Today I leave my Friends, my Family, my Home and my Country- basically everything and everyone I've ever known and grown to love. On this day, Wednesday 26th of August 2015, I leave for my Dream: Europe!
For five and a half amazing weeks I will be overseas exploring the lands I've spent years only dreaming and Googling about. I will be traveling completely alone to begin with- something that terrifies me as much as it excites me, but 3 days after landing in London I will be joining my Contiki and will no longer be by myself. Unless of course everyone on this tour decides they don't want to be my friend. In that case, then yes- they will have put Carissa in the corner. I doubt that will happen though. In the small chance it does I will just latch onto them and force my friendship upon them.
Before this trip I had never done anything alone. Purely for the reason I have the worst memory and suck at directions. I kid you not. I used a GPS for the first three months of knowing my boyfriend, to get to his home. I should probably add his house is around 7minutes away from mine- with about 4 turns needed. On a positive note- I did go out for lunch by myself for the first time in my life a month ago- so I'm totally prepared to take on a whole new country solo. Lunch: Foreign Country- practically the same thing right? They both involve food anyway.
One thing I have learnt after planning and organising this trip is I will Never be using a travel Agent again. Ever. I have never known a less organised bunch of professionals- in the end I was basically doing my Travel Agents job for her. Days would pass where I had phoned her and asked a question, and she still hadn't gotten back to me close to a week later. In the end it was me communicating with my airline and me organising my tickets to be sent to me. The only reason I used an agent to begin with was so she could price match the (already cheapest) flights I had found all on my own. In the end saving myself $60 which didn't end up being worth the stress she gave me. It may not be all Travel Agents- But Escape Travel in Ballina will never be getting my money again after this.
On that note I am going to end this post- who am I kidding, I still have some packing to do and my flight leaves in 3 hours.
Until my next destination,
xox
Summer Body Guide Part 2
As Promised in my previous Post here is Part Two to my Summer Body Guide.
By now I'm sure you can definitely see the change in your body I had promised you. I am also sure that there were a few days you wanted to give up as you felt you couldn't do it any longer. If you're still here now I want to congratulate you on achieving what you have! You should be proud of yourself. I told you it wasn't going to be easy, but I hope by now you can see it has, and will continue to be worth it.
By now I'm sure you can definitely see the change in your body I had promised you. I am also sure that there were a few days you wanted to give up as you felt you couldn't do it any longer. If you're still here now I want to congratulate you on achieving what you have! You should be proud of yourself. I told you it wasn't going to be easy, but I hope by now you can see it has, and will continue to be worth it.
The second half of this guide IS scarier than the first, and it is a main reason I split it in two parts. If you read ahead to the end of this Guide before even starting I'm sure the intensity of what is to follow would've scared some of you away: with doubts you were unable to even attempt what is left to this Guide. After getting halfway, I hope you hold a different perspective and have learnt you are actually capable of achieving a lot more than you first assumed.
So without further ramblings and pats on backs I shall give you Part 2 to My Summer Body Guide.
DAY SIXTEEN:
80 Squats
DAY SEVENTEEN:
75 Sit-ups
100 Crunches
45 Leg Raises
12 Pushups
50 Squats
65 Secs Plank
DAY EIGHTEEN:
80 Sit-ups
110 Crunches
48 Leg Raises
14 Pushups
125 Squats
70 Secs Plank
DAY NINETEEN:
85 Sit-ups
120 Crunches
50 Leg Raises
15 Pushups
50 Squats
75 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY:
REST DAY
DAY TWENTY ONE:
90 Sit-ups
130 Crunches
52 Leg Raises
15 Pushups
145 Squats
80 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY TWO:
95 Sit-ups
140 Crunches
55 Leg Raises
16 Pushups
80 Squats
85 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY THREE:
100 Sit-ups
150 Crunches
58 Leg Raises
17 Pushups
40 Squats
90 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY FOUR:
100 Squats
DAY TWENTY FIVE:
105 Sit-ups
160 Crunches
60 Leg Raises
17 Pushups
95 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY SIX:
110 Sit-ups
170 Crunches
60 Leg Raises
18 Pushups
75 Squats
100 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY SEVEN:
115 Sit-ups
180 Crunches
62 Leg Raises
19 Pushups
50 Squats
110 Secs Plank
DAY TWENTY EIGHT:
150 Squats
DAY TWENTY NINE:
120 Sit-ups
190 Crunches
62 Leg Raises
19 Pushups
95 Squats
115 Secs Plank
DAY THIRTY:
125 Sit-ups
200 Crunches
65 Leg Raises
20 Pushups
175 Squats
120 Secs Plank
Now that you've completed this Guide I hope you have achieved the Summer Body which you originally wanted. I also hope you've all gained more self confidence and faith in yourself in what you're capable of achieving.
Let me know in the comments how you all went, and if you will be continuing this Guide but personalising it to yourself!
Let me know in the comments how you all went, and if you will be continuing this Guide but personalising it to yourself!
Why I Jab My Face With Needles & You Should Too
I will be the first to raise my hand if the question "who has problem skin?" is asked. True, I'll admit it isn't as bad as I make it out to be, but for me I would much rather if it were a lot clearer than it is. I've tried many (many many) different products, my bin will tell you that. I've increased the amount of water I drink a day, and even try (most days) to have a healthy diet, but nothing seems to completely fix my skin.
After doing a fair bit of research on micro needling, I finally had the courage to buy my own "mini" micro needler. Now, I didn't spend big $$ on a fancy pancy machine. 1 because I do not have money to waste on products that "may" work, and 2 even if I did have the money I wouldn't be able to justify to myself spending so much on one item. So I did what I do best- I resorted to E-bay.
All I did was search "micro needler" and found many different results. The product I ended up choosing for myself was about $18 including postage, so if it did end up being a dud, it wasn't that huge a dent in my amazing bank account. Just a Large Maccas meal and Mcflurry really, and hey my skin would probably appreciate the miss on that meal.
Now if you're not familiar what micro needling does- feel free to Google it. Long story short though is micro needling is a machine/ roller (in my case) which has many many tiny needles sticking out of it, that then goes over your skin puncturing it and causing 'trauma' which then signals to the cells that they need to be regenerated. Therefore creating fresher, newer and hopefully healthier cells.
The Derma Roller I purchased was 0.5mm (the needles length) which has 192 needles on it.
I have used this probably 3 times now and already can say my skin is so much clearer! I have less noticeable (acne) scarring (not completely gone), less pimples and even my pores seem to not be as obvious as before. Only thing I am not a fan of when using this on my skin is it does 'hurt' a bit when rolling it over the skin as you do need to give Some pressure when rolling. Not so much that you're digging it into your skin, but enough so that there is some impact. I found after using it my face feels a bit 'burnt' and goes red for the next few hours. I do however have very sensitive skin so this could possibly not be as bad with other people. I've found using Bio Oil and a moisturiser with Vitamin E does help shorten this effect though.
So reality is (for me) I do not need to go out and spend over $200 on a machine that basically does the exact same thing this one does for me for only $18. The only obvious difference is mine isn't powered so I do have to put pressure onto the gadget myself when using it, oh the shock of doing some work myself! But really, is it honestly worth the big gap in $$?
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