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21 day challenge on the group chat
Sitting here on my bed trying to catch up with the latest on our cousin chat on whatsapp. Think we are 13 people in there and as always there is a lot going on. All at the same time 🙂 God I love my family. Because of the time diffidence, Sydney/Europe I often miss the “live” conversation. I have not been on my phone for most of the day ( yes! very proud ) so catching up now is feels like running a race. So far I have one story of one of the little kids in our family in a hospital (not super serious but be needs a small surgery) so that made me sad. Then another story is filmed at my uncle’s house all funny. Then somebody filming a birthday. Puh…I am exhausted.So many emotions from one single read!
Our in the lounge Ambrose and his dad are watching the game of the year – State of Origin. I usually love watching big sport events but after the pasta bolognese and a glass of red wine I feel drowsy and feverish. So instead I am in bed catching up our group chat.
We all have decides to do a 21 day challenge The challenge this time is to meditate – everyone can decide their own time – but to do it morning and night for 21 days. I will start mine tonight. I decided to do 15 min at nights and 10 min in the mornings. Join if you guys want to jump on this challenge!?
What else has been exciting today? Besides hanging by the beach, walking on cliffs and short shopping for some gym clothes. We did go for a hike in the bush behind the house we stay in. That was very nice but it reminded me that I need to get in to better shape. ASAP.
Ok I better start my 15 min night meditation. Day 1 out of 21 is officially started.
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Relaxing in front of a fireplace with the movie Interstellar
We just finished the movie Interstellar which was surprisingly good. I am having tea after the nice spaghetti bolognese I made for Ambrose and myself. The fireplace is on and massive. We brought in half the forest ( or the whole winter supply of wood that Ambros’s dad had bought hahah)
Everything has been so nice and relaxing since Friday at work.
My little Friday breakfast at my desk. I stumbled across Swedish caviar in Harry’s Farm – one of my favorite grocery shop here in Australia. And I bought 4 chicken yellow cups from T2 for our new home we are about to buy. I choose the color because it makes me happy looking at it.
Saturday came and we had breakfast at Tommy’s. It was me, Ambrose, his sister Anastasia and their dad ( in the picture)
The subject was Anastasia’s wedding. We tried settling for the first father-daughter song. And we all laughed so much at the suggestions of songs their dad has chosen. Well he did not thing it was very funny. It was not that bad actually, we just though it was so funny that his choices were so different from what Anastasia had in mind.
Then we did something I have wanted to do all week. Ly on the beach. I listen to Dr Joe Dispenza and had an almond coffee. Ambrose was out surfing. Not much surf but still.
After a very short stay at the beach we had a look at a potential apartment we are might buy. Followed by a salad, calamari and nuggets with this perfect view. I have to start eating out here more often.
Changed that view to this view a couple of hours later. Love watching fire. If we buy a house instead of an apartment, it must have a fireplace. And before I go curl myself into Ambrose’s arms – watch the movie Interstellar!___________________________________________________________
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Kanagara-Boyd National Park Australian winter wonderland
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massage injury and movie night in balmain
This long weekend turned out to be filled with alot. From one minute I was in heaven with a much needed massage. The next minute in hell of a pain after a man crashed his ladder right into my shin. And everything i between in seems.
It all started Sunday morning. We woke up around 9 am, Ambrose was going to have a boys night at Ari’s house. I was going to Kimberly’s house and stay over. I gave Ambrose a lift, and drove to Balmain to pick up Kimberly. We had an massage appointment in the city. One relaxing hour, it was so good, exactly what my body needed.
We walk out of the massage and I walk over to a couple of Asian fast food restaurants. I stood next to one man on a ladder fixing the restaurant sign and suddenly his ladder snaps and I get the ladder with the man on if right on my right shin. I fell on the ground in agony,everyone ran over, trying to see if its broken and luckily it was not.I sat around 20 minutes with ice on it, the family who owned the restaurant put a yellow home-made remedy ornament on where the injury was and it actually helped!
After all the drama we went for lunch, a little bit of shopping and then instead of going to the cinema as we planned we decided to get a lot of snacks, cheese, wine and have a movie night at Kim’s house in Balmain instead. It was pouring down rain so a movie night was perfect. This is Kim and her fluffy bunny “Moo” by the way.
Next morning. God I love mornings! The sun was out, it was Monday but bank holiday so everyone was out having breakfast and enjoying the sun. Here we are at my favorite place in Balmain. It is owned by an Italian family, the mother is from Napoli and the dad from Sicily. Such charming atmosphere, you can’t fake atmosphere.
And that was it from my long weekend. After a long breakfast and strolling in the area with Kimberly I went back to pack up. Love staying at Kimberly and Jackson. You get your own bedroom and bathroom which I really enjoy haha.
Ambrose got a lift back to us with Mike, we all went over to see Mike and Lucinda’s new house. It’s about 5 minutes drive from Kim’s place.
Now we are back at the house. I had a long shower, went grocery shopping, made dinner, vacuumed and washed all the clothes. Ambrose – he has been sleeping since we got here at 4pm! I think I am going to let him sleep for the night and I will lie next to him listen to Bryan Tracy. Google him, interesting man._______________________________________________________________
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winter walks on seashells over the long weekend
Just got back to the house. The plan for the afternoon was to go ice skating with Ambrose siblings but everyone pulled out so we are going to lie in bed, watch Sense 8 and just to nothing tonight. Its cold and raining outside so putting on the fire and make a nice dinner in thick socks sounds just amazing to me. Happy to just do nothing tonight.
Earlier today we had much more going on. Started our day with an hour class of Body Pump. I even got Ambrose to go to this class with me, and I am pretty sure he liked it because you really feel you properly worked out after that class.
We both love that.
After a quick shower we drove to play with Xavier and Archer. Well, as much as you really can play with a 8 week old baby!
We only stayed for an hour or so, super hungry after our intense Body Pump class so we drove off to Ambrose other brother Leonard for breakfast. The discussion during breakfast was all about buying a home. We are literally at that stage now in our lives which is amazing and exciting.
The home buying talk continued with the dogs at the beach. We drove down to Lakes beach and had a winter walk on seashells. So far a very good long weekend. I can already feel my batteries being recharged just after this Saturday.
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Tim and Rachels pre wedding party in Sydney
Here are a couple of pictures from one half of our last Saturday. I mentioned before that I had our big Ball with Life Changing Experiences Foundation – with 500 guest, celebrity performers, a brand new Audi Q2 to win, and best of all – it was Alice in Wonderland theme. More on that later. My long-weekend ( Monday is a public holiday here in Sydney) just getting started and I cant wait to just do…well, nothing! hahaha
Lets go back to Tim and Rachel’s pre wedding in Sydney. Their “real” wedding in a couple of weeks in Mexico. We are not going to that so perfect get-together like this. Â
Bathroom selfie with beautiful Katelyn. She looks like an amazon woman wow – so pretty!
B/W with these boys
Team Mudgee. Without the guy Ambrose is hugging. I have no idea who he is..
Tim & Rachel in the middle.<3
More with my amazon woman
I did not mean to wear white at somebody pre wedding, I promise! Like desperately trying to steal focus of the bride. I only were this dress because I was leaving to be working as the “Audi” girl at the Ball with Life Changing Experiences Foundation. I don’t think anybody cared about the color of my dress anyway so all good.
Now I am going to watch the most influential videos of all time on Youtube. Have a great weekend 🙂
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Indian food in a new neighborhood
Friday and I was totally ready to finish work and start the weekend. I left later than I wanted to and was secretly wishing I was living in our old neighborhood haha. Could not be bothered with the public transport. So when Ambros asked if I wanted to come by his work and drive back to the house together I said yes straight away.
Where he works there is a Myer that sells my skincare products – The Ordinary. I think I have praised them before HERE
They are so hard to get so I bought alot of them because in the Myer around our neighborhood dont sell them. After Ambros etook me out for dinner to celebrate my new job offer. So cute. I chose Indian food, have not had Indian food for maybe a year. There is a neighborhood in Sydney where Indian food is everywhere. Its called Harry’s Park and it felt like being in India. Not that I have been, but you know what I mean.
We ordered Dhal as starters, or whatever that crispy Indian bread is called. Then as mains we had lamb korma and mango butter chicken. And of course garlic nan. Oh how I wish I had some leftovers right now. If was a good and authentic Indian restaurant. You could just feel it walking in there. It was called Ginger if anyone wants to try. I can recommend it. Â 
That takes us to today, Saturday. This day stared with sleep in until 8am, breakfast at Little Piggy down the road. Then getting the car washed, house inspections, more coffee breaks, testing new cars – Ambrose is nowadays obsessed with Nissan Patrol. It is a nice car, but it feels like being inside somebody’s house, its gigantic !
Then it was the obligatory surf watch. As you can see, today is not the warmest days here in Australia…Now we had a quick lunch with some chill in bed. Have to start getting ready for the three events for tonight Puh!
First – our friends Tim and Rachel are getting married in Mexico soon and they are having a pre wedding tonight.
Second event is a Ball my charity work is hosting. Its massive, over 500 giests, celebreay appearance and all that. Cant waith actually. The theam is Mad Hatters Ball so its going to be pretty exciteing.We have been working on this for months!
And lastly, if we can make it we have drinks and watching Vivid with friends in the city.Okey, I better start getting ready!
If I remember to take any, I can imaging tomorrows pictures in this blog are going to be pretty amazing.Otherwise watch videos on Instagram: nicci.marquart
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sand between my toes
These last few days I had a lot in my head. Sometimes it seems like I can’t get it to stop – all the thoughts. Mine is mostly about the future I think. I don’t dwell too much in the past, well, not as much as the future anyway haha.
The bottom line is that I am not where I want to be, where I need to be. Which is in the Now. Its super annoying. Especially for someone like me whose been reading, studying and interested in these sort of stuff for years.
Moving on. But before I do that I just want to say that I am often, almost every time when I am writing in here, finding myself wanting to be more transparent in here. Less about nothing such as sand between my toes and more about, you know “the whatever you want to call it” stuff.
I guess I didn’t really move on to something else today. Lets just end it here, don’t really feel like writing anymore today.
See you all back tomorrow. Hopefully I manage to be more transparent than. xx
Cant promise anything.
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