sweetdreams1990

Eek, it's been ages.

I can't blame it on lack of things happening; just laziness really. Also, my ex used to be the only person who really read this so it seemed a bit pointless to update once he left LJ.

Anyway, I'm back now because I don't reeeeeeeeeeaaaaalllllllyyyyyyyy care if anyone reads this or not; it's like my own little diary :)

So, news. I got a great summer job and loved it but my legs gave up after a few days and I've been unable to go back :( I've trapped my sciatic nerve in my left knee and ripped the ligaments down the outside of it as well as damaging a disc in my lower back. Eek!

I'm a bit stuck in the house at the moment but I went to my auntie's for a couple of nights; that was fun. My niece, Laura, called me auntie for the first time out of nowhere... it was so touching! This is a girl who calls her mum by her first name! Haha. It was fun anyway. I'm also planning a big house party in a few weeks so that'll be good; planning should keep me sane!

Not too much other news. Exam results in 2 weeks and 4 days! Biggest day of my life so far? Possibly. I'm shitting it! A much less nauseating countdown is that of our Turkish holiday!! 3 weeks and 5 days until that; we're doing the proper touristy girly holiday with matching t-shirts (JADE ON TOUR, MARMARIS 2009) and glittery cowboy hats!!! Hahaha. I know it's so tacky and I know all the locals will laugh at us (hell, I used to when I lived near Benidorm) but I don't care; it's going to be awesome!!

So the weather's starting to perk up now which is great! Had a few sunny days in a row and it's nice to be able to wear dresses and such again. However, with the lovely weather comes lots of new flowers and lots of cutting of lawns which, while very beautiful etc, is giving me LOADS of trouble with these damned allergies!

Still, I'm not complaining too much because it's great to have ice-free streets to walk down! Also helps a lot for driving; I had my first lesson last week and it was AWESOME. Can't wait for my next one (Friday!!)

Just had a very fun weekend in Derby... went out for the night and had lots of fun and there was drinking and dancing etc. Then I stayed up and watched WRESTLEMANIA. Was such a LADS' party - I even got told off for leaving the seat down! Haha!

Still, right now I'm seriously focusing on WORK because I have a lot to do if I want the grades I need to get into Glasgow (went to an Open Day recently and fell even more in love with it so I'm even more determined!)

Sorry for the rather boring update :p
also sorry it's been a while since I posted!

That's all my news anyway!

Had a great weekend, went to Glasgow for the night which is always fun. We ate out at the Ichiban and it was lovely and I had a great night's sleep despite having to be restrained and woken up when I was having a weird nightmare haha!

It's so bright and sunny today, didn't realise how much I missed the sun until just now. I've been to the park and done some work on the grass then I had a walk and came home and I might sleep for a bit as I'm quite worn out.

Stuff's a bit rubbishy at the moment. Everything's a bit confusing and there's too much going on, but just today I'm relaxing, trying to forget stuff and just trying to enjoy myself a bit.

Good plan.

Just got in from an awesome weekend away in Birmingham. Not even going to try recount the details as there are far too many and my head's a bit bleh right now, but it was great and I have about a gazillion photos which have taken me forever to put on facebook!

While I had fun, I was very cold the whole time. Like, I'm warm for the first time since Friday and it's actually made me feel dizzy. My poor knees, ankles and feet can't handle the cold, nor can they handle all the walking we did so I'm in quite a lot of pain just now :(. Combine that with the other aches and pains I had anyway from last week, and yeah, I'm a very sore little girl :(

Still, hopefully it'll be OK in time for college tomorrow, I've to start swotting seriously now that I've had my offer from Glasgow uni! I'm so pleased about that, I really hope I get the grades so from now on it's WORK WORK WORK!

Well, I say work work work... I am going to a gig on Friday, then Norwich over the weekend, then to Glasgow to see Craig next Tuesday, then a party in Derby the following weekend... but after all that, WORK WORK WORK. To be fair, I might be going out a lot but I am still working very hard and after this half term I'll not be going out much more because I'll be totally skint!

Anyway, stuff's OK at the moment. Not been able to say that for a while, but life's pretty OK right now so I'm quite happy:D

...HAAAAAPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR CRAAAAAAAAIG,
HAAAAAAPPPY BIIIIRHTDAY TO YOOOUUUU!!!

=]

YOUR SEX IS ON FIIIIRE!


Drunk? What? 

I think I may support another football team!

Obviously I'm still ETERNALLY faithful to my beloved Man Utd but watching the Old Firm match today, I found myself desperately willing Celtic to boot Rangers' arses in that way that I only normally do when it's Man Utd vs. Liverpool/City/Chelsea/Arsenal.

Too much time with Craig? Too much time up in Jockland? Pff, who knows, at least he'll be in a good mood for a bit now which is always a plus since they did win. Away aswell, which is rare. :p

on a similar note, after 3 days of bloody rediculous arguements we're cool again now (I beliiiiieve) so everything's good over here :D

Got a mountain of college work to do and a more literal mountain of stuff to unpack (seriously, boxes piled really high over here) and, unfortunately, mum's determined that I throw away a load of stuff... including all my paintings which I'm REALLY sad about because I love them and some of them took me months and month to do. However, as they CONSTANTLY remind me, this is THEIR house and as such we follow THEIR rules.

They're also sick of me using their cards even though I always give them the cash straight away for whatever I'm ordering. As such I need to get myself a bank account ASAP and get hold of a cash card, a credit card and a cheque book! Then I'll be sorted and all will be good. (In fact, if I have a credit card I won't have a cash card aswell will I? Oh I dunno.) Tis a bit of a pain trying to sort that on top of everything else but at least I won't have to keep my cash in a glass on the shelf anymore.

well, time to go tidy up, hopefully all this moving stuff about etc. should help me burn off some of the calories I put on over Christmas so I can look good again in time for New Year (haha, 4 days? How hopeful I am!). I shall atleast try to look good for next month anyway :)

Ciao!
x

I'M 18! haha
well, now that that's out of the way... 

Had my party last weekend (though it feels like AGES ago now) and it went well :)

Craig came down all the way from Glasgoooow and loads of my family and that were there and me, Craig, Becky and Joel all went out at night time. Was hardly a big night out and I didn't even get drunk (or even tipsy) but it was awesome non-the-less.

I wore a rather cool outfit that consisted of a PINK corset, black lacey skirt thing and a HUUUGE bow on my bum that was all black and pink lace etc. Was nicer than it sounds. There were also about 450 balloons all heliumed up and we let them all go at the end of the party (there's a video of that that I need to get off my auntie) and yeah, it was just good all 'round really.

Got SOME pics but most are at my Auntie's place so I'll try get those ASAP. In the meanwhile:


^Me pulling a pint for my dad (LEGALLY!)


^Cake and huuuuge balloons. Those balloons are still in my room though somewhat deflated. In fact they are like flat on the ceiling and looking a bit wrinkled.


^In the hotel we stayed in. Craig likes this photo and it kinda shows off the outfit a bit so I thought I'd post it :D


^looking very pink in one of Manchester's bestest gay bars.


^ Still in Churchill's. Had to give Craig his Christmas present early as he BLED all over his jacket, thus the awesome hoodie :D (it was a nose bleed btw, I didn't stab him)


^Not an excellent photo but we actually had a good time in the Kebab place so I thought the photo should really be added. I rang Mikey at like midnight for no real reason and threw some rubbish accross the room but it was alright, went well really :)


The next day I went into tourist mode and took Craig, on a tram, to Old Trafford for a tour haha. I felt a little silly tbh but he loved it so was more than worthwhile. I found out later that it would have been FREE with the season tickets but I never knew that so we had to pay. Still, was good. (And he said he'd take me to Celtic Park so y'know, worth it :D)

Not so many interesting photos as there wasn't actually a match on but here's Strettie End and Sir Matt Busby, just because.:



So yeah, that was my awesome birthday weekend.



THIS WEEKEND...
I went up to Scotland (as you do) at bloody 6:30am on Saturday (had been awake since 7am Friday might I add) and as such I ended up in bed by about 6:30pm haha. Still, had a good day. We mainly mootched around the house and did computer stuff (such as me stealing all of his music :D) before I passed out. Apparently I was saying 'Craig, how many raisens do we have?' in my sleep. How silly of me.

Spent Sunday being lazy for most of the day and then in a surprise move, Craig's mum and step dad took us out for a meal! It was very nice and I had loads of fun. Apparently I'm very English for having Yorkshire puddings and Gravey on my Carvery but shush, I AM English. We watched Saw II (we watched Saw last time I was there) and I screamed and was generally a big Jessy. For some reason we watched Saw III last night ... I never learn my lesson do I.

Went shopping yesterday too, last of my Christmas bits aaand Lunch at Solid which was a pretty cool place to be honest.

Missed my train home today but in a true act of Christmas kindness, a man from Virgin trains changed my Transpenine Express ticket to one that I could use on the next Virgin train to Manchester for no charge or anything. He even got on the train and spoke to the train manager to make sure everything was OK and that I would get home alright. I was really sad to go and only had 10mins to say goodbye. Was trying to not cry until I'd atleast got on the train and as such never got a kiss goodbye which really upset me.

Still, got home OK in the end. Actually caught up with the train I should have been on at Preston which was odd. Got on a later train and still ended up waiting around Preston train station for the one I was supposed to catch at Glasgow haha. Still, got home eventually. Faced a huge fear of mine actually and spent about 20-30mins wandering around SALFORD, in the dark, on my own, with lots of bags and no idea where I was going. Luckily I never got stabbed and I'm quite pleased with myself (though I'm not ready to tackle Moss Side just yet).

I've had a couple of amazing weekends overall and it'll be a bit crap to go back to normal now. (Well I say normal but it's Christmas etc. now so it won't be haha).

Anyway, I'll be a big softy now and just say that both of my super fab weekends had a common factor - a certain person was with me for both. Thanks a lot hun, I'm missing you already and can't wait to see you in January :) xxx

Ready for a long one?
It'll be good though, honestly :p

So that snow I was on about meant no school all week last week! Literally couldn't get there Monday - Thursday and Friday I was dying of flu, something that I've never had before. I thought flu was like a bad cold but NO, it was Hell, absolute Hell. Anyway, so I was basicly sweating, crying, shivering and aching constantly and simultaneously for 2 days which left no time at all for eating and last night I went out... on the piss... having not eaten... with the craziest bunch of motherfuckers around here. (OK, so the competition isn't exactly overwhelming but that's more than besides the point).

I won't write a blow by blow account or anything but we started in the Bridge Water and had quite a few halves. Enough to make me rather drunk by the time I dragged everyone (ice skating style) down to Last Orders to meet my dad anyway. There we drank much more and did kareoke. Twice. (Like a Virgin and Fairytale of New York) It was SO bad that before we started, Tommy asked my dad if he wanted to go out for a fag and he went 'no, no, I'm going to watch my lass sing' and by the end of the song he was leaving the pub all together. To go to The New Inn!! (you don't go there unless you reeeaaalllyyy have to, it's shit)

Then there was The Crown (I left my jacket in there but did make some new friends). There was also a band on, they were OK. Dad was asking me something about his phone:
'look, I'm not going dress this up, dad. I'm sorry, but I'm in no fit state to look at it right now.'
'you don't say'
'honestly!' *falls over*

When the Crown shut we went to Hiltiz where the band were awwweesooomee (they always are there) and a few great songs were played that EVERYONE knows so there was singing, dancing and general merry making (and more drinking, obviously). We stayed there until closing but, determined not to give up, we went to the Roxy. For those of you that don't know (most of you) the Roxy is, well, scummy. There's no other way to describe it but it was the only place open and we were hoping for a lock-in but the bloke we actually know was on holiday. It was 10mins from closing when we got there and I was like 'you want us to pay? For ten mins? That's 50p a fucking minute mate, you having a laugh?' and somebody overheard us and paid us in :D (not a stranger).

So now the last club in the whole town is shut and we're NOT going to Blackburn, what do we do?
We gatecrash my hairdresser's house!

'Fuck the neighbours' was our mantra as we blasted out some tuuuuuuuuuuunes and continued the partying and drinking there. We stumbled home at about 5:30am (we'd been out since 6:30!) in no fit state and I woke up this morning absolutely racking my brains to see if I did anything to be embarassed about or explain but no, I didn't :). I've spoken to my dad who was OK and my Auntie is alive and well upstairs (in bed, when I say 'well' I mean she's healthy in general, obviously she's not moving for a good few days yet) so all in all it was win. Apart from my EPIC hangover.

Oh, also, I went out with my neeww hair do which apparently went down very well.
Particularly well with *thinks* 7 lads :D
Was only chat though of course, I said I had a boyfriend (which isn't true but I am on an 'agreement' just now haha) but it was a lovely little confidence boost for me there :D (also scored drinks and dance partners so y'know, it worked out alright)



Well. THAT was long.
Nobody reads this but fuck, it'll be a nice reminder to me because when I completely sober up I don't want to forget the night :)
When I can get pics on the PC it'll be better because I remember taking over 9000.

But anyway, that's it, that's my update!

Well, I wanted snow and that's what I got.
HEAPS of it.

I couldn't get to college yesterday (see previous entry) and now I'm legit snowed in (not a problem I've ever had before)

Taxis aren't running so I can't get to my train! No idea if the train is even running anyway but fuuuuck.

I did consider waking my uncle up and getting him to run me,  but what if I get to Salford and can't get a bus? Or what if I can't get home later from the station because of taxis? Etc. Living over here with no ability to drive and no parents has me (and my mother) worried about being stranded today and I'm under strict instructions to stay put (overkill? Maybe.)

I rreeeaaallllly don't want college to think I'm taking the piss since I've only done 1 week and now missed two days! Dad gets here at midnight tonight so HOPEFULLY this won't happen again but I needed to get in today!

I'm trying to sort out my UCAS stuff at school and yesterday was the deadline at college for that (I'm way on top of it but I need to BE THERE to sort it out. Plus I have an extra Spanish lesson today which the school have gone out of their way to organise (they don't offer Spanish). Also, I was supposed to get some bloody tickets today but now can't get to a ticket office, looks like I'm hyjacking someone's Visa!! - I'm determined to get them.

All in all I'm not pleased but my god it's beautiful out there. Virgin snow. Nobody has driven yet (nobody stupid enough) and nobody seems to have walked through it (well it is 6:30am) so it's just a gorgeous thick layer of white covering everything!

I feel bad appreciating it given I feel like I'm skiving (I hate that) but just now on the news they're telling us (Manchester, Bolton, etc.) to stay home and stay warm because the roads aren't safe. They said some schools are closed (doubt that includes mine) and that, particularly in Scotland, there are lots of houses without gas etc.

So guys, keep safe today!

I'm off to do some studying...

EDIT: I got the tickets :)
aaaaaaaand it's a bloody good job I didn't go in today! I'd have been stranded. It's just kept on snowing and snowing all day and aparently the buses in Manchester stopped running. Also found out that the train I would have been on was horribly delayed and a few subsequent ones were cancelled all together! I'm lucky that the taxi couldn't take me!

We went out the back and half-made a snow man (don't ask) and lobbed snow balls at eachother (well, I had snowballs lobbed at me) but that was my own fault as I did NAG and nag and nag my cousins to take me out and play in the snow! Was good though, it was cold and wet and I ended up on my arse a good few times but apart from that it was well cool! I'd post some photos if I could get them off the camera... We'll see if I can work it!