Life strategy drama…SORTED

Just as I was completely despairing at my lack of life strategy and generally wallowing ion a feeling of disappear at the prospect at being stuck at home in the country for the rest of my life! I received a lovely email offering me a position volunteering in the Florida Keys in the US of A. J. Beyond excited! I don’t have an official departure date yet but it will be around October giving me plenty of time to get myself in order and annoy everyone around me with my innate excitement!!...did I mention I can’t wait!

Picked up this bad boy up in the library:

Somebody had the cheek to already check out the one specifically on Florida…do they not know how excited I am!!! Ha….I’m on the waiting list though so hopefully I’ll get it next week and can go into full planning/research mode J

However some fun facts I have picked up about America in general include

•        They have a population is 288.4 million…that is A LOT of people! I mean Ireland only has a population of 4.5 million (I know I know we are a waay smaller country but still that is a lot of peeps)
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•      In 1955, Disneyland opened. It makes my heart happy to know this J
•     Maps of New York look confusing!! Although I wont be staying there I hope to visit my cousin living there at the minute…she a journalist in NYC it’s the things dreams are made of really. But yeah by the looks of it New York (if I get there) is going to make it onto the every going list of “places I got lost”.  

Bring on the sun!

:) excited

xo

Summer Dress Restyle

Finally got around to unpacking my final bag of college stuff (I know it has been over three weeks…don’t judge me I’ve been busy doing nothing!). In doing this realised I have a ridiculous amount of clothes… so may say too may but can you really have too many I mean you gotta be prepared for every and any eventuality after all.

So amidst the mass of books clothes and knick knacks found this dress that I’ve had it aggges and literally only wore it a handful of times. The main reason being I don’t actually like it on me. Love the colour but the fit just doesn’t look well on me at all.

And what better way to spend your evening than remodelling a dress! Decided needed to get rid of the nasty elasticated band at the bottom. It was way too restrictive and just made the dress a weird shape. Took longer than expected because of the weird way the elastic was sown in.

Also decided the shoulders needed re shaping as the overall outline wasn’t that flattering, so unpicked the seam and split the sleeves in 2. Then crossed them over and re-stitched them. Wasn’t delighted at the way they turned out but better than it was.

Happy enough with the overall effect…will do nicely for Greece in 2 weeks J #excited !! Then thinking of lengthening it with some white lacy material so it more appropriate for work, will update if decided to do it ;)

That’s all peeps J

xo

Life Strategy Drama

(source)

One minute you’re in primary school worrying about friendship bracelets, hair braids and sleepovers, the next you’re in your twenties, finished college and dealing with actual big girl stuff. Everyone you talk to expects you to have your shit together. People expect you to have a plan, a path to follow, a strategy for life if you like. From what I gather this entails finding a find a real job, you’re meant to have proper relationship and have all the answers to the really hard philosophical questions middle aged folks keep asking about your life and were your heading. I DON’T KNOW!!...I don’t want a real job, I am not in the market for a boyfriend, I don’t know where I want to be in 5 years- time, hell I don’t have a firm idea where I'll be in five days’ time! (Lol jks I know I’m going to Waterford for the weekend, but you get what I mean). And apparently EVERYONE else knows their plan and its true…well maybe not everyone but quite a few. I've a friend who have succeeded internships in his dream company, another one who is heading to Dubai with her boyfriend to teach smallies out there and another who is settling down and building a house of her own with her fiancé and she is only 2 years older than I am!! So if my life strategy isn’t gonna follow the conventional route then where am I heading? (Answers on the back of a postcard).

My short term strategy involves moving back home for the summer saving up the oul mula then come September off to go traveling (even that isn’t concrete as have no idea where to go yet. Barr having applied for a few volunteer positions which I’m yet to hear back from wahhh L ).

The serious down side of this is having to move back home. I’ve been back for about three weeks now and it isn’t easy! Don’t get me wrong I love the fam but seeing the 24/7 is tough. The constant questions and inquires, the disapproving looks at eating a bag of crisps for breakfast… it has sustained me for the past 2 years in collage I will not keel over and die due to not eating a hearty bowl of Weetabix! The tuting and resigned sighs at the amazement of going out in a dress that “needs” ironing…no it doesn’t the creases will fall out and in the infinite wisdom of my secondary school teacher “it’s not a disco were going to” it is in fact to the creamery for a bottle of milk… they will not care the cut of my dress, mother dearest!!

And that is without mentioning the sisters LOUD and I mean ridiculously, defining normalcy, thank-god-we-live-in-a-detached house loud music. Which to make matters worse is the hip hoppy, heavy bass kind. Did I mention our rooms are right next to each other!!

And then there is the dog who is by far the craziest of us all...she is now terrified of her own reflection and shadows...which is inconvenient to say the lest when she decides it is necessary to wake the whole house at dawn due to this phobia...not cool Poppy, not cool. But to be fair she is also the cutest...look at her!

(source: Stitch's photo)

Anyways, onwards and upwards peeps :)

xo