Summer Checklist- Revisited

This time last year (almost to the day!) I wrote a blog post called 'Summer Checklist'.

I spoke about a number of things I'd like to achieve.

I thought it would be a good idea to see whether, a year later I have achieved them.

A follow up wasn't my original intention, but I'm going going with it ;-)

1) "to practice my keyboard like a crazy person. My Grade 5 exam is scheduled for November and I'm waaayyyy behind."

Okay. I didn't practice as much as I probably should have... and it was touch and go for a while- but lo and behold November rolled around and I got a high pass. I didn't get a Distinction; but I didn't fail.

2) "I'm probably going to redecorate my room, which I'm super excited about.I'll do a blog post devoted entirely to this topic once I plan it a bit more...and not to mention pictures of when its finally finished! '

YES.  This, I can safely say I have done. I love love love my room now and would love to do a whole post dedicated to its new state, but its just occurred to me that I have no pictures of what it looked like before so they'll be nothing to compare it with! 

D'oh.

3) I'm going to try and eat as healthily as possible. I'm not going to cut out sweet treats completely, just greatly limit my intake; and have something healthy instead.

E.g: Banana>Cake. 

I actually did follow this through from August to about April (my brothers wedding was in April and I wanted to.... resemble a elephant as little as possible). 

But after the wedding I kind of just let myself go. 

:-(. But I have prom in less than a year so I better get back on a treadmill or something otherwise I might as well just go as an elephant.

4) Like I mentioned earlier, my body clock is messed up. I'm going to bed too late and waking up too late. 

Huh. I'm still working on this. It's probably gotten worse, if anything. I need to get into my head that watching a film at 1am is not good, and 2pm is not an acceptable time to wake up.

5) I have a little bit of homework to do... 

I actually don't have a lot of proper homework to do this summer, but I want to get a fully functioning revision timetable up and running so I'm at least a little prepared for my GCSE's next summer.

6) Have fun.

Yeah, okay. 

May she rest in peace

Lets not talk about how long I've been MIA from this blog. Or how cringe-worthy it is to look back at my previous posts.

It only seems like yesterday that I did THIS blog post last summer.

I haven't really achieved what I thought I would this time last year.

Sometimes expectations are what mess us up the most.

This year coming up is probably going to be the most important of my life.

I'll be in year 11....I'm going to be doing my GCSE's, which kinda makes me feel ill when I think about it.

During my mocks I felt like I was being lead to the slaughter house.(too much?)

A lot of my friends are turning 16 in the next couple of months; and I'll be doing to the same in 6 months.

I remember thinking about turning 16 when I was younger.

It was the magical age where I would suddenly know exactly what I wanted to do with my life and do cool things like get my ears pierced (mum's orders) and get a boyfriend.

But here I am approaching that elusive number, and I feel no more prepared to fulfill my expectations than the day I thought them up.

I still feel like I'm in Year 9... as if the past two years haven't really happened.

*sigh* 

Well this post is really a box of laughs, isn't it?!

I guess this post is my attempt to try and resurrect this blog.

"Miss Rachel Reidy- may she rest in peace".