floating in the clouds

I've not posted in a few days because I've decided to try out a proper schedule, I'm going to post Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and see if that works well, Last week we checked off another item from our autumn bucket list. We had a cosy night in, making s'mores and popcorn and watching horror movies, wrapped up in blankets, the window open a little bit, and the candles lit. We re-watched IT because we loved it so much, and I got J to watch The Lost Boys, as he'd never seen it before. The Lost Boys is one of my all time favourite movies and "death by stereo" is one of my favourite quotes ever too. To make our s'mores we bought rich tea biscuits, I had vegan chocolate but J used nutella, then we toasted our marshmallows over the stove and piled it all together. I know I'm vegan/transitioning vegan, and that marshmallows have gelatine in, but I couldn't find any alternatives and really wanted this s'mores night. I figured a cheat day ...

I've posted a few posts on here, my Twitter, and my Instagram claiming my sheer excitement with autumn this year and I felt the urge to do another little list type, cosy, autumnal post to put y'all in the mood for the season just a little bit more. Especially as we are now in the "official" autumn period, Because I just Can Not Get Enough Of autumn This year. So, I've decided to write out some of the things I'm excited for, have been enjoying, and the things I've been thinking about nonstop since August came to an end: 1, Mornings. I love autumnal mornings because they're so much fresher than summer, the sun is starting to get lower in the sky which casts a warm glow over everything, it's cooler so it feels nice to wrap up in a blanket and enjoy a morning cuppa in the garden, it's slightly crisp, beautiful, and fresh. I love autumnal mornings. 2, The colours. Obviously. I feel like autumn is the time ginger people  thrive, becau...

So I've affirmed the blog that I've left university, confessed my mental health struggles, dramatically left my job, dyed my hair, and now I'm left with the looming question of 'what now?' Now that I'm coming to terms with my mental health, left university, and talking about my chapter one with the new start on my blog, what exactly is that chapter and where is it leading me? It's taken me a long time to figure out my chapter one, and how I'd have, or want my fresh start to be, because I'd been focusing for the majority of this year on just learning to be happy again, that every other aspect of my life had got lost. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted out of life, or what I enjoyed. I've stopped focussing on wanting a career for now, I've spent years chasing a career and learnt it didn't bring me happiness. For the first time in my life I'm focussing wholly on me. Myself as a person. I found I was instantly drawn back to...

Okay so. Here's. The. Motherfucking. Tea. I've had a margarita, and I realise this post is not going to be professional or educational, or very 'bloggy' but I feel so empowered right now and I think it's going to be such a good follow on from my previous post if anyone else is suffering from either being bullied at work, or feeling stuck in their job or hating their job, or their boss, or anything. (This is my margarita, made by my angel of a boyfriend) As a bit of back story: I work on a zero hour contract, working usually 4-10 on Friday nights, and split shifts on Saturday and Sunday. During the past few weeks, work have been changing my rota and taking Friday evenings off of me, a few times I turned up to work expecting to be working only to be turned away, and other times I'd get a phone call in the week asking me to work on the Friday evening (after originally taking me off of it ???). So last weekend I'd decided to triple check my rota, saw t...

I had a whole schedule of posts to go up over the past couple of days but I've been absolutely blindsided by a really low mood, as a result of being bullied at work. I haven't been enjoying work for a long time. Even though I'm no longer at uni I've been telling them that I am so that they can't put me on any extra shifts. I only work Friday evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. My boss is the reason behind so many of my other colleagues leaving, she's nasty, condescending, and has no regard for other peoples feelings when she's shouting at you because you've not done your job to her expectations. Unfortunately, the big bosses love her because she's bloody good at her job and spends a ridiculous amount of time at work, even sleeping over if she's working a late and a morning back to back. I've never been her biggest fan but we were civil, we got on for the sake of work. I let her get on with the way she spoke to me, never being bothered to rise...

Me and my boyfriend made friends earlier this year with another couple who really love the film IT, with the buildup of the new film being released this year, we too got excited about it and decided to give it a watch. Me and J aren't big horror film fanatics, I like to watch a few come this time of year just to feel spooky and cosy, but finding a good horror film is so hard because I find they generally lack strong storylines, overuse gore to try and scare audiences, and use build ups as their main scare feature that then let's me down come the end when the reality of the film isn't actually that scary. After watching the first IT I felt that it had really captured what a good horror movie should be, it was paced very well, had a really good build up of scary moments and the end scene was incredible. I loved the fact that the characters never seemed to become "heroes" it felt very realistic with the way the group dealt with Pennywise instead of them suddenly k...

As it is now well into September, officially spooky season, officially my cosy, favourite season. It's time for cosy posts again. I was having a conversation with my boyfriend about how excited we are to be getting the cinnamon candles out and fluffy pjs and spooky movies and I started planning out all our cute little 'fall dates' I want us to go on, then I figured, as I love lists so much, and I love autumn blog posts so much, I should write up all my plans and 'bucket list' for autumn. I know seasonal bucket lists are such a 2012 thing to do but I still love them and I love anything autumn/Christmas related and I will forever write lists till the day I die. So here are some things I'm planning to do this Autumn. - Go to a corn maze. I don't live to far from Wistow maze and I've wanted to go for years but never got round to it. This year I'm hoping to make sure I go with J as a cute little date. - Go cinema for a horror movie. The plan wa...

Since my new kinda 'blog relaunch', I was having a ganders through my old posts just to clean up my dashboard and delete any drafts that were lying about, when I came across this one. This was a post I'd half written and never finished or added the photos to, so it got drowned out along with my other posts and forgotten about. On the one hand there really isn't much point to posting this after so much time, but it really was such a good weekend, and Rationale has recently released a new song so hopefully a few new UK shows are coming soon after his London one off show has just sold out. He's an incredible up and coming artist and I'd love to spread the word around about him because I genuinely, genuinely, think he's great. His style is an odd one, he uses (I think I would describe it as) techno beats, catchy rhythms etc. But has such a soulful, meaningful voice which makes his songs so good! His stage presence is also absolutely insane. We were first int...

As much as I am a summer girl, I love the warm weather, I love the beach and the sea and not feeling cold every time I leave the house -there's just something about autumn/winter. I'm always so excited to start wearing baggy sweaters, woolly jumpers, boots, and anything burgundy, whilst having all the pumpkin spiced lattes, cinnamon candles and dark evenings with endless movies. Or mostly I just like collecting conkers and walking on crunchy leaves, and having my halloween playlist on repeat but there we are. September for me, because it's the back to school era, it feels like a (somewhat overdue) mid-year fresh start, and after my last post and my plan to start anew, I was just itching to have a little September goals, 'welcome to the new season' kind of post. So here is a little list of my personal goals I want to achieve this September: - I signed up this month to a month long vegan challenge. I'm new to trying out a vegan lifestyle but have been cut...