What does the future hold?

I had an amazing dream last night, so much so I snoozed my alarm three times and Russ left me to sleep an extra hour as I refused to wake up! What was this dream about? Well something quite broody actually, I dreamt that we had a baby, and she was 2 weeks old at the time. The entire dream consisted of using going shopping for her new outfits, according to my dream self I only purchased two onsies for her, and she'd been living in them for two whole weeks - evil mother. She had short blonde curly hair (like Russ when he was younger) and green eyes, very adorable...

It's not a surprise that I then woke up saddened that it was not reality and that Russ had not impregnated me. I mean I'm 21, but my news feed on facebook is full of people who have got pregnant younger than I am, and are living with babies and posting all their snaps of their happy little family. So a girl is definitely going to be feeling a slight tinge of jealousy even if she has two puppy babies of her own. This led to an hour of me walking round like a mother looking for her child, until Russ told me 'not for a few more years Lauren', then I had to go for a jog with Ella to get it out of my head. We had a lurvely time, I love walks with Ella through the country, we walk for 95% and jog for 5% but it gets my heart rate up and she loves the little bursts of running. Plus it's a beautiful day so I'm feeling much happier!

Anywhoo! What does the future ACTUALLY hold for us?

Well as you may know we moved into our new rented house in March, and we're staying here for at least a year and a half till September 2014. Then the road in unclear!! Which is exciting & terrifying at the same time. I am doing a masters in Applied Child Psychology which takes 1 year and ends in September, which will prepare me for doing my Phd, till then I have to find somewhere that focuses on my speciality and apply a year in advance?! HAHAHA - stress. Whilst Russ is maybe applying for masters, but thinks he will just work full time for a year and save up money for his studies :) it will be strange if we're both not studying because that's all we've ever known each other to do!

No luck as yet with the temp agency, they've called me about a few jobs, but never got back to me. Slightly disheartening, I did apply for a job which I thought would be lots of fun, and hopefully they will get back to me - fingers crossed please!! Plus I need to get back to taking photos now that it's becoming sunny again, for some reason when it rains I lose all motivation to take snaps of how depressing life is! Here's a couple of photos for you :)

Here's Linky sitting on the back seat for the first time! Russ' mum came to visit, and we took Lincoln to a massive car boot sale, he did amazingly well considering he's scared of people sometimes and he let lots of children stroke him :) very proud of my big baby!

As I said Russ' mum came to stay with us for a weekend, and on the Saturday my mum also came to visit. Together they helped us create a window seat for our Lounge! It's a pastel silky pink to tie in with the theme and it's so comfy and padded. Amazing was two ladies can accomplish when they put their heads together. 

My patchwork quilt is also on it's way, very exciting! I am having a break from it, as soon as my exams finished I got really into doing my patchwork, but then Russ' mum visited and told me my stitches were not strong enough and that I needed to re-do them, see how many there are?! Not impressed :( But! At least almost 1/7 is finished, there will be 6 more sections like this, and they will then be stitched together to make a quilt. I felt like this was the easiest way to make the quilt without having a massive piece to work with :) Very excited!!!!

Lots of love,

Lauren :)

xoxoxoxooxox

Update on Animal Testing!

Wayne from Goss Makeup Artist on Youtube posted a video recently that explained that in the EU all make up brands have to be manufactured without using animal testing! This limits them from testing on animals and also anyone they source from testing on animals. This is fantastic news and means that we in the UK do not have to worry about animal testing, because any product they sell to us legally has to have not been tested on animals to be legally sold. This is amazing news for anyone like me who loves the big brands like MAC and Estee Lauder's companies! Wayne explains that this is why MAC have released fewer limited collections recently whilst they are adjusting to the new manufacturing laws.


Heaven's have answered! Thank you government organisations for seeing that something is wrong, and doing something about it for once. Brilliant news!

Wow...my last post was at the end of March, it's now the end of May. Whoopsy.

I apologise for my absence, I say that so frequently on this blog, but unfortunately from March- now I have been completely distracted by work for my degree! I had to hand in my final copy of my dissertation, which now I'm extremely worried about! I felt like I had done really well, but now it's been a month since handing it in, and we do not find out our grade until mid-June so doubt is beginning to set in! I also had my exams this month, and was working like a maniac to prepare myself for them, I revised in a way I never have before so I might do a post about that because it worked ridiculously well for me. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, and not everyone will be able to do it, my boyfriend is quite annoyed that he can't but I did not feel nervous for any exam, and felt so confident afterwards which I have no felt before so great time to feel good about my work in my last year of my degree! SO now I have completely finished university for my undergraduate degree! I calculated based on my previous assignments so far, that for half of my degree, I have scored 68.9 on average, which means I am 1% below a first honours. So annoying, but hopefully with my dissertation and exams worth so much, maybe I did well enough to push it over the edge! Fingers crossed, but I'll be very happy with a high 2:1 as thats what I need for my masters course.

Wow - it's hailing outside and it's May, what is happening to the world! Where is the sun? In Britain we had a week of beautiful sunshine during revision time - typical. And then it went away, and now it's just rain, hail, cloudyness. Absolute terrible; so disappointed mother nature come on, we need some bright sunshine to lighten up these dreary times! Anywhoo I noticed that I've had over 1000 views to this little blog, which made me so happy! I was very surprised considering I barely have subscribers and no-one really comments, so I always feel like I'm waffling on to myself. Alas, I will continue to talk to whoever is out there reading :)

Now as my degree has come to an end, I feel very weird because I constantly feel like I need to be doing work, or have reading to do, which I clearly don't. I've even emailed my course leader for my masters asking for a reading list, it's terrible! This may be due to the fact that I also quit my job recently. I had a horrible boss, and could not really stand working in that horrible environment any longer, so I bit the bullet and quit. I am registered with a temporary admin agency who find you receptionist/admin work so I have some sort of job. However, when I signed up, I said I need two weeks till my exams are over and then I can work full time for you. They then rang me three times in the last week about several jobs, all of which I had to reject because I had exams like I had previously told them. Then this week, they've only called me about one job and said that they had to send CVs off for a candidate to be chosen...now I feel like I have no purpose in life, no drive. So I thought, I'm going to do some work on my blog. In my research for my future career path, I've been quite scared about the prospects. I do not attend a red-brick university, so how likely am I to be accepted to one for a phd course? I have no idea, so I thought, instead of worrying, I'm just going to prepare myself to be excellent in what I do, so that when I do apply, I know it's not based on my abilities but simply my academic background (aka, where I come from) that affects whether I get let in! Which I think is likely to happen, so I'm trying to prepare myself.

I didn't know whether or not you would mind if I wrote a few posts on here about psychology and things I find interesting when I research? Just thought it might be interesting to learn a few random bits of information you might not know unless you study psychology! Well because no-one ever comments really I'm going to take that for a yes and start uploading some!

Also it was Ella & Lincoln's 1st birthday this year! Ella was 1 on the 27th of April and Lincoln was 1 on the 5th May! It's so strange we adopted them at such different stages in life, yet they were born a week apart. SO glad to have them both in my life now at least! But I do get sad that I couldn't give Lincoln a home until he was 6 months old, he must have gone through such hard times until then, I mean he is still scared of a lot of things, and he has scars on his beautiful face that you only notice when he has his head snuggled into your lap - yes he is very spoilt but after being alone on the streets for half his life, I think it's all he deserves! :)

P.s. Been majorly obsessed with Elementary & Hart of Dixie lately, I finished the Elementary season and oh my lord, brilliant. I love Lucy Lui as an actress and I'm glad she's in something I can watch all the time! Also Hart of Dixie, is just addictive in terms of the southern feel, I keep slipping into a deep south accent which is really annoying my boyfriend because I'm British & it just does not sound right. However I do get ridiculously annoyed by Zoe Hart thinking she is in love with George even though she's only kissed him once, not had enough interactions with him to warrant full blown love. Now I understand why young children think they are in love all the time, because the media makes it seem like a tiny thing that is achievable after one date. That is infatuation, difference. The word love is thrown around way too much, but more of that later! Finally, I have become obsessed with patchwork! I started making a patchwork quilt, I'd had the bits for about 8 months but now I'm finally getting around to making it & I love it! Here's a picture of it a few days ago, it's bigger now but I'll write a post about it! Because I love it too much not to share! I might also try the tone-it-up way of life, or just simply more healthy but maybe when it's not too rainy and I may actually like to go outside.

Have a great day!

xoxoxox