Bye Bye Blonde Streak – Hello Blonde Highlights :)

If I were a percentage, I would be 90% brunette 10% blonde

That’s riiiight for two years now I’ve had part of my hair a colour that has been frequently in association with my ditzy personality. However, as much as I just adored such abusive comments being thrown in my direction - thanks guys – I thought it time for a change and decided to go with ALL OVER BLONDE HIGHLIGHTS. Something, which you can probably guess, I find all too exciting! God only knows what comments I shall now receive.. buttt I just couldn’t wait any longer!!

For years I’ve envied those women with sunkissed hair and never thought it an option for myself. However, the realisation soon hit me that, whatever your natural shade, you can almost always adapt it to the one you long to be. I wouldn’t go as far as saying you lucky girls out there with midnight roots should grab a bottle of bleach, but equally dramatic decisions have been made by these red carpet celebs, and in my opinion, paid off..

So like all colour adverts seem to state.. 

"Go on, be a shade braver.."

Bye Bye Bambi

OK so with weeks of shuffling two jobs around coming to an end, I now have no excuse not to keep posting on this blog of mine. Excluding yesterdays entries I havn’t updated it for a while and feel its been somewhat half hearted, and for that I apologise. So here goes..

After plunging head first into the uni lifestyle of a first year student, I can definitely say I’ve had THE BEST year! Take the messy nights I fail to remember with the people I’ll never forget, a trip to the fashion capital and the antics of ten buzzing flat mates, and VOILA you have an ace 10 months!

However, its safe to say both my credit card and liver have suffered in the process, two things I’m working on at present. I’ve come to the decision to put an end to the casual drinking until my return to uni in October and the six nights a week start again. I’ve always loved a cheeky glass of vino with dinner, or a G&T in the sun, but I intend to try my absolute hardest, saying bye bye to Bambi. Bambi, of course, being the persona I adopt after too many cocktails - legs flailing, if working at all, whilst slipping into the realm of unconsciousness (as my brother would describe).

So I’ll keep you posted on how that goes, as only a true method journalist would!!

Another decision made would be my attempt to learn the guitar. I’ve always been envious of those that can get their hands to work differently at the same time, and after ten days away admiring those friends that make it look all too easy, I fancy a shot myself. Something tells me experience in playing the flute really isn't going to help me?

Guitar? CHECK..

I suppose that’s all I need then, so there’s absolutely nothing stopping me? Hopefully next time I post I will have learnt more than just the opening chords to JJ’s Banana Pancakes :)

Well at least honour my intensions if both of the above fail.. 

Gwithian ’10 - Sun, Sea and Sand

Welllllll mostly just sea and sand, but that’s not to say certain members of the group didn’t catch a ray or two, that’s right BURN BOY!! Ok the weather may not have been at its best, but collapsing tents with shocking waves to ride aside, that’s not to say we didn’t make the most of it, we had the chedder game and ‘PROVE IT’ after all :)

 So another ten days on our favourite beach and we certainly raved it up, thankfully this year however there was no need to call 999! As always we had the T-shirts and the Goon addicts itching for another game of FENNIS, but along came a new addition to our holiday.. the SHAGWAG, aka the campervan! That’s right, the lovely yellow camper that allowed us to arrive in style and comfort, all very pleasing indeed!

 As much as I would love to blame this camper for our delay upon arrival, I can’t. Seven long hours, and after constructing the catch phrase of “AA” that would happily see us through the week, that award can only go to the Peugeot that failed to function further after 45 minutes on the road - nice one Porge :)

Its fair to say this year was a true battle between the sexes, with both guys and girls refusing to admit defeat in most tasks, tent-erecting being one of them. However in failing to remember tent pegs, us girls did have to turn to the competition after the realisation that pegs are in fact fairly vital towards camping attire, and so “Mr Incredible” was born, HUH!?

Note to self, it is apparently not funny to hide someone’s wallet, leave to shower, and find that in the 30 minutes you’ve been gone they are turning grey and on the verge of cancelling cards. In my defense, the rules agreed upon were..

1. No DAMAGE to personal possessions such as phones, wallets and ipods
2. No water damage to ANY personal possessions such as clothing, bedding etc

Simply moving such items to various parts of the tent did not break any of the above, and after an entire holidays underwear collection had been paraded around the male tent, I say ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR!!

Although the weather failed to hold out most of the time, the one night it needed to shine, it did. Our third night in saw us beer in one hand, hog roast in the other, listening to live music until the early hours. Add the sea breeze and raving individuals, its idyllic. Scars from stacking it on the walk home and unexplained parker found in the tent, are just minor glitches on the perfect night. ALMOST perfect night. MY perfect night was witnessing that shooting star that has just kept getting away from me those twenty years previous. I may have only ever seen one, but having a song written about such miss fortune just about makes up for it!

And so we reached our last night, in which most took the sensible option of getting an early night, most, not being me. Yes, that’s right, someone decided to go for a late night walk, clear her head and say goodbye to Gwithian for yet another year.. unfortunately things didn’t quite go to plan. I mean, you don’t expect gangs of hoodies in such a chocolate box setting after dark, more like the sound of the sea and little else? WRONG. Nor a middle aged transvestite from Birmingham swerving to run you down?! To be fair the only hood that was up was mine, but I didn’t think I’d come across the latter either. The only amusing part is that days earlier I had been informed by fellow members of the group not to talk to strangers.. 5 years old? Apparently I am, yes!

Not to worry, I wished upon that star.. so lets just see what happens ;)

Gaga about the saga – TEAM RILEY!!

That’s right, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally come, and although I did refrain from wearing my “I heart Edward” tee, I can’t say I’m not utterly in love with the new Twilight film, Eclipse. And it's no wonder everybody is quite literally going gaga with the media going equally as crazy also.

With Taylor Lautner never failing to impress and new boy vampire Xavier Samuel all present and correct, there was even more reason to stay glued to my sit right until the last credit.

Action packed with the right dose of sexual tension, I’ve seen Robert Pattison in a whole new light, he’s not just a pretty face, check this out.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H47oQH1TW4

For anyone out there that isn’t quite getting where I’m coming from on the Twilight front, I definitely recommend having a scan of the books – its all very easy to get carried away with the eye candy, forgetting Meyers beautifully written and hypnotic novels. So if you ever want to borrow.. feel free!