give a girl diamonds she'll be happy for a day, give her technology she'll be happy for a year...

Look at this gorgeous thing that I think if I could I would get down on one knee and shove a ring on it! It's just too perfect I don't want to remove the plastic safety covers as you can see from the shinyness all over the picture. Of course I am so proud to present the new place I shall be blogging!!!! A new shiny iMac!!!!! I'm so excited to get into using it as apart from using them at school and uni I've never used a Mac that's my own. It's weird to not have several thousand servers connected to it (and also lack of several thousand programs sigh). I'm looking forward to using it to blog, especially as I can actually upload photos to blogger instead of having to upload to imgur or another image host and copy and paste them in as blogger on my laptop decides it doesn't ever want me to upload an image via it. I might do a 'bloggers workspace' post soon when I move into my new room and get everything set up as if you can see in the photo everything's just dumped on the desk in this room. 

Hopefully once acquiring Adobe Photoshop this will be the perfect little baby to do all my uni coursework on it sure does have a huge screen even though it's the smaller of the two iMacs but it's been a while since I used my 32inch screen so this feels huge compared to my laptop. It's gonna be great to Photoshop things on! I'm still learning my way around and it did honestly take me about half an hour to figure out how to download Google Chrome (I didn't realise you had to drag it from the image I thought it was just a simple image..) so that's going to be fun! I'll keep you guys updated if there's a hilarious let's all laugh at Sophie moment while learning x

Twenty Fourteen

I know a lot of New Year posts may be overkill but I feel like 2014 is going to be my year. Although I've already had some ups and downs and I know it's going to have one awful death in the family but it seems I've finally found my place.  

I'm really excited to move back down to uni, less because of work but more because I'm flatting with my friends. Last year I lived in uni halls which were 5 bedroom flats so I didn't know my flatmates before I moved in with and it was so lucky that I got on with them and I got on with two of them so much they were like family by the end of the year it was fabulous. I don't know if living in the same flat as my friends will now make it a bit awkward as last year I had some where to go to to get away from if I needed some Sophie time and now I wont. I'm sure it'll be fine though as they all lived on their own last year so they'll be wanting their own time too. Think we'll have some great memories in that flat and hopefully stay there for the next three years of my degree. I'll also be living with my boyfriend which we'll see how that goes as we agreed to live together before actually getting together as I'm really for the whole not living with people you're dating but we'll see. 

I'm hoping my second year at uni will go much smoother in classes having got past that freshers first year of learning all the new things and will finally crack down on classes specific to our degrees. I'm incredibly excited for a class I'm taking called 'Character Design' and really think it'll be so much fun as all I love doing in my spare time is drawing Disney so if I'm able to go down that kinda style route of animation I'll be so happy. I really hope to take my confidence to the next level and allow myself to actually ask for help and work while people are around me and let them see my progress works instead of hiding away until I finish my final piece.

Last night I made a huge purchase which has taken me years to finally cave into something I've really wanted ever since using one for the first time about 4 years ago; an iMac. Frankly I've heard some really good and really bad things about apple and I just wanted to make my own decision about it so just went for it. Deciding on a desktop instead of a laptop as my laptop is still pretty decent but my desktop really does need replacing as I never bother using it as it's useless. I'll just leave it up here when I move back down so I can use it in holidays and not have to bother carting my laptop back and forth as it's a bloody nuisance. 

As for my resolutions it's now the 8th and I'm doing pretty well at most of them, as you can see from this post.. well better than I thought I would personally.