Gower Heritage Center

Turned out I only had one day off, but it was still fun, I went to the Gower Heritage Center to go see the cute animals. I have lived no more than an hour away from this place all my life, and gone down to that area many times to go to the beach or for walks when I was younger, but I never came here until I was 21! I went with my boyfriend and his family, he's got a young niece and cousin and it was a nice day out, freezing though! I took loads of photos on his iPhone and decided to put a small selection of them up, because animals are cute darnit!

 Evil baby ducks!

Nice hairdo!

Running straight at us!

The pond area, the chickens roamed free around it.

O hai there mister goat!

Pony :)

Just strutting his stuff. (I know chickens are girls, and boys are roosters but I like calling them "he's").

Look at the feathers on this guy, look at the feet! 

You talkin' about me?!

Duckies!

Keeping an eye on the ducks, didn't you know chickens and ducks don't get on?!

Impatient little hen.

Pretty little birdie.

Feeling pretty meh

I've not had the best few days recently. I've been working loads, so haven't had much spare time. I hate half term and how busy everywhere is, especially in work, but I suppose that means more shifts which means more money (for Christmas presents and my car!). I found out about something which really upset me the other day, I'm both angry and sad about it but I can't do anything about it which is so frustrating! I've not been getting that much sleep, and I'm a wimp who gets ill after not getting a good nights sleep two nights in a row, so I'm not so slowly loosing my voice, and am coming down with a cold.

But, just one more shift tomorrow then I have a few days off, including Halloween, so yay. I'm dressing up as a witch, I think the last time I did I was Trick or Treating years and years ago lol, and hopefully going to a house party after seeing a play. I'm also planning to apply for a job, before the deadline ends this weekend, I'm terrible at that >.<, I need to do them on time! I'd also like to show a few things I've bought recently, and to make some crafty posts.

I'm fed up of just posting short paragraphs or bullet points, they're not very pretty are they? But I think if I keep posting, it'll keep me in the habit of making blog posts. That's why all the countless other blogs I've made have ended, because I'd leave too long a gap and not really want to post, I felt like it had to be something really interesting after all that time, so I never really did. When something did come up, I felt like I had to recount everything that's happened since the last one as well, that's what I used to do with writing diaries until I couldn't take it anymore and just stopped writing them. I'm just weird with writing I guess :P and I'm pretty tired now, so this is just rambling, I think I'd better be off to bed.

What I've been up to

Shivering

Buying my car

Driving everywhere

Working lots

Cuddling the boyfriend

Birthday house parties

Catching up with my old housemate

Christmas Shopping

Coming third in pub quizzes

Coming somewhere in the middle in pub quizzes

Watching Glee from the start

Seeing family who are visiting from England

Being clumsy and getting lots of new scrapes and bruises

Planning lots of blog entries which are hopefully more interesting than this

Writing lists instead of going to sleep when utterly exhausted from barely sleeping over the past few days 'cause of work and house parties, like now!

A-Z of me!

Well I haven't blogged in about a week, I've been busy and barely home, so here's a quick one. I saw this A-Z list on Ella's blog, which is a pretty different way of writing lists about yourselves, well I haven't come across this particular one before anywho.

A. Age: 21

B. Bed size: Cabin bed

C. Chore that you hate: Washing dishes, if they've been left in the sink with gross water.

D. Dogs: I want a husky and labrador puppy. 

E. Essential start to your day: Hitting the snooze buttons a few times.

F. Favorite color: Right now, teal, it changes.

G. Gold or Silver: Silver, goes with more of my things.

H. Height: 5’5"

I. Instruments you play: Used to play the Clarinet, I really need to buy a new one and start again.

J. Job title: I work in a cinema, looking for a job in a primary school though.

K. Kids: I don't have any now, but I'd like to have four.

L. Live: Swansea, Wales.

M. Mother’s name: Gaynor

N. Nicknames: Leese, Billybob (from a guy way back in collage lol)

O. Overnight hospital stays: None, unless you count the time I was born?

P. Pet peeves: People who walk so slowly in front of you and stop in doorways, get outta mah way plz!

Q. Quote from a movie: My friends and I usually adapt the line from Superbad about Steven Glansberg to situations, "Don't leave me in town alone like i'm fucking Steven Glansberg"

R. Right or left handed: Righty

S. Siblings:  I have an older brother, and two younger ones.

U. Underwear: Um what?

V. Vegetable you hate: I only have a handful I like, but I really can't stand mushrooms!

W. What makes you run late: Sleep. If its a choice between breakfast and sleep, I'll choose to sleep more. 

X. X-Rays you’ve had: Three times breaking my left hand, and twice for spraining, and once on my right hand after it was stuck in a mini bus door for a few minutes. 

Y. Yummy food that you make: Egg fried rice! I inhale it!

Z. Zoo animal: Pandas, giraffes, lions and penguins! And any baby animal that is there ^_^

Races

I went to the races on Sunday for the first time, for my boyfriends brothers birthday. It was very foggy, windy and drizzly and we were outside for over four hours! But it was fun.

They even had owls there! I took a few photos, but this was one of the only ones who posed. I love Barn Owls, they remind me of Hedwig from Harry Potter. Oh that reminds me, I once held baby Indian owls, they were so cute, I should put the photos up one day.

There were a lot of people, some were very dressed up, some were very casual. I like to think I was sortof in the middle but I dressed for warmth. But I wore leggings, as did the other girls in the group, never again! Must wear jeggins when it cold out!

My first bid. I kept saying I was voting on horses instead of betting >.< I know, I know. I didn't win anything then, but out of the eight races, I won twice, (well, in the top three once, and won once). I only won about £14 in total, and lost more than that, but it was fun, and addictive! My boyfriend won over £70 on once race and he was set, lucky devil! lol.

Some horses, it was fun wondering who would win, but hard to remember which horse was which on their jackets. The ones I seemed to bet on, always had other jockeys wearing similar colours.

One of my horses that I bet on didn't even finish.... he freaked out before the start of the race. I found out then though, that if you just show up for the race, you get £100 and it doesn't matter where you come or if you finish, so that's why the made him run.

One last picture just to show how foggy it was, it was a bit surreal, reminded me of the film Silent Hill (I haven't played the game) where the fog is everywhere. It was a fun day and I'd go again, but preferbly when its warmer and I'd limit my betting, at least it was only small bets eh?