The reason for the deep ashamed-ness is that I have only just realised that I have no updated this since January. For this I am sorry, though I am doubtful that anyone actually reads this, so it's no great loss.
In my last post, I mentioned going to see Jack's Mannequin with Brooke and we did just that. We went to Manchester, got practically accused of being lesbians and going to a Lesbian Convention, ate Subway and saw the beautiful Andrew McMahon and the rest of JM. Afterwards, we met the band and had photos then returned to our "Lesbian boudoir" before train-ing it back to our respective unis :) Good times were had all round, I suppose except for Charlotte who had to endure my alarm for 3 hours as I'd forgotten to turn it off for the night ooops.
Before then, I also turned 19. Possibly the strangest birthday I've ever had, in that it didn't really feel like a birthday. Yet fun all the same.
We also had snow in the UK, was an exciting time for all, with half the country ground to a stand still we were able to play in the snow, build various snow constructions. Including the Muso Monday 3.30-5 TMP and Text team Snow Beast, whom we named Snozzeck after Wozzeck :) it was a beautiful time.
Apart from all this, little of note has occurred, apart from my bad health taking an exciting turn for the worse culminating in a short stay in an ambulance and a panic attack. However all is better now, and I seem to be having a good stretch of health for now. It had better last all through my exams this term, and after as I'd like to enjoy the summer without being hideously ill thank you very much!
Oooh, Stop the Boat!! I went to the land of the Americans and the Bahamians actually. Took the longest flights I have ever endured to get there, and back, but apart from not being able to sleep comfortably and general descending from altitude ear problems the trip was a great success :) for a first trip to the US of A, I have to say I wasn't most impressed as the hotels we stayed at were a little on the lame and not so aaaaaaaaawwweeesome side of the island. But Disney and all its happy cheese made up for it immensely :) I'm thinking for my next visit to the land of the Americans I would like to visit New York and or the West Coast including San Francisco and the like :)
I have just returned from Colchester after visiting Jo at uni for a few days and had a lovely time. May have slightly humiliated myself on Monday after drinking a little too much and generally talking too much, but a good time was had by all I do believe :)
I promise I won't leave it the best part of 3 months to write again in here, though I have to say there wasn't really enough blog worthy moments to fill too many pages!
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Welcome to 2009
It would appear that I have not updated for a while. For this, I'm sorry.
I suppose I've been pretty busy, with little of any excitement.
Over the christmas holidays I was busy working, being ill and composing.
Since being back in Birmingham, it has just been pretty busy doing all sorts.
However something exciting that has happened in the last couple of days is that I am going to be seeing Jack's Mannequin on the 11th March with Brooke in Manchester woooo :)
I cannot wait. I am currently ignoring my bank account that is screaming don't go Bekah, don't goo. But it will feel better tomorrow when my Bham bursary is added to it :)
Other than this exciting piece of information, my first few weeks back at uni haven't been all that thrilling, it has been good to get back and catch up with everyone, but nothing spectacular has happened.
In fact, something exciting has happened... We have a house for next year. A beautiful house in Selly Oak with 6 double bedrooms, lovely kitchen and living room, 2 bathrooms and a rather suspicious but fun looking pole in the living room... some fun nights in could start ensuing :)
It is now 2 weeks until I become that little bit older and hit 19, which I feel is quite scary, because it is my last teen year, and it just seems all that bit much older than 18.
Lets hope my night out to celebrate is as fun as I'm hoping it will be :)
Now I really must stop procrastinating and finish my work, of which I seem to have a very large pile... mostly reading books that I cannot keep for that much longer.
Anyway, I'll try not to leave it as long again until I post something else.
I suppose I've been pretty busy, with little of any excitement.
Over the christmas holidays I was busy working, being ill and composing.
Since being back in Birmingham, it has just been pretty busy doing all sorts.
However something exciting that has happened in the last couple of days is that I am going to be seeing Jack's Mannequin on the 11th March with Brooke in Manchester woooo :)
I cannot wait. I am currently ignoring my bank account that is screaming don't go Bekah, don't goo. But it will feel better tomorrow when my Bham bursary is added to it :)
Other than this exciting piece of information, my first few weeks back at uni haven't been all that thrilling, it has been good to get back and catch up with everyone, but nothing spectacular has happened.
In fact, something exciting has happened... We have a house for next year. A beautiful house in Selly Oak with 6 double bedrooms, lovely kitchen and living room, 2 bathrooms and a rather suspicious but fun looking pole in the living room... some fun nights in could start ensuing :)
It is now 2 weeks until I become that little bit older and hit 19, which I feel is quite scary, because it is my last teen year, and it just seems all that bit much older than 18.
Lets hope my night out to celebrate is as fun as I'm hoping it will be :)
Now I really must stop procrastinating and finish my work, of which I seem to have a very large pile... mostly reading books that I cannot keep for that much longer.
Anyway, I'll try not to leave it as long again until I post something else.
Saturday, 27 December 2008
The Worst Week of My Life
I feel at the moment, like my life has been like an episode of that BBC comedy series 'The Worst Week of My Life' It seems this holiday has been one catastrophe after another.
First we get home and I go straight back to work, which in itself is not a bad thing, just highly tiring. But we get to Tuesday, and while delivering pharmacy items for work, I am involved in a car crash. Yes, you read it right. A delightful young man drove into the back of me. There isn't a great deal of damage to the car, and I'm no longer hurt- had very slight mild whip lash. But still was pretty traumatic as was already having the day from hell. Working with the pharmacist from hell, driving for 3 hours getting very lost.
That week did not however get better, I was already ill and taking rubbishy antibiotics and so was pretty tired and so having to carry on working every day and getting shouted at by patients for things that weren't my fault were not appreciated. I had every intention on screaming at patients to just go away and find someone else to complain to, because it's not my fault I cannot help them so just leave me alone.
I thought the first week of the holidays going a bit pear shaped was enough and then christmas would be lovely. 2 days off work to relax and chill out with the famille and stop being so tired. However it did not quite work out like that.
Tuesday evening I start getting stomach cramps and just put it down to trapped wind or something. Only it didn't go away and come Christmas eve at work I am in agony trying to stop myself shouting at people for making me do work when all I wanted to do was curl up and die.
It gets to 4pm, things are really starting to hurt, mum is in Maidenhead so I tell her of my pain, we go back to work and it is decided that I will be sent home early. I go home, but not before I must sit in the ASDA car park for about an hour in said pain, trying anything to get comfy in the car... for anyone who may have seen me in this car park on Wednesday evening, I apologise for my undignified seating position... sprawling across the front two seats with a handbrake up my back isn't quite how I imagined spending christmas eve, but it seemed to work for the time.
Things just carried on getting more painful until the sickness came on :(
Christmas day arrives and I feel better, so we go to Grandma and Grandad's as planned and I eat dinner, and christmas pudding... which was a biiig mistake. We have a relapse and I spend the evening not being very well and Grandma threatening to call an ambulance... which I felt was quite unnecessary, people get stomach bugs all the time and do not call ambulances.
Anyhow, boxing day I spend the whole day either in bed or slumped on the sofa watching tv. Now today I feel a lot better and feel I may now even be able to venture towards the shower and get clean and dressed :)
Lets hope the second half of my holidays are not quite as disasterous.
Come on 2009, give me some good health please?
I do hope everyone else had lovely christmasses.
First we get home and I go straight back to work, which in itself is not a bad thing, just highly tiring. But we get to Tuesday, and while delivering pharmacy items for work, I am involved in a car crash. Yes, you read it right. A delightful young man drove into the back of me. There isn't a great deal of damage to the car, and I'm no longer hurt- had very slight mild whip lash. But still was pretty traumatic as was already having the day from hell. Working with the pharmacist from hell, driving for 3 hours getting very lost.
That week did not however get better, I was already ill and taking rubbishy antibiotics and so was pretty tired and so having to carry on working every day and getting shouted at by patients for things that weren't my fault were not appreciated. I had every intention on screaming at patients to just go away and find someone else to complain to, because it's not my fault I cannot help them so just leave me alone.
I thought the first week of the holidays going a bit pear shaped was enough and then christmas would be lovely. 2 days off work to relax and chill out with the famille and stop being so tired. However it did not quite work out like that.
Tuesday evening I start getting stomach cramps and just put it down to trapped wind or something. Only it didn't go away and come Christmas eve at work I am in agony trying to stop myself shouting at people for making me do work when all I wanted to do was curl up and die.
It gets to 4pm, things are really starting to hurt, mum is in Maidenhead so I tell her of my pain, we go back to work and it is decided that I will be sent home early. I go home, but not before I must sit in the ASDA car park for about an hour in said pain, trying anything to get comfy in the car... for anyone who may have seen me in this car park on Wednesday evening, I apologise for my undignified seating position... sprawling across the front two seats with a handbrake up my back isn't quite how I imagined spending christmas eve, but it seemed to work for the time.
Things just carried on getting more painful until the sickness came on :(
Christmas day arrives and I feel better, so we go to Grandma and Grandad's as planned and I eat dinner, and christmas pudding... which was a biiig mistake. We have a relapse and I spend the evening not being very well and Grandma threatening to call an ambulance... which I felt was quite unnecessary, people get stomach bugs all the time and do not call ambulances.
Anyhow, boxing day I spend the whole day either in bed or slumped on the sofa watching tv. Now today I feel a lot better and feel I may now even be able to venture towards the shower and get clean and dressed :)
Lets hope the second half of my holidays are not quite as disasterous.
Come on 2009, give me some good health please?
I do hope everyone else had lovely christmasses.
Monday, 15 December 2008
Return to the Homeland
So it seems this term has whizzed by scarily quickly and I'm already sitting at home in my room missing uni people and excited about catching up with friends from home.
However I've realised I've got so much to do, I don't think I've left time in my schedule for sleep...
I have so much uni work to do it's crazy.
I want to see everyone as much as possible, I miss you all :)
Need to earn some money so working a fair bit too.
Got lots of things to sort out around the house, like gutting out my bedroom, which is going to be a huge task just in itself.
Can't see this all happening without me having to give up sleeping, and as I don't sleep enough at uni I need holiday time to sleep.
Considering I came home from uni ill need to recouperate and try and not spend all of next term being ill.
So far since being home I've been chilling at home with the famille, been to work *snore* and today went to the Becky High presentations... which were a bit lame, just us all sitting around chatting, which we really didn't need to go into school to do. However trundled into Wycombe afterwards for some dinner and a generally quite fun evening so all in all not a wasted time. Though pretty glad Becky High days are well and truly over, there's nothing else for us to go back for... no more ceremonies or socials or anything... school is finally over. Quite a scary thought now I think about it. We're all off in the real world doing new and exciting things and I absolutely love it :)
Anyway, think I'd like to go somewhere exciting this holiday, a day trip somewhere different, after being in Birmingham and knowing that all my uni friends are in places I've generally not been to before has made me keen to go exploring somewhere new. Whether its to visit someone from uni or just go on a whim somewhere exciting I don't know. It's however not so much fun if you go on your own, so will need a willing co-explorer to embark with on this trip. Anyone up for that let me know and we'll get chatting about where our expedition will be (on a budget of course, need to have the money I earn over christmas to pay for living next term!!)
Anyway, as I've so much to do should really get on with it.
Will update soon, gotta stop leaving such big gaps between my posts. Hopefully something exciting and intruiging will have happened by then.
However I've realised I've got so much to do, I don't think I've left time in my schedule for sleep...
I have so much uni work to do it's crazy.
I want to see everyone as much as possible, I miss you all :)
Need to earn some money so working a fair bit too.
Got lots of things to sort out around the house, like gutting out my bedroom, which is going to be a huge task just in itself.
Can't see this all happening without me having to give up sleeping, and as I don't sleep enough at uni I need holiday time to sleep.
Considering I came home from uni ill need to recouperate and try and not spend all of next term being ill.
So far since being home I've been chilling at home with the famille, been to work *snore* and today went to the Becky High presentations... which were a bit lame, just us all sitting around chatting, which we really didn't need to go into school to do. However trundled into Wycombe afterwards for some dinner and a generally quite fun evening so all in all not a wasted time. Though pretty glad Becky High days are well and truly over, there's nothing else for us to go back for... no more ceremonies or socials or anything... school is finally over. Quite a scary thought now I think about it. We're all off in the real world doing new and exciting things and I absolutely love it :)
Anyway, think I'd like to go somewhere exciting this holiday, a day trip somewhere different, after being in Birmingham and knowing that all my uni friends are in places I've generally not been to before has made me keen to go exploring somewhere new. Whether its to visit someone from uni or just go on a whim somewhere exciting I don't know. It's however not so much fun if you go on your own, so will need a willing co-explorer to embark with on this trip. Anyone up for that let me know and we'll get chatting about where our expedition will be (on a budget of course, need to have the money I earn over christmas to pay for living next term!!)
Anyway, as I've so much to do should really get on with it.
Will update soon, gotta stop leaving such big gaps between my posts. Hopefully something exciting and intruiging will have happened by then.
Monday, 1 December 2008
Inspiration
Having read Brooke's blog on New Years resolutions, I hate to say I've broken almost all of mine except lose weight, which I did, then shamelessly I feel have put it all back on since being at uni, though this of course is unconfirmed due to not having any weighing scales here :)
Therefore I feel I should try and set rather more realistic goals :)
1. Play the flute every day
2. Book a piano practice room more often
3. Drink lots more water
4. Drink less alcohol
5. Go to bed at a more reasonable hour
6. Keep in touch better with people
These should be do-able, just gotta put it all into practice, will report back with how it goes.
Therefore I feel I should try and set rather more realistic goals :)
1. Play the flute every day
2. Book a piano practice room more often
3. Drink lots more water
4. Drink less alcohol
5. Go to bed at a more reasonable hour
6. Keep in touch better with people
These should be do-able, just gotta put it all into practice, will report back with how it goes.
Sunday, 16 November 2008
The Art of Procrastination
Procrastination in my opinion, is a subtle art form... I believe myself to be a master as I can never bring myself to do anything I really need to do, and instead find other meaningless tasks to do instead... this blog happens to be one of them.
I have a delightful essay to be writing about Basic Beliefs in Philosophy and I really cannot bring myself to do it. Doesn't help really that all the good books have been taken from the library grr.
Anyway that's hardly exciting news, onto more interesting stuff...
Unfortunately I'm strapped for interesting ideas at the moment. Friday we had a massive glowstick war with next door where it was the boys vs us girls, we weren't sure who won in the end, but Craig and Richard appeared to concede after a while. Amy also came to stay (Amy is my friend who lives in Shrewsbury who I met at New Wine last year :) )
Apart from that my weekend has been fairly boring, just mosied around, need to actually get down to all my work now because we're getting to a dire state of not getting things done.
Also needing to clean everything for an inspection... have currently cleaned the bathroom.. now for the rest of the house.
Anyway that wasn't all that exciting, but maybe I'll post sometime soon with something exciting to say... we'll see eh.
xxx
I have a delightful essay to be writing about Basic Beliefs in Philosophy and I really cannot bring myself to do it. Doesn't help really that all the good books have been taken from the library grr.
Anyway that's hardly exciting news, onto more interesting stuff...
Unfortunately I'm strapped for interesting ideas at the moment. Friday we had a massive glowstick war with next door where it was the boys vs us girls, we weren't sure who won in the end, but Craig and Richard appeared to concede after a while. Amy also came to stay (Amy is my friend who lives in Shrewsbury who I met at New Wine last year :) )
Apart from that my weekend has been fairly boring, just mosied around, need to actually get down to all my work now because we're getting to a dire state of not getting things done.
Also needing to clean everything for an inspection... have currently cleaned the bathroom.. now for the rest of the house.
Anyway that wasn't all that exciting, but maybe I'll post sometime soon with something exciting to say... we'll see eh.
xxx
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Mute
Hola!
As the title suggests, I have been a mute for the last week. Wednesday night last week at Risa, a little too much singing ensued and I came home sounding like a cross between a man and kermit the frog.
Voice got progressively worse and by Saturday I could do no more than whisper at people, simply no noise would come out. This of course is a huge problem to me, who enjoys talking. A lot. I suddenly realised how much I do infact talk, and it's crazy how I can manage to just talk all day and now I can't it's unbelievably frustrating.
However none of this interests you I'm sure so I might chat on about something else that has happened to me in the last week...
Which of course being me is nothing too groundbreaking. I met JK from JK and Joel on Tuesday and will be seeing Vernon Kay DJ at our uni in 2 weeks time eeee!
I learnt how to play poker last night which is quite good so now I can play, but I had to have Richard help me decide when to fold or not, so practice may be needed.
Now much as I'd love to type all night and fill you in on everything I've been doing, I must do my Bach Chorales before next door pop over otherwise I will be working long into the night.
Anyone who actually reads this, please feel free to inform me of your general goings on :)
As the title suggests, I have been a mute for the last week. Wednesday night last week at Risa, a little too much singing ensued and I came home sounding like a cross between a man and kermit the frog.
Voice got progressively worse and by Saturday I could do no more than whisper at people, simply no noise would come out. This of course is a huge problem to me, who enjoys talking. A lot. I suddenly realised how much I do infact talk, and it's crazy how I can manage to just talk all day and now I can't it's unbelievably frustrating.
However none of this interests you I'm sure so I might chat on about something else that has happened to me in the last week...
Which of course being me is nothing too groundbreaking. I met JK from JK and Joel on Tuesday and will be seeing Vernon Kay DJ at our uni in 2 weeks time eeee!
I learnt how to play poker last night which is quite good so now I can play, but I had to have Richard help me decide when to fold or not, so practice may be needed.
Now much as I'd love to type all night and fill you in on everything I've been doing, I must do my Bach Chorales before next door pop over otherwise I will be working long into the night.
Anyone who actually reads this, please feel free to inform me of your general goings on :)
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