My morning routine

Seeing as this is a brand new blog, I thought i’d start right at the beginning of my average day – waking up!

Now let’s face it, no one wakes up like this  because we all really feel like this in the morning… 

I used to be such a morning person, in fact the latest I would ever lie in on a weekend would be 8am! Now is a completely different story however, it’s like I suddenly became a teenager as soon as I officially entered adulthood – typical!

*This is me freshly-woken this morning. I might add that this is quite a good day, sometimes I look A LOT worse than this.

Once I have sufficiently come round I will muster up the willpower to pull the covers off and face the day.

 I will then quickly whip my dressing gown on. I feel so naked otherwise!

Then, of course, it’s a trip to the loo and then off to the kitchen…

I like to start the day with a large glass of water … and then it goes downhill from there! (But that’s another story)

Oh, and I mustn’t forget my pills!

Now, breakfast. Here’s the problem, I tend to base my breakfast on whatever I ate the day before – which is not the right attitude by hey, that’s the truth. So yesterday I had a bit of a binge which meant I wanted a light, refreshing breakfast this morning. After many months of doing so, I will no longer starve myself the day after a binge or skip breakfast as this will only reinforce the negative cycle and slow my metabolism down further.

Today’s breakfast was an orange and I enjoyed eating it in the same manner I would have as a kid…

*THE BINGE.                                         **My childhood orange breakfast.

Once breakfast has been munched I will trot back upstairs and, depending on whether I had a shower the night before or not, will get undressed and enter…the cubicle.

Now I know what you’re all thinking – shaving. And the answer is no. Well yes and no. Shaving is far too much effort for what it’s worth so I will generally only shave if I need to, like if I am going swimming or wearing a short sleeve t-shirt etc. However, the month is currently January so I have no need or desire to deprive my body of the hair it has so kindly grown for me. And that is that.

This is what we all wished we looked like after the shower: 

But this is the reality 

Normally I like to let my hair dry naturally and I will do my make up while I wait but today I had the wonderful job of going into town to pay a library fine so I couldn’t be sitting around for hours waiting!

In terms of make up, i’m afraid I have the same philosophy towards it as I do shaving, I only wear it when i’m on my best behaviour. If i’m home all day I will undoubtedly have a bare face but, like I said, I had an important job to do today so had to look my grand age of 20!

I only wear mascara and occasionally eyeliner. If it’s a really bad day then i’ll put a bit of concealer on but I am a firm believer that if you have a spot then it is far better to leave it alone rather than to smother it in foundation. My sister always nags me about this but, if I were an oozing spot crying for attention I would be most unhappy at the prospect of being drowned in thick gloopy gunge!

Can you guess which eye has mascara on?

After make up, hair and clothes I am all set to go 

*P.s – I am not wearing lip gloss I just licked my lips!

 # ootd. (My mother’s coat, Old Navy jeans and incredibly annoying squeeky boots!)

Anyway..back to my day, as i’m sure you’re desperately wondering how my library fine went…

Not as bad as I thought! I got 20 pounds out just in case 😉

Despite the fine, it was a beautiful day and I took a few sneaky selfies as I walked down the high street

* Looking alright strutting my stuff!   ** WOAH! Not from that angle!

Oh, and one more lovely thing from today, I found this gorgeous butterfly trapped in my room! Albeit dying it was so pretty and i’m sure it had a pleasant trip to the afterlife as I placed it outside!

That’s my day in a nutshell!

Peace and love.

R xx

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I want to prove that everything is not always as it seems. Now, I don’t mean this in a depressing way but it’s true!

When we browse the internet we are bombarded with ads such as “NEW SKINNY PILL WORKS WONDERS” and “BIZARRE HOME REMEDIES THAT BAFFLE DOCTORS” and “FLAT STOMACH IN 5 DAYS”. Not only this but it seems like we can’t even turn to our friends for comfort as all their pictures on Facebook make them seem like they are having the time of their life with their beautiful bodies and fun nights out. But I am here to tell you that this is not the case and I guarantee you that they are facing some kind of issue in their life whether it be a minor insecurity about their tendency to develop a spot on the end of their nose in the same place every month, or that their favourite hamster has recently been diagnosed with gum disease – whatever the issue, the point is that everybody has something going on that they wish wasn’t!

This blog is a bit of an experiment really in that I will be posting pictures of myself and my life, without the use of filters, in an attempt to accurately display my REAL life so that you, my fellow inadequate-feeling-social-media-browsers will realize that you are not on your own, neither are you ugly, or boring or useless. You are YOU and completely and utterly original!

I also want to add that this blog is titled “The Honest Life”, meaning that I intend to be as truthful as I if I were talking to my beloved cat Charlie. This means that some posts may not be all that cheery as, even though I try to be positive, I still face many issues in my own life that I have to deal with.

I hope you enjoy following my honest journey of how life really is behind all the editing and photo-shopped pictures this world has become accustomed to!