What to do when you're feeling down

These are some things that work for me when I'm feeling not so great, angry at the world or sad in general, hopefully they'll work for you.

Atmosphere
- Set up some uplifting or calming aromatherapy. My favourites are juniper berry, grapefruit, mint and sage(not together)
- Put on your favourite music and chill for a moment
- Set up a fan or air-conditioning to a slightly cooler temperature

Activities
Not necessarily in conjunction with the atmosphere suggestions
- Exercise. Exercising releases endorphins which will make you feel better. Exercising every day can help even more sever cases of depression.
- Drink some water and breathe deeply
- Read whatever book you're enjoying at the moment to take you away from whatever's pissing you off.
- Write everything that's upsetting you down. Can be typed or hand written, I prefer typed because you can get it all out quickly. Doesn't have to make sense or be in any sort of order, just keep writing until it's all out. Afterwards you can either save it or delete it. I like to save it, not sure why, but it makes me feel better to have my thoughts written down somewhere.
- Have a bath. I feel so comfortable in a bath. You can have it with bubbles or aromatherapy oils or just clear water.
- Do something you love. For me it would be horse riding or reading, so after I've gotten all of my anger out by writing it down then I can do something that makes me feel good.
- Crank some dance music (I enjoy Eminem) and jump around your room like a crazy person. This also releases endorphins as it is a form of exercise.
- Call someone you love and talk to them about it
- Hang out with your friends or do something that makes you laugh, for example watching Parks and Recreation always makes me laugh

I drank coffee and now everything is moving at super speed

I don't know why I keep drinking coffee, it always makes me really anxious and fast moving. Sometimes I just lose my shit and end up having a horrible paranoia filled day and sometimes I feel really awesome for 20 minutes and then crash.
Coffee doesn't agree with my body.

I drank coffee today because I couldn't focus on this historical stuff I'm reading for my Study of Religion assignment...but now I have too much energy to sit still. My leg is shaking like a crazy thing and I'm typing really fast right now, but I need to do my assignment, so I shall try and ignore it.

I'm not sure if this is better than being so tired I couldn't think...

Blog anniversary and relationshipy-ness

Two years, guys! How exciting. I can't believe I stuck with it, so proud of myself.

Everyone should blog, it's so therapeutic, helps your writing skills and allows you to share your opinion with the world!

In relationship news, I am no longer with most recent boyf. It was so awkward, I read a bunch of tips for how to break up with someone, but I still felt horrible afterward. Gah, horrible and relieved, which makes me feel more horrible. Everyone is so shocked, it surprises me greatly that they didn't notice anything. And not even just like "Woah! Was not expecting that!" But more aggressive like "What the actual fuck?" which worries me a bit...I'm friends with his friends, but not as good friends with his friends as he is...but I would like to remain friends with them, how will I go about doing this?

Aaaaand I don't know how to print my page of boob pics without my Dad being like o_O

Just spent 20 mins looking up pictures of boobs in the name of art

It was very strange...what's going to be even stranger is that tomorrow I will have approx. 20 pictures of boobs printed in my art book which I will have to look at whilst sculpting boobs on a half size clay torso. That's going to be pretty weird.

It is surprisingly hard to find pictures of braless breasts on le google. I had to search a lot of stuff...

And why do people insist on posting photos of their boob rashes and tumours? It seems like a weird thing to post, especially when you just label it as "boobs", that is quite infuriating.

AND! I now have a folder on my computer called "Boobs", so that'll be fun to explain to anyone skulking on my computer.

Watching season 1 of The Vampire Diaries is bringing back all of my Stefan love

He was so cute before he killed a bunch of people under Klaus' compulsion and decided he was a badass.

Courting Elena and going to parties with her, saving her from creepy fog, oh so romantic.

8 reasons why I love The Vampire Diaries

1. It's cheesy and hilarious while also being entrancing
2. Damon. I love Damon. He's amazing

3. The angst, oh the angst
4. Ian Somerhalder's eyes

5. Claus is also amazing
6. Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev's IRL relationship

7. The sad music they play at the end of every episode that's really dramatic
8. HOT GUYS

This should be 8 reasons why I love Delena

My mother's picking me up to take me to my formal pre in like 2 minutes and I'm freaking out akgafgsdjkfgsl I'm so excited and terrified.

Taking 20mins to do my formal makeup when I thought it would take an hour

It shouldn't be surprising though, my everyday school makeup takes 10mins, and it takes 20mins for if I'm actually putting effort it... I feel like I should be rushing around and freaking out right now...but instead I'm chilling watching Better Off Ted.

People actually read my blog?

Guys, I just realised that when I say "guys", I'm actually talking to a few people! This is so weird. I just sort of assumed that people clicked on for a random post about whatever and then promptly left...but I've been getting anywhere between 30-70 views a post. What is happening?!

And people have commented! I never noticed! I thought I would get some sort of notification and assumed that I just never got comments. I'm freaking out a bit.

So...Hello! How do you do? Any suggestions or things you'd like to hear about? Not that I'm expecting any replies, I've probably jinxed it, but whatever! I'm excited!

Bathroom étiquette

You know people that talk whilst relieving themselves?

I'm not one of those people, it creeps me out, but I always want to reply to things people say. Like one time, after seeing the Hunger Games the second time, there were two girls in the bathroom talking to each other and one was like "Do you think the chick that played Katniss was wearing a wig or did she dye her hair?" and the other girl was like "I dunno, blah blah blah" and I so desperately wanted to yell at them that the actress is Jennifer Lawrence, and it wasn't a wig, she dyed it. But I thought it'd be considered weird...

And today, once again in the bathroom, a girl sneezed three or so times and I really wanted to say "Bless you", but that's also considered strange so I didn't, sadly.

Joico Gloss Wax review

This wax is the bomb. Love it. It's awesome.

The packaging is interesting. It comes in a pump bottle and comes out like a wax would be expected, in the kind of tubular shape of the pump hole. It's clear and melts easily when rubbed between your hands.

I use it either to scrunch my hair into soft waves or flatten fly aways and add shine to the top of my hair. It creates soft, shiny hair, not crunchy at all. Totes ma goats recommend it.

I'm the kind of person that orders milk with desert at restaurants and confuses the waitresses

I love milk with a fiery passion. It is my favourite drink. I order it nearly every day from my school's canteen and have done so so many times that they have started ordering more milk, just for me. I know it's just for me because I have never seen anyone else buy milk and when a new canteen lady is confused by my want for milk, the other canteen ladies say "She's the only one that buys it." That is how I have distinguished myself among the other canteen users at my school.


At one of those excessively chocolate shops, my mother and I decided to get some desert after a lovely dinner of sushi. She got a hot chocolate and I got what they called a "Chocolate sphere", which was like a sphere of chocolate filled with white chocolate with a teapot on the side with fudge sauce. Yum.

After consuming this delicious masterpiece I thought I was going to die with the sensory overload of the richness of the chocolate, so I asked for some milk. They were like "Just cold milk?? That'll cost like 60 cents..." I got my milk and it was delightful and dirt cheap.


I don't understand why it's weird to buy milk with dessert, it's perfect with chocolate or anything rich and it's easy to come by, if you make coffee you'll have cold milk, so why not serve it as well? It takes way less work than coffee does anyway!



On a side note, I've been watching far too much anime as I'm thinking Japanese, but it's not like I know what's going on, the sentences are just there and I vaguely know the meaning of them...but I don't know why they're floating around in my brain.

Moroccan Oil Treatment review

You guys, seriously, guys, this is awesome and I love it. You should try it. Seriously.

I really, really like this, in case you didn't know, it's really good.

The scent is amazing, it's kind of like sandalwood and something else. A little bit oriental, just delicious and lovely.

It's texture is, unsurprisingly, an oil. I use about an Australian 5 cent piece worth of it for my thick medium length hair, the majority on the ends and whatever is left on my fringe and the top part of my hair.

It leaves my hair silky smooth with a slight scent of the product lingering. Gets rid of all frizz and makes my hair "touchably soft" as the advertisement companies would say.

It's expensive, but it lasts forever because you hardly need to use any at all.

Moroccan Oil Restorative Hair Mask review

So I've been using the Moroccan Oil Treatment for a few weeks now (love it, but that'll come later) and I decided to try one of their hair masks because I've been using more heat than usual on my hair and wanted to see if I could improve the condition of it.

I chose the Restorative Hair Mask for obvious reasons and used it last night. I wasn't super impressed.

First of all, it smells funny, kind of like hair removal cream, which is a little disconcerting when you're slathering it on your hair. I was expecting either the usual amazing Moroccan Oil scent or at least something pleasant, but it lingered even after washing out and made me feel nauseous.

The texture of it is a very thick cream, it went on easily and I didn't need all that much to completely coat my thick medium length hair. It was, however, quite difficult to wash out, I was never really sure when it was all out and my hair was a bit limp and oily today.

I think if I had washed it out better then it would have been lovely, aside from the scent at the beginning, my hair does feel really soft and the scent has faded to hardly anything at all. So if the scent doesn't bother you then go for it, but I feel like you could find much better hair masks for the high price.

My trip to Sydney Aquarium and the excitement that followed

I'm not embarrassed to go to the aquarium on my own, I love it, no people rushing me, making fun of my weird fascination with fish, it's perfection.

I saw some pretty sweet stuff at the aquarium! Let's break it into sections:

Section 1: Reasons why I am afraid of the ocean

This whole tank pretty much sums up why I am afraid of the ocean, flatheads, stone fish AND puffer fish, come on, aquarium, your killin' me.

Look at that bastard, sitting there all smug, stop hiding under the sand at the beach, it scares me so much!

Yeah, that guys pretty cute, he looks kind of angry though, he thirsts for blood, obviously.

What even is that? How are you alive?! You creepy freak.

Creepy ass eels.

Look at that shit! What?! I'm not even safe from snakes? I mean, I knew they could swim, but this guys doesn't even appear to breath.

Need I say more? He's a goddamn shark, those bitches are scary.

I hate stingrays nearly as much as I hate flatheads, they hide under the sand and have stingers, do not want.

What's even going on here? There was something that appeared to be sitting/trapped between two bits of coral/rock and it was like looking directly at me, eye contact and everything. I don't even know what it was, it looked kind of like a black dolphin, but it was in the shark tank... No one else seemed to be able to see it. Ghost sea creature!

Section 2: Cool shit/adorable shit

I love box fish, they're probably poisonous or flesh eating or something horrible like that, but they're so gosh darn cute, I would probably forgive them for eating my face off.

Of course, penguins are the cutest.

Aren't these little guys cute? Little adorable fishies.

Section 3: Random Leonardo DiCaprio

When I first walked into the aquarium ticket place and saw Leonardo DiCaprio posing with people for pictures, I was like, "What the shit?! Holy Jesus! It's Leo! Oh my God" Full fangirl mode was setting in, but then I noticed something strange...he wasn't breathing, blinking or moving at all. I soon released that he was a sculpture and not actually Leonardo DiCaprio, luckily I hadn't screeched and thrown myself at him yet. I felt pretty silly afterwards, what would Leonardo DiCaprio be doing in Sydney?! And the aquarium of all places! I am a giddy goat!



And since I'm doing photos today, here is the lovely Dana, my horse trainer's daughter

Spiders keep scaring me

I have an interesting relationship with spiders, they seem drawn to me for whatever reason and I have (had?) a fear of them, which I am currently trying and kind of succeeding to get over.

I'm getting over it by, holding spiders (non poisonous and non threatening looking spiders), projecting feelings and emotions onto spiders, imagining spiders with top hats, treating spiders like humans and not murdering them by suffocation of noxious gases.

I've come to a bump in the metaphorical road of my plan however, spiders still startle me when they appear suddenly, not unlike everything else does when appearing suddenly. If my friend scaring the bejesus out of me during Earth Hour is any indication (the lights were off, she was wandering around in the kitchen as I walked down the hall adjacent to the kitchen, obviously a serial killer) then I don't know how to get around this bump. More exposure! As I always say (not really).

This mothertruckin' spider decided to hide out in my room while I was in Sydney for three days and then jump out in front of me as I threw myself onto my bed in victory of returning home without crashing and dying, what a bastard. Made me shriek, I haven't shrieked in a while and he broke my record. Not really though, I shrieked last weekend when my axe murderer friend was walking around in her own house in the dark. What a weirdo.




Okay, guys, there is a strange sound coming from some where in or around my house. Like a beeping sound, but kind of faint and long, you know? You probably don't, I'm sure it'll be fine, totally not WWIII starting. Definitely not.


Now it's the backing up noise of a truck, what are trucks doing backing up on my street at 10:08 at night??

Sydney people are strange

While in Sydney for the last three days, my mother and I stayed with our gay friends, Alan and Phil (sure hope they don't mind me using their names, whatever, they're not gonna read this and there are a million gay guys in Sydney that could be called Alan or Phil).

So Alan and Phil's bathroom was a bit of an eye opener for me, or more so it made me nearly pass out with horror.

Firstly, they have two sinks, but they only use one for sink purposes and use the other as storage; but not even storage of things that if they get wet it doesn't matter, they kept toothbrush chargers and electric razors in the other sink. That seems like the makings for a disaster.

They had two conditioners, but no shampoo, which lead me to believe that they used the bar soap on their hair, this made me shudder.

They had two cleansers, a toner and no moisturiser, which made me think that they either use body lotion on their faces or just don't moisturiser at all. *Shudder*


In their lounge area there were two of those febreeze timer things that go off every hour, except there were two of them, so they went of every 30 mins and every single time they went off, I was like "What the flip was that?!"

Alan and Phil have two dogs, Shadow (named after the Shadow Proclamation in Doctor Who. Cool, right?) and Louis, these dogs aren't allowed in the kitchen, so Alan and Phil have set up a kind of precautionary obstacle course to keep them oit. It contains one mat that makes a noise when you step on it and then another mat after that that gives you a shock if you step on it; there were also mouse trap noise maker thingies along the edge of the counter. Needless to say I shocked and scared myself countless times, I will never forget that lesson though.

They have those hands free Dettol soap dispensers, which are pretty cool, but I don't understand where the sensor is, so sometimes I can get them to work and sometimes I can't, so that made any hand washing experiences a bit exciting and mysterious.

Styling my hair all pretty with nowhere to go

So I just curled my hair all perty like except I don't have anywhere to go...so now I'm just chilling on my couch, dolled up, blogging. I live an exciting life.

In other news, I'm doing a Study of Religion assignment on Religon-state relations, so if on the off chance someone that has experienced any of the following things stumbles across my blog, please comment and then allow me to interview you via emails and then maybe we can be internet friends, wouldn't that be nice?

La topics you may have experienced:
- The Taliban in Afghanistan

- Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia

- The Catholic/Protestant conflict in Northern Ireland

- The role of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland

- The role of the Catholic Church in El Salvador during 1978-1992

- Fundamentalist Christianity in the ‘Bible Belt’ of the USA

- The spirituality of Indigenous Australians and the impact of European Christianity upon it

- Shiite/Sunni conflict in Iran or Iraq

HE LIVES!

Guys! He's alive! My iPad is alive!
I'm not entirely sure what I did, but I called him a dirty whore and re-plugged him into my laptop and he's on now! Severely low battery, but he'll be fine. I swear I'll never drop him again.

I hate you so much, don't leave me

Guys, my iPad won't turn on and I am very worried and pissed off.

I went on the apple website and all they told me was to turn it off and on again. That would be helpful if I could actually turn it on. As if I didn't already try pressing the on button.

...So I don't know what to do and I'm freaking out a bit because I'm going to Sydney tomorrow morning and I can't fit my laptop in my luggage, obviously I can't be without internet for three days, no way.

Yelling at it doesn't work.
Calling it names doesn't work.
Plugging it into power doesn't work.
I've run out of options, I'm terribly afraid that my dear iPad is dead. I treated it so well, giving it frequent naps and month long breaks from use, dropping it repeatedly, I even smacked my hand across its screen when it froze. WHAT MORE COULD I DO?!

I just watched True Blood for six hours straight

That's real love right there.