Christmas Day done and dusted

Well Christmas day has come and gone. I hope you all got what you wanted and if you didn’t join the club. Hope you drank and ate lots goodness knows I drank more than enough. 

So I mentioned before my oven had gone to RIP, so my beautifully planned Christmas dinner for one did not happen at all and it gets much better there wasnt even a roast at my dad’s, the biggest anti climax to Christmas day ever. I’m not going to lie the best thing about Christmas for me is the roast dinner because for god knows how long now I get zero presents on this day. I know poor me right! And when I think about the reason why there was no Christmas dinner at my dads, for the first time since I was born it drives me crazy, so I’m just going to stop and and take a deep breath here. 

But I will say what was great about my Christmas was something that money couldn’t buy and that was seeing my 1 year old nephew fight my 6 year old niece because he wanted her micro phone set, moments like that are priceless, and speaking to my brother who recently moved to Scotland, a move I’m still adjusting to, things like these are worth so much more than the pair of Ugg or Timberland boots some of you have seen on my social media sites as part of my wish list.  And in all fairness I would say the icing on the cake would have to be the bottle of prosecco I almost finished of.

Whatever you did for Christmas whether it was alone or with family and friends I hope like me you have some precious moments to hold on to. 

Comment below and share your Christmas day stories. 

Mid, mid life crisis!

So apparently you have a mid life crisis in your 40s,  well I can officially say I just had one, or maybe it was a panic attack I’m not entirely sure! Although I have been told it was a quarter life crisis, either way I came so close to changing careers and getting myself into 20 grand worth of debt!

I’m not exactly old that is unless your 16 then yeah I am. I can’t be the only single 27 year old who’s stopped to question where their life is going,  what the next steps are and will there ever be a man in my life some point in the distant future. 

   

Well the night I was writing this I had all these thoughts and then some. Am I in the right career? maybe I should of pushed harder after uni to go into what I studied. What if I had done that where would I be right now?  Oooohhhh so many questions and guess what I don’t know the answer and I never will.                                                                                           I literally  just need to focus on the here and now!  Work hard to reach my career goals in what I realised is the career that I love and have been doing for the past four years. But of course play harder. Hehe! 

And the same goes for you, when those horrible thoughts come to attack you, kick them out straight away, maybe you need to sit down and work out a plan for the next year or so, set some goals give yourself a time frame to reach these goals and like me you won't be heading for that dusty vodka bottle!

Im glad to say my mid, mid life crisis was put on hold for another 10 years. Panic was averted, depression avoided, and bottle of vodka grudgingly placed back in the cupboard.

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10 Single girl problems!

So many people coupled up love to go on about how lucky us single girls are, how we don’t have to come home from work and cook a meal for our man, or take care of the kids after a long day at work. And tbh I don’t know about you but this officially bores me. Let me not get started on valentines day all the single ladies crawl back under your stone. It’s as if it’s a sin to be single on that day. Kmt who does society really think they are?

Here’s top 10 bugaboo’s of single life!

* Your so lucky your single
Am I? Am I really? just because I’m not dating and you call that lucky? Please get out my face! So your life is way more busier than mine, so your exhausted most of the time, oh well you knew what you was signing up for get over it.

* Meal for 1, 2 or the army
I don’t know whether this is because of my heritage or what but I have a serious problem  of not being able to cook a meal for just one person, it’s either I cook so much as if to say I have a household full of people or I make next to nothing. I just can’t master this. And if I’m being honest those are the few times I’m bothered to cook, half the time I’m like what’s the point in cooking a sexy meal all for me. Long!

* Sweet dreams
Is it just me or are there some nights, you wouldn’t mind a cuddle, that person to say don’t worry I got you. Even the strongest woman likes to hear this every once in a while.

* Booking hotels
So when I put in a search for hotels I tend to put 1 person because  clearly I’m going alone, but does that mean I want to sleep in a single bed, I’ve never had a single bed in all my life, my mum didn’t see the point in getting one for her weirdly tall child.  So why would I want to squeeze  myself in one while away? Er nah...

* Doing things alone

As a really independent person I tend to do things alone instead of checking people of my phone, married now, just had a baby, has more of a social  life than me. I don’t take the word no easily so rather than hear it I’ll do it alone, and oh my goodness the headache that comes with it. “why did you go alone”, “you no you have friends, you can always ask me to come with you”, and trust me I appreciate  them I do but sometimes I got to do things by myself, I can’t rely on my friends to take every step with me.

* DIY
I have no clue about DIY stuff, my living room walls are still so bare after having my flat for years. Yes I could have probably asked someone to drill a few holes for me but prides a bitch. Lol. Let’s not even talk about my light bulb in my bathroom which has been out for some time now and the council refuse to fix, I’m not being funny but I didn’t ask them to fix such lighting in there. Anyway deep breaths. I’m not going to lie in these situations  it would be fab to have a man in the house to handle these things.

* I'm sick!!!!!
Whenever I have a period, or a migraine it’s as if my life is over I literally  can’t move. And the worse part of this is knowing your actually alone  in your home and if your hungry your going to have to find the strength to get out of bed and sort yourself out. And these are the times the green eyed monster comes out and I think how  lucky these coupled up people are. I had the luxury once of having a guy make me a cup of tea while I got ready for work and seriously it took like 5 minutes of my routine, I was well excited. It’s the simple things with me!

* Coming home and being like.....oh yeah
There’s some days I get in from work or just out in general and I’m like oh yeah I don’t actually  have that poor guy to have a rant to about my day, so I go to the next best thing an old work colleague who’s turned out to be a really good friend,  but boy do I feel sorry for her having to put up with me.

* When you go on lunch and see you have zero messages
Oh my gosh I love my friends truly I do, but when I go on break and there’s no message from a special Mr I’m just like why am I even on break. Of course of late there is no special Mr and I’m actually  enjoying my breaks not spending it what’s Appin some guy asking if he’s having a good day, when what I really want to know from him is can he handle a strong woman and is he ready to commit!

* Bills bills bills

I’m sorry but I can’t be the only one who thinks how much more shoes, bags and nail appointments I could make each month if there was an actual real life living man in my home. This can make me feel some type of way on some pay months. I’m like ok so maybe I’ll  hold of on the uggs and hunters this month then.

But you know what this is my life and I love  it, all the ups and downs just makes me that much stronger. I can can go and do whatever I want without the stress of worrying what to do with my handbag, as some of my friends jokingly call their  kids. And I can order Chinese every night without worrying about teaching my kids bad eating habits! Woop, woop once again single life wins!
However I think I'll be enrolling in a DIY class pretty soon.

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