January Obsession

Dr Martens, lets be honest, they're like an infestation. They're everywhere, and honest to God I love them! I've seen people wearing them for ages, and since Bank is closing down *sobs*, and they're having a massive sale, I thought that now was the best time to get them!

So, if you don't know, here's the thing with Docs. They're military style boots, made with real leather. They're super durable and at the minute, very fashionable, although I never really see them going out of style. Docs are fairly expensive, looking at the website, they average at around £100. Yikes, pricey. However, they have tough soles and are ideal for the snowy/rainy winter weather conditions. 

They're notorious for being uncomfortable, but once the leather has softened up, they are really comfy.

Docs come in lots of designs too, from 8 eye, to 10 eye and ankle boots, along with a large array of colours and designs.

All in all I am very happy with my purchase, I got the dull black 8 eye boots, and I cannot wait to wear them.

Liv

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Stop Stalking People...

I've just had my mock exams, and WoW did I do shit or what? They were my first proper exams at college and I was unbelievably under prepared. And I'd like to dedicate that fact to my Internet stalking problem.

It's getting quite serious.

Not going to lie here.

Tumblr has both ruined and fulfilled my life.

I mean, it gets to 2 o'clock in the morning and in deep in the fandoms. Desperately trying to claw my way out, whilst being distracted by every preference, one shot and blurb I see on my way "out".

It's getting awfully scary now.

I don't really know what to do.

I'm just sat there, imaging a life with band members who are almost 30, and then convincing myself that its true! I don't even want to meet some of these bands! I've heard about 2 of their songs! Yet here I am thinking about how many kids were going to have and what our dogs going to be called! (2 and Holly js).

It's a bit of a secret life really. No one may know what I've been doing late night on the Internet you know.

I really need to sort my life out. I have no time to do all the things I want to do, I'm spending too much time stalking people. *cries*

Liv

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Top 10 Songs this month

I do love listening to music. It's always in the background to my life. Except in class, teachers don't like that...

This month I have been obsessed with these songs...

1. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (ultimate Christmas song, lets be honest)

2. London Grammar - If You Wait

3. Ms Mr - Hurricane

4. Alt-j - Left hand free

5. You Me At Six - Room to Breathe

6. Muse - Madness

7. Zhu - Faded

8. Coldplay - A Sky full of Stars

9. You Me At Six - Underdog

10. All time low - Guts

Maybe you want to listen? They're all pretty good, I promise.

Liv

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That Christmasy Feeling

I went to the Christmas Markets in Manchester today and ohhhhhh I am excited for Christmas now!

Disclaimer: image not mine

If Christmas isn't one of your favourite time of the year then your doing Christmas wrong! I love buying presents for people! It's so much fun thinking of presents for people and watching them open them! Ohhhhhhh I can't wait!

I think that Primark is one of the best places to get presents. I absolutely love the pyjamas in Primark! They're so cute and have they have shirts with minions and various other Despicable Me characters on. 

Disclaimer :Still not my image

I even love that it gets dark early too. It makes me feel so much more productive! And the Christmas lights are up and Christmas coffees are being sold and there's the rush of everyone going to eat presents. 

WHO DOESN'T LOVE IT? 

I SURE AS HELL DO!

Liv

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High School Reunion? Awks.

So, I went to my high school to pick up my GCSE Certificates tonight. And to be honest I was really excited to go back and see everyone. It's been a while since we've all been together, and I wanted to talk to the people I've lost contact with.

Upon arrival I am ushered into the assembly hall I've sat in for 5 years and things are all ready awkward. I'm just on time, so most of my classmates are already sat down...in exactly the same places they always sat. With the same people, probably talking about the same things. 

Not much changes around here. 

Well, I never felt like I really fit in at high school, don't get me wrong I had friends, I still have high school friends, but I was part of a large group of girls, around 12. Considering my year group was made up of 120 students, that's 10% of the year. Most of these girls I never got along with. They weren't mean, we just had different interests. 

Ok, so now I'm stood in front of my old year group, with anyone I want to sit with already with the people I don't want to see. So I sit on the front row (lol nerd) and wait for the 'ceremony' to start.

It's alright, we're called up name by name and shake hands with the head teacher and collect our certificates and sit back down.

Then its 'social' time, and I wanted to go and see some of the people I've been dying to talk to. But when we go into the main hall, the dinner tables are still set up and everyone goes and sits on their old tables. Me included it was surreal to be back there. 

I'd waited so long to leave high school, that being back was strange, not somewhere I wanted to be. So at our tables we sit, in the same seats, because we planned where we sat during our years there. 

This is when I realise. I AM back in high school.

I'm acting like I was back then, quiet, not making eye contact, feeling awkward, out of place. 

But that's not me anymore, I'm confident at college, I know lots of people, I smile as I pass them in the corridors. 

Now all I want to do is go home, because there I am the new me. High school was, as it is for many, tough for me. Going back tonight reminded me of how far I've come in the past few months.

I love college, it's so much better than high school! Everything's just better, better atmosphere, better teachers (except chemistry -.-), more people.

I guess I just wanted to say, when you leave high school, you can leave who you were behind. I sure as hell did.

Liv

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Goodbye VGHS...LAW READY FOR THIS?

I waited, fingers poised on my keyboard for the final episode of Video Game High School to be released today. It was good, so good, the ending between Brian and Jenny wasn't clear but the premise of the final battle was AMAZING!

If you don't know, VGHS is a crowd funded web series created by RocketJump, which has run for 3 seasons. The first season took more of a theatrical approach to the story, but the second and third seasons are more like that of a TV show, with episodes being around 30 - 40 minutes.

It revolves around Brian D who manages to game his way into Video Game High School, the place dreams are made of. Gaming is all they do! If it were real I might cry. Play video games for classes? Hell yeah!!

Along with his friends, Brian D games his way through his first year at school.

Watch the trailer here!

Honestly, this series never fails to make me laugh! It's one of my favourite shows ever.

I would recommend this to anyone who's even the slightest bit of a nerd. Even those who aren't. Everyone! Everyone should watch it!

Liv

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"It's all about the game" - Sgt. Ernie Calhoun

NC...YES!

I know the title is cheesy - don't judge.

This summer, I participated in the NCS programme run by the government here in the UK. It's aim is to get teenagers involved in the world around them, whilst developing key life skills.

I originally signed up as I didn't want to spend my summer melting into my sofa, and Oh God did it stop that all right.

The first week was an outdoor adventure residential and probably my favourite week. You start by being thrown into a group of 12, and you better make friends quick, your going to be spending ALOT of time with them!

Then it's off on your adventure!

The garden from my first week!

There's 60 people to a 'Wave' and 5 groups of 12 within that. You split into your groups to do your activities.

My first week in the lake district saw me climb a rock face, hike  a mountain (in borrowed socks, forgot my own -.- ), camp over night and meet so many new people. The first week is all about over coming personal challenges, for me that was rock climbing, where I became stuck and had a break down whilst clinging to tiny ridges in a reallllllly big rock.

I shared a room with 11 other girls I didn't know, and from the first night we would talk until the early morning! Some of these people are my closest friends now. It forced me to get to know other people, something I love doing now!

The second week was spent at Uni dorms in Manchester. Cold, very cold Uni dorms. Honestly I rolled about the apartment in my duvet every morning. During this week you work on skills, such as public speaking, presenting and team work whilst helping out in the community through a certain medium.

Eg. sport, photography, music, enterprise, drama and media.  

View from the top of the mountain. Wouldn't say it was bad. Also was the only time I had signal in my first week.

The third week, that's all about making a change. You are given the tools to organise a campaign to do something good in your community. I'm not going to lie, it was difficult to organise, but events management is hard, however it looks GREAT on your CV.

NCS changed the way I think about others, I'm more accepting, more willing to participate and more sociable (still not that great though). It's an experience I wouldn't change for the world, and it has given me some of my best memories.

I only wish I took more pictures.

If you have the opportunity, all I can say is do it! 

Liv

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