wow, i cant believe it has been almost 2 months since i have updated this... (but i guess thats what happens when work is crazy, you have 3 weeks off, then have to catch up on all the work that wasnt done when you were on holidays when you get back, and you have no internet at home!!)

christmas was CRAZY busy (as usual) but actually went ok- no big family arguements this year, everyone was nice and civil...

new years was ok- not great, but ok- actually, now that i think about it, i am always disappointed with new years! maybe it is because you build it up thinking its going to be such a big great night, and then you get where you are going only to realise it is so busy that you cant move, it takes twice as long as normal to get a drink from the bar, EVERYWHERE has cover charges and surcharges, the city is full of drunk 16 year olds trying to get in everywhere, there is lines for EVERYTHING and it is impossible to get a cap... hmmm, maybe i wont go out next new years :D

holidays were really good though... it was nice to have some time off to not do much...

my bf and i started looking at apartments- getting sick of sharing a house, and since he has a new job and is earning more, he can afford to move out of home, so hopefully soon we will be in our own place... it will be nice to have some more space... i wish we could afford to buy a place! but hey, its a step in the right direction...

wow it really has been AGES since I have updated!! and I really dont have a good reason for it... I can give you a bunch of crappy ones, but hey...

I am disappointed with myself for not being creative recently... I had kinda promised myself I was going to do that writing project this year, and some how it just started without me realising, and how it is the middle of November and way too late to start...

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Well x-mas is certainally on its way and i am so not ready... i love christmas, but it really does feel like it was just last week!!

we had the pagent here a few weeks ago and the shops are starting to get crazy... come to think of it, everything is getting crazy... i dont know how many ppl on my list are aussie and how many arent, but apparently someone high up has decided that santa saying "ho ho ho" is offence and politically incorrect, so now it is illegal and he has to say "ha ha ha" random hey...

On the topic of x-mas again
Question: When do you think is too early to put up a household x-mas tree?

when i was little i always used to be disappointed with my dad cos he wouldnt put up the x-mas tree/lights etc until the middle of december, and they always came down boxing day, but now that i dont live at home and i could put up the tree whenever i wanted, i find that i dont want to... i went to do it the other day (pagent day- apparently thats tradition) and i thought it was just too early... but i dont know, do you think it is?

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in other news, it is my birthday today!! yay happy birthday to me!

other than having a potentially crap day at work, all was good... i had a bunch of flowers delivered to me at work today around lunch time, which is always nice! (although given that it was 33 deg here today i am not so sure that they will survive too long! i dont think the drive home did them any favours).. then i got taken out for tea and for walk on the beach etc, then came home and my housemates had an icecream cake for me!

family stuff on the weekend...

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did i mention it is HOT here?!? the guy on the news today said there is a 9-10 day heat wave! lucky our air-conditioning here works, although it really only cools down the loungeroom and that end of the house, not much really gets to any of the bed rooms... my fan has been working on overdrive!!

although it is a fight between my friend sarah and the weather man! it is her birthday next week and she tells me that it always rains on her birthday, but the weather man says it is going to be dry and hot... we will see who wins out! (my fingers are crossed for sarah!!)

I am in one of those moods where I have so much energy, yet I am lacking the motivation to actually do anything constructive... Lucky the office is basically empty!

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I think i jinxed myself... last post i said it was really nice weather here, and today it is windy and cold and raining... or maybe it was the fact that i washed my car that did it! *sigh*

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other than washing my car it was a pretty quiet weekend...

I still cant decide if I want to spend or save my tax return... I am leaning towards buying a perfume and putting the rest away for my next phone bill, but part of me really wants to just spend it! Aaah the things i could buy :P

Promises mean everything
When you're little
And the world is so big

I just don't understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
And tell me everything is wonderful now...

Please dont tell me everything is wonderful now...

One of my friends just called me, and I am going to her house after work tonight and we are going to make pizzas and watch movies etc (day off work tomorrow horray!) and she is at the shops trying to decide what to put on the pizzas...

I am one of those people that the pizza either has nothing on it but ham and pineapple, or it has EVERYTHING on it, mushies, capsicum, onion, salami, pepperoni, ham, bacon, chicken, cheese, celery, zucchini, you name it! (except olives and anchovies :P) and she thought that was really weird, that it was one extreme or the other...

Am i weird? How do you like your pizza?

I watched broken flowers last night, and i must say i was a little disappointed with the ending... the movie itself was ok, but i hate movies where it doesnt actually have an ending, it just kinda stops without answering any questions... especially when you know there is not going to be a sequel...

On another note though, i do have to again say sorry for the lack of updates... there is so much going on here at the moment with house mates fighting and moving out, and ofcourse it was the house mate who had a computer they didnt care if i used when they werent here that moved out, so it has made it kinda hard... i am trying to save to get one of my own, i am thinking probably a laptop, but saving is hard... hopefully when the tax comes through...

we did end up getting a new house mate though, and she seems really nice so hopefully things will work out ok.. it didnt take as long as usual either so thats always nice..

*fingers crossed* everything works out ok....

Shadowland
The leaves have fallen
This shadowed land
This was our home

The river's dry
The ground has broken
So I must go
Now I must go

And where the journey may lead me
Let your prayers be my guide
I cannot stay here, my family
But I'll remember my pride

Prideland - (I have no choice)
My land - (I will find my way)
Tear-stained - (Lea halalela)
Dry land
Take this - (Take this prayer)
With you - (What lies out there)
Fatshe leso - (Lea halalela)

And where the journey may lead you
Let this prayer be your guide
Though it may take you so far away
Always remember your pride

i stole this from aizjanika, so i thought i would post it, even though my birthday is now where near as cool as cover everything in chcolate day!!



More Fun Quizzes at QuizPox.com

I just got sent this in an email... I am sure it is from a website somewhere but im not sure where. Im not positive if it is real of not, if it is then it is a comment on how much the world has changed, and if it isnt then it is still really cool paper!






*edit* it doesnt come up that well, if you double click on it it does enlarge it, but it is still hard to read... basically it is a rejection letter to a Mrs Ford, who I am gathering applied to the Disney company for work as an animator, and was rejected on the basis that animation is currently only conducted by young men. It is dated 1938.

Cor blimey, I taste like Tea.

I am a subtle flavour, quiet and polite, gentle, almost ambient. My presence in crowds will often go unnoticed. Best not to spill me on your clothes though, I can leave a nasty stain.




I just did this online quiz thing to see what i taste link (sorry about the dodgy upload, I am not really good with computers and it was the best I could do, but atleast the gist of it is there) and it says I taste like tea... the interesting this about this is that I hate tea... except ofcourse for blackcurrent tea mmmm, but I really dont think that is what they meant :)

Im going to my parents for dinner tonight with my siblings... it doesnt happen all that often, probably around once a month, and it is kinda unusual that it is happening on a weeknight but hey, and when we go we take in turns bringing sweets... I didnt think it was my turn but apparently not everyone is going, making it my turn.. so now after work i have to go and get something on my way to my parents place.. And thats fine, i had to go to the shops anyway and picking up an apple pie or a cake is no big deal.. but thinking about what i am going to get (one of my sisters is very fussy) is making me hungry!!

hmm apparently i did make a post about Paris Hilton of friday... my bad!!

But thats not why, five minutes after posting, i decided to post again! i am posting again because:

I finally made enough posts to be on more than one page!! Horray :P

Argh... i cant say i am suprised, but i just found out that Paris Hilton was released from jail to home detention for "medical reasons"... im not convinced she is sick, nor am i convinced that 40 days at her house is much of a punishment *sigh*... but right now, i am too tired to care..

And on a much more positive note, i also just found out that it is a long weekend cos monday is a public holiday!! how did i not know this until now?!?!

That said, i am glad i found out now, not when i showed up to work on monday!!

So have a good weekend, maybe even a long one, depending on where in the world you are....

Just wanted to quickly update and say

HAPPY MUMMYS DAY to all the mummys out there! I hope you all had a great day...

p.s. why is it that i always over-eat on days like today?

 I just found out that there is going to be a work do in London later in the year- a new product is being launched that our office was invited to and my boss and his wife have a wedding or something on that weekend, so, since its all expenses paid by the company not our office, my boss thought he might as well use it, so me and one of the other girls at work get to go!! I have no holidays left so it means taking time off without pay so sitting though a day of product launch not getting paid and not really caring, but after that i get the rest of the week/weekend in london, all expenses paid!! I am so excited right now i can hardly breathe!!!

as i said a few days ago, one of my friends recently got engaged (yay i am so excited for her!) and i spent most of the weekend with her talking about it and organising things, and it left me wondering about engagements in general...

so i posted a poll on polloftheday the link is here

(i really hope that worked because i have never done links ect here before so *fingers crossed*)...

but i guess the point is, i wanted peoples opinions and the whole process from the proposal to the wedding day... any thoughts?

i have been having a very creative week, well outside of work atleast, and the last few nights have been spent making a mess of my dining room with paints and charcol and canvas. i havent painted in a long time and i had forgotten just how free it makes me feel, and how it makes the rest of the world disappear (both figeratively and literally- i seem to have lost hours and hours, and apparently i also wasnt answering my phone)... the last few months when i have felt the need to create it has usually been to write, and to paint again just reminded me of old times...