'This is the dawning of the rest of our lives, on holiday'

30/7/10

So I officially finished my GCSEs six weeks ago which means six weeks exactly of not having to think about anything (well minus my Grade 5 flute but that doesn't count. But I passed nonetheless!). But I was told that it starts to get boring but so far I've had the equivalent to what I usually get if I'm not doing exams and I'm really not feeling the need to go back to school to start afresh at Sixth form. I was half expecting to be itching to get back to start - and finish - my A levels but I'm happily doing nothing drastically important and wasting my time blissfully.

I really wanted a job to keep me busy over the summer holiday, and in fact i still really want one now but I've not been able to get hold of one because of the economic climate and the fact that there's actually no point now! In the next six weeks I'm so busy it's hard to put my feet on the ground and it'd also be hard to keep my job on the ground (yes I do count seeing my boyfriend as being busy :])

The plan is:
> I'm going to Turkey for a week in FOUR DAYS! I wasn't previously excited but after talking to a friend who has just come back from Ibiza and told me all of his stories I began to feel the urge to create some stories for me to tell when I got home so I'm now looking forward to it.
> I get back early morning on the Wednesday and on the Thursday I go to Birmingham in preparation for going to Blackpool with my gorgeous one for the weekend! Excited much about this one; It's been talked and discussed a lot therefore I get excited.
>A week at home. Woot. BUT then I'm off to Yorkshire for a week with my father. We're going to Yorkshire because I refused to go to Wales this year after previously going for the past 245568545 years; excuse the hyperbole. But yes a trade off between Wales and Yorkshire... Not sure who wins.

Keep looking for updates and photos of how all the holidays are going or have been! It'll probably be the main consistency of my blog for a while.

All my love, Libby :] x

'And they'll give us a talking to, cause they've got years of experience'

8/7/10

The youth of today. We're portrayed so awfully by everyone, the government, older people, our parents and in fact even the teenagers seem to stereotype other teenagers that they walk by. But the truth is, we're not so bad.

Recently I was walking around town and an old man scowled unnecessarily at me. I checked whether the clothes that I was wearing may have been slightly revealing and inappropriate; they weren't, I wondered if I'd put on too much makeup; I was wearing next to nothing. So I came to the conclusion that this old man must have been scowling at me because of the stereotype of the whole youth of today. I've also had first hand experience of an old woman accusing me of 'pushing in front of her' waiting for the queue for the bus! It seems to me that these people are more childish that than the automatically criminalised teenagers of this society.

Just because sometimes we may walk around in a hoodie, or may be socialising with a rather large group of people, it by no stretch of the imagination automatically means that we want to harm people over 40 or binge drink until our stomachs need to be pumped.
I'm not going to lie, yes we do like a drink, people my age are experimenting with how much they can drink and what makes them hungover and not - but it is the small minority that when having a drink get violent, and an even smaller amount get into serious trouble because of drinking and drugs.

The press are far too inclined to scrutinise teenagers but are not so fast to comment upon the hard work and wonderful things that they can do for their society. Through the press is where the stereotypes have evolved because there is such a lack of good press on the youth. There are far too many articles on teenage pregnancy - which, although it may be high in the UK, most people are sensible!

I reckon we should just get given a break from the scrutiny just a little bit, because how else would we learn to make the right choice without making the mistakes?

All my love, Libby :]
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'Once, when I was Little'

7/07/10

I was very recently reading the autobiography that I created when I was only in year 6 and I realised how so much has changed, and how really somethings will never change.

Reading what I thought were the most important aspects of my life so far up to that point, it really made me think about my priorities and the simplicity of life.

Nothing is ever simple; a child's thought tracks are so complex but, by looking back into the past, I was able to see that for every day that your heart beats you learn some more and everything surrounding your life also gets more complicated and deep.

What never changed about me even though 5 years have passed since I wrote my first mini autobiography is the way I react to certain situations and how I write about them. Ever since I was a small child I wanted to sing, so obviously that was my top priority of writing when I was young!

So, this is me when I was very very young and it's very unfortunate that I really haven't changed. Oh. Dear.

I was born in Burton and moved to the city in which I live in now, Derby, when I was about 5 or 6 to go to a good school and to give me a wonderful education. I obviously built who I was at my Primary school and then moved up to the Secondary school that I attend now, called Ecclesbourne.

It's a good school... but I have an issue with the monotonous and mechanical view of getting ridiculously high grades.

Other than that I have lived a very sheltered life, in fact to the point where I was asked my my English GCSE exam to write about the challenges and hardships that I have faced that were notable and I found it rather difficult! But this by no means goes to then say that when I hit the independent world on my own i will be struggling. To be quite honest, I've had a good upbringing and I'm VERY appreciative of that :D

WISH ME LUCK FOR MY GRADE 5 FLUTE EXAM TODAY! :o

All my love, Libby :]

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'This is the First Day of my Life'

6/7/10

This is my first blog post and I'm going to be honest, I'm very new to this; it is all very alien to me. As my friend and I like to say: 'Hi, I'm Libby, I'm new.'

First of all, let me explain the title of my blog - 'Ad Lib'. The dictionary definition is:
1. Something improvised in speech or music.

2. At one's pleasure; without restriction.

This sums me up very neatly; I like having no restrictions on my thoughts and in my music, I adore beyond compare to just completely let myself go when I sing. (Also the 'Lib' of the 'Ad Lib' is also a nickname of mine but that was just for added effect!)

Next I shall explain the title of my blog. This is a line, and in fact also the title of a Bright Eyes song, notably called 'First Day of my Life'. The song is about feeling as if everything in his life had completely started afresh again after meeting the love of his life. Excusing what seems to be hyperbolic, it is a song about new beginnings and feeling completely new to themselves and their feelings.

I felt this was appropriate for my first blog because it is the start of something that I've never attempted before and it would also be a place to explore feelings and goings on and writing them down in the hope that someone may be interested! Hopefully - though this is just one of my aspirations when it comes to things like this, the novelty may fade after a while - I would like the title of each blog post to be a line from a song that I deem fitting for the subject matter of the post. But hey, we'll see shall we not?

All my love, Libby :]

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