"I have to go to the doctor's on Tuesday, I hate the doctor's. I need some uber uber cream to get rid of my excema, it;s so bad on my wrist and ankle right now :(
I hate people pointing it out and commenting on it. Like random people being like 'Eww wtf is that!?' I feel so shit because it looks gross."

"I went to the doctors today. A few days ago I git this huge rash across my stomach and chest and it's kinda spread to my arms. I though it was just a stress rash since whenever I'm stressed/worried/nervous I come out in a rash which is actually quite frequent. My Mother made me go to the doctors since we're going away and I'd convinced myself I had chicken pox. She told me that she didn't know what it was but it looked like bites and that I should just leave it. Now I've convinced myself that I've got meningitis. Just like that time I convinced myself that I had cancer :("

"My Mother got home with this huge bag and then her and my Dad made me take the dog out, when I got back I found out that the bag had presents for my Sister in it, oh thanks. My excema on my wrists and hands is getting worse because the dog pulls when you walk him and it really hurts me but they don't care and still make me walk him everyday."

See Rachel, you do mention you rashes and such.

1. I had to get my flu jab =(
2. Dave came with me and I nearly broke his hand.
3. My arm is now really stiff.
4. I am really cold.
5. If it is this cold in October, how cold is it going to be in January.
6. I must do some work.
7. I procrastinated yesterday.
8. I should be get paid for this month in about a week =D
9. Spam is not something you should ever eat, so why do they waste money advertising it on TV?
10. Wednesday's are so pointless, we don't do anything in graphics that I couldn't do at home.
11. I will have been going out with Dave for a year in a week's time.
12. 16 days and I can start Christmas shopping.

I think things are looking up:
1) Me and Dave are getting back together, well together = not arguing constantly rather than not broken up.
2) I am organising a lot of girly time.

And even the shit things have a silver lining atm.

My birthday is going to be shit:
- I don't think I am getting many presents.
- Loads of people have no money.
- Me and Dave keep arguing over stupid things.
- Girl problems are a possibility.
- I and Dave bought presents today and lost them.
- I barely have any money to enjoy myself.
- It is just cursed.

Everything else is shit:
- I have a 5 hour break on Mondays.
- My back is in agonising pain.
- My feet are still hurting off work.
- I have no money to enjoy other people.
- I have work to do and can't be bothered.

Top 1: £22
Top 2: £16
Total: £38

Sale on items means that I get:
Top 1: £12
Top 2: £10

There is also a buy one get one free offer, so I get both tops for the price of top 1 =D
2 Tops: £12

I have a student discount card, must heart being a student sometimes:
2 Tops: £10.80

I also heart Pigsback and use my £10 voucher, so:
2 Tops: £0.80

Total saving of £37.20

Now tell me that is not a great bargain =D

Well impressed with myself :P

Everyone join pigsback and go to Dorothy Perkins now!

I have not journalled in a while so here it goes:

1) I have just had 5 days off work, which was pleasant.
2) I have had a great girly week with Lauren and Katie, seeing them most days.
3) Sorry for being really hungover yesterday and not being able to see you's.
4) Thursday night was good, what I can remember. Never drink a bottle of wine before going out.
5) It really smells around my house of seaweed and fish/chips. It is really gross!
6) I have earned hardly any money online this month. Actually it is like £40 but I feel like I have none =(
7) I can't wait for Tuesday as it is pay day =D First ever Matalan wage =D
8) Sorry Lauren I am stealing your journal entry style.
9) Everyone hope that my boyfriend survives 3 days of 14 hour shifts. I want him to be alive on Monday.
10) Must go on ebay and leave feedback.

It has been a nice change this week, having the whole week off work to do nothing much, in contrast to the last two weeks, especially last week when I worked a full time week.

So what have I done this week?

Monday - Went out with Tutcut and Steve to the pub and had a couple of glasses of wine then met up with everyone else for Claire's birthday at Frankie and Bennies and had another glass of wine and then went home. So basically my day was spent drinking wine lol.

Tuesday - Spend the morning drinking orange juice, so I didn't feel shit of the wine, then went over Newcastle with Dave to pick up his drum symbol, get a Frascato *sp* and a Subway. I finally had a Meatball Marinara since it was the sub of the day and I only had £2, it was not that nice and definitely not worth the calories.

Woo I can now spell definitely write first time.

Wednesday - Visited Uncle and Grandparents, so nothing exciting happened there other than my Grandad rambling that he had not had breakfast and wanted his breakfast (which he had probably had and forgotten about) and then would not go down for dinner for about 10 minutes, which is unusual as he is usually the first one there banging his knife and fork on the table (literally). I then saw Dave for a bit and we watched "The Devil Wears Prada" =D I love that film / book.

Today, I am sitting doing my dailies and waiting for Dave to wake up and see if we are seeing each other today as he might have driving lessons or something as he has his mock exam tomorrow and then his proper driving text the week after. If he passes then it has only took him 1 month to learn. I am quite impressed since people talk about learning for years.

I have no energy. Work is killing me. Carrying boxes here and there is really hurting my back.At least today I am only organising tableware. The problem is that the "old people" will be there who think they know better and take nothing anyone under the age of 30 says and have no respect for us:

"Well since he is the manager of that store, we better start giving him respect" showing that just because he was not walking around in a suit or over 30 he did not automatically recieve respect. Yesterday one of them asked her question, so I answered and then they asked it again to the other over 30 person I was all ZOMG WHUT? I EXIST. They also feel like they can boss us new people around whereas the other younger people that have been their for a few years work together with us as a team.

</3 middle aged people today. <3 money I will get at end of month.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have read 10. 1/10th of the books. I am above average =D

It was my first day at work, it was a 4 hour shift and I got a sneaky break in the middle as we were doing heavy lifting all day with cardboard boxes and setting up the new M Party section. I have a full 8 hour shift tomorrow, my back, feet and hands are going to die seriously.

But woo I will get lots of money at the end of the month, I will be doing 16 hours this week and 27 next and at £4.74 an hour that is a fair bit spare change :P

Happy Jane!

I have tried to have a productive afternoon today as I lay in/on bed all yesterday with a hangover, Jeigerbombs *sp* are no fun the next day. I still have a headache that developed later on yesterday =(

So far today I have:
- Cancelled Lovefilm account so that I do not get charged.
- Done paid to clicks and other dailies.

And I am planning on:
- Package all the stuff I sold on ebay.
- Put my earnings in a spreadsheet.
- Go to the post office to post them.

So all in all quite productive although my head is killing me and I just want to cuddle and sleep tbf.

I have a job.

I am now a party person for Matalan.

I get to dress up in costumes sometimes and sell cards and balloons.

So excited, I actually got a job in retail with no experience.

Christian has just spammed my journal only friends page GAH!

Last night was so fun, but I am so tired today.
Reasons why last night was good
- All my friends were out.
- Lauren was being adorable.
- Jade wore a dress.
- Everyone was dancing.
- Dave was well Dave and adorable.
- I still have money for Lauren birthday =D

But my feet hurt, which was shit and everyone kept going off in different places.

I have spent so much money this week.

I have bought an outfit for Dave's birthday.

Dave's birthday presents.

And a few other bits and pieces.

I am also going to dye my hair purple on Thursday again as I am bored of the brown again.

- Got up really tired and could have done with going back to sleep for another ten thousand hours.
- Went to my General Studies exam and realised I had left my Student ID at home.
- Oh I can use Metro Pass for ID, shit I left that at South Gosforth.
- Managed to sit General Studies paper x2 that sucks in itself.
- Goes to South Gosforth, can't find my pass anywhere and the woman says I have to wait until Monday to see what the other woman did with it.
- Goes back to Newcastle for my interview but gets caught by ticket inspectors on the way, so I have to hope that my pass turns up in the next 21 days or I can get it replacement in that time otherwise it going to cost me up to £35.
- Wanders around Newcastle uber pissed off and pretty shoes and clothes won't even cheer me up.
- Goes to my interview, I THINK IT WENT WELL!!! - 1 POSITIVE THING YESTERDAY!
- Goes and sees Dave, gets all sad again as I explain my shitty day.
- Matalan doesn't ring as they said they would, so I everything hangs on my Oasis interview.
- The rest of the night involved cuddling Dave and eating takeaway food, so it was nice - 2 POSTIVE THINGS YESTERDAY!

I just had a phone interview and I was so nervous as it is just sprung on you, but it went well and I have been offered an interview tomorrow at 2:30 as well as some practical floor work.

So wish me luck =D

Oh and btw it is for Oasis, so I will be all wooo 40% discount!!!!!

I am going to try and get a little more done today and by a little more I mean something, since I spent the whole say lying down being ill and throwing up. I am still throwing up for the 3rd day running but not as much and my head doesn't feel as empty, so I am going to annotate my anthology for my english exam (on friday) and mark my ICT exam paper and maybe do some of the other questions in it to revise for that exam too (on friday).

OUCH! I have a scab on my head and when I go to move my hair, I catch it and it hurts =(

I am going to start going to the gym on Saturday, I have my induction at 3pm. I have just done 30 minutes and a bit on Wii Sport. I am so unfit seriously. I need to go take my measurements, so I can see a change and have proof of a change when I start going to the gym.

The daily posting has failed well and truly. Last time I posted was Wednesday 23rd. I would steal Vix's idea and do a what I did on each day, but that would be GRAPHICS, MORE GRAPHICS, SOME MORE GRAPHICS!

So instead I am going ramble aimlessly.

I am checking all my dailies before creating an exam timetable and revision timetable, because I think I need one. I have finished my graphics, well finished everything that I am going to do before the exam at least. I have a 5 hour exam to do everything else, including media experimentation and evaluation.

Since I don't go to General Studies anymore on a Monday morning, I don't have to be in until 12, which is fabulous. It means I don't have to get ready til 10 or leave until 11.

I have also decided that I need to start going to the gym, since I am gaining weight as though it is going out of fashion. I am also going to start job hunting for summer, both starting on Thursday 1st May. May is going to be my get up and get sorted month.