Snapchat

Hello everyone, hope you are all having a great week so far. So yesterday I decided to set up a new Snapchat account for my page and blog. I have my own personal one also but I would rather separate the two. Reasons being that I'm not sure if people like my boyfriend are too interested in my ramblings on make up and fashion etc. For a while now a lot of people have been asking me why I don't do more on snapchat in reference to my page. If I am being really honest it is mainly due to the fact that  1. I hate the sound of my own voice. 2. I just don't know if I am brave enough. 3. I'm don't think my life is exciting enough for someone to want to watch and 4. I look awful on camera. (its weird looking at yourself talk) But I have decided to face my fears and challenge myself, to take the leap and at least give it a go. Whats the worst that could happen, people laugh at me? well if so at least I'll be making someone smile

I love popping on Snapchat daily and checking in with what everyone is up to.  Its easy to pop on and share a picture but I must commend those that chat away like they are in a room full of friends. Thats a hard thing to do, especially when you know that there are always critics out there. But hey thats life, you can't please everyone. So I will be going completely against what I always said, when I said it would be something I would never do. It will take me time to set myself up and to feel comfortable chatting to the camera, I am very nervous about that part and I know some of you are probably thinking that that sounds ridiculous but I genuinely am petrified. Why do it then? some would wonder...I think that it is now the best form of social media, Facebook is slowly dying out and even though I love Facebook I really want to move with the times and be where "all the cool kids are" :) so to speak.

      

As they say "if your dreams don't scare you they aren't big enough" not that it is a dream of mine, but I'm taking the motto from it to push yourself to do what scares you the most. So I hope some of you guys can come follow me and spread the word (please be kind). All I can be is me..Thanks a million

Snapchat name: LuvLisaxx

Luv Lisa xx

I'll be there for you

We all have different kinds of friends in our lives, some from childhood (if we are lucky), others we have met through work, social media, hobbies, even friends of friends. Some we have known for a long time and then there are others that have come and gone. As we get older our lives and personalities change and so do that of our friends, sadly we drift apart from some that were once our closest, mostly due to circumstance, making way for the ones that are here to stay.  

I've been friends now with my best friend for over 8 years, we didn't start off like this, we were more work acquaintances, we socialised as part of a group for many years, but I wouldn't say that we're very close. In fact we even fell out for some time, which is sad now when I think about the circumstances surrounding it. However it made us stronger and we actually became the best of friends from it. We have a mutual love of socialising, prosecco, all things girly, lazy Sundays and straight up having the lols. If someone was to listen to one of our conversations, they would have a right ould laugh, because we talk complete and utter nonsense most of the time. Dreams versus reality are often blured when we get together, because we come up with the most ridiculous ideas For example, we have always said for my hen we would have a "boats and hoes" cruise up the Shannon, because we both love Step Brothers the movie. When we went to New York on holidays, we decided that we would open up our own bar called "who-are's" (basically whores said in an Irish slang), a traditional Irish bar, with middle aged bar women wearing blue eye shadow and push up bras. Oh we had the whole thing planned, all written out on a napkin, if we win the lotto, watch this space :) Alot of it is silly but sometimes you need silly in your life, and we for sure don't take ourselves too serious. But aside from all the fun, I honestly couldn't function without this girl in my life. She has seen me in every emotion possible, angry, upset, happy, at my worst, and at my best. She is not only my friend, she is my family. 

It good to have positive people surrounding you but equally as important to have people that are also very honest with you. Friends share huge moments of your life, they also know alot of your deepest, darkest thoughts and fears. For me I know that I can be 100% myself around my best friend without having to second guess what I say, or how I act. Even when I know I'm being totally ridiculous about something she knows exactly how to make me see the light without making me feel like I'm a terrible person. We all have our "moments" and when we do it's important to have someone to keep us grounded. 

Someone once said to me, "if you were stuck at the side of the road, who would you call?" Think about it, I bet there isn't that many people you could rely on. But I know that this girl would drive me to the moon and back if I needed her to.

Make sure that the important people in your life feel, and know just how important they are.

With luv to my bestie Emma xx 

Insta-perfect

Let's face it most of us lead double lives!! The one we have on social media and the real one. Hands up I'm as guilty as any, I love to share details of my life on Facebook but the majority of the time I carefully choose what I want to share because I know I'll be judged. Lets be honest most of us of have done it, (judged) someone else on a picture or a status they've put up. Hell I've even blocked/deleted or unfollowed someone because I didn't like or agree with what they had said, depending on my mood at the time. We've all been in the situation were someone we barely know has sent us a friend request and of course we HAVE to accept because that would be just rude not to, wouldn't it! Endless facebook friends that we never speak to or that would barely say hello to you on the street but yet still virtual buddies.. It's crazy when you think about it all of these friends, but not really friends, and we are so eager to share our lives with them all.

I remember when I was younger hearing the term "to show face" which meant that you would show (to the public) that everything is good or okay, I often wonder is this what we do on social media every day? Happy holiday snaps, great nights out, fun family moments etc. We love to share these moments with the best intentions that loved ones or long lost friends get an update on how we are doing. But how many of us personally reach out to these people on a daily basis? You could be mistaken for looking at someones online profile and thinking that they have it all. Perfect life, family, always happy. It's what you call Insta-perfect. But nobody's life is as perfect as it seems, it's only what we choose to show to the world. Nobody really knows what's going on "behind closed doors" or in somebody's mind, sometimes things aren't as rosy as they seem, and it's hard to share these thoughts with your "online friends" without becoming the topic of conversation or gossip.

I'm well aware that I've shared some personal things online since I've set us this blog and I'm also aware that not only friends but total strangers may read these things. I call it my online diary but in 

reality would I let someone read my personal diary if I had one (probably not)....Ive refrained from 

posting negative things on my own personal page a long time ago because I was conscious of how it would come across. But we all have bad days so of course the negative should come with the positive so you'd think. It's not always like that though because if your too happy people be-grudge you and if your a bit down in the dumps you can come across as a bit of a "Moaning Michael". Fact is your 

never going to please everyone, and the strangest thing is these people are meant to be your friends right, friends that you have accepted into your online life.

On a final note being online, 

I sometimes feel so connected with life but I'm really disconnected in reality.

Drop me a comment and let me know what you think?

Luv lisa xx