Musings from the shower...

I'm off to spend the weekend with the BF tomorrow YAY :) 

I was just in the shower doing all of the things so that I look as good as possible for him and thinking about how I want to cook him my favorite tomato pasta for dinner and I got so embarrassed! I started thinking how silly I was being and how it's insane that I'm getting excited to cook for him because I'm a terrible cook!  He cooks and I do a mean set of dishes hahahaha

AND THEN I gave myself a mental slap and realised that this doesn't mean I'm turning into a 1950's housewife or that I'm not a modern woman at all or even that I'm acting like a 15 year old. It means that we have a good relationship I'd say. These days it's so frowned upon for someone to say that they're actually in love with their partner. To say that they want to look good for them and do things for no other reason than to make them happy. In our particular relationship these things have tended to fall within traditional gender roles which just adds an extra layer of weird.

I wish that it were socially acceptable to say these things out loud! I'm just so sick of all this weird feeling that it's only ok to speak about a man if it's negative or sexual. I'm done with it and just so I'm not a hypocrite here goes....

I'm a modern , educated woman who makes sure that she shaves her legs and cuts her toe nails before spending the night. I make a point of trying to enjoy some of what he enjoys and I always tell him how handsome he is. I love him and it's not cute or sweet it's just how it is. Giving those things to him does not diminish me in anyway because he lights up my life in completely random ways all the time. We work because we're always trying to impress each other and it's awesome!

... SO THERE! 

Hahahahahahah Rant officially done

xoxo

The Jar of good memories

My friend Anoushka made this jar for me for Christmas... well, she decorated and purposed it for me I'm pretty sure her glass blowing skills aren't that great! 

The idea is that I write down all the moments that either make me smile or are ones I want to remember and store them in the jar over the year. At the end of the year it will be really nice to read them and reminisce about all the great things that happened during the year.

This photo was taken on January 20... it's safe to say my life is pretty good at the moment. I think they range from "Mum cooked an awesome meal" to "Tony came to have lunch with me and it was so sweet it nearly made me cry"!! hahahaha!  So, it's  smaller things AND larger things but all things that make me grateful and appreciative of all of the people I have.

I cant wait to read through them all at the end of the year but I think more to the point I cant wait for all of the moments that I know are going to be filling that jar to overflowing between now and then :)

xoxo

So I'm back!!!

The last time I posted was almost 4 and a half months ago! 

That time has changed my life a lot. I have done heaps, seen so many things and come to some new conclusions. I don't remember what I was going on about pre blog-break. I feel like it was a life time ago and I'll probably seem different and maybe at odds with who I was. For most of the last 4 1/2 months  I've had no internet access at home and writing isn't really something I wanted to do in a public space.

So now I'm all internet ready and full of beans to have another go at keeping this baby flowing. You can see by the Instagram and Good Reads links in the side bar what I've been up to and hopefully from now on you will be able to read all about it here as well. 

I have been lucky enough to see cool shows, listen to cool music, read some awesome books and attend fun events. I'm coming up on one year with my boyfriend  and I'm about to move into my first ever apartment. 2015 seems to hold so much promise that I'm sure I'll have a LOT of material. I have wanted to write about the things I've been up to so much but I'm not going to look back it's all about moving forward baby! 

Bring.IT.OOONnnnn 

xoxo