Saturday, April 26, 2008

Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.

I'm not alone cause the TV's on yeah.
I'm not crazy cause I take the right pills everyday.
And rest, clean your conscious, clear your thoughts with speyside with your grain.
Clean your conscious, clear your thoughts with speyside.
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.
Tune in and we can get the last call.
Our lives, our coal.
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.
Sign up it's the picket line or the parade.
Our lives.
I'm not alone cause the TV's on yeah.
I'm not crazy cause I take the right pills everyday.
And rest, clean your conscious, clear your thoughts with speyside with your grain.
Clean your conscious, clear your thoughts with speyside.
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.
Tune in and we can get the last call.
Our lives, our coal.
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.
Sign up it's the picket line or the parade, our lives.
(I bled the) greed from my arm.
Won't they give it a rest now?
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.
Tune in and we can get the last call.
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt, our hearts littering the topsoil.
Sign up it's the picket line or the parade.



"Bleed American" - Jimmy Eat World.


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Seems lately I only write blogs when I'm grumpy.
I want to break this cycle but yet again, I'm kinda grumpy right now, and I'm blogging. I guess I'll have to save the cycle breaking for another day.

Is it possible to die from a broken heart ?
I wonder.
Like, Romeo and Juliet... or something.
Think about it.
Not saying I have a broken heart, coz I don't, not at all. But I just wonder if it's still possible to die from one.
I don't think so, not directly.. but maybe it could be a contributing factor to someone's death?
I don't know.
My train of thought is often totally random and odd.
Nevermind.

Everything's a bit of a mess really.
Same old same old.
I want to change my uni course.. Not sure what to though. Maybe Visual Art.. Not really sure.

I want to move out.
Alot.

Mum confronted me in the hallway tonight... she compared me to a japanese homestay student, coz whenever I'm home (which isn't very often these days anyway) I'm always in my room, listening to music or on my computer or asleep.
She doesn't realise how out of place I feel when I'm at home.
And the fact that my dad and brother barely talk to me doesn't really help.
I just think mum thinks she's loosing me or something.
She kinda already is.
Sorry mum.

Work was so dull today.
I'm sick of being abused about our prices by customers.
I don't set the prices, it has nothing to do with me when they maufacturers put their prices up. Seriously, nearly every single customer we get comlpains about prices.
We're still cheaper than like 99% of vets, and hey, if you can find Frontline or whatever for somewhere else cheaper, good for you. Go buy it there. Sif we care anyway, and sif you can actually find it all that much cheaper anywhere else anyway.
Geez.
I'm also sick of stupid dickhead customers who don't know how to look after their animals.. or even worse, don't know how to look after them and can't afford to fix things when they go horribly wrong. Or they know they're doing wrong by the animal but are too selfish to be bothered to pay for medication or treatment, instead they'd rather buy beer and cigarettes.
People are so ignorant and selfish and rude.
Just because animals don't speak english doesn't mean they're worth any less than you.
Imagine if you had two broken legs and no one took you to the doctor or gave you pain relief. They just kept you in a room and left you sitting there.
If anyone found out that you were keeping a human in those conditions you'd go to jail.
Same shold go for animals.
The animal cruelty penalties in Australia are no where near as tough as they should be.
It's pathetic.
Argh.

I'm. So. Over. Everything.

At least I have a few good friends to lean on.
They're my everything.

I'm gonna stop writing this now.
It's all angsty and not making me feel any better.
Ugh.

Bye.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Fail

Sometimes things just don't go as planned.
And when it all goes pear shaped I get annoyed.
Needless to say my life is pretty pear shaped right now.

Be prepared for a giant blog full of me venting my annoyance about the world.
Well, not really the whole world, just the bits concerning me.
Whatever.
I'm annoyed.
This blog is going to be REALLY long. You've been warned.

Last night I had plans with a friend.
The plans were as follows: Meet up at 7pm, go have a few drinks and some dinner at the jazz club, catch a movie, then I'd get the bus home.
Simple, right ?
Wrong.

First of all, I was late - took me 25 mins to drive where I was going instead of the usual 15.
It was cold.
It was raining.
My car driver's side window leaks a little bit so rain kinda comes in, even when the window's fully shut.
Then it took me 20 minutes to find somewhere to park, which ended up being a good 10 minute walk from my bus stop.
I get to the bus stop. I was cold and wet, the bottoms of my jeans were soaked through, and I find, to my amazement and what I thought was luck, that my bus was there, waiting to leave.
However, continuing the trend of annoyances for that night, there was no such luck. Sure the bus was there, but the bus driver decided he didn't want to leave for another 15 minutes. By then it was 7:10pm. I was meant to meet my friend in the city at 7pm.
And in the mean time, the ugly 50 year old bus driver thought it'd be funny to mess with me, all this "And where are you going tonight miss?" crap and "Oh yes, the city, well that'll be $48.60 thanks."
Bitch.
I hate it when older men are all sexist and condesending like that.
YOU DON'T KNOW ME.
Argh.
Anyway, I paid the $2.20 for my bus ticket and get on, and wait for the bus to leave. The driver was driving really slowly between the first few stops, then he starts speeding, like he has to make up time or something. The bus driver nearly killed all us innocent bus passengers not once, but twice.
After two very close near misses and alot of swearing by everyone on the bus, I finally arrived in the city.

It was nice to finally get there and see the friend I was meeting up with. Really.

So, we went to see what movies were on, and, suprise, suprise, the trend of annoyances continued - nothing interesting was on at a time that suited, given I had to get the bus home and the last bus was at 11:25, there wasn't alot of options.
So, my friend and I gave up the movie idea and trekked all the way down the other end of town to the jazz club. I was pretty excited coz I'd never been there before coz it always seemed to be closed when I wanted to go there.
Last night was no exception. "Open til 1am" my ass.
So, giving up the jazz club idea, my friend and I got junk food for dinner and headed back to his house to watch Zoolander on tv.
We got to my friend's place and Zoolander wasn't on.
Harry Potter was instead, so that was ok. We ate dinner and watched tv and it was all good.
Until, BOM BOM BOM! My friend's room mate (or rather, ex-room mate) decides to rock up and rudely tell us to get lost so he and his friend can play xbox.
After a rather heated yet subliminal stand off between my friend and his ex-room mate we finally gave in and left. And so continued our night of failed plans.

So, after alot of us wandering around going, "It's 9pm on a saturday, we can't drink or see a movie and nothing's open" we decided to go and check out a bowling-bar place. We were gonna play pool.
No such luck. The place was packed. And some creepy drunk guy in an organge tank top was all like: "You have a prettttty smile" at me when my mate left me alone for like one second. Drunk people are often funny but sometimes scary.
So, giving up on the bowling idea we eventually went to Starbucks and got giant iced chocolates and chatted for a while.
Then we were all fed up and I got the bus home.
Thus ended our failed night of failed plans.
BUT on a brighter note, aside from all the failed plans, I still had fun and it was (as always)really nice to catch up with my mate. He's rad.

Next time I'll drive all the way into the city and not rely on buses with crazy bus drivers.
Next time it won't be rainy or cold.
Next time I won't be late.
Next time we'll get to see a movie.
Next time we'll find somewhere more reliable than the jazz club.
Next time.

So yes.
Last night = fail.

Today was also a giant fail.
Work was pretty terrible.
Euthenasias seem to come in waves, we'll have none for ages, then alot in a short amount of time.
Today was one of those alot-in-a-short-amount-of-time days.
I was helping hold a dog, and he was a big german shepard cross, and he got stressed because he was blind and didn't know what was going on. He turned his head really fast in my direction, and coz I was holding him so close and tight, the bridge of his nose collided with mine with all of his 35kg of german shepard strength in the swing of his neck.
My nose is now really sore and swollen and has a bit of a bruise. And I think he hit a nerve coz I keep getting pins and needles in my left eye. And I'm dizzy and have a headache and I'm insanely tired even though I've had like 12 hours sleep today.
I got mawled by a cat yesterday at work, my left arm and wrist are all cut up. Not good.
And yesterday was "Oh, Louise is the kid of our clinic, let's get her to CLEAN ALL OUR ANIMAL CAGES" day. Took me and another girl who works with me on a saturday (and is really rad and totally my work twin) 4 hours to clean everything that needed cleaning. Afterwards the whole clinic stunk of cleaning products. It got so bad we had to wear those funny sugery face masks so we weren't breathing it all in. Woo.

Bad weekend is bad.
Fail night was fail.

The annoyance at my life continues.

One word: UNIVERSITY.
Too. Much. Work.
I'm (still) behind in everything. And I'm waiting to get 5 assignments back so I know whether I'm failing my first semester of uni or not.
Let's hope I'm not or I'll probably lose the plot even more. Haha.
I should, right now, be doing an essay, a wiki entry, a truckload of drawings and artwork critiques, some photography and also some advertising and packaging stuff.
Argh.
But I'm annoyed and feel like crap so I'm just gonna sit here and winge and do nothing. Then I'm gonna go to bed.
Yay.

IN OTHER NEWS.. Not everything in my life is completely terrible.

I managed to trim my dogs' nails tonight, with the (unenthusiastic) help of my parents. It's hard to trim at 37kg doberman's nails on your own when he absolutely hates having it done. And my other dog, a 26kg doberman, doesn't really hate having it done, but would rather just lick you to death and wriggle around.
Nevertheless, I feel better now I've done it, and now my dogs' nails don't go TAPPA TAPPA TAP TAPPA on the tiles so much. I felt guilty not having trimmed their nails in a while. Now both my dogs and I feel better. Woooo.

I cleaned out my fish's bowl.
You can tell he's always happiest when his bowl is sparkling clean. He swims around really fast and does silly things. He's so great.
He's hovering as close as he can get to me in his bowl right now, watching me type this.
HI MARLEY. YOU SO CRAZY.

AND, even more wonderous, the most wonderous thing of my entire weekend - a wonderrrrful friend of mine came to see me before I went out last night. She bought me presents, for no reason other than she loves me. Wasn't even a special occaison.
I love her. <3
She's so wonderful, even if she doesn't think she is. I know she is.
I miss her.
We're gonna get our noses pierced in a few weeks, and I'm really excited. :)
AND WE'RE GOING TO THE KISSCHASY CONERT TOGETHER IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
Heck-freaking-yes.

So my life's not all bad.

I still have to pay my car rego, my rent and my phone bills. And I need petrol.
And I have to pay for my Panic At The Disco ticket.
I really need more money.
UNI LIFE = POOR.
But I don't really have much time to work more.
Sigh.

Ok, I think i've successfully winged enough for one night.
Hope you all enjoyed my rambling blog of annoyances!

YAY.

Until next time,
Bai!
<3

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Ok, just out of interest I did a word count on this blog, up until that little dotted line up there ^^^
It was 1573.
That's longer than my essay I should've been writing.
Ooops.
Bye.

Also here's my SNAPOSHOT OF THE DAY:



It's my dog running round with his bowl in his mouth.
I love him.
It's a crap photo from my mobile phone.
Enjoy.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Something about us

It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there's something about us I want to say
Cause there's something between us anyway

I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there's something about us I've got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you

I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I'll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life



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My all time favourite Daft Punk song - Something about us.
Not just the lyrics but the actual music..
Makes me melt.
Makes me happy.
Love that song, love that band.
Go listen to it if you don't know the song.
I dare you.
And the picture below is just random from some website or something, I can't even remember where I got it from. Deviantart I think.
It's just in this blog coz I like it.
Whatever.



Daft Punk and Alice in Wonderland aside, I had a pretty good day.
I should have been doing and should still be doing my mannnnnny Uni assignments but I don't want to. I'll do some.. later.
My day was ok, went to work for a fairwell lunch for one of the vet nurses then went shopping with my mum for the first time in foreverrrr.
It was nice shopping with mum. I bought myself some mascara and other stuff, and MUM bought me this really nice sweater/v neck jumper/grey knit top thing. It's cutee. Mum RARELY buys me things, so it was really random and nice of her :) I love you mum!
After that I went back to work and did my usual friday night shift.
I spent like an hour watching a cat, waiting for it to wake up from aneasthetic. Crazy stuff.
So yes, now I'm home in my pjs, full of leftover food from today's lunch at work and wondering if I should start writing my visual arts essay, paint my fingernails, tidy my room or just go to bed. Haha.
Decisions decisions.

Life's been very uppy-downy lately, I'm quite out of sorts, I've constantly got about one million things on my mind and I'm never really in one set mood or feeling.
I'm also wondering if anyone reads this blogs.
I'm missing alot of people.
I'm tired but I know I need to stay up and do stuff.
I should tidy my room... butttt nah. It's not really messy, I mean, messy for me is tidy for most people... If that makes sense.
I'm excited about all of the concerts I'll be going to in the next few months, there's quite a few. It's rad.
I'm not too excited about work tomorrow or sunday. I need the money but right now I'd rather go without the money and just sleep all the time. Bahha.
I'm lazy.
Did I mention I'm missing alot of people ? Well I am.

Anyway, enough for now.
I'm gonna go procrastinate and avoid all my uni assignments now.
Byeee <3

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Tuesday


Mmmm things have been kinda good lately.
Well, in comparison to last week at least.

Work on saturday was actually quite good.
Amazing, I know.
Didn't do much, no nasty customers and I got outta there on time.

Saturday night was great.. party at a friend's place which was rad.
Saw loads of people I havn't seen since school.. got toasty... didn't sleep much at all and generally had a good time. Met some new people too.

Sunday was wonderful. Hanging in the city with three of my favourite people then went to a rad live show and saw some of my fave local musicians - The Gallant, Steven Childs, Nina May and Postcards for Abby. Check them all out on myspace, totally worth it.
Oh, and while you're there, checkout these guys too - www.myspace.com/repeatoffendermusic

Took myself clothes shopping yesterday, something I hadn't done in aaaages.
Shopping is tiring. Really. Specially after a whole day at uni.
I bought myself a few bits and pieces - new jeans, a hoodie and two tops.
I'm not very stylish but whatever.
I needed new clothes so I bought some.

Had lunch with a new uni friend today and then hung out with two very very rad friends of mine.
I'm not naming names in my blogs, ever. So whatever.

In other news - I'm going to PANIC AT THE DISCO with a work friend! I'm excited.
And Kisschasy in a few weeks. I'm seeing them twice. Hehe.

On the downside of all that I'm still kinda drowning in uni assignments..
They never end. I've handed in 5 assignments in the last 2 weeks and I've still got loads more to do.
Ack.

Sigh.

This blog is kinda dull.
Very newsy and not very interesting.
I'll continue anyway... it's not like loads of people read these, so it's ok for me to ramble.

I've come to the realisation everything good, great or fanstastic must come to and end, whether it's in 15 minutes, days, weeks, months or years, it does eventually end in some way or another, whether you want it to or not.
I'm not meaning this in reference to anything specific... just been thinking.
People come into your life for a reason, season or lifetime.
I'm trying to figure out which people in my life right now are the one's who'll be there in the long run.
Think about it.

That's all for now.
The picture at the top is one I took in my art class at uni last week.
I like the photo.

Until next time
Bye.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Chocolate coffee



Things are finally looking up for me.
Yep.
It's great.

I finished and handed in two of my many, many Uni assignments yesterday.
Best.
Feeling.
Ever.

Now I've only got three photography assignments due monday, my 2D media journal the thursday after that, and a 1000 word art essay the week after.
Then round two of assignments starts, and I'll have things due for my subjects all over again. It's never ending. Really.

Oh well.
I'll live.
I hope.

Today is good, mostly coz I don't have to work until 3pm, and also because a friend of mine slept over last night and also coz I had icecream for breakfast like an hour ago. Hehheheheheeee.

It was really nice seeing my mate, and having her stay over. Sleep overs are always fun.
We stayed up late talking, listening to music, drinking coffee and eating chocolate.
We went to Woolies to stock up on chocolate and coffee based noms at like 8:40pm last night.. Woolies closes at 9pm, see.

We bought chocolate flavoured coffee, coffee flavoured chocolate, and chocolate and coffee flavoured icecream.
That's right.
Coffee is so great.
Chocolate is so great.
Any combination of the two is really great.

And, to improve things further, I'm excited about this weekend.
Work all day saturday(not so excited about, but hey, it pays the bills), party saturday night, hanging with some wonderful mates in the city on sunday and going to a gig on sunday arvo!
Yesssssss.
It's gonna be good, and I'm sure all your faithful readers (of which I think there's like.. maybe.. one or two people?) will hear about it in the weeks to come.
Heheheheee.

That's about it really, I've gotta go and finish my photography assignments and go to the shops to get them all printed out.
It's gonna be expensive I think.
Yaaay.

And to finish of this rather short blog, here's some photos of some random bits of my Uni assignments...
The plant at the top is a photo I took at Uni.. Same with the bottles, I took that one in the photo studio at uni.
The crazy coloures drawing is from one of my assignments, same with the double page collage thing, they're both from the same assignment, which I handed in yesterday.



That's all for now!
Until next time..
Bai!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Melon owl.



This is a picture of an owl made out of fruit.
My friend sent it to me a few months ago.
It's pretty great.

I feel so indescribable right now.
My brain is a mush of thoughts, to do lists and feelings.
I really just want to sit and watch tv for hours on end, or colour in something useless or just sleep forever.

I really do not want to do any of my Uni asignments, and they're all due next week.
I also really really don't want to go to work this afternoon.

And, my car registration is due.
It's so freaking expensive, $512.80 to have my car registered for one year. Like, wtf kind of number is $512.80 ? Why not a nice round number like $510.00 ?
WHY ISN'T ANYTHING SIMPLE ANYMORE?!

I just read my 2007 school year book.
It's pretty funny I think. There seems to be alot of random pictures slipped in of people doing cheesy grins and thumbs up, like, not just students but teachers too.
I think it's funny.
My economics report I wrote for the year book is also pretty funny. I wrote it in such a rush, in like, the last week or two of year 12. Haha. And now it's published in the 2007 year book for everyone to read for eternity. Someone'll read it in 50 years and go, "What a lame economics report." But really, all economics reports are lame, I mean, it's economics, the most exciting it can get is an excursion to Ikea.

In other news, I'm looking forward to saturday night, I'm gonna have fun.
I don't know what to wear.
I never know what to wear.

My siamese fighting fish, Marley, is swimming laps rouund his bowl and randomly splashing about. He thinks he's a pirahna. Oh Marley, you so crazy.
Here's some tiny photos of Marley in his bowl for your viewing pleasure.
I know the photos ar't very good quality but it's hard to photograph a crazy fish like Marley. But, at least now you can get the idea of what he looks like.
He's such a pretty fish.



That's all I have to say for now really.
My life is still the same dull mess as it was when I posted my last blog, which no one read.

I'm still a jelly fish.

The end.