bowling for soup

On the friday of half term me and three of my friends went to see bowling for soup! Im still excited about it. It was my first proper 'gig' and i enjoyed it so much! We went to the HMV forum in Camden (which is a kinda scary place) on the train, which cost a small fortune! My friend won tickets so was on the guest list and managed to get us in slightly earlier so we were in the second row! Really close to the front. Then we were waiting for what seemed like ages and my feet were already starting to hurt but i was so excited.

The stage

Then the first support band came on- Orange. Me and my friend had previously googled them to see what they were like and we had low hopes but they were actually amazing! The main singer, Joe Dexter(i found out his name later) had bright orange hair and a really cool red jacket! 

Joe of orange

Then they went off and after a short break we had the second support band called Suburban legends. They were equally as amazing and sung I just cant wait to be king from the lion king which was awesome and i could sing along properly. They also had two members playing brass instruments and they did little dance routines and they were so funny and cool!

Suburban Legend

Then the madness started. As soon as bowling for soup came on everyone rushed forward and i was so squashed that my face was kinda stuck to the guy infront of me's back. It was so funny though and i still managed to sing and jump and shout, especially when we decided to move further back to get some more space. Bowling for soup were fantastic and it was such a great night! I'm definitely going to go and see them again when they tour. 

Bowling for soup :D

Afterwards we went outside and we got pictures with the lead singer of orange (Joe from earlier in the post) and the lead singer from suburban Legends (who looked like a bit like doctor who because he has a jacket and bowtie.)

Me and Joe from orange and my friend. i had my eyes closed
so my other friend kindly gave me some replacements

Me and the lead singer or Suburban Legends (please excuse
my face as it is awful)

Half term

Today is the last day of the half term! I really haven't done that much this week. I had so much planned- do all my homework, start revision, finish my coursework, tidy my room, help around the house etc etc. But I managed to do none of them things. The stuff I chose to do- tumblr, talk to people, sleep and anything else i could find that wasn't what I needed to do.

My physics friend had a party for her 18th birthday at the beginning of the week and it was awesome! We danced, ate pizza and took a few photos (I would post one but I cant be bothered to ask people if they would mind me putting their photo on here.) I was quite proud of myself as well, I managed to keep my heels on for the majority of the night! Its quite an achievement as I'm one of those girls that do not like discomfort and heels are a major one.

I also went to see bowling for soup but im going to make another post about that :D And I went back to the caravan for the weekend. It was quite uneventful to be honest and now we arent going to be going down until next year.

Sorry for the boring post, i promise the next one will be more exciting with tales of a shelter kid in an unsheltered area ;)

Sorry...

First of all I just want to apologise for the humongous delay in me writing this post. I've not really been that busy im just kinda lazy and couldn't think of what to write. Sorry
Over the summer I decided to get some work experience in a hospital, at the eye clinic, as at the time I wants to do optometry (that's to become an optician if you were wondering.) it was great and interesting but a but repetitive and ice come to the conclusion that I dint think I can see myself sitting in a opticians and doing that same thing over and over again. So that idea was scrapped :(

I was kind of stuck  because I hadn't looked at any other universities or courses that really took my interest. I've always Been interested in law and being a solicitor so I decided I would look at that. It's really opened up my options, hundreds (if not thousands) of universities offer a law course. 

I've finally narrowed it down to 6 that im going to visit, hopefully. 

I'm sorry this post wasn't that interesting, i promise i will return next time with funnier stories... If failing that I will return.

City

I visited city university today and now I'm so confused! the course is amazing there and has been established for ages. The lectures were so good and i could have listened to her for ages. Every time i hear something about optometry i want to do it even more. But now I'm confused because i was certain that i wanted to go away from home but as i live so close to London there would be no point. And the uni has close links to morefields eye hospital which would be amazing to get experience with.

Ahh! not looking forward to deciding where I'm going to go.

Plymouth

This week i went to visit Plymouth university for the open day, i arrived the day before so got to have a look around the town and see what the actual place was like. We walked into the town centre searching for all the neccasary shops, primark, costa, shakaway, disney store etc and found all of them ;)

There was also this amssive screen showing wimbledon with chairs out, so we sat and me and my mum had starbucks whilst my dad had guinness. It was good and such a lovely day! then we spend aaaaaggggeeessss trying to find a decend restaurant to eat it and eventually ended up going to the on we originally looked at! The food was lovely and not even that expensive. By this point i think i was already in love with plymouth even though there was loads of walked and i was exhausted, it is just such a lovely place!

I also enjoyed the uni itself, it was a bit confusing at first and we had very little idea where to go but eventually we found the optometry talk and the woman played us a funny video about how people think opticians are vampires or wizards or something... anyway it made me want to start the course there and then! i also went to an accomodation talk and a student life one where i decided that i wanted to live in halls and join loads of societies.

Plymouth is definatly going on my list and probably high up aswel becuase im so in love with it at the moment. Just have to see what i think of the others.

Music taste ramblings

My music taste is so random and to some people- strange. I like such a wide range of music is so weird!

At one end of the spectrum there is Queen, the band that i have loved constantlyy through out my life since my dad introduced me to them pretty much at birh. I have a massive love for Freddie Mercury despite the facts about drugs and other stuff i still love him and cant think of him in anyother way than awesome. I really wish I could have been privaledged to meet him but oh well.

One of the most amazing men ever to have lived :D

Then there is stuff like good charlotte and 30 seconds to mars who are like rock and stuff. I loved good charlotte when i was about 10/11 and then lost them for a big, now ive gone back to them when im older i understand the lyrics a bit more. With 30 seconds to mars i was introduced to them and i loved them instantly, i love the lyrics and the sound is just amazing!


There is also yellowcard, paramore, boys like girls and Linkin park. Which are kinda punk/ rock.

Then at the other end of the spectrum i like taylor swift (just her music) demi lovato, jonas brothers and katy perry. Who are all really pop and mainstream. I like their songs that are just easy to listen to and fun. The jonas brothers lyrics may seem really cheesy and disney boy bandish but i can connect to them and i feel like some of the songs describe how im feeling sometimes.

Joes my favourite :p

And them i just like random songs an artist will do without actually liking the artist themselves, for example aerosmith- dont wanna miss a thing and bon jovi- livin on a prayer, which are two of my favourite songs!

Thanks for reading my random ramblings about my music taste and things :D

Australian aunts, Books, shirtless vampires and education ;)

The other day my great aunt came over from Australia, im so excited that shes here. Shes really funny and cool and i havent seen her in years! When she arrived mymum and nan were waiting for her and she had already arrived and was having a cup of tea and she came up behind them and said "Are you waiting for me?" i thought it was funny, kinda a crap story but oh well.

Im also half way through reading I am number four, its really good and excited. Cant wait to finnish it, then im gonna watch the film they made. I cant watch a film made about a book with out reading the book first it just seems wrong because they change the story most of the time and i want to know what really happens. It was the same with the harry potter books, evne thought i read them waaaaaaaaaay  before the films were started.

I have also decided to finally catch up on the vampire diaries (a tv series about vampire incase you didnt know) as my friends (and family?) have been nagging me to catch up, i was about a million behind. But im so happy i decided to cause i get to see more of this fine man ;)-

Just my day out

Yesterday i went to the library and got three books out ( i know its a lot!) and had to return my severly overdue book at the price of £6... woops. I decided on these three-


I am noumber fous, doctor who- kings dragon, torchwood- bay of the dead

I asked my tumblr followers which one to read first and they suggested I am number four so i went with them then got distracted so still havent started yet. (if your interested in my tumblr click here :)

I also went shopping today, i was in desperate need on a swimming costume thing for my friends pool party on friday ;) quite excited for that and i also got From Paris with Love dvd, some white cracked effect nail varnish, some cover up (cause im getting spots. again) and this beauty-

Its standing over my stairs in my room so he looks concerned that im going to fall down ;)

Im so excited for thorpe park tomorrow even though we are meeting at 8 in the morning meaning i cant have a lay in. But ive decided im going on all the rides possible ;)

Im back!

I'm so sorry Ive been gone so long but i had them dreaded exams and was away at half term so didn't have the time to blog, which breaks my heart and I'm sure the same goes for you ;) i know my physics friend has been missing me greatly as she was telling me to make a new post.
Ive been quite busy whilst Ive been away (ha ha) Ive sat all but one of my as exams, hopefully i only failed physics and perhaps decision maths. Anyway i will not bore you with that. I went to see pirates of the Caribbean: on strange tides and X-men first class. Both of these films rocked and are so amazing i would highly recommend seeing both of them. Pirates was different because it didn't have kiera knightly and Orlando bloom in it (which I'm not to fussed about) but it did have a few new characters like this one-

The man (this is the only decent photo of him i could find and its still not fantastic) 

And in xmen i discovered James Mcavoy, he is so amazing and i love Charles Xavier slightly too much...

I would recommend going to see this man, hes that good. Oh and also if you want all the questions that you have from the other films answered because it does that too. I could go and see it again quite easily.

I am planning to spend the last few days of freedom wisely, on Wednesday I'm (hopefully) going shopping, on Thursday i am going Thorpe park with a few friend and very excited about it and on Friday I'm going to a friends pool party which is going to be cool. So thats me this week :D

Hell day

Today was even more so horrible, maybe not as bad as yesterday but almost. I also tried coffee for the first time, which is suprisingly nice (of course not as good as tea.) I had a sachet from aldi and it tasted so nice! but after it made my tongue tingle but that could have been because of the over load of energy drinks i had.

I also found out that energy drinks are really not good and they dont have any affect on me. Which isnt very good as i hardly have any energy and need something to give me some. They made me feel sick but thats probably becuase i had two and a half cans which i doubt is recomended.

Ive had two days of 6 hours worth of physics which is possibly the biggest waste of my time ever as i have no idea whats going on and i have to sit there pretending i do. Also becuase i know that i could be at the caravan having a very good time im not really enjoying it- but its okay only one day left.

im counting down the hours until i get to the caravan

Caravan times

This weekend i spent my time at my caravan (a static one). it was amazing. It made me realise that i can be happy and that i don't need that stupid idiot at all.

I got there on Friday after an hour and a half car journey with my family and went exploring as soon as i could. our camp site has recently been updated and the bar and restaurant area is now called 'The Boathouse' which i think sounds a bit posh for a caravan site. Anyway when we got there we sat in 'the boathouse' and got drinks and commented on how nice it looked and all of the usual stuff you do when you are in a newly refurbished area.

Then the music happened. There was one song playing and it kept jumping back to the same part. it was playing for about ten minutes and i got so agitated that my family called over the bar helper man to ask to change the song.

This was the worst mistake ever. My nan then said to this boy (who is probably about 17-19) 'would you like to meet my granddaughter.' I NEARLY DIED OF EMBARRASSMENT! it was so embarrassing and then i made an even bigger mistake of telling my friend who didn't leave the poor boy alone for the rest of the weekend and even tried to take a picture of him.

But apart from that the rest of the weekend was amazing. we met the new entertainment team who are fabulous. I  played this gladiator game with one of the teamstars, Jordan, and he was nice in the fact that he didn't hit me to hard with the stick thing (that's the technical term) but i still managed to lose. I fell over whilst playing this game with my friend. Me and my family won a quiz with the team 'stormtroopers in stilettoes' and we won a t-shirt. I did some new party dances and played around the clock darts and lost.

So all in all i had the best weekend I've had in ages and woke up on Sunday with a smile on my face for the first time in ages

The result of an awkard conversation

Today has been quite a good day to be honest. I had a slightly awkward chat with a person about my recent breakup and she suggesting doing something proactive to try and help me. So today i tried playing the wii. I played just dance 2, which i have been meaning to play for a while, my biology friend is in love with the game and being as my sister recently got the game i thought id give it a go.

first i was slightly unenthusiastic and holding myself back a bit. But as the game went on i got into it a bit more and eventually even did the parts that you didn't really have to do to get points. But it just got so fun and excited that you just had to do everything. In the end me and my sister did about three songs and a medley of songs. After which i was so exhausted that i needed to do something more relaxing.

So when we finished playing just dance 2 we brought out the guitar hero (which i am awesome at.) we played Bohemian rhapsody and a few other songs. I got over 80% on every one. On the hard level. that's the level where you use all five of the 'notes' and all of your fingers. I love guitar hero.

heartbroken

this post has the potential to be quite depressing and i apologise about this and i welcome you not to read it if you don't want to be depressed.

So this week my boyfriend broke up with me.
Yes i feel like shit and probably look like it, cant stop crying, don't really want food, just want him back. But i know its never gonna happen so i have that to deal with too. I'm not gonna go into the gory details cause they will just upset me more and to be honest there weren't that many.

Basically its not what he wanted and everything and i respect that he told me now instead of stringing me along. Its just horrible because i miss him so much. Everything reminds me of him, people will say things or ill hear a song or see something and it just pulls my heart apart a tiny bit more. at the moment my heart is in one billion million tiny pieces and I'm not good with dealing with it.

i look a his picture on facebook and i just remembered how amazingly beautiful he is and then looked closer and he was wearing my scarf. Not  scarf that i bought him one that i gave him that was mine that he wanted and one that i used to wear. And it wasn't an old photo because i an sad and can tell by the size of his beard. That didn't help with the crying.

And he has a Friend. A girl friend. not as in someone he goes out with but a friend who is a girl. And before the break up we talked (and still do) and she was talking to me and just making me feel worse because he had spoken to her instead of me about our relationship. it kind of hurt cause i didn't want him to have to talk about us elsewhere i wanted us to be open together.

in short i want him to love me and i know he doesn't. Who knows he could change his mind in the future. I just pray for that day to come and that it will come. But if it doesn't then i will have to live with this broken heart of mine

Ranting

I think I am quite an open person to be honest, if you ask me something 99% of the time I am willing to tell you the truthful answer. So why people chose to believe things that I have denied are true I have no idea. I know that it shouldn't bother me as much as it does but it's just so irritation.

Whilst on the subject of irritating I have found another thing people do that irritate me- talk to me as a last choice, Ive recently noticed that I am never a persons first choice to speak to and as soon as someone better comes along its bye bye Lauren time. Eurgghh

I alpoligise about the ranting and wasteing your time but bad moods are always helped by venting your annoyance.

photo

I changed my photo to an actual picture of me this time. Shocking i know, not to risky is it? i was worried because i only like photos of myself when I'm smiling (even though i hate my smile) but photos on here and tumblr (where it is also my photo) are always so serious. I needed to find one that looked serious and that i liked, then whilst browsing my phone, i came across this one and i liked it and i wasn't smiling! even more shocking!

Also today i found out i have to give up one more free/ lunch time a week for maths. I think they have ruined our lives enough with the subjects already without adding more lessons on top? Or is that just my laziness talking?

Another thing that happened today- my boyfriend valentines day present arrived (i realise how late it is but it had to come from china!) Now the discussions begin on what to have engraved on it... this could take a while. but i think i will win.

Sounds like a lot happened today but it was just a usual day

stormtroopers in stilettos

today i attended a queen exhibition, and for people that don't know who queen are, they are an amazing rock band that were started in 1971 and consisted of 4 members- Freddie mercury, Brian may, John Decon and Roger Taylor. The exhibition was so amazing, it was about the re early years and how they formed. They were so different to anything had ever heard and there hasn't been anyone since them that is as great as they are. There was loads to see and as you walked around there were loads of writing and quotes on the walls from the band members, there team, the people that knew them and other modern artists. My favourite qoute was this one by Freddie Mercury-

The first bits my favourite, didnt really understand the second part to much, until my dad explained that the man was a famous ballet dancer. All the way around there were laptops with songs and unseen archive footage or the band and it was amazing to listen to some of the older stuff that i have never gotten to listen to before. I now have a real appreciation for how diffcuilt it was for them, it took them two years to get any type of recognition that they deserved.

I also found out that they were originally called smile, which i liked and this was there logo-

Bowling

Today i went Bowling, it was good. Hadnt been for a while and before i went i had accepted that i was utter rubbish at it and that i didnt like the game at all. we played two games and the first started badly but ended up getting better and in the end i came second (out of 5 but that doesnt matter.) So i was getting quietly confident that maybe my bowling skills had been waiting for the 17th year of my life to finally show up. my confidence wass rising and by the start of the second game i was smiling to myself and saying 'youve got this one in the bag.' But BAM my go comes and BAM i get 6. nothing else, just 6. I put it down to the break we had had in between the games, so i went up for my second turn and the score was just as bad (too painful for me to share.) so my confidence lay in tatters and i felt like the entire england rugby team had trampled over it.

This isnt really an accurate representation of what the pins looked like whe i threw the ball at them...

But i do think that even thought i was horrible defeated i have a renewed interest in the game, i enjoyed throwing the balls as hard as i could at the little pins. i think i will be going again.

Converse

i think im going to use my blog as a type of diary, im assuming thats was most people use it for? but dont worry its not like i'm going to spill out my deepest and darkest secrets, not that i have any really. Its just nice to have somewhere that you can discuss and explain what silly little thoughts are going around your head and i like that, i also like that i am typing, dont know why but i must find it 'theraputic.'

A little while ago, whilst searching for superman items i came across these beauties-

This was an amazing discover and i want a pair soo much. I have no idea how to get them so i highly doubt i every will get a pair, which makes me sad. This post has just completly backed up my obsessions one, so you can see im not a liar.

Eurgh, please someone buy me a pair?

Insecurity

I hate how insecure I am. I am always so worried that people don't like me or are talking about me behind my back. I worry that my friends don't really like me and that  I am as bad as the voices in my head tell me (and no that not me going crazy its just my mind). I'm scared that I always take the joke that little bit too far or that people are only talking about me because they feel sorry for me. I think the fact that I don't have a proper best friend has contributed to this, I mean I’ve had friends that ive considered my best friends but no one that really knows me and I know I can talk to no matter what the subject, someone that I could phone at 3 in the morning and they would be at my door at ten past. I mean I have my boyfriend and he is my best friend that I know will always be there for me but he is a male and maybe doesn't fully understand it sometimes, I know he tries and I want to explain that he is amazing but I need a girl best friend. My insecurities are constantly there, never on mute, everything I say or anything someone says to me they are there putting little hints of doubt in my mind about my abilities. I know this sounds rather dramatic but its how my brain is functioning unfortunately.

Obsessions

For as long as i can remember i have had obsessions, i know sounds crazy and to be honest I'm not really a stalker or get to much into it because my laziness over rides everything else. It probable started with Barney when i was very young, he was just so amazing and i mean who wouldn't love a massive purple dinosaur?? (your crazier than me if you don't) the songs were catchy and as i child i was enthralled. So after i moved on from barney which i'm still not completly sure i did, i left my obsessions for a bit and picked it up with the discover of very nice male celebritys, a major one being Micheal Weatherly, who played a character in a tv show that i love. I found various other that there are too many to name and a few that were not celebritys that I'm not going to explain about too much. But i moved on from male celebritys once i found my boyfriend, so i found myself obsessed with him, which is quite obvious. this obsession with him lead to an obsession with superman, i now posses a superman keyring, pink superman jumper, my boyfriends blue superman jumper, a blue superman top and other various superman related items.  But my brain was not satisfied by this so i found the wonder that is toy story 3, my family truely beleive that i am going backwards in my maturity and im questioning my aging myself. And of course long the way i went through several phases of games consoles and songs and websites which will probably not last much longer.