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You know what? I have the most wonderful friends and too many times I take you all for granted. I don't say it enough - thankyou sooooooo much for chatting to me, hanging with me in cyberspace, putting up with me, reading my blog and leaving the best comments a girl could ask for. Ya'll are the nicest people! Much  I got to thinking about this because I am so grateful to everyone who helped me out with the Lucky Dip. You have no idea. Ask Mel - I was almost in a state of despair because it wasn't going as planned and I just wanted to give it up. I'm terribly emotional sometimes and it all just got the better of me. But you know, sometimes if you need help... all you have to do is ask! And I learnt that. I swallowed my pride. I really wanted to do it all of my own accord. But sometimes the only way you can achieve something is with a little help from your friends.... (yeah, go on, sing it  ) So, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!Well, that's really all I have to say for this entry. I have a lot more to say, but this deserves an entry of its own. Next time, I'm going to talk all about Michael Landon. *giggles and glances over at Mel* |
| You know, this time last year, Chris was asking me out. A whole year ago. You can check my blog if you like... I made an entry about it around about this same time. I don't really know how I remember the date, but I thought of it about a month ago and looked up my blog. I remember it was winter because I was freezing. I wrote the following: Oh, I hate it when this happens. When what happens, you ask? When someone asks me something completely out of the blue, and I have to react in five seconds or less before the awkward moment says hello. One of the managers at work asked me out tonight. Yeah... hmmm. It was so weird, and I couldn't believe that I hadn't picked it up before now. It caught me way off guard. It was so off my radar that when he asked if he could talk to me, I thought he was going to tick me off for not doing my job properly - and then he comes out with that! I was floored. In every way possible. And awkward, don't even go there. It took me about 30 seconds to get over it and realise what he was saying, and then I just said no and that I have a boyfriend already. Lie. I'm not going to say "I can't believe it was a year ago" - because I can. I mean, so much happened between then and now, a lot of time and space was filled. And you know what the other thing is? Although today is the exact date, last night was the Friday night... and I didn't think of him once at work. I think that's really quite an achievement. My mini-breakdown awhile back really helped me work things through. After I wrote a lot of things down on paper (or typed them rather), it felt out of my system. But I remembered today, only halfway through work when I happened to be in aisle working, looked around all of a sudden and realised it was the aisle I had come back to after he had taken me off for our "little talk". I really do feel like it's all now something I can deal with and that when I think of him, I remember in a way that is not so much filled with sadness and confusion. I more remember him the way he really was at work and a more realistic view of our relationship. I think time really does heal. But sometimes it just takes longer than expected. I'll never forget though. P.S: Oh wow, I just checked. Exactly the same time as now in my blog entry one year ago. |
| I have so much to say since I haven't been here for ages. Well, I've been here on the site working overtime on a number things, but we won't talk about that otherwise I'll go off on a rant and end up writing a really pathetic, self-indulged entry that I'll back on later and cringe. So, instead, I'll share with you something I saw on TV yesterday. It was the most amazing thing ever. It was how these dogs can sniff out cancer. Yep, that's right. I was just  I've never heard of this before! What they did is they lined up a dozen or so urine samples with one being from a guy who had bladder cancer. They let loose a number of trained dogs, one at a time, to see if they could detect the cancer 'smell.' And they did! The first dog got it wrong the first time, but the second, he got it right. Then they mixed up the samples and he got it right again. But, the most amazing thing of all, was this one dog kept picking the wrong sample over and over. They decided to send the sample back to the hospital and guess what? The owner of the sample had kidney cancer but it hadn't been detected yet! That is just one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. They say the dogs need more training to hone their skills, but they say there is huge potential there for a non-invasive early detection system. Sometimes this world just mind-boggles me. And the dogs were pretty cute too...  Okay, continuing with the whole avoiding the crappy things idea - it's....*drumroll please*.... TRIVIA TIME!   If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year. You can actually die from a broken heart. Studies have shown that people who have experienced great loss or sadness can develop cracks in their heart which could lead to death. Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards. Hippopotomonstrosesquippeddaliophobia is the fear of long words. It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in "mt". In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Lightening can strike the earth with a force as great as 100 million volts. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there is no air pressure. |
| I saw this wonderful movie called Shadows in the Sun the other night. My sister borrowed it out and I was very pleasantly surprised. It's got Joshua Jackson in it (yep, Pacey from Dawson's Creek!) and sheesh - he got hot. Very easy on the eye. Anyway, it's all about this guy (Jackson) who's sent to a small Italian village to try and make this wonderful writer, who has stopped writing, to write a new book. There's some great quotes from it about the art of writing and what it's like to be creatively inclined - but they're not listed on IMDb and I can't find them anywhere else. Looks like you'll just have to watch it for yourself!  Other than that, I have a new activity!
If you can, please donate! I've always wanted to host an auction but I felt there are so many around, so I wanted to try and change it up a bit. It's pretty much the same thing essentially, but with some quirks. And besides, even if it doesn't kick off, I still have my awesome header. Yeah, I openly really love the header. I don't care if no-one else does! It's the Willy Wonka font! |
| So here is my story for the week... I had the rudest customer at work the other day. The night before this happened I had found a stray saucepan and couldn't find the box it came from, so I just put it with the others on display thinking that I'd deal with it the next day. The next day, I had this woman who came up to me and asked what set it came from and if she could buy it. I told her the story I just told you... and the bitch turned to her husband, not me, even though I was standing right there and said: "Oh, look, she just went it and put it with all the other shiny things. Well, isn't that just helpful..." Then she just turned back to me and said, "Well, if you can't find the set, can I just buy it?" I said I'd go and find out, very reluctantly. I went off, muttering to myself and my boss said she could have for $5. Yeah...no... I asked if she had to sell it because the woman was such a bitch. I just wanted to go back and tell her no. My boss laughed and upped the price to $8 for me. lol. Made me feel a little better.... also made me feel better that the woman was ugly. I'm way prettier and nicer than her. Yeah, take that bitch! In other news, my trip to North Queensland is back on! It was put off earlier in the year because I ended up going back to study but now my sister and I have put our dates together and we'll be able to go towards the end of year. I just can't go getting a job now...haha... This entry is a bit of everything, so I also have a new poll I think you should vote in. I've also got some YouTube footage you should check out! Michael Buble was just recently in the country and he sang on a show called It Takes Two and believe me - it was brilliant! Especially the first link. He had the band singing and clapping and everyone was into it, including me when I was watching it! And I love the way he always acts just slightly drunk when he performs. And he's got such a cheeky face.... it's adorable. I think I'm in love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAcn1L5g7QE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxDqlvZgL0 P.S: And thankyou sooooooo much to Humming Bird  for the pretty awardicon! |
How long have I been in this storm So overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form Water's getting harder to tread With these waves crashing over my head If I could just see you Everything would be alright If I'd see you This darkness would turn to light And I will walk on water And you will catch me if I fall And I will get lost into your eyes And everything will be alright I know everything is alright I know you didn't bring me out here to drown Ao why am I ten feet under and upside down Barely surviving has become my purpose 'Cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface If I could just see you Everything would be alright If I could see you This darkess would turn to light And I will walk on water And you will catch me if I fall And I will get lost into your eyes I know everything will be alright I know everything is alright Everything's alright Lifehouse |
I split my pants tonight. I was at work, squatted down to reach the bottom shelf and... oh... that didn't feel right. I didn't have the stereotypical rip, just a bit of a loosening. I couldn't quite see how bad it was, no matter how much I tried to bend over backwards to see my own arse. I could feel it and I couldn't put my finger through it so I figured no-one could see my knickers. Which, by the way, was the second thing I did after I tried to check for the rip - checked what colour my knickers were! Unfortunately, I didn't decide to wear black ones that morning to they could match my black pants. Nooo, I had to go and wear pink.  So anyway, I only had a half an hour left on my shift and did my best not to turn around to anyone or take wide strides when I was walking. And when I had to bend down again, I did this wonderful manoevre where I bended without actually bending over. Just a quick bend of the knees and drop to the floor. Kinda hurt my knees but it was better than hearing my pants rip more! When I got home, they're not bad. No-one would've been able to see any pink underwear. But seriously, is my bum that big that my pants need to make room for it?! |
| I think I've been stuck in my little bubble this past week with all the work I've been doing. How do I know? Because my sister went interstate for a week's holiday and I didn't even know... and my other sister (the one who actually lives in the same house) dislocated her knee and I didn't know about that either. The past week was just wake up, go to class, come home, work on the computer, go to work, come home, sleep. And I don't recall her being home much either and it's not like she went to the hospital... she didn't even know she'd dislocated it until she went to the work doctor. Apparently she had un-dislocated it too and she didn't know that either! But I feel bad for being so out of touch. I've spent more time than usual sitting right here, headphones on and completely locked away in my own head. But things have calmed down now and all that's left is that silly yogurt tub packaging I have to somehow design.... .... Anything you would like to see in your yoghurt tub? The general consensus so far seems to be a spoon. Anything else? I'm also a little sick today. I went to bed last night feeling particularly icky and woke up pretty much the same. It's not bad though, just a little bit of a cold I think. And probably all the stress catching up with me. It's funny how I always seem to hang on right until the end and then, bam, I get sick. I really do think it's time for me to get properly sick though. I haven't had a real flu or anything for a long time. The last time I distinctly remember being really sick was in my final year of highschool and I threw up for about a day straight. It started mid-afternoon and I was still throwing up the next morning. It was horrible and exhausting. Actually, I changed my mind... I'm quite happy with not being sick for awhile longer. |
| It's past 1am and here I am again! You know, this all stems back to when I woke up at 1:23pm that day. Remember how I was doing some design work for that Christian women's magazine I wrote for once? No? Well, I am and it involves laying out text and working with a template, etc. It was all going well until this morning when I get an email from the current designer, which says she is going OVERSEAS on Wednesday. Uhhh...wha? Don't leave me! So, tonight I had to get all the corrections in because all of a sudden - I'm in charge of the printing. This involves dealing with the company who prints it and dealing with any problems they may have with it.... she gave me details of who to contact and what to say, but geez! This is totally out of my depth here. And there's a whole bunch of things I have to send them... and anyway, I had a mini-freak out before. I should be okay, but I'm worrying a little because if the printer guys call me with a problem and I don't know, I can't call her because she'll be uncontactable. There's the editor to contact, but from what I know she doesn't know much about printing. And I hate jargon. Designer jargon scares me. "Put the PDF in a 150dpi...yada yada" Okay, so I know what that means and there's not much I literally have never heard of but you know..... I'm having a moment here, let me exaggerate. ha. I think it's time for sleep. And to wonder how on earth I got myself into this! I barely even done six months of a basic design course and I've got myself contacting printer companies?! *shakes head* It's kinda fun though..... |
| I've had a very hectic weekend. It's crazy, trying to get all this work done by tomorrow night. I've managed to do all the questions that I received Friday (outstanding work that I never bothered to do... my own fault) and now I just have this icky CSS work and my photo portfolio. CSS is a pain in the arse. Don't know what it is? You don't want to... The photo portfolio technically should be fun, and it is..kinda...but I feel I should be enjoying it WAY more. It's become something that I've stuck in the back on my mind, coming second to all my other projects. Which is disappointing because I was really looking forward to the photography part of my course. But I spent a little time today wandering around outside, trying to find a photo that represents either symmetry or asymmetry. Didn't really find much, but I did find the below to add to Trish and Mel's Week of Weeds!! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** It was just blooming away happily beneath all these weeds and rubbish and I think it's so pretty. I had to put my hand in there to move it a little to get it into the photo properly, and trust me, there was a lot of hesitation because you should see our back yard... the thought of snakes and spiders definitely crossed my mind. lol. Anyhoo, it's past 1am again so I'd better scoot off to bed so I'll actually be able to get up in the morning. |
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