Horoscopes...

...Do you ever take them seriously?

You know those daily horoscopes you get in the magazines? They usually comes in the form of "The moon is doing this and that means changes in your life blah blah blah..." Have you ever paid any attention to them? Because I never did. Until my16th birthday anyway.

The gossip magazine I used to get every month always had a few pages at the back dedicated to stating daily horoscopes for each starsign. Which, in my eyes, were always a load of rubbish. I'd never given a care to all that Zodiac stuff before. But my bestie loved reading our horoscopes. I'd usually just roll my eyes at her. Then four years ago at the start of June, she read my daily horoscope for the day thay was going to be my 16th birthday.

"Humiliation comes your way if your name begins with the letter K."

Of course, my bestie was convinced that the horoscope was going to come true because my name begins with the letter K. I just laughed. Like i'd take something like that seriously? So, I just forgot all about it. Until I woke up on the morning of my 16th birthday...

Pictures. Everwhere. Of Me. As A Child. EVERYWHERE. 

My parents decided it would be funny to stick pictures of me all over the windows to the house, Now, let me tell you a little bit about the geography of the street I live on:

Do you see where i'm going with this now? Yes, that's right. My street was one of the main routes that people walked down to get to school. Meaning that half of the people in my school walked past my house that morning and wittnessed the horrors that are my baby photos. Oh but it's worse. My parents thought it'd be nice to put modern pictures of me on the windows as well. Meaning that people would know THAT IT WAS ME!!!

After enduring a birthday full of classmates commenting on my baby photos, I finally remembered my horoscope for that day. The one that I just completely ignored because I thought it was utter bullshit.

It's safe to say that since then I have learned to pay a little more attention to my horoscopes. They're sometimes more accurate than you think.

 

Once Upon a summer in a very rainy England…

...Well The End really.

That’s how eventful my summer has been. I had so many plans for this summer. In my mind it was going to be amazing, adventure filled and would create memories to last to life time! It’s reality it just rained every other day and I came down with the worst luck.

Well, okay, I’m pretty much always unlucky but this summer just completely tested my patience. Firstly, I ended up in an emergency dentist two days before my exams. Fantastic timing of course, it’s always great revising when you have a killer toothache. Secondly, I had to use the money I’d saved up for my summer to pay my super awesome dentist. Yay. And thirdly, any plans I did have were cancelled due to rain anyway! What a great joy it is to live in England during the summertime! 

This summer was so awful, it almost topped the year I came down with the chicken pocks on my first week off school. 

It’s times like this when I wish I could be like the characters in the books I read. Their summers are always LIFE CHANGING! Oh, and they always seem to have the pick of gorgeous guys. In my life, the guy I liked ended up dating someone else this summer and instead I was practically stalked by a guy who I’ve tried so hard to keep away from. He worships me. It sounds harsh that I would try to shut him out right? But you don’t have to put up with him; he’s literally the complete opposite of me. And I don’t mean in the ‘opposites attract’ kind of way either – we just aren’t compatible. Most of the things he finds hilarious, I find offensive! It’s funny, when I was 14 a guy chasing me around all summer would have been a dream come true but now, it’s a nightmare. 

The only good thing about this summer is that I got to travel down to London as the Olympics were going on. I was so excited to take plenty of pictures of the capitol city during this once in a lifetime experience. I took about three pictures before my camera decided to just randomly stop working. See? The universe is against me. 

So whilst my friends were off on sunny vacations abroad, I sat at home with my dog and annoying younger sibling. To make up for the lack of adventure in my oh-so-awful summer, I’ve decided that right now I’m going to pick a random place on earth to visit… on Google Maps…