22nd of August, 2009.

07:19am

My family left today for their two week trip to New Zealand. It's actually really quiet in the house right now. So I'm here cuddling Mushy and wondering how I'm going to be able to handle 3 weekends on my own. Only the weekends cause the manager that we've gotten in to cover for Dad lives in Mt. Gravatt so she's staying here so she doesn't have such a big commute through the week.

Paul's still sick and I don't know how long it's going to take him to get better, so I'm just going to have to try and plan for spending weekends on my own unless I get people to come over or something...that could work too...hmmm...anyway I digress. He's still sick-ish but he's been feeling better, so I'm going over there this afternoon/tonight hopefully and we'll see how he goes. I miss him so much ='[ So hopefully I do get to see him today.

I have to work this morning. And then for 6 days a week for the next two weeks. But this morning I'll be working with Sarah (who recently went on maternity leave and had her baby, but is coming on Saturdays to play supervisor) and Deb, our newbie. The next two weeks will definitely be make or break for her, she still gets nervous doing little things and asks for help, so hopefully by the end of the two weeks she'll be a pro =D That's what we're aiming for anyway.

I hope Sarah brings in baby Jayden to work with her today. Mum's such a bitch she actually rigged it so that the day Sarah brought him in to show to her (makes him sound like a trophy really doesn't it...but mum literally just goes gaga over babies haha), was a day that I was at uni. And I've seen pictures and he looks adorable. It's so funny though, cause they told her that her baby was undersized, and it turned out that he was 7lb something and 52cm!!!!! How crazy is that?! Stupid doctors. xD

It's slightly scary having this big house to myself...I mean like, what am I going to do with it? At most I'll probably only use -thinks and counts- 5 rooms at best?? And we have abouuuuut -thinks again- 13?!?! Sure 4 of them are toilets and showers, but still!!! That's 8 rooms I won't be using! It's times like this I wish we had a granny flat so I wouldn't be feeling so overwhelmed right now HAHA. But I'm sure I'll muddle through.

I cried saying bye to mummy this morning ='[ This is the first time I've been by myself with all of them out of the country. Sure I've got Bill, Andrea, Mandy, Tass, Bill, Linda and Flavia if I really needed all within a 15 minute drive, and my aunty only out at McDowall, but still I feeling a little bit lonely ='[ -snuggles Mushy-

Anyway I have to go get ready for work, and no doubt this blog with become a testament to my adventures of my family being out of the country, so this could be fun.

Peace, cuddles and a little bit of loneliness,
xoxo
PS. I JUST REMEMBERED! My aunty's up at Ipswich doing the V8s so I don't have her...

The Moulin Rouge, tax, face off and sickness;

The greatest thing you'll ever learn,
Is just to love and be loved in return~

Ahh Moulin Rouge, how can you not love that movie?
It's comedic, it's romantic, it's forlorn, it's tragic. Baz Lurhmann is truly a genius. I mean ach his movies just kinda suck you in ya know? I have that box set they brought out of his three most acclaimed movies [not including Australia]. I love it. It has Moulin Rouge [Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman], Romeo & Juliet [Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio] and of course, Strictly Ballroom. Now I will admit that Strictly Ballroom I didn't enjoy that much, but Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge I am simply in love with. Two of the greatest movies ever in my opinion =]

I need more movies actually. I've officially watched pretty much all of mine 3 or 4 times over, and am slightly bored with them. But first I need a new DVD stacker, cause the one I have not I now have to stack DVDs on the floor cause there are no more slots left. I've been meaning to get down to the furniture shop that's local here, but I never had either the money or the time.

I actually got my tax money today, or part of it =] $600!!! -dances- I've locked away $100 into seperate slots in my wallet to be counted as "emergency money", meaning if I get stranded somewhere, or just see something I desperately want, but have no funding in my bank, I draw on it :P I'm helping boost the economy! Yay me~! But yes so realistically I have $500. And I've decided that as my clothes that have had an excellent life start to fall apart on me, it is time for a new wardrobe [sorry new computer, you'll have to wait]. I also really need new work shoes haha. The ones I have now I have dubbed my "holey shoes" cause of how worn out they are :P

I only ever buy clothing and shoes etc. if I really need it, like I have to dress up or different for an occasion, or my wardrobe is dying on me. I'm fairly good this way, although it could also just be because I really do not like going clothes shopping for myself unless it's necessary. I am just so un-female in that regard. Although Paul should count himself lucky for it :P

He wants to come clothes shopping with me this time around you know, which I think will probably be a make or break experience for us both xD If he is honestly able to handle how I get when I DO go clothes shopping then we'll be able to handle anything else xD I get a bit crazy when I go clothes shopping. I fall in love with everything and it takes me a very long time to work out what I really want/need and what can wait until the next time I have money.

City Chic will make a fortune out of me I swear. It's the only clothes shop I go to cause it's actually targeted at the larger women. I first discovered it with Mum when I was shopping for a formal dress. Yes that is where I got my formal dress from =] That was two years ago this November or whenever our formal was and ever since then, both mum and I have been in love with the place.

I've decided recently that I love skirts and need more of them, whereas a few years ago I refused to be caught dead in one, and as a result the only ones I own are for special occasions. Like there's one that I used to wear to work but before that I wore it to the Bounty Day Ball on Norfolk Island. And there's the other one I have which I wore actually on Bounty Day. Fun times. I fell in love with it cause it's actually got that torn appearance and I figured you know, convicts landing, their women's skirts would most likely be torn from all the wear and tear of being on a boat haha.

But yes I need a new pair of jeans, new shirts, it's probably too early to be buying shorts as well but I will need them for summer, more skirts, and maybe a pretty dress or something. I've become such a girl the past couple of years xD Like I said I've grown accustomed to skirts, I've been through a phase where all I wanted to wear was dresses, and that is a big thing for me cause I used to hate them. I've also decided that I'm going to marry high heels and boots.

I blame my mother :P She's introduced me to the fun side to being a girl whereas I only saw things like dressing up and waxing and blah as a complete chore before hehehe. I've posted previously about my latest eyebrow waxing adventure xD

What was I saying? Oh yes, clothes shopping. I'd love to get it done before the 29th of August, cause I'm having people over for games and things and I think it would be fun to have new clothes to wear hehe. I'm such a sucker for this kind of thing now :P

I can't wait for the games/talking/movies/party fun night hey. I hope it'll all work out. I worry so much that I've forgotten little things haha

cont. 9pm...

I just got back from doing a massage and I'm now eating my dinner I picked up at Red Rooter [Rooster] while watching 20 to 1. Tonight it's Love & Laughter hehe. It just showed Shakespeare in Love. It's such and amazing movie. I love it n_n I'm now officially planning to track it down and buy it on my next DVD splurge :P

Anyway bubby's sick ='[ I miss him so much, but hopefully he's better by Saturday so I can see him =3

Well I got nothing more to rant about hehe.

Peace, love, and a piece of schnitzel
<3
xo

"Face Off" and the Ekka;

Well yesterday Paul and I went to the Ekka =D

It was our two month anni. too so it was cool timing haha

Anyway after a lot of kerfuffle including shaving the boyo's back (I cringed cause I've never had to use electric hair clippers before and he wanted me to fix up the little mullet that his mum had left him too :S) and making chicken rolls, at about 12pm we were finally ready to go xD

So we car dashed Mario Kart style to Burpengary station, and we realistically arrived about 5 minutes before the next train was due to come so we did well =D

But anyway we got to the station and claimed a seat on the train, playing Mario Party on our DS' on the way in to amuse ourselves xD

Anyway about an hour later and one train change we arrived at the exhibition station and wormed our way in through the oh so many people -sarcastic- xD

We went and saw all the cows first cause you know they were right there xD They were all cute and then somehow we found ourselves meandering through the copper place and the government place etc (we got given two pears for free by some guy with a green bag haha, we didn't trust them xD) and after a whole lot of walking around and seeing things and Paul winning a pillow thingy, we went to the Energex arena to have lunch (the chicken roll thingys that I'd whacked together that morning, a lot of fun with cling wrap ensued making those I can tell you haha) and watch the pretty ponies do their show jumping =D

Then after that we went to the baby animals place and saw all the baby sheepies (SO CUTE! n_n) and then we went to Sideshow Alley, and just walked around there for a while haha. Now by this time we were feeling a bit tired so we agreed to do the obligatory walkthrough the Showbag Pavilion and bought lots of things.

Then we left and I had fun bulldozing people to get a seat cause you know between us we had like 10 showbags (including the Bertie Beetle ones) and a couple of them were backpack ones haha. The fun fight was with the people at central haha. Cause there were lots of people waiting at that station but I still managed to get us both a seat xD Yay me! All those months of wrestling people for seats getting to and from uni has really paid off!!! =D

But anyway we came home and I had a nap cause I really was exhausted haha. I woke up about 6/7:30ish hahaha. Had dinner, we watched Mash and examined out showbags for a few hours or so and then I went home and to bed haha.

Now today I woke up at roughly 8am to get ready to go to work, only to be told while I'm in the middle of my shower that I don't actually have to go to work at all, and if I could please stay home with my sister and her friend. So you know being the opportunist that I am, I stayed home xD

I watched Red vs. Blue and Family Guy all day while taking and photoshopping pictures for this "Face Off" that Jayne and Emma started.

Basically it's something these two lovely friends of mine has started up, where they pic a subject and then take a pic to that subject and edit it as best as they can. It is SO much fun hehe. I had to do a catch-up photo as well as the current topic cause I've come into it halfway through so here are my two pics I did today:

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"Gamer face"

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"prostitute Waluigi face"

It was fun =D

Anyway this is where I'll leave you xD

Peace

xo

Hangman, needles and administration;

So I had a fun day today...

Had to get up at 5:55am to go to college, which is the usual although I'll be so epically glad when it's over, it takes me about half an hour to get ready, and I have to leave at 6:35am to be at the station by 6:52am (yes I am this precise with my travel times, I like to be prepared), but hey, I'm 100% on time, but I've forgotten one small detail. THE TRAINS ARE ON WEEKEND TIMES!!!! So the train is actually pulling up as I'm entering the car park, so I just have to sit there and wait for like half an hour for the next one. Thank gawd I had my lovely DS (well it's Paul's. I do have one, but the screen flippy thingy is broken on it so I borrowed his spare one) to entertain me with my R4.

R4s are amazing. I have like 100 games on the thing. But I only really play four or six of them xD Three Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games, Mario Party DS, Mario Kart DS, and occasionally I play brain training. Everyone should have one of these things. It's like, a gaming necessity. Can you sense the not so subliminal messages??

Anyway back to my crazy day. Anyway cause I had to wait the extra half hour for the next train I was naturally late to college. But that's okay cause when I got into the classroom it was right after Darren (who's always late but a great lecturer, good fun) so I wasn't too fussed. And there were only two other people there when we got in xD Three more people came later though.

So for the first 20 minutes or something we just sat around and talked. Then I jokingly mentioned hangman and then Darren just took it literally, passing me the whiteboard marker, and so the next hour's entertainment began. Of course Darren had to open the can of worms that triggered the dirty version of hangman, meaning that words like porno and boner came to the fore. It was quite hilarious.

Then after that Kertu asked Darren for some cupping, and then it escalated from there, cause then Ross got cupping, I got needled with acupuncture, Michael got cupping AND acupuncture. And while I had needles in my hand and arm Stacey and I were going through our phones and sending Darren songs that we decided he needed (his bluetooth is on auto-accept, it was great).

Then after 3 hours of that we all went and got lunch. Then it was time to come back to do Structural Alignment (the class before was Advanced Deep Tissue by the way), only to watch Darren treat a stranger for a few minutes, then have him declare that since we were going to just be doing nothing again the entire time, that we could go home.

Oh and my college's administration is so bad. They claimed to be there today, but absolutely noone showed up, so I couldn't do my exams today that I studied for all night. P.O.'d.

So I walked back to the station, planning on heading home. The train ride to Central was pretty average, but trying to get home on the Caboolture train, and for some reason it was 10 minutes late, and then a bit of a freak out over the screens going nuts and taking the train I wanted off the screens, but then it was magically back there about 5 minutes later. I had to deal with all the people leaving the EKKA though.

I saw all the pieces going to the races, they were so pretty =[ I wanna go to the races and play dress up =[ I was really jealous of them haha. I want pretty dresses!!

Missing Paul like crazy, it's only been 2 days. Sad huh?

I've been watching Scrubs all afternoon hahaha It's so entertaining. But now I think I'll go play me some Diablo II.

Catch yas later,

Peace
xo

But anyway I'm home and safe and oh so tired right now. Might go to bed soon.

I forgot to talk about this xD

I completely forgot!! This evening mother and I had fun with hot wax trying to do my long overdue eyebrows, and oh em gee, she was going for my eyebrow and some of it dripped onto my eye!!!!!!!!!! I luckily closed my eye in time, so I'm stuck with this glob of hot wax on my eyelashes, and mum's using her special dissolve-y stuff and trying to pull it off and I'm whining constantly cause it hurts and we both can't stop laughing how eyebrow waxing never goes smoothly for me (last time she ripped half of one eyebrow off!!!!).

Moral of the story kids, get it done by pros xD

Peace
xo

PS. I still have all my eyelashes

Life is trial by fire, love is the sweetest tase;

One Safe Place ~ Marc Cohn.

How many roads you've travelled...
How many dreams you've chased...
Across sand and sky and gravel...
Looking for one safe place.

I am so much in love with that song at the moment. It's quiet and kind of sad, but at the same time just so uplifting you know? No I don't suppose you do, not until you've heard it haha.
Youtube that stuff. It's amazing. I guarantee that you will fall in love almost immediately.

Another amazing song is Collide ~ Howie Day. I keep hearing these songs in movies and T.V. shows (One Safe Place was in House, and Collide I'm pretty sure was in The Perfect Man, you know, the Hilary Duff movie? It had Heather Locklear in it.)

Well now we've talked about music, what else can I yammer on about in this thing xD I love blogging. It's like endless ranting rights. xD

I have two exams for college tomorrow. That's right, even a Diploma of Remedial Massage person has to do exams. It's unjust I tell you!!! But luckily these exams are mind-numbingly easy. So much so that the two I'm doing tomorrow are being done 2 weeks early haha. But that's for a whole different reason.

You see, my parents are going away for two weeks with my siblings to a little place I like to call "Kiwi Town". That's right they're going to New Zealand. I'm endlessly jealous that I am unable to join them, but with my own mini financial crisis at the moment (seriously, I don't know how I'm managing to afford anything...my insurance was just due and now my phone bill is too), I was unable to raise the funds to pay for my plane ticket there. The same ticket that mother dear is willing to pay for the other two midgets, but noooo. Big sister gotta pay her own way! I mean just cause she was the only child born there doesn't mean anything right?? Ach but I'm being bitter.

I'm really quite excited. I'll be practically home alone except for the temporary replacement manager (who lives in Mt. Gravatt), who shall be staying with me on weeknights so she doesn't have such a big commute every morning to be at work by 8:30am. I'm rarely ever on time as it is and I swear that the days I am my parents have an aneurysm. It's funny cause mother dear looks all shocked and doesn't stop (jokingly) looking at her watch until it's no longer 8:30.

But I digress. As it stands I'll only ever really be home alone on weekends, for I assume the replacement manager shall go running home to her family for the weekend since she misses out on them during the week. Not that I care, between working Saturday mornings with Deb, catching up on cancelled massage hours from the past week, and seeing friends and the boyfriend, I shall be one busy bee. I relish the opportunity =3

I really truly cannot wait. I've been having to cook for myself for a while now, but I just haven't been, due to lack of enthusiam, caused by increased pressure. I swear I am such a male at times. All I want to do when I come home is just chill out in front of the T.V. or laptop and have my meals cooked for me xD How bad is that?! I do love cooking, I'm just not a) very good and b) lack the energy or desire for it. Except when I'm cooking with Paul. Last time we cooked tea I took over >_<"

Paul is the boyfriend by the way =3 I'd say more, but since I'll be putting the link in my msn P.M. he'd probably look at this and get embarrassed. He's so cute like that n___n
~ cute
~ funny
~ loving
~ entertaining
~ cuddly
~ caring (same as loving?)
~ nerdy
There. I embarrassed him anyway xD Just a few of the things I love about him =D He's awesome n__n It's a shame he and my best friend don't get on. But I do know both sides of the back story and it's perfectly understandable. So I just smile and say "yes dear" when he starts talking about it, cause I learnt that just doing that is the quickest way to change him to happier topics.

Thankfully my friend is understanding that I'm dating him. At first she was like "OH MY GOD WHY?!?!?!?!" but she's said that as long as she doesn't have to be around him then it's fine. Which is working out pretty well so far. It still makes me sad sometimes though.

I love my friends. I seriously think I would have died a long time ago if I didn't have them. They're the craziest, most diverse group of people you could ever find, and it's hilarious watching them all get along, cause any outsider, if they looked at their individual personalities would look at us and go "how the hell is that group still friends??". And it's true, we've all had our ups and downs, but we always pull through for each other when the other is in need. A majority of us have known each other since we first started high school at Northpine Christian College all those years ago. Can you believe it's been almost 7 years guys?? Sure a few of you drifted into our lives a year or two or three later but at least it's still 4 years of friendship! That's no small feat by anyone's standards. I love you guys heaps and hope that no matter where life takes us, we'll always be friends forever.

It's on that note that I leave for tonight, have to be up at roughly 6am tomorrow morning to be at college by 8:30am. There's that same damn time again haha.

Peace
xo