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Update on Life...

So Christmas has come and gone once again and I feel like time is moving too fast! How has Christmas already past us and 2014 is nearly over? The end of my degree sees even closer now this side of December 25th than before it, and I'm already dreading those last few weeks where we'll all be working hard on essays and exams without any time to actually say goodbye. And then what will happen? I have too many ideas of what job I would like to do, that I can't settle on one. I might return to my home job in a supermarket for the summer whilst I search properly, but at the moment it is too confusing! Other third year students will agree with me!

So Christmas Day was lovely and I got so much more lovely presents than what I was expecting. The boyfriend and I spent Christmas Eve having dinner with his family, which I always enjoy! His little nephew was being exceptionally cute, as always, wanting me to play games with him and dragging me around the house. I found myself drifting off eventually as I had been at work earlier in the day and was already knackered. Wine didn't help.

Christmas Day was spent with my family. In the morning, the boyfriend went back over to his own family's to open presents, whilst we opened our own. I had bought my family a Christmas jumper each (below) from Primark; I was actually surprised everyone wore theirs!! Especially my brother as he's a grumpy teenager who dislikes Christmas and present giving. He takes a Sheldon (The Big Bang Theory) stance on the whole idea of present giving, where there's just no point to it.

They all look so pretty!!

I finally got a Pandora bracelet which I have been hinted for, for a while. It's so beautiful and already has five charms. I also got a food mixer from my parents for my baking, which is just so beautiful I can't contain myself. I feel like a kid again with all these presents. My boyfriend's family bought me loads themselves, and I felt so spoilt. Hopefully I'll do more posts with my presents, as I am so excited to share what I got! And the boyfriend himself got me the most beautiful necklace along with the most comfiest slippers EVER. He knows me too well!

Boxing day is my sister's birthday, so this was spent at home as well! I didn't realise how much I'd actually bought her until I was giving it to her. I think she had a great day; as she was able to see some of her friends and got loads of games for her new Xbox One. That's right, she bought herself an Xbox One and it is beautiful. I admit, I am jealous... but gave us some east gift ideas!

Christmas is great, but is not as exciting without children! Now my siblings and I are all older, Christmas is definitely not as exciting as it used to be; it's just another day really. I was personally quite excited just to have a day off work since I've been in every day we've been open! Kids make the day more special, as my boyfriend's nephew showed me on Christmas Eve. I honestly can't wait until I have my own family and we can got all out with the decorations and spoil them with presents and go overboard with the Santa thing. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Christmas; it was great! But the excitement around it comes from children!

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My Week In Pictures

A little exciting snippet into my life.... Warning!! The following images may contain scenes of a Christmasy nature....

These pictures are not really in order, especially as these two happened yesterday, but I could not contain my excitement of actually getting to see the Coca Cola truck yesterday in the middle of Liverpool! I didn't even know it did a tour of the UK in the run up to Christmas, and I just pointed at it with my mouth open in shock. It looked so wonderful, and I'm not just saying that because Laura and I got a free small can of coke!

 This looks so much prettier in real life... So Laura and I had a day trip to Liverpool yesterday to do a bit of Christmas shopping. I bought my family the most amazing presents which I can't wait for them to open on Christmas Day! Aaaaah it's so exciting! I did also buy myself a couple of things, but I can never resist! 

These two were indeed two of the things I bought. It's really weird, because me and Laura keep buying the same things, and I didn't even realise she had this eye shadow pallet until I asked her if the colours suit me. This is the first ever eye shadow pallet I have bought as I usually use ones that are given to me as presents. But I couldn't resist these colours. They are so pretty!! I tried the shimmery pink with the darkest tone today and thought it looked fab. And the best thing about Barry M is that it's cruelty free!

I also got this nail varnish from Barry M in Red Wine, which, I'm not gonna lie, looked a lot like blood when I was putting it on. I've wanted a colour like this for a while now; I've got a strong, bright red, but this is a lovely deep scarlet colour.

So I took a selfie of myself during the week. That happened. I'm not good with selfies, but I liked this one.

I made gingerbread biscuits!!!!!!!!! I actually made a gingerbread man for each of my house mates. They said they all liked them, which made me happy. But what they didn't know is just how many of these I ate before they could get to them... Not even sorry.

This happened a little over a week ago, but my history course mates and I went to Patisserie Valerie for cake and coffee, and oh my goodness, it was amazing. I cannot convey to you how delicious this slice of strawberry gateaux was. It was so light, but still so creamy. My friend, Emily, had the chocolate one, but I didn't think I could handle it. I had a mocha with it as I was feeling jazzy... yes, jazzy = mocha time. Honestly one of the nicest places I've been for an afternoon kinda tea thing, and it wasn't even too expensive.

This happened. There are only 6 of us in the house, yet this is how many calendars we have... and since this picture was taken, I think we've got a couple more. Mine is obviously the Doctor Who one, but I also have the one below it.... you will soon seen why.

I absolutely loved this when I bought it... I got it with the BBC Doctor Who magazine, which cost me a few bob, but I definitely thought it was worth it... Until I opened it up on the evening of the 1st December...

...And found this. A toy?!?! What is this?! Where is the chocolate?! No where in the magazine or on the box did it say it was not a chocolate calendar, but contained toys. Usually people would think this was better, but I was looking forward to chocolate!! I felt even worse when reminded how cocky I was being because my advent calendar was so thick, it must contain the best and biggest chocolate of the lot. But no. No... that was not the case. So Jess bought me another, CHOCOLATE advent calender the next day :') But my army of Doctor Who monsters is still slowly growing...

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