Dear Diary...

Dear cats, please stop sleeping on my bed you are giving me allergies.

Dear favourite customers at work, thank you for making my day every time you come in.

Dear 3 minute chocolate pudding, please stop being so tasty - you are making me fat.

Dear wii fit, thank you for helping me to counteract the chocolate pudding.

Dear Brooke, you are absolutely my best friend in the entire world, i love you to death.

Dear world, thanks for being forever so inspiring.

Dear uni textbooks, why do you have to be so heavy.

Dear dusk, you are my favourite time of day, you have the ability to make the world look like one big artistic canvas i will never get sick of the beautiful silhouette of trees in dusk.

Dear beautiful dress that i cant quite squeeze into, why cant you be more forgiving.

Dear big oversized jumper, thank you for keeping me warm during these cold winter months.

Dear boy that works across the hall, yes i think i am in love with you.

Dear girlfriend of boy across the hall, you are the luckiest girl in the world.

Dear music, thank you for making me feel like anything is possible.

Dear piano, sorry if i take out my frustrations on you sometimes.

Dear wind, why whenever i sweep do you then choose to get all windy.

Dear dog, please stop chewing up my favourite shoes.

Dear credit card, why cant your debts just magically disappear.

Dear art book, thank you for being accepting of my wacky ideas and sketches.

Dear Ireland, one day i will set foot on your emerald land again.

Dear pilots, thank you for the many plane flights that have led me to exciting new lands.

Dear beautiful colours, thank you from keeping the world black and white.

Dear free postcards, thank you for the cheap wallpaper.

Dear loving family, it is you that has made me strong, i owe you everything that i am.

from rainy days and holidays

some artwork from when i get a chance to draw...

reunite with you inner child

I'd forgotten how good you feel after watching children's movies, especially disney animations. recently me and my flatmate have made a habit out of watching these great movies every night with dinner and i swear i've been waking up happier because of it. after watching a few of these light hearted innocent movies i've realised how much we dont need all this violence and anger that generally comes with hollywood these days and its quite ok to enjoy something that makes you feel like a little child again, so give it ago pick one of your favourite movies you watched as a kid and actually sit down and watch it - its good for you soul!

forgotten words

" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring". Oscar Wilde.

I recently discovered one of my old diaries - one that wasn't really journal entries but more lists and quotes and song lyrics, anyway I found a list of random (and yes some cliche) things I wanted to do in my life that I wrote a couple of years ago so hear it is:

1. send a message in a bottle
2. write a novel
3. fly first class
4. find a four leaf clover
5. build a snowman
6. dance in the rain
7. ride in a hot air balloon
8. road trip across america coast to coast
9. visit every american state
10. solve a rubics cube
11. see a musical on broadway
12. witness a solar eclipse
13. see a falling star
14. name a star
15. see a comet
16. learn to speak another language
17. see a meteor shower
18. learn sign language
19. meet someone with my birthdate
20. learn to juggle
21. finish a 1000 piece puzzle
22. live in New York
23. experience weightlessness
24. meet someone famous
25. get a perm

I love reading things I wrote years ago - it makes me look back at me at that time and think about what things I'm still aspiring to, and also how much we change in just the course of a few measly years. The funny thing is I completely forgot about that list and I've actually managed to tick a few of them off over these years without realising: I've solved a rubics cube (with the help of some nifty website that you punch in coordinates!), I've seen my very first falling star, I actually got a perm (I looked a bit 80's there for a while), I've met someone with my birthdate, tried to teach myself sign language from the internet, and i'm currently attempting (baby steps!) to learn a bit of spanish. Thats six crossed off the list already, 19 to go and the rest of my life to do it!!!

summer rain

because its about lifes simple perks - waking up early enough to see sunrise, fairy bread, watching romantic movies, road trips with friends, music that makes you cry, painting, sketching, walks along the river, travelling to new cities, photos from friends returned home, singing at the top of your lungs, standing in the rain, window shopping, hot chocolates in winter, red fingernails, city skylines at dusk, bowls of fruit, reading a good novel, summer rain, and good music.