Saturday Festivities

Hello!

I don't do much on Saturdays. I managed to sleep for almost 11 hours after having a rather disturbing dream involving myself in the land of BBC Sherlock in which I shot Moriarty in the face. I don't go for the whole "all dreams have a hidden meaning" thing - it's cool if you do, but I personally don't believe in it. I'd say that that dream says something about me as a person, but just before I fell asleep I was thinking about how Jim was literally chained up in a padded cell in Sherlock's mind palace and the implications behind that, so the dream obviously had something to do with that.

I also ate healthily all day which was great because I need to get rid of that Christmas weight that I gained! Usually the entire month of December invloves me chain-eating junk food and complaining about gaining weight because of it. Food at Christmas is just so much better than other-time-of-the-year food.

As I (think) I mentioned in a previous post, I'll be attending University in September (if all goes to plan) so I took it upon myself this afternoon to research what societies are available to join at my first choice university and I was thrilled to see that there's a LGBT+ society and a Women's society. As a feminist and supporter of LGBT+ rights, this made me very happy. There's also a Hogwarts and a Laser Tag society which I'm definitely considering joining because how fun do they sound?! I was planning on just going to Uni and doing non-social things and keeping my nose in a book, but I really don't want to do that any more! I'm now thinking of putting myself out there a bit more - probably by joining a few societies and actually trying to make friends (insert internal screaming due to fear here...)

Apart from watching Despicable Me earlier on ITV with my dad, I've really not done much else all day. So currently, I'm watching Come Dine With Me on 4oD and thinking about my lack of a social life. I don't care too much; I like having free time!

Ash

Uneventful Day #1

Hello!

Today I woke up naturally at 8:30am which rarely happens, but I embraced it because I like having more than the four daylight hours that I’d usually have when waking up at noon (or later…).

My dad and sister were at work, so I had the house to myself for a few hours. Usually when I have the house to myself, I get Suzie (my guitar) down from my wardrobe and have some guitar and singing time, which I did nicely.

When my dad got home, he sorted out the gutters because they had dirt in them and because he was on the ladder right outside my bedroom window, I sat on my windowsill and chatted to him for a bit.

My grandad comes over on Sundays, so I let him in just as dad was finishing up and made him some coffee and chatted to him and dad for a while before returning to my bedroom to fill in the parts of my coursework essay that I’ve been avoiding for too long.

I don’t know why I didn’t finish it sooner; I actually enjoy writing essays. I even write them for fun sometimes, I’ll have to start posting them if anyone’s interested.

Anyway, I made pasta bolognese for dinner (using Morrisons meat-free mince, which is actually very nice) and because I have absolutely no portion perception when it comes to pasta, I (as usual) ended up making way too much and had to throw at least a quarter of it away because I was too full to manage any more.

Right now, it’s 8:20pm, which means that Sherlock will be starting in ten minutes, so I’m going to go and watch that with my dad (and possibly my sister if she fancies joining us).

I really enjoyed the one on New Year’s Day; Mark Gatiss adding in little snippets especially for the Sherlock fandom without making fun of us was the best thing ever. Fingers crossed that this week’s episode is just as good!

Ash