*This post is sponsored by Nectar*
What do you think makes you, you? What makes you individual from everyone else? Is it your hobbies? Your personality? Your lifestyle? How you dress?
I think that it is a combination of all those random little things that you love, and that you hate, that make you laugh, made you cry, your favourite things and your worst. All of those things mashed together is what makes you, you.
When I was younger, I thought that the most important thing in the world was to fit in, to be like the cool girls in your class, to have the same clothes, wear the same shoes, use the same make-up, like the same music, have the same hairstyle.
I spent years and years of my life buying so much crap to ‘stay cool’. One of the first times I realised I couldn’t be the same as all my friends was at a sleepover when I was about 12. They all wanted to watch a scary horror film. I tried so hard to be really cool about it, but by about 20 mins in, I was sitting the wrong way with my back to the TV, fingers in my ears, practically in tears at how terrfied I was about being murdered. I ended up sitting in her kitchen with her mum, drinking tea.
However, it took me a good few more years to stop pretending to be the same as everyone else (otherwise life is unbelievably boring) and learn to voice my own opinions. One of those opinions is that I absolutely hate, with a burning passion, any form of scary movie. I am a comedy, chick flick, action girl. I will even do a murder mystery thriller – but just no horror. And I have no shame about this.
I thought I would compile a list of random facts for you all – of a few random snippets that make me, me.
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24 facts about me.
(There are 24 facts because 24 is one of my favourite numbers. 7 is my all time favourite number – but ‘7 facts about me’ isn’t quite as good of a blog post. I am also 24 years old. My birthday is the 24th of July (the 7 month).
1. Lets start off with a few of my favourite things to get the ball rolling – (she types while humming “The Sound Of Music – These are a few of my favourite things” in her head).
Favourite Film: Notting Hill – I have seen it probably around 50 times. When I am older – I want to live in a house in Notting Hill and spend my Sundays in the private gardens whilst my husband reads ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’.
Oh – and all Disney films – to be watched whilst drinking tea, when you are ill, and are wrapped up in a duvet.
Favourite Song: I have LOADS. Like LOADS… But for the sake of this blog post – one of them is Moonriver from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Either the Andy Williams version or Audrey Hepburn – I am not fussy.
Favourite Book: The Great Gatsby & Pride and Prejudice (/anything by Jane Austen). And I collect old copies of Winnie the Pooh.
Favourite TV series : Obviously Friends. Also Sex & The City, New Girl, Suits, all trashy reality TV – (oh and my ultimate guilty pleasure – Say Yes To The Dress).
2) Rasberries really freak me out. I don’t know why.
3) I can’t spell in grown up letters. By grown up big letters, I just mean how everyone else in the world says A B C D. I spell like a 3 year old using a b c d – baby letters.
4) I have a heart shaped birthmark on the top of my thigh.
5) I would be more than happy if my entire wardrobe was made up of jeans, big jumpers, striped tops, and amazing shoes. It pretty much is already – but I could do with a few more pairs of shoes.
6) I am actually still only 5 years old: my favourite place in the world is Disneyland Paris, I LOVE bouncy castles, I get way too excited about glitter & Play-Doh, and chicken nuggets are still the greatest food.
7) I am named after a football team… I am Jessica Chelsea. Not because my parents liked the name Chelsea. Because my dad supports Chelsea. Yep.
The amount of jokes I get along the lines of, “Oh it’s a good thing your dad didn’t support Sheffield Wednesday”. “Oh yes, HOW ORIGINAL, I have NEVER heard that one before, ha ha ha”. (It did make me seem quite cool to the boys when I was around 16 though. They thought I was a real lad because I knew the offside rule and used to go to football matches).
8) I would always rather have a starter and a main course, than a main course and a dessert. This does not mean I don’t like desserts – give me a chocolate fondant or an apple crumble any day but I am much more savoury than sweet.
9) I travelled round the world after I finished University, and it was the best thing I have ever done.
10) I passed my driving test first time. I first learnt to drive in a rusty, old, amazing Land Rover when I was 16 in a field in Suffolk with my best friend’s dad and my friend cheerleading from the boot – too much fun. The second time I learnt to drive, however, was in London with my parents and not such fun. I, like the rest of the teenage population, used to have SCREAMING arguments with my mother when she used to take me out to practice. SCREAMING arguments. She would cling onto the side of the car whilst trying to break from the passenger seat whenever we pulled up to traffic lights or approached a junction, or whenever she saw a car in a 50 meter radius… She still does this.
11) I pretty much missed 4 years of school from the age of 14-18 as I was really ill. I had to teach myself GCSEs, AS levels and A levels from my bed so that my school wouldn’t hold me down a year, until I was well enough to attend school full-time. But I was a stubborn little sick kid and I still managed to get into Exeter University with 3A’s – an achievement that I am still ridiculously impressed with 6 years on.
12) Because I was ill for the most crucial years of ‘growing up’, I missed out on a LOT of the going out, spending your weekends lying to your parents about where you are, learning how much vodka will make you throw up and how much is fun – which means I will forever be slightly less cool and more socially awkward than all my friends. This meant that I was also painfully shy for years. I would sit in a room and just watch the conversation as I was too scared to speak incase I said something stupid and everyone laughed at me. Now – I make an idiot out of myself regularly and thats a lot more fun.
13) Father Christmas still visits me every year because I am such a good girl.
14) The first job I ever had was working at Abercrombie & Fitch when I had just turned 16 – so I thought I was the COOLEST person alive. I still can’t get over how delicious the topless male models on the door were.
15) My longest friendship has lasted almost 23 years, which is an incredible achievement from us seeing as we decided to be friends at the age of 2, rather than being family friends and forced to be friends that way (however, I now see her and her family as actual family). I met Neva on our first day at nursery and we bonded over swapping clothes in break time. Not much has changed.
16) I think I would be amazing as a contestant on Im a Celebrity- Get me out of here – even though I hate all things that ‘scuttle’ or ‘crawl’, and I am scared of the dark.
17) I used to swim competitively for a swim team 4 times a week and also used to compete in Athletics championships for the 800meters until I got ill. I now struggle to get up the stairs without complaining. BUT I have just joined a gym to get a little bit of fitness back in my life.
18) My life ambition is to have a house in London full of puppies, whilst running my blog AND having my own sucessful property portfolio/ be on ‘Homes Under The Hammer’. My original life ambition was to be a ballerina princess.
19) When I was younger, I used to think that Rome was its own country and that people who lived there were called Romans. #imbosile
20) I have never broken a bone.
21) I am disgustingly competative and stubborn. I have been banned from playing any form of card games with Neva/ any games really. However – if we are on the same team – we are unstoppable (#Pictionary2005). I am also not allowed to play Monopoly with anyone because I end up throwing their rent at them. In a nice way.
22) I am THE WORST person at getting up in the morning. Always, always snooze. Like 10 times. Whilst justifying to myself that I don’t need to do my make-up this morning to get an extra 5 mins sleep/ 9 mins sleep as iPhone has STUPIDLY programmed their snooze time to be.
23) I used to collect snails from around my garden… (Around this snail collecting time, my sister and I also used to run a cafe called ‘Messy Cafe’ where we would collect mud & grass and put it in my Grandma’s food processor with whatever else we could find and make food for our family. We were nice, clean children).
24) I am beyond grateful everyday for the fact that I can blog as a full time career. Seriously. It makes me too happy. When I started this a year ago – I started it for fun and a hobby and because I loved it. Most days I have to pinch myself at how cool my job is. I have met such amazing people, have the most incredible opportunities and I am loving the fact that I am working for myself, and doing it all totally on my own. #GIRLBOSS
So there you have it – 24 random, weird and wonderful facts about me. In summary, I will never be the coolest kid in the class – but I am totally happy with that.
I would love to hear about what makes you, you? Think of all the small little details that make you different. Nectar Card recently got in touch with me to tell me about their new campaign, all about individuality. Britain is a nation of individuals, and Nectar want to celebrate this by giving away 4 once in a lifetime surprises. They want their customers to tell them what makes them stand out, what makes them individual. All you have to do is download the new Nectar Card app (follow this link), find the #MakesMeMe page and let them know what makes you YOU, and you could win one of their ridiculously amazing surprise prizes over the next few weeks! What are you waiting for – go go go.
Hope you enjoyed this post and feel like you know me a little bit better! I would love to know you all a little bit better so let me know in the comments a random fact about yourself (or many)!
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This post was written in collaboration with Nectar Card – however, every fact about myself – is obviously my own.
