MY FAVOURITE SUMMER OF ALL TIME | A ROUND UP

It's been a while since the last time I sat down and almost updated my blog about my life - the last time was probably when I did my first year university round up blog post. In that post, I said that during this summer, I was going to make my blog content the best it had ever been and really spend a lot of time working on my blog. If you've been reading my blog for the past couple of months, I'm sure you'll realise that my content really isn't the best it's ever been. And, unfortunately, I haven't had the time I wanted to put into my blog - although I do have a few ideas in mind for the very near future. But, with that being said, my summer hasn't been all doom and gloom.

To summarise, my summer has been spent working, seeing The Vamps, drinking and making bad decisions. But it's been the best summer of my entire life. I've had the most incredible time and I've made some amazing memories that will stay with me for the rest of my life - no matter how cringey that sounds.

Okay so, the job. I've been working as a paralegal in a local law firm for the past three months. It's very different from the career path that I want to take - media and wills and probate aren't exactly similar - and, in my interview, my head of department said that the job would be tedious and boring. I may be strange but I've enjoyed every single bit of it. I haven't found it tedious or boring, and the people in the department are all lovely - I wouldn't have wanted a summer job anywhere else. In fact, I'm kind of hoping they want me back again next year.

I won't lie to you when I say that I've probably spent at least 50% of my summer consuming some form of alcohol. I've never really been a big drinker but it appears as though that has changed - my friends are obviously joking when they say I've turned into an alcoholic but that's kind of the drastic change that I've undergone in recent months. And I'm not joking when I say that alcohol consumption has fuelled both some of the best nights of my life and perhaps some of my more questionable decisions - including a strange desire to do Instagram lives. And I don't even have an explanation for that. Just please don't judge me.

One of my supposed bad decisions for the summer was to download Tinder. Initially, it was just a bit of a laugh - there are some quite strange people on the app, and the messages you get from people are hilarious. But there are some people that are really probably too good for the app - definitely some hidden gems and, even if things don't end up going anywhere, it's nice to have had that connection with someone - there's one particular situation that, although I'm not going into detail, I wouldn't have changed for the world. It's all about giving people a chance.

The Vamps have been a constant feature in my summer - their new album has quite literally been the soundtrack to my summer (it's all I've listened to) and I've been lucky enough to go to three of their summer shows - Leeds, Newmarket and Fusion Festival, as well as meet them on their album signing tour.

I honestly don't really know what I'm hoping to get out of this post. All I know is that when I think about the past few months, I've had the most amazing time. I went to Los Angeles - which was insane  - and just spent so much time with the people I love and, in all honesty - no matter how soppy it sounds - I've made some incredible memories and I wouldn't have changed a single thing. The good and the bad (and straight up ugly - cough cough, Instagram live) - every single little thing that happened caved how I feel now. And I'm happy. And I'm so ready to be back down in London and reunited with my uni pals - although I'm unsure how I'm going to cope without my friends from home. Watch this space!