Day 30: 2011 is . . .

.  .  .  turning out to be a very busy year. It seems like there has already been so much happening and it's only May. So far this year I've had a big wedding extravaganza, a holiday to Australia, my 30th and Mum moved overseas. That's alot!

I usually find that the winter is not only the coldest, but also the quietest. Not so for me this year. Before the end of August there is a wedding to attend, a holiday to Australia, two baby showers and two babies!

I'm excited about what spring and summer will bring if this has been my year so far! Should be a pretty fabulous year :)

Happy Birthday Lu

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Lu

Happy Birthday to you!

Day 29: Something random

See, I really am an angel.

Day 28: My favourite TV show

Ohhh, TV shows. I love me some TV shows. I'm a big fan of lots of shows and I usually watch the current seasons online so that I can keep up with the American season. Below are the shows that I love or have loved the most over the last 10 years (in no particular order).

Day 27: My biggest regret

I've thought about this one alot over the years. I have a motto that I try to live by "Regret the things you did, not the things you didn't do." I don't have many regrets, I try not to create any because they really eat away at your soul. I know this because the ones I have do that. Of a few big regrets I have one that I consider the biggest because at the time I knew I could have done something about it and I didn't.

My last teaching placement was at a local school with the assistant principal who was the classroom teacher. She was very horrible to me, had no interest in teaching me and expected me to take her class so that she could get on with her assistant principal duties. At the time I knew I should say something to the college and ask to be moved. This was the most important placement of my three years of studies and was going to determine my final grades and ultimately my graduation. If I was moved I would have been behind by several weeks in my work and I didn't want to miss my graduation with my classmates. I was ready for my studies to be over, so I decided that I could just grin and bare it for the few weeks and graduate with everyone else. While I did just that - grinned, bared it and graduated - I had no idea that those few weeks would seriously damage my self confidence in my teaching and in myself. I didn't have the self esteem or the self confidence to stand up for myself and my future career. Hindsight is a beautiful thing, but the reason this is my biggest regret is that I had the notion then that I should say something, get moved, but I didn't do it. I can't help but wonder how differently my life would have been over the last 10 years if I had said something.

Day 26: If I won a million dollars. . .

. . . I would jump up and down, then . . .

. . . have a big party with a roast pig, fire eaters and lots of friends

. . . give some money to my family 

. . . build a house

. . . buy a new car

. . . travel . . . 

I'm sure that there is much more that I'd do with money, but these are the things that I would definetly do. Of course, if I'm going to dream of winning money, a million dollars is just the jumping off point. One must dream big of course! Now I just have to win it. . .

Day 25: Hate

Hate. It's such a strong passion. Much like love. I believe that the opposite of love is not hate for this very reason, but in fact disintrest. To say that you hate something implies that you have such an extremely negative, passionate feeling about it for whatever reason. You must have be very wronged or really, really, really dislike it. I know that people do hate things and/or people for legitimate reasons, and then some others say they hate something when really they just dislike it. I think it's important to know if you do or don't really 'hate' something/someone before you put it out in to the universe. For that very reason I don't say I 'hate' something lightly. So you know that when I show you the following things and tell you that I hate them, you'll understand that I really really really really dislike them with a strong passion.

Things I hate:

Corn - Yuk!

Spiders freak me out

I hate being called 'baby' or 'dear'.

PS: Yep, I put a photo of a spider on my blog. To do that I had to google search 'spider' and then pick one to use. How impressed are you?!