Books Galore!

Well its safe to say I love reading. I like the way i can read a book and be completely transported into another world. I can become the main character of the story or feel like I am watching from above.

There is nothing better than the feel of the pages underneath your fingertips.Curling up withe a blanket a cup of tea and a book. Being able to see how far you have read and when you are getting close to the end that feeling that you just don't want it to be over. People keep telling me that an e-reader is amazing but i truly don't think anything could beat the feeling of holding a book in your hands and turning a page. 

So three times a year there is a local book fair to raise money for the Lifeline charity where people have donated their second hand books and you then purchase them and all the money goes back to the charity. My mother and I try to go at least twice a year and as it was the fair was on last weekend and I think we went a little bit overboard. 

My mother and I went on the morning of the first day of the fair and 2hrs later I walked out with 17 books. I know for most people quite a big number but for me this seemed pretty normal as I tend to read quite fast. But then my sister then decided that she would like to go on the last day of the fair, which is half price day, and this is when things went wrong by the end of the day we had counted up our books and between the three of us we had bought 143 books, 41 of which were mine. Oops! 

I must say I have already finished one of the books in 2 days so hopefully it doesn't take me too long to get through them all. 

My pickings from the weekend 

If you have a favourite book let me know! I would love to read some of your suggestions.

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Things I Learnt In 2013

It gets to the start of a new year and people start to look back and realise that another year has passed and most of us are still stuck in exactly the same place that we started the last year. Of course then we start to feel cup half empty but i have decided to look at this last year as a learning experience. I have decided to be a glass half full person. 

And so in light of this situation i have come up with a trivial list of things that I have come to learn in the past year. 

1. You can put almost any food item in between two pieces of bread and it will taste amazing! 

2. I suck at keeping New Years Resolutions.

3. Painting your nails can be fun.

4. Its ok to sometimes be a diva. 

5. Pamper yourself, it makes you feel better. 

6. Cheap wine can taste better than expensive wine. 

7. I like eating junk food every now and then. 

8. Warm pineapple should NEVER happen!

9. The more expensive someones car sound system, the cheaper their taste in music.

10. Nothing ever beats Tequila.

So that is my list of random things that i have learnt. Let me know if you agree or even if you have any of your own! 

Catch you on the flipside. 

Kirrajadeee

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My life of people!

I am starting this off with a warning, if you don't like sentimental, emotional things then i would not read any further. For those of you who do and those of you who would like to know about the type of people who make me who I am then please continue reading.

I have always been very lucky in the fact that I have had a great group of friends but there are two of my friends that are my chosen family! I honestly could not Imagine my life without either of them and they have helped me to be who I am! And so we will start with......

Jordan

Jordan and I have been friends since I moved schools at the end of year 8. Although I guess friends isn't the word for it! We bonded in our first music class over Missy Higgins and I guess we got along quite well. As we started to get a bit older it became quite clear that we were no longer what you wool call friends. Jordan (lets not say hated me) strongly disliked me and we went through a good two years not really getting along. And then one day that all kind of went away. We became inseparable and realised that we were pretty much the same person but in 2 different bodies.

Jordan is kind but honest, he will always have your back, he is very loud! He has adopted my love for theatre and surpassed me! He is a fashionista or at least likes to think he is. We can sit around in complete silence watching a movie or we can be as loud as anything trying to control fits of laughter. We usually know what the other is thinking and are not afraid to tell each other exactly what is on our minds. But that is why we work.

Jack

Jack is a fairly new friendship. We have only been good friends for about a year but it feels like I have known him forever. He is in some ways the complete opposite of me. He is shy and sometimes awkward in social situations. But he is funny and smart and we are both complete bookworms! I still find it quite strange that we became such good friends. Usually you will do a show with someone and then you try and catch up afterwards but you feel like you really don't know anything about the other persons life anymore but with us it was different. We could be so content to sit and talk for hours about the most random things. He is my show buddy, the person that i can go with to watch a show or see a movie and know that they are not going to sit there ad ask ridiculous questions or make annoying comments.

I feel like I can trust Jack with absolutely anything and he would be entirely understanding and he would always be there to help me or anyone out. That is what I love about him. 

I thank you both for being absolutely amazing and the best friends I could ask for.

What are your best friends like? How did you meet?

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I love my curves!

In todays day and age everyone is talking about what diet is the best and how to lose weight the fastest. But I am here to tell you that losing weight fast is not the answer!!!

Everyone in society has some sort of issue with their body and that is completely normal, if we didn't at one point or another want to improve ourselves we wouldn't be human. But it is also important that we love who we are!

I have had a struggle with this just like every other girl. When I was growing up I was quite a petite girl! I had always been fit and healthy and absolutely happy with my body! I have been a dancer my whole life and I still consider myself a very healthy active person. I was quite content being a rather small size and didn't really think anything of the fact that my body might change as I got older. But I was 15 and who really thinks about that! I was quite a popular girl at school and I had always made friends easily because I considered myself easy to get along with and to be honest I am.

As I started to move into my late teens a lot of things started changing, the most noticeable thing was that I was putting on weight. I wasn't doing anything differently and if anything I was more active than I ever had been before. But because this started happening to me I started to get very down on myself. I started hating going to school and I started losing friends and didn't really want to be around anyone! I went from being someone who had enough confidence to share around to someone ho didn't even want to come out of my room. Whilst this was happening I started having massive mood swings I could be fine and then all of a sudden I hated the world. My mother and I started to have MASSIVE fights and I didn't understand why I was always angry.

Luckily things started to change, I had some amazing friends who would force me to get out and they were amazing in pulling me out of my shell. And I started to appreciate my life for what it was. I wanted to go out and have fun with the people who cared about me. I didn't want to sit inside wanting to change everything about myself.

By the end of Year 12 I was happy with who I was. I had an amazing group of friends and I was about to go out and find my place in the world. Don't get me wrong I still had those horrible days when I didn't like the way I looked and I compared myself to everyone else but then there were other days that I felt amazing in my own skin. I started doing a lot of community theatre and really found a place where I was accepted for exactly who I was.

In 2012, a girl I had met through a show I was doing convinced me to go to Philadelphia with her to work at a summer camp. So before I left to go I decided to go and see my doctor just to check up on anything that I needed before I left. I had always had trouble with my time of month and with migraines and such so my doctor sent me to a specialist to have an ultrasound. After the ultra sound I found out the I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. When finding this out it started to make a lot of sense. I had started putting on weight quite fast, I had developed bad mood swings, I could go from being fine to having such bad cramps that I could be curled up in a ball on the floor, and my migraines had just gotten worse. It was a hard thing to find out! But it helped me understand why these things had been happening to me. And all it is now is looking after it, going in to get shots and having an implant put in to administer the hormones that I am lacking.

But going through this has really helped me to love exactly who I am. I am not going to starve myself to be the perfect shape. And I can look at someone and think "oh I wish I looked like that" but then I realise we are different people, I am my own person. I am the perfect image of me! And if people don't like who I am then those people are not the people I want in my life. I hear a lot of girls talking about losing weight to find a boyfriend but if a guy can not accept you the way you are then he is not the right one for you! Sure! it would be great to be a bit smaller but I am not going to kill myself to try and get there. The best I can do is eat healthy and keep fit.

If you ever have those times that your find yourself comparing yourself to someone else remember that you're are beautiful just the way you are! People are drawn to others that are confident in their own skin. And remember you cannot love another until you love yourself!

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