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[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

What: Bright lights and City sights
When: Nov 30th, 23:56.
Where: My apartment.
Who: Allela K, obv.

New York, I love you. No seriously, I love you and I know that my devote readers (Hey family) are thinking ‘Ally, you love every place you go and then six months later, you’re sick of it and leave’. Well, that may have been true in the past and I have upped and moved three times already whilst I’ve been travelling, but I sincerely think that this time, I found where my heart belongs; in the city that never sleeps!

Sure, my apartment is smaller than the one in London, but my records and my music things fit in it, so I’m cool with it. University, I hear you cry? Yeah, well, I’m over that. I left, travelled and settled here after bumping into some of the coolest people in the world, who you will all one day know as; The Forged.
Yeah, I returned to my high school roots and joined a band, with my trusty guitar. So, do I expect to get signed overnight and live my life as a happy millionaire? Not one bit. First off, if I ever did have money, it wouldn’t make me as happy as a good record does. Secondly, I’m a realist. I don’t pin my hopes on chance and situation. Besides, just in case things fall apart before anything is even together, I’m also working on Broadway. I’m the girl who makes sure you people at the back can hear everything. I’m a sound engineer. Hey, it’s decent pay and it’s basically similar gadgets and equipment to the stuff I’ll be working with if I get into music, behind the scenes and away from the stage.

Wow Allela, you’ve got every angle covered! Why thank you, I’m a girl who knows what she wants and how to get it. However, I am still looking for my little unique shops that I thrive off, so if anyone knows of one, you know how to hit me up.

And, America, brace yourself. Once 2011 is upon us and I’m settled in entirely in the big apple, I will be bringing an Alley-Kat show stateside, but more on that in a later blog. Right now I’m exhausted. It may have been a night off from work, but the band were in a bar from early today, writing new material and basically drinking beer until we were unable to feel our tongues.

Sweet dreams, kiddos!

Allela K, Out!

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[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

What: Vinyl Albums and Fake Eyelashes
When: Dec 12th, 18:45.
Where: The Bar!
Who: Allela K, obv.

There is some guy playing on the piano and let's just say that he is in no way, shape or form, the Piano Man. This makes me (and the part of my heart that beats for Billy Joel) very sad.

I'm waiting on some of the coolest cats in town to turn up, but until then, I figured I'd do a little tinkle of the keyboard myself to update you crazy kids on the wonderful antics of Allela K and company. In all honesty, since I stopped travelling in the summer, my life has become tragically boring and nothing that exciting has really happened.

New York is caught up in the Christmas atmosphere now pretty much and the aggressive Christmas shopping is well and truly under way. I'm kind of glad to say that I'm pretty much done, bar from finding something for my ma which isn't a form of soap or kitchenware. I'll suss it out eventually, just like I'll suss out where all the cute little shops are in this giant of a city.
Seriously, I'm a small town girl; we just walked up a hilly side street off the main street and it was heaven for adorable little shops. I brought my first vinyl album from one of them shops and it sits proudly in my apartment with the many hundreds I have collected since that day. I wonder if that number will grow when I return home to snowy Stirling for the holidays?
Brothers and sisters, feel free to raid that place next to the kilt shop if you're struggling still!

Okay, seriously, this piano man needs to leave. Or someone should at least let us take over when the rest of the band arrive.

I'm pretty much buzzed for the upcoming months and I think that New York may actually be the place for me to make a home for a few more years at least. I'm determined to one day look back at my life through photography and this blog and smile at every memory that I wrote down and captured on film, and know that I didn't have a single regret or a 'I wish I'd done that' moment.

Also, I would like to congratulate the male New York population on their straight to the point personality trait.
Seriously, the other night I was in a club with a few girl-friends and I took a seat to have a drink and drunkenly reply to a text from Ryder when some guy (who I don't even remember the face of) plonked down next to me, turned to me, studied me for a moment whilst I glared at him before opening his whiskey scented mouth and uttering exactly this. “So d'ya wanna kiss?” Enjoying how blunt he was about it, I blinked twice and then just said. “No.” He shrugged, stood up and vanished into the sea of dancers never to be seen again.
But yeah, guys screw the chat up lines and just do this! We totally find this a major turn on.
-note the sarcasm before one of you actually goes and does this-

I think I'm going to grab a beer and find out where the hell my friends are!
Until next time space rangers!

Allela K, Out!

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[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

What: Cinnamon rolls & Scottish Tablet
When: Feb 21st, 21:43.
Where: The Apartment!
Who: Allela K, obv and Jesse.

I must’ve took the longest way back to New York after the holidays! I already planned on stopping some places to visit a few friends that I made on my global travels, but I think I seriously did it all backwards! I got back a little over three weeks ago and spent a full week still suffering from the jet lag of several countries. This Ally-Kat needs to take a break instead of partying hard the second the plane hits the ground!

So, it may be a bit delayed, but I hope you all enjoyed Christmas and had an immense New Year! I’d tell you about mine, but to be honest with you all, Hogmanay just screws with your head and your liver so I remember very little about it, although I was apparently using my older brother Nathan as a sleigh in the snow and ice when we were trying to walk down the hill from the town to our house. Claire said that she was in the cab when I was sitting on his back and pulling on his hood to try and make him go faster.
This is why I love my family. Who else would do such stupid things?!

I guess everyone has made resolutions for 2011 and probably half of you have broken them by now - I’m sorry, but most don’t even make it a day before it’s out of the window! That’s why I do something different, something that annoys my parents and usually makes my Tiff queasy when I make her come with me. I, Allela Katherine Rosslyn, get another piercing. Don’t worry, it’s only ever on my ear; my grams may actually murder me if I got a piercing I couldn’t hide/get rid of. So, where on earth do you have free on your ears?! Well, folks, this time I got my forward helix done and I have to admit, it looks pretty damn fantastic now it’s all nice and healed. I’m just going to keep the cute little stud there because it’s a lot more feminine than half of the bars in my ears and I think it may be the hardest to take out when I need to appear formal and at least a cute little diamante looks a lot nicer than my usual metal!

I’m afraid that, other than that fascinating news, not a lot has happened in the world of Allela recently. It’s just been life plodding on in that strange way that life seems to do so. Who knows? Maybe one day soon a meteor worth of news will fall out of the sky and land at my feet, but until then…

Allela K, out!

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[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

What: Dream catchers and caramel macchiato
When: March 14th, 17:29.
Where: Starbucks!
Who: Allela K, obv.

It wasn’t Halloween, but clearly channelling some serious Cousin It vibe up there!

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So, I totally high fived some Hispanic hottie today. I was casually browsing around a new record store I found and he stopped me to get my opinion on Eliot Smith in order to resolve an argument with his friend (his friend, by the way, had the most irritatingly squeaky voice I have ever heard from a dude) and then he high fived me when I agreed with his rather flawless statement! Gifted with a great taste in music and a killer set of deltoids, it was an epic win all around! So epic, in fact, that I’m blogging about it.

Anyway, this was going to be about dreams, not just cute guys who frequent my latest hang. Last night, I had a strange one. I was like this super kick ass spy – think Kim Possible crossed with Chuck Bartowski mixed with Raina Mavias and just a dash of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to pretty much get the idea of what I was dealing with here.
Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, wait for it.
I was a MAN. I had a totally hot girlfriend too (as is to be expected of any good spy). It was the weirdest freaking thing ever. I woke up with my hair sticking up every which way, quoting Chuck himself; “Don’t freak out.”
I think it’s a clear sign that I’ve been overloading myself on too much TV if I’m quoting TV shows in my subconscious. Also, I hate those dreams in which you wake up and see the time and then when you really do wake up, it throws your body clock all over the place. It’s a pain in the sweet behind, dude.

Although, the award for nightmare of a lifetime has to be the one I had where I woke up and everyone I knew were slowly turning into zombies – the 28 Days Later kind – and I had to kill them all whilst making my way to an oil rig (everyone knows zombies can’t swim) where I then lived in solitude until I was finally driven insane by the lack of social interaction and then starved to death…

Yeah, beat that, Freddy Kreuger.
Do your worst, knife fingers, I can take you.

Allela K, out!
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[Allela Katherine Rosslyn]

What: Comic Books and Cosmopolitans
When: May 8th, 21:34.
Where: My apartment.
Who: Allela K, obv.

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.” – Charles Bukowski

So very true. This is who I am now and I think that the stress and the ordeals of those dreaded teenage years has turned me into a young woman who can look into the mirror and feel very proud and happy about who she has become. I never let anyone keep me down back then and it’s not going to happen now. I wish more people could see that and stop hiding who they really are just to appease the society around them. Originality isn’t dead; just buried beneath a false sense of conformity.

If people stopped hiding behind masks just to keep people happy then the world would be a very different place and people probably wouldn't be ashamed of who they really are. This is the twenty-first century and we're the generation who will change the world, but to do that we need to start living up to our true potential and stop trying to be something we're not. All that does is make matters worse, encourages lying and eventually will lead to the hurt you were trying to avoid in the first place.

Be who you want to be, regardless of what those around you say. Advice, with no additional charge.

Allela K, Out!

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