Sorry, I can’t spell check for my life.  Bear with my poorly checked entries.

After a nice 3 weeks off from university I’m glad to be back.  There is probably only so much of the holiday I can take before I start revving to work.  Yes, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a sad geek; it’s also been confirmed by my friend so there’s no contesting. 

The Christmas holiday was great.  Probably the best since I was being productive.  My sister and I learnt how to make a lasagne and Cottage Pie.  :9  Oh, how I crave for more slices.  We also made a birthday cake for my dad, which looked okay but tasted very bitter due to the extreme amounts of dark chocolate.  My dad liked it though, which was the main thing.  There were also other things but I’ll leave those because they don’t sound yummy, haha.

So, yeah, it’s good to be back.  Today was mainly about discussing design – I’ve got a final design for the competition – and getting results back for the bowl project.  The next project is a team presentation, about…duh…duh…duh…knives.  Yep, you read that right – knives.  The present, the future and the history of knives.  Should be interesting.  Might also help, with the project after, looming.  We have three weeks for presentation and then, I’m presuming, we’re actually designing and making knives.  Out of silver, I think.  Exciting stuff. 

Does anyone else feel the same about holidays?  Or would you prefer it if they were longer?

I’ve been trying to design a professional website for my jewellery and silversmithing things.  I want to be able to sell and show my pieces on-line.  However, I seem to be going around in circles.  I’ve done a lot  of research and, to a certain extent, found what I need to put on my website.  The problem is I don’t know how my website should look.  You see I’m one of these people who might go a little crazy and start bunging images/colours in, without really thinking about the visitors.

So, when you browser websites which are aimed for potential consumer what do you look for?

As you would expect there has been a lot of reflection from people about 2008.  So, since I’m an original person I’m going to follow suit. 

Although I still have yet to cross off anything on my list I’m still happy with how things have turned out.  2008 in bullets:

• Completed my first uni. course with better grades than I anticipated.  That was a squee-ing moment for me.
• Shockingly won awards.  One of which led to getting published on a tiny column.  Another squee-ing moment.
• Won a bet, against a Liverpool supporter.  I am a proud owner of a jewellery cleaning cloth now, ha.  Okay maybe not, as I gave it to my sister.
• Watched my home town almost get promoted, only just after one season in the Conference North.  This season, I believe they can go one further and reach the Blue Square Premier.  To quickly finish off the football talk I also saw United become English champions, European champions and World champions.  Whoop.
• Continued onto the higher level from my previous course.  I’m glad I continued, otherwise who knows, I might have been one of those bums who didn’t do much and fed off their parents money.  (I did not intend for that to be a dig at anyone.)
• Worked 7 days a week during my summer holiday and survived, just about.
• Have broadened my music taste.  That’s an achievement itself according to my siblings.
• Watched films without falling asleep mid-way, although I came close to breaking that “run” during Quarantine.

That’s probably it.  Oh, and I’ve also kept this site running.  Hmm…maybe I should have name this post “2008″…

Anyway, here’s to hoping that 2009 bring prosperity to everyone.  Here’s also hoping that our lecture notes never fall short of a year.