time flies

hello!

today's been one of those days where i just can't really be bothered.

the best part was when our substitute media teacher began a rant about how programmes like Jerry Springer / Jeremy Kyle are abusive toward class and poisonous for society.
then we watched a clip of the shows. they were really quite funny.
so maybe they are abusive toward the under class, and maybe they do infect society - but it's fun to watch from a superior point of view.

oh! i made a note earlier to tell you about my friend Elly. i've mentioned her before, and she has just recently got herself a little tumblr blog! it's called tempus fugit - which is latin for time flies i believe. so if you have a spare minute check that out.

it's my birthday in three weeks!
i'll be 17.
what are you getting me?

i'm not really making a big deal out of it this year, because unfortunately it's right in the middle of my coursework deadlines. i can't afford to take any time out. which is really disappointing. i'll just have to celebrate virtually instead.

twitter party, feb 1st.
be there, or be square.

speaking of twitter, i'm now one follower away from 100. this is really surprising as i lead such a mundane life. i've also got a bunch of new followers on here too. so hello! i hope you like me writing about stuff! maybe i should tell you a little about me?

i'm accessible 24/7. i blog at least three times a week. i am always on the internet. i like pretty things. i like things that are not so pretty. i am a girl.

i think that covers who i am.
tell me who you are in the comments!
i want to get to know my followers better.
xo

Post Exam

well, i just finished my first ever A Level exam.
i say just, it was about two hours ago.
it went okay, i did all but two of the questions. however i really don't want to jinx it. i'm just so glad it's over, i had a bit of a stress out yesterday. i say a bit, it was pretty catastrophic.
whoever wished me luck, thank you. i feel like it helped.

i'm writing this in college, but on the terrible little app on my google homepage. why? because access to blogger is blocked it's classed as "Social Networking and Personal Sites." which is a lie. sorry, i thought facebook was social networking? i guess i was misinformed...
this is why sour middle aged people shouldn't run the internet. they don't understand and they get things wrong.

i'm currently listening to my iPod, which is playing christmas songs. maybe i should take them off now? nobody's rocking around the christmas tree anymore. it was taken down last week.

i have to go get educated now.
have lovely mondays!
xo

quality over quantity

i was doing well on my one-blog-a-day-secret-resolution.

but then i had nothing to write about yesterday.
quality over quantity guys.

anyway, tomorrow i have my first ever real A Level exam. marking my first quarter of college education. one year and a half left to survive.
the exam is maths. no calculator. brainy algebra/geometry stuff which i can't do. i struggled through GCSE maths, let alone A Levels.

i don't even know if the buses are running tomorrow. which will be interesting. it's still pretty snowy out.

my parents obviously think it's still a good idea to have our garden furniture out. idk.

oh, also! you remember i told you about baby peanut? my boss's unborn fetus?
yeah. they found out the sex today.
i am finally going to have someone to share my love of disney with,
it's a girl!
she's not due until June, but how exciting! a little baby girl.
they're looking for name suggestions for her too,
so please, leave any ideas in the comments!

and please wish me luck on my exam tomorrow.

i hope you are all having lovely weekends!
xo

epic.

i went out last night and had a bit of a snow fight with my brother.

it was less throwing snowballs, more kicking snow in his direction.
although i did get him right in the back of the neck.apologies for the quality - it was dark
if i'm ever going to use the word epic, this is where i'd use it.
i've probably used it before, but we'll gloss over that.

i also downloaded his Lady Gaga CD onto the computer last night. i know, i'm so mainstream. but, it's his CD? when he got it for christmas, my reaction was ".... did you ask for that?" apparently he did.

this is my third snow day. hurrah! i genuinely feel for all of those who still have to make their ways to school and work at this troublesome weather time. travel safely!

i plan to go out later and enjoy the snow with a friend, so i guess i better start putting layers on now.

in closing:

JE VEUX TON AMOUR ET JE VEUX TON REVENGE

i love the french bit in 'Bad Romance'
xo

ps: hello new readers/commenters/followers! i seem to be getting new followers on twitter too. i must be doing something right...

snow days: part 2

so after all of the excitement that it snowed and look at all the snow and isn't it great? wahoo! i decided that i better get in some studying before i went out to play in it.
so i got up, showered, put my pj's back on, crawled back into bed and wrote an essay, planned and essay, edited another essay, got a considerable way through my literature reading and learnt a whole bunch of my lines. in like four hours.
snow clearly makes me super productive.
i really wanted to go out and play in the snow, but having my friends live between fifteen minutes and an hours walk away, it was just not probable, nor safe to walk that distance while it was still snowing. (and my parents didn't want me walking for an hour in it anyway, but that's a different story altogether).
i then got around to baking these really cute Percy pig cakes i got for christmas.

Percy pigs are these little sweets you get in the UK, they're like gummy sweets shaped like a pigs head. it sounds a lot weirder when you have to describe them, but trust me. they are addictively good.

the cups were only like an inch big, so we managed to eat all twelve within five minutes. they were good though.
and i web-chatted until the early hours of the morning - because that is always a good idea.

today, after receiving news yesterday evening that college was going to remain closed, i had an epic lie-in and watched transformers. second most favourite film ever. possibly first. i'd rather not choose.
and my jewelry came! huzzah! a new belly bar, a retainer for it, and two fake stretchers. one of the fake stretchers is broken though, and i don't know whether to send it back and ask for a replacement or not? decisions, decisions.
the buses are currently not running to my college, and if they're not tomorrow, it looks like i won't be going back to college until monday. which is good. but i seriously need to knuckle down to some math revision.

xo

EDIT: they've just shut college tomorrow as well. oh freaking yes.

two words. SNOW DAY

it's 9:30 am in southern england.
it's been snowing consistently since midnight.
there's more inches of snow than i've ever seen in this town.
everything is shut for miles and miles.

including the bus service and my college.

i could have stayed in bed but i was too excited.
it feels like christmas all over again.
it's still snowing, and there's more to come apparently.
the news is broadcasting all this morbid stuff
apparently snow is out to kill us all.
they had to call in the military to rescue stranded motorists.
see, it's dangerous.
if you're dumb.
i really hope college is closed tomorrow.
pray for me?
i really want to grab a pair of skis and find a hill.
i'm going to go and play in the snow now.
have wonderful days!
xo

i just posted this without a title. lol: EDIT

it's snowing really hard currently.
all of the other colleges in the surrounding area have shut.
except for mine.
i knew i should have gone to the local one.
damnit.

anyway, so you know i have an exam next monday? well in my free periods at college i have been studying. not for maths. are you insane? no, i've been studying html codes. today, i was inspired by Chloé and made a favicon. that's the little picture on the tab - twitter for example, has a light blue 't', YouTube, has it's logo. and i made one. i've yet to try it out. i really want this new blog to look good.

my jewelry is supposed to arrive tomorrow morning. i bought some fake ear stretchers and some new belly bars. because all of a sudden i've become hardcore? i don't know, i wanted them, so i bought them, basically.

i really advise you never to buy a new game close to an exam. i downloaded tap tap revenge 3 over the weekend. i am addicted. i have already discovered Sparks the Rescue and Owl City through it. amazing bands.

and currently i have a small circular mark on my hand where a friend decided he was going to bite me, very hard, for about two minutes. that was three hours ago. i still have a mark.

anyway, enough about me.
how was your day?
xo

epic omegle win!

*waves*
evening!

you know people?
you know they all act differently?
you know how sometimes, the way people act, just annoys you?
like, so much that you want to kick something very very hard?
so hard that you know you're only going to hurt yourself, but you want to do it anyway?

yeah. i would very much like to kick something right now.

in other news

i'm back to college. and i had a lovely play on omegle last night; oh, that odd site.

Stranger: looking for horny girl with hot pics to show me
You: excellent. i'm a unicorn.

children, always talk to strangers.
it's the perfect opportunity for hilarity.

Goals & Aspirations

after yesterday's 'things i have accomplished: 2009 version'
i thought i best do a 'things i want to accomplish: 2010'

first and foremost, i'd like to survive the year. i have a feeling it's going to be a particularly tough one. but here's a guideline to what else i'd like to do.

• learn to drive.
• pass my driving test (fingers crossed).
• spend a day at the beach with friends.
• two words: road trip.
• attempt to get B's in my AS levels (big final exam at the end of 1st college year).
• gain some sort of fitness.
• keep all of my internet activities updated, i'd hate to forget this little online journal.
• go to concerts.
• spend some time in London.
• get through at least some of this little library i have building up in my bedroom...
• learn some new skills.
• work really freaking hard to save money for post-college activities.

and maybe, just maybe
try to snap out of the daydreaming/procrastinating state i live in.
but let's at least try to keep this realistic.

any goals or plans for 2010?
xo

recap

so, let's review 2009 shall we? i...

• had a disney princess themed birthday party, where all of my friends dressed up as disney princess's, we watched disney films, played pass the parcel and behaved like five year olds.
• got my iPhone. i don't know how i ever lived without it.
• had my first snow days where we didn't have to go to school.
• saw Fall Out Boy in concert. March 6th. best night ever.
• started a blog.
• became amazing friends with fellow blogger Daisy
• found a little private place in school to hang out. that sports hall corridor held some brilliant times.
• passed my grade 4 in piano with a merit.
• performed in a musical alongside all of my best friends.
• fell in love with London after multiple trips with friends.
• held spontaneous picnics.
• went to many, many school concerts, and even organised one.
  
• attended prom. mind-blowingly emotion filled night.
• graduated with 13 gcse's.
• received an award in english literature.
• visited Cyprus for the first time.
• experienced ten full days without any internet - it was awful.
• got my navel pierced.
• participated in many instant messaging/webcam conversations past 2am.
  
• had the longest, most beautiful summer i could ever have wished for.
• started college.
• got my long hair cut off - big deal for me.
  
• made some wonderful new friends.
• saw Micheal McIntyre live.
• visited Center Parcs for pre-christmas funtimes with the cousins.
• discovered twitter/dailybooth/nerdfighteria/John Green/Maureen Johnson, etc.
• got a car!

and found other things like:

500 days of summer,
kids in glass houses,
the cab,
hey monday,
believers never die.

there's possibly more, but you get the idea
it's been a busy year.

hey, what did you do in 2009?
xo

here's to us

welcome to 2010!
i hope you all had a wonderful night.
and i hope you can remember what you did.

now i don't ever make a big deal over new years, maybe it's because i'm not old enough to drink yet when everyone else is paralytic? instead we went over the Cousin Kayleigh's house and had a meal and some drinks. but it was just nice to hang out somewhere warm and cosy.
lately i've been conforming to the 'typical teenager' and hanging out on street corners at night.

it's not as bad as it sounds, i promise you.

this is my first Christmas/new year with the blog.
it feels like some special anniversary.
so here's to us.
and the fact that in a few weeks you will be something completely different.
but i will only love you more.

today is also exactly one month until i am 17 and can legally drive (in the uk)
although my dad did take me out for half an hour yesterday to this old car park.
it's safe to say that driving is not my hidden talent.
i kind of suck.
*sigh*

xo

it's hard to say i do, when i don't

i'm not going to lie to you.
i'm stressed.

i'm stressed about my sleeping patterns.
i'm stressed about my eating habits.
i'm stressed about finishing this book for english.
i'm stressed about learning my lines for drama.
i'm stressed about filming for media.
i'm stressed about studying for my maths exam.
i'm stressed over polynomials - which i just can't understand.
i'm stressed because i will never see fall out boy in concert again.
i'm stressed because my car's passenger seat window is broken.
i'm stressed about dropping a subject.

but mostly

i'm stressed because i'm afraid of losing a best friend.

oh. and i made my new years resolution.
it's not to die in the next year.
i believe the consequences of breaking this resolution are pretty self-explanatory.
xo

my only love

Hello!

i know, i suck at updating everything.
my dailybooth has been neglected for about a fortnight, and you can just forget about facebook.
twitter really is my only love - that and fall out boy.

right. i wanted to let you know that there have been removals/alterations to some old posts. i still don't know when the move in date for the new blog is. i nearly spontaneously jumped to it about three nights ago. it was a crazy moment and i've gotten over it.

i hope you are all looking forward to new years! the night when everyone goes out and gets completely bladdered for really no reason at all. i will be spending it over the cousins house, and hopefully getting more than a little merry.

i have an exam in january (maths) so i've been studying for that, so there won't really be any thrilling posts over the next few days . weeks . months.
the next thrilling thing is my birthday - email me for address to send gifts and lovely things. mum asked me what i wanted, so i reeled off a list of books - i wrote them down later for her.

enough now.
i'm getting into my batman pajamas and getting into bed.
and to all a goodnight.
xo

'to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die'

doesn't it just look like a realistic Narnia?

by realistic i mean disappointing and dark - but all the while kind of cute.

i walked to work in that last week. it was nice to walk in the snow. we've never had it that close to Christmas before. it was lovely.

anyway, i won't bore you with my tales of Christmas day, because we know they're all the same - grandparents telling the same stories over and over, parents fussing over the turkey, brother setting alight to freaking everything, etc.

my mum did this thing where she put scratch cards in each cracker, and turns out she won £5. which ironically, wasn't even enough to cover the cost of the scratch cards.

i got some really nice things this year. things i wanted, and things i needed. they will all get used, and come in useful. and thankfully there was none of that painful 'thank you so much, i love it, i will use it all of the time!' when you really mean 'oh. um. what is it? do i need this? i hate it. ew.'

andandand
i got some itunes money - at last!
500 Days of Summer Soundtrack? oh yes.

Regina Spektor, The Smiths, Wolfmother, Doves, Feist, The Temper Trap.
*drool*
love it!

500 Days of Summer comes out on DVD in January in the UK. i. cannot. wait.
my birthday's on February 1st. are you feeling generous?

i hope you all had wonderful holidays.
feel free to tell me about them in the comments!

xo

Be Merry!

Happy Holidays.

and a
Merry Christmas.

Have a wonderful day,
whatever you are celebrating.

Eat, drink, and love.

source unknown

I love you all.

xo

irresistible guitarists

well hi there.

so i love my theatre studies class, with a passion.

basically.

this boy Dave was giving out lavender as christmas presents to everyone.
he had grown and dried it himself.
i have it on my desk now.
it's so relaxing.
it smells beautiful.

and then

this guy in my theatre studies class had found a guitar lying around.
he was playing it.
really freaking well.
and i'm not ashamed to admit,
i'm in love with him.

i'm such an appalling tart sometimes.
there's just something irresistible about guitarists, agreed?

but i can assure you that all this talk of boys is no more than talk.
i'm still waiting for someone to knock me off my feet - although the guitarist was pretty damned close.
i know whoever he is, he is waiting somewhere among the flowers.

i don't even know this guy

buona sera!
good evening!

guess which homework i should be doing now? if you guessed italian, congratulations - you win, and get nothing. there was no point in guessing really. i told you anyway. do you feel like a tiny bit of an idiot? no you don't, because i know you didn't even guess, you just read on to find out because you are lazy.

don't stop reading.
please come back.
i love yooouuuuuu *reaches into screen in slow motion*

anyway. i have a story to tell you.

so last wednesday, it was raining. really freaking hard. and we were waiting for the bus home from college. we managed to form a canopy of umbrellas, but mine was at an angle - cause i was the short one - and the rain was dripping from the umbrella onto this guys head. there then may have been some accidental movements of the canopy which just so happened for me to hit the boy with my umbrella. rather hard, and quite a few times. he retaliated and so forth and it wasn't as violent as i'm making it seem, it was all pretty weird, but funny and friendly.

remember, i don't even know this guy.

then he was waiting for the bus today. we talked at the bus stop with a few friends. and then got on the bus and we carried on with our lives.
i stayed in town a bit longer than i normally do this evening. and when i finally got to the bus station, awaiting my poor bit of metal on wheels home, i sat where i normally do. then this figure sits one seat away from me - i don't look because it's a free country and i don't feel right staring at people - but can you guess who it was?

oh yes, it was indeed. i didn't even notice, until i saw out of the very corner of my eye, a bag of sweets thrust in my direction. and it's the guy i hit with the umbrella last week. i decline them, because i eat so much crap anyway, but i didn't tell him that. we have a short discussion about which buses we're getting home, i get on mine and go home.

i don't even know this guy! i don't talk to people i don't know. i don't keep talking to people i don't know. and i don't hit people with umbrellas.

fyi, this is not a romantic love story either.
if it was, it would be an incredibly low budget one.
starring very unattractive people.
and with a ridiculously thin plot line.

pfffttttt.
two days left of college!
xo

Uma Thurman?

three days left at college.
oh, countdowns.
aren't we just addicted to them?

today turned out majorly better than expected when my partner for media went home sick. by that i mean, that i didn't have to do my filming so i could go home early. yay! i didn't enjoy the day because i don't like her. her names Uma. like Uma Thurman, so she's pretty cool.

i should probably study, but since i left my book in english - such a klutz sometimes - i think i'm just going to sit here and do nothing. or catch up on some sleep.

i really miss doing nothing / sleeping.

xo

I ONLY HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT OF COLLEGE!

NYYYAAARRRR!
this excites me, because getting up at 6:30am and working my butt off until 9pm is just not my idea of fun.
and college makes me eat. all of the time.
i'm pretty much four times the size i used to be.
ugghhh.

and apparently my godforsaken little town is due to get snow on thursday! which is good, because we only get snow like once a millenia. that's not even a proper period of time, but i don't care.

and i got both my first christmas card AND my first three christmas presents. ahh, the joys of having a best friend.

i only have one day off between now and christmas day. college monday-friday, then i'm working saturday, monday - christmas eve. 9am-7:30pm. oh yeah. i'm not going to lie, i'm pretty stoked at how loaded i'm going to be. anybody want to come with me on a january sales shopping spree?

i really suck at updating anything with any substance anymore. i'm sorry. i'm attempting to feed all of my creative juices into something worth an A grade. i'll try and keep some back for you guys.

i feel majorly ashamed at some of the christmas presents i bought this year. they were just so lame. i bought my mother a silicone spatula for crying out loud. next year, i am going to be on the case and do something amazing for everyone.

*grumble*
and i want to see where the wild things are


AND OMG GLEE IS COMING TO THE UK
i've heard so much about it from all the american cool kids i follow.
and i'm just excited all the friggen time.

xo

my favourite six minutes

hey guys, you like to procrastinate like me, yes?
and you like finding out useless things.
and you like to hear and watch people talking about their secrets.
right?
okay, good.
here is my favourite six minutes of video this year.

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God from Frank Warren on Vimeo.

this is more than just a fun project.
PostSecret works really hard with life saving charities.
find out more about PostSecret here

xo