New Decade, New Me

I turn 20 today. 20 years old. A whole new decade of my life.  And it's both terrifying and exciting. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a big fan of my birthday at all, and usually I do everything I possibly can to avoid the day, but, I don't know, something about 20 seems different... I've …

Uncommon Goods: Birthday Wishlist

As you may know, I turn 20 in a couple of weeks, and for the first time in my life I have no idea what I want for my birthday.  Like... usually by the time it gets to my birthday/Christmas I have either a bunch of little things on my mind, or one big thing that …

An Open Letter to My Sister

To my little geek, You turn 15 today... Which I'm slightly in denial about because I still feel like I was 15 less than a year ago, so the fact that I now have a 15 year old sister makes me feel incredibly old. I've always loved hanging out with you.  From when you were 3 and I …

Insecurity.

Why is it so easy to spot our own flaws?  I mean, I've always had things I didn't like about my body... I haven't liked my stomach since I was 6, and I never liked the ways my thighs jiggled, but over time things that I never thought would bug me... things that aren't even that wrong …

Toxic Friendships – You Don’t Need That.

As a 19 year old who's been to 4 schools, 1 sixth form and 1 University, I've experienced my fair share of new friends.  Being quite insecure and a little shy and awkward when you first meet me, it can take a while for me to gel with people, but what I've found out over …

The Identity Tag!

This is my first normal post I guess... I mean all my previous posts were either part of the 12 Days of Blogging or introducing you to my blog, so I figured I'd kick it off by telling you all about me with the Identity Tag!  I saw this originally on Elm's Blog (which is brilliant, you …

12 Days of Blogging – Day 9: Loving Ourselves

I have always been really bad at accepting compliments.  Whenever people tell me something good about myself my instinct is always to disagree and shoot myself down.  I think it started as an effort to be humble... Usually when people openly love themselves they're ridiculed for being arrogant and self-centred, so I've never wanted to …

12 Days of Blogging – Day 7: New Year

So today is the last day of 2016, and woooow what a year it's been.  I'm sure that anyone who has been on the internet at any point in the last year has seen the countless memes about how terrible 2016 was.  Yes, politically with Brexit and Trump it's been a year of... let's just …

12 Days of Blogging – Day 6: Phone Free

I think I've gotten to the point where I care about my phone and people's replies too much and social media is starting to make me feel quite anxious. I wouldn't say I'm a "slave to social media" or anything, but given the path I'm on, it's possible that I could get there. Earlier today …

12 Days of Blogging – Day 3: Positivity

In all the stress of University and coursework and exams and socialising and my love life it's hard not to feel overwhelmed sometimes.  2016 has had some real highs for me, but I'd be lying if I said there weren't times where I've felt incredibly low.  My goal for 2017 is to have a way …