Fool of a Took!

I did it. I finally finished Lord of the Rings. By far one of the best films I've seen. It's only taken me 9 months to do it. There's a lot of stuff I could have done in that time like produce a spawn - but there's plenty of folk already doing that so I've no need to jump on that particular bandwagon. 


Want proof? Well, I can't really give you any but here's Frodo looking terrified whilst he battles a huge spider:

So, that's one thing off of my New Years resolution list. That's right. One thing. Ok, so I was never going to be any good at keeping them. The gym thing is pretty much dead in the water. I've not even graced Virgin Active with my presence let alone wrapped my sweaty little fingers around the rowing machine or the jiggly power plates which, by the way, are frikken killers! As for the whole blogging thing... well this is my first update in almost a month. So... yeah.


However, the crap tonne of movies is actually going to plan. I've seen (brace yourself for an exciting list):

• Fantastic Mr Fox - really good actually
• Rango
• Devil - Worst. Acting. Ever. Apart from the crazy Spanish dude.
• Sherlock Holmes: A game of shadows
• Jackass 3
• Jackass 3.5
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
• The Dark Knight
• Lord of the Rings (it totally counts!)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Yeah, so it's not a huge list but it's probably more films than I watched in all of 2011. Mock me if you will.

Finished? Fantastic.

I've also discovered I'm terrible at saving. I just like to buy things. I have bought 3 jackets, 3 (or 4/5. I forget) pairs of shoes, jewellery, super squishy mattress topper and 2 new prints. Plus a crap tonne of other stuff I've forgotten about. Sigh. 

And. By far one of the best things I've done since moving to Edinburgh, was eat at Illegal Jack's. Holy crap is their food the best. Go there. Go there NOW! Bring me back a burrito.

Nom.

Hello New Year, you sexy beast.

It's come to my attention that not only do I suck at blogging but I'm also stupidly lazy. So lazy that I spent the last 2 days in my jammies at my friends house to only come home and jump right back into bed. I have come to the exciting conclusion that things need to change.

Of course everyone says "oh my goooossh! It's a new year and it will be a new me". Shut up. You don't need a new year to change the things you want to change. Having said that, I'm willing to hold my hands up and admit that yes, that is also my plan. Pot, kettle eh?

So, my new year resolutions are as follows (hold onto your hats, things are about to get exciting!):

• Get fit
  I'd actually considered cancelling my gym membership but glancing over at the A3 size box filled with chocolate, I have decided that that probably isn't a wise choice. It's something I've been meaning to do for ages. I used to look like this:

   Minus all the bangles and the slight weird look I've got going on there, I'd like to be roughly that size again.

• Be more spontaneous
  I've been pretty boring the past few years. Done nada and only been on one holiday in the past 9 years. This year will be the year I pack bags and run off for long weekends at a moments notice. I will enjoy life and be happier. I'm fed up sulking.
  
• Blog
  I had every intention during my final year of uni to write this damn blog every week. Not for other people, but for myself. Kinda like a diary so I could read it back and laugh at how stupid I thought my problems were. I'm pretty sure my only concern was if I had batteries for my dictaphone - my day was ruined without it.
  So my plan is to now at least keep it half updated. It will have no theme (and forever float around in the blogosphere) as per usual and will continue to be my usual ramblings.
  
• Watch a crap tonne of movies
  I'm usually the butt end of most peoples proddings when it comes to someone who has barely seen any films. Ask me about Family Guy or Bilko and I'll be able to talk to someone without a problem about it. But films that are actually modern and new releases, no sir! Put it this way - I started watching the Lord of the Rings film in May. I still haven't finished it.
  So, thanks to Amazon's Black Friday deals last month, I have a 6 month subscription to LoveFilm.
  
• Finish Lord of the Rings
  As above. I figured as I hadn't actually finished it, I should make this a resolution too.

                                          

• Sort out my pennies
  Nothing majorly exciting but I have been a bit too frivolous with money last year and it's got to stop this year. Get out of the ol' overdraft and start saving.
  
• Learn to delete emails
  This picture says it all...

Doable? Ah, sure.

Hello, it's been a while...

So. I never was very good at keeping up with this whole 'blogging on a regular basis' malarky that everyone else seems to do so well.

But I'm jumping back on the bandwagon that I so clearly fell off. *hop*

I'm currently sitting in Citizen M waiting for the Fashion Blogging 101 event to start, surrounded by gorgeous girls who look like they fell out of a modelling academy with insanely high heels on.

I'm, on the other hand, sitting in the corner of an amazing sofa in ridic, thick wooly grey tights and UGG boots. I have been rampaging around Glasgow all day at different events. I do NOT do heels at these kind of all day situations. It's impractical and to be perfectly honest, I kinda like my toes. I want them to be intact for day two of this madness tomorrow.

How amazing is that sofa. If only this was in my flat...

This event is awkward.

EEEee!

E is for excited. When I posted 'Just a quickie' it was the night before an interview. An interview for a job I really wanted.

A job I got.

I don't want to go into too much detail purely cause I don't believe it yet. And I won't until I walk though the door on my first day.

So! I'm getting a celebratory hair cut and dye. Cause right now my hair is hideous. Unsure if I should stick with being white or go back to a natural colour... conundrum!

Yeh, I'll stick to being white. Adds to my Casper the Ghost look I'm working so hard on.

To add to my panic about starting a new job, I need to find a new flat. THERE ARE NONE!

Edinburgh Festival kills everything regarding finding flats. People cash in and get £1000 a week for their flats. Curse their entrepreneurial skills! *insert angry fist shaking motion here* 


To celebrate some more, I feel there should be some more shoe purchasing. Those damn blue, sparkly shoes I wanted are now in pewter.

Schuh - £65

I honestly think Schuh know that I have a thing for all things sparkly. Cause they keep sending in more damn shoes covered in glitter. For example:

Schuh - £65

Schuh - £80

Schuh - £55

You guys are killing me. Like really killing me.

To add to my lack of flat and decreasing bank balance due to pretty shoes, my phone is dying. I currently possess a iPhone 3 (retro innit?!) which for the past 6 months has become slower and slower. Facebook crashes, Tweetdeck doesn't load properly, it resets it's self randomly and it chooses which messages it wants to send and receive. 

This. Is. Not. Cool!

I'm in Glasgow tomorrow. I could easily pop into Apple and pick up an iPhone 4 but I know after I've gotten home, played with it for a week that I will then get an email saying:

THE iPHONE 5 IS HERE. THIS IS THE BEST PHONE EVAAAR!

And I'll cry and cry and cry...

Dear Apple.

Please release one now.

Much <3

Jen

*sob*

P.S What is for you, will not go by you. Remember that bitches.

Pregnant

With food baby.

Gotcha. I had the most self indulgent weekend with my friend. It involved a bugger load of food:

• Dominos: Large ham, pineapple, sweetcorn & mushroom pizza. Also got the stuffed crust - it's horrible. AVOID
  
• Frankie & Benny's: 2 pints (yes, pints) of coke, 5 chicken wings coated in BBQ sauce & a BBQ steak wrap with fries.
  
• Back at the flat: Fizzy cola laces, Wispa bars, 2 tubes of Pringles, 2ltr bottle of Irn Bru & cookie Galaxy.
  
• Later on: Left over Dominos.
  
• This morning: More Irn Bru & a bacon roll.
  
• Dinner: Chip butty.

URGH. I swear I need a ridiculous amount of detox to get rid of all the crap I scoffed over the last few days. I should also be the size of a small house or at least a Great Dane?

On my adventurous weekend, I also ended up at T in the Park. Not that I was actually at the festival but rather picking up my friends sister who had had enough. It was a different experience. Full of parents frantically trying to get their children's attention whilst flapping around their sheets in the car to stop their spawn coating everything in mud.

Also played an awesome game of guess which car their heading to by the brand of their wellies.

Most people have probably heard about Google+. I finally got an invite and I'm unsure what to make of it. It's like a cheap version of Facebook. Obviously they have a lot of work still to do and Facebook has been in development for many years but it's just a bit... bland at the moment.

Also is someone wants to take me to see Harry Potter next week, that would be highly acceptable.

I have grown up with this series. I have to go see it. Expelliarmus!

Miss Magpie

I like things that shine and/or sparkle. Just ask my last boss. Whenever Christmas came around, I would get insanely excited about the things that would sparkle. Especially all that stuff that involved glitter. I don't care if I get covered in it or it ends up lodged under my fingernails; it make me stupidly happy.

There did actually used to be a shop in my home town called Magpies. I spent a ridiculous amount of time in it. However, thats a different story for probably never another day.

Yes. There is a point to this. The point is that these arrived in work today:

Schuh - £65

I have been waiting for ages for these to finally appear in stores. I <3 electric blue, glitter and stupidly high shoes. I MUST HAVE THESE. 

But.

I'm going to be a cheapskate and wait till my Schuhiversary (see what I did there - genius!) where my discounts will magically appear on my card.

I imagine that these will look a bit like this on me:

My artistic skills are amazing I hear you cry. Yes, they are =)

I do think I possibly need to stop buying shoes for a while (after those bad boys of course). I added another two pairs to my collection the other day. A pair I had previously spoken about buying but went against.

I bought them purely for my work's night out. Which I ended up doing this:

I am a classy girl. But it could be a new idea for a hat.

You guys watch out in Vogue next year. A glass, circular hat will be there*

*Possibly and most likely not.

Just a quickie...

It's 12:12am and I can't get to sleep. Those who know me, will know why.

I also refuse to put it on here cause, knowing me, I'll jinx myself.

This more of a Tweet size update than a normal blog post but I haven't been available the past few days to pop a proper entry in.

Normal service will resume after tomorrow. Fingers crossed and enjoy some merry nibbles.

x