Countdown to 30!

Ello you gorgeous lot!

How’s it going?? Everybody cool? Enjoyed those 3 days of summer we had this week?

Some of you may not know, I am a newly single mama. I see my new self as the JLo of motherhood (y’all gonna let me ride with that & not kill my vibe ok!!) Hahaha aaaah life *big sigh*

Ok so I may not yet have all the confidence of our latino bombshell – but I will work on it. It’s still a very fresh & new adventure for me. But an adventure all the same! And who doesn’t love adventures?! So to help me on my way to becoming as fierce as Miss Lopez I’ve made myself a ’30 before Thirty’ list of some things I’d like to try out & decided to share it with you lot so you that when a day inevitably comes when I don’t feel like dragging my sorry butt off my sofa you can say Oi Rach get on with it!! (I would seriously appreciate that.) *

*My mum hates the word Oi. Like seriously used to be in so much trouble when we ever said Oi when we were younger and got the whole mum "THERES NO SUCH WORD AS OI!!" telling off. So maybe just be like, Excuse me Rach, can you get a wriggle on? But Like I’ll leave it up to you. It’s cool.

 

 

Ok here we go:

Run the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon. This one is something I am already signed up to. I don’t know how far I’m going to get with my training now my schedule is all changing around but I would still really like to give it a go.


Get back into my pre pregger clothes. I know. Not realistic. But hey I’m gonna give it a good damn go.


Try contact lenses. I have worn glasses every since I was 8 years old. So this is big. But I’m gonna give it a go and see if I can deal.


Host a swanky dinner party. Probably another Thanksgiving Feast. Ooh I do love Thanksgivng.


Create a time lapse photo thingy. Of something. This is vague. I know.


Paint a canvas. ALWAYS wanted to paint. I think Kitty is gonna need to help me here.


Do yoga every damn day. Oh god I used t love yoga. And I dunno I just topped doing it. I’m gonna start again.


Write a childrens story. Get Kitty to illustrate.


Learn to vlog. ALWAYS wanted to vlog. I am actually hilarious. You need videos of me.


Read more. This is also vague.


Go 24 hours without iphone or ipad. Maybe one for holiday. That still counts though right?


Learn how to use my camera properly. I think maybe Kim is the best person to help me with this. Her photos are AMAZE.


Start speaking French again. Like yoga, used to love the French language. Now? It’s all gone out of my brain!


Host an afternoon tea. Love a bit of cake.


Go to an Aerosmith concert. I haven’t seen the Rolling Stones and I haven’t seen bon Jovi. I WILL see Aerosmith.


Do something for charity. Also vague.


Plant, cultivate and KEEP ALIVE a plant.


Make a bedspread. This is quite a big ask.




Learn to French plait my hair. I DID THIS!!! I did it this morning!! Last night I watched youtube video tutorials (because I can do that and nobody can judge me and I only have my damn self to blame if I’ve forgotten to do the ironing or some crap) and yes I tried it this morning and I succeeded!! Woohoo 1 down already!!


Learn to do my make up properly. Again I tried to find a tutorial that I liked last night. But like, I like all the Kim K tutorials. And they do look amazing but they’re all girls with like olivey skin and dark hair and dark eyes and I’m like hmm would that look the same on me. So then my search goes from ‘make up tutorial’ to ‘make up tutorial for blonde hair and blue eyes’ but then they’re all like very pink. And I love pink y’all know I do but not for my face because I’m actually very red in my skin tone. So then I’m searching like ‘make up tutorial for blonde hair blue eyes and a bit of rosacea but not too much’ I’M A NICHE MARKET PEOPLE!!! Ah. Still working on this one.


Cook through a cookbook. Julie & Julia styley.


Make a beef wellington. I tried it once. Hideous. Must try better.


Pay off debt. Anybody who wants to help me that is so welcome.


Buy a Burberry mac coat. Only if achieved 23.


Have a facial. Like a nice spa treatment fancy one.


Spend time outside everyday. Maybe come the winter just running to my car will count?


Go away for a spa day / overnight. I have NEVER done a spa day. But I think I would like it.


Have a girly trip. Even just for a day. Like a really fun, silly girly trip. This is sort of vague.


Go back to The Lion or The Red Lion or whatever it's called in Farningham with my family and have a meal by the fire. Love this place. I’d like to go back please. And maybe learn the name.


Have professional photos taken of me & my chunk. Because he is gorgeous & I love him.

Looking forward to this new chapter :)

Love & light always.

Mx

Who Is Fabulous Malibu?

Aloha gorgeouses!

It must be that time of year again when I remember that I started a blog…!!! Oh my goodness isn’t being a mum and working full time and trying to maintain healthy relationships with your partner / family / friends and trying to work out to fit back into any of those clothes in the suitcase marked ‘Pre-Preggers Size’ whilst still trying to find time to watch ANY OLD RUBBISH on the tele TOUGH?! Oh and then like trying to keep your house clean and you mustn’t forget you’re not a good person unless you ‘food prep for the week’ … Best I find someone who can fit me another 12 hours into my day!

Nevertheless, amongst all of my other to-do list items, I am going to try and blog again too.

I do not promise any consistency.

Or good content.

So we’re clear from the beginning! And actually I thought that might be a very good place to start (no singing Sound of Music fans, control yourselves please).

For anyone new, or relatively new, to me and my social media persona – or anyone who’s been around for ages and just thinks – why the heck is she called Fabulous Malibu!? I thought I’d write a brief introduction to me, Malibu.

 

 

I started using Twitter almost 7 years ago as a very self conscious 22 year old (please don’t do the maths) and Fabulous Malibu was born! I don’t even remember how the name came about. I wish I had some inspired tale to tell you. But I really don’t. And I mean really, how inspired does Malibu Barbie sound?! Come along now. I had no private or personal information on my twitter profile, not even a real picture. I had this fab picture of one of the MAC Barbies:

 

Ah, memories.

 

Not because I was a horrible old troll or anything! Just because I didn’t particularly like being Rachel at that time. I was in a bit of weird place, just come home from uni without having finished my degree. No real life plan, no real direction. Didn’t know who I was or what on earth I was doing. So on twitter I was Malibu. My fab little alter ego. And she WAS fab! She was confident, and funny (I mean like, as I remember her. Any twitter followers might’ve thought/ might still think I was really lame. But I’m going with a very heavily biased viewpoint here). And twitter provides a really great community of people that you come to love talking to. And there are so many different little communities! I used to have a lot of trouble sleeping (I’m sure I’ve posted about that before maybe here?) So I used to talk to an amazing group of ladies in Australia – beauty blogging, sassy, gorgeous and lovely they were. And around at the right time when I wasn’t sleeping and didn’t have anyone UK based to talk to! The Glasto / Twisto community were my first group of truly, utterly, lovely people. And I’ve never even been to Glastonbury. Never met any of them. But they have always been the most lovely people. And it was a lovely lady called Nina who sent me a private message saying that she was having a discussion about whether my profile pic (of above mentioned MAC Barbie) was real – and then encouraged me to put a real one up and stop being so stupid. So I did. And then over the next 6 years or so I guess Rachel and Malibu have just kinda merged into one! And I love it! I mean like, introducing myself to ANYONE I only know from social media can kinda be a bit awkward. Hi I’m Fabulous Malibu! But hey, we go with it.

So that’s me! And I will try and get my blog back on it’s feet, but as before, no promises J

Just recently lovely Amber said to me that she read one of my posts and it made her feel better like she wasn’t a crazy person. And that made me happy. So I’m gonna do some more of that hopefully. I mean she was really drunk – but I’m still holding her to the sentiment haha.

 

Big loves,

 

Mx