Twenty Twelve!

Ok so this is the first chance I've had to write a blog entry this year.
That sounds bad, but you have to remember its only the 4th of January!!
I've spent the last few days with some friends who have been road tripping around New Zealand.
I went to Cape Reinga for the first time in at least 7 years or something. It looks really cool there now!
Very different to how I remember it anyway...
Yesterday we also went to Waitangi, and I'd never been there before so I found it really interesting. Its funny how I've been living in the Far North for over fifteen years yet I'd never been to see Waitangi yet.
I guess you'd expect us to go there on school trips but we never did.
Ah well, I've seen it now so it's all good!!!

One thing I actually wanted to get a written account of was my Sunday Dress Rule that I managed to stick to for the whole of 2011.
What it involved was wearing a dress or skirt to every Sunday church service I attended. Rain, shine or snow, I'd have to wear a dress. Of course I didn't HAVE to wear a dress, but it was just a challenge to myself.
This whole thing came about because my Mum had told me a few years earlier that she only ever wears dresses or skirts to church (which is a lie, because when she was in Dunedin she wore pants, hahaha) But anyway, I remembered that and when 2011 rolled around I thought I may as well try to wear a dress every Sunday.
There were of course the handful of Sundays that I didn't make it to church, and those days I didn't wear a dress. But I promise you, every church service I was at- I was wearing a dress or skirt.
It got harder to abide by this rule the colder Dunedin got last year, but I managed to stick with it.
I think the hardest time was when we had an insane amount of snowfall on a Sunday, but I just chucked some tights on underneath my dress, put on my wool coat and I was good to go!

I actually found the "Have-to-wear-a-dress-on-Sunday" to be a really good way of challenging myself to dress outside of my comfort zone. It forced me to wear a dress at least once a week, and once you get into the hang of wearing a dress once a week, its easier to wear them more often!!! These days I wear dresses more often than not, which is a drastic change to how I've dressed in previous years. I wore jeans pretty much everyday. No experimentation. Where's the fun in that?!?!

Anyway. This blog entry is mainly about me wearing dresses..... But girls, seriously, wearing dresses is so much fun! I would recommend it to everyone! If I can wear a dress almost every Sunday of 2011, I'm sure you can too! :-P

ps- Less than 6 weeks left of my time in Kaitaia! Summer is halfway over.