Whoops...again

Haha oh, oh dear, um, apologies humans, yet again I have allowed myself to stray & leave you without my ramblings...not that I think there's many read this anyways but still :')

Well, given it's been over a year since my last entry it's safe to assume that a lot has happened, good & bad.

So where to start? Um, how about some good? :)

First of all, I HAVE A JOB!!! An amazing job at that, I am now an employee at Bede's World, a museum in jarrow that is based around the Anglo Saxon times so there is often a battle afoot & they allow me to play with swords ^.^ hehehe yes, you want my job, I know, but you can't have it, it's mine!!! >.>

Here, this is me at work :)

I was there last year for works experience (while on job seekers -.-) which involved Halloween thus, cometh the witching, this was my form 

Shield maiden by day, purple minion by night haha, the kids loved it...so did I.

Then shortly after that we had a Dalek day & thus I found myself on the bus dressed thusly...

Yes, I'm hugging the Dalek, he was awesome, he was called Bruce & he sang the YMCA before chasing Alex (dressed as the doctor) down the corridor singing the bendy hill tune :')

Bede's world is always eventful & keeps me busy which is good as I'm currently dealing with my best friend being wrongly incarcerated & thus without distraction I would spend my days missing them greatly. It's not good but I am in contact with them & they seem to be doing well.

On a more positive note, I have been learning to play guitar & it's not going too badly if I do say so myself. My baby is a beautiful, semi acoustic known as Layla (due to my love of Eric Clapton). Ah, here we are :)

Isn't she gorgeous? :) (the guitar, not myself :') I'm not that arrogant )

Also, having turned 19 I commemorated it with another tattoo, I now have the verse of the one ring emblazoned round my right arm in the language of mordor & the font of hobbiton brush hand, I love it ^.^

I'd show you but it's really hard to get a decent angle of it.

Actually, weirdly that kinda domes up the last year...huh, I guess less happened than I thought..oh well

I shall try to remember to post more often, really I will 

But for now, I shall leave you with a dead Lauren :) enjoy 

ah, umm...whoops?

ohai there

 bloody hell that was a long two & a half weeks wasnt it :') hahaha sorry, utterly slipped my mind. well, where to start then...perhaps where we left off? when last we met i was about to head off to the exotic lands of india, this i did & my god it was amazing. I climbed a water tower, negotiated indian traffic, rode in a rickshaw,rode ON an elephant, walked through the taj mahal barefoot &...they let me play with a pickaxe!!! XD it really was a fantastic experience & im really glad i went even though i did miss my boyfriend a lot & somehow managed to get a cold...a cold, in india?! i worked with a community partner while at sangam that helps to educate & care for children & also promote awareness & treatment for aids. the children we worked with were so cute & they seemed to like me, they certainly liked jumping on me anyways.

 then less than a week after i arrived home i found myself on a rather entertaining camping trip with aforementioned boyfriend & a group of our friends. it was certainly eventful to say the least, with one night involving a certain incident which resulted in myself being thrust over the BBQ (not maliciously or intentionally & i wasnt hurt, no worries)

 shortly after arriving home i had my hair re-dyed, purple with black highlights, & realised that i had lost my firestaff to a taxi home from newcastle prior to leaving the country. i had no luck trying to trace its whereabouts & so never reclaimed my dear marni but have acquired a set of fire poi since which are just as awesome.

 as the end of summer neared i found myself rushing around trying to find something to do by september (having passed at shiney row but not enough to continue to the second year). having decided that the apprenticeship i had shown interest in before leaving for india had fallen flat i checked in at the local connexions office & was advised to return to college, though perhaps a different one to where id already studied. at this suggestion i landed at gateshead doing a musical theatre course (this has since failed & i have dropped out due to struggling with theory work & dance (yuck) ).

 not long after i had applied, auditioned & been accepted to this my boyfriends parents left on holiday for two weeks & so i found myself staying over while they were gone. during my time there i was educated in the ways of the lord of the rings series, we 'rescued' a hodgeheg (as i recall we named him derek) & discovered that not only can i gladly sit & watch my boyfriend play xbox for hours on end without getting bored, im also none to bad on it myself (at least when it comes to defeating evil bosses, like the butterfly bitch, on ninja gaiden II). i had also started my new college course by this time but seeing as thats fucked now its pretty irrelevant.

 the next milestone i suppose would be my boyfriend getting us tickets to see ralph mctell as an early 6month anniversary present, which was sweet. it was a lovely night out with him & his parents & after the concert we met the man himself, got our tickets signed & he even gave my boyfriend the guitar strings he'd used the night before (he changes them before each show) which made him so happy he just wandered off in a stunned silence. bless him. he has since framed these strings alongside the signed ticket & a picture of ralph on a black backdrop (which the printer fucked up at the bottom but in a way that looks like a musical score which looks awesome behind the strings)

 from there we move on to christmas, which was spent...on holiday in a cottage with the family. would have preferred alternative company as my family arent the easiest people to be around for long periods of time but it was still pretty good, i mean how often to you get to spend christmas day in a hot-tub?! :') yeah, i know, awesome. from then not much has happened, the band fell apart not long after summer so there werent practices to go to anymore. my boyfriend was in a new band as of shortly before halloween. the firestaff group had changed venues & i havent been going due to lack of funds. i turned 18 in february which was a good weekend. got my first tattoo shortly after which looks fantastic, even better than i imagined it. & i may be getting a call in the next week or so from some people who own a recording studio if they're interested in working with me since i sent them my CD from the studio time in newcastle the other year my grandparents got me.

 so, without all the boring, twiddly bits in or any depressing rubbish that you dont wanna hear, that about sums it up. thats what i've been up to for the best part of a year, impressive, no? :') haha sorry for leaving it so long

 anywhoos, thats enough of my ramblings to keep you happy for now methininks
ciao dudes :p xxx

Touching base before flying off :p

Hey, I know, I know, it's been a while, apologies but there's been a lot on. Figured I should fill ya all in before zipping off to India next week, yes, how time flies, my long mentioned trip to India is almost upon us :) exciting is it not? The only downside is that it'll be 2 & a half weeks away from my wonderful, amazing, lovely boyfriend, I'm gonna miss him so much :( I'll survive though & it'll be even better when I get back cos it'll have been so long since we've last seen each other. My dearest bloggers, we appear to have stumbled upon a miracle, I am...happy, with my life, with my friends, even with MYSELF o.o I know right, amazing but good, very very good, nothing can destroy this :) absolutely nothing Anywhoos, I'm currently sat watching the final episode from series 1 of the Sherlock boxset :p highly entertaining stuff, utterly ingenious :) I shall finish watching it then go to sleep...or at least try :') I shall leave you all now to get on with your own, presumably amusing lives, wish me luck in India minions ^^ Ciao dudes & duddettes Next update when I return to the UK :)

where have i been?

ohai der folks o.o

long time no see, how longs it been now? too long? yes, definitely too long. whats that? where have i been hiding/ what has kept me soooo busy that i could not find the time to update you on the comings & goings of my life? to put it simply my dears, my LIFE has kept me too busy, with the ups & the downs & the endless stufs & moments of un beearable depression i've had lately, i just figured you could do without the worry of whether or not i'd be able to cope anymore lol i'm still not sure i can but things are looking potentialy, marginally better in the future than i expected. anywhoos,so what have i to say to you my wonderful bloggers & blogettes after such a MA-HU-SIVE lapse of time between this blog & the previous? what words of wisdom have i to impart upon you're hungry minds? surely you have been waiting with baited breath, on the edge of ur seats, expecting some utter brilliance from me day after day & being dissapointed each time you clicked that i still had not typed a single solitary new word onto here...or perhaps a few of you simply got on with your own lives you possess, but i'd like to think you've been awaiting my genius to spill onto your screens. anywhoo, back to the point, you are wondering what i have to say to you now, yes? well here you go my dears...

ahem...




RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! peoples! they are the bain of life, the pain in the arse of the world, the sting of the bee that floats like a butterfly & overall, damned infuriating, glad i never was one! -.-


that is all :p
ciaoz

ah wtf, i give up lol

heya guys

i know, its been ages since ya last heard from me, i just couldn't be arsed to post anythin, plus i've been kinda busy being incredibly confused & things going a bit haywire lol yet again

first of all, following my last, very short, blog if you'll recall last ya heard of me i'd just been dumped by pip, the day after i got back together with colin but realised it was a bad idea, far too soon, i got really depressed about it all & broke down crying & had to call someone to talk me out of ODing :/ i wasn't in a good place but hey, at least im still here.

i've had my hair cut since i last blogged to ya, short ^^ its quite nice acshuly, here, see for yaself



anywhoos, in other news, mindy had more kittens, 5 of the little fluffballs about 4 weeks ago now & almost as awesome, the night she had them i had come home from firestaff club (which i started the night after pip left me) having learned, wait for it...fire EATING! ^^ its so cool, theres all sorts of stuff i can learn by going to this club, its awesome.

now, on a change of subject, things are a bit skew-wiff just now, having decided it was a mistake to get back with colin so soon after pip leaving me i had remained single until jus under 3 weeks ago wen colin called me in the middle of the night & convinced me to give us another chance, so we did, however i realised that although he means a lot to me as a friend & i love him like he was my brother, thats all it is & it just wasnt right me being with him & letting him think otherwise.

things are ok between me & pip just now aswell, i doubt very much we'll get back together as he doesn't get back with his ex's usually but still, things are good, i can hang out with him, have a laugh, flirt, cuddle up to him & stuff like that without it being awkward & he makes me smile, which is good, im hoping to see him this weekend as its his birthday on sunday & i have to give him his present & card.

well i reckon thats enough of my drivel for ya to cope with for now
ciao peeps x

easy come easy go

hey

i know its not been too long since my last blog but this'll be very quick

basically, things have changed quite a bit in the last few days, firstly, Pip broke up with me on the grounds of & i quote "having hurt every person he's been with he dusnt want to end up hurting me" :'(

just thought id let ya'll know

ciao xxx

a lot can happen in a short time

heya guys

i know, its been quite a while & last time i blogged to ya things hadnt gone so well recently, if you remember i'd just been dumped & wasn't too happy about being single again but that's all changed & the change has occured in the form of my new boyfriend, Pip :) he's really nice & sweet & caring & cute (even though he denies it continuously lol) & since i've been with him it's really helped my self-esteem too, im still not too fond of myself but i dont hate myself as much as i used too & even more amazing, the previously mentioned guy in so many of my blogs whom i never thought id get over...i have now gotten over him o.o i dont quite believe it myself but yeah, it seems so, amazing or what.

things are going pretty good just now, college is great, Pips AMAZING, friends are good :) things at home are a bit more strained than normal (not explaining why, it'll take too long) & my parents have decided i shud see the student councillor at college (its not too bad, shes nice & looks at the situations from my point of view aswell as my parents' & is the only adult that sees my relationship with Pip as a good thing)

well, thats pretty much all there is to say just now, catch up with y'all later then peeps
ciao xxx <3