Star ships were meant to fly

21st of February, only 52 days into the year and i have already managed to complete one of my new years resolutions, and am well on the way to completing three others. 

The one which i can currently tick off my list is 'get a boyfriend'. Yes ladies and gentlemen, Lisa Hollis has finally managed to bag herself a boyfriend after 17 years of being single! BE PROUD! and actually, i managed to do this by the end of January, so man points to me on the speed of my resolution completion!

The three that i am on the way to doing (i hope) are

 -save up for malia

-pass driving test

-stop being such a wierdo/bitch.

I currently have a quarter of the money i need for malia, have my theory test tomorrow morning and am trying my best to be a better/nicer person who doesnt do ridiculous things like panic buying six pairs of black socks on her first shopping trip with the new boyfriend...

ANYWAYYYYYYYY, there you have it, nearly two months into 2012 and im on my way to being who/having what i want :D

LENT

i was thinking about this today, and have decided that for lent i am going to do 1 thing everyday independently. This may sound ridiculous to some, but i have a stupid fear/problem with doing anything and being on my own. im not sure if its to do with the fact im worried at the idea of being alone with my own thoughts for too long or if im just a wierdo. so yeah, thats my plan for 40 whole days. 

also with the standard 'eat healthy, go to the gym 3 times a week' stuff that i force my self to attempt every year. Each time failing and stuffing my face with chocolate cake becasue ive failed...Its a vicious cycle.

so i realise im failing misrabley at this whole blogging more thing, however im not entirely sure that anyone out there is particulary interested in the shambles that it my life, but its nice to let off some steam over the internet every now and again.

NAILS

 

OX

NAILS

Havents posted any nail art in ageeeeeeeees, so thought i would post a quadruple wammy! All easy to do. The only tool i own is a dotting tool and no stripers or pens so everything i have done has been done with the dotting tools or with the nail varnish brush, Enjoy :) OX

ps, HI DANNI!<3

NEW YEAR

Resolutions:

-blog more

-loose weight

-save up for malia

-pass driving test

-stop being such a wierdo/bitch

-get a boyfriend

New year, new me blah blah blahhhhhhhh

I have alot of exciting things happening this year, i think its going to be a good'un.

1)MALIA- i am so unbelievably excited. just need to save up the £700 and im awayyyyyy.

2)Majorca with the fam-Beccas home from uni at easter so we're all going on the boys football tour. Cannot wait for a bit of sun!

3)MY 18TH!!-accidently told everyone at sixth form social i was having a uv foam party and they were all invited, so now feel like i have to pursue this idea. Which would actually be fab if I pulled it off! 

4)French/Italian Alps-family holiday in the summer, all set to be brillo!

5)Uni, hopefully!-Lincoln is where i wanna go, got an offer so now just need the grades!

6)End of school forever! woah, wierd thought but cannot wait for the loooooong summer!

Had such a good new years eve. Was in wales with another 22 Hollises so it was pretty mental, loud and outragious! We all dressed up in 1920's attire, or tried to and partied away with LOTS of champagne and amazing food! And typically the hollises entered 2012 late due to a telly malfunction 4 seconds before the big countdown and we enterd this year shouting at my poor uncle to change the channel back so we weren't watching Cars 2. BRILLO

New Years Day swim in the sea

New Years Eve

 Boxing Day

 Christmas Day

OX

19 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!

I’m feeling so festive today! Don’t know if it’s because there’s only 19 days to go till Christmas or if seeing all the lights in Amersham on a recent Costa trip, but either way, I can’t wait. I always love London at Christmas time; the lights and atmosphere really entice me and makes me feel so Christmassy. A couple of weeks ago was the school’s annual Commeration service which also happened to be my last ever one. I think I’m in the 20% (at a push) who actually enjoys trekking up to London in the cold, having to wear formal dress and singing a load of hymns in the St. Clement Danes church. Also, sixth formers are allowed to stay in London after the service and don’t have to get the school coach back. Probably due to this decreasing the cost for the school HA! So in true sophisticated style, 17 of us rocked up to the nearest pizza hut to spend a whole £6.99 on the all you can eat buffet (another reason why commem appeals to me). Eventually having found pizza hut we walked in and asked pretty casually for a table for 17. The waitress asked what the name was, to which I replied ‘we haven’t booked.’ She sort of did a double take at this and then went to speak to her college to see if they could possibly squeeze a table of 17 into the already crowded restaurant.  Whilst they were contemplating weather they had room for us, we looked out of the window to see another group of sixth formers walk past, stop, look and shake their heads. Obviously trying to decide on another place to eat. Having just all eaten our body weight in pizza; we decided it was a really good idea to go Boris biking round Hyde Park. This is actually much harder than it sounds as we weren’t allowed on the pavement which meant tackling the London roads. Think I pushed more than I rode! We then went on to Tower Bridge where we went on the bumper cars by the aquarium and then walked down embankment, spending a good 45 minutes watching all the hot skateboarders skate…

 

Hyde Park                                                                       Me and Jo

 Cheeky Bit of Litchfaktor

 Big Ben/Houses of Parliment

 Me and Helen on the Bumper Cars

 Love This <3 The Girls

Me, Lizzy and Becca

Absolutely Love London At Night!

Due to commem, we then had the Monday off, so our sixth form social was held on the Sunday at a local golf club. I actually had a lot more fun than I thought I would. Even if the boy I have taken to stalking in the year below didn’t attend… I’m not sure how impressed the golf club were with us though and I’m pretty sure vomit on the patio, loads of drunk people and poo up one of the toilet walls gives off a pretty bad impression about the school.

 The Girls<3 Danni, Tori, Me, Rach, Emmy

Me and Rachel

Me and Sophie

Looking slightly worse for wear once we had got home...

Last weekend we had another party for a boy in our year. It was on the Friday night and the fact that I was working at half seven Saturday morning didn’t seem to put me off drinking my body weight in Lambrini and generally being a drunken state. At one point the bouncers tried to chuck me and Rachel out, but with quick thinking, we told them we were sober and said they must be after some other girl who coincidently was throwing up in the toilets and was then put in the ‘sober zone’ for the rest of the night! Whoops!

 The Girls...AGAIN

Me and Tori

Danni, Me and Naomi

                                     

Tomorrow I have decided rather spontaneously that I am going to get my nose pierced. My parents don’t want me to at all and dad even went as far to say that he wouldn’t leave me any of his savings in his will if I got it done. However he then proceeded to tell me he only had 45p in his savings, and divided by four that’s about 11p. So hello nose piercing! HA! 

Anyway, I’m just going to have a quick little moan about this ridiculously cold weather. The moment I get home from school, I’m straight into my onesie and tucked up in bed. I DON’T DO COLD! However it shows it is definitely Christmas, which I love! Cannot wait for the big day to arrive! We put up our Christmas tree yesterday and as tradition goes, you have to do it with a glass (or three) of Baileys. Although Baileys affects me pretty quickly which was far from ideal as I had spinning class to attend an hour later and was feeling pretty light headed by the time I got to the gym. Always good!

So that’s about it for now, I’m currently about to have a nap after a hard day of TWO WHOLE LESSONS, two uni offers from Lincoln and Chichester and a text from the Chlamydia test centre telling me ‘All is well’ Hallelujah!

OX

busy busy busy!

hiyaaaaaaa
Sorry i havent bogged much lately, i have actually been really busy with school work, work exp and actual work, so have alot to say.
Firstly, i went to the NEC in birmingham last thursday to get 'a day in the life of a national event planner'. I was picked up by the guy who owns a cmpany displaying at the exhibition, Martin, and his college Ellie. unfortunately I had seen Ellie in his car from my upstairs window before they rang the door bell and therefore before i realised who she was and gave her a dirty look, as for some reason, thats the sort of thing i do t people who look at me... hmm, that didnt sound so ridiculous in my head.
So we were given a guided tour of the show by the organisers and i managed to ask all my carefully scripted (i dont trust my brain under pessure) questions. I then spent the rest of the day sat in the bar with Martin, Ellie and the two organisers. those three hours i spent stting in the bar sipping coke and lime definately confimed that i want to be events organiser.

Luckily for me, i have also found the perfect uni for me. Lincoln! i want to go there so badly! its so pretty and next to a river, very picturesque! Another great thing thats brill about it is that they dont interview, which is perfect for me as at my mock interview which the school organised i was put on the spot and asked what i thought events management involved. As someone who wants to study  course in this it should have been a relitively easy question, but my answer was something like 'managing events' DUH?!

The weekend just gone was pretty boring, i spent more hours which i was awake working than not working. However this weekend should make up fr it as on friday its the school commemeration service at te SCD curch in london. i think im in the minority of the school who actually enjoys it. i just think its so nice, its cute and its christmassy. not gunna lie, but i love it. even if we're not singing shine jesus shine and jerusalem, which are cearly the best two hymns. due to commem, we then have monday off school, dunno why but im not complaining, so sunday night is our sixth form social. having been kicked out last year for being far to drunk and having to have my parents come and pick me up, and then being sick in my bed, im quite looking forward to proving im not a constant drunken state. plus its a party, so why wouldnt i be excited! and i have bought my self some amaaaaazing shoes for it!

Currently im on a train heading up to london, which is why my punctuation and grammar is shocking as mobile blogger doesnt have spell ceck. im actually off to meet doctor who at event which my dad is involved with. i have called it 'work experience' and skipped school. nothing to do with te celebs there...

So thats a brief summary of my life the last few weeks, i'll blog more frequently soon promise! :)
ps, sorry for lack of photos, lots more comming soon :)

Ox

whatta load of b*llocks

Life has been pretty boring lately. I feel I need something interesting to happen, or to dye my hair green to excite me a little bit. Well maybe dying my hair green is slightly over the top but I’m just so bored at the moment. Yesterday I event tackled the time consuming challenge of brushing my hair to fill time. Due to it being long, think, knotty, dead and naturally curly I don’t bother brushing to much as it hurts, takes agessssssssss and all falls out. So I tend to leave the pain and hair loss unless it really needs it or it’s a special occasion. That makes me sound like such a trap saying I only brush my hair for special occasions, but unfortunately it’s the truth. So yesterday, it took me a whole 13 minutes to brush it. I then showered and blow dried it straight and it’s looking pretty healthy. I also decided to sort out the road kill which sit above my eyes. My eyebrows are also massive and thick. So can occasionally be mistaken as caterpillars when they are at their worst. Having tamed my eye brows back into their cage and with lovely straight hair I also decided to re-do my nails. This time ive gone for zebra print. For this I used my really professional tool (NOT) of liquid eyeliner. They came out well and I’m a massive fan of the old eye liner trick…that much of a fan that a WAH Nail Art Pen in black is the first thing on my Christmas list…

Zebra Nails

(Barry M Matte White, 2true Shade 1, Opia Eyeliner) 

Straight Hair and Tidy Brows

For once, my exercise regime and diet is actually going pretty well. I think this is mainly because there is no food in the house and because Danni has now joined the gym with me and Rachel, which makes me feel as though I have two people to prove to that I am not a massive unfit slob… So today I went to a ‘Pure Abs’ class. Basically half an hour of putting my abs through something that trust me, they have never experienced in their life. Going into the class I was pretty positive having just burnt 200 calories on the cross-trainer, however this quickly changed when I realised that another member of the class was a boy which I unfortunately used as my ‘target’ and spent the whole night trying to get with at a party a while ago. I couldn’t even blame my behaviour on being drunk as it was a sixteenth and my friends and I weren’t bad man enough to drink when we were 15/16. I had never worried about it before because I didn’t really know the guy and didn’t think I’d ever have to see him again. But the world works in cruel cruel ways and there I was standing red faced and sweating like a bitch which is even worse considering we hadn’t done anything in the class yet so it just looked like I had really struggled walking from the changing rooms the studio, which is about 2 metres. Thank god the class was only half an hour or I might have died from embarrassment…or from exhaustion.

Things that have happened in my life recently-ish include the first of a long line (4...) 18^th birthday parties. Despite a few unfortunate events, like me being tongue raped and temporarily acquiring a stalker, it was a brilliant night and I really enjoyed myself. Throughout the night I was totally convinced I wasn’t that drunk, and I think it was only when we got back to Lizzy’s, who's party it was, and I flushed a slice of cake down the toilet that I realised I was very drunk. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t ever waste food!

 Helen, Me and Naomi

 Me and Rach

 Me and  Danni

DA GALZ

Another pretty exciting event was going to see Britney Spears in concert. My uncle offered me a free ticket which he had got through work, to go and see her with him and my cousin. I think that she is one of the people who you have to see in concert before you die as she is so iconic. So now I can die content, hopefully that won’t happen though, unless I just jinxed it… She was absolutely incredible! She really knows how to put on a show and with the added bonus of not only being 20 meters away from her, we were also so close to her support act, Joe Jonas. Who, just for the record, is completely gorgeous! 

Britney giving Joe Jonas a lap dance...

This weekend I’m visiting Lincoln uni and working, so nothing very exciting. Hopefully something decent will happen soon or I might have no choice but to dye my locks green and end up looking like a lettuce…

OX

Oh I do like to be beside the seasideeeee

So having not blogged in a while I feel I have loads to say. But I won’t bore you with all the rubbish stuff. I was on half term last week and so me and my family (minus my sis) went on a little holiday. We set off at about 9 o clock on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately for me, I’d had a pretty late night the night before due to being a Lizzy’s with the ‘gang’ and excessively playing Just Dance on the Wii. So on Tuesday morning I was dragged out of my bed, to go to Rye, a place I’d never even heard of before. I also wasn't overly keen as Dad had spent about 4 weeks going on about the hotel being haunted. When we got there, the hotel itself was actually really nice. We had a stroll (well Dad calls it a stroll, really it’s a four mile walk in the cold and rain) round the town and then went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We went to a restaurant called the grill and before we had even sat down Mum has smashed a glass with her bum and Alex had been rude to the waitress. Typical Hollis family really… After a lovely meal and a rather large amount of wine, I was ready to face my fear and sleep in the haunted hotel. Except obviously someone wanted me to stay awake as there was a massive thunder storm and I ended up sharing a bed with a 50 year old menopausal woman and a 13 boy who farts in his sleep. Brill…

 Rye Beach

Me and Mum

 Mum insisted that the 'holiday bear' replaced Sam in our car journey photo....

The next day we left Rye and headed up to Brighton for a couple of nights. We stayed in a hotel right on the front but unfortunately we got a view of the hotel car park instead of the sea. We did a bit of shopping, well I shopped and Mum paid as I currently have 18p in my bank account and 1p in my purse due to work changing our pay from weekly to monthly. She bought me a satchel from Ollie&Nic, some bits from Lush and some Calvin Klein PJ’s and undies. Day Two consisted of more shopping, a look round the Pavilion, a trip on Brighton's version of the London Eye and then a dash round the pier to get some photos for my photography coursework. This may have sounded like quite a simple straightforward task, but this is me we are talking about. Half way through the day I realised I had forgotten the batteries for my camera so realised that whilst the others went the cinema, me and mum would cut our shopping time short and take the 15minute walk back to the hotel to get them. Mum insisted that we just buy some instead until I told her I had also forgotten my camera so we’d have to go back anyway. We ran back in the rain as it was five past seven and we realised that the funfair closed at half seven and that’s what I needed the photos of. Once we got up to our room we realised that we in fact had the room key to my brother’s room, so I had to race down to reception to beg for another room key. The trainee on the desk looked a bit confused when I reeled off a story of batteries and the pier, but eventually gave me a spare key card. Racing back to the pier me and mum did the standard ‘fast walk’. Basically bend your knees, lean back slightly and you go so much faster. So having fast walked looking like penguins with a hot poker up our arse’s we finally made it on to the pier and got my photos.

 The view of the pier from the 'Brighton Eye'

Brighton Pierrrrrrrrrrrr :)

Sam's new specs...

Best mocha everrrr, from Naked Coffee Shop

A couple of photos for my photography coursework

Me and Sammyyy

The next day we went to Portsmouth to see Becca at uni. The previous two times I’ve been and visited her I’ve either projectile vomited on myself due to alcohol, or been kicked out a pub because I’m 17 and had no ID. However this time I managed to almost act mature and had a lovely time. We went out for dinner to a lovely Indian restaurant and due to slightly shoddy service got given two 20% off vouchers which were given to the poor student, like she’s going to be able to pay the other 80%... After a night of sharing a single bed with Becca, I just about managed to shove everything back in my suitcase and we went to meet the rest of the family who had the luxury of staying in a holiday inn and getting an all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast. We went up the Spinaker tower and had lunch in The Slug and Lettuce.  After that we said goodbye and left Portsmouth, as I had to get back for Lizzy’s partyyyyyyy. Due to it being a bit of a rush to get back in time I decided to attempt to do my nails on the way home. However trying to paint your nails in a car that's going at 70mph down the motorway, sat next to my brother who had just farted made it a much more, shall I say, memorable experience...

Me and Becca<3 

Fireworks outside the Spinaker Tower

Me and Becca on the Spinaker's glass floor

Not bad for a 'Car Journey Manicure'

OX