Tuesday, 26 March 2013

My lord I apologise for my Absence!

My life has been chaotic the last few weeks let me tell you that! So I apologise for not writing any posts but my lord have I been busy. With what you ask?

I moved house with my boyfriend this weekend so for the last two weeks I've been living in purgatory! Literally all our furniture was packed away and we were eating off the floor for the last few days. When we finally moved our landlord couldn't move into his new property so had to keep most of his furniture in the house. Luckily he's moving beginning of April and then the house will be completely ours, but just had to happen really didn't it! There is never smooth sailing in my life I can tell you that!

Also - I found out last week that I have a sister. A SISTER! That no-one ever told me about. She found me on facebook and just thought I was a relative of my dads. However, turns out she was his child from a previous relationship and she never met him. My mum didn't know either so it was a massive shock to us, grandparents however knew everything and were going to tell me when I was 21. Really changes your perspective on family when they keep a secret for 20 years. I now worry whenever my nan rings me because our last few conversations have always included; 'Lauren, Gemma wants to know about this...so theres something you should know' As if every event in my life seems to have extra history that I am unaware of. Cray cray life!

All this has happened during the last few weeks before my dissertation is due; thats in less than 2 weeks. I have my feedback from my supervisor but I need to finish it all off. I have all the tools to do it, but it's pretty hard to concentrate when you're second guessing your life & your worldly possessions are in boxes. Hopefully my life will be completely organised tomorrow & I can start work again. But today... I have a job trial at a new restaurant in Loughborough where I'm living.

I'm so nervous! I have been a waitress for 4 years, but I'm still worried I'm never good enough. This is often what happens; plus my anxiety is constantly sky high; I'll definitely have a panic attack on my walk to work tonight - 100%. But for now I'm going to try & be productive until then :)

Russell is now asking for some moral support in the kitchen because he does not want to cook Lunch alone. MEN!

Here's some instagram snaps from the last week for a super quick update on my life! They have been uploaded in a random order so I'm going to quickly go through them, randomly.


Here's a funny snap of me & Russ on our last night in the old house. Thank god! Was an absolute nightmare moving out - I have a detest  for our old estate agents. They are horrible people! I paid £200 for my carpets to be cleaned & they're saying that damage that was 'written in the inventory' is our fault as the estate agent 'forgot to write it in'. Money-grabbing Assholes. 


This is me today! My hair feels so much better condition since I haven't used heat for the last 3 weeks! I have been just washing my hair every other day, then leaving my hair in plaits over night so it's dry by morning and has a nice wave to it! Although you can tell my routine is all over the place because today it was straightened and I felt terrible hahaha. 


Last night Russ was at work & I was having a night in by myself with the puppies. Strangely it was heaven, I watched Psychic Sally for the first time. I love trashy tv, and it's interesting to see so many people believing in the paranormal! 


Oh Linky-bear. This was our second day in the new house, we were unpacking and Lincoln had gone missing. We found him asleep on our bed - you can see in his eyes that he knows he's done wrong! Cheeky puppy. 


This is from Sunday, when Ella & Linc had their long walks. Lincoln was all up in my grill about wanting cuddles where as Ella was snuggled up in her bed avoiding the drama :) so cute! My pups are so photogenic! 

So that's it! Again i'll try to be more organised with my videos but life got quite dramatic all of a sudden! 

Much loves.
xoxoxoxoxoxox



Monday, 11 March 2013

The Latest Obsessions...

Random post alert! 

Private Practice - Lord! Grey's Anatomy has been on hiatus for a month, so I filled my crack addiction with this show - it's spin off. It's overly dramatic, the characters can be highly irritated but my lord I am obsessed! I feel like my life is so calm and tranquil, that I thrive watching this made up horror show that is their personal relationships. I mean Violet - would not be allowed to practice psychiatry. She is overly involved in both her patients and other people's patients lives. 

Malteaser Bunnies - nomnomnom! Whether it be normal Malteaser Bunnies or mini bunnies! I don't care, these are delicious bundles of joy. I get a glowy feeling every time I eat 7 of these bad boys. (I have a food addiction...may be why I've put on so much weight. hell no only live once!)

Halo 4 - I'm a very girly girl. But there is nothing I love more than shooting someone in the head on a virtual game. I know it sounds sadistic, not like I'd wander round with an assault rifle shooting people. But the hunt is hilarious, I die so often. I'm an absolute failure at it, but every time I get 8 kills, I'm so happy but realistically my boyfriend gets 30, he's awesome, I suck. But I love it! Addicted.

Plaits - I have been trying really hard for the last few weeks to stop using heat on my hair. I have badly damaged hair & I have no idea why it's suddenly so bad. I had highlights about 5 months ago, and about 3 inches of hair cut off. And I have dyed it like a dark blonde a month ago. But it's just so dry! If I tried to curl it, my ends would look dead. So I've been washing my hair every 2 days, and plaiting it before I go to sleep. So I wake up with dry wavy hair. Hence no heat involved. Hopefully if I keep doing this it will help prevent anymore damage. I wanted nice hair for my 21st birthday but who knows if that will happen! Any advice would be very much appreciated :) 


And those are my random current obsessions! 

Here's another random, updated photo of Ella & Russ. I took it to show the lady who gave me Ella how much she's grown since her old pictures :) Safe to say I can no longer pick her up without causing myself damage! 


xoxoxoxox

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Get To Know Me Tag :)

Dissertation handed in! I thought to ease myself back into things I would do a tag for you guys :)

1. What time did you get up this morning?
Just gone 10, we slept in way too late, but hey it's Sunday!

2. How do you like your steak?
I rarely ever have steak and if I do it's Medium well! So there is no blood but it's not too chewy!

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Me and my boyfriend went to see "this is 40" on Wednesday! It was hilarious & it deepened my love of Leslie Mann - Absolute beaut of a lady! If I look like her when I'm 40 I'll be extremely happy!

4. What is your favorite TV show?
Grey's Anatomy hands down!

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? 
I think San Francisco :) or a suburb of New York!

6. What did you have for breakfast? 
Weetabix! nomnom

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
I love Italian - pasta junkie, but I also love my Chinese!

8. What foods do you dislike? 
Onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers! Fruit!! Ugh, anything crunchy that shouldn't be! haha

9. Favorite place to eat?
T.G.I Fridays!

10. Favorite dressing?
I do not eat salad therefore, I do not use dressing.

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
I have a Peugeot 308 :) it's my grown up car, upgrade from my little Renault Clio

12. What are your favorite clothes?
I love being cosy, I think I spend 80% of my time is spent in Pyjamas!

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Definitely Hawaii & Australia

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?Half full! But on my depressed days, my glass is empty wahhh!

15. Where would you want to retire?
Australia. Keeping my wits about me for the spiders would keep me young!

16. Favorite time of day? 
Midday :) I'm a morning person so by then I've done loads and will be very happy.

17. Where were you born?
Birmingham, England

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
I don't really watch sports. Whenever the Olympics is on I love the gymnastics! But I hate football/rugby - boring.

19. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
Anyone!!

20. Bird watcher? 
My mum is, but I'm pretty sure she uses her binoculars to stalk the neighbours more like haha

21. Are you a morning person or a night person?
I used to have insomnia so I was always a night person, but recently, if I get enough sleep I'm definitely a morning person. I'm in bed by 10 hahaha granny.

22. Do you have any pets?
Yes I have two puppies; Ella & Lincoln.

23. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? My dissertation is in! Wooooo! Plus I'm moving house in 12 days eek.

24. What did you want to be when you were little? 
A doctor. Until I was in year 11 and realised it's bloody ridiculously hard to get into university for! Haha hello getting a Doctorate another way, woop Psychology!

25. What is your best childhood memory?
Probably random days with my dad, fortunately I can make new memories with everyone else, he's the only person who's memories I cherish :)

26. Are you a cat or dog person?
Dogs fo sho! Although I do love cats but they're too independent for me. I love that my dogs adore me and come for cuddles

27. Are you married?
Not yet...

28. Always wear your seat belt?
Yep only because my car makes a very angry noise when I don't wear it hahha.

29. Been in a car accident?
Not a bad one. My mum once drove into a van when the lights changed to red. He was not happy, a girl in the car claimed to have had whiplash. I hadn't even realised anything had happened; drama queen!

30. Any pet peeves? 
Definitely developed one this week - people who do not pull their weight & cruise on by on the hard work of others. HATE!

31. Favorite Pizza Toppings? 
Pepperoni!

32. Favorite Flower? 
Red roses :)

33. Favorite ice cream? 
Ben & Jerrys Cookie Dough definitely!

34. Favorite fast food restaurant? 
Burger King definitely.

35. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
 Once - I had a panic attack and hit a curb straight away coming out of the test centre. It was a nightmare and I had a horrible man.

36. From whom did you get your last email?
Probably a lecturer :)

37. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? 
Umm Miss Selfridge! I love everything they do, but it's ridiculously expensive.

38. Do anything spontaneous lately?
I went on a spontaneously shopping trip to Primark last week!

39. Like your job? 
I don't have a job yet...sadness :(

40. Broccoli? 
Soft! But liked in my household.

41. What was your favorite vacation? 
Florida or New York!

42. Last person you went out to dinner with? 
My boyfriend Russ :)

43. What are you listening to right now? 
Hercule Poirot unveiling who the killer is mwahaha

44. What is your favorite colour? 
Umm Pink!

45. How many tattoos do you have?
Three :)

46. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
I don't know anyone to tag ahh!

47. What time did you finish this quiz? 
20.48 - time to pick Russ up from work :) oooh it's snowing!

48. Coffee drinker?
Not anymore. It used to affect my insomnia aahhh plus I hate the taste. 
Red bull however is my crack. 




Hope you all enjoyed this post! 
I'll be writing more posts this week now that my workload has got much easier :) 

xoxoxoxoxo

Monday, 4 March 2013

Where Have I Wandered Off To?

I must apologise to you all for my lack of posts this week! 

At University, it is dissertation draft deadline week, which means that we all have to frantically work on our dissertations to get enough of it done a month before our actual deadline so that we can get some good feedback from our supervisors! Because there is no point handing it in half finished, otherwise the other half you write might be rubbish and you would never know! 

So I've done about 3/4 this month, I think I've written about 5,500 out of 8,000 words. All that I have left is to discuss my findings, which should be about 3,000 words but probably will be cut down because of how much it took me to write about everything else haha! So I'm doing well, hopefully it doesn't have too many corrections :) 

 I think the draft is a great idea; some people keep complaining that if it's not due in till April they shouldn't have to have it finished by March. From my experience, these are the people who go out all the time, barely do work and think it's an inconvenience that our lecturers are trying to help us before it's too late. Driving me loco! Mini rant but it is really annoying me how in the final year of our degree people can still believe they can coast?! As in, not do any work and expect people to do it for them. There's a girl in my group who has done probably a twentieth the work everyone else has done this term, and she moans that she's too busy with her dissertation - funnily enough she's one of the people moaning about drafts - seeing a pattern? Have no idea how to cope with the situation; everyone moans about her not working and we all have to compensate to make up for her lack of effort; but because we're now so close to the deadline, there isn't anything we can really do about it.

So yes, I'm working a lot at the moment so I haven't had time to write any posts :)
But I will definitely be updating you on everything next week after the deadline! 

xoxoxoxo