Bugalugs.

I have the hiccups right now. They actually hurt.

I bought this cardigan from my friend Celeste's site, Crowded Closet and I love it!
It's the Aztec Cardi.

I have no coats that fit me at the moment, they are all too small for my arms eek. I'm living in cardigans and capes, so in other words I am freezing and need to go shopping.

I'm sick of this weather, it looks warm outside but then you step out with high expectations and you nearly lose a toe from frostbite. 

I still try and go for a stroll most days, but having had the flu makes this harder than my usual non motivation would usually make it. 

I'm not sure that the above sentence made sense but I think you get what I mean. My brain has turned to mush. The only times I concoct a sentence these days are when writing these posts. 

The look of fear.

The look of 'my mum is hilarious'.

Nelly is loving her Skip Hop Alphabet Zoo Activity Mat, even if half the toys are now hanging over her car seat, she just loves Wally the Whale.

We struggle with Tummy Time to be honest. She hates it and screams bloody murder so I give up earlier than I should. The Husband is better at it than I am. When holding her and when she is sitting up she has a really strong neck, it's just the Tummy Time that she despises. Any tips?

This is my favorite One Pot Wonder.

I am getting better with time management and keeping the house in a relatively clean state with some form of dinner on the table, but this is what I make twice a week and then eat for lunch every day.

I think it's meant to be a soup but as you can see mine turns to mush, more like stew.

Lentil & Veggie Stew Thingo.

1/2 cup small red lentils 

1 can of cooked kidney beans (or four bean mix works fine too) drained and rinsed

2 tsp olive oil

2 medium carrot, diced

1 red capsicum, diced

1 green capsicum, diced

1 stalk of celery, diced

1 medium potato, peeled and diced

1 tsp curry powder

1 clove of chopped garlic

1 tsp dried basil leaves

1/4 cup of tomato pasta sauce or passata

1.5 cups water

1 vegetable stock cube

- Add lentils to 1 cup of water, bring to a boil, skim foam, cover and reduce heat to simmer - cook until soft for 10 to 15 minutes (sorry I lied, two pot wonder)

- While the lentils are cooking, heat the oil in a large soup pan and saute the carrot, celery, capsicums and potato for 5 minutes

- Add curry powder, garlic and basil leaves and stir for 1 minute

- Add red lentils, water and stock cube.

- Bring to a boil, cover and cook on low heat for 10 minutes or until veggies are tender. 

- Stir in kidney beans. Cover and cook for another 5 minutes.

- Season with salt and pepper to taste. 

Either eat alone or serve over rice like a curry. 

My own wardrobe consists of tracksuit pants, long sleeved tops and cardigans these days. 

Oh, don't forget the slippers either. I think that I have really hot feet though as I can't stand slippers.

So this is Nelly's wardrobe a few weeks back but since taking this photo we have received a tonne of gifts that solely consisted of clothes that I have had to retire the bigger sizes to boxes. How can one kiddie have so many clothes and her mum so little?

I had these birth announcement cards made my fellow blogger Iron Chef Shellie a few weeks back and I finally sent them out. Only 9 weeks too late.

The best way to procrastinate cleaning the bathroom? Hold an elf and take a selfie in the dirty mirror instead.

The Husband took these photos on his new blackberry Z10 at the wedding a few weeks back and the camera looks pretty shoddy.

No wonder I got asked if I was pregnant, my boobs need their own postcode. 

I went back to Mothers Group and about 10 mums seem to have dropped off and it was much more enjoyable this time, we could actually interact with each other and it wasn't as formal.

I'll go back next week, the girls are really nice. 

The only terrible thing about the Joolz Pram is the lack of storage. Sure, it has an under carriage (which is tiny) and a hanging bag but sometimes I wish it had more. 

The cup holder doesn't fit my giant Camelbak Eddy drink bottle so I need to buy a smaller one.

Nelly was playing Post Man Pat.

I usually would never put a baby or child in dark colours but here we are, looking rather grey. 

I have been complaining of a bad back for a few weeks now but I woke up on Wednesday morning for the 4am feed and could not move my neck without electric shock like pain shooting down my spine. 

I hustled to the physio at 10am and was told that I have severe muscle spasms and inflammation of my joints and spine, one step below a pinched nerve.

The Husband had to take care of Nelly for me as I could not move but after being manipulated and taking it easy, the pain is not quite so bad.

I'm going back tomorrow for another massage so hopefully that helps a bit. I've never had back issues but I guess I really need to work on my posture and bending correctly.

This blog should just be renamed 'The Mez & Nelly Show' as that is all it is about now.

Black is the New Black

Friday (/ˈfraɪdeɪ/ or /ˈfraɪdi/) is the day between Thursday and Saturday. In countries adopting Monday-first conventions as recommended by the international standard ISO 8601, it is the fifth day of the week. It is the sixth day in countries that adopt a Sunday-first convention as in Abrahamic tradition. (See "Numbered days of the week" for more on the different conventions.)

In many countries, Friday is the last day of a five-day working week, and is viewed as a cause for celebration or relief (leading to the phrase "TGIF", for "Thank God/Goodness It's Friday"). In some workplaces employees are allowed to wear less formal attire on Fridays, known as Casual Friday or Dress-Down Friday.

TGIF. You can say that again, sunshine. 

I am really over this ridiculous Casual Friday business though. I obviously don't do casual very well. 

I tried out wearing jeans and it just was not for me. This is my Casual Friday outfit. 

I'm wearing an Asos skirt that I have only worn once before because it got stuck when I tried to pull it over my head, and I was scarred from that. Trust me, laugh if you must, but it was traumatic. 

I am also wearing a Caroline Morgan T shirt, Windsor Smith wedges, Kailis Pearl & Hermes Clic Clac. 

I have noticed lots of bloggers do a ‘What I am Wearing’ on their face, showing the make up that they have used. It is insane the amount of products that one girl can use every day!!

This is what I am wearing today:

Chanel eclat lumiere

Chanel inimitable intense mascara

Taa Daa. 

I still love my iPhone case. It makes me laugh.

My boobs are not really this big. They look like melons here. 

I know that The Husband has zilcho interest in my nail polish but I sometimes let him choose. He chose OPI Princesses Rule from the color chart because “It is elegant. Glitter is fun, at somewhere like Back in the Day, but this works everywhere.” Kill me with cuteness. 

If you don't know what Back in the Day is, it is a place to get your dose of Hard Rock, Rock n Roll and Metal. 

It’s lunch time and you know what that means – I will be in a Dumpling Coma for the rest of the day. MSG will be tasted through out the day.

We have re-scheduled our super awesome date night which includes an amazing dinner and a night in bridal suite, so now I have time to properly select the perfect date night outfit. 

Olloclip for iPhone!!

Reading blogs can get expensive. I always see things that I want to buy but normally forget about them after a few days. I read a blog post by an american girl who I found through the Purse Forum and she said that she had just bought an olloclip. 

I'm not very technological but I googled it and discovered that it is a detachable lens for the iPhone!!! I did not know that such awesomeness existed in the world.

I found one on eBay but it worked out to be an extra $10 so I just bought it from the actual olloclip online store for $70. It arrived within 48 hours which I was quite impressed about! 

I find it bothersome to carry my Canon digital cam around with me, and it has a scratched lens and the shutter doesn't open properly automatically, so it is a pain in the bum. I mainly got the olloclip for the macro function.

Basically, the lens clips on to the iPhone and cover the camera and is a 3-in-1 lens with a Wide angle, fish-eye and macro! 

iPhone standard camera:

olloclip macro lens:

iPhone standard camera:

olloclip wide angle lens:

olloclip fish-eye lens:

It's pretty small so doesn't take up much room in my handbag.

Edited to Add: The worst thing about the olloclip? You can't use it when you have a cover on the phone. It's going to be pretty annoying to have to take the cover off every time I want to use it!

It also takes a little bit to get the hang of using the macro lens SO close to the subject. It has to be practically touching. 

Normal iPhone lens:

Olloclip wide lens:

Olloclip fish-eye lens:

iPhone lens:

Olloclip macro lens:

iPhone lens:

Olloclip Macro lens (whilst having a shaky hand):

Woohooo! I love it!!!! What other awesome technological stuff is out there that I don't know about yet??

Sorry that this post is so picture heavy, I was bored. Sometimes I wish I had a super awesome camera to take super awesome photos with, but I am no photographer so that would be pointless I guess.