Day Thirty - First Regret

30th June 2015 - First Regret


It's finally the last day of the 30 day June blog!

I never really live with regrets- I truly believe everything happens for a reason. So I can honestly say I have no regrets what so ever.

Short blog today - I'm sure you'll see me again soon for a monthly challenge :)

Day Twenty-Nine - First Time In Hospital

29th June 2015 - First Time In Hospital

I found this photo a few years ago and I remember my mum explaining that this was me, when I was in hospital for the first time. Every winter as a youngster I managed to be hospitalised with a condition called croup. It is a very chesty cough and you find it so hard to breathe when you have it and are sometimes put on a nebuliser. I'm still surprised that I was never diagnosed with asthma.

Day - Twenty-Eight - First Death

28th June 2015 - First Death

I'm guessing this means the first death I remember and that would be my granddad [my dad's dad]
It happened in August 1998 when  I would have been 6 years old. I don't remember everything about it but I know that he had cancer. I remember going into his hospital room the day before, which would have been his birthday, and he was very yellow and not himself, obviously the side effect of his illness.

He had received a mars bar from one of the hospital staff as a present but was unable to eat it so me and my brother had half of it each. I don't remember a lot about him, but all I know is that my dad literally looks so like him, it freaks me out.

Day Twenty-Seven - First Kiss

27th June 2015 - First Kiss



Probably when I was a second old by my mum ;)

Day Twenty-Six - First Pet

26th June 2015 - First Pet


Technically the first pet I owned was a giant rabbit called Floppy. We only owned him for 2 weeks as my mum was too scared to put him outside in case he got eaten by a fox! He now lives at my nan's old workplace and is a daddy.

I don't have any photos of him so instead here are a few of my nan's old dog Max. He passed away in 2008 when he was 10. I loved him and he loved me :)

Day Twenty-Five - First Thing You Do When You Get Home

24th June 2015 - First Thing You  Do When You Get Home


I have very varied shift ending times.

Monday - I finish at 5.30pm
Tuesday - I finish at 6.30pm
Wednesday - I finish at 12pm
Thursday - I finish at 5.30pm
Friday - I finish at 2.30pm

But usually, when at 5.30 or 6.30 the first thing I do is eat dinner. My mum has usually prepared and cooked it as by the time I get in I am sooooo hungry!

Day Twenty-Four - First Sport

24th June 2015 - First Sport

I've never actually joined a sports class throughout my 23 years like some people do. I've never been interested in dancing, cheerleading, gymnastics - normal things that a little girl loves to do. One thing I do remember doing every weekend at my nan and granddad's house though is taking my bike around the park with my brother and younger cousins.

Day Twenty-Three - First Wish

23rd June 2015 - First Wish

I'm not entirely sure what my first wish was, but I do remember being about 3 years old and really wanting a sibling. I saw my cousins basically as sisters but I wanted one that I could keep and play with all the time. I finally got my wish a year and a half later when my baby brother came along :)

Day Twenty-Two - First Room Mate

22nd June 2015 - First Room-Mate

I'm not quite sure what to put as the answer to this, as I still live at home with my family and have never been to uni or away from my family for a long period of time. The longest I've been away from home was when I get to Egypt for 2 weeks back in July 2012, so I suppose we can call Rachel a room-mate. She's the best room-mate, she's basically a dark haired version of myself. We're very similar and she doesn't snore so that's always a bonus. Here's a few snaps of us in Egypt :)

Day Twenty-One - First Detention

21st June 2015 - First Detention

I honestly think the first detention I ever got was in high school aged about 13. I was the perfect angel any other time, I think this was because I didn't do homework or something silly. I've never been a naughty child, always quite shy and never wanting to get told off. Even now I'm still like that, do everything I'm told at work and don't like getting told off.

Below are a few snaps of me at school :)

Day Twenty - First Film You Remember Seeing

20th June 2015 - First Film You Remember Seeing


Weirdly enough I was discussing films with my friend when we went out for a meal last week and they were all saying how they loved Disney films when they were younger, but I honestly don't remember the storyline of many Disney films. So, the first film I remember seeing wasn't one of those it was...

 

Like any girl back in the 1990's I loved the Spice Girls. I knew the words to everyone of their songs and to be honest I probably still do. They were my favourite and I've lost track how many times I've watched their movie when I was younger.

 

 

 

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Nineteen - First Country You've Been To

19th June 2015 - First Country You've Been To

I've basically wrote about my first holiday abroad in this blog so it may be worth just reading this

https://hollies-little-treasures.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=DuJxCU4BAAA.OmxyCcm3PY2b2HIfOcaZWA.Uy77Mc8vzINeCUzzNjSK8Q&postId=6874881138852421982&type=POST

Day Eighteen - First Piercing

18th June 2015 - First Piercing

You'd expect most people to say they don't remember having their first piercing as it was their ears when they were a baby. Well my first piercing was my ears but I was 13 years old! I remember when I was younger the thought of someone making a hole in my ear made me feel physically sick, I didn't care that I couldn't wear pretty earrings and I was smug that I didn't need to be told to take my earrings out in P.E.

I don't know what changed but I remember my mum asking what I wanted for my birthday as I turned into a teen but I was adamant I wanted my ears pierced and to buy some different coloured earrings. So that's what I got! Since then I've had a second hole pierced in my ear, but I don't see myself having any more piercings. Two is enough :)

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Seventeen - First Broken Bone

17th June 2015 - First Broken Bone

Thankfully I've only ever broken one bone in my life and thankfully I don't remember it. I was around 18 months old when I broke my collar bone by falling off a kitchen counter. I'm not entirely sure how it happened but I'm sure I screamed the house down! Even now sometimes I feel a bit of a pain in my shoulder and have to stop using that particular side of my body for a while until it subsides.

I actually don't know how I haven't broken my bones in my life, I'm the most clumsy person I know. I've sprained my ankle/wrist, had plenty of falls but never broken a bone since. How lucky!

This is me with my arm in a sling. My mum clearly had to do all the buttons up on
my cardigan to stop me moving it LOL!

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Sixteen - First Concert

16th June 2015 - First Concert

The first ever concert I went to was at Earls Court in December 1999 to see the spice girls! My dad's friend somehow got me backstage passes and I met the band with my nan haha!

Unfortunately we didn't own a camera back then so I have no photos with them but I vividly remember hugging Mel C and getting the courage to ask her for an autograph (she was my favourite as I was somewhat of a tomboy.)

We were pretty near the stage and I remember little 8year old me singing along to every song. I'll never forget that night and since then I've been to over 20 more concerts, I think I'll still be going to them when I'm 80!

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Fifteen - First Thing I Did Today

15th June 2015 - First Thing I Did Today

Today was Monday morning and therefore the first thing I did when I got up was get dressed in my work uniform which is the worst material when it's muggy and my workplace loves to have the radiators turned on constantly. After that I did my hair, make up, eat my breakfast and then brush my teeth. Then off I went to work for 9 and a half hours :(

I literally can't wait to sleep tonight. It's 5.30pm when I'm writing this, I've had the day from hell and now I'm off to go for my weekly weigh in. I hope I've lost weight this week :(

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Fourteen - First Sleepover

14th June 2015 - First Sleepover

I don't overly remember my first sleepover because the likelihood is that it was with my cousin when I was about three or something. I never really had sleepovers with school friends as my house is so small that they wouldn't even be able to fit in my bed or get a mattress and sleep on my floor. I did spend some nights at Rachel's house though, who I've known since I was about 3. I remember one night when the Olympics were on we literally stayed up until about 4am watching the motor biking [we don't even like motor biking?!] and got some good old WKD bought by one of the boys she lived near.  He was about 18 and his mum actually caught him buying it for us hahhaa! We actually did manage to get drunk on it somehow although my teeth killed as it's so sweet. The bottles were thrown in the bush in the garden and we blamed it on the chavs walking along her road after a night out LOL!

Oh so attractive!

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Thirteen - First Best Friend

13th June 2015 - First Best Friend

Like a lot of children, my first best friend was my cousin Danielle, who was 15 months younger than me. We used to stay round each other's houses, even stay round my Grandparents house at weekends. Go to the park together, make up songs and dance routines pretending we were in a girl band. Unfortunately, when we became teenagers we didn't see each other as much, only on special occasions like birthdays/Christmas'.
Below are a few pictures of us throughout the years.

When Danielle came on holiday with us. I think this was around 2005

I was probably about 6/7 here

When we got matching doll's prams at Christmas!
This must have been about 1999ish

A Family Party in December 2014

A Family Christmas in 2008

Danielle's 21st In 2014

This was about my FIRST best friend. But I do just want to say a big happy birthday to one of my best friends now Nicole! I hope you have a fantastic birthday love you!

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Twelve - First Ride On An Airplane

12th June 2015 - First Ride On An Airplane

My first ever holiday was in the UK, in the south west of England in Cornwall. But when I was 9 years old I went on my first ever plane journey to Portugal. I'd never been abroad before this age, so had never truly experienced anything like a "proper holiday."


We rented out an apartment for a week, owned by my dad's friend, self catering and I really enjoyed it. It had a communal pool, restaurants in the complex and a bus if you wanted to venture out.

Now as some of you may know I actually HATE flying with a passion, I don't talk until the seatbelt light fades away and we're classed as "safe" I don't know where my hate of flying comes from as my parents and little brother don't mind it at all. I remember this particular holiday though was before any of the plane hijackings took place and me and my little brother were actually invited to go into the cockpit, as my mum told the air hostesses this was our first time flying on an airplane.

I have never seen so many levers and buttons in my entire life and I can still vividly picture it all now.

I get a break from being on an airplane this year as I'm off on the Eurostar to Paris in a month :)

 

Not quite sure what we're doing here?

The train that takes you to the beach

Not quite sure of the outfit choice here mum?!

See you tomorrow!
Hollie x

 

Day Eleven - First Teacher

11th June 2015 - First Teacher

The first teacher I actually remember was my reception teacher Mrs Howe. Now she probably wasn't my first teacher as I was in Nursery from the age of 3, but I don't remember those ones so I thought I'd do a bit on the first one I actually remember.

Mrs Howe was a short lady, probably around the age of 55, and always had a smile on her face. I loved her that much I think I cried when I realised she'd not be my teacher forever. So you can imagine how happy I was that she was leaving reception and joining Year 1 and was going to be my teacher for another year!

I do miss being 5 years old and not having a care in the world.

See you tomorrow!
Hollie x

Day Ten - First Person Thought Of Today

10th June 2015 - First Person Thought Of Today

The first person I thought of today was my mother seen as she is the one who woke me up at 8.30am by calling me from work to ask me to get a phone number out of her address book! So I wasn't in the best of moods today unfortunately. I always tell her to take her address book in her bag. But nope, she doesn't listen :(

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Nine - First Person Spoken To Today

9th June 2015 - First Person Spoken To Today

Considering I started work early this morning the first person I spoke to was my mum and that was only me shouting bye as I walked out the door. I give myself about 25mins to get ready on a weekday morning before I start work at 8, so the last thing I can actually do is sit down and have a chat. But unfortunately, because I work in a GP Surgery part of my job is to talk a lot so as soon as I started at 8am I was non-stop talking until 5.30. No wonder I always have sore throats eh??

See you tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Eight - First Car

8th June 2015 - First Car

I passed my driving test on 2nd September 2010 and bought my first car on the 15th and here she is! Polly the Fiat Punto. By far the most irritating thing when you buy your first car is the fact that your yearly insurance fee is more expensive than the car itself! But she did me well. I had her from September 2010 - March 2014. In the end she kept needing to be fixed and it just seemed easier to get at least some money for her before she died completely. So I'm now onto my 2nd car - A silver citreon c3.

 

See you tomorrow

Hollie x

Day Seven - First Job

7th June 2015 - First Job

This is something you probably wouldn't see many 23 year olds write.

I'm still on my first job.

 

 

 

I left school aged 17 in February 2009 and literally spent 9 months giving CVs out to various places, even places where I really did not want to work. I'm one of those people who never knew what I wanted to do when I completed my education.

The big break came when my mum went to a doctors appointment, which happened to be with the boss who my mum knew pretty well. She explained how hard I'd been trying to get a job and he actually offered to give me a 6 month contract to see how I got on! This was 2 days after my 18th Birthday. I didn't even need an interview which was handy as I suck at them, I really physically cannot promote myself.

So yep, here I am 5 and a half years on, still a doctor's receptionist, admin assistant and occasionally a website and newsletter editor. I do like my job, I like talking to our regular older patients who come in often, and meeting all the new little babies joining the practice. I see myself being a receptionist now, it might not be at the GP Practice forever but it's okay right now :)

See you tomorrow

Hollie x

 

Day Six - First Alcoholic Drink

6th June 2015 - First Alcoholic Drink

Oh the joys of being 12/13 and being allowed your first alcoholic drink on Christmas day with your family. I say alcoholic, but the drinks that little old teenage me would drink - well let's just say I'd probably need a whole crate of these now to get drunk.

 

 

I don't know which one was literally my first alcoholic drink, but these are the two drinks that my nan would buy me & my cousins while the adults had wine and beer. I remember one year I pretended I was really drunk when I'd probably had two Bacardi Breezers.

 

Oh how times have changed - I would go and have a drink now, but I'm currently at Wembley Stadium so it might have to wait until tomorrow - I'm not paying their prices :)

 

See You Tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Five - First Love

5th June 2015 - First Love

I honestly don't believe I've ever been in love, which some would find  23 year old saying odd, but it's the truth. Although lots of my family members found love young - my parents were 14, my nan was 13, my cousin is 22 and been with her boyfriend for 4 years, I just haven't found mine yet. I'm not worried though - I hope I have lots of years ahead of me yet.

I'll get back to you in ten years for this daily blog :)

 

See You Tomorrow!

Hollie x

Day Four - First Profile Picture

4th June 2015 - First Profile Picture

I'll be honest, about six months ago I went through my Facebook profile pictures and deleted all the disgusting, embarrassing pictures that I thought I actually looked good in.

So this probably wasn't my first profile picture and I don't even know why I didn't delete this!

This photo was in May 2008, the last day of Year 11. One of my friends came round for a KFC takeaway and she wanted to curl my hair with GHD's. I actually can't believe this photo was taken 7 years ago, I literally look the same but just with a thinner face, better hair and I've learnt to attempt to remove my arm from the frame when I take a selfie.

See you tomorrow!

 

Hollie x

Day Three - First Person Subscribed To On Youtube

3rd June 2015 - First Person Subscribed To On You tube

I'm not subscribed to that many channels on you tube so I thought I'd go through a few that I watch religiously. I have a tradition that every night before I sleep I have to watch new vlogs uploaded by my favourites.

The Shaytards
These were actually the first ones I subscribed to
on you tube. I remember a few of my friends
talking about how a you tube family were due a
new baby any day and how I had to watch it as it was so exciting! I didn't really understand how you can be excited for a family you didn't even know. But now, five years on, I'm still watching every video they add to their channel and still enjoying every single one. I've seen two of their babies being born and I hope there's going to be more. :)

 



                                                                                                                   CaseyLavere

This is actually Shay's younger brother,

who I subscribed to as soon as he created his channel. He has a similar sense of humour to Shay, and a similar love for his family and friends. His children and wife are beautiful too. Although his vlogs are usually shorter, they still make me laugh.

 

 

PointlessBlog & Zoella.

These two actually are two separate vlogging channels, but are literally relationship goals. They actually met via You Tube and both seem so lovely. Zoella is more of a beauty guru who also does the odd daily vlog, whereas Alfie aka  Pointless Blog is a daily vlogger. They also upload Sims 4 videos so what's not to love?!

See you tomorrow!

 

Hollie x

 

Day Two - First You Tube Video

2nd June 2015 - First You Tube Video

I can honestly say I have never filmed a video of myself and put it on you tube.

 I idolise people that can do that and not have a fear of being judged. Even daily vloggers who go out in public, talking to a camera with not a care who is looking at them like they have 3 legs and 5 arms are just amazing in my eyes.

The only videos I tend to upload to my you tube channel are ones that I record myself when I go to music concerts. I'm not bothered whether people watch them or not - the only reason I actually upload them is in case my laptop ever has a crazy moment and deletes all of my memories - at least they'd be on my you tube channel and I can download them again.

If you're ever bored and fancy looking at my you tube videos just click here

See you tomorrow!

 

Hollie x

Day One - First Tweet

1st June 2015 - First Tweet


I used a website where you can search for any unprotected twitter accounts first tweet. I saw mine and instantly started crying with laughter about how embarrassing that it is. I'd love to say I was 13 at the time and had a crush on a little Geordie boy who auditioned for X Factor in 2009 but nope, I was 18. I believe I was more "in love" with his voice than him, and also he likes boys so I had no chance anyway.









I think my tweets now are a big more grown up. If I "love" a celeb it's more likely to be a tall, dark and handsome hunk of a man rather than a 5ft odd little 18 year old.

If only you could go back 40,000 tweets and delete the ones that'll come back to haunt you. Like this one has!

 

 

Side note: I'm off to the o2 Arena in London tonight to see Ariana Grande and Rixton - now they are better than Joe McElderry!

 

See you tomorrow!

 

Hollie x

New Daily Blogging Challenge!

New Challenge!

 

 

I really enjoyed the photo challenge that I completed in February of this year. It gave me a reason to blog everyday instead of thinking about what to write about every 24 hours. I take my hat off to daily bloggers thinking of interesting things to keep people reading. So when my friend Nicole decided she was going to do another challenge in the month of June, I thought I would do it also (I hope you don't mind Nic!)

 

Check out Nicole's blog by clicking here.

Day Thirty: Blogger Challenge

Day Thirty: A Photo Of When You Were Happy

I always remember the excitement when I was from the ages of about 5 to 10 of the summer when my Nan would gather all of the cousin and we'd go to Littlehampton Beach for the day armed with our packed lunches and bucket and spade. Even though English weather isn't exactly amazing, we'd love to run into the sea as soon as we got there even though it was freezing cold.

Got to love being a little kid, how I wish I could go back all those years.

:)

Day Twenty-Nine: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Nine: A Photo Of Someone You Find Attractive

Obviously Danny from The Script is my first choice, but I've already swooned over him, so let's go for X Factor's latest winner - Ben Haenow.

He's talk, dark and handsome and that's it really.

He's also from Croydon so he could technically bump into me one day and fall in love. I can hope.

:)

Day Twenty-Eight: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Eight: A Photo Of What You Ate Today

This is the dinner that I have just cooked myself - Homemade Pizza and Homemade Chips!

The pizza base is a weight watchers pitta bread cut in half so it makes two bases. I then put tomato puree, onions, peppers, mushrooms, ham and cheese onto them and cooked in the oven. The chips are just potatoes cut up and sprayed with BBQ frylight and a bit of salt and pepper on them and they were put in the oven too. Easy peasy!

:)

Day Twenty-Seven: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Seven: A Photo Of Last Summer

This is a photo of me & Rachel at Wembley Stadium in June 2014 watching the Capital Summer time Ball. We saw acts such as Rixton, Little Mix, Rita Ora, Jessie J, Ella Henderson, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran and Cheryl Cole, amongst others. Not bad for £80!

We did actually go the year before as well but we got standing tickets meaning we were standing from 2pm until 10pm! I literally couldn't walk and my feet had swollen red so I'm glad we got seated tickets this time.

It was an amazing day and hopefully we go again this year!

:)

Day Twenty-Six: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Six: A Photo Of Your Favourite Weekend

Although this was more "a few hours" than a weekend, this is one of the best weekends ever. In December 2013 I got the chance to meet Kieron Richardson from Hollyoaks, as he threw a Christmas Party for fans that listen to his radio show. Not only did I meet the man himself, but I met friends I'd made through twitter for the first time as well. We chatted loads, took photos, played games. It was such an amazing day and also the first time I'd been to Manchester! He's as lovely in person as he is over twitter/on the phone

:)

Day Twenty-Five: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Five: A Photo Of A Night You Loved

This is from my 21st Birthday party in November 2012 - I was a bit apprehensive about filling the hall up as I don't exactly have loads of friends - but everyone I did invite came and so did my mahussive extended family and family friends. I got thoroughly spoilt and had an amazing time. I love this photo too asit has all my best friends in it. I even had it on my Barclays Debit Card for an amount of time

:)

Day Twenty-Four: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Four: A Photo That Your Hair Looks Nice In

As much as I love a fringe, there are certain days you want your hair out of your face, but still straight and looking nice and I came up with this hair style. Even though my face looks weird my hair looks pretty good

:)

Day Twenty-Three: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Three: A Photo Of Your Friend As A Baby

Nicole doesn't even know I have this photo - It's stolen off of her facebook page LOL but isn't she a cutie? We didn't know each other back when we were babies - we met when we were 11 but I know that we'll still be friends whenever we have our own babies and they can grow up together

:)

Day Twenty-Two: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-Two: A Photo Of Your Town

This is a photo of my local high street - full of shops. I always find that I buy more things here than I do if I go into London more for the day. As much as people say Sutton is boring, it's not really. We have various pubs, clubs, bars, shops, cinemas, bowling, restaurants and parks for the kids.

:)

Day Twenty-One: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty-One: A Photo Of You Standing Up

This is a picture of me in August 2013 while on holiday in Mexico with my family and yep I'm standing up! I loved this holiday so much. This was taken just in front of the Spanish tapas restaurant, and it had amazing views of the beach. We were sitting watching the sunset for a long time which was beautiful. Also, I loved this dress (it's still in my wardrobe but miles too big) and the shoes matched perfectly. I want to go back to Mexico some time.

Also, my dad is 50 tomorrow - Happy Birthday old man!

:)

Day Twenty: Blogger Challenge

Day Twenty: A Photo Of Something You Enjoy

It's quite fitting that this category is today because I love seeing my "internet friends." As I've discussed before on this blog I have friends that I have made through twitter and we've been talking everyday for almost 2 years now and today they're coming to my town [minus Hazel and Becca...:(]

I've obviously pre-written this blog but I would have picked April and Laura up from  Gatwick airport at lunchtime and met Sammy this afternoon at the train station so by the time this blog goes up we're probably in a restaurant somewhere eating the entire menu.

I honestly love spending time with these girls and because we don't see each other very often we always make the most of our time together. I'm probably going to spend a fair bit of money over the next 3 days but they're worth it. I'm going to take them to Madam Tussuards which I'm excited about and going to attempt to give them a tour of London.

Love you all!

:)

Day Nineteen: Blogger Challenge

Day Nineteen: A Photo Of A School Trip

The only school trip I remember taking pictures of was a day-trip to France when I was in High School but I have no idea where the photos are! So, even though this sports day was in the sports centre located opposite my primary school, it's still a trip because we had to travel!

I actually came 3rd in my race and got a medal - I'm not even fast!

:)