He leaves tomorrow... :(

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Poo. One month goes fast!
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Something that caught my eye...

If you like fashion, if you like creativity and you like raising money you will love this little project. I am in love with this woman and her idea. It's so cute and amazing and insiprational, but all for a good reason. :) In May she started The Uniform Project, wearing 1 dress for 365 days, but dressing it up differently each day, and all the money she gets donated will go to help children in India get an education. LOVE HER!!!

If you want to see her amazing creativity I think you should see the site.

I promise...

to update soon!!!

because we're awesome...

James is here, as I have probably said many times! And now that it's the final week of this term and I have no more work I am trying to spend lots of time with him. Will update with any cool things we have done when I feel I have the time, but for now, heres some fun photos we took. :)

A walk in the dark. :)

Yesterday our advent calander told us to go for a walk, so I decided we should do it at night, so that I could take photos of the pretty lights...selfish I know. :P It was nice, and a tad weird, cuz the shops were still open...and shops close at 5:30 here...so it wasn't late, but it was dark! I always find it weird when it's dark so early...

Anyways here are some photos from the walk. :)

Today I have to finish an essay, 10% done already, and then we ned to buy some viennese truffles, because thats what the advent calander says. :) Yays! :D

I miss the mountains...

This is what the mountains look like right now...

Wish I could see some snow... :)

A birthday...

I really need to start keeping on top of things...I think I might make it a New Years resolution. It's not that I have much to do, I just don't do it. Hehe. :)
So, a few weeks back was Sasha's birthday and we made her a yummy meal (we I mean, I decorated and Adrienne and Miriam cooked yummy food), so i thought I'd share some photos...there aren't many although I took a lot, and none of the food...sorry...a bit lazy I am :P


:D I promise that next year I will keep things more up to date!

Christmas love...

Christmas is so magical and happy. :)

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Time to get back to work and listen to James snore...Oh the life I lead! :)

ARGH!

I hate ERM, so much. I actually hate writting an essay for it more. Learning about research methods isn't that bad, but having to write about what constitutes as evidence in social sciences, and how researches differentiate between good and bad research suing only 2-3 specific examples of research seems both silly and difficult to do, especially since I still don't understand exactly what it means. Tried all weekend (well tried not to do anything yesterday) to work on it, but got to a point of frustration where I couldn't look at it with out wanting to scream...yeah work gets to me like that.

I've decided I find it hard because I like rights and wrongs. Had an interesting revelation in another Education lecture, that people think differently. I knew they thought differently, but that there is an actual difference between sciency people and arts people. Sciencey people like right and wrong answers, they like things to make sense, to have set answers, something you can figure out. But art students (not as in visual art but history, english etc.) like wishy washy stuff, things that are unclear, things that don't have a right or wrong...I just don't understand it...which may be why I don't like this question, because I don't know what is wanted so I can't even try and get it close to right, whereas others can just plod along happy with their maybe right answer.

The essay problem isn't being helped by the fact that we lost to some bullies in basketball last night. They were three times our size, built like men, and just pushed us around, AND cheated. They only won by 2 baskets, but it's still not nice leaving a match like that...

I'll drink lots of tea and eat lots of biscuits and watch the X factor results tonight, and maybe I will be happy then. :)

I love spending time with my James.

We've done some shopping, been out for some meals and been to a formal. :D It's so nice spending time with him again. :)

:D

JAMES IS HERE, so I will not be on much. :) All good though.

Strictly Come Dancing

I wanted to do some drawing today, so whilst watching Strictly I decided Bruce and Tess would be great people to draw. :P I hope you recognise them! :)


PS: I took some really pretty pictures of Rogue today. :)

Guess who isn't working!

ME ME ME!!!

I should be, not that I have THAT much to do, but still, I feel like I spend a lot of my time not working. I'm drawing at the moment. I've missed drawing. :)

Planning an xmas party too, everyone seems to want to have one, so now I don't know if they'd come to one we do... Hehe, but I'm enjoying planning. :D

Are you working?

Party Night.

It was Sasha's Party last night, for her 20th on Monday. We had lots of balloons, and quite a few people round. :) I was told by a lot of people it was uncool to have a Christmas tree up so early, but they don't know anything! :P Was also told the house was very nicely decorated. :D YAY! Hehe. I think people had a good time, I hope for Sasha that they did. :) Photos from the night aren't that great because they were taken by either over excited people or drunk people...but they are memories none the less. :)

I think we're going out hopping today, then we have a basketball match against Trevs (which we should win, if we don't we will not be happy), and then going out for dinner. Living the life! Why I don't do any work :P

I made myself some promises...

A few months ago I made myself some promises, so thought I'd share how that was going:
- I am not getting my hair cut once a month, seems a little too much.
- I bought a camera!!! And I love it! :D
- I am not taking photos as often as I would like to, but dull, grey, rainy days aren't the best for photos.
- Haha...was failing so bad at updating my blog every other day. Forgot how much time lectures took up, but I'm working on it!
- I am doing more for me. :)
- Creative Saturdays...more like lazy days! Need to work on this one.
- Am trying SO hard on focussing on the positives, not always that easy.
- Not drinking more water, but am drinking more coffee! :P
- Bed before 12! Oh yeah, I'm going to bed at 10!! Haha...and I feel much more awake than I did last year! :)

So all in all, I'm not doing well!! :P So I still have things to work on. :) Maybe in the new year.

La la la laaaaa!

Things I have done today:

• Went to a Maths tutorial...yays...
• Had two coffees, yum!
• Did Complex Analysis homework - sounds so awesome right?
• Read articles about ethnic minorities in higher education - my life is exciting!
• Washed my clothes - needed to be done, now they smell of lavander. :)
• Watched Waterloo Road.
• Showered.
• Watched the final of America's Next Top Model.
• Talked to James.
• Avoided doing research for my essay due in 2 weeks! YAYS!

Things I want to do:

• Paint a set.
• Tidy my room.
• Have a yummy dinner.
• Plan some fun creative activities...I have ideas...just need to plan time!
• See James! 6 days!

My life is basically awesome, as you can see! Hehe. Kidding, duh! I am impressed with how much I have done today, usually my Thursdays get waisted cuz I do nothing! But not this week! No no! Hehe!! Got to go paint a set now!

What have I been up to?

Manchester!! It's my grandpa's 80th this coming Sunday, so we went to Manchester to celebrate last weekend, there was a surprise party for him. On Saturday we went out for a meal at an Italian. It was fun. We giggled a lot, based mainly on misunderstandings, like I thought 'antipastas' were main courses that didn't have pasta with them...not starters. Hehe...
Sunday was the party, so we took him to the surprise. :) It was a bit odd seeing a lot of people you don't know, but he was very happy and touched that so many people turned up. It was nice to see him happy.

Here are some photos from the weekend:

The house was really smokey so we went on a walk to see my mums old school. The weather was so nice and pretty! I love blue skies, they photograph so well!

I did all my walking in these pretty shoes! So happy I could wear pretty things like these! Durham tries it's best to kill your feet when you wear shoes that are nice, I'm trying my best to find something that works!
After the walk to my mums old school we hung out in my Grandpa's garden, because we can!! Last time I visited it was a jungle, couldn't see anything past the branches, couldn't get out the door! It's looking much better now!
Liam got an adorable Russ decoration, it enjoyed the train ride home. :)

My mum bought me some stuff to decorate for Xmas, and I bought some extras. :D All gold and glorious! I love gold Christmases, they are so warm and elegant. :)

Things to keep me busy:

• Wash my clothes!
• Paint a set.
• Maths HW.
• Read three articles.
• Research and write an essay.
• Tidy my room for James.
• Make house all pretty.
• Make Banoffee Pie...YUM!
• Celebrate Sasha's 20th.
• Play poker.
• SMILE...hehe, hurts the cheeks after a while. :P
  

Thought of the day: THE RIVER IS HIGH!!! Oh my!! I should have taken a photo, but only got home after 16:00 because of lectures, and Sasha's hair (which is now so gorgeous) and Vennels and shopping...and I didn't have my camera with me! BUT tomorrow, if it's still so so HIGH, I will take a picture for evidence. But literally could not walk along the towpath! (Which will only mean anything to people who live in Durham or have visited). It's rained a lot!

Off to do start checking of things on my to do list!

Durham Light Festival

From Thursday until Sunday last week there were some awesome light displays on around Durham, the best being the one on the Cathedral. I happened to have a lecture just before it started so hung around to watch it with my mum, who luckily happened to be visiting me for that night. I do think we are a lucky family, things just seem to fall into place for us. :) It was hard to take some good photos so I filmed the light show instead! Unfortunetly the video didn't work, so I'll try take screen shots from it soon. :)

Here is an extra picture of something pretty in a window:

Lights.

There is an awesome light festival in Durham right now!! I would recommend watching the cathedral! :D

I took a video, will share later.

Off to celebrate an 80th now!

Awesomeness!!

Dumdidumdidum...we had Basketball training today. :) Hehe, after having Burger King! Yum, I miss junk food!

Apparently, Castle, the team we played on Saturday, had 2 Uni players on the team AANNNNDDD they asked at their Uni practice how to break a zone because ours was so awesome they couldn't break it!!! :D YAYS!!! I know this means nothing to most people, but it's good news! We are very happy.

Maths is starting to get boring, and days are starting to feel long...Oh I can't wait for the holidays! :P Still no photos of the christmas tree or wall decorations but they will come!! No worries. :)


TWO WEEKS!!!