Just Chatting: Summer Has Come!

Summery summery summer. Hooray! Alright so at the moment it is raining and windy, but not quite one of those raining days which you should make cookies on, so I'm pretty upset with the weather. No matter! I will take to my blog to obsess over the summery spirit! 

(But seriously, my internet drops out when we have bad weather so I'm not particularly happy. Shhh you lot about first world problems).

So Christmas is coming. How do we feel about that? Personally, I'm really excited. My brothers (at least I think they both are) are coming down to visit which is pretty good because now I only get to see them about once a year. Sigh. Growing up. Sigh. But still that's a good things that happens to me.

Now in my Christmas holidays I generally end school, am really excited for the amount of things I'll be able to do now that I have free time. (You know, do kick ass paintings, be able to finally just do that bit more with ukulele, and therefore be able to properly say I can play the god damn thing and generally other cool stuff). But then the first day comes and I basically sleep until around 9.30 (this is pretty late for me) and then lie around for another hour wondering why on earth I should get up. Wait, hang on. I saw a photo about this a while ago. Hold that thought while I go and find it... *That weird intermission music plays* (If you've never heard it, sing yourself elevator music).

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Honestly, these things don't happen. I think last summer I was in the depths of some sort of depression (I don't know. Apparently that was what it was. I just remember that it was shit - excuse they language). And generally I spend most of my summer sleeping, because I've stayed up (alone) far to look the night before. Not doing anything. Also dying at family reunions. You know the thing. Also I never actually hang out with my friends that much, because generally most of them will be working or I just generally won't want to see them. Or we just can't be bothered to text each other back. (So that's my summer. What about yours?)

Anyway I always see these amazing photos of people on their flawless summers and the rest of us can sort of stare and wonder what it would be like to have lives like theirs.

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FriLife: Containg Best Friends

Now I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining here, by any means. I have a great life, but sometimes I feel down. (Yes I know, omg). Anyway I just supposed I share some of my feels with you all today (warning,  may get kind of deep haha. It is almost midnight here).

So throughout my entire life I've never felt like I've had that 'best friend'. I don't know why. Maybe a lot of people don't. I've no idea. But I've had friends (why am I talking in past tense? It's all good, I still have friends). And my friends are pretty great, I can't complain. But I remember as a kid when people were told to say they're best friend, I was never named and that's stayed with me for life. (Yay for great childhood memories!)

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I've always been incredibly independent, to the point of incredible stubbornness (seriously when I was a child I'd spend five minutes per shoelace because I wouldn't let my mum tie them). To me, it's always been that if I need help, I do it myself. I'm generally too proud to ask for help in things that I can't do well, or I just don't have the energy to be embarrassed. I know I have people around me who I could rely on to help me, but I have this weird mindset that if I can't help myself, than what is anyone else going to be able to do?

And I think this way of thinking probably doesn't help me at all. But I seriously can't change it. So I suppose I just accept that fact about myself.

As a kid I was always a loner. Literally when we had free time, all the other girls would be playing hairdressers or dress up and I'd sit but this gigantic teddy bear and squished next to the old gas heater reading books. I remember when I finished my first book there and I remember looking up and seeing everyone doing there own thing and having their own fun, but what they were doing didn't interested me, and I didn't know how it interested them. I just knew I'd rather have a book for company (haha I was a nerd from the very start).

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And I've never really changed that much since being a kid. And I suppose all of these factors have always made me feel, I don't know how to put it, that I'm in life I'm in it alone? Does that make sense? I've always never been able to see the friends around me properly (don't ask me how. Ugh brain...). I'll just look back a year later or something and think 'wow, I had great friends then. Why didn't I realsid it?' And so I've always felt alone. But most of the time this doesn't bother me, I'm generally pretty happy with how I'm going in life. Anyway, I know that I'm not great at being able to completely devote myself to a friendship (if I'm around someone too much, no matter who they are, I'll get sick of them - fact of life for me). 

I've been told by many lovable people that I barely manage to classify as a female so I suppose I'm working on a lot of things haha. 

However, there are days (like today) when I'm just not very good at handling the fact that I'm a pretty lonely person. And there's no particular reason for this days to come and there's no help in being down about it and basically it's completely useless because I know I'm not going to change. 

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I don't really know what I'm trying to say. I suppose my point is (come on Caitlin come up with a point) we can't chose what we're going to be bad at? I suppose my conclusion is that I'm just bad at understanding people, and that's me. And other people at bad at other things, and that's the way they are. And we all get down about the randomest things. I know on days (that aren't today) I wouldn't have my life any other way.

Ahhh the confusing life of being 16! I know perks of being wallflower is really hipster and all (I don't care, it was amazing) but seriously I spend so much of my time feeling both happy and sad at the same time. Except with a whole other bunch of emotions blended in there. And I'm bad with emotions. Bad. And so I spend a lot of time in my day wondering what the hell is wrong with me. 

Anyway, I better get to sleep because otherwise I will be so tired for tomorrow. It's all good I get to sleep in! (YAAAYYY - sorry, extreme excitement) So that's one good thing for tomorrow already. Alright. Nighty night guys! XO

Style: Dyeing Hair

Personally, I'm a bit on the fence about the whole hair colour thing. It's a big trend at the moment, especially the idea of ombre. I generally like the whole idea of it, but my problem is when its not done properly. It just looks BAD.

You know, when girls try to ombre their hair and it turns out that their hair randomly has a distinct line where it turns from brown to blonde? (Or whatever colour they're dyeing their hair). That line. Ugh. It kills me inside. Or when someone has that epic regrown and you look at it and know it looked cool once but now you're literally cringing. 

But on the times when it's done right. WOW. I think everyone has drool coming out of their mouth. It's like a statement in itself, and you don't even have to worry about the clothes.

So moral of the story; you're hair can look absolutely amazing if you dye it, but please don't do it as a particularly impulse thing, because generally those look really bad. But if you want to dye it, go for it, just fork out the money to get it done properly so you actually remain with hair on your head and not straw. (Yes being a little harsh here, but I think every one feels me).

So what do you think? Agree, disagree? Have any opinion at all? Want to show off your own amazing hair? Down in the comments please!

Style: Street Style

So this is a first and I'm very excited about it. Right, so I have a passion for street style. Completely love it. To describe my own style, I call it an edgy but elegant sort of thing (my friends thoroughly inform me that it is hipster... ugh...) Basically one of my core beliefs is for people to wear what they want, and to wear it because they like it, not because someone else does. But this is some of my style inspirations from the past few months and I thought I'd share!

OK, so the first photo is right on point with trends at the moment (the stripy shirt). I'm learning to love it although I'm not big on 'following the trends', I kind of like to look at them because it gives me an opportunity to look at things that I probably wouldn't usually do. I like the simplicity about the outfit (I'm generally not big on the fancier side - I just can't be bothered.) But the casual shirt, with that purse and the sunglasses, added to the ombred (why is autocorrect telling me that ombre isn't a word??) hair to dress it all up; yep I like that. It's also, for those of us who are addicted to underdressing, a good way of dressing up casual clothes just to make it a bit more city and less chilling-at-the-beach-with-friends.

Seconds photo (we're going across ways here) I'd just like to say if you have red hair, NEVER dye it. I will seriously murder you if you do. I LOVE red hair and this girl is just acing it. Also, I'm having serious love with that leather backpack. Argh.

Let's talk about this this third girl's hair. Oh. My. God. It is glorious. I kind of didn't pay attention to her outfit and just stared at her hair. Then I glanced at her face and saw she is also totally adorable. Ah some people have all the luck.

OK so in these photos I think you can see that I admire people who dye their hair quirky colours. The grey dress and the high socks with ankle boots? I'm up for that. Also, I'd like to note that I absolutely love high socks, as long as they don't make you look like a prostitute.  That's not a good look...

Just kind of liked the boots in this next photo. And I liked the simple rolling of the jeans. I think I might have had socks just poking out of the top of the boots though. Not really sure though, depends on the rest of the outfit.

White blonde hair. Especially when it is long. It's absolutely gorgeous and incredible hard to pull off to look good (most people do it cheaply and it sort of makes their hair look like hay - please if you want to do this, splurge and do it right otherwise it will look hideous).

The girl coming of the washing machine (I think?) is one of my all time favorite photos. It looks comfortable and edgy, which I adore. Also I have a crush on over-sized shirts and white doc martins so extra points from me.

If you're into make up (I like it, but I am by no means an expert) I thought the next photo was kind of cool. I'm big on heavy eyebrows and I thought she did really well with highlighting those cheekbones, so if you want some make up inspiration, try that one maybe? (If you do, please send me a photo!)

Now I know that stockings and shorts aren't everyone's favourite (my mother hates it) but I have a passion for it. It's another one of those things where you have to constantly check that prostitute line. But it's also a practical things for me, where I can recycle my shorts into winter. (Plus, it's also really comfortable, so that's always a bonus).

And now to lucky last (I'm joking it's not actually lucky, it's just another photo). But as mentioned before, I have thing for over-sized shirts and with that comes rolling shirt sleeves. I think it looks really good, a good way of personalizing something or making it a bit more casual if you're needing to dress down. Once again, I think she has white blonde hair so of course I was going to love this photo. Also, for someone like me who lives in Australia (where everyone has a love affair with the beach) and having more of a street style, I often find it hard to find inspiration to see denim shorts styled in a different way.

So yeah. That's about all I've got so say (I'm joking there's heaps more, but I have a feeling you don't want me to ramble for even longer). Sorry for going on and on for so long, but I hope you enjoyed today's post and let me know if you liked it! :D

Just Chatting: Not Much Is Happening

Hello guys!

So today... I woke up feeling like I should go and do things (yes, serious motivation) and I went general stuff around the garden and things.  I enjoyed myself, so that was pretty good. Then I went to my piano concert, I played OK and so I suppose there's nothing to complain about there. But now I'm sitting here at my computer and I swear all of the energy has just been sucked out of me (insert vacuum cleaner noise). 

Oh by the way, Blogger's has an update (or at least that's what I think) and it's now weird to insert photos and write because it moves around as you write it (OK it's hard to explain) so if any of my posts look a bit strange, that's why.

So for the rest of the afternoon, I think I'm just going to chill and do not much. Might make myself a cup of tea a bit later. If I have the effort...

If it is raining where you are, I am really jealous. You know that rain, that when you're inside, chilling with a movie and a hot chocolate or whatever you like to do when it rains (a lot of the time I'm one of those people who breaks out to cooking scales and starts making cookies. I'm not really sure why I need the rain to do this, but anyway...) and you can hear the rain just hitting the window and you look up and you know it's going to rain all night and you're going to be able to fall asleep to the rain? I like that rain. I really like that rain. I think I'm having a rain craving.

Anyway, I thought I'd leave you with some recent pictures that I've been loving from the past couple of weeks :D

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Just Chatting: One Of Those Days.

Do you ever have those days when you kind of want to drop out, start a band and have the time of your life, while still wanting to break down and cry while knowing that you're still fine and your life is going OK?

Do you feel me on this on guys? I don't know, but I'm sure as hell having it right now. So how was your Halloween? What did you do on your weekend? Did anything exciting happen to you today? (OK, I admit. I'm kind of rambling now.) Honestly I kind of just wanted to tell you about my mood and wanted to write a blog post because I haven't made one in ages.

Oh right guys, I had something I wanted to put to you all. I thought that I might do a little cute post once a week/fortnight about particular things that I'm finding help me with my life. Sometimes they'll be deep, sometimes they'll be really short. (WARNING: I may be prone to say "back when I was your age." Joking. Hopefully I won't.) So what do you lot think? If you've got anything you particularly want me to write about I'll try (if it's something mushy I'll be crap at it but I'll give it a try. I suppose. You know me, just probably don't ask me about mushy.)

Alrighty then, I have to go and study because that's always a fun thing to do. (Not. I really am joking here.Just kind of want to relax and watch a movie, but no! Appearently education wants to have its say in what I do with my time. Ugh.)

Oh and I just  thought I'd leave you with something cute and adorable (with pictures! Arh!)

FriLife: Breakfast

Okey dokey then guys. My newest obsession (well I've thought this for a while really) is breakfast. Now we all know "breakfast is the most important meal of the day... blah.... because.... blah blah and it might just be good for you... *continue blah*..." I'm not so fussed on that, I just  really like breakfast.

So in the last year I've gone from not eating breakfast, to having macaroni cheese for breaky (ah those were the days) to having a gigantic one, then just to having an average sized breakfast. I think I should say that I'm not a big an of cereal, and I like sleep to much to bother sitting down to eat breakfast - mornings are extreme multitasking.

So I have a few fail safe breakfasts that are quick and easy which I thought I'd tell you all (plus, they're pretty healthy so if you're like me and you don't like to start off your day badly they're pretty good.) Oh and you don't actually know how to cook to do them so don't feel scared.

1. Eggs.

OK eggs are great. And don't tell me they're not. Because they are. Eat them for breakfast - they make you feel full for the rest of the day. Eat them how you want them to be eaten. I boil them generally (five minutes for the perfect egg) and you eat it by itself or with toast. On a weekend I might fry them and have it with humus or pesto. I've always been terrible at poaching so I won't recommend that but basically eggs are good for you. And they taste delicious. So you should eat them.

(In the mornings I get a saucepan, boil water, then chuck the egg in which takes me about two minutes in total, so you can other things while you're waiting for your breakfast. Even my gran does them in the microwave for 30 seconds and bam! she has an egg. And don't go "ew, microwaves" because it is seriously just another way of cooking.)

2. Juices.

Since I'm getting into the summer spirit, I feel like juices are a great thing. They are completely brilliant and it's easy enough to turn them into a good way of getting a serve of dairy and fruit. (Apparently we're meant to eat 3 serves of dairy a day. I think I struggle to get one...) But my point of writing about juices is that I assume that you think what I thought, being that juices are for professional cafes to do and they're really hard to make. It's OK. I'm here to tell you they're not.

What you have to do it chuck a whole bunch of stuff into a blender (you don't even have to have a professional one, my friend does it with a bowl and and a hand held beater) and you've got yourself a juice. Just remember that you've got to add some kind of liquid in it to make it actually turn into a juice rather than a kind of paste thingy. As a general rule, I stick to three basic things. (eg. Banana, apple juice - I just get that from a bottle from the supermarket - and ginger, or strawberry, carrot and cinnamon together.) It's sort of fail safe, because it generally tastes pretty good. Don't be scared of juicing vegetables because they work just fine as well. By the way, frozen fruit works fine - that's what I always use for berries and things.

Although, if I have a juice I'll always have something else with it because it doesn't properly fill me up. Also generally it takes more time than I have when I have to get out the door so I only do them on weekends.

(PS. The juice in the photo is banana, nectarine and orange juice.)

3. Yoghurt.

Yoghurt is my most reached for food in the morning. Now, I'm one of those people who likes Greek yoghurt (also called natural yoghurt) but I use flavoured yoghurt too (I just don't like the ones that are really sweet - I had a honey flavoured one once. Ugh. It was disgusting.) Sometimes I'll eat them plainly but that's pretty rarely. I like to chop up fruits and chuck them in (any fruit we have really) to make a summery sort of thing or when it's winter/autumn (or anytime really, because this is my favourite breakfast) have nuts (walnuts, almonds, etc.), sultanas (or any other dried fruit), desiccated coconut, and sometimes (mainly in the depths of winter) I'll add some rolled oats to it. (This is what  is shown in the photograph.)

Basically it changed whatever my mood is, I'll combine my winter-y yoghurt with fruit, or I'll add other things such as pumpkin seeds. But it just tastes good and is good for you and keeps you full for the rest of the day :D

Yay for breakfast! Helping for life! (get it? FriLife - For life. Ok basically it just sounded cool and I had to come up with something relevant. OK I'll shush now.)

Advice: Flaws

Now, I don't actually know where I'm going with this post. Generally I don't tell/advise people on how to live their lives but for some reason with this blog I can't seem to get away from it. Ugh. Stop preaching Caitlin.

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Alrighty then. So I was talking with one of my close friends the other day (havin' a good ol' goss!) and we were just talking about all the people who were are friends with and just chatting about them. And we got onto talking about my friend Mahalia.

Let Me explain Mahalia. She is such a dreamer, it is actually amazing. Everything she does is unconventional and not in a  "Oh I don't want to be mainstream" but that is just the way she is. Basically she spends her time doing what she loves because she loves it. It's striking me now how rare that is. Anyway, Mahalia manages to piss off a lot of people just by being herself, and she doesn't really mind. I think she's too busy drawing or doing whatever else dreamer-y to notice most of the time.

But what my friend and I were talking about is that what Mahalia does, which pisses off most people, is what the rest of us love her best for. She's a great person, and she's always  up for an adventure or a dare. Completely spontaneous. And I know that's not for everyone and that is completely fine, but for me and my friend, we completely adore that about her and wouldn't have it any other way. (I swear I didn't mean to ramble about my friends.)

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OK, so my point is by this story (it's taking me long enough to come to it) is that what other people see as Mahalia's 'flaws' is my favourite things about her. Everyday I'm around her I'm constantly reminded that people's flaws are brilliant. Oh my god, OK, moral of the story: don't bury your 'flaws' but just go out and do what makes you happy. Don't do what makes you feel ok 'OK', but happy enough for you to want to sing from the roof tops (except the fact that you will most probably fall). I mean, doesn't I've always wanted a life where (most of the time - no not all of the time, then it wouldn't be special!) they fall asleep with a smile on their face?

This all seems easy enough for me to say, and I know I'm being a hypocrite here because I don't totally do it myself, but everyday I try and work on it, just by doing little things everyday. Just pushing the comfort barrier - not completely breaking it (Unless you're really brave. If you are this brave, I love you for it. I am also very jealous).

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I've got another friend, Gaby, who is a bit of a bitchy person. A couple of years I hated her for it. Now I adore her, because she still has that bitchiness about her, but she is an entirely nice bitch. What I mean is that she is totally fine with knowing that she is a 'bitch' and she just knows this is a part of her, but instead of sending it away, she embraces it. But she still is genuinely a good person, maybe not a kind one, but if you treat her right, she'll do right by you. And I love that. She knows that people are going to hate her for it, but she's embraced that part of herself and I love that she doesn't try and hide it.

I read this quote while thinking about Gaby and it was "If you accept your flaws, no one can use they against you" and I don't know, I think it's kind of corny but it's really true.  So basically, this is just a long winded ramble in my realization that 'flaws' are brilliant. I love flaws. They make life totally interesting.

Just Chatting: An Introduction

There's a billion things I'd tell you all if I just knew the words to tell them. There' a thousand things that I'd write about: my life, people I'm surrounded with, the events that happen if everyday life. (Events that on some level I understand and on another level I have no hope of ever explaining how they mean that at all -  you feel me?).

But the thing is, the words are hard to find. They don't just appear on screen like the credits in a movie, no that would be too easy. They have to float to me, often at the most inconvenient times (in the middle of an English test anyone?) But that's the way they are. And that's the way life is in it's own funny way. It doesn't come timetabled and orderly, exactly how you want it. Life is a bunch of school boys, rowdy and laughing; trying to balance each other with their own wishes. And it doesn't make sense, how they consider themselves in relation to each other rather than in relation with reality.

I've never known which way to point this blog. Which mood to write it in. Most blogs seem to have a theme. That makes sense right? So readers can read about stuff they're actually interested in an not just a whole truck load of random stuff? But the thing you've got to understand guys, is those people have talent. Talent. Serious talent. I don't know how they do it. Honestly.
So basically what I'm trying to say here is that I can't remain on the one topic. I can't write my rants, or just my melancholy stories, I can't just tell you about a random in my life ( that you probably don't care about, but hey! it gave me the inspiration, so you get tor read about it!). So I won't tell you about only one aspect of my life, I'll tell you about my whole life. Random stuff that doesn't quite fit into a category, right from my mouth (or fingers since I'm typing).