GIRL ABOUT LIFE BLOG

LOL fun fact about these pictures, the man that owns this carriage thing (I think they are called Rickshaw ride) offered to have me sit on his to take pictures. After being up there for about 2 seconds the guy started jumping and moving with the thing I was so terrified. I haven't been in any of these things so it was quite scary.

 

I did however manage to put this look together. I have always been about comfort and this look offers me a whole lot of that. I love the shirt dress. I love the material, the colour and the texture. It feels like what I imagine satin and silk together would feel like. I have never in my life owned a pair of knee high boots and I was literally eyeing these babies for a while now and the 75% woolworths sale gave me enough reason to finally get them. I think I should have a gotten a size 4 though because they are a bit tight by the calves but i'ts fine, besides with sale items you rarely get your size so you have have to compromise a little.

After trying out a couple of shoes with the dress I finally settled on the boots.


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I haven't really tried anything new in a while let alone a new place to eat. One would think I wold have been settles enough to want to explore more and more but nope. This past weekend though I decided to call a friend so we could go try out this new place by the beach. We always see it every time we go to the beach and always swore we'd go and so we did.

The place is basically by the shoreline so that is already a plus. It has a rooftop lounge area which I wanted to sit by. The place is modern, chic and trendy but it is not the overwhelming and overbearing kind. Every table is different and I appreciate that. It is big enough to turn into a dance floor if needs be.

One thing I am not sure I liked was the fact that the lower floor and the upper floor have different menus. The lower floor menu has burgers and bunny chows and in the upper floor it's mainly meat platters. I get the idea but I don't necessarily like the division.

My friend and I got a couple of drinks. At first I tried a new cocktail with earl grey tea, I loove earl grey and gin desperately but had never tried them together. I was greatly disappointed. The drink was too sweet and personally I do not think an alcoholic cocktail should be that sweet. I ordered a mojito next but sadly it was also a flop for me, I don't think i will be trying out any cocktails from that place. We had a meat platter. It was good, nothing special. The vibe is amazing, the service is okay and the view really makes up for everything, I will be going back soon to try their bunny chow.

 I have been struggling a lot to get people to take pictures of me seeing that I only know about 2 people in this city. I have tried making friends LOL but I don't know it never seems to work out. I prefer that things happen organically so every time I feel like I am making someone else uncomfortable by trying to befriend them I just let it go. Anyway because of this I have decided to let self timer be my friend. These self timer sessions aren't always fruitful but what is a girl to do.

For this look I decided to style this denim dungaree dress that I got quite a while back. I bought an extra large because I wanted it to be loose but it hugs a little bit by my hips but I have gotten over that. I paired it with a bell sleeved shirt and these rose gold heels I got from jet which I absolutely adore. Jet has quite an interesting selection of shoes lately and I really dig that. I've been eyeeing a cople of pairs lately which I am hoping to cop soon.
 I also think one can pair this dress with sneakers and a plain white tee to dress it down a bit.

I don't wear lipstick as often as I used to anymore so just fro this look i decided to go for a pop of colour. I love this orange lipstick. It's warm and bright and it just adds that pop of freshness to a look.



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The last blog post I put up was about 3 months ago. That blog post was titled LET'S CATCH UP which came after another "catching up"blog post. We are in month 5 and I am typing yet another one of those. I am not proud. I love blogging but I have been a bit stifled lately in terms of creativity, resources, time and energy. After moving to a new place finding somebody to shoot with has been a mission and a half and at some point I just gave up trying. All my attempts just felt a little too much like forcing. It felt like work and blogging has never felt like work.

After a long time of feeling like I was banging my head against a brick wall with this blogging thing I have finally regained a bit of passion and love for it. I am planning on buying a camera real soon so I can shoot in my apartment. I will get back into the swing of things real soon, I promise. I love blogging and I love fashion so it only makes sense that I get back into it. Expect a apanking new blog post soon.

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heeeeey! So let's play catch up. Right at this moment I am seating on the floor in a big bachelor room that I am renting here in Durban listening to Solange because it's the right thing to do. Yup I moved to Durban about 6 weeks ago to start my internship at a hospital pharmacy. The move, I thought, was going to be easy and flawless boy was I was wrong. Finding a place was a bit of a mission. I remember this one time after driving around Durban for a while looking for a place to call home for the one year I'll be here I just wanted to give up and go back home. I wondered why things were not easier and I have had quite a number of those moments after that and it's only February. This one time I actually told my colleague that I think I made a mistake by moving here. It felt like I had left absolutely everything I needed at home and have chosen to suffer here in a new place and at a hospital that has people that are ethnically different from me.

The first couple of weeks were tough. I often wondered how my life could have been if I had chosen to stay at home with family and familiarity. The fact that I only knew just about 3 people here didn't dawn on me until the second weekend when I felt like the walls were closing in and I wanted to go out and get some well deserved air. I reminded myself that I wanted to be here. That I made the decision and that I had to stick it through. I reminded myself that I have been through worse and nothing lasts forever. Next week will mark just about 2 months of me being in this place and things are a little bit better. I went out to eat alone for the first time here yesterday. It felt really good, empowering and shit. Been to the beach a couple of times and that really is my favourite thing about this city besides the fact that everybody seems so chilled and down to earth (well not everybody everybody).

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I graduated in December. I enjoyed the whole ceremony. I was present and aware. The pride I felt when I put on that gown. walked on stage and got that damn degree was immeasurable. I was so happy inside. I was beaming with joy. It felt really good.

I don't miss joburg. Everyone was too cool an we all tried too hard. I do miss res though, the wifi, my friends and not adulting. I miss not adulting.

I still have a lot of living to do here though. I have a lot of things to tick of my list, a lot to go through and a lot to accomplish and to be quite honest I am really proud of myself (sometimes) for making it this far.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR. Hope the year started off great for you guys. This is my first post in 2017. So much has happened and I plan on filling you in as time goes on, for now I'm just really trying to get back into  actually putting up a blog post.
Exactly 2 weeks ago I turned 23 (MAKE IT STOP!). This is such an awkward age to be in. It's weird because you not really an adult but you not a kid either. Awkward as it is it still gave a couple of lessons which I will share with you today. These are things I know now and believe to be worthy of a blog post. So here goes, in no particular order

1. Never ever give up on yourself. You are allowed a little break from "the hustle"but don't stop until you get what you want and deserve.
2. Take care of your mental health. Feed yourself kind words.
3. Use your brain. Actually apply it. Apparently humans only use 10% of their brain. Imagine that!
4. Listen to your intuition. I mean has that little voice ever lead you astray?
5. READ, as often as you can.
6. Travel, to any place,far or near
7. Love as many things and as many people as your heart can handle
8. If you don't know, ASK or better yet GOOGLE
9. Forgive yourself. 
10. Bad things happen
11. Ask for help if and when you need it
12. "Keep a few great friends", whatever that means
13. EAT your heart out, Try out new cuisines and shit
14. Let go of all the shit that doesn't serve you. It may take a while but that shit has got to go
15. DREAM and keep those dreams alive
16. hydrate people, hydrate
17. De-clutter, purge.
18. Save money, spend money
19. Gratitude is the best attitude. Trust!
20. Know that you are a human being, and humans are rarely one thing. We are multifaceted beings. We are walking contradictions, a ball of emotions. You get what I am trying to say right?
21. Try and not overthink or analyse things
22. Don't take everything personally (this is more recent) and lastly
23. Grow. expand...