Apologies, Pills and Plans of Escape...

Hullo.

Apologies
I am very rude and selfish. Apologies for my lack of comment replies to the lovely people who even read my blog, and always welcome me back when I go missing.
Things are a lookin' up and I'm feeling much better than I have done over the past few months, therefore I expect normal, polite Kirsty blogging has been resumed.
Again, apologies - am I forgiven?!

Pills
About two weeks ago the doc gave me some pills to eradicate the moodiness within me. I've tried a few before, but they tend to make my brain itch and I never keep them up for long.
Anyways, these pills are known as off-label, which means they're made to treat one condition and by chance are found to help other ones.
I lasted a week.
After taking them for three days I realised I was having trouble thinking clearly - I felt dopey, and slow. On day four I forgot my mums telephone number. On day five I (belatedly) decided to look up the side effects and found that these pills the doctor (who knows I'm a writer) gave me caused significant slowing of cognitive functioning - with the most prevalent manifestation being an inability to 'find the right word'!!
Not so good when you're trying to write a book eh?
So I stopped pronto, and as the fog lifted I realised that I should stop feeling sorry for myself - I have my mind!

Plans of Escape

So I'm going away on Wednesday, (hopefully for about three months) to a little fishing village on a Greek island in the middle of the Aegean Sea!
E's mum has kindly let us stay at her house (which, by the way, is on the beach!) so that I can write and he can paint for the whole summer.
E's already over there and says it's the perfect place to be creative. My aim is to finish the first draft of my novel, clear my head and eat plump, juicy olives to my hearts content. Are you very jealous?
I'll still be blogging over there as Patitiri (the village next to us) has free WiFi and a man has given us a little boat so that we can sail over there in ten minutes.
Yey!

Before I go I want to wish a huge congratulations to the lovely Roland and his Tina on the birth of their adorable little boy Martin.

I'm off now to update my ipod...

Stuff...

In the midst of all the blah, me and my mum decided to go to London for a bit to see my sister and get away from it all. My mum last went to London about 15 years ago, so it was cool to see her excitement at the buzz of it all.
People say when you get to London, you're either a lover or a hater. I'm a definite lover. Just being there gives me butterflys, I feel like a character in a chick lit novel!

Part of the itinerary was to go to a Mike Gayle book reading at Bromley Library, I love Mike Gayle, and filled half of my suitcase with the books I wanted him to sign. It wasn't until we were due to set off for the library that we noticed that we'd gotten the wrong Bromley (not Bromley by Bow), and that it would take us at least 2 hours to get there - by the time we arrived it would be half way through - gutted!
So instead, we went to the pub ;)
I had a lovely time in London - it was just what I needed.

Other stuff worth mentioning is...I got my degree result - a 2:1 Bsc Honours, which I'm happy about, although I was expecting a first!
I also had a guest blog published on bridalwave, which cheered me up no end, and you can read here.

Oh yes, I saw this brill trailer on youtube - it's Mary Poppins, recut as a horror!! I thought it was ace!
They also have one of The Shining recut as a romcom!

The World's Most Crappiest Blogger!

Hellooo,

I am appalled to say that I haven't blogged for almost a month (Eek!) - but I have an excuse! I've had a ton of Uni deadlines to meet, and as it's my final year I've had to wean myself away from the web so I could actually get something done!

So today I've decided to take a break and have a quick catch up good stuff that's happened...

• I've been setting up a charity music gig and heard it advertised on the radio today - the radio!! Which means I'm a little bit famous by proxy.


• Had my first book review published on Trashionista, which you can read here.


• Won my first ever blog award given to me by the lovely Elle - Cheers!!


• Have managed to write 10,000 + words of Uni work.


• Won £160, but can't physically write how as it's tres embarrasing.


• Wrote a 'Bucket List - without the whole dying bit' and am slowly putting it into practice.


• It's me birthday tommorow so I'm prematurley putting it in the good section and hoping that it will be!

Will be back soon! x