rebecca

Hello You Lovely Lot!

So...we can all see that i didn't post a Blogmas yesterday...not the day before. i won't lie to you all, the day before yesterday I was just about to fall asleep when I remembered and I just couldn't bring myself to get out of bed and write a post.

Yesterday I wasn't feeling too great so I just got in and ate a load of chocolate before going to bed. I'm not even sure what to write today, so maybe just a life update?

I'm no longer a Vegan! I'll write a whole blog post and do a YouTube video on it soon but now I'm just a vegetarian for now. Just know I'm really appreciating cheese and chocolate (and also Yorkshire puddings, had about half of one on Sunday.

It's only a few days until I finish for Christmas, in fact, tomorrow is my last day! I am coming back Saturday to get all my things but I'll be with dad so it won't really feel like coming back I guess. I'm so excited to be at home for Christmas. At the moment I just want to crawl in to my bed at home and only see my dogs and my parents. I have a trip to Chester Zoo planned with Melanie on the 28th so if that happens that'll be so nice! I haven't seen Melanie in a while and I feel like a catchup is needed.

I have one essay and one 'exam' left until I'm finished. The essay is nearly done with and the 'exam' is also sorted. It's just a Drama exam that isn't marked, it just determines if I'll be able to choose the module I'm doing next year.

I feel like I didn't give you a life update that long ago so I can't think of much else I have to tell you! But there'll be another post up tonight...I hope... for Blogmas day fourteen!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x

Hello You Lovely Lot!


So, since it's finally December I would just tell you all (if you didn't already know) how much I love December and Winter in general!

Snow

I am one of those weird people who just LOVES snow. Even when I'm out in it I enjoy it! I just think there's something so magical about it and in my opinion, it's not Christmas unless it's snowed. I woke up the other morning and Kayleigh told me that it had snowed. I literally ran down the stairs and opened the door. As long as I'm not cold I'm fine and if you've got enough layers on, going out in the snow is fine by me!

Music

Today was the first time I played Christmas music with my family and even though my dad pretended to hate it I think he secretly loved it. Christmas is one of the only times you can listen to cheesy music and just not care (going to Pop World is also one of those times). The cheesiest ones are the best ones in my opinion. Especially at Christmas!

Clothes

Winter is my time to shine. I LOVE jumpers and I LOVE warm, comfy clothes. I'm not really a fan of showing a bit of skin and that's just because I don't feel confident enough. So, when winter comes I know I can put loads of layers on and be comfortable and not look out of place. Plaid shirts, big jumpers, the comfiest pyjamas. I think the thing is that I'd rather be too cold than too hot because I know I can warm up so quickly!

Food

Christmas is just the time where you can eat whatever you want and nobody will judge you. As my housemate Jack says all the time when I say I might have some crisps or some chips or whatever, 'It's Christmas!'. This year I'm not sure what I'm going to do for Christmas Dinner this year because of course, I'm a vegan. However, I'm sure I can find some lovely stuff to eat and if I do I'll have to update you all!

Films

Christmas is the time for the best films around. In my opinion, the best film at this time has to be 'A Muppets Christmas Carol' and my cousins told me the other day that they'd never seen it and because they're staying with us this year I'm going to make them watch it and I just can't wait! I started to watch a few Christmas films a few weeks ago because I was just in a festive mood and lets be honest, Christmas films are great all year round!

Vlogmas

I am a MASSIVE Vlogmas fan and if you didn't already know I'm doing it myself this year! Sometimes, when I'm really bored I go back to peoples Vlogmas' from the year before or even the year before that and watch them all because I just love them! I tend to do the same on Christmas Eve too when I can't sleep (promise I'm 19 not 9)!


Those are just a few things I love about the festive season but I think I love pretty much everything about it all! I hope you enjoyed the second day of Blogmas and that you're looking forward to tomorrow!

Thanks For Reading

Becky x

Hello You Lovely Lot!

Sorry this is up so late but I've been thinking all week about what I could upload, I know that next week will be my October Playlist so you can all get excited about that one) and I was going to do one about my little holiday but that was kind of last week! I then thought about doing this blog post but it's only just been three weeks so it's not really the one month update at all but let's admit it, the 'three week update' is just not a catchy title.

SO. I have been vegan for about three weeks now. Technically I've been trying to be vegan for over a month but I made a lot of slip ups at the beginning e.g.eating nandos rice which i didn't know had butter in, having a big mac when I was really hungover and a few other slip-ups. I even slipped up yesterday when I had a bit of someones homemade hummus and then asking what was in it because it was lovely and finding out it had cream and cheese in it...whoops. Safe to say I didn't have any more.

Sometimes I find it hard like when I'm really hungry or tired or hungover I think about how much I would love Chicken Nuggets, and there's even a McDonalds at the end of the road which makes my temptation stronger, however I have yet to give in to that. I've learnt to do food shopping right after I've eaten, to cook when everyone else cooks and that slip-ups and mistakes are fine and just things that you learn from.

Day to day I really don't think that I'm missing out on meat and the only time I reckon I could eat it is when other people are sat eating something I used to love. However, I know that I'm doing something that's good for my body by not eating dairy and something that's good for my tastebuds by not eating meat because I am the worst cook and any meat I cooked was mediocre.

I thought that going to see my family was going to be a big challenge because my family is the definition of a 'meat and two veg' family. I've always eaten meat and dairy too but when I became lactose intolerant a few years ago the amount of dairy I ate became slightly less. However, I would still eat it and make myself ill. My Dad (and loads of other people) have said to me 'well, why don't you just not eat dairy and meat?' and it winds me up. If I say to myself I'm not allowed to eat dairy at all (which is what I'm doing by being Vegan) then I don't eat it. I've only eaten it by accident so far, however before I was vegan I knew that I shouldn't eat dairy but I ate it anyway! And I don't even like egg so there's no point in that really.

If anything changes I'll let you know but hopefully it will all be good until the two month update!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x

Hello You Lovely Lot!

So, I am currently on holiday (kind of). I came home for less than 24 hours before driving 2 hours to end up in Filey! it's basically a little town near the sea for anyone who doesn't know, just my kind of place. I'm only here till tomorrow afternoon and then I get a train back to Liverpool to my beloved house. Back to watching too much TV, eating too much food and complaining that my room's a mess yet doing nothing about it!

We're actually here to celebrate Mum's birthday (that isn't even until next month but there you have it) because she used to come here as a kid with her Mum and Dad! The rest of my family are staying until next week but as I have lessons to go to I have to back to University tomorrow (boo hoo).

It's really lovely here even though I haven't seen much of it, we went to Whitby today and it was tipping it down for most of the day but when it was sunny it was all very pretty although there was a lot of fish places (which you'd imagine for the place that is obviously known for 'Whitby Scampi'). I also had a lovely slice of Vegan cake (and a vegan wrap but the cake topped it all). I feel like this is turning in to a life update post but Veganism is going well for anyone interested! It's been just over two weeks now since I've had a slip up and even though it's hard sometimes I feel much better overall.

Some of you will know that last year I struggled a lot with homesickness but this year has been great so far! We sit and watch TV or a film every night in our pyjamas with blankets and food and it just feels so homely. The only time I'm really in my room is when I'm asleep to be honest which is just how it should be (although I probably should be in there doing work but I'm not, I just tend to do my work whilst watching Bakeoff or X-Factor). I'm enjoying my lessons a lot more this year but I think that could be because I'm actually paying attention to them and making notes.

That's about all I have to update you on at the moment!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x