It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

In the immortal words of Noddy Holder, "IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!"

 

Okay, so technically Christmas Day is the 25th, meaning there are still 14 days to go, HOWEVER it is finally December and, as far as I am concerned, its Christmas.

 

I LOVE Christmas, it is without a doubt, my favourite time of year. As soon as the decorations go down at the end of the season I already start to think about how long it is until they can go back up again. There is just so much to love about this time of year, the songs (personal favourite is Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin' Stevens), the films (Miracle on 34th Street, the scene with the deaf girl melts my heart every time),  the food, it suddenly becomes perfectly acceptable to eat ten times more than usual and I always make sure I make the most of it. The decorations are so pretty, the lights on the houses, the tv, the traditions that you might have in the family, mine have plenty and I wouldn't change them for the world! Not forgetting the Christmas jumpers, I have three, some call it excessive, I say I am dedicated. And so much more! No matter what is going on at the time, when December starts I start to feel that little bit happier and it takes a lot more to get me stressed and annoyed, which after previous events is a welcome change!

 

I returned home for the holidays on Friday and the decorations went up on Saturday causing me to go into excitement overload. The last week of term is worth a mention though, it was one of the best weeks in a long time, it was so good to relax a bit after the stress of term, spend some time with those closest to me, eat lots of food and party lots! I also got to exchange Christmas presents with a few people, it was so exciting to see them open their gifts and their reaction to them. I also got some truly lovely things, showing just how well my friends know me.

 

This week I did the rest of my Christmas shopping and I am now pretty much finished! Wrapping presents also makes me really excited, I love to spend time trying to make them look as pretty as possible. I raided card factory for pretty gift wrap accessories and they did not disappoint.

 

So now, with my Christmas eve candle burning, I think it is time to watch 'The Santa Clause' and write my Christmas cards whilst continuing to get ridiculously over-excited!!!

 

Let me know what you love most about this time of the year, I would love to know!

10 Reasons to Love Your Bed.

As I sit here in my bed drinking toffee flavoured coffee and wait for my friend to get up so we can watch America's Next Top Model, feel free to judge us, I often judge us too, I am just thinking about the value of bed. So here are my top 10 reasons as to why bed is the best place in the world, excluding Disneyland. Disneyland is definitely better than my bed.

 

1. It is so comfy.

2. It is so warm, something highly valued in a student house.

3. You can decorate it with bedding and throws to suit your needs, for example mine currently has a throw with reindeer all over it. 33 SLEEPS TO GO.

4. Despite the fact you leave it every morning it welcomes you  back with open arms at the end of the day, or the middle of the afternoon, and all is forgiven.

5. It is an extremely good storage holder, don't know where to put something? The bed is always the answer.

6. It is the best place to lie and think about everything in the world. Though the shower is a good contender for this.

7. You get to sleep in it. Sleeping is the best part of my day.

8. It is multifunctional. Need somewhere to sit? The bed. Want to watch some tv? Go and sit in bed. Need to do some work? The bed is a pretty comfy place to be.

9. It looks after all of your belongings. For example, it always keeps the tv remote and phone safe for me so that when I have lost them I know where I should look first.

10. And finally the word 'bed' looks like a bed, which I think is pretty cool.

Speeding Through Time

Nothing much has really happened this week, I seem to have found myself completely surrounded by essays and I feel like I am spending every minute of the day trying to get some work done. Consequently this has left me desperately trying to think of something to write about and coming up with a big fat nothing.

 

It has left me wondering where this week has gone, I cannot believe the week is almost over, yet I honestly feel like I have nothing to show for it, apart from a huge dent in my bank account (a result of buying far too many Christmas decorations) and another, extremely bad, finished, essay. Yet thinking about it, this whole term is going so fast. I am about to go into week 7 and each term is 10 weeks long. WEEK 7?! I have only just moved in! Its crazy how fast time is going at the moment, I feel like if you blink you may just miss a huge moment. I feel like I went to sleep on the first night and woken up to find I slept for 6 weeks, its crazy. However, I like to think if the time is going so fast then you must be having a good time and there must be lots of things going on. I am sure that is the case for me, just at the moment I cannot think of the last thing I did that didn't involve me writing an essay.

 

No. Wait. Yes I can. I went to Costa yesterday to get one of their Christmas drinks. Sticky toffee lattes are delish! Though I drank it feeling guilty that I was not sat at home writing about the reasons the mortality rate declined in the nineteenth century.

 

So now it is Sunday evening and I am faced with a whole new week, and a whole new essay to write. However this week is going to be SUPER exciting as our university Christmas officially starts on Tuesday as it will be 25 days till the end of term. I will be blasting out the Christmas songs and putting up the decorations, there has also been a discussion about the possibility of a mince pie or three. Also I am going back home for a weekend away with my family, something I am also looking forward to, that and the fact going home gives me a good excuse to get a Starbucks as it is on the way home. I need to do a full comparison of Starbucks' and Costa's toffee latte variations!

 

So I guess that's it for now. I will leave you with a picture of my sparkler from Wednesday and a promise to think of something better to write about next week.

 

 

Happy Halloween

After my extremely poor effort last week at dressing up as Vanellope I felt I should try slightly harder with Halloween. This does mean that I ended up with a witches hat and fake blood, because those two things definitely go together. Fact. I need to get better at this costume thing.

I have never really bothered with Halloween, its too close to Christmas as far as I am concerned and Christmas is a HUGE deal with me, so by the time Halloween has arrived I have already started getting stupidly excited about the festive season and Halloween seems to get forgotten about.

 

The one thing I do love about this time of year is carving pumpkins. I insist on carving one every year and this year was no exception. So it was a trip to our local supermarket for the perfect pumpkin, we also somehow ended up looking at Christmas decorations, I don't know how that happened. It took FOREVER as we couldn't decide which one was the perfect one, we did eventually make a decision only to get home and realise that when it was on a flat surface it tilted forward quite a lot. *sigh*. However that didn't stop us and we soon got thinking of ideas. I find with pumpkins a face is slightly boring and overused so I always try and think of something different, so this year we went for a slightly evil looking sorting hat from Harry Potter and I was quite impressed with the final result.

 

The final result

With the pumpkin done, I had to get thinking of a good costume. I ended up skipping the fake blood as it said on the packet it could stain your face for a few days and I had to go to work today so it was a risk I wasn't willing to take. Somehow I think stewarding a Charlie and Lola play with fake blood on my face is not the best idea ever. In the end I just wore a lot of black, a witches hat and A LOT of make-up, I even drew a cobweb on my face. Dressing up really is not my thing, but it was good fun to try!

 

I hope everyone had a fantastically spooky Halloween! I am now off to get ridiculously over excited about Christmas!

 

I did get creative with my noticeboard!