10 Things About Me

I am attempting to join in with #Blogtober22 to get back in the habit of writing things again more regularly. I feel like it’s going to be a good opportunity to make blogging and writing part of my daily routine that has been really lacking over the last eighteen months or so and something I’ve really missed. The actual prompt for today is ten things you don’t know about me but I feel like any ten things I can share will be things someone already knows as I have shared a lot in the past on this blog. I also feel with BlogOn coming up next weekend this could be a good way to share a little bit more about me with any first time attendees that might stumble on this post or I suppose a refresher in who I am beyond the blog.

1. My favourite type of cake is Red Velvet cake. I don’t know why. The only thing I can think of, other than because it’s usually delicious, is because it is red and red is my favourite colour. The topic of cakes, cookies and various baked goods is a common conversation, almost like a default, if you will. Finding Cake in a Jar not too long ago was just an all round great experience having home made cake delivered. Eating it from a jar was very satisfying.
   
2. I have a huge collection of candles that I will get around to burning one day but not right now because some of them are just too pretty to melt. This is something I will never financially recover from.
   
3. I play most video games on easy mode because I like to complete them rather than get stuck on random encounters over and over again. I say most because apparently this doesn’t apply to Final Fantasy 14 where I have decided to do savage raiding for some unknown and slightly insane reason which is where I am stuck on an encounter and trying to murder a monster and failing over and over again.
   
4. I never fully recovered from my emo phase that began when I was about fifteen. My playlists still consist of my favourite songs from back then and I love to sing along in the jar, loudly, much to the displeasure of my children. As I grew up I kind of supressed my inner goth a lot but now I want to make my home as witchy and gothic as I possibly can.
   
5. I like animals but I love cats. I am a cat person. I am a witch with a cat now. A cat called Lilith and that is, in my opinion, the perfect name for a witch’s familiar. I’m not sure how useful she will be in the ways of witchy woowoo but I am hoping for the best!
   
6. I read a lot, or at least I do when I’m not in a complete reading slump as I am right now. I have a varied interest in books and there isn’t one particular genre I like the most however I am usually drawn to YA fantasy romances because there’s just something so heartwarming and magical about that first love.
   
7. I like being creative. That has been from learning musical instruments to doodling to creative writing. I love storytelling in all forms. I love photography and it’s something I’d really like to improve in. I really do have a lot of fun setting up flatlays for instagram even though it’s a lot of work.
   
8. I have struggled with my mental health since I was around eight years old when my parents divorced. It was something that really did traumatise me and then things that happened following that lead to me struggling and developing an anxiety disorder. I have since learned that this is (probably) also due to being undiagnosed with ADHD. Topics I have already discussed on this blog are domestic violence, eating disorders, sexual abuse, self harm, how my anxiety manifests for me and some of my experience with therapy. I’m not afraid of talking about these things and my experience of these things candidly in the hope that it encourages others to talk about them, to seek help and to find some relatable common ground with another person. Suffering and struggling is hard enough as it is, but doing it and feeling alone with it is crippling.
   
9. Blogging has been an excellent source of catharsis, self expression and helping to reduce the chaotic overwhelm of my brain. I wonder if as I have not had the energy to write much over the last eighteen months especially if that has been something that has lead to me feeling burned out because I haven’t been able to access writing as an outlet for such a long time. I can’t even explain why I haven’t been able to because it’s something I would do for hours. I love planning content and gathering inspiration from various sources and it’s something that has always made me feel good ever since I started this site, and the many before, back in 2013.
   
10. I’d like to think I am a kind person and enjoy helping others. I like having deep and meaningful conversations with other people. I feel like we come into peoples lives at a time to help, to learn or to love (platonically and/or romantically) and I would like to think when people interact with me they come away from that feeling like it was worthwhile.