Losing my shit...

Wow... I exploded yesterday! Talk about a little pressure cooker tanty that had been boiling away for quite a while. With the stress of exams coming up, assignments and not enough time to have a life I just went ka-boom! It cleared the air around here though, so I can't regret it too much.
Expect posting to be somewhat haphazard until the weekend... it's not that I don't love you LOL.

Last give: I bought my parents afternoon tea... they deserved it :)

Taking the night off...

So often I feel committed to doing things in the weekend, especially at nights - going out with friends, parties, the whole social butterfly kit and caboodle. But keeping up the energy levels after a week of uni, part-time work (usually about 15-20 hours) as well as all the other assorted bits and pieces that I'd never want to give up (like this blog) is sometimes very difficult. After my usual "partner-in-crime" decided to head down the line this weekend, I made the scandalous decision to do absolutely nothing with my evenings this weekend. Scandalous, I know! Last night I caught up with a whole lot of little bits and pieces I had been meaning to do, and tonight I watched a girly chick flick "Cake" and then I'm going to curl up in bed and have a relatively early night. Belissimo! Believe me, my skin is telling me it could do with the extra beauty sleep at the moment :)
BTW... think I have found my new summer fragrance - Viktor & Rolf "Flowerbomb"... was describing it to TJ by telling him I smelt like the lovechild of a cupcake and a rose garden and the packaging is to DIE for. Now all I have to do is save my pennies to buy it LOL

Give yesterday: My time - I filled in for mum with an obligation she had that she could no longer do.
Give today: Bought my mum her favourite type of fizzy lollies

Blog Action Day - Poverty!

As a uni student (especially one who has come from the full time work force) it is so easy to proclaim that you are poor or you are broke... with the cost of living rising, what my meagre income could purchase at the beginning of this year will buy me less now. When friends are buying houses, funding weddings, purchasing boats and you are trying to toss up between going out this weekend and finally replacing that pair of pants that are close to death, it's easy to whinge.
Then you meet with some people that have been administering aid in Nigeria. They tell you a tale of a family haunted by the evils of HIV. A husband made "redundant" from his job that is the only income for his family... his five-year-struggle to get the pay out from the company in which he showed up to the headquarters every day. How their mud floor of their house would get unbelievably muddy whenever it rains and how grateful they were when a donation paid for a concrete floor in the house - that they considered they were living in luxury because they no longer had to wallow in ankle deep mud in wet weather.
This couple then went on to tell me about their children who are currently working in Amsterdam, one of the hubs of human trafficking due to the large sex trade there. They opened my eyes to the fact that there are currently more people in bonded labour (human trafficking and the slave trade in some eastern countries) then there were prior to the emancipation of African slaves in America. These people, often working in brothels or other sub-humane conditions, truly do live in poverty. They own nothing - even the clothing on their backs is not theirs to call their own- and they live in a cycle of fear and recrimination, unable to escape.
I'm living in poverty? Yeah right!

Give: Purchased a "Love Your Body" t-shirt to support EDEN - a network to support those with eating disorders.

Short and sweet...

As some of you may know if you've been following my "tweets" I found out yesterday that I have been walking around for about the last month with a dislocated shoulder. Was in too much agony yesterday to type and I'm still being really cautious today as I don't want it to pop out again. Much love to you all and expect to resume regular postings very soon.

Give yesterday: Donation to Plunket (for non-Kiwis, that's our national foundation that assists new mothers)
Give today: Donation to Gilda, one of my fav bloggers - she's doing the hard yards in NYC and I wanted to let her know that I appreciate the work she does on her blog :)