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.

Take that no voice!

Yeah I have little to no voice at the moment. Stuff knows why. BUT I hauled my arse to the gym this morning and right now I am pumped! Seems Thursdays is gonna be a regular for me as both times I've gone it's been empty from 6:30 - 8! Can I get a woot woot? Oh and I totally got my swipe card to work FIRST TIME and figured out how to get the bikes crankin. *does happy dance*

It's amazing what endorphins can do to a sick girl, let me tell you. I feel like I could run a marathon right now... And it feels good. My arms are going to hurt tomorrow (hello, weights!) but I'm happy. Thanks for all your well wishes peeps - when I get round to making work-out playlists, which I have lovingly dubbed 'Gym-Jams!' you shall all get a copy. :DDD

Have a great Thursday/Wednesday evening everybody!

Fed up with gym times...

ALREADY? No! I was doing so well! Let's be honest here - it's supposed to get easier right? Well this morning I spent a good 5 minutes trying to get in the door (Dodgy card I bet) and was about to give up when it finally worked. THEN I made my way to the treadmill room and they were all full. I turned around like an idiot and walked away... I must have looked like the biggest tool. There was terrible AC/DC tunes on (motivating? um no) and I don't know how to use half the weighty things... so I'm just sick of it. Definitely dragging David's bum down there - maybe this avo before netball? I wish I had a gym buddy in this town. Unfortunately all the ladies in this town are, um, let's not go there. I'm sure they're lovely people - I'm just not their cup of tea it seems. So I've decided (with a little inspiration from Sara) that I need to make my own mixed cds to groove to... Stay tuned!

Now that I've vented, I wanted to share some awesome photos of David and I, but they were taken without a memory card in the camera so I need to find my cord to get them off and stuff knows where that is. So right now you get a photo of my outfit (totally the next best thing.)

That shirt was one of the first items I ever bought with my own money. We were in QLD at Pacific Fair and I had never heard of 'The Cassette Society' before but I thought this was the coolest thing. I totally forgot I had it until I started the spring cleaning a few weeks ago. It's funny because it fits me better now (it's kinda a tunic) than it did when I was 15 :D

Thanks for all your comments on my last post. David and I have been watching One Tree Hill since the weekend (something he claims to not enjoy but he totally brought the idea up Monday evening, hehe) so I haven't quite caught up yet, but I'm getting there - don't you worry :)

Listening to: 'It's Only Life' by Kate Voegele

Gym Kickage the 2nd.

So when I woke up this morning at 6:40am (yep, that's when David has to leave for work EVERY day. Screw. That.) my cramps at subsided. Haha! Gym time :) I honestly feel SO GOOD after 'working out' - I feel sort of light-headed, in a good way (thanks endorphins!). Here's a little photo booth capture of how my frame of mind changes...

"Why am I up this early? I want to die. Or at least go back to bed"
"Nothing a headband and a banana can't fix - let's go!"
"YEAH! Go me. Hm, put my iTunes shuffle on. Oh Matchbox 20 I couldn't have picked a better song myself."

I did 40 minutes today. Minus the 5 it took me to get in the door as always. Minus another 5 I wasted trying to turn on all of the bikes (I was the only one there.) I will have to ask someone next time there is human life in there... I'm not complaining I love pumping the sound system and dancing in front of the mirrors alone. Haha.

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Me and my gym kick!

Oh haven't you heard? Well, I joined a gym on Saturday. 70$ for a month the told me... rip off if you ask me, but I googled it and the avg price in Perth is more than that. I actually ended up paying $90 for a 'family' membership so I can drag David along when I feel less motivated. Even if I go every day, that's $3 every time I walk in the door! So I figured I better put this baby to good use.

After pigging out on Oreos last night, I figured today was the perfect day to start! I actually slept in my gym shirt, with my shorts on my bedside table for that little extra push. Just add sportsbra and footwear and I was out the door. I considered sitting in the car outside Bodyline for a while but there was someone coming out so I hauled my bum out of that car and into the gym, after struggling with the keycard and door for a good 3 minutes :D

There was only one other chick and what looked like her hubby/personal trainer in there so I went to the back room and hopped on the treadmill, then punched a boxing bag (I loooove the punching, feels good!), hopped on some machine that said it worked the gluteus (hehe) and even had a go at the rowing machine :) Honestly, it felt awesome and I know I burned 150 calories on the treadmill alone. I walked out of there an hour later feeling mighty fine about myself and here I am.

So day 1, off to a flying start with 1 hour at the gym! Take that thighs and booty! Yeah you will be rocking a mini skirt more in the next month :) Netball tomorrow night! Weeeee! And here was me thinking I hated exercise for the sake of exercise. How do you guys feel about it? Ever been to a gym? I know Belen inspired me to sign up - who else out there has a membership? My gym lacks hot guys so give me your stories!