29th, May; Sixth Form Is Over, And, Fashion Shows.

After many posts about my exams and updates on sixth form and how I`m absolutely terrified about leaving sixth form... It`s finally over! which means that I`ve got an extremely long summer ahead of me now, I hopefully wont get too bored along the way.
The three days that I had on my final piece seriously went quickly, I did get it all done in time though; but I still wasn`t happy with the final outcome.

It`s hard to believe that after two years, I`m going to be leaving very soon. Plus, year twelve seemed to go by so slowly and year thirteen has gone by quite quickly and it seems like we`ve had hardly any time to settle down properly in our new building. Another down side to leaving means that over the summer, I won`t be able to scan any work in or produce any form of prints over the holidays (I`ll be able to when I`m at University). Also, I won`t see Denise again! She`s an amazing woman who`s looked after me and David these past two years, she`s been like a second mother two us both and she`s now left since the school is making a lot of people redundant again.
if anything, it`s going to be a weird and long wait until results day, which is when Derby University will contact me to tell me if I`m definitely in or not. Then a short wait till I start University in September.
We also managed to sort out David`s accommodation, he`ll be staying at Sir. Peter Hilton Court which is only ten minutes away from the Markeaton street campus that we`ll be based at for the next three years or so. Hopefully it`ll be good news for both of us on results day, and we can get David to move on with his life and live a little bit... Finally!

A couple of us ended the year off nicely aswell by heading off to Nottingham Trents degree fashion show. It was amazing!
It was my first Fashion degree Fashion show since I didn`t go to any of them last year after being quite busy with my first set of exams at sixth form.

If your on Instagram, then enter #ntucatwalk and you`ll be able to find tons of videos and pictures from the Fashion catwalk and the knitwear catwalk which was just the night before. But check out their Instagram and you`ll find some amazing pictures!
Unfortunately, I haven`t got that many pictures from the night as There was a huggeeee pillar in the way so every time the models came to the front of the runway I couldn`t see the two models on the end. So that was a tad bit annoying, but then again, we got free popcorn on our seats and it tasted amazinggggg. I want to say that the Static show wasn`t as good as the run way, the outfits seemed a lot more commercial rather than contemporary and daring... kind of like, they played it too safe.
Afterwards, we went for drinks with our teachers and the head of textiles at Nottingham Trent, turns out she`s best friends with the head of art out our sixth form. The more you know!

If anything, It`s going to be quite strange not being at sixth form now; and if anything, I think I`m going to miss it there. It feels weird thinking that I`m 18, and I`m just moving on with life... But then again it doesn`t feel like I`m growing up at all, I just feel like I`m going with the flow of things and I`m still not quite sure as to what I`m doing right now. It`s just like, I don`t feel like an adult at all, and that I`m just trying to be an adult instead.

I`ve got a full week off of work and sixth form aswell, then Next Monday I`ve got to go back, hand in all of course work and sign off of my course for good. But seeing as there is going to be no art technician for the whole school now, I`m going to be helping with the big clear up... Once we leave, the block that we moved into won`t be used anymore, which means that everything is going to have to be cleared out as soon as possible; and hopefully, I`ll be able to help the care takers with it all. Most of the old work is going into storage I think, but shifting it all is going to be hard work for just the caretakers. It`ll only be a few days a week as I`ll be working and picking up shifts at the weekend.

Also, my student finance application has been approved, and I`ll only be able to spend £62 a week, and then I`ve got my part time job which will be getting me £170 a month. It`s going to be quite hard to budget myself, and to make sure that I`m going to have enough money to keep me going whilst at University.
I definitely feel like I`m going to struggle quite a bit with my money, not with the budgeting, but just with how much money I`ll have coming in. I hope I can afford all of my equipment and glass whilst I`m there, or perhaps the University will give me some extra help with that... I have no idea.
I am looking forward to the whole University experience, but I`m slightly worried about the whole money thing now. I can hopefully sort it out after a month or so of being at University, when I`ve experienced being there and I`ve got a good idea as to what I should be spending my money on.

God, I`m so worried now.

Also, keep on checking the art blog for an update on my final piece work!

Damn gurll

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17th, May; First Day Of Exams!

Lovely Walk With David On Sunday!

Before I get onto the boring exam kind of stuff; I`ve had an amazing week! To say it`s the week that`s been leading up to my final exam, and I still haven`t sent off the paperwork for my Student Finance application... Oh yay, still need to do that actually.

Since I`ve been mainly focusing on the exam and the preparation work for it all, I`ve been working my tiny, 5.1ft, angry midget, ass off for the week. I`ve gotten everything ready and I feel fully prepared for these next three days of being cramped in the same room for the whole duration of the exam period... Jesus I`m tired. The new medication I`ve been on has been helping me with my anxiety, so the past week has been feeling quite relaxed and lay back for once; feels nice to not be so worried about everything and anything.

Sixth form seems to be so laid back these days, it`s just like I wonder in, get a little stickman drawing finished and then I go home and annoy my mother for a little bit longer. A few weeks after this exam, I`ll be finished with Sixth form and I`ll be gone for good! I`ve said good bye to one of the most amazing Teaching Assistants aswell. She has left before, since she`s actually retired; but she came back to our sixth form as a teaching assistant and a charity ambassador for Every Last Drop (they support schools in Gambia) and Ben`s Den (supporting children with terminal illnesses). Along with doing all of the charity work, She comes in four days a week to support a boy in our class who has Autisum; and she also looks after the rest of us, since we`re all big babies who need mother Denise to help us with all of our problems... Usually me and David need most help, with literally everything you could possibly imagine.
She`s like a second mother and she`s amazing; so we treated her to a lovely big bunch of flowers, a nice box of chocolates and David drew and framed a portrait for her to take away with her.



Luckily, very luckily; I`ve had the weekend off to try and relax a little before the actual exam... Since I had nothing better to do on Saturday and David was at work for 6 hours; I decided it would be a brilliant day to completely clear out all of my old shoes and bags, but away all of my nerdy books about knitting and manga. Then, I proceeded to clean the rest of the house, mow and strim both lawns and trim the dogs fur since she`s extremely fluffy. Quite eventful actually, the lawn mower wouldn`t even work since it`s petrol powered and I had to wait for David to finish work since I wasn`t actually strong enough to pull the string for the motor. Then my nephew has been over all weekend and he hasn`t been very well, and David stayed over all weekend aswell... So it`s been a full house really! To top it all of on Saturday, David and I laid on the hammock together in the sun for a while (I burned the back of my neck slightly), that is until the dog ran at us and knocked me off.

Sunday I had a really relaxing day with David. Started off with the sisters stressing out a bit, and then Owen having a few more tantrums; he`s at that age where he`ll tantrum over anything and he ends up throwing himself on the floor and crying... he does eventually crawls over slowly and give Emily a hug, it`s his kind of way of saying sorry.
Since it was a lovely day, for once here in Ilkeston, we decided to go on a small adventurous walk down the nutbrook trail. However, we did go off the trail somewhat and we where on the verge of being lost for quite some time, I also think we went round in a few circles and down a few random paths that led to nowhere. It was really relaxing, if anything, I think this new medication really is working it`s magic on me; usually I wouldn`t want to leave the house and I would just want to stay in side in my paj jays, all of a sudden I just feel so spontaneous and I actually feel like doing something... Definitely working then. It was really fun, and I didn`t get too burnt, just lightly on the back of the arms; we did have to head back early though since David's back hurts a lot because of how tall he is.
I also got a lot of nice photographs of some of the wild flowers from when we went off of the path, and a weird photo that says "ass wizard"... Yes, how contemporary. It was just such a lovely day, and a lovely way to relax before three days straight of sitting in a room doing my final piece.


So I had yesterday to get all of my final materials and bits ready to add on to the piece; but I mainly ended up helping out other people and getting bits ready for all of them aswell. I also fixed five of the sewing machines, which was extrememly hard with my little stubby fingers.
Today, I started off by thinking I was getting loads done and I was soooo energetic to start off with; but it all drained from me as the day went on and by the last hour of today I was just slumped on the floor sat next to my work literally doing nothing.
It does feel like I haven`t done much today, I`ve only added a couple more thin layers and most of it you won`t even be able to see when all of the other layers have been added over the top. Tomorrows job will be to add the illustrations and anymore areas of text in the any space available, then a few more layers on top of white wash paint and then more illustrations; then if I have time, a few more illustrations and then the textures I`ve decided on using. I have got some weird texture ideas planned that I`ve used on previous work on the art blog, not from last years exam piece with the wooden pieces and binder, but from some of the preparation work from this project.

There will most probably be another update at the end of the week, or on Monday since I`ll be at work this weekend aswell.
See you then!


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3rd, May; Can I Honestly Be Bothered.

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Seriously, I feel utterly and completely lazy this past week, and to be honest with you... I feel like I can`t be to bothered with sixth form at the moment.

When I go in at the moment, I keep on feeling like there`s nothing else to do wince I`ve already gotten everything prepared for the examination; so I`m just trying to find something to do at the moment, but then again I`m not aloud to get too much done. The way the exams work, is that you can have everything prepared that you want to use, or prepare the stuff that you want to add on, but you can`t put it all together yet... Biggest pain in the ass ever. You have to wait until the actual exam day to put everything together as a final piece, still a pain in the ass.
Everything`s coming together nicely and I`ve almost got my sketchbook completely finished, It`s just my final piece that I`m waiting for.

I just feel like all of the energy is draining from me quite quickly now, I feel like going into sixth form is becoming pointless. There`s still a lot of people who are nowhere near finishing off everything in time... There`s like three of us that are having to just make work to keep us occupied until the exam. Boring.

I don`t feel too stressed out anymore, which is also a plus side since I`ve found a bit of time to relax a little. Like tonight, I`ve been binge watching Seraph The End, the first series cause I`ve never even heard of the show before. I have to apologize again for nothing interesting happening lately, my life is soooo revolved around this exam that I haven`t had time to do much else that`s somewhat interesting.
Work`s going fine at the moment, I am quite upset though, two of the residents have passed away in the past week or so. It`s feels horrible to go back in and not see them again knowing that I didn`t say bye, I know their not family but you still get attached to residents (even though you`re not supposed too). I am still enjoying it at the moment, I haven`t met anyone yet that has completely ruined one of my shifts, and I`m finishing my training quite quickly, so I`m quite close to gaining the basic care certificate qualification that I need to work in care.


I have had one relaxation day though, I went out with a friend called Dan and I spent most of my months wages on clothes and things for my mum, it was her birthday so I thought that I would treat her to some bits and bobs, she loves Pandora... I spent a lot in there.
It was really good to just have some sort of chill out day, we also spent about 2 hours in Costa just talking about University and what we`re doing in September. Plus, Sky where doing this game of thrones promotion thing in intu Derby, and it was that loud I couldn`t hear the guy shouting "eyes at me" when he was going to take the picture, I felt extremely stupid...

Along with everything else at the moment, like student finance, getting ready to leave sixth form, the upcoming exam and being flued up once more... I had a lovely doctors appointment...
That was sarcasm.

if you don`t normally read my updates, then you won`t know that I have a LOT of problems at the moment, like a LOT. I won`t go into full detail about most of the problems, but I`ve raised concerns over autism, again. When I was younger, my mum wanted me testing to see if I was somewhere on the autistic scale, if that makes sense. Even though I was 8 years old, I was apparently to young to be tested and I didn`t show that many traits; but now I`m 18, and I`ve asked about the possibility of being tested for autism. My doctor is referring me somewhere in two weeks, but... He says he doesn`t think it`s autism, he thinks it`s possibly Asperger's syndrome, which is a form of autism. Then he went through all of my traits, health problems related to Asperger's and I`ve now been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I hope that I do get a quick referral, I`m just trying to let it sink in that there may be a possibility of me having Asperger's, and no one has ever noticed for the past 18 years... It`s seriously crazy.
But because of this, I`ve been all over the place this week and I can`t really think straight. I`ll have to see what happens with the referral then.

Stole this off of Dan`s

Snapchat.
(Trying to find him some

new glasses).

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19th, April; Check Out The Drama!

How much longer will it take me to realize that I just can`t use anything

made by Apple!

Everything is still quite boring at the moment, I do apologize for not having that much of an interesting social life!


I`ve been back at sixth form for just over a week now, and I`m already falling out with everyone and creating arguments for no reason. There is a reason for all of this, trust me, I didn`t just kick off for no reason like I usually do. And with this one, I`m just going to jump straight into what happened and then try to change the topic again...


This girl (who I won`t name) likes weed, pot, drugs, whatever you want to call the green piece of fluff that everyone seems to enjoy these days. This girl was in fact my best friend up until the beginning of this year (so September), as she didn`t speak to me so I though "eh, fuck it" and didn`t bother with her anymore, still on a speaking basis but not a bestie, let`s go shopping basis.
So this girl likes the green stuff, a loooot since she got with her boyfriend (who I`ll also not name), and even though I don`t talk to her and I don`t listen to her conversations all of the bloody time... I can still pick up little bits of what she`s talking about.
Now, my sister literally almost died from taking the green stuff. She became an alcoholic and then became anorexic, her body was shutting down quite quickly and she was extremely ill; it tore our family apart and we almost lost our sister. But this I my older sister Emily, who is the most amazing single mum I`ve ever met, and she clearly turned her life around after almost letting the green stuff ruin it all for her.
So this girl loves the stuff, and I can hear her all of the time trying to get another one of my friends (who I will also not name) to try and smoke it with her and her friends, and this friend is (hopefully) going into the army, which could completely ruin his chances of getting in which would seriously ruin the future he ha planned for himself. She also speaks about how amazing it is to get high, how amazing it feels and how happy she is whenever she smokes it with all of her friends, how amazing it is to SMOKE IT when you`re pregnant (that can give your baby a brain hemorrhage and kill them in the womb)... Also, how the munchies apparently "cripple" you or something, god knows what that was about.
Then one day, last week, she was talking about it again, on about how amazing it is to smoke it all and how amazing you feel. She also gets people to sniff her bag since that just stinks of the green stuff and it`s absolutely disgusting.
Since this girl used to be seriously close to me, I thought she would at least remember me talking about how ill my sister was from smoking it. And her talking about it constantly is the equivalent to someone talking about hoe amazing cancer is... That`s just the way it feels to me, but she didn`t quite get that. Sooooo, I kind of ended up yelling at her in front of some of the people in the class, I got rather upset and cried awell since it reminded me off my sister and she was just saying that everything she say about it is what she`s been told... Which I don`t quite get, cause to me it sounds like her friends or boyfriend are putting words in her mouth, but you know, not my business.

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I did apologize in the end and I did say I was sorry and that I didn`t mean to yell at her, but I think she really isn`t bothered about my apology and she`s going to hate me anyways... Since that's what everyone likes to do with me at the moment. But yeah, I said I was sorry about it, I`ve been ridiculously stressed with everything right now, even breathing and blinking seems to be stressing me out.


Enough of that anyways!
The countdown to my exam keeps on going, I`ve got just under three weeks now to get everything ready and prepared for the final exam, the exam is three days long and I`m absolutely terrified of it. I`m doing a series of three boards showing the decay of nature and I`m using recycled materials that I`ve been finding so I can try and portray how we waste materials and kill the earth.. Weird right? I`m trying to get everything ready for the exam, but I`m stressing out about everything at the moment. Especially work, I`ve had a nice weekend off and I spent it with David and some friends, but tomorrow I`ve got a full training day with my mum and a loooot of other people who have also signed up. It`s an adult protection training day to ensure that we are safe guarding everyone in our care, I seriously love working there, but days like this will most probably be the death of me.

As far as art work goes, I`ve learnt how to knit and it`s absolutely therapeutic and I love it sooo much already! I haven`t knitted anything properly yet, just random small squares at the moment that haven`t really got any meaning, but I don`t mind, it`s just nice to sit in bed and do late at night whenever I can`t sleep. I`ve been doing quite a lot of small illustrations in one of my sketchbooks, and I`ve also been working off of ideas that I get from some of you guys, thank you very much for all of the suggestions, I`m getting down them quite quickly and They`ll all be on deviantart very, very soon!
I am quite scared at the moment awell, soon after my exam, I think about a week or so, I`ll be leaving sixth form and won`t be back in education until September, which means that I`m going to have a much longer summer holiday than usual.
Guarantee you, I`ll be working all the way through up until University.


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13th, April; Back To Sixth Form!

Found all of my old sewing equipment again!

The past two weeks where going to be my time to relax, chill out and just have some time to myself for the first time in a while. But no... I spent everyday (apart from two) at my job at Bramble Lodge and I`ve been trying to get to the normal working routines there, since for my job, there are four different routines that I need to learn like the back of my hand.
So I have been struggling a little bit with all of the different diets I need to learn for every single resident, and then all of the names of the residents and staff members.
Along with trying to remember everything there is that I need to do and remember everyone's individual needs... I also have to do coursework towards my job. To work without supervision and as a basic qualification, I need to complete the Care Certificate; there`s 15 standards within it (so 15 units/modules) and I have a week to do each Standard. At the moment I`ve already completed four of them as I asked for some more to do for after sixth form, but I haven`t got the next two yet, I need to go and pick them up as soon as possible.


In the holidays I didn`t do much, I am back at sixth form now which means that you`ll probably be seeing some more uploads from me on these three blogs.
I did however, did a little bit of collage work but not tons as I didn`t really have that much time to sit down and do it all. I did learn how to knit within the holidays, and I found a load of my old wool and string so I can start sewing again! Well hopefully. When I get paid at the end of the month, I`m definitely going to buy myself a sewing machine so I can start again, I don`t know why I stopped within the first place really.
Originally, when I was quite young actually, I really, really, wanted to go into fashion and do fashion designing. But throughout school I drifted further away from it as studying took over, and then Art lessons in senior school where all about making sculptures and stuff so then I completely drifted off from Fashion.
I`ve been thinking about it quite a lot lately actually, I think it`s because I`ve somehow found it all again underneath my bed... And I`m not even sure as to how they got under there in the first place, I really can`t remember finding them, to then put under there, forget about and then find again about a year or so later. I seriously do want to get back into something fashion related though, I kind of miss it. It makes me miss it even more when I see other people in sixth form doing fashion illustrations for outfits that they`ve thought of, I really, really want to start again!

Happy bees! Inspired by @sal_mon21

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So then, since I`m back at sixth form right now there`s going to be a lot more art work being uploaded over the next few weeks or so. In about 4 weeks, I`m going to be undertaking a three day long exam for my Fine Art A level, and I am expected to get an A grade in this.

I`m already practicing on small boards with different colours and textures, and even though I`ve only been back for three days I`ve stayed behind all nights until about 5pm/6pm and I`m starting to feel tired now.
At the moment, I feel like I`ve got enough work done to support everything I`m continuing to do at the moment. My sketchbook is almost complete, I`ve just got to document my practice boards and my final piece planning, and then I should be completely done until after the exam. Along with all of this, I`m just finishing my final forms for student finance, ready for University in September, I still need to make an appointment at the doctors to get them to fill in some forms too and at the moment I`m quite scared about sending everything off and I`m nervous about starting University in September.



Because I`m not going into University accommodation, I feel like I`m going to be left out a little bit and I might not be able to fit in aswell as everyone else will. David is going into accommodation, for personal reasons, and I think that he`s going to get on with everyone really well and he`s going to have a big friendship group to start off with... but for me, I feel like I`m going to struggle with fitting in as easily as David; he`s so lovely and everyone does love him, and I just feel like everything is going to be much more easier for him since he`s going to live where he`s studying and he`ll always have those other students and friends around him.
I`m going to join after study clubs and groups, there`s a gym there that I`m going to join and a huge gaming society that get together and do twitch streams. I`m looking forward to joining all of those, but still a bit worried about fitting in with Art students and other people that`ll be on my campus. Hopefully, it`ll be easier for me to make friends through those kinds of groups I think, a lot of art students are very competitive and don`t work together to much when it comes to projects, but it also depends on what course you`re on... Fashion is the worst for it!

I might just be thinking to much into it already, but then again it`s getting close to when I need to send all of my forms off and results day and then the Universities response to see if I`m definitely in or not... It could just be the anxiety setting in now, and I don`t know if anyone knows this yet, but every year and around about the same time, exam time, something always goes wrong health wise.
So for two years around about the exam week, I couldn`t eat properly, one year I had a facial tic, one year I refused to leave the house because I was scared and last year I couldn`t move for four days as I was bed ridden with violent vomiting... yeah... So I don`t know if all of this worrying is just because of my anxiety leading up to my exams.
Not sure yet, I think I`ll know when I`m blogging about me throwing up a lot.


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2nd, April; How`s the new job?

Hello, and welcome back to how boring my life is when I`m not at sixth form!

I`ve now started my new job properly, I had my induction shift on Tuesday and I`ve had a late shift and an early shift back to back which have absolutely killed me! It doesn`t seem like it at first, but it seriously tiring and I`m lucky I went out and got a new set of memory foam trainers before I started, if I had used my shoes from B&M then my feet would be extremely sore and swollen right now.

I`ve been shadowing this lovely girl called Jenny who`s a bit older than me, and she`s been showing me everything there is that I`ll need to know. I`ve also got a late shift notebook and an early shift notebook, there is sooo much stuff that I need to keep note of at the moment and I don`t feel like I`m getting anywhere with it all right now, there`s just too much to take in at the moment and I`ve only just covered one side of the care home. I`m going to be shadowing another woman tomorrow morning actually called Debbie, I haven`t even met her yet but I hope she`s going to cover the other side of the care home tomorrow because I haven`t even been down there yet and met the residents who live down there.
In total there`s about 60 residents there at the moment, so every morning that's 60 beds that need changing, 60 people who need drinks and 60 people that need to be fed three times a day and it must be absolute chaos for the carers... And that`s why I`m there! My job at the moment is only a homes assistant job but that means I do everything that the carers and senior members of staff don`t have time to do, and if I didn`t do that then nobody else would be able to work properly.
The managers are also amazing, since I`m working along side sixth form and then University so they`re letting me work two weekends a month so I still have two weekends to myself where I can relax and get any other bits of coursework done. Also, they`re paying for all of my training; the first certificate I`m getting is simply called the Care Certificate and it allows me to work in care without supervision and usually you would have to pay to do it yourself, but the home is paying for me.

I`ve also got a training day on the 20th of April, It`s adult protection and they run a lot of training days which they pay for, and then you get paid for attending the training day.
Even though I`ve only done three days of work there, I`m seriously enjoying it and I`m seriously happy to be there. The residents are so sweet and lovely, there`s just one who is so sweet and she walks around the home without a care in the world and I just want to take her home and cuddle her and give her biscuits... She`s that sweet and lovely.
Even though you`re working with people who have Dementia and Alzheimer's and a lot of them are severely ill, you would think it would make you feel quite depressed and sad to be around them... Even though what I just said probably sounds terrible to you, Working with them has made me the happiest I`ve been in a while actually; they are just so happy all of the time and talk to you about their memories of being in the army, or when they where at school and It`s just so nice to look at them smile whilst they talk about their old friends and memories.
I know it`s a terrible illness and it probably sounds like I`m glorifying it slightly, but even when suffering from something so terrible I`ve seen the brighter side of it all and I quite like it.

Very, very happy Amy right now! Plus I get

to buy nice new clothes when I get paid at the end

of the month!

Since I also did a Late shift (got home about 10pm) and then did an early shift the next morning (I had to get up at 6am) and I had been doing all of that running around, I was shattered yesterday and ended up doing nothing all afternoon, todays been my day off which means I`ve been able to work on my care certificate, upload this quick blog update and get an art post and anime post ready for upload.

Very tired, but I`m back to work and on an early shift tomorrow so I best wake up a little bit!




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27th, March; Getting Ready!

Decaying Sunflower Lino Prints!

So then, if you`ve seen the last update then you would of known about the wave of good luck that seems to of spread across my family. It`s really surprising how quickly everything has turned around for all of us and how we`ve all changed in like a month or so.

For starts, my house is over crowded, we`ve got; me, my two sisters, my mum, my nephew and three dogs all living under one roof which makes everything seriously hectic at the best of times. We`ve all been seriously stressed with the lack of room we all have and the lack of privacy we all have because of everyone being cramped together in the house, so now everything is going to get sorted out!
Earlier on in the month, my younger sister was walking to school and saw a rental sign on a door to a small two bedroomed house and my older sister, Emily, has been looking for a new place for ages and the council hasn`t given her any help to find her a place for her and my nephew. So just having my little sister see that one sign, now means that next week Emily is going to move out and have a place to herself!

We`re all going to help out with the big move, of course we bloody are, we`ll all be painting and trying to make flatpack furniture from Ikea. She`s really excited, well we all are really, it`s going to be seriously strange though without her around as she used to look after me and my little sister when we where younger and she`s always been stuck looking after us and in return we`ve been looking after Owen when she`s at work. My mum and dad in-between them are going to help get everything to the house, it`s not too far away, only a ten minute walk or so.

Skirt and Leotard both from

Ebay!

She`s already been out buying furniture and paint, and she`s already go loads of stuff planned for Owens bedroom; she`s going to have it Nautical themed, little boats and anchors everywhere, most probably the most vintage baby you`ve ever met.


David and I also spent yesterday in derby doing a bit of shopping together, it`s been a while since we did anything like that since we`re always studying and now we`re both always going to be at work at the weekends, so we managed to fit one day in where it was just us together chilling out and spending all of our money on clothes we`d probably never wear... Yeah, I always do that. I also wore a skirt out for the first time in like 4 years! which was quite nice, but I kept on pulling it down since I was getting worried about it going up all of the time we where shopping. I`m not the kind of person to show everyone what I`ve bought or blog about clothes and stuff, but I did buy quite a bit ready for my new job, new trainers, some leggings because they`re the comfiest to walk around in and I`ll be walking and running around all day trying to get the jobs done and I also got tons of new notepads and notebooks so I make sure to get everything right when I`m working there... I literally can`t get anything wrong since my mum works there too, she`s a senior nurse and if I let her down then I`m going to be in a LOT of trouble with her too!
I did also buy myself some personal goodies aswell; new mid-waist jeans that are obviously black, some new grey pumps for sixth form, white and grey baseball top, new tights for when it gets to summer because this year I`m actually going to wear dresses and skirts and then I got a long white blouse! So I guess I did well for myself, I did also get a load of new underwear, but you guys don`t really need to know about that now do you? no you don`t.

The white blouse from Primark only cost £10.00, I had to get

ready super quickly so I could go to the cinemas,

so I thought my new clothes would be the best things

to throw on!

Then later on, I met with my dad and we went to the movies with my Uncle Graham, Auntie Sue and Cousin Tom. By the way, don`t listen to the reviews on Batman vs. Superman because I quite enjoyed it, there where some parts that where all over the place and I got a bit confused and there where some parts that made you question the film a bit... Effects where great, Ben Affleck did a great job in my opinion, even though it looked liked a hench old man in a spandex suit at times. The film was pretty good, there are also a few more superheroes that show up, I`ll only say one of them though and that`s bloody wonder Woman... Like how and why? There are also three other superheroes that we see a clip of on the badguys CCTV monitoring system, obviously I`m not going to say who they are but the three that are left are all men and one of them is only a torso... So yeah.
The film was quite good, I enjoyed it anyways, slightly all over the place and I took a while to get into and understand properly but all in all I quite enjoyed watching it and so did the rest of my family. I just want to know why its getting so many bad reviews and as to why Ben Affleck is getting slated for his job as batman I thought he pulled it off quite well. he`s got the right body type to suit the character, he worked well with the given situation and he suited the secretive smart business guy kind of character... I think he pulled it off very well. Superman however, god he`s aged by a bit, compared to how young he looked in the older films with his baby face, yeah, he`s got on a little bit.
Rather strange film, I thought that there would be more fights in-between the two but nope, still enjoyed it though, there was nothing in there that made me hate it like other people.
People just loooove to pick fault with all of the superhero movies at the moment, there`s only so much that producers can do.


Also, I`ve got the two weeks off of sixth form but I`ll be at work now aswell. So I`m going to try my best to catch up with all of my three blogs and I`m also going to try and get some collage work done aswell, I bought some stuff home to use and Sixth form is open on Wednesday so I`ll also be going in there shortly just so I can scan in my work and then use them on Redbubble for some more designs. If you haven`t been onto Redbubble yet, then you might now know this but, you can now find my boyfriends designs on Redbubble, he`s done some super cute panda illustrations that I`m uploading for him now.
Hopefully I can try and relax a bit more aswell on my days off, I don`t even have that many days off these next two weeks but then again I`m not at work in the middle of the day, it`s either mornings or afternoons which means that I`ll be able to fit time around my shifts.


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