Clearly mental!

Hey!

Has definitely been a while since I last updated.

But wanted to let you all know about the crazy trip I will be undertaking in August!

I will be cycling across Orissa in aid of Childreach International and desperately need your help. I have to raise £2200 and that's quite a lot when you're a student!! So I really need people to help me make my target by sponsoring me :)

I will also be organising some events like gigs and the like. I would love it if you would support these events too, even just by turning up and bringing all your friends it really would mean so much to me!!

The website I use to get donations is very simple and easy to use and if that's too much for you, you could just give me cash and I will put it up on the website for you!!

Please help me so I can do this amazing trip and help others!!

Bekah xxx

Empty Promises

Okay, I should probably not try and make promises I cannot keep.
I forget about this blog, mainly because I like to think I have better things to do in my life, but I know that it's just because I am rubbish at remembering to do things.

Exams are over, it is summer(ish) and things are good. Apart from the fact that yet again I am ill. I am not impressed at all. However with exams being over, means I suddenly have time to do all the things I enjoy doing, namely nothing. But we're working on that.

I am into my last week at QHC in my first year at uni!! Eeeek, it has been an exciting year. Full of ups and downs, mainly ups though :) I get my results tomorrow, or at least find out if I've passed or failed which is a scary thought. Hopefully passing will have occurred and I will not have to leave Birmingham as I've grown fairly attached to this place. Am currently trying to fill in an application form for a job in Birmingham. Hopefully it will not keep me in Btown for the whole summer as I do wish to return home to see everyone and not be alone in my BEAUTIFUL new house :D:D I am ridiculously excited about getting the keys to it and having my own houseee :)

Jo is coming to Birmingham on Wednesday and then on Friday Zoe will be joining us to celebrate the end of her A levels. Exciting times indeed.
Now need to sort the crazy mess that is my university bedroom and start packing everything up ready to go home/into the new house.
It will be sad to leave QHC as I know I'll never be returning to my flat and I'll never live with Charlotte, Kalbs or the Spanish Girls again. But I will be living with Georg, Ian, Craig, Emma, Lauren and Rich next year which will be great and hopefully even more fun times will occur in the 2nd year when we move over to Selly Oak and unfortunately have to do a bit more work than we did this year.

Hopefully will update this again sometime soon. But we all know this may not happen.

I am deeply ashamed

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.