Cat drew this on my birthday card

When I was about 16, I still love it-

Chuck Palahniuk:

"the first step especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money- the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. to model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. to write the books. make the music. shoot the films. paint the art"

Just sittin' and knittin'

Waiting for The Nana to get off the phone so we can watch more movies neither of us understand.

Going to blog overdose now to make up for Christmas break.

Gossip Girl mentality

"Destiny is for losers.
It's just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of actually making them happen"

- Blair Waldorf

Zzzz

Making shadows when you can't sleep is the best.

I heard you fell into a rabbit hole,

covered youself up in snow. Baby, tell me where'd you go for days and days and days...

I like maps and I like dresses

These are by Elisabeth Lecourt and are perfect!

Mulled wine and sailors

I just returned from the RNLI Christmas service, not even the dodgy clarinet solos and Baritone Terry singing my school hymn could kill my festive buzz.

Even Bernard smells of cinnamon. Well, smelt. He got in the way when I was trying to decorate the tree and now smells of melted snow. Not so nice.

House decorated classrooms tomorrow, I'm a tree from ET. Which tree from ET you ask. Yeah exactly. But only one lesson and that's geography, hurrah!

"Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm. When the rivers freeze and summer ends. Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm . . ."

I went for a walk in the woods and it was all pretty and sparkly from the frost and I was totally down with nature - until some scary noises that sounded kinda like a man with an axe following me and suddenly the freezing walk didn't seem like such a good idea.
The Lizzie B in me liked it though.
The lake was all frozen over, and although it was drummed into me so many times as a child not to I was seriously tempted to stand on the ice. Or lay on it, Clementine-style.

Now my house feels a bit too toasty warm and I don't understand how to turn the heating off so I've been decorating the tree in shorts. Which is all kinds of weird, like when you see a teacher in Tesco.

Ah well, going to finish now and hide all garish baubles from The Mothership as she is really fond of ruining all my efforts at creating a non-tacky Christmas environment.

The lyrics at the top are from my favourite song in the world.

I am going to wear my favourite dress tomorrow, everything will be alright

11 days to go, I think it's time for Love Actually

There's more to life than books you know

(but not much more)