Boys Suck!

Why is it, no matter how much of a ass they were and how much he lied to you, you still miss your ex?  I went out of my way to block him on Facebook, so I don't even have to see his stupid updates about what kind of coffee he's drinking and yet things around me still tease and remind me of him. 

 How can you spend so much time with someone only for them to easily forget you and move on?  I thought I had moved on. I'm hardly home always going out and keeping myself busy, having fun, but still every know and then my heart hurts a little to think I can't ring him and tell him about an awesome new band he'd love, or that his fav Perth blues singer is a lesbian (I'd love to tell him that one) or ring to talk to him, just cause. 

I just gave my cousin great advise that I'd love to believe.  I told him even though you heart his broken and it feels like there will be no one to replace that void and have that same connection with, it will happen, evantually and when you find the one, all the heartbreak and time you spent on someone who wasn't right for you will be worth finding the one that is.  Words right now I truly wished I believed.

WA you continue to blow me away!

Now as much as local Perthians complain about Perth and lack of culture, social culture ect we have very beautiful landscapes and country side.  A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to spend a weekend in Albany on a work trip discovering some of the South West and what a warm welcome we received everywhere we went, and the food so fresh, delish and best of all local!  The hospitality and warmness of the locals was a pleasant surprise and continually got blown away by the beauty, even if it was a little cold......

Picture perfect without a soul around

Fresh yabbies

Sleeping beauty

Best smoked trout ever and just from next door!

Popping my Southbound Cherry

Southbound, what I can I say, wow!  I wasn't sure I could last the whole 3 days of music festivity goodness, but I'm alive to tell the tale.  Busselton is such a beautiful place to hold such an incredible festival, although I think it should have been to condensed to a 2 day festival. I was lucky enough to be invited by an old friend and was happily surprised that 1. the house we stayed in was a 2 min walk from the beach and 5 min drive to the festival 2. food and drink were already purchased and 3. I got along with most people (only one person I didn't like which is great odds) and everyone was easy going.  I loved not having to organise a thing, and with most of the house being gay I also got a bit of an education thrown in for good measure.   Kitty, daisy and Lewis blew me away and were far by my favs, but birds of Tokyo, Dan Sultan, The Klaxons, Paul Kelly and Washington deserve a mention.  The good thing about so much music is the discovery of new bands, dj's and sounds, Peaches was incredible and really knows how to put on a show, Marina and the Diamonds were awesome and there were more I enjoyed, but need to look up, my head was reeling with so much music! The only suckey thing was I forgot my photo id and the douchbags slapped on a underage band even though i am not clearly under 18.  This was rectified my putting my mates stubby holder over the band and walking right through and into the over age section, suck on that! Spent an extra day before I drove back with a little op shopping and window shopping, linner (not quite lunch, not quite dinner), beach and pub dinner.  A fantastic end to a fantastic weekend, that I feel like I'm still trying to recover from!

The amazing peaches!

Her dancers, randoms picked that day!

Festival lovin, bumping and grindin

Crystal clear beaches

Just a quicky to end and say my thoughts and prayers are with everyone living in Queensland.  If you didn't know Queensland has had major flash flooding and 75% of Queensland has been declared a disaster zone.  I can't imagine knowing my house may get flooded or totalled and theres nothing I could do about it or even think if it did where would I go.........makes you think.

Sea Change

I apologise for my absence if there is anyone who reads my blog.  This time of the year is always crazeee!  Not only did I have christmas to organize for (it totally snuck up on me this year), I have countless birthdays and weekends spent rarely at home in the good ol month of December.  Although I still managed to make a yummy maple syrup and walnut cheesecake!

This year was a stiffling 40 degrees, considering the weather around the world I guess I should count myself lucky.  With the Eastern states of Australia flooding and Europe/US having ridiculous amount of snow dumped on them sending flights and travel into a chaotic mess, I guess Perth isn't such a bad place to be at the moment. 

Little miss lost is still lost, but thinking of postponing her trip to America and move indefinitely to Melbourne.  I feel as if I need to move forward and create a new chapter of my life and do it while I'm still single and baby free.  Hopefully I'll get clarification and realise what I want to do.  Life is an ongoing journey and I now feel like its time for a different direction.  Problem is I have a house and two dogs, anyone have any suggestions or pointers on moving, I'd really appreciate it! 

I'm melting, melting.........

It is Monday my RDO, the first I have managed to actually have off in a few weeks and its is a sweltering 36 degrees!  My air conditioning conveniently decided to stop working last week, so I am dripping whilst trying to get in some much needed housework.  I desperately want to hit the beach (only a 10 min drive from mine, just one awesome thing about living in Perth) but the bad thing about having a Monday off is everyone else is working.

Its been a little while and we're about to hit the silly season and it is about to get much worse.  I must say I prefer to be out and about rather then have nothing to do, but my poor little house suffers from my absence.  I'm sure I'll get there eventually bit by bit.

I also have a self inflicting limp which also makes life a little difficult.   A few weeks ago I decided to play basketball again.  I used to play when I was much younger, but the impact sport wasn't doing anything for my dodgy knees and ankle so I reluctantly stopped, until now, when I decided enough was enough I need to get fit again and the gym just doesn't cut it for me.

Unfortunately I momentarily forgot the ol bod aint what it used to be, didn't warm up enough and proceeded to injure the biggest quad muscle you have.  That was 2 weeks ago.......off to the physio I go, here's hoping it will heal very soon, preferably before Southbound!  A huge 3 day festival held in Busselton I cannot wait.  Really looking forward to Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Bliss n Esso, Ladyhawke, Tame Impala, Public Enemy, Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan.  I'm a Southbound virgin so can't wait to pop my cherry!

Prob best to stay home, staying home equates to not spending money which at late is what I am trying to do.  Planning on hitting South America for my big 30 late next year, I must save like Ive never saved before.  So probably hitting the antique show wasn't such a good idea in hindsight and having a lady mark down a gorgeous, huge hand painted Japanese tea set from $230 - $170, didn't help.  Well you only live once and I now own something I can hand down and apparently use according to the lady selling it to me.  One problem with that I don't own a table ha ha!

On one last note - Life is precious, make every moment count, you never know when your time is up............

I'm back........

Well I've been back for a week, but it seems to have taken that long to get my act back together.  We were lucky enough to get near perfect weather in New Zealand and miss another earthquake in Christchurch by a couple of days! 

What a beautiful, scenic country the South Island is, I am officially in love with Queenstown and after initially wanted to hit Queenstown to ski I'm debating whether spring/summer is the time to go.  It has such a great relaxed vibe.  We were lucky enough to have some spare time there and I spent afternoon eating lunch at a Irish pub right near to a awesome busker, followed by a massive ice cream served by a hottie from Argentina (Queenstown is full of young people from all over the world) and then ended feeding ducks and just watching them by the lake.  I haven't felt that relaxed in a long time, who knew such simple things can bring so much serenity and joy. 

Queenstown was definitely the best, Christchurch was pretty, but doesn't have alot happening there and all the little stops on the way were nice, but Queenstown is so much more appealing.  After a week of indulging in very rich food and four course dinners most nights I am getting back on the health and well being wagon and starting to eat better, walk my dogs and as of Tuesday night start playing basketball again.  I won't lie I'm a little scared, but looking forward to it.  Here's hoping I don't do myself a serious injury this bod aint what it used to be.........wish me luck!

On a completely seperate note, yay to Burma finally  releasing pro-democracy leader Aung Sung Su Chi without any conditions!  Here's hoping this is a step forward for Burma.

5 more sleeps, NZ here I come!

Now, as hard a job it is and even though its not a high paying job, being a travel agent sometimes has its perks.  I am going to the South Island of New Zealand for work for a glorious whole week!  When a travel agent says she's going on a trip for work, usually that's what they mean.

You hardly get any free time, you have to inspect up to 5 hotels a day, which doesn't sound a lot, but hotels insist on you seeing every room type (even the ones you never sell) and after the first few they all start to mesh together and you forget what whats!

Not the case on a scenic tours educational.  A 5 star touring company, you get to experience what a client would on the same trip and we only have 2 hotel inspections, of which we are staying at anyway, on the whole trip!  They weather will be quite cool, which I don't mind, fingers crossed it will snow in Queenstown!  The only time I saw snow was in Canada when I was aboard the train that does the Rockie's and what a experience that was!

My personal trip in Feb is also booked to stay a week in Kota Kinabalu.  Since Malaysian bought super cheap flights and they now fly direct from Perth (which now only takes 5 1/2 hours) I thought instead of Bali, again, I'd go back to KK.  Its been 5 years so I'm sure it would've changed by now.  Also bought my overnight side trip to Sandakan for a mere $30AUD, thank you Air Asia!  Will be staying near the orangutan Sepilok centre so I check out the gorgeous creatures in there natural habitat.  Have to say at the moment, not got much to complain about, life is good!