The Start of Something New - Hmm, i'm sure that's the title of a Priscilla song!

Recently I’ve been feeling that I don’t really have time for any of the little extra things in life like reading (seriously, Forever is only 178 pages so doesn’t count as a book), coffee with friends, opening post (!!)…just the simple things that make you feel like you’re doing something other than going to work, going to sleep (with a serious amount of blogging in between!).

To remedy this problem I decided to try getting up earlier! This would allow me to catch-up with blogs / comments before getting ready for work (I already did this but it tended to make me later than I wanted to be for work and left me a bit frazzled in the AM – see conversation via email below)

Jen - I'm drafting a post called "things you never knew about me"... #1. you may know about my OCD but do you know that I religiously check the blogs I'm following (all however many of them) on my Iphone before I even get out of bed in the morning!? No, I thought not! Haha, it's true! Life is sad!

Friend - I’m well aware of your internet obsession missy

Jen - Seriously, the second I wake up, I role over, grab my phone and away I go. Wifi is an incredible thing!! I like to do it that way because then I don't have to worry I'm missing something when I arrive at work - OMG I am hysterical in my head!! To be honest though I am not ashamed of my obsession! I do love the internet!

Friend - OMG, I am actually hysterical at you! I’m sure you could go to some remote part of the states and marry the internet and it would be legit.

As you might be able to tell, blogging was causing me some stress but not blog related stress, it was life related stress. Anyway, today was my first day of setting my alarm for 6am in the hope that I would get up early, do the blogging thing and then actually be able to sit down, have a drink or just do something other than blog. Lets re-cap on what actually happened this morning!

5:40 - woke with a fright - I was dreaming my boss had discovered my high volume of internet use and I had in fact been sacked!
5:40 - 6:00 - Laid in bed concerned about whether I had in fact lost my job (ridic I know!)
6:00 - alarm goes off
6:00 - 7:00 (usual getting up time) - playing catch-up with
blogs (because I love you all so much remember!)
7:00 - Got dressed, walked to get a newspaper (trashy daily tabloid of course)
7:15 - Got back, sat and read paper and had coffee.
7:45 - brush hair (I totally forgot to do it before getting paper! ahh), usual brief beauty regime!
8:00 - ensure I have everything for work
8:10 - Drive to work
8:25 - Arrive at work
8:40 - Pressure is too much - sneaky peak at Blogger!!!
9:00 - in desperate need of sleep....hmm, I wonder if I'd get away with closing my office door and napping!?

So....it sort of worked! I got to do more in the AM but I'm slightly concerned that I wont be able to stay awake through American Idol tonight and that will be a tragedy! How will I cope? That doesn't mean you have to give me last nights results!!

I totally forgot to mention....it was a 1 day trial. I'm off work tomorrow so it doesn't matter what I do WOO HOO! Just weaning myself in early!

My First Blog Award!

I was saving this for a blog-drought day, where I’m uninspired for a post! Today is that day (so far anyway). Hopefully I’ll get some inspiration later and I will *gasp* post twice in one day!!

So here goes…

I received the Kreativ Blogger Award from cJs (and muchly appreciative I am!) . It is my first EVER award - online anyway!!

In order to receive this award I have to list 7 things I love then pass it on to 7 blogs I love.

So here are my 7 things:

1. Blogs - Reading them, writing them, commenting on them, dreaming about them…..everything about them.

2. My Internet – What more can I say! I do love the internet. I love the way it connects you with people and information and you can even order a pizza with it’s help!

2. Friends – Real life and bloggy - in fact, some of you little blogging tykes are probably better than a few real life friends! You rock!

3. Smut Fest Books - This has become clear with recent posts - I am dirty!

4. TV Series – GG, 90210, Gilmore Girls (yet to finish here so please don’t spoil it!!), CSI…hmm I’m sure there are more, ooooh, American Idol, Ice Road Truckers (hah, not very girly!), My So Called Life re-runs, Girls of the Playboy Mansion (I just love it ok!). More will follow!

5. Having Fun – whether it’s a girly night in or a drunken debaucherous night out!

6. Social Network Site Stalking – There you have it, I am a Facebook stalker! I have no shame, well not much anyway!

And here are 7 of my fave blogs (and I am planning on blogging about you very lovely people shortly, but hopefully this will do for now!):

1. Life of Leetid
2. Just Playing Pretend
3. A View from 5280ft
4. The High-Heeled Diaries
5. A Girl Could Get Lost
6. Whisper Your Secrets
7. No Ordinary Rollercoaster

I’m sorry if I didn’t nominate you – I would’ve nominated everyone if I had enough votes - but as I'm not the Queen (I unofficially am though) I didn't feel it appropriate to change the rules!!

I might be back later!!

Doing it For the Boys!

Today I am the queen of procrastinate! So much to do, but so little enthusiasm to do it! So, I’m stealing a post idea. Well kind of. I had a flicker of guilt this morning when I read the most recent post at Starting Over at 24. If you haven’t already read it then head on over here as I’m giving you a 3 minute recess.

Woo, you came back!

So, let’s turn back time a little to a lovely young (oh to be young again *sigh*) Jen. In this scene I’m 16 years young to be precise!

When I was younger I had no trouble getting boys / boyfriends, but at 16 I discovered that wonder that was (no longer wondrous) Yahoo Chat (another OCD feature!), more for fun than dating to begin with! My first encounter (after numerous boys requesting cyber sex – I hope boys are more inventive for the current 16 year old girls out there!!) was with steb_16 / aka bballer_13 and I’m sure there was another name as well!!

Steb_16 = 17 years old, cute, blond (in really cute short curls), 6ft 9 (yes, I did mean 6ft 9 and not 5ft 9), as good a body as you can have 17 – he wasn’t a nasty little skinny awkward looking teenager by any means! Also, professional basketball player!

So anyway, we chatted for a month or so (which is a long time by the no standards of Match.com and whatnot where you could get yourself a date the following day these days)before meeting. He was a bit full on and actually told me he loved me before we met…but…despite this I continued to go out and party / drink / dance the night away and kissing boys was my speciality (I even went on an all girls holiday to Ibiza). Steb_16 was always a little quiet when I revealed my antics, but I never really got it. I was 16 and single and I assumed he was doing the same.

I’d never actually thought about it before but I do, having read SO24’s post, feel extremely guilty….well, for that situation anyway, Steb_16 was actually a class A A-hole so I don’t feel too bad. I’ll come back to him another day, the story gets long and complicated!

So, this is my apology post! I would like to apologise to all the boys / men who have fallen for a girl online (and I don't mean someone you just slept with, I mean properly fallen for!) and she has been mean in return! We do not do it on purpose and it’s not meant spitefully! It’s definitely not because we don’t like you! It’s like you’re living two separate lives, with two sets of friends and two sets or rules and until you actually meet in person there’s nothing to connect any of the “twos” apart from phone calls and emails and that gets a bit lonely.

My advice to you SO24 would be that one single kiss wont add up to the time you’ve spent getting to know *Bree and so you should try and take it in your stride – you’re well ahead of the kissing culprit when it comes to stealing her heart!

The Accessory Circle – Part 1

As part of my (undiagnosed) moderate OCD I am officially obsessed with the internet (I regularly fall asleep with my laptop burning a hole in my leg!), amongst other things of course.

My newest internet related obsession is with reading blogs, and this is going to be a long drawn-out obsession because there are so many of the damn things (I don’t mean that obviously because I L.O.V.E them!).

Just recently though I’ve have read so so so many posts from bloggers who are a bit, let’s say, down in the dumps (I’m not sure if that’s an internationally used saying, so for those countries that don’t use it – it means miserable / depressed / sad / not loving life!). Well, despair not, I have a plan!!

Whilst at uni and living in the depths of poverty (ok, I laugh as I say that) because I spent my first student loan in Topshop – this was over the course of the year not just in 1 massive blow-out. Yes. All £3,000 (approx $5,500 at the time) of it and then I got a job in Topman (Topshop’s men’s store) so I would get 50% off purchases from Topshop – and you thought I was an idiot!).

Back to the story….so whilst at uni, having spent my first loan in Topshop and then getting a job at Topman I was rather short of cash, as were a lot of my friends (pre-uni friends). So we made a deal. Oh yes. A deal with El Diablo himself! El Diablo of the accessory world that is.

Every month someone would buy a good ‘all-rounder’ accessory. For example a cute little handbag / purse or a scarf, gloves, just anything that would go with pretty much anything. They would keep the item for, generally, 2 weeks. It would need to be used wisely (no reckless cocktail accidents). The purchaser would then post the item to the next divine person on the list. The aim was to accessorise without the cost!

Can you imagine your excitement one day, when you’d totally forgotten about the whole thing, to receive a fantastic new item through the post? It would be especially great if you were in a bad mood or down-in-the-dumps (explanation as above!) and you received a shiny new bag! Oh the joy!

Would anyone be interested in joining in? I already have 2 real-life friends who blog and live abroad and want to try it. So if you fancy something shiny and new delivered to your door (which also gives you a blog post to do in case you have writers block!) this is the game for you.

Get in touch and I shall post the rules!

Why Do People Think It's Strange?

I was talking to a friend last night and I'm just going to cut to the conversation:

Friend: I don't understand why people use the
internet so much?
Me: WHAT? (I'm sure you can imagine my amazement at this
comment but I cannot put it in to words!)
Friend: Well what's the point?
Me: To find out things, have fun and make friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friend: Granted, it's good for info. But aren't those people trying to make "friends" just pervs and losers?
Me: Erm....hello? I think you'll find I'm one of those pervs / losers!
Friend: Why?
Me: Well I write 2 blogs for FUN and I love to make friends - putting to the 2 together apparently makes me an internet perve (can you tell I was getting irrationally irritated?).
Friend: Well I'm allowed my opinion.
Me: ... gobsmacked!

Ok "friend", you are allowed you're opinion but NOT when it's completely unjustified. I was so lost for words that I couldn't explain the beauty that is the blogosphere without blowing my cover - this wasn't a pre-mentioned friend but is one that knows the other friends so couldn't direct her to my blog.

Can anyone help me? I thought I might put the plus points in an email and fire it off via the internet (that's just for pervs did you know!?).

I'm still irritated even though I've slept on it!