Life, Love and the Everyday

LIFE I am absolutely loving the weather we've had the past few weeks, the consistent rain and the cheeky wind that makes you wish you didn't wear that dress with no leggings! I need a new pair of jeans because my only pair are a tad baggy - A. has kindly offered to buy me a new pair but I told him there are just some things a woman should do on her own - there's no need for both of us to suffer. I hate jeans shopping - how you get pairs that fit one thigh, or emphasize your muffin top or fit over your hips but don't zip up, or even worse, gives you a camel-toe. You also have to be in the right mood to shop for jeans - optimistic and cheerful and with the right company. You know how you get awesome shopping buddies that wait for you while you try stuff on and you get other people who just whiz through the shop and make a bee-line for exit and you're there like 'What's their hurry?" Retail shopping is like a creamy chocolate mousse, you can't rus...

LIFE I went shopping with *Victoria while A. shopped for a new phone. When he got himself a fancy Samsung 7 and I was given his well-preserved Samsung 5. It's nice to have a phone minus the crackles. As to what I bought myself, a deep red long sleeved shirt which I have attatched to this blog. It's not the most glamorous picture but I like it because it's accidentally creative. Enjoy! *Victoria splurged on two sets of Diana Ferrari shoes and they are beautiful, just like her. We walked past this kid store that had a three storey doll house and we both looked at it. "Look, Sarah! Somewhere for your ponies to play in!" She giggles, referring to the My Little Pony Collection I have stashed at the top of my book-case. The ponies are rather sentimental because they helped improve my speech and how I got into telling stories so theres no way I can get rid of them - they deserve a golden retirement. "Kids these days get all the awesome stuff!" I exclaim and...

LIFE Last night I did something I rarely do - bought a bottle of wine and filled half the glass, I was tempted to pour more but if I didn't end up drinking it that would have been a sacrilegious waste of grapes and sugar. It's with blunt honesty that I know I don't want to do the adult thing today. I don't want to honour the beginning of this week's new exercise leaf that I swore up and down that I'd do. I feel like eating raw brocilli, strange as that is. No, I'm not knocked up. Just...blah. I know I'm usually a lot more upbeat than this, more motivated, happy-go-lucky than this. Maybe life has just been a bit too much of the same lately, I go to work but don't do anything to break up the week except gym. I need simplicity, creativity and another me who likes to study! (Don't we all?) Okay, moving on from the angst crap. Time to simplify, create and build. But hey, first things first! LOVE With me working most days, A. has been home ...

LIFE  When I was five I was diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder and you can say that the doctors had the odds stacked against me. They told Mum and Dad I wouldn't be likely to succeed at anything other than having a comfortable life. I would never be independent, I would never be a great communicator and my reading and writing level would be grade three at best, I would never reach the mental maturity for my age group or enjoy having a husband and children. But here I am today, at twenty-seven years old, for the foreseeable future I have a stable income, I am reading and writing literature, I have mastered the necessary life-skills to thrive in this day and age, and I am planning a future with the man I love. So if you have the odds stacked against you, it's okay - be proud of it, because it's a testimony of how far you have come and how far you are yet to go. A friend of mine once told me that if you've got the devil on your tail, it means ...