Silly season has started!

It was a big foodie week beginning with Cargo bar for the Dream Team (just a nickname our smaller team took on for an internal presentation and it's stuck since) lunch on Monday to celebrate my manager's bday followed by the two days ushering us into the weekend filled with two X'mas lunches, the Beauty & the Beers and the Dream team X'mas tapas at Small Bar.







We were here a day after the Movember party and had the shared menu amongst the team at The Deck restaurant. My favourite dish of the day, the Barramundi fillet with tagine sauce, buttered couscous & preserved lemon  was gorgeous; lightly spiced, fresh, tangy and definitely more-ish! We got to go on the rides too after that and that's quite fun.


At the social club X'mas lunch on another sunny day at King Street Wharf.

It's a wonder I still fit into my clothes having had so much food and drink last week!

After all that i decided to try my hand at baking banana bread. I got the recipe off Taste.com and it was a really healthy variety of the store-bought version. The Verdict: I liked it! Having never previously had much luck with baking, I gave myself a mental pat on the back as I took this out of the oven, filling my kitchen with the delicious wafts of fresh baked-goods:








Hope you have had just as wonderful a week as I did!

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Pardon the lag in blogging, its not due to a lack for trying on my part, but Mr. Happyeverafter has taken it upon himself that my computer is too laggy of late and has formatted it so that I could not access my files and programmes in manners I was previously used to. *takes deep breath* However, he announces that I am all fixed now and I gingerly approach my laptop again and checks my blog dashboard because I have been dying to share this with the world.

Only the best invention in the world! I present to you Glamnails Nail Enamel Strips which I reckon is the best beauty tip any woman should have up their sleeve this Christmas. Well, any time-poor woman that is. S watched bewildered on Saturday arvo as I start applying them.

" It's not that great...it's quicker to paint them on" He offers nonchalantly as I painstakingly try to match the edges to my natural nails with acceptable precision. Grrrr.... Pardon too my dear husband, MR. BLOKE  who has never had sisters and have never known what a manicure truly entails.

I LOVE GLAMNAILS. I rushed off to Priceline yesterday to buy up whatever they have in silly-season-appropriate colours because I want to give them out to the girls and spread the news. The check-out-chick comments, "Stocking up are you?" LOL well, I might reserve a few to myself.

So here's the deal. If you have only fifteen minutes to spare like me in my new-found housekeeper role on the weekends, and after tending to your garden you have to doll up for an evening out, well your only option is to resort to GLAM NAILS!

I was well pleased with the results and I didn't feel too daggy at the party I attended that night. As I mildly put it to S, it is difficult to maintain oneself after one becomes a wife. But I will perserve.

I generally let S believe that it is easy to be me, but occasionally I let on that being attractive and maintaining a beautiful home does not go hand in hand. It's a mutually exclusive relationship really, but its only the first year of our marriage, I'll let him believe that both are achievable whilst earning equal income in the household and see where that takes me.

The Reception at Bondi Kam Fook



Table Settings



Bridal Table





Cake Table





Cootie Catchers and Jellybeans for the kids





Hugs & Kisses at Location shoot



First Kiss



Second Kiss



A Twi-Hard Post

I watched Breaking Dawn yesterday! Oh those boys are HAWT!!!! And amidst the drool fest I suppose the wedding scene and the pregnancy story line makes this movie the most relatable to by far in the twilight series. Why are we drawn to Twilight? This is really my most embarrassing obsession... Isn't being on Team Edward truly acceptable because he isn't really 17, he is in fact really old and wise and gentlemanly...haha Yeah I guess I just got sucked in.

And revering in Breaking Dawn flashbacks last night after the movie... I had this revelation. Girls are supposed to like bad boys right??? That's probably why they are torn between Edward and Jacob. They are both bad boys. The only difference is Jacob is good boy behaving badly, and Edward is bad boy struggling to be good. I can relate to Edward more in that sense. I want to be good and to be accepted by society and it is a struggle to be kind and understanding constantly cause I have this temper that needs to be reigned in. But Edward is also appealing because he has this admiration for Bella and puts her on a pedestal and does his best to make sure she is protected and happy. A little overbearing I know... but ah well.

S welcomed me home after the movie by saying..."Welcome back to reality!" Which is droll, considering I wouldn't have minded walking down the aisle to the fairy lights and white blossom festooned outdoor aisle wedding towards Eternal Life with Edward Cullen.

Ah well... feeds into my occasional bouts of Post-wedding depression upon realising that my once chance of getting it perfectly right is over and I cannot gather any inspirations from this scene. And the fantasy of Edward Cullen does make my old gym T-shirt toting husband look quite shabby when he lies on our bed.

I could not help but remember how adorable Cullen looked when he was restraining himself from jumping Bella. I suppose I am not quite as cute in my pyjamas either, so there, tit for tat. This is indeed *YaWn* Reality, but well, at least S is warm and soft on a cold wet night.

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