If I were rich..

If I were rich I would follow the winter and never see a day above 30 degrees celsius (~100F) again. I would live surrounded by snow and fluffy jackets.

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The Little Rascals

Last night my friend came around to have a lazy night watching movies and chatting like you do on a wednesday night. Why go clubbing when there are movies to watch and news to catch up on? Anyway we didn't have a movie planned to watch so I said something in that way you say something when you aren't sure the other person is going to like what you say.
"Did I mention that my sister downloaded that old movie, Little Rascals? I loved that movie but I dunno if watching it again would be silly.."
Yep that's about how my kind of hidden question went when really I just wanted to watch Little Rascals.

Anyhoo, luckily my friend was happy to watch the movie (thank god for understanding friends:).

And the review - amazing!! Too often when you re-watch a childhood favourite, they leave you a little underwhelmed. Like when I re-watched the Spice Girls movie. Yeah it was lameballs watching it again. I so wanted to love it but I just couldn't get past the aliens.

But Little Rascals was hilarious. Still. Alfalfa, Sparky and the whole gang made me chortle like there was no tomorrow even though I'm probably not in their target audience.

Some of the He-Man Woman Haters gang.

Otayyyyyy.

What have I been up to?

What have I been up to you ask? Well, let me tell you.

I have been snuffling my nose for three consecutive weeks. What would I do with out those soft snuggly aloe vera tissues. Call me a pretentious freak, but usually I pick the boxes that suit my room even if the tissues are all scratchy and yuck. But when I'm sick, comfort comes first for sure!

After going to the doctors, again, I am now supplied with all of these drugs. I have my current course of antibiotics, the new course my doctor wants me on, my cold and flu saviour tablets, my cholera sachets, my antimalarials, my nasal spray and my blessed sleepers. I'm used to saying this to my oldies I look after at work, but this time it's me who's going to start rattling soon. Sigh.

My el cheapo undies I bought for the sole purpose of wearing and then throwing out in Vietnam. The guy at the counter painstakingly went through everyone of my purchases and told me the colour and price of them. I bought 15 pairs - made for a long check-out process!

My halloween piñata costume is nearly done. Hurrah!

And finally, here are the friends and doctors who've been caring and looking after me these past few weeks. What would I do with out you?

And my other, slightly more real friends, are pretty good too.

Big time apologies!

I am a terrible terrible person. I have gone that many consecutive days without blogging that I'm fairly sure I spied cobwebs when I opened up the blogger page. Eep! I have a bundle of excuses like chest infections, sinusitis, tonsillitis, flus and the likes as well as having worked the last bajillion days straight but apparently you aren't allowed to make excuses when you apologise!

Anyhoo, I have a halloween party next Saturday and I have begun creating my super exciting costume. Want a sneak peek? Here you go!

Dodgy night-time iPhone shot taken while lying on my sickbed couch.

Until next time (which is hopefully tomorrow), Adios!

Remember the days of the old school yard?

I had this whole post lined up about my Year 12 days which I found frankly hilarious but as I finished writing it up I realised that it was lameballs. Apart from about 12 people at school, know one would understand what was so freaking hilarious. But it made me reminiscent of school and reminded me of my pure talents that I possessed as an infant. Yes, I was superbly talented. Superbly talented at drawing crappy pictures.

So here, for your very viewing pleasure is an awkward collection of some of my finer drawings. Hopefully these are mildly more amusing than my previous only-hilarious-to-me post. If it's not, I apologise! I really do apologise for the dodgy images of the dodgy drawings - I took these photos a while a go and I can't be bothered dragging out the pictures again.

I think what I was aiming for was Carmen Miranda but ended up with a pope with very large ears and too many teeth.

I like to think that this shows that I had a sense of irony with my drawing of an 'orange' fish, but it's probably just that I had no orange crayons on my desk.

My sister was missing the top of her head, wore nappies and had hockey stick legs. Really, she did. Well no, but she could have.

It took a lot of explaining from my sister to understand that Leo only pretended to die. The Titanic has always been tough on me.

The family of basketball headed, no necked people. And apparently I thought I had an ample cleavage in year three.

To this day I still cannot draw a decent dolphin.

I startlingly accurate self-portrait. God I hope not. 

And my gorgeous, ever neckless family. Also, dad doesn't actually have a gimp arm and nor do I have a right hypnotic eye.

And to prove that I haven't actually improved in the drawing department, here is the free crappy portrait I did in return to the one drawn for me.

The link to it is here.

Music Monday - Jack Johnson

Oh Jack Johnson, how you soothe my soul! And you are so absolutely gorgeous to look at. I've now seen him twice, and each time I failed to bring my camera along. Boo. Luckily the second time, iPhones had been invented so I could at least have some photographic evidence.

The first time I went with a bunch of friends and were so excited because we were young enough that we hadn't been to many concerts and we were still excited by the overpriced food, long toilet queues and sweaty mosh-pits. It was a magical night made better by the earth hour tribute they did complete with an acoustic set and candles. Awesome!

 Dodgy phone picture numero uno.

And the other.

The second time was thanks to some wicked good free tickets with my sister and her friends which was also an awesome time. We loitered more at the back of the pack and were able to actually semi-dance (or in my case, attempt to sway in time to the music which is the extent of my dancing abilities). Jack has an incredible talent that is better portrayed in a live setting. I would love to see him doing an acoustic set in a more intimate environment one day. I shall dream!

I tried to upload a video I took of his song 'Flake' but I am too new to Blogger to figure out how to do it properly so instead, here is a good ole' youtube clip of it.

Why Don't You Just Wrap It Up?

Sunday's here again! Funny that.

Bah humbug. This week has bought with it a cold/flu/virus thing that does not seem to be disappearing anytime soon. That's enough of a grumble though. Here is what's tickled my fancy this week.

These awesome drawers started out how all good drawers start - made by a Dad. They rotate fully around and have secret locks hidden all over the place. These were for a kids room but I reckon they'd be pretty cool as a coffee table come storage system. Learn how to make them yourself here.

These bits and bobs are the perfect addition to any cool house. His name is John Caswell and he has a knack of making inanimate objects have faces. Clever cookie! My favourites are the buttons.

And this video definitely resonated with the up and coming coffee trends occurring in Perth. We are a little behind the times - Melbourne has been like this for years. Funny or Die presents The Coffee Snobs.

I hope you all have a grand week and that Monday doesn't bring too much of a struggle with it. I for one hope it's not another stinking hot day tomorrow.