Things I love Thursday...

Ciao,

 

So this week I love:

 

1. The fact that I now only have 1 week left of lectures :) and since I am going away on my year abroad I will not have any lectures until this time next year when I am in Italy!

 

2. The anticipation I have building for a couple of events which are happening in the next two weeks. The first is that I am off to Spain on 26th March for 5 days to see my best friend who I haven't seen since New Years Eve. I am so excited. The second is that someone I have been friends with since I was 11 is going to have her baby girl any day now, I can just about contain myself!

 

3. My toe nail polish..black and white polka dots. So cute...I am planning a nail blog post so stay tuned.

 

4. The fact that Thursday's mark the start of my weekend...wooooooooooo for 3 day weekends every week thanks to my clever timetabling.

 

5. How well I have done at staying within budgets, there's always a first for everything! Maybe this means I will be able to start saving properly now? Here's hoping!

 

 

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I hope you all (if there is anyone reading) have a fantabulous Thursday!

 

Ciao for now...

"I've got the key to the door, never been 21 before!"

Ciao,

So it happened. I aged another year. Funny how these things sneak up on you!  I am now the grand old age of 21 and can now get into over 21 clubs and drink in America, if I ever get to go that is. Personally I don't get the hype about turning 21, I don't think it's as big a deal now as it was 20 years ago but hey it's still seen as important and I'm not going to complain about the attention! I wasn't too fussed about the actual number of my age, I was more focused on the fact that I will probably not be in the country for my next birthday so I wanted to celebrate it with everyone I possibly could.

So my birthday was yesterday and it was the second time that Mothers Day has fallen on my birthday, I was 10 last time...it seems to like my milestone birthdays! :) Sundays are a bit rubbish for doing anything and obviously people were spending time with their mummys so I celebrated on Friday and Saturday instead. Friday I went for a meal with 20 odd friends, I have mixed feelings about this part of my birthday as the food was atrocious! I really struggled to pick a restaurant because so many of my friends are really fussy with food and certain restaurants which really bugs me cause personally I will eat anything except maybe a carvery but only because carverys are never as good as my Mum's roast dinner! I ended up booking a restaurant I'd never been to that does all you can eat buffet in loads of different kinds of food, this was the kind of restaurant I was aiming for but the one I wanted was fully booked :( The one we went to was appalling; there was barely any variety of food and what there was didn't look that appealing to be honest. I only ate a teeny plate of food, I wasn't really hungry weirdly and also I was circulating the table chatting to everyone but yeah food was very disappointing. The company was the other end of the scale, it was so nice to see everyone and have my uni friends and friends from home mingling!

Saturday was AMAZING! I had a little family party at my parents house and to be perfectly honest I wasn't looking forward to it that much because half my family couldn't make it. :( BUT it turned out to be soooo good. I got extremely drunk and just had so much fun and banter with all my family, including my Mum and Dad who were doing Sambuka shots with me ahahahahaaa! Very funny, we also took loads of photgraphs on my iPad and there are several videos of me being absolutely ridiculous! We waited until it turned 12 to light my candles and sing Happy Birthday and then we popped the champagne from my 18th birthday :) One of the best bits was that my best friend who is on her PRA called me at midnight from Spain! So thoughtful of her! Needless to say that I was not feeling my best yesterday on my actual birthday. I saw my Nan and my Dad bought me a McDonalds (always my hangover cure), gave my Mum her Mothers Day present and card and opened all my cards from my family and a few pressies from friends. I didn't get presents off my immediate family as they gave them to me over a month ago...I'm going to do a blog post of what I got once I've taken photos. So yeah I just sat and chilled all day with my family and then my friend Chloe picked me up and took me home to uni and gave me her presents...I watched TV and went to sleep. Very chilled actual birthday day but very good birthday weekend! 

Now I'm 21 I feel like a proper 20 something and I think I'm going to make a list of 30 things to do before I'm 30...a sort of 10 year bucket list. I suppose that 20 - 30 is when most of the massive life things are going to happen to me so why not give myself some aims...after all who wants to reach the end of their life and say "If only I had..." 

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY TO MEEEE! 

Ciao for now...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Ciao, 

So I haven't blogged in a while, unfortunately good ol' life got in the way. It's literally been one thing on top of the other plus prioritising essays over blogging (yawn). Apologies to anyone who may read my blog for the absence. :) 

Words, mots, parole, language, lingo! However you say it is irrelevant, I have come to the conclusion that I have a wee little love affair with words. Now this is not a short term affair, it has been going on and building since I was around a year old. I'm not sure exactly when my first word was said or what it was but I do know that by the time I was 1 and a half I could sing nursery rhymes to my newborn baby brother and my parents always like to brag about how when most children my age were still on single words I could hold coherent conversations.  From then on it has evolved in several ways, firstly being that I never shut up! The whole way through school teachers always made the same comments "She's a bright girl, but she talks too much.". To be completely honest this is one of the outcomes I least like, I do wish sometimes I could keep certain things to myself but alas I have to get the words out. It's like a compulsion. 

The second thing that has come from my love of words is my love of reading. Granted I don't read as much as I used to at the moment because of uni obligations and general life getting in the way but it is one of my favourite things to do. I can get lost in a book for days, ask my family I finish books at an alarming rate and at the age of 7 I had the reading age of someone over twice my age... Just call me book worm. Another of my passions is music, in the lyrical sense. I wish wish wish I could write amazing songs, or just simple ones if I'm honest but I will have to stick to collecting amazing lyrics from other peoples masterpieces and pretending they're mine! Weirdly I also doodle words as opposed to pictures. I doodle all over the cardboard backing of my pads and most of what I doodle is words in different fonts and styles...what a strange little bean I am! 

Now obviously my choice in degree and hopefully career is the biggest result of my love of words! If you didn't know already I study French and Italian at uni. I have always found languages fascinating and I genuinely love being able to speak more than one language! I find it mind-blowing that people have developed languages so we can communicate with each other and while I've been studying I've become even more interested by the way words and languages have changed and evolved through the ages. Okay I sound sufficiently geeky now, but c'mon you must admit that the fact that we are the only thing on the planet that can speak is pretty amazing, non?

I think my love of words has brought me here, to this very moment, to what you are currently reading (if anyone is out there). Blogging, an outlet for my crazy mouth that never stops, a place to share things albeit with complete strangers but you know sometimes your friends and family get bored of hearing about your life! So yeah, I love words, I love language, I love speaking and communicating and I know this post probably makes me look like a complete loon but hey maybe nobody will ever read this! 

Ciao for now...