I suppose it would be rude not to introduce myself.........

As the title suggests im a twentysomething girl, currently 21.
I live in the town of Basildon in the well known county of Essex, and no we're not all typical essex girls, and in fact the few essex girls featured on TV arent what you really find in Essex.

I am a Store Manager for a well known vaule fashion retailer in Wickford, you may have seen the town featured on the recent Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, and those featured have also been in my shop, i dont think this can be called a claim to fame though.

I studied at the King John School in Benfleet, where I studied for five years, and met some amazing people.

I then went onto college to study travel and tourism, which i was sure was to be my career choice, i had plans to become a travel rep, and at the time had an obession that i would one day own a red uniform like in the advert and work for Virgin Airways. However i was a love struck teen at the time so those dreams ended when i thought i was so in love and gave them up for someone i havent seen in two years.
I then went on to apply for jobs in travel agents and when i wasnt getting any job offers and was fed up of refusuals i went to apply for promotion from saturday sales assistant to Assistant Manager, which two years later led me to where I am today.

Fashion wouldnt of been my first choice of career however had always been a topic i enjoyed, I loved textiles at school and always thought i could be a fashion designer until my nan told me one day it was all very good drawing pretty pictures of outfits but i would have to make them as well and that i couldnt just get someone else to make the patterns, so that idea went out the window, unfortunatly after my mum had brought me a sewing machine for my birthday.

I now however love working in the fashion retail business, merchandising is my strongest theres nothing like the buzz i get when i can look at what i have created on the shop floor at the end of the day.

When im not working you will normally find me at home with my boyfriend James, normally snuggled on the sofa watching either CSI or Friends (we own the box set, watch it on E4 and still it never gets boring). That is unless Call Of Duty takes over the TV which is always at least once a day.

And just so i dont miss anyone out i have the most amazing family.

So theres not much more a girl could want.