Amazing Sunset

I just had to share this amazing sunset photo I took last night - one of the most amazing things I've ever seen!! Here's another I took:

 I should warn you now that I am utterly obsessed with clounds and you can expect to see a post soon with some of my most favourite cloud photos I've taken

My best friend Regan

My best friend Regan and I have been best friends since we were born. Our mothers were friends in high school and both dropped out to become secretaries at the same time. They also got married and had babies around the same time too. Regan was born in August 1983 and I in September of the same year. Regan and I went to kinder, primary school and high school together. You would think that after being friends our entire lives that we would have similar interests and have quite a lot in common - we do, but we are also polar opposites. 

I am an extremely sports orientated person and I have been my whole life. Life for me consists of work/school, come home get changed and out the door again to play either basketball, netball or running. Back in the day it was also dancing, athletics, tennis, and even gymnastics (which I was terrible at and didnt last long at all.). As for Regan - haha, she was not the sporting type at all and despised anything remotely sport-like! Although, I have to say, she did give gymnastics a go with me but the second we found out we were required to do handstands on the beam - we quit. 

So sport was not something we shared in common. 

Another thing we did not share in common was out interest in boys. During high school I was not interested in having a boyfriend - life for me was busy enough with school and sport, no room for a boyfriend and all the drama that goes with that! Regan on the other-hand ALWAYS had a boyfriend throughout school. Life to Regan was school and boys - there was no time for sports! 

The other major thing Regan and I did not have in common was opinions - we almost always have opposite opinions and we used to fight like cats and dogs on everything and everything - at times it got to the point where I didn't think I could even be friends with her anymore because we just fought all the time. But, the greatest thing about fighting with Regan was that we always had a laugh about if afterwards and we would make up every single time and go back to being best mates. Regan will tell you that I'm the most stubborn person she's ever met and that I will argue with you until the cows come home, even if I know I'm wrong - I won't admit it. And I will tell you that Regan can be a selfish and spoilt cow a lot of the time. But, she's my best friend and we have stuck by each other our entire lives. We know each other inside out and back to front. She is (usually) always there for me and I am (usually) always there for her. 

The thing Regan and I DO share in common is thing: we are both die hard Drop Dead Fred fans. I cannot tell you how many hours we have spent so far in our lives watching that movie - reciting it word for word and crying tears of laughter over and over and over. We have our own unique 'fred language' and our friends often roll their eyes at us when we start spinning off one liners from the movie and bursting into fits of laughter for hours. But to us, it's the funniest thing of all time and nobody will understand with Fred means to us. In fact Regan even calls me Fred more often than she calls me by my name.  I will be watching that movie with Regan's kid when he or she is old enough to understand it and hopefully they love it as much as we do.

Here's a fun fact: Regan and I also look nothing alike. I am a tall, curvy girl at 172cm, and Regan is a short arse who would be lucky to reach 153cm and is all skin and bone - well actually she's about 8 1/2 months pregnant with her first child so she's actually fatter than me for the first time in our lives!! (And that strangely makes me happy/evil).

Anyway, I wanted to write about Regan and our history together because our friendship is really special to me and although we have our really big fights and sometimes hate each others guts, we always go back to being best friends and laugh about it. We have a lifetime of memories together and she is about to embark on the biggest challenge and adventure of her life, becoming a mum. I am so proud of Regan and I think she is going to be the best mum of all time - and Sheppo if you're reading this - this blog post better give me the title of Godmother or next time we go swimming I really will drown you this time :)

2012 - Here we go!

 is shaping up to be a really big, fun, exciting and adventurous year for me and I can't get stuck into it quick enough. 2011 ended and it was a huge relief because I felt like I didn't achieve anything for the entire year and all I could think about was a fresh start. Now that the new year is here, I don't know where to start, but I'll give you a quick run down of where my life is at currently:



Personal Info - 28, currently living with my boyfriend's parents in central Victoria (Kyneton) while we wait for our first house to start being built any day now, boyfriend Paul and I going into our 7th year together, large family, can't live without sport, love pushing the boundaries (see my hairstyle for example; its half shaved), seek my own adventures in life

Career - Been stuck in a job for 4 years that I don't necessarily like but I am good at it. I've been working in administration jobs for the past 9 years and I'm so done with it. Without going into too much boring detail about what I currently do, I will just say that it's repetitive, not challenging in any way, and I get asked the same questions every day - giving the same answers every day and I'm tired of it. Enter new career ambition;


Career Ambitions - I'm in the beginning stages of creating my own business in the social media/online marketing industry. I want to work for myself, set my own rules and play my own game. I want to help small to medium sized business's with creating an online profile using social media and website creation/maintenance. Social media is a passion of mine and I recently found a passion for creating websites and using the 2 together to enhance business activity - be it increasing sales, online awareness, community engagement, search engine optimisation, marketing online to reach a larger audience etc. My business's name is going to be "Techno Birdie" and I have applied for the business to be registered. Once it's registered I will be finalising my business plan and set up my own website and get things underway. I'm SO SO SO EXCITED to begin my own business, but more on that later when things have progressed


I have also just enrolled to study a diploma of Marketing at Victoria University which I'm really excited about


Sporting life -  I am a huge lover of sports but my sports of choice are netball and basketball. I have been playing these sports since I can remember and I'm yet to get sick of them. I am most happy when on the court.


Friendships -  I am a seriously lucky woman to have a beautiful group of friends that extend all over the world. I would not be who I am today without my friends and I seem to make them quite easily which is so much fun. In my high school years I would say that I had quite a few more male friends than female and this would have been because I preferred to play basketball with the boys at lunchtime than hanging out with the girls talking about boys! This might be the reason why I wasn't interested in having a boyfriend during my teenage years because I was busy playing sport - but these days, I have many many amazing female friends who I love and adore. I still have male friends, yes, and some of them are my best friends who I love very much, but there's something about having a group of close female friends that makes me really happy and I thank them every day for calling me their friend. They know who are they :)



Family - Mum (Christine), Dad (Adrian) older brother (Jarod) and younger brother (Hayden). Best family in the world. Growing up with 2 brothers taught me to stand up for myself and be a fighter. My dad has worked for myself most of his life as an Accountant & financial advisor - often working until all hours of the morning just so he can provide the best possible life for his wife and kids - he's a great dad. Mum raised us as individuals and let us chase our dreams from early on. Mine included wanting to be a dancer, play basketball for Australia, become a massage therapist, a youth worker, and   even let me pack my bags at the tiny age 
of 18 to go live in a country I'd never been to and help an American family raise their 3 kids. No matter what, she always supports us and for that I owe her for the rest of my life. I'm also just realising how very much alike my mum and I are - and that's not a bad thing either. 


Right, that's it for now, I'm so over talking about myself lol. I hope that you enjoy reading my blog, or even if you don't that's OK too.





 This blog is going to be all about me, my life and the things in life that I love. Here's to life; my way!