there's a first time for everything.

Hey there cyber peeps!

I was the sort of kid who tried to keep diaries back in the days of adolescence and needless to say, I failed miserably. Days after hiding the diary in a ‘secret’, ‘safe’ place where my mum could never find it, it turned out that unfortunately, neither could I, making the ‘secret’, ‘safe’ diary become the lost and very un-secretive one – story of my life. I was that guy that would write long heartfelt entries full of teenage angst into this diary for it all to go to waste. I wasn’t picky about what gained admission to the pages of it, in fact, it often became the case that I tried to just fill up as many of the pages as possible to convince myself I was the coolest and most interesting kid on the street! Stories would range from the horrors of living with my parents to my permanent wish for a holiday, my general obsessions of the time and my dreams of being the next biggest thing to hit the TV screen since Friends…

So here I am. I thought I’d turn my hand to blogging – you can’t lose the internet, right? A good friend of mine blogs a lot about her life – her hair, makeup of the day, what coffee she’s drinking (Starbucks, anything from Starbucks), university stress and god knows what else – it’s safe to say she’s been a pretty big inspiration for starting my own. I figured if people are willing to read about the benefits of making a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks an ‘all year round’ thing and how investing in good mascara these days is of the utmost importance, then surely someone is bound to read whatever I ramble on about on here (Oh and for the record, pumpkin spice lattes should absolutely be an all year round thing. Word).

I wanted to start this blog because of where I am in my life (just to clarify, this does not mean my exact location), but more of the ‘place’ that life finds me in right about now. I guess you could say i'm feeling pretty grateful, thankful, blessed and just darn lucky. As I find myself not far from turning twenty, underway with my second year of university and having experienced  so many incredible opportunities in my lifetime already, I can’t help but feel life is going too quickly and will soon pass me by. So I thought I would turn my hand to writing, well, typing if we’re being technical!

I hope that by sharing some of the experiences I have in my life as well as the more general, everyday (some would say boring!) aspects to my existence, that it will provide someone, somewhere with pleasure. I guess you could say that my main hope is really just this - that my writing (sorry, typing...well I guess it's still writing, right? - let's go with that!) brings as much of a smile to your face when reading as it does to mine when doing the writing.

Until next time cutie pies, speak soon. 

L xo