Introducing - leahkrutchxo

Hello, my name is Leah and this is my blog. Simple, boring, ironic?

I want to engage with you, gain your attention, bring you back for more, yet that is my opening line? I'll go with ironic.

Forgive me if this doesn't work as I created the page 5 minutes ago and I am still attempting to find my feet in the blogging world.

When I was 17, an English teacher of mine suggested that I utilize my "irresistible" wit and "hilarious" sarcasm by writing a blog. I never really understood why. At the age of 17 I was primarily interested in going to parties and talking to boys - now, at the age of 19 and studying Politics and English at the University of Liverpool, (nerd alert) I couldn't think of any more enriching way to spend my time.

I won't lie to any one of you reading this - I love facebook. I love keeping in contact with friends and family, sharing videos of dogs walking on their hind legs, facebook stalking your brother's new ex girlfriend's aunt and of course - a rant or two. It is for this reason (and due to the annoyance of my 1,369 facebook friends as my posts are on average 10,000,000 characters longer than the average teenage girl's) that I have decided to take my English teacher's advice and apprehensively tip toe into the blogosphere.

I at least hope (you'll learn that I have no qualms with splitting infinitives (and that I'm going through a phase where I love to use brackets)) to write a weekly blog on contemporary issues, historical matters or simply something that has inspired or niggled me in the week. Basically, I will be writing about whatever I feel like with absolutely no structure as I am absolutely wild and not afraid of unorganized chaos. Hence the name of the blog - Stuff and Things.

I feel like I should begin with not necessarily introducing myself, but introducing my name - leahkrutchxo. Therefore I am going to compartmentalise my username and enlighten you all on the exciting facts about it that I'm sure you are all so eager to find out.

Leah

This is my Christian name. I am named after a kind woman who I believe brought my great Granddad up when he was younger. It is also my Gran Linda's middle name, so as you can see, it has been passed down the generations. I love my name, I know very few other people called Leah and I only sometimes have to tell people that "no - it's not pronounced Leia, like Princess Leia." and "no - it's not pronounced Lee." Fun fact for you all - my mother's strangely superstitious and will only name her children names that have four letters. (Leah, Jack, Kyle, Owen, Noah, Evie and Erin. Yes, there are seven of us, and no, that's not including my Dad's children or any step-siblings.)

Krutch 

My nickname. My Dad is half Polish and his second name before I was born was Kruszeniski. When he was younger his nickname was an abbreviation of this - simples!


One night at the Plough (a pub I have only been to a select few times for good reason - although I hear it's been renovated recently!) we were watching a 2010 World Cup game when my Dad met with a few of his old friends. The only name I can remember, strangely, is 'Pecker'. In their drunken state, they commented on how alike Pops and I are and they began calling me Little Krutch, which I quite liked; I'd never had a nickname. A small amount of people from my hometown began calling me Krutch after this.

When I went to Uni and I began playing rugby after being 3 years out due to a hip injury very early on when I was only learning to play, I rechristened myself Krutch. There's something about playing a sport like rugby that made me want a nickname. At the first social we had, they were being dished out like school dinners and I felt like I deserved one. At University virtually everyone uses this name to talk to (or about) me.

xo

Because xo follows my snapchat and instagram usernames and when I was 15/6, I thought that was really cool. Now I use it purely for simplicity because there is not enough room in my busy (ha!) brain to remember trivial things such as usernames. It's bad enough not being able to answer my own security questions every time I ring the bank.





So there you have it, that's a small snippet of my story. I will most definitely write about more interesting and important things other than myself due time, however I felt that I needed to lay the groundwork for future entries? Pieces of writing? Blogs? - I suppose I'll find out.

Please do continue to visit this blog as I'm hoping that there will be something to interest absolutely everyone as I endeavour to expand my lexicon, ability, inform and entertain.

Not sure how to end this...
BYE.