D is for DFTBA!

Happy Sunday everybody! Sunday, like Saturday, is currently a full working day for me...bleurgh. And today we were a ridiculous THREE staff down (out of six) on the second busiest day of the week. So we didn't get our breaks properly and I'm kind of ill anyway and essentially...yech, shitty day.

HOWEVER tomorrow is my last ever shift at Tesco! Unless I can get a few shifts over Christmas. But hurrah, freedom!

Goodbye, £7 an hour! *laments* I'm officially a poor student now.

Anyway, what day are we on? D which according to The List of Power is dogs. 

Oh look here's another gpoy of my dog, hoorah.

For the first 16.5 years of my life, I was actually really scared of dogs. Like, "see a dog, cross the street and try not to scream" levels of scared. Admittedly towards the end I was better: I'd be okay with a dog in the same room as me as long as there was someone close by to stop it attacking me in a sudden wild rage. Or something.

But then something really illogical happened: my parents bought home a little, yappy, insane, bitey bundle of dog called Dusty. And even though there were always scratches on my hands where I'd let her chew me, and even though wearing tights around the house was a no-no for the first month or so because she'd rip them to shreds, I wasn't scared of her.

Why? Because the reason I was scared of dogs before was because I couldn't work out how they thought and thus I was constantly scared of what they'd do next. Now that I have a dog, I get what they think! Which is mostly food, food, food.

So there ya go.

D for Dogs.

Emma x

C is for...coming close to forgetting because there's so much good TV on today.

But I didn't forget!

(As a side-note, my general reaction to both the finale of Doctor Who and the opener of Merlin is FLAIL ALL IS GOOD. I might do DW for D and Merlin for M and Harry Potter for H and things...would that be cheating?)
Anyhoo! Today is Day 3, which is C and the chore you hate.
I hate nearly all chores.
Let me get this straight for you: I am a very lazy person. If I'm being very honest, it's my biggest character flaw and the thing I loathe the most about myself. (Except maybe the shyness thing, but I digress.) If I know the dishwasher needs loading, I'll ignore it until someone tells me to.

kirainet

I do like washing up in the winter, with hot soapy sudsy warm water up to my elbows and some healthy elbow grease, but other than that I am essentially chore-useless. It helps that my mom pays my sister £10 a week to clean the house, of course, so I don't really need to.

But er...guys? I'm moving AWAY in a week. On my OWN. Which means I'm gonna have to start doing some cleaning.

Will this move? I hope so.

I'm kind of hoping that moving away will signal a new era for me...that I'm going to become suddenly efficient and grown-up, and empty the bins, and clean as I go, and cook healthy food even though it takes more time.

This may or may not happen, jsyk.

Emma x

B is for "Been only a day and I'm already struggling."

Hey everybody! Today is day two of my ABCs of me challenge...and I'll be honest, I should probably have read through the challenge before I took it up.

Because of all the riveting, exciting options for the letter B...well, it's bed size.

BED SIZE.

Who cares?!

Um...I have a single bed. And whilst I could probably spin this out into some kind of discourse on the benefits and drawbacks of being a singleton...yeah, that would be boring.

In other news

I AM SO EXCITEDDDDDDDDD :D

ABCs of me!

Hey everybody! I know I've been appalling at posting recently. I'm averaging something like once every three weeks, which is SHOCKING. So in an attempt to keep the ball moving, I'm going to blog every day for the next 26 days.

Well no, I might not. I'm moving away to uni next weekend so chances are I won't have the time for that hefty I commitment, but I hereby promise you this: if I have ten minutes to spare, I will attempt to use that time to churn out a blog post.

But why 26, I hear you cry! Well, because I'm going to do the ABCs of me tag, which I nicked from Amy's blog (which by the way you should all check out.) It's supposed to be a one-post deal but I figured I'd spin it into something more substantial, so without further ado, I present you...the letter A.


Age


I turned 18 in June, it's honestly been my favourite age so far, for a few reasons: eighteen means I can legally drink, which is pretty cool and which has definitely increased the range of things I can do on a Friday or Saturday night. I also was able to do work experience at HarperCollins (which I blogged about here and has a minimum age limit of 18)

I love you.

There are a few legal downsides, too: I have to pay adult price for basically everything now...which sucks. But really, that's by the by. Whilst the legalities of being eighteen have been novel, it's really the things I've done whilst 18 (ish...) that have made it my favourite age: holidays, free periods at sixth form (FOOD!) and leaving school which was sad but also made me realise how much I loved everyone...and then starting university which is going to be a MASSIVE step. It's a really...big...year.

And I love it! My life so far has been fab, but eighteen years doing the same thing in the same place has made me lonely and comfortable and I need to change it up and challenge myself! I don't doubt moving on to uni will be terrifying and there will be scary moments and awkward moments and moments where I want to jack it in and go home and snuggle up with my mom. But I cannot wait.

Eighteen has basically been a year of change. Huzzah for eighteen.



For reference, here's the list I'll be blogging on for the next month or so:
A. Age
B.Bed size
C.Chore that you hate
D.Dogs
E. Essential start to your day
F. Favorite Colour
G. Gold or Silver?
H. Height
I. Instruments you play
J. Job title
K. Kids
L. Live
M. Mother's name
N. Nicknames
O. Overnight hospital stays
P. Pet peeves
Q. Quote from a movie
R. Right or left handed
S. Siblings
T. Time you wake up
U. Underwear?
V. Vegetable you hate
W. What makes you run late?
X. X-rays you've had
Y. Yummy food that you make
Z. Zoo animal

After that it should just about be time for NaNoWriMo...at which point I'll probably drop off the radar again. Sorry in advance for that :)

So um...obligatory end of blog question-time! How old are you? What's been your favourite age so far! Zoo!


Emma x

So where the bloody hell have you been?

EVERYWHERE.

Well, no, that is untrue. For the last week, however, I've been away on work experience at the publishers Harper Collins in LANDAN...and whilst I've had internet access I've been knackered and gone to bed at like half 9 every night, so there ya go :)

Seriously the least overwhelming angle of their lobby. It was MASSIVE. 

Here is a general bullet pointed list of my stay:

• London transport is brilliant. If you're a Londoner who doesn't agree, I suggest you try getting around Birmingham. I LOVE THE TUBE.
  
• The place I was working in was so big that it had SQUASH COURTS in the basement.
  SQUASH COURTS.
  
• I went to the Harper Awards (not particularly exciting) but Fern Britton was hosting! That was pretty cool.
  
  

• I bought loads of books from the staff bookstore at a bargain 25p each! Brand new! I nearly cried with happiness. Although I had to limit myself to 8 because of carrying it all to the station...but I still bagged Looking for Alaska and the third volume of A Song of Ice and Fire so I'm pretty chuffed with myself :)

Er...so that's about it! Except you should probably all go follow my friend Heather @ Love-Laugh-Read

because she's cool.

Okay, that's about it. I'll check in sooner next time :)

Emma x

A cheeky FITBF

Courtesy, as always, of Lauren...for some reason my HTML keeps deleting itself but you can find her at http://thelittlethingswedo.blogspot.com!

Anyway, on to business! I finally got my Pottermore email today! I'm a proud Hufflepuff and I've already worked my way through Philosopher's Stone...which leaves me at a bit of a loose end, to be honest. So whilst my Antidote to Common Poisons is brewing, I'll fill in a quick one of these to pass the time...and fill that ever increasing blank space on this poor excuse for a blog :/

1.One of life's most simple pleasures is : a square of dairy milk. Any more than one and the sensation is different but just having one, straight from the fridge, is like some kind of religious experience. Seriously. I worship at the altar of George Cadbury and his brethren.

2.Racists and homophobes make me want to punch someone. (I actually wrote homophones there at first and it's still making me laugh thinking about it. GODDAMN YOU, WORDS THAT SOUNDS THE SAME BUT ARE SPELT DIFFERENTLY. I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE METAPHORICAL FACE FOR YOUR CONFUSING SPELLING VARIATIONS.

Ahem...anyway.

3. I like food because, it tastes good. 

4. Discombobulation is a funny word.

5. If I had to choose one beauty product to use for the rest of eternity it would be...toothpaste? Deodorant? Shampoo?

I am not a hair and beauty type of girl :P

6. I'm happy that I'm going to uni!! *mini-flail* I'm just so excited to strike out on my own and do new things and asdfghklfsldks!

7. I would never...say never :) There are a lot of things I would never do...necrophilia...mass genocide...but in general I don't want to close my mind to anything. Life is full of opportunities :P

Well, wasn't that exciting? Enjoy your chocolate and your life, everybody, until next time!

Emma x

General updates and stuff!

The Big News

After results day on Thursday, I am officially going to uni! I got A* A B which is a pretty respectable score, meaning that in October I'll be heading up to York, where the geese outnumber people three to one. Which is very exciting.

GOOD TIMES.

Emma, where on earth have you been for the last MONTH?

(I'm really shocked it's been that long.)

Well...I went to Menorca...and France...and before that I went to Zante but I couldn't be bothered to post about it...

(This is absolutely not a bragging post)

 

It won't let me put them all in a row, so enjoy this jazzy layout.

Other than that, I've mostly been working (three days a week!) volunteering at my local library, pub quizzing, and enjoying the longest summer of my entire life!

Even though it's raining.

...so that's an update. Not much of one, there's so much more! But for now, my abject apologies for being such a useless blogger.

Are you all having nice summers?