Life, Love and the Everyday

LIFE It is Sunday night and I am mentally preparing for Monday morning. I have my feet soaking in a foot-spa with water and Listerine and I am about to share some important news! Two weeks ago today, A. proposed and my reply was 'Yes, a thousand times yes!' I wish I could say that response is original but that would be lying, I am a big Pride & Prejudice fan. After seeing Mr. Bingley's interesting proposal to Jane which began with "I have been an inexplicable fool..." I have always wanted to say 'Yes, a thousand times yes!' to Mr. Right. Luckily, he found me on a couch at a party four and a half years ago. In Townsville he asked me if I wanted to go for a walk and I actually really wanted to read my new copy of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on a beach chair overlooking the sparkling blue ocean - but A. doesn't do walks. He doesn't do big boulder rocks either but on that clear, sunny afternoon he asked me. "Do you want to climb u...

LIFE Sometimes you have to get away from 'what is' to see 'what could be', you can plan it but if the opportunity is there - climb out the window and run as far and as fast as you can. A. and I had a wonderful opportunity for the taking this morning and we embraced it, our opportunity was tucked away in the luscious hills and fields of Mt. Tamborine. We went for a small road-trip with our neighbours Alan and Jess and enjoyed the smorgasbord of music 97.3FM had to offer as the car ate up the miles. My parents used to take me and my sisters there a lot when we were kids. My Mum is a country girl and I think that love for the big open spaces has rubbed off on me because every time I go to Mount Tamborine, it gets harder to get back in the car and go back to the city; back to the noise and bustle. I love the quiet. The quant shops and cottage retreats. I can't wait to go back! And one day, I want to go back and stay.   LOVE Love is in the air! Duh-dum-dum-duh-...

Life What more can I say? Life keeps everyone busy. Everyone is going through a different season and are trying to adjust to what comes under the sub-heading of that season. Some people are going through a season of joy and laughter.  Some people are going through grief, heart-ache and pain. And others are just trying to find their place in a world that is exciting as it is unpredictable. There are times when I wish I could see the future and what it holds for me and A. I try to guess, estimate, presume and sometimes try to help God along a bit but when I do, I usually find my help is not appreciated or needed - and then I get worked up about it, I begin to analyse and dissect and then end up flustered because I don't know what to do, because I don't know The Plan. When I try to snatch the keys away from God, I find I can start the car but can't make it drive. Love For the past six months I have been adjusting to the fact that my close family unit are spread o...

LIFE Our lives won't be the same now that Pokémon Go! has invaded the phones of game lovers everywhere. For the past couple of days I have been looking at A. and he's on his phone catching fantasy creatures. Last night A. and I were walking along Queens Street looking for some dinner before catching the Jimoin show at QPAC and this group of young bucks walk by talking loudly. One of them exclaim. "After all this time we still haven't caught Pikachu!"  This morning A. and I were sitting at the Pig'N'Whistle in Queens Street Mall and while I am eating my p&j toast, I look up to find his phone angled at me.  Which is why I know he wasn't taking a photo of me, but catching Pokémon. Bloody Pokémon! Life is going okay. There are just days when I wish I had studied Literature straight out of high school because back then I was an empty slate. Now that empty slate has other things written on it and I don't know if they are what I want. Maybe th...

Life It's 7:23am and I am at the bus stop at Garden City. It's a cold morning and the first day of the work week. If you ask me Australians would definately benefit from a three day weekend! On the whole, life is good. I did a huge spring-clean in my room yesterday and shifted furniture around to make room for my new reading nook. I am thrilled about it but there is still the matter of my Work Within A Legal & Ethical Framework assessment. I know what to do but I don't know where to look. Ugh! Love A. and I are going great. He's awesome. I'm fabulous. He looks hot behind a polling desk and for once in my life I think it's a shame you can't vote twice. However, I just want to talk about my sisters *Victoria and *Cassandra. We had a sleep-over and had a movie marathon and I know it sounds juvie but I hope that even when we are over forty that we'll still have movie nights. The three of us have already made a pact about our daughters - that if...

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...