13thJanuary2012

It's my nan's birthday today, she is now 77 years old. She's the mother of my dad and comes round once a week on Tuesdays. When I was younger all the family use to go over hers on Tuesdays and Saturdays. My mum got her the most beautiful and interesting plant gift I have seen, I really am in love with it !! [Photo of it]. My nan has always been into plants and wildlife, her garden looks very nice in the summer which she gets help with from my aunty Fiona. My nans nickname from me is nanny pony, as when I was younger she got a small plastic toy pony for me which I still have.

As I have fallen in love with my nans gift, I attempted to find ones like it on the internet. I have had no luck, but instead have found something else plant like which is modern and sleek. It's a pot which doubles as a plant vase and a fish tank! You can find it here. This inspires me to design my own ideas, they would all be wacky, cool and useful. Sadly though, I would have no idea how to make my designs or get them publicly known, leading anything I made to be a massive fail. I would love to design jewellery and clothes along with cool gadgets or just nice things to go around the house.

I quite like septum piercings, I wouldn't mind getting one myself when I'm older, but so many people dislike them and none of my friends would like me to have it. That goes the same with my lip piercing however. This summer I will be getting the other side of my lip done, hopefully. It took me many years to know that I definitely wanted a lip piercing, and it looks great! I would have got it done before this summer but I was with Alex before when I had the chance to and he has always said that he would rather me without it. I finally got it done in the summer and told minimum people that I was getting it done, and didn't let anyone know I had it done until they saw me. If people knew I was getting it done, they would have managed to talk me out of it, especially Alex. It was four days later after I got it done that it was shown to Alex and Chris, they were both shocked and couldn't believe I didn't tell them. I remember how it went with Alex so well; as I was talking to him on the phone I asked if it could just be us two who meet up first so I could show him by himself. I was standing waiting for him nervously chewing my Gherkin and covering my lip piercing, as he arrived he was with our friend Matt. I said hello to both of them, still covering it up and after less than a minute Matt left to go somewhere he needed to be then would meet us back there. I was so worried about showing Alex and so scared about what his reaction would be. We talked for a while until Matt got back. As Matt got back I felt like a hug so gave him one, I took my hand away from my face and turned the other way round so Alex wouldn't see, however obviously not well enough because he saw. He made a shocked noise by breathing in deeply and quickly, then said 'I saw it'. Matt must have seen it before as he said 'omg have you only just seen it'. Alex and me hugged then we talked a bit about it after. It wasn't long after until Chris saw it too, he was so gutted that I hadn't told him and got it done even though he didn't want me to have it. Simply I believe people should do what they want to do and not think about what other people will think, as long as it's not hurting them. Be free to be yourself :)