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

LET THE MUSIC MOVE YOU

Dear Chummy,

(Spotify Friendship Playlist) 

1. Justin Bieber // Purpose - This should be the first song on the playlist for many reasons; the obvious one, its Justin our absolute babe. But mainly because without him we wouldn't have become such good friends and be where we are now. Our friendship gives me purpose so a big up to biebs.
2. Hannah Montana // True Friend - This song literally represents our friendship and also this song always reminds me of you. (We still need to make a video montage of our friendship to this)
3. Selena Gomez // We Own The Night - 'When we are together its the time of our lives' because when I'm with you I have the best times ever.
4. The Kooks // See The World - I can't wait to go traveling and see the world with you, creating more memories I can treasure forever.
5. Crystal Fighters // We Are One - I honestly think we have the same mind the majority of the time, it's really funny when we think/say the same thing at the same time in front of other people, they get so creeped out.
6. Hilary Duff // One In A Million - Thats what you are to me.
7. Circa Waves // Best Years - I believe our best years are yet to come and I seriously can't wait for them.
8. Demi Lovato // Cool For The Summer - I can't wait until summer, we have so much planned, its going to be a good one!!!! (we just need money, but we'll worry about that later)
9. She and Him // Stay Awhile - Next time you're here please stick around a while.
10. Taylor Swift // I'm Only Me When Im With You - Best taylor song for this tbh, because I know no matter what I can be myself around you and I love that so thanks for letting me be comfortable being me with no judgements.  
11. Ella Eyre // Good Times - I think I'm on to something cause I feel the good times coming
12. Gorgan City // Imagination - You have such a good and creative imagination and when we join our minds together we think of the funniest and best things ever.
13. S.P.Y // By Your Side - I want you to know I'll be by your side through thick and thin, I know you'll be by mine too, (ps: this song is good to dance to and we could see it at bestival this year)
14. Swim Deep // Make My Sun Shine - You are my sunshine on a cloudy day. Love you
15. Carly Rae Jepsen ft Justin Bieber // Beautiful - simply because you're beautiful 

For now thats all I've got but I might come back and edit/update this list so keep your eyes out, I hope you enjoy it and if you can think of any other songs to add for the next time we're hanging out that we can listen to, feel free to comment or something idk. 

Love and miss you so much,

See you soon hopefully to finally watch season six of the vampire diaries

Georgia x

You want a Pizza me??

Dear Chummy,

Something a little different for you today, a recipe. Enjoy.

Ingredients:

For the base:

300g Plain Flour

2 tsp Baking Powder

300g Natural Yoghurt

1/2 tsp Salt

For the sauce:

Tin of Tomato Passata 

1 Tsp Mixed Herbs

2 Pinches of Caster Sugar

1 Garlic Clove

Toppings:

Whatever you fancy

[I have red onion, cherry tomatoes, spinach, mozarella, ricotta, cheddar and sometimes parma ham]

Method:

• First things first (i'm the realest), preheat the oven to gas mark 7/220 degrees and place trays in there to heat.
• To make the sauce, grate the garlic and add that, the passata, herbs and sugar into a saucepan at a medium heat. Let this simmer for 10 minutes until it is thick and take it off of the heat, season with a sprinkling of salt and pepper and let it cool.
• To make the dough, sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and combine. Make a well in the middle and pour the yoghurt in and stir with a fork. The mixture will soon form a dough. Turn this out onto a floured surface and knead to form a ball. 
• Depending on how big you want the pizzas, divide the dough into equal pieces (the original recipe says 4, but for a fairly large pizza I split into 2). Roll these into circles, or whatever pizza shape you fancy. 
• Remove the hot baking trays from the the oven and place your pizza bases on top and bake each for 3-4 minutes until they begin to rise then take them out (don't burn yourself, I know what you're like).
• Turn your pizza bases over and top with the sauce.
• Now it's time to get creative, go crazy with your chosen toppings and make something that won't just taste delicious but will look it too.
• Once you're done channeling your inner italian pizzeria chef, pop those bad boys back in the oven and bake for a further 5 minutes until the bases are crisp and the cheese is melted and you're happy as larry.
• Now you're ready to taste the best homemade pizza you've ever had. You're welcome.

Caio,

Chelsea.

Feeling Inspired

Dear Chummy,

Reading through your last post has left me inspired; I really want to do more with my life too. I need to stop slouching around at home feeling so sorry for myself because frankly I have just about had enough of feeling so depressed and doing absolutely nothing about it. It's time to change. I'm not going to bore you with a list of things I should do this year because that would just be copying you, and its 2016 now I need to start standing on my own two feet and thinking solo, but I will say this; I do have a list, and I'm going to try and stick to it this time, like you should.

We have a lot to look forward to this year and even with college I have projects that excite me just a tiny bit… We're making music video's next. Originally I had planned to film one for Out Of The Woods however Taylor has beat me to it, I'll let her off though, I mean it is her song. And its ok because I have new ideas for a different song from the album; I want to film a really deep video for Clean because lately that song has been a real eye opener to me. The song is so special to me for different reasons and I think if I chose a song that has meaning to me then it will be easier to create a better music video don't you think? Anyway I'm just happy that I have that horrendous sustainable packaging project out of the way, well nearly, I just needed to add a few changes to get it to a distinction -  Im extremely proud of that grade actually considering I fell so far behind everyone with this work that I didn't think a pass was possible.

I need to start thinking about getting ready for uni, I really want to go to one in London. I have looked into it and I need to come out of college with DDM to get in so I'm going to work extra hard to achieve that. I feel like this course is so much better suited to me than photography, I'm glad something in my head changed and I decided to go back to college. Also the uni wants to see that you do filming outside of college and stuff so in summer Ellis and I are going to crack on with making music videos and short films, I think we should make a travel one when we go away too. I'm going to set up a Youtube which should be cool (I don't want to be on camera though, I'm far too awkward)

Oh my god, I just looked over your post again about wanting to be well-read. A few days ago I joined a new website, Good Reads, I think you should sign up (add me). It's really cool you can add books you want to read and keep track of books you have already read. I think you'll really like this website, I know I do and I'm going to try my best to keep up to date with it too. Talking about books and being well-read and you wanting to write more reminded me that I really want to get into poetry, I absolutely love reading poetry and I wish I could write it. It think in the summer we should take a short class on it or something like that, I don't know, maybe. Or a short course on learning a language, another skill I've wanted to have for a while.

I do indeed think we should change our blog up a bit. Maybe we should research into how to make it look cool and fresh so that other people would be just as interested in it as we are. Can you imagine if this blog ever became popular and people loved the idea of it and started doing the same thing? Or that we got noticed by a Tv show like Ellen that wanted us to talk about it - now I'm being too ambitious haha! Anyway I think we should definitely talk about it more when we see each other next, it's easier that way.

And on that note; I am so excited to see you again soon!!! You don't understand how much I actually need you here with me right now (It's a lot) so hurry up and get here, I miss you so much!

See you later, alligator
Georgia xxxx

Mid-January Realisations.

Dear Chummy,

I have started and rewritten this post many times of the past few days and I feel like it is late. I'm not sure why I feel that way considering we haven't set any particular deadlines this year, but it is motivating me to just write and be done with it. I have done an awful lot of reflecting recently and I have realised that life has a tendency to throw all manner of struggles at us and that we just have to deal with them, and  it is usually how we deal with them that defines us. It makes us stronger, we learn and we grow and life just sort of goes on. Following this realisation I have been thinking about things I want to work on this year, and I know it's the 16th of January but  I don't think you need the first of a month to tell you when to make a change.

Mid-January Realisation #1: Put effort into my degree, stop pretending it doesn't exist.
Having had three examinations this week; definitely failing one, maybe scraping a pass in the second and not even turning up to the third has really thrown things into perspective for me. I am at a bloody good university, I have access to a top class education, and libraries and some of the greatest minds and do you know what? I haven't really appreciated it. Not one bit. I have been fighting to get through my degree, drowning in the work and not even attempting to swim. I have wanted it to be over since it started. Now I am half way through and I am fed up. I am fed up of feeling inadequate and defeated. I can do this. If I try, I can do this. I want a good mark. I want to succeed. I do not want to drown any more. So from this struggle and disappointment comes a new sense of purpose. Things need to change, I need to start putting the effort in - I've made it this far, I can make it the rest and I can make it count.

Mid-January Realisation #2: Become well-read, knowledgeable and cultured.
This new motivation has also given me a desire to become more well-read. I want to know about the world, and what's going on in it. I want to have opinions and intelligent discussions with people. I'm tired of sitting back and just listening. I am the biggest listener. I need to know about things and I want to write about them. I really really want to write more, and I want to get good at it. I want to become cultured too. I want to see things and learn, fuck I think I just want to be a sponge. A sponge with an opinion. I want to know more about politics too, people talk about it and I really cant comment because I don't understand it. I think it would be good to learn a language as well. Maybe I'm just being a bit ambitious now?

Mid-January Realisation #3: Let those creative juices flow.
With regards to the whole writing thing, I generally want to be more creative - I have always had a very scientific brain and feeling as though I'm not even good at that anymore is pushing me to become more acquainted with my creative side. I want to take more photographs and good ones too (I swear I say that in every post) and I just want to take full advantage of any shred of creativity I have ya know?

Now I have titled each paragraph, I feel pressured to write about more realisations I have had but I am afraid they are very generic and I really don't want to sound like every other person, so I'm going to be a button in a bag of zips (idk) and just end that segment right here.

On a completely unrelated note; I really enjoyed the chummy letters thing your mum said and I've been thinking about maybe updating the design of this blog - changing it up, making it more stylish, maybe trying to get a wider audience - changing it's name around. I'm going to brainstorm. but let me know whatcha think :). Also my next post will deffo include pictures, I promise.

Later Skater,
Chels.

Nuevos Comienzos

Dear Chummy,

Your letter was very exciting to read, I am definitely looking forward to this year with you it will be a good one. I know 2015 wasn't the best year for you but we had some amazing times and created some unforgettable memories that I will honestly cherish forever and ever. I really want to pay a tribute to that year in this post because to me it was one of the best years of my life. I finally did things that made me happy with the people that made me happy and although I lost and learnt along the way (yes, I'm talking about lending people you call your 'friend's money, and nearly a year later and still not getting it back) but I replaced those people with new friends that are amazing, I can't wait for you to meet them.

Happy things to remember about 2015;

• Trips to London, just the two of us was so much fun. Visiting and seeing a different side to the city - we still need to go back to that museum that was closed and the cat cafe
• Getting a tattoo, I know this seems like something we shouldn't be happy about however I have started to like it more now because people always ask me about it, why do you have a boat? why did you get this tattoo? what does it mean? - these questions always make me think of you and how we got them for friendship and whenever I catch it out of the corner of my eye I now smile because it represents us truly being best friends forever. 
• Trips to different cities in Europe, both Cologne and Amsterdam. These two places were so much fun, and more fun because I was there with you. Visiting the beautiful cathedral and art museums and eating the best chicken selection boxes at mcdonalds in Germany to the cute cat museum and art museums and walks around Amsterdam city. AND OF COURSE SEEING TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!
• Seeing Taylor with you 3 times was the highlight of my year, making the costumes and wearing them and all the lights and glitter and signs and everything was amazing! She really did know how to put on the best shows ever. I think I will always remember the clean performance and crying at it. Again I wouldn't have had so much fun looking like a fool dancing and singing my heart out if you weren't there to join me. - I also think if we had worn our outfits for the manchester show we definitely would have been meeting her, I saw mama swift look at us loads of times. (Theres always next time)
• Living and working with you in Bristol (I know it wasn't for long but) I had an awesome time experiencing life as a student for that time. I also loved watching movies/documentaries/tv shows with you and ordering food at 2 in the morning because thats what time we thought was appropriate to eat dinner. Maybe I can do the same again this summer.
• Random visits and sleepovers are always fun whatever year we have them but I thought I would mention them in this post.
• Going to the beach and being attacked by the sand, not fun that was actually really painful but I still enjoyed recreating our photos on the fair rides. 

Theres probably more but I stayed up late so many times in a row so far the past couple of weeks I think its finally hitting me. I might actually finish this post tomorrow…. (update: I went to sleep, and came back to it today)

Your letter arrived today, I loved it so much! Thank you for that, I really needed something to cheer me up, I'm going to keep it forever and the photo was the cutest - I put it on my wall already.

    Im looking forward to you visiting me soon so we can go for walks at like one in the morning in our pyjamas and take photos and genuinely catch up! We can watch a season of the vampire diaries if I buy it before you come (unless you already have it, then bring it with you, remember when I cried like a baby at the end of season 5. I was not ready for that emotion)! We can also go and see jess about the money if she's even there hmm.

I think you'll appreciate the fact that I'm listening to Justin while I type this post, getting me excited to see him. Do you think he'll perform songs from journals? I hope so, that album was so underrated. Im still annoyed you can't buy a physical cd copy of it, although we can get the vinyl thats cool. We will totally meet him on tour, omg remember when I told everyone he'd gone and they started shouting hate at me? lol

Small bucket list we can constantly add to,
2016:

• See Justin and meet him obviously 
• Travel to more places
• Visit more museums
• Take more photos (polaroid, film and digital)
• Make the most of life
• Be happy 
• See more of each other
• Get through education 
• Worry about money less 
• Keep up to date with this blog more
• Send more cards (getting post makes me happy)
• VIDEO MORE TO MAKE ONE AT THE END OF THE YEAR OF EVERYTHING WE DID IN 2016, - I think this is such a good idea to look back on in a few years. 

I don't really know what else to write about so I'll leave it here I'm sure you're getting bored of reading this now anyway. 

Love and miss you so so so so much

Georgia xx

Ps: the title means new beginnings in spanish, you should know that because you did that at school, I put it because Spain is one of the places we're seeing Justin

New Year, New Posts?

Dear Chummy,

Having both said that we miss keeping this blog up to date I have taken the responsibility of writing the first post. The first post in 7 months; the first post of the new year. I'm not going to bother with a catch up post, I'm not going to focus on the past. Instead I want to focus on the future because that's what gives me hope and I have high hopes for the next year. I want to actually sort my life out ya know (said every person ever), put effort in with my degree rather than pretend it doesn't exist, save money, sort out my love life and eat properly. I feel like 2016 is going to be the year that I actually grow up. I think it needs to be. I need to be happy. We have a few plans for the next year, and even though you don't seem excited yet, they're going to be great - and we're going to have more.

The most exciting plan is hands down going to be the Purpose Tour. I honestly can't wait to stand in that crowd in front of my idol, with my bestest friend. I can't wait to be singing our hearts out to songs that have helped me throughout basically all of my teen years, so cliche. Tour is going to be so much fun, posters and fairy lights. Imagine if we met him. After all this time. I say that like we haven't met him before but sometimes I don't really count that.

I can't wait to see some new cities with you. I've been looking into Madrid and there's mountains not far from the city and we can go on hikes, and it's a really historic city with heaps to do. I'm also thinking because it's still 11 months away, plenty of time to save money (don't worry just yet, and I got u anyway because I'm only excited about this because you're coming), Madrid is only £6 coach from Barcelona so it will be so easy to go there too for a couple of days - I mean we might as well. We can go to beaches too and definitely Justin's other spanish show ;). Oslo will be just as incredible, I'm excited to go in February so I can explore a bit and figure out where we need to stay and exciting things we can do - I bet there is some amazing hiking routes there too! And we can go sledging as well in knee deep snow and take LOADS of photos.

Here is a really good website I've found that looks useful: http://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/category/spain/madrid - this is the link for madrid, but they have stuff on other countries too.

I've decided that this year I actually do really want to get the purpose tattoo. 2015 was a tough year for me, and if all goes to plan I can turn that around this year, put things right, find my purpose. On top of this I have always wanted to get a Justin related tattoo, a subtle one, and this seems perfect. I think I'll get it when we see him in Oslo, fitting. 

I'm 21 this year. Scary. I don't really know what to say about that so I'm just going to end it here. Dramatic.

Love and miss you more than anything.

Chelsea xx