Romanticizing your life

Sunday, 12^th of October, 2025

Happy Sunday.

I hope you had a great week.

I am going to be honest and say that, I didn’t have a good week.

Not that it was a bad week, but I am working a lot more, and I get really tired, physically, and mentally, and I guess I haven’t found a way to decompress in the way I need to.

I have been going to bed early and I keep meaning to read my book, but every time I just end up watching YouTube shorts.

I actually hate it.

I don’t wanna do that, but I can’t stop.

I know I mentioned in my previous post, but I am going to go off my phone.

I have a Barbie flip phone, and it just seems like the best thing for me right now.

Oh, by the way, update on my bedazzled phone case, I finished the back, and I am half way done with my front case.

I’m so excited, because it looks so pretty. I can’t wait to finish it.

But anyway, I guess I need to go on a little adventure and find the good.

I need to find some positivity in the everyday life.

I keep thinking that I am too late, or too old. People my age already have a career, and a house, and a car.

And more and more, I am reminded that I am not fulfilling my own expectations.

I am very self-critical, and have a lot of goals and expectations, but when it comes down to it, I have no motivation, and am too scared to even start.

It sounds so pathetic.

This blog is actually the one thing that I have always wanted to do, but was scared to start. and every week I wonder what’s the point, no one even reads it, but this is for me I guess.

I am actually doing something that I want. I built the website, I picked the name, I did it all.

I guess it can be a reminder that things really do take time to come together, but at the end of the day, it’s something that I am proud of.

Moving on.

This week, I need to look for the good.

I have heard of romanticizing your life for a while now, and I have always tried my best, but it’s been lost on me, so I wanted to give it another go.

Romanticizing your life

This to me means to fall in love with your everyday routine, finding the best parts of your day, or even making your day as romantic as possible.

Making getting up in the morning fun and enjoyable.

This can be as simple as making a special breakfast that you planned the night before, so you get excited to get up because you can’t wait for the morning.

That is definitely something I should do, because my breakfasts have been so boring.

Another thing I need to start doing is setting an alarm to music I like. I used to do this before, and I would always get up happy and excited.

Something I have been loving with the season is to just take it slow.

I like to have tea before bed, turn on my pumpkin fairy lights, stepping on piles of leaves.

Just observing nature.

It gets so pretty this time of the year. When the trees still have leaves, and they’re all turning brown and orange.

I love stepping outside my house and walking through the leaves falling around me.

When romanticizing life, I think I need to start taking self-care more serious. I just need to take a day and focus on doing things that make me relaxed.

I don’t want to mistake self-care for going on my phone anymore.

I'm talking, painting in my autumn book, sewing, bedazzling more things.

Just doing my favourite activities.

There are a lot of things that I want to experience with, like doing my makeup in the morning, meditating before bed, doing yoga and going for more nature walks.

But for now, I am going to take it one step at a time, and focus on getting rid of my phone, and finding ways to be happier.

That is it for today.

I hope you enjoyed it.

See you next week.

Love, Dee.