Ash: Saturday, 30th June 2012

Well! Here comes my long awaited rant!!!

Note to self, always wear shorts under a dress! I think my most embarrassing moment came a couple of days ago when I decided it was a warm enough day to go to town in a dress. Lovely dress it is, bought it with my best friend Katie when we went to Manchester!

Anywho, I walked out of my house to my car enjoying the sunshine. I drove to town, no problems at all. However, it started when I was walking from my sister's into town.

Now my sister's house is about a 10 minute walk to the centre of town, so when it started to get quite windy I got a bit worried, only just realising the lightness of the dress.

The skirt must have blown in my face, what, 3 times before I actually got into town? It got worse as I stood in front of a shop waiting to meet my friend, and it blew up yet again. Probably wasn't the most suitable underwear to be on show in the circumstances either.

Anyway, I turned around to look in the shop and saw this woman standing and laughing at me! I pulled my most embarrassed face and ran away. Jeeze kill me now.

So anyway, that was the happy start to my week! Haha! Had prom yesterday, that was fun too. Thought I looked a bit like Rose from Titanic which was cool too! We decided not to actually go to the prom meal, but to Prezzo's instead where the food was nicer. Yum.

Had work today. Wasn't really fantastic to be honest. I kept struggling to find everything and feeling really stupid every time I got things wrong. Working tomorrow as well, wish me luck </3

Got some awful customers as well to be honest. Never knew it took so much of an effort to say thank you! Granted got some lovely ones as usual, but when you get corrected on your own stock it's bound to irritate you.

Was properly drunk for the first time on Saturday too! Never again. Being sick is not fun. Mixing shots is not fun either. Guess I had to learn!

Anyway, that's it from me for now, see you later! <3

Mathilde: Saturday, 30th June 2012

(It's 5:10AM! D:)

So, I'm sorry this is really late! Ash and I are planning to do some kind of video blog on Monday, which might be quite cool.

We had prom last night. Our group - by that, I mean, Ash, Alex, Stephen, Zoe, Dan, Katie & I - went to Prezzos instead of going to the meal held at the prom because, well, I don't know, it seemed more our kind of thing. I liked that - these were the people that I was going to prom for, so it made sense to do it this way.

Prom itself - I'm not sure. I mean, there were bits of it that were really good and it was nice to be able to see some people, but part of me is like....I don't know. Haha. I'm always tempted to just forget everyone apart from like, two people. Does that make sense?

Stuff's been a bit hectic lately - we had exams, and I found out exactly in the middle of my exams that my granddad was dying, and then I managed to get bronchitis before having an allergic reaction to my antibiotics and worrying that I was going to be sick in the actual exams. It wasn't fun!

But I mean - wow! Ash and I have finished our A-Levels. Foreverrrrr.
I'm doing some more song-writing at the moment; I've missed it so much! It's good to have time to do the things you love.

That's me, over and out.
Mathilde

Ash: Wednesday, 20th June 2012

So finally finished all the A Level exams! The English one went pretty shocking today in all fairness. Didn't feel as if I had enough time, so hopefully not chucked all chances at university down the toilet!

Anyway, right now listening to some old songs, looking through some old photos, talking to some old people, yep, it's reminiscing time! Some ways, I'm so glad to get out of Lynn, especially after today. Everywhere I went there were faces I'd rather not see. Think I've just grown out of the place now to be honest.

Y'know some people sometimes post those chain letters? They really freak me out, no joke. I don't sleep very well when I see one. Well anyway, this guy posted a picture saying 'You have been cursed! You must break the curse or you will be visited!' so I unfriended him. Seemed to work. I didn't get any ghostly figures decide to pop into mine for a coffee last night. Mission accomplished.

Went to the park with my friends today, to be greeted by two of my other friends telling me a couple on the other side of the field were having sex. Well. Unexpected as it was, we all stood in a line to see if they were. That makes me sound like a pervert, but actually it's just something you can't help but look at. Not that I wanted to see details or anything, I was just curious to whether they actually were!

Still unsure as to whether they were, but when we saw them up close as they walked past (don't worry, we didn't move in to get a closer look) it wouldn't surprise me if they had been. Though she couldn't have been more than 15, the foundation was slapped on thick. Didn't I just write a blog the other day saying not to judge other people? See told you I'm not perfect!

But anyway, on that note I'm tired! Just wanted to write something to keep everyone updated! Night! I shall be having a relaxing 3 months! <3

Ash and Mathilde: Monday, 18th June 2012

So...we just sat our penultimate exam. And, well, we never have to do Psychology ever again. Thank God. I'm not really sure of how it went - I'm not feeling too hot right now and so Ash, who had the dubious pleasure of being next to me, had to put up with me sniffing the whole way through. Ahahahahahahahaha.

Well, I wouldn't like to say how it went, because as you may know last year, our psychology exam results.... Well we all failed basically. But not to worry! Chances are we can't do any worse this time!

(That was Ash just now. Can you tell the differences between our writing manner things yet?)
I'm still not sure what to write about! So I'm going to talk about my favourite customer at work. Well, second favourite. Ash says that she wants to be first, but she's never actually come into my shop....DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT TUTTLE.

Anyway. My favourite (overall) customer is this BRILLIANT little old lady. She comes in every Saturday and always, always asks for a Cafe Latte while she's waiting for the Kings Lynn train. She's always happy and smiley, and she's just pretty much the nicest customer ever!

BUT ANYWAY. MY SECOND FAVOURITE CUSTOMER. :3333
(is really kind of awesome!)
Basically, if you're weird and funny, I'm probably bound to like you. So anyway, this one time at work, this smartly dressed young-ish guy walks into the shop. My boss is in the back room arguing with his wife reeeeally loudly and it's a bit awkward because I'm alone in the shop. Anyway, 'Jar of Hearts' is playing at like, full volume over the radio and this guy just walks in and goes "It's okay to browse the magazines, right? Some people get mighty funny about that!" so I just kind of went "Yeah, yeah. Just disappear when my boss reappears, okay?"
Anyway, he comes up to the till and Christina's reeeeally going for it at this point, really kind of bemoaning how much men suck and he just looks up at the radio and goes, "Man! Forgiveness really is a beautiful thing."
Which is kind of guaranteed to get my attention.
So anyway, we wound up chatting about how terrible the music was.

Usually when I get an awesome customer, they neeeever ever come back Ever. But he came back! He came back to the shop for the fourth time yesterday and he is STILL awesome.

I like having regular customers.

Hey Ash, your turn!

That was so cheesy. 'My life is not a love story.' 'It could be.' Guess who said what. I bet it won't take you three.

Well, I don't really get regular customers... I just get random old guys come in and say 'You thought I was gonna squirt you then!' after making a hissing noise and throwing their hands up at me. Yes. That's exactly what I thought you were going to do.

Ah I remember one customer! A man and a woman came in buying a corset. They then went on to explain that it wasn't something they wear usually. Frankly, I'm not bothered by what people do in their spare time, as long as I don't have to hear about it!
Anyway, so I sell this corset and the guy goes to me 'Hey, are you interested in a photoshoot?' I was like, sure, why not? The he proceeded to ask me if I was 18. Should have sent alarm bells off really! I told him no, and he told me the sessions would have to be supervised. Oooookkkkk....
Anyway he gave me his card. Once he left the shop I had a look and there were 2 girls posing naked over one another... Urmm... Thanks, but no thanks!
Slightly odd to say the least. Not as nice as Mathilde's customer! Haha!
And no, I didn't call him up on his offer.

(Don't lie Ash, you totally did. ;))))

Alright, we're going now. This is Mathilde again - updates might be a bit slow on my end because things are just a bit ://////////////////////// at the moment, but I'll be back ASAP and Ash talks enough for the two of us :L

Bleh.

Mathilde: Wednesday, 6th June 2012

Mathilde is in Yorkshire. In the rain. Yeah.

Ash, Wednesday, June 6th 2012

Wow, we're doing fairly badly at writing this! It's all the stress with the A Level exams, who said this was easy hey?

But anyway, just thought I'd write about something that I've thought about for a while. The inspiration for this blog has been ongoing for the past couple of months, I think just putting it in writing is a bit more of a challenge.

It's weird to think a majority of the people we see day-to-day we are probably never going to speak to, never find out their name, their family, their relationships, their whole stance on life. There's what, 7 billion people on this Earth (hope I've got the math right)? How could we possibly be expected to know who each and every one of them is.

We're learning about celebrity stalking in Psychology (or should I say, we've learnt, now currently revising), and it's odd to think so many of us know of a celebrity (e.g. Justin Bieber) and can relate to them personally (well, I can't because I'm not a particular fan, but you get my drift). If perhaps we spent less time going mad over what colour shoes Cher Lloyd was wearing to her next concert, or what Victoria Beckham's next baby was going to be called, perhaps we could learn and meet people of a realistic nature, and see what is beyond our rose-tinted glasses.

I'm not perfect, I have my idols too. Heck, when I heard Alecia Moore (P!nk) was pregnant, I was researching many of the different magazines to find out any info I could. That's just how society is based I guess. Anyway I'm going off topic.

I went to the fireworks in my hometown a few nights ago, to announce the beginning of Festival Too. It was a pretty good night, was with my friends, having a good time. I was standing in front of my boyfriend when this women brushed past my arm. I raised my eyebrows ready to make a snide comment, when she turned around and mouthed 'sorry'. Once realising she had tears staining her cheeks I replied 'it's ok' and let it go.

Now, most people (myself included) would look at her and think 'too much to drink' which is exactly what my boyfriend commented once she was out of ear shot. But then, is that always the case? She could perhaps have lost her child, or the fireworks may have reminded her of some distant memory in her past. Who's to say? I couldn't. It's so easy to be judgemental of people we don't necessarily know.

When I walk down the street alone, if I see a group jostling and yelling (a group similar to what I was in a few years ago) I will cross the street. Now when I was that type of person, I used to hate it when people did that to me, put me into a stereotype that I was automatically going to murder them. Me and my old friends got pulled over by policeman a good few times, just to get our details to know we weren't causing any trouble that night. Is that fair? I was 13 just out with my friends, who liked to dress in black hoodies, who were clearly stereotyped into being offensive. Almost 4 years on, I treat people like that with the same degree of ignorance.

Perhaps rather than judging people, we should become more open to them. We are so wrapped up in our own lives that we don't take time to notice those around us. I know this. I am guilty of it too.

That's all I wanted to say really. Just made me think. I hope it did you too.