2008 in quite a big nutshell.

Ok so it's that time of year again in which I write down what has happened throughout the past 12 months. Despite this 2008 being awesome, not nearly so much stuff has happened (that I want to blog about) so it's gonna be shorter than the last one. Also, I haven't as carefully kept track of exactly when stuff happened, so it probably won't be perfectly chronological.

January: Saw Plain White T's at Shepherd's Bush. This was amazing because just before the gig I found out that Boys Like Girls, a band that I really liked, were supporting. Then, before the concert, I got to meet their guitarist and he fully told me not to get run over. Which was like, AWESOME. Then after the concert (of which we were front row and got high fived by Tom Higgenson, PWT's lead singer), we got to meet the band. Tom hugged me and Becci which was SOOO awesome and he told us to come and see him at the Roundhouse, so we did. More on that later...

February: Sister Act. This was kinda ongoing through the end of 07 aswell but it was probably some of the best times of my life. I made sooo many new friend who I am still friends with now and it was just such a laugh. We were a really tight-knit group and I will never forget the Drama Hall picnic or going to McDonalds. And neither will I forget that we stayed after school on several days just because we wanted to, not because we had to. That's special.
Ski trip. Totally utterly unbelievably incredible. Amazing. Spectacularly wow. Met Pete! WOO! We had sooo many laughs and I will never forget that week. Ever. ThankGOD I am going in 2009 too, I swear to you I've spent all of 2008 counting down.
Plain White T's at the Roundhouse. Well I promised Tom I'd go so I kind of had to really!! It was a really good night (:

March/April: Italy trip. Also was an amazing week. Again, made lots of new friends and I got to see some incredible things too. Lake Garda, Venice and Verona were all gorgeous. And the Italian shops = WOW. And the Italian boys too xD AAAHHH that's reminded me of the hot emos in Verona! That was so funny, we saw them and just ran up to them, sat down, got our photo taken and then ran off hahaha.
Nerifest: My first ever YouTube gathering. I met some amazing people. Can't really some it up better than this day actually changed who I am today. Cheesey, but absolutely true.

May: Plain White T's acoustic gig. This was soooo good! Becci and Nici and I got changed in the car after school in FOUR MINUTES and then when we got to London we literally RAN to the shop and when we asked where they queue was we were told, "There's no queue, you're the first ones here!" We FREAKED OUT. In the end only about 100 people turned up and we were a couple of meters from where the band were performing. Got to meet them all again and got my tshirt and poster signed :D

June: Finished my GCSEs. The feeling of walking out my last GCSE exam was kinda unforgettable. Especially as I had to stay an hour longer than most people to retake two Science modules '-_-
Eleanor leant me her Twilight books. This was the start of a long and beautiful relationship *cough* obsession.

July: Can't think of anything good that happened in July. I was waay bored of the summer by then.

August: I went to Greece which was epic, especially when me and my dad went to a volcano and climbed into it. There were vents in the ground with smoke coming out and the sides of the crater were streaked with bright yellow sulphur. And it smelled of rotten eggs. Laaavely.
On this holiday I read John Green's Looking For Alaska and An Abundance Of Katherines for the first time. They definitely deserve mentions.
GCSE results: Let's not even go there.

September: Started sixth form. Was just as good as I hoped it would be.

October: Saw Fall Out Boy. But I only went coz Boys Like Girls were supporting. They were AMAZINNGGGG and after trying to follow Paul DiGiovanni backstage and getting turned away by security, I did get to meet him again xD

November: My birthday. Was a somewhat quiet affair with just my closest friends in Pizza Hut, but it was a lovely, lovely evening. I miss it. Was my last birthday as a child and I'm glad I got to spend it with the people I spent it with.
Twilight Premiere. Was SUCH a good evening. We got to see ROBERT PATTINSON IN PERSON and the Britannia High cast and we met some hot boys hahaha.

December: Well on the last day of term the sixth form band did a gig in the common room. During that was my moment of realisation - I AM SO FUGGING GLAD I DID NOT GET INTO KEGS.
Twilight movie. OhMyGod. BEST FILM EVAH. Wow. Still kinda in shock about it to be honest. Even after watching it 5 times.
Hamlet. Even though David Tennant wasn't in it, it was still outstandingly good. Will never forget that performance.
GOT MY MACBOOOOOOOOK.

Ok reviewing 2008 was actually quiet anticlimatical in comparison to 2007. Ok, onto aims for 2009.

AIMS FOR 2009
- Get 900 subscribers on my YouTube account, www.youtube.com/AccioJellyBean
- Get all my target grades in my AS so I can go on Ski Trip 2010
- Get offers for all the unis I apply for
- See Green Day
- Be nicer to people I don't like because this is the mature way to behave
- Be REALLY nice to people who don't like me because this pisses them off a lot
- Be nicer to people in general
- Don't fall asleep in a cinema (deja vu)
- Join a gym
- Go to said gym regularly
- Lose some weight
- Get work experience, preferably at a radio station or TV channel
- Don't have a nervous breakdown on my 18th birthday
- Get into the Christmas spirit

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2009
- Princess Diaries Ten Out Of Ten
- Ski Trip
- Young Americans
- Greece trip
- Summer holiday
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (it can't be possible for Warner Brothers to get any worse)

FRIENDS I HAVE MADE OR GOT CLOSER TO IN 2009 WHO ARE AWESOME
- Rhianna (aka Rac)
-Sarah (aka Sac)
- Aimee
- Everyone in the bit next to the common room, I love you lot so much, thankyou for everything these past few months
- James (although he pushes me in front of buses)
- Gary
- Dex (GAME)
- Tom (TWIT)
- Pete (Totally Addicted To Cock)

Think that's round about everything. I would just like to say that despite the fact that not as much happened as last year, I have changed way more than last year. I'm not more mature (in some ways, don't worry, the Busted pyjamas aren't going anywhere) and I have grown up a lot. And I've made some incredible friends. I generally think I've come out a better person than I was before. So in that respect, 2008 was way more constructive than 2007.

Bring on 2009 (:

My itinirary

The sheer amount of nothingness I've been doing for the past couple of days is actually pretty horrific.

Boxing day: sat in front of the TV in my pyjamas on my MacBook eating junk food
Boxing boxing day (27th): sat in front of the TV in my pyjamas on my MacBook eating junk food
Boxing boxing boxing day (28th): sat in front of the TV in my pyjamas on my MacBook eating junk food

But I'm not having any of that any more because I'm starting to go numb from the lack of movement. Not to mention I'm gonna end up MASSIVE by next week if this carries on. Today I am going to tidy my room up by putting all my new stuff away and then I am going to turn my PC on for the first time since Christmas morning. I'm gonna get all the stuff from that on to my Mac and then I'm gonna get it out of my room for good.

And once that's all done I'm going to sit in front of the TV in my pyjamas on my MacBook eating junk food.

A poem, 3 more sentences and a video.

I wanted to do an acrosstick (yes, I know the technical name, take that Jzeroames) too!

Come on, I mean seriously
How can anyone get so excited about
chRistmas?
It comes around EVERY YEAR
So go on,
Tell me what is so good about December 25th?
MacBooks. That is what.
And after all that, I have to admit
chriStmas ROCKS.

Yes, you heard me correctly. I got a MacBook for Christmas. It's the most amazing piece of technology ever and I think I am quite possibly in love with it.

In reference to some stuff I wrote last year

I wrote this at the end of 2007. It's a list of things I wanted to achieve in 2008. I'll do a bit of commentary on each thing.

AIMS AND PLANS FOR 2008
700+ subscribers on my YouTube account, www.youtube.com/AccioJellyBean Well I have another week left and I've got 688 subscribers. Hopefully I can get 12 more in time. Would be nice.
Get featured again on YouTube Didn't happen but some friends of mine got featured so that's okay
Have a well known YouTuber subscribe to me Haha bless. I was so retarded. But I guess this did happen not just the once so yay
Go to a YouTube gathering Three YouTube gatherings and four random meetups with friends from YouTube. I can definitely tick that one off
Start up a music journalism website Not applicable because I decided I didn't want to do journalism anymore
Send an article to a music magazine and get it printed Ditto
Get a job for a paper/magazine Ditto
Get good GCSE results Well they were good but not good enough. No tick here.
Go to London with my friends 10+ times Yeah I definitely did this
See Green Day They didn't tour. But this is definitely going on my list for 2009.
Read more books Big fat heffer of a tick here
Start a fansite Not as such, but me and Jim started ourselves a facebook group :D
Not fall asleep in a cinema Hahaha I slept the whole way through The Dark Knight
Get a Gryffinor tie Nope, totally forgot about that actually
Do more homework and revision *shrugs* not really

And this is the list I wrote of stuff I was excited about in 2008. More commentary.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2008
Plain White T's concert This was amazing, I met Paul DiGiovanni and the Plain White T's on this night
Mindless Self Indulgence concert It was actually probably the shittest gig I've ever been to. Epic fail.
Ski trip Possibly the best week of my life.
Italy trip Possibly the second best week of my life.
Barcelona Was a really nice holiday
Greece Amazingamazingamazing. Climbing into volcanoes = incredible
Rome This was really good too
Summer holidays All in all they were quite rubbish. Too long and drawn out and pointless
Sixth form <3
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal snogging film Hahaha well as films go, it's crap. But it's a laugh and I could watch it again
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince film Good one WB.
NEW YEAR 2008! Why was I so optimistic last year? Fugging annoying.

Fugoff Christmas.

I do not like how quickly time is going. It was only Christmas last week, what's going on?! I remember EXACTLY what I was wearing last Christmas eve. So it can't have been a year ago. But it was. And the moral of this story is that by next Tuesday, I'll be an OAP.

Sorry to be all har bumhugish but I really do not see the Christmas appeal now I know that you-know-who (not Voldemort, the other one) doesn't exist. It is not special anymore. It is now stupid and unnecessary and makes me feel guilty. I can bake my grandparents some biscuits and play Scrabble any fugging time of year so why the fug am I forced to feel obliged to do so in particular on the twenty fugging fifth of Decemeber?
Yeah. I really do not like Christmas.

ANYWAY. I'll stop peeing in your Coco Pops now.

I've started preparation for my next video. Hopefully I will make it this evening if I'm not too busy. I'm gonna do a tour of my bedroom, so I'm tidying and organising stuff at the moment. This is my blogging interlude. And it's just about over now.

Twilight, Hamlet and a fringe.

Let's start from the beginning.

On Friday after school I went to see the Twilight movie. If I start going into massive detail I will be here all night, so I will just say it was IMMENSELY STUNNINGLY BREATH TAKINGLY DOUBLE PLUS WOW and leave it at that. For now. Because another time I wanna talk more about it.

Last night, I went to see Hamlet. As I'm sure you know, David Tennant was meant to be in it but due to a slipped disk injury, he had to pull out. I was apprehensive about the understudy, but Edward Bennett was absolutely unbelievable. It was probably the best piece of theatre I've ever seen. I feel so grateful that I got to see it because I know lots and lots of people who tried to get tickets but couldn't. Plus, I was 5th row from the front which was perfect. I think for Shakespeare it is quite important to be at the front because sometimes, the language is so hard to interpret that I find myself relying on tone of voice and facial expressions. So that was brilliant.

This evening, I was sitting in my room watching St Trinians (I don't recommend it, though I have a feeling that it will be better second time round) and I got bored. Because it was fairly shit. But that's beside the point. There were a pair of scissors on my desk so I picked them up and decided I want a fringe. I haven't had a proper fringe since I was 13. And I contemplated To Cut Or Not To Cut for about half an hour but then I just thought, "What the hell, hair grows" and then I did it. And it actually turned out good! Most people have their cutting-own-hair-phase when they're about 5. I'm just about 12 years late.

I hope everyone's enjoying the hols so far!

2008 Project For Awesome

I'm gonna write this blog assuming you know what the Project For Awesome is. If you don't, go to www.projectforawesome.com and then read this.

I'm feeling really overwhelmed by the sheer amount of involvement people are having. Thousands upon thousands of people coming together to promote charities. They don't get anything out of it personally; it's totally selfless. Like, I go on the YouTube Most Discussed and about 20 of the videos are Project For Awesome videos. It's just incredible. People are taking up their own time leaving comments and comments and comments, refreshing for ages on ends to bump up the views and going and rating tens of videos 5 stars. I just can't believe how close knit the YouTube community really is. We don't all know eachother. Most of us will never speak to eachother. But there's still so many people uniting to help others. It's actually like, the best thing ever.

And let's face it; it's just YouTube. We all have lives outside of the internet that as a rule, takes up the majority of our time. But despite this, people have made the community such a MASSIVE part of who they are. I know I have.

There's so many people who's evenings have been spent commenting, rating and refreshing.

To be honest I think we've down ourselves proud.

I'll definitely make a vlog about this soon.