Little Throwback form debs in August Hey guys.. Sorry I haven't posted in what feels like forever (to me anyway) I've just been...

Hey guys.. Sorry I haven't posted in what feels like forever (to me anyway) I've just been really busy with college work I've been finding it hard to fit it all in! The last post I posted was a Fitness Friday post which are usually short but that one was extremely short so I thought we'd have a bit of a catch up/ November Natter. So go on.. Grab a cup of tea or a nice big mug of hot chocolate! :)

So how have you all been? I hope you're doing very well! I've been super busy and super stressed! :( We're coming to the end of the semester in uni so therefore.. assignments are due and exams are soon approaching (hence why I've not been blogging recently). I've a very large accounting case study to have in for the 25th of this month and me being me decided to do it on excel so that it would be worth more marks. So yesterday I was working away on it for most of the day (I had 1 lecture) and what ever I did to try to save my work it didn't save properly so I had lost ALL the work I'd done that day and have to start all of that again! :( So Super stressed Niamh! As this happened you can probably tell I wont have much time for blogging because I NEED to get this done ASAP! I'll try to do 2 posts each week up unitl the 25th (when I hand in the assignment) and then hopefully I'll be able to try balance the study for my exams and blogging a bit better!

I'm still unsure if I will do Blogmas this year.. I do want to but I may not have the time to.. I might try write short little posts until December 14th (when my exams finish). Then start doing longer ones or else I'll do a 10 day count down to Christmas from when I finish my exams because I wont really be doing anything Christmassy before that, except filming a Merry Christmas Message to my friend (you know who you are, if you bother to read this! :P). I do have some Christmassy posts planned once we hit December but they may or may not be separate to what ever Christmas series I decided to do!

Let me know in the comments what posts you think I should do! :) Or leave any other suggestions! ALSO! Tell me what you've been up to the last almost week! I want to know ow ye've been! :)

Love ya,
Niamh x

Hey guys, week 6 and i'm still not fit! ;) I've been so stressed out this week with college work that I didn't get to start Ca...

Hey guys, week 6 and i'm still not fit! ;) I've been so stressed out this week with college work that I didn't get to start Cassey's Blogilaties program.. I'm deffo starting it this weekend and no doubt I'll be tweeting about how much it's killing me ;P

I hope you're all keeping well!

Love ya,
Niamh

Hey guys! Welcome to the 3rd episode of Niamh's November Natters! I hope you all had a great day/ will have one! :) Today was...

Okay Before you all give out to me for writing this post WAY before the actual exams I do apologies but its almost Christmas which means...

Okay Before you all give out to me for writing this post WAY before the actual exams I do apologies but its almost Christmas which means exams are coming up, then the Pre's will be there, then orals and projects due, then before you know it its June 4th and the best 2 or 3 weeks of your lives will start ( note the sarcasm). So for all you non Irish readers the leaving cert is a set of final exams we do here before going to college. They are graded on a points basis and the college place we get is determined by how many points we get in those set of exams. Some think it is a very unfair way of testing, I am one of those people and you'll soon discover why, as it only shows how well students perform on a particular day.

Okay so I'll start with the subjects and levels I took:
Irish- Higher
English- Higher
Maths- Ordinary
Spanish- Higher
Home Ec- Higher
Business- Higher
Geography- Higher
L.C.V.P- Common




So I took a wide variety of subjects as you can tell and they all branched off into many different opportunities. Since I was about 6 I always wanted to be a Primary School Teacher and that never really changed throughout my school life hence the higher level Irish and Geography. I always had my sights set on being a teacher, mainly because I absolutely love children and I have a fairly substantial experience being around them ( I have a TON of little cousins). The teaching course I wanted to do was 470 points in 2012.

So in 2011 6th year came around and as we were told on our last day of 5th year, we had 33 school weeks until the big day (no need to panic yet guys). So naturally I began to try and stay on top of things so that I wouldn't sink (as my business teacher used to say)

The year few much quicker than I expected and before I knew it the orals were beginning. My Irish one went fine (I think), as I'm quite confidant speaking in Irish. HOWEVER, my Spanish one was a disaster. The night before the exam I basically felt like I had forgotten every Spanish word I have ever learned and began to panic hugely (one of the reasons I think I suffer from anxiety). The next day I wasn't much better, I was very jittery in school and just couldn't wait for it all to be over. So I managed to pull myself together a bit and went in to do my oral. When I got in the examiner asked me what my name was in Spanish (obviously), and I answered her back in Irish.. (yeah I know stupid me) and that basically threw me for the whole thing and it was a disaster.


So the day of the exams came around (which was also my 17th birthday!! YAY for exams!!) and I was surprisingly calm considering everything. We started with English paper 1 as always which was fine, then that afternoon was Home Ec, which was possibly the most difficult paper we have ever seen (ask anyone from my year!) But I got through it and moved on. Thursday came English Paper 2, and if you live in Ireland and you know anything about school and the Leaving Cert, you should know that this was the year everyone almost died while doing the paper when we turned over the page and saw that neither Plath or Heaney came up as poets. The feeling in the exam room was kind of un-explainable, you could tell everyone's heart sank without anyone saying a word. It truly was something I had never experienced before. The rest of the exams are a bit of a blur to me as they go by so quickly once you start them.

Before I knew it, it was the 15th of August... RESULTS DAY... I remember this day quite vividly but I'm not going to go into too much detail about this but the outcome was I got 460 points. (Non-Irish readers please note that grading goes up in 5 points per grade, so I missed the 470 by 2 grades). I was devastated, I missed out on my dream course, so yeah the CAO offers came out the following Monday and I didn't get the offer I had hoped for as you can probably guess.. I was in bits, I was crushed, I felt as though everything I had worked for for the last two years was for nothing. So then I had decide what to do next.

Hey guys! to be honest I wasn't planning on posting one of these today but so much has happened today that I just can't not write...

Hey guys! to be honest I wasn't planning on posting one of these today but so much has happened today that I just can't not write about it! :P

So to start off i should only have been studying all day, but then I remembered that the Teen Awards was on, I wasn't able to watch it but I was keeping up with it on twitter as some of you may have seen and I totally freaked out when Zoe won!! :D

THEN Jim Chapman hit one million subscribers on YouTube which caused more fangirling on my part! :) Proud moments all round for the YouTube fandom! :)

I've just watched X-Factor and Little Mix were amazing performing!! <3 I love them so much!! I'm also so SHOCKED that Tamera was in the bottom two.. Like WHAT?? She's so incredible!!

Anyways that's it for now!
Let me know if you like these quick short update posts in the comments below! :)

Love ya,
Niamh x

Hey guys, so I took this tag from Kammi's blog , do please go and check out her answers to this tag too! :) *Google images* MA...

Hey guys, so I took this tag from Kammi's blog, do please go and check out her answers to this tag too! :)

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Good evening guys! :) Tonight's post is the first of my Niamh's November Natters series. If you dont know what this is please re...

Good evening guys! :) Tonight's post is the first of my Niamh's November Natters series. If you dont know what this is please read this post so you understand! :)

So basically all I did today was study.. oh what fun that was.. NOT.. well really but study I mean trying to study while getting distracted by Twitter and the works! but to be honest I'm not surprised at all with that! So I got half of the amount of study done that I wanted to so I'll just have to do the other half tomorrow!

I was also chatting to my bestest friend and we are planning a trip to Dublin after Christmas for some shopping. We are half thinking of vlogging the trip.. Would any one actually be interested in watching that? We've been planning to start YouTube channels since the summer but never got around to it so we think this would be a fun thing to start off with! :) Let me know what you all think in the comments below and also check out his blog! :)

Well I guess that's really it for today's post I'm gonna go make some tea not and watch X-Factor. Who's your favourite contestant? :)

Love ya,
Niamh x

Hey guys, this post has been inspired by Niomi Smart's blog post about her shoe collection (which you can read here , also don't for...

Hey guys, this post has been inspired by Niomi Smart's blog post about her shoe collection (which you can read here, also don't forget to follow her because she's amazing). My shoe collection is an awful lot smaller than Niomi's but here are two of my favourite shoes to wear during the autumn time! Hope you enjoy.

The Wedged Boot.

 Well that's it for this shoe post. Obviously I have been wearing other shoes as well (sometimes :P) but these are the two that I absolutely love to death.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Let me know in the comments other types of posts you'd like to see here! :)

Love ya,
Niamh x

Hey Guys, I've decided to start a new series here called "Niamh's November Natters", and basically this is just going ...

Hey Guys, I've decided to start a new series here called "Niamh's November Natters", and basically this is just going to be some down time for me to write what I feel (I guess kinda like a diary) for the month of November. I'm not guaranteeing that I'm going to post one every night but I'll try my best to write as much as possible.

What I'll be writing about:
Basically I just want these posts to be a little chit-chat for you to read, if there's anything you want to ask me I'll answer all the questions here. This is going to be a space for you to get to know me a little bit more and I'll share any interesting or funny stories that happen to me during the day/week so we can all have a good giggle together! :)

I'll also share opinions on popular things like TV shows I'm watching or new music etc.

Basically if there's anything you want me to talk about just comment them in any of my posts or tweet them to me. I love reading through your comments! :)

Love ya,
Niamh x

Happy Friday guys, yes its time for another Fitness Friday update. As you may know from following my updates that my great big plan to run 3...

Happy Friday guys, yes its time for another Fitness Friday update. As you may know from following my updates that my great big plan to run 3 times a week hasn't exactly been going to plan because of college stress and the wonderful Irish weather we have here. So I've now decided to change up my plan a little (or a big) bit.

During the summer I began using Cassey Ho's Blogilaties program and I really liked it but I found that after about 2 weeks I began to lose track of it, I think this is because I didn't have a schedule and so I've decided that now today is November 1st I'm going to start the program again and hopefully will start to see some results this time!

I did really enjoy using Cassey's program and found that the videos were quick (but not so easy) to do and her bouncy energy made them very enjoyable and fun! I can't wait to get back into using it again! :)

If any of you would like to join me in this new fitness plan Cassey's links are as follows:
Blog: http://www.blogilates.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/blogilates
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blogilates
Instagram: http://instagram.com/blogilates

Love ya,
Niamh x