Merry Kissmas | Blogmas Day 3

After the success of our Halloween party we (my house and I) jumped at the opportunity to hold another party, and what better excuse than a Christmas party. Combining 2 things we love - festivities and alcohol.

Being students we couldn't afford to splash out of the ice sculpture Jas wanted but we did the best we could by borrowing Josh's mums Christmas decorations and hitting Poundland to try and find the best fake snow we could find. It was November after all.

So after weeks of pretending it didn't exist and focusing on assignments
Saturday 26th November rolled around and it was time to get festive. We got to decorating in the short couple of hours we had, frantically throwing tinsel and fake snow around the place praying it would look like some sort of weird, cheap, student winter wonderland.

I had such a wonderful time and it was a perfect break from the stress of assignment season. We played games, danced like idiots and just had a good old festive boogy - weird word choice but cool lets go with it.

I hope everyone who attended had a good time (even if it did end in disaster)
We're already planning our next one. I know, I hate us too.

 Merry Christmas from 62 xox

Happy Birthday Mum | Blogmas Day 2

Today is a very special day, it marks the 50th anniversary of the most wonderful woman in the entire world, my mother.
I decided to write a post about my mother because she means a lot to me and I never really tell her.

Dear Mum,
 
        Happy birthday to the one person I can truly rely on.
Thank you for always being there for me, being cool and funky, and being 50.
I might not see you as much as I used to but I love you more than I ever have, you are a true blessing to this world.

Things I love about you:

- Your smile
- How much you love me
- The fact we can talk about utter crap and it's still fun
- When you get angry at me for hanging up the phone
-  How much care you take with everything you do
The thing I love the most is when people tell me "you're a lot like your mother" cause that is hands down the best and worst compliment I could ever receive.

You bring me a lot of joy and you fund me when I'm poor which you know, means everything.
I love you forever,

Jess

The Christmas Tag | Blogmas Day 1

Via Tumblr

New drinking game: take shot every time I say Christmas.

Christmas is soon approaching us and boy am I excited, I can almost hear the sleigh bells.

Today I wanted to do The Christmas Tag as I saw it on my friend Becca's blog last year - link - and ever since I've wanted to do it.

When do you start getting excited for Christmas? 

I am always excited for Christmas, it's hands down the best time of the entire year. When do I think its socially acceptable to be excited for Christmas? I'd say November 1st. Halloween is over and Christmas is just beginning. 

Do you still have an advent calendar?

I do, every year I violently force my mother to buy me one. However, last year and this year I had to buy by own due to living in a different city. Last year when Jas and I were packing to go home we were desperately trying to find a place in our full to the brim suitcases for that chocolate advent calendar cause you know I wasn't leaving without it.

Do you have any funny Christmas memories?

Christmas is always funny in my house, Claire will say something silly, or JJ will make a snarly comment or more often than not my Nanna will call everyone the wrong name and say something totally unacceptable and we'll all be in fits of laughter rolling in mash potato. 

Every year we used to play Cluedo, I use the past tense as Mother has banned us from playing it anymore because us being us, we made up a whole new set of rules which lead to lots of cheating accusations, normally aimed at Claire I might say! 

So we aren't allowed to play anymore.

Talk us through your typical Christmas day...

We have a pretty standard Christmas i'd say. JJ and I refuse to get out of bed. Then after about half an hour of preparation and tweeting we finally crawl out of our pits, make my mum a cup of tea after being asked about a billion times, then head into the front room. We exchange presents, take photos, have breakfast and then sit around for a bit. We then finally head upstairs and get changed ready for our family members to come, we then continue to exchange presents, take photos and then complain we're hungry and ask Mum if it's ready every 5 minutes. We then eat as much as humanly possible. it's the best day of the year because Mum makes extra mash for me. What a hero. After that JJ and I head off to Dad's and eat more food, watch a film, exchange presents and then fall asleep on the sofa. 

What do you eat for Christmas dinner?

Christmas is just a big Sunday dinner with more people and Sunday dinner is my favourite meal of all time. There's meat of all kinds, lots and lots of veg, mash, gravy, Yorkshire puddings and oh my god the roast potatoes. Ok now i'm hungry, roll on 25th. The majority of my family h a t e Christmas pudding so Mum always gets a nice M&S pudding, one year we had these chocolate crackers and holy hell take me back to the best moment of my life please.

Do you have any Christmas traditions?

We don't really have any traditions now but when I was younger every Christmas Eve we used to go to the cinema or to a pantomime, but now we just watch films and drink prosecco in front of the fire. .

2010 Pantomime Life 

What are your favourite Christmas films?

There is simply too many to choose from, I have written a post about my top Christmas films, which is either live right now or going up soon. If I had to narrow it down to 3 I would say Nightmare Before Christmas, Arthur Christmas and Nativity. 

What are your favourite Christmas songs?

Now that is an impossible question, again I have written a post about this so I'll just go into brief detail - Santa Tell Me, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town but Justin Bieber version cause that's a bop and a half. 

Real or fake Christmas tree?

Hands down real, I have had a real tree my entire life and I will tell you this for free, there is nothing better than opening the door to the front room and being welcomed by the smell of the a fresh pine tree. That is Christmas. 

What is the best Christmas present you've ever received?

I have had 18 Christmas' on this blessed earth soon to be 19 I don't think I can answer this as I have had so many amazing presents 'cause my family and friends are just the best.

I hope you enjoyed day 1 of Blogmas, I am so excited to get started and push myself to do it. I am very busy with assignments and exciting festive things so I look forward to taking a couple hours break and writing. 

I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm going to.

Love you, see you tomorrow x

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Life in Pictures | October

It's been a hot minute.

Sorry for not posting in a couple of weeks I've been hella busy with assignments and Vamps adventures. However, today I wanted to do something a little different and a bit more personal. Although the title says October it's also been the last couple of weeks in November to sue me...i'm joking please don't.

As someone who loves photography I am always getting my phone out and snapping wherever I go, it's a great way to capture my memories, especially my university adventures.

Recently my life has been consumed by assignments, meetings, lectures, uni uni uni. It's been a lot. I am finally sitting down to write this and it's 2am on a Thursday night. Wonderful.

Let's talk about October.

My Mum came to visit

I actually made an effort and tried out new make up

Went to Manchester to meet with my chums

Went to the Manchester Vamps Book signing 

Met up with my pals in Sheffield 

Brad wrote my tattoo 

My Irish pal came to visit

Held a Halloween party and become a zombie with Kendra 

It snowed in November 

Coco came over 

 I have had a wonderful couple of weeks and I can't wait to get these assignments done and go home for Christmas. Let me know what your October was like!