Mountains, how I have missed you.

I was wonderfully stormy and cloudy on Friday evening and Saturday. But today (and part of Saturday evening) it has become gloriously sunny. :) It has been FOREVER since I was last up in the mountains, so it's been a lovely reminder of it's gorgeousness.

When I'm older

(found on weheartit.com)

Although I usually had other things I wanted to be when I grew up, like a teacher, an artist, and illustrator; being happy has always been up there too. I think it's all we can really ask for, but it is so hard to achieve...I think I'm doing a pretty good job at being happy though. Yay! Hehe. :)

Go and be happy!

Home

(found on weheartit.com)

Not long after I posted about being home, and what the definition of home is, I saw this. And, well, I think it's a pretty good definition. :P Even if you don't agree, I'm sure it'll make you laugh! :D

Have a lovely day!

SO HOT!!

It's so hot...why is it so hot? I so don't do heat...I feel like I'm melting...SO I am hiding away downstairs in the nice cool rooms. I even did some drawing. There is more to it now, but the folder is upstairs in my sauna of a room, so yeah, later. :)

(my totally awesome drawing skills!)

Little Brother is 20!

Happy Birthday little brother of mine! 20? Pffff...I think you may have to get out of bed before noon now that you aren't a teenager anymore. You can try at least!

In related news, I totally want to make some of these cookie monster cupcakes (If my little brother was any character from Sesame Street, I'm pretty sure he'd be the cookie monster...so it's totally a related matter!). Aren't they really awesome? I love them!

(found on weheartit.com)

Happy weekend everyone!

101 Dreams - Dream 45 - Achieved!

Dream 45 - Visit South Africa with James. There are quite a lot of places I'd like to visit with James, because they are special to me and I'd like him to see why. My family have been visiting South Africa since I was 7, so it's become quite dear to me, almost like another home. Tshukudu, the game park we visit every time we're in South Africa, is particularly special to us all. So it was really nice to be able to show James the country, and even better that he really loved it too. :D

1 dream down, 100 to go!

Painting

I altered a painting I had made during the IB so that it would better fit with the colours we have in the house. I think had the lighting been better today, the photo of the final would look better, but you can still see the awesomeness, so tis fine. :)

So thats part of what I've been hanging about doing lately. I feel like I need to be doing more...just haven't decided what that more is yet. :P Ho hum, I've given myself until September to get important things done...so there's time for thinking. :)

Todays To Do

I have already:

-Finished the painting.

-Signed up for First Aid course...the beginnings of learning to drive!

-Watched Britain's Next Top Model.

-Finish My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. (Sad times, that show is so happy filled! :P)

-Skyped James...connection went, am still waiting for him to return.

I still want to:

-Eat.

-take photos of finished painting.

-Skype some more.

-Shower.

-Go shopping!

-Have a fabulous evening. :)

I like to keep my lists simple. :P

7 countries, 5 days.

Switzerland, Germany, Holland, England, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Switzerland.

This weekend (Thurs-Mon) we went to collect my university things, by car. The trip there was...hectic, stressful, slow, full of traffic jams, not exactly the happy finishing off uni trip I thought it would be. But we managed to get on the ferry and get to Newcastle, so it's all good. On Saturday, the day we arrived in Newcastle, my parents and I had some yummy Fish and Chips for lunch, and then my mum and I met with Sonya and Bailey and had a wonderful afternoon in Vennels, wandering around shops and watching my mum get her feet eaten by fish. It was really, really lovely. My parents and I then went for dinner at Zen, which is always very yum...mmmmm. And then headed to Miriam's and Will's because thats where I was staying the night. An all in all good day.

I had LOADS more things than I remembered BUT we managed to fit them in the car and say good-bye to Durham. Bye!

The trip back was LOADS better, the ship was nicer, the food was nicer, our room was nicer, the weather was gorgeous, we were all happy, the roads were open and traffic free. It was pretty darn awesome!

And now I am home...and really need to get started sorting out my life, although I'm enjoying just being for a while. :)

Our good-bye G&T's as we left the port.

The wonderful-ness of dinner.

Our yum yum main courses. Mmmm.

And my Symphony of Strawberries. Was a little too strawberry-y.

The gorgeous roses on our table.

And the lovely sunset. :)

As for my 'To do' list last Wednesday, I achieved it all except the unpacking...I now have a whole lot more unpacking to do as well...could be a week or 2 before thats done. But I painted, and we had the most lovely evening out with the Hall's. :D

To Do

Today I would like to:

-unpack...I am so bad at getting round to unpacking...

-paint, I just need to find the floor space.

-have an awesome lunch in town.

-look around shops/check that Kookai still exists.

-have a wonderful evening. :)

Not too much, all doable. :)

Oh, Lola!

I had a pretty long stop over in Terminal 5 on my way home. I say pretty long, it was only 4-5 hours, which is short compared to what some people have to sit through at airports...but it felt like forever, there really aren't enough shops to keep you occupied (mainly because most of them are like super fancy, and I'd just got off of a 24-ish hour plane journey so did not feel I looked anywhere near good enough to go in those stores). I thought since it was such a long wait, and I was getting close to being bored out of my mind, I would treat myself. I'd seen Marc Jacobs 'Lola' perfume before, and really liked the smell and the bottle, but it was always a bit pricey. Airport stuff is a little cheaper! PLUS he's just released 'Oh, Lola!' which is a lot lighter than the original, so I like it like 10 times more. So I got some. It's so pretty, which is nice, because it can become a decoration when I've used it all up...and it makes me feel special using it. :P :)

I now own a Marc Jacobs perfume...it sounds so fancy!

I'm Home

(from weheartit.com, I think it applies to all loved ones: family, friends, significant others)

It's hard to define what home is now...I have so many. But I suppose the typical meaning of home is what I mean, I am with my family in the house and city I grew up in. :)

No James though, but it's ok, we're used to it now. In an odd way it almost felt normal having to leave...I know I'll be a mess of emotions in a weeks time, but for now it's feeling like part of a routine. We'll be stopping that routine soon, yup yup. :) I'm not overly fond of the routine anyway.

But! I am home. Need to start doing all the amazing things I have planned for this time...like find some work, learn to drive, and all sorts of fun creative things I hope I'll manage to blog about, because I like sharing. Exciting times ahead! :D

Honey Badgers...don't exist?

(yet another of my drawings)

You may remember my picture of the Honey Badger (it is only 2 posts down). Well, someone didn't believe they were real animals, and spent most of the holiday after we saw them claiming people had been bribed to talk about the Honey Badgers. Anyhoo, on the original post I got a comment: "awesome picture, just need one of bruce saying they are not real next to it!" Whilst I couldn't draw one next to the Honey Badger, I did on the next page. Urrr...it's not the most convincing of drawings...I'm still working on getting people to look like themselves in drawings...but it's close. :)

Coffee meeting with James later, and then some yummy pizza for dinner. Mmmmm.

Do what makes you happy

(found at weheartit.com)

Ok, so I may not be tired of people needing excuses. I'm tired of me feeling like I need other excuses. I do fully agree that you should do something because you want to, you find it fun and it makes you happy...they are like my basic criteria for life, which makes things a little - I don't know, slightly annoying, because I can be indecisive. A lot of things make me happy, I just don't know what I want to do. :P Anyhoo, rambling over...stuff to do! :)

Sydney

On Saturday James and I went for a looooong walk...and it was SO warm. It was really nice though, so I'm not really complaining, just saying that I may melt when I have to live through an Australian summer if an Australian winter makes me feel so incredibly hot.

Anyhoo, we went on a lovely walk in the sunshine all the way to Circular Quay and back. We ended up walking under the Harbour Bridge. I think I like the bridge more from underneath. It's pretty cool how there was a cool sun/shade line. :)

I am just rambling...my mind is a bit mush. For some reason now that I'm done with University I decided to read lots of education articles online...the things people comment on these things makes my mind boggle.

Hope the week has started well for everyone! :)

Toodles!