Catching Up

Since I got back from Thailand, I feel like I have been doing a million and one things... working out, cooking, socialising, wedding planning.... but then when going through my phone for photos for this post, I cam to the conclusion that it mainly has been all for my business or just not photo worthy. Hmm.

 

 

Our final week performance was rock and roll, so I decided to do it in denim shorts. NOBODY SHOULD EVER do pole in denim - it hurts!!

 

We headed down to Meet the Greek in Brighton le Sands with a few friends one Saturday night and as always it didn't dissapoint. We have converted a few more people now.

 

I'm wearing Not so Naughtical from Dat Girl.

 

 

The next morning we headed back down to the beach for a yummy breakfast.

 

Ever since making my first poached egg a few months ago, I have become OBSESSED with them!

 

 

Breakfast at El Banco in Brighton le Sands

 

  

 

My friends hens party was on  last weekend and I have never had a bad night when there is topless waiters around and endless champagne. Never have I ever.

 

Her hens was at Retro hotel and part of the package included Puppetry of the PeePee and I have never laughed/been horrified so much.

 

I stupidly had too much fun, didn't get home until 3.30am and then woke up at 6am for a markets day. Arghh I only had myself to blame and when A whispered "I hate you", I couldn't agree with him more and hate myself too! lol.

 

We went to a local Pub the other night and this was my meal!!!

 

I can't remember the sauce now it was like cajun or peri perio or something along those lines and underneath it was a Quinoa salad with Balsamic dressing.

 

Quinoa is another food I am obsessed with lately.. have you jumped on that bandwagon? If not, you should! It is delicious, healthy and filling. 

 

 

This huge puppy visited my stall last Saturday, he was massive!

 

Local Japanese - Terriyaki Chicken $9

 

Tuna hand roll $3.50 

 

 

I helped to promote my pole studio Suzie Q on the weekend and let me tell you... noone should be on a pole constantly over a 5hour period. At the end, I could barely lift myself up and now 2 days later I am still in a lot of pain.

 

I just have to remind myself that it is "good" pain, right?

 

What has everyone been up to??! Tell me tell me please.

 

xx



Life through my iPhone 5

I have been slack I admit this, between writing huge Government job applications, marketing Dat Girl, Christmas shopping, trying to socialise and clean and not put on too much weight and book things for the wedding and fulfil Dat Girl orders and do pole dancing and see my family and ARRAGGHHHHHHH yep all got a lot too much! hahaha.

 

It's funny, I get so tired sometimes and wish I wasn't that busy, but on the other hand I freakin' love being busy, and get bored after even one weekend at home..

 

The easiest way to catch up I think is through my iPhone 5, let's take a trip shall we? :P

 

 

Remember Oliver? He has gotten bigger now, but the poor little guy was really sick last week. Mum came home from work to find blood everywhere and ran him to the Vet. They thought he had Pavo (aka the puppy killing disease), luckily he didn't, but he was on a drip at the Vets for an entire week. The Vet still has no idea what it was, but if mum hadn't of rushed him there he wouldn't have survived!

 

How cute is he trying to reach over the fence like Bobbi?

 

 

 

Don't know when I wore this, but I must have liked the red lip, leopard print look.. pity about my cone head!

 

When my girls and I catch up, we get a whole board of pizza! Bondi pizza offers three of them like this now, it's cheaper and looks awesome so it's a winner in my books.

 

 

Headed out recently for drinks and dancing. Wore this Twiggy leather skirt from Dat Girl of course, with this backless ASOS leotard. It was a fun night out, I am not a home body all the time, that's for sure - this girl needs to boogy sometimes!

 

Pole dancing ended last week. I have officially been a pole dancer for a year now and I freaking loveeeee it! I would recommend it to anyone and I can really see and feel my muscles improving.

 

Speaking of which, does anyone else find it funny the bad rep pole dancing has?

 

 

Sure, in the past pole dancing went with stripping, but I personally think it's great that women have turned around something that was suppose to be "for men's enjoyment" and found a way to make it empowering for them, to help then become strong and fit!

 

A and my mum have both come to watch at my pole studio and both agree there is nothing sexual about it.. the things these ladies can achieve are amazing, they put the beefed up boys at the gym doing chin ups to shame, shame I tells ya!

 

 

Our first Christmas tree, all silver and pretty.

 

  



 

We went to Ivy Pool on Sunday and what a fun day it was!! Unfortunately, Ivy pool on a Sunday leads to feeling sorry for yourself on a Monday hahaha.

 

I'm wearing the Mayhem dress from Dat Girl.

 

 

My niece graduated from Preschool this week, how cute is this?! Cue awkies smile, when she just wants to be running around playing hehe.

 

What's everyone doing for the holidays?

 

Mini Freakout

 

Last Thursday was an eventful day. It was such an eventful day, it gets its own blog post.

First things first, I had another wedding delivery arrive at work... YEY!!

 

This little wooden sign for the pageboy to carry down the aisle, instead of a pillow.. I think it is adorable and I can just imagine all the "awwwwws" when he walks down.

 

 

On the other side, is this cute saying for our wedding photos.

Thursday night after work on the train to my mum's house, I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a photo of my wedding dress sample in a wedding magazine, I knew it was going to be featured so that didn't surprise me, but what did surprise me was that I didn't realise it was my dress at the time and I thought it was very average looking, I actually didn't like it at all.
 

I kept staring at the dress. I felt sick.
 

All of the worst thoughts started going through my head. Even though my dress is being made from scratch, with all the little things I want to add to it, I still could not help but freak out.
 

Was it just because I was exhausted or did I actually not like the dress anymore? I didn't know, but I knew my mum would talk sense in to me and she did - pointing out all the differences in the photo and my dress, the styling etc. She even made me look the photo on a computer and once we realised it wasn't even in focus, that eased a lot of my worries!! It made me realise why I couldn't see any of the detail. My bridesmaid also helped me by telling me that she saw me in that dress and she would not hear me saying anything other than "it is the most perfectest dress ever". She told me "the woman makes the dress, not the other way around".
 

AHH.. I am surrounded by the best women ever! I trust them completely and was so grateful they smacked some sense in to me.
 

Has anyone else had this feeling? You know the feeling you picked the wrong dress? Were you proved wrong later? What happened? tell me allll! hehe.
 

After my bride moment, I went to pole dancing for my first lesson with Suzie Q - she is amazing and she is also the hardest task master!! I have never worked so hard in a pole dancing class before and by the end by arms refused to lift me anymore. While I hated it, like you do when something hurts, I loved it and I am soo excited to do more classes with her and hopefully improve improve improve! I hate feeling like the whimpy unco kid in the back haha.
 

I am now COVERED in bruises and my muscles hurt for days after, but i'm heading back there tonight ready to work off some more of these wobbly bits.
 

 

Suzie Q is amazing.. check out this video of her in a NSW comp.

 



Randomness

I have been a less frequent aka bad blogger of late. When I have spare time lately, the last thing I feel like doing is thinking or typing or staring at a computer - the perils of running an online store I guess?!

 

Anyways, I do enjoy blogging and I will try to behave more blogger like, starting with a randomness post..

 

 

Last night I caught up with my girl Priscilla, for a girly gossip catchup chat. I love our chats like this and we hadn't done one in a while, so 3 hours, food and coffee was needed!

 

I felt so refreshed and cleansed when I went home haha.

 

 

Vienna Chocolate... mmmmmMm!

 

 

Dat Girl is featured on Scoopon at the moment, it is exciting to see my baby out there and see people respond to it - it is also really nerve racking!

 

 

A returned to Sydney for goof last week - YAAAHHOOOOOO!!!

 

(pity about my fat arms in the above pic, it's okay I gave him Sangria so he wouldn't notice hardy ha)

 

Before we moved in together, we use to have a date night tradition of doing something, anything together every Tuesday night. We kind of forgot about this when we moved in together, but now we have started the tradition again.

 

 

We went to La Cita at Cockle Bay Wharf for tapas platters. The top platter was my favourite, the bread was warm, the meatballs were soft and the Chorizo, ohhhh the Chorizo!

 

 

 

We had a family lunch on Sunday and I wore a Dat Girl blazer, pretty petals. I am now obsessed with this blazer, I have worn it a few times and keep getting compliments, now I just need the man parts to tell people where to get it from :P 

 

 

My niece couldn't stop looking at herself in the camera on my new iPhone 5. She is such a cutey, I spun out when I said hello to someone and out of her little mouth came "HELLOO" - I had never heard her talk before!

 

She has also started crawling in recent times, so it's been a big month for her. Must be tough!

 

 

One of my friend's puppies.. I dare you to say he is not cute? C'mon..I double dare you!

 

I love the attitude he has, I can't help but give him like a Mugley (is that the cartoon dog's name?) accent.

 

 

We are spoilt for sunsets from our balcony- SPOILT!!!

 

 

We had another Dat Girl photo shoot a few weeks ago, I am so excited to show everyone the new summer looks!

 

Why do I keep putting myself in photos with models? why? not my smartest move haha.

 

 

 

This is a new trick I taught myself on the pole when I was under the influence... I'm actually only holding on with one leg. I was very proud of myself.

 

We have our pole performance tonight and for the first time both my mum and A are coming to watch me... eeeep I hope I don't forget everything and look like a clutz! hahaha

 

What's your plans for the weekend?



Giveaway and Ramblings

First of all, a big thank you to everyone for their kind words and advice on my wedding makeup trial.. I loved it at the time and my stupid head was starting to get to me, so thank you for making it go away! :)

Secondly... the GIVEAWAY is ending tonight, so get your entry in. I swear it takes two seconds (ok not literally two seconds, but it's quick and easy - like a frozen pie) and at the moment there is only one entry so your chances of a FREE blu-ray are pretty darn high if you ask me. Enter now by clicking here.

Now on to my ramblings...

A left me on Sunday. Not left left me, but left me to live in Melbourne for a few months. I was pretty good at the airport until he was going on to the plane and I couldn't stop hugging him, I kept making him go to the back of the line and when I looked over his shoulder I saw a lady smiling at us, that was it.... the crying started!! It hit me- I won't be on this adventure with him! It's hard, but I'm proud of him and happy for him.

Since A has been gone though, I have not been sleeping well at all. Night 1 - scary scary nightmare. Nights 2 & 3 - restless sleeps and Night 4 - another nightmare.

WTF<>?!

 I thought I would be in starfish heaven having our huge lush bed all to myself, but damn it I can't freaking sleep!!

I had a weight gain this week, but that was expected it was the "monthly gain".

Despite my gain, yesterday was still an awesome day, because I did two things I previously thought were impossible....

I ran for 26minutes straight without stopping (remember my previous celebration of 20 minutes?)

ANNND..

I finally did a pole dancing trick, the upside down V that I have been trying to do for FOR-EVER!

oKK.. so I still haven't perfected it and my hips need to be up higher, I need to have more strength in my landing and stop sliding, but the last one's the poles fault lol and it is only the third time right here, I just took the video to show my friend who didn't believe me. You can here my excitement at the end :P

What's everyone got planned for the weekend?

I am off to see Anh Do tomorrow night, but that's about it for this weekend..... I'm keeping it low key before I head off to Melbourne next weekend (yaaahooooo!)

Here's a funny heading in to Friday... I saw it on FB.



Let's talk numbers!

Okay I'm going to do it, I'm going to talk numbers and weight in a post on the world wide web. SCARY!!!

A trick we learnt in pole last term

"Look mum, no hands!"

First of all I should tell you that I'm 168cm to put things into perspective.

I'll start with my starting weight at the start of this round of 12WBT - 70.3kg (granted part of this was due to my over indulgence the week prior).

At the photo in this post I was around 62kg.

At our engagement party, I was pretty happy with how I looked and I was 64kg.

My goal for the first month of 12WBT was to get to 67kgs. I didn't care of it was 67.8 or 67.2 - that was my monthly goal.

In the first week I lost and weighed in at 69.1

Second week - lost another 900grams, weighed in at 68.2

Third week - gained 500grams - 68.7

And yesterday???? I lost 800grams and weighed in at 67.9!!!!!!! I only just made it in to the 67's but I don't care, I'm not getting caught up in semantics. I achieved my goal and I am proud.

I am starting to feel like myself again.

I have currently lost 2.4kgs and 3.4% of my body weight.

My two month goal is to be in the 65's.

The "Angel"

In addition to weigh in, at the monthly mark I also had to do my measurements. I don't think there is much point in revealing what each measurement is, but I will tell you the difference from when I started until now...

Hips - down 7cm

Waist - down 4cm

Arm - one down 4cm, the other 3cm

Legs - one down 5cm, the other 3cm

Again, I'm stoked!!

12WBT Brocolli Soup- YUmMMm!

I know this second month will be harder to keep dropping the weight. I have recently purchased a polar heart rate monitor and once I pick it up from the post office I'll be setting myself exercise goals to keep pushing the limits!

Anyone have any ideas for exercise goals??

Pole, Back and Shoes.

I haven't taken a pole dancing photo for a while now, but I am in my third term and we are doing some really coll looking tricks. The trick above is one we learnt last night.

Unfortunately, about ten minutes prior to taking this picture, I was doing another move when I felt something pull in my lower back. My back has been troubling me for the past 6 weeks and causing me immense pain. Some days I cannot reach down to put my stockings on, or to pick up things or I can't even roll over in bed. Last night was one of those nights. I woke in the middle of the night to roll over and I was awake for 30 minutes trying to turn, it was exhausting and I cired because it hurt so much. I cry regularly from the pain and frustration. I am 25 not 85!!! I should be able to use my body freely!

I have been to my GP about my back and I am scheduled to get some scans done. He wants to be sure it is not a joint or disk before we move on to any other treatment.

 I changed my work chair today hoping it will make a difference. I had only been using my previous one for a few months, so hopefully that was the cause and now I have found the solution. I just want it to end :(

Feeling sorry for myself, I figured the best remedy was greasy food. I haven't had Oportos in so long and on Monday 12WBT starts again so I have to get in all my badness this week LOL. I have decided that until the wedding next year 12WBT will be like my own personal nutritionist minus the excessive cost.

Speaking of all things greasy and bad for you... has anyone else been addicted to McDonalds' $2 Chicken and Cheese? Many of my friends are fellow addicts. They are just soo yummy, cheap and the perfect size. A regularly turns to me and says "Chicken and Cheese entree?" when we walk past McDonalds to the supermarket. I know there are certain pockets of cellulite on my bum which were created by Chicken and Cheese lol.

Yesterday I also received my massive box of shoes from Brands Exclusive. There were 5 pairs of shoes inside. It is safe to say everyone at work things I have an online shopping problem. The security guard laughs at me every time he hands me a package and then threatens to chop up my credit card.

My thigh high boots- can't wait to try them on!!

Got these in brown and black

Posted these babies on Instagram..

I think the heeels will be perfect for a New York themed 30th I have on Saturday.

I am thinking black lace dress, these shoes and a fur coat. Do you think that's on theme?

 Has anyone been to a New York themed party or have any suggestions?