The journey approaches...

In just three days, yours truly will be setting off for 22 days Interrailing.

I'm so unbelievably excited.
I went shopping earlier, and got such thrilling things as sunscreen, socks and hair clips.

I absolutely adore packing for holidays.
My only qualm is that as I'm backpacking through Europe, I'm limited to what I can take. This'll be interesting...
This is what I think our route is...

Au revoir!

Things to do before you're thirty

In the spirit of setting challenges for oneself, I came across this list online, and thought it'd be interesting to compare my own experiences. I've put all that I have done in bold, and judging by the lack of thicker text, it looks like I have some catching up to do:

1. Have a really stupid accident which necessitates a hospital visit (this I have done, and am now the bearer of a small scar by my nose and a crooked baby finger on my right hand, the result of a break that shall never heal)

2. Shoot something
3. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home
4. Boot Linux on your home PC
5. Get lost in a country where you don't speak the language (Spanish exchange, I was 16. Spent more time delighting in the fact that I could legally buy Bacardi Breezers rather than learning Spanish)

6. Spend more than your monthly income on a pocket sized gadget
7. Post bail for a friend
8. Break a really large plate glass window (Again, resulting in a small scar, this time on my right leg. Never skateboard near glass)

9. Make a parachute jump on a hangover
10. Use a whole roll of gaffa tape in one day
11. Make a pointless modification to your house
12. Neck a pint of peppermint oil
13. Pull a shemale by mistake (but realise in time...)
14. Buy a samurai sword
15. Delay paying a bill until the summons arrives
16. Destroy a speed camera
17. Refill an inkjet cartridge
18. Say something obscene on national television
19. Do a J turn in order to beat somebody to a parking space
20. Break a sledgehammer
21. Make a bomb
22. Smash a CRT
23. Require medical treatment as a consequence of kinky sex gone wrong (STDs don't count.)
24. Tip a waiter with something other than money
25. Light a fire with petrol
26. Kidnap someone
27. Park inside a motorway service station
28. Own a convertible.
29. Live abroad. (Denver. 3 months. Russian flatmates. Interesting summer)
30. Drive at more than 140mph.
31. Get something for free through a masterpiece of complaining
32. Give yourself a mains electric shock.
33. Completely dismantle an object larger than yourself
34. Write off a car
35. Fall asleep and get really hilarious sunburn
36. Get drunk on Absinthe (Oh dear. I was not very popular with my then-boyfriend the next day)
37. Stay up all night listening to a girl have an emotional crisis
38. Lick the terminals of a 9 volt battery
39. Take part in motorsport
40. Stay at the office for more than 24 hours
41. Set off a fire extinguisher
42. Drive at least 600 miles in a day on two lane roads
43. Hotwire a car
44. Watch all the Monty Python films In one sitting
45. Shag an ex by mistake
46. Dial 999
47. Commit a faux pas which means that a friend will never speak to you again
48. Make a bet you couldn't afford to lose
49. Read a 500 page book in one sitting
50. Escape a perfectly justified parking ticket.

New Leaves and Pet Peeves

I’m sure we’ve all had our phases where we feel that our life is inanely boring and wish something exciting would happen, am I right?
Being in one of those phases lately myself, I realised that I could either sit around and wait for something to happen, or I could go out there and make it happen myself.
Fuelled by this idea, I accepted challenges laid down to me by my flatmates. Nothing major, mind, just doing things that I would not have considered before.
Following one success, I was excited to set myself challenges and goals. I figure, if I can constantly have my mind focused on something I want to do, something I should do, or something I wish I could do but have always been to scared to, I’ll never be bored.
So it is with this new interest in trying new things that I have made a decision: from now until the end of December this year, I am going to lay down a list of things that I have never done, and all that are completely possible. On January 1st next year, I’ll review the list and see how much I have (or haven’t) achieved.
This could get interesting. Now all I need to figure out what my challenges are…

Oh and before I forget: Knackers shouting at strangers on the bus. Is this really necessary?
Strangers trying to talk to you at the bus stop. iPod firmly in ears, book in hand. A welcoming gesture? I think not. Please leave me and my wonderfully cheesy 80s music be, thanks.

Summer draws to a close...

I had all but forgot that I have a blog, and have decided to randomly make a post.

Summer is coming to an end.
And what an interesting one it was!

I moved out of home.
I almost moved to Switzerland.
I made new friends and caught up with old.
I got a new job.
I quit the new job.

and now... I'm going interrailing.

Around Europe in 22 days.
This is going to be interesting.

I'll keep you posted.