One last thing before I run away down the coast

I was sitting in the library today (yes, I know I'm cool), and as a means of escaping the readings I had to do for Archaeology, I decided to log into my old Hotmail account with 4000 unread emails. Turns out it was the best procrastination ever! Apart from TONNES of spam (I won six million pounds in five different emails...I refuse to believe this is a scam), I stumbled across some awesome/hilarious emails. Not only were there some from you guys (I replied-sorry if it was a year/couple of months overdue!) which were absolutely awesome to read, but I also went all the way back in my sent items to emails I had sent when I first created the account (I was thirteen). I came across one particular email that I sent to my favourite band back then, One Night Only, that was so funny I nearly cried. And I wondered why they never replied...Here is what I wrote:

yeah hi im chloe and im australian

i live in sydney which is ok

u shuld come here

 

Wasn't I the coolest tween EVER? What an imaginative and captivating piece of fan mail. I should really just win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

 

 

 

 

So writing this post is a new experience, because the format of my Blogspot dashboard has been 'updated'. Since I'm not technologically savvy like the majority of my generation, bear with me whilst I try to navigate my way around. The new format is so weird I don't even know how to make a title for this post...this is a learning experience for both of us (a learning experience that may or may not take a couple of weeks....).

You may not believe this, but I survived those two assignments. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. I honestly didn't think that I'd be able to write a new essay on a Crusade that was ACTUALLY ONE OF THE ESSAY OPTIONS (I still can't get over my idiocy), but I managed to do it. However, in order to do so, I had to sacrifice going to a friend's party and the rest of my weekend. It kind of felt like my HSC year all over again (bad memories..baaaaad memories). With those assignments out of the way, I basically have no work to do, with the exception of an Archaeology essay which I'm naturally avoiding. Since handing in those two assignments, I've basically moved into the two bars at my university. On one occasion they were playing Friends on the big screen. I love university....

Tomorrow morning I'm running away with my family to Broulee, minus the running away part. We're driving down for Easter, but no need to have a psycho emotional breakdown at the thought of my absence-I'll be back on Monday afternoon. Broulee is literally one of my favourite places on Earth, and it especially always beautiful at this time of year. I won't blab on about how amazing/gorgeous/refreshing it is, because I always write about it on this blog when I'm going down there/have just been down there. I won't bore you with my sad attempts at describing how wonderful it is, but I will tell you that you should all go there once in your life. If you don't live in Australia, then I suggest that you click cross on this webpage, run to your car (or get your parents to drive you), and drive to the airport to hop on the next flight. I'm joking...but seriously...you know what to do. I am now off to do some readings for my Archaeology and then head off to university. There are a couple of gatherings for different societies this afternoon, so that's where I'll be (naturally taking exploiting the free drinks/pizza). 

So long, cyber peeps. I hope you all have amazingly amazing Easters and that you don't overdose on chocolate, because if you did, then who would I be able to rant about my life to on this blog?

ChlobeWan x

P.s. I chipped my tooth in my sleep last night. I'm really normal.

Definition of a shitty day:

29th of March 2011 
To kick off the day, I woke up with a sore neck from sleeping in an awkward position (or perhaps unknowingly went on another one of my many sleepwalking adventures....?). After a coffee from Edmunds and Greer which I must admit was pretty good, I got home to work on my essay on the Fifth Crusade. "Rightio", I thought to myself. "I've had a fantastic coffee and now I'm nearly finished my essay! Yipeeeee". Upon finishing the essay, I wanted to double check the word limit, and that was the crucial moment that my morning went downhill. Turns out I had written my essay, due in three days and worth 40% of my overall mark, ON A CRUSADE WHICH WASN'T ON THE LIST OF ESSAY TOPICS TO CHOOSE FROM. 
Yes, my friend. I had written 1500 words for nothing! But wait-there's more! The phone rings as I'm banging my head on the table, wallowing at my faliure to be organised, and I run to pick it up thinking it'll save me from my misery. I answer the phone to find out that it's my university. "Is this Chloe?" they ask. "Yes, that's me..?" I reply, while my head is swarming with ideas as to why the university would be calling me. Did I win a huge scholarship? Do they want me to fly all around Europe to show how amazingly brilliant and insanely hilarious I am? Did they call to say that the Fifth Crusade was accidently left off the list of essay topics, but it's actually an option and thus my 1500 words wasn't a big fat waste of time? "Chloe...we've been trying to call your mobile but you haven't answered...you need to bring in your tax file number by 5pm or we're going to have to cancel your enrolment". Yes, you read that right. Cancel my university enrolment. To get an idea of my reaction to this statement, click here.  I needed to bring in the tax file number...WHICH I HAD LOST! For about 2 hours I was running like a cow on crack around my house, emptying desk drawers and even going through every item of my wardrobe in the hope of finding the piece of paper. I found it. Handing it in to the university student centre was like the scene near the end of the Shawshank Redemption where he's running in the rain.

On a more positive note:
1. I got a job interview to tutor HSC English at a coaching college which will be a good source of money if I get it! Yipeee for potential employment and hello wasting money on material goods + saving for Europe!
2. Now I don't usually promote blogs on here, but my friend Alisha's is an exception. She is literally one of the most HILARIOUS people I know, and her antics never fail to whack a smile on my dial. She's just starting up her blog and has (finally) published her first ever post, so click here to read it! I've put her blog on my Blog List on the left hand side of this page so you don't have an excuse not to read it. Enough said.
3. I've actually got a really weird addiction to borrowing library books. Over the three few days I have literally borrowed FIFTEEN books from my university library...I think I need professional help with this addiction.
4. Saw the ad for Titanic 3D. Three dimensional Jack Dawson. Need I say more?
5. I have once again absolutely fallen in love with a song. It's called Where is My Mind, by Sunday Girl. Whenever I listen to it, it just makes me thing of wandering late at night and dreaming. Please excuse my sad attempt at penning my thoughts. If you haven't been turned off by my pathetic attempt at describing it, click here to hear it!

I am now off to cry at the fact that I have to write another essay on the Crusades. Hopefully I'll get it right this time *facepalm* 
Chloe X

How is she only 16 years old!?

I've kind of fallen in love with Birdy's voice. She is SO talented...and I'm here all like "lerl imma go do my middle agezz essaay and readings for media yoolloooo carpe diem broooo". But seriously, this cover is almost as good as the original! So nice to listen to in this chilly weather.

List-O-Mania

I've noticed that I have a really odd habit of writing lists for everything. I can't tell whether it's some form of OCD or because I have a terrible memory (my memory is pretty much the same as Dory's in Finding Nemo). I write To-Do Lists, special edition To-Do lists, lists of things to buy, lists of things to tell different people, lists of books to borrow at the Uni library, lists of places I want to go, lists of songs that I hear on the radio that I want to download, and lists of things to write on this blog. Since I haven't blogged properly for a week (I blame university), here is the happenings of my past week.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK THAT HAS JUST PAST:
1. I drank SO much coffee last Tuesday that during a tutorial, I was certain that a sign on the wall said 'White board penis' rather than 'white board pen'. I sat there giggling to myself like a true coffee addict.
2. I KIND OF GOT A JOB! It's pretty cool, too. Well cool if you like Justin Bieber, which I'm sure the majority of you don't. But I'm going to tell you the tale of getting my job regardless. I saw an advertisement on a careers website to work in Myer at the launch of Justin Bieber's new perfume (which goes for six weeks), and I applied thinking that it'd be fun way to earn some cash. On Thursday morning I got a job interview for THAT AFTERNOON, which meant that I had fifteen minutes to RUN from uni to the office. I had to get changed as fast as I could in the toilets at uni, and as I was running out I wacked my hip on the hand-dryer and now have a nice scar/bruise. Getting the bruise was worth it though, because I GOT THE JOB! The awkwardest thing happened at the job interview though-In front of an entire boardroom of people, I was asked to describe what the perfume smells like. The awkward part is that I've never smelt it,  and went on to make up the smell of the scent on the spot. I said "Hmm...the scent is slightly musky, not too citrusy and has a feminine and girly tone". I must have said something right because I got the job!
3. Yesterday I helped my Mum out at a second-hand book stall at a local art and craft show. When I was helping packing up, I came across an 80s movie called 'Pretty in Pink'. I watched it last night and it is now officially one of my favourite movies. It made my cry. Yes, and 80's flick made me cry. Such a great film! You should all watch it.
4. I absolutely love the song Taylor Swift wrote for The Hunger Games. I haven't read the book/seen the film, but it's such a beautiful song! Click here to hear it. 
5. I cannot WAIT for The Carrie Diaries to come out on TV. I am a huge Sex and the City fan, and this new prequel series looks so great! AnnaSophia Robb is going to make such a great young version of Carrie!
6. Yesterday I realised that my Media and History essays that I thought were due in two weeks are actually due NEXT WEEK. This week I am literally becoming a hermit. Not going to be fun.

Until next time,
ChlobeWan xx

WATCH THIS SPACE...

A mega-post is coming up tomorrow. Prepare thyself for awesomeness.

In the mean time, appreciate this photo (if you will) that I took of Phoebe this evening whilst we were relaxing at the golf course at the bottom of my street (my new favourite place). I go there every afternoon now at dusk because:

1. The sky is so beautiful. It's like a screensaver you'd find on a Mac.

2. Everything is silent except for the birds and the wind (I should really just become a full time poet...).

3. The grass is quite nice to sprawl out on. It's almost like an organic mattress of sorts. 

4. I can kind of just go down there to think about things. Contemplate. Ponder. Any other synonym for 'think'. Except when Phoebe comes, because we just end up talking about Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey. 

In the picture I took, Phoebe is running after our dog Daisy, who shortly after the picture was taken, jumped into a nice bath of mud. Mum wasn't very pleased to see that her caramel dog returned as a lump of dirt. 

THIS IS NO BRIDGIT JONEESSS

So with the angst of a teenage band,
Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand

The one where she wants to go to Cairo...

So I'm basically drowning under university work. I know I shouldn't be complaining-I'm only at uni for 12 hours a week (Oh the hard life of being an arts student), but the amount of readings I have to do is doing my head in! That said, the week that has just passed (my second week of uni), was very enjoyable. In my Media lecture we watched clips from Friends and The Simpsons to help us understand the theory that we're learning! I also had my first Media tutorial, where to my absolute joy I walked in to discover that my tutor is our lecturer (who is insanely awesome), and my Archaeology tutorial took place in the University's museum, where our tutor told us fascinating stories about the Mummies in the museum. I found it so interesting that I forced two friends to come to the museum with me the following day so I could play tour guide and tell them the stories (why am I so cool...). I then finished off the day drinking cider on the lawns outside one of the uni pubs as the sun set=very happy Chloe. I was at the bar to meet the people from my university's radio group, and they were a really cool bunch of people, one of whom was a British guy on exchange from London who shares my love for Nick Grimshaw.

OTHER RANDOM RAMBLINGS:
-Why did I chose the Crusades as my essay topic for History when I know absolutely nothing about them? I tried reading the Wikipedia page for them but even the complexity of that nearly melted my eyes and made a stir-fry out of my brain
-I'm going through a phase where I really want to travel to Cairo. I'm just so fascinated by Ancient Egypt, and to see the pyramids in reality would be mind-blowing. Shame I don't have a job and have an addiction to coffee...the only place where I'll be travelling for the next few years is to uni and Edmunds and Greer!
-This cold weather is making me a very happy teenager. Perfect weather for drinking coffee (and Irish Breakfast Tea), and it also provides the perfect excuse to rock my awesome Angry Birds slippers. What of it.
-I heard that Coldplay are touring Australia at some point in the near future. I'm. So. There. (Again, I'm currently broke, so if you have a strange urge to buy me a ticket, go ahead! I'll repay you in a nice Chloe hug)
-Phoebe and I are totally going to try out for the next Australian Amazing Race. Totally prepared to risk public humiliation for free travel!
-I'm currently brainstorming epic April Fools Day ideas. They are epically epic.
-Phoebe has to do a presentation for law on Monday, and she's 'presented' it to me so many times that I feel as though I could get up there on Monday and do it pretending to be her.
-I'm seeing one of my friends who lives in LA on Monday and I CANNOT WAIT!

I am now off to babysit. Yeah, I'm so cool that I babysit on a Saturday night. Boys, one at a time please.

Chloe Xx

MY HEAD. IT HURTS.

I am not lying when I tell you that I have been catching up on reading for the Middle Ages (the unit I'm currently doing for History) since 3pm this afternoon. It is now 8.42pm, despite what the confused time will tell you at the bottom of this post (usually a couple of hours off. I am yet to work out how to alter the time-zone!). Everything is the Middle Ages and nothing hurts. Except my head. It feels as though someone has filled it with water and it is now full, but they're still trying to pour more water in (why aren't I a poet....?!). I've only got 10 more pages to go before I'm up to date, and then can finally rest my head and go to sleep. To celebrate, I'll write a mega-post tomorrow morning. You heard it right. A MEGA POST. A bajillion words and all. Oh deary me..I am so tired that I should really publish this post and get back to work before my head hits my desk and my eyelids superglue shut.

The only thing getting me through the million pages on the Middle Ages (I really do love that rhyme) is the song Love Like a Sunset by Phoenix, which I've had on repeat for a very, very long time! Phoenix really is a genre of its own. Click here to hear the song (only after you put in your head-phones and turn your volume up full blast. Trust me-it'll be worth it!). Be sure to listen to the whole thing! It just gets better and better. Best study music in the history of life. It's just so beautiful!

Sozzle McGozzles.

Please excuse the lateness of this update (and the lameness of the title of this post-it's my new way of saying 'sorry'). It seems as though my university work load isn't a fan of this blog, and would rather my attention not continually drift away from it's endless pages.

The weekend that has just passed was insanely busy, however not a 'bad' busy in the slightest. One of my oldest friends flew down from Ballina to stay with me for the weekend, and we made sure we didn't waste any time. We watched a terribly enjoyable (but all the more terrible) movie called 'I Don't Know How She Does It', (A movie that is almost as bad as its title), ate lots of crap, laughed at old videos, went out for dinner, enjoyed spontaneous Greek dancing at a restaurant that we walked past and got invited into, participated in some seriously intense karaoke and then ended up on the harbour sipping cocktails. If you call that a bad weekend, then in the words of Mary Poppins, "you need a spoonful of sugar". 

OTHER UPDATES IN THE LIFE OF CHLOE: 

1. I know everyone has probably already seen it, but I watched 500 Days of Summer the other night AND IT IS SUCH A GREAT MOVIE! It's greatness may or may not have been exemplified by the extreme sex appeal of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who I may or may not be in love with after watching the film...

2. I walked through three, THREE spiderwebs whilst walking to my front door after uni today. When I looked in the mirror once I got inside (and had stopped running around panicking like a duck on crack), it looked like I was wearing a hair-net. Three. Spiderwebs. THREEEEE. Why can life be so cruel!? It's as if life knew that I have a phobia of spiders and thought it would be funny to Punk me, minus the video cameras and Ashton Kutcher. 

3. I am absolutely obsessed with season two of Downton Abbey. It is truly the best thing I have ever watched. Matthew Crawley in uniform...Oh my.

4. I didn't have a coffee today and I'm still alive

5. I realised how behind I am in uni work after discovering that I have to read FIFTY PAGES ON THE MIDDLE AGES FOR TOMORROW MORNING. FIFTY PAGES ON THE MIDDLE AGES RHYMES. I'M REALLY TIRED AND SHOULD REALLY START THIS READING.

Over and out,

Chloe x

Everyone is hating on the rainy weather...

...and I'm sitting here wishing that it was like this every single day! I am so incredibly glad that Summer is over, and am currently embracing this refreshing cold change. The heater is on, I'm wearing (almost) as many layers as Ashley Olsen, and to top it all off I am enjoying a lovely hot coffee that my Grandma kindly dropped over knowing that I was home alone. Can this day get any better? I think not. Unless Ed Sheeran turns up at my doorstep to serenade me. Or any other British musician for that matter.


So my first week of university is drawing to a close, and I actually could not be any more happy about it. Not in the sense that I hate it and am happy that it's nearly the weekend, but rather that this week has assured me that I did make the right decision to choose the course that I did. Yesterday I had my first ever Media lecture, and the whole time I was sitting there trying to act cool when the little people inside my brain were screaming "I LOVE THIS OMG THIS IS MY DREAM COURSE PARTAYAAYY TIMEEE". I also had my first archaeology lecture, and the only way to describe it was...random? I was pretty disappointed walking in to the lecture to find that our lecturer was not Indiana Jones, but I swallowed some cement and got over it. We got a notification about our first essay which made me want to cry right there and then, but the swelling tears rested back in their ducts (nice imagery right there) after our lecturer told us that our tutorials are held underneath the University's museum (which even has a real mummy!), AND WE GET TO PUT ON GLOVES AND TOUCH THINGS! The only other downside to the lecture was that our lecturer would put up a slide and I'd begin typing it up...then BAM! The next slide would come up after I had written down three words. My notes from that lecture consist of "Civilisations...elements of a civilisation...random quote off a British academic about the word civilisation??". My sister's final lecture finished at 6pm, so instead of heading home I just sat in the quadrangle. It was raining, and I sat on a ledge looking out to the quad. It looked so incredibly beautiful in the rain that I just sat there looking like a tourist for an hour and a half. 

OTHER THOUGHTS:
-I found a gorgeous little cafe in Newtown called The Bell Jar. It's absolutely tiny but insanely awesome, sells incredible coffee, plays old music and has tonnes of Frankie magazines lying around to read. I'll definitely be back there soon!
-I stumbled across this on Tumblr: "That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback". I couldn't stop laughing because this is EXACTLY how I felt when I finished the final Harry Potter book on the train home from school. The entire world of Harry Potter had just come to a close, and I just shut the book and looked around at all the people sitting on the train reading their newspapers and playing on their phones, oblivious to the fact that the emotional roller-coaster that is the Harry Potter series had ended for me! I love when you see something, whether it's a quote, Facebook group or anything along those lines and realise that it's not just you that feels a certain way about something! 
-Last night I was scrolling down my newsfeed, and about every second person had shared the video of 'Kony 2012'.  I support any campaign that attempts to bring a war criminal to justice/address the issue of child soldiers, but I'm just hoping that people don't just post the video and then forget about the issue- It's going to take a lot of action to capture Kony and get him to the ICC! Go on the website for Invisible Children and sign the pledge today. 
-I love how Matt Corby is getting famous! I kind of knew him back in the Australian Idol days (I versed him in handball once and got out immediately because I was so distracted buy his angelic appearance). I even went to his Australian Idol Grandfinal party. He lost. It was pretty awkward. I also have a funny story about him-We were catching a train once and he was sitting nearby, and he had written his number on his skateboard. I gave my old phone to a 14 year old family friend, and I didn't delete my contacts. I wonder if she's worked out she has Matt Corby's number...


I kind of fell in love with him after he sung this on Idol!

Now go outside and jump in some puddles!
Chloe x

University.

So I kind of had my first day at University today. I woke up bright and early (the earliest I had woken up in three months), and it took an embarrassingly long time to work out what to wear. I ended up throwing on my Muse tour top, denim shorts and loafers. Why aren't I a world famous fashionista?! Move over Alexa Chung! When choosing shoes to wear, I nearly cried when I broke the zipper on my combat boots. Those combat boots and I have had a roller coaster ride of a relationship. When my friend and I went in to buy a pair of combat boots each two summers ago they were the last pair in our size, and after a lengthy (and heated) debate over who should get them, I won (you never challenge Chloe when she's focused on shopping). Fast-forward two years and those combat boots have walked pretty much to the Moon and back. I bought another pair of combat boots in LA when I was there in November but they don't have the same scruffiness as the broken ones. #firstworldproblems. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO WEAR ON MY FEET NOW?! FEMININE SHOES?? PAAHH! 

Not long after the emotional act of chucking my combat boots in the bin (and three coffees later) I was sitting in my first ever history lecture: The Middle Ages. I thought that I was going to be a complete loner in History (as it seems as though everyone and their mother is doing either Philosophy or American Studies), but then I remembered my good friend Rachel was doing it, and I stuck to her like Jessica Watson sticks to the spotlight. I may or may not have been trembling from the caffeine throughout the lecture. Whilst walking I lost the heel of my loafers. It literally fell off. Why do my shoes hate me so much? I treat them fine!  Fast forward two lectures, delicious hot chips, a large Boost (even though I only paid for a Medium ;), and I was at home. Well, I am at home. Writing this. Now. There's my day in two paragraphs.

P.S. This made me laugh. A lot. SNL skits actually make my life. Click here to watch it (excuse the crappy quality-copyright has seen all the good quality versions taken down!).
P.P.S. Is it just me or does Jessie J literally sound like she's going vocal acrobatics in her song Domino?
P.P.P.S. I've always dreamed of having a crappy day and rocking up to the airport to book the next ticket out of Sydney. Shame that coffee tends to eat all my money!

How do you spell Jessica Watson? S-E-L-L O-U-T!

So I was casually reading the Telegraph this morning (don't judge-there was no other newspaper available this morning at Edmunds and Greer), and upon reading a little article I nearly choked to death on my coffee. Just when I thought I couldn't loathe Jessica Watson anymore than I currently do, I discover that she's a contestant on the latest series of Dancing with The Stars. I think she's realised that she really can't dwell any longer/make any more money from something she did two years ago, and that it's time to find another way to battle her way into the public eye! She has published her book, ended her deal with Ellé Bache, had her documentary made, and won Young Australian of the Year (which only really sent out the message that with enough money you can do anything). It's pretty much universally acknowledged that when any 'celebrity' signs up for Dancing with The Stars, their career is about to slide down a really steep hill into mud. So long, Jessica Watson! I've literally just stopped laughing about this. Oh deary me.

This week was pretty intense. I had my university's O-Week (more like H2oweek-I think the weather isn't really a fan of Sydney University), which I spent signing up for societies, eating too many hot chips at the Manning to escape the foul weather, meeting up with old friends/meeting new friends, and going to some random events like speed dating which proved to be a lot of fun! One of the down sides was discovering the prices of my various textbooks-my archaeology one alone is ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS. This week you'll find me desparately trawling online second hand bookstores in an attempt to prevent me from going broke!

In other news:
1. I've started writing in the beautiful new journal that my friend Eleni gave me on my 18th birthday. She wrote an amazing quote made by William Wordsworth on the very first page: "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart". That is precisely what a journal is for. I've been keeping journals since I could put sentences together, and whenever I start a new journal and I'm in that awkward self-conscious phase of trying to sound proper, I remember my policy-If I wouldn't be humilated if someone else read the journal, then I'm not doing it right. A journal needs to be honest, and therefore embarrassing (well in my case anyway). If it's just you trying to sound clever, then it's not going to be much fun reading it in twenty years time! It's also great when you write down things which you're stressed about-I've found writing my problems down to be a good sort of therapy. Usually writing things down makes you realise how stupid it is that you're worring about it so much and makes it easier to move on!
2. Yesterday was one of those terribly shitty days. I woke up at 5.55am to prepare for buying One Direction tickets (don't judge), and at 9.00 when they went on sale the entire website crashed. By the time I had the opportunity to buy them, they had all sold out. Pure poo on toast. Then Mum informed me that my brother was 'sick' (AKA Had a bit of a sore throat and wanted to play the computer game 'Minecraft' all day) so I couldn't walk to the shops to get a coffee. Finally, to top off an insanely boring day indoors because of the weather, I walked into the laundry and literally thought that my 14 year old dog was about to die-he was shaking and his back legs were failing. He's OK now, but it was very scary seeing as though both my parents were at work!
3. I came across an amazing quote yesterday-"He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciousness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries  nd all things are possible". I don't know if it's just me, but I can always tell when I'm on the brink of falling asleep. All of a sudden I start thinking about super, super random things that I don't really have any control over, and that's why I love the quote above so much-it's so accurate!
4. I'm posting my ultimate dinner party guest list tomorrow. It's a bit long...but the more the merrier!

P.S. In the letter that Eleni wrote at the front of my journal, she noted what I wrote here on my blog the day before my 17th birthday last year. "Cars are hilarious...I was on the bus this morning and I honestly couldn't stop laughing. It's people in boxes with wheels". I really do write about life-changing stuff on this blog!

I can't get over this!

I posted this a while a go (as in like two years ago!), but I just stumbled across it on Youtube and rekindled my love for it! Boy do I love a good mash-up!



For a song to listen to if you're kind of tired like me, click here and prepare for chilled awesomeness!

Lana Del Rey, GO AWAY!

So I kind of need to get this out of my system. You know how there's always those people that you just really can't stand? Well for me it was always Jessica Watson...and then I discovered Lana Del Rey. When I first came across her, my only thoughts were "Wow, she's had stuff done to her lips" and "This music is kind of boring...what's all the fuss about her?", then proceeded to carry on with my life. Fast forward a week, and I was reading the Good Weekend which had a feature on her. Interested, I read it instead of flipping past it. Let's just say that the article made me really angry!

It turns out that before she became 'Lana Del Rey', she was called Elizabeth Grant. She released an album which was basically a mega-flop, and then with the help of her millionare father she reinvented' herself as Lana Del Rey (including getting plastic surgery...). Kudos to her for succeeding in getting famous...but doesn't she give out a bad message? That with lots of money you can really do anything? Her and Jessica Watson are kind of in the same boat (pun intended).

 Oh, and once she got internationally famous she bailed on her Australian tour. I think the most confusing part of this action is why people bought tickets to see her live in the first place! Her recorded music isn't that bad, but would you want to watch her sing for an hour? Watch the video below to make up your mind...I think I'd rather watch two slugs humping each other...

They say, she's in the class eighteen...

See what I did there? I should really stop being such an Ed Sheeran fangirl...

So I'm kind of an adult now. I say 'kind of' because I'm an adult in a legal sense, but anyone who knows me will agree that I don't behave like an adult. I realised that I should really stop behaving like a 15 year old when I was on the phone to a friend fangirling over One Direction's announcement that they're touring Australia. I'll attempt to act a bit more mature in the forthcoming weeks. If One Direction plays on the radio, I'll say 'Oh em gee that boy band is like so terrible. Bon Iver like knows what music is like and his music can like read my souuulll and I play his songs on my guitar and then post them on my Tumblrrrr and get like 158503495804 notes', when inside my brain is really screaming "OH MY GOD ONE DIRECTION ARE SEX ON LEGS HARRY STYLES I'M GOING TO PASH AND DASH YOU WHEN YOU COME TO SYDNEY I DON'T CARE IF YOU GET A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST ME AND OMGGGGG NIALL'S IRISH ACCENT IS ADORABLE I WISH I COULD MARRY IT AND I LOVE HIS BLONDE HAIR AND LIAM IS SUCH A BABE EVEN THOUGH HE'S TAKEN BUT OH WELL JNKFO;SNDGJNFDGNFD AND LOUIS IS HILARIOUSSZZZZZZZ OMMMMMMMG IS IT LEGAL TO MARRY ALL OF YOU???!!". 

On to more important matters: My 18th birthday. I honestly couldn't have had a more amazing day...it included being given amazing presents (including incredible Swarovski earrings from Mum and Dad), being pampered at a day spa, going to Edmunds and Greer twice (yes, on my 18th birthday I went to Edmunds and Greer twice), having a lovely afternoon tea with the grandparents, and then heading out for what I thought was going to be a dinner with my Aunty and Uncle in Newtown which ended up being.... A SURPRISE PARTY! Yep, turns out Mum was secretly plotting with my friends! I got SUCH a big shock that I nearly fell all the way back down the stairs. It was so lovely to spend my birthday with my good friends, some of whom I haven't seen since last year! Such a great night. The only reason I didn't organise a party myself was because I'm too lazy, so it was SO nice to be able to see my friends and not have to worry about organising anything! I finished off the night coming home with Phoebe and Eleni and watching the final episode of Friends. We began watching it after the HSC and now we're finished! I nearly cried, and that's saying something because I don't cry very often!

My second day of being 18 (yesterday) was spent drinking coffee at Edmunds and Greer for three hours (and they asked us to model some hand bags for them which was quite hilarious), playing an extremely unsafe but all the more fun version of musical chairs in the car on the way to the beach (which involves running outside of the car...try doing that in heavy clogs!), relaxing on the beach, and then going out to the local pub with my friend who has recently moved to Canberra! We went back to his house where my friends thought it would be funny to all lick the screen of my new Blackberry! My poor, poor little Blackberry...

So yeah, I've been pretty busy! I'm absolutely dead now, and I'm babysitting tonight! Here's hoping I don't fall asleep.

Hope all of your weekends are going mighty fine,
Adult Chloe xx

Last day of being...

So I'm kind of turning eighteen TOMORROW. I was chatting to a woman who works at my local chemist (buying hair dye- my hair is now 'chocolate' coloured), and she said how she remembers me coming in with my Mum when I was six years old! It made my realise how much time flies-it only feels like yesterday that I would wander in to the chemist with Mum and check out the new Beanie Kidz range while Mum would buy medicine! I'm kind of suffering from a bit of Peter Pan syndrome right now...I DON'T WANT TO GROW OLD! I'm hoping I don't wake up with wrinkles tomorrow (Little bit too dramatic? I'll stop now).
That said, I'm excited for what turning 18 allows me to do in a legal sense. I can change my name, buy spray paint, be sued, get divorced, adopt a child, gamble, get a lap dance, buy scratchies, become a stripper and visit adult bookstores! Oh, and you know...I can vote and legally drink and stuff....
Can't wait to tell you all how tomorrow goes!
Love from seventeen year old Chloe X

"Treat me beneath this clear night sky
And I will lie with you
I start to feel those butterflies
When I’m next to you

Tell me your secrets
Give me a friend
Let all the good times flood in
Do I love you?
Do I hate you?
I can’t make up my mind
So let’s freefall
See where we land"

Things I have done in the past 50 hours

Again, since I haven't posted in a while my iPhone's 'Notes' are full of things to write on here. PREPARE FOR A MEGA POST. Click here if you want a song to listen to while reading this post!

1. I had an amazing breakfast at a cafe in Marrickville (basically a heart-attack on a plate). I'm talking pancakes, bacon and an overdose of maple syrup...if I drop dead I loved you all! The cafe uses all different china which is a cute idea, and what's cuter is that if you arrive when the place is full they give you a picnic rug so you can enjoy your food at the park across the road!
2. I checked out the markets at Carriageworks, which is basically a whole lot of stalls selling fresh juices, produce, flowers and anything that you can think of that is edible and tasty. The location is really cool too-it's an old train shed! Also, Kylie Kwong has a stall with her husband and as a MasterChef junkie (she was on the show a lot), I must say I was a little bit star struck! I'll definitely be dragging my friends there in the future.
3. After dropping my little cousin off at his tap dancing lessons at Bondi (you should see his tiny little tap shoes...they're so cute I can't help but grit my teeth everytime I see them), I hit up the beach (and forgot to put sunscreen on...you don't need me to tell you what colour my skin is) and then had an earth shattering orange and watermelon juice at a nearby cafe (which despite being tasty, was MASSIVELY over-priced!). It was nice getting out and doing stuff nice and early in the morning rather than lying in bed eating chocolate-chip cookies and trawling Tumblr until lunch like I usually do!
4. I bought Wuthering Heights to add to my collection of Penguin romance novels! I still need to finish reading Jane Eyre though...IT'S SO DAMN LONG!
5. Am now addicted to Mad Men. I may or may not be in love with Don Draper.
6. I went shopping and almost went crazy at Zara when I realised that there was a DOWNSTAIRS section! I always thought that it was just kids clothes downstairs, but I was wrong! Not only are the clothes better downstairs, but there was NO line at the changing rooms and NO line at the cash register!
7. I saw My Week With Marilyn which was so, so, SO great! I was expecting it to be fantastic because it got rated 10/10 by the Sydney Morning Herald, but it totally blew my expectations! Michelle Williams is SUCH an incredibly talented actress!
8. So...I'M KIND OF TURNING 18 ON THURSDAY! I'm so excited, but two days ago I realised that I literally have no ID apart from my year eight ID card and my passport which is about to expire (I've lost everything else!). I should really get my L's so I have some form of proof that I'm over 18! Apart from that little problem, I am SO excited about turning the big ONE EIGHT! As for the day of my actual birthday, Mum told me yesterday to keep the morning free because I have a special 'appointment' (I'll keep you posted if I get any more clues!),maybe going out for high tea in the afternoon, and then I'm having dinner at my favourite restaurant with family! SEWW EXCITED.
9. At dinner last night, I began to wonder who would be on my 'Ultimate Dinner Party' list. So far I have 25 people, and I'm going to post it when I'm done!
10. Today's dot-point off my bucket list is to go cage diving with sharks in South Africa! I'm actually so scared of Great White sharks, but I conquered my fear of heights so I may as well conquer this one!
11. I have just finished off the journal which was supposed to last me the whole of university. WHY DO I HAVE TO HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS! Emotions are quite costly!

P.S. I think I may have stumbled across a picture of my future apartment. THAT VIEW. THAT WINDOW. A girl can dream, right?

In other news...

1. I spent Valentines Day conducting major retail therapy with Eleni and Phoebe (which included being given free books by sexy shirtless male models and walking into David Jones and seeing none other than Miranda Kerr), then coming home and lying under my sheets listening to Ed Sheeran and talking to randoms on Omegle about life.
2. Everything I did today was entirely free. I was picked up by friends who paid for my morning coffee, my lunch, TWO games of bowling (both of which I epically failed at) and then got another free coffee at work when I went to pick up my pay! Twas an excellent day at no cost!
3. Speaking of the website Omegle, I have been having a lot of fun on it lately. Basically it's like a chatroom but all it says is 'You' and 'Stranger' so you can be whoever you want and leave at anytime. Usually I pretend to the people I talk to that I'm a 67 year old pirate, and believe it or not, some people don't disconnect upon hearing this information! Unlike freaky chatrooms that we always got warned about in school, you come across some really cool people on Omegle, and I've had some awesome conversations!
4. Today's activity on 'CHLOE'S EPIC BUCKET LIST' (Yes, I added in the word 'Epic' to make it sound more epic) will take place in New York City. Basically all I want to do is jump into a taxi (it has to be yellow like in the movies) and yell "FOLLOW THAT CAR!". It doesn't matter in the slightest who is in the car in front or where they are going. Call me lame but IT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL SO COOL/KIND OF FULFILL MY FANTASY OF BEING IN AN ACTION THRILLER MOVIE! You know you want to do it too!
5. Just when I thought that I couldn't fall even more in love with Ed Sheeran, I hear his cover of Empire State of Mind...I've also fallen in love with his song 'Fall'-so incredibly romantic nfuosdnfjdsnaf. Click here if you want to fall in love with it too! 

Major girl crush.

Alexa Chung. She's so effortlessly gorgeous; I want to marry the clothes that she wears and her accent is to die for.  Need I say more? 

THE BENEFITS OF BEING FOREVER ALONE

I am writing this having just put down the crayon that I was creating a picture with. A picture through which I attempted (half-heartedly) to conceptualise my thoughts on Valentines Day. Imagine a black heart with icicles stabbing it, and a beautiful pool of blood at the bottom. That's what my picture (aimed) to look like.

"Why do you hate Valentine's Day so much?" you're probably thinking to yourself. "I bet it's because she's a single loser who has never had a Valentine and loves to feel sorry for herself and wallow in her aloneness. Omg lolz rofl lmfaoo brah wot a loser!". Well my friend, I have some news for you.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I HAVE HAD SOME VALENTINES IN THE SEVENTEEN (ALMOST EIGHTEEN) YEARS OF MY LIFE! I present to you the most memorable of my Valentines Day experiences (which I'll admit are limited in number, but awesome all the same).

1. My first Valentine was when I was nine years old, and a boy in my class slipped a note in my bag saying 'I know you hate me but I don't'. To this day I am still trying to decode the meaning of that note...it's cute nevertheless!

2. At the end of primary school I 'broke up' with my 'boy friend' so I could 'meet new guys at high school' (insert gasp). On Valentines Day 2006 I was standing with my friends waiting for my train (thinking I was too cool for school with my awesome Roxy bag and Diva headband), and that same guy...or should I say boy...ran up to me with a paper bag full of frangipanies that he had handpicked from his garden and a block of dark chocolate (my favourite). Even though I didn't 'like' him anymore, I couldn't deny the cuteness of his gesture!

Now that I'm nearly 18 my feelings towards Valentines Day have completely flipped...flipped almost as much as that cruise ship near Italy did a few weeks ago. I've adopted an attitude that most would associate with an 74 year old Russian who lives alone in the outskirts of Moscow with almost as many cats as the years she has walked this Earth, and has vodka with her cornflakes for breakfast instead of milk. I present to you...a one off Chloe Valentines Day themed special...THE BENEFITS OF BEING FOREVER ALONE! Click here for the official article song to listen to whilst reading this post.

Ultimately Valentines Day is a (highly commercial) 'Single's Awareness Day'. I'm sure that even people in cute and cuddly relationships can agree with that. To be frank, Valentine's Day is:
A) To rub in single people's faces that they're alone
B) For couples whose romance has 'died down' to rekindle said romance.
C) A commercial holiday whereby businesses make lots of extra cash (Whether it be a candle lit dinner for two or an impersonal "Happy Valentines Day to the best girlfriend in the world" card from Hallmark). I love romance, but romance in a relationship is certainly not limited to Valentines Day, and at risk of sounding a little commy, is thus purely a capitalist creation!
D) All of the above

I turned to my siblings for words of wisdom. Phoebe said "If Valentines Day was a person, I would most definitely NOT be friends with it". Kudos to Phoebe (Let's ignore the fact that we're twins and thus share many of the same opinions). My little brother Christopher said "I don't care about Valentine's Day. Go away". Minus the "go-away" part, I was definitely proud to be his sister. His comment got me thinking... Why do us single people care about Valentines Day so much? Instead of wallowing at our aloneness...shouldn't we be celebrating? You're in a relationship with yourself, and if you're a pretty awesome person...THEN LIFE IS SWEET!

At risk of sounding like a single teenage girl in denial...here are the official REASONS AS TO WHY SINGLE PEOPLE ON VALENTINES DAY SHOULD BE CELEBRATING!
1. You can perve on whoever you want and not get in trouble for it. I'm talking about that random guy sitting two seats in front of you on the bus who looks sexy chewing his gum and who listens to Queen and occasionally Daft Punk. I'm talking about that hottie who plays the sexy evil vampire on your favourite TV show...That cute waiter who'd you'd like to 'order' more than a sandwich...Other people's boyfriends (Did I just say that? Woops.)

2. If you ever bumped into your favourite celebrity THERE IS NOTHING HOLDING YOU BACK! Imagine if you were in a relationship and...say...you had a chance meeting with Francisco Lachowski and he asked you out on a date. YOU COULD GO!

3. You can flirt with whoever you want whenever you want. May I add that sometimes you can utilise flirtation to your advantage-I have a friend who flirts with a barrista, not intending to ever date him, but purely just she knows he'll give her a free coffee if he thinks he has a chance. Call it unethical, but it's wisdom at its finest, my friends. 

4. You can be the cool single friend. Enough said.

5. You can do WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT. When you're in a relationship with yourself you never have to ask for permission to do anything! "I feel like flying to Jamacia for sixteen days. Oh waaaiiitt I should text [insert name of boyfriend/girlfriend] and let them know..LOL THEY DON'T EXIST AND I'M CATCHING THE NEXT PLANE OUTTA HERE BABYYYY". Initiate the elimination of the word 'permission' out of your vocabulary!

6. You are never jealous when you're in a relationship with yourself. No worriez brah.

7. You can eat what you want when you want. You don't need to look good for yourself...because...you are yourself (that made sense in my head!)! Best 'forever alone and loving it' dessert is without a doubt a tub of Neopolitan icecream with a moat dug around the outside filled with Pepsi. Thank me later.

8. You can sing All By Myself and MEAN IT! HOW COOL IS THAT! Makes karaoke that little more fun!

9. You save phone credit. That'd the deal closer for me. Oh, and you also save money on birthday presents/Christmas presents/Valentines Day gifts! Spend that money on a mani/pedi, life size cut out of George Clooney, Lindt Chilli chocolate, a hitman, Angry Bird slippers or whatever floats your boat!

So there you have it folks, THE BENEFITS OF BEING FOREVER ALONE! We need to have a better life anyway, because research has proven that married people live longer...SO LET'S GET PARTYING (I.e. belting out Adele's 'Someone Like You' at the top of our lungs)! Ok, so perhaps I am a single teenage girl in denial...hopefully next year I won't be so cynical!
 Love,
Chloe

　

Love letters.

It's official. I GOT A PROPER EMAIL ADDRESS FOR THIS BLOG. I figured it was time to get one after I realised that the one which was 'pen pals' page had:
-Existed since I was 13 years old, hence the stupid 'its_yellow_01@hotmail.com'.
-Has over 1400 unread emails from all over the place-I use the email when scary charity workers/shop assistants ask me for my contact details...
-Not been checked in a year (hence the 1400+ unread emails!).

So, here it is cyber folks: chloeannabellesblog@gmail.com
Whenever you want and wherever you are, send me emails! There is honestly nothing that I love more than receiving emails from people who aren't the people that I listed above, or foreign banks with spelling mistakes who are writing to inform me that I've inherited $100000000 from a dead relative in Zimbabwe. Send me jokes, ideas, questions, observations, love letters (now that would make my day ;), life changing realisations, opinions, photographs, videos, links to your own Tumblrs or Blogs, advice, feedback, funny Gifs on Tumblr, hamburgers (only if you own a teleporting machine), Harry Styles (again, only if you have a teleporter), rants, poetry, places to visit wherever you live, and anything else you could possibly fit into an email. I really do love a good email and nothing would make me happier than to hear from you guys! I don't byte (GET MY PUUNN!!??). ROFLLMAOTTBOHMBOBW! (Rolling on floor laughing my ass off to the beat of Hannah Montana 'Best of Both Worlds'). Write to me, I'll reply, and then we can officially be cyber BFFS.

I am now off to eat scones and trawl Tumblr for pretty pictures of pretty places that I would like to visit one day.

Muchos love,
Chloe X

Thoughts of a tired teenager

I am lying in my bed under the blankets wearing a sweater and tracksuit pants and socks with my big head phones on my head listening to Ed Sheeran sing 'This' and typing this very long sentence on my laptop because it's raining outside and I felt like I needed to write about this moment because I am so relaxed that my eyes are drooping  (is drooping a word?) as I write this and I can hear the rain outside past the music playing through my head phones and hearing rain in the middle of Summer reminded me of how much more I love Winter than Summer and how much I can't wait for Winter to arrive and now I am just typing because pressing the keys is quite enjoyable especially in the darkness of my room even though it's not that dark because my fairy lights are on which actually look quite pretty now that I think about it and now my iPod has moved on to Ed Sheeran's song 'The City' and I hope it changes soon because I don't really like that song as much as I hate to admit it because he's talented and cute and blah blah you get the drift well I hope you do or that's major awkward it's still raining and I'm thinking about whether I turn my laptop off and start watching Lost in Austen because I really do love that mini-series and Mr Bingley is extremely attractive ok I'm really tired when you guys are tired do you start imagining really wierd things because now I'm thinking about what would happen if I walked through the attic door and it was the world of one of my favourite books like Harry Potter ok I'm content now because 'The City' is now over and Lego House has come on and I really do like that song not just because Rupert Grint is in the video clip for it but because the lyrics are really cute and it's fun to sing along to and when I turn it up loud whilst wearing these headphones I can sing and can't hear myself singing because the music is too loud so it's funny because it feels like I don't have a voice 'and out of all these things I've done, I think I love you better now' those lyrics just played in the song and I thought that I'd type them here because sometimes when you hear lyrics and then write them out you can truly apprectiate how awesome they are ok now for a sad story the pen that I've been writing in my journal with for the past three months has run out so now it just feels plain old wrong writing in my journal with a different pen because it has a different look and I don't like that new look it's kind of wierd and if you're still reading this I wish I could ask you who you are and why you care about my tired thoughts but for your information I just turned the music off so I could focus my attention on the sound of the rain and the sound of my fingers pressing the keys which is actually now getting on my nerves so I think that I'm going to turn my computer off now like I said I would many words ago and watch Lost in Austen or Funny Face which will be very nice because I like watching movies when it's raining outside.

The End.

Love Actually

I thought that would be an appropriate title to use for this post because:
A) I watched the movie (Love Actually) two nights ago and officially decided that it is my absolutely favourite movie of all time. Everything about it is so funny/perfect/funny/perfect/cute/hilarious/perfect.
B) Valentines Day is next week. I had my first day at work a couple of days ago, and the girl who I was working with asked if I'm doing anything special for Valentines Day. Cue awkward 'forever alone' response.

The past few days have been pretty great. I'm officially halfway through the ninth season of Friends, which is pretty impressive seeing as though I only started watching it with Phoebe and Eleni at the end of the HSC! Now we just have to finish the series before university starts. I don't care if Matthew Perry is almost the same age as my Dad, I'm going to marry him (whether he likes it or not).

Yesterday I headed into the city to conduct some serious 18th birthday shopping with my grandparents. After numerous hours of wandering around the city I finally chose an ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS wallet from Mimco. The sad part is that now I have to wait for my birthday to get it! Goodbye crappy American Apparel wallet that is slowly decaying (which is partially my fault-I should really learn to have less coins and chuck my train tickets and receipts out!). I'm also currently compiling a list of bars to go to once I turn the big 18. Most of them are random Irish ones...can't wait!

I am now sitting at home eating brownie mixture and wishing I was at Cronulla drinking a coffee at The Grind (which is, in my opinion, the best coffee in Sydney). To give me something to do, I shall now right about number three on my bucket list:
SEE THE NORTHERN LIGHTS. It may not exactly be a potentially fatal experience like swimming with the killer whales or diving in Bermuda, but in my opinion is equally awesome!

I am now off to watch 'Funny Face' for the very first time.
Lots of love,
Chloe

P.S. Madonna's half-time performance at the Superbowl was pretty snazzy, but I don't think it could really beat U2's! Beautiful Day is amazing (as usual) and Where The Streets Have No Name whilst the names of the victims of September 11 are projected onto the giant screen is beautiful. Seeing U2 perform live was the first thing to tick off my bucket list-they're actually SO incredibly amazing live...and all the more amazing when you're front row of the mosh (the 10 hour wait definitely paid off, minus my legs nearly falling off!).

10/10 Day

Yesterday was quite enjoyable, to say the least. It all started when I went over to my Grandparent's house for lunch yesterday, and they offered to pay for Phoebe and I to go to the Harry Potter Exhibition the following day. Was I ever not going to accept that AWESOME OPPORTUNITY?!

So yeah, fast-forward to yesterday morning. I woke up and it was raining (my absolute fav weather), and caught the train in to the city with Phebus. The exhibition was absolutely brilliant-I was literally exclaiming "MERLIN'S BEARD!!" the entire time. If you're a Harry Potter fan I could not more highly recommend it! After we walked out of the museum, we met up with my Grandparents who took us out for an INCREDIBLE all you can eat buffet in Star City. I went a little bit crazy when it came to desserts (I had a tirimasu, chocolate mousse cake, lemon meringue tart among various other delicious and all the more unhealthy foods!). 

Feeling so full that I thought I was going to burst, I went home and had an intense game of Monopoly with various family members and then headed out for dinner to celebrate my Grandpa's birthday (where, may I add, one of the waiters was a dead-ringer for Josh Hartnett ;). Oh, and my uncle was there who lives in Geneva, and gave me my birthday present early! It was a bag full of Swiss chocolates, a French jewelry box from the markets on the Swiss/French border AND, my favourite present-a French piggy bank with some Swiss money and some Euros to spend when I (eventually) go and visit!

Today has been spent reading Cosmos while drinking coffee at Edmunds and sitting at home watching Love Actually. And it is still raining. I LOVE HOLIDAYS.

Oh, and I just remembered that I said that I would write one of the things on my bucket list every day for a week. Here's today's:
DIVING IN BERMUDA. Yes, you're probably thinking "Uhhhhh diving near the Bermuda triangle? Yaall seriously crazy gurl". But diving there is very popular as it is the shipwreck capital of the Atlantic. I just need to learn how to scuba dive first...

Bored. Ennuyé. Gelangweilt. Leamh.

I have something I would like to say. I AM SO BORED. I am so incredibly bored that for the title of this post I wrote the word 'Bored' in English, French, German and Irish. I am so bored that I have spent two hours cleaning the house because there is nothing else to do. I am so bored that I sat on my bed playing Temple Run for an unhealthily long amount of time (so long that when I looked up it looked like my walls were melting). I am so bored that I attempted to COOK MY OWN LUNCH ......which failed because I couldn't work out how to turn the oven on.

THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO INFORM THE CYBER WORLD ABOUT:
-I'm starting up a proper Twitter. I shall keep you informed....muahahahahahaha
-For the next week, in each post I'm going to write about one of the things on CHLOE'S EPIC BUCKET LIST. I've already posted about free diving with killer whales (which has already kind of failed because my Dad, who is a marine scientist, said that they'd just come up and eat me. Fun.), but the other tasks on my bucket list are just as insanely awesome. 
-TOUGH MUDDER IS COMING TO AUSTRALIA. I am still pondering about whether I should give it a shot just for laughs. Painful, painful laughs....click here to see the promo!  Basically it's a kind of obstacle endurance course that was designed by the British Special Forces. I am so unfit that I'd probably die somewhere along the way...perhaps I should first try running down my street and back without my legs cramping?
-Ed Sheeran has a girlfriend. Same age as me. Pretty blonde Scottish singer and model. #foreveralone
-I AM OFFICIALLY 18...IN LESS THAT A MONTH! I am currently deciding whether to have a party or not. I'm thinking I'll probably just go out for drinks with a few close friends AND DEN HIT UP DA CLUBS BRAH. In reality, I'm not that much of a party animal so you'll probably find myself freshly 18 and in my bed watching The Holiday, drooling over Jude Law in said movie, and eating defrosted wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce. 
-Dad has been telling me some funny/creepy stories from when he was my age. One which made me get goosebumps was when he was 18, and him and his friends were chased by a violent alcoholic drunk through A GRAVEYARD in a THUNDERSTORM. The guy had already punched one of my Dad's friends, and was now coming after Dad. Luckily Dad escaped and took shelter in a nearby caravan park!
-Tá mé chomh leamh go bhfuil mé scríobh as Gaeilge ar mo bhlag sin dont mé dul ar ais go dtí mo boredom!
-I am now off to return to my boredom. What should I do? Making up my own language sounds pretty promising...

Until tomorrow,
Chloe X

OH HAI.

Please forgive me for not posting in almost a week! As usual, my iPhone 'notes' has been filled up with things to write on here, so prepare for a mega post tomorrow...
While you wait for my wonderous words which your eyes will wander across tomorrow, I suggest that you watch the video below. Actually, I DEMAND that you watch it. You're probably thinking "Ummm...why is Chloe forcing me to watch some random BBC clip off Youtube...I'm never reading this blog again...g00dby33 4evs The reason as to why I wish you to watch the video below is that the subject of the video is OFFICIALLY NUMBER ONE ON MY BUCKET LIST. I've always had a fascination with Killer Whales, and to free-dive with them would be an absolutely life-making experience (hence it's number one on my bucket list!). All I need now is:
a)Money to actually get there and do it
b)A dare devil friend to do it with me

The definition of beautiful music...

ED SHEERAN CAN YOU PLEASE BE MY VALENTINE. THAT IS ALL.

PARTY TIME!

So I know this is a bit delayed, but....I GOT INTO MY UNI COURSE! I didn't want to publish it on here before I knew that I had been accepted, so now I can finally let you guys know! Starting in March, I'll be studying Media/Communications at the University of Sydney. I also have the opportunity to study three other arts subjects, so at this point in time I'm hoping to study History, Government and International Relations, and either Ancient History, Archaeology or Art History. You're probably thinking "....so you're not doing law? You've just talked about doing it for the past two years! YOU ARE SO RANDOM". The answer to that is that I pretty much had a change of heart. I realised that as much as I am intrigued by the idea of studying and practicing as a lawyer, I'm not passionate enough to actually be competitive and get somewhere really great in my career. I've always had a passion for writing and all things media-related, and it was only when I was sitting in the media lecture on the USyd info day that I realised that Media/Comm is my dream course. I don't exactly know what area of the media I'm going to specialise in yet, and that's why I love the degree that I'm doing-because I get a taste of everything. Oh, and I get to do an internship in the 4th year of my degree (you can do it anywhere in the world), so I'm determined to do mine in London! Bring on Londontown.

OTHER THOUGHTS THAT I HAVE WRITTEN IN MY IPHONE TO WRITE HERE:
-One of my oldest friends called Andrea has moved to Germany for a year! She's decided to keep a blog to document her experiences (primarily through photos). Click here to check it out so far!
-I went out for THE BEST Yum-Cha this week to celebrate Chinese New Year! I honestly don't think that any type of food can taste better than steamed pork buns!
-Yesterday I found my big, proper headphones and all my music sounds ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! You can now find me walking around my house wearing massive headphones and dancing along to embarrassing music (my dance moves being just as embarrassing).
-Our family went on a day trip to the Southern Highlands today! I must say that it was one of those days which is just plain awesome. We wandered around a cute little town called Bowral drinking excellent coffee and eating magnificent strawberry tarts whilst checking out the many beautiful antique stores! Oh, and I pretty much walked into Heaven. It was a shop called Bowral Bookmen which basically sells all different kinds of really old books. There was one book which I would have bought in a second if I hadn't of already spent all of my money! It was a 'Collection of English Short Stories', and the most special part was a message from a man to his wife on the front page wishing her a Merry Christmas for 1916!
-I adore Taylor Swift's Vogue cover!

Summer at LAST

So the weather is finally heating up (took long enough!). I haven't written here for a while because I've been busy watching Downton Abbey, and what happens when I don't write here for a while is that the 'Notes' in my iPhone of thoughts to write on my blog increases and increases until BANG. I need to update my blog. I shall arrange my thoughts numerically. Wot of eeet brah.
1. When I was trying to fall asleep the other night, I was thinking about how random sleep actually is, and how we accept it as normal. Imagine explaining sleeping to a visitor from another planet. "Each night, as the moon rises and the sky goes dark, every individual on Earth goes unconscious until the sun rises, and sometimes have weird visions whilst unconscious called dreams. Yeah". It kind of sounds like an idea out of a tacky science fiction movie...
2. You all probably know by now that I'm a bit of a history junkie. I was reading my new favourite book 'A History of the World in 100 Objects', and I came across a part explaining how in the Bronze Age the average life expectancy was only 25. Basically some archaeologists came across a golden cape while digging at a site near Wales, and found that it would have only really fit a teenager. It then occurred to them that given that the life expectancy was 25, the teenagers were probably the leaders of society, and thus it would have been a teenager wearing the cape. MIND BLOWN. It got me thinking about how different my life would be if the life expectancy was only 25. I would spend a lot less time thinking about my future because this would be my future. It made me realise how much I spend thinking about doing things 'in the future' rather than actually doing them! I've got to make the most of each day (and that requires putting a stop to watching Friends in bed all day). 
3. I was in the Lindt Cafe the other day and they had their Valentines Day products out. I WANT A PROPER VALENTINE. Foreveeerr aallonnneeeeeeeeee. I'm thinking I'll watch some crappy movie in bed whilst drinking coffee, because coffee really is the love of my life.
4. Speaking of love, I've fallen head over heels for Downton Abbey. Everything about it is just so, so perfect. The theme song is also absolutely beautiful. Click here to hear it.
5. I met up with an old friend called Srestha for dinner last night! It's always great to meet up with friends you haven't seen in ages. AND she has a blog! Click here to check it out.
6. Last but not least, I need to rant. It's when pictures ARE NOT worth a thousand words! I've been on Tumblr a once or twice in the past week, and I noticed how much it has changed since I first got it! In case some of you don't have Tumblr, basically if people like a photo you 'like' it or 'reblog' it which gives the photo 'notes'. So if a photo is extremely popular, it will have thousands of notes. When I first got Tumblr, the pictures which had the most notes were beautiful photographs. They were art. When I went on it this week, I thought I'd save a few photos to show you which had over 20 000 notes each.