Why am I awake!

Seriously guys I need to go to bed.

And yet I cant. I just got home from work (well an hour ago) and I'm too wired to sleep so I'm just procrastinternetting away my time until Ian comes home and hopefully makes me get my act together and go to sleep.

It's these kind of things I do in life that make me sure of the fact that I will never be a grown up. I will elaborate with another example here but I warn you know those with a weak disposition or intolerance to extreme patheticness stop reading now.

3 days ago I sliced mostly through the end of my finger with a breadknife. Where do I begin in this tale of idiocy? Maybe when I began slicing some bread for my sandwhich and stopped paying attention to what I was doing, as I was having a conversation with my boyfriend in the other room and I had completely forgotten that bread knives are sharp, not to mention serrated.

When the actual slicing of the finger happened my reaction was also far below what anyone would expect from someone who is 22 and is legally allowed to drive and drink alcohol (though not at the same time clearly). I started crying and held the offensive finger out to Ian to deal with. I cried the entire way through him running it under the cold tap and the entire way through him putting pressure on it. I only stopped crying after about 10 minutes sitting on the sofa having a cuddle whilst holding my finger wrapped in kitchen roll above my head.

When I had calmed down and stopped leaking from my eyes Ian explained to me calmly that he needed to take me to the hospital as I had sliced through the nail and it looked pretty deep. Of course at this information I promptly started crying again and the whole affair had to be re-started.

My finger is now healing fine and only serves me now as a reminder to my moment of complete abandon of all pretence of being an adult. When I was hurt I was unable to look after myself and instead reverted to the kind of ugly sobbing tears that people over the age of 4 have learned to control.

I don't think that I will ever be the conventional grown-up that I see every day. Maybe I will just have to make do with this man-child type intermediate that I have going on right now. Oh well :(

Yeah I'm still not going to bed.

Love Frankles xxx

Pinterest weddings

Sup nerds.

Today I just wanted to talk about something that bothers me slightly. Wedding-inspiration shoots.

Now don't get me wrong, I like any girl can spend hours on Stumbleupon or Pinterest looking at pretty dresses and beautiful scenery and fantasising about when I get married. But I think too much of this over-styled, over-decorated and over-done setup that is only possible with a multitude of stylists and photographers is warping peoples ideas of what is standard at weddings.

Too often, these "inspiration-shoots" aren't correctly identified as such and people could easily mistake them for real weddings (albeit done by people so beyond on-trend its ridiculous) and this idea sets root in their mind. Now brides-to-be are difficult to please at the best of times. do we really want to be grooming the next generation of bridezillas to be unsatisfied with anything but the most perfectly kitsch, homemade and hipster wedding that takes place in an abandoned barn on a summers day, surrounded by newborn lambs!

This mass of visual information is subconsciously affecting the brains of these girls, ranging from preteens who go on pinterest with their friends after school and start planning their future weddings to girls my age and probably older. Now even though I recognise that this is happening to me I still cant help it. take this article on different "drink stations" to have at your wedding.

Adorable, yes, but also almost unobtainable

you would be scouring vintage shops for months collecting all of these things.

Hipster in flat cap not included

Now I'm not saying this is impossible. But really the time required just to get this one aspect of the wedding Pinterest-perfect would take so much time and effort that you would either need to have a trust fund and an army of wedding planners or too much free time and an army of overly patient friends who each owed you a million favours. And this is just one part! you would also need to get the perfect location.

Because frankly darling if it isn't a stunning castle in Ireland whats even the point in getting married!!

And if you dont take adorably perfect pre-wedding photos of you and your intended how will anyone know you are in love??

oh my goodness this is so natural and unplanned!!

So if you really want to spend the next 5 years of your life planning your wedding every second of the day just to be able to invite only 8 people as no more will fit around your refurbished art deco wedding table, and spend the whole day actually missing your wedding as you have to check the seating chart clothesline is in perfect place and that the ice cream buffet is restocked; be my guest. However I would rather plan a decent, realistic wedding in which my guests can enjoy themselves without worrying about ruining the prettiness of the event. And save my effort and money for something slightly more important.

Thats my piece and I just had to get that out, rant over!

Love Frankles

xxxx

Oops I fell off the internet.

Is that a good enough excuse?

yeah thought not.

I haven't blogged in a while. It might have been because I graduated and my life got so incredibly exciting and busy that I haven't had time to mooch about on the internet, but I think we all know that just isn't true. I live on the internet, we have a symbiotic relationship.

The truth is I just haven't wanted to blog about anything. I got a bit sad and lonesome when I graduated, all my friends scattered off to different jobs and places and lives. And I moved with the boyfriend to a tiny fishing town in the middle of nowhere and tried to find a job and a life of my own.
Well that went well clearly. I don't want to go into massive detail about how I felt about all of that because I finally feel like I am out of it. I have turned my imaginary corner and decided that I like things again. So I'm back! maybe. I enjoy blogging, at least I think I do now that I enjoy things again so hopefully this energy will make me want to write things and be a fun human being and express myself about stuff all over again.

In the meantime to entertain you all here are all of the webcomics that I read and waste my time on the internet with. Enjoy!

http://satwcomic.com/- Countries as people. I cant get enough!

http://www.xkcd.com/- Classic nerd humor. Don't know many people who dont read this actually! although maybe that says more about my friends??

http://questionablecontent.net/- Music nerds in like. adorable.


See ya later!

Love Frankles
xxxxx