25 Facts about Me!

I give credit where credit is due for the images, I've only done some editing with them!

Hey everyone! :)

Today I decided to do something a little bit different. I've been writing this blog for almost two weeks now and I haven't really stopped doing things! It was rainy and just miserable outside today so I decided that I was going to make a really fun and bright blog post for everyone to bring a little bit of sunshine into their lives! So hopefully this turns any frowns upside down as the cheesy but cute saying goes! I've decided to give you a look into my life and to try and get to know the girl behind the blog so to speak! I love hearing about other people and I hope that by giving you some insight into my life you might be able to better relate to me or want to give information about your own lives! So without further adue...

1. As you might have guessed, my name does begin with the letter A as I sign at the bottom of all blog posts.
2. I have a younger brother, whose name also begins with an A. He is 2, almost 3, years my junior.
3. I am 19 years of age.
4. I've lived with my grandparents since I was about a year old.
5. I don't live with my brother, he stays with my parents about 10-15 minutes away from me.
6. I've never owned a pet before because my grandmother doesn't like them.
7. I attended an all-girls high school, with a uniform, for about 6 years.
8. I am a red-head.
9. I've never dyed my hair before.
10. Theatre is one of my greatest loves.
11. I've been acting in plays since I was in the third grade.
12. I live in Canada (without polar bears, igloos, and moose).
13. I don't really like Maple Syrup.
14. I have a lot of close friends, but only 3 of them I tell everything to.
15. My family doesn't know I blog or have friends on the Internet.
16. I used to read constantly but now I rarely have the time and I miss it.
17. For the last two years I've had a really low self-esteem.
18. I am one of 8 teenagers who live in my small area of town.
19. Currently I am in school to become a history/religion teacher.
20. My dream is to go and live in England...but I am worried I never will because of my grandparents.
21. I have a fear of the future and not succeeding.
22. I've never had a boyfriend.
23. Until this year I never wore make-up except on stage.
24. I've become addicted to Youtube videos.
25. I love everything and anything European (with a focus on history and people).

So there we have it! A completed list of 25 random facts that I don't think you would get to know without me telling you. Or at least that you might not always pick up on, but now you'll know. Who knows, in the future I might do another one if a lot of things my life end up changing? It's all up in the air for now though! I do have a question for you guys, what do you think about me doing 30 Day Snap that Louise is doing and has left open to everyone? I'd love to know what you think since the blog posts would be shorter those days and more or less just focus on the picture of the day? 

Well that is it for now everyone, so I will talk to you again on Saturday! If you have anything you want me to blog about in the near future feel free to post it down in the comments as I try and reply to everyone as best as I can! :)

Cheers! x

-A (somelittlebirds)

Feel the Burn!

Credit to the original poster of the image.

Hey everyone! :)

So you might have noticed the slightly longer than normal absance and that is because it was the long weekend up here in Canada! That meant that I spent a lot of time unplugged from the internet and outside with my family to try and get some gardening started and clean up our outdoor space. I'll post some pictures of our gardens when they get more flowers in them and look nicer then a bunch of black earth heaped into a pile of rocks. Probably when the lilacs bloom I'll take some nice pictures of them with an actual camera as opposed to my phone like I have in the past. We'll have to wait and see! However, that isn't exactly what I wanted to blog about today, so let's jump into the real topic.

Working out! Woohoo! At least, that is the kind of feeling that I've been getting from it lately. I've always felt like I'm a bit bigger then I want to be and it's always been something I was self-conscious about in my life. However, I was never able to properly join a gym because I've had a lot of issues with my knees and my health that made it almost impossible to do any kind of cardio because the pain would be so intense. Now that I've gotten that sorted out and can actually run without feeling like I am going to die, I've been going to the gym on a regular basis and really loving it. I don't know what it is but I've been going early in the morning (and I mean early for me is about 9:00 am) three days a week and I just get this amazing awake feeling when I get back home. 

I go to this little gym in my small town that most people don't know about. It is usually empty or filled with people over the age of 60, so there is nothing to distract me from my work out. That was another thing I was always worried about conventional gyms, the feeling that I'd need to prove that I belong there and that I could actually keep up with it. At this gym, just walking I tend to do more cardio then 50% of the other people there. So there is really no pressure and I just feel confident in taking my time and really pushing myself to do better then myself and no one else. The one thing that I find difficult is eating healthy. 

I'm a notorious chocoholic and I find it really difficult to try and cut that out of my diet. However, I've found the perfect solution as of late and it is the chocolate protein shakes that I've started adding into my smoothies so that I don't have to loose that taste of something I love entirely. Now I'm not suggesting that people should be cutting out things that they like to loose weight but I know in my case that if I am not careful then I'll get rid of any progress that I've made by going to the gym. I'm doing this for myself and to try and be the best version of me that I can be! If you can't love yourself then how can you expect anyone else to love you either? So this is my first step to trying and increase my self-esteem and to give me the chance to say YES to more things that I would shy away from. It is my attempt to build confidence in myself and my choices and going to the gym makes me feel on top of the world. 

If that isn't for you than don't go! Don't do something that you don't like just to impress someone, or to make someone else happy. Be your own person and follow the dreams that you want. If you want to go to the gym and you enjoy it, keep going! If you don't like it, then you can stop and find something else. Maybe you're the kind of person who likes to go running outside or ride a bike. Those are just as good as going and weight lifting! 

So I think that is everything for today! I'll see you all again on Thursday! 

Cheers! x

-A (somelittlebirds)

*NOTE: As I was writing this I tweeted out a Happy Hump Day to the BBC and found out that they retweeted me as the first tweet of the day! Just thought that was a happy little note to toss in there that really made my night/day! Cheers! x