30 Day Picture Challenge: Day Seven

Day Seven: A picture of your most treasured item.

Sammy Crow

That's Sammy, and there was no competition for my most treasured item! It probably seems sad to most people that a stuffed scarecrow is my most treasured item, but he's my version of a comfort blanket, and a 21 year habit is hard to break! My granny June knitted all of us grandchildren one when we were born, but there was only really me and my cousin Kayleigh who stuck to ours. Kayleigh outgrew Jimmy a few years ago, but I can't abandon Sammy just yet! ...I was the kind of kid who used to kick my teddies out of bed, and then see them on the floor and felt sorry for them because they looked cold, so ended up with a bed full of stuffed animals and no space to sleep!

30 Day Picture Challenge: Day Six

Day Six: A Picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.

This was a tough one, and as you can see, I didn't actually manage a picture of an actual person. I thought hard about it, and my first thoughts were between Katy Perry, Victoria Beckham or Georgia Moffett...spending the day with one of three of the sexiest men on the planet would be quite nice! Then I thought of Kate Middleton, or even the Queen, just to see what it's like to be Royal. 


But when I thought about it seriously, I'd trade places with a successful editor (preferably one working in New York!), to see if it's really what I want to do. I think that'd be a pretty cool and rewarding day! 

30 Day Picture Challenge: Day Five

Day Five: A picture of your favourite memory.

My amazing hat cake!

It was hard to choose my favourite memory, as there was so much to choose from! And if I'm honest, I don't know if this counts, as I was very drunk and my memory is slightly fuzzy! 

But anyway, my 18th Birthday party wins!

As you can tell from the cake, it was a hat themed party. Basically, you could be anything you wanted, as long as the costume incorporated a hat. Me and my brother were pirates, and my mum was a bar wench...

AAAARRRRRRRR!

There was some absolutely amazing costumes, including pilots, cops and robbers, gangsters....my gran and granddad were Laurel and Hardy haha!

We also held a best costume competition, which Emily won...

Noddyyy!

Anyway, to cut a long story short, it was just an amazing night! The room was full of people I love and we just had a great time. If my 21st party is anything like my 18th, I will be a very happy chappy! :D 

30 Day Picture Challenge: Day Four

Day Four: A picture of your night

Book.

Hot Vimto

 Yes, I'm cheating and using multiple pictures, just to emphasise how uneventful my night has been! I also wrote a uni blog (didn't have much to say for that either!), and OH...I succeeded in getting my sims 3 family to their fourth generation. I know, it's quite an achievement. Yes, I am very proud of myself. (That's not sarcasm either, considering how many times the bloody thing has crashed recently...maybe the two are not unrelated!)

The four generations of the Parker family. So proud :')

30 Day Picture Challenge: Day Three

Day Three: A picture of the cast from your favourite show

Gilmore Girls

I don't think that my love for Gilmore Girls is much of a secret! Gilmore Girls is the story of single mum Lorelai and her daughter Rory, who have an incredibly close relationship. It follows their lives over seven years, and through too much coffee and junk food, talking nonsense way too fast, and just general insanity, it teaches us a good few lessons about people, relationships and life. 

There are too many reasons why I love this show to mention here, but here are a few. The script is hilarious, but packed with intelligent humour, not just easy, cheap laughs. It's honest and even though the characters found in Stars Hollow are a little insane, they are believable and you learn to fall in love with every one of them (even Taylor.) 

The main reason I love Gilmore Girls however, is that it's basically an on screen portrayal of me and my mum. Like Lorelai, my mum had me at a young age (18), and I think that age gap plays a big part in how close we are. Me and my mum watched all seven seasons together over the summer, and it was amazing just how much we could relate to the characters and the situations they get in! 

Barlow-Edwards Girls.

Here's my favourite ever scene from all seven seasons...

Rory Graduates from Chilton ...Unfortunately I couldn't embed it, but click and watch anyway, it makes me cry every time! :)

30 Day Picture Challenge: Day Two

Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest

Me and Emily.

There was a few people I could have chosen for this one, the first person I thought of being my mum. But I'm using her for another day, and I don't want to cheat by using the same picture/person twice. 

Anyway, that's Emily! We met in the first year of college, and Emily practically lived at my house during second year! I just love the fact that we can be silly together and do things like spending months constructing a 'drunken dictionary', and staying up all night after a night out, just laughing at scouse postman Pat! We probably know way too much about each other, but it just shows how comfortable we are. Also, she is slightly 'fixated' with my bottom...I caught her squeezing it in the middle of the night once, just seeing if it really is as hard as it seems, or if I tense it....weirdo, I know. ;) 

30 Day Picture Challenge

So my friend Caitlin started this '30 Day Picture Challenge' on her blog, (http://thecaitfiles.blogspot.com/, it's very cool, you should check it out.) She invited me to join in, and it looks rather fun, so I thought I'd give it a go! Here's the challenge...

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with ten facts

Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest

Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show

Day 04 - A picture of your night

Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory

Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day

Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item

Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh

Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most

Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most ****** up things with

Day 11 - A picture of something you hate

Day 12 - A picture of something you love

Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist

Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without

Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die

Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you

Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently

Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity

Day 19 - A picture and a letter

Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel

Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget

Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at

Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book

Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change

Day 25 - A picture of your day

Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you

Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member

Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of

Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile

Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss

So here goes... Day One: A picture of yourself with ten facts.

 Sorry for cutting you out, Tash!

Fact One: I like to think I'm clever...I'm just incurably lazy.
Fact Two: This is because I have no self discipline. 
Fact Three: I want to volunteer somewhere and make a big difference. I read a 'gap year diary' by a girl who spent a few months at an elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka...I would love to do that!
Fact Four: I'm failing at following the daily reading plan at the back of my Bible. I neglected it for too long, and although I'm trying to catch up to the right date, I have to admit it is quite hard going at times. Again...no self discipline. 
Fact Five: I'm finding it very hard to come up with ten facts that aren't already on my facebook page! 
Fact Six: I'm looking forward to moving back to Manchester and being an 'adult', but I'm also terrified of losing the security blanket of education that I've clung to for the last 17 years.
Fact Seven: I have indescribably terrible taste in men. 
Fact Eight: Uni has sucked the fun out of writing for me. However, it helped create my dream of being an editor. (Yes, that was incredibly cheesy, I apologise.)
Fact Nine: I get fixated on things very easily. I genuinely think this is a very mild form of OCD. I HATE the word 'obsessed' with a passion, because it has negative implications and it's been used way too much in my past. 
Fact Ten: I'm incredibly shy, which can have one of two results when I meet new people; I either appear standoffish and rude because I don't say anything, or I say too much. It just takes me a while to relax and make my mind up about people, before I let them in. 


Well there you go :) I think everybody should have a go and do their own challenge!