25 Get To Know Me Questions Tag

25 Get To Know Me Questions Tag

Friday 17 March 2017

As my reader, you can probably work a few things out and other things I have been moderately open about, but today I thought I would let you all know some of the more boring things about me.

1. What is your middle name?
My middle name is 'Margaret' which is where the name of my blog came from. It is also my aunt and grandmothers middle name.

2. What was your favourite subject at school?
This one is easy it was hands down history, I liked English as well but I love learning new things about history ad culture, so history takes that prize.



3. What is your favourite drink?
Okay, this is a complicated question. My favourite drink to get at a cafe is either a chai latte or flat white both with soy, no sugar. My favourite alcoholic drink is my amazing blueberry gin cocktail. I also love a good Chocolate thick shake but who doesn't?

4.What is your favourite song at the moment?
This one is super easy, follow you by Bring Me The Horizon. I love this song and I have for quite a while now.



5. What is your favourite food?
This one is hard, there is a specific hell Pizza that I love okay well I change like five things on it, but it is amazing. I am also a fan of a pasta salad that New World sell in the deli and I recreated it for tonight and it was amazing. I am also a big fan of my ginger salmon. I like food, can't pick a favourite.

6. What is the last thing you bought?
Boring I know, but I just did a grocery shop so groceries.

7. Favourite colour?
Grey, I really like grey at the moment.

8. Do you have any pets?
I have a cat named Louie, but he lives with my parents. My mum seems to think when I moved out he became hers but that is definitely not the case.



9. Favourite book?
This one is super hard there is lots of books I like and love. The book I am reading a the moment is 'mereChristianityy' by C.S. Lewis which is a really good read the book I have rea the most though is Love, Aubrey by Suzanne Lafleur altohuh i havent read that for a few years.

10. Favourite holiday?
I haven't travelled much but either Cairns in Australia, Niue, or the South Island of New Zealand.

11. Relationship Status?
haha, I mean have you read my blog, I am defnitely single.



12. Siblings?
One amazing sister she is 22

13. Favourite Restaurant?
This one is easy, I have only been there once but it is arestaurant in Whangarei call À deco and it has the most amazing food I have ever tasted, I took my sister there for her birthday last year and it was amazing.

14. When was the last time you cried?
About a week and a half ago, I was upset about sometihng but one of my mates were like get your shit togethor and it was all fine haha

15. Favourite TV Show?
Don't have one. I watch a lot of different genres of tv shows so its hard to be like this one. I really like homeland, every single marvel tv series ever created specifically jessica jones and I also really like young and hungry.



16. PC or Mac?
Mac hands down, I have had both and I prefer mac way more. Last year I had a small accident with my macbook (lets just say there was some soy sauce involved) and it resulted in me having to get another computer I went into the store and picked up another macbook, I didnt even look at any other computer I knew I liked this one and I had no intentions of changing yea they can be pricey but they are so wirth it!

17. Phone?
Iphone, I really like apple okay! I use to have a Samsung so before you go saying anything I have had multiple Samsungs and I like apple better its a personal preference thing so leave me alone. i also dont think i would go back to samsung soley now because I have invested to much money in apple I have had 2 macbooks, an iphone, apple watch and apple tv. i have had 4 samsung ohines and a samsung tablet anf I just wasnt feeling it.

18. Height?
I actually ahve no idea dome where between 5 and 6 foot I know not very precise but I dunno im average height.



19. Can you cook?
Yes, not to blow my own trumpet but I am an amazing cook ~most of the time~.

20. Kids?
Nope, maybe in the future (like more than ten years in the future).

21. Sarcasm?
YES. I am an incredibly sarcastic person which some people get tired of.

22. Eye Colour?
Brown

23. Summer or WInter?
Winter, I love the cold okay I love jeans and scarves and cuddling in bed with lots of blankets and drinking hot tea by the fire so winter wins by default.

3 Day Social Media Detox

3 Day Social Media Detox

Sunday 12 March 2017

I like most people my age spend to much time on my phone and laptop. Most of this time is spent on Social Media apps and websites and while my blog and social media in many ways is my hobby and job it isn't always healthy so for the next seven days I am taking a social media detox, yes you heard that right. I have tried so many times to have a 'break' from social media and to just stay off of it but I can't. I am addicted and 3 days without social media is going to be hard (I know it's only three days but it will still be hard okay!). I am going to schedule everything blog related so that I have no excuse to be on social media and I am going to put Social Media apps on my phone into one file and turn off all notifications.

As humans, we often spend time looking at out phones, rather than having conversations. I find myself being consumed by social media. Rather than spending time on doing things fo myself, I spend hours scrolling through Instagram and facebook watching other peoples' lives. Which is crazy, that I spend time looking at other peoples' lives rather than improving my own life. Social Media is something that I have become so reliant on rather than getting somebodies number I add them on FB, it is so much more convenient. Last year I went through my facebook and I unfriended every single person that I don't talk to anymore or has no purpose of being my friend on facebook. I now have 130 friends and before I have 8oo and something which is somewhat of a massive difference. The people I now have as my friends on facebook are people I actually want to interact with and would go and get a coffee with, not people that were three years below me in primary school.

My biggest struggle I think will be twitter, facebook messenger, and Snapchat. I tweet almost every small event that happens, I tweet too much and I spend way too much time on twitter. Snapchat anybody that follows me on Snapchat (paigemwea) knows I overshare and spend way too much time on there. I post EVERYTHING, and I am the first to admit that nobody probably cares and it also isn't healthy. It is not healthy to feel that need of validation from other people let alone other people online.


I will not be using any of the following Social Media platforms (the only reason I will be using any of these platforms is for my blog) :

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• Blogger
• Pinterest
• Whisper
• Youtube (except to watch my workout videos)
• general internet scrolling without a purpose

What I will be using:

• Emails: Only work and uni-related emails, though. NO blog or personal emails.
• Phone calls: although not technically social media  I thought I would add it to this list for clarification
• texting: I will still be texting because I need a way of communicating with the outside world. Also, I have just moved back to the city that my uni is in so my mum finds it necessary to call at least once a day and text at least ten times. I also need to be able to text for work and to sort times out with my therapist. 

I am prepared to feel awkward in situations I would normally just look at my one. This is the first week back at uni, and I have looked at my class lists and I know nobody so that's going to be fun while everybody else is on their phones. *Deep Sigh* ~googles conversation starters~

I am excited and also terrified which I don't think is a good thing, I spend too much time online so the next week I will have to actually interact with other human beings in human form. I am writing this Thursday night (or Friday morning depends on what you define 1 am as) so I have time to find activities and things to do without the internet and social media, I will also be turning off notifications nad I think that is all. 

I hope from this one week off of social media I will get used to not checking my online 'life' every five minutes and thus will start to spend more time on me outside the seven days.

Wish me luck, please.

have you ever done anything life this? Are you going to join me?

Let me know in the comments below.

January & February 2017 Favourites

January & February 2017 Favourites

Wednesday 8 March 2017

1. Passion Planner
I am a planning and organizing obsessive! I bought this planner at the end of December and it arrived pretty quickly, which I was very impressed by. I have tried out different ways of using the planner and have found a prefered way, although it has taken sometimes I did like each way i have used it although I wanted it to look pretty as well. I love the passion planner both because of the design of the planner and because of the philosophy behind the planner. Go check out their website ad if you love the look of the planner as much as I do if you use the discount code: 'love10' you can get 10% off.



2. Apple Watch
I got an apple watch for Christmas, and have started to use it quite a bit I love all the features on it, particularly the fitness apps as they help to keep those new year resolutions on track. Although the better life could be improved it does the job. I also love the fact that I can answer phone calls on it as it is super handy when I am driving to and from Auckland and don't really want to pull over to answer a phone call. Yay, for handsfree!

3. ZA Mascara
This has become my new go to mascara it gives your lashes volume and length which is super hard to find in a good mascara. This is now my daily mascara and I am in love with it.



4. Duolingo website
This website has been awesome in helping me learn a new language, I have admiralty slipped in practising a new language because I have been so busy although this website has been awesome and there is also an app that I have downloaded on my phone although I am yet to check that out i am yet to use it.

5. Dove Shampoo
I have never liked a shampoo so much. I have oily but frizzy hair, fun combo i know. My hair always looks crap unless I have used heating tools which his extremely annoying. However, with the Dove shampoo I am still washing it every second day however it looks shiny and healthy and the frizz is a lot less. honestly, this is the best shampoo I have ever used and I have even purchased a second bottle which I need do with shampoo