Poetry is Healthy.

Recently I have been struggling to be creative, as in I want to be but I think all my ideas are weak or I simply have to ideas at all. I didn't really know how to get round this so I tried to avoid doing creative stuff for a while, which obviously didn't work, tried watching more films, reading more books, watching more YouTube, writing down my ideas, but good creativity was hard to come across. However yesterday I went into Waterstones for the first time in ages, as usually I go to the library or shop online for books, I looked around for ages, reading different passages and pages from random books. And then, I came across the poetry section. I have never loved poetry more! I bought three poetry books (Family Values by Wendy Cope, Selected Poems by Sophie Hannah and Ariel by Sylvia Plath) and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (we are studying it at school). I began to read Selected Poems by Sophie Hannah and I could not stop, I feel like the way she writes mirrors the way I often think about things and, especially in her poems about men or relationships, I felt like I was on the same wave-length as her, she just voices her thoughts in wittier and more poetic ways. After reading a whole load of poetry from all three poets I felt really happy and, despite yesterday not being a great day, I felt like the little problems didn't matter as Sophie Hannah had one or two poems that could relate to the things that were getting me down!

   After reading a load of poetry I went on Facebook and saw something really quite upsetting to do with a very close friend that I've had for just over a year now. I felt really betrayed and overall let down by them however where I would usually go on Tumblr and mope around until going to bed, I sat down and wrote a song! I think it may just be the second best song I've wrote and I think that's all down to my day of poetry! So thank you poetry for unblocking my creative block. :)

Here is some poets/poetry I can highly recommend:

- Poets Don't Swear

- Rubbish at Adultery by Sophie Hannah

- Leaving and Leaving You by Sophie Hannah

- Insomniac by Sylvia Plath

- Once I'm Dead by Wendy Cope

- Preventive Elegy by Sophie Hannah

- To Whom It May Concern at the Whalley Range Driving Test Centre by Sophie Hannah

Not Much Sleep

So recently I've been getting into bed at around 9-10 and reading, watching YouTube videos, surfing the Internet etc. for about an hour before turning off the lights at around half 10-11 ish hoping to get some much needed sleep. By this time I'm usually quite tired so I put my head to the pillow and wrap my duvet and pillows around me, trying to get comfortable. Half an hour later I'm yawning and I'm still trying to get to sleep. After I realise that I'm not falling asleep I plug in my headphones and start listening to my iPod, hoping some soft, sleepy music will help soothe me to sleep. It doesn't. I lay there for a while longer before looking at my clock, anywhere between one to two hours has passed before I give in, read for an hour and can then finally sleep. 

What's wrong with me? :( 

A Day With Rosie

I met with my friend, Rosie, in town at about half eleven. We met in Waterstones and had a look around the books for a while before heading off to H&M, where I bought a black jumper, and then off to Topshop, where we complained about the price of the clothes! It was nice just trying on random stuff and having a laugh, the people working at the shops kept trying to hide the fact that they were laughing at our conversations. Then we got a bit bored of clothes so we decided to walk to Poundland to buy a load of sweets and chocolate so that we could just pig out! Whilst pigging out we just sat and bitched about people we knew, who we do and don't like at school, who has been doing what with who, reading each others funny text conversations etc. It was fun just to have a talk with someone and eat as much chocolate as you can! We then moved onto the park, we had been joking for ages about meeting up at the skatepark and meeting some skater boys (like a cheesy Avril Lavigne song :P). We did see some nice looking guys there but a lot of them hung out in group with skater girls... so that plan didn't go so well... we just continued to eat our chocolate without any guys before going to the library.
   We read for a while in the library, borrowed the books then read in the park between chatting. We stayed there for a while but then it got chilly and I needed to pay Rosie back for half of the sweets so we went to Costa Coffee where I bought us both Fruit Coolers, we were in Costa for ages messing on our phones and 'snap chatting' pictures of us drinking said fruit coolers.  The only thing you could hear in Costa was us laughing and the sound of the coffee machine. On leaving we decided we wanted to get friendship bracelets from the shop across the road, so we went in and got one each, mine is blue, orange and red and Rosie's is different shades of purple and a bit of pink. After buying the bracelets we realised that it was time to catch the bus home, so we read the books we had borrowed from the library at the bus stop. We were the loudest people on the bus, whilst everyone else sat in silence we giggled and commented on our texts to random people.
   Once back home we put on a film but pretty much ignored it whilst looking at each others Facebook friends and trying to find the hottest guys. I had such a fantastic day and I am so glad to have such awesome friends.

The whole of Costa was ours!

Friendship bracelets!!

Rosie wanting to steal a Costa sign for her room...... I wouldn't let her :P