you know, the strangest thing happened to me on the way to outer space today...

NEW JOURNAL

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:24:26 GMT

so i started deleting crappy communities i joined and never looked it, saw what a mammoth task it was, and decided i've had this journal for 7 years, and while that's kinda cool to look back at old entries, it's time for a new one.

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ADD ME!!

i know, cheesy username but i had a serious mindblock.

i'm not deleting this journal because of the ~memories~ but i wont be updating it any more!

eating m&ms baking bits

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:55:34 GMT

PHEW!

assignment = all done. i don't want to dwell on whether i did good or bad because that would just ruin the peaceful frame of mind i'm trying to create. i've just chowed down a gargantuan subway salad, pocketed some cash from babysitting, lined up australia's next top model to watch and have lolita to read, so i'm happy right now. wish dafydd was back though.

tomorrow i'm gonna do what i've felt like doing for a while - cook and bake! gonna make a surprise dinner for dafydd when he gets home, his favourite, RIBS. i don't really dig on the swine, but i'm trying to surprise him and he loves that shit. annnd i'm also gonna make heaps of cinnamon buns for everyone, parents, their friends that are staying with them, us, other peoples, everyone! i saw the most amazing recipe yesterday: NUTELLA RAVIOLI. will def. be making that sometime. also, this weekend i'm going fabric shopping! yay exam week = heaps of sewing. i have so many ideas and patterns thanks to my patternmaking evening class. also, next week i'm going to start doing heaps of exercise. because i finally have time!! yayayay.

badness = today, once all the stress wore off i realised i was coming down with a cold. i've attacked it with multivitamins and healthy foods, and i'm gonna add heaps of rest tonight to the mix. have not been sleeping well this week, due to assignment TERROR. it was the hardest thing i've ever done. SO EXHAUSTING. but i still love linguistics, so whatevs. i'm a nerd.

also, can't wait to wash my hair tonight as haven't done so all week. grotty, i know, but it looked alright somehow. clean and fresh!

sleepytime

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:41:25 GMT

my back :( is scratched! ow ow ow. awk angle/camera dead so had to use webcam but it looks worse IRL. and it HURTS :(

and the perpetrator of this crime was this naughty kitty. evil herself:

i'm seriously starting to dislike this cat. do you know how this happened? i wasn't playing with her, or winding her up: i was in bed, half awake this morning, when all of a sudden YEOWTCHHHHHh she scratches my exposed back for NO reason. she's so naughty, we have to keep her in a room with the door closed overnight otherwise she wanders all over the house, and as soon as we leave her in there she just scratches the door and makes a loud, thumping noise (i don't actually know how) against the door. all night, pretty much. she seems so calm and sedated lying next to the heater, but really, she's just plotting her next move.

he was a fool, fool for love

Fri, 29 May 2009 04:59:21 GMT

i'm loving the hell out of that song, at the moment.

STRESSFUL
WEEK.

not only that, but stressful weekend to come, and stressful week thereafter. i'm so sick of the stress. today i had my spanish oral test, and i had to get up early to drive Dafydd to the airport. i then went back to sleep, but it was a bad idea because i woke up for the second time groggy and tired. ORAL TEST = FAIL. i'm not exaggerating, it was that bad. i had to ask her to repeat most of the questions, think i completely misunderstood one and answered wrong, then she caught me out of the blue by asking what i think of the hispanic culture and hispanic people. WTF??? everyone before me had been asked about what they like and don't like, and i get this general i dont even know how to answer in english question. yeah, i said "i don't know". en espanol. it was excruciating. the only thing that made me feel better was that my study partner Sarah went straight after me and she also got the hispanic question and also faltered. phew. but i felt so prepared, and now feel like shit. i'm not doing spanish next semester. i was thinking about dropping it, but now i've decided.

i have an assignment due in on thursday for linguistics. a phonology assignment that's going to take up most of my time this weekend. i really need to get a good mark, and it's gonna require a lot of work. which really sucks, because there's so much on this weekend including Supitcha visiting from Melbourne, but i just really have to take the time to do it. it's important. i need to get my grades up up up to get into Speech and Language, and i know i can do it if i make the time. other things will have to wait.

i am DREAMING of it being thursday now, assignment done (to the point where i'm 100% satisfied i did my best), no more classes, apart from spanish on friday, which i will SKIP because i don't give a shit.

i sound like the world's biggest nerd in this post :( i just need to get my nerd-mode on for a few days. then i'll definitely be letting my hair down/glasses of in a sexy porn-music montage. party time

bagged myself a bargain...potentially

Tue, 26 May 2009 04:19:22 GMT

so i got a bag of crap. not literally, although there are copious amounts of that around ever since we got evil naughty cat Penny. buuut, i mean this:

from http://www.1-day.co.nz/ apparently it can be worth anything from $11 to $500. i am unbelievably excited to see what i get! i hope it gets here by the end of the week. my boyfriend got one too, and i SURE HOPE mine outdoes his! muahahahaha!

soundtrack of my life

Tue, 26 May 2009 04:03:28 GMT

i have been listening to mainly soundtracks lately. i find them to be like a little mixtape and even if you haven't seen the accompanying movie they are a pleasure. dependant on the soundtrack, though, i'm sure there are tons of horrible ones out there. i think tarantino's movies come with the most bad ass soundtracks ever. so good. i love so many things about tarantino, but his soundtracks are up there and never disappoint.

some of my current favourites above. share yours, and why you love them so much.

make-up tips post?

Sun, 17 May 2009 04:28:51 GMT

make-up tips. i needs them.

i know how to apply concealer and foundation properly, lipstick's alright but there are two things that make me gulp, shudder and run away.

1. blush. i can never get the right amount of blush. either i can't see it at all, or i can see it and there's HEAPS. i know to put it on the apples of cheeks, but i can never get it to look right. so: help. brands, colours, etc..

2. eyeliner. the only eyeliner i can wear is a line of black liquid on my upper eyelid. but i want to get a smoky eye look and i want to try wearing liquid liner on my bottom eye lid. IT IS SO HARD. or am i just too gammy to pull it off? i tried just now, and this is the result:

it looks like i should belong to a bad makeup community!!! :(

i have tried doing the pencil lower eyelid (and upper, which is fine, but the lower is the problem) and it always makes my eyes look teeny-tiny. how do you girls do it?

MISS CELANIOUS

Wed, 13 May 2009 05:29:35 GMT

this is what i want my pandora bracelet to look like. so far i only have the four beads in the middle

yeah, see that total? man, this is really overpriced. i'm glad i got one as a present, because i would not be able to justify the price to get one myself. annnd, to add to that, i am kinda NOT glad i got one as a present, because now i feel this NEED to spend money on beads. which are, did i mention, LUDICROUSLYDICULOUSLY expensive. but, i put this together today, and i like it. i'll probably change my mind.

phew, i feel pretty f-mylife today. because spanish is SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF ME RIGHT NOW. i have 2 chapters of vocab to learn for my test on friday, and that means TWO CHAPTERS of fucking writing it out and memorising and writing things out a million times. my hand, head, and soul are aching from the process. i'm trying to do spanish language immersion for the poor spanish student who can't actually go to spain by setting my cellphone settings on spanish. i am one confused texter. i have a lot of study to catch up for lingyling too.

BUTTTT good academic news: (make that potentially good academic news) i am seeing an academic advisor next week about my chances of getting into speech and language therapy. basically i'm gonna finish my degree next year and if there is a chance of getting into SLT i'll take some required courses this and next year, then hopefully get into the professional year in 2011. yay, three more years of study. wut. :( SAD PANDA. but yay, speech and language therapy!

this will b me. i hope i can be as dowdychic.

sillypuss

Mon, 11 May 2009 11:14:15 GMT

here's the kitty at play. she's quite hyper sometimes, and i think she has too much energy because she isn't allowed outside yet... another hinderance of that is the fact that she still has to use the kitty box, and she makes the most UNGODLY smelling poop. seriously, it is sooo bad. and because we changed from her eating jelly food to "casserole" style food, she's been having quite runny poop too. SMELL BAD. yuck.

NEW CAT!!

Sun, 03 May 2009 06:20:11 GMT

We adopted a cat from the cats protection league today.

her name is Peony (that's the name the staff there gave her). i really like the name, peonies are my favourite flowers, but my boyfriend wants to call her something else and my flatmate wants to call her smirnoff :/

little meow meow!

i've got...women's problems

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:44:43 GMT

i just went to the supermarket and bought:

i like some things about having periods. i'm on bc and i usually have a period every 3-4 months so i kinda like to really indulge when i do get it. however, i am also having cramps so that's not so good. plus i slept for ages when i got back from university today. tired.

SORRY IF THIS IS TMI miss_shapes!

i really like this skirt, by 3.1 Phillip Lim.

it's basically zipper ruffles. wicked cool. wonder if i can DIY this..but zips are actually quite expensive :(

girl of my dreams

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:02:32 GMT

got my lula!!!!

and got some non permanent hair colour. i'm gonna dye my hair tomorrow, i'm nerrrvous.

i need some new lipstick. but i can't find one i like.

i cooked a mean dinner tonight: spinach and cannellini bean pasta. it sounds gross, but my family ate ALL of it, and my brother said he liked it which means a lot. he's a picky eater.

i also made apple & quince crumble.

my boyfriend comes home tomorrow! yayyy sexy time!

the lipstick indicator

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:19:08 GMT

Ughh, the financial unpleasantness being a student is really hit me today. I checked my account, $7.30. So I went to the bank and got a student account, which came with an optional overdraft. Oh boy, did that sound tempting. But it costs $5/month, a precious $5 I can't part with...I just can't. So I just went for the normal account, with a Debit Plus card so I can internet-shop using my funds. Great. My funds. My non-existant funds.

I'm feeling way unproductive. At the end of the term, I had such a furious and stressful study/assignment finishing spree, and I vowed that next term (starting next week), I would study every day, get everything started in time to avoid the last minute rush and just be, overall, a much better student. Well, I've left my 15% linguistics assignment and my Spanish composition until this week to finish. Not a good start. Also, this unproductivity doesn't just extend to my school work: I haven't done anything creative for such a long time.

All this frustration just calls for one thing: a to-do list. Both long- and short-term, both realistic and idealistic.

Here it be:
- Finish ling project/Span Essay
- organise patternmaking notes
- Apply for job at pak'n'save - yes, glamorous i know, but i am so over being broke.
- write an article to submit to frankie magazine
- sew dress out of grey fabric, top out of sparkly fabric

There's probably more to add to this later.

Now, trivial stuff:
I really want to dye my hair this colour:

but i'm too much of a wuss. actually i'm not, i'm totally doing it, but not permanent so if i get sick of it it will wash out.

i'm an april fool and it's not funny

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:21:55 GMT

i tried to do my hair like duffy today. she has nice hair.

it didn't work out that great, but this is the aftermath of a day to uni and back so it's deflated a bit.

i have sososososo much study to do tonight and sosososososo many things to remember for my linguistics test tomorrow. 25%. and i made one of those errors i'm ever so fond of, studying all the easy, "intro" stuff intensely and leaving hardly any time to study the tricky, can't-head-ma-head-around-this-crazy-business shit. grrr@ me. i said to myself today: "omg ok 2 days left of term 1, next term i'm going to be one of those students that goes to the library every day and summarises that day's classes, constantly revising, never rushing to cram as much information in at the last minute as i am now". i'm not sure whether this will actually happen.

free money

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:10:33 GMT

i just filled out a form on www.myrefund.co.nz and apparently i'm due 140 bucks back for the 2 jobs i've had 2-3 years ago. yayyy! that was pretty exciting. i just have to wait 6-8 weeks to get the cheque in the mail.... "the cheque is in the mail". i hope it does eventuate to something, i have needs. cheese needs. haircut needs. not borrow money from studylink for a week needs.

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:00:29 GMT

i did a solid 2 1/2 hours of study today. i'm proud. it'll have to be something like 10 1/2 on wednesday, since i can't do much tomorrow, and my big test is on thursday morning. arghghghghg.

i made a great play list today.

it made my bus journey a lot more interesting, since my car is still in the "shop". grrrr.

it was a great show. so was connan and little pictures. they were so cute. i've had a great lastweek/weekend but i'm so tired now and stressed out with uni crap. oh well, holidays next week! i've got a shitload of sewing to do.

Writer's Block: GIP (Gratuitous Icon Post)

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:06:19 GMT

You finally have an excuse to use it—what userpic do you not get to use very often but can't delete because it's just that awesome?

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this one of charlotte sitting on the window ledge and staring out at tokyo from lost in translation. i love sofia coppola and lost in translation is one of my favourite movies. i also can relate to that aspect of being in your 20s and trying to figure out who you want to be and getting away to somewhere, trying to be inspired by the culture but finding yourself even more lost.

sugar rush

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:14:36 GMT

wtf guys??????????

http://perezhilton.com/2009-03-11-just-married-18

this picture made me LOL for some reason:

hah i can't believe i'll be seeing him in 2 weeks time! wonder if KM will be there....

xoxo gossip girl

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:22:25 GMT

i just started doing a painting of amy winehouse

what happened to the american dream?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:49:01 GMT

i just went to see this movie:

omg it was sooo good. i wasn't expecting much, but it blew me away. it got a bit lenghty and stale towards the end, but the first half was stunning.

go see it now!

chill out bro..chill da fuk out.

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:30:13 GMT

my brother is not happy.

Dear motherfucking head of Microshit,
yo muthafuckin ass better not put speech recognition into windows, cuz it sucks ass.
my bitch ass was tryna write muthafucka in the openin sentence, but the dumbshit thing you made kept writin mother and father.
honestly, what tha fuck were you thinkin, makin the people who cant use keyboards to use this shit?
ya'll better beware of cho behind, cuz ima gonna pop a cap in yo ass if you keep this shit up.
Ya'll know who this was,
the eternal voice of gangstas,pimps,hos,hookers,bitches, and all of tha other mugstas and homies.

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:26:13 GMT

my parents are in japan at the moment visiting some friends and before they left they asked me what i wanted them to get me. i said "hmm, there are these really awesome dolls. blythe dolls" on a whim, and today my mum emailed me and said they actually got me one!!! i don't know which one it is, but my dad chose it, lols!!!

I
AM
SO
EXCITEDDDDDDDDDDDD

sweater victory

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:10:39 GMT

once upon a time, in an op shop far far away, for $2 this beautiful sweater became mine:

yesterday, as i was reading through "frankie" magazine, i saw a photo of this australian musician "teeth & tongue" and OMG guess what she was wearing on her ALBUM COVER!!!

i've never been more amazed in my life!

plans

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:56:32 GMT

today i wrote up my list of new year's resolutions. i have a new rule: you can alter, add to/remove your NY resolutions list until the 10th of jan - so that's 2 more days!

this is it so far:
- go to more parties
- not put up with sexism (lol long story)
- make and finish the script for my movie
- get a new (possibly red) ribbon for my typewriter
- successful business (not q ready to reveal my plan, though)
- think of a quote to engrave into my moleskine diary/planner
- be nice to my grandparents
- lose 10 lbs
- get into nursing
- enjoy India and learn heaps about the culture (going end of Feb, possibly, for boyfriend's brother's wedding
- be more mature (hah!)
- volunteer at cat rescue - after today trying to rescue a POSSIBLE stray kitten
- closer contact with my refugee family
- read at least 1 book a month (uni books don't count!)
- start a group sport
- make up at least 1 recipe - completely made up from scratch. my imagination!

share yours, plz!

anyway, not this weekend but the one after i'm being a bridesmaid! ahhh! i'm excited, it'll be a strange experience for sure! i'm planning some drinks and nibbles for the hens night. i got a nigella book (nigella bites) from the lyttleton library to prepare.

i have sooo much i want to do but no energy/funds/motivation at times. like now i'm on a huuuge wave of inspiration and motivation, but it's night time and as soon as i've slept and wake up tomorrow morning i'll be too tired/can't be arsed.

BOO HISS! :(

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:19:31 GMT

Dear Anja,

I am upset with you because you are being mean to me. For example, when I asked you if you had a boyfriend you gave me a stupid answer. Stop playing mind games with me.

Chris