Geez Louise

TiLT - 33

2009-07-09T05:53:00.000-07:00

Happy Thursday Readers!

Hope you've all had a good week.
Mine's been ok.

Things I'm loving this thursday are:
- My close friends. The ones who I can rely on no matter what. I'm spoilt to have them all, I really am.
- My two dogs, two fish and snail. I love them all also. They're good to me and make me intensely happy.
- Getting back into the routine of going to the gym! I haven't been to the gym since late May, and then my month's memebership thing expired and then uni got insanely busy and then my life in general got insanely busy so I sort of lost track and stopped going. I'm glad to be going again. I enjoy the gym. I like being able to go there and excercise and whatnot. Makes me feel good.
- Phoenix. I've mentioned them before and I'll say it again - I'm obsessed and they're so great to listen to. Aaaah I love music so much.

- MY NEW DRESS. Rachtwin made me a dress yesterday, as a 7 month late birthday present! I love it. It's a tank dress and is black and aqua and aweeesome. It cute and fits like a dream. Love it. Thankyou Rachel!
- Sharing my taste in music with my twin. I have her 2gb of my music the other day. Made me feel good to be able to share my music and have her genuinely like it. It's exciting.
- Honourable mentions: colourful gel pens, being home alone, banana smoothies, making lists and checking things off and drinking lots of water. Water is good.
- Music I've been listening to this week: Phoenix, Guillemots, Cloud Control, Late of the Pier, An horse, Julia Nunes, Say Anything, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Kisschasy, Whitest Boy Alive, Tokyo Police Club and Ladyhawke. Man I like ALOT of music.

I think that's pretty much it really. I've got alot going on both in my actual life and in my mind right now. Uni to sort out... Need to find a job... Need to empty my computer (I've filled my 140gb internal hard drive! ANNOYING)... and sort myself out in general really.

Happy Thursday!
Louise
x

P.S HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMMY. Hope you had a good day little one! Congrats on getting your learner's too. Nice work!

Master Chef.

2009-07-07T05:07:00.000-07:00

Hello readers!

Today's motto is: When all else fails, bake!
Which is exactly what I did tonight. I've always enjoyed cooking but my recent obsession with Master Chef has spurred me along a bit. Tonight I made black cherry and blackberry puff pastry parsels... just sorta made it up as I went along. I even made custard and dusted the puffs with icing sugar! So tasty (pictured above). Matt preston would have loved them, haha.
I like to cook when I've got the time, so I made time tonight. Mum's proud, cos I can cook so she knows when I eventually move out I won't starve to death, haha.

In other news, I bought some new friends for my fish Reginald on the weekend (pictured above). I bought a new little fantail goldfish, and named him Hugo. He's only about 3cm long haha. Poor Hugo is like a third of the size of Reginald so Reginald likes to push him around a bit. I also bought a sea snail to help clean my tank, which I've named Sidney... maybe one day I'll get a whole tank of fish and name each one after a character from Skins, haha.

Well that's pretty much it for now.
Hope you're all enjoying the week thus far!
xx

TiLT - 32 (Yet again, not actually on a thursday)

2009-07-03T06:55:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,

So another week has rolled by and here we are again, sitting home on a friday night. I was baby sitting til 11pm but never fear, I'm home in my pjs now, all is right in the world.

So, my favourite things from the past week include:

- Power House markets on a saturday morning! Great company in the form of my cousin who I don't see often enough, great fresh food and good coffee... not to mention great weather! perfect way to start the weekend.
- Going out drinking on a saturday night with some of my favourite people (even though I'm broke!). $10 jugs at the Embassy are made of win! Had a good night, twas good to catch up with some of my fave people :)
- Saturday night, as mentioned above, was epic but in a random way. Stayed the night at the twin's, on the couch, twas good even though it was super cold. Spent sunday with the twin and the boy lounging around and eating Maccas. Gold.
- Monday - a catch up day with my Jade and having her do my hair whilst we ate great food and watched Charmed. I'm spoilt.
- Tuesday was Alison's birthday, a great night was had. Three of my favourite people, really tasty food and Scrabble, what more could I want?!
- Wednesday at Alma Park Zoo with my boy. Great day out. Zoo animals, perfect weather and great company. Bliss.
- Thursday at the dog park with Caitey and our bossy dogs. Zerren and Indie acted like they owned the place. Slightly embarrassing but hey, our dogs could kick your dog's butt any day.
- Finally got my RSA today! I can work in a bar or be a waitress now, woo!
- Special mentions: Drinking lots of water, purple nail polish that matches fruit tingles (the drink kind), crisp apples, new music, four hour long chats on facebook with a lovely friend who's in a far away land, my pjs, my lovely dogs, my many, many cameras, compliments from everyone about my new hair cut and colour, insightful conversations with close friends whom I'm very lucky to have, realising I can change things if I want to, red hair dye, bed socks and Master Chef (I'm addicted!).
- Music I've been listening to in the last week: Kisschasy, Something With Numbers, Death Cab, The Paper and The Plane, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Julia Nunes, Fleet Foxes, Placebo, Phoenix, The Shins, Tokyo Police Club and Ladyhawke.
- Some of my favourite photos from the last week have been thrown into this blog too. Enjoy!

Also, please note, I've done something every day since I last wrote a TiLT! Woo!
I'm really trying to get off the internet and live my life more. It's working, to the max, as the last few TiLTs are a testimate to that I think. I've been rather busy doing social things and my RSA and organisting my stuff for uni and whatnot.
Goood times.
Now I just need some regular casual work and I'll be set.

How was your week sailor?
Good I hope!
Louise

Upcoming Gigs, Vol. 1

2009-06-29T17:16:00.000-07:00

Hey kids!

So, for about a year or two now I've been in the habit of writing down all the upcoming gigs I'm interested in going to and emailing the list to my friends.
It dawned on me today that I could also publish the list in my blog, for everyone to see, so here goes -

Upcoming gigs for July that I'm interested in -

Something with Numbers
10.07.0
The Hi-Fi (West End) 18+
8pm, $25 + BF

Streamer Bendy ( + Vincent and The Tiger Palms)
15.07.09
Rosie's Tavern (City) 18+
8pm, $10 at the door

The Gallant ( + The Rocketsmiths and Drawn from Bees)
18.07.09
The Hive (Valley PCYC) U18
6pm, $10 at the door
(I'm volunteering for that show so I'll be the one who stamps your wrist if you decide to come)

The Basics ( + The Boat People and Dead Letter Circus)
30.07.09
The Zoo! (Valley) 18+
8pm, $15 pre-sale. Tickets should also be available on the door but I'm not sure how much they will be.

This is just a very, very small selection of the gigs that are coming up for July. There's heaps more, you can check them out at Oztix tickets here, you can also check out more upcoming gigs on the Triple J gig guide here. Of course you can always look all the bands up on myspace etc. Also, don't forget to check out The Hive at their myspace for loads and loads of upcoming gigs and other local music goodness.

Support touring bands (especially if they're Australian!)
Enjoy!
Louise

TiLT - 31

2009-06-25T20:02:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon lovers!

So, another week has flown by and I'm over due to write my TiLT.. again. I've had a very good, busy week, but neglected to write my TiLT yesterday because I was running around trying to organise my credit application for uni.
Alas.

Nevertheless, my favourite moments this week were:

- A great rainy day in spent on the couch with my twin at her place. Cheese sandwiches, chocolate covered biscuits, coffee and great movies. Good times.
- FETE DE LA MUSIQUE AND SUNDAY IN GENERAL. Fete was awesome, I had a great day (despite the rain) and took loads of photos. Afterwards the twin, the boy and I had pizza, soft drink, tv watching and ALOT of talking atthe twin's, and then said twin came to mine for a sleepover. Much fun was had by all. I woke up at 5:25am sunday and went to bed at 1am monday. Pretty sure that's the longest time I've been awake in a long, long time. Haha.

-Cupcakes, grocery shopping, interviews, scrabble and Charmed with two of my fave girls. It was a good day, and we rock at cupcake baking. Vanilla with chocolate chips and icing! Yum!
- Going to see "The Hangover" with my boy and eating far, far too much popcorn for dinner... and then adventuring through the streets of Geebung in my car for a while for no good reason. Sweet as.

- Fantastic cheap burritos with five of my most favourite people ever on tuesday night. Cheap, good food, drinks, fantastic friends and great times. Total bliss.
- Painting my nails bright purple (again). I'm obsessed with my Kit purple nail polish. It's so thick and gorgeous, you only need one coat! LOVE.
- Impromtu shopping catch ups with a friend I haven't seen in almost 6 months! It was great to catch up!
- MY NEW DRESS. (Purchased at above mentioned shopping catch up session) It's from Igedo and was $110, reduced to $39. It's gorgeous, strapless and silk and has boning and a petticoat, not to meantion a giant bow on the front. I love it. I want to wear it to a tea party.
- MY NEW BOOTS. (Also purchased at above mentioned shopping catch up session) They're grey, not quite knee length and were only $10. YES. ONLY $10. Reduced from $40. They're greeat, comfy, and a total bargain! Success!

- My mum buying a new couch. Sounds weird, but I'm excited. New giant black leather couch should be arriving today, it's really like three couches cos it's in a U shape and is huge. It's made mum go on this "let's do over the whole living room" rampage, so she's out now buying a new dining table and chairs and coffee tables and whatnot. We haven't had new furniture in like... 12 years, this is exciting. Haha.
- I USED TO SKATE ONCE 5. At The Zoo last night, it was great. Art on skate boards, good music, good friends, trendy people and it was all for free. I love free trendy events in Brisbane, as does the rest of trendy Brisbane, as the place was packed.
- Pumping Michael Jackson tunes at 11am in the morning in rememberance of the King. RIP.

- Music I've been into this week: Michael Jackson, Of Montreal, Hot Chip, Kimya Dawnson, Sonic Youth, Angela's Dish, Anberlin, Cold War Kids, Guillemots and the "Have you heard?" (Volume 5) cd I got for freeeee at Fete De La Musique. Love my Brissy bands and free music!

Well, I think that's pretty much it for me for my highlights of this week.
How was your week?
Louise
xx

TiLT - 30 (Can't believe I've written 30 of these!)

2009-06-19T07:41:00.000-07:00

Good evening bloggers!

I hope you all had a fabulous week! I've been busy since last thursday, which is half the reason my TiLT is a day late - I wasn't home at all yesterday, didn't get home until 4pm today. Splendid!

Here's what I'm loving this thursday:
- BEING ON UNI HOLIDAYS. OH EM GEE IT'S AMAZING TO DO AS I PLEASE!
- FINALLY FINISHING ALL MY UNI ASSESSMENT. Kinda continues on from the first dot point but yeah, it's such an amazing feeling to finally have no more assessment! 5 assignments and 4 exams in a 4 week period was not fun. But it's over now, yay! I still feel like I should be studying, and I'm still in stay-up-til-midnight-cos-you've-got-stuff-to-do mode. I'll start to relax soon... I hope.
- Travelling to Inskip Point, Rainbow Beach, Noosa and Eumundi all within the last week. Good times! I love travelling north!
- Fantastic weekends and late night scrabble games with a dear friend.

- Eucalyptus and aloe vera tissues. Heaven for my nose this past week. I hate having a cold.

- Going in a boat for the first time. Sure, it was only a tinny with a rusty bottom, but hey, it still counts.

- Making friends with our neighbours when camping at Inskip Point and them making us cups of tea! Adorable!

- FINALLY GETTING MY GREEN P LICENSE! I finally bothered to upgrade my license from red to green p, yesss! Should have done it 7 months ago, but oh well... better late than never, haha.

- Fantastic breakfasts sitting in the sun looking out onto Noosa's main beach.
- Elisha!
- Driving to Noosa! I drove home all on my own, and didn't get lost or die. I'm getting more confident with long distance driving! Woo!

- Getting zillions of compliments on the curly-ness, cut and colour of my hair from friends and from random people.. even hair dressers! Apparently my hair is amazing?! I don't know. It does what it wants haha. - Making lots and lots of awesome holiday plans with so many different people!

- FINALLY doing my training for my new job! I'm now filled with all the pet nutritional information I'll ever need, haha. I also have loads of promotional stuff in my room. There's alot of stuff. Hills are really into their promotions!

- My new fleecy hoodie! It was $10 from Cotton On, oh yeah! I love it. It's grey (of course).

- The prospect of all the upcoming work I've got lined up! Hills, baby sitting, waitressing and random photography jobs! Yes! I refuse to be poor any longer! Fingers crossed it all works out. I'm broke... and I want to buy boots, amoung a million other things.

- Finally getting over my cold! I've been sick for exactly a week, and finally I can breathe through my nose again! It's not swine flu after all, haha! Success!

- Music I've been listening to this week: Anberlin, Angelas Dish, Ben Folds, Cold War Kids, Placebo, The Beatles and Phoenix.

- Looking forward to: THE REST OF THE HOLIDAYS! So much planned. It's going to be great.

Ok, I'm off to bed.

Good night kittens!

Sick.

2009-06-16T00:52:00.000-07:00

Polaroid by Louchasy featuring Forzieri jewelry

Hello bloggers!

Hope you're all swell on this lovely Tuesday.
I'm not.
I'm sick. And tired. And sick and tired of being sick and tired. It's stopping me doing things. I've been sick since friday. Gah. I'm over it. Waste of my time.

In other news - I've finished uni for the semester! Woo! I did my last exam last night - it was online, so that was pretty cool. So now I'm on holidays for 6 weeks, yesss. I'm so excited to go places and do things and see people, and most of all - work! I have training for my job tomorrow night. Can't wait, it's taken them forever to organise it.

That's pretty much it for now.
I'm off to blow my nose and cough some more.
Bye
x

TiLT - 29

2009-06-11T00:27:00.000-07:00

Hello kittens!

Another week has gone by again! This year seems to be going so extremely fast, I can't believe it's June already!

I don't have much to put on my TiLT list this week, but here goes -

Things I'm loving this thursday:

- Being ALMOST done with uni! I've only got one assignment and one (online) exam left and then I'm free for six whole weeks! Yesssss! Can't believe I've survived!
- Jade's birthday! Saturday night was fab! I had such a good time :)
- Last night! Streamer Bendy and The Gallant were AWESOME, and Bar Soma is such a cool place!
- Actually being told I have training for my new job! Next wednesday night! YESSS! Finally!
- Honourable mentions: ugh boots, socks, sleep, my portable electric heater, blankets, cheese, looking forward to uni holidays and this weekend, writing lists and ticking things off, going to gigs on a wednesday night, my DSLR and taking photos of everything all the time.
- Music I'm into (eg. what I've mostly listened to this week): Streamer Bendy, The Gallant, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Cold War Kids, Say Anything and Phoenix... all my favourites really.

That's pretty much it.
Getting my car window fixed tomorrow, which is good cos it means I'll be able to park in public places again, but bad because it'll make me really poor.
Also I hate winter. It's only the beginning of June and I'm already sick of being cold all the time. Also I don't really own any winter clothes... I'm such a summer person, haha. Need to go and buy myself some socks and jumpers and jackets and cardigans.

I have a huge list of all the things I'm going to do on the uni holidays.
I'm excited.

I should really go and write my last tech report now... considering it's due tomorrow... Humpf. I could win a procrastination competition. I know all the tricks.
Goodnight world
xx

Saturday at Friday's

2009-06-07T21:38:00.001-07:00

Yo!

It was Jade's birthday on saturday.
I got home to discover 390 photos on my camera.
Oh the advantages of digital photography! Like, film is awesome and does capture things in a way digital can't, but I could never afford to take 390 photos on film and have them developed.
Here's a few faves from the night -

SLOTH

2009-06-05T01:08:00.000-07:00

HELLO READERS!

First of all, I'd just like to say a giant HOLLY AWESOME FECK YESSSSSSSSSSS!
Why?
BECAUSE I HANDED IN MY PHOTO IMAGING FOLIO AND DIGITAL IMAGING ASSIGNMENTS TODAY, BOTH COMPLETE AND HANDED IN ON TIME.
Feck yes.
They were both GIANT assignments, and had written parts and photography parts and references and contact sheets and screen captures and a million other things in them. The photo imaging folio was worth 50% of my grade for the unit, so fingers crossed I do well on it...
I feel fairly good about it so hopefully that's a good sign.
The digital imaging assignment was a photoshop editing one, pretty insane cos I shot it 3 weeks ago but didn't edit the photos until last night. Oh wells... only kept me up til 4am... Haha.
I spent all week worrying about photo imaging and neglected digital imaging, but I got it all done on time and it's over now so WOOOOOO.
Only got one assignment and three exams left, then I'm free for six weeks! YAY YAY YAY.

Also the last few weeks have taught me something - leaving assignments to the last minute is bad. I've done it before but never really learnt from the experience. I tend to leave things until a week before they're due, but lately I've left things until the day before they're due or even the day they're due to finish them... *cough* post modernism and digital imaging *cough*
It's not good. I'm so disorganised, but I never change because I always seem to get good marks whether I do it a week before it's due or the day it's due.
I work best under pressure, I think.
But I want to change this, I've realised the added stress of doing something last minute isn't really something I need in my life.
I MUST WORK TO CHANGE THIS. MUST.

I'm feeling rather sleep deprived cos I was up til 4am doing my digital imaging assignment, and I woke up at 9am and went to uni, and did uni stuff all day til I got home at 5pm.
I also realised (I’ve been realising a lot of things this week) today, I'm a giant sloth.
A giant, lazy, unfit sloth.
Sloth sloth sloth.
I can get 10 hours sleep and wake up tired, or I can get 5 hours sleep and wake up tired. Or any amount of hours of sleep in between. I just seem to be eternally tired. Not normal I don't think. I half blame my sleep apnea but it's not that severe ALL the time so it shouldn't make me thaaaat tired.
I don't know. Maybe I have low iron levels or something. Hmm.

Anywho.. I think that’s all I wanted to say for now. I feel like I should be celebrating hardcore cos I’ve done my photo imaging and digital imaging assignments, finished photo imaging as a whole, don’t have any more classes and only have one assignment and three exams left… But I’m too tired to celebrate, so I’ll just sit here and think about celebrating. Plus I’m going out tomorrow night and it’s gonna be amazinggggg (Jade’s birthday! YEWWW!) so that’ll make up for my lack of enthusiasm from today.
Yep.

SO CLOSE TO THE END OF UNI!
YESSSS!

Hope you've all had a fabulous friday, I'm going to go to bed verrrrry soon... I feel like my eyeballs are going to fall out of my head, I'm that tired!
Tough week.
Hope those of you who are also going through uni assessment time at the moment are surviving!
Good night everyone!
xx

p.s ZOMG IT'S JUNE NOW... WHAAAT!? I've been doing photography at QCA for a whole SEMESTER! When did that happen?!

TiLT - 28

2009-06-03T17:45:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Things I'm loving this thursday are as follows:

HANDING IN MY POST MODERNISM ESSAY! It might have been a day late, but hey, I got it done, AND NOW IT’S OVER! Now all I have to worry about is the modernism and post modernism exam… And you know, like... passing the subject. Eeeek.

MY BROTHER GIVING ME NEW SPEAKERS AND MATCHING BASS! There’s five speakers and a sub. Like, wow. My brother and I are becoming friends. I take him to school, proof read his assignments and quiz him on things for his exams, he gives me speakers. Win! (Photo to the left... only two speakers shown but there is three more... If only my car had nice speakers. Damn.)

THE FACT THAT I HAVE NO MORE UNI CLASSES FOR THE SEMESTER! Yesss! I had my last classes this week, most of which were cancelled or I just didn’t go. Wooo. Now I’ve just got my remaining 3 assignments (two of which are due tomorrow) and 3 exams to fuss over. Gah.

MY NEW HEAD BAND! It’s adorable and makes me feel like a present. I never want to take it off, and best of all, it was only $10! Yesss! HOW CUTE IS IT?! It reminds me of Blair from Gossip Girl, also it reminds me of Gala. I like it cos it's not something I'd normally buy. You're probably all thinking "Jesus Louise, IT'S JUST A HEAD BAND, GET OVER IT!" but WHATEVER. I love my new head band. I think it's exciting. Being materialistic is fun sometimes.

HAVING MY PHOTO IMAGING FOLIO DONE THE DAY BEFORE IT’S DUE! I took all the photos weeks in advance. Oh man, I can be organised when I try, and it’s fab. My folio’s due on Friday and I did the written parts on Tuesday and put the photos in to be printed on Wednesday! YAY.

Honourable mentions: My pyjamas, talking to Jade EVERYDAY, Waterfords Lemon Lime and Bitters for $1.20 at Crazy Clarks, Arrested Development, awesome 20 minute long phone calls with new uni friends, Chris, mint slice biscuits, Gossip Girl (season two just finished, now what am I gonna watch on Tuesday nights?! Skins season two finished as well, why do you do this to me Fox8?! ), cork boards and push pins, ribbon, not going to my last week of uni classes, Rachel! (I FREAKING MISS YOU WOMAN!), Papermate ball point pens that have light blue, green, purple, pink and orange ink instead of the regular black/blue/red (It’s exciting cos they were only like $3 for a 15 pack and I love stationery!), Everglades strawberry liquor (smells and tastes like strawberry jelly, and was only $12 haha) and finally, the fact that it’s holidays really soon!

And a new section for my TiLTs - Music I’m into this week!
This week I've been listening to Say Anything (oh wow they are so amazing!), Phoenix, Lady Hawke, Tokyo Police Club, The Decemberists, and Hungry Kids of Hungry. Yeaaaah.

Looking forward to: This weekend - Jade's birthday! Yewww! Also looking forward to the end of uni exams and UNI HOLIDAYS. It will be sweeeeeet.

Hope you all had a fab week!
Bring on the weekend!
xxx

ALIVE

2009-06-03T04:27:00.000-07:00

When I watch you, I wanna do you right where you're standing (yeah)
Right on the foyer, on this dark day, right in plain view (oh yeah)
Of the whole ghetto. The boots stomp meadows, but we ignore that (yeah)
You're lovely, baby. This war is crazy. I won't let you down (Oh no no)

No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no, oh no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no.

No, oh no no no!

And when our city, vast and shitty, falls to the axis (yeah)
They'll search the buildings, collect gold fillings, wallets and rings (oh yeah)
But Ms. Black Eyeliner, you'd look finer with each day in hiding (oh yeah)
Beneath the wormwood, oooh, love me so good.
They won't hear us screw away the day. I'll make you say:

Alive! Alive!
Alive with love, alive with love tonight

No, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no, oh no, I won't let them take you, won't let them take you
Hell no no.

Our Treblinka is alive with the glory of love!
Treblinka, alive, with the glory of love, yeah!

Should they catch us and dispatch us to those separate work camps,
I'll dream about you. I will not doubt you with the passing of time (oh yeah)
Should they kill me, your love will fill me, as warm as the bullets (yeah)
I'll know my purpose. This war was worth this. I won't let you down.
No, I won't
No, I won't
No, I won't

Alive! Alive!
Alive with love, alive with love tonight
Hell no no, oh no
Alive! Alive!
I won't let them take you, won't let them take you (Alive with love, alive with love tonight)
Hell no, no
No, no

- Alive With The Glory Of LOVE
Say Anything

Say Anything make me want to sing really loud and dance around.
They're fab. They make me happy. I've been listening to their album "It's A Real Boy" all week long.
Check them out if you're not already a fan.
The song has a cute film clip, you can watch it on Youtube here.
Alternatively, you can watch Julia Nunes do a cover of the song on her uke here. She's fab, Say Anything are fab... everybody wins.
Thanks to Rachel for supplying me with some of their music! <3
I WILL write a TiLT tomorrow, I promise.
xx

Absent

2009-05-29T06:13:00.000-07:00

I don't feel like writing a TiLT list this week.
Too tedious and annoying and just... gah.
Too much else going on.

Drowning.

Parasites

2009-05-27T05:05:00.000-07:00

Hello readers!

Thought of the day:
This is no new information, but, I do not want children.
Do. Not. Want.
Just thought I'd officially announce that to the world after saying it to friends and co-workers for as long as I can remember on multiple occasions.
I do not get along with children, I never have and I'm fairly certain I never will. Give me 20 cats instead anyday. I'm not even kidding. I'd rather have a pet shark or grizzly bear than a child.

I can't ever remember being attracted to the idea of children. I never played with dolls or played families or babies or whatever when I was a kid. I played with toy lions and horses and dogs, and occaisonally trucks in the dirt with the boys.
And furthermore, I just don't get kids. I don't even like holding other people's babies, and the only reason I do baby sitting is cos it's extra money on the side and it's only ever like once every second month for like 4 hours.

I was talking about kids, marriage, boyfriends, grand master love life plans and whatnot with Rachel just before.
My response to children: Yeah, no. I dont want anything to grow inside of me like some sort of parasite for nine months, and then come out from being inside of me and have it drink from my boobs.
Made Rachel laugh. Haha.
The thing is though, IT'S SO TRUE. I say things like that alot. I've never liked or wanted children, ever. I just don't like children, and I don't like the idea of something LIVING inside of me for nine months. I also refuse to believe the "Oh but MY children will be different" idea. All children have snotty noses and cry, just because their yours doesn't make them angels.

Plus, the whole having a child as your own responsibility for the entire time it's a child, and then after you don't need to look after it quite so much, it'll still live with you in your house until it's 18 or 20 or so years old idea is not that appealing. I know what it's like to be an annoying teenager, why would I want to give birth to something and put myself through the agony of being on the receiving end of all that teen angst?! Plus like, if I end up doing photography as a career, I'm going to want and need to travel. Not so good if you need to be changing nappies and worrying about feeding times.

Then there's my other thought - there's already billions of people in the world, why do I deserve to populate the earth further? What does that acheive?!
I'd rather adopt a bunch of homeless animals on death row at the RSPCA. I'd rather save their lives than create a new life in the form of a baby living inside me.
And if I ever do end up wanting kids because I'm deluded somehow, I'll adopt. For the reason I stated above. Why do I deserve to populate this earth when there are millions of children already out there which don't have clean drinking water or loving parents?

Tell ya what, it'd have to be someone extremely special to convince me to want to give birth.
Yeaaaah, just no.
No no no.

But hey, this is just MY opinion. If you want kids, then that's awesome, you can go do that and I'll come to your baby shower and be supportive and everything, but you won't catch me having a baby of my own.
This is just me having a little rant about how I don't like or want kids. You can buy a puppy and get sick of it after 6 months because you've not bothered to train it and now it's eating everything you own because it's bored, and I'll adopt it from you. That would make me feel worthwhile, adopting that neglected puppy of yours and giving it the attention it deserves, but I'm not having children.

Hope you all enjoyed that.
I have opinions.
See, this blog is moderately interesting, sometimes.
Good night world.

Cat Nap

2009-05-23T23:36:00.000-07:00

I went to a friend of a friend's house on friday night.
Made friends with his neighbour's cat.
She fell asleep on my feet.
Animals are drawn to me, somehow. I have a "animals come to me, I will love you" vibe I think.
I could have easily scooped her up and taken her home with me.
Man I want a cat of my own SO bad, but my dogs would probably not get along with a cat at all.
As soon as I move out/don't have dogs that don't like cats, I'm getting a cat. I so desperately want to adopt one or two from the RSPCA. The sheer number of cats they pick up off the streets or have dumped at the shelters is huge, I wanna save a few of them.
That's all I wanted to say.
xx

It makes no sense, but I'm desperate to connect

2009-05-23T22:30:00.000-07:00

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title. It's harder than you think.

Artist : Gotye
Are you male or female: Wonder why you want her
Describe yourself: Out of my mind
How do you feel about yourself: Heart’s a mess
Describe your current boy/girl situation: True to you
Describe where you currently live: Here in this place
If you could go anywhere you wanted to go: Noir excursion
Your favourite form of transportation: Seven hours with a backseat driver
Your best friend(s) is(are): The only thing I know
Your favourite colour is: Worn out blues
Favourite time of day: Night drive
If your life were a TV show, what would it be called: A distinctive sound
What is life to you: Board with this game
What is the best advice you have to give: Learnalilgivinanlovin
If you could change your name, what would it be: Baby
Thought for the Day: What do you want?
How I would like to die: Like drawing blood
My soul's present condition: Puzzle with a piece missing

I found that kinda fun. I did this process a few times - Made two Kisschasy ones, and also ones using Phoenix and Repeat Offender, but I liked my Gotye one best... came up with some clever answers I think. Gotye is so wonderful.
This is basically just me avoiding doing anything in my real life - eg. study, doing assignments or designing my new TSB.
Internetland is fun to live in, and provides a good means of distraction from real life.
After this I might start writing my tech reports for uni... blarggg. I haven't done anything uni related since friday... But seriously, as if me writing about how I did a photoshoot in a scientific way is going to teach me anything.
Gah.

Hope you've all had a nice weekend, I have.
Louise

TiLT - 27 + Other random ramblings

2009-05-20T18:12:00.000-07:00

Happy Thursday Blog Readers!

Hope you've all had a fab week, mine's been pretty good overall.

The things I'm loving this thursday are rather limited, this week hasn't been that fulfilling/exciting/busy. Nevertheless, here's my list (and on time for once, yay!) -

- BEING EMPLOYED! YES! I finally have a job, as of yesterday. I heard back from Hills Science Diet (pet food company) and they told me I've got the job! I'm SO excited! It's absolutely awesome to know I'll be working and earning money again soon, plus, as an added bonus, this is a job I actualy WANTED! So chuffed!

- FINALLY GETTING SOME GOOD PRINTS FROM MY 120MM BLACK AND WHITE FILM! After three weeks of doing nothing but endless test strips in the dark rooms at uni, I've finally managed to get some good prints! I've got a couple of good ones I can hand in, and I'm pretty happy overall with the final result... even if I did waste about 10 sheets of paper doing test strips alone. I'm done now. Yay. On the left is a photo I took on my mobile phone of one of the prints I did. So proud of myself. Did the shoot myself, developed the negs myself, did the prints myself. It's quite exciting to develop your own photos!

- WATCHING TRASHY TV WITH CHRIS (and Chris in general of course)! I love my trashy tv, (let's face it though, who doesn't?!) and watching it with my Chris was fab. Gossip Girl is addictive. Skins is always amazing. He'll be back for more. Haha. <3

- ALCOHOL SHOPPING WITH JADE! Hahaha. We spent like 45mins in Dan Murpheys today looking at pretty much every spirit in the store, even though we're both pretty much broke. We lingered that long that one of the older male store worker dudes said "You princesses right, or do you need some help?" We giggled and said "No, no, we're right, thanks..." and he's all like "Ok, are you sure?" Hahahaaa. Good times. So much talk of cosmopolitans, sequins, mixers and margaritas.

- THIS WEEK'S INSANE WEATHER! Shouldn't really be a positive cos it hasn't helped me in any way, but it did provide me with two lovely days sitting around at home (I really should have spent the time doing uni work, but I didn't...) and some nice photo opportunities. Hense the photo of the waterfall that was in my front yard. So. Much. Water. It was really nice to snuggle up in bed with a book and read whilst listening to the rain though. Total bliss.

- THINGS IN MY LIFE BEING GENERALLY PRETTY GOOD OVERALL! I'd like to quickly take this rare chance to say that, right now, things are pretty damn good overall. Things are not perfect and never, ever will be, but I'm pretty ok right now. I've finally got a job, home life is... bearable, uni is going kind of ok and things in my life in general are pretty great. Just need to get on top of my uni work and start earning money again and I'll be sweet. So uhh.. yeh. Just wanted to write that down while things are good. I like to stop and think about it sometimes. I'm pretty lucky I think. And I think it's fair to say, anyone who's reading this is pretty lucky too. We have pretty great lives when you take a step back and think about it, I reckon.

- Honourable mentions for this week: my flanelette pjs with goldfish on them (recently they've gotten alot more wear than the rest of my entire wardrobe combined), Phoenix, my ugg boots, finally doing some new tattoo designs, peanut M&Ms, cookie dough Kit Kats, Gotye, chocolate Nesquik, Jack's Mannequin, Weezer, gel pens and highlighters, writing lists, not going to my photo imaging class and staying home in my pjs instead, and my giant white hoodie with the tapes and mobile phones on it (wearing it riiiiight now).

- Dishonourable mentions (I know TiLTs are meant to be positive but whatever, it's my blog, I'll write what I want!) - LARGEST DISHONOURABLE MENTION = MY CAR LEAKING FROM BEING PARKED OUTSIDE IN THE RAIN AND AS A RESULT IT FILLED UP WITH WATER. Yes. I discovered a whole inch of water in my car when I opened it on wednesday to go for a drive. Water had come in where the foot pedals are on the driver's side, so the driver's side whole foot area was an inch deep in water, and of course the back passenger's foot area on the driver's side was an inch deep in water too, because the two areas arn't separated by anything cos my car is old and lame. I had to get 4 towels to soak up most of the water, and I've had my car in the garage with the doors open trying to air it out, but it's still totally soggy and gross. Sigh. The photo to the left is of the water in my car. Wooo. Other dishonourable mentions include: the avalanche of uni work I'm currently trying to navigate my way through (3 exams to study for and 5 assignments to do, pretty sure I won't ever finish at the rate I'm going) and last but not least - the fact that I'm really, really poor. I can't take it anymore. I miss buying things and going cool places. Bring on lots of shifts with my new Hills job!

In other news - This week, Phoenix announced they're doing an Australian "tour". I got mega, mega excited... until they then said they only two shows they were playing would be in Sydney and Melbourne. Needless to say, I'm gutted. Why Phoenix, WHY?! Why come to Australia and only play TWO shows?! COME TO BRISBANE AT LEAST, DAMN IT.
Totally gutted.

That's pretty much it for now.. I think.
Hope you all enjoyed my on time TiLT list!
Woo!

Happy reading!
xx

TiLT - 26

2009-05-13T04:23:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

I'm posting my TiLT at 9:27pm on a WEDNESDAY! I'm so organised for my TiLT this week that I've decided to post it a few hours early! (Plus I'm always really busy on a thursday so this'll work out best I think) YAY YAY YAY.

Things I'm Loving This Thursday:
(This week's list is a bit short cos I've had a bit of a rough one but I'm still being postive so yay me!)

BLACK BOOKS! Oh em gee. Watched all of season 1 with Chris on Thursday night (last week) and now I’m hooked. Thanks <3

DELETING CRAP OFF MY PC! My pc was about to die because it was so full. I bought myself a new 500gb external hard drive, a 8gb USB and an 8gb SD card (for my camera) and so now I’m all sorted for file storage. Thanks Dan!!! My computer still has a lot of stuff to be deleted off it but at least now it can breathe again. YAY.

PASSING ASSIGNMENTS I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO FAIL! Woo! I’ve actually been doing pretty well at uni (so far) and it’s amazing. I got a distinction for my modernism essay! I'm so chuffed! Haha.

INDOOR PICNICS! Rachel came over on Saturday, we had a lovely indoor picnic on my bedroom floor and watched most of Season 2 of Black Books whilst painting our nails, chatting and eating. It was great! <3

THROWING THINGS OUT! Rachel helped med be ruthless and sort through my clothes (again). I ended up giving away 15 bits of clothing and a pair of shoes. I won’t miss any of it, I’m sure. Thanks Rach!

BEING COMPLIMENTED ON MY NOSE RING! Saturday night I got a lot of compliments about my nose ring. It was really weird but awesome. Especially the “Most people could not pull that off, but it really suits you”. I dunno, made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Haha.

LAST FM! Oh my god it is amazing. I don’t understand how on earth it can be so clever. As well as this, it provides much amusement and entertainment for me, I’m on there alllll the timeeeee. Thanks Chris for encouraging me to get one. Add me on Last.Fm

Well that's my list for this week.
In other news, I've been applying for more jobs - my grand total of job applications since April is now 37. I'm waiting to hear back from Hills (fingers crossed cos i really want that job!) and I'm going for an interview at a fruit and veg shop on friday if I don't get the Hills job. Woo.
On top of job searching I'm also trying to cope with uni - I've got 5 assignments and 4 exams to do in the next three weeks. I really do not know how I am going to cope. Wish me luck!

That's all for now
Hope you've all had a nice week so far!
xx

Failure

2009-05-12T19:26:00.000-07:00

Image by Scout Pare Phillips

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, & should have.” — Louis E. Boone

The 70’s called, they want their lingo back.

2009-05-08T19:44:00.000-07:00

CHUFFED.

Rachel and Jade made a good point the other day – I use a lot of strange words regularly when I talk. I never really noticed until they pointed it out.
Weird words I've realised I say alot include but are not limited to - jazzed, chuffed, rad, neat, and dude. I also start a lot of sentences with “man”. Eg. "Man, I’m so chuffed about my new bedroom."
I should be in the 70’s. Haha.

In other news, this weekend will be dull and inexpensive. Woo.
Doing nothing but house work today and Rach's coming over later. I've got a load of washing on, I've tidied my room, and I'm in the process of tidying up the contents of my pc. When I opened the new box of washing powder it exploded all over the laundry bench. Fun times. I'm gonna paint my nails later too. Man, I'm so exciting right now. you're jealous, for sure.
Going to dinner tonight at an ex-co-worker's house.
More sitting around the house tomorrow.
Helping Sarah with a doggie photoshoot on sunday arvo.
Mother's day stuff with family on sunday night... Grandparents over for dinner etc.
And then it will be monday again.
SO DULL.
Blah.

I went to the gym twice this week, getting back into it after having a whole week off. Go me.
Also I want new clothes and shoes and cds.
I can be so materialistic sometimes.
I really do want new clothes though. Clothes I actually like. And shoes... I really want some cow boy boots, and some of these. I've wanted shoes in that style for about a year. Still don't have any. One day though. I've also been eyeing these off for a while. The style is called Stud Muffin. Hehehee. They're gorgeous. Anywho...
I'm also (still) debating whether or not to buy one of these. A Fuji Instax Mini 7S with a bunch of boxes of film. I've been looking at them for about 6 months and desperately want one but dunno if it's worth all the dollars or not. Hmmmm. I really, really, really want it though. Gah. Damn you Ebay, damn you.
One major problem with me wanting all these lovely new things - I'm REALLY poor.
I want and need a job SO BAD. IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS. GAH.

That's pretty much all I have to say for now.
xx

TiLT - 25

2009-05-08T06:20:00.000-07:00

Yo Yo Yiggedy Yo!

Hope everyone's had a fantastic week!
Mine's been ok... all over the place really.

Anywho, here's this weeks TiLT list, yet again I wrote it on wednesday night and haven't had the chance to post it until now...
Nevertheless, things I was loving this thursday were:

- Handing in my 3 assignments last thursday and friday! I handed in 3 rather large pieces of assessment last week and was rather stressed about it. However, I got them all in on time and complete, so yay for that.
- DEVELOPING MY 120MM ROLLS OF FILM. OH MY GOD. THEY CAME OUT WONDERFULLY AND LOOK GREAT. I GOT A WHOLE 24 SHOTS, EVERY SINGLE ONE CAME OUT, YESSS.
- Spending almost all weekend with Chris <3 We didn't even go anywhere other than the movies but I had a great weekend. Gooood stuff.
- THE BOAT THAT ROCKED. Oh em gee. Go and see it. It was aweeeeesome and has a great assortment of characters!
- Ugh boots! Glad it's finally getting cold enough to wear my uggies again. I even wore them to the movies on saturday night. Haha. Classy.
- Banana coconut chop chip muffins! Om nom nom. I like baking when I have the time to.
- Long weekends. Seriously, not going to uni on monday and going to Shorncliffe with some of my most favourite people instead was total bliss. Yay public holidays yay.
- Seeing Dan! Saturday night I went and saw my lovely Dan and met his new roomies! Dan even cooked a roast. I peeled the veggies. Good times.
- PHOENIX! AKA - My new fave band. Oh my god they’re great. Thanks to JJJ, Alison and Chris for introducing me to them.
- NEW HAIR! Mum cut my fringe + dyed my hair last weekend. No more blonde, and even better, no more trashy regrowth. Win!
- Tripod from Grandpa! He gave it to me, it's barely used and awesome and yay yay yay. I love finally having my own tripod, thankyou Grandpa! <3
- And on the note of Grandpa - He drove me to my job interview at Acacia Ridge on wednesday! It was awesome and the interview went well, fingers crossed I get the job.

The end
<3

Turn your last fm into a words picture.

2009-05-05T04:07:00.000-07:00

How cool is that?!
Alison showed me.
I wish it would upload bigger but whatever. Click on it to see a larger version. Wooooo.
It's my last fm made into a words picture. You can make your own here.
All the bands I listen to most, the size of the font is larger depending on the play count of the band from my itunes.
Cool right?
I only got last fm a few days ago but man it is cool. Thankyou Chris.
I'm currently sitting on my bed with Al and Jade... we've all got our laptops in our laps and we're internetting. We're uber nerds. It's awesome. I love them.
xx

TiLT - 24. A few days late. Again.

2009-05-02T19:53:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

Yet again I've been slack with my TiLT. I actually wrote this whole list on wednesday night, and yet again, haven't gotten around to actually posting it until now.
I'll try to be better next week, really.

Things I was loving this thursday -
(This whole list feels like forever ago cos it's sunday now and I wrote it on wednesday night about what'd happened between last thursday and this wednesday, if that makes sense...)

- DOGGIE DATE WITH CAITEY AND INDIE. Last thursday (23.04.09) Caitey and I took our dogs to the Bracken Ridge dog park. Had the best afternoon ever, it was so much fun :) Can't wait to do it allll again. We got up to some really random shit and had a mad time. Lol. The photo above is Indie and Ze Ze mid-play :)

- THE BASICS! Last friday (24.04.09) I went to see The Basics at The Globe. They were awesome and it was made even more awesome cos I was there with some of my favourite people - Chris, Rach, Jack and Al <3 Andddd the photo above is one I took from the gig. Man they were great.
- MY WALL IS GONE. I've already blogged about it but yeh. Painting over my wall this time last weekend was amazing. It's gone. Moving on. It's great.
- HEADBANDS! Home made head bands with bows to be more specific. I bought a bunch of headbands and covered them in pretty ribbon and made some bows and stuck those on too. Craft is fun.

- TAKING PHOTOS ON A MEDIUM FORMAT FILM CAMERA WITH JADE! Last friday (24.04.09) I did a shoot with Jade in the studio at uni. Had the best time ever, even if I was freaking out about my lighting set up and ISO and shutter speed and whatever. It was great overall, had the best time. Thankyou Jadey <3 The photo above is one I snapped with my digi during the shoot. Hope you don't mind me putting it on my blog Jade! Sorry! I really like all the photos from the shoot though.
- PHOTOS! Last friday I took photos with 4 different cameras in ONE day, oh yeah. I used a Rollei at uni, my DSLR, my Lumix and my tri-lens action sampler, all in one day! SO MANY PHOTOS. It was greeeeeeeat.
- LAST SUNDAY! <3
- ZERREN! Using Zerren in two of my photography assignments, hehehee. I love him.
- MY CHIROPRACTOR! I’ve been going since I was 8 and it still makes me feel better, my back is less sore afterwards which is nice.
- CHRIS. ‘Nuff said.
- HAND ME DOWNS! Jade and I cleaned out our rooms and swapped a few belongings – I got a few bits of clothing from Jade, she got a few jewellery bits and pieces from me. Good stuff. I’m all for recycling.
- FEELING SPECIAL! Having someone say to me they are glad they found me and that I’m in their life <3
- RACHEL! I LOVE YOU! On wednesday night (29.04.09) Rachel and I talked on the phone from 8:15 – 10pm, ohhhh yeah. If we were long distance lovers we’d totally keep each other entertained. Lol. You're great Rach.

The end!
Hope you all had a fab week!
I'll try to actually post my TiLT on thursday this week! Gah!
xx

Swine

2009-04-30T07:26:00.000-07:00

What is the world coming to?
Everyone's gonna die from swine flu now, really? The average winter cold kills more people every year than swine flu has so far, and yet, the deaths from the normal winter flu are not ever on the news.
Next there will be a zombie apocalypse I suppose.

Have you got swine flu?

I should be doing an assignment right now. But I need a quick break or else my brain will explode from looking at too many screen captures of stupid photo editing I've done in photoshop. Can't believe I get assessed on this junk.
Sigh.

Also I wrote my TiLT on wednesday evening at like 11pm, but it's not complete yet, so I'll post it... later on today (given that it is now friday!) when I've had some sleep and been to uni and come home again.
Yep.
The end.

p.s You better all click that giant link I posted up there. Do ittttt. I stole it from Jack haha. Thought it was rather fitting, given the current state of swine flu affairs in the world.

Door mat

2009-04-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

p.s A random side note, but something I've been thinking about for a while - I really hate people who only talk to me when they want something. That's not what friends or family are for. Get over it guys. My purpose in life is not to please you, nor is my purpose to drop everything to be your best friend when it suits you. I am not a door mat.

And while we're on the topic of hate, I also hate people who are still acting like we are in high school. That ended two years ago dudes, move on. I didn't act like a stupid school girl even when I was in high school, and I sure as hell don't act like that now. I don't see why you can't all move on too (I'm not directing this at anyone in particular, least of all my friends... just stating an opinion). Life's about more than bitch fights, rumors, gossip, lies and acting like you and your life are the most important thing on earth. Cos, let's face it, you're not, I'm not, no one is the most important thing on earth, not as far as I'm concerned anyway. There is far, far too many people I know from high school that still act like we are in Grade 8. Not saying I'm perfect (cos I sure know I'm not, by any means), but really people, move on. Grow up. Take responsibility for yourself and your actions. Stop acting like you're better than everyone else just because you think you've got the perfect life. No one and nothing is perfect. Move on. You're worth more than that.

End rant.

FRESH AND CLEAN.. Well, sort of.

2009-04-28T18:15:00.000-07:00

HAPPY HUMP DAY (WEDNESDAY) EVERYONE!

It's the middle of the week, and things always start to go a bit crazy at this point of the week... for me at least. I'm drowning in assignments, desperate for it to all be over and for the sweet freedom of the weekend to come quickly.

In others news, as some of you may or may not know, Mum and I painted over my wall on the weekend. It took 4 hrs of me sanding all the insanely lumpy bits off by hand and 5 coats of paint, but it's finally done. I couldn't be happier.

Before...
and after!

I'm so insanely happy that my wall is no more. I'm glad it's gone, it's not me anymore, I am not that wall. Now it's gone and things are fresh.
Some friends of mine weren't happy with me painting over it, but those who truly know me know how much I wanted to get rid of it and how happy I am that it is gone. It may have taken two layers of medium green, one layer of white and two layers of dark purple paint, but it's finally gone. I've re-arranged my room and I'm starting to sort things out and make them how I want them to be... Just like I said I would in that blog I wrote a few weeks ago about how I'm making changes.

So ummm yeah. Wall is gone. I am much happier.
Meanwhile, being the procrastination queen that I am, I'm drowning in assignments. Three due this week, and an exam next week. I'm about 1/2 done with each assignment, I'm getting there... slowly. I have til 5pm Friday so it's ok. Haha.

Also, I cannot wait for the weekend... three days of no uni! Gonna actually do some social stuff! :)

Annnnd... I'm trying to blog more frequently, I think it's working pretty well... although I never really know who reads these blogs anyway. Hope you're enjoying them, whoever you are who's reading my rambling.

Hope you all have a great Wednesday
xx

TUMBLR NO MORE.

2009-04-26T19:46:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone.

I deleted my Tumblr account. Sorry Matt.

I never really wanted one from the beginning, but I gave it a shot and didn't really enjoy it.
EVERYONE JUST RE-BLOGS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE'S ALREADY SAID.
GAH.
Any thoughts I would have put on Tumblr will just now go here. All in one place. Neat and organised and easy to read.

The End.
xx

TiLT 23!

2009-04-25T06:19:00.000-07:00

TILT 23 -
(I wrote this on wednesday and totally forgot to post it, then I remembered at midnight on thursday night and then got distracted until now...)

Gonna try and keep this one short cos it's overdue and won't make sense either way... and like, who reads these anyhow?!

Things I was loving this Thursday -
- LAST FRIDAY NIGHT… =]
- HIVE ON SATURDAY NIGHT (This time last week) Luke Dalton, Steven Childs, Don't Come Monday and Fushia! <3
- I GOT A COMMENT FROM GALA IN RESPONSE TO ONE OF MY COMMENTS ON HER BLOG - “Lou — Aww little miss! Thank you. I don’t think anyone’s life is perfect, but we all have the ability to make the effort to transform our life into something which really delights us, you know? Big kisses to you!” GALA YOU MADE MY DAY. I LOVE YOU.
- GETTING LOTS OF COMPLIMENTS - My hair, my Gotye shirt, my fringe which is apparently so impressively striaght.. Etc.
- JADE - You spoil me woman! <3
- RACHEL! Spending time with Rachel on a more regular basis is pretty wicked. We've had rad hangouts like 3 or 4 times in the last week and a bit! <3
- SARAH AND CAITEY! I did one of my photography assignments at the vet, it was funnnn. <3
- UNI! It's getting better even though it's also getting more stressful, I am loving it still.

Looking forward to (keeping in mind I wrote this on wednesday and will write about these in my next TiLT) Thursday arvo at the dog park with Caitey, medium format shoot with Jade on Friday, and seeing The Basics at The Globe on Friday night with my lovely friends <3

Hope you all had a great week!
I'll try to post my TiLT on an actual thursday next week!
xxx

Tank Dresses

2009-04-25T02:18:00.000-07:00

TANK DRESSES!

I want some tank dresses. I'm digging the style hardcore, have been for about 6 months or more now. Would be super easy to make but I keep seeing gorgeous ones on the net that I want.

Damn you TopShop, Forever21 and Polyvore.

Horse and Cart by Louchasy featuring Forever21 hair accessories

This post is pretty pointless, but whatever. I like clothes.
Above is my latest set from Polyvore. I'd sell my own brother if it'd allow me to own that dress and those shoes, oh my god.
The end.

TiLT -Twenty Two

2009-04-15T06:50:00.000-07:00

HAPPY THURSDAY EVERYONE!

Things I'm loving today are:
(Omg I'm actually that organised I'm writing my TiLT on a thursday for once! I'm going to try to write this TiLT in a somewhat chronological order... )

My realisations last Friday night - I wrote a whole blog about it. I'm changing things in my life, and it's good.

Room developments - I WILL be painting over my wall this week sometime. I've moved furniture out, just gotta sand all the lumpy bits off...

Going out for dinner even though I'm really poor - Saturday night was great. I went out to dinner for Chris's birthday. Wagamama's is pretty cool.

Sunday night - Jade, Chris and I went to see I Heart Hiroshima at The Caxton! It was grand. We ended up in Soviet Russia. I had my first ever Jam Donut at The Cax, it was great. We had Jager Bombs (om nom nom) and as always, lots of vodka. We all drank and danced alot and we even stole some drinks. We're that cool.

Being happy - so happy you can’t stop smiling no matter how hard you try or how silly you feel.

THE IT CROWD - Oh man! Thankyou Jade for introducing me to it, I'm in LOVE. I've watched all of seasons one and two, now I'm craving moreeee!

THE MIGHTY BOOSH - As well as the IT Crowd, Jade introduced me properly to THE MIGHTY BOOSH. I am in love with it. Brit Coms rockkkkkk.

Ikea meat balls - Jade also introduced me to Ikea home cooking! OM NOM NOM.

Eater eggs - Mum bought me a Red Tulip bunny for easter! Om nom nom nom.

REALLY COOL HAIR - I’m obsessed with long, great, colourful hair, always have been but my obsession is growing stronger. Ladies that deserve a mention for their brilliant locks – Stevie Ryan, Audrey Kitching, Doe Deere, Raquel Reed (thanks Jade!) and of course, the fabulous Miss Gala Darling. Go google those ladies. Your eyes will thank you for it.

UNI HOLIDAYS - Especially sleeping in Friday to Monday... I got up between 10 – 11:30am each day... haha. Loving the holidays SO MUCH. FREE TIME IS GREAT. I SHOULD BE USING IT PRODUCTIVELY BUT I'M NOT... I'M JUST RUNNING AROUND TOWN SEEING ALL THE PEOPLE I LOVE.

TUMBLR - Matt made me a Tumblr account forever ago, and I actually decided to log in for the first time ever a few days ago. You can see my Tumblr here. It's not that interesting cos I don't log onto it much/write anything meaningful on it but it's kinda fun all the same.

ALISON'S TUMBLR - When I went to log in to tumblr for the first time, I went onto the Tumblr website and found Alison's account was already signed in... so I took the opportunity to hijack her account and write a few posts on there. It confused Alison alot when she logged in a few days later. Hahahahaaa. You can see Alison's Tumblr here.

MY LATEST TSB - Tsb #3 is online now! Check it out and vote vote vote! You can see my latest TSB here.

120MM FILM - On tuesday Jack and I went on a city adventure. I ended up buying my 120mm film (I need it for uni...) at Ted’s Camera House and not having to go all the way to Greenslopes! Wooh! It was a great adventure. We got Jack's ear pierced. Haha.

Dinner on Tuesday night - On Tuesday I had dinner at Alison’s with Al (of course), Kassie, Jack and Dan! Al and Kass made lasange and salad, it was so good. A great night of socialising was had.

Jade - YOU SPOIL ME GIRL. Yesterday Jade brought me foods and happy times cos I was feeling rather down and stressed out. I love you Jade. Get better soon aye.

Random visits from lovely friends - Last night Jack, Al and Kassie came over for a visit! I love the three of them :) I got to see Kassie twice in one week! Woooo! You're great Kassie.

Looking forward to:
Dinner with Crystal and James on Thursday night
Friday night
The Hive on Saturday night
The Powerhouse on Sunday afternoon
I heard back from one of the 25 jobs I applied for (I applied for 8 on Wednesday alone) - I have a job interview tomorrow at a vet clinic! I’m mega nervous!

Not looking forward to (I know it’s a TiLT and meant to be positive but whatever):
Going back to uni on Monday. Not happy Jan.
Being super stressed once I go back to uni… I've got one assignment due week seven (next week) then three assignments due the week after that. NOT COOL QCA, NOT COOL.

So yeah. I hope you all had a good week!
My TiLT was huge, mostly because I'm on uni holidays. I don't want to go back to class, I really, really don't.

Also: RACHEL I MISS YOU.

Love
xx

Raquel Reed

2009-04-10T22:07:00.001-07:00

Saturday.

Ok, so not much has changed since yesterday.

Reginald is lonely still but I think he might be enjoying having more room now he's alone in the tank. He seems ok.

I've begun tidying out my room. I'm throwing shit out and I've vacuumed and spread all my modernism notes all over the floor, in an attempt to imspire myself into actually writing my essay.

I got distracted by the internets though (specifially fmylife, tumblr and Gala Darling's blog...).
These distractions are great and have lead me to trawl the webs for ladiesss with loverly colourful locks, a favourite hobby of mine. I have many favourites - Gala (of course), Audrey Kitching and now Raquel Reed. Man her hair is amazing. Check her out. She's the one on the left in the photo. Oh man, her hair is so, so, so amazing.

And that's pretty much it. I basically just keep doing anything possible to avoid my modernism essay. This includes the internet, listening to music, eating, tidying my room, making lunch for my parents and writing blogs. I've written 5 blogs since last sunday, and written no essay. Lol.

The end.

p.s Hello to anyone who's reading this after hearing about me on tumblr. Haha.
p.p.s Here's my tumblr account - http://louiseisalwaysright.tumblr.com/ It's mostly me rambling about things and showing you pictures of zebras.

Keep your money, I want CHANGE.

2009-04-10T03:41:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday Everyone!

Hope you all had a nice day.
I didn't.

Norbert died at about 12pm today. He was fine this morning, swimming and eating like nomal, then I come in to my room round lunchtime and see him upside down on the bottom of the tank. I just about cried. My whole family thinks I'm dumb to care about my pet fish. But whatever, I love my fish. They're cool. Norbert is the plain orange fish in the photo.
I'd had Norbert since the beginning of August last year. That's nine months! I thought I was doing so well. Treating my fish right.
I'm a shit fish owner for not seeing it coming. He was sick like 2 months ago but got better and I thought things were going to be ok.
Obviously not.
I'm so, so sorry Norbert. I thought I was looking after you the best I could - you had a great 30L tank, and awesome best friend named Reginald, plenty of fresh food, lots of plastic plants I'd interchange to keep things interesting, a nice filter and an air pump. I thought I was doing well.
Now Norbert is dead, Reginald is lonely and I don't know what to do.
I'm going to buy a pH testing kit so I can monitor the pH in the fish tank water, cos gold fish are messy and turn the water acidic, which is bad and something I should have taken control of sooner.
I don't know if I should buy Reginald a new friend or not. He was always really shy compared to Norbert, so maybe he'll come out of his shell now he's alone, or maybe he'll become even more shy, I'm not sure. I'll give it a few days and see how we go.

In other news... things are happening for me, as of today.
I'm sick of things being so static all the time.
I'm going insane and I can't even explain it, I'm going crazy because of so many things and in so many different ways.

I have the strong desire to empty my room, completely. All I want is my bed, my fishtank, my box of cameras and my laptop, that's it.
I have too many things, everywhere, plus the dirt and dead bugs, and dust.
And now there seems to be geckos breeding in my room too. Every time I pick up my bag off the floor, a book of the shelf or anything really, a baby gecko is there. And I know it can't be the same one cos I keep scooping them up and putting them in the garden outside. I like geckos, I just don't want them living in my room, cos there's nothing for them to eat in here so they're all gonna die. Gross.

Anyway, I'm getting back to basics, starting now. I'm going to sort my life out, even if it takes a week or a month or a year.
I'm painting over my fucking wall. I've had the paint sitting in the garage since December and I can't stand it anymore. It's bringing me down. That bloody wall is ugly and childish and I'm sick of it. I don't care if you don't want me to apint over it cos you think it's cool, I'm sick of looking at it everyday.

I need to cut strings.
I want my life to be enjoyable, I want to be in control of things. This includes my Uni studies, my room, my bank account and my relationships.
I know I can't control everything, but I feel like I've been blobbing along like a lost jellyfish for far too long already this year.
I need to get loose, shake things up and start fresh.
I also need to get rid of all the shit in my room. I've been getting rid of the shit in my life for a few months now, but I haven't addressed my room yet. I am. Starting now.

If my room isn't clean and exciting and how I want it to be, how can my life be?
If the place I live in isn't inspiring, how can I be inspired in the other areas of my life?
I'm going to explode or go insane and start throwing things around.
This has been a long, long time coming though.

I've been home all day, haven't gone anywhere. I cooked, I watched about 5 hours of Gilmore Girls and I pondered things and felt sorry for myself, and sorry for Norbert.
And, of course, my family are driving me nuts. I can't stand it when we're all home at once, all day long.
I just yelled "LEAVE ME ALONE I HATE YOU" in a totally teen angsty way at my brother and Kevin.
Gosh.
I need to get out of here.
Badly.

Another prominant thought in my head is that I desperately need to write my modernism essay. It's due on the 20th April, and all I've done so far is gathered more research than you can poke a stick at, and lugged it all home with me. I have a giant pile of library books and printed journal articles on my floor. I need motivaiton and/or help, pronto. If you're reading this and can write art history compare and contrast essays, please call me, asap. I'll love you forever even if you just sit with me and help me sort through all my research. I'm so over essays. I'm glad only one of my subjects at Uni involves me writing essays.
As well as this, I've got that many other assignments to do over the break I feel like I'll surely drown in them before the end of the week. Help.

The third and final prominant thought in my head is that I'm desperate for cash. I cna't stand being unemployed anymore, it's just not working for me at all. I like being independant and having my own money. I feel like I'm 14 again.
I've applied for 17 jobs so far and I'm still unemployed. I'm going to apply for lots more tomorrow on Seek.
I'm also considering putting ads on my blog for some extra cash, I'm thinking it might be more trouble than it's worth though. Any thoughts?

Ok, time for action.
I've started emptying out my room so I can sand my wall and paint it.
I cleaned out my fish tank and set it up in the bathroom so Reginald doesn't have to breathe in paint fumes.
I'm on the hunt for things to throw away. I'm going to make a pile of things I can give to Lifeline, (which will be all re-useable objects etc) and a pile of things to go in the bin (eg. actual rubbish, bits of paper, street press mags, documents I don't need anymore etc).

Hope you all have a fab weekend, I'll be busy doing all the junk I've ranted about in this blog.
I feel a bit more calm now.

Nite.

TiLT - TWENTY ONE!

2009-04-08T23:41:00.000-07:00

Yo, yo, yiggedy yo!

Hope everyone's had a good week. My week's been pretty good, busy but good.

Things I'm living this particular thursday are:

- Old Gold (70% cocoa) dark chocolate... I bought some cos it was on sale at Big W, I saw it when I dropped my film off to be developed. It's so tasty, I've missed eating dark chocolate, I haven't in ages. It was like $3. I can't afford it but I had to have it, it's been keeping me happy.

- The Decemberists' new album - Hazards of Love. I've been obsessed with this one since Alison gave me it, oh man, it's a goodie. I love all their stuff but it's nice to have something new from them to sink my teeth into. It's different to their older stuff but I still really like it. I like how the whole album is one giant story and the songs blend from one to the next, it's grand.

- The fact that I am now on uni holidays until the 20th April! Yessss! Been desperate for some time away from uni for a while now, and it's finally here! I'm going to sleep in and catch up with some friends and whatnot. It'd be better if I didn't have about 5 assignments to work on but oh well.

- My action sampler camera! I got my first roll of film I've taken with it developed. It's ok considering I don't use film much, alot of the photos are over exposed which is really weird, but they still look kinda cool.

- The Hive. This is not a new love, but a renewed one. The Hive's moved locations, we had a volunteers meeting last night and now everything's back in full swing. I jumped in with both feet and am volunteering for the opening show at the new location, which is next saturday, it's gonna be grrrrreat.

- Rachel and Alisonnnn! We hung out tuesday and it was rad. I love those girls. Had Al over tuesday night, we watched trashy tv, it was lovely.

And that's pretty much it, this week's been so full of uni I haven't had much time to love things, but now I'm on holidays so I can relax a little, so yay.

The end
xx

Self documentation

2009-04-08T05:39:00.000-07:00

Good evening everyone,

This is what I wore tonight to a meeting at The Hive. Not a very interesting outfit but a fairly standard one for me, jeans and a shirt. Yep. I like my hair. I'm waiting for it to grow, it's taking forever.

The meeting was good, it's nice to be involved in The Hive again after me not being able to go to shows for a while cos of work. The only bonus of being unemployed is I have more free time. Apart from that, there are no other bonuses, I'm really, really poor.

Anyway... as some of you may or may not know, I sometimes take daily photos of my outfits in an effort to "cultivate my personal style" and basically keep track of what I wear and how I look each day. I'm trying to put more effort into my appearance. I stole the idea from Gala. I take the outfit photos all the time but I've never actually done anything with them, I just have them in a folder on my pc.... until today! I dunno why but I just felt like actually posting today's outfit on the web.

Weird and narcassistic as it is, I think it's useful to take daily outfit photos. I find it really interesting to be able to look back through what I've worn over the year so far, plus I'm obsessed with documentation. I like taking photos of everything and writing everything down, and this is just another way for me to document my life.
This month I'm aiming to take a photo of my outfit every day for a whole month, so far I haven't missed a day. Woo. I may or may not ever actually post another outfit online again, but for today, you can see what I wore.

That's pretty much it. Business as usual. Still job hunting. I've applied for 17 jobs in total so far. And I'm stressing over uni, but really, really looking forward to friday and beyond - EASTER HOLIDAYS! Yesss. I'm also stressing over money, I'm running out of money, fast... Sad thing is I'm not even buying exciting things, it's all just stuff for uni, train tickets, petrol and phone credit. Bleh. I went and saw Rachel's new house on tuesday! Yay! It's nice. And had Alisonnnn over last night, we watched trashy tv for hours on end. She's great. Today was full of errands and the gym and other things. I put my first roll of film from my 4 lens action sampler in to be developed, I'm going to pick it up tomorrow... I hope at least some of the shots turned out. I'm pretty sure the film was about 4 or more years old, haha. Apart from that not much else is going on.

I'm going to stop writing and go to bed now... I have to be up in 7.5hrs. Gosh.
Good night,
xx

TiLT - Week Twenty + more!

2009-04-01T23:15:00.000-07:00

GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE!

Happy sunday!

My TiLT is 4 days late! OH YEAH.
Hope you've all had a lovely week.
My week's been all over the place in both good and bad ways... Stressful from uni and busy with classes and assignments and stressing out in general about uni, life and money (or lack there of). However, the last few days have been awesome. Back to reality tomorrow when I have to go to class and do work concentrate, compared to all my adventures of the last few days... gah.

I actually wrote my TiLT for this week on WEDNESDAY night, but haven't had a chance to blog it until now because of assignments and my car breaking down and various social outings and such.

Things I was loving this thursday are (this list is short cos the week up until thursday was rather dull but whatever) -
- EBAY. Oh man. Whoever invented Ebay, I love you. Best place to find interesting cameras.
- CARD READER IN MY LAPTOP! Yeah I'm a total dork. I've had my laptop since like December 07, and only just realised there's a SD card reader in the side of it, near some of the other ports I never use. It's hidden away underneath the edge of the the laptop, and I just never noticed it cos I don't ever actually look at all the ports I never use. Anyway, my inbuilt card reader is now my new best friend.
- DIGITAL PHOTO PROFESSIONAL! Again, more camera related things. This's the software that came with my Canon DSLR, and it rocks. Like photoshop but it's also a RAW converter, which is super useful and easy to use :D
- SKINS. I'm well an truly addicted now. Oh man. It's so great. I love Cassie and Maxi and Chris and Jai (spelling?). Yeah. They're my faves. They rock.
- GOSSIP GIRL. It's so freaking trashy and juicy. I want my own Dan Humphrey. Serena doesn't love him like I do. Lol.
- MY FAB FRIENDS! Jade, Dan, Al, Jack and Rach all came to visit me when I was painting my TSB last weekend. Totally made my day, thanks boys and girls <3>
- MY NORTHSIDE VET CARE GIRLS! They were so excited to see me on thursday when I went in! Hugs all round, I felt special.
- Looking forward to: Easter hols! 10th - 19th April! Yeeeeow! Also looking forward to getting my K-Rudd money so I won't be broke anymore. Thanks K-Rudd!

In other news, I've had the best last 3 days I've had in a long time. That sentence is retarded but whatever.
The last 3 days have been awesome, they are as follows -

FRIDAY - Went to uni, handed in my first actual photography assignment and matching tech report in my Prac 1A tut. Then we played with the Rollei Flex 6 x 6 cameras (they're old and heavy and use 120mm film which is SO COOL) and set up our own studio spaces with lighting, reflector boards, soft boxes and backgrounds! SO MUCH FUN. Friday after uni I went back to my car after getting the train from uni, to find I'd left my lights on. The car battery was dead. RACQ saved my day and I got home ok, where Kev then charged my car battery for me. In the mean time Jade came and picked me up! We went to hers, she bleached my hair some more, we went to radio, we then got HJ's (monster burgers zomg!) and went back to hers for hours and hours of IT Crowd. I'm in love with the IT Crowd. OH MAN IT'S SO GREAT I WANT TO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW. Haha. Then I stayed over Jade's. Thankyouuu Jadeeeee for Friday night!

SATURDAY - Jade dropped me home, I got ready to go and see Matt in the city for lunch... got in my car to leave for the train, and BOM BOM BOM it wouldn't start. Again. Which doesn't make sense cos the battery was fully charged and mum even drove it for me on friday night when I was out. Nevertheless, Mum took me to the bus at Chermy. I went and hung out with Matt and we had lunch at Nandos and took lots of photos on our multiple cameras and it was nice. Between us we had 5 cameras, 7 if you include our mobile phones! The photo is mine and Matt's lunch, our many cameras and a bit of Matt himself. Thanks for saturday Matt! I also went and visited lovely Rachel at work J I MISS YOU RACHEL. Gosh. We need to catch up soon! Yes so, city with Matt, visited Rach, then I got the bus home… And who should be on my bus but the amazing CRYSTAL! We screamed with excitement when I got on the bus and we saw each other. Man I miss you girl! It was such a lovely surprise to see Crystal! Anywho, so I eventually got home after coffee with Mum and Chermy and my car still wouldn’t start so I thought I’d have a night in, until Jack rings me! Him and Dan ended up coming and picking me up and we went to the train, where we ran into a whole bunch of people I hadn’t seen since high school, which was sweet as! Anywho, Dan, Jack and I went to The Hanger at Red Hill and met up with Alison and Katers. THE HANGER IS SO COOL. I WANT TO LIVE THERE. It’s a derelict indie gig place that’s underneath a bunch of random shops. It was so cool. We saw Fickle Beasts among other bands and generally had a great time! This photo is of Jack, Katers and Al at The Hanger. Good times. I wanna go there again soon. It had a wall of old tvs as the background behind where the bands played, plus lots of couches, bean bags and fridges. It was great and full of random stuff.

TODAY – My mum got me a new car battery (my dead one was under warranty, thank god!) and so my car is now up and running again! I went to Chermy and had lunch with the lovely James! J It was really nice to see him and catch up. Now I'm at home enjoying the live set of The Kooks on JJJ and sitting around in my new pjs.

And that’s pretty much the best bits of the last three days in my life.
Long story short the last three days were so insanely awesome cos I saw so many people I love! Jade, Dan, Jack, Rach, Alison, Matt, Katers, Crystal and James :D Yay yay yay.

So yeah. I’m in a good mood. I have freshly blonded chunks in my hair and Barbie pink fingernails andddd I’m wearing my new pjs. Mum took pity on me cos I’m poor and bought me new pjs. They’re adorable and have gold fish on them! Thanks Mum<3

Hope you all enjoyed reading all that, haha.
Love
xx

p.s This last photo is of me and Katey at The Hanger. It's way over exposed. You can only see our hair. I love it.
p.p.s One more thing - the hair compliments have continued, and now are even more common since Jade re-blonded my hair. Jack, Dan and a random chick in the loo at The Hanger last night complimented me on my hair and skirt. And I don't remember who else from last night. And all the people I ran into from school on the train complimented me on my hair. And James did today too :D I feel special.

Lennox + TiLT 19

2009-03-25T01:27:00.000-07:00

HELLO BLOGGERS!

Welcome to my long, long overdue blog of updates and general awesomeness.
I haven't blogged in 16 days for a variety of reasons, but I'm here now and that's the main thing.

I feel rather terrible for missing two TiLTs in a row! I did email the one from two weeks ago (TiLT number 18) to Jd and Rach, but thursday last week I was away on PHOTOGRAPHY CAMP AT LENNOX HEADS and didn't have access to a computer until I got home on friday afternoon, so I just kind of never wrote one for last week. Nevertheless, I've written one for today!

Here's what I'm loving this thursday:
- My ever expanding camera collection! Mum gave me two hand-me-down cameras earlier this week, one from the early 1900's and one from the 1950's, they're both ah-mazing! These two plus my new action sampler bring my collection to a grand total of 9 cameras! And Matt's got me a three lense film one from Ebay for a late birthday present, and I am going to buy a Fujifilm Instax when (or if?!) I get my K-Rudd money! Wooo! I'm obsesseddddddd.
- Getting compliments on my hair! If I had $1 for every time some one had asked me "Do you curl your hair like that every morning?" or "Where do you get your hair dyed like that?" I would be a zillionare. OH MAN, I'M NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING, IT'S ALMOST SCARY. I've been getting them hardcore over the last two weeks. At photography camp almost every single person I talked to complimented on my hair - the curls, the colour, the cut or all three. I had oodles of randoms at camp coming up to me just to tell me they liked my hair. IT WAS NUTS. Also, I've had randoms in the real world outside camp also complimenting me on my hair, alot. Like, it's really strange! People from camp, people I don't even know, friends' mums, friends from uni, friends not from uni, even when I was handing out resumes people complimented me on my hair at three of the places I went into! I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE SUDDEN INFLUX OF LOVE FOR MY HAIR, IT'S WEIRD BUT ALSO KIND OF NICE. THANKS JADE FOR BLEACHING IT, EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS LIKE 4 OR 6 WEEKS AGO NOW, HAHA. Anywho.
- My new photography friends at uni, man it's nice knowing more than two people that I've made friends with in my course...
- Being able to say "I'm studying photography at the Queensland College of Art". Lame, I know, but hey, I think it's pretty cool.
- Using manual focus on my DSLR. Man, it makes for some wicked rad photos! The pic of the green shoes was taken on camp, I did it usuing selective focus, pretty cool I think, but hard to tell cos I uploaded it in the smallest size possible but oh well.
- Jade. She cheered me up when I was rather down on tuesday, and she even made me a polyvore! Thanks babe.

Little photgrapher girl - by Jadeloli on Polyvore.com
And that's pretty much it. Had a rather non-happy week full of stress and exhaustion, but hey, it's friday tomorrow.

So, seeings as I've been a slack blogger, here's some things that have happened since the 10th of March when I last blogged - I'll try and put them in sequential order, so you can all be totally up to date on the last few weeks of life in the land of Lou...

- Jack and I saw Sparkadia at their last Brissy show for a while on the 13th. Oh man, it was a good night after the stress of Jack not having a ticket was resolved (he bought the last one available at the door) it was a good show. The Jezabels (did I spell that right?) were pretty cool, John Steel Singers were, as always, fabulous and Sparkadia were pretty good but did leave a bit to be desired. I thought seeings as Sparkadia won't be back in Australia for a year or more, they'd jazz things up for their last show in Brissy for a while, but they didn't really, just played a steady set, not leaving much room for talking between songs. Nevertheless they were enjoyable, even if they did lack a bit of energy, they were still pretty amazing as far as live bands go, perhaps I expected too much, I don't know. But yes a good night overall, Jackus and I had fun. Faavourite quotes from Jack from that night are: *I tie up my hair into a bun* Jack: *Looks at me for a while* "Did you... stop wearing something just then?". Other fave quote - on the train ride home at 1am, Jack whilst leaning on me: "Shut up, I need to sleep! Louises are for sleeping on!" Good times, haha.
- I went on a road trip to Maleney and Montville with Wilko on the 14th... check my facebook for pictures. It was a super fun day and nice just to not think about uni or work or anything for a few hours. Wilko and I went op shopping and scored some bargains, had lunch in Montville, coffee in Maleny and even went to the Witta cemetery for a while. Good times, good times.
- I did my last shift at NVC on the 15th. Yeah. Grrr. Sad and frustrating. Let's not go there.
- I went on Photography camp at Lake Ainsworth near Lennox Head in Northern NSW from 17th - 20th... again check my facebook for more pictures. Photography camp was MEGA awesomecore. I did about 9 workshops over the 4 days, made heaps of new photography friends and generally just had a great time. The location was beautiful too - right between Lake Ainsworth and the beach, so lovely! The workshops were super rad too, especially working with the 10 X 8 camera (which we took on the beach! It was such an odd thing to see!) and also making pinhole cameras out of every day objects and developing the prints ourselves, I'm now addicted to anything to do with a dark room. I could go on about every workshop I did, but I won't bore you. Long story short, it was awesome, I learnt lots, got to play with some wicked film and digital cameras and made some cool new friends, all the time somehow managing to avoid swimming in the pool, lake or ocean, cos I'm too cool for that. (JOKES, I just don't dig swimming that much.)
- I had Jack, Al and Rach over randomly on the 20th for dessert and a chat at 9pm, it was great. Woulda been greater if I wasn't totally exhausted from camp though, haha. Love you threeee.
- I've become very poor from a lack of employment... Jack and Alison, how do you do it?! I'm hanging out for the K-Rudd money and the payment for a photography job I did about a month ago...
- I babysat on the 21st for cash, it was good because I'm rather poor right now. Easy money. If you know anyone who has kids and needs a good babysitter, give them my number haha.
- I spent the weekend 21st - 22nd applying for jobs. I applied for 11 in total, most of which were businesses that had multiple locations/offices so I really applied for more than 11 places but yeah. I'm considering having a break from vet nursing, and working in either a pet shop or perhaps a clothes shop, just for something a bit different.
- I went back to class after photography camp this monday - 23rd - and then became completely inundated with uni work and assignments and have spent this whole week running around taking photos for my many assignments. Bleh. I also have a 1000 word modernism essay to write... should probably start that, haha.
- I bought a cheap ($12AU) film camera from ebay! It's a lomo action sampler and has 4 lenses, it's wicked rad and made of cheap plastic and I love it. I picked it up from the post office on the 24th, and I've started using it. Can't wait to see if any of the pictures are decent or not!
- I had a job interview today at Ally (it's girls/womens clothes store for those who don't know) I'll find out tomorrow if I've been short listed or not. Woo. I don't really mind either way.
I'm waiting to hear back from Pet Barn to see if I'll get an interview there for one of their stores.
- Overall things have been rather hectic and exhausting lately, trying to find a job and do uni classes and assignments whilst still managing to have a regular sleep pattern is hard. I've spent this whole week taking photos and getting them printed for uni, I want a holiday so bad! I'm drowning, so much so that Jade was actually going to buy me floaties. Yes, floaties.

So there. Now you're all up to date on the more interesting happenings of my life over the past few weeks.
Yep.

Tomorrow I'm off to uni for the fourth day this week, as per usual, then probably to the gym.. And I'm (most likely, so long as it doesn't rain) going to FINALLY painting by TSB at Chermside this weekend, all weekend. No relaxing weekend for me, just paint and (hopefully not but probably) sunburn.

Hope you're all going ok and arn't needing floaties like I am.
How is uni/school/work/life in general going for everyone?
Love from your little photographer girl,
xx

p.s I made me into a polyvore the other day... Check it :P
I have this dress in purple in real life... and I want that fisheye camera!

Blue Lou - by Louchasy on Polyvore.com

p.p.s I wanted to upload ALOT more photos into this blog but blogger was being annoying and it took me 4 tries just to get these two pics up so... yeah. Look on my facebook for more if you're keen.
p.p.p.s DAN I MISS YOU. GET WELL SOON MATE.
p.p.p.p.s Sorry to all my regular readers for me being so so so slack. Won't (hopefully) happen again, also hello to all of you who I haven't already meantioned :)

Antlers

2009-03-10T06:29:00.000-07:00

GOOD EVENING READERS!

Warning! This blog has no real point or direction, but hey, what else is new?!

I'm just going to dive right into things...
So, as mentioned in my TiLT, here's a photo from the vet's house who likes to hunt in his spare time. More pictures to come but this is all I have for now. I like it though.
It's so unsual to see a deer in someone's living room. Think about it.
It was so confronting at the time, I'm still mulling it over in my brain.

Apart from this I don't have many other interesting things to report.
I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I'm a student again. I did actual work outside of class today... researching artists and photocopying their photography counts as me doing work right? Righttt? Haha.
Photography at uni is so full on and in depth, and it's only the second week of classes! It's nuts! I bought one of my required text books today though, so I have all the good intentions of actually being a good student and actually studying.
We'll see how long that lasts.

In other news, Gossip Girl is the highlight of my week, no, really.
That and the fact that the new edition of Empty Mag will be appearing in my letter box any day now, I can't wait to get my hot little hands on it! I've been itching for the new edition for about a month now!
So yeah... My life is mega mundane and not interesting at the moment.
I'm going on photography camp next week, should be wicked awesome, no idea how I'm getting there though considering it's down near Byron Bay. But hey, it should be pretty cool. It'll be like school camp but with alot of expensive cameras and alcohol. And we're in dorms that're mixed and we pretty much decide everything about what we do, where/if we sleep, whether we want to actual do the photography workshops or not etc etc etc. Should be interesting, thats for sure.

Moving right along... I'm meant to be painting another TSB tomorrow but the weather forcast is rain. Everytime I go to paint this particular TSB something stops me - holiday to the coast, being really sick for 3 weeks, loosing my job, having to go to uni, and now on my one day where I don't have uni the predicition is rain, like, wtf mate. Not fair.

Anywho... As of this weekend I'm unemployed. I need to fix my resume and start handing it out places but I'm so just in denial that I've actually lost one of the few things that's been a constant in my life over the past 3.5 years. I'll no longer be Louise-who-works-at-the-vet. I'll just be Louise-who-used-to-have-a-cool-job-at-the-vet-and-is-now-unemployed-angry-and-poor.
Bleh. I'll find a new job somewhere I'm sure. In a few weeks, maybe. When I've got my shit together.

That's pretty much it for now. I think I shall go to bed.
The end.

p.s I straightened my hair on sunday for the first time in a longgggg time. I had to take a picture. Me with straight hair is a rarity. Woo. It's so yellow under fluro light.

Now I'm really going to bed.
Nite.

TiLT - Week Seventeen, and other random stuff, yo!

2009-03-06T03:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome bloggers and the like!

So it's been a week since my last blog and although not too many ground breaking things have happened since then, a small update is in need. But, first let's get down to business - I've got a TiLT to publicise here.
On a random side note I am rather proud of myself for blogging fairly frequently over the last 5 or so months, makes me feel good, even if barely anyone actually ends up reading what I write.

Things that I'm loving this week are as follows:

Ok so almost everything on my TiLT list this week is uni and/or photography related, because I'm having a bit of a tough time trying to focus on work because I get sad but oh well. It's where my head is at right now.

- Being at uni again! It's so nice to be learning and actually engaging my brain in some sort of learning process is great. I've been taking notes in all my classes like crazy cos I really like writing and I learn more if I write it down. It's also really nice to be studying something I'm so infatuated with! It's amazing! All my tutors and lecturers are the most interesting and inspiring assortment of men and women too, it's so great. I'm going to re-read this blog in a few weeks when I'm stressed out to the max to remind myself why I liked uni in the first place.

- Making new photography friends! Following on from my first point, making new uni friends is awesome! I've met a few great people and I'm sure I'll meet more as the weeks go by, it's only week one after all. I'm sure once week 3 arrives and we go on crazy photography camp I'll meet loads more people! Woo!

- Being a photography student! Ok so following on again, uni is wicked rad. The photo of the bird of paradise is one I took today in my studio class. We were let loose in South Bank for an hour with a list of expercises for apeture, depth of field, ISO and shutter speed to complete. We then went back to the studio and some of us (those who were brave.. including me) gave our SD cards and we went through our shots in front of the class. The tutor said my shots were "good", which made me feel pretty cool considering he just said most other people's were "fine". Haha. Sometimes I feel I'm already in over my head in terms of the maths and science side of everything, but the actual practical stuff does make the maths make more sense.

- Birds of Tokyo and Trial Kennedy with Dan! Such a great night out, except for the whole drama of Dan forgetting his ticket. Haha. But yes, fantastic show put on by TK and Birds, I was throughly impressed. I sung along to all the songs and bopped my way through the whole gig whilst taking photos. The one to left is of the support, some random crazy Perth DJ named Thomas Ford. He gets 10 points for entertainment value alone, he was wearing a strand of light bulbs!

- Randoms complimenting me on my photos! Following on from my previous point, some random lady saw me taking photos during the gig and was looking over my shoulder when I was showing Dan, and then random leans down to me (Dan and I were sitting down on the ground between bands) and is all like: "Omg your photos are amazing! Wow! They're so good!" Etc. I was like: "Oh.. wow, thankyou... I'm a photography student" and then we chatted for a while. Turns out she went to school with the TK boys! So, after TK finish playing this random lady (the one who complimented me on my photos) goes down to talk to the lead singer of TK, Dan and I follow and end up meeting and getting our picture with the lead singer of TK! SO AWESOME. I HAD SUCH A GOOD NIGHT. THANKYOU DAN.

- Freelance photography work and being paid for it! I'm loving that I keep getting money for taking photos, it's pretty cool to earn money doing something you love. If you have a photography job for me let me know and I'll take photos for you! The photo to the left is a random one I took of the tulips Michelle got me. I was taking photos of them every day, sort of like a time lapse thing, seeing how they slowly wiltered and eventually died. I liked this shot in particular.

- Taco Tuesday! This tuesday I finally made it to the Alibi Room for Taco Tuesday, it was a great night out despite the fact that their air con was broken and we all literally had sweat dripping off us! Jack, Dan, Al and I ate mexican and then went and got gelati and spent hours chatting and eating, it was so lovely. I love you guys so freakin' much.

Special mentions: Budget shopping at Woolies with Jade and seeing Jade in general. Woooo. Yep. Also: Discovering that one of the vets at work has a hunting fettish and as a result has a zebra skin rug in his house, along with some buffallo, deer and gizelle heads mounted on the walls. It was amazing, horrifying and breath taking all at once. I've now patted my first zebra(!) - I just wish the zebra wasn't flat on the living room floor. Moving on... Other mentions go to: Subway, Woolies choch chip cookies, lemon lime and bitters soft drink that's no brand and cost me 80 cents, coleslaw (always a fave), Caitey from work cos she's great, my new face scrub cos it's awesome, the under water photos I took up the coast actually turning out and being hilarious (can't remember if I've mentioned that before or not... Not gonna re-read all my blogs to re-check either), the song "Love Lockdown" by Kanye West - I don't mind a bit of Kanye now and then, and I've had that one on repeat all week, actually logging into my DeviantArt account and considering updating things, taking photos of puppies and just about everything else, doing new tattoo designs on the train and finally - blackberry chupa chups.
The photo of the german shepard pup is one I took at work. Look close. He's winking. It's adorable.

For the second week in a row I've been slack and posted my TiLT on a friday.. I should change my post names to TiLF but that sounds weird. I'll try really hard to actually post it on thursday next week, I will!

Ok so I'm writing this TiLT then going to bed. I'm rather tired. My eyelids are drooping. And yet, my brain just wants to keep on going. I'm buzzing with ideas and thoughts about photography from my first week of uni. It's been really great so far. I've learnt so much and it's only been a week!

Following on with the lack of actual structure and logical thought sequences in this blog - I'm considering starting a photo blog, but I really like writing too so I'd be way too tempted to write loads of stuff everytime I posted a photo.
So, instead, I'm going to just keep blogging here and upload loads of photos (but hey, what else is new?!) as I blog. So there.
What a waste of a paragraph, haha. Oh well. This photo is an out of focus one of my fish. My fish are pretty cool, as far as fish go, the orange one, Norbert, has a bit of a fungal infection or something going on on some of his scales at the moment, I'm not really sure what to do but I'll take him to work soon and get someone to look at him.

ALSO! THE ITC! IT'S OVER! I FAILED (KINDA)! WOO! Well I didn't fail entirely, I went to the gym a fair bit but because I was sick for most of February it kinda ruined the ITC for me. But hey, the intentions and goals were there, haha. I haven't given up though. I'm after a life style change that's permanent, not just a one month challenge, so I'm going to try and keep it up. I've been to the gym twice this week despite having to work and/or go to uni everyday except wednesday! Woo!

Ok so I think I'm done randomly blogging for now. Hope you all had lots of things you were loving this thursday!
Little Miss Photography Obsessed
xx

p.s Sam! HOW ARE YOU! Long time no talk! How's school? And the library? And Yogi?

p.p.s I've just discovered the "compose" button when you're creating a blog.. I've always just done it in the "edit html" part and not ever clicked the "compose" option.. I've now discovered the amazing world of being able to change fonts, and the colour and size of my text. This will be exciting, oh yes.

Tilt - WEEK SIXTEEN! FOUR MONTHS OF TILTING!

2009-03-01T02:58:00.000-08:00

Hi all!

Ok, so yes, my TiLT list is a few days late, but, I had it written on thursday as normal then totally forgot to blog it!

I had a very shit week last week but here goes:

- "Looking for Alaska" by John Green - Rachel lent it to me, I'm addicted. I'm almost done, like 10 pages left and I've only had it just over a week. Brilliant stuff. I want to read Paper Towns next!
- Uni O Week - It was pretty daunting, and the maths tut was scary but the week over all was pretty great. Such a large variety of people enrolled in photography, some have been into it for years like me, others just decided over the summer to enrol in the course on a whim! Amazing!
- British India + Blood poets with Rachel last thursday! It was super fun times, we need to have more of these nights Rach!
- Lily Allen's new cd "It's not me, it's you" - Jade bought it for me and man, I've had it on repeat in my cd player ever since!
- The Week That Was and Port OBrien - Two bands I've been meaning to get into for aaaages and finally have, now I'm obsessed! Love!
- Eye make up! i'm slowly getting more confident, and with that, more addicted. Lime Crime is so much funnnn, especially when I use it with a wet brush!
- Sexy cameras! We had a photography expo at uni on thursday, mand that was amazing. I also discovered both my lenses for my DSLR are above and beyond the requirements that I need for uni, so I was pretty stoaked about that! Can't wait to get into it all!
- The nurses who I’ve come to call my family at work and are still on my side after everything. I loast my job on monday, and all my nurses have stuck by me so well. Michelle even got me a gorgeous bunch of tulips!
- Wilko! He took me out for Nandos and a late night romp in the park on thursday night! Cheered me up immensely :) Thankyou buddy!
- Jade! Sticking by me when my life is falling apart, even if hers is too, that is commitment right there.
- Dan giving me hugs.
- Making a few friends at a new Uni, and running in to lovely Erin today at uni! I'm thinking this year will be a good one!
- Bumming around with Jack. I LOVE YOU. Doing nothing but talk for 3 and a bit hours today was lovely!

Looking forawrd to : Photography camp and getting drunk with all my new photography class mates (apparently it's a tradition that everyone gets very drunk each night on camp! LOL!).
Birds of Tokyo and Trial Kennedy with Dan.
Sparkadia with Jade and Jack.
Catching up with all my mates who're going to uni at QUT!
Reading A Clockwork Orange that Jack lent me!

That's all.
Hope you all had a fabulous week, I didn't really, but the things I listed above sure helped cheer me up when I needed it most.

The end!
xx

p.s RACHEL I MISS YOU. ALISON I MISS YOU ALSO.

Uncertain times + ITC Day 25 update

2009-02-25T02:45:00.000-08:00

Hello bloggers.

You're reading the blog of one very unhappy little squirrel.

The photo at the top is one I took of a gorgeous bunch of tulips the girls at work go tme on monday, man, I love those girls so much.

Things arn't going as planned, at all.
I don't even know what to write.
I'm exhausted in every sense of the word... emotionally, physically, spritually.

And to top everything off I'm failing rather dismally at the ITC at the moment. No motivation nor time to actually get to the gym.
There's only a couple of days left of February and even though I started out so well and had the best intentions things arn't going well at all right now.

Things suck.
Work (or lack there of...). Uni. Friends. Family... The fact I haven't been to the gym in almost a week. The fact that I'm now realising I'm not sure I'll be able to afford to do Photography at uni, sure, I can Hex the actual course fees but there's literally hundreds and hundres of dollars worth of other equipment I need to buy, plus books, and paying for camp.
I don't want to write anything else.
It'd just be terrible and negative even more so than what I've written already.

I'm overwhelmed, exhausted, frightened, angry, sad, unorganised, completely lacking in all self confidence and totally heart broken.
The constant feeling that I'm about to vomit is not a pleasant one, and crying takes up alot of energy on top of that.

On a brighter note I had my first day at Griffith today.
Photography is so intense at Griffith.
I'm freaking out.
At least I've already got a gorgeous DSLR to work with, most people enrolled in the course don't even own a camera yet.
I was amazed that some people could enrol in a course such as the Bahcelor of Photography on a whim.
The staff and older photography students say the drop out rate for first and second year kids is about 50%. That alone makes me nervous.
I so desperately want to succeed because I'm so passionate about photography, but things don't always turn out how we want them to, the past few days have shown me that, so now I'm just lacking on confidence and uncertain about absolutely everything in my life.

I haven't felt this depressed and out of sorts in about.. I dunno, 6 months? A year maybe ?
I'm sure things will change for the better, soon, but right now things are pretty doom and gloom.
I rhymed.
I'm so lame.
An yway I'm sure I'll be back to my normal awesomecore self soon... I hope.
I do know that life is far too short to worry too much about anything and be miserable, but right now it's virtually impossible to feel otherwise.
I need someone to bottle me up some sunshine so I can drink it and soak it all in and feel happy again.

The end.

p.s I'm STILL sick. I've spent 4 out fo the last 5 weeks being sick.
Bleh.
The world hates me, for some reason, and I don't even know what I've done wrong.

p.p.s I'm totally addicted to two bands right now, on top of all my regulars I'm now addicted to The Week That Was, and also Port O'Brien. Check 'em out on myspace if you don't know who they are.

Have a nice weekend.

2009-02-21T02:00:00.000-08:00

Good evening readers!

So, yet again, I'm sick... Oh joy.
It's such a watse of time.

Today:
Woke up at 11am, read for a while.
Went to the shops to get cold and flu drugs.
Came home, took the drugs and some multivitamins, ate some toast and watched tv for 7 hours (like 6 eps of Sex and The City, followed by the Sex and The City movie! Haha! So glam!)
Blew my nose and coughed alot in between drinking as much water as I could.
Ate dinner... which made me fill ill.
And now I'm sitting here, trying to make up for lost time by tidying my room and making lists of things I need to do when I can breathe out of more than one nostril.

When I went to the chemist to get cold and flu drugs today I could hardly breathe nor talk in complete sentences. I felt like I was one of the used kleenex tissues that are overflowing from the bin under my desk. It was obvious I was really sick, and so I quickly explained my symptoms to the pharmasist, got my drugs and went to leave, when the pharmasist goes "Thankyou, have a nice weekend."
I could have strangled her. I felt like death itself and she told me to have a nice weekend.
Like. Who. Does. That.
Gah!

Seriously, I mean, obviously she says that to everyone but it takes less than one second to look at me and instantly know I'm not going to be having a good weekend.
Seriuosly lady, if I can manage to remember lame little bits of information about my customers at work, surely you can look at me and realise I will not, by any stretch of the imagination, be having a good weekend.
Honestly.

Anyway, that's my rant for today.
I am a walking snot machine and when I cough people go: "Oh my god, are you ok?" Cos my cough sounds like there is a monster inside my lungs trying to escape.
I have Lily Allen on repeat, I'm going to take some more drugs and go and read "Looking for Alaska" by John Green some more. At least the characters in the book are having a nice weekend.
I should be at Josh Pyke right now, but I'm not, obviously, because well, you know.. I can hardly breathe through all this mucus. I mean, it's not that big of a deal because I've seen Josh Pyke 4 times already but still, I hate being sick and I'd rather be out at the Tiv enjoying myself than being home drowning in my own mucus.
Joy.

So, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend whilst I'm lying in bed feeling sorry for myself.
G'night.
xx

p.s Here's a polyvore set I made a week or two ago. I really like it.
I want to put that outfit on and go for drinks with Carrie Bradshaw.

Little Black - by Louchasy on Polyvore.com

TiLT - Week Fifteen!

2009-02-18T19:48:00.000-08:00

So, yes, I know it's friday but I was super busy yesterday and didn't get time to post my TiLT! I had it written in dot point form but that's about as far as I got...

So here's what I was loving yesterday/this week -

MY NEW KODAK DISPOSABLE UNDERWATER CAMERA! Alison bought me a disposable camera, and oh man, it gave me so many hours of enjoyment! I took it with me when we went on holidays to the beach and had alot of fun with it. All the photos will probably be terrible and blurry but man it kept me entertained for such a long time! Haha! When I got home, I still had 3 exposures left, so I shoved the camera into my fish tank and took pictures of my fish with it! Haha! Thanks Al <3

HOLIDAYING TO THE NORTH COAST WITH MY BESTIES! Alison, Jade, Rach and I went up to the north coast to join Jack, Dan and Nathan at Alex Heads for a few days! It was SO great. I didn't want to come home and I wish I could've stayed longer. I had alot of fun swimming in the ocean, the multiple pools at the resort, hanging out with my mates, drinking, running around and going shopping with my lovelies :D Best three days everrr.

USING MY DIGITAL CAMERA TO DEATH WHILST ON HOLIDAYS! I took about 560 shots on my Panasonic Lumix whilst on holidays. It was hilarious fun and some of them are actually really cool. I've put a few photos from the trip into this blog for your enjoyment!

SHOPPING WITH MY THREE FAVE GIRLS ALL AT ONCE! Al, Rach, Jd and I went shopping for 5 hours the second day we were at Alex Heads, cos it was raining. I had suuuuuuch a great day (until I starting feeling really really ill, but nevermind) it was such fun. I bought lots of things too. But they're getting their own spot in my TiLT list.

MY NEW DRESS, SKIRT AND SHORTS, PLUS JEWELLERY AND MAKE UP! As I said before, shopping was greaaaaaaat with my girls. I found this particular dress I've been drooling over on the internet at Forever21.com for aggges, and it was in Ally! For $25! So I bought it. I'm obsessed with it. I wore it last night :D

GETTING MARRIED TO DAN ON FACEBOOK! Hilarious, hilarious! One night on holidays we were all chatting aobut babies and marriage and who was dating who, and Dan and I were sitting next to each other, so we were all like: "We'll always have each other!" Then I propsed to Dan via facebook. Caused quite a large amount of hilariousness for the few days we were married on facebook. Unfortunately once I got back home I divorced Dan. We'll re-kindle our love on our next sexy beach holiday Dan.
*** Edit : Apparently Rachel told us to get married? I don't remember that but maybe yeah? I dunno. Point is, I proposed over Facebook.

BEING HOME ALONE! It's been in my TiLT lists before, but man, I LOVE IT SO FREAKING MUCH. I want to live alone so badly.

JACK SAYING I'VE CHANGED! For the better, of course. Jack said I'm more grown up but in a good way.. I dunno how cos I've always been the mother duck but I think he meant that I'm more open to things now. Which is great. Thanks Jackus <3

EVERYTHING (WELL ALMOST) THAT MY THREE FAVE GIRLS SAY BEING ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! Jade, Al and Rach.. amn, you three float my boat and make me laugh like no one else can! Our three days up the coast were spent laughing, the whole time (pretty much). It was great.
Favourite quotes include:

"Shorncliffe is just like Strathpine.. but it's near the beach" - Jade when we were talking about suburbs we want to live in on the drive to the coast. you heard it here first.

"Wow, this car is so heavy... It's so full of ladies! It's at maximum lady capacity!" - Alison, again, on the drive up with Jd, Rach and I.

"Oh look, it's a van full of army men.." - Me. "OH SWEET! FLASH THEM YOUR TITS LOUISE! If I wasn't driving I would!" - Jade. LOL.

"You have one new relationship request.. *Clicks accept* You are now the spouse of louise Wright.. Wow.. now we're married!" - Dan. And continuing with the topic of love and marriage... "Yeah well, it's not rape if you are married!" *seedy glance at Lou* - Dan.

"Excuse me Alison, my clouds are in your vag." - Jade during craft hour in our resort room.

"Oh shit, my boob vibrated like 5 minutes ago and I didn't even realise!" - Alison likes to keep her phone in her bra alot.

"Are any of you with Optus? I have alot of Optus to Optus credit.." - Me. "I'M WITH OPTUS! YOU CAN CALL MY BOOB!" - Alison. Like I said, she keeps her phone in her bra.

"Just get in the fucking cupboard bitch!" - Jade. Alison was procrastinating about getting into the dark cupboard to change her film in her lomo.

Man, I wish I'd written more down but I didn't! SO HILARIOUS THOUGH. They probably make no sense to anyone else but they make me laugh SO MUCH.
There was also alot of in jokes about USBs. LOL. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV.

And that's the end of my TiLT!

Hello readers!Oh, wait - extra things that deserve a mention - chickos (the lolly kind), home made tacos, diet soft drinks for 23 cents, new bikinis that are zebra print and sun screen.

And, yet again I am sick. Oh yes.
I feel foul.
I'm going to bed.

THE END!
<3

Dan and Lou talk ideal girlfriends, I show you some of my RO photos.

2009-02-15T04:11:00.000-08:00

Hello bloggers!

This made me chuckle.
Dan and I, as per usual, chatting about relationships -

*~| on holidays... FUCK YEAH |~* sent 15/02/2009 10:06 PM:
i dont really mind relationships
L O U C H Λ Ƨ Υ says:
bleh.. they're lame.
*~| on holidays... FUCK YEAH |~* sent 15/02/2009 10:06 PM:
but people in general are shit
*~| on holidays... FUCK YEAH |~* sent 15/02/2009 10:07 PM:
pudding wud be my ideal gf
*~| on holidays... FUCK YEAH |~* sent 15/02/2009 10:07 PM:
its best when its hot, always tastes good and never is a bitch about anything
*~| on holidays... FUCK YEAH |~* sent 15/02/2009 10:07 PM:
and its sweet too.

Dan, you're hilarious.
Pudding would be a great girlfriend. Always smelling and tasting great, great to keep you cool in summer, will never say "I told you so" or "Don't drink that from the bottle"... and you can just put her in the fridge when you've had enough.
Lol.

I'm going on holidays for a few days tomorrow, so farewell internet land!
I'll have major withdrawl sysmptoms but my mates will keep me distracted I'm sure.
I'm a dork.

On a side note - Repeat Offender's last show,as I've mentioned, was amazing! I've chucked a few snaps I took on the night into this blog for you all to see. I'm still in awe from that night. RO are amazing.

Also - another web site Calum introduced me to - Got Wisdom! It's rather hilarious and true. Thanks for linking me to that one Calum!

Night all!
xx

ITC Day 13 - Update

2009-02-12T18:28:00.000-08:00

Hello my lovelies!

Just a quick update on my progress for the Icing Transformation Challenge -

I've been to the gym 4 times this week! GO ME! Three of which Jade was there with me! I went alone this morning... the gym was totally empty except for me. So weird but good!
So, I've been working my butt off at the gym for a grand total of 4 hours and 50 minutes THIS WEEK. GO ME.
The whole eating right thing isn't going that well, I've been kinda bad lately with the whole eating at regular intervals thing but oh well. I'll get there!

I've been going to the gym since January 14th! One whole month of gym-ing as of tomorrow. I've been 11 times since Jan 14th.. Including when I took a whole week off because I was sick. Haha.

Anywho!

I hope any of you who are reading this and are also doing the ITC are doing well too! We're almost at the half way mark! YEWWW!

That's all I wanted to say for now.
Read my TiLT. I put alot of effort into that. Haha.

Miss Gym-tastic
xx

TiLT - Week FOURTEEN!

2009-02-12T05:59:00.000-08:00

Hello regular blog readers and anyone else out there!

Welcome to WEEK FOURTEEN of my regular TiLT-ing!

Here's the random bunch of things that I'm loving this week (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) -

- This comment from Jade: "I know it sounds bad, but I just don't want to smell like an Indian woman" totally random, we were talking about perfume though. I laughed my ass off. Had to be there I guess.

- REPEAT OFFENDER. OH MAN. I love them so freaking much. Their last show ever was last night, it was epic. I got a new cd, the set list from Ryan, a drum stick from Dane and a group photo with the lot of them. It was an epic show and they were so wonderful when they played. I'm still in awe. I can't believe they're over and yet still so amazing. It was also really lovely to catch up with my regular RO girls - Manda, KC, Larry, Ell and Renae! :) And nice to see Rachi too. Wicked funnn. Photo taken by me.

- Great great great friends who love me. Jade, Rach, Alison, Dan, Jack, Cal, Crystal, and Caitey in particular this week. Man you all fricking rock. Thanks for having me over last night Rachi! The photo is of Dan, Jack and I with Narelle's bras on our heads, taken by Al. Hahahahaa.

- Getting mail from Griffith twice and QUT once! Crazy insane. I have so much mail. All the mail from Griffith is completely overwhelming to the point where I want to explode, but it's exciting too.

- New cds! I got three last night - Vincent, Artic, and RO. YAY NEW BRISBANE MUSIC. FUEL FOR MY OBSESSION.

- An Horse and Sparkadia posters stolen from The Zoo. It's becoming a habit. I stole a Sparkadia poster from the ladies toilets. I'm total class.

- TAKING PHOTOS OF EVERYTHING. Photos from work of people and animals and our new stock, photos from RO's last show, and like.. everything. I've been obsessed for ages and my obsession is growing. Everything is interesting and I want to photograph it. Colours and shapes are interesting, so is live music and animals and people and omg fashion. I'm in love.

- Continuing on in talking about mail from Griffith, enlosed in a big "Welcome to the Bahcelor of Photography" package, there was a letter about Photography CAMP. I'm going to go on ART CAMP. WTF MATE. I'm excited, but like man, 6 years of BAND camp at high school and now I'm going to ART camp at Uni, like, what?!

- Drunk nights with close friends. Monday night at Dan's was hilarious. Thanks for coming Catiey! <3 Sorry about your phone man.

- Saturday night at Narelle's! NICE TO MEET YOU NARELLE. I THINK YOU'RE COOL. Jade played with fire alot. Hense the photo, I stole it from Narelle's facebook, the photo was too brilliant not to steal. Haha.

- Getting into gear for uni! Just continuing on with all this Griffith madness, they also sent me a list of the things I need to buy. I'm mega excited, but I'm going to be flat broke for a very, very long time.

- OUT OF THE BLUE PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM DANE THANKING ME FOR SUPPRTING AND WORKING WITH RO ALL THIS TIME. Freaking made my day, so much. THANKYOU DANE AND THANKYOU RO. <3

- Continuing on with the chat about RO - Playing RO on 99.7fm radio with Jade tonight! Man, it was so great, I love going to radio with Jade, and I love RO. Best combination ever. The photo is of me and RO from last night.

-Mario teaches us about relationships. Thankyou Calum, this is HILARIOUS!

- Random people adding me on facebook that are friends of friends and fans of RO. Man, you are cool. And you complimented me, like, wow.

-This and anddd this in particular. FML rocks and sucks all at once. Good if you want to be shallow and laugh at other people’s troubles to cheer you up. Some weird shit happens to people. Thanks to Cal for recommending it to me, haha. Just click the first link and see.

Ok I'm done TiLTing now.
I've realised the list this week is very RO and Griffith focused. Haha.
Oh well!

Until next time!
xx

A roof top crow's nest in a sea swell, oh yes I can see so well.

2009-02-07T23:26:00.000-08:00

Good evening bloggers!

I'm in an odd mood, I had an odd weekend... and it's REALLY hot! Gah!
Bad shift at work on saturday, fun times saturday night and today is kind of bland.
And, I'm STILL sick. Runny nose just won't quit. It's driving me nuts.

I'm kinda failing at the ITC, like, alot. Being sick I haven't done much, and haven't been going to the gym much at all. Annnd I've been eating not good foods. I suck. Lol. Next week will be better, I swear. Gym tomorrow. And lots of fresh fruit and veg is in order. Yes ma'am.

I've been slowly starting to update my DeviantArt account, I've got over 200 deviations on there and my galley is a mess, I'm trying to sort it out. It's SO time consuming trying to sort everything out and delete all the junk deviations! Gah! You can check out my stuff HERE if you like.

On another note I really want a dress that's like a tank top/singlet at the top with a scooped neck line, then a skirt on the bottom. They're everywhere at the moment and I want one of my own so badly!

Howl - by Louchasy on Polyvore.com

I'm now Polyvore obsessed. I'm getting better at it I think. This is my most recent set I've made.. wolf inspired! I like it. Polyvore is so vain but so so so addictive!

So, apart from all this sickness, lack of exercise and internet obsessions, I've just been working lots and writing to do lists. There's so many things I need to do that I just keep putting off. Examples include: sanding and re-painting my bedroom wall, getting ready for uni, gettting my green p plate license, tiding out my whole room.. Etc. Bleh. Not enough hours in a day to do all these things as well as work, go to the gym and have a social life!
Things are going to be nuts when Uni goes back.. I'm so used to doing what I like when I like and not really having to be up at any particular time - Uni is going to be hard to adjust back into I think.

In other news, things I'm looking forward to are as follows: Repeat Offender's last ever gig this wednesday, GOING AWAY TO THE NORTH COAST FOR THREE DAYS with some of my most favourite people in a few weeks, Josh Pyke concert in a few weekends, and Brittish India two days before that, then, the week after all of those things I've got O week at Uni, then the week after that CLASSES start! Oh my gosh.
Where have all my holidays gone?!
Seems like it was November only yesterday, and now it's almost March! SCARY.

Anywho, I don't have much else to say for now! I'm going to go to bed!
Until next time faithful readers (how many of you are there anyway? I wish there was some magical way I could find out who every single person was that read my blog!)
<3

p.s The blog title is some song lyrics from An Horse. I'm in mega love with them, and The Paper and The plane (but that's nothing new.)

TiLT - WEEK THIRTEEN!

2009-02-04T18:50:00.000-08:00

Hello blog readers!

I've been sick for exactly one week now, it's driving me nuts.
I'm getting better now but I have zero energy and zero motivation to do anything. I'm quite happy to sit around in my pjs and do nothing all day today.
Yep.

Nevertheless, here's the things I'm loving this week -

- FANTASTIC OUTINGS TO THE ZOO. I had a brilliant time at The Zoo last night, An Horse and The Paper and The Plane were FANTASTIC! Jd and Rach and I went, and Alison and Claire and Simon were there and a few other people we knew! I love it when there's lovely people in unexpected places! And I bought An Horse's new cd, I'm loooooving it! And I bought a Paper and The Plane tshirt for only $10, becuase Mr Lead singer of The Paper and The Plane who was selling their merch didn't know how much his own tshirts were for sale for. Hahahahaa.

- WRITING LISTS AND WHATNOT. I have a habit of writing lists everyday. And my 101 things in 1001 days list is coming along nicely, I've done/started about one third of the things on the list, which is a pretty great acheivement I think. I'm proud of me.

- GOING TO RADIO WITH JADE! I mentioned it in last week's TiLT - I went to radio with Jade and had super fun times. I'm going again tonight and I'm excited, mostly cos I get to spend time with one of my favourite people <3

- NEW THINGS! I treated myself a few days ago to a little bit of shopping! I bought loads of cute new Bonds underwear, an eyelash curler, make up remover and loads of Powerade. Weird combination of items but I wanted them all so there. Buying things is pretty fun.

- ORGANISING MY UNI ENROLLMENT AND O WEEK AT GRIFFITH! I've done my timetable and my o week schedule, wooh! Well, I've done as much of my timetable as I can for the moment, they've messed up one of my classes - Modernism and Post Modernism, and it clashes with one of my other tutorials. Oh well. They'll fix it. Anywho, I'm super nervous and excited all at once. I've also realised there's like eleventy million things I don't know about photography and cameras. I'm keen to learn.

- Honourable mentions - powerade, strawberry milk, vanilla yogurt, new music, stealing posters from The Zoo, wearing my converse boots, putting fabric bows I've made in my hair, and making plans to dye my hair crazy colours.

My list isn't very long this week because I've been sick since last thursday so all I've done pretty much is sleep, blow my nose, see Jade and go to work.

I'm desperate to do something to my hair, colour-wise. I want it to be maroon/red with flamingo pink chunks. Oh yes. It will happen. Soon.

Hope you all had a fab week!
The end!
Love from snot face
xx

ZEBRA!

2009-02-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

ZEBRA LOVE - by Louchasy on Polyvore.com

I've loved zebras since forever. I think they're really cool. I adore that hoodie! And it does have blue and pink on it if you look really closely, I didn't just add pink and blue into the set randomly. Anyway, pink and yellow go nicely together I think. I like this set I made on Polyvore. I would actually use/wear all of this stuff, oh yes! The hiptop with the zebra cover would be wicked cool. Oh so scene but I love it, hehe.

I don't really feel like writing much else.
I'm in an organising mood, sorting out my affairs and such.
Writing things in my diary, thinking about what's happening in this month.
I like writing to do lists. I write them everyday.
Tomorrow's list is huge.
I have alot of my mind and alot to do.
And, to top it all off, I'm still sick.

Oh and today is day one of the iCiNG Transformation Challenge. Read yesterday's post for more info. I'm too sick to exercise today but I'm at least making conscious decisions about what I'm eating, and I'm drinking lots of water.
Go me.

The end.
xx

iCiNG TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE!

2009-01-31T03:51:00.000-08:00

I got that picture from here. It's random but kinda fitting and I like it.

So, as I've mentioned before, 2009 (or 2000-and-devine as Gala says) WILL be the year of change for me.
And, to kick off this time of change in an official way I'm actually going to commit myself to something and stick to it (as best I can - no one's perfect!) for a whole month.
This thing I'm committing myself to is the "iCiNG TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE!". Something that Gala has started on her site iCiNG for the month of February - A way to help oneself on the road to self improvement, by setting some goals for the month and sticking to them.

My goals for the ITC (iCiNG TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE) are as follows:
1. EAT HEALTHY. No more random snacks or junk food, especially when I'm not hungry. No eating after 9 or 10pm! I always get the munchies late at night and it never ends well. Aim to eat fruit and vege everyday (I've been REALLY terrible lately and my body has paid for that) and overall just aim to eat less crap and instead eat things that are actually good for me. I do enjoy fruit and vege alot so it shouldn't be hard, it's more about me being lazy than anything else. This also includes drinking enough water. I'm usually pretty good and drink a litre or two every day but agian, I've been slack lately.
2. GO TO THE GYM AT LEAST 3 TIMES PER WEEK FOR ONE HOUR OR MORE EACH TIME. I've already started this with Jade but I want to continue it for as long as I can. I SO desperately want to be FIT and FLEXIBLE! I'm young, I shold be able to touch my toes!
3. KEEP TRACK OF IT ALL AND DON'T LOOSE FOCUS. To help with this I'm doing to create a food diary of what I eat each day, to keep track of things. I'll blog about it occaisonally too.

So, this is my plan.

My support systems -
1. Food diary
2. Blog it! And re-read this original ITC blog to keep myself motivated
3. Friends and family! Especially fellow ITC challengers and my dearest Jd and Rach.

Overall goals -
1. Learn to love myself
2. Gain self confidence
3. Get fit and flexible
4. Loose weight
5. MAINTAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Now you all know my inner goals and problems, but oh well.
I figure if I diarise this in the real world on my blog instead of solely in a diary it might actually motivate me to stick to it all.

So even tohugh I'm sick as a dog right now (have been since thursday) with a head cold/stomach flu type thing, as of tomorrow I will start to look after myself today. I kinda kick started it today by drinking like 2 litres of water and eating oranges and mangoes, even though I'm all sick and gross and can't breathe through me nose. Go me.

SO, WISH ME LUCK!
FEBRUARY STARTS TOMORROW AND SO DOES THE iCiNG TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE!
GET SET, GO!
xx

p.s Gala's made a bunch of badges that link to her site, they're super cute - this is one of many she's made that I like! She made them so we can post them places so people know we're participating in the ITC! :)

Oh, Deer.

2009-01-30T04:13:00.000-08:00

Oh Deer - by Louchasy on Polyvore.com

I'm growing to love Polyvore more and more.
I'm getting better.
I was thinking about deers when I made this one. Notice the antler hand bag.
And purple is always a fave so yah.

I feel like crap. Being sick is a waste of time.
I'm going to bed.
x

TiLT -Week Twelve

2009-01-28T17:41:00.001-08:00

Hello blog readers!

Here's what I'm loving this week -
(the list is a tad short but whatever!)

AUSTRALIA AND TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100 DAY - Spending Australia day with Jack and Al in Jack’s pool listening to Triple J’s countdown on the radio at mega loud volume was brilliant. Fun times were had by all, even if I did get just the tiniest bit sun burnt! It was a great day and then Dan came over, I made everyone nachos and it was just great. Love you three!

THIS COMPLIMENT -
shadowfax1007@gmail.com sent 27/01/2009 6:44 PM:
your blog makes me want to blog
Made me feel pretty special. Thanks Cal! The photo is Cal. He's totally sniffing my hair. Lol.

MY DOG ZERREN - Being greeted at the door by my excited ZeZe after a dull shift at work last night was so lovely. Zerren was the most excited member of my family to have me home, including the people members of my family. I love you Zerren.

FOOD! Particularly strawberry milk, fetta, bread and mangoes. I love food. I love eating. It’s really great. Strawberry Nesquik is wonderful!

JADE – In particular this week - Mango smoothies, going to radio, randomly driving around, visits to Tattoo shops and most importantly, GYM sessions! So many great times J I love you Jade.

HOME ALONE - Being home alone is pretty much one of my favourite things. It’s great at the moment, Mum and Dad are both back at full time work, Hayden’s gone back to school and it’s just me, my dogs and my fish at home. I love it. No one hassles me about anything and I can do things at my own speed and sleep in til 9am everyday. It’s so brilliant. I don’t want it to end when I have to start going to uni.

TATTOOS! I’ve been wanting to get mine done for ages. I’ve got money to get it done kindaly donated by Cal and Crystal, and I’ve got most of the design done. Jade took me to a lovely tattoo shop yesterday (check it out here) so now I know where I’m going to get my tattoo done… Just need to finish the design and make it perfect!

NOSE PORE STRIP TIHNGYS – Jade gave me one to use and OMG it worked! I’m gonna go buy some to use on a regular basis! Yesss! Thanks Jadey! No more black heads for me! Oh yes!

FACEBOOK – I used to hate it, but now I’m addicted. I check it everyday. Haha. I hate the stupid applications and how you can see everyone’s wall comments to everyone else on your home page but overall it’s pretty great!

CRYSTAL! Went to her place with Cal last week for her birthday bbq, I had a great time. I love Crystal and her house is gorgeous! I felt really at home. J Hope your trip to Bali was lovely girl!

MY GIRLS! Spending saturday with Rach and Jd swimming at the Lawnton Pool was so nice. And then going to radio and hanging out there with my girls and Wilko, then picking Tom up and going back to Jade’s for pizza! I wasn’t in the best mood but I did have a great day all the same J Love you girls.

MORE NEW MUSIC - This week I'm digging Laura Marling and Fleet Foxes, thanks to Wilko! I want Hot Chip next, Bon Iver and Cloud Control! I want too much music. I like to much music. It's so great!

And last but not least – An honourable mention goes to my aqua nail polish! I love it. It’s sparkly. Pretty sure I’ve put it in a TiLT list before but whatever. I put it on again last night and I love it.

The end!
Hope you all had a great week!
<3

TiLT - Week Eleven!

2009-01-21T04:41:00.000-08:00

Morning blog readers and welcome to week 11 of my TiLTs!

Things I'm loving this week -
(Most of these things over lap but whatever!)

- THE BIG DAY OUT. See my blog from the other day. I had such a wonderful BDO, it was my 4th one I've been to in a row and I cna't thanks Jade enough for taking me to my first one back in 2006. It's always such a great day and this year was no exception!

- AWESOME WEEKENDS IN FABULOUS HOTELS! Our hotel for the BDO weekend was amazing! It was meant to be twin share but could easily have housed several families of people. It was nuts. Two bathrooms, three balconies, two bedrooms, total bliss.

- SPENDING TIME WITH FRIENDS IN A HOTEL WITHOUT PARENTS. Eating pizza and watching lame old videos on Max with Dan and Rach was rad core. I love them.

- NEW MUSIC! I looooove music and I love new music even more! This week I'm into Whitley! Hot chip! Modest mouse! Little red! And I got about 1.3gb of new music from Sarah at work, we traded music via her external hard drive. Way cool.

- GREAT FRIENDS. I'm in love with my mates. All of them, and they know who they are. Like seriously, I love you all so much. And spending the BDO with some of you was so much fun :)

- ENROLLING FOR CLASSES AT GRIFFITH! It's so weird yet exciting and frustrating all at once. My timetable is a mess but I'm going to be doing photography so I'll be happy!

- SOY THINGS! Soy crisps, chips, milk.. I love it all. I'm nom nom noming on soy crisps right now. Yay!

- NEW DRESS FROM MOMBASA! $60 down to $19! It's cute and has pockets and is made of cotton! I'll post a picture.. eventually.

- BUMMING AROUND WITH JADE. Watching Gilmore Girls and eating random things with Jade is great. She's great. Get well soon baby!

- SENDING LOTS OF TEXT MESSAGES ALL THE TIME! It's so awesome cos I have lots of credit and don't have to worry about getting a giant bill at the end of the month! Thankyou optus!

- CAT EARS, HEAD BANDS AND BOWS! Rachel made me some cat ears, they're lime greena nd black and super cute. I love them. I also have bought alot of head bands lately and started making my own bows with some initial instruction from Rachel! EXCITING.

- MATT, KASSIE AND ALISON! They're all great and I had them all over my place the other day and we all just sat around and chatted and listened to music. Fun times :)

- USING TRIPLE J NEWS TO TELL THE TIME. I've been listening to JJJ for a few years now and I love using the news to tell the time, specially when driving, cos I don't wear a watch. Random but aweeesome. Yep.

- RAIN. God damn I love it. It's raining right now. Smells and sounds so good.

- THIS EMAIL:

"Just to drop a note to say how much I enjoyed reading your BDO review!

I’ve been researching all day for BDO bands and your blog popped into google.. what a great writer you are!
(and great music taste too!)

2009 is definitely a great year to do great things! Good luck with your photography course.

Best Wishes
Jane Gazzo
Presenter - Channel [V]"

I just about fell off my chair when I read that email at work, for the sheer fact that someone would email me just to tell me they liked my blog. I then almost fell off my chair when I realised who it was that had emailed me! JANE GAZZO FROM CHANNEL V! AMAZING. I WATCH HER ON TV AND SHE EMAILED ME OUT OF THE BLUE. Amazing amazing. Made my day.

I think that's all for my TiLT for this thursday!

I'm listening to Triple J and Dr Karl just said people up to the age of 21 need 10 hours of sleep every night. Not 8. Interesting! Thanks Dr Karl!

Ok enough blogging now! I need to go wash my car and clean out my fish tank! Oh yes!

Love from Ms Wright
xx

Farewell Rocketship

2009-01-20T02:29:00.000-08:00

Hello blog readers! (I keep finding out there's actually alot more of you than I first thought, which is amazing. The fact that anyone would want to read my blog is wonderful, the fact that people want to read it more than once is inspiring! Thankyou all, really, really.)

So, this weekend just gone was the weekend of the Big Day Out.
I tell you, I had the best day ever. I spent it with some of my most favourite people, I got to see alot of bands I'd been wanting to see for ages, I didn't get sun burnt or dehydrated and I didn't even spend much my money! And I ate Govinda's! (nom nom nom!) Overall, the day was a SUCCESS!

I saw so many bands this year, I really packed them in - Sparkadia, Children Collide (so rad, Farewell Rocketship remains my fave song of theirs, hense the blog title), BIRDS OF TOKYO (WHO WERE AMAZING), The Grates, Little Red (WHO I WAS SOOOO IMPRESSED BY! AMAZING HARMONIES MAKE ME MELT.), The Ting Tings (who I thought would be really dull but were actually pretty good!), Pendulum (Jade and I danced alot), I Heart Hiroshima (love!), Cut Copy (always good, even if I was sitting down for half of it), and finally Hot Chip (again, more dancing). So much amazing music! So many good times, so much amazing music, so many wonderful friends! <3
I had a really great day!

Good thing about this year was that everyone (bar Wilko) was over 18! We all got our 18+ wristbands and it was wicked rad. I even came up with the phrase "With our powers combined, together we are ADULTS!" (or something similar) when Dan, Rach and I were sitting around talking about the wristbands after the BDO. I said the phrase then we all smacked out wrists together. Lol. Kinda had to be there I suppose :P

The whole weekend was great. Spent it with some brilliant people whom I lurrrve. Watching tv and eating pizza with Dan and Rach was so great. Chilling with Jade, Rach, Dan and Wilko after the BDO was so sweet too. And mine and Rachel's holiday resort was AMAZING. It was meant to be twin share but the place was huge! So many beds and balconies and bathrooms! Haha! It was the Taj Mahal of the Gold Coast. Can't wait to do it all again in 2010! (Feels weird saying 2010.. it's NEXT year! Woah!) The photo to the left is our hotel. It was nuts.

Quick polaroid photo montage! From the weekend! YAY!

Moving on from the big day out to other thoughts that have been running through my head of late - These things are more um... serious?
I've had alot of people telling me I'm pretty great lately, like, people generally tell me these things and I don't believe them but it's been happening ALOT lately. I've never ever thought of myself as great, amazing, pretty, nice, kind, approachable, sweet, gentle, cute, adorable or anything remotely similar to any of those things. Also that I'm really well proportioned apparently?! And people've also been saying I'm normal and likeable but also really unique. Weird but not too weird. Etc etc. I find it odd. I don't think I'm those things. I'm mostly just I giant dork I think. Ok well, a huge dork. Haha.

And, seeing as it's now 3 weeks into 2009, I thought I should do a little reflecting on my goals for the year and thinking about the changes I've made or am going to make. Just so I don't forget.
This year I'm trying to be more open, and have more control of my life at the same time.
I'm going to learn to make decisions because I want to, and not care about what others think.
I also will learn to say no to people when I want to.

2009 will be the year of change. The year I try to learn to start loving myself.
The year I start to try to like how I look.
The year I say no to things and start leaving some baggage behind.
The year I actively choose who I spend my time with, and make an effort to surround myself only with those whom make me feel good.
I'm cutting the shit out of my life, starting now.

I've started to change and will continue to. Like it or lump it.
I don't really know who I am entirely as a person yet, but I'm getting there, slowly.
Some people have noticed and apparently I've changed for the better. So there you go.

Ok enough seriuosness.

I had a brillaint weekend.
Farewell Big Day Out! Cannot wait until BDO 2010!

Love from Little Miss Pipe-Dream Fantasy
xx

p.s Thanks to Jade and Cal who said I make them feel really proud of me. I'm changing and they both love it and I love them for loving it.

p.p.s I got into Photography at Griffith for this year! YAY!

POLYVORE!!!

2009-01-15T16:29:00.000-08:00

Hullo all!

I finally made myself a POLYVORE account!

Here's my first three sets I've made -

Save the Unicorns! by Louchasy

Puss in Boots by Louchasy

The Colour Purple by Louchasy

I like the purple one alot.
I'll get better at making them, I'm sure.
Hehe.

That's all I wanted to post for now!

Louise
xx

TiLT - Week TEN!

2009-01-15T04:40:00.000-08:00

Things I’m loving this Thursday.. (there’s a lot!)

- NEW PHONE NEW PHONE NEW PHONE!I finally got a new phone and it’s wicked awesome and I love it. It’s a Nokia 3120 and doesn’t flip or slide. Brilliant.
IT’S GOT BLUE TOOTH AND I CAN PUT MY MICRO SD IN IT AND I’VE GOT AWESOME CREDIT AND I CAN RING PEOPLE ON OPTUS AND I’VE GOT LOSTS OF TEXTS TO USE UP AND ITS AN MP3 PLAYER SO THE MUSIC SOUNDS WICKED AWESOME AND I’M SUPER HAPPY ABOUT IT AND IT HAS A NICE BIG SCREEN.
I LOVE MY NEW PHONE.

- Belated birthday celebrations and presents! Saturday night was WONDERFUL. I spent it with all my favourite people celebrating my birthday a few weeks late and it was so great! (That rhymes! Lol!) But yes, very fun. We had dinner and went clubbing! And I got some great presents! Two of my fave people gave me money to pay for my tattoo! I just about died when I opened their cards! So generous! And I got cds and pens and nose studs from other people! I felt so special! And I got lots of hugs and some friends even bought me jugs of drinks at the Embassy. So great. Great great great night out! I feel so lucky to have so many lovely friends <3 I LOVE YOU ALL.

- The Embassy and The Planet! See the above dot point! Great clubs! I had lots of fun! I wanna go to both again, soon!

- I bought myself some dark silver liquid glitter eyeliner! It’s wicked. I got it from Sports girl for $10! I’ve wanted more glitter in my life and on my face for ages and now I can have that! Woo!

- Today I bought glittery fake eyelashes for $3.50. They’re gorgeous and I’m excited. They even came with eyelash glue! Boo yah! Bargain! I’ll wear them next time I go somewhere nice.

- Continuing with the make up theme.. I finally got my Lime Crime! It’s amazing and SO glittery. Love! And, like I said, I love glitter. Next time I go out I’m going to be so glittery people will think I’m some sort of human disco ball. It’s going to be great.

- This one’s by far one of the most important ones on my TiLT list this week - Getting into my uni course for 2009! I GOT IN TO BACHELOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT GRIFFITH FOR THIS YEAR! I CAN’T BELIEVE I GOT IN! I’M FINALLY GOING TO BE DOING PHOTOGRAPHY AT UNI! I’M SO SO SO EXCITED AND SO SO SO NERVOUS! WHEEEEE! (The picture to the left is one Rach took of me taking a photo at Trial Kennedy last week)

- Did I mention I got a new phone that works and does cool stuff? PHONE PHONE PHONE PHONE PHONE YAY.

- GOING TO THE GYM WITH JADE. OH MAN. IT’S SO GREAT! We’ve been 3 times already! Going again tomorrow! I will be fit and actually like myself soon! Yess! Best decision I’ve made this year was to join the gym and start going regularly with Jade. I love it.

- TRIAL KENNEDY! Saw them live for the first time last Friday night! They were so great live, even if the dudes in the front row kinda blocked our view for half the set. Trial Kennedy were brilliant live, and I was there with some of my most favourite people which made it even more rad! Can’t wait to see TK when they come back in March with Birds of Tokyo! (The picture to the left is from TK)

- Wicked hand me down head phones! Alison gave me her collapsible Skull Candy head phones because my ears are that tiny I can’t really use the in ear ones or the normal ipod ones like any other person. These Skull Candies are SO GREAT. They collapse so I can take them on the train and aww man I love them. THANKYOU ALISON! A LOT! <3

- Photo shoots! On Monday just gone I did my first ever PAID photo shoot! It went awesomely and I’m really proud of myself. It was for a mate I’ve known since pre-school, she writes her own music and sings. Check her out here, and you can see my photos! - The photos are on Chloe’s myspace, facebook and are going to be on other various music and venue websites, as well as The Powerhouse advertisements for her gig there!

- Mango smoothies. Jade made me a kick arse mango smoothie today. It was so yummy! NOM NOM NOM. I want another one!

- Ribbon and head bands! This week I bought ribbons from Spotlight and head bands and I’m going to cover the head bands in pretty ribbons and add bows. Sounds weird but I’m excited. Custom head bands for me, oh yes.

- $9 shoes! Best bargain I’ve gotten this week! They were rduced from $35 and they’re little black flats with bows on them. I’ll wear them out when I don’t wanna wear heels. They’re sure cute, good find Jadey! <3

- LITTLE RED! CITY AND COLOUR! KAISER CHEIFS! THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT! I’ve gotten 4 new cds in the past week! Exciting! I’m addicted to City and Colour SO FREAKING MUCH. I can have it on repeat for hours and don’t get sick of it. It’s so melodic and gorgeoussss!

- LOMOLITOS! I finally got my lomo photos developed! THEY’RE GORGEOUS! Not all of them turned out but the ones that did are so cuteeee. I’ll scan them and upload them soon. Exciting!

- RANDOM PRESENT FROM DAD: Smirnoff Triple Distilled Vodka! ONE WHOLE LITRE OF THE STUFF. It’s SO strong and super duper alcoholic. He was all like: Make sure you do it in shots, but also make sure you have small shots cos it’s twice as strong as regular vodka! I’m like: SWEAT DEAL. THANKS DAD! He got it duty free coming back from his NZ holiday. Yewwww.

Life is pretty darn good right now.
(Apart from the fact that I'm so insanely poor... lol. I need to be like Rachel and go on a shopping ban!)
THE ENDDDD!
<3

Random photos from the week (all the photos in this blog are from friday and saturday nights) -

Sam Malone

2009-01-12T05:42:00.000-08:00

Hello blog readers!

I felt like blogging, so here I am.. sitting at my desk at a quater to midnight, tapping away at the keyboard whilst listening to City and Colour through my collapsable Scull Candy headphones I got from Alison. Thanks Al <3
God I love these head phones, and City and Colour.

City and Colour are so soothing for my soul. And at the same time they make me want to sing out loud so badly. Even though I don't know all the words to every song (yet) they make me want to sing, and sing loudly, so much. And some of the songs make me sad too.
It's a giant emotional road trip, but I adore them and their melodic songs and their brilliant lyrics. Sam Malone would probably be my fave song of theirs, or The Girl, or Waiting, or Sleeping Sickness. I want City and Colour in my ears. All the time. I want them in my blood. Everywhere. They're so so so lovely.
Thanks for buying me the album Dan <3 I can't get enough of it.

In other news, I did my first paid photography shoot today (other than my puppy portraits and the shots I took for the Lung Cancer foundation) - It was pretty neat. I love playing photographer and working with the settings on my camera and the natural light and everything.
So wonderful. I want to do it as a career so badly. I'd love to be a fashion photographer. Or a band photographer. Or just a photographer in general.
I need my own photography website I think. "Louise Wright : Freelance Photographer".
Haha.
A girl can dream!

Speaking of photography, I found out if I've gotten into my course at the end of the week. I'm rather nervous. I want to get in so badly, but at the same time I'm SO petrifed. What if I get in and then suck at it? What if my natural skills can only get me so far and everyone else is way more creative than me?!
And as well as this, I'm scared of leaving QUT, sure, I don't enjoy QUT that much but I've made some AMAZING friends there and I don't want to leave them. Plus the art department and all is teachers and helpers are so great. I miss Mike and Sturt.
And then, what if I don't even get into photography, I'll have to stay at QUT and do Fine Arts?! Sure, it'd be fun but ugh. I doubt it would get me anywhere. I'd become an even more giant art num than I already am. Lol.
Moving on.

Dan says I'm "as easy as pie" when it comes to getting boys to like me.
Random but made me giggle.
Dan says nice things unexpectedly.
I LOVE YOU DAN.

Another random side note - I LOVE CAITEY FROM WORK. SHE'S HOT... AND SHE KNOWS IT.
I love our stupid web cam conversations. And I wish her heart wasn't so broken, love hurts.
Poor bub.

Anywho. Moving on to something more substantial in blogger terms.. Umm.. I'm feeling really materialistic lately. To display this strong feeling of materialistic-ness I put some of the things I'm loving the most at the moment into a nice arrangement on my desk and took a photo. Cos I'm weird like that. It's like my own personal Polyvore picture. (Reminds me, I NEED to creat a Polyvore account asap!)

So here's the picture:

In the picture I've got :
- 2009 diary covered in photocopied art by Karl Kwasny
- NEW mobile phone! Nokia 3120! I'M IN LOVE.
- Purple Kit nail polish
- Scull Candy collapsable head phones from Alison
- New cds - City and Colour from Dan and Kaiser Cheifs from James
- Random square bracelet I've had for ages and still love.. from.. I don't know where I got it from. It cam in a set of about five, all black but different shapes.
- My love: Canon 450D SLR. Need I say more?
- LOMOLITOS! The dispoable lomo Al got me for my birthday! I've used up all 24 shots, now I need to ge tit developed.
- Pastel gel pens. Bought like 8 of them in all different colours when I first starteduni this time last year. I still love them all alot and use them alot alot
- NEW Starry Eyed liquid glitter eye liner from Sports girl! I love it! $9! Woo!
- Shiny Licious lip gloss by Maybelline... got it for $3 on sale. I adore it. Wooh!
- My fave mascara. Rimmel "Volume Flash" It's mousse and great.
- NEW sterling silver hoop earings! Bought with a gift card form my auntie for my birthday! They make me feel kinda pirate-esk but I love themmm.

Ok enough consumerism for now.

On to other things.. like me realising how wonderful ALL my friends are. Went out saturday night with lots of uni, school, internet and ranodm other friends and it was great.
Made me realise how lucky I am. I love you all. Really, really, really.
=]
I also realised on saturday night some people are really petty, and if they're gonna get all antsy over me not inviting them out clubbing well then they don't deserve to be invted I don't think.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Hah.

Anywho.
I think I'm done spasmodically blogging for now.
I feel good writing a non-TiLT blog!
Woooh!
And it's now 1am.
I need sleep.

Goodnight world.
xx

p.s I'm proud of Rachel for being happy lately. And her new cow boy boots are hot. And I miss Jade. We need more gym sessions, asap.

TiLT - WEEK NINE!

2009-01-08T03:01:00.000-08:00

Hello blog readers!

I’m loving a lot this week, here’s my list -

Sunset Sounds! It was a really great day and I had funnn. Going with Jade and Dan was wicked cool also. AND ZOMG TEGAN AND SARA! THE KOOOOOOKS! ANDDDDDD THE CAT EMPIRE! MADE ME SO HAPPY. I was literally buzzing after The Cat Empire, they’re that great. Also the cookies and lemonade they sell at festivals is always a win.

Giving away A LOT of clothes! Ok so we all know I have a giant wardrobe that’s splitting at the seams, well, in the past few days I’ve started to sort through it all and get rid of some stuff. So far I’ve gotten rid of 22 items of clothing (about 70% only worn a minimal amount of times) as well as some hand bags I don’t use anymore and some shoes and belts. This is great in general cos it means my wardrobe isn’t going to explode quite as much, but it’s also great because the clothes I’ve given away have made a bunch of mum’s friends and their kids happy! And even better, giving away clothes makes room for new clothes THAT I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKE.

New clothes! FINALLY! So, kinda a continuation from the last bullet point but I BOUGHT NEW CLOTHES TODAY. I wrote a list and went to Chermside and shopped alone, then went back with mum a few hours later. I’ve not bought everything on my list yet, but I did buy two really cute skirts, a cute cute cute summer dress and a little cardigan thingy with crocheting on it today! I’m going to go to DFO to finish shopping with mum next week. Before today I hadn’t bought any clothes since September ’08, so this is exciting for me. The picture to the right features my new skirt. Can't really see if well but yeh, it's cute.. it's black, white, yellow, blue, green and pink. One of the most colourful things I own. I loveeee it.

Eyebrows! I finally went and got them waxed and tinted today! IT’S SO GREAT AND MY EYEBROWS ARE GORGEOUS NOW. No more caterpillar eyebrows for me, no sir. My eye brows are that great I even pinned my hair back and went out in public like that today!

Eye makeup! Jade did awesomecore sparkly eye makeup on me for Sunset Sounds, it was 3 shades of green and silver sparkles. So cool. I'm itching to get my hands on the Limecrime eye shadow I ordered and have a go at that!

Stars! I went to see them with Alison on Sunday night and they were wicked rad. I was suitably impressed by them. And their Canadian accents were kinda cute, haha! Good timesss. We also made friends with a guy named Paul who was really tall. Tall Paul was nice.

JOINING THE LOCAL PCYC WITH JADE! I’ve been wanting to get fit, loose weight and have some sort of regular exercise routine in my life for the last year or two, and now I’ve finally started that journey. Jade and I joined the local PCYC (for gym purposes, no blue light discos please!) today and then spent an hour sweating our hearts out in the gym. IT WAS AWESOME AND I WANT TO GO AGAIN. Nothing beats the feeling you get from exercising! All those happy endorphins! Sure, exercise is pain but it’s goooood pain. THANKYOU JADE.

EAR RINGS! I got a $30 Prouds gift voucher from my auntie for my birthday, so tonight I went into Prouds and came out with not one but TWO pairs of silver ear rings! They were having a sale and now I have nice new silver hoops and I loooove them. I got some little round studs too. YAY. I’ve missed not wearing hoops.

CUP CAKES! Jade made the most brilliant triple chocolate with vanilla flavoured icing cupcakes this week! They had sprinkles and were just delicious. Here's a photo too :) NOM NOM NOM. THANKS JD.

SUMO SALAD! Seriously, never had it before today but man it was good! You choose what size container you want and then they smush as many different kinds of salad as you want into the container! I got chicken and avocado salad, potato salad, pumpkin cous cous and also greek salad, all in the one container. SO GOOD AND CHEAP AND FILLING. Made me happy.

The guy who sold me my lemonade today. He was cute and friendly and had a lip piercing and nice eyes and a normal hair cut. So sweet. Nuff said.

Upcoming things I’m excited about that are on my mind and deserve a mention – Trial Kennedy tomorrow, dying my hair purple-y brown tomorrow, dinner and clubbing on Saturday night, shopping at DFO on Sunday, possibly doing a photo shoot (which I’m going to be PAID for) on Monday, going to the gym on Monday with Jade, tacos on Tuesday at the Alibi Room, annnnnnd Big Day Out next weekend!

Hope you all had a fabulous week!
Here's a picture of me. I wore pig tails the other day. Yup.
The end!
<3

p.s - Hi Sam. Long time no talk! Hope you and your cat are both ok.

Reflecting on 2008, quiz style.

2009-01-01T19:01:00.000-08:00

Best way to sum up my 2008...

1.What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Started and finished my first year of uni.
Drove home all the way from Bundaberg.
Had accommodation for the Big Day Out.
Went clubbing.
Got my nose pierced.
Got pet fish.
Went out drinking on week nights.
Skipped uni lectures to hang out with James or Cyrstal or Ali or Erin or Rach and Jd.
Bleached large chunks of my hair and had some of my hair melt as a result.
Hung out with my work mates outside of work and got drunk with them on a few occasions.
Helped with surgeries at work.
Had drinks with Matt from RO.
Didn’t have anyone sing happy birthday to me on my birthday, or have a cake of any kind.
Hung out with my twin Rach, a lot.
Worked Sundays at the vet on my own.
Started a new job at Choice Desserts.
Had my photos in an exhibition at uni!
Started planning my tattoo.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
My resolution was to get fit. That didn’t happen. Maybe in 2009… Haha.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A few people at work. But not really anyone close.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No people, no. My pet Siamese fighting fish died though. Poor Marley.

5. What countries did you visit?
None. I did go to Melbourne, Bundaberg and both Gold and Sunshine coasts though.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A fantastic boyfriend. A place in the Photography course at Griffith. Some semi-regular horse riding. Travel. Better dress sense.

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Oh man, so so so many! It’s be novel length if I went into detail so I’ll skim over some memorable dates - The Big Day out, seeing Kisschasy twice in a week, seeing The Grates on a boat, my first day of uni, seeing The Presets with Chris on my birthday, seeing Repeat Offender about a million times, (basically seeing every band I’ve seen this year, which is A LOT) going to Melbourne and seeing Wicked, my last day of uni, RO announcing their break up, being in the front row of Death Cab, (same goes for Kisschasy, Something with Numbers, Cat Empire, PATD, The Grates, The Living End, the list goes on...) having my photos on display in an exhibition at uni, my tsb being shortlisted for best tsb in 2008, getting my DSLR camera, my birthday day, JACK COMING HOME... etc.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Probably the end of semester two of uni. Doing assignments on the day they’re due is not a good idea. I still got pretty good marks but still. Un-needed stress. I thought I was going to fail. I’ll never do that to myself again.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Back pain, nothing new though. And I got really sick in early December for about a week.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My laptop, my Panasonic Lumix camera, my Canon 450D SLR, my multiple pairs of cons, my pet fishes.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
All of my close friends =] There’s lots of people, but Jade and Rach spring to mind mostly.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Let’s not go there. A few people.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Concert tickets, cds, bus fares, food, things for my dogs, petrol, board, phone bills! And car rego and insurance.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Pretty much all the things from question 7. Uni, concerts, seeing awesome friends, making new awesome friends.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Anything Repeat Offender, MGMT, The Presets, Lady Hawke, Trial Kennedy, Cut Copy, Birds of Tokyo or Kings of Leon.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder? Probably about the same. This time last year I was about to start uni and had just finished year 12. Weird. Now I’m about to start my second year of uni.
ii. Thinner or fatter? Fatter. Like 4kgs fatter.
iii. Richer or poorer? Poorer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Personal art. And exercise. AND HORSE RIDING. GOD I MISS IT.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Bad sleeping and eating patterns. Being not happy.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Spent it with mum’s side of the family for dinner. Wooh.

22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Not with a human no. Fell more in love with my dogs though.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
America’s Next Top Model, Gossip Girl!!!! Gilmore Girls, Scrubs. Haha.

25. Did you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Don’t hate but dislike yeh.

26. What was the best book you read?
The “His Dark Materials” trilogy.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Oh man, so many! Re-discovering Trial Kennedy was great, ummm Birds of Tokyo! Lady Hawke! Cut Copy! The Paper and The Plane, Angelas Dish, Numbers Radio… etc.

28. What did you want and get?
CHRISTINA AGUILERA PERFUME. Got it for xmas from mum. And I got my laptop and cameras! <3

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Oh man umm.. Fight Club’s a long time fave and still is haha. And Hard Candy was awesome. Juno. And lol Hairspray. And Twilight for it’s Edward Cullen-ness.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 19! Went to Never Ever Land with Chris. Then went to Rachel’s house. Pretty great.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Maybe finding someone to love? And going horse riding. Gosh.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Band tshirts and short shorts. All the time. I’m working on changing that.

34. What kept you sane?
Music. My fab school and uni friends. My dogs. Sleep.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Same as always – Jake Gyllenhaal. Heath Ledger. Matthew McConaughey. Karl from Kisschasy.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I tried my hardest to ignore all that. Probably all the issues with the whaling.

37. Who did you miss?
I had everyone I wanted around me most of the time. I do miss not seeing all my friends from school 5 days a week though.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
So many! James! Crystal! Erin! Kim! Frank! They’re probs the bestest of all the people I met this year.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
People aren’t always who they seem, and worrying about everything won’t fix anything. Also friends and money don’t mix.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:“Pick and pull apart leaving me split at the seam” – Birds of Tokyo.
Or “I’m just a suitcase” – RO.
Loads of others but those were the first to spring to mind.

The end.

p.s I've just realised the numbers of the questions don't match. There's a few numbers that are skipped. Haha. Weird.

p.p.s The photos are polaroids cos I downloaded this wicked rad program that makes your photos into polaroids. You can get it here.

TiLT - Week Eight

2009-01-01T00:52:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone!

Welcome to 2009!
Can't believe it's finally here.

Things I'm loving this thursday -

- Spending $84.95 at HJs on new years day. Way to start the year. We'll be re-telling that story for aaaaages, I can tell. Best part was the dirty looks the register chick gave us when we told her what we wanted to order. Haha. We are the kings of Hungry Jacks strathpine.

- Being with some of my fave people ever for NYE! Jaaaaaaaade, Rach, Al, Jack, Dan, Tom and Joe! =] Good times even if everyone does love to pay me out alot.

- Colourful drinks. I'm a huge fan of brightly coloured alcoholic drinks. Specially ones you mix yourself. Fruit tingles are the best. And anything with blue curacao. Hehe. =]

- Being rostered on for surgery on Wednesday and actually helping the vets with all the surgeries! It was WICKED AWESOME. We amputated a dog's leg because it's leg was full of cancer. And I helped with desexings and also a dental.

- Being able to use my new 2009 diary, covered in Karl Kwasney's art. Exciting!

- Reading Gala’s awesome posts from 30th Dec – 1st Jan, they were all SO inspiring, especially the "Things to do before 2009" one.

- Starting to sort through my clothes and get rid of a few.. kinda. I've already started, as of yesterday, trying to eleminate some of my massive collection of clothes. And I'm gonna give away some shoes too. And then I'm going to go to Myer and buy clothes I acutally like.

- Stars concert this coming Sunday, Sunset Sounds on Wednesday, Trial Kennedy next friday!

- Seeing everyone from school at Kyle’s party. Pretty hilarious. Made me realise how much I DO NOT miss most of the people I went to school with. Haha.

- Using Al’s fish eye lense and generally going nuts taking photos as per usual. So many good photos from the last week! I'm gonna add loads of photos into this blog. I almost made a blog entiredly of photos the other day, I've taken that many fun ones lately.

- SEEING TWILIGHT. CHEESY AND LAME WITH DODGY CAMERA WORK BUT EDWARD CULLEN IS A BABE. HE’S GORGEOUS AND HIS CHARACTER IS GREAT. I HAD A DREAM HE WAS MY BOYFRIEND. IT WAS SO GREAT. I WOKE UP SO HAPPY. And seeing it with my Caitey and Michelle from work was fun =]

- Reflecting back on the year that was 2008. Alot happend. Alot changed. Alot of things also didn't change. I've realised alot of things and grown as a person... and I'm looking forward to discovering 2009. More changes to come.

That’s pretty much it. Between xmas day and today hasen’t been too busy. Just going to work every day and hanging out with people. Wooh.

Happy New Year!
xxx

Use Somebody

2008-12-26T01:18:00.000-08:00

Hello blog readers!

I thought I'd actually write a non-tilt blog for once, even though I don't have much to say that I havn't already said in yesterday's TiLT.
I'll ramble anyhow.
Whatever.

So things are pretty good lately, what with my birthday and christmas and the awesome weather and whatnot. Yes I just mentioned the weather. It's been great lately. Makes me want to go to the beach REALLY bad.

So right now I'm listening to lovely Jade playing requests for me on her radio show (99.7fm, check it!) and generally just enjoying the internet and Empty magazine.

I got a subscription to Empty magazine, I love it that much. I have two issues of it so far, check it out - Empty Mag.
Through Empty mag I have now discovered my new favourite artist - Karl Kwasny! I absolutely ADORE his work and his style. So brilliant. I've photo copied some of his work to stick on the cover of my 2009 diary, I love it that much.

I'll upload some of his art for you all to see into this blog. All the artworks in this blog belong to KARL KWASNY. NOT ME. KARL KAWSNY. GO SEE HIS WEBSITE, HIS STUFF IS BRILLIANT.

How gorgeous are his illustraions! Go check out his website!
I'm STILL and even more so addicted to Gala on her website. She's so gorgeous and inspiring and just generally wicked rad.

So yes, good times.
I'm excited about working lots next week. MONEY!
I was actually rostered on to be a surgery nurse on wednesday just gone, and, as if to spite me for some un-known reason, some vet clinic god made sure there were ZERO surgeries booked for wednesday. There was originally three booked, but one by one they all rang up and cancelled or changed their pet's surgery day to some other day next week. ANNOYING. So I sat around and cleaned things and served customers all day. Gah!
And I'm not excited about working at 7:30am tomorrow and 8:30am on sunday. Havn't worked a weekend in almost a month, which is weird after working every saturday bar about four in the three years I've been working at the vet.
But! I'm going out to Jade's tomorrow night! Will be awesome and taco filled with fun times on the side! DELICIOUS.

This blog is REALLY RANDOM. But oh well.
Rachel and I are into eye shadow. We've bought some GORGEOUS eye shadow from Lime Crime! We found out about it through Gala Darling and I can't wait for it to arrive! I ordered Snow Queen and Duchess. $17AU per pot! Super pigmented and sparkly! Exciting!
So exciting in fact is made me want to experiment with eye shadow yesterday. I had on two shades of purple, and then pink and also silvery white. Looked wickeddd. Turns out I don't suck at makeup as much as I thought I did.

The blog title is from Kings of Leon. I like their new cd even if it is concidered "cool" to like them now or whatever.
And I could really use somebody. A boy would be nice. Haha.
A girl can dream can't she!? =]

Can't believe I still have so much uni holidays left.
It's nuts.
Lots of cool stuff coming up though! New Years Eve!
Many, many, many concerts and festivals in January and February! Stars! Sunset Sounds! BDO! LOADS OF OTHERS AS WELL.
Finding out if I'm going to be doing photography next year at uni or not!
A new issue of Empty mag soon!
Finishing my roll of film I've taken on my lomo with the red flash from Alison and getting it developed! I really cannot wait to see if the photos are shit or not! Hehe!

I bought the dogs new collars for christmas, red for Skye, black for Zerren, with silvery reflective stitching on them. They look really neat.
And I'm ADORING my new Christina Aguilera perfume. It's the original one, and I love love love it. I'd go swimming in it if I could. So lovely!

I don't know what else to write about. This blog is so spasmodic.

I had ALOT of fun at Snitch last week. Good times. I dunno if I fit in there or not but I don't care cos it was fun as. The photo is some drinks Rach and I were having before hand. Fruit tingle anyone?! =] SO GOOD.

And I'm (kinda) looking forward to Repeat Offender's last gig. It's going to be epic and bitter sweet. I love my RO boys alot and I'm so so so sad they're not going to be playing together as RO anymore, but I'm excited to hear all this new material they've been writing for their new musical endevours.

So ok I think I'm done spasmodically blogging now.
Hope you all enjoyed that!
xx

TiLT - Week Seven

2008-12-24T15:57:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone!

Being that in tha past week I've had a birthday AND now it's christmas, my TiLT will be long and present filled... hehe!

Here's what I'm loving this week -

Presents and birthdays - Saturday was my 19th birthday, and is the reason why this past week has been particularly delicious. I got up in the morning, mum made me pancakes and fresh juice and gave me my present, then I sat around watching Will and Grace til it was time to go to Never Ever Land with Chris!

Scratchies and cards - I ended up with about 7 birthday cards all up, makes me feel special. And Rose from work got me a card and a scratchie! No one else at work even remembered my birthday, so it made me feel great when Rose gave me the card. Rose is so lovely.

Gilmore Girls! They've made it into my TiLT lists before, but now it's even better cos I OWN them on dvd! THANKYOU JADEY! <3 Very awesome birthday present and something I've wanted for aaages. =]

NEVER EVER LAND! Went on saturday with Chris from uni. Chris is so great and so were all the bands we saw. And the drinks we drank and all the songs we danced to. The Presets were awesome, and The Klaxons, Cut Copy, Lady Hawke and Van She. Good times. And meeting up with Aaron and Dave and going back to Rachel's to hang with them and her, and then having Alison come over was just wicked rad. Good birthday day, even if I didn't have a cake or anyone sing to me. Good times.

Snitch! Last thursday going to Snitch with Rach and Frank was wicked fun, even if it is slightly embarassing to say I love going there. Hanging with Matt from RO, Erinn from Nina May and sexy Alex from Postcards for Abby was funnnn! Woo! AND THE PAPER AND THE PLANE played and they were great as per usual! Twas a good night out!

Blue and green curacao! My long time love of blue has now extended to green! It's like midori, but SO mch more affordable! Good times with Rach were had before we went to Snitch, and we made a kickarse Greek salad.

Birthday texts, emails, phone calls, facebook and myspace messages! Texts are the best, made me feel so special on the day though! I was getting them from different people all day long, from midnight to 11pm! So nice! My phone bill will now be huge.

Gossip Girl! In the TiLT list before also, but, I got the book the tv series is based on from Hayden for my birthday! Now I can read the trashy scandals, and watch them! Yeeew! Trashalicious!

MY NEW RING. By far the best birthday/christmas present I've gotten, aside from getting Zerren himself. My mum got my dads mother's wedding ring remade for me for my birthday. It was just a diamond and in an ugly 70's style setting, so mum had it remade, adding in some sapphires from my mum's mum, and some extra gold from one of mum's spare rings. Loooks gorgeos and huge sentimental value as well as real value!

JACK COMING HOME. God I've missed that boy, so very, very much. Him coming home on monday was such a treat. Seeing the suprise on his face when Dan and I found him at the aiport and then me jumping all over him was so great. He's home safe and sound now. Such relief.

Lomolito! Alison got me a Lomolito disposable film camera for my birthday! You can use the normal flash, or a red tinted flash, SO COOL. Thanks Al <3

Christmas gifts! This year I enjoying giving more than receiving, but I got the Christina Aguilera perfume I've been lusting after for almost a whole tear, and the new Kings of Leon cd. I got great presents for mum, dad, Hayden AND even my two lovely dogs - I got my dogs nice new collars so they look spiffy and some pigs ears to chew on :) The dogs were excited!

Christmas text messages! I've recieved 7 so far - Dac, Matt, Jed, Calum, Adam, Dan and Becca. Makes me feel special! <3

Ok so that's pretty much it for now I think.

It's a very materialistic list but oh well.

There's non-materialistic things in there too.

I'm grateful for all the people who love me and also that I've had such a good birthday and christmas week! =]

Things are pretty good right now.

Now all I want (not need, just want, so it's ok) is a nice boyfriend. Haha. Or at least someone to kiss at midnight on new years eve.

Oh wells.
I'll write a non-TiLT blog as soon as I have something interesting to write about.

Merry christmas!
<3

p.s Here's photos of me being a camera whore with my web cam. I'm a looser, I know.

TiLT - Week Six

2008-12-17T15:19:00.000-08:00

Here's what I'm loving this week... (It's kinda short but oh well!)

Things I Love Thursday -

- Watching Gossip Girl whilst eating icecream in my pjs (aka what I did on tuesday night). There is no better combination than trashy tv that I'm addicted to and icecream!

- Hanging with Caitey at work! Sure, we pick on each other but deep down it's true love. We get along like a house on fire and Caitey's wicked fun! <3

- Purple nail polish! It strikes again! I adore it, still! I painted my nails purple last night.. again!

- IT'S MY BIRTDAY ON SATURDAY! Yeeew! I'm excited and I hope everything goes to plan and everyone has a good time, including me. I also can't wait to see what mum got me :P

- GETTING MY EYEBROWS WAXED TOMORROW! Havn't had them professionally done since my last birthday so I'm excited. I'm making it a personal goal to have it done more often. Haha.

- Repeat Offender. What kind of TiLT list would this be without giving them a mention? Even though they announced they're breaking up I'm still in love with them. Gosh.

- Head scarves and head bands! My collection just keeps growing and it's great! Mum even made me a paisley head band on tuesday <3

- Re-using old clothes to make them wearable again! Mum and I have been sewing, we made a dress into a top, long jeans in to shorts, hemmed my work pants and ... that's all so far but I've got more things in mind! :)

- Seeing The Paper and The Plane tonight with Rachel! Excited!!!

I think that's all for now!
I'll write a non-TiLT blog soon, I promise!
<3

TiLT - Week Five

2008-12-11T04:34:00.000-08:00

Things I Love Thursday -
(It's a kinda short list this week but oh well)

- Getting compliments on my hair! I got it cut and coloured on friday, and EVERYONE at work commented! And my friends I've seen! AND EVEN RANDOM STRANGERS AT THE SHOPS AND AT WORK. Yeeew! Makes me feel great! :)

- My new 2009 diary. Nothing beats buying a new diary and starting to fill the zillions of blank pages with art and upcoming events and whatever else!

- DVDS! I went a little nutty today and bought a bunch of dvds, both for myself, and for mum and Hayden for xmas presents :) Hehe!!! I got Ten Things I Hate About You for $7! Yeeeah! :)

- Running into people I know whilst christmas shopping with Becca today! I saw Dan, Nathan H, Kim, Mr Kilpatrick, and Matt from RO... and I was only at the shops for like 2 hours! :) Good times!

- Drawing ink! It's a long time obsession of mine but I got all my inks out the other day and I've been playing with them on paper a bit :)

- SCRUBS! In the past week I've watched all of season 6, all of season 7 and a bunch of other random episodes. Yeeeeew! I wish Season 7 was longer! The scripts are just so darn fantastic and hilarioussss.

- Not being at uni! I love being able to come home from work and not have to write essays! Yeaaah for being avble to waste time on the net or watching tv!

- PUPPIES! I always love puppies but there's been loads of gorgeous ones at work lately! Yay puppy kisses and lots of cuddles and tail wags! Nothing brightens your day like a puppy that's happy to see you.

Hmmm I think that's all for this week!
Hope you all had a good week!
<3 Louise

p.s HI SAM. It was odd seeing you at work the other day. I hope your cat's eye is better now :)

TiLT - Week Four

2008-12-03T15:52:00.000-08:00

Things I love this thursday -

- Chocolate mousse. It's pretty great. I keep eating it at random times of the day. Jade and I made loads of it the other day and SHE LEFT IT AT MY HOUSE, therefore I've been nom nom noming on it at all hours. :P So gooood.

- Something with Numbers! Concert last friday night was AMAZING. Gosh they put on a great live show! And Jake is so nice!

- Realising I have a fair few people who love me. I was thinking about my birthday and my friends and whatnot the other day and I realised I've got about 15 or so reliable friends. Some alot closer than others but loads of people who like me all the same. Made me feel a bit special.

- Catching up with above mentioned friends. Jade. Rach. Alison. Dan. Kim. Jess. Becca. Etc etc. Seen/seeing them all this week. It's great!

- Work. Sure, I hate it sometimes but my boss's given me LOADS of extra shifts so I'm happy again. And my job at the coffee shop is going well also! Yeeew! I can finally start earning enough money to have savings again.

- Sitting on the couch in my pjs with my laptop, infront of the tv, eating and just relaxing til all hours of the night. I like some me time. :)

- Kinda lame.. but.. MY BEDROOM. It's my favourite place in the world. I love every inch of it and I take pride in making it my own. It's my own little world. I love it. And I love taking time to edit it and make it better, or change it around.

- Getting my uni marks back and being proud of myself. I got two distinctions and a credit overall for my three subjects! Woo! Fingers crossed it's high enough to get into photography.

- IT'S FINALLY DECEMBER! That means my birthday, xmas, boxing day and nye! And it also means loads more hot weather! Yesss!

I think that's all for this week!
Bye!
<3

I wanna live like we lived in the Summer.

2008-12-02T05:37:00.000-08:00

Hai everyone!

IT'S FINALLY SUMMER TIME!
YEEEEEEW!
AND IT'S DECEMBER!
18 DAYS TIL I'M 19!
YEAAAAH BABY!

I'm blogging cos I wanna. Cos I feel good.

Things have been goodish.
I was down last week.
Not now.
Yeeeew.

Went to Something With Numbers last friday, it was uh-mazing! So wonderful =] And Rach and Jay and I were in the front row the whole time. And we met Jake after. SO WICKED. AND JAKE IS SO LOVELY.

And I worked all weekend which is good cos I neeed money.
I did my first whole day shift at the coffee shop in Samford! =] I can make goooood coffee.
I was a bit down cos my other boss cut my hours but nowwww I've been given loads of extra shifts at the vet so that's wicked. I'm actually looking forward to all the extra shifts, could use the money.

And, it's my birthday soooon! I'm excited.
Mum's getting my grandma's ring re-made for me so I can wear it without catching it on everything.And I realised people love me. A few close friends is more important than loads of not-so-close ones. Totally.
And clubbing and friends and fruit tingle drinks are grrrreat.

Annnnd uni has been over for a while.. I finally got my results back. I'm proud of me. Fingers crossed my gpa is high enough to get me into Photography.

Ummm what else.
I dunno.
Pfft.
This blog is kinda random and pointless but I'm happy so whatever.

Loving my new camera alot.

Lots of good stuff coming up.
Exciteddd.
Getting my hair cut and dyed! Yeeeew!
Concerts.
Outings.
Etc.

I don't have mucgh else to say.
I'm full of hazlenut mousse and my spine really, really hurts.
Bed time.

<3

TiLT - Week Three

2008-11-26T18:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-23T21:24:00.000-08:00

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...

2008-11-21T00:57:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-19T14:57:00.001-08:00

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

2008-11-12T15:55:00.000-08:00

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.

2008-11-03T02:50:00.000-08:00

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.

100 Ways To Be A Love Letter To The Universe.

2008-10-25T03:35:00.000-07:00

I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again -
I adore Gala's blog.

Today, whilst procrastinating about my three remaining Uni assignments I found myself trawling through Gala's blogs.
I stumbled upon this one - 100 Ways To Be A Love Letter To The Universe. I adore everything about Gala's blog but given my current state of mind (which is not a very positive one) this particular post really enlightened me.
It's brilliant. Go and read it, do what Gala suggested and feel better about things.
I'm going to do the things she suggested, once Uni's over in 4 days time.

Another great post by Gala is A Reminder.

Gala's brilliant and gorgeous and feminine and wonderous.
Go and read her blogs and feel better about the world and youself.

In other news...
I feel pretty crap right now.
Wasted 3 and a half hours in the library at uni today trying to find relevant artists for my art essay which is due on wednesday... only to find nothing really useful at all.
Made me feel like shit to have spench so much time researching and get no useful results.

I finish uni on wednesday.
I cannot wait.

After I hand in my final assignments I'm going to the student photography exhibition at uni to see my work on display.
I'm looking forward to it.

Not much else is going on really.
Study study study.

I have to write a rhetorical analysis on one of Michelle Obama's presidential speeches. I do not care about America or the American presidential race and I really think the Strategic speech communication teachers could have chosen a more local topic for our essay, honestly!
There's a million and one AUSTRALIAN issues we could be writing about instead. But no, we have to write about Michelle Obama.
Americanised much?!
GAH!

I cannot wait for uni to be over so I can get on with other things.
I have a giant to do list of things I want to do over the summer holidays, I'm going to try my hardest to do everything on the list.
It's gonna be wonderful.

This is all I feel like blogging about for now.

I'm listening to Tegan and Sara. Pretty sure I know the words to every single on of their songs. Can't WAIT to see them at SUNSET SOUNDS in January!

I'm out.
The end.
<3

Now hang me up to dry

2008-10-19T01:31:00.001-07:00

You've rung me out too, too, too many times.
Adore that song.
Suites my mood lately too.
The caramel tart was dessert tonight. Aww yeah. It was so sweet I couldn't eat it all.

Hmm things have been crazeh lately.
Good, bad and otherwise.
Stressful.
Tiring.
Exciting.

I'm just gonna ramble for the most part.
I've got one week of Uni classes left.
I've got 5 assignments left to do. I'm free as of the 29th October and I cannot wait.
I need to start looking for a SECOND job. COZ I NEED MONEH! And cos I finish uni in like 2 weeks and I'll have alottt of spare time.

My photography's been chosen to be inlcuded in the QACI Student photography exhibit! I'm REALLY excited about that. See the flyer. It's in this blog. Come along and see my photography. It's free to get into the exhibit!
I bought Birds of Tokyo's first album - Day One. I adore it.

I also bought The Paper and The Plane's ep. Brilliant.
I got my tickets to Sunset Sounds from the post office the other day! Can't waaait.

Rachel and I had a rad weekend :)
We went to the Valley last night and saw The Gallant and RO. and had rad chats and beer with RO after they played. And we had fun hanging with Manda and co.RO are so brilliant and friendly and lovely.
Then we went to Common People at Rosies with Al. I was disappointed with the dj's choice of music. If I wanted to listen to 80's pop I could have stayed come and watched MAX on foxtel. Sigh.
It was a good night out though. Beer. Music. Good mates.
I could ramble on forever but I won't.
Rachel bleached some of my hair for me. A chunk of my fringe and a little piece at the back too. Love love love it. <3

I should be doing assignments right now.. or sleeping.I was really stressed on friday when I had two orals to do but I did one and it went well and then didn't end up doing the other one cos people volunteered to do theirs and so I'll do mine next class. It's about animal cruelty. I've got a tshirt with a quote on it, a powerpoint presentation and also a video to show. Woooo.
I'll be really stressed as soon as it kicks in I've got two assignments due this friday and then three due next week.. I've started three of them.
And I have NO ideas for my art prac assignment. And it's due in a week and a half. Sigh.
I'm really awesome at being stressed and procrastinating and leaving everything until the last possible minute. Yep.

I've had my nose pierced for a few months now and I reaaally wanna change it from a stud to a ring. It's annoying me cos I can't do it myself. Sigh.

I'm gonna dump a heap of photos into this blog. To compensate for my lack of words.
Yep.

I'm sick of trying to please everyone all the time.
Friends. Family. Uni tutors.
I can't be everything everyone wants me to be all at once. It just doens't work like that anymore.
I'm not perfect and I make mistakes and I don't intentionally hurt people.

And you know what else, so what if you don't like my sense of dress?! I know I'm not that stylish but who cares. I enjoy my comfy clothes and my cons. And yes I can see you when you stare at me. Dah.
End of rant.

Notice my freshly blonded chunk of fringe. Lol. I look so impressed.
Also! Random thought - There was lots of seedy guys out and about on saturday night in the city/valley/Holland park.
A seedy guy walked past Rachel and I in the city and was like: "Awwwww yeah ladies! I love my emo girrrrls!"
Ugh.
Another seedy drunk guy tried to chat us up at the bus stop, talking about how he hoped we were good girls and that we were going home to bed and that he also hoped we didn't need a smack on the bottom... etc. Weird.
And to top off saturday night some seedy drunk guy followed us home. Awww yeah. That was so fun.
Not.

I'm gonna go to bed now.
I'll write a proper informative blog later.
I'm stressed and tired.
Nite all.

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Cold War Kids - "Hang me up to dry"

Careless in our summer clothes splashing around
in the muck and the mile

Fell asleep with stains
cake deep in the knees
What a pain

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites
the whites of your eyes

All mixed up in the wash
hot water bleeding our colors
All mixed up in the wash
hot water bleeinding our colors

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the white
the whites of your eyes

Lens mug.

2008-10-12T05:48:00.000-07:00

Rachel showed me this photo.

I want one.

The end.

I'm with the band, ok?

2008-10-06T01:12:00.000-07:00

Hullo blog readers!

So things have been very roller coaster-esk lately.
Chaos. Literally.
I'm just gonna list things as I think of them.
Loads of photos also.
Enjoy.

So uh.. Last Wednesday! Rach and I had a massive day of twin time, we shopped and ate and talked and listened to rad beats and played on the tire swing and Rachel made me a dress. She rocks. ILOVELUCY.
Then we went to Lexy's and had a sleepover and took polaroids with Lucy's new camera and stayed up late chatting about things and eating bad food. Goooood times.

Last thursday! Clubbing with Jd, Ben, Fish, Adam and his lady friend.. whose name escapes me right now. Started with a K. We got busted by the cops on the train because we were running late and jumped on the train without buying tickets. Jade and I got warnings. Mine's blue tacked on my desk. I have a go card now though, so it'll never happen again! Anyhow. It was a great night. Fridays! $3 entry and $3 drinks. I had about 12 drinks all up. And we did alot of dancing. Lots of boys asked me to dance bt I said no and dance with Jade instead cos I'm a wuss. It was a veryyyy good night out. Thankyou Jade <3

The next day involved a rather large hangover but I did come home and sleep it off and woke up feeling fine. I then went to see The Grates with Al and Claire and Simon that night. Very good sets from The John Steel Singers and The Grates, the other band not so much, and the crowd was SHITTY. Blonde drunk girls in party dressed and sweaty shirtless boys who only had eyes for Patience. Lots of pushing and shoving and yelling was had but the music was tops.

Saturday was 9 hours work then Rapid Festival. Lovely Jade got me free entry and backstage access. It WAS AWESOME. AND FREE FOR ME. I hung out with Manda and saw loads of local bands on the main stage and ignored the hardcore stuff and anything not melodic. Haha. I saw The Glass Ceiling, My Fiction, A Year to Remember, Avalon Drive.. etc
AND! BOM BOM BOM! I had a chat to Matt from RO about me getting access backstage for photography before he went on to play, and he's all like: "Yeah of course! You don't even need to ask! And if anyone asks you who you are, just tell them you're here with us." =] Killer.
And so I went beyond the barrier using my backstage pass and took photos of REPEAT OFFENDER while they played their awesome (but short.. like 25 mins) set.
It was the best experience. I felt so nervous but awesome at the same time.
I <3 RO. I <3 photography. All the photos in this blog are kinda pasted roughly to match what I'm writing about. All the RO photos are from Rapid. Etc.

SUNDAY was rad also, I did my first volunteer photography session at The Hive. Free entry for me and I got to take some rad photos (side stage/back stage.. which was sweet as) and generally had a good time watching the local acts (STEVE!) and running around taking photos, even though there would have only been about 20 people there. Good times. I LOVE YOU HIVE!

So that was the radcore end to my uni "break" week.
I also went to uni and soaked things in resin and did arty things and whatnot.
I need a new idea for my art final project cos my tutor thinks my idea "It' s interesting up to a certain point.. I suppose"

What else.. I bought a really neat fish tank with a light in it from lifeline for $30 and a chest of drawers for $20. I dyed my hair. Umm.
I got Josh Pyke's new album. I'm LOVING it to pieces! :) So wonderffful.
I applied for a Bachelor of Photography for 2009 at the Queensland College of Art. Dunno if I've blogged that before but oh wells.
I got new tires on my car. Go me. Car things are expensive, and I need to get the air con fixed and the temperature gauge and a few other things. Sigh.
And my car rego is due.
I'm not going to be buying anything else for a while.

AND! Now I'm back at uni and the chaos is taking over my lifeee. I've only got 2 weeks of classes left. I can't believe it's October all readdddy.
I have 5 assignments left and then I'm done for the year.
I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE SUMMER AND ALL THE UPCOMING CONCERTS I HAVE TICKETS TO.
BDO! SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS! SUNSET SOUNDS! ROCK FOR REFUGEES! And others. You know how it goes.

As well as physically doing a million things I've also been thinking about the relationships in my life a bit recently.
Mum always says a person comes into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime...
In the past week or two I've come to figure out which of the people I know fit best into each category.. As weird as it sounds, it's true. Think about it.

Also, I over analyse everything.
I'm starting to slowly, very slowly, get over that.
I'm starting to not worry about trying to please everyone all the time. It never works and people usually just end up walking all over me for it.
I need a break sometimes. I need to get out of my head for a while I think.
I also need to focus on things and make some things better.
And I'm totally over people acting like they're still in high school. Totally over having people in my life who don't treat me right.

And even though I've applied for Photography I'm still not 100% sure of what I want. I want to take a gap year and go overseas. I want to take a year off and work full time. I want to do Vet Nursing at TAFE. I want to do Photography at Uni. I also want to do Visual Art at Uni. I want to do all of those things but obviously can't.
Indecision.
There's a million other things I could write about but I won't.
I don't want to make this blog too epic.
I get carried away.
I think I'm done for now.

Thunderbirds are go.

The second last picture in my blog is my legs. On the tire swing at Rachel's house. She took the photo. I like it. And the final picture is me being a dork and displaying my new hair colour and my work uniform which is oh-so-sexxxxxy. Yep.

p.s I miss Jack. Alot. And I love Jd and Lucy and Lexy and Alison and all my other mates, they should know who they are.
Hi Sam.

p.p.s Go to http://galadarling.com - She's amazing. Rachel showed me her site. I adore it.

Realisations and revelations.

2008-09-28T18:39:00.000-07:00

That's a picutre I took in Melbourne. I love it haha.

I've been out of high school almost an entire year now and I'm starting to realise some things.
I feel I've changed a bit and definately grown up a bit.
And yet I look at some (some, not all...) of the people I went to school with, and they havn't changed a single bit. Immature. Selfish. Obsessed with trivial things. Gossip.

I've come to realise that you don't have to be extremely happy with everything to have a good life.
You just have to be at one with yourself.
My life is (contrary to what some people belive) not perfect, not at all, not even one tiny bit. There's alot of things I want, alot of things I wish were different. But, that's me, and I'm not going to be constantly down about the fact that my life isn't always how I want it to be.

We spent a very long time talking about all this in one of my tuts at uni on friday and it really got me thinking. All about how you don't need to be positively beaming and happy and excited all the time to have a good life. It's more important to be at one with yourself, and be able to say "It's ok that I'm sad/mad/angry/tired, and just becuase I feel sad/mad/angry/tired doesn't mean I don't have a good life."
Does that make sense? It does to me. That's all that matters.

As per always, my head's so full of thoughts I feel like I could explode, and now more than ever. It's hard to describe. So many thoughts, so so so many conflicting thoughts.
I should be at uni doing my art assignments right now. But I'm sitting here blogging. I feel like I have to or my brain will explode.

I totally hated myself on friday. And lately in general. I won't go into it but, I've come to realise there's no point to it. No point at all.

I'm sick of being involved in everything.
I'm sick of caring about things/trivial issues/people that don't effect me.
I'm sure as hell sick of having people in my life who don't treat me or my friends well.
I'm sick of trying to please everyone.
I want my life to be easier to live.
I'm so over people I know from school being selfish and fake all the time. Not everyone but just a few, not naming names either. Just people in general.
And they're so fake and they seem happy all the time, but then you see them doing selfish or immature things and you know they're only doing it because they're not at one with themselves, they're empty or shallow or lacking something. Probably love.

People don't realise cos I don't mention it but I have alot going on all the time and always have something on my mind. I have alot of self-related issues and I'm sick of not being happy with my life.
I need change.
I want to be at one with myself and ok with the fact that I am who I am.
It's hard to do.

I'm starting to feel at one with myself and that doesn't mean I'm extatically happy about everything.
Things arn't perfect and I'm slowly realising that that's fine.

AND I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE READING THIS BLOG AND YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M RAMBLING ON ABOUT. I NEED TO BLOG SO I'M BLOGGING. IT'S MY BLOG AND I'LL WRITE WHAT I WANT. So there.
The end of that.

In other news -
The rest of this week WILL BE AWESOME.
Clubbing with Jade thursday night. The Grates concert friday night.
Clubbing with Rachel and Darc saturday night.
PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE HIVE ON SUNDAY.
I'm gonna dye my hair tomorrow. Or tonight.
I'm gonna go get dressed and go to Rachel's now. We're gonna have a rad day.
Yay yay yay.

Also hello to anyone reading this. You probably think I'm insane now but whatever. Haha.
Hullo Matt. =]
Hullo Rachel! ILOVEYOU.
Hullo Sammy Bear.
Hullo Lexy. Imissyou <3

Also, HULLO OCTOBER! where has the year gone ?
Uggh this post'll say I posted it not today, cos I started writing this a few days ago and only just finished it.
It's wednesday october 1st. Yup.

The end.

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"Broken bones" - Birds of Tokyo
It's kinda how I feel sometimes...

Salute the army at hells hand,
Salute the reasons why.

My conscience it wades me,
With five-a-side,
I'll never get out,
I'll never make my stand.

And when I awake,
I'm not about to listen to them,
For I can't wait,
It's not about me.

Stare down the longest line,
Of course this is falling apart,
You fooled me like a rat trap baited,
But I, refuse to buy.

I'm shell-shocked and I've lost my sight.
But I can still hear you calling me.

And when I awake,
I'm not about to listen to them,
For I can't wait,
I'm not about to listen to...
I'm on a highway that leads to the end,
I'm on a highway that leads to the end,
I'm on a highway that leads to the end,
I'm on a highway that leads to...

These broken bones,
This busted smile,
My head it hurts,
I should be leaving now,
I hear your words,
They call my name,
I won't go back,
You must be outta your head.

You say I'm wrong,
You say I'm mad,
If I stay here,
I'll never make it back,
I hear your words,
They call my name,
I won't go back,
You must be outta your head,
You must be outta your head.

No one mourns the wicked.

2008-09-28T18:12:00.000-07:00

So, Lex and I and our mums went to Melbourne.
18th - 22nd September.
It was WICKEDLY WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC.
We went shopping one day for 9 HOURS STRAIGHT. 9 WHOLE HOURS. IT WAS GREAT AND NOW I'M REALLY REALLY POOR. Haha!
And we went to the Queen Victoria Markets and the Shouthbank markets AND LEX AND I WENT TO THE AQUARIUM AND IT WAS RAD. The fishes go gloop. Had to be there haha.
Lex and I hit up Fitzroy and Brunswick Street. Melbourne has a Brunswick Street! So GOOD AND EVERY SHOP WAS SO SO SO INDIE AND LOCAL AND HANDMADE.
And we went to this fantastic exotic pet shop near the Queen Victoria markets. They had everything from turtles to snakes to spiders and fish AND EVEN ... SUGAR GLIDERS! The store was amazing buuuut I'm pretty sure selling sugar gliders as pets is pretty illegal.

WICKED. We went and saw Wicked and it was PHENOMINAL. We were in the fifth row and it was just amazing. The acting, singing, dancing, costumes, set and not to mention the music, provided by a live band who were sitting under the stage! IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND FANTASTIC.
And aww man, the actors and actresses voices were BRILLIANT. Millsy was fantastic and totally swoon-worthy. Hahaha! =]

We ate at some cool places and had so much coffee and tea and wine and chocolate and pasta. Haha!
And our hotel was nice. Mum and I stayed there last year so that was good.
AND AWW MAN I LOVE THE TRAMS. I wish Brisbane had trams, so easy to catch and they get you everywhere you need to be.
I'll chuck in a few photos too. I took about 500 in the time we were there haha.
I love taking photos.

And I bought so many new clothes and a bag, a scarf and TWO PAIRS OF CHUCKS.

So yes.
Melbourne and Wicked were grrrrrreat.
I could go on and on forever.
But I won't.
So many memories. So many awesome things in Melbourne. I've been twice now, I want to go back there every year.
It's such a great place.

Indie Indie Indie.

2008-09-17T05:39:00.000-07:00

Hullo everyone!
(Who even reads my posts anymore? If you read them lemme know ok, that'd make my day. Alot.)

So I'm trying to write shorter blogs more often... When I remember. Haha.
Ok so yeah. Here goes. It'll probably end up long, but hey, who cares. It's my blog. I'll write what I want. Haha.

So, TOMORROW I'M OFF TO MELBOURNE FOR 5 DAYS WITH MY BEST MATE LEX AND OUR MUMS! We're going to go shopping and SEE WICKED ON SATURDAY and go out to lots of nice places to eat and whatnot.
It's going to be so rad. I'm so excited, if you can't already tell.
Part of the reason I wanted to blog was to let some of my excitement out, cos I fear I might explode. Haha.
I'm all packed and I'm so excited I don't even feel like going to bed. I'm like a little kid on christmas eve haha.
So yes, Melbourne will rock. Hardcore.

In other news..
I've handed in a bunch of uni assignments lately. I don't want most of the marks back. I hope I passed everything.
I always expect the worst and usually end up doing pretty well but this time I'm not sure. I really want good marks to keep my GPA up so I can get into Photography next year.
And I found a friend in my art class who's also leaving to do photography next year! So rad. Yep.

Speaking of photography - at work yesterday I set up a mini photo studio with a fabric back drop and everything! I took photos of all of our current puppy pre-school pups. So cute! Some of them turned out pretty well, others not so good, but overall I'm happy with the photos considering it was my first time and most of the puppies were too excited to sit still for even a second. I'll dump some photos in this blog for you all to see the cute-ness and my photography skillz, yo. Haha. Blogger is being a bitch and won't let me upload all of my photos. Gah. It let me do three, one at a time but took foreverr. I give up.

What else.. Umm.. Oh yeah! HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY TODAY: Recieving a MASSIVELY long comliment from my art tutor. Haha! I won't re-count it all word for word, but man, it was AWESOME.
Right, so, I don't think much of my art and my high school are teacher pretty much hated everything I made, so to hear my art tutor at uni give me compliments on my work was just amazing. And I don't care if it sounds stupid or like I'm up myself cos I know I'm not. It was just really assuring to get so many massive compliments from my art tutor. When other students say: "Oh that's really cool." I'm like: "Oh, haha, thankyou!" and don't think too much of it (unless it's a close friends who says it). But coming from my art tutor, it means alot to me. Always.
He said so many awesome things about how inspiring my art is, how it's so great that I experiement with so many interesting mediums, and how I always have so much ambition and drive and enthusiasm for my projects and ideas etc etc etc. He even said infront of the class, "Now, what Louise has done here with her work is just great, what she's done with the experimentation is above and beyond. What she's created and experimented with is at the level I am expecting from all of you" (or something very very similar to that)
I was like: BASHFUL BASHFUL BASHFUL. I just like, wow. I can't really describe it.
My art tutor is one of my fave teachers ever so it meant alot coming from him, considering how little I usually think of myself.
AND! My tutor even said (for the millionth time) that I really should change my degree and go and do a Bachelor of Visual Arts, and he said I wouldn't even need to do a protfolio, he'd just pull some strings and let me in!
AND THE FINAL THING I WANNA SAY ON THIS TOPIC IS: MY ART TUTOR CALLED ME INDIE, AMOUNG A MILLION OTHER AWESOME THINGS, INDIE. He said my art is indie. He said I was indie. And then he was all like: "I can't wait to see what indie artworks you come up with for your final project". Man, being called indie by your art teacher is so cool.

Moving right along... MY WEEKEND WAS RADCORE. I went to the Valley Fiesta friday night, and then went and saw Josh Pyke at the Zoo. Such a great night out!
And saturday night I saw The Frets and RO. Also really really awesome, as always. I was in the front row and RO played for a solid hour and I got some AWEEEEESOME photos. And Sam was there. Hi Sam.

ALSO! I GOT A FACEBOOK! Like a week ago, I decided to finally jump on the Facebook bandwagon after contemplating joining for a long while. I must say, I was rather disapointed. Like, Facebook's pretty good, but it's just like a grown up version of Myspace. Myspace for old people I call it.
And I totally HATE how random people from school that I know of but have never actually had a conversation with KEEP ADDING ME. YOU DON'T KNOW ME BITCHES, SO WHAT'S THE DEAL? Just cos you want to me about to say you have 188532234533456763228 friends on Facebook doesn't make you cool.
Ugh.

And what else.. I love my uni friends and my art Uni friends and my twin and Lex and Jade. Love them all. Alot.

That's about it for now from me I think.
Hope this blog was good reading material. Lol.
Probably wasn't but I feel better now I've blogged so ya.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Bye
<3

My adoptive mannequins are taller than me.

2008-09-08T03:48:00.000-07:00

So, my mate James works for Esprit. He called me last night, asking if I wanted any mannequins for free, so today I went in with a family friend in his giant 7 seater car and we picked up as many mannequins as we could fit in the car.

They are super fun to play with. And taller and thinner than me.
Lol.

Mum reckons I'll have nightmares but I don't. I think they are rad and it's kinda surreal but cool having mannequins of my own all of a sudden. They're worth about $300 each for the whole ones. I have two whole ones and some extra torsos and spare arms. I probs won't keep all the extra torsos though.
It was super fun leaving the store with them all on a trolley and getting funny looks from people.
And then driving home with a car full of mannequins, good times.

Anywho.

IN OTHER NEWS:- Uhhh Uni is ok. I was dumb last week and left my giant art assignment until two days before it was due. Go me.
My other assignment went ok, my interview. Except my computer won't burn cds, instead just eats them and makes them corrupt, which isn't useful when both of my assignments had parts that had to be handed in on cd. Oh well. Rachel saved the day for my art assignment and burnt my powerpoint presentation on a disc at her house for me. I love Rachel.
- I have two RO gigs I'm going to this week on thursday and saturday. I'm excited. It'll be gooood. Even if I go alone, I don't even care lol. And I'm going out with Ree and Lex and I don't know who else on frday night. Should be good. =]
- I'M GOING TO MELBOURNE WITH LEXY AND OUR MUMS NEXT THURSDAY. THATS 9 DAYS AWAY! I'M SO FREKAING EXCITEDDDD. WICKEDWICKEDWICKEDWICKED!
- Went to an unofficial work party/get together/drinking and bitching session on saturday night. It was fun as, except when Melinda stood up and the big wooden picnic table we were all sitting at flipped up and all the alcohol on the table landed on me. Mmmm vodka punch flavoured jeans.
- I got lots of new music from Lexy. It's great. I love her to bits. =]
- I washed my car today. It was filthy and full of dirt and pine needles and leaves cos it's always parked outside. It's clean and shiny now. Go me.
- I keep running into random people I know at uni and in the city. It's really great.
- Work is annoying me a bit. I like it but I'm so over working EVERY saturday.
- Rachel and I went super-speed fabric shopping yesterday! We got fabric for me, she's going to make me a dress. It's gonna be black and white vertically striped, with purple straps and a bow on the back. =] She's got sewing skillz.
- I got my cons I bought off Ebay from the post office on friday, ILOVETHEMALOT. They're cute and comfy. And only cost $49 plus $11 postage. Still loads cheaper than the shops. They're rad. There's a picture of them in this blog. Above what you're reading now. I'm still on a mission to buy the red and white striped extra high ones though. I will buy some, hopefully in Melbourne next week. (I love being able to say that, "In Melbourne in next week") Haha.

I think that's it for now in terms of news.

This blog's rant topic: FATHERS DAY.
I hate commercial holidays. I really do. I always have. Ever since I was old enough to know Santa wasn't real. These stupid commercial holidays make things worse, not better.
Christmas, easter, valentines day, mothers day and fathers day do nothing but burn a whole in your savings account and make you realise how disfunctional your family really is.
Like, who really needs commercial holidays? If there's someone meaningful in your life (partner, mother, father, sister, brother etc etc etc) they should know you love and appreciate them every day of the year, not just on a stupid commerical holiday that makes them spend money on stupid gifts you don't need.
And you know, so what if me hating commerical holidays makes osme people think I'm evil. I'm not evil. I just think stupid made up commercial holidays are a waste of money. For fathers day, my stepdad said he wanted this book, so mum went out and bought it and gave it to me to give to him on fathers day, like, man, why bother. I appreciate mum's trying to keep the faimly together, but honestly, it just seems so silly to me, gifts on made up holidays. The only bonus of fathers day on the weekend was that I got to take some neat snapshots of Sandgate Beach.

Also, second but smaller rant for this blog - I'm totally over being called emo and/or goth by my family and co-workers. My friends know I'm not emo or goth but that's what I am to my family and co-workers. The token "emo/goth alternative" one. Like, wtf people. So what if I wear cons and band tshirts and have a nose piercing. This does not by any means make me goth or emo. Gosh darn retards with their warped views on things. If they think I'm emo and/or goth, they've got another thing coming.

The end.

HELLO AUGUST! GOODBYE AUGUST!

2008-08-27T05:15:00.000-07:00

HELLO FAITHFUL BLOG READERS! (Though there are very few of you, so I'm not talking to many people here)

It's been almost a whole MONTH since my last blog.
And, what's worse, is this is my first August blog, and now August is almost over! BOO URNS.
Everyday kept going by and I wanted to blog, and had things I wanted to write about, but I'd always get distracted doing something else like work or uni or going out somewhere or doing something on the interwebs.

So, I'm blogging now. Cos I know if I don't know then I probably won't blog for another whole month, cos I'm like that sometimes.
I'll aim to write shorter blogs more often, promise.
My blogs are too epic and not often enough.

STUFF THAT'S HAPPENED RECENTLY:

- BANDS I'VE SEEN LIVE IN THE PAST 4 WEEKS: The Living End, Ellington, Steven Childs, Andrew Swift, Repeat Offender (twice), The Frets, The Gallant, A Year to Remember, Cobra Starship, The Acadamy Is, PANIC AT THE DISCO, An Horse and DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE. Go me. I rock at going to concerts.

- I've bought 2 goldfish - 1 goldfish 4 weeks ago, another 2 days ago. Their names are Norbert and Reginald. You can see them in that picture just there.

- I painted my second TSB. It's on the interwebs. Go here http://svc189.bne146v.server-web.com/artforce/ and type my name in the "Artist Name" search box and you'll see my art.

- I got a $60 parking ticket FROM THE CITY COUNCIL, whilst painting my TSB FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. Bastards.

- I went to the orthodontist, dyed my hair, re-arranged all the posters in my room and put up heaps of new ones and photos and tidied my room and stuff. I chucked in a picture of one of my walls. Yep.

- I BOUGHT TICKETS TO WICKED AND FLIGHTS TO MELBOURNE. SO EXCITED. FLYING TO MELBOURNE IN 22 DAYS.

- I finally got my guitar that I put on order in JUNE. It's gorgeous and lilac and perfect and I know 6 chords cos I've had barely any time to play it.

- The Hive asked me if I'd be interested in taking some photos for them at some upcoming gigs! Me, doing photography at The Hive! EXCITING!

- Work. Feels like I've been about a million times lately, when really it's only 3 or 4 times a week.

- I've done some babysitting. I'm starting to hate it more and more. And the more I see children the more I hate them. That's right. I hate children. What're you gonna do about it.

- I've been to Uni alot alot alot. It's pretty good mostly. Except for Communication Design, which I hate.

- So, I un-enrolled in Communication Design. Yep. Best decision ever. Now I'm only doing 3 subjects and it's great.

- I interviewed an RSPCA employee for one of my uni assignments. My voice sounds odd when I listen to the recording but I spose thats just what it sounds like to hear your own voice played back to you.

- I've made lots of sculptures in 3D media at Uni. I love that class.

- I've seen alot alot alot of my friends and caught up with alot of people and shopped and ate and done lots of fun things. For example, Jed's birthday party which was funnn... and not to mention Jack's going away dinner (why he wants to volunteer in a hospital in Uganda is beyond me...) I miss you Jack.

- Annnnnnnnnnnd cds I've bought: The Grates and Brittish India. And I got some free ones from The Hive. I would bought more but I'm poor. I have an epic list of all the cds I want. It only ever gets longer.

- And finally: My on going mission for Cons. I've been obsessed with converse shoes for a while, but my obsession has now driven my search for cons onto the internet. Coz I can never find ones I like that are my size and that I can afford in the local shops. I'm ebay-ing it up. Those cons I put the picture of at the top, that's the kind I want. Mid-calf height. But no, they don't have any in my size anywhere but America. God damnnnnnn.

STUFF THAT'S HAPPENING SOON:

- MELBOURNE IN 22 DAYS! LEX AND I AND OUR MUMS FLY TO MELBOURNE ON THE 18TH SEPTEMBERRRRR! WICKED IS ON THE 20TH OF SEPTEMBERRRR! SO SO SO SO EXCITED!
- Rachel's glam rock party which will be awesome, I love her and Jade's going and I'm gonna tease my hair. Yep. Tease my hair.
- The Sound of Music TOMORROW NIGHT! My mate's in it. Should be fun even if I should be doing uni assignments instead of going out (again).
- There's lots of upcoming gigs and festivals and whatnot
- I'm seeing my cousin for coffee next friday. I havn't seen her since.. I don't know. April or something crazy like that.
- Bad thing is that I have lots of uni assignments due.

OTHER THINGS I WANNA MENTION COS IT'S MY BLOG AND I CAN WRITE WHAT I WANT:

Rachel and I wore the same shirt today. The Kisschasy one with the rabbit on it. People stared at us at uni, coz we had class together for 4 hours and people thought we were crazy. We laughed.
She walked into the lecture and as soon as we saw each others shirts we burst out laughing.
Haha.
We rock.
We need a clothes schedule.

Thanks to Matt for the million bits of attention lately. And all the texts.
And for saying that I'm epicly awesome.

Little Sammy Bear who is now 15, hope you're feeling better mate. :)

ALEXIA. I love you and can't wait to go to Melbourne with you. That's all.

And I think that's it for now.
I'm done with my epic blog.
I think.

BYE FOR NOW EVERYONE <3

P.S I just went back and read my last blog I posted before this one.
I totally doubled up on a bunch of information and news and stuff that I've mentioned in this blog and in the one I posted in July.
Oh well.