Hannah Elizabeth

2019 was a year of confidence, 2018 a year of change, 2017 focused on self-love, 2016 stood for progress and 2015 helped me reset. This year, my word for 2020 is intention. I've also decided to try and pick a few goals for each area of my life: personal, relationship and work.
Live in the moment. The last 3 months of last year were very hectic for me and whilst I loved every moment of it, I found myself torn in a million directions and not making the most of spending time and living in the moment. I want to optimise my time this year and re-evaluate my priorities. I want to focus on living in the now, without mindlessly worrying about other things. I don't want to multitask. I want to commit to being focused on one thing at a time by time blocking and organising days to relax and chill. Importantly, make a day off, be a day off. No emails. No work. Just focus. Learn to ice skate. It's been proven that those who learn a new skill every year, keep their brain engaged for long…

As I think about what direction my 2020 resolutions are going to take, I want to reflect on last year's resolutions and the level of achievement from this past year.

My big goal was to stop drinking diet coke for the year. I'd always said I was going to have two cheat days, which ended up being my birthday and my boyfriend's birthday. But I also ended up having an additional glass on a fancy diet out in London...mainly because I felt very awkward going on a date with just 2 people and sticking to water.

Whilst unknown areas still scare me to drive to, I have enjoyed the independence of driving and the ease of getting from place to place. I've driven to Wales and back multiple times, to London and of course to and from my mum's house in Leeds. I've also taken road trips to Coventry and Alton Towers which has been nice. It's not necessarily the driving that I fear, but the parking situation when arrived.

Where do I begin with archery! I still love it and I ha…

2019 was a big year for me and I so many things happened that I never expected. It was filled with so many highs, as well as a couple of lows. It was beyond anything I ever imagined and I was overjoyed to celebrate as I ended the year with loved ones. Here's a recap of one of my favourite year's to date.
January 
I started the year with a small gathering at home with friends and family. Before heading back to Nottingham, we had a girls date to a newly opened Ivy in Leeds. Despite having some hard days with my housemates and feeling completely heartbroken at times, the month ended on a high, with an open mic night with my neighbours. It gave me a chance to relax and reset.

February
The first day of the month marked my first assessment of being a second year student midwife. To celebrate, my course mates and I headed to a Chinese buffet in town, Cosmo. February marked the month I started talking to my first serious crush every day for the rest of the year. My Valentine's date …

It's finally here! Here is what I got for Christmas 2019. I have already shared my Secret Santa and my boyfriends gifts but here's what I opened on Christmas Day this year! What is Christmas without some sort of clothing? This year I got a tonne of new socks! I got some gorgeous comfy slipper socks from my mum and some Bamboo socks from my sister's boyfriends. Both are super soft. Then I got a little reindeer pair from my step Uncle and Aunt and here's the pack of festive socks I got from my boyfriend. My mum also got me some other clothes. A lovely pair of winter themes pyjama's, a gorgeous scarf and a sparkly dress.  I love playing board games and family friendly games so this year I got Colour Brain which was super fun and we played for a very long time on Christmas Day, plus Dominoes and Jenga! These were from my oldest sister and my dad.  My mum also got us a little bit of a joke present as we always steal her toiletries when we visit!
From my godmother, I go…

Like with my Secret Santa post, once again, I didn't take pictures of all my presents but I did remember to take a picture of a few. I think it's funny how we both did a lot of joke presents to each other and it was really lovely to be surprised. 
I love food (as I am sure you can tell) so he wrapped up some of my favourite goodies! I got a Chocolate Selection Box, some Cheese and Onion Pringles, some Wheat Crunchies and of course, some chocolate! 
I asked for a couple things for Christmas...or at least greatly hinted! One of them was the new Adam Kay book and I cannot wait to read it! Luke also got me this Life Hacks book. I'm kind of obsessed with watched videos of different life hacks so I will defintely have a good look through this to see if anything will make my life a little bit easier.  I have probably 3 de-icers in my car but they are all super old as they were my grandma's so they don't spray very well. I was defintely laughing when I opened this!  My fa…

It's that time of year again: Christmas!

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Clearly, I need to get back into vlogging again because I barely recorded anything and these clips don't do it justice in the slightest.

After getting back late of Christmas Eve Eve, I went straight to bed after unloading the car. Christmas Eve was spent doing washing in the morning, before heading to my step-grandma's house for a drop-in Christmas buffer. Having not seen many of that side of the family for a longggg time, it was nice to see them and catch up.

The afternoon was spent getting ready for Christmas with decorating and vegetable preparation. My great aunt and cousin also came over to chat for quite a while. To end the night, one my mum's husband went to bed, we watched The Christmas Prince, both The Royal Wedding and The Royal Baby!

Christmas Day was the same as always but for the first time in a few years, I didn't have to open presents alone! Instead, we opened them all tog…

This year I did 3 different secret santa's and amazingly, I loved all my presents! Considering I still don't know who two of them are from, I think I did really well. I also have to apologise because I completely forgot to take pictures of the majority of the presents but nevertheless, here they are...
From my midwifery cohort... I got this super cute cat mug with biscuit holder and a gorgeous notebook which will be perfect for jotting things down. Whilst, I'm not a huge fan of mugs, I do think this is really cute for anyone who likes hot drinks and biscuits!
From my archery secret santa... I got exactly what was on my wish list! An archery scoring book and a malteaser chocolate bar. The bar was eaten within days and the book will be put to great use this year! 
For my housemate secret santa...
I got a gorgeous gold "H" necklace. I will take a picture of it next time I wear it because it is perfect! I now just need a gold bracelet to match my necklace, earrings …