Bali, here we come!

This time tomorrow, Sam and I will be in the car heading for the airport. We fly out tomorrow to spend two weeks in Bali. To say I am excited would be an understatement. The last few days I have had very broken sleep. I packed most of my stuff last night and I am soo looking forward to spending two weeks exploring Bali. Two weeks away from work, family, work, the indecisive Brisbane spring weather. Two weeks of sun, the beach, shopping, eating, exploring, walking and plenty of fun.

Sam and I on the night of my 21st party.
Indo Girls

56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61

24 + 6 minutes of fireworks, 56/365
24 + 6 minutes of fireworks, 56/365
I am very fortunate to have developed some very good mates through work and in some ways will be sad to see them posted back to base at the end of the year but that is the life of the ADF. For my birthday I was taken to Riverfire, and oh what a nice night it was. Fireworks, F-111 dump and burn, food, crazy chatter, crowds and a Chris Isaak concert. And of course watching The Roulettes as we drove in.


Hello Bridge

Chris Isaak

Washing, 57/365
Washing, 57/365
Sunday, almost always a day of washing and ironing. This Sunday was a big wash as I started mentally packing my clothes for Bali.

Birthday headband, 58/365
Birthday headband, 58/365
This is one of the goodies I bought myself for my birthday. A very adorable handmade from Lupin Handmade

Breakfast, 59/365
Breakfast, 59/365
With not very long now till I go to Bali, I am eating up my perishables left right and centre!

Screen Real Estate with Tony Mott, 60/365
Screen Real Estate with Tony Mott, 60/365
I now have a 22″ widescreen on my desk. It is a big change from the 15″ wide screen on my laptop…. Whoa!!! Very much nicer for lounging on my bed watching TV or playing with photos.

Jacob’s Ladder, now in red, 61/365
Jacobs Ladder, now in red, 61/365
They (the council) painted Jacob’s Ladder red as part of a small spaces program a little while ago. I keep on meaning to stop and take a photo each time I go to the ortho but forget…. I went to the ortho today and took the photo. The stairs look so cool now!

A Foiled Birthday

I turned the pretty average 24 today, I am officially in my mid 20s now!

My breakfast blend
Birthday Smoothie

The girls called me shortly after leaving work yesterday and told me that I was to sleep in this morning and come to work at 0830 instead of my usual arrival between 0730 and 0800. When I walked towards the office, all I could see was Al-Foil all over my desk πŸ˜€ I walked in to hugs from the girls and Al-Foil. They did fantastic job of Al-Foiling my desk, my drawers, my chair, my stationary, everything!

Foil all around
A Foiled birthday

A Foiled birthday

A Foiled birthday

A Foiled birthday
A Foiled birthday

A Foiled birthday

We had decided yesterday to have hot dogs for lunch and one of the girls had said she would bake me a cake. I very much believed that would mean the purchase of a cake from woolies. I was to learn today that no, she had actually baked me a cake! I was quite impressed.

I went down to see one of the doctors and she asked me if we were having the Lamingtons she had given me for morning tea at 0930. I just said ???? what do you mean morno’s?? We are having hot dogs for lunch. Thinking to myself crazy doctor. I went back to my desk and oh about 0930, Cathy swings her chair round to face me and goes “Tea?” I go mmm I don’t know this morning, she goes “come on” and off we go to the lunch room with our tea cups in hand. I open the door to the lunch room and before me I see my fellow medical staff and the interviewing staff and a big spread of mornos πŸ˜€ I was speechless for the second time in as many hours.

My cake!

For lunch Hot Dogs were made πŸ™‚
Birthday Lunch - Hotdogs

For Arvo’s I had a lamington, well half because Cathy stole half of it.
Afternoon tea, 55/365

Then it was time for the F-111 trial fly-over for Riverfire tomorrow night. I got video of the flyover but it doesn’t currently want to get off my SD card. This is the view from the testing room on the floor below me. oh the city is pretty.
Oh the city from Lv 11
Oh the city from Lv 11
Oh the city from Lv 11

I was absolutely touched at the effort that the girls and boys had gone to to make my day special πŸ˜€
Then it was home to find a birthday parcel from dear Georgie currently in Sydney πŸ˜€ Now I’m watching the footy and hoping the Lions can beat the Bulldogs….

and just because

42-54

sweet reading, 42/365
sweet reading, 42/365

Cloud and Clover, 43/365
Cloud and Clover, 43/365

Oh Auchenflower! 44/365
Oh Auchenflower! 44/365

Follow the line, 45/365
Follow the line, 45/365

Moon rise over the Wesley, 46/365
Moon rise over the Wesley, 46/365

Wesley, 47/365
Wesley, 47/365

my new office, 48/365
my new office, 48/365

1 carriage, 2 carriage, 3 carriage, 49/365
1 carriage, 2 carriage, 3 carriage, 49/365

Granny Gart, 50/365
Granny Gart, 50/365

an incredible fluke, 51/365
an incredible fluke, 51/365

Tree, street light, night. 52/365
Tree, street light, night. 52/365

Wesley Pattern, 53/365
Wesley Pattern, 53/365

little shoe lost, 54/365
little shoe lost, 54/365

Frocking up to Dine In

Two Fridays ago work had a Dining In night which was nice experience.

I wore a dress that had originally been my semi-formal dress prior to a few alterations that Mum and I did.

The dress as it did look.
The dinining in dress before the chop

Mum pinning the hem.
Mum pinning the new hem

My shoes πŸ™‚ When I wore this dress in high school, I wore a pair of black heels under it. With the hemline going up, new shoes were needed. These were the first pair of shoes I seriously tried on. Were marked at $290, then reduced to $50 as they were a season old and the scanned at $19.95!! Bargain and very comfy as well.
Gold and sparkley

A photo to show how the dress looked after the alterations.
Hair, yes. Dress, yes. Face, yes. Jewellery, yes.

Then a photo of myself and one of the girls I work with near the end of the night πŸ˜€
Frocked up to Dine In, 41/365

Had some fantastic food, a lot of fun and heard some hilarious stories.