Going through the motions

Hello! Remember me? It’s been a while… and please excuse the posery photobooth montage above, in the time it would have taken me to take one ‘proper’ picture with the self timer on my SLR, I had time to take all these silly shots on my macbook. I have been completely swamped with work recently and super busy hours, I actually feel like for once I don’t have anything shiny and new to post about or fill you in on. I have literally been working and nada else. So take this post as a wee unloading of thoughts (a bit of word vomiting) … and if you don’t like words, you may have skipped past this paragraph anyways looking for more pictures, which you wont find so I apologise!

Today is my 12th day working, and our last day of filming so I look forward to greeting the weekend with a smile and getting a bit of a social life back. Also, finally getting the guinea pigs back as their ringworm has almost cleared up and they will be ready to come home by saturday. Kinda worried how they will be with us after being away for a while now, but hopefully some veggies and cuddles will win them over again. 

I was treated to a little something in the post this week from Anna at Maggie Angus, after winning her Style Clan for this look I posted. Since doing that look, I now own 3 outa 6 of the items I included in the post (I’m a determined wee shopper that way haha) The Coral Branch necklace thanks to Anna, (thank you so much ♥) She is actually about to launch a gorgeous new range for Maggie Angus called Nightlife, consisting of beautifully made silhouettes of deer, bears, feather, foxes and owls. This collection won’t be available online until july but I have been allowed to give you a sneaky preview here. If you enjoy a bit of Tatty Devine and Stolen Thunder, Maggie Angus will be right down your street 🙂

My weekend is going to consist of some quality time with my boyfriend who has been at the brunt of my bad moods recently. We have a nice little date night planned for tomorrow. Really wanting to see the Hangover 2, for any of you that have seen it will I be disappointed? On sunday I am meeting my friend Gemma for lunch and then Leah for dinner. We have been well fed at work this week between shows, but having time to eat without rushing it down has been a bit of a luxury, so bring on pigging out at the weekend, at my own pace haha.

Next week I am off, and have a blogger dinner/cocktails night planned on tuesday with the girls I went to Girls Day Out at the SECC with. That bloody post is STILL missing. What’s that all about blogger? Anyone else just never get a post back after the whole dramz that happened? I think if it is not back by this week, I will repost the pictures along with whatever shenanigans we get upto on tuesday.

I also have a couple of meetings next week, one at my old uni for which I am part of the curriculum reform panel and another meeting is for a wee design job I am doing at the end of the month. I also have the dentist next week (wahhh) but it’s okay, because my birthday is next saturday so I’m looking forward to that 🙂 Crazy to think that this was almost a year ago. Really, really crazy. My family and friends threw the most wonderful surprise party for me for my 21st. With the cutest buffet I’ve ever seen, and a massive Hello Kitty birthday cake. If you go to the link and have a nosy back on that post, look at how short my hair is! Haha, now I have all this hair and don’t know what to do with it! My favourite thing to do right now is impersonating Cousin It (see one of the photobooth pictures above)

This year I will be turning the grand old age of 22. I am going to spend some time with David and then my family, on sat/sun during the day (yes I will be milking the whole weekend for the fact my birthday is on a saturday this year) On the saturday night, I am going old school and having a girls night in, aka SLEEPOVER, with all my girls in my house! Cheaper than a night out, I think cocktail making, home baking, good food, cheesy music, nostalgic dvd’s, and dancing around my living room like idiots is going to be on the cards. David actually suggested it, he’s such a wee sweetheart and is getting sent off to his parents for the evening while us ladies have our wee night in (and wetherspoons big breakfast the next morning if all goes to plan) I’d really love to hear you girls get nostalgic about sleepovers, with what makes a good night and what you remember from when you were younger. I’ll be getting organised for it next week, and want to throw a nice night for my girls so any suggestions please throw them my way 🙂 I need to find someone with a Costco card so I can buy some party supplies. You know it’s time to buy things in bulk when Costco/Makro are on the cards. Am I the only wierdo that loves places like that?

Going through the motions best describes how I’ve been feeling about bits and bobs recently. The blog being one of them. I’m really questioning what I post, how often I post etc etc. Since my reader count has gotten bigger than I expected, I want to keep up regular content on here for y’all to read. But regular isn’t my middle name, and I hope interest won’t be lost if it’s just a weekly update/feature/post of some sort from me. I recently got an anonymous comment which I am going to share, because it was actually really bloody nice and relates to what I am trying to say:

“Just want to quickly say, really love this blog and loved it even more when I read back to a post from Jan where you had been very honest about how you have the same ups and downs as every other girl etc. Up until that post I had felt a tinge of sadness and thought “Wow, this little lady has the perfect life. I wish I was this happy” and while you clearly are so happy and lovely it was just so refreshing to read. so thankyou for being so real x”

I am a normal girl with a normal life. Perfect isn’t even in my vocab! I stay positive because to be honest I don’t need the internet creepers knowing about the serious in’s and out’s of my life. This blog won’t get any more personal than what I’m willing to share, and I tend to not rant or complain about something unless I actually intend to get off my arse and do something about it. I work like a trooper, I see my friends, I spend time with my family, I try to run a organised wee home with a boyfriend and a couple of piggies in tow :p I want writing this blog to feel like a luxury rather than a chore. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that I hope no matter how often I post, or what I post about, or how ‘out of the loop’ I get, I hope you’ll still stick around.

So, who’s coming to mines for the birthday sleepover then? 🙂

xx