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Post Holiday Blues

Date Posted : 30 Jun 2010

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I'm back! And it seems so much has gone on while I have beenaway.

Sorry for the absence, I was off on a last minute trip OSand loved every minute! It is so hard to come back from holidays that it makesme want to book another immediately. Here are some things that I have learntduring my trip

There are no Monaco bars in Monaco! However youwill pay around AU$6.50 for a glass of coke.
In Italy, I was the only person who did notsmoke
In Spain there is nothing wrong with pee'ing inpublic. I learnt that when the bus we were on drove past a guy doing so(although the toilets were only 20 meters away), once we beeped at him heproceeded to hold his umm 'member' in one hand and wave to us with the other.
Frogs Legs taste like a cross between chickenand fish. Once you get over the look of them on the plate they are actually notbad at all.
It is possible to get lost for 1hr 45 mins inthe Louvre if you do not take a map with you
Nutella comes in 15kg jars in Europe. (why we donot have this in Australia is beyond me!)
In London all I couldn't get "Mind the Gap" outof my head after catching the tube all day
In New York I recommend you take a suitcase withyou when you go shopping just for your new purchases. Hiring a trolley for theday was not at all my finest hour.
Disneyland is the happiest place on earth!
Macy's New York is an even happier place onearth. With McDonalds and Ben & Jerry's there is no reason to leave at all.
In Fiji, cava tastes like dirty laundry waterbut takes no time to make your mouth numb.

My one problem was how to bring home all my luggage afterthe trip. It seemed to somehow double. After leaving home with 20kg's I had tosend home 40kg's in the post. Yes - that's correct! I managed to pick up anadditional 40.

Now what is this that I am hearing about Speidi? I can'tbelieve it! It is like some kind of hideous train wreck that you can't stoplooking at. As much as I want to hit Spencer in the head with my shoe and shakeHeidi till she wakes up, I can't help but think that the two belong together. Ihave to say that this smells like a PR stunt to me. With The Hills wrapping upand LC moving on to bigger things (rumour has it that she is engaged!) perhapsour little blonde friends are clutching on for a free ride for as long aspossible. Besides we do have to ask ourselves would these two match with anyoneelse? I think not. They remind me of Posh and Becks during the early cluelessyears of their relationship. just a little more .. blonde?

Well, that's all for now.. I need to catch up on my washing.and Foxtel IQ.

-SS-

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Muff-Blowing?

Date Posted : 26 Jan 2010

I love the smell of summer. I love the smell of the summer rain, the suntan lotion, coconut oil, summer fruits. and much more. Out come the cute summer dresses, which make putting together the right accessories exciting. Fresh colours in earrings and necklaces are so much fun.

Of course with the trips to the beach come the "fun" things like body exfoliating and bikini waxes. This week I had a rather interesting experience at the wax salon. I usually go to a small salon in town that is run by a group of Korean woman. I find them reasonably priced but they do an amazing wax job, which comes out smooth and takes longer to grow back.

This week they had a new girl join the team, which was taking my appointment. I went in, put on the disposable underwear and got comfortable on the table. In came the girl and starting working with the wax and then started smoothing it out on my muff. I almost jumped - the wax was pretty hot! It was much hotter than usual and gave me a bit of a shock.

She immediately stopped and I explained that the wax was hot.

She looked at me and said "Excuse me maam?"

"Its hot. Burn. Ouch. Hot" I said

Blank look.

So I started blowing and waving my hand about "Yes, hot"

"Ah, hot" she said and then... started to blow at my muff.

It seems she finally understood that the wax was hot and I am not sure if that was her reaction to cool the wax or if she thought I wanted her to blow on it to cool it down. There was I virtually naked from the waste down getting a bikini wax, with a beautician blowing on my muff to cool the wax down! I had no idea what to do so I just lay there. wondering what on earth to say.

Once the wax was over (still a great job) I honestly could not get out of there fast enough. I am actually at a loss at the moment with what to do next time I need a bikini wax. Do I go back? What if I get the muff-blowing lady? Stay tuned on that one.

The one thing I dislike about summer is the TV. I am usually out and about anyway but it's still fun to have a couple of lazy nights in being a TV vegie. This year there is bugger all on except for my all time favourite Gossip Girl. I have to thank the powers at Pay TV for putting on the 3rd Season for me. So much drama, trash and more importantly fashion. How good are the outfits? I just dream about having a wardrobe that houses all their outfits, bags, shoes, hair accessories etc in my house. I don't think I would leave that room!

Enjoy the rest of your summer.

-SS-

Toss The Christmas Junk And Jump Into A New Year!

Date Posted : 04 Jan 2010

And so it's time to take down the tree, recycle the Christmas cards, put away the lights and work out where to stash the odd Christmas presents that you were given this year. Every year I end up with a mountain of very strange gifts that people thought would be appropriate to give and every year I find myself stressing out to find space for them. It's not that I don't have room in my house. The problem is that I hate hoarding things. My rule is unless it is useful then out it goes. At the same time I feel strangely guilty for wanting to toss out these gifts that people have just paid for. I know I shouldn't, but every year I find myself trying to work out what to do.

To give you an idea of what I am talking about here are some of the strange gifts I have received in the past few years:

A bright red Coral Colours lipstick and nail polish pack (I was 12!)
A backpack in the shape of an elephant (I love elephants, but that doesn't mean I want to walk around with one on my back!)
New reading glasses (I have just had laser eye surgery!)
The wonderbra (Are you trying to tell me something?)
A pair of size 14 jeans (Thanks, but I am actually a size 10!)

This year I have the task of what to do with a very strange picnic set. As much as I like the idea of having a picnic I cant say I have really gone on one. My idea of a picnic is picking up a container of take out and heading down to the park or beach. I can safely say that I have never planned a picnic that would require the use of various canisters, a cheese knife, chopping board and containers! I also can't picture myself lugging something that size anywhere either - take out containers are much lighter.

As much as I love Christmas, I do enjoy the after Christmas sales. This year they were much more hit and miss than previous years. The clothing at Myer was great fun, while the shoes at DJ's had me enchanted. I also spotted two previous "Top Models" while at David Jones. Demelza and Rebecca from Season 4 of Australia's Next Top Model. Rebecca left little of an impression while Demelza still looked like she had attitude stuck up her backside. She may be a couple of years older with a model agency under her belt but to me she was still a spoilt little brat.

New Years - am I the only person that finds the night overrated? There seems to be a lot of focus on the fireworks and resolutions. Now the fireworks bore me after a couple of minutes. I find myself tuning out and I don't have the patience to watch both sets. Resolutions on the other hand don't make sense to me. All I hear from people around me is "My resolution is to get fit" or "In the New Year I am going to start saving". What I don't understand is why people feel they need to wait till New Years to make these changes? Does that mean it's ok to keep gaining weight or being lazy till New Years and then start to get fit? Or that you can keep spending and putting yourself into debt until the New Year and then turn a new leaf to save? I figure if you aware that you need to get fit or start saving then you shouldn't really need a New Year to make a change.

Well that's just my 2 cents anyway. Anyone have a decent resolution that would make me change my mind? If so I would love to hear from you.

-SS-

Brain Dead Moments... Uh Oh!

Date Posted : 01 Dec 2009

I am not sure what it is, but I can safely say that my mouth has a mind of its own. As much as I hate to admit it, I have had some real docile moments which make me hang my head down in shame. For some reason the other day a few of these moment popped into my head. I will share a few with you just so you can see the point I am trying to make:

Walking into a wake I said to the person I was there to offer condolences to "Hi, How are you?"

Uh... how do you think they are since they are coping with the death of a family member!

To a person who just told me how hard it was to conceive her daughter "So do you think you will have another one?"

Not that this helps, but I was painting my nails at the same time...

To the person sitting next to me at work "Hey, is rediculouness a word? How so I spell it"

Their response was most appropriate being "Now that is ridiculous!"

My all time brain dead moment...

At a Mexican restaurant after ready the menu and seeing that corn chips were side dish extras "Wow! Corn chips! Are they hot chips made from corn? Oh wait... I get it"

It was pretty silent at the table after that comment.

Now moving on from this ... can you believe that it is almost Christmas? How has it snuck up on us so fast? I still have decorations up from last year that I have been meaning to get around to taking down. I guess I don't need to anymore. Still as much as I LOVE Christmas, enjoy the shopping, weather and holiday time, the one thing that I struggle with is the crowds. It seems that everyone is in such a mad rush to enjoy their holidays that they forget to be a little cheerful.

Yesterday I went out shopping to see if I could pick up a couple of Christmas gifts. I managed to get a little side tracked and found myself trying a couple of outfits on... what can I say? The clothes were calling me! Anyway, I stood in a change room looking at one of the pieces and along came another woman who was also trying clothes. She took one look at me and what I was trying on, then looked at my reflection in the mirror I was looking into and then stood infront of me to have a look at her outfit. Now I know I am visible to the eye, and I know she saw me.. so I have no idea how to explain this behaviour except that during the Christmas period people do very strange things. I guess online shopping allows us to avoid these people! Hope you are all well, -SS-

The Title Of Disasterchef Goes To...

Date Posted : 04 Nov 2009

And so it has happened. I have jumped on the Masterchef bandwagon only to find out that I am indeed the country's best Disasterchef. Watching the series this year and then the Celebrity version I suddenly felt empowered in the kitchen. I am not sure why, but I some how felt that sufle's, foie gras and risottos were something I could easily tackle. In my mind I had become extremely domesticated and able to cook up a storm for dinner. And so I went shopping.

First stop was the butcher. Now I was there to buy a lamb to roast. Only problem was I had no idea of the difference between the different meat options - all red. all look the same. Lucky for the little butcher signs! I picked out a lamb shoulder which looked similar to the picture online although I wasn't really sure about the bone.

Next was the fruit and Vege shop. Has anyone else noticed that parsley looks exactly the same as every other green herb? Seriously all those little green bundles had me stumped for a good half hour. I was fortunate enough to have the shop assistant come and ask me if she could help because I had been standing there for a while and she was getting worried. I can see the benefit of having the dried jar spices now.

Then there was the grocery store. So many options! Don't get me wrong, I have been grocery shopping before but our list is normally limited to 'get milk and cocoa pops'. I had never noticed how many isles there were and how large the variety is. I see why people complain that grocery shopping takes so long. I took out my list and tried to power through.

On the menu that evening was a roast lamb in a red wine sauce, sweet potato slice, roasted vegetables, grilled haloumi and for dessert a flourless chocolate cake. In reality we had on our plates dried pieces of lamb that we had to rip off the bone because I had no idea how to carve it up. They looked like mangled specs of meet out of a can (and didn't taste much better), the veggies were so shrivelled up that the carrots look like burnt baby carrots, the haloumi was the only decent thing on the plate but there is only so much salty cheese a person can eat on its own.

Now the dessert. well let's just say that my boyfriend complimented my on the 'self saucing pudding'! Umm. Thanks? It was cooked on the outside and looked great when I pulled it out of the oven. 2 minutes later the middle sunk so it looked like an empty backyard pool. Once I cut the cake up out came the middle oozing out. Again, it looked great but the middle was supposed to be cooked. there shouldn't have been anything oozing out. Lucky it was chocolate so we ate it anyway, but it was confirmed I CAN NOT COOK.

So it's is official - the crown of Australia's Disasterchef goes to ME!

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