Step 1 dot. dot. dot.

How’s about before Christmas you guys set yourself a ten step challenge. You do it as best as you can and when you can?
Mine:
Step 1… lose more weight before Christmas in time for my next treat! Christmas dinner! Mm🎄
Step 2. Donate to a charity of my choice (with evidence if poss)
Step 3. Spend the next few weeks before Christmas making subtle hints at my boyfriend to do something extra special for me at Christmas – not saying what… 💍uhhhh what the hell is that emoji? 😉 hint hint.
Step 4. Make a new scrap book/photo album for me and my boyfriend for memories we have had and are going to have.
Step 5. Buy more clothes and shoes and pjs and handbags and just shop loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads in general. For anything.
Step 6. Buy a naughty Mrs Santa costume.
Step 7. Make hampers to sell for Christmas gifts!
Step 8. Stick to my decaf drinks. And using green tea and summer fruits tea instead of propa’ cuppas.
Step 9. Get my elderly aunt back into great health- this broken neck has come as a shock to the whole of us. 😦
Step 10. Make this one of the best Christmases ever for me and my boyfriend.

There is my step list, now make yours.

Hey guys

Hello everyone sorry I haven’t posted in a while. To make up for it. Here’s a little poem thing. It’s about a place suffering from poverty, homelessness, crime discrimination and fear it causes because of this.

Here you go-
“The street”

Out in the street
There’s murder
A crime seen
Taken no further
The crimes being ignored
People lose their lives
It’s hard out there
I can smell the fear
There’s no justice here

Riots, brawls, stabbing in the street
Call the police
Someone’s committed deceit

It’s not fair here
It ain’t nice
A gun? Ain’t a very sweet device
What happened to the community
We used to be together
Now there’s no forever

Walking the streets’ you always on the look out
Someone might call you out
You get beaten for being black, beaten for being gay, beaten cause you ain’t got nothing nasty to say
Religion don’t come into it, neither does family
What does it take for someone to just be
A human cause that’s what we are
If you carry on shooting, you won’t get far
Killing, beating and laughing at their expense

Being gay ain’t a choice, don’t be daft?
Think he’s gay just for a laugh?

The colour of your skin doesn’t define your life
So think of that before you take out your knife

This community used to be strong
So why turn on people who were your friends all along?

They lost their house and their children too
Being homeless is the only thing they can do

Poverty, crime and discrimination happen here
Let’s make a change to curb that fear.

Let’s hold hands
Take a stand
Cause if we can’t make a change
Maybe you’ll be the next man
Or woman to take a beat
All it takes is to walk down
T h i s street.

By Elise Spencer

Fill the hole that needs fixing.

I want to make this post because I need to make this post. I need to vent my feelings and to be fair im not sure I can vent them in any other way. So for a while now all I’ve wanted is to be a mum, I feel that my purpose in life is to be a mum to a little boy or girl who needs love and affection, time, effort, care, support etc. The reason I work with children is because it is what I love to do, I love to give the appropriate care and support that a child needs in life. I love how intelligent children are and how important you are to their lives whether you are the mum, the dad or the educator. I feel like there has always been a hole in my life, having to watch my mum suffer going through miscarriage after miscarriage, being the only child, another child in my family would not only be a blessing to me but to my family as well. My mum has always needed another child and wanted another child but she just can’t carry them, I want to give her that little bundle of joy to fall in love with all over again, I want her to be not only the nanna but the 2nd mum if needs be. I feel like this hole in my life is a child, I feel that having a child is my destiny and my purpose. And yeah I may only be 19, but I have had enough years working with children and young people in order to make a big decision like that, I love what I do and I am good at what I do, I know everything that I need to know and more, because of being qualified in childcare I have all the credentials to give a child education and to care and protect a child so why can’t I have one?

I feel that young mum’s are looked down on so much and that is wrong, I feel that if that mum can provide, care, support and love to that child no matter what, no one should attempt to criticise them because what they are doing is NOT EASY. It’s not a rollercoaster of ease and happiness all the time, it’s hard, it’s challenging and extremely difficult, but when you have the understanding of how to look after a child in the right way and have all the support and care to do so, what is wrong with that? What is the difference between a well educated and supported 16 year old who is able to love and provide and a well educated and supported 30 year old who is able to love and provide having a baby? In all honesty, not much at all, yeah they may have more experience in life, but experience doesn’t always work in that sense, every child is different and I think skills, patience and ability and education is the key to being able to bring up a child; how dare anyone question that? I love being around children they brighten up your day, make you laugh, make you cry, help you, support you in a sense as you do them, they are vulnerable and very impressionable and if you are able to work around all this and still bring them up properly, what’s the problem?

I want a child, I feel that the emptiness in my life is a hole just waiting to be filled by a beautiful little baby. I need a baby for my own mind, I think about it constantly, at the moment I’m on the pill because it’s not just my decision it’s my boyfriend’s too, but I constantly panic about how im going to ask him for permission to come off the pill and if it’s the right time for him, if he doesn’t want it then I won’t because I don’t want to lose him and I respect him in that way, but I want a child: I feel that it would come so easy to me as I am skilled and have so much love and care and support to give, I am financially able and I have a big support field full of people to help me as a mother.

Having a child is a beautiful thing and it is so precious, it is so appealing to me to go through pregnancy and have an outcome for the rest of my life.

And to be honest, I feel that all my problems would go away if i was to have a baby.

Sex

Sex is a subject some people either choose to stay away from or choose to openly speak about. I guess it’s a sensitive subject. But on this fine early morning at 2:04am im choosing to openly speak about S E X.

Okay let’s get straight to the point!

Losing your virginity!

Yeah losing your virginity can be a very confusing, scary, nervous and exciting time. But for most it’s either long over – due or too soon and a big mistake. It’s quite a funny thing to think of: like why do we obsess so much over a period of intimate interaction with the sex we are attracted to so much? The endorphins, hormones and testosterone in our human bodies tell us that we need it, it makes us crave intimate interaction; so much so, that we withdrawal from it when we don’t have it, we fantasise about it and wish to have it when we want it. We get horny! We want sex. But is sex really all that? (No its not! Sex doesn’t define a relationship and if it does – then it’s not a very good relationship) sex is just a percentage of your relationship with a person. You need other things beside your daily fix of naughtiness and raunchy deeds, like actually having things in common, being able to work together to get through life and love etc.

Losing your virginity to the person you do it with can be on one hand: a long wait- you’ve waited for that special someone and he/she has lived up to your expectations. Or you’ve indulged in a saucy one night stand and completely regret it (or enjoyed it) or you have just simply had SEX. Either way- losing your V plates can be tricky.

Number 1. You tend to fall for the person you have sex with first, it’s just fact. And if you don’t, you are a very talented human being and deserve a clap. Ha!

But in my case my first person was not the right one for me. I was young, inexperienced with boys, naive and very inquisitive. I just wanted to see what the fuss was about-when in actual fact- the boy was an equivalent to an ironing board and didn’t move an inch and I was bored within about 5 minutes. I did all the work.  It hurt and I was (excuse my rudeness) very sore the next day. And after all that; the boy was “not ready for a relationship at the minute” typical!

The people I have slept with were either so addicted to porn land that they expected all sex sessions were going to be just like the films and I’d walk out in some nurse uniform and seduce them with my stethoscope. NO! It doesn’t work like that. Those films are thrown out there into the world to pleasure you’re fantasies. Because I can tell you now, not every male or female wants to play dress up or get the bondage out for a quickie in the conservatory.

Then the others’ were about as useful to my sex drive as my left hand! Which is not useful because I’m right-handed.

My boyfriend now knows just the way I like things. But as me and him have both learned – you have to adapt to one and others’ needs and wishes regarding sex. He’s not a fifty shades kind of guy, yep it took a while to convince him to try but now he’s adapting and trying new things and the other way round for me.

You can’t just hop into bed with someone first time and expect them to be top whompers! It takes time for you to get to know the person’s sex drive, needs, fantasies and likes.

I know that in years to come I’ll look back at all the times I gave myself to a male and ended up in tears, heartbroken because he’s fucked me over – because all those steps in your life are just an extra step added to your journey towards meeting the perfect person for you wether it be male or female…

Sex also isn’t all that in regards to your confidence and self esteem. If you are unhappy with your body and looks you will most probably find it hard to get completely naked in front of someone and may only feel comfortable with a top on, don’t worry- YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. On a bad day I do that too and some days I will wrip it off and get straight to it. But if you don’t love your body and yourself then how can anyone else love your body and looks. That’s why it’s just so important to learn to love yourself, accept compliments and accept who you are. Yeah it’s hard, but if you want something good to come out of everything that you do, it’s worth it. Sex is nothing if you think about it, but at the same time it’s everything you fear.

Never do anything you’re uncomfortable with and try not to put yourself in a sticky situation where your boyfriend or someone you are seeing promises they will be your partner if you hand over your V plates to them! Or if you’re not a virgin just to have sex with them. Because yeah unless you want casual sex that’s great for you..  but if you actually like the person and want a relationship with them.. why should sex be a deal breaker for you getting together or not?
If they like you as they say they do why should sex define their decision?
You are still the same person… You look the same.. You sound the same.. You act the same.. so why should you be given in some cases a false promise when you deserve more than that? What everyone deserves is time to adjust, time to get to know each other out of a friendship- into a relationship, in order to make sure you’re both compatible in order to have a meaningful physical relationship.

Just remember that you don’t have to whomp it all out when it’s requested you have the right to say no and you have the right to hold your cards close to your chest` & if someone cannot handle that then honey they ain’t the right one for you!

Cheerio x o x

Sadness.

At this point in my life im beginning to think that I just should give up, I’m bored of the same old thing every day. Sadness. It just comes and goes, I can’t say that I’ve been happy for longer than a couple of hours for a very long time. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. Everything just seems like a huge task and/or massive workout for me. Like one minute im okay and the next, one tiny little thing can just make me flip. I’ve had enough of being me, I feel like I need a massive wake up call on some of the things I’ve been doing in my life. I need a change, I need something to keep me sane in a world that is so cruel and unkind and extremely unexpected. I can’t fathom how important friends are and family too, but at the moment, my so called friends don’t bother with me, I have to make all the effort, yeah not all of them are like that, but most are. It all comes down to the fact that they think I’m always busy with work or my boyfriend; but in fact I’m not, if I was invited places – i would make an effort and actually go, it’s so gutting that the friends I considered forever friends: are actually ~ only friends If it suits them, I can’t be arsed with time wasters and bores, I try my hardest all the time and I don’t think it is good enough at all, otherwise the friends that I have given so much emotionally, physically and mentally to- would be here for me, because I need it. I need support. The stress I have right now is just piling and piling and piling up, it’s about to over boil and im going to F L I P! And after all the time I have given my “friends” when they have needed it they can’t return the favour? Hmm. Yeah it’s not about giving to receive at all! But to be honest- in a friendship sense it is! How can people expect me to give so much of my time and effort to them and then when I need it they don’t care at all? I don’t understand. I give so much to everything that I do and everyone that I consider my friends. But I don’t get a thank you to begin with, then nothing back. And I can’t deal with fake friends, this shit isn’t my thing and I cannot be arsed with it anymore.

I’m so stressed and sad and down and depressed all of the time, it’s so unfair that people go through things like this, and I can’t make myself feel any better at all. I need help, I need support. I just can’t deal with it anymore! I’m going to pull my hair out if I carry on going down the road im on- i feel so vulnerable.

Stress is serious.

So I never realised just how serious stress is. Like I’ve been so unwell, headaches, sickness, panic attacks, crying one minute, kicking off the next.

I don’t know what to do with myself.

I’m writing this post because I think that if you have stress and are getting symptoms of the stress, then you need to get yourself sorted because it’s an awful feeling.

I’m trying everything I possibly can to stay happy and content but anything and everything stresses me out, upsets me and puts me in a depressed state.

I get insomnia, I cant eat properly, I feel weak and I feel like I never have no energy, I have the world’s most awful headaches, I have awful heartburn and indigestion I just seriously need to get out of this, but I can’t.

I’ve been to appointment after appointments to try and prevent all this from happening but my GP seems to think he knows me more than I know myself.

I go in to my doctors – ive been given a new key GP and he just says “oh here take this, bye” like yeah don’t help me properly just send me on my way with no proper help or support!

I just don’t want to get into the state I was in, in 2012. On a drip in hospital so poorly – on steroids because I had made myself that ill and run my immune system right down from losing my state of mind and will power and not looking after myself.

It’s a terrible thing and I suggest if you are stressing too much that you really need to get checked out; because this feeling is awful and I just can’t seem to stay happy for more than half an hour. Sometimes less. I’m so sad all of the time; my moods are always on overdrive and I just don’t know how to handle this anymore. It’s just getting worse by the day.

Please, please listen! Stress is so so so awful and if it gets worse you will end up poorly and it’s not good at all. It’s so hard to get out of.

Thank you! Xx

Sorry guys :?

Hello everybody!!

So I’ve not posted in a long time, I guess things have not been great for me at the minute, everything has just been piling up on top of me and it’s just made me a little bit down and unhappy.

I didn’t post much anyway as I was very new to this, but I guess I want to start posting more frequently as I enjoyed reading the things I see on here; a lot of you- are really, very intelligent and very talented.

I’m kind of back on my feet but still kinda all over the place at the same time, my minds always on 80 thoughts per hour😂

So I’m in the process of trying to find myself in this big wide world. I’m at college studying something im not 100% sure I like, no fault of my own;  they’re just lacking in everything. I’m already a fully qualified childcarer; and I guess childcare is the route I want to go down.  I’ve also been looking at law courses for police work. I guess we all have big dreams though and singing will always be something I’m interested in, I’d love to make music and have people listen to and buy my music, but that is just a dream I guess and I know that they’re are people way better than me, if I went on the x – factor or the voice I’d probably not make it through because they have such high standards and to be completely honest, I don’t have the confidence to do that. I’d love to try though.

Hey maybe one time I can post a video of me singing and see what you guys think of me at some point.

So yeah. Idk I am going to start posting more now!

Thanks for reading, mwa xx

Strange but effective ways to get rid of rashes, spots and sores.

Okay Okay so for anyone who has a tattoo will probably know that bepanthen is a brilliant cream for the healing process and will speed the process up a little. Bepanthen is actually a nappy rash cream. But just to let you guys who might suffer with acne, just random spots, sores, ingrown hairs, cuts and scabs anything really, bepanthen is a god send as it’s literally a healer. Kind of better than sudocrem I think, it works wonders for me. And I love it. It also leaves your skin smooth, it’s deffo worth a try as it really does work wonders. Also if you’ve tried it let me know the results. I usually put it on as soon as my makeup comes off and I get in my PJ’s for bed. And I apply it all throughout the night when it dries up but as it is quite greasy kind of, it doesn’t dry up that much. I’m just a little bit addicted to it as it’ made my spots go as quick as like a couple of days!