Frank Turner at Wembley Arena!

Yesterday (13th April), I finally got my birthday present!


A ticket to see Frank Turner, woooooh! My fourth time seeing him, ahahaha.


My outfit, complete with 'invisible llama' shirt, based on the commonly misheard lyric in 'Reasons Not To Be An Idiot'.

We didn't start travelling to London until around 2pm as Rob had a really long interview in the morning. It was his first time driving on the motorway, but we were fine. However it took us 4 hours to get to the hotel, so we didn't get to the arena until around 45 minutes after the doors opened. As such, we didn't have time to look around for the merch stall before the acts started =[ (I had intended on going to look afterwards, but it was too crowded and I ended up missing out completely! Sucks.). The hotel was really nice though - we stayed in a Premier Inn that was really close to the venue. The bed was almost as big as my room here, it was crazy. I could lie across it the wrong way and still not be dangling off at all! It only took us 5 minutes to walk to the arena.


View from our seats. We were in the top row about half way down the arena. Thank goodness my camera has a decent zoom!


Beans On Toast was on first, and although the set was only 20 minutes long and reaaaaaally disorganised, it was good! He did a stage dive at the end and got carried across the whole crowd...and a few people kept him up and ran across the rest of the floor with him!

Next on were Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip. No photo as they were awful. I hate that kind of music, I sat there like 'wtf is this crap' the whole time they were on, but I didn't want to squeeze past the smelly fat man who was sat next to me so I couldn't go for a merch hunt.


Gave us time to take a derpy photo though!


Billy Bragg was next, and he was brill! I'll have to check out his stuff again later.

...and then Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls <3


Frank's mum came on stage to play harmonica during Dan's Song =D





Billy Bragg came back on stage to do 'The Times They Are A-Changing'.


Circle hug that opened up at one point! It became a circle pit shortly afterwards though.

The set was reaaaaally good. I had a few annoyances though. The woman next to me was singing really loudly, out of tune and time. I think she was really drunk. There was a bunch of guys in front of me whose heads blocked my view anyway despite my being higher up. But they had their hands in the air most of the time so I had to keep moving about to try to see! People clapped inappropriately in my favourite song. The end part of The Road was cut off. (Is there a grumpy concert-goer meme yet? Bahaha).

But the performance was amazing as usual, and the new song was EPIC and I can't wait until the next album is ready! I had been thinking I wouldn't see Frank again for a few years, but when he said that there is to be a tour next year and that he'll be doing practically every town in the country I was like 'BATH AND BRISTOL COME TO MEEEEEEEEEE' xP I already cannot wait!



I wish I could have gone to the bar afterwards for a few drinks, but instead we went straight to sleep in order to rest up for today! It didn't take so long to get home, but it still took 3 hours. Luckily all the travelling was fine as we had plenty of CDs with us, and I like travelling anyway! No gigs planned until Reading now, and that's still not definite.

But yes, probably the best birthday present ever!

Howard Jones

Last night I went to the local O2 Academy to see Howard Jones. I didn't really know who he was, but I love 80s music and my dad had a spare ticket, so I thought 'why not?'.


It was actually pretty good! He played two full albums. The first was kinda dull, but the second half was a lot better!

Here's one of his songs...you'll probably know it even you've never heard of him!

Well I'll probably write a long post on Sunday to make up for the lack of posting! Oh, and I never did get any work done =| ahaha.

General Update

Sorry about neglecting you guys, but I just switched to the new Blogger and have been scared to try writing a post as it all looks so different. I hate change *grumblegrumble* ...and it seems I now have to code in paragraphs myself (I always write straight into HTML as it tends to mess up less!).

I haven't really been up to all that much! Work-wise my old study has fallen through as we couldn't get a long enough wire for the EMG. We tried running the EEG outside of the box, but there was just too much electrical interference so we couldn't see the brain waves at all. So now I have to start from scratch doing something completely unrelated...and naturally, I'm feeling really unmotivated! I only have 10 weeks to get ethical approval and get all my data though, so I ought to get my butt into gear!

Lolitawise, there was a picnic meet a while ago!

It was strange as there were so many people I didn't know, and my other half wanted to come (I'd invited him as a joke and he actually wanted to come, ahaha).


I only stayed for the picnic, but the others went on to the fashion museum! I hadn't been in a museum mood (I prefer to do such things alone).

Other than that, I haven't been up to much! I got a little collection of eggs for Easter I suppose (and I have another at my uni house), and had fun wearing my ears again.


Candy-cat liked them too.


This is the last day of a 5-day weekend. So this is the last day I can get away with not working! I also have to choose my modules for next year on the 18th, and have no idea what to take. Psychology is getting dull ^_^'

I should have things to write about later this week though, as I have a busy weekend ahead! Sadly I'm missing out on more frilly stuff though =[

Anywho, off to do some watercolour now! This may be disastrous.

Body Confidence

At the moment I am, probably for the first time, happy with the way I look. Despite being the heaviest I've ever been and the fact that my face has started to betray my age.

I know I have flaws (various wobbly bits, not the best skin...and yes, I will always be on the short side), but I accept them. I'm fine with it. I know I'm not the prettiest, but I'm not the ugliest either =P And finally I am able to wear short shorts and not worry about my thighs, and I can even wear tops which show my stomach. Finally, I am free to wear what I want, and feel fabulous doing it!

I do want to find exercises I enjoy, but that's just to improve my fitness. I don't really want to change my body at all anymore.


The only thing I don't like about my body?

Other people's reactions to it.

Now, it's not that I care what they think. I just feel a little uncomfortable when I'm walking down the street on a hot day wearing shorts, and practically every bloke I walk past stares at my legs. And then there are the comments some of them make. I am a human being, stop trying to objectify me =/ And I'm trying to keep cool on a hot day, I do NOT want the attention of sleazy douchebags!

And then the occasional woman will glare at me enviously too, like how dare someone have thinner legs than me! How dare someone be okay with their body! Or a group of girls will talk behind their hands, saying goodness knows what.

If people minded their own damned business, maybe they'd be a little happier with themselves as well! Don't bring me down too Dx Go away!

I guess it isn't something that's ever going to change, but it's just really annoying *sigh*

Liebster Blog Award

My friend Katie over at Odd Socks gave me a blog award! (You guys should check her out btw, she makes some seriously adorable crochet things!).

Now apparently this thing comes with some rules...

1. Choose five up-and-coming blogs (with fewer than 200 followers) to award the Liebster to.
2. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
3. Post the award on your blog. List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites. Leave comments on their blogs so they know about the award.
4. Share five random facts about yourself that people don't know about you.

Here are the blogs I chose!

1. Bexy's The Glass Princess


2. Lexi's Lexi ♥ Bee


3. Wai-Yi's Moon Cake


4. Michaela's Sakura Moments


5. Lila's Magical Moon Dreamer

They're all really cute blogs, so you should like check them out or something \(^_^)/

Hmmm I'm never good at giving facts, especially ones that others don't already know. But I'll give it a go!

1. I drink tons of cups of tea! Now the weather is warmer I'm not so bad, but some days I can drink over 10 cups. I have to use each teabag twice so I can afford my tea habit =P


2. One of my favourite ways to pass time is cross-stitch. I'd love to learn other embroidery techniques some day too.


3. My favourite smell is a freshly opened pack of Pokémon cards. Yu-Gi-Oh ones just don't smell as good!


4. Every pair of shoes I own rubs somewhere as I have awkward feet (a size 4 and 1/4 which doesn't exist, quite wide, very deep, sensitive skin...and an awkward big toe on my right foot as I broke it twice!).


5. My dad was considering taking me to the Japanese grand prix in Suzuka, but because my degree is a four-year course I can't go as it's on the first week back *le cry* But I'll get over it, since Suzuka is nowhere near Tokyo anyway =P

Well, there you go! Now to pass on the award bug~

Blind Bags

At first I had no intention of buying the blind bag ponies as my pony collection is already insane and I can't really afford them. But an eBay seller sent me some by accident and sold on the items that were supposed to me mine, so I ended up with 6 blind bags.

I also already had my glow-in-the-dark Pinkie Pie that I bought at Hyper Japan!

But yesterday I was out shopping, and I came across some in Snooks. I was really surprised as their pony section keeps shrinking! I didn't notice them at first - I grabbed the tube I'd gone in for and was looking for Monster High dolls (which they no longer sell), and I saw some non-pony blind bags. So I hunted around the shelf a little...and there they were!


I bought what was left of the box (5 packs, but I stuck my other 4 and AJ in there to keep them together). So I managed to spend £17 on ponies in there in total Dx


I just went to collect the last 2 from the post depot, so opening times!


My haul! Excluding my Pinkie as she's at home. Also I have two doubles which I didn't open. Don't know whether to sell them or give them away.

I think I might try to get the whole set of these now (I think they're the 3rd lot), otherwise I'll sell ones I'm less keen on.


Yesterday I also picked up these cute accessories from H&M! Thanks to Amy for letting me know they were there. The pony clips are so derp, but the Kiki & Lala set is so cute!


And today I bought these after thinking over whether to buy them. They're from the kids section and they're really tight, but they were only £8 and I'm going to try to stretch them out! They look fine on, but they just enhance my already prominent love handles!!

Wondering how long it will take before a new box of blind bags arrives at Snooks. I think I'll check tomorrow and take the list of bag numbers I need!

Cupcakes!

Yesterday I made some cakes with my mum!


I made the batter (well, I added an egg and some water to packet mix)...


...and cooked them in the oven!


Then I made some icing while they cooled.


Mum then took over and ruined some of them with the decorating! I did the cherry ones. The raspberry marshmallow ones looked (and tasted) the best!

I wish I could bake more often, but I already eat too much rubbish ^_^'