Day 122 - Hairstyled alpacas

 Melinda provided today's big smile - Shear delight: Alpacas left with mullets after annual cut.





I can't decide if they're hilariously cute or cutely hilarious!

Day 121 - The image of Snowflake riding a bike in a hot country

On a cold morning, Snowflake likes to climb onto my lap while I'm getting ready for work in front of the heater. She'll get into this position in the photo above and have a quick snooze with her head resting atop my right knee, her face always facing the heater.

It always makes me laugh, because I can't help but picture her riding on the back of a motorbike in a South-East Asian country (the heat!), hanging on tightly and gripping the handlebars while the warm breeze caresses blasts her face!

Day 120 - Wooden blocks make a happy baby, seeing someone doing what they love and loving what they're doing, and catching up with old friends

What makes me smile?

1. Seeing how happy 2 coloured wooden blocks can make a baby!




2. Watching someone doing what they love and loving what they're doing. In this case it's Fred DJing at Creamfields - not bad at all for his 1st gig!
   



3. Catching up with old friends over pasta and wine, reminiscing old times and sharing new stories. 

Day 119 - Reflexes, breakfast at 3:30pm, macarons and sweet treats

Today, I'm feeling very thankful for...

...reflexes. I was off with the fairies daydreaming while turning on the tap at the basin, and when I reached in to cup some water in my hands, my hands instantly jerked backwards as I jumped, startled. I hadn't realised the water was scaldingly hot. It got me thinking about how incredible the human body was - how something as complicated as stimulating the receptors in the skin of our finger, conducting it into a nerve impulse that transmits to our central nervous system, and continues to transmit the nerve impulse into a motor impulse to cause the involuntary withdrawal from the pain and stop further damage - all happens "automatically" within the space of nanoseconds. All these intricate neurones and nerve endings and transmissions were formed from one single cell. Last week I took some time to marvel at the universe, today I'm marvelling at the universe in all of us.

...places like Hobba that serve breakfast until 5pm, so people like me can have it at 3:30pm.


...friends like Christean who bakes yummy macarons, meaning I always have access to a stash of them!

...having a boyfriend who not only showers me lots of sweet treats...

...but makes me honey joys as well!

Day 118 - More of retelling of The Notebook and why I love Snowflake reason #20

1. Following yesterday's torturous session of hearing me explain scenes from The Notebook in excruciating detail, poor Chan found himself in yet another conversation about The Notebook with me. Lol.

Chan: Morning
Me: Good morning
Me: You know what I realised last night
Me: Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are surrounded by white ducks, not swans
(what feels like decades later)
Chan: OMG
Chan: Now you tell me. And you didn't tell me the part that after Rachel asked why he didn't write to her in years, and that she waited all that time for him that they got it on
Me: Lol it is irrelevant that they got it on
Me: Why don't I send you the 4 and a half minute long clip of the epic scene
Chan: No no that's not necessary
Me: When they are in the boat, surrounded by ducks she commends him on how well he's done, he's bought the house that they fooled around in and built it up from scratch
Chan: You watched it again didn't you???
Me: And he said "I promised you I would" So it was Ryan saying he promised her he would that upset her
Chan: Far out. Everything you have told me is news to me
Chan: Now I have to start from the start again because of this new information on the scene
Me: Would you like me to explain again
Chan: No no
Me: I'll happily give you a full synopsis again or you could just watch the 4.30 minute long scene
Me: 4.30 minutes it's not that bad
Chan: Omg

A while later...

Chan: There is a scene when Rachel and Ryan are rowing in a boat on a lake. They are rowing in sunshine surrounded by all these white ducks in the water. Rachel commends Ryan on how well he has done, as he has bought a house and built it from scratch. Ryan claims that he made a promise to her that he would. They chat whilst on the boat, and thunder and lightning begin to fill the sky. As they make their way back to land it begins to rain and it pours down. They both look at each other awkwardly. As it rains both Rachel and Ryan begin to burst out in laughter. They finally get back to shore and Rachel hastily leaves to boat and screams at Ryan. She asked him why he didn’t write to her, as it wasn’t over for her. She said that she “waited 7 years and you never wrote and now it was too late”. Ryan said that he wrote 365 letters, 1 for everyday of the first year. Ryan proclaims that it wasn’t over and it still isn’t over. They both move towards each other and come to an embrace. Then they made their way into the house where they got it on
Me: Where did you get that synopsis from? That's great
Chan: That is from what you told me, what my friend told me and a touch of Chan in between
Me: Well done Chan. It's like you've watched it!


2. Reason #20 of why I can't help but love Snowflake:

She can be a very wise-looking kitty sometimes.

"When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmm?"

Day 117 - Afternoon chuckles and retelling The Notebook

I love it when you're chugging along with monotonous work and feeling slightly flat after a heavy lunch, and lo and behold an email arrives in your inbox with hilarious demotivational pictures to lighten your day. Afternoon chuckles keep your head away from your knuckles!

Here are a few memorable ones from today's:











And here's a random funny Jon threw in!

Later on in the afternoon, I had a humorous chat (it was for me anyway) with Chan. He made the mistake of asking me about The Notebook. The poor guy had no idea what he was getting himself into.

Chan: Have you seen The Notebook?
Me: Lol yes I have
Chan: I've never seen it only heard of it
Me: You're missing out
Chan: Cbb reading the synopsis because its long and draining me, what's all the hype associated with the movie? Why do people talk about it or make reference to it?
Me: Perhaps you should watch it and find out
Me: It's a romantic film
Chan: Nah nah nah that's all I needed to know then
Me: I'll admit I've watched it a few times. When I watched it the first time with my best friend we sat there bawling even after the movie had ended
Me: It's very sweet
Me: Dramatised
(minutes later)
Chan: Omg
Me: Lol
Me: Did you read the synopsis?
Chan: Not really. I read that it was based in the 1940's and it went on and on so I stopped and cbb reading any more
Chan: Someone played a joke yesterday and made reference to The Notebook and I had NFI what The Notebook was about
Chan: I know people talk about it but I don't know what its about. Was told I was going to see The Lucky One
Me: Lol you poor thing. Same author
Chan: Ok thats the reference now I get it. What a crap movie The Lucky One is
Me: I think you should give The Notebook a go. At the very least you have Rachel McAdams to look at
Chan: But Ryan Gosling is in the way
Me: But it's Ryan Gosling.....
Chan: To a lady or a man that likes a man I'm sure it would be an ideal film to watch
Chan: A nice synopsis of The Notebook - a pure chick flick
Me: Yeah that sums it up
Chan: "Every girl's dream"
Chan: Omg
Me: Lol
Chan: I should have never asked
Me: There is one epic scene when they meet again after 7 years and he brings her out on a boat. They are surrounded by swans. Its a very stunning setting and they start chatting and sort of look at each other awkwardly then it starts pouring. They laugh and there is dramatic music and then she gets visibly upset
Chan: Oh no now you are reenacting events
Chan: Its so vivid for you
Chan: I was thinking that you might say the swans started attacking them
Me: When they get back to shore she storms off, then turns around and screams at him "Why didn't you write me? It wasn't over for me, I waited for you for seven years but you never wrote and now it's too late"
Chan: OH SNAP
Me: And he explained that he did write
Chan: I have a fear of swans. I see swans and fear they will attack me
(completely disregarding his fear of swans)
Me: He wrote her 365 letters.. he wrote her everyday for a year
(minutes later)
Chan: Omfg
Me: And he says "It wasn't over, it still isn't over"
Me: And he goes in for a passionate kiss
Me: And they kiss and embrace in the rain
Chan: Why was he away from her? War? Army?
Me: War. She's from a rich family, he's poor
Chan: And where did the letters go if she never got them?
Me: It was a summer romance when they met. Her mother kept them from her, she didn't want her to see him because he was poor
Chan: Oh
Chan: Epic 7 years
Me: So epic
Me: But she was engaged to another man by then, a rich man
Chan: Let me guess that she was with someone else?
Chan: So cliche
Chan: And then she left the rich guy and ended up with him and they lived happily ever after?
Me: Sort of. The way the story is told it starts off with an old man reading an old woman a story at an old folk's home
Me: Later on it is revealed that the old man is old Ryan Gosling, and old woman is old Rachel McAdams. She has alzheimer's so he reads to her to help her remember
Me: Sometimes she remembers, sometimes she doesn't. Sometimes she doesn't recognise her husband, doesn't recognise her kids
Chan: I soooooo shouldn't have asked about it
Chan: I am getting a full synopsis right now
Chan: You can't get enough of The Notebook
Me: Bet you're regretting it now
Chan: Its in the memory bank
Chan: A display of sensitivity in a man can be demonstrated by mentioning The Notebook
Me: So if he groans when he hears The Notebook...
Chan: No groaning in front of a lady. Just going to have to suck it up
Me: Lol
Chan: Your retelling of that whole scene has given me enough of an insight of the film actually. I might use it one day
Me: You will reenact the scene?
Chan: Not reenact. Retell it having never watched the film
Me: You should probably know how it ends too then
(what seems like hours later)
Chan: Do I need to know?
Me: You've made it through this far. He crawled into bed with her at the old folks home. He can't stay away from her because he loves her so much
Chan: Oh my me
Me: And they die in their sleep in embrace
Chan: Oh
Chan: Thanks for the synopsis Sammie
Me: Anytime Chan, anytime
Chan: Lol

And just for fun, this is The. Epic. Scene.

Day 116 - Sleeping in with Snowflake and honey joys

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

1. Incredibly lucky that I can stay in my warm bed, listen to the pouring rain outside and sleep in on a public holiday. I truly savoured this simple pleasure... by sleeping longer.


2. I was awoken by Snowflake pushing her back into my face - she had flopped herself down on my left shoulder, with the rest of her plonked onto my pillow. Having a 6kg purring cat leaning against your face is oddly charming!



3. I made honey joys!

The house is now filled with the sweet aroma of sugar and butter... I wish I could bottle it up! My heart must hate me.