This is pretty much what's been dominating my spare time this week. Got a big deadline on Tuesday and this week has just been packed with all sorts of things in general!
We went on a trip to London on Monday to go through museums (V&A, Saatchi Gallery and Tate Modern) and we were tasked to create a magazine based on it. Just a small one, I'm only doing eight pages on mine.
The trip itself was absolutely wonderful, I got to spend the entire day with my lovely friends and of course got my exercise in (21k steps!!). Was so nice to get out of the usual uni studio environment and just suck in some inspiration from all the artwork we saw.
I actually only have one picture of myself from the trip. We were asked to take a lot of selfies with all sorts of cool stuff in the background, but I just get very self conscious about doing that in public.. :D Should pester my friends for pictures, I know at least one of em took loads.. :p
And it's not a good trip without a bit of chilling out before going home, is it? ;) We ended up killing time at the Victoria station Wetherspoons before our train left, was a really awesome way to end the day. Unfortunately had to sit on the floor on the train back (yay for commuters going home at 6pm..) but oh well. Wasn't too bad as the company was great. ♥
I pretty much spent all of Tuesday building the magazine. We only had four hours to do the entire thing and mine ended up being really rushed and I HATED IT. It also reflected on the feedback I got on it, didn't mind it at all as it was things I noticed as well. And well, I printed it all out this morning and started ripping it to shreds! Quite therapeutic to just trash your own work and improve it afterwards. Rather happy with the second version of it, now all I need is to print it out so I can have a better look at it. It just doesn't quite look the same on the computer.
Exercise wise it's been quiet so far. Our schedules are just clashing so much at the moment so gymming has been pushed aside a bit unfortunately, so trying to compensate for it by going for walks whenever I can. Right now it's mainly just Thursday and Friday mornings before I go to uni, as I've really got so little spare time in the evenings. Also gets dark really quickly now, such a shame as I'd like to use up some of my evenings by walking. Maybe I just need to fire up Body Revolution again. Hmm.
Well ok maybe not. I just got bored tonight and started messing around with my hair, mainly with my birthday party in mind. Me and my friend decided that we want to have another theme party this year and she suggested rock chick - well that's more than fine by me!
I've already sorted out the clothes, may need a few accessories for it all to make it a bit more colourful, but that can wait for a bit. I'm not a very skilled hair stylist and I barely do my hair at all during the week so I wanted something very simple and that doesn't require hours of hard work and tons of different equipment.
Well, this is what I managed! Also new hair colour, yay. They've finally started selling the exact colour I've been after for aaaaages, a very dark natural red hair colour. I know the pics are a bit dark, but this gives a better idea of what the colour should look like. Not quite as red, but hopefully in a few colours it'll be. :)
And just for comparison, here's a picture I took in April (the pic on the right, the one on the left is from last year). My face has shaped up very nicely since then, I don't look quite as swollen as I did and those weird bumps on my neck have disappeared too. Yay for visible progress! :)
I've already sorted out the clothes, may need a few accessories for it all to make it a bit more colourful, but that can wait for a bit. I'm not a very skilled hair stylist and I barely do my hair at all during the week so I wanted something very simple and that doesn't require hours of hard work and tons of different equipment.
Well, this is what I managed! Also new hair colour, yay. They've finally started selling the exact colour I've been after for aaaaages, a very dark natural red hair colour. I know the pics are a bit dark, but this gives a better idea of what the colour should look like. Not quite as red, but hopefully in a few colours it'll be. :)
And just for comparison, here's a picture I took in April (the pic on the right, the one on the left is from last year). My face has shaped up very nicely since then, I don't look quite as swollen as I did and those weird bumps on my neck have disappeared too. Yay for visible progress! :)
Seriously, 100g away from my benchmark?! Screw you fat, just screw you! :D Really happy with this though, I'm glad I've broken the loss - gain - loss - gain cycle (at least for now). This week has been very odd, only went to the gym once and haven't really done much exercise on top of that. Also been feeling really ill again, sore throat and just generally feeling a bit light headed. That hasn't really encouraged me to go outside in the chilly autumn air.
It's a known fact that we waste a lot of our resources on this planet. While one person might not make a huge impact on it all, it will definitely add up. If nobody thinks that they can make a change, where would we be today?
With this in mind, I actually ordered myself a stainless steel water bottle. I think I was mainly attracted to the fantastic colour of it, but oh well! Adding water also makes the surface of the bottle feel nice and cool, which will definitely be a plus during workouts.
And as always, there's the health related side to this purchase. Normal plastic bottles can contain a chemical called BPA (Bisphenol A), a possibly very harmful chemical to the human body. It can cause negative changes in the brain, behaviour and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children. It can also affect fertility of women and block normal hormone function.
BPA can transfer from the plastic onto food and drink, especially when heated. It is quite worrying to think that it could have a huge negative effect on my life in the long run. I'm still not quite plastic bottle free (I still buy way too much Diet Coke..), but I'm definitely working on it. Now that I've got my new shiny bottle, I don't have to worry about it leaking and making my bag soaking wet when I'm out and about. That's right, I'm planning on taking this baby everywhere. It's so pretty.
Anyways, enough about all this seriousness. ;)
This week has been quite a busy one in all fairness. I've also had a few days when I've just felt upset for no good reason, I don't know if it's just my body's way of telling me that it's still in shock with all these changes to my daily schedule or something. Like for example, I don't have any days off this week and my next week looks exactly the same. And I should carry on with my uni work at home on top of that. Very shattered lately.
But thankfully we are getting a "day off" on Monday - our course tutor wants to take us to London! A bit torn about it to be fair, in a way it'll be very nice to do something completely different (and I love London) but then again I also can't really afford it right now. Getting there will cost a fair bit and whatever extra we do on top of our scheduled stuff won't be free either. :p Oh well, payday soon! :D
I do really enjoy uni thought, I feel like the course is exactly what I want and have made some lovely friends over these few weeks. :) Will just have to wait and see how these friendships evolve, though. Learned to be a bit cautious with new people. Maybe it's a bad thing, maybe it's not.
Oh and I coloured my hair (again). Right now not looking too presentable so a picture will have to wait.
With this in mind, I actually ordered myself a stainless steel water bottle. I think I was mainly attracted to the fantastic colour of it, but oh well! Adding water also makes the surface of the bottle feel nice and cool, which will definitely be a plus during workouts.
And as always, there's the health related side to this purchase. Normal plastic bottles can contain a chemical called BPA (Bisphenol A), a possibly very harmful chemical to the human body. It can cause negative changes in the brain, behaviour and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children. It can also affect fertility of women and block normal hormone function.
BPA can transfer from the plastic onto food and drink, especially when heated. It is quite worrying to think that it could have a huge negative effect on my life in the long run. I'm still not quite plastic bottle free (I still buy way too much Diet Coke..), but I'm definitely working on it. Now that I've got my new shiny bottle, I don't have to worry about it leaking and making my bag soaking wet when I'm out and about. That's right, I'm planning on taking this baby everywhere. It's so pretty.
Anyways, enough about all this seriousness. ;)
This week has been quite a busy one in all fairness. I've also had a few days when I've just felt upset for no good reason, I don't know if it's just my body's way of telling me that it's still in shock with all these changes to my daily schedule or something. Like for example, I don't have any days off this week and my next week looks exactly the same. And I should carry on with my uni work at home on top of that. Very shattered lately.
Thursday.
But thankfully we are getting a "day off" on Monday - our course tutor wants to take us to London! A bit torn about it to be fair, in a way it'll be very nice to do something completely different (and I love London) but then again I also can't really afford it right now. Getting there will cost a fair bit and whatever extra we do on top of our scheduled stuff won't be free either. :p Oh well, payday soon! :D
I do really enjoy uni thought, I feel like the course is exactly what I want and have made some lovely friends over these few weeks. :) Will just have to wait and see how these friendships evolve, though. Learned to be a bit cautious with new people. Maybe it's a bad thing, maybe it's not.
Oh and I coloured my hair (again). Right now not looking too presentable so a picture will have to wait.
