365 days to go

When I started writing this blog back in November, we had 500 days to go to our wedding! I remember telling you all what I had done in the last 500 days, and showing how much can be accomplished in such a small time. So I guess I should look back at the last 135 days and see how much has happened since that first blog was written.

As you all would know I finished up at Kidspot, ended up at Ninemsn for a while and now am back home at National Foods! I am feling very confident after my interview yesterday, I think it went really well and I know that I couldn't have done anything better, so for that whatever happens next I know I have given it my all. I have also decided that after the wedding I would like to go back to school and study my graduate diploma in Nutrition, or Public Health with a nutrition major. So that's it hopefully for jobs for a while. So everyone please cross your fingers for me, and that I get the Lab Team Leader job, which is the dream.

As for the house we have accomplished a lot in the last 135 days, we learnt that the reason our pool wasnt cleaning was because we were turning on the solar and not the filter-oopsy!!! We have also almost cleared out the entire garden, we have built our wall, and we are contemplating when to take down the door and create our new room fully! As far the painting this is almost done, except for the toilet, laundry and bathroom! All hopefully to be done over the next few years.

As for the wedding well you know I have been crapping on about that the entire blog...well that is the point haha! We have selected our venues, photographer, celibrant, my dress, hairdresser, florist, cake maker, invitations, place cards and candy bar! So we are really getting there with the planning! Thank god!!!

We have also had a short holiday in perth and got ourselves a gorgeous kitty called Zazzles! A lot can change in 135 days, and a lot can be accomplished! I wonder what will happen in the next 135?

Interviews

Well today was the day for round one interviews for the dream! I think i did well but you can never be too sure! I have applied for the many jobs in the last 15 months its ridiculous, and only very few do you get through to the interview stage... so heres hoping! Here is also to hoping that the next 7 days fly by because I am impatient and I want to know if I made it through to the second round.

Other than the interview, today has been pretty cruisy, which I am happy about because quite simply I am exhausted! All the worries about money, jobs and weddings is sure tiring and I am happy to have a break this afternoon to watch the second last episode ever of One Tree Hill (my favourite show in the entire world).

I went and paid some money off my dress again today, its been ordered and I am so excited!! Tomorrow is the day for finalizing the cake so by this time tomorrow I should have a fair idea of what our cake will look like! Yay Yay!!!

Anyways I apolygise for the short one but I need a lie down! Have a great day all xx

The Dress

I have ordered my wedding dress!! Surprisingly its not the dress I always thought I would be walking down the aisle in. But I am in love with it! I felt like such a princess! The deposit is down and the dress is ordered! So hopefully by the end of September the dress will be hanging in my closet! Yay!!! So next on the to do list is the bridesmaid dresses for the ladies!
I have also organised a catch up with the entire bridal party, so that we can organise times for fittings, rehearsals, aand pretty much anything wedding related! After that I think the only thing left to worry about will be paying everything off.

Friday I am meeting with my cake maker to finalise all wedding cake details and also paying the deposit on that one, so things are really beginning to come together, with on 367 days to go! Things are getting far to exciting!

At the moment my main focus is on Netball! I am playing my first official season ever and we have our practice match this weekend and our first game the following week, I am so excited to learn so much more about the game, I have already met some great people and it gives me a great excuse to catch up with some pretty awesome friends!

Lastly on my mind for today is tomorrow, I have a job interview, D Day is fast approaching, the day I have been waiting for since December 19th. That I have a chance at getting one of two full time jobs, hopefully I will get one of them, and then my life can settle down again, I must say I do love the money of shift work, but sometimes working 12 hours day and night gets tough, definitely not as tough as my Kidspot days, I will take working 12 hour night shifts over that any day! But the optimum dream is to be the lab team leader at Lion! So lets see how the next week pans out and if dreams really can come true.

So yesterday!

There are so many things in life you can't control, but then again there are so many things that you can. Yesterday would have marked my 1 year anniversary at Kidspot had I stayed on. I couldn't control how I was treated there, but I could control whether I worked there or not. Some people may say I was weak for leaving a job after 9 months, some could say i couldn't handle the pressure, but I don't think that's true. I believe that I was strong to decide to leave a place where I wasn't treated with the respect i deserve, where my personal values were not upheld, know this now, even 4 months on and I still don't have a secure full time job but I am back, my confidence is back, I am happy again and I feel like I am ready to take on the world again!

Other things you cant control are peoples actions and reactions. I have always treated friends and even people I dont know with respect, I'm not a nasty person and if i choose not to associate with people, I won't do it in a bitchy manner,however at the moment I feel like I am being punished by a so called friend because I am happy. And for the last couple weeks this has really upset me, made me feel so unwell that I couldnt eat...another 3kG lost (but not for good reason). So I am going to take my Kidspot approach to this one! I have so many friends that would be happy and proud of me and where my life is at at the moment and to them I say thank you and I love you all, because there is no point being around unhappy people, misery does love company and I don't need anyone bringing me down. 2011 was a difficult year for me and 2012 is not going to be the same!

I am happy! Darren and my wedding is just over a year away now! This weekend I am off to buy my wedding dress, or order it or however you want to say it. Yesterday I brought my shoes online! I hope they are as cute in real life as they are in the picture, but for $100 saving, I think that t'll be worth it! Tomorrow two of my bridesmaids and other close friends are coming with me, hopefully I will find a matching headband, im strangely considering veil now too?, and possible necklace for the big day! I am also getting my lovely bridesmaids to try on option two of the bridesmaid dress, after tomorrow we should know which dress they will be wearing!!!

After tomorrow most of the main stuff will be planned. Then its just getting down to the nitty gritty! Which is actually good! Because I think November to March is gonna be insanely hectic but for great reasons! Two of my bridesmaids are also getting married in this time! Both of which I get to be a part of and I cant wait!!! To see two of my closest friends walk down the aisle so close to me just makes this time so special. We are all feeling the same way, we are all going through the same thing and its makin us even closer and I love it!

So I guess what I am trying to say with this post is that there is no point living in the past, because you can only control what you can, so for me I am living in the future! I am looking forward to it and everything that it will bring!

I have found my wedding dress!

Yesterday was the day! I have found my wedding dress! The surprising thing is, that no one had seen this one, not even me before I tried it, yet its the one I love. So I will be trekking back next weekend to put down my deposit! Hopefully find some shoes and bridesmaid dresses also!

But never the less! The major stuff has now been organised! Ceremeony venue...check, Reception venue...check, Celibrant....check, DJ...check, cake maker...check, cars...check, photographer...check, florist...check, invitational artist...check, hairdresses....check, guestlist finalised...check, DRESS!!....check!

So whats next? I have to find gorgeous dresses for my amazing 3 bridesmaids still, I have to begin writing down the songs I would like played during the ceremony and recpetion, I have to find the chocolate fountain for my candy bar, but I have purchased all the jars now! Then its the accessories, the shoes, the clutches, the jewelery!

There is just over a year to go, and I must say, I am getting more and more excited by the day :)

As time goes by..

Firstly I must apolygise becuase its been a long time inbetween posts! But sometimes life takes you to places that you didn't expect and somehow my favourite part of the day wasn't writing my blog, but it was going to bed (and yes I mean to sleep!).

Sooo Im no longer doing night shifts, but still working casually in the hope of being given a full time job in the next few weeks, as well as this there has been a holiday to Perth to visit one of my super special bridesmaids, and lastly I have been planning so much wedding stuff that my head was beginning to spin off into another dimension.

So since my last post I also turned 23, What a horrible age haha! Im starting to feel old and that maybe I should have more career direction by now? but I am getting married so I think thats mature enough for just now!

Perth was amazing! One of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen (not that I have seen that many), gorgeous beaches, a laid back lifestyle, fantastic company, throw in some wedding dress shopping and life was sweet.

Since being back from my holiday, just one week...so much has happened. I have booked my wedding cake and wedding cars, I have finalized my guest list, and started choosing wedding songs. I have also started up netball and I am starting to feel more fit.

However it hasnt all been shits and giggles. One of my closest friends this week told me that they no longer wanted any part in our friendship, it wasn't bitchy, it was honesty, but I have been left questioning myself as a person. I have always believed myself to be a good person and a good friend, and the thought that someone could walk away from me is both upsetting and disappointing. Its life, people change and things happen, but I cant put a finger on this one.

Its time to move on from this now, because life simply is worth being sad and people will always come and go, whether the circumstances are good or bad. The one thing that did snap me out of my funk was KONY 2012. These kids have gone through more than most peoples worst imaginable nightmare. Take the 30 minutes to watch their movie, it may cost you time today, but you will have a new perspective on life afterwards...and no matter how bad things get, someone is always worse off than what I am.

I was lucky enough to be born into a democratic country where I was able to have a childhood and a tertiary education, I am lucky enough to have amazing friends and family who I know truly will be there for me thick and thin, I am lucky to have versatility in my career choices, I am happy to say I am a homeowner with the most amazing person my fiancee.

So when you do have a bad day, or something doesn't go your way, take a deep breath and dont worry about what you dont have but appreciate what you do have, because thats the key to happiness.