Holly, You're an Oxymoron.

This was my mother's exclamation when attempting to fill in the afformentioned form. I left it to her, she thought I was being a drama queen about it - but no! It really was that hard. Apparently I'm the most disorganized control freak who likes my own company but gets lonely. Quel Dommage.
I've been made to seem like the most boring person alive, but on the other hand, at least they're not going to get the impression that I'm bubbly. Gross. I didn't know how to explain my idea flat mate. I was thinking of people I already know and love and things about them but that was just too hard! You only get one of each person.
I don't want these people.

Anyway, yesterday was a stressy day. I went to college and couldn't find anyone. Hetty had taken the day off to finish some work and so I spent time in the IT centre. Finishing an essay which Vance told me read like a giant wikipedia entry. Charming. I came home and taught some piano, and then I had a 2 hour long singing lesson in preparation for my Grade 8 exam today. I was clearly in an obsessive mood yesterday and straight after singing, at 9pm, I did a five mile run followed by some pilates. I don't know where it came from, but despite lack of food, I was totally energized.

Afterwards I watched Mary Queen of Shops with mes parents. It was quite good and I liked the end result, my favourite part however, was when they visited Colette in Paris. It just made me so excited, can't wait to live there. You all have to come visit me!

Today is the dreaded singing exam, I only have a little bit of a cold which is an improvement on last year's swollen glands, but I'm going to need a serious warm up. Wish me luck!

♥ Holly

Is there a box for Princess Syndrome?

Last night I was 15 minutes late in picking Hope up from Brownies. It was just one thing wrong after another. I had no petrol, Emma and I were trying to decide on our ice lollies, and then when finally making it to the hell hole of Laurencekirk finding out only one car could fit down the main road at a time! We eventually had to stop and ask for directions and finally found the soft play area next to the dump and what looked like an abandoned warehouse. Charming. I felt bad though, it's terrible to be the last person picked up. I need to get more organised or else I'll be a terrible mother. Luckily my sister was sweetened up with some chips and some photo taking and we sped back to civilisation.
My darlings are all off to Malia in Greece this week, hopefully you're all having a fabulous time and I'm excited to see you when you get back.

On Saturday I got my accommodation application pack through for university halls for September. However, I find the form I have to fill in ridiculously brief; I have to summarise my personality in three tick-boxes.
The provided are; Quiet, Outgoing, Friendly, Night person, Morning person and Tidy. Hardly complex. If you don't find that you as a person are fully covered by these options, there are two spaces for your own suggestions.
There are eight leisure interests that it is possible for you to have, these include; going to pubs, going to concerts, going to parties - you get the idea.
I almost feel as though I should write an accompanying essay to describe myself. I couldn't handle going down there and having to spend a year in a flat with people I can't bear and who may be expecting something different to the Outgoing ✓ Friendly ✓ Morning person ✗. I personally don't feel I can limit myself to three ticks.

I had a singing competition yesterday, hilarious for the usual, obvious reasons. I didn't do my best, but the adjudicator was a patronising old woman; overly expressive regarding music and completely pretentious. Nothing new then.
I parked in possibly the worst space ever yesterday, I don't know why Hetty and I thought it was quite so spectacular and I sort of tapped the next car's mirror. But I swear, my driving has improved!

Today I went to Jenna's and we watched The Devil Wears Prada. I love that movie, I want to be just like Miranda when I'm old, but only for her hotness. Probably don't want to be quite so much of a bitch. I love how New York looks, and I want to be in Paris every time I see the Eiffel Tower sparkling!

Oh, and I'm so proud tonight. I cooked something that wasn't from a recipe that people not only found edible, but actually liked. I basically just couldn't cook - until now!

♥ Holly

Deserved.

My beautiful shoes came yesterday. I was just driving out of my street when the DHL van drove past me. I hastily attempted a three point turn, but time was running out; I abandoned the car and ran back to my house. The driver got out of the car and I said: "This is totally my house! You have my shoes!". He just laughed.
The were packaged exquisitly, black tissue paper and monochrome ribbons. When I opened that perfect pink box, my heart was beating so fast. I almost forgot to read the cheesy gift-card I'd put in for myself!
This evening I wore them to clean my room. For such a vertiginous pair of shoes they're super comfy, however, it's going to take a little bit of getting used to walking almost completely on my tip toes.




It's been quite a week for shoes with Hetty buying 4 pairs! My favourite being white patent, blue gingham high tops. They're gorgeous.

I'm kind of crazy stressed right now trying to learn songs for the singing festival next week and my grade 8 the following week. Why am I such a procrastinator?!

♥ Holly

They let the Funky Music do the talking

Girls Aloud Tangled Up tour = AMAZING!

The excitement totally took over and Hetty and I could barely contain ourselves at the extended intro to 'Sexy, No, No, No'. Those girls are fabulous. Admittedly, not the best singers, but they really put on the best show and are hotspo for sure!
Not to brag, but we were clearly the coolest in the place and this coolness carried right through to when I spent 10 minutes trying to find the car keys, when we were already in the car! Then through to when I couldn't figure out how to work the drive through, and then when we sat at the beach and binged on McDonalds and Creme Eggs.
It was pretty fantastic.

Friday Jenna and I went to Sex and the City. I loved it. I thought the outfits were beautiful and I couldn't take my eyes away for the full two and a half hours. The wedding dress shoot for Vogue was my favourite part, so many pretties in so few seconds was basically giving me palpitations. The cinema was serving cosmopolitans and I think that towards the end of the movie, some people were beginning to get rather tipsy, there were a couple of girls in the row in front of us who laughed so loudly everytime they caught a glimpse of Charlotte's husband. It was completely unfunny, but as laughing is infectious, as soon as somebody hushed them I found myself laughing along extremely loudly! I only really laugh like that when I really shouldn't. I think it's safe to say that Jenna was mortified!

Oh, and I just ordered these beauties:



They should come fabulously boxed on Thursday. I'm sure they'll be completely worth it.

Oh la la la la!

I tried for 80's, but I could only really manage fairy.

Saturday was Emma's 18th birthday; after a horrendous day at work I went straight to her flat to hang out with her, Lauren and a bottle of pink champagne. People started to arrive and we ordered pizza. I was already dressed up in my little girls underskirt, killer platforms and a sparkly top and I clip-clopped my way down to pizza hut, champagne in hand!
There were some crazy games before we went out, and best of all; a huge cake from Costco. I swear, those are my absolute favourite and all concept of cals goes completely out the window!



After leaving Pearl Lounge, I went to Burger King for some chips and a Diet Coke and then had an argument with a crazy old man creeping around mes copines! I then trotted off down Union St; paper bag in one hand and cup in the other - I felt like it was a real Carrie Bradshaw moment. As I approached the Trinity centre I saw a two guys playing the guitar and tambourine, I just went straight up to them for some bizarre reason asked if I could sing with them. I had to do a little persuading, flaunting my credentials but within minutes I was singing Valerie through a mic to a full Saturday night audience.

It was hilarious.

I had a really nice night - it was super funny, but ever since I've had the most terrible cold. I struggled through another awful day at work feeling totally gross and stayed off college today. I finished work on my surface decoration A2 sheets, so hopefully my lecturer will see that I actually am capable of producing designs when I positively must!

Girls Aloud with Hetty tomorrow - so can't wait!

Shorty was hot like a toaster

Last night was crazy. Isla, Emma and I were just staying in watching My Super Sweet 16: The Movie when they caved in to my weird obsession for the 24-hour ASDA. However, en route, I managed to persuade them to hit town in our gross clothes, I was honestly wearing a hoodie. We went to the first place we came across and it was just so strange. I think we were the only sober people there, and we got some pretty good banter. We went for a walk down Belmont Street afterwards to get money and some water and then, by 3am, finally made it to ASDA.
We loaded up on extremely calorific cookies, pop tarts, a 15 pence swiss roll and potato wedges and sat downstairs eating and watching Sex and the City at four in the morning.
It was such a lovely, unexpected night.






♥ Holly

Lois's party was a really good night. She looked lovely with her LBD and pouffy hair!
Catherine and I invited Louise out to the Waltzers with us; she was the only person we asked who was actually interested! We stormed over in our pretty outfits, crossing the damp grass in our heels and it was totally crazy. Full of drunk 14 year olds, we looked only a little out of place. It didn't matter, we spent the whole ride screaming as the creepy guy pushed us faster and faster!

Amazing!

It was a party with cake - my favourite! One of those ones I love from Costco, with thick, white icing! I kept getting the boys to steal pieces for me so I didn't look like such a greedy heifer!
By the time everyone was hitting up Diva's, I began to get a sore head. So instead of being a cool kid, I went to Lazio's, got chips from Arthur and ate them in my car while I listened to the Legally Blonde: The Musical Soundtrack. It was awess.

Luckily, our lecturer was off today so Hetty and I got off with doing abso NO work, again. I made a little progress on one of my A2 sheets, but for the history of corsetry class we went to the IT centre and I can't exactly say what we spent our time on - it went by so fast.

Productive as usual.

♥ Holly

I can make you ice cream, We could be a sweet team.

The graphic design class was enough for me sans Het, I really couldn't cope and so life drawing was out of the question.
What's new?

I called Jenna and we pretty much just drove around town and went to Starbucks for the afternoon. The weather wasn't fabulous, but I coped. I returned the skirt I obsessed over, it was too big. Luckily now I have the six and shall be debuting it at Lois' 18th tomorrow. Pictures to follow.

Maybe.

Tonight Hope, Darcy and I went for Ice Cream. There's this really cute place in Stonehaven called Aunty Betty's, it's got all sorts of lovely flavours, twinkly lights and candies in big glass jars. It's gorge and girly.
Hope and I both had the 'Holiday Rock' Favour, like peppermint rock. It's was delicious, but I thought it best to stick to one scoop!




My darling friend Catherine works in there; it's pretty perfect for her. We made a sweet plan to go on the Waltzers in our dresses tomorrow night. I'm excited!

♥ Holly

I've been struggling to find anything interesting to write about as of late.
On Friday night we all went into town to get something to eat for Swanny's birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACDADDY!) and it was totally fun! Apart from the manager, he seated Isla, Libby and I half way across the restaurant because we were a tiiiny bit late! Mon dieu, I can't help it; it's just the way I am! Anyway, there were plenty of spare seats, he was just being bitter and twisted!
Afterwards we went to the supermarket to pick up a few things, including a birthday cake. All we could find was a Disney princesses one with plastic figurines on top. I was lucky enough to be given the sleeping beauty one - Merci beaucoup core jest! We went back to Lauren's and played games. Lois is obsessed by this celebrity name games, and that took up the bulk of the time - so fun!
I worked all weekend and it was boring as usual. I hate that I get put on this totally made up 5th break on Sundays, I get up for lunch after all the food is gone and usually I've been working 4 hours already. It's bad, seriously, people take power so badly. Especially if it's self authorised!
I slept in this morning, I missed my first class so went in for the second - mixed media. HATE! We were collaging with newspapers and magazines and working on top in oil pastels - basically an excuse to read magazines all day. Dorothy wasn't too impressed and after 6 hours wasn't really up for our usual banter. We're still the favourites!

I might get on with some work for Monday. MIGHT

♥ Holly

Pretties you should buy me

'I Love You' & 'I Hate You' rings - $55 each,
I've wanted these for about 3 years, I think it may be time to buy them!



Onyx Toggle Bracelet - £15,
I think I'll buy this in the summer. I need something for my left wrist.



Disney Couture Jewelry - 14k Gold Alice in Wonderland Bracelet - $102, 80spurple.com
I'm not really into Alice, but I prefer the purple.



Kidada for Disney Couture Tinkerbell Chainette Bracelet - $40,
"Think of a Wonderful Thought" - How cute!



Miss Golightly necklace -
I really wanted this, I don't know why I didn't buy it at the time. Now it's sold out and I'm obsessing!

♥ Holly

Highly Unimpressed

After all that searching, the skirt has shown up on the topshop website!
Typique!
Mine should be coming this week. I'm super excited.
♥ Holly

Le week-end

Friday, Hetty and I actually showed up for our scheduled classes together - this is certainly a first in a long time. We went to the good Starbucks for lunch and split a Skinny lemon and poppyseed muffin and had our lattes. I prefer the icing, she prefers the sponge; we're pretty much a match made in heaven! I spent about 30 minutes that day in the car park trying to find a space. I'm pretty bad with car parks, getting the car into small spaces - particularly without the luxury of the disabled badge (sshh!) - is not exactly a strong point. We were on time for life drawing and had a model for the first time this block. He stripped down to his sports shorts and lay across a piece of black cloth. We totally couldn't draw him, I kept making the poor guy look emaciated.

Yesterday at work I took part in a cyclathon to raise funds for the John Lewis charity of the year; "The Wallace and Gromit Foundation" which is an umbrella charity helping sick and terminally ill children across the UK. Partners signed up to do 20 minutes on an exercise bike in the middle of the busy shopping centre and customers would guess the amount that would be cycled in 18 hours and made donations. I was told that the maximum already cycled had been 6.9 miles and being crazy competitive I took it upon myself to beat that. Unfortunately I only managed 6.3, but when I thought of the cals I wasn't too upset.

Work today was insanely boring. The day seemed to last forever and nothing interesting was happening. I had a few nice customers and spent my lunch break eating pineapple and finishing the Jenna Jameson autobiography leant to me from Hetty. I loved it! I wandered over to the Haberdashery to hang out with my ladies there and look at all the pretty fabrics and sequins and discuss sewing and knitting and patterns and talk about fountain pens! However, I managed to stay there for a worrying amount of time and apparently everyone was searching for me! I got dragged back to do shoes but spent the rest of the day tidying up and talking to everyone. It was fun.
I took ages to get home and went to Sains, mes parents were not happy! They still panic about me journeying alone, being a new driver and all. I forgot to tell them and they freaked out a little. It's ok, we're over it now.

I'm sitting at home with some champagne - who knows why, my Dad seems to give us it a lot these days - and watching Grand Designs live. Tomorrow we're going to St. Andrews to visit my darling Aimee!

♥ Holly

On ira manger une glace à la vanille

Today was actually pretty fun for a miserable, rainy day - these kind of days usual put me in a super bad mood. I took the train into town for the first time in a week; it wasn't too bad I suppose. I didn't need to fight off rude passengers with no manners to get a seat and the ticket man was almost pleasant. Worked on the 5 key points in history which changed corsetry first thing, but really just cleaned out my bag, it was so disgusting!
The remainder of the day was basically spent constructing a horribly exaggerated bust onto an A2 drawing and talking to my darling Hetty who I'd really been missing in the morning - I had to make the Starbucks run alone and there was no-one to share my mooli! But I'm over it.
I phoned the Oxford Street Topshop to see if they had the skirt that I've been pining over, luckily they did. Unfortunately they don't deliver, slightly ridiculous but whatever. I took the stock number and ordered it in the local store, I should get it on the 4th. Awess.
Tonight I had a singing lesson which was ok and then I picked up ma copine, Isla. We decided to go into town and went to McDonalds. I don't know what's come over me recently but I've totally been craving some of their chips and ice cream. I think I've got it out of my system and now I feel a bit gross but the mess people make in there alone is enough to put me off. We went to the 24-hour ASDA, my 2nd time in two nights since Saturday's failed attempt. I'm not entirely sure what I had been expecting but the banter just wasn't flowing. It's boring and I don't really get why people would choose to shop at that time. What I find even more disturbing is the fact that I saw two girls who looked about 9 eating chocolate and playing on the escalators in their school uniforms at midnight. Tragique.
I should probably get on with some college work tomorrow, but hopefully something more fun will come along!

♥ Holly

Riding in the Middle of a Pickup Truck, Blaring Lynyrd Skynyrd, yelling, Turn it up!

Houston Pictures





The giant mirrored Armadillo outside Goode's Armadillo Palace.



The Venison Chilli I had, this was as much as I ate - the large portions are really daunting! The rest came home for my brother's lunch.
It's totally Texan, the food is really good and the staff were friendly.





This is the inside of a cute little cupcake shop on Shepherd called Sugar Baby's. It was so sweet and pink and pretty. You could buy loads of cute cupcakes and mini cheesecakes as well as little trinkets and little things for the home.
You should check them out.





The most beautiful of the cakes we tried.



There were three limited edition Barbie prints in the bathroom, I think that this was probably my favourite.




I thought that this was a little crazy and super cool, so I really had to include it. It's an iPod vending machine; it also sold cameras and chargers and headphones. Plenty of weird things you would not expect to just literally fall into your hand. It would make it way too easy to make impulse airport purchases - but really I suppose that is the point.

♥ Holly

Beep beep'm beep beep yeah

I was super happy when last Thursday afternoon, after a year and a month of being 17, 8 months of learning and one failed test, I finally passed my driving test! I was so excited; I've wanted to drive ever since I was a little girl. Like really little, and I'm pretty sure that's a strange thing for 4 year old girls to obsess over!
Anyway, Friday was a lovely, sunny day and I decided to drive into town for college. There were so many lorries on the road that morning, it was a little daunting but thankfully I managed to make it safely. I picked up some cupcakes and then Hetty from college and we made our way to Starbucks for the regular 2 skinny, sugar-free hazelnut, wet lattes and then to get some mooli to share. We thought that since we had the means to, we should enjoy out lunch in a more scenic location than Marks and Spencer so we made our way down to the beach. It was so nice and warm and we blasted Girls Aloud like it was summer!
After this leisurely lunch it didn't really make sense to go back for life drawing and we hadn't really checked out the shops at all that week, our lecturer would surely understand.
It seemed as though everything was going great, but then when taking Jenna to her sister's house a guy bumped into the back of me at a roundabout. I pretty much didn't know what to do and was about to just drive home and face the consequences avec mon pere when J got out of the car and took charge. Such a relief! It wasn't even my fault, he hadn't left enough room. But I'm over it.
Saturday I had work and then went to Jenny's 18th, I drove and so decided that Ribena would probably be a more appropriate beverage than the usual gin for this occasion! I had a pretty little outfit on -semi pictured - and the party was a really fun one.



You can't see, but I was also wearing a high-waisted, flippy denim mini, opaques and low-heeled, cream patent heels with gold links at the toe. They're beautiful.

Everyone was heading to Diva's but Swanny, Gavin and Dave managed to persuade me to drive to the 24-hour ADSA several miles away beforehand; I made them listen to the Legally Blonde the Musical soundtrack and when we got to the supermarket it was closed. Banter over. 24 hour? Yeah, but only on weekdays. Mon Dieu!
Sunday at work was totally awess! I spent the day making floral bridal hairpieces as part of a whole store wedding day promotion. I was right next to the door and the closest to sun I had been since Friday. Jenna braved the dirty looks of her former co-workers to talk to me but stood next to the door so as to make a quick getaway if it came to that. Luckily, it didn't.
Today I woke up and literally could not face going to college. I've spent the last 2 month doing absolutely no work and today, when I had to had in lots of work, this would have become very apparent to my lecturers! Instead I did some drawing at home to try and catch up.
Tomorrow is the John Lewis AGP, sort of like an AGM but apparently the P stands for Party. Hot.

♥ Holly

Ou est la!?

Coveting:



The skirt version of this dress. It was supposed to be on the Topshop website at 6am on Tuesday, but I was there, and it wasn't! It'd just be so flouncy and pretty and it's only £45. I really must!

♥ Holly

Plus d'images Jolie! {NY}

Katz's Deli



Clock in Grand Central Station



Subway





Easter Parade - Obama supporter walking up the street yelling "I want attention, please give me attention!". Loved it.



I loved this sign. I walked up the street and then came back, because I thought it was too funny to miss.



Girl Props = LOVE



Swarovski crystal hanging in Rockefeller Centre














Helicopter Views.

♥ Holly

Grr!

Sitting in an unfamiliar salon in Glasgow, one can assume that I'm suitably shocked to find that my hair is so bleached and so little of my natural colour remains that it is impossible to put anything darker on now. I hate being here; it's nice and everything but I've been going to the same hairdressers since I was 11 and now I'm completely useless at understanding common protocol! Will they hate me for my lack of conversation? Will they think I'm rude? How do I tip? The poor condition, and now the cut of my hair have been slated and I'm feeling terribly self-concious!

Also, after the huge excitement of going on holiday last month I feel like I now have nothing to look forward to for ages! Of course there are always parties but it's not exactly the same as the build up to a huge vacation! I wish my day to day life was more fun and exciting! I wish I could wear dresses and wayfarers everyday without having to worry about the impracticality. I wish I could eat cake everyday and buy all of New Look's new limited edition range. I wish I was in Antibes! And right now I wish that hairdressers had better taste in music! Kill me!

Holly

I Heart NY

Paris has found it's rival, I may need to buy more than one property in my future. I don't think I could go through my life without living in Manhattan!

5 Reasons I'm in love:

Une - The Starbucks' there have more than two sugar-free flavours of coffee syrup.
You can learn a surprising amount just by reading the back of the cups!
The selection of cakes is lovely, and the stores are at most 4 minutes apart.


Deux - People just understand beautiful things; I loved walking down a random street to find an old bike covered in live flowers.


Trois - The skyline.


Quatre - Chinatown. Got this made for $20, including the belt.


Cinq - MoMA. Home to Warhol's Marilyns and set over six floors, I could have spent all day in here.



Holly

Yeah New York, Yeah Big Apple!

Think I may use what little time I have left before I jet off to quickly post. In the next hour I'm leaving for NY, and for once I'm actually packed and organised more than 10 minutes before we leave the house. I'm actually sitting around waiting to leave - this is surely a first!
It's been a crazy and somewhat upsetting 24 hours, but I think I'm back to being happy and excited about having a good time!

Last night I was sitting at the beach in an OC-style display of [fruitless] teen angst. Although unlike Newport, it must have been about 3 degrees... I suddenly saw 2 orange fireworks/flares followed by a repetitive, rhythmic flashing light. I know I love a drama, but I was honestly convinced that I could save someone in danger at sea and I was finally going to get a Pride of Britain award. I was properly freaking out!
I phoned the police, who put me through to the coastguard who informed me that it was military aircraft patrolling the coast. But 'WELL DONE!' for calling anyway. Gutted!

I've got a lovely, HUGE, black leather holdall packed and my iPhone loaded with Grand designs; I'm probably going to put MK and A to shame!

Bisous

Return

So, after 3 months and constant persuasion from my darling friend Hetty, I've decided to rejoin the world of blogging. It's rather odd to get used to again, but I suppose I must persevere. I've clearly got a low boredom threshold; this is about the forth time I've restarted this blog! I've tried different colours and layouts, urls, blog titles and nothing has worked but hopefully the peer pressure I've been receiving will give me the push!

I guess I'll start as I mean to go on:

Today was rather uneventful, just had college as usual. I keep doing this thing where I'm completely unaware of what's even happening in my life on a Monday morning, it's like I just get up in my usual bad temper and don't even think about what I'm doing or where I'm going before I run out the door. Par exemple, the past 2 weeks I've turned up for Guidance before realising that I wasn't actually supposed to have been there. I could enjoyed another 2 hours in my bed and actually taken time to wash my hair properly as opposed to putting my head over the side of the bath as is becoming the norm. Then today, I totally rushed from the (late) train to get to college on time, only to realise that I was a half hour early - quel dommage!

I also forgot my bank card today, possibly lost. Who knows really? The state that my bedroom is in right now I wouldn't be surprised if I never see it again. I had to rely on Hetty's wallet today to survive, and I found the warnings to cancel my card from the overly enthusiastic Marks & Spencer employee rather touching, if a little creepy...

I came home early from college after being allowed to leave for passing an Int2 Communication assessment the previous week. The faux-jolly lecturer told me that it was possibly the best and most detailed response he'd ever seen at the course level - awess!

Watched the first episode of "I'd Do Anything" this evening. I love the BBC talent scouting shows and hope this one is as camp as the previous.

That's enough. I'm totes tired.

x