Finally, back-up from the stars!

A little while ago I was talking about dieting, and how drinking a lot of water everyday is really important in losing weight and staying healthy. Well Ladies, and possibly Gentlemen, here is a video I stumbled upon from a few of the Twilight cast talking about their On-set/Off-set regimes to keeping fit.

It backs up the water thing, but also the excercise thing so bear that in mind too. Last time I checked I was around 135lbs (a few weeks ago) but my aim is to be 105lbs by next April for my birthday. I've upped my game after seeing this video to drinking a gallon of water a day (8 pints-ish). I was never sure how much was too much, and didn't want my red blood cells to explode simultaneously like the woman on the radio, who was doing a challenge to see how much water she could drink in a certain time period to win a Wii, who ended up drowing her cells and dying of water intoxication..
So yeah, hope the video helps. It certainly has given me a lift, Happy New Year! x

Happy December 1st!

And what better way to start the month than with snow! It's been snowing all day here in Portsmouth but not laying untill 23:20 this evening! I'm in a crazy awesome/excited mood, sort of how a 7-year-old looking out his window right now may be feeling too. :-D
I hope it snows tonnes more and forces college into cancelling tomorrow.. I want to PLAY!
Planning on going up on Portsdown Hill with my good buddy Maia and a trusty make-do baby pool for a sledge tomorrow. Eeeeeeeee!
Buuut then I'd like it all to melt by Friday, so that my parents can get to the New Forest for their Christmas party/meal thing, and I can have a quiet evening alone watching series 1-5 of the Murder She Wrote series.. ;-D haaaah, JOKES. I've invited some friends over, and its gonner be SHWEET!

SO yupp. My weather preferences for tomorrow & friday had best be as I wish or else I'll drop-kick an unsuspecting Rainbow Scout to get back at Jebus or something. YES, I just went there.

N'aaw look how cute she is..

HER FATE LIES IN YOUR HANDS.

I wanna be RIPPED!

.. Okay maybe not ripped like a female bodybuilder, but I've decided it's time to get back in shape. I've been really bladdy lazy this year, and the fridge has become a close friend. I'm not classed as overweight BMI wise, but I am not at my ideal weight and I think that that is what matters the most. You need to be at a weight where you feel confident and comfortable with yourself.
So starting from now I will be sticking to my own personal regime (which isn't the healthiest of regimes I'll warn you). I have used this in the past and within a month and a bit I went from 135lbs down to 124lbs!
Here goes nothing, I used to skip breakfast and lunch and ONLY eat main meal, whilst drinking 3-4 pints of water throughout the day. I reckon I'll stop skipping breakfast though, cause that really isn't good. Instead I will eat bran flakes, and instead of sugar I'll have sultanas/raisins on it (or any fruit I fancy - don't fancy apples with milk though).
I mean if you've got a target to reach this has definitely worked for me, and it's the water I tell you! It's been proven that if you drink enough water everyday it contributes massively to successfully losing weight! I mean, you've still got to exercise, brisk stroll to the shop (20minis in my case) a couple times a day, or walking home from the bus stop (30minis in my case. At first you don't notice your weight change, and I promise you I always feel downhearted for no obvious result, give up and then run back into the arms of my faithful fridge. I remember 2/3 weeks into it I saw the most noticeable results, with pretty massive jump from 135lbs into the 20's. It feels good!
So here goes.. I want to be 125lbs by New year. I wont step on the scales untill that time, and will keep up the drinking water thing everday freegin' day!
Just gotta commit!
I would also like to take this time to say, that I'm not trying to tell people not to eat. It's silly, no; idiotic, and can lead to serious mental illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia. This is just how I go about getting myself to a weight where I can be comfortable enough to start a healthy diet and lose weight properly without damaging my body. Just warning yoou, and sorta defending myself for those who might think I am a bad example (which I guess I am) but hey ho.
Bring on the new year! :-)

God I miss her.

BLAAARSSSFHGHKVC..

I cannot stop watching Beauty and the Beast! It's so beautiful and lovely and ... --sigh.
Just so happy for it to be out on DVD, but I'm feeling a little guilty to have pushed aside my faithful VHS copy that has served me well all these years. Beauty and the Beast came out in 1991, and being born in 1992 I've grown up with this Disney classic. Have you ever got that feeling where you remember how you felt watching it when you were little? I mean like, those tiny things such as the ripped picture on the wall, or the broken mirror in the hall, or the club/gargoyle Gaston attacks the Beast with. Details that bring it back to you, makes it special again. I love feeling that! I'm watching as I type and I'm onto the part where Belle emerges from her room to go to the kitchen.

I'm SO ready to sing my lungs out to 'Be Our Guest'. I can hear my family running around frantically downstairs, anchoring the furniture down. ;-)

A friend of mine has a recording session tomorrow. How exciting, she really is talented and can't wait to hear her sing live! I'm currently doodling away art for her Album cover, just a little honoured! Better get back to it, or I'll get bladdy distracted again.
CURSE YOU BLOG!!...I didn't mean that baby.. Take me back?

You may call me V.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot.

Ahhh, can't sign off without wishing everyone a Happy Bonfire night! If you haven't checked out the movie "V for Vendetta", I would really recommend it. Especially the ladies who like graphic novel adaptions, or masked men in general haha!
'V' is a beautifully spoken, masked heartthrob! It's set in the near future in England and V is a charismatic freedom fighter trying to free the people from a discriminative, vicious government and taking his revenge on the people who disfigured him by re-inacting Guy Fawkes' plan to blow up Parliament.
Seriously, give it a shot, and I'm pretty sure you wont be dissapointed.
Enjoy the fireworks! Remember the idea, not the man ;-)

Van Gogh

We're staying overnight at my Auntie's. Mum, my sister and I sharing this rather small room.
Mum's snoring. It sounds like someone's using a blunt chainsaw to pillage through a car bonnet.. I clap loudly everytime duct-taping her face becomes a good idea..
It stops her for a short while, but it is quickly replaced with my sister's monotonous voice, asking me what the hell I think I'm doing. Well Rachel, to put it simply..
Jesus Christ, this noise! This hellish drone! It has to STOP!

I wonder if Van Gogh faced a similar problem, which lead him to tearing his own ear off.
CLAP TIME.. ;-D

On that note..

Last night, I drank too much, decided to have a swim in the Marina at 2AM then went on to take my knee out in a children's play park constructon site, found a cautionary "Slippery Surface" cone which I consequently wore on my head the entire way home. Better than staying in!

Sorry I went to mars for a second, but I'm back now and I've got T-shirts for everybody!

Been neglecting the ole blog! I've been feeling the need to break it in again for a while, but wasn't feeling commited enough to yak on :-)
While I've been gone alot of stuff has gone down!
So here's a breif sob story:
My Nan lost her fight with cancer. Well I say fight. She didn't even get the chance to fight what with the cancer being terminal and her being an 84-year-old. We were 3 hours late, and didn't get to see her before she died, but my mum was there holding her hand, and for that I'm so thankful. You see, my Mum hasn't really seen us much this year, shes been looking after my Nan in Plymouth. I went down there as much as I could, what with work and college. She was awesome though. I was very lucky to have her, and without her I doubt I'd be the person I am today, so THANKYOU NAN. Now we just have all the shit that goes with someone dying hanging around. Mainly money grabbing family members. It makes me sick inside if I'm perfectly honest, and I'm pretty sure my Nan would be dissapointed in a great many people. I'd prefer to just pretend its not all kicking off. What you don't know can't hurt you right?
The first and only thing I wrote after she died was a letter to her, because I used to write to her, and send her drawings, and just attempt to brighten her day. Sort of a goodbye letter. I put it with her ashes that are in her mother and father's grave. Jesus. Been hard.
Enough of depresso mode. Just needed to get it off my chest. Don't feel like I've been given enough of a chance to mourn.
Then my cat died. GREAT hah.
THEN today I went to the airport with my ALL-TIME best friend Martin and his parents and sister, to see him off on his gap year to South Africa to do youth work. Now that was bloody hard. He's the only person I would trust with ANYTHING, my life, my car, my ukulele, my anything!
Everyone seems to be leaving me. Super-duper. haha

Confessions of a Shopaholic..

Soo I got paid £200 on August 6th.. and within two days I now have £23.09 to last me the month. I curse whoever decided to unleash the power of online shopping into the world! I have so much to do this month as wellll! Mainly parties, but still I would like to be able to get there and back at the least. What I have spent my money on so far..
A crazy £100 duvet (never again will I be so stupid.)
£30 repaid to my outstanding debt for an Isle of Wight festival ticket
£30 Tesco raid brought on by boredom..
If I had more to show for it I wouldnt mind so much, but its a little annoying when it feels like I've drawn the money out only to throw it into the air. Gaddamnit April.
Im also just about to buy a Mini Diana Camera which will completely wipe me out. I still need to buy a fancy dress costume for monday, and then some beer for my buddies 18th, and then I need at least £15 to go to










TigerTiger on results night -unless I drink beforehand- in which case a fiver will suffice. arrghhghghh. I only have myself to blame
My auntie has gone on holiday for a couple weeks and we're looking after her dogs. Jezzie is under my duvet, trying to sleep through the noise pollution that is my laptop.
I had probably better sleep too, full day of work in 7hours 21 minutes. Yaaaaaaaaay

Surviving the Winter :)

So it's like 4.15am here. I got carried away with adding things to Kaboodle whilst watching The Muppets Christmas Carol :D SO here we are, another day another styleboard. This time my styleboard is all about winter clothes, what I intend to buy n' things. I thought I'd make a start on my shopping list because I don't usually manage to get everything I kinda hoped I would. So heres my early bird attempt ;)
I need to sleeeep. Ive gotta full day at work tomorrow
:( boo.. niggggght

< / 3

That boy rips my heart out. :(

thinking leads to mindaches..

aaaah. Theres so much whizzing around my head, leaving me desperately trying to sort it into some order of importance. College piles on the pressure when it comes to life choices, and Ill probably start sounding like a moany moanerson but hell. Its only, at college people start drumming into you how important things like exams are, and all these terrible consequences that will stay with you for the rest of your life if you don't revise and pass, and get good grades etc. What happened to those days when youre a kid, and you dont care what is going on around you. You didnt realise the beauty of the world that you now recognise and miss, you are free and unaware of all these pressures forced on you to succeed.
I feel like Im chasing an invisible dragon.
But Id prefer to let things play out, and see what happens, I just wish my parents would ease up on me a wee bit.
I need to call UCLA this summer and try and find out what I need to get into it. I have no idea what Im doing. That long distance phone call is going to kill me, but Its all so exciting!
Off to a school friends 18th party/BBQ tonight, really looking forward to it, so Id better get off here, and go get dressed! :)

..zzZ

Im sooo tired right now but Im up talking to a friend from work, who I seem to always blow off talking to as soon as he starts a conversation with me: "Sorry buddy Im just off". In every case I am innocent, this isnt an overused excuse haha, but I fear If I use my "excuse" again, he will no longer see it as a coincidence and mistake me as rude. Oh calamity.



Ive recently rediscovered post-secret.
BIG love goes to that whole shibang from me <3 (www.postsecret.com)

Who are you again?

Through my boredom I made a quick Styleboard on www.kaboodle.com This is my "Island Girl" styleboard, inspiration from all things Hawaii and the surfing lifestyle :)


Blimey, I've been away for a couple of months, my dedication to blogging lapsed and I got a little lazy. Sincerest apologies ;)
I finished my AS exams exams though, hoepfully they went okay but I'm not feeling it at the moment. Oh bother.
I started and finished my 4-week transition classes from AS level to A2 level, so now I'm a second year at college finally! Well onto summer holidays now let the good times roll, the joys of being an 18 year old student on summer break with valid ID and a reasonable amount of money to waste :D
I've met some really nice people in the last month, and I've been spending alot of time with them recently
Also I have found my favourite place to be in Portsmouth. Sitting on the chalk cliffs when it gets dark. It's so beautiful, it really is. I'll take a photo if I go up there later and upload it in my next post. Posts that seemingly are for the eyes of only me. To be fair I've only written 2 posts, I should give it a little more of a chance. But I'm not an incredibly patient person hha..
Im off to play ukulele for a bitto, then maybe off to the chalk cliff. GOOD TIMES! toodleloo :)

oh dear.

So
this is the beginning of the blog
I said I would never start hahha.
hello I think?
do people actually read these thiiings?
pffft
I dont know. I shall continue to ramble for a few moments longer..
Do excuse me..
SO bloggiiing! I am a blogger!
Ive attempted to video blog on youtube,
but it doesnt feel quite right.
Especially after playing my videoblog back to myself,
and finding that I wanted to punch the girl on the screen in the kidney,
In hopes that she might, well, zippa the lip!

right.
I woke up late today..
and missed the last day of college.
I missed group photos,
and goodbyes.
What I have learnt from today
is
that my lack of motivation
is costing me some really, very good things.
I missed GOODBYES for hecks sake! :(
grrrhhh.
I almost told myself off using my reaaal name. (I do that more often than not)
OooOoOh time for a codename!
Make myself feel like a superhero..
a superhero.. that doesnt really contribute anything to the world
other than the her mean frisbee skillz and the ability to sing
so far off key, she causes people to pass out..
so yes.
Motivation. Must get me some of that.
especially with A-levels coming up!
please, , dont fail anymore exams!
I feel like Im the only one whos not taking exams seriously enough!
Driving myself mentaaaaaaal.
I seem to be more stereotypically consumed with a stupid boy
and his stupidness..
..
He's not stupid..
that was a little unfair.
But I wish he was an awful person.
Then I wouldnt want to think about him so much.
and spend time thinking about what spread to put on the toast Ive just
flamegrilled in the toaster which I wouldve been thinking about,
If I hadnt been thinking about him.
See.
pish.
Im not usually like this.
he shall have the codename.... Captain Kill Drum. (CKD- which Ill end up changing no doubt, after I realise how stupid that sounds..)
Im sitting on the couch.
watching movie after movie on sky anytime.
First of all it was Accidental Husband.
which had a song that "Captain Kill Drum" -feeling the lameness of that eminating..- sent me a while back.
Bad times. More thinking.
what an amazing movie thooough.
then it was 17 Again.
I refused to watch that for so long,
because Zac Efron is in it.
But its really quite funny!
Now Im watching some crumby movie called Ghost Town.
Oh no, dont be deceived by the title,
This movie doesnt include Ricky Gervais, a hilariously pretentious Dentist who
died on the operating table of a routine colonoscopy? and now has the ability to see dead people
like the short blonde kid in the sixth sense.
Ohno nono.
This is some crumby cowboy 'horror' movie.
this is also quite funny.
but Im losing the will to live.
I think im still watching only to take pleasure in seeing all the baaaaaad actors die at the hands of the low budget ponyboys. haha
Ew...
they just ripped a guys limbs off.
Nice.
It is like 2.15am.
You cant expect good movies.


Jeeese-Louise.
have you sporked out your eyes from boredom yet?
.......
Im signing off.
I feel I need to dedicate my attention to the pending sissy bloodbath!

:)