tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55156846344757852562024-03-28T20:29:41.066-07:00Unique Blog of AwesomeCindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-42716573462987923462014-01-12T16:37:00.000-08:002014-01-12T22:47:40.487-08:00Well, that was awkward.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Billasaurus has been doing renovations for over 12 months- consequently we have been living in a construction site which has had it's interesting moments. (Last night I slept in our house without a front window. Yup. Fun.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Billasaurus is a plumber he is able to do a lot of the work himself, and where he can't, his group of friends trade favours. (Work favours; get your mind out of the gutter!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This means there has been a plethora of tradespeople at my home day in, day out. Some days, the house is covered in dust and I discover my vintage teacup sets have smashed because some bright spark has decided they will jackhammer near the wall where they are stored. Or they decide that today is the day they all want to use the grinders/tile cutters/some other weird saw things when it's exam study day for uni. But there are also days when there are shirtless men toiling and sweating around my house, so I mean you win some, you lose some.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've gotten to know them all quite well, and one in particular has introduced us to his heavily pregnant wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, this chap's wife had the baby which is all very exciting. Billasaurus told me they had had a little boy, so I went out and go a little blue outfit, toy and wrote them out a card congratulating them on the birth of their newborn son.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Billasaurus was going to see the new family before I was, so I passed on the gift for him to give to the family. He came back raving all about how he got to hold the new baby; Samantha Jane was so tiny!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SAMANTHA JANE?! Turns out, they have a healthy baby girl. Not boy. Girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am absolutely mortified. Bill swears he told me they had a daughter, and I'm vehement he said son. I specifically remember him saying it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why would I have bought the blue and green onesie if he said daughter?! I specifically congratulation them on their son in the card, too :/</span><br />
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<br />Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-23564741530093671882014-01-11T00:50:00.000-08:002014-01-11T00:50:33.316-08:00Mother Time Comes For Us All<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here I was, basking in my youth, frolicking about in the summer sun and living in my prime. Living in ignorance, and yes it was bliss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I was actually brushing my hair which has become a rarity during my summer holidays. (Don't judge me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The light shone directly on to my dark brown locks, but I did a double-take when one of those hairs glittered back at me in the mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I HAVE A GREY HAIR. I'M TWENTY-FUCKING-SIX.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd like to tell you I'm above age insecurities, and that I recognise that one little baby hair that's come up grey doesn't make me old any more than the time I dyed my hair fire-engine red made me Ronald McDonald.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look, I didn't think I was invincible. I knew it would happen, and before it did I wasn't particularly dreading the day it did. I just wasn't expecting to spot a grey so bloody early!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Should I go on a mid-life crisis? Perhaps I'll trade my sensible Nissan Pulsar in for a sexy Lexus, with a topless buff man feeding me grapes from the passenger seat. He should definitely be younger than I am- so many middle age men live by 'You're only as old as the person you're feeling', so surely they are on to something. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just hanging around, waiting for me to pick him up in my fancy new ride.<br />So you're telling me he is older than 26? Be quiet you, with your facts. This is my midlife crisis fantasy, not yours.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But alas; I've grown quite fond of Billasaurus, and as a uni student can't afford anything other than my trusty 2 litre Pulsar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you got greys yet? You can tell me, I'm a trusted elder now. I'm wise.</span></div>
Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-24912166655113473362014-01-07T02:49:00.002-08:002014-01-07T02:49:14.458-08:00Workin 9-5<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I resigned from my job of 6 years today. Nerve wracking stuff. On to greener employment pastures in 2014! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't start my new job until 20th Jan, which leaves me plenty of time to plan dream work wardrobes I have neither the money nor figure to buy. But a girl can dream! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my first post with anything fashion related. Was it bearable, or leave it to the fashion pros? </span></div>
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Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-60505207404041703932014-01-03T05:09:00.000-08:002014-01-03T05:09:31.039-08:00Pavlova: Not supposed to taste like sweet, warm egg?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at me, posting and shit. (Oh, I swear. Did you forget that? Sorry.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was quite the baker over the Christmas period. That sounded like a brag, but I didn't mention <i>what kind</i> of baker I was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It all started when my Mum said 'Can you bring desserts this year, I can't be bothered. And you are the only one who cares about dessert so it's on you.' With that kind of enthusiasm, what could I say. Only dear Mum could get away with that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cue a week later, and Bill's Mum calls. 'Could you bring desserts to Christmas lunch? I'm not much into sweet things, and you made that thing last time so well.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. I appreciate the flattery, it will get you everywhere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. 'That thing' I made last time was a flipping Chocolate Ripple Cake. I don't have the heart to tell her how easy it is. It's better that she thinks I'm the amazing dessert wizard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm an eager to please butthole sometimes, and I also overestimate my actual kitchen skills, and lack a healthy respect for <i>what can actually get done</i> in the space of a day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did I just buy one of those pav bases like everyone else? Or did I buy one of those stupid looking egg things, that my Mum always seems to have banging around her cupboard despite never actually making the pav herself? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>NO OF COURSE I DIDN'T.</b> I decided (and touted to everybody, unwisely) that I could do it all myself, from scratch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this is how I ended up taking on the responsibility of baking the following for Christmas day:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Large pavlova for my family (to feed 15)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Large pavlova for Bill's family (to feed 11)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Christmas cookie platter x2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Fruit platter x2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Alcholic chocolate ripple cake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Christmas bark for part of Christmas gift </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Butterscotch Pie (also known as the devils pie; finicky, has a million ingredients, and is a much treasured tradition<span style="font-size: x-small;"> read: don't fuck it up</span>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Far out, brussel sprout. How do I get myself into this. Also: I began all of this at 9pm Christmas Eve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Verdict: I pored over the Donna Hay recipe book to meticulously make the first meringue. It ended up with weird sugary bits on the bottom, whatevs. I can hide a multitude of sins with cream. After spending so much time on the meringue, I rested on my laurels and managed to fuck up whipping cream. Seriously?! So I put some raspberries on, to try and distract. No such luck. Cream was clearly separated. Fucking cream, trust it to pull this shit. You had one job cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, the recipe said to wait until it was cold to taste test. But your rules can't control me Donna Hay! So I taste tested while the pav was warm...and it tasted like wet, sweet, warm egg white omelettes. With strawberries. Makes me gag a little thinking about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much better. Except the pavlova weeped, and the baking paper is completely stuck to the bottom. So what did I do? Just cut around that shit so no one can see it. Let them deal with it upon eating. By then they've already got it in their bowls and can't put it back! Genius. Then threw a bunch of fruit on to distract from the paper. I learnt that from Constantino. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made this cake for morning tea today with my sister in law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a big deal, but I've gone and done it: I'm adding a new rule to feminism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the old ones still stand; Women should be able to vote, have the right to control their own bodies, shouldn't slut shame other women.....but today, I've added a new one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't ask a woman who has baked for you if said baked goods come from a packet mix. Don't be that woman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basically, if I assembled the ingredients and stirred it, I baked it. Lovingly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And of course it is from a packet mix you silly bird. But I don't want to tell you that, because once again you should acknowledge that I am the amazing dessert wizard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I turned my back and this guy had managed to eat the chocolate melts I left on the coffee table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there you have it. Baking fails and successes, and a pug who is currently trying to get pity from me because his belly hurts from eating far too many melts. Trust me, it will only last an hour max. Then he'll go back to trying to eat the chair leg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I was joking.</span>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-57412981880861043562013-12-31T23:44:00.002-08:002013-12-31T23:44:59.320-08:00I did not get mauled by a bear in 2013<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last post was in February. <b>FEBRUARY</b>. That's 10 months ago- I can count good. </span><br />
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A lot could have happened in 10 months. I could have-</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">written a novel</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">explored a deserted island and convince villagers to make me their queen</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">built my own home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gone on a round the world trip</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stumbled across a scientific breakthrough</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>I did none of those things</u>. None. Beginning to reassess what on earth I have been doing with my life- I feel the real missed opportunity here is not becoming a queen on a deserted tropical island. I was practically created for eating peeled grapes and being carried around on a golden throne. The most tragic part is that this fact is not acknowledged by anyone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So...what did I get up to in 2013?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilfully ignored this blog</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got excited everytime I got blog comments, only to log in and realise of course they were all spam</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In related news, atleast now I know how that single mothers secret to a flat belly, and the all natural way to increase my penis size</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moved out of my ridiculous hobbit hole I called my bedsit, and into Billasaurus's house</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrated my 3 year anniversary with Billasaurus</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Went camping twice (trying to be encouraging on the partners hobbies you see)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saw one of my favourite bands, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes live</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Went to Soundwave and saw the old faves Blink 182, The Offspring, Metallica, Linkin Park, Paramore etc</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Managed to settle into domestic life without killing Billasaurus or having myself killed by him</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new niece was born- little Seville!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I completed my second year of my Bachelor of Primary Education</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I travelled to Vancouver, Canada to as part of a university program to teach abroad</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tutored 12 students with learning difficulties each week</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a new job, that I will be able to start in early 2014</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Survived the Geelong Earthquake of 2013 (Hint: Billasaurus's farts have moved the earth more)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now i'm grasping at straws. Best wishes for everyone for an excellent 2014- I look forward to following all of your blogs!</span></div>
Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-80914002000865042162013-02-27T22:21:00.000-08:002013-02-27T22:21:17.129-08:00Don't judge me by my polish. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just a quickie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No seriously, I just had one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've had BioSculpture nails for about a year and I yoyo from loving them sick, to being very tempted to buy a Luminail/Gellish/Shellac kit and do it myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm going to Soundwave tomorrow. Being the rockstar I am, I went to the salon (sounds so wanky) with a very clear idea of how I wanted my nails to look like. Which is unusual because I normally stare at the colour wheel for the whole time it takes her to shape my nails, crippled by indecision, before I finally point to a random colour and regret it immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I told the nail lady and she looked at me incredulously and said, 'No. Black is a winter colour. It'll look tacky.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bitch please. I don't say anything about your Barbie pink with love heart feature nails mani, so time to get down off your high horse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Plus, I don't care if it's not winter yet, i'm lovin' them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Have you ever gotten 'tude from someone in the beauty industry who you are paying? I'm not saying they should be subserviant and not have opinions, but I think if I want a particular look and want to pay for it, that she should probably just do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Belated Valentines Wrap-up post time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Billasaurus is a manly man who loves his meat. Mind out if the gutter, people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ages back on Pinterest (where else?) I saw instructions on how to make a Bacon Bouquet. The instructions were a bit fiddly and required drilling holes in the bottom off a muffin pan, which seemed like a lot of mucking around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Obtain bacon (I also used prosciutto to give different sized "roses".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Pierce bottom of bacon roll with toothpicks (that have been soaked in water) in a X fashion, keeping bacon secure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Pop onto a baking tray and into the oven on a high heat. I didn't fine these but just took then out when they crisped up and my house smelt extra "bacony"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Wait until bacon cools. The fat from bacon helps the rose shape seal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Remove the silk flowers from their stems </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8.Place bacon roses into the remaining stub</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9. Give to your one and only!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Billasaurus had the most confused look on his face when he saw me from afar, holding flowers out to him. His face turned to delight when he realised though, and was very sweet.</span><br />
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Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-89407035462566263992013-02-24T19:38:00.001-08:002013-02-24T19:38:55.755-08:00Harvest Picnic at Hanging Rock<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My long-suffering boyfriend (it feels weird saying boyfriend, like im a 14yo?) Billasaurus is alot of things- hilarious, patient, kind....but one thing he isn't is a planner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In January on a random trip to the beach, he asked me if I wanted to go away for a long weekend. Quickly my mind raced to Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, or perhaps Cairns....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bill's mind was quite set on going to Woodend. What? Where on earth is Woodend? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turns out, it's only an hour and a half from home and that Bill was dying to see Hanging Rock in the nearby Macedon Ranges, having gone there as a little kid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So in January, I repeat JANUARY, Bill said he would <em>plan everything.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Fast forward to this Saturday morning and we were all packed and ready to go. For weeks I had been wondering about what kind of amazing events and accommodation he had planned, but didn't dare ask and ruin the suprise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This might I add was killing me, because I have to know everything. Lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We arrive in Woodend, pull up at an interesting looking brewery that the sign said also had accommodation, and I thought I had it all figured out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Until Bill turns to me and says, 'Should I have booked accommodation? It's looking pretty crowded around here.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">LOL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The following hours consisted of us driving around to all accommodation places in Woodend, and finding out there mere a multitude of weddings on in the area and something called the Harvest Picnic on at the Hanging Rock tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We moved on to neighbouring Kyneton, where we finally found a room at a pretty dodgy motel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's funny- in a past life that would have really bothered me, but I have learnt when you love someone you can just laugh and even enjoy the adventure of last minute scrambling for a bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And so on a beautiful sunny Sunday, we found ourselves at the Hanging Rock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have never seen the film, but have read the book (albeit a million years ago).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Over the years I had heard how haunting and that the silence is eerie...well not so much, because the weekend we picked to go it was hosting <a href="http://www.harvestpicnic.com.au/" target="_blank">The Age Harvest Picnic</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Becayse we arrived quite early, (far too early for lunch, anyway) we decided to hit The Rock first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are a few different walks you can do- one that goes around the base, another shorter scenic walk and of course, The Summit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was a very hot day. I'm not going to lie- I was hoping he was going to want to do the base or scenic walk, but of course I know him well enough to know we were always going to be doing The Summit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The thing is about The Summit walk is that is almost entirely uphill. Funny that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were a few moments I cursed my fitness levels, and also my shoe choice. (New Witchery plain ballet flats proved to not have much in the way of grip on the bottom, which ensured some hilarious rock-slipping moments on our descent.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you been to Hanging Rock? We recommend it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(My muscles are a little bit stiff today, but it was so worth it!)</span>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-40289777678529037972013-02-13T16:09:00.003-08:002013-02-13T16:10:47.287-08:00Happy Love Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ive organised something a little bit special for Billasaurus this year, which I shall report back to you about once I know how it goes down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in the meantime, if you are feeling romantic and are interested in some early 2000's nostalgia, </span><a href="http://uniqueblogofawesome.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/how-we-met-happy-love-day.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is how Billasaurus and I met.</span></div>
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Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-22992942319853897572013-02-12T13:00:00.000-08:002013-02-12T13:00:01.753-08:00Be a Mexican, Not a Mexican't!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please be very, very careful when reading out that post title. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three of my close friends have birthdays only a week apart, so naturally every year there is triple-the-fun shindig in their honour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, the three amigos decided to (quite logically) choose the theme of the party to be Mexican.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Naturally, my first thought was this costume-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Billasaurus, however patient the man is, drew a line at the taco suit. I got it in my head that there was no point in going alone as a taco, because really, who ever just has one taco? Unfortunately he wasn't so keen, and considering ive forced him to dress as the worlds tallest Gremlin before, I figure I'm still ahead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So instead I went as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo">Frida Kahlo</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love the vibrant colours she used in her self-portraits, and her style. I think its pretty badass too not to pluck your monobrow and 'stache too- why should women feel ashamed of something that is quite normal? What percentage of men actually give a fuck? Definitely not the majority.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The night began with pre-drinks at my tiny little flat (single file only, standing room but plenty of booze) drinking simply put, the beverage of The Gods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not joking- it tastes like magic and unicorns! To be more specific, it tastes just like the clear gummi bears! Where has this been all of my life?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My skills with eye pencil drawing monobrows must be my hidden talent, because all night men were whispering and giggling in my direction. It was quite disconcerting, because I forgot that this little gem was painted upon my face. To be honest most of the time I was thinking, 'GOSH I KNOW IM NOT A PRETTY GIRL, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO FLAT OUT LAUGH IN MY FACE!!!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Der. They were looking at the giant fuzzy caterpillar perched atop my brow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was actually quite the conversation starter, and there was one gentleman (I use this term loosely) who was obsessed with stroking my monobrow even though there was no actual hair there, and offered for me to stay the night at his residence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I got the impression he wasn't keen on my despite the brow, but BECAUSE of it. Different strokes for different folks, hey?</span>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-79702759681431861482013-02-12T04:50:00.000-08:002013-02-12T04:50:51.424-08:00Chickpeas: They'll get you!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh dear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a quick, TMI post (aren't they all around here?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lunch on 12WBT today was leftovers of last nights dinner- Spanish Chickpeas with Onion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ABSOLUTELY STINK. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Extreme gas warning. Feeling thankful that Billasaurus didn't stay over tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First weigh in tomorrow though, maybe I can blow away some of this weight, bahahaha.</span>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-46231392081867442052013-02-11T02:08:00.003-08:002013-02-11T02:08:28.077-08:0012WBT: I'm doing it.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I've gotten through day one of the 12WBT pretty well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear not, I won't be updating you on every.single.thing that passes my lips during the next 12 weeks, because let's face it, noone but me gives one single shit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, even I would lose interest, and im the one doing it. Lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night before I had officially started I was thinking about some possible hurdles for me. I think if I can identify things that are a challenge just maybe I can be prepared to get over them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So for today, I am pretty pleased that I-</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Actually prepared and cooked an evening meal</strong> (We've covered before that living alone, I prescribed to the school of thought that said assembling some prosciutto, crackers and hommus was dinner.)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are unfamiliar with the 12WBT, the basis premise is that Michelle Bridges is your personal saviour for the next 12 weeks</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. The program includes a full nutrition and exercise plan, and weekly viedos and tasks from MB herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The meals were pretty good today! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My favourite was the Fish & Spanish Chickpeas tonight. To be honest I was sceptical that this would be delicious and or filling, but MB delivered. The dinner was basically sauteed onion and garlic with a can of chickpeas, then some baby spinach, cumin and paprika with grilled fish and crumbled feta on top. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Colour me suprised MB, you've done it. I would happily eat that meal, whether I was watching calories or not.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, it's been a while since Ive actually cooked :S</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In non weight-loss news, I got a great bargain on the weekend. I few months ago at Myer I saw a great dinner set by Maxwell & Williams in their 'Putting On The Ritz' range. I so sorely needed one (I've got the most mis-matched plates going on) but being a broke uni student I put it off. Disappointed I didnt have the $149.95 spare, I soldiered on with the jolly assortment in my cupboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I happened to be a-wandering Myer on Saturday, and they had the very same set for only $43.95! You better believe I snapped that baby up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It reminds me of the heavy ceramic one my Nanna used to have when I was a little tacker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank-you everyone for your kind words and support on this little weight loss journey. 'Tis very, very appreciated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hopefully I can update you on some great progress soon!</span><br />
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Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-15859820170247719472013-02-10T15:41:00.000-08:002013-02-10T15:41:52.653-08:00Bring It On!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What does one do on the weekend before the Michelle Bridges Body Transformation starts?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd love to post that I weighed, measured, got myself organised and took it easy. Alas, that's really not my style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday night Billasaurus and I went to a world-famous in Geelong Bavarian theme restaurant, <a href="http://www.rheingold.com.au/" target="_blank">The Rheingold</a>. It has stayed the same Im sure for the last 30 years- the same pig on the spit that gets paraded around to accordian music and shouts of ZIGGA ZAGGA ZIGGA ZAGGA HEY HEY HEY!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main drawcard of course is that for $70, there is unlimited roast dinner (and generous servings of crackling!) and unlimited beer/wine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a great night dancing to cheesy pop tunes with friends, and I can now say my life is complete having heard 'Gangnam Style' sung by a German guy on an electric keyboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The exercise though, hooly dooly. I am currently COMPLETELY inactive, so to go to 6 days a week full on exercising will be a big jump! I have decided that sticking to the diet is my main priority, as I know I have lost significant amounts of weight in the past by making diet changes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plan hopefully is that once im feeling confident about my new diet, and have gotten used to the meal planning, weighing and measuring and preparation, I will then up the ante on my exercise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No pleading apologies about IM SORRRYYYY IVE BEEN SO BUSY READERS, PLEASE FORGGIIIVVVVEEE MEEE because really- I'm sure I will at some point do this again, and also noones lives were adversely affected by my extreme delay in posting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Except for mine. Missed having a little place to communicate, and having a (admittedly modest) cheer squad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've still been reading your blogs- oh I'm creepy like that. I turned lurker. I drew the line at anonymous comments though if it's of any comfort to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm fat. We've covered this. Death level fat. (My doctor says morbidly obese, but I have always been dramatic.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been less fat in my life, and I think I was happier that way. So, I'm going to try and be less-fat again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ive heard alot of malarky about this thing. I like that I can follow online, and that she spells out every morsel that should be passing my lips. I am not perfect- I don't know if I can do this. But- I do know that I owe it to myself to not give up before I begin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so, readers- if I have any left that is- would you be interesting in coming along on a journey through space and time (Wait- I think thats The Mighty Boosh.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't want to blog about it if people aren't interested. Weight loss talk can get monotonous, and eye stab inducing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Would you be interested in coming along on my journey from Death Fat to Less Fat?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Heres a little blast from the past- remember the Crazy Frog? No- how about Hamster Dance? As annoying as they were/are they serve as little time capsules- I still remember where I was when I heard that ridiculous Ketchup Song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I was incredulous...and then slowly and obediently raised my hands and shimmied whilst singing along in broken and garbled Spanish (a language which to this day I do not speak.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I said a HEY HA...something something arother BOOGIE BOOGIE SOMETHING A BEAT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I moved house. I am now the proud tenant of a very tiny bedsit, which despite it turning out to have many flaws (of which we shall explore in further posts), is all mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What you see below is my spacious, open plan kitchen. And when I say spacious, you know I really mean it literally has no cupboards or a pantry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(These pics are how the place was the day I moved in. I've since changed things around a bit.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">*My orange benchtop brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like...<span style="color: purple;">Wtf is that</span>?* </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I may have mentioned previously, the last tenant was kind enough to leave the flat fully furnished. I took over responsibility of the furniture and thank goodness I could get rid of some of it, because alot was broken. Drawers without casters, a smashed glass door in the buffet, no biggie. Especially since I didnt have to pay a cent for it. But there were some real doozies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The sight you are beholding in the second pic is of my sweeping, airy loungeroom. I say airy, because its not really sealed. I put on a candle the other day and the <span style="color: purple;">wind blew it out from outside</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">That's my little flat! Tiny, tiny, tiny. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have an outdoor toilet. You read correctly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Calm down, it's not one of those drop pits you may have witnessed on long bushwalks or Scout camps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But it does have a ridiculously cold concrete floor, and sometimes in the mornings I roll around in bed trying to ignore my screaming bladder because its so cold, and I look furtively around the room at all vessels big enough to hold my pee before finally deciding that is disgusting, giving up and doing that weird GOTTA PEE hobble/hop to the bathroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm classy like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Living solo is a new challenge. Turns out, cooking for one is a whole lot of effort. You know whats easier? Eating hommus and cheese at 9pm in your undies watching Gossip Girl. Uh.... not that I would know what that's like. I was purely speculating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also, in a case of last person EVER to jump on the bandwagon, I have started watching Gossip Girl. Oh no, not at the most recent season with all of you with foxtel, but I have been renting the seasons from my local Ye Olde Video Ezy. How reminiscent, how hipster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The reason for this is that the antenna at my abode is..atrocious. Not quite sure that the issue is there, but I can only get reception for Channel 28. I am exceptionally up to date on Russian news, despite my lack of comprehension on what the dickens its all about. I've also seen enough world movies (aka thinly veiled dirty flicks) to last me a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So Gossip Girl Season 1 & 2 and Greys Anatomy Season 1 & 2 have become my new friends. Even so much so that I watch episodes late into the night and wake up thinking, 'Is there enough time to watch GG whilst I eat my breakfast?!' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But Chuck and Blair! She said I love you! He didnt! He left her stranded in Europe! She started dating a Lord! He FINALLY said it back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Don't you dare tell me what's happening in the most recent series-I have been so close to peeking at IMDB so many times for future Chuck/Blair shenanigans, but so far have resisted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Shall keep you updated on the happenings in my crazy little flat. </span>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-73441542036626650692012-07-11T01:29:00.001-07:002012-07-11T01:31:41.936-07:00GOT ITI got approved for the property! Thanks for all of your tips, they worked a treat.<br />
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Whilst I'm here... The GOT IT also refers to the CR Chantal satchel I posted about. Couldn't help myself, I obsessed for days over it and have used it every day since it came to live with me. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My <strong>ABSOLUTELY FAVOURITE</strong> thing about having a blog is tracking the way my readers find me. I have been getting a lot of google searches lately resulting in followers, but its the things they are searching for that literally cracks me up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I bring to you my illustrious list of <strong>Top 3 Google Search Terms to find my Blog</strong> so far-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><u>1. PENGUIN ATTACK</u></strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I assume my blog comes up due to </span><a href="http://uniqueblogofawesome.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/day-i-found-penguin-in-suburbs.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this post</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, but crikey, do people think there are killer penguins just waiting in bushes and wheely bins waiting to unleash their fury?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2<strong><u>. SPANKING JAPAN</u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You want to spank the whole country? Or just hoping to find a resident being spanked? Finding my blog should be a lesson to the person looking for the spanking to be much, much more specific in their searches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><u>3. HAIRY LOVE</u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because furries need love too, don't you know. And so do men who are overdue for their back waxing. Speaking of, I saw a man in Daylesford on the weekend at a spa with his shirt removed in the waiting room. (Odd in itself, right?) Anywho, this man was quite blessed in the chest, back and shoulder hair category- to the point I could see the grain of what direction it was growing in, could see it swirl around on his shoulders, and the light shone through it. There was a whole lot of hair going on, which for some reason fascinates me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was early for my appointment and am notorious for making inane chatter when nervous, trying to fill awkward silences but in turn making it more awkard by blurting things out inappropriately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The man caught my eye and I said to him, 'Is this your first time?' thinking that he was getting his back waxed for the first time because it was so, so hairy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He looked at me with a puzzled look on his face and said- 'No- I get it done every three weeks?'</span></div>
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<br />And so, my dear blog friends, looking forward to seeing some more freaky searches coming soon. Oh, the things people google in the privacy of their own home, with the capacity to delete their browsing history.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have I mentioned I have been temporarily living with my parents?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now this was all well and good in theory whilst I was jet-setting around the world<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"> (not quite around the whole world, but 4 different Asian countries which I feel was a fair effort in a short period) <span style="color: black; font-size: small;">but is less ideal in practice.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My parents are wonderful people, but they are my parents and they frustrate me. They're 72 and 62, so are well and truly allowed to be a touch grumpy and irritable. They are also at the stage of life where their grandkids are visiting all the time, whooping it up loudly every day and making it impossible to study. All perfectly age-appropriate things to be happening in your home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not so appropropriate for myself and my studies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The problem is, being a student, I quite enjoy paying only a small amount of rent. I'm partial to the measly portion, shall we say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Realistically, I work part-time and can't afford a whole unit by myself. Or I can- but when things crop up like time to buy school books, my rego is due, or I have time off for work placements I will be in a spot of trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that leaves either a sharehouse or moving out with Billasaurus Rex. I'm not ready for that quite yet- I would like more time of being a "grown-up" by myself before I hitch myself to someone elses wagon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found a bedsit advertised in my local paper ridiculously cheap. Like- $50 a week cheaper than any other <em>sharehouse</em> listing in the suburb that would be the most convenient for me to live in!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a quick google search on what on earth a bedsit was, and an even quicker tour of the illustrious residence, I have completed an application form and currently have my fingers, toes and all other bits crossed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Basically the property is at the back of someones home, but with its own driveway and entrance. The only thing I would have to share with the owner is the clothesline- there is even a fence between the main property and the bedsit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bedsit is in essence a large bedroom with a kitchen built in there, so space will be an issue but to have privacy? Worth it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is even more exciting is that the tenant in there in the moment is moving interstate and is willing to leave <strong>ALL OF HER FURNITURE!</strong> That's right, fridge, freezer, wardrobe, kitchen buffet, table, couch, pantries, breakfast bench stools, TV, DVD Player, computer desk....<strong>all of it</strong>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not all to my taste, but if its free and I know it fits in the bedsit, I'd be an idiot to knock it back. If some of the items really bother me later on down the track I can always replace or find them another home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bathroom is a separate building only half a meter from the rest of the bedsit. It could get <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">VERY</span> </strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>COLD</strong> </span>in the morning going that half a meter to the toilet and shower, but no big deal.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only stumbling block- is that there were a giant swarm of other people applying. It is literally one of the cheapest rentals in all of Geelong so competition is fierce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made sure to call and enquire about the property with the real estate company, and had a pleasant chat with the Property Manager. I went to the inspection with the application already filled out and a cover letter explaining why I would be an excellent tenant. The decision will be made on Monday or Tuesday.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-8574825167432333132012-06-30T17:18:00.000-07:002012-06-30T17:18:50.013-07:00Handbag Desperation<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh gosh, I want this bag so badly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It's the perfect size</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It's made of pony hair and leather, and I don't own anything made from pony hair! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Could always do with more leather.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It's in a perfect shade for autumn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Wouldn't I look jaunty and sassy flouncing around uni with this baby</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It's <span style="color: red;">on sale!</span> $50 off!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It's the same colour as my hair. Matchy-matchy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I could pat my handbag because it has real hair on it. I can't pat any of my other handbags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I can't <em>really</em> afford it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I've already bought 3 handbags in the last month</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I have another Country Road bag on layby yet to be picked up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Where on earth am I going to keep it? Running low on bag storage. Or I was, 6 handbags ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Isn't it bit creepy to pat your handbag?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Is this really a handbag I could wear for years?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It's not really big enough for any of my uni stuff?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How do they even get the hair from the pony, or should I not ask?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First things first- I am not a so called 'fat activist', don't write about the plight of being plus sized, and am not a member of the 'happy at any size' community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, I am fat. This is not me being self-depracting. I'm a size 16-18 and have bounced up and down in weight ranges for all of my teenage and adult life. Am I ultimately happy with my body? No, I'm not. That doesnt mean that others with a similar body shouldn't be- it just means I would prefer my body at a different size. I'm not hugely depressed about the body I have- whilst I am obese, I am also a kind, generous, and intelligent being who is worth more than what others perceive of my appearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also don't mind if you feel that last sentence makes me conceited- if you can't toot your own horn, noone else will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ENTER RANT. (Oh, did you think that was it? You're in for a treat.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was recently at a birthday party. That's not the shock- I have friends. Don't act so suprised. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My best friend P's boyfriend Jay (still with me?) was watching me closely on the dance floor. I noticed he would look at me, and then back at the Birthday Girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is also where I have to announce I am a shithouse dancer. It doesnt stop me from getting up on that dancefloor, even sometimes being the first one on it, and doing whatever moves I can pull out. Oh the robot, the busstop, gosh even the sprinkler are coming on out. No holds barred- I have a great time too. I look like a drowning oompa-loompa with the flaily arms, but hey, you cant be good at everything, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I figure he is just admiring (read: mocking) my dancing so don't really think twice about it. That is until I flop on the chair next to J, exhausted from all of the arm swinging, leg twisting dance action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Hey Cindy...." J remarks slowly, leaning towards me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>"Birthday Girl doesn't know she is fat, does she?"</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He goes on to explain that he means that "Birthday Girl hasn't clicked that she is fat yet. She is still flirting, wearing provocative clothes, and is loud and over confident. You act different to her- is it because you've been fat longer? You know you are fat and act like you should."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, I see. So what you meant was that because the BIRTHDAY GIRL has put on weight, she should alter her whole personality to match the hatred the general populace has on anyone who is larger than average. She should stop flirting with men, HELL, she better not even talk to them, because she is now not worthy of even friendship or a laugh. Of course she should alter her personal style, and become an introvert because the crux of the matter is that now she is overweight, she should feel a deep shame about her very existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I'm sorry</strong>- I must have missed this part in the clause when I expanded out of a size 14 and received my official fat card in the mail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst he was trying to assure me that I act "accordingly" to my size, all he did was push his view that overweight women (Of course, I note his theory mentioned nothing on men, despite 1 in 4 men being overweight in Australia) should acknowledge that they are not only no longer attractrive, but are generally not wanted. Their opinions are invalid, their experiences void, and no matter what unique thoughts or feelings she may have they are irrelevent if men do not find her sexually attractive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What does one even say to someone like that?!</span></div>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-258647413444795392012-06-21T17:40:00.001-07:002012-06-21T17:42:00.359-07:00And the winner is.....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thankyou for everyone who have entered in my little giveaway. I have received lots of great feedback and suggestions to bring you posts that hopefully you will want to read!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I drew the winner last night (and included everyone who entered last minute) using a random number generator, after assigning each comment a number in order of comments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without further ado...the winner is....</span><a href="http://autumn-castle.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RACHEL</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sure most of you already read Rachel's blog </span><a href="http://autumn-castle.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the autumn castle</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- but for those who don't I highly reccommend you check it out. She has impeccable style, is recently engaged, and certainly rocks leather! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">x</span></div>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-72354605447841463552012-06-12T03:56:00.003-07:002012-06-12T03:57:15.867-07:00Fifty Shades of Followers & a Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Holy moly, I've got 50 followers. And I haven't had to pay for any of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thank-you to everyone who has read, commented, engaged with, or merely glanced at one of my posts. I genuinely thought that I would be the only one to poke around here in this odd little corner of the interwebs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To celebrate, why not have a giveaway? I've been lucky enough to win one from the fantastic Aly </span><a href="http://uniqueblogofawesome.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/winner-winner-nailpolish-for-dinner.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(see this post)</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in my short blogging career, so it's time to pay it forward.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>UboA FIFTY FOLLOWERS GIVEAWAY</u></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 x <strong><span style="color: purple;">Glasshouse Mini Candle</span></strong> in Mimosa & Wild Apple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 x <span style="color: purple;"><strong>NYC Nail Colour</strong></span> in Red Sparkle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 x <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Canmake Colourful Nails glitter nail polish</strong></span>, direct from Japan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 x roll of <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Washi Kamoi paper decorative adhesive tape</strong></span>, direct from 12 story stationary shop in Japan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 x <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Authentic Ugly Jumper</strong></span> from my Ugly Jumper Party (it has been laundered!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 x <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Worlds Tiniest Diary</strong></span> direct from 12 story stationary shop in Japan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 x pack of <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Sanrio Pochacco stickers</strong></span>, direct from 12 story stationary shop in Japan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong> THE RULES</strong>... because there is always a catch</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>1.</strong> You must be a follower using GFC. That's Google Friend Connect- if you are looking for a place to follow the Global Financial Crisis you are way off path. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>2.</strong> You must leave a comment. None of this 'I commented!!!' bullshit either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>3.</strong> Your comment needs to contain what you enjoy about this little blog, and what you would like to read about in the future. Keen on food reviews of all the haggis spots in Melbourne? Wanting a makeup tutorial on how to get Mimi from The Drew Carey Show's look? Or do you just need a blog where you can read about the mating habits of arachnids? This is your time to suggest what you would like to read about. <u>Constructive</u> criticism as always, is welcome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>4.</strong> If you are the winner, you must take a photo of yourself in the Ugly Jumper and email it in to be featured on this blog. You don't have to show your face, your head, or even your whole body, but I do want you to join in the Ugly Jumper Festivities. And let's face it- you know you want to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>5.</strong> Open to Australian residents only. Sorry non-Aussie readers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">6. If you dont have a blog of your own where I can contact you, please leave your email address. If you are a Vogue Forums member, a username would be fine as well. Just please leave something so I can get in touch if you are the winner!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Save me the embarassment of having to tell my Mum I write a blog, just so I can gain one entry. She's already seen the hideous jumper, and has been eyeing it off for her wardrobe. She's fashionable like that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">x</span></div>Cindy http://www.blogger.com/profile/05133518452987367084noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515684634475785256.post-54281907954493395812012-06-10T17:49:00.003-07:002012-06-10T17:50:54.427-07:00Exams on a Public Holiday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are they entirely necessary?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm off for three hours answering questions on ecology and the environment. After that, I don't give a crap what a primary producer or parasitoid is, and I certainly have no inclination to worry about the population density of herbivores in the savannah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boo hoo, whinge, whine. </span><br />
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