rebecca

Hello You Lovely Lot!

When I first started my blog one of my favourite things to write were my favourites! I loved talking about what I'd been loving and telling everyone the things I'd found and the memories I'd shared. For some reason I really lost my way with it and so this year I am going to try and write a favourites post every month, even if I feel like I don't have many new things to write about. So, lets start as we mean to go on with my favourite things for January!


Beauty 

This month I have rediscovered my love for Nars Sheer Glow. I got given this for my birthday and I had forgotten just how much I loved it. It has amazing coverage, a lovely dewey finish and is just perfect for me. The first time I used it I was given the wrong shade and it put me off it for around a year. However, I have now discovered that I am Mont Blanc and I am obsessed with it. I have been trying to not use this every day but when I use my drugstore foundation now there's just no comparison. A holy grail for makeup in my eyes.




The past few weeks have brought with them an obsession with Fruit Infuser Bottles. Me and Jack bought one each from Home Bargains in the hope of being slightly more healthy. Ever since then we have filled the infuser with frozen fruit every day and drinking like 3 bottles full of water every day! it just makes the water have a little kick to it and makes me want to drink much more water! I've even been tracking my water intake on an app to check I've had enough, is that sad?




Music

I do a whole separate blog post every month on the music I've been listening to and it wont be long until that's out. However, this month I have re-discovered my love for Hoodie Allen. I go through stages with him and don't listen to him for ages and then all of a sudden I find him again and listen to his music all the time. The last time I went off him was because I didn't like the new album but I have learned to love it and so this month, he takes pride of place here.




Film

I'm really bad for films. I hate watching films that I haven't seen before (unless they're at the cinema) because I don't know if I'll like them but Jack usually persuades me to watch them. This month was the month that me and Jack watched Trainspotting for the first time. I then had to come home and me and Dad decided that we would go and watch T2 Trainspotting at the cinema. I cannot describe how good it was. I love Ewan McGregor so most things with him in will win me over! I felt like I'd also waited the 20 years that everyone else had waited even though I'd only seen the first one a few days prior...



TV

Me and Jack watch all sorts on TV and sometimes we just find ourselves watching the weirdest things. One evening Jack asked me if I wanted to watch Bob's Burgers and I agreed. Nicole had told me that she didn't like it so I just never bothered watching it. For whatever reason I just fell in love with it. It's a programme that's funny but not too tongue in cheek. Sometimes I find things like Family Guy a bit too risky and so I tend to stay away from them but this is all of the laughter in a nice way. We've even series recorded it because we love it so much.




Photo

I have two favourite photos from this month but they're both from the same day so that counts right? The first photo is this one..


Next Month?

Very early next month I am going to see La La Land with my friend Sandy and her flatmate (who I would also consider a friend to be honest) Lottie. I am so excited to see it because I've heard so many things about it!

I also have one of my best friends Chloe coming to visit me. She messaged me one day telling me she wanted to come up again and see me and that really warmed my heart. It's nice to know that you are appreciated and missed when you're apart from someone!

I'm seeing Jack Whitehall on the 10th which is super exciting. I love seeing comedians live and Jack Whitehall is one of my favourites. I'm driving down to Leeds with Natalie for it and spending the rest of that weekend at home which is always appreciated.

Then one week later I'm seeing Busted! They're playing Rock City which is a small venue and I'm really happy about it because it'll be a lot more intimate I guess? If 3AM is not on the playlist though I will flip my lid because some of you may know that 3AM is one of my favourite songs of all time.



There you go everyone! I loved writing this and I'm already excited to write next months post! I hope you've enjoyed this blog post.

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