Hannah Elizabeth

I've shared a few posts over the years of swimming costumes , so I'm back with another . I've never felt more self-conscious and there's days I can't even bring myself to get dressed because I know I won't feel comfortable in anything, so why bother getting out of pyjamas. My ex-boyfriend never called me sexy and he referred to my weight on a number of occasions. I know I am overweight, so I really don't need someone I love to make remarks on the topic as well, when he should be the one building me. I've since had people compliment me repeatedly and give me more confidence in a few sentences, than I have had in years. I'm trying really hard to embrace my body for what it is, without being too hard on myself because right now unfortunately, my priority in life is currently my mental health.  Despite all that, I am going to America in just a few short months, so I wanted to buy some new costumes to take with me, as well as a new costume for the gym. Th

This year has defintely been a year of hen parties and weddings and whilst I usually have one a year, this year has been full on and crazy busy.  Since vlogging and blogging, I have had:  Mum's casino hen party and  wedding in 2018 Archery bestie's got married in 2022 My cousin  got married during Covid-19 lockdown and then had her  hen party in Oxford  the year after Godbrother's  tepee wedding last year  University colleague earlier this year and my first winter wedding  This year, I have another 5 weddings to go and have had a couple of their hen parties already. My two closest in age cousins (Ellie and Ellie) have their weddings in July and August. They had their  hen parties  in Leeds for one day and York for a long weekend respectively. Two of my high school friends are getting married, Maria in July and Alice in December, then my cousin's brother in law who supposedly becomes my brother in law (Sikh families) is getting married in September too!  I thought I w

I've been well and truly dreading the day I have to re-mortgage my house, especially with the interest rates. I know they've been coming down, but they're still so much higher than they were and what they should be. I got my original mortgage at an interest rate of 2.15% and even that was originally meant to be 1.96% as it cheekily increased by the time the paperwork went through.  It also brings up so many sad memories and so many tainted ones. I originally went for a two-year fixed rate mortgage because I genuinely thought that by the end of the 2 years, I would be getting a mortgage with my now-husband. Turns out, we never even moved in together and it breaks my heart to know how happy I was the last time I was doing this process.  I was a little confused about the whole process and really hoped I could just re-mortgage with my current provider which would be so much easier as it would just be a "rate adjustment", but given that I've spend £10,000 on the h

2 weeks further down the track and here's some updates on the dissertation, following on from part 1 !  Monday 18th June  My birthday weekend was a lovely long break and a great distraction. I ended up having a super long, unusual lie in so I didn't wake up until 1pm and by the time I finished the last half of the film, packed, loaded the car and drove back to Nottingham in the horrible traffic, I didn't get home until gone 6pm and I was exhausted. Instead of doing dissertation work, I spent a few hours cleaning, tidying, unpacking and doing life admin to catch up on some bits. Tomorrow I am going to have to be back at it, because I have four long shifts this week so not much time! As much as I would love to write Chapter 4, due to the sporadic spare time, this week's goal is to finish the second draft of Chapter 3 and then try to cut it down further to loose some of the 5000 words over I need to get rid of. I will then send this to my supervisor for feedback on certain

Another week, another app for reading, this time one called Dreame and it was more of an audiobook, although started as a video as well. I actually much preferred this app, but defintely undownloaded it very quickly once I finished the book. Once again, it releases chapters one by one, but with this app you can do tasks to gain coins to release them sooner so it doesn't take quite as long, and therefore I read it in just a couple of weeks.  " Friday is born a she-wolf but her eighteenth birthday passes without her phasing, officially making her wolf-less. The Alpha of the Marigold Wolf Pack, Maze, is her fated mate but he rejects her for being a wolf-less she-wolf. The Pack treats her like the scum of the earth. She is not even allowed to attend the Peace Treaty Celebration where the Alpha of the Berryndale Pack, a more powerful Aly, visits. In a twist of fate, visiting Alpha Thaddeus lays his eyes on her and realises she is his mate. Friday has been given a second chance mate

The past 4 financial years, I have been working as a Qualified Midwife. I always find it interesting to know how much people make, earn, spend on things and general cost. I don't understand why people are so secretive about finances and I think it should be a social norm to be more open and honest. I thought it would be interesting to compare my earnings since working as a midwife over the years.  So I qualified as a midwife in January 2021. I started the first week of work as a Band 3 Pre-Pin Midwife whilst waiting for my Pin number to come through and then worked as a Band 5 until the end of the financial year, working full time hours of 37.5 hours. For that period I earnt, £5897.58 .  The next year, I was again working full-time at 37.5 hours a week, with the majority paid as a Band 5. I got my Band 6 towards the end of February so just less than 2 months were Band 6 pay. For that year, I earnt £34,841.65 . At that point, Band 5 basic pay was  £25,655 and Band 6 basic pay was 

Another year, another birthday, so of course, another birthday haul! This year, I asked especially for money to put towards my America holiday but I still got a few presents from some special friends and close family members.  My mum got me some M+S treats, alongside a cake. My friend got me a box of chocolates too.  My favourite gift was from my little sister with a Gemini bracelet in gold which I absolutely love it.  She also got me an embroidery kit, which I am sure will come in very handy to help me relax, come August, when I no longer have all my free time taken up with dissertation writing. One of my other friends bought me the most thoughtful gift with a cookbook from Rosa's Thai Cafe, after I booked the restaurant for my birthday meal. Another friend bought me a Lush gift set which was so lovely. It was delivered to my house, hence why I didn't take a picture at the time! Finally, I treated myself with some the future birthday money I knew I was getting. I bought three