summertime sadness

I am not really happy that school is ending, which sounds crazy (especially as this year hasn't been the best), but I really am reluctant to go into year ten because GCSE's scare me and I had enough stress preparing for my Latin level 1 GCSE, without having multiple to do, and even more to prepare for. I feel like the year has gone too quickly and I am not ready - whatever that means.

I did have a lot of hopes for this summer, it was going to be great and amazing but I don't know if it will. I feel a bit like it will just be me alone in my house being lazy and not productive and failing at whatever teenagers are meant to do to fill their summers.

I plan on reading more because social media has really stopped me reading as much as I used to, ten-year-old Amy was a crazy book lover, who stayed up till 1am reading three books back-to-back.

I plan on doing a lot of things.

I don't really know what I am doing or where I am going with this post, so here are some songs you should check out.

Cold War Kids – Audience Of One
Tegan And Sara – Call It Off
Never Shout Never – cheatercheaterbestfriendeater
Fearless Vampire Killers – Could We Burn, Darling?
All Time Low – Dear Maria, Count Me In
Kill the Alarm – Fire Away
Bright Eyes – First Day Of My Life
The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell
The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell
Foster The People – Houdini
Sum 41 – In Too Deep
Ben Howard – Keep Your Head Up
Of Monsters And Men – King And Lionheart
Daughter – Landfill
Of Monsters And Men – Little Talks
Mumford & Sons – Lover Of The Light
Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
Agnes Obel – Riverside
Scouting For Girls – She's So Lovely
Fountains Of Wayne – Stacy's Mom
Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We're Goin Down
The Filthy Souls – The Boys Will Be Out For A Fight
Cute Is What We Aim For – The Curse Of Curves
Breaking Benjamin – The Diary Of Jane
Daughter – Youth

Amy xx

books i want to read

SO books on Kindle were really cheap today - probably an average of £1.50? So I thought I would buy one. Or three.

I got The 100 which is a dystopian novel about 100 prisoners who are sent back to earth after humans have been living on a space ship style thing for quite some time. I have just started this and it isn't shaping up to be all that good but I will persevere.


Next book is one I am really excited about reading, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. I am not quite sure what it is about, I have read the first couple of pages, but it is highly recommended and from the first couple of pages I get a good feeling for the book. The style is vaguely similar to More than This, by Patrick Ness, and that was a great book so I am really excited to read this one.



















Finally, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, this book has been recommended to me several times, and a friend recently read it and enjoyed it. I have read Fangirl, by the same author and thought that was a pleasant read, so I am quite excited for this book too, even if romance is not my forte.



















I will maybe-possibly-probably write a review for each one, after I have read them, although that is quite a dedication to make so let's see if I do.

Amy xx

return of the mediocre blogger - discussing dedication

I guess I've neglected this blog for a while. I would say I was sorry but I don't think anyone has been eagerly awaiting updates. You see, some people in this world have this thing called dedication, they have work ethic and they are motivated and determined and loads of other things that I am not.

When it comes to school, I just coast and it takes an exceptional teacher to make me actually try (although I don't always like these teachers, I know they are good for me), and I am grateful for them. But I feel bad, really bad, about the fact that I don't put effort in to what I do and I don't have any drive to put any effort in.

I do take pride in some of my work, if I am interested in it, but I don't think the curriculum is really built around my interests so sadly most of my work is half completed rubbish. This blog could be considered half completed rubbish I guess, along with two other blogs I have had, which I also neglected. (This was when I was 10/11 and I really haven't changed).

I guess as an update of sorts I could tell you a few things about my life right now, so here goes nothing/something:
I am now fourteen and will be fifteen in November and I don't really know how I have changed, mentally anyway.
Tomorrow I am going to see War Horse in the theatre and I am excited because I can remember going to see it when I was very young, I sat in the second row and loved it, although that's pretty much all I remember so I guess I will get to relive that seven-year-old experience. Then, next week Wednesday I am going to Italy to the Bay of Naples (sorrento?) with my school on a Latin trip. It is going to be hot and despite sun cream I will burn. 
I just did all my end of year exams, I've had a few results back and they are all pretty good, none are exceptional but they are good enough for me. (can you see the lack of motivation here?!?!) Anyway, I liked doing them all in a week, it meant they were all over and done with and I could be less stressed etc. Turns out we are also doing controlled assessments now which sucks, I don't get that because we did all our end of year exams.

I might write a couple more posts and I might post them, I don't know.

For now,
Ciao (that's italian, right? I'm preparing for Italy),
Amy x

i'm a theif

coz i stole this idea of the fabulous carolinerd, who you can find at http://carolinerd-turnthepage.blogspot.co.uk.

so... QUOTES! 

Imma steal some quotalopas and post em' here. They will be mostly nerdfightery because John Green is sexy. 

P.S: nerdfightery is my twitter so idk find me at @nerdfightery and I follow back. pahah 

I know what you're thinking, she got carried away. Well I did, and what? :P 

Thanks for listening folks, see you next time on the perks of being amy!

Amy! xxx

Barcelona Part II!

So this part, is where I, go to Montserrat, which is a, place where, they use, excessive  commas incorrectly, YAY,!

So Montserrat is a mountain in Spain, we went up in a vernacular and it was pretty damn awesome.
I stole the picture as I havent uploaded my own yet.

SO anyway, on this mountain there is a monastery and I think it's a kind of pilgrimage place because literally hundreds of people were queuing up to do something special inside.

What was that something special? It was, as you guessed (sarcasm) kissing a black Madonnas foot.

Before you say WTF, let me explain. :)

Basically, Madonna is like the spanish Virgin Mary, and this one happened to be a black statue. Now all of it is in a glass case, except it's foot, which pokes out. People have been coming for hundreds of year to kiss the foot, and so many have that it is actually eroded from kissing.

Now I wouldn't touch the thing because germs, but people were leaving their wedding dresses and giving their stuff to the statue so it must have been pretty darn special.

Amy!
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Back From Barcelona : PART I

Hi!

So last night I arrived home in the evening and had a Indian take away.
Totaaaally relevant. :)

These posts are going to come in three parts,
Back From Barcelona : PART I
Montserrat Derping : PART II
Monty Python and the MEOW : PART III

So.
Part I.
(I'm interviewing my self cause I can.)

How was Barcelona? 

It was awesome!

What was the weather like?

Warm, and then incredibly hot and the end. Like I'm dying kind of hot.

What made Barcelona awesome?

Ooohh, top secret. Wait for part three!
Butttttt, I guess going with friends was cool.

What did you do while you were there?

All will be revealed in the following posts but I did play a lot of top trumps.
Lord of the Rings top trumps.
MY PRECIOUS.

I'm running out of questions, inspire me?

While I was there I couldn't go on YOUTUBE then I died. Yeah.

That's not inspiring!

Well you decided to do three posts, don't you even know what to fill them with?

Not really. I know what I'm doing for the other two posts. 

That's helpful. Not.

I'm sorry.

Adios, Hasta Luego.
De nada.
Amy.

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UGH

Ever feel like you can't really say how you feel?

I find some words are good for that.

I say words.

I mean letters in random groupings.

Prepare yourself, it's a long list.

UGH
asdfghjkl
pahahah
meh
BAHAHHAHAHAHH
qwertyuiop
meep
qazxswedcvfrtgbnhyujm,kiol.
ahhhhhh
poopooooo
nonononononononon
yesyesyesyesyesyes
WOOTWOOT
omgicantevennfghjkl;
mwahahahahah
doink
grrrrrrrrrrr
RAGERAGERAGERAGE
heheh
waiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
nup
omfotp
whatthefridge?
k.k.k.k.k.k.k.k
WELLPOOYOUTHEN
hapiiiii

I could go on but bahhhhhhhhh I cannot be bothered.

Amy.
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Freckles and Sick Days

Freckles and sick days have one thing in common, you either have them and hate them or lack them and want them.

To make that clearer, and to clarify, I will explain it like this.

I have a lot of freckles. I do not like them. People regularly say to me, "You are SO lucky, I wish I had freckles." This is similar to sick days, because although I'm not a person who is usually sick, (today being an exception), there are some people who are. And these people do not like sick days because they are sick but people who have the fortune to be healthy want a day off because they are not sick.

I think that it's just part of being human to always want what you haven't got and loathe what you have and so today I am writing to say that be happy you have skin, however it looks, and be happy to not be at home bored to death feeling ill.

I don't know, maybe you can't help those feelings. Maybe they're just instinct.

But where do we get them from? Because my dog seems happy...


Sorry for the long-winded meaningless post, I just wanted to un-boredify myself, if only for 15 minutes.

Amy.
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