PeterAlexander: Celebrating 20 Years of Sleeping Around

I am enjoying the colours, fabrics and beautiful prints that accompany an equally great story. Can't wait till he's next in store and I can get him to sign it for me. What a great Christmas present Grandma.

Today I feel 100% fufilled.
I have earned the right to sleep tonight, what an incredible day full of challenges, triumphs, fuzzy feelings and opportunities. Bring on tomorrow.

'I love it when you say'... what's on your mind.
Despite his poor spelling, I like Brendan's recent rant. It gets you thinking.

Have you lived today, really lived?

This year I was struck with that feeling that I haven’t achieved anything. It was as though 2009 would be a write-off, the year that you go, ‘Yeah, nothing memorable happened.’ So, in order to rectify this, I actively sought out opportunities to spice up my life, in small ways, so that 2009 would not become just another year.

So in the later half of this year I:

• Dyed my hair blonde
• Took up Pole Fitness
• Tried BBQ Pork Ribs
• Tried a Noodlebox that wasn’t my ‘regular’ (The Combo box FYI, it dominates)
  Drove on the Gateway Motorway (You’d think working near there I would have done this sooner!)
• Enjoyed a Deep Fried Mars Bar with Ice-Cream

For the future:

• Make Chocolate Ganash (It’s like a chocolate cupcake icing)
• Try Thai Takeaway
• Eat at the revolving restaurant at Crowne Plaza
• Taking the STI down the quarter-mile
• Complete a photography course (Maybe at the end of my degree in Summer 2010/2011)
  

A Legacy of Hope
Despite our best intentions and bravest faces, we’re all afraid sometimes. We all struggle with our own definition of adversity; we each have different monsters under our bed. Though in spite of this, we search for small portions of hope in our lives. Small things that remind us what it is we live for.

I found Hope on Monday morning, in a gum tree ten metres from my bedroom. She represents the good that exists in all of us: the hope that we have for our own lives and for those we hold dear.

We all need a bit of hope sometimes.

Much anticipated (by Camille) photos of our October Hervey Bay Trip.

Two quick hopes for the future:

A lifelong friend.
When I was 11 years old I held a colouring competition at my school raising funds for the Moggill Koala Hospital. Considering that entries were 50 cents each, our thirty-eight dollar profit blew my mind. Eight years on I’m still passionate about our furry friends and look forward to the day I can teach my own child appreciation of the koala. I only fear that they will be only found in zoos when that day comes. What a sad state the world will be.

Zap lives at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and can always be found in her favourite sunny spot.

Decadence.
In my favourite reality I would own and be the most loyal customer of my own cafe gift shop. Where guests were treated like family and were greeted by decadent cupcakes, cheesecakes and slices. Washed down always by the finest coffees, old fashioned spiders or hot chocolates with complimentary whipped cream. Modelled on Sandgate’s Mei Li, Aspley’s Top Nosh, Chermside’s Carousel’s and Cupcakes and every other establishment dedicated to the finer side of life.