Adele Chelsea

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

The Body Shop Camomile Cleansing Oil

I picked this up a few weeks ago on a spontaneous trip in to The Body Shop, I was out of my previous cleanser and wanted to try an oil for the colder months, I find it adds so much more hydration to the skin than using a regular cleansing milk or lotion. I decided on the Camomile Cleansing Oil.

The oil itself has a really heavy feel to it, it's not too light as I find sometimes cleansing oils feel a bit 'watered-down' and it feels effortless to

Monday, 5 January 2015

Manic Monday #47

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First official Manic Monday of the year, woop woop!

Officially marking the 1 year anniversary of Manic Monday's! Yes, the numbers are off slightly, I missed a few...OK?! But I'm proud that regularly updated my MM posts!

Things are now back to normal, sigh of relief over here, not that I don't love Christmas or anything detrimental like that but I like being in my routine and having things to do. I found myself at a loose end toward the end of my break, there's only so much eating and drinking a gal can do.

Regardless of my feelings towards my work-life, I am appreciative of the fact that I do have a stable (as can be) job, love putting my all in to my work and feeling satisfied that I try my damnedest to succeed.

I know that I am appreciated at work but recent events at said work place, pre-Christmas, have majorly affected how I view certain things and how my colleagues conduct themselves or view certain situations in my place of work.

That being said I have come to the conclusion that I am no longer happy working there and feel like a very tiny fish in a massive, storm ridden ocean. Teeny, tiny fish who can run the place (almost) single-handedly, mind you.

Ah, I'm waffling...we are truly back.

As this post currently stands -

I appreciate my general life situation
I know I am fortunate
I appreciate my job
I appreciate that I have a stable job
I do like my job...to an extent
But recent events have made me unhappy at work and I feel I no longer enjoy what I do

To conclude, I shall be looking for new endeavors.

I'm not in any particular rush, but am in quiet assurance with myself that this is the right thing to do. Normally this kind of thing fills me with dread, but I feel very calm right now...it has to be right, right?

Have you had any recent life epiphanies? Were you happy to return to your routine?

Toodles!

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Decisions

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I feel at a crossroads in my life, which fork do I take next...? Do I take the one I am currently on, trudging along the same path to see where it takes me? Or jump in a completely different direction and see where those take me instead?

Being on the same path could potentially be easy...something may be mapped out, but I don't know the definitive answers, yet. Jumping on to a new road may be scary, place me out of my element, cause something completely unexpected to happen, but that could all lead to something amazing.

Eventually.

So...which road to take?

Toodles.

Saturday, 3 January 2015

January

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January, you always seem to bring with you a clean slate, optimism and a quiet excitement for the possibilities of new adventure and opportunities that may come this way.

For me, of course.

Others seem to have more a pessimistic view of you, January, more time to pass, more time for things to go wrong, more time for them to wallow in their own martyrdom...

I like the idea of starting fresh, to brush the old year from your system, whether good or bad. I like having things to look forward to, to aim for in the near or short future, I'm not too fussy, January.

However, don't get me too wrong, I'm not a huge lover of resolutions, I have a hideously competitive spirit with myself, a need to prove myself to me and have previously burned only myself by setting unobtainable goals in the past and inevitably setting myself up to fail.

I sit somewhere in the middle between the people who set resolutions and religiously strive to achieve every single one and the people who like to wallow in the past, present and future.

I feel I lean a little more toward the resolution go-getters though, January.

I hope you treat us well.

Toodles.