Thursday 29 December 2011

What are you doing new years eve?

So this was totally not what I was going to post next but I saw it and loved it (..to the days..) and just had to post it. One of my all time favourite movies is 500 days of Summer which starts Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt so this had instant appeal for me. I already thought Joseph was brilliant, but this just adds another dimension to his brilliance - the man has such a beautiful voice!


These two are just so lovely.
p.s. this is my 100th post! Yeeeeeeeeeeow!
xx

Friday 23 December 2011

Joyeux Noel

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Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you all have a lovely time with friends and family, and don't have to work. Thanks for reading!! Best wishes for 2012 also :)
xx

Sunday 18 December 2011

What happened last Sunday

Appy polly logies for not blogging in so long. I have been busy like a wee bee over the last week, with work, gym and friends. But busy is good, right?! So anyways, last Sunday was a major highlight for me, not only because I got to see two amazing friends who I haven't seen since the mid-year break, but because we re-lived our childhood, got back to our roots (Six60 would be proud haha) and enjoyed the simple things in life :)
Our day started off with a mean chill sesh at the beach in Napier, in glorious sunny weather. The conversation flowed, the sun shone, the laughs were abundant...it was great. We shared pizza and garlic bread for lunch, along with some delish slushys. Nomnomnom.


After that we headed back to Hastings and went to Cornwall Park, a place where the three of us always used to play when we were kiddies. We used to have this 'hut' at the park (a group of trees that were surrounded by bush and a little stream that ran through it - where we used to 'wash' our dishes hahah), so we went to re-discover it. The memories and fun times flooded back, and the hut was exactly the same, though mini. Letting out inner child run free, we then proceeded to climb trees. It was great. Reminiscing is so much fun.


It was a crazy fun day. Here's to lots of repeats this summer!!
xx

Sunday 11 December 2011

A tasty tidbit..

Just had the best four days (minus work of course) since I've been back in the Bay! I re-realised how fun it is to socialise lol. Thursday night, Friday night and Sunday were the main highlights, filled with fun :D Too tired to do a full blog post (and frustrated to the point of wanting to punch this computer because it's sooooo slow) so am posting a wee tidbit of my wonderful and wacky Sunday, which I will blog about next...
Intrigued?
More to come :)
Off to bed now, three early morning finishes in a row are catching up to me.
xx

Monday 5 December 2011

On my mind

Friends - a cycle? new ones drift in and old ones drift out? I'm beginning to believe this.
Work - pretty much living there atm, but enjoying it more lately, and one friend knows why ;) Love making new friends here too.
Excitement - Thursday night...........eeeep! and seeing twinnies again! and being invited to a wedding!
Family - can't wait to see you over xmas!!
Xmas - eek, too soon!
Exercise - wish I had time to do more!

Watched Chalet Girl last night, was pretty cute! But saw this trailer, and must must must watch it with dear emma when it comes out:


Johnny Depp = simply amazing.
xx

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Love is here

Found this gorgeous design project all about love and how awesome it is on frankíe's site today. The project started with a callout to create a visual response to the phrase ''I love you". The finalists have been turned into a coffee-table book entitled Love is Here. Very cool. To read more about it, click here
Some of my favourites:


I especially like the last one because it was written on the Berlin Wall.
xx

Saturday 26 November 2011

Book therapy

Don't you just love the deliciousness of sitting down in the sun, with a cold drink and a good book? This is one of my favourite things to do, and I could spend hours doing it (though would turn bright red if I did). It's a great way to de-stress. I went to the annual Lions Book Sale in Hastings last weekend and got ten books, so I have plenty of reading material for summer. I manage to pick up some great bargains at the sale every year, and this year was no exception. I got three which are bestsellers worth about $25 each from a book store, as well as others from favourite authors. Here's what I picked up:


Am currently reading the one at the top - Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Pretty good so far! And of course, I couldn't resist buying the latest issue of Frankie when I was in town, and as per usual, it is a glorious issue.


Also, while I was catching up on my favourite blogs I discovered I won a giveaway! Totally made my day! It was from this blog which is aaaaaaaamazing, and by a fellow New Zealander :) See what I won here. Very exciting as I'm relatively new to the blogosphere and haven't ever won anything from a blog before! Choice!

p.s. apologies for not blogging for some time. I've been working insane hours lately and haven't had much time, but I will try to improve :)

Sunday 20 November 2011

Oh Summer

The weekend just past was a very happy one for me, filled with people, places and things I love.
So I don't bore you, here is a condensed version of what I did: turkish, book sale, coffee, work (12-11), sleep, farmers market, Napier, walks along beach/seafront, perusing delis and other delicious shops, cafe lunch, grandma, coffee with grandma, reading, downton abbey, sleeeeeeeeep. Bliss.
It was very close to perfect. If a few other people had been included, and work wasn't on, it most definitely would have been. A few snaps from my weekend:

 

Possibly the cutest cafe I have ever seen, it's tucked away behind a big steel building so it's quite a little gem! I must visit it at some point this summer.


Nom nom. Hope you had a great weekend lovelies!
xx

Tuesday 15 November 2011

A first time for everything

Today for the first time, I...
  • made homemade bread
  • played my part in a democracy (aka voted, did it early coz I can't on the day) 
Saw this pic, a print-out of this girls social media friends. It's kinda cool!
xx

Sunday 13 November 2011

Literature Love

IN MEMORIAM KURT VONNEGUT Jr.

Am loving being back in Hawke's Bay so far. Had a super weekend and a great start to the week thus far. My days have been as follows:
Friday - pack up, drive home, catch up with GPs, dinner, movie with sister (Paranormal Activity 2), bed
Saturday - gym with my buddy again (yay!), another movie with sister (All Good Things), shoe shopping, amazing turkish dinner with the bestie, movie in napier with the bestie's bf and friends (The Inbetweeners), bed
Sunday - sleeeeeeep in, reading of book, cooking of dinner, eating of dinner, watching of movie (The Ghost writer), chat to father, bed.

And today I started work which went well. Felt like I'd never left. And it made me happy that the dog at work remembered me. And that I remember how to make coffee's after not doing it for so long :)

But ohemgee these holidays i am soooooooo looking forward to delving into reading for leisure, somthing I haven't been able to do much of this year. I think I've read maybe 10 leisure books this year?! Hardly any. Especially considering I used to easily read a hundred. Im not this big book nerd though, don't get me wrong, but I love to curl up and read. This summer I am aiming to read at least another 10, and want to finally read Catch 22. What makes it even more exciting is that this coming weekend is the annual Lion's book sale which is one of the highlights of my year! It's this hugely popular second hand book sale that I attend every year and come away with some stunning finds. Dad is coming down for the weekend so will be coming with me and I cannot wait!

p.s. I have never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut who features in the above pic, I just like the pic!

Hope you are all having a great week :)
xx

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Freeeeeeeedom :)

Done with year 2 of university!!! Beyond stoked right now.
Can't wait to....
  • See my friends!
  • See my sister and grandparents!
  • Spend time outside in the lovely Hawke's Bay sun!
  • Go to the beach!
  • Eat strawberries!
  • Wear shorts and tshirts!
  • Have movie nights!
  • Go op-shopping!
  • Take millions of photos!
Oh, and I bought a cool top today to reward myself for getting thru exmas :) tehehe. Any excuse. It was only $15 though. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh and I'm totally going to read a book tonight. Just coz I can!

Summer 2011-2012, I cannot wait to get to know you :) x



Sunday 6 November 2011

Chicken, a Champion and Chills

Sup g's. Sorry I haven't blogged for a while, I've been occupied with studying for these very near exams!! I'm not looking forward to them but cannot wait for them to be over because that means moving back to the bay to be around friends and in the sun!! Had a pretty decent weekend, as I had two lovely visitors stay with me on Friday and Saturday night. One was the bestie and the other was a close friend of hers who was playing in a squash tourney. Friday night we watched the first of his squash games which was very entertaining because the guy he was playing got rather agro when he kept losing points. He kept yelling and even rugby-style drop-kicked his racket at one point. Lol at some people's inability to handle defeat. Saturday he played his two other games and ended up winning his draw! mean! (hence the 'champion' in the title hehe). We went to Nando's for dinner which was yumas then went and watched Paranormal Activity 3 at the cinema, which despite being very chill-inducing and creeeeeeeeepy, was soooo fun to watch because there was a group of big staunch maori boys next to us who were getting really freaked out! They were hilarious, and made it more comical which was a nice relief! The movie was really good though, very intense!! I recommend seeing it at the movies (even though it's on the big screen) because it's ironically less freaky than watching it at home, in the dark, when it's silent....
See if the trailer creeps you out!


Sadly my guests had to leave today :( but it was nice to have them here. I just wish I hadn't had the looming exams in the back of my mind the whole time. But ooooooooh well. Hope you've had a great weekend! 
xx

Sunday 30 October 2011

An oopsy daisy moment

I made the mistake of joining Tumblr yesterday. Right in the middle of exams. Idiot. It is insanely addictive. It's halloween today, I hope we don't have kids knocking on our door all night, coz I'm tryna study!!! Haha.
Oh and btw, if you've received weird emails from me, my account must have been spammed or something, so I'm sorry bout that.

Something that made me laugh today:

Oh, and my tumblr is putflowersinthemud.tumblr.com
check it out!! :)
xx

Thursday 27 October 2011

Inspiration

Into the study here, with exams beginning next week :o very much not keen for them again. Being cooped up inside all day going over lectures is not what I'd like to be doing with my time, but I really want to do well in exams so I gotta put the effort in. Just watched that 'take this lollipop' thing on facebook, have you seen it? It is sooooo creepy!! I was home alone when I watched it too, which was not ideal.
On my study breaks today I cleaned the house. lol. It was actually a nice way to get away from the desk!
Now that I'm pretty much done with studying for today (I tend to do it all day then take the night off, until exams are really close anyway), I want to share some of the pictures that have been inspiring me lately..

(via glamfuck)
(via taneamonique, dontstopnow-)
ilovedyouforever:

(via dirtylittlestylewhoree)

Also, I am feeling happy atm because I just did my eyebrows and they look good :)
hope you've had a good day
xx

Sunday 23 October 2011

Pure Happiness

So the All Blacks won the world cup. Pretty awesome. I think this picture epitomizes how everyone is feeling right about now. Love you All Blacks.

Cory Jane and Israel Dagg making snow angels in the confetti :)
xx
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