This year has been quite a busy one. I did so many things for the first time, I finished school, I got a job, I started college, I saw my favourite singer live and I fell in love. So here's my year in review. 

Hiiii! Sorry it's been a while but recently I've been quite busy. In my last post almost a month ago I wrote about how I was about to start college and I made a list of some of the things I wanted to achieve. However, a lot has changed in the space of a month. First of all my "first day of college" really didn't go as planned. Despite the fact I wrote that I was exited to start college and that I would push through my anxiety to get there on the first day, I soon discovered it was a lot easier said than done. On the morning I was supposed to start college, I had quite a severe panic attack in front of my parents who, one week prior, hadn't actually known I suffered so badly from them. My mum immediately said I couldn't go to college and my dad informed my college lecturer of this. But my lecturer said he wanted to meet with me to discuss whatever issues were standing in my way of studying with them. Anyway because my parents saw my anxiety in full force they told me to look into a remedy. Since that day I have been taking a herbal remedy to ease my anxiety and it has worked wonders. I met later in the week with my lecturer and this meeting convinced me to attend the course I was signed up for. However since that week where I genuinely contemplated not attending college, getting a job and moving away with one of my friends, my life has improved drastically. For a start, I have stopped breaking down in tears any time anyone mentioned college, or my boyfriend or anything related. I also started to actually attend college, I no longer have to have a constant distraction from life and I have become much more independent. I have even achieved a few of the things on my previous list.

• Get my nose pierced 
• Write for the student news paper
• Work for the college radio station 
• Travel alone 
• Talk to new people and make new friends 
• Go shopping alone 
• Ask a shop assistant for help when I need it
• Ask my lecturers for help when I need it
• Ask around for jobs
• Take every opportunity given to me
• Go to a nightclub 
• Start my own online radio show 
• Make important phone calls alone
• Become more comfortable in crowded places
• Eat lunch alone
• Stop over thinking 
• Stop comparing myself to others

One of my biggest pet peeves is when one of my favourite songs is covered by a singer or a band or worse yet, is parodied (gaaahhh no no no, I can't even begin to explain how much that gets to me ew no). For the most part the band doing the covering don't do the original song justice. However, there is no better feeling in the world than when you hear one of your favourite artists cover one of your favourite songs to perfection. Now I have many many favourite bands and singers and even more favourite songs (my current "faves" playlist is 152 songs long and takes 9 hours and 54 minutes to listen to) so you'd think the chances of one covering another would be quite likely but what with the infinite number of songs and bands that are in the world they are very few and far between. This post is going to be a list of the covers that I have fallen in love with because I feel the world (or my 5 followers) needs to hear some good covers.

Music is one of my biggest passions in life, much like most teenagers. My love of music began way back when I was 3 and as a present from Santa I received The Tweenies Christmas Album. I played that cd constantly until I knew all of the the words. Since then my cd collection has spiraled to a total of 56 cds. When I was 16 I began a new and different phase of school life. I was propelled from a class of people who I knew and had made many friends in, to a class filled with people I had not only never spoken to but also who I had nothing in common with. Luckily I only shared one class a day with these people but this gave me little solace as my other classes were also filled with people I had never met. I was forced to talk to people who had little interest in me and I felt thoroughly alone for over half the school year. Yes I still had my friends at lunch times and outside of school but the anxiety of being alone or uncomfortable in classes was enough to force me to find solace in something other than the internet. This is when I truly discovered my love of music and it's power not only to help but to heal. I began listening to new artists and bands and if it wasn't for them that school year would have been almost impossible to persevere through. So I have picked my 5 favourite albums of all time (a choice which was borderline impossible to make) and my reasoning for their appearance in this blogpost will be explained. 

Hiya! So I'm Angela and this is my blog. It'll probably be a little messy at the start while I get used to the whole blogging thing but stick with it and I promise I'll get there eventually. I'm hoping to make this a beauty/ music / lifestyle blog but I guess that's open to changes. I'm an aspiring journalist and I'll be attending college in September to peruse this and this blog will be my way of beginning to write for a purpose. Anyway I aim to update this blog at least daily with a what I did today kind of post. I'd also like to do a weekly music post in which I review an album or artist or simply talk about an artist or song I've been loving. I'll also be incorporating make up, beauty and fashion into my post every so often as it, along with music and writing, is something I'm very passionate about. Anyway if you're still reading thank you and stick with me and I promise I'll try my best :)