Just a Creative Scorpion

The time has come. It is December 31 and I have been through a lot this year. Allow me to share the most important moments of the year - that you already know about, and some that I don't think you know. First of all, one year ago today me and Karolina went to Winter Wonderland. Today, we are both boarding flights, separately. Secondly, I am a whole lot different than I was last year. Earlier tonight, Karolina and I were talking about what we went through this year: The boys that came and went;  The jobs that we left;  The people we no longer speak to;  The money we spent; The movies we watched; The time we wasted; The list kept on going as we kept on remembering more and more. The best part of this year was this little book I kept.  I glued the cinema tickets we had to it and wrote down little things about those days. I have some tickets missing as I haven't found them in the midst of my things but I know that I will find them someday. I need ...

Hello everyone! Let me tell you everything that's been going on in my life. I found that the best way to do a presentation is to prepare yourself and rehearse it, you will definitely know what you will be talking about as long as you practice it. Obviously, I gained this bit of knowledge by doing the exact opposite. I worked on my presentation for about two and a half days, in which most days I was in fact at work or asleep. So, more realistically, for about 15 hours. More specifically, 15 hours before the presentation. Yep, I am not proud of it, but hey it got done. I managed to change every single aspect that I had planned for the presentation and ended up instead with a completely new presentation, in which the only thing that remained the same was the pictures on the slides because I literally decided to change the whole presentation about 20 minutes before it was my turn. Not saying that I did bad, I'm just trying to explain that I could have done a lot better. I am ...

Hey everyone, Just a quick sad update today. As you can probably tell, I did not have a chance to post anything throughout the last month. When it comes to NaNoWriMo, I didn't get to finish the story either. I am quite sad about not being able to write more than 9k words altogether but I did have a rough time writing up stuff. My computer died, I had to get a new one. Meanwhile, between Uni work and Work work, I've been a bit stuck trying to find a middle ground. Hopefully my luck will change this month and I will be able to write some more. And also, I will try to write some more in here as I will be free from classes soon. I am making it my mission to become a lot more active in here and maybe even create a side blog to publish short stories. We will see how that goes. In a bit.

Hello all! Consistency is a thing still! Here I am for the first time this month, writing to tell you about some of the most recent events. Let's start with my birthday. A bit over a week ago, I was celebrating my birthday with my friends and accidentally dropped liquids on top of my MacBook. Sadly, that marked the death of said MacBook. I spent the last week either focusing on how much I would have to pay to repair it, or in Grantham (more to come about that in a bit!!). I got the news yesterday. Repairing my baby would be £1800 so I threw that option out of the window and instead focused on alternatives. I present to you the newest addition to the family, Charles Alexander II: My baby is going to be so well taken care of and will forever have a place in my heart. Rest in Peace Charles Alexander I.

Wha- What is this? Has hell frozen over? 4 posts in one month? Yeah well, I am trying my best to keep myself organized even if just for a bit. As I have mentioned, I have been doing a lot  of early shifts - which has fucked up (pardon my french) my sleeping schedule but oh well - and that leaves me with a lot of free time to think and actually use the rest of my day to do productive things. For this reason, I was cleaning up my inbox (which had almost 2k emails) and I saw one email that stood out. Allow me to explain this from the actual beginning... It all started 4 years ago. I was bored on Tumblr and I found out about this website called NaNoWriMo. I clicked on a link and soon found myself signing up for an account on this website. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, this means that the people who create an account pledge to write a novel of at least 50k words throughout the month, and it so turns out that this month is November. I decided to write a story and...

They say working in the airport is all fun and games, that you have discounts everywhere and it's like a dream come true. I'm not gonna lie to you, airport food is crap; nothing is cheap; there's only discounts in a few selected places. This is why you need to work on improving your friendship skills and make the wheels turn or you will never get free food or just a simple free White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks. For the past two weeks, I've been meaning to post the previous post, it was sitting on my drafts since October 8 but I never had the chance to do it. Why's that, you ask? Well, allow me to tell you a bit of how my last couple weeks were. The earliest shift one can get at JD starts at 4am. It's all okay when you're doing it for the first time, but then you have another one of them the next day, and then another one of the day after that... You get what I am saying. By the time I started uni, I was doing 5 shifts a week and then had lectures ...

As I said in the previous post, Karolina and I went to Portugal. So let me expand on that, as we spent 7 days in my home country. Day 1 - Arriving Lisbon We waited for about 1 hour and a half for our flight, it was long but we made it. The imagine  meme started that day. With that, I mean that we started going around giving somewhat unreasonable scenarios and saying imagine . Well... Guess what, we didn't need to imagine much as it did indeed happen 100% of the time. We arrived in Lisbon and most of my family was waiting for us. My grandma had flowers and a paper with Karolina's name, while my aunt had a paper for me. It was nice to see everyone straight up as we got there. But I don't think Karolina was ready for it. Auntie asked to spend time with us and even though we wanted to, we didn't have a chance. As soon as I showed Karolina the house, there was only one comment. "You have 5 bathrooms!" This stayed until the end of the trip. Day 2 - D...

Once again, life took the better part of my time so it took me 2 months to return here. At least I am still coming back, the day that I stop is the day all hope is lost. Going back to the past 2 months, a lot has happened so let me tell you a few things: get together and break up, make new friends, do as much as you can; have fun. The things I will remember this summer for: a failed relationship, the nights in Crown, working crazy hour-long shifts, doing what I want. It was both the best summer of my life and the busiest one. I hardly had any free time to do anything, but it was all worth it. I can say that I lived and that I did as much as I could. With summer ending, that takes me back to Uni isn't that right? Yes well, sadly things aren't as easy as I hoped for so the 3 days that I asked to have at work became 5. I am doing a full-time schedule next week, and the 2 days that I am off? Well, I have uni... Fun times init? I took Karolina to Portugal with me, but trust...

I know. I know. It's been 2 months. Some would say that this is the one thing they were expecting from me, while others will even be surprised that I remembered after only two months. The point is, I am always least active when I have more to do so, in a way, I think it might be something one could forgive. Let me start by updating my life: > I currently have two jobs. Weekends I am at Maccie D's, while three days a week I'm at JD Sports. > On top of that, I am meeting once a week with the Marketing team from Enactus > I am going slightly mad when I'm at Maccie D's so I end up going out for drinks almost after every shift > I do random crazy hours at JD... Getting up at 2:30 am to go to work? I never thought that would be my life. And those are just some of the things that have been going on. Let me try to think back about my plans for this summer... Oh right!  I know. I remember deciding I was going to start focusing on next year's spe...

As I have mentioned before, Uni is now over. I have more time to do what I want without feeling guilty I should be putting my time into something else. For this reason, I am about to share with you part of what has already happened and what I am hoping will happen this summer. As a starter, I started going out more. It was more than time for me to go out and enjoy life. For the first time, I am not concerned if I drink too much (well, after last time I will be looking out and avoiding tequila) or that I need to be back home at a certain time. I am focusing on myself and on having fun. I want to make the most of every night out and that means enjoying the time with my friends as well. I am happy to go out with my friends. They have proved themselves amazing time and time again, relentlessly proving all kinds of help (be it in the shopping, boys and even coursework departments). They are definitely there for me and I love them all for that. I am getting my time to enjoy being around th...

Master has given Dobby a sock! Dobby is free! Jokes aside, I have handed in my last assignment. I am happy that I worked so hard throughout this last semester that I even surprised myself. I am free though, for real. No more assignments and classes. No more uni. I am done. With my second year gone, I feel the weight of it all. I feel like I have changed and developed myself a lot and that I have done as much as I could with the time that I had. I became more responsible due to joining Enactus and being part of the competition team. I feel like I have done all my work on time without being too pressured *cough cough* only a little bit *cough cough* and even helped some of my friends with their own assessments. Since I am done with uni for this year, I feel like I can venture into a few different topics besides uni life. I will be telling you all about ESC 2017 and a few of my plans for the rest of 2017. ESC 2017 was one of my favourite editions of Eurovision so far. Sure, it wa...

A little bit over a month ago, I was part of the Enactus National Competition. These 48 hours were completely incredible and let me experience so many new things such a seeing my friends and teammates performing in front of juries. But first things first, so let me start with the beginning of our journey. It all started right after the Regionals. We had two weeks to prepare everything and make ourselves ready for the Nationals. That included changing the script, the slides and the way we were presenting. So we all sat down and tried to head first into the changes that were required. Needless to say that it involved many sleepless nights once again and it meant that we were still stuck at the library. Not that we minded, we were all used to the feeling. What changed for me was that my deadlines were approaching quick and since I had spent so much time doing the script I was running a little bit late to writing and submitting my own work. It was all right though. I managed to fi...

Let me tell you something about the past week of my life. As I have previously mentioned, I have been helping out Enactus Bedfordshire with writing the script and preparing for the presentation for the Regionals. Well, that is over and I have a few days off, so let me further explain how these days were. Everything was absolutely chaotic. When I first started, we had a very simple plan in which every member of the team had a task (a part of a task sometimes) and we were all uncoordinated at all times. Writing the script took so long and it was such an extenuating process that it drained all of us of energy. The first draft worked out alright, but the script itself was far from being complete. There were so many things that needed to be changed, so many things we still needed to think through... We ended up creating a new draft, it was mostly the same things as we had in the original draft. We changed the order to make it more fluid and then we had to change it completely. I have no ...

Yes, I know. It has been a month since I last wrote a blog post. To be honest, my only excuse is Enactus and Work. I have nothing else going on in my life that would be so much time consuming (it is even taking away the time I should be spending doing assessments for University). For this reason, I find myself writing in the middle of the night (as always! Why am I still surprised?) while I should definitely be sleeping. But I have a few things I need to share. I have been trying to get over a few situations and I was honestly doing alright. I hadn't thought about this person in a while until I saw him right in front of me.  Obviously, my instinct was to walk away. To get back inside the library. I walked as fast as I could, trying not to be too obvious about it. You know like:  I just casually need to hurry up because it is really cold outside , or I am meeting someone else , or you know, just I don't want to speak with you. Luckily, he didn't try to speak to me. He didn...

As I warned in the first message, I do not have the best record of keeping journals, diaries and blogs. I often forget to write on them or I keep postponing it and end up with three months blanc. Despite that, I can quickly recap what happened since my last post. Uni got busy. Work was even busier. Uni is still busy. -- I started working on my assessments at the time I made my last post. In my mind, I still had all the time in the world to write everything and be able to submit them all on time. And to be fair, I did submit everything on time. I just had some trouble with finishing everything on time. After submitting all of my assessments, I thought I would have some time to breathe. I was wrong. I decided I would work more hours over Christmas break and get some more money. Although it was a good decision for my bank account, my energy levels were kinda drained. I was constantly tired (but I did get used to the routine of working five days a week pretty easily!) and I kept on...