I decided to deactivate my Facebook again, and become classy like Jessa. I was starting to feel like it was heightening my over thinking quite a bit. It doesn't matter how many people you block and hide from your news feed, you still stumble across things that let your over active mind play tricks on you. 

So for now I am waving goodbye to Facebook.

 P.S - If this bothers you then you can just click on the links on the right to follow me on Instagram and Tumblr. I'd welcome you to follow me on Twitter as well, but I'm coming close to deleting that at the moment too. 

A friend of mine left a comment on my Facebook saying after the whole Moyesy thing, he wasn’t surprised that my latest blog post went viral. Well I was VERY surprised. I don’t expect anyone to really read anything I write, nevermind the numbers that have read this post. 

When I posted a blog about body image a few weeks ago, I ended up getting some lovely messages from people about what I wrote. A couple of people even said it was beautifully written, which was one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about it. The post was more personal than anything I’ve written before, so I decided not to submit it to Huffington Post. Instead, I just posted it on here and again thought no one would notice it.

I decided I wanted to submit the Independence blog though as it's the most talked about subject in Scotland just now. I thought it might get a couple of comments at the most, but even then I thought I was being  little too optimistic. At the moment, it’s sitting there with just over 300 comments. What’s even more insane than that is it’s been shared 80 times on Facebook and been liked 1.3K times (now 1.7K likes but updating the photo might be a step too far).. If I’d thought for one second that it was going to attract this much attention, then I probably would have checked it a lot more for spelling and grammar. I might have also taken more time to write it, but I find I write best when I write as quickly as I can.

It’s also the second time a blog of mine has been one of the featured blogs on the homepage of the Huffington Post website this year. I don’t even know how to begin to get my head around that. If you're one of the people who read/commented/shared/like it then all I have to say is THANK YOU. 

Why I'm Voting Yes For Scottish Independence

This month, like everyone else in Scotland, I'm going to be casting the most important vote of my life so far. Despite voting in every election I've been able to, this is the first time when I feel like my vote will actually count for something. It's my chance to change the country I live in for the better, and I don't understand anyone who wouldn't want to see that happen.

I was born in Falkirk, studied in Glasgow (with no tuition fees I should add) and now I work in Edinburgh. While my dad who is approaching 60 says he has always felt British, I have always felt Scottish. So in just over two weeks' time on September 18th, I'll be voting Yes for an independent Scotland. 

My decision to vote Yes is not one I'm taking lightly, yet it's one that feels completely natural. I haven't had to do months of soul searching to come to this conclusion. It just feels right for me and the country I live in. After all, why wouldn't we want to live in a country that makes its own decisions? At the moment, we're living with a London based parliament making our decisions for us. Of course, Scotland has the right to make some of the choices, but a lot of the decisions which affect us are still being decided by people in London. Can they really have our best interests at heart? And more importantly, can they even understand our needs? 

When I've been speaking to friends and work colleagues about the referendum, a lot of people are afraid of the unknown and the changes that an independent Scotland will bring. But there's nothing to guarantee that we won't face worse changes after the next UK general election anyway. It now seems unlikely that the Liberal Democrats will make any sort of mark come next May, so that leaves us torn between David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage. Even if you're not a big fan of Alex Salmond, you have to admit that he knows what's best for Scotland much more than they do.  

Everyone has their own individual reasons for voting for or against independence, and I certainly have my own. As a woman who hopes to have children one day, I want them to grow up in the best country possible. I don't want them growing up knowing I could have voted for Scotland to become a better place, but simply didn't want to take the risk. 

The future generations of Scotland deserve to live in a country that has control over its own economy. A country where young people can continue to benefit from a free education, and then thrive as more job opportunities are created for them. We'd also be living in a country with free prescriptions, and one that doesn't have an NHS under threat from privatisation.

With just over two weeks to go until we go to the polls, I really hope the people of Scotland grasp this historical opportunity for all it's worth. The No campaign might think we're better together, but surely if that was true then we'd already be better together. This leaves us with just one viable option. That option is to vote Yes and see our country head in the direction it deserves for the people who actually live in it.