#12 - When you see a friend or family member you haven't seen in years

There is always that time when you are walking down the street, casually going about your everyday business, when you come across a person, out of all the many faces that you've walked past who you don't have a clue who it is, who you actually know!

It's a great feeling because it's normally someone who you haven't seen in an age, and actually don't mind stopping to talk to.

It could be a family member who you don't see often, even during the holidays they are the one who you just don't get around to seeing, or a friend from your old days, such as a secondary school friend, or even a primary school friend! Now they come once in a blue moon, but when you do see them, it is always gonna be a good day after that, as you feel happy that a blast from your past has been seen.

The chat that you have (unless you are extremely busy, but then you feel downbeat after that) is always a good long chinwag, and normally ends with you retaking their number and trying to set up a time to go out for a drink or something along those lines.

#11 - Finishing the last bit of work before end of term holidays

On the days leading up to the end of term, all that you are thinking about is when it will all be over, but because of the amount of work that you are currently doing, it feels as if it will never be time.

But that day, when you have completed the last bit of work that you have left to do, and it is all handed in, it makes you breathe a huge sigh of relief and makes you feel much happier that at least for a couple of weeks, you can do whatever you want, take your mind off everything, until you get back into school, college or university when it all starts again for another three months.

You know you'd rather sit back and watch classic tv epsiodes of Only Fools and Horses or the Royle Family, or christmas films like Elf or the millions and millions of versions of A Christmas Carol, but until that last piece of work is in, you can't do anything but power through the work.

#10 - Waking up knowing that you're going on holiday today

There's only a few days where you wake up and straight away have a smile on your face. These days include Christmas Day, your birthday (mainly when you're younger) and the morning when you're about to go holiday. For both adults and children, it's time to chill out, catch some rays and not have to think about work or school for a while.

It seems as if you have nothing else to worry about other than what colour swimming trunks or bikini you are going to wear on what day. Breakfast is ate at a rate of knots, and the family are already standing by the door waiting to go to the airport.

The sleep beforehand is a normally not a good one, as you are usually tossing and turning, and keep checking the clock every five minutes to see if it is time to get up yet. But even though when you wake up you've had about 2 hours sleep if that, you're not feeling tired at all, and you know that in just a few hours (or maybe more if you are going to some far away exotic country) you'll be in another country, and can sleep as much, or as little as you want, depending on which generation you are.

#9 - Having one of those sleeps where you wake up feeling so refreshed

Most of the time when you go to sleep you wake up thinking "I feel more tired than when I went to sleep, how can I be more tired now!?"

You spend most of the night actually trying to fall asleep, and when your are asleep you're tossing and turning, or getting up to get a drink, a midnight snack or go for a toilet break, so when you actually do fall back to sleep, it feels as if it's been about 10 minutes before the dredded alarm clock goes off and it's time to start another day, another day in which you go through the whole day half asleep, wondering when it'll be time for you to get back into bed again.

But, there are them odd occasions, which happens once in a blue moon, when you actually go to sleep, whether it be becuase you are so tired that you crash out straight away, or (this is more the time when I have it) that you get in from a night out and fall asleep still fully clothed in the first position you hit the bed (or sometimes not even the bed).

The whole night whisks past and when you wake up it feels as if you have been asleep for a good week, as you're feeling oh so refreshed and you feel like this day is going to be a good day. You feel wide awake and work/school doesn't seem like a chore today and you can't wait to get the day started.

It is one of those sleeps that you know as soon as you wake up that you're not gonna have another one of those for a long long time, but at this moment in time, you don't give a damn.