Happy New Year??

Sunday 3rd January 2016

Evening Folks!

So today I've been thinking a hell of a lot about my future and work and urgh. I don't like really thinking about jobs because I feel like I could've done so much more with my life by now, and I know that there's no changing that, as much as I wish there was, but I can't help feeling like that if I wanted to start a completely different career path I'm kinda screwed. I didn't finish my A-Levels, I'm 20 now so wouldn't fit in at all in college, and I can't go to uni without going back and doing exams to finish my A-Levels and I have no time to do that, see my issue...




I have no idea what I want to do with my life, right now all I can think about it travelling, getting married, drawing and kitty cats. My head feels overwhelmed at the moment and I'm not sure what to do about it. Don't get me wrong I don't hate my job, but I by no means love it or look forward to Mondays! All we seem to do right now is worry from pay day to pay day, plod along, pay bills and yeah our evenings are super cute and cuddly and when we have days off we go on little adventures and have fun. But I want to whisk Freya away, go on adventures, pack up and drive all through the night, living out of the car, taking the cats on hikes in little harnesses, live in nature, look forward to waking up and living each day differently. One day, eh?

Hey, It's a new year, with many things to come, you never know what'll happen. Don't forget to pay your rent! Start the year off right!  Tis the season for health kicks and gym memberships, but don't pressure yourself to change like that, straight away and rushing to "better" yourself. Do things gradually, plan out, research, invest your time properly. Make your resolution to be happy, to change and alter things to make you happy, not to conform to others, and what they think will work or make you "better". Long story short, just try and make 2016 that tiny bit better than last year but focusing on making yourself more comfortable in your life, and yourself. That's hard I know, but through trying you'll make yourself that little bit happier day by day. 



Take time to appreciate nature, go for a walk, stand in the rain, go for a picnic in the car to the middle of the forest, do whatever you can to make life more raw, simpler and meaningful for you.

Have a good week kids! You can do this. 

Todays Bird of The Day is the Tawny Owl -

The tawny owl is an owl the size of a pigeon. It has a rounded body and head, with a ring of dark feathers around its face surrounding the dark eyes. It is mainly reddish brown above and paler underneath. It is a widespread breeding species in England, Wales and Scotland but not found in Ireland. Birds are mainly residents with established pairs probably never leaving their territories. Young birds disperse from breeding grounds in autumn.

It's been almost a year...

Monday 28th December '15

Woah, so I guess it's been almost a year since I last posted a blog post.

Whoops! So, so, so many things have happened. I think I've just been so caught up in everything, changing of jobs, houses, all sorts. Things have been up and down and now I'm feeling sorta settled again and have really missed posting little ramblings on here. Also sounds like you guys have missed it too, so here it goes. Let's give it another go!

The last post I wrote was in February this year and now were just days away from welcoming in 2016. Seems pretty apt that now is a time to "change yourself', "make resolutions" and that's not the reason behind starting up this blog again, but it sure kinda gives me the motivation that I'm definitely lacking after stuffing my face full of roast dinners the past few days! I hope that you have all had a very Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays/ whatever floats your boat!

The most significant thing that has happened this year was in June!

On Saturday 4th June '15 we moved all the way from Canterbury, Kent to Warrington, Cheshire. We moved our entire lives 260 miles up north. Why? I'm from here originally and we wanted to be up north near my family, Freya had just finished Uni and got an amazing job up here, so why not eh! My dad drove with us, hired a moving van and off we went! We have to transport all of our little loves and man, I still think back and worry that we left lots of things behind, but hey ho, we're not going back down there any time soon! We now officially live on our own. Just me and Freya and the fluff babies. That's it. It's WONDERFUL! Honestly, I knew it'd be amazing to live on our own, but now it has finally happened, It's incredible and so relieving. 

So we now live on our own, not exactly on our own... Not so long after moving in, and both of us having cats at home before leaving home, we missed having little meowing creatures around so much, we adopted two little boys! They're called Loki & Mol (Mjölnir - like Thor's hammer)! They are our little angels and are incredibly affectionate! Mol is the little Tabby boy and Loki is the blue-eyed Siamese. They are both 4 years old now and have come so far. There is a pretty cool story behind them. We found them on Pets4Homes, spoke to their owner and went to meet them, we fell in love with them instantly. They are actually stray cats from Spain, who were feral. They were rescued from the streets from locals over there and fed and loved, they noticed that these two boys were inseparable and via a charity over there called San Animal Sanctuario were transported over here to the UK to go and live with the lady we got them from, she has many cats of her own, but also works with the charity to help foster them out to loving homes and get the adopted into their fur-ever homes. We brought them home and for the first 3-4 weeks they just didn't appear from behind the sofas, that was until we'd go to bed, then they caused havoc running about downstairs, but we loved knowing that they'd come out to play. Eventually Loki would come and have snuggles whilst Mol was still very nervous. Now, Lord, you sit down and before you could even switch the TV on they'll both have jumped up onto your lap and be fast asleep within seconds. It's so wonderful to think that these guys were strays and now they love cuddles and cannot leave us alone, even Mol is a big softie now. They love each other so much and have been as good as gold, apart from Mol disappearing for almost a week and giving us both heart attacks, they've been amazing. 

The summer months between now and then have consisted of us both starting new jobs and time being spent with family and having a mini break to the Lake district, just settling into northern life and making our house a home. It really does feel like our sanctuary now. We live close to the lakes now and so many beautiful places to go exploring and for walks. It's so nice to be able to spend time together, not stressed about housemates etc and just enjoy life, just us.

Over the past few months I've started my new job, Freya has graduated from University, she has turned 21 and I have turned 20! Lots of little things have happened and I'm so glad that now I'll be able to share more of these little things as they happen with you.

About 2 months ago we welcomed another little Lyon into our family. Having been in constant contact with the charity in Spain and the fosterers - we had a total of 4 cats brought over from Spain. Two little kittens for my grandparents, one for my parents and one for us. We chose to us the charity again as unlike in the UK and many other places they do not have anything like the RSPCA etc to help stray animals. So this is Flor, she is just over a year old and the most affectionate little girl you could ever imagine! She spoons us as we sleep, she is such a cutie pie, our little family feels complete with her here. We still need to improve how her brothers chase her around the house but we are so happy! Sadly though our little darling hamster Chubbs passed away from old age, we miss her dearly.


I'm trying to think of other things that have happened, I'm sure I will fill you in as and when I remember! Its now less than 6 months until we get married, I cannot wait!! In 6 months time she'll be my wife, our family will be more and more complete.

So I'll leave you with a Bird of the Day!

Jays are several species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the crow family, Corvidae. The names jay and magpie are somewhat interchangeable, and the evolutionary relationships are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian jay than to the Oriental blue and green magpies, whereas the blue jay is not closely related to either.

I'll speak to you soon guys! Have a wonderful day! 

Pre-Mondays

Sunday 25th October '14

Wassup! Today is going to be a quick one, and I mean quick! We had a lovely lie in this morning and went for another wander around the Laines in Brighton before grabbing some bubble tea and driving back to Canterbury in the afternoon! So since getting back I've spent the day cleaning and tidying and making dinner so it's late now and especially since it feels an hour later than it is, due to the clocks going back by an hour! I'm in work at 8am tomorrow until 5pm - as much as getting up early is a pain at least I'm finished with enough time to actually so something in the evening! But in the morning we're going to get up nice and super early to go to the gym to start off our day - so that means a 6am rise tomorrow morning, again, hence the short blogpost today! 

Hopefully work will be kind to me tomorrow and not too many difficult customers! Fingers crossed eh! 

Side note- I wish we had a Peals Bubble Tea here in Canterbury, it's out go-to place whenever we're in Brighton!

Anyways Lovelies! I hope that your Sunday has been okay, if you've been exploring, to church, shopping, seeing family, or even just stayed in bed and had a netflix marathon, I hope that you are okay and you have had a lovely day! 

I'm nervous to head back to the gym tomorrow but I'm so keen to get back in shape and tone up again, I used to got kickboxing 3 times a week but since moving to Canterbury haven't been exercising as much, but nows the time to get back into the routine of building it into my day.

Plus with working for a big company I get employee discount at the gym to makes going a bit more of an incentive, and less expensive. 

My head is a bit busy tonight, lots of thoughts and worries and planing going on for things that I don't really need to be thinking about constantly but hey ho, that happens sometimes!

Have some pretty photos and stuff... Words aren't happening that easily tonight!

 Randomness is good sometimes, and I do apologise for the mismatched post!

Todays bird of the day is going to beeee... The Buzzard!

Now the commonest and most widespread UK bird of prey. It is quite large with broad, rounded wings, and a short neck and tail. When gliding and soaring it will often hold its wings in a shallow 'V' and the tail is fanned. Birds are variable in colour from all dark brown to much paler variations, all have dark wingtips and a finely barred tail. Their plaintive mewing call could be mistaken for a cat.

So stay safe, have a good nights sleep, or a good day, whichever is applicable to you! 

Please come back again soon, I promise to be more interesting one day!

Night Night - Sleep Tight! :)

Urgh Monday...

Monday 20th October '14

So you all know what day it is! Happy Monday!

Well, hopefully it's happy one for you - even if you're sat there on a constant drip of coffee and losing the will to live even though you've only been awake for 5 minutes, then that's okay!
Monday isn't our friend and we need to give him a big boot up the arse. I have spent my day at work on this wonderful Monday trying to find things to inspire me to get through the day - this has consisted of playing tank trouble, looking at last minute holidays and also wedding ideas! To be honest that's a pretty good kick to want to get though the day and one more day closer to marrying my girl and travelling and even just to cuddles once I get home.

Monday can be a right bitch but sometimes as hard as it is, sucking it up is the best thing to do, it's inevitably coming around and hey once that day is out of the way then you're so much closer to the weekend and if you have to work the weekend, then yeah that's crap, but you're one day closer to a day off and a day full of Netflix and takeaways in bed! Monday would be better off spent like that I know but well, we ain't that lucky I guess. Meh.

So today was the day... I moved desks, it finally happened and it's worked out a lot better than I first thought! So long story short, to be honest, the desk I was supposed to be moving too the computer there was broken, so I was then moved to another one and oh my gosh yay, right at the back of the office, next to the window and so nice and quiet! I cannot describe how happy I am, I spent the majority of the morning cleaning it yes, but lord it was filthy! Not anymore though it's pristine! Then the panic washed over me "this isn't permanent, this is temporary" and seriously that was scary, I know that sounds stupid, I know that but it's ridiculous how pathetic I am! But along with a desk change we changed managers, and he is lovely! He brought me a can of red bull as I had just finished mine, when something was sold or done well I got high fives or hugs and he is just wonderful. I know that sounds cheesy and what not but, it's lovely to actually be praised for doing good work as apposed to it going unnoticed. Oh and he's let me stay at this desk. He is now my favourite! There's that saying isn't there, that goes "A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected". Hopefully I can prove that?


So I'm maybe a litre bit too happy about such a little things, but it is the little things that matter! Oh and I did say "long story short, maybe not".

Oh and if you don't feel appreciated, then you are, even by people who don't show it, they may not know how to, but even if you don't believe that - I appreciate you, you're incredible and you are here now and even if that's a struggle, look, you're doing it!

The most important things can sometimes only be the smallest and it's important to remember those, even just taking 20 minutes in a day to sit down and read or have a cuppa, even to call your parents, or friend or family member, and tell them how crap your day was or how shitty one of your colleagues is. To just do some of those little things can be much more relaxing than just trying to hold it in and hope that it disappears, and even if you don't feel like you can talk to anyone then I'm always here!

Life really is beautiful and it can take a while to realise that, but it truly is! Please don't give up and if you're feeling not so good today, then this is your sign that someone is think about you and believes in you, yes you, you're awesome!

I'm struggling to write today and I think Monday's just drained me, well I need to up for 6:30am tomorrow morning, and the prospect of that, let's just not think about that now shall we.

Okay kids, that's enough for today I think, I'm spewing out nonsense as it is so let's not do much more!

Bird of the day today shall be... *drum roll please*
The Long Tailed Tit (shush!) - They're so cute and tiny and round and fluffy and bouncy and aah!
You'll probably always see them hopping around car parks! They are found mainly in Europe, UK and Asia! They love eating insects and also seeds in Autumn and Winter. You hardly see them on their own as they tend to stay in flocks of around 20 birds, and they're extremely noisy!

That's all darlings!
Stay safe and have a lovely day!

Speak tomorrow!