Champagne taste lemonade income

Yesterday, on our way back from a wedding, my mum and I talked about life after university. I must have rambled along about having a nice house, some 1920's inspired hats, frequent stays in posh hotels and good book collection. It didn't take me long to realize that my dreams and ambitions are all about material gain and have nothing to do with family or getting married. I think this is to do with the fact that I get bored of things very easily. When I had my little godson it was all arrrr he so cute for about an hour and then I got really bored of playing his mud pie games and just wanted to watch TV. So I think I'd be a really naff mum as the novelty would wear off a few hours after birth.

And as for marriage.........well its not that I'm against the idea. Don't get me wrong wearing a ball gown and eating cake all day sounds great. But the thought of committing myself to someone for the rest of my life and never having a moment alone *shudders*. I don't think its for me. There have been lots of divorces in my family so I've seen first hand the hurt and angst that comes with it. It just doesn't seem worth it. So not for me thanks, maybe I'll change my mind but I doubt it.

So for now let me plan my comfortable middle class life, let my friends and family have the babies (I'll baby sit every now and again!) and if I get a lonely I'll get a cat.

The devil makes work

Ok so I got a bit bored on the internet the other day and I went on Live journal to look at stock icons.  Yes I know, but i like to have a little folder of cutesy icons that I like to browse through every now again matching them up to songs on my ipod. It's a past time that I have given to my sister who also does it. These are some of the ones I picked up recently. FYI I did not make these I'm not taking any credit for them I'm just showing what I've found on other sites.

 aren't these the loveliest things you've ever clapped your eyeballs on??

Taken a leaf

Got distracted from my initial blanket plan and am now doing some embroidery  This is due to the fact that my friend Chazza has become a bit obsessed by it. So I've taken a leaf out of her book and started on some unfinished stuff that I've had for years. What will I do when I've finished. No idea, maybe hand it off as a present.  I think Thursday is going to be are arts and crafts day with True Blood in the background. Sounds good!

This night was flawless

The night I had been counting down for came and went. Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now' tour 2011! Was epic as predicted. Didn't sing as many songs as I hoped but was still amazing.

Starting to get a bit giddy and bottom shuffly while waiting....

We were so close to the stage but high up enough to still see.
See where that white blur is.... we were hanging over that bar waiting to shake her hand which I did!







Opened up with 'Sparks fly' which had explosions of gold sparks flying across the stage. Then sang mine, which had cartoons of Taylor and her love interest act out the song on the screen. Missed the funny documentary that they did last time but it was still very good.

Loved her dress while they sang, 'Speak Now', the background art was really cool to with its 50's glamor look. When she sang on the mini stage she was sooo close to us! And then she came round and touched my hand it didn't matter that my legs were being crushed against the bars I got to touch her!!

One of my fave songs was 'Enchanted' it was beautiful!

I think its needless to say I sang every song, only sat down for one, and stomped and cheered for the entire performance. Would I go again? Need you ask I'm already trying to work out when her next album is coming out then I will stalk the ticket pages and keep refreshing until they are for sale!

R.I.P Diana Wynn Jones

I was completely thrown by this news, I didn't even though she was ill. I thought DW would be around for ages and would write loaddddds more books. But looks like it wasn't meant to be :(.  I found out on twitter can you beleive? and she had only died this morning, thats how amazing twitter is.  I can't see it being broad casted on the news so otherwise I might not have known .  Reading 'Howl's moving castle' was what first got me into anime. It's one of my favorite books and favorite studio ghibli movies even though they take different directions there really great. Howl is such a great character he is a coward and knows it but never leaves his friends in danger, he can't be pinned down and is hopeless vain. But after all that he is a great guy.


Saying this I found some of DW other books a bit hit and miss. I read one book I can't even remember what it was called but it was so weird I got to the end and was still baffled to what the story was about. Then there were other books that were just 'meh, okayish' these were: 'A tale of time city', 'Dogsbody' and 'Eight days of Luke'. I'm sure there are more. Maybe she was just having a bad day, or maybe I was to old to enjoy these ones. *shruggs.

But others she  hit the nail on the head! Like the chrestmanci series which is epic and funny in its self. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when she wrote well she wrote really well and when she didn't she really didn't. (Apologizes I can't think of anything more literally fluent to express what I mean). I'm very sorry that she is gone from the world but hope now that she is at peace.

Excuse me, my leg has fallen asleep. Do you mind if I join it?

Work reached new levels of boredom. I had to count knitting patterns as we are stock taking today. Do you realize how many knitting patterns we have?? Thousands! After the first few I start to make stories up about the people modeling the knit wear. This couple are farmers looking for a lost duck ( White jumper flecked in grey with plait patterns on), these girls are sunbathing in the Antarctic ( knitted bikini (even I double take at that one), two women discovering they were lesbians (two boring grey cardigans( they had princess Diana haircuts and were looking at each other with simmering fire in the background), and it goes on. The one thing that worries me is that people actually wear these things!! There are people out there right now walking around in these eye saws, they probably cause traffic accidents. So in effect I would be doing a lot of people favors by burning them.

Only interesting thing was that one of the models looked like one of my friend's sisters and was using various facial expressions to try and make the knit wear look more acceptable and exciting than it really was. Needless to say she failed but it gave me a giggle. I wonder if the photographer ever shouts out, 'make it look sexy!'. How do you make knit wear look sexy?? I think in my mind knitted jumpers will always be for grannys, farmers and fishermen, and none of them are sexy.

The eggs have fallen out of my basket

Urghhhhh i think I'm in a bit of a pickle.  Looking around universities thought I'd found the one for me and neglected the others.  Keele seemed perfect what with me visiting last year and all the societies matching my needs I thought this is the one. Visiting today was a bit of a wake up call everything just seemed to be really dull and shabby. The lecturer for media sounded like a tired bee buzzing away buzz buzz buzz never actually making a point. Everything just seemed so blahhhh maybe it was just me. The premier accommodation is nice but you need a medical excuse to guarantee to get one. I've seen the standard rooms and so if I do decide to go here I will be faking life critically illness to get in. I know its snobby but there is no way on God's green earth I'm staying in that crappy excuse for rooms. I'm sorry but 2 toilets between 14 it aint gonna happen!

As soon as I got home I googled my other uni choice unfortunately the open day has been and gone. Oxford B is not on a campus so its spread out quite a bit :( which I'm not sure I will like.  The accommodation is ridiculously expensive so I dont know if its worth taking the chance???

The other uni is near my friends which is a plus and the last time I went the lectures where quite passionate about what they taught. When I visited it was pretty grim the inside was nice but the outside just made me depressed. So I'd probably commute from Lancaster, but its just so low on the the uni tables I wonder if it will do me more harm than good. The employment rate after 6 months is 57%. I mean thats not huge, I can't believe that the other 43% were sat on their bums they are probably really smart =_=.

So I'm kinda going round in circles, should I bite the bullet with keele and take the chance of being bored to death or go to Oxford B where I've never been and risk hating the isolation of not being on a campus. Or go to uclan be close to my old friends but risk not getting a job at the end of it?

HELP???