A Note

Ok I know I said I wasn’t going to upload until 2015 but I feel the urge to just sit and talk to you.

I know this isn’t exactly your normal conversation but come on. If you really think about it some blog posts are a bit like chats. That’s one of the things I enjoy about reading other people’s blogs: it sort of feels like you are having a conversation with the person who wrote it.

Anyway on Christmas Day I had a sort of appreciation moment. For all the gifts I received. For having my family surrounding me.  But also for all the opportunities and moments I have had in my life, in particular this year.

One of the things that I’m most grateful for this year is my blog. This. Even ten months ago I never would have thought that I would be sitting here writing on my own blog. My own thing that I set up because I wanted to. I rarely ever actually tell you how much this blog has changed my life.

This blog allows me to pull myself away from the real world and write. I can go from one moment of sitting at a desk and answering maths questions to uploading something I’ve written on the internet which anyone can see.

That’s another thing I tend to forget: when I’m uploading something I just about every time forget that anyone can see it. That’s both scary and exciting. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing that I forget even though I should probably try and keep that in mind more. I just think of this thing, whatever you want to call it, as more of a journal sort of thing rather than a website or whatever.

Anyway I should probably be going. I think we are about to play some old board games: save me!

I hope you have had both an amazing year and Christmas.

1 Day To Christmas | New Year Resolutions

2014 is only days away from being 2015. So of course its time for a post about New Year Resolutions. 

I was thinking about this the other day and I thought to myself how I really wanted to actually keep my resolutions. Also I think one of the main reasons for why I haven’t been able to complete my new year resolutions in the past is because I actually forget what they are so this year I’ve decided to make them short and simple.

1. Smile more

2. Laugh more

3. Live everyday like it’s the last

My fingers are now itching to add a few more resolutions but I really want to be able to remember and achieve my resolutions throughout all of 2015. I know my resolutions may be quite cheesy, clique ones but I want to stick to them.

So any ideas of what your new year resolutions will be or are you just going solo into 2015?

By the way this is the last post of mine until 2015. Grab me a tissue box. I hope you have an amazing Christmas and New Year! Hopefully I will see you next in 2015. 

 

The other day this video turned up in my notifications and I thought it would be nice to share it with you so here it is. Unfortunately I couldn't make it any bigger but if you click to watch it on YouTube you can make it as big as you would like. And thank you for Google for making this.

2 Days To Christmas | A Day Out: That Christmas Feeling

Sorry that it has taken me so long to upload today. I've been in and out of my house. As I will soon tell you I went out shopping with a good friend of mine. And as soon as we had finished I just wanted to crawl into bed and sleep however I had to rush off to another shop with my family to collect more Christmas presents. Anyway I will stop with the rambling and crack on.

 

With Christmas on the horizon a good friend of mine and I joined everyone else in the world of Christmas shopping. Before we go any further can I say I have probably been the most organised with buying Christmas presents in the lead up to Christmas this year. In fact I had already purchased some Christmas gifts back in November. But I just needed a few more things for my family and some friends.

 

The streets were decorated by Christmas lights or by people hurrying between shops in the search of Christmas presents. There was just that Christmas feeling.

 

That Christmas feeling has been around for some time now. It could have started when you put your tree up or when you saw the first signs of frost. It somehow lasts from the last few days of November until the first week of January. Well I feel like it does. That didn’t stop me though playing Christmas music back in July.

 

In my family I feel that Christmas brings us together. We all have our own individual lives. I'm at school. My parents are at work. The rest of my family are spread across Europe. So are you spending Christmas Day with anyone special?

 

Unfortunately not everyone has a family to go to at Christmas. So maybe when you are not busy on Christmas Day just take a few seconds to think of or wish those people a Merry Christmas.  

3 Days To Christmas | Favourite Christmas Things



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Everyone has their favourites. Here are my Favourite Christmas things:

My Favourite Christmas Film

Many people claim that Love Actually is their favourite Christmas film and so is mine. I can’t remember the first time I saw it but ever since I’ve loved it: the concept of illustrating different story lines in one film makes me very happy and interested.

My Favourite Christmas Song

My Favourite Christmas song just happens to be played in Love Actually, All I Want For Christmas Is You. In the film a young girl sings it and very well may I add. I don’t particularly have a favourite version of the song by an artist, I just love the lyrics and the tune.

My Favourite Christmas Chocolate

Something I don’t think you know about me yet is that I love chocolate oranges. If only they were sold in stores daily although I may gain quite a bit of weight if I was able to eat them every day and it would probably make me bankrupt. Also I do love guylian and as a result of it not being the cheapest chocolate around I don’t regularly get it but around Christmas my auntie always supplies a big box of them.

My Favourite Christmas Decoration

I don’t really have a specific favourite Christmas decoration. I love quite a few but for helpful purposes one of my favourite Christmas tree decorations is the little gingerbread house which is shown in one of the photos above.

My Favourite Christmas Day food

Now this may come as a bit of a shock but I’m not the biggest fan of food on Christmas day: sprouts are a no no and turkey is ok, not amazing just ok. However this year we are having beef on Christmas which feels me with joy so I guess that will become my favourite Christmas day food.

My Favourite Christmas Day event

I think my most favourite part of the 25^th is the evening after we’ve had dinner, eaten tons of chocolate and opened all the presents. My family and I always settle down on the couch and watch a film or whatever exciting programme is being shown on television.

Now I would love to hear what your Christmas favourites are so please comment below what they are.

4 Days To Christmas | What I Want To Be When I'm Older

 

So I did find a way to upload those photos I mentioned yesterday. Anyway here is today's post, beware its a long one. 

In recent years I’ve been asked what I want to be when I’m older. When I was around nine years old I wanted to be an architect but then I learnt that you have to spend the majority of your twenties at university so you can probably guess that I ditched that idea from my lack of enthusiasm.

Then for a few years I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to be. At the time no one told me it was okay to not know what I wanted to be and I was surrounded by people who knew exactly what they wanted to do as a career when they grew up.

However one or two years ago somehow the idea of becoming a journalist occurred and it’s stuck ever since. It may change. The chance of it changing is that it will probably change. But so far it’s the career that I’ve wanted to do the longest. 

At the moment I have quite a few friends who are unsure about what they want to do when they are older and that’s okay. I've learnt that it may seem quite daunting to go into adulthood and not know what we want to be but I think some exciting things could arise from that.

We all live different stories. Unwritten stories. That’s one of the things that makes life exciting. No one knows what’s going to happen in the future.

It would be a lot easier if I believed in one thing but I don’t which is going to make this a lot harder to explain but I’m going to give it a go. I strongly believe that big things happen for a reason. When I say big things I mean stuff like getting married or not, having children or not, going to university or not etc.

However saying that, my thoughts may change next week or in ten years’ time. What happens in your life affects how you see the world. Something could happen in five years and change the way I look at life.

Anyway this whole post was meant to be about what I wanted to be when I’m older hence the name of this post. I always seem to go off topic!

In the last few weeks I’ve been seriously considering what career opportunities there are in the world. Firstly I would love to be a journalist as I said earlier. But I also love the idea of being someone who designs book covers. A few months ago on a school trip we visited a Graphics exhibition and I discovered that you can actually have a career as a book cover designer.

Also the idea of becoming someone who creates film trailers sounds so exciting. Alternatively I would love to write about weddings! Lastly the idea of being an event planner does interest me. I have heard though that it is a stressful career to go into but I would like to hope that I could cope.

Anyway who knows I’ve still got years until I need to make up my mind. And I have quite a few different ideas of what I want to be. 

Any ideas of what you would like to be when you grow up or do you actually have a career? If not, its’ okay, there are probably thousands of adults who are secretly still unsure about what they want to do in life. And I seem to run in and out of ideas of what I want to be when I’m older. I don’t believe that everyone has just one job that suits them.   

5 Days To Christmas | Christmas Decorations

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we were, well mainly I was very keen to put our Christmas tree up so it went up the day before December. Oops… sorry. I really enjoy being able to snuggle up on the sofa with a blanket covering me while being able to cast an eye over a lit up tree in the corner.

Also something that I love about Christmas is the fact that it is an excuse to put lights up everywhere: stair banisters, doors, hedges and of course trees. If you really think about it putting lights on hedges and trees seems a bit odd and out of the ordinary but I love it.

I actually put lights up in my bedroom at the beginning of November and I think I might keep them up all year round.

Anyway today’s post is mostly just about the photos which I hope you enjoy and gets you more into the Christmas spirit. 

I’ve spent the majority of my day in the cold wrapped up in a scarf and big woolly boots. But now I’m home and typing away as I have big fluffy socks on and a very cosy blanket swirled around me. I hope your all warm and looking forward to Christmas! I have a few photos left over which I'm going to try and use in another blog post so keep an eye out for them.

6 Days To Christmas | Festival Of Lights

Every year I attend a festival of lights. I guess I could start to call it a little tradition of mine. 

Anyway a group of my friends and I got together and spent a few hours wandering the streets at this year's festival of lights. During the evening a procession of handmade lights were carried through the streets. When I was younger I was given the chance to participate but I was too shy then. 


In previous years a teacup ride has always been included on the side of the road at this particular festival of lights and for some reason I really wanted to go on it. So even though my friend and I were probably at least eight years too old to go on it, we handed over the money to the owner and squashed ourselves into a teacup. As we went around and around we got dizzier and dizzier since the owner spun our teacup round loads every time we passed. After we got down from the ride the rest of our friends claimed that we were spun loads more than the everyone else on the ride which is understandable as everyone else was probably aged under six years old. But that doesn't mean we coped very well from the dizziness.  

I don't think I've ever mentioned my love for an old tv series called Gilmore Girls well this Festival of Lights is the nearest thing I have to being similar to the town in Gilmore Girls. I just love the way the community in Gilmore Girls regularly comes together. One day I really want to hunt down a town just like the one in Gilmore Girls in America and live there forever. 

But anyway I’ll stop writing there for I know yesterday’s post was quite a long one.  Have you got any plans for the weekend tomorrow?