My internet is back, baby... BACK!

Woo!

Yessss. I have had it back for about 2 weeks to be fair, but just haven't had time to blog recently. Its been a bit of a roller coaster month so far. I don't even know where to begin...

I have been trying to spend as much time with my boyfriend as possible, as the unthinkable happened the other day - his mum died. It was really awful (still is, obviously), and I just want to make sure I am there for him as much as I can be. The funeral was on Monday so I was with him and his family from 12 until 11:45pm. Not really a great start to the year, what with my grandad dying in January. I am both grateful I have him, and glad I am with him because I don't know how he would even cope without a little bit of Sam-Distraction techniques. :(

Wow, that's a bummer right there. Onto more positive things. I have bought and been trying to play the PS3 Call of Duty, modern warfare 2. Which is horribly addictive but hilariously fun at the same time! Been to the cinema a lot too recently (as part of my amazing distracting skills), and seen Blind Side (worth it, for sure!), Shutter Island (great thriller), Kick Ass (meh) and something else, which I have just forgotten which in my mind means it can't have been that good.

I have also been trying my hardest to do productive things. Well, kind of productive. Keeping up with TV shows (Vampire diaries, True Blood, Caprica) and reading this very addictive book series I found by chance, as well as trying to create some sort of digital art portfolio just for fun (I am... oh, say 1% in so far...) and I have also been trying to clean up my lap top by storing some stuff and just backing it up on an external hard drive. Sounds easy... it ain't. Its a pain in the ass! Grrrr.

I'm quite proud of myself for booking a wedding in this year to do a friends make up, on my own - without my sister as she is on her hols. Thankfully it's a friend, otherwise I would have had to say no.. I'm too scared to do stuff on my own usually. Something I have to try to work on at some point in my life! :P

Its me and my boyfriends one year anniversary on Monday and I am really looking forward to it. I do feel like I have been neglecting my friends due to recent events (although I am sure they understand), and I have made a mental note that after Monday I will make up for it, totally, but this weekend is all about trying to make it as good as it can be without his mum here. She was such a nice person - and its really still bonkers to think she isn't here anymore, so this weekend is my ultimate priority at the moment. Not that I am putting any unneeded pressure on it or anything. Ha! I was trying to sort out a really sweet, romantic present to give him on top of the new bedding and X box controller (so romantic there are sure to be films about it next year), by putting all our old emails into a properly bound and printed book, but so far its proving difficult, especially with the deadline. You see, from January last year until December we pretty much emailed each other every day - and I'm talking epic sized, 7 or 8 paragraphed emails that took about an hour to write. We would talk about everything and anything. Its how we got together in the first place because he was really shy and quiet and I think he was scared to talk to me. (Imagine, little old me!). So here I am, thinking it will be a doddle.... I go on the Internet and get this programme everyone raves about called 'Book smart' -and yeah, it looks simple. Easy. I set about copy and pasting a years worth of emails into this programme. Then design the cover (which looks cool btw), and then I need to edit some pages. STOP PRESS. The programme crashes now every time I open it - so 3-4 hours worth of work, at least, now seems pointless. Grrrr... I am about to attempt it again but I don't think this book will get realised in time for our anniversary! Humph!

On a last note I finished my college course. Pretty much finished what I was making and am confident I can make a skirt from scratch now... at some point I will try to make one i will actually wear!

Well, must try this programme again!

Toodles all!

Sam

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