Hello! I’m Freya. :) I pretty much blog about veganism, nutrition and leading an all round healthy lifestyle. You’ll normally find me in the kitchen with vegan cupcake mix around my mouth... I won’t tell if you won’t? I say “awesome!” a lot, and I’m trying to be as happy and self confident as I can be, taking each day as it comes. Oh – and have you met my boyfriends? They’re called hummus and peanut butter. I’m not joking. I’m not (that) scary, I promise! Just say hello if you don’t believe me. :D I love being nice. I love Hamish&Andy. And I especially love you, you beautiful thing. ;) ♥
First of all, can we all just appreciate how great my curls are being today? No afro hair in sight. I think my hair is finally starting to become tame. Sweet!
Second of all - THE SKY IS BLUE TODAY! :D It’s been grey skies for weeks now and it’s rained a ridiculous amount (yup, even a ridiculous amount for England) to the point where there have been floods all over the place. It’s flooded whilst we’re in a supposed drought. Get your act together, England. -_-
And that’s two reasons why today was awesome.
At a recent friend’s 18th. :)
By the end of the night my friend and I were huddled up in the bathroom discussing food and waiting until we could go home, get snuggled up and watch reruns of Friends and Mock The Week. As you can tell, I’m a party animal! ;D
New glasses. Ya dig? ;D
This is sort of a different post for me. An appreciation post. I know I mention my Ma a lot on this blog, but I’ve never really appreciated her until now. In my previous depressed, self-deprecating state I vowed that as soon as I moved out, I’d never visit my family again. They’d never see me, never be able to contact me - I wanted them to forget I ever existed.
But now - now I’m much happier, more content and in all round better frame of mind - I’ve realized my family really aren’t so bad. I rarely see my dad but he’s always encouraged me and has helped my Ma to loosen her grip on me, allowing me independence to do what ~I want to do. He trusts me to go to London this summer and be part of the Pride Parade. He’s fine with the fact that I want to jump out of a plane, and is even going to do it with me.
If you’ve known me for a long time (it takes me quite a while to come out of my shell) you’ll know I’m quite… “odd”. I do make sound effects and weird dance moves and lame jokes all the time. But my Ma merely laughs and goes along with it. She’s never told me it was too much or that I was too odd. She allowed me to dye my hair black with red, pink and orange stripes (yeah, not kidding), she let me go out in public wearing shiny silver jeans, neon clothes and fluorescent blue eyeshadow, she let me go vegan.
She even bought me these glasses because she thought they’d suit me. My Ma encourages and embraces my differences and it took a simple gesture of some glasses for me to even realize this.
Only a few minutes ago I received a text from her saying “Booked a table for 7:15 at a restaurant, e-mailed them to check and they cater for vegans!!! xx” No sighs, no complaints, no ‘Why do you have to be so picky?!’ remarks.
It’s just. It’s just nice. I love you, Ma. Thank you for rarely dismissing me.
Love, your forever weird daughter.
Chilling in my dressing gown because it’s cold and now I’m all cosy and snug. :3
And to sagebrushguitar, I tried the “leave it in a bun whilst you sleep” technique, and it’s pretty calm, so thank you!
Everyone in my house has been ill/is still ill, and normally I get it too, but so far, so good! Weeks later and I’m healthy as ever. Is that what is meant by vegan powers?
Plus I haven’t counted calories for months now, and weighed myself this morning, I’m exactly the same as I was in December! Finally, my body is levelling out.
Oh, and got mistaken for a 13 year old today. Again. At least I’ll look youthful when I’m older? Eh.
Hope you all had a nice Monday! :D
It may be very cold in the countryside, but it means I get to wear my bear hat on the walk to school, and that’s never a bad thing. :D
Plus, I have soy milk hot chocolate. I can have two in one day, right?
Hello there!
(I dyed my hair red again today. Not that you could tell. I think my hair has gotten to the point where it just rejects dye, now.)
It was this time last year I decided to enter recovery, and one of the things that helped me through it was making lists of what I have to look forward to in the near future, for something to aspire to. If we have nothing to look forward to, what’s the point of getting up in the morning?
- I’m looking forward to my exam being over and done with tomorrow.
- I’m looking forward to going to Wagamama with a friend I hardly get to spend time with, so it’ll be great to actually talk, and not through facebook.
- I’m looking forward to seeing Panic! At The Disco next Tuesday.
- I’m looking forward to the big bowl of peanut-buttery-banana oatmeal I’m going to have for breakfast tomorrow. (Brain food, right?) :D
What are you looking forward to? :)
I wondered why I was getting weird looks in the supermarket. I take it it’s down to the braeburn sticker on my head.
Every time I eat an apple, I put the sticker on my forehead. I don’t know why, I always have done, but sometimes I forget it’s there…
A facial feature - eyes.
I like my eyes because they’re the focal point of my face. I was one of those babies that had eyes so big and wide that they looked surprised all the time. I like how they change from a light blue to a dark green like colour depending on the light. I like how they’re expressive and have a natural glow to them. I’m quite fond of them, really.
Challenge can be found here. :)
