THE END OF AN ERA

It’s done. The mountain that is university is over for me. I handed in my dissertation just over a week ago and I won’t submit another piece of uni work until I decide to study my Masters – after a bit of life experience, of course! Forget waiting for my results, I’m planning on avoiding that with a vengeance. No way do I need to be told that I ballsed up my degree in a last minute panic. That’s the worst kind of grade waiting – when you know you’re probably just going to scrape the grand grade of 40% and don’t care so long as it is that.

Goodbye to uni!

Which means that I’m allowed to start a new chapter in my life, beginning with slimming down for graduation so that I don’t feel like a beached whale in a dress that looks like a tent. My weight has always been an issue for me, and I know I won’t be able to solve it in the next few months alone. Starting this week I’m going to take an hours walk around my town in the evening and I’ll probably make use of the exercise equipment at the park. How long this lasts for.. only time will tell, but we’ll see. I’m unhappy with how I look right now and my current mental state is not way helping that. My goal is to fit back into a pale pink dress that I was only able to wear a few years ago.

Updates:

1.       I’m going to start taking this blogging seriously now that uni is over. My plans for the next few years are to spend time abroad and I’m hoping that I can use this platform to share my travels and the like with my family and friends.

2.       My flights are booked! I’m going to Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving and I’m ridiculously excited! 79 days and counting until I leave Heathrow for the States.

3.       Currently juggling with the idea of taking part in Americamp next year, but it really depends on the next few weeks of my life and how that pans out. A full time job offer will mean that I can’t take the 3 months off next summer and will have to put it off for another year. I may use the time to pass my driving test and apply for Au Pair jobs instead. A year in the US? Sounds like my kind of trip.

4.       I have finally started to read a little more of Gone Girl and aim to finish it by this weekend.

Until next time,

xo

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ME, MYSELF AND MY RIGHT NOWS -- JULY 2015

That’s it. I’ve dedicated myself to this whole blog thing. I’ve sold my soul to the blogosphere! I panicked about what this post would be about and after scrapping some nonsensical piece on where my head is at now that uni is finished. Monthlys, I decided this morning! (Yes, I’m writing this before my shift starts instead of abiding by my whole ‘write your blog post the night before!!’) I wouldn’t say these are favourites, at all. Mainly just ‘HI HERE IS WHAT I AM DOING RIGHT NOW WOOOOO’ but not all obnoxious and whatever else.

Swiftly (lol Taylor) moving on – here goes!

Reading watching planning saving for looking forward to craving

READING – Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I wish I could say I’m enjoying this book, but I’ve been reading it since September and haven’t been able to get into it. I was planning on reading it before watching the film (and I’m still going to do that, but I’m still bored by this book!) I haven’t yet formed an attachment to either of the main characters and doubt that I will. I will finish this book though. I will! When I finish one of my essays then I definitely will. Definitely on a day I don’t have a 10 hour shift at work. – Can you tell that I don’t do well with condensing my words?

WATCHING – Gilmore Girls starring Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham

This is most definitely a rewatch! US Netflix and I are practically best friends now that it has all of my favourite shows in full on there. I’ve found myself responding to any questions with ‘nothing that Shakespeare couldn’t make into a good play.’ Life. Life. LIFE. I just love Lorelai and Rory’s dynamic! I’m loving seeing Chad Michael Murray without watching One Tree Hill and suffering for my Brucas feels (more on that in fifty years)!

PLANNING – A nap!

Now that I am a working woman, I am all about the napping. I’m taking them on the sofa, potentially on my bedroom floor, on top of ironing piles and of course in my bed. We won’t mention the one nap I took on the toilet after my first ten hour shift of working at this place.

SAVING FOR – Driving lessons and a trip to Pittsburgh

I’m supposed to be saving enough to book flights to America for November so that I can spend Thanksgiving and a birthday with my best friend, but we’ll see how it goes. I shan’t be able to book my flights until at least my August pay day but prices might have a big increase by then. We’ll figure it, though. I may go next year to stay with Nicolle and have booked my driving lessons and passed before then. Hm. Oh, decisions, decisions!!!

LOOKING FORWARD TO – Tomorrow!!!

That’s my day off for this week. I was supposed to have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off but the thing with being bank staff is that when you’re asked to work another shift you kinda can’t say no. Unless you’re dying or bleeding from ever crevice. Even then, I think I would still have to go in. No complaints though, I’ll just think of the money I’ll get at the end of the month and try not to cry over how little time I have to write my essays before my deadline next week. Thanks, work! My textbooks are currently upstairs gathering dust…like the rest of my potential. (Gilmore Girls, ftw!)

CRAVING – A boss without the ability of making me feel the size of a pin head.

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I’m thinking of publishing a post each Sunday and each Wednesday so I’m going to try a few weeks with that and see how I find it.

What are YOUR right nows?!?

Happy Wednesday!

-xo

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HELLO MY NAME IS... NICE TO MEET YOU

The last 24 hours of my internet history consists of ‘first posts of popular blogs’, ‘winged eyeliner tutorials’, ‘Goodreads giveaways’, ‘how do I stop being so useless’, ‘saving money skills’, ‘lose weight detox’ and an array of Netflix links. That isn’t my name, but it covers 80% of what would be listed under it in a dictionary. I don’t claim to have appropriate answers for any of my Google searches and any of my lifelong problems, questions and inner turmoils. Hell, I don’t have an inch of an insight into what I’m going to have for breakfast tomorrow – or if I will even be awake for breakfast time. That’s my point. I have unlimited questions and unlimited problems; I answer or solve one and three more replace them within a matter of minutes. I. Am. Flawed.

Flawed, also isn’t my name.

Shannon is.

I’m 21. I’m weeks away from finishing my university education and have moved back to Essex from Derby to live with my parents because I’m too poor to afford my own place. I’m back to sharing a small bedroom with my teenage sister and sleeping on the bottom bunk whilst a boiler makes surviving in this room miles away from possible. I have a tendency to grow my hair and then have it all cut to my shoulders because I’m too lazy to deal with the upkeep of long hair. My long-term loves are Disney, Harry Potter and spending obscene amounts of money on Amazon.

My name is Shannon, and this is my blog.

-xo

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