Lemons & Lemonade

I'm going into the next part of my life kind of blind. I call it the next part of my life because I have three major areas of my life that need to be changed.

1: I need a new car.
This will hopefully be solved in the next few weeks, I talked about my crash in a blog two weeks ago which you can read here and since that fine day I have realised that not having a car means that you have absolutely no choice but to to walk everywhere. This would not normally be a problem except I live in Australia where the weather is either burn-to-a-crisp-as-soon-as-you-go-outside or make-sure-you-are-wearing-every-jacket-you-own-plus-a-blanket-before-leaving-the-house.
So walking is kind of a downer, plus I haven't seen any kind of positive change in my body (maybe because of all the ice-cream and chips & gravy I've been eaing) which brings me to point number 2.

2: I need to get healthy. This week I've already planned what is apparently called a "fruit fast" which is a stupid name because to 'fast' means you don't eat hence breakfast you're breaking the fast but I digress, what this should really be called is a "fruit eat as much as you want(-ast?)". Basically you eat nothing but fruit and it's slightly controlled but all of the instructions say that if you get hungry you should eat a piece of fruit or drink water. I'll also be taking vitamin suppliments just to keep in check. So.. theres that. This plus a boosted up version of my regular exercise should do the trick this week. Then I can go onto a more stable diet which I do enjoy but the expense.. oh the expense. So much money to eat healthy. Which brings me to my next point.

3: I need a new job. This is something that I've felt continuously for a long time now, roughly 5 years. I changed jobs about half way through there but never enjoyed the change. Now that they've cut my hours and started hating on me again I'm ready to leave. Honestly, I need the money and something that doesn't make me feel physically ill everytime I think about it. So applications have been flying out of me like you wouldn't believe. Everything from clothes store retail to office administration to hairdressing apprenticeships (which I would totally own by the way).

This hasn't been a blog so much as a to-do list but I guess what I'm trying to say is that life hasn't really been handing me too many lemons recently, and as much as I hate to realize that, it's made me notice that I've been doing the best that I can, trying harder everyday and hoping for a great result, and that to me is the best tasting lemonade anyone could ever make.

When live gives you lemons, make lemonade.
If life doesn't give you lemons, go get your own lemons and show life who's boss.


Ashley xx