The one where I am a typical student

In the past (almost) 3 months of being at university I have come to realise that there are a few things you cannot escape during your time as a student. There are some seemingly preposterous situations that you will without a doubt find yourself in no matter how hard you try, some good and some that you would rather never be mentioned ever again. Following on from my last post where I mentioned that I feel some people are not fully prepared for the downsides of university life, I decided to compile a little list of these situations that you will, without a shadow of a doubt, find yourself in within your first few weeks at university.

Things that will happen when you go to University:
1. 1am will become an early night and 11am will become an early morning
2. 9am lectures will become a no-go
3. You will require afternoon naps
4. At some point you will wake up covered in your own sick after a particularly brutal night out (especially if drunk you thinks that tequila is a good idea)
5. You will experience the taste of sour milk after you forget how long is has been open for when trying to make yourself some cereal at 3am

6. Best before dates no longer exist
7. Vegetables are a distant memory
8. You will stay up till 5am watching Netflix. At least twice per week.
9. You will miss home no matter how excited you were to move out
10. You will seriously question how much you even need a degree when its 8.50am, you've had 2 hours sleep, you have a lecture in 10 minutes and your bed has never been more comfortable

11. You will realise that uni is not as glamorous as you thought it would be: it is tears and it is stress and it is real
12. Your flatmates will make you question whether a 15 year jail sentence it worth it for a decent nights sleep
13. You will begin to hate the sight of pizza after cooking for yourself for 3 weeks
14. And you will realise why all normal people have a dishwasher
15. You will run out of underwear but just rock the commando look for a few days because who even needs underwear anyway
16. You will make the 'executive decision' to skip a lecture since all the information goes up online but still feel guilty as hell

If you have anymore typical student experiences then feel free to leave them in the comments as I would love to see other peoples take on this. Until next time.

The one where Uni is not all it's cracked up to be

I penned my last little blog post in the midst of a flurry of change in my life. Now that things have had a little while to settle down and I have got myself into a nice little routine, I thought it about time I update you all on my progress (or lack thereof).

Over the past month since I last posted in my little online comfort zone I have discovered many things about myself. The main thing that I have realised is that I am not somebody who was designed to live far away from home. I am without a doubt, 100% a home bird. No matter how much my parents piss me off or how irritating my little brother can get, I would take all of that tenfold to be able to be in my cozy little family home right now. I enjoy my own space, don't get me wrong, but honestly there is nowhere that I would rather be right now than with my parents and me brother.

About a month after I moved down to Glasgow I headed back up home for the weekend and I cried pretty much the whole time. I cried on the train going home. I cried when my parents met me at the station. I cried when I climbed into my very own bed for the first time in four weeks because my bed smelt like my bed and my pillows felt like my pillows. You get the drift. I was a mess. One week after this little visit I decided that the prospect of not going home again until Christmas was not one that I could face so alas I decided the forgo two of my lectures in the middle of November and go home for a day instead.

I feel like nobody really prepares you for the bad side of university. The whole way through high school it's spun as this amazing experience that you will remember for the rest of your life, but it has so many downsides. After the fun and games of freshers week is over, its really just like school but much, much harder.

I have a pretty full on course compared to lots of other people so I can fully expect to be in university from around 9am until 5pm all week, but that's not the end of it. I then have to come back to my flat to then go over lecture notes, write up lab reports, do further reading, prepare for labs/tutorials/lectures the next day... It goes on and on and on.

Add all that studying to having to cook or prepare every meal you eat, wash the dishes every day, washing your own clothes, having to go out and do a food shop and god forbid working all weekend... It all adds up to you having little to no time to yourself. How the stigma of uni students being out drinking every night arose I have no idea because I certainly don't have the time. My favourite part of the day has become the few hours I have to spare between finishing my lecture prep and going to sleep, and even that I have to organise to work out whether I'm going to use it to clean, shower, catch up on some missed sleep or relax with a movie. 

Don't get me wrong though, I have had a good experience so far I just feel that in my constant daydreaming about moving to Glasgow for months on end wasn't exactly taking into account the practical aspects of university life. Some days are ok, other days I just want to curl up into a ball and drown my sorrows in Grey's Anatomy for 12 hours straight. But in the end I just need to keep reminding myself why I have to put myself through this right now as in the long run I will certainly be greatful that 18 year old homesick me decided to suck it up and get on with it.

The One Where I Move To Glasgow

As many of you will know if you have been reading this blog for a while now, I have spent the past few months preparing to move away from the dreary countryside town that I grew up in to the big city lights of Glasgow for University. After months of planning, paperwork and stress the time finally came this past Saturday and now here I am in the center of the city in my little home away from home.

I'm going to put it simply, I was absolutely terrified about moving away from everything that I have ever known. I had spent the past five years dreaming of escaping my little comfort bubble up north but as it got closer and closer to moving day I began to loose all faith in myself and my decisions. I began to love the podunk little town that I used to see as a cage that stopped me from going out there and living my life, and I became much closer to my parents who I had previously had a rather strained relationship with. I didn't think that I could do it and for the last month of living at home I began to dread the inevitability of leaving. 

The only thing that kept me going was the fact that Glasgow is the only Uni in Scotland that offers my course. I had no option but to move here. There was no option just to move an hour away for me, it was either move to the big scary city or not do the course I wanted to do. I honestly believe that if I had planned on studying anything else I would not have ended up moving. And so far, moving here has been the best thing that I have ever done for myself.

I have always been a very introverted person and I always will be, but as a result of that I tend to get myself comfortable and then never stray away from what and who I know. Down here that isn't an option. I'm not a really big fan of drinking, but at Uni that's how you get to know people so its just what you have to do. Every night since I have been down here I have been to at least 2 flat parties, which is massive for me. I would never usually entertain the idea of going to a party where I know nobody but it doesn't seem quite so scary here.

Saying that only one out of the 3 nights that I have gone out resulted in drinking, but that's just a personal choice more than anything.  And every night bar the first, I have been back in my tiny home by 12pm ready to snuggle up and watch some netflix for a little while, but again that's just me. If I was going out getting bladdered every night and not getting in until 4am I would be rather concerned about myself.

So in my opinion, I am doing pretty well so far. I have made a good few friends in the last 4 days that I have been down here and had plans to meet up with someone most afternoons, whether its to do a bit of shopping or to chill in someones flat with a pizza it's all coming along quite well. It's still very lonely, and yesterday I spent a good 3 hours contemplating buying a train ticket to head back up home for a few days, which I am sure will happen quite regularly, I succeeded in convincing myself that if I went home that I wouldn't come back and that I am capable of doing this. 

Little Book Haul: July 2015

Hello there by lovelies, today I thought that it was about time I updated you all on my latest book purchases since it has been quite a while. After going a little crazy with the book buying earlier this year, I haven't felt the need to bulk buy any books since so there hasn't really been any need to make a blog post about it. However I feel as though I have collected together a decent enough amount of books to make a little post of all my recent purchases.

So at the beginning of the month I was given the title as Dux of my high school for the time that I've been there which is a pretty big deal apparently. Basically its the UK version of valedictorian. Along with this I was given a voucher for a UK book shop chain so lo and behold I decided against using the voucher sensibly and instead bought myself some books that I have been lusting over.

The first of these was Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover. After reading Slammed and Hopeless earlier in the year (review can be found here) I have been desperate to try out this little beauty and finally got round to picking it up. I have heard nothing but praise for this book and I cannot wait to get around to reading it.

Next I got Court of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J Mass and to be perfectly honest I don't have much of an idea what this book is about other than the fact that it's a Beauty and the Beast retelling. I was basically sold as soon as I heard that, I mean its Sarah J Mass its going to be fabulous whatever it's about.

Following up from my absolute obsession with Wait For You by J Lynn as you can see in my review here, I picked up two other books in the companion series, Be With Me and Stay With Me. I can't work out how I feel about reading these books. On one hand I am excited at the prospect of finding another book I enjoyed as much as Wait For You, but I'm also scared that they just wont live up to my expectations. 

I also finally got around to picking up Outlander by Diana Gabaldon on the recommendation by Tashopolis on youtube and a friend from work. Both seems to sing the praises of this series, along with the tv show which I refuse to start watching until I at least finish the first book. 

And finally I also treated myself to One Perfect Summer by Paige Toon who is actually one of my favorite romance authors for the summer time. I am around 200 pages into this book and I have become slightly obsessed with the premise.

Summer 2015 Evening Skincare Routine

Hello my lovelies, as you can tell I have been noticeably absent as of late *slaps wrist*, but this working full time nonsense isn't exactly easy is it? I am tired ALL THE TIME, but I have a day off today so I decided it was about time I headed back to my favorite little home on the internet and made a new addition to my little blog. Today I'm going to be talking about skincare.

For the past 2 years or so I have had a pretty wishy-washy skincare routine, I didn't really know what I was meant to be doing other than the fact I needed to remove my makeup before bed (usually using makeup wipes...I know it makes me cringe too), to be perfectly honest I had no idea what the hell toner was other than the fact that my mum used it every night before bed, and I thought that due to my oily/combination skin that mousturiser was a no go area. Oh how I have learned. 

My recent interest in skincare admittedly steams from discovering the blog of skincare queen Caroline Hirons, and boy I am not even kidding, if you haven't read her blog then what have you even been doing with your life? Seriously, her advise will change your life. So I changed my pretty bog standard and shamefully absent skincare routine of late and I have noticed a pretty huge difference in the appearance and feel of my skin. 

As a general rule, if I have been wearing makeup during the day I will start my skincare routine by taking this off using the Soap & Glory Ultimelt hot cloth cleanser, but if it's a no makeup day I tend to skip this step. I bought this a few months ago after spotting it in Boots as an alternative to my well loved Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water, as I was pinning after Cleanse and Polish but unwilling to splash the cash on it baring in mind I had never used something of the sort before. Boy am I impressed. I still cannot get over the amazing clean feeling that I get when I use this as it feels so nice and refreshing on the face. I always feel like I've removed every scrap of makeup after cleansing with this.

After the hot cloth cleanser (provided I've been wearing makeup) I always follow this up with a second cleanser as I am one of those people who prefer to double cleanse. If I've been wearing heavy makeup say for a night out or a special occasion I pick up my trusty  Micellar water for this step but generally I like to use a more soothing cleanser and recently I've been reaching for my Clarins Cleansing Milk. I picked this up on recommendation from a friend and I am so pleased that I went with her advice as I absolutely love this step in my routine.This product just feels so hydrating and nourishing to my skin and I wouldn't be without it now.

I follow up my cleansing spree with two types of toner, first an exfoliating acid toner and then a hydrating toner. My current acid toner of choice is the Clearasil Superfruits Refreshing Pads. I have been using some variation of these pads since I was about 13 years old to tackle acne and even now at 17 where my skin is a lot clearer I still cannot let go of these little pots of magic. Each time I run out of these and go a few days without them I immediately notice a deterioration in the quality of my skin to the point that I genuinely have 4 tubs of this in my skincare drawer right now. This is the area of my skincare routine that I am most interested in experimenting with. I have just ordered the REN Clarimatte Toner and I really want to try out the cult Pixi Glow Tonic at some point soon.

As I hydrating toner I tend to keep it basic with either the Soothing Toner from Simple, an old favorite, or my recent go to product which is the Clarins Chamomile Toning Lotion. Either one do the job but I find the Clarins one, while obviously more expensive to be well worth the money. It's incredibly soothing and refreshing on the skin particularly in problem areas such as my cheeks. It really helps combat redness.

Following up from this I like to apply my eye cream which at the moment is the Soap & Glory Puffy Eye Attack Hydragel. The the thing I like the most about this product is the gel consistency and how cooling it is on the eyes. I am pretty new to eye creams but this is certainly a firm favorite so far.

Next I follow this up with some kind of face mist. My most recent addition to my little collection, and the one I have found myself reaching for most often, is the Monu Spa Rosewood Reviving Mist which I received in my June 2015 Glossybox. While this Glossybox was rather uninspiring, I really love the scent of this spray. This step, while not essential, is particularly nice and refreshing on hot, humid days during summer.

Next it's time to crack out the serum. This is the step which I feel has made the biggest difference in the clarity and condition of my skin. As part of an offer I received the Clarins HydraQuench Intensive Serum Bi-Phase and let me tell you it has become my new holy grail product. I fricking love this stuff. Obscenely expensive for little 17 year old me but by gosh is this stuff worth it. If the name itself doesn't clue you in to how nourishing this is on your skin then I don't know what will. This stuff has done wonders for me. 

The part of my skincare routine that I am struggling the most with is moisturiser. I cannot seem to find one that I like so if you have any advice please feel free to leave it below and tell me which moisturiser you love. Right now however I have been using the Teoxane Perfect Skin Refiner that I received in my beautiful French-themed July Glossybox this month. I have not been using this product for very long so I shall report back at a later date on how effective it is but as of now I am really enjoying it. 

Finally I like to use a little lip scrub, Lush The Kiss anyone? Then I will slap on the first lipbalm that I can reach before curling up in bed to read for a few hours before going to sleep.

So that is my Summer 2015 Evening Skincare Routine and I hope you enjoyed it. If this is something that you would like to see more of then just let me know.

Wanderlust

Now that school is over and I have a good three months free before I head off to University in September, the reality of working full time up until I leave has really hit. I am constantly tired, struggling to find enough hours in the day and losing out on spending time with friends. I am the kind of person who generally operates best on an average of 5 hours sleep per night. I'm talking going to bed at 2 or 3am then getting up for school the next day at 7. Turns out that isn't really possibly when you work 8 hour shifts. Trying to get anything done and organised is like pulling teeth as by the time I get home in the evenings I am so tired that I put on my comfies and snuggle up with some Netflix so my days off are spent catching up on friends lives and doing boring things like paperwork.

Because of this my desire to just up and leave for a few weeks and visit someplace new has increased tenfold. Don't get me wrong, I do love my job and look forward to Uni but the idea of escaping all the responsibility for a little while isn't exactly an unpleasant thought. 

Traveling has always been a big aspiration of mine. The freedom of being financially stable enough to explore the world a little is one thing that I am certainly looking forwards to about graduating from university in the future. I even have little lists in many a places written out with the cities and countries that are at the top of my travel bucket list along with the different things that I wish to do there.

Once I have finished Uni, I without a doubt want to go back to Paris. Before I visited the city I wasn't really that interested in travelling there, I guess just because I presumed it would never be as good as it is made out to be. Oh how wrong I was. The little taster I got of the beautiful city whilst on the school trip was just enough to leave me craving more. I'm not even joking when I say that I was genuinely considering going back to Paris for a few nights at the end of Summer this year just so that I could re-visit some of my favorite places and add some new ones to the mix that we unfortunately didn't get to see when we were there in March. I have accepted, however, that Paris will be a much more enjoyable experience once I have finished University and have a little more money to spend and who knows, maybe somebody to share the trip with.

Also high up on my list is Seattle. I was one of those teenagers who was completely obsessed with Twilight and ever since looking up Seattle after it was mentioned in the book or something, I have been a little (a lot) determined to visit the city. I kind of forgot about how drawn I was to the city for a few years but then after watching Greys I rediscovered my desire to visit and have unashamedly been searching for affordable flights ever since. I have each and every thing that I want to do whilst in the city planned to a T and I am unfortunately not even exaggerating. It's slightly disturbing. I can't quite explain why I'm so drawn to Seattle, I have never even had that great of a desire to visit America before so my obsession with Seattle baffles me.

When I visited Crete last year I became dead set on the fact that at some point I need to stay in Santorini. The images of sprawling towns of perfectly aged white housed with beautifully pained blue roofs overlooking the sun setting over the water has been etched into my brain ever since. I love greek food and the relaxed atmosphere that is always present there, and I'm not even going to think about the wonderful heat as I will get extremely jealous of the fact that my parents are going back in a months time and try to sneak onto the plane with them or something.

This isn't even the tip of the iceberg of places I want to visit. I also want to volunteer in South Africa after my 3rd year of uni, spend some time in Iceland and go InterRailing around Europe, in particular visiting the art museums in Italy. I just need to keep my fingers crossed that I will be lucky enough to get the opportunity to visit these beautiful places in the hopefully not so distant future.

May Favorites

And so another month is coming to its end, and we all know what that means. A monthly favorites post. I have been loving reading these kinds of cute little blog posts and since it has been a good while since I posted one of my own, I thought it was about time to update you all on what I have been loving recently.

Beauty

There are quite a few products that I have been using religiously this month, the first being the new L'Oreal Infallible Matte Primer. I first saw this in a youtubers American beauty haul and I have been keeping an eye out for it in Boots ever since. When I was down in Glasgow last month I spotted both the primer and the matching foundation and decided to pick both up. I absolutely love this primer. To be honest, I have never really used primers all that much before as every one that I have tried just hasn't done all that much for my skin but this works wonders. I just smooth some of this onto my face after cleansing and moisturising and it keeps my makeup looking fresh and shine free all day. I wasn't really a fan of the matching foundation, choosing instead to use the primer with my trusty Rimmel Long Lasting Finish 25 Hour Foundation as its a higher coverage and it works beautifully. 

Another beauty favorite of mine this month has been the Soap & Glory Brow Archery and I use the shade Hot Chocolate.My brow product knowledge is pretty poor as I'm relatively new to the whole doing your eyebrows thing but after trying quite a few products, this one seems to work best for me. You literally cannot go wrong with this product. It makes doing your brows super quick and easy and there is quite a good colour selection with the product also.

Skincare

Well we all know this is the bit where I ramble on about my favorite Lush bath products of the month now don't we? This month I will not disappoint. When I go into Lush I tend to be one of those really annoying people that just stick to bath bombs but no. I branched out this month. The first product that I have been enjoying using is the SkinDrink Moisturiser. One of the lovely girls that works in the Buchanan Street store in Glasgow was nice enough to give me a few testers of their different facial moisturisers and this was by far my favorite. I still cannot get over how soft and wonderfully hydrated my skin feels after using this product, and I will definitely be purchasing the full size pot at some point in the near future. 

My favorite bath product of the month is going to have to be the Lush Amandopondo bubble bar. I, again, am a bit of a novice when it comes to bubble bars but I could not resist the smell of this beauty. After buying this and a good few other products I actually had them in a backpack for the remainder of the day in Glasgow as we were going to a concert in the evening and by god, each time I opened my bag I just got a waft of wonderfulness. I originally thought that it was the Space Girl bath bomb giving off this beautiful scent but it was this bubble bar. I may or may not have used quite a few of these over the past month.

Haircare

After having my hair dyed a dark violet/burgundy colour at the start of April, I have been trying to take good care of my hair in order to maintain my colour as much as possible. I have also taken to blowdrying my hair in the evening after my shower as opposed to letting it dry at night so I have been using the Argan Oil hair treatment in my hair while it is still damp in order to abolish the dreaded frizz. 

Book

If you have read my last book review you will know that my favorite book of May has been Wait For Me by J Lynn. You can read my last review here if you fancy checking that out. Basically, I adored the book and connected to the protagonist so much. I have actually purchased the other books in the series in the hopes that I love them just as much, and hope I enjoy them just as much.

Tv Show

Ok, so at the end of last month I got Netflix which may be the best or worst decision I have ever made. One one hand I finally jumped on the Pretty Little Liars bandwagon but on the other hand, literally all I did over study leave was watch it. Which may very well be detrimental to me getting into uni in September. But anyway, I finally caved and watched Pretty Little Liars. To be honest, up until season 3 I kind of hated it, but after being told by many people that you just have to keep at it and that it does get better I carried on watching. They were right. I was hooked and after finishing 5 seasons in 2 weeks, I cannot wait for season 6 to come out! 

This month I also got back into Grey's Anatomy after not watching it for about 2 months, which is shocking going from watching around 5 episodes per day minimum to none for 2 months. Life just got a little hectic but alas I began to crave my Mcdreamy fix and restarted the tv show for the third time. Yes, I am aware that this may be bordering on obsession at this point but to be honest I'm just grasping at straws as to why I cannot subject myself to the pain of season 11. I refuse to accept that it exists.

Summer is near

While autumn is undoubtedly my favorite season, think warm baths and falling leaves, I have to say I am very partial to summer. After the harsh Scottish winter that generally tends to last from about November to late March, you begin to miss the warmth of the sun on your skin and the smell of heat in the air. 

My favorite parts of summer are the beginning and the end of the season. I love the excitement of the sun coming out and realising that it is actually warm enough outside to ditch the jacket and throw on a pair of shorts. I love the atmosphere of heading down to the beach for the first picnic of the year and knowing that everyone else there has the same idea of just relaxing for a little while out of the town and soaking in the sun. I love the mad rush in supermarkets on the first day of BBQ season to grab all the salad and cocktails available before everything is all snapped up. I love the easy breezy attitude of spontaneous garden parties and family outings to enjoy some fresh air and the sea breeze.

Don't get me wrong, among all my romantic notions of summer I do detest the sweaty sheen that is always present on my forehead, having to shave my legs all the time and being inevitable stuck inside at work on the warmest days. But the great days more than make up for that. It's true what they say that everyone is happier in summer.

I also look forward to the transition of summer to autumn, when the nights begin to get longer, the temperature cooler and the clothes thicker. I think that there is a great sense of joy in being able to see the seasons slowly meld into each other and being unable to tell them apart until one day it is pretty darn obvious in the rainy October downpours that it is no longer summer and despite the warmth of the morning, definitely not appropriate to be donning the shorts and shades.

Summer to me is like freedom. It is the time to let go and to just be.To let your insecurities go and simply live. To list all the things that you are scared of doing and to damn well do them anyway. Summer is a time to prove to yourself what you've really got and how far you can push your limits.

Review: Wait For You by J Lynn

5/5 Stars

I know, I know. It has been a shamefully long time since I last posted a review but to be honest there has been nothing I have read recently that has been all that much to write home about. I was stuck in a massive reading slump for a while and I finally found a fabulous book to get me out of it so I thought that I better let you all know my thoughts on it. I have had this book since autumn last year after absolutely falling in love with the blurb, but as always it got lost in a sea of pretty and fabulous books so it has taken a little while to get around to reading it.

Avery is starting college, far away from her home, ever critical parents and her past. She wants just one single thing - to start over and have a normal life with noone knowing what had happened to her five years ago when she was only fourteen and what made her closed and uncomfortable around others. But what she is not expecting is Cameron - popular, extremely good looking and real charmer who is determined to get to know her better. But will Avery be able to run away from her past forever

This was my first dip into the writings of Jennifer L Armentrout and I can say without a doubt that I get it now. I understand the hype over her books. From the beginning I was absolutely enraptured by the mindset of Avery and her take upon the word. Avery kind of broke my heart at the beginning - she just seemed so very alone. She had plenty of coping mechanisms to get her through the day but she’s not really living, just moving on from one day to the next. I felt so sorry for her – the people that should have been there to cherish her and care for her had really let her down when she needed them most and she’s reached the point where she trusts no one and cannot comprehend why people are now being nice to her.

She literally crashes into Cam on her way to her very first class and it soon transpires that they are neighbours and they get to know each other slowly. Cam – le sigh!! Cam is just wonderful. Every girl needs a Cam. He’s funny, charming, endearingly over-confident, thoughtful, attentive, caring and HOT – I could continue to rain down superlatives but I think you get the gist, right? I pretty much adored him right from the get go. I loved the way he asked Avery to go out with him on an almost daily basis – he never gave up and just waited for her to slowly come around even though she took hard to get to a whole new level.

This here is my ideal book. Let's get this straight, while I am partial to the odd book with completely a completely original storyline and I do love fantasy novels, above all I love books that make me feel something. Books that make me keep on reading until 3am desperate to know the fate of a budding relationship. Books that make me shed a tear over the hardships that characters have overcome to get to where they are at that moment. And books that make me clutch my pillow and want to squeal at the unbelievably cheesy cute moments that fill my stone cold heart with the good old warm fuzzies. This book did all of that things.

Summer of Freedom

Earlier today I sat my very last exam of my high school career. The past 6 years of my life that I have shared with the same crazy bunch of people is well and truly over and I don't really know how I feel about it. I made a post about 3 weeks ago on the night before my last day of high school and I thought that I would follow that up with a little something on the eve of my last exam. 

It's always a very strange feeling when exams are over, you have a years worth of knowledge that you no longer require and a body so stressed out you feel like your brain is about to liquidate and run out your ears (gross!). The end of exam season always signifies a new beginning but the only new beginning I have ever encountered has been the start of a new school year, but obviously this is not the case this time. 

I think the biggest thing is that I don't quite know what to do with myself. For the past few years generally all of my free time has been filled with homework, studying, worrying about homework and studying or procrastinating to avoid homework and studying. I have none of that now. It feels like I have nothing to work towards in a way which is an unsettling feeling as if you have been following my blog for a while you will know that I almost always set goals to aim for. I don't have any goals at the moment. 

In some ways I feel like that is a good thing, that I can just live a little. Just be. But on the other hand I have the knowledge that at 9am tomorrow morning I am headed into work where I will be 5 days a week for the next 4 months. In some respects I feel like I will just be watching the summer pass me by as by the time I get a day off I just need to relax a little after a hectic week and have no desire whatsoever to go looking for adventures. 

I want to make a list, a summer bucket list of sorts. I used to do this when I was younger, make a colourful list in a pretty little notebook of all the things I wanted to accomplish over my 6 week break from school that inevitable ended up gathering dust under my bed somewhere. This year I want to check off a few things before I go off to University in September. Am I being over assumptious? 100% yes. Of course I am. But I'm damn well going to try.

Ask me now what I want to put on this list and I will tell you I have no idea. This wasn't even what I had planned for this post but let's just roll with it. I shall keep you updated (I promise I will this time) on my summer goals and maybe even write a little blog post on how each of them turns out. We will just have to wait and see how everything turns out.