April Catch Up

So my birthday month is finally over and it truly was a birthday month I celebrated from Easter weekend all the way til last weekend it was great! Lets have a catch up and see what else happened.

The beginning of the month was Easter weekend and the start of my two week mid semester break. Due to not being able to go home for the holidays as I live so far away from my uni that it's slightly pointless paying over $300 to go home for around 10 days, my parents came down to Wellington instead and brought my brother along. We didn't do too many exciting things just spent some good quality time with them seen as I hadn't seen them since January it was nice to chill with them and celebrate my birthday seen as Brad was in Australia at a Brass Band competition which he won by the way. The following week his brothers came down and we saw Ed Sheeran!!!!! I can't contain my excitement it was amazing and I already have my tickets to see him again in December my gosh! I spent the rest of the holidays with Brads family in Wanganui enjoying the free time I had before uni started again and Brad started his busy Anzac week with Air Force, also celebrated my birthday again. Hallelujah the actual birthday happened! It was a fab day spent with friends and making memories; now I remember why I don't drink on weekdays anymore...  

Hands down I've been loving cake oh my god I feel like I've had enough cake last month to make me never want cake again but hey if you're offering? I've also been loving the apple products I kindly got gifted for my birthday - being a special 21st I got an Apple TV and an Apple Trackpad, golly gosh they're amazing I can't wait til our internet is reconnected this week so I can permanently watch Netflix while doing uni work.

Unfortunately due to giving myself a few days off here and there over April because of holidays etc there have been less posts than usual however there's still enough to compete for top three and here they are: 

iHerb Haul

I made a sneaky order over on iherb.com and this is what I hauled, also including a few more items from local shops. Check it out here.

Artist Attraction: Jasmine Dowling

Have a look at one of my favourite artists/designers at the moment, she creates gorgeous type designs and I just want to buy all of them. See here.

MSN, McFly & Myspace

Following Sarah-Elizabeth's post I flipped out my wallet and with a coin I looked back into my past. Look at what I'm talking about here.

Recently...

I've been a bit busy recently and after scheduling some posts while I've been away with no internet I'm back with more inspiration! So to catch you up here's some of my recent goings on. I've spent some quality time with the family before moving back to Wellington as I'm not sure when I'll be next home so we took the campervan out to Whakatane for a weekend and then travelled down to Wellington to drop off my stuff and join Brad's family camping. It was the first proper time our families spent quality time together and I'm glad to say it went off very smoothly, helped along by alcohol of course! They all went home and Brad and I stayed longer to spend some time together after almost a month apart; throwing rocks at the beach is what all the cool couples are doing right?! Once returning to the land of internet and phone signal we actually managed to find a kitten! Our own little tiny kitten barely months old and free I might add, more on him in a later post though he needs to be properly introduced. Hope things are going well for you guys in the recent weeks. 

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

This week it was announced that Ed Sheeran is coming back to New Zealand and I am so freaking excited and do not care how much he is going to cost I muuuuuust get a ticket! The last time I went to his concert was back in 2012 and it was the time where not a lot of people knew about him seen as The A Team had only recently made it to the New Zealand charts so I managed to get a seat on the second row (but spent the entire time leaning on the stage in the not-quite-a-mosh-but-that-kinda-thing area) and it was amazing. Since then he's been back twice and the first time it was the time of being accepted into unis and not knowing where I would be living I didn't get a ticket which really sucks. The second was a free concert where only contest winners could go which I unfortunately didn't win any of them but I was still able to watch the entire thing live on the internet in the comfort of my own home so it wasn't 100% bad.

He's probably one of little artists and bands that I tend to like pretty much every song they have as my least favourite song is This but I still really like it, his others are just flipping amazing. My boyfriend is still pretty impressed that I can rap all of You Need Me, I Don't Need You and the rap part of Sing haha the amounts of time I sing them in the shower is hard to count.

and if the city never sleeps than that makes two

I move back to the city this Sunday and I'm really excited! I'm not that excited about leaving my family again as I'm such a family person and being 8 hours away from them feels awful through the year but I manage. The thing this year though is I've gotten over freshers year, I'm no longer a freshman I'm now a sexy sophomore or ya know a sophimore... ANYWAYS bad jokes aside I plan this year to make more of an effort and spend more time doing things than staying inside. We know this is most probably not going to happen but if I write it down it's more likely to motivate me! 

1. Explore the city more. Wellington isn't a huge city so it can't be too hard and I just find that I call myself a Wellingtonian but I've never even been up the hill. Ever. I want to go for more adventure walks and take my camera with me and hopefully update you on the way! 
2. Spend more time in the library. Last year I used the library soley for wifi and disney animator books so this year I want to spend more time in it and explore all the different sections. There's some glorious books in there and I want to read quite a few of them and expand my knowledge. 
3. Meet new people. I'm not the best person to make friends and usually I only make friends through my friends or for a few weeks while we struggle through a class together. This year though I'm gonna try my best to make and keep some new friends that I do more than just add on Facebook as that's just pointless. 

I spent all last year staring out my window at the world (it was an amazing view) so this year I want to get stuck into that world I stared at and become a part of the city and get involved. 

Catch Up On Life

I haven't been able to blog properly for a while because of a silly virus my laptop has that means it's rather hard to upload photos and also I can't get photos off Instagram for example. So I thought I'd do a wee catch up on what's been happening with my life. 

1. Uni has been a bit busy due to the fact I'm doing a few classes that involve things I've never done before. It's a bit stressful at first but I'm starting to get the hang of it and I guess it's good to jump out of your comfort zone a bit, there's nothing more boring than sitting through a 4 hour class week after week with your teacher going over the basics of Photoshop, at least I'm learning a lot of things this semester.
2. Now it's second semester a lot of us first years are starting to get a bit worried about where we're going to live next year as Uni Accommodation is only available for first years. Luckily a few friends and I got together and through a link on TradeMe managed to find this really nice flat practically next door to where I am now which is great. It's 5 bedroomed and sharing it with 5 other people means it's practically like this year all over again. I'm really excited to move in and customise the place especially as my room is like three times the size as my one here at the moment and I can actually stick things on the wall woohoo! 
3. My friend has been constantly nagging me to start watching Teen Wolf with her and a few others and I've been putting it off again and again with hope of less tv the better but I caved. For the past few days I've watched all three series up to date and am thoroughly addicted oops! Team Sterek! Along with that I've had a serious addiction to The Mortal Instruments book series, I'm currently part way through the fifth one and seriously excited for the movie in like 18 days eek! 
4. Following a wee procrastination session today I decided to rearrange an area of my room so that I can access my clothes easier and I don't know about you but after rearranging things everything looks so different even if it's just a small shelf that got moved. It feels good to have a place for everything now and not random trousers and tops sitting on my bed because they have no place to go.

Oh that was a much longer post than I thought it would be hey ho I'll end it here and keep the rest for later x

There's no place like home :)

There's just something special about coming home from living away for even 2 months. Living in the city means there's not really all that much vegetation, there is quite a bit being New Zealand but there's just not as  much as further up north where my parents are. The sun was shining bright, the skies were blue and there were hardly any clouds.. I just couldn't not take photos.

I will say it will be a great break from the city but I'm not sure I'm going to cope in this tiny town for a whole month but lets see how we go. I think it's going to be a few days sleeping and relaxing in bed, in pajamas and all that jazz hehe x 

Can there be a grander view in life?

When I found out the position of my room in my flat I was pretty pleased with myself. There's only a few who have the same view as me in the building so it was good luck on my side. The only problem is at this time of the quarter is it's due date time again so I should really be concentrating... but with both the desk in my room and the desk in our lounge looking straight out the window who else wouldn't be distracted by the amazing view. I'm going to be pretty sad to leave this baby at the end of the year as people watching has become one of my main procrastination strategies. x

We got tickets! Yay!

The pre sale for Taylor Swift's Red Tour happened today and of course my two friends and I were poised at the ready refreshing the page to get tickets instead of going to our uni classes. As soon as one of us got the ticket page we went into an absolute frenzy as two of our laptops wouldn't go through the buying process without crashing so in the end it was third laptop lucky and we managed to get tickets. Unfortunately one of the ones we thought had crashed had actually gone through so we ended up with 3 more tickets than we wanted. The past hour has been spent on every social network we're on trying to sell the tickets so we wouldn't run up the bill on my parents credit card so much. So far we've managed to sell two so all is not lost, there's always trade me hehe. 

I'm really excited for the show especially as Ed Sheeran has been touring with her and although it hasn't been announced if he is joining her for the New Zealand leg of the tour I still have hope. I'm not waiting til next year to see him again it's already been too long. Even if he doesn't Taylor will still be amazing and I have 6 months to go through every single one of her songs so far and learn every single lyric it will be amazing. 

Oh and of course it being in Auckland we get to see Sam again which is fabulous. I can't wait x