McFly, MSN, and Myspace

I saw recently on Sarah-Elizabeth's blog, The Spanish Bluebell, that she did this little remembering post with a random coin she pulled out her wallet. Pretty much the gist is you pull it out at random and reminisce about things you did in that year. Problem was I pulled out a couple of coins first that were 1990 and 1991 so yeah I wasn't born but next was 2008, coincidently the same as Sarah-Elizabeth! So what was happening in 2008? 

Well I turned 14 and was in year 9 for a start, oh year 9 that was truly an awful year for me... that and year 10. Unfortunately my school was a year 7-13 school so everyone was already in friend groups and it wasn't like everyone was in a new school together. I'd only been in New Zealand for just over 3 months of 2007 so 2008 was my first proper year in NZ and my first proper go at school with electives and everything. I was currently ahead of most of my year as the UK is quite far ahead in teaching so I was in all of the top classes and knew everything my beginner French teacher was teaching the class. 

I met the only two people I really speak to properly now from high school in this year. Conveniently the girl I sat next to in Maths was the daughter of my mums work colleagues so we ended up getting to be pretty good friends. The other we didn't really get to know each other until the following year but we met and knew each other so that counts right? I spent most of my time with my best friend at the time who had around 8 dogs at that current moment in time I think, I could never keep up, but that amazed me. I also got my first pair of rats this year, Milo and Slinky, they were my buddies and detested by many but they were the cutest things. 

I didn't join Facebook until 2009 so it was all Myspace and a bit of Bebo for me in 2008 oh how those were the days. Gosh I think I was still on MSN back then, there was only so many ways you could keep in contact with friends on the other side of the world. I mean I had to have someone to talk to about McFly and other British bands seen as no one in NZ knew who they were! I'm pretty sure I was still snooping around things like Runescape and Neopets as well when my friends weren't looking and was my Gaia Online phase in 2008 I cant remember.

I think that's about it, or about as much as I can remember and am willing to share. Pretty much I was a bit lame haha hopefully I've improved since then, at least I can kinda apply make-up now and don't think bright red jeans are the key to fashion... If you have a go at this let me know! 

Last Christmas' Throwback

Day 12 ~ 

I was brought up to love Christmas at a very young age, even had a santa hat shoved on my head at the age of one. I still remember getting my giant kitchen playset for Christmas when I was two it was the most amazing present I've ever had and is still reigning over all the crappy electronics and bikes I've gotten. It was my pride and joy and I still had it up until I was 13 when we moved country and couldn't take it with us, of course I didn't play with it but it was still there in the garden waiting. I think one of my favourite parts of Christmas when I was younger apart from of course the presents and lights and things was the Nativity plays. Being a small blonde girl girl I was always cast as the angel, every single bloody year except one where I was cast as a Wise Man... yes a wise MAN but hey ho I got a solo song and I handled my Frankincense very well x

Throwback Thursday

Whenever I come home or before I went to uni whenever I was bored I'd go and pick out a few photo albums and have a look through. We have so many, my Mum obviously got a bit snap happy in my brother and I's younger years but I'm not complaining. I'm quite a soppy nostalgic girl when it comes to old photos and frankly I'm just trying to figure out if I rocked the full fringe better now or when I was 4.. Sorry about the quality of the photos by the way, our scanner is broken so they're just photos of photos. 

I know I tried to make all the photos of me but I had to include one of my cat, he's so little awwh. Well he's not that huge now but images of him and his sister (the image above where I look like I'm squeezing her to death) are just so cute.. I wonder if he misses her I know I do x