This last week has been soooo busy, I've just not had time to blog. And if you look at the time...yes I am up blogging at 8am! The only time I have to sit and surf is while I have my morning cup of tea lol.

So what have I been up to? Largely uni and uni work. Friday was a directed study day and I altough I worked all day, I didn't get as much done as I wanted. Lectures/practicals/tutorials so far this week have gone well. A lot of information to take in though. I wish as I was quicker at work, I'm still really slow. But never mind...I will get there in the end I guess....yeh I'm kinda worried about the whole thing.

Saturday I went to the cinema with Stephen *waves to Stephen* I needed a break from uni stuff (plus I had BOGOF ticket ) We saw 1408...it was...interesting lol. The basic idea of the plot was good....but at times it became so random it was funny! I got a bit scared in a few bits, as I am a chicken. Still it was nice to catch a movie and chill a bit.

Oooo yeh I meant to say I weighed on Friday. And I have lost another 2.5Ilbs!! Woooo!! That means I have lost 17.5Ibs in 9 weeks! I'm pretty chuffed hehe.

I went to CU (Christian Union) for the first time on Monday night. It was awesome. I really enjoyed it. And the guy who spoke to us was really good, he had a kind of random sense of humor like I do! His talk was based around part of the Sermon on the Mount, focusing on the fact we need to be lights for God and that Christianity is the salt of this world (i.e makes life much better - after al, what are chips without salt!!) He came out with a cracker of a quote "I don't take ectascy, I take eternity!" Reffering to wafers we take at communion as our "eternity". Made a lot of good points about relationships and how we are all looking for that human touch. Gah I've probably explained all that really badly, but never mind.

They asked at the end of CU if anyone musical was interested in getting involved and I have volunteered!! I know I'm crazy busy with uni, but it's not really a big committment. Plus I felt it was important to be putting my music to the praise of God! And I have really missed playing clarinet, it would be good to get back to it.

I believe I have covered everything of importance *thinks* yeh I reckon so lol. I'm off to do a practical on massage shortly, which will be good as I love doing massage  Toodle pip xxxx

I haven't blogged much this week. As basically I've been busy with uni work or too tired to feel like doing it. But I have eventually got round to it, and today I feel like I wanna reflect on my life a bit (so if that prospect bores you, bail out now lol).

Tuesday I had Uni. I had four hours of practicals. And I kept getting answers right, I was well proud of myself. The lecturer told me to stop answering hehe! It was fun getting to work with Sarah (who has just been added to my friends on here whoopla!) and Mae a lot.

Wednesday was loads of meeting for me. Had a meeting with my study tutor Jackie. It looks like she is going to be able to help me a lot with my studies. Then I saw one of the lecturers at uni to go over my needs as a disabled student. Then I went into Bolton to a Leisure Group meeting. We are involved in a presentaion in November so it was largely about that. We are changing the direction of the group a bit and are renaming it Daybreak. I could go into it all, but I'm too tired lol. Was just me, Stephen and Ginny as everyone else was busy. Ooo and I bought the X-Men trilogy on DVD with my birthday money  So I have finally watched the last one, I hadn't seen it before.

Today I have had uni. Total waste of my morning as the librarian meant to be taking our sessions waited someone else for us. So we never got a session. I was in at 9am for no point. Vez was not impressed. Then I nipped to the gym and did 20 mins on the exercise bike, I apparantly burnt 170 calories. I shall slowly increase my time. 20 mins was enough for first time (my legs are currently starting to ache lol). Then it was back to uni for a tutorial. It was a real toughie and killed my brain completely!

My Mum met me from uni and came to mine for tea. Which was really nice, I have missed her. We had a good chin wag and stuff. And she brought my birthday presents over for me which was good. They are all unpacked and sorted now  She took my washing home, hehe. Yeh Vez and washing don't mix lol.

Today has given me a lot of food for thought. It's a year to the day since I was admitted to hospital. In one way, I have been thoughtful of bad memories of what happened (not that I have a lot really, I was pretty out of it). But I am trying to see it as a positive thing. That I have come so far in a year, and that I'm back at uni. I'm trying really hard to not think about the bad stuff.

Well it's getting late and I need some sleep soon. Night night xxxx

Vezzy be getting old, I am now officially 22!! It sounds all grown up and adult, but I totally don't feel it lol. I still feel like a teenager I think!! Lol!

I had a 9am start at uni so I was up early on my birthday. Suckage, I hate getting up early. That was the only down side to the day though, so I can't grumble at all. But what turned things around was that I weighed and I had amazingly lost another 2lbs!!Considering the massive meal I had thursday, I was surprised! So I have lost one stone one pound in 8 weeks!! I'm really proud of myself and its awesome to be able to say I've lost over a stone!

When I got to uni my friend Sarah had made me a birthday cake, which was really sweet and lovely of her. I had a slice of it later in the day and it was really yummy. Thankies Sarah! I enjoyed the practical we had, although it required much brain power. Then we had a lecture on assignment writing, which was important but kinda boring.

After that I hopped on the train to Bolton to meet Mum at Bar BL1 for lunch. I had chilli con carne and it was well yummy, it was really nice to indulge. Also it was such a treat to have an alcoholic drink, I've not been having much at all coss of my diet.

Then me and Mum went home so I could open my pressies hehe! I had sooo many lovely pressies, I'm so lucky! Had some new clothes, some very luxorious toilettries, a handbag, a painting (which shall be gracing my wall asap huzzah, thankies Stephen!), a little character that lights up in really funky ways (thankies Becky, Murphy is awesome and yeh the name has stuck lol), two beautiful necklaces and some other little bits and bobs. All in all a lovely set of presents. I've been spoilt rotten!

Had yet more birthday cake (my diet kinda completely went to pot!) and then went out for a few drinks in Bolton with Stephen. There was a live band playing, called The Genes, and they were really good. It was a nice way to end my birthday

I got up early today to meet Dan at University House, man was I tired when I got up. I still am tired in fact, early night for me tonight! ME and Dan then proceed to make the most of the free stuff that was being handed out today. Pretty good haul I'd say - I got loads of vouchers, sweets, a mug, water, baked beans, pens, keyrings (I have too many keyrings), lipbalm, instant mash potatoe! Was fun!

I went and met up with Nid briefly this afternoon as she had a birthday pressie for me, and she's off on placement next week so won't be in uni for a will. She got me this very funky shower jelly, I look forward to using it tomorrow thankies hun!

Well that brings you all up to date, I must go off as I need finish checking my messages and then proceed to do some work *sigh* Toodle pip xxxx

It's kinda none stop here at the moment, lots of things to sort out and work on. I am absolutely exhausted, so I'm gonna get an early night cos I have an early start at uni tomorrow. I hate it when we have 9am starts at uni lol.

I registered at uni today, so I am now an official student again  Huzzah!! didn't take long so after that I headed to the Activite's Fare at University House and joined the CU and reactivated my gym/swim membership. I get free gym/swim as I live in University of Salford accommodation. How cool is that?!?! I am gonna try and go once a week, planning on a quick trip on Saturday once my Dad has gone and before I go out in the evening. I was going to go today, but I wanted to get back and do some work.

I saw my CPN this afternoon, had a chat through everything that is going on. It was nice to have a really good chat about how I was feeling about things.

I managed to get some work done, though not as much as I would have liked, Never mind, I will try and get a lot done on Friday. I'm not in uni at all on Friday, directed study day.

I'm off home for a night tomorrow, which I am really looking forward to. I've not seen my Mum since I moved - I'm missing her a lot! Toodle pip for now xxxx

I am FINALLY back at uni peeps!! Yayums!! Much celebration. I didn't get chance to blog about it last night, as I was busy doing prep work. So much work to do and so little time lol. So I shall be keeping my post short and sweet.

Monday was really difficult to be honest, I felt really out of place as I didn't know anyone. It was difficult to start conversations with people. It turns out that someone from my old year, Mark, is resitting so that's another that I know. But despite knowing 3 people there, I just felt like the odd one out. Ah well never mind, can't be helped. I met up with some people from my old year for lunch which was nice, it was good to catch up.

Today has been much better. I have a new friend, Sarah, and I worked with a few other people. I managed to cope ok-ish with the work, but I think my movement analysis needs some more work. I think when I have done a few more sessions and got to know more people I will fell better. And hopefully my understanding of the work will continue to improve. I'm already nervous about the exams in January 08 though lol.

Right I must go and cook my tea lol. Bye for now xxxx

I haven't been up to a great deal since I blogged on Friday. I have mainly been preparing for uni, completing the workbooks they have given us. Which I have now done whoopla! I'm just having a listen to the recordings I made of last years lessons (I did 10 days of second year last September you see) which will help me feel more prepared for the lessons.

Yesterday I went down to the IT technician to get my anti-virus sorted out. It wasn't updating cos they hadn't put the most recent version of McAffe on my laptop. I was relieved that it wasn't my laptop playing up lol. It's all sorted now huzzah!

I'm excited and nervous about going back to uni. I can't wait to finally get my teeth suck into the thing I love to do. BUT I am so so nervous about how I will cope with the work and if I will make new friends. I feel so rusty when I do work at the moment, and I am really struggling with my memory. I mean I've been through lots of work this week, and I can hardly remember any of it  I really hope the people on the course like me and that I make friends easily, I don't wanna be hated lol.

So wish me luck and I will no dobut post about it tomorrow lol. Toodle pip folks xxxx

Thursday was a well busy day, so there be much blogging to be done! First of all I weighed and I have lost another 3lbs!! That means I have lost 13lbs in 6 weeks!! Woooo  I'm rather proud of myself lol.

 I was up really early (which was very hard considering someone being noisy in the flat woke me up at 3am and then again at 4am lol) to go into Bolton for a meeting about the Recovery Group I attended. The people who ran it basically wanted some feedback about what was good and bad and what they should change. It was good, but really long. Nearly two hours!

Then I headed back to Salford, I had an IT appointment to get McAffe anti-virus installed on my pc - I'm allowed to use uni's license extra while I live in halls. However, I have since discovered that the update function will not work properly, so I have another apppointment tomorrow to get it sorted *sigh* I'm sick of taking my laptop down to the IT department lol.

After that it was time for me to glam up (see the new profile pic ) as I was off on a night out in Manchester with Dan, as an early birthday kind of thing. We went for a gorgeous meal at my fav restaurant Frankie and Benny's. I had garlic bread, a quattro pizza, chips and cookie sandwich. My oh my was it delicious! It was so nice to indulge and eat when I wanted, a lovely break from my diet. I was so so so full though, I'm not used to eating that much!

I was so full that when I started drinking alcohol there wasn't the room to fit it in lol. So I ended up only having a few alcoholic drinks lol. Never mind. We went to Baa Bar first, which is a gay bar but loads of straight people go in there too. I must say I thought it was pretty funky! And they have a big shots menu, I tried some really nice ones. Then around 10pm we headed off to 5th Avenue, which is an indie night club. I have always wanted to go and never got round to it. It was quite good and they played some music that was cool. However, according to Dan, it has really gone down hill and is now pretty emo. I thought it was fine, I like some emo music, but Dan hated it!

So we had a bit of a dance then after midnight we decided we'd go back to mine and chill for a bit. Both of us where tired as well so it seemed like the most sensible option. We had a good chat and a catch up, which was awesome. I hadn't seen him since May so there was plenty to talk about!

I eventually got to bed at 3am, absolutely exhausted so I dropped straight off! I had a small lie in, but didn't wanna sleep too long as I had lots of work to do. Which is what I've done today, not got loads done but got some done. I dunno if I am gonna be able to rememeber it, but at least I'm trying really hard.

Well I'm gonna get off, I need an early night tonight. I am totally exhausted!! xxxx

So today I went into Manchester to meet up with my mate Paul. Haven't been into Manchester since I moved so it was nice to have a good look around again. But best of all was getting to have a good chat to Paul. We had a couple of coffees, went around the shops and chatted non stop!! It was good.

I have done a bit of uni work since I got in, but I still have a lot to do. I shall be continuing on Friday, I have a full day and night tomorrow!! So I am in need of an early night, better go asap lol. Night night xxxx