The Joys of Chicken Feet Bone Spitting

Another 'Things I Love' list to start a beautiful bright sunny day.

Things I Love...

My new sexy shoes
I bought a stunning pair the other day that I am certain are going to result in serious injury. I am very clumsy and on several occasions have fallen flat on my face in flats. But these were just calling me! They spent a week seducing me with their platinum platform heels, Mary Jane style double straps and beautiful black silk fabric. So I bought them.
I wore them out last night and am still glowing from all the attention. Whole rooms turned to gawp at my incredibly sexy shoes, people yelled and cheered as I walked past them in the street and hubby was so gobsmacked he could barely string a sentence together all night and just kept grinning at me.

Perth
Went down to the foreshore the other morning intending to do the 10km walk around the river and ended up just sitting on the grass on the side of the running path starring at the skyline and the trees and the people running, listening to music and appreciating what a frikking beautiful city I live in.

Oranges
Peeling them and ripping them apart and then biting into them so the juice gets all over your hands and your face. Oranges always remind me of my very brief time at Ag school when I was 15. We would go down to the orchard after school and sit amongst the trees eating oranges and getting all covered in the juice. It was bliss.

Polished glassware – ‘cos it means there’s a party about to start

Fruitsicles
In summer I always buy too much fruit at the shops and about halfway through the week cut it all up and freeze it into those icy-pole sipper sucker containers. I call them fruitsicles and banana and kiwifruit are my favourite. There are never any leftover mangoes.

Christmas
I’m a sucker for cheesy holidays – decorating the tree, novelty mistletoe earrings, listening to cheesy Christmas music, putting lights in the windows, inflatable Santa’s in the front garden. I always go completely overboard. Tacky=Good

That point when you are running when you get into a rhythm and it gets easier for some reason. The first ten minutes I’m always puffing and my legs never feel quite right (like one is longer than the other or something) and little things like shoelaces and bra straps are so annoying you almost can’t continue, then about ten minutes in suddenly something clicks into place and running is as easy as walking.

Yum Cha
I love having to line up to get a table and then the excitement of all the trolleys – What’s in that one? Will the lady with the deep fried tentacles come back? I especially love going with my Mum because of the look on her face when I eat chickens feet and spit the little bones out on the plate in front of me (and she can’t complain because it is the ‘proper’ way to eat them).

Rediscovering old habits – like writing ‘things I love’ lists.