#mainly about my arrangement with going to my dads house every weekend and stuff like that

[cathackz]

being a teenager sucks so much. my parents still dont think i have any agency and if i need something the only thing i can do is bug them about it and hope they listen

[eadanga]

Royal Love Part 8

Summary: Now 18 Eleanor heads to her first year of college and falls for a handsome musician. Can she keep her royal secret be with her true love?

A/N: This series is for @kingliam2019​​​​ one of my 500 followers giveaway winners

Eleanor begins putting her things in a small bag as Marissa shouts “Hey girl you packed yet?”

“Almost! Just gotta call my dad!”

Marissa pokes her head in the room “You’re 18 right? Why you gotta tell him?”

“Really? Marissa does that sound smart to you?”

“Oh right you’re dad is a political figure” Marissa giggles “Well we don’t want to cause a nationwide manhunt”

“Oh hush!” Marissa laughs as she leaves Eleanor giggles as dials her dad

He answers and he smiles “Hello my princess”

“Hi dad I’m going to Cole’s house for the weekend”

Liam’s eyes go wide “What? You’re going to a guys house? Who’s gonna be there? What will you be doing?”

Eleanor laughs “Daddy chill! I’m going with a couple of friends and his family’s gonna be there”

“You sure? I want you to be safe I swear if anyone tries anything”

“Dad I promise you I’ll be fine and I’ll call you soon as I get there”

“Ok my princess that sets me at ease just be careful”

“I will dad I love you”

“Love you too my princess”

Eleanor smiles as she hangs up and stuffs her phone in her pocket. She grabs her bags and heads out to the car. She finds Marissa waiting for her smirking “Hey how’s daddy doing”

“He freaked out a bit thinking there we were being alone”

Marissa grins “I can have that arranged”

“Stop it!” Eleanor blushes as Marissa laughs they get into the car “You’re so annoying”

“But you love me”

“Yeah yeah”

Marissa giggles as she pulls out the parking lots “Now are you ready to meet to my aunt uncle and cousins”

“Yeah what are they like?”

“Cool and funny except my uncle and cousin both tell bad jokes don’t encourage them”

Eleanor laughs “Ok I won’t is everyone meeting us there?”

“Yeah they got out of classes early so we’re the last to arrive”

“Lucky their professors gave them a break”

“I know but we’re gonna be there to bbq and have some Texas fun!”

Eleanor giggles then she sighs “Has Cole ever brought you know who”

“You mean the bitch over? Once and after that visit I heard them telling him about how much they don’t like her and how she’s a bad influence” Marissa smiles “Don’t worry you’ll make a great impression on them”

Eleanor smiles Really hope so too Her phone buzzes in her pocket and she sees texts from her Uncle Maxwell and Drake

Hey! You’re going to a boys house for the weekend to party? And you’re not inviting me????!!!!!

Ignore him is this the guy you like?

Eleanor giggles then texts back

Yeah he invited me and some of his friends to bbq with his fam

But how can you not invite me you know I love to party 🥺

Lol Uncle Maxwell you really want to party with college kids?

Please I’ve partied with babies😀

Babies don’t party Maxwell

But if they did it will be awesome😀

Sighs but listen don’t do anything to hasty and if he hurts you say the word and I’ll sucker punch him

Thanks uncle Drake

“What’s got you all giggly over there? Oooooh is it Cole?”

“No stop that just my uncles texting me”

“Well what did they say?”

“My dad told them I was heading to Cole’s house they’re just being protective at least one of them is”

“Oh my dad is like that with me and my sis too”

“You have a sister?”

“Big sister she’s moved away to Florida wanted to practice law where it’s warm”

Eleanor laughs “I can understand that”

Marissa smiles “Me too so it’s been mainly me and my dad he and mom divorced when I was little she’s a business executive and total workaholic always put work before any of us”

“Oh man that must have been tough”

“Oh yeah she completely ignored me and my sister all our lives dad was the only one was there” Marissa sighs “I can still remember them fighting every single night when they divorced it got publicized cause you know my mom works at a well known company and the fallout from the divorce was dad got custody while mom got the most of the money and the house since she did buy it”

“Wow what happened after”

“Well dad Ciara and I moved into an apartment dad worked hard to get us back on our feet and to pay for both of our college tuition”

“Do you see your mom?”

“Not a lot I do get a text from her asking me how college is that’s about it it’s whatever she don’t want to be there she doesn’t I’ve got dad and Ciara”

“Hope you didn’t feel pressured I don’t think I should have”

Marissa smiles and takes her hand “No I’m glad I told you it’s good to get it off my chest”

“Is that what Alyssa bothers you about?”

“Yeah her mom works at the company too and she heard her gossiping about it”

“So you’ve known her a long time”

“Even before she met Cole we went to high school together and she was as a bitch then as she is now”

“Well I understand she’s doing what they do in Cordonia why she wealth and status even mean anything anyway? You know my mom was a waitress before she met my dad and that didn’t stop them from falling in love with each other”

“Oh that’s so cute I love it” Marissa nods “And I agree with you wealth and status don’t mean anything that’s other reason you didn’t want me saying anything about your family”

“Yeah cause who my family is doesn’t define me”

“Yeah oh we’re here” Marissa pulls up into a ranch on Texas “This is where we’ll be staying they love it here on the ranch they want to stay permanently but you know work”

“I get that”

They get out the car and Cole comes out the house to greet them “Oh hey you guys made it!”

“Hi Cole” Eleanor pulls him into a hug then she looks him up and down “You look good”

Cole smiles “So do you”

“Ahem sorry to interrupt your moment but am I invisible now?”

Cole chuckles as he pull Marissa into a hug “I wish you were sometimes”

“And I wish you fall into horse shit”

Eleanor laughs as Cole rolls his eyes “Pain in my ass”

“La la all I heard was yes I’ll get the bags cuz”

Cole walks over to the trunk “I’ll get Eleanor’s you can carry your own”

Marissa mocks gasps “You would have your own cousin carry her bags?”

“You’ve got two arms that aren’t broken”

Eleanor laughs harder as Marissa groans “You two are ridiculous come on Cole help us both with our bags”

Marissa puts her arm around Eleanor’s shoulder “Yes listen to my best friend”

Eleanor giggles as Cole rolls his eyes “Ok ok only doing it to get you to shut up”

Marissa smirks as she flips her hair “Whatever! Come on Elle let’s head inside” She walks towards the house

Cole sighs as Eleanor laughs “Be glad you’re not related to her”

“But we love her anyway”

“Yes I love her she’s a beautiful horse isn’t she?”

Eleanor giggles “I meant Marissa”

Cole smirks “What’s a Marissa? I’ve never heard of her”

“A Marissa is about the beat your ass if you don’t hurry up!”

Cole sighs as Eleanor continues to laugh then he smiles at her “Ready to meet the family?”

“Yes I can’t wait”

Tags: @indiacater​​​ @mfackenthal​​​ @the-soot-sprite​​​​ @twinkleallnight​​​ @gkittylove99​​​ @iaminlovewithtrr​​​ @princess-geek​​​

[dandelliongirl]

Catching up

before winter.

Greetings, blog. It's been a while again.

It’s been an autumn and a half at work. Things have gone very poorly on a lot of fronts, which has lead to a lot of drama and stressed people. I've personally been trying to distance myself from it all but haven't had too much energy to sit in front of a computer after work. I have, however, discovered a lot of new hobbies/interests, so I'm excited to update my blog/diary about them.

Summer cottage season is officially over. In August/September we got to go on a nature hike, collect heaps of mushrooms and bake a delicious pie with them. I harvested lots of lavender, rosemary, thyme and some parsley. We also picked lingonberries and I froze lots of currants from grandmum’s garden for the upcoming winter. We had an official ending to our summer house season in mid-October. My guy came over as well and we spent a cozy weekend doing yard work, appreciating nature and spending time together. My guy went on a trail run while I biked next to him, and in the evening we went to the sauna and sat at a bonfire. We also saw Venetian fireworks from across the lake.♥

So since August/September I’ve started down on a little witchy journey and even started making my own Grimoire. I’m mainly a kitchen and green witch with some wiccan beliefs but as I do belong to the lutheran church I’m not a wiccan. Regardless witchcraft has made menial tasks and tiring chores a lot more interesting and meaningful. It means I now find love and joy in cleaning and cleansing, decorating and baking. Meditating, charging things I do with intent and using "spells" as affirmations are definitely a part of the whole super trendy mindfullness thing that people who have been distanced from nature and natural wisdom pay top dollar to learn from expensive psychiatrists and life coaches. Appreciating nature at any season and being able to cook, bake and decorate with seasonal things gets me excited, gives me reasons to live through the dark months and works wonders in alleviating seasonal depression. Trusting, honoring and living by nature feels right, and learning about the practice of witchcraft has given meanings and explanations to a lot of my own behavior, such as collecting all kinds of magical knick knacks and talismans or creating my own sigils and even rituals since childhood. My respect for history and old wisdom certainly helps. Celebrating Samhain with all it's historical meanings and associations was a lot of fun and I cannot wait for Yule.

So some notable events that have happened since the end of August:

My high school reunion was a lot of fun even though not everyone could make it. Reminiscing about all the weird stuff that happened and things we put ourselves through for a piece of paper was a lot of fun. It was also good to hear how people are doing these days and see what cool adults they have all become.

Me and mum attended an outdoor movie picnic in August. We had grapes, vegetable chips, chocolate and pastries. We watched the movie Shoplifters and it was a nice warm evening with the whole area packed to the brim. It was a really sweet movie, and a fun evening I’ll remember and treasure forever!

In mid-September grandmum had her friends from her social democrat youth group come over for a reunion and me and mum helped her out with the arrangements. She was very tired but happy she got to be reunited with those people once again. Getting old is so cruel and ruthless, and for a while now grandmum has definitely been tying up loose ends and getting ready for the inevitable. It is sad but I don’t want to be selfish and hold on to her just because I don’t want to be left without her. I’ll just hold on to every day I still have her, and when the time comes it will come. My friend just lost her 90 year old grandmum and she’s now facing her first christmas without her...

Other events:

Annual city light event, an autumnal photoshoot for my project with my friend, meeting up with my ballet friends for coffee and mulled wine, playing the Jedi Outcast 2 remaster with my friend and feeling incredibly nostalgic, spending Samhain week with all my closest friends, my friend from kindergarten getting engaged (eeeekk!!! ♥ ♥ ♥), ordering a bunch of physical photos and buying a photo album for them, germinating 3 different kinds of apples and a few plum stones to plant in the next few weeks, having literal tens of kilos of apples to dry and make into delicious apple butter, cakes and pies. Hanging out with my guy’s high school bestie who has moved to our city to study psychology. I’ve also (finally) made some progress with my piano rehearsal and found a bunch of sheet music books that I’m waiting to be delivered. (The mail delivery services are on strike right before Christmas - yikes). I’ve also been trying to get into embroidery and continue knitting. I would also really like to spend more time reading even though I do listen to books weekly.

It is a very rainy week with lots of wet snow. I’ve been collecting dragonflies made with beads and reflective fabric that a local craft store has been leaving out on bikes. (Only from abandoned bikes though!) We took a big bird feeder to our summer cottage and when mum and dad went to check it out yesterday it had tons of birds flocking around it! ♥ Last night me and my guy went to the sauna at my parents' house and had nachos for father's day.

I put up the Christmas tree this past weekend and I'm planning on decorating it this week. I'm still waiting for a Sims sale so that I can get my planned build-a-bundle of city living, realm of magic and romantic garden stuff for the holiday season. Me and my guy started playing kingdom come deliverance on a free weekend and bought it on sale. We've also been playing fe3h, Untitled Goose game and Skyrim (again!) on the Switch. I would really want to play Luigi's mansion 3. Some 130 days until New Horizons.

This Friday it’s me and my guy's 9th anniversary and we're starting our 10th year together. Crazy! I'm so glad that pretty much our entire relationship is saved in these tumblr posts. We're having a lunch date for some sushi on Friday to celebrate, and possibly planning a trip for our upcoming 10th year together.

It's been a beautiful autumn full of new discoveries about myself and enjoying the company of awesome people. Because of all these awesome things in my personal life the difficulties at work cannot get to me (they sometimes do but I try to stay strong) like they did to my poor colleague who had to take sick leave.. 6 weeks until Christmas vacation, and after that I have almost 3 weeks of vacation left for the spring. Whether I travel or spend it at home with New Horizons is still up for debate.

I drafted this post at work. I have very little motivation to do any actual work so I take every quiet moment when I'm alone in our office to do other things and avoid actual work at all costs. Oop. I ordered some warm indoor shoes and a new Oysho blanket in preparation for the long winter in our freezing cold office.

[gtforubie]

i do think im losing weight, but i want to be sure because i tend to binge at night without thinking so i need to start restricting myself more.

in the morning i will have my usual breakfast (making sure mum and dad see so they dont think im not eating) and then ill only have dinner. nothing before or after. this will help with my willpower and training my mind, i have given myself one cheat day a week where i can have something sweet, mine was yesterday because i had some dark almond chocolate and 2 cookies.

i have a goal to go on a walk atleast 3 times a week. and do whatever i can at home for what im in the mood for. i think my iron levels are getting low so i am taking iron pills so i can stay healthy and not put myself at risk. 

i want to try and get down a kg in the next two weeks so i can feel better about myself

i want to start manifesting things and i need to start writing more in my diary. i have been watching loads of movies and i think i may start re watching stranger things season 3 because that is by far my most favourite season of them all in that series. i have been drinking flavoured tea when im hungry throughout the day. 

i basically eat around 9am for breakfast and around 5-8pm for dinner. my goal is reduce my calories every week until i start seeing a difference, i am eating high volume foods. i have cut back on how my avocado i eat, i would get a whole one a day but now i eat only a quater one a day along with only one piece of bread and stopped snacking, i feel as though have made quite a difference since bread is carbs and avocado is high in fat. 

i re arranged my room yesterday because i wasnt liking my set up of my room that much anymore, i want to re do my room but its hard when you’re broke and are in quarantine because you can only order essential items online so i cant do much for awhile yanno. 

my energy levels have been really confusing, i nap once during the day so i can stay energised, yesterday i had awful growing pains for a couple hours so i tried to sleep it off which kinda worked but not that much, im aiming to be around 5′5 as im currently 5′3 and me getting a bit taller means i will appear skinnier because the fat will distripute better which im most excited for. 

i want to do some baking but we dont have any chocolate chips so i cant which is okay because it stops me from eating chocolate chips and a bunch of sugar filled cookies. i am trying not to drink my calories aka my iced mocha which gets upto around 300 calories a day with loads of sugar because i need to put chocolate syrup in it. when i get out of quarantine i will stop eating so much in the weekend and mainly drink my calories. ( a max of 2 iced mochas ) ( alcohol = calories ) and it depends how many drinks i have which changes at every host because sometimes i have more than other times it just depends on how i feel.

i have been listening to loads of music and made some new playlists. i really wanna get a film camera when im out of iso for the first weekend back so i can document possibly one of the most fun weekends ill have. mainly because ill see all my friends and stuff. 

i had a dream i was finally included in the group, like added to the group chat for all the girls and all that stuff. i feel as though when i lose a bit more weight and tone up, have my breast reduction surgrey ( which my boobs make me looks so much bigger than i actually am ) ill be able to go away with everyone. 

new years will be amazing this year, tanning everyday, partying for 4 days straight and then just chilling out. itll be so good. i wanna see if i can go to a bach after new years this year, i may go to a family friends but i wanna bring my own friend so i can have some company. i have my group for nys i just need a house at this point and we wanna rent so we can be more chilled out and stuff. itll either be my parents or chars mum which would be mint because her mum is really nice and super chill .