Music: Pitball- Give Me Everything

I had a fabulous, fabulous weekend. Saturday night I totally glammed up and partied hard for a work function. Lots of champagne was sipped, good food eaten, some photobooth madness, I danced my rather large feet off, sang bad karaoke in a suspicious karaoke joint and stumbled into bed well after punpkin time. Sunday I suffered from the partying but was lucky enough to have some overdue catchup, coffee with wise people who listened to me and helped to remind me how lucky I am. 
Recently I have been tumbling into a great big pit of self-pity, which frustrates me to no end- because I can recognise they way I am feeling but struggle to pull myself out of the funk when I know that I have so many amazing things in my life to love and be excited about. This isn't the first time I've felt this way, and I know that it is totally a part of life, everything isn't always sunshine and roses but man it is exhausting! And I am totally over it, but owning up to the reason why I feel this way, or even narrowing down the reason why is hard.
Driving to work this morning the words from this Pitbull number yelled out to me...

Took my life from negative to positive

I just want y'all to know that 

And tonight, let's enjoy life  

Pitbull, Nayer, Ne-yo, Tesra 

Tonight I will love, love you tonight

Give me everything tonight

For all we know we might not get tomorrow 

Let's do it tonight

 
Forget what they say  

All my cares, they play 

Nothing is enough  

'Til I've had enough

 

xx Lauren

Wishlist Dreaming

Between bills, a holiday is the near future and general living I have been creating quite a wishlist of things that I would love to purchase but can't right at this moment...

I came across Zowie Accessories on facebook- I love the colours and textures of their jewellery. I think this necklace would look striking with the sparkly dress I have to wear for Jess' birthday in a couple of weeks.

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I've been lusting after an Emily Green necklace for awhile and am in love with the new range in her Etsy store.

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I've been watching the new Gordon Ramsay series on Foxtel Gordon's Ultimate Cookery Course and think it is awesome. Filled with great ideas and lots of plainly explained information, every episode I find myself saying I want to make that! There is an accompaning app for iphones (and a dodgy non-offical one for android) and the book is something that I hope to add to my shelf sometime soon.

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I don't know about you but I have a habit of searching through online stores, filling my cart with things I would love to buy and then swiftly closing all the windows, turning off the computer without spending a cent. It seems to fulfill the shopping urge without the cash being spent. Lately I have spent many hours on the Shoes of Prey website designing shoes- I can not wait for the day that I actually press submit and purchase something!

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I love having artwork on my walls, and I am slowly adding to my collection of prints. Being the lazy renter I am, most of them are just blu-tacked to the wall with the occasional piece of washi adding some extra stick. This print from Sweet William is just gorgeous- all of the work from this store is.

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Spending so much time in the gym, my workout wardrobe isn't as extensive as I actually need it to be- something that I'm thinking of getting made when in vietnam is some gym tops...along with shoes, jeans and a coat (not a small list at all!) But in the meantime I am lusting after a new jumper/jacket and some shoes.

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Finally cocktails. I am always wishing for more cocktails in life. They don't necessarily need to be drunk out of mason jars, but if it makes life a little more fun and wankery then why not!

Whats on your wishlist at the moment? Is it extensive as mine?
xx Lauren

Alrighty

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Reaching for a bit of positivity today.
What are you up to today?
Happy Sunday,
xx Lauren

Exhale

Finding the right words are tricky at the moment.
In the last fortnight, month even, I have started this same blog post over and over and over again. Never happy with the sentences on the screen.
I think on a daily basis I am finding myself run a whole gauntlet of emotions. And that is exhausting.
I spent some time talking with a wise friend last weekend about putting it out there, telling the universe what it is I need, so that things become real, so that I can be reminded exactly what it is I deserve, to be positive.
Right now, I would just like some calm in my brain.

 

Some Calm.
xx L

five random facts

Earlier in the week Tatum tagged me on instagram to share five random facts about myself, and I figured it was the perfect blog post too!

** on a side note, how awesome is instagram? it totally floats my boat being the visual voyeuristic person I am! My user name is @auntylauren if you want to find me there **

• My middle name is 'Eesti" which  means Estonia, the European country my Grandfather is from.
• Dream job is to be a professional gift wrapper...I'm still putting together a plan to make this one real
• I have a massive girl crush on Taylor Swift
• I am a reality and lifestyle TV junkie, Better Homes and Gardens is one of my favourite programs...I really am old before my time
• My first car was a white Mitsubishi magna that I paid cash for

So there you go, some random bits of me, tell me something I don't know about you??
Happy Saturday,
xx Lauren

First World Problem: Cycling

I have a total first world problem.
In fact, I think the world is conspiring against me.
Dramatic I know.

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I do not know how to ride a bike. Its a skill that my darling parents forgot to impart on me, the irony being that my dad is now an avid lycra clad cyclist. My sister Sam also doesn't know how to ride either and I've had a thing where as long as she didn't ride it was all good that I didn't either.
And now that's all over.
My friends have been bugging me for a few weeks now that I need to learn before we go to Vietnam in July, apparently that is the only way to get around Hoi An. I said I was happy to walk behind...or pay someone to drive me.
Then last night on facebook my gorgeous big sister announced the recent addition of fancy-pants bicycles to there household, which means that very soon Sam will attempt to learn how to ride...which means I don't have anymore excuses.
I, Lauren Boase, at the age of 26 am going to learn how to ride a bike.
I have 10 weeks to learn, so I better get cracking!
How do I learn people?? What are your hot tips??? Is this one of the silliest first world problems you've heard about??

Wish me luck!
xx Lauren

Music: Sheppard- Let Me Down Easy

Ahhh the turmoil of not blogging for days and days is that I now have a large collection of songs I want to shar and so far have started this post three times trying to chose the song I like best today. Oh the first world problems of my life.
Sheppard are an Australian band out of Brisbane with siblings George, Emma and Amy Sheppard being joined with Jay Bovino, Michael Butler and Dean George to make a very cool group of six. I like this song Let Me Down Easy, it is that relaxed, grass roots sound I've been enjoying a lot of lately.

Night and day I’ve been doing the math
To calculate where we wandered off track
But I know, that this love was never easy…

But something’s faded inside of your heart
Now you’re crusading to tear us apart
It’s clear now, I know you’re gonna leave me
So disappear now, I won’t get in your way…

 

What have you been listening to lately? How do you find new music? 

Happy Monday,

xx Lauren