Alas I Cannot Swim

Ah! Currently procrastinating, big time. I'm trying (well, kinda - writing a blog post isn't really helping things if I'm honest) to prepare for a History assessment on theories as to who killed John F. Kennedy. To be honest, my inner geek is finding this kinda of interesting, but yeah, it's not really something which I'd choose to do. As well as that, school is kicking me in the arse at the moment, since I need to make a cake for Chemistry(!) to represent the structure of the earth. Seeing as my prowess in the kitchen leaves a lot to be desired, I'm trying to find really simple recipes on the internet to make a dome cake. Then I'm gonna have to get some supplies from Sainsbury's this weekend to try and do this and then make some prototypes and practice at the weekend, in time to make it for Wednesday! Envision dome cake with layers of different colours, etc. It could be a disaster, or I may actually make it into something half-decent, who knows? Also, I have a Physics test to revise for, which is just blah.

Anywho, I completely didn't imagine I could write about schoolwork so much - this is what procrastination does to you. Seriously. Anyway, I haven't got too much to say, I'll leave it to the weekend to say anything else. Here are some pictures from a few weeks ago, with the wicked NME edition with LAURA MARLING ON THE COVER. I love her so so so so so much, I'm her biggest fan. As well as her, she works with this amazing folk singer/songwriter, Johnny Flynn, who I am also a huge fan of. His songs are fantastic and just amazing. Check out his album, A Larum. It's been out a while, but never ceases to amaze me.





Also! I got a new laptop, since I shared one before, but now this one is practically mine. It's the Dell Inspiron 1545 and it's amazing! Whilst I don't particularly like Windows 7, it's alright as I've changed loads of settings so that it looks pretty much like Vista. I love it! Here are some more photos:





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Anyway, that's it for now - I'll try to post again this weekend, hopefully. Also, I've reached fifty followers, which is amazing so thank you! Happy Thursday - thank goodness it's Friday tomorrow! Happy blogging.

Chloe xxx

Thank you!

Hello, bloggers! Thank you all so much for the kind words on the previous post. It's incredibly reaffirming to hear that people actually take time out of their busy lives to read my various ramblings! I'm also really grateful to those who do seem to like my copious amounts of words. I liked the change of adding a few pictures that I like, but for the most part, I love writing lots and lots about my thoughts and feelings. If that wasn't the case, then I would have a tumblr rather than a blog! So yeah, thanks for the all the kind words, it's awfully nice of you! :)

With that speech out of the way, this week has been such a long week! Ridiculously long, since I've just been so tired from the lack of sleep, which is entirely different from my overdoing the sleep during the Easter holidays! Other than that though, this week has been pretty good. The weather has been so ridiculously sunny, I am in love with it! Here are some photos of me with the sun:

A great thing which happened to me this week was that my Louis Vuitton bag (first seen here), after being broken by an ex-friend, has now been fixed! It cost six pounds to get it fixed from Timpson's and I'm thoroughly pleased with it, as the strap had broken and I was just as heart-broken. That definitely brightened up my week in a way which I didn't know was possible.

This week, we also got back our results for Module 1a of Chemistry and Physics. I actually did better in Physics than Chemistry which turned out to be slightly annoying. I just got an A* with 45/50 in my Chemistry and then an A* in Physics with 47/50, which was a lot better than I thought I'd do. It's only 12.5% of my overall GCSE, but it's a start! I have some more exams in June though, so gotta start studying up for those, I guess! But yeah, I was relatively pleased and all is going well this week, I think.

Now it's the weekend, so I'm just gonna relax a little, do some Art and also need to do some revision for some upcoming tests in class. Yesterday, I went to my friend, Gabi's house, with my sister and we had great fun. We went to Caffé Nero and then chilled out, had pizza, sang songs, sat in the garden when it was sunny. I had a great Friday so yeah! Will post some pictures of that soon enough.

FINALLY, I received a blog award from Laura at A Fennel Designer! I am so grateful for this award and it's a great compliment as Laura is a great blogger and such a creative card-designer for her own company. Please go check her out, she's super talented!

I'm now going to nominate 10 other bloggers:

1. Mads at It's Okay To Procrastinate

2. Melissa at Waking In Wonderland

3. Jessica at Fascination Drop

4. Molly at My Name Is Yeh!

5. Marissa at Marissa Explains It All

6. Emma Jade at Daisy Chain Adventures

7. Jazmine at Tino'Mino Squared

8. Kirsty at Boo

9. Michelle at Michelle City

10. Poppy at Bears and Bunting

Hope you've all had a great week and best wishes for an equally great weekend! Happy blogging!

Chloe xxx

Romulus

So I've decided to cut down on the text in my posts, for a change! Lemme know if you prefer it or not - I'm undecided, as of yet.

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I love playing around with the effects on Picnik.com

Source: tumblr

Source: flickr

Also, here is a song, Romulus - Sufjan Stevens. This song was introduced to me by a friend and it's such a beautiful song, it's almost like a lullaby. I love it.


I'm pretty much dreading school and the multitude of impending tests that'll undoubtedly come with that. I'm sitting here watching Come Dine With Me after waking up at 3:30 today. Gotta be up early tomorrow for a day trip to Manchester to see some friends, so looking forward to that. And I'm gonna leave it here, for fear of an overload of words. Happy blogging!

Chloe xxx

Sigur Rós and Remember Me

The Easter holidays are nearly to an end, which is really such a depressing thought. I'm dreading the impending doom and gloom of school. But at the same time, I'm kinda looking forward to some sort of routine 'cause at the moment, it's been late nights and lie-ins, without doing much at all, really. Just mooching around the house, reading, listening to music and not much else constructive.

Anyway, back to the point in hand, I went shopping on Monday with my sister, mum and my mum's friend. We had a really good time, I didn't actually get anything apart from a pair of leggings from H&M, to replace my old ones which had rips and holes everywhere. We had a really good laugh and then we went to Druckers and I had a mocha coffee and a really lovely fruit pastry thing, with kiwis and strawberries and such. Then we went home and that was Monday.

Today, Wednesday, I went to the cinemas and also an impromptu session of bowling with friends. I walked to the cinema with my sister as it was a nice sunny day and I met with three other friends to see Remember Me. It was only the second time I've used Orange Wednesdays, but yeah, that was good. And I found Remember Me to be really good. Honestly, I was a little apprehensive as I do like the Twilight books, but I don't particularly like the films due to the screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, which I just really dislike.

But, I really did honestly love the film. I already knew the ending due to spoilers from friends, but this didn't stop me from crying at the end. I have since read some reviews and I greatly disagree with the apparently 'cheap' ending. It was a way of bringing something together, a story and then giving the actual feeling of togetherness. I think that the film dealt with a lot of issues to do with life, love and death and I honestly admire Rob Pattinson. He doesn't fit into the typical teenage heart-throb actor type, I dunno what it is, but I think he did a tremendous job. I haven't heard much of Emilie de Ravin either, but I think she was just brilliant, I loved her character of Allie. I seriously admire Ruby Jerins' role as Caroline Hawkins; she was the perfect sister to her troubled brother and I thought that her acting was incredibly talented for someone of such a young age. Pierce Brosnan did a good job and one of my favourite scenes was the one of the argument in the board room meeting. Just lots of emotions, lots of laughs and lots of tears. There was some sort of genuinity, some kind of truth in the film and I really loved it.

So that turned into a full on review of Remember Me, didn't it?! It wasn't intentional, but I really felt that it needed to be said. I don't usually gush over films so much, but er yeah, there you go!

Anyway, my day was really good, as I said earlier, we went to bowl and I won and I got a strike! We had some food too and then it was time to walk back home.

Overall, I had a really good day. I've just done nothing after that, just listened to music, watched QI and some cooking programmes. My evenings are really boring without any Masterchef anymore!

Also in the photos, I'm wearing a hand-me-down Gap denim jacket, £10 dress from Urban Outfitters, my sister's plimsolls and Ray Ban Clubmaster sunglasses

Also, the subject of this post is obviously "Sigur Rós and Remember Me" and that's basically it. The song Andvari is actually in the film and I love them both! So yeah, check Sigur Rós out, you won't be disappointed. :-)

Anyway, that's about it for now. I promise I have some inspiring photos, but I'm too lazy to upload and then do a blog post on it. Anyway, it'll come soon, I promise. That's about it, for students in England, enjoy the rest of your Easter break and for the rest of you, have a great rest of the week. Happy blogging!

Chloe xxx

I Speak Because I Can

Hello dear bloggers!

I love magazines. D'you know what I mean? I have a massive love for books and I absolutely love reading with a passion. I mean, I'd just be so happy with a book in my hand all the time. But there's something about magazines. Some are just so good, so insightful. The photos are amazing and some articles are so interesting. It's pretty easy to see why magazines and journalism are such successful industries. My favourite magazines have to be Elle, Grazia and Marie Claire, with a few Looks, Vogues and NME's dotted here and there.

Below, you will also find my wall, mostly adverts from said fashion magazines as well as a few music posters and stuff. One of my favourite posters is the light blue Hermes poster, it's so beautiful.

Also, just wanted to share this really beautiful video, Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie. I'm still in awe of it and I've repeatedly watched it about ten times now. The song is really beautiful too, Oren Lavie is an Israeli singer and really, just indescribable. I really can't describe it in words; just watch it!

"Some women choose to follow men and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."

I love the above quote!

Hope you're all having a wonderful Easter break! I'm having quite a good one, it's been slightly uneventful though, so planning on cinema and shopping soon. Also might be going to Manchester towards the end, but will have to see. I'm really loving the sunny weather, it's so lovely and I can't help but feel happier with the sun shining and not a raindrop in sight.

I'll hopefully have a few photos that I saved from random places and also some catwalk favourites of mine. So amidst the revision that is about to go under way, I'll definitely make sure that I find some time!

Happy blogging!

Chloe

Easter

It's the Easter holidays..! We broke up on Thursday 1st, but having been the busy bee that I am (or I like to think I am), I haven't really had a chance to post.

So anyway, as I said, we broke up for Easter at 1 pm for a half day. I went to my friend, Abi's house for a sleepover with my sister, Christy, Abi and Lucy. We had a hilarious bus journey with some guys in the year below...
"What's your name?" "Osama" "Bin Laden?" "Yeah" "How you bin laden?"
"Pete Pete Pete Pete... yeah!" to the Beatles' song, 'Drive My Car'!

After that, we got to Abi's house and chilled out, eating crisps and drinking Coke. Then we just lounged around, took some pictures, got changed, listened to lots of music and did nothing else, really. Then we braved the cold and rainy English weather to walk down to the shops and buy some food and snacks. We decided to do this in "style" with our umbrellas and sunglasses for the irony, since it wasn't sunny in the slightest. After slicing my finger on the plastic wrapper of the ice lollies, we headed back. Then we chilled out some more and then we had dinner. Chips and burgers and salad. Then dessert which was Arctic Roll and cheeeesecake. I love food. Then we dressed up to take Abi's dog for a walk, which was also a lot of fun. Then we chilled and then slept.

On Friday, my mum came to pick my sister and I up and then we went to our friend's house. We had a mini adventure and ordered pizza, then went to pick it up and then went to Sainsbury's for Ben & Jerry's cookie dough and cake. We had such a great laugh and it was such a good day. On Saturday, I basically just chilled out, not really doing much and just letting the weekend swallow me up into a sleep-induced stupor.

Then on Easter Sunday, my aunt, her boyfriend, my gran and some family friends, including their adorable children, came round and we all had a really nice dinner, really good food, great company. It was such a good day and all of this has been such a great start to the Easter holidays!











Above is a photo that I took from the window, which I kinda like.

Hope you're all having a wonderful Easter break and make the most of it while you can! Happy blogging.

Chloe