-- A Toast To 2007 --

As the last day of 2007 is fast approaching, it is now a time to look back on the this last year.

What have I done?? What has happened?? ... Started uni. Reached the milestone of 18 years. Made new friends. Visited QLD yet again. Got myself a job (how very unlike me is that?! ... special thanks to jeanette for all your help and guidance these past few months - i will miss working with you) Got sick and got 'high'. Basically: struggled through a year of uni.

Where am i sitting now?? At home (haha). Well i can't run due to a screwed up foot. Just enjoyed a beautiful Christmas (with too much chocolate!!). And am now in that inbetween period of anxious wishing that the year never ends... To this day, that wish has never come true.

Apparantly it is the time for toasts. I would like to make a toast here for everybody: you are all awesome people and if only some of you knew how much your friendship means to me. ... a toast to this past year and all that it's taught me.

But no matter what 2007 brought each of us, we can probably all agree it was a very busy year, and that post-Christmas days on the beach are looking more and more attractive.

I love you all and hope that you strive to make each coming year better than the last.

The back-end of 2007...

Pizza Overload

I have had pizza 4 days in a row now. Saturday night, sunday lunch, last night and today lunch. Except Sunday's pizza was so gourmet that you could barely call it pizza. But still.

And results come out tomorrow. Don't really care. Just want to see how yr 12 ppl go. Cos their results come out tomorrow too. ... well that's not true. I do care. I'm just not worried about it or anything atm. ... Take each day as it comes.

My brother had his yr 6 farewell last night. (he's in yr 5 though, but they go too). He looked so good. White "skate shoes", black skinny leg jeans, nice white shirt, & black hat. Got a photo, so will put it on my myspace (www.myspace.com/ems_kate) and/or facebook for those of you who are interested.

Massively tired. Got paid yesterday!! Feel sick. But excited at the same time! and then there's the stress. Gotta love it! haha

Fun weekend

8 sleeps to go! It so doesnt feel like it. Christmas has come around so fast this yr... I havnt even done all my christmas shopping yet!! But it's still exciting.

This weekend has been fun! Except now im slightly tired. Friday was kinda normal. Went to swim club Friday night and Cam was there, so it was good to catch up with him. Then afterwards, Ashley and I went and looked at Christmas lights in Mt Colah. So that was fun.
Saturday mum and I went and did some Christmas shopping. Saturday night we went to friends house for dinner. Megan, Megan and I went to pick up josh (megans friend) then went and got pizza, then after eating dinner we (all the "kids"... megan, megan, josh, matt, sam, dane, brianna and I) sat out the back and played drinking games for however many hours... Was fun and surprisingly i wasn't at all drunk afterwards. Slightly tipsy, but not drunk. And i could get up at 7:30am the next morning and go swimming and win my races in really good times! Crazy. Maybe I should do that every week!! Haha ...
anyway. Santa came to swim club Sunday morning and handed out the awesome lolly bags that i made. Then i raced home to be ready in time for work Christmas lunch. natalia picked me (and amanda) up. Was in Manly, so we had an awesome view of the harbour from the restaurant.
when i got home, megan and i sat on my bed talking and eating lollies for a while. That was fun, cos i havnt had a chance to really talk to her in ages, with exams and then she started her 'internship' a week later and so she has been busy with that. So next week is going to be even more awesome cos she will be home!!

Today... BPS yr 6 farewell... which i have generously agreed to help out with setting up and whatever. So that's gonna take up my afternoon/night. But that's ok.

pocket

Yesterday - took two classes at the gym. And then lazed around. And then last night i got my resuscitation certificate again. Test was dead easy this time around. Especially now that they've changed the procedure since i last went for it.

And today. I will blog later about today.

And elise!!!!! She made me get facebook! Well she didnt sit their with a whip and force me to sign up, but almost! haha ... if thats the only way i can see her photots, then of course im gonna join!

Soooo not fair. My uni results come out on the 19th of December, and megan's come out this friday!! ... my mum thinks that's what im stressing about... im not.

2 weeks to go

I somehow dont think i am going to be blogging much this month. It's pretty much half gone and this will only be my 4th entry. But its not like it is that interesting for all you anyway, so its not like it matters.

Today i went to jeff's presentation day, then drove to ashley's... and saw elise, louise and emily! And watched some movies and talked and ate. yay. Then drove home again.

There was a question/poll in the newspaper the other day...
"would you want to live next door to a house blazing with Christmas lights?"
- "yes - you get to enjoy the spectacle without the work or cost"
- "no - nighttime is dark for a reason, even in the festive season"
............ anyone want to respond??? I didnt get to see the results for it, and i was wondering how many scrooges we have in Sydney...??? hahaha

anyway. I am busy talking to xiamung, and am not concentrating on what i am typing here, so pls forgive boringness!

One week into summer

Welcome to Friday the 7th of December. Outside it is currently at 24.3 degrees, and is gradually increasing. And it is summer! ... and has been for the past week. And why does December always seem to pass so fast?? There are only 18 days until Christmas!!!!! ...And soon it will be 2008...

Last night i put a rinse in my hair - natural golden blonde. So no, i am not blonde (thats not what i wanted), but i am more a golden-brown.

I am extremely energetic at the moment!!!! Music up loud and making up aerobics routines for the gym and typing this inbetween songs! (I suppose it's good for losing all my winter flubber haha)

Maybe might see some of you soon?

"Hello. You have won ..."

Tomorrow i am going to the gym (so that will be twice this week). But tomorrow it's only 2 hrs, and i start at 9am which is heaps better than 5:30!! And then i am finally going to get an ultrasound on my foot. It is extremely annoying (cos it is painful and i cant sit in certain ways) but doctors wont operate on it cos it is surrounded by ligaments etc... unless the ultrasound shows something.


20 Ways to Torture Telemarketers!
Sick Of Telemarketers? Try This!!

1. If they want to loan you money, tell them you just filed for bankruptcy and you could sure use some money.
2. If they start out with, "How are you today?" say, "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems; my arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died..."

3. If they say they're John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people work there, how they got into this line of work, are they married?, kids?, etc. Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary.

4. This works great if you are male:
Telemarketer: "Hi, my name is Judy and I'm with XYZ Company..." You: Wait for a second and with a real husky voice ask, "What are you wearing?"

5. Cry out in surprise, "Judy! Is that you? Oh my God! Judy, how have you been?" Hopefully, this will give Judy a few brief moments of terror as she tries to figure out where the hell she could know you from.

6. Say "No", over and over. Be sure to vary the sound of each one, and keep a rhythmic tempo, even as they are trying to speak. This is most fun if you can do it until they hang up.

7. If MCI calls trying to get you to sign up for the Family and Friends Plan, reply, in as SINISTER a voice as you can, "I don't have any friends...would you be my friend?"

8. If the company cleans rugs, respond: "Can you get out blood? Can you get out GOAT blood? How about HUMAN blood?

9. After the Telemarketer gives their spiel, ask him/her to marry you. When they get all flustered, tell them that you could not just give your credit card number to a complete stranger.

10. Tell the Telemarketer that you work for the same company, they often can't sell to employees.

11. Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, "Oh my God!!!" and then hang up.

12. Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The Telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me, either!" Hang up.

13.Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.

14.Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.

15. Tell the Telemarketer you are on "home incarceration" and ask if they could bring you some beer.

16. Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.

17. Tell the Telemarketer, "Okay, I will listen to you. But I should probably tell you, I'm not wearing any clothes."

18. Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how's your momma?"

19. Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up...louder... louder...louder...

20. Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.


Just being completely silent, not saying anything, and listening to them say "hello? ... Hello?? ... HELLO??" before they hang up is also effective.

Anyone used any interesting strategies for dealing with such ppl recently???

boring

Last night i put up the Christmas lights with dad. So now the house looks pretty again!

Not really much else to say. Except that it's December!!

yesterday

yesterday went shopping with Ashley. I didnt buy anything though. Was fun.

Last night saw 'Death At A Funeral' with Elise, Danielle and Ashley. It was funny. which is good as it was a comedy. But it's hard to find a decent comedy. ... Hot chocolates were good. And it was good to see Elise again!!!!!

: )

I just checked my emails and i had an email from elise with some good news!! :) ... Im sure word will get out soon...

27 days to go!!

I started to put up the chrsitmas tree last nite. I forgot how long it takes. I have only put the tree together, with no decorations yet, cos it takes a lot of effort... but it was fun... even though nobody wanted to help me... :(

and i watched the soccer - that was such a good game! And normally i don't like watching a whole match of soccer.

And now i have to get ready cos i am going shopping with ashley.

update

So since i last blogged... which was a long time ago...

I didnt really do much last week. Apart from relax and recover from exams... haha. Friday i went to the gym as usual... But it was slightly different - i cant tell the full story here, but basically Jeanette was stressed/upset and so i took all the normal morning classes without supervision... it was fine taking the classes, it was just the fact that i was a bit upset/worried, cos she was so upset.

Then Saturday we had family over - was the best day i have had in a long time! That was all day - they left about 6:40pm... so then we watched oceans 11 together while megan went to a trivia nite for mac... and it was just fun... happy...

Sunday i went to swimclub in the morning and taylor and i talked for awhile (its so much better now that she has come back)... and i got slightly burnt... and then it was the primary schools carnival. Not that i really helped or anything... i just sat and watched... and talked to sam and lachlan... but it wasnt the best idea for me to be there in that awful heat!! Which is why i didnt really help.

yesterday i woke up at 10:45... and went to UAC with megan and then to mac centre for some retail therapy (she needed soome more clothes for work) and then i did some more shopping by myself while she met up with her friend Jo-dear. And then i went and found them in the borders cafe... and then we went home... but i bought this dress and im not sure if its ok. It looks good, but i think it might be too low cut...

And today i have a meeting with Judy (owner of the gym) to talk about pay and getting my fitness cert etc ... so hopefully that will be ok... which reminds me - i have to go get ready.

First year of uni finished!

Officially done for the year. My last exam was last night. And we were expecting it to be harder or take up more time than it did (100mc and then 3 'short' answers worth 10mks each). I met up before hand with Phil and caitlin and kathryn and we got asked to leave the library, cos we were talking too loudly. We were studying and we were being quiet. But we went and got chocolate instead and sat in the cafeteria for about 10mns and watched the cricket (yay... *ahem*).

And i drove home afterwards. Have 39hrs now. ... its getting closer...

And today my head is throbbing (i swear i didnt have a drink after the exam - everyone else did, but seeing as im not allowed, i had to be content with socialising). But i am hoping it will go away, cos i have been living off painkillers the past 2 weeks, so i dont really want to take more. And the fact that they prob wont do anything anyway, cos i am so used to having them.

I have to tidy my room... when i finished one exam i just pushed all the stuff for that subject away and now i have barely enough room for my keyboard on the desk. And i have a pile of clothes that i really should put in cupboards/draws... but the effort...

And I was meant to reenrol for uni yesterday, but I don’t know whether or not I actually should, and whether I should change course, or drop half or keep all of it or what. So I am avoiding that.

I think I will go watch a movie. Or play xbox…. Quite shameful… I realised about a fortnight ago that one of the games keeps a record of the time you have spent playing it… and it is kinda shocking to realise how quickly the time adds up… but I suppose we have had it for 3 yrs now, so its not really that bad.

Have a good day! (gotta love this great weather!)

One down two to go

95.5 hrs to go... still seems like a long time, but one day seems to make a noticeable difference. I had behavioural foundations of leisure and sport exam today. Thats an ok subject cos it is basically the foundations for sport psychology, which we do next yr. And tomorrow i have lifespan development, which should be ok.

But today really took a lot out of me. All i did was go to uni for a 2 hr exam, caught the train home and walked home. At a leisurely pace (because thats all i could manage). But since i fainted, it seems that just going anywhere makes me really exhausted and not to mention makes my headache a lot worse. (which i dont think i should still have - it has been 2 weeks and 1 day, so i really think it should have gone by now... ???). And i must have looked like i was really stressed in the exam today, cos i was a bit dizzy and my vision kept going, so i kept holding my head and closing my eyes etc.... its annoying. Esp when i have to come home and study for the other 2 exams :(

120 hours!!

In 120 hrs i will have finished my last exam. I will be finished my first semester of uni. And i will not have to study or do assignments for 3.5 months! ... But 120 hours seems like forever! Thats like the 40hr famine x 3!! (or the time that L-platers now have to drive for) ... i can't wait till it's over...

Australian Idol

(dont know if anyone who reads this watches it ... kara??)
OMG MATT HAS TO WIN!!!!!!!! He is so much better than anyone else on the show. And Carl should not have left tonight! :( It definitely should have been natalie!! Sad night. But if natalie wins, there is something wrong with the ppl voting.
... and thats about all i have to say tonight...
apart from the fact that i am soooo stressed out rite now! But you know. Minor detail.

Not happy... :(

well my happy mood really lasted a long time. I just feel like screaming it's so unfair. And sad. And have i done something wrong? ... relating to more than one thing there... i dont know how to put it into words... really wish i could.

HapPy hAppY HaPpy!

I am happy right at this minute. I love Rob. And i really don't like Ken. Don't have the energy to explain the whole thing right now, but Rob is the nicest guy ever at our uni. And he will listen to you when you argue your point and he will actually do something about the fact that Ken marked us unjustly, unlike when you try to explain to ken, and he's just like "oh that's just how it is". And Rob had the decency to call me and explain it all to me and then thanked me, when really i should have been thanking him!!

And to add to the happy thoughts - it's only 49 days till Christmas! I am a big Christmas person. I love the whole hype leading up to it and christmas carols and pretty lights and decorations and the happiness and how everyone is in a generous, giving, happy mood. And seeing family and catching up with friends. And just the whole cheeriness of it all. And that probably sounds lame, but its true. And i also love going shopping for Christmas presents - choosing the 'perfect' present and all that. (and i know that im getting excited early - afterall it is only the 6th nov and i normally get annoyed when the shops put out all their decorations this early)

And the Melbourne Cup. I soooo should have placed a bet!!! I was going for (in this order) Purple Moon, Zipping and Efficient. And they came 2nd, 4th and 1st respectively!!! Such a good race! Did anyone win anything???

nothing

Well my test results came back today. And they came back apparantly normal. So that is good i suppose, but it means i still don't know how to go about 'getting better'. Cos my head is still painful, and i have to be careful that i get up slowly, otherwise i get dizzy again. And the lights are still affecting me. As in they are too bright. And my doctor said if i wasnt better after a week, that they would do more tests. Why can't they just test for everything from the beginning?! Just do it all at once, so that we can figure out whats wrong a whole heap faster!!

Other news: I am going to see 'The Phantom Of The Opera'!!!!!!!!!! Next May! So excited! It's weird, cos i was talking to jade a few weeks ago and she said she was going to melbourne to see it, and then about a week later megan said she was going to go when it comes to sydney, so she got me a ticket too! It should be a good night!!

Other than that, im tired and my eyes are hurting and my headache is worsening from looking at the computer, so i will leave you now. Hope y'all have a good day.

"what happened?"

I know i said that i would blog yesterday. And i know that i didnt. But i think i have a fairly good excuse...

Yesterday got to uni at 11:15 so that i could go talk to aaron (a lecturer from last semester), then sat with nat, sam, caitlin and johnno for about 30mins for some last minute study. Then the exam... it was ok. Not bad but not good either. Then we all go to pick up our assignments - ash and I were a bit disappointed... ken (the guy who marked them) is sooo stupid. But anyway. Was going to catch the bus with caitlin, and we were sitting there talking when phil and liv pull up at the same time offerring us both lifts :) ...

(now for the excuse) I was sitting in my bean-bag watching the 6:00 news, and my dad wanted to know where the beroccas were. So i jumped out, went out to the kitchen, and the last thing i remember was trying to pick up the beroccas! ... apparantly after that i just collapsed... i didnt hit my head thank goodness - my knee and elbow took all the impact (which would be why they're so painful atm) ... tried to take out the cupboard door on the way down too - massive bruise on my back now from it. ... but yeah. When i finally came to i was shaking and crying and my head was spinning and i had no idea what had happened. Weirdest experience. Funny thing is that apparantly my eyes were open the whole time... how freaky must that have looked - my dad told me i was never to scare him like that again (yeah, like i did it on purpose) ...Still feeling weak and weird (no other word for it) now... so maybe i wont be able to avoid going to see a doctor. But i've managed to convince my parents not to take me so far, so maybe i'll get away with it.

Today is the first day of November! It seems so much later in the year now than when it was the 29th/30th of october... And this is my first day of holidays (great way to start them hey)!

Almost there...

1 HOUR OF UNI LEFT FOR THIS YEAR!!! How awesome is that?! ... found a nice "grassy knoll" today where we sat and studied and talked and had lunch. Was peaceful. ... other news: it's time for new sunnies :) mine broke today :( ... but it's good cos i get to go shopping for new ones!! maybe i will get those DKNY ones? they were the most gorgeous sunnies i have ever seen... (but seriously, dream on. as if im gonna get them when they were like $500... but there were other nice ones there for cheaper... so maybe i might be lucky??).

But i should be studying rite now - exam tomorrow which i really really really want to pass! So i will post tomorrow cos it will be the last day of october of 2007!! Where has time gone?!

P.S. I heart matchbox twenty!

parasites

I just found a mAsSivE tic on my arm!! No wonder i was feeling so darn sick and had a migraine. ... And why is it that i always get the big ones? Like on yr 11 camp... that wasn't fun.

American (who else?!) laws

These laws still remain in the books of America today (even if rarely enforced)

In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.

Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.

In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.

In San Francisco, there is an ordinance, which bans the picking up and throwing of used confetti.

So i am/was in a stupid mood. But these laws are more stupid!! ... Who is going to stand there and make sure the chicken doesnt lay any eggs before 8am?!

And it is daylight savings finally! Time for summer! Especially now that i only have 2 days left of uni (tuesday & wednesday!!!)!!!! .... and i dont really have anything else to say today.

4 days to go!

Only 4 days until end of semester!!! Only have half of Tuesday and 1hr on Wednesday this week!!! It’s getting exciting!

I got my second injection on thursday... what fun. And my doctor has sent me off to have an ultrasound (on my foot), so now i have to find time to fit that in as well.

Oh and yesterday at the gym, i got to take my first class!! It was a one-on-one (personal training) - older lady called Mary - i normally just tag along for her class. And next week... i have to take a whole class - i.e. the warm up, the actual class and possibly the cool down too (depends - cos if the cool down is pilates, then i wont do it, but if not then i might). So that will be kinda scary...

Still 4 weeks until the election… I hate all the lead up campaigns etc. They are driving me mad! Even though I should probably pay more attention to it all so that I can make a “more informed decision”… all you ppl decided who you’re vote will go to?? Hmmmm, I just want it to be over.

Oh and Justine – I just missed getting an HD on that assignment that I was doing the other week (the exercise program one)!!

¡_ adiós amigo! _

update...

So since wednesday... didnt end up going to the cocktail party - went out for chinese instead. And she loved her presents, which was good. And friday i went to the gym as usual - poor jeanette only got 1.5hrs sleep cos she was up with her son all night who decided he was going to start stressing the night before his first exam (he's doing his hsc atm). ... anyway, after that we went to hornsby and then went to my nanas/pops for lunch. ... came home and i slept for 2hrs before getting up and going to club... which was half fun. Afterwards was fun!!! Megan, alison and i went to Max brenners :) yuuummmmmmm!!!!! That was good! Then came home, watched this crazy movie - cabin fever... it was weird...

Then yesterday was a normalish day... aunt and uncle came over in the afternoon. And today i went swimming cos it's hot!!!!! Love warm weather, but it's 38degrees here at berowra :( thats just crazy! ... but still - i get to wear my yellow clothes!!!

11 days till end of semester...!

Oh and i got the 'exile on mainstream' album by matchbox twenty!!!!! It's exciting!!!

Boring...

Im bored. Extremely. I have no work to do, so I have been myspacing and emailing for 3 hours now. And there is only so much of that a person can take. I should have brought some work with me to uni today. That would have been a good idea. But I’m not one for good ideas when needed. But oh well. Waste the uni downloads instead of mine. Hahaha.

Yesterday was a crap day. Don’t have the emotional endurance to recite it all again. But basically it started okish, and went downhill from there. And ended up with me collapsing on the lounge in tears when I got home. But that’s not important. What’s important is that I need to go shopping TODAY for bday card for megan, and lollies and a card and a present for Jen, and ingredients to make brownies to send to uni with megan tomorrow. So I must remember to do that this afternoon. Otherwise im shot.

And today is cold – it’s not fair.

Oh and my mum cut my hair. With a fringe. And I died it very dark brown, almost black. And tomorrow there will be red streaks.

Hahaha

I have a funny story for you:

A guy was driving when a policeman pulled him over. He rolled down his window and said to the officer, "Is there a problem, Officer?"
"No problem at all. I just observed your safe driving and am pleased to award you a $5,000 Safe Driver Award. Congratulations. What do you think you're going to do with the money?"
He thought for a minute and said, "Well, I guess I'll go get that drivers' license."
The lady sitting in the passenger seat said to the policeman, "Oh, don't pay attention to him - he's a smart@$$ when he's drunk and stoned."
The guy from the back seat said, "I TOLD you guys we wouldn't get far in a stolen car!"
At that moment, there was a knock from the trunk and a muffled voice said, "Are we over the border yet?"

the plateau of a blog

I need to blog more - the month is already half over and i have only blogged 4 times!

it's my sister's birthday this thursday and we (me, her and her uni friends) are possibly going to a cocktail party at the greengate on thursday nite... and the theme is black, white and red... and she actually said that i could wear her black dress - i didnt even ask, she just said i could wear it. ... so if those plans go ahead, i hope its fun. ... but she has only 2 more days of being a teenager - and then she's old!! Where does the time go??? ha - but thats exciting cos that means there is only a year to her 21st, and that is going to be one awesome night!!

Only 17 days until my last day of my first year of uni!!! Thats scary, cos it feels like only yesterday that i was studying for the hsc. But its also awesome, cos then i get a break from some of my stress load.

Oh and justine - i have contributed to my (so-called) "emo" image again... not that you will ever know what that means, but thought i would blog it anyway.

So now i have blogged 5 times for october...

I love animals! ...

First things first. For those of you who I sent that fwd to about the seals… the animal cruelty one…. Im sorry that you had to see those awful pictures. But the whole intention of the fwd was to show that those sorts of things do happen in the world… and thus to join the fight against animal cruelty. It was horrible to discover that one particular person thought it was my idea of a joke – if you think I am that sick, then obviously you don’t know me at all… It was sent to me, and being the person I am (one of my favourite animals are seals!!) I forwarded it on to the people who I thought would also care about something horrible like that. … however if the person in question cared about animals that much, they too would join the fight against animal cruelty and not just turn a blind eye to what really happens in the world.

On a happier note - i did my presentation this week at uni, and handed in another assignment. So yesterday and today i have been able to relax a bit... not that it makes me feel very happy anymore after the shock of receiving that email :( ...

*sigh* ... im not in the mood to be blogging. But it's a good way to vent frustration. ... and i should go before i say something i might regret.

edit: i can't believe i wasted a whole post on this... wasn't really worth the time and effort...

whoops

I accidentally stapled my shirt to my paper...

anyone else done anything stupid lately??

oh and i conveniently forgot to mention the fact that the other night when there was the black out, i managed to get really hot wax from the candle on my lip. Yep, you heard right. On my lip. ...

Fireball week

Had a black out last night. Was pitch black!! but fun lighting candles and stuff. The power was only off for about 20mins though, which was good, becasue i hadnt had a shower (how am i meant to do that in complete darkness?) and i hadnt printed off my lecture notes and megan was trying to study for an exam. And apart from that, it's just annoying on a weeknight.

Today started out normal. Beautiful weather this morning. Walked to the station to get the 6:57am train, got the train, got the bus, arrived at uni, talked with fellow class members and then proceeded upstairs to our tute. It was the first day of lit review seminars/presentations, so we didnt actually do any work. So we finished 40 mins early, so i went with Kirsten to work in the library for 2.5hrs. Joy! Not. So after wasting a lot of time searching for journal articles, and playing around on myspace, we headed back up for the lecture. OMG it was like walking into a freezer!! For such a hot day, the auditorium was ridiculous! Good thing i had a jacket with me. So we get through 15 mins of the lecture, when we found ourselves in complete darkness again (much the same as last night). So that sucks, cos there was no power, meaning we couldnt see the power point and Rob (the lecturer) had to continue teaching us in the dark. Mind you, we tried hard to get a massive early mark. So we continue on in the dark for about 10 mins, when the fire alarm starts going off. Fairly funny stuff. Rob was just like "no, no, this is just so that we prepare to leave"... stupid man. So he tries to keep going over the noise of the fire alarm, and us laughing and making jokes about how we will trapped in there... yeah rite. But then the real fire alarm went off, and so everyone is evacuated and sent to the oval (we just all went home 25 mins early!!, cos we had no more classes). And when laura and i were driving back up to the highway, we pass two fire trucks rushing back towards the uni, sirens blaring. And what do we do? Laugh. Now i look back and think, thats not funny, but it was kinda funny at the time. Unless it was just that 'laugh cos your nervous and its instinct kicking in and you dont know what else to do' thing.

So i get home and fell asleep for half an hour - i mean it was a very stressful day, i deserve my sleep. And now i am making it look like i am working on assignments, when really i am blogging and myspacing and emailing... hahaha. And Dad just phoned about 30 mins ago, saying trains are screwed up cos there are fires at Cowan. (oh! so that's where all the smoke is coming from!) ... it has been a fire filled week - all week we have been able to smell the fires at Pittwater, and today there was the uni fire, and now there are fires in the next suburb!! Just fantastic isnt it.

STORM WON!

"The mighty mighty Storm!!" ...Melbourne won!! (If anyone who reads this actually cares) Brilliant game! Really enjoyed watching it.

And other news... there was a real storm last night, and a tree fell down out the front of our house (kind of at the end of the street for those of you who know my street), and pulled the power lines down, so that was fun. A crazy telstra van with paintings all over it came and fixed it this morning.

Does anyone read their horoscopes? I do. Not religiously, but fairly regularly. And in yesterday's Sunday Magazine, mine was so true/relative. Weird how the sunday ones are always pretty relateable. ... It gave me a choice (one which i have been struggling with for quite a while) and i know which one i should choose, but it's just making that decision and then carrying it out which is the hard part. Like the horoscope says, "why rock the boat?" ....I think i have been waiting "for the oppurtune moment", which unfortunately is extremely unlikely to ever come.

*sigh*

anyway, must start working... otherwise i will never get any of it done.

Oh and it's OCTOBER now! How great is that! Almost done...

Come on Storm!

GO MELBOURNE STORM!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhh, now i have a sore throat from yelling... but they have to win!!

And I'm not an afl person at all, but i was backing Geelong Cats yesterday, and guess what? They won by 119 points!! Record win apparantly. Hoping for more of the same sort of thing today for Melbourne!

Sooo tired today... Went out for dessert last nite with ppls -- dan, lou & juicy -- and yummmm food... and fuunnnnnny lady dancing! That was some great entertainment. Got home about 11:10 (which isnt that late), but then helped fold up the washing, then did a samuri sudoku and turned off my lite at 1am, which again isnt that late, but when i've been getting up early (4:40am friday and 7:00 today) it is starting to get to me.

I hate this song playing rite now - gwen stefani '4 in the morning' - talk about annoying!!!... but i heart 'hey there delilah' by plain white tees!!

That's all! Have a nice day!

33 days to go...

33 more days of uni!!! How good is that?! I mean, it's going to be a horrible 33 days, but then it will all be over! And then summer!! Well not quite, but it might as well be.

Louise, you help justine with her assignments, now i need help with mine! They suck. Not that you would be able to help me, because it's not history, english etc type subject :(

And i forgot that im meant to be going out soon, and havnt even started getting ready! so ive got to run!

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blogggg.... some days this is easy to fill up with stuff, but sometimes its a blank... like today, i have no idea where to begin to express what i want to say... maybe cos its got me completely lost in the first place, so how am i meant to explain to you something which even i dont understand? ...and it justs sounds all wrong when i try typing something... it is so frustrating... maybe cos what i want to say isnt really suitable for blogging... more of an in-person thing. *sigh*

I GOT A RIDE IN A BEETLE

sweet sweet ride to the station today! A yellow, soft top BEETLE! How awesome is that to finish off the week? Ha - and made chris jealous... well there he is getting into his car (which might i add is a fine car also... just nowhere near as good as a beetle) and he's just staring at me/us as we drive past... lol. Was funny. And then he made everyone look at me when he drove past me in roseville, cos he beeped his horn multiple times as he drove past! He is such a clown. Makes everything more fun. ... But i got to ride in a beetle!!! Yay!

And i got a pair of new shoes today (darn, which reminds me, i didnt go back and get the blue heels! bumma)... and a pair of yellow (surprise, surprise!) thongs.

And i have to go to the gym in the morning... 6am start. ... might be motivated to go if ari was going to be there. .... thats if i can even walk tomorrow. We did resistance training in our prac today, and you know, here's me with me friends egging me on to keep raising the weight of the leg press... so i cant even remember what i got up to... over 100kg... but i walked home, so hopefully that will stop the pain tomorrow. Oh and our new tutors name = Sven!! We all thought that was great. .... and he gave us these medical forms to sign and i was bad and lied so that i wouldnt miss out on doing anything over the next few weeks... probably not the best idea... oh well. like anything would happen anyway.

i hate spiders

Soo... first, even though i sent u a msg, HaPpY 19th BirtHdaY Justine!!!!!

Second... update... friday went to the gym again. For 4 hrs... 6am-10... Jannette was sick, so i had a cool guy called Aristo (Ari)! He was so much fun... esp with peter (the clown in the first class). I had lots of fun and ari let me do stuff (like record HRs and stuff like that)! Lotsss of fun! Way funner than when i was there with jannette... she was still really good, but i think maybe cos ari was young and talked to me more and showed me more stuff...? and he looked like a better looking version of heath ledger (but with a better body ... as in more muscly + fitter), but as if that would have affected my judgement of how fun the day was! lol. (but seriously, he cracked jokes and made it fun, while jannette didnt).

Anyway, i come home and decide i will do some reading for uni outside in the sun. So i am lying on my stomach, when i feel this thing crawling down my leg. Turn around to look and as im doing so, i see a spider, which decided to bite me! So i freak and flick the spider away (i have no idea where it went, thus i dont know what sort of spider it was). It HURT! Stupid spider. And it gave me a fever, so i spent that gorgeous warm friday rugged up in my trackies on the lounge. And i am still having a bit of trouble swallowing now... it doesnt hurt, just like my throats swollen and therefore just generally hard to swallow... so i am hoping it will go away... and i think i just attract spiders - last night i had a spider on my arm (but it was a tiny one so thats ok) and yesterday afternoon we found a big wolf spider on the grass where jeff and i were 'playing'. grossss....

anyway... went shopping and i spent $96 in supre... not sure whether i should have admitted that where all can see... but yes, lots of yellow!! involved... and one item was a bday present for megan... and its not slutty stuff, so its ok.

So in the past few days i have watched Superman Returns, Casino Royale, and The Departed. ... and the verdict? To be honest, they were all a bit of a let down. I mean they were still decent movies, just not as good as they could have been. ... Probably liked the departed the most, until the end when they all get shot, which made it a pointless movie.

And today i am doing assignments. (STOP WASTING TIME EMMA!!!). yes. time for me to start stressing. At least last weeks exams are all done.

hope y'all have a nice day.

What does my name mean?

In the dictionary:
Emma --
[noun]: A hard-core grave robber

[noun]: A level headed person who always makes the wrong decision

and...

Emma Kate --
[noun]: A master of storytelling

[adjective]: Benevolent to a fault



What do you think? Close to reality?
quizgalaxy.com

studying... yeah rite!

Did i mention i got a myspace? no? well, I got a myspace. After all my bagging out of such a site, i went and created one for myself. That and so i could see other ppl's pages. Yeahhh. For those of you who don't already know, you're reaction might be something like Elise's "I KNOW! I WAS SHOCKED!!!!!" lol... hahaha... and no. I am not getting facebook... even though ppl keep inviting me... most recently: this guy at uni added me (and he somehow got hold of my email address to do it... that is slightly weird...) ...

'Hard way' is currently blasting in my room and is slightly deafening! But is FUN and i can sing as loud as i want, without all the neighbours hearing, cos the music drowns my voice out! It's awesome!

Haaaa.... i need to study... test tomorrow... mc though so that is ok i suppose... had 2 tests yesterday (which were my first ever non mc uni tests!), and apparantly i'm "little miss smarty"... yeahhhh. sure. just wait for the results....

So, have an awesome nite (i know i won't be)...

oh and it is like newcastle has moved to b-town! remember when in newcastle/stockton and cars of guys would drive past and honk and whistle etc? ... well recently here, mainly when im walking home from uni, p-plater guys tend to do the same thing!

Comfy chair

Last night went to Elise's, which was good. Yummy chocolate brownies...

Today i did some uni study in my new chair - yesterday my parents came home and they had gone and bought me a new leather desk chair... very comfy. The best desk chair i've ever had :)

About to go pick up my brother (he's coming home from Canberra tonite) and i get to drive! Which will add about 1.25 hrs onto my total... cos we have to pick him up from Parramatta...

And on that note - the Eels won on friday night!!! But my bulldogs lost last night :( which is a bumma ... but it's ok, cos Melbourne won today!!!! Which means the broncos are gone (yes!) and the dogs are still in!

Anyway gtg. Hope y'all have a good nite!!

Fun two days

Thursday was a weird day. I woke up 10:20 and was up for maybe an hour before i had to go crash back in bed cos it felt like i was going to fall over cos i was dizzy or throw up or faint... or all three. So i slept till about 1:30 then got up to force down some lunch. Started feeling better. attempted to do some work - not very successful...

Have I said my cousin Evan is home? He was travelling the world for a year, and has since been stationed in England for 1.5yrs. So he has come home for 3 weeks. And Thursday evening about 5:20, my aunt, uncle, Evan, his brother Adam, and Alison come pick me and megan up and we drove up to Hardy's Bay where my other aunt and uncle have bought a restaurant. So they run it and David (their son, my cousin) is the chef. So we had dinner with them - also our cousins - karla, mandy & marvs & abi & little baby isaac ... the food was sooooo good. He can really cook! I had the nicest dinner ever. And we had fun talking and taking up half the restaurant. Got home about 11:45pm, and for some reason we were all really tired.

Then Friday we (my family) went to aunt and uncles house for lunch and there was also tracy and don, Ross, nicole, Robin and owen, and of course evan, adam and alison. I went down earlier in the morning to get help from adam and alison with assignment. And after lunch megan tried on all my aunt's dresses (cos she has heaps and they are all really nice) for her uni ball, so everyone (well all the 'ladies') wanted to see her in them, so it was like a mini fashion parade. lol. ... browsed through evans photos... when we came home noone wanted what would have been a late dinner cos we were all so full. So Megan, mum and I watched 'The notebook' (such a good movie) and then bed!

Then this morning, got up early to say goodbye to Jeff (for the second time in two weeks) cos he is going to Canberra again today - this time for swimming (bronze squad) where they go down as a team and visit the sites (like questacon) and then on sunday they go to a swim meet (carnival) with all act ppl.

And now i am starting to feel really sick again, so i think i need to go lie down and stop staring at this computer screen.

And it's going to be another late-ish night tonight - elise's "dinner"/get-together... should be fun.

Arghhh

Alles ist im Augenblick zu hart - Ich werde wirklich heraus betont.... it's true. And i am going to see my cousin and gf on friday to get them to HELP me!! Cos help is definitely needed here. "there's nowhere to run... i just want to scream... I'm slipping off the edge... i want to start this over again" ... believe me - that is so relevant right now. Except that talking to a certain person on msn makes me feel better. Not that they know that.

nothing much

went shopping yesterday and bought two pairs of new shoes. One pair is silver and the other pair is pink.

saw people i knew at the protests today (i.e. i saw them on tv)... would be fun to go protest against something...

Update

So Spring has officially started and Father's day is over for another year. My cousin flew in at 5:15 this morning (how exciting is that?!), I have this week off uni, I'm still sick :( and i have a pile (sorry, a MOUNTAIN) of work to get through... assignments and study. It sucks. Big time.

not really much more to say than that... have a good day... and 'don't mention the war'!

Spring is in the air

Guess what?! It's SPRING tomorrow!! How awesome is that!

I think i'm sick

I feel completely horrible. Yesterday i got home 2:00 ish and after finishing my lunch i lay down on the lounge room floor and was asleep within seconds... woke up and migrated to my bed where i stayed for another hour or so... went to bed properly at 9pm and i don't think i have ever fallen asleep so quickly (with the exception of earlier in the afternoon on the floor)... i think i might be sick... ... don't know how well im gonna function in the speed and agility tute that i have this morning...

I cant be bothered doing uni work... poor ash - he wanted to be my parnter cos he thinks i am reliable ... ha. Not atm i'm not.

Oh but i have some good news... i am starting "work" at a gym tomorrow! Not allowed to do proper stuff yet obviously, but i am shadowing the assistant manager for a few weeks... and the manager is going to look at ways i can cut corners to get my gym/fitness instructor certificate III so that i can work by myself...

Happy 50th

I have [finally] reached the first milestone!!! (which i thought i had reached 10 posts ago!) 50 entries... which, like i said before, is an achievement for me, as i was once so opposed to this sort of thing... and also cos i never have anything interesting to blog about...

So i went to the markets on the weekend with Megan... i got the best top - with the best phrase on it... ha ha. And a cute jacket. And the yummiest bananas! ... and there was a stupid man who tried to sell us a window cleaning thing - why??? cos he was stupid! Who tries to sell two teenagers something like that?

I read in the paper this weekend about a 26yr old who is dying from skin cancer cos she was a regular user of solariums. There is a girl in my course at uni who is also a die-hard fan of solariums - to the point of having a killer tan (and very unnatural looking) ... and she is going to end up just like this girl in the papers. Either dying from skin cancer, or looking like a shrivelled prune before she's 30. Do people like this not realise the dangers of what they are doing? ... no, how stupid of me - how can they not realise? There are warnings everywhere. They must just be naiive and believe themselves invincible and immune to such things.

Headed for the markets

So I just got home, and find out that yes, we are going to the markets tomorrow! Perfect. Now I just need $$ ... and i have to get up in 7 hours and leave in eight, so i should probably go catch some zzz's

Boring day

OMG i just had THE most boring tute! Discussing results from last weeks class and answering questions on it and then we had to go over those questions! And my table also finished way before everyone else, which made it even more boring waiting for them all!

And now i escaped to the library for some peace and quiet. And also more intellectual thoughts than the immature ones that were being thrown around in the cafeteria. But also cos i have a headache and it was just too noisy there.

And a big Happy Birthday to Jillian!!!!! Hope your day is more fun than mine is turning out to be. ... also relates back to yesterday's entry about growing up...

Yes. So not a great day so far. And what makes it worse is that i can't even go home this afternoon to be entertained by Jeff, cos he left this morning :( ... it was so cute. He gave me this big hug and he didn't want to let go... i don't think he wanted me to go to uni - he would have preferred me to go see him off at school...

I think i might be going to the markets this Saturday... so hopefully i will pick up some good buys.

But now i should do some work. I always feel guilty when i am blogging in the library and everyone else is studying or doing assignments or the like.

Everyone is growing up...

My brother is going to Canberra tomorrow (with school)!! How sad is that? His first camp :( ... i mean it's exciting for him, but it's sad that he's growing up so quickly. It's gonna be sooo weird without him at home for the next 3 days... ... if im this sad about my brother going to Canberra, what am i going to be like when my own child starts school?? Tragic.

And speaking of growing up, the first year of uni will be over in 11 weeks!! How crazy is that?!

Completely different train of thought: Traffic was shocking this evening... and apparantly I am a very judging person. That can't be good.

Anyway. We should go to Neverland for awhile so we stop getting older.... and because it would be fun!

oh, btw, our lecturer asked us today to think of someone that we know who either really really annoys us, or who we enjoy spending time with... and guess who's name popped into my mind first? And for the annoying category... yup - justine you probably guessed it... probably noone else did, but that's ok. I cant reveal it on here... i know, i know, it's horrible of me. But i promise the person isn't in that category all the time.

baby

I completely forgot to tell you! My cousin had her baby last Tuesday!! A boy. So now little Abby has someone to play with... Isaac William. That's his name... i must admit i am not a fan of the name Isaac, but I like William. ....

That is all.

Sunday afternoon

Rain... lots and lots of rain today... but it's nice though - there's a pretty mist over the valley and the rain droplets on all the leaves...

Made a yummy tomato-ish pasta for lunch. Was good. And warm. (well hot actually, but it makes you feel all warm inside) And to balance out the healthy-ness, a hot self-saucing chocolate pudding.... yum.

i realised yesterday that i can't (or shouldn't) drink alcohol for 5 months :( ... the other day i started a course of antibiotics, and being completley not used to taking them, i went and drank on Friday night... then saturday morning, i woke up and realised that it was probably a mistake. And looked up the drugs to see if i was going to die (ok im exaggerating) and found out that no, i wasn't going to die, but i should "try to avoid alcohol" ... .......so there goes the plan of being drunk for all my finals this semester!

Needles hurt

I had an injetion this afternoon... it hurt while she was doing it, but afterwards it was fine... but still 2 more to go :(

Ok so every Thursday I have prac at uni. So today we were doing sprinting (interval training) and fun fartlek training and played soccer. So we get out on the oval waiting for the previous class to finish, and it is not raining. But as soon as we start our class, it starts sprinkling. Then it gets heavier. But do we go inside? No. We have a vote, and all but 2 of us voted to stay out and finish the class. So we are out there in the rain running around, (and also got to go running through the pretty bush) getting wet and very very cold. Freezing would be a better word. Apparantly my legs were turning blue. It was fun though. And then most people from my class ditched the lecture, so i go to the cafeteria and sit with ash, scottie, steven etc (all guys mind you) then we go to lecture and I sat with Amy and Erica and Sam (in front of Toby who was mumbling to his friend the whole time, and behind Laura who must have filled up pages and pages with notes.) ... So Amy drives me to the station and i walk home and then (the best bit) i have a yummy hot chocolate!

Yeah. So that was my day. Oh except I met Nat and Kirsten for our group assignment this morning b4 the tute, and we decided we would try and find where our tutor would be (she has a different "staff room" cos she's still a student) and we ended up knocking on random doors that were apparantly empty... well noone answered anyway. But it was fun, cos we got to see parts of the uni that we hadn't seen b4.

I found my usb!

Hey guess what?! Yesterday when we went to get lunch in West Lindfield, we saw Rai (is that his name?) from Thirsty Merc!!! He was having lunch at the cafe (and we walked past him 3 times - not on purpose might I add) How cool is that?! My list of famous sightings is growing...

Oh and the biggest relief ever today! Someone had handed in my usb at the library - which means we didnt lose our assignment!! After getting no sleep last night, i was worried for nothing... Thanks Justine for listening to me stress about it last night.

Ok. Which do you think will go further? Me throwing a soccer ball, throwing a soft ball or kicking a soccer ball? .... nup you were wrong! Out of all these things I can throw a soccer ball the furthest. Probably cos i'm used to throwing a waterpolo ball which isn't much smaller than a soccer ball ... But I probably could kick a soccer ball further if i had shoes on!!! Dirty dirty feet and wet wet shoes from that exercise this morning. From the wet wet grass. And Chris is hilarious with his warm up techniques (which could be classified as a dance!)

And I am going to do more work this semester for uni - if i dont im gonna fail everything - there is so much more work this semester!! And it sucks! And come to think of it, i should actually be doing an assignment right now... Ash is at the computer next to me and he is busily finding stuff for it (another group assignment) and here i am typing on blogger. Yes, i know i know... i can hear you all screaming that Im slack and lazy... but think of it this way - he will find all the info and then i thats less stress for me and then i will help him put it all together. I mean someone is gonna find that info anyway, so why shouldn't it be him??

Lol. I should go. Hope y'all have a good day!

Crazy weather

Wow - it is so hot today - currently 26 degrees at my place! Bring back the summer dresses!

There's a first time for everything...

hmmm... i just spent half an hour ...actually, maybe more like 45 minutes... creating the first page of a power point for a uni assignment... but at least i can say that time was well spent as it is fun and funky (and very appropriate lol) and i think it should get a laugh... it has a picture of nuns holding rifles.... yeahhhh... and you're asking how is that appropriate? Well to tell the truth, im not too sure - it has something to do with personality... or maybe conflicting personalities?

Anyway. Onto something else. My brother is in yr 5 and he comes home today to tell us that he has to read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' for literacy circles (kind of like reading groups). How is Anne Frank appropriate for 10 year olds??? How is a ten year old possibly going to read it, appreciate it, answer lots of questions on it? And more importantly, they won't enjoy it. ... Does anyone agree, or am i just way off the mark on this one?

On the way home today, someone was smoking... on the train!! How disgusting. At least when they smoke on the platform you can escape it. But on the train! Well i didn't see anyone smoking, but i could smell it... or maybe i could still smell the smoke i shared with other sports ppls after the beep test this morning (ha - how ironic is that... that actually sounds really bad)...

Did you know that once you ppl get to the age of 25, if you do not keep physical activity up you will lose physiological functions (including brain power) by 1% each year! ... Although even if you are active you still deteriorate by 0.5% each year...

Ok. I should go... places to go and people to meet...! (and the piano sounds like a carnival, and the microphone smells like a beer!!)

Oh and by the way, i was only joking when I said i had a smoke today. That's if you were even gullible enough to believe me in the first place...

Edited version

Ok. I had typed up a whole blog, but then realised you guys don't care / wouldn't want to read about it, so I deleted it and am left with nothing really. Oh and it makes me feel bad (and guilty), so why would i want to blog about it anyway? All I can say is why couldn't I just have kept my mouth shut?! I didn't even think... it just blurted out...

But anyway. I have a dilemma. Two ppl currently want to be my partner for a uni assessment worth 65% of our final grade for that subject, and I have to chose between them! How can i do that? Ash turned around in class and said 'you're my partner', but then poor Megs next to me said 'Oh... i was about to ask if you'd be my partner' ... and I would love to have Megs as my partner cos she has great ideas and is confident and enthusiastic (meaning she would be an awesome partner for the seminar we have to give)... but Ash is very competent in the mechanics component of the subject, so he would be good at the content in the written part of the assessment... So who should I choose?

And I need to go on a diet/healthy eating plan... anyone got any suggestions as to what i should/shouldn't include?

I love looking through Ikea brochures... and planning out my whole house (when I get one)...

Oh and can someone please remind me to book a doctor's appointment? (Stupid vaccinations which I apparantly need) ... Why is it that i keep forgetting to do so? ... Convenient I call it.

First day back

Today was my first day back at uni. And while I really wanted the holidays to be longer, it was great seeing all my friends again. We had a lecture this morning for lifespan devleopment, then a break of about 15 minutes, then a tute for the same subject. Funny funny tutor man named Jonny. Then we have a break for 3 hours (cos we don't have any other tutes this week), so Laura, Nadine, Megs, Bridget, Em and I went for drive to Warriewood beach (near Mona) and had lunch in a nice cafe and then sat on the beach in the sun for a while and watched the surfers. So much fun esp driving home ('We have to take our clothes off' ... LOL). Oh and man those hills through Mona and Terry Hills are bitches with five young ladies in the poor little car ... Then we get back, buy a textbook and then go to last lecture of the day (Behavioural Foundations of Leisure and Sport). This was a funny lecture. I sat with Sam, Amy and Erica, and man it was hilarious! The lecturer is a tiny woman named jennie small... and she looks like a librarian and apart from the fact that the lecture content was boring, us four managed to have a great time in there. Laughing uncontrollably and high on (the best) gummi bears and drawing kindergaten quality pictures... good times. I'm sitting with them every lecture for that subject cos we just have so much fun together... oh and we were doing this thing on personality, and the lecturer asked who was Erica's friends (so that we could say some good things about her personality) none of us said anything... we all just stared at the little lady... and then there was lots of laughter from the whole lecture theatre and an "ouch" and a "snap" from some guy and Ash respectively.... hahaha... Erica forgave us... i mean how could she not, she loves us too much right?... lol ... So then the day was over and Ash drve me to Turramurra (the nice guy that he is) and so I get home and have more hilarious fun with Jeff... not going into detail... hahaha

then dinner and All Saints...

So yes. Had a fab first day back. (but again, I hate the workload this semester... hols are so relaxing...) ... oh oh and I forgot... Toby remembered who I was - after us thinking at the party that he wouldn't remember me, he did. Way to not live up to expectaions... lol

Talk to y'all soon!

Harry Potter 7

Screw this non-existent talk about HP 7! I will give a warning though, and that will have to suffice.

WARNING: If you haven’t read Harry Potter 7 yet, and don’t want anything to be given away, then STOP READING NOW! (albeit pls don’t stop visiting my blog, just don’t read this entry).

What did people think of it? I liked it. And i'll prob have read it twice more before the yr is out. I was shocked when Fred died though. I wasn’t expecting that. Poor George. … but I cried the most when Dobby died. That was sad. (Or maybe I was just in a sad mood and therefore found it more sad than I usually would?) … Oh and it was horrible when Hagrid thought Harry was dead and was carrying him back up to the castle. That was just mean, I felt so sorry for him. … but good always triumphs over evil in the end. That bit was obvious. ... and I’m glad the Malfoys turned good. Well Narcissa and Draco anyway. I still don’t like Lucius, but the other two are ok.

Anyway, my time is up, the timer for the pasta is going off, so I have to go! Pls comment. I need to talk.

Quick post relating to xiamungs (now old) post... but damn... i just remembered that i can't say what i want to say, cos it relates to Harry Potter 7!!!

¡Hola cada uno!

First of – sorry Justine for not blogging in a while.

So the last week of holidays have gone way too fast for my liking. However, I did get more holidays than some people, and way more than if I was in school, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.

Thursday was such nice weather! Jeff had his athletics carnival so Megan and I went and sat in the sun and watched. It was sooo nice in the sun - summer weather. I had on a singlet top thats how hot it was. Anyway, it was also fun watching the races and talking.

Oh and Saturday! Meg's party! ... but i will start from the beginning. Saturday morning went to Jeff's 8:30am soccer game... his team won (2-0) with Jeff scoring both goals... Then we went shopping so I could get Meg a bday present. And the Ready, Steady Cook chefs were there outside woolworths cooking food that smelt sooo good. So then we buy donuts and xbox games and good foods for lunch. ... and I should probably leave out the part of Jeff and I going back to the car (while parents were in woolworths), and us running up and down the escalators the wrong way. And then playing loud music in the car.

Anyway, fast forward to Saturday night - Meg's 18th! (by the way, Meg is a basketball friend) The theme was 'my 5th birthday party' so obviously we all dressed up as five yr olds. Party was so much fun! We played pass-the-parcel, and had a treasure hunt, and ate donuts off the clothes line, oh and danced (well some of us danced... like Emma, Meg, Sam and I) ... and talked to laura (which was good cos she has been living in Ireland for almost 2 yrs now, and so obviously havn't spoken to her in ages) and Jenny. And talked to heather aswell (she was one of my physie buddies, but she stopped about 5 yrs ago). ... And nice guy (i forgot his name). …Oh and exciting! – met this guy (Toby) who is at UTS doing the same course as me!! And we had never seen each other b4 (well we prob had, but you know what I mean). He’s actually doing the human movement degree, but they are the pretty much the same. We do the same subjects anyway. And so we talked for ages. But he was very tipsy. Not bad drunk, just saying the randomest things. And repeating himself fairly often. .. but it was so much fun! Oh and watched guys play pool… and Emma kept changing songs (she could have been the dj for the night, apart from the fact that she kept asking me if the song was ok, or what we should put on next… ‘Umbrella’ got ppl singing, albeit annoying “shut-up” singing) and when it wasn’t playing properly and her and black hair guy couldn’t figure out why I took one look at it and said “it’s not plugged in properly” … (such a Mrs Robinson moment) thing is, black hair guy wasn’t drinking and Emma had only had one champagne at that time. And best thing was that I could walk home! Cos she lives right around the corner from me. …Oh and did I mention that I had an AWESOME time?

So yeah… uni tomorrow. Meeting Toby so we can swap classes. Hope I don’t forget. But this week should be good – cos there are no tutes!! yay!

Anyway, hope y’all have a good week. ¡_ adiós amigo! _

P.S. 145 situps yesterday… was that stupid of me?
P.P.S. how was the snow dan?

8 months behind

I think I am a bit behind the times. The HSC finished 8 months ago, but I am only just starting to throw out and organise HSC stuff/papers today! I think the reason I havn't done it earlier is cos I just didn't want to look at it. After the HSC I just put it all in a pile (well multiple piles actually) and then left it underneath my desk. But I think the time has come to do something about it. ... I think our recycling bin is going to be very full this week.

Questions

Hey i have seen this before, but thought I'd post it anyway.

Only 595 people can read this, and that's including me!!!!!

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Strange..isn't it? =)

REPOST IF YOU CAN READ THIS. CHANGE THE NUMBER AT TOP THOUGH, "ONLY __ PEOPLE CAN READ THIS...CAN YOU?" go up a number if you can read

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Oh and here are some questions for you... if you have answers i'd love to hear them. lol...
- If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
- Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
- Why do toasters always have a setting that burns toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would ever eat?
- Why do they call it an 'asteroid' when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid' when it's inside your ass?
- 'Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
- Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out"? ... and last one...
- Who watched a white, hard thing come out a chicken's ass and thought, "that ought to taste good"?

Yeahhh. After reading random things like these, you start thinking about other random things.

¡_ adiós amigo! _

Hola

¡Hola cada uno!

I know, i know, I have been lazy with my blog lately. Apparantly I have also been lazy with my health... according to my mum I havn't been looking after myself and my immune system is really low atm and I look awful and I've been going to bed too late every night etc etc.

Oh! I got the 7th installment of HP yesterday, but I am yet to start reading it. Noone better spoil it for me. I already know too much.

Went to Mac uni on Friday cos Megan had to pick up her academic transcript (and met Ruby in there too) and then enjoyed hot chocolate while overlooking the lake (yes - the lake Xiamung - so sue me) then continued over to Mac centre for a bit of retail therapy, where I saw Erica (uni friend). Then continued to Hornsby for more retail therapy where we laughed a fair bit over a (cute) guy (who was possibly gay according to Megan) in Jay Jays. ...Was a good day, apart from the traffic. We sat at the traffic lights on Talavera rd for the time it took to listen to 4 Good Charlotte songs... cos there were road works in the left lane, meaning that it was all screwed up. Then there were more road works in Hornsby. And before we had even left Berowra in the morning two cars were trying hard to have a pile up in front of us.

So traffic is crazy. Like that hasn't been established before.

But now the ad is about to be over and that means Gray's will be back on, so must go.

Estudios Internacionales = España

Es un gran día hoy. ¡Conseguí mi primera preferencia por estudios internacionales... que es obviamente España! (It's a great day today. I got my first preference for international studies... which is obviously Spain!)

It's exciting to finally have certainty as to what country I will studying! I have decided that even if I don’t continue with international studies I still want to learn Spanish and visit Spain.

Oh and uni results will be out tomorrow. Kinda like the HSC all over again with the waiting and checking online. Which reminds me – hope you all were happy with your results (well those of you who are uni/tafe/school ppl).

And Megan comes back from Coffs tonight… she gets in at 9:15pm.

But I should go and do something useful.

¡Ámele todo!

¡Adiós!

30 hours

It's been a week since I have posted some sort of boring drizzle on here, and with ppl telling me to blog, i thought that i probably should.

So this past week has been quietish. (see its gonna be boring) Monday I went to Jillian's for dinner and sleepover (more detail on justine's blog)... can't really remember much more of the week. On Friday I went shopping then back to Jill's house for the afternoon/evening. Then came home and watched Pretty Woman. Saturday went to brother's soccer game and shopping again and then drove home. ... Sunday I went to my Aunt/Uncle's place (mainly to see my cousin and his gf who live in Canberra) and that was good. Found out other cousin who has been travelling the world since February 2005 is coming home in September for 3 weeks!! So that is good cos obviously we havn't seen him in ages!

Oh and then drove home and have now hit the 30 hour mark!!! I'm getting there!!

And today I went to see Harry Potter 5 with Dan, Emily, Louise and Ashley. And it was good, but a bit rushed. Caught the train home with Louise then had a relaxing afternoon doing nothing in particular.

So nothing here was really that interesting.

Atheists

I meant to blog about this a few weeks ago when I first saw it. It was on a sign outside a church in Gordon...

'God doesn't believe in atheists. Therefore they don't exist.'

Comments anyone...?

I have thoughts, but want to know what other people think first.

Kitty Hawk

Yesterday I got up thinking it would be a nothing sort of a day. But after cooking Megan lunch and reading sunday papers, someone suggested I go driving and someons suggested we go see the Kitty Hawk.
So at about 3:15 we get in the car and I drive us all in to see it (via petrol station where we stocked up on mentos and of course petrol). Well I didn't drive all the way. I drove for an hour and we swapped back over just before we crossed the Anzac Bridge. So that was fun! My first city-ish driving experience. So we continue on, passing Hyde Park, Cook + Phillip Pool, The Domain, The Art Gallery ... and drove out along Mrs Macquaries Point so that we could get a good view of the Kitty Hawk, which was/is stationed in Woolloomooloo Bay. Then we drove around the other side of the bay (via Kings Cross) and got a closer up view of the ship. Was interesting. There were lots of aircraft on board that you could see, (and sailors too!) and there was a frigate floating not too far away as well that we could see. And lots of American flags out in the streets.
So then we headed home via Harbour Bridge and North Sydney/Chatswood way. I got back in to drive at Lindfield and made a slight detour to my uni (mainly for the benefit of Jeff as he has only been there when he was a baby so can't remember it). On the way home I was almost wiped out by a crazy old driver who wanted to drive in two lanes at once. Lucky for me the parking lane next to me was empty and i could pull over a bit, which if i couldn't do then I would have been sideswiped by this crazy car. So proceeded to drive to Mt Colah where we got some pizza (elise you weren't working :( !) and then finally got home about 7pm and watched Ugly Betty and Gray's while eating pizza and chocolate slice. (I made 2 sorts of chocolate slice on Saturday afternoon - one was just plain chocolate slice, the other was peppermint chocolate slice. yum)
And then I went to bed and read a few chapters of The Half-Blood Prince.
So that was my Sunday.

Is anyone out there?

Lets catch up. Someone organise. Not me. I'm bad at organising (with the small exception of schoolies). ... oh. and let it be an inexpensive catch up/gettogether thing ok? Please someone...

Oh and my sister is going to Coffs Harbour next Thursday for 6 days, so I will be all lonely... :( ....so if anyone wants to do anything on Monday the 16th, or Tuesday the 17th, I will be more than happy to join you!

Seriously, have my school friends all gone on long holidays? I know you havn’t. But no commenting on blog, no plans to see each other, no emails, noones ever online, …. (ok, so I admit that I havn’t emailed many ppl either, but like I said – I am bad at organising things. It just stresses me out if im organising something and the plans need to be changed a million times…)….. is anyone out there who feels like doing something?

Brown-out

Today we had a brown-out. Lucky i had just finished cooking my lunch when the power decided to go crazy. The lights were on half-power, some weren't working at all. My computer was on, but it didnt have enough power to keep the screen on. The microwave didnt work at all, neither did the stereo. The tv started going completely spastic and the same with the air con. It was kind of crazy.

And then i noticed that we had some people at the end of our street. They were from Victoria and they had this cool modern comby van that said 'wicked' down the side and across the front. They were airing out sheets, blankets and clothes, and they also had a mattress. According to our neighbour (who came over to talk about the power issues), they were on a big camping type trip and they were heading into the city tonight. .... maybe like the modern hippie???

And i downloaded 3 Goo Goo Dolls songs today as well. So I am happy about that. And it only took 27 seconds for each song! How good is that?

So I am reading Order of the Phoenix before i see the movie (which should be accomplished by saturday) and then i'm reading The Half Blood Prince before the next book comes out. So I should be finished that by next Friday. Or maybe Saturday, depending on what else I have to do.

And we had this tiny little sparrow bird today in our back garden. It was so cute and so tiny!

Anyway, hope y'all have a good day tomorrow. (I know part of my day will be good cos I get to drive to Roseville and back! So I am happy about that.)

The sleep-in

The shame... I woke up today at 11:30am. My longest sleep-in ever! Sunday morning was 10:40am so that was also fairly late, but 11:30!!!! Crazzzy - for me anyway.

Then I took my time with breakfast and sudoku and the went outside to play cricket with my brother. Then talked with him for awhile and then decided we should try to make a fire. So inside we go to get 2 magnifying glasses and away we go to burn some leaves and paper in the warm, sleepy sun. And the smoke stunk! It was a horribly smell, but luckily the smoke was chasing my brother and not me for once! lol

So then we had lunch and made more fire and now he has gone swimming and here I am updating blog. And talking on msn to my sister who is in the room next door to me. Shows how lazy our society has become.

So can't wait for the 7th installment of Potter books!!! Three people are going to die. That's my bet. I know that 2 people definitely die. But I have a feeling that it will end up being 3 people. Not long to wait now!!!

And I am going to cook pancakes. And also listening to loud music. So have fun sleeping or surfing net or whatever you are doing!

A weekend of partyness (and late nights)

Ok. So this will probably be a long blog entry.

Friday I went shopping with Megan - mind you, here i was still in my pjs when she's like "I'm going shopping do you want to come? Im leaving now." So I had a few minutes to get ready. But we had fun buying clothes and singing in the change rooms of Glassons. When we came home and had lunch I went to bed for a short nap. and then got up and got ready to go out!

So we (megan and I) went and picked up Danielle at about 7pm and then got a train from Hornsby to Central and then walked to City RSL. Met Kirsty, Kate, Kate, Pru, Dave etc (oh and Candice and Jessie came a bit later too) And we watched 5 bands perform, which were all really good! But out of all the bands there was only one girl (she was a backing vocalist and on keyboard). Marillian Avenue was up last (thats the band we were supporting cos Sam was in it) and they were really good. And they also played some songs that I could sing along to. But being so close to them and the speakers was deafening - when the music stopped I couldn't hear anything - the silence was also deafening. After that we pretty much headed home and I was in bed by 3:25pm. Except that it wasn't the best sleep i've had cos there was a party somewhere within very close proximity in the valley and they were playing very loud and very good music. So after they played 'Piano Man' I decided to get out the earplugs.... which also come in handy when you dont want to think that you have robbers in your house... but thats another story...

Then comes the civilised hours of a Saturday morning. I got up about 9:30 and had breakfast, checked emails and talked to Kara (or maybe it was justine?) on msn and then went back to bed for a little bit. Then got up and had lunch... then guess what? I went back to bed again! Then got up and prepared for that night. Dropped sleeping stuff off at Louise's then drove the mob to Hornsby station where we caught train to Town Hall and walked around for a little bit, then made our way to Wallaby Bar in Darling Harbour (Cockle Bay to be precise). Then drank and partied the night away!! Nice guy - tipsy - with friend who was celebrating his birthday... a uni friend... another uni friend who gave me a hug and told me she loved me ... justine stroking a guy's arm .... louise has a story about the birthday guy (you forgot to tell me louise!!) ... ummm singing happy birthday to another person on the bridge... justine and Dan trying to get in unnoticed to a club via the back entrance/exit and being stopped by guard... mc donalds in harbourside... opening toilet doors with feet... someone saying something super mean/bitchy lol - i forgive you ... freezing our buts off while waiting for a bus and sitting on a stone wall at Town Hall... taxi from Hornsby station and a crazy taxi driver who drove in multiple lanes at once, was driving on the opposite side of the road and also speeding (thank goodness there were no other cars around)... then we finally made it back to louise's at about 3am and defrosted as soon as we walked in the door (ahhhhh) and watched an episode of Daria before falling sound asleep next to the heater....

Woke up this morning (ha - pinch and a punch for the first day of the month) to the sound of Justine's phone alarm at 10:40, then I got dressed, packed up sleeping bag and Megan picked me up at 11:30... got hot chips for lunch/breakfast then made chocolate pudding and ate it while watching Gilmore Girls (that is becoming a habit)... then had a gossip session with Megan and now the day will be fairly lazy until Ugly Betty and Grays Anatomy!! Then I will be going straight to bed and sleeping and sleeping for at 8.5 hours.

Overall a fun weekend!! Can't wait for the next one like it!

Fun

So today was a good day. I woke up at 9:00 after a much needed sleep. I am still tired so I will be going to bed straight after Heroes tonight. Either that or I will have a nap tomorrow afternoon.

Anyway. I caught the train to Asquith where I met Xiamung and Mary!! And we also randomly ran into Emily there to who also was going to school. So we walked to school, picked up Mary's eng ext 2 major work, then go and talk to Mr Sekula for a bit. Then Mary, Xiamung and I walk to Louise's and she has only just got up and had breakfast!! And this was at 12:30pm! lol. Then we went and caught a train to Hornsby where we had lunch at Harry's - we had yummy fish and chips!! Then we all went and bought ourselves a $1 scratchie each ... and guess what? I won $6 !! "Beginners luck" lol. ... Then we walked around shops a bit - went to Myer where we had fun pointing out hideous clothes .. and Xiamung and I tried on some tops while Mary sat and laughed - they were nice tops and didn't deserve her cruel laughter - she was just jealous!! lol... Then mary left and I left soon after to get a train home. We had lots of fun with lots of laughs - a good day!! And can't wait until our city outing Xiamung!! Will be awesome.

And Justine called today! Was good to hear from her.

Yeah. so that was my day.

Has anyone tried the new hazelnut timeouts? They are nice I suppose, but they taste of coffee. Which is weird, cos there is no coffee in them. Ha. I remembered the first time I had a "coffee" was early this year. You know those flavoured straws? Well I had a mocha one and I drank it about 45 minutes before I did a biathlon. Which I originally thought would be a bad idea, but then it turned out to be good, cos it hyped me up so much that I did a really good time! And i didn't kill myself doing it! lol...

A two-toned day

Today was good. But then bad.

Good cos Dan invited me to go shopping with her and it was fun. And we both got some good buys! Such as a purple littlepurse/clutch/bag and a nice red top for me... and a skirt, leggings and a black bag for Danielle. And then we had chocolate milkshakes with Lexie at her work cos she was on a break. Was good to see her cos I havnt seen her in so long. After we finished looking around we walked back to Dan's house hoping it wouldn't start pouring rain on us (luckily it didn't), where we looked up some places on net where we could go this weekend. Which was all lots of fun and got me out of the house for once!! Thanx dan for a good day!!

But that note also leads me to the bad part of the day... I don't know what's wrong with me. My enthusiasm for the weekend is quickly evaporating - I really want to see the band on Friday, but I have noone to go with because my sister said I can't go with her (only because I was planning on wearing a red top and apparently she was too - which I didn't know) and then if friends are going out Friday night then it just becomes hectic! I could just go see band and then meet up with frieds... or go see band and not meet friends... or go with friends and not see band. ...I don't want to be organising it anymore. It would mean a lot less stress if I wasn't even invited - except that I don't wish that i wasn't invited cos that would make me sad too. And then I don't have a way to get home from the city adventure anyway, cos transport doesn't run to Berowra - instead it stops at Hornsby. So then it's just that the whole thing is a disorganised heap of stress that I could do without and I feel like I don't want to do anything anymore and would much rather curl up at home in front of the fire with a hot chocolate and watch a chick flick with my mum. ... Why does everything apart from that make me so anxious???

*sigh* I needed to let that out. I was talking to my mum about it and I had to just walk out of the room cos I could feel tears welling up and I didn't want to be the baby 'crying over spilt milk'.

On a brighter note, next Thursday I am going to pancakes on the rocks with a bunch of uni mates ... atm those ppl being Laura (huffy), Em, Megs and Liv ... so that should be a good day.

Anyway, msn conversations are going mad at the moment, so I must go.

How To Recognise a True Friend:

These are ways to recognise a true friend:

1. A true friend will call you at 1.30 in the night without any reason - just to talk, and when you surprised ask why he/she is calling so late, he/she will tell you that he/she knew that you would not be sleeping.

2. A true friend will invite you to his/her wedding (taking place 10'000km away) saying: "I just can not imagine that you would not be there to share this moment with me". And it will be equally obvious for you that no matter what the distance or the cost is, you will be there.

3. A true friend will send you funny emails like this: "I assume that you are already fully booked up for next week, but in case there is a gap in your busy social life next Wednesday, you could join me to watch the Hitchcock film "A Lady Vanishes" at nine at the Castro." And no matter what, you will find a gap in your busy social life.

4. A true friend will send you an sms at 3 in the morning to share good news...

5. A true friend can afford to contact you only once every few months.

6. With a true friend you can talk for hours every day and still not have an impression that even 1% of things that you wanted to discuss got covered during these conversations (eventhough you've known each other for years...).

7. A true friend accepts you as you are, e.g. "I really like your blog. It is very Monika!(and that is a compliment!)" Hmm, I have to think about that. What did the author want to say?

8. Conversation with a true friend within a split second can become the most serious and important conversation of your life.

9. A true friend will let you get burnt, but afterwards will stay with you as long as necessary until your wounds heal.

10. A true friend will not let you leave.


To My Dear Friends, I love you above anything. Without you I would be nothing.

And...

Wow. I didn't blog all weekend - that's a first! ok. so update time. Friday - I did get to drive to danielle's so that was good. And it was a fun night... (esp since Elise and I are so good at Scrabble... lol). Saturday... I didn't really do anything... Jeff had soccer and beat the other team 6-0. Sunday we went to my Nana and Pop's for their 50th anniversary luncheon ... yumm - apple pie and cream, strawberries, mudcake and cheesecake.... yummm. Then I bludged around at home and did nothing really until Ugly Betty started. Then Gray's Anatomy and then bed! Ahhh, beautiful Sundays.

And I know I said my room would be tidy after today... but it most likely won't be until the end of the week... I feel so guilty!!!

And I have a chocolate slice in the oven at the moment, so my house smells tasty. And I think i will go and cook a pasta dish for lunch... undecided on type/flavour though... should I go alfredo, tomato & garlic, garlic & mushroom, or just an easy maccaroni cheese? Decisions, decisions...

And guess what? Paris Hilton will be let out this week... what is the world coming to? She originally got 45 days, appealed and reduced to 23, went to jail, broke down, released on house arrest, case reviewed and back to jail for full 45 days, and then preparing to be released after less than 2 weeks! How is that justice?????

And I have had a thought - I would love to be a doctor. Not like a GP, but a full scale doctor. Like in a hospital. Being a surgeon would also be awesome. I think I have found something that I am actually interested in. Except the downside is the many years of study...and the $$.

Anyway. It's lunch time.

Todays plans

So today didn't go exactly as I had planned. Remember I promised to tidy my room? Well that didn't happen. (I will do it by the end of Monday) Instead I went shopping with mum to get "a few things"... which turned into a whole trolley full! And then we went to my Nana & Pop's because it is their 50th wedding anniversary today!! And we are having a "party" on Sunday. And then I cam home and had lunch, bludged around a bit and watched some of Oprah and Days of Our Lives... (shhh - i didnt tell you that) and then .... (finally) .... i got my hair cut! And the ends are layered a bit! and in a few weeks I'm getting it layered the whole way up! So I can't wait until then!!

So what else... while shopping I bought a cute puppy (soft toy) for my brother cos I have been helping him with his spelling and he has been getting 100% (thanks to me lol). Aren't I a nice sister?

And now I am writing on here and in a minute I really must go and wrap Danielle's present and write in her card and hopefully Mum has finished finding/printing the photo. And then it will be time to leave for Dan's house.... and I so hope i am allowed to drive. I plan to just be first out the door and just get in the driver's seat... But I want to stop at the bottle shop on the way.... lol. I mean we can't celebrate uni finishing and Dan turning 18 without a drink!!

Anyway, must dash. Hope y'all have a fun Friday... or a freaky Friday... or a fantastic, fabulous Friday....

The River

"Oh babe, let my lovin' ease your pain
Bring your burning skin to my river once again
I'll give you life
Oh baby, let my lovin' ease your pain tonight"

So I am bored. Only my 3rd day of freedom and already I am bored.

I should really tidy my room… but how boring…and the effort! … I really should though… maybe tomorrow. Ok. I will do it tomorrow. I will. And there are going to be no excuses. Promise. And then after that I will alter my resume and find out about Curves. And then I will ask my Mum extremely nicely if she would please cut my hair… (and I will have to be nice today too, cos I havn’t been all that ‘nice’ lately….).

Sorry?

ok, so u know that feeling when you think someone's mad at you, but you don't know why??? Well that's how I feel now. Mainly with one person, but kind of also with 2 other people. ... so thats not good. I currently am getting the impression that 3 people are mad/annoyed at me - does that just sound like I'm being paranoid to you? If anyone is mad at me, or if I have insulted, upset, pissed off etc anyone, please tell me!! Cos then maybe I could fix what I did, or offer an apology...

I feel lost. Do I have any true friends? Because I feel like there is noone I can talk to. And I know people are going to turn around and say that of course I can talk to them, but I don't know if I can - i mean, i can't just start talking to someone in that way, uninvited. And when I feel like I could/would talk to a friend, the timing never seems right. I'm surrounded by people all the time, but I have never felt more alone. I feel like the world is turning and I'm missing it all. Like there is something weighing me down or caging me in so that I can't live my life how I want it to be. Maybe it's my uncertainty, my lack of confidence, my inability to believe in myself, that’s holding me back? But how on Earth do I change that??? ... and people who notice that i have no confidence just say things like "think positive" , "believe in yourself" and "just go with the flow", "stop stressing" "don't worry - its alright" or "it will be fine".... but you know what? How can I just change the way I think? I have tried, but it's not something that you can just change like flicking a switch! They all make it sound so easy! And how can they say it's alright, when it's obviously not?

Wow. Big rant there. Sorry. I hope it wasn’t in bad taste.

How open are you?

So I did this quiz... by following a link from an old old blog of Elise's... It is to see 'How open are you?' and this is my result:


You Are 37% Open

You are open at times, but generally you don't let many
people into your inner world. It's possible that you have
a friend or two that knows you well. But to most people,
you are a total mystery.


And the sad thing is that this is mostly true :(

Moving on to another point... it is sunny today! Be-yoootiful weather right about now. With gorgeous blue skys that I havn't had the pleasure of seeing for awhile now.... I feel like getting out the little summery skirts and dresses and going for a drive with Megan and having a picnic somewhere pretty and then staying out all day having fun, playing good music in the car and singing along and then buying icecreams on the way home! That sounds like my idea of fun - well for today anyway. hmmm... Summer... I'm all ready for it!!

So tell me. Tell me something interesting. Anyone want to help me plan a 'day'? Like a day where we go venturing into city and ... (OH - Elise - our brunch outing - when do u have hols? Is it the same time as the school hols?) like find somewhere cooool and maybe eat some food. And take camera with us to document the day...? That's one idea... or we could like go driving somewhere to have a picnic and then get icecreams ...lol (something like what i mentioned earlier) .... or have a Slumber party!!!!! Yeah.... and talk and talk and talk - cos we need to catch up now that we are halfway through our first year post school. So ... anyone interested in doing something??? And any preferences or ideas? Does anyone want to help me organise (someone should say yes here, cos when i organises things on my own they tend not to work out... or the idea falls flat... or i get discouraged and give up)?

ok. I seem to have hit a wall ... in that my mind has gone completely blank... There was lots more that I was going to say… but I seem to have forgot about those things, due to a much more melancholy train of thought that steamrolled all my other thoughts away…. so I’m sorry, but that shall be all for now.

P.S. I advise you all to get out and enjoy the day while this sunny weather decides to grace us with its presence. That’s if you’re not stuck inside studying for exams or working on assignments or at work/uni/tafe…. Unlike me – me who’s free from uni for 5 weeks and 6 days.

The non-Midas Touch

Ok. So you've heard of the midas touch, right? (Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wanted. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold) Hmmm, well I don't have it. No. I have the Emma touch. (ha - original... not) Yup. Lately, everything I touch falls down (well to use the word everything is a bit of a gross exaggeration, but it fits with the whole midas story). Yes. Example: Last night, I walk into my room and flick the light switch to 'on', as per usual. But funnily enough, my room does not fill with light. No. Instead I hear this bang, a shattering sound, and a ping sound... yes... my lightbulb had somehow snapped in half, leaving half in the socket and the other half falling to the ground. And I have to admit that i jumped and 'gasped' - can't say I was expecting that to happen.
Example 2: 3 of my posters fell down last night within an hour of each other
Example 3: My chinese things (dont know what they're called) fell off my lamp (thats where they were hanging)

But on a brigher note... I finished exams today!! YAY! And then Ash drove me to hornsby where I went shopping and got Dan's bday present and i also bought myself a pair of funky jeans! They're pretty. And i also ran into Brendan (uni friend) in the party shop so that was good cos I havn't seen him since last Monday.

Hmmm... what else? Don't know, but if i think of anything I can blog without feeling guilty cos I got NO MORE STUDY!!!! And a 6 week break!!!!

Hope y'all feeling as high as me!


EDIT/UPDATE: My Dad replaced the lightbulb right... and fixed it all up... but then the next morning, I am sitting at my desk, studying away, and I realise that I have been sitting in darkness (for i dont know how long). I did have my light on, but the lightbulb blew and i didnt notice straight away... so that new lightbulb lasted only about 14 hours! yeeaaaahhh... thats all!!

Happy birthday ... and the kooks!

I love this song (she moves in her own way) by The kooks!!! i first heard it a few months ago and i loved it straight away... maybe cos it's new/different to what i normally listen to/hear on the radio...? Thought maybe you might like to hear it too... check it out down the bottom of blog page... (click on one and it will start playing up the top of the page)

A BIG HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY TO DANIELLE!!!!!! Hope you have as much fun as you can with the study that you have ... and yes - we definitely need to go out!!!

Also, HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY TO LAUREN!!!!!! same goes for you with the study.... make sure you go out and party after chemistry - you'll need it after that lol!

And also HAPPY 21ST TO BRIANA!!!!!! (not that you even know about my blog...) i had fun at your party! And I will prob be seeing you 7th July...

Yes. So many birthdays for the one day.

Oh - grays anatomy... ugly betty... anyone watch last night??? They were both gooood!!!

but i am procrastinating.... study to do....will all be over tomorrow...