Staying sober

Hi guys,

After a very messy night full of things I probably shouldnt have done, and hating myself for them. My housemates and I have decided to do Stay Sober for October.

Although this does have ulterior motives, like alcohol not giving me unneeded courage to do things that I will and do regret the morning after. The others and I have probably had people that have passed away or suffered from cancer, so raising money for not drinking seems like a good idea.

Im not sure if the others have had people if their life that have had cancer, but personally, someone very close to me has died from it and it has affected my family's life in more ways than one. Throughout my adult life, ive only ever given the odd couple of pence to people with charity buckets or did the selfie thing. So this is a big thing for me.

In my next blog post, im going to explain how cancer has affected my housemates and my life. But for now, im going to leave you with the link where you can donate however much you wish

Go Sober

Thats it for now.
Over October, im going to try and upload atleast 3 times a week aswell.
TTYL,
Kirst x

“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.” - Veronica Roth

Hello,

I just thought i'd write an update on my first week in Cheltenham.
so far, Im really enjoying living with the majority of the people im sharing with.
Honestly, I havnt spent one night alone since ive been back. Whether im working, in my room watching a film with Hann and Em or in the kitchen with everyone playing Cards Against Humanity and having a few drinks.

I mentioned in my last blog post that I came up early because I had a trial shift in a nightclub. Well, I got the job and because of that, my legs are bruised as hell.
Behind the bar, they have ice buckets and bins that I keep walking in to. Its not like I can even stop to check to see if im bleeding or anything because its so busy.

Since moving in, im suprised I havnt got abs of steel thats how much ive laughed. I honesly forgot how much Hannah, Ryan, Emily and Ellie make me laugh. And to add to that, Danny is so freaking funny. Like, he comes up with the most weird crap ever, but it just adds to the weirdness thats already in the house.

The other night, Hann and Em were in my room and we were talking about random crap that wouldnt make sense to the average human being, and somehow we came onto stranded presents, which turned into talking about Emily having 74 cats. We worked out that for Emily to have 74 cats by 19, she would have to take in 4.9 cats every year since she was 4. Which meant that every 5th cat would have a bit of tail missing. This lead on to us talking about every family having 2.5 children in the househouse. And seeing as it was us, we started talking about a human actually only being half a human (legs, or a top half)
The amount of times ive threatened to move out is ridiculous.

I thought I would do a 25 random questions tag..

1. What is one of your biggest dreams?
I would love to travel all over the world,  America, China, Africa,
Europe. I'd also like to settle down and have a sprog.

2. Name three things that are physically close to you.
My super soft cushions from Asda, my Iphone, and  my throw.

3. What’s an ideal Sunday for you?

Having a lie-in, staying in my pyjamas all day, spending time with my family and friends, having a beasty cooked dinner and watching a few girly films.

4. Do you drive? If so have you crashed?
Dont drive.

5. What time did you wake up this morning?
8:20am

6. What’s one thing in your closet that you cannot live without?
My jumpers. Honestly, theyre a staple!

7. What was the last movie you saw?
Hann, Em and I watched Princess and the Frog

8. What does your last text message say?
"You're bloody cat keeps biting my toes under the duvet" from my mam

9. Something physical that stands out?
Boobs.

10. Have you ever been to a different country?
Spain and France. Im not very well travelled.

11. Do you like sushi?
It's the best.

12. What’s a song you secretly love to blast and belt out when you’re alone?
Let it go - Idina Menzel, or What I go to School for - Busted

13. Have you ever taken medication to help you fall asleep faster?
 Furthest Ive gone is hayfever tablets, Im on such a high dosage that im not allowed to take sleeping tablets.

14. How many siblings do you have?
A brother.

15. How would you describe your style?
Comfy or lazy.

16. How old will you be turning on your next birthday?
22, getting old

17. Do you wear contacts or glasses?
Nope! Great vision me.

18. Do you color your hair?
Sometimes, recently my hairs gone really dead though, so no more experimenting. I put  blonde ombre in it last year, and currently I have ginger ombre.

19. Tell me something you are planning to do today.
University.

20. What’s the drink you always order at Starbucks?
 It depends on what time of the year it is. Winter - Mocha latte, Summer - Orange refresha

21. What did you want to be when you were little?
Oh God, various things. It went from a police officer, to a pilot, to a dance teacher, to a fashion designer

22. What’s a beauty rule you preach, but never actually practice?
Always moisturise
23. Have you ever had an all-nighter?
Closest ive gotten is like 6am.

24. Can you taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke?
Yes! Pepsi is fizzier!

25. What quote/phrase do you live your life by?
Things change and friends leave but life doesnt stop for anybody.


Thats it, folks.
Hope you enjoyed it.
TTYL,
Kirst x

Guess whos back?

Hi guys,

IM BACK IN UNIVERSITY!
Well, not quite. I start lectures back on the 22nd, however i've moved back to Cheltenham, and its so nice to be back with my buddies. I've missed them quite a bit.
As soon as I opened the door, all I heard was KIRSTEN.
I walked up the stairs with whatever I was carrying, and was about to run and just on Hannah, when a wild Ryan appeared. So obviously I gave him a quick hug then ran to Hannah.

It honestly was horrible leaving my mam and baby cat (Belle) though. Im going to miss them quite a lot.
The way I explained it to Em, was that Ive already had a year at university, so why should I be going back for another year? It seems really weird, and not at all right.

So after id moved all my stuff in and gone food shopping with mammy, Hannah, Ryan and I went to Papparitos. It was amazing. Honestly, I had what I always have. Never actually change my order. We drove passed Paps last week, when me and my mum dropped a bit of my stuff off earlier last week, and I rememebered how great it was. We also went to Primark to grab some hangers and a difuser. I bought the coconut and vanilla cream one because I know Hann had had it last year, and it smelt amazing.
No such luck, you cant even smell the bugger.
Hannah then went to work and Ryan and I sat in my room and just caught up on what we'd both missed over summer.

Yesterday, we went to the best cake shop ever.
After obviously using the new shower. Its weirdddddd!!
I turned one knob, and it didnt do anything,
turned the other one and it came on, but freezing cold. So I just assumed that the first knob was temperature (I was right) and turned that up all the way.
I thought it was a perfect temp, but obviously not seeing and a bit later, Ryan went in and it near enough scolded his head.

Then Hannah, him and me went to Patisserie Valerie, and I had a lemon cheesecake which I was super disappointed with..

Not because it wasnt delicious, because it was.. It just wasnt very lemony, like, I paid £5 for it.. least it could be is a bit more lemony.

We then went to waitrose, which was a new experience for Hann and Ry as they informed me while we were in there.I love Waitrose, its super expensive for what they sell, but they do sell exclusive things like what we went in there for.

Theres a company called Pots & Co, who make little desserts in ceramic pots and theyre so yummy. I first heard about them in a vlog from Zoella, who had bought a load of them in her videos, and she said they were really good. So I was curious and knew Cheltenham had a Waitrose, so I dragged them down to see if they sold them.
They did.
Ryan and me ended up buying one each.
Ry got a sticky toffee pudding, which came in a pink ceramic pot, and I bought a salted caramel and chocolate mousse type thing which came in a blue ceramic pot. It was yum.

Honestly, for the rest of the day we just spent chilling and talking about random shit. Han and me went to pick Emily up in her cute little car. We also took a trip to Homebase to look for Venus Fly Traps. but not any old Venus fly traps. One called a mimosa thing, according to google. It doesnt actually close its mouth thing, if you stroke its leaves, it goes to sleep.. which is a little less creepy.

I also had a trial shift at V club yesterday, which I think went well, although I broke the ice box with my boobs, which was embarresing as shit.

Thats all for now,
I'll update as the week goes on.
TTYL,
Kirst x

Emily, I will kill you.

Hello there.

2 blog posts in a week, arent you lucky?
Basically, Emily (http://something-like-emily.blogspot.co.uk) has tagged me in this stupid post, and im bored, so im going to do it.

Its called 12 personal questions.

1) What do you order at Starbucks?
In the summer, Valencia orange cooler. In the winter, Mocha latte.

2) One thing in my closet you cant live without?
Scarves, or jumpers. I live in those suckers.

3) What's one thing most people don't know about you?
I get really bad anxiety if I know that change is going to happen/if its happening

4) Name one thing you want to do before you die.
Get married and have a sprog maybe. Either that or travel the world.

5) What's one food you cannot live without?
Cheese!

6) What quote/phrase do you live by?
"Things change and friends leave and life doesnt stop for anybody" Which is why its tattooed on me. If someone doesnt want to be in my life, theres nothing I can do.

7) What is your most listened to song on Itunes?
Its a cover of "Dont you worry Child" by Kingsland 

8) What kind of style would you define yourself as having?
Comfy, i reckon. 

9) Favourite number?
9, ironically

10) Two hobbies?
Reading and drinking

11) Two pet peeves?
Overly grumpy people, and people who think too much of themself

12) Guilty pleasure?
I enjoy a good teddy bear

Thats all, folks
This was quite hard post to write but not because I couldnt think of the answers. Belle was behind the laptop lid, hitting the keyboard the little bitch.

Hannah, Megan and Ashleigh, your turn.
TTYL,
Kirst x

Long time no blog.

Hello there, people of the internet.

I honestly cannot remember the last time I wrote a blog post, so I thought i'd write one tonight.
Im not sure what to write about though.
I'm going to tell you about my recent trip to Bristol, and the fact that I have new job. But other than that, i havnt a jar of glue.
I even googled what to write about. I know thats lame.

It gave me a list of ideas though.
- last 10 things I googled
- top 10 products im wishing for right now
- 10 things to be happy about
- 10 things I value about my best friend

Honestly, I thought they were all such great ideas that im going to do them all in this one blog.

Over the past couple of weeks, my life has gotten a bit busy. I started my job in House of Fraser. (yes, im back there) and its made my life a lot less boring. I felt like I was going crazy with nothing to do, which i had done seeing as I finished my first year at the beginning of May, and I love it. Maybe not the early mornings, but actually getting home and being tired because ive actually done something.
Im in Fashion Accessories, which is a lot different to working with packaged food, or clothes, which ive done previously. Theres also something to do constantly, whether its putting on promotions, putting out stock, or just cleaning shelves. As much as I love the long hours, I cant wait to get home to my bed at the end of the day! Favourite part!

The passed weekend, I went to Bristol with Jenny and Danielle to see a band that I have previously mentioned, Kingsland. They did a tour to promote their new single, Dirty Dancer.
Honestly, although the venue was HORRENDOUS, they had too many support acts and all the little fan girls gave me a headache, it was the best I had seen them perform.
It was also so nice to see them again. One band member hugged me so hard and told me how much he had missed me.
I know how it must seem to people that dont like boybands, or arent really big fans of anything.
That they dont really mean it? That they probably dont even remember me?
Itsw true, they probably dont remember me and they probably dont mean what they say, but it does mean a lot to me when the band say this sort of stuff to me, because Ive invested a lot of time into being a fan previously.
Me and the girls also went to see them at a radio station in Swansea the next morning, and I asked them to sign the set list that I had managed to steal off the tour manager. They decided to ruin their signatures and destroy a name of one of the songs.
It now says "She's cumming."
I got pushed by one of the boys and almost went home with his hat. He realised I had it though.
It was also so nice to see some of the people that I havnt seen in nearly a year, and meet some new people. Thats one of the things I miss about going to gigs.

Last 10 things I googled.

- Ashton Irwin
- Recording studios in Cardiff
- Cineworld
- How to stop flying on Minecraft PE
- HDMI cables - from laptop to TV
- Wave FM Swansea postcode
- Canary Swing
- Bobble bottles
- Buzzfeed
- Anthony Hopkins

10 products i'm wishing for right now

- Urban Decay naked palette
- Benefit porefessional primer
- Eco tools brush set
- Milani Baked Bronzer
- Body Shop BB cream
- Clinique chubby stick (its a lipgloss!!)
- Nars blush palette
- Soap and Glory liquid eyeliner
- Coconut oil
- Anything from Bourjois!


10 things to be happy about

- Knowing I have a new book to start
- Being at home with my mam.
- Knowing that I havnt really got much free time over the next 3 weeks.
- Being a month away from starting uni again (Actually miss it)
- Having seen a load of my friends the past week
- Baby cat.
- Being that much closer to seeing my friends again after the summer
- Think im seeing Jenny on Sunday, always a good thing.
- Im about to go and make myself a cup of tea
- Im skyping Megan tomorrow!!

10 things I value about my best friend.

- Shes practically like a sister to me.
-Although I havnt known her for a long time, she knows most things about me
- She understands my sarcasm
- She has the same taste in books as me. (always important)
- She can make me laugh, even when im most upset
- Shes quite smart, therefore she's quite handy to have around
- She knows how to drink
- If im doing something stupid, she'll be right next to me
- Shes one of the those people that you can sit in a room in silence, and it wont be awkward in the slightest
- I love her a lot, and im so glad shes in my life.

Ok, thats all for now.
It does say that im starting uni again soon,
which means I will be uploading more frequently, seeing as this is a blog about my uni life, now my summer.

Thanks for reading.
TTYL,
Kirst x

Summer is here.. Unfortunately.

Hi guys!

I know I havnt posted much recently but that literally because I havnt known what to say. Thats not because nothing has happened, its simply because I hadnt known how to put what I wanted to say in words. So i'm not going to.
I'm just going to let everyone know what ive been up to, and then tell people my 5 top summer tunes, and my reading list for these next couple of months.

Sounds good enough, right?

When I returned from Cardiff after my birthday, I did nothing. Ry left the Sunday after I got back, which wasn't nice.
Ellie and I also worked this pretty kickass festival called Wychwood, which takes place in Cheltenham every year.
We were asked to work a total of 16 hours over a course of 3 days in return for a ticket which is a pretty sweet deal. However, they hired too many volenteers, so only ended up working 5 hours. We got to see some amazing artists, including Newton Fawkner, Bad Manners, and The Boomtown Rats. It was so crazy knowing that Ellie, Hannah and I were that close to Sir Bob Geldof. It was one of the best experiences ive had since being at university so far.
While I was back, Hannah and Eric was finishing off their final project, which I keep mentioning taking up a load of their time. They finally finished it, and its crazy good. In fact, they have made a kickstarter because they're looking to put it in some film festivals, i'll stick a link at the bottem of this blog post in case anyone wants to have a look!
Tuesday just gone, Hannah, Eric and I went on a little trip to London.
It was great.
All except the wake up at 4am. I honestly think it wiped us out for the rest of the day, especially because some of the pricks that live below us decided to wake us both up at 1/2am and we didnt get back to sleep.
But once we were there and had coffee we were both fine.
We took a trip to Harrods, which was freaking FANTASTIC. I think I drooled over all the clothes and shoes that they sold there. We also walked around Covent Gardens, visited Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. We had a look down Oxford Street, which also meant we had a look in Selfridges where Hannah and I bought hipster water that we had seen on Tumblr, and Instagram. We also popped into the Disney shop, (the biggest I had seen) and I ended up buying a little alien teddy from Toy Story as my new travel companion.
We then proceeded to spend about an hour and a half in Hyde Park lying down enjoying the sun when a certain Duchess of Cambridge drove passed us.
The next day I moved out of Regency. It was a sad, sad moment for me. As the week before that, all I had done was talk about memories from beginning of freshers and the rest of the year. All I kept thinking
about was how I would never have met the people I had if i hadnt got into these halls and how great of a year ive had.

When I'd got home, I managed to persuade my mum to get a cat!
Meet Belle.

Nothing else has really happened.

Reading list:

Cecelia Ahern - How to fall in love.
George R.R Martin - Dancing with Dragons pt 1/2

Thats all I have so far, but there will be more added.

Summer tunes.

Kiesza - Hideaway

Ed Sheeran - Sing

I recommend checking the video for this out.

Mcfly - Star girl

Pharrell Williams - Happy

David Guetta - Bad

And Im going to add another song because it deserves all the recognition possible.

John Legend - All of Me

Ok, thats all for now.
Hope you enjoyed.
heres that link for my buddies kickstarter.
H.M.S Scarlet

TTYL,
Kirst x

Leaving people sucks.

Hi there, people of the internet.

I thought I'd upload, AGAIN.

this is my add on to my flatmates post I did the other day..

So, I turned the big 21 yesterday, and I had the smart idea to move the majority of my stuff out of the flat for the summer. BRIGHT IDEA.

I had to say goodbye to some of the best people I have ever met yesterday, and because of that I was crying nearly the whole way home.

Megan, Ashley, Daniel, Brienne, Emily and Kendra.

I'm not sure who out of these reads this blog, but this semester wouldn't have been the same without any off you, and I can't thank you enough.

You honestly made the semester a lot more fun for me, and for the other British people. 

However I got home, had a bunch of birthday cards waiting for me, and a load of cakes and presents, including the leather pandora bracelet I wanted off my mumma, vwhich was a huge suprise! Now today, I'm off to see mcbusted, with my friends from home.

I only had like 3 more people to put on my flatmates thing.

So here goes. 

Megan:

I don't even know where to start with this one. It's obvious from my blog over the past few months how much you have affected my life. It's going to be so hard to have to live without you, and already I'm not liking it, and I only left yesterday! 

I'm going to need to find a new team mate! Hopefully Ryan Air brings out those £10 flights, so I can spend a significant time in America with you and the rest of the crazy Americans I met this year. 

Brienne:

Such a lovely girl and a fantastic flatmates. 

It was such a pleasure to meet you and I'm sure we'll meet again in the future. 

Emily:

This one might aswell just love in regency with us. She's honestly like one of those bad smells that you can't get to disappear, and I'm so glad.

Emily is one hell of a lady and has been such a good friend. Although, I wouldn't go on a night out with her ;-) love you bitchtits

That's it, 

I know it's a short one, but that's all I had to say

TTYL,

Kirst x