After a long day at work yesterday, I found that my cleavage was unusually tanned for a winters day.  On closer inspection, I just had heaps of ground coffee down my top... I then found it in my armpits and toes, my hands looked like I'd tried a fake tan jobby...and gone five shades too dark.   

Although I have been making coffee for a number of years now, I still have not learnt to dress appropriately for work. Two 'rules' I always thought were dumb:

           Black covered in shoes

           No low-cut tops or singlets

I have only JUST realised that this is for my comfort(and knife safety), not their anal retention.   

The wreckage of my very best second-hand score

These two images show off my coffee jandal-tan...

I swear tomorrow I will were black closed toe shoes.. if they look good with my outfit...

Circa 1990

I know you are thinking, wow weren't the 90's awesome!!!.. bad mullet, track pants, skivvy, cheese and ...something sandwich, 60's yellow t-shirt, yeahhh this is what it was all about.  .... My godson Milo, photographed September 2008.  We like him for his quirks.

Chairs

          

Roller Skat(defla)ting

This image I drew a little while ago so perfectly depicts how I feel right now about my skating career....

Yesterday as I skated with Satomi around Sydney Uni, I thought 'Yes! Easy peezy! Watch out Derby, here I come...' I was so good, toot tooot!

Then tonight, feeling cocky after yesterdays win, I suggested to my surf-obsessed friend that we go for a night skate.  Off we go, Janne on her skateboard, down the street..gone..  me covered from head to toe in protective gear crawling out the doorway.. 'haha I nearly fell already' I jest... to myself..

So I skate for mmm about 3 mins then decide I'm 'too blind' to skate in the dark.. slash fuckin shit at skating. Aw man.  Nearly home,  Janne takes a look at my wrist guards 'I should get some of these' she says.. I promptly fall to the ground onto my arse (not protected) and kick her hard in the shin on the way down.  Ultimate fail.   

Op Shop Here: #1

New Zealand.. The land of plenty .. When we say 'plenty', we are obviously referring to the abundance of second hand shops.  I'm going to take you to a few of my favourites, starting here in Greta Valley.  Located between Kaikoura and Christchurch....somewhere....I found two very special stores, both a little above average price wise, but well worth a good scout and a chat.  Shop man at shop 2 happily traded one of my previous op-shop scores for a different (much nicer) version of the same thing..
If you're on the road in the south, be sure and stop at these two gems.  Stay tuned for more..