At Last...

This is Real, This is Me (x)

 After hours of designing and tweaking, I have finally completed my layout!

I mean, it's not the greatest -but it'll do (for now.)

Over the past couple days, I've been hit with a sudden desire to start a 'lifestyle' blog... except I'm not entirely sure what all that entails. But -colour me intrigued!

To be honest, I've just been feeling pretty down lately. Sometimes I get stuck in the waves of negativity. Especially when I'm stressed -and even more so when I feel like I'm about to fail. I do struggle with depression and anxiety, and sometimes its hard to manage -cough- myself during the harder times.But that's not what I want this blog to be about (Besides, I already have a blog where I whine about my feelings and boohoo how hard life is.) I want this to be a blog where I document the great parts of my life. The big, the small, and everything in between. That way, when I find myself in the darker corners, I have a place to remind myself how lucky I am to be ,well,  me. I want to learn how to better cherish the happier moments -and force myself to find more of them (even when it's hard.)

But there are also a zillion other reasons for me wanting to do this.

 I'm entering a pretty exciting (read: horrifying) stage of my life, as I am going to University this coming September. And as if that weren't great (again: horrifying) enough, I am also moving out of home, and into a dorm room. Lucky for me, my roommate is one of my best friends! Cheers to that!
On top of that, I've really wanted to get into DIYs and room decor and artsy-fartsy shtuff. Don't misunderstand -I'm the furthest from being talented in the field of ~le arts~. But it is something that I've been wanting to get into over the past few years. With moving into a dorm and everything, what's a better way to get my DIY and decor on! Right? (Right!)
And maybe I can practice writing coherent (or semi-coherent - don't want to get too ambitious) sentences while at it. Maybe.

I've always been pretty terrible at keeping personal goals, so hopefully this will give me the extra push to bring the projects that I've had in my head (for the past few years) into life.

Here's to trying!

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And I'm Ashley. I'm basically 19 (in. a. matter. of. days.) and if you can't tell by now, I'm a rambler.


Cool. Coolcoolcool.

-Ashley