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It's Friday! ♥
March 14, 2010

Gasp! Shock! HORROR! It's Friday! is two days LATE! (Well, it's possibly still Friday SOMEWHERE in the world, but this is besides the point. Bad blogger! Naughty blogger!) I'm oh-so sorry for the tardiness. It's been one heck of a mammoth week, but anyway - enough with the delay! If you're new around here (hello!), and are wondering just what It's Friday! is all about, allow me to explain: other than being a supremely obvious reminder of what day of the week it is, It's Friday! is all about celebrating the ever-impending weekend (hooray!), and reveling in all of the smile-inducing, happy-filled moments that have occurred in between. (Because, let's face it: even if your week was lamer than the lamest week ever in Lame Land, celebrating the more spectacular aspects of it is GOOD for you, and FUN!) Okay! Here we go! Here are my favourite moments from the week that was:

x Booking Flights - We're on our way to Europe! First stop? One of my favourite places in the world, LONDON! I am so very, very excited. I've been researching travel options for months, but finally took the plunge and booked our flights for Europe in October/November earlier in the week, and can't wait! We booked them with Emirates, and although at the moment it appears as though our reservation has possibly vanished (cue slightly epic amounts of panic), I'm placing my faith in the fact that it will all be resolved soon and am instead focusing on my enormous anticipation! Honestly, I can't wait. I'm already counting down the days!

x Late Night Beach Escapades - Because sometimes, there's nothing better than filling yourself up with champagne and Pad Thai and then deciding to run amok on the sand at the nearby beach with your girlfriends like it's 1999! (Or, you know, 2010.) We danced like lunatics to no beat at all, rolled around in the sand and shrieked as we were almost swooped up by enormous waves. While I'm sure that we looked moderately insane (the visual evidence is doing NOTHING to dispel this theory!), it was also insanely ENJOYABLE, and completely worth feeling as though I'd undergone surgery on my stomach from laughing so hard the next day!

x Setting Up My Home Office - Ooh, yes! It's underway! I even bought a desk today, too. (The fact that it was only $55.00 from Officeworks is an incredible added bonus!) Having a little nook in my apartment (even though it's downstairs, and sits alongside my boyfriend's drums!) to write and plan and daydream in is something that I've always wanted, so to see it all coming together is extremely lovely (and inspiring!) indeed.

x Other Little Things - Apple and cinnamon twists; Sunday morning cups of tea; being utterly amazed at my boyfriend's handiwork (how is it that he is able to successfully re-build and re-tile an entire floor without any previous professional building experience? HOW?!); becoming an Auntie (ah! She is so gorgeous!); clean sheets; driving lesson progression (I actually drove on a road today and holey moley, it was both terrifying and exhilarating!); having people come to stay; turning a negative situation into something positive; daily phone conversations with my sister (she's in New Zealand and I miss her all the time; she's number one partner-in-crime! Argh! I'm a poet and I didn't even know it!); acceptance; crazy twists of luck (for example, last night: average night = sitting at a restaurant and waiting over an hour and a half for your meal to arrive. Good night = having the staff finally serve you your meal, in addition to refunding you the full value of your meal because of said postponement! Continued good night = deciding to be silly and toss $1 of the refund into a nearby poker machine, only for it to spit out $30 in coins in return!); and Atmosphere's The River!

♥

Sunday, Schmunday. It's never too late to appreciate brilliant things! What were some of the finest and most delicious snippets of your week? Share, share!

xoxo

(Image thanks to Kimme Ann.)