74/365 – Hoyts Win!!

Isn’t it the worst thing ever when you finally get around to wanting to use those gift vouchers you have, only to pull them out and realize they’ve expired!?
Things have been so topsy turvey in our household for the last few months, what with sickness of every kind, and DH and I have been meaning to go to the movies since his birthday in early feb. Finally we had a window of opportunity this weekend. Super awesome Aunty & uncle have offered to take the kid for a sleepover and we are free agents for the night.. At least until approximately 8pm when i will no doubt fall asleep from exhaustion as happens every night at the moment! So, an early movie it is 😉
We decide upon ‘The Hunger Games’ and I pull out our La Premiere gift pass, only to find that it expired at the end of February.
DEVASTATED!!
I’d bought the voucher as part of a fundraising campaign for my nephews school last year, so at least I figured my money hadn’t completely been wasted.

Anyways, luckily I have a beautiful friend who works at Hoyts and I thought I’d sound her out as to the likelihood of them accepting the voucher still, though out of date.
Imagine my surprise when she replied saying that most of hoyts vouchers have a months grace period on them, so I could use mine up until the end of March! HUZZAH!!!!!!!
So the moral of the story folks is not to throw away those out of date vouchers. At the very least call the company and ask if they can still be used.. And like me you may be pleasantly surprised!! 🙂

73/365 – addictive brilliant shine

No, this isn’t a post about my theatre group. It’s a post about haircare.
I am not a girly girl. Never have been, and while it’s nice to dream that one day I might actually be trendy, the truth is, I never will be! So why do I care about hairproducts I hear you ask?
Indeed the hairdresser is lucky if I see them once a year, and usually that is on a special occasion like my birthday or to celebrate the birth of my child. You know… Those times of the year where you sigh and think “gahh, I s’pose I should make an effort to look decent.” And I rarely bother blowdrying or try to style my hair, it takes waaaay too long and what’s the point when it will get full of grease and metal dust at work anyways?
But I do happen to care about my shampoo. I DO care when cheap shampoo, no matter how yummy and fruity it smells, wont leave my hair feeling shiny and clean. I care NOT to spend exorbitant prices on high end shampoo, even if it does do a better job. And I DO especially care when you find an awesome relatively cheap shampoo that is AMAZING only to have the company seemingly take it off the market for almost a year. (insert frowny face here)

I was devastated when I couldn’t buy my favourite shampoo anymore. I had discovered it by accident when buying a travel size version for my trip overseas in 2009. I loved it so much that when I came home I continued to buy the larger sized version and not only did it smell great and clean so well and leave my hair shiny and smooth, it also had the added benefit of bringing back all those great holiday memories everytime I washed my hair 🙂

For some reason sunsilk took it off the shelf in 2011 and it got replaced with a new marketed version. Fail.
For a while I kept buying the travel sized versions.. But they were so expensive and I figured that I couldn’t do that forever, so the hunt for a new shampoo began. What a nightmare.
Until last week. When low and behold what should appear on my supermarket shelves??? MY SHAMPOO!!!!
My hair follicles are so happy they are bursting with shine!!
My task for next week… Go back to the store and buy in bulk… Just in case 😉

72/365 – madness

When I was little my mum somehow ended up with a whole stack of ‘bad taste’ postcards. Probably purchased at a garage sale or the like 😉 This was by far the best of the bunch.
During my highschool years this postcard lived on my pin up board above my desk as a humerous companion for the dreaded hours of evening study.
During uni I think I had it stuck inside one of my theatre and drama files, because every little bit of madness was a blessing.
About 7 years ago I found it again and decided the absolute best place for it would be at work. So now it lives on the wall right in front of our main work desk, the heart of operations, and serves as a great reminder to our family business that while you don’t have to be mad to work here… It bloody well helps!! 😉