25 Questions About... Red Lips; Red Hair!

Good morning all! I was thinking about the redisgn of my blog, and I decided that the best thing to do with that would be to do a few tags over the coming weeks for my readers to get to know me. I believe that the best thing about bloggers are that you can get to know them in a way that is far superior to any other media. So here we go, 25 Random Questions About RL;RH!

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1. What is your middle name?
Catherine. Technically I go by my full name wherever possible, so Amy-Catherine. My dad calls me by my full title, and I prefer it that way. Only a select few are allowed to call me by my nickname Aims, and I've been known to tell people they can't use it to address me. I'd rather my full name in those situations.

2. Share you favorite subject in high school.
English and Art History. I was a bit of a creative nerd - sneaking into the Art room on lunch breaks, getting special permission to paint during free classes, having essays pulled for their content, I was the token emo kid by a country mile!

3. What is your Favorite drink?
Alcoholic? Gin and Tonic, Guinness or a good spicy Bloody Mary. Regular? Smooth orange juice. G'way with your bits, gimme smooth juice, ice cold!

4. What is your favorite song at the moment?
I mean, I guess it would have to be What Do You Mean? By Justin Beiber, but of all time, my favorite song is Venus Doom by HIM.

5. What would you (or have you) name your children?
I haven't a clue. I have no plans for small screaming sticky humans in the near or distant future.

6. Have you  participated in any sports?
I used to be a pretty decent shot with a bow and arrow. I've plenty of medals around, including national ones. I used to be a competitive runner too, went to the gym 5 days a week and was involved in Zumba. Archery impacted my life so positively, even though I don't shoot anymore, I'm proud to have my arrow tattoo.

7. What is your favorite book?
I could say The Harry Potters, but I actually have a real answer: Chase Your Shadow, by John Carlin. It's about Oscar Pistorious and its INSANELY good. It's a factual book about the trials and his life, and it's worth a read. I picked up my copy in Vibes and Scribes in Cork for under a tenner and I tore through it! Also worth a read is Angelas Ashes. All the women in my family read it and we all got something different from it!

8. What is your favorite color?
Orange, then black. All of my archery equipment was orange glittery with white, and I'm just forever a goth kid in my heart and soul. I also like a bit of blue, because it goes with my hair and colouring.

9. What is your favorite animal?
Pussy Cats!

10. What is your favorite perfume?
Prada Candy Original, it's my signature scent!

11. What is your favorite holiday?
I like Valentines, I guess. Christmas and Halloween can go and die in a hole.

12. On a scale from 1 – 10, rate your childhood.
5? I had an average childhood, outdoorsy, generally alright.

13. Have you been out of the country?
Portugal when I was 14, Wales a bunch of times, and Nottingham most recently.

14. Do you speak any different languages?
I have phrases in a lot of languages but I can hold a very basic conversation in German.

15. Do you have any siblings?
Three older sisters, 13, 15 and 16 years older respectively.

16. What is your favorite store?
Penneys!!! I also like Plug'd down in Cork.

17. What is your favorite restaurant?
Anywhere with a good burrito, Boojum, Tolteca, Little Ass, Pablo Picante. I also adore Yamamori and Kimchee. I like foreign food, particularly Oriental and I like spicy food.

18. Did you like school?
I'd go back if I could. It really was a grand place, it just felt like hell cause of my depression and anxiety. But, I liked being able to hide in the Art Room and skip Economics to hang out in the Woodwork room.

19. Who are some of your favorite YouTubers?
Nibbles, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Lindsey Hughes, my friend Kayliegh (get on that dear, miss you!), the list is long!

20. What is your favorite movie?
Dirty Dancing, that's my all time favorite. Closely seconded by Michael Collins, Singing in the Rain and the original Clash of The Titans! As you can probably tell, I like the classics.

21. What are some of your favorite tv shows?
Pretty Little Liars, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Prison Break, Downton Abbey, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, this list could go on and on!

22. PC or mac?
PC. When your boyfriend is a computer programmer java nerd you become swayed to the cause.

23. What phone do you have?
The Elephone S2 Plus 5.5. I had it imported from Hong Kong. It's a great phone!

24. How tall are you?
5'6" ish. I like to wear platform shoes and heels but I'm still shorter than himself and he's 6'2"

25. Do you have any pets?
4 cats, 3 women and a tom cat names Paolo :)

So there you have it, 25 Questions to get to know me. I tag everyone to do this! 

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Things They Dont Tell You About: Being Sick

Last week I was bedridden in my lovely boyfriends house for two days before I was able to cobble together the strength to get home and see a doctor about what was wrong. I was really weak, shaking, coughing un-controllably and had no appetite. Sounds like the flu, right? Wrong! I was the proud owner of a viral infection in my lungs that, had I left my sickness another day would have hospitalised me. Aren't I so lucky?! 

Over the week I learned some things about being sick and how to pass the time when you're not even allowed to go beyond your front door. 


1. You Can Be Productive! 

Doctors orders were to stay in bed, preferably, but not to leave the house, to take my tablets, under no circumstances get cold and just be a good patient, but I get bored and I need to be doing things, so I redesigned my blog, wrote some Mochas and Benny notes and tried to keep my head focused on doing things that would make me feel like I had done things of consequence. Just cause you're sick, my dear, doesn't mean you can't find a way to be useful even if it's just for yourself. 

2. You Are Sick, You're Allowed Be Sick. 

I needed a shower, I felt wretched but I needed a shower. I needed to do something that would perk me up physically and mentally, and I deemed a shower to be just the task! Ohhhh how wrong I was. 10 minutes in the shower, and 10 minutes getting dried and into clean jammies meant I had to sit down three times to regain my strength. Well, who knew I had an infection in my lungs and breathing is pretty important to any physical task. I ask ya!!! 

3. It's Gonna Bleed Into Your Life

On day 5, I broke out of the house to attend a pantomime. My first ever pantomime. I knew a ticket had been bought for me and I had promised my boyfriends brother that I would go and see him play the hero - Prince Valiant! So I had another ill-fated shower, I got my grown up "well people" clothes on, wrapped up and told everyone to screw off while I went to the panto. It was fabulous fun- except I had to bring my tablets, Broncho Stop pastilles, jellies to suck on and a drink so I didn't expel a lung when I inevitably coughed during the pivotal scene! 

4. Work Wont Miss You

This is the one I struggled with the most. I work in a busy bakery and my job is important to me, my cake fridges are important to me and I need to be working. I just need to be. So when I rang in sick the first day, I felt like crap in every regard and I was upset that I was letting other people down, When I rang the second day, my boyfriend offered to do it but I just texted work and told them I was very simply unable to be a human and that I was going to see my GP. The GP gave me a cert, made me take time off and I had to get on with the task of being sick. Turns out - work didn't even miss me, despite my bleary texts to management apologizing for leaving the boys in the turd. You can be sick, your work will understand - so stop worrying about it! 

5. Netflix is Bae! 

I watched plenty of absolute drivel over the course of 4 solid days in bed - GBF tops the list of crap though, it was a fun mindless watch. I also wasted a few brain cells on Eat, Pray, Love, though I admit I fell asleep before there was any praying or loving done!! What I found on Day 2 was Downton had new episodes and I loooooove Downton Abbey to death so I got to catch up and now I'm only one season behind, so if I hadn't been in bed sick, that wouldn't have happened. I also got to watch a lot of old movies I downloaded and rewatch The Gilmore Girls for about the 10,000th time! 

So there you have it, things you should know about being sick. I wont bore you with the details of my sickness beyond the fact that it was crap and all I have to show for it is a lovely new blog design and this blog post!! 

Xo, Amy

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