Products I'm loving - January

My first BIG hurdle for dissertation- properly drafting my three chapters- is out of the way!!! Yay!!! I'm looking forward to taking a breather for a few days after what has been a month of deadlines and incessant essay-writing. So I thought I'd use my time to tell you what I've been loving this January... (Clockwise from top left)

1. Tetley Green Tea, Raspberry and Pomegranate- I'm a huge green tea fan and all the new and wonderful flavours coming out make me a very happy girl, especially this fruity combo. I also really like their Peach and Apricot flavour. Both can be purchased from any good supermarket.

2. Clinique Take the Day off Make-up Remover- so so gentle and removes stubborn mascara easily, it's the best remover I've tried so far.

3. Jessica nail polish in Sun-kissed Beauty- purchased on offer at my local beauticians, and I thought it would look incredible with a tan (wishful thinking for decent weather, I know).

4. Jessica nail polish in Awakening- also purchased on offer, and a lovely girly colour ready for Spring!

5. MAC Powder Blush in Mocha- perfect colour for my skin tone, not too pink so gives a really natural look while making me look all perky in the mornings.

6. Vaseline Paint the Town Red- after a little look, I now realise this limited edition is no longer being sold! Bummer, because I love it. I'm not one for a bold lip during the day but my lips always need moisturising and it's nice to have something. This does the trick! The colour is not intense at all but provides a light tint which is perfect for me.

Final year student plans (or lack of...)

In a rare moment of down time in what has been a good few weeks of intense work to get three assignments submitted, I'm using the opportunity to get back in touch with the blogging world. By back in touch, I mean posting a little rambling which someone out there might read and go, 'hey- I do that too!' or just think I'm plain crazy...

My new favourite thing to do at the moment when I'm not obsessively finding new stuff to pin on Pinterest (I'm pretty sure I'm dangerously addicted...) is stalk the animal charity websites. Yeah, I know, it's probably very odd for a 21-year-old to spend her time looking at animals when she has a dissertation deadline looming. But for those of you that know me, and those of you who look at this blog, it's pretty clear I'm an animal lover and I'm probably also going to be a crazy cat lady one day (secretly looking forward to it). So I stalk these sites because I'm looking for a little lonely kitty that I can give a home to.

Problem is that I'm still at university and I feel like the fellow residents in our halls wouldn't be impressed if I brought a cat to live with us, that's assuming the accommodation people would let me have one in the first place- which they wouldn't. 

But it's all coming from a very logical place, I promise.

Where is my life going next? (... cue dramatic freak-out)

I'm a final year student with big dreams of 'not being ordinary', like everyone I suppose. I loathe the idea of sitting here in 10, 20 or 30 years' time and not feeling like I've made the most of every opportunity, or stopped myself from being happy. But I have no idea what that might be. I do, however, know what my short term goals are: a cute flat/small house, a little cat, a fiat 500 and a good degree. Do-able right? Right. But it's all dependent on me and the job I may (or may not) have. 

I'd love to be able to look into the future and see where I'll be, but I know the answer is lying with the decisions I make now. That's scary, actually it's terrifying. Buuuut, it's also amazing. I could literally do anything I want. Entering the 'real world' as us undergrads call it is going to be such a huge change, but it's also been the moment I've been working towards since I left school, took A Levels, went to uni etc... And as people keep telling me, I have the rest of my life to work and create the life I want. 

So while I might be dreaming of cute cats I could own, and jumping on all the new season homewares at Next, it's really just suppressed excitement about starting a new chapter in my life. Until then, I'm enjoying what's left of my final year because I probably won't ever get a point in my life where four hours a week is an acceptable timetable...

Appropriately cute photo of my cat (who can't come with me...)