Tuesday, 11 November 2008

so i'm working five days this week, standard for some but a pretty huge deal for me. i'm completely worn out, exhausted and sick... i just finished my second day. oh and the only two days i have off will be spent doing an exam and studying, although perhaps not in that order.

i went on a picnic with my boyfriend on friday (the last interesting thing i did), it was lovely. soooooo much food. a bit too much nature but hey you get that. maybe a nice champagne lunch next time, in a deli/pattiserie. does that exist?

i made some heart-shaped cookies which were not only delicous but also perfectly shaped. save your praise, i know i'm amazing.

i got along well with my manager at work today, she didn't even ask me what i had for lunch in her casual yet concerned "are you eating?" kind of way.

i should try and get some sleep. seven hours of baby/children/maternity filled fun heading my way tomorrow.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

so today is the melbourne cup, which is australia's biggest race day. and a pretty huge fashion deal for those who attend.

now i'm nowhere near a racewear expert, i've only been to the races once and to be perfectly honest i was more interested in the champagne than my outfit, i just chucked on whatever dress/headband combo took my fancy that morning.

fascinators are serious business but i just don't know if i could do a hat, i'm way more into headbands. although i did see a headband with a pillbox hat attached to it, best of both worlds or an unfortunate pairing?

now i don't have the money to put together a great races outfit, but what i do have is an abundance of time. i've been playing around on polyvore most of the morning putting together my dream race looks. here's a few i came up with.

safe to say i'm into bright colours, over the top shoes and bows. every look features a bow somehow. the second is probably the most race appropriate. surprisingly most of the things i ended up choosing weren't all that expensive, well the shoes were. a fair amount of it was from topshop and forever21, why can't i live in america and/or england?

in other racing news, word on the internet is that today is the end of america's "race race." i wonder if more people will vote than they did for the last american idol. i'm sort of, not really, but a tiny bit interested in the results.

Monday, 3 November 2008

infomercials; we all know any and all "too good to be true" claims should be taken with a grain of salt, or more.

but believe it or not (believe it), the ped egg actually works! essentially it's a piece of metal, similar to a grater lodged in a plastic shaped egg, hence the egg. the idea is that you grate dead skin off your feet, hence the ped. the dead skin shavings are then conveniently caught inside the egg to be thrown out at your discretion.

you can pick one of these babies up from ebay for about AU$9, including shipping. it takes a bit of elbow grease but there are definitely results.

despite how amazingly interesting this post is, i didn't do much today. watched a lot of tv, ate a lot of chocolate, went into town for a couple of hours to pick up a swimsuit and hold my boyfriends hand.

Sunday, 2 November 2008

it's been exactly a month since my last post and i'd just like to preface with a follow up.



admittedly that photo was taken a few weeks ago and the current state of my room is somewhere between the two extremes. almost time for another (monthly?) clean.

another thing i like to do every few months is raid my mother's wardrobe. you never know what you'll find.

whether it be a new bag.



a new top.



or new shoes.



i'm actually back in the swing of things. job hunting. tidying. shopping. studying. general self-improving. smiling.

my boyfriend and i have proclaimed our love and spend a ridiculous amount of time lying around staring into each others eyes. it's kind of pathetic.

Thursday, 2 October 2008

okay, so i've started my wardrobe overhaul. there's literally no room in my wardrobes and with the new season coming up i think it's time to make some. it looks absolutely disastrous right now but hey it always gets better before it gets worse. i have bits and pieces of the next three/four days to work on it before my boyfriend gets home and says "hah! i told you nothing would be cleaner when i got back." which won't be happening.



so that's where we're at right now. yes, yes, i know. here's my plan.

Day One
Organize
1. Divide clothes into the following piles
- things i wear
- things i might wear
- things i don't wear, but want to keep
- things i don't wear, but somebody else might
- things nobody would wear
- "going out" dresses (not worn often, they can find a new home)
2. Get everything other than "Things I Wear/Might Wear" out of my room
3. Divide things i wear into two more piles - clean/dirty.

Day Two
Tidy
1. Start washing the dirty pile (will probably be like 923083 loads)
2. Put away the clean pile
3. Make decisions re: things i might wear
4. Tidy the rest of my room (it's mainly clean, just clothes)

Day Three
Clean
1. Mop floor
2. Clean "kitchen"
3. Clean bathroom
4. Wash Sheets/Towels

Day Four
Finishing Touches
1. Fresh sheets
2. Flowers
3. Scented oils
4. "A place for everything, everything in it's place."

I have to work today and I'm hanging out with Andi tomorrow but I have all of saturday free (cleaning day, fun fun). Then my boyf gets home sunday afternoon, I'll probably go to his house for the night but at least I'll be leaving everything nice and clean.

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

pinch and a punch for the first day of the month!
(white rabbit)

okay today was my big cleaning day, and it's 1pm already and i've done zilch.

i woke up early, enjoyed my breakfast in the sun...

now cleaning for me used to be (and still is) a bit of an adventure, an act. it takes a little while to get in character.

first, there's costume. i used to wear my "cleaning dress" and a string of pearls, to get in the housewife kind of vibe of things. i put it on this morning (sans pearls, did you take them all away with you?) and something just didn't feel right.



then it clicked. i wasn't dressing up anymore, cleaning isn't some kind of game that i play when it takes my fancy. i actually have to clean. so i thought, what i need is a new cleaning dress. it still needs to have a traditional shape and make me feel all homely, but it needs to be my own take on what kind of housewife i plan on being. oh and it needs to be as uncomfortable to sit down in as possible.



introducing my new housewife dress. i wanted to make myself a martini to celebrate but then realized i probably want to drive later, damn P plates. cranberry juice in a martini glass will have to do.

so that's that for costumer, now i just need music... female jazz singers. maybe a bit of herbal tea and a lot of motivation.

more importantly, i have three more whole days without my boyfriend. he called me last night and casually threw into conversation "oh i nearly broke my neck today." he escaped with some stitches in his chin but god, i'm so glad i didn't see it, how scary. he better play safe today.

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

what an uneventful day. i woke up at ten to six, i have no idea why but i didn't go back to sleep. i went to the gym.

then went off to stafford to buy some groceries for waffles that i'll be cooking with ange tomorrow. deliciousness awaits.

i popped in to big w to see if i could pick up some shirts for the gym and came out with some shoes. i got these for fourteen dollars. seriously, what a bargain. they don't look too cheap, i think.





i'm pretty into wedges at the moment. i actually have absolutely nothing to report. it wasn't sunny enough to tan, i found out my portfolio isn't due for another two weeks so i'm a bit more chilled out on that one.

i have no idea what i'll do tomorrow, i should clean up. theo doubts me when i say the house will be spotless when he gets home. i'm up for the challenge.

Monday, 29 September 2008

evening ma,

i hung out with eimear today, it was really nice to catch up. we walked to west end and had an early lunch. it would have been brunch but i'm not quite willing to link nachos to breakfast.

then we went back to the city and met up with zara and andi.



i miss my boyfriend so much. he won his game yesterday, so that's good. but i want a cuddle and some nintendo and yeah. five and a half days left hahah. there was a spider in my room today and nobody to get it out, so i think i'll move rooms for awhile. spiders are gross.

Sunday, 28 September 2008

i woke up to this gorgeous view this morning, well not exactly, i woke up and stumbled out to the living area then admired the view. that's the back of toby's farm taken from the deck we all partied on.

it was a lot of fun. great music and food and conversation. i was going really good at poker for awhile there but we got bored and stopped playing (i would have won, maybe). it's a nice group because all of the boys have girlfriends, which means i have more girls to talk to and it keeps them (a little) more civilized. although there was some late night wrestling matches (i took part in one) and a drinking game or two.

in the morning ange and i went for a walk and ended up at the strawberry farm next door (toby grows avocados and lychees). anyway, we ducked the fence and feasted on some fresh farm picked strawberries, all warm and juicy from the sun.

when i got home i found some blue tshirt dress in a shopping bag i'd forgotten about, pleasant surprise to find new clothes when you've been trying super hard not to buy any. it has nice pockets but is pretty basic, which is good.



i teamed it with a gold necklace and my gold flats, not that i was going anywhere exciting... or was i?



think to yourself, what cures a hangover even better than fresh strawberries and sunshine. the answer may surprise you, it's actually a huge greasy disgusting burger and fries. so off i go to sweetlips for my burger with the works.



homemade meat patty

cheese

lettuce

tomato

onion

pineapple

beetroot

egg

bacon

... and a diet coke (hahah i am on a diet, afterall).



then i decided to do what any normal girl would do after devouring a meal that warrants an extra few hour at the gym. slip into a bikini, of course.



worked on my tan and played a bit of nintendo ds, i'm pretty much the tetris champion.



oh yeah, can i get a chicken? or two? please, thanks. the farm had these beautiful chickens wandering around, yes please.

also, can i get my teeth professionally whitened? you said i could once, i think it'd make my life a lot better.

Saturday, 27 September 2008

i'm back.

truthfully i've been a bit blue the past week or so, you know how i get. although none of my friends really do. but sometimes i get down and just need a time out from life and my (extremely limited) responsibilities.



i know i'm feeling better when i spend the best part of an hour deciding what shoe/sock/headband combination i should wear. i literally laughed out loud in front of the mirror. ate my breakfast in the sun and thought about how beautiful the weeds looked. i love the first day of feeling better about things, everything is wonderful.



it's a good day for it. the weather's great. i'm going shopping for a few hours then to a party on toby's farm. which i'm sure will be worth the hour long train journey.

but more importantly WHERE'S MY WEDDING DRESS?! pleasseee text me telling me it's at some drycleaners or you stored it somewhere or something. i'm so worried.



they say depression is a black hole, i say i've got my best shoes on... i'm ready to go.

Friday, 26 September 2008

sorry!

i'd love to be able to say i haven't updated because i've been leading a fantastically exciting life, sadly, not the case. i just became disinterested for a few days, not in this blog, just in life. i wore absolutely nothing interesting at all, i vaguely remember a haze of jeans and flats.

to give you a rundown of my week

monday/ woke up at theo's, came home to clean up before dad got home, watched about six hours of the office instead, went back to theo's.

tuesday/ woke up at theo's, went to the beach, lay around in the sun, ate some chips and ice-cream, went back to theo's, we had a nice shower, i went home to clean up before dad got home, watched a couple of hours of the office instead, picked dad up from the airport, hung out in his room talking about nothing in particular.

wednesday/ hung out with my father, went to stafford and a couple of different banks, had a coffee and ate some peanut butter m&ms, delicious. went for a practice in the z3, went well. theo came over, we all went to dinner (upstairs family included). it was nice.

thursday/ drove dad to the airport, was in traffic for honestly like an hour and a half, got to work and it sucked heaps and was awful and i hated it. can't be bothered whining about it now. my boyfriend left for adelaide, we exchanged a bunch of texts.

friday/ i woke up and scrambled to get to work on time (for once). got in the car and drove down the street only to realize i was an hour early. so i came back home and could have spent the time making lunch or tidying my room but i spent it finding my stockings and writing this instead. i'll upload a photo if i have time, but may not. i have to buy the paper on my way to work because apparently i'm in it.

now i'm so sleepy, probably not anymore so than i normally would be but my brain is all "beth, you totally got cheated out of an extra hour of sleep" and my body is like "yeah! sleep!"

i'm starting a new diet today, my aim over the next week is:
1. diet & exercise (lose weight, without weighting myself)
2. get a tan (i'm secretly competing against theo, who's staying right next to the beach)
3. make my skin clear up (i actually haven't updated because i've been moping around due to a couple of pimples, which puts me in a "why bother?" attitude)
4. clean my room (organize my wardrobe)
5. finish (start) my portfolio work

Sunday, 21 September 2008

i love summer fruits.



i should have spent the day cleaning, i didn't.

Saturday, 20 September 2008

another delayed post, i'm still sticking to my "a post for every day" guns though. the title, while it may be misleading, doesn't necessarily dictate the date it was written. i mean when was 1984 written, in 1984? i think not, if it's good enough for orwell it's good enough for me.

so i went to the beach on saturday, it was a BEAUTIFUL day. so sunny and not a cloud in the sky and just nice nice nice. it was hot when we woke up at like 8am and yeah, great weather. we had to be back by like 2 so theo could go to hockey training but it was a great morning/lunch date.



then an hour or two after i got home i went to meet andi in the city (as you know), we ate some chocolate and took in a wonderfully bad chick flick aimed at tweens. it was about a spoilt malibu girl who gets sent off to a strict english boarding school, you can probably guess the rest of the plot.



after i got home my boyf came back to sleep over. i had such a lovely day, i feel so lucky to be able to spend every day with people i care about doing such carefree things. oh morning at the beach then an early dinner/movie with a friend followed by falling asleep next to some babe. why not?

i like spending time with andi, i think we'll be friends for a long time. we have a really similar sense of humour, not many people (well girls, anyway) share my sense of humour. maybe it's because we practically grew up with each other. she looked heaps pretty last night, i'm not uploading a photo of me because i looked super post-beach gross and the comparison between us is embarrassing.



oh something weird happened too, we were walking through the mall together just talking and joking around or whatever and some girls (about 15-16, trendy looking) were looking at us, thinking nothing of it we keep walking and they take a photo. a few minutes later i say "i think those girls took a photo of us" and andi was like "they totally did! i wasn't going to say anything because i wasn't sure but they so did." what possible reason would they have taken a photo of us for? i mean i did have a chocolate stain on my dress from the movies but it wasn't really photo worthy. weird.

xo,
beth

Friday, 19 September 2008

yes, i know it's not friday but there's such thing as retrospective writing. i'll try not to get carried away and write sunday's post next.

so i worked yesterday but only for half the day or so, i was feeling super sick and could barely stand. i feared the worst for my date that night but after a bit of a rest and a shower i was up for it.

i didn't really take any photos, here's one of theo on our way back home.



he looks glum, maybe the night didn't go as well as i thought it did hahah.

we went to lucky's for dinner then freestyle for dessert, now that i think about it, why'd we never go to freestyle? it's delicious. then we went to some club to see his friend. then home. i kind of just collapsed and fell asleep within five minutes of getting home =, not very romantic but i was feeling sick earlier that day. whatever.

i wore that dress i wore when we went out to dinner in sydney, the italian place (coincidence!). the black shiny bubble dress, you know the one. and about five necklaces. and my zipper socks and your new favourite shoes.

i said we're going to freestyle for our anniversary every month, there's twelve things on the menu so he's locked in to this relationship for the next year hahah. i should choose the best one for the one year mark, we had the flourless chocolate cake last night. the menu's seasonal anyway, whatever.

Vanilla Bean Crème Brulee served with biscotti & pistachio ice cream

White Chocolate Raspberry Brioche Dumplings with chocolate dipping sauce, berries & chocolate ice cream

Flourless Chocolate Cake with berries, truffle, fudge sauce & cherry sorbet

Hot Fudge Brownie with fudge sauce, strawberry salad & vanilla ice cream

Upside Down Pear Cake with baked ricotta custard, anglaise & vanilla ice cream

Sticky Date Pudding served with butterscotch sauce & vanilla ice cream

Saucy Chocolate Pudding with fudge sauce, pouring cream, chocolate &
vanilla ice cream

Apple & Blackberry Crumble served with berry compote, vanilla ice cream

Bittersweet Chocolate Tart served with smooth chocolate mousse, white chocolate ice cream & a chocolate tuille

Bailey's Infused Bread & Butter Pudding served with caramel sauce & vanilla ice cream

Baked Cheesecake served with autumn fruit compote & white chocolate ice cream with caramel sauce garnished with an almond meringue

Macadamia Delight – white chocolate macadamia slice with macadamia & vanilla ice cream & fudge sauce

Thursday, 18 September 2008

terrible news ma,

the lutwyche vinnies is closing down. i was up there today doing a bit of thrift shopping and apparently they close on the 3rd of next month. even worse, they had 50% off all clothing but somebody had obviously beat me to it and i bet they hadn't even been going there for the best part of a decade. what suburb were those other stores i liked in? hendra?

anyway, i managed to find a wonderfully ugly pair of boots, a couple of shirts and some jeans that i've hacked up and "distressed" into a pair of shorts a la alexander wang. i doubt i'll ever wear them though.

i went to david jones and they're having a sale that involves 30% off bags and they're all so beautiful and soft and uhhh i'm going to go look at them tomorrow night before my date and try not to buy one. i have to head into the city to hand a resume into this store that would be a dream to work at.

anyway, i fell in love with these shoes today. luckily i already own them and have worn them a bunch of times but just today i had a "god i'm so happy with these shoes" moment. i bought them on sale so i haven't really thought of them as special or looked after them and just kind of chuck them on whenever. but they're pretty versatile but not boring. so yeah.





i'm just about ready to retire my robot keyring, he's lost a lot of colour and only had one hand left on his clock. how's yours holding up?



see that shiny blue key, i got my key cut so i could have a spare one. i gave one to theo too so i don't have to get up to let him in or remember to bring keys when we go out to eat. it's heaps convenient not to mention kind of nice being able to be all "oh here's a key to my door(/heart hahah). i wish you could meet him. you'd probably get along.

do you want to buy me a tiffany and co bracelet for christmas? it's pretty.

love,
beth

Wedneday, 17 September 2008

ughhh maaa,



it all started with cleaning the kitchen, surely you'd think my day could only get better from there. you'd be completely mistaken.

i can't even remember all of the stupid things that happened. i crashed the stupid car. i hate that car. the woman i ran into made me cry but then i think she felt kind of bad and was nice, she touched my arm in some kind of awkward "should i hug you?" kind of way. the answer is no, don't hug me. geeze.

i emailed dad asking if i could sell the dumb stupid car because it's actually impossible for me to drive it and he wrote back and made me cry because he said i only talk to him when i want something which was a complete slap in the face. i've spent the last decade of my life trying to spend time with him and kept having to tell myself he was only stressed out because he was trying to do what's best for the family or whatever and that he did care about me more than his stupid money. before he left the stupid country i asked him if we could go get some ice cream and he made out like i was using him to get ice cream and why didn't i go get my own ice cream. if i wanted fucking ice cream i'd buy my own damn ice cream, i wanted to SPEND TIME WITH MY FATHER. but he still comes out with shit like "It is a pity I only hear from you when you want something." oh sorry, i must be the one that only calls when i want some stupid financial documents checked then hangs up without a "have a nice day" or "sorry for waking you up." it's a pity i only hear from him when he wants something, it realllllly is.

helen isn't going to america on exchange anymore, so i don't know if i will. i don't really want to be alone in another country for that long. i mean i know i'd make friends and probably have a decent time but i have friends and a decent time here. i might just go on a post-uni holiday instead.

i'm surprised i made it to uni, although kind of glad i did because apparently i was supposed to be in a group from like three weeks ago, i got lumped in with some mature age student and two international students, saving grace was a friend from my tute who also somehow neglected to find a group. i ate lots of shit because i was feeling down so now i actually feel sick. like Ughusghgh sick. and i didn't go to the gym. so yeah i'll be fat tomorrow but hopefully not as miserable.

anyway, i did what any normal girl does when she has a shitty day and bought some shoes.



they're alright.

i have this skirt that i've been trying to wear for about a month now, it's a wayne cooper one. the material/texture is great but i just can't wear it with anything. i think it might be the length, it sits below my knees but looks much better as a mini.



i paired it with a black beaded sweater tonight and the three different textured blacks seemed to work okay.



i'm a little hesitant about altering a wayne cooper skirt, i wouldn't want to get on his bad side hahah.


p.s. theo and i had our one month anniversary today. it was also the third day i haven't seen him since we started dating, i better get used to it, he leaves for a week or so next week. some hockey thing.

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

beautiful day today! so hot for this time of year, like actual searching for shade kind of weather.

we went to play mini golf, stopped off at 711 on the way and got my first slurpee for the longest time it was so deliciously sugary hahah.



the put put course was so pretty. lots of nice flowers and a bit of water and that sort of thing, not to mention a view of the city.



we didn't exactly keep score or really play by the rules at all but hey, i don't play by nobody's rules (not even my own).





not a very "copy heavy" post, to use one of my wanky advertising terms but i'm so sleepy. we had nandos for lunch and yeah, theo's napping beside me right now. i might try to sleep but i'm not as good at daytime naps as you are. i should do a little bit of uni work anyway.

how's everything going?

love,
beth

Monday, 15 September 2008

morning ma,

i suppose i should say afternoon, as it is. i'm so sleepy. it may just be a perfect afternoon to steal your bed, tune into the crime channel and have a nap. speaking of nap, look, a cat.



theo and i had fun last night, as always. we had sex in his car after dinner which is surprisingly not as difficult as i imagined it would be, but it was completely justified, i mean the drive home would have been at least ten minutes long. i had carbs for breakfast and lunch, but tomorrow would have been my last day of dieting anyway, i feel as though i did well enough to be able to claim a sense of accomplishment.

i feel like so much of my life is reminiscent of movie scenes. whether it be a foot pressed up against a steamy car window, the exboyfriend lurking in the shadows or simple conversations over coffee. although unfortunately there are no script rewrites and you can't erase the bad footage. i suppose it doesn't help that on days like this i feel like i'm just sitting around waiting for the next "lights, camera... action." or perhaps i'm being self-centered in thinking that anything i do would be of any interest to anyone else.

i'm trying to summon enough energy to make it to the gym this afternoon, it's not like i have anything better to do. theo's going to dinner with his best female friend that he used to date (sound familiar?) i'm not phased, fairly certain we don't have a james v2.0 on our hands.

in other news i've found two new bruises today, i also have no idea where they came from. should i be worried? have i developed some kind of rare blood disease that's making me bruise easily? i'll leave it to wild speculation because i'm not getting a blood test.

here's a picture of my new summer sandals. which received an appreciative cooing noise from one of tess' friends in the city yesterday.



oh yeah, i hung out with tess in the city yesterday. i got a bunch of cheap jewelery. it was nice, hadn't had a chance to catch up with her for agggessss.

Sunday, 14 September 2008

hey ma,

i'm at theo's so i'll keep it short. we're going out for dinner soon, it'll be pretty delicious hahah. i wore this dress last night that i can wear like 92384029384 different ways. it was a pretty good night, just hung out and talked and stuff, it's nice to not have to go into the valley and deal with loud noises and obnoxious people.











i can't even wait until i start eating chocolate again, i'm seriously going to buy like two family blocks. or three. hahah.

i miss you heaps, wish you were coming over with pa.

xo
beth

A Few (Three) Favourites

one, two, three...

great places to shop
1. online
2. thrift stores
3. boutiques

of the best things i've bought for myself
1. macbook
2. nintendo ds
3. gym membership

favourite wardrobe dwellers
1. shoes, shoes, shoes
2. socks and hosiery
3. black dress/es

guilty little pleasures
1. peanut butter m&ms
2. retail therapy
3. bad television

recent purchases
1. summer shoes
2. a fair few woodford and co items
3. summer socks!

facts about me
1. i have a lisp, with no intention of changing it
2. i'm incredibly lazy, also with no intention to change
3. laughing is my favourite thing, i do it as often as possible

polyvore 'fashion personalities'
1. casual

2. cool

3. cutesy