Tell Me, What's Your Flavour?

So my New Year's Resolution to blog more (along with pretty much every other resolution I made) went right out the window! 

 I tend to go through cycles in my life, being really into one thing and focusing all of my energy onto that and then, as my brain wanders and gets obsessed with something new, letting it tail off until I come back round to it.

I think this is probably part of my artistic side, finding inspiration in so many different areas and constantly looking for something new to loose myself in.  I know that from the outside my mind and my life must look muddled, unorganised and more than a little messy but to me it makes perfect sense.  

I like to think of my life like ice cream (yum!)  Why stick with vanilla when you could try all the flavours and find so many more that you might love?  Of course they wont all be to my taste but at least you can say I know for sure, one way or the other.  Like Craig David says 'What's your flavour? Tell me, what's your flavour (oooooh!)'

My resolutions in January were made with the best intentions but I feel I make the same rules for myself every year and disappoint myself each year that I didn't achieve them.  January has not been the easiest of months for me this year and if its taught me everything its to go out and make sure I'm trying every flavour of ice cream I can find, I might even find one I like more than strawberry!

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Resolutions ~ 2014

Happy New Year!

2014 is well underway and as with the start of each new year brings the promise of new beginnings and the chance to make some changes.  Throughout December I took a really good look at my life and what I wanted to achieve and am determined to make some changes so that 2014 can be my year.

This year I will...

~ Read more...I feel like I spent a whole lot of 2013 looking at screens and I used to be such a book worm!  I miss sitting down with a good book and loosing myself in it for a few days.   Don't get me wrong I'll still be glued to American Horror Story and Pretty Little Liars, but I don't really need to sit and watch repeats of repeats on E4 all day long!

~ Become a more consistent blogger ~ I've not been blogging for all that long but I really want to get on with putting the ideas that build up in my head onto paper and making more frequent posts.  Hopefully 2014 will be the year I make this blog something I'm really proud of.

~ Push myself ~ I suffer from high anxiety and tend to panic in situations which wouldn't phase most people.  I want to make 2014 the year I push myself to step out of my comfort zone and try to get a handle on my anxiety, as one of my best friends keeps telling me 'don't think, put your Nikes on and Just Do It!'.  Easier said than done but I'm gunna be wearing my Nikes on my worst days and knowing that I have people who believe in me and want to see me succeed.

~ Apply for as many jobs as possible ~ In a similar way to pushing myself to get to grips with my anxiety I want to push myself to apply for all those jobs I'd love to do but somehow manage to talk myself out of applying for.  I need to gain some confidence in my own abilities and build up my skill base so 2015 can be the year of even better jobs!

~ Work out more often and eat more healthily ~ I'd love to challenge myself to work out 5-6 days a week but I know from experience that's not an achievable goal to set straight out.  So this year I'm starting with 3 work outs a week and building myself up as the year progresses.  To make all this exercise worthwhile I'm also going to have to work on my portion control, and maybe give away some of those Christmas chocolate boxes!

Organisation ~ I think I set myself this resolution every year and every year I end up just as unorganised and muddled as ever!  This year I am determined to sort myself out, clear out the mess and organise myself so that I have routines and actually know what I'm supposed to be doing instead of worrying that I've forgotten something important!

And there you have it, 2014's resolutions, not as exciting as my mum's resolution to eat cake every day (why I couldn't have inherited her metabolism I'll never know!) but they're small goals I reckon I can stick to.

I'd love to know what your resolutions are so I don't feel so alone with all my new rules!

Love

Steph

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Boxing Day Traditions

Christmas is all about family traditions. We all have them, the phrases we say once a year every year, the 'in-joke' gifts we give, the places we visit, the family we see who we haven't seen for the rest of the year and the food, oh the food! 

In my family it's Boxing Day where the traditions are most obvious, we always always go for a walk to burn off the turkey tummies brought on by far too much Christmas dinner and a day of slobbing about, and we always head off to a pantomime in the evening for some good, old fashioned fun :)

I thought I'd share some of my pictures from my Boxing Day traditions, I'd love to know what you're traditions are and how you celebrate the festive season.

This year we walked up to the abandoned mental hospital which sits on top of a huge hill near my parents house.  I think this building is so beautiful, it's so sad it's fallen into such a poor state, I'd love to be able to take a look inside.

As kids we used to tell ghost stories about the hospital, my friend once claimed she'd snuck inside and found the whole place still set up like a hospital, beds made, the whole lot, as if everyone had just vanished all at once.  It was a good story if nothing else!

It's behind you! 

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and have a fabulous new year!

Steph

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