Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Taste of Summer*

*To my friends in the Northern Hemisphere who are about to head into a long, cold, dark winter... i suggest you stop reading right about now.
*Ahhh, summer. What bliss. Just around the corner... tomorrow, to be precise. 
I cannot wait! Finally after a gruelling year.
Holidays! Friends! Fun! Love!
Sun! Surf! Sand! Short Shorts! Red Bikinis!
What is it about summer that makes everyone so happy?
*Is it sipping cocktails with the girls, giggling & watching the world go by?
*Ice cold beers with the boys?
*Those balmy nights spent wandering the city streets with your nearest & dearest?
*Staying up to watch the sunrise over the horizon?
*Days spent snoozing on the beach?
*Or maybe its just the lack of clothes & amount of hot bodies to check out that give us all a secret smile?
Your guess is as good as mine :)
But there is no denying it, there is something about summer that puts us in a good mood.
Bring on the Vitamin D.
Even if you've had a terrible day, someone has treated you like rubbish or you are just feeling a bit downers on life.. 
For some reason, summer just makes it easier to deal with things like that.
A couple of days ago i headed into the the Big Smoke, aka the city, to meet up with a small bunch of friends for some lazy strawberry/apple ciders & vodka/raspberry's on the balcony of Madame Brussels.
http://www.madamebrussels.com/
It was brilliant.
Cool drinks, warm balmy day & good chats. The best!
Having daylight savings on our side, we wandered through the city, grabbed some takeaway pizza's & headed for the Botanical Gardens.
It was perfection.











To chance encounters.
This will be an unforgettable summer.
xox
ps- having said all of that... yesterday i was traipsing around the city in short shorts & today i am back to wearing jeans & boots. I was even greeted with thunder & rain when i woke up today *sigh. Thankyou Melbourne for being predictably unpredictable.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

~loyalty~

Ahhh, that old friend.
It's the sort of quality that we don't really think about a lot in our general day to day life, yet it plays such an important role in all of our lives.
And all of us are tested by it at some stage or another.
It might be in something small or it might be in something major that our loyalty gets tested.
It's what you let happen next, that matters the most.
Yeah mate, you are actually in charge of what you allow to happen when faced in a situation that tests your loyalty.
But, what is loyalty?
~the state or quality of being loyal- faithfulness to commitments, obligations & people~
I guess that's a fairly big deal ehh!
Loyalty & trust go hand in hand. It's simple.
You lose loyalty to someone.. usually, it means you also lose trust in them too.
How do we let this happen though?
Maybe it just happens over time if we get burned, hurt or lied to over & over again by those who we thought were our nearest & dearest.
*ouch.
What do you do when someone hurts you in the most heart wrenching sort of way & then you are faced with a crossroad situation where you can either remain loyal to the person who has hurt you & stand up for them or you can totally ruin them..
They will never know whether you chose to diss them or if you do stand up for them.. even after being absolutely ruined by them.
What do you do?

















You stay loyal to them.
Stand up for your friend knowing they will never realise what you have done for them.
Because at the end of the day, even if you have been hurt by them.. under all of that pain, you are still friends.
Never abandon those you love, even when it hurts & cuts you to the depths of your soul.
xox

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

i just got 'shot gunned'‏ ~a true story~

Whats that?
Let me fill you in.
I arrive at work... well, i arrive in the street where i park around the corner from work, I've got my RnB music pumping (don't laugh... it helps wake me up in the mornings!)
Anyway.
There's a couple of houses getting renovation's where i park so there have been tradies around in general over the last couple of weeks.
No complaints here.
I drive passed one guy & i cant help but gawk... just a lil bit.
By gawk i probably just mean stare... too much & too obviously... *oh dear!
Will i ever learn it's rude to stare?
In my own defence, it was a Friday. He's cutie. And he's looking at me. What am i supposed to do?
 After driving around looking for a car spot, i end up parking opposite the house getting renovation's that is full of tradies... feeling very conspicuous.
I finish my coffee in my car, I've still got some music on- i turn it down once i park so i don't look like too much of a twit.
I get out of my car... am too scared... aka chicken to even glance at the tradies working on the renovations.
(also hoping that i don't have any food, drink, marks on myself anywhere to be seen & hoping that i don't fall/trip over or something dumb like that..)
Then 2 seconds later as I'm walking along the street these 2 tradie guys are saying/yelling out loud: 
'SHOT GUN!!'
'SHOT GUN!!!'
And I'm like.. naaaa, as IF they're yelling about me.
That's really funny & quite an odd thing to be yelling out.
THEN.
..and then..
I hear one of the tradies say:

'I saw her when she was still in the car!'

Cue me walking off speedier now because I'm a little bit stoked/ a little bit freaking out/a little bit giggling like a 15year old girl about being 'shot gunned' thinking...
'CRAP! I gotta get in to work so i can email my girls!'
(and blog about it to you guys ofcourse!)
Happy (almost) Friday my loves!
xox
ps- Here is some trivia for you-
Back in the olden days~ I'm talking horse & cart era/ cowboys & indians era, there would be one guy up front who would be driving the horse & cart & sitting next to him would be a second guy who would carry a shotgun to ward off or even shoot any enemies who came along the way. (Or if in fact YOU are the bad guy, then it's to ward off the good guys trying to catch you along the way!) 
Therefore, when your friends yell 'SHOTGUN' as they're approaching your car or there's one piece of cake left, it means they just want to be riding up front with you or they get first shot on the cake.
Game on!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Marry me off. I dare you.

To my single friends:
Do people- friends, relatives, work colleagues- try to marry you off to random strangers?
It happens to me all the time.
For instance, last week a tradesmen came to my work to pick up something.. no, not me, & the lady i work with decided that he was a 'bit of alright' & that i should show some interest in him.
I didn't look twice at the guy.
The lady who made this suggestion is in her 50's.
Why do i suddenly get the feeling she is living, or atleast attempting to live, vicariously through me??
Perhaps it's because over the last few weeks whenever a new guy has come into the office, whether they be a young tradesman or someone signing some paperwork, she gives me the old wink from behind her computer screen & informs me 'Ooh, he seems like a nice young man for you!'











Darling.
What in the world makes you think that 1: i would take you seriously, 2: that i would take you seriously! or 3: that you know what I'm looking for.
Only i hold the key to that.
And i hold that key very close to my heart.
It also might make you wonder when people do this to you that 'hey, wait a minute.. do you think i am not capable of trawling through people to find someone who I actually really want?'
Are you dissing me as a person?!
That's a little extreme & honestly, i don't think that myself.
But do you sometimes think along those lines?
Does my friend/ work colleague think i am not capable of finding someone amazing & in turn making it quite clear that, YES! I am interested in them?
But then, when you do actually like someone, there's those people who tell you 'Oh, you deserve so much better than that person!' or 'You could do so much better than him, you deserve someone amazing!'
(Yes. I too am guilty of verbalising this on rare occasions. Yes I am protective to my friends & loyal.)
Even my boss said to me recently that any 'Prospects' will have to 'get passed him.'
Whats interesting is the people who make these remarks, never actually have a 'better' suggestion. They're purely telling me i 'could do better.'
The most annoying thing is, whenever i have liked a guy, i have always been told that he wasn't good enough for me & that i deserve much better than him.
Every guy I've ever liked, every one of them.
Are you serious? Who's to judge that?
Ahh, scusi' i know that comes from the kindness of your deep, deep heart, but if I'm interested in someone, it's not exactly any of your business.  And, shock horror...
To me, they are an amazing, smart, funny person.
That's why i like them in the first place. SURPRISE!
It's not some huge secret. I'm actually pretty easy to please.
If you wow me with life stories, you make me feel inadequate because of the big words you use (but i am secretly in awe) & you make me laugh, really laugh, from the depths of my soul...
You're in!
xox
ps- Don't get me wrong.. I'm open to any suggestions you may have! Go on, marry me off. I dare you.