DAY 236 - Flower Pot

Date 24.06.2011

Friday, Friday!
Yay , I ordered a vintage pack online last week, that looked as though it had alot of fun clothes in it.
However buying clothes online for me doesn't always work out as I am half sizes top half is different to bottom half, plus vintage clothing is always weird in sizes as well depending on what era the clothing.

However I do love this shirt which was part of the pack :)

Getting lots of new clothes always makes me clean out my wardrobe at the moment I'm getting rid of most of work clothes that no longer fit me and driving them over to local charity that donate the clothing to under privileged women joining the workforce for the first time or people that require it for interviews, love helping out local charities :)

DAY 234 - Coffee and Cake

Date 22.06.2011

Caught up with my nan for a coffee and cake in the morning which was good, I don't see her as often as I would like but when we catch up there's always lots to talk about.

For the rest of the day it was quite got to watch some tv, clean up the house and fix up the backyard so hopefully *fingers crossed* Thuggette can't get out again.

Was the last day off I have for a month, but the next day I have off is going to be super exciting its when I start my thigh tattoos that I have been waiting a year for :) bring on the next month!!

Day 233 - Thuggette

Date 21.06.2011

Thuggette is my beautiful little girl, I love her so much but in the last 3 months she has broken out of our backyard more then 50 times and we have more then $1000 in pound fees to pay, no matter what we do she still manages to find a way out.

Today was no different. She broke through the shed window and escaped out the back gate.

Its an extremely sad situation that me and my partner are know in were we need to find her a new home, shes always been our little girl but were becoming more and more time and money poor.

This is the hardest decision we have ever had to make, and it hurts so much we always said we would never give away our dogs but the time has come and you can't always predict the future or state that you would never do something until your put in the position to do so.

I feel miserable but I'll love her forever.

Day 232 - Embracing winter

Date 20.06.2011

Best thing about winter to me is MILO and hot chocolates!

Except today, I was at work about to take my first call of the day when I went to take a sip out my cup when the lid wasn't on tightly so instead of getting a sip the whole cup of milo went all down the front of me.

It was a real mood setter haha much to say I didn't have the best day today.

The other thing I love about winter is my scarf and beanie collection for some reason I'm someone who collects things but never wears them. I have 3 bags full of scarfs and beanies I think I wear the same 2 every week. I'm the same with my bag collection I have a whole wardrobe full of bags but only use 2 a year.

So here's a photo of me wearing 12 of my fav scarfs all though in the picture it only looks like I'm wearing 6 some of them are hiding...

Apparently were suppose to get a big wind storm in Victoria tonight so hopefully everyone stays safe and its nights like these when I worry about the homeless people and animals its sad that we live in 2011 and there is still homelessness.

DAY 231 - Sweet Nothings

Date 19.06.2011

 I woke up early this morning wanting to go for a walk the sun was shining thru the bed room window and although I knew it would be cold outside it looked like a nice morning.

I must of fell back to sleep because two hours later I woke up again, feeling annoyed that I had over slept in and not committed to my morning walk.

I did however get straight out of bed do some laundry and head outside to mow the lawns to make up for not going for a walk, but I still couldn't shake the feeling of being annoyed at myself and I guess even now I'm still in a low self esteem mood its hard to shake that mood on days like today.

Not to much else happened today I lost my medusa bar (upper lip piercing) down the sink when I was brushing my teeth, went to the gym but only manged to stay half an hour and walk off 500 calories.

Since then I've been home arguing with my boyfriend about sweet nothings.

I think tonight calls for a good book and hug from my beautiful DZLS (dogs) so that I wake up bright and early tomorrow and ready to seize the day :)

Day 230 - Recap

Date 18.06.2011

So first blog back after 3 months off, I'm not to sure what I'm going to do about the blogs I've missed but I'll let you know whenI figure it out, but just to recap I haven't been doing nothing over the last 3 months, and I have stuck to most of goals still.

April - Was my 25th bday and I did state that I was going to Sky dive, this did not happen not because I was to scared, although I would of been terrified it was actually because my partner and I found out that The Cure were going to be doing two there Reflection tour in Australia at the same time.
Seeing the cure is high on my bucket list and was the most amazing gig I have ever been at and well worth the money and trip.

May - Did the mothers day run with my mother along the yarra in Melbourne in a new best time :)
This month I also completed my Body For Life program I was doing at the Gym and lost 45cms plus my strength and fitness is unbelievable and I believe really helped me get my new running time.

Today was my first day back at the gym in  2 weeks as Rob and I headed off to QLD and Sydney a couple of weeks ago to get tattooed and enjoy great food and wine :) was a very busy week as we flew to sydney to see the cure then straight back to QLD to get tattooed. I finally finished my leg tattoos off after they were started 2 years ago :)

Currently listen to TOOL its been far to long,

Today I entertained myself with new make up and hair extensions :)

103 - Japan Earthquake

Date 11.03.2011

As you all know Rob and I travelled to Japan in March this year. I've always wanted to go to Japan, me and rob paid for the holiday a year in advance and spent alot of time in the months prior to the leaving for Japan marking out places on google maps of where we wanted to go and what we wanted to see and do.

Herajuku was the one place we could not wait to see or go shopping at, it is the fashion capital of Tokyo and has such an amazing feel about the place but we did not ge to enjoy as we had hoped.

We go to herajuku and went directly to the markets then off to kinji the a massive op shop store then went out to lunch before deciding to head down to Kiddyland!! a place I have wanted to go since I was 16 and seen a film of Marilyn Manson shopping there it looked so amazingly fun!

As we were walking down there it hit, the earthquake. It was the second earthquake we had been part of in the short 5 days that we had been in the country but it was definitely alot bigger then the other one.
We were about to cross the road when I felt my knees give in there were shaking crazily I could barley stand I grabbed on to Rob and said "do you feel that".. he had no idea what I was on about until I pointed at the traffic lights above us that were had started shaking around uncontrollably.
Then all of sudden out of no where down came this loud rumbling noise it was the start of all the buildings shaking and a swaying and looking closely you could see filing cabinets and tables being flung across the the rooms of the buildings in front of us. Watching a Japanes man across the road from us we could tell he was directing everyone to move into the centre of the road were we were standing to avoid and objects that may come flying out of buildings.

Its taken me so long to try to even start writting about this day because even now things remind me of that day, at work we have a train station right next to us and at 7pm most nights a train will go past which shakes our whole building I still have to grab on to my table and start looking around, its something that will always stay with me, the weird feeling of being moved by the earth and having no control.

The day only seemed to get worse as we do not speak any Japanese we did not understand what people we saying and we could not communicate with people about what we should do, we waited around for hours at a large park at the top of a hill with many people, there was constant voice overs a megaphone telling the Japanese people what to do and what was happening but of course we had no idea, sirens of ambulances and police were going past every 30 mins but we were left there wondering how long it would be until the train were back working.

The harderst thing was there was no phone signal it took me over and hour to get a msg to my mum to say were safe but by then the news had already been broadcast to Australia about the Tsunami so of course our families were worried.

Afer a few hours we could finally make phone calls to speak to our family and let them know we were safe, but we were still unsure ourselves how we were going to get back to our hotel that night, we had no maps, no Internet and it was starting to get cold and dark real quick.

It took 7 hours before we would get back to the hotel, the hotel was only 9ks away but due to there being no trains the roads were chaos.
We were so grateful to get  taxi home and ther driver was so lovely he couldn't Speak English but used his ipad to translate information to us about what had happened that day, this is when we found out that there had been a 10 meter high Tsunami and that the fukashima nuclear plant had been affected.

I think we were so numb from the whole day, we realised it wasn't until 2 days later when we went to go to sleep in our own bed at home that we had time to come out of shock and realise what we had been apart of, everything was so rushed and so confusing and we really went into survival mode.

Throughout that morning there was constant after shocks and another 2 earthquakes that racked 7.5 on the scale, we knew it was time to leave Japan when our hotel told us there was no food or water and that all shops around us would be closed.

After another 6 hour taxi ride we made it to the airport and were lucky enough not to miss out flight home.

We were happy to be home, just to be able to shower and grab some food and see our families and beautiful dogs.

But we definitely miss Japan it was a great place, with beautiful people, we are already planning our next trip back there, which will hopefully be this year for new years :)

Sorry this is so late but there is just to much that happened in that one day that I can not fit into one blog.

102 -Blogs are going Monthly!!

Date from 09.2.2011 - 28.02.2011

So0o0o0 its been a long time since I last blogged!! This is suppose to be a daily blog but I have been very very very busy for the last couple of months and probably will be until the end of May, so maybe from May until Nov I might go back to daily blogs but for now they will be monthly ... hope yall don't mind :)

What happened in the last few weeks of feb?

Well there of course was Valentines day, I'm a hopeless romantic and every year hope to be spoilt with fairy lights and falling rose petals, or candle light picnics full of good food and wine.. but this year was not so. I had to work and my partner was busy baby sitting my little brother.. haha so maybe next year? hmm maybe if Rob reads this?

Other then that not to much else happened my little brother lived with us for 3 weeks whilst my mother overseas and I started working nights.
Oh and I also started Body for Life its a 12 weeks high intensity work out program we you record all your food combined with 3 personal training sessions a week full of heavy weights for arms and legs and then 3 other sessions a week of cardio.

This would bring me to the reason that I do not have much time at the moment...every morning I get up and go to the gym, then go to work then head back to the gym.

So my only day off is Sunday, so not only do I not have time to write about anything, I don't actually have anything to write about!.

now.. don't get the wrong idea about me, I'm not trying to turn into a body builder or act tuff! I'm just trying to get fit enough to run a marathon at some stage and shed all these silly kilos I have gained over the last couple of years..

Anywhoo if you remember I was going vegan for the month of Feb, I did last right till the very end and it was awesome, however the day after it was good to go back to being able to have some more protein in my diet like yoghurt... but thats heading into the month of march.. so we will talk about that in my next blog :)

101 - Relax

Date 09.02.2011

Day off finally!

But instead of heading off to Melbourne to go to my jaw follow up appointment I spent the morning sleeping in and relaxing.

I was in need of some serious me time and I wanted to spend the day doing so.

Spent time at the gym, went opshopping caught up with my mum and just cleaned the house.

Cleaning can be so therapeutic.

I even looked up some new recipes to cook on the weekend.

Day 100 - Part Time...

Date 08.02.2011

Tuesday, Keen for my day off tomorrow, Loving being back on my part time work roster again.

I often think about why I am part time, it seems really lazy that at only 24 years of age I feel the need to work part time.

Isn't it suppose to be the other way round that when your older and can't be bothered you go part time? It's going to be so much harder when I'm older and I have to work full time.

But there is nothing better then a day off and I'm super keen for it tomorrow.

Day 98 - Work, Rest, Play?

Date 06.02.2011

Sunday, back at work. Honestly I spent 9 hours at work yesterday and another 8 hours at work today, there really isn't much time for much else.

Nothing even remotely exciting happened today, and I can not think of anything exciting to even write about, my mind feels like mush.

February just seems to be floating by I can't believe it's already been a week, not much planned for this month, get my little brother coming to live from Friday and he's staying for 3 weeks which is exciting, just get the spare room ready for him.

Day 99 - Superbowl

Date 07.02.2011

Superbowl Monday, not that I actually watch the show or even like the game.

But any excuse to wear a football jersey and I'm there, they are the most comfiest articles of clothing ever.

I'm sure the game was exciting, I was just annoyed that it was my first day back to late starts at work and I was all set up on the couch ready to watch my favourite mum show "The Circle" and it had been cancelled due to the Superbowl.

Day 97 - Money = Spending

Date 05.02.2011

It seems the less I can eat the more I seem to eat, I have no idea the logic behind this, but all I seem to be doing lately is eating and I've lost 3 kilos.

Which is good because I do love food and I never want to have to give it up.

Today was another day at work.. I know, I know it's the weekend but all the overtime I can get at the moment means we can do more and more in Japan, or atleast I can shop more in Japan.

Day 96 - Nom Nom Chocolate

Date 04.02.2011

Tried my first piece of vegan chocolate today, twas fantastic really don't think I'll ever go back to eating dairy ever again.

This week has mainly been work work work, which is sad because it's Friday and all I want to do is go to bed.

Signed up for another 5k run today, this one is local which is good I won't have to travel to Melbourne  at some ridiculous hour I will only have to walk out my door and down a hill.

It's at the end of March so plenty of time to get back into the swing of things, feels good knowing the money raised will be going towards the local hospital.

Day 95 - death to the year of the rabbit

Date 03.02.11

It's 2:00am we have just arrived at Morwell from our drive home from Melbourne's escapades the night before and out of no where a rabbit runs on the road and we hit it. dead.

The first thing I think is.. "Chinese new year is today, and we just hit the year of the rabbit"

What the hell kind of sign is killing the animal the represents the year.

Well I'm hoping its a good sign, I hope it means that this is a new begin for the year, but some how it just doesn't feel right.

And straight after this I look up and see the town clock is broken the back light which was dim yellow is flashing and Morwell is such a ghost town full of run down business and empty buildings that I felt as though I was in a Rob Zombie horror movie, (p.s only 1 month exactly until the Rob Zombie concert.. can not wait)

What a morning.

me eating a beautiful vegan meal in St Kilda, haha nothing to do with killing the rabbit.

Day 94 - Melbourne Zoo Fun RUN

Date 02.02.2011

WOW that was the most amazing, beautiful, picturesque run I have ever been on.
It started with 1 k run around the outside of the zoo then it headed inside the zoo so I got to pass all the beautiful animals.
I stopped running as soon as I seen the gorillas, they were standing so still looking at me through the glass, looking confused as to why I would be in there home at this time of night.
Then I walked past all the cheeky little monkeys which would come flying up to the glass to inquisitively, I almost ran over some kind of bird that ran out in front of me with no warning.
And before I knew it 2ks was up and I was passing the very serious lions and on my way out to run the last kilometer to the finish.

So as you would imagine as I stopped to chat to all the animals I did not beat my normal running time, infact it took me 40 mins to do 4 ks when It normally takes me the same time to do 5.
but it was the most beautiful run I have ever experienced and I can not wait to do it again next year, although next year I will remember to take my camera with me :)

After the run me and Rob were off to St Kilda to see Die Antwoord a South African hip hop group that I was to keen on seeing but Rob certainly was.

But after the first song I was mesmerised I couldn't take my eyes off them, as the crowd was jumping around singing and dancing I was standing there and starring, it was a great show.

Day 92 - Disco Lips

Date 31.01.2011

Monday, not a whole lot to report, tattoo is healing nicely.

Looking forward to a big week ahead, well actually a big day ahead on Wednesday this week I will be travelling back to Melbourne to run 4ks around the Melbourne Zoo then head off to see Die Antwoord a south African rap group, at the prince band room in St Kilda.

It should be very interesting check them out on you tube if you haven't already done so, there extremely...different.

Hopefully my run goes good, but I have not been able to get back to the gym to do some more training with this new tattoo so hopefully I can make it the whole way and make it in good time :)

Day 93 - Why is Vegan Diet?!

01.02.2011

First of Feb the loooooovvveee month due to valentines day, which by the way fellas is coming up do not forget your girlfriends :)

But today is also the first day of my Veganisim.
I made porridge for breakfast and put honey on it, then freaked out that honey may not be allowed to be eaten by Vegans as it come from an animal.
Then I had to think about what I want to achieve by being vegan for a month, am I wanting to not eat animal products due to curelty or not eat animal products just cause I want to try it?
well, a little bit of both.

basically bees don't get hurt when creating honey, not anymore then the bugs that are on the fruit that gets carted to the grocery store that I eat.

so in my books I think it should be ok to eat honey, but then chickens don't get hurt whilst laying eggs?

Now I have confused myself, If a lady at work sells eggs as she loves chickens so has lots of them around her yard but does not need all the eggs they produce, there for the chickens are looked after and not hurt in the process of laying the egg, can I not eat them?

ARGH vegan diet is confusing and seems silly, I mean I understand the not eating meat bit and the dairy if it's from a farm where animals are just used for there food making.

so should I not eat honey and not eat eggs or eat them both?!

What to do, I need to sort out what I want out of this so for the mean time I will eat neither, until I come to terms with why I'm doing this, and how to do it properly.

Day 91 - Mittens

Date 30.01.2011

So0o0o0 today we were suppose to go to Big Day Out a music festival in Melbourne, but being that it was 40 degrees and we just had new tattoo's we did not go, we sold our tickets and instead brought ticket to Die Antwoord which was the only band Rob wanted to see there.

so instead I stayed at home, watched my mad men, baked banana bread and got to use my new oven mittens.. there super cute and get me excited to Tokyo!!

I also downloaded some Crystal Castles which is my music for the month.

Day 90 - Ginger Bread Man

Date 29.01.2011

I didn't feel the best today, getting tattooed always takes it out of me, my body doesn't like it and I end up feeling super deydrated and ill everytime.

But it was a lovely morning in the city to enjoy a peppermint tea and some mini ginger bread men before heading back to Traralgon to do nothing but realax on the couch and watch Mad Men.

Day 89 - Steve Byrne Tattoo

Date 28.01.2011

About a week ago we found out the Melbourne was holding a Tattoo Convention and that our favourite tattooist from the USA was going to be there, Steve Byrne.

Myself and Rob were able to get an appointment with him, which is still unbelievable, even seeing our names on his list of people to tattoo that day was unbelievable.

The thing about Steve's talent is that its so simple, very old school tradition but with new bright colourful ink.
Bold and loud, I love it, and I'm so glad that I have some of his art to carry around with me forever.

Day 88 - Hed Pe Concert

Date 27.01.2011

Drove up to Melbourne tonight after work to see one of my old school favourite bands growing up.
Hed PE they played at the corner hotel and were fantastic, as soon as he started singing it brought back so many memories of my teenage years and how amazing his voice is.

It was a great night for rocking out and getting my dance on, something I love to do but do not get to do often enough.

Such a good night, except for the 2 hour drive home.

Day 87 - Happy Australia Day

Date 26.01.2011

I should probably be all patriotic here and say how much I love Australia but for me on Australia Day I mainly just feel bad for Aborigines.

Honestly, I'm so happy to be living in Australia and I am so proud of this county and our people, but I still think about what they must feel on a day like today.

but enough about that haha I don't want to start ranting about  what's good and what can be improved on in our country.

I went to work in the morning which for some reason was stressful, come home and listened to triple J then feel asleep, which I thought was very Australian.

I did however manage to get a photo with the Oscar's lovable inflatable kangaroo :)

Day 86 - First Blood Donation

Date 25.01.2011

Well today was the day, but I didn't know it was the day until 5.30.

I booked myself in for a blood donation appointment about a week ago, but today was such a super hectic day at work that I had forgotten all about the appointment until I was about to head home and got a reminder message from Rob.

It's probably a good thing that I had forgotten about the appointment otherwise I would of had all day to fret about it.
I get extreme anxiety when it comes to needles and often feel like I want threw up or get so nervous that I shake and stutter.

Tonight was no different.
I had also booked my mum in for an appointment, so luckily she come along with me and made me feel worse haha (I had to act tuff in front of her).

but all of sudden the needle was in my vein, the blood was dripping into a bag and I wasn't crying, I wasn't hyperventilating or even feeling like I was going to pass out.

For the whole 8 mins that they took blood I was able to sit there calm and relaxed thinking, this isn't so bad.

I think when you know that you are doing something good that will help other people in need it makes it all the better, and it was so fantastic to be sitting in  waiting room for over 30 mins because they were just so packed full of volunteers.

for the whole 15 mins it took, it was a great accomplishment.

Day 85 - French Fries

Date 24.01.2011

Was a looooonnngggg Monday.

But to make it better I got to catch up with my bestie Jimmy who was down from Melbs for a few days.

It's always good catching up with people you don't see often because you  have so much to talk about.

Plus we got to hang out and McDonald's and drink hot chocolates and eat french fries, 2 of my most favourite things to do.

Day 84 - Learning Chopstix

Date 23.01.2011

Today even though it was a Sunday I was back to work for a few hours of overtime, but just after lunch  I was out of that place and at home catching up with my lovely sister who I haven't seen in awhile.

It's always good when I do get to see her even if only for a half and hour.

I also took it upon myself to go for an outside run, I did a few laps of the footy oval and then walked myself home, haha only a couple of weeks to go until my 4k run through Melbourne Zoo.

I must learn how to use chopsticks! only a couple of months till I'm off to Japan.

This was my first good attempt at using them and I think I did pretty well except for the small spillage down the front of my white shirt :)

Day 83 - Food and Friends go hand in hand

Date 22.01.2011

Today was a beautiful day.

Got to head out to brunch with my 2 favourite people Emily and her husband Kade, I had a lovely bruchetta with goats cheese.. yum.

Then come home to find my partner Rob and his dad had inserted our new set of windows into our bedroom which looked amazing.

Then off to the movies to see Burlesque with a mate, the movie was amazing I am a huge fan of Cher!! and the movie was just glamorous which I love love love.

Day 82 - more to do

Date 21.01.2011

Friday.. well after yet another busy week at work with all the QLD floods I worked overtime until 9pm tonight, so not to much to report on.

The day did however go super fast and I was looking forward to a lovely quiet weekend :)

I have been trying however to think up some more things I can do this year, I do have to get back into a routine now where I am doing more to make this blog more interesting, so that will all start from Feb 1st.

But until then I'll keep on top of my usual reading, listen to new music and running attempts.

Day 81 - Jaw surgery

Date 20.01.2011

Got a letter in the mail today that I missed a check up appointment at the Melbourne hospital.

Last July I had to get a sist removed from my jaw bone.

I now need to have regular 6 monthly check ups to make sure the sist isn't growing back, but I was looking forward to this appointment as it meant that I would be able to check with the dentist if I can get braces this year.

As a child I always wanted braces, but my teeth were perfect so I did not need them.

Now that I'm older I hate the thought that I have to get braces but 3 years ago my teeth started to move dramatically I blame this on heavy drug use and constant chewing.

And now I have to wait until my jaw bone has fully grown back before I can get my braces on to fix my teeth, so I have re booked my appointment for 2 weeks time I'll let you know how it goes.
The photo I have included in not from today but from a last years surgery.

Day 80 - "If it's not black buy it"

Date 19.01.2011

I've been attracted to a blue and pink Hawaiian dress the last month and everywhere I go I seem to see it but have always thought, its amazing but its blue and pink.
Today I went and tried it on and surprisingly it looked good, I thought about buying it for agers before I walked it over to the counter and finally paid for it.

I'm still not sure what has attracted me to this dress just yet as it is so bright and unlike me, even though I'm not really sure now days what is me.

up until 4 years ago it was easy all I ever wore was black, but I have seen a change in my fashion over the last few years and colour is one of them even though I'm still stuck in the routine of thinking.. "its not black"

So I think my motto for this year will be "if its not black buy it" and see how I go.

Day 79 - Hair away

Date 18.01.2011

I need to cut my hair, I have been saying this for the last 2 years but only in the last 8 months I think I have actually meant it.

So you know the saying when you have your hair short you want it long and vice versa.
now that my hair is long I'm over the boringness of it all I just want it to be short and fun (although I dread cutting it and then wishing I didn't)

But today I made the decision that I would book in to get a hair cut. I'm gonna down to my hairdresser and just say "cut it so that it suits me" and see what he comes up with and hopefully its amazing. ( and hey I've always got extensions if its to short)

So shortly there will be a whole new start to a new me and this great new year.

Day 78 - Dreadmill

Date 17.01.2011

I never usually do to much on a Monday, today was no different I woke up late, thought it was Tuesday, went to work come home read and went to the gym.

It's now been 3 days in a row that I've been to the gym and ran / jogged 5k's on the treadmill, I hope this continues as I really really want to get up to 10ks in the next couple of months.

I'm not getting any better with my time on the treadmill though which is a little disappointing, hopefully after a few weeks or so I should be able to start increasing the speed more and more and get below 40mins.

The book I'm reading at the moment is Playground by Jennifer Saginor its another book about life at the playboy mansion and is a book that is extremely hard to put down.

Me running on a treadmill, lol.

Day 77 - Drama Queen

Date 16.01.2011

"so are you a Drama Queen" .. what?  " your cup it says "Drama Queen" ... my mum thinks I am.

In the picture below is a cup my mother got me.. I don't know how many years ago but awhile ago.
It made her giggle to see my face when she gave it to me.
My face said it all and although it gives off the wrong impression about me especially at work (as it might be true) it does hold the perfect about of caffeine for the day, wither that be a tea or coffee.

And today I needed alot of caffeine we are still currently helping out alot at work for the QLD floods so working 9 and half hours overtime on a Sunday meant that I didn't leave work until 9.30 at night.

Day 76 - Amber

Date 15.01.2011

Good old Saturday how I have been longing for you!
I was up nice and early ready to take my mother op shopping.
We stopped off at a shop in Morwell that I heard sells really amazing Amber pendents, Amber is good for grounding and fighting off sickness, at the moment I defiantly need assistance with grounding myself, This year is already flying by and I feel as though I'm floating around somewhere in the clouds.

Then it was off to the Doctors to get my iron tested to make sure I can donate blood next week *fingers crossed* my iron is usually a bit low which is blamed on me being a vegetarian.
and when the lady took the blood I didn't cry, or need to lay down, didn't even have an anxiety attack! My fear of needles may already be cured!

This weekends plans were to start planning our trip to Japan so we thought we would start by heading out to ZEN X  (a Japanese restaurant) for tea, as always the meal was amazing and to top it off we had the tempura battered ice cream... delicious.

Day 75 - Lost sunnies

Date 14.01.2011

A mate of mine was having his art shown in an exhibition in Morwell that myself and Rob went along to.
It was also a open mic night with some people singing in the back ground.
It was great catching up with old mates that are also extremly talented artist.

I also lost my sunglasses.

Day 74 - Nightmares

Date 13.01.2011

It's been a week now where every night I am having terrible dreams.
I've always been someone who remembers my very vivid dreams, lots of colour, emotions and detailed feelings.
It's starting to get distressing waking up every morning either frustrated, upset or pissed off.

Al though I know my body does this when it is stressed or when I do not have time to spend on myself with a meditation it is hard at the moment to wind down after being so busy at work and home.

Reminder to self do take time out this weekend.

Day 73 - Curried Sausages

Date 12.01.2011

Did massive grocery shop, got really excited by heaps of vegan food, as a child I always loved curried sausages.
now that I have found vegetarian curried sausages even more exciting, tasted the best.

Day 72 - QLD devastation

Date 11.01.2011

I'm glued to the tv, I can't help but watch the same screen shots over and over again of cars been washed down main roads, of house's  full of water and people stranded on the roofs.

But the most disturbing of all would have to be the footage of the white 4wd surrounded by nothing but flood waters for miles either side of them, the car is slowly sinking more and more under  with the family stranded inside, then minutes later you see them on the roof of the car staring in desperation at the helicopter above.. then to hear that when the helicopter returned to save them, they could not be found.

Everyone is thinking what can I do? How can I help?

Being so far away from it all, being able to drive down the street in your car to work, it all seems so surreal.

9 people dead and 78 people missing this is a terrible tragedy. I'm heartbroken and an emotional mess.

My heart goes out to all the poeple affected by this all and I will be making donation after donation but I know this still won't ease the pain of those who now have nothing, or noone.

Day 71 - 3rd time lucky

Date 10.01.2011

Whilst trying to open the plastic wrapper around my cereal this morning I cut my finger nail, realised that I had cut the hole to small and couldn't get the little flakes to come out and when putting the cereal back in the cupboard I realised that I had opened the packet upside down.

I could hear it raining outside but yet it felt so muggy inside, muggy weather always makes me flustered and no matter what I never feel comfortable.

Once I sat down and was finally settled at work an email was sent out to say a green commodore had left its lights on, Yep that was my car, well Rob's car that I drive ( still trying to learn manual so I can drive my black benny)
after forgetting my work tag to get back inside, I walked back to my desk and grabbed my umbrella then headed back outside were it was raining on an angle that no matter which way I held the umbrella I was doomed to get wet .

The lights are suppose to be auto so when you open the door they turn off, obviously this did not work and when I went turn the car on the battery was dead.

Luckily this seemed to be the end of my bad luck for the day, the rest of the day I was head height deep in work and didn't even notice if anything else went wrong.

I am glad however to be home now, about to jump in bed for a good reading shesh with my new book "my life story - Ben Cousins"

Day 70 - City2bay Fun Run

Date 09.01.2011

Today was the big day, another 5 k run and wither or not I could beat my last time of 41.30.

We started alot further back in this run then the last time so it took awhile before I could start running, but once I was over the start line I was off, I managed to run the whole race, except for a quick stop to get a some water.. ( it was incredibly difficult for me to run and drink.. )

I even started to pick my pace up alot in the fifth k and was excited to get to the end of the race to see my new time.

It was 41.30 I couldn't believe I had done the same time.. exactly.

Until now, mum just rang me to say the times are already up on the website and I actually clocked in at 40.13!
Even though it's only 1 min difference to the last one, this is going to make me work so much harder to get it down for the next race which is only 4k but I'm gonna work my arse off to get it well under.
My next run is on feb 2nd.

My mother, sister and family best friend competed in the race today and all did very well! my mum come in 2 mins under her last race!

another great day to add to this fantastic year!

Day 69 - Family affairs

Date 08.01.2011

Got to go op shopping this morning, which you all know that I loooooove,  got a beautiful coloardo brief case bag and a nice top.

Also brought some new gym clothes and a new daily organiser, not from the op shop but from the store haha

Had a lovely night, headed out to the country for a engagement party, although I had incredibly bad hayfever and some stomach pains the party was gorges and the speeches made were adorable and you can really tell these two familys are going to have a great life together.

I did get a little upset about who would do the speeches and my engagement party, or my wedding for that matter, but then I remembered I'm not engaged and to worry about that when the time comes along.

Day 68 - Black books

Date 07.01.2011

Friday was another great day we left the hotel and headed to our favourite suburb, Hawthorn.
We had been wanting to try the potato shack for a week so we thought we would stop there for lunch before heading home.
It was well worth the one week wait, I got a lentil rama it was amazing.

We also stopped past a book store that reminded Rob of black books (tv show staring our favourite comedian Dylan Moran) before heading of to cold rock ice creamery, second time in a week :)

We picked up some Ben and Jerry's ice cream from a gorges little deli on Glennferrie road before starting our trek back home.

Day 67 - Afraid of Heights

Date 06.01.2011

Back to the lovely Melbourne today for Rob's uncles 50th Birthday which was held at the iconic Young and Jackson's located directly across from Flinder's Street train station.

Whilst in Melbourne we were staying a beautiful hotel the Hilton South Wharf, it had amazing views and when we booked in for tea the lady offered us a free 45 min salsa lesson, as I had been drinking free champagne most of the day this seemed like a great idea, but after 15 mins we were out of there!
But it something that I have wanted to try for a long time, so Rob promised we will do some classes sometime in the future.

We had a beautiful meal at the hotel then headed back into the city to check out the view from the Eureka Sky Deck ( I still can't believe I lived in Melbourne for so long but still have not been to all the tourist attractions)

So up we went to the 88th floor, now remember how I'm afraid of heights, well I thought I may be able to cure it before we do our sky jump in may.
So I decided we should go out on the edge. (the edge is a box that comes out side of the building from the 88th floor that is made out of glass so when you look down you see all the streets far far below you)

This was a bad idea. As soon as I walked out I could not let go of the rail and I started swearing and yelling at anyone that said anything to me, I was petrified the glass was going to break, not to mention the sound of the box sliding out the side of a building did not sound very secure at all.
After staring out the side of the window and refusing to look down I ran back into the building shaking.

But was able to bring myself back out into the box to get a quick photo before running back inside to hide.

This is not good. I can't believe I was so hysterical, How am I going to jump out of an aeroplane at 12000 ft ?

Here's a pic of me out the front of Flinder's st station, (again something I never thought to do when I lived in the city.. the things we take for granted aye)

The photo I managed to get in the Eureka Edge box... Rob and I .

Day 66 - Sliding into home

Date 05.01.2011

Wednesday was a fairly quite day, it was my second day back at work and I all I could think about was heading back to Melbourne tomorrow and Friday.

I got home and packed my bags and was already to head off.

I also started the autobiography by Kendra Wilkinson - sliding into home. which I completed in 2 days, it was a great read as I'm such a fan of " Girls next door" the tv show about the playboy mansion, and I loved how open she was about her experience there and her drug abuse as a young child.

Day 65 - Tuesday

Date 04.01.2011

Caught up with a friend after work to help try to find me a dress to wear for the 50th Birthday party I have coming up on Thursday this week, Didn't find anything, so we enjoyed an ice coffee and some gossip in the lovely sun

Then I had y Gym assessment and let the trainer know I wanted to be able to run 10ks within the next few months, so he started me on a more intense treadmill and weight rotation.
Which is good it's helping me to bring down my current time for the 5 k runs.

I also weighed myself and found out I have put 2 kilos on over the Christmas break, shesh bad news but it really is expected when I have been eating a box of chocolates every 2 days!

Day 64 - Zoo run, anyone?

Date 03.01.2011

Got a chance to get back into the gym today and managed to get 5ks walking done in 47 mins, so hopefully that means this Sunday when I do the city2bay fun run I will do it under 40 mins, to beat my last record.

Had a look online and there is some amazing runs coming up in the city one is through the Melbourne Zoo which I want to do, if anyone would like to do this run with me please let me know, It's Wed 2nd of Feb.

I will also be donating blood at the end of this month!! Big news, as this is one of my phobias and will be the first one I get to tick off my list can't wait. (although I'm nervous as hell)

This photo is a little creepy, sorry about that.

Day 63 - 11:11

Date 02.01.2011

I realised today that yesterday was the 1.1.11.
the 01.01.2011.

11:11

I'm someone who can't go a day with out seeing 11:11 on the clock. but yet I went the whole day without seeing it once. I really need to find the universe sign meaning of the number 11:11.

Other then that It was a beautiful day for laying out on the grass, enjoying some cocktails and catching up with old mates, Thank you beautiful world.

Day 62 - Happy New Year

Date 01.01.2011

Those of you that follow my blog would know that the month of January, I am suppose to be going Vegan, but only in the means of food, so not eating meat or dairy.

Whilst driving home from Melbourne Rob and I stopped off at Fountain Gate shopping centre to get something to eat we both got a vegetable potato cake from the food court, then on the way out we got a box of Krispy Kremes which I enjoyed on the drive home from the city.

Once home I continued to eat many things like chocolate, the thought of me suppose to be being vegan for the month had completely slipped my mind until now, I really need to write a list somewhere of everything I'm suppose to be doing, or set alarms in my phone I'm hopeless!

So Vegan Holi will start for the month of February, But I will defiantly start eating more reasonably this month because pigging out over the holiday break is starting to hurt my belly.

Day 61 - Fireworks & Candy Ice Cream

Date 31.12.2010

New years eve, how exciting. I can not wait for 2011.

It was extremely hot in the city reaching 40 degrees we did not do to much through out the day, ventured out a few times to grab some cold rock ice cream and eat lunch.

We headed into the city that night to go out to tea and Hotel Windsor, watched the midnight fire works on the yarra, then headed out to Hawthorn to catch up with an old mate.

I'm still smiling at the fact that its 2011, this year I know is going to be an amazing year, got so much planned first trip overseas, turning 25, sky diving, moving back to the city... loads of things and I can't wait for them all to start.