TeeVee addict

Its getting out of control now. I am the opposite of the kind of person who says "I don't really watch tv that much, I'm not in the house that often", well I am and I do.

When I started this blog I was watching White Collar which is ah-mazing, Neal Caffrey played by Matt Bomber is a white collar criminal with expertise in art and just about everything else, who is caught by FBI agent Peter Burke, he escapes prison (its so clever the way he does it) but it caught again by Burke. Cut it short a wee bit, Neal ends up working with the FBI to catch other white collar criminals while being tagged with a 1 mile distance or something like that.

Yep, that's Neal, now you get it.
All photos have been used from Google

 

I won't say anymore because its so much better if you just watch it and I can't even imagine that you won't love it, unless you don't like good tv then you probably won't enjoy it 'cause its awesome! So many crazy things happen, the stories are always big and exciting and the icing to the delicious Costco cake is that Matt Bomber couldn't be any hotter as Caffrey.

I watched all of the series' that are on Netflix uk, think it was up to series 4. I am not going to tell you how long it took me to watch them because I would just watch one then press 'back, back, play' and the next episode was on. But...my heart just about broke when the series finished and there were no more episodes on Netflix. Now for someone who watches a lot of box set programmes like me, this has to be the worst thing ever. You don't get any warning that its about to finish so an episode will finish and I will go to press back, back, play and it will suggest other programmes for me because I have finished the series.

I love Kim, but this is exactly how I feel when a series finishes

I totally think that there should be a message that pops up on your screen before you watch the second last episode that's available to watch so as you can prepare yourself that its about to end until they add more episodes. I mean if I had warning then I would start another box set so that once the first one finished I would be gutted but no exactly heart broken because I had another one to start.

It's unreal the amount of programmes/box sets that I have watched the first few series' of and just stopped because there were no more episodes available even though I know there are more (I Google to make sure the programme isn't over for good).

This would be Dr McSteamy from Grey's Anatomy, hmm mmm I know 

This is a list of the ones that I can think of which I have started;
Army Wives
Grey's Anatomy
Vampire Diaries
White Collar
Castle
Hawaii five-0
The Mentalist
Drop Dead Diva
Blue Bloods




Don't you feel sorry for me? all those programmes above have ended on cliff hangers and I have still not seen the next episode for them. Torcher.


Damon from Vampire Diaries, played by Ian Somerhalder, there are no words...okay maybe, OHHHH

Anyway, I know it might sound boring to anyone else but I get so addicted to tv programmes and I love it (other than when I run out). Right now I am watching Suits with the hot and steamy looking lawyer Harvey Specter and I am watching Criminal Minds with my mum. I only have 4 episodes left of Suits so I am trying to make them last because I normally watch like 8 episodes at a time...I know I told you it was an addiction. 

And Harvey Specter from Suits, and man does he wear that suit

I lie in my bed with that man above, in that sexy suit...except he's in the box in my room. I think some people call the thing a tv!

 

Blether again soon, when im not under a pile of college work. 8 weeks to go.

 



When life as you know it ends

I've mentioned before that I'm a wee bit of a hopeless romantic and I get super emotional at movies and there's one movie that gets me in a puddle of my own tears every time.

Its P.S. I Love You. It is one of my favourite films and I couldn't tell you how many times I have watched it. It has all the things I love; a romantic love story, Irish men and Irish men singing and playing guitars. It is super sad and it broke my heart when I first seen it...Ok it still does but its a must watch, its a great story and the music in the movie is amazing.

Not my photos, But had to borrow them to let you see...the scene when they first meet

Added bonus to the film you get to see this dreamy man

The guy in the picture above is William, one of Jerry's buddies who plays guitar too and sings in an Irish accent, best bit...you get to see him shirtless too. He will make your heart melt.

The movie is actually based on the book written by Cecelia Ahern, I have been meaning to read the book because my sister read it after she watched the movie (kind of the wrong way around) and said that it was still a great read.

One of my favourite scenes/songs from the movie is when Jerry (Gerard Butler) sings about when he met Holly (Hilary Swank) and jumps off the stage when he spots her in the crowd and sings TO her in front of everyone and kisses her with so much passion like he would have died if he didn't kiss her right then. The song is called Galway Girl and is by Steve Earle. Follow the link and you can hear the original but check out the covers of the song as well because there are some really magic ones.

Galway Girl by Steve Earle

I don't know why I do, but every time I'm feeling kinda low or sad I watch it. My mum always asks "why do you watch it when it makes you sad?". I don't really have an answer. It doesn't make me sad because at the time I already feel that way, it doesn't make me feel better either but it comforts me. I know that sounds really weird but when I watch the movie it consumes me I guess? Oh god, that sounds even worse so dramatic but its the only way I can explain it. Its something that I concentrate on almost, which doesn't stop me from feeling sad but makes me forget why I'm sad because what happens in the movie is a lot sadder than whatever I am feeling at the time.

I hope no one is feeling judge'y while reading this because it really does sound ridiculous and I also just used the word judge'y!

I love the love that Jerry has for Holly. Although they have a sad ending to their life together their love will be forever and I want that. Not the sad ending but the love. When they first meet in Ireland they fall for each other there and then but they don't plan to see each other again until fate brings them back together in a busy pub (the Galway girl scene). It might sound typical and cheesy to other people but its exactly the kind of story I fall for, every time.

I wonder when I will meet my dream man. All I want it someone who will love me 'til the end, will write a song for me and sing it to me in a crowded bar...

Not much really.


                                         I want to be someone's Galway Girl but for now I'm

Tell me something

I really love to read. When I was at high school, I always had a book in my bag. At break times I would go up to the top of the school where no one went, sit down and read my book for the 15 minutes I had before classes started again. Going up there and reading was like a wee escape where I could delve into the lives of the characters in my book.

My favourite book to date is called 'Tell Me Something' and its by Adele Park. Its an amazing book about a young woman, Elizabeth who falls in love with a gorgeous Italian man, Roberto.



They get married and move to Italy, But they have a few problems that really test their marriage. A foreign country, a different language and a mother in law who makes the postman feel more welcome and Elizabeth is left feeling a wee bit useless.

There are a lot more brilliant twists to the story but I won't ruin it by telling you because it is a lot better to read the book and feel as if you're living her life with them in Italy. Its romantic, funny, emotional and I couldn't put it down, buy it borrow it or read it while you're in the book store, just one of the amazing books by Adele Park.

Here's a link to the book on amazon

I've added a link to buy the book on amazon in case someone does fancy giving it a read. I have read a few of Adele Park's books including; Love Lies, Husbands and Playing Away, I liked them all but Tell me something was my favourite!

This Christmas I got a kindle paperwhite from my mom, I love it but I have only read one book on it since I got it because I don't seem to get any time to read which makes me really sad because I love to, I love when you can't put it down because you're dying to turn the next page and find out whether she gets caught or he gets the girl (in my kind of books anyway).



Its so light and small, I love it!



Oh did I mention you can get super pretty covers for them too

For anyone who loves to read but doesn't yet have a kindle I would definitely recommend it. Although I haven't used mine much yet I love it. It's so light and easy to use, I did love reading an actual book but they're heavy to carry in your handbag, they're awkward to hold when you are trying to read in bed or when you're near the end and then once you're finished with it you have to find somewhere to put it or someone to give it too. ALSO books are cheaper!

What's your favourite book? Any books that you recommend I should read?
tell me something...
See what I did there, hehe



                                                                   

At least I didn't fall again...

I tried fake tan and high heels again. 'Gaaasssppppppp'....I know.

Every time I have a night out I usually just wear skin coloured tights because plain black ones are too casual and I'm not brave enough to bare my legs and I wear the exact same shoes which are black wedges but not very high.

I never use fake tan because from past experiences it does not end well, my best friend used to do my fake tan for me seen as she used to live in the flat next to mine but she's moved out and I am now left dealing with my paleness and wearing granny tights!

I wear the same shoes that aren't very high because on my very first night out in town when I turned 18 I wore these gorgeous red heels that were a lot higher than I realised. I usually wore high heels anyway so I didn't think they were any different but they were, a lot different. Anyway I ended up twisting my ankle and getting stuck in the first club that I went into because I couldn't move as my ankle wouldn't straighten. Ever since then I have been too scared to wear high heels in case it happens again.

Google'd disaster in heels, and found this which is exactly what my ankle looked like...

On Saturday night I had a works night out and then I was going to a bar where I was meeting up with some other people. I bought a new dress from New Look, a hot red, shift dress style and I wanted to look nice and done up for a change so...I decided to fake tan...and wear my old favourite high heels (black, satin, peep toe, stilettos).

I bought a fake tan that said it was 'instant', appeared straight away and was streak free. So I put it on a couple of hours before I was suppose to leave but when I put it on it was going on so light that I couldn't even see it. I still looked as pale as Casper the ghost. I decided to put on a few more layers of the fake tan but it still didn't show up and I still had white legs! But it was too late at this point and I had to leave to catch the bus into town. Once I got on my bus I looked down at my legs and they were really dark and looked orange. I almost squealed out loud, not the good kinda squeal.


Found this on google, exactly what I think I am going to look like every time I try to fake tan!

I only found out later that although its instant it takes time to develop and will show up after a couple of hours...they should really put that in big writing on the front of the bottle. It actually didn't end being that much of a concern for me considering I had one too many vodkas and had to take myself home in a taxi and put myself in bed by 12, OOPS! I did manage my first debut back in high heels though and have got my shoe confidence back. Trying hard lately to have a glass half full kind of attitude, so keeping my shoes on and my ankle straight filled my glass.

Blether about more of my disaster another time, until then...

 



Love to Love

 

I am undoubtedly completely a hopeless romantic.

I am in love with the idea of falling in love but I am not in love yet. Although there was a time when I thought that I had been madly in love with the man who I shared my first kiss with. We met on holiday in the Canary islands, he was Irish, handsome, played the guitar and wrote songs...I know almost unbelievable and honestly he was lovely. I had just turned fourteen and he was turning twenty one...what can I say, he was a singing, Irish man. When I came home to Scotland and he went home to Ireland I didn't only have the 'holiday blues', I was heart broken and at the time I really did believe that I had lost the love of my life.

Fast forward some time to now, I am eighteen and haven't been in love yet. I get embarrassed  thinking about how I acted about the whole situation because I only knew him for a week and he was just a first kiss. I sometimes think maybe I did fall in love with my holiday man but at the time I had been going through a lot and I think it was just something to focus on even though it felt to me like I was Rose losing the love of my life Jack to the freezing cold water of the Atlantic ocean...

I never took this photo myself...just incase you thought I was on that plank of wood as well, seen as there WAS enough space for two people, its just off google images.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that even though I haven't been in love yet, I know when it happens to me its going to hit me like the iceberg to the titanic but in a good way. That sounds tragic and awful but I mean it in the sense that it would feel like the biggest, life changing moment of my life because I am so hopeless when it comes to things like that. My mum always says that I feel everything more than everybody else, whether its happiness, hurt, excitement or love and that she can only imagine how I will be when it does happen.

You may be able to tell by now that I see things from a different perspective than most people but that's just the way it is (I love when Gavin says that to Stacey on their wedding day- "I love you baby and that's just the  way it is").

Another thing, I am such a sucker for romantic movies, soppy love stories and cliché I Love You's. But I feel like that's another post. I hope there are other people like me who feel everything so deeply and cry 'happy tears' when the love story ends in the best way possible!

 

£%$^* Oh, OUCH *&%£$

I don't think I have said enough about myself for people to know that I'm not a 'sporty' person. But really all you would have to do is meet me to realise that I'm not sporty because I guarantee I would fall over my own feet before I reached you to say "Hello".

I always say that I don't run...I will skip, walk, speed walk or gallop but I will not run and there is a good reason for that. When I attempt to run my legs disagree with what's happening and trip me up (sometimes its just a step that I have tripped over) but it's not my fault!

The other day it was pouring down rain and I decided to run from the car to the shelter to save my straightened hair but my legs claimed they were having none of that, and gave in as I tripped over a big step and ripped my GOOD JEANS from River Island which cost me £40 (which I think is expensive, as you know I'm a Primark girl). I also grazed my knee and now I have a black bruise!

I am definitely not a sporty person because I refuse to run and my hand/eye coordination is awful...I am just ALL ROUND CLUMSY. I have always been really clumsy, I actually won an award for the most clumsiest person at my primary school prom. Some times the clumsiness goes away for a wee while then BAM and I hit the floor.

<<< Yep, I couldn't have said it better.

It's kind of weird though because I done all types of dancing (cheerleading, majorettes, disco, hip hop, gymnastics) when I was younger and if I say so myself, I wasn't terrible at it...I still have my trophies, they're in my mum's wardrobe!
          
 These are the jeans that do not look like that anymore, I pinched this photo of river island website, mine have a hole in the knee

Anyway I am still gutted about my good jeans, every girl has a pair of good jeans because they either just sit right, are so comfy, hide a multitude of sins, go with any top/shoes, make your butt look ace, land your legs slim and if you are really lucky you will find a pair of jeans that does all of the above, my RI ones were almost perfect but now they are just holy...
 
So, Any advice on where to get a pair of great jeans that meet all of the above criteria, please tell me...in skirts & dresses until then.
 
 
 
                                                                 Blether again soon

Brunette to Blonde...(but really just a lighter brunette)

Hey, I posted about wanting to get my hair cut like last year and never posted about my new hair doo. I actually took the plunge and got it done.

So, I never mentioned in the previous post about my hair that I get extreme nerves going to the hairdressers...this is why

Ok so just one of my bad experiences was when I went to a hairdresser to get a front fringe. At the time I had a side fringe, quite long down the right of my face. After sitting for a while enduring the pain of those thinning, comb scissors I was done and it was time to look in the mirror at the finished result. Well...I didn't get a front fringe what I got was a slightly shorter side fringe than I'd come in with but on the OTHER SIDE OF MY FACE. That is just one reason why I get nervous going to get my hair done.



Before photo, I've edited it so you can see just my hair. I am pale but not quite that pale!! haha

This time I told my hairdresser to take off what I needed to give my hair a good shot at being healthy again. It was a very brave move on my part, I think so anyway. I also gave her the photo of Reese Witherspoon of the style of fringe I liked. Which thank goodness I got.

After this trip to the hairdressers I was so sad  about the length of my hair, I miss my long hair so much that every time I see a photo of my hair before it was chopped off I genuinely regret getting it cut!
    I got gift vouchers from my brother's girlfriend to get my hair done for Christmas but because I had just gotten it cut I decided I was going to go Blonde for a complete change buuuutttt... because of my luck with getting my hair done, I came out with highlights instead. They do make a slight difference to my hair though, kind of lightened it up a bit. In the end I like the style of my hair other than it being super short now.

The After photo

That was one of my hair disaster stories but trust me I have had much worse, have any of you actually wished you had cut your hair yourself?