How to Tumblr.

What is Tumblr ?

This is the question in my head everyday. I just don't get it. and I'm not sure how to get to the point that I understand what I am doing on tumblr.

I mean when you first start out on tumblr it is pretty much a blank slate. So how do you start. I mean I started by looking for my favourite Youtubers and going from there but then what do I do? what do I search for?

Honestly it is getting to the point that I am thinking I need a Tumblr for Dummies handbook because I just don't understand it. But it is also safe to say that when I first joined Facebook (back in the day that Myspace was all the rage) I did not understand it at all. Plus the fact that I was one of the first of my friends to even have Facebook and look what happened Facebook became the norm and I sill have a Myspace account floating out in the web but I can honestly say I do not know how many years it has been since I stopped using it.

Will that be what happens to all of our social media?

I am getting a little off topic here but basically the need to figure out Tumblr is real and considering I have had the account for years and still have no idea what Im doing is an issue!

Does anyone else have this problem?

Kirrajadeee

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5 things I have learnt about living in London

So there are many things that I am learning now that I am living in london and I thought I would share a few.

1) 2 in every 3 people are smokers! I swear I walk down the street and everything seems to be covered in a thick layer of smoke. I look one way and someone is lighting up, I look the other and smoke is being blown in my face.

2) British people like to not pronounce words the way they are spelt. It is completely normal for them to completely skip over syllables in the middle of a word. The worst is when they do it to the names of places.

3) Of all the people I have met so far in london, none of them are british. everyone is foreign.

4) Women wear a dress with trainers. Now I know you would like to be comfortable on your way to work but Trainers and a dress are never a good look.

5) It costs a fortune to get around! The tube cost is ridiculous!!!!!!

Am I Australian?

When you travel and people find out you are Australian there is always this love that australians seem to get. People say we are laid back, friendly and accepting. But when I look around I'm not sure that I always see that. 

Not only can we apparently not decide on someone to govern us. But we live in a nation that is supposed to be free and all we seem to do is shut out people that are different from us. 

Tonight as I was strolling through my Facebook feed I found that a family member had posted this picture

And I was disgusted that someone I knew would post something like this, let alone someone that is a part of my family. apart from the fact that Muslim is a religion not a race, I thought that we were moving on in the world but then I wake to find that people are still as close minded as they have always been. that people are still so hypocritical. 

Who can we really call Australian? The Indigenous people ... of course. But really we don't call them Australian. We call them Aboriginal. But really everybody else is an immigrant, most of us came from convicts. So then you have the people who say "Well I am Australian because my Grandparents were born here" But someone else is called a Wog or worse because they are only second generation. So how many generations do you have to wait before you can say "I am Australian!" 

My family Heritage in Pakistani/Indian and English... but I am at least the fourth generation born in Australia. so am I Australian? I don know a whole lot about my heritage because or family lost contact before I was ever born and I envy the people I know that are so knowledgeable of their roots. I don't know a single thing about Pakistani Heritage! And I guess some people would say that I am lucky that I do not look Pakistani at all and so i never got teased about looking different. 

What about fairer skinned Immigrants, I tend to find that we only have something bad to say about the Australians that look different. That are not what you would call typically Australian. So who would you call Australian and who decides? 

Just remember that our National Anthem says "For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share" We are seen as a Multicultural society, so why can't we start acting like one?

Please people think about what you are saying! Make a conscious decision to be kind, to be accepting, to be Australian.

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Playlist!

So it is that time of year again! It is Playlist Live in Florida again and i still have been too scared to do anything with my youtube channel. I don't know what makes me so determined to do something one minute and then so scared the next.

As a teenager i was always one of those people that was always seeking the approval of others and i thought that i had since then grown out of that. I have become comfortable in my own skin. But i think to some extent I will always have a part of me that wants everyone to like and approve of what I do, which is natural, but i need to have the courage to actually do it!

Start Again

Ok I have come tho the conclusion that this blog needs a RESET button! 

So here it is. 

I am the type of person that always wants to put herself out there, to try something new. But i start and then I get lazy and i start to second guess myself. Which I know we all do but I am really bad at getting myself out of that slump. 

For the past few weeks I have been house/puppy sitting for some family friends and it has just given me a new look to stop saying to myself "oh it will happen one day" and actually do it TODAY! Something about being out of my house and living in a beautiful place with a stunning view and being able to call the shots in my own life has made something click in my brain. It has made me evaluate what I want in my life and what I need to do to make it happen.

And so here is the list of things I want:

I want to be fit and Healthy. 

I want to be Happy.

I want to update my blog at least twice a week. 

I want to upload a new Youtube video every week. 

I want to be organised. 

I want to have more 'me time'.

I want to do random acts of kindness.

I want to be a first rate me not a second rate somebody else. - Thank you Tyler Oakley!

I want to let go. 

And so I start. Not tomorrow, not it a weeks time but TODAY! And I urge everyone out there who is in a bit of a slump to get there and do the same. Figure out what is truly important in your life and make sure you are giving yourself enough time to truly appreciate it! 

Be who you are because there is no one in the world as unique as you! 

Books Galore!

Well its safe to say I love reading. I like the way i can read a book and be completely transported into another world. I can become the main character of the story or feel like I am watching from above.

There is nothing better than the feel of the pages underneath your fingertips.Curling up withe a blanket a cup of tea and a book. Being able to see how far you have read and when you are getting close to the end that feeling that you just don't want it to be over. People keep telling me that an e-reader is amazing but i truly don't think anything could beat the feeling of holding a book in your hands and turning a page. 

So three times a year there is a local book fair to raise money for the Lifeline charity where people have donated their second hand books and you then purchase them and all the money goes back to the charity. My mother and I try to go at least twice a year and as it was the fair was on last weekend and I think we went a little bit overboard. 

My mother and I went on the morning of the first day of the fair and 2hrs later I walked out with 17 books. I know for most people quite a big number but for me this seemed pretty normal as I tend to read quite fast. But then my sister then decided that she would like to go on the last day of the fair, which is half price day, and this is when things went wrong by the end of the day we had counted up our books and between the three of us we had bought 143 books, 41 of which were mine. Oops! 

I must say I have already finished one of the books in 2 days so hopefully it doesn't take me too long to get through them all. 

My pickings from the weekend 

If you have a favourite book let me know! I would love to read some of your suggestions.

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Pay it Forward

To start this year off in a loving way I’m participating in this Pay-It-Forward initiative: 5 people that comment on this with "I'm in", will receive a surprise from me at some point in this calendar year - anything from a book, a ticket, a visit, something home grown or made, a postcard, absolutely any surprise!

There will be no warning and it will happen when the mood comes over me and I find something that I believe would suit you and make you happy.

These five people must either make the same offer in their FB status or blog and distribute their own joy. Simply copy this text so we can form a web of connection and kindness.

Let's do more nice and loving things for each other in 2014, without any reason other than to make each other smile and to show that we think of each other. Here's to a more enjoyable, more friendly and love filled year. 

Even if you don't want to commit to giving 5 people a gift, try just doing something nice for someone and not respecting anything in return.


Try it out! 

Things I Learnt In 2013

It gets to the start of a new year and people start to look back and realise that another year has passed and most of us are still stuck in exactly the same place that we started the last year. Of course then we start to feel cup half empty but i have decided to look at this last year as a learning experience. I have decided to be a glass half full person. 

And so in light of this situation i have come up with a trivial list of things that I have come to learn in the past year. 

1. You can put almost any food item in between two pieces of bread and it will taste amazing! 

2. I suck at keeping New Years Resolutions.

3. Painting your nails can be fun.

4. Its ok to sometimes be a diva. 

5. Pamper yourself, it makes you feel better. 

6. Cheap wine can taste better than expensive wine. 

7. I like eating junk food every now and then. 

8. Warm pineapple should NEVER happen!

9. The more expensive someones car sound system, the cheaper their taste in music.

10. Nothing ever beats Tequila.

So that is my list of random things that i have learnt. Let me know if you agree or even if you have any of your own! 

Catch you on the flipside. 

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My life of people!

I am starting this off with a warning, if you don't like sentimental, emotional things then i would not read any further. For those of you who do and those of you who would like to know about the type of people who make me who I am then please continue reading.

I have always been very lucky in the fact that I have had a great group of friends but there are two of my friends that are my chosen family! I honestly could not Imagine my life without either of them and they have helped me to be who I am! And so we will start with......

Jordan

Jordan and I have been friends since I moved schools at the end of year 8. Although I guess friends isn't the word for it! We bonded in our first music class over Missy Higgins and I guess we got along quite well. As we started to get a bit older it became quite clear that we were no longer what you wool call friends. Jordan (lets not say hated me) strongly disliked me and we went through a good two years not really getting along. And then one day that all kind of went away. We became inseparable and realised that we were pretty much the same person but in 2 different bodies.

Jordan is kind but honest, he will always have your back, he is very loud! He has adopted my love for theatre and surpassed me! He is a fashionista or at least likes to think he is. We can sit around in complete silence watching a movie or we can be as loud as anything trying to control fits of laughter. We usually know what the other is thinking and are not afraid to tell each other exactly what is on our minds. But that is why we work.

Jack

Jack is a fairly new friendship. We have only been good friends for about a year but it feels like I have known him forever. He is in some ways the complete opposite of me. He is shy and sometimes awkward in social situations. But he is funny and smart and we are both complete bookworms! I still find it quite strange that we became such good friends. Usually you will do a show with someone and then you try and catch up afterwards but you feel like you really don't know anything about the other persons life anymore but with us it was different. We could be so content to sit and talk for hours about the most random things. He is my show buddy, the person that i can go with to watch a show or see a movie and know that they are not going to sit there ad ask ridiculous questions or make annoying comments.

I feel like I can trust Jack with absolutely anything and he would be entirely understanding and he would always be there to help me or anyone out. That is what I love about him. 

I thank you both for being absolutely amazing and the best friends I could ask for.

What are your best friends like? How did you meet?

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Do you believe in magic?

Ok. So I am not talking about Harry Potter and I'm not going to pull out a wand and cast a spell on you. I am talking about Psychic's. I understand that there are a lot of people in this world who do not believe that people can have psychic abilities but I am not one of them. I like to feel like there is something pushing me towards the things that I want and i like to know if there are people out there helping me. Besides this fact there are many things that have happen whilst in a reading or after a reading that are too close to be a coincidence. Although in saying that I can understand why some wouldn't believe.

My mother had always been one of those people that had psychic readings and she loved to come home and tell me what she was told. So when I went to my first reading I was excited and nervous. The woman was lovely and she told me a lot of things that were true and a lot of things that did end up happening and of course there are some that didn't. But our future is not set in stone so i don't consider that a reason to believe she was lying. This woman was also a healer and I was in desperate need for some healing, I could feel it. She held my hands, I closed my eyes and all of a sudden her hands were burning under mine, I could feel something running through my body. She had warned me before hand that I would be tired afterwards but I hadn't really thought much of it. But as soon as it was finished I was in a daze, I got back to my hotel room and I fell asleep for 3 hours, I was exhausted.

At the beginning of this week my mother went to have her second reading from a new woman close by and for the second time the woman told her that she could not say anything about me, that I had to go and have a reading myself. So I did. It was great it had answered so many of the questions that I had been worried about before I had come in. Things that I was unsure of were suddenly clear and it reminded me of why I liked to come.

I am a believer. I like to believe that there is something out there helping me along and I like that when I walk out of a reading I am calm and that I am now not so worried about all the little things that had worried me before.

So tell me, Do you believe?

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I love my curves!

In todays day and age everyone is talking about what diet is the best and how to lose weight the fastest. But I am here to tell you that losing weight fast is not the answer!!!

Everyone in society has some sort of issue with their body and that is completely normal, if we didn't at one point or another want to improve ourselves we wouldn't be human. But it is also important that we love who we are!

I have had a struggle with this just like every other girl. When I was growing up I was quite a petite girl! I had always been fit and healthy and absolutely happy with my body! I have been a dancer my whole life and I still consider myself a very healthy active person. I was quite content being a rather small size and didn't really think anything of the fact that my body might change as I got older. But I was 15 and who really thinks about that! I was quite a popular girl at school and I had always made friends easily because I considered myself easy to get along with and to be honest I am.

As I started to move into my late teens a lot of things started changing, the most noticeable thing was that I was putting on weight. I wasn't doing anything differently and if anything I was more active than I ever had been before. But because this started happening to me I started to get very down on myself. I started hating going to school and I started losing friends and didn't really want to be around anyone! I went from being someone who had enough confidence to share around to someone ho didn't even want to come out of my room. Whilst this was happening I started having massive mood swings I could be fine and then all of a sudden I hated the world. My mother and I started to have MASSIVE fights and I didn't understand why I was always angry.

Luckily things started to change, I had some amazing friends who would force me to get out and they were amazing in pulling me out of my shell. And I started to appreciate my life for what it was. I wanted to go out and have fun with the people who cared about me. I didn't want to sit inside wanting to change everything about myself.

By the end of Year 12 I was happy with who I was. I had an amazing group of friends and I was about to go out and find my place in the world. Don't get me wrong I still had those horrible days when I didn't like the way I looked and I compared myself to everyone else but then there were other days that I felt amazing in my own skin. I started doing a lot of community theatre and really found a place where I was accepted for exactly who I was.

In 2012, a girl I had met through a show I was doing convinced me to go to Philadelphia with her to work at a summer camp. So before I left to go I decided to go and see my doctor just to check up on anything that I needed before I left. I had always had trouble with my time of month and with migraines and such so my doctor sent me to a specialist to have an ultrasound. After the ultra sound I found out the I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. When finding this out it started to make a lot of sense. I had started putting on weight quite fast, I had developed bad mood swings, I could go from being fine to having such bad cramps that I could be curled up in a ball on the floor, and my migraines had just gotten worse. It was a hard thing to find out! But it helped me understand why these things had been happening to me. And all it is now is looking after it, going in to get shots and having an implant put in to administer the hormones that I am lacking.

But going through this has really helped me to love exactly who I am. I am not going to starve myself to be the perfect shape. And I can look at someone and think "oh I wish I looked like that" but then I realise we are different people, I am my own person. I am the perfect image of me! And if people don't like who I am then those people are not the people I want in my life. I hear a lot of girls talking about losing weight to find a boyfriend but if a guy can not accept you the way you are then he is not the right one for you! Sure! it would be great to be a bit smaller but I am not going to kill myself to try and get there. The best I can do is eat healthy and keep fit.

If you ever have those times that your find yourself comparing yourself to someone else remember that you're are beautiful just the way you are! People are drawn to others that are confident in their own skin. And remember you cannot love another until you love yourself!

Kirrajadeee

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Sweet Things

Someone once said to me "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all" and when we think about it, it is all these small things that can lift our spirits even on the worst of days.

I wanted to this post because the last few days have really been characterised by these little things.

Friday night I got to watch my best friend play Vicomte Raoul de Chagny in Phantom of the Opera! And I was soo very proud of him. He did an absolutely wonderful job, he was so charming on stage he really did make the show which is exactly what Raoul is supposed to do in this Musical.
Overall it was quite a good show I loved the Phantom and Christine they did a wonderful job! The ballerina's really needed to learn to point their which made me a little upset! But the bad thing about going to watch shows when you have studied Musical theatre is that you really can't just sit there and enjoy, your mind is literally going 50 miles an hour picking apart every tiny detail!
Anyway I got see a few of my friends in that show and had quite a great evening!

Saturday I got up early and travel the hour and a half to Sydney to meet Tyler Oakley, which as you would probably know was amazing! After 3 and a half hours waiting in line we met him and Davey and it really was amazing!

The night saw me out at the local pub with my brother and his girlfriend! Mel and I had an amazing talk about life and such and I really love chatting with her because I feel like I can tell here absolutely anything and I know she will just listen and that she would do absolutely everything in her power to get me to where I want to be.

Since Sunday it has really just been a very chill week, filled with all these sweet things to brighten my day. A fresh Berry Banana Bliss smoothie, new nail polish, washing my puppy, late night vegetate toast, youtube, filming and re-organising my life!

What are the small things in your life that just make you smile?

Kirrajadeee

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Ebay, Etsy, Asos and the list continues.......

I would seem that in the last few months I have developed an online shopping addiction, and the more I try to stop the more I want to buy! I don't think it helps that I spend a lot of my time watching youtube videos that tell me about amazing products that I don't have that i then automatically think I need.

So what do I do, I open up a new browser search for the products and they magically appear on my screen! Then all I have to do is click a few buttons and its done! It is already being shipped from the US, the UK, Tokyo, China, India....... Then within a week it is on my doorstep which is just another excitement because its like getting a present! I get to unwrap it and everything!

No matter whether I need to buy the products or not I always seem able to talk myself into buying something. The exciting thing is that I have never had a moment of buyers remorse although now it would seem that I do not have enough room in my wardrobe to fit all the clothes I keep buying.

Not that it is just clothes. I will buy absolutely anything. The latest thing was Hydrogel Eye Therapy Patches, because obviously I needed them!!! I also received in the mail yesterday a beautiful new nail polish that i applied today which turned out beautifully!

And so it has now lead me to the fact that the next few days will be spent completely on a massive spring clean. I will be throwing out and selling anything that i DO NOT NEED! So that I have room for the massive shipment of packages I expect to receive in the next 2 weeks.

If nothing else this is all just a great way to completely reinvent my space, to start afresh, something i think every girl needs to do every once in a while. Which will give me a space to film my youtube videos properly, to edit, to think, and to create.

So all in all my addiction has lead to something amazing! A new beginning!

Kirrajadeee

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Im Sorry!

So it seems that it time to start this blog again!

If you have read my previous posts you will know that I was leaving to work in the snow for 4 months and after those posts i seem to disappear.

SORRY!!!

My internet connection down there was NON - EXISTANT!!!!

So to recap everything that has happened in the last 4 months, I had soo much fun! I learn to snowboard although granted I was not very good! I went on hikes to some beautiful places and met some people that I will be friends with for the rest of my life. It was an amazing life changing experience.

But I am so happy to be home and being able to visit all of my amazing friends and family. Today I went to the beach with my best friend that I haven't seen in 3 months which was so much fun!The sun was out though the water was freezing!

I have finally posted my first ever Youtube video today which I am a little scared about but I will be posting a new video every week! So look out for those. I will post the link below!

Going away for the 4 months has really made me open up my eyes to all the amazing things I want to do in my life, which just makes me so happy, within the next year I would love to move to the UK and get a job over there. I have always wanted to go there and I would love to spend some time really immersing myself in the culture..... besides I have always wanted a white Christmas!

Anyway let me know in the comments what you have been up to in the last few months!    

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First day! # 12

Today was my first day at work and I had to be up at 5am so that I could catch the tube at 6:30! It was a pretty good day, quite an easy job which is good!! We had a really slow day though because there is not much snow on the mountain! 

A girl I work with was really nice and her and I got along really well which is good :) 

I am utterly exhausted again so I am off to bed at 8:45pm. I'm turning into a grandma!!! 

What did you do today? 

First ski in 6 years! Snap #11

So I planned to wake up fairly early today and get everything organized to start work tomorrow but it seems that it is quite hard to get out of bed when it is 1 degree which meant it was a bit of a late start! 

When I finally got up I got ready and headed to the ski tube where I received my staff pass which allows me free ski tube and lift access! I then went and found where I was working and then went back to my yurt got changed and headed out for my fist ski in 6 years! And I DIDNT fall over!! It was soo icy though! 

Staff pass :) 

Pretty river :) 

First step on snow!!!

Docs!

A little bit if snow! 

What happened to my wheels?

Late #10

Driving driving driving! That was my day yesterday! It ended up taking me about 6 bourse to drive from thirroul to jindabyne! 

But the drive was stunning! I don't think I have ever seen such beautiful landscape! I also got to see an array of animals including some emu! 

I checked into my yurt ( apartment) and I was the only one in here for the night! By about 7:30 I was absolutely shattered and went to bed and put a movie on my laptop :) 

Here are some sights I saw throughout the day 

Snap # 9

Not much happening today! Packed my car!!! And I leave in about 7 hrs so that should be fun and now I'm just staying up to download some new songs and movies and get the directions up cause I have no idea where I am going!!!! 

But my photo today is of this awesome glass coke bottle that I got today! I thought it was pretty cool anyways haha 

Food, Football, Farewell! Snap #8

So I am a day late again although my day didn't finish till 3am! 

I started the day off with the usual laundry and cleaning! Then was picked up by my brothers girlfriend, Mel, and we went for lunch (although I ate breakfast) and I had the most amazing fresh juice called the Pink Lady! It was watermelon, orange, apple and passionfruit! Soo yummy! 

After lunch we went to watch my brother play football (rugby league). Whilst Mel and her friend Amy sat there chatting I sat yelling at the game! Turns out I'm a little more into football than they are! They ended up winning the game although my brother wasn't on the field for very long! 38 - 16!!!! 

After the game I went and got some nibblies and got ready for my best friends to come over for a cute little farewell gathering! 

We played some cards and had a little wine. Or a lot of wine! But it was a great night of many laughs! And when it came to 2:30am and everyone left I of course got a little sookie! But I am now quite excited to leave tomorrow :D! 

What did you get up to yesterday? 

I forgot to post! #7

Sorry guys but I really didn't get up to much yesterday and I was soo exhausted last night that I just crashed and forgot to post my photo for the day! 

So I have been breaking out with a few spots lately so I did a clay based peel mask last night! 

Clay masks are Great for your skin! The clay detoxifies the skin and draws out any infection which is what your spots are! 

Make sure when applying a peeling mask that you apply it generously as if you don't it will dry out to quickly and it will hurt when you are trying to peel it off! I actually prefer peeling masks as its less mess but make sure you still wash/cleanse your face afterwards! 

Sorry about the late post! But I have a few good photos from today that I will post later tonight! Xxx