Swimming Support

I have decided to do the Rottnest Swim next year.

For those of you who don’t know what this is, it is a 19.7 kilometre ocean swim from the Mainland (Perth) to Rottnest Island. It is one of the biggest ocean swim competitions in the world. See here:

Now, I am not crazy and I am not doing the whole thing myself, I am swimming in a team of four. The standard thing to do is for each team member to swim for about ten minutes at a time and we have eight hours to swim the whole thing.

I am not as fit I have been in the pool and I have been slack on the exercise front of late but people (mainly my parents) are being relay discouraging about my decision.

Not that my parents have ever really been the type to shower me with compliments and tell me how wonderful I am (parents who don’t even tell me I was "good" when I used to get up and sing, act and dance in front of an audience – not that I am sour or anything) but I spoke to them on Sunday about it and they did not say one positive thing about this decision.

They were all like, “you know it costs $250 to enter” and “you can’t wear your snorkel” and “you should be able to swim 40 laps nonstop” and “you should be able to swim five kilometres”. No Mum and Dad, I just decided to enter without doing any research!!

It is just very frustrating. I am doing something good for myself and nada!!

So very maturely, to spite all my non-believers, I am going to do this and I am going to do this on my own. I could ask my dad to help me train but I am not going too. I am just going to go along my merry way and do it all myself (with the help of my team of course). And I am not going to mention the swim to my parents again. And if they bring it up, I will fob them off. Wow, I am such a great person huh.

But you what, I am not doing this to win it. I am doing this to do something with my life. To have something to work for and look forward too. Even if my team does not finish or I struggle on the day, at least I would have tried. So screw you non-believers, I am going to do this and this will be me!!!

  

Fifties Fail

In today’s outfit, I have been strutting around fancying I look like Joan Holloway here:

It is probably because I bought a cute vintage blouse from The Vintage Valley (check out her blog too, she is gorg) which I am styling today (plus coffee stains from before I even stepped in the door at work). 

Shirt - Vintage

Skirt – Cue

Cardigan – Country Road

Shoes - RMK

Nose – Napoleon Perdis (I have a pimple the size of Mount Everest and as red as the parted sea so much cover up is required. I could seriously lead Santa on his Merry way with this thing!!)

In reality I think I might have missed the par a bit and exposed some serious "Arms Out" action (ie. arms like that should be covered to protect the human eye)!!

Whatever... It is the WEEKEND!!!!!! Yay.

Stupid Spacers

The devil's work.



This is an re-enactment of my mouth not the real deal.



That is all.

Love - The Pained One

PS. I am not over dramatic at all. Not one bit :-) Lets just wait until next week shall we

Whoopie! Winners!!

Ok so the dress giveaway has ended and I just did the draw then...

Here is proof that the winners won fair and square.

WARNING. Primitive winner choosing practice ahead. No random number generator for me. Just a pen, some post its and and a camera.

For Green Dress:

Entries were every so carefully written on post-its in red pen and thrown onto the floor of my office. All post its were the same size. I promise. They were six long post-its ripped into two.

Then I closed my eyes to pick the winner. See.

Um, not sure what happened there and can't be arsed changing it!! Haha.

Then I waved by arm haplessly around in the air, just to make sure I was being fair, I grasped about and then there...

... was the winner

And the winner is .....

See my booboo? I sliced the top off my finger when making lunch. Fi should handle sharp objects when sick, sore and tired.

Oh and ONIKA won. YAY for Onika :-) 

And for the Face Dress, I went through the same rigmarole but I will spare you the pics. And the winner is...

Yay, CARLY. More good news for you today!!

Winners please email your details to me at me_fi85@hotmail.com and I will post your pretties away to you. Fingers crossed they fit and you love them!!

Thanks everyone for entering. I will have another giveaway soon. I promise.

Now I am going to pass out in me bed :-)