random life & musings – Page 3

February 17, 2014

#thisSundaylife

#thissundaylife almost forgotten.

Orchids from my #flowerauction flowers.
#KleanKanteen because this girl gets dehydrated really easy in this weather.
Art because, there could be art covering all my walls and it still wouldn’t be enough.

February 10, 2014February 9, 2014

Curtains for the balcony room

I struggle on what to call this room, if I’m speaking to family it is typically called Karl or Matthew’s old room as they used to live in it.

For me though is part guest bedroom, part study, part home office, part creating space, part second wardrobe.

When the house got re-painted I didn’t put the curtain rails back up. As it is no longer a bedroom it no longer needed block out curtains.

Instead I left the windows bare and let the light shine on in. If I needed curtains I would bulldog clip fabric to the window frames.

A trip to Ikea the other month I finally picked up some moreÂ Dignitet curtain wire and put it up.

A old sari that I picked up from a stall at the Woodford Folk Festival many moons ago serves as the curtain on the long side of the room and a length of green fabric is the curtain for the shorter side.

They dance quite perfectly in the breeze and run up and down the curtain wire when the wind gets up.

A very lovely and overdue addition to the room.

February 9, 2014February 9, 2014

#thisSundaylife

#thisSundaylife
My plan for 1 photo and post every Sunday on a moment from that day.

Breakfast today.

Bread I baked, Tomatoes I grew.

Tommy Toe tomatoes from my garden on grilled beer bread that I make once a week as a “sandwich/breakfast toast” loaf.

Very, very, very yummy.

January 19, 2014

Bulmers O’Clock

A hot afternoon spent in the garden.
A lazy evening spent on the patio with a blackcurrant Bulmers.
Dinner cooked by my little brother.

July 1, 2013

FY 2014

I’m an accountant now and as people at work love to say, we get two times a year we can make new year resolutions.

Instagram has most certainly taken over as the place where I post the random photos that actually once formed what was \random life. My long defunct photo log. Â Still this little corner of the web means so much to me. Â It has been part of my life for over eight years. So, so, so, so much has changed in those eight plus years.

Friday night we had the EOFY party at Cloudland and it was actually the first time that I have ever been to Cloudland. Three has been many failed connections and aborted plans over the years but on Friday night it finally happened.

What am I planning for FY 2014?

Biting the bullet and getting chooks for my backyard.
Doing a big clean out of stuff that has accumulated round the house.
Fix the record player.
Create more.
oh and eating a lot of pumpkins.

It is resolved that for the year ending 30 June 2014, Helen will not be concerned about trying to catch up with all those photos she has never posted or the drafts that never got finished. It was further resolved that Helen will blog the present.

February 11, 2013

Feb-ru-ray, the first ten days but no cake

I’ve got four days left at my current job before I embark on a big change and go off to be an accountant. I’ve made three cakes to farewell others in the last 10 days and I’ll be making another one tomorrow night for one of the guys who is posting out on Wednesday. All those cakes will be in another post shortly…

On Saturday I went up the coast. After having my farewell party the night before. I was very good and only had four drinks all night. One of those was a frozen apple pie cocktail. That wasÂ divineÂ Just like drinking an apple pie. So, so, so good. Â Saturday was not classic beach weather but the water was nice and the waves were quite decent. An old Woodfordia friend was having a vintage garage sale on Saturday -> thus the reason for the trip up the coast. I picked up the mostÂ divineÂ Osti shirt dress. So, soÂ divineÂ and just the loveliest colours. A photo may appear at some stage.

Going back to the day before, Friday. Friday marked Chan’s last day working for the company and it marked a week left for me with the company before I change jobs as well. Big things abound for the both of us this year. We’ve been desk buddies etc for the last 18mths 🙁 We met up for one last coffee atÂ Pour Boy, the best coffee consistently in our end of town.

I took my first box of stuff home the other day. That’s the first time it really hit me that I’m changing jobs. Nothing says change like packing up five years of your work life and then walking out the door with an archive box filled to the brim. I’ll bring another box home tomorrow and that should be just about everything I think.

I’ve got my eye set on a few events later this year which mean I need to get my fitness back to a pre-uni and pre-flood level. I moved away from Asics GT 2100 series that I’ve lived in for the past x years and picked up a pair of Mizuno Wave Inspire 9. OMG, I enjoyed my Asics but these shoes are like playing in a whole new ballpark. They’re light, just the right bounce and by darn they are blue.

Just like almost every other house in SQLD, the Â mock oranges have flowered and then of course it rained so off came all the petals. Will have to give the patio a very big clean on the weekend as those petals almost bake onto to the tiles. Fun times. People keep commenting on the scent when they visit but I smell nothing 🙁

Chan finally had dinner at Catcus Jack’s after hearing the rest of us at work rave about it for for the past few years. Chocolate Nachos, so, so, so good. One time we will go to Cactus Jack’s and have dessert first I think.

Last Sunday, I finally got my beach wish for the summer. Blue skies, great weather, open beaches, perfect water temperature and darn decent waves. I’ve tried a couple of times this summer to go to the beach but every time I’ve beenÂ thwartedÂ by crap weather, closed beaches or last minute plan changes. The girls at work near on couldn’t believe it that I finally got my beach day.