I miss you but it looks like you summered well

So it seems like Spring may have arrived! I generally think i'm more of an Autumn/Winter person than a Summer girl... I hate being too hot and suffer from hayfever! But I usually dislike the first few months of the year- Christmas has gone, we're all broke and the weather is miserable! So I'm now really glad that its feeling more summery, fresh and cheerful!

I unpacked some of my Summer clothes yesterday and wore a skirt without tights (GASP!)

 

 I also painted my nails a fresh pink and decorated the thumbs with some gems I found in the Pound Shop of all places!

I will surprise you sometime, I'll come around when you're down

Just some lazy webcam photos today! You can sort of see the collar of my new dress though, a peter pan collar dress from peacocks.


This week has unfortunately not been much better than the last as I've been suffering with a horrendous cold all week! I've managed not to take time off work which is a plus (i'm asthmatic so I often get chest infections with bugs) but have been very wiped out and tired. I went to an amazing gig on Friday night, into London to see the fantastic band Cake, who played amazingly. However I woke up yesterday feeling poorly again, so back to bed I went!
Luckily I feel fine today and a lot more positive. A productive morning seeing the doctor and shopping put me in the right mood for the day, and now my dinner is in the slow cooker (a new recipe I stumbled upon). I've also managed to do a bit of work and tidy the flat a little.

My weekends seem to be flying by! Can't believe its Sunday evening AGAIN! I love my job, but seriously, where the hell did it go?

When you feel embarrassed then i'll be your pride

 Image from weheartit

I had one of those weeks last week. So much so that I've only just got my "ommph" back. Nothing particularly awful happened, and I even had a day off, it was just filled with little frustrations which got right under my skin, including:

• Learning that my right wisdom teeth are coming through. I had my left ones out 2 years ago after many years of pain, and the process of getting them out wasn't much fun, so I'm really hoping righties behave themselves and come out straaaaight
• Despite upping my headache medication and feeling like a zombie after 11pm, I still had a considerable amount of headaches last week, several of which I woke up with
• Ever ongoing struggle with budgetting and money, and figuring out what I can afford so I have enough money left at the end of the month. This means shopping is off for the immediate future :(
• A very depressing meeting at work; big changes are coming, but no-one really knows what these changes mean so everyone feels a bit limbo at the moment
• My bank managing to make the process of getting a replacement card so excruciating that I've had to try very hard not to lose my temper on several occasions!

To top it all off, this weekend flew by soooo quickly, and I spent most of the day in bed yesterday with a sore throat! I went to bed in a bit of a "poor me" grump, but luckily today went quite well so I'm going to have a kind Lizzy week and make sure I look after myself this week! This means early bedtimes, wrapping up warm, trying to think positive, and just generally not beating myself up about the little things! For me, just realising that I've been finding things a bit hard and vowing to cut myself some slack is half the battle to getting back to my usual bouncy self :)

So here's to an easy week *raises chai tea*!

We can find new ways of living make playing only logical harm

So here's how my hair went:

Excuse the make-up free face! I'm.... ok with how my hair turned out. I'm glad it didn't go orange but it's not nearly as red as I wanted it to go!

This evening has been spent with bf on the sofa- burritos, vodka and rubbish telly- nice chilled night in!

TGIF

It's been a busy week and so tonight I'm curled up in front of the telly with a cup of chai tea latte in my favourite mug.

I bought the mug several years ago for about £2 from Asda! It's lovely and big and fits in my hand very well. Unfortunately it's now chipped and is getting a bit tired but I haven't seen anything which compares! I steamed from milk using my coffee machine as well as using hot water to make the drink and sprinkled some cinnamon on top!

Without the pretty pink ribbon

Since the beginning of 2nd year uni I've been dyeing my hair various shades of browny/reddy/purpley! My natural hair colour is a rather dull mousey mid brown so once i'd got the guts to start playing with permenant colour I've fooled around a bit! I used to be rather cautious about colours and would spend ages in boots trying to find the right colour I was looking for. Now i'm a bit more careless- the way I see it that it will always grow out, and colour fades!

This is my current colour (please ignore the looong overdue cut and spilt ends!!!)

A rather faded, purple/reddy/brown with rather epic roots!

On Saturday I'm enlisting the boy's help (he's a fab colourist, sssh!) to go something like this

A lovely looking deep red which I'm hoping will come out nicely on my dark hair....


However, I just did a patch test (be safe!) and it looks rather orange:

I would LOVE to be able to pull off ginger/auburn hair but unfortunately it would look awful on me.



So we shall see the results on Saturday!