Quick update

Just an update on how my goals are going. 

Here are the goals I set myself to achieve:
Lose 1/2 a stone by my birthday (2lbs to lose in 2 weeks, easy :s) (Completed)
Lose a stone by Graduation (It's in November so shouldn't be too bad)
Run 1/2 a mile on the treadmill, none stop. (Completed)
Run a mile on the treadmill, none stop. (Completed)
Run a mile and 1/2 on the treadmill, none stop. (Completed)
Run 2 miles on the treadmill, none stop. (Completed)
Tone up

I've now completed:
Lose 1/2 a stone (Wasn't by my birthday like I wanted it to be but oh well)
Plus I've completed run a mile and a half and 2 miles. 
I've also completed 2 and a half miles as well. 
It's the fittest I've ever been so I'm quite impressed with myself :D
I ran for 30 minutes which was about 2.7 miles so almost 3 miles. I'd have to run 32 minutes to do that so that's my next goal :D

New goals:
Lose a stone (Last time I checked that's only 5Ibs away, however, haven't weighed myself this week)
Run 3 miles on the treadmill, none stop. 
Learn to do the splits (I've started doing stretches to help with this)

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ConGRADulations

Yey!

Finally, I know my degree results for University.
3 years of hard work. Well 2 as first year didn't count that much ha!
The other day I received my transcript, after nagging Sheffield Hallam services for a bit.

I now have an award of:

Bachelor of Science with Honours in Criminology and Psychology

Upper Second Class

(2:1)

I was hoping for a 2:1 as I knew I wasn't going to get a first. However, 2:1 is still good and I'm very proud of myself. 

Naturally my mum had to tell everyone! 

My Aunty sent me a text saying congratulations and that my late Uncle would have been proud of me. Seeing that made me cry and I was crying when I tried to read the text to my mum, I couldn't even read it to my dad, he had to read it. 

Now I have to update my CV and start looking for proper jobs. Scary! 

It was OK before as there was a natural path that I was taking. 

High school then to college then to university. 

Now it's all my decision. I know it was before but it's different. It's hard to know exactly what you want to do and then to know how to get there. 

My next move is to try get a Teaching Assistant job to help with my experience working with children.

Wish me luck

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Starting to be creative

So now that I'm back home I've decided that I want to do more creative things.
When I lived in Sheffield, there were a few cute shops that sold quite quirky products and I came across an owl pillow. You've probably seen them around they are well cute. :)
Well I want one but they are £16.99 and I thought it would be nice to make it myself with materials to match my room. I like when things match. So I've drawn a design that I'd like just need to find the materials.

Source http://wantloveneed.com/owl-cushion-priscilla-design-p-2332.html

I'm going to go shopping with my mum to find the materials as she knows where the best places are. :D isn't she lovely. 

I'm going to post my progress with photos. Plus the end result. 

I've never used a sewing machine before so it's a new experience. Will be a good skill to learn as well. :D

To be continued...

It's been a while

OK, so it really has been a while since I last posted.

Quick catch up:
Finished at Topshop as it was only Christmas Temp. Some of the other girls were quite upset to be let go but to be honest I didn't care. I didn't get enough hours to actually be bothered about it.

I've finished University, there is a problem with my overall result so I don't actually know what I've got yet (annoying) but it's getting sorted out.
I know I can graduate in November though. :D
Need a new dress and heels, of course!

Moved home and finding it quite hard to get back into living at home. Got used to my own ways and having a lot more privacy and space. Slowly getting back into the swing of things though. However, I'm sure my family have a contest to see who can slam the gate at the bottom of the stairs and the front door the hardest, every time I'm asleep. Both the gate and the front door are right under my room. It's bloody annoying :/

Finished with Guides which was quite upsetting. They bought me a card which they all signed and a me to you bear with a Guide top on it. It's well cute. (Actually tearing up right now as I remember them :/) I hope to go back if I move to Sheffield again.
Also finished my Adult Leadership Qualification as well so I can be a proper leader if I go back into it again.

Got another job but again it's only temporary, getting a lot of hours at the moment but will be going down to only 8.75 hours a week which isn't enough so I'm going to have to find another job. A proper job :/

Started to lose weight and tone up by eating better and going to the gym. I put on a stone in the last couple of weeks of uni, Oh dear! I've lost 5 lbs so far which is good. I'm trying to just lose a lb a week so at the moment it's going quite well.

Set myself some goals to achieve:
Lose 1/2 a stone by my birthday (2lbs to lose in 2 weeks, easy :s)
Lose a stone by Graduation (It;s in November so shouldn't be too bad)
Run 1/2 a mile on the treadmill, none stop. (Completed)
Run a mile on the treadmill, none stop. (Completed)
Run a mile and 1/2 on the treadmill, none stop.
Run 2 miles on the treadmill, none stop.
Tone up

So that's about all that's happened lately :D
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Great first impression :|

OK so my first proper shift at Topman was on Saturday. I was meant to post about it, but I forgot until now :p. 


First thing to show I'm a brilliant worker: The lockers need a £ to be used and the only change I had was £2 coins and none of the girls that I asked had any change. Typical. I even used the vending machine to try and get a quid to use however it was shit and gave me rubbish change. Thanks vending machine you were a great help. :| 
Second thing: Finding my way around the halls of Topman is like a maze. I only just started to figure out my way round by the end of my shift. I put my bag in the managers office as they said I could and turned the wrong way out of the door, I went through what I thought was the way. Nope. An alarm goes off. Great fun. :| I had to go back to get a manager to turn the alarm off. 
I'm such a douche sometimes. First shift and I'm already begging for change and setting alarms off. 


However, the rest of the shift went quite quick without any more glitches. 
Except, people asking me what would look good on their child and what size they would be. :s I have no idea, you tell me. When I did give my opinion they went against it anyway. Pfft! how rude. It could just be showing how rubbish my dress sense is tbh so I can't really blame them for going against my opinion ha! :p 


Also, I'm going to be well buff by the time I finish there. Customers ask for another size and if I can't find anyone to radio to the stockroom I have to go and look myself. It's ages away as Topman is the lower floor. Up about 3 lots of stairs and then look round the stockroom then run back down to the customer. This customer asked for one size, went and got it. He tried it on then asked for a different size so had to go back. Typical. Next time I'll bring both sizes down to make sure ha!


Next shift is Saturday again 5-9 then Sunday 9am-1. Ouch on the 9am :/ Oh well 


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I have a job! Goal achieved :)

In an earlier post, need to make the most of it, I mentioned a whole load of things that I was going to achieve this year. It included finishing my degree, getting volunteer work, getting a job and maybe joining a sports team. 
Well there's still far to go before I finish my degree and I've already mentioned about my volunteer work with the guides. :) I have now accomplished another goal... Woop!... Getting a job! It's only a Christmas temp job but I'm still proud of myself anyway :) big boost in my self esteem :D 


I got the call after I had just been stressing out about my dissertation so wasn't really fit to talk on the phone. The lady on the other end asked all these questions about why I'd want a job and when I was available etc etc. I was an actual mess I'm shocked that she still went ahead and asked if I was available for an interview. She asked me to bring an item, to the interview, that would best describe myself when I worked at the shop. :s She said it was for a bit of "fun" as it was a group interview. 
After that call I was more a mess than before. Now I was stressing out about my dissertation AND a job interview. I have no interview clothes so had to rush about to try and find something nice to wear which wasn't too formal but not too casual either :s and I had to figure out what I was going to take to the interview as my item. 


I found the clothes, with help :D and Mike told me it didn't really matter about the item as long as I was confident about what I had to say about it. 
I was looking under my bed for some shoes to wear but I came across the shoes I wanted to wear and they were mouldy. Ewww! So had to buy new shoes as well. :/ 

I booked a taxi to go get to the train station on time. They said it would take about an hour to get there 'cos of rush hour traffic at that time in a morning. They arrived at 7.24am I got to the station at 7.30am. Thanks a bunch. Had to wait an hour for my train. :/ 


The group interview actually wasn't that bad. A few group activities to show our potential including a "Get to know me" speech by each of us, in which I said the reason I wanted to work there was because it might help with my fashion sense. A bit different to what the others were saying :p she remembered me after that though :p, a story board about Topshop, in which I was depicted as the main character in a Tesco bag finding Topshop and becoming fashionable :p and a quick conversation about my item, a pocket watch :D A friendly face, good at keeping to times, On time (inserted earlier story of being an hour early for my train :p) etc. 
Was then called back for a more formal interview saying they would get back to me in about 7days and as I was travelling back to my family home they called me up saying I had a job!
Fastest process ever. 


So I'm a proud worker of Topshop starting 9am on Saturday. Going to be a long day. However, discount is going to be good :D 


I think the joining a sports team goal is going to have to wait. Will really be spreading myself thin if I do that as well. :s 


I'll post a blog soon about my Halloween nights :) 
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It's gone so quick

So on Friday it was my boyfriends' and my 1 year. Well, I say that but, to be honest it's a very round about date. I have a tendency to just find myself in a relationship without any formal warning ha! Probably a bad thing but this time it's a good thing :D We've decided that we just pick a date around now that best suits our plans. Ha! 

Anyway, Mike mentioned a while ago that he was going to cook me a three course meal sometime. I suggested that it would be a good idea for our first year together. He would pay for the evening meal that he cooked and I'd pay for the day's activities as neither of us have the money to spend on presents. This suited me fine :D 

I've probably said this before but pictures speak louder than words so here's a few. :D

 He bought me nice flowers in the morning. I didn't have a vase so had to improvise with an empty jam jar :p

Mike is lovely :). He cooked food that he's never done before which I love 'cos he was out of his comfort zone doing it. I also laughed at the come dine with me style menu with the "home made" Ben and Jerry's ice cream. The chicken was presented better, but as he poached it I thought it wasn't cooked enough so he put it in a frying pan just to make me happy :). Most of the food he cooked neither of us had tried before either so that was nice as well. 
His housemates even went out for a while to give us the house. It was their idea which I thought was sweet. 
Overall it was a very nice day. :) 


I think I might keep him for a bit longer :D 

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