a lovely surprise.

I was so surprised when Louise from Lou, Boos and shoes and also Jammer at 10.A.M both told me they had left an award for me on their blogs. So lovely of them both and I was so excited.

They both gave me the 'Beautiful Blogger' award, where I have to list 7 interesting things about myself and then list 7 blogs that I like. 

So here we go:

ONE:

I have never smoked or done any drugs, which I suppose isn't much of an achievement at being only 20, but whenever I tell anyone who is also in their young 20's, they are completely and utterly shocked. The reason why I have not ever smoked or taken any sort of drug is because when I was younger, my Dad and I made a pact that I would do neither until my 21st birthday and he would reward me with $5000. Now that I have lasted my whole teens doing neither, I now have hardly any temptation to do so, so it was a good plan by my dad. Though, I have already spent $2000 of my allocated reward on a return ticket to London to visit my boyfriend - money definitely well spent though. My 21st birthday is in June so that is when I will get the rest. 

TWO:

Since leaving high school in 2007,  I have not been to University or college or any sort of equivalent as I really have no idea what I want to be when I am older and I feel it would be a major waste of time and money just doing a degree for the sake of it. Instead, I went and ski instructed for a winter season in a ski resort called Thredbo (about 6 hours south of Sydney) which was the best experience - I am actually going back down for this upcoming season and living with my boyfriend, my brother and a friend who are also going to be ski instructing.

(July 2008)

THREE:

I feel like living is the best thing in the world and I can't imagine whatever happens to us afterwards is better than this. Thus, I have a fear of dying. This fact makes it hard for me to fall asleep by myself as I always like some company when I am sleeping in the dark - I suppose I am afraid of the dark too.

FOUR:

I met my boyfriend on the night of finishing my last HSC exam (Nov 07) outside a club in North Sydney. It was so incredibly lucky we actually met, so many different variations of that night could have happened and I would have never ended up meeting an English guy from London. We spent 8 months together in Sydney until I went down to the snow and he went back to England to start University at Nottingham. It wasn't until around September 2008 (4 months later) when we organised for me to come over to London in December and work at a prep school for the year. We spent 2009, travelling between London & Nottingham - much better then London and Sydney.

If I hadn't met him, I have no idea what I would have been doing last year or even right now which I find a little romantic. 

(October 2009)

FIVE: 

I love so many TV shows its pretty pathetic. Favourites include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl and even reality TV shows like, The Hills & The City.
I loved Gilmore Girls so much, I wanted to be like Rory (even though we are the complete opposite types of people) and I just loved her brown hair, so in the summer of '06/'07 I died my hair brown like hers. I even stuck with it for a year even though it didn't suit me at all. Then I had to do the painful process of gradually dying it back blonde.

SIX:

I was such a tom-boy when I was little. I used to try be so much like the boys and would dress in my younger brothers clothes, cut my hair really short and would never ever wear dresses or skirts. It was until I was about 8 years old when I realised its actually pretty cool being a girl. 

But I still have that tom-boy aspect about me. I am so, so, so messy and I really don't mind it when I am living in squalor haha. My boyfriend would be utterly shocked at how I got my kitchen into such a state in only 4 days! 

SEVEN:

The reason my blog URL is 'rofflear' is because it is the name my brother calls me. Completely random! Roff is for Soph (do not know how he made the connection and Lear is the four first letters of my last name - Learmont).

We call our mum & dad - Mugs for mum and Minky for dad. Don't ask me why haha because I have no recollection of the reason. And we call my brother Schmunkle.

The family is actually, Minky, Mugs, Schmunkle and Roff instead of Andrew, Judy, Eddy and Sophie. 

I love that we are so close though, my family are my best friends and I missed them so much when I was away. 

The four of us in Melbourne (January 2010)

Haha and my dad isn't the best at having his photo taken - we call all his bad photos the "Minky yuck file"

Now here are the 7 blogs who I pass the award onto: 

everyday musings

Olivia & Parker 

Then I Got To Thinking...

The Bottom of the Ironing Basket

Heart of Light
Walking Around
blushing ambition