October Already?!

Hey people! Hope you're all well:)

I can't believe how fast the months have gone and it's already October which means nearly Christmas;) (joke I'm not that person even I know it's still too early to countdown) I mean we have to wait until at least after Halloween am I right?! Although saying that I've been hearing Christmas songs all week played by sixthformers at my school (not me I'll just point out) but clearly everyone just gets so excited this time of year.

I'm not really a big fan of Halloween like loads of people get so hyped up about it but ever since I stopped trick or treating as a kid I haven't ever done anything as I've gotten older. Partly because on the day it's my dad's birthday so I'd always feel bad if I did but I think I'm way more of a Christmas person. I'm really hoping this year we get some proper snow as last year we didn't even have a snow day off school..now that's just so wrong! So I'm praying to the 'weather gods' that we have a proper White Christmas this year I would be so happy. If that happens I will be that person who stays at home singing white Christmas while it's snowing outside ha..but of course I'll go sledging first. 

Just realised I haven't told you guys a painful story that happened lets just say more than a few years ago (I'm not good at tracking time/dates) so I was out sledging with my family at the local park and I was on one of the plastic colourful sledges where you sit on it and pretty sure there's some string to hold on too. Well I was going pretty fast (I thought anyway) and there was a big bump and when I landed I fell straight into my coccyx bone...it was too painful for words but I'm not one of those people who is over dramatic or wants to make a fuss so I held it in. Even worse at the time I saw some people I knew from school and I was thinking shit I can't cry in front of them so I like hid behind my parents and the pain slowly eased internally (still trying to hold in my tears) but honestly it was excruciatingly painful. Looking back I was a tough kid not in the sense of I'd go off doing daring things but I'm the sort of people who holds in my pain so much & it takes a lot to full on cry out of pain because I'm very self conscious of what people around me think. I know that's a very bad habit but I'm slowly getting better with age, I mean my anxiety doesn't help but I'm learning to manage it.

So for my photography this year my work is all themed around nature like I've said so I've been doing some macro shots using lighting to illuminate the subjects. However ironically I wasn't actually using my macro lenses in this photo I'm about to show you..I didn't even have a decent excuse I was just feeling very lazy & thought my normal lense will do. So you can see for yourself what you think, the first one is the normal shot and the second one I named magic mushroom because I mean just look at it, after editing it it's pretty cool & magical (not intentionally named after drugs it just sorta happened as I don't do anything of the sort).

If any of you have listened to my recommendations and caught up with the 4 seasons of once upon a time then you'll know that the first episode of season 5 got released last Wednesday for the UK! Which is so amazing as Americans got to watch it Sunday (lucky buggers haha) but for a lot of programmes I'd have to wait a lot longer to watch it so I'm pretty happy. So without spoiling it too much, how amazing is the first episode!! One of my favourite things about OUAT is all the plot twists and it definitely had a lot even in the first episode but now we have to wait until next Wednesday to watch the next episode. Anyone just not used to being restricted that much?? I'm not used to having to wait that long, I normally find series after they've been released so I end up binge-watching them which is not of my favourite hobbies to do (yes that is a hobby;)

But I'll talk more next Sunday!

Have an awesome week
Sophie

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