More About Me!

Hi everyone! I know I recently just posted a blog post about something similar to this in the question field, but I just thought I would write another one simply because this post covers a lot more unlike my previous one; Interviewed By A Friend - Question Tag.

I copied these questions from a friend's post, and I hope you enjoy!

Let's begin shall we...

 

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What is your middle name?   My middle name is Della

 

What was/is your favourite subject at school?   I'm still at Sixth Form in my last year, so I'd have to say Law would be my favourite!

 

What is your favourite song at the moment?   I have so many favourite songs, it's so hard to choose! It's not a song I know, but I'm loving Alessia Cara's EP 'Four Pink Walls'!

 

What is your favourite food?   My favourite food would have to be mash haha (I'm so British)

 

What is the last thing you bought?   The last thing I bought would be some tissues, Volvic Strawberry Water, Calpol and some Soothers! If you couldn't already tell I am ill with the flu :(

 

Favourite book of all time?   Despite it's only just been released I think a year ago, I love Zoe Sugg's first novel 'Girl Online'

 

Favourite colour?   I don't really have a favourite colour, but I'm a sucker for pastels and the darkening black, grey and white shades (What a contrast that was)

 

Do you have any pets?   I have two dogs; both German Shepherds. The girl is called Foxy and the male is called Tuco, and I adore them very much!

 

Favourite perfume?   I don't really test a lot of perfumes but I am loving Beyoncé's Heat Rush Eau de Toilette Spray for Women

 

Favourite holiday?   I've never actually been abroad (I know, I live a boring life) but I did go on holiday in the UK with my auntie when I was around 4 which I can still remember vaguely which I really enjoyed!

  

Have you ever been out of the country before, if so how many times?   I've only been out of the country once which was to go to Scotland for a few hours, I guess that doesn't really count though haha

 

Do you speak any other language?   Apart from English, I learnt French in my GCSE's and got a C so that's it really. I'd love to learn the language more in depth!

 

How many siblings do you have?   I have 3 siblings; 1 younger brother and 2 older sisters

 

What is your favourite shop?   My favourite shop would have to be Boots

 

When was the last time you cried?   The last time I cried was last night in fact for a good hour. Everything hit me with this flu I have and I just couldn't focus on anything else.

 

Favourite blog?   Being a YouTube girl I'd have to say my favourite Blog is Zoella's. If you click on her name it will take you to it!  

 

Favourite movie?   This is a hard one for me, I have too many to choose from but I can always sit down and watch The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio in it! I think I've seen it at least 15 times which is rather sad haha.

 

Favourite TV show?   My favourite TV show would have to be either NCIS, The 100 or Sleepy Hollow. I can't pick just one!

 

PC or Mac?   Definitely Mac

 

What phone do you have?   Currently I have the Samsung Galaxy S5

 

How tall are you?   Last time I measured my height I was 5'7/8

 

Can you cook?   Not to big myself up or anything, but I'd definitely say I can! I cooked a mean spaghetti and meatballs the other week which even received a compliment from my stepdad and those are very rare to hear from him!

 

 

Hope this gives you more of an insight to me as a person!

 

 

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Interviewed By A Friend - Question Tag

Hi everyone! I know it's been a while since I lasted uploaded a blog post (please don't hate me). 

 

I realised a few days ago that I haven't been posting much. I've just been so busy lately what with starting my last year at Sixth Form, and I've just generally been up to all sorts of shenanigans so I completely forgot about my blog until now.

Now this post is going to be a new thing for me. It is inspired by the lovely Holly and another blog by a girl called Paige. If you click on their names it will send you to the posts that have inspired me to do this and I hope they don't mind that I stole some the ideas from them both haha. Some of the questions are from their blog posts, but I also thought I would incorporate some of my own. I also really like their blogs so be sure to check them out!

I haven't done a Q&A style post yet, so I thought it was about time I upload one now as it adds a bit of variety to my blog I guess which is always good. I enjoy seeing new material on blogs, but please do bear with me.

This post is going to be as follows; I've got 10 quick questions that I'll be answering, just so you know a little bit more about me I guess and if you like, you can leave me your questions in the comments once you've read this blog and I'll be happy to answer them in a future post!

Let's begin shall we...

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1. One thing you would change about your life?

I've thought about this question so much in my life that I honestly don't know. I think one of the great things about life is that you just don't know what's around the corner, and what ever does come around, you just have to go with it; you can't really do much about it. So to answer this question in a simple sentence- I don't think there is anything I would change in my life. Things happen, for the good or bad, you can't change what's already happened. You just have to embrace it and build upon it!

2. What is one thing you regret having done or not done in your life?

I don't think life would be worth living if you didn't have regrets haha. That's what makes us all human I guess. One thing however I do regret in my life is not saying "Yes" enough. I once got a call for a job interview, however I suffer with anxiety so just the fear of being in front of people and put on the spot is really quite daunting for me which is why I said no. I wish I'd taken that risk and just gone with the flow I guess, but I didn't and I've regretted that ever since. 

3. What do you think you cook or bake the best?

Now I'm not one to fuss around cooking, but I have baked a little and I always find that new recipes can be quite scary to try out, simply because you don't know what the final thing will end up like so I like to keep things simple. I recently tried out a cake recipe with my mother. It was nice to do something with her as we don't really do much together, but we did bake a cake and ever since then I've been enjoying baking some cakes. 

4. What embarrasses you the most in front of other people?

Ok, so I've got quite a few embarrassing stories which involve me and a trampoline. (I'm going to hate myself for posting this online but oh well).
When I would do PE in school, we would have a few weeks of doing one sport and then we would gradually move on. One week we were doing trampolining and, well, I had been dreading doing this because of some bad previous encounters with the school trampolines (too embarrassing to discuss I'm sorry). I didn't want to do it in the first place, but the teacher insisted I do and so I got on and was doing the 10 normal standard warm-up bounces. Within 2 of those, I was in the air and felt my left leg was positioned oddly and it bent. I could feel the bone inside my knee move and everyone around it could hear a click! (I thought I dislocated it). I collapsed and had a 'builders bum' so everyone could see my ass haha! Anyways, after countless months of pain, doctors/nurses/knee consultants, X-Rays and an MRI Scan, about a month of school and 6 months on crutches/wheelchair, it turns out I tore my knee cartilage front and back plus sprained a ligament in my knee so I had to have surgery during the summer holidays! It's all healed up now don't worry. I think it's safe to say I'm never stepping foot on a trampoline again! Even the word makes me cringe :(

 

5. Are you named after anyone?

I don't think I'm actually named after anyone specific. If you didn't already know, my name is Sabrina and to my knowledge, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't actually think there is anyone that famous called Sabrina; excluding Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Sabrina wasn't even my first name choice! My mum was going to call me Selena (sorry to all the Justin Bieber fans), but it wasn't until my dad accidentally said the wrong name whilst my mum and dad were laying in bed one night, to which my mum stopped him and asked what he had just said and voila! Sabrina was created and it's been my name ever since.

 6. What do you want to be when you grow up?

This question has been confusing me a lot lately. My answers for this I swear change almost every time I'm asked. I simply don't know what I want to be, however one thing I am certain of is that I want to be successful and happy. I don't want to sit around when I'm older and look back and think "I wish I took that chance and actually made something of myself" but it be too late because then that wouldn't be a life well-lived would it? I'm still trying to decide what I want to be. I guess I still have the rest of my life to decide so for now I'm not sure!

7. Do you have any siblings?

I do! I have 2 sisters and 1 brother. Unfortunately my mum can't have any more kids so it's just us four. I would have had another sister, April, but there were complications at birth and she didn't make it. I don't like to dwell much on it, there's nothing I can do about it. It just makes you grateful for the family that you do have and I'm very lucky to have mine.

 

8. What's the first thing you notice about people?

I guess the first thing I notice about people is their personality. Most people would say looks, but I don't like to base people on that. Personalities can tell a lot more about a person than looks ever can, although when it comes to be I think I tend to scare people so no one ever finds out my true personality because I have what other people like to call "a resting bitch face" so the majority of people probably tend to assume I'm some devil woman who shouldn't be approached haha. I promise you though I am a very friendly person!

 

9. What is your favourite quote?

I have a lot of quotes I like. There is an account on Instagram by R.M Drake that I really love! He posts a variety of quotes and even has a book out. There's a quote by him which reads as follows;
 

If we move too fast, we'll break things. If we move too slow, we'll miss things. And if we don't move at all, we won't see things for how beautiful they truly are.

 

10. Do you want to travel, and if so, where?

I would absolutely love to travel! Me and one of my closest friends are thinking about going to America next tear to participate in Camp America. I do however have a phobia of planes and so I would like to eventually overcome that fear. I've always wanted to visit Australia and Africa so these two places would be on the top of my travel list! Hopefully I'll be able to travel there in the future and enjoy my time.

 

I hope you enjoyed reading this post! Like I said at the beginning, if you have any more questions for me then be sure to let me know.

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Lost In My Own Thoughts

Following my recent blog post about exam results, I thought I would base this post around something similar and make sure to grab a cup of tea and some biscuits because it's a long one!

When you think of results, most people only care about the grade that is on that all-important piece of paper. Most people don't tend to think about what those results mean. For me, I'm still trying to figure that out.

I got my results after my first year at Sixth Form yesterday and it was such a tense few days leading up to it. I woke up that morning not even thinking about the results, best way to prepare yourself I guess; not to think about what it is you're scared of. I suppose that's because then that way, you're not getting your hopes up. Success and failure are linked, but despite the connection between the two, they are both very different outcomes with very different meanings. You always strive for the best possible outcome, but I'm the type of person who rarely gets that. Much to my dismay.

Ever since I was little, I dreamt about pursuing a career with animals or any job that was animal related for that matter. The only thing standing in my way was that all-important E word - education. I haven't always been the brightest student and that's always been a problem because if you want to have a career with animals, you need good results in Maths, English, Science etc. which always held a place in my mind of doubt. I'm not the smartest girl in my school. I only managed to get C's in my GCSEs, yet somehow I still managed to get into Sixth Form which I was extremely over the moon about! However because I didn't do so well, I knew that I wouldn't be able to work with animals as those grades are just as important so I needed a new career move, but what?

Ever since I collected my GCSE results and opened them, I knew that from that moment on when I first glanced at them, that would be the point when my life would change. Those results will determine my future and all I had planned for it. I knew I wanted to go into Sixth Form since I started secondary school, purely because Sixth Form is known as the right move to make if you wish to consider moving onto higher education afterwards i.e. University. When thinking about Universities which I am still currently doing, there is just so much to look into which as expected, amounted to even more stress.

Since starting Sixth Form, there doesn't go a week where I don't get asked "What do you want to do when you're older?" and it is starting to drive me insane haha. Every single time I get asked that question, I always give the same response and that is "I don't know". Those 3 words have dominated my life as long as I can remember.

I've been trying to figure out what I want to do when I'm older, but in a way, I like not knowing. It's more fun that way. Something could come around the corner at any moment, good or bad, I know I'll be ready for it. You'll get knocked down at least 100 times in life, but you will always find that 1 reason to get back up again. I know I have. Life has thrown so many obstacles in my way that I've lost count. Out of it all though, I'm still optimistic and I really don't like to look back on something and think "What if".

I'm going through so much at the point in my life that sometimes it just gets a bit too much. It's like you don't want to be waking up each day, knowing you're just so lost in your own thoughts about the future. For me, I just want to press fast forward on these next few years to the part where I live happily ever after.

I have so many options that are being thrown at me left, right and center. I don't know if I want to go to university, I don't have a job just yet so I don't really have any money which is quite boring as most of my friends have jobs so they can afford to go out to places, buy things etc. whilst I'm near enough always stuck at home. I don't know what I want to be when I'm older so finding a career is still a thought that is lost in my mind. It just feels like I'm stuck in this never ending game that is Life Decisions. I'm stuck in the game as a kid and I'm trying to grow up but I just don't know the next move...

A recent blog post of mine is about what inspires me and my answer to that was Zoe Sugg and for all the right reasons. In one of her main channel videos, she quoted;

Think of all the amazing things you could be doing or all the amazing things you could be missing out on. And you don't wanna have to live your life thinking what if I'd gone to Uni? What if I had gone travelling around the world? What if I had just said yes to that guy who asked me out on a date but I said no because I was too scared? There are so many things that you could literally sit here and be like 'what if?' And you don't wanna live your life thinking 'what if?'

That quote speaks volume to me. I no longer want to sit and think about where I want to be in 10 years time, whether I want kids or not and what job I want when I'm older. I'm just going to take life as it comes, day by day and that's fine by me.

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