Hey guys, sorry I haven't written in a while! January and February have been so hectic I just haven't had a moment to myself.
I suppose the biggest news is that I've joined the gym and I absolutely love it.
My friend that I joined with and myself have been going nearly everyday for at least half an hour and we've signed ourselves up for all the classes they have to find some we like.
It has been an experience I must say!
Both of us are aching from head to toe, these instructors have been working us like boot camp sergeants!
One thing I can't stand about the gym though is the changing rooms! When you're getting changed into or out of gym and swimming stuff, or when you're drying your hair or putting on make up before you leave, there are always small children watching!!!
When it's small girls it's not so uncomfortable but when women bring their sons in to the changing rooms and the small boys stare at you it makes me squirm!
Now I'm not a huge fan of children as it is but when they're really intently watching me as I go about my business it makes me feel really awkward!
And when women are getting changed or come out of the shower and walk around stark naked! I'm not a prude, I'm anything but a prude! But I do not want to see strange women in all their glory as I'm getting ready.
There are changing rooms available, why don't you use them? Or at least change discreetly behind a towel!
Maybe once I have children I will look differently at these things but for now I shall continue to turn my back to people watchers and hide behind a curtain.
Has anyone else got gym stories? I would love to hear them!
Thanks for reading :) x
Thursday 10 February 2011
Cosmo says feel good (as long as you're thin!)
I picked up a copy of February's Cosmopolitan magazine a few days, the one with Kelly Osbourne on the cover as I am a bit of a Kelly O fan. I think she looks fantastic since doing Dancing With The Stars and am amazed at hows she has managed to completely turn her life around so I bought the magazine to read her interview.
But I was shocked at the rest of the content of the magazine!
In the magazines' media kit, Cosmo describes itself as "...the lifestylist for millions of fun fearless females who want to be the best they can be in every area of their lives."
(http://www.cosmomediakit.com/r5/home.asp in case you want to check it out!)
Fair enough, they are encouraging their readers to be the best that they can be, but to me the hypocrisy was unbelievable!
One of the articles featured on the front cover was "Sexy Fashion; clothes to boost your boobs, bum and body confidence" And then, as part of the plastic clad bundle, was a free book; "Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet".
Is it just me or have they just completely contradicted themselves?
Now I know I have previously blogged about my plans for a little "change of diet" so I can slim down for summer. But I am not telling millions of women that their bodies are inadequate and that they need to loose weight.
From page 96 to 103 they feature a model promoting underwear who is skinny to say they least, as are the models throughout. But their "curve appeal" piece was given only 1 page on 118!
That 1 woman representing real women is given 3 photo's throughout the entire magazine.
Personally I think this is disgraceful!
Cosmo, I am a fan, but if you are going to promote yourselves as a "lifestylist for millions of fun fearless females" please consider your market more carefully. A large percentage of those millions of fun fearless females are the same size as that 1 woman and not the stick-insect models you use for the rest of your magazine!
All comments and opinions are welcome, thank you for reading :) x
But I was shocked at the rest of the content of the magazine!
In the magazines' media kit, Cosmo describes itself as "...the lifestylist for millions of fun fearless females who want to be the best they can be in every area of their lives."
(http://www.cosmomediakit.com/r5/home.asp in case you want to check it out!)
Fair enough, they are encouraging their readers to be the best that they can be, but to me the hypocrisy was unbelievable!
One of the articles featured on the front cover was "Sexy Fashion; clothes to boost your boobs, bum and body confidence" And then, as part of the plastic clad bundle, was a free book; "Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet".
Is it just me or have they just completely contradicted themselves?
Now I know I have previously blogged about my plans for a little "change of diet" so I can slim down for summer. But I am not telling millions of women that their bodies are inadequate and that they need to loose weight.
From page 96 to 103 they feature a model promoting underwear who is skinny to say they least, as are the models throughout. But their "curve appeal" piece was given only 1 page on 118!
That 1 woman representing real women is given 3 photo's throughout the entire magazine.
Personally I think this is disgraceful!
Cosmo, I am a fan, but if you are going to promote yourselves as a "lifestylist for millions of fun fearless females" please consider your market more carefully. A large percentage of those millions of fun fearless females are the same size as that 1 woman and not the stick-insect models you use for the rest of your magazine!
All comments and opinions are welcome, thank you for reading :) x
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Music is therapy for the soul
Where do I look for inspiration?
Music.
When everything else has failed me, there is always one thing I can rely on to lift my spirits.
The peotry of song.
The beauty of emotion laid bare for all the world to hear.
Pure and honest.
Music.
When everything else has failed me, there is always one thing I can rely on to lift my spirits.
The peotry of song.
The beauty of emotion laid bare for all the world to hear.
Pure and honest.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Why do people insist on being miserable?
Evening all! (Or should I say morning?)
I hope everybody is well and had a good weekend. Would love to hear stories of any crazy adventures!
Anyway, I'm back online this evening because, you guessed it, I have another little moan lined up for you.
Some of you may already know from my bio but for those of you who don't, I have a part time job as a waitress. I have worked as a waitress in a variety of places for just over 6 years now and have been at my current job for a month.
Different companies have different protocols and methods of doing things. But there is one thing guaranteed to stay the same wherever you work; the general public!
I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth and I understand that without the public, I am without a job. However what I don't understand is why, when people come out for a meal, they insist on being miserable from the moment they walk through the door.
I am fairly sure it isn’t just the bringers of food who suffer; I assume it comes as part of any job when working with civilians.
But this is how I see it...
There are 3 kinds of moaners; complimentary moaners, bad-day moaners and miserable moaners.
The complimentary moaners are the people who hate to complain and apologise for flagging up their concern.
The bad day moaners are the ones who moan throughout and then apologise at the end of the meal and explain their situation. (Usually you can tell if someone is just having a bad day and that's fair enough, we all have them!)
But then we have the miserable moaners! These are the people who have it set in their mind that their meal will be terrible and the service non-existent before they even walk through the door. And the purpose of all their complaining? Frequently it’s because they expect a free meal!
If you come out to a restaurant with your family or friends or partner or whoever you go out to a restaurant with, go out and be happy!
Don't go out to rain gloom on other peoples' parade. You don't just ruin the evening of your waitress and your company, but of the tables surrounding you, too.
It creates a bad atmosphere and nobody enjoys eating and socialising when you can cut the tension with a pizza roller!
(Can you tell I had a rough evening at work?)
Thanks for reading guys :) all comments welcomed x
I hope everybody is well and had a good weekend. Would love to hear stories of any crazy adventures!
Anyway, I'm back online this evening because, you guessed it, I have another little moan lined up for you.
Some of you may already know from my bio but for those of you who don't, I have a part time job as a waitress. I have worked as a waitress in a variety of places for just over 6 years now and have been at my current job for a month.
Different companies have different protocols and methods of doing things. But there is one thing guaranteed to stay the same wherever you work; the general public!
I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth and I understand that without the public, I am without a job. However what I don't understand is why, when people come out for a meal, they insist on being miserable from the moment they walk through the door.
I am fairly sure it isn’t just the bringers of food who suffer; I assume it comes as part of any job when working with civilians.
But this is how I see it...
There are 3 kinds of moaners; complimentary moaners, bad-day moaners and miserable moaners.
The complimentary moaners are the people who hate to complain and apologise for flagging up their concern.
The bad day moaners are the ones who moan throughout and then apologise at the end of the meal and explain their situation. (Usually you can tell if someone is just having a bad day and that's fair enough, we all have them!)
But then we have the miserable moaners! These are the people who have it set in their mind that their meal will be terrible and the service non-existent before they even walk through the door. And the purpose of all their complaining? Frequently it’s because they expect a free meal!
If you come out to a restaurant with your family or friends or partner or whoever you go out to a restaurant with, go out and be happy!
Don't go out to rain gloom on other peoples' parade. You don't just ruin the evening of your waitress and your company, but of the tables surrounding you, too.
It creates a bad atmosphere and nobody enjoys eating and socialising when you can cut the tension with a pizza roller!
(Can you tell I had a rough evening at work?)
Thanks for reading guys :) all comments welcomed x
Friday 21 January 2011
To the boys at Top Gear.
To the Boys at Top Gear,
I have a little challenge for you!
As we all saw, the Toyota Hilux did extremely well when you crashed it into a tree and a few walls drowned it in salt water, hit it with a wrecking ball, dropped a caravan on it, set it on fire and sat it on top of a 240 foot tower block in Hackney as it was being demolished. What I want to know is, could a no good, piece of shit Land Rover go through all of that and survive?
As I do not have the resources to conduct the experiment myself, I would very much appreciate your participation and the satisfying of my curiosity!Yours sincerely,
Lola Lo, faithful viewer.
Thursday 20 January 2011
keep upbeat
What do you do when you are without inspiration? When life is average and nothing is amazing.
You keep upbeat!
If life is average then things aren't going to badly and that's a good start.
Good friends, good job, good music. Life is sweet. For now let's focus on that.
Admittedly the weather could be better and so could the money.
But as I sit in the warmth of a beautiful house after consuming a rather large meal, it's quite hard to be justifiably unhappy.
To say that things are any less than average would to be incredibly ungrateful!
The thing I am most unhappy about at this very moment is the fact that I've just smudged the paint on my toe nails.
There are people out there with absolutely nothing to speak of and although it sounds shallow, material things like a house are rather important when you think about it.
I occasionally struggle with money but that is because I choose to pay £30 a month for a top of the range business phone that I don't really need because I'm a student.
I have a house to live in, a job to earn from and clothes to wear.
Life is distinctly above average!
You keep upbeat!
If life is average then things aren't going to badly and that's a good start.
Good friends, good job, good music. Life is sweet. For now let's focus on that.
Admittedly the weather could be better and so could the money.
But as I sit in the warmth of a beautiful house after consuming a rather large meal, it's quite hard to be justifiably unhappy.
To say that things are any less than average would to be incredibly ungrateful!
The thing I am most unhappy about at this very moment is the fact that I've just smudged the paint on my toe nails.
There are people out there with absolutely nothing to speak of and although it sounds shallow, material things like a house are rather important when you think about it.
I occasionally struggle with money but that is because I choose to pay £30 a month for a top of the range business phone that I don't really need because I'm a student.
I have a house to live in, a job to earn from and clothes to wear.
Life is distinctly above average!
Things I would rather do than watch football.
As you will probably gather from what is bound to be a multitude of hate-posts about "The Beautiful Game", I am not a footy fan.
So much so that I have constructed a list of things I would rather do than sit through 90 mins of a ball being kicked around by a group of posers who get paid too much for what I think is distinctly unbeneficial to anything what so ever!
1. Make this list
2. Stick red hot pokers in my eyeballs
3. Stare silently at a wall
4. Paint the wall
5. Watch the paint dry
6. Bake enough cookies to feed the England team
7. Eat the cookies
8. Go for a run to work off the cookies
9. Do some charity work
10. Walk home from town barefoot (I've done this before; it's long and rather painful!)
11. Dig around in nettles looking for buried treasure
12. Research "Banker's Draft"
13. Bake sale for charity with all the footballers' cookies I couldn't finish
14. Drink piss
15. Eat shit
16. Plan a Mexican night with chilli, sombreros and a live Mariachi band
17. Set up my friends with "accidental" meetings
18. Roll enough cigarettes to last until the end of the next World Cup
19. Create something better than Google (It's worth a try!)
20. Unload my dishwasher
21. Reload my dishwasher
22. Synchronise all the clocks in my house to say the same time as my phone
23. Make enough sandwiches to feed a continent
24. Write a book
25. Give birth
26. Create a bigger secret organisation then the Masons (With special handshake)
27. Get unnecessary parts of my body pierced
28. Become a nun
29. Make one big candle from all the small candles in my house
30. Leave the nunnery and become a stripper
31. Knit all my friends and family matching jumpers
32. Stalk Jamie Oliver
33. Make a list of reasons not to listen to "East Anglian Boy"
34. Join the gym
35. TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
So much so that I have constructed a list of things I would rather do than sit through 90 mins of a ball being kicked around by a group of posers who get paid too much for what I think is distinctly unbeneficial to anything what so ever!
1. Make this list
2. Stick red hot pokers in my eyeballs
3. Stare silently at a wall
4. Paint the wall
5. Watch the paint dry
6. Bake enough cookies to feed the England team
7. Eat the cookies
8. Go for a run to work off the cookies
9. Do some charity work
10. Walk home from town barefoot (I've done this before; it's long and rather painful!)
11. Dig around in nettles looking for buried treasure
12. Research "Banker's Draft"
13. Bake sale for charity with all the footballers' cookies I couldn't finish
14. Drink piss
15. Eat shit
16. Plan a Mexican night with chilli, sombreros and a live Mariachi band
17. Set up my friends with "accidental" meetings
18. Roll enough cigarettes to last until the end of the next World Cup
19. Create something better than Google (It's worth a try!)
20. Unload my dishwasher
21. Reload my dishwasher
22. Synchronise all the clocks in my house to say the same time as my phone
23. Make enough sandwiches to feed a continent
24. Write a book
25. Give birth
26. Create a bigger secret organisation then the Masons (With special handshake)
27. Get unnecessary parts of my body pierced
28. Become a nun
29. Make one big candle from all the small candles in my house
30. Leave the nunnery and become a stripper
31. Knit all my friends and family matching jumpers
32. Stalk Jamie Oliver
33. Make a list of reasons not to listen to "East Anglian Boy"
34. Join the gym
35. TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Wednesday 19 January 2011
new shoes!
So it's my friends birthday in just under two months and in typical female style, I'm a little over my desired weight. Unfortunatly for me, the occasion calls for a less-is-more attitude towards the attire. I am currently carrying my holiday bulge and quite frankly, it is out of the question to still be holding on to it in March! Three months into the new year it is no longer acceptable to be using Christmas as an excuse for the muffin top! It goes from holiday bulge to just plain BULGE! So I have resolved to rectify the issue by hanging up the dress I'm going to be squeezing in to as motivation and I've bought new shoes! (You have to love January Sales!) My plan is not a diet as such, but instead a change of lifestyle. I shall adjust my eating pattern and my meals in order to ban my burden, push my pudge. I START TOMORROW! (For tonight I eat cake!)
Any comments and advice is greatly appreciated :) Thanks for reading! x
Any comments and advice is greatly appreciated :) Thanks for reading! x
local weather
I find talk of the weather when living in England is essential but tedious! As a nation we insist on making small talk and the weather is a necessity, so here goes;
it's been surprisingly sunny this week. The unexpected break in the weather has injected a spring into my step and put a smile on my face. I hope it has done the same for everybody else!
So now we've covered the conversation starter, it's time to let you know what's been happening in the life of Lola Lo!
As I sit here watching colt classic Pulp Fiction, I have been looking back at my week and everything that's occurred and I must say, it has been eventful!
For reasons I shall refuse to divulge at the moment, I have been forced to return to using public transport and in the time I was away, tucked up cosily in my car, they have made very few (if any) improvements!
I have a fairly busy daytime schedule so have used my noodle and begun carrying a timetable in my handbag. I figured this would mean being on time and not missing trains etc. I would be wrong!
Recently National Express has taken to delaying trains in our area for no given reason for up to half an hour at a time. In my opinion, anyone claiming to be conducting a public service should be doing whatever is in the best interests of the public it's serving. Making them late for work is NOT in their best interests! I resent paying extortionate prices for the privilege of waiting in the cold for a train, only for it to turn up laden with half eaten take aways sprawled all over the seats and the carriages smelling of puke!
So I think it's time for them to sort out their service and get us commuters to work on time!
Thank you very much for reading :) All comments are greatly appriciated! x
it's been surprisingly sunny this week. The unexpected break in the weather has injected a spring into my step and put a smile on my face. I hope it has done the same for everybody else!
So now we've covered the conversation starter, it's time to let you know what's been happening in the life of Lola Lo!
As I sit here watching colt classic Pulp Fiction, I have been looking back at my week and everything that's occurred and I must say, it has been eventful!
For reasons I shall refuse to divulge at the moment, I have been forced to return to using public transport and in the time I was away, tucked up cosily in my car, they have made very few (if any) improvements!
I have a fairly busy daytime schedule so have used my noodle and begun carrying a timetable in my handbag. I figured this would mean being on time and not missing trains etc. I would be wrong!
Recently National Express has taken to delaying trains in our area for no given reason for up to half an hour at a time. In my opinion, anyone claiming to be conducting a public service should be doing whatever is in the best interests of the public it's serving. Making them late for work is NOT in their best interests! I resent paying extortionate prices for the privilege of waiting in the cold for a train, only for it to turn up laden with half eaten take aways sprawled all over the seats and the carriages smelling of puke!
So I think it's time for them to sort out their service and get us commuters to work on time!
Thank you very much for reading :) All comments are greatly appriciated! x
Sunday 16 January 2011
Welcome To Lola Reloaded!
Hello everybody!
I'm Lola and this is my first ever blog. I am new to this so you will have to bare with me!
I'm 20, I'm a student and I want to be a publicist and novelist.
I'm a keen reader and I love music.
I have chosen to start writing a blog because I like a good rant and I plan to use this as an outlet!
All comments and opinions are much appreciated :) thanks for reading! x
I'm Lola and this is my first ever blog. I am new to this so you will have to bare with me!
I'm 20, I'm a student and I want to be a publicist and novelist.
I'm a keen reader and I love music.
I have chosen to start writing a blog because I like a good rant and I plan to use this as an outlet!
All comments and opinions are much appreciated :) thanks for reading! x
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