TGIF! #1

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Hey everyone! :)

So I've decided that I'm going to start a Friday series that is going to focus on some amazing quotes that I come across between Fridays! Some weeks it may not be much of a saying as it could be something a friend said, other weeks it could be quoted from a famous person that speaks worlds about a particular feeling for that day. I decided to do this kind of thing partly based on the idea of Zoella and Louise talking about saying yes to more things and giving their readers motivation and support for a lot of things! So I decided that I wanted to try and do the same kind of thing because it was a really amazing idea and I love ending the week on a good note.

Everyone constantly faces struggles and battles in their life and often feel completely alone from it. I've suffered from a lot of medical issues in recent months that often leave me feeling tried and completely frustrated with myself. I've got problems with my knees, my blood, my eyes, and it feels like everything else in between. I know that those appear very minimal compared to the battles that other people are facing but those are often only the beginning for me. I don't want to go into too much detail about everything that cycles through my head on a regular basis but I will tell you that it is often not a pleasant outlook on myself and the way that I believe I look. However, I don't let those things define me, I work had to push past those struggles so that I can come out all the better for it. The last thing I want in my life is for people to tell me that my struggle wasn't worth it and that it wasn't a fight to get where I am or will be in the future.

Don't let anyone tell you that your problems aren't real or are all in your head. Don't let them tell you that you're never going to reach the dreams and goals that you've set for yourself because you have to work your way up from the bottom of the pile. That is only going to make the success so much better and sweeter tasting. In those moments when you are feeling as though no one is able to understand the struggle you are going through, know that someone out there does really care about you and is willing to listen to you. Know that they are hoping that you are going to succeed and that you're going to make them proud. Even if it doesn't feel like it, there is; trust me. I know that it doesn't mean much from a person you barely know but just know that I'm rooting for all of you to succeed in life and to conquer those mountains of struggles to reach the reward on the top of it.

Let me know if you think I should keep going with these and if you have any kind of quotes you would like to see used or talked about or just passed along for everyone to see. I'm going to try and vary the areas that I am getting them from so I hope that I can help one person relate to it. If you ever need to talk about something, I am more then willing to listen to you! I'm writing this blog for all of you just as much as I am for myself.

Have an amazing weekend everyone! :)

Cheers! x

-A (somelittlebirds)

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)