"My life is so perfect" blogs

I've recently come across a few new blogs which have intimidated me.

No I don't have the always perfect manicure with perfect makeup and perfect clothes.  I don't have a house which looks like it's come from a magazine shoot, nor a model husband, nor ridiculously cute kids.  No not everything I cook looks and tastes amazing.

It got me thinking about the projection of perfectionism in a public platform and I wanted to use this post to demonstrate HOW, in fact, imperfect I am.  And no this isn't a 'woe is me please give me positive reinforcement' post either (you can never win, right?)

• I am really lazy when it comes to housework.  I pretty much don't do any housework (luckily I've found a guy who loves it)
• I don't remove nail polish even when it's been chipped for a week (refer to previous lazy comment)
• I'm really short and used to have huuuuuuuuuuuge hang ups about it (not so much as I get older but not being able to reach things in the kitchen still annoy me greatly)
• I don't read anywhere near as much as I want to
• My relationship isn't perfect (I've had a few people mention to me they thought it was).  We do argue, mostly about aforementioned laziness hahaha
• I shop because I'm materialistic
• I have a lovely assortment of physical ailments which you will know about if you read this blog
• I don't do any exercise.  Any.  Refer to aforementioned laziness.
• Sometimes I find my taste in clothes are a bit pedestrian but I'm not brave enough to step outside my shell
• I watch far too long mind-numbingly dumb reality tv

Do you read "my life is so perfect" blogs?  Why/why not?

Outfits of the days

Been wearing a lot of dresses of late, purely because it's easy to chuck on a dress and not have to worry about matching top and bottom.

Camilla and Marc The Rosary dress with  CL Jenny

Asos skater dress with CL Bianca 120

Asos cowl neck dress with CL Flo

Rainy day calligraphy

What else does one do on a wet miserable day in Sydney?

Calligraphy, duh!

The below is not modeled off any calligraphy font, it's "Kay's handwriting" haha.

What do you do when you're stuck indoors on rainy days?

Valentines/Singles Awareness Day

So it seems the act of proposing has propelled Tom into a phase of romanticism never experienced before.

For the first time in four years, Tom declared he would make Valentines Day dinner for me.  This coming from a man who can barely cook himself 2-minute noodles when I'm not home.  Terrified doesn't even begin to describe my feelings towards this.

But I thought, I would let him do his thing and promised not to intervene/tell him what to do/how to cook.

While he spent a few days preparing for this dinner, I decided I would buy him some presents.  We don't usually buy each other Valentines Day presents or if we do we cap it at $10 but he bought me a pretty nice ring so the least I can do is buy him some nice things right?  11 nice things to be exact.

He slowly unwrapped his 11 presents and fell in love with his Brooks runners, Calvin Klein undies and 95% cotton socks (btw can anyone recommend a sock brand that has a high percentage of cotton and lasts a while?).  In return, he went to his soccer bag and fetched out an old USB charger and handed that to me.  If that's not love I don't know what is.

I watched tv while he prepared dinner.  He took inspiration from the 2 SA Mums on My Kitchen Rules and decided to make the scallops with panchetta and bitter greens (minus the blue cheese dressing).  I was waiting for my kitchen to burn down but it didn't happen.  Instead, this happened:

And then this happened:

His first time ever cooking steak and he cooked it better than I've ever cooked it.  He seemed upbeat until I suggested we implement a periodic 'Tom cooks' night at which point he claimed I was a better cook than him haha.

What did you do for Valentines/Singles Awareness Day?

ENGAGED!!

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I got engaged a few days ago.  I know it's exciting but I don't really feel that different, apart from needing to throw a huge party sometime soon..... ish.

On Friday, Tom got up and got dressed for work, and woke me up to say goodbye as usual.  And as usual I was barely awake for the goodbye and fell back asleep immediately.  Next thing I know there is a knock on my door.  YES the delivery man is here with my dress!  Yes yes yes!!!  Throw some clothes on, run to the front door and..... no delivery man.

Where is the delivery man?  Why is Tom kneeling?  Why is Tom wearing bummy clothes and not his work outfit?  What time is it?  What day is it?  Seriously, where is my delivery man??!?!?  What is Tom saying?  OMG that's a ring... he's proposing...  So there is no delivery man?

Confused.  Very confused.  It was 7am which is wayyyyy too early for me and I was completely disoriented.  It took me a good minute to realise Tom was proposing and all I could say was "You're crazy" and hug him.  This is the stunning ring he presented me with:

I think it looks big on me because I'm so tiny (the ring is a size F) and it wouldn't look so big on a normal person haha.  I love it so much though, it's perfect.

Yesterday we went to a friend's wedding (which is why I was stalking my delivery man.... he had my dress which I had to wear the next day!) and I kept referring to Tom as my boyfriend.  I think it will take me a while to get used to calling him my fiance!

Everyone's been asking me about my wedding plans and to be honest, I have none.  Weird for the over-planner that I am.  I think it actually terrifies me, the thought of planning a wedding.  I've heard so many horror stories about how stressful weddings are and I think I want to enjoy engaged life for a bit longer!

Thankyou for all the lovely wishes on Twitter and Instagram, sorry I can't thank you all personally!

Summer in Sydney

How beautiful has the weather been in Sydney of late?  It makes me excited to get out of the house and do things, even if it's just a walk to Aldi for groceries!

I've been to the beach twice in the past 3 days, including a breakfast at Bathers Pavilion followed by a lie-down at Balmoral Beach including a mandatory hotdogs or legs photo.

I also spent a morning walking around Sydney Harbour, discovering secret gardens and amazing hideaway spots.

Kx.

Working from Home routine

I've developed a nice working from home routine of 9am wakeup (just not a morning person ok), walk to a local cafe for a takeaway coffee and maybe down to the water, then back at my computer for the rest of the morning.  During my lunch break I'll walk 3km roundtrip to run errands and to get my exercise quota up.  Work the rest of the arvo before making dinner which has been super healthy of late (quinoa, kale, almonds, small portion of protein).

Seeing rainbows on my bathroom floor - thanks Sass and Spice