Today I gave my work my two-weeks-notice. I'm still unsure how I feel on the subject as I have mixed feelings. However, I know this is a brand new start for me, not only job wise, but I get to finally move to Melbourne and live with K! After two years of weekend traveling back and forth to each other as we live in different cities - we will finally be together! FINALLY. I'm so unbelievably happy, but I'm also really scared at the prospect of walking into a new job I am not familiar with. (Hear the nerves speaking? Haha)
I was quite lucky in regards to nailing a job down, I thought it would take weeks, maybe months considering the market is a bit on the slow side. But obviously the world needed some office girls because I had calls coming out my ears! I had a permanent headache all week trying to fit interviews in during work time. I don't know how people do it, but it's such a hassle finding work when you're already in a job! Lucky for me, 5 calls later, 3 interviews in the space of a week and I got one. Phew!
Today, not only did I give my notice, but I had the responsibility of helping to find my replacement. Basically my day consisted of booking interviews, calling up references and giving advice on who might be the next 'me'. If you've never had to find your own replacement, it's not a really good feeling. I felt extra protective of my job more than ever - even though I'm leaving, it just felt really unusual and nerve wracking to give it up for sure. 
I'm in the midst of packing up my room in pieces to move to K's house. It's slowly getting there, and I'm sure I will feel more relaxed and comfortable once all my things are moved and set up properly in my new home. It feels weird to say I've lived with my folks for quite some time, but we get along really well, and they've been an enormous part of my life, and will continue to be. I'm hoping I won't miss them too much when I move. I may need to bring some tissues on that day when I drive away for real!

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K and I have needed to get away for quite some time as the last few weeks have been pretty rough on us. It was so good to be able to completely relax and chill out at my parents beach house, and not have to worry about rushing to be somewhere, or do something that required extra thinking! Our brains had earned a well deserved break, and we had an amazing quiet weekend just being together.

My parents beach house is situated in Blairgowrie, in the Mornington Peninsula which is about an hours drive from Melbourne CBD. We've had this house for over 10 years in our family, and I've seen it transform from being pretty horrid inside to something that is very homey. It still has a long way to go, but it has good character and a lot of potential! A diamond in the rough if you may. We got to the house at about 10pm on Friday night, we would have got there earlier, however we made a stop at Chadstone where I purchased my first full frame camera - the Canon 6D! I cannot tell you how much I am loving this camera, the added Wi-fi feature is a real help with uploading to instagram, so I'll be carrying it with me a lot!!
We got up late on Saturday morning - we needed a good sleep in after Burdie, (aka BurdieWood) our baby cat, kept us awake by exploring her new surrounds! Naughty kitty! We headed off to Sorrento, (which is a beach side town about a 5 minutes drive away) just before lunch and chose a cute cafe by the name of 'Buckley's Chance' to dine at. They had these adorable menus, which were made out of 'Little Golden Books', a series of story books that were around when I was very young. I remember I had a huge collection of those books, but now the originals are hard to come by. 

After flicking through the menu, K decided on the slow cooked beef foccacia, and I went for the full Buckley's Breakfast! Both were pretty good, and even though Sorrento is well know to be a little pricey - it wasn't that expensive at all. Around $14-$16 each for what we ate. 

After our bellies were full, we walked the many arty stores that lined the town, and were amazed at some of the art that people had designed. This one particular shop was heavily into wood art - and there was a huge elephant, a pig, and a bull with huge horns made entirely of pieces of wood that were found on the beach. It was just inspiring, but I'm not entirely sure where you would put a massive wooden bull though at your house! I did however, as it was pretty hot, bought some cute handmade burgundy shorts with white lace trim to wear around the house for $12. Not bad!

We made our way down to the beach, stopping at the botanical gardens and taking a few snaps, before heading to the pier and watched the sailboats with their fishermen, the speedboats and even caught a seat plane taking off! It was such a nice day - I really should have listened to my dear husband when he said 'put sunscreen on', which now I'm regretting not doing because my feet and neck are quite burnt! Silly me :( But I'll live (I think). At least my feet and legs got a really good exfoliation walking along the beach though!

I actually enjoyed this weekend a lot, it felt great to just take our time and do what we wanted - and take as many photos as we could with the new camera of course! I am very much looking forward to the Christmas holidays which are just over two weeks away so we can spend more time together, and enjoy the festivities the city has to offer - and not forgetting the Boxing Day sales! Hopefully the next few working weeks go really really fast!

What are you doing for the Christmas holidays?

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