So again, it's been a while. I've not been online so often, just enough to check my emails and keep people on MySpace happy. Speaking of myspace, a band added me the other day http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=58503581&MyToken=6a8fa387-4eeb-433f-b52d-8b2adeccc273 and I have to say, I really enjoy their music. So I put them in my top 8, and in return they've put ME in THEIR top 8.

I feel like such a dweeb saying it, but the mere fact they did that made me quite happy!

Mum and I have been getting on a hell of a lot more these days. I made a concious effort to do something about it, and woo. It's working... plus now i'm 18 she appears to have taken on a "Phht, she's an adult now she can do what she pleases" view.

Which means there's less trapped-in-a-cage feelings and more whee-i'm-free feelings. Always a good thing.

Gaz has told me he wants to marry me, and I decided to be a hypocrite and say ok, but in a few years... so I guess i'm unofficially engaged. I havn't told anyone though, because I yelled at my cousin for getting engaged too young... hence the deciding to be a hypocrite bit... though to be fair she got engaged at 16.

Our plan so far is to apply to university this year, go next year. I'm going to work this year and do charity work and what-not. We're opening a savings account for four years so we can go to Australia. If we like it enough we might stay there and live.

He seemed really excited and happy about this prospect when we were talking about it... but now that i've gone ahead and booked an appointment at the bank so we can get a joint savings account, he seems to have changed his mind... I guess things got a little too realistic for him, 6 months isn't a long time to be with someone I realise. It does seem alot longer though, we have literally spent every day together since day one.

Not necassarily a good thing but I can't remember being so happy... a cliche but it's true, I really can't, no matter how hard I think back. Which in itself upsets me a bit. Ironically.

I'm going to suggest we both get one of those ISA accounts Abbey National is doing right now. That way if a few years down the line we're fed up of eachother, money won't be an issue... we can't have a joint ISA account i've already asked, the government won't allow it. Probably because it's tax free on interest.

I went on the site, and if I put in £2O a week for the next 4 years i'll have £4187.80... if Gareth did the same, we'd have a good 8k to go to Australia with... who knows by then we might have changed our plans. Unfortunately money plays a huge part in life in general, so at least it'll be there if we need it.

Gareth had said he had £50 pounds spare each week, and he'd been meaning to stop spending it, so if he put that in over 4 years (which I highly doubt he would, bless.) he would have £10434.40

Mum has said she won't make me pay rent if I put some money away for university too... so I could end up putting more then 50 pounds a week.

Yay for tax free interest!