? I mean, “Really? A lead!”

Ducky: I prefer a good shag

Abby: Hey, you shaved your moustache. I liked you with a bit of pair on your face

Gibbs: I still got my eyebrows

Abby: Good point

Tony: Are we fighting?

Ziva: If we were, you would be bleeding on the floor

Tony: I accept that as a likely outcome

Gibbs: Ziva David? She works for me