new year's resolutions

okay so last year i wrote up my new years resolutions for 2010, here they were:

here are my new years resolutions. i'm keeping them this year.

1. i will go blonde. i need a big image change, i'm bored and exciteddd

it's gonna' be pricey to maintain but i hope it'l be better, i'd like it a mix between fearne cotton's and kate moss

2. i will be healthier. that means yeah stay out til all hours drinking, partying meeting fab new people and tearing up the dancefloor. but maybe take it easy with more sleep, more relaxing and maybe eating a few more greens.

3. i will hopefully find prince charming. i really hope this years the year.

but i'm not gonna' go out searching, 'cos that only finds you the idiots

i hope they'l find me, someone to adore and be adored by..

4. i will worry less and this will let me work harder to reach for my dreams.

and here's how i think i did...

1. definitely did keep this one. i tried my hardest and after many embarrassing failed attempts (shades of ginger) i did eventually reach a shade of blonde. it completely ruined my hair though and dried it out, but they were really fun months and i did quite like some of the shades, i much prefer being back to brunette tho' so i think i'll stick with this in 2011 :)

2. i have definitely been more healthier. i have eaten much less, probs because i prefer spending money on nights out than food...haha, and i do sleep more during naps and the occasional night in! but compared to last years freshers flu, swine flu and tonsillitus, it has definitely been a much healthier year :)

3. HA. ermmm, i definitely haven't found anything near a prince charming. i found a few prince dickheads hahaa and completely learnt my lesson by being stupid enough to even believe in guys any more. i'm stopping looking for a guy. i've got a stupid habit of getting too attatched and carried away anyway.

4. i definitely worry much less. and have fully thrown myself at it this year. it's been amazing :) also i've refound my faith, i don't really like writing about it on my blog, but it has really helped this year, i've got a lot of confidence back :) ♥

so now my new years resolutions for this year...

1. i will spend more time updating this blog and not completely disown it now that i have to work on my design ones.

2. i will join the uni gym properly, rather just wasting away my loan on pool fee's.

3. i will stop the ridiculous becca whine! (or reduce it! haha, it is my normal tone of voice..)

4. i will stop mentioning the usual becca drunken whine. even i don't care anymore.

5. i will live up these next 6 months of uni, but remember to work hard before deadlines kick in, to avoid the absolute panic breakdown!

6. i will have fun and stop being so serious about guys.. we're only young, single and freeee once in our lives, these are meant to be the best years ;)

7. i will stop losing things on nights out and will hold onto my phone this year!

8. i will take lots more pictures of lots more nights out with the leicester gang, the 62 gang, the graphics gang and all the other stunners i have such a laugh with. bring on plenty more amazing memories and amazing nights!

so thats my resolutions for 2011. bring it on :) Bx

just gearing myself up to do the big round up of the whole year post. i did it last year, but i feel like so much more has happened to put on my highlights this year...this might take a while...

"...I KNOW WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL."

girrrrrrls, i am so so sorry this blog post has taken so long!

it's been weeks, what the hell have i been doing?!

right so last saturday was our first official big night out back in the lestaaaaa big city for xmas!

woop woop :)

it started off with a few polite 'prinks' in haytor to warm us up for the backstreets and alleys, but it never takes us buffet babes too long for the drama to kick in ;)

firstly we met "victor" - thats definitely not his name, but he likes to use it on his taxi radio thing "VICTOR, OVER." ...pretty much a glorified stage name.

bowler got a friend request on facebook after the usual bit of cheeky taxi driver banter ;) ...more on victor later.

then we met up with chazza d and amy francis for some brief, very pricey drinks in the lovely fat cats cafe, then went and had a little less classy drinks at a rammo'ed walkabout!

from what i can remember from walkabout...i'm pretty sure we had a fair few shots and drinks, absolutely ripped up the little dancefloor, met a few cheeky elfs, a guy who literally was going for the dancemoves, a very odd flirty guy in a patterned jumper, and a photographer who got jumped on. oh and a few old ladies that looked awkward to even be in the same room as half of the crowd, let alone on the dancefloor.

managed to take my coat off and leave it and then get in back again, so i was very impressed.

then after becoming suitably hammered, we headed back to the back roads to find our new fave, marz bar. could not love it more these days, well under-rated, although i've never been there sober so i couldn't tell you what the kind of scene it is inside, and what the crowds like...

anyway after getting inside we worked a few cheeky lines at the bar and found ourselves in the company of 3 lovely gents...

maybe i should leave it there...but amelia pulled a grenade for the team and lorenzo found herself with a right hunky australian meanwhile belinda found herself being bought drinks by a very attractive fella ;)

hahaaaaa. by the time we were being asked to leave, amelia could barely stand. we literally were having to drag her upright, but it's fine 'cos at the top of the stairs..."WHERE SHALL WE GO NOW?" classic buffet babe behaviour, i was so proud.

so naturally, we got a stamp to a place we've never heard of. followed whoever was standing in front of us and found ourselves in yet another back venue of leicester.

bowler of course nosedived it as soon as she got into the place... standard ;)

and i lost everyone thinking they we upstairs in the biggest, weirdest dancefloor you could possibly fit in that place.

but eventually we left, for somewhere 17miles out of leicester, cool.

but me and amy smelt maryland chicken, and theres no turning away when that happens... so it quickly turned into maryland followed by an encounter on route to mc-donalds...

"...you taste ..lovely..."

and got an ear-bashing from a very disappointed lorenzo in maccy-dees.

then a brief 343545656324343545 hours wait in the minus a million degree's weather (amy had lost her tights by now. decided she was warm enough in december without them ;) hahaa "JUST TAKE 'EM OFF!") and eventually got picked up by "victor!"

literally my faaaaave taxi driver ever.

1. plays personal mix-tape cd's on demand. was it jason derulo's album? fully can't remember..

2. banter a-plenty.

3. instantly adds passengers on facebook.

4. very amusing remarks about people walking down the street

5. buys a lighter and lets you smoke in the cab

6. listens to request banter and actually bought us a bottle of coke

whatta guy. fully completed the night!

another classic buffet babe night :) absolutely love them. bring on summer 2011, i can't begin to think what us girls in a foreign country for a week will get up too ;) pahahaa!

anyway, in other news.

i have had a lovely past week.

it has obviously been christmas :) i had a lovely day thank-you. i've been working loads so it felt genuinely really nice just to spend a few days chilling out at home with the family. gran was down from scotland too, so it was lovely to see her and spend some time with her too :)

i went to see the king and i with her and mum last night too, at the new(ish) theatre in leicester. i LOVE a musical, so it was lovelyyyy, and the romance in it was so nice to watch. i love a good costume too, and it was well interesting to see all the backstage stuff when they open it up at the end too...all part of the building's design. loved it.

and last tuesday was really nice too. had a yummy meal with the whole gang (minus grace :( ) and lots of really nice cocktails too. very civilized for us, it made a lovely change from gynsills! haha!

then i hit mosh with the rest of the entire alumni and present population of groby college!

it was absolutely wicked to catch up with some of them! i love seeing mates i don't really get the chance to fully meet up and catch up with, so that was really really good! but there were a couple of people that really disappointed me on how rude they were.

not gonna' mention there names but old friends don't behave like that, you should be ashamed and start being more polite, complete bitches.

oh and i did get too too drunk and then had a whine and got a bit upset over something that absolutely means nothing haha! standard drunk becca behaviour! must stop this.

but yeah...update complete.

i'm back to work 2moro, woop...

but got a massive nye night planned with my buffet baaaaabes ♥ and went shopping and got a fit new dress to wear for it today :) so i'm fully excited for that.

got myself a new blackberry today too...but it doesn't work, loving that, because my old phone runs out of contract tomorrow, so i'll be back to square one again. 2 phones. no working sim.

lovely lovely. haaa.

anyway, niiiiiiight.

Bx

we could have had it all.

actually love, love, loveeeeeeeeee this.

adele is literally my faveeee artist, she has such a stunning voice!

some absolute babe out there, please buy me her new album for my birthday, i've been waiting for it for 2 years. ♥

i'm excited for tommorow.

i feel like its the start of the festive season from then... (this week's just been pretty much a work week)

can't wait for drinks with some of my fave leicester girls/buffet bitches ;)

and roll on the new year, i'm gonna' make it a flippin' amazing one.

i already feel sooooo much better. excuse my language but fuck that shit from last term.

Bx

P.S katy B's "lights on" is wicked tooooo. getting far too into the dub-step genre.

shine a light on her...

eurgh, why am i back?!

1. no one is here.

2. i'm working pretty much everyday this week - not complaining, 'cos its nice to work for people and i feel like i'm doing something practical and i'm really grateful for the much needed shifts, but its the "holidays" and to be honest i'm completely not used to working/early mornings.

3. i have no money to do anything but work.

4. even my brother isn't around. he completely sacked me off tonight to go to the cinema with his mates when he knew full well he had promised to go and see harry potter with me. i was fully excited and had been looking forward to it for aaages and even stopped plans to see chlo and go to the cinema with her. and now i'm very very very very pissed off.

not speaking to him now for about a week. care.

eurgh i'm so annoyed and bored and missing leeds tonight.

i think i'm just bored and annoyed at life. being back home reminds me of how excited i was over the summer to get back to leeds and start this new term in a house and this new relationship i thought was on the cards and this whole exciting new year at uni.

now it's christmas and i've come back from yeah an amazing term, but i'm well lonely haaa.

i shouldn't be pissed off at my brother for not going to the cinema with me...i should have a lovely fella' dying to take me.

oh wellllllllll.

i have chatted far too much shit on this blog tonight.

for now, i'm just gonna' go for a run...not doing anything so may aswell get haaaaawt doing nothing paha.

then watch the apprentice. margarets back. booooooom!

over and out. Bx

may all your troubles soon be gone, oh christmas lights keep shining on.

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

back in leicester for the christmas holidays :)

(well i say christmas, pretty much the whole of sodding winter. 6 weeks! leeds university completely takes the piss with holidays!)

but i'm first back so officially reaaaaally bored!

and i haven't even got any money to take myself off and do the usual browse round town with a starbucks to go. rubbish.

but i've got lots of shifts lined up which should a) keep me occupied and b) get some dollar back in my pocket! woop woop!

i'm so excited to see all the girls again! and have a huuuuge mess of a night out :)

the last week of leeds was really good though.

after i battled through the most stressful deadline week ever, we had some right good nights out!

wednesday night we celebrated sammy's birthday in gatecrasher!!

it was a strange one. i had a realllyyyy good night dancing away, gatecrasher play some absolutely wicked music and its provided literally the best nights out since the start of second year. and i loved everyone that came out, housiesss and the law lovelies, even bumped into a few graphics coursemates :) but other stuff going on disrupted it a bit. i'm so proud of myself for how i handled it though, i did very well not to get upset. hahaaa

then thursday we had our 62 house christmas day.

the gang made an absolutely amaaaazing xmas dinner for us all. our plates were literally stacked high with a mountain of food! then we also had crackers and gave and received our secret santas, which everyone did really well with.

my pyjama's from boylin are great, thank you lovely :)

we had a lot of wine and cava throughout the afternoon though, so it wasn't long before we were belting out the disney songs (tomothy!) and cross dressing to go to a house party!

the house party was a laugh, but you're never gonna have that good a night when everyone else is rolling around in sexy little dress up outfits and we thought it would be funny to turn up in guys clothing... ;) haha. chlo had a massive mard on the way home too. i'll let her off though for the amount of times she has to put up with me in a mard tho!

probs the most ridiculously funny moment when i had to storm back past her after i'd stormed off the wrong way tho! hahaaa!

then friday me and boylin went to dan's for a jabba like in the good ol' days and had a good laugh at his community centre house furnishings...paha. and then the last of us standing -apart from bec who had to work :( hit the pub for some last drinks.

we bumped into JW and lucy which was soooooo so good to see them both! i can't believe we haven't met up all term! so we had a right good laugh and a catch up and went back to theirs and had a little look at their house.

then saturday i just chilled out and enjoyed a day of doing nothing but sitting in front of the tv and saying my goodbyes to everyone leaving. i went off to the pub in the evening to say goodbye to some of the graphics lot.

got through 2 bottles then decided to have the third back at my house seeing as no one was in, so they came back to mine :) had a right laugh and a pizza then called it a night.

all in all, a very good end of term!

and already looking back at it, i miss leeeeeeds :(

bring on next term. and everyone get back to leicester please. i want leicester antics to begin!

Bx

just a quickie!

i have one more day to go before i'm finished with these horrible deadlines.

i've guaranteed failed one of my modules which is completely my own time management and lack of skills fault. i'm ashamed with what i've produced.

but i really really am past caring now.

i'm sick of having a headache from the stress of it all.

i'm sick of barely being able to sleep from all the worry.

i'm sick of getting up at 9 and working til 1/2am.

and i'm sick of not having a life outside of my mac screen.

i'm just sick of it. dhgriurwdasjfheiouroeadfj.

tommorow will be amazing to go out an get absolutely smashed for sam's birthday.

bring. it. on.

i don't care anymore.

Bx

gave you all my time now i can't get it back

this was played at the pub last night, i had completely forgotten about it!

such a massive tuneeeee back in the day, love it!

right enough. i need to work. Bx

it won't make sense right now but you're still her friend.

(i'll warn you now, this is such a moan moan moan, stress stress stress post.)

i have 3 deadlines coming up...

1, im so almost finished working on, but i have 2 books to produce and they are so frustrating to work on my reeeeally slow indesign - to be honest, i just think my mac has had enough and can't be bothered any more today. not cool, man up.

the second, i can hardly work out how to do... i have a 25 page booklet of illustrator drawings to produce. and at the moment i have about 10 half-hearted attempts. they would have been better if i knew what the fuck i was doing with the software.

and 3, a portfolio of web animations on flash...yet again another piece of stupidly irritatingly hard software i have no idea to work...oh and just whack it up on a custom made dream-weaver website. cheers, cool that'll be easy babe. (should have started this one about 6 weeks ago. should be interesting to produce in about 4 days.)

i hate my life.

honestly, my biggest biggest wish is just to completely skip next week and wake up next monday morning in my bed back at home with no deadlines, just xmas to look forward to.

if bloody only...

i so need a break. and i so need to go back at home and just clear my head from everything here too. i've had enough, i love leeds to absolute bits and i'm going to miss everyone so so much here, but i need to get back to the girls back home. i need the stupidly rubbish dancefloors of leicester city. i need to just chill out with the rents in front of the tv and not have to worry about anything. i need some proper meals(!) and i need some time away to fully get over a certain situation...no reminders, so that i can really get it in to my head that thats it, i've fucked it up, done.

but on the brighter side, we had a sick house party after a completely frozen otley run on weds.

-tons of really nice new people that i had never met before came back to our house. and we had full dj decks, so raging amaaazing music and so much drink. so so much fun!

and me and chlo got absolutely hammered last night going for a few girly drinks after a swim, we had a right drunken laugh... NAAAAAT. errrrrrrror.

and the xmas tree's up in the lounge which makes it look so so nice and festive :)

so these last few days are nice.

it would just be a lot nicer if these deadlines pissed right off. thaaaaank-you goodnight.

Bx

P.S coldplay's new christmas track is quite honestly, beautiful.

and robyn's track "call your girlfriend" is bang on. ha.

cuddle weather...

my favourite postsecret's this week.

todays cold. a lovely handsome man to cuddle would have been nice :) Bx

kings and queens of promise

i've had a laaavley weekend thanks.

yesterday particularly, i feel like i've cheered myself up fully :)

friday night i treated myself for working the whole day by going to the german market yet again (i really can't get enough of that gem of a place) with jess, paddy and jess' housemates! after quite a lot of table hanging tactics we finally secured a booth!

i still loved the atmosphere in there, nothing like a bit of table banging with our tankards and a good german sausage hot-dog!

then i hit vodka rev's with some of the 62 girls and then joined by the 62 boys.

unfortunately i yet again hit mardy drunk becca, but i think that was just because when i'm drunk i feel more open about talking about it. and really i should just shut-the-f- up, but it felt better to tell the girls how i'm really feeling.

anyway we got chips then walked back in a bilzzard of snow! so cold, but lovely and xmassy :)

then saturday was slow and unproductive.

i don't think i literally did anything...

and yesterday was great.

we braved the well icy streets to pop up to headingly for a sainsburys and errands outing and went and had a creme brule latte in costas.

whilst we were in there there was yet another blizzard which was so nice to watch sitting on a sofa drinking the yummiest coffee!

then in the evening, me bec and chlo went to st. george's annual contemporary carols, which was so great! it's the first time i've been and the music was fab! it felt good for the girls to see the church that i've been going to for the past almost year now too.

and theres nothing better than the first mince pie and mulled wine of the season! :)

so overall a lovely weekend.

i'm not really looking forward to this week. i have so much work to do in preparation for these deadlines. and past xmas day itself, theres not much i'm fully looking forward to... i need some exciting plans please!

Bx

tell me your secrets and ask me your questions, oh lets go back to the start.

keeping it currenttttt. hahaa!

ok so since my last post i have worked pretty solidly. we had a marketing report due in midday today and had the most stressful build up to it all day yesterday, trying to get it all sorted and printed properly.

our university is awful at the printing system, it costs so much!

but eventually it was handed all in today and out the way, woop!

don't know whether any of my group will be reading, but thaaanks for all the team-work guys :)

anyway after that pretty full on day i went to alpha with tash. which was really nice i always have such a good time there and get so much from it. i can honestly say i'm really growing each time i go and it makes me so much happier, coming out of it with that bit more knowledge and understanding. everyone there is so lovely too.

then i decided to sneak in a cheeky pint at the pub with jess, jamie and tom...and peg turned up (may aswell not..!) at the end for a quick one and then the compulsory chips.

which brings me on to today...

had a quieter one today, its mostly been time planning and allocating to-do lists to the limited number of days left before literally deadline central. i went to the cafe i love upstairs in the union, but really didn't have enough money to spend on a coffee so i just sat. then had a web-session...the less said about those the better, although good banter :)

then yet again i decided to sneak in a cheeky pint at the old bar downstairs in the union with some of the web guys, which was nice.

although shouldn't have spent the money...

...or the time i should have used to go and get a print cartridge so i could actually do the work i've got stacks of.

but yeah. not very interesting, but im trying to get back into doing this :)

i'm excited for xmas. but i've just realised in total i will be spending 6 weeks back in leicester. minus 1 day for an exam...that's an age. university really doesn't last long at all, does it.

Bx

cheeky update!

time is making it impossible to keep up with this blog! grrrrr!

okay so at the moment i'm on a bit of a rollercoaster.

we all have a bit of a laugh at how i can get a bit mardy...mardy beccaaaaaa ;) but at the moment all the stress of work and then other personal things getting me upset means that i do think i'm struggling a bit to keep happy at the moment.

last weekend though was amaaaazing.

i absolutely love when my mum comes to visit...

she took me food shopping and got me loads of yummy food (much needed as i have no moneeyy!) then she took me actual shopping, which was great as i got a fab new coat (so warm and doesn't even look like a duvet...result!) and a snood! (not gonna wear it up tho ;)!

then my brother came to stay with the boiiiis!

they missed the bus which meant i missed getting to see harry potter. NOT COOL.

but i had such a laugh with everyone at the german market instead :)

-german market btw...AMAZING. such a good atmosphere! ive already been 4 times. (only twice inside the beer tent though. such fun times!)

so my brother and the boys tried to get out into tiger, but that wasn't very successful so instead we went to varisty.

lets just leave it at...the crowd was interesting in there.

andy being chased across the dancefloor by a very enthusiastic gay guy, was one of the funniest things ive seen on nights out this year. absolute gold.

anyway we also spent a lot of time chilling out, and went and had a lovely huge cooked breakfast in citrus. fully recommend it!

i was so sad when they all left. but me and some of the 62 girls pulled off our first official prank of the year on sam's room.

think selotape hammock...on the roof...covered in shit, including a banana, underwear and a condom. ooohhhh yeah! ;)

but personal things going on meant i couldn't stay up to see his reaction. so had an early night.

monday night this week i fully needed to cheer myself up so i decided to hit warehouse with some of the 62 gang, a few off of law and a cheeky spaniard! haha!

thats as much as i can tell you about the night really.

going out, telling yourself you need to get absolutely slaughtered off alcohol is so dangerous. i'm never doing it again. i have no memory of the night. my phone was found in macdonalds halfway across town by a creep named abdhul...claiming absolutely horrific things about me.

aaand everyone in my contacts recieved an invitation from me to have a 3 way?!

meanwhile i was passed out at home with sick on my leg.

i'm ashamed of the state i was in. but its really made me think about how i handle things, i'm never getting drunk like that again. it terrifies me to think what could have happened.

anyway!

bit of an essay today whoops.

all thats left to mention really is i watched "any human heart" last night, the new channel 4 drama. absolutely incredible, right up my street and the cast in it is amazing!

also i miss the leicester girls so much and can't wait to see you all at xmas.

but it does make me a bit scared to realise how quickly this year at uni's already passing by! i so don't want this year to end. who knows where i'll be next year and how many more people i could possibly lose touch with!

...guess i'll just start learning to take things as they come.

because at the moment. caring the way that i do just gets me fucked over anyway...

Bx

get ma' blonde onnnn.

friday night, me and the 62 bunch, minus tom went to vic's 20th wig night!

i was gonna buy a bright blue one a la katy perry but i chicken'd out and instead just bought a long blonde curly one!

i looked absolutely ridiculous.

think...man in drag or...absolute pamela anderson style slag.

...or me. back when i tried to dye my hair blonde...ginger...

hahaaa, but it was such a laugh with everyone wearing wigs!

we played some drinking games in 62

then went to the arc to have a few too many cheap jagerbombs...

then we all hit a pretty empty gatecrasher

i had such a good dance on the dancefloor after finding out about "2 DOUBLES FOR 2.50!" and absolutely rinsing them 'til i only had enough left for chips haha.

i love being out with everyone from the house, such a funny night.

chlo managed to stack it crossing the road for chips, not suprising tho' considering her drunken levels from even leaving 62 from predrinks..."shotgun NOT CW."

and i had the yummiest chips beans and cheese that i would no way share with ANYBODY.

hahaa, then we got home and realised we had no money to pay for the taxi, thank god dean was there to bail us out.

then had a heart to heart with char, both in tears sobbing in my bed haha

then livened up a bit for a big 62 sleepover in char's bed.

lovely, lovely.

more soon please 62 :) Bx

i'm back!

i hate myself for neglecting this blog.

i've started a new design blog, which is part of my graphic design course to promote myself into the design industry.

to be honest i do love writing and posting about things that actually matter, haha! but it's taking all the time i'd normally spend posting stuff on this :(

(you can check it out at: http://rebecca-buchanan.blogspot.com)

so i'm gonna' make a promise to myself that i'm not gonna abandon this!

these past days have been reaaally good.

theres been halloween and bonfire night.

there's been housemates and coursemates and miscellaneous mates.

there's been lots of laugh and banter.

there's been lots of really good photos.

there's been lots of drink...

there's been lots and lots of work getting done (i've finally started to knuckle down)

there's been lots of dressing up.

and there's been lots of chilling out.

i'm still absolutely loving being in leeds. i really can't explain how good it is and how much i love everyone here.

this has been a bit of a rubbish and vague blog post, sorry!

but now that i'm going to keep on top of it more, i should remember to post after really good nights out and stuff.

so until then... :)

Bx

P.S we got a house pet fish "OH, Neil the Fish." but it died whilst i was napping today... it only lasted 3 days. rest in peace you poor poor fishy.

...and with a certain other thing.. i'm trying not to give a shit, but i do miss how things were. and i hate it.

CABS ARE HEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEE.

OH. DEAAAAR.

girls im so so sorry that this sheffield post has taken me so long! it's been a whole week, i so wish i was back with you bothhhh, we had such a laugh! :)

firstly we haaaad to get a buffet. hello, buffet babes reunite, it's only natural!

hahaaa, of course we got a taxi there...the first of many (i may aswell have spent most of that weekend in a taxi! haha "this is our 5th taxi in under 24 hours")

jumbo's chinese buffet was quite the experience hahaaa!

-very serious tactics discussions. bowler completely not sticking to them, not on!

-overloading on rounds, tactical round abandoning and awful selection of deserts

-bra-faux

-lady with a moustache...

"not being funny but is that a man or a woman?!" "OH amy! some of us are still eating!!"

-very serious rules. one and a half hours max, woaaaaah!

-"THIS IS MY FAVOURITE." ... ... ...

then we hit the co-op...well laura fully did...on a post-buffet high!

haha

then we went back, got ourselves dolled up. thinking about it, i don't think laura spent much time in that bathroom, you should have checked it out mate it was quite nice in there! ;)

i squeezed into a gap between the wall and the kitchen cupboard..

we catched up on all our dramas and gave and gained some much needed buffet babe advice.

then went out to propaganda at the o2! woooop!

aw i really like o2 in sheff, the place is massive but isn't crammed yet feels busy!

i forgot my id, ridiculous. and knocked ross's drink out of his hand almost the moment i got in there, but apart from that the night went very smoothly!

(amy nosedived...but that's standard procedure hahaaa!)

then we got two taxis to get home, which was craaaazy for like a ten minute max distance...

"just roll it baaaaaack!"

and ross came back to listen to shouting "CABS ARE HERRRREEEEE" and "IT'S T SHIRT TIMEEEEE" for literally an hour or so. so so funny, it never gets old! (its a jersey shore thing fyi)

followed by more juice related banter and hilarious not being able to find the toilet

and eventually falling asleep three in the bed.

..."are you awake?" "no."

the next day, we obviously left it 'til 4 to eat. standard leeds style!

then had the biggest cooked breakfast of our lives in a scream pub in sheffield, can't remember at all what it was called!

anyway such such a funny 24 hours with you guys! i literally loved it!

thanks for having us bowler.

and thanks next door for providing somewhere for us to scream at and abuse. hahaa silly bitch!

same again very very soon pleaaaaaase!

Bx

SAMUEL UTTING AND DANIEL OWEN

ARE BLOG-OFFENDING DICKHEADS.

(change the channel.)

NOT ON.

Bx

trying my patience.

absolutely love this ...hugeeeee!

should be working, but just wanted to say how lovely this weekend was :)

i went home and had a lovely catch up with the family and gran.

it made me realise how much i'm loving being back in leeds though, 'cos i spent the whole weekend raving about all the good memories and all the people i kept mentioning (and how i barely said a word about the actual work..haha!)

it was so so lovely to come back to a house full of the amaaazing 62 bunch too, i really do love you guys, d'awww :)

and of course we hit the pub. and of course i got too drunk and semi-got-kicked out.

no need for that man to tell us to piss off though, pure accident i smashed that glass, wanker.

and of course we ended the night with 4 in a bed. standard.

oh leeeeeeeeds... Bx

jus' sayin.

...sucks to be you. haha ;)

Bx

"they call me the recluseeee"

Omg, major lack of blog updating...

..horrendous, im very sorry!

The last week or so i think i've actually been more drunk than soberrrr. I fully need to stop drinking so much and knuckle down hahaa, i was out in the evening 5 out of 7 nights.

Monday night was Hannah's birthday house party... had such a laugh with the graphics bunch.

Then Tuesday night was the big white t-shirt and pen social night for design, which was absolutely hilarious. Most of my comments on my t-shirt say, TITS...but thats another story.

I still have the biggest bruise for being taken down in the middle of Bourbon, such a funny night! ...the pictures from it are absolutely hilarious!

Then Wednesday my liver needed a break so i stayed in.

Thursday, i got straight back on for a girls night out, loved having a girly little natter with the house girls. But then that changed into a mad one in Mission (: although got there quite early and came back early yet again and had a yet another drunken little cry. nice.

Friday, got dressed up in sixties gear for Sally's birthday, which was good 'cos i love that era, but we felt we had taken it a bit too far... i wore a sixties style shift, white tights, twiggy makeup and the most backcombed hair youve ever experienced..but after a bottle of wine i swung my tights off in the middle of Fruity so felt better! hahaaa

Then i rounded off the week with a house party at Sashas but was a bit of a tour of the houses first...i love our graphics nights out this year, there always so eventful and we always manage to find another level of drunk! (..enough of a shout out to the graphics crew this post jess? :) )

Anway, quiter week this week, probs.

and im off home on friday to see granny buchanan and the family.

its been so lovely today to catch up with some of the leicester girls on the phone too. sooo so sooo excited for our big trip to see bowler in sheffield next weekend! :) wooop!

enough, housemates are watching me type this so its fully making me cringe. byeeeeeee Bx

"girl i didn't know you could get down like that"

hallaaaw, i'm feeling a lot better, fresher's flu last nowhere near as long as last year! wooooo!

lectures have started back and i'm having such a laugh with the graphics lot.

might have accidentally stated, "it's embarassing that i'm doing this course" right in front of a whole load of my lecturers after spending like 2 hours doing a mac tutorial yesterday and being the last ones outta' there, but oh well.

i've got my main project today too, gotta' rebrand pasta. oh lovely. that'll be easy.

but i'm ready for the challenge, bring it on.

and had a ratherrrr fun night out to mezz last night. although had a right yelling match with chlo over a ridiculously stupid issue, coming home a bit too early due to drunken levels...again, and then getting covered in barbeque sauce in macdonalds. standard.

good, good times.

Bx

now i've reached my element you better move over.

love this track.

hate this cold.

careeeeeee.

new uni year and new beginnings start tommorow. lovely!

Bx

re-freshed.

gosh its been a week since my last post!

this week has been freshers week, aaaaand i fully hit it. freshers can sod off, we know how to properly do it haha.

sunday night - gatecrasher then tigertiger

monday night - warehouse

tuesday night - tigertiger, durrr.

wednesday night - gatecrasher

thursday night - arc

friday night - hyde park pub haha

oh my gosh, its been such a drunken week. we've had some hilarious nights out and ive got horrifically drunk in the pub. i love being back with new housemates, my old 103 girls and hilarious coursemates. :)

i loveee being back in tiger too, ive so missed our tiger nights out.

pre-drinks have been fun and theres been more hilarious antics when we've got home from nights out. i cant wait for more good times this year, it's gonna' be such a good year.

i'm having a night in tonight though haha, i need to chill out or my liver will actually disintergrate. im reallyyyy excited for xfactor too!

ive been back in the pool too, which is so good, i hate my appearance at the moment so i'm gonna join the gym properly and sort my life out. i desperately need a new wardrobe too.

theres been a bit of the return of "mardy drunk becca" too.

i need to sort that out, i'm a bit fed up of it. this years about having a laugh with my amazing friends, so theres just no need to feel like that. i'm such a dickhead for not listening to the advice of people around me, but it's hard and gutting. i need to stop being a push-over.

aaanyway positive. this week has been aaaamazing. i've fallen back in love with leeds.

bring it on year two. Bx

P.S i'm fully missing all you leicester girls. sometimes i really wanna' hit the pub or firebug and have such a big chat and catch up with you guys! pleaseeee lets sort out visits soon?

HELLO KITCHEN.

sitting in the 62 kitchen, with the worst hangover ever.

didn't even go out to a pub or club or anything.

just got horrifically suddenly drunk chilling out at jess' house with the graphics lot.

lovely to see them all again though (:

shame i always end up completely on another level.

i had never thrown up from alcohol in my life before, and i've been far more drunk than that, i have absolutely no idea what happened.

might have been the skittles vodka?

eurgh.

but as if its knocking me down, i'm straight back on it tonight.

thank you, bye. Bx

hallaw leeds!

hiiii, just a quick blog post whilst sitting on my bed in 62, leeeeeeds :)

i'm already loving it here, i cannot even tell you how good it is just to be back in this city, i love it.

it's so much fun to be back amongst friends, and new absolutely lovely housemates.

we're gonna' have such a laugh this year i can tell, we've already had some top pub nights and a little oceana club night to warm us up for fresshaaas!

i'm so excited for this year. bring it on, it's already top dollaaaar :)

i'm gonna' post some pics of my new room soon.

it's not even damp and dull looking anymore, wooo hahaa it's come along way since that little buffet babe leeds "holiday" a few months ago!

Bx

died my hair instead of packing, SOZ.

hi i started packing 5 hours ago.

i've done naaathing, but i'm 2 glasses of wine and a box of hair dye down.

i get a feeling this may run through the night. whoooooooops. Bx

wheeyyyyyy, see you laterrrr leicester.

taking a little time out of the MAMMOTH task of packing up, to have a glass of wine and a blog post. :)

eurgh i forgot how stressful it is getting all my stuff together, i have a pile the size of a lorry at the moment, no way is it all gonna' fit into our car.

anyway, i've got a bottle of vodka, a few going out clothes and maybe a pen and paper. that should be next year covered fine ;) ...if it's anything like last year, hahaaa!

so so so excited to move into the new house. bring on 62 :)

i can't wait to snazz up my room and chill out on my first ever double bed, wooooo!

i'm not gonna' have internet for a couple of days whilst it gets sorted out, which is gonna' be a bit rubbish to not have my spotify and facebook fix. but hopefully it'll be sorted soon.

this is such a boring post, eurgh i'm sorry.

i'm gonna' go die my hair a hopefully "dark brown." it feels like i'm going full circle then, 'cos i started freshers last year with dark hair. although i was fat and disgusting back then, haaa!

i'll post a picture, if the dark hair works, or doesn't re-create "freshaaa beccaaa" paha!

but for now goodbye from leicesterrrrr, i'll see you back in leeds ;)

Bx

(and for the record. i can't wait to leave leicester the place. not the people. it's going to be hard moving back away from the most amazing family and friends back here.)

i've been to work and the dentist today, how thrilling...

but i really don't mind. because this time the day after tomorrow i will be... in leeds.

aaaaaaaa! :)

i was well looking forward to eastenders tonight.

last nights one was epic, i literally sat with such a stunned face during it for about 2omins, but then nobody died. naaaa, theres meant to be at least one casualty in a flippin' huge disaster.

and this HUGEEEE departure of peggy mitchell tonight i thought was gonna' be her spectacularly leaving by dying, someone killing her perhaps? but no.

she walked off carrying just a handbag and having a little sob.

good one writers, your well clever. absolute pricks.

jersey shore's new episode was amazing though. they can do drama well better.

angelina and sammi are bitches. and i would absolutely love a night out with snooki, how hilarious would it be?! pahaaa

aanyway, heres a few interestinggg pictures and a quote i found killing a bit of time tonight :)

Bx

“I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.”— Pete Doherty.

"wouldn't it get caught in your coil?"

tuesday night was a last summer epic night out in leicester.

i had such a laugh with some of my leicester stunners, i'm gonna' well miss you guys :(

looking back i had a ridiculous amount of cocktail.

but had such a laugh, went to some new places and obvs some old faves! (firebug, slug and lettuce, failed attempt at fat cat cafe and then walkabout and mosh)

...just had a flashback to being like the only girls in walkabout, but still getting right up on that little stage dancefloor at the back!

probs should have waited til mosh to whip out the dance moves!

i bumped into so many college people in mosh, it's nice to see some old faces :)

i still can't believe i was stupid and got cash out for some cheesy chips, and paid a ridiculous amount for a mardy taxi driver

but it was well good night and had a well not good hangover the next day.

then yesterday had a lovely day out with dan on a right little roadtrip to nottingham

had drinks and lunch in the notterz fat cat cafe, then drinks in the notterz spoons then visited rach and her mates to cook a steak :)

betty well didn't start on the way back, but kathy saved the day...as always, the bitch.

hahaaa

anyway, i've got such a bad habit of sitting reading blogs then blogging in bed 'til the early afternoon. i need to sort my life out big timeee, so much i need to pack and sort out for the big move back on sunday.

i can't even tell you how much i'm looking forward to going back to leeds!

but that leicester night out was a perfect way to see off our wicked summer here :) Bx

today i've gone back like ten years and put in a centre parting as seen in the mags

loving it, it feels odd, but i'm well feeling this trend.

and went out shopping for a rug for my new uni-room with mum this afternoon and came back with a lovely rug but an even lovelier autumnal maxi dress.

i'm so A/W 2010. pahaaa.

but seriously, i'm loving the trends this season.

now i just need, nude/camel clothing. a military jacket. a shift dress. green velvet. and an aviator coat.

job please. Bx

"i'm harvey and i'm here to give you jip"

hi, i watched "this is england" the film, on tv for the first time last night.

i've been meaning to watch it for aaages. it was so good, i loved it!

i normally hate the whole cheesy eighties thing, but i loved the style and fashion of like the under-dog working class skin-heads.

get me some tie-die jeans as seen on jack o'connell please! or some doc marts.

i loved their accents too, and the like really natural dialogue. (thats not what you call it...screenplay maybe?)

i'm fully excited for this is england '86 now, but i'll have to catch it online 'cos i'll be out on the town with kat j and the girls tonight to celebrate her twentieth with a good few drinks! happy birthday mate (: Bx

i want to go to the beach and have dark hair. Bx

"our finger prints don't fade from the lives we've touched"

i've just spent a saturday evening on my own watching a horribly depressing but lovely film, with a cup of hot chocolate. (:

"remember me" is such a sad, emotional film and it took quite a bit of thinking to work out what it was all about. i can't be bothered watching something without working out the message behind it, and this one had quite a few. but i think it's mainly the whole point that individual tragedies can destroy people and yet bring people together. and it's about sharing moments and life going on past difficult stuff breaking people apart. woah soz bit deep for my cringe blog! ;)

anyway the love story in it is amazing, not gonna' lie though i still don't see any attraction in "r pattz." to be honest i was more attracted to the stunning set designs of a new york city, student apartment. i would loveeeee to live life like that! didn't win the lottery tonight though...again.

i'd quite like to do stuff involved in film's with my graphic design, i think. there is quite a lot of design in a film. i'm not sure if that's possible with the qualification i'm involved in, but who knows...i'm not ready to turn my back on magazine and editorial design anytime soon.

Bx

i've just read this back and it's well too serious for a saturday night post. i should be out getting drunk on a dancefloor, or at least chilling out with friends. oh, dear! haha!

...pack up.

just starting the big, back-to-uni pack up today, trying to be pure organised and allow plenty of time this week to have a chill out and have some good last chance summer leicester times.

sorting through some of my stuff is making me so, so, so excited to get back up there.

i found a pack of water balloons mixed in with my patterns and culture revision notes.

that statement right there pretty much sums up the whole year. hahaaa

although looking through my notes, i did do quite a lot of work. def' gonna' have to work a little bit harder and concentrate more this year though!!

i just ordered 72 photos of recent good memories to put up on my walls, i really need a camera now though to make sure i can keep track of memories next year. oh and i found the ones that were up in 103F. i already miss that room, boooooo! but i'm so excited to be living in 62 this year (:

bringin' it back to leeeeeeds, a week tommorow, wooooo! Bx

as soon as my student loan comes in i'm fully hitting zara.

the new online store opened yesterday and their collection is actually amazing.

currently watching the football whilst "window" online shopping. i thought it would be less depressing than "window" real life shopping without any money, it's really not... waaah i want so many things. Bx

"no matter how big it is, keepin' it informal"

these past few days i have been working all day, then pub'ing it all night! wooo haha!

i very nearly passed out on wednesday, on my first full working day in about like a year haha!

...clearly couldn't handle it! it was actually terrifying, i've never felt like that or fainted in my entire life, and there was no logical explanation for it at all, i just completely flipped and got so hot and shakey and started blacking out. it's ridiculous when your working alongside people who are fasting and haven't eaten or drank anything all day, and i stroll in after breakfast and collapse. so scary, but o well, let's hope it doesn't happen again.

but anyway completely drank the fear away with a cheeky gang gathering at the stanny in the evening. i still cant believe it was our last time all together of the summer, 'cos we had to say goodbye to bowler and graceee ): good luck girlsssss with hitting uni, i'll be visiting soon! so jealous there both going on holidays too. i can't wait for our girls holiday we've been discussing for next summer. bring it on!

it's so nice when we're all together, i'm gonna' miss it when i'm back at uni, we have such a laugh and have had some amazing times this summer.

aanyway, hit work again for a full day on thursday. didn't feel faint at all, so it's clearly not the thought of a full day of work thats kicking it off! hahaa

then took a complete u-turn decision in the evening and decided to scrappp the pre-uni save up and hit town for a few pubs and bev's with the gothys! (: ...and met fat! (not halfway.)

firebug, time bar and then the loaded dog. i love finding new places that i've never been to. time bar was so nice, def' gonna' go there again. bit of a trek to get over there tho! had to get a taxi back to the bus station haha... well didn't have to but it meant we had a bit more time with our pints before we hit the road!

leicester has so many places we still haven't been to. i always say leics a bit of a let down for nightlife, but actually i think i just need to explore it a bit.

but yeah we had some right laughs and came out with a few more hilarious quotes, love it!

woke up at 1pm today, thats disgustingly lazy but whatever!

first thing i did after eating was watch jersey shore.

LOVE IT. already cannot wait for the next one. jwoww is hilarious, she's like my wierd idol but i don't really aspire to be like her, haha!

prob's gonna go and do something productive with my day now.

Bx

yesterday, relaxed afternoon drinks at the annual village show turned into quite the pub crawl ending at gone midnight... standard.

had a lovely day though, saw some very impressive beetroot and carrots (only in kirby...!) in the veg and baking competitions and both dad and david won rosettes in there photography rounds. had a cider, an ice-cream, and spent a whole fifty pence on a bounce on the bouncy castle, just like old gynnies times! (:

then we took ourselves to the castle, for a snack and another drink.

then stanny, chinese and back to the stanny for a pub quizzzzzz!

bumped into a few people whilst there, so it was good to have a good ol' catch up! love it.

now, i plan on having a very chilled out bank holiday monday. Bx

"...erm, i'd rather live to tell the tale"

today:

i've been on another lovely trip to birmingham to see daniel. (:

we did a bit of shopping, had a nice pizza and shared a coffee student style.

and played some very amusing "would you rathers?" watching people pass in the street.

and, tommorow:

a lovely long lie in, then i'm having drinks in the pub at our village show in the afternoon with some of my leicester bezzies i've not seen in a whileee

i bought a lottery ticket today and didn't win anything.

but it was nice to have a little hope of money in my hand for that little moment (:

the first thing i'd do if i won, is absolutely rinse asos.com

then, charity and family and all that, haaaa jk...of course i'd do that first.

actually, in a complete dream world, if i had won i think actually i'd buy the first plane tickets to italy with some of my closest, loveliest friends and go and see all the things in italy i'm dying to see. in rome and venice.

pfft, hahaa my blog writing is sounding as cringey as always... Bx

hallaw new shoes.

i'm well into adidas at the moment.

if mum ever finds this blog through "google," like she's been trying to...

thank you (: bring on the next shopping trip! haha

Bx

currently job hunting for jobs in leeds.

got some applications, emailed a few CV's.. now i just need to be back there.

piss off leicester, no offence. Bx

"you'll never get to heaven if your scared of getting high"

not even any kylie minogue classics are really entertaining me today.

i've been working. which i love, honestly its so good to be doing something useful and practical and lets be honest, getting some money in! but thats all i've really done today and yesterday. and all i've got planned all week. (apart from shopping with mum on friday, hello new shoes.. and possibly a trip to b'ham)

i love helping people. and a few people i knew came in today and thats always nice (: and its nice to see the people i work with again.

at the moment, whilst most friends are away or have plans, i feel like im just sitting around waiting to go back to uni. i've counted, it's nineteen days. long.

i love being back to see everyone and we have had some absolutely amazing times this summer in leicester. but i'm just so sick of being away from the whole uni-life.

i'm too excited to get back to the house. and get back to our amazing leeds nights out. and get back to the course and actually work really hard, and see my course mates - it's rubbish i haven't had the chance to catch up with them this summer. and get back together with my 103 and db gang and i'm too excited to have a bit of freedom again. and join the gym. and find a new job. and earn money for some amazing stuff i've seen to decorate my room.

but tonight i'll just sit watching big brother. oh. Bx

brothers

hello, i've had a lovely weekend ta.

lazed around for most of it, but had a very nice night out on saturday.

predrinks round trina's, followed by more drinking in highcross, followed by more drinking on a saturday night mosh. laaavly.

i got to catch up with three of my old form pals (:

so good to see them and find out how there getting on, SAEv for lifeeeee.

it was so dead in mosh for a saturday night, i definitely prefer it on a tuesday, but i had fun, we never fail to pull out all our cheesey moves. sprinkler? lawn moer? pahaaa

it's always good when chickin lickin' is reopened next door for some cheeky chips after toooo!

sunday i went out for a really nice family meal to celebrate david's results.

well done daveee, i'm very proud of you. and for the record, your welllllll not better than me!

we also watched the film "Brothers" i fully recommend it, it was well good, i thought it was all about an affair between these two brothers but its not really at all. its about the strains of being out at war and coming back.

jake gyllenhaal is fittttt in it and tobey maguire's acting is actually really really good.

the main quote from it is:

"I don't know who said 'only the dead have seen the end of war'. I have seen the end of war. The question is: can I live again?"

amaaazing.

i've still not seen inception yet. not even exagerrating, i reaaalllly want to see it.

got work today so gonna' go get ready. bye. Bx

bit of a boring night. can't complain really though

looking forward to another night out tomorrow (:

took this snap before heading out last night,

i'm really not loving how no matter how much i dye my hair it keeps going back to blondeeee

oh and my nose looks beyond ridiculous when i scrunch it up.

and theres some other pictures ive found on tumblr n blogs i like.

...so much talk about a possible holiday with the leicester girls last night makes me want to get away so much. i'd love to get back in the sun, the weathers been absolutely rubbish recently.

but at the moment i'd be more than happy just to get back up to leeds.

aanyway, na'night (: Bx