So I want to take the time to express how proud I am of my main hows, my main bitches, the most weirdest people I know and have the pleasure of being my best friends. They worked extremely hard in their A-Levels, as I am sure everyone did, but these three girls neigh women have done their families proud. They all did extremely well, they all thought they failed but they didn't their hard work and determination paid off immensely.
Catharine - I am so proud of her, she put a lot of effort in every time we sent snapchats she was studying as well as having a part time job of being a lifeguard where the hours are well over the recommended limit, but she did it, she succeeded and now she is studying Geography at the University of Bristol.
Shannan - She's a smart smartie. She is one of the most caring people I know, which is why she is going to make an outstanding nurse when she graduates from the University of Manchester. We need more people like her in hospitals, a kind, caring and selfless natured woman.
And last but not least Sophie - She got in the University of Liverpool studying Psychology, after everything she has been through the past few weeks she deserves this, especially as she really thought she wouldn't get the grades to get in, but she did and she proved to herself that she can do anything.
So to sum up I want to say I am proud to have you three as my best friends, sorry not best friends, sisters from many other misters, congratulations on getting the results you deserve and you will do fabulously at uni, and if you don't feel like you fit in with those normal peasants we can always weird it up in the group chat where we are always queens *insert sassy girl emoji girl here*
Love you guys to the farthest galaxy and back
:*:*:*:*
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Friday 15 May 2015
Exams and Exhale
If you live in the UK then the exams have just started and if you are a GCSE student or As/A level student or even a university student you will probably be under a lot of stress, and you will be freaking out about passing the marks to get the grade you truly deserve. In this post I will share to you my past experiences revision techniques and peri-exam breathers you should do.
Okay well first of all lets start off with Monday, I had a resit psychology exam and I was prepared for it. I revised for it, I felt ready, I was bossing the past exam papers and I felt I was going to do great. However, I missed two questions out that equalled to 6 marks because I ran out of time. I felt so stressed and upset I wanted to cry so much but in the end its in the past and I might as well focus on the present exams, speaking of which I have a business resit on Monday, not looking forward to it at all, I just feel completely useless and shit so now I am writing this post whilst listening to the indie radio station on Spotify, safe to say I am on track for a U - yay great #winningatlife - Anyway my past experiences, well in my written drama exam I wrote three maybe four pages all together when we were ment to write probably 5 pages maybe 6 for each question? So that was great, I just didn't understand the questions they asked me so that's why I got an E in that exam. But one of my proudest moments was when I turned my D grade to an A grade in my PHYSICS exam, I am so proud of my self that I knew I worked for that grade I revised extensively, which leads me to revision techniques :)
1. Write posters with the main info for each topic; calculations, definitions, cases/studys etc
2. Write note cards; questions and answers on the other side, summary of each topic etc
3. Write tiny cues on post it notes and stick them round your room and mirror
4. Record yourself taking through that topic and listen to it throughout the day/before you sleep
5. Watch videos online of the topic and make notes (WARNING:IT DOES TAKE ALOT OF MENTAL STRENGTH TO NOT TYPE IN 'THATCHERJOE' INTO THE SEARCH BAR)
6. Read over a couple of pages and re-write the info onto lines paper and highlight
7.Use different colours when writing out information
8. Plan and write out essay plans, model answers to questions
9. Do practice papers and then mark them
10. Create a booklet on the whole subject then print it out and read over it - Be careful with this technique it took me hours to copy up 6 booklets and when I went back on to carry it on, I found out it hadn't have saved, so be sure to save it before you exit it
11. Create a powerpoint of the info
12. Create questions and answers and put them on different papers, then get someone to read the question out for you too answer then for them to check the answer
13. Create pictures that relate to the topic that help you remember; Evolution in Biology, draw a monkey and write all your information in that
14. Print out worksheets and go through them
15. Attend revision sessions
And finally breathers to do peri and post exam. I strongly recommended that you get lunch half an hour before your exam, you need food to focus, you don't want to be in the flow of writing then worrying about a massive grumble gurgling in your stomach, also I know its simply but BREATHE, just relax for a bit and do the best you can :) Also have some chocolate as it releases serotonin which makes you happy and relaxed which will make you more likely to feel ready for the exam, and lastly take a bottle of water in with you, just to make sure that you aren't dehydrated, just be sure not to drink lots of it as you may need the loo.
GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAMS !!!! YOU WILL DO FABULOUSLY AND GRACIOUSLY :)
Grab the exam by the balls and own it's ass :)
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Okay well first of all lets start off with Monday, I had a resit psychology exam and I was prepared for it. I revised for it, I felt ready, I was bossing the past exam papers and I felt I was going to do great. However, I missed two questions out that equalled to 6 marks because I ran out of time. I felt so stressed and upset I wanted to cry so much but in the end its in the past and I might as well focus on the present exams, speaking of which I have a business resit on Monday, not looking forward to it at all, I just feel completely useless and shit so now I am writing this post whilst listening to the indie radio station on Spotify, safe to say I am on track for a U - yay great #winningatlife - Anyway my past experiences, well in my written drama exam I wrote three maybe four pages all together when we were ment to write probably 5 pages maybe 6 for each question? So that was great, I just didn't understand the questions they asked me so that's why I got an E in that exam. But one of my proudest moments was when I turned my D grade to an A grade in my PHYSICS exam, I am so proud of my self that I knew I worked for that grade I revised extensively, which leads me to revision techniques :)
1. Write posters with the main info for each topic; calculations, definitions, cases/studys etc
2. Write note cards; questions and answers on the other side, summary of each topic etc
3. Write tiny cues on post it notes and stick them round your room and mirror
4. Record yourself taking through that topic and listen to it throughout the day/before you sleep
5. Watch videos online of the topic and make notes (WARNING:IT DOES TAKE ALOT OF MENTAL STRENGTH TO NOT TYPE IN 'THATCHERJOE' INTO THE SEARCH BAR)
6. Read over a couple of pages and re-write the info onto lines paper and highlight
7.Use different colours when writing out information
8. Plan and write out essay plans, model answers to questions
9. Do practice papers and then mark them
10. Create a booklet on the whole subject then print it out and read over it - Be careful with this technique it took me hours to copy up 6 booklets and when I went back on to carry it on, I found out it hadn't have saved, so be sure to save it before you exit it
11. Create a powerpoint of the info
12. Create questions and answers and put them on different papers, then get someone to read the question out for you too answer then for them to check the answer
13. Create pictures that relate to the topic that help you remember; Evolution in Biology, draw a monkey and write all your information in that
14. Print out worksheets and go through them
15. Attend revision sessions
And finally breathers to do peri and post exam. I strongly recommended that you get lunch half an hour before your exam, you need food to focus, you don't want to be in the flow of writing then worrying about a massive grumble gurgling in your stomach, also I know its simply but BREATHE, just relax for a bit and do the best you can :) Also have some chocolate as it releases serotonin which makes you happy and relaxed which will make you more likely to feel ready for the exam, and lastly take a bottle of water in with you, just to make sure that you aren't dehydrated, just be sure not to drink lots of it as you may need the loo.
GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAMS !!!! YOU WILL DO FABULOUSLY AND GRACIOUSLY :)
Grab the exam by the balls and own it's ass :)
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Sunday 15 March 2015
Heartbreak and Tears
My friend and her boyfriend have recently broke up, and this made me think of my break up and how, now, it seems like it was years and years ago but in matter of fact it was a year and a half ago. So I thought I'd share what I went through and hopefully it will help you, who is going through this tough time.
When you are in a relationship you feel on top on the world, you feel like you are in utter euphoria, and especially when its your first love you have an idea of what your life will be like together you want to be in love forever as its your first time, but in all honesty this will never happen, being with your first love forever has very low success rate chances, I know this because I am no longer with my first love, and at the time the break up hurt like a bitch, I was constantly crying to the point where my eyes ached for a rest from tears, my head hurt with thought that we are no longer together, and my mind raced with fantasies where I got a text from him saying that he wants me back and wants to never let me go again, images of him showing at my front door with flowers and the biggest apology raced through my mind day in and day out, but like a fantasy it remained un real, the life I had at that moment in time was just tears, sadness and heart ache. Thoughts no one will ever love me, that I will not be able to be myself with someone else, that the only way I could be happy was with him, these thoughts consumed my life, I felt horrible for the way I was as his girlfriend, thinking if I could go back in time and change every argument, change all the times I felt insecure around him, everything I felt I did wrong I wanted to change that. And everything everyone said to me ; "it will take time" "you will find someone else" I didn't want to hear it, all I wanted was him to tell me that he loved me. I was an absolute fucking idiot, all that time I wasted for who? A dick, who broke up with me over text, because I had an argument with his 'best friend', who ruined a Halloween party for me, who made up excuses why he no longer wanted to be with me, a guy who, thinking now, was not my type at all, a knob who confessed to me he wanted me to go to a party with him because he couldn't trust himself when we were together? An absolute twat who kept me in love with him for months after we broke up by using the lines - "we will be friends" "maybe if we still have a spark we can get back together" "I still like you" - But all of this was an attempt of - lets call it 'Fish-hooking', this is where the lad fishes around with some bullshit bait to get you hooked on whatever they are saying so when his life is shit and boring he comes back to you and messes you about, but because you are hooked on whatever dick talking shit he is selling, he reels you in then he fucks off when he has got what he wanted then you are left a sobbing mess moaning to your mum, friends on how much of a twat he is.
And now a lot of time has passed and I am so glad we finished things. The relationship was a good first relationship, but it wasn't what I wanted in one, I wanted excitement, spontaneity, a feeling that we are both free souls but travelling together, and it felt more like a day in a boring classroom having all the energy drained from me from all the fights, worrying, jealously, I didn't like it towards the end. I now know what I want in a relationship and in a guy and I cannot wait for it. I know it feels like now your whole world is crashing, tumbling, crumbling and you feel there is nothing you can do about it, you feel like no one will love you, treat you right, you feel like you will be alone forever, but you wont be. There is someone out there for everyone, I am strong believer of one true loves and soul mates, and that you have to kiss many ugly frogs until your prince magically appears into your life.
Here's how I got through my break up; I wrote down two lists, one that he will miss about me and things I will not miss about him, after I wrote them I ripped them up and chucked them into the bin, I felt a whole lot better because my thoughts were wrote down and the were gone forever never to be thought or seen again. Another thing I did is I wrote a letter to him about everything I thought, everything I felt, everything I wanted to say to him, just wrote it all down, then I kept it in a draw, until a couple of months later I saw it read it and laughed at how pathetic it was how I spent all my time focused on nothing, which I could have spent doing other things, like yoga, origami, reading a book, watching films, just so much time wasted on nothing, I then put it to a bowl and burned it, I then left it outside and I felt great. It does take time, granted, and you have to be patient but you will get over him, the cliché - there's plenty more fish in the sea - is true and believe me you will find someone else, but in the mean time just work on yourself, exercise, read as many books as you want, live your life and be happy, because its your life no one can live it for you, and times passing by so we need to live life and be who we want to be, there's no point dwelling on the past, its no longer there, its gone its disappeared, focus on your present and future.
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
When you are in a relationship you feel on top on the world, you feel like you are in utter euphoria, and especially when its your first love you have an idea of what your life will be like together you want to be in love forever as its your first time, but in all honesty this will never happen, being with your first love forever has very low success rate chances, I know this because I am no longer with my first love, and at the time the break up hurt like a bitch, I was constantly crying to the point where my eyes ached for a rest from tears, my head hurt with thought that we are no longer together, and my mind raced with fantasies where I got a text from him saying that he wants me back and wants to never let me go again, images of him showing at my front door with flowers and the biggest apology raced through my mind day in and day out, but like a fantasy it remained un real, the life I had at that moment in time was just tears, sadness and heart ache. Thoughts no one will ever love me, that I will not be able to be myself with someone else, that the only way I could be happy was with him, these thoughts consumed my life, I felt horrible for the way I was as his girlfriend, thinking if I could go back in time and change every argument, change all the times I felt insecure around him, everything I felt I did wrong I wanted to change that. And everything everyone said to me ; "it will take time" "you will find someone else" I didn't want to hear it, all I wanted was him to tell me that he loved me. I was an absolute fucking idiot, all that time I wasted for who? A dick, who broke up with me over text, because I had an argument with his 'best friend', who ruined a Halloween party for me, who made up excuses why he no longer wanted to be with me, a guy who, thinking now, was not my type at all, a knob who confessed to me he wanted me to go to a party with him because he couldn't trust himself when we were together? An absolute twat who kept me in love with him for months after we broke up by using the lines - "we will be friends" "maybe if we still have a spark we can get back together" "I still like you" - But all of this was an attempt of - lets call it 'Fish-hooking', this is where the lad fishes around with some bullshit bait to get you hooked on whatever they are saying so when his life is shit and boring he comes back to you and messes you about, but because you are hooked on whatever dick talking shit he is selling, he reels you in then he fucks off when he has got what he wanted then you are left a sobbing mess moaning to your mum, friends on how much of a twat he is.
And now a lot of time has passed and I am so glad we finished things. The relationship was a good first relationship, but it wasn't what I wanted in one, I wanted excitement, spontaneity, a feeling that we are both free souls but travelling together, and it felt more like a day in a boring classroom having all the energy drained from me from all the fights, worrying, jealously, I didn't like it towards the end. I now know what I want in a relationship and in a guy and I cannot wait for it. I know it feels like now your whole world is crashing, tumbling, crumbling and you feel there is nothing you can do about it, you feel like no one will love you, treat you right, you feel like you will be alone forever, but you wont be. There is someone out there for everyone, I am strong believer of one true loves and soul mates, and that you have to kiss many ugly frogs until your prince magically appears into your life.
Here's how I got through my break up; I wrote down two lists, one that he will miss about me and things I will not miss about him, after I wrote them I ripped them up and chucked them into the bin, I felt a whole lot better because my thoughts were wrote down and the were gone forever never to be thought or seen again. Another thing I did is I wrote a letter to him about everything I thought, everything I felt, everything I wanted to say to him, just wrote it all down, then I kept it in a draw, until a couple of months later I saw it read it and laughed at how pathetic it was how I spent all my time focused on nothing, which I could have spent doing other things, like yoga, origami, reading a book, watching films, just so much time wasted on nothing, I then put it to a bowl and burned it, I then left it outside and I felt great. It does take time, granted, and you have to be patient but you will get over him, the cliché - there's plenty more fish in the sea - is true and believe me you will find someone else, but in the mean time just work on yourself, exercise, read as many books as you want, live your life and be happy, because its your life no one can live it for you, and times passing by so we need to live life and be who we want to be, there's no point dwelling on the past, its no longer there, its gone its disappeared, focus on your present and future.
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Monday 2 March 2015
February Obsessions
I have been obsessing over loads of stuff this month so id thought id tell you :)
Music
I have been listening to Spotify over and over this month and my favourite playlists are;
- Afternoon Acoustic - This playlist is just so relaxing, light and peaceful. You can listen to it reading a bike, on the bus, driving, studying and even just lying on your bed, blanket, looking at the clouds. I have found three songs that I absolutely adore and they are called;
I have also been obsessed with an artist called Zella Day. I love her songs. Her voice is amazing and every time I listen to any of songs I just picture running on a beach or traveling the world, especially when I listen to 'East Of Eden'. Also I have already decided my first dance song at my wedding, sorry Dylan O'Brien my beautiful future husband but you will not have a say in it. It will be '1965' by Zella Day, this song is just fantabulously beautiful, its so romantic, my favourite line is 'Cut like diamonds we were made to last' I just get shivers every time I hear this song. So make this artist big, her talent is too good to be wasted and not be known.
Books
So I have just finished The Scorch Trials, and like I said in my other post about The Maze Runner READ IT ! Honestly I was on edge wondering what was going to happen and when certain stuff happened I was shocked, I didn't want to put it down, I have even printed a pic of mister Dylan and placed it on my wall 'cause why not? A lot of teenage girls do it so don't judge hahaha but yeah I don't want to spoil it but all I can say is I cannot wait for the film, its put in to my calendar not going to lie, and yes I will be in university when it comes out, I will be a mature, responsible adult buying and cooking my own food, washing my own clothes, doing a degree but I am going to put all that on hold to see the masterpiece of the film in the trilogy. So if you haven't got anything from that paragraph, 1. Buy The Maze Runner books 2. Read them, religiously 3. Buy the dvd and watch the film 4. Watch the film again as there is never too many times to watch it and 5. Go and see The Scorch Trials when it comes out in the cinema --- That's not to hard :)
Lifestyle
Now I have been eating healthier this month, by cutting out crisps and that's it because I saw some chocolate and I was like "me is going to have a piece of that", and I have had waffles nearly every single day, but I did eat them with strawberries so it was a healthy snack, in my eyes anyway, but I have wanted to do the '30 Day Squat' challenge ever since two years ago so I thought the next 30 days are going to pass me no matter what I do so just do it, so I am currently on day 8 of the challenge and I have to do 50 squats which isn't too bad as yesterday I had to do 90 which was a killer, also along side of it I have been doing the '30 Day Abs' challenge and I am on the 8th day but its a rest day so its okay. Now the exercises which you have to are hard well I find the plank hard, its just difficult for me but I have been getting better at it over the week so hopefully in three weeks I will be a master. If you want to better yourself or just want to see if you can stick at something you can get the apps from the app store (I don't know about android phones as I have an iPhone) so download them, try them and you will be amazed at how much you can do and how much you are willing to push yourself to achieve a goal.
Skin
I have been obsessed at moisturizing my skin this week as my eczema is really bad as of the cold weather, so I have been using prescription creams mainly double base and hydrocortisone, to try and calm it down a bit then I have been putting a cocoa body butter from the Body Shop on my face and over some bad eczema patches, and for my whole body I have been using this coconut lotion that I bought from body care, its from Inecto and is called the 'Pure Coconut moisture replenishing body lotion' for me it works and smells gorgeous. And I have been putting on Bio Oil/Rescue Oil onto my scars, and also on my thighs where there are tiny stretch marks, also I have been applying it to my bum to give it moisture, and look smooth and not rough, I know that sounds weird but it sounds right to me if you catch my drift ? Also because of the weather my lips are super dry and keep cracking, and it doesn't help the fact that I had a cold sore developing on my lip and so I prevented it by using cold sore cream and it went straight away, any way to keep my lips from cracking I have been using a mixture of Nivea's lip butters in the raspberry rose, caramel cream and the original lip butter. They keep my lips moisturized, I can top my lips ups, its not sticky so its a good lip butter not to mention they smell gorgeous and the caramel cream reminds me of toffee popcorn.
Hair
This month I have been obsessed with having half of my hair up tied in to a messy bun and half of it down either curled or straight, this style looks goods, doesn't take long to do so can be done in those school rushed mornings. Its good for long length and medium length, I know because my hair was down to my ass and it was so long I loved it but then I got probably round about 6 inches off, and now it goes just past my shoulder blades, most of you are thinking 'omg why get your hair cut' but I have to say there is a story behind it, but that's for another post, however its more manageable, and less knotty which makes my life tonnes more easier. Another style I have been using on repeat is having my fringe being plaited to the back of my head so it looks like I have half a plait crown. I cant explain it but there you go, again its easy to do in a rush, can do it in the toilets of school if you have had enough of the hairstyle you chose, on the bus waiting in line, you don't really need a mirror for it and its easy to do and can be done for virtually most hair lengths.
Film and Tv
This month like the past I have caught that vicious fever that makes you only want to watch Netflix, all day every day. And my Netflix addiction this month has been The Vampire Diaries. I used to watch it but then didn't watch the new series' that were the telly so I missed a lot but now I have caught up on them and I can safely say they are amazing! I cannot believed Damon died - sorry spoiler alert- I knew but I forgot and then it happened and I was like 'woah tvd what are you doing', any who I suggested you watch it even if you already have, watch it again. Can I just note my previous obsession of le Netflix was Pretty Little Liars !! I just cant go into how good this tv series is, I am in love with it and also Cody Allen Christian I have also fell in love with, for those who watch the show, you know why I have but for those who don't, he is Aria's little brother Mike who, in my opinion, is H to the O to the T and he is so cute and romantic and dreamy and I just had to correct the last two words 'cause I was too busy daydreaming about Mike aka Cody.
If you like me writing stuff like this comment and tell me and I will do more! Tell me what you obsessions are this month, maybe you only drunk a certain drink, only took bubble baths or maybe you are crushing on a famous Hollywood actor who will be your husband one day, don't let anyone tear you down from that dream!!
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Music
I have been listening to Spotify over and over this month and my favourite playlists are;
- Afternoon Acoustic - This playlist is just so relaxing, light and peaceful. You can listen to it reading a bike, on the bus, driving, studying and even just lying on your bed, blanket, looking at the clouds. I have found three songs that I absolutely adore and they are called;
- Bloom - The Paper Kites
- Home/Dirty Paws - Gardiner Sisters
- Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
I have also been obsessed with an artist called Zella Day. I love her songs. Her voice is amazing and every time I listen to any of songs I just picture running on a beach or traveling the world, especially when I listen to 'East Of Eden'. Also I have already decided my first dance song at my wedding, sorry Dylan O'Brien my beautiful future husband but you will not have a say in it. It will be '1965' by Zella Day, this song is just fantabulously beautiful, its so romantic, my favourite line is 'Cut like diamonds we were made to last' I just get shivers every time I hear this song. So make this artist big, her talent is too good to be wasted and not be known.
Books
So I have just finished The Scorch Trials, and like I said in my other post about The Maze Runner READ IT ! Honestly I was on edge wondering what was going to happen and when certain stuff happened I was shocked, I didn't want to put it down, I have even printed a pic of mister Dylan and placed it on my wall 'cause why not? A lot of teenage girls do it so don't judge hahaha but yeah I don't want to spoil it but all I can say is I cannot wait for the film, its put in to my calendar not going to lie, and yes I will be in university when it comes out, I will be a mature, responsible adult buying and cooking my own food, washing my own clothes, doing a degree but I am going to put all that on hold to see the masterpiece of the film in the trilogy. So if you haven't got anything from that paragraph, 1. Buy The Maze Runner books 2. Read them, religiously 3. Buy the dvd and watch the film 4. Watch the film again as there is never too many times to watch it and 5. Go and see The Scorch Trials when it comes out in the cinema --- That's not to hard :)
Lifestyle
Now I have been eating healthier this month, by cutting out crisps and that's it because I saw some chocolate and I was like "me is going to have a piece of that", and I have had waffles nearly every single day, but I did eat them with strawberries so it was a healthy snack, in my eyes anyway, but I have wanted to do the '30 Day Squat' challenge ever since two years ago so I thought the next 30 days are going to pass me no matter what I do so just do it, so I am currently on day 8 of the challenge and I have to do 50 squats which isn't too bad as yesterday I had to do 90 which was a killer, also along side of it I have been doing the '30 Day Abs' challenge and I am on the 8th day but its a rest day so its okay. Now the exercises which you have to are hard well I find the plank hard, its just difficult for me but I have been getting better at it over the week so hopefully in three weeks I will be a master. If you want to better yourself or just want to see if you can stick at something you can get the apps from the app store (I don't know about android phones as I have an iPhone) so download them, try them and you will be amazed at how much you can do and how much you are willing to push yourself to achieve a goal.
Skin
I have been obsessed at moisturizing my skin this week as my eczema is really bad as of the cold weather, so I have been using prescription creams mainly double base and hydrocortisone, to try and calm it down a bit then I have been putting a cocoa body butter from the Body Shop on my face and over some bad eczema patches, and for my whole body I have been using this coconut lotion that I bought from body care, its from Inecto and is called the 'Pure Coconut moisture replenishing body lotion' for me it works and smells gorgeous. And I have been putting on Bio Oil/Rescue Oil onto my scars, and also on my thighs where there are tiny stretch marks, also I have been applying it to my bum to give it moisture, and look smooth and not rough, I know that sounds weird but it sounds right to me if you catch my drift ? Also because of the weather my lips are super dry and keep cracking, and it doesn't help the fact that I had a cold sore developing on my lip and so I prevented it by using cold sore cream and it went straight away, any way to keep my lips from cracking I have been using a mixture of Nivea's lip butters in the raspberry rose, caramel cream and the original lip butter. They keep my lips moisturized, I can top my lips ups, its not sticky so its a good lip butter not to mention they smell gorgeous and the caramel cream reminds me of toffee popcorn.
Hair
This month I have been obsessed with having half of my hair up tied in to a messy bun and half of it down either curled or straight, this style looks goods, doesn't take long to do so can be done in those school rushed mornings. Its good for long length and medium length, I know because my hair was down to my ass and it was so long I loved it but then I got probably round about 6 inches off, and now it goes just past my shoulder blades, most of you are thinking 'omg why get your hair cut' but I have to say there is a story behind it, but that's for another post, however its more manageable, and less knotty which makes my life tonnes more easier. Another style I have been using on repeat is having my fringe being plaited to the back of my head so it looks like I have half a plait crown. I cant explain it but there you go, again its easy to do in a rush, can do it in the toilets of school if you have had enough of the hairstyle you chose, on the bus waiting in line, you don't really need a mirror for it and its easy to do and can be done for virtually most hair lengths.
Film and Tv
This month like the past I have caught that vicious fever that makes you only want to watch Netflix, all day every day. And my Netflix addiction this month has been The Vampire Diaries. I used to watch it but then didn't watch the new series' that were the telly so I missed a lot but now I have caught up on them and I can safely say they are amazing! I cannot believed Damon died - sorry spoiler alert- I knew but I forgot and then it happened and I was like 'woah tvd what are you doing', any who I suggested you watch it even if you already have, watch it again. Can I just note my previous obsession of le Netflix was Pretty Little Liars !! I just cant go into how good this tv series is, I am in love with it and also Cody Allen Christian I have also fell in love with, for those who watch the show, you know why I have but for those who don't, he is Aria's little brother Mike who, in my opinion, is H to the O to the T and he is so cute and romantic and dreamy and I just had to correct the last two words 'cause I was too busy daydreaming about Mike aka Cody.
If you like me writing stuff like this comment and tell me and I will do more! Tell me what you obsessions are this month, maybe you only drunk a certain drink, only took bubble baths or maybe you are crushing on a famous Hollywood actor who will be your husband one day, don't let anyone tear you down from that dream!!
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Saturday 28 February 2015
Apologies .... and Revision Help :D
I AM SORRY!! I haven't posted in a while and I am not making excuses. simply on the Fridays I have been busy. I have been busy with college work, I have been trying to revise as I have 9 exams to do this summer, and three of them are resists and two of them exams are the first full year of business so basically I am doing two years worth of business in this year, and I am not looking forward to it its just so stressful and not the most amazing thing in the whole entire world so I have trying to go over everything but I am just in that student phase of "cant be arsed, I will do it later".
College is stressful as I am sure every student will agree with me. There is just so much to do and its hard to juggle it all! There is study, revision, food, sleep, parties, friends, family, days out, relaxation. Sometimes I want to go to the highest mountain and scream! But don't fear if any of you need tips for revision here are is KatyNells Spectacular Study Tips;
1. Make sure you have a cup of you favourite beverage.
2. Make sure you have snacks, especially chocolate as it releases serotonin, the 'happy' neurone transmitter.
3. Have pens, notebooks, notecards and highlighters at the ready.
4. If you wish to feel relaxed massage your feet, or have a bubble bath.
5. Return to your desk and stretch all of your phalanges (fingers) make sure they are ready to write loads of words, lots of pointless words.
6. Clear your throat, as its always good to have clear air way passages.
7. Go on your laptop and open a tab to a page that has the topic you are studying, examples are; law, business, chemistry, biology, maths, english etc.
8. Get your notebook and write the title of the topic then underline, with a few cheeky bullet points underneath, and make very few notes after looking at the page.
9. Open another tab, Netflix maybe or that website where you stream the latest movies maybe, or get the boxset of your favourite tv show and stick it in the dvd player.
10. Grab your beverage, snacks and sit back and enjoy whatever you are watching.
So there you go, this technique I have been doing for a while now and I can safely say it has 0% success rate in getting that grade you dream for, BUT it does allow you swoon over you favourite characters, which c'mon lets be honest will take us further in life.
Hope you enjoyed this weeks post :) I will do one on revision and organisation of work and time but that will be when I actually know what the best technique is or how to actually organise everything as I am not a very organised person, yeah so hope you are having a fantastic Friday, and I will be putting up two more posts after this one to make up for the two I didn't post two weeks ago! I hope you amazing, beautiful, loving people have an fantabulous weekend!!
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
College is stressful as I am sure every student will agree with me. There is just so much to do and its hard to juggle it all! There is study, revision, food, sleep, parties, friends, family, days out, relaxation. Sometimes I want to go to the highest mountain and scream! But don't fear if any of you need tips for revision here are is KatyNells Spectacular Study Tips;
1. Make sure you have a cup of you favourite beverage.
2. Make sure you have snacks, especially chocolate as it releases serotonin, the 'happy' neurone transmitter.
3. Have pens, notebooks, notecards and highlighters at the ready.
4. If you wish to feel relaxed massage your feet, or have a bubble bath.
5. Return to your desk and stretch all of your phalanges (fingers) make sure they are ready to write loads of words, lots of pointless words.
6. Clear your throat, as its always good to have clear air way passages.
7. Go on your laptop and open a tab to a page that has the topic you are studying, examples are; law, business, chemistry, biology, maths, english etc.
8. Get your notebook and write the title of the topic then underline, with a few cheeky bullet points underneath, and make very few notes after looking at the page.
9. Open another tab, Netflix maybe or that website where you stream the latest movies maybe, or get the boxset of your favourite tv show and stick it in the dvd player.
10. Grab your beverage, snacks and sit back and enjoy whatever you are watching.
So there you go, this technique I have been doing for a while now and I can safely say it has 0% success rate in getting that grade you dream for, BUT it does allow you swoon over you favourite characters, which c'mon lets be honest will take us further in life.
Hope you enjoyed this weeks post :) I will do one on revision and organisation of work and time but that will be when I actually know what the best technique is or how to actually organise everything as I am not a very organised person, yeah so hope you are having a fantastic Friday, and I will be putting up two more posts after this one to make up for the two I didn't post two weeks ago! I hope you amazing, beautiful, loving people have an fantabulous weekend!!
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Monday 2 February 2015
The Kingsman has just made my list ...
On Saturday my dad took me and my sisters to the Odeon to watch 'Big Hero 6' however I didn't want to watch that so my dad let me see the Kingsman. So there I sat, on my own, in the cinema, eating my sweets, watching one of my new favourite films. It has the comedy, the action, and the attractive, handsome, beautiful, body sculpted lead male actor, also known as Taron Egerton, who also by the way made my list of 'future husbands' (maybe one day I will write about my list ;) ) Back to the film, I absolutely loved it! It was very comedic, I was trying not to be that one person in the cinema who belly laughs at one of the jokes and to be honest that was really hard to not do. The action, the fights, the adrenalin rushing scenes were amazing, they made me want to become a spy, do the ass-kicking karate kicks, the jumps out of the plane, have the awesome gadgets, but alas I cannot, which is heart breaking :'( But at least I will be re-live those moments whilst watching one of my new favourite films.
If you haven't already seen it, go and watch it now, right now, buy a ticket, go to the cinema and watch it. If its not out now buy the dvd, rent it, borrow it from a friend, even if you have to go to the measures of watching it illegally online, do it. Trust me you wont regret it!!
Untill next week, stay happy, keep smiling :)
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
If you haven't already seen it, go and watch it now, right now, buy a ticket, go to the cinema and watch it. If its not out now buy the dvd, rent it, borrow it from a friend, even if you have to go to the measures of watching it illegally online, do it. Trust me you wont regret it!!
Untill next week, stay happy, keep smiling :)
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Sunday 25 January 2015
First Club Experience
I am 17 and in the UK it is legal to go out and drink when you are 18, and you cant get in without id, so the fact that me and my friend got in underage and no id is great. We just walked up to the bar and asked for two shots of Sambuca, paid, drank them and then started dancing. To be honest at the time we were there, there were hardly any people but it was an experience nonetheless. I just think every 17 yr old has to experience clubbing before you are actually legal, it is a right of passage, there is just something badass about it. So many things happened, so many memories made, it was one of the best nights of my life.
Sorry this post was short, its just to tell you that rules are ment to be broken, be spontaneous as spontaneity creates the best memories.
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Sorry this post was short, its just to tell you that rules are ment to be broken, be spontaneous as spontaneity creates the best memories.
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Sunday 18 January 2015
Parties, Happiness and Hangovers
So last week was a depressing post, it was about the battles I have had with my health, food, weight and body image, but todays post will be about parties; specifically those with college students, alcohol, fights, tears and sex.
Okay, so I, myself have been too quite a few parties, and at those parties a lot has happened. Before I talk about it I would just like to say don't drink unless you have permission from your parents, it can be dangerous in excessive amounts and it can give you the most embarrassing of memories. So, there are obviously different types of personality's; you have the happy drunk, the person who always smiles, is jolly, who tries to make everyone laugh or they do laugh at the most littlest of things, the sad drunk, the one who is upset at everything, they cry all the time, the angry drunk, the one who flips out, who fights with everyone, the horny one, the one who is being really flirty, who wants to just have sex and kiss everyone. Chances are you know one of these, or you know more of these personality's or you are one of these or you are all of them. We have probably all been one of these personality's, I know I have. I have been really happy, smiley and carefree, I have been angry I once punched one of my closest friends and bit my ex, but in my defence they were being dickheads, I have been so upset that I have cried and cried and cried and I have also been in that mood where I just want a kiss and sometimes more. The point is that alcohol can make you feel all kinds of emotions, and sometimes embarrassing things will happen, for instance once I snap chatted a boy from my high school, who I admit I thought was hot as the burning sun, and in the morning I realised this and couldn't get onto my college coach because I was embarrassed, the moral is that whatever happens you just have to embrace it and learn from it and just enjoy life because everyone has a life but not everyone lives it.
So hangovers, they are nasty little buggars, they can just cause you to stay in bed all day doing nothing, like now I am currently tired, writing this post whilst watching series 1 of Pretty Little Liars on Netflix. Apparently orange juice is good at getting rid of hangovers, eating food is, or just relaxing not doing anything, which is what I think is the best thing in the world.
This was just a post about the different personality's of drunk people, and hangovers. Maybe next time I will write about my highs and lows at being at parties and drinking :P If you think there are other personality's that the average drunk person takes over comment them below, also comment which personality you possess, and we will have a laugh about all of the stories that make us want to forget the night before , that make us cringe at events that took place, that make us wish we drunk more or less than we did. see you next week.
love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Okay, so I, myself have been too quite a few parties, and at those parties a lot has happened. Before I talk about it I would just like to say don't drink unless you have permission from your parents, it can be dangerous in excessive amounts and it can give you the most embarrassing of memories. So, there are obviously different types of personality's; you have the happy drunk, the person who always smiles, is jolly, who tries to make everyone laugh or they do laugh at the most littlest of things, the sad drunk, the one who is upset at everything, they cry all the time, the angry drunk, the one who flips out, who fights with everyone, the horny one, the one who is being really flirty, who wants to just have sex and kiss everyone. Chances are you know one of these, or you know more of these personality's or you are one of these or you are all of them. We have probably all been one of these personality's, I know I have. I have been really happy, smiley and carefree, I have been angry I once punched one of my closest friends and bit my ex, but in my defence they were being dickheads, I have been so upset that I have cried and cried and cried and I have also been in that mood where I just want a kiss and sometimes more. The point is that alcohol can make you feel all kinds of emotions, and sometimes embarrassing things will happen, for instance once I snap chatted a boy from my high school, who I admit I thought was hot as the burning sun, and in the morning I realised this and couldn't get onto my college coach because I was embarrassed, the moral is that whatever happens you just have to embrace it and learn from it and just enjoy life because everyone has a life but not everyone lives it.
So hangovers, they are nasty little buggars, they can just cause you to stay in bed all day doing nothing, like now I am currently tired, writing this post whilst watching series 1 of Pretty Little Liars on Netflix. Apparently orange juice is good at getting rid of hangovers, eating food is, or just relaxing not doing anything, which is what I think is the best thing in the world.
This was just a post about the different personality's of drunk people, and hangovers. Maybe next time I will write about my highs and lows at being at parties and drinking :P If you think there are other personality's that the average drunk person takes over comment them below, also comment which personality you possess, and we will have a laugh about all of the stories that make us want to forget the night before , that make us cringe at events that took place, that make us wish we drunk more or less than we did. see you next week.
love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Saturday 10 January 2015
Kind of my battle with food
One of my New Year Resolutions is to eat more healthily so I searched for a recipe in one of my cook books that I thought I may like. It was called 'Prawn and Coconut Laksa'. I will put the recipe up soon along with some pictures (as they are on my phone). Anyway, it was pretty easy to make, although I didn't read the instructions properly, I was ment to cook the bean-sprouts in the pan with the curry paste you make and the prawns, I completely didn't do that so I had to quickly fry them in a different pan, nightmare haha, but as long as you read the instructions, it should be fine :) It was different, to say the least, I have tried coconut water before and I wasn't really into it as much, I once made a smoothie with the water - following a smoothie recipe - and I threw up, so I try to stay clear of it, but I wanted to try this recipe, it was a different taste, and I did like, however I didn't each much of it as I didn't want to push myself eating entirely different foods, tastes and flavours, but next time I make it I will eat more of it, not I will try to eat more, I WILL eat more.
Its incredibly hard for me to eat new foods, as I am a very fussy eater, there was a period when I was 10/11 I only ate pot noodles, and now I am eating strawberries, prawns, steak, fish cakes, stir-fry's and many other foods that I have never ate before. When I was younger I was scared of not liking food, I know its stupid but I didn't want to throw up, because it is a horrible feeling. I used to be really skinny, I was that skinny that I didn't want to be skinny, I wanted a little more meat on my bones, it got to the point where my mum thought I was anorexic, I wasn't. It was just simply the fact that I didn't like food and the food I did, wasn't exactly healthy food.
Then in year 8, I had appendicitis, but for 3 months it wasn't seen, as my body created a shield around it so that the poison from my appendix wouldn't kill me, anyway I didn't eat anything for three months because I felt so ill that I didn't want to eat, then one day it hurt so bad I went to the A&E and they rushed me too Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool, where they did a operation, however it turned out that they couldn't do anything as the shield my body created attached itself to my intestine, so they just pumped me with iv antibiotics for two weeks, the shield went disappeared and I was fine inside my body on the other hand I wasn't fine in my mind or in my outer body, I was skinny, I didn't want to be. I was round about 8 st at the time and that for me wasn't a normal weight for a year 8 as many girls in my year weren't that, so I ate and ate crappy food and gained weight, and I was happy that I had gained weight, but then I entered year 10/11 and that's where the lads would pay extra attention to girls looks and their weight. They kept calling some girls fat which made me body conscious, so I decided to exercise, I just did bits and bats over the two years, whilst eating healthy, and I was happy with what I was, I was 10 stone and I was happy.
That's until I got a boyfriend, he would call me skinny and say I have a great body, which made my self esteem go through the roof, until I started to do more exercise and then one day we were lying in bed watching a film, and I said something about doing more exercise and he felt my stomach looked at it and went, "yeah you have lost some weight, and you look better", that just made me feel like 'what, I thought I was fine and didn't need to'. We broke up a couple months later, and some time after that I thought, 'I need to be happy with myself, I want to be happy on my own' so I am working on myself, it has been a year since the break up and I am happy with who I am, I have been working on myself, I have been eating new foods, watching films I would have never had watched and I am experiencing the world :) I am a more happy with who I am, I don't give a fuck about what people think of me, people dis like me and I don't give a shit and I am finally glad that I feel like that!!! :D But, body issues still present an issue in my life, I don't want to lose weight, I am 9st 5lbs and I am happy with that, I just want to tone my belly, my arms and my ass (not going to lie) when I reach the goal of the body I have dreamed, I will be more happy than I am.
This is just for the guys and gals who have issues with their bodies, you are not the only ones, everyone has or does have issues with theirs, and if a boy says that the don't have issues with how they look they are probably lying I know plenty of lads that think they aren't good looking, that think their bodies aren't good enough, so it isn't just us girls. If anyone wants to talk about anything, I am here and I can try and give you advice, I just do not want anyone to feel like they have to change for the world, for other people, you don't, if you want to make any changes, make them for you, you are the only person that matters in this world, if I have learnt anything in the past couple years of my life its that. Do things for you, if you want to lose weight, tone your body, watch a horror, read an auto biography, climb a mountain, join tap dancing classes, draw a rose do it, just do what makes you happy, it annoys me that someone cannot be themselves, they cant be happy as when they are themselves and are happy they get picked on, judged, called out which turns that happiness upside down, no one should hide them true selves.
If anyone wants to talk about anything, I am here and I am ready to listen.
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Its incredibly hard for me to eat new foods, as I am a very fussy eater, there was a period when I was 10/11 I only ate pot noodles, and now I am eating strawberries, prawns, steak, fish cakes, stir-fry's and many other foods that I have never ate before. When I was younger I was scared of not liking food, I know its stupid but I didn't want to throw up, because it is a horrible feeling. I used to be really skinny, I was that skinny that I didn't want to be skinny, I wanted a little more meat on my bones, it got to the point where my mum thought I was anorexic, I wasn't. It was just simply the fact that I didn't like food and the food I did, wasn't exactly healthy food.
Then in year 8, I had appendicitis, but for 3 months it wasn't seen, as my body created a shield around it so that the poison from my appendix wouldn't kill me, anyway I didn't eat anything for three months because I felt so ill that I didn't want to eat, then one day it hurt so bad I went to the A&E and they rushed me too Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool, where they did a operation, however it turned out that they couldn't do anything as the shield my body created attached itself to my intestine, so they just pumped me with iv antibiotics for two weeks, the shield went disappeared and I was fine inside my body on the other hand I wasn't fine in my mind or in my outer body, I was skinny, I didn't want to be. I was round about 8 st at the time and that for me wasn't a normal weight for a year 8 as many girls in my year weren't that, so I ate and ate crappy food and gained weight, and I was happy that I had gained weight, but then I entered year 10/11 and that's where the lads would pay extra attention to girls looks and their weight. They kept calling some girls fat which made me body conscious, so I decided to exercise, I just did bits and bats over the two years, whilst eating healthy, and I was happy with what I was, I was 10 stone and I was happy.
That's until I got a boyfriend, he would call me skinny and say I have a great body, which made my self esteem go through the roof, until I started to do more exercise and then one day we were lying in bed watching a film, and I said something about doing more exercise and he felt my stomach looked at it and went, "yeah you have lost some weight, and you look better", that just made me feel like 'what, I thought I was fine and didn't need to'. We broke up a couple months later, and some time after that I thought, 'I need to be happy with myself, I want to be happy on my own' so I am working on myself, it has been a year since the break up and I am happy with who I am, I have been working on myself, I have been eating new foods, watching films I would have never had watched and I am experiencing the world :) I am a more happy with who I am, I don't give a fuck about what people think of me, people dis like me and I don't give a shit and I am finally glad that I feel like that!!! :D But, body issues still present an issue in my life, I don't want to lose weight, I am 9st 5lbs and I am happy with that, I just want to tone my belly, my arms and my ass (not going to lie) when I reach the goal of the body I have dreamed, I will be more happy than I am.
This is just for the guys and gals who have issues with their bodies, you are not the only ones, everyone has or does have issues with theirs, and if a boy says that the don't have issues with how they look they are probably lying I know plenty of lads that think they aren't good looking, that think their bodies aren't good enough, so it isn't just us girls. If anyone wants to talk about anything, I am here and I can try and give you advice, I just do not want anyone to feel like they have to change for the world, for other people, you don't, if you want to make any changes, make them for you, you are the only person that matters in this world, if I have learnt anything in the past couple years of my life its that. Do things for you, if you want to lose weight, tone your body, watch a horror, read an auto biography, climb a mountain, join tap dancing classes, draw a rose do it, just do what makes you happy, it annoys me that someone cannot be themselves, they cant be happy as when they are themselves and are happy they get picked on, judged, called out which turns that happiness upside down, no one should hide them true selves.
If anyone wants to talk about anything, I am here and I am ready to listen.
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Friday 2 January 2015
Just all about films
Okay, so on Tuesday I watched this film called 'The To Do List' . Its basically about a girl called Brandy who wants to be more sexually experienced before she goes to college, so she makes up a to do list of things to tick off when completed. I laughed loads, there are funny moments in the film but most of them are cringe, you will make a cringe face if you watch this film! As there are just moments that if were to happen to us we'd probably die of embarrassment. I don't want to spoil the film, so if you are interested in a kind of coming of age comedy about sex, embarrassment, love and all the things in between I strongly suggest you watch it !! However I wouldn't watch it with the parents, this is a film where watching it with parents is a no no.
Another film that I have recently watched is 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies', I am pretty sure everyone knows what has happened in the Hobbit so far but for those who don't here is what has happened;
Bilbo Baggins - Hobbit- is sent on a quest with dwarves and Gandalf to reclaim the dwarves home - The Lonely Mountain- that has been taken over by a dragon as the dwarf king had an unhealthy obsession with gold and riches. In the journey to the home they encounter foes, allies, elves, orcs, giant spiders, goblins and of course what film wouldn't be complete without a brief encounter with Gollum aka Smeegle. Any-who the journey is filled with mishaps and success, it is just your basic J.R.R. Tolkien journey through middle earth.
At the end of the second instalment of the films 'Desolation of Smaug' we saw Smaug - The Dragon- flying over to Lake Town. I won't give anything that happened in the film away, but all I can say is that it was brilliant end to a fantastic trilogy of films, although the last film I felt, personally was a little bit dragged out overall it was amazing. I was on the edge of my seat, I was murmuring things like 'go the other way' ' no!' 'don't go up there' 'Oh my god that orc just killed my favourite character' 'yay!' you know the basic things you shout at an action filled, fantasy mania filled, orc filled battle film. If you haven't watched the trilogy I strongly suggest you do, I love it, and if you love films like this then I am sure you will too.
Films that are suspected for release in 2015
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
Another film that I have recently watched is 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies', I am pretty sure everyone knows what has happened in the Hobbit so far but for those who don't here is what has happened;
Bilbo Baggins - Hobbit- is sent on a quest with dwarves and Gandalf to reclaim the dwarves home - The Lonely Mountain- that has been taken over by a dragon as the dwarf king had an unhealthy obsession with gold and riches. In the journey to the home they encounter foes, allies, elves, orcs, giant spiders, goblins and of course what film wouldn't be complete without a brief encounter with Gollum aka Smeegle. Any-who the journey is filled with mishaps and success, it is just your basic J.R.R. Tolkien journey through middle earth.
At the end of the second instalment of the films 'Desolation of Smaug' we saw Smaug - The Dragon- flying over to Lake Town. I won't give anything that happened in the film away, but all I can say is that it was brilliant end to a fantastic trilogy of films, although the last film I felt, personally was a little bit dragged out overall it was amazing. I was on the edge of my seat, I was murmuring things like 'go the other way' ' no!' 'don't go up there' 'Oh my god that orc just killed my favourite character' 'yay!' you know the basic things you shout at an action filled, fantasy mania filled, orc filled battle film. If you haven't watched the trilogy I strongly suggest you do, I love it, and if you love films like this then I am sure you will too.
Films that are suspected for release in 2015
- The Women in Black 2 Angels of Death
- Taken 3
- Mortdecai
- Jupiter Ascending
- Fifty Shades Of Grey
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Hot Tub Time Machine 2
- Insurgent
- Just Before I Go
- Furious 7
- The DUFF
- The Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Paper Towns
- Insidious: Chapter 3
- Ted 2
- Magic Mike XXL
- Goosebumps
- The Fantastic Four
- Triple Nine
- The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
- Inferno
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- True Story
- Focus
- Spectre
- In the Heart of the Sea
Love yours truly
KatyNells xoxo
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