Wonderful Weekends... Superhero fun!

This weekend was very quiet... I think I am still catching my breath from such a tumultuous start to the year... From now I  really need to crank it up a notch to start enjoying 2012... Although having just booked an Overseas holiday, I now have something amazing to look forward to!  

I seem to however know how to do add spark to my life in all the wrong ways... like banging up my car... Yep I had an issue with my parking once again.. It always seems to fail me.. So I started the weekend with a car looking like it should be on the back of a tow truck, well it is all taped up now.. but this was the before... (no way I was going to be driving like this!) Needless to say, I kept pretty close to home.. and I am not worried about it getting stolen!!

On Friday night we had a family dinner.. and then I enjoyed a night on the couch catching up on my reading... this was accompanied by chocolate... So much for my pre wedding diet... Hoping that motivation will kick in soon!

On Saturday I dropped Darby at his Aunties (it is so handy that she lives around the corner now!) Then I went for 3 hours of "me" time at the hairdressers.. My hairdresser was sick, which I was so disappointed with... it is like catching up with an old friend when she is there.... oh well it was still relaxing, reading trashy magazines and having head massages.. Ill take that over most things! I then went to and got a coffee and I was set.... except I had no where to go.. a very quiet night in! I really need to coordinate my hair appointments with my social calendar, such a waste of a good hair day! 

Later in the day I did a makeup trial for a bride of a friend.. I haven't done any one's makeup for ages, so I thought I may have lost my touch.. but it worked out in the end and the bride was very happy, which was the main thing! I have two weddings lined up in the next month which will be good for my confidence and my hip pocket! After  that Darby and I headed to the shops to get him his Batman Pyjama's, this was as a result of stickers he has been rewarded for over the week! 

The highlight of my weekend by far was Darby's costume change in a public place...  stripping off his Spiderman costume at the Clinique counter in Myer... down to his undies and singlet... and then putting on his new Pyjama's... I couldn't help but giggle (and get a few shots of him!!) So cute and absolutely no shame at all!!

My weekend, although quiet, was a nice chance to spend quality time with Darby and soak up his cuteness!! 
 I am linking up with the adorable and gorgeous Son at Life Love & Hiccups....

Until next time , life is too short  to drink crappy coffee... 

Funeral Song

I was reading Edenland's blog about Funeral Songs last night and it really struck a chord..as morbid as it is,  I have been thinking about   this  alot lately..

With my cousins death so raw in my mind and my heart... all I was dreading (and looking forward to at the same time - very weird I know) was the music she had selected for her funeral... I know that she would have had a big part in selecting the songs that spoke about her life... and they really did represent her; Bob Dylan, Etta James, Weddings Parties Anything, Florence and the Machine... to name just a few..You could hear that these songs were pieces of her life... a tapestry of years put together, of different memories and different decades, different friends, different loves.. They were her, all her.... and it did get me thinking...
Such an amazing selection made me think it would be good for people to know my ideas for my Funeral Songs..( I just wish I didn't keep changing my mind about what songs I  would like!)

I always thought I would want an upbeat song like this..(although it wouldn't really apply if I made it to 95!!?)  
I then had a rethink.. and I think I would want this song.. so haunting and so beautiful and I have been a crazy Fleetwood Mac fan for sooo long.. Just listening to this makes me tear up ! 
But of late, I have been hearing this song a lot on the radio, always when I am deep in thought... and I have thought that this would be a beautiful song to have at my funeral... 

This concept is something I am sure I will keep thinking about from time to time, it just seems to be front of mind at the moment. After being to someone I loves last tribute... her music made it all the more emotional, intense, special ... So to have control of selecting these songs and then putting them in a public forum  is actually very therapeutic (albeit slightly morbid)..

I am linking up today with the amazing Eden Riley... over at Edenland (her blog is amazing full stop!) 

Until next time, Life is too short for crappy coffee

Exciting News - I'm going overseas!!!

Oh I have just got to share the news.. I know I hinted at it pretty obviously last week.. But now I can shout it out to the world today.. It's official.. I have handed over the cold hard cash - Drum roll.....      I am going overseas!! Woo hoo!! This is probably the most exciting, scary and liberating thing I have done in as long as I can remember... and I don't even have a current passport yet!! 

Ok I should hold my horses, it's only for  three weeks.. But that three weeks is longer than I ever thought possible!!(the last time I was overseas was in 2011 and I went to Ireland for 3 weeks as my Uncles chaperone for his 50th birthday!!) I have my ticket and am ready to go... only problem is I don't leave until July!  So here is the low down of the trip I have booked:

The real purpose behind my magical trip is for a wedding! I have the honor of getting to be a bridesmaid to one of my very dear friends! She is getting married in Mauritius - a beautiful beach side  place, I can't wait to get here and swim in the blue waters, I have only heard good things and the pictures look soo amazing...  I am here for a week lapping up the wedding celebrations... From here I was just going to come home.. but I knew I would get the itch.. the travelling bug.. As a Sagittarius we are meant to love travel and I thought I was missing this gene, but once I discovered  I was going abroad I needed to go somewhere else .... So from Mauritius I am heading to London (Yay!!), well to a quaint little town called Charlbury near Oxford to be exact to stay with my best friend (the other bridesmaid) for 2 weeks!! 

My friend Shaz... who Ill spend time with in London

My friend Elisha who is getting married!!

 In this time I am going to visit a city most girls just dream to go to- and one I have wanted to go to for as long as I can remember:  Paris!   There are so many things I want to do here... I think I will stay for a few days and explore the city.. as well as drink coffee (hope its good) and eat croissants!!

Yay... how exciting..... and then I may fit in Scotland, a few English day trips and catching up with friends in London... I will also be there with my bestie  who will have a new born baby.. so just hanging out and catching up will be bliss...

But here comes the clincher (I'm taking deep breaths in now thinking about it!) - I am going alone, solo, unescorted, by myself.. No little sidekick, no coffee buddy, just me, only me.. This part scares me to death.. The thought of being on the other side of the world from my little man is excuse the pun- out of this world! I hate it when he is at his dads, who lives just around the corner..
I ummed and ahhed about taking him.. But too many factors made sense for me to leave him in Melbourne.. At this point I am trying not to think about it too much... It's just when someone asks me I tear up and go to pieces!! I am sure I will have plenty of sleepless nights about it...  In the end  I think this will be a confident boosting holiday to help me feel good about me.. (well I'm hoping!!) 

Ok so back to the trip I am on a mission to look fit and fab for my first stint as a bridesmaid so I am going to set myself a challenge for the next 20 weeks.. I'm not sure what yet.. but if you have any ideas on how to get motivated and fit (and lose about 5 kgs) for a time poor single mum, please share!! I'd love to hear!!!


Images via We Heart It 

Anyway I wrote this very fast and with no review so apologies if it is just blah blah... verbal diarrhoea...

Until next time, Life is too short for crappy coffee

Happy Birthday Java Jane

Today is my blogs 1st birthday! (Ok so you will forgive me for speaking in 3rd person!)  It's been one long year since I opened up Blogger, created Java Jane and stepped into the great unknown! What a crazy adventure it has been! Filled with out of this world coffee, life changing drama, laugh out loud moments and heartwarming  experiences! (Sounds like a great movie huh!!! Think I may have just taken that off a film poster!!)  You can read where it all began at my first ever {very naive} post here.. 

I thought as it is Wordless Wednesday that I should share some of my favorite pictures of the year that was and forever will be the adventures of Java Jane xx.

 

I am making a little movie but its not ready yet!

I am Linking up today with Trish for Wordless Wednesday at  My Little Drummer Boys

Until next time, Life is too short for crappy coffee