Tuesday 12 July 2011

A Positive Note

After all my job searching, I was just considering giving up.
Until I received an email:


"Good morning Chloe,

Thank you for your interest in our company.

I would like to invite you into our office for a taster session.  This is where we ask you to re-sit the typing test, sit a short English spelling and grammar exercise, followed by an interview with myself.  You’ll also get the chance to meet some of our team members and perhaps listen to a telephone call taking place.

I have a vacancy at 10am tomorrow morning, or failing that, any time between 9.30 and 4.30 on Thursday.

Please let me know what day and time you would prefer and I will provide you with full details.

I look forward to hearing from you Chloe."

This made my day. My first EVER interview. I was so nervous, but the interview went fine, it was nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. The woman interviewing me was approachable and talkative, so I found it easy to make conversation. 

They said they'd get back to me by the next Wednesday. But then my phone started ringing in my pocket, and I was thinking "Who calls me? No one calls me..." and I answered. It was them saying they'd like to offer me a contract! 

I FEEL USEFUL!

Taking People For Granted

I think you realise how much you take people for granted, when you realise that someone is taking you for granted.

Sunday 29 May 2011

Why do I have to be the jealous type? So irritating. I really don't want to be either.
All that needs to happen is I have to see a girl say something to him on facebook or whatever and then I'm fuming!

I guess having divorced parents doesn't really help, I mean they got divorced because of an affair after like 17 years of marriage. It doesn't really help with the whole 'he's talking to a really pretty girl' thing. :|
It's pathetic though ._. Wish I could snap out of it.

Job hunting.

I don't even know how many jobs I have applied to now. All of them have failed.
Even a simple one-off painting job I didn't get a reply for! All this and mum suddenly says "At least you're not relying on the money". I guess that's true but I'm expected to get through a whole month paying for like everything with my £20 of pocket money. This means that I really struggle to save because as soon as I start I get invited to a meal out or something, it's really crap! And when mum would normally pay for something, if she knows that I have money she'll just say 'Well you have money don't you?'. At least when I didn't get pocket money she paid for more things... Still couldn't really save up though. I can never save up till Christmas thanks to having my birthday on Christmas Eve!

I applied to a job recently and was really happy when I didn't get a rejection email. But yeah, it turns out they just were never going to get back to me and give the job to someone else. So I've applied to several others. I HAVE taken my CV into several shops but I failed epically due to a lot of stores saying "No sorry, we only do applications online now."

I appreciate that they have loads of people to get back to and stuff, but it just sort of crushes you when you get rejected even by places like Pizza Hut, McDonald's and KFC. I would've applied to Burger King, but yeah that failed because it said to find Burger Kings nearby by typing in my postcode. When I pressed enter it literally brought me to a field on google maps. A field. One green arrow pointing to a field. So yeah, I didn't really know what to do next to be honest. I've given my CV in to an agency and they said they'd get back to me as soon as possible, it's been a week since I gave that in. Somehow I don't think I'm ever going to get a job. You'd think there'd be plenty of jobs up for grabs by now seeing as it's going to be the summer holidays soon...

:/

When people are in bad moods I immediately pick up on it and I normally end up being in a worse mood than them. This is one reason why I get so grumpy all the time. The worst bad mood to affect me is the one where the person barely talks. Here I am again talking about something negative... *sigh*

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Ok...

So now I know exactly what is bringing me down.
Every time I try applying for a job I either don't get a reply or I get rejected instantly, my parents constantly say, "Oh well let me look at your CV" But the thing is, they don't even have time to look at it. I could email it or hand it to them a million times and they wouldn't get around to reading it!

I apply with all the answers that I think the employer will want to hear.

I don't have any work experience that is useful to me in any way. Yes, I worked at a kennels for a week, walking dogs, but obviously that gets you nowhere if you are applying to be a cashier, or to work waiting tables...

The only advice I get given is "hand out your CV to as many places as possible." - Yeah, that's more easily said than done. Especially when your parents complain about not being able to afford printer ink, and then you can't afford printer credit for college.

Then, summer approaches. Your parents and your grandparents start pressuring you to get a job. All it does is cause stress. It's like they haven't noticed that I've been looking for a job since Christmas.

Yay!

I feel much better today. Sleep... Or should I say being awake for most of the night for no real reason! I think it must've been the weather bringing me down. And worrying about my mock exam results, I am so relaxed now. Not relaxed enough to not revise or anything but relaxed enough to get rid of the feeling in my stomach! Such a relief!

So nice to not write a negative blog post.

Also, when I went into my brother's room to use his inhaler at 3:30am, he had his eyes wide open and said, "Mum, flintstones, RYAN JUST BUY IT!"
So I am really wondering what he was dreaming about.

Byeeeeeeeeeeee ^.^

Monday 2 May 2011

._.

Lately I feel like I'm just radiating negativity. I want to go hide in a hole somewhere, seriously. 
But it's like I'm constantly seeing the glass as half empty, no matter how hard I try I feel as if I'm not good enough. There are so many things that make me happy in life but they tend to have two sides, and one of them brings me down. I'm so worried about everything. I feel like I'm ruining everyone's good day. It's not nice. I guess I just decided to write it on this depressing blog to 'let it out', but to be honest it hasn't really helped... I don't know maybe I should just see if I feel the same tomorrow?

Thursday 28 April 2011

Jealousy

"jealousy |ˈjelÉ™sÄ“|noun ( pl. -ousies)the state or feeling of being jealous a sharp pang of jealousy resentments and jealousies festered.ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French gelosie, from gelos (seejealous )."In my opinion, it's one of the worst feelings in the world. But when you're the jealous type, there's not much you can do.Jealousy can cause someone to act as if they don't trust you, and it can make them seem obsessive.One minute you feel fine, you feel you can trust someone - yet anything that is said can completely change that; the other person is not even aware. Sometimes, you can't even say you feel this way for fear of someone taking it completely the wrong way, and keeping it all inside makes you feel worse and worse. It could be anything, fear of something being taken away from you, fear of not being 'the favourite', wanting something that you can't have.A lot of people don't seem to understand jealousy - most of the time it is caused by fear, insecurity and lack of confidence. It's hard to ignore, and you may not be able to completely get rid of it, but it is possible for it to fade. You've just got to trust and be happy with what you have.

Sunday 3 April 2011

Effort.

You put so much effort into something, like literally work your balls off; then someone makes a comment as if you didn't. It sucks, and it happens all the time.

People make comments about things that you can't do that much about; you can't help being too busy...

Saturday 26 March 2011

Why?

You know when someone mentions something to you about someone, like an annoying little habit?
And then it turns out, they do that but you didn't notice until someone pointed it out to you?
And then of course, you can never tolerate it again.

I hate that!

The truth is I just find it so hard to deal with some people... 

I look over my blog and I feel like such a negative person, sorry to anyone who reads it.

Saturday 19 March 2011

Reactions

I showed them all the wedding video; I was so nervous because I wanted them to like it!

They said they really liked it and Grampy was smiling. He looked so much more comfortable today, it was really nice - he's been moved out of intensive care and into a normal ward.


Oh, also, I had a dream last night that I won the lottery.
I've got lottery tickets and picked the numbers I can remember, wish me luck!

Byeeee

The Importance of Family

Good things and bad things happen in life; I hate to say it but life wouldn't exist without death.

Yesterday evening (18/03/11), I witnessed a beautiful wedding - My Grandad and Nan.
It was scheduled for the 9th of July, however ill health meant it had to be brought forward.
It took place in the hospital chapel and all the staff were brilliant. It was an amazing wedding and I am so glad that I could be there. Family and friends were there - Everyone made an appearance, just for them, even though they had only been told about it hours before. I filmed it and I wish to have finished the editing of the video by later today, so that I can show my Grandad in hospital.

Although the circumstances were sad, it brought the whole family together.

I hope that they like the video.

Wednesday 16 March 2011

I need a break.
I keep having dreams where people are upset and crying.
Apparently this is meant to tell me that I am going to get unexpected calls for help from others?

Sorry this is a short, negative one :/

Byeeee

Sunday 13 March 2011

You know when you just sort of give up on something and try to forget about it, but it still bugs you a bit? 
Well imagine you'd been feeling like this for over a year, and then out of the blue that person apologises to you.

I didn't really know what to feel like to be honest... And yeah, I have to say got a bit emotional; a year is a while to wait.

Sunday 6 March 2011

Bad Day

You know one of those days when everything seems to be going wrong even when it's not? 


I'm having one of those. A very strange product however came out of this, I wrote a very strange story and recorded it. You can hear it on my tumblr account - Audio Blog (The LaffyTaffy)


I was walking, in a field, and then all of a sudden I saw a marble the size of a hot air balloon, which then floated up into the sky and I stared amazed at this strange thing that was happening right before my eyes. It was incredible. I tried to fly after it but I couldn't as I had no wings and indeed if I had had a camera I would have taken pictures or filmed it. "Whatever is that?", My friend asked. In my awe at this magnificent event I'd forgotten that she was there, "I have no idea. I think it was a marble floating into the sky," I replied. "But, but that is impossible, surely the density of it would have kept it on the ground if it were a marble!"   .... I didn't know what to say. And then I woke up. I went to get my breakfast, which was coco pops - not real coco pops, the cheap kind, also known as chocko snaps. I watched as the milk I'd poured in slowly became chocolatey and brown. It looked so delicious. All of a sudden, I heard a crack. It was the bowl - it was falling into tiny little pieces! I began to panic as all the milk poured out onto my kitchen floor. The milk flooded the kitchen. It came all the way up to my knees. "How strange!", I thought, "The bowl must have been a tardis like container to have held this much milk!" It was very odd, I couldn't remember pouring this much milk into the bowl. Soon I was swimming around in the milk, wondering what I should do about this dilemma - then I had an epiphany! Of course! It was chocolatey milk, I could drink it. So I began to slurp and it was nearly down to the floor when - I woke up. It turned out that I had never woken up in the first place! I got out of bed, the floor was really cold on my bare feet. I thought that this was quite weird as my house had underfloor heating… As I stood up, I slipped and fell. I looked down to realise that my laminate flooring had been coated in a thick layer of ice. I slid out of my room and down the stairs. I got out my emergency ice skates, which I'd left in the bathroom, just in case.   I knew what had caused this - I had left the fridge freezer open again! "Silly me!, I thought, as I  skated into the kitchen. As I was skating, I found that I couldn't stop, and I skated right into my ladle cupboard. A tin opener fell off of the shelf and hit me on the head. "What is THIS doing in here?!" I thought, outraged, "Tin openers do not belong in a ladle cupboard." I suddenly realised that I was standing in my ladle cupboard, and I was sure that it wasn't this large the last time that I'd been in it. I scraped back the laydles on either side of me and they jangled quite loudly. And what I saw, was the back of the ladle cupboard. But there was something odd about this. There was a yellow button with a smiley face on it at the back of it. "Ooo. What does this button do?, I wondered. I pressed it, and there was a noise so loud; it was much louder than the jangling of the laydles. Someone had planted a bomb in the back of my ladle cupboard, I realised, as my arms and legs ejected from my body and my torso and head flew across the kitchen in all different directions. Then I woke up. Of course, it had only been a dream, I would never put a tin opener in my ladle cupboard. As soon as I got out of bed, I checked my ladle cupboard just to make sure I had not misplaced any of my tin openers. I thought, I feel like going to college today! So I skipped to the bus stop. Hmm, how weird. It was sunny outside. This is England, “Oh, this must be another dream,” I thought. However, I went to college and everything seemed normal. “Ugh, oh no. I have German with Helga Botsworth today!  So boring.” I went to the class anyway. She asked me if I had done my 2000 word essay on narrative theory, in German, not English of course! I hadn’t, so I quickly made up an excuse. “My hedgehog ate it.” This however, did not convince her. She began to yell at me, so I became angry and took my pen and stabbed her with it several times. Once in the eye, once through the heart and once up the nose. This was not enough. She was still yelling, so I stabbed her through the belly button. She keeled over and died. “What have I done?” I thought, worried. What a waste of a brand new pen. Oh well! It’s only a dream after all. An hour later, I am being interrogated by a policeman. I insist that this is only a dream and everything will be back to normal soon. “But it isn’t a dream. This is reality, Cindy.” He tried to tell me. However I was sure that it was a dream! “Cindy, I suggest that you pinch yourself.” So I did. I pinched myself as hard as I could. I was still in the police station. Sh*ttttttttttttttttttt!


I apologise for the lack of paragraphs and some incorrect punctuation, but it hurts my eyes if I look at it too long.


Anyways, you know when you feel like someone is rubbing something in and you're in that bad mood? It angers me so much, also when I feel like they're telling me what to do at the same time and making it sound like they have it really bad when they don't? I felt like that today! Sorry for being depressing, I just needed to get it out. Oh yeah, and worst of all, my Dad put cheese on my pasta! D:

I HATE CHEESE

But I ate it anyway. Then I had to sit in the car for an hour and fifteen minutes, listening to The Smiths. You know? That band that has songs called 'What difference does it make?' and 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now'. Today is the kind of day when I need dubstep! Or happy hardcore!

On top of everything else I feel extremely fat today.

Some of the good things from today were that I got to see my Dad's kittens for the first time, they didn't like me but they were cute. We went on a very long walk around a nature reserve and got lost, but got to see two little deer! We also saw loads and loads of Red Kites, which are a really awesome bird of prey. I might upload pictures at some point if I can be bothered! 


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Friday 4 March 2011

Drawing

I find that whatever I do, one of the best ways that I can relax is if I draw.
I have a little sketch pad that I like to draw in when I'm worried or stressed or even bored, I drew this one when I was on a plane. I was worried because I'd had quite a lot of nightmares about the plane crashing before flying.

I like to draw things that I'm curious about, things that I love, my friends, my family. Anything really. I did go through a phase of drawing birds all the time. One thing I'm not too great at though has to be buildings - my brother is probably the one to go to for drawings of buildings or cars or whatever!


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Don't you just love that feeling, when you've just handed in a lot of work? It's so satisfying, it's like you can finally relax and do something you're fond of instead of wasting your precious time on essays and things. You can take the dogs for that extra long walk they've been looking forward to, spend more time with your family, make music, play music, have a rave. It's great! Sadly it doesn't last long, haha. But it's always there to look forward to. :)


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thursday 3 March 2011

Relaxing Dreams

Do you ever find that you're worrying about something so much that it invades your dreams? 
Normally it isn't in a good way, sometimes you get those really realistic nightmares and you wake up panicking then realising it's a dream. But there are these occasional times when instead of having a bad dream, you have a good dream and it relaxes you about the whole thing!


I was really worried about a presentation I had to do, then I dreamt about having just done my presentation and I worried a lot less. In real life when I had to do my presentation, I managed to speak properly, I didn't laugh nervously (not as much as last time anyway) and I wasn't constantly paranoid that I was being laughed at (because believe me, that has happened a few times before, so embarrassing!)


< = me in a presentation.

I am beginning to find that blogging like this is a lot better than I thought! It's really helped my stress levels and it distracts me from worrying about things I shouldn't worry about! I don't know why I didn't really update it much before to be honest. 

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Friday 25 February 2011

You're, your, there, their, they're

I really can't stand it when people mix them up!
I mean if they don't know then fair enough, but there are some people that do know that just can't be bothered, but it looks wrong! -.-

You're - You are
The apostrophe replaces the 'a'


e.g. You're a bumhole.
       You're really pretty.
       You're lovely.
       You're welcome. 


Your
e.g. Your cheese is in the fridge.
       I cooked your pizza for you.
       Your hair looks lovely today. 
       
There - T'here' (Where something is)
e.g. Your cheese is over there
       There it is!
       
They're - They are


e.g. They're being bumholes
       They're really nice
       They're awesome 


Their - something that belongs to 'them'


e.g. They left their socks here
       What's their problem? 


Sorry for being a bit of a grammar nazi! I just had to have a rant about it.


Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ^.^

Thursday 24 February 2011

Stress

I've noticed I've been having a hell of a lot of food dreams lately.
I think it is probably the combination of stress and trying to be on a diet...
Lately I've been eating a lot more fruit instead of junk, and a few days before half term, I got given a hell of a lot of work to do...

By a lot of work I mean storyboards, hazard and risk assessments, production logistics, shooting schedule, 1200-1600 word essay, 750 word essay, 500 word report, 1000 word essay and preparation for a presentation. Yay. All due in for the first week back! I would've been fine with this, but I had to go to Scotland with my Dad to see the Scottish side of the family! So that took a massive chunk out of my week off - I tried to do a lot of it in Scotland and planned to do it on the drive up, but Granny's house really isn't the best place for concentration, plus I get car sick and sleep on long journeys; a bit of a fail really.

So a result of me worrying about this?
I can't comfort eat in real life because of my diet - so I turn to my dreams.

Friday 18 February 2011

Hmm...

I had a dream,
It was based around Hollywood - I thought it was pretty cool, until I realised it was just like the documentary we watched in film studies about Hollywood...

I was walking down the streets (some of these I think were definitely shots I'd remembered; I find it odd that I'd remembered them because we watched that documentary WAY before Christmas), and David Schwimmer was walking along, so I walked up to him and asked for his autograph, and then a picture. He refused the picture though, "No, no I don't get pictures taken." And then I came across Will Smith, but he was too busy to talk to, the paparazzi had him cornered. He didn't take well to the cameras...

I wish I had more dreams like that. That would be awesome.

~

Complete change of subject now: Do you ever have those dreams that remind you of things that have annoyed or upset you in the past? 


E.g.
When you gave it everything and they didn't put in any effort?
When you were messed around?
When your parents split up?
When something you wanted to do never got done?


We all get that frustration when something doesn't go the way we want it to, and a lot of us (me included) definitely bottle it all up inside. Occasionally, these things will come and 'haunt' us in our dreams.

These are the sort of dreams that bug you for a whole day; like when you see a certain person's face or see their name. It could be anything, they could just say hi or something but if you're not aware it's not real then you panic, you don't know how to react and you just want them to leave you alone.

It's sort of like Todorov's narrative theory - you have an equilibrium and then suddenly you see them and it's a disruption to your mood, then you recognise that you shouldn't let this get to you, so you make yourself feel better, but you're still not quite the same.

Hm... quite a lot of things could be applied to Todorov's theory haha
Films (obviously)
Books (obviously)
Relationships!
Dreams...
Life!

Yeah so that was a bit of a tangent, oh well.
Gotta go,
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

Thursday 20 January 2011

I just don't understand...

I just don't understand how people can update their blogs so often! It makes me feel so LAZY. z..z...Z...z

I have been having a lot of random dreams lately o.O
In one, a friend of mine from AS Film Studies was playing computer games with me, and then my mum came into the room and said, "CHLOE, WHY DO YOU HAVE SO MANY MAN SLUTS???" And stormed out. I have to say that in this dream I was very embarrassed, and then started a yelling match with her.