Feet up Friday

Go and make a cup of tea, put your feet up and just listen to this song:

"And our minds were meant to sail
Take a rest from our thoughts
Take a break from this world
And we'll feel miles away
From the places that we used to be."

Doesn't it make you just wanna live on the beach? Live on the beach with your guy called Maverick and possibly a pet dog called Freeda.  And it wouldn't matter if you didn't have load of money or that you didn't live in the best house because life isn't all about that. And because there is so much more out there.  You would spend your mornings watching the sun rise. Your afternoons, you'd spend learning to surf and thinking that if you got really good, you could open up your own surfing school right there on the beach in the future. And your evenings would be spent laying on the sand, staring at the sky, watching the sun go down and the stars slowly appear in the night sky. And maybe tomorrow you'll do something different or maybe you wont. And maybe you'll go travel somewhere for the day, week or month, or maybe you wont. And maybe you'll plan to have kids in the future, or maybe you wont. And maybe you'll go for a road trip to the next city and make friends with the other beach goers, or maybe you wont. It would be up to you and Maverick. You could decide, without the constraints of society.

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'What did you learn today? I learnt nothing...'

Well actually, I did learn four very important things today as I was reading away at my textbooks:

1. Stand up and stretch once in a while. Like proper stretch till all you bones click and you can literaly touch the ceiling.
2. Sunday = Crap Food Day as all your food has run out and you cba to walk to Tesco before it shuts at 4pm. So beans on toast for you.
3. Becoming a social recluse in the name of revision is the worst thing ever.
4. But then your love for Skype is re-ignited and you realise its the best thing since sliced bread.

Cool story bro... tell it again...

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My new love interest...

In my bid to make revision more interesting I decided to listen to Radio1's Big Weekend this afternoon.
It was pretty amazing, loved just listening to the live acts from the comfort of my student flat. It sure made Tort revision a bit more bearable anyway!

The line-up for the main stage was pretty immense with the Arctic Monkeys, Ellie Goulding, Chase and Status, Plan B, Nicole Scherzinger, Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters, Jessie J and Tinie Tempah all performing. My fave acts were probably Chase and Status, Plan B, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah and Black Eyed Peas. They had incredible energy, especially Chase and Status. How awesome would it be to be a performer and just have the whole crowd sing your lyrics back at you?

I think I fell in love just that little bit more with Mr Tinie Tempah too! Sure, he's been around for a  while now but I've never really paid that much attention to him to be honest. I think it was his performance at this years Brit Awards that did it for me though. Pretttttyyyyyy imenseeeeee:



So much energy I love it.
And today's performances were just as great:




Defo a little bit in love with him right now! And his Album is pretty siiiiiiiiiiick too. My fave track has got to be Unstoppable and Written in the stars. Oh and Pass Out, the track that made him of couuuuurse.

For more videos, check out www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend

UPDATE:



He looks amazing live, I gotta go see one of these days! I love it when artists get the audience to participate and shake up their song a bit instead of just standing their and sing from start to finish.

One wednesday afternoon...

One Wednesday afternoon, the sun was shining, children were playing outside and the Ice cream van was set to appear on the street any minute now.
On paper, it was the perfect summers day with just a slight breeze for comfort. Bliss.

And then it happened.

My mum got the phone call. The phone call which, after all the surprise and the 'hello, how are you doing?' comes the 'I've got some bad news...' sentence.
What do you say after that sentence? What do you say, what do you think, what do you even feel? This isn't supposed to happen, and if it does, its only meant to be in movies, in novels, in the newspaper, not on the other end of the phone.
So, what do you do when, what seems to be the perfect Wednesday afternoon, is shattered by that phone call?
Everything is happening so fast. Everyone is growing up, growing old, growing apart. But there are still only a few things in life that has the power to re-connect people after what seems like centuries. And one of them is that phone call. People come together, people reminisce and people offer their condolences in a small attempt to show that they care.

It's hard not to put things off for another time. Another day, week, month, year... but only God knows how our lives are going to pan out, so putting off a plan to go and visit someone may just be the wrong thing to do.

I didn't see it coming, one Wednesday afternoon in mid-April.

"Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me."

JK Rowling