Fidgeting Fi

Okay so I have not done a real post in a while. Not for lack for trying though. I have about six half written posts in draft, I have just not gotten around to finishing them.

This is the story of my life.

I have a very short attention span. I can’t stay still. And of late, I am finding it very hard to complete anything.

I spent three hours doing my tax the other night only to give up before the end as I needed to ask my dad something but he was asleep. Now I won’t lodge my return for another two weeks until he gets back from NZ.

My work to-do list is filled with about twenty pieces of work which are half done. These all need to be done by today but here I am writing this instead. Having too many things to do (regardless of the fact they will only take a few minutes to complete) stresses me out. So I don’t finish them.

A couple of weeks ago, I cleaned my room and sorted stuff into lots of different bags but the bags are still sitting on my bedroom floor.

This picture of my bed shows that I still haven’t finished adorning the final half of my bedhead. I started this in about February 2009.

So this is why I have not posted so much of late. I need to give myself a kick in the butt and finish my posts. Maybe. One Day.

Anywho... This is what I am wearing today. An outfit post?? How novel (sp??). The only thought that went into this outfit is.... I now have nothing that does not need ironing and this dress looks the least wrinkled of a bad lot.....

Ironing and washing is something else I never around to doing.

Please excuse my shiny face and frizzy hair. 

And don't look at my little finger please.

I luv-uv ruffles

See

Oh no, I have bugs on me!!

Dress - Country Road

Singlet underneath - Country Road

Cardigan - MinkPink

Shoes - Stuart Weitzman for Mr Seymour Shoes

 Belt - Kloset (love this – look at the cute bugs!!)

Better view of the belt

In other news, I just got an email informing me these beauties are in store at Frockoholics!! Nude Footwear and wedges. How could I resist? Oh yeah that’s how .... I am flat broke :-( Oh well a girl can dream. And perhaps have money next time she has to have half of her front tooth restored.

Do also look at the pretty Nude Footwear Spring Catalogue though. See that colour! Love. I can’t advocate for this brand enough. They are so comfortable, even for my hobbit feet. And I get compliments on them every time I wear mine (I have about six pairs mostly sourced from eBay for under $30 so watch for them).

That is all

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Bloody Belated Blog

Sorry all for my extended leave of absense. As stated previously, I was not blogging in an attempt to prove a point to myself. But alas, my social experiment failed. In the past, when I have not blogged for a few days, the traffic on my blog has increased, I have gained followers and received more comments than usual. This time it did not. We do have one new follower (Hi) and I did get a few comments but all in all, a complete waste of blog worthy time was wasted.

Oh Well....

Hmm what else have I missed while I was gone?? I LOVE Emma Watson’s haircut, I am pissed that MK said she looks at old photos of the twins and sees little monkey performers , I have no idea who to vote in the election and am honestly thinking of taking up Mum’s suggestion that I write FUCK YOUSE ALL on my ballot paper, I suddenly have a ridiculously busy social life after months of incessant hibernation at home, I have started saying incessant, incessantly, I have learnt that wearing JC clogs while very drunk and where there are steep stairs is not a wise decision, I have learnt I am very lucky not to have broken my neck during said excursion, I have learnt that when you are drunk and need food, anchovies don’t taste so bad after alll, I have learnt not just to drink a drink just because someone hands it to me, I have learnt there are many types of kayaks and things you can do with them, I have lost my shopping mojo, I have seen Terri Hatcher bareface and think she looks great (mainly because she will always be Lois Lane to me), I am sad Artie and Tina have broken up on Twitter, I have no opinion about the fact they are going to turn a quarter of the park across the way from me into a carpark....

.... Many many other things that I am sure would bore you to death. Wasn't that a great story << My catch phrase. More than likely a defensive mechanism so people will not think I am boring/talking crap. Something like, if I acknowledge it, then it is OK.

Anyway, outfit wise. During said drunk escapades involving seeing my friend in her comedy show, talking incredibly loudly about certain activities best kept spoken about not in public, being ditched by my friend to go and pick up, throwing up in a cafe toilet (I am such a lady), getting home WAY past my nanna curfew of 10pm and being VERY very hungover the next day.... I wore this.

What on earth is this pose??

My pretties. That I agree are very ugly but I love all the same. Fastidious fug they are (but that is another post in itself ). And everyone in Cottesloe knows it after I yelled at my sister and dad that they were fabulous and in "a months time everyone will be wearing them". The small child standing near, thought I was very strange and probably cacked his pants when I fell over in them walking to my car.

Clogs -Jeffrey Campbell

Top - Target

Jacket - Portmans (for $17!!)

Pants - Sportsgirl (love love love)

I don’t usually shop in shops. I will browse Forever New, Portmans and Dotti at my local “Quarter” (cough, pretentious name for average suburban shopping centre, cough) but I will rarely buy. Going to the shops just seems like so much effort and inconvenience. This insurrection only began about a year ago when I got my first credit card (apart from the times I could convince by big sister to use to hers to pur-chase me say $150 t-shirt??). Now I am an online shopping fiend. I absolutely refuse to pay full price for anything. I am ridiculously put out when I cannot find a coupon/promotional code for a website that I want to shop on and eBay is the worst and best thing to ever happen to me. Ozsale, Brands Exclusive, Buy Invite, Thread People, Coco Lee are all $35 for real deal Uggs and $11 for speedos!! Who could say no.

Geez, I sound so frelling arrogant sorry (for those of you non-scifi-watching-geeks, frelling is alien for “fucking” in my favourite show ever Farscape. Although they all are injected with translator microbes anyway so I am not sure why technically Frell is not just Fuck, just Henson getting away with vulgarity in an 8pm timeslot. And un-geek).

Anywho, the point is, that I went shopping ... at the shops... last weekend. I was very uninspired and I have discovered I am going through a style revolution. I is confused. I don't know what I like anymore. The above outfit it a perfect example off this. A Target thermal? To a fancy bar? And pants? When I did start loving pants? Why do a have a sudden urge to buy every pair of pants I see now? I even bought myself some baggy black cargo pants and I have been living in them since...... ????? 

But you know feels amazing though. Being able to walk into any store and know that I can pick something up and it will fit. Hell-low. I need to get back on track WW though before I blow out to balloon size again and this elation is lost. Another story for another time though.

So after reading all the above crap, here is what you really care about (I'm tlaking to you RiotersBloc - sorry to take so long). On the date front, all is going well. We are continuing to see each other. As a result of D’s superior Googling skills, he has discovered this blog (cue akward conversation), so I will keep it short and sweet and say things are good. Have you ever tried googling your email address? That is how I can be found. Luckily, non of the people who I would not want to read this blog have any internet skills at all so I am safe (ie. One asked “What is this paypal thing?, to which I almost chocked on my Indian).

That is all....For now.

I promise to return.

Harbour Town Haul

OK so maybe I lied. I didn't bring home a haul.

I bought home these gloves:

I do not even know what a "Cardio Fitness Glove" is for but they are cute and they were only $6 and they appeased my purchase envy. My friend K did take home a haul. Revenge to her hubby D for staying up all night playing Dungeons and Dragons. I am so glad I know D as we geek out together. Although I do not play DD - yet.

I may have been blogging this morning instead of getting ready for brunch (I do not think I have EVER been on time to meet K anywhere). So outfit was haphazardly put together by reaching into the back of my draws and pulling out whatever long sleeve top I could find. And what I found was my primp rabbit top. Circa what 2006? Circa Mischa being cool and hot and idealised enough for me to use that company Chic-something to get the top like hers shipped from the US at some exorbitant price. Oh Mischa, those were the days:

That being said, I did watch her SUV episode and she was pretty good in it. The acting classes in London have sure helped. Also, not playing being Marissa Cooper is always a step in the right direction.

So with historical top, I threw this outfit together:

Diamond studded bunnies. Hehehe.

Just admiring my clogs again. Not obsessed at all.

Needed a jacket for warmth. Soooo cold here.

Top - Primp

Jeans - Sportsgirl

Jacket - Arabella Ramsey for Sportsgirl

Belt - French Connection

Socks - ??

Clogs - Funkis

Pics alla me and teenfashion.about.com

Saturday Sillys - part three

I just spent the last three hours listing eight items on eBay. The problem with having an online shopping/eBay obsession is that sometimes you get things that are just not quite right. You say to yourself "It is alright, I can just return it or re-sell it on Ebay", but you forget and the return time ends or just never get around to listing stuff and the item sits in the wardrobe gathering dust and going unloved.

There is a skit in Gilmore Girls about this. At Friday night dinner, Emily questions the girls about online shopping and they end up agreeing with her (it is kinda hard not too) that going to a real shop is more rewarding after all. I should learn from this .... but I won't. I bet L and G didn't either. They would love the Outnet I bet. Shame it came after their time. I miss those girls. Anywho, Shopping requires effort, and walking, silly small talk and putting up with snotty "Shop-girls" giving you the evil eye.

Listing is soo irritating and time consuming. Grrr. Hopefully my stuff sells.

Does not it just look riveting! I barely watched Prada except Meryl and Simon's scenes.

So much for finishing my lengthy To Do list. Saturday always goes so quickly!


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A House becomes a Home

On Saturday, the rentals and I helped my grandmother move house. She has lived in her old house in excess of 25 years and it was so strange that after only 8 hours the new house feels like her home. It is a gorgeous hundred year old house - so much nicer than the knock-down job 70's house she has just sold. 

I wore this. Ever so appropriate huh:

Listening to some Austen.

New Boots. Love Em :-)

Cotton On Cardigan

Jeanswest Tee

Sportsgirl Shorts

Sportscraft Belt

Random Tights

Tony Bianco Boots

Billabong Bag

I had never worn shorts and tights before until this day. Outfit was constructed mainly as I wanted to wear and show off my new boots and wanted to wear clothes I didn't care too much about if they got dirty or ruined. I really liked the look. The shorts are probably two sizes too big but I managed to get a paperbag waste effect with the belt. The photos don't really do them justice, but I think the look is also rather flattering.

Now I am obsessed with shorts. A few I have my eye on lately are. Thoughts?

 

Amand Basi

Shakuhachi

Arnsdorf

Lonely Hearts

Twenty Seven Names

Pics courtesy of http://www.theoutnet.com/; http://shakuhachi.net.au/; and http://www.maximillia.com/

Frump-Girl Fi

This is what I wore today. It is pretty frumpy but I don't care. For some odd reason I always sway on the frumpy side when it comes to casual clothes. I fancy myself six feet tall and able to pull of that effortless chic just-threw-on-some-jeans-and-a-tee-and-look-fab-darling look (hmm I think I got my stereotypes wrong, effortless chics don't say darling do they?? I am listening to my Pride and Prejudice audiobook and Ms Bingley was just on). I am trying to teach myself that 1. I am not six foot tall with legs that go on forever, 2. At 25, I never will be and 3. I should embrace my frumpy stumpy 5 foot self nevertheless.

So Frump Girl it is.

Don't you just love it when John says "I don't remember Frump Girl, but I remember you". Sigh. I have a HUGE celebrity crush on Nia Vardalos. It's weird I know. I even follow her on Twitter and it lights my day when she updates. She is such a sweetie and regardless what people say, I think she is very talented and gorgeous. The My Life in Ruins DVD is on the top of my "To Buy" list.

Anywho, this is what I wore on my exciting trip to work this afternoon which resulted in me doing a coffee run and only ticking one thing off my endless "To Do" list. In hindsight it is very Geek Chic. In reality I built this from the socks up and grabbed anything I could find that was clean (although it appears not ironed) and relatively comfy.

Shakuhachi Panda Tee

Lovely Girl Spotted Cardigan

Sportsgirl Jeans

Socks ($7 for two from some place in Harbourtown)

Funkis Clogs

I missed the Meemo (haha I HATE it when people pronounce it that way) about short girls not wearing cuffed boyfriend jeans. I wanted to show off my new socks and shoes though. And these jeans are too long anyway and need to be cuffed dammit.

 

No it is not reversible dammit. Umm, where did this anger come from? I was so shiny before.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

There is the shine back again.

The Panda is trapped :-( Call the RSPCA

..............................

Pissing myself now. I never fail to keep myself entertained. I am so lame. This is tres hilar in my  books. Small things for small minds they say. I think I have gone a little crazy from lack of exercise this weekend. I am about to rejoin Elizabeth at Mr Bingley's house while she nurses Poor Jane (yes I have gone back to the start if you remember from my earlier post), and go for a walk. Toodles

PS. LOOK WHAT I GOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (OK I know this irks people so I will limit it despite my purchance)

Olive in a jar!!!!!!! (oops sorry) I am in heaven. Going to add this to my greek burger patty mix tonight.