New Year, New Blog~

Ok, so I'm running a little late (as usual) with the whole new year thing :P

For those of you who don't know, I'm really quite terrible at any sort of journal keeping activity as I never seem to be able to find the time to post updates =.=; BUT! I shall nevertheless endeavour to at least post once a month on this new blog~ ^^

after all, new year, new me.............. right?! XD

Anyhoo, so far 2013 has been pretty good to me~ Having just finished my university degree (huzzah!!!) I'm finding myself with more free time on my hands that I know what to do with! The end result seems to be a mixture of indulging my slightly (and only slightly!!! >.<) out of control love of shopping and whiling away the days playing Facebook games =/

However, more principled minds will be glad to hear that I've been trying pretty hard to make some serious changes in my life~ ^^ Hopefully by the time I start my PLT (Practical Legal Training) Course in July, I'll be the very image of scholarly virtue~ :P Who knows, I might even manage to stick to my resolution to get more exercise~!!! XP

In terms of non-academic doodads, I've had a lot of reasons to be happy since the start of 2013. As my younger brother and I both graduated at the same time (he just finished Yr 12 ^^ so young~!!) my parents decided to take us on a family trip to Europe~ ^^

{I'll talk about that in a later post (pictarssssss~) so stay tuned~!!}

Another reason for being happy is that after many years of slaving away over law books, I've finally found time for my hobbies.  I'm not sure that many people know this since I haven't really spoken about it much in recent years, but one of my favourite pastimes in high school was creative writing.  I came up with a concept for a novel in about Year 10 and worked on it tirelessly for about a year before I had to put it aside for VCE.  Once uni rolled around, I barely got time to work on it at all :( ...Somehow it still managed to go through about 5-6 re-writes tho~ @.@

Anyhoo, I'm really excited to be working on it again and in the past few weeks I've written about two chapters~ ♪ ^^  Progress is slow --- I'm pretty sure studying law stole my soul >.> --- but I'm getting there! I'm going to sign myself up for a creative writing course on Monday too, so that should be interesting~ ♥

In other news, I've somehow developed a sudden obsession with beauty boxes ^^; It all started when I saw pictures of these super duper shiny boxes in a post by my friend Melludee.  Initially I was looking to get a Glossybox like the one mentioned in the post but before I could subscribe, they merged with Lust Have It! so I decided to postpone and eventually forgot about it until I got back to Melbourne after my holiday~ ^^;

My January Bellabox~ ^^

Anyway, I did some research and caught on to another beauty box subscription called Bellabox which got some really great reviews ^^ I signed up for the January box just to try it out and I was absolutely thrilled when my box arrived with lots of awesome products~ ^^

{Once again, I think that my Bellabox deserves it's own post so keep an eye out, guys~!! ^^}

In the end, I was so happy with my box that I sort of went on a bit of a shopping spree on their online shop and ended up getting heaps of awesome skincare products for le Spiffy~ ^^  I also signed up for the February Lust Have It! box because I was super impressed with the full size BB Cream that they included in their January box.  I looooooooooooooooooooove BB Creams so I was kicking myself for not subscribing sooner~ :P But yes, super psyched about receiving lots of stuff in the mail~ ♪

Hmmmmm~ I think that pretty much wraps up the last few weeks!!

Have a great weekend, guys~!!! ^^

How has the new year been for you?