All posts tagged: Inspiration

Radvent 2010 – Day 6: Adventuring

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Day Six of Radvent 2010 is all about Adventuring. Abandon your to-do list and go somewhere else. Somewhere new. Somewhere you have wanted to explore. Bring a camera and take a picture to celebrate the moment when you abandoned anxiety and insecurity, embraced imagination and opportunity, and let life unfold.   The best part about living in the city of San Francisco is that so much of it is still new to me. I have been fortunate to venture out of my little five block radius (to and from BART) through our urban hikes and through meeting people who know different parts of town. Leslie has introduced me to the Mission — the joys of the Candystore Collective (16th Street) and of Honey Lavender ice cream at the amazing Bi-Rite Creamery (18th Street @ Delores). With Mary, we’re slowly but surely are tasting all the brew houses and sushi houses in town. On our days off, the American and I have taken to doing ‘urban hikes’ to explore different parts of the city, because even …

Radvent 2010 – Day 5: Rocking Out!

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Radvent 2010 – Day 5: Rocking Out! Write down the soundtrack of your year so far. Play it for someone who loves you. 2010 Playlist 1. Darren Hanlon – All These Things Darren Hanlon: The consummate troubadour who has the gift of writing the tightest and sweetest, most genuine pop songs. Bron introduced me to him a few years ago — he was ducking out to go see a few minutes of Bob Geldof at Enmore Theatre just before he went onstage at Goldman’s. Rock ‘n’ roll! Since then, we’ve met him in other places around the traps like San Francisco and Dunedin, and am hoping he’ll stop by again soon… 2. Angus and Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane 3. Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition I have been far away from a lot of the hype around this group, but noticed it this song has been used on a few ads here. It’s growing on me and I like the clip, though. 4. Belle and Sebastian – I Want The World To Stop LOVE! …

Radvent 2010 – Day 3: Writing

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It’s day three of Princess Lasertron’s Radvent 2010 blogging project, and today we’re focusing on writing.   [Source: Princess Lasertron] Write a letter of love to yourself to read in one year. Dear Bec, Face it: you are totally cool.  And you’re totally awesome. Being that was just two compliments bestowed upon you, I know that if you could blush, you would do so right now. So go on and be your awkward, bashful self in the face of praise, but make sure you accept the gift of praise when you receive it.  Particularly from others. They are doing something nice for you when they say thanks for your hard work, or that your crafty work is awesome etc.  And I know deep down you really enjoy hearing that you’re doing something right, and that someone has noticed. They wouldn’t say it if you didn’t deserve it. I love how, with each passing year, you get more comfortable in your own skin. Knowing what I know and what you know, it’s getting easier to be …

Radvent 2010 – Day 2: Organising

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Sooooo, I’m a little late with these, but better late than never, right? Today, I’m focusing on getting parts of my life in order so I allow some time for joy and creativity. Focus on one drawer, table, or surface today and spend 15 minutes making it pretty! (And take a pretty picture afterward to motivate yourself!) We have a pretty large closest for our little room in the sky here in San Francisco, and it tends to be the least loved part of our apartment. So tonight, I set about changing all that. We have a great layout here: we can walk through the closet and into the bathroom from the hallway (which can prove very confronting to those utilizing the loo, so we installed a curtain for privacy). But as you can see from these pictures, there’s not a lot of actual walking through that has been happening in here of late.   I really haven’t focused any energy on making this part of my home more practical and functional, and I knew …

Radvent 2010 – Day 1: Remembering

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Today is the first day of Radvent 2010,  the blogging project I am participating in, which is the brainchild of designer Princess Lasertron. What were you doing five years ago today? As the holiday season began? Where were you? Who were you with? What did you want? What did you have? Five years ago, it was 2005.  I was living (rather unhappily, for the most part) back in Sydney. A few months previously, I’d lost my Grandpa, and threw myself into my studies and in supporting my favourite Aussie Rules team, the Sydney Swans. I remember a lot about the day my Grandpa died — the urgency in Dad’s voice when he woke me up; Mum encouraging me to touch his hand and talk to him; and one of the most memorable moments from that day was sitting outside in the sunshine with my siblings, chatting about the good times with Pa. It’s probably the closest we have ever been. We must have sat there for three hours, the sun on our skin, lounging on …

It was four years ago today…

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…When I, by chance, met the love of my life on a couch in a hostel in the west of Ireland. It was November 2006. The month before, I had left my comfortable, old life as a Sports Copytaker at AAP in Sydney, Australia, and moved to Ireland. I’d overcome my existential crisis (“How do I fit my life in a suitcase?”), said my tearful goodbyes to friends and family, and flew halfway around the world. I spent three and a half weeks travelling around, drinking in Galway with other Aussies who were also there for the International Rules, hiking in Killarney, partying in Cork, madness in Dublin, and meeting new friends (Hello Gill! Hello Alice!) whom I knew were more than just passing acquaintances. And then I made one of the best decisions of my life: to return to Galway and base myself there. I returned to Sleepzone — the same place where I’d stayed with the other Fanatics for the first game of International Rules. I met the local cast of (mostly Aussie) …