New Year, New Me? No thanks

New Year, New Me? No thanks

Wednesday, 2 January 2019

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Hello! And welcome to my first post of 2019. How are you? It's been a while! I hope everyone had a lovely festive time and are ready to take this year by the horns and make some magic happen. I know I am.

New Year, Slightly Better Me

New Year, Slightly Better Me

Wednesday, 3 January 2018

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I’ve done the whole ‘New Year, New Me’ thing every year for as long as I can remember, and, without fail, have always given in and reverted back to my old ways before the end of January rolls around. This is because I  always set myself ridiculous, unrealistic and unsustainable goals to fix every little flaw. One year I set myself 19 resolutions! 19! Needless to say I didn’t stick to any of them. This year I’m not going to do that. Instead I’m going to set myself goals that are actually achievable, and try to make positive and sustainable changes to my life.

New Year's Resolutions 2016 Review & Goals for 2017

New Year's Resolutions 2016 Review & Goals for 2017

Thursday, 5 January 2017

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Last year I kept my goals simple (read more about that here). I wanted to be healthy, be happy and to travel, and for the most part I stuck to them - a week in Sunny Beach counts as travelling, right?!

My New Year's Eve Make Up

My New Year's Eve Make Up

Tuesday, 3 January 2017

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(Sorry for the giant picture of my face and the crap lighting, I also hadn't smudged my lipstick, I had a really nasty spot on my lip that would not be covered!)

Happy New Year you absolute babes! I hope you all had an amazing, and safe, New Year's Eve and are ready to take this new year head on. This years I was at a big family party at my uncle and aunty's house, and I was really overdressed but you have to make an effort at New Years' don't you? I was really happy with my make up so I thought I would share it with you lovely lot.

Review of Last Year & My Goals for 2016

Review of Last Year & My Goals for 2016

Sunday, 3 January 2016

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HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU RIDICULOUSLY GORGEOUS PEOPLE! Sorry I suddenly disappeared at the end of last year, but never mind I'm back now ready to see what a brand new year has in store. But before we get to this year's resolutions let's talk about last year's because there were a few of them.

Just to remind you my resolutions last year were:

1. Take better care of myself.

2. Start Youtubing. 

3. Exercise more. 

4. Make more friends. 

5. Learn to drive. 

6. Learn to play guitar.

Normally I start the year brimming with ideas of all the things I want to do and all the different ways I can improve myself and then come February they're all forgotten and I'm plodding along as usual. Well last year was a little bit different.

I didn't manage to start youtubing last year BUT Father Christmas brought me a very fancy (and very beautiful) camera  - a Canon EOS 1200D DSLR if you're interested - for Christmas and once my tripod arrives - and I get organised - I'll be uploading my first video onto the 'tube, so keep an eye out for that towards the end of January. I'll also be booking driving lessons in the new year because I'm running out of excuses and it really is about time that I learn to drive. Nor did I learn to play the guitar, poor Maggie is still sitting in the corner of my room gathering dust. BUT I did start taking better care of myself, I joined Slimming World and lost 1.5 stone (21 pounds to our American friends), I did start going to the gym - going once counts right? - and I did make some new friends and became a lot more sociable. I've still got a long way to go but overall I'm feeling very positive about last year's resolutions

Last year I had a laundry list of New Year's Resolutions (read that post here) some of which I actually managed to stick to, but this year I've decided to keep things simple. This year I want to be healthy and happy and I want to go travelling. That's it.

What are your New Year's Resolutions? How do you feel about last year's? Let me know by commenting below, on twitter or by dropping me an email at lolarocknroses@gmail.com. Also check out my instagram, facebook, bloglovin', snapchat - search lolarocknroses - & pinterest for updates.

Love love love xxx

P.S. What would you guys like to see as my first YouTube video? Let me know. L xo

My Goals for 2015!

My Goals for 2015!

Friday, 2 January 2015

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope everyone has had a fabulous Christmas and New Year. I thought I would kick off 2015 by telling you guys some of my New Years Resolutions. Except I'm not calling them Resolutions because that sounds really scary and I associate that with failure. So instead I'm calling them Goals, which sounds much less frightening and way more manageable.

At the start of every year I make hundreds of New Year's Resolutions & every year, without fail, I'll have forgotten half of them before February rolls around. This year I thought I'd post them for all you lovely people to see for a little accountability, which means that if I fail people are gonna know about it so I'd better try a bit harder.

Now I'm not gonna post all of my resolutions goals on here, because I have quite a few and some of them are quite personal, but I thought I would post the ones I really, really want to do and don't mind people knowing about. Let's do this. 

Take better care of myself. 

For those of you who watch New Girl, I have recently learnt that Nick Miller is my spirit animal. I am a female Nick, which is both funny and a little bit sad. I eat really bad food, and that's when I can be bothered to eat, most of the time I exist on coke (the soft drink, not the illegal substance), which is beyond bad for you and I will definitely be giving that up in the new year. I don't have good sleeping habits and I don't really get a lot of sleep. Case in point as I write this it is 01:05 am in the morning I have to be up in less than 6 hours, which is the minimum amount of sleep I require to function like a human and I am not even close to being sleepy yet. Basically my life can be summed up perfectly in this quote: 'I'm not a successful adult! I don't eat vegetables and/or take care of myself!' Yep, that's me...definitely need to change that. 

Start Youtubing.

This is something I've wanted to do for ages but it's definitely going to have to go on the backburner for at least the first half of the year while I finish my degree and also save up for a decent camera. At the moment I take all my photos for my blog on my phone, which is fine, but you can't really make good quality videos with it. I do have a camera but I got it when I was 16 (which is 7 years ago now... gulp!) and the picture quality is shocking. But yeah I definitely hope to be youtubing by the end of 2015. I have a lot of ideas too and I'm really excited by the prospect so definitely keep an eye out for that! 

Exercise More 

I am a human sloth! When I'm at uni I walk everywhere which is good but other than that nothing. So because I want to start taking proper care of myself like a proper adult I definitely need to partake in some exercise. If anyone has any tips or hints on this then help a sister out and comment them down below because exercise is not at all my forte. Sleeping all day however that I can do. 

Make more friends

Okay so this sounds a little bit strange and more than a little sad so let me give you some context. I'm doing a postgraduate degree at the same uni where I did my undergrad. During my BA I had a really good social life and I had some amazing friends who I saw everyday. 

Proof that I do have actual real friends... they're not gonna be happy about this :S 

Now that we've graduated everyone's scattered and gone their separate ways so I don't see them very much. Some of my closest friends are spread across Newcastle, Nottingham, Eastbourne and Surrey and I split my time between Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire so they're not exactly local. Now I feel kinda like the person who stayed a bit too long at the party and it's really awkward. While I do still have one or two friends here and my housemates are lovely it's not the same. So I definitely need to branch out and try meeting some new people. The only problem is I am incredibly socially awkward at the best of times, couple that with the fact that I'm a bit of a hermit with one hell of a bitch face and I am terrified. Out of all of my goals this is probably the scariest, it's going to be a challenge. Making friends when you are over the age of 5 is a genuinely, terrifying prospect. Eeeeeeek! Wish me luck.

Learn to Drive

Driving is something I have really struggled with. I started lessons when I was 17 until I couldn't afford it anymore. I tried again after my 20th birthday but then there was an incident in my first lesson where I had to make a left turn and stalled, a really nice lady braked so I could turn and then this idiot overtook her and I had to emergency break. It sounds really silly but it really shook me up and I lost my confidence so I gave up. I would really like to get over that hump this year. Driving would make my life so much easier. 

Learn to Play Guitar

I've had my guitar, Maggie, since I was 10 and I can play some chords but other than that she's pretty much just sat in the corner gathering dust, poor thing! So I'd like to be able to play a song, and it actually sound like that song, by the end of the year.

So those are my New Years Resolutions. What are yours? Let me know on twitter, by commenting below or even by dropping me an email lolarocknroses@gmail.com. Also, if you feel like it, check out my instagram, facebook, Bloglovin & pinterest and give me a cheeky follow. 

Happy New Year! xxx 



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