Project 365: Day 1

I have wanted to do project 365 since I first heard about it a few years ago, but I just never got around to it or was never motivated enough to do it. Well I started today, and here is my first photo.... 

Unfortunately, this photo is off me doing one of my least favorite things to do, waiting for the bus!

share a photo of you as a kid

Celine from The Green Frog Studio has a new feature on her blog, called Vintage Wednesday. For the first week she ask us to share a photo of ourselves as a child... so after a quick search I came across this photo of me in the backyard at my grandma and grandpa H's house.

I want to blog

I really want to blog,  I really do want to sit down and share what has been happening BUT when i finally sit down to write i cannot find the words... I type up a message then i deleted, and i go through this process a couple of times until i give up. Why? Because i don't feel as though what i write is good enough, i don't feel what i have to say is important enough. SO much is going on in the world, and my voice is so unimportant (but this post is not about what going on in the world). I don't feel as though i can articulate my self the way I want and I also don't feel as though anyone cares what i have to say or share.

Right now i need to refocus, on what is important to me, what i want from life. I need to find time to do the things i enjoy (including blogging). I need to remind myself, this blog was not for other but for me. It was for me to find my voice, for me to have a place to look at and see who i am, so it does not matter if other read or if they care.

So i am going to really try to make the effort to blog more often, to share my life, loves and hates. Get back into posting regular. 

I promise you this blog, I will write to you. I will share with you.... I might just be a little sluggish for  a little while longer, just until i find my voice again! Just until i find a little bit of passion (and if you know who stole it, tell them to bring it back please).

So until next time
Love
E

Day 29- Your favorite song.

This is such a hard one, because I love music, I could spend my whole life alone as long as I had music, so I really not sure if I can pick one favorite song and I not sure I can pick  an all time favorite even. Some of my recent favourite songs can be seen here .

So the song I am going to choose is not one that I listen to regular (these days) but it something that has sentimental value to me, Daniel and I did the whole long distance relationship for over two years it was extremely hard, we even broke up once for a month, this song by Thirsty Merc was our reminder that someday we will be together again, someday we will be each other "ONE"

Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?

•  A lot happier
•  Ready for a change
•  Engaged
•  Has started to learning to cook
• Started a new job

Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge

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I am doing these challenge for one reason and one reason alone to REDISCOVER. I feel sometimes that I have lost who I  am, for so long I have been defined by what others have thought of me, or the role I have played in there life. I  have been daughter, sister, student, girlfriend, friend etc etc for so long RATHER than ME! I look at these challenges and see an opportunity to reflect on myself, my life and things that I love. I saw it an opportunity to REDISCOVER myself!

Day 26- What you think about your friends

I think I have some of the best friends in the world (especially Caz), there is no words to describe them, they are simply the best and my life would not be the same without them. I miss those who are so far away, and wish i could be with them more frequently. I love them all so dearly.

Day 24- A letter to your parents

Dear Mum and Dad,

I know that we don't always see eye to eye but no matter what happens i always love you. Right now, we are so far away from each other but i feel as though our relationship is even stronger now than when i lived with you, how funny that how it work out. I wish we were a little bit closer to each other so we could see each other more frequently rather than just talk on the phone, but that will happen one day soon.

I love you
E

Day 23- Something you crave for a lot

Chocolate- need I say more

Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy

It such a commerical item to pick and there are so many things that make me happy BUT it said picture and i don't really  have a picture of the things that make me happy the most ( i will list these below), so i posted a picture of my Kindle which makes me extremely happy while reading on the bus, because it lighter, easier to read that an actual book while travelling on Sydney patchwork quilted roads. But the real things that make me happy are these

• waking up beside the man i love each day
• having little boy meow into my ear first thing every morning
• visiting pineapple section (the area i used to work in at work) and singing songs with the residents
• Ringing Caroline in Melbourne and having an extremely long chat at least twice a week

Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future

This is my boy, this is the one i will marry one day. Actually, we set the date ( March 3rd, 2012, one day after our ten year anniversary), we booked the church (well actually it a Chapel) and we are going to live ever after (note: i did not add happily, because in reality there will be good time and bad times)

Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them

I have had loads of nicknames over the years, but some that have sticked are 

grisely bear - This is my Dad's nickname (Dad aka Jamez for me. The reason behind it i guess because i so grisely puss.

ezza- Well, my name is Erin, and as Australia's love to do, change people name to an za. So Erin becaome Ez,Harry becomes Hazza, Sharon becomes Shazza, Barry becomes Bazza however I really hate this nickname, i really don't like when people call me this. However, people still do i encorugae them to use Ez instead. The other nickname that related to this one is ezzie, which my friend Laura aka Hippi Lollie uses.

Daniel aka Sexy Rexy has many names for me these include Bubes Malone which is a play on the gangest Bugsy Malone name, because as he jokes i am his little gangest, which is a quite strange since i am no gangest.
He also calls me Bubkasha, which he thought meant baby, but it actually translates as "old women wearing scaf", and is a term used for "grandma" in russia... but i love the way he says and the thought behind it even if he had the meaning wrong, so i let him call me an old women wearing a scaf.

I am sure there is many other nicknames i am called but these are the one i remember the most, or i love the most.

Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

This one is a hard one for me, for a few reason... My life is what it is and yes it not perfect but it still my life and i would not change that for anything. The other reason is that there is so many fantastic people out there, that have done so many amazing things...  However, i think i would like to be Zooey Deschanel for one day.... The reason why, well i love her personal style and the attitude that she presents in life.

Day 16- Another picture of yourself

Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play

My old Ipod died recently and so Daniel  bought me a new ipod But then the computer with all the music on it died, so at the moment my ipod is very empty for music but what i do have on it are recent favorites so i will share, and maybe in a month or two when my i have all my music on my ipod i will do these again

1. Stevie by Lisa Mitchell

2. Dog Days are Over by  Florence and The Machine

3. En Attendant By Carmen Maria Vega

4. I Got you by Train

5. Romeo and Juliet by The Killers

6. Fat Bottomed Girl by Queen

7. Witchdoctor by Little Red

8. Syrup & Honey by Duffy

9. IRM by Charlotte Gainsbourg

10. Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons

Day 14- A picture of you and your family

My Little brother, Daniel and and I at the Maxi food Xmas party.

 Dad (aka Jamez), Mum and I in Hong Kong

Sexy Rexy and I at Burwood Westfield

Day 13- A letter to someone who has hurt you recently

Dear Person who hurt me,

Don't you understand that no matter what you do to me, i will always find a way to get over it... The only person you really hurt is yourself.

E

Day 12- How you found out about Blogger and why you made one

I think i found out about blogger was when i finish started scrapbooking i discovered Elsie Flannigan who i fell in love with her scrapbooking style and i wanted to know more about her, and see more of her work... so i google her and then found her blog which at the time was hosted by Blogger, a few year later i moved to Sydney and wanted to keep a diary or a personal writing of that experience so i started this blog to do so... since then this blog it has become so much more than that.

Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

artwork by

kilari-chan

The soundtrack of my life does not depended on my mood, i will listen to the same music when sad or happy, bored or hyped because it bring me joy. The killers, Mumford and sons or the many other artist that i enjoy help me no matter what mood i am in because that mood lead to the my interpretation of the song at that given point in time....  so the songs or music i listen to is not depended on my mood but my mood does give me a different perspective on the music i enjoy.

Music and I are best friends. I love MUSIC, and i listen to everything and anything.  MUSIC lift my spirits, it bring me joys, it lets me dance and calms me down... it sets the beat to my life and gives me the lyrics to my story.

Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why

1. Finish my mini album on hong kong

2. spring clean the whole house

3. finish making my xmas cards