Come On Miami!

Game Two of the Eastern Conference Finals is on today, starting at 10am Brisbane time! Miami are playing against Chicago for the Eastern Conference Title. The first two games are played in Chicago, with the second two games played in Miami.

Unfortunately the HEAT went down in game 1, so they're trailing at the moment. But I've got my fingers crossed for a much bigger game from LeBron James and Dwyane Wade!!

Image from Google Images

To win a game in Chicago, on the road, away from home would be an awesome result! So fingers crossed!!

LET'S GO HEAT!!!!

xx love Breanna

My Day!

I am going to bullet yesterday (Wednesday, 18 May) instead of today, as I write my post the night before. That and I am working from 9 til 5 today with nothing exciting happening before or after work, so Wednesday although still boring, will be slightly more interesting than Thursday! Does that make sense?!

Here we go, my day:

* woke up at 9:30am;
* had a shower, got dressed;
* went to visit my grandmother with my mum- G'ma broke a vertebrae so she is bed ridden at the moment while it heals;
* paid some bills for her and did some shopping for her;
* went to my mum's work (she is does the books and wages for a life long friends chiropractic, naturopathy and massage business);
* had a 1 hours massage, while mum picked up the staff hours and paid bills etc;
* drove home, stopped on the way home to buy meat;
* got served by a REALLY REALLY cute butcher!!!;
* came home, found out Hellcats has been cancelled, not that I watch a show about teenage cheerleaders... cough!;
* watched the finale of Hellcats (well there goes the previous little white lie ;)!;
* ate dinner;
* got dressed for work;
* put my face on;
* went to work for 4 hours;
* came home from work, watched my recorded Spicks 'N' Specks, and then Angry Boys!!
* then I went to sleep.

And that's my day!

xx love Breanna

A Book I Love

is A Total Waste of Makeup by Kim Gruenenfelder. I stumbled across this book while I was traveling with friends in Canada in January 2008. We were staying at a hostel in Big White, BC and one afternoon I walked into the "library" at the hostel looking for something to read. I should probably point out that I am not a big reader, having studied Law at uni reading is not something I find overly enjoyable. When I do read I like it to be fun, and light - your typical chick lit/rom com... Although having said that I am a big fan of the Harry Potter books, so...

Anyway, I found this book late into our stay in Big White and found I couldn't put it down. I got about half way through when our time there was up, so begrudgingly I left it behind. When we arrived in Seattle we went shopping and stumbled across a Boarders store. My friend wanted to buy a book to read on the plane on the way home as the end of our adventure was fast approaching. So we went in, and I found the book and bought it because I just had to finish it!!

It is your typical chick lit, but I really like and totally understand the author when she says that some days are "a total waste of makeup!"

xx love Breanna

Travel Snap Tuesday: Niseko

In February a group of friends and I headed to Japan. We spent 3 days in Tokyo and then 6 days in Niseko skiing!! It was amazing. So I thought, for this Travel Snap Tuesday that I would share some scenic shots of the slopes of Niseko!

I had the time of my life, and love skiing and snow so much!! There is something so peaceful about snow!!

xx love Breanna

Something I Feel Strongly About

I'm not really sure where I should start with this post, there are so many things that I feel strongly about... Some of them are trivial, some of them are important. Some of them are heartbreaking, some of them make you smile. I guess something that has been weighing on my mind A LOT lately is doing stuff for people in need

I am blessed. I am happy, healthy and have been spoilt to some extent growing up. Other people aren't so lucky. I feel like anyone who can should be helping those in need. So many people are in a worse off state than so many of us, whether it is ill health, down on their luck or growing up in a 3rd world country. Anything anyone can do to put a smile on someones face should be done... That is something I feel very strongly about.

xx love Breanna

Five Ways To Win My Heart

Day 1 of my 30 Day Challenge, here we go!

Five Ways To Win My Heart:

1. Be Honest:
I will always live by the idea that "honesty is the best policy". Someone who is completely honest with me will have a much better chance with me!

2. Treat Others as You Wish to be Treated:
My friends and loved ones ALWAYS come first! I will always go out of my way for someone I love and more often than not I will do things to keep those I love happy rather than to keep myself happy. It might not be a healthy trait of mine, and I have decided to try and start putting myself first more often, but I will always treat people the way I want to be treated and it is a trait I want in any potential boyfriend!

3. Be Affectionate and Caring:
I like being affectionate and caring and I like a guy who isn't afraid to show me how he feels. It doesn't mean I want to be one of those "PDA" type couples. But a guy who is affectionate and caring towards me, animals, kids etc is highly desirable to me.

4. Be Tall:
Ok, I know this is very superficial, but I am 6' tall and LOVE to wear heels. A sure fire way to my heart is to be taller than me in heels!! I'll be honest, its not a deal breaker... but there has only been 1 guy who is shorter than me that I've really "liked", that I've not cared about the height issue. So the odds are stacked against shorter guys... It's not a look thing, it's just that at 6' tall and of an athletic build, I like to feel feminine and that isn't always easy... Tall guys help that!!

5. Be Sports Orientated:
Most guys out there are looking for a girl who will watch sport with them... I on the other hand am a girl who needs a guy who will watch sport with me!!

xx love Breanna

How is the weekend over already?

I only had one day off this weekend, which made this weekend much shorter... But even though it was short, I still had a good one :)

Last night was a family friend's engagement party. I spent most of it talking to my pseudo mum and dad's son. So I guess that makes him my pseudo brother... He is much older than me and that was really the first time that we've had a full on chat in years. I really enjoyed chatting to him, it was nice. I see so much of his dad him... It really made me miss his dad even more than I already do...

I really should have taken a photo of my outfit, but I didn't... I wore black stockings, black to the knee pointy leather boots, a pinky-orangey dress and a black trench over the top. (The party was outdoors, and it was cold!!)

Hope you all had a great weekend.

xx love Breanna

30 Day Challenge

So I was looking at my friend Sophia's tumblr, and stumbled across her posts of a 30 Day Challenge. I like the idea, so I am stealing it and adding it to my blog. Here is the challenge:

I will start blogging about these tomorrow.

xx love Breanna

Very, very pretty!

So tonight I was browsing the internet looking at dresses for a wedding I am going to in August. I've never been to a winter wedding before, so I was looking at styles that I thought would be appropriate for an August wedding in Brisbane.

Because I am in the midst of a spending ban, mum, who is an INCREDIBLY talented sewer, had agreed to make me something to wear. So I thought I'd have a look and and see if I could get some inspiration for what I would like.

While I was looking I stumbled across the dress and I pretty much fell in love:

It is a French Connection dress, from their UK website. Unfortunately it is sold out (I actually have no idea how old it is, as I found it in a Marie Claire photo gallery). But I just love it!! It is so beautiful!

Who knows what I will end up with for the wedding, it won't be this dress, but I definitely love it and just had to share!!

xx love Breanna

Travel Snap Tuesday: Osaka

I have been very fortunate to travel to Japan, not once but twice. The first trip, in 2009, was with my friend Kat and it was her 21st birthday present from her mum. While we were there we visited Tokyo and Osaka. The second trip was the most recent trip, which was in February 2011. On that trip we visited Tokyo and Niseko.

For today's Travel Snap Tuesday, I thought I would concentrate on Osaka.

Osaka was the second part of our trip in 2009. It started with a bullet train ride from Tokyo to Osaka.

 

This was an ad for Nintendo DS on the bullet train we caught. The story behind this photo is that 2 really good friends of mine went to a 21st just prior to this trip, dressed identically, on purpose in vests... I tried to tell them that vests just weren't cool, but they wouldn't believe me. THIS IS PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF!!! haha.

We stayed at a really gorgeous hotel in Osaka. The hotel was built around a chapel/chuch.

One of the highlights of our stay in Osaka was the trip to Universal Studios!

Even though we didn't understand any of the shows, or any of the information as it was all in Japanese. We still had heaps of fun running around, seeing shows and taking stupid photos like these:

Osaka was a lot of fun. I look forward to sharing photos from Tokyo and Niseko on another Travel Snap Tuesday!

Travel Snap Tuesday is the brainchild of Little Miss Moi and is about sharing a moment in time through a photo (or three). If you want to join in, simply post a photo of anywhere you have been. Then head over to her blog and share your link so we can all enjoy each others travels. 

xx love Breanna