Spider Wars!

I hate spiders.

Now many of you may agree with this statement but I don't hate them because I have a phobia. In fact, they don't bother me at all. I've had two grown men run out of a room because of a spider that I was left to deal with.

The problem is catching them.

With 8 hairy, long legs, they have the ability to run fast and reach places you could never imagine reaching. Most of the time if I spot a spider lurking on my wall before bedtime, I will leave it. Yeah, it could crawl in my mouth whilst I sleep and end up swimming in my stomach acid but hey, at least I wont have to battle it AND it gets the pretty grim death it deserves for trespassing in this temple. This one, however, was a little bit too big to ignore and it was above my bed, a little too close for comfort. The issue here though was reaching it. Sat high on the wall, it was sneering at me, expecting me to do the usual and leave it alone.

Not today spidey.

iScream

Blog Badge! *finally*

So my blog has grown up a little and got itself a badge/button/tiny little square that links you back to this blog.

*Shouldn't have been a headache, but it was!*

*Icky html*

*Had to create a Photobucket account*

Thankfully I found a great tutorial here. A little tip for you though if you try this tutorial: Where the finished html code says, "cols="40" rows="4" This will be the size of the code box underneath the badge. I recommend changing the "40" to a "20". This part gave me the headache. The code box was just too wide and I couldn't figure out how to change it!! THIS IS HOW!

You'll find the code in the sidebar. Please feel free to use it to spread the love! :0)

Fifty shades of Brown

Never in my life did I think I would have such an encounter. An encounter that would change all my perspectives on that of which my knowledge was already so vague.

It was a summer morning. The sun was beaming down, scorching all below it and dominating the sky with its radiant glow. I sought comfort in shaded areas that provided that much needed relief from the quite alien climate. This was when my eye caught his. A mere glimpse was all I needed to know that this would be a day quite unlike the others.

Don't stop me now!

Waking up this morning, I felt sweaty, groggy and tired! Another long night of fighting the warmth, this was the third time in a row that I had been subjected to this torture. As I lay there, the pillows all askew and the duvet crumpled in a pile on the floor, I started to remember what I had dreamt about.

Sitting there, on the floor, throughout the whole dream, I was contemplating how to tell the parents that I had failed my degree.

Not very eventful, by my standards of imagination, but damn when I woke up, I was convinced I had still failed... Until I realised that results aren't released until TODAY!

So I jumped up, pretty much tripping over the duvet to grab my laptop. My brother comes up to me with a letter from my university. I assured him its not my results as they were going online instead. So I start opening it, expecting it to be another boring reminder that there will be a graduation ceremony (pretty sure they've used a whole forest of paper to remind me).

I was wrong...

I freakin' PASSED!

A sexy little Marketing BSc(Hons).

So, I would like to congratulate anyone receiving any sort of results over the coming weeks, I'm sure you all did fabulously and if you didn't, don't ever let it beat you! I did awful at my A levels to the point of me holding back the tears and now look! Coming to the end of my education journey is rather sad as it has been pretty hard and long but I know the learning curve will never truly end. :]

What the lump you guys?

Adventure Time is awesome and if you don't agree, you obviously don't like fun.

This is my homage to the Lumpy Space Princess.

"No way. First, I'm gonna fall in love with one of those little guys, then I'm gonna fall out of love. And then I'm gonna totally fake die, of a fake heart attack! Oh, my heart! My heart hurts because I fell out of love! And now i have to die! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!"

My moment of the week!

So recently, I found out that I got a really good grade for my university dissertation! This was particularly surprising for me after spending weeks being distracted in a smelly little library (watching ducks as you well know) and writing about 5000 words of it in a single day! So this little moment really made my week as the dissertation makes up a huge chunk of my overall grade!

To celebrate that and Doodle Thoughts reaching its fourth glorious month, I will share with you my 3am doodles. I originally planned to brighten them up as these pictures were taken under poor artificial lighting but I'm just going to leave them in all their glory! I do quite like the idea of bringing a little bit of reality into drawings. :]

The mind of men.

Deny it all you want gentlemen, but you know deep down this is mostly true. Mostly.

Maybe it's just me..

Waking up this morning, I rolled over with a slight groan to see that once again, we had beautiful blue skies and wonderful weather.

Why would I groan? Surely nice weather is a good thing?

To most people, I suppose there are advantages to this surprising weather.

Beer Gardens -  instead of sitting inside a pub, people are about to sit OUTSIDE in the beer garden! Yes, the ability to sit outside really does excite us English. Sitting outside allows you to walk further to the bar and toilets and end up squashed right next to the other jobless folk who too want to experience this, 'outside'. You also make a little friend in bees and wasps that want to share that fruit juice you just bought.

Sweat - Glistening, glowing, perspiring, however you want to mask it, sweating is something we all do. Bermuda temperatures mean we do it by the bucket loads (quite literally). How is sweat an advantage? Well, sweating supposedly helps remove toxins from the body and promote weight loss. This is why people use saunas. Deodorant companies are raking it in. 

Sunburn - people parade this bane of life as though it is a good thing? 

Pleb 1 - Oh you look like you have caught the sun..

Pleb 2 - *laughs* yeah, I was sat outside for about 5 hours. I think I will peel tomorrow. Hopefully I will go brown.

WHY ON EARTH do you think the peeling of skin is not something to be concerned about? People seem to think they are snakes and will simply peel off the nasty pale skin and be mahogany underneath.. Sorry, a few more hours per day on the sunbed will be required before that happens.

Hayfever - sneezing and watery eyes look great together and if you team them with a kleenex, you are bang on trend this season. Hawt.

Blackpool beach - the only time of the year that anyone will dare to go to that beach is on days like this. Swimming in sewer water doesn't matter if the sun is beaming down. The sun will cancel out the many diseases you are bound to get. Blackpool businesses will manage to sell FIVE more pieces of rock than normal. This is called, 'raking it in'.

Maybe it's just me, maybe I am just being miserable...... *shrugs*

I've always wanted to....

.....shave an alpaca.

I just want to know, do they still look like an alpaca underneath? Maybe they look like a horse or a deer. Its a mystery.

What isn't a mystery anymore is the origin of my blog. Yes, an "About" page has arisen from the depths of Doodledom to add yet another fugly widget to my blog. I don't like having the tabs separate the header from the rest of the blog so for now, they are stuck on the side with everything else. I'm sure I will change things around again, I seem to bore very easily.