May goals.

I made new years resolutions (or revolutions as honey boo boo would call them) I'm gonna briefly share them with you and for my resolutions in more detail click here. Overall I was going to save, get involved, study, do chores, attend, sleep. Overall I can say I do involve myself more and I do (kind of) study more but honestly I still have trouble attending, saving, doing chores and sleeping. Oops.

Bonnie, who is one of my favourite bloggers is more intelligent than I am, and does monthly goals with sub goals to keep her on track. I've decided to steal this idea. I was going to just wait until New Year but they say there's no time like the present, so here I am. May is already five days in but hey, I can progress in 25 days! I'm not going to plan the goals in advance, I'm just going to decide what I feel like my life needs at the start of the month, and share it with you guys when I recap last months.

MAY 
I have some major exams coming up this month so the month of May is perfect to set myself some educational goals. I need to start taking school more seriously, because I get average grades I've never really pushed myself to do better, but it's about time I do!

SUB GOALS

• Attend every day of school in May. I'm such a bad cookie when it comes to actually going to school (by this I mean I have 'sick' days probably once a month, not that I just don't go) but these next few weeks are going to be crucial.
• Speak up. This one sounds kind of stupid, but I am 'that student' who never puts her hand up and never contributes unless forced to. I want to start involving myself more and contributing to class once a day (which is a big thing for me) whether its just answering a question, or reading out a passage etc.
• Stick to my revision timetable. This means studying for at least 2 hours every night and at least 4 on Saturday and Sundays, this one is gonna be my hardest I think. Plus I have a lot of social things going on this month, so if I stick to this then I won't feel so guilty about going to parties or concerts (or watching honey boo boo)! 
• Let things go. This might not sound like it has anything to do with school, but everyone is stressed out this and so many friendship groups in my year and feeling the blow (mine included). At least until my exams are over I'm going to take everything with a pinch of salt, it's so much easier to move past things then it is crying over them for days, and thinking about them constantly. Which I am certainly guilty of doing. I need to be super focused this month, I won't even go there after June 13th so who even cares! 

These are my goals! I would love to know yours and how your doing with your new years resolutions! 

Easter Sunday baking!

 Today was Easter Sunday and it was marvellous, I have never eaten so much chocolate in my life before. (Excluding last Easter of course!) If the chocolate wasn't enough my Mum and I decide to bake some Easter cupcakes, it's a bit late to share with you guys, but you can always bookmark this for next year or just call them spring cupcakes. ;)

For the cupcakes I used:
2 eggs
4oz of sugar, self raising flour and butter
and baked at gas mark four for about 25/30 minutes

For decoration I used:
Butter icing
          -2oz butter
          -4oz icing sugar
Roll out icing
Mini eggs.

Super easy, super simple and they tasted amazing! 

Shrek, selfies and... selfies!

Props to Kay for this prompt, you'll be hearing that in the next few posts of mine. Todays post is photo heavy, I've taken the last ten photos (no cheating or deleting) off of my camera roll and here they are!

My friend Dani sent me this picture, are group is kind of obsessed with Shrek and 4:20, teenagers eh? It's so weird not even I can explain it.

Mcflurry time, last week was so sunny I couldn't resist.

Okay yes, I also had a smoothie.

Mothers day cards! I actually already posted this photo in my mothers day post.

This was also in a post, gotta love ootds!

My cousin was taking some pictures of me so I got in a quick iphone shot, I love taking pictures of my feet when I'm wearing ballet shoes! Any other dancers do that?

I was ill last week and this is a conversation with my friend, I screenshotted it because her responses made me laugh!

BOBBY ON THE MIDDLE? I guess when Jim Beaver finished working on supernatural, he lived his dream of being a scout leader with a ponytail. Of course I had to take a picture for twitter.

Selfie collage because I really loved my outfit.

Number ten is, you guessed it another selfie! There's about ten more after this one so thank god that this post ends here. 

I'd love to see your photos! Do you have as many selfies ;)

Life's biggest hurdles.

Optimism is one of my best qualities and pessimism is my worst. Is it possible to be both optimistic and pessimistic? Yes, I certainly am. Depending on the day of course. Usually if the day/week isn't going well my thoughts follow suit, this is the same for a good week. Sometimes I just need to see the worst and let it out of my system with a moan or a cry because I'm a girl.Then I can be like 'oh yeah, that's actually not bad at all' and feel really stupid about the whole thing. Yup. This happened a few times this week so I thought I'd share them and

For example. 

Situation: School says I cannot retake Maths in November.

The pessimist in me: Is a)extremely annoyed that I was one of only two that aren't aloud b)deciding that I'm not going to revise any more because what is the point and among other things like kicking myself for not getting an A in the mock and wanting to strangle anyone that told me 'exams aren't fun' or 'it's a good thing' Of course exams aren't fun but I still have to take it c)panicking because when I am aloud to retake in June I have about nine other exams already. (I only have one other in November so it makes sense to take it then, no? No.) 

The Optimist in me: Is a) thinking of how much extra time I have to revise maths to better my grade and hoping I reach an A soon so I don't have to stress it in June b) realising I only have one exam to revise for, for November and that I know I can ace it and c) two less exams to worry about having coughing or sniffling in (flu seasons rough). 

Or some much simpler moments

Situation: English stop day. 

Opt: Lot's of revision, I'm going to ace this exam. This means listening and concentrating.

Pess: This is so boring, I'm going to fall asleep and learn nothing. What's the point. 

Situation: My hair straighteners broke. 

Opt: I won't be burning my hair today and have an excuse other than 'I'm lazy' for not doing my hair. 

Pess: My hair straighteners broke, I'm broke. 

Situation: I have to walk home because I spent my bus fair on Dr Pepper. (Don't tell me you've never done this)

Opt: Good exercise, lot's of fresh air. Dr Pepper. 

Pess: It's raining, it takes me an hour to walk and I can't drink fizzy drinks until after school anyway so I should have waited until I got home.

Lastly, a much much simpler one. (We all know I stayed up to watch it.) 

Situation: Supernatural is on, it's an American show I can't watch it until two am. 

Opt: It's supernatural, duh? 

Pess: Four hours sleep. 

I have to say that I usually jump straight to a bad conclusion and then realise ten minutes later it isn't the end of the world and cringe at how stupid I was. Whoops. Feel free to leave times when you've done this so I don't feel so stupid, haha. Much Appreciated. I also feel like the purpose of this post changed even more as it progressed but (my friends hate it when I say this) yolo.

I wanted to include a picture and since it's Autumn guys... This is outside my house, so cute!