Summer Bucket List 2016

Here is my Summer Bucket List. If it says 'we' on it, I am probably referring to Kieran and myself because let's be real here, most of this stuff is on the list because I want to do it with him. Also this list is going to be updated every time I think of something new (I make lists in my phone and also lists in my diary, but if I have it published on here I can't lose the lost (I am a genius I know). 

1. Beach bonfire
2. Paddleboarding
3. Ride a jetski
4. Try something new
5. Get a new tattoo
6. Get my full driver's license
7. Create something beautiful
8. Fill an album with polaroids of my adventures
9. Visit a new place 
10. Go camping 
11. Go kayaking
12. Mountain/bushwalking/hiking some place new
13. Visit Jellybean pool
14. Go fishing and catch fish that we can cook for dinner
15. Bike riding at the beach
16. Visit the markets
17. Road trip to the Central Coast
18. Say yes more
19. Try dirtbike riding
20. Do a pub crawl
21. Visit Cockatoo Island
22. Visit the aquarium 
23. Watch a beach sunset
24. Learn to surf (for real this time)
25. Attend a Marco Polo event
26. Try aqua golf
27. Try something different on a menu at a cafe instead of always ordering the same 3 things
28. Read at least 10 books
29. Do something nice for someone else
30. Grow a plant
31. Attend an 'outside' movie event
32. Use my birthday present and do the Harbour Bridge Climb
33. Attend a festival/ outdoor concert
34. Go swimming at a waterfall
35. Roadtrip with friends
36. Take one photo every day for all of Summer and make a mini-video at the end (December 1st until February 29th)
37. Have a picnic somewhere beautiful
38. Create tie dye clothes
39. Swim at a waterfall 
40. Visit delwood beach 
41. Visit Neilsons Point 
42. Visit Somersby Falls 
43. Visit Milk beach 
44. Rose Bay
45. Figure 8 Pools

How Do I Feel About Sports?

I know most people who know me will automatically agree with me when I say I'm not a huge fan of sports. And then I'm sure a lot of people will ask why not? Let me just start by saying I wish I enjoyed sports. I really do. And then going with that, I wish Australian sports culture was more like what you see in American sports culture. You know what I'm talking about, even if I have just gotten this image from TV and the movies (I am 95% sure it is actually like this in real life though, based on the Americans I have met and spoken with). Everyone in the town gets behind the team, people live and breathe sport, sports events are like a major thing, high school sports teams; everyone knows everything about them... I think you all get what I mean.

I just find Australian sporting... dull? I think that's the word I would use. When I was younger I was really into it. I loved netball (most of the world will probably be wondering what that is hey) and I would watch matches, know players names and be pretty invested in who won. I also loved the NRL (football) and loved my team. I would go to games and be sad when we lost and happy when we won.  There's more but those are just the main two that I cared about or was invested in.

I really would love to find that spirit for sports I once had. It should be fun and exciting to get together with your friends and watch a match on TV at home or at the pub or something (lol), go to games even. The other night I felt like I was re-living my younger days because I went to my first football match in at least 3 years. I went with my family, boyfriend and 2 of my best girlfriends. It was a lot of fun (even though our team ended up losing 36-30 and we even had a 24 point lead at one point- but let's not dwell on that please...). We went to the leagues club afterwards and at food and talked for a couple more hours and it was a good night. 

Amber, Maddie and I with one of the mascots 

You can tell these pics were taken whilst we were winning because we were all very happy

Good nights like this make me appreciate the small things so much more. I would love to be able to go to more games and have more casual nights like this and to actually care again about who wins and who loses. It makes life just that bit more interesting, you know?

Feel free to check out my Instagram @krristelley or online here because I post a lot of photos of what I do there!

Thanks for reading, 

Stelle xxx

Conception Day

Hey everyone!

So, university is a fun place. I use the term 'fun' pretty loosely because well essentially university is a place full of learning, never ending homework and assignments and you're meant to study 10 hours a week minimum per subject at home. But, once you get over all that, you get to see the benefits and fun parts of uni. There's the partying, the extra long weekends, the cool people who you find so much in common with. Basically just the adventures you can have (I know there is so much more, but unless you're at uni currently, you probably won't even know what I'm talking about).

One of the greatest days in the uni calendar for myself (and thousands of others) is called 'Conception Day' *pause here for the confusion as to why thousands of people are happily celebrating a day with this name*. Let me start by saying- no it's not a day for everyone to conceive. It has something to do (from what I know) with the birthday of the founder of our uni being at a hard time of the year to celebrate, so instead we celebrate his 'conception' (genius right?).

Essentially Conception Day is a music festival, hosted at my uni with plenty of cool bands, different music stages for different artists/ DJ's (ya know, normal festival stuff). Asides from the music there's cool stuff like jumping castles, photo booths and of course drinking copious amounts of alcohol and hanging out with all the rad people uni has to offer. 

 It's a long day, pre-drinking before noon, making the most of Conception Day from about 12-7pm (and their cheap drinks) before taking the party over to The Ranch. In my case, the party continued first at a few peoples houses on campus before making our way over to The Ranch.

It was such a great day, listened to some great music, saw plenty of people I knew and just got to chill out for a day and enjoy myself. I must say though, it was extremely awkward walking into my uni semi-drunk to start with, but once the atmosphere hits, you're over it immediately. 

 Wanna shoutout to my beautiful friend Katie (above) for her amazing hospitality and lovely motherly skills (spaghetti is always good). 

I'm also glad I got to enjoy the day with my favourite uni pals and that my boyfriend travelled the annoying hour and a half train ride to uni to come and party with us at The Ranch afterwards, even though we were all dead tired.

It was seriously the best day, and I recommend anyone at Mac or who know friends there to go!

Extended Weekend Adventures!

Hey everyone!

So I just wanna start off by saying that I have thoroughly enjoyed the last 4(?) days of my life because they've just been crazy fun (some parts not so crazy fun, but nonetheless fun!) My weekends never seem to end at the moment, but for the purpose of this post it's about my 'weekend' starting from Thursday and ending Sunday.

Thursday 
My weekend didn't really start until Thursday night as I had my babysitting duties to tend to that day. That job comes with mixed emotions- ranging from wow I love kids they're cute and we get to play games all day, to holy crap I can not stand this anymore. Anyway, the fun started when I got home because I finally got to see some of my beautiful friends that I never get the chance to hang out with anymore! 

We went to the local leagues club for dinner (chicken snitzels and chips for all!) then had a couple (some of us stayed on a couple of drinks) and sat around talking, laughing and enjoying the open mic night. Several highlights include the old man who yodelled on stage, my friend getting up and giving the open mic a go singing a Beatles song and probably just the overall company we enjoyed together that night. 

In my busy state of having fun I didn't even take any photos whilst we were out (I've made it a mission to take photos when I'm having fun), however I did get to take a slightly tipsy selfie once I got back to my boyfriends place. Another great thing about that night was the fact I got to stay at my boyfriends place :-)

always a pouting selfie

Friday
Earliest start I've had all holidays. Woke up at 6:30am to go to work for the day. My weekend was put on pause for an extremely long 8 hours. All I know is that after this shift at work (in a warehouse for the day, not my usual work) my body was tired from physical labour. After that exhausting day, even though it doesn't amount to anything near difficult, I had to let my boyfriend know how proud I was that he does such a physically demanding job everyday. 

Friday night was party night! One of my friends (a girl from the group that I didn't get to see the night before) hosted a party. Once again, I had such an amazing night I don't know where to start.

There was drinking games, alcohol, dancing, alcohol, music, alcohol, good chats with old friends and more alcohol. It was a freezing cold night and the party started outside, but quickly migrated to the warmth that indoors brought. At least it made it easier for us to dance and have a good time. 

There were just so many photos taken this night and I deleted over 200 photos because my boyfriend always loves to spam people's phones at party's. I tried to choose some of my top favourites to add to this blog post. Girls that are in these photos, don't worry I made sure they weren't awful of you, even if they were of me. I still love them all though because of the good memories I'm going to have from them. 

I love these girls!

she is always so beautiful (I'm on the left aka the one who can't take a nice photo)

this is probably my favourite picture from the night. group selfies are always good fun

We all ended up staying the night at my friend's house and her lovely mother even got us all McDonald's breakfast the next morning. I would have happily eaten cold pizza, but hey it's all good (well bad) food. I helped clean up the mess of red cups and empty bottles before my boyfriend and I left to go home and start the adventures of the day. 

favourite photo of my boyfriend and I at the party- not sure why, it just it

Saturday

After we cleaned and ate, my boyfriend and I left to go home to shower, eat and then go shopping. Whenever he gets to choose what we do, it always involves going to look at cars or motorbikes because (asides from me obviously) they are his favourite things. We picked up a plastics kit for his motorbike and went to look at Ute's that he wanted to buy. I think he would be proud of me for knowing these things because I never seem to know anything about what my boyfriend likes. 

We then went to El Jannah (for those who don't know, it is basically just Charcoal chicken, bread, chips and garlic sauce but it is essentially the greatest creation ever) and got it takeaway to eat at home and watch Die Hard. Of course in typical fashion, we ate and put our pyjamas on and got so comfortable we fell asleep watching the movie. We both woke up five hours later, in the dark, confused as hell before laughing about what happened. We ate dinner, talked with my family before watching more movies and falling asleep again.

the greatest food ever

Overall, Saturday wasn't too eventful but after a full on two days it was exactly what my boyfriend and I needed. I enjoy his company and he enjoys mine. 

Sunday

After a long sleep-in, in typical Sunday fashion, I woke up and cooked a big breakfast of hot chocolates and egg and hashbrown rolls for my boyfriend and I, while we say around and watched The Simpsons. These lazy Sunday mornings are probably one of my favourite parts of my weekend time with my boyfriend because they are so simple, yet perfect. 

After lazing around for half the day, we ended up going shopping to finally get my boyfriend a new phone because his old one was smashed to pieces. Also we went shopping for clothes for him as he is just growing out of everything and needs my "help" and opinion on anything he buys. I think if he had it his way he would just get me to do everything for him. 

After the late afternoon shopping we had either what I would call an extremely late lunch, or a very early dinner at a hotel near the shopping centre. Once again, chicken snitzel and hot chips were exactly what we ordered. I found it comical that when we went to the bar to order cokes to drink, we had to present our ID's (I know you have to do this when ordering from a bar) but the way the bartender studied our ID's for a good 40 seconds each was just strange. We weren't even trying to order alcohol, but anyway I know it comes with looking 15 years old. 

we love us some good chicken snitzels

After a day out we came home to unwind and I (of course) had to set up my boyfriends new phone for him. We watched Despicable Me 2, like the children we are and just unwound after a busy few days. I like laying around with him even if we are doing nothing. It's comforting having someone next to you. I like doing nothing sometimes, but I love doing nothing with somebody even more. 

forever taking photos together

So anyway, thank you all for reading (if you managed to stay that long) and I'm sorry if my posts are a tad too ramble/ about nothing essentially. 

♡ Stelle