Things That Have Made Me Happy - AUGUST 2015

Hey,

August was A LOT. It's kind of sped by, with my excitement at our upcoming trip and my birthday. I think overall it's been a happy, family focused month. I'm so so excited for whats to come, and I hope you're excited too!

ACTIVITIES
• Dinner out with the grandparents
• A month before our big trip!
• Buying clothes for our trip (it makes it feel so real and soon!!!)
• Relaxed weekends and getting up to date with all of my work (Its so refreshing being able to feel accomplished)
• Snuggling under covers from the rain
• Mollie! She's now 9 months old! (See my posts on Mollie and then my cats post here!)
• Hair cuts ! My lovely salon was awesome
• Thunder and rain!
• Photography and loves with Anya
• Walking home from school with friends
• Taking time for myself, and relaxing
• Warm sunny clear days
• And the next day rainy cold days sloshing in the mud!
• Talking to my baby cousin on the phone
• Home alone by the fire watching John Tucker Must Die
• Family day in Otaki - pre birthday lunch and walking on the beach
• Excitement settling in - two weeks to go until Europe
• My birthday! (Just a chilled day - no one knew it was my birthday at first!)
• Birthday dinner (Went to WabiSabi restaurant; and had a rainbow cake)
• Feeling all the emotions from Dead Poets Society in english! (CARPE DIEM)
• My birthday card from Jemma arriving!!
• Hot summer like days ! (its now gradually very gradually getting warmer and we have had off days of sun and blue skies to pouring down! Spring in new zealand is coming!)
• Abi coming over after school!
• Friday!
• Hang outs dancing with Liv

BOOKS
• Saint Anything - Sarah Dessen
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• Protected - Claire Zorn

MUSIC
• Vitamin String Quartet (they are a bunch of string instruments covering popular songs !)
• Into The Woods soundtrack (I just can't help myself!)
• Trouble - Iggy Azalea ft Jennifer Hudson
• Cry Baby - Melanie Martinez
• Little Mix
• 1989 Deluxe - Taylor Swift
(birthday gift from my brother! Love it!)

FILM
• Descendants (!!)
• Pretty little liars (Disappointing ending but I'm still going to watch it!!)
• Teen wolf
• PolandbananasBOOKS
• Face Off (The finale finally showed on NZ television! I really wanted Tyler to win, my favourite from the very beginning ! Congrats to Rashaad though)
• I Am Cait (Caitlyn Jenners doco reality tv esque show, I adore her and I think she's incredible, I love that on the show they're teaching Caitlyn along with us about Transgender struggles, Im enjoying how the show is turning out!)
• The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy (Youtube channel Epicrobottv - season 2 is up at the moment!)
• SummerBreak (Youtube reality series!)
• Hercules
• John Tucker Must Die
• Pretty woman
• Dead Poets Society (Carpe Diem! Seize the day)

PRODUCTS

• Tea tree anti septic ointment
• Black fine tip ink pen
• TreSemmé Perfectly Undone Mousse
• NCEA app
• Batisse Dry Shampoo (I washed my hair once on monday night and it made it to friday with just a little bit of spraying!)
• Primrose oil tablets
• Womens Health multi plus
• Colgate Total Whitening Paste
• Sukin Face Moisturiser
• Nikon Coolpix P900 (this camera makes me so happy!)
• My birthday presents to myself - from boohoo.com
Off the shoulder top, skirt, sunglasses and glitter henna! (so cool, boohoo gave me some money off it for my birthday and actually it arrived my birthday morning!)