Treasures & Trinkets

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De-cluttering has evoked some memories from my childhood. Items and trinkets that I've come across that have instantly taken me back to that moment in time, remembering the feelings and moments shared with family and friends.

Clearing out the unnecessary is good for my mind. However, the little trinkets and memories found in amongst the chaos are wonderful.

Toodles.

x

Manic Monday #40

 Another milestone for Manic Monday! It doesn't feel like two seconds ago I was writing my 30th MM before I was flying to Costa Rica. 

How time is flying.

Recently I've been getting clutter-head. My description of what my head feels like when it realises I have too many possessions, with the added combination of squashing the majority of my things and Ben's in to one semi-large bedroom, which now basically consists of a bed, two desks and two computers. 

 Bye, bye books.  

They are now sadly tucked away in the spare room. 

Every now and then my living situation gets to me and stresses me out. I feel like I just want to have a massive life cleanse and rid myself of unnecessary items that I have collected over the past few years.

 I've been feeling like that quite a lot recently, I am slowly tidying and sorting through things I don't need. Such as letters from last year, why do these things just seem to collect in the strangest places?!

My addiction to all things make-up and skin care related with the addition of buying mountains of books and the odd lantern doesn't make this room thing any easier. 

Must ask self when buying things; do you really need this, Adele?

The answer will probably be no. 

I am planning on having a huge clear out on the run up to Christmas and the imminent arrival of decorations.

Wish me luck!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend? Did you have any exciting plans? Or stress over your living situation like me?

Let me know!

Toodles!

x

* I realise this is a very trivial point to be making and I want to be clear, that yes I understand I am very lucky for what I have and that I have a roof over my head. Just a small disclaimer.

Moments

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Days like today make me really appreciate family and remind me to take notice of the small things.

Remember their little smiles, things that make them laugh, their shrill giggles and cute little moments spent with them.

Lucky, really.

Toodles.

x

Zen

 I have a hard time relaxing and switching off. 

Especially at the moment, things are in full crazy mode at work and I often feel like once I leave for the evening, I blink and I'm back there again the next morning. 

Manic Monday #39

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I feel like I'm in a time portal that revolves around me writing Manic Monday posts. Not that I'm complaining, I know it sounds like I am, but honestly it's like therapy for me.

We're getting quite scarily close to Christmas now and I haven't even taken a second to comprehend that yet. I don't feel festive in the slightest and feel slightly drained at the moment.

I'm in a funk today and don't want to, yet also can't, go in to detail as to why.

One the one hand, today disappeared in the blink of an eye and didn't feel like any time had passed at all when my clock was flashing 17.2, prompting me to flee the scene before any other problems cropped up for me to fix.

On the other hand, it passed slowly. Allowing me time to think about my reasoning for said funk mood and feeling quite sad about it. 

It's frustrating me that I have no power over it, that the decision was made and I'm choosing to not be selfish and step away. Even though, how today went, I feel the complete opposite to the doing the latter.

I feel a little like I'm floundering at the moment in life, but also feel like I'm being an absolute boss at handling everything that is thrown at me.

I just want to cry, watch a sad film and eat an arctic lorry full of crisps and sweets.

I need to wallow for a day or two. 

As my lady Jessie says, 'it's OK not to be OK.' I need to accept that sometimes. 

I hope your week has gotten off to a better start!

Toodles.

x