TiLT - Week Three

Hello blog readers!
I don't have much to write about this week but I'll try. This TILT will be short.




Things I Love Thursday-

- Compliments from people I've enver met before! I went to one of my work friend's birthday parties last weekend and all her friends (most of which were a good 4 or more years older than me) LOVED my hair! So weird but nice, they were all like: "Oh my god, your hair is amazing!" etc. I was like: "Uhhh thanks... I've come straight from working a 9 hour shift and havn't done anything to it, but thankyou!"
Haha! Brilliant.

- MY NEW CAMERAAAA! I've had it for once whole week as of tomorrow. It's so new and lovely. It's a digital SLR - A Canon Eos 450D to be exact. And I lurve it. I can't wait to take it out on the town and to gigs and whatnot! I do however need to insure it first but yeh.
Woo!

- Both of my new pairs of shoes! So adoreable. I've needed new heels for agessss and now I have two new pairs! :) Woo!

- Being home alone. Monday to friday I'm home alone every day until like 5pm. It's so brilliant. I can sit around in my pjs and no one will tell me off. And I can eat non-breakfast things for breakfast. Haha.

- Something With Numbers!!! Seeing them tomorrow night! EXCITING! Can't wait to see Jake dance some more. Brilliant. I'm excited even though I've already seen them twice this year :P

- Nail polish. In particular, the purple, blue and aqua ones I bought recently. I've worked my way through them all, finally on the blue after having purple for a week and a half, and aqua for a week and a half. Haha.

- Empty magazine. Art and culture and other awesome stuff. I'm going to subscribe to it, it's that good!

- MOUNTAIN DEW. I bought 3 2L bottles from the IGA for $1.50 each. So cheap and soooo good.


The end! Hope you all had a good week!

101 Things To Do In 1001 Days

So there's a bit of a craze going round on the internet and livejournal in particular of people making these lists of 101 things to do in 1001 days, and I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon.
My aim is to kinda sort out my life.
Etc.

Here's my list-

Louise’s List - 101 things to do in 1001 days

Start date: 24th November 2008
End date: 20th August 2011

ART, CRAFTS, MUSIC AND PHOTOGRAPHY -
1. Re-learn to sew
2. Paint and draw more
3. Take more photos, both digital and with the colour and black and white film I’ve got
4. Get a lomo, fish eye or Polaroid camera (or all three!)
5. Clean out and update my Deviant Art account, add new submissions
6. Get my photography published
7. Do more beading and make MYSELF jewellery, use all the stones and beads I’ve bought
8. Paint over my wall. Olive green. Start fresh and paint a big black tree over the olive green. Plan it out.
9. LEARN GUITAR AND PLAY IT AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH!
10. Write at least two blogs a month, with photos.
11. Finish my seniors 2007 book, rip out empty pages etc
12. Actually get some of my photos printed and blue tack or hang them up
13. Get my new digital SLR and actually READ the user guide and know how to USE all of the functions
14. Complete three more TSBs, at least one of these in collaboration with Rachel
15. Sell some of my paintings (photograph them first)
16. Play my clarinet for no reason at least once every two months
17. Get my own flickr account and/or my own photography website – www.louisewright.com, do this in 2009
18. Buy some big old keys and hang them places, make a necklace also
19. Do promotional photography for Repeat Offender at least once
20. Learn enough guitar to be able to play an entire song in front of someone or video it

HEALTH/PERSONAL APPEARANCE -
21. Get fit and loose 3kg (so that ALL my clothes fit again!), and then maintain this weight
22. Eat at least one piece of fruit every day for the 1001 days
23. Put more effort into my personal appearance. Layers of clothes. Nail polish. Jewellery. Plucked eye brows, shaved legs. Nice hair. A little makeup.
24. Buy and wear perfume. Christina Aguilera!
25. Go to the chiropractor at least once every two months
26. Book at dentist appointment for sometime before January 2009, scale and polish!
27. Work on whitening my teeth…
28. Spend more time outside in general
29. Do not get sunburnt. Sun block sun block sun block! Hat. Sunglasses.
30. Keep a food diary every day for at least three months
31. Stop eating junk food!
32. Put more effort into my hair
33. Only get one or two more piercings, no more than that – cartilage on right ear, lip?!
34. Buy more shoes that ARE NOT cons or thongs or ballet flats – eg. heels and boot type things
35. Buy black cowboy boots, with patterns stitched on them
36. Buy an eyelash curler, use it often!

MONEY -
37. Create a budget and actually stick to it
38. Put $4200 into a term deposit
39. Pay mum back the money I owe her from Melbourne
40. Spend less money in general. No more splurging. Necessities, art/uni supplies and concert tickets only. NO MORE CLOTHES.

STUDIES/EMPLOYMENT -
41. Get grades of 5+ or higher at Uni. Put time and effort and passion into my studies
42. Start a Bachelor of Photography at Griffith/QCA, or Photography at TAFE
43. Start thinking about where I’d like to work in the future (fashion photographer, event/music photographer for a culture magazine etc)
44. Decide if I want to do Vet Nursing at TAFE or not, if so, actually register and do it

TRAVEL -
45. Plan a gap year for 2010 or 2011 and go overseas (own my own if necessary) England?
46. Visit cousins in Sydney
47. Go to Melbourne again, without mum if possible
48. Go to Mooloolaba on a holiday without my family

CLOTHING -
49. Once I’ve re-learned how to sew, use the clothes I ALREADY have to make new clothes, as well as buying some cute printed fabric to make a couple of dresses and skirts from free internet patterns
50. Aim to wear every piece of clothing in my wardrobe, or give the clothes I don’t wear away to Lifeline
51. Wear the dresses I own/edit them if I don’t like them anymore
52. Wear more bows, neck and head scarfs

CLEANLINESS -
53. Keep my room tidy, vacuumed, dusted. Do this at least once a month.
54. Tidy out the top of my cupboard, give books and bags away if no longer needed. Throw old things out.
55. Tidy up my filing system into a few folders, labelled
56. Tidy my cork board and actually put useful things on it (like this list and bills I need to pay etc)
57. Tidy out the spare room/sort out all my artworks and spare mannequins
58. Generally tidy out my room, spring clean, give away things I don’t use anymore etc

PETS -
59. Walk my dogs at least twice a week for the 1001 days
60. Get a filter for my big fish tank and set up my gold fishes in it
61. Register Zerren for Visiting Pets as Therapy and aim to visit places with him at least once a month
62. Get Zerren de-sexed but get blood tests done first, get this done in 2009.
63. Take my dogs to the beach – Sandgate and/or Kurramundi

CAR -
64. Get the air conditioning in my car fixed
65. Become more confident in driving places
66. Clean, wash and vacuum my car out once every 6 weeks
67. Upgrade my license to P2! Do this in January 2009.

RANDOM OTHER THINGS -
68. Go horse riding at last once every three months, go with Caitlin from work at least once
69. Volunteer for the RSPCA Dakabin
70. Finish designing my tattoo and actually get it! Do this before the end of 2009.
71. Subscribe to Empty magazine
72. Get mum to hang up some of my art works around the house, especially the 6 tree lino prints
73. Give back everything I’ve borrowed from people
74. Start compiling my own recipe scrap book for when I move out, hand written and glued in recipes, pictures (my own pictures and others)
75. Get back into making people their birthday and Christmas presents (instead of buying them things) and photograph them before I give them away
76. Actually go on a proper date with someone
77. Pay off my plan at Telstra and switch to pre-paid Optus turbo charge
78. Buy a new mobile phone. A Nokia one, no flipping or sliding. Do this in 2009, buy it from Dave at The Good Guys.
79. Get every episode of The Gilmore Girls on dvd and watch them all
80. Back up all my files onto my external hard drive every two weeks
81. Clean up the files on my computer/ delete documents and photos I don’t need anymore
82. Learn to say no to people
83. Spend time with people who make me feel good
84. Write a “Things I love Thursday” list every thursday for 4 months and email it to people each week as well as posting it on my blog (and be more appreciative of my life overall)
85. Read the Twilight/Breaking Dawn series of books
86. Borrow or buy and re-read all of John Marsden’s “Tomorrow” series, as well as his other books eg. Checkers, Letters from the Inside, Winter
87. Grow my hair to elbow length! At least! DO IT!
88. Compile all my lists of music I want and buy/borrow all the cds
89. Go to Taco Tuesdays at the Alibi Room with Rachel
90. Complain about everything less. Don’t be negative!
91. THINK before I speak.
92. Try Vanilla flavoured Vodka with lemonade or soda water
93. Get Mum to put the handles on my chest of drawers
94. Dance in the rain stupidly when no one’s watching
95. Buy mum a present really randomly
96. Compliment people more
97. Start thinking about moving out once I’ve graduated from uni, and where I’d like to live and with who
98. Drive to the Sunshine coast. In my car.
99. Go clubbing somewhere other than Snitch or Fridays
100. Buy Craig Thompson’s other books
101. Go to Splendour in the Grass.

The end!

Up, up and away, like a rising balloon...

Hai.

This is me, with my face hidden in my diary, as I do. Haha.

So the blog title is some song lyrics from Julia Nunes' song Balloons. I love love love her music and gosh she's got skillz. I'm addicted to her and her music. I can't stop listening to all her songs, and there's none I don't like.. I even bought her first album on itunes so I can listen to Julia Nunes on my ipod and not just on Youtube!
Anywho.

It's been a while since I wrote a non-TiLT blog!
I have a little news!

1. I finally set up my new fish tank! Yeeew! My fish are so happy, as am I. I bought them some new fake plants and a filter. :) They spent the first few hours in their new tank hiding under the filter, and they're still getting used to it now even though they've been in the new tank for two days! But they do like exploring their new tank now. Thier old bowl was 6L and the new tank is 25L, they have so much more space I don't think they know what to do with themselves! They'll hopefully grow more now they've got more space too :)

2. THIS ARE GOOD IN GENERAL. Lots coming up, it's good to keep busy. I've had alot on lately! gigs and work and hanging out with mates and shopping! And I'm going to the beach next week with some of my fave people everrrr.
I've hung out with mates from work for the past two saturday nights in a row, and this coming saturday night too! Which will make it three saturday nights in a row I've hung out with people from work. And got drunk with them. Hilarious.
And Rock for Refugees was WONDERFUL last saturday! Gah! So good! So many local indie bands which I love. RO are top of the list of course. Gosh they're great.

3. I love spending time with people who make me feel good. And I love wearing my new shoes, both pairs in their 1920's style awesomeness. And I love pizza with fetta and Smirnoff. Nom. And coffee and cinnamon toast! Thanks Jade <3

4. I FREAKING LOVE MY NEW CAMERA. I FINALLY GOT IT TODAY. MY VERY OWN DIGITAL SLR. I LURRRRRRRVE IT. I ALSO LOVE THE TWO LENSES I'VE GOT! YEEEEW! Oh my gosh. I'm in love. I've waited almost a year to have my own DSLR and now I finally do! I need one for Uni and for life in general (more professional for when I do photography jobs I think) and just cos. And it's my christmas/birthday present to me, from me. Yeeeeew.

Ummm yeah so I dunno what else is new.

Rach and I are doing the "101 things to do in 1001 days" challenge. I've written my list, with added bonus things to do apart form the 101 things, just gotta edit it some more and print it out and stick it to my wall and actually start doing the things on the list! I'll post it as a blog too, once I've finished the list.

Seeing Something with Numbers on friday night! I've seen them twice already this year but I don't care! I'm excited! :)

Aaaaand the annual Artforce Awards are this coming monday! Woo! Rach and Mum and I are gonna go, see if Rach or I win anything for our TSBs we did this year:)

And I got extra shifts at work, so I'm gonna stop looking for a fourth job now. Working at the vet, babysitting, and working at the coffee shop is enough I think. Haha.

QTAC offerings for 2009 come out in three weeks. I'm nervous. I want to get into Photography so badly! I don't know what I'll do if I don't get in.. Like I've been accepted into Fine Arts at QUT already, so I can do that if I don't get into photography but gah. I dunno.

And I'm waiting on my uni marks. Still. Some of them I don't want back.
Gah.
Indecision.

Pretty sure I'm done blogging now I think.
Alot going on.
Things are good for once.
I like it.

The end.

p.s Hope you're happy now Sam. A non-TiLT blog. With photos. Long overdue but yeah. Oh wells.

TiLT - Week Two

Here's my TiLT for today -

I've tried to make it more specific to the past week..

Things I Love Thursday -

- Blankets - The book my Craig Thompson. Nothing beats his beautiful drawings and I'll never get sick of reading this book or any of his other ones! I randomly keep picking it up and just sitting there and looking at his illustrations. So wonderful.
Craig's website

- Perfume - I like smelling good, I like it even more when people notice that I smell especially good. Christina Aguilera! People complimented me on smelling good on saturday night.

- JULIA NUNES! My obsession of late. She's so adorable and talented and awesome. Her songs make me melt. Julia's Youtube and one of my fave videos "Maybe I will" It's stop motion! SO COOL.

- SUMMER! I can finally wear short shorts and singlets and thongs! Eg. what I'm wearing today. Brilliant.

- GILMORE GIRLS. I've loved it for years and will contine to. Lately Season 6 has been on Foxtel and it's so good. LUKE AND LORELAI FINALLY GET TOGETHER! YESSS! I want them all on DVD. There's a new episode every day on tv and I can't get enough of it.

- BLACKOUTS. While the blackout and crazy storm on the weekend did damage alot of homes, it simply left me at home in the dark, with nothing to do. So, for the first time in.. I don't know how long, I HAD A BATH. A BATH! With candles and even music from my laptop! Yess! Thankyou blackout for forcing me to have some me time!

- Puppies. We run puppy pre-school at work and I do puppy photo portraits! Love it! I set it up with a nice fabric backdrop and everything. The clients are so impressed :) Makes me feel good.

- REPEAT OFFENDER. Another long time love but man they just keep getting better and better. And they give me hugs which is lovely. :) Last saturday was wickeddd. Dude. Repeat Offender's Myspace!

- AWESOME FISH TANKS. Got one from Lifeline, barely used, bought it for $30, it's worth $100! Yeeeew! My new fish LOVE it. I set it up last night :)

- Being busy on weekends. It's great. Every weekend I've had something on and same goes for this weekend. Woo parties and gigs! Yeaah.

- And slightly lame but - MEETING HOT DOCTORS, NURSES AND LIFEGUARDS AT WORLD COPD DAY. I did some work for mum yesterday (she works for the Australian Lung Foundation) COPD is a lung disease, yesterday we had a big event for it and yeh. Got hassled by ALOT of old people but also got to meet a few really nice guys :P Hahahahahaaaaa.

- Finally! Trading clothes with people! A girl mum works with and I both cleaned out our wardrobes and gave each other clothes we didn't want anymore! Yeah free nice new work pants and nice new party dress! (There was a whole bag of stuff but I was good and gave the rest to Lifeline) Woo!

And some of my puppy portraits from this week -












The End!

TiLT

So, drawing more inspiration from www.galadarling.com, my friends and I have decided to start writing a list of things we love each thursday and emailing it to each other.
I decided to blog mine aswell just cos I feel like putting my TiLT list out there a bit.
The idea is that you write down things you love, thus making you appreciate things in your life and be positive about your life, even if things arn't going to well.
I'll do one of these each thursday for as long as I feel the need to.


Things I Love Thursday -

- My new bright purple nail polish from Kit
- Frankie magazine!
- The fact that I've planned and am going to THREE social events on saturday. Haha.
- Running into friends unexpectedly in the city and having a nice chat
- Pesto.
- Hanging with my friends from work outside of work. Hehe.
- Large vanilla lattes
- The sound and smell of rain
- My new colourful head scarf from Sportsgirl
- My two goldfish
- All my new cds of local Brissie bands!
- Good quality pencils
- Myspace. Cos it's so so so much more interesting and creative than Facebook.
- Recieving picture messages instead of texts from friends
- The fact that I'm going to the beach soon, with Jade.
- My Ipod which is still alive even though it's 3 years old and has been drowned twice
- My beautiful dogs who are always good for a cuddle.
- Picnics with wonderful friends where you eat lovely food and sit on the grass under a tree for hours.

The end.
Hope ya'll enjoyed it.
What would you write in your own TiLT ?
<3




p.s I'll write a proper non-TiLT blog soon Sam. I will.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Hello blog readers (if there's any of you left?)
It's been a little while since I last blogged.
I'm just gonna ramble.
I don't care.

I've finished uni for the year.
Best feeling, finishing my assessment and being free to do as I please until the end of february. Doesn't get much sweeter than that.
Now I just gotta wait to get all my results back.
Some of them I don't want back. Oh well.
I finally finished my final sculpture for art too. Yayyy. you can see it hear. Six resin soaked t-shirts. Make of them what you will. They don't really have much meaing to me, just that I enjoyed making them and they're fun to stack.


After my last day of uni Rach and Jade came over.
We bleached Jd's hair and a bit more of mine.
I love bleach. Haha.


Getting back to uni - I applied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at QUT Kelvin Grove for next year, and I got my acceptance letter in the mail the other day.
So, if my grades arn't good enough to get me into Photography I'll do Fine Art. Or maybe I'll do neither and just work full time for a year.
I don't really know.
I'll decide after I find out if I've gotten into photography or not.

Speaking of photography, my photos are in an exhibition right now at QACI. It opened last wednesday and a bunch of my close mates came to see my photos on display. It meant alot to me that they all came =] Twas goooood.

And I went to The Hive again on sunday. Gosh I love the Hive.
I took some nice snaps usuing Brett's nice digital SLR.
Gosh it was fun.
I'll buy my own SLR soooon. =]

I had Cal over last night.
I bleached the tips of his hair and some other little chunks here and there.
It looks good.
We stayed up late and watched Fight Club.
I'll never get sick of it.

I cleaned out my fish's bowl, it's sparkling clean.
Won't last long cos they mess it up but oh well.
I'll put them in their new tank as soon as I've got a nice filter for them. =]

In other news I got a second (or third if you count baby sitting) job - working for the lady I babysit for at her cafe/dessert catering business in Samford. Come visit me once I start doing regular shifts there and I'll make you coffee. Haha. =]

And uhhhh I'm spring cleaning my life slowly.
New job.
Uni applications.
Tidied out my room.
Sorted out my clothes.
New furniture.
Etc.
I'm getting there.
Slowly.

I don't know what else to write about.

OH! ANGELAS DISH!
They were one of the bands (along with Jake Wood and False Start) who played at The Hive on sunday.
I ADORE THEM.
I bought their album and got them to sign it and have had the cd on repeat in my cd player ever since =]
I LOVE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC.
Go check them out on myspace.

Anddd uhhh lots of events coming up.
House warmings.
Brithday parties.
Nights out with my mates.
Rock for Refugees.
Stuff the Stocking.
Various Hive gigs.
Sparkadia.
Sunset Sounds.
BDO.
Etc.

Ok I can't think of anything else constructive to write.
I'll stop now.
Did anyone pick up the Fight Club reference as the title of my blog?
Haha.

Hi Sam.
Hope you enjoyed my dull new blog.

Hello lovely RachelTwin. <3
Jack, I FREAKING MISS YOU.

I realised just the other day that I'm 19 in about 7 weeks.
Insane.
It's November?!
WHERE HAS THE YEAR GONE?!
It'll be 2009 soon as.
Freaky.

And uhh that's all for now.
I'm off to bed.
I'm working 10 hours tomorrow at the vet. Stocktake.
Oh yeaaaah.
I know you're jealous.
Lol.

Also, I realised the other day, I've never celebrated Halloween.

<3



p.s Rach and I are on the hunt for cutenicedatableboys. Let us know if you know anyone suitable.
Haha.
No really.