Today I don't feel like doing anything!

I'm not going to be going out for a while. I ended up going out in Cardiff last night with my old roommates from my first year in UWIC. It was so nice to see them, I haven't seen some of them in about a year. They have all recently finished their final exams which is scary cause I could of just finished my course if I hadnt of dropped out. But I don't regret my decision. So I went round the girls house and got ready with them, ended going out about 11:30 and then when I was out I met the 2 boys I used to live with. They are like brothers to me, I had the best times with them. I know I can rely 100%,  if I was ever upset or needed something they would do anything they could to help. I trust them with my life. I had a really nice night with everyone, was lovely seeing other friends too who I hadn't seen in even longer. I had a few compliments on my weight loss too which made me happy. Its nice knowing it yourself but when other people tell you it just makes all the hard work and turning down food worth it. So today I had a proper lazy day, I ate everything possible, which I'm going to regret when I get on the scales tomorrow. I lay in bed for most of the day and watched TV. I watched Take Him To The Greek with Russel Brand. It was so bad. I am really not a fan of him, which is weird cause I love his wife! I find him just too over the top and fake.

Mike's family is in Florida all this week for a family holiday, talk about jealous! They are doing all these cool things like today he went deep sea fishing!! I want to go a on holiday so bad, I just don't have any time when I could go on this course. Its already been 2 weeks since he went home, it has gone quite quick but then again it hasn't. I still have good and bad days when I miss him lots. But we're doing the best we can in the situation and we're both talking to each other about any worries we have so thats good. We each sort of take it in turns to cheer the other one up, but thats what you do, be there for the other person when they need you. 

I'm sooo excited to go and see The Hangover 2. I loved the first one, I laughed all the way through. Its out next week some so I am there! 

Today I tried to sell some of my dress's on eBay. I have like 20 dresses that I wore a few years ago, and they have just been taking up space in one of my wardrobes so I guessed I may as well sell them if I can. But its so much more complicated than I thought it would be, it takes so long to post each one up. So far I have one dress up. I'm hoping to sell them for about £15 each, so I should get a descent amount of money if my plan works.

I'm going to do a trial run tomorrow morning driving to my ambulance station so that I know exactly when to leave and how to get there. I'm starting to get super nervous, I'm not looking forward to working all the weird hours but thats part of the job, so I've got to embrace it.

Flossy x

Oh so Proud!

I'm so proud of my brother! Today he had his first ever power-lifting competition, and he came third in his weight category. All the other competitors had special kit to help them, like knee straps and special weight lifting suits, which made them bend into funny positions. Sam had nothing and he did so well! He made me video his lifts so he could watch them back and improve on his technique, so I looked like a right pervy pete standing there videoing him.

The competition was made up of 3 lifts:

The dead-lift - Where you basically bend down and pick up a weight to your thigh.
The squat - The weight is on your shoulders and you bend your knees until your low to the ground and then push up back to full height.
And finally the bench press - Where you lie on your back and using your arms, lower a weight onto your chest and then push it back upwards to lock out your arms.

He managed to get a personal best in his last dead-lift attempt too, so it was a really successful day for him. All of my family went and also Sam's girlfriend's whole family came too which was lovely of them. He had a lot of support.

Thing is now he's set himself a high standard for his next competition he has to come second or first.

Here he is showing off his trophy

My night out was really good. I miss going out with the girlies. I was so excited I was ready to go by 3, and I wasn't meant to be at my friends until 6! So I sat on my sofa and twiddeled my fingers. I even managed to do the hairstyle I wanted, but I'm so gutted in pictures it looks so bad. My hair just looks flat and slicked back when in real life it had a bit of volume and looked okay. So safe to say I wont be doing that again. I'll have to find another hairstyle for next time. I've been removing tags on Facebook like there is no tomorrow.
 Before we left my friends house she asked one of us to look after her house key as she didn't have a zip compartment in her bag to keep it safe. So one of my friends volunteered herself stating that she was and I quote ' the most responsible'. So around 12 o'clock we we're all sat in a bar because we had all managed to get split up so it was our meeting point. And when my friend asked for her key, my 'responisble' friend couldn't find it anywhere. Queue crying, freaking out and lots of panicking!
I was on the case though, I got straight on the internet on my phone and looked for 24 hour locksmiths who could come and help us get into the house. After ringing a few wrong numbers I managed to get hold of one, and he agreed to help us and meet us back at the house.
So after calming down the girls we walked to our lift in the pouring rain, I had a plastic bag over my head to avoid having a afro. I'm a classy girl I know. When we got back to the house, the man was there waiting for us, so set about trying to break the lock, after about 30 minutes we managed to get into the house and the warmth!
This morning, we were all sitting on the sofa talking when our 'responisble' friend, chirped up ''Girls...Girls, you'll never guess what I just found'' and with that she pulled out the key from her clothes. She must of put it in her bra  half way through the night thinking it was a safer place than in her bag and forgotten about it.
So after spending 90 pound to call a locksmith out, break into the house and change the locks, she found the key!
Well at least we'll always remember the night out.

Flossy x

No pain no gain.

Oh my, I did a killer workout this morning, I'm going to be sore tomorrow. But surprisingly, I really enjoyed it, and I only stopped a few times throughout it. If anyone had seen me through my window they would of found it hysterical, me jumping around the living room doing all these crazy moves. The annoying thing with the dvd is the mega fit people they have in the background doing it along with the main guy, they always show close ups of all the girls with amazing abs with perfect hair and no sweat then there's me with my hair going whatever direction it fancies and a face so red it doesn't even look real. As you can tell I look good when I work out :s On the positive side the good thing about doing working out is that you can have a good hearty meal after it, I treated myself with the mother of all jacket potatoes, with ham and cheese.

Yummy!

I had my last University lecture yesterday until July! I am so close to finishing my first year its scary. In basically a year I will have to make all the decisions and be solely responsible for my patients. I do not feel ready for that, I'm sure next year will change that though when I learn things like cannulation, intubation and ALS.

I started learning different strumming patterns on my guitar, mainly so I don't have to go through the pain of pushing on the strings. I am enjoying it, it's a lot harder than I thought it would be though. But it's not like I'm in a rush to learn, slow and steady wins the race.

I'm off out tomorrow night with some of the girls from my course, I cant wait. I haven't been out since the start of December. I've got my outfit all ready and all packed. We're all sleeping over one of the girls houses after too. I haven't had a sleepover in so long they make me feel like a 12 year old again.
 I always used to have sleepovers for my birthday, about 6 -8 girls would come over. We always used to play  murder in the dark and play caterpillar. Once we made a huge ghost train around my house, and took it in turn to drag each other around on a sleeping bag and then others would jump out of random places and try scare us. I miss being young, not having any worries, when things were simple waking up at 7am on Saturday going out to play all day and only going back home for food and when it got dark.

I had one of the best childhoods possible, I grew up with another 2 families so there was 2 girls and 4 boys. We did everything together, from water fights, building dens to playing massive games of man hunt. As much as I want to be young again I would never want to be 17 or 18 again. I hated those years, apart from my 2 holidays in Magalluf. When I was 19-20 I was just down in the dumps I had dropped out of uni and didn't know what to do with my life so I just got miserable and ate. Boy did I eat! I got quite big too. Until I randomly applied for camp one night and then everything changed. I met Amy who is now one of my best friends, and I met Mike. Add that to the fact I'm now on a course which I absolutely love I can finally say I'm happy. There is always going to be a few things I would like to be different in my life, but there's no point getting upset over them, I've just got to try find positives in them, and only worry about the things I can control :) (one of the best pieces of advice I've ever received)

My brother is entering a power lifting competition on Sunday so I have to get up at 8am to be there on time. Could be very interesting! But it's his first one and I wouldn't miss it for the world. I hope he does well. He's had to try and loose 2kg in order to try and make a lower weight group so he doesn't have to compete against the big big boys. So fingers crossed he makes it.

I've got to get a nice early night so I look fresh and ready for tomorrow night. I've told myself I'm not going to get food at the end of the night but we'll see how that one turns out.

Flossy x

Who says naps are only for old people.

Yeesh I was sleepy today. I don't know why, I slept good last night had a lovely dream too. Would love it to come true one day. But I was lucky I had a 2 hour gap in between lectures, so I seized the opportunity and had a cheeky little nap in my car. The benefit with being short is that I can fit perfectly across my backseats. Got my blanket out the boot and got comfy. It was one of the best naps ever actually. Shame about the shocker of a hairstyle I had after. But thats the signs of a good nap.
Its strange when your 12-17 years old the thought of taking a nap makes you feel old. But as soon as you go to Uni your views soon change. I love naps! I think anyone that goes to uni would agree with me too on that.

Yesterday I started looking for tattoo ideas. I think I have an idea and I think now I'm going to try and cover up my A in my design. I think I'm going to have an owl and then possibly a tree or branch with blossom flowers on it. I want the owl to be starting to take flight, but I don't know how that will look. I need to find a tattooist who can do good owl's so I'll have to do some research.

My guitar progress can only be described as slow at best. I'm practicing the chords but I find that my fingers hurt from pressing on the strings super quickly so I have to stop. But I found the first song I want to learn, Bubbly by Colbie Caillat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWGqoCNbsvM So I might give that a go tomorrow.

I went to Badminton last night. I used to play from the age of about 11-16 and I actually got to a relatively good standard, but unfortunately my shoulder decided to pack in so I had to stop. I would of loved to continued and see just what level I could of reached. I took about 2 years out, and then started going back every now and then to my local club, I like it there. It's a comfortable standard it's not super competitive just nice for a little knock about. Plus all the members there are so nice and very supportive of me. But last night I went to a slightly higher standard club and got my butt well and truly whooped. The most annoying part is knowing that I used to be able to make the shots I tried to make, and knowing I used to be better. But I'll get back to a somewhat reasonable level it'll just take time and patience. I cant expect miracles. I would like one though!

I'm going to go curl up in bed, watch a film and fall asleep cwtching my body pillow.

Flossy x

All the gear... no idea!

Today my goal of learning the guitar got one step closer! My mum bought me a tunning thingy (technical term) that you clip onto the end of your guitar and when you strum it tells you how to tune the strings so that they sound right. First I had to venture up into my attic to get my long lost guitar. Going up there is bad enough as it is but the fact I'm petrified of the dark makes it that little bit worse. Armed with my torch I braved it and managed to get my guitar and make it back down alive without being eaten by the boogy man who lives up there. And after dusting my guitar down there was no stopping me.

Tuning thingy.

It took me a while to figure it out, I kept get getting confused with which string are attached to each of the twisty handles. (I really need to learn the real names for things). When all my string were in tune and sounding lovely I went onto YouTube and hunted down video's for beginners and found a good video on all the chords and how to read chord charts.
Me being a geek made some notes:

I really think I might struggle playing, my fingers don't seem to stretch to all the strings and plus it hurts when you push on the strings for a while! Time to say bye to my baby soft hands. So tomorrow I'm going to perfect at least 2 chords and moving between them so it become a bit more fluid.

I'm also dying to get a new tattoo. I currently have 2:

 an A on my right hip

and a Polynesian design on my left wrist

Different parts of this tattoo mean different things. On the top right the pointy bits mean strength the blackened triangles at the bottom mean success and one of the middle bits which I cant describe the location to you of means family.


I really want to add something to my A, because right now it just looks a bit random and like a blob from afar. I've got a few ideas in mind so I'm going to get my pencils out tomorrow and have a little doodle. Not that I can draw to save my live. So hopefully I'll have another one to add to my collection soon.
I love tattoo's I think they can look really nice. But I don't like when people go over the top and have them everywhere but hey who am I to judge. I feel that peoples views of tattoo's are slowly starting to change too. They used to be seen as tacky and people who had them were labeled very quickly. But now I think as people get more artistic and are able to produce much more detailed and beautiful tattoo's people are realizing they arn't disgusting things that ruin your body. Tattooists are getting a lot more recognition as artists now which I think is great, I admire anyone who can draw anyway but for someone to be able to transfer that onto skin and make it look realistic is a genius!

I caved today, my diet was going so well. I baked a batch of brownies :( but look how yummy they look!

I'll just work out extra hard tomorrow!

I'm getting used to my phone more and more everyday. I discovered the apps, so went on bit of a spree. I can honestly say I hate Angry Birds, I can feel my stress levels rise when I play it. Anyone who doesn't know what it is and is tempted to download it, don't say I didn't warn you. Also Mike's little sister Krissy told me to get a game called Fruit Ninja, I was up for hours last night playing it and today I finally managed to completed it :) I'm not listening to any other game suggestions. I get addicted so easily. I'm already a Sudoku freak. I love them I could literally do them all day. I got into them years ago when I went on holiday with my family and by the end of the holiday I had completed the whole book. I wish I could get addicted to studying like I do with games. I would be a genius!

Flossy x

Friends make the world go round :)

I'm so full, TGI's was amazing! I had a lovely catch up with my friend Beth too. I've know Bethan since I was little probably around 5 or 6. We've grown up together, got into lots of mischief and laughed a LOT over the years. Some of my favorite memories are with her. We've been to Disney Land in Paris, Magalluf twice and had lots of little road trips.

Me and my girlie.

During our lunch we started planning our fancy dress outfits for another one of best friends birthday party. Every year my friend Faye has a pub crawl for her birthday which is in August. Luckily every year the weather has been lovely and sunny so hopefully this year will be no different.

The first year the theme was pub sports so Biff and I went as basket-ballers.

The second year the theme was famous pairs. So for this Biff and I teamed up again but this time with the help of Faye we became:

Bill Ben and Weed :)

The third year unfortunately I was in America so I missed the day :( But the theme was countries.

 So after missing last year i'm UBER excited to make my comeback, and I think I have just the outfit to do that. The theme was released in March, Faye is very organised to say the least.Because Faye is going traveling to Australia later on this year she choose Animals and Australia Zoo as a theme. After a long hard think Biff and I have found and decided on this outfit:

We're going to be Peacocks :D!!!!

We went shopping for a little bit after food today and looked for shorts to wear. We went to New Look and found nice shorts, so went to try them on and..... I fitted in a size 10 and were even a little loose! I was soo happy! I weighed myself this morning and I had lost 2 pound slow and steady progress :) But I'm going in the right direction :)  

I have had such a relaxing afternoon, after I came home I sat on the sofa and have watched TV. The Eurovision Song Contest was on tonight, which is TV gold! I thought the group who represented the UK did really good. Who knows maybe our years of Eurovision bad luck might come to an end.

Flossy x

Celebrations and scaling walls.

Look at my new toy: 

Its so pretty! I managed to set it up all by myself too.. SCORE! It took me a while but I managed it. GO ME :D
 I was so worried that the alarm wouldn't wake me up this morning for my exam because I'm not used to the tone, but I don't know why I worried. The alarm can wake up a whole neighborhood. Its SO loud, I nearly flew out of bed. The only down side I've found to the phone is that emails and Facebook notifications don't come through automatically like they did on my Blackberry. I have to refresh my emails and Facebook in order to see any new updates. But my brother worked his magic and changed the settings so that it refreshes every 15 minutes, so now its all good.


I passed my exam too :D this blog is full of good news today! I was the most nervous I have ever been, I thought I was going to be sick. But both my scenarios went super well. One of my tutors said I did excellent which made me smile. Gave me a little confidence boost too, which I kinda needed. Now I'm exam free until September :) whoopie! Just got a 4000 word essay to write on reflection, which could be interesting, I'm going to try and start that soon so I don't leave it till last minute and then stress myself silly.


This afternoon I decided to do some chores to help around the house and take the recycling out to the garage. So I put the door on the latch and went to the garage, when I came to get back into the house it turned out I didnt actually remember to put the door on the latch and had in fact locked myself out! What a tool! Leaving my only options to be a) climb through a window or b) walk down to where my brother works ( a 30 minute walk) and get his key. The only windows that were open were: a upstairs window with no means of climbing up to and a tiny window in my conservatory. If only I hadnt eaten that celebratory passing exam doughnut the conservatory window might of looked a bit more do able.
Luckily for me, I have amazing neighbors who helped me out big time. They started making a plan to get me climbing the front wall of the house to get into the window, until we all realized maybe it might just be a better idea if I ring my brother in work off their house phone, so he could come home and let me in. Thankfully I remembered work's number. Thats what you get for working there for 4 and a half years I guess. My brother came home and let me back in so I wasn't locked out for long. But it was still a bit of excitement for me.


Tomorrow I'm going for lunch with one of my best friend's I haven't had a good old girlie day in ages so I'm really looking forward to it. We're off to TGI's and I already know what I'm ordering:

I can feel myself dribbling already :) Roll on tomorrow my stomach is rumbling.


Flossy x

Technophobe!

My iPhone should be with me tomorrow :) YAY! Very excited, setting it up is going to be fun. It took me so long to set up my Blackberry, I didnt even know how to turn it on at first. I'm looking forward to seeing what all the fuss is about with iPhones though.

Skype is annoying me already, I don't know if its Skype or my internet but it keeps starting and stopping. Before Mike came over and we used Skype we would always use our webcam's but not using our microphones. But now his webcam is messing up so we're just using the microphones. Its so nice to hear his voice and have a normal conversation, but very strange not being able to see him. The microphones are very quiet at the moment, so today I had to lie my head on my laptop to be able to hear him through the speakers. Things you do when you love someone hey?! I would of looked like a right plonker if someone walked in.

I managed to get some good study done this morning, I feel a lot more confident now about Diabetes. Tomorrow I just have to learn all about the drugs and I should be good to go. I'm going to treat myself Friday after my exam by going shopping :) I need to try and take back a top and dress Mike bought me. the top is slightly too small and the dress had a broken zip. I do really like them though, he's got a good taste which i'm pleased about :) I'm a terrible present buyer I stress so bad. But hopefully I'll manage to buy him things he likes.

I started my get fit plan today, I knew it had to be done, I have to stand on a shelf in my wardrobe to reach the top shelf, and when I did it today it broke :( Whoopsy! Fear not I managed to fix it. Its as good as new. 

So I did my fitness test on Insanity, I did okay I guess. Basically you have to do 8 different exercises for a minute each and do as many reps as you can within the minute. Then you recorded your results so that when you redo the test every 2 weeks you can see your improvement.  I'm not sure if I want to post the results on here, it'll give me incentive to push myself knowing that people can see my results and you'll know if I've been a lazy bum, and if I do super well then I can look like a machine :) I also took measurements of my waist, hips, thighs and arms. I might not post them up though.

So my cat Alex is bit of a nightmare when it comes to attention seeking. He LOVED Mike, which is strange, he usually runs from 'strangers'. But within the first week he was all over him kindly molting all over him. So while I was blogging he jumped up for a little cwtch and sat on my keyboard and tried putting his input on my blog. It resulted in this happening.

Luckily I have a geeky brother, who frequently gets me out of trouble so he fixed it for me. I would be lost without him, I don't know how my computers always mess up, I barely use them. Scary thing to realize when I'm getting a iPhone tomorrow.

Flossy x

Diabetes.

So today I learnt I know nothing about diabetes, for my exam Friday we have to know all about it. Before today I felt like I had a good understanding of it and the drugs that we have available in the ambulance to treat it and how they work. But today in school I soon realized that wasn't the case. I have so much to read up on! I know that I have to study hard for this course, but there is just so much stuff it doesn't seem like I have enough space in my brain for it all. I have two full days off before my exam so fingers crossed that'll be enough time to find space somewhere in my brain for it.

I ordered my iPhone yesterday :) I just have to wait about a week for it to come into stock then I'll get it. I cant wait, there are so many good apps you can get for paramedics, so I'll give them a go and hopefully they'll be some help.

So I've given myself a goal of loosing 10 pounds by the time I next see Mike. I think I can do it, just need to cut out the chocolate. But I love chocolate! nothing beats curling up on the sofa with someone watching a film with some chocolate. Now I'll just have to curl up and watch my film with a apple instead. Doesn't have the same appeal does it? I'm going to try and do some sort of exercise everyday, from swimming to run/walking to doing Insanity. Insanity is this crazy DVD workout and I literally feel like death at the end. But its good! You do lots of little sets of exercises so it varies it up all the time so you don't get bored. I struggle on all the push ups and arm work because I have messed up shoulders from playing badminton, but fingers crossed I can get to a stage where I can do it all. I'm not expecting miracles but if I keep pushing then I'll get there one day. I really want to do yoga too. I've always been interested in it but never found a class or anything to go to. Plus all yoga people are super skinny so I dont want to rock up to a class where they all have their legs behind their head and I struggling to even touch my toes.

I've also set myself the goal of learning to play the guitar. I had a guitar off Santa for Christmas about 5/6 years ago. And none of my family would help me tune it so the best I could ever play was something along the lines of Phoebe from F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Smelly Cat but with completely made up chords. In the next few weeks I'm going to venture up into the attic and wipe off all the dust and try to teach myself.
I would love to be able to play a instrument. Growing up I played the piano up to about grade 3 and then I gave up and I played the clarinet for about a year but didn't like that. I want to be able to just sit on the beach and play songs. I would never want to play in front of people or sing because I  don't think anyone should have to suffer that!

All these goals and University should keep me distracted so that the time will fly by until I can see Mike again. Until then we're back to using trusty old Skype. I heard today it has been bought out by Microsoft, I just hope they don't play around with it or make people pay for it. As much as I hate using it cause it means we are really far apart, without it my relationship would be impossible. Fingers crossed they don't fiddle around with it.

Full day of study for me tomorrow with a break to work out of course. Bring on the skinniness :)

Flossy x

Goodbyes aren't my favorite things!

I hate goodbyes!

The day finally came, it came by way too fast. Crazy that he was here for 4 months! We traveled up to London last night and stayed in a hotel so we would be there in time for his flight this morning. I now don't like the drive to that airport unless it ends up in me going to arrivals or with a full suitcase full of my clothes ready to jet off somewhere.
We got to the airport at 8:30 and there was no one there so he managed to check himself in quickly. It was so weird, he was checking in at the same place I checked in last summer when I was going to work on a summer camp out in California where I met actually Mike. Then we went up to the start of security checks. Thats where I had to leave him, we could have gone for a drink because he had a lot of time to spare, as much as I wanted to spend every last minute with him I didn't want to drag it out any longer I would of just broken down. Saying goodbye was SO hard. I don't like crying anyway, especially not in front of people so I tried my best to hold it back and I did a pretty good job. My heart actually sunk when I watched him walk through the doors. I've never had that feeling before and don't want it again.
You always have images in your head of things that happen in the movies, like the person runs back out of the airport after you, and embarrassingly I will admit that I actually thought of it for a second, even though I knew it wouldn't happen
I feel lost in my house now. I'm walking around not knowing what to do with myself, I keep expecting him to pop out around the corner and start wrestling with me. Ah well just got to keep looking forward to the next time I get to see him. Time to start using Skype again!

So last summer I went to work on a camp called Camp Unique in Portola Valley in California.  I applied through a company called Camp Leaders. They were amazing, they did everything for me. I just had to fill in a few forms and go to London to get my visa. The camp is a resident and day camp for children aged 5-14. It has changed its name this year to Mountain Camp Woodside. Its an amazing camp feel free to check out the website http://www.mountaincampwoodside.com.

I have my last chance to practice for me exam tomorrow. Yikes! My exam is at 9:25 Friday morning so at least it will be over quickly, I wont have to think about it all day.

Time to try and get some sleep. Hopefully I'll wake up to a message from Mike saying he's home safe :)

Flossy x

American Football, driving and i Phones :)

So American football confuses me. Mike, my dad and I went to watch a close family friend play for his local team. I've never seen a live game of football before, I watched a bit when the Superbowl as on but just knew something went well when Mike cheered or celebrated. But now I can say I sort of understand it. I get the whole 4 attempts at making 10 yards a few of the positions but I don't think I will ever understand all of the rules. There are way too many! And plus I don't even know where to look when I'm watching a game, do I look at the ball, the quarterback, the men making runs, or the refs?? talking about the refs they crack me up, they do this sign for second down its actually the international sign language for love, but it just looks funny I don't see why they cant just signal 2 the way people do normally. And when they signal for a time out they wave their hands soo frantically, but they wave to each other so it just looks like they are being super friendly. Unfortunately my friends team lost, he played well though and it was nice to go and see a game.


Today was Mike's last full day at home :( but it was a good day. When I was over in America last summer, I got to drive my boss's car and it was the scariest experience of my life. Trying to remember what side of the road to drive on and having the gear stick on the other side of the car confused me. Mike liked to make fun of me though and he even filmed me and put it up on YouTube. So today I let him drive my car, only around a empty industrial estate on straight roads and unfortunately.... he was good. He did it easily, however he did say it was weird having the gear stick on the other side to what he was used to.


I found out today I can upgrade my phone too :D So i'm going to get myself a shiny new WHITE  iPhone 4. I didn't even know they had them in white until today. It'll give me something to entertain myself with and keep me happy when Mike goes. I'm basically replacing him with a phone :) Trying to find one on a good phone plan is hard though and I'm going to have to pay for the handset too, but I think I can get one around £99 which isn't to bad I suppose.

Right I'm off to go and finish watching Anchorman. I don't really like the movie, but seen as everyone else in the world seems to love it I'm hoping it'll grow on me.

Flossy x

Addicted!

I love blogging. I can see myself getting into this :)

If paramedics doesn't work out for me, I think I've got a future in hairdressing. I shaved Mike's head a while ago, he used to have Justin Bieber length hair but now he's got short hair, and it really suits him! I had to shave it again today cause it was getting a bit long with him, and now he wont look like a mess when he gets home. So I'm taking appointments, but it'll be at your own risk!
His hair grows so fast, and mine never seems to grow. I would love to have long curly hair, I had the curly hair when I was little but didn't like it so discovered straighteners and ever since then my hair wont curl nicely But I'll get it one day, just might take a while. I get bored with my hair, and so every now and then get crazy ideas about changing it. My worst idea resulted in my brother calling my 'Sideshow Bob'= Bad Times! I knew the cut wasn't going well when the hairdresser started shaving my head. I would wake up in the morning and actually measure my hair to see how much it had grown.

I can guarantee you it did not look like that ^^^

My aim is to get hair looking somewhere between these two:

I've got a exam in University next week, my stress levels are starting to rise already. Its a practical exam so at least I dont have to worry about revising. The exams are on Pediatric (child/baby) cases and trauma. I don't mind doing it in a classroom on a dummy, but the thought of having to treat a seriously ill child in real life terrifies me. That would be my worst nightmare, but its part of the job, it's what I signed up for. I've just got to make sure I know as much as I can and get as much practice in as possible. I'm sure the exam will be fine, but just in case keep your fingers crossed for me! 

Flossy x

In over my head.

Welcome to my blog! I wish I could say I knew what I was doing, or had something interesting to write, but unfortunately I don't have a clue whats going on or have anything to write.

For the last 4 months I've spent everyday with my boyfriend, which to some people may seem like a perfectly normal thing but not for me. I hadn't seen Mike for 4 months, he's from America and we're in a long distance relationship, its has it's up's and downs but it's totally worth it.

He's going home on Monday though, so I'm trying to make the most of the last few days. I've tried to make his time here as fun as possible, we've been to London and successfully managed to find our way around the underground. For Mike's birthday in April I took him surfing in Newquay. He had never been surfing before, so we spent 3 days battling the waves and the cold! By the end we both could stand up which was awesome. We'll both be pro's in no time. We've also been to Bristol Zoo, Thorpe Park, Neath Waterfalls, Chepstow horse races, Sheffield to watch the University basketball finals and New-quay Aberiron and Munt which are in West Wales.

I tried to show Mike that even though Wales may be a small and often unknown country we can still play sports, so I took him to watch Netball, which was totally strange for him seen as he's grown up playing Basketball. To say my Dad is enthusiastic about rugby is bit of a understatement, so my Dad took us both to watch our rugby team The Ospreys play. We both ended up coming home with new jersey's so we're now hardcore fans.

Trying to get out and go places has been hard sometimes as I'm currently in University studying Paramedic Science. It's the most challenging but rewarding thing I've ever done. I love it. I cant think of anything I would rather do and hopefully will get to do it for the rest of my life. I'm half way through my first year, so in 15 months I will graduate and be applying to become a registered Paramedic. I've been out on placement twice, where i followed a crew of paramedics in the ambulance and attended calls and helped treat patients. Shift work I think will take some getting used to, I'm not the best morning person. I've got all my uniform, which I've got to say is not the most flattering uniform in the world, but at least I look the part.

Thats all for my first post, I need to try and limit myself on what I write so I don't run out of things to say.

Floss x