Life, Love and the Everyday

LIFE: For the past few years, my New Years Resolutions have always been the same: 1. Study my Childcare Diploma 2. Graduate from Childcare Diploma 3. Get my driver's license 4. Lose weight. Those were going to be on the agenda for 2015 too - until I realised I was constantly worried about it all and becoming discouraged. Last year I worried about the money to achieve my driving and losing weight goals. I seemed to be having more luck with the weight loss back then so I decided that something had to give - so I chose the gym and am slowly losing weight and learning to make healthy food choices. (Sometimes the hard way!) Last year I worried about those goals and going all what I like to call 'Baby Crazy'. So this year I'm practicing hands off. No worrying about the future and focusing on the here and now. No worrying about studying until I get a steady job to pay tuition, no worrying about driving lessons either. My intentions for this year is to concentrat...

LIFE: Twenty-Five years is a pretty long time to be alive. It means that you have been alive long enough to mind your manners, learn responsibility, to fall in and out of love a couple of times before finding The One.  It is also enough time to have a few pieces of wisdom from the mistakes of youth and pass them on.  I suppose now is a good time as any. 1. Love With any kind of relationship. If you give a lot of yourself don't expect less in return. 2. Yo-Yo's and Candy Yo-Yo's are people who swing to and fro, unable to make up their mind about what they want and may unintentionally take you for granted. They taste sweet but leave a sour aftertaste in your mouth and leave you feeling like you have been on a rollercoaster. If possible, distance is a good idea. 3. Don't Mistake Lust for Love A common mistake. The intense feelings and needing that physical connection are the same; but where the similarities end is this pure fact: Love is sel...

Melbourne is like a hard-working Mother. She wakes up early at six in the morning and is asleep at nine'0clock. It took me and A. four days to get used to day-light savings and on our last morning, we were up at seven'0clock and that was as close to a sleep-in as we could get! In Melbourne, 8:00am is the new 9:00am and that is when most stores open; perfectly handy if you want to do a little shopping before work! A. and I arrived in Melbourne at 11:40pm on the twenty-fourth of December and were tucked up in bed at his Aunt and Uncle's place at 12:30am. "We have to be up early." A. warned me before we fell asleep. "Early" turned out to be six-thirty, which isn't so bad - that's when A's alarm went off. "Time to wake up!" A. said as he shook me awake. We left Sunbury train station at 7:00am, arrived at Southern Cross around seven-thirty. Stepping into an elevator a familiar smell filled my nostrils, an unwelcome one! ...