10 posts tagged “positive thinking”
I went and saw UP today after work! it's only just come out here in Italy - most films seem to come out later than in Australia, and certainly 6 months or more behind America, but that's worked out rather well, as it means I've had the chance to see some of these films in English in Australia first, and then re-watch them here in Italian. It's fun to branch out and watch films I haven't seen in English though, and I loved UP although I'm sure I missed some of the jokes, but then, watching a movie in a foreign language is hard!
I couldn't help but think that UP was really sweet - the relationship between Ellie and Carl was beautiful - even though he and Ellie had many grand plans for their life together that didn't come true, Ellie was truly satisfied with her life, simply because she had spent it with someone that she loved deeply. I guess is something that we can all learn from, and I hope I'm gifted with a relationship like that one day.
The film got us onto the topic of relationships generally, and I was explaining how I'm somewhat bitter and cynical, except it came out Bitter-cal instead. So M and I have adopted the word!
I joke about being bittercal all the time, but I'm not really - I find being single intensely satisfying and relaxingly calm - no massive ups, no massive downs, no absolute exhaustion from late nights driving to/from someone's house, no anxiety about what he meant by xy or z, and I have time to do all of those things I'd like to do - the things that seem to get put aside when I have a boyfriend. I think that some of my friends have difficulty believing that I truly am happy, as though it's impossible to be spiritually satisfied without having a partner, but I'm lucky to have this time to myself, I really am. Sure, I miss heaps of things about being in a relationship, I would be lying if I said I didn't, but one of the best parts of being single, is that tiny spark of hope that the best is yet to come, and that there is someone truly wonderful out there that you just haven't met!
Tomorrow my supervisors still aren't back from their (presumably work related) trip, so I decided to sneak the day off and get some errands done. Like... possibly a load of washing, I have 3 packages slash letters I need to mail, and M and I are going to treat ourselves to fragolini pastries and coffee at the epic place near our house. Woohoo!
buona notte voxies!
R
I was so busy on friday! first, I got all my waxing done at a new place in randwick that celia gave me a voucher for as a birthday present. Afterward, mum and I had coffee and tiny little cakes at a place in the Spot in the sun. I saw people sitting there as I drove past the other day, and thought how nice it would be to sit in the sun and relax over a cup of coffee, so I asked mum if we could go on friday afternoon, so we did! these are the cakes I got:
Then we walked up to randwick and did some shopping. I bought 2 tshirts and 2 pairs of mesh underwear to take away with me. I've packed them though, so no photos. I really wanted a photo with this huuuuge table and chair set in the baby shop in the shopping centre so you get to see that instead, lol!
anyway. We got back and started sorting out my packing. Basically, I decided to put everything into plastic ziplock bags, so that all my undies are together, all my tshirts are in one bag, my smart skirts in another etc.
This is what it looks like as of right now:
I really like this photo of my sister and I:
we had a lovely dinner at Gazebo - we basically chose a whole lot of entree plates and shared. We had dip and bread, cheese, prosciutto, kipfler potatoes with chorizo sausage and rosemary, a luxury sausage roll with veal and something else sausage and a chunky fig chutney and goodness knows what else.
We had pink sangria and finished off with a chocolate fondue. All the most important people came, although I was somewhat irritated that some people didn't even bother to say they weren't coming. It would have taken 2 minutes to say 'I'm really sorry but I have xyz to attend on friday, so I won't be able to make it. Have a wonderful trip' It's one of those things where you think, why on earth am I friends with these people, who really have no involvement in my life anymore, despite repeat invitations and such - I was talking to Lyly the other day and she said to me, there are so many opportunities to read the signs in our lives and yet so often we ignore them. Well this time the signs seem pretty obvious to me, and I can see myself slowly extricating myself from having anything further to do with them. Not in an unpleasant way, but just quietly sliding out of their lives.
Then the parents and I went shopping at randwick, dropped off 2 pairs of shoes I want to take to Italy for reheeling, and got some lunch. We came back home and sat in the garden with willum in the sun.
I also sorted out all my paperwork that I'm taking with me overseas, printed copies for mum and dad, and generally organised a few loose ends including booking our hotel in Rome.
Tonight we're having a family dinner with Gougère (choux cheese pastry surrounding a kind of tomato and mince meat sauce in the middle) with (groan) moet to celebrate my iminent departure, then tomorrow, walk in the park with mum, breakfast with anna, final packing, dinner with Celia. Phew. Busy!
And I've been meaning to say for a few days now, on wednesday on my way to work, I saw the stars of the aussie comedy show 'Fat Pizza' getting ready to film in Pitt Street Mall! exciting times!
anyway, that's it for now, ciao voxies!
okay! quick post today!
Last italian lesson today, it was a much smaller class so it was actually really good. Not sure whether I'll do another course though, since Im going to be more and more busy with uni work up until when I leave for Rome...
Got home today and there was a package from one of the girls from MUT! she had my address from secret santa a few years ago, so she sent me a whole heap of samples and things! how sweet is that! here's what she got me:
- postcard
- sally hansen hard as nails in grape pop
- la bello lip care stick in sweet melon
- martini jigstick
- blue and pink hair pins (which with my new fringe, I need ALL THE TIME! so super useful!)
- bottle of echt kolnisch wasser (cologne - it smells really good)
- mini bourjois eyeshadow box
- nivea creme
- 3 buttons (badges)
and samples of: - maybelline dream matte mousse
- the healing garden skin organics moisture lotion
- lise watier radiance moisturising day creme
- clinique superbalanced makeup teint
- nivea matt refine with rice
- nivea stay real makeup
I was so surprised and excited to get a parcel, and what a wonderful and thoughtful lot of things! I love getting things in the mail!
In other news? I'm now off work until next tuesday due to the Easter break (woohoo to that!) I have approximately 2000 words (or two thirds) of my "Relevance of Ancient Art to Modern Life" essay, and I got an sms from W who is hopefully going to help me with the very last part of my project plan! then I'd also like to start my next ancient art assignment and also get going on my special project about sensitivity within the museums industry.
So phew, sounds like a busy 6 days off, and not much of a holiday, especially adding in to that, I have to buy my sister a birthday present at some point, as she turns 27 next monday, and tomorrow my mum wants me to go with her to Bondi where she's having a job interview for some kind of knitting company.
Check out my gorgeous Grape Pop Nails!:
In Italian class this morning I learnt that by adding -ino or -etti to the end of words, it makes them smaller and cuter. Rabbit for example, is coniglio, but to speak about a cute little bunny, you would say coniglietti (I guess coniglino would be too friggen hard to say!) Wouldn't it be awesome if it was the same with problems? just a quick addition or a slight difference in the way you talk about them and they're a little, tiny cute version of themselves? Dinged your car? change that to dingetti or dingelino and tada! Molto bene! late for work? late-elino or late-etti and you're almost on time! The possibilities are endless!
Mum told me she accidentally trapped willum into my bedroom for over an hour today (he sneaks in behind you and then you close the door after you, thinking he's somewhere else in the house.) So then I was wondering what kind of destruction he would have wreaked in there...
check this out:
He found my tissue box on the bed and obviously spent at least half of his imprisonment merrily pulling tissues out of the box, LOL.
I also got my hair coloured after work today.. I was so sick of the black/very dark brown... my skin is really pale since it's winter and I just felt really washed out and like my hair colour was overwhelming my look. It's a much prettier colour now... almost my natural colour but a little bit different! since I didn't get out of the salon until 9:00pm I couldn't get any good photos of it, but I thought I'd post a before pic so you could see how dark it was...
I'll try and post an 'after' picture tomorrow :)
Night night voxers, I'm sooo exhausted tonight! I'll leave you with a picture of bedtime in Rosie & Willum's room:
today I was so lazy. I usually run in the mornings, but I just couldn't be bothered. Instead I sat in my pyjamas and got organised, sending off my project plan for uni, my passport, formal photo, motivation letter and resume for my internship and then sitting and reading the paper with a coffee in the sun.
I had lunch in the garden with Willum, and he is so naughty and funny. He climbed up the strawberry plants so he could eat them. He also loves to chew on dry, horrible old palm fronds for some reason...
Poor thing, he looks awful at the moment since he's shedding his winter fur, he looks very ruffled!
I also took some photos of the blanket my mum is making for me... I think it's so cute. I thought it would be such a nice thing to be able to take it with me overseas if I end up going next year... I could have it on my bed as a little piece of home in whichever city of the world I am living in.
This afternoon we went for a walk along the boardwalk at Coogee. It was a little bit cold but still quite nice to get out of the house and do something. We saw a prickly pear growing wild! and I had to take a photo of the view over Coogee toward Bondi, and this cool tunnel of trees.
I'm supposed to be having dinner with the girls tonight, so I should really stop and get ready.. its so nice doing nothing sometimes though, don't you think?
At some point fairly soon I will get sick of this hackneyed italian phrases. But at the moment... neinte. LOL.
It has been one hell of a week.
I lost my wallet on wednesday, which was a huge drama. I got off the bus and ordered a drink in starbucks before I realised I had left my wallet on the bus. It was really embarrassing not to mention horrifying realizing that I had no money, no cards, no identification.. nothing. And then as I tried to call the bus people to find out if my purse was there... my phone credit ran out! so no purse, no contacting anyone! it was super scary.
I had to tell the guy at the starbucks that I didn't have the money to pay for it so I'd have to cancel the order. He was so nice, he could see how stressed out I was and said he'd give me the coffee for free, since that store would be closing. I felt really embarrassed, but I couldn't believe how kind that guy was. I thought it was really sweet of him.
I got to work and called the bus lost proprety section from there but no luck, they said they hadn't found it. I called up my bank and cancelled my two main cards and asked if anyone had used them (they hadn't.) I'm going to have to pay at least $30 in costs to replace my cards, which is frustrating!
Anyway, so I had to call my mum and ask if she could speak to my sister about giving me a lift home from work since I obviously had no way of getting home. She did, and my sister picked me up which was really nice of her. Anyway, we're in the car, and mum calls to say, some woman had come to the door, AND GIVEN BACK MY WALLET!!!
she picked it up on the bus, and had brought it around to our house, with everything intact inside! I couldn't believe it. I had a $50 note in there so yeah, I was so grateful that she'd returned it. There were so many things that are irreplaceable in there - my personalized starbucks card, my voucher for a replacement pair of shoes, all my membership cards to 101 different places... what I couldn't get over was her honesty. She returned it directly to my house, so she went to the effort of driving over here from where ever she lived! and the fact that it had all the notes inside.. it would have been so easy for her to take it out. In fact, really, she'd earnt it in my mind!
She wouldn't take any money as a thank you present so I tried to write in to the free newspaper that is distributed throughout the city to say thank you, but they didn't publish it :( At least I tried!
I was going to post some 'tribute' pictures to my wallet since I was so happy to get it back, but I haven't had a chance. I'll have to do that soon.
I was trying to think of something nice I could do to kind of repay MY good experience, and I guess the only thing you could count is that I organised jeans for genes day at my work - not a big deal really but a lot of people participated and we ended up raising $80+ so I was really happy it wasnt a washout being as how I organised it!
What else? I enrolled in classes for masters. Special project part A here I come! I'm only doing one subject, but it is worth almost 2 what undergraduate subjects are worth, and I am thinking it would be nice to start learning a language in prep for my internship (which at the moment is still up in the air. I'm out of good ideas and no one has returned my email with much good news :( )
This post is already pretty long and I didn't even mention the weekend hardly! On saturday I met anna and we had breakfast at Darling Harbour. French toast with maple syrup, banana and bacon. Yummy! Then in the afternoon I spent time with the bunny and napped.
On sunday I went for a run and then met up with Anna for lunch. We had a sit on coogee beach then went to Circular Quay for drinks at Opera Bar. It was gorgeous weather, warm and sunny. You could feel summer in the air and I can't wait for it to come back, except that it's nice to run in the sun without feeling overheated, like you can in summer.
I had another nap this afternoon and then dinner with the girls, ALL of them were there this week which we haven't had in ages. It was really nice to see them all. Al messaged me on facebook too. I think she must be in Greece at the moment. I really miss her.
So that was my weekend. I think that's about it. This is another novel... seriously I should just post more often. But then I'd be tempted to tell you all about the petty irritations I face from day to day, and I'm negative enough without committing it to paper (web?) and immortalizing it, LOL.
Ok, that's it. More later! with photos! If I'm not lazy!
well I was getting kind of tired of that entry being up there to greet me every time I opened my vox!
Today was nice. I handed my assignment in at long last, I had coffee with mum, I bought a whole lot of Lancome because their Gift With Purchase sounded too good to pass up! We had massages at work and a farewell cake for Glenn. Then when I got home, my sephora brush set had turned up and Shaundra, the girl that had sent it to me included two wet n wild makeup palettes, a perfume sample and a sample of stila tinted moisturiser!
what a sweetheart. I will totally have to buy her a gift although I can't think of anything that she might like.
here is the lancome stuff I got, all for around $130. I felt kind of guilty spending that much but it's not like I have anything to save toward or anyone else to buy for, so what the hell:
BOUGHT
waterproof pencil eyeliner
eyeshadow in deep burgundy
l'extreme mascara
FREE GIFTS WITH PURCHASE
brown metallic clutch bag
primordiale skin recharge moisturiser (the little tub)
gel clarte foaming cleansing gel (the blue tube)
primoridale skin recharge eye moisturiser
3 brushes
eyelash curler
virtuose mascara mini
juicy tube mini - dreamsicle
juicy tube mini - similar to dreamsicle but with sparkles in it
Eye shadow Duo in Rose Gardens, with blush in Rose Sable
Eye shadow quad with suntouched, honeymoon, floralesque and lezard
Here is a picture of the brush set that Shaundra CP (Custom Purchased) for me:
And, I really liked the way that the flowers in our house made such a pretty shadow, so here is a photo of that too:
The bf and I broke up this morning.
it's funny. Some days just have a good 'feel' to them, even if nothing that great has really happened. Like today, I finally managed to get a hold of someone who knew SOMETHING about masters.
