No more January blues!

Congratulations everyone, we made it through January!!! 

I am never normally try and wish time away as I know I may regret it one day, but this year has to be one of the first times I can remember where I hated January and wanted it to be over.  Okay, 'hated' is probably a very strong word and thinking back January wasn’t THAT bad....I just didn't enjoy it as much as I have other years.

Normally January isn’t so bad a month as you get to back into a routine at school or university after the crazy Christmas/ New Year period and you get to see all of your friends again! I have always like January as it meant a fresh start with a new year, new me kinda vibe, but this year was different. 

This year I wasn’t going back into a routine where I got to see my friends everyday again.  Instead, I was continuing with the same boring routine where I would go to work, come home sleep and do it all again with no real social life to look forward to.  Now I am older and don’t have the beauty of student loan, it was a month of having no money after spending on Christmas and birthdays while I waited for pay day on the 5th Feb (for those of you wondering, yes it did feel as long as it sounds!).  

With the stress of work, the idea of new year fresh start didn’t seem to last as long as I found myself with no free time to do the thing I had said I wanted to do in the new year.  So, I was ready for January to end and February to begin with new work opportunities and the idea of a fresh start really in sight! 

For some reason, this year I felt the negativity of January within other people too.  It was as if I had never been aware of the fact that people hate January and the reasoning behind it until now.  Maybe it’s an age thing? 

Now February is here I feel so happy!  It feels really odd to think one month can make such a difference in someones' mood, yet it really does! I feel a spring in my step and I’m ready to make change and start doing what I set out to do at the start of the year!  Seeing things like daffodils in sight is definitely brightening my mood and getting me excited for spring and warmer days...

Not long now!! 

Back to the basics

I began blogging whilst at university and fell in love the whole idea of sharing tips, tricks and my favourite things. I enjoyed it so much I set up my own blog upon finishing university!

When at university I used to upload weekly and I had myself in a nice little routine with it. So, I decided to stick to a similar thing with my personal blog. Although good at times, I found I was then just writing for the sake of it as opposed because it was genuinely something I wanted to talk about. So, I changed it up and began to upload as and when I wanted and about something I really wanted to share and not just because it was a Sunday and I had to write a weekly post.

It has been 4 months exactly since my last blog post and life has been crazy to say the least. I have laughed and cried, I have wanted to re-live moments and wished some moments had never happened. The past few weeks in particular I didn’t want to blog because I was down and if I’m honest I wasn’t sure I wanted to share how I was feeling. But, looking back on the past few weeks, I could have really done with typing it all up, letting it all out and maybe attempting at giving myself advice.

It has been during this time, I realised what I liked about blogging so much. It was my place to document my life, let out how I was feeling and almost give myself advice as if I was talking to someone else. I feel like sharing when you are sad is just as important as when you are happy. Nobody’s life is perfect all the time and if you keep it bottled in, it will only get worse. If anything, it is nice to see you are not alone in how you feel sometimes.

I have really missed blogging and writing this post to you now, I can defiantly tell I am rusty! I am going to try and get back into it any minute I can in the hope that it will cheer me back up, and hopefully help some of you too! I have realised that it’s okay to not be okay and it’s better to let it out then bottle it up. So, I can’t promise I won’t share the odd ‘feeling low’ post, but I hope in me sharing the downs as well as the ups, people can see that life is never perfect and we all have our good days and bad days.

So here it goes….