Well if you read my last blog that I posted you will see how stessed out I was/am with a lot of things in my life and how everything was suffering.
It is time for some change in my life and hopefully some for the best I guess.
As far as my course goes this is basically what has happened since then. I got a 10 day extension on my assignment and it basically isn't enough. I had to read 2 and a half books which doesn't sound a lot right? Well one of them is a A4 sized book with around 350 pages. Then there was another book which is slightly smaller than A4 size and that had 300 pages and another book which was A4 size with around 100 pages of reading. On top of that I had to read internet sources which come to another 100 pages and then I have some other reading that is on my computer which is a lot of pages too. On top that there is about 100 work exercises to do. Then I had to write notes and do a 2000 word assignment. Now does that sound a lot? Yeah it does and I did start doing it and I was doing around 4 hours a day study but couldn't manage more than that a day because I was finding it s struggle doing one subject for that amount of time. I can study for 5 hours a day if I am studying more than one subject a day but I was only doing one subject. On top of that I am ill so it made it almost impossible for me and I was tired all the time, I couldn't seem to get enough sleep. I managed to study for about 4 days and I woke up feeling really ill on Saturday and I was just like I can't carry on and it upset me because I do like my course but have neglected it and now I am at the stage that it is impossible for me to catch up. It means I can't finish my degree for a year longer, I was meant to finish next year but if I quit this course I won't graduate until 2009 and that thought upsets me.
Anyway I thought I would see how I felt at the end of the day and even though I didn't feel anywhere as bad but I am still ill and I realised that even if I worked for 12 hours a day until Midnight on Thursday (that is the cut off for submission) I probably wouldn't have it done. Even if I was full health there is no way I could spend 12 hours a day studying. I know someone who used to do that but they didn't start off doing that, they had to work up to being able to do that so even if I was full health right now I couldn't do it. Studying is tiring.
So I made a difficult dicision and that was to quit my course. This really is my last resource. I can't carry on, I have thought about it so much and even though I don't want to quit there is no way round it. Even if I got 14 days to do the assignment it wouldn't of been enough. I hate the fact that I have to put my finishing of my degree back for a year but I guess things happen for a reason.
At now it isn't bothering me but I will be upset at some poiont but that is life I guess.
Anyway good things are that I can start my two new courses that started in May. They are short courses, one on mammels and one on planets. They are good because there is two submission dates for the course work and one is this month and one is October. I will start them in the next week or so and have them finished for the October sumission date. As well as that my work (job) is my number one thing I need to concentrate on for the next weeks. I am so behind on work so I will be working more hours and catching up and earning money so I can buy more things for the house. Like this week I am off to Ikea to buy a sofa and another book shelt so the money will come in handy.
Another thing I can concentrate on, when I sort my health, is my running because the Amsterdam Half Marathon is in 13 weeks. I've been given a running plan for it and it starts in 2 weeks so I have 2 weeks to see the doctor and get out walking and on my bike before the running/walking starts for me. I am looking forward to it, I should of been running these past three months but illness and lazyness and too many late nights have stopped me but three times a week I will be out running and once a week (weather permitting) I will be out on my bike and also start walking Lucky daily at least once (again weather permitting).
On top of that my daily chores have been suffering so I can get back into a routine again and I also plan on cutting down on my late nights too so I can get up at 8am and go to bed between 8-12. 8pm is early but I can either read or watch a DVD or chat or write or something. Of course I will still have my late nights because I enjoy them but not as often.
I just have so much to catch up on and the stress I have been under is gone in a big way by quitting the course. SO it should be OK.
I have a visitor coming in 2 weeks and 4 days time and I can't wait to see them. Their name is Paul although I refer to him as Chunky which he doesn't mind. We met on here which was a accident in a way but we met each other and got to know each other and at this time of my life it is nice to have him in my life, he makes me smile and he looks sexy when he wear black t-shirts.
I think that is it for now. I have 3 blogs coming up in the next few weeks. I will finish my Bon Jovi concert one in the next day or so, I will then start to resize all the pictures ( will take a day or two to do that) and then I will post my Bon Jovi blog. Then I will start to write my London blog, that won't take too long to write because it was a month ago and I have forgot the details of everything we did but it should be a good blog. When I have wrote that I will edit and resize my London pictures which may take a week because there is 400-500 pictures and plus I'm busy. Once that is done I will write a blog about Nathan and Dianna being here and then resize those pictures which will take a hour as I did most of them, a Asda blog will follow which will take an hour and I have those pictures ready so that saves time. I will then do a blog from my stay in Scunthorpe, I have a lot of pictures to resize so that will take a couple of days. With some luck all these blogs will be posted in the next 2-4 weeks.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Kitty Kat (July 3rd Blog))
Well another blog about me and the fact that I won't be around much for the next couple of weeks.
First off Dianna and Nathan are coming from Denmark tomorrow to visit and they will be here until Saturday. I am really looking forward to them coming, I think it will be a great few days with those two here.
Then I have to get back into studying. I've not been studying properly for months now and my marks have gone down and I need to do something about it otherwise I am going to fail my most important course and then add another year onto my degree and I don't want that to happen so I have to get my act together. When Dianna and Nathan leave I have ten days to do 6 weeks of course work and a 2000 word assignment for my Religion course. By 6 weeks worth of course work I mean something in the region of about 600 pages of reading as well as exercises so I am going to be very busy. I will probably be doing at least 5 hours of study per day to catch up and get it all done and then when that is all done there wont be much rest for me because I need to start my other 2 courses that I am yet to start and then my religion course gets to it's most difficult part of it which I will tell you more about in a later blog.
So yeah for two weeks I won't be around much on here and MSN. Of course I will go on MSN every couple of nights but it won't be late at night like I've been doing and it also won't be until the early hours because I need to also have some early nights too and catch up with sleep. I know when Istudy a lot it makes me really tired so even if I wanted to I couldn't stay up too late on MSN. I will be getting my study (education back on track) and hopfully improving my marks and also catching up on my other work and if it ever stops raining I will be going on some nice walks with Lucky.
So if you message me I will get back to you but I won't be around too much. I hope everyone has a great couple of weeks and you know where I am if you need me
First off Dianna and Nathan are coming from Denmark tomorrow to visit and they will be here until Saturday. I am really looking forward to them coming, I think it will be a great few days with those two here.
Then I have to get back into studying. I've not been studying properly for months now and my marks have gone down and I need to do something about it otherwise I am going to fail my most important course and then add another year onto my degree and I don't want that to happen so I have to get my act together. When Dianna and Nathan leave I have ten days to do 6 weeks of course work and a 2000 word assignment for my Religion course. By 6 weeks worth of course work I mean something in the region of about 600 pages of reading as well as exercises so I am going to be very busy. I will probably be doing at least 5 hours of study per day to catch up and get it all done and then when that is all done there wont be much rest for me because I need to start my other 2 courses that I am yet to start and then my religion course gets to it's most difficult part of it which I will tell you more about in a later blog.
So yeah for two weeks I won't be around much on here and MSN. Of course I will go on MSN every couple of nights but it won't be late at night like I've been doing and it also won't be until the early hours because I need to also have some early nights too and catch up with sleep. I know when Istudy a lot it makes me really tired so even if I wanted to I couldn't stay up too late on MSN. I will be getting my study (education back on track) and hopfully improving my marks and also catching up on my other work and if it ever stops raining I will be going on some nice walks with Lucky.
So if you message me I will get back to you but I won't be around too much. I hope everyone has a great couple of weeks and you know where I am if you need me
Green Light ((June 19th Blog))
won't be online from Thursday (21st) afternoon until some time on Tuesday (26th) because just before 8am on Friday (22nd) I will be in a taxi on my way to Blackburn trainstation where I will then get a train to Preston. At Preston I will get a train to LONDON!!
That's right I am off to London for a long weekend and arrive about 11:30 before going in the underground to Waterloo where I will be staying. I can't believe how central I am staying, right next to the houses of parliment - not that it's my sort of thing but of course I will walk past and take some pictures - well it all depends on the weather really.
So why am I going to London? Well if you don't know, where have you been for the past two months? I am off to see Bon Jovi who are opening the O2 arena on the 22nd. I have 8th row tickets which cost me £290 each but after seeing them twice before I know they put an amazing show on and I'm really looking forward to it. It will be the closest that I've ever been too so I have to look the part ;o) haha.....well I always think long and hard about what I am going to wear to concerts and most of the times I buy something new to wear. This time I still don't know what I am wearing and I need to decide by this time tomorrow when I need to finish my packing. Nothing has stood out for me, I have one potential top that I bought for the Meat Loaf concert I went to but I don't like the neck-line on it because it's too high *lol*.
Anyway on the Friday night I have tickets for the London Eye at 8:30pm. I hope it doesn't rain because it won't be that much fun and my picures will be crap. Saturday evening I am meeting up with my friend Caroline and going for a meal, I don't know where yet because she is finding somewhere for us to go. It will be good to see Caroline because I haven't seen her since last year, I really must go and visit her over the summer sometime.
Sunday is the concert but I don't know what time we are going across to the O2 yet. I don't know if it will all be open because there is a cinema and places to eat as well as bars but it might not be ready. If it is I was planning on going over about 3pm and then hanging out there and having a meal before getting changed into my concert outfit (well my top) and heading into the Arena part which we can get in at 6pm according to the tickets. The concert doesn't start until 7:30 and they have a support act and I hope it's someone amazing. They had Nickleback last year who I like so that was amazing. Sunday morning and early afternoon I don't have a clue what we are doing but I want to go back to where we are staying so I can shower and get ready for the concert - around 2pm.
We are back Monday night really late, like midnight before we get home so I will be in bed when I get home because travelling makes me very tired and ill so I think bed is going to be the best place for me. I think it only takes 2 2/1 hours on the main part of the journey to Preston (might be 3) so it isn't too long but travel in general tires me out because I suffer really bad travel sickness. I would like to be able to put my pics on the computer but I know if I do that I will be sat at the computer all night resizing them and I don't want to be doing that *lol*
Talking about pictures. I bought a brand new camera last week, it came and wouldn't work so I sent it back and asked for a refund. I then bought the same camera and paid over £7 for next day delivery and it came and was wonderful and then last night it decided to stop working. The lens wont retract so the camera won't stay on now and keeps saying error with the lens so it's another camera that needs to go back. I'm glad it happened now and not half way through the concert. It's just a total pain because now I have to buy another one before I go away on Friday and I don't have time to order one online (which works out cheaper) and have to go to town tomorrow afternoon and get one. I loved the one I bought, it had a massive 2 1/2 inch screen on the back and was easy to use so I want something very similar.
Anyway I won't be here for 5 days which is crazy because I'm on here a few times a day so I will miss logging in. I was going to take my laptop to store pictures on but looking at everything else I am taking with me (I can't travel light) I can't take a laptop too because I am simply taking too much plus I wouldn't have time to log in. It's a trip of a lifetime for me because I've never been to London (always wanted to go) and I have 8th row tickets to see the best band in the world. I am sure I will have a long blog when I get back and many pictures to show.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
That's right I am off to London for a long weekend and arrive about 11:30 before going in the underground to Waterloo where I will be staying. I can't believe how central I am staying, right next to the houses of parliment - not that it's my sort of thing but of course I will walk past and take some pictures - well it all depends on the weather really.
So why am I going to London? Well if you don't know, where have you been for the past two months? I am off to see Bon Jovi who are opening the O2 arena on the 22nd. I have 8th row tickets which cost me £290 each but after seeing them twice before I know they put an amazing show on and I'm really looking forward to it. It will be the closest that I've ever been too so I have to look the part ;o) haha.....well I always think long and hard about what I am going to wear to concerts and most of the times I buy something new to wear. This time I still don't know what I am wearing and I need to decide by this time tomorrow when I need to finish my packing. Nothing has stood out for me, I have one potential top that I bought for the Meat Loaf concert I went to but I don't like the neck-line on it because it's too high *lol*.
Anyway on the Friday night I have tickets for the London Eye at 8:30pm. I hope it doesn't rain because it won't be that much fun and my picures will be crap. Saturday evening I am meeting up with my friend Caroline and going for a meal, I don't know where yet because she is finding somewhere for us to go. It will be good to see Caroline because I haven't seen her since last year, I really must go and visit her over the summer sometime.
Sunday is the concert but I don't know what time we are going across to the O2 yet. I don't know if it will all be open because there is a cinema and places to eat as well as bars but it might not be ready. If it is I was planning on going over about 3pm and then hanging out there and having a meal before getting changed into my concert outfit (well my top) and heading into the Arena part which we can get in at 6pm according to the tickets. The concert doesn't start until 7:30 and they have a support act and I hope it's someone amazing. They had Nickleback last year who I like so that was amazing. Sunday morning and early afternoon I don't have a clue what we are doing but I want to go back to where we are staying so I can shower and get ready for the concert - around 2pm.
We are back Monday night really late, like midnight before we get home so I will be in bed when I get home because travelling makes me very tired and ill so I think bed is going to be the best place for me. I think it only takes 2 2/1 hours on the main part of the journey to Preston (might be 3) so it isn't too long but travel in general tires me out because I suffer really bad travel sickness. I would like to be able to put my pics on the computer but I know if I do that I will be sat at the computer all night resizing them and I don't want to be doing that *lol*
Talking about pictures. I bought a brand new camera last week, it came and wouldn't work so I sent it back and asked for a refund. I then bought the same camera and paid over £7 for next day delivery and it came and was wonderful and then last night it decided to stop working. The lens wont retract so the camera won't stay on now and keeps saying error with the lens so it's another camera that needs to go back. I'm glad it happened now and not half way through the concert. It's just a total pain because now I have to buy another one before I go away on Friday and I don't have time to order one online (which works out cheaper) and have to go to town tomorrow afternoon and get one. I loved the one I bought, it had a massive 2 1/2 inch screen on the back and was easy to use so I want something very similar.
Anyway I won't be here for 5 days which is crazy because I'm on here a few times a day so I will miss logging in. I was going to take my laptop to store pictures on but looking at everything else I am taking with me (I can't travel light) I can't take a laptop too because I am simply taking too much plus I wouldn't have time to log in. It's a trip of a lifetime for me because I've never been to London (always wanted to go) and I have 8th row tickets to see the best band in the world. I am sure I will have a long blog when I get back and many pictures to show.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Irreplaceable ((June 10th Blog))
Well here I am again doing another blog, don't really know what to talk about but I guessed it was that time of week when I sit down and write something.
I've not been well for the past week, in fact I don't feel good today and I am so tired that I feel like I haven't slept in a week. I get this illness a lot and tiredness is one of the main symptoms which is a total pain because I don't have the time to be ill or to sleep as much as my body seems to want when I get this mystery illness. I've been ill since Tuesday and it is starting to get me down a little.
So with being ill I haven't been able to do much this week. I have so much work and course work to do but with being ill I just don't feel up to anything. I sat down to do some study the other day and after about 45 minutes I just couldn't carry on because I just felt so unwell and tired.
I managed to get an extension on my assignment because with being ill so much I've not been able to keep up. I got a week extra and had 300 pages left to read before I could even start my notes. Today I have been studying and have maybe 60 pages of reading left to do and hope to read at least 30 pages after I have finished this blog. The assignment is due by the end of Tuesday so I really need to get my act together and get as much done as possible. I am rushing through the reading and have skipped parts which may be very important but I just don't have the time to get it all done plus with being ill I don't feel up to doing much at all. Once I have done as much of the course work and reading I need to read the question and then write a set of notes. Writing a set of notes involves me going through all the course work (not in the way I read it) and sticking post it notes on things that look important and then coming back to them and looking more closely and writing some notes for my assignment. Then I am ready for the assignment. In an ideal world I could do with 2-4 days to do my notes but I don't have the time for that now so it will be done in about 4 hours and that's rushing so i may miss something I could use but it's the risk I have to take because there is no way I can get any longer on this assignment. Tuesday will then be spent on the 2000 word assignment. I just hope I don't get writers block because I need to get it done and do something that gets me a better mark than I got on the last one. I will be so happy to have it finished and submitted.
There is no rest for me once I get that assignment out of the way because I am behind with work and have about three weeks worth of work to do in 3 days. Well I promised I would get it done in three days (by Saturday) so I am going to be working ten hour days (maybe longer) to get it done but it pays the bills and I certainly need to money after what I've been spending lately. So I guess this week is going to be a very busy week for me and I just hope my health improves because if it doesn't then I am in big trouble because I won't be able to get anything done and that isn't good news.
Next week I will still be busy because I am not a week behind on my course because I needed a weeks extension and I am going away for fives days in less than two weeks so I need to get ahead on work hard on my course work so I can do my next assignment when I get back. I also need to start one of my 2 new courses. I want to have one finished for the first deadline which is the end of July, the other one I would love to finish for the first submission date but the way things are going I don't think that there is any chance of that. I am looking forward to them because they are in areas that I haven't studied before so it is a nice change for me to try new things now and then because it can be tiring just doing the same subject all the time. Also with more and more work coming in I have to work each day as well as keep on top of the housework and cooking so less time on the computer for me because when I spend too much time on here things don't get done and then i'm having to spend forever catching up so I think from now on I won't even put the computer on until I actually need it for work because I don't use it for study because all my course work (for the courses I am doing now) are in books so that's a good things i guess.
On Friday I went to see an amazing band called CLOCK at the Knowles Arms in Blackburn. They are a local band that my dad has been telling me about since 2004, everytime they have been local i have either been ill or had other plans so I made sure that I could see them this time even though I was ill. They are an amazing band and I am so glad that I went to see them now and will be seeing them in July when my friends from Denmark are here. I also have plans to see them again after that because every song they played on Friday night I know and a lot of them were my favourite songs too. I actually know the guitarist, Fran, because he used to drink in my local pub (although I haven't seen him in ages and he no longer drinks in there) and I know the bass player because he is a member of my running club (not that I ever go and I haven't run in months) so it was nice to see a band with some members who i know.
Saturday was a busy day for me. I woke up feeling like I was hungover even though I hadn't drank the night before - it was the smoke. I went to town and then went up to the Windmill for my lunch before calling to see my mum, then we went and called round at my brothers who was having a BBQ so we stayed and had some food. I treated myself to a brand new stereo for my bedroom too because the one I have in there is like 7 years old and keeps jumping on some of the tracks which is annoying so I got an amazing one with a USB thing and so far it's good.
Anyway I feel ill and need to do some more study and then I think I will relax in a bath. I need an early night because I am so tired now and it isn't even 8pm. I feel like a old woman needing my bed but I can't help it.
I've not been well for the past week, in fact I don't feel good today and I am so tired that I feel like I haven't slept in a week. I get this illness a lot and tiredness is one of the main symptoms which is a total pain because I don't have the time to be ill or to sleep as much as my body seems to want when I get this mystery illness. I've been ill since Tuesday and it is starting to get me down a little.
So with being ill I haven't been able to do much this week. I have so much work and course work to do but with being ill I just don't feel up to anything. I sat down to do some study the other day and after about 45 minutes I just couldn't carry on because I just felt so unwell and tired.
I managed to get an extension on my assignment because with being ill so much I've not been able to keep up. I got a week extra and had 300 pages left to read before I could even start my notes. Today I have been studying and have maybe 60 pages of reading left to do and hope to read at least 30 pages after I have finished this blog. The assignment is due by the end of Tuesday so I really need to get my act together and get as much done as possible. I am rushing through the reading and have skipped parts which may be very important but I just don't have the time to get it all done plus with being ill I don't feel up to doing much at all. Once I have done as much of the course work and reading I need to read the question and then write a set of notes. Writing a set of notes involves me going through all the course work (not in the way I read it) and sticking post it notes on things that look important and then coming back to them and looking more closely and writing some notes for my assignment. Then I am ready for the assignment. In an ideal world I could do with 2-4 days to do my notes but I don't have the time for that now so it will be done in about 4 hours and that's rushing so i may miss something I could use but it's the risk I have to take because there is no way I can get any longer on this assignment. Tuesday will then be spent on the 2000 word assignment. I just hope I don't get writers block because I need to get it done and do something that gets me a better mark than I got on the last one. I will be so happy to have it finished and submitted.
There is no rest for me once I get that assignment out of the way because I am behind with work and have about three weeks worth of work to do in 3 days. Well I promised I would get it done in three days (by Saturday) so I am going to be working ten hour days (maybe longer) to get it done but it pays the bills and I certainly need to money after what I've been spending lately. So I guess this week is going to be a very busy week for me and I just hope my health improves because if it doesn't then I am in big trouble because I won't be able to get anything done and that isn't good news.
Next week I will still be busy because I am not a week behind on my course because I needed a weeks extension and I am going away for fives days in less than two weeks so I need to get ahead on work hard on my course work so I can do my next assignment when I get back. I also need to start one of my 2 new courses. I want to have one finished for the first deadline which is the end of July, the other one I would love to finish for the first submission date but the way things are going I don't think that there is any chance of that. I am looking forward to them because they are in areas that I haven't studied before so it is a nice change for me to try new things now and then because it can be tiring just doing the same subject all the time. Also with more and more work coming in I have to work each day as well as keep on top of the housework and cooking so less time on the computer for me because when I spend too much time on here things don't get done and then i'm having to spend forever catching up so I think from now on I won't even put the computer on until I actually need it for work because I don't use it for study because all my course work (for the courses I am doing now) are in books so that's a good things i guess.
On Friday I went to see an amazing band called CLOCK at the Knowles Arms in Blackburn. They are a local band that my dad has been telling me about since 2004, everytime they have been local i have either been ill or had other plans so I made sure that I could see them this time even though I was ill. They are an amazing band and I am so glad that I went to see them now and will be seeing them in July when my friends from Denmark are here. I also have plans to see them again after that because every song they played on Friday night I know and a lot of them were my favourite songs too. I actually know the guitarist, Fran, because he used to drink in my local pub (although I haven't seen him in ages and he no longer drinks in there) and I know the bass player because he is a member of my running club (not that I ever go and I haven't run in months) so it was nice to see a band with some members who i know.
Saturday was a busy day for me. I woke up feeling like I was hungover even though I hadn't drank the night before - it was the smoke. I went to town and then went up to the Windmill for my lunch before calling to see my mum, then we went and called round at my brothers who was having a BBQ so we stayed and had some food. I treated myself to a brand new stereo for my bedroom too because the one I have in there is like 7 years old and keeps jumping on some of the tracks which is annoying so I got an amazing one with a USB thing and so far it's good.
Anyway I feel ill and need to do some more study and then I think I will relax in a bath. I need an early night because I am so tired now and it isn't even 8pm. I feel like a old woman needing my bed but I can't help it.
Beautiful Liar ((June 5th Blog))
Well this is the second time I am going to try and do this blog. I originally wrote it the other day when I was on my new laptop but as I got to the end of it the laptop kind of refreshed the screen and it went missing and needless to say I wasn't at all pleased about it.
For those who know me really well (and those who bothered to read my profile) will know Bon Jovi are my all time favourite band. I've seen them in concert twice before (once in 2003 and again last year 2006). Last year I got VIP tickets and had one of the most amazing days of my life.
I was happy when I found out that they were opening the O2 Arena in London on the 24th June and wanted to go but then I was sad when the tickets sold out within 60 seconds of them going on sale. I decided I was going to go and I would buy some tickets off ebay for the concert. I then booked my accomodation in central London and booked my train tickets even before I had bought any concert tickets online.
I then started to look on ebay for some possible tickets I could bid on. I didn't see any for a week or so but then I saw a pair that I wanted near the front of the Arena and decided to bid on them. I didn't end up getting those because I was outbit seconds before the end of the auction. About 2 weeks later there was another set on ebay with a pre-concert cruise and party and I wanted those badly and again I bid (in the last 60 seconds of the auction) and I missed out again.
It was then I decided just to get any tickets and not bother where they are in the Arena. When I have seen Bon Jovi in the past I have always seen them at Stadiums and they hold around 60,000. Each time I have been at the back behind 60,000 but it never spoilt it for me (those of you who have been to such a big concert will know what I mean) and it's always been wonderful and amazing. So I figured it doesn't matter if I am at the back at the O2 Arena because it only holds 18,000 people so I will only be behind 18,000 people which is a site closer.
Then I thought I will go on ticketmaster and see if they have any more tickets on sale because sometimes they hold some back until nearer the concert. I am glad I went on there now because they had an auction for tickets on the 4th and 8th rows and I wanted them badly. I didn't care if i won them on the 4th or the 8th row as long as I won a pair of them. I big on them and I was winning on the 4th row tickets until the last day when they went out of my maximum. My maximum was £500 and I didn't really want to go over that for lots of different reasons.
I know I had a budget of £500 but I ended up paying almost £600 for my winning bid. I now have two 8th row tickets for the concert and I am really looking forward to it. It is going to be amazing (well I hope it is) because I am going to be only 8 rows from the front and I am going to be so close to the band and it is going to be an experience i will never forget.
I still can't quite beleive that I have 8th row tickets, it feels like a dream to me but I will be in London in just over 2 weeks time so it will feel more real when I am finally down there. I don't think it will feel 100% real until I am stood there singing along to the band. I think even then it will feel like it was a dream because when I was 5 foot from Meat Loaf all night it didn't feel real and even now I am sure I wasn't there, if it wasn't for the pictures I have I wouldn't beleive I was there and had such an amazing time.
So I will be going to London on Friday the 22nd June and will be coming back on Monday the 25th. The train down is before 9am, I have to go to Blackburn trainstation and get the train to Preston first and then I swap over to the train to London which gets me there in just over 3 hours. Then I have to go on the underground for an hour to get to Waterloo (where I am staying). On the way back I think my train back is about 6pm so it means going on the underground about 4:30 to make sure we get to the trainstation on time. I don't think I will be home until around 11pm that night and I will be tired and ready for my bed because traveling always tires me out.
It's my first time in London and I don't know what I am looking forward to the most - being in London or seeing the best band in the world. I am planning on doing a couple of things but won't have a lot of time to do things. So I need to think carefully about what I want to see/do the most and stick with that because there is no way I have enough time to do much. I think I'm going to go on the London Eye, that is the only thing I am 100% sure about. There is just so much and so little time because I won't get to my hotel until around 3pm on the Friday so can't do too much other than have a little look around and then have something to eat. I guess because it's light I can still look around until quite late which is handy. Saturday I have most of the day because in the evening I am meeting up with one of my friends and we are hoping to see a show if we ever find one we both like. After the show we are going to go for a meal so it will be quite late when that's over so it will be bed for the night. The Sunday I don't know what to do because the O2 is a shopping centre with a cinema so it might be a good idea to spend some of the day there before the concert. The only thing that puts me off is because I won't be able to go and get changed and do my hair/make up etc and would have to do it there. I wouldn't want to carry much with me either so it would mean just taking some kind of top that I would change into for the concert.
When I saw them last year I had two tops. One I went down in and hung out in, in the VIP area and then about 20 minutes before they went on stage I nipped and got changed into the customised t-shirt I had made for the concert. That was fine because my hair and make up was already done for the concert. I just didn't want to have to do much hair and make up so early in the day for the concert but I guess I will have to and just top it up as the day goes along. I hope it isn't a hot day or it doesn't rain. I want it to be warm with no rain so I don't have to take a jacket with me because I don't want to take more stuff because I will end up having to carry it around and I don't want that.
Hehe I am such a girl. I still need to decide on what I am going to wear *lol*. I am like this with every concert I go to but more effort goes into Bon jovi concerts. I remember the first one I went to I bought new everything from clothes to underwear and jewellery but i don't think I will go that far this time - I didn't last year. I don't know if I should have a customised (of my design) t-shirt made or not yet. I need to have a look around in the shops for a possible outfit I can wear and then I need some new trainers or something suitable to wear on my feet for the concert. Whatever i get has to be comfy because i will be walking around all day and can't take spare footware to change into because I then have to carry it - what a pain.
So I have plenty to decide in the next two and a half weeks. I am sure it will al keep me busy and when I get back I will write a blog about it all and hopefully have some good pictures too.
For those who know me really well (and those who bothered to read my profile) will know Bon Jovi are my all time favourite band. I've seen them in concert twice before (once in 2003 and again last year 2006). Last year I got VIP tickets and had one of the most amazing days of my life.
I was happy when I found out that they were opening the O2 Arena in London on the 24th June and wanted to go but then I was sad when the tickets sold out within 60 seconds of them going on sale. I decided I was going to go and I would buy some tickets off ebay for the concert. I then booked my accomodation in central London and booked my train tickets even before I had bought any concert tickets online.
I then started to look on ebay for some possible tickets I could bid on. I didn't see any for a week or so but then I saw a pair that I wanted near the front of the Arena and decided to bid on them. I didn't end up getting those because I was outbit seconds before the end of the auction. About 2 weeks later there was another set on ebay with a pre-concert cruise and party and I wanted those badly and again I bid (in the last 60 seconds of the auction) and I missed out again.
It was then I decided just to get any tickets and not bother where they are in the Arena. When I have seen Bon Jovi in the past I have always seen them at Stadiums and they hold around 60,000. Each time I have been at the back behind 60,000 but it never spoilt it for me (those of you who have been to such a big concert will know what I mean) and it's always been wonderful and amazing. So I figured it doesn't matter if I am at the back at the O2 Arena because it only holds 18,000 people so I will only be behind 18,000 people which is a site closer.
Then I thought I will go on ticketmaster and see if they have any more tickets on sale because sometimes they hold some back until nearer the concert. I am glad I went on there now because they had an auction for tickets on the 4th and 8th rows and I wanted them badly. I didn't care if i won them on the 4th or the 8th row as long as I won a pair of them. I big on them and I was winning on the 4th row tickets until the last day when they went out of my maximum. My maximum was £500 and I didn't really want to go over that for lots of different reasons.
I know I had a budget of £500 but I ended up paying almost £600 for my winning bid. I now have two 8th row tickets for the concert and I am really looking forward to it. It is going to be amazing (well I hope it is) because I am going to be only 8 rows from the front and I am going to be so close to the band and it is going to be an experience i will never forget.
I still can't quite beleive that I have 8th row tickets, it feels like a dream to me but I will be in London in just over 2 weeks time so it will feel more real when I am finally down there. I don't think it will feel 100% real until I am stood there singing along to the band. I think even then it will feel like it was a dream because when I was 5 foot from Meat Loaf all night it didn't feel real and even now I am sure I wasn't there, if it wasn't for the pictures I have I wouldn't beleive I was there and had such an amazing time.
So I will be going to London on Friday the 22nd June and will be coming back on Monday the 25th. The train down is before 9am, I have to go to Blackburn trainstation and get the train to Preston first and then I swap over to the train to London which gets me there in just over 3 hours. Then I have to go on the underground for an hour to get to Waterloo (where I am staying). On the way back I think my train back is about 6pm so it means going on the underground about 4:30 to make sure we get to the trainstation on time. I don't think I will be home until around 11pm that night and I will be tired and ready for my bed because traveling always tires me out.
It's my first time in London and I don't know what I am looking forward to the most - being in London or seeing the best band in the world. I am planning on doing a couple of things but won't have a lot of time to do things. So I need to think carefully about what I want to see/do the most and stick with that because there is no way I have enough time to do much. I think I'm going to go on the London Eye, that is the only thing I am 100% sure about. There is just so much and so little time because I won't get to my hotel until around 3pm on the Friday so can't do too much other than have a little look around and then have something to eat. I guess because it's light I can still look around until quite late which is handy. Saturday I have most of the day because in the evening I am meeting up with one of my friends and we are hoping to see a show if we ever find one we both like. After the show we are going to go for a meal so it will be quite late when that's over so it will be bed for the night. The Sunday I don't know what to do because the O2 is a shopping centre with a cinema so it might be a good idea to spend some of the day there before the concert. The only thing that puts me off is because I won't be able to go and get changed and do my hair/make up etc and would have to do it there. I wouldn't want to carry much with me either so it would mean just taking some kind of top that I would change into for the concert.
When I saw them last year I had two tops. One I went down in and hung out in, in the VIP area and then about 20 minutes before they went on stage I nipped and got changed into the customised t-shirt I had made for the concert. That was fine because my hair and make up was already done for the concert. I just didn't want to have to do much hair and make up so early in the day for the concert but I guess I will have to and just top it up as the day goes along. I hope it isn't a hot day or it doesn't rain. I want it to be warm with no rain so I don't have to take a jacket with me because I don't want to take more stuff because I will end up having to carry it around and I don't want that.
Hehe I am such a girl. I still need to decide on what I am going to wear *lol*. I am like this with every concert I go to but more effort goes into Bon jovi concerts. I remember the first one I went to I bought new everything from clothes to underwear and jewellery but i don't think I will go that far this time - I didn't last year. I don't know if I should have a customised (of my design) t-shirt made or not yet. I need to have a look around in the shops for a possible outfit I can wear and then I need some new trainers or something suitable to wear on my feet for the concert. Whatever i get has to be comfy because i will be walking around all day and can't take spare footware to change into because I then have to carry it - what a pain.
So I have plenty to decide in the next two and a half weeks. I am sure it will al keep me busy and when I get back I will write a blog about it all and hopefully have some good pictures too.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Only When I Sleep
WOW it has been 6 weeks since I last posted on this blog, the last one I did was on June 1st so at least I didn't miss a month out or anything. I have been mainly posting my blogs on my Myspace account and I'm meant to post a copy on here but I totally forgot so the ones I have done since the last one I will post on here over the next week.
I have one blog on the go at the moment and another 2-4 to write so as soon as they are done I will post those too. I don't know when those will be done but some time over the next 4 weeks I guess. The blog I am working on at the moment is from the Bon Jovi concert I went to on the 24th June. I shall then be doing a blog about my trip to London. Once I have done my London blog I will be doing one about the 4 days that Nathan and Dianna spent here as well as one about Asda (you have to read the blog to know why I would write a blog about Asda) and then I have to write a blog about my time in Scunthorpe. I went there to see Dianna and Nathan last week because they are going back to Denmark on Wednesday of this week and I won't be able to see them again until some time in November. My trip to Scunthorpe was certainly eventful because I got very ill and my dad had to come and get me in the end. I've never been as ill and Nathan and Dianna didn't realise how ill I was, I tried to keep how bad I was feeling to myself but even when I did describe some of my symptoms they didn't quite comprehend just how bad I felt. When my dad was with us my stomach was in so much pain I felt like someone was stabbing me (repeatably) with a knife. It made walking almost impossible. Three days later and I'm still ill but slowly getting better, I think it will be a little while until I feel 100% again because I still feel sick all the time and can't manage to eat much no matter how hungry I am. I really messed up my stomach with being so ill.
I might as well do a bit of a blog now I am here.
I am so tired, been staying up all night on MSN for the past couple of months and the lack of sleep is really getting to me now. I can't keep it up anymore because I normally get up on four hours sleep and never nap in the afternoon. I can't nap in the afternoon because it just makes me even more tired.
Everything in my life is suffering because of my late nights but the most important thing in my life is suffering more than anything and that's my study. I have now decided that things can't carry on this way and I must stop my late nights and get back into some kind of routine. If I don't do this then I am going to fail my course and I can't do that because it would add another year onto my degree and I don't want that to happen. I have worked so hard on this but I am throwing it away by my late nights. I go to bed when most people are getting up and then I get up 4 hours later and am too tired to do anything so then I waste my time on the computer all day and it can't carry on. On the times I do get 8 hours sleep I still end up waking up tired because staying up all night talking is tiring. I so need to catch up on all my sleep. I do thing that if I go to bed at a normal time I can sleep for 8-10 hours and still wake up tired and that is because of the months of lack of sleep. If I go to get late I can't sleep late because if I wake up at say 10am after 4 hours sleep, because it is light outside my body tells me that I have to get up so I get up even though I don't want to and then of course I am tired all day long.
SO from now on I plan on being in bed before 1am. When I study and work and do everything I used to do everyday I'm tired by 10pm anyway and don't tend to want to come online anyway but that hasn't been the case for the last 2 months because I've not been doing anything all day to make me that tired.
But from now I am starting to get back into a routine again because I just have so much to do. I am very close to failing my course. The last assignment I failed badly because I didn't do the course work because I was either too ill or too tired and then I rushed through about half of it and left the other half and did the assignment in about 5 hours and of course I failed. I thought I would. It was stupid of me because I kept preferring to go online and then do nothing all day when I should of been studying. At times I am my own worst enemy.
I have an assignment due tomorrow and I only started the course work today. I asked for a 2 week extension on Saturday and haven't heard from my tutor yet which is a worry because if she says no I have then failed my course because of my stupidity for staying up all night for the past two months and then being lazy all day. This degree is the most important thing in my life so if I have messed it up I will go offline all week and maybe come on at weekends but I guess that wouldn't be much of a punishment.
The other thing is if my tutor does give me an extension I don't know if I can pass because of all the other course work I have missed out on. Because from the start of a course the course work is designed to help you work on your skills and develop them as you go along and because I've skipped tons of work over the past 10 weeks I have missed lots of developing skills and of course I don't have the time to go back over them right now.
So it is going to be tough for me to pass this one. I don't think anyone actually understands how hard this course is and how much work is involved. If I study properly I can spend up to five hours a day five times a week and 7 days a week 1-2 weeks now and then and some times more. When I say I have 500 pages to read I don't think they realise how much that is and it isn't tiny pages it's big massive pages double sided and on top of that I have an work exercise to do every 2-4 pages so it is hard but when I tell people I don't think they just understand it and how much of my time it does take up. Another thing is study tires me out so I don't really want to go online. For 4 months of the year I wasn't on MSN except maybe once every 6 weeks and that was in because if I am studying 3-5 hours a day and working 1-4 hours and cleaning for an hour and cooking for an hour it is a long and tiring day and on top of that I like to get out and have a walk at least once a day so by time I have finished all that it is 8-10pm and I am tired and don't want to go online because I am so tired. Most nights I liked to just watch a DVD or have a early night and I haven't done that in about 3 months now and I really miss it. I miss studying and working hard. I feel like my friends won't understand if I am not online every night. I know I won't want to be online more than 2-3 nights a week when I am back on that routine and then I wouldn't want to stay on too late, maybe 12-1am or something like that because reading and using my brain to answer questions all day just makes me way too tired.
I guess I will just have to talk to my friends and tell them I need to go back to my old routine again in hope of passing this course. I will then have to carry it on until the end of next year when it all should ease off a little. I finish this course at the middle of October with a three hour exam which I must revise for and then 3 days later I am off to Amsterdam for 5 days to do a half marathon which I must start training for and then I come back and it's my birthday and 2 new course start and then I see Maroon 5 and with some luck I will be off to Denmark for 5 days.
I started running and then stopped because I was ill a lot but even on the days I felt well (which wasn't often) I didn't get out and run. By now I should be running 10ks with ease but I can't even run 20 metres anymore when I got up to 200 metres so I need to sort my health out. When I get over the illness I got when I was away I will see how my general health is and if it isn't any better I will go and see the doctor because I must start running again because I am running out of time to train. I need to be able to run 13+ miles by the end of September and the way that things are going that isn't likely to happen. I think the late nights haven't helped but now that I have stopped them I should see how my health is and then start running. Of course once I do that I won't be online on the nights that I run because I was be so tired that all I will have the strength for it a shower and then to bed. I did like running when I tried before but all this rain is putting me off because it will make me cold because I run and walk so I need to buy a proper waterproof running jacket I think. I also need to get out on my bike because I bought a new bike 3 months ago and went on it once so I think the best thing I can now buy is a waterproof jacket so as soon as I have finished this I will get one online and as soon as I feel better I can go walking and then maybe jog and walk and see how I feel.
Anyway the end is here and I don't feel well and want to go to bed so I am going to finish this here and should post some more blogs in the coming weeks so look out for those.
I have one blog on the go at the moment and another 2-4 to write so as soon as they are done I will post those too. I don't know when those will be done but some time over the next 4 weeks I guess. The blog I am working on at the moment is from the Bon Jovi concert I went to on the 24th June. I shall then be doing a blog about my trip to London. Once I have done my London blog I will be doing one about the 4 days that Nathan and Dianna spent here as well as one about Asda (you have to read the blog to know why I would write a blog about Asda) and then I have to write a blog about my time in Scunthorpe. I went there to see Dianna and Nathan last week because they are going back to Denmark on Wednesday of this week and I won't be able to see them again until some time in November. My trip to Scunthorpe was certainly eventful because I got very ill and my dad had to come and get me in the end. I've never been as ill and Nathan and Dianna didn't realise how ill I was, I tried to keep how bad I was feeling to myself but even when I did describe some of my symptoms they didn't quite comprehend just how bad I felt. When my dad was with us my stomach was in so much pain I felt like someone was stabbing me (repeatably) with a knife. It made walking almost impossible. Three days later and I'm still ill but slowly getting better, I think it will be a little while until I feel 100% again because I still feel sick all the time and can't manage to eat much no matter how hungry I am. I really messed up my stomach with being so ill.
I might as well do a bit of a blog now I am here.
I am so tired, been staying up all night on MSN for the past couple of months and the lack of sleep is really getting to me now. I can't keep it up anymore because I normally get up on four hours sleep and never nap in the afternoon. I can't nap in the afternoon because it just makes me even more tired.
Everything in my life is suffering because of my late nights but the most important thing in my life is suffering more than anything and that's my study. I have now decided that things can't carry on this way and I must stop my late nights and get back into some kind of routine. If I don't do this then I am going to fail my course and I can't do that because it would add another year onto my degree and I don't want that to happen. I have worked so hard on this but I am throwing it away by my late nights. I go to bed when most people are getting up and then I get up 4 hours later and am too tired to do anything so then I waste my time on the computer all day and it can't carry on. On the times I do get 8 hours sleep I still end up waking up tired because staying up all night talking is tiring. I so need to catch up on all my sleep. I do thing that if I go to bed at a normal time I can sleep for 8-10 hours and still wake up tired and that is because of the months of lack of sleep. If I go to get late I can't sleep late because if I wake up at say 10am after 4 hours sleep, because it is light outside my body tells me that I have to get up so I get up even though I don't want to and then of course I am tired all day long.
SO from now on I plan on being in bed before 1am. When I study and work and do everything I used to do everyday I'm tired by 10pm anyway and don't tend to want to come online anyway but that hasn't been the case for the last 2 months because I've not been doing anything all day to make me that tired.
But from now I am starting to get back into a routine again because I just have so much to do. I am very close to failing my course. The last assignment I failed badly because I didn't do the course work because I was either too ill or too tired and then I rushed through about half of it and left the other half and did the assignment in about 5 hours and of course I failed. I thought I would. It was stupid of me because I kept preferring to go online and then do nothing all day when I should of been studying. At times I am my own worst enemy.
I have an assignment due tomorrow and I only started the course work today. I asked for a 2 week extension on Saturday and haven't heard from my tutor yet which is a worry because if she says no I have then failed my course because of my stupidity for staying up all night for the past two months and then being lazy all day. This degree is the most important thing in my life so if I have messed it up I will go offline all week and maybe come on at weekends but I guess that wouldn't be much of a punishment.
The other thing is if my tutor does give me an extension I don't know if I can pass because of all the other course work I have missed out on. Because from the start of a course the course work is designed to help you work on your skills and develop them as you go along and because I've skipped tons of work over the past 10 weeks I have missed lots of developing skills and of course I don't have the time to go back over them right now.
So it is going to be tough for me to pass this one. I don't think anyone actually understands how hard this course is and how much work is involved. If I study properly I can spend up to five hours a day five times a week and 7 days a week 1-2 weeks now and then and some times more. When I say I have 500 pages to read I don't think they realise how much that is and it isn't tiny pages it's big massive pages double sided and on top of that I have an work exercise to do every 2-4 pages so it is hard but when I tell people I don't think they just understand it and how much of my time it does take up. Another thing is study tires me out so I don't really want to go online. For 4 months of the year I wasn't on MSN except maybe once every 6 weeks and that was in because if I am studying 3-5 hours a day and working 1-4 hours and cleaning for an hour and cooking for an hour it is a long and tiring day and on top of that I like to get out and have a walk at least once a day so by time I have finished all that it is 8-10pm and I am tired and don't want to go online because I am so tired. Most nights I liked to just watch a DVD or have a early night and I haven't done that in about 3 months now and I really miss it. I miss studying and working hard. I feel like my friends won't understand if I am not online every night. I know I won't want to be online more than 2-3 nights a week when I am back on that routine and then I wouldn't want to stay on too late, maybe 12-1am or something like that because reading and using my brain to answer questions all day just makes me way too tired.
I guess I will just have to talk to my friends and tell them I need to go back to my old routine again in hope of passing this course. I will then have to carry it on until the end of next year when it all should ease off a little. I finish this course at the middle of October with a three hour exam which I must revise for and then 3 days later I am off to Amsterdam for 5 days to do a half marathon which I must start training for and then I come back and it's my birthday and 2 new course start and then I see Maroon 5 and with some luck I will be off to Denmark for 5 days.
I started running and then stopped because I was ill a lot but even on the days I felt well (which wasn't often) I didn't get out and run. By now I should be running 10ks with ease but I can't even run 20 metres anymore when I got up to 200 metres so I need to sort my health out. When I get over the illness I got when I was away I will see how my general health is and if it isn't any better I will go and see the doctor because I must start running again because I am running out of time to train. I need to be able to run 13+ miles by the end of September and the way that things are going that isn't likely to happen. I think the late nights haven't helped but now that I have stopped them I should see how my health is and then start running. Of course once I do that I won't be online on the nights that I run because I was be so tired that all I will have the strength for it a shower and then to bed. I did like running when I tried before but all this rain is putting me off because it will make me cold because I run and walk so I need to buy a proper waterproof running jacket I think. I also need to get out on my bike because I bought a new bike 3 months ago and went on it once so I think the best thing I can now buy is a waterproof jacket so as soon as I have finished this I will get one online and as soon as I feel better I can go walking and then maybe jog and walk and see how I feel.
Anyway the end is here and I don't feel well and want to go to bed so I am going to finish this here and should post some more blogs in the coming weeks so look out for those.
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