Big Shot

So I sit here now when I should be studying but I am so tired after my weekend that I am still trying to wake myself up hours after I got up. I might as well make some use of this time and write my blog before hitting the books for a serious study session.
So yeah I got my course books for T175, finally after waiting five weeks and being messed around by SMS I finally got them delivered by Parcel Force. My tutor is only allowing me one week extension on the TMA which is a pain because that means I have less than one week to do 4 weeks of course work and a TMA so I have been hitting the books and working hard and lucky for me this month (the first month) isn't tough intense but it never is in the first month so it is lucky for me I guess. My progress is going a lot better than I thought it would and I am getting through more than I thought I would so I am pleased and it is looking like I will start and finish my first TMA on Wednesday and have it finished by the end of Wednesday because the first TMA isn't that hard at all which is a relief. So it will be submitted on Thursday the day my extension finishes so I was rather lucky with it being a light month and me having the time to put into it.
Then there is no rest for me because the business studies course I started on the 1st has the first tma due on the 21st of this month and I haven't even started that course work as I hadn't had the time to do so, so I then have two weeks to do the course work and a TMA and get it in on time. I don't even know if the course is difficult or not yet because I simply haven't had the time to look. It is only six months long so is more intense but with some luck I will be OK and manage to get through it and of course if I pass (should I say when?) I then have my points for my Certificate in Business Studies because I already have some points counting towards that so it isn't all bad.
Course wise next year I am still signed up for that level 3 religion course but I royally messed up A217 because I didn't go to the exam because of personal reasons and of course the reasons weren't good enough to be granted a resit so nin months of hard work and amazing TMA scores have gone down the drain and now I am further behind on my degree so I am not happy with myself. If I knew I was going to screw up so much I wouldn't of signed up for B120 and T175 and had done another level two course again next year. So I don't know if I should do the level 3 course or cancel it and do A217 again, I plan on doing A217 again because of failing it but should I do it next year or go for the level 3? I was thinking of waiting for my exam results for A207 because if I fail that (because I screwed up) then I planned on doing another level 2 anyway and then I would need to decide it I was doing A217 next year or another level 2. Anyway I will think more about that later in the year when I know what my exam results are.

I loved the weekend I had with my friends, I know I already talked about it in my last blog but it was an amazing weekend and of course I want another such weekend. I don't know when that will be but it won't be this year that's for sure. I have plans to see Pete next Feb anyway as my mum and step dad are going to Coventry for a 60th birthday so I can get down there free and then get a lift back home. I hope to go and see Caroline some point, we got on amazingly, it could of gone either way but we seem to get on and have a laugh so it would be good to spend some time with just her. Of course I would love to go down there before Christmas but that isn't looking possible at the moment because I simply can't afford it with Christmas coming up but we will have to see how things go, if not this year then hopefully early next year though it won't be Janurary because after Christmas I won't have much money plus there are two family members birthdays in Jan and then another one in the first week of Feb. That one in the first week in Feb is my brothers 30th birthday and by all accounts he is having some kind of party or something so I maybe can invite Pete and Caroline up to it and Rich if he fancys coming to so then we have plans for one of the evenings. I hope to go bowling too and the cinema and maybe another trip to the Trafford Centre hehe.

Last week I started NaNoWriMo and managed to write just over 10,000 words in two days and it is so tiring. I nearly went for 10,000 on the first day because I got over the 6,000 mark and throught why not?! But then I was so tired and my shoulders, arms and fingers hurt from all the typing so on the 2nd I made my word count to just over 10,000 and yesterday I took my work count to 14,000. It is so tiring writing a book and now I must study too which is tiring on the brain so when I have finished my study for the day my brain is already tired so I am finding it harder and harder to do the writing but I am not quitting. I am so far ahead that I can take a day off now and then like I did on Saturday but I am hoping to get to 20,000 words by the end of this week and up to 25,000 by next Monday if that is possible so then I will be half way through in less than two weeks and if I can get to 30,000 by the end of next week then that is just even better but we will have to see how things go over the next week or so.

Well it was my birthday last week and I enjoyed my dad. I didn't do much except chat away to my friends but then again my birthday fun happened the weekend before. I got an amazing thing off my mum and step dad that I just love and can't get enough of. My dad got my Meat Loafs new album that I had on for 16 1/2 hours straight that day and have since had it on so much because I simply love it. He is getting me two concert tickets to see Meat Loaf too and I have my eyes on 2 front row tickets that are for sale on Ebay at the moment. I would love to be front row for a Meat Loaf concert, I think that would be an amazing place to be. Other presents I got is something amazing from Lush off Caroline and some Chinese things off Rich which I really like and can't wait to use. Pete is getting me something when he has some cash, I don't know what he is getting me because he keeps asking me what I want and I don't know so I think he is going to get me something off my Amazon wish list so whatever it is will be a nice surprise :o) My brothers are getting me a lbum each, they were both short of cash but I will probably get them this week and can't wait because I know what albums they are because I asked for them.

Last week I treated myself to a few things. I didn't spend all the money that I had for the other weekend though a fair bit of it went. So I bought myself a album, dvd, 5 books and a MP3 Player. I have them all already though I am still waiting for the MP3 player, I hope it hasn't got lost in the post or the post man hasn't stolen it because there was a knock on the door from the postman the other day and I wasn't dressed so couldn't answer it and he never put a card through the door so it could of been my MP3 player and he has taken it. There was a card through the door a few days later but I think that is the Christmas present I bought for someone as that was due that day and I still haven't managed to get down to the post office to pick it up so I won't know what it is until either me or my dad can get to pick it up. I hope neither of them have been lost in the post because I won't be pleased if they have.
I don't tend to treat myself often as I rarely have any money because it tends to go on phone bills or on NEXT bills but no more phone bills for me as my contract ended except it is still on because I am allowed to use all my minutes up and I have about 150 of them left lol. My NEXT bill is only £60 this month because I have gotten it down but have just spent a few hundred so next month it will be at least £90 which I don't mind because you pay 10% and the interest level is very low and the clothes are the same price as they are in the shop. I plan on paying it off as soon as I can.

Right I now must go and do some study, then the house work, then some washing before sitting here and trying to get 2000 words done for NaNoWriMo. I think theI i will be shattered, well my brain will so I doubt I will be online yet again but it's only for one month then I will be back on more.

(The picture is Caroline and I)