#25: Third Year Fort

[MigdalaVered]

really confused why someone would dislike this video. totes endearing. you are adorable.

i work in childcare and preschool and babysit about once a week, so i'm always acting like a child. but i also have to be responsible. i feel very much like Wendy lady and it makes me smile lots.

[LaDiDa591]

I love Saffy's Angel! And I love your panda onesie :)

[lucyedgehill]

Can I just say, I work in a shop where we have to ID people who buy lottery tickets & stuff, and it's not if you look under 16. It's if you look under 25. It's so that we don't end up with a massive fine, loose our licence and end up in prison. And also, a lot of 15 year olds, especially girls, do look like they are 25.

[theflorgeormix]

2001 ASO an experience and scary but a must see

[SubtleExposure]

Me and my friends are actually having to write a blog together on Student life for our Creative Writing class, so we've been discussing blogs a lot and I keep wanting to mention yours. Alas I'm far to shy for that.

Do you have any particular blog writing advice, perhaps?

[splicegrrl]

Second mention of caterpillar cake sent me to google image search. Yum. Want.

[alucidminute]

Aww Rosi I'm glad to be making the fort with you too! (Well watch you in it.) I USED TO PLAY SCHOOLS ALL THE TIME! My sister used to be the teacher first and would say that I could be it next but she never let me :( she always just said next time :( next time never came :( (Something I clearly haven't gotten over til this day haha.)

[rosiecouture1]

Saffy's Angel was such a wonderful book (and the following books about her siblings), my name is Saffron also so I loved having a protagonist share the same name as I. I too grew up enamoured by the idea of an English boarding school (all the way from Australia) my obsession with Enid Blyton's St Clare and Mallory Towers girls had me longing to play lacrosse before I discovered how rough and tumble it really was. This was a lovely video. Thank you

[evolvingboard]

I had a friend named Netta when I was little.

[tuxxedomask]

I always thought you were a year older than I was, but apparently not.

People in England finish uni earlier though.

[doodlehh]

Could you talk about Maureen Johnson in a video? I'm just curious.

[HardhatJelloXenon]

@missxrojas Wow, well in that case that's alright then :) Make sure you don't spend it all at once!

[missloisjones]

You are succeeding much better at these challenges than I am Rosi, well done! I must admit I will be ever so sad to not see your face in my sub box every day come Feb 1st :(

[definitelyoverrated]

They asked me for my ID when I tried to buy a sixpack of alcoholfree beer, what makes it even more ridiculous is, that I was 21 and the drinking age for beer in my country was 16 at the time.

[littledumbled]

oh hi there me. derppppp. YOU'RE STILL ADORABLE. alwaysss.

[HardhatJelloXenon]

Don't get sucked into the lottery Rosianna! If you don't stop now then you never will!

[missxrojas]

@HardhatJelloXenon I stopped for a whole three weeks, played again and WON!

[missxrojas]

@HardhatJelloXenon (I mean I won £2.70 but still!)

[Klirrification]

I used to dream about going to bording school too! Still do actually, despite being about to start university.

[rnj117]

i love the family from one end street - but i have never met anyone else who read it , finally i know someone at least has experienced the joy that is the family from one end street :)

[iliveinatardis]

I haven't read 'The family from one end street' for years'! God, it was so brilliant! My Dad used to read it to me when I was little. I totally know what you mean about it compared to the Casson family series- both make you feel completely part of the family and so involved with their lives... MUST reread it now!

[modarp]

YOU ARE ADORABLE

[leapoffaith20]

Rosianna, You've got some paint on you. ^^

[theuncommonviewer]

in corner shops and supermarkets they're often trained to ID you for lottery if you look 18 or under so don't be too perplexed. worked in one for far too long now

[joetavish]

Hi Rosianna, see on slings & arrows, to the left of this video, who's writing advice is that? Or is it yours? I don't recognise the photo

[outofthenightsky]

Diana Wynne Jones! =D

Also, you only have to be 16 to buy lottery tickets in the UK? Crazy.

[pyneapplegirl]

I'm confused, why is everyone wishing you a happy birthday when it's not your birthday?

[missxrojas]

@pyneapplegirl I don't know!

[10nantFangirl]

I got charged for an under-twelve meal at Pizza Hut once. I'll be seventeen next month, and I got charged for this last year. My friend thought I should be offended but I took this as a massive HUZZAH moment - I got a freaking DISCOUNT! XD

[RaeNbowInMyPants]

You kidding? You're totally cute now too, though maybe beautiful is a more apt word <3

[mockingjayphoenix]

I think every child (or teen) who reads a lot dreams about going off and having adventures at a boarding school. I know I do. There's something almost magical about a place with tons of kids, no parents, and very little supervision. Even if the school isn't actually, you know, magical. Although that's always a plus.

[caradreams]

I ALWAYS wished I could have gone to boarding school. My best friend and I played this game for about two years where my house was the school. We made up schedules and boyfriends and homework for ourselves. My favorite part was making up a class schedule, which is actually my favorite part of real school too.

[Valdrag]

Can you be more adorable?



[SpellboundSama]

Happy birthday?! And you ARE a foxy cat :P :D

[missxrojas]

@SpellboundSama it's not my birthday! My birthday is in August. And thank you!

[themaddestcat]

Omg Judy Blume. Also, I have a silly ID story I will tell you sometime. Looking young is better than looking old! :)

[raziel972]

Rosi! I also made a fort every year in college with my roommates. One year I think we lived in it for a week, haha! :) I try to never forget the wonder I felt as a child, and I admire you for doing the same.

[jhangelgurl]

Don't feel bad Rosi. I'm 25 and people always think I'm in high school.

[ntcssj]

I think there's at least one thing that Disney got right, who says we can't be a kid at ANY age! :) I've been playing neopets recently which I hadn't done in AGES, so I guess that's childish, I got my first account when I was probably 5 or 6! :)

DFTBA!

[KiwiNapoleon]

... I think you're still cute.

[SantifyYoSelf]

Yup, people tend to think I'm in my late teens but I'm almost 24.

[CrazyClaire88]

FUDGEEEE!! Love it so much!!

[atravelvideo]

DID YOU BUY CATERPILLAR CAKE? :D

[missxrojas]

@atravelvideo sadly not :(

[DaleMurph]

She looks adorable. 

[beckle0206]

ok i swear it said on your blog that it was your birthday... i did get very confused cause i thought you were a summer baby like me...

[missxrojas]

@beckle0206 I understand the source of confusion! I have tried to make it less confusing.

[InivisibleSam]

I also made a blanket fort! My friend came over after our exams (blech) and we indulged ourselves in our wonderful fort pairing it along with dunkaroos, red juice, and Sydney White. Ahh the joys of reminiscing. It was pretty much the perfect break on exam week today.

[immaturatycentral52]

I have THE EXACT winnie the poo bear as you do

[WoWAlferow]

Don't be ridiculous your cuter than ever ^^

[acciodignity]

Ah, genuinely made a revision fort a few weeks ago. It was so fantastic

[mroom1469]

SAFFY'S ANGEL! I actually have been searching that book after I got it out of the library in my last week of year 6, and had to give it back before I finished it.

[CharlineLikesC]

I will turn 24 in two month and I have never built a fort in my life, definitively something I've missed, but I like these acting childlike events and if someone would invite me to join him building a fort, I would definitely do it, because you should never lose the child in you.

[flightwithtools]

I thought I was watching a cat video.... Then those last couple seconds came on. :)

[OddmentTweak]

Hahaha! How cuuute!!

[lannapeanut]

On my best friends 21st, the check out woman in Tesco wouldn't let him buy alcohol because I was with him and she thought he was buying it for me and I didn't have ID to prove I was 20 at the time - I thought that was a bit ridiculous, not only that she thought I was 17 or younger but that she wouldn't even sell it to someone who was with me (even worse is that I don't drink). =P

[whatallison]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[missxrojas]

@whatallison aaahhh not my birthday!

[bansribb]

Happy Birthday :) Hope it was lovely

[missxrojas]

@bansribb haha it's not my birthday, my birthday's in August

[tetsubo57]

You are still adorable.

[MissMallaby]

I'm going to miss your daily posts at the end of this month. They are a joy to watch!

[KnasMuuIda]

Happy birthday Rosianna and welcome to the twenties! I'm not there jet, but will be in a few months. I love that you spent your first day post-teenager being childish. Hope you had a great day :)

[missxrojas]

@KnasMuuIda not my birthday, but thanks!

[KnasMuuIda]

@missxrojas Oops, sorry! Obviously I didn't read your blog that thoroughly. I just read it as "I am, as of Wednesday 25th January 2012, twenty years of age" and left out the "and some five or six months". The funny thing is that I wished you a happy birthday on your actual birthday in August, but for some reason I didn't remember it. Anyway, you can just save this comment for a few months and come back when it's your birthday :)

[Senkatuka23]

Ridiculously cute.

[piecrumbs]

When I was at the airport a couple months ago the passport control officer asked me if I was over 18 (I'm 22, so I guess it wasn't *too* much of a stretch). I think he was wondering if I was a minor and needed an escort!

[thefriedmiss]

To me it happens all the time that people think I were 16.

My little brother, who is 17 years old, graduated in June and people kept asking me, whether I already knew what I wanted to do after school.

Actually I am about to turn 23 and recently got my Bachelor Degree...

[unsignedletters]

Forts are my favorite. I sent you a video response from an older fort I made, I hope that is alright with you! I have never heard of caterpillar cake until yesterday when you mentioned it. It sounds really nice though. I also like your cat whiskers and nose :) x

[darkducki]

Today I read a book called Sandy Lane Stables (theres a video about it on my channel) I make a lot of forts! Everyone should! I've even made a fort out of books before :)

[xtuber25]

Have you read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer? Is it good? (ps. I'm a veg too!)

[MrSirPopey]

This video was awesome. We used to make forts occassionally and defend them with nerf guns and watch old simpsons reruns from them during Uni. Never in footy pyjamas though which was lame.

[FatTom25]

It was my mates 20th birthday yesterday so to remember our childhood our house set up an 'old school' birthday buffet, we had cold pizza, pineapple and cheese on cocktail sticks, cocktail sausages, mini scotch eggs, crisps then party rings and jelly and ice cream for pudding :) Love being a child!!

[bilingual0insanity]

I can relate - this summer I took a plane on my own and when I gave the lady at the desk my passport she asked how old I was. (Why she did not just read my passport is a mystery to me.) I said I was 17 to which she responded: Really? I thought you were 12!!! whilst shaking her head incredulously.

Oh well. It happens. :)

[TheElevatorMusician]

I unintentionally colored with crayons before I saw today's challenge. It's how I relax during exam week.

One of my friends got IDed when she bought an R rated movie at Wal-Mart. She's 25.

[seurat2]

You are clearly still adorable, as if there was any doubt of that. Did you see the fort Evy Lynch made out on her hotel balcony? Awesome minds think alike.

[beckle0206]

Happy Birthday :D (not stalking just read it on your new blog) Hope someone bought you a caterpillar cake!

[dftbageff]

Adorable video. :) My mom works in hotels so my sisters and I used to set up our house like a hotel. We even had papers with logos on it, menus for the restaurant, room keys, etc.

I still sleep with a stuffed animal at night, too. ;)

[cantaloupestarfruit]

so cute!

[RabbitsInTrousers]

I wore my hair in plaits too! Also, I worked on my art project, which is building a doll's house :)

[0uterHaven]

I used to get carboard packing boxes, open them up and link them together by the flaps :P, thus creating a tunnel which I put in the conservatory, at the end was a room made with the same boxes, I just had two flat ones for the roof and either side for the walls. Hours of fun

[alibabalady]

@0uterHaven I used to do a similar thing in my room, then one day I came home from school and my den had gone....

[JesuswasOverrated]

15? easily, perhaps younger if judgement was based purely on looks, however if they spent any amount of time (if it exists) conversing with you, then they would quickly see evidence of an intellect much higher than most of that age (making them think that you are older). using this principal (intellect over aesthetics), my friend and I have on many occasions blagged our way into films with certifications older than ourselves. it's actually quite a useful way to manipulate people.

[DGC019]

Nooo that's not true. You're still cute!

[scrupuloussam]

My sister also gets suspected of being younger than she is (she's 23). She uses that to her advantage when buying bus tickets.

[ItTakesII]

this video is adorable. you're still adorable now, Rosi! -julian

[alibabalady]

I tidied my room today to procrastinate, now building a fort seems like the perfect way to procrastinate, and continue tomorrow by having to tidy my room again!

[itstheniceguyme]

You are so cute... :D

[TheDreamingEva]

I hate when people get my age wrong... But thats life. Also why would you shatter the illusion! I was sure some strange cat like creature had hijacked your channel :O

[Gryffindor004]

*... in which Louise decides Rosianna is her hero.*

[Hombrelobo666]

Trying to find activities to keep me busy, Decided to give myself a haircut, reminds me of stuff I used to do when I 16. Memories.  - \ ^^ / -

[KimsGlitterChatter]

I've never built a fort! I feel like I am missing out, therefore, I am stealing your tradition when I start university in September :)

[isjustforshiggles]

I tried to buy a 12-rated DVD in Tesco last year and the woman wouldn't let me because I didn't have any ID - this was last year, and I was eighteen, and not being able to buy a 12 indicates that apparently I look /eleven/?!

[JesuswasOverrated]

@isjustforshiggles morrisons let me buy a 15-rated game when i was seven, i still don't know how that works. also, if you use a self scanning checkout, you can occassionally get through no problems, which is good if you are a fourteen year-old who wants to buy 18 rated DVDs.

[isjustforshiggles]

@JesuswasOverrated Haha Morrisons are clearly less vigilant than the omnipotent Tesco. :p

[teddysgirl2011]

So...I'm defiantly going to steal your fort building tradition seeing as I just started university. Woooo inner child!

[zaynabxx]

To be fair, most supermarkets have a think 25 policy where we (I work in Sainsburys) have to id anyone who looks under 25 for age related products. Usually for alcohol and tobacco but clearly some enforce this rule too much!

[missxrojas]

@zaynabxx yeah but you know when you can tell they're asking you because they genuinely don't think you're old enough? It was that.

[RackiePlib]

I've never built a fort D:

[davidharrison1992]

... I NEED FORT BUILDING MATERIALS NOW *throws mattress off bed*

[genevieveswan]

I actually make a bed fort and I sleep in it. I keep it for a month.

[Ironballs69]

I think I forgot to grow up.

[alopith]

BRB, going to make a fort and listen to the Early Learning Centre dinosaur tape my friend just sent me.

[ninnains]

I sleep with pooh too!!!!!!!!

[doroteja773]

You're so unique!

[benjibunny14]

doctor who isnt just for kids, captain jack and sexy amy are key examples!!!

[superevilcharliebot]

I want to be Peter pan and never ever grow up :) I've never forgotten my love for party rings, caterpillar cake and forts <3

[CrazyPurpleLady]

Just before Christmas, me and three of my friends got together, built a crazy fort in my friends tiny living room, and watched Love Actually. It was the most perfect evening in existence.

[mifsgoingup]

I'm 18 and several people give me between 12 and 14, I don't know why though I don't look that young but I try to see it as good thing i guess :) me and my brother used to build forts too..hmmm nostalgia

[albusseveruspotter]

When I was 10 I got asked if I went to pre-school yet by this random old lady on the bus. I mean, aside from the fact that WHO WOULD LET A FIVE YEAR OLD GET THE BUS BY THEMSELVES AT 8 IN THE MORNING? I was pretty distraught. But hey, I was a tiny, tiny, child. 

[filll5571]

You should just wear cat makeup all the time.

[VLicious8704]

@filll5571 It does seem to suit her extremely well!

[aSammyGee]

I love this.

[CharrFrears]

I don't want to grow up! I want to stay 17 foreverrrrr.

[aliceofvictoria]

@CharrFrears I'd like to get to 18 first :L everything is legal then!

[amyevekeegan]

I actually think I remember Kristina writing in a blog a while ago about how a co-worker of one of her parents or someone like that thought she was only about fifteen years old too, haha.

[sacmagiquesacmagique]

Also this is great and stuff. :D

[Wolfiedotcom]

You look so cute as a cat :3

[12reids]

<3

[sacmagiquesacmagique]

Yay that's never happened to me before! I feel joy and shame in equal measure.

[missxrojas]

@sacmagiquesacmagique joy of joys!

[sacmagiquesacmagique]

First things first, FIRST