I Can't Even Technology (and other holiday stuff)

Here in England, is the one week holidays, which is amazing after having to push through all three science exams during the last two weeks of term, but there are going so fast! I hope that you are having a nice time, regardless of whether or not you are on holiday right now or not :)

One thing I have been telling myself throughout these holidays is: This is it. After all the revision and the stress and the exams, this is your chance to finally make all the YouTube videos you've been planning. This is yet another reason why I have been looking forward to the holidays so much - I love making YouTube videos and recently I have been given next to no time to do that, and that has upset me. I just really feel like I should do something for me, and not because the education system tells me I have to do it. 

There was one video that I was particularly looking forward to making: my braces video. I got my braces off around four weeks ago now and have been desperate to talk about my two-year experience with braces ever since, but revision just kept getting in the way. I was trying to balance revision, other homework, and socialising (because without free time with friends I think I would have gone actually insane!), and YouTube just didn't fit in. 

I finally filmed my braces video two days ago, which made me very happy as I have missed making videos so much recently, and felt like I had a lot to say. To be honest, I wasn't really sure exactly how the video was going to turn out on the whole, but I was quite proud of it at the same time!

Aaaand then came the editing. What a lot of people don't understand when they think of how much effort YouTubers put into their videos is just how much time is spent editing after the camera stops running. If I want to upload a video on the same day as filming it, I have to dedicate an entire day to that specific video and focus on barely anything else. In my videos, I use Windows Movie Maker - it's definitely not the greatest software ever, but it is free, I can just about get my head around it, and it hadn't ever failed me... yet.

I had just finished editing my video, and was happy with the results. It tried saving it to my computer, which is never usually problematic, and it didn't look like it was going to be. It was saving at the same rate as usual, until....
98%

BAM.
An error message appeared on the screen and all of my progress disappeared, turning each section of the video into tiny yellow triangles with exclamation marks inside. 
Okaaay, that's weird. I've uploaded videos much longer than this before..., I thought, googling the error message, but nothing useful came up. People were experiencing the same problem, but no one had a solution. I tried and tried to save the video, but the same error message kept appearing. I asked my dad for help, because he is good with computers and basically all of the stuff that I am bad at, but he just kinda came to the conclusion that my software sucks and I wouldn't be able to upload my video unless I got some new software. 

The problem is that all other software (and I mean the good software, not the kind of software that is free, glitchy and leaves a watermark on your video - trust me, I have used many types of software in the past!) is really bloody expensive. Like, seriously, I discovered that the software that we use in media studies at school is actually hundreds of pounds. The problem is that I do not have any money, because the kind of people who buy this software have money and jobs of their own. I, however, am an unemployed 15-year-old schoolgirl, therefore I do not own any money of my own. 

For now, I don't know what I'm really going to do about the whole I-can't-edit-any-YouTube-videos-from-now-on-thing. My dad has suggested another piece of editing software, but it would require a lot of time and effort to get onto my laptop, so I'm not sure just yet. 

So I guess this blog post is my way of apologising for my serious lack of YouTube videos. I don't like to feel like I don't put a lot of effort into my YouTube videos, because I do - I put a hell of a lot of time and effort in, and I really enjoy it! It's just that sometimes I struggle. 

Other than this, I have really enjoyed the holidays, however short they may be. I haven't had a chance to see many of my friends yet, because quite a few of them have been on holiday, but we have arranged a massive sleepover on Saturday due to a deal we made at my old primary school's summer fete - two of my friends entered the movie-themed collection box about a bazillion times, and we decided that if they won, then we would have a proper movie night ...and they did! It was literally the most amazing moment as our old head teacher called out my friend's name and we all screamed simultaneously, my friend practically skipped as he went to pick up his winnings! We were most definitely the most excited people there - even more excited than any of the children who won anything. 
That was a good day :) I'm really looking forward to seeing them. 

I feel like this break has been great for my health too. As I would, I was ill during the last two weeks of term - the weeks in which we had exams. It was literally the most inconvenient thing ever, I felt like hell. Do you know what it's like to sniffle in an exam hall filled with the majority of your year group and half of the year above and have the sound echo? I do. 

Two of my friends also had the same illness, and we couldn't afford to take time off school. On the Saturday after school ended, my friends tried to arrange a trip to go swimming, but me and another friend pulled out because:
1) Hanging out in town and buying weirdly flavoured drinks while ill is a lot better than swimming while ill
2) We didn't have to worry about diseasing each other because we were both equally as gross!

Hmm... what else have I done in the holidays? Let's see... 
1) I've stayed up until 3am (not because I think it's cool or anything - because I have trouble getting to sleep!)
2) I've slept in until midday (see number 1)
3) I've eaten tons and tons of junk food (examples include rocky road and oreos)
4) I've started writing a story about dragons (don't ask unless you want me to start screaming in capslock about dragons - you have been warned!)

Honestly, I think that's just about it. Tell me what the past week has been like for you down in the comments :)
Speak to you soon, 
Lucy xx

The Creative Blogger Award

I was very kindly tagged for this post by Eve from Pen & Key - if you haven't checked out her blog already, I seriously advise that you do :) Her posts are really brilliant and she is an incredibly talented and generally lovely person! Thanks Eve <3

The way that this tag works is that you give five facts about yourself and then tag anyone who you would like to also do the tag. I'm not sure what kind of facts I'm supposed to give, so I'll just give completely random ones. I hope that's okay :)

Facts About Me

1) I am currently reading "All I Know Now" by Carrie Hope Fletcher (aka ItsWayPastMyBedtime). She is one of my favourite YouTubers and I was incredibly excited when the book arrived in the post this morning! So far, I think it's great. I'm not usually too interested these days when YouTubers release books, because I feel like it doesn't really mean anything any more. There have been issues with ghost writing with many of their books, those with this book I never really looked at it like that. I feel like Carrie is a really genuine and lovely person, and never saw her book as "just another book by a YouTuber". 

2) I had braces for two years and got them off a week and a day ago. I am currently planning a YouTube video on braces, in which I discuss the things I wish I'd been told about them. I'm hoping people will find it helpful :)

3) In my theatre group, our next performance will be "The Addams Family: Family Values". I will be playing Wednesday Addams, which I am really happy about! As soon as we were told about the play, I was desperately wanted the role. A lot of people tell me that I remind them of Wednesday, though I'm never sure whether they're joking or not. Either way, I like to think of it as a compliment because I think she's awesome!

4) I have been trying to discover more rock music, and I am not obsessed with Panic! At The Disco and All Time Low! I basically blame my friends for suggesting this music to me, they have ruined my life. 

5) The last time I went shopping, I bought a pair of black skinny jeans and a black and grey striped jumper (you can probably guess by now that I have run out of things to say about myself!).

Because basically all of my blogging friends have already been tagged for this, I would like to tag anyone who is reading this blog post and is up for the tag. It may seem like the easy option, but I never really know who to tag! If you do this, please leave the link to your blog post in the comments :)

Speak to you soon, 
Lucy xx

My latest YouTube video:

Confident days

This blog post will be quite unusual and personal, but as I have discussed social anxiety on my blog before, I thought maybe it would be worth talking about this. It's not much of a cheery subject, but I believe that I am capable discussing this in a serious and real way.

Life with social anxiety, as it is with most issues, has its good days and bad days. I have days when I desperately want to avoid any kind of social interaction, and I have days when it's not so bad. I have days where I feel like I could approach someone and start a conversation, and maybe it wouldn't be that much of a big deal. Obviously, the anxiety I feel doesn't simply disappear - I still don't feel completely comfortable in a lot of scenarios. For a while, however, it dies down. 

The idea for this blog post came to mind because throughout the past few days, I haven't felt so scared. I have been able to speak to more people in and out of school, which I have found to be really nice - a lot of the time I feel like I don't know many of the people in my classes, which is weird, considering how much time I spend with them each week! 

I get streaks like these every now and again, and I really cherish them. I know that eventually they will go away.

Like any streak, they don't last forever. Occasionally I will find that they just fade, or maybe I will do something where I feel like I am out of my depth, and will become so panicked and shaken up that I can't handle the situation. 

I was stuck in a situation like this around a month ago where I was sharing my idea with a class of roughly 30 people, and suddenly realised that what I was saying was stupid. It was seriously dumb, and I could tell that everyone else thought so too. And I could feel all 30 pairs of eyes staring at me, as if to say "Seriously? Are you seriously saying this? What's wrong with you?". Suddenly, I didn't feel as if my idea was clever at all, but I couldn't back out. I finished saying what I was saying, because the only thing worse than carrying on was stopping mid-explanation. I could feel my heart hammering in my chest, like I was falling or something. I kept thinking, What the hell are you on about? How stupid could you possibly be?. Eventually, I became so overwhelmingly anxious that I couldn't bare to stay in the room any more, even though the teacher had changed the subject and moved on. No one was looking at me any more, yet I still felt as if they were. My friend, who knows what I'm like (or was just beginning to understand), was sitting next to me, looking at me in this really concerned way. She kept asking whether I was okay and whether or not I wanted to step outside. Although I was too panicked to tell her at the time, I was extremely grateful for how well she handled the situation. Eventually, I followed my friend's advice and asked the teacher if I could leave to get a drink. To my relief, the teacher said yes. I think she understood. 

Until that point in the lesson, I had been absolutely fine. I had only had a mini-freak-out in the build up to my speaking assessment, which, to my surprise, I actually ended up surviving without freaking out too much - I didn't shake or stammer at all, and the class actually laughed at a few of my jokes! Needless to say, I was feeling pretty pleased with myself. Then suddenly, those brief feelings of triumph were gone, and I felt worse than ever. It was like going back to Square 1. 

The reason I sometimes dread these "confident days" is because they don't last forever. What usually keeps me going is that I feel like, gradually, I might be gaining confidence. I'm more confident now than I think I was a year ago, which is good. Last year was quite a bad year for me in terms of social anxiety, especially since the two halves of our year group mixed, meaning that I was forced to make encounters with people I had never spoken to before. I also discovered that some really good friends who I was used to having classes with before would no longer be in my classes any more, which upset me, as I feel as if my confidence can be largely affected by the people I am around. If I am with someone I know and trust, I tend to be a lot more comfortable. 

So, for now, I suppose I am okay. Although I am a worry-er (as my mum puts it) and will basically become overly anxious about anything, no matter how small it might be, I believe that I am alright. 

As this blog post isn't really like my usual ones, I don't expect anyone to comment or anything like that. However, if you do understand, please do let me know. That would be really cool of you :)

Speak to you soon,
Lucy x

Heeyyy...

Hey, guys. Sorry, I know it's been a long time since I've blogged, so I'm hoping you haven't forgotten about me in the past month!

Although it may seem like it, I promise I haven't forgotten about my blog. For those of you who don't live in Britain, we have just had a two week Easter holiday, which was the most fun and relaxation I've had in a long time. I didn't even mind that much that I had to do science revision every day to prepare for our exam in May, it still felt like a holiday to me. 

I tried to dedicate as much of it as possible to making YouTube videos without it completely consuming my life, though during these two weeks I only managed to upload two videos (I filmed another one that I am still in the process of editing). It annoys me when people talk about YouTubers like their job is easy and anyone could do it, because these people put in so much more effort than others seem to understand. 

Yes, part of this time is spent sitting in front of a camera, talking, but there are also other parts of the video making process that take place before the video is uploaded. Before the person can sit in front of the camera, they tend to plan the video, and then afterwards so much editing is involved. If I film and upload a video in the same day, I tend to dedicate that entire day on one video. That doesn't mean that I don't like making videos - please don't think I'm moaning; it just means that I love it enough to spend a lot of time on it (my last video was originally 30 minutes long - it crashed my editing software!). I just feel like more people should understand this. 

Other than this, I enjoyed spending time with my friends, and not just during lunch breaks at school! I have friends who are in many of my classes at school and I have friends who I have never had a class with in my life, so I don't get to see very often. We were planning to have a picnic at some point, but somehow forgot to take into account that we live in England, and spring doesn't truly begin until halfway through April. We are still to have that picnic, but there were many 1am video chats! One day I randomly decided to invite some friends round to make Easter nests, inspired by Dan and Phil's latest baking video, which were basically the least healthy things I have ever eaten in my entire life. It was kinda scary - my dad even described them as having "too much chocolate"... I didn't even know there was such a thing.

However, I learned to forgive myself, as despite the Easter eggs and the crazy Easter nests, I was actually surprisingly healthy during the holidays (shock horror). For once in my life, I think I actually care about drinking enough water, having a balanced diet and exercising, and during the holidays I actually began to notice the change in my lifestyle affecting me. Obviously, I am not the healthiest person on Earth - I am sure that I would still curl up in a pool of my own tears if someone made me play football or lift weights, and I am probably over-exaggerating all this anyway - but I am content with my health for now. 

The only thing that I wasn't so productive with was my sleeping pattern (and my that I mean that I don't think that I even had a sleeping pattern). I have always had a problem in my sleeping pattern in that I never get tired in the night and then am practically a zombie in the morning, and during the holidays it just got worse. I got to the point where I was falling asleep at around 3:30am and then sleeping in till midday, by which time I drag myself out of bed and eat a bowl of cereal only to have lunch almost immediately afterwards. 

Of course, you can imagine how much of a mess I was when I had to wake up at 7 o'clock on Monday to go to school. I was an exhausted, emotional wreck for most of the day (I spent my first lesson crying over fictional characters) and since my meal times were so scrambled, by lunch time I was ravenous. If you are a person who is in control of their sleeping pattern:
1) I envy you
2) Please don't have a sleeping pattern like mine out of choice. You have no idea how freaking lucky you are. 

I feel like these days, many people view it as cool to stay up late and sleep until midday the next day, as if it's just what teenagers are supposed to do. 

From the perspective of someone who wishes dearly that she was a morning person and wasn't a zombie for most of the day: it's not. Please, get some sleep! By the time it was Friday, I was absolutely wrecked. I was planning on being productive and going into science at the end of the day to help improve my grade, but I just found that I was too tired. My mood was terrible and I could barely keep my eyes open - when I went home, I went straight to bed in my school uniform, and even then I couldn't sleep. 

Today, I am glad to say that I am much better. I am still kind of droopy and I actually had a nap earlier (something that made me feel really old), but I am in a much better emotional state - you don't have to worry about me or anything. 

You have almost definitely noticed throughout this blog post that I have completely different background and am using a different font from usual. I have decided to make my newer blog posts look slightly less like they were written by a typewriter (though I still love typewriters). I have also made this change in the captions on my YouTube videos. I don't know whether I'll keep my font like this, but for now I quite like it. I feel like it looks like my writing could be inside a book (what a rubbish book that would be, haha).

I really hope to write more blog posts in the future, I have really missed doing this!
Lucy x

My latest videos:

What I'm currently listening to:

Drama Project - Too Much Punch For Judy

Before I rush off to my friend's house for a sleepover, I thought I would upload an unlisted video to my YouTube channel to give you a sneak peek of what I've been up to at school. 

Basically, we have been doing this play called "Too Much Punch For Judy" about this woman who kills her sister in a car crash due to drink driving (as you can tell, it's pretty serious stuff). We were allowed to interpret this play any way we wanted and present whichever parts of it we wanted in our performance. 

Because this play is set in the 80s, I thought it would be interesting to modernise the play so that the audience would have a stronger connection with the characters, as I wanted them to be pulled into Judy's world, although originally the play was meant to alienate the audience. I suppose I just wanted a bit of a challenge. 

One way I was set on doing this was using YouTube videos. People at my school don't know about my YouTube channel unless they're my close friends, so originally the video diary was on a separate channel that was reserved just for the video diary. However, seeing as I thought it might be interesting for you to see this (and I haven't been able to film any YouTube videos in a while!) I decided to post this on my regular channel. 

The video is unlisted because it is not something I would usually post, so you will only be able to see the video if you have the link.

The first thing that you will probably spot if you watch my YouTube videos is that I have a new camera (WHOOP WHOOP!). I got it for my birthday, although I haven't been able to show you it yet as I have been busy, which sucks. Though now you have an idea of what future YouTube videos are going to look like :)

I have to admit that it's really not the best acting ever. Obviously it is hardly believable as Judy is a grown woman with a proper job and a kid, and I am a 15 year old schoolgirl, but I tried my best. 

You will find that there is a weird little cut in the middle of the video were I have cut out where I say my location, as I really don't want anyone on the internet to figure out where I live.

I have really got to get a move on now because I am writing this while I am halfway through packing to go to my friends house. I am looking forward to writing more blog posts and making more YouTube videos during the Easter holidays, as I have a few ideas that have been waiting in my notepad for me to bring to life. 

I hope you have had a wonderful start to your holiday,
Lucy x

Best Blogging Buddies Award (no.1 and 2)

I'd just like to give big thank-yous to Eve of Pen&Key as well as Georgia of This Teenage Blogger for nominating me for this award! :) That's really awesome of both of you <3

The Rules:

• Make a post to show the award on your main blog.
• Thank the person who nominated you and take the owl with you!
• Nominate all your best buddies, and the people you want to be buddies with.
• Ask at least 15 questions for the buddies you nominate.
• Answer the questions your buddies has asked for you.

Now to answer all 30 of your questions (wow!!).

Eve's Questions:

1) Favourite sweets?

This one's kinda weird, but I have a slight addiction to Turkish Delight (the sweets, not the traditional kind) in that it is completely weird and not many people like it that much but I think it's AWESOME. 

2) Write a sentence describing a moment of your childhood

The 9-year-old girl with the blonde hair sat screaming "YOU'RE A LIAR" at the boy who had just told her that Father Christmas didn't exist (the nerve of some people!!).

3) Something you learned recently, related to your school curriculum 

If you get hiccups literally minutes before an exam, you'd better get rid of them quick. (I did manage to in the end!)

4) Favourite breakfast cereal?

I am kind of stuck between Cheerios and sultana bran (again, it's not very popular but I really like it!). 

5) Favourite clothing brand?

Probably H&M :)

6) Favourite makeup brand?

Bourjois 

7) If you had to live in another era, when would you live?

This one's quite weird, because I quite like the era we live in. Like, we have the internet and Taylor Swift and stuff. However, I think it would be quite fun to live in the 60s, because that's when Hairspray is set and I have quite a lot to say on equality and stuff. 

(I know, stupid answer!)

8) What would want to have on hand in a zombie apocalypse, you have 5 items

OH GOD I AM SUCH A GENERALLY UNPREPARED PERSON. 

Although this means I would technically be copying Georgia, I would want some kind of "How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse" guide. I think a Kindle would be quite handly; although I don't like them very much, I would be able to have my Apocalypse Guide and all the books I wanted on it (who needs self defence when you have Maze Runner?!). In this case, I would also need a charger handy.

Either that or I would hide in a library or book shop until the whole zombie apocalypse thing blew over!

9) Flying or sailing

Sailing

10) Early to bed and early to rise, or lie in and stay up until 3 in the morning?

Early to rise. 

HAHAHAHAHA - just kidding, lie-ins all the way!

11) Favourite hobbying besides internetting?

Reading, writing or acting (I seriously can't pick one!). 

12) What's your superpower, and would you use it for good or evil?

I would love to read minds, because then I would know who everyone fancied would be able to set them up... 

Invisibility also seems cool though, as then I would be able to do whatever I wanted without people noticing... 

I've literally just realised that both answers are literally the creepiest/sneakiest responses ever. 

13) Biggest nightmare or fear?

Someone close to me getting in serious trouble - this literally scares me out of my mind.

14) If you could play God and change an aspect of humanity, what would you change?

I would make it so that people were judged instantly by their personalities and not by their labels (e.g. sexuality, race or any other aspect of their appearance). I think this would solve so many of the World's problems as we would not longer have prejudice or people who are scared of being who they are due to a certain aspect of themselves. Also, no one would be scared of what other people thought of their appearance as no one would care. 

As you can probably tell, I think about this a lot. 

15) Do you like trying new foods? What's the most bizarre thing you've tried? Did you like it?

As I mentioned in my last life-update, I recently went out for dinner with two of my friends as it was one of my friends' birthdays. The restaurant served up these random little starters and I ended up eating squid! I quite liked it, though this probably means that I failed as a pescetarian as it was not technically fish - oh well, it was interesting, and it's not everyday you're given the opportunity to try squid!

Georgia's Questions:

1) If you were to blog about something you'd never blogged about before, what would it be?

I would probably do a really fashion-y blog post, just because I've never really focused on clothes or makeup before in a blog post!

2) If you could be famous for one thing, what would you be famous for?

I would probably be a famous YouTuber, as I feel like YouTubers have a special connection with their fans that not many other celebrities do. Being famous on YouTube also presents lots of opportunities to people that I think would be really interesting. 

3) If you have £100, what would you spend it on?

Probably books, chokers and various merch!

4) If you were given a YouTube channel, what would your first video be about?

I actually have a YouTube channel, and my first video was "50 Facts About Me", haha :)

It's definitely not my best video, especially since I can barely speak to the bloody camera, but it's the first one that was ever uploaded to my channel!

5) Radio or TV Channel?

I'm not sure what is meant by this question, but my favourite TV Channel is E4.

6) Facebook or twitter?

Probably Facebook, as more of my friends are on Facebook, although in general I prefer tweeting to uploading Facebook statuses :)

7) What is your favourite item of jewellery?

CHOKERS :D I have this massive thing about chokers right now, they're just awesome!

8) If you could be anyone for a day, who would be be?

Probably someone who really inspires me, such as Taylor Swift :)

9) Rain or sun?

Sun, though only in small amounts - enough to keep me warm, but not boiling or anything!

10) Stay at home and do things, or go outside and do things?

I suppose it depends on whether I would have people with me, I don't really mind either way, though I don't like being at home all day with no one to speak to. 

11) What shop do you most want to shop in?

There's this vintage shop in our local shopping centre that I love to pieces, though I have never actually bought anything from there! All the things are quite expensive, so I just tend to hang around in there and look at the clothes like a complete weirdo/stalker. I have no idea what the woman at the counter must think of me!

12) Do you like the little things in life, the big things in life or both?

The big things in life can be awesome, though a lot of the time it's just nice to appreciate the little things in life, like oreo milkshakes, music and just hanging out with friends :D

13) Do you like painting your nails bright or nude?

Bright colours can be fun, though I tend to chip and smudge nail-varnish a lot, so I usually just paint my nails with clear nail-varnish. 

14) Write a sentence describing your dream future life

I am living with a few friends, I write novels, act and own lots and lots of cats!

15) What are your top 3 websites?

YouTube, twitter and Tumblr :)

So those were my 30 questions! I think I need to go have a lie-down, haha!

As many of you have probably come to realise, by the time I get these awards, all the blogs I follow have already been nominated and have tagged me, so I have no one to tag for this one. I mean, could tag Maya from ohemgeeitsmaya, but then she would have, like, 3 awards to do (adding up to 45 questions), and that would just be a bit mean!

Speak to you soon, 

Lucy x

Two birthdays in two weeks (life update)

Hey guys :)

I'm sorry that I haven't been blogging or uploading videos much recently - this post is kind of an explanation for why I haven't had much time to do things recently and just a kind of random update!

First thing's first ("I'm the realest" - sorry, force of habit), last week was the holidays, which for me means my birthday (WHOOP WHOOP!!!!). 
I spent a lot of my holiday sleeping (which is very important if you're me) and planning for my party; something I actually remembered to organise this year. 
Last year I kind of left everything to the last minute, by which time everyone's schedule was packed and I had to arrange a different date for people to come round. 

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I'd also like to thank everyone who sent me birthday messages, it means a lot! <3
(a special thank you to Eve for pointing out that I am now halfway-to-30 ...WHAAAATTT)

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My birthday usually falls in the holidays, which has its ups and its downs. It's great to wake up in the knowledge that you won't have to revise algebra on your birthday, though it kind of sucks to have so many of your friends on holiday at the same time. 
This year, I invited about 10 people and only 5 people managed to make it, which wasn't ideal, but it was fine in the end. I was worrying before that the lack of people might mean that people got bored and no one would have anything to talk about, though I think that sometimes I forget just how talkative my friends are! We never really run out of things to talk about, even if we end up talking about something utterly stupid and pointless. 

I also kind of like not being in a big group. I'm not introverted or anything, but I've been to a few parties where there were massive amounts of people, topped with overpowering music, dimmed and flashing lights, shouting and just so many stimulating things. For me, it all kind of gets a bit too much and I can end up feeling anxious and need a sit down. 

It's not that I don't appreciate being invited to parties like these - I actually think it helps to push myself into these kinds of situations sometimes - and for the majority of them I am having a fantastic time, it's just nice to have a change once in a while. 
I have discovered over the years that I am much more of a talking and opinion-sharing person than a dancing person!

I loved the party, regardless of the number of people there - I hardly noticed when it was almost over! We probably spent most of the time looking back at old childhood videos and pictures of ourselves, as many of us there came from the same primary school and love to reminisce. Some of the most interesting videos were from when we decided to start a group YouTube channel a year or two ago with some of the cringiest content ever known to man. We also discovered that we had all forgotten to delete the channel, so all of the horrific videos are still online for everyone to see, and we appear to have forgotten the password to the email account (oops).
Two of my friends also stayed round for a sleepover after everyone had gone, which was really fun. The thing is with my friends is that when we say "sleepover", we really mean watching Maze Runner until the early hours of the morning, and then internally screaming over Maze Runner fan-fiction #sorrynotsorry 

After my birthday, the holidays flew by, and suddenly we were back at school again. I didn't really mind though, as one of my best friends' birthdays lands a week and a day after mine, so we had that to look forward to!
After a long week of school, it was finally Friday and I dressed up to go out for dinner with my friends to celebrate her birthday, took way too many selfies (if there were ever such a thing), then stayed round her house for a sleepover. 
One of my favourite things about my friends, apart from never running out of things to say, is the deep late-night conversations. 
You can learn a lot of things about a person at 2 o'clock in the morning. Our conversations never fail to amaze me, and I love that.

Another thing I wanted to mention during this update is the fact that I have started writing a story that I have been thinking through quite a bit since the idea first came to me. I have just finished the first chapter of it and I am quite proud of what I have done so far, though I am still not sure whether I want to share the story with the internet or not. I haven't posted a story of mine online since I posted a Hunger Games fan fiction on wattpad around two years ago, and I am kind of nervous about sharing my new story idea. 
I don't know, I'd just like an opinion :)

I kind of need to go now because it is getting pretty late, but I think I have just about covered everything I wanted to. My next blog post will probably be the "Best Blogging Buddies Award", which I was very kindly tagged for by Eve of Pen&Key, though I can't guarantee that it will be posted any time soon as I have mock-exams next week, so my head will be buried in various textbooks over the next five days *groans*

Thanks for reading my jumbled mess of a blog post, I will (hopefully) speak to you soon,
Lucy x