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Moving into a Share House for the first time can seem like an exciting opportunity to be more independent and experience what life as an adult is all about. However, no matter how eager you are to leave your parent’s house behind you and do whatever you want – you need to know how [...]
Images sourced from ivorymix.com At eighteen I couldn’t wait to leave home. I moved into two share houses on and around uni over the next year-and-a-half where I cooked two minute noodles or – when I wanted to get really fancy – some pasta for dinner. It was a bit of a mixed experience overall. [...]
Image sourced from ivorymix.com Hello all, Today’s post is going to be a short one. For the second time in two weeks, I’ve fallen sick. My head hurts, my throat aches and all I want to do is sleep. It’s not a lot of fun – though I’m sure that’s a rather obvious statement. Although [...]
Image sourced from ivorymix.com Do you ever have days where you have a whole bunch of stuff you've planned on doing, but you somehow don't manage to accomplish any of it? It happens to me more often than I think it should. One minute it's the morning and the next it's night – and I'm not [...]
Image sourced from ivorymix.com At the moment, I would consider this blog a hobby. It’s something I do because I enjoy it. However, I’m not opposed to making this hobby a job. Not yet, of course, but at some point in the future. This made my first month blogging a pretty interesting experience. I’ve been [...]
Image sourced from ivorymix.com What It's Like to Get Acne as an Adult Today I’m going to be discussing a topic that may seem a little frivolous. It all started at age twelve when I first discovered the delights that puberty had in store for me. One moment an innocent child, the next a moody [...]
Image sourced from ivorymix.com Confession time: I compare myself to others – a lot. I know it’s pointless. I know it’s not good for me. You want to know something? I do it anyway. I can’t speak for every person in the universe, but I’m pretty sure we’ve all been in this position before. [...]
Image sourced from ivorymix.com Sometimes we realise halfway through an argument that we are wrong. Though we want to keep insisting we're right, trying following this advice instead. In a post I wrote a few weeks ago, I gave some tips on how to deal with people who think they know everything. However, in the process [...]
Picture sourced from Ivory Mix. Many people assume that participation awards cause a sense of entitlement and a poor work ethic – but what if this isn't true? The generation I belong to is constantly being criticised. We’ve been called entitled, lazy, self-absorbed – and those are the amongst the nicer terms I’ve heard. We [...]
I currently work approximately fifty minutes away from home. My drives to and from work can often be, to put it dramatically, the worst. The commute takes a huge chunk out of my day, so I often find myself sitting in peak hour traffic thinking about how much time I’m wasting.
Definition of an Adult 