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01/27/11--08:24: VOV on a budget (chan 1595797)

I seem to be getting closer to completing my VOV cosplay without even trying, found a teal top ( though its the wrong neckline which I realized after I bought it but hey.. it'll do for now) won my ebay auction on a leather jacket which from the picture looks perfect colour wise! & got some tights from hong kong (with a free hair bobble gift, which is an awesome bobble as a girl thats always struggled for a good stretchiness bobble for my hair haha) Although I've only managed to pay for these because I sold a playsuit for double the price I paid for it which is amazing! So just the skirt n boots to go n its done :D

P.S buying knitting needles n wool to attempt to start knitting eep.


01/27/11--16:47: Dammit! (chan 1595797)

I thought I found the perfect top for my TPO/TBB costumes, but its got some crappy ruching at the front, bought it thinking it would be ok but it looks rubbish! damn, its the perfect colour as well! So the list to get as follows

* TPO/TBB light purple top
* VOV/VATD brown boots
* VOV Denim skirt
* VOV knitted scarf

Then thats those 3 outfits done :D

Sorry for the Amy spamming, just keeps it straight in my head to write it down :D


01/28/11--14:08: Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! (chan 1595797)

Today has been a day of Amy Pondness! I got my teal top through which although it is the wrong neckline its great!





Its darker than it looks in this photo




Also got the black jeggings I bought but unforchunately they are milesss too big for me :( oh well

And then I noticed the royal mail card to say I had to pick up a parcel at the collection centre & guess what it was .... my Noa Noa dress! I loveeeeee it! I'm so glad I got the XL because I've got a decent chest on me and it fits perfect round my chest, but I will have to get it taken up & in a little ( luckily my best friend is a fashion graduate & I've agreed to set her and ebay account up and she'll take the dress in for me :D)

But best of all..... I have a lead on the Noa Noa scarf! despite the fact I more than can't afford it, if it turns out to be a good lead i will be buying it, no way I can pass it up!

So all in all a good day, now sitting in on a friday night doing hee haw though.... how's everyone else? :)


01/29/11--15:50: I suck at life! (chan 1595797)

So I decided to go out for my friends birthday tonight before realising if I'm getting panicky at work then I'm not gonna fair well in a pub full of people! So I came home :| I suck at life .... gonna need to get over this!

In other news my noa noa scarf is on the way & I got my VOV jacket.... Not totally the perfect style but colour wise its pretty damn close!






Cut my eyes out the picture since I'm wearing daft fake eyelashes!




So yeah, thats my stuff :)


02/05/11--15:39: Meh (chan 1595797)

So its a saturday & I'm sitting in. Yayyyy lol, mega boring but since I've got like no money :( But still I get paid in 2weeks & I'll be back at club so should be back to normal :) Well I'm going back on a friday cause its not so busy, means I can ease myself back in.

At my other job they've got me covering shifts at the petrol station which has been so much better than going in and them having to find me jobs to do, its good cause its not as busy & people are in & out quick. Work have been so supportive so I'm hoping by being in the garage I can stop causing them bother.

Getting my hair cut tomorrow, it desperately needs it & my friends a hairdresser so he's doing it and letting me owe him the money, just getting ends off and layers cut in :)


Looking at Pirate Pond costume, I'm obsessed with her coat! I love it, are we thinking its a custom made one yeah? This saddens me! :(


02/14/11--17:00: Excuse my language but .. (chan 1595797)

ever have one of those days you want tell every single irritating person to FUCK OFF!?


02/18/11--20:06: Ah Crap.... (chan 1595797)

I just bought Amy's VOV/VATD boots .... I had to though right? And £59.17 with shipping isn't THAT bad ............. Somebody justify this for me! Haha


02/22/11--18:18: Tinie Tempah <3 (chan 1595797)

Went & saw Tinie Tempah at the ABC in Glasgow tonight despite all this stuff with panic & anxiety around lots of people n I'm so glad I did! He was AMAZING! I know he's big in the UK but he is going to be MASSIVE worldwide this year. I love him! <3


02/23/11--20:06: Life.Anxiety & Amy Pond (chan 1595797)

I've decided I need to pick myself up! Yeah I'm still having trouble with panic attacks & anxiety (btw any advice on how to deal with these would be great since as lovely as he is my doctor is being less than useful!) I've decided I can at least try and look my best by making an effort! Cause hopefully if I look nice my mind will be tricked into feeling nice!

I've also bough my BEAUTIFUL lomography camera, can't wait till it gets here because I'm so excited to learn how to use it & take some amazing pictures, even though I ideally want to be a police officer one day I LOVE photography & my friends seem to think I've got a talent for it so I'm going to try and reapply for this Photography start class, because I enjoy it & its a nice distraction!

Finally on my next payday (18th of March) I'm going to get a treatment on my hair (& probably some highlights) to enhance my red hair, I love being a ginge & but I want it to be more vibrant! & so I'm waiting till after that to get some Amy photo's!

I think I'll be doing TPO/TBB costume but I don't like the cowboy boots I have ( I have kinda shapely calfs so its hard to find nice fitting ones!) & I need a better coloured purple v neck so at least I have some time to find some new ones hopefully!

I want to go to a con dammit! I hate being the only one that cosplays near me! :(


Oh & RUSSELL HOWARD LIVE NEXT WEEK! SO F*CKING EXCITED!!


02/24/11--16:22: Bit pissed tbh (chan 1595797)

not feeling the cosplay love, had another cosplayer being less than nice to me & tbh none of my friends cosplay so if the love isn't shared between fellow cosplayers then why bother? Grrr pissed! lol


02/28/11--16:06: Update! (chan 1595797)

Well I've had a rough few days! I worked Friday day, friday night & saturday back shift at work as a favour n the place was mobbed on saturday which resulted in me waiting for over 4hours for my break which in turn ended up with me getting the migraine from hell! Dragged my ass into work on sunday night, lasted 36minutes before having to go home n its taken up until about 3hours ago for it to subside :( Genuinely hope I don't get into trouble at work cause I really couldn't help it :( I was in a lot of pain, kept being sick general hell! lol

In other news, I had a dream that I met up with some other DW cosplayers it was an awesome dream... Once I get my laptop back & get the next two weeks out the way I'm going to try and get some more Amy costumes done ... I just can't give it up it makes me dead happy n I have so much love for other cosplayers, I get blown away with other peoples costumes I hate the idea of someone disliking me :S

But yeah next two weeks consist of - Russell Howard, Vanilla Ice (Ice Baby!) & Boyzone aswell as various birthdays So once thats out the way its photo time!

So yeah hows everyone else?


03/03/11--16:53: Verbal Warning (chan 1595797)

for being off sick, they were actually really nice but I genuinely can't help being ill. FML :(


03/08/11--17:08: Charity! (chan 1595797)

Hello boys & girls of Live journal . . . .I have decided to do The Race for life this year, I was too ill to do it last year so I'm going to try n do it this year :)

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/debbiesloan1987

That is my page, if anyone could donate a couple of pounds it would be really appreciated! :)


Thanks Debbie xx


03/10/11--17:13: Take (chan 1595797)

a long hard look at yourself, how did you end up here?


F'ing tune! Biffy Clyro - Folding Stars


If you haven't heard it, get it youtubed now!


03/12/11--17:58: BOYZONE! (chan 1595797)

I went to see Boyzone in Glasgow tonight

Now I wasn't too keen on going, not because I'm not a fan cause I am - I love Boyzone I've met both Keith ( lovely lovely man) & Shane (bit of a prick tbh). But Stephen was always my favorite growing up & I was devastated when he died & I wasn't sure I'd like to go to see them when he isn't part of it. But my sister LOVES them so she could only go if I went so I did . . . And Oh My God

I have never cried at a gig so much in my life ( for thems that don't cry at gigs, I do I cry at emotional songs . . ie when I went to see Biffy Clyro I cried at Folding Stars cause its about Simon Neils mum passing away) But oh god I cried so much, but it didn't feel bad, the concert was amazing such a brilliant tribute to him & it actually felt good to cry if that makes sense? Kind of therapeutic? Awesome gig, genuinely one of the best I've been to

I know all this might sound daft to some but this band was a big part of my childhood <3


04/02/11--18:48: Reaaaally (chan 1595797)

down in the dumps just now. I cannot get a straight answer out my work about holidays/hours/time back! Its winding me right up cause our holidays have to be in a year in advance (YEP YOU READ RIGHT! A WHOLE YEAR!) I put mine in in April last year and have been bugging them for MONTHS and they finally checked and not one has been put in! Best of it is they are trying to blame me!

Feel like I'm going no where so yeah PISSED OFF!


04/03/11--15:08: I have got a MASSIVE headache but (chan 1595797)

 I have to say a HUGE thank you to remiem for my new layout & user picture! I LOVE it, I know it was as a thank you for sending the jacket but I really appreciate it! :D 

And now to bed, sore head . . Hey that rhymes :P


04/12/11--14:44: Amy Hair (chan 1595797)

See the way that Amy pins her hair back in the new series, I tend to wear my hair pinned back anyway cause I'm constantly growing out my fringe but I tend to use kerby grips but I want a different clip for cosplay but I cannot for the life of me remember what they are called... not butterfly clips? HELP! Haha


04/23/11--13:35: Wow (chan 1595797)

Haven't posted here in a while!

So update! Well I'm hopefully moving over to the petrol station permanently! And if I don't get the move I'll be raging cause there is another guy supposed to be moving over too and if he takes my hours I'll be fuming cause I've been filling them for like 3months!

Em what else? Well Doctor Who Ep 1 was AMAZING! I cannot WAIT till next week! <3


I'm going to collectormania in Glasgow at the end of August ( My first con YAYYY!) I'm going as either TBB/TPO or Frozen Tardis Amy :D Ive persuaded my friend to costume too and she's going to be someone from Harry Potter (shes undecided as to who yet!) on the condition that I read the Harry Potter books so I'm going to give them a go :)


Oh also I'm really getting into Merlin :)

Hows everyone else?


05/02/11--19:24: Article 5 (chan 1595797)

Hello! Its been a while since I've updated so -

I now OFFICIALLY work in the PFS YAY!! Its been so much better for me over there I can't even tell you so I'm well chuffed that I'm there now :) Dunno what I'm going to do about my 2nd job tho . . cause even though I don't work saturdays just now ( stopped doing them for a while when I got out of hospital) I'll eventually have to go back onto them, I really don't want to cause I still get anxious around a lot of people but it is a nightclub so eventually I'll have to do it ... problem is we close at half 2 n by the time we get cleared up, staff drink (I get a staff taxi home so its not like I can leave early cause I can't make everyone else leave early cause of me!) n I'm a rubbish sleeper as it is so I usually get to sleep at like half 4-5 and now that I'm at the PFS I'll be starting at 11am on a Sunday .. Fair enough its only a 4hour shift but I don't fancy
the lack of sleep!


Haven't been committing as much time to cosplay (boo me but its largely cause of money!) but I have bought a TIA/DOTM shirt ... its coming from hong kong so heres hoping its a decent match :) But when I get paid I'm working on it more! I'm LOVING Doctor Who <3


Em what else? Oh I LOVED The Royal Wedding! - Kate looked STUNNING, her dress was amazing so beautiful & classic, she did her own make up aswell! She's so gorgeous she's definitely a style crush of mine, its her and Karen Gillan that are at the top for me! I was fairly gutted I agreed to work at 2 though cause my friends decided to hold a last minute garden party :( and I worked till 11 ( although cause it was a public holiday I'll have been getting paid about 17quid an hour so swings and roundabouts!)


Ohhh and I think I like a boy :P


Anyway hows everyone else?


06/05/11--09:40: Article 4 (chan 1595797)

Tis been a while since I updated but yesterday was the best day ever! Doctor Who was EPIC!! Jai won BGT (pretty sure the whole of Ayrshire will have an epic phone bill!)Aaaaand two of my friends got new jobs so we had a hotub/champagne party at my friends house! So today is hangover Sunday (without the hangover for me!)


06/29/11--17:44: Long time no see!! (chan 1595797)

Woaaaaah its been ages since I've been on here! Sorry boys n girls I've been neglecting you (& you miss Pond!)

Well I'm still working away at my two jobs, thinking of giving the nightclub up I'm still not back on a Sat cause of my anxiety n they've been amazing to me but I dunno if its right for me anymore :(

Once I get paid I need to get my Amy costumes together! Actually need someone to make me a checklist for my outfits n kick me up the ass n make me do them!

I also need friends to go to cons with its so unfair! :( Lol

Anyway hows stuff with you guys? :)


08/02/11--16:34: Nobody said it would be this hard (chan 1595797)

Sorry guys I have pour my feelings out on here cause on both my Facebook n Twitter I have family members n I really don't want to upset them. Basically 2011, this month in particular has been shit,shit, shitty, so many bad things are happening.

A lady I work with died from cancer last week & she was such a wonderful person, properly caring and looked after me whenever I was ill, I'll forever remember her being so dead against me changing my hair cause she knew every time I got it cut n a fringe cut in that I'd grow it straight back out again.

But my uncle is dying from a brain tumor, actually 4 tumors, he had it a few months ago n seemed to be getting better but then he was taken in again & they gave him only a few weeks left & today I got in from my friends and my sister told me that the nurses have told my mum he only has a few days at most.

I went and saw him on Monday night n he couldn't keep his eyes open or speak but I held his hand and he squeezed it so I know he knows we're there. I'm so so gutted especially for my dad, its his brother and they are so similar both my dad and my uncle are quiet, wonderful (anything for a quiets life) type of people. My mum tells me that even though its devastating its just one of those things, and even though I know she's right I feel so angry! My uncle is a wonderful man yet there are all these horrible lowlifes out there that get to carry on living their lives whilst an amazing person dies, how is this fair? I genuinely don't know how to say goodbye, I know he knows that he is terminal but I don't want him to know that he will die soon by saying goodbye to him.


Like I said so many bad things are happening, my sister's friend died in a fire, then I know that they aren't specifically related to me but the tragedy in Norway too . . How is life fair?

I'm so sorry if I've upset/bummed anyone out writing this but I felt I needed to write it down to attempt to make sense of it (if that makes any sense?)


09/26/11--20:11: I really really really (chan 1595797)

want to go to Hub 7!! :( Is anyone else going? :(


11/28/11--15:45: Finally! (chan 1595797)

Got logged in my LJ has been taking the piss lately!

Anyways quick question is anyone going to the DW convention in Cardiff in March? I really want to go!