Friendly reminder

Hello dear readers, 

I broke up from school today! This would be a really YAY moment if it wasn't for the fact that I have to revise over Easter for my GCSEs, which isn't so YAY. But YAY for going to Russia next week - I'm so excited!!!!

Another thing: sorry this post is late.. I've been incessantly busy and tired this week, which is never a good mix. 

So, for anyone who feels a similar way currently, I have a little message for you. I found these wonderful words on tumblr, and I think they just sum up everything anyone ever needs to know/ think. 

I'll sign off now - many hugs 

The (exhausted and) happy blogger xxxx

And now, dear readers, you can fully take in the beauty of this text post (creds and cudos to the amazing author, whoever they may be):

Sunset walk

Hello dear readers, 

Last night my friend and I snuck out onto the golf course next to my house whilst the sun was setting and it was beautiful. I have a few photos which explain everything far better than I can do with words at the moment: 

It was so lovely to just run around (I recommend running around in circles, it makes you feel very.. Free) on the golf course and pretend we were ten years younger than we are. 

I would post more pictures but some didn't come out very well, and we had a few issues with the self timer app.. ;) 

Sorry this has been short, but the main purpose of this post was to share how pretty our world can be, despite the problems that may arise within it. 

Wow that got kinda deep.. 

*got to get the scuba diving kit out for this one then*

Many hugs from

The (very) happy blogger xxx

Ps: maybe I should make Sunday posts a regular thing?

Escapism

Hello dear readers, 

So today, I've got a bit of a different post - something a bit deeper. 

You know when things seem so hard or stressful, and you just can't find an easy way out? Don't turn to the worst solution,  maybe just use this little technique. 

Ok, so I'm not a therapist or anything, and definitely not a doctor (check with my science test results if you want clarification)... But I find that the best way to get out of these situations just for a bit is through escapism. That sounds kind of weird and complicated, but it's not. 

Take, for example: me (sorry, slight lack of creativity currently). Right now, I've got something like 9 weeks (!!!!!!!) until my GCSES start, which is utterly bewildering and kind of scary, because I haven't started revising yet and don't know whether I should. I have so much art coursework, and having extra tests, papers, essays, friends/family issues and just general teenage problems (like *cough* the wrong time of the month, or just the wonderful hormones exagerrating every single situation - ugh) on top of that really doesn't help. Guaranteed, there's no easy way out of that all completely, but it's nice to just get away from it briefly, and focus on something else. It may seem obvious, but sometimes just a little music or reading, or online/real shopping (retail therapy is SO useful, even if you, like me, just put everything you like in the virtual/literal basket but then just leave and chuckle as you realise that all costs way too much) really hits the spot. 

I love music so much, and listening to it, and focussing on it, helps to just get my mind off all the stressful things, and I can relax for a bit, at least. Then, reading is great too, because if your mind and world seem too overcrowded and overwhelming at the moment, escaping into someone else's world (and as awful as it sounds, it will make you feel better if their situation is worse than yours!) then you're, even just for a brief time, someone else, without your problems. And then there's shopping, which kind of speaks for itself, so yep. ;)

I'm a teenager, so naturally, you must be shouting at your computer/whatever device, saying "why haven't you mentioned going on your phone/whatever device yet?!" Well, that's because, to be honest, I find that my phone, and the wonderful worlds of Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, etc, stress me out more than they calm me down. Take, for example, Tumblr. Don't get me wrong, I literally adore this website, but sometimes it just won't help you, and will possibly wind you up even more, if you spend your time looking at photos of seemingly perfect people with seemingly perfect lives - which, of course, may not be the case, but in a flush of anxiousness, self esteem issues isn't another thing you want to add to your list of problems. 

This has been long-winded, agreed, but I really hope it's just reinforced the idea to you, especially if you're also an emotional wreck/teenager like me, that there are ways to momentarily escape your stresses, and although they may not directly provide a solution, coming out of them with a clear head can make you approach a situation better and more effectively. 

So, yes, please just know you can escape if you need to, because not everyone always remembers in the heat of the moment that that option is there. 

Thanks for reading, many hugs

The (thoughtful and very) happy blogger xxx

Contacts

Hello dear readers, 

So, judging by the title of this post, you can probably tell that I recently got contact lenses. Well, they're not official yet, but I've got the starter, try-outy ones. 

THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT IN. 

If you wear contacts or have ever tried them out, you'll understand what I mean here. They're just so stressful (yes, I admit, I've only worn them three times, but this is a point which we definitely need to gloss over)... Everyone says that they get easier the more you use them, but it's just so hard for a teenager to have to wake up twenty minutes - twenty minutes - earlier than usual to have to put them in before school. 

So they come in these intimidating box things, and as my friend very creatively described, the packets inside look oddly like condom packets (I don't know either). 

So you get them out, and they look like this (sorry about the photography, they're not easy to capture haha).

Then you have the five minute battle of positioning them at the right angle and place of the right finger of the right hand, the right way round (they go inside out, another inconvenience). 

Then you pop them in. 

^ talk about things being easier said than done... 

(Here's a selfie I took after my second successful application, in an attempt to show my friend that your eyes look slightly shinier with them in... And don't worry, I was actually wearing clothes under the dressing gown, no cheekiness here, what do you take me for! I was just really cold - three cheers for British weather! - jokes, I'm as patriotic as a tea-flavoured scone served in a country pub with the queen arriving in a black taxi next to a red double decker bus... With David Beckham in- sorry, got a bit carried away there.)

<ANYWAY> So... The moral of the story is that contact lenses are stressful. Although, some are worse than others. Some people have the monthly ones, which you have to keep in pots with special moisty fluid in overnight to keep them from drying out. The ones I'm hopefully going to have are less permanent: you throw them away at the end of the day, and have three a week, which is plenty. This means I'm able to go to spontaneous sleepovers (I'm trying to sound like this happens often and that I have a generally riveting and marvellously spontaneous life, when really I get stressed over any unexpected surprises or human interaction - weird I know, soz), but still rules out spontaneous pool jumping. Damn it. *wink, wink* ehe

Well, I hope I'll get round to writing another post soon, hope you enjoyed this one and sorry it was so overdue. If you have any requests about posts or a little rant about contacts (or indeed some positivity, for this supposedly happy blog) then it would be scrumptious if you could leave them in the comments. Honestly, feel free. 

Until next time, thanks for reading

From the (slightly disgruntled [GOOD WORD ALERT] and) happy blogger xxxxx

PS: I have precisely 14 minutes left of Tuesday, 4th March 2014. Which means 14 minutes left of my food (especially pancakes day) and (now) 13 minutes until Lent, where I'm under some annoying social obligation to be healthy and fit. Let's see how that goes... I may even make a post about this if I have any workout tips! (Um... Think this is more of a case of 'fat chance'... Hahahhaha , 'fat' chance , hahaha, because fitness.. Pancakes.. Nope, sorry, not funny. I'll just go then...)