I hated reading, or rather, learning to read. I remember standing next to my teacher reading out sentences from some books, or to one of my parents, usually my dad at home. The books I most remember are about Timothy and his cat, and I probably would have liked them (it was about a magic cat I think afterall!) but I was still learning at the time. I guess it was frustrating to me not being able to understand in order to find out the story.

I don’t think I watched much tv when I was a kid, (but I sure got addicted to Nickelodeon and cartoon network about 9-13 lol) and liked to play games either by myself, friends or my brothers, for hours on end, and reading took too long for me to find out? I think thats why I read books super fast right now. Somewhere, I’m thinking maybe I was 8, I turned into a bookworm haha. My dad and brothers used to call me that, they’d say I devoured books. When I went to see my dad on the weekends, I’d usually bring a book with me and read while they watched a film I didn’t really want to see or a tv show I wasn’t into.

Anyway, I like to read books usually in one sitting, or three at the most. Any long means I don’t really pick up the book again for awhile (I have two books half read, and I’ve read other books since). So if I start reading at night, I probably will stay up till 5am reading and finish the book, and not have much sleep, but I like to know the ending of things.

Sometimes I also skip to the end, and read, and that puts me off a book and while to finish too. So where was this going? I haven’t actually read a book in months! Which is weird. I was the girl who’d go to the library and take out the max amount of books, and return them all on time and read and do summer competitions. I took the most books out of the school library and the librarian knew me well, and let me take out extra books and not have to pay a fine if I was a little bit late, which I usually wasn’t. Ha, can you say geek much?

I think, since uni started or from even before I’ve only read maybe three books, but I’ve bought loads! Darn you Borders! *shakes fist* If I had time to read a book, that should mean I have time to clean my room, study, exericise, write essays etc, so I put it off. But I’d read online manga’s or comics, and watch tv series (like all seasons of Lost in a month or two!)

So I thought I’d start again by reading a book a week, from my quite big pile of unread books which I really want to read. I was going to start this week on a monday but forgot. Then I re-read a book I read ages ago from school, bought off amazon a few months ago. Its called “Tomorrow when the war began” by John Marsden.

Its really good! I remembered vague things about it, and asked if anyone knew what it was on a nanowrimo forum, and someone knew! Yay! I bought the book and re-read it, and can’t wait to read the rest of the series, which some of them I may have read. I think I mixed some of the storylines up a bit?

Its about a group of teenagers in Australia who go camping, and when they return home, they find out their country has been invaded, and their families taken hostage. The story revolves around the main character, Ellie, as she is the one who has written down her and her friends story. Its a mixture of action and romance, as well as a few other things, and its really interesting. I don’t know, I just like how they hide out from the enemies and try to adapt to this new life, while do something to stop it too. I think I’ll be ordering the other books off amazon too.

I took a day off, and then yesterday read the “The Looking Glass Wars” by Frank Beddor. I LOVE anything to do with Alice in Wonderland, and the “Looking Glass” series, is an alternate version of Alice in Wonderland. Again this is a book I’ve had for awhile and put off reading because of my stupid reasons listed above. The second books out, and the third ones coming out in September, and I want to read them both now! Ha, I’m so impaitent.

The book is about Alyss Heart, Princess of Wonderland. Only she was sent to this world to escape danger, and no one believes her story, except for one man, who wrote down her story. Only, he didn’t write down the truth. Many years later she returns to Wonderland, and is reunited with old friends and sets out to save Wonderland and become the rightful Queen. I like it! Fantasy books are always good. Again, some action, romance, “history”, fantasy and a finding yourself theme.

These aren’t exactly the best reviews, I don’t want to give too much of the plot away and I rambled a LOT at the start, but hey this is my blog. I just wanted to write a little something about these books incase anyones looking for a good book to read, or considering these, and stumbled across my blog. Hopefully I’ll do this each week and get better, and I’ll tend to read anything, but most of my books are probably under the “Young Adult” Teen fic section in any book store, except for Jane Austen and Kathy Reichs etc maybe lol.

No clue what I’ll be reading next, I want to read the next installments in these stories, but I told myself I won’t buy anymore books until I’ve read all my unread books. Or at least a few of them, since there’s loads. Plus, I have no room left in my room for books haha >.<

Well, its been a week and a half-ish since I started work at the supermarket, and I thought its about time I wrote a post about it. Don’t want another Uni post where it took me till the end of the first year to write about it, oops.

So, I went in on Friday 19th and was there 10-4, which was pretty good. I was given a short tour, told who most people were (I know maybe most of them now) and was sent straight to the kiosk for till training. They said sorry, but they really needed cashiers, and I was fine with that. I’d thought I’d be till trained on my first day anyways. The tills they use there are slightly old fashioned I think, so that if I went to work in another shop I’d have to be re-trained lol.

I got the gist of it, but did void quite a few receipts, which they said was to be expected since I was knew. A lot of the regulars would say things like “Don’t worry, you’ll be a whizz at it next week” to which I’d reply sarcastically in a nice way “How did you guess I was new?”. Everyone there was nice and friendly, both staff and customers.

I was kinda left on the tills on my own for a bit, while the person teaching me would ask if I’d be okay for a few minutes while she did something. I’d say yeah and then oh, what do you know, another void >.< But I am getting better! I think it was about 20-odd the first day, the second time maybe 3-4 and the last time 2, and one of which was NOT my fault. (The till added it up incorrectly I swear! Lol, the things were like £2 each and the till totalled it up to £12ish, but the till had just gone weird and been fixed).

Doing the lottery tickets was weird at first, think I have it now, but people are annoying. I’d confirm if they wanted the lotto, thunderball, euro etc, because I had got them wrong a few times and had to void them. So I’d ask people confirming what I thought they said, they’d say yes, I’d press some buttons and then hear “Oh wait no!” and then they would look at me like it was my fault

I depended on two people there during the day for help, a woman and a girl, and this guy from the back would buy stuff and ask how it was going, and the butcher guy helped me out with the lottery when I did something wrong. It was funny, well I think so.

I had a 45 min lunch break on my own so I went over to the cafe and found a newspaper which I read, I need to take a book or a magazine to read. A woman from the bakery also had a break and this other guy and we all sat in mostly silence, very, weird but okay.

So it was a pretty good first day, my friend who works there was on holiday at the time, and this other girl I know who works there, wasn’t there, but yeah I wasn’t nervous or worried or anything. Which is weird, as I thought I’d be worried going in and being there at the start but I was fine.

I was then told I would be working in the cafe on sunday. There’s a car boot sale on sundays round the back, and the cafe is super busy then. I worked in the cafe from 10-1, they really were easing me in at first, oh how thats changed

I turned up to take over from the girl I knew, who was needed at the shop, and was on the till. It was basically the same as the shop till, except less buttons to press, so I only made like one void. It flew by in no time and I was working with the girl who helped me out before.

My mums giving me lifts and picking me up, instead of me getting the bus, but I’ll be paying her petrol money, since its a 15 min walk to the bus stop. At first she was only going to give me lifts for the first week, but I’m in earlier now, and one day I’m in before there are any busses I think

Then I was in thursday and friday, for 8 hour shifts and omg, my new work shoes are killing my feet. I was in the kiosk again, and thats fine, except I’m standing in one place for 8 hours, so it makes my heels sore. I was also told to bag potatoes inbetween customers, which was actually okay since it give me something to do inbetween customers. Then I hurt my back, well the next day I’d realised I’d hurt my back whenever I moved it, since I leaned over to get potatoes stupidly, and yeah, will need to rethink that next time.

There was also another new girl working there, she was working on a section and they gave us 10 min break and lunch break at the same time, so I was talking to her throughout them and she’s nice, only a year older than me. The next day was pretty much the same except I didn’t have breaks the same time as the new girl, so ate on my own again, reading some magazines. The break was sooo good for my poor feet.

It’s been really hot this week, so have to get used to working in the heat The cafes a bit worse since I’m by the kitchen and right next to the tea and coffee maker. I saw my friend on thursday and thats when we get paid.

Its an old fashioned way of paying which is really cool. Its how I used to be paid during the paper round, where they give you the money and the info to go with it. I’ll be getting paid from thursday-friday, so I only got paid for doing two shifts. That was 9 hours in total on min wage so I had £41, yay monies! Which I had sort of already spent, shopping with my friend. (I bought jeans, a dress, red shoes and leggings).

The next sunday I was in, I saw the rota and my heart sank a bit. 7-1pm they wanted me in by. I never had to wake up that early for school or college, just if I needed to travel for hours maybe, or for a walk with cadets.

I went to bed at 11:30pm the night before (that was crazy early for me) and…..I did not fall asleep all night! I had cramps, was hot/cold all the time, couldn’t get comfortable, my mind was in over drive and you know when you really need to be asleep then it makes it worse? Well yeah, so no sleep at all, it kept getting lighter and lighter and birds were singing and then my alarm went off at 6am.

Had some hot chocolate (ha) to wake me up, maybe I should try coffee and tea again….but then I’d never sleep! My mum drove me in and I went through the bakery and there were already people waiting outside to come into the cafe (which didn’t open till another half hour) and there were already people leaving with things they’d bought. By 7am people! What was wrong with them? I wished I could be in bed haha.

I’d bought insoles for my feet. The ones on the balls of my feet worked, but my heels still killed, and fairly soon into the day. I’ll have to buy some black trainers or something, because I can’t handle it. Some people say my feet will get used to it, but my friends worked there for a year now and she hasn’t, scary.

Heard a bit of gossip from my co-workers, so uh, not everythings good there, but hey, I need the money and this is better that no pay! All the people selling stuff came in a few points during the day, some were rude and some were nice.

The one woman was really horrible and rude, I can’t exactly remember what she was saying, but she was complaining. There was a big queue and only two of us there, and I was new and she was mean, grrr! Also, these three woman came in, and for some reason all ordered at the same time, but they weren’t paying together, and were friends.

I don’t know what was wrong with them, do they do that in other places? I was trying to take the first woman’s orders, and then another one would chip in, then another etc. I tried telling them ONE AT A TIME nicely but it didn’t work. The girl I was working with was taking down the orders and then we finally got it sorted. Then the first woman came back complaining she’d been given the wrong food, she had asked for it but cancelled and wanted her money back (but to keep the food) and how the hell did she expect us to hear her cancel it when he friends were demanding our attention? Meh, I’ll be more firm next time and try to ignore them haha.

A cute guy came in a few times too, so that was nice, wonder if he’ll be there next week

Then I went home and slept, and slept and slept and went out for a pub quiz (we didn’t win). So that’s what works been like in a short/long? update, and I have work tomorrow and thursday. 9-5 each day. My friend should be picking me up after work and we’ll go half shopping/half to starbucks. I think I might not be able to walk much

I’ve wanted to write the past few days, but left things, and then would write about everything in one giant post, which frankly, I didn’t really want to do. So here’s a little post.

I’ll write about work another time, but yeah, I’ve done two shifts now, so 9 hours in total and it’s good! Just my feet hurt a little bit, darn new shoes. I wanted to write on the subject of friends, I’ve been a bit annoyed, but, its okay now, still a bit annoyed, but I think I’ll write another time about that if I do.

Last saturday was the day Rachel would have turned 19, and her family threw a party in her honour, tickets costing £5 each, in order to raise money for the Welsh Air Ambulance team, and there were over 300 people there, as well as people buying raffle tickets and an auction, so hopefully loads of money would have been raised.

I went with my friend, and we’re both in awe at how strong her family have been, they are still seeing the good in things. My friend lost her dad a year ago, and she said when her dad died, she couldn’t see the good in anything, for a long time. Another friend of ours had lost her dad the year before, and the way she delt with it was by not talking about him at all, and that worked for her and and it just shows how people handle grief differently.

Moving on, I’ve been doing something every day, either going out for Rachels party, working, or seeing friends. I went for a walk the other day, (window) shopping today, and tomorrow clothes shopping and maybe cinema! Then I’ll be working for two days, might go out to town in the night, work again etc

So I should be pretty busy! I also really need to update the mission 101 thing, I have a few things to cross off, like getting a job for one and infact, I think I’ll go do that now!

P.s – A little random note, I made Riceballs today! Ha, bought sticky rice and prepared them and everything, they were…okay! My mum and brother didn’t really like them, and I can’t compare them to proper ones since I’ve never had any, but I thought they were okay. I’ll try making them better next time.

Update! One of my brothers who went to Japan last summer for about a month, said they tasted, looked and felt exactly like the ones he had! Result, not that he particularly loved them haha.

Finally!

I’ve been jobless for about a year now, but, it’s not like I had a proper job beforehand. I shared a paper round with my brothers and had done for years. I didn’t have to do it everyday, but we had leaflets that I had to put in every single paper (about 250-odd of them). Sometimes it could be 3, 6, or even 14, so that would take awhile but I could watch TV at the same time. I only delivered 70 papers at the most on a friday after school and before cadets, which would only take 30-40 mins so that was okay.

Then last year my brother wanted to stop doing it just before the summer holidays or during, I can’t remember and I agreed. Sure I would no longer get EMA (£30 p/w) for going to college, and now I wouldn’t get the £10-20 I got each week from the paper round, but I was just tired of it. I’d been doing it every friday for years, and I hated it when it rained, had to do it when I was ill, and since I was 18 when I quit, people used to look at me weirdly, like I was too old. I also hated people staring at me in cars as they drove past, what, have they never seen a paper boy/girl before?

And they were heavy, lol, and towards the end there was a weirdo at one of the houses I would put a paper in. I handed him a paper one day and he started talking to me, I think he was about 22-24 maybe, and yeah he told me his whole life story-ish. He told me where he lived, right where we were standing, and then, for some strange reason, he told me about where he used to live. He gave me detailed directions and anything.

He also kept asking me questions, like my name, age, which school/college I went to, where I lived, if I had a boyfriend etc. It was very weird. I don’t like lying, even to strangers, so I gave vague answers and he even invited me into his house for a cup of tea…. I said I couldn’t, since I had to deliver papers! But he said I could stop by anytime, and knock on the door and ask for him.

I kept backing away, since, I have no clue why I didn’t lwave straight away, I felt bad, but he couldn’t tell that I wanted to go. When he asked if I had a boyfriend, I said no but I like someone (stupid twat haha) and that guy was like “Oh he’s a lucky guy” and carried on for awhile Eventually I escaped.

Anyway, every week after I was a bit scared going there and went at different times haha, and one time I saw him talking to a group of really young girls and that was a bit strange, and soon after I quit. Wow that was a long mention about my old paper round job lol.

So! Been unemployed for a year, luckily I had a student loan (but paying it back later ) and I’ll be getting a big student loan this year, but nothing for summer. I want to spend monies! On nice clothes, films, going out, doing stuff with friends, summer things, driving lessons, saving up for a car and go on holiday (next year though).

I’m going in for training Friday, and working Sat and Sun at a supermarket lol, my friend works there, and I should be taking over from another friend after summer ends. So I’m happy, two things I wanted to do are complete (pass uni and get a job).

It sucked a bit getting home though. I waited 40 minutes for a bus and when the two that didn’t come during that time, I decided to walk home, I was cold and wet stupid rain. Then as I was walking, four busses went past me! I knew something like that would happen, Sods Law and all, but since I’d either passed a bus stop, or could see one ahead, they didn’t stop for me and I couldn’t get one It took about 40 mins to walk home, so if I hadn’t have waited 40 mins for the busses I would have been home so much sooner, but still probably soaking wet

Oh yeah, I always listen to music when I walk, and I was almost home and I looked to the left and there were some chavs in a car like right beside me driving slow. It startled me a bit, and I think they might have been saying something to me, but I didn’t hear, when I turned around, they drove off really fast laughing when they saw me half jump, but it was creepy and I want to know what the heck they said >.<

My friend wanted a BBQ tonight, doubt that will happen! But we should be cooking food inside, so I can’t wait, and I’m so tired. Woke up very early (for me) three days in a row now! I don’t exactly go to bed early too, but its getting earlier and earlier

Today I got my results, I passed! Woooot!

Me and my friend went to get them today, I woke up early and we picked up our friends results since she’s on holiday, and we were really worried we’d get sucky results, but we did better than the last lot we did! The we went to go see Last Chance Harvey, it had quite a few of “aww” moments

I thought yesterday was today, and woke up really early, walked 20 mins to the bus stop, frantically text my friend (who was at work at the time) and the bus broke down half way there. So we had to get another bus, when I got on I realised, oh yeah, today is Monday and not Tuesday.

I would have stayed in town and shopped a little bit I need to save money, annoying that I wasted £3.50 on a bus ticket for no reason. I also forgot they were remodelling the bus depo, and since I wasn’t on my normal bus where it stopped, I thought was like where it had been moved to for that bus (since they moved just the uni bus before) and I walked over to the bus depo, and then back and had to find the bus I wanted to get home.

Had to do all that today, but this time actually go to Uni, and yayness for passing and NO SUMMER ASSINGMENTS! The thought of doing those scared me haha.

Oh yeah, before I got on the bus, I got a call about a job! Fingers crossed, I’ll have a part time job Going in tomorrow (early ) to find out and whatnot. I’m replacing a friend, and my other friend works there, and that place prefers hiring people who are friends with people already employed there. Which is great considering no where else will hire me since I’ve just had a paper round before, and that doesn’t give me all the “qualifications I need”, grr Vue and everywhere else!

Also I completed Final Fantasy 9 today!!! For the first time. I love those games I really do, but the only one I finished was FFX-2, which sucked! All the others my brothers either sold the games, got to a really hard part I hadn’t trained enough for, or just lost interest >.<

Still, guess I’ll play FF8 next

My friend asked me, and two others to go to her Uni ball, and one couldn’t make it, but the three of us still went. Since they both had exams that day, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon I was a bit worried about time.

It was going to take about 2 hours to travel to Cardiff, and then we’d have to walk to my friends house, and then get ready, then walk to the place it was being held and queue up, and it started at 6. Needless to say we left my friends house at 9 lol.

It had rained earlier on, but was so warm and sunny when we got there it was fine. It was the last night my friend was in her student house, so a lot of her housemates had gone. One of them was pretty cute, and my friend told him we thought so and he was embarrassed when he came to say bye to her, it was pretty awkward >.< haha.

Two of us wore black dresses and the other wore a white one, they were both lush dresses! I brought my camera along, it still works! Sorta! You just can’t change any setting on the screen (just the ones by button) or see the pictures till you load them up, so later I had to delete looooads. It was fun and we walked over to the park and there was a massive queue and I think we got in just before 10am. There were a few bands/DJ’s/whatever on, but we just wanted to see Feeder and Calvin Harris.

We got drinks first, that took awhile and it was £2 for a tiny little bit I wanted to go on all the rides in the carnival, there were just three, but I could only convince my friends to go on the Bumper Cars and the Waltz.

They were so much fun, except the Bumper cars hurt my neck, sorta like whiplash, I have a giant red speckled yellow bruise there On the Waltz it was hilarious. One of my friends was terrifed and she was sitting in the middle, I know its mean, but every time she screamed I laughed. I managed to take a picture while it was going, which she hates. I’m nothing but a good friend

On the way to get drinks for the second time, the queue was so much bigger, and just before I went up to get something, this giant girl behind me, stepped on my foot. Her whole weight, on one foot, one heel stomped onto my toes! and normally when people do that, they automatically take their foot off and apologise and she didn’t. I had to wrench my foot out from under hers and hobble away. I found out later she tore some skin off >.<

Then, we walked by the live tent and I heard Feeder playing! So I reckon we missed aboiut three or four songs, possibly two of the ones we wanted to hear the most, but we did get to hear a few. I filmed them a bit, but I couldn’t really see the screen to know if it was filming, and where it was pointed, so quite a lot of it is aimed at peoples heads before us. Oh well! It was really cool seeing them. They were amazing singing live and the atmosphere was really good, it would have been nicer if we were closer, but there were lots of tall people and we probably would have been stamped on a lot. That has happened to me before and I almost lost a shoe, never again!

Feeder!

Later on, we found out that we had missed Calvin Harris…. by a few hours! He was on at eight and we didn’t even leave the house till nine haha. It sucks to have missed him, but at least we weren’t there and missed him by a few minutes.

When our feet began hurting, we decided it was time to hobble back to her house. Oh, em gee… I remember why heels are baaad. The shoes I wore have never hurt me, until that night, sad times haha. We got some chips on the way and watched a bit of sliding doors, but we were too tired to watch all of it.

But, none of us got much sleep that night. There were INSANELY annoying birds right outside her window, screeching and squarking for about two hours straight, it was horrible and ridiculous. One friend said she wanted to shoot them while the other said she wanted to throw stones, quite funny I think I might have had two hours sleep tops that night, but it was still a good time!

In the morning we helped my friend pack and filled her car up to the brim. I was proud of how I managed to find spaces for random bags haha, and we knew there wouldn’t be enough room for us to have a lift back, so we were getting the train again.

Wow, we mucked that up a bit. We got the train from her house, first we were on the wrong side, then we waited ages in the boiling sun and when we got on the train, for some reason, we got off at the next stop without checking to see if it was the central and so we had to pay for a random ticket, and then buy another ticket and get on the next train coming that way. Doesn’t sound like much but we are just not train savvy.

We bought some food and as I opened my crisps they exploded everywhere. I had three left in the packet I also might have screamed a bit, and everyone looked at me, pretty shaming haha.

Crisps

When we finally got on the right train home, a bunch of young, drunk, semi-naked chavs came on, and shouted and sang badly for the next hour, it was, HORRIBLE! Escape in the park was on in my town, and so they were on the train till the end with us, and argh, never again! I feel bad for my friend, she had a massive headache (not been sleeping much due to exams) and they made it worse.

After we got off this woman in front of us was just talking to us about how annoying it all was lol, and that they’d probably crash at 6pm since it wasn’t even 2pm at the time. We also saw a few girls aged like, what, 14-15 wearing super short dresses and carrying a large bottle of alcohol around, talking loudly about how they hoped they wouldn’t get caught. It was so stupid >.<

Anywho, that was a brief (or not so brief?) post on the summer ball! It wasn’t even my universitys ball, so next year hopefully I can go to mine, and maybe the year after that go to the Uni my friends hoping to go to in Scotland haha, should be fun

I hate moths, especially the GIANT ones that fly into my room at night and keep flying at me! I guess I’m keeping my window closed this summer! I’ll just have to melt it out and be safe from HUUUUUGE moths (and flying daddy long legs).

Anywho, this kept me awake for a fair bit last night.

Moth Monster

It was very scary and traumatising, I swear! I decided to turn into a moth hunter, but it was too fast for me, it was whizzing round the room, like zooom! Bang! Zoooom! Bang! From when it would hit the wall right above my head. I may or may not have screamed a few times…. I am a wimp, I know, but it was yoooooge.

And then it knew I was trying to kill it, the evil clever thing, and it hid, and I couldn’t find it, and I knew it was watching me somewhere It took forever to get to sleep. The end.

Oh and I have a Uni Ball tonight! Its not even the Uni I go to lol, mine was on Wednesday but at the time of selling tickets (ONE DAY) the friends who I thought would go had no money, and then my friend asked if me and some others wanted to go to hers. I can’t wait, Feeder and Calvin Harris will be there

Now I need to get ready, pack some stuff, find out the travel plans, travel for a few hours, get ready and then I’m SO there!

Well, since I moved out of my uni flat today and handed the key in, I thought I should finally write about my university experience.

I went to the Uni that was close to me, but decided to move out for the first year anyway (they kick you off campus after the first year). My friend was meant to be in the same flat with me, heck, the room right next to mine, but she changed her mind.

I moved in and it was a really, cool? day, it was fun, (nearly) everyone moving in on the same day, taking all their things up, queuing for the keys and packs (which included a bright pink t-shirt for my building ) etc. I arrived before my friend did and met three of my flatmates, and when my friend arrived, they helped us carry her things up, really nice of them

We went out to the union bar, which was right next to our building, and I remember out building didn’t have any hot water, so the showers were freeezing. The next morning, my friend woke me up knocking on my door saying she didn’t like it, had already packed her things and her mum was picking her up in a few minutes. I was like “whaaaaat?”

She didn’t even last 24 hours! But, she really didn’t want to come the day before, and if she went before the weekend was over, she wouldn’t have to pay (since after a certain date, you’d have to pay for the rest of the year, even if you moved out :O) but she could have stayed a few more nights to make sure. I was worried, since I knew I’d be living with her for the year and I wasn’t sure how it was going to be, but it was okay for the first term.

There are eight people per flat, with our own en-suites and sharing a kitchen. The seven other flatmates are Irish, American, Princess, Blondie, Two best friends and Twenty three. We all got on well at first, then Twenty Three caused some drama.

He was rude, threw peoples food out, argued with the two other girls there, insulted people etc He eventually moved out, but he’s still in my course and is nicer now. He moved out at christmas though and the new guy, Rower, is a nice guy, I talked to him in the kitchen for a few times, but we’ve had two month breaks and then end of uni so I didn’t really get to know him.

The Two best friends are okay too, but never really saw much of them. I got on with American, Irish, Blondie and Princess, and they all fell out with American. He’s the only one of them all I’ll miss, and try to see next year.

He made me join the Japanese society and I wanted to anyway, and my friends love him lol, its funny

The others…. gah. I got on well with them, and was meant to move into a house next year with them, and two people from floors above. However, they started leaving me out of things, and there were a bunch of other reasons for it, but I changed my mind about living with them. After the christmas break I told them, and then they bitched about me outside my door for about an hour, and the next day I had an exam. So yeah, things weren’t going to get better from that point onwards.

I really hated living there at that point, I felt lonely and depressed and just wanted to be home, so I shouldn’t have agreed to live with them, and I can understand why they got mad, but still, they went too far. They also summoned me to one of theirs room and made me wait till they all arrived, and ignored me until the last guy did and then ranted a bit at me. Five against one? Not nice >.<

After that I avoided them as much as I could, but they don’t care about others. I hear them bitching about each other constantly, and they always leave their doors open, and music playing, late at night even when they go out for hours, and scream next to me wall, and have conversations right outside my door, or shouting down the hall to each other. Princess, is the worst.

She and one of her boyfriends used to argue all the freakin’ time. Like screaming at each other, and she has a high pitched scream, its aweful. They’d argue at night, in the morning, day time, whenever. They’ve woken me up before, and her rooms all the way down the hall, I feel sorry for American who’s room was right next to hers, and her latest boyfriend, they’d have sex everynight in her room and he said it drove him nuts. Why couldn’t they go to his flat once in awhile?

The other day she almost walked into me, and I said Hi, and she looked me straight in the eye, and then turned around and started talking to someone else. She didn’t even say sorry or anything and blanked me. I’ve ignored people in the past, when they’ve done something to me, but I haven’t done anything to her to warrant her to ignore me. Grrr, she’s such a spoilt brat.

Also, there were three small shelves in the freezer, after Christmas there was no room for anyone to put food in, since Irish, Blondie and Princess had taken up all the space! If I did put any food in there, like a bag of chips, they’d get eaten, or other food if I could find any room would get moved, so I could never find any of my food. I just got fridge and cupboard food (and survived through the microwave ).

When I went back after being away for awhile, someone had taken a bowl out of my cupboard, a spoon and a fork, and left them unwashed for a few days. I was not happy because they stunk and were left in a pile of stuff. There are two sinks, and most of the time both are full of dirty dishes, or food at the bottom, yuck. I was annoyed that they used my stuff, and couldn’t be bothered to wash and replace it. American would ask me if he could borrow my stuff, I was fine with it, cause he’d wash whatever he borrowed and put them back. Its really rude of people to take your stuff, use it, and then leave it for days, because they left all their dirty dishes in the sink for gawd knows how long >.<

Anywho I’ve lost the point of this post, its a bit boring and ranty. I won’t go into all the details, but yeah I didn’t get on with them, and they are disgusting slobs, the kitchen is rank. They left stuff for two months and then threw it out, a huge pile of mouldy dishes, and the cleaners told them to clean out their fridge to stop food posioning from happening, so glad I shared with cleaner people!

The year has flown by, and in the second semester I was at home loads, since its hard to get sleep there for me anyway, oh I didn’t mention the fire alarms! I kid you not, they have gone off well over 200 hundred times, sometimes three times in one night! I bet the firemen loved my building…not. Still, made for some expericences! But walking up eight flights of stairs at 4am in the morning after standing outside for an hour in the drizzling cold was NOT fun. The lifts were always breaking down too, but never both at the same time.

Some random things to add, the weekly sunday quiz is FUN, my team came joint second once!! and also last before…but shush! People like to punch the wall, in two spots, that would be patched up, punched through, repeatedly. The only exit to the building, gets stuck a lot and not good when your late for catching the bus!

The water there is disgusting, so I drank lots of fruit juice or fizzy drinks which made my teeth baaad, they used to be good Living ON campus didn’t make me get to lectures on time, I was apparantly known as the late girl for the first few weeks, but I did manage to get there just before the lecturer started teaching in the end, so yay! Having an en-suite is GREAT, and so was the bigger room, moving back home to a tiny box room with two rooms stuff, is not great, eek. I went out loads to town then I had done before, and now own a whole load of dresses, and those random nights out, were really fun

Hmm can’t really think of anything else for this “epic post”. It kinda sucks as a recap of uni life, but I can’t fit a whole year into one post well! I think living there was a bit of a waste for me and if I move out in the third year, it’ll be with friends and so much better

Geez, there’s been a bit of drama lately.

I went to a wedding reception the other night, my friends were there, my brothers and their friends were there and I feel like I’m a little bit stuck in the middle, but not really.

My brothers friend has cheated constantly on his girlfriend, everyone knows, except her? The girlfriend used to be friends with my best friends boyfriend. My best friend used to go out with the cheating boyfriend. Anyway, they threatened to beat up my friends boyfriend if he told his old friend that her boyfriend was cheating on her.

Apparantly he did tell her, or told a friend who told her etc, but she now knows that her boyfriend is a cheating lying scumbag, I feel bad for her. My brother got really mad, and told me to tell my friend, to tell her boyfriend to “shut up or he better watch it”. I got annoyed at him.

He was trying to say my freinds bf is telling lies, that the cheating boyfriend has cheated with people who he hasn’t, BUT! He has, with his own friends girlfriend recently. His friends including my brother are all like, “Oh he doesn’t do it anymore, its sorted, those are lies” etc when its not.

I know three girls personally who he was “involved” with whilst he’s been with his girlfriend. He also tried to flirt with my best friends sister, told her that he missed her and they shouldn’t have broken up, been involved with other girls who I know, but not very well, and he cheats on her with a girl he works with.

What annoys me, is that my brother and that group of friends think he’s fine for doing all that, and they are friends with the girlfriend. How can they see her and be nice and stuff, when they know that her boyfriend cheats on her constantly? You could understand if they didn’t know the girlfriend or didn’t like her, for covering for their friend, since their friends, but they know and like the girlfriend.

Anyway, I guess this is really confusing, and a bit random, but I am just annoyed. Cheating is cheating, and that twat isn’t going to change his spots so they shouldn’t try to act like he’s so innocent and has done nothing wrong. Maybe my friends bf shouldn’t have told her, or maybe he should have (or told her friend whatever) but none of this drama, between loads of people I know, would happen if that guy was a faithful boyfriend.

If someone cheated on me, that would be it. Yes, I wouldn’t like hearing it, especially if it was from an ex girlfriend. I have had something like that happen to me before, and I didn’t believe the girls and hated them really. It was more of the way they told me, like an open comment on a social page which everyone could see, and then they private messaged me, but like I was going to listen. In the end, turned out they were right, but I dealt with it then.

One of his girlfriends (ex now) was messaging me a few months back, it was very weird. It’d been two years since I broke up with him, and I have ignored him (for a ton of reasons) and was over him. Anyway, she was acting all innocent “Hi do you know___?” and I messaged back, thinking, maybe he’s being horrible to her and she wants to know if he was to me, or maybe he was telling her we were involved or something.

Turned out, she wanted me to be friends with him since I was “missing in his life” and he was “closer to me than he’ll ever be with her” and he was taking out me not talking to him, on her. I was like wtf doood? I told her like… an outline of why I hate him and don’t want to know and please stop messaging me without going into details, otherwise I’d come across as the bitter ex, but nope, she still messaged me, and tried to add me as a friend, weird.

Eventually he messaged me, so I sent back a civiliy mean message, which she then replied, I didn’t, and he sent a message. Ack whatever. The latest I heard was when he sent me a message telling me “I know you probably won’t care, but I wanted to say happy birthday”. I found it funny, since he didn’t tell me happy birthday the year before.

So this is a random rant about guys, and how useless they are, or at least the ones I know. That boy I mentioned on here before? Well, I finally just cut him out of my life and I feel SO much better He told me that if we went out, he’d break up with me for his ex if she wanted him back (even though he knows she’d break up with him again), and he still expected me to wait for him. Lol, as if. I never want to be second best, and if that means being on my own, I don’t mind, I’ll just turn into that crazy cat lady

Well, Wednesday it decided to rain after a really nice day, so there went my nice plans with my friend, but I still went up to see her. We had food and then decided to watch ‘Night at the Museum 2′ which was funnier than I thought it’d be. Ben Stiller is looking waaay older isn’t he? And it took me awhile to work out that the main girl was Amy Adams. It was bugging me, since I knew who she was, but couldn’t exactly remember, ha.

Anywho, during the film I starting having cramps and was in so much pain, and I got up and we walked away and then I felt like I was going to faint. Threw myself into a seat in this random seating area and was finding it hard to breath. I also felt like I’d throw up and my head was spinning. I was also shaking lots, which was not good. I’ve never really felt like I’d faint before and managed to sit down just before so I hope I never will!

The staff there were asking me if I was okay, and said if I went downstairs I could get water from the cafe and there’d be bette seats. Had to wait awhile till I could move. My friend was really worried, she said I’d gone REALLY white, so I’m pale anyway, I must have looked scary. I don’t know how long we waited in the cafe, I just did not want to move an inch and wasn’t comfy, and I just wanted to go home and curl up in bed and sleep it away. But I was like three hours away from home

My friend offered to come back with me, but I felt bad for her to do that and we waited till I felt better, yay for pain meds and I got the shuttle back, feeling better, but talking to her had distracted me and so I felt worse on the shuttle. And I took 2 pain meds 2 hours after the last and my mum was worried I’d end up in a coma lol, I didn’t. The journey back was faster than the way up, and there wasn’t a couple in front of me constantly kissing and eating sweets, so yay haha. I get travel sick, and the smell of those sweets was horrrrrrrible, yuck.  Still, I had fun despite the rain and pain, and a nice good catch up goss with my friend as we complained about life and boys haha.

Anywho spent the next few days cwtched up in bed and nice chocolate cake (it was my brothers 18th birthday and my younger brother made a cake, I hate him), and a giant headache was thrown into the mix, like lasting most of the day My mum thinks I’m anemic and wants me to have a blood test done so I can get stronger iron tablets that they don’t sell over the counter.

So! Feeling ill, I came back to my uni flat last night since I had an exam this morning at 9:30am, yeah on a Saturday My head was hurting and the Union bar was open and my buliding is right next to it, so there were loads of drunk people outside. And the floor below me, the kitchen window was wide open (they’re not meant to be) and this drunk girl was screaming out of it, randomly and to the people 7 floors down, I was SO freakin’ annoyed. I shouted through the window and she didn’t hear me and my head got worse.

Not the best environment to study and sleep the night before an exam, but at least the fire alarm didn’t go off like last time. I thought my flatmates would come home loud and drunk like the normally do, but this time they hadn’t so at least that was good.

I woke up early and it was a 30 second walk over to the exam hall, yay I wasn’t late. It was a multi-choice exam for the Pyschology study of early childhood. I hope I get at least 40% right! If I don’t, that will suck majorly >.<

Then! My friends told me there was a car boot sale over the road. I’ve never been before and this was a big mistake, I spent £14!!! On stuff I do not need and had only planned to spend £5 at most lol. But I did get a leathery type bracelet £1, lush necklace £3, pretty sparkly pendant £3, two DVDs £4, a pretty metal bookmark 50p, cheap moisteriser £1.50 and an ice cream £1. Pretty good loot for the price, I’m in love with the necklace and pendant and bookmark, I might take a pic if I can borrow my brothers cam. (He won’t let me since I have a bad rep with cameras).

I also need to buy stuff to make milkyway brownies (that I saw on a blog) and buy some veggie burgers to take to a BBQ/Sleepover tonight. I need to bring about £16 too so my friend can book us tickets to go see Taking Back Sunday!!! Woot! I can’t wait.

I saw them um… when I was 13 or 14, so that was 5 or 6 years ago wow. I met Adam Lazzara! And he signed my ticket! and he called us super troopers cause we told him we’d travelled hours from Wales to see them play, he had no clue where Wales was and he called us Super Troopers haha.

So I’m excited for Summer! I have the BBQ tonight, Hawaii theme (I’ll just add the flowers, no grass skirt and bikini lol), Summer Ball on the 12th, Taking Back Sunday in July, and hopefully lots of random things inbetween

Right, I need to get back to packing, I’m taking most of my clothes back home tonight and all the hangers. I’d take them all but the giant suitcase I have won’t carry them all. Leaving the rest of my stuff here such as books, DVD’s, shoes, random bits and bobs, towels and posters etc for the time being. I don’t think I’ll be able to fit everything back into my small tiny room at home, and I really need to write a post about Uni one of these days, especially since I’ve finished my first year!