September goals

So, September is finally here! University is about to start again and it's time to get my life back on track.

This is something new for me, something I'm going to try doing every month and naturally I'm going to aim to complete every goal I come up with. 

It's time to start feeling motivated! Time to take action!

September Goals

- Stress less…now this one's going to be hard!

- Photograph a wedding.

- Fix my sleeping pattern.

- Wake up in time for sunrise at least one morning.

- Go back to university for my final year.

- Finish my scriptwriting for my dissertation project.

- Read You're the one that I want by Giovanna Fletcher

- Begin filming my dissertation project.

- Complete the Halo 3 campaign online with friends.

- Get a new tattoo…or two.

- Attend the gym 3 times a week, every week. 

- Have cute date nights with the boyfriend. 

- Keep my room clean!

- Try not to overspend.

- Stay on top of tidying…NO EXCUSES!

- Learn to love myself a little bit.

- Do something that I have never done before.

- Stop with the procrastination.

- Go to all of my uni classes…NO EXCEPTIONS!

- Be happy!

So there's my goals for this month…looking at it now I have written it down makes it seem likes that's a lot to achieve in one month, but I'm going to give it a shot!

What are your September goals?

xo

Day Two: Everyone deserves happiness

So I've been sitting here for a couple of hours with this blank screen staring back at me, struggling to think about what to blog about. That's the moment I began to search and I came across the #blogtemberchallenge so seeing as it is now the 2nd September I'm actually just going to skip day one and go straight onto day two which is all about being happy.

Sept 2nd: Write about what makes you happy, from the little joys to the huge game-changers.

What makes me happy…?

Blogging. Strawberry Milkshake. Mcfly. Red Lipstick. 
Doctor Who. Sleeping in late.

Catchups with friends. Disney Films. Autumn.

Love. Photography. Burning Candles. Food. Musicals. 

Dinner dates. Bubble Baths. Shopping. Gaming.

Tea. Xbox days. Being productive. Traveling. An ice cold glass of water.

Singing. Reading. Spending time with the family. Supernatural Marathons 

Taylor Swift. Getting tattooed. Amazing gigs. Comic-con. 

Happiness is something everybody searches for in their lives, no matter who they are, it's something everybody wants. 

Sometimes the smallest things can make me happy, a song starting to play can brighten up my entire day. 

Sometimes, when you're feeling really down, something can make you smile but doesn't necessarily make you happy, I guess a smile is halfway there but halfway really just isn't enough. 

Family is a key part to what makes me happy, what kind of family would you have if they didn't make you happy? Not living at home means I don't get to see my mother and siblings as much as I would like to, but it kinds of makes it that bit more special when I do see them, I feel an intense amount of happiness when I do see them and nothing could break that. My family are my entire world, I'd not be who I am today and I would never trade them for the world. Everything I do in life is for my family, for my mother, to make her proud of me. I want my mum to look at me and feel overwhelming happiness because of how proud I have made her. I just love my family, if i had nothing else in the world, but still had my family, I would still be happy. 

Naturally, my boyfriend makes me happy too, which is good. Again, just seeing him can brighten up my entire day, but to be honest, he's family as well so of course he makes me happy.

Another person who can brighten up my day in a heartbeat is my bestest and dearest friend, but again, I class her as family aswell. 

Family is the most important thing and family isn't just about who you're related too, it's who's there for you. 

Thinking of the word "family" makes you really think. Blood makes you related, but loyalty makes you family…

Happiness is something everybody deserves to feel, find what makes you happy and take advantage. If we don't have happiness, we don't have anything worth fighting for.

Take part in the #blogtemberchallenge

xo

Things are looking up!

It's crazy to think that it's now September, August and the whole of summer has just flew by, it's just passed me by without a notice. Looking back on the previous month it's so weird because some parts seem like they happened forever ago, but some feel like they happened just yesterday.

September beginning means the beginning of the next educational year, so the return to university. I have spent a lot of the summer period feeling bored and just like I haven't really been doing anything worthwhile. I mean, don't get me wrong, there have been some days where i have worked my ass off doing various freelance work for clients and I've really enjoyed that, apart from that I have just been so fed up.

When it's the end of the university year I get really excited for summer, but after about a month I feel really fed up with it. So I'm pretty much excited to go back to university, I can't wait to start feeling productive again.

I would be lying to say that I am not terrified about the fact that this is my last year at uni, this if the first time in my entire life where I don't know what the future holds, I don't know where I am going to be a year from now. The ideas of entering the real world terrified me, yet excites me at the same time, it's all I have wanted for so long. This year is going to be the year I work my hardest and truly make the most of the student life.

My dissertation is by far the most important part of my degree and it's going to be a really different project to take on, especially knowing i can create anything and bring one of my ideas to life.

Aside from university, over the past few days I've actually been getting a lot of freelance photography and videography work for the future which I can't wait to do. Some of it will be really different because it's something i haven't done before so I can't wait for the new experiences. I'm actually photographing a wedding on Friday, i find weddings so magical and being such a hopeless romantic I find weddings to be the closest thing possible in life to a fairytale and I just cannot wait.

Here's my showreel for 2014 so far!

I've really been enjoying building up my portfolio, it's nice to know that I am doing something that makes me happy but makes other people happy too.

xo

The Best Intentions

In a world that's not often the nicest to live in, one thing that we should always try and do in life is be the best we can be. That includes being the nicest person we could ever possibly be and always having the best intentions at heart. We should always try and spread a little bit of happiness around wherever we go because you never know who needs it.

I have always done everything in my power to be a good person, to always do the right thing and I have always made sure that everything I do it with the best intentions.

Sometimes I look around me and notice all of the cruelty and hate in the world and I wonder why I try to be a good person. So many people don't care about others. When you bump into someone in the street, do you apologise? Or do you snarl and walk away? Apologising is the decent thing to do, it's just common courtesy really. I realise that I am who I am and live how I do because being a good person costs nothing and it can really put your life into perspective.

Everyone in their life has probably hurt someone, some purposely and some believing they were doing the right thing. Purposeful hurt is a lot more painful than accidental. I'm so scared of hurting peoples feelings or doing wrong in life that I tip toe around everything, unfortunately, sometimes it cannot be helped.

People are sensitive, and you might not think it, but your actions can hurt someone a lot. Words can hurt, people take things to heart and that means you can hurt someone without realising.

I will continue to live my life being a good person, apologising when I do wrong.

Spreading happiness and living life with the best intentions could make you happier than anything else.

Life is better when you're laughing

xo

1989

So yesterday was Taylor Swifts yahoo world wide live stream and congratulations to her for making history by being the first to do it.

Now, I consider myself to be a huge Taylor fan. I have followed her through her career, through all of the different era's and now it's time to say goodbye to the Red era…BUT! We get to welcome in the 1989 era!

Taylor had so many surprises for us lucky fans within her live stream yesterday and if you watched i am sure you will already know.

First Taylor announced a new song called Shake it off and it was completely different to anything she has ever done before. Now Taylor is more commonly known for being a country singer but she has always had a hint of pop in there too and often her music has been related to various different genres. What I love is that she doesn't write her songs to fit into a specific genre, she writes them and whatever genre they are then they are.

No matter how much you think her music changes and grows you have to understand that she is still young and she is still growing as a person, so her music is going to go in various different directions.

Taylors songs always mean something to her, they always have hidden meanings and they are truly songs from the heart and it doesn't matter what genre her music fits into because they are still her songs. At the end of the day they are still words from her brain.

Following the announcement of her amazing new song we also found out that she was actually releasing a new album called 1989.

Along with this album will come 13 Polaroid's which I'm quite excited about. Not every single one will be the same, so we could all end up with completely different ones and it seems like with that we're getting more of an insight into Taylor's life. As well as that on the deluxe edition of the album there will be 3 extra tracks and usually they would be songs but this time they aren't. They are actually phone voice notes back from when she was coming up with the songs, so they might be really random but they could also be really personal too and I think it's amazing that these will be released onto the album too.

Now Taylor has said that this album is her favourite album and as shocked as I was when I heard the first song I now absolutely adore it and I adore her, so I know that if she loves the album that I am absolutely going to love it too.

I think we all knew that she was going to be announcing her new album during this live stream but one thing I didn't expect was for a new music video. Now again, this is very, very differnet to any music video Taylor has ever released but that doesn't mean it isn't good. In fact I loved it, it's so fun and different, very, very different. If i was going to write a song and release a music video I would have done it the exact same way!

Taylor you have really outdone yourself this time and guys if you're a Taylor fan and you don't like this new song then don't worry because Taylor will just shake it off!

xo

From Dusk Till Dawn Season One: The Review

So, I've just finished watching the first season of From Dusk Till Dawn and I must say it was a great show. This was most certainly proved by the fact that I couldn't stop watching until it has reached the closing episode of the season.

This series if you didn't guess is based off the original 1996 movie From Dusk Till Dawn which starred George Clooney as Seth Gecko and Quentin Tarantino as Richie Gecko. For this series the role of Seth went to D.J. Cotrona and the role of Richie to Zane Holtz.

From watching the very first episode I could tell that this was going to be a 10 episode version of the first film, with it being padded out with more of the smaller details and backstories we didn't get to see during the film. So I pretty much knew straight away what was going to happen, but that didn't stop is from surprising me. This series is a much more in depth version with a lot of the back story that was never included within the film.

I adored the film so I was a little anxious about watching this, I didn't have very high expectations if I'm honest, but it absolutely blew me away. In the film there was only so much of the story that they could include, but with having 10 episodes they could include so much of what we missed out on the first time around. This is probably the best adaptation of the film that we could have possibly asked for.

The actors playing the Gecko brothers were absolutely fantastic. Holtz played a very, very convincing psychopath. After watching this (aside from Tarantino) I couldn't have imagined anyone else acting as Richie Gecko.

After I watched the first episode I must admit I wasn't hooked, not straight away. I chose to give it the benefit of the doubt because often I do find that the Pilot episode is never the best. This episode was a little slow for me I guess, but as soon as I watched the second I was hooked. If you aren't convince by episode one, watch the two then three and so on, I'm sure you will be by then.

I loved how we got a much more in depth look at the vampires, they had a background story and a bigger role to play in the series. 

If you enjoyed the film, or you enjoy this kind of film/series then I really do suggest that you take the time to sit and watch it. I think you will thoroughly enjoy it.

The best part? It's been renewed for a second series with a total of 13 episodes…

xo