Tune Time!

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Hey everyone! :)

As I've mentioned before I've been going to the gym on a regular basis and have been loving every minute of it. That feeling when your running on one of the machines and can feel the oxygen in your blood just waking you up is one of the most amazing feelings in the world! At least in my opinion it is. So I decided to give you all a little look into the kind of music that I listen to in order to pump me up while I'm working out. Now, I know that a lot of people tend to have different playlists depending on what they are doing (cardio, weightlifting, etc) but I am one of the laziest people when it comes to organizing like that and figuring out what works for me. So instead it is all just kind of on shuffle and I work with whatever comes on. It is better then the crummy music that they play over the speakers. 

So, here we go, in no particular order; 

Doncamatic - Gorillaz ft. Daley

Ever After - Mariana's Trench

Haven't Had Enough - Mariana's Trench

Truth or Dare - Mariana's Trench

Toy Soliders - Mariana's Trench

Shake Tramp - Mariana's Trench

Cross My Heart - Mariana's Trench

Celebrity Status - Mariana's Trench

Gives You Hell - All American Rejects

What the Hell - Avril Lavigne

Your Body - Christina Aguilera

Harder Better Faster - Daft Punk

Heart Attack - Demi Lovato

No Church in the Wild - Devlin ft. Ed Sheeran & Labrinth

Watchtower - Devlin ft. Ed Sheeran & Labrinth

Your Man - Down With Webster

Going Out In Style - Dropkick Murphys

No Diggity/Thriftshop - Ed Sheeran

You Need Me, I Don't Need You - Ed Sheeran

Dance, Dance -  Fall Out Boy

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark - Fall Out Boy

All The Pretty Girls - Fun.

Some Nights - Fun.

Tonight, Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae

I Love It - Icona Pop

Manners - Icona Pop

We Got The World - Icona Pop

Die Young - Ke$ha

Take It Off - Ke$ha

Can't Hold Us - Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis

Everybody Talks - Neon Trees

Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have... - Panic! at the Disco

Crushcrushcrush - Paramore

Misery Business - Paramore

Now - Paramore

That's What You Get - Paramore

Brick By Boring Brick - Paramore

Rizzoli & Isles Theme

Fix You - Vita Chambers

Check Yes Juliet - We The Kings

Bigger Than Us - White Lies

Strangers - White Lies

To Lose My Life - White Lies

Call My Name - Young London

Let Me Go - Young London

Clarity - Zedd

Shotgun - Zedd

Whew! From A to Z that is the music that I've been loving and listening to over and over again int he mornings! Now here is where I need your help! I need some new music! So I would love to know the kind of songs that pump you up and make you feel awesome for whatever reason! I'm really open to any kind of music (as you can probably tell from my severely mixed up style for the gym) so throw anything and everything you've got at me! Maybe you'll find someone else on here who likes the same kind of things and you'll become friends, music is known to do that right?

In other news, I just bought Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation, so I would love to hear your ideas about it. I'm really looking forward to it since I've heard everyone raving about it and finally went to a proper Wal-Mart to pick it up in Canada. Super exciting and glamorous right? Well that is everything for today I am afraid! I've been quite sick the last week and it has kept me stuck at home for days ):

OH! Just a reminder for anyone who is interested...

Credit to Louise from Sprinkofglitter.blogspot.co.uk

Just a reminder that the 30 Day Snap challenge begins on Friday, June 1st, so get your cameras ready! I'll be giving it a go myself, so I would love to see who else is doing it so I can make sure to stalk your blogs!

Cheers! x

-A (somelittlebirds)

Feel the Burn!

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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

Exhaustion!

Hey everyone! :)

So toady is Thursday and I'm a day late with my post...whoops! You'll have to forgive me because last night I fell asleep on my laptop keyboard when I was watching television and the next thing I knew it was too late to even try and write a blog post. So my apologizes for making you wait the one extra day! On the plus side you'll be able to read two blog posts back to back because I will be posting again tomorrow and returning to my regular schedule...hopefully. I've been exhausted lately due to a few reasons, the biggest one being the lack of sleep I've been getting.

I took this off tumblr and I think it is a perfect representation of my sleep cycle.

I haven't been feeling too great the last few weeks as spring has come around and I think I've finally been hit by allergies of some sort. Of what? No clue, but I am going to say it is just generic hay-fever allergies that everyone seems to get this time of year. Well, not everyone but everyone I know. Therefore, I should be sleeping more and getting rest but nope, that isn't how my body wants to play this game. Instead I am constantly stuck in the Extremely Hyper stage of sleep in the above post up until the time my body completely gives out on me. Is this a good thing? Not at all, and I know it. Yet I somehow think that I'm able to live off of four hours of sleep and withstand a full day of activities. Haha, no. That is not possible at all.

The second reason why I am so exhausted is the fact that I've been working a lot more at my part-time job since summer has come around and I'm a broke university student. So as everyone who has a job knows, I'm stuck trying to make money to afford to go to school and feed my favourite activities and hanging out with friends. Generally work isn't too bad, as I'm used to getting two, at the most three, shifts in a week but since I finished for the summer in April, it's been double that and my body isn't quite used to the changes yet. Hopefully that will change and won't be too stressful on me in the end since I would appreciate more energy in my life.

Along the lines of getting more energy I've started going to the gym again. Woo Hoo! At least, I'm kinda excited to be going back because it is the only thing that wakes me up in the morning and gives me enough energy to go for a few hours. I tend to get up super early in the morning and head up to the gym and work out for an hour or an hour and a half, doing all sort of regiments that vary from day to day. I think the reason that I've started going more regularly and trying to keep a strict pattern of what I am doing is because of my self-esteem and self-conscious issues, but that is a topic for another day!

So I am going to keep this short and sweet because I'm still so over-tried that my eyes are heavy with wanting to sleep. Hopefully tomorrow the post will be better and I've got a huge post planned out in my head for it. Thanks to everyone who waited patiently for a post, it really means a lot to me! I hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend (for some people it is a long weekend this weekend, so enjoy the holiday) and remember that tomorrow is Friday!

Cheers! x

-A (somelittlebirds)