Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I think this is the first year I haven't done any sort of advent countdown/blogging, and I'm afraid it's not a white Christmas here as I've lost the coding for falling snowflakes - I'm sorry :(

Nonetheless, I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas day with family and friends, and to those who don't celebrate Christmas, have a lovely holiday.

Spread love, be full of laughter, and eat until you can't!

♥

I love you

xxx

Billy Elliot the Musical!

Yesterday was awesome!

My friend was too sick to see Billy Elliot yesterday, so I took his place and ventured into the unknown of leaving the house on a Friday night. It was a last minute phone call from his mum (who I went with), but my decision was basically instantaneous:

"YES! Yes yes yes yes pleeeeeaaasseee!"

I've wanted to see it for years now, yet I could never find the time, or when I had a free weekend I would spend it watching something else or lazing away at home. I was so excited that I finally had the chance to see it :D

It was at the Victoria Palace Theatre, a pretty little theatre a short way from Victoria Station, thank goodness, for it was freezing outside. We went in and there were formally-dressed ladies and men chatting and sipping on bubbling drinks, standing under chandeliers and fancy lamps in the lobby.

And on the other hand, girls wearing leggings and baggy hoodies were pulling at their parents, who muttered about missing tickets and missing people (I'm not kidding, there was a woman who was frantically searching for a 'Claire'). It was like two worlds brought together, and it was kinda amazing.

The musical itself was wonderful. I love the cool ways they used the stage and all the trapdoors and sections of the set which could be pulled out. There was a round trapdoor that had a whole section underneath that could rotate upwards and extend into a raised platform, which was used so brilliantly and in the most clever ways. The art and drama style, with some scenes realistic, some abstract, was absolutely phenomenal!

I hardly use that word, so you'd better believe it!

And of course, the dancing was on fire. The boys especially...there's something so gorgeous and magical about boys who can dance. It may be because they're so passionate about it, as surely the ones who aren't would have dropped out early on from such a 'girly' activity. You can tell with any male dancer that they're truly in it for the fact that they love dancing.

I think I melted when the older Billy came on - did it get a bit hotter in here? That was probably my favourite part, when both younger Billy and older Billy danced together. It was perfect, they moved in sync with each other, gliding through the smoke and blue light. (Wow, just writing about this has me grinning and sighing to myself...)

I loved it so much. I'm now ashamed that I had not seen it sooner, and I'm so grateful that I got this chance (thank you, my ill friend) whilst it's still running. It was a great end to the weekdays, and I'm certainly going to channel this love for Billy Elliot in my next dance lesson!

♥

I love you

xxx

Happy Valentine's Day

Hiya!

I hope you've spent this day with special people, whether it was a bae, family, or friends ;)

I hung out with a group of friends today, taking advantage of our singleness by pigging out on Chinese takeaway alongside snacks and sweets.

It was lovely.

Haha, lovely.

Anyway, whatever you did today, or plan on doing, have fun!

♥

I love you so very much, as I always have <3

xxx

Robot Drawing

Hiya!

Here's a little random doodle of two robots I drew a few days ago:

♥

I love you

xxx

Welcome to Night Vale Live Show!

Hiya!

Last night was amazing ;)

I went to London to watch the Welcome to Night Vale (a quirky and intriguing podcast I love) show with some friends, and I honestly had the best time of my life. All the voices I'd only ever heard on the podcast became real and were standing right in front of me, and I could see them interact with each other whilst talking.

The audience interaction was amazing too, we were told to do things that only Cecil can tell us to do, strange, strange things with strangers and friends...

There were people there in cosplay - a woman looked amazing in her costume and sat right behind us, and we talked to her and her friends. They were crazy (but aren't we all?!) <3

I couldn't stop smiling, even through the live music and deep parts, and for an hour after on the way back home. My cheeks hurt so much but I just couldn't stop, I'd had too much fun :D

I love Welcome to Night Vale so much...

Check it out if you haven't already, the link to their site is on these hearts to show how much I love it: ♥♥♥

All the episodes can be found on YouTube (as well as loads of other places too): ♥♥♥

♥

Photos will come up soon in another post!

I love you

ttyl

xxx

Paris Adventures Day 2 (13/8/15) - The Louvre

Hiya!

The second day in Paris was spent in the Louvre Museum. I walked all over the place, from one end to another, from top to bottom, and ended up with dead feet and legs. But it was worth it - I found some very nice statues of buff Greek and Roman guys to drool at ;)

Just kidding!

Kind of...

It was actually really cool to see famous artworks such as the Mona Lisa and the statue of Venus de Milo, as well as the very golden Apollo Gallery and the glamorous Napoleon III Apartments.

Madame Lisa draws crowds

It's a terrible picture, but that's what a layer of thick glass over a painting tends to do to photos...
Also, I'm just not a very good photographer, and didn't really spend that much time editing :(

The Apollo Gallery

Venus de Milo
I'm not going to 'arm you, I was just wondering if you needed a hand!

The opulent Napoleon III Apartments

And now photos of statues...

...and plates?

Paris, a Trojan hero (inner fangirl is happy!)

Sorry, couldn't resist a cool-angled shot :)

And this here is the goddess Thetis, mother of Achilles (inner fangirl squealing now <3)

This wasn't staged, I swear

The famous Parisian love locks

♥

I love you

ttyl

xxx

LONELY ON VALENTINE'S DAY?

Well, hello!

So...it's Valentine's Day. Are you sharing this love-filled day with your one and only? Have you given your roses? Been invited on a romantic date? If you have, then...

Good for you. Whatever. Congrats, I guess.

*Sigh*

Anyone joining me in the loners club?

You know, being alone today isn't too bad:

Well firstly, if you're by yourself, all that food that would have been shared, goes completely to you! So you get to stuff your face, and without the fear of someone staring at you whilst you greedily eat everything.

You can also do so much more - there's no need to spend the time to prepare a meal or go out on a date. Us singletons are so productive, whether it's reading, doing a hobby, pampering yourself, or obsessively watching films and videos all day, you can still get a lot of stuff done.

You can check people out without feeling like your cheating. And that includes drooling over 'hot boys' you've searched for on the Internet. Which is another thing you can to do if you're single and free to mingle ;)

There's no drama - no chance of catching the drama disease, a contagious illness which effects couples everywhere. I've heard the symptoms are screaming, shouting and crying over nothing, and in some worse cases, a breakup. Dun dun DUN!

After today, guess what? There'll be another Valentine's Day next year, and another, and another. There's a Valentine's Day every year. And once you've found your one true love, you can spend the rest of your Valentine's Days together. And like all things, if you do it too much, it will probably get boring in the end anyway.

There will be no one forcing you to act in an overly romantic way, just because it's 'Valentine's Day'. Why is there a day for love, but no day for happiness, or sleep, or food. Those are all equally as important. Or maybe I just haven't got my priorities straight... 

But getting back to the point - why is there a specific day just for romantic lovers? Sure, love is a great thing. If you can get hold of it. For the rest of us, Valentine's Day is a day spent wondering why we're loners and seeing nearly every single billboard, television advert and shop go on and on and on about romance. Well, there are other types of love to enjoy - friends and family. Platonic, sibling and parent/child love. And maybe even the love you have with your pet, whatever that type's called. 

And finally, understand that you're not the only one - there are plenty of other loners. Like me. I'll be your valentine if you want me to. I mean, look at you! How could anyone deny that?! How about we have our own little date? You, me, on this blog, reading this. There's our little moment. We don't need anyone else.

♥

I love y'all, and I hope you've had a great Valentine's Day, whether you spent it with a special someone or on your wonderful ownsome,

Lots and lots and lots of love, and goodbye! xxx

THE INSTA CONUNDRUM

For those of you who have Instagram...

Don't you just hate it when you're quickly scrolling and 'like' all the photos, but then you come across one you really like? You see one that you love, and then you're sad that you've just liked all the other images because now you realise they're nothing compared to the one you love?

Or is it just me?

And then you can 'unlike' most of the ones you've liked before so that you can 'like' the image and it feels genuine. Or you just 'like' the image that you love and carry on, but then you feel guilty because that's just like saying that image is just like all the others.

But it isn't, because you love it.

Or is this still just me, weeping in despair about Instagram?

I just wish there was an extra button for those extra special photos. Maybe a 'love' button, and there's a limit for only ten, for example, so that your true favourites can go in a collection together. 

I don't know.

And if the sky turns green and the people of Instagram see this post, please will you add a 'love' button?

This was a really random little thing, but I just had to get it out of my mind.

I love y'all, and goodbye! xxx

SENDING ALL MY LOVE...

It's apparently Blue Friday today, the day which there are the most suicides committed...which is horrible!!!!! So yeah, I'm sending out my love to everyone in the world today, to let everyone know that they are loved by at least someone xxx

Dear everyone, friends and strangers,

I love you all. I don't care if you're rich or poor, but everyone deserves to have someone in their life and I know my love can't do that, but at least it's something to remember. I had an assembly today about being grateful, which is ironic seeing that it's Blue Monday today and the class who performed the assembly probably didn't know this... So I just want to remind everyone that no matter what, you should always be grateful, and if you actually don't have anything to be grateful for, then be grateful for my love. I don't want to sound like I'm preaching or something, because I'm not. I actually honestly feel like a hypocrite right now seeing as I sometimes don't take anything for granted, for example, I might scream at my iPod for running out of battery. But then I need to remind myself that lots of people don't have an iPod or any electrical device, some people may not have even heard of them before. Well anyways, all I'm saying is that this message is as much for me as it is for you, that I also need to look at the bright side more often and treat people better, which I feel terribly guilty about (sorry mummy, I really shouldn't blame teenage hormones that much)...

These were really heartfelt and deep thoughts from me so it would be good if you could take something away from this post. Just remember, at least someone out there loves you, and it's usually most certainly a lot of people who love you. So make sure to love them back and tell/show them that you care, because it could actually be a matter of life or death, and I'm not kidding. Xxxxxxx I love you. I love all of you, all over the world.