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Month: Aug 2014
Being Happy
Being happy is something incredibly important to me. When you live with any illness ‘good days’ are a blessing, for me ‘normal’ days or weeks are incredible as today has been.
I’m back on track, taking what I need to take and having some kind of routine that I’ve missed out on in the past few months. Now it’s not all just routine and life things happened today that put me in a good mood, but that is not what I’m thankful for. I’m thankful for the fact that I’m slowly getting better, I have a support system around me and even though the last week saw some lows I’m though the other side.
Reading Festival tickets arrived,who wouldn’t smile at that!!
I’m packed and have a few exciting and exhausting weeks ahead. Being happy is great, feeling a bit more normal is even better.
Lex Loses his Locks
There are people in my life that I’m proud to call my friend, Lex Benjamin is one of them. I’ve known Lex for a good few years now and I’d like to say I’m one of the few people to be truly close to him, I’ve seen him at his best and comforted him when times were tough, he’s done the same for me. Lex is also a great supporter, if we have a gig and he can be there he is swinging his beautiful hair and rocking out, that is what I want to talk about in todays blog.
Lex has the most incredible hair I have ever seen on a human being. Long, blond, fun to plait and it matches his sunny personality. The man that has been called, Thor, Jesus (seriously), giant and many more is cutting off his beautiful hair TOMORROW. Normally I would be sobbing at the thought of his hair being given the chop but he’s doing something truly incredible. All of his hair is being donated to a charity, Little Princess Trust. The charity makes wigs for children with cancer and gives them to them free of charge, I know how lovely. It takes £300 to make a wig and so as well as donating his hair (the project of five years work) Lex is also trying to raise funds for the charity.
Lex’s hair, people usually braid it.
I don’t usually use my blog for things like this but the work this charity does is so important for little boys and girls who have really been through enough already. If you have even a few spare pounds in your bank account and would like to donate here is the link and Lex’s story https://www.justgiving.com/LexsLocks .
Happy 21st Birthday Lex, you are truly one in a million.
A taste of the magazine world.
Over the weekend and for the past few weeks I’ve been looking at and applying for internships, on the recommendation of a friend I tried a website called gothinkbig.co.uk. The aim is to give people opportunities to go into the fields of work and get them the experience they need. Lucky for me there is a lot of media job on there, perfect.
As a lot of you know I was planning on working at a uni event for most of the summer, when I found out that I hadn’t gotten it a lot of summer internship positions had already closed so I felt a bit stuck (here is where I wish I’d known about Go Think Big earlier this year). So I applied for a few of the placements and skills days, one of which was the Speed Networking with Closer magazine, a women’s weekly.
I know what you’re thinking. Me? Magazines that are aimed at women? This must be a joke. Let me assure you I was so nervous walking into the building (after getting lost quite a few times too may I add), the girls in there waiting were very pretty and stylish and I was…well I was me. I had visions (as we most people do) of being thrown into a Miranda Priestly office and quizzes. Luckily my The Devil Wears Prada nightmares were laughable because the staff at Closer are some of the loveliest people I’ve met.
I was lucky to have not missed the email to say I’d been accepted and it was a rush to get into central London in time. I’m so glad I shook off that nervousness I had felt when I got the email this morning, the worry I’d make a fool of myself.
The experience was something incredibly special, I got to speak 1-1 with loads of staff from the magazine and got a great idea of what it would be like as well as some knowledge of contacts in the industry. I had fun, met some great people and now have a good idea and a buzz to apply for loads of internships and work experience placements, starting with Closer.
This is the great thing about uni, I get to work out what I want to do. Don’t get me wrong I still want to be a musician, I still want to get my masters (although maybe studying part time instead of full time now)but this is something I could do as a job to support me while tackling the other things at the same time!
I’m really grateful for today and I can’t wait to get stuck in and apply for work experience placements which could hopefully lead to an internship when I graduate! Today’s been a really exciting day and just what I needed to get the creativity flowing even more!
Fish is not my friend
While I would have loved to have written you all a lovely long blog post, tonight is not my night. After trying to be adventurous and order fish instead of my normal burger at dinner tonight, I spent the rest of the evening in my bathroom. Lesson learnt body, unless it’s Tuna leave well alone.
Something I really needed
You might have noticed from my blog for the past few weeks I’ve been struggling a bit. With everything there is to do moving back home for a month as well as a lack of routine it can be really hard for people to adjust. I don’t like letting my illness define who I am but on days where I have nothing I need to do and no where to go, motivation can stall. It can mean that I’m not the most pleasant person to be around.
I got to sleep at stupid times and get up at stupid times when I’m stuck like this. I don’t have a job to go to so when my mind goes into overdrive at night I don’t have enough reason to kick it into gear. I want that to change though and as July slips into August I’m hoping to get a routine back, planning a lot of friends for the next few months.
I felt really grotty when I woke up this morning and had a tough day but it means that spending the evening being ok made it even more of a motivation. I want to do things in the day, I want to get up and have days where I’m busy and days to relax. The 4/5 months off have really been too much.
So I sit down and try and write, plan and it’s something I’ve been missing, something I need. I’m really hoping this will carry on.
Chloe Metzger 