Friday, April 23, 2010

Somewhere Way Up High

I'm in a kind of weird mood today. Also, I'm sorry for not posting as much as I should have been. I would use the old lame excuse of "I've been busy" but it's truuuue.

I'm a bit lost right now, I think haha, I feel like my legs are jostling for most-painful-place-on-Earth with my head and my back. It's kind of tiring haha. Also I've just had a rather large fight with le boyfriend so I'm not sure he is still speaking to me. I don't know if I should call him or not. I've already texted (but I think he might not have credit) and talked to him on facebook (but he was idle). I don't know if calling is a bit too clingy?? [For the record, we were both just snappy with each other, neither of us really did anything too wrong except for not being very respectful in how we were speaking to each other].

It's also strange for me because I'm at home at the moment which I'm not usually. My sister is being delightfully horrid and reminding me why I stay at my boyfriend's house so much in the first place.

I think I've made a step forward in my development as a person. I consider myself to be primarily a good person. There are people who would disagree with that, one girl who would call me "the worst friend ever". But I look at my life and there are people who love me, who think I'm an amazing person, and really, those are the people who know me the best. I think anyone who doesn't like you, just doesn't know you well enough yet.

Hopefully that made sense!

xoxo,
Megan

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Bubbles and Boringness

Well, I'll confess I've left today's post astonishingly late. Not really, I have an hour. However, knowing me, I will now proceed to get a drink, sit down, type a sentence, make a snack, sit down, eat the snack, type a sentence, go to the bathroom, sit down, type a sentence, complain about the blog and type a sentence. I would then be left, five minutes before midnight to write pretty much an entire blog. It's a kind of way I fail, ostensibly.

My boyfriend is rolling around, moaning and complaining of being "mindshagged". Then again, I suppose studying engineering for six hours on a holiday would do that to a person. In some ways I'm grateful that I am not doing a university degree that requires such an intense level of commitment (as I'm sure it is a commitment that I would not make) but at the same time, it often results in people assuming that I am less intelligent that I feel I am. If I were in a degree like Law, Science, Medicine or Engineering (all of which I got the grades to do) I think I would get more respect. Eh, that's the trade off for doing what I love.

Today I had a lovely hour-long bubble bath before being summoned to the line of duty at work. The bath was deliciously slimy with bath salts and copious amounts of body wash. I did come out smelling like a rose, though. I discovered a whole heap of my old poetry and report cards today. I also found my old maths book, which contained about a 1:10 ratio of maths to drawings/poems/stories/random lists etc. It's no wonder that my feedback on one of my exams was merely "you don't like maths, do you?" and a nod.

However, I'm afraid I must leave you to spare a few cookies from my boyfriend's lusty mouth (and transfer them swiftly into my own, of course). I hope you have a really pleasant day!

xoxo,
Megan

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

'Allo, 'Allo

Hello, hello, lovely blogthings.

I am currently nursing a six-post-a-night backache* presently. Oh BEDA, how you'll kill me. My lovely boyfriend has offered me a massage as soon as I'm done with this, though. And we have new frangipani massage oil which smells *delicious*.

I have fifty-two minutes to post this, plenty of time, for once. I wish I was as dedicated to my assignments as I am to posting, and catching up on, BEDA blogs. It would be so easy to do them if they were as interesting, fun and motivating as this. Oh well, as long as this gets/keeps me writing, I am not complaining at all.

My eighteenth birthday is soonish, so today I scoured the *entire* website of Forever 21 to look for things I wanted. I ended up not with a massive list, like I was expecting. Spring and summer fashion has never been my fave, so that's likely why.

My most coveted items are:

Banded/bandage skirt
Sailor tunic
Plaid dress
Mesh-skirt dress
Bird pendant necklace
Pleather leggings
Glasses pendant necklace
Madeline hat
Punk top
Pink hoodie

Oddly, in one of my classes at uni, we have to write three blogs for assessment. Apparently, on the first one, I had the style and voice of a blog down pat but my subject choice wasn't very good. I guess that's what happens when you're a chronic procrastinator and you can't think of anything to write.

Lots and lots of uni work at the moment, nothing terribly exciting to report on that front, I'm afraid. I'm on Easter break though, at the moment, which is proving to be little more than a study vacation. My Easter was wonderful, I spent the day with the boyfriend and my family. We had an Easter egg hunt, which one of my older sisters won, despite both me and my other sister having boyfriends on our team. Not that winning really matters in my family, at the end of the hunt, we gather all of the eggs together and divvy them equally. It was only last year when I realised that other families did not do this. I think it's a bit nicer that way though, everyone is finding eggs not for personal gain or glory but for the satisfaction of chocolate cravings of the entire group. I enjoy our socialist Easter eggs.

Made it and with twenty-seven minutes to spare, to boot!

That's all, folks!

xoxo,
Megan

* To prove how much of a classical music nerd I am, I spelled back as bach.

My Ideal Self

STATS

Name: Megan Edie May
Height: 178 cm; with exceptional posture
Hair: Medium brown with reddish undertones
Eyes: Grey
Build: Slender
Likes: Books, glitter, city lights, dressing up, writing, pizza, carnivals, rainy weather and English accents
Favourite TV Shows: The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, Doctor Who, Black Books, Skins, Futurama
Favourite Movies: Wild Child, Some Like it Hot, Alice in Wonderland, (500) Days of Summer, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Juno, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, RENT, Elizabethtown, Dead Poet's Society, The Chronicles of Narnia, Forgetting Sarah Marshall Moulin Rouge
Favourite Books: Harry Potter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Artemis Fowl, Witch Week, Looking for Alaska, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, The Catcher in the Rye


DESCRIPTION

Megan May is gifted with an unusually sunny disposition. She is always cheery and optimistic. She offers a uniquely charming and whimsical approach on life to her many friends and acquaintances. She attracts people to her and is always bright and extremely kind. She is generous with her time and assets and is very committed to the goal of making the world a better place. She is confident and vivacious. She is intensely fun and spontaneous, with a unique ability for making people laugh. Megan May is incredibly empathetic and strives to ensure the comfort and joy of everyone around her. Her effervescence is matched in considerable kind with her fierce wit and intelligence. She is immensely observant and is a perceptive and astute study of human action and motivation. She is, overall, a wonderful and amazing woman, a creative and popular writer and artist and a human being of infinite possibilities.

I WISH, I WISH, I WISH!

xoxo,
Megan

Dreams and Wishes and Mantras, Oh My!

DREAMS

Be a talented, successful writer and artist who is destined for fame
Be a bright, happy and fun person to be around with many close friends
Live an exciting, fulfilling and enviable existence


WISHES

Happiness is...embodying my ideal characteristics
Happiness is...constantly experiencing new things
Happiness is...having fun with close friends
Happiness is...always learning and improving
Happiness is...success in my chosen career

Determination means...never allowing myself to wallow
Determination means...forcing myself to relax
Determination means...always striving for a positive outlook
Determination means...working for my goals
Determination means...maintaining myself


MANTRAS

All comments about me mean that I am special and worth paying attention to.

I am an effervescent and happy burst of sunshine and breath of fresh air in this world.

I am a fun, free and joyous spirit who is so strong, she does not mind allowing others to help her.

I blow like the wind - I am free but purposeful, carrying on my course unhindered by obstacles but allowing for and appreciating the unexpected turns my life may take.

Things That Make Me Happy (Part 1)

Sunflowers
Books
Cheese pizza
Rain and storms
City lights
Glitter
British TV shows
Opportunities
Nail polish
Trying new things

What Not to Do When...

1. On a first date: propose

2. Intoxicated: anything involving fish

3. In the shower: giggle when your elbows pee

4. At your ex’s wedding: your ex

5. In jail: drop your soap

6. Being stalked: be a nudist

7. Stuck to an igloo: pee

8. In sewing class: pee

9. Asleep in a helium balloon: talk in your sleep

10. At a birthday party for twins: snog them both

11. On a nude beach: beach volleyball

12. At the opera: shoot the fat lady

13. You’re falling in love: propose

14. Low on gasoline in a bad part of town: stop for crack

15. Having a baby: pee

16. On fire: fart

17. Lost at the mall: jump into the fountain yelling "I am a kraken from the sea!!"

18. At a single’s dance: bring your wife

19. Riding a bike: be a nudist

20. Driving your significant other's car: drive through a bad part of town when you're low on gasoline

21. Being robbed at gunpoint: mime / compliment their firearm

22. Kissing: suffocate

23. Paying the hotel cashier: pay with a cheque, making bouncing motions

24. Buying lingerie: ask what the equivalent size is for men

24. Giving someone your number: say "But on Thursdays, I'm Ophelia from Ireland"

25. Approaching someone in a bar: get their gender incorrect

BEDA

The BEDA ship has pulled into the harbour of the internet, waited for all of the willing and cheerful passengers to board and departed merrily on its way. As it was last year, I have been left panting on the dock, holding my suitcase and ticket in hand, forced to watch that great and wonderful vessel sail off without me. It is now time for me to board a rowboat and paddle my little heart out to catch it, hoping that I can board, if I reach it at all, that is.

Honestly, the only other person who I have heard of who is doing BEDA this year is Hayley. However, she has inspired me. To be honest, I need all of the motivation and inspiration to write that I can get. Lately I have been going through such a creative drought, it is ridiculous. I am contemplating opening a dictionary, pointing at random words and building a story out of them.

I think it would go something like this*:

WORDS

Disease
Furnace
Seclusion
Killing

PLOT OUTLINE

A terrible disease is sweeping Nano Porter's city. Nano and his family have fled Los Giergos but the deadly virus follows them wherever they travel. Through a horrible furnace accident, Nana's family is claimed by the illness. Left alone in a secluded mountain cabin, Nano must find a way to stop the killing.

Actually, those words weren't quite as random as I thought they'd be. I was expecting something like chair, salubrious, dancing and banana (the Moscow Dancing Bear Circus is ground to a halt when a usually salubrious young trainer slips on a banana peel and impales himself on a chair) or light, vehicle, shirt and plea (A rogue spaceship blocks all light into Juleotown, crippling the city's shirt-production industry while the pilot refuses to hear the plea of the townsfolk and move his vehicle).

I'm afraid to say I have to leave now!

xoxo
Megan

*Yes, I did pull these out of a dictionary.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Wow

I started this post a couple of weeks ago and never got around to finishing it. It proves my hardcore failing though that I mention below.

Recently I have failed hardcore at posting blogs. I'm sorry, it's just...well, I suppose other than the fairly significant life changes I've had recently, I have no excuse.

Some things that have happened to me are:

I started uni on the first of March (whoopee!) It was pretty epic, still is, in fact. I'm not quite sure I've really gotten into the rhythm of things yet. I knew absolutely no one in any of my courses but that's slowly changing, I think. It makes me happy.

My boyfriend and I have gotten pretty serious. I don't really know if that's worth posting here hehe, but it is still an important change in my life. As often happens when one is friends with someone for a long time before dating them, we just slotted very quickly and easily into a serious relationship. We've only been officially dating since the 8th of February but it feels like so much longer. It's odd but wonderful.

As an addition to the point above, my boyfriend and I have pretty much started living together. I divide my time between his house (Monday through Friday) and then go to mine on the weekends. The real reason for this is that he lives ten minutes away from uni (and has a car to drive us both in) and I live an hour and a half away and have to catch public transport to get there. (I WILL get my license at some point, I will, I just need to make some time to do driving. My poor car must be getting so lonely.)

Also, my old job as a kennel hand is still chugging along, I'm only doing like eight hours a week of it at the moment though. It's about all I can afford to do with uni and stuff but I think in a few weeks I'll be up to doing ten. This is in addition to the tutoring I am doing for my old high school. I find that quite rewarding and the pay is pretty spiffy too.

I GOT SOME CLOTHES FROM FOREVER 21 INCLUDING TWO, count them TWO, TUTUS!!!!! Whenever I am feeling sad, I just chuck on one of my tutus and I instantly feel much, much better. The clothes are adorable, although most of them are just plain staples that I can mix with the rest of my wardrobe to have clothes for uni. P.S. I did order those boots that I blogged about in the last post. However, like two days after I'd logged my order, Forever 21 emailed me and told me that they were no longer in stock :(

That is all, loves.

xoxo
Megan

Monday, February 1, 2010

Things

10 THINGS YOU WANT

1. These shoes from Forever 21
2. Sparkly confetti
3. To be accepted as a tutor at my old high school
4. Peace
5. A wild party
6. Green nail polish
7. More friends
8. A uni ID
9. Confidence
10. Significant monies

9 MUSICIANS/BANDS YOU LOVE

1. The Temper Trap
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Florence & the Machine
4. The Beatles
5. ABBA
6. Billie Holliday
7. The Clash
8. Elvis Costello
9. The Horrors

8 THINGS YOU DO EVERY DAY

1. Take iron tablets
2. Shower
3. Listen to music
4. Go on the internet
5. Write in my journal
6. Read
7. Talk
8. Eat

7 THINGS THAT YOU ENJOY

1. Dressing up
2. Reading and writing
3. Playing therapist
4. Going out
5. Dancing
6. Harry Potter
7. Thinking deeply

6 THINGS THAT WILL ALWAYS WIN YOUR HEART

1. Dorkiness/nerdiness
2. Physical attractiveness
3. Playfulness
4. A witty sense of humour
5. English accents
6. Intelligence

5 FAVOURITES

1. Movie: Wild Child
2. Song: Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap / Anthem Pt. 2 - Blink 182
3. Book: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
4. Food: Cheese pizza
5. Season: Autumn

4 SMELLS YOU ENJOY

1. Rain
2. Books
3. Champagne
4. Boys

3 PLACES YOU WANT TO GO

1. Italy
2. France
3. Japan

2 FAVOURITE HOLIDAYS

1. Christmas
2. Halloween

1 PERSON YOU'D MARRY ON THE SPOT

1. David Tennant




Quiz taken from Maggie.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

One Week On...

Hello cupcakes!

It's been a bit over one week since the beginning of the new year, I hope you all had a *fabulous* one! Personally, I know I did! Since then I have been mostly relaxing, although a bet I made with a friend did leave me awake for forty-eight hours and having to go shopping to boot! If those two days of sleepless depravity have taught me anything, it's that brown and orange polka-dot shorts are never a good idea (a thrift store purchase that I later regretted immensely) and that I respond well to challenges!

And that latter self-revelation, is what I will be concentrating on in this post!

As those of you who read my last post will know, I have been faithfully completing the wonderful Megan's M.Y.L.A. series homework, which she posts on her blog, Charade. The first of these was to complete a sketch of our 'ideal' life. However, unfortunately, I have no means of capturing and presenting this work of...ahem...artistic genius. Use your wonderful little imaginations hehe.

Through her other exercises, I realised that I separate myself into the 'Ideal Megan' and the 'Regular/Bad Megan'. I think, rather faultily, that Ideal Megan is how I imagine myself to be in my mind, even though this isn't always the case. The good thing about this though is that Ideal Megan is still me, still a version of me, just the me that I aspire to be. So let us all send our very best wishes to the stars that we may become more like our ideal selves!

xoxo,
Megan

Friday, January 1, 2010

Bloglight: Charade

Hello kiddos!

It's a new year (A NEW DECADE!) and with that comes a new segment, Bloglight, wherein I will share the blogs I love so that you may love them too!

Today will be one of my faaaaaave blogs ever, I read it super religiously: Charade by Megan (clearly a good name, non?). I lovelovelove the style and life advice in this blog and Megan's witty and friendly writing-style makes it a dream to read.

Starting on the 1st, she is going to be posting one article for every day in January in her 'Make Your Life Amazing' series! I am so insanely in love with this idea like you can't believe and I'm super excited to see all of her content!








So definitely check that out (you can thank me later :P)

xoxo,
Megan