A free trip to see Wicked courtesy of my big brother// It will not stop pissing it down in Cardiff// First skype session in a while with any of my family, of course the first person was my sister// One of my favourite ever songs, In My Life by The Beatles// Gonna start watching the True Detective// Oh Tiger bread, why are you so bad yet taste so good?!// Nice view whilst I eat a spot of lunch// Coconut pancakes for breakfast// Oh look it's raining again in Cardiff, light showers you say? Ummm it doesn't look light to me// A cheeky shop in Superdrug to cheer myself up// Trying out Beyonce's Superpower music video makeup// The Muppets never ever fail to make me smile// Throw back Thursday, I'm such a little angel!// Trying out this white nails trend that seems to be going round// The day of the ever dreaded presentation// Completed presentation celebratory pizza!// Trying to test out this 'exercise makes you happy' theory// I now have to meditate every night before bed and I have to say I do enjoy it//
Not going to lie, this week has been rather rough. The presentation I had on Friday was making me so anxious that I had a good few panic attacks which really knocked me off my feet for a few days. Since then I've been doing anything and everything to keep my mood elevated. This means remembering to do my #100happy days which I re-started after failing miserably the first time around, throwing myself back into health and fitness and practicing this happy thoughts thing. The banishing negative thoughts is the hardest thing ever! You get so comfortable with your brain just telling you all these horrible things that it feels so unnatural to actually force yourself to think of something positive. But I'm really really trying this time and my uni work has finally started to ease up.
It was the last day of term on Friday and we are now officially in the Easter holidays, yey! I'm staying in Cardiff for the first week to hopefully make a good start on my final two essays. Then I'm off back home to enjoy a nice 2 week break (with occasional essay writing). I can't even begin to describe how much I'm looking forward to going home or how happy I am that I only have technically 2 more weeks left of university. Yes I'm slightly worried about the prospect of becoming a real life adult with real life problems to deal with, but it's nice to not have to be in education anymore.
Today will be very much like yesterday, I'm off to the gym in a bit to burn off the melt in the middle pudding I just ate for lunch (I'm trying to get rid off all my bad food this weekend so I can start fresh tomorrow) and then I will come home and continue to be lazy and watch various TV shows on my laptop, yey for lazy Sunday afternoons!
What was your week like this week? Anything exciting happen?
This is a lovely post! I hope you have a nice week next week! Atleast the presentation is over with!
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Thank you, I know the last presentation of university life, woo hoo! x
DeleteI'm currently reading a book by Ruby Wax called Sane New World. She's gone back to Uni (Oxford of all places!) and has done a masters in neuroscience. Anyway, I'm only a third of the way though, but she's talking a lot about how human beings are the only species who are so self critical. No other animal goes around telling themselves that they're gonna fail, or they're not good enough etc etc.
ReplyDeleteApparently later on in the book she talks about how you can start to retrain your brain so that you have more control over what you think, so that you can really reduce the amount of criticism you place on yourself. It's written really well, so it's quite easy to read. So I'd recommend it if you're trying to be more mindful and in control of your own happiness.
Keep positive! And enjoy your time off.
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Thank you. I'll have to check that out, I know Ruby Wax has done a lot for mental health issues in the past so I'll have to give it a go. I'm definitely going to be making more of an effort to think positively, you can get far too comfortable with negative thoughts :/ x
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