Greys Be Gone!!!!

Maybe 3 weeks ago now I headed down to Geelong to spend time with mumma. I guess it would suck to live with boys all the time... who are you going to talk about shopping and the like to ?! So I came down on a Friday night and left on the Saturday night. 

On Friday mum and I decided to try the Customs House for dinner... it is located along the water front and looks gorgeous. Before we go on excuse my horrid picture taking... I was trying to be subtle so I snapping quickly...

This is a terrible picture .... you can't see the water that is lit up by the blue light. 

 

From chef - an asian broth.. it was horrid. What was the kitchen thinking serving this up to people! 

For entree... mum had this interesting tastings plate. In the cup was this thick and gluggy pumpkin soup, some beef carpaccio and I think some procuttio and something salad. I think mum wasn't that impressed!

My salad was beetroot and goats curd and walnuts and pear! Just not good at all! It was literally jelly on a plate with chunks of randomness on the plate. The walnuts were good... I guess!

Our mains were alright.. but things didn't match the description in the menu. The mushroom sauce was awesome though! 

Presenting the bill... in an empty book... which also emptied my bank account needlessly! 

This was really a disappointment. The location is great and all but it doesn't make up for the try hard menu and terrible service. There seemed to be so many staff running around but doing nothing. I hate how businesses do this... spend the money on awesome well trained staff.. you will need less of them and they actually control their designated areas properly. We were served by at least 4 different people throughout the night. The meal cost together $176 --- Ridiculous! We had sparking water and one glass of wine, the two entrees and two mains. The food is not good enough to justify such a price. All is not lost though, it still is a pretty place to go to, and its good to see an old building in Geelong being put to good use. Ah well hopefully it gets better over time... definitely some tweaks need to be made! 

After our interesting Friday night I went to bed early as in the morning I was off to the hair dressers! and guess what... 

I did it, finally coloured my hair!!!

T did a great job! I am really happy with it. That said I'm not 100% sure if I want the foils in it again. Maybe I just go all dark like my natural colour. Although I am loving that my hair is growing longer... slowly but surely people! 

Pre Cut and colour...

Waiting.... 

TA DA! No more stark whites!!! 

Horray! I am looking forward to next time ... any ideas you have that would suit me I am happy to give a go. I wouldn't mind experimenting... seeing as I can't do much with the cut for now, may as well enjoy the colour. 

So after my excitement I rushed home to get Mum as we were off to get pedi's done! Mum did a bit of ringing around to find somewhere that could do both of us at the same time... and randomly came across a small business called the Nail and Beauty Room. It was awesome! A lovely lady, who I forget the name of, has set up a cute nail room in her house. The bonus is the prices are dirt cheap! We had great pedi's done for $45 each! I highly recommend this place if you are a geelongian. It is located in Highton and they do anything from waxing, shellac, facials and hot stone massage. You really can't go wrong! 

After our pedi's we went to visit Babcia's for coffee and cake.. and I passed on the couch. I have been so tired lately! I changed my hours for work and I think my body clock is a tad out of whack! Babcia said " I don't care if you sleep... as long as I get to see you" .. awww!  

So that was my little adventure to the hometown! 

In other random news... here are a few of my favourite nail polish purchases I have made over the past few weeks. 

Finally received my OPI polishes from Brandsexclusive... unfortunately one smashed in the package so that was pedal faster suzie so i'm a little upset about that. Although they happily refunded the money which was good! The colour are... pamplona purple (thumb), ate berries in the cannaries and finally black cherry chutney. I love love love love these!!!

I randomly bought these revlon polishes.. not sure why i got the glitter. It is rather an odd tone so trying to work out what it will look best with. The white is called calla lily which is a sheer white with a shimmer. Love it! I used it as a top coat on my essie lilacim and looked great! Calla lily is actually a colour stay polish... in general not a fan of the revlon polishes but this one has been an exception. 

Kit - Winner takes all and High roller 

Kit polishes are awesome! I highly recommend them... I love the colour selection! Here is winner takes all teamed up with sally hansen gemcrush big money. Sometimes we just need a bit of bling!  

Sorry for my huge posts lately... now with my new lappy I hope to keep much more up to date!!! 

The Escape.....

Heya!!!

Without sounding too much like my mum ..where does the time go? Its almost September and it makes me wonder where the hell did the year go? My life has become so monotonous ... work - home - work - home. Although I love where I live and work ain't so bad (lets be honest work is work - people who absolutely love their jobs are just bloody lucky) I have to start making the weekends more eventful at least! Honestly I would love to go overseas but at this point I can only realistically see that happening in 2015! So in between I can settle for short trips or a week or so at semi local destinations that don't burn a hole in my wallet haha. 

Pani and I both agree on this and we decided that we wanted a mid year break so to Phillip Island it is! The idea was to book kind of like a pampering session for us, and just be tourists for the weekend. We left the massage booking until last minute, so when I finally got to the phones I was having no luck at all. Until I randomly came across his lovely lady named Patricia who managed to fit us in at the same time on Saturday arvo. Perfectos! The place was called Aromatherapy in Action and although maybe not decked out with the latest and greatest furnishings as we city slickers are used to, the staff nevertheless were lovely and they did a great job. This was my first massage and I loved it... I could really get used to fitting it into my schedule hehe. Afterwards we both felt really groggy and tired, so we decided to go straight to our accomodation. 

We stayed at Silverwater resort in San Remo. In all honestly the apartment was really nice and all but it ended up being a bit of a rip off if you ask me! We spend something like $260 for the room ( literally an aparatment with a bedroom each), and then we got room service which was TERRIBLE! I am a eating machine and I really couldn't down my souvlaki... we really should of complained but I just never got around to it! So that was money down the drain plus the inhouse movies were like $16 -- so we spent $32 on movies which seems kind of ridiculous. Was still cheap for a saturday night but still if we had our time again definelty no room service.. yuk!

Girls night in .... movies , chocolates and trashy magazines.. what more does one want! 

Our large apartment for just the two of us! A family could fit in here no problems...

I don't know about you, but I feel rather conned when they say you get a king bed and it was actually two matresses pushed together! 

As you can see the weather was pretty bad, and our apartment was set a bit back from the view of the ocean, but hey its in the horizon its good enough for us haha

I was exhausted on the Saturday and went to sleep early so I was ready for a bit of touristing on the Sunday. When we left Silverwater we went straight to Mad Cowes on the Island for breaky. Finally a good meal and we were energised and ready to go! Pictures tell a thousand words so here we go.... 

Watching for seals... gorgeous view, but the wind was bloody freezing! Take note of my stark white hair! AWFUL!

As we drove around we found this detour to a random historic farm on Churchill Island which is off the main drag on Phillip Island. I loved it! I love historic stuff... think Soverign Hill. Is that tragic? hehe

So cute .. hanging out with mumma

This beast did not even bat an eyelid as we drove past....

Mary had a little lamb... this lil guy was funny kicking and running around with his buddies

Having a look around the old homestead....

There were wagon and horse rides which were probably for the kids... but I wanted to go on it too! ahh well.... this poor guy looked lonely

What you looking at?!

Scarecrow out of the front of the veggie garden...

After a wander around we decided to venture back to Melbourne... there was nothing else we were busting to look at. We did stop by quickly to the chocolate factory. Can I say the chocolates were not very good! Not really a must do if you ask us! 

When we got back to Melbourne we went for a very late lunch at The Boat House located just opposite the Anglers Tavern on the Maribyrnong River. I haven't had a meal there for a while and can I just say it was actually really good this time! I got this squid pasta... I'm sure it has a fancier name but whatever it was so good! Highly recommend it! 

So that was our little trip to Phillip Island... great for a sneaky getaway from Melbourne. 

Which brings me to ask you, where have you been for a weekend getaway that isn't too far from Melbourne. Any suggestions on somewhere that the girls and I can do together?

Have a great weekend guys :) 

I'm back ... with a new laptop in hand!

It is true, I have been very neglectful of my blog. Not on purpose... my old computer at home has nearly packed it in. Literally by the time I logged in and wrote a blog post I was left thinking where the hell did my whole night go?! So I finally took the plunge and bought a new computer.. and yes a laptop. I am slowly entering the modern age haha. 

My Satellite L850/0CC Laptop.... anyone care about specs? If so click here

I am so sorry to everyone for my continual 20 questions about this! I fear you tech savvy people maybe ready to diss my choice! but back off punks! I really only want this computer for important purposes like internet shopping and the like hehehe.... plus surprise surprise, I like the white! (I have a thing for white... ) 

Whats even better is that Harvey Norman have buy a Toshiba laptop and get one for free... granted possibly a crappy one but who cares.. its free! HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD! haha 

Can I just say as I waddled to my car with my laptops in hand, trying to open my car as my keys were all twisted in my hand, a guy ran over and helped me get my purchases in the car and proceeded to guide me out of the car park to avoid the bombardment of traffic. Chivalry is not dead people! 

In other shopping news I went to Highpoint right after work last night. I am a big fan of the hand car wash in shopping centres. You don't have the hassle of looking for a car park, get your car cleaned, and it somewhat limits your spending when you know you have to be back in an hour or so. 

My intention was to finally go to MAC and get my eyemake up done... but I really don't know why I bothered going to the Myer in Highpoint for this. They are terrible! I was standing in the MAC area and did not have one person approach me to say sorry we are busy but we won't be to long or something along those lines. So I walked to the Chanel counter... nobody, benefit... nobody.... and then finally to Christian Dior. CD had three girls behind the counter and having a convo, laughing etc. So I go over there and pick up some products and stand around for a bit ... they literally carried on and did not even acknowledge me. I'm sorry but this is terrible! I don't feel it should be my job to stop their conversation when they are supposed to be on the job. Granted I work in a very different industry but if a customer/client is standing around you drop what your doing and serve them. I have found the girls in the city store much better - why is the Highpoint store so terrible! Well David Jones will be in there before they know it so hopefully that drives up the competition! Anyway I should stop ranting ... Sorry!! 

So I proceeded to wander the shops aimlessly as I didn't really have a mission to get done! I did however go to JB and got a few cds that the biller at work recommended. Is it odd that I actually bought cds.. who does that these days thanks to itunes?

I have been after a pair of round cubic zirconia (not sure how to spell it) earrings for a while now. I went into Michael Hill and they charged $300 ... No sorry buddy I want the cheapest of the cheap! So I got these from prouds. I must admit all the jewelry I love is literally out of my price range ... so like I say, fake it before you make it baby! lol 

I ordered this Michael Kors bag which I love! It was from Ozsale... and can you believe it arrived in like a week! AMAZING! I think this will be perfect for summer! Whats better is that I haven't really seen anyone around with the same bag which is even better! I feel like some bags like those Mimco button bags, like everyone had them! I dont mind having the same things, but not all the time. 

I got the bag for $230 including shipping. Horray! I can't believe how expensive this stuff is when you go into DJ's.What did we do before online shopping? Dusted our homes? Polished the silver? lol How times have changed! 

Anyway while I've been gone I have had a few adventures which I plan to update you on. Pani and I went to Phillip Island... fun times! and I had a girlie weekend with mumsie in Gtown which unearthly a fantastic little nail salon hidden the suburbs!

I hope you have all been well and staying out of trouble! I plan to go to the city next Friday and suss eyebrow pencils/powders. Apart from MAC are there any other brands you would recommend?