Love? Life? Joy!
Remember that Madonna song Borderline? I frickin’ love that tune. I used to dance to that song in my pj’s when I was a kid and sing into a hair brush! SHAMONE!! I guess I didn’t understand the significance of the song when I was a kid but over the past few years I have come to understand the importance... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Love & Relationships Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
Image via Anyone else finding it hard to find a job at the moment? I don’t mean just any job. I mean a job that is actually going to aid my life either financially (but allowing me to do what I love) or advance my career towards my dream job. Sometimes I just want to run away to Thailand and... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland
Wosson peeps! Exciting news! aliljoy.com is going to be re-launching this summer as a collective blog woohoo! And I would love to invite you (yes I mean YOU) to get involved and help me pick a design that you feel best fits the site. Just follow the link below and have your say! Click here to take survey Your in-put... Read the rest of this post...
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I am a massive Jennifer Lopez fan. HUGE. When I think about it, J.Lo has influenced a lot of my life. Growing up, J.Lo was one of the reasons that I went back to dance class, dressed like a chav for about 3 years and attempted to abbreviate my name to Y.Vi – doesn’t have quite the same ring to... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Empowerment: Man! I feel Like a Woman! Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
Hey peeps, Because of work commitments, which unfortunately does not grant me internet access for the next few days (NOOOOOOOOOOOO!), the next blog will be up on Tuesday 28th May. In the meantime hope y’all have a great weekend. Catch ya soon! x
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Image via The more I step into life the more I realise nothing is simple. I can feel ecstatically happy, utterly petrified and completely vulnerable all at the same time. I can be passionately in-love yet perfectly unavailable, courageous yet fearful, content yet restless, dumb, smart, aloof, alert, grounded, skeptical, unpredictable, completely predictable… I mean, sometimes I sit in my... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: a little piece of joy Adventureland
So I previously wrote a blog about Prowlers (click here to read part one). Just to recap, I defined a ‘Prowler’ as a person who has their sights set on your partner. This week I am going to talk about what to do if YOU are MISTAKEN for a Prowler. Now nobody likes being disliked. I certainly don’t. In fact,... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! Love & Relationships Rant
Chapter 1 – The Attack My ordeal all kicked off as I was innocently walking home from East Acton station just before 11 pm. I was taking the usual route home, and as I turned the corner I began to faff about with my iphone. I was actually changing the track from Katie Perry’s Wide Awake to that new Daft... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland
Lurking in your partners workplace. Looming at the office party. Hanging around his favourite coffee stand. Emailing him on the weekend….‘Prowler’ is the name I have lovingly denoted to the people whom, intuition tells you, has their eye on your man (or woman). So it all began when I was having coffee with one of my friends back home. We began... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Love & Relationships
Hey peeps, A few of you were asking for my summer quiche recipe in my easter post. Well here it is. Happy cooking! (And don’t forget your pinny.) x
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