my life in lists #11: things to do when you're bored

1. listen to your favourite song on a loop
2. pretend you're in a music video whilst singing said song
3. create a scrapbook of obscurity
4. go to the nearest play park and swing as high as you can
5. be sentimental
6. be a troll on youtube - just to annoy the beliebers
7. discover something you never knew (aka watch a shit load of QI)
8. bake cakes and, naturally, eat them all
9. create a recipe/cocktail ideas book - complete with illustrations
10. take advantage of the free resources in your local area
11. go for a long walk accompanied by a long think
12. dress up without reason
13. try and walk as much of your local area as poss (see Jamie)
14. draw your surroundings
15. be indulgent
16. go for lunch with a friend and not give thought to the bill
17. make some ridiculous prank calls and laugh til you cry
18. call someone
19. make rules...and break them
20. search for photos of cats - you'll be occupied for hours
21. write a piece of fiction
22. watch movies back to back - only stopping to fill the bowl with more popcorn
23. count your freckles
24. write letters to loved ones and old friends
25. start walking and don't stop til you've found somewhere new and exciting
26. plan a holiday
27. send friends mixed cd's
28. pour a hot bubble bath
29. treat yourself to breakfast/all day in bed
30. take photographs of the littlest details
31. shy away from technology
32. watch the sunrise
33. watch the sunset
34. pick some flowers and put them all around the house
35. smile
36. be different
37. do some sponatenous exercise
38. take the train to a new place
39. have a walk in the woods
40. volunteer
41. put on a stupid accent for a day
42. visit a gallery
43. get tipsy at lunchtime and spend the afternoon giggling
44. take a cooking class
45. leave little notes in library books
46. create a wall collage
47. clear your phone book of people you shouldn't call again
48. go to the theatre
49. spend some time alone
50. surround yourself with people
51. dance terribly
52. attend a pub quiz
53. design!
54. draw the things that you'd put in a time capsule
55. list your favourite things
56. take photographs of the things you'd save in a house fire
57. write a blog post
58. collect your favourite quotes
59. people watch from a coffee shop window
60. go charity shopping and buy the ugliest dress you find
61. drag out your old cd's and embrace the 90's once more
62. do some colouring in on your boring uni notes - guilty as charged
63. write a love letter
64. order takeaway
65. watch all of river cottage on 4od - been there, done that ;)
66. write a story using a flashback
67. sew
68. explore
69. play a drinking game
70. film a VLOG about your passions - saucy.
71. spring clean
72. go for a nap and wake up not knowing what the time is
73. create a bucket list
74. create an inspiration board
75. try on your whole wardrobe and style yourself
76. do some fun diy on your clothes/furniture
77. try out some new nail art
78. sort out your bookmarks!
79. have a pamper session
80. hide your underwear in your partner's make-up bag (that's something Luke does....)

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I thought I'd publish another of my lists from my book of scribbles. It's Luke's birthday today so we've been celebrating by gorging on triple choc cookies. He's ventured off to play video games with the lads so I'm struggling to keep myself away from the Hotel Chocolat goodies I bought him as part of his prezzies! We are off out for a right old knees up tonight which will probably end in us coming home at 12 because we are too drunk for the club. I'm looking forward to it!

For those that are interested, the South West Christmas Blogger meet is still very much going ahead! I've got a lot of exciting details about it that I'm not yet allowed to spill but when I can...you'll be the first to know! Is anyone else stupidly excited for Christmas yet? They're building the ice rink outside my flat as I type - that surely means it's not wrong of me to be a little giddy! I'm off to grab a nice shower before chaos resumes. Have fun!

h is for happy: things that make me happy #50

Sweet lord alive, talk about life in the fast lane! I've finally finished reading the epic poem for tomorrow's 9am start. It's taken me days! Am I the only one that likes to write a billion notes as I go along? I'm massively missing the blogosphere but I've got the end of the week to revel in such delights and I may even get to see the gorgeous Lyzi so it's not all doom and gloom. I'm hell bent on going out and exploring once all my work is done so I'll hopefully have a mass of photographs for you all pretty soon.

I had my first ~proper~ lecture today complete with bearded lecturer, dumfounded moments and literary arrogance galore. It was great fun even though I felt slightly out of my depth when people were throwing extremely complex literary devices around the room as if they were commonplace in everyday conversation. I'm sure I'll become a little more confident soon! I'm going to have to be because I'm writing my first piece of prose this week before relaying it to my classmates. Good lord alive, time to get the creative juices flowing. I'm fully aware that not much of this is comprehensible but I'm on a tight schedule and I still need to tart myself for this evening's frivolity. I apologise greatly.

I'm off to nom a beany cheesey jacket potato before heading off to a UV club night. Don't you just love fluro colours and insane drunken idiots? Thank the lord for cider, that's all I can say! Here's a load of things that've been keeping me happy lately....

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What's been making you happy lately? 

my life in lists #10: current observations #2

1. vodka will always be kind to you
2. always take your key with you - the emergency man doesn't like 2am calls
3. freshers week will be the death of you
4. you make terrible first impressions - rectify them now!
5. freshers are 90% tosspots
6. celebrity masterchef will never fail to make you laugh
7. little miss la-de-da will never be friendly
8. smirnoff ice is like drinking lemonade
9. grandma + skype = winning combination
10. never go to a club sober
11. leaflets make good coasters
12. don't listen to drunken idiots
13. lose some tub
14. dubstep is terrible and you look stupid when you dance to it
15. don't try and phone your kebabby back home - they won't do delivery 2 hours away at 3am
16. some english students are terribly annoying. don't try to kill them.
17. induction week is boring but it gives you great people watching opportunities
18. anticipating starbucks' christmas coffees will never get old
19. dancing like carlton from fresh prince in a club is always going to be hilarious
20. you need to get your camera out and get snap happy
21. tuna pasta bake will always taste amazing. always.
22. falling asleep for an hour whilst you read doesn't count towards time spent reading
23. you look awful in geek glasses
24. apparently it's uncool to know all the 5ive lyrics..including the raps

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Hello! I'm just about alive. I'm terribly sorry that I've abandoned little V of late but life is pretty hectic right now. I'm knee deep in Freshers Week and my days have been taken up with boring chats and horrendously annoying English students. You know those people that take something from a poem and try and turn it into this big overarching idea without any clear evidence? Yeah, they really get on my tits.

This week has consisted of so many different things. I've been out and about, drinking far too much, disliking far too many people and rather enjoying myself all the same. I'm going to attempt to finish reading one of my texts for next week today but I know that there's far too many distractions to actually make me behave for more than five minutes. I don't really have many wild Freshers Week stories as of yet to be honest. Apart from: getting locked out at 2am, wacking out some dad dancing on the dancefloor and a shit load of drinking games. I'm going to try and dedicate some time this weekend to sitting down and sorting out the blog and hopefully wacking up some good posts for you all. What are people interested in? Wanna see my new hometown/abode/uni stuff? I was thinking of posting meals up or something? We've been creating bakes, stir frys and curries galore lately! That probably explains why my thighs are wobbling a whole lot more recently. I seriously need to get shredding.

I'd best go bury my head between the pages of The Odyssey! Hope you're all well. Little V will be back up and running properly very soon. I promise ;)

P.S If you head over to My Label you can use '10MYLABEL' at the checkout to get a cheeky 10% discount. If that isn't an incentive, I don't know what is!

h is for happy: week 41

Good afternoon ladies and gents! Welcome to another 'H is for Happy' post - the series that showcases all the things in life that put a grin on my face. I'm spending the day wishing for brighter weather so that I can re-shoot a load of photos that I took of some pretty little moths. Yes, that's what my life has become! There's something so much nicer about photographing animals. They're less...posey. They don't have time to organise the gap in their fringe or smile widely for the camera; I think that makes for a fresher photograph. Once my holiday is out of the way (not long to go now folks!) I'm going to start saving for better cameras and for some film for my Mini Diana. I've now documented 200 things that make me happy! When I started this feature, I had no idea how long I would do it for. However, I've realised that there's really no need to put a use by date on it. It'll run its course when it wants to, but, whilst there's still multiple things that make me happy, I'll be posting these weekly! I have no idea what the rest of the week holds in store for me so I think it's going to be a case of waking up and deciding what to occupy my mind with! I quite like that about my lifestyle. I have the ability to make each day different. I'll see you soon! P.S Someone turns one year old tomorrow ;)

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