Happy New Year

Hiya!

I'm too many hours too late, but hey, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I spent New Year's Eve at my friend's house, watching films, TV, and playing Wii games for 6 hours...

I kept on losing, but it was all about having fun, and I did have fun. I'll just keep telling myself that, and the fact that she had an unfair advantage over me seeing that she'd played them before... ;)

Anyway, we then watched the countdown and the London firework display on TV. They were actually pretty good this year, very colourful, which I like.

Let's hope that 2016 will be an amazing year for everyone (because let's be honest, 2015 was, well, not so good).

I'm not one to make (and definitely not stick to) New Year's resolutions, but this year I plan to be in control of my own happiness and generally have a better outlook on life. I know that I need to work hard to be happy in the long term, but I'll definitely focus on staying happy in the short term too.

Anyone made any resolutions? I hope they last long ;)

With that said -

LET 2016 BE OURS!!

♥

I love you

xxx

Surprise Party was a SUCCESS!!

Hiya!

For weeks now, my friends and I have been planning a surprise birthday party for our friend.

And it was a complete success! Through lying, hiding, sneaking around and awkward moments, we threw an amazing party which she had absolutely no clue about! :)

I've never thrown a party like this before, and it made me feel so grown up. There was so much organising that we had to do - we created a collage of photos which we had to stalk her for, bought food and decorations, baked a birthday cake, and even planned exactly how we were going to get her to come and how exactly we were going to surprise her. Which took a lot of hardcore pen-on-paper, drawing out a blueprint, and practising to perfect ;)

And we made her a present of 'open when...' cards, because she refused to accept gifts, although "cards were okay". We all wrote a few cards ourselves, and also did some group ones.

She'd better not cheat and open them at the wrong times!!

Strawberries and cream cake :)

On the day of the party, we set out the snacks and decorated the room with banners and balloons (we even hung them from the lights). We got cameras ready, got into our positions and when she arrived...we jumped out at her with party poppers!

It was fantastic.

And we spent the rest of the day dancing and singing like we were drunk, even though all we'd had was J2O...

It was so fun! And amazing, and awesome, and brilliant!

♥

I love you

ttyl

xxx

Battle of Ideas 2015!

Hiya!

This is a bit late, sorry :(

I went to the Battle of Ideas Festival in London on the 18th October. It's a 'festival' weekend of debates, on topics such as feminism, world problems, technology and all sorts.

I went on Sunday and went to five debates. They were all very interesting - I loved the style of the debates, as there were audience interactions, where rather than just listening to the speakers, the audience could pose their own questions and share their opinions.

The speakers themselves were mostly very passionate about their topics, and you could tell if they were or not. In the last debate I went to, though I was shattered, I really enjoyed it as two of the speakers were so passionate, they had heated discussions/rants when they weren't supposed to be talking, and had to be told multiple times by the chair to be quiet.

And at the end of the day, there was a closing party with free drinks (only beer and water though) in the conservatory, which had been decorated with fairy lights and archways.

It was really fun :)

Anyway, enough ranting - here are some photos:

The empty streets of London at an ungodly time in the morning

So pretty!

Ok, I know it's weird, but you can't deny they're nice toilets...

And finally, something completely random, these are the flowers I got for my dentist :)

♥

I love you

ttyl

xxx

Work Experience, Vaccinations and Another Birthday

Hiya!

I finished my work experience! I was at my dentist's for the last two weeks, just sitting in the corner and observing since I'm not allowed to do anything. But it was so good, and I loved it. The staff are so kind and lovely, they're like my new second family. I'm kinda sad that it's over.

Anyway, more on work experience in another post.

Also today, I had the first jab of three for the HPV vaccination. So I don't get cervical cancer when I have sex, which will not be in a loooooooong time. At the time it only stung a little bit, but now it aches like hell, and I really just want to rip my arm off :(

And happy birthday to another one of my friends! She had a party in which twenty or so of her friends were invited, and I don't know the majority of them as they're all older. But I sort of just went over to give her her present and ended up staying for four hours. It was awkward at first, but then I got to know some of them and it was really fun. One of them even hugged me when she left even though she barely talked to me...but I think she was a bit hyper...

Took me by surprise, is all.

So, I literally spent the whole day outside today, from 8:30 in the morning to go to work experience until 8:30 in the evening coming back from my friend's house.

And I'm now exhausted.

❤️

I love y'all

Goodbye!

Birthday Celebrations and Peterborough Adventures

Hiya!

The next few posts are going to be in a strange order. I've got events from over two weeks ago to write about (and most probably bore you with), but if I do them in chronological order I won't be able to talk to you about the most recent stuff, which I feel are the most important. It makes me think we can connect more if I talk about things that happened a few hours ago rather than a few weeks ago... I don't know, it might just be me.

But I do want to tell you about my past weeks because they've been really fun and exciting. Though at this rate, with all this blabbering, I won't even be able to finish this post...

Today is my friend's birthday! We celebrated yesterday by shopping and having dinner in a restaurant which played We Are Young four times in 2 1/2 hours. Good song, but a bit too much maybe?

Though the restaurant's obsession with that song was nothing compared to the 'classiness'  of our eating. We had straws in wine glasses, knives in sundaes, and the remaining content of our mocktails tipped into various empty bowls to try to reach the blueberries.

We were dining like cavemen. Thank goodness there was no one around except the waitress, even though I think it was us ourselves who were responsible for keeping the people away. 

Anyway, as well as it being my friend's birthday, I also went to Peterborough today with my parents. Just a day trip, adventuring in another city. The journey was long and not so pleasant, to be honest.  There was an incident with our train tickets and a couple of terribly rude men, which nearly resulted in us having to turn back. But we didn't do anything wrong, so whatever.

In Peterborough, we did loads of shopping, had dinner in Pizza Express and explored the city's cathedral. We weren't allowed inside, but it was really pretty from the outside regardless. 

Annoying scaffolding >:(

Just added this in for the wonky window /=/=/=/

It's late now and I'm tired so... 

I love y'all

Toodles!