The Sunday Round Up #1

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My life has consisted of nothingness recently. But this week had slightly more going on. 

On Tuesday it was my Nan's 83rd birthday. She didn't want to do much in the day, but wanted to go for dinner in the evening, so I went shopping on my own in Chelmsford. The H&M there has the complete selection of their cosmetics collection so I picked out a few bits to review on my blog for you guys. My neighbor is a caterer and is amazing at cakes and patisserie style deserts, she made the lovely butterfly cupcakes for my Nan (I ate most of them). 

On Wednesday me and my friend Ruth went for dinner at Villagio and went to see The Wolf of Wall Street. We contemplated leaving it was that bad! We had both seen amazing reviews but it was the most awful/boring film I have ever seen. It went on for 3 hours, and was 3 hours of people having sex and taking every drug under the sun. It is definitely not for the faint hearted, and I'd say its more of a guy film as you are guarenteed to see a completely naked woman at least every 5 minutes. I feel like some people that have said it was good are just saying it to be generic. Save your money as it was 3 hours of my life I will never get back!

Thursday was the day of tidying. In my house, the whole upstairs is mine. So I have my bedroom, an office, my own little lounge/dressing room and a bathroom. I have so much space but so much stuff up there that it  often gets very messy very quickly. My office tends to take the role of place to throw things when they don't have a place in my bedroom or dressing room. And I just thought that if I tidy it up and make it look nice, then maybe I will use it for its intended purpose and actually get some uni work done! I also put a ton of stuff on eBay, most of it is brand new so check out my eBay shop: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/rubyyy_x

On Friday I had a checkup with my doctor to see how my hyperthyroidism was going. My symptoms have pretty much stayed the same and he gave me the OK to do some very light exercise in the gym which I was thrilled about.  I got home, put on my gym kit and went straight there. All I did was a brisk walk at about 6kmph on a 3.0 gradiet for 20 minutes. The next day, I kid you not I could barely walk I was in so much pain. Since then I have read that hyperthyroidism causes your muscles to waste away and I'm drinking a protein shake every day to try and build them back up. I am just really depressed that 4 weeks ago I was in the gym doing over an hour of cardio and weights and now I can barely do a bloody walk.

Last night I hobbled round Lakeside because I had some things I needed to return to House of Fraser. As you may have seen in some recent beauty Haul posts, I had a Mac lipstick and a Bobbi Brown blush that I didn't want. On the delivery note it said that cosmetics were not returnable, which is ridiculous when buying online because the swatches are never very accurate. I went into the store and protested for a refund, which I finally got on a gift card. So I went straight over to the Benefit counter and spent it all and more there. I chucked all my pajamas out a few days ago, and Forever21 is my go-to place for pjs. I found this beautiful candy stripe, shirt and short combo for only £16.90. When I got home, the bag I featured in my haul yesterday broke! I only bought it last week so it's going straight back.

I am currently watching Oz: The Great and Powerful while writing this blog post. Definitely regretting buying it because it is just so so odd. Literally sitting here with no idea what is going on. When I've finished this post I'm going to watch the last episode of Pretty Little Liars again. I find it's the sort of show that you can watch multiple times and notice something you didn't the last. If any of you have watched it, seriously do! It's so addictive, I lent my friend Abbey the series 1 DVD and now she is hooked. 

What is the highlight of your week?