Hello everyone,

 

Yippee Its 2009!! I love this time of year-new goals and plans and a whole year to get it all done!! I am so happy at the moment and life seems to be rolling…green lights all the way….! Got a very long to-do list and merrily ticking away! Meeting lots of new people and getting these 15 tracks of mine mixed mastered and on itunes feels good to me.

Wrote this:

Now I’ve stopped drinking I’ve got my brain cells back

I’ve Stopped smoking and got my senses back

I’ve Stopped worrying and got my life back

I’ve Stopped moaning and got all my friends back

I’ve Stopped eating for comfort and got my skinny jeans back!!

I’ve stopped doubting and got my faith back

I’ve Stopped arguing and got my smile back

I’ve stopped watching TV and got my Peace of mind back

I’ve stopped shopping for things I don’t need and got my Boyfriend back (!)

I’ve stopped being ungrateful…. 

 

and the world is a beautiful place.

 

 

Speak soon

 

Ellie xxx

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Today was the day of the big annual wake-up call: Little Ela fills in a form for the first time of the year, sets the date and… ouch… realizes the hard way that apparently, not only her 22-year-old brain gave up working a bit before its time but more obviously also 2008 went into early retirement. In short: The shrivelled bank assistant who made me fill in this form had to tell me (patiently as if I wasn’t the hundredth moron she had to advice today) that I was dumb enough to add the wrong number at the end of the year. Thank you, new year, for reminding me just after Christmas when gift budgets are used up that I would be in despairing need of Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training…

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So is this what New Year’s Eves are for? To remind me annually that my legs may be young enough to have to give up bus seats to old ladies and their stupid Chihuahuas but that my brain is still too old to count from 8 to 9? Well thanks to Pope Gregory XII that thought he was hell of a smart ass to launch this thing called Gregorian calendar, but there would have been definitely simpler ways to tell my brain functions that they were useless! I know, I shouldn’t be talking in this way to a deceased and least to a Saint, but I sort of happen to become a stronger New Year’s Eve hater with every other changing of number at the end of the year.

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You might call this weird since this night of the 31st of December is commonly considered a warm social get-together. But beside the fact that I am taken ill with premature part-time senility after every given New Year’s Eve, I can’t avoid to become a sentimental derelict on every given New Year’s Eve. This year made no exception as the following shows:
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1.    Ex-boys that didn’t know any better than choosing the same god-forsaken hole in the Swiss Alps to celebrate the end of the year

2.    Other boys that I care so much for that I want them to listen to my drunken drivel at any time instead of refusing my calls enormously unkindly at four in the morning (What a surprise? ☺)

3.    Girlfriends that drank the sort of Jägermeister that makes you maybe wanna dance on till the end of the next year but for sure not walk me home

4. Consequently of all this, I walked home on my own at around 4.00 am, got lost in a snow storm with high heels slipping longwise on the frozen snow at least 10 times before finding my friend’s front door in front of which I almost ended up slapping the most stupid German tourist the Swiss Alps have doubtlessly ever seen asking me seriously if I was being a little stressed out at the very moment…
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Yes, douchebag, I was! And just as sentimental did I become when I finally lay in bed a couple of minutes later thinking that I had just ended yet another year literally grounding… If I didn’t know better I might be scared right now that this was a bad omen for a terrible year to come, but thanks to Pope Gregory after one night of celebrating my own sinking there is normally 364 days left for me that can only get better…

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So if you ask me, New Year’s Eves are totally overrated, what really counts are the 364 there to come. Lets go for that! Very very happy 364 days in 2009 to all of you! Oh and May Pope Gregory rest in peace forever…
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Ela (cynical as hardly ever… )

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Christmas was so much fun as usual… my ten year old sister still lays out the mince pie and whisky… and my dad still hums “ho ho ho” outside my door before going to bed! We all got up ridiculously early and began the Leddra-Chapman ritual of opening presents one by one taking turns each lol it always take about 3 hours! I got a loop pedal! Like the one KT Tunstall uses when performing “black horse and a cherry tree”! I’ll be a one woman band lol! I’m still working out how it ticks but I cant wait to perform with it! I have definitely eaten to much this Christmas but I don’t care!! Its what Christmas is for! January is for joining the gym ;) whoever heard of joining it in December?!

 

New years eve I stayed in with my gorgeous Alex. We cooked and watched New Year’s tele and saved lots of money!! It was very lovely and nice to know we wouldn’t have a huge hangover in the morning! New years day was for sleeping in and writing new years resolutions! I’ll let you know when I’ve finished writing mine!

 

2009 is going to be a good one I can feel it

 

 

 

 

 

Anna xxxx

 

 

Right well im sat in my room with the heating up full blast , my face covered in vicks , my pillow drenched in olbis oil and tissues scattered across the floor and to top it off…i have Jeremy Kyle on…. .Yep.I have a cold.
so i do aploogize if this blog doesnt make any sence as i am really disorientated after 2 spoon fulls of medicine that makes you sleep.

 

 

anyway …on the 16th of december i drove down to preston with my dad and got on the train to london to do something that i never actually imagined doing..i mean i’ve always wanted it do…but i just never thought that id be doing it.
I put pen to paper and signed to Columbia Records.
Even typing it makes me want to scream(but i wont because if i did…my tonsils would probably explode they are that sore).I still cant get over it.
i feel so fortunate and honored to even be part of the company.They have John mayer….JOHN MAYER.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway this blog isnt to rant on about my obsession over john mayer
its just to say The biggest thankyou ive ever said to everybody and anybody who has added me , commented me , visited my page and showed support…i really do apologize if ive no written back to any messages ……..i do read them all…and each one brings the biggest smile to my face

 

See : )

 

 

i would also like to thank alex reid , the first ever person who i ever co-wrote with…you made me feel very comfortable and thanks to you…im obsessed with neds noodles

 

 

Dan and adam…aka dadam
you two are the easily the funniest guys i’ve ever met…even though i find anything funny. really dont no how i even write with you guys cos half the time im crying with laughter
hope you are as excited as i am about 2009
thankyou soo much for having faith and dan….thankyou for coming to the south of france and accompanying me , i really do appreciate it

 

 

Sasha , Pete and Steffan , Thanks to you guys…you helped me find the sound ive been wanting to get out but i just didnt no how.I Love working with you guys I really do and Im quite a loud person but i get really shy around you guys cos im in totally owe of you all.You are my idols and i really do look up to you all.

 

 

Quiksilver-Ive written about 3 blogs about you guys…but thankyou soo much for letting me into the quiksilver family…..I can’t wait to see you all again.you have inspired me and quiksilver woman is going to take over the world…i no it!!!!

 

 

My Management …….all i have to say is…..thankyou so much for believing in me.and i promise il make you proud

 

 

And Last but By NOOOOOOOOO MEANS LEAST
Fizz Bomb and Big O’C
(mum and dad)
love you sooooooo much

 

 

thankyou to all of you for having faith in me

 

 

anyway…enough of being a soppy sally

 

 

LOVE CHARLOTTE:)
p.s richie b ..thankyou for being you!!!!!!!!!!Gary would be proud