good bye park village, hello brighton centre

positively positive

So much for the January blues, its March and i'm posi as fuck. I've always known that i've been lucky my whole life, but it really has been hitting me lately. My life is rad, and i'm going to work hard to keep it this way. My second macbook in 3 years has once again "fucked me over," in all honesty it was a good thing. Life without access to the internet for two weeks has been totally awesome, it just gave me the time to focus on what i needed to: living.
In other news, the deposit for my totally awesome house in Brighton has been put down, and i'm now an "official tenant," apparently, despite not moving in until July. July really couldn't come soon enough. As i'm the "girl" amongst 3 dudes, i got dibs on the best room, but for the hefty price of dish washing duty. However, we have an actual dish washing machine, so i totally got the room for free. Gutted. Its literally up the street from the pier and Taj grocery store (incredible), and directly across the street from 'the level,' an awesomely grassy park equipped with one of the best skate parks (says Jimmy) and play ground. Alright that might be enough boasting for the time being.
I've become extremely carried away with this 30 things about me bs, and have completed ONE HUNDRED AND ONE things about me. Insane, but killing yourself over 101 facts has been mildly enjoyable. This totally fulfilling read can be found here.

30 totally awesome things about me

I have finally given in to this '25 things about me' craze, but i've decided to make it a little harder for myself and try to think of 30 things. Its the 'new year' so it can't really hurt to write a few things about yourself down. 

1. i've lived in Brighton, San Francisco, New York, and London 

2. i study human sciences at Sussex University

3. i hope to narrow it down to just neuroscience or molecular genetics 

4. i think i want to be a neuroscientist working from a psychological perspective 

5. i think scuba diving is the best thing i do 

6. i have loved whale sharks since i was 5, and filled my mask up with tears when i finally saw one in the red sea. hands down one of the best days of my life 

7. i used to be terrified (100%) when my dad pretended to be a shark in the pool, now i get disappointed when i don't see one. 

8. i'm half Australian, half Welsh, born in Brighton, but grew up in America. Identity crisis? 

9. i complain about being 'fat' while eating apple strudel covered in a ridiculous amount of ice cream, but i swear we all do that right?

10. i really, really love cats 

11. and sharks, incase you didn't get that. 

12. i don't understand how some people don't 'believe' in evolution

13. i find it so difficult to sleep when i'm alone, i just lay there worrying. apparently its a girl thing?

14. i constantly compare myself to girls, and always come out on the bottom 

15. that's probably the reason for my annoyingly low self esteem?

16. someone once tried to convince me love only existed as a concept, and humans could never actually attain it, and i believed it. what TOTAL bull shit

17. i rarely think girls are "sluts," i really, really hate that word. i think its unfair against girls. cus it is, der

18. i have the most ridiculous accent, most call it american, some call it trans-atlantic, i call it annoying

19. i only look in the mirror when i truly have to 

20. i seriously don't find any males on tv/in films attractive. i used to have a cush on Dicaprio, but i was eight. and then i had a slight thing for James Mcavoy, but only in atonement. now i have a slight thing for James Sampson, harhar i'm funny. 

21. i find a lot of females on tv attractive though, mainly the cast of the hills, oh and Kiera Knightly i think she's a total babe 

22. I generally find girls more attractive than boys, but that can normally be put down to hair and makeup 

23. i'm heterosexual  

24. i've never been to a club 

25. i've never been drunk

26. i really love learning things, but i hate doing the work 

27. i cry every time at the ending to A Little Princess, seriously 

28. i get really nervous about my future, some times i wonder if i'm doing a degree just to end up as someone's secretary 

29. drug/alcohol/meat free... 

30. i have 5 main best friends in my life, its awesome

make money money, make money money monayyy

Over the past week i have managed to spend almost 200 pounds. How exactly that happened, i'm not quite sure, i just know the majority was spent on food. Seriously. The shit excuse we have for a fridge is now filled up with mainly my shit, and i've pretty much conquered the entire freezer, which isn't as ruthless as it sounds because there's another one. Jimmy and i stumbled on the world's best grocery store: Taj. If you are vegan, you would die of happiness. 8 flavours of Sheese, vegan shortbread, banana cake, and the ultimate vegetarian and vegan burritos, oh and 100% american mountain dew. How i didn't drain my entire bank account in there i don't know. In short: its awesome. I have also bought about 6 apple strudels and a lot of ice cream, i have actually substituted dinner with apple strudel. Tonight we plan on eating some asparagus, what good little children we are.

Snow

Brighton finally got some much needed snow! After staying up till 4AM last night watching the snow fall and jimmy running outside to throw snow balls at people's windows in nothing but mosh shorts and a shirt, i had to get up early for a 9AM lecture (gross). But of course me being the laziest person there is, i turned the alarm clock off without Jimmy knowing. To my disappointment he woke up at 7 anyway, forcing me to get up. Then i heard the most exciting news ever: snow day. Have not heard those words since New York, they are incredibly missed. This was officially the earliest we had ever been up, so we decided to make our way into town, forgetting that england comes to a stand still when the smallest amount of snow falls. Surprisingly, we got lucky the entire day, and didn't even have to pay the train faire. We made our way down to the diner, which hadn't opened yet (we were shocked), and decided to check out GBK. Which also was not open yet. Amazing. GBK happened to be situated next to 'punktured' piercing studio, and of course Jimmy remembered me talking about getting my belly button pierced. I now have a pierced navel, and it hurt (way worse than nose if you ask me). Then we had a lovely lunch at JB's, and apple strudel while watching band of brothers. All in all, we had a totally awesome day.

Holiday Spirit

Christmas has definitely been worse and better than this one. After spending almost the entire month of december eating nothing but 28p noodles, i might have gone a little over board with my christmas shopping. In an attempt to bring the christmas cheer back into my mom and dad's day, i decided to be santa for the night. Unfortunately they woke up, despite setting my alarm to 4AM and being as quiet as i can. I tried right? Point is, they loved it. Fab Fi even tried on the pretty undies katie and i bought her, she's hot. The day went sort of down hill from there. Seeing as i'm the oldest, i was forced to stay in the kitchen all day scrubbing the horrible meat and grease stained baking trays, lovely. The worst part was, they "forgot" to inform me that it was dessert time, and ate everything without me. Everything. On the plus side, my dad totally promised to do something different next year, aka anything that doesn't include the extended family. I miss when christmas was all about new barbie dolls. 

So, christmas day wasn't all that it used to be, but i'd say over all my 'holidays' have been rad. Jimmy and i went ice skating around the tower of london, sounds awesome if you leave out the part of me almost crying due to fears of falling over and getting ultra wet, or getting my fingers cut off by other skaters. Romantic? Then we had pizza express, can't get much better than that. I couldn't wait to give him my ridiculous amounts of presents, so 5 days before christmas we did the whole "gift exchange" thing. He pretty much killed my presents with his. Can't really complain can i?! Back to Brighton in a week! I love it there

Kitchen Drama

I thought i'd give a taster of what 'my' kitchen is like. This is why i haven't gone in there since the first week. JB's diner you saved me. Last night Jimmy and i did a massive clean, i've taken back all my stolen cutlery, plates, pots, pans, and glasses and am now keeping them in my room. And using my sink to wash up plates. It could be worse!