28th April 2013: cricket, aches and other stuff.

Monday 22nd April: songs and skinny jeans.

Tuesday 23rd April: happy st. georges day and happy birthday shakespeare!

Wednesday 24th April: i survived cricket training... just!

Thursday 25th April: rooftops, clouds and a sunset.

Friday 26th April: 'always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later'.

Saturday 27th April: doctor who, hail, cooking and coursework.

Sunday 28th April: cricket, aches and other stuff.

Well this week has been pretty full... It's seen a 3 month counter to my birthday, 6 months til Kenya, a return to cricket after avoiding it for a while, some of my most popular photos of the day being taken and lots of other random stuff :)

You know when you have one of those weeks that you do lots in and it feels good? I've had one of them, however, there's other things that I've let annoy me so much, a perfect example of this is an email I got today, normally it wouldn't have bothered me, but I think the fact that I've been trying pretty hard in the past few weeks made it that little bit more annoying. Still, this email was fine until the end when I got told 'a lot of work still to do but you maybe shouldn't have left it so long!!' ok, so the fact that I'd emailed said teacher nearly 3 weeks before today, with a draft, and it took until Friday, for her to give me any feedback, my coursework is due in next Friday? And I have two mocks this week, much appreciated, thanks!!

Still, onto the better things :) helped out with one of the boys cricket clubs this week at school, which was good. Returned to cricket, went to training on Wednesday, which wasn't too bad, although still not better from being ill in the past two weeks and that obviously showed... Today's match didn't go very well, we lost... I went in to bat 2nd, faced a few balls and then got out for 2... Safe to say my head still isn't quite back into it. My bowling was pretty good though, and I got a wicket, which is always a plus :)

Next week could be a challenge... But hey, how bad can coursework, two mocks, three cricket sessions, three sessions with 'challenging' young people and a few other things really be?

Quote of the Week: 'always do your best, what you plant now, you will harvest later'. This is what I'm trying to live by at the moment especially as I'm going into 'exams season'. It's an important thing to remember with everything you do really, just the fact that the more you try now, the more you'll gain when you get to the end. 
  
Music of the Week: 

Born To Die (cover) - Daisy Guttridge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVMCnAN3Ms 

Panic Cord - Gabrielle Aplin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdTcr98fSs
 This is definitely one to chill to in the sun :) 

Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADP65wbBUpc
Just love this song, listen to pretty much every day, definitely a feel good song for the summer :)

Twitter of the week: Lots went on this week, Daisy Guttridge favourited, RT'd and tweeted me quite a bit and followed me back, Jenna Louise Coelman (Clara from Doctor Who) favourited one of my tweets, Colton and Zara, MLICOfficial (Brady Szuhaj from Late Nite Reading) and The Natterjacks followed me... and no, I didn't ask any of them :) 

I'm now off to have a hot chocolate, do some PE revision for my mock tomorrow, and then get some sleep :) 

evan. :) 

21st April 2013: summer, shorts and stuff.

Monday 15th April: last day of being remotely sane for a while.

Tuesday 16th April: back to sixth form and tired.

Wenesday 17th April: a walk along the river.

Thursday 18th April: i like rainbows.

Friday 19th April: 'i feel sorry for sausage dogs'

Saturday 20th April: 'not everything ends'

Sunday 21st April: summer, shorts and stuff.

So, I don't have a clue why I called each entry what I did, but hey ho! I went back to sixth form this week, had a limited amount of lessons due to certain teachers being off, had a 'challenging' lesson with the Year 7s, and some confusing lessons for me, especially in PE...
Started mind mapping my notes for revision, and also starting to get slightly apprehensive about my upcoming exams... considering they're around 3 weeks away.

Didn't really do much during the week, but this weekend I've been shopping and got some t-shirts and 3/4 length stuff for the summer and probable things to take to Kenya, actually went out in shorts and a t-shirt yesterday because the weather was so nice. Although, I ended up putting a hoody on shortly after cos my arms got too cold :(

Started thinking about the final two fundraising events I'm hoping to sort out with few others for our trip to Kenya. It's scary to think it's just over 2 months til all our money has to be paid in, then the crazy summer of sorting everything else out! I keep having moments where I think how insane it's going to be out there, and how stunning the sunsets and stars are going to be, then how we're gonna be helping kids and communities out there and seeing different lifestyles and yeah I could go on...


I also finished the book 'Wonder' by R.J.Palacio, it's a really well written book, I read it in about 2 days, obviously with time in between for work, but it's a page-turner. On the front is a precept (word I learnt from the book) which says 'you can't blend in when you were born to stand out.' Definitely a good read, no matter what age, except maybe not like junior school age?!

I haven't spent as much time as I usually do listening to music this week, but I've been listening to some 'classics' this week, so two of the following are just summer sing a long feel good songs and the other is from a guy I saw support Gabrielle Aplin a month ago (which is crazy).

Place Your Hands - Reef: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihoNRc8GDQ

Sweet Disposition - Temper Trap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8e7nNLZNs

This Year - Andreas Moe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vfbcsj_bUk

Twitter of the Week: BBC One favourited one of my tweets :) Jess Revell who plays Elektra in Tracy Beaker Returns & Dumping Ground followed me, and Lem Knights (the guy with the fro on Team Jessie on the Voice) followed me too :)

Quote of the Week: 'everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life'. - August Pullman, a fictional character.

Highlights of the Week: Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer was released!! It's looking soooo good!! Also, Doctor Who, was actually pretty good this week, I thought the classic ghost story was pretty nice but the twists in it were good too, first one I've properly enjoyed and found a bit creepy this series, The Voice was ok this week, I sort of get bored with the auditions process so hopefully when the battle rounds come round it'll pick up a bit.

There we go for another week :)

Thank youu

evan. :)

14th April 2013: sunshine after the rain.

Monday 8th April: oh my stars.

Tuesday 9th April: i collect things.

Wednesday 10th April: don't forget to smile.

Thursday 11th April: 200ish days til Kenya :S

Friday 12th April: books, hospital, a meal out and a bit of work.

Saturday 13th April: rain, yet again.

Sunday 14th April: sun after the rain.

Haven't done much this week to be honest, more notes and work done than the week before and a lot of time spent with my sister :) took her for a Nando's on Thursday, which I think she enjoyed?
Helped to start clearing out a shed today which was fun. Only got one day left off :(

Quote of the Week: 'don't forget to smile' - just because even when things aren't going your way, or you don't feel quite right, a smile makes everything that little better. :)

Songs of the Week:
- Becky CJ: Overjoyed/ Kiss You Mash Up Cover (it's insane!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQeXoBiXks

- Noah and the Whale: There Will Come A Time (always will be one of my favourite bands) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08EafkXARo

- Passenger & Ed Sheeran: No Diggity & Thrift Shop (had it on repeat to chill to) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRlW9je6MwQ

Just started reading the book 'Wonder' too which I'll tell you more about when I've go further in, it's started really well so hopefully it keeps going :)

See you next week! :)

evan. :) 

7th April 2013: 'give me a star to reach for'

soooo, I have had a nice week off, and plan to enjoy next week too... I don't really know how to form these blogs really? I don't know whether you want like a blog about what I did each this week, about the photos I took, do you want me to put all the photos from this week on this blog or eurgh I dunno, so this is an experimental entry, so if you only like certain bits, send me a comment on what you enjoy from it on my facebook page, which I'll link at the end :)

So...

Monday was a good day...

Spent most of it at my grandparents house and then came home and didn't do much else.

( By the way, this photo is a close up of my grandparents wallpaper, just cos I hadn't done many like this on my photo a day thing...)

Tuesday, the weather was really nice, at last. Didn't really do much, slept in until like 12, and then I sorted all my work notes out kinda properly, and then that was the day nearly over, I watched Step Up 3 with my sister too to finish it off :)

(This photo was the sunny evening behind some rooftops in my road)

Wednesday, I had to get up early to be in for a revision session at 9, so I went to that which last 3 hours... Then I came home, sorted those bits of revision out, had an afternoon sat listening to music and discovering yet more new people...

(This photo was my favourite from the week, I took it in the evening because I'd been sitting looking out of my bedroom window watching the evening come, and thought it made a kinda nice photo)

Thursday was a weird day, it snowed heavily but nothing really came of it, if that makes any sense? I looked after my sister in the afternoon and we looked through some old photos of when I was little... she couldn't believe how ginger I was?!

(This photo, was again taken from my bedroom window, I liked the snow/rain drop thing on my window with the garden and field in the background)

Friday, I was supposed to have gone in again for another revision session but I hadn't got to sleep properly til about 2 that morning, and wasn't feeling great so decided it was best not too. Still I felt a bit more alive and cheerier in the afternoon so went out with my Mum, Sister, Grandma and Great Aunty for lunch, which was pretty nice and then spent the evening watching doctor who with my sister :)

(This photo was taken from outside my house looking at some trees with a pretty cool cloud formation?!)

 Saturday, was a lovely day, I went to the beach with some of my family, I even walked along the beach with my Mum without a hoody, it was that warm! Had a nice meal out, and even the car journey there and back was nice cos me and my sister, plugged into my ipod and just chilled to some music and watched some Toy Story Toons, which I must say are pretty cool :P Then when we came home I went out to do babysitting :)

(This photo, I sort of wanted to experiment with a bit, it was shot at the beach, that's kinda obvious when I read over that... But yeah and I thought the sea looked so calm and it's just quite a chilled feel about it?)

Today has been pretty good, got up at a reasonable time... Watched Gabrielle Aplin and Carrie Hope Fletcher on Sunday Brunch... I then started to sort out my photos for my best of video for this... You'll find out more about that in June/July... The rest of the household went for a walk, so this gave me time to sort out some more work and revision notes, then I started to sort out my tickets, old posters and old school books, many of which I need to chuck out. Still, I then went for a walk round the back and along the river, and met da peeps at the pub/restarant and had dinner :) So a rather nice finish to my first week of the holidays... Today's photo was taken with the sun setting (again) and silhouettes :)

 Highlights Of The Week: The sunsets, as you can probably tell... also I got to see the stars quitet a bit this week because of clearer evenings and nights, which always puts a smile on my face :) and finally getting down to my favourite beach and being able to go for a walk along the front.

Quote Of The Week: 'take from today what you got.' - I've had a rather quotey week and this one came from my step-dad on the way home from the beach, and I guess it's an attitude people should take more often, if you've had a good day, take from it a smile, if you've had a rubbish day, put the 'rubbish' in the bin and forget about it :)

Song Of The Week: This is a tough one as I've been listening to literally hundreds of songs over the past week, but after his song Thrift Shop... I quite like Wings by Macklemore... It's a simple song and it's where the name of blog came from...I'll put a link at the end :)

Twitter For The Week: I got followed by Pop Tarts!! My life was made when that happened, I also got a follow from Lauern Aquilina and Ash Morgan (the first person to audition on The Voice this series...) and a few tweets from Frank Hamilton and Natty Holmes.

So there we go, let me know what you liked and what you didn't like as much on my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/onedayatatimeevan

Wings - Macklemore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAg3uMlNyHA

Thank You, and thank you for the 3,000 views I've now got... :D

evan. :)