Il fratellino

Piccolo bambino. Babies are so small I had forgotten, but nice to hold they are like little portable radiators.

I got the train back home from Leicester Tuesday morning and got home about lunchtime which was nice. It was lovely to see my family again and especially to see my newest brother Joel!

I held him for most of the afternoon. We watched Hello Dolly and I just sat with him. 

Hello Dolly is one of my favourite musicals, I've only seen it twice but I love the story and especially the songs. 

William likes wearing everyone's glasses. He looks really sweet with them on. 

And sunglasses. Such a cool guy. 

Today I went shopping. Used up some vouchers from Christmas, got a lovely new top and some boots. Sales are great. 

Tried to have a kind of sleepover with Louisa last night didn't go very well she kept kicking me out of bed everytime she moved so I evacuated back to my room. 

Nighttime selfies. 

Today William was crying for crisps at dinner but he had some yesterday so mum said no. He wanders off crying then finds the door stop that makes the pyong noise and started playing with that. Good distraction until nap time. 

Two-Thousand and Fifteen.

Welcome to the new year. May it not pass as fast as the old one, time has really flown by and I'm not sure I like it. The four week holiday that felt like it would stretch on forever is coming to a close and exams that seemed to be ages away are suddenly sneaking up around the corner.

I saw in the New Year with some of my good friends from college watching the countdown on television with a glass of lemonade ready to toast at midnight followed by an entertaining rendition of Auld Lang Syne (does anybody actually know the words to it?) It was a lovely evening catching up with friends, playing games, and staying up extremely late.  Hannah, our host, had made really cool decorations and stuff for a photo booth so we all took some crazy photos with moustaches and glasses.

We all stayed over and then wended our way back New Year's day and had a lovely day with the family. Lack of sleep led to a necessary and well-timed nap in the afternoon (when the Moshi Monster Movie got pulled out I made my escape).

I've been doing some work from home for former boss, I guess current boss again, that has been quite fun and relaxing to do. Splits up the revision as well. I'm about halfway through my Archaeology revision and three quarters through my Roman History. It's really nice to read back over though and realise I remembered more than I thought I did and to come across cool facts again that I had forgotten. My exams begin a week on Monday I'll be quite glad when they are over but they wont be too bad to get through, except one happens to be on a Saturday. I've never had an exam on the weekend before. 

I'm waiting for my timetable to get put up on the university website. That's what I'm most excited to see, so I can find out when all my lectures and tutorials are, mostly to see if I have a day off this semester. As I only have a ten hour week I'm hoping for a Monday or Friday spare. We shall see!

Not sure when I will be back at Leicester, sometime next week. It has been fun being back with my family it was a lovely holiday over Christmas and the New Year and it has been lovely catching up with friends I haven't seen for a long time.

I've made a few resolutions we will see how long I can keep them, hopefully the whole year through.

Mixed Week.

Ups and downs but overall it has been a pretty good week! Came back from Italy, got my hair cut. I now have a fringe again!
Then on the saturday I got to see one of my oldest friends get married :) Such a beautiful day, it was really lovely to see her getting hitched.

So nice to see everyone again and have a good catch up! Congratulations Mr and Mrs Garland!

This week has been good so far.

On sunday I had church, nice to see everyone I hadn't for the whole summer. Said my testimony in testimony meeting. Very scary as I hadn't said it for so long but it was good to say what I felt! After I went to a friend's surprise leaving party for university. It was really good fun, we had a nice afternoon laughing with all of his friends.

On Monday I sorted out some more stuff for university found out that a bus pass is going to cost me £360 for a year and will cover the immediate Leicester area. Also tried to sign up for an nus card. Finished my application for Leicester University. So much to do!

Tuesday I took William to the library he was very excited about it. Unfortunately I asked him at 9.40 if he wanted to go he then zoomed off to get his shoes before I got told that it didn't open until 10 so I had to distract him for twenty minutes. We went and I got a book out to read also, William decided to unstack all the kids chairs, choose every book in the tub. I had to sneak some back into the box when he wasn't looking. Then he dragged me to tescos where he picked up some milky buttons and I got some flowers for my mum and dad as a late anniversary present. Went into town to deposit my savings from Italy and had a look round the shops. Nothing tempted me to buy though. Why is it when you have money to buy things there is never anything to buy? Actually that is a slight lie I bought a DVD. The Help. I bought and read the book in Italy and it was so good so I can't wait to watch that!

Wednesday I woke up with a list of jobs for me to do, looks like these three weeks are going to be busy! So I hoovered and washed up and tidied up the car which looks like it hadn't been cleaned the whole time I had been away and had an impressive collection of chocolate wrappers. In the afternoon I took off to see a friend of mine who is leaving tomorrow for university in Newcastle. We had a nice afternoon, played mario kart on the wii at which I got sorely thrashed by both him and his sister. I was shockingly bad! Then I got a really nice treat! He took me to his dad's house and I got to play on the drum kit! It had been so long since I played so he had to show me the basics again but it was so nice to play on them. I hadn't realised how much I missed playing them! After that we went into town to the DVD/CD shop. I managed to pick up a TingTings album for 99p and an Arctic Monkeys for £3.99 so that was good! Then we took a grind. I had never had a grind before and it was actually really nice. I got a sherbert milkshake the flavour wasn't particularly strong but it was nice! Unluckily we hit the traffic on the way back but it didn't slow us down too much. Also he let me borrow The Hobbit part 2 so I am looking forward to seeing that as I missed it in the cinemas last year and the last part is coming out this year!

Downer on the week - my iPhone broke. In short terms: 1. I took it to Italy and used an italian sim. 2. I put an english sim in when I got home. 3. It wouldn't let me update my apps. 4. I reset it. 5. It won't let me reactivate it. Guess who is back on their tocco lite! Thank goodness I kept it. Apple is so good when it works but it is a nightmare when it doesn't. Made an appointment to go into the apple store on Tuesday so will see if they are able to do anything! Hopefully it can get sorted without too much cost.