LIFE UPDATE!!!

YO REMEMBER ME? I’m not really sure what I’m about to do here hahahaaaa I totally forgot how to write. But basically I’m here because I was watching YouTube videos earlier and I was just thinking about how I’d really like to be able to talk about my life or something or other to a load of random stranger (that sounds weird but I’m sure y’all understand 😂) and then I remembered hEY I HAVE A BLOG!! And yeah I haven’t used it in 7 months and some (two) of the posts are too cringey for me to think about and I don’t like the title any more but I don’t know maybe I’ll start to use it again…

Anyway I thought I’d just give you a little life update just because I haven’t surfaced for so long oops. Just gonna blame it on school work…….. because to be honest I do have a lot of that (I’m looking at you French and Spanish). I kind of recently started sixth form and I was one of only five from my school that went to this particular one (to put it into perspective there’s now 2000 people in my year group). At first it was HORRIBLE – I didn’t know anybody but everyone knew each other, I sat with different people every break and I always felt like they didn’t want me there and basically I just dreaded it every day. I cried a few times even though I never cry and I considered moving school and I was a bit of a wreck for about 2 weeks. 

I have actually lowkey sorted my life out now. Like, I have a group to sit with and we go out together etc but I don’t click with them like I clicked with my old friends? I just feel so uncomfortable sometimes? I really hate having to talk to new people to be honest. It just makes me feel so vulnerable and like if I say one thing wrong I’ve blown it. I’m fine and normal in a group but if I get left alone with someone I feel like I’m being really boring or weird and they won’t like me? Ughhhhh. 

No wait. It’s not as bad as I just made it sound. My new friends are really lovely and they’re trying really hard to make me feel comfortable even though I know nobody. I just needed to offload maybe. I’M NOT DEPRESSING I SWEAR!!!! 

Even though I am not looking forward to school tomorrow because I had a run in with a pavement and I currently look like I’ve been punched in the face with a cheese grater (well done on your walking skills Lora). 

Okay I’m going to make some sweet potatoes now because they are the loves of my life and I might not post on here a lot but I’ll do my best because I do actually enjoy it (even though this was a bit of a Debbie Downer post) (haha did I really just say Debbie Downer)…

SEE YOU SOON PEACE OUT FROM LORA

I can’t ice skate

Hello my lovely readers and very sorry for my non existent blog schedule-ing skills… BUT I can now confirm that my comeback is permanent because….. *drumroll*  I HAVE THE WORDPRESS APP!! Shh I know everyone else already had it but I’ve been the almost only person in the universe to have been using iOS 6 which I can tell you is just no. Anyway, Alisha let me use her SIM card to activate my phone and I have entered the modern world. Yas. 

I’m going to my dad’s house in a minute so I (yet again) have no time for a proper post so I’m just going to give y’all a very quick update on the failure that is my life…

My latest failure all started because I read too much FanFiction. Hayffie FanFiction (I lead a wild life). My favourite current FanFiction involves figure skating and since I started reading it I have become absolute ice skating trash. I spend my life watching it on YouTube and it’s so lovely and I really really wanted to learn. And I conveniently forgot about how awful I am at skating. 

So Alisha and I decided that today would be the day that we both sort our lives out and learn to skate. We spent about 17 hours trying to find a bus station, found out we were looking in the wrong place, located the right bus and we were off. Paying was super exciting because there were all these people on the ice and they were twirling and stuff and I was so determined that that would be me. I mean, I was Ready with a capital R. The rented ice skates were a bit of a disappointment and way less pretty than figure skates but I got past that. It was fine. 

Or not. I COULD NOT MOVE. It was so embarrassing and also extremely funny. Alisha actually had to persuade a random guy to try and teach us how to skate and that was even worse. Alisha fell on him, dragged me down on top of her and he ran over my finger which was painful. 

Needless to say, we didnt stay very long. We ended up making a trek to a shopping centre with extremely wet derrières and ripped tights and eating the whole of McDonald’s. 

I have decided that I prefer summer sports. 

Are any of you actually able to move on ice skates because if you can, I admire you. 

See you soon,

Lora xx

Happiness Day?

I feel like this is such a cliche thing to write about and it’s almost hurting me to write something so unoriginal but hey, I’ve had a pretty good day today so I thought I might as well share some details… Also I still need to do my French homework which is due in first period tomorrow so I don’t have time for originality XD

Oh and just as a side note, I actually thought National Happiness Day was yesterday because I follow so many Australians on Instagram. Well done Lora.

Side note 2: Is is even today, or is it only an Australian thing???

Numero Uno Happy Thing: My porridge was perfect today. I am a huge porridge fan but the problem with this particular dish is that soooo many things could go wrong! Like too much milk, too little honey, over microwave-ation, running out of toppings…. But today I managed to get the oat-to-honey-to-almond-milk ratio exactly on point. And that made me happy.

Numero Dos Happy Thing: I managed to draw an anatomical heart and it came out pretty good. I don’t know why I wanted to draw organs because they’re very creepy but I guess I’ve got to branch out for the sake of my art…

Numero Tres Happy Thing: I saw Alisha today. I haven’t seen her since before Christmas and she has had her phone confiscated for even longer (well she’s allowed an iPhone 3 but…) and I missed her so that was nice. (I just wrote ice by accident instead of nice and I think that should be a new hipster word for cool. No? Okay then.)

Numero Cuatro Happy Thing: We are probably going to a The 1975 concert when we go to Spain in summer and I am excited because hahahahahHHAhhHAHAH I LOVE THEM!

Numero Cinco Happy Thing: I went to my little sister’s ballet performance and I accidentally on purpose got myself sat next to a rather attractive professional ballet dancer for two and a half hours. Good times, good times mwahahaha.

AANyway. That is it because French homework is about to make my day go slightly downhill. I hope you all had a very happy National Happiness Day.

Comment something good that happened today, if you want. Comments are my favourite and my best. (Anyone else used to watch Charlie and Lola?)

See you soon,

Lora xx

Lack-of-Oreo-cream appreciation

Hello, it’s me again. I felt like I ought to make my re-debut with something a bit more interesting than my last post soooo here goes…

I just wanted to make a post about my friend Katie because I feel like I don’t appreciate her quite enough. I have this thing where I sometimes don’t really make much of an effort to be friends with people because eh, I’ll probably never see them again after June. I don’t know why I think like this but it’s been that way for a while. i was reading through my diary from last year the other day (I don’t write in it any more, thank goodness, because that thing was so embarrassing) and I was always complaining about how I didn’t like my friends in England as much as I like Alisha (a.k.a my best friend who lives abroad) and now I feel really horrible and whiny and I’m being super nice to my friends.

Anyway, I went a bit off subject there. back to Katie. It was my birthday last week and as per normal birthday tradition my friends bought me some presents. Most of it was the usual teenage girl stuff (food and bath bombs) but the presents Katie gave me just made me realise what an amazing friend she is. She bought me quite a few things, including a cactus in a mini watering can which Nina has named Jerry and a little notebook which she has painted little avocados all over (which is now probably my favourite bit of stationary). Obviously all this was lovely but the best thing was a bag of Oreos. You may be thinking eh, Oreos are great and all but what’s really so interesing? She had gone through every one and scraped off all the cream. I repeat SHE SCRAPED THE CREAM OFF MY OREOS BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE IT. That is thoughtful right there. I don’t even know how she remembered that I am the only weird person on the planet who won’t eat Oreo cream because I don’t ever remember telling her. But yeah. Thank you Katie.

Lora. Appreciate your friends you horrible little lychee. (I hate lychees)

I don’t even know why I bother using a fake name. Anyone who knows me would know exactly who was writing this….

See you later,

Lora xx

…… hi

*Shuffles in sheepishly*

So it’s been what? 4 months? Hmm… I really missed this.

I don’t even have a new laptop screen yet (it’s been in the post for about 2 weeks, along with my new SIM card 😦 ) but I suddenly got a random urge to make my comeback so I have hijacked my mum’s laptop and now I’m doing “history revision”. I’M SO EVIL MWAHAHA!

Yeah.

Anyway, I was just waiting for WordPress to load looking at the little grey ‘w’ symbol thing and I got really excited. And I’m about to have a massive binge read of all my favourite blogs (Lora the Stalker is coming for you…). And I suddenly got loads of ideas for blog posts and basically yay. I’m happy.

See you in the next few days, hopefully from my own, non cat damaged laptop!

Lora xx

P.S I just realised my whole blog is ‘woop I’m back’ posts. I need to be more committed…

P.P.S Thank you for not unfollowing me while I’ve been away

Songs from November

These songs weren’t actually released in November this year but you probably guessed that. I’ve seen a couple of people do this already and I’m joining in woop!

Anyway. Here’s my playlist of November (I don’t remember what was on my August one so it’s probably all the same hmmm…)

• Pin – Grimes
• Drive – Halsey
• The Feeling – Justin Beiber ft. Halsey
• Kathleen – Catfish and the Bottlemen
• Golden – Parade of Lights
• Love You Goodbye – One Direction
• Moments = Tove Lo
• Cocoon – Catfish and the Bottlemen
• Intro (Delirium) – Ellie Goulding (This isn’t really a song but oh well)
• Art Deco – Lana del Rey
• Paradise – Tove Lo
• Hey There, Delilah – Plain White T’s
• The Last Time – Taylor Swift
• Luca – Brand New
• Entropy – Grimes
• Strange Love – Halsey

And there we have it. Wow.

What songs are you listening to right now? (Who else likes these songs?)

See ya,

Lora xx

A Court of Thorns and Roses

A review? Of a book? Moi?

Yes.

I have been a bit MIA from WordPress this weekend because for whatever reason I suddenly rediscovered reading. I haven’t actually read a whole book in aaaaaaaages then I randomly found my kindle and thought hmmmm… Why not buy a book? So I did.

I’M SO HAPPY I DID!

The book I bought was A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas and asdfghjkl I think it’s my new favourite book.

Presenting Le Blurb: Feyre’s survival rests on her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price…

Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre’s presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more  dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse or she will lose him forever.

SO. At first I was a bit apprehensive. Like, does putting a couple of extra ‘e’s in fairy really make it any more mature? Am I really interested in these hostile feelings turning to passion?

DAMN RIGHT I AM!

The faeries or whatever are my new favourite supernatural species. I love them even more than vampires (except possibly not more than Damon Salvatore). The main guy Tamlin is so lovely and sweet and he also casually hunts down various evil things completely on his own. Lucien – ugh I love him. He’s hilarious. And RHYSAND! MY CHILD!

I even love Amarantha the super villain and bearer of the coolest name ever.

The plot was so not-boring that I literally couldn’t put it down (cliché as it sounds). I read the whole thing yesterday and by about 65% I was an emotional mess of blanket and rears. And it was so COMPLICATED! I was basically dying trying to read between all the lines and everything. Anyway. It was really good.

The only thing was… (really trying to spoil 0% of the plot here) there was a bit that involved the entire world being saved if darling little Feyre could solve a riddle. I SOLVED THAT SHIZZLES IN ABOUT THREE SECONDS! So basically, if I was there, everyone would have been saved a whole lot of pain and misery.

I’m not sure about my reviewing skills right now but I don’t care.

I give this book six stars and everyone should read it or else (come on people, it’s £2 ish on kindle).

Since I now love reading again, comment some books below for me to check out pleaseeeee!

Lora xx

(I feel really energetic right now, could you tell?)

 

 

Winter Things

This is a very cliché thing to do but I’m letting myself off because I have to go babysit in a minute. I’m sorry if I’m hurting anyone’s inner hipster (I’m hurting mine…)

I like winter in an ish kind of way. It alternates between my second and third favourite season (at the moment it’s my third because I’m cold) so I’m trying to make myself feel better about it by thinking about good things about winter.

Firstly, Christmas. Duh. I am almost dying of excitement that it’s now less than a month until Christmas. It’s definitely my favourite holiday and I’ve had my Christmas list sorted since July. I just love the fact that we get two weeks off school and we get to spend a whole day eating and opening presents. It’s probably the best idea ever! And also Christmas trees and Christmas lights. They’re being put up where I live at the moment and asdfghjkl I can’t wait for everything to look so pretty and festive.

I also like winter because of the quality time I get to spend with my cats. They don’t come in much in summer because they think they’re too adventurous for that kind of stuff obviously (so they think) and then when it gets cold they spend their entire lives fighting over who gets to sleep on which bed all day. If they sit on mine then yay for me.Cat time.

Getting to dig out my multitudinous pairs of boots is a really good thing about winter because I love them so much and I can’t wear them when it’s warm. And also it being freezing enough for me to wear my knee socks with only minimal weird looks from people (i.e. my dad). I much prefer summer fashion to be honest but I can deal with wearing cute gloves and stuff and Oh My Goodness I want a trench coat so badly.

Frosty mornings are pretty cute. I don’t like the fact that I have to walk to school in the freezing cold but I love looking out of my window when I’ve just got up and seeing how pretty and sparkly everything looks. I also love how the sun takes longer to come up so I can actually see the misty sort of half light colours which I think are gorgeous.

Actually, speaking of the sun, I love that it goes down earlier. I’m probably the only person on the planet who actually likes that but I can only sleep in the pitch dark so it’s pretty annoying when it’s basically still light at midnight. Being all cosy with hot chocolate and watching a movie when it’s dark outside is a great feeling too.

Hold on wait. I forgot Christmas drinks. I. Love. The. Cups. I haven’t actually tried any of this years Christmas drinks in Costa but that is all changing tomorrow because prefect privileges mean that I’m allowed into town at lunchtime. Yas. That probably won’t have a great impact on my health but I don’t care. I’ll do anything for hot chocolate.

Who’s impressed by my list-post-that-isn’t-a-list? Because I’m pretty proud of myself 😛

What do y’all like about winter? (I’m still feeling kind of unenthusiastic about it myself but…)

Au revoir, mes amis.

Lora xx

 

Lions and tigers and crushes, oh my!

I don’t know if I want to post this. I might delete it because:

1. It’s stupid
2. It’s stupid
3. I’m still not sure if my sister reads this. She’s a stalker-y little creep and she’ll be able to guess exactly who it is that I’m about to rant about…

Ugh, come on Lora. It’s not that hard just to type some stuff. Hey, this isn’t even a particularly serious subject (really) – I’m just very pathetic and I’ve been irritating myself to death with something that feels like it’s been going on since I emerged from the womb…

WOW what am I doing? I’m laughing so hard at myself right now.

Anyway. The reason for my aforementioned pathetic-ness is a guy in my year who I’ve had the most stupid bloody crush on ever since he turned up in one of my classes at the beginning of year 9 (a.k.a more than two years ago).

I spent a really fun 6 months or so denying everything, then I accepted that it was part of life and considered hiding under a rock until the unfortunate feelings left by themselves (poor 13 year old me – I feel for you). Safe to say they are still around and now I have suddenly started getting really irritated about it. And I feel like an idiot.

Because it really is the most stupid bloody crush.

Reason 1: I have no idea why I like him. None at all. Yeah, he’s intelligent, I like his voice, he has dark hair and is taller than me but that could describe about 6547872382392038 people.

I’ve had about five conversations with him since I’ve known him (one was about whether buffalo farming is a good career choice – obviously the basis of every successful relationship.) so you can probably gather that I actually don’t know him very well. Stupid.

Reason 2: Even if I had a chance (which I don’t), I honestly couldn’t care less. I don’t particularly want a boyfriend because I’m allergic to awkward and I really hate the idea of going on dates and generally anything cringey like that. Ugh. *shivers*

Even if he liked me back, I wouldn’t tell him and even if he wanted to go out with me I would refuse. Stupid.

Why, you ask, am I even bothering to get irritated? UGH I DON’T KNOW. Why the fizzle do I even care?

Oh hey, once I was feeing pretty ill and the only reason I went into school was because I sit next to him in a class I had that day. STUPID!

I can’t be bothered to deal with this any more but I know it’s never going to change. Go on Lora, please carry on obsessing. Spill your secrets to random people on the internet. At least he’s going to a different college next year.

This is probably the worst thing I’ve ever written and I don’t even know what the point of it was. If anything it made me more irritated. Stupid.

See y’all (hopefully when I’m fairly normal again),

Lora xx

 

Things that make me happy !!

It feels like I’ve been writing this post for years. You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to post from my STUPID IPOD! Google is not my favourite at the moment.

Anyway. Onwards my friends.

It’s a positive post! *cheers*

So, a while back I saw that LyfWithEm had done a post on things that make her happy and I thought that was a really nice idea so now I’m copy-catting (mwahahaha).

I don’t actually know how many things are going to be on my list but I’m just going to keep going until I get bored or run out of things (that may or may not be fairly quick. I’m quite negative generally.) Here goes…

1. Cats (if they don’t hate me)
2. Finding a new series of really good books
3. Raspberry smoothies
4. Hearing songs I like on the radio
5. Plane journeys
6. Obscure ice cream flavours
7. Really curly hair (which I don’t have)
8. Having interesting dreams
9. Doing really crazy stuff with Alisha that I wouldn’t do with anyone else
10. People with really cool turquoise hair
11. Aesthetically pleasing bedrooms
12. Sleeping in cars on long journeys
13. Having strange ideas for the future
14. The Vampire Diaries (#sorrynotsorry)
15. Swimming pools
16. Knee socks
17. Halsey
18. Making up unusual breakfasts
19. Cute stationery
20. Avocados
21. The smell of jasmine
22. Drawing
23. Frozen yoghurt
24. Having a tidy room (i.e. never)
25. Not having homework
26. Hot chocolate with everything
27. Really comfortable pillows
28. Tumblr (when it’s not too hipster)
29. Things in rainbow order
30. Onesies
31. Owls
32. Mediterranean food
33. Knowing I’ve done well in a test
34. Having really random conversations that make literally no sense
35. Putting things in rainbow order
36. Planning what I would do in situations that will probably never happen (e.g. a zombie apocalypse) (I don’t know why that makes me happy)
37. Filling a whole page with zentangles
38. Wearing brand new pyjamas
39. Getting perfume samples in magazines
40. Knowing I only have 7 ish months left of chemistry before I can quit it forever (thank God)
41. Seeing everything decorated for Christmas
42. My mum letting me borrow her laptop so I can FINALLY post this
43. Listening to a new playlist on Spotify
44. Going to a beach with no seaweed and no visible fish
45. Inside jokes
46. Randomly smelling really nice food from somewhere
47. The space under my bed where I basically live
48. Fanfictions (I lead the sad life of a fangirl)
49. Making lists of everything (Ooh like now)
50. THE FACT THAT MORE THAN ZERO PEOPLE READ MY BLOG YAY!

I think everyone probably agrees that 50 is a good place to stop. I was thinking of stopping at 42 because that’s one of my lucky numbers but then I thought I might as well carry on and here we are with a very cheesy number 50. How exciting.

I also think that anyone reading this (if they want) should try one of these posts because it’s always good to have an in depth think about what makes you happy. If you don’t want to, then comment something happy instead because I get excited about comments 😀

See you probably next time I get hold of a laptop,

Lora xx

P.S I MISSED Y’ALL

P.P.S DID YOU MISS ME?