New Year, Same Stress (and coping with it)

Heyo Guys!
                   How've you all been? How was your Christmas? I hope you all a wonderful time!

However, I know that some of you will be quite stressed at the moment, as for some reason schools find the idea of having exams in January a great idea. Well it's not. From finals in university to the mountains of homework to the revision for mocks, you have to do at the most festive time! The person who decided that was definitely smoking something highly illegal...

After the pigs in blankets are digested and you've lost that special connection with tinsel, you have work staring right and you and no time. I have like 50 pieces of homework and 6 mocks to revise for within the next four day, and I wish I was over exaggerating. My best guess is that many of you can relate to that. So here's my advice for you all.

1) free a day so you can get most of it done.
Time is important, so free a day so you can organise yourself and get most of it done. Stick on a relaxing playlist on Spotify, and do the most important homework first. Homework first then studying, because while you're doing homework, you're technically revising too so you kill two birds with one stone.

2)Get a friend to help you
As I'm writing this, Fandom is coming over to help me revise and get all my stuff done. Not only does it calm me down having my best friend over, but it also motivates me. Having Fandom over keeps me going and she knows how to help me in these scenarios when I get too worked up.

3) Study from past work
This one could be dependent on if you keep your old full books of work but if you do, I find this really works. Grab a highlighter and go through your old school book and go over the techniques you used and the information you put it. Fandom told me she doesn't actually revise and I got really confused because she does so well in school. She said, instead of panicking and cramming information in, she links what she did in lesson, to the thing they were learning. For example,she links trigonometry with playing squares with everyone on her table. Granted, you should actually be doing work in lesson, but writing down the fun things you did in lesson next to you work in your books, you should remember them more easily.

4)Do not stress!!
The godforsaken words that everyone hates! It does really annoy me when people say this. Like how am I supposed to be not stressed when I have all of the responsibilities?!?! Well, I'm not saying it like calm down and do no work, because that'll only stress you out more. Do your revision and work in intervals, 50 minutes working, 10 minutes down time. Set a timer on your phone so you can go back to it. This will make sure you dont overwork yourself. Also, before you sleep, read or watch youtube, meditate or whatever. Let your mind forget about the worries.
When it's late at night and you cant do anymore work, there's no point worrying about it. My mum was talking to me last night and she said when she felt down like when my dad's on night shifts), one of  her favourite things to do, was  listen to the rain. I'm also reading girl online on tour at the moment and in it there's a point in it where she says she likes the rain because she imagines it's her anxiety running to the bottom of the window. So that's my top tip, listen to rain!

Anyway, a little update for you all. I've had a meeting at school with the nurse before we broke up for christmas about my anxiety and she was really nice. I'm having another meeting with her on the 6th. She gave me some booklets to fill out and she took notes and what have you, and she took them back to her office and is going to speak to her colleagues about me. It's all rather strange to be honest but it looks like this could be going in the right direction. I would definitely try speaking to a school nurse if you have one and you need help with depression or anxiety, they're really lovely and trained with this kind of thing. I also created a twitter account, which you can follow here - https://twitter.com/xXlittleoldmeXx if you like ^-^

Also, it new year eve?! what?! 2015 was both the longest and shortest year, and I hope 2016 is  going to our year! I wish you a lovely night and to enjoy it right down to 12:01 on the first of January. So, like the joke literally every person makes, see you next year!

Take care.

Little Old Me, logging off my Little Old World. Xxx

Top 10 Christmas Tunes!

Heyo Guys!

                  Thought I'd get more festive with today's post and do my top favourite Christmas songs! Here we go:

Number 10) Do they know it's Christmas

I love band aid's spin on the festive tone of this song but spreads a serious message to everyone. It'll get you singing the lyrics with all your heart but teaches you how the less fortunate spread their Christmas. I just had to leave a spot on the list for this song!

Number 9) Jingle Bell Rock

As you've seen before on this blog, I have done a dance to this with my school. Although I had two left feet, I actually really enjoyed the time and I can't help but reminisce on all those funny memories with my drama friends attempting to dance. It hits a personal spot and I always jump up to dance to it no matter how bad I am! 

Number 8) Step Into Christmas

Not gonna lie, I know all the lyrics to this because I always sing it to myself. It just one of those songs that get stuck in your head! It's so merry and amazing and fun and Urghghhh! I have a tendency to drag my sister into the middle of the living room and jump about to it haha. 

Number 7) Thankful Heart

This belongs to one of the best Christmas films: The Muppets Christmas Carol. I watch it every year and my family gets extremly annoyed when I'm quoting the lines over the actual film, but when this song comes on I'm surprised they don't kill me. 

Number 6) fairytale of New York

Yet another classic! The instructions to this song are pretty simple: mumble the starting lyrics and mope around on the stop, then grab a friend, start belting out the upbeat lyrics together while miming action and dancing crazily. Pretty simple. I don't think it's Christmas without this tbh. 

Number 5) All I want for Christmas

It would be illegal not to put this in here. The many covers I've heard over the years (my favourite being dodies just saying) and the many ways people song this tune, it unbelievable. Sure once I hear it I can't help but think my ears are going to actually bleed due to it being the zillionth I've heard in in the past week, I still find myself singing it. It wouldn't be Christmas without it. Simple. 

Number 4) Christmas Lights

A less festive and more dismal song. Granted it won't raises any spirits, but it beautiful. Coldplay does their natural thing and performs a truly glorious song. It makes you get lost in thought. The structure behind is lovely too. Upbeat parts, heart felt parts, classic parts. It's wonderful. 

Number 3) merry Xmas 

This is a song that brings back so many memories due to it being the song we always sung after we did our Christmas plays in primary school. It makes me happy and gives me a warm feeling remembering the amazing times I had every year at primary. It's my prime example of Christmas. 

Number 2) A Spaceman came traveling 

I legitimately cry 3/5 times this comes on. It's so pretty and lovely and I could never say anything bad about it. One of my friends preformed this in a choir and recorded it for people to buy for a charity. He was heart broken with it and said it sound horrible, when I heard him; I cried. fandom and I gave him a standing ovation (which I'm not sure you're allowed to do in church. Oops).

Number 1) Carol of the Bells 

My actual favourite Christmas song, it is my ultimate tune to stick on. Granted when I do everyone is really confused, but oh my god; I love it. The choir boys voice are Saint like and it gives me goosebumps when they go over the "merry merry merry merry Christmas" because it's so Christmassy and amazing! It reminds me of all sort of Christmas films but mostly Harry Potter because of that one part. It's just spectacular. 

And thus that concludes my list. I hope you enjoyed something a bit different! Also, I'm experimenting with adding images to my posts to spice up my layout, I hope you like it. 

So what's your favourite Christmas song? Is there any that you despise? Tell me below!

Take care. 

Little Old Me, logging off my Little Old World. Xxx

 

Motivation

Hey Guys!
                 I'm not dead! Quick note-I'm writing this half way through cleaning my bedroom. You see, it's coming closer to christmas and everything is a bit too much. I've been so busy and it's difficult to keep up with myself. As you can see I've not done very good job at maintaining a blog and I'm sorry about that, I really am. I'm done making excuses and all that stuff, I'm just sorry. 

Motivation is a funny thing. It comes and goes depending on how it feels. As you can tell by my last post, I was full of it. I was organised and had everything in order. I made plans for future posts and everything. But after about a fortnight, I lose it. I stopped being so motivated and started getting busy, stressing and everything piled on. 

I don't know exactly what pushed me to make this post or to re-visit my blog, but I did and I'm glad I did. This blog is a place where I'm not afraid to express myself, that's probably why it's anonymous. You guys make me feel accepted and that makes me want to try and even if a post ends up in the drafts for the rest of eternity, I'm trying. So thank you for those little sparks of motivation because it's better than nothing. 

Hopefully, soon I'll post some updates about what's happened since last time I blogged. So I want to know what you've been up to.  Anything interesting? Are you ready for Christmas (or other religious holiday)? Let me know ^-^

Take care. 

Little Old Me, logging off my Little Old World. Xxx