My uni/work schedule usually allows for quite chilled mornings; that is unless I've left everything to the last minute... When I'm not in a rush, I like to give myself the time to relax and enjoy the start of a new day. I'm totally a morning person, so I love getting as much stuff done before 8am. 

I usually wake up between 5.30-6am, which is beautiful in winter because it means I can watch the sunrise from my bedroom window while the brisk breeze circulates around my room. 

Once I've fully woken up (and checked all of my social media) I put on my comfy slippers and head downstairs to feed Xena, give her lots of morning cuddles and make myself breakfast (and a cup of tea of course!); this is usually around 6.30am. 

After breakfast, I put a load of laundry on (I do laundry every second morning) and head back up to my room and take a shower. Once I'm out, I do my [morning] face routine. 

By now it's about 7am and I like to get into some comfy clothes (or stay in my robe) and do some editing for posts and make sure I have enough clips for the monthly vlog. I tend to stay here for about 3 or so hours before properly beginning my day with uni work or friend catch ups :)) 

I hope you enjoyed this style of post, I'm lacking creativity and time this week to come up with a post so I thought you might like seeing my morning routine! 

much love, 

XO

much love, 

XO

Cafe, conference and assignments.

Tuesday 18th April: 

Thursday 20th April: 

YA Society Conference (a young adult church conference) with Rochelle :)

After an incredible conference, hangs with friends and pancakes in the city; I got home just after 1am and decided to take a mirror selfie ;)

Friday 21st April: 

Spent the morning formatting the biggest assignment ever :/ 23 pages of urban design is really not my thing!!

Saturday 22nd April:

Another night at the conference :)) this is my wonderful friend Megan (she's on university exchange for the semester from America)

Gals :))

Sunday 23rd April: 

After church lunch with Bella and Kristina!!

much love, 

XO

The 21st century is hard enough to try and tackle, just add being single as well. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad about being single but it can sometimes feel like you're the only one when surrounded by your friends in their relationships. I enjoy having time on my own and being able to grow as a person individually. 

I don't know if it's just circle of friends or not, but do you feel like every person you've ever met is currently getting engaged? No joke, since the beginning of this year (only a short, four months ago) I know at least 10 couples who have put a ring on it. Since when did we start getting so old?!

much love, 

XO

Surprisingly, I'm quite a private person. Whenever I tell anybody this, they look at me with a confused face and it usually follows with a comment along the lines of but don't you blog about your life? And yes, yes I do... But I have a filter that I place over my life, be that an Instagram filter on a selfie to cover my imperfections or missing out a few details from a story to protect my privacy. I don't want to look back on my teenage years and regret sharing information online.

Once upon a time, my blog was a space where I would share every detail of my life but once it became a more known platform I made the abrupt decision to put a vault on the more 'intimate' or 'private' areas of my life. A girl's got to have some secrets, right?! The reason I used to share so much, is because I would never have expected to grow my platform to where it is today.

I occasionally give a glimpse into these more intimate parts but they make me nervous to share it online with all of you. I don't necessarily think it's the idea of sharing my life with all of my readers, but more that it would be published online for anyone to see and come back to read forever.

I want to start being more open in my blogging and sharing insight into what I used to keep private.

I've been asked a lot as to why my relationships are kept offline. For me, a relationship is quite a private and intimate thing and I like to keep it as something just for the two of us to enjoy. With my last relationship, I constantly was critiqued for not sharing photographs online or even changing my Facebook relationship status. However, looking back on that relationship, I always had a doubt that he wasn't good for me and that our rocky relationship would one day crumble. And I was so right. 

much love, 

XO

Tea, planning & food.

Monday 10th April:

Tuesday 11th April: 

Another morning spent planning and writing.

And spent the afternoon at the dog park with Xena.

Photogenic puppy :))

Went out for dinner and a drink with Jayda at one of my favourite bars

 Friday 14th April:

Getting back into the routine of having acai bowls at the beach

 Saturday 15th April:

It's Easter weekend so having a hot cross bun for breakfast is totally acceptable, right?!

Sunday 16th April: 

Happy Easter everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful day surrounded by family and friends :))

much love,
XO

Recently, I've been talking about my 5 Year Plans and where I see my future going. So, I thought I would touch on a few things I thought (when I was younger) that I would have done by the start of my 20s. My younger self was quite optimistic and thought that the time between graduating high school and entering my 20s would go slowly. WRONG... Despite only graduating high school (almost) 3 years ago, I am rapidly approaching my 20th birthday. I thought that university was going to drag on forever and that I would have heaps of time to complete my list. Well, after a minor major quarter-life-crisis I realised this wasn't the case. 

Here goes, my List of Things I Thought I Would Have Achieved by my 20s.

To stop dating people who are totally wrong for me.

To find the person I was going to settle down with.

To join a gym, and consitently workout.

To live overseas for (at least) a short period of time.

To have the ability to not hit the snooze button mulitple times before waking up.

To be able to perfectly stick to a set budget.

To have assignments ready for submission before the minute they're due.

To host dinner parties often with friends.

To appreciate the little things in life, because they're the important things.

much love, 

XO

San Francisco 

Seattle

Singapore

Queenstown

much love, 

XO

Weekend Away, colder weather & puppies!

Monday 3rd April: 

Outfit of the night for a cute dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Tuesday 4th April:

I love waking up in crisp, white sheets (especially with an ocean view)

Saturday 8th April:

Went and checked out the new Eat Street Markets in Hamilton, Brisbane City.

much love, 

XO

Whenever I have these extravagant thoughts for my future (or whatever) I need to process them immediately to determine whether or not they will remain a fantasy or if I can turn them into reality. 

To do so, I need to completely remove myself from my comfortable surroundings. This meant, a weekend away to process. I spent the weekend relaxing, taking walks along the rocky beaches and drinking cocktails in the bath... It was exactly the situation I needed to place myself into. It's a spot I usually go to, about 4 hours north of where I live, to just remove myself from my surroundings without having much strenuous travel.


I've always needed to know my next five years, or at least think I did. Having some kind of plan that I can stick to puts my mind at ease. Since 2017 is the end of my last 5 year plan, I thought it was time to assess and make a new one. And since this is my online diary, I wanted to document it to see how closely I follow it.

I'm supposed to graduate in November 2018 but I've (semi) decided that I want to drag that out for another year. I still haven't found who I am as a person yet, and don't want to start teaching at the beginning of 2019 being the ripe age of 21!! Instead of doing four subjects a semester, I will only do two and that way, I'll take two years to complete one years worth of work. That means I will graduate being 22, and have had the freedom to do more travel/work over the next two years. Ideally, I would like to move universities (to somewhere more credible) but the likelihood of that is quite slim.

Career wise, I still have the passion for teaching and am excited to finally be in the field. I would, however, love to work over in London. That's something I mentioned in a post recently and over the weekend decided that it's definitely something I will do. Ideally, I will go over on a student exchange through my university within the next year to suss out if I could live there. Since I have a bunch of family and friends in the area, I know I'll be looked after :)) So, toward the end of 2019, I should be moving overseas!!

My current living arrangements are not my favourite. While I love living where I am, for the price I paid it's just not ideal. I live quite far from university, but if I moved closer would be further from work. So, what I think I'm going to do is change up where I'm living to cut costs. This hopefully means that I'll be able to save a bunch for where my life takes me.

It's a lot more detailed on paper, but probably nothing that you guys would care to read.

Total side note, but also over the weekend I made the decision to just bite the bullet and buy myself a new laptop... That's another decision I don't make lightly. I tend to grow attached to my material objects and never want to get rid of them, however my old laptop just didn't have the storage or capacity to keep up with the amount of things I had to do. It's difficult because it was such a compact and light laptop, but because of that it just couldn't keep up. It's almost a downgrade, because I went back a generation in laptops -- but that's because the one I wanted is from the 2016 release. I went from the 12" Macbook (in Space Grey) to the 15" Macbook Pro. I now have way more storage, a better keyboard and Retina display!! Yay!!

much love, 
XO

March was eventful, to say the least. I flew far too much!! Went to two Adele concerts in two different countries!! And occasionally went to uni...

Tuesday 28th March:

The month of March has been filled with multiple airports around the world and loads of time in the sky. In total, I think I've spent about 36 hours in the air this month. So, that's approximately 45-50 hours in airports/places. Sign... (what a first world problem). I started in Brisbane, Australia and a few days into the month flew to Seattle, USA after transiting through Vancouver, Canada (that's three countries in the first week of March). Then flying home, a week later, added a lot more flight time and more time in airports.

I spent just over a week at home, only to book a quick weekend trip to Auckland, New Zealand to end the month. I'm pre-writing this post, and am on my flight from Auckland to Brisbane as I write this blogpost. It's currently 11.40am Auckland time (8.41am Brisbane time). My flight left Auckland at 9.30am and I'll be landing at 10am local time. Last night I was at the Adele concert!!! I got back to the hotel at midnight, and had to leave at 6am this morning to get to the airport... #exhausted #totallyworthit 

People watching is one my favourite things. Not doing it in a judgemental way, but merely as an interest in society and the people who frequent airports. I find it so interesting to see how much luggage people try and squeeze into carry-on, the people who think those ridiculous neck pillows are actually a good idea, or the parents with 5 kids who are on their first long-haul holiday. Meanwhile, I sit back with my small pack, leggings & hoodie, sipping a glass of red wine -  no matter the time of day. 

I don't remember if I've ever spoken about it before, but I'm actually a horrible traveller. There's nothing specific that I'm afraid of or nervous about, I just suck at travelling. I'm so bad at time management and I'm either super early to the airport or turn up just before my fate is called for boarding. I don't mind turning up to an international airport too early, obviously I love some retail therapy!! It's when I turn up late and have to clear customs, security and find my gate that I hate. 

I've already got a few other trips planned for this year; like a London/Europe short trip (maybe two) and possibly a trip to the US.

Total plug for next Thursday's post... but there will be a March vlog uploaded :))

much love, 

XO