It’s been a while since I did one of these but they seem to be popular (every day people get to my blog by searching for “inspirational pictures”, so I’m not going to complain if it increases site traffic!), plus I enjoy finding them. The theme for this one is working hard, inspired by the fact that I’m at uni and need to work hard (despite what people might say about students!).
I shall sum up what today is using my favourite method of expressing my emotions online. Warning, gif overload ahead.
Yeah. So that’s me at the moment. Don’t ask.
Today is going to be a revision day for me. Revision days are always a funny kind of day, because you start off really motivated like –
And then your revision comes at you and you’re like, “I’ll start in a bit” –
You drag yourself to your bag to get your revision notes for a different subject.
Then you look in your bag and realize just how much revision you have to do.
So, you start writing. You manage two minutes, three at the most, and feel like you’ve just climbed Everest, cured world hunger, brought about eternal peace and written a 10,000 word dissertation on the preservation of cute widdle hedgehogs in the Forest of Dean.
… then you realize how much more work you’ve got to do, and just how soon your exams are.
This cycle repeats itself throughout the day, and this will form my day in a nutshell. It will end like this.
Today’s “Inspirational Post” has a distinct Disney flavour to it! Enjoy…
And finally this one, which has cheered me up whenever I felt down, and may have been included in the first “Inspirational Post” but who cares – it’s amazing and TRUE!
Oh, and if you have Tumblr, follow disneyandquotes.tumblr.com . That’s where most of these pictures have come from, and it is probably the sweetest and most inspiring Tumblr I’ve found. There’s something about Disney that is just so wonderful and inspirational, and that Tumblr captures the essence of that perfectly.
Today hasn’t been the best day ever, for a multitude of reasons which I’m not going to go into for fear of boring you all to death with my angry and miserable rants. Instead, I’m going to take advantage of the fact that I can’t sleep (AGAIN) by making this a happy post full of inspirational quotes and stuff, which will hopefully cheer me up and make me feel better, and if you’re having a bad day or need a little bit of perking up, this might help you too.
So, I hope that cheered you up 🙂 I might try and make it a semi-regular thing – not making any promises, but that certainly cheered me up. So, if you ever stumble across my blog and find a post full of inspirational quotes (particularly Winnie The Pooh quotes, which have basically formed what I live my life by since childhood), you’ll know that maybe I’m not having a great day, and I want to reach out to anyone else who’s day hasn’t gone the way they planned and needs a bit of cheering up and a smile putting back on their face.
I’m going to ease myself back into blogging with a couple of light-hearted posts. To be honest, I’m not feeling an awful lot better, which isn’t a good thing when I’m on the last day of my antibiotics, but I guess it’s going to take a while. So, for my first light-hearted blog, I’m going to basically just post pictures of things I really really like. Sounds a bit simplistic – that’s exactly what it is, and that’s why I like it so much. I’ve been posting all these “Moom’s Views”, which I will continue with eventually, I have a draft of a post about Samantha Brick floating around somewhere that needs finishing and posting, and it’s all well and good but it gets a bit upsetting and miserable after a while, because it seems like there’s not very much about the world to celebrate these days. So, I’m going to celebrate some of the things that I like about life. Obviously top of the list is my boyfriend, my family and my dog, but I’m not going to post pictures of them – I want to protect their privacy and not force them to have their pictures broadcast all over the internet by me!
If you’ve seen my Tumblr, you’ll have realized by now how much I love VW campervans. I don’t know what it is – maybe it’s the distinctly hippie air they all carry, which I do love, or just how amazing and rounded they look and how much they make me think of holidays and fun, and I love them! Personally my ideal one would be sunshine yellow like in the first picture, or sunset colour ❤
I love Disney, more than any other film genre (I think it’s possible to call Disney its own genre by now, because there’s nothing else that really applies to it. Animation could refer to anything and cartoons don’t quite cover it, so I’m gonna say that Disney is a genre of its own). There’s so many things about it – there’s always a happy ending and I love the fairytale ones. My particular favourite is “Tangled”, the Disney re-telling of Rapunzel, because of the amount of just plain beautiful scenes in it.
I wouldn’t call myself a mad gamer, as in it’s not my whole life, but I am partial to the odd go on the PS3 every now and again – particularly Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Now, I wouldn’t say I’m a violent person, but I love that game – mainly because you can get rocket launchers and blow things up, but also because I’m fairly good at it considering I don’t think I’ve ever been good at shooting games before. I’m not going to post any pictures of this because I think everyone knows what MW2 is, and if you don’t, try playing the game – it really is quite fun. Downside is, I’m one of those annoying girl-gamers, who puts her clantag as “Girl” so that all the guy n00bz playing know that they’re getting decimated by a girl. I’m not just a mindless killer, however – I do also like playing games like The Sims (the third is my favourite) and Spyro 🙂
Yep, I love Haribo. Not going to lie, I prefer Haribo to chocolate. Yes, I am a disappointment to the entire female side of the species, but what can I say? Chocolate gets sickly, I’ve never known Haribo to. And the variety! With chocolate, you’ve got three types – milk, dark and white. Yeah, you can have your fillings or whatever, but with Haribo, there’s just so many different types! In just one bag you can have foamy eggs, little hearts, cola bottles, gummy bears, rings – *sigh* it’s amazing! And then you’ve got Tangfastics, Super Mix, all the seasonal variants, mini packs – it’s just wonderful. And it’s happy! It really is a happy world of Haribo ❤
Yes, I think we’ve all ascertained by now that I like llamas. Perhaps not to the extent of my little April Fool’s Day escapade (not enough to dedicate my whole blog to, and certainly not more than life itself), but I do really like llamas. I’m not averse to their fluffier cousins, the alpacas, either – in fact, I might even be inclined to say that I prefer alpacas to llamas. But really, how can anyone dislike the fluffy long-necked goat things? I mean, just the description of them is amazing! And their faces! Look at their cute widdw faces!
Aaaand that concludes my light-hearted post. Normal miserable service will resume shortly. Thank you for your patience.
I apologize for not blogging yesterday. I realized that I have been lying to you all since this blog began, and I had to do a lot of soul searching. It took me a whole day, but I came to a decision, and realized that I have to confess this, or it will drive me crazy.
I am not a writer. I have never written a book, nor even a short story. I don’t like writing – I don’t even like reading. I thought that if I pretended I was a writer, you’d all like me, and maybe I could convince myself to stay away from my true love – but I cannot hide who I am anymore. I’ve been hiding it from you, from my family, from my boyfriend and from myself, and all I can say is that I am truly sorry.
You have all been so lovely with your comments, and following my blog and reading it, and liking my posts, and I only wish that it was all true. I can only hope that you will understand why I pretended for so long, and accept my sincerest apologies, and perhaps, in time, support me in my new venture, the real reason I started this blog. You see, for a long time, I have been a llama enthusiast. I don’t just mean that I like the fluffy little buggers – I’m obsessed with them. My bedroom is covered in pictures of llamas. I sleep with a llama soft toy I’ve named Rodney, and I can honestly say he is my best friend. I’ve never felt the close connection that I feel to llamas with another human – it is as though, and I say this in all seriousness and plead that you will understand, and accept me.
I used to think that I had a problem. That I needed to be cured of this curse that has plagued me – but I am coming to terms with the fact that it isn’t a problem with me. I love llamas more than words can say, as simple as that, and if people can’t come to terms with that, it’s their problem and I can’t change that. I don’t have a problem – I am strong and confident, and I am proud to say that I have an obsession with llamas.
Maybe one day, I will become a writer. I have tried for years to convey my love for llamas through poetry, and for six years, I have failed – but there is still hope. One day, I will build a hostel, for my fellow llama lovers, and we will have a field full of llamas and a writing class, so that we can combine our love of our furry, long-necked friends with our desire to convey our adoration through words. Maybe.
But for now, I hope you will accept my apology. I hope you can forgive me, and accept me for who I am – a Llama Lover, and always will be.
So, as you may notice, I’ve spruced things up a little around here. I liked the old design, but it was a little big dark, the writing was a bit too small and.. I don’t know, it didn’t really seem to have the pizazz this new one has. I’m feeling really summery at the moment and the bright oranges and the big font and the funky letters that this one has really reflects my mood, so this theme should last the blog the whole summer! Unless everyone absolutely hates it and stops reading my blog because of it, that is.
Another thing that’s new is that I’ve added two new pages, across the top of the blog. The first one, titled “Christopher Maine”, basically means that I won’t be bombarding you with publicity in the future about him, but I’d love it if you could have a look if you haven’t already, follow his blog and consider purchasing/sharing the link to his book. The second is somewhere you can ask me questions (either about myself, my writing or whatever else within reason), make suggestions about the blog and just express your views on it in general. It’s all explained in the page itself, go check it out!
Last but not least, as well as being able to follow me on Twitter (@maddyleigh94), you can now also follow me on Tumblr! I warn you, I’m a lot less “delving into serious issues and giving my opinions” on there – today my posts have consisted of things related to Glee and alpacas (my first favourite animal, closely followed by Adelie penguins and red pandas, if you were wondering), and before that it was mostly Disney. Tumblr is where I let my “Maddy” side out – on here I’m Madison, I’m all business-like and blogging (pfft, yeah right!), on Tumblr I’m Maddy, where I’m 17 going on 7 and still obsessed with cute fluffy things, glitter and Winnie The Pooh!
the life of a moomin 