Thursday 4 December 2014

Sleep deprivation

Hello lovelies!

I turned 19 two days ago, yay! Despite now being officially one year older, wiser and possibly an inch taller ( probably not), I still suck at being able to sleep. For the past 4 years, I've had an awful relationship with sleep. I absolutely love sleep but for some reason my mind will not let me sleep. Honestly, for me sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any ( well until 5 in the morning when I eventually just pass out in an angry, tear filled rage). I have horrible nightmares that relate to not so nice events that have happened in my past, so I think because I've been having these for so long my brain has figured out that I'm probably going to have them and just doesn't let me sleep. Which is a great idea, obviously.

I mean operating on two hours sleep whilst trying to attempt to be the worlds best student during a 9-5 day at university doesn't really work. But the really shitty thing about it is because I'm now constantly up at 4 am, I'm always over thinking things. I end up on this awful train of thoughts which essentially equates to me questioning everything that has happened in my life and ending up having shitty panic attacks alone in my bedroom. I'm not usually the type of person that likes to share emotions with other people, I can deal with things on my own. But, when I was at home I could always turn to my mum. She didn't even have to say anything but just knowing she was there made everything better. I had it particularly bad one summer, every night I was going downstairs at 4 in the morning crying. I didn't even know why I was crying - I was just overcome with sadness. Haha, I mean essentially it really is pathetic. I sound like every other teen on tumblr but ugh I just want some sleep. Even though everyone is ridiculously lovely at university, I honestly couldn't say a bad word about anyone, It's different. I feel really alone. When you're sat in one room staring at four walls you are pretty much forced to think about everything you dislike about yourself and since I've been at university it's happening an awful lot.

Sleep deprivation makes you feel even shittier about yourself as well. Right now, my skin is so bad and I already have low self esteem so it's making me ridiculously self conscious. It sounds stupid, but sometimes I don't even want to go out purely because I know how gross I look. I mean I'm thinking of just taking valium and knocking myself out, I wouldn't usually just turn to drugs but at this moment I really can't think of any other option. It's so frustrating, I know that I should really go and treat the underlying emotional problems than turn to a drug that will force me to sleep. But you know how it is, emotionally unstable isn't really a label you want to have attached to you.

I just feel trapped at the moment in the stupid bubble of exhaustion. Sigh. Damn you sleep.

But apart from that, I'm eating cake now so that's always good, right?

Anyway, I don't have much more to say. Buh byeeeeeeeeeeeee

Wednesday 19 November 2014

3 reasons to smile!

Hello you lovely people,

So, quite a lot has changed since I last wrote on this blog. I'm now at university, yay! University is pretty much how you would envision it - 17p noodles, staying up until 4 am to complete assignments and drinking a lot of cheap alcohol that is doing god knows what to your body. It's great though and despite now having exactly 20 pound to last me until January I've met some of the loveliest of people and already couldn't imagine being anywhere else.

Recently I've been feeling quite low for numerous reasons, number one being my emotions are still quite rubbish and happiness is often quite difficult to achieve. However, instead of sitting around listening to smiths albums feeling sorry for myself, I've decided to write a post depicting 3 reasons to be happy! If anybody else is feeling sad hopefully this poorly constructed list of silly reasons to smile can cheer you up a bit.

Number 1 -

Christmas is only 35 days away!!!

35 days away you say?

Cheesy Christmas carols ( alliteration mad hey - my A level English teacher would be beaming), overly large boxes of chocolate, ridiculously charming decorations that may possibly even sing at you, I mean what more could you possibly want?!

Even if you're now a student and currently poor who cares when you can go home and get free, actually edible food.
I mean, it's nearly impossible not to smile at Christmas - it's so cheesy and adorable that just the thought of it makes me squeal. Yay! Also, January sales. Enough said.

Number 2 -

There is somebody out there that thinks you're awesome. Because, I mean how can they not? You are pretty awesome, you bloody lovely one you. Yes, I'm talking to you.

Seriously though, even if you don't think it at times and may think you're alone, you're just not looking close enough. You're loved.                 :)))))

Number 3 -

Turtles can breath out of there butts. Now, I don't know about you but that's the most adorable thing I've ever heard. Turtles are adorable anyway but butt breathing, that brightens my day.


I don't really know the purpose of this post, a stream of self-consciousness is usually all that comes out of my mouth rather than carefully constructed sentences. But hey ho, I hope you're happy wherever you are and if not turtle butt breathing ( how can that possibly not make you smile).


Sunday 20 July 2014

Insecurities

Hello lovelies!

I really do suck at keeping up with this whole blogging thing don't I? It's just ridiculously difficult trying to come up with anything remotely interesting to say. But hey ho, here I am again declaring my ridiculous thoughts to the internet. Today I wanted to talk about insecurities and self image, I know that a million other female bloggers have covered this topic a million and one times but I wanted to put my own embarrassing stamp on it. Being insecure can hugely affect your life, I personally know how it feels and I know lots of other people that can't stand themselves when they're such lovely, beautiful people, inside and out so I guess I just wanted to write about it for a moment. Maybe look back on it a few years down the line when I hopefully don't have such a problem with myself and see how I've grown or some other emotional, sentimental idea along those lines.

When I was younger all I cared about what was on the inside. I announce this ideal all the time when stressing how looks don't matter to other people, however It's undoubtedly problematic when trying to adapt that to my own every day life. I was painfully shy when I was younger but the only thing I ever cared about trying to change was the things I knew. I wanted to learn and attain as much information as possible, dreamt about sharing the most complex of conversations with the greatest of literary geniuses. The way I looked never really changed what I perceived to be the ability to do that. But, there is just an age that you hit when you start to view everything differently. It must be a mixture of the sudden reality that people will definitely judge you on face value, those moments at school where everything about you is suddenly in the firing line taking a brutal attack or the fact that we are bombarded by the world of advertising that we should look a certain way or nobody is going to pay any attention to us. But whatever it is, it really does change how you look at yourself.

The first thing I was self conscious about was my ears. It sounds such a silly thing for an 11 year old to be self conscious out but I really did hate them. I had really long blonde thin hair and my ears would stick out from under my hair. I tried my best to hide them but I hated everything about the way it looked. I remember it being a school picture day and me spending so much time trying any way possible to try and hide them. I really wasn't a girly girl either, but it was just this one thing that really bugged me. My ears aren't huge or irregular, I just thought they were because they stuck out and I was so paranoid somebody was going to call me something silly like an elf. Anyway, It must have done something to me because I still hate my ears and literally barely ever wear my hair up apart from in work and even then I still have some of the habits I did when I was 11.

I like to think I'm a nice person. In fact, it's one of the things that I try to insure that I am. I try to go through life making sure that everyone I know or have ever met goes away thinking I'm a nice, kind person. I know that the things that I do purely based on be being self conscious are stupid and that I should be happy enough knowing that I'm a nice person. However, it really doesn't work like that.  For example, logically I know I'm not fat. I'm under weight, I weigh 7 stone something so realistically I'm not fat. But their is a genuine hatred that lies inside myself for the way my body looks. Throughout the years, I've always been telling myself that if I lose weight and get to a certain point where I look a certain way I will be happy but honestly I believe that whatever weight I am I'm still going to dislike myself.

I find myself at points throughout the week, making sure that I'm only eating a certain amount. The number of calories I'm setting is clearly under eating, I'm not stupid I know that that is completely illogical but I can't help myself. Some days, I will overeat, not just to what I have set but clearly over eat what you're supposed to. And for a few moments, a few days I don't care, there is a part of me that is just telling me to love myself, to eat whatever I want. This never lasts long though because then I'm back to hating myself and desperately trying to not eat a lot. I like to think there will be a point in my life where I just learn to accept myself because at this moment there is so many stupid things I do to try and hide parts of me. The parts of me I hate the most. 

I know it is difficult to accept ourselves, we're brought up in a society where we are desperately trying to change ourselves. Just realize that it isn't what is most important. The world is also an amazing place to be. There are so many things we can see and achieve. Stay strong lovelies. xxx 

Saturday 10 May 2014

How possible is it to maintain relationships?

I currently feel as though I'm about to transaction into the next stage of my life and It has got me thinking a lot about relationships in general. It seems as though whenever we take a big step into something new a lot of things change in our life, one of them being the relationships we have. We have all been that person declaring that you're going to stay closer than ever to your best friend for the rest of your life, despite going to completely different colleges or something similar involving a lot of smushy ideals. But just how probable is this?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely filled with cynicism, I would love to stay close to everyone I have in my life at this moment because they're absolutely perfect for the person I am now. Unfortunately, that isn't how it has ever worked out. I didn't stay close or even ever speak to anyone I was close to in primary school - I tried to, I really did but I grew older, learned more stuff and met other people that I felt were just like me. When I left high school, the same thing happened, I've stayed  friends with certain people but even them friendships took the hit quite quickly. We tried our best to hang out regularly but I guess we both went on and had much different lifes. I'm sure that a lot of people stay close throughout the years, but people change and that's just a natural part of life and it becomes much harder to keep relationships with the people you thought you  would spend most of your life with.

On paper, it's quite a sad sentiment but I don't really look at it that way. The people that are no longer in my life have made me the person I am today. Whether, bad breakups or sentimental goodbyes the experiences I shared, the knowledge I gained just made me know myself much better. As we grow up, we're constantly changing, every day we're realizing the person that we are. It's not sad that them people are no longer there because they were a fundamental part of your life and now a part of who you are.

I'm going off to university soon and I'm going to be living in a completely different place surrounded by completely different people and at the moment that really does scare the hell out of me. I adore the people in my life right now and I couldn't imagine them not being there. The decisions that I will make will make me the person I am and will depict the life that I lead( as cheesy as that is!!). I can't imagine not having my boyfriend around. He makes me life so much better that I really can't imagine what not having him around will be like. I don't think none of us really know what's going to happen. I'm not a naïve person and I know that it will probably result in us splitting up because the eventuality of us staying together, however sad a prospect that is, isn't very likely. But I guess it gives me comfort knowing that, a year ago I wasn't the person I am today and I feel like I'm a stronger, more caring person now and a lot of that happened through change that I didn't necessarily want to happen.

But anyway,

that's enough silly rants for now. Thanks for reading, if you did manage to get through that junk!!

x

Monday 21 April 2014

Hospitals, health and poorly tummys

Well hello again there.

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter and stuffed there faces full of every different type of chocolate imaginable and then, if you're anything like me looked in the mirror and panicked as you could pretty much see the bingo wings forming. I didn't have work, first Sunday ever I've not worked( yay!) so my day pretty much consisted of playing Borderlands 2 all day and gaining great satisfaction from eating princess themed Kinder Eggs, however I must declare that as loyal consumer of Kinder products I was not happy to receive the same toy twice in one box, come on Kinder get it together. Any who, I hope you all had a great Easter, but wait actually this is very irrelevant to the point of this blog post but I'm not religious in any way shape or form so, I shouldn't really be celebrating Easter should I? Let's just say I hope you all had a lovely day of chocolate eating and getting super fat.

As the whole point of me making this blog was for me to look back upon in years to come and laugh at how deluded and stupid I was I have decided I will make a blog post about a health problem I have been having and my horrible experience at having an MRI the other day - disclaimer if you don't like gross stories then do click of this page now. Just kidding it isn't that gross, well it Is but I'm pretty sure you can handle it, you brave one you. So, for the past year and a half, probably more like two now, I have been having tummy problems. Basically, my tummy is in pain constantly; not just the ' ahh tummy ache' kind of pain but the crying yourself to sleep at 4 in the morning because the pain is so unbearable pain. Along with this I'm always tired, or extreme fatigue as the doctor refers to it as. I've also had a lot of other sucky symptoms too such as feeling nauseas and fainting a lot. So I had been the doctors a lot because of this and been for a lot of different tests involving a lot of my blood being taken - honestly I swear in the past year they've taken like ten pints of my blood!!

So, they've come to the conclusion that is probably Crohn's disease which is a very sucky disease which basically is -
Crohn’s disease is a chronic (long-term) condition that causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive system.

My auntie and my cousin both have this disease and It could mean that I will need surgery, may need to be put on all juice diets and lots of pills/steroids as the disease can get worse and inflame and will mean me possibly having to go into hospital for long periods of time.

But anyway less of the doom and gloom the whole point of this story was to tell you my horrible MRI experience I had the other day. So, I had an appointment for an MRI for my tummy and because it's for my tummy I had to drink like a litre and a half of this yucky metal tasting drink and I was gagging at every mouthful because I've never tasted something so horrific in my life. Anyway, then I had to wait 45 minutes so this liquid could move its way around my stomach. But basically what this liquid was is a laxative, a very strong, fast moving laxative but I wasn't aloud to go to the toilet and it bloody hurt my stomach too.

So, I'm sat there with my lovely boyfriend reading children's books as there was nothing else remotely entertaining in the room apart from this awesome woman who was also having the same thing done but had ate a couple of hours before when you're not supposed to eat for 8 hours before ha. But anyway, then they had to shove this huuuuuuge set of needles and crap in my arm which was the most painful thing because not only did it hurt going in but It continued to sting the entire time I was in the MRI thingy maboby. Then they also but this weird bubbly liquid through my body which was painful and I could feel every inch of it moving around my skin. Remember that scene in the mummy where that bug is moving round the guys skin, I don't want to exaggerate but you understand what I'm getting at. I was in the MRI scanner for half an hour dying for a toilet and in pain the entire time.

Then when I did get out I was passing out and the guy was really insensitive and just pulled all this crap out my arm, in what I thought was the most painful way possible and I was crying like a baby.  Theeen he sorted out my arm and I went to get changed but my arm was bleeding lots and there was like a huge puddle of blood under my feet lmfao oh my. I went back up to him and he was really moody about it and was like huffing and puffing whilst I was dying on this chair and then basically I passed out - I literally couldn't see or hear anything but muffling. I thought I was dying. Then he sent me on my way the piece of poop.

Anyway, it wasn't a particularly joyous occasion - If you have had any particularly interesting hospital/ doctor experiences you wish to share please do!

Thanks for reading this pile of rubbish. xxxx

Saturday 19 April 2014

sunshine, feelings and other mushy stuff

Well hello there you lovely person, you!

I haven't wrote anything on this blog in what feels like forever. Excuse me, that was a particularly teenage sentence wasn't it with the use of ' like', us young-uns do have a habit of placing like in front of everything and using hyperbole - it's not actually been forever has it. Anyway, I'm ranting and analyzing myself, that's what revising for an A level English literature and language exam can do to you. So, I haven't wrote on here for a long time because well, I didn't feel like I had anything interesting to say. I didn't feel like ' hey, just ate a kinder egg and drank some fruit juice today' would make an interesting read. Also, full frontal exposition here for ya but this isn't going to be interesting either it's just going to lots of ranty rants from an 18 year old ( yes, I know the title of this blog states 17 but that's how long its been, yay legal not that that holds any weight as I'm boring and don't drink or do exciting cool colourful drugs, but anyway I'm ranting). ANYWAYYYY - I will try not to drive down a long, windy road with my thoughts because I'm annoying myself just listening to my head voice.

So, In a couple of weeks I will start my FINAL A level exams before I hopefully go of to that forbidden next stage of my life called university. I'm currently very stressed because my future kind of lies in the balance of how well I do so you know, lots of pressure and stuff. I don't really know if anyone is going to read this or if any kind of life form out there does stumble upon this what age bracket they will fall into, but maybe just maybe you may be able to relate.

Life is scary. I'm quite a melodramatic person, but it really is. We have been given a life and we have this weight on us, no matter how old we are, where we come from and the type of person we are, we do. This weight isn't physical but it sure feels it, this weight tells us that we must achieve or at least do something significant with our life so we're always striving for more which is great, it makes us better people of course. However, we should never feel like we're nothing just because of this. It doesn't matter if you're not the best, the prettiest, the wealthiest because all that matters is that you're happy. Don't destroy yourself because you feel you're not good enough. What I am saying is very typical and has already been said a million times, but you deserve to be happy.

I find it very hard to like myself, but no where near as much as I used to do. I used to really hate myself, infact I found it difficult to look in the mirror but you should tell yourself that as long as you're kind it doesn't matter about all them other things. Also surround yourself in people that make you happy. It took me a long time to realize who were my real friends and who wasn't because unfortunately there are people out there that will you use you for their own personal gain, but when you find those people that genuinely care about you, you will be happy.

Anywho, that wasn't even the point of this blog I've ranted of on one again. It's getting sunny and I'm a pale little 18 year old who burns whenever she's in the sun and today I was in work. I had been in the sun all the day the day before and a customer made a huge deal about how pale I was and how I need to catch a tan, so the moral of the story is I'm going to be pale, freckly and burnt all summer and people are going to laugh because I'm a ghost. I really don't know where this is going now. If you're revising for exams - good luck and all.

Also, please leave suggestions with topics for me to write about because as you can see I'm clearly struggling for ideas. Much love,

Sarah