Nail change! The teddy bears lasted three weeks so it was definitely time for a change. I got my nails done in black and then added these amazing diamante heart stickers which I bought in Tokyo. They’re really, really 3D so I am hoping I don’t lose any of the jewels for their duration as they’re so cute and I want them to last for as long as possible.
Today I am going to Stereosonic today (an electronic dance music festival, featuring artists like Axwell, Fedde le Grand, Deadmau5, Chicane, Bloody Beetroots etc) so I am dressed all in pink and black to match the nails :D
Boobs are amazing wonderful things. You don’t need to be a heterosexual male to appreciate the wonder that is the female breast. But so many girls don’t treat their assets properly! Apparently it is estimated around 80% of women worldwide wear the wrong sized bra. It’s a very important part of our wardrobe, even if it’s almost always totally covered up, so why do so many women get it wrong? Do these women who wear the wrong sized bra also wear the wrong sized underwear? Probably not, because undies that are too tight/too baggy are uncomfortable and we wouldn’t stand for it. So why do women put up with bra’s that are the wrong size?
I wore the wrong sized bra for years. In fact, from the time I started wearing under wire bra’s, I was wearing the wrong size and I had no idea whatsoever! For years I wore a 12C bra thinking that was my size and never questioning it. I don’t know why I picked that size but I did and I stuck to it, without even considering for a moment that I might have picked the wrong size from the get-go and was doing myself damage (a badly fitting bra can actually have health consequences, including back and neck pains!) and also, as it turns out, not doing myself any favours.
See, about a year and a half ago I went an got a bra fitting, and holy shit, it changed my life! Turns out I was NOT a 12C but as 10DD which means I was WAY off. I was wearing bra’s that were too big around my back and too small in the cups. I also quickly discovered that by wearing a 12C I was making my boobs looks about 2/3 of their actual size! Travesty! My little sister who is also well-endowed in the boob-region was fitted as a 10DD a few years ago and was devastated at the time as all the bra’s for that size were ugly and were designed to minimise the chest. Umm, what? I have 10DD boobs sucker, and I am PROUD of them! Luckily bra designers worked this out and there are so amazing bra’s out there that enhance and lift your mammaries instead of flattening them out and covering them up with daggy lace. Personally I swear by water bra’s – they have water pockets in the cups that give the most incredible cleavage while also providing good support.
I am no expert at working out what size fits you best, so I suggest you GO GET PROPERLY FITTED! If you’re too lazy or maybe too shy, then there are many great sites around the internet to help you out or at least convince you that a bra fitting is the way to go. It’s probably going to mean a few things though, which you should be aware of. You’re more than likely wearing the wrong size and so will need to buy new bra’s. DO SO! It will be the best thing you have ever, ever done for your body. If you have fairly large boobs, you will probably have to stop shopping at cheap department stores for your bra’s. Unfortunately for us big-boobed girls they still do not realise that the average Australian breast is a lot bigger than what sizes they regularly stock so if you find you’re something like a 10DD then you will NOT find any bra’s at Target or K-Mart (believe me I have tried). This means going to places like Bra’s n Things (my favorite bra shop, also where I got fitted) and spending around $50 per bra. It seems steep but we’re not talking about track pants here, these are vital pieces of clothing that can not only look good but also serve a very important purpose!
Man being unemployed is boring. Looking for jobs is boring, applying or them is boring, waiting to hear back from them is 10 kinds of boring and so forth. The fact it’s 35 degrees in Brisbane today means going outside without sweating half to death is impossible and it’s not like I have anything to do outside of the house anyway (except for spending money which we all know is a BAD IDEA when you’re unemployed).
Luckily though my place has air-con and the internet has decided to be full of interesting and hilarious stuff this afternoon. So without further ado, some links!
Things Bogans Like. This makes sense if you’re Aussie or very familiar with all things Australian. Otherwise it will probably get lost on you. It’s also a hilarious re-do of Stuff White People Like which makes it even funnier. #17 is so, so true.
Hello Kitty Hell. I know so many guys who HATE Hello Kitty. I don’t get why because I think Hello Kitty is eight kinds of amazing but I guess it may be something to do with the overt girlishness of it all. This site makes me laugh because of the poor guys reaction to all things Hello Kitty and also because it reveals to me products I didn’t know existed and now totally want!
Photobomb has been around for ages but I go back and visit it now and then for the laughs. This one cracked me up!
People of Walmart is my favourite site of all at the moment. It boggles my mind that these people are real. Sure, we have bogans in Australia who get about in some fairly nasty stuff but holy shit! I have never seen obese woman shopping in their underpants or excessively hairy men in nothing but short-shorts and mesh tops. And let us hope I never do, either.
Bangs would like to take u 2 da movie!
And on a final and less silly note, ya’ll should check out The Dead Walk Pool which is a collection o images, articles, videos and notes about the Brisbane Zombie Walk as organised by Gary Kemble from ABC Online who spent a lot of the day of the walk with us and did many interviews with myself, Anthony and Lara. If you have anything you want to upload, please do!
After seeing the blog The Daily Nail I thought to myself “You’ve been making your nails extra fancy and beautiful for ages now, so why haven’t you been posting pictures on your blog for all to see?”. I didn’t have an answer so instead I decided I’d just start posting pictures here instead. No idea what to call the posts about nails, so if anyone haas any fun names they want to suggest, please do!
Today’s nails are so cute I could be sick! I got my nails refilled yesterday (at American Nails in Toowong, if you’re in Brisbane and need a recommendation) and got them painted an illuminous pink. Unfortunately their nail polish was the slowest drying of all times ever and by the time I got home I’d smudged a few nails pretty badly. So I had to touch them up with my own colour which was a bit darker, but a favourite of mine (Revlon Strawberry Electric). Tonight I added these teddy bear and heart decals which I bought in Tokyo. They are too cute for words, they’re even kind of 3D!
Anyway I usually change my nails each week so I will try and post a photo each time I do. I wish I’d thought of taking a picture of my amazing Halloween nails :(
I am sorry about not posting much for a while. I am in the middle of a few different posts but simply haven’t had time to finish them off. As it turns out I now do have time, as I just had one of the most eventful weeks of my life (not in a good way) and I currently find myself unemployed. It’s a long storry which I don’t want to go over so I am just going to leave it at that. Ooooh mysterious ;)
So while I look for a new job and sort various aaspects of my life out, I will make sure to post much more often! I always have a lot to say and now I don’t havee ay excuse not to say it!
I am busy to say the very least! People don’t really get how much work goes behind the Brisbane Zombie Walk so when I say tell them “Sorry, I’m too busy this week, I have zombie walk stuff to deal with” they seem to think I am just copping out. Honestly, this is a BIG deal and it’s taking up a huge amount of my time. It’s not just a case of saying “This is where and when it starts and finishes” and then just turning up and having fun. There is so much to deal with, from organising the permits to have the walk happen at all, getting Public Liability Insurance (god this was a huge deal), getting advertising, getting donations for the Brain Foundation (our chosen charity), dealing with our local city council, getting the after-party sorted, advertising, dealing with dozens of emails everyday, doing interviews for various media outlets etc etc. Meanwhile we hadn’t even thought about our costumes for the walk, which we’ve only just managed to finalise now (a few days before the walk, which is obviously nerve-wrecking).
The walk is this Sunday so if you’re in or from near Brisbane PLEASE come along because a lot of my blood, sweat and tears have gone into the walk this year and I want it to be a HUGE success. Besides, what else could be happening in Brisbane on a Sunday worth checking out over the Brisbane Zombie Walk???
I often have huge big, meaningful thoughts about important matters that I feel I should share but rarely get to. Usually this happens while I am doing boring things like showering, putting on makeup, cleaning the house or buying groceries so I don’t have anyone to talk to them about (and my poor goldfish memory causes me to forget about them when I see friends, but my excellent long-term memory remembers them many days later). Well, I guess that’s why I have a blog!
Being nice gets you everywhere. This should be common sense but a lot of people think that being nice just means you get screwed over and so it’s the arseholes who get everything their way. This can be true in some cases, after all it is the nasty customer who kicks up a stink who gets free stuff while the nice one who doesn’t say a word gets nothing at all. But it’s not always true, not by a long shot. I find that being polite and super nice where appropriate gets you a very long way. I’m always trying to be as nice as possible when dealing with strangers (when not overwhelmed with shyness, of course) and I’m always getting loveliness in return and in some cases I have received free stuff! I’ve had cranky people cheer up after being nice to them, and I’ve been cheered up myself when feeling moody by other cheerful people. And there’s nothing better than the feeling of knowing you were super nice to someone and possibly made their day brighter as a result!
“Guys and girls can’t be friends” is such a broad statement and many people can attest to the fact this is not always true. I’d like to see it changed to “Guys can’t be friends with girls”. OK so that’s pretty broad too but I find this is the case most of the time. Girls have no problems being friend with guys, rarely do they become friendly with guys to get closer to them with the hopes of going out with or sleeping with them nor do they find themselves wanting to shag their guy-friends after being friends with them for a while. In my experience guys struggle with this. It’s as though they can’t physically have a friendship with a girl without ending up wanting to shag them at some stage, often from the get go (though I am told the exception is when the girl is ugly though I bet that’s not always true). I have had this happen to me many times – I am friends with a guy and I think all is swell and totally platonic but then I get a rude shock when it is revealed they have some sort of crush on me. And all I ever did was be a nice person to them! I’ve even had it happen with guys who I am a total bitch to! It’s a great shame because I enjoy having guys as friends. There’s nit much you can do though, one of my dearest friends was very straightforward when we first met in telling me he liked me, so I honestly told him I wasn’t interested in anything more than a friendship and so we became close friends and we’ve never looked back! If you find out a male friend likes you more than as a friend, be honest and upfront. Don’t “give it a go” to spare his feelings because you’ll probably end up losing a good friendship as a result when you break up later on down the track.
Being healthy is EXPENSIVE & HARD! I’ve always been a yo-yo dieter which we all know is BAD so now I am on a general health kick which means healthy eating, lots of exercise and not beating myself up if ever I have a binge or decide to skip the gym one evening. It doesn’t mean I am shedding lots of weight quickly, but I am now really fit and feeling healthier than I ever have in my life. Hopefully the weight will fall off in its own time, but as long as I am healthy then I’m happy enough. But god it’s hard! No wonder people are so fat these days. After a week in Japan I noticed just how fat Australians are – when we get fat we get FAT! And no wonder! Fatty foods are cheap, convenient and more appealing. Healthy foods cost much more, they’re harder to find because half of what you think is healthy ain’t healthy at all, it’s slow and sure as hell don’t smell as good as pizza or KFC! I get so angry when non-fat people say comments about fat people needing to “just stop eating crap” because it’s not at all that easy! If I could get drive through salad (that’s not that nasty shit Macca’s tries to call a salad) that was the same price as a burger meal and tasted really good and was really good for you and not full of nasty, fatty surprises then man, we’d all be a lot slimmer! I spend at least twice more on groceries than my housemates simply because I eat healthy. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!
OK that’s all my random thoughts for today. I am sure there will be many more to come!
TOKYO WAS AWESOME! I can’t even begin to explain how amazing our trip was and how much I love that city. I never thought I’d find somewhere I love as much as London but I think I did it!
I have so much to write about and so many photos to post but that will have to wait til I have the time to start writing about our adventures in full. So for now have a few of the highlights:
We stayed in Shinjuku which is EPIC! It’s at least 10x the size of Brisbane City and is always busy. Or hotel was right by Kabukicho which is the red-light district, the safest/cleanest I’ve ever seen anywhere in the world.
I shopped til I dropped (almost literally) including the shopping center 109 in Shibuya which had 8 levels of ladies fashion. It was amazing. I got my nails done there and they’re AMAZING! I can’t type very well now as a result but it’s worth it!
Harajuku was amazing. Not quite what I expected but I loved it all the same. Awesome shops and fashion, tutu’s EVERYWHERE, more people than I have ever seen in my life, queues outside shops headed by security guards etc. Only a few cosplayers though, I was a teeny bit disappointed that it was all hype but I got some cool photos anyway.
TOKYO DISNEYLAND! Oh man what a day! We spent ELEVEN hours there and I was unable to walk properly by the end of the day/night (still have a limp actually). It’s a lot like the original Disneyland in LA but more over-the-top and the merchandise is to DIE for! I bought so much, including 4 pairs of Minnie Mouse ears XD
Everything is kawaii (cute). I saw roadworks barriers that were cute animal shapes for crying out loud. I bought so much kawaii stuff, even am slightly sickened by it. Pink is very popular there too, almost everything has a pink version and often a range of pink options! I was in heaven, let me tell you!
I saw multi-leveled porn shops, multi-leveled collectible toy shops, found a digital camera that takes photos in 3D, and witnessed maid cafes in Akihabara.
We are the best food I’ve ever had in my life and all of it was so cheap! I can never go back to an Aussie sushi train again after experiencing the real deal in Japan!
I’ll write more in depth later on. Right now I need to sleep – I got a cold on the last day which has made me feel a little bit crap as well as my bung foot from excess walking (I know, pathetic huh). So here’s a pic of me in a tea cup at Tokyo Disneyland (check out my super-kawaii tiny top hat):
I know it’s cliched to love the city you live in, bit I don’t think people give enough credit to Brisbane. I know it’s not a huge city with a lot of amazing things constantly going on but it’s beautiful and unique and I am proud to call it my home. It took my living in London and Europe for two and a half years to realise how much I love Brisbane too, before that I thought it was one of the most boring capital cities in the world, let alone Australia. But over the last couple of years it’s started to grow and become this interesting, vibrant city which always has something going on, even if you have to look a bit deeper to find what’s going on exactly.
Lately I’ve been trying to see more of Brisbane and have been shocked by how much I don’t know about the city I’ve lived in for over 15 years. Even just taking walks in areas I haven’t been before has opened my eyes! The other day I walked all the way from my work in Milton, through the city and along the riverside and was so impressed by how beautiful everything was as the sun went down. I had dinner at a restaurant I’ve never noticed before and discovered a walkway I never even knew existed that was just bustling with people at 7pm on a Tuesday evening.
Of course I write this two days before I go on a long-anticipated trip to Tokyo. Well Brisbane, as much as I will love the hell out of Tokyo, I will be happy to return to you afterwards!
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Man being unemployed is boring. Looking for jobs is boring, applying or them is boring, waiting to hear back from them is 10 kinds of boring and so forth. The fact it’s 35 degrees in Brisbane today means going outside without sweating half to death is impossible and it’s not like I have anything to do outside of the house anyway (except for spending money which we all know is a BAD IDEA when you’re unemployed).
