Merry Christmas

To all my friends out there...

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and most of all I wish for you:

A friend to cheer you if you are sad
A friend to share your happiness just by understanding you enough to know what makes you happy
A friend who knows you without you having to say anything
A friend you can turn to without feeling embarrassed or shy
A friend who will get you through your darkest hours

Christmas is not just about exchanging gifts- its a way to be thoughtful and pick out a gift as a way of saying, "I thought of you and put much love into choosing this"
Its not a way of being flashy or proving how much money you have, its showing the ones you love how much you appreciate them.

I've had a tough year and I've been having a tough past few weeks. My friends have been there to make me laugh and take my mind off my worries and that is why I am going to have a Blessed Christmas and I hope you will you
Xxx

(I include my wonderful family in the above as well, because they don't just love me because they have to, they love me because they want to)

Shopping up a storm

After being told by my boss that I have to come in to work (essentially cancelling my leave) I was really peeved.

So how does one deal with anger over the festive season?
Shopping!

I have seen the nicest things in the shops & I have shut my cautious side up with a menacing inward snarl & bought things I have wanted for a while now, but not exactly needed, ie: a new kettle.
I bought a cheapie a good 10 years ago because I had to move out of my fiance's house and needed something in a hurry - the darn thing has lasted all this time!
So I bought a cute little kettle that reminds me of the old kettle my mom had when I was a little girl:

Then while buying wrapping paper I came across a really cute cutting board that was pink with words and cupcakes printed on it. I had to have it!

My kitchen colours are actually red, so I bought all the matching accessories and suddenly my kitchen is pink.

It ties in very nicely as my lounge is pink & purple and because everything is open plan, it works well.

This is the new decor I bought for my walls a little while ago - they stick on with wallpaper glue and when you wet them they slide off again.

The photo doesn't do it justice, in real life it looks as if they are painted on:

Don't you think I NEED a flatscreen tv?

I have completed most of my Christmas shopping, and I am off to find a present for my mom (a bead charm for her Pandora bracelet) & a wedding photo frame for my brother & new sister (for their first wedding photo)

What presents will you be putting under your tree?

I have friends like these.....

Friends don’t have to understand, do you favors, care for you, give you courage and see you through. 
Friends don’t have to be, but they do.

Spice Girls

We recently had our year end function at work and the theme was Grammy Stars.

A group of us ladies dressed up as The Spice Girls.
I have a new appreciation for performers who have to wear wigs, damn they are uncomfortable!!

We had a blast though & if I weren't one of the organisers I reckon we would have stood a good chance of winning a prize!

One Thing - One Direction

I posted about this group the other day & since then I am discovering more and more reasons to love their music.
And by now I am sure you have figured out something about me:
If I love something, I am obsessed.

This is the case with One Direction.

They're a decent bunch of guys, and they are pretty darn cute too.
Liam Payne is my absolute favourite, his smile is just too cute (and he only has 1 kidney) so that already makes him unique.
If the cynics out there will look past his boy band good looks and listen to the quality of his voice, you will see what I mean.
Deep, rich and super sexy.

Their latest release off their new album is called One Thing, and below is the acoustic performance of this song.

After watching this, you cannot tell me these boys don't have a future in the music world!

Now have a look at one of their early performances in the X Factor - Kids in America:

All I Want for Christmas

Love. Laughter. Happiness. Togetherness

Last year for me Christmas was about spoiling the ones I love.

After 2011 being a tough year for all of us, I will be buying my friends & family gifts that they need.

It seems senseless to waste money on frivolous, unneeded items when there are necessities that will still need to be bought.

When asked what I would like for Christmas I was at a loss at first, then I looked around and realised I need alot of things: PJs, new bath towels, another chair in my lounge. I have made it my goal to buy myself a chair for the lounge as well as a chandelier (my one extravagance) I have asked for vouchers towards the other necessities and I think my friends feel the same as I do - Needs not Wastage

I am hoping that once I start wrapping the gifts that I will get more into the Christmas spirit.

For some reason this year I am not feeling it like I usually do.

I am like a little kid at Christmas time and I love wrapping presents, and putting up decorations etc. I am ashamed to say that we are already on the 10th and I have not even put up a Christmas Tree (I am always that person that gives speeches to the people who don't have the Christmas spirit)

I am off to brave the busy shopping centres now and let's hope that I get everything I want so that I don't have to do it next weekend again!

Tonight I have my friends over to act as a guinea pig to my cooking, it's been so long I am getting rusty.

Menu for tonight: Vodka Cream Pasta with Garlic bread for dipping & a good red wine.

YUM!

What Makes you Beautiful - One Direction

Wanna make me smile?

Play this song!

It is my current favourite song & I simply love the words.

Little did I know that One Direction were a bunch of young boys from X Factor!
I love their energy in this video!

Singledom...

...has it's perks.

 

 

1. I can make plans with my friends at the drop of a hat and not worry about dinner
2. I can flirt with the cute guy & if I want to, I can kiss him in wildly in public & take him home & make memories that will live with me forever. (actually I wish this happened more often)
3. I can eat cereal for dinner if I feel like it
4. I can sleep late and wake when i want to
5. I can spend all evening on my PC if I like
6. I can give my 2 cats my undivided attention
7. I can stick pretty butterfly stickers on my wall

 

All this is great - yet I have to admit that it seems to be getting a bit old. Probably because I do not have as much of Point 2 as I would like to.

 

So having MC here for the wedding was a peak into what married life would be like:

• Wake up in the morning and while one makes the coffee, the other makes the bed.
• Drive to work and chat about plans for that night and dinner.
• Spend time in the kitchen having tickle fights while dinner is being cooked and then afterwards sitting outside on the patio with a glass of wine chatting about all sorts of things while giving the cats love.

MC is a quiet guy, but he has something about him that make people love him instantly.

 

Since he left, my work colleagues have not stopped talking about him & want him to come to our christmas party on Saturday and then want me to make him stay, even the tea-lady thinks he is nice and should be my husband. My sister-in-law wants me to marry him.

The minute I load it as my Facebook profile pic, a friend writes and wants to know about him

A stranger from school whom I have had no contact with for years, sees his photo and says I must find a man and why not him.

 

I would tend to agree where it not for our very strange past. MC and I hit it off since the very beginning & yet we have never managed to quite start a proper relationship or even a proper fling.

 

He drove the hormones nuts every single day he was here, yet it never felt like it was right to make a move on him.

 

MC remained an absolute gentleman, even when my bathtowel slipped and he almost got an eyeful of fat backside (courtesy of my absence from the gym for the past 6 weeks)

 

I would love to make a proper go of it, but I don't want a long distance relationship, so perhaps it is just not right to start anything that we will just hurt us both.

For all I know, he feels nothing for me anyway and then this whole post is just a story about 1 sided attraction.

 

That would just be embarrassing wrong!

 

  

Official wedding photos

Just saw that the official photos were posted on the photographer's (Adam Hilton) blog

These photos came out really well, as my brother & his new wife hate posing for photos, and here they look like professionals!

Wedding Pics

Yes yes yes, you have all asked for the photos and here are a few.

Granted not the best, I seemed to be blurring most of them on the day, but I will post the photographers photos as soon as they are ready

Enjoy!

My hair

My mom, Bride & Me

Bride

Couple - not happy about posing!

MC & Me

Table

Gift

View from the deck where they got married

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Action? YES PLEASE

I am a bad girl with standards

MC kindly accompanied me to the wedding (pictures to follow) & is here for a couple of days.

He has still not made a move & for once I find myself being extremely shy.

I am not sure whether or not to make a move on him. I would hate there to be an awkward vibe between us if he is not interested.

Right: I am cracking open the wine tonight - maybe it will be good for both of us.

1 seduction on it's way......

Richard Scott paintings

Talking to JR today and he won a prize on the weekend.

Richard Scott is a local artist who's paintings all seem to be similar, but I love them!

Visit his website on: www.richardscott.com but check out my favourites:

You make me Horny

Tonight for Sure

Orgasmic Ana

Candy Cat

Breaking Dawn Part 1

Went to see this movie last night & I LOVED it.

Kristen Stewart overall showed more emotion (I have never liked her as Bella) and she actually looked really pretty at the wedding.

Edward smiles alot and that makes him sexier.
Jacob only takes his shirt off once and right in the beginning of the movie, so don't blink or you might miss it.

Without giving anything away if you haven't seen it, I think this was my favourite movie regardless of the fact that I see nothing of Jacob topless! :-p

• I adored the wedding scene and I loved the track playing in the background: Flightless Bird, Iron & Wine first played in Twilight



• Jacob dancing with Bella and smelling her shoulder as if he just wanted to kiss her - I adore him and I am definitely Team Jacob all the way

• Kristen Stewarts "emotion" as she walked up the isle could have done with some work, she looked a bit like she was trying to pretend to cry.
• There is a montage of Bella's life and it shows quick scenes through the other movies, that was a nice trip down memory lane
• Bella trying to seduce Edward - very funny scene
• The speeches at the wedding was a really fun part to watch
• I did not like Alice's hair - yuck!

I really loved it and I cannot wait to see it again!

What did you guys think?
 

Bye Bye Thailand (and the end of these holiday posts)

Our final dinner in Aonang was at a restaurant overlooking the sea. Thanks to some well-placed fans, we managed not to melt completely. I sat next to a couple that I hadn't really gotten to know and spent sometime getting to know them.
Phil is a personal trainer and as a result has some nice biceps going on. The one elephant guide had felt his arms and said, "Nice strong muscles. Mmmhh you have strong cock too!" that same guide asked one of the girls if she was a 'She-lady". Ah boy we had a good laugh!

not melting yet

After dinner the group went out to get completely smashed and Tee and I did what we do best... Shopping. Truth be told we actually went shopping for another bag as we had no more space left for our copious number of purchases. And to think I went to Thailand expecting to buy a small gift for the people who helped me tremendously in getting ready for this trip and in the end I went crazy. My mom is going to get spoiled but she us always so much fun to buy presents for.

The next morning was a late start for all of us and after packing we spent a bit of time by the pool before heading back to Patong beach.

After a brief goodbye to the people we liked, we took a slow, heavily laden walk to our next hotel. Eventually the weight of our bags forced us to get a Tuk Tuk. Good thing as it turns out that we were going the wrong way! Yikes!

We were going to spend our last evening having dinner on the beach at the same place we had enjoyed our first dinner. However, my body had other plans and I ended up spending dinner time vomitting in the bathroom. It wasn't from anything I ate or drank so it could have been a bug. I'm still feeling drained and my stomach is sensitive now.

I had wanted to spent the last morning lounging on the beach and working on my tan. Thanks to my SPF20 it doesn't look like much. Instead I spent it in bed and I managed some last minute shopping before the heat got the better of me.

And here we are sitting at Starbucks (who have been our saving grace in the land that does not have any decent coffee) AND they have free wi-fi.

these are our sad faces

We have a 3 hour wait for our next flight. Then 10 hours later it's back to the real world. I don't even want to contemplate all the work that is waiting for me!

I adored Thailand. The beauty exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend a visit to all of you. I loved bartering over prices, I loved meeting the friendly stall workers, I loved exploring the beauty of a foreign land and getting to know a foreign culture. I love that prawns a pineapples are staple foods.

I should have bought this shirt - it should have been written in Thai!

Saying all that- I don't think I will will be eating any rice or prawns for a while. I'm looking forward to a nice juicy steak and a good glass (or bottle) of red wine.

I look forward to constant BBM and FB on my Blackberry without having to rely on wi-fi and I look forward to seeing my babies again. I have missed my fluff balls terribly!

Phi Phi to Aonang

The massage on Phi Phi was amazing. Slathered in coconut oil the ladies really got to work on all our sore muscles. Let me tell you- this is not relaxing if you have tense muscles, but you do feel good afterwards!

Tee had an afternoon nap and I made my way to the beach. I read my book, enjoyed a swim and just relaxed. It was the perfect alone time.

We then went shopping when it had cooled down somewhat and If the stalls had had more western sizes, I would have bought more things!

We stopped at a Sports Bar and had some real western food, it was great!!

We had to check out the next morning, but were only boarding the ferry at 3, so we made the most of our air-conditioned room, found a pizza joint on the beach with free WiFi and then made our way to the ferry

At least this time it was airconditioned!

I have not started on my Novel for November Novel Writing Month, so I put a good hour or so into beginning it. I have to finish this challenge, it would be really fun!

Our hotel in Aonang is amazing. The island is pristine, the people are super friendly and their english is very good. Prices also seem to be higher here.

We enjoyed a delicious buffet breakfast at the hotel restaurant and then made our way to the pharmacy for Aloe Vera oil for me and a McFlurry for Tee.

Oh and I bought myself a pair of nailclippers! I had left mine behind an my nails have been irritating me! I even had a dream about nailclippers! :-p

This morning we were up early for our elephant trek through the jungle. The asian elephants are a lot smaller than the African elephants, but nevertheless, these gentle giants are still daunting when you stand next to them.

We went for a leisurely walk through the jungle. Our bare feet rested on their backs and it was an amazing experience to feel the thick skin and hair under our feet. We got a chance to pose sitting on her neck and I really hope that these animals are treated well. A few trainers seem to be a bit harsh and you can see a few marks on their skin from the bullhook, but I sincerely hope they were superficial. Our trainer said he did not use the hook and it was only there for emergency. He seemed to really love the elephant though. But unfortunately he only works there, doesn't own them.

We came back to our hotel and had another sleep. It is incredible how the heat drains a person!

We are off to do some shopping in a bit and then all meeting for our final dinner tonight

There are some good people in our group, but then there are some really loud, obnoxious people. We try to avoid them!

Right, I have shopping to do, so I will say cheerio for now!!