First day at uni

So I thought before I had my tea I'd post on my blog and get some stuff out of my head. This stuff is not about my 3rd year at uni and my classes, though I've to say my first one-Modernism was good this morning, though they messed up the class rooms big style! But the hot American boys in my class made up for that! This post is about what's going to happen after I graduate.....thing is we had another lecture on this today and though they have been hounding us since we first started uni, it just doesn't get any easier.

My problem is that I was thinking of doing a teaching course, but it seems that its not going to be easy to get on that. Though I'm applying for the further and higher eduction course, it seems I need some experience at teaching and I've no idea where to even begin with that one! I'm left to do it by myself and my head already hurts with just filling in the form. I know I've to do this though and I'm not going to let it stop me. So I'm going to try and speak to my tutor tomorrow about it and see what he says.

I start script writing tomorrow too, that's my worse subject. I can't write in the style they want me too, but I'm going to try harder this year! Bug my tutors, I guess. lol. I'm stressed about stuff right now, though I know I shouldn't be! I just need to chill out, so its off to the pub quiz tonight! Lots of fun and drinking and though people have already pulled out I don't care. I'll go by myself if I've too!

Making my tea now and trying to come up with a group name....got a meeting on Thursday about me applying to be a student guide. Hope I get that and also the LRC post. I've been thinking about doing the uni mag too, but I think that might be too much, shall have to wait and find out. Think I've been boring enough for one day now. Hopefully I'll write something more fun next time and with photos too!

New house!

Hey everyone, this is the view from my new room! and the rest of the photos are the first from my new house in ormskirk. I moved in on Sunday and have only just finished sorting my room out last night. Had to wait because the landlady was being funny about putting posters up on her newly painted walls. But the house looks so bare! It least it feels homely and we are going to buy some more posters tomorrow at the freshers' fair.

The best feature of my room has to be this! my double bed, which I only found out I had got the day before I moved in. Luckily my mum lent me some sheets - purple satin ones! but they do fit in with the theme of my room. Only problem is I have to be careful getting out of it, because the sheets are slippery and I already fell out of it on my first night! But I like it anyway. I'm sleeping really good too and that's something I know I don't do well with when I'm away from home.

The first wall in my room, my wardrobe and the bean bag chair -Ally's shrine. My room is massive! I like it a lot and I've checked out how my housemates have set up their rooms and I decided that though I wasn't bothered about which room I got, I'm glad I choice the one I did, because its the best! I love the house though AKA The Pineapple, there's a good size living room and kitchen and its closer to uni. Only problem is that there's a very busy main road just outside, and though its very noisy I'm not going to let this get me down.

Some idea of how big my room is and my door! the sticky note that my housemate suggested says the room the size of a planet. I've to agree there. :)

That's mostly it. I applied for two jobs at uni and I need to apply for my teaching course too. Already the days are flying by. I'm also wearing my contact lenses too and its messing up my vision so its time to go!

Autumn knitting for xmas

The summer has all but faded now, yes its still clinging in the warm air and the sun is still warm when it appears, but there is that unmistakable hand of autumn in the air now. The nights are getting darker and longer, there's a cold touch to the ground and walls and there's so much more rain now. So, its time for people to spend more time in doors and what better way to pass the evenings then knitting?

That's what my mum is doing in the photo, knitting me an autumn jacket. I can knit too, but it takes me forever and I'm not as fast as her and I just seem to get bored unless its something small like a patch for my blanket or a part of something my mum is knitting. I hear that knitting is coming back now and that people are buying more knitted things in the shops. There's just something different about knitted clothes and I know that most people-me included-remember times when wearing something knitted made you look stupid. Not the way now it seems!


This is my latest jacket, the one my mum is knitting above. Its a summer one, but she's making the sleeves longer so that it'll be more suitable to autumn. Its the same blue colour, but a different wool and I'm hoping she'll have it finished before I go back to uni next week!





I'm so looking forward to that, can't wait to move in and all my housemates are just as excited as me now. I've already packed all my clothes- just need to find some more socks! Isn't that always the case? I'm sure the washing machine has eaten them and just left me with all the odd ones! I'll have to go to Primark and buy some more again.

I'm already making plans for winter and Xmas too. Like my next photo; a winter coat, yeah knitting again! But this one is going to be my Xmas present. The wool is mega expensive - sirdar's Nomad, its really soft and woolly, but light at the same time and mum's going to make me a hood. So it'll be a great winter coat then.

But of course before winter and Xmas, comes autumn and Halloween! One of my favourite times of year to be sure! And that also seems to be coming back, well in the shops and some areas. Halloween is becoming a bit like Christmas really; people have forgotten what its about and how to celebrate it. They seem to use it as an excuse to behave wrong and ignore others beliefs.

Anyway, in my true fashion, I've begun my Halloween shopping. As its easier to buy the things I want to add to my Goth/Halloween collection before everyone else decides that they need to buy things! So I started with 2 signs last week and I brought the one below today. I thought I could use it in the kitchen when I host my Halloween party. The plans for that are already under way. I've my costume already now-because I had to hand make it with my mum. I'm going as a Gypsy fortune teller, which was suggested by my best friend because I'm tarot card reading at the party. The theme is movie/tv/anima characters and I still have a lot to plan!

Lastly, the gnomes are back! They are also on the knitting list, two of them this time and they are for two people who got left out both times around, but I've now decided that its time they join the gang. But these gnomes are mega special and of course top secret at the moment, because I know that one of those said two people reads my blog, so I can't write or show my plans on here. So for now here's a photo of the gnomes who were made Xmas 2008 and who led the start of me giving gnomes out to my friends. May their numbers continue to grow!

Last weekend at home

Hi, know I've not written in another age, but I've been busy once again. Busy with my volunteering job, getting use to contact lenses and making future plans at uni. Also I've been reading The Black Dagger Brotherhood and watching Heroes. So yeah, almost a total waste of another summer. Not been much in the mood to write though, but I've to say in reading BDB I've realized that I can fix the problems I've in my novel set in Liverpool. This is my plan now, to go back to uni, get back into working and writing and try to fix my novel.

It sounds a lot of work, but I've done it before! When I did my GCSEs I wrote a whole series of novels I think there was like 7 or 8 books in all and they range from 50-70 odd pages (was aimed at teenagers) Then during my as/a levels I wrote 3 adult novels (My first trilogy and also first novels about vampires!) I'd done two years of animal care before that, but I suddenly started writing again and was inspired to carry on by a friend who I'd met in high school. She then wrote herself into the second book, (which reminds me I need to bring her back from the dead at the end of that novel!) and helped me edit the first one as my college years drew to an end.

Then there's been uni and my chance to prove myself. Mostly its the fact to prove to myself that I can write and I can turn my hobby into something else- my dream job. Also its to prove to people who said I couldn't get into uni and pass, wrong, because there's been a lot of them in my past and now I can already feel it happening. I mean I've written another trilogy now -minus 1 book, have written a few single novels, though most I still have to finish and I've another trilogy- a fantasy one still in the making. I've also written poems and short stories now and proving that I can write not just about vampires but about other stuff too.

I guess I sort of got on to that subject because I've just learned about my second best friend failing to pass her second year. I also know that my housemate has also failed and I've heard of other people doing like wise. This lead on to me thinking about how far I'd come and how though it seemed against all the odds I'd passed my second year with a 2.1 overall. Yet there are others, who I believed were better then me or just had put in more then me, who I believed would pass, but have failed for whatever reason. So in a way I'm sorry to all those who haven't passed and hope they have better luck in the future and me well.... I stand by what my parents have always told me; you can only try your best.

So I'm going to turn to my final year at uni and keep that saying close to my heart, just because that's what I do!

Lots to say in this small space!

Hi, followers!

I've been away on holiday again and this time I was staying on a narrow boat and traveling along the Grand Union Canal. Me and my family hired a 6 bed boat called the Carisbrooke Castle and it was massive! A living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms and seats at the front and back of the boat. The space was so needed because we took Sandy- my dog-with us as well.



Most of the time we were just relaxing and watching the world pass us by. Everything seems slower on the boat because you are just traveling gently along the water and watching the nature and other boats around you. The other times were spent dealing with the locks. They are scary things at first and do take awhile to get use to. They are used to get a boat up or down because the canal fits in with the landscape and therefore has different water levels.

This is a lock.

So, firstly the water inside the lock must be at the same level the boat is at. If not the water must be flooded or drained from the lock and this is done by using a windless to wind the paddles on the gates up or down so that the water can flow. Once this is sorted the boat can go in the lock and both gates and the paddles get shut.

Next, the paddles are open on the other gate, so that the water can drain/flood to make it level on the next side. Once this is done, the gates can be opened to let the boat go on. There are lots of different kinds of locks and most of them can fit two boats in. Some are single, but you can get a staircase 2/3 locks together or a flight 3+ all after each other, others can have 2 sets of paddles and the bottom ones must be open first or the boat could be filled with water!



The locks were the hardest part. I mega enjoyed all the nature though! check these pics out.

Those are like my highlights. So after all that fun, today has been an important day for me. I started my volunteering job today at the RSPCA Charity shop. The only thing I did was put clothes on hangers and putting tags on the clothes. I did some teddies too and that was about it. I've got to go back tomorrow, so hopefully they'll give me some more things to do, I get bored so easily!

Also I got fitted for contact lenses today. I had to have new glasses first because my eye sight has changed again. I don't much have a choice where my glasses are concerned because I need to wear them 24/7 and without them I just can't see anything! So now I've some cool brown square shaped glasses that look really nice and also I'm able to wear the standard contacts which is mega good. I've to wait a week now for them, can't wait!

That's about it for today anyway, think that's enough.

Random update

Yeah, I'm bored, it's too dark to read and I'm too late to start typing a new story. I'm waiting for The Deep to come on TV, last week it was so cool and scary, I just need to see what happens!

Today though I got a job volunteering at the RSPCA Charity shop, so I'll be working there in the mornings now and that'll be cool! A new thing to do. Also booked to get contact lenses, very scared about that. Been wearing glasses since I was 6 so the change is going to be hard to get use to, but I only want them for going out, I really want to show of that green eyeshadow I like wearing. Hope that'll work out okay....

Started the 3rd Black Dagger Brotherhood today and wrote another short story about someone making a pact with the Grim Reaper. These short stories seem to be going well, really getting into writing them now. Need to start writing my novels again now though. Hope I can have enough time to do that now! I've no pics, not been taking many photos, not a lot has been going on though, just boring stuff whilst I try and get fitter. That's not going so good either. I'm trying hard but nothing seems to have changed. I know it takes time to show but I thought I would have something by now.....

Not a lot else to write about, been packing for the narrow boat holiday on Sunday, cut my dog's nails, though she needs a bath now before she goes on the boat. That'll be hard, she hates the bath tub!

Summer's still dragging

Hi followers!

I hope your summer is going better then mine, at the minute things are heading downwards again. I got out of my Sims3 addiction because I was bored of it and all that time in Sim world was making me believe that living in that world would be easier then this one! I mean you just have a pile of money, you buy a house straight way, fill it with cool stuff, go and get a job straight way and make more money to buy more stuff. So I had to get myself out of there!

I'm struggling on the main pc today, can't be bothered getting my laptop out, but so typical some idiot has come along and messed everything and me not really knowing my way around computers is having to cope with what reminds of someone downloading a new Internet explore link, so that I've no fav files, no tool bars and a home page which keeps demanding I sign up to 02 phones. I only came on here to listen to music whilst I finished my book off, but my msn had to start playing up when my friend tried to talk to me and now It's been like half an hour and my book-4 chapters from the end! has been abandoned.

It's a hard book to abandoned though..... Lover Eternal by J .R. Ward and if you go down a few posts to 'rocking out the summer house', you'll see that I'm reading it from the second time now. I got the whole series (The Black Dagger Brotherhood) and I've given up with the uni novels now-I was just suffering under their heavy weight of Victorian/Edwardian life. So much that I'm now positive it effected my need to write my own novels. Once I read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre I was like what kind of novel can I write to top that? So I've not really wrote much, beside from one short story and some of a random novel was writing an age ago.

Anyway, I've to leave and go on a quest to find a dungeons and dragons board game for our boat hire holiday.