I wasn't always this cool...

That's right, pez means fish. Especially if you're in Spain. Or if you speak Spanish. hehehe... A most amusing fact, don't you think? My friend Jos from Costa Rica asked me who 'Pez' was because he was reading Belly Up (a couple of posts ago) and got confused... *giggle* Sorry for the confusion, Jos. Although I did, I *do* love my fish Toby, I love my Pez more... :) Toby's doing well, by the way: settled in now, and the Shark's not chasing him anymore... :) I hope they become good friends.

 

In other news, it's nearly Christmas, and I love Christmas, YAY! And it looks as though I will be able to get my assignment handed in before Christmas too, so that'll be a mega bonus! YAY! On Sunday night, a big group of us went in to Carols by Candelight which wa awesome. I love Carols. Everyone's just so happy, and festive lookin and stuff. Pez and I were in charge of bringing pizzas to the park, which we did eventually - after they messed up our order twice. We were walking in with a bunch of pizza boxes and people were all like, 'ooh, pizza, that's a good idea...!' And then later, our friend Nick brought a bunch of glow sticks and we all made heaps of glowing stuff with them, and PEz made himself a glowing vest thing that made him look like some kind of space hero, and as we walked to get a drink, dads were getting the attention of their sons and pointing and saying, 'Look at him! Wow! That's cool isn't it?!' and the kids were like '... ooohhhh....' I think Pez liked it... :P I saw a few people there, one of whom was Robbie, who I haven't seen in ages. It was good to see her. We must catch up more often. Yay for Christmas! Ahem. Christmas lunch will be for me at Peri's house with Bren and Flynn, and Bren's mum, and Peri and Flynn's mum; then in the evening, Peri and I will be going to my aunty's house for my family Christmas dinner. yum :D

 

Last Saturday night, we had our last fundraiser for Steve, Pez an I to go to NCYC in Perth. We made so much more money than I thought we'd make, and people just came up and gave us donations: they *really* want us to go, it would seem. I'm *SOOOOOO* looking forward to it! Training over to Perth on New Years Eve will be good, as well as a day of enforced relaxation on New Years Day - it will be fun :) I'm hoping that people will be willing to come to the train station and see us off before they head to thier New Years parties so that we'll still get to celebrate with them a bit... we'll see...

 

I'm sure I thought of more fun, and more funny stuff to write in here, but I always forget once I get here... *sigh* I really would like a Cranberry and Apple Crush from Boost Juice. Yum Boost Juice...! I'm learning so much about Costa Rica from Jos! It's amazing! Soooo interesting! Yay!

 

Ahem. Well, I'm gonna go now, see if Suse will talk to me, catch up on some blogs, then perhaps go home via Boost Juice before work this evening... Aargh Christmas shoppers... :S I'm on checkouts tonight, but in the service deli for the rest of the week, so I'll smell like meat. w00t. Nothing I like more than smelling like the Christmas ham and mistakenly taking a bite of my own arm because I am so sleep deprived and confused from working so much... yay. *sigh* I'm going to look for a new job too. I know I've said it before, but I really am now! Honest!

 

Have a good Christmas if I don't talk to you before hand...!

 

<3

Hi All!!

 

Farout, today marks a very happy day in my life. I know I haven't blogged lately, and I'm sorry, but trust me on this one: I have been soooo incredibly busy, and it's just about time for me to relax! Oh yeah. Thus, a blog.

 

First, a Toby update: He's doing well, the other fish (dubbed 'Shark') has stopped chasing him, and he's adjusting well to the warmer conditions at my sister's house out north. It's been stinkin hot, and he now lives outside in a pond instead of inside in a tank, but I think he'll be just fine.

 

So, the birthdays, you ask? Well, I have officially had this blog for a whole year now. On December 3rd, in fact. You've been listening to me babble on about next to nothing for a whole year. More than that. Wow. Don't you have something more creative you should be doing? ;)\

 

The second birthday was mine...! My 21st was on December 9th. It was yet another in a string of days over 40 degrees celcius, the morning of which I spent shopping with Peri - not our smartest move, but I really needed to get something from this one shop in this big shopping centre and I had to go. We looked for a park for about 20mins - half an hour, and as we were about to give up, we found a guy leaving not too far away from a shop that I needed to go to, so we took it! Yay! What's with all these people wanting to like, shop and stuff all right before Christmas. Like, I so don't get it. I'm a bit of a bimbo today. In the evening, I had a nice little party at my friend Kate's house. It was a masquerade theme, so we were all wearing masks even though it was really hot, but then it cooled down a bit and we were able to go outside without instantly sprouting skin cancers. I forgot that people give you presents at your birthday, and so I was completely overwhelmed when all these presents were mounting up on the table, and they were all for me! Crazy! I got some really kewl stuff too - Desperate Housewives season one box set DVDs, heaps of house-y stuff from Ikea (I'm hopefully moving out in January, but I'll tell you more about that later!), some nice earrings and necklace and bracelet that all match, chocolate, a few books and some Jacobs Creek Sparkling Rose (that e's supposed to have a ` over it, but I don't know how to do that...) which is my favourite champagne in the world, and I also got some kewl champagne flutes too! Yum! I'm looking forward to writing thank you notes to everyone :) I had a really good day, even if my dad did do an incredibly long speech, brought up my ex-boyfriend and said I was fat. Three of my best mates also did speeches: Bon and Kate together, and my amazing boyfriend, Pez, did one by himself. They all said nice things, and I thank them for their lovely words :) I got a call from Susy, and we talked for like, half an hour, but it was sooooo good!! I miss her so much :( Anyway. *sniff* Mum made all this really good food, and my cake was a pile of chocolate muffins drizzled in white chocolate! MEGA YUM!!!

 

It's nearly Christmas, and I went to my first Christmas party of the season on Sunday. My dad's boss put on this fantastic lunch of beautifully cooked rack of lamb with yummy salads. We ate outside under the trees at his house, and GOODNESS it was yummy! But for the first time ever, I have had hayfever this year, and so all through this party, I was sneezing, had itchy eyes and my nose was running so I left early with my brother, and went home and had a snooze. Man that was good. When mum and dad finally came home from *lunch* at 6(!!) Mum and I went to Kate's house to clean up. It didn't take long, so when mum went home, Kate and I went for a walk on the beach with Bon, then we each went our separate ways. I just had the cruisiest, most relaxing, best weekend I've had in a *very* long time!

 

This was all topped off on Monday with random cool adventures with my lovely Pez, for it was our anniversary! We've been together for a whole year! It's been sooo good, and I look forward to sooo many more random adventures, many more good times, and many more months, years... who knows! I'm the happiest I've ever been, and I hope that it stays that way!

 

Today is a good day for me, because today, I've practically finished my last assignment for the year. YAY! My only problem now is getting my supervisor to look through it before I hand it up. This is a problem because she's on LEAVE this week. *sigh* Oh well. It's gonna be before Christmas. YAYAY!!

 

I love Christmas. This is so totally my favourite time of the year. This weekend, Pez's family is having a Christmas thing in the Barossa, so I get to go to that, and then Carols by Candellight is on Sunday night, then the next weekend is Christmas! Yay! I love lighting the Advent Candles at Church, and I love getting excited about this one special day, then I love eating all the awesome food, and I love giving people presents, and hoping that the presents I get surprise me, and seeing my nieces and nephews get excited about it. I like it. :) I don't like that work is crazy busy, although I guess it does make the time pass just a little bit easier. I still don't like it. :P

 

Then after Christmas, I'm headed on an adventure to Perth! We're going by train, leaving on New Years Eve, so I think it'll be a bit of a party on the train (w00t!), then NCYC goes for about a week, then we're flying back. Also, this Saturday night, we're hosting a fundraising quiz night at Tusmore Memorial. You should come. I know I'd love to see you there! :)

 

Well, that is all from this little hayfever afflicted, yet most studious girl. ;) For today at least. But don't you worry: I hope to update again at least once before Christmas!

 

<3

 

Can you tell I'm in a good mood? I'm in a good mood! Yay for assignment being practically done! YAY!

 

K going now...

 

*waves*

So you know my pet fish, Toby? And you know is buddy, FOT (Friend Of Toby)? Yeah? Well... FOT died this morning.

 

The tank was filthy - I could hardly see him swimmin' around in there. I thought it would be alright, that they would hold out for a couple more days, or at least until I could clean the tank tonight. I was gonna clean it the other night, but we ended up going out for hot chocolate instead. Supid greatest-hot-chocolate-in-the-whole-freakin'-world-ever-in-the-world. You won't get me like that again. I can't believe I favoured my own tastebuds and stomach over a little fish that actually belonged to my brother and which I don't really like very much. My poor Toby. He'll be lonely now. And I will clean the tank. I'm gonna leave Uni early today, and go home and clean it. Then Pez and I are going to go and buy a present for our friends D&B who are getting married tomorrow.

 

So here's the thing: I was thinking of giving Toby, his tank and all that stuff away. Mostly because I just don't have time to clean his tank regularly. I was originally thinking that I'd give it to my sister coz she has 3 kids, and they could get a couple more fishies or whatever, but then I thought that I could give it to my brother, coz he has a daughter, and she might like it. I could give it to my little brother - he could take it when he moves to Melbourne in the New Year. Maybe I could sell him on eBay? Like the starfish from Finding Nemo. I could send him to Susy so that she'd have a permanent reminder of me there with her...

 

Ok, so perhaps the big ol' US of A is a bit far, but here it is, I'm only going to say this once, so you'd better be listening... err... reading....

 

He's about as long as this column is wide, but his tail makes him look bigger; he's orange with white fins and tail; he's actually quite pretty. His eyes don't stick out of his head, which is good, coz that would make him ugly. I don't like the fishies that have eyes that bug out of their heads. He has an awesome life story (get comfy): My dad used to work in this big garden, and they had a fish pond with a few fish in it. Near the end of last year, he had to clean it out so that they could fill it in and put something else there. All of the other fishies had died, except for this one, yet nameless, pretty golfish. So my dad, being the resourceful man he is (:S) put this fish into his half full watering can, and managed to get it home to me. He called me outside, and said "Keren, I have a present for you!" He pointed to the watering can, to which I said, "I am *so* not watering your plants because I really don't care" and then he said, "No, look inside..." Which I did, and I saw this goldfish. I immediately dubbed him Toby, and then I had to go and find something to put him in. I found this really funky vase, which I thought would be kewl, but he was a bit big for that, so while it was alright for a couple of hours, it wouldn't be good long term. I had to go to work, but while I was out, my parents bought a fish tank, and bought the little fish for my brother, which I dubbed FOT because Ben couldn't think of a name for him. I came home, and there they were, swimming around, happy and carefree. There was no filter for this tank, however, so it soon got dirty. I didn't clean it for months, and I thought, When I *do* clean it, I'm going to get him a filter so the water won't get so gross so quickly. All this time, however, little FOT, less then half the size of Toby, was nibbling at his tail, so when I actually cleaned the tank, and saw his tail, it had chunks taken out of it!! I bought a filter, cleaned my tank, and when I put fresh water in it, it cracked and exploded all over my room. *sigh* So I had to get a new fish tank. Luckily, the fishies weren't in it at the time, they were still waiting to go in. Ever since I bought that fish tank and the filter, I have had to clean the tank more because it's become scummier so much quicker. Crazy. And I don't know why. I'm starting to wonder if it's Toby. It seems like all he does is eat and poo, eat and poo. I think I only ever saw FOT poo once. I think he's more discrete than Toby. Was... more discrete... I think Toby must be old, and his attitude is like "What? Everyone does it..."

 

If no-one wants Toby, I don't know what I'll do. He might end up at Pez's house, although I don't know where. Maybe my friend Nick will take him in - he likes fishies. I just really feel like I'm not the best for him anymore. I'm sorry, Toby, I think that this is the end of the tank for us. It's not you, it's me. I think that we were better as friends. But just promise me this: you will go on. You will go on, find a wife-fish, make lots of babies, teach them that it's ok to poo on Crush's head - he's just an ornament. I have loved you, Toby. I do love you. But I just don't think we were meant to be. Perhaps in another time, or another place, you could still be my pet, but right now, I just don't think I can be the owner you need me to be. *wipes tear from eye*

 

Dedicated to the memory of FOT, Friend of Toby, 2005-2006: may he float in peace through the procelain express, be free and happy in fishie heaven; and to Toby: I'm sorry I can't be all you need me to be right now. I'll try to find you a new, better home, I promise. I will never forget you. *heart*

Farout. I just finished my first draft of a report which is due on, oh, FRIDAY... My supervisor's going to look through it today and tomorrow and hopefully we'll meet up sometime soon to talk about it. Yay! See, this is the reason I haven't updated recently: first, I was afraid, I was petrified... ahem. No, I wasn't. Well, I was a bit, but that's not the point. I had to do 40 hours of fieldwork research placement in an organisation. I chose the Uniting Church to see if faith influences organisational communication etc. w00t. I bet you totally wanted to know that. I wasn't heaps looking forward to it, in fact, I've really not liked this whole part of the course - too bad it's the compulsory bit that if I don't do, I'll fail, and not get my swanky certificate. So I did my placement - great people, nice place etc - and I've just spent the last week or so writing it up, and today, I finished said write up. At the moment, I went about 800 words over the limit, so I'll have to cull it, but that's alright - there's heaps of wordy bits which I could say better with less words, but I've just been tired so I've been babbling a lot about stuff and not using a whole lot of punctuation, but I think that Pez will sort that out when he reads it and edits it and fixes it and stuff. Now, if you're still with me, you'll see that last sentence was an exercise in babbling. Yes, I am witty, clever and slick - you didn't even notice! HAH!

 

Once this assignment is in, I only have 2 more to go - w00t! I'm planning to do one subject in Summer School after Christmas which will mean I go into town for a week and write about stuff around the city - EASY! I've also 'registered interest' in being a mentor for the little first years who come next year... I still don't know if I'll do it - it will depend on if I get this new job that I've applied for (and for which I was interviewed yesterday--more on this if anything comes of it...!), mostly, but then I might just not be interested in doing it when it comes to next year... Meh... Anyhoo...

 

Daylight savings, as much as I love it, is taking a bit of time for me to get used to. It's still messing with my head. Take last night, for example: I was at uni, merrily doing more of this report, and I look at the clock and it's 7:30. PM. THat's right, 7:30 at night. Where did my day go?! It was still light outside... I was so confused. Then I got to Peri's house, and we sat around for a bit, and then suddenly, it was 9:00. MESSING WITH MY HEAD!! So I didn't eat until like, 9:30, but it felt normal. It's so wierd. And today, I've been at uni since like, 10, but it doesn't feel like I've been here for that long. Crazy. Anyhoo...

 

Ooh! My goldfish, Toby, remember him? Yeah, I think he's better now. The lump's gone pretty much, now, since I cleaned the tank. That was like, what? Three weeks ago? Yeah? Well it's stinky again!!! Stupid fishies. Stupid stinky fishies. And it's not like I can slap a fish with a fish for being stupid and stinky is it? Well... well... I'll... hit them with a... rhythm stick... or something. Blargh. I don't know.

 

Go see the Ides on Friday at the Jade Monkey!

 

So I'm off now, to work at the stupid multi-national that is Woolworths. *sigh* At least my morning was productive. Please allow me to take this opportunity to ask forgiveness from my dedicated reader for not updating sooner. I've been busy. And I talk to you online fairly regularly, so you know most of this stuff anyway. But yes, I'm sorry. Did you see that? I saw that opportunity, I asked for it, and then I apologised. I'm so freaking amazing!!! *wipes sarcasm from lips* AND HILLARIOUS!!! Oh yeah.

 

Have a lovely day, my pretties, and I hope to be back here soon...

 

So long, suckers! *evil laugh as I stride out of the room, cape flowing, forgetting my USB drive*

Or for me. I hate being here by myself. So much so that I've either had people over until ridiculous hours, or been at other people's houses until ridiculous hours so that it doesn't feel like I'm missing any one. I'm so lame. Mum and dad get back tomorrow, and they want me to pick them up, so I will. Hey speaking of home, Pez just moved into his new one this week, and it's way cool! I like it a lot :)

 

So Steve asked why governesses were to be trusted. I'm reading a book by Henry James at the moment. It's for uni, and the words and the way they're put together is beautiful, just that I have no idea what he's talking about. I *think* it's about a girl whose parents have recently divorced, and are fighting over the custody of this child, or, not so much custody as not having to have this 'burden'. Hilarity ensues. Not really. Anyway, there was a line in this book that I just really liked: 'Parents had come to seem vague, but governesses were evidently to be trusted'.

 

Anyway. I think my goldfish, Toby, is sick. He has developed a lump on his head. If you only see it really quickly, it looks like a little bit of white fluff or like, mould or something, but then if you see it head on, it is kinda lumpy and turning kinda purple or something. I hope he's alright. I'm getting a bit worried about him... Heh... I should perhaps clean the fish tank too. It's developing a 'healthy' (:S) layer of scum on the top, and it's like, way uber stinky. I should clean it soon... :S

 

I'm um... also going mental with copious amounts of uni work at the moment. Bren: I hear your pain. I have to do two fieldwork practicums (1 of 40hours...!), two 4500 word reports, and a 2000 word assignment, all due in the last week. I also have a 1500 word assignment due, well, technically tomorrow, but she gave us all a blanket extension on that one... Anyway, so having not slept so well, or very many hours in succession recently--maybe a month or two--is not heaps of fun, but I can be thankful that I'm not sick.

 

*sigh* We have the Gov gig tonight, so that'll be awesome! YAY! Then I'm gonna go home and SLEEP! w00t! But I'm way stoked for the guys :) Go the Ides!

 

Alrighty, I'm gonna be off now. I know this one was short, but I'm getting distracted by Jamie Oliver on TV.

 

Be good now ;)

I came home from work today to an empty house. No-one here to ask me "How was work?" when they know I'll just say that I hate it, and it's a waste of my time. No-one with whom to fight over what I'll watch on TV. Also no-one to cook for me. This isn't so much a problem, until it's time to clean up. I hate doing the dishes. So the reason for all of this is that my parents flew out to Alice Springs this morning for my cousin's wedding. My brother who's also usually around to cramp my style (style that demands I'm home alone on a Friday night. It's because I'm too cool, I swear), he's taken his fiance down to Kingston SE so that she can meet one of my other brothers and his family before they get married in January. So the house to myself. Well, two houses, really, I guess, coz Ben lives in the unit next to this one, which we're also renovating at the moment. Neat. Party at my house. Actually, no. I'm not really all that cool. And my neighbors, especially grumpy-Betty-old-lady from number 6 will hate me even more.

 

So I'm home alone. Not a whole lot to report here. I could tell you about my week.

 

My week's been a bit, well, *shrugs* meh... I'm on "holidays" from uni at the moment. That means that I have heaps of assignments to do. And a fieldwork placement to organise. See, that's all very fine, except that I can't find anywhere to do my fieldwork placement. I mean, it's only 5 weeks 'til the end of the uni year, and it's not like the report of this fieldwork placement thing is worth 100% for that subject which just happens to be the one compulsory subject that determines my passing or failing this whole degree or anything. Actually, it is a lot like that. Exactly like that, in fact. So I have no idea what I'm going to do. I might quit. I don't know yet. Anyway, that's been unfolding this week.

 

I've also stayed with my friend Bon at her pastor's house, coz she's house sitting. Would have been awesome if they'd given her the right key so that we could get in, but breaking in was fun :) Then we had to do it for a few more days until the right key could be sent from Indonesia... We had a barbeque last Thursday (the day we first had to break in...!) and invited heaps of people over. It was kewl, but after we ate, it just got funny: All the boys sat in the dining room and played Risk, while all we girls ran off to the lounge and sat on the big comfy couches and watched a way uber girly movie. Good times. :) We had icecream with Ice Magic :) yum. Pez and Steve went to Melbourne on Saturday, and I took them to the airport in the morning. Sad to see Pez go, but I can't stop him from having adventures. :) And then he came back on Tuesday. :) heh Anyway, while he was having adventures in Melbourne, I stayed with Bon. We had adventures... kinda. On Sunday, I played piano at church, and when we all came back to the house, we sat around and watched more girly movies, then decided to go to church at Athelstone on the other side of the city. Like, way on the other side from Blackwood. It started at 6... we realised this at 5:15... So we left at about 5:30, but never fear--I drove so we made it on time :) After church, we were chatting with people, and one of them comes up to me, this guy, Tim, and he's like, "Where do I know you from?" and I'm like, "I dunno, but you look heaps familiar, eh?" We eventually insighted a bunch of people to go out for coffee on the Parade, and Tim came, the only guy among 5 other girls... poor bugger. Anyway, we eventually worked out that we probably met at a friend of a friend's 21st... heh - small world! Anyway... Staying at Bons was fun. We did Pilates, for like, 3 days, coz her friend let us borrow her Aerobics Oz Style Pilates DVD (as lame as it sounds) and I really like it, and so I might take it up. Or might take up a different kinda class because I have been getting wider and I don't like it.

 

When Pez came back, we sat up 'til like, 3 on Thursday morning just chatting - I'm not kidding, we're both *actually* quite good conversationalists...! - but then on Thursday, after I got home and slept and stuff, I woke up before 7...  *sigh* So I was pretty tired all day Thursday and tried to organise this whole placement thing which is just so not working and I hate it, but then in the arvo, after being messed around by the business I was trying to contact, I caught up with Bon, and we did Pilates. Her car broke down, and it's just getting too expensive to fix all the time, so she's thinking of getting a new car. That'll be kewl coz she has lots of car trip adventures planned for which a reliable car would be most handy :) We did some shopping and looked at a local gym (they weren't very nice...), before she left armed with chocolate to comfort her friend who just broke up with her boyfriend, and I went home and ate then went to Flynn's to play Balderdash.

 

So Balderdash is an interesting game... :D I like it. Especially when I'm winning. And also when Pez thinks my answers are the real ones. I didn't win, but it was pretty close. Pez only won by four... :P heh. Yay.

 

Today I worked. After mum woke me up to tell me I was meant to be taking them to the airport. But I thought Ben was, and then she came and woke me again 20 mins later, and I got up and was about to go into the bathroom, when she asked what I was doing, and I said I was having a shower so that I could take her to the airport, but then she's all like "Don't worry, Ben's taking us." Aargh! So I went back to bed. Actually, it wasn't mum who woke me up. It was Suse at about 5 (or 2 maybe...!?!) with a message about losing her glasses on a rollercoaster and then not being able to replace them and her Australian friend, Julie, having to drive in America for the first time with a nearly blind navigator. I don't even remember replying or what I said, but she said 'Oops... sorry - got my ams and pms muddled up'... heh... And then Bon messaged about 20 mins later (at like, 5:30am) saying that she allowed 25 mins to walk to the train and it only took 12 mins and asked how Balderdash went. I think I mustn't have pushed the right button to change the word coz I think I said that Pez won, but because of the letters and the whole not changing the word thing, it came up as sex. I just looked through my sent messages, and this is what I wrote back: "kewl and good and it was - i nearly beat sex, but there's always next time...!" then she said "There's always time for sex...!" and I laughed. LOL! I can't even construct a sentence at 5:20 in the morning...! hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!! (hah wow - I'm noticing a distinct lack of good chronology with the times mentioned in this paragraph - let's just say that the messages came early in the morning, and I was tired... :P)

 

I worked all day today. The children screamed. They screamed a lot. Don't they know it's Christmas-time?! That's right, from this Wednesday (also my oldest niece's 13th birthday...!! I remember when she was born!!! Oh I feel soo old!), they started rolling out the Christmas stock at work. Mince pies, Christmas stockings, Christmas pretzels. I dont' know if the powers that be realise yet that it's still SEPTEMBER...! *sigh* I also don't know what's so Christmasy about pretzels. This makes me wonder how soon they're going to start with the carols/christmas songs over the PA...  Oh well... So this begins another 6 months of getting Christmas stock, geting too much Christmas stock, selling lots of Christmas stock at stupid prices for stupid stuff, then Christmas, a few days off, then the Easter stock will come in, and it will be side by side on the sale racks. w00t. Today was one of those days that just didn't seem to wanna end. Friday before a long weekend, footy grand final, end of school term 3. I don't know why I thought this would be a good day to be working. It was mental. After every customer, I'd look up to find just another customer waiting with a massive conveyor-belt of stuff, babbling on about goodness knows what that I don't care about. On the upside, however, we had a farewell for one of the stupid supervisor/managers. She got a promotion to 1IC at another store. For her farewell gift, they got her a massive shiny silver bling bracelet, and a $100 Napoleon (the makeup...) voucher. She's so vain. And so incredibly stupid. I have no idea how she got this promotion. She can't even construct a sentence...! *sigh* Oh well. She's gone now. And we now have her equally stupid sister. I'm going to leave. I have to. It's driving me mental. I also think that I must have broken some kind of land-grocery-scanning record. I had this one customer who had *heaps* of stuff. 151 items, to be exact. Now the expected standard rate for grocery scanning is 16 items per minute, but I did these 151 items in 6 minutes. That's pretty impressive, you have to admit. That's like 25 items a minute. That's way impressive. :) I am SO lame. Oh well.

 

So I cooked tea for myself, and enough for a few more days (lucky I like stir-fry eh?! :P), and watched Shrek, and typed this up, then Pez came over, and he's here now, so I'm gonna go and be sociable, k?

 

You have fun now, y'hear?

 

K

Then I would be a little more regular. Heh... So it's been like, a month to the day... heh... *blushes* Susy, please forgive my laziness in updating. You'll get over it. You didn't update for ages either... Then you did like, three in as many days... :P

 

So here we are. It's a Saturday night. 10:12pm. Oversize glass of Chenin Blanc. Just got a message from Pez to tell me that he won the first game of Magic for the evening, and Steve now can't attack him. Some lame movie on the box. My muffins just beeped. Yum. Triple choc :) I should be doing readings for uni. Like, I have a good 10 or so to do and an assignment based on them all by the end of the week. I just really can't be bothered. All my friends are doing stuff tonight, and I can't join any of them... So I'm just feeling a little lonely at the moment. A Saturday night at home with my parents. I am so lame.

 

So, this last month... I can't remember what's happened... I'll just get my planner and find out...

 

OK, so, I saw the Ides at the NCBC - through their heat, and royally shafted in the final, but let's not bitch and moan about that because it's in the past, and the future looks bright. :) I went to a masquerade ball for someone's 21st, and rethought about doing that for my birthday (I thought of it before she did - I promise, and I might still. We'll see...)

 

I saw Kenny, and it was fun yay. :) I went to the ice hockey, and it was fun yay. We made lemony things to sell at church for Lemonathon 2006 to raise money for Pez, Steve and I to go to NCYC in Perth in January, and it was... lemony. Yay? Pez and I spent a couple of days in Victor visiting his Dad. It was such a beautiful day spent just strolling around the town in the sun, then we stopped at Port Willunga on the way back to town. THAT was one of the most beautiful beaches I've ever been to! SO LOVELY! yay! Um... what else...? Pez worked at the show heaps. It was Fathers' Day. I did a couple of group presentations for uni. I was a Vollie on SAYCO (South Australian Youth Camp Out - run by the Uniting Church for 12-15yos...) last weekend. It was fun, except for the small group that I was meant to lead who just didn't wanna talk, and the security shift that left me with 3 hours sleep. Would have sucked to be a camper (Hi Steve *waves*) because it rained while people had to set up tents, and then it poured all night. As part of the organising team, I got to sleep in a nice warm class room, with a heater, and my cozy quilt. yay! The rain on the roof kept me awake for ages, though. Oh well. I guess I survived. ;)

 

September 11th came and we celebrated my niece's 9th birthday, contemplated the state of the world since a couple of planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, and Pez and I marked another milestone: Nine months. YAY! Greatest nine months ever! And I look forward to many more. :) Yay!

 

Last night, the Ides played another gig, this time at Enigma on Hindley Street. And since going there, I have decided that I don't really like it. Or Hindley Street, for that matter. It is just a stinky, slimy place. People don't have much respect for one another, or themselves. I don't feel safe. And I was in a bad mood - I don't really know why. I slept really well, though :) Surely my tiredness had nothing to do with it...! :P ANYway... It's now Saturday.

 

What an uneventful month. Well, uneventful for me. Exciting for everyone else. I'm singing at church tomorrow morning, and I'm really looking forward to it. Then Pez and I are gonna do something in the arvo, maybe even swim - that'd be nice...! 29 whole degrees! In September! Blimey! But yay! *excited little jump*

 

So um... Muffins are calling. Yum. I will update more regularly, Suse, I promise... OK, so maybe not promise. I will try my best to update more regularly... :)

 

So... How are you all? Tell me stuff. Everyone else's lives are just more interesting than mine atm... so tell me what you're up to. :)

 

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I'm sorry this blog is so lame. I'll get interesting one day. :)

 

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