Thursday, July 29, 2010

goals and lists

i like to make lists...about everything..shopping lists, packing lists, to do lists, lists about lists. Theres something about it that makes me feel organised and on top of things. I also like to try and set goals...for that day, week, month, year, life - not all the time because i hate putting too much pressure on myself but theres something so rewarding and fulfilling about meeting goals. and if you don't meet them, it's easy to push it back to the next day, week, month, year - always good to have things to work towards...
my mini goal list for the next month or 2:
  1. Watch every episode of the Mighty Boosh, in order
  2. Read Catcher in the Rye
  3. Watch the Godfather Trilogy
  4. Purchase and read all of Paulo Coelho’s books
  5. Eat at Oloroso

xo

oooh la la

I effing love the style in this video...specially the floral 2 piece, the bed & the eye makeup

also the part where she's polishing her grammys - badass :)

xo

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

funny how some people..

..just OOZE style out of every pore



pictures: glamourmagazine

xo

The Holiday

So it’s been a while since I package holiday-ed. In the last 7 years my vacations have consisted of road trips, city breaks, staying with friends & Disneyland. Pretty much anything but. It’s funny how quickly the whole process comes back to you though; the nonsense flight times, finding your ‘rep’ at arrivals, the long/stifling coach trip to your resort – coupled with that awful feeling in your stomach while you drop off the other passengers - hoping the classy hotel might be yours and the dive is not…

10 full days in Tunisia and we didn’t leave the complex once. Part of me is slightly embarrassed that I still don’t know what the country even looks like but the other part knows I got exactly what I wanted out of the holiday. Rest, relaxation, chilling, reading lots of books, time with just each other, eating/drinking as much as we want and at any time of the day, without feeling guilty. And SUN J! It felt so good to see not 1 cloud in the sky the entire time I was there and just soak it up. By the end I had my fill and was ready to come home but I feel rejuvenated and refreshed and ready to face the world again. Job done!

I love how you think you know someone inside out but on a holiday you get even more of an insight…even if you live together already – it’s just something extra, when you’re in that holiday mode. Inside jokes galore – we met Ice Cube, Curly Sue, a dead ringer for our friend’s dad & Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons…true story.

Although I clearly wasn’t immersing myself in African culture, I did take a night out the 10 to enjoy the hookah delights, a beautiful Tunisian sunrise, as well as chat to some of the people working in the complex, who lived locally. One guy working in the small bookshop was always there, no matter what time of day we seemed to pass! He was really friendly, so enthusiastic but un-pushy and always had a smile on his face/said hello, so inevitably we would stop and chat. We found out that he is planning to marry a girl from Paisley in October, so for the last few years he has worked 10-10, 7 days a week in order to make enough money to afford the wedding and visa costs. My face must have been a picture because he laughed and said he didn’t mind it one bit, as it’ll be totally worth it in the end J. We ran out of books to read near the end so thought we’d see what they had in the shop but they were all pretty much in French, German or Arabic. He stopped us before we left, then went rummaging around in the back and came back with a handful of English novels. The one that he handed straight to me was Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho, which proceeded to blow my mind. What a buy/read. I plan to make my way through the rest of his books asap and cannot wait.

Don’t think I’d be in a great rush to do the all-inclusive package thing again any time soon, but I most definitely got what I wanted and needed so I’ll take that. Next stop Charlotte, NC for Thanksgiving/tattoos/road trips

xo

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010

OW

it's not always about the girls...



pictures: me

xo