damn you festival postal period

thanks to the festive season and all these public holidays for shutting down our (very competent) postal delivery system Australia Post.  I have been waiting over two weeks for some of my items to arrive (taupe j brand jeans I am talking about you!), and have had to resort to the extremist of measures... GETTING ITEMS SENT TO MY HOUSE! Usually I have all my packages sent to work, but due to aforementioned holiday period the office building was closed.  Not wanting anything to go missing (tragedy) I had to resort to this desperate measure. The worst part is is that the post comes between 3-4pm (unfortunately way before I finish). My boyfriend gets home between 3:30-4pm – so this leaves me about a half an hour window to dash off from work and attempt to intercept said parcel before he gets home. Tough!  The biggest problem with home delivery that it removes the failsafe ‘this old thing? I’ve had it for ages!’ which is very important when there is a min of four items being delivered per week (a close runner up in the problem stakes is ‘NOT ANOTHER BLOODY PARCEL’! shouted in anger by my beloved).  Luckily for me my lovely boyfriend is not super attentive to what I wear (I do choose to think of this as a good thing!) so most of the time I am able to get away with another kimono sleeve maxi dress from Winter Kate – but some items - ie the below mentioned leopard print – I am unable to palm off as old stuff.  Back in the day he used to think quite lightly of my spending habits, and would amuse himself by hiding any packages I received around the house for me to find.  What a fun game – ooh my new sass +bide zippora jeans are in the oven - yay.  Sadly those days are over... the BIG M occurred (uh MORTGAGE!) followed quickly by a BIG BANG BLOW UP from Ryan, and to my utmost regret my old friend eBay was deleted off my phone. That did last a whole very long month.. and then I secretly installed it back on; and learnt to redirect all packages to work.

Work is back in action now.. and only one more to arrive. Guess who is flying out the door at 3pm today???

FFIFY xxx