Every day I feel like everyone around me is doing exciting things and growing up and I'm still getting to grips with how to use a washing machine.
Okay, let me explain myself.
So in my church, there is kind of this unspoken thing where it's super normal to get married really young. I'm 18 and it's kind of weird that I'm not talking about getting married, let alone the fact that I don't have a boyfriend. I think there are... 3 girls my age without other halves in church, though both of the other two are at uni, so I guess I'm the only one. There are a few single boys, but they're all hopeless around girls, bless them. I mean they're all catches, but they don't seem to realise it. I digress.
Now don't misunderstand, I don't mind that I don't have a boyfriend. In normal person terms, I am young and there are things that I'd like the opportunity to do before I settle down, but my point is that it's weird that that's weird.
This has come to my attention because one of my friends that I work with has just got engaged (and I'm so happy for her!), and honestly I feel like I'm too young for this to be happening to people my age. Life is steaming on ahead and I'm barely aware of it.
Of course, if I look at it, then I am moving with it, I've finished education (for now), I have two jobs, one of which is practically running a church, I can drive, and I'm pretty much self sufficient. I mean, I pay for petrol and go food shopping, so I guess I can no longer hold on to the belief that I am twelve years old, no matter how much I'd like to.
This blog post, I'm aware, is very badly written, and to be honest it is more of a stream of consciousness being pushed from my brain through my fingers as I sit here watching PotC.
My life is average, and yet not so normal. Here it is, in the form of a bloggy thingy. "I'm not leaving 'till you smile back at me." (8)
Saturday 28 September 2013
Thursday 27 June 2013
The Greatest Artist Of All Time (ft. Jenny Snipstead) | Spoken Word
So I just came across this. I follow Jeff on Youtube and I love his spoken word videos. I thought I'd share this with you to give you a snippet of my kind of theology.
Keep Smiling! x
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Hey There!
Searching through the google images of my name (yes I know, I was bored okay), I came across a photo that I'd posted on another post on here... and remembered that it existed! I'd completely forgotten *hangs head in shame*.
But I found it again, so hooray!
What's changed in the last 18 months?
Oh, so much.
2012 was an absolutely mental year. My friends and I have developed and strengthened beyond belief. It was NOT an easy year, we dealt with depression, self harm, eating disorders, suicide, recovery, relapse, faith, doubt, miscommunication, and trust to name a few. But we got through it, thanks to God, and I'm very glad we did it together as we've come out so much closer and much better people as a result.
Also... I finished college! I'd only just started the last time I wrote and I've been all the way through it! I'm not really going to go into detail because it's college, and it's dull.
I got a great group of friends at college, though most of them are leaving for uni in September.
I also have some wonderful friends at Group where I'm now a leader. I say Group, it's a mix of Group and Church because some of them have left Group already. This reminds me, I'm 18 now! We go to the pub on a Sunday evening, and I am now finally able to buy alcohol, though I don't usually, because that's not why we go. It's just a great place to socialise. Man, I love my friends.
Life is good! I'm starting an internship at Church in September, so I'll be working alongside some of my friends in one of my favourite places on Earth and a place that I call home, I have plans to go to Leeds the year after, I have a healthy self esteem and wonderful friends, I am developing my confidence and social skills, and I'm getting closer to God and progressing our relationship.
So, yeah, just a short catch up today, but hopefully I'll start keeping this up to date and writing regularly.
I might as well chuck in a list of my webpages etc. so you can keep in touch!
Personal Tumblr
Photography Tumblr
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube Channel
Keep Smiling! x
But I found it again, so hooray!
What's changed in the last 18 months?
Oh, so much.
2012 was an absolutely mental year. My friends and I have developed and strengthened beyond belief. It was NOT an easy year, we dealt with depression, self harm, eating disorders, suicide, recovery, relapse, faith, doubt, miscommunication, and trust to name a few. But we got through it, thanks to God, and I'm very glad we did it together as we've come out so much closer and much better people as a result.
Also... I finished college! I'd only just started the last time I wrote and I've been all the way through it! I'm not really going to go into detail because it's college, and it's dull.
I got a great group of friends at college, though most of them are leaving for uni in September.
I also have some wonderful friends at Group where I'm now a leader. I say Group, it's a mix of Group and Church because some of them have left Group already. This reminds me, I'm 18 now! We go to the pub on a Sunday evening, and I am now finally able to buy alcohol, though I don't usually, because that's not why we go. It's just a great place to socialise. Man, I love my friends.
Life is good! I'm starting an internship at Church in September, so I'll be working alongside some of my friends in one of my favourite places on Earth and a place that I call home, I have plans to go to Leeds the year after, I have a healthy self esteem and wonderful friends, I am developing my confidence and social skills, and I'm getting closer to God and progressing our relationship.
So, yeah, just a short catch up today, but hopefully I'll start keeping this up to date and writing regularly.
I might as well chuck in a list of my webpages etc. so you can keep in touch!
Personal Tumblr
Photography Tumblr
Youtube Channel
Keep Smiling! x
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Monday 21 November 2011
Wow. I should really post...
I'M SO SORRY FOR NEGLECTING YOU!
I forgot blogger existed, I'm ashamed. D'x
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnyway....
I'm back now :D
The last time I blogged was when I was in America, so that will have been... 3 months ago? Oh deary me. What a lot to catch up on.
I just read through my last post, gosh, can I bore people. It should be a sport, because then I'd finally be able to win a sport hands down. I just rambled about my holiday! Sure, it was interesting for me, but why the hell would anyone else care that I went to Sea World? Though I must say, it was pretty awesome...
Stop it brain! Stop habitually boring people to death with mundane chatter!
So... if I'm right, which I am, I hadn't started college when I last posted. Hahahahahaha. It's so weird, it feels like I've been there forever. Literally, when I'm in there, it's like time itself stops.
I'm being dramatic. It's good! I like college. Well. I say like. It's not like Disney Land. It would be good if it was though! Imagine, you're on the top floor, and instead of taking the stairs, a roller-coaster whooshes you around college between classes. Awesome idea, no? I think that'll be my mission in life: to start up the world's first Disney- themed college. Though, there's probably one somewhere in America. There's everything you could ever think of that probably shouldn't exist over there.
This was a really pointless post. But oh well, sheep's socks.
Keep Smiling! :)
xx
I forgot blogger existed, I'm ashamed. D'x
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnyway....
I'm back now :D
The last time I blogged was when I was in America, so that will have been... 3 months ago? Oh deary me. What a lot to catch up on.
I just read through my last post, gosh, can I bore people. It should be a sport, because then I'd finally be able to win a sport hands down. I just rambled about my holiday! Sure, it was interesting for me, but why the hell would anyone else care that I went to Sea World? Though I must say, it was pretty awesome...
Stop it brain! Stop habitually boring people to death with mundane chatter!
So... if I'm right, which I am, I hadn't started college when I last posted. Hahahahahaha. It's so weird, it feels like I've been there forever. Literally, when I'm in there, it's like time itself stops.
I'm being dramatic. It's good! I like college. Well. I say like. It's not like Disney Land. It would be good if it was though! Imagine, you're on the top floor, and instead of taking the stairs, a roller-coaster whooshes you around college between classes. Awesome idea, no? I think that'll be my mission in life: to start up the world's first Disney- themed college. Though, there's probably one somewhere in America. There's everything you could ever think of that probably shouldn't exist over there.
This was a really pointless post. But oh well, sheep's socks.
Keep Smiling! :)
xx
Thursday 4 August 2011
Oh my, the excitement of it all!
I've been meaning to write for a few days now, but this is the first time I've had the Internet free in 5 days. I'll explain why later.
So, I'm in America at the moment on my 'vacation'. I must say, I haven't been this happy in a long time.
This is what's happened so far-
1. I went to 'the wizarding world of Harry potter' in islands of adventure at universal studios, which just blew my mind. It was like actually being in hogsmead ( except some of the diagon alley shops were there too), and the castle was just gorgeous! The simulator type ride in the castle, 'the forbidden journey', was awesome, and I screamed just a little bit when Draco came on. ;) I got some slytherin themed stuff, like a lanyard that looked like the slytherin tie to use for college. :)
The rest of islands of adventure was awesome too, like the Hulk ride, but being a true potter head, no other place could really compete. ;)
2. Pool day, it was soooooooo hot, it's almost too hot really. It's over 100 degrees in the middle of the day!
3. AWESOME DAY. I went to sea world for the day, went on the kracken (which was awesome and massive) and watched the shows. It was really good, but I was really sweaty. :P I went to see Blue Man Group in the evening, which was really clever, so funny, and slightly terrifying. They kept going in the audience and picking people out to do stuff. They didn't talk at all, so they were really scary and stare-y. At one point, the lights went out, and I could see the guy's eyes in the dark. He was right in front of us!
After all that, we went out for tea. It was then my parents told me I was going back to sea world the next day to spend the day with a marine biologist learning about the job. This was soooooooo exciting, because my dream job is to be a marine biologist at sea world. :D
4. I got up at 5:30 to go to sea world for 6:30. The only other person with me was an English girl the same a age as me, so that was fun, we got along well. The day was just INCREDIBLE. I'm going to go through what we did-
a. Counting out the food for the otter pans and watching a baby manatee be fed.
b. Feeding shrimp to the otters (they just took it out of our fingers with their little tiny paws, so cute!)
c. Feeding 6 crates of lettuce to four hungry manatees.
d. Putting on wetsuits and going to play with the dolphins, doing tricks with them and entertaining them with toys.
e. Going to wild arctic to play with the beluga whales, getting a kiss and a high ten off one.
f. Feeding two crates of spinach to the manatees for their morning snack.
g. Meeting some seals, playing with and feeding them.
(I'm assuming you're starting to gather that we played with and fed a lot of animals)
h. Taking off the wet suits and going to the dolphin nursery. We had just got dry when one of the dolphins thought it would be funny to splash us- a lot. xD
g. Going to meet some sea lions and feeding some seals.
h. Going to the main sea lion enclosure to feed them.
i. Going to watch the polar bears in a private viewing room.
j. Meeting some ENORMOUS walruses and Playing with them, including getting a kiss on the hand from one.
We got picked up after that, but as you can probably tell, we had a pretty awesome day. :)
5. We went to Universal Studios and went on the big rides. It was good, but it was so hot we had to leave. We went shopping for a couple of hours.
6. We went to Epcot and spent most of the day inside, because it was just so hot. Luckily, some of the best things at Epcot are inside. I FINALLY got on to pottermore.
POTTERMORE- the reason for constant stress and taking up the Internet so I cannot blog.
On 31st July, 7 chances to enter early started. I missed the first three days because they were too early in the morning for us American people (i know, I'm not American, but I'm in America, so I'm on American time). The fourth day I missed it because I was out, so I was determined to get it on the fifth. I spent the whole day checking for free wifi. Eventually, and luckily, because my dad works for IBM, and we were in a zone sponsored by IBM, so my dad got onto the IBM wifi that was there, and by sheer fluke I checked onto the site just as the site was posting the clue. I knew the answer, so I was able to get through to the registration. I was in such a flustered as I was doing it! Im so impatient now to get my welcome email, it could be ages yet. :/ but at least I got on, only 1,00,000 people in the whole world get in early, and I'm one of them!
so, Im having quite an exciting time this week, and I'll post again to let you know what I'm doing.
Sorry if this has bored you, but I find it interesting, so you WILL find it interesting too ;P
Keep smiling! Xx
So, I'm in America at the moment on my 'vacation'. I must say, I haven't been this happy in a long time.
This is what's happened so far-
1. I went to 'the wizarding world of Harry potter' in islands of adventure at universal studios, which just blew my mind. It was like actually being in hogsmead ( except some of the diagon alley shops were there too), and the castle was just gorgeous! The simulator type ride in the castle, 'the forbidden journey', was awesome, and I screamed just a little bit when Draco came on. ;) I got some slytherin themed stuff, like a lanyard that looked like the slytherin tie to use for college. :)
The rest of islands of adventure was awesome too, like the Hulk ride, but being a true potter head, no other place could really compete. ;)
2. Pool day, it was soooooooo hot, it's almost too hot really. It's over 100 degrees in the middle of the day!
3. AWESOME DAY. I went to sea world for the day, went on the kracken (which was awesome and massive) and watched the shows. It was really good, but I was really sweaty. :P I went to see Blue Man Group in the evening, which was really clever, so funny, and slightly terrifying. They kept going in the audience and picking people out to do stuff. They didn't talk at all, so they were really scary and stare-y. At one point, the lights went out, and I could see the guy's eyes in the dark. He was right in front of us!
After all that, we went out for tea. It was then my parents told me I was going back to sea world the next day to spend the day with a marine biologist learning about the job. This was soooooooo exciting, because my dream job is to be a marine biologist at sea world. :D
4. I got up at 5:30 to go to sea world for 6:30. The only other person with me was an English girl the same a age as me, so that was fun, we got along well. The day was just INCREDIBLE. I'm going to go through what we did-
a. Counting out the food for the otter pans and watching a baby manatee be fed.
b. Feeding shrimp to the otters (they just took it out of our fingers with their little tiny paws, so cute!)
c. Feeding 6 crates of lettuce to four hungry manatees.
d. Putting on wetsuits and going to play with the dolphins, doing tricks with them and entertaining them with toys.
e. Going to wild arctic to play with the beluga whales, getting a kiss and a high ten off one.
f. Feeding two crates of spinach to the manatees for their morning snack.
g. Meeting some seals, playing with and feeding them.
(I'm assuming you're starting to gather that we played with and fed a lot of animals)
h. Taking off the wet suits and going to the dolphin nursery. We had just got dry when one of the dolphins thought it would be funny to splash us- a lot. xD
g. Going to meet some sea lions and feeding some seals.
h. Going to the main sea lion enclosure to feed them.
i. Going to watch the polar bears in a private viewing room.
j. Meeting some ENORMOUS walruses and Playing with them, including getting a kiss on the hand from one.
We got picked up after that, but as you can probably tell, we had a pretty awesome day. :)
5. We went to Universal Studios and went on the big rides. It was good, but it was so hot we had to leave. We went shopping for a couple of hours.
6. We went to Epcot and spent most of the day inside, because it was just so hot. Luckily, some of the best things at Epcot are inside. I FINALLY got on to pottermore.
POTTERMORE- the reason for constant stress and taking up the Internet so I cannot blog.
On 31st July, 7 chances to enter early started. I missed the first three days because they were too early in the morning for us American people (i know, I'm not American, but I'm in America, so I'm on American time). The fourth day I missed it because I was out, so I was determined to get it on the fifth. I spent the whole day checking for free wifi. Eventually, and luckily, because my dad works for IBM, and we were in a zone sponsored by IBM, so my dad got onto the IBM wifi that was there, and by sheer fluke I checked onto the site just as the site was posting the clue. I knew the answer, so I was able to get through to the registration. I was in such a flustered as I was doing it! Im so impatient now to get my welcome email, it could be ages yet. :/ but at least I got on, only 1,00,000 people in the whole world get in early, and I'm one of them!
so, Im having quite an exciting time this week, and I'll post again to let you know what I'm doing.
Sorry if this has bored you, but I find it interesting, so you WILL find it interesting too ;P
Keep smiling! Xx
Wednesday 15 June 2011
"Friends are like penguins. If you throw polar bears at them, they die."
"Friends are like penguins. If you throw polar bears at them, they die."
Funniest thing I've heard all day. Rivalled only by- ""IT'S THE CIIIIIIRCLEE, THE CIRCLE OF LIFE!" Nan, please, put the cat down." xD
So, to compliment my funniest quote, here are some pictures of penguins and polar bears. I hope you enjoy them ( I know you will).
Keep Smiling! xx
Funniest thing I've heard all day. Rivalled only by- ""IT'S THE CIIIIIIRCLEE, THE CIRCLE OF LIFE!" Nan, please, put the cat down." xD
So, to compliment my funniest quote, here are some pictures of penguins and polar bears. I hope you enjoy them ( I know you will).
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