My lovely friend, Emma, from Nanny on the Run inspired me to write this post. I love a good “currently” post.
Drinking: so my gym has this water machine that has nice flavours and “added vitamins”. I like to have exciting Yanga water at the gym because, well, anything that helps make the gym a more enjoyable and happy thing is good in my eyes. I’ve been a strong advocate of BCAA’s but buying a tub every three months is quite expensive. So I decided to up my gym membership cost a few pounds to get unlimited “special water”. This should save me money in the long run (and plastic, every little helps).
Eating and Cooking: I’m the master of throwing meals together in an evening. As I was basically only cooking for myself I was happy with a hodge podge of different ingredients. I’d be the human dustbin for my parents as well, eating up any stuff they weren’t going to use or was about to go off. However, as Kyle and I see each other so frequently during the week I have to think a bit more creatively about dinner. Though, bless him, he says he’d be fine with my random meals I’d rather have the excuse to flex my culinary abilities and make more of an effort. I love cooking and I love being able to do new recipes again.
Recently we had steak with a cream cheese and mushroom sauce and roasted new potatoes. We also had a creamy chicken meal with a rosemary foaccica (I bought that, Jesus, I’m not Mary Berry yet).
It’s been really nice being able to cook “proper” meals again. Though we struggle at the weekend not to get lured into the temptation to eat out and get takeaways… baby steps eh.
Watching: Well Kyle and I go to the cinema every week now. I can’t tell you how much I fricking love this. How did I ever survive not seeing ALL THE FILMS before? With our shiny Unlimited cards, the cinema is our oyster. I didn’t hugely enjoy The Mule but I did love Beautiful Boy (well, I ugly sobbed my way through it). We saw Green Book last night and it was so good. Very heart warming, funny and fantastic acting.
On the series side of things, I’m loving You for all it’s weird creepiness and also Killing Eve (late to the game on this one).
Reading: I recently loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz. It gave such an insight into the concentration camps, but it was chilling. For work I’m reading Sprint, which is from the a guy from Google talking about how to solve and test problems. Very interesting.
Using: I go through a lot of moisturiser. I always moisturise my legs after I shower and I’ve recently been using two different kinds that have been sent to me to review from e’lifexir Natural Beauty
Elifexir Fitness Body Contouring Gel (£15.99)
It contains a host of ingredients designed to “shape and tone” the body. There’s caffeine to help tighten the skin, dragon eye extra to protect the skin and black elder to calm the skin and vitamins to help encourage collagen production. I don’t believe this help you lose weight or really tighten up your skin in a dramatic way, but I do love the smell and feel of the cream on me. My skin does feel a bit more supple after using it so that’s a bonus to me. Plus they’re vegan and cruelty-free.
Elifexir Actidren Revitalising Leg Cream (£15.99)
This cream aims to soothes and relax your legs, relieving them of the heavy feelings and anti-redness. Olive oil and Rutin, a citrus flavonoid found in plants help reduce that tired leg feeling.
I love using this cream after a hot shower after my long run. It’s quite soothing and my legs are so smooth afterwards. I love it. You don’t need a huge amount either and, most importantly, it’s not greasy or thick! It glides on and rubs in well.
Playing: I love chilling out with my Nintendo Switch. I’m addicted. It helps me use my phone less in an evening which is good. I’m currently glued to Skyrim, but I also love Crash Bandicoot (though I’m appalling at it). Yes, I am a little nerd at heart.
Craving: I need to lessen my chocolate consumption I swear. I can power through a big bag of peanut M&M’s like it’s nothing. Peanut M&M’s aren’t actually that great for my tummy either it seems. I get quite bad stomach pains the next day. It’s worth it though… I’m also still craving that Jayne Salad again. IT WAS SO GOOD.
I’m also currently addicted to these Flipz. Weirdly the “Unicorn” flavour is incredible. The white chocolate fudge flavour was too sweet but these are just right. Of course the dark/plain chocolate variety are a solid selection too.
Have you tried any “unicorn” flavoured foods? It’s a bit of a mental craze…
What book have you recently enjoyed?
Do you moisturise regularly?
**Full Disclaimer: I was sent the moisturisers for free in return for a review on my blog. All opinions are my own honest ones.**
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I had a unicorn cake for my birthday – it was awesome! Fun fact: the unicorn is the National animal of Scotland. True story!
I’m such a bookworm and in recent years I’ve added much more non fiction to my reading. Fiction-wise I recently finished a YA book which reworked the story of Beauty and the Beast. It was “Disney approved” which allayed my fears of messing around with my favourite tale, and I really enjoyed it. Some of the girls in my junior classes have now started picking up books from the same series which is great.
I also just read Tina Muir’s book about overcoming amenorrhea. Not an issue I’ve ever had, but I wanted to support Tina and it was great on self-image too. Good to get that deep-dive into Tina’s story.
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Unicorn flavour is one of those things that doesn’t make sense to me- I mean I understand unicorn colour, but flavour? Horse plus sparkles?
I liked the sound of The Mule (enjoyed Narcos) until I saw who was in it and that put me off! I am hoping to see Green Book, although it has not been on at great times so not sure I’ll make it- we do get free tickets each week (through Vitality) but we’ve not been for a couple of weeks because things were either super later or while we were still at work. Off to see the Lego movie today though 🙂