Motivational Quote #1


The past few days have been quite challenging for me which made me think of this quote.
When I woke up on wednesday morning I almost fell out of bed because I felt super dizzy ( think 6 pints of cider dizzy). At first i didn’t think much of it but when it hadn’t gone away an hour later I started to get worried. Since I couldn’t drive or even walk by myself my dad took me to the doctors. Apparently I caught some kind of virus that affects my sense of balance andย  all I can do now is rest and wait for my immune system to fight it off.
So as you can probably imagine, the past days have been rather bad and boring. But feeling like this also reminded me of how lucky I am most of the time. I don’t suffer from any chronic illnesses or allergies nor do I get sick very often but I think under normal circumstances I just don’t appreciate this as much as I should. There will always be things in life that are annoying or worth moaning about but overall I want to try and keep the above quote in mind as I think that my life could be so much worse and I should be thankful for everything I have (including my health).
I hope you’re all having a lovely weekend.

Juliane XX

To bathe or not to bathe…

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Ah isn’t it nice to have a nice hot bubble bath with some candles on the side and maybe an audiobook or some music playing?
Whenever I come across a nice picture like the one above I think how nice it would be to run a bath and just relax for a bit. The same happens when I browse blogs or websites like lush.co.uk
and see all the beautiful bath melts,bubble baths, bath bombs etc.
I also really like smelling nice bath products in the shops so overall I would think that I’m pretty fond of having relaxing baths.
Only…that I’m not.
Whenever I actually have a bath something odd happens. I run the bath, get in and then….nothing. Unlike other people I don’t actually enjoy it all that much. After usually about 15 minutes in it I start getting bored and way too hot for my liking too. I can’t relax either as I constantly have to keep myself in the right position so that I don’t slip too low into the bath or have my neck in an uncomfortable position. (I’m fairly short you know)
I don’t know why it always seems to turn out like this for me. On the one hand I think “No big deal, so you prefer showers.What’s all the fuss about?” but on the other I wish I could enjoy baths more.
Since there doesn’t seem to be a solution to that problem (although problem is quite a strong word for something minor like that) I think I’ll give up on bubble baths for now. That is not to say that I won’t give it another try in the future but for now I will concentrate on all the nice shower gels and other products that companies like lush have to offer. ๐Ÿ™‚
I wonder whether there are more people who feel like me about that?
What are your thoughts ? I would love to know :-). Do you enjoy having baths?
Have a nice day everyone ๐Ÿ™‚ xx