Hiatus?

Hey guys,

Sorry for not posting for a couple of weeks.
I've been a bit busy with family and college. Excuses, excuses I know.

But also at the moment I don't really feel like I have any good ideas for what to post on here that you'll enjoy and although I doubt you'll enjoy this post it's at least a bit of an explanation.

So recently I've been writing posts that don't get posted because I just don't feel like they're good enough or inspired.

For the moment I'm going to take a break for myself and try and get some inspiration to write posts that I feel are good enough.

I hope that you'll understand, I just don't feel like myself at the moment.

As always,

Thanks for reading

Love Caitlyn xxx

A penny for your thought...Valentine's edition.

Hey guys,
I thought I would start a section called 'A penny for your thought' and basically what this will consist of is ramblings which I've thought up and wanted to share maybe to get more depth or just to share a few thoughts... So here's the Valentine's day edition.

First I guess I should start with my opinion on Valentine's Day...
Now I'm not a bitter lonely person....Well maybe  I am- but not in relation to this but anyway, I don't mind the fact I've spend most of life on February 14th alone in the respect of not in a relationship. Personally I think it's great that I don't have to buy cards or gifts on the occasion as is it really a day worth celebrating? For me I don't think so, my opinion on Valentine's Day is sort of the same as St Patrick's day, I don't really understand the celebration reason if I'm honest.

So I did some research and I found out that this is an early Christian celebrating named after a Christian, Valentinus. The idea behind his story is he was jailed for marrying soldiers whom were forbidden to be married, the legend says that while he was imprisoned he frequently wrote letters to the daughter of the man who imprisoned him, he had healed her somehow? So before his execution he wrote her a letter and signed it 'Your Valentine'. So blah blah legend lives on and we express our love for our 'Valentine' in the respect that the love between a couple heals.

Essentially I'm not a Christian, I mean I don't celebrate Christmas for the Christian aspect or Easter for that matter. I don't like to read in to the legends although they may be interesting stories.

So my issue with Valentines in our society is that Valentine's Day is used for belittlement whether that's to laugh at the expense of a single person spending the day alone or to laugh at couples who are all in love on the day. There's the two sides and neither are accepted on a day of love.

However, my penny for thought today while at work is that maybe Valentine's Day isn't really about couples or relationships as the legend implies and maybe it's more just showing your love. I don't mean in the idea of family or friends or even partners, although don't exclude them. I think more that showing your love can be in a joke with a stranger, they say laughter is the best medicine, generally being a kind and thoughtful person not only to loved ones but also to those who you may see often but don't know, those that you've never seen at all.
As I was at work I shared many laughs with strangers in the form of customers and the amount that I made laugh and also made me laugh on this day couldn't dampen my spirits it felt like such a ''loved- up'' day even though I'm not ''loved up'' in a couple sense.


So that's what I thought today I hope you spend the day feeling loved whether that's by other people or just Netflix.

I'll be posting next week at some point probably with baking posts, planning on making Soda Bread as a random first.

As always, thanks for reading.
Love Caitlyn xxx

A few confessions...

Hey guys,
I thought I would talk about some of my weird habits and strangest hatreds I have just as a nice easy read post.

So one thing I can't stand is ill. I mean getting ill is something I deal with often as my immunity is dreadful. However, if someone is ill and coughing I literally am so avoidant of that individual. I'm also super phobic of sick. So if anyone is sick I will literally avoid them and the sick as much as possible.

Moving on from puke...I have a habit of thinking/saying words that I will then decide either repulses me or just sounds a bit weird.
This is so much of a problem I've made a list of my phone of words that I cannot say because they make me cringe.
Here's some of the list of cringey words:
Gammy.
Flan.
Trickle.
Meat.
BLAH BLAH list goes on. It's making me cringe so bad.
A word I've decided sounds weird today is coin...No idea why but it just sounds strange to me.

One of my strangest phobias and also a huge phobia for me are road sweepers. Now I don't know what it is about them that I'm so afraid of but I'm literally terrified of them.
One time at college a road sweeper came down the road and I was so scared I jumped on a wall- very cat like- and hid behind my friend who at the time I didn't know very well so it was slightly odd and embarrassing for me...

So that's it guys just a nice little post on my strange habits and fears.

Thank you for reading.
Love Caitlyn xxx

My skin care regime!

Hey guys!

I thought today I would show you my skin care regime, I've recently changed it and I'm so happy with the results so far and thought I'd share with you what I use.

But first I'll let you know I have combination-oily skin and these products work for me probably because of this reason and if you're the same and are quite spot prone I recommend you give this ago.

So I try and keep my regime quite affordable, at the end of the day I'm a student with a part-time job so my income isn't amazing. Although all the products I use do state they are cruelty free and I'll also offer some alternatives which are great and more affordable than what I use.

So the products I use daily are:

• St Ives Blemish Fighting Apricot Scrub- £3.99 from most retailers but I try and get it on offer when I can.
• Anne French Deep Cleansing Milk-£3.99 from Superdrug.
• The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil-£7.00.
  However Superdrug do a product which works just as good for £3.29 (this is their Blended Tea Tree oil)
• The Body Shop Tea Tree Skin Clearing Lotion- £3.00.
• The Body Shop Tea Tree Blemish Fade Night Lotion-£9.00.
  Superdrug also have a Tea Tree Moisturising Face Cream which is £3.29. I would also recommend this just as much as the other two put together.

Also, if The Body Shop products are something you would like to try I would recommend getting a Love Your Body card as it saves you 20% each time as a student the card is free or it's £5. You can read about it on their website for more info. Also I've never actually paid the cost of the moisturisers or oils as I've bought them on sale days which saves you so much money! Highly recommend!

First thing in a morning when I've gotten out of bed I wash my face with warm-hot water to open my pores. I dry my face and then use some of the Anne French Cleansing milk by applying it to a cotton pad and then applying it to my face using a rotating kind of method.
I allow for it to sink in before applying The Body Shop tea tree skin clearing lotion.
I will then allow that to sink in and do my usual morning routine of getting ready for the day.

In the evenings, I usually have a shower or bath and I use the St Ives Blemish fighting scrub. I again use a sort of rotating in circles method to apply this.
I will leave it on my face for a minute and then wash it off.
Once out of the shower/bath I will dry my face and use the Anne French Cleansing Milk.
Every other day or when I need it, I use The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil and I just apply it to areas which have red or painful spots and I allow it to sink it.
I will then finish my routine each day by using The Body Shop Tea Tree Blemish Fade Night Lotion.

So that's it guys that's my skin care regime at the moment. I has really improved my skin mainly how glowing I am but also has reduces the size and redness of blemishes that I am often prone to.

I hope you enjoyed reading, if you use any of the products, let me know your opinion in the comments and I hope you have a lovely week until next weekend/Monday :)

Love Caitlyn xxx

Remembering my great grandparents Joyce and Sid
23-01-2006, 25-01-2011 always in my heart xxx

A bit of an update so far.

Hey guys!
These last 2 weeks have been interesting, like many of you, I had to crush all my remaining festive feelings and go back to college, boo hoo I know :(.

However, with the tragedy of knowing Christmas won't be happening for another 11 months and 6 days I've started the year fresh and considered my goals.

If you refer to my previous post 'The New Year' you'll find my 5 goals for 2015. I can now say I'm on the right track for all of my goals.
I've set out a schedule (which needs slight modification) to do my homework and revision for my subjects- which combines organisation and studying (2 of my goals).
I've joined a gym, and also been walking to town to catch my bus (1 mile away) rather than going to my closest stop or getting off in town. I'm also eating a little bit better- I need to work on eating proper lunches still but I'm at least eating a proper wholesome meal at dinner time. Turns out I quite like avocados. I'm also trying to implement a more natural diet- which I will talk about in my next post.
I've started my book, well I started it on New Years day. I'm reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, however at the weekend I read A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness- I cried and loved it, such a thought provoking book. But it appears I'm on the right on track for goal 4 to read more books, which I've set a goal of 18.
My fifth and final goal is to spend more time with friends and family and I started the New Year with my grandma at my house, I joined the gym with 2 of my friends so we'll hopefully be seeing a lot of each other and I've also seen my aunt and cousins at the weekend- we watched In to The Woods, if you'd like me to review it with limited spoilers I will.

So that's my start in to January, I need to be a little bit more organised with my blog, however I've been revising over the last few weeks as this week is my mock exam week so I've been slightly pre-occupied with that. I know excuses, excuses.

But anyway, just a short, sweet update.
Thanks for reading, I appreciate it so much.
Love Caitlyn xxx

HEEEEEELP!

Hey guys!
I need your help on a couple of things.

Last night I was writing the list of 18 books I want to read and it turns out I've only got 15...So I need suggestions of some books to read and I'll check them out and see if they're my type of books or if I've read them already...So please leave comments of what you think I should read.

This is my list so far:

I NEED 3 MORE  BOOKS!

Next thing!
I was talking to a really lovely person on Twitter, who is a relatively new YouTuber her channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/RachelCatherineMarie
It was just a general conversation and then I mentioned that I want to start a YouTube channel making videos and very lovely of her she said I should go for it. But of course I want to know what you guys think, should I start a YouTube or should I carry on focusing on my blog before doing videos?
Let me know in the comments!

Really that is all for this post, please let me know your thoughts and opinions on both of these things.

All for now, thanks for reading.

Love Caitlyn xxx