and now we learn to breathe once more

"its over! its well and truly over!" i exclaimed happily over the phone. i left out the bits about the fact that i will probably have to do a resit.. but i don't care too much. i'm free to bask in the sun, and take pretty pretty pictures, and bake and perhaps if i'm reallly good, i may just exercise. also, my beautiful niece has arrived. this makes me extremely extremely happy and excited... the "kick your feet with excitement" sort of happiness.

cardi beads& shoes: opshop

top: one piece swimsuit from grade 4

jeans: jay jays

its all so exciting and terrifying

exams signify the coming of a holiday season and the end of my mental stability.. i kid, sort of.

ah summer

today i'm sitting in the lounge with the doors to the deck open and the smell of jasmine wafting in through the large timber frames. There's a slight breeze coming thorough and the sky has turned into its lovely purple haze and i sit back and wish i didn't have to study for an exam and i didn't have to go in to uni tomorrow and i could just sit on the deck and play with the silly bounding heap outside otherwise known as Ruby the basset. I have plenty of things to write about.. but i haven't had much time to sit and recollect my thoughts or go out the the field down the road and lie down on the cricket pitch and ponder... I also need to remind myself to meet up with clara and ali cause i haven't had a good sit down with these ladies in a fair while.. and i do miss them so..anyway it's back to work and it's another sunny day tomorrow!

bring on the picnic baskets and gingham rugs

p.s i love you

maladresse

as promised the first sketch. oh woe, tis the exam season soon. it's really not the nicest time of the year. cash is running verrry low. things aren't quite working out at the moment. but thats okay. : ) i have liddle bits of life that make everything okay. like when it's been hailing and raining and you get a good spot of sun. i'm very much looking forward to the next 5 years. i think it'll be rather splendid. Oh Mao's last dance is MUST see. 500 days of summer? not impressed... it was okay. but thats all it was.

mmm

i love the weather when it's sunny and breezy and i'm back in summer dresses and having picnics with a certain someone. ultimate bliss... plenty a sketches coming soon.

letters in the mail

.the ability to communicate.

.to write letters.

.to put the effort into all the little tiny things that make relationships extra special.

i got a letter in the mail today.

i usually only get letters from uni and the bank.

boring, paperwork stuff.

my uncle had sent me a note telling me he loved me very much and he was heading to china for a missions trip.

he'll be gone for two weeks so he sent me all of his petrol fuel vouchers.

strange.

but lovely.

i love my family

my handbags.. it overfloweth

with breakfast food and uni books and sketchbooks. I have been rather pleased with myself of late, I have found 4 pairs of shoes that I love.. and they fit.. AND are amazingly comfy. I also spent my last dollar on them but it was so worth it because my normal flats had holes in them where the water would seep through on cold rainy melbourne days.

In other news..

in dec last year i headed over to cambodia with a couple of mates on a missions trip.. there we gave out food at the slums and the garbage tip. On other days we taught english classes amd it was common practice for us to exchange emails with the students so they could practice their written english... ALAS, these brought an  influx of weird and strange declarations of love for me and my travel buddies. Amongst these were : proposals and expressions of interest for courtship, requests for money and lastly, a request for a tuktuk from oh, lets just say Bob.

now it was all really funny until Bob decided to compose multiple emails on why we should buy him a tuktuk and when he would return the money by. it was getting rather annoying and thus i vented to a friend of mine[A] who, lo and behold recieved the exact same email from Bob.

is it me or is it really rude to ask people for money, assuming they have money in the first place? anyway i attempted to write some sort of passive aggressive letter to let him know that i would not be giving him any money as i am broke. somehow i don't think it was heavy enough on the aggresive..also.. i imagine he thinks very highly of himself as he thought he could get away with writting the same letter to A and I and not get caught out... you FAIL my friend.. you failed alot.

oh the guy next to me is looking at my computer and i just glanced over... someone likes his asian ladies... creepy.

and if one day you wake up

and find that you're missing me....

have you ever lost a friend momentarily for whatever reason only to rekindle it again and find what it was that made you fall in love with them in the first place? its happened a fair few times in the last few weeks and if i could draw/film the images that i can see in my head i would be able to show you exactly how it makes me feel... it's like a drop of paint splashing into your soul, livening up nooks and crannies you forgot existed. And they'd grow outwards and fizzle off into every other part of you. Or like someone playing an instrument and you find yourself unfathomably happy when you hear a once familiar tune.. oh the wonders of rediscovered friendship...

also.. i found the cutest cafe.. 

which also makes me very happy

not as happy as you

the many faces of ruby

in the meantime

breakfast food at my house on a lazy day looks like this:

strawberries and bananas with 

chocolate cream and oreo cookie bits..

dessert looks like this

lunch and dinner consist of cadbury chocolate bars... i kid.. also you know what is really annoying? when parent tell you to watch a show and they crack the shits when you don't.. and when you're watching something genuinely interesting they crack the shits too..cause that just happened like a minute ago.

 no cupcakes for them i say.