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Aug
27
Posted by elle.
The boy and I rent a lovely little maisonette and our lease was for a year. Unfortunately, it’s the end of the lease and they are not renewing it. We have four weeks, well probably three now, to find a new house and to move into it. We’ve seen some nice places, one was a nice unit about the same size as this house, and a house which is much larger. Obviously the price is slightly more, but definitely something …
Aug
16
Posted by elle.
I am twenty, and I cannot drive. In fact, currently I don’t even have my learners. I hate it, it’s lame, and I refuse to have kids (or get married) before I can. So why don’t I? Because I’m scared (and lazy.)
I had my learners, with about 25 hours out of the 50 required. And I had had one lesson. I was driving in my dad’s automatic, I got it, it wasn’t hard and I was enjoying it truthfully.
Then, my …
Aug
6
Posted by elle.
Last few days have been hard. I’ve slipped into the worst place I’ve been for a while, I’m having to make the effort to eat properly. It’s a very easy to slip back into unhealthy ways. A toss between wanting to be back there, or wanting to be healthy. It seems like an easy choice. It isn’t. There is a feeling I can’t quite describe, most people complain when they’re hungry and their belly rumbling. I find it powerful and …
Aug
3
Posted by elle.
One of the biggest struggles I’ve had, is that of eating issues. I call them eating issues not eating disorder as I have not been disagnosed for four years, and I also no longer have enough of the criteria. Yes, once I was diagnosed with Anorexia, and yes it still is something I struggle with.
I started worrying about my weight in about grade 10/11. I can’t remember where it started or why. I just remember suddenly getting on the scales …
Jul
25
Posted by elle.
It’s our weekend with the little one. It scares me how quickly she grows, our fortnight away from her and she’s improved in her words, her attitude sky rockets and her attempt to play us does too. My favourite thing so far this weekend? Her remembering how to sing “I’m Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee” and the way she tries to make me laugh after she realises her fake crying has made me give her my “don’t be naughty look”. …
