happy or crappy new year?

Dear Chummy, 

Wow! What a shit year it has been, I've lost and I've lost some more, not gained anything accept a miserable mind set and anxiety shooting out of my chest and every given moment. I feel like 2016 has been a real slap in the face from the second it started to the second it ended, couldn't be more happy that it's gone forever. Safe to say, you were right, being 20 clearly does suck. However over the past few days I have seen a lot of people posting about the great year they have had, recapping all the exciting things they had done, places they had been, people they have met and it really made me realise that, this time next year I want to be sat in my room, or sat with a friend, looking back over a wonderful year and feeling so happy to have lived my life and achieved great things. I deserve that right? Normally I think making new years resolutions is such a cliché thing to do, that nobody ever sticks to, however this year I want to try my hardest to keep to these and constantly be adding new ambitions to the list so here is, 

Seventeen (because 2017) goals to achieve by the end of the year:-

1. Really focus on college work, finish the year with DDD and get into my top university choices
2. Do more creative things 
3. Read at least 3 books 
4. Get a job (this one is important, I'm so poor it's sad)
5. See my friends more than once a year
6. Find out what makes me happy, and do more of it 
7. Start feeling more confident in myself and my work 
8.  Eat less junk food? (this will be hard but I think I can do it, maybe thats why I'm so unhappy all the time? because my body doesn't ever feel healthy lol)
9.  Learn about poetry 
10.  Be more independent 
11.  Watch and appreciate more foreign films 
12.  Get a new wardrobe // some new clothes (the ones I have really suck now, I think its time)
13.  More art and culture 
14.  Buy a new lens for my camera and film more stuff and take more photos
15.  Start university 
16.  Go to Disneyland & Disneyworld 
17. De-clutter (I mean everything from my laptop, to my room, to things/people in my life)

AND ACTUALLY BUY CHELSEA A BIRTHDAY AND CHRISTMAS PRESENT THIS YEAR (STOP BEING A BAD FRIEND)

I would love to hear what your 2017 goals are, if you have any! 

See you soon, only 4 months until we go to Disneyland! (and until I'm 21, what the hell)

Ending on a few of my favourite photos from 2016:

Happy new year! 

Love Georgia xoxo

Happy Birthday Chelsea!

Dear Chummy,
So today is your 21st birthday, wtf where has time gone? is this even real? what does it feel like? are you going to remember to tell people you're 21 now? does this mean its not socially acceptable to act weird in public? do you have to do official adult things now? what is this 21 questions ;) - get it haha 21, you know because you're 21. ok never mind.

I just posted a really shit message on your facebook wall, so I thought I better make it up to you and write something cool on here; it's not turning out great. Um so I've been thinking for hours of something I could type that you would enjoy to read and to make you feel less old; to take away the feeling of being 21 already - heres what I come up with.

21 of my favourite memories with you;

1. "It's my birthday, oh thank you"
2. The first time we ever saw Justin live and the time you won tickets for the 'This is Justin Bieber' concerts! Christmas songs are the best
3. Making really cringy and horrible videos on my trampoline 
4. Freezing t-shirts and trying to put them on - who thought that was a good idea? 
5.  Finding that old book shop in Plymouth, that was a really cute place 
6.  That time we were uncontrollably laughing because we couldn't get my blanket to go over our feet and it really wasn't funny at all - why were we even laughing at that, I mean?
7.  When I accidentally put your ring in one of the holes on the pool table and then we decided to follow that boy all the way back to his caravan lol, this is where our stalking days begun 
8.  Seeing Taylor Swift in Cologne, Amsterdam and Manchester - three of the best concerts I have ever been to, I honestly had so much fun, and it wouldn't have been the same without you 
9.  Running into the boys toilets in the old bank
10.  Sliding down your stairs on the mattresses 
11.  Flicking my shoe off my foot and it hitting you in the head, sorry about that
12.  Red and benchie? 
13.  BEN AND KATIE!!!!!!!!!!!
14.  is that 6,9 or 12? yeah thats us
15.  My mum's 40th, dancing all night, making a playlist for the DJ, also making friendship bracelets and jumping all over the beds at the hotel - leaving it really messy for the people who actually stayed in it 
16.  Leaving notes on peoples cars, 'If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go' 'is there a number on the back?' 
17.  When we raised our own money for the 'Pray for Japan' thing, that was really nice of us, I am very proud of past us for doing that, even though it wasn't a lot
18.  Gluing our hands together and trying to eat the hardest thing to cut in the world with one hand - well done, that was smart 
19. 'Ikea is a magical place'
20.  Discovering Kingsley on youtube for the first time 
21. Meeting the kooks!!! aaahhhh we need to see them again I miss them. ' you have a beautiful face'

There are so many memories that could have made it onto that list, I mean it could go on and on! and there will be a million more memories in the future because you're stuck with me whether you like it or not. 

Again, sorry I'm not there to celebrate your day with you but I know the others will make sure you have a fucking amazing time! 21 SHOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!! 

I love and miss you sooooo much! 

See you really soon!

Have fun seeing Justin again 

Love, Georgia xoxo 

kiss

Dear Chummy,

Keep it short, simple - sorry it's been a while. I haven't really had anything exciting or interesting to post about because I've not exactly been doing much with my summer, however it's about time I posted something to you!

After finishing college all I have really been doing is watching a lot of Netflix; I've been through so many shows, mostly crime - I absolutely love it; and also gossip girl which is amazing you should watch it, if you haven't already!!! I had a house party, that was fun and of course I got slightly drunk so I have no memory of a small part of it although I know for a fact there was no crying ;) And I have a cute Polaroid of me and some friends which I adore!

Lastly I bought Leo a kitten for his birthday, she is the most adorable thing in the world, I love her!!!! Her name is Luna (named after Luna Lovegood)! She looks like a little tiger with her markings, I'm so in love!!! She loves me too, when I kiss her she puts her tiny, little paws on my face and leans in to kiss me and if thats not love then what is? - who needs boys when you have that? AM I RIGHT?

 

'Cats before twats'

Thats it for my summer if I'm being honest; anything I have to look forward to happens when summer ends, Trips with you to see Justin in Norway and Spain, Selena Gomez, etc. So posts after summer will be so much better and way more fun to read!!! 

AND BESTIVAL!!!! - I'm going to share my list of things to do/buy before Bestival this year, I'm going to be 10xs more prepared this year for sure! As you know the theme is 'The Future' and theres so much you can do with that!!! (taken from notes on my iPhone)

• Blue hair dye! - I want to dye my hair pastel blue because I think that would look extremely cool especially for the theme it would go with a lot too! 
• silver bum bag - my old one broke and silver would match the theme better, I could also stick space themed stickers and stuff on it. 
• SPACE STICKERS 
• GLITTER
• iron on badges - for my clothes, this is gonna look sickkk
• NASA hoody or t-shirt - probably t-shirt because hopefully it will be hot
• Silver pen - to draw on my wellies 
• planet/alien chocker 
• sparkly socks - just because its cool 

1. Sell Tickets! 
2. Plan outfits 
3. Buy everything I need - including a tent
4. Alcohol (and stuff)
5. Plan travel 

I'm sorry this post was rubbish and I do have some good blog ideas written ready in my notes but it hasn't been the perfect time for those yet so you'll just have to wait for a better one! I hope you aren't too disappointed with it haha! I can't wait to read your next one to hear about your summer, and see photos from secret garden party!!!! - Have a great time!

Love and miss you so so so so so so much!!! 

See you soon! 

Love Georgia xoxo

Somethings Are Better Left Unsaid

Dear Chummy,

As far as the average person is concerned, I have an abnormally large amount of twitter followers (thank you dorky, teenage me!) and this audience is very mixed; there's people I know personally and there's a large number of strangers. There's a wide range of ages, genders and cultures and with such a great following comes a great responsibility. I have to be careful what I tweet. I can't be bitchy about someone because they might see it, I can't offend One Direction because I might get hunted down and killed. Because I have to have this filter, I have a lot of drafts (when I say a lot, i mean a lot - there's 141 of them...). 

So onto the main point of this post, I'm going to pick some of my drafts on twitter and maybe explain them a lil and see what happens. Like your last post, this is 100% a youtube video possibility (when we have subscribers ;)!) so here goes..

1.  "@georgeeeyeah EXCUSE ME CAN U LOOK AT YOUR TEXTS PLEASE" This one is absolutely classic, in fact I think others similar to this are actually a frequent feature in my drafts. You never answer your phone. Ever.                                                                                     
2. "I'm going to be on TV tonight and it's going to be tragic ahaha" I have zero idea what this could be about. Not a clue, The only thing I think it could be is from when I saw Justin on TMI but I'm not sure why that would have been tragic so no idea.                                                           
3. "Let's be honest, what's changed" I'm not too sure why I didn't actually tweet this, it's quite a good one - the picture is cute, the captions cute, maybe I'll tweet it now (probably not)                                                                                                                                 
   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
4. "'8 years I've been waiting to see a pig'" I remember this one, it's an Evan quote. I can't remember where we were or why he said it, I think it was just a super random outburst but I laughed a lot.                                                                                                                               
5. "10 months older Taylor tweet throwback remember" This is SO frustrating. I missed it by a month. This is a reminder to post a pic from 1989 tour with Clean lyrics ten months after we'd been. Damn.                                                                                                                             
6. "When you finish work at 5am but have plans for 10am and " Obviously couldn't think of an ending for this tweet. Here are the pictures that accompanied the tweet. High-key looking like a mess but low-key feeling myself.                                                                                                                                 
   
7.  "80's music is so 'get up and go'" Yeah true to be fair.                                                                   
8. "'We don't even have shrimps, we just have prawns!'" Honestly, the funniest thing Louie ever said to me, so glad this is in my drafts cos I just laughed all over again. It was how he almost cried while saying it, like it's the biggest struggle Aussie's have to face.                                     
9. "uh oh, there you go again talking cinematic, yeah you!" A little bit of Hannah Montana, lyrics are also quite frequent in my drafts theres some Taylor Swift, theres a bit of Justin Bieber "is it too late to say sorrrry" two extra 'r's cos that's how you sing it.                                
10. "I wasn't going to watch it, but I gave in and I really wish I hadn't" This was about Fifty Shades of Grey                                                                                                                                          
11. "Turns out the world doesn't end when you have no internet for four days, who knew" I like this one. It's very true and I wish I had more internet free days.                                                                  
12. "Life doesn't suck. People do." closely followed by..                                                                         
13. "Such a moody bitch today" I mean that's most days really.

and the finale..

   14. "How do I have so many followers? my tweets are so shit"

I hope you enjoyed reading this, it was kinda fun to see what doesn't make it through my filter and what I deem unsuitable (boring / badly written) for twitter. I have so many more so maybe they'll be a part two who knows. Sorry it's been a while.

Laterz,
Chelsea x

I've got that nostalgic feeling

Dear Chummy,

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been super busy cramming and rushing to get all of my work that I hadn't done, finished for deadlines (I know I'm going to fail - but we'll get to that when it comes). Right now I've stopped watching Smallville for 5 minutes because I had a brilliant idea for a blog post to you. Ok so I've had my 2014 memory jar on my bedside table for ages just staring at me and today, I finally decided to open it; - I'm going to share with you as I open some notes, this could be fun!!

1. 'Chelsea organised a surprise meal for me and some friends from school, for me leaving to live in Boston. I definitely have the bestest and cutest best friend in the whole world.' - aww, do you remember that? I was in the car getting annoyed at my mum for not taking me to your house, little did I know she was driving me to this.. so cute! 
2. 'Me and Ricky are bandana pals :)' - wow too cool for the world! Am I right?
3. 'Found out TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB are headlining Latitude!! :O' - Little did I know,  the day before they would cancel this and lily allen would replace them.
4. 'Me and Chelsea walked into the boys loo, hahaha oops!' - hahaha funny drunk memories
5. 'Replaced Olivia's furby with coal for Christmas, it was so funny! (side note) theres a video on Phill's phone!' - thanks past georgia for reminding me theres a video somewhere, that's probably the most helpful thing you've done.
6. 'Me and Chelsea swam in the sea (it was freezing) we regret nothing' - not sure which time that was but NO RAGRETS!
7. 'I don't get asked for ID out in town anymore, they know me. 2 G8!' - brilliant georgia, what an achievement, (I think I was actually 17 at the time) 
8. 'OMG! - Bastille and the kooks tour dates; I am buying tickets for both :D :D :D.' - I believe I only got tickets for the kooks 
9. 'Me and Fay ordered dominos pizza at college'
10. 'WE GOT TICKETS FOR THE KOOKS!! THE FUCKING KOOKS OMFG!' - I guess we only got tickets for the kooks ;)
11. 'Mum said we can get a new cat! YAY!' - we never got a new cat
12. 'SHAKE IT OFF' - thats all I put! haha 
13. 'Cafe crawl and Nandos with my faves Jas + Fay again, so good to catch up :)' - well..
14. 'Free trip to the zoo with chelsea's school. Took a selfie with the elephants and we're doing the same pose!' lol.' - Omg I remember that, I didnt have to pay to get in because I just walked in with you guys, that was great!! 'can you cut the pizza into 8? … no.' 
15. 'IM 18!! yay omg finally' - ew theres nothing great about being 18, I'm now 20 though wtf.
16. 'Me, Chelsea and Ricky went for pizza in the forest' - aww my pals, I miss this day and our sleepover we had (pretty sure thats on one of theses notes)
17. 'Finally moved into my newly decorated room - so cute (i drew a flower)'
18. 'At the kooks there were this couple and they were dancing crazy and it was really funny (I think they were drunk or high lol) Me and chelsea were making their convo and trying to guess their names. I said he looks like a Ben and Chelsea said she looks like a Kate or a Katie. We found them on insta the next day and thats their real names… OMFG ME AND CHELSEA LAUGHED FOR AGES, SO FREAKY!!!' - Probably my favourite one so far!
19. 'Night out in Bristol, took a group selfie with a guy asleep on the stairs.' - I think he passed out didn't he?
20. 'Spent the whole week with Chelsea, it was great :)' 
21. 'Me and Chelsea bought 21 Disney videos for £1.90!!' - What a great day, I still have them under my bed
22. 'Bruno replied 31st dec - finally' - wow Georgia get over it already. This is the australian guy, Bruno is his code name I don't know if you remember, anyways I still know what I said to him.. it was Happy Birthday lol. Anyways, moving on… 
23. 'Me and Chelsea booked tickets to see the kooks again. (3rd time this year :D) they get better every time.' - wow we aw them a lot! haha 
24. 'I got asked for ID to buy Sherlock, rated 12! it's 2014, I'm 18 this year, what is the world coming to?' - haha dear young self, you'll be 19 next year and you'll still be getting id'd for stupid things, one time you won't even be able to buy party poppers because you will leave the house without your ID - don't do that again.
25. 'I was so close to Tay at the red tour , took a selfie with her and its my favourite thing!' - This is still the closest thing I have to a selfie with her, but I'm not going to give up hope
26. 'Watching The Lion King at 5am (well trying to) x2' - haha did we ever end up getting through it?
27. 'RED TOUR LONDON FEB 10TH O2 TAYLOR!' 
28. 'Made a Taylor Swift mix tape' - Still the coolest thing ever, I need to make more of those 
29. 'REUNITED WITH POPPY!!' - It's on orange paper, did I do that on purpose or?
30. 'Mum's Party; me and Chelsea bought wine and downed it and danced all night' - Classy is all I have to say about that, but yeah that was a fun night 
31. 'Got the job @ Debenhams in Oxford!' - well that lasted 2 days because I had a break down because I was incapable of getting the bus, fuck u anxiety. But I guess it worked out for the best because I came home and applied for college where I finally made some friends and things started turing around for me
32. 'Made a Summer bucket list and I plan to do everything on it.' - Did that happen?
33. 'THE KOOKS WERE AMAZING AGAIN!'
34. '3rd Jan, I got paid loads of money;)' - what a great day, can that happen again?
35. 'OMG RED TOUR WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE! 10/2/14' - It was a pretty cool tour but 1989 was so much better 
36. 'Saw Jack out in town he was really drunk, so funny! DANCING' - omg he was actually really drunk, but so was I tbh haha 
37. 'Jade gave me a huge bottle of Bombay Gin for Free!' - What a babe
38. 'Today I spent the whole day watching SMALLVILLE.' - OMG THATS SO FUNNY BECAUSE THATS LITERALLY WHAT IVE BEEN DOING NOW. HAHAHA. I HAVE TO TELL ELLIS ABOUT THIS HOLD ON.. 
39. 'ARIANA GRANDE FAVED MY TWEET!!!'
40. 'OMG ME AND CHELSEA MET LUKE FROM THE KOOKS AND TOOK SELFIES WITH HIME AND I TOLD HIM HE HAS A BEAUTIFUL FACE AND HE SAID THANKS. :D' - hahaha best kooks gig ever!
41. 'Me and Dimo got banned from NB's again but I bullshit our way back in ;)' - haha omg that was the night I left you with that guy after taking his drink, I ended up dropping and smashing that drink which was the reason me and Dimo weren't allowed in the club lol
42. 'Christmas movies by the fire with Chelsea's mum!' - Stage 7 of the friendship, spending time with their family without them ;)
43. 'Took Evan to the beach and he jumped down a hole and disappeared.' - hahaha thats also on video somewhere 
44. 'Me and Ricky are going on an Alien hunt! (Chelsea is joining us 2)' - Excuse me, why did we never do this?
45. '1989 - BEST ALBUM EVER!' - Actually Speak Now is still my baby 
46. 'Went to the beach today with Chels, Tom, Adam and Nerissa and it was really fun' - Hey thats cheating I swear that was in 2013?
47. 'Sleepover with my pals Chelsea and Ricky - stayed up until 4am watching movies (ginger)' - Ok so 1 - I told you that was in here somewhere. 2 - that was a great night can we do it again? 3- haha I put ginger in brackets because every film we watched had someone ginger in it 
48. 'Reunited with Charlotte at college - YAY!' - aw cute I miss her
49. 'Tumblr week away with Chelsea to Plymouth;  

• Out door cinema - saw Roman Holiday 
• Swam in the freezing cold sea
• Made tie-dye t-shirts 
• cute vintage shops
• bookshops 
• we made homemade lemonade - yummy
• mcdonalds meal deal - too much still yummy though 
• Day in london on the way back 

- That was a great trip, and way to end the summer I had so much fun! We should do that again sometime! 

    50. 'Dear Chummy blog with Chelsea where we post letters to each other every wednesday and sunday - best idea we've ever had.' - Ok confession, this wasn't the last note I found but I thought I would save it for last because how bloody iconic! 

Well that was so much fun; there is obviously more than that but a quarter of the way through I started getting bored with writing them all down! - there were some listy ones like the last one about Reading festival and Amsterdam and stuff too. What i've learned from this is that we saw the kooks at lot of times in one year, what a great time to be alive! haha I hope you enjoyed that journey back in time 2 years, I think this would make a great youtube video one day when I get the subscribers up ;)! 

I think I might do this again one year, or when we go traveling it will be great to write down all the little things to be able to look back on! 

I love and miss you loads, can't wait to see you again soon!!!

Georgia xx

A Guide to Being Twenty

Dear Chummy,

HAPPY GEORGIA DAY !!!

Hooray! You made it to twenty!

Twenty is such a weird age, you're no longer a teenager but you'll do the same things you did last year when you were nineteen. I mean it is a big deal, twenty is a milestone but it's not quite twenty-one is it?

In all honesty, being twenty hasn't been good to me - I feel like I haven't really done anything exciting since turning the big two zero and I don't really have anything exciting planned for the last six months either. But life is 100%, without a shadow of a doubt exactly what you make it so I think you'll do twenty better than I have so far and guess what here's a guide!

Image from HelloGiggles.com

Step One:
This is the first year of pure adulthood, start it right. Declutter, have a proper good sort out, and plan some stuff, think about the future (but not too much, it's scary).

Step Two:
Go out and meet people, someone, anyone. Make new friends, do tinder dates.. they seem super scary but I dare you. If you go on one, I'll go on one too.

Step Three:
I know I've just said go on dates but don't worry about your love life. It's not worth it, focus on loving you. Baby, you should go and love yourself.

Step Four:
Travel. See a new country and experience the culture, properly. This one should be easy, we already have two new countries planned and I am determined to be able to experience it properly, maybe actually go out for a traditional Norwegian or Spanish meal rather than jut Mcdonalds haha!

Step Five:
Be hopeful and ambitious. Dream big and work for those dreams, the future is so unknown and something that could seem impossible and unrealistic now may turn out to be completely possible in the future.

Step Six:
Read lots, not just books but the news, articles and journals. Stay educated and aware of the world around you. There is always something to read.

Step Seven:
Drink. It is crucial that you start having a casual drink in the evening (maybe not every evening) but just a glass of wine or a gin & lemonade (not sure how you feel about tonic so I played it safe) to chill out at the end of the day. You'll be feeling like an adult in no time.

Step Eight:
Start thinking about money. It's nice to have right, figure out your finances and have a plan - especially as you're going to move and uni it up.

Step Nine:
Look after your health, physical and mental - life's harder if you're feeling crooked. Eat properly, half self-care days, see the damn doctor if you're feeling unwell and if they're a wanker don't take it to heart, seek some online advice and comfort from pals.

Step Ten:
Don't beat yourself up. Everybody makes mistakes (everybody has those days) and being 20 is all about getting things wrong and thats ok. Everybody tries to be a better them, and everybody gives up after two days. Eventually though, as we get older, we change little by little and don't really notice that it's happening but we look back and we think fuck I'm actually doing okay. So give yourself a break if life gets hard, you deserve it.

And that's my very adult-like guide to being twenty. Realistically, I think it's gone a lot different, but I do think I've come up with some pretty good points that I should probably take note of myself.

But here's to you turning 20!! *clinks glasses and shouts hip hip hooray!*
I hope this year brings you the greatest things, I really do and I can't wait to (hopefully) experience them all with you. I love you lots and lots and wish I could have been there with you, wearing Christmas jumpers and eating chocolate fingers but alas, life.

bye bye,
Chelsea xx

spot the londoner

Dear Chummy,

Hey, how's it going? How was Norway? I'm waiting on a post all about it; or you can just tell me in person because in three days we'll be reunited, I am so excited to see you and spend the week with you. It's been way too long, oh my god now that I think about it I haven't actually seen you since last year and that makes me want to cry, I miss you so so so so so much!!! I know it isn't my turn to post but neither of us have for a while and I kinda fancied typing out something other than college work, it seems to be taking over my life but I'm enjoying it I guess.

So London!! What shall we do? Lets plan it out.. (kids underground tickets this time, why pay extra when you don't need to?) We can make a bucket list and tick it off as we go along, I want to document it with videos and photos, its important to have stuff like this for the future, what if I wake up one day and forget stuff, you never know.

• Alice in Wonderland exhibition 
• Cat cafe? (we have to do it! i know you're not a fan but it will still be cool)
• Hunterian museum - similar to the zoology place but human
•  Check out the Traffic Light Tree - it looks so cool! (night photos)
• Cool markets - we'll have to find the best ones
• Guildhall art gallery
• The Scoop
• The BFI mediatheque
• Taxidermy museum
• That museum we missed last time (I forgot what it's called)
• The London Film museum (its like £10 each though so maybe not)

We really need to get planning so we don't waste the day, or maybe we can go for breakfast when we get there to plan it out, idk we'll work it out!!, you're better than me at finding cool things, make a post or comment other stuff for us to do!! 

Some cool websites that have info about unique stuff to do in London;

http://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/budget-london/101-free-things-to-do-in-london

http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/secret-london-1

Also I can't wait to spend a week with you watching Disney shows and The Vampire Diaries (finally, and I know i'll cry so much)

Definitely need a meal at walkabout I miss the sweet potato fries! YUMMYY!!! 

I'll end it there because I really need your help planning and organising, because you know thats you in the friendship haha 

Love and miss you sooooo much!! 

See you real soon 

Georgia xxxxxxxxxx