Things I've Learned From My Mum

It's Mothers Day, a day to appreciate everything your mum has ever done for  you - although this should be a daily thing! Here are a few things I've learnt over the years.

1 - How to be a fighter!

My mum is the biggest fighter I know, everything she goes through on a daily basis with her illness is crazy but here she is still fighting. She is the strongest person I know and it gives me the strength to continue with the problems I have. Without her strength there to inspire me I don't know what I would do.

2 - How to be cool as fuck.

My mum is the coolest person I know, she likes punk music, she is the most laid back mum and listens to Slipknot on a Sunday morning. Me, her and my brother all went to see Linkin Park together soon, who even does that as a family outing!? If I was half as cool as her I'd be balling.

3 - How to cook mac n cheese.

That's all I really need to know, AM I RIGHT?! YES.

4 - That she was a much bigger catch than I ever will be.

The stories she tells me from her teenage years make me slightly envious because she had really cool boyfriends...I had a boyfriend once. Lolz. But thanks for choosing my dad though, he's aite.

5 - How to literally do anything because mums CAN DO ANYTHING.

If I said to my mum "how do I wrap this present while cooking a meal while being on the phone while sorting out world peace?" my mum would PROBZ know the answer, mums can do everything…how?! They just know how to do everything, weird, that's some alien shit.

That's just a few little things, I hope you're all having a beauts Mothers Day with your mums! Or with anyone in your family for that matter.

Bye-ya. x

The Book Of Everyone Review

Hiiiiiii everyone!

The lovely people over at The Book Of Everyone sent me a really cool product as it is Mothers Day coming up.

The book is customisable where you put the name of the person you want to give the gift to and their date of birth, it then generates really cool facts about their birth year and facts about their lives depending on how old (or young) they are! It's actually super interesting and I can't wait to give it to my mum this mothers day.

There is parts of the book where you add your own little touch to make it even more personal when making it which is really nice! 

I think this gift is really cute and unique! And in my opinion beats a bunch of flowers, this is a gift that someone can keep forever and find out fun facts about themselves. 

If you'd like to get one you can go over to the The Book Of Everyone website, it's the perfect present for any birthday/occasion! 

(p.s. Sorry mum here's your prezzie for this year… SURPRISE) 

Valentines Day Is Approaching!

Hiiiiii guys, it's that time of year again where all the loners of the world come together to spit on everyone in luv, I feel you - not really, I'm not bothered at all and definitely DID NOT practically beg for someone to send me a V-tines day card the other night when I was very merry, definitely not.

Last year I did a post about all the things you could do as an alternative to being with someone on Valentines day which you can read here! But this year I'm going to make you even more emo and look at some marriage proposal videos lolzzz.

The lovely people over at Two Little Fleas contacted me with a whole bunch of marriage proposals that'll make you super emo that no one is proposing to you at this very moment. Check them out down below if you please and wallow in self pity, just like we love to do at this time of year.


View original version (via Two Little Fleas).

Personally, my favourite is number 10 because it's crazy cheesy and I'm laughing so hard right now. (I'm so sorry)

Which one is your favourite?

I'd quite like to be proposed to with a pizza and a bottle of pepsi max but that's an absolute lie I hope the guy goes all out and it's super magical but I'll keep waiting.

Have a v merry Valentines day next week!

BIG FAT SIGH.

I'm totally sighing at life right now. I've been absolutely fine for the past few weeks, I returned to London and my mind went back on itself and bummed me out.

You see, when I was little my dream was to live in London and work at a magazine - I'm now 19 and a half and have no idea really what I want anymore and it's infuriating. It's annoying not knowing whether to take the plunge and drop out of university tomorrow or stick with it and stay being miserable.

I'm 19, of course I'm going to change my mind about my life plan but it's a shame because I was so certain all this time what I wanted. 80% of me wants to just get on with life, stop messing around with education that could or could not pay off and just start living. Start earning a living, save up for a place of my own, learn to drive etc etc. What am I actually doing? Stressing about semester 2, sitting in my university room bored out of my head and have no real plan of what I want anymore.

Is this normal? To be totally unsure of my whole entire life?

I'M AN EMO MESS.

I hate the fact that I'm trying super hard to stay positive but no one is seeing that, it's just hard to fight it sometimes. It's hard to stay positive when you worked your arse off last semester and received not much to show for it, but that is literally the story of my life in education. I've always worked really hard but in reality I'm just not the best academic writer on Earth so it never seems to pay off in a good way for me, it just leaves me feeling disappointed in myself with a list of criticisms that aren't constructive in the slightest.

Everyone makes out they're preparing you for education but they're not, high school never prepared us for what sixth form chucked at us and sixth form never, EVER prepared us for what university was about to throw at us. Everyone said it would be way easier than sixth form which is THE funniest thing I think any teacher has ever said to me, the only good thing to come out of this is me making loads of amazing new friends and becoming independent - although, I kinda gave up on cooking real meals and went straight to sandwiches within like a month.

No one ever prepares you for the uncertainty that makes you feel like a total failure to yourself and everyone else, to doubt your decisions is a horrible feeling because it makes you feel like you're wasting everyones time and more importantly your own time. No one ever prepares you for how lonely you'll feel sometimes when you're laying in silence in your bedroom for hours on end. No one ever tells you that you're going to question your entire life decisions and then be completely stumped about what you actually want to do and feel super alone with these thoughts. The worst part is you just don't want to disappoint anyone, but to me I'm disappointing myself but letting myself get more and more bummed out and not being able to snap out of it.

Tell me if you've ever felt like this so I feel a little less alone with this…

Recovery.

Hi guys, gonna get serious on this mother. I will always say mental illness is one of the most important talking points, to keep it alive and don't let it slide under the carpet because it's important that people get better.

About a month ago I started to process of finally getting better, I'm still having to fight certain aspects of it like the food etc, but all in all I'm just simply getting better. I'm finally starting to feel okay in every day life, it feels weird and new because really I'm not used to feeling okay. I spent so much time being sad that I forgot what it was like to spend a day simply feeling okay.

I somewhat feel like my mind was fighting with me to not get better all this time and to stay living within the diagnosis of depression and stuff. To stay being miserable and hating life everyday but now I've finally started to kick it all away and I AM RECOVERING.

I feel weird saying I'm in recovery but I am, I'm finally getting a life that I've let myself miss out on and I'm finally seeing the world in a different way. I haven't had half as many days where I just want to lay in bed in silence since I started the process. That's so weird for me because those days would occur so often, more and more so as time went on. But I don't want to give in to that anymore.

I'm still struggling in certain ways but I'm hoping my inner strength will help me get through that and the amazing support of my family and friends.

Choose to recover because it is the best thing in the world. Make this year the year you leave that life behind and get the one back that you deserve.

My Hair Dilemma.

Hellloo! Been a while hasn't it, but quite frankly I've been enjoying doing absolutely nothing - oops. But something I did do was BLEACH MY HAIR.

Okay, I've wanted to dye my hair blonder for a really long time and after much consideration I was like screw it let's bleach my hair. So off I went to Boots and I purchased some products from 'Bleach London'. Total Bleach, White Toner and the Silver Shampoo and Conditioner (click for prices).

So I'm not a massive risk taker especially when it comes to my hair so this was a massive risk, my plan was to use Bleach Londons colours on my hair and be super cool - I'm not by any means cool in any way so THAT'S A DIFFICULT TASK.

It went so bright as you can see above. So, so bright. Almost too bright, I was shocked because it looked so damn weird! And in that moment I was like NOPE, and there I hibernated until I went to the hairdressers on Monday to sort an appointment for today (Wednesday). I was comparing myself to Eminem in his Slim Shady days, the sun, the light at the end of the tunnel and my yellow kitchen walls. In some lights it looked really nice and white it was cool!

There's no denying it's a sweet product, it goes on so well and leaves your hair feeling super nice which after reading a lot about other bleaches this is a massive plus of the product! It just didn't look cool on me, I'm not cool enough to pull off the grunge look Bleach London give off, although I very much wish I was. But if you're looking to buy it and try it then go for it! You can always dye it back, which is what I've done. I'll continue to use Bleach London's reconstruction mask, it is unreal, so nice!

Today I got it dyed back to almost my natural colour/a little bit darker and it's showing me that actually I might like it a little darker all the time it makes my skin look clear, is that weird?

I feel SO much better now and I'm out of my 5 day long hibernation that went on with my light bulb hair, haha! 

Have you ever bleached your hair and it not turned out the way you wanted?! Let me know, this has been a disastrous week! 

Goodbye 2014!

Oh, 2014, don't leave me. This year has been the most mentally challenging year of my life without question, from previous years I didn't think I could get any worse but this year proved me wrong. I have gone on the biggest roller coaster ride of my life, although mentally challenging this year has been the most fun and life changing! 

I've done so much, I've left home, I've learnt how to look after myself, I've travelled from my home to Sheffield, to Reading and London all on my own, I've been to many a gig (mostly 5 Seconds of Summer) and met the Australians lots of times too which of course is always nice.

I wanted to make a post about every single month and everything I've done but that would probably bore you, just know that this year I've done a lot of stuff I never thought I would do. I've grown as a person, I turned 19 and for the first time felt like an adult when it came to me having to buy my own weekly food shopping and having to cook my own dinner. I can't really believe I left home and went to University, I never thought I'd have the guts. 

I have met so many new people and also kept the same old pals. My group of friends from school are still here and we're still going strong, we're going to Scotland next year which will be ace. I've made even more friends through 5 Seconds of Summer which is cute as and then I've made friends from all around the world because of uni, it's quite beautiful.  

I am excited to start 2015 and want to really get better mentally, this year could be even better than 2014 and that is going to be hard to beat. LET'S DO IT. 

Have a happy new year! 

Blogmas: Day Eighteen.

Hiiiiyaaa, bit of a late one today! I've had an extremely tough day mentally, you know with mental illnesses you hit a wall sometimes and that was today. I just realised for the millionth time what I was doing to myself and others, I feel dreadful but it's upwards from here.

On a brighter note I spent the morning in town with my mum, I just love spending time with her she is my favourite person on Earth and I hope she knows that! I came back, had a nap (oops) I literally have no excuse for these naps, they really need to stop but they're just so damn good. My dreams were nuts though.

I then decided to delay more Christmas baking until tomorrow with the cutters my mum bought me today and to do some wrapping instead!

The stamps made their debut and my gifts really do look quite cute, I'll show you them all once they're finished but for now they're in the production line. I'm using the wrapping paper from Waterstones, the gifts tags etc from Paperchase and the stamps are from The Range!

I've never been so creative in my life, I feel good about it! ONE MORE WEEK TO GO.

How are you, how was your day?!

Blogmas: Day Seventeen!

Hiiiyaaa! Day 17, woweeee one week until Christmas eve! YAAY. So excited.

Todays plan was to go to Tescos and buy ingredients to make sugar biscuits and gingerbread trees, so off I went and on my way back I realised I'd forgotten the cutters you know that will actually make the shapes…so I went back with these heavy bags full of flour and sugar and nope, no cutters to be seen, thank you so much Tescos.

So I went home, my mum being the genius she is cut me out a Christmas tree shape and I then improvised and made crappy looking Christmas shortbreads from my mums old high school recipe book!

They actually turned out okay, considering I freehanded all the 'snowmen' and those things aren't nipples, they are meant to be baubles… meant to be.

I just wanted to do something productive today! I've spent the past few days having an afternoon nap and it's so annoying, but even as I write this I want to fall asleep - this sparks off my anxiety which I'm trying to fight incredibly hard today, trying to avoid saying and thinking negative things about myself and my health but it's just so hard!

But anyway, these shortbread are nice for a quick little activity to do!

What have you been up to today?

x

Blogmas: Day Sixteen!

Hello world!

I had a fairly productive day today (with yet another nap, my mum makes the house so warm and toasty it's hard to resist an afternoon nap.)

So I woke up this morning, opened my advent calendar and if you've been reading my blogmas posts from day 1 you'll know that the jokes inside haven't impressed me v much, but today was a different story, I was pleased. Well done, Malteasers.

I had a nice, refreshing walk into town and I thought I saw four meteors or four UFO's, I'm not sure but I was freaking the frick out guys. 

I've really missed being able to have relaxing walks, in London it's a fight. Although today I did nearly have a couple of fights - one in Burtons with an old lady with a trolley thing, she was rude and I was about to flip my lid then another in Marksies, everyone was simply getting on my tits and it was all old ladies. Now I love old people, old people rule but today they were on a rampage! 

I pretty much finished my Christmas shopping although I think I might have spent more on the wrapping paper etc. than the actual presents but who could even possibly help themselves when their creative mind wants to be set free! 

A few bits I bought for wrapping my Christmas presents today! Tissue paper and tags etc. from Paperchase and a 10m roll (woah) of brown paper from Waterstones. 

I also went to The Range and got some ink and stamps to jazz it all up, gosh I am loving Christmas this year. I think I'm going to spend Friday wrapping all my presents and making them look cute.

Tomorrow I'm going to walk to Tescos and get some bits to make gingerbread men or some shortbread, or generally anything Christmassy that I can bake so I'm going to spend the night looking for some recipes yay! 

My anxiety is through the roof but whats new, sometimes I think I should've just given in and gone to counselling but I know in my head I am strong enough to get over it but eh, sometimes you just hit a rough patch. 

Anyway, how was your day? Let me know!

Byyyeee

x 

Blogmas: Day Fourteen!

I'm still lacking on the super Christmassy posts which is making my blogmas seem like boremas but I've got lots planned to do leading up to the big day so stick with me, please!

This morning I went out and about with my parents just like I used to before I moved away and saw my beautiful little cousin who was kitted out in the cutest tartan skirt, AGH. 

I'm going out for dinner with my friend later for a long overdue catch up which shall involve revealing all of my tragic university stories haha. I'll update you later!

Okay, it's now super late my apologies! I went out for dinner and had a lovely catch up with one of my best friends Shanice. It was really nice, we went to Frankie and Bennys and I had a bbq chicken pitta and a pancake for dessert, my bad body image mind is hating me enormously right now but in all of my positivity I'm trying to fight it and remember that Christmas time is a time for happiness and stuff, so I'm trying my best to remember that I deserve to enjoy nice food whether my mind wants me to or not. ANYWAY, mental illness recovery aside - we had a lovely catch up and it reminded me how beauts it is to have a friendship where we can go months without speaking but then get together and it's like we've never been apart, Shazzaniqua united 5evz.

Tomorrow I'm going to have some quality time with my mum, perhaps see some friends and sort out my plans for the week!

I hope you had a nice day, byyyyeee. xx 

Blogmas: Day Thirteen!

Currently 8 am and TODAY IS THE DAY. I'M GOING HOME. QUICK, I'm about to break out into the going home song from Radio 1. Currently listening to Driving Home For Christmas, I'm just sat in my bedroom so you know being a little bit ahead of myself but I'm just so excited!

I'm meeting my parents at the South Bank to look at the Christmas market then we're getting all my stuff and I'll be going home for 5 weeks GAH. Mums prepared a mac and cheese for me too, what a gal.

I've been listening to Michael Bubles Christmas album, I know I keep going on about Christmas (it's Blogmas, this is acceptable) but I'm so stoked this year, the past few years have just been like eh but being away I think has made me appreciate everything, life and everyone so much more. I can't wait for the day, I can't wait to buy and create the gifts I'm getting people this year, it's going to be weird and different with my brother living elsewhere for the first time but as long as I've got my mum and dad that's okay. I'll just get a cardboard cut out of my brother and pretend he's not only 5 minutes up the road.

I AM HOME, it's 6pm and I spent the day with my mum and dad going round my grandparents and stuff, saw my beautiful little cousin who I just adore! It was a nice day but now I'm in my cosy house which is basically Santas grotto right now - mum did a good job, as per.

I'm really happy to be away from high rise buildings and being able to see the sun setting again, I've honestly learnt to love things like that now, I never used to appreciate sun sets and sun rises but when I was at my lowest point mentally this year I started to love aspects of life that I never used to. 

Ah well, I hope you've had an equally as nice day as me and I shall see you tomorrow! 

x x 

Blogmas: Day Ten!

Hiiiiiyaaa, how are we into double figures?! That means just 15 days until Christmas, I wish I was the man from The Grinch who does the countdown on the  clock, he seems like a great guy.

Last night we had our flat Christmas dinner and secret santa gift swapping! The dinner was a great success I must say, me and Molly used our initiative after I was super emo about having no pigs in blankets (how is it a Christmas dinner without?!) so we made our own and I felt like I had transformed into my nannie. We had stuffing, carrots, chicken and potatoes alongside the pigs in blankets and it was very nice! Oh, and a massive jug of gravy, possibly too big… 

Look at that jug of gravy, holy hell. 

Me and Molly had each other for secret santa how cute, I got her an eye mask that says 'Fuck Off' from Urban Outfitters and she got me a book full of Nutella recipes because since we moved in I've always had a jar of Nutella and one time they all shoved their fingers in it and it was an awful day. But the present was very sweet and I can't wait to make some of them! 

I was meant to go to class today but I didn't (oops) I felt awful this morning after my extreme lack of sleep so to refresh myself I went for a walk instead, got too Covent Garden and realised I was still too tired to walk any further so I got some mince pies from Marksies and came back to my flat. I just had a cup of tea with a mince pie to continue my extreme Christmas-ness. 

Now I'm going to go over my essays, potentially submit them tomorrow??!!! Then I can start packing my stuff up for going home on Saturday, PRAISE THE LORD.

Have a lovely day guys! 

x x 

Blogmas: Day Nine! 5SOS Edition.

Hiiiiiiyaaaa from a very dazed and confused Shannon!

Last night I (stupidly) slept outside Radio 1 like the crazy mother I am, 5SOS are back in the country and of course my life goes up the shitter and all hell breaks loose. It was so cold, it was a very stupid decision but the things you do for Australians. I mean it was SO cold, like deadly cold. This morning we go barrier and met the lovely lads, they are honestly my favourite people on Earth (apart from my mum, dad and brother) and even though Michael was absent it was still lovely to see the rest of them.

I haven't seen them in any form since July, I mean I'd always take a gig over meeting them but at this point I would've taken any opportunity because there was a big 5 Seconds of Summer shaped hole in my heart.

Luke and Calum were nice as per, it was cold though they weren't bouncing off the walls. BUT ASHTON. Oh good lord, see heres the thing with Ashton - since I met them at Warped Tour last year me and Ashton have always just had a sweet little thing. Every time he sees me he recognises me or looks at me like he knows who I am but can't quite put his finger on it and it's just very lovely. Today he looked at me and with wide eyes was like "Hello! it's so good to see you, how are you?!" and I was like "awww I know it's been so long hasn't it" and he said aw and patted me on the arm like we were old pals and it WAS SO FRICKEN CUTE. Honestly, it made my day because he never, ever fails to make me smile. He's just so polite and thoughtful for remembering every single time, he means what he says and that's just sweet.

My pictures are dreadful, I am Rudolph in human form and my face was puffy as balls but here are the pictures.

After all that I slept for 3 hours and now feel like absolute dogs bollocks oh my god. But we're having our flat Christmas meal tonight, cute! Although we have no pigs in blankets, so it's like hmm…what does one even do about that situation. I'll let you know how that went tomorrow!

For now, I hope you have a good 9th December! 

Byyyyeee xxx 

Blogmas: Day Eight!

Hiiiiii! (The 8 is a snowman how cute, that is the cutest thing I've ever seen in my whole life.)

Blogmas is going to be so much better once I return home on Saturday and can do a lot more Christmassy stuff! I wanna do some baking or something, that'd be nice.

Currently it's 10am and I have a test today (which I'm very unprepared for due to my sleepless weekend and another sleepless night that is to come tonight, blegh) and also a sort of presentation but not really, FUN. Can't wait! But once they're out of the way I just have to submit my essays and I'm done for the semester, and I shall strut out of this student accommodation like BYE. But no, I'm going to miss my pals a lot over the holidays it's going to be odd.

Once again I'm going to update this throughout the day…I'm going to make that a thing, do people do that? I feel like my approach to blogging is a lot different to other peoples. Mine is boring? Or humorous? I don't know. And it's very mismatched and weird - just like my life lolz.

Okay it's almost midday and I'm kinda nervous for this test agh, then I have a presentation but it's not really a presentation I don't know what it is but I know I haven't written any notes or whatever to speak about it! CRAP. BALLZ.

It's just gone 7pm now and I had my tests etc, all was okay - emphasis on the okay -  but now I'm set for a long night (I shall let you know why tomorrow) I'm tired just thinking about it.

One day closer to going home, one day closer to Christmas!

Mum sent me a picture of the tree, agh I can't wait!

How has your day been?! Please do let me know!

Blogmas: Day Five!

Hiiiiii!

I slept through my alarm, I have nothing to be up for (my TV is also still not working, heartbreak Shannon) but I like getting up at a good time, sleeping in sucks.

Last night I went with a friend to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in Londons West End and it was honestly so much better than I thought it would be. The acting was good, the songs were good, the staging was good - everything was good! It was just way better than I thought and it reminded me how much I love musicals and I now want to make a thing of going as much as I can, but I'm not made of money.

We walked through Covent Garden and all Christmas awards go to Covent Garden for making me feel truly Christmassy. Good Lord, it looked beautiful everywhere! So much so that I might take a walk down there today just for something to do and to get really emo about Christmas once again, if you're going to London or live in London and haven't been to see all the decorations then you must!

I might do some more Christmas shopping today, or simply leave it until I get back home (8 DAYS OH MY GOD) 

We're out in London tonight for our friends birthday, I've got a super busy weekend ahead but it should be fun, I think all my work is done for uni but not totally but just about and that's good enough for me! 

Have a beauts 5th of December everyone x 

Blogmas: Day Three!

Morning! The day hasn't even begun and I'm not feeling very festive at all, I'm extremely aggravated at the whole entire world - I might scream.

One of my uni submissions is today and I'm worried it's just utter balls, I'll probably post the links on here eventually. My television isn't working, yup not the end of the world there's more important things going on but hellLLOOOO I LOVE TV!? It's my number one comfort thing, even when I'm not paying any attention I have to have the TV on just to feel less…alone? I don't know, I've just always been the same. I love wasting electricity.

There's still a hundred and one things to do before the 12th December and I don't know how to write essays they are just super balls, I feel sick and need to just hibernate BUT I CAN'T.

I desperately want to go Christmas shopping, or write Christmas cards, anything that'll make me feel all warm and happy because right now I feel stressed and cold hearted like I could burn your soul with my icey heart - that was SO deep.

Anyway, I woke up to yet another amazin' joke. It's almost as funny as my life.

This was a very annoying post and I hope you have a very lovely day, I also hope mine dramatically improves.

See you tomorrow. 

x 

Blogmas: Day Two!

Hiiiiyaaa!

It's day two of Blogmas, I opened my advent calendar to a very corny joke and I have to endure 22 more of these, lord help. As you can see, I was less than impressed and I do appreciate a good joke in my life but you know…

Then I was like "oh, a boot" nope, it was a train okay but whatever it tasted delicious. 

I didn't sleep until like 3am last night, my flat mate Sanna fell asleep on my bed for almost four hours so I was almost forced to start planning one of my essays - she should fall asleep on my bed more often, it's great motivation to do work as I simply cannot sleep.

I was watching Phillip Schofield do his 24 hour Text Santa marathon on ITV 3, I love the Schofe what an absolute legend, he's one of my 'heroes' I have to say. I love television, I want to work in television and he is like the king of TV haha. It was really cool to watch, he kept it real as per and you can donate if you'd like here! I'm not going to lie it actually made me feel super Christmassy, it was nice!

I'm now going to go on a walk, treat myself for having such a productive morning of cleaning and uploading work etc. Then I'm going to get on with my essay - woo.

I don't know where I'm going with this whole blogmas thing, I need to find some really cute festive stuff online to write about, that's a plan!

Blogmas: Day One!

Hiiiiii!

I've seen many people doing this as taking inspiration from the YouTube trend of 'Vlogmas' - this is Blogmas, a post every day until Christmas/the whole of December, we'll see how this goes.

I'm not very good at keeping on track with blog posts and especially with my deadline filled life right now, it's all super hectic but I'll give it a go because I'm in the super Christmas spirit. And check out my fancy font up there, wowweeee hello xmas.

This post isn't very festive at all, but we'll try and make future ones rather festive as I have a few things planned over the next few weeks!

Right now I feel like utter balls, one thing I'll tell you about university is that you just get ill all the damn time and me with my health anxiety I'm convinced I'm dying - great. But I'm trying my best to ignore it all.

I went for Nandos tonight with a few of my friends from uni and I am still in a food coma 2 hours later, thank you @god for chicken and peri peri salt on chips, you did so good.

Okay, well I shall see you tomorrow and let's see if I can stick to my word and do this - if anyone has any Christmassy tags that you think would be good to do, or any tags in general or challenges WHATEVER then please send them my way!

Bye, have a nice evening x x

15 Festive Favourites: IT'S (ALMOST) CHRISTMAAAAS.

Hiiiiii! It's kinda, almost Christmas so I wanted to get into the spirit and after watching Tom Fletcher from McFly's v festive video I thought I'd join in (but not on video, I'm not at that level) here we go!

1. Festive food
Pigs in blankets rule so hard and so do parsnips, one year I think my mum forgot to put the parsnips on and I honestly thought Christmas was ruined. Not really, I could never be mad on Christmas even in such a parsnip disaster.

2. Reindeer 
Rudolph is the man.

3. Day of Christmas 
8, 8 mades a milking, weird but free milk in my eyes. NOT LITERALLY IN MY EYES BUT… YOU KNOW.

4. Christmas song
Last Christmas by Wham! When G Michael falls over in the snow in the videos thats when you know Christmas has truly arrived.

5. Christmas present 
I really love all the prezzies me and my brother get in our sacks every year, it's like the best part but he's moved out now so I shall be doing that all alone this year and I'm quite sad about this tradition ending.

6. Christmas film
The Grinch or Elf, I actually really love Christmas with the Kranks and the Santa Clause movies… I LOVE THEM ALL BYE.

7. Christmas cracker toy
A pen, not a toy, but essential.

8. Christmas cracker joke 
None, they all suck sorry bye.

9. Decoration 
We have a really sweet Disney wreath that we've put up every year and I love it.

10. Candle scent 
Cinnamon and apple IS Christmas.

11. Christmas advert 
Coca cola! My dad without fail every year says "funny, saw the coke advert… swear it's meant to be on after Christmas" and I have no idea why he says it but the first time he was dead serious, he's a special one.

12. Festive tradition 
Not a general one but a personal one, it's the way we open our presents, when we were younger it would take hours because my dad says for example "this present is for Shannon love from Nannie" or something then you sit and watch and go on to the next present and I LOVE IT.

13. Place to spend Christmas
Morning and dinner at home, evening at my Nannie and Grandads, boxing day with my Nannie. Always the same, if it's ever different I throw a tantrum.

14. Festive fact 
Yellow snow is really gd.

15. Snowman accessory 
Carrot nose, so ace, I wish I had a carrot nose.

There you go, do this yourself! Get in the mood for Christmas yaaaay.