FAT!!!

So came home from my aunt's place last wednesday. Was good, cos i still got a few more days of near quiet, cos mum, dad and jeff had gone down the south coast for the week. But Megan and i can't help but talk talk talk. Which is understandable considering we hadn't actually seen each other in a week (although we did have some very long phone calls). Made two batches of chocolate brownies and then ate them all! Put on like 2kgs this past weekend :( Whoops :( ... now i really need to get back into some form of exercise...

Thursday and fridays exams were ok. Weekend consisted of study study and more study. Although, yesterday i kept forgetting thati had an exam today :( Whoops!! One more exam on wednesday.

Not really very exciting is it? Infact it is awesomely unexciting. But I promise it will be more interesting after exams. Im mainly just blogging so you don't think i've been abducted by aliens or something.

Exams

I hate this time of year. The whole stuvac and exams and study. And not being able to watch origin tomorrow night cos i have an exam on thursday morning :( But I will be finished by next Wednesday at 11:30am, so that is pretty exciting i suppose - it just seems so far away.

I have not been home since Thursday afternoon last week - house sitting for my aunt & uncle while they are in England. They are gone for the whole of June, but im going back home tomorrow morning. And I havn't seen Megan this whole time either :( which sucks, but i suppose it is good in a way, cos she is really really sick, and i means that i will hopefully avoid getting it. ... Its good living by yourself. You can cook/eat when you want. Watch tv when you want. Go to bed when you want. Sleep without being woken up. Play music/piano at any hour of the day/night without disturbing anyone. Don't have to share a bathroom with anyone. And it's extremely good for study. ... although when you hurt yourself there is noone to complain to (i almost knocked myself out on the cupboard above the washing machine). And it can be slightly lonely. But i had company for 7.5 hrs on sat night/sunday morning and 7hrs on sunday night. So that was good.

But i need to get back to studying. I will blog more as soon as exams are over. I promise.

Phanatic

OMG Phantom was AMAZING!!! The music, the costumes, the effects, the actors, it was all just so good! And beautiful. And awesome. Had so much fun. I would gladly pay to go see it again!! And i couldnt have asked for better company - megan, kala, and ruby. They're great for a laugh. ... And the theatre was so beautiful aswell. The whole experience was just perfect.

PHANTOM TONIGHT!!!

Going to PHANTOM TONIGHT!!!!!!! Will be awesome fun!

Didn't go to uni today. Got up at 6am with every intention of going, but after making breakfast, i could barely stand up, so i went back to bed until about midday.
Then got up and watched phantom of the opera (dvd) ... can't wait till the real thing tonight! Will be amazing!!

Wednesday - good day. Went shopping on my way to uni - love my retail therapy on wednesdays :) Then there were only 6 of us in the tute (out of 40!!), which meant that we actually did some work, cos we couldnt hide behind other ppl haha. But it was good.
And origin wednesday nite! i thought qld would walk all over nsw, but turns out the boys proved me wrong!! Awesome game. Got home at 2:30am, which i think might be screwing with me now, but i dont regret it. I wouldnt change that night at all.

One week of uni left!! how awesome. That means i am half way through my course. Crazy how fast it has gone...

Fun

This weekend just gone was fun. Friday night catered for a 40th birthday with Ashley, which was awesome fun. Great music, good food and good company.

Saturday went out for brunch/lunch with Elise. Yummmm food. Lots of fun. Wandered around for awhile then met Ashley for coffee. Then Elise was awesome and drove me home and i helped megan get ready for a 21st while at the same time got myself ready in less than half the time to go to a friends house for dinner and a movie. Which i would love to expand on, but just cant. Sorry. Maybe in a months time...?

Sunday had breakfast with megan and abby while discussing the 21st they went to. Then went to swim club presentation day, which was good cos there was a free bbq and i got what i wanted out of it. Only bad thing was that it was FREEZING!

So thats a bit of an update. Not really, but its better than nothing...!!

...Monday...

Today is a boring day. I don't think i said more than 10 words in that 2hr tute this morning. I didn't even laugh at the things that other people were laughing at. I think my predicted 'crash' is upon me. It's like last night, Megan was telling me about conversations and situations from Saturday night, which apparantly I was present for, but i don't have any memory of them. I feel so bad, cos i don't even remember the whole leaving/goodbye part of the night, and apparantly i didnt say goodbye to Cam and he thought that i was going to ask him something when i was leaving, but i seriously don't know if i was or not, cos i dont remember it!!!

For those ppl who don't already know, I have not been sleeping for the past month now. Some nights i get only 2 hrs sleep, but am averaging about 4hrs. Which by my standards is crap, considering i used to get 7-8hrs sleep. So I am currently creating a sleeping pattern. Which will involve me getting up at 6am every weekday and 7:30 on weekends. Which sounds horrible to some of you, but will not actually screw me over any more than the current situation. And I'm not allowed any caffeine after midday (so no chocolate). And I have to move the clock in my room so i can't see it. ... And i think it will take probably about a month of following this routine to get me back on track. ... Now i just need to have discipline.

2 posts in 2 days. Proud of me Justine?

X-Rated IC Bugs

Friday was a beautiful, but sad day.

Yesterday went shopping with megan - bought myself some black flats and also bought her some shoes too for being the best, best friend anyone could ever have. Especially over the last few weeks. This last week in particular.

Last night was swim club presentation night. Fun night. Blasted Flo Rida - 'Low' and matchbox 20 on the way there - oh so much fun :)
My team won trivia. Had awesome team name - WMEABOC (watching mikey eat a bucket of chicken). Personally, i think the team name 'The X rated IC Bugs' would have been much better, but being the only girl on the team meant i got overruled.
And the Purple Orange Starfish Monkeys (my relay team) won the annual relay challenge for the third year running!!
Afterwards we (megan, ali, ashley, bryce, lachy, cam and I) went to Max Brenners. Good as always. But for some reason i tend to get emotional when we go there - maybe cos it's always late at night when we're there.

Today - Mother's Day :) Went to my nana's for lunch. Good fish. I love fish. ... Gave mum a breadmaker - awesome cos there's bread cooking right now and its gonna be sooo good!

This week is going to be hard. But i'm ready for it. Im going to stay in control for once.

'What a life to take'

I realise it's been almost a month since i last blogged, it's just that i didnt know how to blog about whats been happening.

Saw 'semi pro' at the movies last week. Parts are definitely funny, but i wouldnt recommend it.

Hasn't been a good week (i wouldn't have managed if it wasn't for my amazing uni friends and Megan). Except for last night. That was one of the best nights i've had in awhile. Tired this morning now though, but i would gladly be tired every day, if i could be that happy every night.
A few saturdays ago was also good. Went to family friends place. And had the most gorgeous sparkling shiraz. Was so good. Had some great conversations with Matt and Chris.

To finish with some lyrics... they fit with what happened this week. (& 6yrs ago)...

Every step I take, every move I make
Every single day, every time I pray
I'll be missing you
Thinking of the day, when you went away
What a life to take, what a bond to break
I'll be missing you

I want to wear shoes!

Had marketing exam today. At city campus. Not as bad as i thought it would be, so i came out feeling relatively good. So now no more exams until the finals in June :)
On the way home i bought myself some new jeans. Grey ones. They were an xs. I can't believe i fit into an xs (There is no way that can be right. Me an xs? I dont think so!). Also got a cool top with a hood! yay for hoodies in winter.

Really feel like curling up with a hot chocolate with a good book while it storms... currently reading Echo park. It's good for procrastinating, but apart from that it's kinda average.

on the train today there were these two guys (i think they were japanese... but its hard to tell from behind... although mary prob would be able to tell the difference from what they were wearing). Anyway. i wasn't listening to their conversation, but the minute i did decide to tune in, one of them says "...this country was made for the Japanese". ... I'm not sure what country they were relating to, but it was pretty funny. And then they start going on about how we eat our national symbol (kangaroos) and therefore should lay off the whole whaling protest... or something along those lines...

My head really hurts. So im going to have to leave it there.

Holidays! ... almost.

I got my bandages off and stitches out on Thursday. Which surprisingly hurt :( And there is some awesome bruising. Not allowed to swim for another week, and not allowed to run or anything for about another month. And stairs are still painful/awkward.

Back on a basketball team. Mixed comp, so it should be interesting. And im hoping my foot will hold up. It starts in about 4 wks, so i should be recovered from the op, but i literally havn't run since last October because of it...

Other news... nothing really. Next week i have monday off, exam tuesday, wed/thurs off and class on friday. So kinda empty. If anyone wants to do anything on wednesday or thursday im up for it. ... then i have the whole next week off.

:(

Exam tomorrow! statistics... wish i could do it now. Would rather just get it over with.

Only halfway there.

Checked in Mum's diary today to find out when my follow up appointment is... and it's next Thursday!!! Really sucks :( That means i'm stuck in this bandaged state for another week!! Which means no shoes for another week :( ... Which also means that i feel really sorry for my doctor who has the honour of taking the dressings off, cos after two weeks of not being able to wash my foot, im guessing it won't smell too nice.

And i am really frustrated with uni work atm. SOOO hectic and i dont know what im supposed to be doing...

And i havnt put any thought into this yet, but someone at the gym the other week gave me the idea of doing one of my internships with the olympic committee (IOC), which will be awesome. ... must look into that in uni break.

A whole lot of pain

Today was my first full day off crutches. And i have to say - my foot is killing me! And as i said in the comment, i only have 2 digesics left :(

But i managed ok at uni. Slowly though. Ran into Mitch - "so you're walking again" ... well clearly. ...

Am so busy these next few weeks - group psych assignment due tomorrow; statistics exam this friday; energetics exam next monday; psychology exam tuesday; energetics assignment due next wednesday; then the next week i have a marketing exam :( ... so much work to do!!! But then i have a bit of a break (yay for VC week).

Does anyone want to come on a harbour cruise???? Its for uni age ppl ... on Saturday 19th April; 7-11pm; free beer, wine soft drinks; Dinner included; DJ etc... $65 ...
Let me know ASAP. Will be fun and then we can go somewhere else afterwards... Would be great if some of you could come... Pls?

And i can't believe it's already March 31st - where has the time gone?!

op debrief

Thursday - woke up at 5:30am so that i could eat something... cos i wasnt allowed to eat after 6am.
was at the san just before 12 - dont know why they like you there so early - didnt go up to see the anaesthetist until 2:15.
anyway, it went well i suppose ... although i clearly remember them taking the intubation tube out of my throat - which i shouldnt remember ...
Didnt get home until 7:30... then spent that night and friday and saturday on crutches... but i can bear my weight now with only a little bit of pain, so all is good... but im still on digesics, so that is definitely helping.
One good thing about the surgery is that i got 13 hrs sleep on thursday night - 10pm to 11am friday morning!! Felt so good on friday.

went to club to watch the rest of club champs on friday night, then went to mcdonalds with the crew. Was a good night.

Apart from that it's been a quiet w/e ... uni work and movies and stuff...

One bad thing - i cant take the dressings/bandages off my foot for 10-14 days (when i have my follow up appointment). Which really sucks, cos it means i cant wear shoes for all that time ... which makes it hard for uni...

now we're just waiting for pathology results...

Ari msged me on tuesday. Again. But that was my extremely busy day... unfortunately. Cos it would have been good to finally catch up.

Anyway, hope you have all had better weekends than i have.

Happy Easter

I apologise for lack of blogging. My standard has definitely slipped this year.

Quick run down of the Easter weekend:
Wednesday we had no uni. Went to Pancakes on the Rocks with a few uni friends for my birthday. Fun times.
Thursday was my birthday! yay. another year older. Was a quiet day - awesome weather though!! Went shopping and bought an awesome adidas tracksuit :) ... And had yummy chicken for dinner. And Megan gave me a swarovski crystal necklace :) ... so pretty!
Friday. Good Friday was rainy. It reminded me of Easter of 99 i think, when it was rainy all weekend...
Saturday got the worst blisters from evil shoes. Went shopping with mum and dad, then met kara at coles then went to Danielle's house for bday dinner. Was a good night.
Sunday. Easter Day. Chocolate overload. Went to ex-neighbours house in Killara. Much more fun than i expected it to be. First ever Easter egg hunt!!
Monday (today). My birthday again (kind of). Had family dinner - nicest chinese i have had in a long time!! And awesome cheesecake :)

And that pretty much sums up my extra long Easter weekend. Hope you all had a happy Easter.

Tomorrow is going to be one busy day. Uni from 11 - 3pm. Go straight to work which starts at 4pm. Finish at 6pm, get picked up and go straight to Wahroonga until 8pm. Then i have a meeting in Berowra which is meant to start at 8pm, so obviously i will be late. So i leave home at 9:30am and dont get back home until 9:30pm. Hectic is what i call it.

3 days to go... still undecided... but im kinda resigned to the fact now that it will go ahead and that im going to have to miss out... not that that means that im ok about it.

My crappy weekend

Friday was swim club champs - which started out good, but cancelled half way through due to the storm. Which provided us with some entertainment, as we didnt want to go walk to the car in the pouring rain, so charlie ran to the car for us (with a towel over his head - dont know what that was going to do!!) and drove it back for us :) and we all sat there laughing cos he looked so funny!
Kara's party was fun, even though i was only there for such a tiny bit of it.

Saturday i had a state swim meet in Botany. Had to be there at 8:30am. Picked up bronze in my freestyle, silver for free relay and bronze for medley relay. Which was good - a medal for all my races! .. apart from that it was a good day.
So... dad and i get home at almost 6ish and i was planning to go meet up with this guy at about 8:00ish. So thats all ok.
But then mum tells us about their day - my pop (who is 82 by the way) was on the roof of their house and fell off and hit his head. So the whole of berowra knows, cos a helicopter had to land on the school oval and fly him to westmead, where he still remains and probably will for awhile :(
But i was still going to go out - i thought it would take my mind off it and whatever. But then i went back up to the bathroom (at about 7:40) and discover that i have flooded the whole bathroom/vanity!! I had put the plug in the basin and turned on the tap and walked away and completely forgot about it!!!! And there was water everywhere! The carpet is still drying now as i type this. ..... So i had to bail on Ari at the last minute cos i had a big job cleaning up to do.
So my weekend was going to be good, until my stupidity totally ruined it :( I feel so bad for bailing on him.

Yesterday was a good day at uni though. We did ergometry in the lab, which was fun. Then jacelle and i went to the library to answer our lab questions and get them out of the way, and then the lect and then kathy drove me to Hornsby!! ... the only thing that ruined that was seeing a car accident... :(

But i have to go get ready for uni!! And i dont want to be late.

Happy Days!

So last night i get home and im making megan and myself pizza for dinner and i got a msg, and we just looked at each other and laughed, cos we so knew who it would be from. And it was from him! Funny, cos we had been talking about him on the way home with ali. ... (if u want to know the full story you're gonna have to ask, cos im not blogging it or anything)

Anyway, today was good. Got up at 7ish and mum decides to be nice and says i can drive to uni. Had the house to myself all morning (was awesome!!) and then drove to uni midday-ish. And then met caitlin and phil and we headed to our tute. That was oh so interesting! haha.
Lecture straight after was good. Not because of the content, but because we sat up the back of the massive auditorium and entertained ourselves. Random thought of mine made us laugh for ages - i said that it would be so much more interesting if our lecturer brought an emu into the lect...

Doesn't sound like that much of an interesting day, but i had a ball. Definitely having a good day! Which is rare. So i'm happy!! ... just wish there were more of these days!

back to routine...

1st of March today!! Summer is officially over and autumn has arrived. And that's exciting cos it means that my birthday and Easter are both in 3 weeks!!

First week of uni is over! Only... something like 11 or 12 to go... subjects seem like they will be ok. ... Thursdays are my day off, and all my other days are just for 3 hrs...

Tuesday was a hectic day. Went to jeff's swimming carnival at 8:30... watched his medley race... then had a psychology lecture at 11am. Was meant to finish uni at 1pm. But no. They decided that they would run the tutes (which they said they wouldnt do!!) That meant i finished uni at 3pm. And i had to get home and changed and be ready to start work at 4pm. (i just made it in time). Finished work at 6:10, and then had to be home in time for alison to pick me up at 6:15!! ... i dont think i need to say she had to wait a few minutes for me... what made it worse though, was that i didnt really ever have an opportunity to eat. So i had a piece of toast and an apple for breakfast... then a lollypop from the co-op bookshop ... then a piece of bread that was shoved into my mouth when ali picked me up... that was all i ate from 6am to 8:30pm...

Nervous/worried about the 27th March. That's the day of my operation (my foot). I wasn't worried about it, but they sent me the pre-admission booklet and letters and stuff on Thursday and it went on and on about all the risks and stuff... such as being aware of what is going on (thats the scary one), stroke, eye-sight damage, nervous system damage, death, could stop breathing and they will have to intubate which could lead to damage to mouth, teeth, throat etc... and the list goes on...

Soo much to say!! well, not actually that much, just that i want to talk!! About something...! gossip session anyone??

completely forgot to say in that last post that i had my hair cut on Thursday - so now it is short! (for me anyway) and layered. And everyone is also asking if i had it coloured - but i didn't!! That's just my hair!!! ... but first time ever visiting a hairdresser. It was a first.

Didn't end up going to Wallaby bar last night. Went to Max Brenners instead.

This morning Megan and I went to Avoca beach. Such a good morning for it! After we'd had enough fun in the surf, we went and got some awesome macademia and chocolate icecreams!!! They were sooo good!!

2 more days left...

Went to work on Monday night, which was kinda pointless, cos ari turned up aswell. but i suppose that was a good thing, considering i felt so sick on Sunday and monday, and with him there, pretty much meant i didn't have to do anything. But it was fun anyway, listening to all the stories... hahaha

Ummm did some other stuff this week... that was fun.

Went shopping on Wednesday...

Uni starts on monday. That kinda sucks. dont want to go back just yet. So much that i didnt get around to doing!!

Had a really good laugh last night - Megan, Ali and I thought we were locked in the carpark (the gates were shut!!)... so we tried to find another exit (there wasnt one!) and called various ppl (who didn't answer their phone!) and then finally were told that the gates open automatically if you drive up to them!! ...ohhh righhhtt... cos we were so meant to know that! ... But why are things like that so hilarious?! It's like the time i was coming home from a physie comp with emma.g and her mum was driving and we ended up in Darling Harbour somewhere, completely lost (we should have gone nowhere near there), but emma and i thought it was the funniest thing and were pissing ourselves laughing!!

Tonight - heading to wallaby bar. Should be fun! If anyone wants to join us, msg me!!

brief update

Friday night went out for pizza with megan, alison & charlie, and two of ali's friends - rob and lisa.

Saturday morning, left home at 6:25 for my mri. Took 30mins. Allowed some time for me to "sleep". Except i had to concentrate on not moving, so i couldn't actually sleep. I was so tired all of Saturday. not fun.

Yesterday morning, i worked. Then bought myself two new bags. Then went to louise's house. It was a good day.

Dont want to go back to uni. Wish i had a time machine...

I feel like talking in Spanish

Me siento como hablar en español. No puedo expresarme en inglés, así que no es como él importará si usted no puede entender lo que ahora estoy diciendo.

Soy la atmósfera tan ansiosa - más que generalmente - que realmente está tomando un peaje en mi vida :( ...
...Necesito a alguien decirme qué hacer. ¡Y entonces ayudarme a hacerlo!! Sin la fabricación me de la sensación tenga gusto de im sin valor.

Pero usted sería orgulloso de mí. He organizado el almuerzo con Fatima (y Elise también), y para una vez que no sea el minuto pasado que se retira o cualquier cosa. Cuál podría posiblemente estar porque realmente realmente necesito hablar y tengo lo dejo encenderse para demasiado largo...

Esperanzadamente veré a algo de usted pronto...?

you know... when this is translated back into English, it doesn't make much sense... so if you really really want to know what it says... which im sure you dont, then i will leave the translation in a comment... maybe...

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Got halfway to Westmead on Saturday morning, only to have the receptionist call to say that my appointment had been cancelled, because the machine had broken down. So now rescheduled to next Saturday... at 7:15am! which means i have to leave home at 6:30 :(

...oh and got 48.5hrs of driving...

Saturday night was Epping Bullets carnival. That was fun. The national swim team from Norway was there, which was kinda cool.

Yesterday Megan and I watched The Notebook and How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Two of my favourite movies.

Nothing much else to tell.

Lime & Vodka

My blog has been neglected a bit lately...

Went down the south coast for 6 days over Australia Day long w/e, which was fun. Beach, sun, shopping, kayaking etc. Bought a new bikini (even though i got one for Christmas), which is pretty and i still havnt worn yet! Also got myself a new body board, which has already seen some good waves. ... I miss the beach!! Anyone want to go sometime soon??

The past few days have kinda been lazy since we've got home. Well with the exception of working on wednesday and thursday. Yesterday was fun cos it was boxercise. Which i hadn't done before.

Tomorrow i have an MRI for my foot. Then i go back to specialist man (who is really nice) so he can decide on the best way to fix it.

What has everyone else been up to??

January update

January:

new years day - lazing around, gate-crashing Dan's house and then Ashley's house.

movies - P.S. I love you ... good, but the book was better ... then there's all the hired movies...

cricket - summer days spent playing backyard cricket are always fun (esp with the odd water fight)

city - with Phil and Caitlin ... great fun .... funny stories to tell you... hahaha

driving - phil lost his license so i made a deal with him that i would have my Ps before he gets his license back

...And other usual 'teenager' things...

Things to come for the remainder of January:

Appointment with an ankle specialist... yay

Holiday down the south coast over Australia Day long w/e - with family & aunt & uncle

Max Brenner outings with Megan and Ali

i made chocolate chip muffins today... and they are soo good! haha.
And Andy Roddick won his match today in the Australian Open!!

Anyway. Now you are kind of updated with what i have been doing lately. .... is that a good enough blog entry for you Justine?