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Back to reality (AKA I don’t wanna)
After arriving home yesterday afternoon I’ve been in a bit of denial at my holiday being over. I had a nap, being awake since 5am (4am UK time) doesn’t do me any good, and the one thing we managed to accomplish is buying food. After a proper night’s sleep (finally!) we wandered out for our…
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Final Preparations
This weekend I had no plans for what felt like the first time in months. In reality it’s only been about 3 weeks, but they’ve been a busy few weeks! With nothing planned I was able to take time on Saturday to tidy the house and relax a bit. Something about having all the clean…
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Beautiful Fridays: A Hair Raisin’ Idea (& LOTS of pics!)
I started getting grey hair when I was in middle school, so about 12 years old. My natural hair colour is very dark brown, so it was quite noticeable and everyone would comment on it. I used to tell the other kids it was Halloween hair spray that hadn’t washed out… Jump ahead to 16…
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Vanity Wednesdays: Confidence
I think I’ve finally hit my stride. My early 20s were full of (somewhat) reckless abandon and not caring about what anyone thought about what I was doing or how I looked. I took that confidence for granted. My late 20s/early 30s were more sedate, especially in the confidence department. I didn’t care about what…
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Vanity Wednesdays: Favourite Outfits
I’ll be posting fashion, outfit of the day/week, beauty and/or body confidence related topics on Wednesdays from here on out… So without further ado I’m kicking off the series with a few of my favourite outfits from the last few months. These are outfits I loved being in and felt confident, sexy and ‘put-together’ in.…
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Cancer Shmancer
On Father’s Day I participated in my local Race for Life to support Cancer Research UK. It was in Bath and I had decided months ago, when the registrations opened I would do it and I had plenty of time to train for it, even though it’s only a 5K, to give me a chance…
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I’ll be back
Last week I got knocked down by a nasty cold while at Chevron 8.1 (a post on that coming soon!) and that meant my training had to be pushed back until I felt better. June is rapidly approaching – is it really mid-April already?! – so I can’t procrastinate any longer. Thankfully I’m feeling better…
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Holiday Haze
Remember earlier in the year when I was doing Insanity? My knee and shin just can’t take it and I had to stop a week into the second month. I can handle the first month okay, but the second does some damage and even when I modify I just can’t do it properly. So I…
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Teaching and Learning: Patience
It’s important to take a step back sometimes. Back in January we booked a holiday for March, having not gone away since June last year it was much needed and we were both desperate for some time away to rest and relax somewhere warm after a stressful winter at work for both of us. Between…