Merry Christmas

I know it's actually Christmas Eve at the moment (well it is here...) but I'm not likely to be on tomorrow so...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! 

Have a happy, healthy, wonderful day :)
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Christmas is coming..

Today is the first day of the christmas break from university. I have so much work to do its scary, I have actually managed to get some work done though which is brilliant. Any little thing helps and makes everything seem a little less daunting :)

I'm off down to mums on either Wednesday or Thursday for christmas then up to my dads for New Year if all goes to plan. Apparently there's bad weather on the way though and Britains transport system grinds to halt very quickly when it comes to anything to do with snow.

Unfortunately christmas is far from my favourite time of the year. In fact I am a little like the Gringe but it's only because it's supposed to be where all the family get together and celebrate and eat an unimaginable amount of food. But it just reminds me how little I see my family and how far away they all are and of course my original family haven't spent christmas together since I was 5 years old so I don't remember spending it with both of my parents. I just listen to other peoples stories and wonder what it would have been like. I didn't realise how much it bothers me, but it does. 

But ANYWAY lets not focus on the bad stuff. I am seeing one of my sisters who I only get to see once or twice a year if I'm lucky, and I really cannot wait!!! We used to be hell together when we were growing up and cause mayhem but since we have been living apart for about four years, when we see each other again it is so much fun!!! 

This is us when my mum first moved to the farm and we were introduced to the incredibly friendly sheep earlier this year. :) 

Looking forward to it :)

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The very idea..

It sounds silly but the one thing that is really causing me stress at the minute is the very idea of travelling on the trains over the christmas period. Hot, over crowded, foul smelling trains means long periods standing wedged up against other miserable and stressed out people whilst clinging onto luggage for hours on end. (This luggage being extremely heavy and bulky... I'm only little!!) And that's before the very idea of travelling alone and having the constant threat of a seizure (or twelve) hanging over.

Having to spend huge amounts of money paying for tickets for some of the most unpleasant journeys I've ever taken just annoys me SO much I can't even put into words. 

Even before I take into account little excursions I might make while I'm visiting family over the christmas holiday I will be travelling on EIGHT of these trains across hundreds of miles and two countries just to travel between people and place. There's never a time when I wish more than anything I could still drive.

DREADING IT.

Another week..

another bump on the head.

This week has flown by! It started with a nice big seizure and resulting in a rather hard bang on the forehead :( It hurt a lot, the headache lasted for ages and the bump and bruise wasn't the best look ever... but slowly the bruise is fading. 

We had quite a lot of time in uni this week with some very long days. Plenty of uni work and long days means plenty of tiredness creeping in. Unfortunately it's not going to get any less either I'm quietly freaking out about it all actually but I'll talk about that some other time. 

The weather is getting really wintery now which is nice :) except for how COLD this house is!!! It really is a typical student house when it comes to the heating. A drafty house and student budgets basically means all three of us having to wear everything we own all at once just to get warm... and that's before the weather gets really cold! 

With that said I'm off to curl up into a ball with every blanket available and try to read through another essay. 

Fun fun!

Little Inspirations

This morning greeted me with an early wakening and a beautiful winter morning. The first one we've had as the weather has been very mild for this time of year here. Blue skies, sunshine and frost covered roofs.

A couple of course mates and I went along to an artist talk to Ffotogallery last night. The talk was a walking tour given but the curator on their current exhibition believing is seeing it was really rather interesting and there was on particular image of a Korean monk that has got to be one of the most beautiful photographs I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. Plus there were also soooo many artists books on sale many of which had a massive discount, and on top of that I 'liked' the gallery on Facebook ages ago and was given a free book last night for that one simple gesture. LOVE! It's so good to be within that arty atmosphere I really should make more of a habit of it especially when I feel a little healthy! It definitely allows for a good, rich source of creative juices to flow.

This is a new addition to my room :) It's seems silly that simple things make such a huge difference... but they do and there's no bad in that! So, it's exactly what it looks like, a super handy pin board and dry wipe board. On it at the moment is a day to day time plan of what I need to try and achieve to keep on top of things to do with university work. a couple of prints that printed wrong but I still like them so put them up in a hope they conjure up some more ideas... My favourite bit though is the dry-wipe board on which I write everything I need to get done so I don't forget anything!! My life is ruled by lists and post-it notes because of poor memory so anything along these lines can help is always a massive help!

The image of a clock is something that grabbed my attention on a stand at the gallery last night. I like it a lot yet can't particularly say why. So its now on show, actually I quite like how it sits in-between everything I have to get done, It somehow makes me realise that I really don't have much time. Times ticking away and all that. That and it's an advert for an upcoming exhibition on memory that I really want to see. Have to wait until January for that though. 

I have three days now with nothing planned but to catch up on some uni work and in particular get some reading done in my many creative magazines and books :D 

Lets hope the brain power stays at a reasonable level and I actually manage to get some work done... fingers crossed!