Words I Cannot Stand

  • Tricky
  • Tough (as in difficult)
  • Yelling
  • Sticky tape
  • Tasty
  • Super
  • Awesome
  • Plushies
  • Couch
  • Movie
  • Kip (as in sleep)
  • Plimsols
  • Tupperware
  • Poorly
  • Cross (as in angry)
  • Mucky
  • Rotten
  • Gift
  • Nail Polish
  • Sun Screen
  • Handy
  • Critters
  • Rucksack
  • Mend
  • Excellent
  • Chilly
  • Wonderful
  • Pinch (as in steal)
  • Horrid
  • Dishes
  • Cobweb
  • Bicycle
  • Vacuum
  • Grumpy
All About Me

My faves

My Favorite Color

Colour

My Favorite Book

Book

Podcast

Show

Flower

Music

Thing to do

Hobby

Smell

Chocolate

Film

Shop

Perfume

My Favorite Animal

Animal

Celeb(ish) crush

Crisps

Political Party

My ID

My Name

Alex Apple is my real, legal, government name believe it or not, hence the name of this website.

It wasn't my birth name, however. The first change was my surname. My original one was kind of ugly tbh. When I was younger, my mum always said my cheeks look like apples as they're big and round which lead to my online usernames being *Deadname*Apple. I got so used to that as my online persona that I eventually changed my name legally to it.

My first name came a few years later when I was struggling with gender identity. I didn't align with my birth name anymore. I'd been casually thinking about what name I'd pick if I was to change it and began by casually asking my ex 'if you had to change your name, what would you be called?'. After giving her my answer, I began to contemplate more and more whether I could actually go by it until eventually I bit the bullet and changed it on Facebook and further down the line, legally.

But why the name 'Alex'? The fact of it being gender neutral was my biggest draw but the inspo for the name obviously had to come from somewhere. I present to you my gay awakening of Alex Vause...

Dumb Inventions & Innovations

  • Snacket Potatoes/ Jacket in a Packet- Mini pingpong ball sized jacket potatoes in a crisp style packet which is microwavable. Different flavours available with different toppings included. Put the sachet of toppings in, plop it in the microwave and you have a packet of bite-size jacket potatoes for lunch.
  • Backpack with freezable (but still flexible) back piece- A backpack in summer leads to a soaking wet with sweat back. This is my best idea in the list and would solve a genuine issue I have.
  • Duck Seed Van/ Dispenser-These should be placed by rivers. It would generate money and ensure the ducks got fed proper food instead of bread. You'd never have that guilty moment of arriving to the river with your kid after forgetting to bring duck feed with you.
  • School Trick or Treat- School do a fundraiser in advence of halloween. They use the money raised to buy sweets in bulk. On halloween, teachers/parents volunteer to br behind each classroom door. Kids knock on all the classroom doors collecting sweets. It's safer than roaming the streets, they don't have to walk for ages to find houses that are participating, it's warm and they get to see all their friends.
  • Coconotes- Play on the word 'coconuts'. A coconut themed note taking app.
  • Ear Snorkels- So you can eavesdrop on all the goss at the gym swimming pool.
  • Holy Moly- A church group for people with moles.

Rating Hobbies I've Tried

As someone who feels the need to attempt every single hobby and craft I can get my hands on, heres an extensive list of all the ones I've tried and my thoughts on them, ordered from best to worst. You gotta kiss a lot of hobby frogs before you find the one.

  • Reading: 1000/10. Reading has been my love since being a child. As a kid I'd get out all my picture books and read as many as I could before my mum woke up in the morning. I also insisted on keeping a reading record long after I grew out of the school needing me to. My book taste has evolved and is now for speculative science fiction.
  • Coding:100/10. Without it, this website wouldn't exist. I love that it makes my brain work and I always feel sooo good solving issues in my code. That moment when it works is the best.
  • Writing diaries: 9.9/10. I literally wish I had the willpower do to this still. I filled sooo many diaries but-as you'll know if you've been on my journal tab- I binned them all to remove the negativity from my house and that is the only thing I've ever regretted decluttering.
  • Cross-stitch: 9/10. So relaxing and easy to do, I love the finished result. But I hate owning much decor as a minimalist so I don't have much reason to do it. The needle also hurts my fingers after doing it for a while. I would like to cross-stitch more on clothes as I've only done this once.
  • Crochet: 9/10. I make money doing this during the summer and winter so it needs a high rating. Easy. I wouldn't struggle to make any single crochet pattern put in front of me but it becoming a money maker often makes it feel like a chore.
  • Photography: 9/10. Taking a good photo is SO satifying, especially when it's for someone who doesn't have the means to for themselves. I have took so many that I've been proud of. But lately I've found myself rarely reaching to take pictures.
  • Youtube vlogging: 8/10. I did this for a few years and am sooo happy I have all the footage from my pregnancy to look back on (they're all privated now though). I never got famous or anything but I had fun doing it and now I get to watch back on my life.
  • Switch gaming: 7.5/10. This- specifically ACNH truly got me through lockdown, my grandads death and the loss of a few friends. I no longer play but I will forever be grateful for it.
  • Swimming: 7/10. I used to go weekly when my kid was at his nans but it began to become a chore as I wanted to use that time to relax. And a guy there kept trying to ask me out despite me being the biggest gay ever.
  • Friendship bracelet making: 7/10. I no longer do this but I learned in Portugal as a kid how to make custom word bracelets and that was my little money maker in school. I used to sell them for £2 each.
  • Scrapbooking: 6/10.I love looking back on them more than I love doing them. Saying that when I am in the zone, I find it relaxing. But the thought of starting scrapbooking again stresses me out.
  • Badge making: 6/10. I loveeee owning badges, and I looveeee using the machine, it's so fun. But I'm terrible at designing the badges. But if we're rating based solely on finding pics online to turn into badges, this would have a much higher rating.
  • Vr gaming (?): 6/10.Vr became my social life for a while. My username was Parker (a name I kinda wish I'd chosen for myself), so I got to live this kind of double life where everyone knew me as that. I've chatted to soooo many people on here.
  • Tattoo designing: 6/10. The one's I've drawn I actually love. But the ability to draw comes and goes and it's been gone for a while now.
  • Cyanotype: 5/10. I love the look of them and the process of it developping is satisying but I just don't really know what else to do besides chuck some stuff on the paper and call it a day. I need to look at inspo.
  • Sticker making: 5/10. Love that I can make a sticker of whatever I want. I have one of my guinea pigs and my crochet frog on my mac. I also have stuck a few around Cambridge.
  • Ring making: 5/10.These consisted of a crystal wrapped in wire. Quite fun but pointless as I wasn't using them myself, nor was I making a business out of it. The photos I took of the rings were amazing though.
  • Henna: 5/10. Loved this in my older teen years. My job used to be really chill so I'd love accessorising with a hand full of Henna.
  • Painting: 4/10. People think I'm good at it but I genuienly don't really believe them. I've painted a couple of things I like but the best things I've done were just copied.
  • Sewing: 4/10. I so badly want to be good at this but I broke 4 sewing machines in my attempt to learn (to be fair they were cheap, rubbish ones and the one I have now has no issues). I find sewing projects are longg and the machine is constantly becoming unthreaded. Though I admit I actually find hand sewing really fun.
  • Beaded amigurumi: 3.5/10. I managed to make a cute little beaded Grey hamster which looks like my hamster, Meadow. But it took genuienly HOURS and was soooo fiddly and difficult.
  • Lino printing: 3/10. I wishhhh I was better at this because I love the look of it. I'm rubbish at coming up with my own designs and I don't have much patience when it comes to carving it.
  • Paper making: 3/10. The process is actually so fun, but I made sooo many sheets, waited weeks for them to dry and then binned them all because when I tried to write on them, the ink bled.
  • Macrame: 2/10. Not too difficult but kind of boring. I have no desire to own the finished result so not much point.
  • Rollerskating: 2/10.The rollerskates I bought were soo pretty but I used them a couple of times in the house and garage and then never again.
  • Face painting: 1/10.Convinved myself I was going to paint faces at fetes and kids parties, bought all the stuff, practiced on myself once, never picked it up again.
  • Embroidery: 1/10. I literally do not have the patience for it. I struggle to sketch the design in the first place to embroider.
  • Clay xmas decorations: 1/10. I hated doing this with a passion. My kid still has the party rings decs I made but using uv resin just made me angry.
  • Eyelash extensions: 0/10. Convinved myself this was going to be my business. Invested over £300 in the course and materials, practiced on a few family and friends and gave up much to my mums despair. I just did not have the confidence and I was sooo slow.
  • Resin: -1/10. So disgustingly sticky omg I genuienly hate the stuff. Looks tacky and is literal landfill vibes, idk why I ever wanted to do this.
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Tattoo Tour

I actually hate the majority of my tattoos, but here's a tour anyway.

I have one of these on each arm above my elbow crease and god theyre bad. The fact I non-ironically have Carpe Diem and Carpe Noctem tattooed on me is actually embarassing. Made worse by the fact that at the time I loved clubbing so in my head, 'sieze the night' felt very fitting. I was 19 & stupid.

This one is actually cute, even if generic. I feel it's well done. I wanted a delicate looking peonies and she achieved that. The only thing is it's so high up on my thigh that genuienly no one ever sees it.

This was spur of the moment, I justified it by the fact my kid was obsessed with the Bee Movie at the time and I do love bees to be fair, but really, I just wanted an excuse to get a cheap tattoo and an apprentice did this for only like £50. It's on the back of my neck.

I had high hopes for this sleeve. It is shamefully ripped off from the tattoo artist Pony Reinhardt. I adored their tattoo style but them being in America made it impossible to get one by them. I did message and ask if I could commission a design but got no response ): I took elements from various work of theirs and had a local tattoo artist recreate it. I planned to add to it but I hate it so much I doubt I will. The mammal (god knows what it is) is so out of proportion to the rest.

This is my favourite tattoo. It was crazy cheap- £50- and I love the placement which is just below my knee. I've always wished on 11:11 so this is the first one with the tiniest bit of meaning.

Never, I repeat never, get a tattoo with a partner because they will become an ex and you'll be left grasping at straws trying to cover up the massive 'A' on your middle finger.

The moon was a stupid mistake I did on myself before even practicing during lockdown. Ik its bad. And the stupid dots were one half of a smiley face with someone who is now irrelivent.