June Challenge: Day 18: Tell a story from my childhood

Day 18, Tuesday: Tell a story from my childhood. I will try to dig deep and try to be descriptive about what I remember and how I felt.

When I was six years old we went on a family holiday to Weymouth. When I say we I mean myself, my parents and Tink, who was 2 1/2 at the time. We stayed in a guesthouse on the sea front and had some great times. We sat on the beach, we went to a model train place (Pecorama) in Beer, and generally enjoyed ourselves. We played mini golf one night at what felt to me like midnight but was probably just 6pm or something. We ate fish and chips, ice cream and laughed a lot. 

I have real memories of smiling a lot that holiday but one memory stands out more than most. We met a girl called Heidi in the guesthouse who was a little older than I was and I thought she was amazing, in that I want to be just like her because she is perfect kind of way. My family and I spent the day at a Sea Life Centre which was brilliant and whilst there Tink and I had our faces painted. I was so happy and thought I was the coolest girl in the world, especially when Heidi smiled at me on my return. 

When I had to leave for home I was gutted I wasn't going to see Heidi again, but then this wonderful thing happened. In a shop we found a little cuddly rabbit that lived in a little white plastic log. It was small, cute and had pink ears and a pink tail. The little white plastic log had the name "Heidi" printed on it, the rabbit was named after the girl I had so adored. 

To this day that little rabbit is my most prized possession. It has traveled the country and the world with me, it has jumped out of a plane with me and it has stayed in my sleeve though every interview, exam and stressful situation in my life. Heidi sleeps beside me each night and I cannot imagine my world without her, and every now and then I remember that my little rabbit is a reminder of the little girl I once knew and the first time I really looked up to someone. 

The best part of it all is that the week in Weymouth was one I recall as being so very happy, a time when my family seemed to have a perfect smiley time and I can look back with fondness both on that week and all my memories of when my little Heidi has helped me out of a hole.

June Challenge: Day 14: Ten things that make me really happy

Day 14, Friday: Ten things that make me really happy

This is an interesting one to ask today of all days, which is also why I didn't answer it yesterday when it was due. However as stressful as the past few days have been I do have reasons to smile, some of which I've listed here.

1. Making a difference at work
2. Watching a television programme I love
3. Taking time to sit back and enjoy life
4. Unexpected messages from someone I wanted to hear from
5. Weekends away with good friends
6. Spending family time with my mum and Tink
7. Snuggling up with Emma as she snuffles in her sleep
8. Bonkers fictional conversations at 3am with Toni
9. Writing scripts and fanfic, especially at midnight
10. Knowing that someone is there for you when you really need support

June Challenge: Day 11: Sell myself in 10 words or less

Day 11, Tuesday: Sell myself in 10 words or less

Well I guess its simple really.

1. Geek
2. Honest
3. Loyal
4. Happy
5. Determined
6. Ethical
7. Knowledgeable
8. Diligent
9. Daydreamer
10. Writer

June Challenge: Day 9: A moment in my day

Day 9, Sunday: A moment in my day (this can be just a photo or both a photo and words)

I chose two photos. One of Cardiff Castle in the sunshine and one looking out over the beautiful blue water of Cardiff Bay. No words required really.

 Perfect.

June Challenge: Day 6: What do you do?

Day 6, Thursday:  If I couldn't answer with my job, how would I answer the question, 'what do you do'?

What do I do? I guess that is the question.

My work is such a big part of who I am that it is really hard to answer the question without referring to it. I mean, I work 6 days a week including evenings as standard which leaves very little time for anything else. However I love my job and all it entails, something which I have really learned about myself this week, and therefore I don't mind having more work in my work/life balance than I am sure is healthy. 

However my role is not who I am, because this is something that I have only been for a number of years when in actual fact who I am is who I've been since I was a small child. 

So what do I do? Who am I? I am a storyteller. 

I've been telling stories in various forms since I was little. I wrote my first short story aged 5 and I was the child constantly making up playground games of fictional characters back in primary school. I used to tell the younger kids stories to captivate them and by the time I started secondary school the middle parts of all my exercise books were filled with random extracts of stories that fill my head. Now when I am sitting in silence inside my mind there are fictional characters having conversations, and I spend my life watching the world around me for story ideas. Every single thing that occurs around me influences my storytelling and my brain never ever shuts off from the madness of ideas and script snippets going round and round inside my head. 

I make up stories from the moment I open my eyes in the morning to the moment I close them in the early hours of the next. It is very much part of who I am. My career plan is to become a scriptwriter, I want to tell stories for a living every single day. 

So what do I do? I am a storyteller. I tell stories every single day. I'm happy that way.