Who Are You Again?

Why hello there!

Who are you again, you ask?

I've been asking myself that same question lately!

I apologise profusely for my lack of existence on here in a loooooong time. I honestly just haven't felt like blogging for a long time. A lot has been happening in my personal life as well as uni kicking my ass - they weren't lying when they said third year was going to be a testing year! I also got a new job a few months ago, so juggling that and my uni work is proving to be... a little challenging to say the least.

It's nearly Christmas though! Woop woop!

And we all know I have a deep love for Christmas. I've been to the Nottingham Christmas Light Switch-On (again), and then of course I've been around the Winter Wonderland market here (obviously).                                

I also went to meet my bestest girl in Manchester so that we could catch-up whilst drinking mulled wine and touring the huge Christmas Market there - it was incredible (again, obviously).     

I officially finished all of my uni deadlines for this term on last Friday too, which means I've finished all my deadlines for this year! How freakin' crazy is that?! It does mean I could relax a little bit more though for my final week of uni before I go home and get all the baby cuddles and snuggles. Then again, a lot of said babies are getting older now and try to wriggle away when I finally catch them to steal a cuddle *insert my sad, pouty face*.

I guess I have a hell of a lot to catch you up on then, considering the last time I blogged was in June - I'm a bad person (and blogger), I know.

So what's there to tell you?

Well, I spent most of my summer working and going around lots of UK beaches with my grandparents in their caravan (I made a nearby beach be the specification to whichever campsite they looked at).

And of course I spent a hell of a lot of time with all my little ones. I took Daisy to Edinburgh for the day with my friend and we went to the zoo during my summer break as a late Christmas present/early birthday present for her. The week before we went and all of the day we went she was singing "We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo" which is apparently a nursery rhyme she sings in nursery now, or so she told me. Whatever the case, it was the frickin' cutest thing you've ever seen!

Talking of my little munchkins, it was three of their birthdays and two in the same week during summer and they had an adorable little, frozen-themed, joint birthday party, which I was chief photographer for because I am the queen of taking too many pictures...

I also took way too many pictures a few months ago when we all went away for a little camping holiday which provided a well-needed break from uni as well as smiles and cuddles from a huge amount of cuteness!

My mama and I had a lovely little break away for a week in Glasgow. It was so relaxing and we got to catch up with some old friends too whilst we were there. My mum even let me drag her around the shops for the day, and anyone who knows my mum will know that this is a BIG deal because she hates shopping. And when I say 'hate' I mean hates shopping. So thanks for grinning and bearing it for me, mama.

I moved into a house with some of my uni girls, and my room is the best and the homiest ever (once again, thanks mama Fi *mwah*). I have a picture wall in the form of wardrobe doors this year, just to mix it up a bit. 

I was also lucky enough to get to go and see Imagine Dragons whilst they were in Nottingham on tour and it was, without doubt, one of the best concerts I've ever been to (although I feel like I say that about all of the concerts I go to).

I'm struggling to think of anything else worth telling you now... I've been so lucky to do so many lovely things lately that I just can't think of them all at once. That always happens, I sit down to write, thinking I've got so much to say, then realise, actually, I have nothing. Nada. Zero. Noth-ing.

Oh well. I hope you've enjoyed this little catch-up and, who knows, maybe I won't leave it six months before I blog again. Then again, maybe I will. Guess you'll just have to watch and see!

Katie x

(If you haven't already, please read my last blog post, it's an important one about the suffering my little hometown is going through at the moment. Just click HERE).

A Random 3am Catch-Up...

Hello!

First off, I'm getting kind of bored of that greeting... Anyone else feel the same way? Nope? Okay then. Just me.

Second of all, my foot really, really, really hurts. I tripped the other day and whatever I did it's now a not-so-beautiful array of colours - insert mental image of my pouting face and my poorly foot.

So... I haven't really decided what this blog post is about, I just really felt the need to write on this little space at 2:42am because why not?

I'm currently listening to my brothers 'Chilled Playlist' on Spotify and I'm strangely loving all of the oldies and slightly cheesy songs that are coming up; it's making me feel really home-y. It's just not having the chilled-sleep-inducing effect I was originally hoping for, instead it's making me ever so slightly nostalgic.

What else? As I mentioned, I've really hurt my foot - like a lot. I would love to tell you what I've done to it exactly but I actually have no clue. Zero. I tripped. And now it just really, freakin' hurts! (A cover of Hey Ya has just come on to my playlist (by some dude called Obadiah Parker) and it's strangely awesome...) I do have this brilliant pair of boots that I bought a couple of weeks ago from Topshop and thank god I did because they have been so good whilst I've had a sore foot - they're ankle boots but my foot hurts less when I'm wearing them; I'm sure my mum mentioned something about them being more supportive, or something like that. I can't remember entirely but they're really comfy and she told me to wear them - always take Mama's advice!

I've started dressing like an actual girl as of late too. As in, skirts and dresses and tights (which are the most awkward things to where ever. Seriously. Someone needs to make those things easier and comfier), it's quite the change for me but, not going to lie, I'm kind of liking it.

I've rekindled my love for fajitas since coming to uni. Random fact for you there.

I've also found that any and all writing inspiration seems to come to me at stupid 'o' clock in the morning, e.g. now.

I have read some incredible books lately! I definitely need to dedicate a few blog posts to them because they're the bomb.com... does anyone even say that anymore? It just came to me... 

Oooh! Another unfortunate incident of 'Katie's life' - I lost my railcard two weeks ago on my way back to my hometown after visiting my friend in Lancaster. I rang every company and station possible trying to find it and no one had it, so if the person who saw it and didn't hand it in is reading this 'You're a mean person." Yep. That's what I have to say to you. I was more unimpressed at the idea of having to pay £80 for a ticket home without my railcard. Luckily, my mum is quite the bargain hunter and found one for £25 but I didn't get into Nottingham till something like midnight. There's more though - I don't do anything by halves! I got back to uni and my key wouldn't unlock my door. So it had let me into the building, into my flat, but it wouldn't let me into my room. I was stood there like a numpty for ten minutes trying to make it work. It didn't. Of course. I had to ring security, who made me go to them so they could reset my key fob which, once I'd walked all the way back to my flat, also didn't work. I sounded like a right idiot when I had to ring security again and they had to come up and try and fix the door and let me in, with my suitcase, laptop bag, normal bag, everything at about half one in the morning. I was not impressed. They couldn't even fix it in the end, they just had to let me in and leave it at that. Like I said, I don't have the best luck in the world. 

I went to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 yesterday (or the day before if we're going to go on technicalities of time and all that). It was extraordinary, obviously! I might do a blog post about that at some point too - it depends how much I decide I could write about without giving anything away.

I doubt there's much else you really want to know. Then again, I doubt you even wanted to know that, but hey! You got it! 

Feel free to have a good laugh at my constant bad luck - it amuses my family (and friends - definitely friends) no end! 

Hope everything's running as smoothly in everyone else's world as it is mine...

Katie x