Sea Salty goodness

SO I am known for saying of stuff I see in the shops 'huh I'm not paying that I could make it" So last night I put this into practice. I have wavy, fuzzy hair - that I often like to try and control with 3 swipes of a hair straightener ( which as you could imagine has very little impact) and I have noticed that when I actually do get to swim at the beach my wavy hair curls nicely. SO last night I decided to make my own sea salt spray - and spray it in my hair and sleep on it and then hopefully when I awoke I would have the desired sea salty curly hair. I am also a non brusher of my hair so whatever I awoke with this morning was what it was going to be. I am happy to say that I like the results and will be continuing with the sea salty goodness that I have created!

i'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkkkk

from a glorious week spent down the coast. Even though I had imagined a trip to the beach every single day we had to settle on a view of the beach and a trip to the heated spa as it was way too windy and cold to be on the beach. A big thanks to dad for organising and paying for the holiday for us! Gotta love some parental payouts! My sister and I have been trying to get dad used to the idea of having to buy us 'stuff'! It has now been 5 months since mum died and well that is a long time for us to go without the little somethings mum would have bought us - so Dad is in the throes of being prepared for our trip to Melbourne next week , and well the little somethings he will be purchasing...sorry no photo today something is wrong with the system...I know you'll be disappointed - lol

the big reveal...

Now I know you have just been waiting to see if I kept the fringe or not...so obviously I am going with the growing it out. The hairdresser said it was fine to keep growing. I did have some 'slices' added to it though. Kind of a reverse top deck, my housemate has the actual topdeck. I just have 3 splices throughout and apparently its all up to me if i want to reveal them or not - how mysterious. I am heading off on holidays for the next week, so alas no blogging. See you when I return. Sorry my eyes look weird and freaky in this shot - don't know what happened there

helena bonham carter hair

so those who have been following my blog will know that I have been not so happy with my hair of late. I know this blog covers the big issues!!! I quite like putting my hair up and having crazy bits falling out - helena bonham carter style - and a friend said that they loved my helena bonham carter hair - and hoped I wasn't as crazy as helena and that I was probably wearing underpants as they think ms carter looks like she doesn't wear knickers!! So tonight the fringe issue is going to be resolved. I am off to the hairdressers - and it will either be cut back in or left to grow out. I can feel the anticipation from you the reader wandering just what will she do with her hair...

healthy breakfasts

you know when it gets to the time when you are just about to go on holidays and everything seems overwhelming - well that is me this week. As a result I haven't been eating properly - well as a matter of fact its not just this week and the upcoming holidays that has caused the bad eating- it has been happening for months - but I digress. This morning for breakfast - and I am about to make a huge confession here - I had 2 spoonfuls of chocolate mousse. That's it - nothing more nothing less - just chocolate mouse. And it really is no surprise then that I had to make an emergency dash to the local shops this afternoon to buy some Summer clothes that mayhaps flatter me, coz well when did we get the memo about Summer arriving must have been out...

truth tella

A thought provoking question for the day - if people ask for your opinion - do they really want to hear the truth according to you - or do they want to hear the truth according to them - in which case why are they asking you? I can only give the truth as I see it according to me - would you not agree? or am I way off base?

Nothing earth shattering happened on my weekend to prompt this discussion - I just got thinking about it today. In fact the weekend was fab - I caught up with friends for both lunch and dinner on Saturday and then Sunday was a blissfully relaxing day whereby I did pretty much nothing - I seem to be really tired and am thankful that the holidays are pending...

Saturday lunch was a high tea at Clayfield and it was lovely to see some friends I haven't seen for ages. You'll notice I still haven't really resolved the fringe issue...

dads day

we had a kind of protracted Fathers day this year , because my sister had to work on Sunday she couldn't participate in the big family fathers day event. As seen in this picture

so we followed this up with a family outing last night - to the Norman hotel - which we all love - and I had this...

yummo - but any dinner that involves steak always gets my family talking about how it should be cooked.

Mum and dad - always well done - they don;t want no blood running out of it - I on the other hand like mine medium rare - I once knew someone who told me that the rarer the better and I was brave enough to try it and well they were right ( it later turned out they were wrong about many things, but I'll give them the steak kudos)...I love it - it tastes different, it's juicy, and I think maybe it's easier to digest. It totally grosses out all of the well doners at the table though ...how do you like your steak cooked?

nothing nicer

than a nice cup to drink tea out of don't you think? I love this cup, apart from the fact that it is pink, it is also massive so that when I have a tea it cools down quickly. I don't have milk or any such thing. I just drink green tea, or chai. In fact I bought a whole box of different green teas from T2, at a great expense - madness really - some of them are yuck, like the one that has what looks like popcorn in it - but some of them are yum like sencha quince. Which I love love love. Are you a tea or a coffee person?

a confession

I don't have a very good attention span. I don't know why - but it has been who I am for as long as I can remember - in fact my Brownie leader said to mum once "She's like a butterfly, she likes to flit from activity to activity and not really finish anyone thing" and well it is still true to this day. In fact just on Friday I was at a friends desk, before I went home and saw that he had a wooden puzzle thing. I was all like" Oh this looks good - can I pull it apart and do it?" Which I did and well did I finish it no - in fact did I even start it - no way. I just pulled it apart and then basically said " Ok I'm going now - bye"...oops. See I haven't really progressed since my Brownie days...

i heart shoes.

I love em - I don't know why I love em - but I just do. Working in a shoe shop was my high school / uni job. I don;t know if it started then but I think it may have been earlier as to look back at childhood photos mum always had us in nice shoes. This is my wall of shoes - and this photo only shows some of them. I decided a few years ago that I was going to keep all of my shoes in their boxes , and so well now I do. When I am being super lazy by the end of the week sometimes my room can look like any absolute Shoe-nami has hit. Dad really does find it hard to believe that I could ever need a new pair of shoes to go with a certain outfit. In fact he said the other day "do you wear all of them" to which I replied of course! There are winter shoes, there are summer shoes, there are shoes that are work shoes, there are shoes that are non work shoes, there are shoes to look fabulous in and then sit down in all evening, there are shoes to look fabulous in and then party in...the list goes on...and on...

concert on a school night...

I went to the Pete Murray concert the other night, and it was a school night! Outrageous. And somehow I feel like I am getting a little old for the nosebleed section - I need a chair - or even better a nice little table with Pete playing in the background. My feet were killing me by the end of the night. The concert was great by the way. I did get to thinking though - that I absolutely hate the encore - It's so contrived and fake and well blah. i don't like it when anyone does it. They say goodnight, leave the stage, the lights stay down , the crown goes wild, they come back and do 2/3/4 songs. PUHLEASE. Enough. Just play the songs as part of the set and be done with it!

new template

I have been trying to updaqte my blog header thing for ages - I have literally spent hours and hours and hours - and now tonight I have done it - rejoice - of course it's not entirely my doing - but still I fell happy about it

lost and found

well not really found, but I did lose an earring today and yes like the belt from the other day I did go and retrace my steps but to no avail - the earring was GORN!!!!!!!! this pair of earrings has really given me nothing but grief - today was the first day I had worn them since January - when I was pulled over by the police for talking on my Mobile phone - which I wasn't - and they found that out when they basically did everything except a cavity search on the side of the road. It turns out it was my earrings that they mistook for a mobile phone. I know they are big but come on - did they really deserve the sirens??? So now I will be wearing them no longer...and I wander just how long today I walked around one earring short and no one said anything to me - maybe they all just thought - hey she's setting a new trend =- so if you see people walking around with one earring -( or mobile phones attached to their ears) you'll know where it all started

on the fringe

continuing in the same vein as yesterdays post - today i'm going to talk about another great idea. The fringe. Bangs in America... you know it always seems like a good idea at the time - and I love having a fringe - it's quirky and cute and lets you do audrey hepburn-esque things - however when you want to get rid of the fringe it is a big pain in the patootie! This is currently my life - as I wait for the fringe to grow out - , it's difficlut. It's not long enough to fit back, it's not short enough to wear out - and well I feel that the next few months could be difficult and could quite easily result in a trip to the hair salon and me saying " i'd like my fringe cut back in". I did have a photo ready to go of the current fringe disaster but for some reason it didn't send properly - so mayhaps that was a sign to keep the fringe hidden from the blog for a little while longer...

let the curtain fall

So as is the habit of my housemate and I we like to do things literally on the spur of the moment- and well yesterday was no different. In the middle of doing the housework we decided hey lets not clean the blinds lets just get new ones! so we ventured over to the curtain shop - and preceded to spend the next I don't know 40 minutes trying to decide what would be right- in the dining room, in the my bedroom, and in the spare room. Its actually really hard to choose curtains - have you ever had to chose curtains.??? So the choice was made. We got home and I thought I really liked option b better, so I went back and changed them for option B. then it turns out we didn't buy enough so i had to go back and buy more, then it turns out that they are too long, so I had to go back and buy hemming tape ( a great invention by the way) All this time Dad was here - I mean he thought he was just coming up to whipper snip, but he also had to drill holes, put up curtain rods and offer interior decorating advice. perhaps this is why you don;t just decide to do these things on the spur of the moment. I think they look good though - and am now thinking that we should do the whole house in new curtains....