It's Kind Of A Funny Story

Last year I had a bit of a run in with the world on my personal Instagram. Nothing major, looking back at it, just society catching up with me, but I, as usual, wasn't prepared. I was so terrified. And specifics probably aren't necessary, but needless to say I wanted out of the internet.

I deleted everything I could possibly within the five minutes I had before I made majority of my accounts private and ceased to exist on the internet. Silly of me, until recently I forgot about this blog.

I found it again when I was scrolling through vanilla craft's blogroll. I was first drawn to the name, finding it oddly familiar, and when I clicked on it, I immediately knew why.

What I wasn't expecting from this little trip down memory lane (at least the lane it was easy to navigate to, of September last year), were the absolutely gorgeous comments of the obviously even more gorgeous people who had previously been reading this blog.

You cannot fathom how much those people mean to me - and I haven't met one of them.

And I promise never to let it all get the better of me again, but I needed some time away. I hope you understand as much as I am attempting to myself.

City2Surf

For years I have wanted to compete in the City2Surf, a 14km fun walk/run from the city to Bondi beach in Sydney. This year, my school competed to raise funds for our school charity. I decided to participate (just walking) and here are some of my favourite pictures from the day (I don't even know why, because there were much better quality ones, I just liked these). 

The first one's my favourite because I like out of focus pictures. Hope you're having a smashing week, and it's holidays where I live, so I hope you're having a great time soaking up some of the springtime sun! 

P.S. This was ages ago (August 10), but because I only just started this new "bucket list" thing, it's only going up now. 

When Winter Rolls Into Spring

This is one of my favourite times of the year - we start day-dreaming about trips to the beach, but can still enjoy the comfort of snuggling up at night with a book and tea. The days that transition from winter to spring are often wet and miserable, although they are sometimes sunny and full of warmth. They are black and white, yet so full of colour - greens, crimsons and the bright turquoise of crystal clear water.

I also love this time of year for the fashion, because it is undefined, indefinite. Shorts and tights are both acceptable (probably not together), as are pleated skirts, jeans, cardigans, singlet tops and sandals. I am currently wearing my new Princess Highway dress which I think is the perfect winter-spring dress. I love the way it falls and the bows and the tiny cap sleeves. I am also wearing a David Lawrence cardigan, which, with its white stripes and metallic buttons, feels almost summery in itself. 

And so, my favourite time of the year has come, and will soon be gone. The clouds will roll over the hills and I will sit by my window looking for the last traces of the winter-spring transition as they disappear into a sea of bright blue sky that seems to ruin every photo I try to take. I will miss this time, that only really lasts for two of the year's fifty-two weeks. But, in my new habit of trying not to wish my life away, I can wait the next twelve months for it come again. 

Creation

So, as I vowed to explore the world (or at least my little corner of it), today I went to a cafe I'd never been to before, in a place I've rarely even walked through. Well out of the way of busy traffic - buses full of people seeing Sydney for the first time through windows sprinkled with rain drops, and business men in small cars, and business women in four wheel drives. The city is a marvelous place, but a place in which clogging your lungs with pollution is not hard. It's nice sometimes to remove yourself from the energy of city life and into the world of macaroons, cute tiled-floors and my oh-so-favourite CEREAL magazine.  With so many tiny flavoured biscuits to choose from, it was a tough decision as to which of the handmade macaroons to pick. I had to narrow it down to two - green tea and caramel - before sitting down to watch how they were made. 

In the future, I will definitely be returning here. I don't know if it's the magazines, the macaroons or the interiors I love most, but I don't think I'll ever be able to decide.

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The problem with my life so far, is that I've spent almost its entirety dreaming up ways to make my life more interesting; to make my enemies jealous of my adventures and my friends (wait, what friends?) jealous of my clothes. In short I have wasted almost 14 years sitting at home writing essays (because that's the kind of good student I am), while reposting the same picture of Bondi Icebergs on Instagram in three different months so it looks like I went three times, when I really only walked past it. 

That stops now! In the next 12 months, I vow to at least attempt to tick off at least twenty-five things from my New South Wales bucket list (trust me, I have a bucket list for each place I want to go to, and that takes up a lot of GBs of my iPod). This is really just to see how well I go. I also want to become more content with life - where I live, who I am, who I'm around and what I do during the day. I also need to realise that my life is NOT boring. This is especially since my geography teacher stated that "only simple minded people find anything boring". I have a great life, I live in a great city, I have great parents who will let me go anywhere I want to and I need to accept that sometimes it's just my own pure laziness and fear that stops me boarding a bus to the city after school and exploring till it gets dark. It's also a case of having a really ugly uniform that stops me from doing that, but anyway.

Thanks for reading all these really long sentences. I hope you enjoyed this short post and look forward to reading more in the future!

P.S. I hope you like the header because I was really proud of it - number one, because I drew it and I'm crap at art and number two because I edited it and I'm crap with technology. Okay, bye!