Five Good Things this August

August was an odd month for me this year, as previously mentioned, I turned 28 and got hospitalised for tonsillitis on the same day. Then not even a week later, I had to attend my uncle's funeral down south.

Anyway, onwards and upwards.

1. New Tattoo
Seeing that this blog didn't exist at the end of July, and I got my tattoo at the very end of July, I'm totally counting it and you can't stop me.

Since I had my skin grafts done, I knew I wanted a tattoo to cover the donor site once it had healed. I just didn't know what exactly I wanted doing. Then Star Wars The Force Awakens came out and then somewhere down the line I realised I wanted sweet, pure, innocent cinnamon roll BB8 for my tattoo.

Then I proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it for the best part of around 18 months until one of my colleagues recommended an artist and as soon as I saw his work on Insta, I knew he was The One. So to speak.

I was very excited and nervous about the whole thing, I had my last tattoo done over seven years ago whilst at university and I worried that I was downplaying how much it hurt in my mind.

I imagine it's like being scratched repeatedly by an angry cat. I wouldn't know. I haven't got a cat.

So here he is in all his freshly tatted glory!

So thank you again to Mr Stickypop, who did an amazing job and was a generally cool guy and I will definitely be seeing again. Because I need touch ups.

2. New Ear Piercings
On a similar sort of body modification theme, I got second piercings in each of my lobes. This may surprise anyone who knew me around the time I got my first set done, considering the amount of moaning I did after I got my ears pierced: it hurt way more than I was told it would, I was afraid of taking my earrings out, I got grossed out whenever I changed my earrings, I didn't like the way I could feel dangly earrings tugging on my lobes, I left my earrings out for a long time and was terrified my ears had healed over and I'd have to restab myself with one of my studs.

There was a lot of complaining.

Maybe getting a new tattoo has made me bold, but one Tuesday lunch time at work, I'm mulling over getting a second set of lobe piercings, before walking into a piercing parlour after work and getting it done. I'm wilding.

Still not down with cartilage piercings tho.

(trying to photograph my own ear was super hard guys)

3. Losing Weight
I joined Weight Watchers a little over a month ago, I know I've been overweight for most of my life and I hate it. The idea of 'body positivity' and 'fat acceptance' has never sat well with me. I don't want to be like this and I hate the way I look.

So far I've lost 20lbs. And I genuinely can't tell when I look in the mirror, as far as I'm concerned I look the same but I know I must be losing weight somewhere because my clothes are falling off me.

4. Fitting into a Smaller Dress Size
I bought a size 16 dress this month. Size 16! I don't remember the last time I was a size 16, I've been hovering around 18/20 for as long as I can remember. And now I own about seven whole items of size 16 clothing. Incredible.

I've gotten such a buzz from knowing I can fit into smaller clothing and it's really spurring me on to keep on doing what I'm doing.

5. Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones has finished for another series and none of my faves died! Yayyy!

Of my 28th birthday

Earlier this month I turned 28 years old. On that same day, I was hospitalised. It was my body's refusal to keep down any oral antibiotics for tonsillitis that left me hooked up to an IV for a few days.

It happens.

Being in hospital again (yes, again) made me think about myself and what I'm doing. I have two years before I turn 30 and I'm barely adulting at the best of times. I can't cook, I can't drive, I have a savings account but Lord knows there's next to nothing in there and then I look on Facebook and see all the folk I used to go to school with and they're all getting married, having children, buying houses and I'm just over here, standing still. 

I don't particularly want to get married or have children so what am I getting envious about? 


So I'm going to do something about it. I'm going to try and implement some positive change in my life, learn to cook a handful of meals, start driving lessons, get back into bullet journaling. Hell, I'll take just writing more frequently and being able to maintain a blog a minor victory.

Wish me luck.

Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.