Eating Healthy & Uni Exams

Shoutout to snapchat for really upping it's game in 2016. Instagram is soon going to be incorporating Facebook's lame algorithms into your personal feed, basically meaning you will be seeing more popular posts first based on your preferences, which is honestly the most annoying thing about Facebook. I don't know if it's just me but I literally have to go to my settings and click "most recent" everytime I go on Facebook. Why can't instagram just stay how it is? Why fix something that isn't broken. I honestly think snapchat is going to take over instagram soon. If you feel like following me search 

@yeswanderlust 

Missing these two beautiful souls more and more every day. Paige lives in another city, and Nicole is barely ever in Sydney because her music career is absolutely blowing up. If you haven't checked it out yet, get her EP Tremble on iTunes. It will make you feel things I promise.

Buy it here

Actually nailing the home Acai bowl.

My ingredients include: Acai Energy frozen pouch, 1 banana (better if frozen), handful of strawberries, handful of frozen blueberries, almonds, chia seeds, linseeds, coconut water, spinach leaves, kale, and anything green really.

My bowls aren't really measured, I am very happy go lucky when it comes to nutri-bulleting my acai concoctions. They always seem to come out pretty bomb. Top with chia and coconut pieces and wallah, you've got yourself a dope as homemade Acai bowl.

This is another favourite at home delicacy, the ugly salad.

Ingredients include: carrot, tomato, spinach, any other salad leaves, red salmon, some sort of cheese if you feel like it, chia, linseed, and cucumber. Make a salad dressing by combining tahini, sweet chilli sauce and light french dressing. This is a super easy and super tasty salad to make. You can literally put anything you have in your fridge or pantry. It looks ugly as, but the more colourful it is, the better it is for your body.

Another group of super talented music humans I know are in a band called Polaris. They have more hardcore style music which may not suit everyone's fancy but damn these boys really nailed it in their new EP the Guilt & the Grief. They killed it in online sales and actually made it onto the Aria charts which is pretty damn insane for a bedroom band. So proud of these boys they worked so hard for this. Check it out for yourself!

Buy it here

Sadly my golden baby is getting quite old. She is currently 10 years old and it is starting to get harder for her to walk. But even when she is in pain she never stops smiling. She is my role model.

My uni diet honestly consists of endless amounts of coconut water and Hack podcasts on the train rides there and back.

Loving all the new plants in my room. I live in the bottom level of the house, right next to the cellar so my room can get pretty dank sometimes. These plants solve that problem straight up.

This is an essential de-stress activity for me during exams. I enjoy LUSH products immensely. A few of my favourite products include: 

• "You've been Mangoed bath melt"
• "The comforter bubble bar" (FAVE)
• "Dreamtime bath melt"
• "Buffy body butter"
• And a black bar that you use to scrub which is in the picture but I cannot find the name of

Other products featured include: Frank Body Cocoa Scrub, Akin Lavender body wash, Manicare eye mask (real cucumbers work better), Miracle of Nature Herbal mask, Josie Maran Exfoliating Powder, Origins Ginzing, and Vita + Skin Coconut oil for skin and hair which I do not recommend. Pure coconut oil works way better and doesn't leave a weird sticky residue on your skin.

These are a few of my favourite things during study sessions, fresh fruit and coconut water.

Going somewhere local? Why not ride?

Since everything that happened last year I've lost 10kg. Now the real challenge is keeping it off and getting fit and healthy.

Forever my ultimate study companion, even though her cuteness is wildly distracting.

Working on my fitness in my study breaks. Keeps me active and keeps the endorphins flowing.

When the weather outside is mint but you have to stay inside and study.

Chronicles of a uni student

After a lot of hard work and a tonne of wasted beautiful summer days spent inside I was finally finished my exams. And considering everything that happened that trimester I was pretty amazed to have passed all my subjects!! Now I could finally let my hair down and relax for a bit.

Top / H&M

Skirt / Cotton On

Shoes / Rubi

Girls night in Cronulla with this queen Gen.

Feeling a lot better now that I don't have to stress over exams or not having a car. Here's to the next few weeks of Uni break!

erica

Flaming Lips & Jessica Jones

And now that I have said my sad goodbyes to Melbourne it's time to catch you up on the year I have had so far. I went to Melbourne on my two week uni break. My course is an accelerated Business Marketing course, which means instead of three years my course is just under two years long. But it also means I have three trimesters a year instead of two semesters. It has been quite intense to say the least. I was hoping to catch up on my textbook readings over the Christmas break but that didn't work out so well. 

I checked out a Saturday day class at General Assembly for Lean UX Design. I had at this point only attended a couple of lectures and forums. This was my first proper class and I found out pretty quickly that I had already learnt this stuff through the Telstra Imaginarium. But it was still really fun to practice doing something I love.

I am not going to explain what UX is because it's way more fun to learn it hands on. Plus I still am not sure how to properly explain it in simple terms.

After the class that Saturday I was informed of a free Flaming lips concert that was happening at the Domain as a part of Sydney Festival. I decided on a whim to go and check it out by myself. This would have to be the first time going to a concert/ festival by myself and I won't lie it wasn't that fun to begin with. It's a lot of sitting alone trying to avoid eye contact with overly keen guys. I would go to a gig by myself but not a festival, way too much waiting alone. I did however run into my old year 10 English teacher who is an absolute gem. 

After a while of wandering around by myself I ended up making friends with these stunning Surry Hill babes. I could not stop admiring their individual style's. They all had such unique looks that you could tell had taken years to perfectly suit each one of them. 

I honestly don't think there are many people out there who could own this look so perfectly.

After many hours waiting I have to say, the Flaming Lips were well worth the wait. The lights on their own were incredible. In the end everything came together so succinctly to create an experience I will forever cherish.

Best. Band. T. Ever.

The next week I saw one of my favourite ladies after her trip to Fiji where she got engaged to her High School Sweetheart. I am so over the moon. They have been together for close to a decade now. Can't wait to see the ultimate Angelina Jolie look a like walk down the aisle next year.

Forever admiring interior inspo.

This is my favourite crystal of all time. I don't know the name of it but it is seriously amazing! I got a much smaller piece in Melbourne.

H&M Bag x new plant for my room

Bedroom interior decor is shaping up nicely

This is what I do at work. Bake cookies and sing Rihanna in my head all day.

Work. Work. Work. Work. Work.

In other pretty amazing news I finally got my dream car, a little black Suzuki Swift. For the time being I am sharing her with dad until he buys his own car. Which works perfectly for me as I am still living at home and don't need the car 24/7. 

Meet my babygirl Jessica Jones, my new partner in crime. And side note, yes I am completely obsessed with the Netflix show by the same name.

Going to end the first non-travel post of 2016 with some pretty adorable photos of my two babies being absolute sooks.

erica