A Series of Actual Events!

Well that was a fun weekend. And yes I'm only posting about it now because yesterday was my first day back at work since Friday :) Considering I normally only get 1 1/2 day weekends, 3 days was an absolute luxury. And because it was David's last weekend in town before starting his 9 days away, 5 days home roster - we decided to try extra hard to make the most of every minute!

Friday night we had our first game of Touch Rugby for the season. We won! And David and I both got a try (not that it's unusual for him - he's a playmaker of sorts, so if he isn't scoring them he's the direct assist *sigh*) When we got home Armageddon was on tv. I'm a sucker for movies they make me cry... and even though we owned it on DVD we sat through 3/4 of the movie with the ad breaks until finally deciding to switch to the disc :p hahah



Saturday morning was my morning off and we decided to go out to our favourite dinnertime restaurant for brekkie, as we'd never been. David got the big breakfast and I got pancakes (with a special order of a hash brown on the side, I say special because it actually isn't on the menu... hehe!) which were delicious. The tea was awful hot because they just use ikea cups and it wasn't the best, but I am partial to T2 tea now ;)


After that we browsed all 5 shops that are downtown in Tom Price. Blockbuster were having an ex-rental sale but there was nothing special there. I did however pick up these gorgeous tea spoons by Robert Gordon which matched the set I already had (from my bday last year). Hello future tea parties!



Saturday evening I spent no less than 4 hours stressing about what I wanted to wear to Liza's 21st, before going with what I first had in mind anyway! I know, 4 hours is a little completely ridiculous... but it had been so long since I'd been out at night to an actual 'event' I was stressing majorly. I had forgotten what other people wore! Looking back at it, I already laugh.


After dancing the evening away, I opted to go home relatively early (we're still talking 2am) to my man. It's nice going out, but I can see why I don't do it all that often... there was a bit of a tiff between a girl and me after I asked her if she needed to be so rude after she spilt her own drink at the bar and had a go at the bar manager (who happens to be a close family friend) and just a bit of general cattiness. Beks and I were the only ladies I saw actually eating the cake. Girls hey?!



Sunday my feet hurt. I prided myself the night before on keeping my heels on all night at the party (I walked to and from in flats.. I'm not silly) but the next day I wasn't so sure. We headed out to Hamersley Gorge anyway... I decided I could deal. After almost going arse up with my camera bag 3 minutes after arriving, it was pretty smooth sailing. Cept we didn't get to swim in Spa pool because there was a tonne of people there.. people hey?! It was awesome getting out of the house though, nice change of scenery.


Even though we took my SLR down there, the last photo was taken by David on his Canon underwater camera and it was easily the best :p We've decided he's the scenery shooter, I'm the portrait taker.

Monday I took a well deserved sick day and we did some cleaning. After going to the local car boot sale early Sunday morning we decided we really should have taken part... It was great motivation to get all our unused stuff together... and I've asked a bunch of my gfs if they're interested in having a big joint yard sale.


And now it's Thursday morning and the boy left yesterday on his 9 away, 5 days home roster. I'm a little sad but am just gonna have to get used to it. He drives 2 hours each away to the minesite at the moment, when we move in 6 weeks (6 WEEKS! That's all!) he'll fly from Perth :) At least then we'll have fun stuff to do on our days together. It's all happening!

Oh eighteen...

This evening I attended Jordy's 18th birthday dinner. It was nice. I forgot what it was like to be around nice girls without having to drink... it's ridiculous how much that is encouraged in this tiny town. Although we didn't order until almost 8 (so late for dinner) I just generally had a nice night :)

How do you think I'd look with a bob? The hairdresser suggested a concave bob, but I refuse to trust hairdressers anymore. They are evil :p David and I worked out that my shortest layer is uneven on both sides. Fail.


Me and Kim arrived first. We were hungry. Classic self timer shot - I think we photograph wonderfully together; such a contrast. Which is just a bonus because I like Kim. We've hung out a lot and gotten pretty close after a bit of a rough start :p I'll miss her when I leave.


Hayley (Ms Organiser) and the birthday girl :) They're such stylish best friends.


A few of the girls after dinner. HUGE apology to my little Bec who was inside paying for her dinner at the time and Renee who had already left. It was a bit of a muddle at the end of the night. And if you look really closely you can see where I spilt my food down my dress. "What are the chances?" Lol.

Heart rate pumpin'

Last night my friend Bec (you know, Bec, the little one. She's super cute and you need to all know who I'm talking about because you shall all be meeting her one day when you come and meet me!) and I went to a cardio session (free? I'm there!) put on by the shire and my God was it hard work or was it hard work! ps. it was terribly hard work. Bit disappointed today because nothing really hurts, but it did at the time :p Tonight is boxercise! So although I devoured pretty much 2 entire Cadbury blocks and enough Thai food to feed a family of 4 on the weekend, I am hopeful I will be able to fit into my dress. What dress you ask? Well David's best friend is getting married this weekend!


That's all of them on their Buck's trip. As you can see, David's a shortie (which is funny, because I am not.) and the groom is the one to the right of him. Now, this wedding.. I'm a little nervous. The last time I was at a wedding I was uh, 6. And the flower girl.


This time David's the best man and I'm seated on a table with a  bunch of his best mate's (as everyone pictured is in the bridal party) girlfriends. But they're not just girlfriends, they're also the Groom's really good mates. They're all one big happy family and we've hung out a couple of times and well, it was awkward. I was the odd one out and I'm scared it will be exactly the same. And I'm scared my dress won't be appropriate. Argh! But mainly the girls/table thing - I'm not a girl's girl. I don't know what it is but girls as a whole don't like me. Do any of you have the same problem? Advice please. Haha.

So yep, we leave tomorrow and jump straight into looking at houses. Both the ones I already shared on this blog are on our viewing list. The same agent is reppin a bunch of houses we love so that's already a positive sign :) Will be a little easier if we're just negotiating with one person. I think. I dunno. I've never bought a house before. David has and he said we're not going to let on his job if possible. (He makes better than average money.) I told him he can do all the dodging and lying. I'll just state truthfully that I'm a Uni student (ie. poor!) That still feels pretty cool to say/type :)




I took my camera to lunch the other day and took photos of my food. I even had the courage to ask the waitress to take a pic of Kim and I, but I couldn't work up the nerve to ask anyone to take an outfit pic for me. And the tripod and me aren't agreeing so you can have this photo as an example of what I wore. Yep, that dress again - but with sandals, a sash and a gold key necklace. Plus I rolled the sleeves up. Oh and look at that cool plait! Yeah I've been watching Dawson's Creek (onto the 3rd season) a bit and was feeling a little 90s cool. Say hi to my new remote btw. Now to get a bag, a sturdier tripod and a 50mm lense and I will be in bizz-ness! (Yep, said exactly like that.)



Have a great time while I'm gone! (and wish me luck - eep!) I will have 100s of photos to show you when I get back (woo new camera) so brace yourselves :) Miss you already.

Should be sleeping...

It's 12:40am and I am still wide awake. Why? Because I had the grand idea to take a nap this afternoon... In my defence I had my most eventful weekend in quite some time.

I don't really know how else to say this so... I volunteered to dress up as Sandy the Home Hardware dog for their Father's Day Sale (there was fire truck rides, face painting, cake stalls and a raffle). It was hot and stuffy, I couldn't really see out and I haven't even been paid yet (I know right! Outrage!) but it was a bit of a laugh...

The scarf was so people couldn't see my human neck btw. It's not a gay dog :p Or a girl dog for that matter - so I tried to keep my talking to a minimum; barking was the go. Barking and dancing. I left most of the lolly handing-out to Rusty.

Quick power nap. The mouth was the area I had to see out, this is a great example of how big that area was. Hahaha! You should have seen (or smelt perhaps) how sweaty my shirt and hair was after wearing this for 6 hours. Almost as bad as wet dog. Probably the first and last time I will ever volunteer for this torture. Have you ever done something like this? How much did you get paid (ie. How much should I demand tomorrow?)

Straight from the shower, up to the high school to vote (so don't mind the squinty post-shower eyes, David's idea to document this moment). I don't know too much about politics, but from what I gather, people with money (and power) tend to vote for the Liberal party whereas the Labor party is just that; a party for working-class families. I voted Labor, as did David, because neither of us are too fond of Tony Abbott.. but I'd love to know who you voted for (if you wanna share, is that too personal to ask?) not that it matters now too much. Hung parliament! Argh! So we should find out in the next few days/weeks who's gonna be our new PM. It's crazy to think that up until 1902 (1901 for those in SA/WA) Australian women weren't allowed to vote and on Saturday we officially voted on our first female PM candidate. Girl power I say!

Saturday night I played Donkey Kong Country 2 on SNES. Man that game is hard. I hate that you can't just choose menu-save whenever you want. You have to pay 2 coins (rip-off) and be able to make through so many levels before you hit a save point at Wrinkly's College. I get so frustrated... David and I had a fair go at it this evening; our best effort was completing 4 levels - we kept dying before reaching a save point!

Sunday I made breakfast cupcakes again (yummo!) and baked a banana cake. David dyed my hair and then we checked out some houses online and narrowed it down to two which we can't seem to afford anyway, unless I get my inheritance early (which I apparently will be able to do once the amount is settled but that has taken over a year so far!) so I shall be emailing the Trust company again tomorrow :) For those who wanna have a stickybeak (I'm always one of those people) we are tossing up these two.

Really makes me want to skip uni and just get a job so I can help with the repayments. If I found a job in Perth with the same salary we'd afford it just fine. But noooooo, have to spend my days at school. I'm not sure I even want a career - I just know I want a family. Right, now, off to bed for me.. I sound like a crazy clucky woman, not an 18 year old girl ;)


Goodnight!

My Fair Lady

It was awesome weather for the town's Nameless Festival (yep, that's actually it's name!) on Saturday and I had the morning off so Tash and I decided to grab a spot of lunch and check it all out.


I woke up at 9:30 but was pottering around on the computer (as I do) until the very last minute, so I put my makeup and clothes on in about half an hour and I don't think I scrubbed up too badly :) I loved wearing my little oxfords with this dress. It just felt more pulled together than thongs (aka flip-flops) would have ya know? I would love to have some frilly socks to wear with this outfit, and these shoes in general... know of any online stores?


I'm totally undecided as to whether to get my blunt bangs cut in again or to let them grow out. I have a big forehead so I like rocking some sort of fringe, but looking at these photos I'm liking the soft longer length. What do you think? Oh and this is my fave bag in ivory - I had to get it after realising just how much wear my black version gets (and it was on sale!)... I think this version is more day appropriate :D


After the fair Tash and I headed back to hers and watched Valentine's Day (loved it!) over  a bottle of wine. It was simply an amazing afternoon. I miss having good girl friends. My chin is doing something weird here but I wanted to share this photo because you can see little Mischa contemplating climbing the flyscreen door - she ALWAYS does this when we're out the front unpacking the car etc. It's the cutest thing :)


Yep, she decided to go for it so David had to take a picture! Don't worry, she's very capable of getting herself down and she did, not 5 seconds after we got the photo. She is such a silly kitty sometimes!

dress/sportsgirl - hat/billabong - shoes/novo - bag/portmans - bracelet/pandora
photo action by my4hens :)

Rock Quiz

I dunno, things aren't turning out as I'd hoped... my best friend Hannah has been up for the past week and I've seen her 3? times. This was one of the nights and it was a bit of a let down. The idea of a Rock & Roll quiz night seems pretty cool but seriously, there was about 4 questions I knew the answers to. Least I got another wear out of my 18th birthday dress ;) All these photos are Han's, I forgot my camera.


And yes, I totally rocked my boots but they didn't make it into the shot. Darn. It was also my first time attempting a smokey-eye look and I don't think I did too terribly :) Oh and that's Dawson. He's lovely. I can't wait to see more of him next year when I'm living in that big ol' city.


We ended up 4th out of 12 tables (no thanks to me, haha!) because we had a trivia buff on our table.. there's always one isn't there; that pulls answers to the most random questions out of nowhere - I wish I had a good enough memory to be one of those peeps one day, sadly I think that goal will go unreached :D


I do okay in the geography and music categories when it's a general quiz, but seriously - all these old school rock & roll questions killed me. So what's your stance on quiz nights? Love em? Hate em? What category do you specialise in? :)

Isn't love grand?

I watched Time Traveller's Wife last night with my David. I don't want to give anything away but man - that story is amazing. I cried so much at the end. Movies like that always make me appreciate the love I have in my life :) I think about what David and I have and even though I'm so young, I feel like he is the only guy I would go through that for. *sigh* You really must watch it if you haven't already.

The rest of my weekend was spent shopping in a floral dress and making that digital design into a real hold-in-your-hand card for Alex's 1st birthday! Here's the finished product :)


And here is the birthday boy and me sharing some cupcakes his amazing mum Lisa made... Ah babies. I can't wait till the day I have my own. I mean I wanna travel and have a career and all that first, but *sigh* I really can't wait to be a mummy.


I really would like to bake something this weekend; it's been too long. Thanks for all your comments on my bloggy makeover - it's still a work in progress but I think it's coming along nicely. I just sort of get stuck into the html when I have a few hours to spare coz it's damn confusing/annoying. If you want help I can totally link you up with the sites I'm using.

Hope you all have a fantastic week!

Into The Wild...

Does anyone else ever have those days weeks where they feel so 'meh'. Nothing seems to fit right, taste right, feel right and you start wondering what you're even doing with your life? No, just me? Haha. Well that's what had been up with me and my lack of posting the last week. But last night I decided that staying in moping around wasn't doing me any good. That's how I ended up at Cal and Eaowyn's going away party...


As you guys may know, there aren't any costume, or even clothes shops within 6 hours of me so I was super lucky I have this amazing dress from Donna in my wardrobe, as well as funky scarf. (Which was the first thing I ever bought from an op shop 2 years ago.) I immediately changed into my funky beaded flats after these photos, and then forgot to get final shots.


After seeing that I was dressing up, David decided he had to too. I was at a loss for ideas and luckily my boy isn't just a pretty face - coming up with this one... We cut up one of his old shirts and rubbed it in the dirt. We like to think he looked mauled by a tiger, that's wild enough right?


I got dropped off at Yvette's (middle) house beforehand so we could have a catch up and get some photos. I love love this photo, and these ladies.


I really didn't get as many photos as I would have liked, but I was sure to get one with Cal... who was dressed as a vine. This guy is so much fun, and was on the bbq all night cooking up sausages and lentil burgers (which are damn tasty!)


You can sort of see the wikid decorations in the background, that Eao (left) made out of old shirts from our tiny op-shop. There was jungle juice (goon punch with food colouring) and an assortment of jungle animal lollies to snack on. As well as a spa that only Jax (middle) and myself had a go in...


All in all, it was a grand night and I would really like to thank the following ladies for making me feel and my little blog feel special, when I was so down. Emily, Erica, Belen, Liz and Jennifer! Seriously, thank you. On another note, I really wish my hair was this boofy all the time. I got so many compliments last night... I might have to look into getting a frizzy perm after all. (I've wanted one for yeeeears.)

Hope you're all having an AMAZING weekend! David has his first scratch match of the season today (AFL), I might go down and watch him later. Or I might stay in and read a book :)