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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Pay it Forward

To start this year off in a loving way I’m participating in this Pay-It-Forward initiative: 5 people that comment on this with "I'm in", will receive a surprise from me at some point in this calendar year - anything from a book, a ticket, a visit, something home grown or made, a postcard, absolutely any surprise!

There will be no warning and it will happen when the mood comes over me and I find something that I believe would suit you and make you happy.

These five people must either make the same offer in their FB status or blog and distribute their own joy. Simply copy this text so we can form a web of connection and kindness.

Let's do more nice and loving things for each other in 2014, without any reason other than to make each other smile and to show that we think of each other. Here's to a more enjoyable, more friendly and love filled year. 

Even if you don't want to commit to giving 5 people a gift, try just doing something nice for someone and not respecting anything in return.


Try it out! 

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. 

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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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Do you believe in magic?

Ok. So I am not talking about Harry Potter and I'm not going to pull out a wand and cast a spell on you. I am talking about Psychic's. I understand that there are a lot of people in this world who do not believe that people can have psychic abilities but I am not one of them. I like to feel like there is something pushing me towards the things that I want and i like to know if there are people out there helping me. Besides this fact there are many things that have happen whilst in a reading or after a reading that are too close to be a coincidence. Although in saying that I can understand why some wouldn't believe.

My mother had always been one of those people that had psychic readings and she loved to come home and tell me what she was told. So when I went to my first reading I was excited and nervous. The woman was lovely and she told me a lot of things that were true and a lot of things that did end up happening and of course there are some that didn't. But our future is not set in stone so i don't consider that a reason to believe she was lying. This woman was also a healer and I was in desperate need for some healing, I could feel it. She held my hands, I closed my eyes and all of a sudden her hands were burning under mine, I could feel something running through my body. She had warned me before hand that I would be tired afterwards but I hadn't really thought much of it. But as soon as it was finished I was in a daze, I got back to my hotel room and I fell asleep for 3 hours, I was exhausted.

At the beginning of this week my mother went to have her second reading from a new woman close by and for the second time the woman told her that she could not say anything about me, that I had to go and have a reading myself. So I did. It was great it had answered so many of the questions that I had been worried about before I had come in. Things that I was unsure of were suddenly clear and it reminded me of why I liked to come.

I am a believer. I like to believe that there is something out there helping me along and I like that when I walk out of a reading I am calm and that I am now not so worried about all the little things that had worried me before.

So tell me, Do you believe?

Kirrajadeee

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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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Sweet Things

Someone once said to me "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all" and when we think about it, it is all these small things that can lift our spirits even on the worst of days.

I wanted to this post because the last few days have really been characterised by these little things.

Friday night I got to watch my best friend play Vicomte Raoul de Chagny in Phantom of the Opera! And I was soo very proud of him. He did an absolutely wonderful job, he was so charming on stage he really did make the show which is exactly what Raoul is supposed to do in this Musical.
Overall it was quite a good show I loved the Phantom and Christine they did a wonderful job! The ballerina's really needed to learn to point their which made me a little upset! But the bad thing about going to watch shows when you have studied Musical theatre is that you really can't just sit there and enjoy, your mind is literally going 50 miles an hour picking apart every tiny detail!
Anyway I got see a few of my friends in that show and had quite a great evening!

Saturday I got up early and travel the hour and a half to Sydney to meet Tyler Oakley, which as you would probably know was amazing! After 3 and a half hours waiting in line we met him and Davey and it really was amazing!

The night saw me out at the local pub with my brother and his girlfriend! Mel and I had an amazing talk about life and such and I really love chatting with her because I feel like I can tell here absolutely anything and I know she will just listen and that she would do absolutely everything in her power to get me to where I want to be.

Since Sunday it has really just been a very chill week, filled with all these sweet things to brighten my day. A fresh Berry Banana Bliss smoothie, new nail polish, washing my puppy, late night vegetate toast, youtube, filming and re-organising my life!

What are the small things in your life that just make you smile?

Kirrajadeee

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