Another Year Older

Hey Guys!

Okay I know I said I would blog every Wednesday... but I have been crazy busy trying to get my Audience, Message, Context project done. We have to create an advertising campaign imagining the future. My group and I have turned fast food healthy and I've been creating radio commercials for the campaign. Its pretty fun but very hectic! We also have to fill out a visual diary documenting everything we have done individually and as a group... So much printing! And cutting! And gluing! Ugh!

I also have a Consumer Behaviour assignment due in and I had a text last week in Media Theory. Now that it is getting towards the end of semester one, there is a whole heap of work to get done! But I am almost half way through my degree!! EEEEEEPPPPPP!

My photo wall :)

Not alot has happened since the last time I blogged. I've cooked a few sausages at work, celebrated my cousins 30th birthday, babysat, cuddled a newborn :) and put photos all over my bedroom wall and that's about it!

As I am writing this blog, I am counting down the hours till my birthday. In 3 hours it will be my 20th birthday! Its so weird to think that I am about to be 20. I feel old! Least I can claim that I am not 20 until 10:57pm tomorrow night! I don't care what people say, I still believe that you don't turn your next age until the exact time that you were born!

Cherelle and I during our BLACKOUT show days :)

This time two years ago I was doing the Certificate in Radio Broadcasting. I was about to turn 18 and I was SO excited! I was the youngest of my friends and had waited ages to be able to finally party with them, drink with them and buy a lotto ticket (which I didn't win!). The night before my birthday I was recording another one of my BLACKOUT shows (my first show on The Yak FM) with my pals Cherelle and Faith! I remember dancing in the station that night counting down the minutes until it would finally be my birthday! It was so much fun and we ended up making a youtube video that night! CHECK IT OUT! haha (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGJjrIoX8IQ)

This time last year I was in the hospital having ear drum reconstruction surgery. Was very high on medicine and all I remember is the pain! This year I'm partying! Making up for last year! haha.

Me with my 9 year old self! Taken exactly 10 years ago today!

It's crazy what you remember about your birthdays! My whole childhood I remember having slumber parties. We ALWAYS roasted marshmallows on our outside bbq, played a game called Hedgehogs, always played Singstar, watched movies, ate party food and had so much fun! Every slumber party was different though. My 7th birthday was Barbie themed. My 12th birthday we danced all night. and my 16th birthday we got up early the next day and drove to Rainbows End in Auckland. Was so much fun!

I now have 2 hours and 55 minutes until its my birthday. Being 20 seems so odd to me! I am entering another decade of my life. Am no longer a teenager. And to me it seems weird being 19 one day and 20 the next. Never being able to be 19 again! Its all wrinkles and grey hair from now! haha (Well I am hoping the wrinkles and grey hair stay away until I am 50!)

Every single day becomes a memory and this time next year I'll be about to celebrate my 21st birthday and will be thinking back to this moment, back to when I turned 20 and sat in my bedroom writing a blog! haha. But least I can look back on this post and remember what I was thinking about.

Now I have 2 hours and 47 minutes until my birthday... and I still need to do my Consumer Behaviour assignment before tomorrow.

So until next time...

Katie the Radio Girl x