Tuesday 30 December 2014

2015

2014 has come and nearly gone
365 days into this year
And now there are only hours left until 2015,
How will you choose to spend it?















New years eve is always so bitter sweet it's like another year is over and acts as a reminder that your getting older and the school work is getting harder, yet it also serves as a chance for a new beginning and a better year.






New years resolutions don't really work for me as i'm not really sure what i would like to do 'better' and aren't one of those people who writes and comes up with a list every year but this year i have
two.








1. To be happier

This has to be one of the most cliche New Years resolutions ever but now i think about it i have worded it wrong i don't just want to be happier i want to be more positive. I'm not really an optomistic person and everytime i think of positivity it reminds me of camp last year when the instructor kept repeating 'positive vibes' over 1000 times and when he stopped this other girl started doing it and well... It wasn't a very positive experience. That's my problem with being positive i love to complain 😳 maybe i should add not complaining to the growing non-existing list on New years resolutions.






2. To stop worrying



When i'm not complaining i seem to be worrying about something no matter how little and insignificant it is, i seem to have at least 5 worrys a day and now i am already worrying about problems that could happen next year: what if none of my friends are in my classes? What if the work becomes so hard i have to spend all my free time studying? Ok they are some of the more common ones that i feel comfortable putting on my blog others are either too weird or too personal.






So that is my now existing new years resolution list. I hope you enjoy the rest of the last day of the year and especially tonight. I'm probably going to spend it in the surf with my cousins here on the Gold Coast and maybe we might go and watch the fireworks.

This is my last post for 2014, i can't wait to blog again next year. It might be a while though because i'm spending the first day of next year at Wet n wild. Hope to write for you again soon!

Christmas

Merry Belated Christmas! Yes i know it was days ago but the last couple of days have been so eventful that i haven't had a chance to blog and i only just realised that you can write blog posts on ipads.




So anyway Christmas really didn't feel like Christmas this year, i think it was because of the fact that pretty much every Christmas eve since i was about 5 we would go to my aunt's house for a Christmas eve street party where most of my family was and we would stay there overnight, but this year we went to my grandparent's house.





On Christmas morning i woke up at 4:50 but for some reason it was so dark it felt like it was on 1 am, everyone else in the house was asleep so i decided to watch youtube videos of kids opening there Christmas presents here is one of them.

Then around 8 o clock when everyone was awake i opened all my presents. I got some amazing stuff that i wanted including:




As i have previously mentioned i love minions! I think i might use this next year.









I also really love hello kitty, my dad picked the shirt on the left and my mum picked the shirt on the right.







This is probably my favourite present i am obsessed with these games and can't wait to play this!

I also got a mini air hockey table, some perfume and a handbag.
After we finished opening all our presents we prepared lunch. I have never seen so much food there was ham, turkey, chicken and pavlova and ice cream for dessert. We also had Bon bons and i ended up with about three of those metal puzzle things and a portable chess set.





I spent longer trying to put the pieces back together than i did taking them apart.

We then played the logo boardgame that my aunt got me for Christmas. My dad and my aunt were extremely competitive and my dad kept arguing that my aunt cheated when she won.






My parents and i then drove to the beach where i got to spend an 1 1/2 hours in the surf failing at bodysurfing by the time we returned it was time to get dinner ready. That night after my aunt had left i decided to watch a Christmas movie to keep me in the mood and ended up watching A Christmas tree miracle which is both the most depressing and inspiring Christmas movie I have ever watched. This post is already really long so i won't do a full review but have started writing one that i might post some other time that fully does it justice. In short it follows a year in the life of a family of which is rich until the father loses his job and after getting kicked out of their house end up moving in with a kind old tree farmer who gives his Christmas trees away for free to spread the Christmas spirit.




I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and are having great holidays wherever in the world you are!






Thursday 18 December 2014

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Can you believe there is less than 10 days till Christmas?

This is how I feel:

The evidence of Christmas is everywhere from music playing in the shops to the lights on the houses and also in my house.




I assembled and painted this house a couple of years ago.




This is my beside table I have used the smaller ornaments that I have to decorate my tiny tree.

This advent calendar is reusable and has a small wooden ornament behind each door :)

 and finally...



I couldn't find a santa hat so these glasses had to do!

On a different note the other day this blog reached a 1000 page views and my instagram account 200 followers! I know these are all small milestones but I appreciate all of my views and followers and never imagined getting even a 100 page views!


Tuesday 2 December 2014

Filling empty space with words

Have you ever been walking with someone and instantly their is silence you think of something to say yet no words come out? How would you react?


When faced with this situation I freak out and start going off trying to fill the silence with words. It usually starts with " It's really cold today," or " I'm so tired," and then I think of anything I could possibly say because I find it necessary to have a conversation going all the time or else I seem boring or awkward to talk to.


Before this year I never used to question not saying anything I cannot remember if it happened or how frequently it happened but now I know it happens everyday and I always blame myself for not thinking up something to talk about or not having anything interesting to talk about.

But is it just me and it doesn't really matter at all?


The greatest test of friendship is to sit or walk for an hour with a friend and not say a word yet not tire from each others company. 



This quote was written in my Religion classroom (until someone changed it to sit on a friend). This made me realise that perhaps I am overthinking in these situations, if they didn't want to walk with me to class surely they would just walk away. Perhaps silence is more meaningful than saying words with no meaning?