Showing posts with label driving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label driving. Show all posts

Monday, 31 August 2015

THE PAST FIVE MONTHS

Ho. Ly. Shit! 

So the past few months have been interesting - to say the least. What hasn't happened? I fell madly in love, turned 18, got my first tattoo and bought a car. All within 5 months. 

Okay, so falling in love... I thought I had been through that before. Turns out I hadn't - like at all!
I've decided that what I had been through was attachment to another human being, craving human attention so much that you jump at the chance for the first person who comes along to give it to you.

No, What I'm in now is love. From the raging butterflies that consume my stomach every time she looks at me to the constant need of physical contact - there is no other way to describe it but that four letter word.

Turning 18... THE most anti-climactic thing going. I have been "out on the town" TWICE. Its safe to say I'm a little disappointed at myself.

My first tattoo - not something I went crazy with but boy do I have plans for my next... 100! I got a small stick woman outline in black on my left thumb/back of my hand. I love it because the tattooist used the exact drawing I gave him (that I drew) so she has little quirks about her. Like having stubby arms and one leg shorter than the other. 

And finally my car. Miss Pepper "Chuggers" Chuggington is a Smooth Mint fiat 500 and I am utterly obsessed with her. Pepper gets her first name from a conversation I had with my dad, I was trying to explain the colour of the car and when he said "like peppermint?" I knew her name! "Chuggers" didn't come until the day I got her. I got her delivered to my work and the first place I drove her to was my girlfriends house. I picked her up and we went for a drive for me to "break in the car" as I was told to do by some many people and attempted a somewhat steep hill going 30 mph in 4th.  Without soundly like I'm exaggerating pepper almost came to a stop! I quickly had to drop to 2nd, floor the accelerator and pray out loud, When an exclamation from passenger finished off her name. "Come on Chuggers" So far I have only three "decorations" - A small multi-coloured/gay pride themed dream catcher, A small licence plate that has my name on it from LA and a green stuffed money companion called Salt (like Salt and Pepper, get it?!) Who's arms and legs wrap around the headrest on my seat.

What an eventful five months - I'm utterly exhausted.


Natasha

Monday, 18 August 2014

WHAT I WANT FROM THE FUTURE

I have quite the obsession with planning. I have two to three detailed life plans depending on where I want the wind to take me but mostly they all include the same things. Things such as what I want to do with my life. There are many things that I would like to accomplish in the next few years.


Here are a few of them:

1. Smile and laugh more - Being only 17 I have had my fair share of teenage depression and traumatic experiences. This stops here!

2. To become more knowledgeable - There are so many things that I want to learn about. At the moment I am working through a basic child and adolescent counselling course, some other things that I want to know more about are things like Event Management and Interior Design.

3. Learn how to best use my Polaroid camera - I bought myself a fujifilm instax mini for my birthday this year however I'm not a brilliant photographer so the photos that I have taken with it so far are too over-exposed, which is annoying and expensive!



   (Maria and I - 05/07/2014)

4. To meet new people - This could mean meeting the friends of my current friends or it could be discovering new people for myself. 

5. Learn how to budget - I'm the kind of person who can get through my pay packet in a few hours - this shall be no more.

6. Get strong - I am quite the fragile person when it comes to emotions. I don't think I have watched a film in the past 4-5 years in which I haven't cried a minimum of 3 times. Its a wonder that my eyes can still produce tears!

7. Start enjoying driving - I started learning to drive at the end of June of this year (2014) but haven't really enjoyed it, it's quite overwhelming that I thought I could learn, take my tests and pass in less than six months! Even with four months left, I have little faith. I guess I will just have to practice, practice, practice.

8. TRAVEL - There are many, many places that I would like to see with my own eyes. I want to start by seeing more of England (specifically Brighton and Wales).


(Myself - with the white toe nails - and two of my friends' feet on Bournemouth's beach)

9. At least once, properly tidy my room without getting distracted... 

10. I want this list to grow with me, I do not plan on having the same goals in 5 years as I do now!

Let me know if there is anything that you want to achieve!


Natasha