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For this week’s My Place & Yours. Pretty self-explanatory!

Cupcake/macaroon handbag from Pretty in Pink. Roxy glasses from SpecSavers. Makeup/Advil stripey bag by littlepinkpins on Etsy. Annnnd, there’s my phone, Logitech earbuds, wallet, sunnies and a fundraising Freddo.

This kinda reminds me of those days in high school when we’d look in each other’s wallets. Did you guys do that too?

This week’s Noice-ities is a piece of cake. I drove out west to become Eliza’s godmother.

Henceforth known as her Fairygodmother:

How lucky am I to get to be fairygodmother to the most adorable kid I know (except her two big sisters, of course).

Now I just have to learn how to be a Fairygodmother. I left a set of fairy wings on the farm for her to wear, so that’s a good start, right?

I actually have favourite shoes in varying categories:

• casual summer = Haviana thongs
• work = my brown leather Duo Boots from the UK
• casual winter = hand-me-down boyshoes from Dan

But my overall favourite? Ugg boots!

Join the meme over at Hello Owl, and you can even email Danielle nominate themes for future episodes!

Having an addiction to energy drinks isn’t exactly socially acceptable. I get told often about the negative effects of drinking V is having on my body. Negative effects, which, much like a smoker, I’m totally aware of.

So I get embarrassed when someone finds out that I drink THAT STUFF. Cause more often than not, I get a firm talking-to at the same time.

Someone who’s not afraid to show her love of energy drinks, though is the gorgeous Suze. Though she drinks Mother instead of V. Check out what she tweeted* this morning:

Alas, the 7-11 $1 sale didn’t include V, so I couldn’t join in with the taurine, guarana and caffeine overload. Sadface.

While I’m totes jealous (check me keeping up with the young’uns), it’s probably better for my insides that I wasn’t able to buy 3 cases of V, no?

* I feel like tweeted should be a proper verb. As in, Tweeted. I think this is a sign of over-Tweeting.

Before I get started, a quick thank you to everyone for their lovely comments in my previous post. It was a hard one to write, and one that isn’t exactly my best writing, but I appreciated the comments all the same. Fanx guys :))

My weekend was totally focused on doing something NOICE for myself. I knew I had earned it!

I spent Saturday on the couch and crocheting. I mastered the technique with the help of a few more YouTube videos and am now well on the way to making a baby blanket for a friend’s bubba:

Look! The edges are almost straight!

Other noice-ities of the week include (and not limited to)

• Lovely friends who make lovely Tim Tam-themed treats
• Ordering our wedding bands (zomg I’m getting diamonds on mine!!!11!1!!)
• Discovering and watching about 10 eps of Glee (how fabulous is that damn show?!)
• Hanging out with my youngest nephew – who apparently described me afterwards as “cool”. Not bad from a 12yo!
• Booking TWO massages (!). One’s at InSpa, a place so popular I have to wait until the end of August for the next available appointment. So I booked an interim one this week with the girl who “shapes” my eyebrows.

What was noice in YOUR week? Join in at That’s Noice, our weekly meme called Noice-ities :)

Danielle’s hit us with a toughie on this week’s My Place & Yours: What do you look like when you get out of bed in the morning?

Uh oh.

I’m not too great in the morning, though I must admit that I’m surprised by how okay my hair looks first thing in the morning.

I’ve gone around and had a look at all the other girls who’ve been brave enough to post their pics, and I can totally imagine all of us waking up in the same house and making each other coffee and tea and eggs on toast. Funny how homely it feels to see how we look straight up :)

If you’ve got a blog, you should join in too!

My contribution to this week’s Noice-ities, in point form:

• Things are looking up with mum’s move into the nursing home; we’re closing to finishing clearing out her old place and more and more I’m realising that we really did make the right decision to agree for her to be moved. I still need to fill you in, but only when my brain is better equipped
• We met with the celebrant we’ve chosen for the wedding… which I’m told is less than 100 days away (thanks, Leigh!). Lachlan is just the person we want for a celebrant – no fuss, no fluff!
• Light – in the bedroom! The globe blew, oh, 2 or 3 weeks ago and we keep forgetting to grab the ladder to change it (downside of these 12ft ceilings we have). So last night, in the dark, I wiped the bugs and cobwebs off the ladder and clambered up and changed the bulb myself – Dan was terrified, convinced that I would fall off. Because I succeeded I sang that “I Don’t Need A Man” song by the Pussycat Dolls, complete with booty dance ;)
• I saw the most beautiful thing this week – Tiff from My Three Ring Circus has been working so hard to raise funds for the hospital where her youngest daughter is regularly treated. A fundraiser day was held at the local school and they raised $2k! The montage of photos brought more than a few tears to my eyes:

• Last but not least, I got a luffly surprise in the post! It was from the gorgeous Elizabeth of Scarlet Words – a cupcake soap! Plus a brilliant handmade card. Full of awesome :D

Why don’t you join in with us at Noice-itites?

(I should also call this post “Zomg have you missed me I’m back now lolz”)

I could go on and on about what’s kept me away from blogging in the last few weeks, but I’m still processing it in my head. So for a gentle return, I’m getting back on the wagon with Danielle’s My Place & Yours and this week’s theme: Where Do You Sleep?

I could take a photo of the bed, but that’s easy. So here’s the couch a.k.a. my daybed:

(See? Even Bear and Elvis love it!)

I. Love. This. Couch.

We bought this 3-seater (in “natural” a.k.a. more expensive colour kthxbai) from Ikea at Christmastime. Yes, I actually own a couch from Ikea, and I never thought I’d say that. But after months (literally) of hunting for The One, Ikea turned out to be the place.

Now that we have a 3-seater, I now have a “day bed”. There’s room for me to stretch out for my weekend nanna naps and the kittehs fit too.

This couch is worth every cent. zzzzzzzzz

God bless the Queen for having an un-birthday and giving us a long weekend. Cause we needed it.

This weekend I managed to:

• Catch up with local and non-local friends and their offspring (kids are cute, but they’re cuter when I get to hand them back to their parents/grandparents
• Have the wedding make-up trial with my BFF a.k.a The Chief Bridesmaid
• Catch up with my sisters to plan the next stages of how we look after mum, who’s still unwell and still in hospital
• Attend Jarod & Liz‘s Informal Wedding Celebrations™ and stuff our faces stupid with pizza, pasta and icecream and make copious notes of what ideas we’re going to copy for our wedding/pizza/cupcakes party
• ZOMG I BOUGHT A WEDDING DRESS. Not unlike the one pictured above. This shot was taken just as the shop assistant suggest I strike a pose for the trial photo

Needless to say, after such an eventual and social weekend, I’m kinda looking forward to a week at work that’ll slow the pace down a bit.

Some time this week I magically turned thirty-two.

32!

Isn’t that meant to be old? Cause I don’t feel old (though, listening to ABC radio, I think I automatically qualify, regardless).

I’ve been royally spoilt by my friends and family, some which I’ve either blogged about or posted to flickr.

I also got these, which was a massive surprise cause I totally intended to reimburse Leigh for these:

Needless to say, I’m feeling very very verrrrrrrrrrrry spesh this week :)

Things I’ve learned about the number thirty two (thanks, Wikipedia)!:

• A soccer ball is made with 32 panels of leather
• The number of teeth of a full set of teeth in an adult human, including wisdom teeth
• 32 is the smallest number n with exactly 7 solutions to the equation φ(x) = n (okay, I’m going to trust you on that one)
• 32 is the ninth happy number (and now I know what a happy number is, so this exercise hasn’t been a complete waste)
• 32 = 11 + 22 + 33

This post is part of Noice-ities at That’s Noice – why don’t you join in and share something noice that’s happened to you this week?