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Happy Birthday Badger!

Today is my friend Bronte’s birthday and she is in Melbourne for work, so I thought that I would use this as an opportunity to talk about how awesome she is.

Badger and I haven’t known each other all that long, we met through our friend Pru earlier this year, but it only took one night of half priced cocktails in the Cross for us to be declaring that we were destined to be friends for life and planning a trip to New York together (it hasn’t happened yet but we pinky swore on it so it will).
Despite being very different people we get on like a house on fire and I love spending time with her, whether we are dancing around the house like idiots with the music on full blast, going on adventures to the Blue Mountains and discovering restaurants run by religious cults or spying on my neighbours and giggling like school girls when they forget to close the curtains and walk around naked.

Bronte is literally the single most generous person I have ever met. I don’t have a lot of money to spare and neither does Didge, but she is always prepared to shout a meal if it means you not having to miss out on a dinner outing, or spend her last $6 before pay day on a big block of chocolate to share. She loves doing everyone’s hair and make up and although this is partly because she finds it fun, it is mainly because she gets so much enjoyment out of seeing how happy people are when they feel good about themselves because they look great.

One time she agreed to let me borrow her car to drive to Fairfield just to get South American cakes. As I didn’t have my license, a friend of mine from Melbourne (who she had never met before) was to be driving and despite the only information Bronte had to go on being my word that he was trustworthy (and I was well biased), she still lent it to us.
I can’t drive so she has to always be taxi but has never complained, in fact if anything it is the opposite, she insists on giving me lifts places.
She patiently accompanied me to see Where the Wild Things Are and wasn’t embarrassed that I was wearing pjs and jumping around growling, because she loves me for who I am.
This girl was even prepared to line up twice with me at the grand opening of the Ben & Jerry’s store in Manly and pretend she wanted ice cream so I could have extra samples of peanut butter cookie dough. So basically I am a pain in the butt (and a little ice cream piggy) but Bronte is always there for me.

She is a shoulder to cry on for all of her friends and family because she listens and really cares, to the point that sometimes it is draining on her but she is still there for us all without question. She has dealt with some difficult experiences, but has come out a better person and is much stronger for it. I have been so proud of the way she has really taken control of her life this year. I know big things are coming from you Miss Humphrys, whether it be through conquering the world with your music or starting your own business. You most definitely deserve every amount of happiness and success you achieve.

I am so glad that you are my friend Bronte Claire. You think we are going to be friends till we are 80 and I think you are right. And I am so lucky for that. Thank you for always being the beautiful supportive woman that you are.

Totally bummed that I can’t be there with you rocking out on your 23rd birthday babe, but my hometown will look after you and we will celebrate further on your return. HAPPY BIRTHDAY and MASS LOVE from Schmicky xoxoxo

Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom!

So tonight we are going out to this bar near Oxford st to celebrate that it's Badger's birthday on Saturday since she is heading south of the border for her work Christmas thing this weekend. Aside from obviously wanting to celebrate the lovely Badgey, I'm also looking forward to checking out this bar because from all accounts it sounds like it is Melbourne worthy. Which is a rare thing up here. Unfortunately I got sunburnt yesterday and my hair needs to be re-straightened so I look a bit manky but if the crowd there is of the Slurry Hills variety that I'm expecting, looking manky is probably a requirement to get in.
Can't be bothered writing anymore cos my apartment is ridiculously hot and I'm melting like the wicked witch of the west. And Badger should be picking me up any minute...

Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy.

Woke up this morning to a gorgeous day. Had a whole stack of chores that I needed to do but it was the kind of day that is perfect for eating gelati and chilling at the beach. Not the kind for doing chores. Made a deal with myself that if I could get 5 things done this morning and make a proper plan for when I’ll do the rest, then I was allowed to enjoy the remainder of the day. Which I did :-)

I've only recently moved to where I'm living and still loving exploring my suburb. Took a nice stroll around my neighborhood and there are some cool things to look at. Might take my camera next time. I think photos will make this blog a lot more interesting, it feels weird just typing what I’m doing. But I guess that is just the nature of the beast, it will take me a little bit of time to find my feet. THEN it will be awesome!

Had a good chat to my friend Badger tonight. She wants to open a bar together. Her views on working are very similar to mine but unfortunately she is currently stuck in a job that doesn’t allow her to blossom like she could. And it means that one of my main partners in crime can only go on adventures in the evening and on weekends, and sometimes the action is at 11:30am on a Wednesday. I think we would have a pretty rad bar. And as long as we show more dedication to that than we did to making her father an internet sensation (I love you Bruce) I think we could actually be good at it...

When she was 22 the future looked bright...

So anyone and everyone seem to have a blog these days. Thought I might jump on the bandwagon because I have a decent enough grip on the English language to be able to articulate my musings, a fair bit of time on my hands to be able to update it regularly, I feel that I have things to say and I’m funny (well my younger sister thinks so anyway).

So a little about me...
I grew up in Melbourne but moved to Sydney on my own in early 2008 to study fashion styling. I still love all things fashion but became unsure of whether it was an industry I wanted to work in for the rest of my life and left college but stayed in Sydney. I absolutely love Sydney and consider it to be my home these days.
I live alone, which I love, in a little studio apartment, which I also love. I have some wonderful people in my life and we have a lot of fun together.
I am currently not working because I want to take some time out to work out who I am, what I like and what I want to do, and the summer seemed like a good time to do that. Even though I don’t really know where I am headed in life at the moment, I’m happy and I think that is all that matters. I do know that I want to do something fun and probably creative and that I’m prepared to work hard for something I love, but I’m not prepared to work 9-5 in a job I hate. Sorry if that sounds unrealistic but it just isn’t in my constitution.
I recently turned 22, which seems like a pretty good age. I’m terrible at making decisions, my signature perfume is by Chloe, I tend to give everyone nicknames, I’m petrified of spiders and I really love eating.

Think that about does it for now. I’m planning on using this blog as somewhat of a scrapbook slash diary. So it might not be very interesting for you, but I think it will be pretty fun for me…

Peace motherlickers xo