What a day - 28th June!

Today is quite an amazing day. Today my grandmother turns 80. Isn't that just an amazing milestone? 


Sadly, my grandmother suffers from Alzheimer's. Her stories and her personality are slowly being taken from her.  The stories she tells now are often not hers and they tend to take off on some fantastic tangent, or they just circle around on a loop until she fades them out. She no longer bakes bread daily, no longer swims in the ocean with her buddies every morning, no longer busy's herself organising amazing seafood banquets for her family - She is no longer the carer. She can't play piano from memory, but she still remembers how to read the music. One of the few activities that brings her joy.


So happy birthday Mana. 


Sx


PS - In other exciting news today, a friend turns 33, my mum and dad celebrate their wedding anniversary and another friend has her house settlement today! What a day! Ohhh, and I'm test driving my new scarf courtesy of Lisa from Knitting Inspirations at Perth Upmarket yesterday - was great fun, but packed! 

Change is good - right?

I notice a gentle wave of change, is it that its finally winter here now?? (Although sun is shining at present!)


Small Change 1
Over the weekend, whilst driving some friends around, a crappy song came on the radio, I did my usual thing, hit the next button in sequence, which had another crappy song (commercial radio). My front seats passenger friend looked at me with exasperation in his eyes and hit the end button, Triple J. And you know what, its still on that station and I'm loving the change.


Small Change 2
Just now, I've had to interrupt my post, one of my dearest friends just called. And we spent 50 minutes on the phone chatting (And yes, I'm at work!), it was all about the subtle changes that have occurred in her life in the past 6 months which have turned out to be very big changes in nearly ever aspect of her life! In a very good way. 


Small Change 3
So to honour these changes, when blogger asked if I'd like to look at some new template options, I thought, why not? So here- my sunnier, brighter blog.


FRIKKEN MASSIVE CHANGE!
Baby Mason - baby boy number three, was born last Friday, so three boys in two days. He's amazing, they are all amazing, simply amazing! 


Sx

Love on a Friday

My heart is filled with love and joy. 


I love how a new baby can do that. They are magic magic little people, they seem so vulnerable and yet so strong. They have an incredible force, they bring love to the forefront, worries dissipate for a short time, the outside world fades for a moment while you stare at this tiny person and wonder what amazing adventures are ahead. 


My two cousins have had babies, boy's, born on the same day but on different sides of the country. And will both probably end up with a nickname of Eli! And I won't get to meet either of them for a little while yet. 


And yet, My heart is filled with love and joy.


Congrats to R and E and goodluck C!


All my love
Sx

Happy Friday's

Ok, quick sneaky post to publish before I duck off for a work presentation for the afternoon (who thought that would be a good idea for a Friday arvo!?!)...

My watch, my Triwa which I trekked all over London with a girlfriend to find, I love it. It's brightness brightens my day, and it never fails to elicit compliments from strangers - today a salesman by the name of Prince (was dying to ask him...) thought it looked 'Fabulous darlink'. Here it is teamed with my evil eye bracelets, a purchase on a day when I was feeling particularly targetted, you probably can't see, but the eye has fallen off the smaller bracelet meaning it has protected me from evil (yay me!).

So, have a beautiful weekend and may compliments come flying your way and deflect the badness out there. 

Sx

Rainy days and waiting

My family is huge, well, my immediate family there's 6 of us, and then the extended family just seems to go on and on. And as we get older we have in-laws and babies being thrown into the mix. It makes for wonderful noisy times. And for a lot of waiting! I have 2 cousins, one also happens to be one of my closest friends, waiting to have babies, actually, sorry, make that 3 cousins. But two of them are due any day now. I'm hovering over my phone waiting for the text message to come through. Its agony, this waiting game!
So to R & C, good luck girlies, I am sending all of my love and positive energy your way and hope that everything goes well. And I can't wait to meet the babes. 
Sx

Me

Me, I'm shy, online and in 'real' life. Always have been, probably always will be. This means that people have called me; snobbish, standoffish, superior, rude, arrogant, quiet, shy and thoughtful (depending on how generous people feel at the time). Until they take a few minutes to talk to me, well, hopefully they still find me thoughtful and I am definitely quiet. I'm an introvert, I've completed Myers Briggs surveys and the like, and they all say I'm introverted and considered in my actions. I like to sit back and listen to others and form my opinions or mold my opinions. (BTW, introverted in this context means drawing your energy from within rather than from external sources, which means if I'm down, then its up to me to bring myself up, others 'upness' doesn't really help me)
I am surrounded by extroverts. My closest friends are always extroverts. I love extroverts. These are the people who are putting themselves out there completely and testing the waters for me. I see they are 'safe' and then I continue walking/running/skipping after them. 
So in honour of my extroverted friends, I'm going to put myself out there a teeny tiny bit and say hello to some of the bloggers I love to visit every day. Just to introduce myself and so that I don't seem snobbish, rude or ungrateful. 
I'm really amazed that people can put themselves 'out there' to the world. I love it, I find it very liberating and thank you to those people, they make my days so much more enjoyable. 
Sx

Willpower

I'm thinking of giving up Facebook. Yikes. Its taken me a bit to actually type that. 
I think like most people I have a love/hate relationship with FB. I love catching up on my friends holiday or party photo's, but I hate how impersonal it can be. 
I have 195 FB 'friends' and I remember reading something recently about how it was only possible to maintain 150 relationships. So once you include family (I have a huuuuuuuggggeee family) and friends who don't use FB, I clearly have a lot of FB friends who are not really close. I swore on my holiday that once I got back home, I was going to do a friend cleanout and was only going to keep those people whom I would invite to my house to have a meal and flick through my photo albums with. Well, clearly that hasn't happened. So will I be able to 'take a break' from fb as my first step? Lets see.... Day one is tomorrow!
Sx