5 things i'd like to happen/ do this summer...

I know it's still a few months away till summer but for me it begins end of may when I move back to Essex for more than three months. I'm hoping all of these five things will happen, but who knows...

1) Go to Bournemouth in June to meet my housemates and celebrate our birthdays. Emily's on the 6th, mine the 9th and Jaz's the 13th. I'm extremely excited to go and and just get genuinely shit faced as I don't even want it to be my birthday... but if I'm going to celebrate it's going to be with my favourite people.

2) I WANT A TAN. As I'm now a student a holiday is pretty much out of the picture. I was planning to go to Spain with my family but realised at Christmas that there was no way in hell I could afford it. Therefore I would like England to be hot enough to catch a tan this summer.

3) I would like to see all my family and friends that I haven't seen in a while due to my absence. I'm very close to my family, miss them all the time and I miss meeting with friends I went to school/ college with. Just because alot of us live away from Essex now, doesn't mean we should loose contact.

4) Bit cheese but I would enjoy a little summer romance. Considering the population of men in Winchester is pretty slim, would be nice to be taken on a date or two when I'm home. Just a bit of fun, nothing serious.

5) I would like to exercise more/ eat healthier foods. Since I started uni I've eaten too much chocolate, frozen pizza's and pasta. I want a diet where I wake up and actually feel good about my weight, or the way I look.

Easter break... so far.

Whilst the first week was a complete depressing disaster, the Easter break has actually got more interesting as the days have gone by.
Week 1.
Basically everyone went home, I was an emotional wreck and got threw the week with a bottle of baileys, many packs of hula hoops and my two favourite men. Ben & Jerry. Winchester was a ghost town, hardly a student in sight... I spent most of the week painting then repainting my nails, watching many Disney films and watching life pass by.
Week 2.
Dramatic change. Road tripped to Essex with my one and only meatball to be greeted by my adorable sister and loving family. The five days resulted in one manic night out in Southampton that ended in a visit to a crummy chicken shop and a train journey at half 4 in the morning. STANDARD. We also had a few shopping trips and another night out in the wonderful basildon. In fact it was a pretty awkward night as we were pretty much the only straight people in the club, but what really got me about that night was the stupid MacDonald's man not giving me change... me of course being too drunk to realise. All in all, Essex was awesome and I miss it again already.
Saturday night was lovely. Travelled to Portsmouth to see our close housemate Emily. We then all went out in gumwarf and met some of the lovely guys I met on holiday last year. Was a blast, definitely would visit Portsmouth again!
Week 3.
So I'm half way through Easter now and I'm getting alot of work hours to save so hopefully I can go to America next year.
Will try and blog more often but for now...
Here's my number, so call me maybe.

Awk night in NYNY Bazvegas.

Guilty pleasures.

Everyone has a hobby/something they like to do in their free time. I must admit, between work and studying I am a facebook addict. Most people my age are, it's a generation thing. Here's a few thing I like to do when I'm bored or stressed.

Draw. I can't draw free hand whatsoever but I enjoy copying drawing's from the Internet or drawing character's from children's programmes to give to my sister. I find it relaxing and once I've finished a piece, like I've achieved something.

I enjoy listening to old music. I'm not talking ancient music, just music my family grew up with like Frankie Valli, madness, Kate bush things like that. It reminds me of home, and when I feel homesick, tends to comfort.

When I'm bored I snack alot. My downfall is bread. My housemates take the mick for this. I've cut down alot but I love bread, especially crusty bread mmmmmm.

I'm a nosey person, so if there's an argument on facebook or any gossip I tend to have a read, your not human if you don't!

Apart from the genius draw something app I've become addicted to another called pow-word. Sounds sad, and it is really. You just get given a bunch of numbers and have to make as many words in the time limit as you can. It's almost impossible but I have done it once, and still can't stop playing it.

The saddest one of them all, only happened recently but I enjoy the occasional, casual drink by myself. AND WHAT?

Pitcher at the pub (not by myself fortunately).

My 10 petty hates.

There's alot of things that bug me in life, but I thought I'd mention the 10 things I hate most, you might think I'm weird after reading them but to me they make me cringe more than watching American pie with your parents.

1: I hate it when people explain every detail of their life on facebook. Nobody wants to know how your cats just woke up or that your boyfriend has size 10 feet. It's unnecessary. When people express how depressed they are it just makes me feel depressed.

2: When people take forever to text back. I always carry my phone so I pretty much text back within 5 minutes, but especially when it's a question, don't leave me hanging!

3: May sound a tad strange but I hate belly buttons, I even cringe when typing it. I will never understand why people get their bellies out when they aren't at the beach. No need, we don't want to see your gross dent in your stomach where it looks like your skins eating itself. MINGING.

4: I hate fake people. Yes I'm from Essex, not every ones fake there though. It's the layer upon layer of make up and the stupid amount of perfume that just makes people smell like a department store I cant stand. Also when people pretend they're someone they aren't = fake. Naturally beauty is alot more attractive trust me.

5: When people sleep through an alarm and don't snooze. This has only started bugging me since uni, but is so god damn annoying. I have an international roommate next to me and every morning he takes forever to turn off his alarm therefore waking up the entire flat. Snooze was invented for a reason, jeez.

6: Public displays of affection. It sounds like I hate people alot. I don't, I couldn't care less about people hugging, holding hands, it's when I'm trying to eat my Gregg's sausage roll and there's a game of tonsil tennis going on right in my face. There's a time and a place okay!

7: When people say they're fat/ ugly when they clearly aren't. Just draws more attention to themselves, makes me think 'you're an idiot' not sympathetic whatsoever.

8: People who don't get hangovers. Everyone does! I don't see how you can't really. Stop lying just admit you have a pounding head and want to curl up into a ball and die, okay?

9: Seeing each other. I've been there, everyone has. Truth is I hate it. What is seeing someone anyways?  You're together or you aren't, simples.

10: I hate tacky carry ons of films. Grease two? Mean girls two? Bring it on again? All a pile of shite. your never going to make a good second film if you replace the original actors with poor unknown peasants.

Now to conclude my petty hates, rant over!

The picture's totally irrelevant but it shows the four stages of life. My mum sent it to me once and I couldn't agree more.

Being 18

My 18th

Me Das next to me, Harv in the front.

In two months time, I'll no longer be 18. What a scary thought! I can honestly say this has been the best year of my life and wish I could stay 18 forever. My birthday consisted of a three day celebration clubbing, partying, drinking and eating alot of cocktail sausages. My family threw me the best party, one I'll never forget. Summer 2011 was definitely one to remember. I went on my first cruise with my nan and grandad to Spain, France and Italy. The highlight of that holiday was definitely eating the best pizza in Rome I've ever tasted. I also partook in the embarrassing leaning pose next to the tower of Pisa and witnessed the wonderful Monte Carlo Casino. Shortly after the cruise I went on my first holiday without my family to the nightlife resort Play de Las Americas in Tenerife. WOW. Unfortunately I'm no longer in contact with who I went with, bit of a long awkward story, but met some lovely guys who I still speak to now. YES JAMES DAS AND HARVEY RALSTON I'm talking about you. They taught me one of the best lines I'll carry through life with me...
Someone call the vet, because these swans are siiiiiiiiiiiiiiick.

The best/worst part of the year was having to move out and leave my family. I enjoy the Independence but miss them so much sometimes, especially my sister who's almost three. What I really miss is being cooked for, no one will ever cook how your mum cooks which pretty much sucks. I take my washing home when I visit because laundrettes are ridiculously overpriced, I mean three quid for one wash, I'd actually rather buy three shots on a night out thanks.
Fresher's week I'll never forget. I met people I've never spoken to since, there's always an awkward smile if I see them out as I think 'I'm pretty sure I ended up in your kitchen one night'. Fresher's flu is a given, everyone gets it you just have to man up. The best night in fresher's was a horrific evening of drinking a bottle of wine and moving from flat to flat dancing like a complete douche and prank calling house 69, just for the lols.
In my opinion 19 is a crap age and the only thing I'm looking forward to in June is celebrating it in Bournemouth.
YEAH TOAST.

In the Reef.

Love?

So we ask each other alot, how's your love life? There answer is I don't have one. I've been single for pretty much over a year now. I enjoy it to be honest, when your with someone for a long time you forget what it's like to be with your friends and enjoy life. I'm not suggesting relationships don't let you do this, you just need the right balance. From being so serious with someone to not speaking to them at all takes alot of time to get over, I often question what is love? I tend to now attract the guys who tell you a string of lies just so you trust them. The thing I find funniest is when they say I like you. Is that supposed to be a compliment, I like beans on toast, doesn't exactly mean I want a relationship with them though. Don't let someone treat you any less than how you want to be treated, I've made many mistakes and plan to learn from them. In my opinion you should never regret anything, learn from the past and move on, you'll always have support from the people around you anyways.

These are the people I'd give up my relationship for any day (dressed as goths)
Mates before dates!

A selection of my favourite people

My Love for Booze.

So what, everyone drinks alcohol you just need to know your limits. It's safe to say that since I've become a student I drink ALOT more. Fact of life, you decide to go to university, you will consume a large amount of alcohol, cough *freshers week* cough. Alot of my friends will already know this but I have a passion for gin. It's my signature drink. I went to a restaurant once and tried a cocktail called a gordon's blush. It consisted of gordon's gin, lemondade and cranberry juice, ever since that day my relationship with gin began. Alot of people do call me an old man, and yes it does make you emotional at times but don't knock it till you've tried it!
Sometimes I prefer predrinking with friends to actually going out. We'll start with a few drinking games... ring of fire, arrogance, the fucking game (don't judge, it's not how it sounds) we usually get pretty loud, dance to a bit of jungle skank, soulja boy, cotton eyed Joe... sounds pretty good to me. Once security at our halls even told us we had seven noise complaints in five minutes which they'd never heard of before, instead of thinking god we really are being stupidly loud our reaction was HELL YEAH WE BROKE OUR RECORD GUYS.
So yeah alcohol makes you say silly things, gives you confidence to do things you'd never think of doing when sober, that shit cray. Oh yeah and the lovely lady in the picture with me is Jaz.

University

So it's almost come to the end of my first year of uni. If I could describe it in one word I would probably choose AMAZING :). I hold so many memories already since September, the friends I've met are keepers and I couldn't choose better housemates than the ones I already have. Although Winchester isn't the best place to club or party the nights out have still been ridiculously hilarious, our student union is banging, never been to a place where drinks are so cheap and you get an excuse to dress up differently according to the event. So far I've been a robber, cruella de vil, a pirate, wheres wally, school girl, hula lass, oh and who could forget me as a panther for the jungle party, although I did epically fail and look like a cat instead.
Nights out aside for a sec imma dedicate this paragraph to a VIP in my life. My meatball, the one and only JASMINGE!! Only joking her names Jasmin really. So me and this lovely lass are strangely very alike... we know how to convince the other to go out, we act stupid a majority of the time, we act very immature (prank call, bring road signs/cones home to our flat) and more importantly we can tell when the others upset. If whoever reading this has never watched jersey shore, me saying that we are the UK meatballs will probably confuse you, and if you have never seen jersey shore anyways WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU. Basically me and jaz are snooki and deena from j shore as we act like complete idiots when drunk, we often quote them and we jersey turnpike alot. CABS ARE HERE. So yeah Jaz is my world HA.
There is however another side to uni, the reason we should be there which is our degree's. Basically my course is four years which has many down sides as I'll be in an extra year of debt blah blah blah BUT I get to spend an extra year here with amazing people and it gives me longer to decide whether to stay here or go back home once I've graduated. Gradutation? wow that seems like a loooooong way away. I'm the first person in my family to go to university so I feel kind of pressured to do well. Therefore I've passed every assignment so far WOOHOO.
I love living in halls, although it is the Easter break atm so no ones here, and it's the reason I've resulted to writing this blog, but when everyone is here the atmosphere is immense. We usually pre drink in our flat, house 80, and the evenings consists of many drinking games, usually ring of fire, some epic dance moves and horrific singing.
Therefore I am very much looking forward to my second year, in our student house with many more drunken shenanigans, late nights and plenty of quizzes.