Well well well...

Look what the cat dragged in.

I rediscovered this little blog o' mine when I randomly decided to google my friend. It's a long and frankly uninteresting train of thought to get to that point so I shall move on.

Reading back over these posts has been bittersweet. On the one hand it's made me nostalgic for that time - a LOT has changed - but on the other hand it's nice to read how happy I was underneath all of my neuroses.

Like I said, a lot of things have changed. In fact, almost everything. I started typed out exactly what, but I thought it would be too depressing to lay out how different I am.

Instead my plan is to leave this blog well enough alone. Like preserving a good memory, I'm preserving a good year in blog form.

Adios kittens,
-A

Christmas at Ray 16

Ray 16 Christmas consisted of Princess Diana, mickey mouse baubles, Christmas ham and a lot of vegetables. Christmas lights, candy canes, hilarious children Christmas cards, and Allie knitting for her puppy. I'm now feeling so festive!

-A

Weight woes... or not...

I suppose I find it quite amusing that the first time a person calls me fat to my face in ages, I react by feeling not at all fat.

I have always had problems with my weight, and before if someone had said that I'm sure I wouldn't have eaten for a couple of days and cried a lot.

I mean, sure it stung to hear, but it actually only reaffirmed in me the fact that I am not the same girl I used to be and I actually rather like the way I live.

It's not that I don't think that I am fat - I do - it's more than I am not willing to change my lifestyle so dramatically. Yes I should get more exercise and cut down on the chocolate, but these are things I already knew. I'm actually rather fine with being so frivilous with my food at the moment. If I can afford to, if I am happy in my choices, why should someone make me feel bad for ordering a dessert or eating extravagantly.

I know full well that post university I will be healthier, more concerned as I move into 'proper' adulthood that every calorie will count against my figure. But right now I am young and I am happy and I will have my McFlurry and eat it too!

-A

Partner let me update you

So kittens here's what's been happening:

• On Friday I got the contraceptive implant placed into my left arm to stop me getting pregnant for the next three years. It's something I've been thinking about for a few years now and felt it was time for a (contraceptive) change. It didn't really hurt, I can barely feel it in there unless I touch it, and I'm hoping my body reacts well to it.
• I have quit my job at Jolly's having found it too difficult to keep up with the ever-increasing workload at university whilst having a job.
• Everything is excellent with the boyfriend.
• The nurse told me I'm fat. Thanks a lot for that one, Nurse Viv.
• I was the murderer in a murder mystery!

Love always kittens,

Hope to blog you properly soon! x

I suppose

I suppose it is a little terrifying not knowing what I want to do in life or having any kind of plan.

Content

Hello kittens,

Life has been good lately. I have a new job which I am already enjoying, since working in retail has always been appealing to me. Things with the boyfriend have been going brilliantly. We're very happy and only seem to be growing closer and more in love every minute we spend together. I can't wait to marry that boy. He passed his driving test so we're planning on looking at cars together tomorrow. People are coming back to Bath now so hopefully now more people will be around. So I'm happy, life is good.

Live long and prosper,
Party hard.

-A

Oasis

So I did get a job kittens. Next week I start my job as a Sales Advisor at the Oasis concession in House of Fraser Bath (Jolly's).

I have training this weekend where hopefully they'll till-train me, teaching me the ins and outs and I'll be ready to get out on the shop floor since next Tuesday I start properly. And the week after, on Wednesday I have to do the whole day on my own!

Exciting but kind of scary too. But exciting nonetheless.

-A