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Day 7 - Cats, Coffee, Comfort.

Adult life is stressful, at least, I find it incredibly so. I'm not sure why, but lately every little piece of admin, telephone call or application has been beyond stressful, i'm just looking forward to starting Uni and being placed back into a relatively normal routine again.

 I have a job interview at a local pub tomorrow evening, and for once i'm feeling really rather optimistic, one thing about London is more places need employees, and there are more places to employ you. I fancy the idea of working in a pub, restaurant or bar, I don't know why! I think it'd suit me and the journey I'm going on at the moment, it'll tick many boxes of another teenage cliche and I also want to meet new, random and hopefully interesting people, what better place to do that then working in an East London pub? We'll see though, I'm not going to get my hopes up too much.

Today has all been about making phone calls to banks and other such boring things, I've also finally completed a budget that i'm relatively pleased with, one thing i'm glad about at the moment is that i'm actually pretty good with money, although I know these coming weeks i'm going to be awful, paying for freshers activities and drinks. Splashing out though, I feel is going to be good and refreshing after however many months without an income! When you have no money you realise there are so many things you need, and a LOT more things you find yourself wanting.

I guess these past few days have been very up and down emotionally for me, my moods are yoyo-ing like anything and i'm hot tempered. Yesterday I lost my house key, something my Mum gave to me 3 days ago! And I have realised how much stuff I haven't done. I still like my creature comforts being effortlessly close to me, being around my cats reminds me of home and makes me happy, and really simple pleasures like watching Harry Potter or listening to The Smiths are of vital importance. I think i'm partially bored of this stand still bit of my existence and partly anxious to begin another, I want music constantly playing, but I want to switch it off, and, like always, there are 7 billion thoughts buzzing around my head at any one time; today 90% of them have been stress related. Although aside from these i'm relatively content.

These next few days should be exciting, tomorrow can't come quick enough, after that, I can afford to relax a bit more. This evening me and Mum are going to stick a DVD on and then i'll study, small things to keep my mind occupied work wonders, kitty cuddles are what is needed everyday.

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