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Monday, 25 April 2022

How do you get inspired?
How do you get inspired?

When looking at my list of questions this one came up and I find it to be such an open question. The reason I say this is because there are a lot of things that inspire me. I find sometimes no matter what I've put in front of that is no inspiration it really depends on how I'm feeling and sometimes I will feel nothing but inspiration from the smallest of things so this is quite a hard one to block about it's a hard one to put into words of how I was feeling and how I would express desk question enough to give to you. I think as a creative person I do find that a lot inspires me quite frequently, especially as an adult where my imagination has continued to be as strong as when I was a child. The best way at the moment especially having Covid I'm on day four, by the way, is to listen to soundtracks at the moment studio Ghibli is a perfect one for me to listen to and just imagine I'm in a completely different world while I'm driving on my iPad or reading a book I'm in the reading a book part might be a little bit less than the drawing but I'm trying!

At the moment before Covid, it's just borrowing someone's dog and I know this sounds a bit silly but I don't have time for my own dog at the moment so just borrowing a dog walk around the park happy earphones and listening to some music some of the best therapy and something that I have learnt to enjoy more than going out drinking really!
Above is a picture of a pug from my hometown in a little park I'm just watching her walk around buying her own business while listening to maybe the up soundtrack from Pixar can really make me in a good happy mood I feel inspired!



Another one I find takes yourself out to places most museums are free in London and also different events in different parks and different Historia moments and places and you can find inspiration from a lot of these the picture above is my time at the natural history museum in London and I came across this older guy who had been sat down and was drawing what he could see from the above him, I was caught mesmerised by his work he'd been coming here for days and then drawing different things to learn the study and didn't mind me hovering above him just to watch that day it had been raining and raining a lot it was pouring in fact but the room is full silent when you are watching someone at work and you can feel the concentration of the connection between the peace and them.
You don't have to do it alone either if you are somebody that can't bear to do anything like this by yourself there are many Facebook groups or TikTok pages that dedicate themselves to going on friendly dates with other girlfriends or friends or like-minded people so you can sit down and you can draw together in silence or speaking it's completely up to you I have done both and in my experience, I do prefer to sometimes be alone so I can really get in my head and feel inspired but sometimes talking to somebody and speaking about a certain shape they can see in the pattern of a skeleton or how a watercolour piece looks to them can also be just as inspiring.



Another one for me is visiting artists, now I am a photographer and artist and sometimes I will do collaborations with both and see what it's like to be in the world of the artist or person I'm visiting. This is somebody who I work with and we both work in retail and I found out that he does portraits I just felt the need that I had to go see what he was doing I fell in love with the idea that he worked with oils and I could never work with oil paints I've never managed to make it work in the correct way that he found a way to do just that he didn't like to call it self portraits as more people studies and he had a blanket up which he called his ADHD Blanket hidden away from the word with your headphones in.

There are many ways to feel inspired you can also go and try something completely new recently I went rollerblading with a bunch of friends and it was a two-hour session in the first hour I found it to be so fun and I was constantly learning watching your friends fall over and also succeed it's a really good feeling!  it can make you feel inspired from that unfortunately after about 800 cal but I was starting to feel a bit tired and realised maybe rollerskating isn't for me but the amount of fun that I had meant that it was all worth it for me and something that I would continue to do just so I thought connected to people and you get to network as well! you meet people that you thought that you could never really meet and I think TikTok is a really good one for that as well you can constantly engage with different people events and being in London there are a lot of events that you can go to that you can meet like-minded people.
We are living in a world now where it is more accessible to get hold of me than ever before inspirations live with meeting people in networking go and do it! If you feel like you're inspirations work best when you play games or draw or research go do it. There is nothing stopping you at the moment apart from yourself and it is something that I've taken a long time to learn. I find when I'm isolated like this having Covid but my brain really starts to work in different ways I could work with myself and network and become a better me when a fact I should be just resting but I can't help myself.
Look up what your niche is and look at what social media platforms are using that niche maybe there is in the knitting club on Facebook, or maybe you walked past a group of people on rollerblades and you want to feel inspired by joining them go up and say hi nobody is going to be concerned or worried about you being confident and saying hello but actually take the chance to build confidence in yourself and to inspire your because life is very short and inspiration is everywhere now I know this blog isn't necessarily how you should be inspired more myself and how I'm inspired but I feel like maybe if you're reading this you're like by the person I can see where I'm coming from it's been lovely chatting with you guys again see you soon.
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Sunday, 24 April 2022

How do you become consistent with your blog life?

  


How do you become consistent with your blog life? 


For me writing a blog was never an idea of mine I have never been good at writing my grammar is awful but I've always been intrigued with how blogs look! No, I think the idea of doing my blog as The daily life of her was not necessarily to be confined into one category but actually into multiple I'm not married never had a baby or owned a home or even owned a dog but I am a 26-year-old has done quite a lot of stuff in my time and that is what I wanna share with you so the main tip that I have to be consistent is treating it like it's a diary! Make it feel like you are ranting about the things you love the things that make you feel! you can write anything that makes you feel a certain way you write about it!


This is me I am she I am Lauren.

One of the main things that I've always struggled with is consistency. I am a creative person so I can draw I can paint I can sculpt things, I game a lot I sing I do a lot of photography in different categories have different friend groups I've moved loads of different houses in my life thanks to my parents so you could see where the inconsistencies are I'm constantly always doing something different and never stick into the same passion or hobby long enough for it to become anything I've done out full-time before the pandemic and photography as well that it was Wedding's for 10 years and slowly I've decided that university was more important so I was going to give up on that idea completely.

So you can see above the main word it is different what makes you different?

What sets you apart from the crowd? so even though you're not consistent what makes you you. What makes you interesting what hobbies do you have? How do you set yourself aside from others? Have you ever tried to write about your differences maybe you collect different sorts of rocks? Or maybe you can make dresses without even looking, Point is someone's current want to see it someone is going to want to read about it and how cool is that? But can you be consistent can you keep writing about the dress or can you keep finding different rocks! Everyone needs that sort of thing everyone needs clothes everyone needs landscapes everyone needs food everyone needs friendship so it's going to be a never-ending hobby that you can constantly pour and post onto others and while blogging is going to be a good way to express that you need to make sure that you are constantly posting again and again to get the results that you want to achieve!


Let's start from the beginning together if you found this blog then you are already one step ahead and already making friends so hi am Lauren nice to meet you let's do this journey together of being consistent and actually doing something that we are meant to be doing maybe write in your calendar that you want to do two posts week or maybe three posts week don't overdo yourself.

With any sort of hobby was that if you do it enough you end up seeing that that hobby is now a chore and it puts you off so have fun with the blog and have fun with the idea of writing and thinking of different ideas and pouring your heart out onto the Internet where others will read it and learn to love who you are now  I don't have the best grammar or the best words or advice or a lot really but hopefully, people be reading because I love the way that I am as a person you may not know the sound of my voice but I can guarantee you probably imagined it right I'm being consistent your read of the post and get a glance of what you think I would be like that as what I want to do for you as well I want to be able to imagine who you are be consistent with your post so I can figure out what adventures you are going on what sort of things do you like the colour blue or purple or yellow or maybe don't have a favourite colour at all


it's going to be a struggle but let's struggle together! 

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Day 4 of OMAD.

 

so its a typical Sunday morning and I am on day three of isolation with Covid I decided I have nothing better to do in my loneliness at the moment why not fast I have come across a mad a few times it basically means that you only eat once a day and you're fast for 23 hours and you can do exercise in this time or you can read books go for walks say hello to the dog you name it.

I am currently on day four of OMAD, I did before I found out that I had Covid at work and I don't feel hungry. I feel fine I have set my fasting time till about 1 pm so I have my dinner then and I like to do a three-meal course each time and treat myself so this time I decided I was going to give my hand at baking, never ever been I been good at baking! I've always been really bad at it actually and I thought I might as well give it a go now and see what happens so I decided to grab some cinnamon and some brown sugar along with flour and eggs splash of milk the butter was vegan of course because George is lactose intolerant and that's the only butter we had in the flat mix it all together not even measuring but it came out to become something quite beautiful and tasted very delicious! I find I look forward to my fasting times at 12 it's easy to be distracted when I have a PC a laptop an iPad an Apple Watch and iPhone amongst many games so when it comes to baking I make sure that I'm completely switched off, in fact, it's nice to be unplugged from the world just for a moment. 


It's weird to think I haven't actually spoken to another person in person in about three days and how okay I am with this I have two flatmates and I have not seen one of them since which I guess is a good thing because I wouldn't want them to have Covid either.

This is the second time that I've caught the virus the first time I feel like I could barely see I was barely able to stand and had cold sweats while looking after my ex-partner at the time who was being a massive baby over it and while I serve him hand and foot while also being sick it was up to me to make sure we were both got better another reason why we didn't last very long I guess.

 But this time around is a little different I did a weekly shop on my way home as I normally do found out that I had Covid and it's not been as bad I've had a cough and a tight chest I've had a headache and a runny nose but I still have my smell and taste! which I lost my smell last time and the only way to prove that I had lost it was to go to Lush and stiff everything around me I don't think that the staff was too impressed.


I think I baked this cake for about 40 minutes on 180 and see, as I'm not a baking person I'm very impressed with how it came out it might just be the tastiest cake I've ever made using spontaneous ingredients that I've done to date, of course, I didn't just break my fast with the cake as lovely as that does sound I also oven-baked a whole chicken which I ate half of the rosemary parsley salt and garlic and cooked it for about an hour and a half along with three humongous parsnips and for a Sunday I think I did quite well.

It's weird to think that I'm on day three and I still have a couple of days left it feels like I'm in a zombie apocalypse movie where I'm completely by myself and I'm using the resources that I had to survive I haven't seen in contact with another human or animal and you bet I have been looking at kittens for sale or puppies for the last three days straight as a biggest past time for me.






So this is everything that I consumed on day four of my OMAD adventure I feel like every single time I eat at the moment I feel like I could eat a whole elephant and then I get halfway through to parsnips and I feel like I'm going to explode by guessing that's my body already telling me that it is shrinking due to the 23-hour fasts a time.

I also don't know if this is to do with Covid but I've gone from nine 9st10 to 9st7 in the last three days hey I'm not complaining I've always had a problem with my weight, over the last five years anyway which reminds me an ASOS parcel arrived yesterday in 08 size dresses they were a goal setter for me so I could see how much I could lose but I had to try them on last night I realised every single one of them fit with the slight space I don't think I even realise the body confidence I could give to me knowing that I have lost that weight that I've been dying to lose for years.

But that's enough of me ranting for now bring on day five OMAD.

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Saturday, 23 April 2022

Adventures of Greenwich



 So currently I have covid...For the second time. Which is not so great, but I get a week of work, right? 

I wanted to start by saying hello! I am Lauren. I left my home town, Dover, Kent in October 2020 to start a new life in London due to the pandemic and I have not looked back since. 

The move started originally with my ex-partner of 5 years but London changed us and I went on a spare room to find an apartment or a bedroom that had a few flatmates to start this new life of mine once more a year into my already existing one! 

This blog is going to be more diary of Lauren based I guess! a bit like Twitter where I can vent my feelings but into a much bigger space. Eventually, I will get into more of my life and who I am but for now, I wanted to speak about my recent adventure, Jack a friend of mine from my home town also moved to London a little over a year before me which is fantastic! He is one of my longest friends going back to the tender age of 12 when he was paired as my buddy in my new school in the form class, I guess he did a good job as nearly 14 years later we are still going strong as friends and I count him as family. 

I had been borrowing one of my parent's dogs for the week, Poppy. a Cockapoo about 8 months old now when poppy first came over to London she had long hair and mats in her fur and clearly needed more love and attention. 

I had a groomer come to visit as soon as possible and she came out as a changed dog. 



Below you will see a shaven but happy puppy!







As you can imagine my parents were furious with the outcome of poppy being groomed by me, the once shaggy puppy that they really enjoyed has now been shaven and looks like a completely different dog I think she was a lot happier with the lack of fur, especially in the spring heat.
I was quite surprised with how she behaved in London I popped her down in a local restaurant and while we ate the food she happily sat there waiting for us to finish not budging even when dogs go past which I was very proud of her for almost made me want to keep her really.




The day consisted of us walking around the park with some alcohol-free cider in hand and an adventure on our minds at first it was just me and Jack and as we went past a few different food places that look very convincing we decided to keep walking till he got to the gates of Greenwich Park and waited for friends. we had Poppy beside us and she was continuing to be very well-behaved, then we met up with two friends of ours and headed over to the local pub I think it's called the Greenwich Tavern. Burgers were a must today seeing as it was so sunny and warm a classic beef burger was on everyone's mind but I tried a fish burger which was a little bit different but I don't judge, it was very tasty
We then went towards the Cuttysark where Jack found a bunch of kids animals to ride and for just £5 he could explore the market and what it had to offer on a  huge zebra for 20 minutes you can see from the look on his face above it was clearly very worth it.





Overall we had a blast and I'm very much looking forward to exploring Greenwich a bit more now the weather has picked up and is showing us what spring has to offer! Sadly Poppy had to go back to Dover but she's now made me very dog broody!

Going outside and being independent with friends is the first thing on my list to becoming "That girl" and I look forward to sharing the progress I make with this blog and myself! 

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