Life This Week | #1

It seems I like to do summaries. I've been keeping a diary for the past couple of months and I really enjoy it, because I think it's nice to look back and remember certain things and feelings, that you couldn't remember normally because nobody remembers every little thing they do...

I've found college weeks go really quickly, even if they don't feel like it at the time. I think it's purely the boredom. It's also really hard to look back and differentiate last week to the week before. I must have a really rubbish memory :)

On Monday I was really tired, and I'm never usually so tired all day because I try to get a decent amount of sleep, so Monday was just a blur. I went to the doctors after college as I've been getting migraines increasingly often, they are extremely painful and I missed half a day of college last week because of one, so I thought I'd better get myself checked out. I had a student doctor so it took twice as long as my real doctor kept intervening. Eventually he gave a prescription (my real doctor), which I hope works.

Tuesday was the worst day on my timetable, I get up at 6:45am and don't get back until 6:10pm. I asked my mum to pick me up instead of getting the bus as I had an audition and I wanted to be ready. The audition was for a dance company of which I was a part of last year, and you have to re-audition every year. It killed me though, we warmed up every part of our bodies in the set warm up apart from our necks, which we used a lot in one of the phrases, and I ended up struggling to swallow as I'd pulled a muscle in my throat?! Possibly the weirdest injury I've had. The audition didn't finish until 9 and by then I was pretty much out of it.

Pretty sunset the other day:)

Wednesday is the best day on my timetable, I only have dance and I also get a lie in. Although it's still a 5 hour day for an hour and a half lesson. It was theory based which wasn't so bad as I was aching from my audition on Tuesday. Afterwards my dance teacher wanted us to take part in the musical, so me and my friend went along to the audition that afternoon. It was full of older students and I felt completely intimidated and embarrassed. It wasn't THAT bad in the end, but I was still cringing. I had a well deserved relaxed evening:)

On Thursday it's another long day at college and I felt pretty poopy, it was one of those days where I just couldn't engage my brain in any work we were doing. The weather was rubbish and I couldn't wait to get home to bed. And finish homework, stressy day.

Friday was very welcome to me and i also had a lie in which pretty much saved me. I was worried i'd wake up with a migraine again but thankfully i did not. I love taking my time getting ready and not having to rush for the 7:30am bus. I had psychology then a 3 hour break and then dance. I can't work out if i hate the 3 hour breaks or not, hmm. Anyway on friday lunch time there was an audition for the college's dance group, which i worked so hard in i felt sick. There's only 8 places and there was more than 8 auditioning, i'm currently hating the wait. So all in all i had 3 hours of dance and i was pretty much a zombie by the time i got home. 

Yesterday i woke up with a horrible sore throat and cold. First of the season! Joking, I'm not happy about it. I popped into town this morning to buy presents and a couple of little bits, without even doing my makeup. That's right, i went into town in jeans and a t shirt,  hair scraped back and no makeup, i must of been a pretty sight. It was only 9am so not many people were about. I felt so sore from my audition on Friday, and my throat and head ached so i wasn't really up for it. I later went into town with mum and i got a new bag, as the bag i bought for college 3 weeks broke on the way to the bus station yesterday. Darn you Primark. I feel like i have alot of work to do but i'm just not up to it right now, i'm just having a lazy weekend :)

It's now Sunday if you didn't know, and my cold has worsened :( i woke up this morning feeling really really really really poopy. I had a bath, some lemon green tea, Radox muscle soak, some paracetamol and a nap (when i got out of the bath, otherwise it wouldn't have been so good). I'm currently at my Nans after enjoying a very welcome roast dinner. I have rehearsal later which i am NOT looking forward to. I'm also not looking forward to the morning, meh :( 

I apologise if this has been a bit moody and rambly, but this has been my mood for this week, hopefully i shall try and have a better week next week, until then, ba'bye :) 

Saturday Shopping Spree

Yesterday i popped into town for a couple of little bits, and this is what i came home with:) 

The only clothing item i bought were some support leggings from Primark (£4), and this white t shirt from Peacocks in the sale for £3. 

I also just bought some boring cosmetic things like my favourite Impulse in Very Pink, some more of my Simple Toner and a Natural Collection mascara. 

The bag that I've been using for college for 3 weeks has broken, the handle snapped whilst walking to the bus stop and i look like a right wally. It was from Primark so i took it back and i ended up getting this one from Dorothy Perkins for £15. The materials a bit flimsy so i don't know how well it'll last, as i do carry quite alot around college. 

This is the most exciting purchase's of the day. My Love Your Body card ran out in June and I've been meaning to buy a new one. You get 10% off plus £20 worth of free gifts throughout the year. I've been wanting to get my old Seaweed mattifying day cream for a while as I've been using a Garnier one, which isn't quite the same. I'm also running low on my Vitamin E face mist, so i also got one of those. It was 3 for 2 on skincare, so i got the Seaweed pore-cleansing facial scrub, as the seaweed range really suits my skin type. I don't know whether this was just for Love Your Body members or whether you had to spend a certain amount, but i got a free shower gel in White Musk, which i thought was really generous. I also got two little samples (how cute are the pots?!) of shower gels in Mango and Strawberry, which was the cherry on the top. I've always loved The Body Shop and i shall be doing reviews on my favourite products from there soon, so keep an eye out for that :) Browse The Body Shop here.

A couple of weeks ago i went to the Dorset County Show with the family, which is like a slightly smaller version of the Bath and West show which is the Somerset version. Anyway, this is what i bought from there as it's been hanging about in it's bag :)

I was approach by a lady and asked if i wanted to get my brows done. I've never got my brows done 'professionally' before, i think they look fine the way i do them. She filled them in with a stencil and a darker colour to what i usually fill then in with, and i was really surprised at how much it changed my face, which wounds weird but it did. Ruby Cosmetics usually supply salons but they do have a website, and i got a deal where i got the eyebrow colour and stencils, a lipgloss and an eyeshadow palette fro £20, when altogether it would have cost £60. I think that's a pretty good deal! Browse the Ruby Cosmetics website here. 

I know it's sideways but i also got this really cute dream catcher in the shape of a heart, which i loves. I don't really believe they actually work but they look pretty:)

Sideways again, but i'm too ill to change it. I got this really cute panda keyring made with glass beads, this little guy was made in South Africa. There were so many keyring to chose from i literally took about 15 minutes trying to pick one. They also had loads of different things made from glass beads, with a life size rooster at the hefty price of £100. This little guy was much more in my budget at £3. 

Last but not least, i bought this cute Piggy Pod from Just Add Pets. They do loads of really cool bedding for animals and even though my guinea pigs are boys, i got this cath kidson print one because i just love it:) Click here to go to the Just Add Pets Facebook page. 

Here are my piggies Bambi (right) and Coco (left) enjoying their new piggy pod:) How cute do they look? 
So that's my recent shopping, i hope you enjoyed having a sneeky peek:) 

New Start?

Warning: This post will be very rambly, i apologise.

This week i started college. I don't really know what i was expecting, but fair to say I wasn't really over the moon about it. In my head i was expecting a completely new start, to meet new people and to reinvent myself. Obviously that didn't happen, i mean come on, let's be realistic. I'm an extremely shy person, and i was overwhelmed at just how many people there were, and my anxiety didn't really approve of that many people, so i panicked, great start. 

You probably don't know, but I'm a dancer and it's the main thing i want to do, so i wanted to do dance at college, it wasn't really an option not to. The closest college that does Dance A level is an hours bus ride away. I'll live with that, i thought. The bus is really terrible, there aren't enough seats for everyone and several people have to stand up, several times the driver has had to turn people away, and this includes old people. I know this is probably the norm in London and cities, but i live in Somerset, i practically live in a field and to have this quality of transport has shocked me. There are two buses there but only one back, where's the logic in that? I made a swift decision that I'm going to be able to drive by next September, even if it means passing my test in four months. 

That's the ramble over, now onto the good bits! 

Besides the anxiety, my second week of college has gone fairly well. I LOVE my dance course, I'm also doing Sociology, Psychology and Health and Social care, which are all alright, but my main focus is dance which i am LOVING. I don't really have alot of spare time seeing as my average college day is 11 hours, including bus journeys, so the rest of the evening is spent relaxing or, in the next week or two, i will be back to dancing in the evening which I'm sure will kill me. I feel really bad about not blogging for over a month because i really do enjoy it, it's just finding the time and thinking about different posts i can do. I've also slacked majorly on my YouTube, i haven't made a video since May and i haven't put one up since July, I do have a haul to film but again it's finding the time. I like to film when i have a free house because i hate anyone listening to me, plus my editing program is rubbish, it doesn't save when I've spent hours editing and it's just a nightmare! 

I can't believe it's September already. Like seriously where has this year gone? i always feel like i don't do enough, like i haven't really done alot on my 2013 bucket list (which i posted on my old blog, i shall do another blog post on it here at the end of the year and you can see how rubbish i did:)). 

IT'S FINALLY AUTUMN! You may remember i did a post at the end of July raving about how excited i was for Autumn, and now it's finally here! I love Autumn, plus it's a run up to Christmas! 

Have a good week, i WILL be back next weekend with hopefully not one, but two blog posts :)