My life in nine

I haven't done one of these in ages so I thought it was the easiest, quickest, most visual way to catch you up on what's been happening in my life recently.

2017 in three words

I know I am extremely late to this party, but I always feel that there simply isn’t time over the Christmas period for true reflection and preparation, but that is just me. I warn you this post is not New Years resolutions, per say. But rather my sentiment or attitude for the New Year.

Also can I take this moment to apologise as not blogging since CHRISTMAS DAY is simply disgraceful, I hang my head in shame.

How to cope with disappointment (In eight easy steps)

We all have to deal with disappointment at some point in our lives. Sometimes its the disappointment at McDonalds cleaning the milkshake machine, others its the heart crushing news that you finished 0.68% under the grade boundary for your degree. I write this both to help others, but to help push myself through the latter. Please comment below any advice you all have, because it will not fall on deaf ears.

Greetings from Torrevieja!

As you can probably tell I have been absent again from blogging. I will explain part A of where I have been.

For ten days in mid-September Stephen (my boyfriend) and I escaped the fast approaching British autumn, to the sunny Torrevieja, Spain. 

October goals

So as autumn is creeping into England causing the air to freshen up and crispin, I’ve decided to compile some autumn goals for both my blog and life in general.

Starting afresh

This has been weighing on my mind for a long time, so lets just press the refresh button and start again.

Covent Garden | London

A little failure and a big silver lining

As you may be able to instantly notice, this blog has become something of a graveyard. Some of you wonderful people still leave comments, and those comments really brighten even my darkest day.

A completely random picture of my university | KCL, The Strand

Autumn goals

I see so many bloggers write these kind of posts every month and am so interested to see how they get along so I thought why not try something like this for myself, except I thought why not give myself not only one month to improve my life but three with monthly updates. So here are five goals I hope to achieve in the upcoming months.

1) Start looking at things more positively
This for me is something I am terrible at. Throughout of my life I have always looked at oppertunities and situations in the worst case scenario, however I am hoping this will become a thing of the past. It worries me to think of all the chances for bettering my life I have missed simply because fear has overwhelmed me.

2) Become more organised, in all aspects of my life
Ahh the eternal September goal for me. Every school year since I started school I have promised myself I will be more organised to help myself for goal four, this has never lasted more than a month. However I have already started using my diary religiously and writing out my entire month so I can see it all in front of me. Just the start I hope of becoming way more organised.

3) Two blog posts a week, every week
Yup, I'm committing (however not to certain days sorry :(). I love blogging so will ensure there is the minimum of two post a week.

4) Limit stress in my life and stop it ruling my life
As mentioned in goal one I am a worst case scenario kind of person which leads to stress. Over the past year I have realised stress is a useless thing that does not help get anything done therefore I am going to ensure that every part of my life, whether it be personal, work or education are not overwhelming me so I feel extreme levels of stress.

5) Try as many new experiences as humanly possible 
I'm twenty-one its time for me to leave my shell and say 'YES' to as many different things as possible. You are only young once right!

I will check in a month so watch this space, lets hope I actually achieve these, I do have a good feeling!

Do you have any goals this autumn, if so what are they? I am always looking for inspiration! 

Love you all soooo much!!

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A reintroduction...

I was looking through my blog and (finally) changing and updating all the parts that have been bugging me for a while when I realise how out of date my 'About Me' page was. It then dawned on me just how much has changed in under one year when I started writing that page when I was on the fence about even creating a blog.

I do feel the reason I have not posted half as much as I wanted over the past few months simply because I was trying to 'force' posts which I wasn't really feeling, but now that is a thing of the past and therefore I have decided to reintroduce myself and start anew.

The natural first place to begin is with my age and occupation (boring). I am the ripe old age of twenty-one (although I feel as though my body thinks I am about sixty most of the time especially with my clicky bones) and am a full-time postgraduate student about to begin my Masters in International Relations at Kings College London. I work part-time as a waitress in what often feels like the worlds busiest pub in order to fund my Masters. Before this I completed my batchelors in Modern and International History at Staffordshire University to a First Class.

(Left: Selfie. Right: At Graduation)

In my spare time (what I have of it anyway) I like to do all the normal stuff a twenty-one year old likes to do like read books, read blogs, walk my adorable dog 'Bella' and spend time with my friends and boyfriend. However I am not a massive fan of going out and getting drunk so when I am not working evenings in the pub I am probably in bed, Party Animal right here!

I live just outside of London and fairly close to Cambridge which luckily are my two favorite places in the United Kingdom. But my heart belongs to New York which I have been lucky enough to visit twice in my life.

(Left: Me and Stephen in Bruges. Right: Me outside Tiffanys in NY)

Thats all I can think of right now but if there is anything else you want to know just leave it below.

I'm excited to keep this blog more 'me' and write posts which I am extremely proud of.

Speak soon,

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Looking forward towards autumn

So in case you haven't heard a large proportion of the internet (okay bloggers) have declared that as of the first of September we can kiss summer goodbye as it is officially autumn. The weather clearly got this memo and has assured that summer is dead and gone. As I was reading everyone's posts about why they were excited for autumn I must admit I also felt excited, yes me the girl who feels the cold within a second and has on many occasion publicly announced that summer my season. However (as clique as this sounds) as the first of September arrived and me and Stephen had a day out in September I felt anew. I suppose this stems from the fact I have been in education for the past seventeen years of my life therefore every September did bring about change and this year is no exception. However, rather than the naive and short lived promises that I have made to myself every year about being more organised and motivated this autumn I honestly feel re-energised and ready to kick butt.

This attitude is by no means exclusively attached to my education, but also all other areas of my life and most importantly this blog. I love writing and taking photos for this blog and have completely neglected it. This is no longer acceptable to me and I am going to try my best to write at least two posts a week on any day that I feel like.

I have an amazing feeling about the upcoming months and am so excited for the autumn season that all you bloggers have described to me, (not so much the ice cold rain, dry chapped lips and mud). Are you excited for the upcoming months? or am I completely insane? I hope this post finds you well and here is to spreading the positivity I am currently feeling.

(Photos from my trip to Covent Garden September 1st)

Love

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Life Update: I actually graduated!!

Yay!! So after three years of hard work I have gone and graduated last month.

While many people look back at their three years and feel sad that they are leaving, I am actually quite happy to see the back of my undergraduate degree and I feel extremely excited to (hopefully) start a Masters.

I had a wonderful day with beautiful weather and even graduated with a special award which I had no idea about. It is true what they say though after sitting and waiting to walk across the stage for what feels like forever, it really does go in the blink of an eye.

Congratulations to everyone else who had graduated this summer, and who is waiting to graduate in the upcoming months. Good luck to everyone who is either at university or about to start, it will be the hardest few years of your life but it will be completely worth it.

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Life Update: Why I have been absent from this blog

I guess I should explain my absence from this blog for the past two weeks (three weeks of not writing) but I just didn’t feel like writing anything. Do you ever experience that feeling, like whatever you write and the pictures you take will never be good enough so what is the point in trying. This has been my sad state of my for the past week (the week prior to that I was to jetlagged to even keep my eyes open let alone tend to this blog) but sometimes I think its good to catch my breath and start fresh.

I guess the ‘lost’ feeling I had consuming my every though last week was only natural as I am experiencing many changes in my life, i.e. finishing my undergraduate degree, moving home, then moving with my parents out of my childhood home later this summer, finding a job. All these changes and I still have yet to decide exactly what I want to do with my life.

However, it would have been all too easy to wallow in my sorry state and never try to drag myself out (like I have done previously) but I decided to do my absolute best, come Monday, to wake up and attempt to attain my much better attitude that I was developing throughout the previous week, and I can happily report so far so good.

I guess finding your inner happiness and peace with life is a working progress and (unfortunately) is not a case of waking up one morning and you are where you want to be.

So, all that aside, what exactly have I done in the past three weeks apart from sit around and think (apparently) well I went to New York, drove to Stoke to pick up my last few bits at university, then to Wolverhampton to see my boyfriend (I drove 300 miles that weekend, not bad ey?), started doing yoga and got back on my bike after three years.

I feel as though my passion for blogging has been reborn and I have got so many ideas for new and exciting posts, including my trip to New York of course, so watch this space!

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