Why don't we all have a tidy Sunday!

As you know Sunday is always a day of rest and recuperating from the week before. Our bodies tells us it's the time to relax, calm down the senses and the mind and have some quality time to yourself, do what you wanna do.What I've been doing for the past few months is staying in bed till a ridiculous time, as well surfing on social media, checking emails sent during the week or relaxing under the covers watching Netflix. Good ol, Netflix on a Sunday morning is the best, but today that was definitely not the attitude to take.
After my mum left for Church, I decided to do a bit of spring cleaning of my own which I find very therapeutic and satisfying. Lets say after feeling inspired from Marie Kondo's tidying up Netflix docu, I decided to take the advice from the organised expert and treat the shelves in my wardrobe the same way. It was nice to take a few minutes out of my usual Sunday routine and just spend a little time organising my clothes with a touch of neatness.
I managed to roll up my clothes as much as I could, not only was it neat but it was more organised and I realised I had more space than I thought which allowed me to add in more clothes into my draws and free up the hangers.

Check out one of my draws which has my basic tops, vests, going out tops, printed tops and more.

 In the end I have come to the conclusion, all this time, I've had trouble finding what to wear and thinking I need new tops for work or going out. Turns out, I don't need a damn thing, I have more than enough clothes. The fact that I spent half the day organising my wardrobe, I feel happy to say I think tomorrow morning there will not be any problems. Instead of delaying things, I have handled my time wisely and achieved some satisfaction and clarity in the end. All in a day's work.

Thank you Marie Kondo.

Reflections of 2018

As I approached the last few days of the 2018, I find myself reflecting on past thoughts within the year, could I have done things better, have I succeeded to achieve my goals and what goals do I want to focus on for the New Year? All these thoughts scrambled around in my head. There was two things I wanted to achieve and I feel blessed to succeeded them both. One is passing my probation in my current job, the second is finally passing my driving test.

It wasn't all difficult, there is more I could mention but the list goes on. Overall, 2018 was a very good year, visited a few places such as Rzeszow, Poland for my friend's wedding, Amsterdam and Barcelona for myself and sister's birthday in July, but that's not all, I also attended a few concerts such as the African Orchestra and seeing R&B singer Raheem Devaughn at the Jazz Cafe, socialising with friends at Garage Nation, Matt's Barbecue festival, 51st State fest, taking a weekend trip to Paris to attend Afro Punk fest, meeting up with close friends, meeting new friends, seeing multiple artists such as Damien Marley, Davido, Maxwell, Sza and many more. Lets not forget the pre-celebrations for Carnival at Southbank Centre and Notting Hill Carnival to end the summer nicely. Got to see my favourite comedians of 2018 Yvonne Orji and MotheComedian live in concert. Can not wait to see new material from these two for 2019 and finally seeing Kaytranada at Koko in Camden. I cant get enough of this musician, I love his music and the pulsating beats just makes you wanna move and don't stop moving. lol.

As I sit on the couch and continue you typing I realise I was quite busy last year and not all has been mentioned. I mean lets not forget I've had a great Christmas and spending quality time with friends and family who I haven't seen in a while and just enjoying the smiles on everyone's faces, but one of my biggest highlights of the last few weeks of 2018 is finally realising what I want to do with my career and that is going into Editorial Writing. You could say the correct word is Journalism.
Journalism has never uttered my lips before but it possesses a certain creativity that I crave. I feel free when I write, it's a release to write down all my thoughts, experiences and opinions.

I like to be true to myself and follow my dreams just like everyone else but making sure I make time for me and have fun and that's what I have done for 2018 and I'm bringing that positivity to 2019. I hope you all do the same.

Happy New Year to all.