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Busyyyyyy busy busy.

Sixth form has basically taken over my life.

I will probably have more to talk about after Christmas.

Oxjam

I volunteered at Oxjam with a friend this weekend :) If you don't know what it is, it's basically a music festival that raises money for Oxfam and it's really really great. I was a steward for a few hours in the afternoon and then could go to anything in the evening for free. The music was actually great, despite it being mostly local, pretty amateur musicians. We sat downstairs in this really cute little cafe for a bit and it was an intimate acoustic set thing. One of the people playing was a secondary school teacher. I hope my teachers do stuff like that in their spare time.

There was also glitter fairies... yeah. A pound to have glitter on your face as modelled below. Great idea if you ask me.

I had a nice day today as well, a roast with my mum's side of the family who I rarely see. I haven't seen some of them for about 5 years so yeah it was really nice to see everyone.

Anyway I'm exhausted so I think I might have a power nap and then try and get some work done. x x

So I took my stretchers out

Pretty right? I decided I don't want stretched ears any more soooo I took my tunnels out. Now I'm pretty sure they'll never get any smaller. Don't make bad decisions kids. x

NEED MOTIVATION

I have so much work, I need to apply to uni I need to do SO MUCH and I am just sat here on the internet doing nothing. I don't even know how to make myself do work. I used to be so motivated and now I'm just ridiculously lazy. I really really hate it.

In other news I had my first taekwondo grading yesterday so hopefully I'm now a yellow tag! I was terrified but I don't think I made any mistakes yay. I know I didn't get an A-pass though because they give those out on the day. Oh well. I'm still happy with how I did.

Time do to an essay, and not get distracted.

I'm so tired...

always always tired :( I absolutely hate it. I started sixth form again a couple of weeks ago and I can't focus on anything which is making me stressed because I can't get any work done. I'm having a blood test next week to make sure I'm not anaemic or something. Blehhhhhh.

I NEED TO GET FIT

Imagine being able to run for more than 10 minutes without getting out of breath oh my god.

I need to start exercising more, badly. Literally the only thing stopping me from jogging every day is the fact that I can't afford a sports bra. Seriously. I've decided to exercise at least a little bit every day. Today I'm going swimming :)

Pff, one day I'll be running marathons.

Ugh

I wish I was going to uni this September. I just want a new place and new people.

I'm kind of sick of everyone.

Swimming

This is going to sound absolutely PATHETIC but...I swam a width today and I'm insanely proud.

I've never been able to swim before, just doggy paddle/tread water for about 10 seconds and that's about it so yeah. I'm so happy.

Gonna start swimming regularly. Yay for achievement. 

Results

So so so so so so so so so so so so happy with my AS results. I got an A in psychology (in both exams I got over 90% so could be heading for an A*) a B in maths (I can retake a couple of exams and get an A) and a B in English which is awesome but doesn't even matter because I'm dropping it anyway.

Yay.

My eyes hurt

HELLO my eyes are hurting lots from staring at the screen for too long but I'm addicted to the internet so.

Today was my first day at work, serving food at the city ground. Woo. We all have to start somewhere okay. I actually enjoyed it quite a lot but then it got really busy and panic and ahh. We were £60 down by the end of it as well apparently but that's not my problem because I'm not a team leader muahaha.

Uh I really don't have much to say. I have a beautiful bruise from taekwondo yesterday. It was PAINFUL. We had full body pad things and had to kick eachother from one end of the hall to the other and back again, so tiring. PLUS everyone else was at least yellow belt and above and I was there in my shorts like HELP ME. I was proud of myself for keeping up though.

It's a Saturday night and I'm sat here watching olympic football with my dad. Crazy social life. I was actually invited to the pub for my friend's 18th but I'm so tired and it would be a bit crap anyway, being 17 and all.

I have made a pinterest. I have no followers. http://pinterest.com/shevvv/

peace. (lol)

I've been everywhere man...

Okay not really, just around the west of England. Thursday I spent the day in Weston with my boyfriend (we paddled in the mud) Friday I went to see my friend in Portishead and last night I went up to Oxford to see Fei Comodo with the boyf (a band he likes who are doing their last tour. It was okay but really I went for him because I'm lovely.) So yeah I've been travelling a lot and I've actually been really busy, which I like. Today, however, I am planning on being a bum, staying at home all day and not getting dressed. My first lazy day these summer holidays. I wish I had a picture to illustrate these last few days but they're all crap. Actually I may as well.

Also some creepy anonymous person has started following me. Please tell me who you are. x

Gerbils, the zoo, nice weather and the harbour fest

Ok so first of all, one of my gerbils died. His name was Milo and he was adorable.

See? I loved him to bits but I still have Max, who I'll have to spoil now because he'll be lonely without his bro. He seems okay at the moment though which is good.

Anyway my brother and niece were here last week. I've talked about my niece before, she is literally the loveliest toddler in the universe. I suggested we go to the zoo because she'd love it (it was for me really) so we did and yeah it was really fun. They had dinosaur models that roared and she was terrified of them, and she also thought meerkats were gerbils. Cute. I miss her so much. I always miss her when she leaves. but it's the summer holidays now so I can see her a lot more.

The weather is finally getting better, it was decent yesterday and hit 25 degrees today AND it's getting hotter. So happy. I've been at the harbour festival this weekend. I'm not gonna lie it's a pretty shit festival and everything is painfully overpriced, but there's a nice atmosphere and you usually see loads of people you know. I went Friday night and today and despite just sitting in queen's square with a few people I really enjoyed it. Yay for being social.

I also got a new phone but that's boring.

I had a good night

I managed to get into that catface thing I was talking about, by having a fake stamp on my hand. Woo! I was very, very very, very drunk. I helped a couple of people get taxis though because I'm a good samaritan. Overall it was a really good night. I'm gonna go throw up.

I'm a baby

Why am I not 18 yet? I want to go to this thing tomorrow where you draw a cat face on yourself and listen to loud music and get very drunk but ALAS I am 17 and have no form of ID. I've been told to sneak in the back which I will try when I'm drunk and feeling stupidly confident but I'm expecting to get kicked out really.

Today I went to Bath for a school trip thing. It was okay. We just wandered round really. I saw a duck. Then when we got back I made my friend Tom come shoe shopping me in town. I walked pretty much constantly all day and my god my feet hurt.

So on Saturday there are three things going on in Bristol. Gay pride, an EDL march and an anti EDL march...there's going to be a lot of clashes. I will be there watching staying out of the way. Yay.

So that was a lot of crap. Bye.

Everyone watch Project Nim

I'm gonna go save chimps

I'm ill

Like cold, cough, headache all rolled into one. Plus lethargy. Wonderful. I feel like poo on the weekend that I actually had plans, I hardly ever have plans. I missed going to my friend's house, drinking, eating pizza and having a webcam party with our friend who lives in france AND a barbecue. Although the weather was pretty crap anyway.

I've signed up for a Netflix free trial so I've just been watching films and documentaries all weekend since I don't have the energy to do anything else. I watched a documentary by Bill Maher called Religulous which was hilarious and confirmed my suspicions that religion is the stupidest thing ever.

Anyway thought I'd keep you updated on, well, nothing. I'm off to watch Project Nim.

Appreciate what you have

Two posts in one day but I had to get this off my chest.

There are so many people that have it worse off than you. So. Many. People. 

It makes me so angry when I see people post things on twitter like 'ffs mum didn't get me what I wanted from the shop UGH stupid bitch' or 'I don't have a boyfriend life is so shit'. Okay I am guilty of complaining sometimes but I'm going to try and stop because, well, my life is amazing compared to some peoples. It makes me feel guilty when I see people with absolutely terrible problems being positive and not complaining and just getting on with it, because they're the people who have every right to complain.

We live in a country where up until around 18 education is completely free and yet the majority of us complain about school constantly and don't bother doing work. Children in first world countries are DESPERATE for schools and education. 

I'm going to make the most of what I have, and not take anything for granted any more.

I bought a new cardigan

It was £48.
I can't believe I spent £48 on a piece of clothing.
I don't even know who I am any more.


It's a really nice cardigan though. 

London and Kate Nash

HEY so this weekend I went to London to go to the City University open day. I stayed with my sister in Wimbledon which was nice because I don't get to see her very often. I went up Friday evening and came back Sunday evening, and went to the open day on Saturday. The university is so nice, I want to go there more than anything because it's in the top 5% of unis in the country AND I've always wanted to live in London. However, accommodation at the cheapest is £180 a week and even with the extra money you get if you study in London I really don't think I can afford that. Aw.

As well as going to the university we went to Ed's diner which is the best place ever (google it, it's basically a mock 50s diner) and I had a coke float and a Smokey Joe's burger and sweet potato fries and it was just perfect. Nice food makes me so happy. We also wandered around Roehampton which is a really nice area and there's another university there, and I made lasagne which I was really proud of because I'm terrible at cooking.

This is my coke float. Yum. You can see some of the fries too. Yum yum.

There was slight awkwardness as my sister had had a huge argument with my dad just before I went up there and she kept sneaking in little comments about him. I ignored them. It has nothing to do with me. Personally I think they're both childish. But luckily it didn't affect the weekend too much.

Then Monday I went to see Kate Nash at Thekla with my friend. I went to hers beforehand and got drunk off a bottle of pear cider...yep I'm a mess. I've never been to a more emotional gig in my whole life. I'd lost most of my excitement about the whole thing to be honest because Kate had posted a new song on YouTube a few weeks ago that was quite frankly shit and I was worried she'd just be playing loads of new stuff. She varied between old and new though and even the new stuff was really good, she performed so well. At the end it was obvious there wasn't meant to be an encore because everything was being packed away, but no one was leaving so she came back on and sang a lullaby type thing completely acapella and it was so beautiful. She had tears in her eyes the whole time, she must of been so nervous and overwhelmed. I honestly just wanted to give her a hug. She's perfect. I have a lot of respect for her. There was a crazy guy there who was head banging the whole time and a couple who kept kissing and touching eachother in front of us. Ah, people at gigs.

I want to go to another gig.

Tae Kwon DO

Recently I realised I have no hobbies. I mean, I read quite a lot but that's about it. So I decided to start something new. I asked (okay made) my friend start tae kwon do with me and it was actually really fun. There's a fourteen year old black belt which was pretty intimidating but maybe I'll be there one day...

We basically learnt loads of self defence and where to hit people to get away quicker (the crotch basically). Before we started though we did warm ups which were embarassingly exhausting, and when they started doing push-ups I just gave up completely. It's definitely going to force me to get fitter.

I'm excited to go again on Friday.

Hi I'm new and I'm going to talk about my niece

Okay well I'm not really new, but I cleared all my old posts to start afresh! Basically I decided to blog about my life, because I can. And I'm sick of Tumblr again.

Well I got back from Taunton this morning after staying at my brother Nick's house with my dad for a couple of days. He's a single father to a two year old girl, which I think is amazing. It also happens that my niece is the most adorable thing in the whole world. Her name is Robyn and she's so polite and lovely and I just love her so much. She really loves me as well. I slept in the same room as her and this morning I woke up to her climbing into my bed and cuddling up to me, and when her dad made her sit at the table to eat her toast she told me to "stay there!" while she ate so she could sit on my lap and watch Cbeebies afterwards. So cute. Me and Dad had to look after her one evening when Nick went to work which was hilarious, since neither of us can change nappies. You'd think my dad would have some kind of idea after having five kids...

We took her to her auntie's house (my sister) before we left because she gets restless on long car journeys and as Nick was carrying her up the path she was shouting "LOVE YOU SHEV, LOVE YOU GRANDAD!" I actually miss her so much, but I'm glad she lives relatively near (about a one hour car journey) so we get to see her quite often.

I do feel sorry for her though, growing up in Taunton. It's one of the most boring places I've ever been to and so far away from everything. The town centre place isn't that bad but it's so small. Maybe I only think like that because I've lived a 15 minute walk away from the centre of Bristol my whole life, but it definitely made me realise I always want to live in a big city. I think I'd go crazy if I didn't.

I've basically slept for the whole of today because I've been sleeping really badly lately. I still feel a bit tired and ill though, which is annoying because I have so much coursework to do, and I still haven't finished my EPQ (a 5000 word essay that was really meant to be finished months ago). Oh well. Here's a picture of Robyn and me that you can aww at. (Not a new one, because every time I tried to take a picture of us this weekend she'd try and take the phone off me saying she wanted to take it).