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in the make my skin look younger program is occurring tonight. SO after the hideous peeling on the weekend I am getting another facial tonight. I think I can see a difference in my skin. It certainly seems nicer looking - perhaps it is just the power of mind thinking surely if I've spent that much money it should look better. I ask my housemate every morning - does it look any better???? does it?? To which her various replies on different mornings have been

1. I can't see properly in this light
2. You know I'm blind
3. ummm yeah Sure

So who knows...perhaps I should have taken before and after photos - now that would have made sense

puffing billy

when in Melbourne we went on ye olde steam train ride through the Dandenongs - which was nice. We also went to a little town called Sassafras - can't remember if I have mentioned it before - but it was a nice little country town that had lots of cute shops ( something I am always interested in :)

Today I went on an excursion, to the local library which involved walking to the library and then back to school - and well let me say it was HOT. I used my umbrella - because well HAT HAIR - but still it was HOT. Also while I was at the library I finally gave in and paid my overdue fines. Which I have been ignoring for the last 4 years - wouldn't you think they would have disappeared. At the time I was extremely, extremely incensed by the stupid system they have in place ( whereby they said to me you can't rely on their reminder letter) = I obviously still have some residual issues. But let me just say I have shown them my displeasure - by absolutely refusing to step foot in the door for the last 4 years! They'll never mess me with me again!

RUSH HOUR

I have literally rushed home from work, to put my feet up for an hour, then I am rushing back to work. WHo said teachers are 9 - 3???????

who invented

the 2 day weekend? Surely IT was someone who didn't have to work for the rest of the week because they were enjoying the profits made by those who did have to work the other 5 days. It just doesn't seem sometimes that 2 days is enough? Wouldn't the split be better if it was 4 days on 3 days off? I think it definitely would be. As you can guess I had a busy weekend that wasn't really filled up with any special, thing but just filled up. I hardly ever ever ever bring work home and I did and well did I touch it ? NO I did not. So I will have to traipse it back into work at some stage this week, hopefully completed- although just between you and me I doubt I will get it done.



I did get to use the thing on the inside of this box plenty though...

humph

DO you ever have one of those days that seems to be going along perfectly well and then WHACK! Well that was me today - obviously I don't want to go into all of the gory details ( of which there aren't really any) but let's just say my afternoon went down hill. Oh well! Now that I am home I am trying to put everything in perspective. And trying to put things into perspective is one of the reasons why I have this blue paper hanging in my room. It is meant to be wrapping paper, but some of the things it has on it are really nice. I bought it in Byron Bay, and well couldn't decide what colour, so also bought a green one and a red one. ( that was I can change the sayings etc) This hangs near my bed, so when I wake up I can see it. One of the 'affirmations' on this poster that I really like is...



Treasure today and treasure yourself, because truly neither will ever happen again.



it's all about perspective

afternoon delights?

Every pay week I treat myself to a little something from the beauty therapist - you know a facial, massage, waxing that sort of thing. I always rebook for exactly the same time the following fortnight - and I get quite miffed if someone has taken my 4pm slot! This week my 'treat' was a herbal sort of 'peel' thing.( meant to be like a chemical peel without the chemicals - apparently they damage the skin to then promote healing which makes you think great things are happening) My peel is not going to do that my peel will just make my skin seem better and better and I will still be noticing the more excellent nature of my skin in a months time. Really sometimes I don't need the hard sell I just decide I want something and then get it. So let me just say that I have just returned and well OUCH!!!!!!!!!! herbs or not my skin is on freakin fire!!! and therefore not so delightful! and well henceforth and notwithstanding that is why there is no photo, and well when next you see my skin you just wait and see, I'm not sure if you'll recognise me because it will be so excellently clear and sparkling!!!!!!!!!!

cocktails...

more Melbourne stories. So on the holidays Dad was very kind and offered to buy us drinks. Our first night Dad said he'd buy us a cocktail, so who can refuse that. At the bar we were at they had super cocktails, and well they were massive, obviously meant to share. Dad thought it was the most embarrassing thing he had ever seen, as my sister and i sat in the bar with straws in this cocktail sipping it like a milkshake. The next night dad once again offered to buy drinks but he said "not one of those big things" We obviously obliged and it was then that I discovered the mojito...and since then I am love love loving the mojito... sorry the photo is on the wrong angle but you get the drift. It was BIG...

back...by popular demand...

I kid you not - the fans have been requesting me to get back up blogging. OK maybe I kid you a little bit - but thanks shirl for the text asking me why I wasn't blogging. The last few weeks have been hectic. I have been on holidays, jet setting as I do, and then upon my return last week to work it was chaos. I didn't get my desk cleared until Friday afternoon. One of my trips away was to Melbourne. Dad, Jo and I went and well lets just say it was a great trip - none of us had ever been to Melbourne before and it was made all the more super when dad won this...



I kid you not! My sister and I had retired for the evening and Dad stayed on to party ( by himself in the casino) and well we got a call to say " you've gotta come down I've just won a car" to which I replied "Seriously??????????????????" SO my sister and I traipsed back to the casino ( luckily we were staying there) to find out that in fact yes dad had won this car!!!!!!!! Very exciting

it's all in the details

Today I decided to get my car detailed inside and out - something I've never paid for before because Dad normally does it. I was going to be at the shops today meeting friends for lunch so I thought hey why not. I pick it up, it looks great, it smelled a little like a dirty vacuum cleaner on the inside ( you know that smell they get when they are rather that than those horrible car smelling things that never seem to work and only ever give me a headache) but it looks fab. And then on the way home it starts raining. Not happy Jan. I expect to at least get a few days worth of shiny newness out of the detailing - that would be only fair wouldn't it...wouldn't it?

Also my earrings today were purchased at the Oxford street markets in Sydney earlier in the year.

Girl with a fossil earring

so on my holiday I had more than one shopping jaunt to my beloved Byron Bay - and well my new latest thing to buy is earrings. My sister has said that if she doesn't start seeing different earrings in my ears each day and photgraphed and put on the blog then that will be it - she'll crack my head! So I have obliged. These earrings are fossils - can you believe that?

well may we say...

there is no denying that this picture is the wrong way...(some system gremlin that sometimes does this to my photos considering i use the same camera and do the same thing every single time....), but i digress, there is no denying that this quote, spoken by Gough Whitlam , is a stand out point in Australian political and social history - whether you support Gough or not. I purchased this coffee mug form Old Parliament House on a junket to Canberra that I took with my BFF :) in 2006. We had a great time travelling around Canberra and lord knows we learnt a lot about our Nation's capital. AS gift shops were the only places we went for the whole trip Leesy J and I 'did them over'.

Four Weddings and a funeral

well kind of - today I went to a funeral and high tea. I have literally been on the road all day, and it has been a day and a half. I think it was a bit soon to go to a funeral, but hey you have to support your friends and well go. I was crying before I even got in the church, but I guess you get that. I have always loved the movie four weddings and a funeral, I particularly like the W.H.Auden poem that is read at the funeral. It's a nice poem in a sad way - you should look it up, it has the line 'stop all the clocks' in it. I also made a discovery about my sea salt spray - for those of you trying it at home - don"t try and reapply the next day, because well it turned into a day the beach, when whenever i touched my hair at the funeral heaps, of what looked like fine sand, and well was probably fine salt would pour out of my hair and all over my black clothes...nice touch don"t you think. So although I love the effect it is purely a one dayer...don't say I never help you :)

Today's photo is of my aunty ivy and cousin Bec at High tea. It was Bec's idea, she wanted to take her nan somewhere nice so she organised it all.