Happy New Year to my lovely readers and Happy Birthday to me! I'm feeling incredibly lucky at the moment because I've got money to spend on a new iPod touch and a prom dress, plus some amazing presents from the girls. I realise I sound spoiled but I've never had this amount of money and cool stuff before so a massive thank you to my family and friends in in order!
There's only 5 hours left of 2012 as I'm writing this, which feels strange as it's all been a bit of a blur. So much has happened this year and I know this sounds cringingly cheesy but I really do feel like I've grown as a person and I've gone on a mini voyage of self-discovery in a way. I haven't had the chance to be as creative as I'd like this year so my new year's resolution is to take some time out for myself, mainly to further my creative writing skills and to stop myself moaning on here that I feel like an exam robot. I know that 2013 will be even more stressful than 2012 in terms of exams but I'm really looking forward to September when I start college/sixth form purely because it's a new start.
Anyway, enough of the deep thinking, yesterday I went to see The Hobbit with Ella, Sasha and Emily for my birthday. I have to say I was a little unsure at first but it got better and better and the riddle scene with Golumn and Bilbo really impressed me, it was the perfect mix of humour and suspense. Afterwards we went to Maccy D's for a catch-up even though we only saw each other a week ago!
I've been thinking how much the BBC has killed me this year...first the Reichenbach Fall then Rory and Amy leaving Doctor Who and then Merlin ending. Seriously.
Also thank you to everyone who has left me birthday messages on Twitter, you are the best! :-)
Eden x
Monday, 31 December 2012
Saturday, 22 December 2012
Forget Christmas...it's my bloggiversary!
Hello all! The 21st was (what I call) my bloggiversary- the one year anniversary of my lovely blog! I've written a grand total of 64 posts and I think all of them have actually been read by at least one real person rather than some kind of spam bot, which is great! Thank you if you are one of those people :-)
Christmas is in under 3 days now, which is pretty scary, this year has been a blur! I'm a bit disappointed with the weather as it's too warm to snow so instead it's been raining non-stop all day and it just doesn't look festive at all. But there's still presents and food so it's all gooood.
Speaking of presents, the girls got me some brilliant stuff including a huge box of Milk Tray, a Deathly Hallows symbol necklace and transferable Dark Mark tattoo, lip crayons, jewellery and a Doctor Who book! It's my birthday on New Year's Eve and we're going to see The Hobbit so I'm looking forward to that (and more presents of course!)
Last weekend I went to York with my mum and auntie (who have decided to have a massive argument just before Christmas and make Christmas dinner extremely awkward) and I got a new Cath Kidston bag, it's so purty! It's dark red with little beige polka dots :-)
I can't think of much else to say except from have a wonderful Christmas and don't hold back on the food and drink!!
Eden x
Christmas is in under 3 days now, which is pretty scary, this year has been a blur! I'm a bit disappointed with the weather as it's too warm to snow so instead it's been raining non-stop all day and it just doesn't look festive at all. But there's still presents and food so it's all gooood.
Speaking of presents, the girls got me some brilliant stuff including a huge box of Milk Tray, a Deathly Hallows symbol necklace and transferable Dark Mark tattoo, lip crayons, jewellery and a Doctor Who book! It's my birthday on New Year's Eve and we're going to see The Hobbit so I'm looking forward to that (and more presents of course!)
Last weekend I went to York with my mum and auntie (who have decided to have a massive argument just before Christmas and make Christmas dinner extremely awkward) and I got a new Cath Kidston bag, it's so purty! It's dark red with little beige polka dots :-)
I can't think of much else to say except from have a wonderful Christmas and don't hold back on the food and drink!!
Eden x
Friday, 7 December 2012
Christmas, History and the Royal Baby.
Happy December- less than a month until Christmas! This morning I realised how fast this year has gone- it's almost a year since my first post on this blog! CUTE.
There is still a lot to do though- in a weeks time I have a History mock and a Geography mock. I started to revise for History on Saturday morning but I was constantly being distracted because Time Team's Greatest Finds was on TV and they found a really well-preserved Anglo-Saxon golden coin and it was so shiny and I just couldn't deal with the excitement. Plus my sister was sat upstairs watching Miranda and I was jealous. I've managed to create a mindmap of the first few topics we covered with key points which will hopefully jog my memory...hopefully.
My sister and I have put the little Christmas tree up and our room and we've hung some really cute ribbon with little stockings on it in the window, we have a red-themed room anyway so it looks extra festive! The big tree in the living room is going up tomorrow too, I can't wait! It makes the room look so cosy with all the
lights, I love it.
I found out today that I got an A* in the mock English exam that I thought I'd failed, but I just wish that could have been the real exam. The grade boundaries were super strange- the paper was out of 80 but you only needed 61 to get an A*- very weird! Knowing me, I'll probably fall to pieces when it comes to the real thing.
Also-congratulations to Kate and William- that child will be the best looking child ever to grace this Earth. I'm hoping it's a girl purely to make use of this new law. Also- do we get a bank holiday? *pleasepleaseplease* I've just heard about the receptionist who forwarded the hoax call to Kate's bedside- sometimes mistakes like that can be the final straw for people who are already depressed. So sad.
Band discovery of the week- The xx. Wow. Angels is beautiful.
Eden x
(Apologies for this being a bit random, I wrote it over a number of days to confuse my little mind further!)
There is still a lot to do though- in a weeks time I have a History mock and a Geography mock. I started to revise for History on Saturday morning but I was constantly being distracted because Time Team's Greatest Finds was on TV and they found a really well-preserved Anglo-Saxon golden coin and it was so shiny and I just couldn't deal with the excitement. Plus my sister was sat upstairs watching Miranda and I was jealous. I've managed to create a mindmap of the first few topics we covered with key points which will hopefully jog my memory...hopefully.
My sister and I have put the little Christmas tree up and our room and we've hung some really cute ribbon with little stockings on it in the window, we have a red-themed room anyway so it looks extra festive! The big tree in the living room is going up tomorrow too, I can't wait! It makes the room look so cosy with all the
lights, I love it.
I found out today that I got an A* in the mock English exam that I thought I'd failed, but I just wish that could have been the real exam. The grade boundaries were super strange- the paper was out of 80 but you only needed 61 to get an A*- very weird! Knowing me, I'll probably fall to pieces when it comes to the real thing.
Also-congratulations to Kate and William- that child will be the best looking child ever to grace this Earth. I'm hoping it's a girl purely to make use of this new law. Also- do we get a bank holiday? *pleasepleaseplease* I've just heard about the receptionist who forwarded the hoax call to Kate's bedside- sometimes mistakes like that can be the final straw for people who are already depressed. So sad.
Band discovery of the week- The xx. Wow. Angels is beautiful.
Eden x
(Apologies for this being a bit random, I wrote it over a number of days to confuse my little mind further!)
Monday, 19 November 2012
The Calm Before the Storm
It's been a while! I'll start with the positives and end with a good old rant in an attempt to expel my frustration (not in that way, in an annoyed sense)
Anyway, The Killers concert was brilliant! I'm now the proud owner of a TK t-shirt which set me back £25, but hey ho. It's worth it in the long run! The show itself was brilliant, the lighting and everything looked so cool and the guys were on great form, I've no idea how they managed to sing so well for such a long time with only a two-minute break! I took my sister's iPod to get some photos (as mine is so old it doesn't have a camera) but of course it decided to run out of memory after I'd taken one video. Grr.
The concert was on a Thursday night and I got home at about half eleven, which wasn't too bad, but I went into school the next day and then got sent home 15 minutes later due to a power cut- back to sleep for me! I found out that the power had come back on about 20 minutes after we'd been sent home, just in time for the first lesson of the day. Awkward! So, yeah, all in all it was a good couple of days!
And now for my scheduled rant: I'm so indecisive about my A level choices and which sixth form/college to pick, it feels like there's a problem with everything I choose. My aim is to do a degree in History after college, but I'm not sure what A Levels to choose. Ideally, I want to do English Lit, History, Economics and either Geography or Politics. The best sixth form in the area doesn't offer Economics or Politics. The best college in the area is far away from my house and I'm unlikely to be offered a place anyway as my Maths and Science grades are too low. The sixth form nearest to my house belongs to the seventh best school in the country and offers the subjects I want, but everything I've heard about it is negative- the teachers make life hard for students who haven't attended the school previously and the other students are already in the friendship groups as they've been there for five years. Plus, as it's amongst the best schools, the students are so bright that sun shines out of their arses and I would look like a prize idiot compared to them. There's another sixth form not that far away but it has quite a bad reputation, not to mention Ofsted report. See my problem?
I know I'm not going to get into Oxbridge, but I'd like a decent degree from a decent university. It's panicked me a bit that most people on forums and the like take Maths and Science A Levels then progress to a History degree. I'm absolutely shit at everything related to those two subjects, I've had to work my arse off to even get B's, why are they so necessary? I feel like I'm classified as a bad student because I can only do Humanities and Arts-based subjects.
As if researching non-stop about all this on the internet isn't time-consuming enough (believe me, it is), I've recently found out that there's a week in December where I have a History mock, a Geography mock and a French speaking test on three consecutive days. Plus an English mock next week and a Physics mock at some point. The grades I achieve in these exams are my predicted grades- they're what I can expect to get for my final grade and what I give college/sixth forms when I apply. Bloody brilliant.
Eden x
Anyway, The Killers concert was brilliant! I'm now the proud owner of a TK t-shirt which set me back £25, but hey ho. It's worth it in the long run! The show itself was brilliant, the lighting and everything looked so cool and the guys were on great form, I've no idea how they managed to sing so well for such a long time with only a two-minute break! I took my sister's iPod to get some photos (as mine is so old it doesn't have a camera) but of course it decided to run out of memory after I'd taken one video. Grr.
The concert was on a Thursday night and I got home at about half eleven, which wasn't too bad, but I went into school the next day and then got sent home 15 minutes later due to a power cut- back to sleep for me! I found out that the power had come back on about 20 minutes after we'd been sent home, just in time for the first lesson of the day. Awkward! So, yeah, all in all it was a good couple of days!
And now for my scheduled rant: I'm so indecisive about my A level choices and which sixth form/college to pick, it feels like there's a problem with everything I choose. My aim is to do a degree in History after college, but I'm not sure what A Levels to choose. Ideally, I want to do English Lit, History, Economics and either Geography or Politics. The best sixth form in the area doesn't offer Economics or Politics. The best college in the area is far away from my house and I'm unlikely to be offered a place anyway as my Maths and Science grades are too low. The sixth form nearest to my house belongs to the seventh best school in the country and offers the subjects I want, but everything I've heard about it is negative- the teachers make life hard for students who haven't attended the school previously and the other students are already in the friendship groups as they've been there for five years. Plus, as it's amongst the best schools, the students are so bright that sun shines out of their arses and I would look like a prize idiot compared to them. There's another sixth form not that far away but it has quite a bad reputation, not to mention Ofsted report. See my problem?
I know I'm not going to get into Oxbridge, but I'd like a decent degree from a decent university. It's panicked me a bit that most people on forums and the like take Maths and Science A Levels then progress to a History degree. I'm absolutely shit at everything related to those two subjects, I've had to work my arse off to even get B's, why are they so necessary? I feel like I'm classified as a bad student because I can only do Humanities and Arts-based subjects.
As if researching non-stop about all this on the internet isn't time-consuming enough (believe me, it is), I've recently found out that there's a week in December where I have a History mock, a Geography mock and a French speaking test on three consecutive days. Plus an English mock next week and a Physics mock at some point. The grades I achieve in these exams are my predicted grades- they're what I can expect to get for my final grade and what I give college/sixth forms when I apply. Bloody brilliant.
Eden x
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Indecisiveness is a terrible thing...
Hello lovely readers! It's that time again...new blog post time!
I've finally received my work experience placement, which I start on the 29th. It's in a little florists in town, which is good because it's easy to get to. I seem to have longer hours than most people, 9 'til 4, but I get two 15 minute breaks and an hour for lunch so it's not too bad. The only downside is that it's in half-term week so I don't get a holiday until Christmas!
I'm also a bit worried about my dear old laptop. It keeps freezing for no apparent reason and I have to restart it, although it makes the cutest squeaking noise when it turns off! I have had it for almost four years though so I'll probably have to get another one at some point this year. Funnily enough the new iPod touch has just been released so I could just make do with that...*hint hint* I'm downloading the newest version of Internet Explorer (I know, desperate times and all that...I'm a Google Chrome girl really!) so hopefully it'll speed up a bit.
My A-level choices are really beginning to stress me out now; I have no idea what to do as a career so I need to keep my options open, but let's just say Science and Maths are not my forte so obviously I'm going to lean towards Humanities subjects. I know I want to do English Lit and History but I still have two choices. I'd like to do Economics, but that is only offered at my top choice of sixth form and not at any others, so if I don't get a place there then I need a back-up. I'm good at Geography but I don't enjoy it as much as History, and I don't know if I have the focus to spend at least a year doing something that I'm not committed to. I don't want to make too much work for myself by choosing too many essay-based subjects but then there's a lot of subjects that aren't respected by universities so I'd be limiting myself if I chose any of those. I can't sing/dance/act/paint/draw either. Why can't I just be good at Maths?
Eden x
I've finally received my work experience placement, which I start on the 29th. It's in a little florists in town, which is good because it's easy to get to. I seem to have longer hours than most people, 9 'til 4, but I get two 15 minute breaks and an hour for lunch so it's not too bad. The only downside is that it's in half-term week so I don't get a holiday until Christmas!
I'm also a bit worried about my dear old laptop. It keeps freezing for no apparent reason and I have to restart it, although it makes the cutest squeaking noise when it turns off! I have had it for almost four years though so I'll probably have to get another one at some point this year. Funnily enough the new iPod touch has just been released so I could just make do with that...*hint hint* I'm downloading the newest version of Internet Explorer (I know, desperate times and all that...I'm a Google Chrome girl really!) so hopefully it'll speed up a bit.
My A-level choices are really beginning to stress me out now; I have no idea what to do as a career so I need to keep my options open, but let's just say Science and Maths are not my forte so obviously I'm going to lean towards Humanities subjects. I know I want to do English Lit and History but I still have two choices. I'd like to do Economics, but that is only offered at my top choice of sixth form and not at any others, so if I don't get a place there then I need a back-up. I'm good at Geography but I don't enjoy it as much as History, and I don't know if I have the focus to spend at least a year doing something that I'm not committed to. I don't want to make too much work for myself by choosing too many essay-based subjects but then there's a lot of subjects that aren't respected by universities so I'd be limiting myself if I chose any of those. I can't sing/dance/act/paint/draw either. Why can't I just be good at Maths?
Eden x
Saturday, 6 October 2012
The Midnight Beast!
The Midnight Beast gig was AMAZING.
We got there at seven and ended up at the back of the queue but it moved really fast so we were inside in no time! I was really surprised at how small the venue seemed but it must have been bigger than I'd thought because of all the people that were there! I'd say there was about 2000, maybe a little less. Anyway, we decided to buy some merchandise before the gig started. It was a good decision as the queue at the end was huge! We all bought wristbands and me, Ella and Emily bought flashing wands that we were waving all night! (Not a euphemism...)
The support acts came on just as we'd finished buying our stuff, I think the first was DJ Tuskah and the second was Unicorn Kid. I'm not really a fan of that type of music (really loud floor-shaking beats) but I didn't mind it. A lot of people were dancing but my dancing is sort of an awkward sway so I just stood there attempting not to spill my (overpriced) drink! The support acts were on for about 45 minutes, by the end of which everyone was practically deaf! There was a gap of about half an hour in between TMB and the support acts and the people next to us were getting a bit annoyed of waiting. Everyone cheered whenever a random person walked on stage! After about five impatient chants of 'TMB,TMB,TMB', the lights finally dimmed and they were on! Apparently I screamed really loudly when I first saw Dru...
The first song they played was 'I Kicked a Shark in the Face' which I was expecting- the tour is called 'I Kicked a Tour in the Face. The atmosphere was brilliant already and they had a person dressed up as a shark dancing around on stage which I loved! After this they sang some of their new songs that I haven't really heard as much, but I still enjoyed them. The first older song that they played was 'Friends For Never' which is definitely one of my all-time favourites! Everyone was singing along and waving their wands, it was amazing! They played a few more newer songs and then 'Lez Be Friends' which is another of my favourites! Ella and I swear that Ash looked at us at one point (in our general direction anyway!) His arms are literally the most beautiful arms ever. Swoon.
It didn't seem to have been a long time until they said it was their last song, but of course they came back on stage for an encore- the best bit of the show in my opinion! When the Harry Potter music from their song 'Wands' started to play everyone went crazy! By this time my wand-waving arm was aching like crazy as I'd been jumping up and down like a nutter all night but I pushed through! After Wands they sung their first song, a parody of 'Tik Tok' by Kesha. Shouting 'SHUT UP MUM, I'M ON MSN!' along with everyone else was hilarious! I think their last song was 'Booty Call' which is one of their best ones, everyone (including me) was singing their heart out with their croaky voices, the atmosphere was absolutely fantastic.
Here's a picture that Stefan took from the stage of the audience:
We were somewhere to the left near the blue pole! We had a good view despite being towards the back. Anyway, the concert finished at about 10.15 and we realised just how deaf, aching and croaky we really were! It was so worth it though, one of the best nights of my life!
Plus, unusually, I was the least tired out of all of us the next day!
Eden x
P.S- This is my superawesomecool wristband:
We got there at seven and ended up at the back of the queue but it moved really fast so we were inside in no time! I was really surprised at how small the venue seemed but it must have been bigger than I'd thought because of all the people that were there! I'd say there was about 2000, maybe a little less. Anyway, we decided to buy some merchandise before the gig started. It was a good decision as the queue at the end was huge! We all bought wristbands and me, Ella and Emily bought flashing wands that we were waving all night! (Not a euphemism...)
The support acts came on just as we'd finished buying our stuff, I think the first was DJ Tuskah and the second was Unicorn Kid. I'm not really a fan of that type of music (really loud floor-shaking beats) but I didn't mind it. A lot of people were dancing but my dancing is sort of an awkward sway so I just stood there attempting not to spill my (overpriced) drink! The support acts were on for about 45 minutes, by the end of which everyone was practically deaf! There was a gap of about half an hour in between TMB and the support acts and the people next to us were getting a bit annoyed of waiting. Everyone cheered whenever a random person walked on stage! After about five impatient chants of 'TMB,TMB,TMB', the lights finally dimmed and they were on! Apparently I screamed really loudly when I first saw Dru...
The first song they played was 'I Kicked a Shark in the Face' which I was expecting- the tour is called 'I Kicked a Tour in the Face. The atmosphere was brilliant already and they had a person dressed up as a shark dancing around on stage which I loved! After this they sang some of their new songs that I haven't really heard as much, but I still enjoyed them. The first older song that they played was 'Friends For Never' which is definitely one of my all-time favourites! Everyone was singing along and waving their wands, it was amazing! They played a few more newer songs and then 'Lez Be Friends' which is another of my favourites! Ella and I swear that Ash looked at us at one point (in our general direction anyway!) His arms are literally the most beautiful arms ever. Swoon.
It didn't seem to have been a long time until they said it was their last song, but of course they came back on stage for an encore- the best bit of the show in my opinion! When the Harry Potter music from their song 'Wands' started to play everyone went crazy! By this time my wand-waving arm was aching like crazy as I'd been jumping up and down like a nutter all night but I pushed through! After Wands they sung their first song, a parody of 'Tik Tok' by Kesha. Shouting 'SHUT UP MUM, I'M ON MSN!' along with everyone else was hilarious! I think their last song was 'Booty Call' which is one of their best ones, everyone (including me) was singing their heart out with their croaky voices, the atmosphere was absolutely fantastic.
Here's a picture that Stefan took from the stage of the audience:
We were somewhere to the left near the blue pole! We had a good view despite being towards the back. Anyway, the concert finished at about 10.15 and we realised just how deaf, aching and croaky we really were! It was so worth it though, one of the best nights of my life!
Plus, unusually, I was the least tired out of all of us the next day!
Eden x
P.S- This is my superawesomecool wristband:
Monday, 24 September 2012
Manic Present Wrapping
It's getting towards that time of year again...CHRISTMAS!! Well, it's only September, but all my friends and family conveniently decided to have their birthdays in the months leading up to Christmas, which means double presents for everyone. I was thoughtful and decided to arrive after Christmas so everyone can buy my presents in the sales or with their Christmas shopping. Today I've got everyone's birthday presents wrapped and safely stored in my 'present suitcase', but the house is now covered in sellotape and wrapping paper! Now I can save up in preparation for the nightmare that is Christmas shopping..
The past few weeks at school have been pretty easy-going to be fair. I've filled in my head girl application form and I need to hand it in tomorrow- I was unsure of whether to apply or not, as there's some people who are so confident and organised and mature and deserve it so much and I felt bad that I might get in their way so to speak, but my form tutor said he'd hunt me down with dogs if I didn't. I really hope I don't get as far as the interview stage; in my last interview I started babbling on about World War 2 and told a complete pack of lies. Speaking publicly is not my forte. At least I'll be able to put on my CV that I applied for the position.
Did I mention that Ella and I are going to see The Killers in November? ASDFGHJKL I CAN'T WAIT
It's also 11 days until we see The Midnight Beast in Leeds! It only seems like last week we got the tickets, where has this year disappeared to?
Eden x
The past few weeks at school have been pretty easy-going to be fair. I've filled in my head girl application form and I need to hand it in tomorrow- I was unsure of whether to apply or not, as there's some people who are so confident and organised and mature and deserve it so much and I felt bad that I might get in their way so to speak, but my form tutor said he'd hunt me down with dogs if I didn't. I really hope I don't get as far as the interview stage; in my last interview I started babbling on about World War 2 and told a complete pack of lies. Speaking publicly is not my forte. At least I'll be able to put on my CV that I applied for the position.
Did I mention that Ella and I are going to see The Killers in November? ASDFGHJKL I CAN'T WAIT
It's also 11 days until we see The Midnight Beast in Leeds! It only seems like last week we got the tickets, where has this year disappeared to?
Eden x
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