May

Hi, hello (:

I'm getting dead good at this blogging more often lark, aren't I? NOT! I don't even really have much of an excuse as to why it's been so inconsistent again. After I posted my Fine Hair Saviours post, I had a big list of make up and beauty bits and bobs to review and chat about, but I never really got round to it.

May started off quite badly. I wasn't having a good time at work and I had to drop out of going to see Twin Atlantic with my sister because of it. I was really unhappy and not in a good place. I had a job interview for a call centre and even though it wasn't what I wanted to do for work, I wanted a way out of retail. I didn't get the job.

Fast forward to a week later and I had another interview and was offered the job an hour later. I'd be mental not to take a full time admin role over my part time retail job. So I took it and waited for my offer letter to arrive in the post so I could hand in my notice. It had been squared at interview that I wouldn't be starting until the 1st June, due to having too many other things going on in the last week of May.

I can honestly say, I've worked at Primark for nearly three years and it's been some of the worst times of my life so far. It's been nothing but constant bitching, pressure, upset and anger. From word 'go', I hated it. I've talked about leaving for such a long time, that the longer it went on, the less I thought it would ever happen. After handing my notice in on the Monday, I was in such a daze for the whole week. I wasn't upset to leave the place, but I was upset to leave my friends behind. As much as I've loathed the job from the start, I can't deny I've made some incredible friends and met some interesting people along the way.

So, that right there is my excuse for not blogging. I was in such a daze after finding out I'd gotten the job, then handing my notice in, it was a couple of weeks of feeling like I was in some sort of dream world. I kept thinking I'd wake up and it'd all have been a dream.

My last day was really surreal. Because I never thought I'd get to leave, it felt very weird. I used to do the last shift of the day so when we go to the shop floor at six, the day shift staff start to leave. Saying bye to them was really weird, then the daytime manager coming to wish me luck was also a bit dream like. My friends from other departments popped down to see me, but I was kept separated from my friends on my department. Which, I wasn't best pleased about. That was until we all got called to the loading bay. Our manager and supervisor were acting really shifty and I just assumed we were about to be told off for something, but no. One of my best pals pulled a Build-A-Bear box from behind the boxes of stock and inside was a pink unicorn they'd all clubbed together to get for me.

I don't think I've done a happy squeal like that for a while, to be honest.

All in all, after that it was a pretty decent last day. I managed to speak to most people and got to say bye to my friends (not that I won't ever see them again, because I will) but it was just nice to feel appreciated and made me feel all fuzzy. Like sometimes I feel like so happy that my chest might burst and that's how I felt on my last day.

I had last week off completely and I'm quite glad I did. I'd booked two days off from Primark anyway, and we got bank holidays off by default.

On bank holiday Monday my sister and I made the journey down to Wolverhampton to Slam Dunk Festival. I've never been to Slam Dunk before and I can safely say, I'll be going again, albeit to Leeds. It was such a good day, despite the extreme queuing and our hotel being super unorganised. Unfortunately, we missed Set It Off due to the queue to get into the venue itself taking round about an hour. However, after that, we managed to see everyone we wanted to, highlights include You Me At Six playing songs from Take Off Your Colours. I've not heard some of those songs live for years, so it was something really special! Lower Than Atlantis were also really good, and I'll never tire of seeing Neck Deep live.

On Wednesday, myself and my gig buddy went over to Manchester to see Foo Fighters. I've loved Foo Fighters since I was about 14/15. I remember really loving Best Of You when it first came out and I've been hooked ever since. Unfortunately, I've never had the chance to go and see them. I stupidly passed up the chance in 2007 and then I've either not had the money to head to festivals or not had anyone to go with to the stadium shows. My sister saw them at Leeds in 2012 and so she was up for seeing them again. Fun fact: I'm the only one in my immediate family who hadn't seen them live till this year.

It was everything I hoped it'd be. They opened with Everlong, which is my favourite song of all time ever, so I was sold from the start.

Thursday was my mum's birthday, so we made a quick trip back to Sheffield for food and cocktails. We went to Smoke Barbecue, and the best bit was the dessert! I had smores and it was incredible.

My last week of freedom was topped off with seeing Heaven's Basement at Corporation. It was really good and the best way to end the week.

I want to say blogging will become less sporadic, but it probably won't. I need to settle into this job and get my hours sorted, it's going to be a shock to the system to have to be up early, but it'll be also nice not to have to wait for buses till gone 11pm. I'm hoping I can get one or two blog posts a week up, I've got plenty of ideas it's just finding the time and motivation to get things really going. May's been a bloody mental month, what started out really not great has ended in an absolute whirlwind.

I'm super nervous for starting tomorrow, but I'll try and report back next week.