A Wishlist of Watches.

I have always watch from afar from other friends of mine, whilst they own a Marc by Marc Jacobs. Unfortunately, I can't really afford these pricey watches, since I'm jobless and need money!! Surely, I can ask them on my Christmas wishlist ;) or I can get off my butt and get my job - but no one seems to be hiring or no one wants to employ me because I don't have the skills :( 

I'm not one to break my the bank, but I do love these watches. The store, Fossil in Homebush DFO sells Marc by Marc Jacobs watches at good prices. 

But here it is,

#1: Marc by Marc Jacobs Leather Rose Gold Watch :) 

 

#2: Nixon Time Teller Matte Black Watch - a classic black watch is a must, I say!  

#3: Marc by Marc Jacobs White Leather Strap with Rose Gold steel case - love :)

I think I found a new love of watches. They're all pretty :) Each have their own style of wear.  

Love,

xo

Glebe Street Fair 2012

On Sunday 18 November, 2012, my mother and I attended the Glebe Street Fair. It was held along Glebe Point Road,  entrance from Parramatta road until Bridge road was closed off for this amazing day out. The weather was cool winds, hot and sunny with little clouds in sight! It was about a 1km walk to reach one end to another, parking was hard to find, unless you took the train/bus/walked to the markets. We drove as the other options of transportation, mother wasn't keen for. Parking was free where found :) 

We got there about 12pm, it opened at 10am and closed at 5pm. It was definitely packed!! 

This was only the beginning. We ended up eating first, we bought fresh lemonade at $4.50, the Pad Thai (siew) weren't from the market stalls though, forgot the name of the restaurant :( $5 for a small serving but it filled me up good! Fresh Turkish bread, only $3 and holy cow it was like 50cm long! Fresh yoghurt from Roaming Cow Dairies - we sampled these before buying a small 250g tub at only $2, and 900g for $6! Mini artisan pops from Liana Raine - Mum had the Apple Passionfruit and I had the Watermelon Lemonade, these were freshly made and served perfectly cold especially for a day like yesterday.

(Watermelon Lemonade & Apple Passionfruit)

There were so many market stalls, including Paperdoll, St Frock, Erin Louise, Get Frocked, Kaboodle Designs, Roger + Peach, Stevie & Me, WowThings - just to name a few fashion stalls. There were plenty of food going around, from the beginning, in the middle and to the end - Gourmet Gozleme, Roaming Cow Dairies, Simply Paella, Tall Grass Cane Juice and the Natural Dutch Pancake Co., to name a few. There was also, kids stalls, miscellaneous stalls, candy and cake stalls, toy stalls and homeware stalls. 

Mum bought a bamboo bowl and a serving plate, both $10 each! There were also small bamboo noodle bowls that were selling for 4 for $10! Bargain! She also bought a cute top for $10, interwoven wool with cool colours of purple and blue. The only thing she wanted to buy were the WowThings wallet. The wallets were $25 each, or 2 for $40. Mum bargained with the salesman for 5 for $100 - she got it :) she wanted to bargain even more, but I said that price was good. Five wallets and they were those ones where they don't rip and water resistant! Score :) 

The only things I bought were 3 for $10 bracelets (above), my mumma chose the first and last. I like them :) I also bought a flower tiara (below) - so sad, I didn't get the store name :( would definitely buy more, if only knew the name. 

It was an absolute lovely day at Glebe yesterday spent with mumma bear :) the people there were friendly, the food was yummy and the market stalls were endless (depending on what you're looking for!) 

There is always next year if you missed out this year! There are always Glebe Markets on every Saturday!

Love,
xo

Very late birthday celebration post.

My birthday was so long ago (September), but thought I'd blog it any way because I can't really think of anything right now. At the moment, there is nothing new. Besides that I have about 4 months of summer holidays to chill out and do nothing! That's a positive thing, and therefore don't have to think about any assessments or stress over uni until next year. But that's next year :) Uni is out, summer is upon us and my boyfriend is finally coming back from deployment. I have at least something to be excited for.

So, my birthday was celebrated by my two awesome friends from uni :) There was only three of us, and I were close to these two - Julia M and Natalie, at All Things Kirpy. 

We went to one of my favourite places - the Bavarian Bier Cafe, York Street!! Yay. My mouth was watering before we even got there. Excited as I was, we digged in with a round of drinks - beer and ciders. We were waiting for the arrival of Nat, but we couldn't wait to dig in our entree of Salt and Pepper Calamari with salad which had this absolute amazeballs sauce! Yum! Our orders were Nat - Bavarian Platter - sampling most of Bavarian's delicious goodies like sausages, pork belly, schnitzel; Julia - the Chilli Burger; and myself - the Uber shcnitzel served with rocket salad and chips!! I would definitely come back for more Uber schniztel!! Oh and drinks, Rekorderlig ciders for the two girls, I drank the beer. 

Forgot to mention, if you book with Bavarian for a birthday, like I did, I receive a complimentary shot :D Winning!! Nat and I celebrated with a shot each! We took a video of how excited we are, haha good times :D 

At our little cube space xo

My awesome birthday cupcake from Nat (bought at The Cupcake Bakery) and a cute basketball candle from Bavarian Bier Cafe - thanks guys! :)

Oktoberfest!

 Our celebratory shot each - Butterscotch for me with a low % of alc (since I drove us there! ha!) and Nat got like a 40% alc shot! She got balls ;) 

 Dessert :) Thanks Nat. Xo

It was surely was one of the best birthdays I've ever had. It's all thanks to two awesome people in my life :) I would definitely go back to Bavarian, even if it's not a birthday thing. You should check it out one time when you're here :) love you both xoxoxo

Done and dusted.

I finally handed in my very last university assignment for 2012! Hooray! Although it was handed in "late" by 15 minutes, a friend and I knew it wasn't "late" because there was no coloured paper obstructing to say that you are late to submit! That was a plus :) 
To celebrate, we had dinner at Pizza Hut, St Andrews (suburb), just off Campbelltown Road, onto Swettenham Road. It was a trek for us to find it since we're not around that area.

Can you believe those old skool Pizza Hut joints are still around? Limited places. 

When I was a little kid, I thought Pizza Hut restaurants were the bomb! 
It cost us tonight, $20.90 each for Adults to eat and drink. We were so hungry after our assignment hand in, we dived into the pizza bar. A variety of pizzas (although there wern't a lot of pizzas on tonight's menu), hot chips, cheese bread, garlic bread and pasta with three different sauces. There was also the drink station, the salad and the dessert bar!  

I would say the dessert bar had the soft serve ice cream, which in fact STILL tasted like when I ate it as a little kid :) I got the sprinkles and a slice of chocolate brownie. Natalie at All Things Kirpy had endless amounts of pizzas (fatty, lol) and marshmallows with her ice cream too!


We definitely enjoyed our dinner!! :)

What fast food restaurant places do you miss when you were a kid? (ie. Burger King? Pizza Hut?)
Or, what fast food restaurants / outlets would you like to see here in Sydney? (ie. Jolibee? In-N-Out Burger? Johnny Rocket :) ? IHOP? Taco Bell?)  

Love,
xo  

Need a break?

Need to chill out, lay back and relax in the sun? 
Yesterday at my uni campus, I just did that with my good friend, Natalie at All Things Kirpy
It was a beautiful day and didn't want miss out on the sunshine. We found a shady spot near the lake on campus. We thought we deserved a mini nap after the all nighter we pulled to complete an assignment! lol :)

 

In regards to your university campus, where do you chill out and relax?

Love, 

xo 

 

Nearly finished.. Keep going!

Yesterday we handed in our second last assignment for the year. A big one but we got it finished. A friend and I stayed up until 4am to finish this assignment by 9am. Do you ever feel like you're nearly finished with the assignment and you really just can't be bothered to make that effort anymore? That's how we felt by 3am. Getting the last touches and referencing your whole report was a drag. I was kept awake by eating some lollies and alarm clocks on my iPhone that kept reminding me that I needed to get through the night and finish the assignment! Twas good sometimes, especially when I would sneak in a 5 minute nap in between! But, we still have one other big assignment to go and one exam! I'll be working on it today, tomorrow and Monday. Then we can finally say we're finished for the year for University. Bring on the summer holidays!!! Yay :)

Last night was the first night I was able to sleep properly without having to do an all nighter. It was the most earliest time ever slept this year in 2012. I slept at 8pm like a baby, and there was nothing that could wake me up. Woke up to realize I slept in as well :) best feeling, especially for a gloomy, overcast Saturday. (ps. I never sleep in anymore on weekends, unless I'm at my boyfriend's place). But I got a good 14 hours of sleep!!! Winner!

 

This was only at 10:30pm 

I was already struggling to keep myself awake at this time. Knowing the night before, I also did an all nighter :(

 

 

Clearly, I was procrastinating on Instagram at this time! 12AM! 

I didn't need anymore alarm clocks after that since, I kept emailing and calling my friend who kept motivating me to keep doing it. Vice versa. 

Love,

xo

He's coming home.

I keep reminding my self that he's coming home very soon...

When he first left, it seemed like 6 months would take forever. Sometimes, 6 months did take forever :( I would struggle with University with assignments and concentrating because I couldn't do it anymore. I struggled with going to work and trying to be happy every day he wasn't here. I would exclude my self from friends and attending social events because I couldn't do it. I struggled at home because sometimes family can get a bit suss about your mood changes. I had massive mood swings every now and then. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night without knowing if he's okay. There was no one I could talk to about it. I struggled so much without him :( 

But the whole game changed when he gave me some exciting news that he'll be coming home sooner than planned. I didn't feed my self with the news yet, in case I would be disappointed that he wouldn't be coming home early. But he's talked to me about it over email that its definite now he's coming home in December 2012, rather than Feb 2013!! Hoorah! 

One night, I was looking at other people's photos through Instagram about their partners deployments and how excited they are to see them come home safely. I saw a post from one, where they're not only excited they're coming home but the homecoming. Most exciting part, where you get to see them for the first time after so many months. The feeling you get when you haven't seen your partner for so long! Best part. The emotions in your body is overwhelmed. You want to cry, laugh, never stop smiling, and more crying. It's like you can't wait for their hugs and kisses. To see them face to face yet again. To see them smile back at you, without it being through Skype or talking to them and hearing their voice without reading it through emailing. 

I can't wait for my boy to be home for Christmas! 


Love, 
xo

Promises.

A Soldier's Promise ...

I cannot promise you every night of my life. I cannot promise to be beside you for every difficult moment, every trial, and every hardship. In truth, I can promise you that I will not be with you for most. I will leave you at inconvenient times. I may miss the births of our children. Any special date to us may be tainted with the anniversary of the death of one of my friends. I will ask you to take over whatever life we have built together for months and years at a time. And will then crash back into that life that you have used your sweat and your tears and your heartache to keep together and try to take it back as I knew it before. I will shut you out at times because it will be the best way for me to hold it together at that moment. I will lie to you. I will tell you I don't know things when I do. I will not always tell you where I am going, when I will be back, or who I am with. I may not call you for weeks and months and you will not be able to call me. You will ask questions that I won't answer. You will know answers to questions that you will hope you never need. I will share things with my brothers that you will never understand. They will know things about me that you never will. They will be a support to me in some things that you cannot be. I will miss birthdays. I will miss anniversaries. I will have to get to know our children over and over again. I may need time to process things that seem natural to everyone else. It will seem that someone - or something - will always take precedence over you. You may lose me long before you ever thought possible. I will uproot you and ask you to re-establish our family anywhere in the world, in any season, at any time - over and over again. Sand and mud will be tracked through your halls from the boots I am too tired to take off. I will leave you when you beg me not to. I will stand at attention while you cry beside me. I will not turn my head and I will walk away. I will knowingly break your heart. And I will do it again - and again. I cannot promise you all of me. I cannot promise that to our children. I cannot promise you much of anything.

But if you will have me, I can promise that as I march away from you it is not without sharing your heartache. I promise you that every time I break your heart I will be breaking mine. Every time that I cannot answer you I will be protecting you. Whenever you want to call and you have no number to dial I will be wanting to do the same. I will protect everything that we have created together with every fiber of my being while you do the same back at home. I will honor you in everything - every moment that we are apart and every moment that I am with you. I will fight harder and push further knowing that I do so for you. I will see the faces of our children in every life that I protect. And I will carry you with me in everything until my sandy boots once again sit just inside our door.

 An Army wife's promise...
I cannot promise that I will not become frustrated when you leave me and the world seems to fall apart around me. I cannot promise that I will not curse those who sent you when the dryer breaks, and the transmission needs to be replaced, and the dog eats the couch all in the same week - most likely the week after you deploy. I cannot promise that the sand and mud that cakes my floor will not cause me to give you harsh looks and rude thoughts. I cannot promise that my heart will not be torn in twelve different ways when you march away from me. I cannot promise that I will not let my anger show when you refuse to answer questions. I cannot promise to understand why you share things with your comrades that you will not share with me. I cannot promise that there won't be times when my heartache makes its presence known before my pride can mask it. I cannot promise that I will not show my worry and my concern when it is best for you not to see it. I cannot promise to understand why you do so many of the things you do.

But I can promise that for as many tears of sadness and frustration and anger that are shed there will be double that of tears of pride. I can promise you that for every time you are away from me, I will learn to cherish the times that you are with me. In everything I will honor you and honor your sacrifice. I can promise to teach our children to do the same. I will use every moment that you are not with them to show them the amazing man that you are through my actions and my pride. I can promise that there will never be a night where you are not the subject of my final prayer and the keeper of my dreams. I promise to try to be understanding that there are many things I will never understand. I promise to keep you with me in everything and to do my best to keep grace in this life. I will be strong for you as you are strong for me and I will carry you with me in every moment until your sandy boots again sit just inside our door…

It never stops...

(These photos taken are not mine. )