Week 3 - Carry On Only

Hello everyone,

My long awaited return I know. For my millions of screaming fans and readers. The past 2 ish weeks has been pretty busy. Included in various domestic travel and assignments at uni coupled with a long weekend and too much work for once.

Uni is progressing, I simultaneously feel like I have a handle on it and also not at all. Because I am doing my thesis this year it is really hard to keep a handle on my progress sometimes because a lot of it is self guided study and learning. The one subject that I do have weekly lectures for and tutorials I also feel behind in so that is great.

Something I need to do that I know will help me is to almost write a list of everything and be able to physically see it in front of me. Even moreso then having a digital version I simply cannot comprehend it. For the past 4 years I have been buying physical diaries and I feel like I get so much out of it then a digital planner. I bought all those iPad hoo haa digital notebooks and my brain cannot simply comprehend it. So analogue it is.

2 weeks ago I did in fact go to the formula 1 which is always a fun experience, I am a ferrari girl so it was a great weekend for me, more importantly there was a MECCA stand and I won free eyeshadow which was honestly a huge score in my books. We travelled to Melbourne with only carry - on, something I frequented whilst travelling around Europe and omg it cemented my love for not having the check luggage and just wandering off the plane when it lands. Unless it is something specific I refuse to ever check luggage ever again, we did however, have to smuggle our computers down our pants on the way home to be under the weight limit.

The Easter long weekend was last week and I felt not as productive as I had liked to have been but I had a nice easter sunday with my grandma and family. My grandma’s place is really lovely. We played a bunch of games and had a lovely chat, but the swans lost which was a downer to the day. When I hope to have my own place and family I hope to a be games house and we can all sit together and play cards.

Yesterday though we had a bbq with my friends in the park and that was always good because my friends James brought his mini coal fired bbq which made all the meat and haloumi taste excellent. As a friend group we have really progressed from going to the pub for drinks to having bbqs at each others houses which shows our excellent maturity .

I have personally, been feeling a bit more anxiety in my self recently, I think it is a combination of feeling a little bit out of control in my life and also in a transition period from uni life to adult life, and trying to figure out the things that I want for my future and what and who and how I can picture myself there. And I understand I am only 22 and nothing honestly really matters, but I am applying for jobs and opportunities and it is something that is in the back of my mind and playing on my anxiety a bit.

I am off to Brisbane this week to see friends from exchange and I am sure I will have things to say about that next week. Until then :)

Sarah