Heyy,
I'm feeling pretty good today and thought maybe I should spread a bit of positivity!
Such simple things can make your day..a stranger just saying hello one of them!
So I'm feeling good, no reason for it really, no specific event but I am just content. So if you are having a good day whoo!! and please smile at a stranger buy a homeless person a hot drink (It is surprising how much helping someone else can help you!). If your day isn't going quite so well here are some things to try:
1. Have a nice hot shower/bath and just take an extra 30 seconds to enjoy the warmth!
2. Go for a walk and take some pictures!
3. Change your sheets on your bed and arrange some cushions on the bottom
4. FAIRYYYY LIGHTTTSS!!!! (this needs no explanation)
5. Ring your bestie and have a good old rant/ catch up!
6. Find an animal and hug it....even if its not your animal! (you might find a dog with its owner on your walk^^^^!)
7. Now if you know me you know that I have a slight obsession with socks but putting a pair of fluffy socks on always makes me feel a bit better!
8. Find some new blogs to read
9. Have hot chocolate!!!
10. As I briefly mentioned above helping someone else can make you feel great! Maybe start volunteering, buy someone in need a cake, take some children's presents to a paediatrics ward.
11. Light your favourite smelling candle
12. Put on your favourite clothes, the ones you feel great in. These may be pyjamas or your fanciest frock!
13. Have a quick nap!!!!!
14. Read a book/Listen to an audio book
15. Cuddle a teddy...you are never to old for this I promise.
16. Meet up with someone you love
17. Watch your favourite film (Mine is Inside Out!)
18. Try and learn something new.....sewing (*laughs a lot as has a complete inability to sew!*)
19. Comment on my blog....I will definitely reply and we can have a chat!
20. Put on SUPER LOUD music and sing and dance
21. Paint your nails, take off (or put on) your make up, do a face mask.
22. Indulge yourself this may be in food, using your favourite perfume or even just wearing you favourite underwear!
23. Have a chat to your pillow...tell it everything that is on your mind!
24. Scream really loud
25. Stand up right now, walk to a mirror, look yourself in the eye and just smile, force a laugh, smile.
I hope you are feeling a little happier now!
P.S have a great Christmas if you celebrate it, if Christmas is a difficult time for you please pamper yourself and keep yourself safe.
Love you all
The boringly Ordinarily Normal Teen
Friday, 23 December 2016
Saturday, 17 December 2016
LGBTQ+ Community
Heya,
If any of my friends see this I feel a groan coming along, yes I'm going to talk about the LGBTQ+ community (again for some!) because I can and other people who maybe wish they could can't.
I often have conversations with peoples about gay pride and how it is ridiculous that it is acceptable for people to show off their sexuality. The first point I have about this is why would you not want to dress up go out and have fun for a day! Secondly maybe on a more serious note surely it is a good thing there isn't straight pride...it means that you haven't had to fight to be yourselves! But I mean to begin with who even decided what was going to be classed as the social norm? Did someone sit down and think "People must be a specific gender and they must have romantic relationships with the opposing gender" How did it even start?!
Someone close to me was having a conversation with me about a couple they met. This couple was a lesbian couple with a child now I see no issue here however the person close to me (lets call them Gerald!) was finding it hard to comprehend why one of the ladies in the couple felt the need to refer to the other as their wife. Now WHAT!? If two people are married they are husband and wife, wife and wife, husband and husband or maybe even gender fluid. So why is it an issue for a lady to refer to the person they are married to as their wife. Its a fact! That person is their wife!
Another subject that comes to mind as being closely linked is the US presidential election of Trump. It deeply saddens me that a man with such extreme views on many subjects has been given power. America particularly has come a long way with the rights of homosexual couples and I can see this development going backwards. I really hope that those in America make a stand. I just want you to think about something for a minute, think about two people, one who you feel romantically towards and the other maybe a family member or a friend. (person A and person B) Person A tells you they are bisexual for a heterosexual person this can be hard to hear but if you truly love them should this matter? As for person B would you care if they were straight? So should you care if they aren't?
I want to leave with the statement "I support rights for llamas this does not mean I am a llama (it would be kinda cool if I was!)
Love you all
The Boringly Ordinarily Normal Teen
If any of my friends see this I feel a groan coming along, yes I'm going to talk about the LGBTQ+ community (again for some!) because I can and other people who maybe wish they could can't.
I often have conversations with peoples about gay pride and how it is ridiculous that it is acceptable for people to show off their sexuality. The first point I have about this is why would you not want to dress up go out and have fun for a day! Secondly maybe on a more serious note surely it is a good thing there isn't straight pride...it means that you haven't had to fight to be yourselves! But I mean to begin with who even decided what was going to be classed as the social norm? Did someone sit down and think "People must be a specific gender and they must have romantic relationships with the opposing gender" How did it even start?!
Someone close to me was having a conversation with me about a couple they met. This couple was a lesbian couple with a child now I see no issue here however the person close to me (lets call them Gerald!) was finding it hard to comprehend why one of the ladies in the couple felt the need to refer to the other as their wife. Now WHAT!? If two people are married they are husband and wife, wife and wife, husband and husband or maybe even gender fluid. So why is it an issue for a lady to refer to the person they are married to as their wife. Its a fact! That person is their wife!
Another subject that comes to mind as being closely linked is the US presidential election of Trump. It deeply saddens me that a man with such extreme views on many subjects has been given power. America particularly has come a long way with the rights of homosexual couples and I can see this development going backwards. I really hope that those in America make a stand. I just want you to think about something for a minute, think about two people, one who you feel romantically towards and the other maybe a family member or a friend. (person A and person B) Person A tells you they are bisexual for a heterosexual person this can be hard to hear but if you truly love them should this matter? As for person B would you care if they were straight? So should you care if they aren't?
I want to leave with the statement "I support rights for llamas this does not mean I am a llama (it would be kinda cool if I was!)
Love you all
The Boringly Ordinarily Normal Teen
Achieving your Dreams
Hi all,
Sorry it's been such a long time! Today's post is going to be a bit contrcontrevetial but just hear me out!!!
So as cheesey as this sounds my ultimate dream would to be an Olympic show jumper. The likely good of this happen if is very slim and I have accepted that, I'm not trying to be all oh feel sorry for me I've given up on my dream. No! Today I realised that when it comes to my horsey life I am happy with how it is at the moment. I was constantly pushing for more wanting more because I had a goal and if I wanted to get there I had to really push for it. Now I am never you g to ride in the Olympics end of story! But at times I have been so set on in wanting to get as close to this as possible I lost a love for what I was doing!
I feel we can apply this in many aspects of life, we get so set on getting good grades we forget about enjoying learning new information, learning about others, ourselves and to be honest I think if we stopped stressing about where we are going and actually enjoyed what we are doing we may well get better results in the future because we have taken the time to understand not just revise words!!
My point is, of course you should strive to achieve what you want but in this process don't loose yourself or the passion for what you are doing.
I would like to thank some people for re-kindling my love for horses as animals, for giving me some confidence in myself and telling me that although I'm not perfect (far from it), although I am not the best at what I do that isn't really what matters. IF you are reading this you know who you are!
My dream is probably different to yours but just think about if getting to where you want to go is worth sacrificing your desire to get there.
I am going to try and post a bit more from now on. Have a good Christmas and if you don't celebrate Christmas have a good break over the festive season.
Lots of love
The boringly ordinarily normal teen xx
Sorry it's been such a long time! Today's post is going to be a bit contrcontrevetial but just hear me out!!!
So as cheesey as this sounds my ultimate dream would to be an Olympic show jumper. The likely good of this happen if is very slim and I have accepted that, I'm not trying to be all oh feel sorry for me I've given up on my dream. No! Today I realised that when it comes to my horsey life I am happy with how it is at the moment. I was constantly pushing for more wanting more because I had a goal and if I wanted to get there I had to really push for it. Now I am never you g to ride in the Olympics end of story! But at times I have been so set on in wanting to get as close to this as possible I lost a love for what I was doing!
I feel we can apply this in many aspects of life, we get so set on getting good grades we forget about enjoying learning new information, learning about others, ourselves and to be honest I think if we stopped stressing about where we are going and actually enjoyed what we are doing we may well get better results in the future because we have taken the time to understand not just revise words!!
My point is, of course you should strive to achieve what you want but in this process don't loose yourself or the passion for what you are doing.
I would like to thank some people for re-kindling my love for horses as animals, for giving me some confidence in myself and telling me that although I'm not perfect (far from it), although I am not the best at what I do that isn't really what matters. IF you are reading this you know who you are!
My dream is probably different to yours but just think about if getting to where you want to go is worth sacrificing your desire to get there.
I am going to try and post a bit more from now on. Have a good Christmas and if you don't celebrate Christmas have a good break over the festive season.
Lots of love
The boringly ordinarily normal teen xx
Saturday, 12 November 2016
PUPPY
Hi all,
Sooooooooooo that exciting news I promised.....I got a puppy. His name is Charlie and he is a black springer x poodle. He loves is cuddles but is quite a handful!
Hopefully in the coming weeks he will clam down a bit and I will be able to blog a little more.
I really want to do a post on Trump....I mean who wouldn't!!
This is just a little pupdate (see what I did there), I haven't forgotten my shelves but they are still very much a work in progress!
Please comment anything you want covered in future blog post and if you want to know more about Charlie!!
Blog will resume as normal shortly!!!
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen
xx
Sooooooooooo that exciting news I promised.....I got a puppy. His name is Charlie and he is a black springer x poodle. He loves is cuddles but is quite a handful!
Hopefully in the coming weeks he will clam down a bit and I will be able to blog a little more.
I really want to do a post on Trump....I mean who wouldn't!!
This is just a little pupdate (see what I did there), I haven't forgotten my shelves but they are still very much a work in progress!
Please comment anything you want covered in future blog post and if you want to know more about Charlie!!
Blog will resume as normal shortly!!!
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen
xx
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Shelves....dilemas!
Hey all,
Sorry there has been no post for a while but all will be revraped tomorrow....exciting times ahead!
I have found myself in quite a predicament.......my shelves. I love the quirky look shelves can have but mine currently just look cluttered!!
This is a before shot of my shalves and I hope in a few hours I can update you with some shelfspiration!!
Love you all
The boringly ordinarily normal teen
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
How we view our health.
Hi all,
I had a very interesting conversation with a professional today and how right she was!!
We are trying to break the stigma surrounding mental health and encourage the public to view their mental wellbeing as important as their physical. How are we supposed to do this when even those in the medical profession do not view these things as equal.
A MASSIVE example of this is neurologist and psychologists. Think about how much further we could be in diagnosing conditions and helping people of these professionals worked together. They both study the brain and maybe out mental state has massive physical implications but this could only be realised if these professionals worked together!
Possibly the most well educated people surrounding the brain don't work together. They do not unite and show that they believe both there sectors are equally important, how are we supposed to?
Just some food for thought, please please please comment your views. It means the world when you do!
The Boringly Ordinarily Normal teen xx
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Quote of the day......
My mum just said I should ask you guys 'what are the trees doing in your neck of the woods?' *face palm*
The Eugh days!
Heya,
Sorry there wasn't any content yesterday but have been trying to cram a week worths of homework into a few days!!!! We can just imagine this!!
Today I want to have a little chat about my day....maybe yours too! It was one of THOSE days!! I woke up and thought 'NOOOOOOOO'. No one wants to admit they have these days because they aren't glamorous or productive! (Tell me you guys have them too!!)
So why didn't I want to face today well: I am a teenage girl (to be honest this explains all!!), I have to go back to school in a few days and I have more homework than I wanted to!!
So my day consisted of eating a massive bag of crisps in bed, writing an English essay, doing half a maths paper, watching Homeland (Its on Netflix and I LOVE it!!!) I am not ashamed to admit I didn't get up until 5 to six....no shame!!!
What should I have done today....force myself out of bed run to the gym and sit at my desk and work. Was this EVER going to happen....Duh No!!
Here's some ideas that is somewhere in between rotting in bed all day and running to the gym!!
Go for a walk, this time of year is stunning. You you can get creative with photography or pick little souvenirs. Garuntee you will feel a bit more productive after This!
That's right the good old pamper yourself!! Light those candles and chill oout.....okay Not so great if you need to get stuff done but if you have a free day, whats better!!
Hug a teddy bear...if you really can't get yourself out of bed switch some fairy lights on and make yourself feel like a princess.
Who doesn't love a good book? REEEAAAAD!! Don't just rely on Netflix pic up your ultimate fav book ('I see you' is SHAMAZING')
Eat and drink healthily. Only one sneaky bar of chocolate if you must!! (I actually hate bananas!! Don't eat food you hate!!)
Did I do these things .....no! Should I hhave.....yeah probably! Do what I say not what I do!!
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen xx
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Taking advantage
Heya,
I am going to have a little rant because what I have just witnessed angers me immensely. I'm sure all of you reading this are good people, I hope you are. After reading this please phone your gran, grandad, elderly neighbour and keep them safe.
A man has just phoned my nan claiming to be from a company that talk talk employ and is going to help fix her emails. Now my nan has been having trouble with her emails and needed to access them to receive possible bad news. He took advantage of her lack of knowledge around technology and gained access to her computer.
After realising what was happening I quickly put a stop to it and my nan passed me the phone and I wasn't having it!
My nan is now worried about her privacy and online safety and she shouldn't have to be because people like this should not be allowed to get away with it.
Please talk to those around you. Tell them the warning signs.
Thank you (Ok rant over!)
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Hero's of the streets
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for the massive response, it is incredible and far more than I expected. This morning I have something I want to talk about so here is the first post of many...
Homeless war veterans they deserve so much more than they receive, from the public and government.
Take a moment, I want you to picture yourself, your partner, children, parents, friends.
You are deployed to Afghanistan leaving everyone you love behind but you smile as you leave to represent your country and help those in desperate need. In Afghanistan you kill many men, you loose your best friends, you see the death of children, you see fear in their eyes. Whilst you are fighting for what you know is right you receive the new your mother has passed away; her funeral was yesterday. You have no time to mourn your own loss, besides it can't be true can it?
Every day is a struggle but there are many moments when you couldn't imagine being with anyone than your fellow soldiers. They are family. When bombs explode and shots are fired they feel it too, they know the adrenaline rush that propels you forward.
The day comes when you are told you can return home and it seems like the best day of your life, it probably is as when you step off that plane back onto English soil your life has changed forever:
You are allowed to stay with your brother for a bit whilst you adjust back to civilian life but the trauma you have experienced never goes away and you are eventually diagnosed with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). You scream in the night, lash out sometimes and your brother no longer wants you in the house because your behaviour upsets his daughter.
You end up on the streets.
No one would want this, no one should be homeless but war veterans have fought for our lives and others and are forced to live in shop doorways, under card board boxes battling the elements. You may here the word homeless and associate it with other derogatory terms and actions that people take such as becoming alcohol or drug dependant. For some this is the case for others it isn't, just the same as it is for some who live in a house, flat, bungalow.
Next time you see someone homeless, try to give what you can. A muffin, some money, hat or scarf. Remember they are people and should be treated with the dignity they deserve. They aren't just littering the streets the sad truth is many of them are actually war heroes. Okay you may not be able to change their world but you can certainly help them have a day that is tiny bit more bearable.
Please lets break these stereotypes and help the homeless.
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen.
'How do they have money to buy cigarettes?' A question many ask but if a person wants to buy them with their money as a stress relief as something to subdue the starvation they are free to do so.
Thank you so much for the massive response, it is incredible and far more than I expected. This morning I have something I want to talk about so here is the first post of many...
Homeless war veterans they deserve so much more than they receive, from the public and government.
Take a moment, I want you to picture yourself, your partner, children, parents, friends.
You are deployed to Afghanistan leaving everyone you love behind but you smile as you leave to represent your country and help those in desperate need. In Afghanistan you kill many men, you loose your best friends, you see the death of children, you see fear in their eyes. Whilst you are fighting for what you know is right you receive the new your mother has passed away; her funeral was yesterday. You have no time to mourn your own loss, besides it can't be true can it?
Every day is a struggle but there are many moments when you couldn't imagine being with anyone than your fellow soldiers. They are family. When bombs explode and shots are fired they feel it too, they know the adrenaline rush that propels you forward.
The day comes when you are told you can return home and it seems like the best day of your life, it probably is as when you step off that plane back onto English soil your life has changed forever:
You are allowed to stay with your brother for a bit whilst you adjust back to civilian life but the trauma you have experienced never goes away and you are eventually diagnosed with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). You scream in the night, lash out sometimes and your brother no longer wants you in the house because your behaviour upsets his daughter.
You end up on the streets.
No one would want this, no one should be homeless but war veterans have fought for our lives and others and are forced to live in shop doorways, under card board boxes battling the elements. You may here the word homeless and associate it with other derogatory terms and actions that people take such as becoming alcohol or drug dependant. For some this is the case for others it isn't, just the same as it is for some who live in a house, flat, bungalow.
Next time you see someone homeless, try to give what you can. A muffin, some money, hat or scarf. Remember they are people and should be treated with the dignity they deserve. They aren't just littering the streets the sad truth is many of them are actually war heroes. Okay you may not be able to change their world but you can certainly help them have a day that is tiny bit more bearable.
Please lets break these stereotypes and help the homeless.
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen.
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
WOW
Okay I am getting close to 200 page views, I am almost crying with happiness because of the response to this! Please keep sharing! Love you all.
Boringly Ordinarily Normal teen xx
Take a chance and make a change!
Hi,
I guess that is the best way to start, I have been one of these people who disagree with things in the world but let it carry on, I don't want to be that person anymore. I am taking a chance and trying to make a change. Okay maybe no one will read this! But who cares at least it is out there for people to see.
This blog has been a figment of my imagination for months but I have not had the balls to do it. Today a small comment something that I have heard over a million times ''Go kill yourself " was left on a young boys YouTube video and I knew I could not let it go anymore.
This is my place to rant, tell you about my life, my journey. The highs and the lows but most of all I want to share my views. Make people question themselves. There may be no right or wrong. Together let's try and change the world.
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen.
I guess that is the best way to start, I have been one of these people who disagree with things in the world but let it carry on, I don't want to be that person anymore. I am taking a chance and trying to make a change. Okay maybe no one will read this! But who cares at least it is out there for people to see.
This blog has been a figment of my imagination for months but I have not had the balls to do it. Today a small comment something that I have heard over a million times ''Go kill yourself " was left on a young boys YouTube video and I knew I could not let it go anymore.
This is my place to rant, tell you about my life, my journey. The highs and the lows but most of all I want to share my views. Make people question themselves. There may be no right or wrong. Together let's try and change the world.
Love the boringly ordinarily normal teen.
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