Questions and answers...

Okay, so this is basically an updated "about me" because I haven't done one since I started this blog two years ago. I basically looked through a bunch of quesiton and answer posts off of other peoples blogs and threw together a nice long list of questions.

Me.

1. Do you have any siblings?
   I do yeah, I have two brothers and two sisters. 
2. How old are you? 
   I am 19 :)
3. What's your height? 
   I think I'm 5"6
4. Do you workout?
    Kinda, I try to do as many sit-ups and crunches as I can everyday, and I also try and walk instead of using trains/buses as much as I can. 
5. Do you have any pets?  
   I don't no, although I did had a bunny called Buttons when I was younger and I have always lived with dogs as my parents always have them. I don't live at home anymore though and I can't have pets in my flat.
6. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?  
   drawing, singing, baking and binge watch netflix. 
7. What do you feel is your greatest achievment? 
   I got a distinction in my grade 5 singing exam, and an A* in my music performance assessment. Which is pretty good for me because I'm not very lucky when it comes to getting good grades.
8. What do you value most in life? 
   My family 
9. What do you do? 
   I'm at uni, but I'm also looking for a part-time job.
10. What is your dream job? 
    I'm not completely sure. I'd love to sing, that's my biggest dream, but, my main dream job is any career that I can help people in. I can't imagine myself sitting behind a desk because of my knee problem so idfk. Maybe I'll try out youtube, that would be perfect for me. 
11. What did you take for your GCSE'S/in college? 
    For my GCSE's, I took catering, media studies and music. and in college I did applied science - boring af. 
12. Do you make good grades? 
    no. I am one of them highly unfortunate people who studies their ass off and still gets awful grades. 
13. Do you want to get married later on in life? 
    Not particularly. I don't like to feel trapped and that's basically what a marriage is, and tbh, I'd rather not be trapped with one person for the rest of my life, I'd end up spending every day riddled with anxiety. 
14. Do you have any phobias? 
    fucking..omg, yes. Heights are just, ew. And spiders, moths and daddy long legs, I'd rather not. 
15. Have you ever been abroad? 
    nope *sigh*

Beauty/Shopping. 

1. Heels or flats? 
   I adore wearing heels but fuck, they hurt far too much so imma go with flats.
2. Where do you buy most of your clothes from? 
   As I'm a student, I'm therefore a poor fucker and can only afford to buy clothes from primark, new look and H&M. 
3. Favourite drugstore makeup brand? 
   Rimmel London and Maybelline cosmetics. 
4. Favourite nail polish brand? 
   Barry M. 
5. What was your first makeup item? I think it was a Barry M lipgloss or something. 
6. At what age did you start wearing makeup? 
   I was either 12 or 13, started off basic with a pretty crappy eyeliner and mascara. 
7. Do you wear falsies? If so which brand? 
   nope. 
8. How do you take care of your hair? 
   I make sure I wash it every 4 days because then it's still getting it's natural oils that it needs, but it's always getting kept clean - don't want to wash it too often. I also use two hair serums, a dove one (that isn't available in the UK, I got mine in a poundshop because the langauge on the bottle is in a different language) and a john freida one. I also make sure to use a deep conditioning hair mask every week and, I mainly use one called Roots from Lush. I'm not the best at caring for my hair though as I do dye my hair quite a lot. 
9. Whats the colour of your natural hair? 
   I think my natural colour is a mousy brown. 
10. What are your views on plastic surgery? 
    if it's what makes you happy then go for it, just don't go too far...one lip filler is fine, it looks nice, but 5 looks tacky - know the limit. But ye, I'm considering it myself. 
11. Do you bite your nails? 
    ew no. 

Random Bits and Bobs

1. Which five celebs would be on your "list"? 
   Ryan Reynalds, Ryan Kwanten, Ruby Rose, Shay Mitchell, Jensen Ackles. - this was so difficult because like, what about Jude Law? Alex Pettyfer? Lily Collins? 
2. Do you watch any american tv, if so what is your favourite? 
   I don't want any reality shows but I quite like watching American shows like pretty little liars, supernatural, chuck, once upon a time and agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
3. What is your favourite type of sandwhich? 
   Chicken salad - how boring omg. 
4. What wesbite do you visit the most besides youtube, blogger & facebook? 
   tumblr. Tumblr takes over my life. I go on it non stop for days and then have like a months break and then go back to it again for days on end, probably why i have hardy any followers on it 
5. What is your favourite disney film? 
   gonna be completely honest here, I am not the biggest fan of disney movies. Although I do quite like tarzan and big hero 6.
6. Whats your favourite desert? 
   cheesecake for definite. 
7. Do you drink juice? 
   doesn't everyone? 
8. What's your favourite movie?  
   What a horrible question. 
9. If you could move anywhere, where would it be? 
   America, or Australia. lovely weather and better than the UK.
10. Favourite colour? 
    Blue
11. Do you drink energy drinks? 
    When I'm getting tattooed ye
12. Do you drink coffee? 
    sometimes
13. If you could have a dinner party with 5 celebrities, dead or alive, who would you invite? 
    Sam Smith, Robin Williams, Miley Cyrus, Norman Reedus, Ashley Benson

Okay, this took a very long time. a lot longer than I expected...

XOX.

Goodbye Terry.

I've not posted in a while for personal reasons but I thought I'd post a nice quick update because I'm feeling like I need to get a few things out.
As most of you probably know, the world lost one of its greatest, most inspirational authors today. Terry Pratchett has sadly passed away. And learning about this today made me think so much about my childhood.
There are quite a few things that no-one knows about me and for the sake of this post, I'm going to share one of those things now.
Growing up I used to write a heck load of stories and comic strips. Most of them were fantasy/sci-fi based the rest were horror/mysteries. I loved to write about monsters and alternate universes, death, murder and serial killers (Jack the Ripper being my biggest inspiration for the serial killer stories, the Yorkshire ripper being another inspiration). Anything I found interesting to read, I loved to write about. I had notebooks filled with stories. I had diaries that I used to write in. But I never wrote the diaries about my day, they were always about my characters day. My biggest influences for these stories were Terry Pratchett and Darren Shan. Another thing that no-one knows is that when I read a book, I imagine all of the details, all of the small things, I take them all into consideration in my imagination, say there's a monster, not only would I imagine what that creature looked like, I'd imagine the situation, the scene, I'd imagine what state the creature is in, is it out of breath, is it sweating, is it angry, how angry is it?, is it covered in a liquid? what liquid, bile? blood? vomit? and and sometimes, I'd draw what I was imagining. Drawing the creatures that other people imagined was probably one of my favourite things to do. But, I was so ashamed of doing it that I would draw it and then throw it away so that no-one else saw it. I used to want to be an author, or an illustrator, I used to want to write my own stories and draw the illustrations that would accompany them. That was a dream of mine, but one I never shared. I don't quite know why this is something I have never shared with anyone. I'm not exactly ashamed of doing these things or wanting those things, I guess I just didn't think anyone would understand. But, one of my inspirations has died today. And, to me, that's a sign. Even the greatest of people don't live forever, but they sure do last forever. Terry Pratchett will last forever in history, he will always be remembered, his stories will always be read and passed around, just like Shakespear and Grimm, and Conan Doyle. He will be forever loved and remembered. Terry was an inspirational man. Despite his terrible disease, he continued to create, he wrote stories that inspired and entertained the world and I think that if a man so ordinary, so normal, can become someone so important to so many people then what's to stop anyone else doing the same? The world is full of so many people, and at least one of them is going to be the next person to inspire the world. So many people are going to be known, known for their art, for their achievements and for their personality and I want to be one of those people. I want to leave my mark on the world and inspire millions, just like Terry did. I don't want to die, I want to die and be remembered by millions.

Sorry for the rather messy post. I didn't really think much about it before posting it. I just thought that I needed to get this out, and that this was the best place to do so.

love and peace, Lindsey xo