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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Right here, I have everything I ever need.

28 Tuesday Aug 2012

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After a few tears, a lot of frustration and hours of talking through my endless thoughts and feelings, I have come to yet another life changing realisation; hardships in life don’t just happen by chance, they happen for a reason.

Their goal is not to leave you bitter and cynical about the things that are missing in your life, but rather leave you appreciative of the things that you’ve been blessed with. They happen so that we can realise the bigger picture. So that we can learn to look past the fog on the windscreen and see the colours of the rainbow shine through.

We don’t fall down so that we can drown in self pity, we fall down so that we can see just who is there to pick us back up. We face challenges in life to make us stronger, and we struggle in order to become a better person.

The truth is, we all struggle. We all face our own daily challenges and we all go through our own hardships in life, but at the end of the day it’s not the struggle that defines you; it’s how you choose to handle that struggle. Just recently, I was reminded of all of this.

Whilst laying in bed, somewhat struggling with my current situation, it occured to me that somewhere along the way I had forgotten a few things.

I had forgotten just how lucky I was to have a family like mine. A family with not only endless amounts of support, but constant, unconditional love. I had forgotten just how lucky I was to have not just an amazing boyfriend, but a boyfriend who is so calm, so patient and so understanding, that even when I am being the most unreasonable girl in the world, he loves me anyway. I had forgotten just how lucky I was to have a handful of girls, who despite living under a rock for two years, are still just a phone call away anytime that I need them. I had forgotten all of those things that I had promised myself I would remember.

Just like that, I had forgotten the most important part.

It’s the people you still have next to you at the end of the struggle that matter. It’s the people that are still there after the countless storms, waiting to watch the rainbow shine through the clouds again. It’s about knowing that no matter what, the next time that storm rolls in those people will still be there holding you together, that’s what matters the most. And me, well I guess I just remembered that I have the best damn storm chasers a girl could find. Right here, I have everything I ever need.

 

Proving statistics wrong, yet again.

23 Thursday Aug 2012

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Now based on statistics alone, it would be almost impossible for anyone to continuously choose amazing movies, right? Just as it would be equally impossible for every trip to the movie store to result in a terrible movie choice. Somewhere along the way, you’re bound to choose a bad one and eventually you’re bound to choose a good one, that’s just the way it works.

Wrong – that is the way that it should work.

For almost as long as I can remember, I’ve had this hidden talent when it comes to picking out movies. Don’t let the word ‘talent’ fool you though, it’s not exactly an award winning personality trait. The strange part about it though; it doesn’t matter how I come to choose the movie, the outcome is always the same; two hours of my life wasted on a movie that did not even make sense.

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Things I have come to realise from ‘not so hidden’ movie talent:

1. The ability to choose a good movie is in fact a talent – one that sadly, we are not all born with.

2. Dedication and perserverance will not improve this talent, no matter how hard you may try.

3. Pretty pictures on the front cover are just there to trick you. They do not in any way highlight the quality of the film, trust me.

4. In regards to the little blurb they have on the back of the cover, every word was written to suck people like you in. Just because the story line sounds impressive, does not in any way mean that it will be. It should come as no surprise that words often have a way of making something sound better than it really is.

5. Actors cannot be trusted. Choosing a movie simply because your favourite celebrity is on the cover is about as reliable as choosing one based on a sticker stating it has been nominated for 9839273274892563 Golden Globes. Neither of these reasons guarantee you a decent movie.

5. Majority of staff members have no idea what they are talking about, don’t let them fool you. Just because they work with movies every day does not mean they will be right in recommending you something worth watching.

6. It doesn’t matter how sure you may think you are, you can never be certain of the quality of a movie. At the end of the day, it’s all just basically one big giant lucky dip.

7. I have absolutely zero luck when it comes to lucky dips.

After countless years of trying to improve this ‘talent’ and countless failed attempts, I’ve come to the conclusion that decent movies just must not exist anymore. Well, either that or I just have the worlds worst luck when it comes to choosing them. Either way I’d say about 9989834732478164 epic failures compared to maybe 17 success stories is not exactly my most promising statistic.

With the exception of not having seen ‘Mamma Mia’ yet, I’d like you to meet five of my seventeen success stories.

High heels and broken hearts.

19 Sunday Aug 2012

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Walking along the streets of Coolangatta today, I somehow stumbled across my very own little slice of heaven. Right there in the window of a tiny little boutique, sat the most breathtakingly beautiful pair of high heels that I have ever laid eyes on; everything from the bright, vibrant colours right down to the perfect little tassles that were dangling from those fancy feathered flowers had me falling in love.

Needless to say, I of course walked straight in, with every intention of leaving the store with a brand new and extremely beautiful pair of high heels and asked the lovely shop assistant if I could please have a size eight. Unfortunately for me however, unlike most fairytales, this story did not have a happy ending.

Although they did indeed have a size eight; one which fitted perfectly might I add, sadly they didn’t come equipped with magical super powers that would allow my terribly uncoordinated self to walk gracefully in such a beautiful pair of shoes.

So whilst I did seriously consider purchasing them as a ‘one of a kind’ centrepiece for my bedroom, I instead did the sensible thing and left empty handed; with nothing but a beautiful memory, a broken heart and the unlikely dream of someday having the ability to walk gracefully in such a stunningly beautiful pair of high heels.

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The little baby Koala Bear that well and truly stole my heart.

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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Exactly one month ago today, a brand new baby boy entered the world.

One month ago today, my bestfriend gave birth to the most gorgeous little baby boy that I have ever laid eyes on and I became a God Mumma.

One month ago today, a perfect little, well, maybe not so little 9.8 pound bundle of joy came into this world and stole my heart in a way that I never could have imagined.

With his ten little fingers and his ten tiny little toes, his beautiful big baby belly, his perfect deep blue eyes and his cute little button nose that looks just like his Mumma’s; he completely took my breath away.

Sure, I had nine months of my bestfriend being pregnant to get use to the idea of a brand new baby boy and I always expected him to be cute. I even expected to fall in love, at least a little, but I never for a second expected to fall this hard and this fast.

You always hear the warnings for first time Mumma’s, about how strong a Mother’s love is for her child, but they never seemed to send out a warning for those first time God Mumma’s.

I never stood a chance.

Now, one month on, not a single thing has changed. He is by far one of the most precious things in my life and every visit, he still manages to steal a little more of my heart. Catch-up’s with his Mumma for my Koala Bear cuddles are the highlight of my week and before I even walk out the door, I’m already counting down the days until I get to see his beautiful little chubby face again.

Just one month and he already has me wrapped around his tiny little finger.

The magic that is The Human Body.

09 Thursday Aug 2012

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I don’t think it will ever cease to amaze me just how the human body works. Not in the biology/science type way, because let’s be honest, I’ve never been all that good at science. Amazing as in the unexplainable kind of way, like the way our body has the ability to forget pain.

The way that every time someone we know has the flu we don’t feel the need to be sympathetic, because at the end of the day it’s really no big deal, they just have a cold. A week later though, when we catch that very same cold, we’re certain that the world is ending.

Our bodies are amazing like that. One day we can be in the worst pain imaginable, yet a few months down the track, it’s all just a blur. I mean sure, we know that it was horrible and we know that it was the worst pain of our life, but that’s all it is, it’s just memories. Physically we can’t remember, because mentally our body won’t allow our mind take us back there; because if it did, then what?

If we remembered exactly how much pain we were in that night we gave birth to our beautiful baby boy, then how would he ever have met his perfect little sister?

If we remembered just how much it hurt every time we failed at something in life, then what would possess us to keep trying?

If everytime we had our heart broken, we remembered the heartache, then how would we ever find real true love?

Our bodies are smarter than we often give them credit for. They don’t make us forget pain in an attempt to take away the memories, they simply make the pain fade, allowing us to create new ones.

 

Family; one of life’s greatest blessings.

05 Sunday Aug 2012

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Life teaches us lessons every day, but it’s the little things we learn from our family that stay with us forever.

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Things my Mumma has taught me:

1. Christmas is exciting, no matter how old we get.

2. A Christmas Tree always looks its best when it is surrounded by a room full of presents.

3. At least one of those presents should always be given early, just because.

4. Priority wise, vacuuming does not top the list.

5. Neither does dusting.

6. Recipes don’t ever turn out the way they look in the cook books.

7. If clothes need to be ironed, don’t buy them.

8. Speed walking during ‘Sale’ season is a must.

9. Don’t ever pay full price, for anything.

10. Despite what society likes us to believe, a mother and a daughter can in fact be the very best of friends.

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Things my Dadda has taught me:

1. When your chips are cold at McDonalds – complain.

2. How to turn the expensive tomatoes into the cheap ones, without anybody realising.

3. The appropriate and the not so appropriate times to buy home brand.

4. Just how full a rubbish bag can get before it needs to be emptied.

5. How different things were “back on the farm”.

6. Growing a garden isn’t quite as easy as it looks in the movies.

7. Cheese, Tomato and Salada’s are all anybody needs for the perfect lunch combination.

8. Playing the pokies is just as much a talent as it is blind luck.

9. Stubbornness as a personality trait is quite possibly hereditary.

10. You are never too old to be ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’.

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Things my Brother has taught me:

1. If there are ‘sharks’ in the pool, don’t go swimming.

2. Holding your breath under water is not as easy as you might think.

3. How ‘not to’ land a back-flip.

4. Just how easy it is for a failed attempt at a back-flip to end in a concussion.

5. How to watch a scary movie with your finger on the mute button.

6. Backgammon pieces are extremely dangerous when thrown at high speeds.

7. Hard cover books do in fact hurt when thrown at someone’s face.

8. The Banker always wins in Monopoly.

9. Not everybody understands the concept of personal space.

10. Just how boring life would be without a big brother like mine.

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More importantly though, these three people have taught me how to love, how to be happy and how to laugh at myself. They’re the ones who have taught me that above all else, family truly is one of life’s greatest blessings.

 

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