15 Goals for 2015: End of Year Update.

As I mentioned in my previous post even though I was sure I had not really accomplished most of my 2015 goals I still wanted to see what I did accomplish.

1. Move & 2. Get married

I am going to lump these two together because they are connected. I did not move or get married this year because it was decided it would be better if I would graduate first. So my main focus is to graduate and then all these other big things can happen,

3. Write an article for a magazine.

This one didn't happen either and I can honestly say I didn't even try.

4. Watch movies from A-Z

I started this one strong and though I might accomplish this but what really happened is that I always forgot to write down what films I had seen and therefore have no idea if I even came close. I'm not a huge film watching person.

5. Go to 7 museums

Sadly no, I really thought I would have more time in the past year than I actually had. I was dreaming of all this free time that I would definitely have only for real life to hit me and laugh,

6. Reach my makeup/nail polish inventory goal

This actually happened and I have the video to proof it (see here)!

7. Reach my clothes inventory goal

When I thought about this goal I wasn't really sure what kind of style I wanted to have. I know it now but at the same time I am going to continue with my "lazy & exhausted college student" style and when I graduate I am going to go into the style that I know I want.

8. Finish writing a novel

I did not accomplish this one BUT I did write a short story and I was really happy about it.

9. Fall in love with blogging again

This did not happen and I know why. When I spend the entire day writing and editing and writing and reading and writing and banging my head on my keyboard and hope a coherent sentence was formed I just don't have the mental energy or will to start blogging again.

It isn't that I don't like blogging (I love it) it is more that my brain just needed a break,

10. Start working on having a Capsule Wardrobe

This one is pretty much accomplished, I have a capsule wardrobe, it just is in the aforementioned "lazy & exhausted college student" style.

11. Open up my online handmade store

This is again failed because of time, in 2015 I had no real free time.

12. Post a picture on Instagram every day.

This one started great and then I just stopped, I was having a problem with my instagram on my phone since it always stopped my WiFi working so I could never really answer and comments and it was being all buggy so I needed a break from it, I still now post instagram pictures regularly and I figured out that I can answer comments if I am in my kitchen or on campus,

13. Learn to embroider

This is something that I had planned on doing when I moved, but since I didn't move it didn't happen.

14. Lose 15 kg (33 lbs).

This one I started strong and lost something (no idea how much) and then I just stopped, it had a lot to do with free time and just me not really being motivated. I haven't stepped on a scale for probably around 4-5 months so I have no idea, my jeans fit as before so I guess I am around the same weight. At the same time I don't really care, I would like to be healthier and work out more and eat healthier and that is something that I am working on now but the scale is no important. 

15. Close Caption all my YouTube videos.

This is something I just forgot to do, I started strong but didn't do much really. It is still something I would like to accomplish.

That is all for today.

Bisous

2015. What a Year.

I wanted to dedicate a blog post about the things I did accomplish in the past year before I go and write about all the goals I had planned achieving but probably didn't even come close.

I can honestly say that I worked tremendously hard this year. I spent the majority of the year in Iceland studying, with occasional visits to the people closest to my heart in Switzerland and Massachusetts. I've been enjoying travelling this past year, but I am really looking forward not to sit in an airplane for hours at a time and the jet lag. 

In 2015 I decided to keep on going with my YouTube channel and I've really been enjoying editing videos and just doing something I fun.

2015 was also a year of a lot of studying, I finished two more semesters at university and now I am working on my final semester. I am absolutely dumbfounded by it. I love this university and whilst I am happy that I am finishing I will miss the Professors, my schoolmates, and the cafeteria.

2015 was a year of not being afraid. I started volunteering in a charity shop and I love it. It really helped me being more open to strangers and being friendlier.

Even though I probably didn't reach any of my 2015 goals (I can't even remember what I wanted to accomplish) I'm really happy with how my year was and I am looking forward to what this year has to bring.

Bisous!

Pantry Challenge: Introduction

I love setting myself challenges, I am not very competitive with anyone else except myself. This challenge was a mixture of me being lazy and me wanting to save some money. But it is more about me being lazy, I have to walk for about 15 minutes to get to the closes grocery store. It isn't that far, but I cannot be bothered to do it too often and especially not during my finals.

What I decided was to see how long I could sustain from the point where I looked into my fridge and decided I needed to go food shopping (Sunday) to the time I went food shopping. I definitely want it to last from Monday until Saturday, since on my walk home from volunteering I will pass a grocery store. So I will have gone 2 weeks without grocery shopping. 

My rules for this challenge are:

• Do not go to the corner store to buy anything (yes that includes candy).
• Only eat ONCE in the university cafeteria, and get whatever I want. (Preferably this won't happen, but since I have an 3 hour written exam on Friday I might need something extra to survive that).
• Do not go to the bakery before volunteering.
• And last but not least, do not go to the grocery store.

The first thing I did was assessing the food situation. None of the items I had were full, and most of them were pretty much empty (except for the sugar, I have way too much sugar).

So, what is hiding in your pantry and how long would it sustain you?

15 Goals for 2015: 100 Day Update

Today is the 100th day of the year, and isn't that just a great day to start blogging again? I think it is. Ignore the facts that finals are on their way and I should be writing some essays!

I wanted to do an update on how the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year are going. I might even start doing more regular update on these!

Instead of writing about the things I haven't accomplished I wanted to write about the things that I have accomplished, or I am working on. If you want to read all the goals you can just click here.

4. Watch movies from A-Z
I've watched quite a lot of films this year (thank you Netflix). I had to watch, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Blade II for a Vampire class I am taking. I am still counting them as films I have watched this year but I think I am going to choose The Big Lebowski as the film I chose for the letter B. I am only counting films that I am watching for the first time.

B

The Big Lebowski (1998) - hilarious! HILARIOUS! I can totally understand why this is such a classic film.

Blade II (2002) - I don´t really know what I can say about this film. I think the homo-eroticism of it just pushed everything else away. I didn't like it at all, the graphics were horrendous and it had too many plot holes.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - again, another really bad film, maybe they just don't age well. But the fake accents were horrible and the film wasn't very faithful to the novel, which bugged me since I was reading the novel around the same time.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) - such a bad film! It is the predecessor to the Buffy franchise and written by Joss Whedon but it is just horribly bad. The script is so cliche, the acting horrible and the vampire concept too fake.

E

Enough Said (2013) - I liked it, but I am an avid fan of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. I found it to be a really good romantic comedy. It didn't really fall into many of the pitfalls of romantic comedies and it was just a really good movie. I liked the script and of course the actors in it.

L

The Lifeguard (2013) - this movie was disturbing on so many different levels and I think the message from the movie isn't easily accessible and it just confuses people. It has the premise of a regular romantic comedy but the fact that the woman is almost 30 years old and her love interest is still in high school should show the audience that this isn't a romantic comedy but a drama.

Z

Zoolander (2001) - I thought this was quite a funny film. I don't really have anything to say about it, it made me laugh and that was it.

8. Finish writing a novel
I wanted to have this in my list today because even though I haven't finished writing a novel I wrote a short story. I started it, wrote it and finished it. For me that was such a big deal, I can't remember when I last time finished a fictional piece of work (compared to the essays I keep on hammering out) and it felt great. This semester I have been enrolled in a creative writing class and I feel like I have really grown as a writer.

12. Post a picture on Instagram every day.
I am shocked to say that I have managed to do this amazingly, some days are harder then others. Mostly since I spend all my days studying there isn't really anything picture worthy around! You can check out my Instagram account here and hopefully when finals are over there will be something interesting on there.

14. Lose 15 kg (33 lbs).
Last time I weighed myself I had lost 3 kg (6.6 lbs). Since then I have been to the doctor to get my blood checked and there we realized that my hypothyroidism had reached the level of me needing medication. I am quite interested in seeing what the medication will do in consideration with my weight. I have already noticed a huge different with other life aspects.

15. Close Caption all my YouTube videos.
This is slowly happening, I finished writing subtitles for 2 of my videos (of 79). I am trying to trick my boyfriend into helping me, it strangely takes a lot of time transcribing my videos. I think this summer I might be able to do one a day (or every other day) and when I've done all my old videos I can easily transcribe my new videos as soon as I upload them.

That is it for today! I have planned some other blogposts that I want to write so hopefully I will find the love for blogging again!

Bisous.