Not-So-Secret Diary

Doggy Daycare and Life-changing Events

As you all know, I am a doggy mama and my little puppy, Rosie, is my beautiful little cheeky-chappy Sprocker Spaniel. This weekend, my full weekend revolved around this little face💗!

Today, she is exactly 6 months and 14 days and I really don’t know how I feel about it as she is getting so big. Literally, I feel like this must be how actual parents feel when there babies grow up and I can relate to the whole ‘they grow up so fast’ quotes!!

Already she has made such a huge impact on all our lives and this was proven on Friday night when she had a sleepover at gran and papas house .. which is literally 10 steps away from our home. It still felt so lonely and empty without her presence and by presence I mean following me around everywhere! The whole ‘sleepover’ thing came around to see how she would be if me and Chris were to go on holiday as we were thinking of going a city break holiday for my 21st birthday, in May. My little angel was so perfect and brave without her mummy and daddy, her mummy and daddy, however, very much missed there little princess – she was all we spoke about for the full night and was so strange without her.

Another puppy update: on Friday, I booked for Rosie’s big operation to have her hernia removed as well as getting her spayed. This will be happening on 25th of this month and I am so nervous to be leaving her! I know vets do these operations every day but it’s still horrible leaving your puppy in the hands of people that she doesn’t know all that well.. she will be fine though I know that, it’s just horrible 💜.

This weekend, I also binge watched Derry Girls, on Channel 4. I belly laughed from beginning to end on every single episode, absoloutely brilliant.. would definitely recommend! I am also looking for some other Series/Box Sets to watch.. so if you have any recommendations, please leave them below!

Have you had a nice weekend? What did you get up to? What box sets are you binging on at the moment? Do let me know.

L x

Top 5 tips on Flying the Nest (moving out)

Hey everyone, back with another Sunday post! Hope you are all well.

Being a 20 year old that has already went through this experience I thought I would share some very valuable tips that I wish someone could have told me when moving out from my mum and dads house!! Or maybe they did and I just didn’t listen.. yeah probably that one.

Anyway without further ado, here they are:

1. BE PREPARED

By this, I mean if you are moving in somewhere with a partner then get prepared for tidying up after them, them expecting the world of you and just basically bothering each other ALL THE TIME. I mean it’s not that bad.. hmm.

2. BE BRAVE

If you have a phobia of spiders then you definitely have to step up to the mark and become the spider catcher or make sure you haven’t moved that far from your parents so they are handy to get them for you. FUN FACT : spiders are the one reason that I thought might hold me back from getting a place on my own, I haaaaate them. Also, all them creepy noises at night with no parents to save you if the ghost is real – ANOTHER NOT SO FUN FACT: we had/have a spirit in our house that used to unscrew our bedroom bulb.. scaryyyy.

3. ACCESSORY GALORE

B&M, Home Bargains, Wilko.. all the home stores you can think of become your best friends. ‘I’ll just pick up a few things… 10 bags later, oops’. You will constantly pick up lots of nick nacks, it almost becomes an obsessive behaviour.. GUILTY.

4. MUM & DAD I MISS U

As much as having independence is amazing.. you will miss your parents and all they have done for you. You will start to appreciate exactly just how much they have done for you over all the years. As soon as you fall ill, all you want is to lie on the couch and have your parents look after you like you are 10 again. This is when it hits home that you are growing up and life is changing very quickly.

5. ENJOY

Embrace your new experience and love it for what it is. Create loads of beautiful memories and surround yourself with lots of positive energy. Make your house a home with everything you have ever wanted and loved, and just have an amazing first house journey. It is the most amazing, scary experience but also very rewarding as you always find that after a while you become so house proud of everything that you have created.. so love it!!

I hope this post has given some sort of aspect on moving out for the first time or if some of you maybe relate to when you first flew the nest. I would love to hear your tips and tricks on moving home and any experiences of first homes, I would love to hear.

Comment your experiences below and have a chat.

Have a lovely week

L x

Stop Trying to be Perfect

Hi guys, welcome to another post 💗💜.

So this week, I haven’t been up to much at all apart from working at my new job like I mentioned in my previous post. I am still training but it is more active training as I am actually doing the job.. just with some extra floor support/help.

So this post today actually came from something that has happened at work. I like to know everything I can know about my job, I like to teach myself and be taught on everything I will ever need to know but sometimes this is deemed impossible as new scenarios pop up all the time.

Basically, I told someone over the phone wrong information and guess what? It wasn’t the end of the world. And guess what? No one else seen it the way I did. And guess what? Leigh decided to really put herself down about it.

It was such a small thing that yes, did affect the customer and it provoked a difficult conversation with the customer but like I said, the world didn’t stop.. I resolved it as soon as I realised I was wrong. But, in my mind I had completely done wrong to the business and to the customer, it sounds silly but I really went hard on myself for it. I put myself down and cried myself to sleep that night, almost never returned the next day. I am so so glad that I messaged my mum about it because she literally is me in an older form.. she does the exact same things and gave me advice that maybe she should be taking too.. stop being your own worst enemy.

It made me realise that our imperfections are what make us perfect in this world. No-one knows everything and everyone makes mistakes.. as long as you own it and do what you need to to resolve it then it will be fine. Life is a rollercoaster, there are so many things to learn and mostly, you learn from mistakes you make.

Although the scenario in work this week was just a small one, it made me look back and realise that I try so hard to be perfect in everyday life and I really am hard on myself when things don’t go to plan and I have decided I really want to change that! Life is far too short to be worrying about making mistakes and trying to learn absolutely everything in life. I really want to try and be a bit more laid back and take life as it comes instead of trying to grab life and shape it perfectly.

Does anyone else feel the way I do about situations? I would love to have a chat and learn from each other (there I go again, trying to learn.. learn.. learn LOL!)

Definitely though, this week I am going to keep my head held high and most importantly relax.. like I said, life is too short to be constantly stressed and ill with worry.

I hope you can take something away from this and it can help you in a way that it helps me.. recognising that I do it and making small changes to alter my way of thinking💜

L x