February in Pictures

I had a realization when I started looking for my pictures for this post: I need to do more! I’m currently rounding off my half term (teacher perks), so the past week has been full of activity. All pictures but the first came from the past week.  I need to get out more. The good news is, I have something big planned for the next few months. At the moment, June is looking pretty empty, but I’ll sort something out.

I need to take a second to talk about how much I love my job right now. Teaching is hard. I get stressed, I cry, I feel like I’m not good enough. However, I’m getting through it. I’m thriving. It’s the one part of the life where I feel like I’m organized and doing well. Everything around me is falling apart (hence why I had a chore list miles-long to complete on my week off), but work is wonderful. This sunrise before work summarises how happy I have been.

I’m terrible at taking pictures while I’m out. Therefore, you get this sub-par quality, dirty mirror (read above for “everything else in my life falling apart” comment), yellow lighting, tags still on, boots match with my skin (I wore black tights) picture of my going out outfit. My head of department had a little end of half term/housewarming party and it was AMAZING. I feel so lucky to have an amazing group of people around me. To not have friends for most of life to being surrounded by like-minded, welcoming, supportive people is something I do not take for granted.

Brianne just so happened to have the same week off as me, so she took a plane to come see me! She is the one who makes me feel the most like myself. She makes me whole, and I was so happy to invite her into my home and hang out for a week. Since Matt works a normal job, she saved me from being lonely for an entire week.

Yes, we are adults who wear matching pajamas. It started with our annual matching Christmas PJs and has continued throughout our lives. We got these last year in Cardiff, and they remain to be one of my favourite sets. This kind of thing is what we do best. We make big breakfasts, stay in our pajamas for most of the day, and watch a lot of movies. We had a couple days like that and it felt so good to relax.

I think one of my new “doing things” activities needs to be going to the market. It’s so close to where I live and I never take advantage of it on Saturdays. I can get all my produce and eggs there for much cheaper. I got myself some cute succulents (my plants from August's monthly favourites have died). I feel like life would be so much better with fresh bouquets of flowers and a weekly trip to the market.

York is my favourite place in the entire world. I’ve been before, and I’m still going to take everyone there when I get a chance. Matt took the day off work and we took Brianne there. I’ll mention this again soon, but it was so cool to walk along the walls right in the morning. Brianne is really afraid of heights and was very brave the entire time.

I took a picture before we went out! I wanted Brianne to meet my friends. I’m very happy that Claire could come out with us. The night was a bit of a bust because nothing was hopping on a Thursday night (even though I SWEAR the last time I went out on a Thursday it was), but it was still really great for her to meet my friends. We happened to see some other co-workers out as well.

For now, this is was I’ve been doing. I’ve been taking some much needed time to myself and relaxing properly. My skin needs some care, my books need to be read, and I also need to spend some time with Matt!

This post is going up a little earlier than normal, and I’m aware that there’s still a week left of February. I like how quick February is. It’s very much a “blink and it’s over” kind of month. I’m left feeling very refreshed and happy about 2019 so far. Things are going well for me, and I want that momentum to continue!

What have you been up to in February?

-Daniella