Getting ready for a long summer :)

Tomorrow is my very last (official) day of college before study leave, revision classes and exams! It was strange to think that I'm never going to have English Literature or Law ever again after today, but it was also kind of exciting because it was another reminder that, come September, my whole life is going to change, whether I go to university or get my job. I will miss all the people I've come to know and love, but college is just a small part of my life and I can't wait to explore the rest!

Oh and I am so grateful for the lovely response to my post yesterday, honestly your messages meant so much to me :)

Love,

Say x

Yes, we're going to a party, party...

On the way to my birthday meal, we got very lost trying to find a friends' house which didn't appear on satnav and ended up being kind of late to meet everyone. Now, this wouldn't actually have been an issue; if I hadn't completely messed up the booking. Everyone else who wasn't in our car piled into my favourite Italian restaurant, Bella Italia, and explained the situation, that they had a booking for 11 people under my name. Hmm. There was no booking under my name. It turns out that when I thought I was being smart and booking online, I forgot to amend the date and ended up booking a table for the 19th instead! Luckily, by the time we got there the restaurant manager had managed to find us a table anyway if we waited half an hour, so we just sat outside and I got to open my presents! So it worked out in the end :) Moral of the story: always phone the restaurant!

It was an awesome night, and clubbing was much better than I was expecting- we found a room in the   club that played actual music! And I had a great birthday :)

...now I just have to get back to real life and start revising for my sociology exam on Friday!

Thanks for all the birthday messages!

Love,

Say :)

Last Friday Night :)

So, today it was my friend Trudy's house party. Now, I don't normally go to house parties, or indeed parties of any kind because I don't really drink and I am kind of antisocial. But I made an exception for this one. I was gutted that Oliver couldn't come because I actually had to speak with other people, but it was really good in the end. I enjoyed speaking to the few people I spoke to, and never felt awkward or out of place, despite remaining completely sober all night. I brought Oliver's 550D to the party to take some pictures for this blog- and it was a good conversation starter!- but it meant that I couldn't get as good pictures because everyone kind of knew I was taking pictures and most people posed or pulled a face for them! But here they are, badly manually focused with low light levels. Enjoy!

This one is of me and Trudy, taken by a photography student I so happened to be talking to at the time :) She did a pretty good job, seeing as she told me she couldn't use manual focus!

So they are the 'nice' if slightly out of focus ones. Then you have the drunken dancing shots.

My favourite shot is this one, though, by far:

I took it from upstairs in her ginormous house, a converted old people's home and I love it. It was such a good party, thanks Trudy!

See ya,

Say :)

Ps. If anyone of these pictures are of you and you don't wish them to be on my blog or the internet or whatever, just comment and I'll take it off for you :)

Just stress!

We found out what Annie's fits are! Stress.

She's coming out of hospital tomorrow and then she will have a week's rest and recovery with, I think, some medication before slowly moving back into normal life.

She's just fine :)

So we're both smiling again, even if I have about 6 chins in the picture above :P

On another note, I am just getting my Operation Christmas Child box ready which is very exciting! I am doing one for a 5-9 year old girl because me and Oliver did one for a boy last year and it is quite fun to pick toys and things for people to open on the other side of the world. If you don't know anything about it, check it out on http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/ :) They would love new people to get involved.



See y'all

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