A Florence of a Time

So about a year ago I heard Florence & the Machine, little did I know that I would be going to her concert a year later! It was held at Vector Area, in Auckland and strangely enough it was on a Monday night?! What really drew me about this concert was the fact that there was a large age range, my estimation would be between 15-55, it was really nice to see a mixture of generations. Florence sung the whole hour and a half! She was incredible, some of her pop like songs she sung almost acoustic if was so beautiful. The only let down for me was that I got caught in the rain on the way to the concert and had to stand through the whole things soaking wet! I did however dry off a bit, but was still damp by the time I got home. Overall I would recommend people who are interested in this genre of music to go and see Florence & the Machine, it is worth every penny!

Now back to study, exams are looming and my stress levels are rising!

Z

Time travel's fast!

Inspiration

I love when you find something that completely inspires you and wraps you up it addiction! My sister-law wrote about having visited this site and that was it, I became completely in love with the Radical Self Love Project by Gala Darling. She not only makes you turn the scope back on yourself but she makes you realise that you should chase your own dreams of happiness and not conform to what society thinks and expects of you! We all conform at sometime, sometimes you have to but Gala is right in saying that you should never lose who you are in light of it. I have been reading all her articles (should be studying, but hey no one is perfect) and it just strengthen how I feel about being me, it make me embrace my inner child or as some of my friend might say my inner cray cray... So most likely the more I read the more I will be happy and the more I will be cray cray (excellent can't wait!)

Time

Where the hell is time going? I know the saying as you get older time goes faster, but this is ridiculous! Seriously, I feel like I blink and BAM! 1 week has flown by.... The fact I am in week 10 of UNI is scary and starting to feel a bit overwhelming, but not to worry I am doing a lot better than last year! which I am soooo stoked about, now its just to make sure that I pass the important parts (end of semester exams and/or assignments) So I will leave it at that, I had my best friends 21st on the weekend, I somehow managed to get up and say something coherently and without embarrassing myself so an overall success!

So good luck everyone, have a fab time! 

Your Cray Cray

Z

2 weeks Freedom... or really?

Goodbye summer, thanks for the memories see you end of the year!

Well now look at that, I have already reached mid semester at Uni and not suffered a brain hemerage in the process (all though at times I felt like I was going to have one). In the last week I managed to do 3 assignments and not end up writing complete utter bullshit...but to be honest there is always a bit of crap written in all assignments, why do you think academic journals are so fricken long! It is almost a complusary skill to have when writing an academic article.

Reflection time...
Mental state: GOOD
Physical state: AVERAGE
Emotional: POSITIVE

So I have been trying to focus on healthy eating and exercise routine, I do have to say I have come a long was since last year where I basically lived off the cheapest and nastiest processed food you can find, drove everywhere or bused. I do notice however that I do have a bit more energy and that I do prefer to work places rather than drive, woop woop improvement! The challenge for me over the next two weeks is to try and keep up 1 hour of walking for 4 days, hmmm that might be difficult since I do not have uni but work instead... NO EXCUSES however so either its change it up and work something out or go back to old habit, which I do not want to do!

Now that I have two weeks off, I am starting to think is it really 2 weeks off? Yes I don't have to go to uni but I am now rostered on to do more work.. Plus on top of that I have to start reading literature review and not just 4 or 5 but 20!!! and I can't get away with reading the abstract cause they what us to write our own interpretation of the article, so yeah really doesn't feel like a break does it.. pffft

Peace

Z

Back to the Beginning

Well here I am back to the beginning of my "healthy eating" phase, not only am I not sticking to the Atkins but I basically fell straight off the wagon into a pile of McDs. (I am pretty much groaning at the thought of it) Well the interesting thing is though, with my walking to uni, I do notice that things have started to move around at bit. My jeans have become a little more looser and dresses that I picked up overseas have now also become looser. I however refuse to look at the scales just yet, I want to get my eating habits under control and I hope that with this constant picking myself back up and keep going attitude will not only help get there but will also help be consistent.

So here is where I am at:

• I walk 4 days a week for an hour (30mins to uni and 30mins back)
• I do not have an establish eating habit, only that I do eat 3 meals a day at most 
• I still have yet to drink more than one cup of water today

Now 1/3 is not bad for healthy lol, but yeah I can see that certain things do need to improve a.s.a.p now that I am 4 week in to uni; so I should a) have no life and b) by having no life I can focus on myself and not others! (but I still love everyone in my life!) 

Now no more blog writing, must get back to essay writing....

Ciao

Z