Month: August 2018

Thirty after 30

A bucket list.

On 22nd August 2018 I hit 30 years of age!
As part of my celebrations and a hopeful step towards a major life-time goal I have re-launched my blog. This first week of posts is dedicated to my past, present and future with the intention of giving you all a look behind the curtain at me… Roxanne Michelle.
Today I’m sharing thirty goals from my ever-growing bucket list

  • Run a successful blog

  • Mentor my next workplace successor

  • Change career

  • Complete a marketing course

  • Publish a novel

  • Learn to cope without anxiety medication

  • Purchase my own plot of land

  • Quit smoking

  • Relocate to a village

  • Kick my energy drink addiction

  • Drive to Ireland

  • Ride a scooter in Italy

  • Drive a tractor

  • Join the mile high club

  • Do a colour run

  • Read Stephen King and son’s entire canon

  • Learn a new language

  • Teach myself to play violin

  • Take one archery or fencing class

  • Participate in NaNoWriMo

  • Go to Hay Festival

  • See The Woman In Black in theatre

  • Have a psychic reading

  • Watch a meteor shower

  • Experience a sensory deprivation tank

  • Get in a hot spring

  • Watch the northern lights from a glass igloo in Finand

  • Visit a European Christmas Market

  • Take a cooking class in Italy

  • Walk through the crooked forest in Poland

Whats on your bucket list? Have you done any of these things already? I welcome any advice.

Thirty Under 30- Happy & Proud

Continuing my celebratory blog re-launch and birthday week with 30 of my life’s accomplishments thus far.

On 22nd August 2018 I hit 30 years of age!

As part of my celebrations and a hopeful step towards a major life-time goal I have re-launched my blog. This first week of posts is dedicated to my past, present and future with the intention of giving you all a look behind the curtain at me… Roxanne Michelle.

Today I’m sharing thirty moments in my life so far

Some of my happiest memories, proudest moments and favourite accomplishments. 

  • Won a karaoke contest in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria

  • Hunted for Dracula at Brasov Castle, Romania

  • Painted my own contribution on the Lennon Wall, Prague

  • Saw the Amsterdam Festival of Light

  • Stood at the top of the Empire State Building

  • Walked the width of Manhattan

  • Toured inside The White House

  • Attended Download, Sonisphere, Big Reunion, T4, SouthWest Live and Birmingham Fusion music festivals.

  • Watched The Lion King, Wicked, Aladdin, Cats, LOTR, Guys & Dolls and HP The Cursed Child in London theatres

  • Participated and hosted in a German foreign exchange student program

  • Interrupted filming of the hollywood movie ‘Burn After Reading’

  • Played the clarinet in a local theatre orchestra

  • Did a public reading to over 100 attendees

  • Appeared in the local newspapers

  • Sang a duet in a live recorded show

  • Taught a child to swim

  • Successfully tutored a failing student

  • Adopted four rescue animals

  • Led fundraisers for CiN, Cancer Research, St Margarets Hospice, Jeans for Genes and numerous other charities.

  • Became successful in my field as a Retail Manager

  • Pitched a merchandising concept to a major CEO

  • Became frequently headhunted by prospective employers

  • Successfully mentored several candidates in my workplace

  • Passed my driving test

  • Took out a sole mortgage for my own house

  • Prevented several violent crimes

  • Beat Anorexia and Body dysmorphic disorder

  • Overcame paternal abandonment

  • Saved a life

  • Fell in love

Can’t Wait Wednesday – 22/08

Find out which upcoming book release holds a place on my never-ending TBR…

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme run by Wishful Endings and previously Breaking The Spine. We’re here to spotlight upcoming releases and tell you what we’re most excited to read. A great way to extend our ever-growing TBRs. Want to join in? Let @Tressa tell you all about it. Here now is my very first contribution!

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VOX by Christina Dalcher

Release Date: 23rd August 2018

Genre: Dystopian

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In a world where women are silenced, would you speak up?

Greetings, to all Pure Women.

You should all be fitted with your new wrist counters. A symbol of your purity and devotion to your family. Life is simpler now. Just 100 words a day.

Your role is in the house. Your husband takes care of everything else.

You’re free.

Instead, you should focus on values of modesty, submission, humility and purity. Love, honour and most importantly, obey. You know the rules. Just one word over 100 and your wrist counter will send 1,000 volts through your body. Choose your words carefully.

You have the right to remain silent.

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VOX has been on my wish list for months now, I love a good dystopian, especially feasible ones. The how-it-happened explanations or character rationales can make or break this kind of book for me. I’ve seen a lot of trusted bloggers give high ratings for VOX so I’m hoping it’s well written. I started watching The Handmaids Tale recently and Naomi Alderman – Power is on my TBR for Newts Readathon 2018 so VOX fits perfectly into my current reading interests.

Have you read it? Will you buy it? Which books can’t you wait for?

Let me know..

 

RELAUNCH DAY! Meet The Girl Behind The Blog

Come celebrate my birthday & blog relaunch! Find out what we have in common..

WELCOME READERS!
Today is my 30th birthday and the RELAUNCH of my blog AnAverageLife.org
Originally this site began as a place to blurt out my thoughts now and then. I had no schedule, no prepared content and no direction. It was fun but as I invested more and more time into blog hopping and Twitter I realised I wanted to put more effort into my own little piece of the internet.
There are some beautiful, inspiring and interesting blogs out here and the same can be said for the creators behind them. The support and encouragement in the blogging community is astounding and I’d like to contribute.
The first thing I look for in a blogger is common ground or an interesting voice. So to kick off a week of celebratory birthday/relaunch posts here’s 30 things about me…

  • I cannot ride a bike.

  • I start a new job on 3rd Sept

  • My hair is naturally curly in a half-assed way.

  • I was almost stung by an enormous jellyfish as a child. 

  • I was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder in 2014

  • I have a puppy, Watson the English Cocker Spaniel

  • I’ve lived in the same town all my life.

  • I have specific table sauce habits. Mayo with carbs, dairy or poultry but never meat, bacon excluded (everything’s good with bacon right?). Ketchup is for red meat and battered fish only.

  • My mothers family moved to the US in 1987, one year before I was born.

  • I spent the last 5 years addicted to Rockstar energy drink. On 14th May I quit caffeine. So far so good.

  • When I was 19 years old I interrupted the filming of ‘Burn After Reading’ in Washington DC. A rather large bodyguard stepped up and asked me to be quiet after my third yell of ‘NAN! LOOK! I can see George Clooney!’. Nan had been busy flirting with a nearby policeman on horseback. She claims it was a distraction technique…

  • I am very very slowy writing my first novel

  • I really dislike Queen. Everyone always gasps at that. I’ve tried but it’s just everywhere all the time. Of course I make an exception for We Will Rock You, that song has the power to motivate a sloth. But if I’m subjected to Bohemian Rhapsody I’m apt to get snappy.

  • I read an average of 8 books per month, my goal is always 100 books a year.

  • I cannot stand romance novels or films. As a side line to a story sure, but as the main plot? Nope nope nope.

  • I do not have nor want any children.

  • I am a Potterhead

  • My eyes change colour.
  • When I was 18 I had a terrible addiction to eBay shopping

  • My father and I have a Christmas tradition. I hide one sprout in his dinner every year, hoping he will finally eat it. He always finds it and puts it in my hair, my shoe, my wine glass and other assorted places!

  • I fell slowly and deeply in love with my best friend.

  • I’ve learned (and since forgotten) how to play the clarinet, piano and guitar.

  • I dont like steak.

  • I love to travel. I aim for at least one new destination per year.

  • I have 6 tattoos, each with symbolic meaning

  • I struggle to make a good first impression in social situations.

  • I got a mortgage in 2016, just me, myself and I. It’s my proudest achievement.

  • In college I owned 32 different pairs of converse shoes
  • I can and do eat entire tubs of Ben and Jerry’s in one sitting
  • I am quite probably the most clumsy person you would ever meet.

Did you find our common ground? Don’t give up just yet if you didn’t, there’s still tomorrow. Now head on over to twitter to enter the giveaway on @Anaveragelife88 🙂

 

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