Day 30...aka - I only went and blimmin' did it!

Ha! Take that past 2 years me! I guess the fact that I've been taking a photo a day since last December kind of helps the whole 'routine' thang.
Now, you may be wondering about above photo. Shouldn't I have taken a picture of something more exciting seeing as how it's the last day? Well, possibly, but this is somewhat exciting for me. Well...maybe exciting is a bit strong, but still deserving of a mini victory dance in my eyes.
See - these jeans that I'm so wonderfully modeling? Size 10! I fit back into a 10!
...

what?
...

ahh, yeah, ok fine, I may *possibly* have not been able to do them up...but I did get them on! It's only a matter of time you know.
I'm kinda happy, all I did was start eating a bit healthier and cut out snacks after 10pm. It's taken a year, but I'm a stone lighter and a few inches thinner.
Yay.
So that's it I guess. Wonder if I'll ever remember to come back on here now that Sept is over? Hmm...we'll see...
xxx

Day 29...

2 for today -

1) Same as yesterday except replace watercolour sunset with bright moon.

2) Well, I really wish I didn't have to learn this one, BUT, it doesn't seem that my dermatitis (or eczema or whatever they call it next time I go to the doctors) is going anywhere anytime soon. Pain in the arse. (or, if we're being literal, actually pain in my hands, elbows, knees, back, head...)

Funny how these things can suddenly develop out of nowhere. Sidesplittingly hilarious really.

Ahh, I shouldn't complain really, at least it goes through un-itchy phases. I know some don't.

I guess my dreams of being a globally famous hand model are out of the window. Sob. Ain't it a shame?...

Day 28...

As much as a vintage wash helped some of my (quite dodgy) previous photos from this month, it doesn't really do much for a gorgeous watercolour sunset.

Day 27...

Even electronical equiptment can be in need of a bit of relationship counciling every now and then.

(My laptop and router decided they weren't on speaking terms again. Luckily I actually remembered what I had to do last time. Yay me.)

Day 26...

Now M.O.T's are electronic they go through blimmin' quick.

Day 25...

When you spend the whole day (up until 10pm that night) trying to find out what the gas men are doing by climbing in the holes with them you will be exhausted the next day.
Particularly if you happen to be a small cat.

Day 24...

Gas engineer man says 'suspected small leak in the area'.

Mum hears 'we're about 30 seconds from exploding in a gas fueled fire bomb'.

Day 23...

If you set out with the intention of not buying anything you will, in fact, buy quite a bit...

Day 22...

*Don't ignore a random ear ache, apparently they're there for a reason*

Ahh, my ear's been hurting the past few days (which, amazingly, is probably one of the few things about my person that don't hurt on a daily basis). For some reason I didn't pay that much attention to it. Now I keep sneezing and have a sore throat. Poop.

Though, I don't really know what I could have done to stop it...

Day 21...

If in doubt, take a step back.

(or a photograph...)

I started this *forever* a go. I did the face then panicked. See - there's a ton of shading still to do and I've only started on the hair today - I'm just so worried I'll ruin it! It's daft really. It's my first ever portrait, but...yeah...too much of a perfectionist, that's the problem.

I can't stand it when things don't come out how I envision them at first try. Ridiculous I know, but there we are. I'm sort of trying drawing as a way to 'train' my patience. We'll see how that one goes now I'm starting up again...

Back to the lesson of the day. See, I knew something wasn't quite right but I couldn't put my finger on it. (other than the obvious lack of shading/shaping on the face and hair...)

Mum always suggests holding it infront of the mirror but my eyesight's a bit odd and that never really works for me so I tried taking a photo, and voila!

The jaw looks to wide/heavy and I need to widen the mouth a touch - looks a bit pinched. I'm hoping the shading will fix a lot of those problems though...

Ahh, sorry I'm doing that 'typing my thoughts out loud' thing again.

Sweet dreams to all (I'm looking into that dream diary after last nights school play where I did the conga across the stage felt too hot and ran outside where my school playground had turned into a cemetry...hmm...)

xxx

Day 20...

The prettier the butterfly thinks it is (which, lets face it, it is beautiful) the more likely they are to pose for you.

It took me about half an hour to get the speckled wood to stay still long enough for a photo - which didn't even come out properly as it landed on the stones. The comma (above) didn't move an inch though. Love crazy ass butterfly week!

(yes, I know I called it 'day' yesterday but that was just for the fact that one day seems to be crazier than all the rest. Yesterday was that day.)

Day 19...aka crazy ass bee/butterfly day

So there's this bush (see above) at the end of our garden (it's our neighbours) and around this time of year for a few days the bees and butterflies go absolutely nuts trying to get all the nectar/pollen. It's mad! All you can hear is a constant drone from the bees and you have to keep ducking all the butterflies that just sort of glide all over the place. That on top of all the sunshine made for a lovely day!

We're ignoring the fact that I manage to not wake up until 11.30 feeling like I went hiking the day before. I didn't. I barely managed to get up at all. I'm starting to wonder about sleepwalking. My dreams have always been so vivid. Though I did have a dream where I was running. I do tend to tense up a lot if I'm running...

It started out that I was Britney Spears and I was filming a new video, walking down the street singing, then this guy (dressed up as a cartoon Beatle, I'm thinking John Lennon) started chasing me (I'm me again now). I ran down the (very sunny) street and ended up running into a phone box (as in, literally, not as in opening the door) so of course he caught up with me. I turned round and it was now night and he was now Robert Pattinson ( I *swear* I stopped looking up Twilight weeks ago) and all the people had vanished. I wasn't exactly scared but I did wonder why it was night (which kinda makes a change in my dreams) I turned around and I was all alone back in my trusty, doesn't exist out of my dreams, empty car park in the woods outside a furniture store.

Then I wake up.

Now what the blinking heck was that all about, hmm?

I keep thinking I should keep a dream diary...

Day 18...

When all other food options fail, you can't beat a bit of marmite on toast. Mmm...
(not to offend the marmite haters out there of course...)
xx

Day 17...

Bit of a cop out I'd imagine, but have a guess at what I learned today...

Actually, I probably shouldn't admit to this, but I did sort of learn something else...

See, while attempting to figure out what the hell I was doing (gotta say intructions for this thing kinda sucked, so what if it's #5, I can't be the only one in the world who's never played this before?!) umm...well...yeah, okay, I'm there for a bit trying to figure out how in the hell you're supposed to be able to play along with the notes without looking at them.

I study the keys and wonder why they didn't put them in the order they're in on screen.

On closer inspection I notice they are in the same order, just back to front.

I wonder why they did that...

....

After I turned the guitar the 'right way round' it strangely worked so much better.

Funny that.

...sigh...

Day 16...

*Just when you think it's all over...

I noticed a glow of orange out of my bedroom window, coming from behind the (dead) Borage. I went to investigate and found this gorgeous beauty. Little bit of summer in autumn. Wonderful.
xx

Day 15...

*If you're going to try to take a photo of the dreary rainy day, with shakey cold hands, remember to turn the flash on otherwise it's all just blur.

As a sidebar to the above - remember to keep your batteries charged as when it does come out in a blur you can take a second shot with the flash on...

xx

Day 14...aka Dad's birthday

* My carpet is quite nice, when I can actually see it...

I shall probably be re-learning this lesson quite often. Things just end up getting piled in corners...pain in the arse when it comes round to hoovering. Oomph. Tiring day!

xx

Day 13...aka Nan's Birthday

*Sometimes you just need time to yourself.

I had planned a million and one things to do while mum and dad went to London to see my nan for her birthday. Instead I ended up curled up on the sofa with a hot water bottle (blimey it got cold quick!) playing games on the comp and catching up with my recorded bits n bobs.
Actually it was mostly a spendaholic/bank of mum and dad marathon - I love those programs! How the hell do these people get into so much debt?! My age and they owe £22,000?!?! Ok, yeah, I still live at home, but still! This one bloke had spent £25,000 on 42 imported Japenese robots. Robots! They didn't even look all that amazing, just like Transformers really. £25,000!!! Goodness.
xx

Day 12...

It's funny the things you spot when looking for something else entirely

(told you they liked our mouldy old grapes)
xx

Day 11...

Okay, I may have to come up with something more clever for my daily titles - *every* time I write 'Day whatever...' I want to follow it with 'of my life in a bubble'...

Perfectly normal response, no?

So, on to todays lesson..

The later in the year the prettier the sunsets. Mmm. I can't wait for Winter. I seem to remember having a lovely bright red one either last Christmas Eve or the one before.

Oh, and it's Crane Fly season. Joy. Thankfully I discovered this due to the one on the *outside* of the window.

Note to self - must remember to shut all windows and doors by 3pm...

xxx

Day 10...

Aaand...not a very exciting lesson today (so what's new...?)

* If you wake up at god knows what hour you too will discover that condensation season has arrived.

To be fair it may have started a few days back, it has been pretty clear/cold-ish for a while now, but today I found out for myself as some twit customer of dads decided to ring at stupid o'clock to let him know (before they borded the plane) that they didn't want him to put the blind back up in the bathroom. Which he wasn't going to do anyway. Oh what a waste of a lie in...

xx

Day 9...

Not so much of a learning as a re-learning -
I *love* autumn sunshine. I really do. No humidity, just sunny sunshine and lovely layers. Huzzah.
I also don't adhere to the whole 'autumn begins on Sept. 22nd' nonsense.
12/4=3.
3 months per season.
Sept-Nov=Autumn.
Period.
xx

Day 8...

I have been learning, I just haven't been blogging, so...yeah...

The butterflies I was talking about before? Yeah, they were fa-ar to big to work. Luckily my cousin had some cute little butterfly punch outs on the glasses at her wedding (which I may have brought home with me...)

And my 'lesson'? 30 butterflies sounded like such a small number in my head. After tracing and cutting? A tad larger than first thought...hmm...

Oh, and my counter on the side thingy has gone a bit odd. I swear whatever the number was (I don't really pay attention, not completely sure why I had it) began with a 2 and now it's a 1, and I'm sure it was only 4 digits and now it's 5...

Isn't that strange?

I had several theories, 1 being that I was going to find 10 ton of spam in the comments, OR some little Rob Pattinson/Kristen Stewart fan ferreted me out somehow and attacked my, frankly, amazing award show plan.

Turns out neither happened so heaven knows what the heck happened there. Maybe I've just gone a bit mad...shh..

xx

Day 7...

* When you ask the parcel gods for an early delivery so it's safe to wash your hair while mum's at art (for fear of running to the door soapy and drippping wet), they may well answer you. Should I offer them a virgin cardboard box in sacrifice?

* Mountain Dew has a freakishly long (I'm talking, like, Nov. 3009 here) best before date. I am now highly suspicious of it. Still, I've got 1000 years to pluck up the nerve...

Oh, and acid drops aren't nearly as mouth puckering as the description suggests. Hmph.
xxx

Day 6...

Even though they've stayed on the vine for too long, are packed full of seeds, have peel so thick you need a knife to cut them and a have a taste that will blow your socks off, it would appear butterflies quite enjoy our grapes.
Go figure.
xxx

Day 5...

I dragged myself out of bed today to find this guy curled on his head, completely zonked. Bless. Clearly he had a good time out and about while we were at the wedding.

Not overly sure what my lesson is but my discovery -

* even curled up on his head and not moving an inch for at least half an hour, Pip doesn't wake up stiff with a head rush. Completely unfair. When I try it I pull muscles and end up falling over...oh to be a cat...

xxx

Day 4...

* Don't try and predict what will happen in advance, odds are you'll be completely wrong.

I had two predictions for my cousins wedding today -

#1 - I'll be in a big puddly heap come 2.30 and be begging to be taken home (in fact I survived until 9pm! Though I think I'm paying for it now...sigh...)

#2 - With all the rain we've had all week I figured it'd be pouring down once we got to the church for 1pm. Nope. Glorious sunshine all day long! Should've guessed that as the weatherman actually said it would rain (unlike the sunshine they've been predicting all week when it's done nothing but pour down...)

Actually, maybe I should have a 2 part lesson for today -

* Never trust weathermen!

Though, really, I think I should have learnt that lesson by now...

Charlotte & Bubsy's wedding was absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous church, great food, lovely weather, and I *loved* Charlotte's dress. I've been to a few weddings now and, of course, each bride looked stunning, but Charlotte's dress was the first proper 'princess' dress (if you know what I mean!?) Even if she did need 2 helpers and have to stand to pee...guess that kind of takes the 'princess' edge off?! Ahh, who cares, she looked beautiful!

And the boys scrubbed up rather nicely too!)

Anyhoo, I'm done in. Not sure I'll be awake for long enough to learn a lesson for Day 5, but we shall see...

xxx

Day 3...

Hmm...may be too early in the day to have 'learnt my lesson' but I'm posting anyway as there's a very good chance I'm going to forget to come by here later!

Hopefully I won't be learning anything else (yesterday was only going to be the first three I typed then I checked my account...stupid fourth lesson!)

So back to today -

* Weddings are exhausting! How on earth am I going to cope with my own!? I think I'll be introducing a delegation rule...

(not that I have to worry about *that* any time soon...!)

Just been trying to work out how/where to journal in my book and I think I'll be cutting out 30 butterflies. 2 down...!

Still not completely sure what page/photo size to use but I seem to be leaning towards 6x6. I think this way I'll be able to use up a bunch of stash too so win win all round I say!

Not sure when I'll get round to putting the pages together but with my cousins wedding tomorrow I'm due to get a bunch of photos developed next week so hopefully I'll at least have the first week done while I'm still in September! That is if I get my new card?...though actually I think I'll be going to tesco or similar to get them done. Kinda loathe to type in my new card number *anywhere*. Good job we've cancelled lovefilm, so there's nowhere that *needs* the new number. Urgh.

Anyhoo, back to the butterflies!

xxx

Day 2...

Hmm...apparently I've used that title before...

So, my lesson for today? Quite a few really...

* If you have a bad back, don't leave the house! (stupid stupid stupid)

* If it looks like it's going to pour down with rain, chances are - yes, yes it is.

* Just because they have it 'in-store' online doesn't mean it will actually be *in-store*.

* Oh, and for heavens sake keep a detailed record of every expendeture on your bank cards. Whether in store or online. And check your bank statements regularly. That way you too will know when some sod has nicked your details and withdrawn £30. Grr...

(really wish I hadn't had a need to learn that last one...)
xxx

Learn something new every day? Day 1...

Even if you don't like a photo of yourself chances are your mum will love it.

(not that she's biased or anything...!)

xxx