New Girl & Bran Flakes

Last night myself and some of the block headed over to the pub where our friend works. It was one of our block mate's 21st birthday and after the pub most of my firends headed out to the local club. I haven't been able to go out out for months (because of my back) so after the pub I walked back to uni. Sometimes, ok, most of the time, the fact that I am unable to go out with everyone is incredibly frustrating but there are worse things in the world. However, even though I can not go out out with my friends we do, almost every night, watch films together or do something sociable :)

In other news, I have been absolutely obsessed with New Girl which stars Zooey Deschanel  and Jack Johnson. I watched the first series last year and absoultely loved it but because I've been in uni I didn't really keep up with the second series but last week I watched the whole 2nd series, that is 25 episodes, in just under 24 hours. I looooooooooove Nick - he is just the funniest person ever! That is what I did when I arrived back last night - watched New Girl and ate some Bran Flakes - Rock n' roll babyyyy :)

 

 Snapchat is aweosme.

 

 

LOOK AT THAT // Target Does it Again.

My name is Lisa and I am obsessed with Target Does it Again - Deep in the Hart and Ascot Friday's (aka Jen Coleman and Laura Wiertzema) style. Even though I live in Wales, where there are no Targets, I always seemed to come across Laura and Jen's Instagram pics almost everytime I went on one of my many Instagram hypes. There is nothing, in my opinion, not to like about their style. Kimono's, trucker hats and awesome shoes. Also the hair - I love bed head, surfer type hair and they rock it. They love a good hat, skinny jean and a cool topknot. I honestly don't think that anyone's style or blogs can beat theirs at the moment. Oh and also a Bob Dylan tee and some dungarees get rocked from time to time  - what more do I need to say?! They also have an online jewelry shop which is awesome and their Pinterest boards are something else. They're just too cool.

Pictures from Deep In The Hart blog and Ascot Friday blog.

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SUPER SONG SUNDAY // Beastie Boys

This week I have chosen a song by the legends that are the Beastie Boys. They have to be one of my all time favourite bands. Whenever I make a mixtape (or is it now a mixCD) for the car I always mix rock with some hip hop but with the Beastie Boys you get both in one which is awesome. Their individual hip hop sound might derive from the fact that the band began its life as a hardrock punk band in New York and eventually the band transitioned their sound to more of a hip hop style. Very rarely do you find a hip hop song with electric guitars, rock drums and its ability to make you want to headbang and rap simultaneously. I could have picked so many of their songs for this week's Super Song Sunday, such as Brass Monkey, Fight For Your Right, No Sleep 'till Brooklyn, the list goes on and on. However, I've chosen the awesome song that is Sabotage. There is no specific reason really, except for the fact that it is totally awesome. Having watched a few of the History of Rap clips on Youtube (if you haven't seen them then what the hell are you waiting for - goooo!), where Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake sing/rap/dance the history of hip hop, I've remembered just how awesome all the old hip hop tracks are! Oh, and seeing Will Smith's awesome performance on Graham Norton also kind of backed up this opinion of mine!

HANGOVER 3 & HARVESTER DATE // end of exams

Thursday afternoon was my last exam of first year. It was on the twentieth century leaders of the non West and it was pretty hard! As it was the first year that they had done this type of exam no one knew what to expect. I answered all the questions and it's only worth 30% so it'll be ok, hopefully. We didn't have much time to relax as Laura, Hollie and I headed to the cinema to watch Hangover 3. It was really funny and totally different to both the first and Second Hangover films. If you go and see it PLEASE stay 'till the end of the credits because that is actually The Funniest part of the film - wow!
For an after film meal we went to Harvester and met up with two more of our friends - Ellie and Dani, and had an awesome meal. :) yuuuuum. The next days my plans are like this - sleep, rest, rest, rest, relax, chill, Tesco, relax, sleep and some more relax, oh and also some reading :) Niiiiiiice.

LOOK AT THAT // Reading Hype.

Over the last week I've been on a complete reading hype. In the last week I've read two books - Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart. I think it's just because I just want to do anything other than revise to be honest. Also when I go to the gym, instead of taking my phone or listen to music, I take my books with me and just read. I have actually now ran out of books to read here in uni (didn't think I'd go on such a reading hype, evidently) I have now ordered two more books, one of which is Keith Richards' Autobiography which looks awesome. These pictures down here are just some that I took while doing my laundry at 8am on a Saturday morning! Yes 8am on a flippin Saturday. To be honest though, days just mold in to one here. I geniuinly don't know what day it is most of the time. I look really tired in the pictures - probably because I literally just rolled out of bed, changed and went to the laundry room (you can probably tell by the bed hair, although my hair looks like this all the time even if I've just washed it so . . .) By the end of this week I'll be free from exams - can I get a HELL YEAH! We do have lectures next week but it's like one a day so I can cope with that!

Once my exams are done I'll be blogging much more and I might also do some book reviews. :)

 

I know it's not a Sunday but I have just found one of my favourite songs ever and I just have to share it with everyone. It's by my recent obsession which is Rival Sons. The song is called Jordan and is just about perfect. Please have a listen. Oh, and how cool are they - I mean.

SUPER SONG SUNDAY // AC/DC

AC/DC's Back In Black is this week's Super Song Sunday. I've not always enjoyed AC/DC - when you're 4/5 years old and this screaming music is engulfing the house you kind of just want to turn it off! As I've gotten older however, I love them. It might be the fact that I had no choice but to love them as they were constantly being played in the house on top volume or that I genuinely just started to appreciate them! Either way they are actually awesome.  During this time of relentless revision and now that I'm so close to my last exam this type of music really wakes you up when you're almost falling asleep at your desk! Although it does distract you for a while as you rock out on your air guitar for most of the song!

Enjoy :)

MOVIE // THE FLIPPIN' AWESOME GATSBY

Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby came out on Thursday but I went to see it yesterday (Friday). My friends and I have been looking forward to this film since we first heard about the remake over two years ago when we were studying Fitzgerald's great American novel in year. 12. For the last week or so I've been playing the Gatsby soundtrack over and over and over again (on youtube) - with Jay Z producing the soundtrack it couldn't be anything other than spectacular. I particularly liked No Church in the Wild  & Love is Blindness. They just add so much 'Cool' to the film. This might be a weird thing to say but, the film was really colourful and almost cartoon like (which I really loved). I've watched a few old movie versions of the Great Gatsby on TV but they never really kept my attention for long because I just love the book and they just didn't compare. Even though I don't  believe that any remake of Gatsby will ever be as good as the novel, Luhrmann's version is pretty darn awesome. Leo, oh Leo! He was superb as Gatsby and I found myself feeling much more sorry for Gatsby in the film compared to the novel, although that might have something to do with Leonardo Dicaprio more than anything! I still find myself disliking Daisy though. The film stayed really true to the book with the exception of one or two things. Overall I think it was Great and have already sorted out another trip to see it in the Cinema next week!

Oh, and the costumes and parties were just amazing and so sparkly and perfect.

 

LOOK AT THAT // Music & shiz.

 

I just realised that I had not done a Super Sunday Song on Sunday so I thought I might throw it on Wednesday. It's really incredible that we're in our third week of our seven week term. Before you know it we'll be back home for the summer. This summer myself and my friends have loads of awesome things to look forward to such as V & Reading festivals, road trips to the North of England, trips to the IMAX to watch the new Superman film - Man Of Steel, surf trips and more! Oh, and of course I'll be working as well. Now however, my days consist of revision! My last exam is next Thursday, wooohooo! We're planning to do a Hangover&Harvester evening. Hangover 3 comes out in the cinema the day we finish our exams so we'll be heading in the direction of the cinema come 4pm on Thursday and after we'll have a celebratory dinner in Harvester! The Great Gatsby also opens soon and it's going to be AWESOMEEEE!!! I love that book & Baz Luhrmann so it's a perfect recipe!

This week I've chosen Rival Sons' 'Keep on Swinging'. This is just an awesome tune by an awesome band. I heard them on Dermot O'Leary's show the other week while on the way down to Llanelli to watch the rugby and I instantly loved them. I ordered their album Head Down almost instantly and it arrived through the post on Monday! They are just a mix of like Seasick Steve, Bruce Springsteen, B.B.King and Kings of Leon - like the most amazing hybrid ever! Their style is pretty cool to.

Enjoy :)

MILLENNIUM STADIUM //

Late last week I found out that my friend, Kyle, was going to be playing in the MILLENNIUM STADIUM in Cardiff (how awesome is that?!)!! So obviously I booked by train tickets to Cardiff and yesterday morning I left uni quite early and got the train back to Wales. I met up with Carwen, we grabbed some lunch and headed in to the stadium. It was so cool seeing people you actually know playing on the field. Kyle was playing for Carmarthen Athletic in the national youth cup final against Gorseinon (Leigh Halfpenny's team . . . he was there also!). Athletic got the home draw so their changing room was the Wales home changing room! Athletic convincingly beat Gorseinon 43-12! Woohoo. The game was really exciting and some awesome rugby was played by both teams but the last two tries by Athletic were superb!

Earlier in the week I wasn't sure what to do after the game - go back to uni, stay in Cardiff . . . ? I looked at tickets for a same day return and if I had left Cardiff at 21:00 I wouldn't have reached Egham 'till 10am!!! Cray. Carwen's mum was driving home that evening after the game so I got a lift home to West Wales from them. I wasn't really planning coming home from uni this term just because it's a really short term but because I was so close to home and I have no lectures (only exams) I thought I might as well. Yesterday was also my Mami's birthday so it was nice to be back for that also.

I'm going back to uni on Tuesday morning so I have a time to rest at home for a few days before I go back to revision and exams!

 Leigh Halfpenny (in the red)!

MOOD BOARD // MOTIVATION

I've decided to make another (quite extensive!) mood board for the blog. It consists of pictures that I love and it is also just a way for me to motivate myself through these exams that I'm currently doing and also just life in general. Even if you don't feel great at the moment it's nice to look at all these pictures and at everything that is out there that you can see/achieve (etc) once everything is back to normal and great. :)

SUN FOR DAYS

Last week was soooo sunny and hot. Most days I would revise in the morning and then I'd go for a walk before lunch and continuing my revision and every time when I'd arrive home I had to change in to my shorts because it was just so warm outside. Everyone was wearing their shorts, dresses and vest tops and sunbathing! It was a nice distraction from uni work and a nice way to spend my revision break out in the sun! Our whole block took our blankets out and spent the afternoons in the sun reading magazines, revising and drinking some Pimms.

 We also went to watch Iron Man 3 after my exam on Wednesday Evening. It was awesome! Like really awesome! I love Robert Downey Jr. On the way out of the cinema I saw Sulley and Mike. Love these guys! Looking forward to the new film!!!

SUPER SONG SUNDAY

One morning this week I turned the BBC Breakfast on and Seasick Steve was on there having an interview and performing. I love this man. He's music is just fuss free and bluesy rock 'n' roll. He uses hubcaps to create guitar, loves tractors and is a cool one man band. Totally awesome man.

Enjoy :)

LISA IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY . . .

'Sup. The last few days have been quite busy.
On Friday night myself and the famalam went out for my birthday dinner in Ludo's in Newcastle Emlyn. The food was awesome and even though there were hardly any people there it was good. I had one of the most amazing starters ever and sitting here right now writing this so close to dinner time it's making me super hungry! It was a pear, bacon and Perl Las salad which sounds a bit odd but is so awesome. For mains I had duck and for pudding I had panna cotta :) yummm.

By birthday was on Saturday and I had booked to have my hair done so that's what I did. I've had my hair cut in Andrew Price since I was veeeery young and while I was there I changed the colour of my hair a bit and went for like a dip dye (brown to blonde) look. I really like it. After that I grabbed some stuff from town, we went to visit my grandparents and we headed home. All of my friends had gone back to uni a couple of weeks previously so I didn't really do much on my birthday but it was nice.Instead of a cake I had loads of cupcakes with surfboards and flowers on them but I only had one because I was going to bring them back to uni and share them with everyone but someone (dad) forgot them at home which I wasn't too pleased about but they're just cakes at the end of the day.

Sunday I made my way back to uni and to Block J. Because we've all been away from here for so long it's actually quite nice to be back even though we're all in our rooms most of the day revising! It has been sooooo sunny here this week and I hope it continues. I've been waking up at 7am and it looks like the middle of the day outside it's so sunny and bright :)
Yes I did bring Sulley with me :)

 These are just the things that wouldn't fit in the boot!

 

Last night because myself and our house mate Alex were having our birthdays the flat sang happy birthday to us and gave us cake and cards :) We have the best block everrrrrrr. :)