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I have moved blogs...how fickle I am but this one is way easier to work and so far ive been able to make it a lot prettier!!! just click on this posts title and you will be taken there!!

Idiot

I really am an idiot didn't realise "War and Peace" was over 900pages long with really small writing so much for scoring that one off my life list during my easter holidays lol

Lovely weekend!!!

So placement is finished YAY! After some stressing mark is in: all is good.

So i got the weekend off and it was lovely. Spent it with my lovely husband (the very one who thinks it would be weird to leave me a comment on this blog as "we're together 24/7 anyway"). Had a picnic (can't say we were inspired enough to make it ourselves it was more of a head to M&S kinda affair lol) went to a spot just outside Killyleagh was so tranquil and lovely. Then after visiting Andrew's mum and spending some quality time with the lovely Tess (seen to the side there for all you folks who haven't had the pleasure of her company) we trundled back home. Then we actually made use of the lovely day...Andrew cut the grass and I cleaned the kitchen. But most importantly I decanted my Blackberry Vodka and all became good in the world!!!!!!!

Now I am not such a hard core drinker that I can drink spirits neat I just can't do it...so blackberyy vodka + lemonade became my poison for the evening and YUMMY is all im saying!!!!!

Anyways onto Sunday and I was home owner extraodnaire- I cleaned all my ground floor windows and you know what I used vinegar and water to clean it none of this chemical stuff for me so maybe my desire to try and be a little more environmentally friendly isn't a pipe dream that I am completely incapable of doing I just might be a little step at a time kinda person. Oh and lovely Catherine came over and she also mightly enjoyed my Blackberry Vodka!! Next on to try is Rhubarb and Vanilla vodka mmmmmmmmmmmmm

So my holidays have started so I have three weeks in which I need to do essaying and then I have some holidaying and thats about it...I think I will examine the life list though see if there is anything I might be able to achieve in this time...or if there's anything more I wish to add heh

xo

Continuing the theme of wishful interneting

So yes I know I should be up cleaning the house or doing essays or something productive but I started to look on the internet regarding things on my life list, in particular the ones that involve travelling, and I have found something that looks really cool...apparently every January in a place called Tromso in Norway they have a Northern Lights festival, best explained by the link below!!!! I think I should edit my life list to not only be see the northern lights but to go to this festival too. I mean unfortunatly the northern lights is one of those things you could travel all the way to norway to see and not even see it...nature plays entirely by its own rules...so why not go to what sounds like a really cool festival at the same time and that way it won't have been an entirely wasted trip!!!

http://www.nordlysfestivalen.no/en/historie.html

All this being considering the fact that I am penniless and jobless kinda scuppers the immediate realisation of this plan which is why I bought a copy of "War and Peace" today for £1.99 off amazon lol the cheap way to cross an item off the life list lol and maybe I should get back to my knitting rather than surfing the internet for ideas on life list items that are on the back burner!!!!

On another note (totally forgot to say!) step one of getting a cat has been passed...we had our home visit from the cat protection society and we passed!!! Now all we need to do is get a letter from our landlords saying that they have no problem with a pet in the house and we are good to go!!! very exciting, hopefully the landlords say yes as it would be lovely to have a bit of animal company around the house

wishful interneting

so I'm looking online at flights to New Zealand rather than getting up and actually doing something productive with my day...the fact I have no money, no job and no holiday time coming up anything soon clearly means nothing to me lol so I should probably really stop looking before i depress myself

Asides from that the advert on the website were a woman is practically nose to nose with a kangaroo is freaking me out, does she not realise kangaroos are vicious little buggers that have a pretty nasty kick??? foolish woman in your bikini enjoying the sun while i freeze!!!

On another note have started reading "Let the right one in" so far so good though only on chapter 2 haha also ordered a few more volumes of the sandman series very excited about that as vol.1 was awesome!!!

So what exactly is a life list???

So here's the post were it gets technical people, this is were we get down to the complex issues, the rationale behind the blog, you get the answer to the question on everyones lips...what exactly is a life list??

Ok so I'm hamming it up a bit there, but if you can't have some innocent melodrama from time to time what's the point? Anyways as you all no doubt know already a life list is just a much more positive slant on the bucket list concept. However a life list is a much more positive affair.
Bucket list = Things to do before I die
Life list = Things I want to do in the here and now to enhance my life (yeah it sounds cheesy as I said same concept different slant)

The idea of a life list came from a conversation with my friend Esther (we have a lot of conversations which usually end up in things happening usually involving food or cocktails or Nicolas Cage movies it's all good) and Esther was commenting about her life list (of which, incidentally, I have a copy but it is not mine to share peer pressure to start a twin blog has commenced in earnest). I was all "What's a life list?" and what followed was remarkably similar to the last paragraph. ANYWAYS during that particularly boring lecture (I can't even remember who took it so there will be no naming and shaming) I was very bold and I starting doing my own life list which is will share with you momentarily.

What I have found surprising though is that while the essence of my life list is the same when I typed it up, a good 6 months after having done the initial draft there were certain things I took out. Some of those were due to my change in diet (somehow the desire to make a perfect new york baked cheesecake isn't quite as strong when you are dairy intolerant funnily enough) well in fact any changes I did make we for this read heh. But another important point is I don't feel as if my list is complete. It's hard to explain as I can't think of anything more I want to put on it but I don't feel as if it contains everything I want to do. I thought about looking at other people's life lists but that really is just copying heh so I have decided my life list is not complete and can be added to whenever I discover something new I want to do. I'm only 25 so things are going to change as my life progresses I am going to (hopefully) come into contact with many new, unusual, interesting things in my life and hopefully these will go someway to shaping my life list.

Enough blabbering it's time for the money shot...what follows, my good people, is my (currently incomplete) life list. I will share with you my progress with the list with photographic evidence were appropriate (I'm thinking the picture of myself and esther on the top of a mourne mountain will not be very pretty, most likely be flushed and sweaty and one I am not will to put on a public domain such as this one!!!). Enjoy, feel free to comment and any suggestions will not go amiss (suggestion isn't a form of cheating right?)

LIFE LIST

Run marathon

Have a baby (or two or three)

Own my own house

Become a good/competent cook

Visit New Zealand

See the Northern Lights

Have my own vegetable patch

Make the perfect chocolate cake

Have a cosmopolitan in New York

Climb a mountain with Esther

Get another tattoo

Take a counselling course

Learn to knit

Watch Jaws

Visit Easter Island

Read “War and Peace”

Visit the Outer Hebrides

Own a cat

Own a dog

Grown strawberries and peas

Watch the Alien Triology

Watch Space Odessy 2001

Own chickens

Learn how to give a proper massage

Visit Japan during cherry blossom season

Try yoga √

Go surfing and stand up

Make a signature jam

Give blood

Learn how to play backgammon

See a production of “Wicked” on broadway

Cook a family Christmas dinner

Set up “Belfast Action on Street Health”

Make a tasty loaf of bread

Knit a cardigan

Knit a jumper

Knit a matching scarf and glove set

Own a sewing machine and make my own reusable bags

Design and make my own table cover and matching napkins

Learn baby massage

You were saying Esther???

So here I am on my day off placement and I was reading my friend Emma's blog and I thought back yesterday to a text conversation I had with my lovely friend Esther. We were discussing our life lists and Esther said we should start a blog, as it seems to be the thing to do these days. Anyways when reading Emma's blog I see a little link which says "MAKE YOUR OWN BLOG". So I looked at this link and I thought to myself "What else do I have to do that would prevent me from indeed making my own blog?". After I went through my mental check list of things to do I decided that making this blog would be both more exciting and fulfilling than hanging up the washing or doing some readings for my essays so I clicked on that link and here I am first post done YAY!

So here begins my blog about my life list and the adventures I go on completing this list. Right now I actually do have to go and get myself ready for yoga tonight, just in case I get a phone call from my mum saying she needs picked up and I'm sat blogging in my jeans, looking like I'm ready for a night out rather than a sweat session (Long story basically I had to get passport photos taken today so of course I had to straighten my hair and put make up on something I very rarely do but I plan to look back at this photo in ten years and not be embarrassed or caught up in how terrible my skin is etc) ANYWAYS sorry slight divergence from the point...what I am trying to say is that with my next blog I will explain what the term "Life list" means to me, share with you all my life list and then the adventure will begin.

xo