4 things about breakfast

i love breakfast. i have to keep reminding myself when my alarm goes off every morning that if i don't snooze, my breakfast eating time can be longer and lazier, with cups of tea and magazines and blogs.

Here are some breakfast images that make me want breakfast all over again, even though it's morning tea time, and soon time for lunch.

Pancakes, juice, paper, coffee and a bit of graffiti on the tabletop.

coffee grinder: grind it old school

almond, banana & flaxseed smoothie from ink*lemonade

taken by me: breakfast in brunswick with tash, kate and iggy. bacon, black pudding, sausage, eggs, tomatoes. carnivorous.

#30daychallenge Day 29: Goals for the next 30 days

stay alive, that's my main goal.

writing-wise though, i think i am setting myself another 30 day challenge. because of Pinterest, i have a lot of images saved that i feel will inspire me to write. so i have set myself up a list, which means that each day i will have a visual prompt on which to write- so from this 30 day text-centric theme to something different.

in early november i am starting an e-course to improve my blog, and i'm sure you all will see some of the results of that.

besides these goals, i aim to be better prepared with blog-strategy; to schedule posts, to stick to my suggested themes, and to follow up on the bits and pieces i've intended to write and haven't gotten to yet.

how am i doing with this challenge? have you read something that's made you think, giggle, roll your eyes? which bits lately have been your favourite bits? which subjects do you want to see more of, and which subjects less?

don't be shy, let me know- it's the help i'm asking for to get better at this whole business.

#30daychallenge Day 28: something i miss

i miss my whistler family. the thing with travel is, you make friends elsewhere, in other countries, from other countries. and it's wonderful, and magical, and your connections are real and genuine and quite special, being that time of your young adult life before the big decisions have been made. then you have to leave these people, or they leave you, and sometimes, your heart just aches and aches with the missing of them all. and it's harder to keep in touch than you thought it would be, and you sometimes find yourself having daydreams about buying a ticket and getting out of here.

i have been looking at photos; here are some.

#30daychallenge Day 27: A problem I have had

I had a lot of problems happen to me this week. There is a great list, but the problems aren't funny yet, or they aren't blog-fodder yet, because some of them still make me want to cry a little.

I've been thinking about how to deal with problems. And how frustrating it is when other people expect you to deal with your problems the same way they deal with theirs. So instead of telling you about my problems, I decided to make a list of ways of dealing with problems that I've come across in my time as a human.

Please note they are not in any order whatsoever; some of them are my personal technique, some are a terrible idea, some I've heard about but never tried. And I am giving you no hint as to which category each dot point falls into.

• get yourself to a bottleshop; buy a bottle of whisky. drink it all, or share it, and drink a percentage of it. 
• cry uncontrollably at your desk
• go out and spend your money on things you don't need in big w
• turn up the music
• spend the afternoon on internet/media blackout and read a book in the sun
• play with a dog
• pick up a stranger at a bar
• hit on someone in a crash-and-burn scenario where there are lots of mutual friends around
• laugh hysterically at things that aren't funny
• over-react to a tiny problem instead of addressing the big problem
• spend a day trying not to cry with a big lump in your throat
• write an angry letter that you never send
• send an angry letter that you should never have written
• go to your parents house and let them make you dinner
• lose your keys and drop your phone so the broken screen can haunt you
• go paintballing
• have a hot bath with a glass of wine
• write in a journal
• start an argument with someone you love about something unrelated
• watch a season of a tv show in one day
• tell everyone else to cheer up constantly
• have too much coffee
• buy a trampoline and bounce on it a lot
• make a pot of tea and tell a friend your problems
• write a song, or a poem
• go to the zoo

please feel free to contribute ideas as to how i can get myself out of this 7 day bad-luck funk. i will love you forever!

He really wouldn't.