... Delayed

Okay Okay, fine ... Yes, I am aware that July was the last time I blogged anything ... Yes I am aware that it is now November ... and yes, I am also aware that it has been about four months that you have had to go without this type of random reading material.
I'm not going to use the excuse that I've been busy, because, well, we know each other pretty well, I'll be honest with you ... I have just been really lazy lately.

Now, I think that the last time I posted anything, it was about websites and my scrapbook/journal/bucket list all in one and some other stuff. (I don't actually have that great a memory, I cheated and looked back at my posts)

ANYWAY, I thought that this one could be about where I'm at at the moment.
In regards to my bucket list/scrapbook/journal ... I've added 2 new pages, one with a picture of my hand with an arrowhead, and the other with 'hello' in 10 different languages! I'm quite proud of them, if I do say so myself.

Previously, I've also posted about my insane and passionate love of Architecture. Now, don't get me wrong, I still really adore it and appreciate it ... turns out it wasn't really the career for me though.

I know what your thinking ... 'Argh, she's changed her mind yet again' ... this, in fact, is not the case (entirely anyway) I've always had a (borderline unhealthy) obsession with film. I've been watching the special features of anything I can get my hands on since I can remember.
I used to be told, "don't worry about how its made, just watch and enjoy the movie for what it is" .. but no, I couldn't leave it alone could I.
i wanted to see HOW they made the sets of Harry Potter, HOW they made it look like real magic, HOW they created the maelstrom in Pirates of the Caribbean 3, HOW they created non existent creatures. I was completely hooked.

Anyway, moving back to my story, I really think that I've found what I want to do (don't laugh at me, or if you do I don't care either way) I want to direct films ... and you'll probably say "well yeah sure, she said she knew what she wanted to do last time" ... but this time, my guts telling me that I'm right.
And what sort of person am I if I don't make mistakes or change my mind, nobodies perfect, and I am comfortable with who I am and I know what I want to do ... and I think that its all totally achievable if I work hard and I'm committed to it.

No pictures today on account of the fact that I don't have any that would go with this post ... I could take some of the new pages in my scrapbook thingy, but I can't be bothered to at the moment. I will in the next post ... just remind me!

Website Addictions!

Don't hunt me down and kill me okay! ... I've been super busy with a lot of stuff lately (well I have meant to have been super busy with really important stuff like college study and working BUT no ... whats really been keeping me busy lately is youtube! ... Yes, I'll be the first to admit that I am just slightly obsessed with this AWESOMETASTIC website! ... It's definitely up there among my favourites! ... the others of course including the other very addictive Twitter and Facebook.

I will say that I am new to the whole tweeting, twitting, twitter, tweet, twit world ... BUT have no fear, I am learning and loving to master it by the second!
When I first got the app ob my Iphone it actually scanned my contacts to see id there was anyone else on twitter who was in my phone (if that makes sense) ... and I ended up following Kay ... who I first met through Jess (a friend from high school) and then they list contact and then we lost contact and then BAM! .. the other day I added her and she accepted ... then tweeted me saying WADDUP - (well, she didn't exactly say those words ... but something along those lines .. let's just say that!)
ANYWAY ... now we've got back in touch and it's pretty brilliant! -- So, point to my story ... twitter is awesome!

In other, less exciting news (if you bore easily I would suggest skipping this part) ... I was called reclusive the other day! ... I know! ... I thought 'whaaaat?' as well (you may not have been thinking that exactly) ... to  which I replied 'I'm not reclusive, I just don't like spending a lot of time around you anymore' .. which, in retrospect may have been a bit harsh ... but hey, I've always found that the truth is easier to deal with than a lie. Lies always get found out in the end and you would then have that added deception on top of whatever grief you had to deal with in the first place! ... That's just my thoughts anyway.

SUPER COOL PIZZA SHAPED OOMPA LOOMAS! ... now that I have your attention back ... I'll move away from that boring subject ... you could probably start reading again from about ...
... Here!

Well ... (I find this interesting anyway ... by all means, feel free to stop reading if you want again) I have been working on my scrapbook/journal/bucket list all combined ... I found some old pictures of when I went too Sydney (which I'd been looking for for a while actually!) ... and BAM! ... That's right, there they were in the top draw of my desk all this time!! I've got some piccy's as well of 2 pages in the book ... I will warn you in advance though ... I am very very young in the photo's and I have my traditional 'all of my hair pulled back out of my face look' because that was the way I rolled ... back then anyway! ... I may have been about 13 or 14. The point is the pages in the book ... pay no attention to my style which may I add was pretty funky for the time ... to me anyway!

Long Time No Blog.

Yes, okay, fine, I know ... I haven't posted in agessss!!!

Don't blame me .. blame the stupid busy work schedule or reality! ... It really bites sometimes!
Anyway. Guess what!? I went to see 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2' last Sunday and basically the only way to describe it is OH MY GOSH!!

It was absolutely ah mazing!! ... But I can't believe it's over!!
I'm not really one of those people who are obsessed with everything HP (however I will admit that I used to be) ... I don't want to track down the actors and pounce on them like some crazy fan .... But I really really enjoyed the books and the movies!

Look at it though, it's been 10 years since the first movie and now ... everyone is finished, it's the last time all of the cast and crew were together! ... It's the end of an era!!
MIND BLOWING ... That's what it is!

I think that whats so appealing about these books and these movies to people is that fact that Jo Rowling has created this amazing world ... and really, the only thing that people seem to want, is to escape reality!

Okay so on another note .. I'm going to have to hit the sheets soon. I have to get up early in the morning because I have an interview in the city at an Architectural Firm!!

Wish me luck!
Time for me to escape my reality for at least 6 hours ... here's hoping anyway!

Dr Jekyll and ... MacBook!

For all you classic book lovers out there, I'll share with you one if my favourite ones that has always captured my intrigue ... From the first page to the very last, 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' is one of the best spine tingling thrillers even to this day ... in my opinion anyway.

I was so fascinated by this book when I first read it I wanted to delve deeper into the origins of this fantastically awesome story! I discovered that Robert Lewis Stevenson, the author, actually wrote this book in about three days. It was a reflection of his dream like state and split personality, evidentially you could say that Stevenson was Dr Jekyll, and that his darker side that roamed the streets at night was Mr Hyde (a less horrible version I'm sure).

I particularly found this book interesting because I myself think it's fascinating knowing what makes people tick, what makes them do what they do!

For those of you who haven't read the book, I won't completely spoil the ending for you, but I will say that if classic thrillers and disturbing human psychology interests you, then this is definitely a book worth your reading!!

On another note .... this is my first blog that I am writing on my new ... MacBook Pro!!! .. Feel privileged .... I love it already and that's saying something considering I've had it a total of about 3 hours now! ... This computer is just oozing out of the keys with awesome sauce and trendiness, it really is great for all my design programs as well ... TurboCAD-ing it up ... all the way!! ... It's most definitely been the highlight of my technological journey .. so far!

P.S. Happy Independence Day USA!!! 

Bucket List

I have a Bucket List.Now I know what you are probably thinking ... "sure, well there's a lot of people out there who have a Bucket List" .. But you see the difference is, my Bucket List is mine, and uniquely mine ... There is things on there that range from adventurous activities I want to do to place I want to travel to things I want to achieve in my career to family aspects. I got up to about 250 on the list, to tell you the truth I could have kept going to 1000 or more, but I had to narrow it down.
Still, I think 250 is swinging pretty far for the fence! Wouldn't you agree?

One of the items on said Bucket List, is speak Fluent French. This one I have actually been working on ... buuut - Je ne peur paler un peu de Francais! (which means 'I can only speak a little bit of French) so far ... I love this language though, it sounds so beautiful, with every syllable and word that I learn it's like honey running off my tongue (a strange simile for a language I'm sure, unique none the less!)

English is obviously my first language, and I loved English in high school (I was an English, Art and Film person, not a Math's and Science person). I just loved the idea that there could be more than one right answer to something, I loved the fact that there was a lot more creativity involved in English and the Arts and that there was no dead set right or wrong answer .... It was the process that mattered, not necessarily the final product (although if that was good it did help).

Anyway, back to my insanely weird obsession with France at the moment .... Come to think of it, it is a little strange isn't it, me want to live in the south of France for a while and now me wanting to learn the language fluently .... oh well, guess I can't help it now!

So that's one thing on the list anyway.

I was reading the other day in a travel brochure (I think it was STA travel or something) that they offer a lot of different around the world tours ... I was reading the details of them and a lot of them are absolutely amazing! ... If only I had enough money.

There is however an opportunity to teach English as a Foreign Language all around the world. The company pays for the course that you have to take to get the qualification as well, and it's only 20 hours of classroom time .... I thought, bonus! ... There is fee's involved with the tour package of course ... I'll let you know if anything pops up that allows me to travel the world for free ... while packing my bags!

I shall keep you posted and give you various travel updates (when I do go away) .... there are heaps of places that have free WiFi!

Keep smiling!

South America

I just went onto the Contiki Travel Tour site, and guess what! .... They now have tours for, wait for it, that right, I'm going to give you a big build up here ... SOUTH AMERICA! ... now I know that this definitely won't interest everyone, not at all, but it definitely interested me! ... I have a friend who lives over in South America, although, she lives in Chili and the tours only travel through Peru, Argentina and Brazil ... still, I thought that this was AH MAY ZING!

Machu Pichu - Peru

Being the travel bug that I am, this is the tour that I really want to do now:
http://contiki.com.au/tours/286-the-adventurer/itinerary
(take a look at the link if you want, but I'll pretty much explain what it is in this next awesome description!)

It's 24 days of pure awesomeness and inspiration. The tour goes from Lima, through Arequipa, Colca Canyon, Puno, Cusco, Sacred Valley, Machu Pichu, Puerto Malsonado, Buenos Aires, Iguassu Falls, Buzios and finally Rio de Janeiro.
How fantastic does that sound!

Rio de Janeiro

Well, I can only dream at the moment, I have almost no money, especially not enough to go trekking around the world .. YET! ... I will though, that much I know. I won't be able to stay put for long!

I am thinking though, that I will finish all my study first, then hopefully I will have enough money saved after then (hopefully) to do at least a little traveling .. I suppose I'm just going to have to see where life takes me!

I don't really have a fantastically detailed plan for my future mapped out, but I do know what I want, and I do know that my 'gypsy blood' won't allow for much deviation from that path - at least I hope not anyway!

The last thing I want is a cookie cutter job and a cookie cutter life. I don't want to be doing other peoples taxes and going home at 5.37pm to pat my dog on the head, sit down to my meat-and-two-vegetable meal and wait for millionaire hot seat to come on (or something along those lines), a beautiful life I'm sure, however, not the life for me.

That's just my opinion though, if that's what people aspire and dream about, then by all means, don't let me hold you back. I just think you should do what feels right to you and live life the way you want to live it, aspire to your dreams, not what society finds 'custom'. Be who you want to be and not a clone tainted so much by sociological views, because it's those inner complexities, the aspects that make a person tick, that's the true beauty within humanity.

Again, this is all just my opinion, and advice ... optional to listen to, or not, of course. I shall let you in on a little cliche that I've heard so many times I swore if another person said it, my ears would bleed ... but I understand a lot of the meaning behind it now, and I can't believe I'm about to write it ... but: 'Life is a rollercoaster, so just enjoy the ride, wherever it takes you!"

Hey ... Live life. Dream Big, and let the best memories engrave themselves on your heart!

Secret Window

Is it weird that I am really in love with the lake house/cabin in the movie ‘Secret Window’? Because to be quite honest I really do absolutely love that house, yes, it is a little rough around the edges, and it could do with a little TLC, but seriously, I could see myself living there. Or at least having it as some sort of holiday cabin .... wouldn’t that be cool though, to turn around and say, ‘Yeah, I have a Lake house that I go when I have that inevitable crave for solitude sometimes.’

I don’t know about you, but I like to be alone sometimes, maybe not to the extent that Mort Rainey is in the Secret Window (apologies if you haven’t seen the movie. Watch it, I think you will be pleasantly surprised and enjoy it, if your anything like me you will anyway), but I think, deep down, we all crave that solidarity. We yearn for a place that we can think without interruption, a place that we can just go deep into our minds and not come out until we’ve figured out what it is that needs figuring out.

This particular lake house in ‘Secret Window’ is in upstate New York, out at a place called Tashmore Lake ... Now as far as I know, this isn’t a real lake, it was made up for fictional purposes by Stephen King (the author of the book that ‘Secret Window’ was based on) ... but again I could be wrong, it could very well exist.

To be completely honest with you, I think I would have to just have it as a vacation cabin up in the mountains near the lake because I’m the kind of person who, if given the opportunity, would live abroad ... a soon to be Architect I think that eventually, if I could start my own firm, I could be able to work from home more often and have a head office where everything was run. I would then be able to still have a home near my head office, but have that option of living in different countries if I wanted to, hell I could even expand my office to other parts of the world!! You never know what’s lying around the corner for you. That’s a long way into the future for me yet though.

Even though I want to be successful in my career and I want to achieve certain things and travel the world, and have all of these exciting experiences, at the end of the day, I’m just an everyday person, who has a dream to do extra ordinary things, and anyone can do that!    

Hollywood! On the Gold Coast.

This weekend I went to Movie World with my sister and 3 of her friends for her 10^th Birthday! 

Movie World! .. Hollywood on the Gold Coast.

It was fantastic! ... I really really enjoyed it! Being the adrenaline junkie that I am, I was the one who wanted to go on all the rides and the big rollercoaster’s, however I must say, the other 10 year old girls who are into make-up and Hannah Montana, did not seem to be that impressed with my intense enthusiasm and thirst for adrenaline!

Instead, they wanted to keep going on the ‘Scooby Doo spooky coaster’! ... Now, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved that ride as well, but I wanted to go on the ‘Superman Escape’ ride, and no one wanted to go on that one with me, nor the ‘Leathal Weapon’ rollercoaster (I do apologise to any of you who don’t know what or where these rides are, no matter, I shall be talking about them anyway!) .... They all thought it was ‘too fast’, or ‘too scary’, but that’s all okay because we didn’t go there for me, we went there for my sister, and if/when I go there next, I will go on the rides that I want to go on, so I’m not stressing about that at all.

'Superman Escape' Roller Coaster!

The night before we went to Movie World, I had a very implausible dream. Saying that it is implausible doesn’t necessarily make it implausible, it just means that it’s unlikely, but not completely impossible, that it could happen. Meaning that if I had a dream that I was falling out of the rollercoaster seats because of their lack of security while being yelled at and harassed by angry Smurfs, then yes ... I would say that that dream was, in fact, impossible (although you can never be too careful!) But instead, my dream was that I went on the ‘Wild Wild West Log Ride’ with Johnny Depp, however there were added features on the ride. There was section where you had to get off and catch a butterfly to move onto the next stage, which came as a bit of a surprise to me, but hey, if I had to catch a butterfly to keep going, then dammit, I would catch a butterfly! The boats we were in were that small that I was forced to squash in next to the other person (which in this case was absolutely fine because it was Johnny Depp, after all!) Then after the ride we both walked away saturated (at least I got that part right, you do get wet in the ‘Wild Wild West Ride’) and we approached these two police horses, which, for reasons beyond my interpretation of reality, were blue and red, then the police officer that was on the blue horse dismounted and it turned out to be Christian Bale. Then I woke up!

The 'Wild Wild West' Ride - That I could possibly totally go on with Johnny Depp!

Does that seem at all strange to you? Because I think that that could quite possibly happen, I mean, why could a horse be blue or red? And is it really that impossible to believe that I could go on a ride at the Gold Coast with Johnny Depp? ..... I mean, dreams can sometimes represent premonitions ... although in this case, it could be just wishful thinking!     

Private Island

From that fantastically chosen title of mine, you are probably thinking that this latest blog will be about me owning a private island and vacationing there every now and then with a few of my besties and/or family.

Now I mean this in the most polite way possible, but, and you have no idea how much it hurts me to say, you are in fact WRONG!  .... I do not in fact have a Private Island of my own in that Caribbean, although I will admit how nice that would be! That would, however, imply that I am secretly rich and able to just buy a piece of land in the middle of beautiful clear water out in an almost perfect climate.

I am not rich, nor have I been saving for 400 years to be able to afford said Island. No ... no, this is merely a distant dream of mine at the moment, a bit like owning a property in the South of France.

HOWEVER, a dream it is, and not to be reckoned with .... and I will let you in on a little secret, if you want something bad enough, and you put in the right amount of effort and hard work, you will eventually get it. I’m talking as realistic as you can get in this situation, if you turned around to someone and said, well, I want a pink elephant with blue stripes in my backyard to keep my pet giraffe with the bell around its neck company .... well that’s probably unlikely to happen ... I’m not ruling it’s possibility out all together, I’m just saying there is a slim chance of that occuring.

ANYWAY .... I think my aspiration to own an island one day is not THAT far fetched .... you never know what’s around the corner – that’s the beauty of life!

So when I’m older and I have purchased and jazzed up said island and I’ve bought the boat that I can water ski behind and the sea plane that I can skydive out of, I’ll let you know.

Who know’s, I might even name one of the beaches after you!

Metal Images

You know how you get those images in your head when someone says something. It triggers mental pictures and thoughts that you otherwise wouldn’t have had.

Well, that happened to me today!

My mum had left our super radical spaceship like vacuum outside. She had been vacuuming the car and had come in for lunch. Anyway, she said to me, “just keep an eye on my vacuum outside would you? I don’t want anyone steeling it!”

Now, one would think that the proper mental image here would be someone driving along, spotted an easy target, thought ‘sweet as, free vacuum’, pinched it and then drove off ... Everyone’ different, I just thought this would be classed as the norm in said situation!

However, that’s not the case ... You see my though process is quite different and this was yet another chance for my imagination to let loose!

See instead of a car, I just picture someone nicking the vacuum and running down the street with it ... Why they are running is beyond me ... maybe they wanted the exercise and the fresh air!

Secondly ... it wasn’t a person that I had a mental image of ... It was Speedy Gonzales!

Why my subconscious chose a little Mexican Mouse running around with a sombrero pinching my vacuum is unfathomable ... but I can’t control that ... after all, it’s my SUB-conscious.

Bonjur ... Possibly Maybe!

Bonjur – I’m pretty sure that’s how you would spell it in English ... just in case it’s not and I accidentally said something like ‘slimy chickens’ in Portuguese, what I meant to actually say was ‘hello’ in French!
As France is one of my newest obsessions ... notice how I excluded Paris from this ... I have never been to Paris, and don’t get me wrong, I think (from what I’ve seen and heard) that it is a beautiful city ... and don’t get me started on the architecture. Being an architecture student, Paris evokes some sort of longing architectural passion in me! ... I’m absolutely in love with its French architecture ... as I am with a lot of other architecture ... but that’s all beside the point and I’m rambling again. The thing is, there is just something about the South of France, the little villages and towns, the beaches that are oh so close and those little coffee shops that scream ‘come inside, hot, sweet, caffeinated goodness ... drink me and marvel at my deliciousness!’ It all just sparks an excitement in me! I would very much like to possibly maybe live there someday ... part time!

Eventually I think it would be absolutely amazing to go and study or even work as an architect in France or London or somewhere like that!

I would also absolutely looove to travel to Greece one day, Santorini in particular and Athens, and anywhere else you can think of around the world!

SANTORINI - In the Greek Islands!

As you probably have already gathered, I have an insane thirst for travel! ... and Architecture ... I think it’s amazing to explore different cultures and fantastically fascinating!

Well .. this post has mainly been about my infatuation with travel and the South of France at the moment, however given the current circumstances, I really don’t care ... I feel like rambling about the South of France, so I’m going to ramble about the south of France!

This is a little town in the South of France called 'Plan De La Tour' ... Isn't she pretty?!

.... Okay, I think I’m done rambling about France.

Onto another subject, the weekend that just passed, I went to a basketball game ... now I really really LOVE basketball ... watching it, playing it, coaching it! ... it’s an awesome sport ... for those who aren’t that into basket ball .... just skip reading this paragraph.

Okay .... well I waited until the last minute to tell you to skip reading the above paragraph, so you had to put up with me talking about basketball anyway .... it’s not like I can just insert new words in the middle of a sentence now can I?

I really don’t have any awesome closing paragraph or anything today ... so I will just say one thing:

Life is what you make it ... SO MAKE BUBBLE GUM! 

Pirates

I went to the premier night of Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides last night. I'm not going to lie to you, it was a little bit freaking awesome!! I went with some of my besties, and I didn't get back home until about 1:00 AM ... and I had to wake up again the next morning at 7, the thing is, I felt really really energised and I am still really energetic and enthusiastically excited!! ... I guess that's what a dose of Captain Jack does!
It was not as good as the original however, but what is .. usually most sequels are a bust, I think Pirates has done a good job at keeping even them up in the box office ratings!

This fourth installment in one of the most epic quadriligies of our time, was directed by Rob Marshall ... Now I'm not sure if many of you know that he was the director of movies such as 'Chicargo' and 'Memoirs of a Geisha' ... Not titles that you would generally relate to a Pirates of the Caribbean movie that's for sure, however, given the circumstances, I must say that the movies didn't completely go down in flames, again despite not having the talented direction or Gore Vebinski like the Pirates previous movies. The script was easy to follow however somewhat predictable at times and definitely not as funny as the previous movies .... Captain Jack Sparrow still had his dry sense of humour, but on a more watered down scale, but I definitely will say this ... the fantastic performances of Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane and of course the one and only Johnny Depp, were intensely exciting and passionate and they still brought that much needed essence to their character that absolutely brought, what could have been a disastrous movie, up into what I would rate, on a scale of 1 - 10 ..... 6 awesome's.

Moving on from the fact (which you have probably guessed already) that I have a major celebrity crush on Johnny Depp .... I would like to ask you all a question ... yes ... that would imply that I had actually been thinking about this for some time ... "What's that? she is actually thinking! ... holy crap run!" ... no .... In my recent outing of said awesome Pirates movie ... I got into a heated discussion with one of my friends about whether or not Disney will do yet another sequel in this awe inspiring series of Pirates and Caribbean and Johnny Depp Awesomeness. This is basically how the conversation played out:
(For reasons beyond me I have decided to give my friend an alias .... so instead of his actual name ... I will be calling him CS .... short for Captain Shapera)

CS : Will and Elizabeth weren't in this one .... Do you think they will be in the next one?

Me : *perplexed* Next one?

CS : Yeah, apparently they are planning on doing up to 7 sequels ... they were planning it from the start!

Me : What ... No way .... NO because they weren't even planning on doing a sequel to the first movie ... however given the fact that it did so well at the box office ... they said 'okay ... we can totally do another one now' ... or something along those lines ... then they said .. 'well okay, lets shoot 2 back to back' ... hence how the whole POTC 2 and 3 came about .... NOW .... they went to the script writers and basically said ... 'we need 2 sequel scripts for POTC .. back to back' and the writers then pretty much said 'oh shit .... what are we going to do for 2 more sequels .... we are out of mad ideas' ..... ANYWAY  .... when they started shooting number 2 the script writers had not even finished the 3rd script ... and they had a lot of problems with budget and all that jazz ... that's basically how the TRILOGY came about .... the idea to do a 4th installment was up to how well ratings were and how far they could push the boundaries ... but lets face the facts shall we ... nothings permanent in Hollywood.

CS : *silence* ...

.... I'm guessing he was wondering when the hell I was going to shut up and let him get a word in!

And they call me the movie buff in the group!!!

Killer Kitchen Implements

I deemed it necessary today to let you all know with complete and utter class the I TOTALLY GOT MY STITCHES OUT OF MY HAND TODAY ... HELL YES! As graceful as I could possibly sound over a form of digital communication, where it is incredibly hard to convey what emotions are running through me at this time ... I think that sentence sums it all up pretty well.
It’s sort of gross though, the big swollen red mark with a slice of flesh still kind of missing on my once, may I say, attractive finger ... okay, well it was as attractive as a pinkie finger can get, which in my opinion is pretty damn good looking!

But I have accepted the fact that I will have a scar across the base of the smallest, most helpless finger on my hand, seriously, it hardly seems fair, the poor little finger probably gets picked on by all the other fingers, purely because of its size, and then I go and give it a healthy scar to maybe toughen it up a bit ... and now I’m thinking that it’s going to get bullied some more.

I am feeling so guilty right now. I’m so sorry finger, please forgive me ... without you I can’t look posh and hold you away from my cup while sipping tea.

I really don’t mind having a scar on my finger, honestly, it matches the one I have on the other hand, the one I got while chopping carrots in the kitchen. Seriously, I swear the kitchen implements are out to get me, they get smart on day and decide to band together and gang up on me.

The pots and pans will form one giant super stainless steel kitchen pots and pans robot that will shoot cutlery out of its pot lid hands.

I’m never cooking again!

On another note though, I’m going to share this with you because I thought it was amusing, well in my opinion its funny, whether you find it amusing or not I guess is completely up to you.

This afternoon I was in my room studying and my Dad yells out “Athena, come here, quick!” so I race out to the lounge room with a million things running through my mind as to what my Dad so urgently needs me for. “What??” I said with a slightly, what I can only imagine to be a bewildered look on my face. “Look at the size of Julia Gillard’s ear lobes!” He says to me, all urgency gone in his voice, “It looks like Spock gone wrong!”

I laughed so hard I almost collapsed.

So the moral of these events:

Number 1) Don’t let your kitchen utensils get the better of you. Always stay sharp, you have to be

      one step ahead of them at all times, or they will get you when you least expect it!

And number 2) There isn’t really any moral in this. Oh wait no, I take that back, the moral is .....

              Those heavy earrings will only harm your lobes in later life!

Birthday Invites and Dust Busting

So it's my sisters birthday at the end of this month and I designed some invitations for her party. She wants to have it at Movie World! Hollywood on the Gold Coast .. pffft unlikely, I don't see Courtney Cox walking down the main streets or in line for the Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster ... and may I just say that maybe I should be getting some kind of payment or compensation for giving Movie World advertising!
Anyway, because she's really really into Harry Potter at the moment (as I'm sure a lot of us were at that age, and still are, at ages 17 + ) I decided that I would create such an awesometastic invitation for her that it would beat any retail invitations, hands down!
And I did. But the problem is, that I did such an awesome job, (that I was quite proud of if I do say so myself ... I'm not egotistical at all ... I just like them!) that I wanted to keep them for myself. I didn't want her to take them to school and hand them out to her friends, I created these with my own hands! I wanted to keep them. I even constructed hand made little envelopes with the houses out of Harry Potter on them (Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw - I apologise to all the die-hard HP fans out there if I spelt the house names wrong) I was so proud of my creative efforts.

I thought about it, and decided that it probably would be a good idea to actually give them to my sister to give to her friends, after all I did initially start making them for her. So I let her have her invitations. But as a compromise, I took a photo of them so I could keep a digital copy and the memories!

Also I thought that I would share that we got a new vacuum today .. and may I add ... a pretty radical vaccume! ... It looks like its about to launch into space, and/or crash landed on earth from space in all its suction awesomeness! It's like a little bug shaped UFO with vaccume bags for aliens! Definitely a superior technologically advanced dust busting machine!
It is a lot better than the old broken one we had. I don't mean to sound horrible or hurt its feelings or anything, but it just wasn't doing it's job. We had to let it go, fortunately it wasn't getting paid a cent and did not have a family to feed so it was an easy task!

So rather than just skimming over top of the dirt, then the dirt turning around and looking up at me saying "HA HA, your not getting me, I am far to good for your crappy vaccume" in their arrogant tone, I suck it all up now with no arguments at all!

So screw you dirt!

Mother's Day oh .. and Friday

Awell Hellooo!

How are we all on this fine Mothers Day?

Lets hope we are all as awesome as I am ... although, let me tell you ... it took some work getting to the mood I'm in now, I didn't just wake up this morning, jump out of bed like a ninja and evidently was in the best mood one could be in at the ungodly hour of 7:00 AM on a Sunday! BUT, the main thing is that I an in a fantastic mood now. The day started with moaning and groaning as I realised that yes, it actually was that dreaded time to crawl out of bed. Waking myself up just enough to be considered barely conscious to make breakfast I realised that today was in fact Mothers Day, and what kind of daughter would I have been while living at home and not making Mum breakfast in bed, so she got my famous microwaved scrambled eggs and toast, OH and coffee of course!

I woke up a bit more and after we gave Mum her presents I went back down stairs so I could eat and get ready to go out to Wivenhoe Dam for a Mothers Day Picnic with the family! OH and guess what! ... I totally drove out there! 2 hours baybee! ... I know that probably doesn't sound that interesting to you but I love driving so therefore it's incredibly awesome news for me!

So that was basically my mothers day! So besides having a great day today and bragging, I thought I would tell you something bad, you know just to even up the equation and not make you feel to bad if your day way crap.

My Friday night was crap also, so there you go, no need to feel jealous of my great Sunday because my Friday balanced the scale!

So the morning was okay and then I got out of bed and it all started to go down hill from there. First, I remembered that it was Friday, and that may seem like a good thing, but Friday is my cleaning day, which evidently means what it sounds like, I had to clean a two storey house that has had 3 young kids trashing the place since Tuesday. Now I want you to know that I really don't mind cleaning it that much, but I was in a foul mood that day!

When I accepted the fact that I had to do this, and that it was better to be positive about it then to actually whinge about it all so that the time might seem to go quicker (according to psychological studies ... apparently, don't quote me, I'm completely under qualified for digging around in other peoples minds) I decided to drag myself out of bed and get ready for work.
Now the rest of the day I'm not going to bore you with, same things happened basically, I studied, worked and cleaned, it wasn't until about 4 / 4:30 PM came around that thing started to turn pear shaped again!

I was starting to put the dishes away from earlier that day (I know I very lazy) and as I was going to put the coffee cups away up in the top cupboard, I dropped one and when I went to catch it (in a weird way might I add, I don't know what I was thinking trying to catch it with my back hand) it hit the bench at the same time and shattered over my hand. I looked down and my right pinkie figure and ring figure to assess the damage I might have done. My first thoughts were "okay, well I don't think it that bad, not much damage there at all" and then the blood started to gush out! It wouldn't stop, either my platelets were being really lazy and not clotting my blood, or I had done some serious damage.
My thoughts then were things like "Oh my God I am going to die of blood loss, no time to get to the emergency room now, either I'm going to die here on my kitchen floor with my lasts words being unpleasant cursing, or I'm going to have to stitch myself back together myself .. wheres the sewing kit?"

After Dad looked at the damage, he basically said "you'll need a stitch" and I was thinking 'oh great, well are you going to do it, or would you like me to attempt it .. there's no time for Doctors now! If we wait I might loose my hand!' ... But as I talked myself out of my over dramatization I thought ' okay, well maybe there is some time to drive 5 minutes down the road for a qualified Doctor to look at my hand, maybe, just maybe, I actually WON'T bleed to death!'

So that's how my fight with a coffee cup landed me with a syringe full of anesthetic injected into my pinkie finger and two stitches to hold me together. Anyway, as it turns out, I'm not going to die from blood loss, but I could get an infection if I don't keep it covered and clean, which probably wouldn't be the best thing in the world!

Anyway, I'm off to do some of the simplest tasks in life however find them impossibly difficult due to my new found injury ... God, am I looking forward to next Friday!

Adulthood Sucks!

Adulthood is not all it’s cracked up to be! And this is coming from a person who has only just recently entered it!

Upon receiving my college paper back after it had been marked (unfairly may I add) ... I took one look at the mark on the front cover and my heart almost jumped out of my chest ... I was going through the grieving process ... OVER A PAPER!

Now, I know what you’re thinking, ‘one little letter, it probably wasn’t even that bad at all’, but let me tell you this, that one little letter pushed me into my mighty consumption of many bags of pineapple lumps and whatever chocolate was left over in the fridge from Easter.

I was unstoppable! The radar that I forgot excised reared its ugly face as my overwhelming desire to eat any chocolate in sight consumed my passion even for adrenaline at that time! (Which might I add is saying something, adrenaline and as it turns out, chocolate, is my kryptonite.) Chocolate to me is like putting a drink in front of a recovering alcoholic. Wave that bad boy in front of me and you might as well say goodbye to your arm!

I would also like to warn you that I tend to go very hyperactive in the presence of chocolate. Let me tell you that hyper activeness in not at all the same as energetic. Energetic is the adjective that would be used to describe a playful puppy, and I’ll tell you that I was nowhere near resembling a puppy at this time! I think that if you tried to heavily sedate me, wear me out by making me swing on that damn ab swing pro and peel my eyes open to make me watch speed in high definition and on fast forward I would still have enough energy to fly around the world 8 times and feel no jet lag what so ever!

Now I know what you are probably thinking! ‘She’s a total loon, maybe a few too many drinks she might have had today ... its one paper’ ... on the contrary though ... I have not been intoxicated with any alcohol nor am I insane (at least I don’t think I’m insane.)

However, this particular paper was the paper of all papers. If any one of Einstein’s theories were compared to this architectural paper, then I think I know which one would triumph. Considering the amount of work that I had done on it! But no ... The markers of my paper thought otherwise and unfortunately, now ... I am wallowing in the guilt of consuming every inch of chocolaty goodness in the fridge, which was evidently caused by this paper. I sure that it will now start a chain reaction that will cause me to spiral downwards and crawl into a hole filled with crunchies and caramel filled chocolates and not come out. Then because the world will have a student with a half finished course, it will be in short supply of architects which will then mess with the entire space time continuum and I will eventually be blamed for the cause of the end of the world!

Okay ... so maybe that was a little over dramatic. I can always resubmit this paper anyway!

Bending the Rules

I recently went to the cinema to see the latest addition of the 'Scream' movies. I must admit that 'Scream 4' was pretty good, and lived up to it's reputation for being a scary movie. The slogan was, 'Scream 4 breaks all the rules.' Now if that were me creating a slogan for a movie, I would probably have said something like 'This is fictional horror! There are no rules at all! People are going to get killed no matter what 'rules' may be enforced.' But that's just me. All in all, I did enjoy it! ... I'm quite the movie buff. BUT the thing that I really hate about going to the multiplex, is the ad's at the beginning of the movie. The commercials for other movies are all right, after all, I do like to know what I would plan on seeing next time. But the commercials from TV are just absolute crap! ... You go to the theatre to get escape reality, and sitting there watching a massive screen almost 10 times bigger than the poxy little one that I watch my DVDs on at home displaying the new ab swing pro, is not escaping reality! .. I don't want to be reminded that I was to lazy to do any exercise that day.
Somehow they will also manage to slip in a cleaning product commercial as well. That's another thing that I don't need reminding about, that my house is absolutely filthy!

So in the event that you may find yourself in a situation where you are reminded of reality when you absolutely don't want to because it will probably make you scream out to the world 'I HATE BEING AN ADULT' by all means ... feel free to waltz down the aisle and dance out to the candy bar .. because after all ... what can't candy fix?

Revenge seeking ant

I have decided to start a blog! You have probably already guessed this because you are reading it. BUT ... I must have you know that this is my first post EVER! So feel privileged! You may be the first person EVER to read it! And the reason why I keep putting 'EVER' in capitals is because I think that it deserves capital letters. Ever is one of the most comprehensible words there is. I think that, used in the right contexts, this word could rule all words in the English language!
Worship it. Respect it. Fear it.

As much as I could go on and on about how 'EVER' is a fantastically awesome word for all to desire and worship. I won't. I think I've bored you enough with that don't you?

So, in my efforts to defer the subject I will mention something completely off topic and totally random, working in context with this segment. Ants! Rather than bore you with the inner workings of Ants, I will just mention this: there is quite possibly, THE BIGGEST ANT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE right near me. Watching me. Stalking me! I know this because I swear that I saw the exact same ant yesterday and tried to squash it. So not only is it a stalker ant, but its a survivor ant! No matter how many times I have tried to destroy it, it just keeps coming back! It's like those villan's in super hero movies that, no matter how many times you try and kill them, they keep coming back because they have sworn revenge on you! That's what this ant it. A massive, surviving, revenge seeking little insect with nothing better to do with its time then to creep me out!

I doubt I'll be able to sleep tonight.