Chuck in the Tree

Good Lord I am Bored

2011-12-27T13:00:00.000+10:00

I have had my first day off at home in so very long.

But to my dismay, instead of having a wonderful day full of Charlie time, I am greeted by a large punch to the face by my good old friend boredom.

It's too bloody hot to do anything, except maybe swim, and my one friend with a pool isn't picking up her damn phone.

^.^

2011-12-19T22:15:00.000+10:00

This film clip is possibly the most intriguingly amazing film clip of all time.

"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.

I have litterally dropped off the face of the earth

2011-12-07T21:04:00.002+10:00

Oh Lord! I have had the most wonderful couple of days.

On Saturday (as I mentioned) was our VG Christmas party which got a little messy, but was frightfully fun none the less. Then on Sunday morning Seb and I went down the coast and stayed the night in Broken Head. Unfortunately we had to get up at 4:30am to be at the Gold Coast at 6, but this failed to qualm us as we spent a wonderful time on the beach.

Yesterday was probably the most wonderful out of all the days this week.

We (Seb and I.. again) went to Roma Street Parklands and got our wig on in the most wonderful way. We met some very strange and lovely people along the way, including some friendly homeless women who reminded us we had lost our child.

After spending ten hours in the park, only leaving briefly when we got cold and hungry, we headed on our merry way back to Sherwood (indahood) and got some shut eye before dying at work today.

The 'Arsehole Award' which lovingly went to Simon (well deserved bud)

It's new hair colour time!

2011-12-03T16:23:00.000+10:00

I am the kind of person who bores very easily and can't commit to one thing for more than a short period of time..

I blame watching too many cartoons as a child.

So, I recently (this morning) changed my hair colour (yet again).

It's now pink.. a pretty bloody bright pink, the photo doesn't do it justice.

I have some Blue to add to it, but I thought I might wait a few days.

This evening is our VG Christmas party and I am SoOoOoOoOoOoOo ExCiTeD!!!

Then tomorrow I am getting it bright and early and my friend Seb and I are going to Byron to CaMp FoR tHe NiGhT!! WoWoWoWoW!!!!!!

So much stoke!

Good lord

2011-11-30T22:56:00.000+10:00

Holy Moly Balls, yesterday I spent almost 7 hours in a park with a new pal of mine, and good lord I am regretting doing so.

My legs - particularly where leg-meets-bottom has been torn to shreds my mosquito's. I am so itchy.

I would estimate I have at least 36 bites on each of my legs + what is on my arms. It is infuriating. That's the last time I ever do anything fun. Even sitting down is a nightmare.

Here is a video that Jacob made from our trip to Mullimbimby with Chad.

#%#$#!@#$%$%^#^*

2011-11-28T20:21:00.000+10:00

My levels of stoke are at an all time high.

I've had the most wonderful weekend! Mainly yesterday and today.

Let me proceed.

My pal Tarryn is going back to Darwin for the holidays on Friday and we thought we should send her off in style by taking the trip that had to be postponed after an innocent plan to go to Nimbin, which lead us to the emergency room.

So, Tarryn, Scott, Fraser and I packed our bags, collected some delicious food, gathered 8 liters of Goon, as well as an unreasonable amount of smiles and set off to Byron on our merry way.

We found a quiet road on the most amazing beach in the world and set up camp. We also managed to find the most fantastic radio station which only added to our levels of intrigue.

Approximately an hour and a half into glory, things got furiously more wonderful as we busted out the glow sticks.

Tarryn took some long exposures and Scott took a video, but I have nothing to visually contribute as I left my phone at home and stupidly didn't take my camera (what on earth is the point of having a camera if not for occasions like this?!?!)

It was pitch black were we where and I can sat that I have never seen stars as wonderful as they were last night, it was like we were hanging off the side of the earth, soaring through space and we got to watch the moon disappear from an eclipse.

This morning, at approximately 7:06, we awoke and went swimming in the sea, which was also unreasonably pleasant.

Then we explored this abandoned railway tunnel in Mulimbimby (where I was last week) which was pretty sick.

I returned home covered in dirt without an ounce of dis-contentment in my body. Not a single ounce.

Hopefully either Fraser or Scott will have some photo's up on their tumblr. But if they don't, that's a shame.

Ten thumbs up for a great weekend team!#!!#!

Fairweather Friends

2011-11-19T21:44:00.000+10:00

Today I have:

Made a top, made a skirt, made a dress, cleaned my bedroom, polished my shoes, made a necklace, cooked a delicious dinner, changed my sheets and watched KungFu Panda.

It's been pretty damn productive.. I owe it all to getting up early as well as the special treats in our medicine cabinet ;) .. Thanks Harry.

The only unfortunate thing is that it's now 9:38pm and I have just come to realise that I'm home again on a Saturday night, hanging out with my brother while my parents carry on with their temporary social life, which really does put mine to shame.

This song has got me through the day.

So many smiles

2011-11-15T13:57:00.000+10:00

What a ridiculously, outlandishly, excellent start to the week.

On Sunday I was talking to my old pal Jacob on FB chat and I said 'what are you doing this week' and he said, 'going to Mulimbimby tomorrow for the night', and I said, 'Oh wow, I'm jealous', and he said 'want to come?' and I said '!!@##%)(*$%)(!*)!@$#(*... yes', so go I did.

We left on Monday morning, an hour after expected departure time thanks to Young Jacobs usual lateness, one of Jacob's friends Chad came too, and because they both like to skateboard, we went off to find some hills.

I was the designated hill-ferry (cheeky .. as I'm still on my learners) and would like to think that the trip would not have been nearly as much success as it was without my help (and excellent driving skillz).

So, yesterday we drove around, looking for hills, finding hills, skating said hills, before indulging in some delicious food and setting up camp on top of this great hill on the side of the road, close to where we had been skating (by we.. I mean Jacob and Chad), we asked a lovely neighbour if it was okay and he was more than willing to accommodate three young travelers on their road to glory.

We arose at sunrise, which was at first unfortunate, but considering how much has been done between then and now (it's 1:09pm), it seems like a reliable option from now on.

We packed up camp and then went off to the same hill (Banana's) where Jacob and Chad made a movie, and I once again played my role of designated driver.

Once we ran out of time and needed to come home, we jumped in the car, becoming increasingly more sweaty, went into Brunswick Heads and jumped in the stream in our knickers.

It was wonderful.

Swimming and the beach is by far my favorite past time and seeing as I have had a lack of both of these activities over the past few months, I well and truely feel like I am 'back'.

The water was bloody freezing, but it couldn't have been more wonderful.

I slept the entire way home and had many, many stoke-filled dreams.

And the best thing about it is - when I got home, my Dad informed me that they are going to the beach this afternoon.. DOUBLE BEACH TIMES .. So I am going to go to and increase my stoke to a whole new level of glory.

Thanks Jacob and Chad for quite the phenomenal time!!

And to make things better, I now have Strawberry Milk AND I just remembered I am going to Bright Eyes on Thursday night :D

My phone is finally back

2011-11-11T13:02:00.000+10:00

After a month of having a disconnected phone (actually a month, it got disconnected on the 12 of October), it is finally back! I don't mind not having a phone.

But the sucky thing about the disconnected phone situation is that people could still contact you.

I prefer not having a phone and not being contacted all together, but when I get contacted, but can't respond, I just feel rude.

After at least 6 calls to the dudes at 3 in India, my Mum finally took over, called some important people in Australia (the TIO) who apparently have higher authority over phone companies and soughted it out in one day (when I have been trying for the past month with no succession).

So everyone, feel free to call me (don't call me), because I can now respond!!

Now I can get back to doing what I do best:

I got up way earlier than what I needed

2011-11-10T08:58:00.000+10:00

Yesterday I went on a wonderful picnic with a new pal, and when I got home, I decided that I hated reality TV shows.

This is a spite that has been brewing for a while, but last night I just came out and said it.. I hate reality TV shows .. (except Beauty and the Geek and Farmer Wants a Wife.. they are still great.

So, in conclusion, I will list the things that are bad about them

1. They tend to go on FOREVER.. I mean, how long has Australian Idol been running (since 2003)
2. Each network can create their own 'reality TV' show so that they don't have to pay for 'actual TV' (good TV)
3. Many people love the crap that reality TV brings and watch it every night (My parents love Celebrity Apprentice, Masterchef and X-Factor).
4. Networks can also rake in HUGE sponsorship from outside companies wanting to promote their brand (e.g. Coles and Masterchef).
5. They are boring and repetitive and over-dramatized.. but I guess people feed off drama and that's what keeps them watching.
6. I would rather eat my own foot than sit through another season of 'The Amazing Race'.

*These facts may or may not have been entirely made up

I just had a bath and the water turned purple.

2011-11-07T21:38:00.000+10:00

The more time I spend at home, the more I have come to realize how immature and bratty I am.

I feel sorry for my parents.

I enjoy poking my tongue out at my Mum when my mouth is full of food, or responding with 'I know you are but what am I'.

She was kind enough to let me drive today (I'm still on my learners.. and a horrible driver at best) and I swerved into the next lane my mistake, Mum yelled, I laughed and she said angrily 'It's not funny!' I responded with, 'It was kinda funny..' With a cheeky grin on my face.

So, in conclusion.. if I ever have a child like me.. I will smother it in it's sleep.

This is a flipping Faaaaaantastic song!

This is a bloody fantastic movie!

I also love cats

2011-11-04T14:12:00.000+10:00

I love my Mum.

She is so freaking cute.

I have been away for the past two days and I came home and she had hung up my mobile that Gabby made me, done all my washing and re-arranged my cupboard so that it has more space.

My Mum is SO not one of those Mum's that get's in your grill and tidy's your bedroom and moves stuff around and wants to know where you are at all times.. she pretty much leaves us to our own devices, which is why I thought it was particually cute.

I think I have missed having a Mum over the past year and a bit.

Well.. sometimes.

But in other news, this girl is the most wonderful cherry blossom ever.

How to avoid killing yourself

2011-11-02T14:22:00.000+10:00

After two days, I have come to the conclusion, that when you live in the suburbs and you can't drive, day's off aren't all they are cracked up to be.

Everything is so boring, you are miiiiles from anywhere even mildly entertaining, you can't go to the beach.. I could go on a picnic, but my delicate pale skin is not made for middle-of-the-day sunshine.

So instead I am eating myself into oblivion and waiting for Chloe to come and collect me.

I need a job..

Well.. another job..

Ten possible things to do when bored when you live in suburbia:

1. Break into your neighbours house and start a fire

2. Dress up like a cat

3. Bake chocolate muffins

4. Hide in the bushes and when people walk past.. kill them

5. Watch Desperate Housewives

6. Play with your imaginary dog

7. Go spear fishing in your pond and eat your gold fish for dinner

8. Re-arrange all the furniture in the house, just to annoy everyone

9. Create a deadly animal and unleash it into your brothers room.

10. Find a cure to amputees (If I was really smart, I would like to be able to create a serum that people could take when they lose a limb, so that they can grow it back.. just like a startfish).

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuute

Ramble rhymes with rubble.. kind of

2011-11-01T23:43:00.000+10:00

I'm not entirely sure what happened tonight, I seemed to have watched 5 episodes of Desperate Housewives and my nails have been painted, so I know I have achieved something.

Before I retreat off to bed, I thought I would share that my hair is incredibly knotted and I am not looking forward to brushing it. However, if I put off brushing it like I normally do, the knots will continue to form and may not ever come out.

It's a lose-lose situation really.

This is definitely one of the greatest songs of all time.

Steve - 1, Charlie - 2, Jesse - 0

2011-10-30T23:12:00.001+10:00

I started a post about my first night at home, but this definitely trumps my original post.

I started giggling at this, but then when the 'that was a joke' was added, I actually lost the plot a little bit.

For uncertain reasons.

I also started to cry with laughter.. which never happens to me. I laugh for a long time, but never cry, unless something is really, really funny.

I'm not sure what I found so funny, but I felt it so hilarious, that I must share.

I hope you find it every bit as enjoyable as I did

Moving home ranting that doesn't make any sence

2011-10-30T01:00:00.000+10:00

It's my last night at Heal Street and to be quite honest, I am really sad..

I have spent the past year and a bit of my life here, experiencing the good and the bad, making wonderful friends, watching endless T.V series, learning to love cats, stumbling home at ridiculous o'clock, hanging out on our verandah having our own karaoke sessions.

Fuck I will miss this house.

I am actually crying as I write this, that's how pathetic it is.

I can't even imagine not coming home and bitching to Kat about everything and anything, watching Ben stumble from the shower to the bathroom in his knickers in the mornings, having neighbor Ben come uninvited (but lovingly) into our house every night and crack open a beer.

Words cannot even begin to describe how wonderful everything about it is.

I will miss being able to do anything I want (like eat a whole roll of cookie dough and not be judged).. (I did this today)..

I think I never really appreciated it (like all things in life), until now.. when I have to move.

It is also sad to think that the next time I stay here, it will be on the couch.

(But just so you guys know [Kat and Ben] expect me every night).

There will be some good things about moving home, like home cooked meals, getting my license, always having clean clothes, opening the cupboard and having something other than cheese, garlic and cordial inside.. but bitching to my Mum just won't be the same as bitching to Kat.

Mum won't come home and say 'I need a cigarette', which usually means 'Fuck my life', and if she does, it just won't be the same.

So in conclusion, Kat, Ben, Ben (neighbour) Ali, you have been the best fucking housemates anyone could ever have asked for and I don't know how I am going to survive without you. I came to this house as a stranger but you welcomed me with open arms and I couldn't have asked for anything more.

Whilst we have had our fair share of struggles.. well one only - having to find a new housemate twice - it couldn't have ended on a better note.

You are the greatest people alive and I will miss you so fucking much (all the swearing is necessary).

I apologize if you find me tomorrow dead, having poisoned myself because of an overwhelming sense of grief.

We don't have a photo of us all together, so I had to improvise.

I spent an hour and a half improvising that photo.. but it was all done with love.

<3 <3 <3 (>'.')> (>'.')> (>'.')> <3 <3 <3

Helicopter

2011-10-28T10:16:00.000+10:00

Yesterday I was bored, so when I got home from work I got out the scissors and cut off my hair. Lucky for me, it actually doesn't look that bad.. thankfully.

Today, before I start work, I am packing up my bedroom and listening to Adam Green (future husband). It's really sad having to move, but it is being counteracted with the wonderful melodies of Mr Green.

My heart melts a little every time I hear him.

I feel like, come Sunday, I will have to be dragged out of this house kicking and screaming.

The last of the Heal St hangs

2011-10-26T23:02:00.001+10:00

Chloe and I went out to the swimming pool at Wynnum today and then we got cup cakes from Meally's Bakery.

Our house just played host to a BBQ to say goodbye to me.. I am now actually moving.

Kill me.

But in other notes, it's been the most wonderful day.

Tarryn is now passed out on my floor because she didn't want to sleep in my bed. She has also stolen the good pillow.. god damn her.

My hair is so filthy

2011-10-26T12:09:00.000+10:00

I am selling everything I own

2011-10-23T18:26:00.000+10:00

I am poor, I am moving home :( :(, I need to de-clutter my life.

So, as a result, I am selling everything I own. Including all my furniture.

As a result, I need your help.. I plan to sell many of my clothes, shoes, general belongings and also my soul, so if you are interested in any of these.. please don't hesitate to tell me so.

I shant post any photographs, because I suppose the 12 people who read my blog know who I am, what I wear and have been inside my room.

So if you have had a sneaky eye on something of mine and would like to purchase it.. tell me and you will make me smile, the purchase will be made and I will in turn make you smile.

Possibly the greatest song

Happy Halloween

2011-10-22T23:03:00.000+10:00

I have just spent the past eight hours watching Desperate Housewives and eating popcorn.. life is pretty fantastic.

Yesterday, instead of going to Nimbin/Byron/Paradise with some fellow friends like planned, I spent the day in the hospital helping to re-live the mistakes that were made from the night before.

Never take friends on shortcuts home..

In other news, I have left my job at Oh Hello :(, am about to leave my current home :( :( and will shortly be leaving the state.

But in even better news, is this song

My life never made sense.. until now

2011-10-19T17:07:00.000+10:00

My shoes arrived!!!

I have been waiting for this day for the past two weeks!!

I ordered them in green, but yellow arrived.. at first I was disappointed, but now I feel like someone had my back when they thought I would prefer yellow.. because I do.

I am never going to take them off.. I am going to frolic around in paddocks wearing them for the rest of my life. I will be buried in them and wear them during the birth of my first born.

Yes yellow shoes, we have a long and promising life together.

Socks - Happy Socks, available at Violent Green

Best Coast

2011-10-16T21:51:00.000+10:00

I don't know if ya'll have seen this Best Coast film clip, if you haven't, you should.

It was directed by Drew Barrymore and has some well loved celebrities like Chloe Moretz who plays that girl in Kick Ass.. you know, the little one who fights crime, Troy from Community (Donald Glover) and Maybe from Arrested Development in it.

I also kinda love this song.

Actually I love all Best Coast songs. They make me happy, all the time.

Glory

2011-10-16T09:04:00.001+10:00

I haven't posted in a million years.. almost, give or take a couple of days.

Last week was the most hectic week, and so was the week before that.

I am paying for it now though because I am sick and can't feel my legs.

I'm pretty hungry too, but I've spent all my money and the only thing I have in the cupboard is cheese.. and I don't really like cheese that much when I have other things to put with it.

I have had some excellent times with many of my friends over the past fortnight, but I hope to get back into a normal person frame of mind pronto.

This was the most delicious cup cake in the world.

I might make some cup cakes riiight now.

In all my hype of talking about cup cakes, I forgot to mention that I went to Parklife a couple of weeks ago!

It was so much fun, especially since I didn't really have too much of an idea as to weather or not I was going until about 3 hours before it started. So I called up Tarryn, we collected our tickets and off we went.

The absolute highlight of the entire day (for me) was seeing Sebastian Tellier. He wore these fucking unbelievable sparkly jeans, that I spent the whole time mesmerized by. I think that it would be safe to say that I spent more attention on his pants, than I did on the actually music.

I don't really remember that much else of the day that would be of interest. So much partying.. so many smiles. But then I had to go to work which was tears.

The Greatest

2011-10-03T13:58:00.002+10:00

Today, I cried like a baby.

For the second time this week.

Why? Because of the most wonderful movie ever made.

It's called 'The Greatest' .. and well, the title is pretty self explanatory.

It's about this girl - Carey Mulligan and a guy - Aaron Johnson who are completely in love (original, I know), but have never spoken to each other, and then on the last day of school, they speak and then they are driving home and get into a car accident and the guy dies.

She then finds out that she is pregnant with his child and then the movie just takes off from there.

It's so fucking beautiful.

It's Nine O'clock

2011-09-30T21:00:00.000+10:00

Half an hour before I have to get up from bed and get ready for work.

So I thought I would take this time to light a nice candle, listen to the below and shut my eyes for a little while (except for whilst doing this post.. obviously).

Bliss.

I have some photo's from the coast.. but they can wait.

They are also only from my phone because my camera battery died.

(I went to the coast on Tuesday night after work with a new, intriguingly lovely pal of mine).

Thursday

2011-09-29T19:02:00.000+10:00

American Juggalo from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

If you have got a spare moment, check this (or at least some of it) out.

This is what started it all..

My teeth still hurt, but luckily I can not feel them

2011-09-25T03:43:00.001+10:00

Tonight I was listening to this:

And walking (skipping) home from work and thinking 'isn't life just so fucking wonderful!!' exclamation points necessary.

I literally both a) listened to this pretty much on repeat and b) feel like dancing through fields of daisy's when I hear this.

It's a song that just makes me feel so lovely and free and careless and wonderful when I hear it.

I probably need to sleep, but sleeping is the last thing that I feel like doing.

My belly is growling and I need to feed it, but I can't even imagine putting food inside my belly at this point in time.

I feel like I am looking down at everything in the world and just smiling.

Speaking of which, I have been having these crazingly amazyingly fantastic dreams lately where I am in out of space soaring through the galaxies looking down on earth. I am totally weightless, roaming amongst the planets, trying to make my way back to earth, but I never do. I am totally free. Words cannot even describe how completely liberating it is.

Goodnight.

I wish I was a cat

2011-09-24T06:37:00.001+10:00

I was thinking on my walk home from work about 15 minutes ago, whilst listening to this song

that I wish I was a cat.

I was thinking this because I was sleepy and I thought that cats could sleep whenever they damn well please, but then I also got thinking onto other things that cats can freely do.

Like frolic in gardens, make friends with strangers, get all cosy and then just disappear for a few days.

And whilst I do do these things, it's just not the same.

Cats have total freedom that we, as humans, can not have (although I plan on reaching said freedom in March when I disappear from this town and head on my big adventure ;).)

But regardless. I wish I was a cat.

Sure, dogs are great, I used to be a huge fan of dogs (now I am a fan of bunny's), and there is probably only one dog who holds a giant place in my heart, because she loves to make people happy and is just so wonderful. See here for (occasionally) more.. but even more regardless, that is just my point.

Dogs long to make people happy, but cat's don't, cats just do whatever the hell they feel like. That's the kind of life I want to live. Without having to take other people's feelings into consideration.

Note: When I was Google spell checking disappear, this is what came up as number one :

Please also note, my teeth hurt so much.

And it's 6:36am and I am no where near sleepy, despite the fact that in the past three days I have had about 9.75 hours sleep, approximately.

Give or take a few minutes.

So now I shall leave you with a crappy photo of the most amazing cat in the world, as well as the bunny I would like to receive as an early Christmas gift, taken ever so stealthy from Google Images.

Ugh, I can hear Kat (my housemate.. amazing housemate) getting ready to go to work.. painful, because I just got home.

I will shortly punch someone

2011-09-16T10:11:00.001+10:00

So I'm not sure what happened last night.

I know I worked.. I know I received some horrible news, and I know I managed to take off my make up, but not clear the things off my bed before getting under the covers.

I also know that I spent half an hour to Chloe on the phone at half past three.

I also know that until receiving said sad news - before finishing work - I was having the greatest fucking night.

I was smiling and dancing by myself.

My favorite things to do.

But alas, like most Thursday nights, I appear to have made a dick of myself to those I least wanted to.

I've been you-tubing for ages but can't find a second video I am satisfied with.. not that that has ever stopped me before, so I will just leave it at that.

People would say "you're the Beatle that changed the most", but I didn't care, everyone has to change in this life

2011-09-05T14:04:00.001+10:00

We are off again!!!

Spontanious road trips.

This time, instead of camping in the bushes of the beach, I think we are actually going to have to stay in a cheap motel, because Tarryn will have to look presentable tomorrow.

I think we should head to Mullumbimby where a pal and I stayed last year.

Either that or the Byron Backpackers - we have little to no money.

Arrrggh!!! I'm excited!!

Get out your fanny

2011-09-02T21:47:00.001+10:00

Photo's from Fingal, I am attempting to socialize, so ranting will not be had.

Reality is hectically better when you have been out of it for a while

2011-09-01T22:04:00.000+10:00

Life is better when you get the hell outta town.

Jack, Dave, Gabby and I thought precisely this at approximately 10:00pm on Tuesday night, so then decided to pack our bags and head for the coast bright and early (2:00pm) on Wednesday.

We had to get a few things soughted before we hit the open road, such as sleeping bags, smiles supply (both inside the mind and out ;) ), and a possible place to camp.

With Fingal our destination, food and smiles in our belly and a plan to forget everything for the next 24 hours, we set off.

I forgot my phone, which actually turned out to work in my advantage as I forgot about (and didn't care about) time, people and all responsibilities.

When we got there, we set up camp in the bushes by the beach (which we found out this morning by a man resembling Santa, that this is illegal, as is having a fire on the beach), then cracked open a beer - or for Gabby and myself, a sack of goon.

Time flew by and along with our minds, we also forgot to bring suitable cooking equipment for the sausages we packed, so we cooked them on sticks propped near the diminishing fire.

We climbed to the lighthouse, peed in the buses and had ourselves a jolly old time.

This morning, after the worst sleep in the world having no mattresses and an over-cramped tent, we quickly backed our belongings as we were told and headed for some breakfast.

We got a delicious breakfast of Fish and Chips and went to the most glorious little cove in the whole world and ate them on the beach.

After having some cheeky smiles and a sleep, we left Fingal and headed for Kirra to see one of Jacks friends.

Which involved Gabby and myself going into the ocean to pee ;).

Ahhh, I have limited time, so luckily that is just about all I have to say.

Other than, THIS WAS THE GREATEST FUCKING WEEKEND THAT WASN'T A WEEKEND.

I needed to get out of town so badly and forget everything.

I am now unhappy to announce that I am sadly back in reality, slightly sunburnt, but it is worth it knowing that I can skip town like that again soon.

I don't have time for photos, or to even look at them as I am already late for work..... aaaah, off to a good start.

Yesterday I was awake for 23.5 hours and worked for and 21 hours

2011-08-27T16:39:00.001+10:00

My feet are so horribly swollen and sore.

I am going to complain all I want.

I worked all three of my jobs yesterday, not on purpose, but I thought I had finished and then got called into work another 5 hours.

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!

The good thing is it's raining and I'm still in bed :D

The bad thing is, I want pancakes and have no flour.

Sorry about the lack of posts.

For the lack of posting

2011-08-17T01:32:00.001+10:00

I currently 7 days through working 14 days straight.

I'm just about ready to die.

Tomorrow night I start my new job at Oh Hello! which is a new (and excellent) bar that has just opened where Monastry used to be (god I hated that place).

It's been a pretty hectic week.

On Thursday night Gabby and Scott came round and we had a few beers, a few bottles of wine and then proceeded to cover the front of my house in chalk before falling asleep naked in my bed whilst attempting to watch Blue Valentine.

It was actually a pretty hilariously excellent night.

That's all my news.

Tomorrow I am going to be productive.

Here is some photo's of Ty and I on our first romantic picnic.

Kitten's eat Cats

2011-08-09T21:42:00.000+10:00

As time goes on, I become more and more irrelevant. I spent today watching the Little Mermaid, as well as this amazingly fantastic movie called 'Waiting for Forever'.

I also painted a building, ready for opening night on Thursday.

I am very much looking forward to tomorrow.

2011-08-08T21:54:00.000+10:00

Having purple, relatively long hair does have it's benefits, such as being a strange attraction to young children and creepy men, but maintenance is something that is forever on-going, time consuming and something that I don't have paitence with.

Luckily Mum does. She just spent the past 45 minutes brushing all the knots out of my hair and saying 'wow, it's getting long'.

I am not left with silky smooth hair.

Come summer, I think I am probably going to cut it all off.

Which may not be a bad thing.

Ahh, this week has been so hectic, I have worked, and worked, and worked with little to no time for fun.

Hopefully this week will make up for it.

On Wednesday Ty and I both have the day off, so to celebrate, we are going to New Farm Park to play on the swings and climb the trees.

Party's over

2011-08-01T13:14:00.000+10:00

Yesterday, I went to work, having not changed out of my uniform or taken off my shoes in 24 hours.

I was still drunk and I woke up half an hour after we were supposed to start work on Gabby's kitchen floor, covered in candle wax and bruises.

I need to get my shit together.

Sure it was fun while it lasted, playing with the neighbours dog and unleashing him into her housemates beds at 8 o'clock in the morning, painting Sam's fingernails, drinking copious amounts of red wine from tea cups at 10 o'clock in the morning, but I think it has gone too far and now it must stop.

I haven't been home, basically in over a month.

I am so tired that I feel like I am constantly scattered and completely numb.

Being stupidly crazy is no longer fun when you are the only two still going and everyone else has got proper lives with responsibilities.

So this week, I plan to stay home, in bed and do nothing but eat delicious food and watch the OC.

"When I was in Darwin, the only time I used my legs was to walk to the bar to get another drink".

2011-07-26T15:02:00.000+10:00

I just smashed a glorious amount of food.

I'm so full.

In other news.. we have the internet now at home, so no more sitting out the front in the middle of the night stealing our neighbours!

Yesterday Gabby and I were having party, party, hang times, minus some party, add some tea and we looked at each other and realised that we are no longer having a great time failing at life, but more just failing at life.

Sure, we are still having fun, but fun becomes less fun when everyone else has real jobs or is going to uni, but you are still waking up at 1:30 in the afternoon after a big night of doing nothing, because your life is one huge holiday.

But on the plus side, Jack is taking us to the beach tomorrow :D

Or if he doesn't, he will wake up and his bedroom will be one huge practical joke that will make him contemplate his own suicide.

Coming back to reality is for fish

2011-07-20T17:02:00.000+10:00

Ah man, I have had the most unbelievably glorious 3 weeks.

I have pretty much not left Gabby's house, hence the non-blog posting.

By I haven't left Gabby's house, I mean between last Monday and today, I only went home on Thursday night, for one night.

Everything is just so splendid there.

So many smiles are had.

So many beers are consumed.

And somehow at the end of each night, everyone ends up naked.

Despite this though, I am glad to be home.

I need a day of un-hectic-ness. Especially given the extreme hectic-ness of last night.

It's all fun and games until you wake up and realise three days have passed and you are covered in paint.

Lemmy the Magnificent

2011-07-15T15:36:00.001+10:00

Once there was a man named Lemmy.

He was strong and kind and everybody loved him.

Lemmy was born without a vocal box, but instead had a never ending stomach.

He would travel the land, fighting baddies with his stomach of steal, sometimes even swallowing them whole.

Everybody loved Lemmy and looked up to him as if he were a king.

He was no king, but merely a kind-hearted soul, wanting happiness for everyone.

One day, Lemmy challenged the meanest baddy around to a duel. All the villagers came to cheer him on and watch him win, but it was on this cloudy, cold, windy day, that Lemmy fell.

Everyone watched in horror as their saviour had been defeated.

Tears came pouring from the eyes of every spectator.

The one they loved and worshiped was somehow gone.

They took his body and buried it in the grandest part of the town, overlooking long grass and daisy fields, with all the food you could possibly eat.

Lemmy was the most beautiful soul to walk the earth and he will always be remembered.

Nipples make the heart grow fonder

2011-07-08T01:27:00.000+10:00

I recently (yesterday) found out that I can steal my neighbours internet when I sit on our gate (sorry guys).

So here I am, at almost 1:30 in the morning, sitting on our front gate in the freezing cold interneting to my hearts desire.

Today has been a pretty balls week, but also a glorious one.

Probably more glorious than balls.

The only balls thing is that I can't download the OC like my heart truely desires, ahh Ryan, Marissa, Summer and Seth (ultimate dreamboat, somewhat exactly the same as high school boyfriend my the same name) you really have me hooked.

Why, Marissa, did you not listen to your mother in season one and go to 'a place for troubled girls', it only ends in death by car.

Gabby showed me this video the other night, and I almost lost my mind.

It's the most excellently crazy thing I have ever seen.

There are bee's in my boots

2011-07-07T13:09:00.000+10:00

'Aru, you've got a chip on your shoulder'... 'A chip on my shoulder, where? I can't see it.'

Today is the perfect day to do something fun, such as speaking in the above lingo and what a glorious lingo it is.

It's my Mum's birthday today, so we went out for cake and coffee, to which she asked 'do many people say you look like a witch' I said 'why yes, yes they do'.

(Inside joke on the purple hair).

(It's not really an inside joke, but more a regular joke).

(I guess the jokes on me).

On a more saine note, I'm not going back to TAFE as my bank balance won't allow me.

It's sad as all hell, especially since my TAFE friends are the greatest friends in the world, but I guess that's the price you have to pay for buying nice shoes.

I got an app on my phone called 'how'd you get so fucking gangsta' (this may or may not be the real name) which allowed me to take these funky photo's whilst we drank beer or of tea cups.

Chloe wasn't late

2011-07-06T18:19:00.000+10:00

Ever wanted to see inside my bedroom without having to peek through the window like I suspect you do every night?

Well congratulations, now's your chance.

In the land of Zorg

2011-06-30T14:39:00.001+10:00

Blaaaaaaahhh fuck staying home when magical fun times will surely ensue.

It will be like this..

But maybe like this..

And surely like this..

I love holidays!

If you die, lets party

2011-06-30T14:15:00.000+10:00

The clock in my room says that it's quarter to 2 and I haven't yet got out of bed.

I woke up and watched 'Being John Malkovich' which I have hired out from the brother of an old friends video account. He probably won't be too pleased with me as it's a week overdue.

Hey also, wow, what's up, I have purple hair now.

I also got outta bed!

Cheers photobooth!

Meow is slang for cat

2011-06-27T15:23:00.001+10:00

Aloha!

Welcome back to my neglected blog!

I have been busy prioritising fun times > posting on blog.

Sorry pals!

It's the first day of holidays!!

I plan to go crazy, broadway style and run a-muckas around town.

Here is my holiday to do list:

1. Go to beach as much as possible

2. Go back to Nimbin and preferably stay there for a while

3. Go to Tom's house in the mountains

4. Do design assignment .. boring

5. Have a front-yard picnic with paints again

6. Get driving licence (ha!, but still very do-able)

7. Go to GOMA

8. Go to state library

9. Go on a road trip with Gabby and Aru to somewhere nice and stay there for a while

I started today by getting the gross stuff - cleaning my room, doing my washing - outta the way, so I have maximum enjoyment of the next few weeks!

Above is the song that started the Postal Service.

James Tamborello (Dntel) was an electronic-al musical wizz and did collaborations with all different artists which he then put onto an album. When he did a collaboration with Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, ultimate dream boat) they enjoyed the sound so much, they started the Postal Service.

Cool Huh!

Al dente means to the point

2011-06-17T21:53:00.000+10:00

"...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life." - Invitation to a Beheading.

As I walked home from work today in the sunshine, listening to the blissful sounds of Bright Eyes, I had this feeling of total euphoria that was so strange.

I felt like I was so happy that my body couldn't hold onto all of it and as if I would soon burst. There was total contentment, not an ounce of sadness or fret. I looked like a super weirdo, as I had a huge grin on my face the entire time too.

This isn't the first time this has happened within the past months and it happens more and more on a regular basis, it's almost so amazing that it's scary.

Birthday bliss

2011-06-17T21:45:00.000+10:00

So as I mentioned the other day, Wednesday was my birthday.

Despite the fact that I got about 4 hours sleep due to assignment completion, it was an excellent day.

I went to tafe in the morning, the came home and dyed my hair purple, then went to my parents place with a few of my pals and had some delicious dinner before going to Mount Cootha to look at the beautiful city lights.

Yesterday I bought a new goose feather duvet and 2 new pillows.. sleeping last night was the most wonderful thing I have ever experienced.. With my knew duvet + body warmth, I can just about throw my heated blanket out.. but I probably won't.

I'm pretty damn sleepy, I feel sick and my mind has turned to mush, so that's about all I have to say.

But this man can never say enough..

I somehow in my travels got a buttload (by this I mean 495 songs) of DJ Shadow on my itunes, I don't hate this strange fact at all... not at all.

Cats occasionally have three eyes

2011-06-15T00:47:00.001+10:00

Tonight has been the most wonderful night totally unintentionally.

PLUS TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! (My actual birthday).

I took a break from doing my assignment and went and had a hot chocolate at Cru bar, which soon turned into cheesecake from Aaron, which then turned into cocktails from Ty and talking to a strange but lovely fellow at the bar.

After that, I threw away the responsibility of doing my assignment and instead went and got 'birthday gutter chocolate milk' with Ty and Aaron which was excellent!

I couldn't have thought of a better way to bring in the 'big day'.

Beautiful Kat was still up when I got home, because she was worried, as when I left I said 'I'm going to get a coffee quickly' and left my keys and my phone at home.

She gave me this, the MOST BEAUTIFUL tea cup + tea :D

It looks beyond fitting in both the kitchen and my horribly lit study.

Now, to spend the next four hours studying.. fun.

Behind the tumbleweed, there is a man peeing

2011-06-13T10:43:00.000+10:00

I am so far behind of this damn assignment that I don't even know when to start.

So what better way than a coffee, a trip to the art store and then a beer?

Too early?.. Surely not.

Luckily I have the inspiration of Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro to get me through the day, curtesy of Jacob.

Back to excelling

2011-06-12T21:58:00.001+10:00

I've got a beer, my notebook and Arcade Fire 'The Suburbs', I am now ready to get creative and do my study.

I'm pretty stoked, I have worked 29 hours in the past 3 days, plus I am working tomorrow, so I shall be raking in the cash money, getting myself outta debt and then moving onto bigger and better things.

This whole semester I have been outlandishly childish and screwing my responsibilities and doing things that seem like fun at the time, but I end up paying for later - prime example of not doing my assignments.

I feel like somehow this week I have kicked myself into gear and got on with things in an absurdly positive way.

Things are beyond amazing at the moment, I can't remember the last time (if ever) that I have been this genuinely content with life.

That being said, it's time to hit the books.

This is my treasure chest, that is actually in a chest (suitcase) full of all the things I keep near and dear to my heart.

Poison Oak

2011-06-12T12:39:00.000+10:00

I feel like I have just become an adult.

Not because I got my period for the first time, but more because I have actually been responsible this weekend.

I have gone to bed straight after work instead of staying up late with pals, I got up early this morning and went grocery shopping, I plan to come home early-ish tonight and do my assignment (that I have left until last minute) and instead of having a gloriously fun day tomorrow, I plan to spend it doing more of my assignment.

I would like to have it all finished by Tuesday night as Wednesday is my (actual) birthday (despite the fact that I fooled most of my FB friends by pretending it was on March 15th), and then from Tuesday, it will be holidays!

During my holidays I hope to spend as much time road trippin' with my pal Tom, and hopefully Chloe and Meally as I possibly can.

I hope that we can take another trip up into the mountains if I am not working like an every day sucker.

Right now I am running late-ish to work, so I won't post a photo, but instead leave you with yet another Bright Eyes song.

Listen to the lyrics, they are ground breaking

Potential tear-times are surely ahead

2011-06-07T23:02:00.000+10:00

As per usual, I have failed my 'I'm going to be really good and go to tafe every day and start all my assignments early' attitude and am now lagging behind like a dead horse behind a car.

Maybe that was a little too far?.. but unlikely.

I am so tired that I look like I have come out of the X-Files. (Kat, Ben and I have replaced Outrageous Fortune with X-files as our go-to thing to watch and as a result it has been on basically non-stop over the past few days).

So, right now, I am going to have a nice warm shower, get into my blanket heated bed and forget that I have to get up at 8:12 tomorrow to go to TAFE (which really is not that much of an unreasonable wake up hour, but somehow it feels so very, very early).

I think I am on the train to self destruct city, but that won't change my party-on attitude.

There have been so many hyphenated words in this post.

More things than planned got completed tonight

2011-06-06T23:12:00.001+10:00

Including the enjoyment of the following.

Half eaten gallons of ice cream, in the freezer

2011-06-06T18:42:00.000+10:00

I just cleaned one of the sunrooms and turned it into a study instead of a dumping ground for all my things that I can't be bothered to put away.

I also just did up a budget to get me out of debt. I don't think the next 6 months will be worth living, but hopefully Kat won't come home to find me hanging from the shower-rod.

Meanwhile, I am over-laddened with assignments that I have hardly started and am paying the price from yet another excellent weekend.

If you don't listen to this song, you may as well start digging your grave too.

Just like a dying cat who wet's its pants, I'm sick

2011-06-02T00:21:00.000+10:00

Arrrggghhh!

At least it gives me more of an excuse to not go to TAFE and instead stay home and watch movies.

I generally choose this option anyway, but now I feel less guilty.

I finished Scar Tissue last night, along with having the crappest sleep ever.

I started writing this post this afternoon.

It's now night time and I have been watching back to back episodes of Outrageous Fortune with Kat.

Excellent night!

My nose is so blocked, I tried to blow it in the shower, but it still didn't un-block.

Getting my shit together

2011-05-31T22:02:00.000+10:00

I have been getting my life back on track today.

Both mentally and physically.

I went grocery shopping.. one thing I hate to do, so therefore my cupboards are always bare.

I bought things for delicious dinners, as well as tandoori paste to make tandoori chicken sandwiches for lunch.

Now all I need to do is get my TAFE shit together.. ha ha.

This is a photo from my trip into the hills.

It's of the beach.

Ah! I knew I shouldn't have switched my computer on.. procrastination is deffinately not the key.

At least I have my heated blanket to crawl into :D

Welcome back to Hawaii

2011-05-30T22:33:00.000+10:00

As I posted before, I have spent the weekend in sunny Sydney.

It was more excellent that I could have asked for.

Exactly what I needed after a relaxing week.. more relaxation.

Despite the fact that I missed my original flight and I had no money, it was still an immensely enjoyable weekend.

It was so good to see my brother again and get out of town and clear my mind of clutter.

I got amble photographs and spent each day blissfully walking around in a state of utter content and delusion.

I have also decided that as soon as my debt is cleared, I am getting out of this town.. and I mean it this time.

Outrageous Fortune

2011-05-26T00:34:00.000+10:00

Tomorrow I am going to Sydney!

I planned to spend tonight packing, but alas I came home and forgot all about it when I saw that Kat was watching Outrageous Fortune (my new absolute favorite show).

In this household, we go through stages of watching TV series where that is basically all we do until we get to the end, and at that stage we will either start getting on with life and doing other things, or start a new one.

Outrageous Fortunes is this New Zealand show about this horrible family.

When Kat told me about it when I first moved in, I thought it looked lame, but after watching just one episode I couldn't get enough of it and had to peel myself away from the television so that I could go to bed.

Unfortunately, as per usual, I have left everything until last minute and will have to pack before I go to work tomorrow :(.

Bonjourno!

2011-05-25T09:50:00.000+10:00

I'm back, did you miss me?

Stupid question.. of course you did!

I actually got back on Friday night, but I haven't had time to post.

The mountains were amazing!

We stayed in my lovely pal Tom's parents house while his parents were away.

It was fucking awesome to get away and be totally out of everything and to go to the beach and little towns for lunch by day, and have secret mind party's by night.

I took heaps of photo's but, forgive me, I haven't uploaded them yet as I have been slack and lazy + busy and I am currently at my parents house doing 'assignments'.

I think now that after going away, spending some time with this new lovely friend and having time to think (even if it's not with the clearest of head spaces), I feel that I have finally got my shit together.

This past year it has been total chaos with partying, sleep deprivision, un-organisation, and busyness - Four things I would not have stood for before but am sliding into quite easily. But I feel now that I can have a good mixture of these things, along with being organised, and being responsible.

I feel happier now than I ever have before :)

The grass grows greener when it grows on trees

2011-05-17T20:02:00.000+10:00

This is a post to say Solong for a little while.

I'm going to stay with my friend for a while in the hinterlands of NSW halfway between Muwillimbah and Lismore.

In this time, I hope to conqure the ultimate quest for smiles, throwing away of responsibility, relaxation, camera usage and frolocking around in the paddocks wearing long white dresses.

Thankfully with my creative imagination, my friends capability of making imaginations reality, I am sure we will never be short of things to do (plus he has a car and I'm sure if I flutter my eyelashes he will answer to my every whim).

As I am not at my house, I will leave you with a photo-less post, but an amazing song.

I'm posting off ty's iPad!

2011-05-15T22:30:00.000+10:00

This weekend has been am great one. But It has made me realize that I need to quit my partying and get a real life. I don't know how many more fun times my mind can handle before if becomes a puff of useless thoughts and irrelevance. I think it is slowly but surely turning to mush.

On the plus side though, there hasn't been a moment that wasn't filled with hectic smiling.

Feelings are gay, something something in the month of may

2011-05-12T11:30:00.000+10:00

I have said this every single post, but life simply cannot get any more glorious.

Last night Chloe and her two friends and I cracked into the fun times jar and went to Infinity.

I think in a normal persons head space this would have been excellent, so it was even more excellent in our head space.

I had never been to Infinity before.

I felt like I was on another planet.

We then went to Wendy's and got some ice cream.. it was delicious.

Today it's Chloe's birthday, so more fun times will shortly follow.

This will always remind me of Faley, who I have not seen in waaaaaaaay too long.

I make no sense

2011-05-08T19:52:00.000+10:00

As per usual, I have had a fucking excellent weekend.

I have partied with my friends, done a sufficient amount of stalking (marry me Ben), had a stall at suitcase rummage today with Kat, smiled and laughed and giggled more than I ever thought was possible.

I don't think life can get any better.

But I know when I enter the mess in my room + having to deal with cleaning it up my smile with turn upside down. But not too much.

I also somehow have not found time to brush/wash my hair since Friday morning and I know having to deal with the dreads that have formed at the bottom will not be fun.

I'm sleepy.

I will post some photo's tomorrow, but right now I can't be bothered.

Also, I was at Lincoln's on wednesday night and we were watching some snowboarding video's and I was then shown this which makes me think what I am doing with my life and how I want to follow in their footsteps.

King

2011-05-05T18:39:00.000+10:00

In the dusty haze of Edenbrooke, there lived a young king.

His hands were on the opposite arms and he lived in a tiny cave.

He ate hamburgers to pass the time, because to him, time was irrelevant.

His grandmother made the greatest scones in the village, but she poisoned them every second day.

People started to die as she cackled 'only the bees can save you now', before continuing to read the paper.

The tiny king stood there, watching time and events go by.

He spoke only to tell passers the time, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, three-thirty, eight.

How can things be a coincidence when everyone has blades of glass in their eyes?

It's been such a long weekend.. or two weeks

2011-05-02T19:46:00.001+10:00

Holy hell, these past two weeks have been the most hectic (hectically fun) two weeks possibly ever.

They have consisted of screwing responsibilities, drinking copious amounts (maybe too much?), hanging out with friends, road tripping, meeting new and excellent people.

Right now, I am so fucking tired that I can't even think properly.

It's times like now - extreme sleep deprivision that I would usually be crying like a child in the corner of my room because I couldn't open a can of tuna, but right now, I don't feel any sadness at all, all I feel is sleepy.. Soooooo sleeeeeeepy!!!

More from GOMA, because I literally have nothing else

I'm moving!!

2011-05-01T12:45:00.000+10:00

Across the hall.

Both yesterday and today have been purely dedicated to moving bedrooms, only stopping for chocolate and work.

India is moving out (:( ) so I am taking her bedroom. I feel like I need to change my karma and re-start. I don't like the energy in my bedroom anymore.

It's seen too many tears, 'you're late for work' phone calls and late nights spent doing assignments that I left until last minute.

The light in my new room is different and it feels a lot more peaceful.

I also get a study which I have been asking for for the past couple of months! Organisation and happiness will finally be mine!

How to eat your words

2011-04-30T00:56:00.001+10:00

I have been posting way too much about the past week and all it's furious glory, but I feel it must be done.

I had the same enlightening experience that a former friend of mine had, which had previously reduced me to tears and now I eat my words and all I want to do is go back to the clouds, live there and smile my way through life.

I have woken up every day since thinking how beautiful life is.

I feel like all energy has shifted and now there is nothing but good.

I also need a kaleidoscope for my life to be complete.

These dull pictures were taken from my filming the entirety of the night.
I do enjoy a good print screen.

Hopefully we shall never part

2011-04-28T16:15:00.001+10:00

I have been spoiling myself rotten lately with all kinds of goodies.

Most of it I picked up at the markets or the $7 pile at St Vinnie's, but that doesn't mean I will love it any less. I think I just need to come to terms with the fact that I am broke and therefore have to find more affordable ways to dress nicely.

On our trip to Nimbin, I couldn't help but die a little inside (from love) when I saw the following shoes.

I knew that if I did not have them on my feet everyday, life would not be worth living.

And I was right.

Life is so much better knowing they are by my side.

(>'.')>

2011-04-27T14:56:00.000+10:00

It took us 3 hours to get to the most glorious little town on the Gold Coast hinterlands, but it was not without the most excellent scenery.

Unfortunately, my small mind and lovely camera could never do it justice.

It's a shame when you realise, your still on earth

2011-04-27T14:45:00.000+10:00

This week, especially the weekend, have been the most unbelievably amazing days.

I spent most of them wining and dining and then road tripping with my pals from TAFE.

I don't think I have ever been more content and happy and enlightened.

I was definitely the worlds most situation-addiquate person, wearing my pyjamas over my overalls for both style and comfort, with the bottoms tucked into my socks for maximum warmth and my new slippers I bought that very morning.

I'm avoiding going to work

2011-04-23T16:46:00.001+10:00

I often ask people, more often than not to keep a dull convocation going, 'what are your top 5 favourite bands of all time?' They often reply with the lame-town-express response of 'it's too hard to narrow down' also meaning 'I'm really drunk and don't know my own name, let alone any bands'.

So here you have it, here are mine.

Arcade Fire

arcade fire - my body is a cage by atdi_04

The Magnetic Fields

Adam Green

Modest Mouse

And probably Built to Spill coming in at final number 5

I am definitely running late now

The sky will be bleeding purple

2011-04-23T12:06:00.003+10:00

I'm sleepy and Lemmy is annoying me.

Tomorrow my TAFE friends and I are going into the woods of Fingal to camp for some excellent, adult rated fun.

By this I mean we will be re-arranging the body parts of animals and stitching them back together and feeding them back into the wild again.

Or I'm sure something similar will happen at least.

If Lemmy isn't careful.. he will be one of those animals.

Meanwhile, as I have no photo's and am reluctant to put someone else's photo's up, here is an phenomenally funny short film clip.

My flatmate just got stood up by Justin Beiber

2011-04-19T11:22:00.001+10:00

Today brings some need of lightening the mood, due to a more than average dream.

So I have chosen to post my top five dream men.

Starting off we have Adam Green.

Singer, songwriter, all round dream boat, not only is he a wizz in the music-making industry, but he is also a wizz at Rockwiz as I discovered, amazed and swooned to the max, one night. Not only is he one of my favourite artists, but I hear he is a wizz in general life too ;).

Next there is Matt from Matt and Kim.

This fantasy is only made better by the fact that I have spoken to him twice.

Matt has it all, good looks, charm, humour, general chilled-out-ness, and killer music.

Refer to Big Day Out posts.

Next is the guy that works in Card and Caboodle in Queens Plaza.

Unfortunately I shall not post a photograph as that would be overly creepy if he over came across this post (it is creepy enough as is).

What I would do to be in his arms though..

Coming up in fourth place is Brett Netson.

Some call him a hairy beast, I call him absolute dream boat.

He is one of the Guitarists from Built to Spill. When we saw them play at Peats Ridge and then at The Zoo, my eyes didn't part from his beautiful face.

Fifth, but by no means last is Demetri Martin.

He is a comedian and part-time dream boat.

I have one of his live CD's that I listen to when I clean my room. It also cleans my soul.

Splendor in the Bank

2011-04-18T12:18:00.001+10:00

When I first looked at the line up for Splendor, I clicked the link for Coachella by accident (I was looking at it on my phone + I am silly) and I saw that Arcade Fire, Ratatat, Bright Eyes, Best Coast, Animal Collective, The Radio Dept, She Wants Revenge, Wire and numerous other bands I would give my hands to see were playing, I immediately lost my shit and went a little crazy.

I though I would die if I didn't go.

I think I would pay my life in slavery just to see Arcade Fire alone.

Little did I know.. I was on the wrong site and my excitement was for nothing.

Later that day, I was reciting my ecstatic review of the line up to one of my buddies and not only made myself look like a dick, but also became amazingly underwhelmed with the news that my version of Splendor was not in fact the actual version of Splendor.

I took a look at the actual line up and came to the conclusion that it's $523.60 and it's not even that amazing.

Sure, I would also die to see the likes of Modest Mouse (I would give my first born), Devendra Banhart (I would give my second born), Jane's Addiction, Mogwi and DJ Shadow, but I'd rather keep my money and buy a really nice pair of shoes.

Wow, that just made me think, I could fly to Japan for the same price as some of the shoes I have.. scary.

And it's even scarier to think that I have multiple pairs of these Japan-ticket-priced-shoes.

Meanwhile, the Antlers (who I saw at Laneway and was desperately disapointed) have an album that is about to be released called Burst Apart.

Here is a sneaky sneak preview.

The Wish Wall

2011-04-17T20:35:00.000+10:00

When I went to GOMA the other day, there was a wish wall, where people would write down a wish and put it in the wall and then take someone else's wish in return.

I thought this was really beautiful, when you look at it, it just has this overwhelming ora to it, which sounds like a really dickhead, stupid thing to say, but there is no other way to put it.

Glory vs even more glory

2011-04-17T20:00:00.002+10:00

I have actually had the most outstandingly amazing day.

I mean bullshit amazing it was that amazing.

The kind of day that makes me wonder whether life can actually get better.

I got dressed up and treated myself to a delicious lunch at Cru, because I had to go down and drop off something. Then I went for a picnic with Chloe, Meally and Ally at New Farm Park.

I haven't seen these darling girls in a good three or four weeks and I didn't realise just how much I missed them until I actually saw them.

We laughed and ate and laughed and laughed. I caught up on all their news and somehow became the butt jokes (as I am at work) from all the creepy situations I seem to get myself into.

I can honestly and whole heartedly say that I have never been happier with things than I am at the moment.

It's fucking amazing.

Sorry girls

I just lost my shit, in an excellent way

2011-04-15T18:09:00.000+10:00

I just went round to my next door neighbours rape dungeon to make some music and pleasantly lost my shit when he pulled out a Tenori-on.

I haven't had that much fun in a very long time over something so very small, yet amazing.

Here is a youtube demonstration

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

Play on this machine above

..

2011-04-14T22:53:00.000+10:00

Lately, Kat and I have been watching Sex and the City pretty much non-stop.

I have always been an avid fan and I used to idolise everything about the show, hoping that I would one day have their lives.

This time around though, I have come to realise, that they are not in fact 'fabulous', but are instead a bunch of middle aged women sitting around whining about their lives.

Samantha got it spot on when she said 'if you spend more time frowning in your relationship than you spend smiling, what is the point?'

My thoughts on relationships has changed so very much over the past couple of months.

I think I used to be just like Carrie, but now watching Carrie, I think she is bullshit.

I think it's time to stop discecting everything and just have a good time.

Now this guy is my kinda man

The common choice of a giant cat

2011-04-14T00:35:00.000+10:00

Well what do you know, I not only accomplished hang times, but I also finished my assignment and cleaned the kitchen.

I'm pretty exhausted now and I have a pretty early start tomorrow.. unfortunately, so I shall say bon voyage until next time!

If contemplating bed, contemplate this song first.

Merry Munchkins

2011-04-13T21:41:00.000+10:00

I am supposed to be doing an assignment.

I have been supposed to be doing said assignment for the past three hours, but instead my neighbour Lincoln came over to hang out while I am home alone.

Being home alone scares me.

I think I am going to fail, I doubt it will get done tonight.

Lets take a trip down pee lane

2011-04-12T22:28:00.003+10:00

Lately my mind feels cluttered with all kinds of things.

Financial problematics, TAFE assignment struggles, disorganised work issues, housemate-filling shoes, sleep deprivision, vegetable lacking.

Luckily I have many things to take my mind off these things.

Such as watching Sex and the City, eating Supa Dupa's, having coffee with my cute next door neighbour, teaching my other across the street neighbour how to play piano, excellent new tunes.

Next week I am also going to Sydney to see my brother!

Hopefully one day soon my mind will no longer need to distract itself.

Meanwhile, I made this wrap the other day for breakfast.

It's just brunch

2011-04-12T21:51:00.000+10:00

Today, I changed my hair from red to mildly pink.

It's strange every time I look in the mirror.

Meanwhile, I also got approved for centrelink!

A short story for my 12 fans

2011-04-11T00:04:00.001+10:00

I know a man who only walks backwards, because when he walks forwards, time reverses itself.

He was born from a combination of chemicals and flowers and grew up in my neighbours garden.

He played with cats and read books to further his knowledge, it was only ten years later that he realised he could not read.

He drinks soup for breakfast and tea for dinner and swallows the stars in between meals.

He said his name was Toby and it was then discovered that his birthday was the same as his death.

He kept walking backwards all over the world, dodging bullets as people shot their bows and arrows.

"time can only move forward" he said, but is that really the case?

What would happen if by some freak incident he took one step forward and from that point on, the world span in reverse?

If the world span in reverse, the sun would rise from the west and time would in fact reverse until we were just a spec of nothing in a seemingly empty space.

Weee!

2011-04-09T16:28:00.001+10:00

Today I have been feeling a little weird.

I think it's because I got little sleep last night as I was up watching Sex and the City and conversing with Kat after work.

To try and conquer said feelings, I went to GOMA.

It was FULL of people, especially little kids. For the first time in my life, I didn't get claustrophobic and nervous and freak out and start crying.. I actually had an excellent time.

Whilst it didn't quash my feelings, it made me temporarily smile.

Here are some more of my mediocre photographs:

I also downloaded Radioheads new album

Here is an excellent song:

Life can't get better

2011-04-07T22:47:00.000+10:00

It's pay day tomorrow.. yaaaay!

On Saturday, Kat, India and I have a market stall where we will be selling clothes. I am going to dress up like a gypsy for a market-appropriate vibe.

I have run out of photo's and run out of things to write.. hence my lame-ness in the past few days.

Cheers, big ears

2011-04-06T23:13:00.000+10:00

I knew from our alkwardly comfortable first night that she was no ordinary girl. My first sight was more of a glimpse.

A glimpse of difference among people I would traditionally have thought nothing of.

A glimpse of fun and smiles among repetitive nights and frowns.

I remember walking with my head down - writing a message in my own world. Trying to overcome the butterflies feasting on whatever is in your stomach when you don't have butterflies.

I probably mean food..

Alerted by only the friction of tar on my shoes, I looked up to make sure death by bonnet would not ensue, I'd planned at the very least to end the night at the hand of her.

But instead of looking up to a car and my life to this point flashing before me, I looked up to her, standing surreally out of place and my life from this point flashing before me.

How the mighty have fallen

2011-04-05T23:30:00.000+10:00

Today I got up early, put on The Secret Life of Us which is an amazing early 2000's TV show that Kat, India and I have been watching non-stop for the past few days.

I then went to TAFE briefly to hand in assignments and then came home and continued watching the series and am now watching Sex and the City.

As of next week, I am quite sure we are on holidays, so my friends from TAFE and I are going to go camping in the woods at Fingal.

We need a car or someone to drive us down. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to let me know.

You are welcome to stay and party with us too :D.

I'm also very hungry.

Bed, glorious bed

2011-04-03T03:27:00.000+10:00

Ah, I am so looking forward to bed and everything that comes along with it.

Such as snuggling, sleeping in, waking up, switching off my alarm and going back to sleep.

Tonight I worked for 9 hours (as well as 9 hours last night and tomorrow night, so I will be cashed up.. Horraaahh), and then went out for two beverages with Brendan and Ty.

I also think I got bitten on my face as it's pretty itchy.

Tomorrow I am going to finish a sick beat (ha) that I am doing for my friends birthday.

My internet is also being a piece of slow poo that gets stuck in your anus so I'm not going to post any photo's to follow.

There is never enough time / concentration

2011-03-31T21:59:00.001+10:00

I have a million (two) assignments due, so I am doing what I do best..

Pretending it doesn't exist and going to visit my Mum.

I started writing this post a couple of hours ago and thought it best not to delete it..

We had a delicious dinner of chicken and crumbed yummy things.

And asparagus.. so now my pee smells.

You'd be searching every corner of the earth

2011-03-31T08:19:00.001+10:00

I am already late for tafe, but I thought I would update my ipod before I go, as the hour's trip out to Mt Gravatt is painful to say the least without sweet music in my ears.

Our neighbours fire alarm has been going off all night..

RSA = completed, bed time = attainable

2011-03-29T22:04:00.000+10:00

Ahh, I am so looking forward to bed.

I am also looking forward to cutting my nails.

These are (horrible) photographs of the assignment I managed to complete in 4 short hours last night.

The images are a mixture from style.com, flickr and photo's taken from a long lost pal.

I amaze myself sometimes

2011-03-29T01:12:00.000+10:00

Guys, I kind of don't believe it, but I am fucking amazing.

I started my assignment at 8:30 and I have finished it and the best part is I am pretty certain I will get good grades (without being full of myself, but one can only hope).

When I get home, I will be sure to post some photo's.. but for now, it's most deffinately bed.

Oh No!

2011-03-28T18:04:00.000+10:00

I am the worlds biggest dick and have left my major assignment to be completed at last minute.

By completed, I mean start, and by last minute, I mean it's due tomorrow.

It's due tomorrow and I haven't started.

I meant to start and complete it yesterday, but instead spent the day in a mixture of sleep and induced daydreams.

Fuck..

I also don't have a printer.. this is troublesome.

Hi

2011-03-27T06:13:00.001+10:00

Oh man, tonight unfortunately was a hectic one.. and not in the good hectic.

The Belligerents where awesome, I smiled uncontrollably when I saw that the drummer was wearing a helmet and people started crowd surfing.

After a long night though, I made the decision to make the long trek back to my parents house to look after my wee brother as he was left alone this weekend.

As I was walking down James St, tears in my eyes, heavy bag + tafe folders on my back and wearing my new overalls, I realised that I looked like a 12 year old who has just run away from home.

I laughed when I thought of this.

I laughed for a long time.

It's great that despite the great and then horrible happenings of the night I still laughed greatly, by myself in the street, wearing overalls and running away.

I am now at my parents house, soaking up the free internet and watching Nick and Norah's infinate playlist.

I also woke my brother up and made him come hang.

This was me tonight, my friend sent this to me a while back.

The terrified gentleman is him at the formal.

I should probably eat healthier too

2011-03-27T06:06:00.000+10:00

As suspected, I did not do a drop of homework last night.

Fuck.

I have 2 days to make 8 design boards, complete my photoshop work, do my OH&S exam, get fabric together for sewing class, complete my illustration work and make sure all my folio's are up to date (and seeing as I haven't attended quite as many classes as I should have, this will be difficult).

I should spend all weekend doing these things, but instead Chloe and I are going to go to the Vintage Markets and then I am meeting my friend Mr Stone at the Belligerents tonight at Woodlands (you should all come too).

Bon Voyage and have a great weekend!

Lemmie - the worlds most loved cat

2011-03-25T19:06:00.000+10:00

Our (Kat's) cat Lemmie must honestly be the most adored and spoiled cat in the entire world.

We were discussing it at home the other day and between us we have enough photo's of him to fill the Powerhouse, he also is fed by all three of us at least once a day, he get's constant cuddles and pats and we all like to brag to all our friends about him and show them all the cute photo's we took.

I actually can't imagine a cat better suited to our household.

All I have done pretty much all afternoon is take photo's of him.

I just got fired.. basically

2011-03-25T16:51:00.000+10:00

So today, I started my normal Friday, work at VG, then the mad rush to get to Crubar for work at 4.

When I arrived at Crubar, bright and cheery, despite the fact that I was wanting to die from sleepyness, I was told that my RSA is invalid and I would have to leave and never come back, until I got a new RSA.

Whilst this is both excellent, because I want to go to bed early, it is also rather inconvinient, as I won't get paid this week.. bummer.

I also keep thinking it's Saturday.

Tonight I think I will stay home and do my assignments, as I haven't started and they are all due next week.

Would anyone like to come hang out? (please say yes).

I took these aaaaaages ago on the same night from the last post with my Daddy.

I'm fucking hungry.

My hair is getting pretty long now

2011-03-23T23:12:00.001+10:00

I know lately it has been reflection paradise here, but I was thinking about it (again) today, and I actually can't remember the last time things were this blissful.

For the first time in longer than I can remember ago, I have actually been whole-heartedly content with life.

It's actually crazy and it's freaking me out a little.

I don't have a single stress - even the things I should be stressed about, I'm not, I don't worry about what people think about me anymore - Kat got a pretty good dose of this tonight - I don't feel the slightest bit of sadness towards anything, even things I think I should still be sad about.

It's fucking glorious.

More glorious than I ever could have imagined and more glorious than I dared have believed.

I don't think I would change one single thing.

Not a single thing.

Except maybe that I was rich and could make sick beatz.

I'm also going to make a television show called 'My Kitten Rules' and stream it live from this here blog.

Peats Ridge

My first ever photo-taking with my Dad