February has been a month of celebration – as it always is every year. 😊 I’m looking forward to another month closer to spring and summer. 🌸

A month of celebration!

Main Highlights

Personal

  • 💇🏻‍♀️ I got a hair cut! I had 3 inches cut off 😬
  • 💖 M and I celebrated our 3 years together! He surprised me with a trip to Greece
  • 🎂 We celebrated M’s birthday this month
  • 🌹 We also had a wonderful Valentines Day together
  • 🎬 M & P watched some awesome films and shows this month
  • 👗 I’ve done a clear out of some of my old clothes that don’t fit anymore, and made space for new ones (all second hand from Depop)

Career

  • 📆 This was my final month in my third rotation as part of my BT graduate scheme (time has flown by!)
  • ☁️ I’ve been doing bits of revision for my upcoming Solutions Architect Associate Exam

Health

  • 💪🏼 Happy with my consistency at the gym – improving my pull-ups gradually

Online

3 Things that made me happy

1. A big surprise

For our 3 year anniversary, M surprised me with a trip this summer to Greece. 😱 If you’ve read my previous Greece posts, island hopping around the different Greek islands last year was one of my favourite trips. I say this with everywhere I go, but with the Greek islands, I knew I wanted to go again. You can imagine my surprise when M’s gift – a digital letter revealing the surprise every hour revealed a travel itinerary!

The biggest surprise was that M managed to organise with my blogging friend, Georgie and her partner, Nick for all of us to meet again this year in Greece. It was such a thoughtful present, and yes, PAWGIE 2020 is so happening! SUPER DUPER EXCITED is an understatement.

2) The past 6 months in Platform Services

I’ll be writing a more detailed post on my rotation in Platform Services soon – but I have to say that I’m really happy that I took the leap and went into a team I knew nothing about. I’ve definitely come out with more knowledge, more skills and more questions as I roll off to my final rotation. This month I’ve been working extra hard on completing current projects and work as well as focusing on the career aspects of the job – i.e. is this area where I want to be?

You can read all about my BT Graduate Scheme here.

3. A chill month

After quite a hectic January, I’ve enjoyed having a pretty relaxed, slow February. The best part? I don’t feel guilty at all for spending most of my free time just doing nothing in particular.

February in Photos

February in Photos – a hair cut, superheros, Leeds, celebrations and BAU

2020 in Progress

Quick snippets of how I think I’m doing with my year goals!

🚀 = excelling
👍🏻 = on track
😶 = OK
👎🏻 = need to improve on

  • 👍🏻 Health — happy with my healthy habits, but I still need to be mindful of eating too much junk.
  • 👎🏻 Wealth — celebration month, ahhh.
  • 👍🏻 Environment — when I wanted to shop, I went for the most environmentally friendly option.
  • 👍🏻 Career — feeling pretty positive about the future!
  • 🚀 Online — especially applaud this month’s Inspiring Figures and checking out stats since the start of the year. 🤩

February Favourites

  • Films I loved: Birds of Prey, Sonic the Hedgehog and Marley and Me (first time I saw it!) You can read all my reviews here.
  • Shows I loved: Mr Robot (finished it early in the month, absolutely loved it. A work of art!) and Sex Education (the show I always wanted)
  • I’ve shopped second hand goods (almost new in all!) on Depop this month. Better for the environment and my purse!
  • I’ve been using Lush’s Shampoo and Conditioner bar as a replacement, helping me reduce my plastic usage. 🙌🏻

Quote of the month

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Next month

  • Better weather would be great, maybe? 🙏
  • Starting my final rotation of my graduate scheme 🙌🏻
  • M & P are doing a weekend trip to (another) seaside! 🐠