Easter Holidays!

Hey everyone!
I'm so happy today because finally we have 2 whole weeks of school off. We all deserve a break so bad, school is so draining but the best thing for me is not getting up at 7 in the morning because ugh I hate getting up super early. I could never do radio/morning tv because people get up at 5 and the thought of that just makes me sick (literally because I feel sick when I don't get enough sleep..that's a lovely thought for you;)

I don't think I mentioned it (my post was already pretty long last week) but I went to my last ever parents evening last Thursday which is a happy but also mixed emotions moment for me because it's scary getting to the stage where I'll soon have nothing more to do with school (also the best thing ever!!) I've also been moved up from being predicted a B to an A in English which is so amazing. I handed in my coursework pretty much done and I asked her before and she said I was on an A! Seriously so happy about that because I put a hell of a lot of work into that. My coursework which is comparing different genders in sitcoms aka Miranda and Friends of course (aren't they the best tv shows?!) which I even had to transcribe parts of some episodes is done.. I hope anyway. Miss said my media text had good content but needed to be more chatty which I was unsure about, all I did was change the start of a sentence to 'do you think' to sound more direct and personal to the reader (yep that's all I got) So I won't be surprised if I have to make more corrections but that's cool, they don't hand it in to the examiners until a week after we get back.

So who's ready to stuff their face with chocolate today as it is Easter Sunday!!
Even though this isn't any different to me because let's be honest everyday I eat probably way too much chocolate but the few days of a year it's acceptable I'm gonna take full advantage so don't you worry! (It's an expression I don't actually think you'll worry..)

Since we broke up last Thursday as it was good Friday the day after which meant no school (currently praising Jesus for dying so we have good Friday..too far idek) We did an Easter egg taste test with our photography class and art class who joined in. It started off as serious as a science experiment the way my teacher was telling it so props to him. We had to work out which Easter eggs were which out of Galaxy, Nestle, Sainsburys own, Cadbury and Lindt. I got 2 right so turns out it's harder to guess than you'd think, the one that was so obvious to me was Lindt which I love but is annoyingly expensive and my other favourite is galaxy chocolate which was ugh too good. (anyone else sound like they hate it when something's really good, it's kinda weird if you think about it?!)

Speaking of Easter, on Thursday I always finish school early so I walked into town and had a cute lunch with my mum which was nice. The main reason for going into town was because I had a chiropody appointment where I was told I have mild arthritis in my feet caused by my bunions (if only I inherited my dad's genes instead..) She basically said to me so yeah there's some things you can do to make it less painful but there's no actual way to stop it and it will get worse (I left there feeling wonderful..) Nah but seriously I know it isn't her fault but that's just life for you (why do I sound like an 80yr old man when I say that haha that's just life get over it)

After I went into my favourite shop Hotel Chocolat so I could look at their Easter range. As usual it was crazy (priced) but amazing and luckily they had some discounts. I was then greeted by a guy in the biggest bunny mask I've ever seen in real life (actually doesn't say a lot as it's probably the first I've seen in real life) He was promoting the deal they had on while handing out Easter eggs (what a guy) but turns out when I bit into them they were praline and I don't like praline in chocolates, personally it just ruins them so yeah life is sad sometimes. (Pls notice the sarcasm)

Again it's not gonna be the best quality picture when I'm sneakily trying to take a picture (ah well it's good enough right)

I then went into Lush to buy my friend a part of her birthday present but of course I couldn't resist treating myself as well. You remember the unicorn onesie I have, well I found this amazing bubble bar which reminded me of it, it's just so pretty I can't wait to use it!

Shout out to Big Bang theory as it's just come on Netflix! I've been watching season 8 and in my opinion it's remained as good as it ever was so ignoring anyone irrelvant who doesn't like it anymore. It still makes me laugh so much, I just love all the characters, especially Sheldon! Also I've finally memorised and learnt the theme song so now instead of me only singing the "math science history" bit as well as shouting out "we built the wall (we built the pyramids)" I now can sing the words before, that was probably one of my proudest achievements I must say. I live a crazy life you know...

Hope you enjoy your Easter holidays! Or just enjoy life if you're at work/wherever!
Tune in next week for another catch up on my life (sorry I just thought it'd be cool to sound like I was presenting my own tv show haha yep I'm sad)
Byeeee talk soon!
Sophie 
♥♥

Just Another Ramble

Hi guys,
So it's been one of those weeks where I'm just thinking to myself wait what did I actually do?
Shows how tired I've been as even halfway through the week I was getting so tired I wasn't able to concentrate properly. I'm one of those people that really needs sleep otherwise I get delirious and it isn't good I can get quite moody oops..I wish I wasn't but hey some people just aren't lucky like that.
So by Friday I was just so ready to go home and sleep for forever (at least until like 10:30 anyway)

Here's something I did to show you how delirious I really was:
In class I was like who's exam paper is this because all I saw was F10 and my confused brain thought oh it must be some new weird marking system (yep when I'm tired I believe anything is possible and also just laugh at the most stupid stuff) but anyway if you haven't already guessed it actually read Flo which is a nickname short for Florence. Yeah I have no words (apart from the ones I just said..sorry I need to stop)

Then on Wedneday first lesson I remembered I had an English mock first which I was at least gonna briefly look at my notes but I forgot (just the usual) By that point I was so tired and I managed to write a page which just about made sense, but by the second page I was literally 'fading out' as my teacher put it. I just couldn't write proper sentences which made sense; which is obviously vital for doing English language (I chose the wrong subject ha) I mean I only have myself to blame, I just end up messaging my friends too late and not feeling that tired but then really feeling it in the morning. Getting out of the bed in the morning is one of the worst struggles ever, wouldn't you agree?

Oh so I got my clinical mock I revised lots for back and only got a C..I know it's still good but I need/want a B. When I looked back at it I realised I misread some of the questions, I literally get so excited that a question comes up that I actually know the answer too I forget to properly read the question..(it said evaluate not describe ugh) Then the first question I thought I put 4 marks worth and got a bit too blasé about it being like yeah that's 4 makes worth even though I could have written more. Probably should change my attitude before exams and just always write more than I should because you can't get marked down (thank god for that I'd be so screwed if that was a thing..)

Omg so we break up next Thursday for 2 whole weeks I can't fucking wait!! I need a break so bad, even though I know I'll have revision to do at least I don't have to wake up at ridiculous hours in the morning. The best thing is that I finish school after period 3 on a Thursday anyway and only go in period 5 on a Monday so I only have 2 full school days that makes me so happy.

Random note but you know when you end up reavaluating your whole life like what do I even wanna do, do I wanna go to uni I just don't know anymore?! But the thing is I have even less of a clue what I'd do if I didn't go so yeah it's complicated, why is life so hard... (Clearly over exaggerating but you know that's my thing;)

I did another photoshoot for my photography exam and of course my cat came to help (by help I mean clamber on the shelf and knock everything off then sit right on my set up)

If you're wondering they are cat toys to the left, I even had to buy a dog toy (I don't have a dog and my cat doesn't like noisy/light up toys as well but oh well it's for photography)

This is an example of why you don't write on your hand oops will need to photoshop that bit out (I was thinking of A even though I haven't watched the pretty little liars series)

(Back to cats)Cats are just the best animals ever! (ignoring anyone who says otherwise, I know dogs are cute but nahh cats all the way! Who's with me? (why am I trying to get an army of cat lovers oh idek ignore me) They're just so independent that you feel so appreciated when your cat chooses to sit on you because if they really didn't wanna sit on you then they just wouldn't. Whereas dogs are way more co-dependent so you know they rely on you for pretty much anything so it isn't that much of a surprise or a big deal when they sit on you.

This post has been such a ramble, kinda how my brain feels right now sorry. I keep getting that awful knot of anxiety in my stomach and ugh I'm sure some of you know it's the worst (fingers up emoji directed at anxiety right now, nobody likes you okay..I've gone to a new low talking to something that isn't even human haha) I feel so cooped up in my house I need some fresh air, stands outside my room yep that's better.. you are amazing if you get that big bang theory reference, I love Sheldon! It mostly happens when I do photography because it turns out I'm such a perfectionist when it comes to organising my pictures, so I've started to just try relax more and be like screw it I crossed off something in my work I realistically won't get marked down. It's difficult because anxiety isn't rational, it just exists even if your brain is like nope it's okay anxiety just remains a bitch.

I'm just gonna leave it with why isn't there a day between Saturday & Sunday to just chill and not stress over doing any work, I know it's impossible obviously we can't just invent a day or move a day..or could we.. I mean I don't mind sacrificing Friday to just become part of the weekend;)

Friendly reminder that it's less than a week until a 2 week rest from school!
Talk soon, byeeee
Sophie
♥♥

Seeing Adele Live

Hey guys!
(I wrote this on Sunday morning) So currently I've been hiding out in my room while family are downstairs for my auntie's 60th birthday (I'm actually doing work I swear) I've finished the section I wanted to do now so I'm happy, it's so crazy how much there is to know in clinical psychology and the worst thing about it is that in the exam hardly any of it comes up! But of course you have to know it all just in case it does ugh I hate it. I guess that's the same with most subjects but I'm just venting out my frustration, you're all welcome;) (sorry but at the same time I'm sure you know what I'm on about)

Guess who I saw in concert on Friday...
ADELE
Yep she needs her own line she's that important, she was seriously so good I was singing (more like shouting) along to every song. In between songs she just had a chat with the audience and even if you don't like her music you'd love her bubbly personality she is just so funny!

So yeah if you're new to my blog then please don't base my photography skills on this picture as it was only taken on my iPhone 5C which is said to have the worst camera out of all the newer iPhones. I used my other camera (not my dslr) but my red lumix camera but I mostly took videos as even the pictures on that weren't good because we were just so high up! I've honestly never been that high up before, I was constantly worried I'd drop my phone then it would fall and smash either into someone's head or right at the bottom.

Of course I had to get at least 1 thing from her merch range, I got a white mug which says "hello.." on the front then "from the other side" on the back in red writing. There was a black mug but you could hardly see the red writing (gosh even I could have designed that better)

Do you like my dramatic pictures of the mug (so basically I used flash and it made it look cool) I used the table cloth and if you look really closely you'll see tiny little stars as well. They're from the decorations from my auntie's birthday.


(Again I wrote this on Sunday..)
Speaking of my auntie's birthday well she turned 60 today and so it was planned she'd celebrate with her whole family which is a lot of us  as there's 3 kids and a baby (I guess it sounds small but it felt like a mad house house when I'm only used to 2 other people) I actually managed to do some revision in the morning like I said so that was good, I feel so much better when I've been productive. I feel so shitty and down when I haven't been productive, anyone else the same?! So for the rest of the day I planned it was okay to do no work.

I was basically babysitting the whole time as my little cousins are quite young and hyper..one of them even called me mum (I gave them the most disgusted look I probably scarred them for life oops..) It was nice though but honestly my favourite thing was the food as my mum and dad are legends when it comes to baking and cooking. They're the best pair (even tho my mum gets stressed af with time pressures & all that..now I know where my anxiety comes from) My dad cooked all the savoury stuff which included amazing pulled pork with homemade sandwiches, sausages with the best honey and ginger sauce and crackling to dye for (sorry I sound like their sponsor or something..) Then to top that all of my mum made the nicest (bit too dark for me) brownies but with some cream as well they were pretty damn good! Oh and of course she made some cupcakes as well, thanks to Nigella and Mary Berry (even they're my favourite cooks)

All I remember about Sunday though is the most awkward situation greeting everyone to begin with. So if you didn't know I'm the most socially awkward person ever and for me I have to mentally prepare myself to greet family downstairs who I haven't seen in a while. It made it even worse I heard all of them arriving beforehand I was just busy doing my revision. So anyway the way I thought was oh yeah if I bring some food on a tray to greet people that would make it less awkward, my attempt to change the focus to the food not me (life should always be focused on food let's be honest;) However in reality it left me with this awkward situation of hang on they're trying to hug me shit what do I do with this tray there's no space to hug people..2 minutes late after awkwardly handing out food I attempted to say in the most casual way "I'll just go put this food down and then I'll be right back" but unfortunately one of my aunties (and probably everyone in the room) saw through my exterior of me trying to be calm and collective when I heard her say "oh god we've scared her off" while I was leaving the room...
Yep note to self: next time I greet family don't arrive with food it just makes an already awkward person even more awkward! So whenever you feel like a fail just laugh at me trying to be a human and you'll soon cheer up

So also on Sunday I took group pictures using the timer on my camera and just before it was about to take I was smiling normallly and then all the adults shouted say sausages (clearly to the kids I realise now) but in my confused brain I listnened and so said it and I have the biggest most awkward grin ever!..

Anyway to move on to a less awkward note wait actually not really (my life consists of awkward moments, I'm just a magnet for awkward social situations but let's not embarrass myself even more..) I went out last week and took some pictures for photography continuing with my sub theme of movement (side note it autocorrected movement too mincemeat which made me laugh..) and got some pretty cool shots from it. Here's a few of them:

Anyone who wants to recreate this effect I used a shutter speed of 6 seconds for all these photos and an aperture of about 4.5 (but about F7 for the darker one above) as it was night time when I took them (why do I sound like a kid when I say night time..is that just me?!)

So yeah this is actually a first I haven't not posted on my day (I say it like it's an official thing) in a while but I just got caught up with everything and it was then early Monday morning so thought I might as well wait until the actual morning as I don't go into school until last anyway!
Talk pretty soon
Byeee!
Sophie
♥♥
PS my Mother's Day gift I ordered still hasn't come yet should I feel bad?!....better late than never right;)

Childhood Memories

Hey people!

So on Thursday my clumsiness made yet another appearance (as if it doesn't enough) and I was just causally walking down my stairs and I fell on the top step and landed on my back, hit my head a couple of times and then it was so weird I sorta felt paralysed because I was still falling and I just couldn't get up so in the end I was left lying there crippled on the bottom step. The pain was so bad and my body's gut response is to burst into tears like I tried to stop the tears but the pain level was so excruciating I couldn't help it. Luckily I landed mainly on my back because otherwise I could have knocked myself out (I'm literally a hazard to myself)

Let's go back to childhood (let's be honest childhood was the best damn time and I wish I could go back to life without responsibility and so many worries..you get me?!) I found this picture of me of when I used to dance (specifically tap and ballet) and thought I must share it with you. Quick side note but I only did ballet for about a year when I was younger because I remember hating my dance teacher because she used to force me to push my feet into the penguin (erm I mean insert ballet jargon here) and I wasn't all about that life haha. I ended up carrying on with tap (and jazz..fancy I know) until about year 9 because I struggled/failed to balance school work. Also random note but I feel like everyone who only got glasses when they were in high school or end of primary school like me always look so different in pictures of them as a kid. For example I would say try spot me but I circled it because I posted it on snapchat for only 3 seconds so you'd have to be pretty skilled to find me in that little time. I think I look pretty different and I don't think anyone who didn't really know me would be able to spot me, unless some of you think you would be able to then props to you! 

How adorable was the green dress though, I must admit I think I do look pretty cute. I was such a smiley kid aww I sometimes miss dance but I think I just grew out of it. I think the most difficult thing is to keep a hobby you loved when you were younger to during and beyond being a teenager because when you are a teenager the hormones kick in (gotta love puberty..) and then all I actually wanted to do (I can't speak for others but I'd imagine you'd agree) was sleep or watch tv.







So let's talk about snapchat which has honestly becomes my favourite social media platform because right now that's the only one I actually manage to keep up to date with. It also just is so raw and honest due to obviously no editing so you can watch all your favourite people just be real for a second (and hopefully more than a second)

I watched this programme called 'The Brain with David Eagleman' which is basically a programme about the mind. This guy (episode 3 if anyone cares) strangled one of his in-laws until near death and stabbed the other in-law 5/6 times and so killed 1 of them but this all happened in his unconscious. When he regained consciousness he had no idea he did this and there was no ulterior motive because we found out he really liked them yet he killed one and strangled/nearly killed the other?! Turns out his family had a history of sleep disorders and he has one too so he got let out of trial free after being given medication to presumably put him in a deep sleep so that won't happen again. It's just so crazy the amount of stuff you can do without your brain being properly active (and of course pretty scary) so yeah I'll leave you with that lovely scenario in your head..)

Nah I'm not that harsh, to change to a much lighter note it's Mother's Day today. I drew my mum a card (kinda been a tradition in the Annett household also feel weird saying my family like that anyway basically me and my brother have always drawn my mum cards and dad for Father's Day and birthdays..basically any annual celebration..okay not everyone only mothers/fathers day, Christmas and birthdays okay longwinded point is over now I'm sorry) I found an image of 2 owls with 'guess whoooo loves you' and I found it pretty cute so I copied that. Also as you know I love puns and stuff like that so I couldn't resist. Oh and this Mother's Day I actually got my mum something pretty special (normally go to is chocolate or lush stuff, pretty standard right) but she's getting the iPhone 6 soon so she'll need a new case. I came across a pressed flower iPhone case and found a load more from asos (shoutout to the best brand..free returns!!) and fell in love, ordered this beautiful red and white pressed flowers case. I split the price with my brother which he probably didn't mind as that meant no hassle with deciding what to get (he did get the cutest cat card on the piano..not as personal as mine though)

So yet again the british weather is very confused because it's nearly Spring (or maybe is now idk) and it properly snowed for the first time last wednesday but of course I don't mind I love it! Yep you know me, I took several pictures, it was actually like 2 inches deep (that's an achievement for England okay..) Enjoy my entitled 'trying to be artsy' picture:

I also took a picture outside of a classroom in school just to show you how deep it actually was but sadly the snow was mostly slush by the end of the day. It never lasts for us (damn you climate change)

So anyway I should probably stop writing this and go spend time with family (apart from my brother because he's at uni)...















Hope you all enjoy Mother's Day and even if you don't have a mother/another parental type figure, again doesn't have to be blood related, just take some time today to spend some quality time with the people who truly love you! And if you're like no one does then you need to reevaluate because bitch of course I do! (If that's any consolation..probably not but just know you aren't alone because you know this kid on the internet appreciates the hell out of you!)
Okay so byeee
Sophie 
♥♥