I turned 19!

Hello!

I have been a bit absent from my blog recently and I am sorry about that.. Yesterday/Monday/the 27th of January it was both mine and my mum's birthday! Yes I was born on my Mum's birthday haha I suppose for me I always forgot that, that is very unusual and perhaps lucky or unlucky depending on what side you look at it from. 

So I turned 19! And thinking about it I have had quite a good year being 18 and I didn't really want it to end! A lot of great things happened and I hope that the next year will be just as good or even better. 

On our birthday i got spoilt rotten by my family. I went for lunch at a local country pub with my mum and sister and we had really nice mezze boards.

Then in the evening, the four of us including my stepdad went out for dinner to an Indian and had a really nice meal (I know!! eating out twice in one day, lucky us!!)  

My mum made me a really cool cake too. 

It was so good but so sickly sweet! It looked really nice too!

Hope you enjoyed reading this post, love A, x 

Midweek catch up!

Hello!!

I hope you're all well and loving the Christmas cheer at the moment! I for one am very excited for Christmas Day to come for one of two reasons. This year unlike any other I have managed to finish my Christmas shopping a lot earlier than expected and usual. I'm normally the person panicking on Christmas Eve but not this year, a certain little miss over hear had all the presents wrapped within the first week of December so I can sit back, relax and watch everyone else go crazy shopping! Secondly I love Christmas as I have always had such lovely connotations of it being a time for families. Every Christmas Day for as long as I can remember my grandparents have always come up and joined us and we see various other family members over the days leading up to and after Christmas. Ahhh I just can't wait! 

Anyway, I was writing this post as I feel I haven't really posted much recently. I have been having a few troubles with my Google+ account which has meant no new comments have come up nor have I been notified on them. Annoyingly I can't seem to find a help button or an email address I can use to contact someone to see if there is anything I could do to fix this.

So I want to fill you in with what I've been up to recently!  Over the last couple of weeks I seem to have grown busier and busier which I have been enjoying! On Monday I went shopping with my Mum and Sister. There were quite a lot of clothes that I really wanted to get but I couldn't justify getting them to myself, especially at this time of year and what with a lot of my friends coming home from uni and organising nights out or going to the pub, I thought I better not! In the evening I saw one of my closest friends Eloise for a meal. I hadn't seen her since the beginning of September as she's moved to Plymouth for uni. That was really nice having a catch up with her alongside a really delicious burger. Even though we hadn't seen each other for months we were sat there chatting as if we'd never been away! 

On Tuesday I met my friend Morien for a coffee. We hadn't seen each other since early August as we both were really busy and she had moved to Falmouth for uni. It was so lovely to spend some time with her and have a catch up. Afterwards we went for a walk at a national trust place not too far from where we were and it looked really beautiful when I went there with Mum in the autumn but now all the leaves have fallen off the trees it looked quite bare and solemn. 

On Wednesday I didn't really do much in the day time. I was going to get some things sorted but I accidentally had a lie in and decided that as I had already wasted a few hours there wasn't much point in starting now so my sister and I carried on with our Desperate Housewives marathon. Every series is on Sky+ boxsets at the moments so we're getting through them quite quickly and are already on one of the early episodes of series 2! In the evening I was meeting my three colleagues at a pub for a relaxed 'meeting'. We had some work stuff to discuss and wanted to get it said and out the way in a fun, friendly way! Then we later went on to a local restaurant for our staff Christmas meal. I was excited yet a little anxious. Even though I get on really well with my co-workers I have never been to a work party before and in general I am quite a socially awkward person so I tend to attract bad things.. I'm not really one to complain in a restaurant, but the drink I asked for came out wrong and they got the wrong starter for me so I told the waiter nicely that there had been a mix up. Nonetheless we all had a great time. It was really nice seeing the others girls out of  work and getting to know them all a bit better! The food was really good too. I had a duck and port pate to start. It tasted really nice and the presentation was really unique too. They put the pate in a little jar which I thought looked really cool.  For mains we all had the roast turkey and all the trimmings, it was so good but so so filling all the same. And for pudding I had a winter berry crumble and by this point I was feeling so unbelievably stuffed. 

So that's about it for my week so far, I hope you enjoyed reading this post! Love, A X

My first time..

So Petit Promise tagged me in this 'First Time tag' and I hadn't actually heard of it before. 

The rules:

• You must share the following firsts and give the story or the context of them as well. 
• You must also tag 10 other bloggers to do the tag also. 
• And finally you can't tag the person who tagged you.

First best friend:

My first best friend was a girl called Hattie. We met when we were about two or three and were in playgroup (preschool) together. We were pretty much inseperable throughout most of primary school until yr6 (we would have been aged 10) when her and her family moved to Texas.

First cd I bought:
The first cd I bought was S club 7's Never Had a Dream Come True single from Asda. boom impressed with my creepily good memory??

First concert:

I remember when I was about 6/7 I went to a blue peter concert (cool I know right) at weymouth beach and all the big pop stars of the time were there like Louise Redknapp. But I guess the first proper concert must have been t4 On the Beach in 2011 or Blink 182 in 2012. 

First celebrity crush:

Oh my god this makes me cringe so much thinking about it.I suppose it must have been Gareth Gates and the night of the Pop Idol final it was too late for me to stay up and watch it, so we recorded it and I watched it in the morning before school, he came second and I cried..

First Word:

I'm not actually too sure, I remember my parent's used to say it was 'Eh' which I also argued isn't a real word..

First pet:

When I was younger we had a lot of goldfish over the years. I can't quite remember any names though. I remember one we called Goldie. 

First Job:

My first job was when I was 16 I volunteered at an Oxfam then about a month later I got a paid job working on the shop floor in Boots.

First Phone:

My first phone was the Nokia 3310. Was a great little phone, I distinctively remember I bought a bright pink Hello Kitty phone case for it. It even had snake!

First tweet:

Was to my friends who already had twitter, saying "Look who's on twitter!?!"

First item of make-up:

I remember I bought a collection 2000 eyeliner pencil and would line my waterline and that would be it. I would leave the house thinking I looked the bees knees. In reality I must have looked so bad. 

I'm tagging:

Helen at Beautifully Superfluous

Sophie at Sophhskii

Rebecca at Lipgloss and Lashes

Hannah at Hannah Heartss

Katie at Katie's World of Beauty

Leah at Rollerblades and Vintage  

Rachel at Rachel Lucy

Georgina at She Might Be Loved

Amy at Salted Roses

Madeleine at Vanity Rail

Thank you all for reading! I hope you liked it, love a. x

Tuesday 20th August

I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST TODAY, GUYS!! First time with only one minor too! 

I was so nervous and was sure as I was doing it that I didn't think I would pass. It's not that I'm not a confident driver its just that the roundabouts were quite busy and I thought my nerves would get the better of me. The day before I walked under a ladder, a mirror broke at work and saw one magpie. I'm not the most superstitious person but when that all happened I felt it had to be a sign!

Eeeee but now after going out for a drive by myself (which is the weirdest thing ever) I am so so happy! 

Thanks for reading, A. x

My weekend

Helloooo!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. For the first time in ages I don't think I stopped from Friday morning onwards now I feel like I need a few extra days rest from this weekend!

I worked both Friday and Saturday which went quite quickly however it's never very nice to be working when the weather is so lovely. On Saturday evening after I finished work I drove to a family party (with my step-dad sat next to me as I'm still a learner waa) close to Exeter. The weather was so nice and luckily for me the roads were quiet too. We decided to make the most of the sun and stayed down there for a few days. 


Here are some pictures of my weekend-

I saw this in a bookshop in Lyme Regis! Congratulations Wills and Kate on the birth of your boy. #RoyalBaby

Thanks for reading! I hoped you liked it! A. x