Sweet Sweet Life

These pics just made my day!

Have you ever browsed around flickr.com? There are some beautiful, inspirational things! Theses pics are from Sweet Sweet Life

Go explore for your self!!!!

DO IT! :)

Loving the Pretty,

Dreaming of Daisy Fields

R

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Procrastination, the key to nothing

Exams start in T minus 10 days. They're the final stretch to my having a degree. The only problem is, I just CAN'T settle into the learning. And it's a relatively large problem.

Hi, my name is Robyn and I am a procrastinator.

It's not my fault really, it's just that there are SO many things that I HAVE to do before I could possibly even think about studying.

I NEED to sort out my room, desk, stationary. I NEED to tidy my cupboard. I NEED to have some tea and a cupcake. I NEED to think about which subject to start with. I NEED to organise ALL my books so I can slip into study mode quickly and efficiently. I NEED more tea. I NEED to have a bath and then paint my toenails. I NEED to make dinner, eat it and do the dishes. I NEED to watch Private Practice while I eat dinner (saving time, in my mind at least). I NEED to sleep now because I'm so tired and surely I'll study better tomorrow if I get a good nights sleep tonight?!?

Never mind the non-studying I'm doing right now typing this.

I need to now rearrange my desk so I can get better light to read under. Then have a snack and THEN study. (although I'll probably only get a half hour in before I think of something else I MUST do, or I'll need to wee.)

It's ok, it's not like the rest of my life is pending on the out come of these exams...

Hoping for some focus,

Dreaming of Daisyfields...

R

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A Call for Simpler Times

To quote Snow Patrol "If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world."

It seems that the more days that pass, the busier the weekends are, and the more complex and interwoven our lives become! More and more, I feel the need to just lie and do nothing. I see my 'lovely other dinosaur' on the weekends only, due to distance, sometimes only every 2 weeks... and when we are together there never seems to be any time to just do nothing, or go for a picnic just because it's saturday and there's no where else we need to be! (I love picnics! :) )

Not sure if it's because I am, finally, 21 (yesterday) or if I'm just going through a period of epiphanies... but I have made a conscious decision to cut out the excess in my life, in an attempt to simplify, slow down, and really enjoy what's happening around me! Time to delete the friends that take take take and don't give anything back... the fakeness in attempts to keep everyone happy...
Time to grow the balls to be able to call people out when they're NOT being lovely at all!

Most importantly, it's time to forget about everyone else and learn to focus on myself. In my dreams, when I'm who, what, where I want to be and wearing the things I want to, instead of feel compelled to, I will attract the kind of people I still people inherently are.

Not to take anything away from my special friends I already have, they're truely amazing, inspiring, THERE!

Hoping to make sense out of what's going on...
Dreaming of LOVELY daisy fields,
R
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AMAZING...

Just discovered this awesome artist... do have a look for yourself!!!

GO LOOK NOW!!!! :)

Browsing through the loveliness,

Dreaming of Daisy Fields...

R

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What to do...Where to go...

So you turn 18, finish school, and you have to choose a path. Gap year? Study?

If you study, what course do you take? BA? BBA? BCom? and after one year, you must choose majors. English? Communications? Psychology? History?

Then, once that's done, you must choose another path.

Find an internship? Find a job? What job do you want? Do you even know what you want to do? Did you ever know what you wanted to do? [Other than when you were 5 of course]

Do you go overseas? Where do you go? How long do you go for? What do you do when you get there?

Do you stay here and get a job and earn money before you get your travel boots on?

You need a CV. What do you put on? Which jobs are the ones they need to know about?

Does the high school part time shop assistant job count for anything?

Then I get told not to worry... these are regular feelings for a 20something year old...... Am I being silly? Do regular people not worry about these things? Am I completely confused? Over reacting?Under reacting? Overwhelmed?[that's last one's a given!]

It seems like I'm in such a rush for independence but I don't feel right living off my parents... so the 21 year old must make some decisions....

Hoping a path will find me,

Wishing to be a gypsey,

Dreaming of Daisy Fields...

R

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a year has gone...

About a year ago my parents and little sister imigrated from South Africa to Australia.

Doesn't sound like too big a deal...

But when you've lived at home your whole life and are used to having your family around all the time, it is.

It was all an idea, nothing 100%, until all of a sudden...
Everything got packed up [not everything, but the things that make a house a home... pictures, funny memorabilia, general things you're used to having around] and they were gone.

I guess we were lucky to be left with the house and similar set up, so it didn't seem like it'd be too big a change... but everything changed. Even the smell of the house.

At first it was hard... cried a lot. Hated the change. Regretted not going with.

But slowly, as I saw how strong my foundation was back here. The friends were there, they were strong, and as much as I felt that I was leaning on them, they told me I wasn't... it helped...

It's probably been the best [I've had to grow up] and the worst [I'm scared my little sis has changed beyond recognition] thing for me... for us.

After a year of not seeing my Pops, he came home [for a week] and it was amazing and a little wierd at the same time. You get used to doing whatever, you know?

And now, after exactly a year of not seeing my Mamma and little sister, they're coming home.

I'm so excited that I don't know what to do with my self. Yet so scared. I'm either gonna hold up and be extatic or melt down completely... a little puddle of R on the airport floor...

Hoping the sleeps go quickly,

Dreaming of Daisy Fields...

R

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Fitness Shmitness

Decided to enter a triathlon after doing absolutely NO exercise for, oh, say a year.

But it's good for my body, and mind to get some oxygen and blood pumping around my body [low blood pressure, poor colonic function, tsk tsk] but seriously... people do this for fun??????

Setting off is ok, got the music going and nostalgic wind in my face... until it starts to burn.

Now, when I say it burns, I mean IT BURNS. In my legs, in my chest, down my throat...

and if I slow down to a brisk walk then it turns into a cramp.

So then I think, after a mere km, that maybe I should give the bicycle a go.

Forgetting, of course, that it's been about 4 years since I rode a bike properly... if not longer.

But on I hopped, and off I went... feet on the peddals, feet off the peddals, feet on, feet off.

Wobble, wobble, peddal peddal peddal, fiddle with the gears, nearly fall. Fiddle with the gears some more [I can't figure them out] up the road, down the road, up the drive way, bike down.

COLLAPSE on my bedroom floor..............................................

Feel like I'm going to vomit, but I don't want to admit that everyone was right about me not being able to do this, so I close the door and die quietly.

Not sure how long it's going to take for me to be able to run a km with out dying.

Not sure if I'm going to be able to get through the triathlon without dying, or if I'll be able to stick out the training long enough to get there.

But I shall persevere.

Hoping to survive the road,

Wishing I was dreaming in daisy fields...

R

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