Friday 23rd December - Normally I would cringe at talking about weight online, and not quite sure why I am now.........however, long time goal was achieved this morning! After the heathrow injection I received all those years ago living in the UK, ive finally turned it all around :) As Christmas Holidays start in 3.5 hours, I dont think its an image i'll be seeing again for a while so wanted to treasure it while I can - rum balls anyone?!

7. Read The Great Gatsby

Step one complete! The book has been purchased, just in time for some holiday relaxing down the south coast of NSW - can't wait!

I love these little orange Penguin Books - so many great titles, so so cheap! Currently reading Breakfast at Tiffany's. Get on board people!

Thursday 22nd December - A sneaky breakfast date before work, fabulous start to the day x

Wednesday 21st December - Mule came second in his work's '50 DAY FITNESS CHALLENGE'!!! He tried so hard and did so well - this was his prize!

Tuesday 20th December - My Earings are a Christmas tradition in themselves! Have owned them since I was a kid and I still heart them at 29!

15. Keep a plant alive

Here we have a tough one! I've been the owner of many a plant, unfortunately non of these have lasted very long, oops! So it's time to try and fix this, and get my not so green thumb in touch with nature, once and for all.............

As mentioned in an earlier entry, we had Secret Santa in our office last week. After all my ramblings at work about my '30 Things' list and blog, someone must of paid attention (or got sick of listening to me go on about it) because this has what I got!

Thanks Santa Gordo!!

Everyone, I would like you to meet Viola!

For those of you out there that are a natural at this, or just genuine wildlife warriors (that one's for you Nelly!), any help or advice on not killing this little one would be greatly appreciated! It's a Angelonia, but of course you already knew that!!

Again, wish me luck xx

Monday 19th December - Meet Harold the fish! This little gem was given to me for Christmas by the girls at work! Love him xx (as Mule says, Harold be thy name!)

Sunday 18th December - Christmas shopping done and our tree is stacked with presents underneath!!

Saturday 17th December - Christmas Lights!! We got a great tip from my stunning friend 'Peggy' to head to a house at Ashgrove. It was well and truly amazing!! Unfortunately though we peaked to early because nothing else we saw came close!!

Friday 16th December - Breakfast is served!! My lovely friend, we'll call her Chazlet, delivered this treat to my desk this morning. My fav, mmmmmmm! and on another note - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!

Thursday 15th December - The Secret Santa tree next to my desk at work! Oh the snooping joy's!!

Wednesday 14th December - Action Shot! Airport pick up after Mule's (my other half xx) big long work trip away!

No. 2 - Be able to touch my toes

Easy for some, not for me! The first time I realised i 'lacked' in the flexibility department compared to most was when I took part in one of those fitness assessments at a gym a few years back - I soon realised they were suppose to measure how far over your toes you could reach, not how far from!!

So a life long goal, at least for a few years, has been to touch those little toes of mine with no leg bending! Now, how does one go about achieving this one?!! Open to suggestions, but I decided to start with Yoga and some serious stretching!

I am now one Yoga class down, and when the instructor called for the 'Pada Hastasana' pose, things got awkward!

* (Pada Hastasana): A standing pose. Stand straight with your feet together. Stretch your arms above your head. Bend forward until your face touches your legs and your hands can touch your toes.

I thought it was best to add some photos of exactly how much work I have in front of me, and so that progress can be tracked (this is mainly in case I have set myself up to fail!) - I promise I am really trying in these pics and hurting a little - oh dear!

Tuesday 13th December - Great news for all!!

Monday 12th December - Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree........

Photo's from the last few days!

Sunday 11th December - The annual 'London Christmas' event. I have a big (fabulous!) group of friends that I met whilst living in London a few years back - each Christmas we have a 'London Christmas' gathering in memory of the 'orphans Christmas' shared together over there........and Brisbane even put on the London weather for us!

Saturday 10th December - I actually was sent this photo on Saturday morning, and whilst I didn't actually take it, felt it 100% still needed to be a party of my 'photo a day' challenge. Awww Parby xx

Friday 9th December - Little drink tokens from the work Christmas Party...........

Today's photo. Finally got around to renewing my Passport - one step closer to Euro Trip Twenty Twelve!

A Photo a Day........

Number 30. Take a photo every day until i'm 30. Great idea now, will see if its still fun in 6 months time! But here is the first.....

Photo 1, My Winter Wonderland workstation!

The List

Last week I had a milestone birthday - I turned 29 and a half! A milestone indeedy, because it meant the countdown was on, only 6 months to go until the big 3-0! Only 182 more sleeps till dooms day, the end of my 20's...........which got me to thinking - is there anything I wish I had done before the big day..........and with that thought (and my love of a good list), I knew it was time to put together the ultimate '20's Bucket List'.

I called on my friends through the wonderful world of Facebook, to hit me with ideas and suggestions for the list with 2 main rules / restrictions - one, it had to be cost effective as I'm currently in a mad savings frenzy for a Euro Trip next year, and two, I'm quite the wuss, so anything too wild and crazy was just never going to make the cut!

So after much thought, here we have it, the 'official' list! And as per number 11, we also have the blog!

 1.            Learn some French

2.           Be able to touch my toes

3.           Drink a Martini

4.           Dine at Aria

5.           Bake a Pumpkin Pie

6.           Learn to drive a manual car

7.           Read The Great Gatsby

8.           Write a fan letter

9.           Make a Stoinker (cocktail) and then drink it!

10.        Put $50 all on red at the Casino

11.        Write a blog

12.        Eat breakfast at Tiffany’s

13.        Go to Luna Park

14.        Create a tradition

15.        Keep a plant alive

16.        Try Bikram Yoga

17.        Do a ‘life drawing’ class

18.        Eat like a vegan for a week, or something similar

19.        Have a Super Bowl party

20.       Go on a midnight picnic

21.        Eat a Big Mac

22.        Watch the sunrise over the east coast of Australia

23.        No watching TV for a week

24.        Visit a town I’ve never been to

25.        Ride a tandem bike

26.        Have a true ‘old Hollywood style’ romantic date

27.        Go Parasailing

28.        Make my own signature scent / fragrance

29.        Sell my first bagel

30.         Take a photo every day until I am 30

................and here we go!