I Do Love A Good Ramble,

Hi Everyone,

So once again I think this may be a bit of a ramble/moan about things that I doubt you will even care about but it helps me to vent things. Haha! *wow way to start positive :/*

I’m just going to jump straight into the point of this post, I am unhappy with myself at the moment. I don’t mean my life or anything like that, I mean me as an individual. Yes it is very self-indulgent but I’m on about my weight and how I’m looking at the moment. I have never really been a skinny mini, let’s face it, I have a bum and boobs and a bit of a belly! And it has never bothered me before because I don’t want to look like a stick insect or anything like that, that’s not who I am. But recently the weight has been creeping on bit by bit and now I have decided that enough is enough! But I struggle with the motivation. I have the best intentions in the world but I get lazy, in all honesty. I have looked in the mirror a few times recently and I didn’t think I could be so critical of myself!! I have always liked the fact that I have curves and am proud of that! But I am starting to think now I could be a bit thinner and still have curves.

I am fed up of trying to get ready to go out and struggling to find things I want to wear that I feel comfortable in, my favourite clothes just feeling that little bit tighter than they were and going shopping and not being able to find anything that suits me or fits me. And now is the time to do something about it I think. So I already have a gym membership (which has been a little neglected)  so I am going to try and plan time for the gym, time to go and have a swim etc. cut out takeaways and chocolate and try and eat smaller portions. I know it seems like quite a lot but I think its what I need to do! I don’t want to ‘crash diet’ or anything like that! I want it to be healthy and not make me ill!

So after all of that rambling, I want a little bit of your help please J if you know of any brilliant health, fitness, diet, food, motivational blogs please please let me know, I want to read as many as I possibly can and get as many ideas and tips and hopefully motivate myself back into good shape. I thank you for your help in advance guys, and if any of you are on a healthy journey, or have a good story which you have blogged about please let me know those as well.

 

Lots of Love

 

KJ

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Friends, Blogging & Ramble

Helloo Guys,

So I know I have been away for 6 days and as I said in my last post I have been very busy trying to sort out a lot of things. So I thought that I would just do a bit of a rambly life kind of post for you today. Sorry if these bore you but I like to have a bit of a ramble sometimes and seen as a lot of my best friends are away at university *sobsob* I enjoy having a bit of a ramble to you. So I guess I will start with me just mentioning that, My friends. I rarely see any of my best friend’s from school because most of them are away at university. My 2 best friend’s Betony & Hannah both live in Leeds which is a 2 hour train journey away from where I live and it costs about £30, so seen as I am not working at the moment this is quite hard. One of my other friend’s Laura is going traveling on Wednesday for a year so I am not going to be able to see her for a long time either. Anyway, I still live in the town that I went to school in, I spend most of my time when I am out with either my boyfriend Chris and our friends or with my friends that I had before I was with him. 

Hannah, Betony & Me

Have you ever found that you randomly get thrown together and become really good friends with someone, sometimes out of a bit of a dodgy situation? Well me and my really good friend Laura (a different one from the one who is going travelling) have had this same experience. We used to be mates who were in the same friendship group when I was with my Ex-boyfriend and used to just chat randomly. I'm not going to get into the details of it but during the breakup of my old relationship with my ex some things were said and I was very glad that Laura considered me as a good enough friend to tell me everything and explain things to me. Ever since then we have been getting closer and we now go on girly nights out just the 2 of us and will just go and get a coffee and have a chat, she is there for me when I need her and I am there for her when she needs me.

Anyway, none of these friends of mine know about my blog at all but I am going to start to tell people at some stage soon, probably starting with my boyfriend to be honest. There are a lot of reasons that I haven’t told people to be honest but talking to other bloggers on twitter, and through the #bbloggers chat on a Sunday night, they have been so supportive and have gotten me thinking about talking to my family and friends about it. I tweeted earlier that I am trying to get my friend to start blogging, she reads lots of blogs like I do and watches youtube videos, she has also said to me before that she would love to be a youtuber so I thought that getting a friend involved in what I am doing will help me come forward to people. So hopefully I will have her blog to show you guys some time soon.

So I know that this was one of the most random posts that I have ever done. I am going to get some more up this week and at the weekend so keep your eyes out for that.

Have you told people about your blogging? What was their reaction?

Lots of Love 

25 Random Things About Me

HI guys,

So I have seen this 25 Random Facts post going all over the blogging world so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon!

Me Being Random

1- I absolutely love practically all vegetables

2- If my steak is just about cooked all the way through that will do for me (Rare but not Blue)

3- I have a Twin brother

Me & My Twin Brother

4- My car is orange

5- I have an addiction to Yankee Candles

6- Clinique skin care seems to be the only thing that ever sorts my skin out

7- My favourite soft drink is Summer Fruits Oasis

8- I have a tattoo of a dragonfly on my leg which is in memory of my best friend Connor

My Tattoo

9- I love the sound of rain on my window

10- I live in a very old house, the main part was built in 1632 (there is also a priest hole, 5 points to you if you know what one of those is)

11- My boyfriend is 6 years older than me

Me & My Gorgeous Boyfriend

 12- My 2 best friends both live in Leeds which is 2 hours away

13- I  absolutely love anything antique

14- I absolutely hate fighting, if people fight in front of me I just burst into tears

15- I was vegetarian for 4 years then ate a cheese burger when I was drunk

16- I have played darts since I was 14 & golf since I was 9

17- I am not very keen on cheese at all! On a pizza or in a toastie is about the most I can stomach

18- I was a competitive cheerleader for 6 years

My Old Cheerleading Squad

19- I have worn glasses since I was 3 Years Old

20- I am a cookbook hoarder! I am obsessed with buying them

21- I wish that I could bake cakes for a living

22- I have a major soap & glory obsession

23- I am a fully qualified Nursery Nurse

24- I HATE my Blackberry & really want an IPhone

25- I have far too many hoodies, every time I go shopping I always want to buy a new hoodie!

So yea, this has probably taken me about 20 mins to write, It is hard to write that Many things about yourself!

What random things are there about you?

Lots of Love 

Random Ramble

Hello everyone, once again I am sat in front of my laptop wanting to blog and not knowing what the hell I am going to write about at all! I am not going to lie to you all, I am having a bit of a tough time with things at the moment, I have basically lost my job and am trying my best to get a new one, hopefully full time, but as many of you will know, finding a job at the moment is not easy in the slightest! Today I have spent the whole day, printing off and sending out CV’s. I get annoyed sometimes when I see people who I remember from school who never tried and were always in trouble who have managed to find full time jobs and I worked my bum off at school and have many qualifications and I can’t find one! I am just one of those people who get bored in their own company and actually like working! Yes I know it’s strange.  Anyway I don’t want this to be a down post at all!

Since I have a lot of time on my hands at the minute I want to try blogging as much as possible! And I am going to keep you up at date with my job hunt, when I hopefully get interviews and that kind of thing. I update a hell of a lot on twitter too so if you want to go over there and follow me! :) so since I have been struggling a bit at the moment I have been very much looking at quotes and that sort of thing to just keep my morale up and that sort of thing! So I thought that I would show you a few examples! 

Yea I know some of them may be a little cheesy and that sort of thing but they do actually strangely make me feel better and put a little smile on my face! There is always something small that can put a smile on my face.

Anyway guys I know that this was an extremely random post and I am going to sit tonight and plan what I am going to be posting on here over the next few weeks!

Lots of Love

Small Beauty Haul ¦ October 2012 ¦

Hi Guys,

Hope that you are all okay, so after going for a job interview this morning, me and my Nan decided to go and do a little bit of shopping! *hehe* I just wanted to get some stuff from Boots and Superdrug so here we go, 

Firstly I needed to stock up on some more facewipes, in Superdrug I found that these Simple facewipes were buy one get one free. These have always been my favourite ones to get but I just normally get whichever ones are on offer. So I was happy when I saw that these were.  

Then I got the Nivea Daily Essentials Express Hydration Primer, I have wanted to try this ever since I first saw it, so today when I was having a little shop fuddle I decided to cave and get it to see what it was like. I have read a lot of reviews of it so am very excited to see how it works for me. 

These next 2 things are a bit strange for a beauty haul but at the moment I have my wisdom teeth coming through :( *ouchhyyy* so I decided that I needed to get some ‘bonjella’ and some mouth wash to see if they would help. So, yea I'm not too sure what else to say about that!

This is definitely my favourite eye makeup remover I have ever used! To me it feels like I'm using water! It is the Garnier Simply Essentials Soothing Eye Makeup Remover. If you have seen any of my empties posts you will see it in there! I have been using it for a very long time! 

The Superdrug Naturally Radiant Brightening Hot Cloth Cleanser was a bit of a gamble for me to be honest. I am absolutely in love with the Boots No7 one but it has almost ran out, and when I saw this in superdrug for £2.99 (I think) I decided I wanted to give it a go! I'm sure there will be a review of it once I have given it a good test out.

I usually use the Sally Hansen Insta-dri top coat for my nails but recently I haven’t been able to find it anywhere! So today I found the Superdrug 2 in 1 Top Coat and Nail Hardener, I don’t know how good it is going to be but I thought I’d give it a go and see what it was like.

Next I got the Rimmel Glam Eyes Liquid Eyeliner, I got this for free because I spent over £6.99 on Rimmel in Superdrug. I don’t know if I am going to use this for myself or put it in my college makeup kit, I haven’t decided yet. 

This is the reason I got the Eyeliner for free. I have been looking for new foundations to put into my College makeup kit because I really don’t like the ones that came in it (even our tutor agreed that it wasn’t the best) and I decided that I wanted to try this Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation, I thought that I would get one for myself to try to see what it was like before I buy more colours for my kit. So I tried to match myself to the colour as best as I could. I am really looking forward to trying this out.

This is a massive repurchase, for about the 8^th or 9^th time! The Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer. I absolutely love this concealer and I always have to have it in my collection, I think that I am going to get some for my College kit as well.

Again another strange one but this seems to be the only deodorant that I can use the Dove Go Fresh Cucumber and Green Tea one, I have tried so many in the past but just keep going back to this one!

The Clinique Anti Blemish Solutions Foundation is my 100% favourite foundation that I have ever tried! I love all of the Clinique foundations I have tried but this one is the best for me! I didn’t actually buy this today; my Nan went and bought it for me yesterday because she went to Debenhams, reason being because they had the Bonus Time on until Saturday, she kindly gave me the Bonus Time bag as well! 

 In the Bonus Time Bag I got,

All About Eyes eye cream

Take The Day Off eye makeup remover

Mild Liquid Facial Soap

Blusher – Sunset Glow

Chubby Stick – Mega Melon

High Impact Mascara – Brightening Black

So this is everything that I have got recently, if you would like any reviews on any of these products please let me know! 

Have any of you got any recent haul posts? 

Lots of Love