Hey guys, if you only read my blog, then you wouldn't know this but if you've read my tweets lately, then you'd know that we got a puppy on Saturday! I'll just say some facts about him first. He's a black and white Shih Tzu called Oreo. (Get it? It's black and white, just like the colour of an Oreo biscuit.) He's currently 8 weeks, (almost 9) old. He weighs 1.8kg (When we went to the vet today, we saw it on the scale). That's pretty much the facts I think.

Saturday morning:
I woke up early (7am ish) because I was too excited to get this puppy. We weren't leaving until 10am though so I had quite a lot of time to spare. I don't even remember what I was doing, my brain just kept going back to thinking about the puppy.

Saturday afternoon:
At 11am, my mum, dad and I arrived to the owner/sellers house and once we got up to their front door, they handed Oreo to us and my dad held onto him. The owner was super nice, they told us about how to take care of him and all that but they didn't know that we already have a dog at home. Oreo's mum was super adorable! She was begging. I don't know if she was just begging because she can, or if she was begging to have Oreo back to her :'( Or maybe she just wanted food. I really think that it was because she wants Oreo back. So cute but aw, so sad! During the car ride, Oreo was actually pretty calm. He was just shaking when my dad was holding him during the conversation with the owners and when he first went into the car. After a little while, he was just sleeping or just laying on my mum's legs.

Saturday night/Sunday:
Oreo is not shy at all and loves playing with us. He sleeps with me on my bed. He already knows that that's his bed because at night, when I put him on my bed, he instantly finds a good spot to sleep. Which is usually on my pillow or near it. And if I leave my room to get something that I forgot to bring in, while he's still on my bed, he gets so sad even cries when I leave for too long. Which isn't actually that long, maybe just like a minute or so. Oreo is honestly such a cutie pie! He is really playful (just like the previous owner said) and gets along well with Hazel.

Photo of me and him on the first day he came

More photos of him are on my instagram

Love,
Elaine

Hey guys! So for two weeks now, I have been on a diet. Like I have definitely and will definitely not back out of this one. I used to always just say "Oh, I'll definitely start on Monday" but then I just ruin it so I say "Oh, I'll start next Mondayt." The cycle just keeps going on until I eventually forgot about it. But this time, I started my a Tuesday, I didn't plan it, I just started thinking about going on a diet and I didn't want to let anymore excuses get in the way of me finally being happy about my body. My goal is to get a flat stomach, not like flat like a piece of paper, but I just want to slim down. I don't care about the numbers on the scales because looking at those charts about your height and your ideal weight doesn't mean that you're skinny. On the charts it says that my weight is perfect for my height but I'm still not satisfied because I want to be able to wear tight(ish) clothes out in public without having to worry about my fat stomach sticking out and showing. I currently weigh 52.5kg. I know that it doesn't actually sound like much, but some people older than me are like in their 40kg's. WTH RIGHT? Anyways, I don't have an ideal weight goal, I just want to actually love my body. I know, most people blame it on society but the society can't take all the blame. Well of course everybody (mostly teens/young adults) want to be skinny and look as pretty as movie stars but honestly, you can't trust what you see on screen. Everything is majorly photo shopped  Professional photos of celebrities even photo shop the model to be skinnier than he/she is in reality.

So you must be wondering what my diet plan is..
It's nothing major, I'm just eating less.
Okay, I don't mean that I'm not eating at all. I do still eat but my choices in food are healthier and I'm eating less. I have started up a tumblr page where I take photos of the food that I eat and then I make a post on the food I have had on every day. This way, I can keep a record of how much food I'm eating each day and now that I'm aware of how much food I eat each day, I try to eat the same amount but instead of eating junk and fatty food (excluding breakfast and dinner because no matter how fatty they are, I'd still eat it) I eat fruits or just drink tea or honey water because it's not fatty and it's not bland like water. On the very first day that I started recording down my food, I ate 8 different things. And now, two weeks after the first recording, I had 6 different foods. Although, my results vary depending on whether I had school or not because I eat less food then. Since last week, I have decided to only eat one kind of junk food each day so if I ever wanted a snack, I'd have to get something healthy because I wanted to wait for a good moment to eat the junk food. From this week on, I'm not only going to record what and how much I eat, I'm going to eat half of the serving amount as I normally would eat. For example, I will have half of the amount of rice I'd usually have for dinner. I'll keep doing one week challenges! I haven't thought of any more but I'll come up with something eventually. So that's about it!

Oh and also, I have started exercising more frequently by using this walking machine thing that I've got at home. It helps me tone my legs more.

Hopefully one day I will achieve my goal :)

Love,
Elaine

Hi guys! Thought I'd just tell you guys about this game that I've been playing for a week now. It's called Rayman Origins! It's a pretty fun game when you don't keep dying. And the boss levels are sometimes actually pretty hard. I need to defeat one more boss so I can get onto another place because right now, I'm just at the beginning place, which is in the forest place. I'm excited to see what else there is and on the game cover, it says that there are over 60 stages to play and I've only played like 20? Hopefully not more because then the game would be ending soon D: After this game ends, I'll probably play Saint Rows 3 because we've got that but it's just Yvonne playing right now. In Rayman Origins, it's pretty fun, you even get to choose a character! Out of like 15+ characters. For those that don't know what kind of game Rayman Origins is, just search it up because I can't explain it. It's kinda like the old fashion Mario but not? haha. It's a three day weekend for me this week because on Monday it's teacher's only day so sweet! Get to play more games haha and my speech/presentation day has been changed, I now have to go on Tuesday! I'm not too worried about it though because I pretty much know all of it. But of course, on Monday night and Tuesday, I'll probably be freaking out. Not that I don't want to speak in front of the class, it's just because I'm scared that I'll mess up a line or forget to say something. Man, that would be horrible. :( But best of luck to me!

Love,
Elaine

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! Hope you all had a good weekend and got lots of yummy chocolate eggs from the easter bunny. I didn't really eat thaaat much chocolate but I'm definitely going to be eating less for at least a few weeks because chocolate's too fatty. :( Wouldn't it be amazing if you could actually lose weight while eating chocolate? haha like instead of vegetables, it'll be chocolate that's healthy and good for you. Could you imagine that? Everyone having lots of chocolate in their cupboards. But hopefully people won't be put off of eating chocolate because it's a healthy food :P

I didn't do a great lot this Easter weekend. I only went out twice out of the five day holidays. I went to a friends for a sleepover on Thursday and today, I went to the mall with my mum and Yvonne but not to shop for clothes, we just went to buy everyday stuff I guess.

The sleepover at my friends house was so fun because...

• We painted our nails 

I painted my nails with a bit of an Easter theme by painting a little chick with a cracked egg shell on one of my nails and the rest of the nails just have white polka dots because I didn't want to spend ages on painting them but of course, it ended up taking quite some time because the layers took ages to dry and I waited til it was completely dry.

• We ate cheese pizza

OMMMMMGGG never in my life (until now) have I ever had cheese pizza. Like pizza with only cheese, cheese and more cheese! It's super delicious

• We watched loads of movies, well not loads but it lasted us from like 10pm-6am.

The movies that we watched are:
-Heaven Can Wait. It's quite an old movie, I think it was made in the 80's (according to my friend) but it's pretty interesting. Like, it's carefree and funny. A little predictible but it is still such a good movie! Like a perfect family movie.
-Just Like Heaven. Such a similar movie to Heaven Can Wait and it's such a good movie because it's funny and the movie has pretty good actors.
-The Number 23. MINDBLOWING MOVIE ahaha like, the ending was quite shocking, it makes so much sense but :O I was scared to watch this one part because it was just creepy looking! Like in the scene, the walls are all red and I just kept thinking that the character that's in the room was going to get killed or something. I can't handle watching scary movies though because I just think about it too much and it freaks me out. Like I like to think of the minor details so the more I think about it, the more I get scared and it's usually after the movie that I get scared haha.
-A Little Princess. It's an old movie but it's cute. It's about this little girl that's got a father that has to go to war (World War 1) so she gets put into a boarding school. And the little girl talks about an indian legend/story.

• We ate cotton candy ice cream

I am totally a cotton candy fan so once I heard that there was cotton candy ice cream, I have been begging my mum to buy it but she always refuses because she thinks that it will be too sweet and sickly which I don't blame her for thinking. So once my friend said that she's got cotton candy ice cream at home, I was super excited to try it out for the first time. We weren't hungry for ice cream for quite a while after dinner but at around 3am we were craving for some ice cream. Well I'm not too sure if my friends wanted any at the time but I didn't want to leave my friends house without trying some cotton candy ice cream so I suggested it. I'm super glad that I've tried some now because it was absolutely delish! Like it doesn't taste exactly like cotton candy. I don't know how to explain the taste because on some bites it just tastes sweet but not too sweet and on some bites it tastes so much like cotton candy! The smell of the ice cream is exactly like the taste of cotton candy haha because I don't think cotton candy has a smell? And omg, best part, well, one of the best parts of it was that afterwards, if you lick your lips, you can taste the cotton candy! It tastes just like when you've got a bit of cotton candy on your lips and you're licking it off. Sooo amazing! I really want to know how they made that flavour because cotton candy flavouring extract isn't exactly a common thing. ;)


During the days that I didn't go out, I was at home being a lazy arse by just eating lots of junk food (I even ate a whole bag of Doritos chips in two days :'( I gotta say, I don't regret it though because they are so good and I haven't had Doritos in ages), lots of chocolate (just like half of a medium sized chocolate bunny) and I started playing this new xbox game which isn't a new production, I just mean my mum bought it a few days ago so it's new to my house haha. The game is called Rayman Origins. It's a pretty fun game and it's just addicting because there are lots of different scenes and obstacles that you have to pass to get to the next place. I've been playing that game for the past two/three days and have been avoiding doing my assignment which to present a speech. :( It's due on Thursday and I still need to make the presentation and write up everything I'm going to say in the speech. I've already got the written part of this assignment up but it's in formal language which isn't too interesting when you are reading it off for a speech so I just need to change and take away some unnecessary things. Then after all that, I have to memorize it. Whoop whoop!

P.S. You might notice that these photos are already on my instagram and twitter ;)

Love,
Elaine