And I guess this post is just one of great thankfulness, I end this week feeling like I am in a lovely bubble of happiness. Who needs the stresses of final year work or grad scheme applications, hey?
It is to fall into a cycle of thinking about things you need to do, making lists, doing admin, trying to sort out life. But how refreshing is it to just stop, and shut it all off? Just appreciate and embrace doing things for the fun of it!
Flip, it's such a relief to have a life 'shake-it-out.'
So in the style of a '10 things I'm thankful for' post, I wanted to celebrate this week's joys:
1. Lami's 21st. What a babe. From the moment we met in year 7 when I couldn't pronounce your name to our biology classes with the 'minotaur,' you have always been one of my biggest encouragers and best of friends. I thoroughly enjoyed Wednesday evening, I can't believe it's been almost 10 years!
2. St Aldates' winter ball. Cor! A 1920s themed ball, with jazz music, great food and a lot of dancing. I cannot recommend an Aldates' ball enough.
3. Homemade pizza and chocolate mousse evening with some of the girls in college. Absolutely lush!
4. Morning walks with the one and only, Tim Moore. One of the happiest and liveliest people I know, such a pleasure to have him as a flatmate!! He is a 'go to' for fashion advice, let's me babble on about rubbish and take 'arty' photos of him (apologies, that makes me sound like such a creeper, but you get the gist).
5. A cheeky trip home to spend the day with the wonderful Julie Gwyther, aka Mama G. I cannot stress enough how fantastic this woman is. I will never get over how lucky I am to have such a loving, honest and generous Ma. It was a joy to spend the day with her. We went to the Garden Centre, I know- thrilling- but don't diss it until you've been to the Van Hage deli, checked out all of the christmas decorations and homeware. It's a real treat. (Sooo Chorleywood, darling)
6. Finding this online. So. Good.
7. Skyping JK/Krams in California where she is just living the dream. Great to catch up and hear all about her adventures abroad. Watch out for her people, she is going places.
8. Getting tickets to Worcester Tercentenary Ball- I am so excited for this! A fabulous evening of champagne, lush food and great music awaits us in summer 2014!!
9. Working in the kitchen and Jules sending me home with the crusts of some loaves of white bread. I realise this is a pretty unusual thing to be excited about, but I LOVE food and I absolutely love the crusts of bread. Thursday was a great day.
10. A night of dancing with some fabulous people. I've said it before and I'll say it again, dancing is one of my favourite things. We laughed, we pulled some great shapes and had so much fun. It is such a joy to have people in my life who make me laugh so much, and who are just simply great. I love it!
Is it possible to be too happy?
Anyway, enough gushing for this week. I've noticed I'm quite a keen and excited person for things, I'm wondering if people get weirded out by my enthusiasm... hmm oh well. They can get over it.
Needless to say I am absolutely exhausted, I think all of my energy and any 'extrovertedness' I possess has been spent and now I need a night of netflix and tea wrapped up in bed.
Here's to shaking it out and 'doing your thang'
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