:: Food, Glorious Food! ::

Food, glorious food! Don't care what it looks like ...

Okay, so that's not entirely true. You see, whenever I have a get together with family or friends my first instinct is to take photos of the food. Does that make me weird?

This scrummy, yummy food is from about two weeks ago when Mr LG and I went to my brother and sister-in-law's house to watch the last few episodes of the first season of V. They cooked shallow-fried whiting for us (Mr LG and I aren't big on any sort of seafood) and oh my goodness, it was delicious! I was pretty much in a food-induced coma for the rest of the afternoon. I'm not yet fully converted on this whole 'fish love' thing some people seem to have going on, but I have to say I don't exactly hate it either. My next seafood related quest is to conquer my dislike of prawns! I will let you know how I go.

Do you have a food you can't say no too? I'm a huge fan of savoury foods - soft cheeses, olives, semi-dried tomatoes, sporessa ... mmm! I can never say no, even if I'm so full I'm about to burst!

:: Memories ::

I'm back from my unplanned hiatus. I'm not quite sure where the time went, and I can't quite tell you what I did - it seems that making a living got in the way of having a life!

My family has been away all week. Mr LG finishes work later than I do (he stayed over to keep me company), and it was quite unusual to come home to an empty house. I come from a large family (6 kids), so I'm used to some sort of noise at all times. I'm not saying I don't like the quiet or time to myself - I do! It's just funny how you can get used to something that someone else might find irritating.

One of the biggest noise makers in my house is my 6 (and a half) year old sister. I'm always amazed at how much energy she has and I love seeing the world through her eyes. She is quite creative and spends a lot of time at her little table creating some sort of masterpiece. My favourite creation of hers was her name, cut out of paper and glued together. That may not sound like anything too special, but I was sitting next to her while she was making it and I watched as she used sticky tape to stick random shapes together in, what looked to me, a haphazard way. I asked her what it was (because honestly, it looked like a mess!) and she told me it was her name and proceeded to flip the creation over to reveal she'd spelt her name out. She created her name, back-to-front and spelt backwards, so that when she flipped it over it spelt her name correctly. It was pretty cool to watch.

Having a sister so much younger than me has allowed me to revisit memories of my childhood. Things we used to do all the time, but now we're 'too busy' or 'too tired' ... always 'too [something]' to stop and enjoy. I think that's what happened to me these past few weeks, I was 'too busy' doing nothing of great importance that I forgot to stop and do the things I actually enjoy. I've found a few pictures of things I used to love doing as a child, but don't do nearly enough of anymore.

:: Feed the ducks at the park ::

:: Play Totem Tennis ::

:: Fly a kite ::

:: Ride a bike with no hands ::

(Gotta love my Dad's bright pink boardies!)

:: Bake cupcakes ::

:: Go to the park with friends ::

:: Sing and dance while you're walking ::

And on that note, I'm going to go make myself an 'irresponsible' dinner of hot chips (with lots of chicken salt and tomato sauce, naturally), and then spend the rest of my night doing things I want to do rather than doing the things I 'need' to do.

I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend filled with things you love.

:: Posers ::

I was given my first digital camera for Christmas in 2004. Little did my parents know that by giving me a camera they would create some sort of a photography monster. From that day on every second became a photo opportunity and every moment was captured. In the beginning many of my friends and family members would (ever so kindly) give me the finger or cover their face, but as the years went by they have all become used to having a camera shoved in their face every time we get together (I would like to say they have grown fond of it, but I think that may be pushing it a little).

Many of us now have signature poses and facial expressions we pull whenever we know there is a camera around. Some of these include:

The 'Peace Sign':

As you can see, the peace sign even made it into my sister's wedding photos. It is now a tradition to do this with every wedding we're a part of. We posed like this for my brother and sister-in-law's wedding and we will be doing it for mine :)

The photo of my Dad and his friends in the bottom right-hand corner cracks me up.

The PhotoShopped 'Self-Portrait':

Extra bonus points for this one it you incorporate some sort of Olsen-esque pout, an eyebrow raise or pretend you don't know the photo is being taken ... even though you took it yourself, ha!

'MySpace':

Much like the self-portrait, this style of photo includes documenting everything that you do. But, you have to make sure you're in every photo - even if it means risking the safety of your eyes while posing with a cranky emu (the kangeroo wasn't as cranky, luckily! He just didn't want his photo taken).

The 'Pout'/Raised Eyebrow(s)/Mirror Shots/Emo Fringes:

These are the photos we get paid out for the most by our parents.

Posing with statues:
I have been going through all my old photos lately, and so many of them bought back great memories (the most recent photo from the ones above was taken at the end of last year). The one downside of digital cameras is that people rarely print out photos for photo albums anymore. My photo album stops around the end of 2004. If I want to show anyone a photo from after then, I have to bring out my computer. That said, I have purchased some new photo albums and I will be updating mine soon.

Do you have any signature poses? Are they as lame as ours? :)

:: Lost! ::

Ever since the second season of Lost a few of my friends and I made a deal to watch the episodes together. Sometimes a few of us could not be there because of Uni/work commitments, or because of travel constraints but on a whole at least four of us made it every week. Needless to say we were pretty psyched for the finale! We decided to have a dress-up party to celebrate the final episode of our favourite TV show. In the end, 12 of us made it to the party and oh my gosh, the ending was amazing. I felt it wrapped the show up perfectly.

Now, I won't spoil anything for those of you who haven't seen it yet. Instead I will show you some of the hilarious costumes my family and friends came up with.

Jack:

Ricardo:

Hurley (this one made us laugh because he used to have long curly hair a few years ago):Ana Lucia:
Kate:

The Black Smoke (LOL):

Charlie (AKA Mr LG):

Running from the random polar bear:

Running from the Black Smoke:

I am trying to fill my Lost void with other TV series. I have started Supernatural and Gossip Girl, both of which I really like so far!

Did any of you watch the Lost finale? What did you think? What is your favourite TV series? I'm looking for suggestions!