Outfit Post

Next week my finals start and I get seriously stressed about these things! Nothing really helps except getting out of the house for a walk occasionally so I just have to get through it with my stash of cookies, coffee and apples and my rescue remedy (which totally works even though my boyfriend thinks that kind of thing is bullshit...).

Anyway, last weekend I went to see my boyfriend because I won't be able to see him for about three weeks. We went to a Disney bop, had a seven course meal (with matching wine, I'm not pretentious - it was all in good fun!) and hung out, watching Game of Thrones and stuff. Such a good weekend, especially compared to this weekend, which will be revision central. Still, in under two weeks I will be able to say that I've finished my degree in Classics and can look forward to a lovely long summer! Whoop whoop.

WAAAALL.E

Top - River Island, Skirt - hand made, Sunglasses - H&M

Hope you're all having a better week than me and have something fun to look forward to at the weekend!

Tuneful Tuesdays!

Hey guys,

Photos of the weekend are coming soon - but it was so much fun! The last fun one until after exams :(. Sooo much work to do this week and next week, but after that I'm freee!

The band I'm featuring this week are one that I literally only found about today through a friend on facebook. It's really not normally my kinda music, since it's kind of progressive rock or something or other, but this album actually works because it's really chilled out and easy music to revise to. Also, it's mainly just guitar so yeah - it's all good:

Have fun listening and I'll be back soon!

Doggies!

Hey guys,

Here are some pictures of doggy cuteness before the weekend! Yays. Today is actually the start of my weekend and tomorrow I'm going to a bop at the boy's college. Theme is Disney so I'm thinking Dumbo or Wall.E which means borrowing a large amount of cardboard and paint. It's basically a party in the JCR with three types of mixer so should be good! I'll hopefully get some photos of me on my own - I don't really want to put up people without their permission.

Anyways, here are some photos of the doggies - there are actually some more but I'll put them up later when I remember to get them off my phone!

Tuneful Tuesdays

Hey guys,

I haven't been listening to that much music this week - been trying to catch up on my Mark Kermode podcasts instead! (Really great film review podcasts - recommend downloading them). But I eventually decided on Mad World, which featured in Donnie Darko but is actually by a band called Tears for Fears who my dad introduced to me a long time ago. The film is great and the band have a few good songs, so here it is!:

Will try to post some doggy cuteness tomorrow! Goodnight all and hope you're having a good week :)

Election Night!

Hey people,

I'm staying up tonight waiting for the London mayoral elections to be declared and I'm really hoping it's soon. At the moment it's kind of got boring, but earlier it was cheering up my revision since Labour were practically sweeping the floor with constituencies and Nick Clegg being completely ousted as a result of the coalition!! But anyway, I'm sure not everyone is interested in UK politics so I'll stop.

I just thought I'd write a post while I was waiting the results. I went to see the Avengers movie on wednesday and although the tickets were a bit of a rip off, the film itself was pretty good actually. I don't know anything about the comics/background of any of the characters so I was kind of going oh that guy is the Hulk or whatever throughout the film. The story was pretty straightforward though and once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it! I still don't know what ScarJo's character's power was, or who the crossbow guy was and what his special power was. He seemed to just run around with a crossbow? Any ideas? Robert Downey Jr is always good though, so that kind of made up for it and has encouraged me to see Iron Man. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen but it was good fun and despite some people's comments, I do quite like 3D

 This weekend I came home to vote and tomorrow we're going to visit my grandmother who has a puppy (although it's grown up now) so expect a whole lot of cuteness on this here blog really soon! Meantime, I can show you pictures of the English breakfast me and the boy went for at an American diner like restaurant in Leamington, some flowers and a nice bar in Leamington as well:

Outfit from the weekend - quite boring maybe but I do love this jumper so much!

One of the walls of the Diner shows a map of the famous Route 66!

Dockers 'Big Breakfast". The bacon is the best in the world!

Pic of what some of the Diner looks like

Pub/Bar in Leamington - I think it's called the Duke.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!!

Tuneful Tuesdays!

So yeah I'm ten minutes past 12 and therefore it's technically wednesday but whatevers. I can't miss tuneful tuesdays! Today I'm going to post something that I have always loved and it's from the classical side of the music I listen to. I was brought up on classical music (I don't think that's the right term because it's all so different anyway but I just go with it) and I used to be very ashamed that I loved it and knew nothing else. I completely by-passed the 90s music scene - while everyone was listening to the Spice Girls, I was listening to Tchaikovsky and others.

But now I don't care about that anymore - if people are going to judge me then they're obviously not my true friends and not worth the time of day. I always try to encourage people to listen to 'classical' music because I think that it makes you feel something - it's not about words, it's just pure emotion and it can just tap into you in a way that more modern music can't (for me anyway). It's not elitist and it's not boring - it's beautiful if you listen to the right stuff.

Anyway, I bring you something from the Finnish composer Sibelius. He's somewhat of a Finnish hero since he is the only famous composer to come from there and he wrote a piece of music to his homeland, which is called Finlandia. He's not a Classical composer, more of a Romantic one (there are four categories - Baroque, think Handel, Classical, think Mozart, Romantic, think Debussy and Modern, Stravinsky).  I suggest you all check Finlandia out if you want something shorter to listen to, but what I'm going to choose for today is one of the best pieces of music of all time - his fifth symphony. I really do urge you to listen to the whole thing. I'm not going to tell you what it's about, or give some kind of musical criticism because that's not really that important - as I said it's about emotion and stuff. If you want to listen to the whole thing on youtube then you have to click and load each movement - it's a shame but it's worth it. It's also on spotify and iTunes (though obvs you have to pay for it) where you would not get the breaks.

Getting up

Anyone who knows me, knows that you generally won't see me before 11, or even 12pm since I sleep lots and feel like I need about 10 hours. It's an unfortunate trait that I received from my father, who can sleep through screaming alarms. My sister used to punch my mother every morning in thanks for waking her up for school. My mother dealt with this by grabbing the duvet and running away. I can honestly say that I have never punched anyone for trying to wake me up but I am extremely grumpy in the morning and can't stand any cheeriness. I have become well known for this issue and am laughed at constantly by my mother, boyfriend and friends.

I really do want to break this habit - it's not a serious one like an addiction or anything, but I feel like I am losing a lot of my life by just sleeping all the time. I have tried to break it several times but it doesn't help at uni when lectures start at 12 or 1 and you don't have much structure to your day. Next year I'm starting a PGCE and will be teaching in primary schools so I will have to be getting up at 7 (if not 6) everyday. But I don't want it to be the huge, cruel shock that I feel like it's going to be and have been looking up tips on how to get up, which I am going to attempt in the next few weeks. So here are the ways that I am going to tackle this thing:

1) My alarm will be across the room (I tried this once and I just jumped straight back into bed, but still).

2) A glass of water by said alarm to drink (apparently it makes you feel more awake).

3) Wind down in the evenings by turning off all electronic stuff half an hour before bed.

4) Try going to sleep earlier (maybe 11/half 11).

5) Getting up at a consistent time every day, regardless of whether it's the weekend.

6) This is the last one - I will have a to-do list of things so that I HAVE to get up and do them during the day.

With the last one in mind, I made my own to do list, based on this tutorial here, I didn't have a ruler and I made mine on paper, but I kinda stuck to the picture, rather than following the tutorial:

Sorry for the poor quality - I've only got my iPhone camera at the moment. I can't afford a new camera at the mo and my last one died a while ago! The good quality photos on here come from the boyfriend's DSLR. Anyways, how do you get up in the morning? I'll be posting pics from my weekend soon.