One in a year

So recently, perth had a very unusual start to the morning. I woke up, got ready for work and proceeded to drive to work. But the roads and well everywhere were covered in a blanket of fog.

While I realise most places get foggy winter mornings, it’s not common for perth. I have lived in one of those common places – Canberra, was always covered in fog during winter. It was normal and the foggy perth morning actually made me nostalgic.

It really amazes me how places around the world can experience weather that just doesn’t happen in your area. For instance a few months back Perth experienced a a cyclone and well honestly Perth is far from tropical.

But after all the weird weather recently we are back to blue skies and warmish weather which is sort of normal.

Travelling is horrible

I really dislike travelling. I mean, last night I had to fly to Brisbane, QLD again for family. I flew with my mum, dad and sister. It was horrible, flying in General is horrible!

So after getting to Perth Airport around 10pm last night we made the flight to Melbourne, VIC were we then had to connect to Brisbane. All up our flying time was just under 6 hours but our travelling time was almost 12 hours.

When we got to Melbourne, the plane for whatever reason could not attach to the gate where we disembark. Then we had to re-check all our luggage in again because the airline unloaded our luggage onto the carousel instead of putting it on our next flight. Then boarding our plane to Brisbane was just as bad, it was old and small and they had just finished refuelling the plane – which always makes the air in the cabin of the plane smell like a mix of petrol and oil and always makes me feel sick.

After all that, we landed in Brisbane, got to our hotel which is actually an apartment. We dropped our bags off and went and had an amazingly yummy breakfast (mind you I hadn’t eaten since lunch the day before so food was amazing regardless).

Before making my way to visit the family that we flew over here too see I decided to just sit down and relax for five minutes and take in the beautiful sites of Brisbane.

Now I am born and breed as a Brisbane girl, but I really haven’t lived here for years and probably could almost claim my home to be Perth. However sitting over looking the gorgeous botanical gardens of Brisbane and watching the ferries cross the river it was peaceful and beautiful. I realised that whilst in Perth we have the Swan River and Kings Park our CBD is a CBD. But here in Brisbane you have nature and life and family and love and living all bundled into the area that’s meant for work.

I’m Sorry

After starting this blog i was bombarded with everything in my world affecting me all at once. Work, family and my love life. As it was coming to the end of financial year, both my jobs required mass amounts of work and it really has been super busy.

Secondly my love life, well it’s not a disaster but its been hard to be a ‘good’ girlfriend when i have a million and one things happening that require my attention as well! Any one else feel like they push their partner aside when things become busy? Thankfully my guy is amazing, he is a ‘real Aussie’. He is laid back and easy-going and knows that i put my all into everything i do, so i guess I’m lucky.

And then its my family life.. I don’t know where to start, so aside from being busy with work i had to pack up and leave to go to Brisbane (a 4 ½ hour flight from Perth) to visit my Pop with my mum. About 3 weeks ago we received a call from my uncle saying that my Pop is in hospital and he is ‘crook’. So not the right word for the situation. Anyway, we packed and flew and went straight to the hospital and we were shocked, he isn’t just ‘crook’ he is dying and it’s not like it’s a painless process.

So we were there for a week, spending nearly 8 hours a day by his side making him laugh, making sure he ate and making sure he didn’t run away (my Pop still had his sense of humour thankfully). And a day before the financial year-end we flew home because not only do i have my business to settle my mum is a manager and her team were struggling without her too.

Anyway, I’m okay. My mum is okay and well my Pop is ok.. but the rest of my life is in catch up from being so behind. So i am committed to making this work and the rest of my life work. At least I’m trying, right?

Happy Birthday.. Month

So last week it was my beautiful mother’s birthday, she turned the flirty, ferocious age of forty. Whilst she hates the number, she defiantly doesn’t act it or in my eyes look it either.

In our household (even though i no longer live at home) the tradition is to celebrate birthday week, meaning you get a present a day and still have a wonderful celebration. I love it and everyone any of us ever tell love it too (of course, who wouldn’t want to get presents for an entire week?!).

However, what happens when there is numerous birthdays in a month. Or in my case there are numerous birthdays in the months of March and April. For example, my mum, stepdad, grandma, grandpa, sister, best friends mum and the list does go on. Luckily for me, Birthday Week (as we like to call it) is only for our nearest and dearest.

But I found that I’m not the only person who has found that the month of March is heavy-handed with birthdays. Some of my favourite bloggers made point of it a few weeks ago.

Anyway just putting it out there and to anyone else who has birthdays in this very busy month – Happy Birthday Beautifuls

So this is me..

So I am Stephanie; I am a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, a friend.

So lets start with the whole daughter thing, i was born in 1993 in QLD, Australia. I have an amazing mother, who in fact has turned 40 today. Like every family we have had our ups and downs but she has been the one

who has stayed in my life for the long haul, i like many other families around the world have a separated family; which is fine and all, I had the easy end of the stick because i was older, more mature yada yada ya my sister on the other hand was very young. My beautiful little sister was born in 2002, she was not even a year old when our parents separated. She didn’t understand then (for obvious reasons, a one year old won’t really understand all that much) however she still doesn’t understand now.

 

Now onto me being a girlfriend, we have been together for 3 years in April. In that time we have moved states, moved houses, sold and bought a LOT of furniture. We have grown as people and as a couple, we have had our fights and made up over those fights. We have our own little baby, not a child but a beautiful Rag doll Cat.

And now me; I am an amature photography, a lover of cooking and good food, a graphic design student and an events manager. I have a back problem and a foot problem (from two different accidents), I am never happy with my hair colour and in the last 12 months been blonde, purple and red. I love coffee and need to get fit – not because of any other reason then my body can’t handle me being unfit.Next, my best friend; I have known her for 7 years now. We went to school together, we have lived together, lived in different states and still have managed to stay close. Like any other friendship we have had our ups and downs but know no matter what we are there for each other.

So that’s a bit about me.

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