Oh hello there!

I think I win award for most consistent blogger ever - don't you agree?! Whoops. It's been about a year. And we are in a different abode! Yes! We moved from our townhouse to an actual house in November 2013. We are currently renting out our townhouse and enjoying the pleasure of having tenant, maintenance and body corporate issues. Oh the joys.

We LOVE our new house. It is open plan with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and double garage. Patio, flat block of land (we are not a fan of hills) and very low maintenance yards. Maddy loves the space and so do we. I love our decent sized kitchen complete with stone bench tops (so much love) and the natural light and fresh air we get thanks to the many large windows.

Maddy says hi! Sadly the giraffe is no longer with us. It was de-squeaked and shredded quite promptly.

Weekend Ritual

Do you have a weekend or maybe even a weekday ritual or habit? Our household has a lazy Saturday morning policy. We wake up,  head downstairs for breakfast and park ourselves on the couch until late morning where we then get lunch together.

Our couch time is when D and I chat, go over our week just passed and the week to come, surf the net, watch terrible morning shows and generally laze and relax. Maddy happily joins us and usually snuggles and naps with us.

I love our Saturday mornings.

Great Expectations

I am officially losing my mind. Every second of every minute of every day all I think about is the wedding. What will go right,  what will go wrong, what its going to be like,  who will wear what, who will say what. Yeah.  Crazy talk in over drive.

There's just so much pressure for everything to be perfect. The perfect dress,  hair,  make up, cake, music, speech, vows, weather, everything.

I have learnt to accept that not everything will be perfect and to not care what goes wrong. It's all out of my control anyway. As long as at the end of the day both D and I are married and happy,  nothing else matters.

Then there's this other expectation you see in photos, movies,  magazines, read in books,  hear in conversations: that it has to be the best day of your life. What if it isn't? I will be happy and full of love but that won't necessarily mean it's the best day of my life. Does that mean I fail as a bride?

I don't like fuss and attention and I love and genuinely enjoy the little things in life. Like the warm sun on my skin,  cuddles and snuggles with maddy. Heart to heart conversations with D and noisy family dinners.

To date the best day of my life would be the day we took maddy home. The love and awe I felt for this tiny puppy in my lap was so overwhelming.

Will our wedding match up to that? I know I need to stop thinking. Stop comparing. And really,  just stop caring and go with the flow. But it's much easier said than done.

I love autumn!

My favourite time of the year! The days are bright, warm, sunny and just beautiful. The nights are crisp and perfect for snuggling. I have been having endless cups of tea and snuggling with the little critter below all weekend with sessions of sun baking every now and then to soak up some vitamin D.

Less than a month till our wedding now! I'm in two minds. One minute I am calm, happy, excited. The next I am anxious, edgy and irritated! I'm hoping on the day I will be the former!

Went to the alteration place yesterday to get it taken up. Pleased to say that although I have put on a bit of weight lately I still fit and the weight doesn't show yay. The more I look at and put on my dress the more I love it. It's so me. Hope D loves it just as much.

Bad blogger of the year!

If that was an award I would probably win it for consistently going AWOL. Here's a run down on my life since I last blogged, not necessarily in order either.

- was sick with the flu, pressured to go to work, got even worse. Took time off, recovered, went back to work, left less than an hour later with vomiting. Made to feel guilty about taking sick leave - what's with that?! It's not like I enjoy being sick, or am laying on a beach sipping cocktails, or am recovering from a crazy drink binge. I am legit sick!

- had my hair trial last week, loved it! Am having curls with a sort of half up half down.

- make up trial is tomorrow, looking forward to it but I really struggle when it comes to other people applying eye makeup on me I get all itchy and twitchy.

- less than two months to the wedding (how did that happen) and am rounding up RSVPs. Why is it so difficult to pry RSVPs from people. They had all my contact details.

- have booked my "hens". Hate calling it that because I hate hens events. Have called it an afternoon delight instead. I will be having dessert and champagne at a dessert cafe, followed by drinks at some posh bars. Planning on wearing black bandage skirt, and a sheer long sleeved top with gold sequin collar. Will have a friend organise games.

- have been snuggling with my Maddy lots, I just love her so so much!

Oh how time flies

It's been over a month since I blogged? And it's just over two months to the wedding? And the first quarter of the year is almost over? How did this happen!

Every weekend this month is filled with appointments, mostly wedding related for trials, dress alterations, etc.

Next weekend am going to be a self declared alcoholic as on Saturday will be attending a hens day at a winery, to be backed up by work celebrations at the same winery on Sunday afternoon haha. It's a good thing I love a good wine!

Wedding plans are coming along swell, just need to get our house ready for visitors as overseas family members are going to want to check our house out. It's still a bit bare in one corner so will be moving the piano in and putting more photos around the place.

Does life have a slow mo' button? Because I could really do with it right now! Weeks are flying by in a blur. On more exciting news, tomorrow night D and I are off to see Russell Peters live. If you have not heard of him, YouTube him now now now! He's an Indian Canadian comedian and such a crack up. Very much looking forward to it!

Things to do

Feeling a bit bored and blah. My weeks are repetitive and lacking excitement. Am thinking of taking on a project each month, but i don't want to do the usual learn a new language thing so am a bit stumped for ideas. Feel free to chime in.

I asked D for ideas and explained it to be similar to 30 things to do before 30. He came.up with two solutions - 1. Play trivia at our local. 2. Start a family. Fail.

Project February i have decided will be beautifying our backyard. Will get a wiggle on this weekend pruning, tidying, cleaning and rearranging.

Below are some random photos from my week :)