Didn't even manage it...!

... I couldn't even keep up a simple little blog!

Granted it's not yet been a year, so not too late to evaluate the resolutions that I set for myself on turning 21.
After 9 months of being 21, it really isn't that significant - The only noticeable change is that once in a while I don't get ID'd in Tesco.

The one thing which confirms how not much has changed in that time are my resolutions - The same objectives that I still set myself and am currently working towards right now; Looking for a job in health promotion in Reading, Still very much content with Callum, and in a mad panic looking for a house to live in together with him and two uni friends, while they finish the last year of their courses in Reading.

It's a lot more difficult to hunt for jobs and houses than I thought, particularly when the place you're looking for them is 100 miles away! I'm surprisingly calm though, convinced that everything will be alright in the end and that panicking certainly won't be of any help!

One of the objectives which would seem the easiest but which I know will be the hardest to begin, never mind keep up, will be taking part in hobbies. I can just imagine myself "not having enough time" or being simply lazy. I want so badly to become an expert baker over the next year, hopefully earning enough to afford all the equipment and ingredients, and to towards the end becoming so good at my hobby that I can use it to make money in a small business on the side of a job that I love - Surely the dream, right?

I guess I'll just have to throw myself into the next year, intimidating yet exciting, and get back to you next year - Providing I remember!

Setting aims as the years fly by

I just had a little read back to my over-length blogs when I had just started uni. It's incredible to see what I was doing this time two years ago, and what I was aiming to be doing by this age. From what I've written, in my own over posh and try-hard way, what I aimed to be doing by now seems to be what's happening and that makes me smile! 

As I approach a landmark 21st birthday it makes me think that I should make some aims for next year and the year after etc, so that I can look back over this post and hopefully smile at how everything has continued to go to plan. 

By my 22nd birthday (03/011/13) I hope to...
1) Graduate with a 2:1 - If I could get an average mark of 60+ for my course it would be perfect, and leave my career paths open. It might be tricky considering I have no exam technique and an awful memory, but I'm hoping that I can bring up my average with essays and my dissertation.

2) Continue to be in love - I don't doubt that this one will be the same next year. I sure that me and Callum will be living together in our own little flat in Reading while he finishes his degree, happy as ever. <3 font="font">

3) Be in a job that I'm enjoying - The ideal would be to be a health promotion specialist in Reading so that I can get some money and experience for another degree in nursing or teaching or something. Even if this isn't possible I just want a job that will bring in a good amount of money, and will look decent on my CV for the possible careers I want to go into. 

4)To take up a sport or new hobby - Whether it be badminton, the odd jog, singing, piano, guitar, knitting, card making or baking (or all of these!). I want to be an all round person, and I think a hobby would make me feel both happy and proud of myself for keeping it up.

It was after realising i need to apply for any post-grad courses by october this year that i started really thinking about what i'm going to do with my life, professionally.

I went to the careers office to have a conversation with one of the apparent gurus. The only useful thing the woman said seemed to be all she needed to say.

"where do you imagine yourself, in your future career? when you think of work, what do you picture yourself doing?"

I'm completely aware that nursing will be such a challenging job. I expect that i'll have to put up with countless disregard from the odd difficult patient, and from those in superior positions who look down on me. However, I get the impression that as a job it's improving - Increased pay, more duties, more autonomy and power. If I were to become a health visitor as well I think that would let me use the limited knowledge i've gained from this physiology degree, that I seem to grasp onto so much.

It's all very exciting and quit motivating once you know what you want to do for a job. I can't wait to do some work experience this summer, if I get some - Praying that i'll enjoy and survive it, and that it doesn't put me off! I'll keep you posted on what happens there.

Once again i've left it a ridiculous amount of time since i last blogged. I'm back at uni, after managing, probably miraculously, to pass all of my retakes. Now i have to try and pass the exams that i have in only 3 and 12 days, and this is even before all of the main exams in January.

University seems a different place this year, a completely new experience. My days seem to be filled with little simple pleasures; a coffee break between lectures with new made course friends, or a night in the lounge watching tv with the girls. On the fornightly occasion when i drag myself out in repeated outfits, i seem to be able to hold my drink a lot better. I've also found the next day's hangover seems a lot more bareable and contradictory of my former "natalie chundler" status in sixth form and last year. I'm only hoping this new, i dare say mature, attitude to living, where my asda shop proves as equal fun as clubbing in oceana, will pay off, leaving me finishing with a 2:2 this year.

I've been thinking more and more about what i'm going to do when i finish this degree, now only a year and a half away. Nursing seems to be the most enticing and reasonable idea for what i could do, and the fact that looking up courses at Southampton excites me makes me think i should aim in this direction. I suppose all i can do is try my hardest to leave my options open really. Should i remember or have the time to blog i'll keep you posted on this.

it's been a despicable amount of time since i last blogged, especially considering that i've had 3 months of summer holiday!! It's also a bit ridiculous that i leave it until 2 days before i go back to the busy life of uni to write again.

Suppose i never seem to get bored of boredom and doing nothing in particular. I've spent most of my summer watching TV, facebook (and playing an awful version of the sims online), seeing callum, seeing the girls, looking after my two nightmarish puppies and telling myself that the next day i'll make something of my summer. Oh, and i've packed in a few minutes of revision for my retakes.

The retakes really intimidated me, but understandingly so, they do determine the rest of my university education. If i've failed them there's a lot to think about, in terms of whether i should redo the year or just give up and try a degree that i've got a chance in hell of succeeding!!

I'm trying to find a picture of something that sums up my summer, but i don't think there is one that brings it all together! There have been lots of different components to my summer so all i can do is pick one from probably the best night i've had with my friends since i've been home.

just far too incredible, surely can't be real, must be dreaming. There's no way i'm equal in goodness, no way. There's nothing more i want than for it to last forever, just hope my imperfection doesn't get in the way. one whole year with CG <3

taking some cheeky tips from H&M:

- "Avoid the demure connotations of covering up by pairing your long skirt with edgy pieces – a biker boot, say, or a cropped tee. That way, you’ll get the elegance that long provides, but keep your cool. A formulation that has the perfect fashion measurements"

Really like this bikini. All i need is the bod now!

Loving this kind of blouse, they're everywhere. deffers need to get in on this! Really want some cheap high waisted denim shorts, but they seem to be impossible to find!

Might have to search charity shops for some hideous high waisted trousers and go nuts cutting them up!

Need billions of simple but pretty tops like this that i can just chuck on but that look a bit spesh. Love this colour aswell, although, again, needs a tan. die.

oh my, these are soooo cute. investing in a similar pair for sure!