#Inspiration: study

I have this folder in my laptop that contains various photos (mostly from pinterest). I open that folder and look at those pictures when I am feeling a lack of inspiration to study. Well, lately I've been inspired to study just because I am very interested in what I am learning. However, there were times when I saw no point in learning what I had to learn and the only thing that kept me from throwing up at the thought of studying was that folder with all of it's beautiful things that remind me how, why and what should I do.
I hope they'll help you too!

 - Kamilė

#Foodspiration: vegetarian

Recently I went to a music festival and there I discovered the best vegetarian food restaurant ever! Everything they had was so healthy and mouthwatering. Too bad that we don't have this specific one in our country. But since the festival I've been very excited to try out and cook more vegetarian meals myself. Right now I eat meat, however, it's mostly chicken or fish. A few years back I loooooved meat, any kind of meat would make me happy. But on the other hand I always felt guilty to eat it, I didn't feel like I deserved it. So I became a vegetarian for the idea of it and at first it was all fine, it was surprisingly easy to give up meat even when I loved it so much. But I was too young, I did not know how and what should I eat to get all the nutrients that I needed. After a while my body started getting really unhealthy. I used to be a person that never gets sick, but I was a vegetarian for exactly a year and in that year I got sick 7 times. I still try to get back to the healthiness level I was in before my vegetarian phase. 

 However, when the year ended and I decided that I need meat, my taste in it changed. Now I can only eat chicken and sometimes (but very rarely) beef and I can't even look at pork - I don't like the smell, the taste, the view. Also I think everything vegetarian looks so tasty and good for you. So sometimes I'd much rather eat something vegetarian, especially in places that I don't know too well. Today I've been browsing the internet for vegetarian meals all day and I'm very pleased with what I've found. So these are my 5 best choices. Bon appetit!

1. Brussels Sprouts Pizza with Balsamic Red Onions

2. Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Pasta with Roasted Vegetables

3. Creamy Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna

4. Creamy Avocado and Rocket Pasta

 5. Layered Roasted Veggie, Sweet Potato & Black Bean Tortilla Pie 

 Enjoy!

- Kamile

#Inspiration: Summer road trips

Ah.. Who doesn't love Summer and it's adventures? I'm going on one big road trip to a festival in another country in a couple of days and when I get back, I'm leaving for another one to another country. I can't wait to leave! So meanwhile I gathered a few inspirational pictures from pinterest to get myself in the traveling mood even more. Enjoy!

You can find more inspiring pictures in my pinterest account HERE.  

- Kamilė

How life gives you lessons

Have you ever felt like sometimes everything you do seems to turn against you? I know I have. I don't know if it's the planets aligning or karma for something evil I forgot that I did or just plain bad luck coming on and off but my life seems to go like a rollercoaster. For a while my life stays in order and the stars shine in my favor but just when I get comfortable living easy, having luck on my side and not sweating on anything a bomb goes off and everything around me seems to explode. Things start breaking, I'm getting the worst possible questions on an exam, my heart gets broken time after time, the injuries come back and I don't seem to succeed in anything. Luck just runs out. These radical ups and downs have haunted me my whole life. I know that everyone's life is kind of like that but for some they're not as drastic. When it's the up phase, everything is as awesome as it can get. But when the down comes, it's worse than horrible.
 All my life I used to dread times when the up ended. I could live with bad things happening one at a time, but all my life if something bad happens then it's all things at once. That makes it ten times harder to deal with the problem itself, 'cause I know there's nine more waiting for me and it eats me up. It gets just too overwhelming.
 However, over time I kind of learned to live with this. I'm enjoying the ups when they come and I step by step learn to live with the downs. Now I try to take these failures and misfortunes and see them like life lessons. Everything happens for a reason. Maybe what now seems like the worst setback, will one day turn out to be the most valuable lesson I have ever learned in my entire life. These bad things - doesn't matter if they're big or small - just make me smarter and stronger. Failures make me stop for a little while and get me looking from a different angle. When my favourite thing breaks, I learn to realize that things are just things, doesn't matter how much I like them. When I get a bad mark from the exam, I learn that if I want to succeed, I need to work hard and not just depend on getting good questions. When I fall down and get hurt, I learn that I need to be more careful on my steps (literally and metaphotically) or maybe walk slower (as long as I don't stop).
 Failure after failure I get better at life. And things that used to feel like tragedies, now seem like little bumps on the road that I just pass through without looking back.

 Love, Kamile

Oh I, I think I'm into you

8 reasons why I love autumn

These past few years I really started loving and enjoying autumn, but I haven't felt this way always. When I was little, I really used to dispise it's greyness, coldness and sadness. However, as time passed I learned that there are a lot of things that can make autumn not only bearable but even lovable. Sooo, what would be better than to make a list of those things? Here it is!

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1) Bundling up in cozy warm blankets and staying in bed all day. During summertime it's impossible to stay in bed all day and not start feeling stinky from all the sweatyness and hotness, but when the autumn comes, it becomes a perfect Sunday plan for me.

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2) Umbrellas! I just think that they are so cute! And I love the rain too, so it's a double pleasure.

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3) Living in huge comfy sweaters. Ahhh, I just love these big sweaters! The feel of soft fabric on my skin and the warmness is amazing. And who doesn't love a stylish oversized sweater?

Source: here and here

4) Hot tea. In summertime it's too hot to drink tea, but I adore tea so much, so when autumn comes I just can't get enough of it.

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5) Lighting candles. It's the first autumn for me, when I can actually light candles in my room. Because my sister used to hate the smell they make when they burn (WHAT?!). But this year she moved out and I can finally light the whole appartment with candles and enjoy the beautiful scents they make.

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 6) Rain. As far as I can remember, I always used to love staying inside the house when it rained and at that times my room would become ten times cosier. But for a while now, I learned to enjoy it while being in the actual rain as well.

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7) The beautiful colorful leaves. I think that the beauty of all these falling and flying leaves are the best thing about autumn.

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8) Autumn goodies. Apples, apple-pies, apple-rolls, pumpkin pies, pumpkin soups et cetera. They are worth living for!

Of course these are not all the reasons why I love autumn, but these are still more than enough to start waiting for autumn every single year. I would really like to know what are your reasons for loving autumn? That's it for now. Have a beautiful day!

Love, Kamilė

Rome photo diary!

   If there was a picture near every word in the dictionary, the word 'busy' would have my face printed there. After returning from Rome I had so much work pilled up but so little motivation to do it - so all week I was slowly doing all the things I needed too without finishing anything at the right time. When I finally found some time to post these pictures, magically my internet broke down and it didn't come back until yesterday evening.

   Yesterday night my two best friends and I went out to celebrate Miglė's birthday in Vilnius ('cause the whole Rome trip was actually to celebrate her birthday), after that Miglė stayed in my place for a sleepover and today we had a totally awesome layed back morning. I made waffles, we drank hot cocoa and watched stand up comedy on youtube. Don't you just love these kind of mornings? It really was a perfect Sunday morning. 

   And now I finally have time to post my Rome trip pictures!  I think they pretty much speak for themselves:we went to all the famous sights, ate pizza, had all our breakfasts in our huge white bed, saw sun everyday, admired how huge and beautiful Rome is and had some layed back evenings. 

  It was quite a huge shock that in Italy the weather was so hot (27°C/80,6°F) and now it's 3°C/37,4°F in Vilnius and I'm freezing here! But I really do love the cosyness of autumn when it's cold outside and you're curled up in blankets and drinking tea inside, so I really missed it in Italy. Also this first week it was really hard to come back to my routine but I finally got over the trip, I'm getting more focused on my work and loving autumn weather.

  So that's it about Rome! I'll be doing some other posts in the near future. Be sure to have a nice Sunday!I know I'll just lay in bed reading or watching some vlogs on youtube and just chill all day.

Love, Kamilė