In 2009...

Just a little bit about me and what I did in 2009!

New Year’s Resolution: To have as much fun as possible.

January 1^st

Me, Myself & I

Of these things I am sure of, my name Is Amanda Grierson, I have a slight tendency to obsess over things, then get over them soon after. I know that I would love to write a fiction book and have it as a best seller; I also know that I will not leave school with good qualifications.

I know that I want to work with animals and in the next year own a pet, preferably a dog. I know my new year’s resolution isn’t a difficult one and therefore I hope I am able to keep it.

I love the program Eastenders; I believe that it was Jack who killed Archie Mitchell. My favourite series is Gossip Girl. I do enjoy going out with my friends, I like going to the Cathouse and I also like going to gigs. I love sitting in and reading a good book. I also love listening to music anywhere. I do enjoy a good puzzle, of any kind.

I love social networking websites; preferably twitter but I also use bebo, myspace and facebook. I have the whole shebang.

My appearance I will keep brief; I have super short brown hair - I aim to have a purple hair dye in it – which I like to keep in a messed up style, using backcombing and hairspray. My eyes are a muddy green colour. I am on average a size 16 and bra size 36F. I would prefer to lose weight this year but I don’t want to make it a resolution because that would mean I would likely break it. I’m a size three in shoes, sometimes a four. My favourite shoes at the moment are my black converse.

I love my phone, it is an LG GW300, it is roughly 1.3mp camera but I don’t mind that much, it has internet as well I adore that little fact. I am an Orange customer and my package is dolphin, this means when I top up £10 a month I get 300 free texts and unlimited internet.

I aim to do a lot better in school but I know I won’t. I find school a waste of time and although I know it isn’t it is my belief. I also have neutral feelings about something until it is proven true, then the feeling that should be felt kicks in.

I have no religious views, I don’t believe in God, the Devil, heaven, hell even Allah.

My favourite colours are purple and black. I do have daily favourite colours, like the colour I feel. Ye ken?

My moments that stick out from 2009 are the gigs; Lily Allen, La Roux, Elliot Minor, Mission District, the Noisettes, MPHO, Come on Gang, Mission District, The Broadcast and Circle Stop. Another thing that sticks out is meeting Calvin Harris and Tim Minchin.

This year we also met John, he is from Dalkieth in Edinburgh. He was lovely. Grant started talking to him on a Doctor Who forums website and they had been talking for about half a year, then I started talking to him. So we all decided to go to the Irn-Bru carnival. Grant, Rhys, john and I. So it was pretty much boring, well the Irn-Bru carnival, my favourite parts of that day was walking to and from the SECC. Talking to John, Rhys decided to walk ahead that day so I could be with John and he dragged Grant with him, so it was unbelievable, we just chatted so much, so in 2010 sometime we are all going to the pictures with John, so that should be interesting.

In 2009 I also went to Ireland with my Granda for 19 whole days, so yeah, that was well a lot and it nearly killed me, I lost loads and loads of weight whilst there and had so much fun. I met a few good friends and I was surrounded by animals so It was really good.

I also got my first boyfriend in 2009, although I use the term boyfriend loosely. Matthew Henry, I asked him out and then went to the pictures with him a month later, because I was on holiday. Matthew was 16 and I really, really liked him and I still do but there was a big thing about the Noisettes gig and Matthew wanted to go and I wanted him to go but no one else did. So because I love my friends I did what I thought I had to do, but they’re not entirely guilty. I didn’t exactly have fun on the day we went to the pictures but I was incredibly shy and the part that kills me most is I made it so boring, I could feel myself in the cinema dying to turn around and just look at him but I refused to, just because i didn’t want to be put in an awkward situation, you know when you look at someone and they hold your eyes kind of thing and you just can’t seem to look away. See that really panics me and I just start feeling really sick and horrible and just bleugh!

Of course this year was the one my uncle David got married to Shelley Clink. They got married in Guthrie Castle in Forfar. I was sleeping in the castle with my Granny and her beau John. I loved the weekend! We got there and I got to see my entire dad’s side of the family I haven’t seen in years! Like my Canadian cousins Hannah and Mhari, my aunt Janice and Uncle Willie. I also got to meet my new family members and there was Nick.

Nick was one of the waiters; I’d say he was about 18? He kind of caught my eye, whilst I was with my family and at one point we walked past each other and it was like a kind of spark between our hands that were close to each others; so I decided to kind of go stand by myself and I was a little drunk so I thought I can do this. I had a can of juice in my hand and then I seen Nick coming round so I was smiling at him and looking at him and he was doing the same back; he was also pushing a trolley type thing and then about two minutes later he had walked into the wall because he was looking at me and not where he was going, he blushed, bright red and I giggled then he went into the door and a few minutes later he reappeared and I was mucking about with my phone and the back fell of it so at the same time I reached down to grab it so did Nick, then smiling – my stomach was in so many knots – we both got up and he asked if my phone was okay I said yes its always like that and then he asked me if I was finished with my coke – being a waiter and all that – I told him no and then he started walking towards an open door, I stared after him and then he signalled for me to follow him, so once out in the fresh air we were speaking a bit more, we just asked random questions and then once walking inside I slipped and Nick caught me, my heart was pounding, I was surprised he couldn’t see it, so we spoke again, he told me his job was done at midnight – so Cinderella, I know – and then as we were walking inside he turned to me and kissed me! I was blushing red and smiling and I don’t think I was breathing properly, it was unimaginable! I was just so happy. Afterwards Nick left and I went back to my room there was no point of being there after that. So all in all it was a fantastic weekend, also, at the speeches David’s was so wonderful! He had nearly everyone in tears; it was just so lovely and sweet. So yeah one of the best weekends ever.

Another fantastic weekend would have to be the one when I first got drunk with friends. Rhys, Grant, Danielle and I.

We were supposed to have been staying out all night but Grant and Danielle decided to catch the last train home.

So at the start of the evening I told my nana I was staying at Danielle’s and then borrowed mothers dress and the bottle of vodka I bought the previous weekend down to Rhys’ and Danielle and I got ready down there, I must have looked a right mess, I was wearing a bright metallic pink dress! So about half six we were ready to leave and then we caught the train to Glasgow.

Once in Glasgow we went to Subway and such so then we sat there till about 9 or 10 then we went to George Square with my vodka and Grants 11p coke. So I was the only one who seemed to get drunk and then we were just wondering the streets of Glasgow and then Danielle and Grant decided to go home but Rhys and I just refused and went back to George Square. We were sitting the freezing going fuck, what are we going to do? So still sitting there an old man approached us and asked us for a cigarette and I gave him one, he stood and spoke to us for another 15 minutes or so, I told him my name was Clare and that I was 17. So then eventually his lovely looking son dragged him away.

Rhys and I then decided to go to the cat house a.k.a the catty but they asked us for id so we were like fuck that and went for another subway, then after that we went to Buchanan bus station and sat there by this point it was about two in the morning.

After a while of sitting Rhys and I went to McDonalds so I could get some food to warm me up. I was so unbelievably cold! So after that we more or less sat at the bus station half asleep. Then at about 8am we managed to get a bus but being me I left my LG viewty at the bus station, so there I was phoneless and then I had to walk up to Rhys after getting off the bus so I could get my bag and then went home, by the time I got home it was about 11 in the morning and I went on the computer and had breakfast and by 12 I was falling asleep at the laptop so I decided to go to bed. It was pretty awesome if you ask me.

Also late 2009 Rhys Grant and I started going to the Catty under 18’s and let me say this its fucking fantastic, no one really judges you there, you can just be yourself and the people seem pretty cool as well and they play music for everyone! So that’s awesome too. You can dance and sing, meet new people and just generally have a great time!

So all in all 2009 has been a fantastic wee year!

I’ve met new people, I’ve had new experiences met new people, gone to different places and all that jazz. I feel like I’ve grown up a whole lot more.

This time last year I had long blonde hair and terrible, terrible clothes!

Now though, I’m going to gigs, the catty, more indie kind of person and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I love my life now, I am a completely different person and I am totally relieved. I have honestly changed for the better. So here’s hoping this year is as good.