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 :)

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.