I'm sticking with you

I am pretty fond of using pegs as room decorations and as useful, non permanent wall fixtures. The walls in my room have no hooks at all so my walls are littered with plain wooden pegs with blu tack on the back hanging up concert tickets, necklaces, poems, photos, bus timetables, lists and also somedays not on walls.. to pin my hair up. In my new place I want to have a long line with coloured pegs holding up photos and I think it's a cute way to display pretty dresses and blouses too.














Part of my room!
1 x Tegan & Sara ticket
3 x Gyroscope tickets
3 x Wil Anderson tickets
keyring from Belgium
polaroid.
I would upload more but I simply do not understand Blogspot.
The photo uploading is so hard making it look decent. Any tips?

Here are some other images with pegs for home decorating found on Tumlbr :)

Don't you want to share the guilt?

It took me 1 hour and 40 minutes just to get home from work tonight so when I finally got home I locked myself in my room with my bottle of Tanqueray and watched the Dawsons Creek series finale and cried alot the whole way through and then I ate a toastie and read some blogs and now, I feel ok. That is what it takes these days to get me happy. I am so sick of this :(






















I should remember this more often

Things I Love Thursday

Meeting old friends for pre-work drinks in underground bars, quitting my job (!), getting stitches out, Frankie magazine in the waiting room at the hospital, hanging out with my old boss & new baby, discovering new amamamamazing blogs such as: Glossary! and Missed Connections, finally getting to talk to my sis on webcam.. for 6 hours straight, dreaming up vegetarian recipes to make in Melbourne, pear and ricotta bagels from Tiger Tiger (worth me being 15 minutes late for work, yes!), ordering books on Ebay from Wales, when people reccommend songs for me to listen, Daniel Sanders silent protest on national tv, sending actual airmail envelopes overseas, planning cupboard painting nights, when hospitals smell like peaches, the Mimic feature on Msn.. so hilarious, planning Zooey & Scrabble nights, planning date night for SATC 2 in gold class, finally seeing full SATC 2 preview on the big screen, polenta, Wednesday night tv, the hallways at work smelling HONEY BREAD wafting through from the new patiserrie next door, finding the good lettuce in the garden, counting down to 5 weeks, finally wearing my patent oxfords, getting dressed up for dinner, when the city smells like campfire in a good way, getting all my photos developed and album ready!

This song! I listened to it alot when I was in New Zealand & it really makes my heart ache but in a good way. I remember driving home to my friends farm along the coast and listening to this band alot and reminds me of a certain Kiwi boy too. This is actually an acoustic version but I'm glad there is still mr harmonica in it. There is also the album version here with a lovely film clip.

Curious Tuesday 002

Curious Tuesday 002! I was really looking forward to this all week! I love love love Q & A's! Original post from Gala Darling

1. What are you most excited for RIGHT NOW? A few little things but the big one is.. moving to Melbourne next month!

2. Who is your style icon? What inspires your look? Kate Nash I think more than anyone. She wears delightful floral and/or vintage dresses, is a freckley ginger, is not a rake, doesn't tan like a Oompa Loompa and everynow and then she doesn't wear dresses but skeleton suits or something and still impresses me. Although really, I don't dress like her on a daily basis, in fact I get dressed up and out of my jeans and tshirts seriously like 2-3 times a year. I just wear whatever is comfortable and I don't really care if anyone thinks it is "bang on trend" or whatever.

3. If you could have dinner with anyone, alive or dead, who would you invite? I have no idea. I am quite keen to meet my future husband! But really, I would just want my best friends and closest family. And raspberries with every meal.

4. What did you dress up as for your first Halloween? We don't celebrate Halloween here much at all, but I do have photos of me as Freddy Kruger (or as a dirty hobo..) when I was like 7 years old. I think that was the first and last Halloween costume I actually wore.

5. What are you improving? Trying to improve my food control. Eg, portion sizes and trying to eat only when I am hungry as opposed to binge eating shitty food when I am angry/sad/bored etc. Trying!

It's not a fan letter, it's complicated

I can't think of too many Aussie rom-coms so when I heard of I Love You Too being released I was pretty excited because to me, there is no genre as good as sweet romantic films with some laughs and the fact that it is an Australian movie just makes it all the more better. I was lucky enough to see it last night and I really loved it. It was weird seeing so many Aussie TV actors on the big screen but the story was really good with parts of absolute heartbreak but also wonderful warm fuzzie heart butterfly parts too. It was full of such good pearls of wisdom (mainly all from Peter Dinklage) for example, "text messages ruin relationships" or something to that effect. Yes, I fully agree. It wasn't even too bogan like some Aussie films are. I guess I really liked it because there was the whole long distance issue in it, the having to growing up and do adult things subject and I guess getting some guts to say how you really feel. Hearts on the line type of thing. I wish my real life was like that. Hearts wide open ♥

101 Project : April update

Inspired by the Day Zero Project!

Start : 11th March 2010 Finish : 7th December 2012

Italic = in process of completing Bold = completed

My full 101 in 1000 Days list here

2. Do monthly 101 Project update on blog (2/32)

7. Find someone
Cryptic, I know. Found! April 3rd 2010!

9. Buy a laptop
I am now the proud owner of a Dell Studio with a Mike Ming skin, pretty fancy and wonderful. Love it! Oh, and backlit keyboard! Amazing.

16. Take one photo of myself a month (2/32)
Apart from webcam shots, I haven't used my camera since I was in New Zealand in February. I was contemplating starting the 365 photos project where you take a photo everyday for a year but I had tried that before and lasted 2 weeks.. it's tough! And it would quite honestly turn into a photo of my dog everyday. But maybe one day I would like to try it again.

18. Do not smoke
I caved. But, it is only temporarily, for one tough day only! When I say do not smoke, I mean, don't be a smoker. I know every cigarette you smoke is doing you damage and it is the worst thing in general to do especially as I want to be a runner but sitting on a kerb with my sister at midnight drinking slurpees and smoking cigarettes is one of my favourite activities. Also my sis is a pretty full on smoker so when I move in with her I am going to try really hard to not make it a habit. Stay tuned.

20. See dermotologist
Done.

24. Paint nails once a month (2/32)
Pastel pink shimmer again.

69. Watch Adventureland
Yes! It was ok. Not brilliant but still a nice coming of age film.

70. Watch Flashdance
Not impressed at all. I could only watch 40 minutes.

72. Watch Julia & Julia with Mum
Finally! It was actually alot of fun, we drank Baileys and ate chocolate and she even stayed awake for the whole film and we both really enjoyed it :)

82. Find 10 new bands to love (1/10)
Two Door Cinema Club!
One of the boys at work played them one night and I really liked them, despite all the synths and hype.

87. Learn how to say hello in 10 different languages.
Lets see what I already know.. Aussie: G'day, Kiwi: Kia ora, French: Bonjour, German: Guten Tag, Japanese: Konichiwa. Hawiaan: Aloha, Mexican: Hola. New ones.. Swahili/Masai: Jambo!, Czech: Ahoj! Noongah: Barttaning harro, Lithuanian: Labas, Nepalese: Namaste, Inuit: Kutaa, Hebrew: Shalom.

96. Read at least 1 novel a month
This month; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (which I didn't like as much as his other books but it was still nice to read about running) & The Good Body by Eve Ensler (some of the women in this book made me feel kind of angry because of what they put themselves though to please others, but I guess it made me feel glad that I am not like that) Back from Africa by Corinne Hofmann (I finally finished the third book in her trilogy. This woman is amazing and I love her tales)

The damage in your heart

Never trust a boy who likes listening to Lady Gaga more than Weezer.
Also never trust a boy who doesn't even know a single Weezer song and then when you play one for them, they still prefer Lady Gaga.
Honestly, what did I expect! Lesson learnt!