My Week in Pictures #66

Happy Easter lovely readers! I hope you all had a great long weekend, and took plenty of time to rest. The long weekend kicked off on Thursday afternoon when the Easter bunny dropped off some eggs to my desk at work. J and I headed down to Canberra on Friday afternoon, arriving back home on Sunday night. J's mum brought out the Easter baskets and we each got some easter choccys - anyone who knows me knows that Lindt is my favourite - paired with an Easter bilby and Cherry Ripe and you've got one happy Michaela. 

We went to the Old Bus Depot Markets on Easter for something to do - there's a stall there where a man makes fresh orange juice, and hot spiced ciders. I had the spiced apple and cinnamon cider, J had an orange juice, and J's mum had the honey, lemon and ginger cider. Perfect on a cool, rainy Easter day. 

I'm now spending my Monday watching Netflix (I signed up for the month-free trial and am loving it!), doing washing and preparing for the (4 day) week ahead. 

How was your Easter break?

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My Week in Pics #28

HAPPY EASTER!!

What did you all get up to over the long weekend? I dressed up like a bunny at work (much to all of the children's delight!). I've been a total stresshead the last two weeks, so I made a conscious effort to take some time out for myself. 

Got my extended butterfly down. It's still kind of ugly, and my lines are pretty shocking. But you add pretty-ness later :)

In other exciting news, J and I got inspiration from My Kitchen Rules and made our own spelt pasta! Much easier on my tummy than normal pasta, and so much more tasty than completely gluten-free. 

I was kinda surprised at how long the entire process took, but it really was a lot of fun. As you may notice from J putting faces in the dough... I was also really happy that it turned out so well for our first time! 

1. Lots of tea drinking and candle basking was had over the past weekend. 

2. My little brother flew down for his school break, and I'm really excited and happy he's back. We went out to dinner on Thursday night, and I just had to finish the week off with a cider. 

3. I organised and sorted out all my make-up and beauty shiz. My entire work area is a lot cleaner now, meaning my head is less cluttered too. 

4. Cutest tea tin from T2 - part of their children's range. Best thing is that it comes with tea inside it! This is a spearmint-y blend, but is a tisane so no caffeine! 

What did you get up this week? How did you spend your Easter? Apart from being a bunny, all I got up to was studying...fun, hey!?

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My Week in Pictures #3

How are you all? I hope you had a fantastic Easter break!
On Wednesday night I unfortunately came down with strep throat. When I was in high school - and mostly throughout year 12 - I was afflicted with tonsillitis constantly.
Stress = poor immune system = very sick Michaela.

Luckily I wasn't affected by it as badly as I used to be, but the anti-biotics I'm on are really strong and completely wiped me out.
So I spent all Easter in bed. Fun, hey.

Anti-biotics are eviiiiiil

There was a lot of knitting going on (my scarf is so close to being finished - yay!)

and a lot of Gilmore Girls-watching. Don't judge me, that show is amazing. 

It also meant that I missed out on uni on Thursday. So I wrote apology emails to my lecturers and tutors...

I think I should get marks just for writing in (almost total) Chinese!!

Last Tuesday was my mum's birthday, but because we're all so busy during the week, we had a belated birthday celebration on the Friday night. 

I downed a heap of caffeine for energy, and set out to cook some amazing food for the family

Just cooking away in my apron. 

My little sister made up this really cute menus for everyone. 

This was the AMAZING, INCREDIBLY DELICIOUS (almost orgasmic) Main meal - sticky whiskey chicken. 

I got the recipe here, from Blithely Unaware.

I'm such a noob when it comes to cooking, but this was easy, so filling and had everyone asking how I suddenly got to be so amazing in the kitchen. 

Last night I enjoyed watching the lightning display from my warm snuggly bed, and listening to the hail falling on my roof. Noisy. 

Also - Instagram was released on Android!!

Having so much fun with this app!