The New #YOLO Episodes

Series 2 of #YOLO is going to be a bit different than Series 1, I'm going to make them shorter and more straight to the point because, although I love the old episodes, the were too love and I repeated points frequently. I am going to write the episodes in advance to make sure that they are high quality. Episode 1 will be posted on the first of September. I hope you're excited for the new episodes, I know I am!

xxx

Catherine

Guess Who's Back!

Me. Yep, I'm back, I haven't posted in a week because when I start a post recently, I can't seem to get into it, I don't know why but I think (hope) I'm back.

But this post isn't about me, it's about my good friend Nibbles! She has started blogging again! HERE is her blog if you would like to support her. She has re-designed her blog and I think it looks really cool but Emily, if you're reading, it's sorta hard to read the comments. When you go through a blog re-design, you have to spend a while fixing little things up. I'm really excited about Emily's return, I hope you are too!

Emily asked for people's help to make her blog bigger and better so I might do a post on that, giving everybody little tips. I'm also going to do a post called Vanity or Self Love? that is a big thing so it might take a while to write so stay in your seats!

I'm going to watch Zoella's new vlogs now, byeeeeeeeeee!

xxx

Catherine

Our Timeless Thoughts and Other Unrelated Stuff

Hey guys! I know that I have only missed a few days day of blogging but it feel like weeks! Today I want to talk to you about another blog. I made it with Melissa from The Ice Cream Hut and it's called Our Timeless Thoughts. I also wanted to chat to you about when Melissa came to my house and also just a general catch up, let's go!

On Our Timeless Thoughts we have one post by Melissa, it's a test post so it's pretty boring (I know Melissa won't mind me saying that) but today I am aiming to write a good introduction. I have also just realized that I really need to post on Smilin'Bloggers but Grace and I have abandoned our blog recently! The focus of Melissa and I's (I know, good England) blog is to have little chats about our obsevations of people and life, I'm looking forward to getting really into that blog.  Did I mention that this is my 100th post on this blog?! Aaaaaaaarrrhhhhhhhh!!!

Over the last few day I have been having a SuperwomanVlogs marathon, I started at Day 1 and I am now on Day 13. I am telling you this because I have realized how easy these blog posts are compared to big YouTube videos. In a few of her videos she was scripting and filming her 300th video, it took her sleepless days and nights to create and seeing that happen has really put things into perspective. These posts are easy(ish most of the time) to make because you don't have to script them out or look good to make them, I am lying in bed in my cat onesie writing this!

Now tell you about my amazing experience with Melissa at my house. We were walking home (we only walk five - ten minutes together) then I just asked if Melissa wanted to come to my house for the first time so we organised it and she came! When we got there I showed her around and everything was normal then we decided to make the microwave brownie that I did a post on that you should definitely check out ;D. The brownie making started fatastically as we had no butter and had to Google "things that can replace butter in baking". The lists were full of things like prune puree, the only thing we might of had was canola oil. After about twenty minutes of searching we (Melissa) found the canola oil. We started baking, la de da de da, then out of nowhere the cocoa powder flew in the air, back-flipped and landed on the ground (I bumped it). We had to clean that up. Then we went back to baking, la de da de da, the canola oil attempts to do a back-flip on the bench but fails and leaves canola oil driping down the cupboards onto the floor . . . We cleaned that up but the floor was still slippery as we discovered when I asked Melissa to taste something. She came fast-walking along the floor then fell over. The funny thing about her falling over was that her facial expression stayed the same when she fell over, when she was down she rolled over laughing. She was literally ROFL-ing! So as I said earlier, the floor was still very slippery from the canola oil so I had the stupid idea to pour a whole glass of water on the floor, just in case Melissa and I had not done enough cleaning that day. Throughout the cleaning process we went through a cloth, all the paper towels, all the tissues and a roll of toilet paper. I bet Melissa really want's to come back to my house!

In other news, I am writing a novel! I don't have a publishing company yet but I will soon! I don't have a name for it yet but I'm thinking about calling it  Fighting Our Own Wars because it is set in a place where war is going on and you can guess the rest. I am up to Chapter One but I am really enjoying writing it. I will keep you posted (see what I did there) on that.

We have now reached the end of this longish post. Thank you for reading and I'll see you soon, byeeeeeeeee!

xxx

Catherine

Racism

Hey guys I don't know when this post is going to be publiushed but I really want to talk about racism. There are so many misunderstandings of racism so I want to talk about them.

First of all, here is the dictionary definition of racism:

1Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior:

a programme to combat racism

OR

1.1The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races:

theories of racism

I don't know if it is my classmates' age that is the problem or if it is the whole world now but some people say that it is racist to say that a pencil is black (?!). Black is a colour. If I asked to borrow a purple colouring pencil, would you care? Probably not. It is frustrating that so many people do not really know what racism is.

If you are one of the people that think the word black is racist then please watch THIS video, it might help you understand. The teacher in that video was racist, he harmed somebody because they were from a different race.

I feel so much better now that I have ranted and hopefully helped people! Thank you for reading and I'll see you tommorow, byeeeeeeeeeeeee!

xxx

Catherine

Absence of Posts

I apologize for the absence of posts this weekend. I have decided that I will not definitely post on weekends because I go to my friends' house and they don't always have WiFi. Today's post is just going to be an update of my life, let's go!

I have been sick and I didn't go to school on Friday. I read and slept all day. It was brilliant. In the weekend I went to my best friend's house for a night then I was supposed to go to my Dad's house, we went there but he wasn't there so I ended up going to my Mum's house. It turned out that my Dad was in hospital but he's fine now if you were wondering. I kind of like Mondays because they are my musical day. I have music extension for an hour at 2 then I have my guitar lessons so that's what I did today!

I have to go now so byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

xxx

Catherine