Tag: Life

Song of the month: Coming Home by Busted

May feels like a limbo month. It lands just after the excitement of April and my birthday and Bank Holidays, and just before the promise of June, July and August, Summer activities and warmer weather. I struggled with blogging this month. A spout of blogger’s block is never helpful when you actually want to blog. This coupled with a bout of cold and awful cough has meant I’ve taken some time for some much needed rest and relaxation. May has been quiet to say the least, bar the socialising I’ve been doing during the all too small spurt of Summer weather we had a few weeks back. The sunshine always brings out the best in people and I’ve definitely tried making the most of it whilst I can.

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Song of the month: Freedom (ft Kendrick Lamar) by Beyonce

This retrospective post has been brought to you by LEMONADE *cause a winner don’t quite on themselves.

Oh April you are never a dull month. Overshadowed by my trip back to New York at the beginning of the month and then bookended with a busy Bank Holiday Weekend and my birthday right at the end, I can always count on April to keep my on my toes. Funnily enough like last month, I find myself once again back in my old bedroom in my old blogging ‘happy place’ in the comfort of my parent’s house for the weekend.

Let’s start from the very beginning shall we? (*A very good place to start*) New York – in short as it already feels like eons ago – was wonderful, reflective, and fecking cold (minus 1 chills! Thank God I brought my Winter coat!). Again I left with my heart heavy and am already yearning to be back in the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. No matter! Exciting things ahead of my as I’ve just started a (kinda) new job. I don’t think it’s secret that I work in Publishing but I’ve shimmied over to a brand new team so I have some of those new-job-nervy-I-don’t-quite-know-what-I’m-doing-here feelings at the moment.

And then of course, I turned 24 last Thursday. I’ve posted some reflections on reaching this age and being ‘in my Twenties’ though I’m finding it very hard to get into the mindset that I’m not a teenager any more seeing as not a lot has changed since University. Family is still family. Friends are still the best. Boys are still forever an enigma. I am still socially awkward. I am finding that I’m more comfortable with being social, though that may be to do with easing into a good place in Oxford and life in general – I don’t think the introvert in me has completely disappeared.

I’m going into a much less busier May to hopefully get into the swing of writing (both blogs and creative writing projects!) and planning Summer adventures!

p.s. if y’all wanna catch up on my NYC posts click on the linky below!

Ria

This month in blogs:

On TMM

24 // Plath & Poetry // Spotlight On Hamilton // Postcards from New York 2K16 Series // Favourite Underrated Female Youtubers // Thoughts On Waitress & Female Narratives

Elsewhere

John Green Reading Soundtracks, Blogger’s Bookshelf

Song of the month: Soft Place To Land by Sara Barielles

I’m gonna start this post by saying at the time of writing this I’ve just woken up from a boss nap having consumed far too much gin and chocolate because Easter. Yes. So good.

Despite this being a much quieter month for me, the good vibes from February have thankfully carried through into March. I’m still chugging along nicely in my house, I managed to skilfully bypass a cold and got back on track – kinda – with blogging and life. The slow start to Spring has been a welcome change of pace. It also helps that I’m currently taking a welcome break from work for two weeks, the first few days of which have been spent hibernating at my parent’s house away from adult responsibilities and the 9 to 5.

I’ve been using the past few days to really relax back into writing and blogging. The familiarity of my old bedroom and comfort of my old blogging spot (the top left hand corner of my bed with a cup of coffee fyi) seems to have flipped a switch in my brain to reinvigorate my need to create. It’s a nice feeling to be honest. My mind and body have been in serious need of a recharge and I’m trying to hold onto it as much as possible right now, especially as March almost always a calm before the storm/upcoming madness of April. This year will be no exception to that madness as I’ll be spending the first week of it my home away from home, New York, shifting about job roles at work, and of course my 24th birthday towards the end of it.

I’ve got a lot of good coming up but sometimes it’s hard to justify this feeling alongside all the awful in the world right now. It’s frustrating and saddening that some of us can’t do more to ease the hurt in light of recent events in Brussels and Lahore. I’m a true believer there is still good in the world, it’s a small comfort but a comfort none the less.

Ria

This month in blogs:

On TMM

NYC Bucket List 2.0 // Teen Idol | Amandla Stenberg // Curating Your Online Space //Celestial | Alexander McQueen A/W 16 // International Women’s Day | 3 easy way to #PledgeForParity // Writing | Words + Music

Elsewhere

New updates, new genres, and new writing, Oh my!, The Unabridged Writer