Real Life

“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.

In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

Darren Shan

Pain & Defeat

We can work hard to avoid pain and defeat, and the intention of this blog is not to ruin the ending, but everything will be okay either way.  Don’t try to escape the realities of the present moment.  The pain and defeat contained within the present is key to our growth in the long term.  If you take nothing from any of this, than remember this much, there is a variation between encountering defeats, and being defeated, and nothing ever truly goes away until it has taught us what we needed to know. Then we can move forward to our next step. ‘You cannot start a new chapter in a book if you keep re-reading the previous one’.

What if by aiming to shield and protect yourself from pain, you are inevitably crippling yourself from fun, from adventures, from the chance to be happy?

And what if what you are in fact missing is: now? Is making memories? Is life?

“Some chances we take are big, some are small. We take them every day. The impact of any risk you take can be great. But the point is, every chance is worth taking.” – Rudita De Asis

Blind Rage?

I think I'll stick with blind rage because otherwise I might have to admit how hurt I really am, and that would feel much more raw.

20 New Years Resolutions

1.   Learn the cup song
2.   Do the ‘Party Rock Anthem’ dance in public
3. Take a leap of faith
4.  Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve it
5. Help someone without wanting anything in return
6.  Do something that scares the shit out of me
7. Make someone laugh
8.  Learn to do push ups without my arms turning to jelly
9.   Learn the alphabet... backwards
10.  Learn to sing a song in a different language (even if I don’t understand what you’re singing about)
11.  Learn the capitals of 10 places in the world... Be able to point them out on the map
12. Invent a new word... (make it cool) ;)
13. Start to learn a new language
14. Visit somewhere I’ve never been
15.  Say “I’m happy for you..” and truly mean it
16.   Every night I go out, I must come home with my shoes!
17.  Announce in an elevator “I’m wearing new socks”, wait for the response
18.  Find the secret to eternal life
19. Make Margate a ‘happening place to be’
20. Win the lotto

"What Do You Want?"

-       -“So what?" 

-       -“So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard, and we're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like?... If it's with him, then go. I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."

-      - “What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt....”

Power?

Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness... I think that happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less... 

Happy!

Someone once told me that you have to choose what you win or lose,
You can't have everything.
Don't you take chances, you might feel the pain,
Don't you love in vain,
Cause love won't set you free.

I can't stand by the side,
And watch this life pass me by,
So unhappy,
But safe as could be.

So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge, my feet run out of ground?
I gotta find my place,
I wanna hear my sound,
I don't care about all the pain in front of me,
'Cause I'm just trying to be happy.

I'm holding on tightly, I just can't let it go,
Just trying to play my role,
You slowly disappear.
But all these days, they feel like they're the same,
Just different faces, different names, get me out of here.
I can't stand by the side,
And watch this life pass me by.

So any turns that I can't see,
Like I'm a stranger on this road,
Don't say victim!
Don't say anything.

So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge, my feet run out of ground?
I gotta find my place,
I wanna hear my sound,
I don't care about all the pain in front of me,
'Cause I just wanna be happy.

The Real World...

Trade a fantasy with reality and you might just feel like Alice back from Wonderland.The world may not sparkle and shine, but the ground will be solid beneath your feet, and your eyes will be open to all the adventures that lie waiting, right here, in the real world...

 

 

Making Marmalade With Mammy!

Today me and my Mam made orange marmalade! It was sooooooo much fun! :)

 

Last night we juiced the fruit and left the skin and pith to steep all night. We threw in lemon and lime to bitter it up a little ;)

 

 

Then today we boiled it all up with sugar after she chopped up the oranges nice and small to make the peel for the marmalade.

 

 

After it changed colour it was ready to put into the jars. We put the jars into the oven to heat them and then when they were nice and warm got pouring!

 

 

After that we decorated them... And "Voilà" we were done! Yummers!!! A day spent with Mammy is a day spent well! <3

 

If You Don't Want To Love Me

When you lower me down,
So deep that I can't get out,
When you're lost and alone,
Yes you'd think it was the last place you'd come back for more.

If you don't want me to leave, then don't push me away,
I'd rather blow out the lights, than watch them all fade,
But I'm going nowhere...

I'm gonna stay,
When you just wanna fight,
When you're closing your eyes,
'cause you don't wanna love me.

I'm gonna stay,
You can't push me too far,
There's no space in my heart,
Where I don't wanna love you.

When there's no storm,
Then how can I feel the calm?
If there's nothing left to lose,
Then what is this feeling that keeps on bringing me back to you?

So I'm gonna stay,
When you just wanna fight,
When you're closing your eyes,
'cause you don't wanna love me.

You can't push me too far,
There's no space in my heart,
Where I don't wanna love you.

If you asked me to leave, and I walked away,
We'd still be alone and we'd still be afraid.
So I'm going nowhere.

I'm gonna stay when you just wanna fight,
And there's tears in your eyes,
'cause you don't wanna love me.

Yes I'm gonna stay,
All the tears that I've cried,
I can leave them to dry,
If you don't wanna love me.

Goodbyes...

Someone recently asked me if saying goodbye ever gets any easier. We can contemplate the inevitable, be it that we are with them when they check in at an airport, or when the print their train ticket at a station, but can we ever adjust to the emotions attached to a farewell?...

We can envision how perfect our goodbyes can be, with paradoxical amount of pleasure and pain, but when it comes down to it: goodbyes are always the same. They signify the end of something, be it for a day, a week, a month, a year...

So I guess the answer is simple, goodbyes never get any easier. But in their purest form they tell us something about ourselves, and i would rather live my days filled with emotions of happiness, sorrow, apprehension, excitment etc, then to switch off feelings that remind me: I am merely human!

Life is not supposed to be endlessly easy. "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lighly"- Thomas Paine.

The Walk...

Shoes... some would say they are a girls best friend. They always fit no matter how big or small you are, and in an instant they can make you feel just fabulous!

But when it comes down to it, there really is nothing better for the looooooong walk home than a good friend! <3 Shoes or no shoes!

Friends are like shoes: some loose, some tight, some fit just right, they help you as you walk through life. Thanks for being my size! <3

The Notebook

"Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone..."

Breakfast at Sarah's

Had a lovely "Breakfast at Tiffany's Sarah's" with my mam on Wednesday! Lovely vintage layout with fabulous grub!!!

Super pretty! :)

They ate healthy and I had a super tasty fry :P

Absolutely PERFECT!! <3

How Well Do You Know Your Friend's Face? Part 2

Part 2:

How Well Do You Know Your Friend's Face?... Part 1!

 Part 1:

Attempting To Make A Video...

It's all in the title...

Planking

The Importance/Rules Of Planking

How To Drunkenly Clean Your Face!

The title says it all!!! CLEAN YOUR FACE YOU DIRTY PIRATE H**KERS!!!

 

Bloopers...

The usual f**k ups from the videos!!! Enjoy my imperfection!! :P