I don't like it when people go out and don't invite me, thinking i won't find out about it.

Ok, so I know it's been a while since I last blogged, but I have a good reason for not doing so.

...I was capped.
Right, so what's been happening...
My holidays were an epic fail, didn't catch up with most of the people I said I would, stayed at home for the first week and enjoyed the what seemed to be endless days watching Skins on megavideo and exceeding my downloads. THAT is the very reason I am capped.
But like I say for everything, no regrets. It was totally worth it.
The second week, was worse.
I spent my days babysitting my 11 year old female cousin.
It was bad.
She's not a bad kid...she's just at that age where it's almost impossible to find a way to keep her amused.
So my days were wasted away, spending the days with an anti social 11 year old and the nights were spent watching skins, msn, downloading music, and trying to figure photoshop out.

Fast forward to the first week of school.
Ugh.
The transition from year 11 to year 12 is talked up to be a period of drastic change, important choices and re-priorotising.
It was nothing short of that.

I'm not over exaggerating.
First day, I could feel the pressure. This was it, in 12 months time I would be in the gym, scrawling my student number on the top of each page and answering the 'life changing' questions.
I told myself:
" I need to re-evaluate my life. See what I want from this, how I'm going to get there and what it's going to cost me."
So with 3 dance classes a week ( accumulating a total of 6 hours), a job that steals my Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings from me, and other hobbies/duties to attend, I thought fitting in genuine study would be close to or if not impossible to achieve.

So I've dropped two hours of dancing, kept all 12 units, changed my availability at work and thought long and hard about where I wanted to be in 12 months time.

I don't want to be the girl that sits in class day after day, doing the work but not really absorbing any of it. Nor do I want to be the girl with top marks and no social life.

I need to find a balance. A balance between achieving good marks, with minimal study and still having a social life while doing so.
I like to tell myself that it's not impossible.
Others like to tell me I'm kidding myself.
I'll do it. Just you wait.

Anywho, the first week, I've been pretty organised, fitting everything in, and managing to do all my homework, plus more. I've even adopted the skill of being able to have msn on and not give it my full attention. It's a side thing. People can wait.

I've also discovered the beauty of OneNote!

I LOVE ONE NOTE!!!!!!!
Kudos to Leane (with one 'n') for introducing me to the concept.

It's bloody brilliant.
...i'm typing on there as I write...[heheh]

Initially, I intended on making this a bitchy blog about all the people, their actions and in general, things, that annoyed me. But by the time I actually got to this point, I've thought twice about it and kind of discouraged myself from doing so.
So I'll save the juicy stuff for another time.

Till then my fellow bloggers,
Have fun, Play it safe, keep it sexy.

silent-j