Biffy Clyro - " Medicine"
Monday 31 July 2017
Music on Mondays - Biffy Clyro "Medicine"
Monday 24 July 2017
Music on Mondays - The Fray - "How to save a life"
The Fray - "How to save a life"
Who doesn't know every single line to this song? Every time it plays on the radio I get so happy. It's such a sad song but it is brilliant. I feel like a teenager again.
Saturday 22 July 2017
Personal growth
I'm taking today to learn to be better.
Today I got stood up by a friend. She said she'd pick me up and then got sidetracked for a few hours and so we decided to leave it to another day.
In the past this would have got to me much more than I'm allowing it to today. It still got to me a little at the time I mean, I spent 5 hours waiting around when I could have been doing something productive, But I'm letting it go instead of letting the situation upset me, or damage how I see this friend.
She really is lovely and the times I have hung out with her have been a lot of fun, and she's one of those people it's no effort to be around. Today, really, was not important.
She knows where I am when she truly does have some time off to spend with me and I find no problem in waiting.
Today I got stood up by a friend. She said she'd pick me up and then got sidetracked for a few hours and so we decided to leave it to another day.
In the past this would have got to me much more than I'm allowing it to today. It still got to me a little at the time I mean, I spent 5 hours waiting around when I could have been doing something productive, But I'm letting it go instead of letting the situation upset me, or damage how I see this friend.
She really is lovely and the times I have hung out with her have been a lot of fun, and she's one of those people it's no effort to be around. Today, really, was not important.
She knows where I am when she truly does have some time off to spend with me and I find no problem in waiting.
Friday 21 July 2017
little work-life update
I'm so content right now. I just cleaned my room and I'm sitting on my bed drinking the same type of tea I'd drink in Spain with my mother and grandmother, which is Yorkshire tea, which is the best tea, always and forever.
Today is Friday, which means a full day off before working two doubles back to back.
I love working doubles but they kinda feel like a sprint. I need to brace myself before and rest afterwards.
I love how productive and useful I feel on full days though.
So I'm working 3 waitressing jobs at the moment. One of them is one of the first jobs I got after moving over here, not great paying (it's pretty terrible actually) and the other two are more recent and way more decent wages and tips.
I'm pushing for more days at these two and as soon as I get some more I will leave the first one.
Keeping track of schedules is a little difficult now and then, especially as the first restaurant keeps switching up my schedule instead of keeping it the same week to week.
But anyway, I'm quite happy doing this, I never thought I'd enjoy waitessing like this :)
Oh! also I've started filling a notebook again. I used to love painting in a notebook and I had stopped for the longest time but I've started again and I'm so happy I restarted.
Keep doing things that make you happy, happiness is the one thing we must always carry with us and create within ourselves.
Today is Friday, which means a full day off before working two doubles back to back.
I love working doubles but they kinda feel like a sprint. I need to brace myself before and rest afterwards.
I love how productive and useful I feel on full days though.
So I'm working 3 waitressing jobs at the moment. One of them is one of the first jobs I got after moving over here, not great paying (it's pretty terrible actually) and the other two are more recent and way more decent wages and tips.
I'm pushing for more days at these two and as soon as I get some more I will leave the first one.
Keeping track of schedules is a little difficult now and then, especially as the first restaurant keeps switching up my schedule instead of keeping it the same week to week.
But anyway, I'm quite happy doing this, I never thought I'd enjoy waitessing like this :)
Oh! also I've started filling a notebook again. I used to love painting in a notebook and I had stopped for the longest time but I've started again and I'm so happy I restarted.
Keep doing things that make you happy, happiness is the one thing we must always carry with us and create within ourselves.
Monday 17 July 2017
Music on Mondays - Plain White T's - "Hey there Delilah"
Plain White T's - "Hey there Delilah"
This song is just so lovely, just so lovely.
I'd love to learn how to play this on the guitar.
I'm nowhere near being able to yet, but someday, when I get a bit better.
Friday 14 July 2017
Decorations.
One of the things that have happened in the last few months that got me really excited was finally getting my shoulders tattooed.
I feel like all along my late childhood, adolescence and early years of adulthood I was very much focused on my body image and ways to make myself feel like I'm in the body I'm meant to be in. It took quite the self destructive turn, some of you might know, I'm not going to go all the way in to it, but my weight and size became unhealthily important to me.
I am so happy now that when I want to change something in my appearance it comes from a much healthier place now. I wish to decorate my skin and keep it healthy and full of life now.
I baby my hair and treat it with masks and oils, and the same with my face and skin. It all comes from a place of self love and appreciation and I am so much happier.
Anyway, apart from all that, I've always adored the concept of tattoos, I've had a million designs I've wanted over the years but (thankfully) have been very picky as to which ones I've chosen to actually put on my body.
I am absolutely in love with my shoulder pieces, they are my biggest and most visible ones yet and every time I catch sight of myself in the mirror now it makes me smile so much.
I feel like all along my late childhood, adolescence and early years of adulthood I was very much focused on my body image and ways to make myself feel like I'm in the body I'm meant to be in. It took quite the self destructive turn, some of you might know, I'm not going to go all the way in to it, but my weight and size became unhealthily important to me.
I am so happy now that when I want to change something in my appearance it comes from a much healthier place now. I wish to decorate my skin and keep it healthy and full of life now.
I baby my hair and treat it with masks and oils, and the same with my face and skin. It all comes from a place of self love and appreciation and I am so much happier.
Anyway, apart from all that, I've always adored the concept of tattoos, I've had a million designs I've wanted over the years but (thankfully) have been very picky as to which ones I've chosen to actually put on my body.
I am absolutely in love with my shoulder pieces, they are my biggest and most visible ones yet and every time I catch sight of myself in the mirror now it makes me smile so much.
this is the photo my artist took after my last session
The guy is called Andy Chen . He is absolutely amazing and he works out of a private studio in San Francisco.
I'm so in love with his art and I will be going back to him for future work.
I have a few ideas for future pieces but I wont be getting anything new for a while yet. Maybe September for my birthday, or closer to winter. We'll see.
Bonjour
I'm currently being yelled at via Facebook messenger by my friend because I've never tried Funnel Cake before thehorror
Hello again. My name is Mandy and I have a habit of fading from social media for months at a time. I'm restarting this blog again because I feel like I want to use my voice again.
I feel it's ok to want to be quiet sometimes so that might happen now and then , but I love that I always have the option to write again. So here I am.
I'm not going to update everything all at once because I feel like that would be too much, this would be entirely too long and my hands would get tired, but I will be talking about all the little things that have been going on over here bit by bit.
oh my gosh I'm listening to music in the background and a cover of My Chemical Romance's "I don't love you" just started and all the feeeeels . The person doing the cover is adorable also so if you love that song check out the link.
So yeah. This was just a little message to say Hi, I'm here, I'm alive, and I hope you guys are all still around and doing well.
Hello again. My name is Mandy and I have a habit of fading from social media for months at a time. I'm restarting this blog again because I feel like I want to use my voice again.
I feel it's ok to want to be quiet sometimes so that might happen now and then , but I love that I always have the option to write again. So here I am.
I'm not going to update everything all at once because I feel like that would be too much, this would be entirely too long and my hands would get tired, but I will be talking about all the little things that have been going on over here bit by bit.
oh my gosh I'm listening to music in the background and a cover of My Chemical Romance's "I don't love you" just started and all the feeeeels . The person doing the cover is adorable also so if you love that song check out the link.
So yeah. This was just a little message to say Hi, I'm here, I'm alive, and I hope you guys are all still around and doing well.
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