Pixabella

Gold, glorious gold, its my favorite jewelry, I only wear gold, especially since I have an allergy to silver, no seriously, I can only wear gold, or jewelry that is mostly gold, especially anything around my neck so I need real gold chains. Its a medical condition but also a great excuse.

Of course only wearing gold can be a bit of a problem, sometimes my purse feels a little light, and of course the other half wouldn't be happy if I had to change my wardrobe, I mean everything I have is designed to go well with gold, all my rings and ear rings are gold so I have to match them with gold bracelets don't I?

I've mentioned before how much I love browsing online jewelry stores, with most of my friends being overseas its the only way we can go window shopping, and actually the prices of jewelry online isn't really any different from high street shops, and are often cheaper.

I've always like the traditional styles like in the bracelet you see here, and I tend to wear very plain chains around my neck, and my best friend always picks the more chunky or contemporary pieces, but she tends to be very fashion conscious. I just like looking stylish.

I love strawberries, fresh from the plant, with cream, or just on their own, it doesn't matter much I love them so much.

So you can imagine my delight this morning when I looked out the window and saw my first strawberry ready to eat. I've been watching the flower grown and blossom for a couple of weeks, and the last week has been agonizing watching the fruit grow and progressively change from green to pink, to red.

I planted my strawberries a lot later than some friends and my first batch of seeds didn't take but the second batch from a few weeks ago has. I think I'll have a handful of strawberries to eat in the next week but then I might have to wait another 2-3 weeks before I get another batch.

The photo you see here is the strawberry as I saw it this morning. Isn't is glorious. I can't wait to taste it but I might leave it till tomorrow before I pick it.

I love shopping, ask my other half and he'll roll his eyes and try to hide or pretend he didn't hear you. Consequently he puts up a fight anytime I want to go shopping, which is why I love Internet shopping sites so much.

Savings.com is one of my favorites just because they don't try to sell anything, the whole site just lists coupons you can use like the Orbitz promo codes that I use when we do a long drive anywhere and need to book a hotel.

Actually its really funny. I hate junk mail filling my snail mail postbox, but give me half a chance to get it in my email and I'm all there, I know, its really stupid, maybe I'm a gullible buy anything type eco-warrior princess, lol!

Anyway, what I love about savings.com is you can vote for discounts so I always vote for the best deals, it keeps the advertisers on their toes, they have to keep giving good discounts or their ad gets buried. In my mind I have this image of cemetery workers shoveling soil over their beautifully crafted banners, its weird but it makes me feel good about burying bad offers.

But to be fair, most of the time any discount is better than none at all isn't it? I mean who wouldn't grab an offer if you're going to be traveling somewhere anyway and the offer is there. Just for example look at the cost of car hire, its already expensive enough so $20 off means an extra $20 in my purse for other things.

I have a new hero, Maria Soledad Vela, a lady in Ecuador who is part of the group of people rewriting their national constitution, and who has proposed an amendment making it a right for a woman to enjoy sex.

Well I couldn't agree more, we're not just baby-making factories you know, which is exactly what she's campaigning against.

Of course a certain part of the Ecuadorian population is not very happy and is calling her names, some have even joked that men might even be charged with human rights abuses if they can't give a woman an orgasm, but that's the kind of typical response you'd expect from people who don't like change.

Maria has said they've taken the amendment right out of context, she just wants women to have the right to make their own decision without being pressured, and she wants women to have to right to learn about contraception and responsible sex.

Ladies we are so lucky living in the western world where we can take equal rights for granted. I'd love to visit Ecuador but I'm not sure I could live there if those are the restrictions women face. Go Maria!