Day 269.

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So, the new lens for my D90 came today, this is all I did with it, it's a photo into Moon's room at the other end of the house. I'm pretty impressed, but I only got it in case I needed it, for events and street photography I'm sure it will come in pretty handy, and as I'm now helping out Gigwise with any Portsmouth gigs, I'm sure it will be great in that situation too.
Excuse another 'camera face' photo.

Day 250.

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I feel disgusting today. EUGH.
I have a horrible cold and can't even think about breathing through my nose, I'm boiling hot too. My damn immune system has got to pot, I think that horrid cough is to blame as the doctor said the 'steroid inhaler' might lower my immunities. But maybe, I just shouldn't have slept with the window open two nights ago.

Day 242.

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So the medicine I mentioned last week didn't work, I went to the doctor again this morning, and it turns out there is actually something wrong with me, I have some kind of throat virus. I've been given an inhaler, I don't know how to use it properly, I've had two doses and I'm still not sure. I think it has something to do with not smoking.
I also got my hair cut, it looked pretty nice, but is now very flat, yes I'm talking about hair and how I'm not pleased with it right now. It will look shit-hot tomorrow though.

Day 238.

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If it wasn't August, and I was wearing a scarf and boots, this would be the perfect autumn/winter outfit. I'm very happy with it, I just wish it wasn't the appropriate weather for it today. My mum took my sister for dim sum this morning, I was so full, I had to have a little sleep. Check out my sweet horse cardigan ♥

Outfit;
Necklace, Topshop,
Dress, Primark,
Cardigan, H&M,
Tights; Primark.

Day 233.

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More teeth stuff today, my teeth bled, thanks hygienist, here have £50. Urgh, I'm in two minds now, my teeth feel great but I think the pain was far too much for me.

Day 231.

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I went on a quest to buy birthday presents for my Gran today. I also picked up this wonderful cushion, I could actually marry it, I love it so much ♥. I've also got some medicine to fix my cough, but we'll see how that works out.

Day 230.

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Today was my first 'numbing by dentist', I've had fillings before but never had to have an injection. It was a weird feeling, particularly when I drank from a cup and could only feel it on one side, it didn't wear off until around 7 this evening, despite the fact that I got it all done by around quarter-past 2. Everything is normal now though and I'm all new-fillinged.
CHOMP!

Day 226.

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Despite having to change twice, the journey down to Brighton was pretty easy.
The day went by so quickly, I opened lots of great presents, nearly everyone got me presents that I can keep forever, which is the point of a 21st and it made me quite chuffed as those are the kind of things that I wanted.
We had a quick lunch and shop up the Lanes before a relaxing at the hotel and heading out again for a posh meal at a restaurant called English. I had oysters, sardines and fish and chips, all separate courses respectively.
The reason for the cupcakes was so I could blow out candles on my actual birthday too. The cupcakes were so tasty, the yellow one was banana and the other was Oreo - nom. Luckily we didn't set off the fire alarm with the candles, we then had some champagne and went to sleep. It was such a chilled out birthday, I was so happy by the end of it, particularly after how hectic the previous day had been. Definitely up there as one of my best and favourite birthdays.

Day 225.

So I've been a bit slack with this since my birthday. Here comes a mammoth update. I have the photos though, so it exists, just not on here. Here we go.

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My party was Sunday, it was quite nice and I got to see a few members of my family that I don't often see. Tom and Lucy also made the effort to come along and that was great of them. I got to open a few presents, one of which was the collage shown above which my sister made - it has lots of old photos of us and me from when we were small. My Uncle David made a great speech too and I got to have/see my birthday cake which was the size of about four cakes. Crazy.
In the evening I went for a few drinks at the Kings Arms and set off some sky lanterns when I got home. I was in bed before it hit my proper birthday at midnight.

Day 218.

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I have literally been sat in the same spot for most of today. I think it is time to rectify this.
Saying that, once Friday is out the way, the five days after that will be full of action.
Here is a preview of the underwater/waterproof camera photos that I took when I went out on Long's boat.

Day 209.

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Something I discovered about myself today;
I can still do some bitchin' cartwheels.

Day 195.

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Forgive me for posting yet another photograph that I didn't actually take myself.
So, Moon won some tickets for Guilfest, so we went, but only for today because we have plans this weekend, we only really saw two good acts and it's kind of made me realise how tiny Guilfest actually is, there's not nearly enough to do, how was I satisfied with this before? I guess more pops up on Saturday but it doesn't matter.
So this is a photo of my feet getting a pedicure from some fish, I saw it, I figured I wouldn't get another chance to do it, at least of course not for a long time, so I just did it, and it was amazing. My feet are much softer than they were and I want my own so I can do it for hours at a time, it's so tickley and they get something out of it too, nom.
They liked my right foot better than my left foot, I'm also quite sure they helped sort out bits of my healing blisters. Tasty.

Day 193.

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I'm anticipating 'Despicable Me' greatly, I love the minions, when you hit these, they made noise! :)
Today I went to watch the final Shrek film, I don't think children would enjoy it, I'm beginning to see a trend in this kind of animation with a recent example being 'Up', in that there seems to be a much more grown up storyline that is basically of little interest to a child. This is fine by me because I hate kids at the cinema but I thought it was quite interesting.

Day 147.

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I've been pretty un-motivated today, with the effects of last night. My muscles are all tense from dancing/standing up most of last night, so I spent the afternoon watching Big Love, my new favourite, I can't wait for it to get more crazy now I know the characters.

Day 142.

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This is the last photo of me with long hair for a while.
I was going to do a diptych with my 'new' short hair, but I look a bit sun kissed in the one I took, it was rather warm and I was outside for most of the afternoon. It looks fine though, I'm more looking forward to it look less freshly cut.

Day 134.

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Today has been a complete and total non-event, I started with pretty high-hopes too.

Day 133.

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Today, I am feeling fussy.
House-hunting this afternoon was a bit of a miss and I'm getting a bit worried about it, one house we saw was worse than a tip and the other one was split into two houses, with no one who wanted to answer the door.
This is me with my circle lenses in, pretty 'azn', ha. I also got some purple ones that I wore out last night, they work pretty well if my pupils are massive, otherwise my natural eye colour is shown underneath.
I'm unsure where to place myself now that I have no work to do, I guess start thinking about packing. :(

Day 116.

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I'm feeling pumped, today has been productive in terms of work and my body is aching from the gym. Lol.

Day 89.

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Today I had my hair cut, it is now too full of product and feels gunky.
I was astonished to see how white that part of my scalp was, particularly in comparison to my make-upped face.
I got round to finishing off watching my Liberia documentary and have started reading Stephen Ellis' book about the Civil Wars as well as looking up past BBC news coverage, I'm not completely sure where I'm going with it yet, I'm sure I'll be able to have it done by this time next week.
I thought I'd got a lot done today, but reeling it off in my mind, apparently the Liberia documentary was a lot longer than I thought..
Look at the women in the background of this picture!

Day 86.

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Thought I'd Photobooth myself, because nothing else was accomplished today, despite the fact that I thought I'd get my Practical Proposal out of the way today. I think I'll do it tomorrow because I won't have my sister at home 'being ill' to distract me. I think I'll even try and get up early tomorrow too.