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Sunday 20 September 2015

Posting Schedule

I know that I have literally just said that Smiley Central is going to be better but I have just found out that my dad has passed away so my posting schedule is going to be unpredictable. I am going to try to do the #FindingYourself episode but I'm sure you lovely readers will understand if don't.

Thank you for understanding.

xxx

Catherine

Saturday 19 September 2015

Smiley Central Is Changing . . .

#YOLO is going through a bit of re-branding, it has a new name that fits with the series much better:

#FindingYourself

I think it's better, but that is just the start of this re-branding!

In the first episode, I said that each episode would be a challenge type thing and that I want you to complete one of the challenges per series but that isn't my aim with the second series, for this one I just want you to take into consideration what I am saying, I also usually have a statement or question at the end now, I think that that is how many series to come will work.

I want to have more episodes and I will have the time to write them in the holidays. Please tell me because I need to know what the people think!

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This blog has many posts, some of them are not that great and some of them are amazing. The one thing that I have never really known about my blog is what catagory it falls under. I said in a recent #YOLO (or should I say #FindingYourself) I said that you should be who you want to be so I'm going to take my own advice and decide what direction I want to take this blog. I have the perfect catagory, you probably haven't heard of it because I made it up. It's called Perspective Improvement. That's the road that we are going down.

I am going to be adding in little snippets of things for the look of this blog and I might have a full re-design, I feel that we need a fresh start. I'm also going to be doing something I thought I would never do - delete and edit (get your screenshots now) some of the not-so-great posts from post marathons and from the days where I forced myself to post everyday even when I had no ideas for quality content.

I will be post twice a week and one of those posts will be a #FindingYourself episode. If I have an idea for quality content outside of my schedule and I have the time to post it then I will but I have decided to be more picky on what I publish.

I hope you're glad about the changes to this blog, I am excited to have a bigger and better blog. Here's to the future!

xxx

Catherine

Tuesday 15 September 2015

#YOLO | Series 2 Episode 3 - Kind or Right?

When you have the choice between being kind and being right, which will you choose?

One the one hand, you can be right. But this leads to fights with the ones you love. If you continue to make this decision, you might lose the people you care about. But at least you are right and you have proven your point.

On the other hand you can be kind. You keep the peace with your loved ones. If you keep making this choice, the people you love may notice and thank you for it. You will feel good about yourself because you have been a good person.

Next time you need to make the decision between being right or kind, which will you choose?

xxx



Catherine

Friday 11 September 2015

3 Hours in A&E

3 Hours in A&E. Fun.

I'm sorry the #YOLO episode was two days late, I have a few reasons for that. The first is that on Tuesday I completely forgot about publishing the episode, I played guitar for three hours instead. The second is what happened at gymnastics on Wednesday, this is going to be a long post . . .

Me in a wheelchair, waiting in A&E
I was jumping across to the tumbling track. One foot got onto it and the other got straight onto the corner. I was in shock so I maganged to walk over to the mat and then I realized I was in pain and I collaspsed on the  mat. I was crying really, really loud and all my gym friends were around me and then one of them told my teenage coach Hannah to come and she swore and ran over. Hannah yelled out for Jo (the main coach) and she came and touched my foot which really hurt, she asked me if I could wriggle my toes and I tried as hard as Icould but I couldn't. After awhile I could slightly move my little toes but I couldn't move my big toe and the bone leading up to my big toe was hurting a lot. The underside of my foot was really swollen. Jo said that she won't call my Mum because the lesson was going to be over in 10 minutes but of course my Mum got there in 20 minutes! Grace was coming too so she had to wait. One of the male coaches lifted me up (which really hurt) and carried me out to the car. I couldn't move my leg and I had my leg spread out along the back seat. As we were driving Grace home I was talking non-stop because it was distracting me from the pain then my Mum told me that sometimes it help to swear and she said that I should so I said the f word, my Mum was shocked because she had never heard me say that and she was expecting me to say a more mild word. I did feel good so I kept going (with more mild words) and then after awhile she told me to stop because it was strange to hear her little girl swearing. We dropped Grace off and me and Mum went back home, we asked my step-dad if I should go to hospital and I we did (only me and Mum). We got there at about 7 (at night) and I got a wheelchair and I had my foot up on the chair as you can see above. I was waiting until about 9:30, then I got an X-Ray of my foot and waited for the doctor to come. When she did she said it wasn't broken or anything but there will be a big bruise. I know that it's good that I got it checked out because it could have been broken and it's not good to mess around with growing bones but seriously, three hours of waiting to be told that you will have a big bruise, I could of told you that by looking at it the next day!

On another note, #YOLO is going through a rebrand because #YOLO isn't really suiting anymore, I'm also going add some things in the posts. I will be talking about this in my next post so get excited! Only two or three people know what the new name is.

xxx

Catherine

Thursday 10 September 2015

#YOLO | Series 2 Episode 2 - Fight Your Own Battles

(Sorry that this post is late, I will explain why in a future post, I hope you enjoy this one though! Sorry again!)

Never compare yourself to others because you are on a completely different journey. Never judge someone for what they do or say because they are fighting their own battles. Never call somebody underweight or overweight, mean or even too kind, if they are unhappy with those things then they are fighting with their heart and soul change them. You know what you want to change about yourself and you will be proud of yourself when you change those things. People everywhere are fighting their own battles, fight yours.

xxx

Catherine

Saturday 5 September 2015

Vanity or Self Love?

Hey guys, this is the post I promised awhile ago, let's go.

When you first love yourself, it is easy to think that you are vain. But if you can look yourself in the mirror and say "You look great!" or "I have a really nice smile!" then you are just loving yourself and that is natural and really great! You might be vain if you spend over 2 hours staring at yourself in the mirror. Self love is a wonderful thing because it gives you confidence and happiness.

I hope you enjoyed this post, if you did then you can comment telling me what you liked about it. Byeeeee!

xxx

Catherine

Detangling Hairbrush

Hey guys, I never thought I would go down the beauty/hair route but I have found something that I thought some of you might benefit from - A detangling brush. I first heard of detangling brushes through the Tangle Teezer. I also heard that they are very expensive but I went to my local chemist and saw this gem for only $3!


It's the same design as the Tangle Teezer, there are about 4 different lengths of spikes and the brush doesn't pull on your hair.


It's fast to use and it doesn't pull on your hair like most other brushes. It works very well and leaves me with silky, untangled hair!

xxx

Catherine

Tuesday 1 September 2015

#YOLO | Series 2 Episode 1 - Be Who You Want To Be

Who are you? Who do you want to be?

In this world we can get so caught up in who we think we need to be but really we should be focusing on who we want to be. I guess we just want to stand out in this world of billions of people. You are going to change the world whether you like it or not. It's your choice how you will change it. You are making the world better by being happy, kind and maybe even inspiring. The people you look up to have something to say, but you only know that because they went ahead and said it. Be who you want to be and never change yourself to fit anybody else's mould of you.

I have my own songs to sing, so I'm going to do that, will you?

xxx

Catherine