A Beautiful Mess Giveaway

I have been backwards and forwards about this blog, Im not sure how long i will keep it for, but for now im linking an awesome giveaway from A Beautiful Mess! Elsie is giving away a $150 gift voucher for Threadsence and hooooooo gosh i hope i win it.

Until next time...

~ Rhey.

Sad.

I was going to do a post about how in love with blueberries i am at the moment... cool recipes and blogs to follow. But something a lot more important has come up and pulled at my heart strings.

I wish i could divulge i really do. I wish i could say exactly what's on my mind, but the fear of her or anyone else in our close circle of friends reading this is not worth the hassle. Maybe i should privatise my blog... no, that wouldnt help. I don't know what to do.

Let's just say that i am a mess at the moment, and it is baffling as to why.

~ Rhey.

Career?

I've been neglecting this blog quite a bit lately. And i could make every excuse under the sun about being busy etc. etc. but in the end it just comes down to the fact that i haven't been making it a priority. This makes me saaaaaad.

I was never one of those people to know exactly what i want to do in my life, and plan it out to a tee, and i think as a result i have found myself in a job that i'm not truly happy with. Don't get me wrong, i have tried working in multiple areas and job roles since having a full time job at fifteen, but none of them have ever worked out, or i have simply lost interest. They say that your ideal career would be the things that you like to do in your spare time, so.. uh i'm going to be a professional sleeper, or reality-television-watcher. Ugh, what i guess i;m trying to say is, i've got no clue what to do with myself. Is it okay to just be in administration for the rest of my life? What if i honest to god cannot think of any part of my personality or interests that would be suited for a job?

Well that was my waaah fest for the day!

~ Rhey

Wordless Wednesday.

Around 2008.

I lost the plot...

Chai... Spanish Style.

One of the best parts of my working day is at about 3pm when my spanish 'grandmother' waltzes into my office to begin her shift. She has kinda taken on the role of all of our 'grandmother's' here at work. She is old school spanish to the max (calls everyone 'babieeee' and even does that kissing-her-fingers hand movement thing when something is 'perfection') and is one of the most amazing and inspiring women i have ever met. I find myself captivated by her stories of Spain and knowledge of the world. She has taught me how to make a true spanish gazpacho and just recently taught me the way her mother used to make her chai tea.

She brought me in a little bag full of fresh ginger, anise seed stars, licorice, green and black cardamom, cinnamon and fennel seeds and told me to go home and chuck them all into a teapot and enjoy with my regular chai.

The flavour that the spices add to the tea is aaaaa-mazing. She told me not to throw out the spices once the tea was gone, but just to leave them there and add more and more over time. This was just what i needed on a chilly sunday morning, accompanied of course with a hot croissant or donut... or maybe even a churro! Im gonna swarm her for information for the perfect churro next time i see her.

yummmmmmm.

~ Rhey.

Breathe.

These past few weeks have just been go. go. gooooo. I havent been getting to bed until at least 11pm and that is without being on the internet at all. I smell a break coming up though, maybe a weekend of nothing, or maybe even a day off work. I am so fizzled out that i need to take a break before i get sick.

I have gained buttloads of respect for women who return to work after baby! Although i think i would rather their satisfying exhaustion over my stressful working-for-the-man type of exhaustion.

This afternoon i spent my precious free time going through the seventy odd new posts on my bloglovin account (heck i am in no way complaining about that!) and browsing my new favourite site pinterest. I'm off to the gym now though to continue my health kick!

~Rhey.

A Paper Mama Photo Challenge!

Just here to enter Paper Mama's latest photo challenge! This is my favourite photo from June of my fur baby. Isn't she delish?

~ Rhey.