I got paid on November 25th so I had to start work on my budgeting and no/low buying pretty early on! First thing I did was go through all of my direct debits/subscriptions and minus all of those plus childcare from my pay. All of that came to £360.63. Yikes. That's not even including paying for gas and electric because I do that as pay as you go. I also included the £75.50 I owed my sister for our family Christmas get together. New total -£436.13 from my pay.
It's Chrrrriiiisstmaaassss! Our decorations have been up for a while, I finished my shopping weeks ago but the Christmas playlist is officially ON and I plan on finishing my wrapping this week. Although I'm working Christmas this year and my boy is with his dad, I am absolutely buzzing for it this year.
Last week I was really on a downward spiral but I cancelled my overtime, spent the weekend with family and today I woke up with new motivation and feel really spurred on for the new month! Let's get it!
We had to wait a whole 3 months for our honeymoon but it was the most perfect week, so I'm not too mad about it. I was determined to have a cabin with a hot tub and I particularly wanted to go to Scotland but finding the right area at a good price was way harder than we anticipated! So we ended up settling for Wales. Well, I say settling, we do actually love Wales. I didn't get my hot tub though! Fuming.
I'm really failing at blogging regularly again aren't I? I missed a whole month! September was a good month, I didn't complete all of my goals but I was feeling happy, I was working on a lot of different hobbies and was generally feeling good about life!
Today marks 3 months since Josh and I got married! I'm no longer a miss and have upgraded to a full time Mrs. Our wedding day was absolutely perfect and I wouldn't change a thing. Well, actually, that's a lie. But there isn't much at all I would change. I wanted to publish this post a long time ago but unfortunately we did have to wait seven weeks for our professional photos to come back, and then I just kept forgetting about this post.
Does it feel a bit pointless posting our engagement photos now, as they were done a long time ago? A little bit. Am I going to do it anyway because they're gorgeous? Obviously.
August had a fair amount of ups and downs. I've lost a friendship or two but honestly, I've made my peace with it. I also nearly quit my job, twice. On the plus-side, our honeymoon was incredible! I'll do a post specially for it this month.
It's that time again! New month; new vision board! I actually love making these vision boards, it feels like a cute little hobby. Just in case you missed it, check out my July vision board.
July was a "meh" month. It usually is though to be fair. It's my dad's birthday in July and I always get miserable at this time of year because I miss him so much. However, there were some positives too.
I have properly, officially decided that this is the year I become more "Me"! I'm turning 30 in 4 months and I want to become closer to my "final form" as it were. After finding lots of "alt" inspo on tiktok, I had an almost complete overhaul of my wardrobe. I took out everything that doesn't fit, I don't like anymore and just won't work with my chosen aesthetic.
The colours in my wardrobe are now black, grey and white with a little bit of dark green and red. I also now have two corsets, some flowy sleeved tops and more witchy style dresses. I'm slowly falling in love with my wardrobe! Of course I still have the classic baggy t-shirts, jeans and leggings for work but I do wish I could be a bit more "dressy." Occasionally I'll dress up as much as I can get away with and I always get compliments when I do.
This year, I've really got into making vision boards. I use Pinterest and have a 2025 vision board on there that I regularly add to every time I visit Pinterest. Occasionally, I make a monthly one as well but I tend to forget all about it and not even look at it again. However, I'm planning on changing that this month.
