Storms, floods and the black out of all black outs

As I'm sure you have heard, Brisbane and a lot of Qld suffered some pretty awful destruction thanks to ex cyclone Oswald. All my family and friends are safe and their houses are too luckily. Not so lucky was us, we were without power from Sunday night right through to Wednesday. It was a long few days! It wasn't the lack of power that bothered me so much, but it was so hot and it was impossible to sleep in the humidity, I only had a few hours sleep over the three days and was one cranky, exhausted and emotional mess haha. Thankfully it is back now. Worst long weekend ever!

The Week That Was

Happy Australia Day! It's been raining cats and dogs so no outdoor activities. Spent most of the day lazing on the couch. Made zucchini fritters for lunch and did my meal plan and shopping list for the week.

Some of our wedding invitations have been received which is nice, have gotten some lovely feedback on them too.

I joined Bupa hospital and extras cover and received a $100 New Balance voucher to spend on their online store. I redeemed it and went to spend it but it only takes $40 off the total balance. So annoying and inconvenient I'll call New Balance on Monday to see if they can fix it otherwise I foresee lots of hassle and running around to get it to work :( sigh.

My hair stylist for the wedding cancelled on me earlier this week so four months out I am now running around trying to find a new one. Will chat to my regular hair dresser tomorrow to see if he can do what I want.

Also discovered an adorable little animal called a Quokka who has the most adorable smile. Google it! You won't regret it.

Happy days

Stinking hot in Brisbane! Pretty over summer, just between you and I.

This morning D and I met with our priest who will be doing our wedding. He is fantastic and very flexible, am so happy to have him be s part of it all. He is very efficient and has already emailed me the ceremony program with the readings, etc!

Afterwards we went to DFO for D to have a look at wedding suits. There is the most amazing suit at Politix which looks so good on him. It's avail on The Iconic as well and there is a discount code, hoorah!

I know I was going to get one of the Marc Jacobs bags for my birthday but popped into Mimco and decided to get the mini turnlock zip top in nude. I love it! The perfect size for me as the original turnlock would have been too overwhelming for my frame.

Also picked up two cute bikini tops from Cotton On Body for $5 each, score!

Bad day equals comfort food

It has been a long week. I have been sent to another store to work in as they are supposedly short staffed. However they are a very quiet store and I still serve more customers when at my own over staffed store compared to this understaffed one. So the days have been going very slow and as a result this week has dragged.

The shitness of the week peaked today and came home in an awful mood. We live in a complex and when I turned the corner to get to our house there was a baby, unattended, sitting in the middle of the road just around the corner in a blind spot. WHAT THE EFF! Luckily I always drive super slow because there are kids that live in the complex and I know they play in the street sometimes. I was not however expecting a lone baby to be sitting on the road though. Massive parenting fail.

So I got home and declared we were getting takeaway. BAD takeaway. So we got fish and chips, all deep fried with no salad. I feel marginally better now hahaha.

Ben's Vietnamese and Chinese Restaurant

Attended a colleague and good friend's farewell dinner and karaoke on Saturday night. My family and I used to go to Ben's fairly often but a few years ago found the quality of the food had deteriorated a fair bit.

We had the Chinese banquet which was spring rolls, prawn toast and prawn crackers, lemon chicken, sizzling mongolian lamb, sizzling seafood and sweet and sour pork ribs finished with deep fried ice cream. This was all served with fried rice.

Honestly, it was all pretty awful. I know the restaurant mainly caters to non Asians but it was still bad even by those standards. The lemon chicken was by far the worst IMO. Thick batter wrapped around dry chicken drizzled with a fluro yellow "lemon" sauce ick.

Our group stuck around for the karaoke but even that was disappointing because they kept playing the wrong songs.

Safe to say I won't be back!

TGIF!

Ok so it's not Friday yet but it has been a long week for me. Finally feel like I've recovered from my flu, have been going home absolutely wrecked this whole week I was quite sure I wouldn't make it through.

What's super annoying is I keep waking up at 5am, for no reason. My alarm is set for 7! That's two whole hours of sleep I could be enjoying but no am tossing and turning and making myself cranky.

We had to pick up D's glasses tonight so stopped by Berry Me, a self serve froyo place for an $8 frozen yogurt :/ it was delicious though! I got original and green tea bad and topped it with passion fruit, strawberry and kiwi fruit. I was going to take a photo and load it on Instagram (it's the unspoken rule of froyo) but mine looked a bit ugly and it melted pretty quick in all the heat anyway.

Anyway wedding invitations are ready to go. I ordered them from etsy as pictured below but in pink and green, super cute if I do say so myself.

Also thinking about purchasing that cuff, it's so pretty!

My start to 2013

Has been dreadful! One of my goals for the year is to focus on the positive regardless the situation but it's been a struggle!

Have been pretty much bed ridden with the flu / throat infection since NY day. Have already missed 3 days work and need to go back tomorrow. I started feeling better on Friday/yesterday but today was a struggle again. Maddy's cuteness displayed below keeps me sane.

Anyway this is a whinge post.

Have also been thinking about my bridal shower, it will be a high tea at either the Emporium, Customs House or a cute tea house in Mt Gravatt called the Willows Tea Room. D thinks i should do something more extravagant but i have never been a fan of the typical hens night and never wanted my own.

I should also add that I'm blogging from the blogger app on my iPad which doesn't allow me to position photos where I want hence they are all bunched at the end. And I can't be bothered going on the laptop to fix it so y'all are just gunna have to deal hahaha.

Baggy bag bag

So lucky me has spent the first week of the new year practically bed ridden with a nasty throat infection. Mm delicious. It can only get better from here right?! Here's hoping.

I have a check up tomorrow with my regular GP to touch base regarding my reflux. I stopped taking Losec after a few days because it was making me feel sick like what Nexium did. But it did the trick and the reflux hasn't been back since I've stopped taking it so hopefully I won't need to get that endoscopy he was thinking about.

Onto more exciting things it is my quarter century birthday next month and I originally wanted a cute Forever New handbag but D said no to cheap and nasty and to get something quality that I could use for years "like a Mimco" is what he quoted. And who am I to disagree, haha!

Am looking at MBMJ and tossing up between the Classic Q Baby Groovee or the Too Hot To Handle Small Top Handle. Both in black.

Help me decide!

Links here: http://www.shopbop.com/classic-baby-groovee-satchel-marc/vp/v=1/845524441918488.htm?folderID=2534374302024262&fm=other-shopbysize-viewall&colorId=12867

http://www.shopbop.com/too-hot-handle-small-top/vp/v=1/845524441958474.htm?folderID=2534374302024262&fm=other-shopbysize-viewall&colorId=12867

Man flu

David has the dreaded man flu over the weekend which he has lovingly shared with me.

I soldiered on and went to work anyway today which was stupid, i felt like death! Went home around lunch time and have been resting.

Maddy was extra excited to see me home during a week day and for the first hour would not leave me alone to rest.

There she is with her kiwi bird she stole from my parents place and our Russell Peters tickets! Can't wait to see his show.