Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Mod ?

If I had the choice, I wouldn't raise my voice
I would be normal but extraordinary.
l don't want to say, The things I have to say yeah
I don't wanna say things ordinary.
This may put a smile on my face, time and time again.
Reach into my mouth rip out my tongue, There's my only friend.
Now I cannot talk,
These words are only thoughts
Taken down from my head to paper,
Written down for thee,
Banning also me,
we'll rehearse it and play it later.
This may put a smile on my face, time and time again.
Without words I'm lost for things to say, I want back my best friend.
Barnicles and stripes,
Barnicles and stripes.
These two words are normal but extraordinary,
Together mean nothing like tugboats and hairy.
This may put a smile on my face, time and time again.
Reach into my throat pull out my tongue,
There's my only friend.
Hear me, Hear me,
Barnicles and stripes,
Barnicles and stripes.

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Barnicles and Stripes, Something with Numbers.

I have a long running obsession with Something with Numbers.
They're coming to town and I'm going with Rachel. I'm excited. Specially coz I missed out on seeing them at the Big Day out. Yep.

I don't usually write a blog two days after I've just posted one but I need to vent. I'll try and keep it short.
EVERYONE READ MY OTHER RECENT BLOG TOO PLEASE.
I PUT EFFORT INTO THAT ONE. IT HAS PRETTY PICTURES.


Ok so venting session -
I seem to have the inate ability to piss almost everyone (friends and family and co-workers included) in my life off lately, for many various reasons.
Worst part is, most of the time I don't even mean to, or worse, don't even know I'm doing it.
I don't mean to annoy everyone. I really don't.
I feel terrible for pissing people off and I don't mean to.
And I feel even more terrible knowing I've pissed people off and have been totally oblivious to it.
I DON'T MEAN TO ANNOY PEOPLE. ALOT OF PEOPLE SEEM TO BE GETTING MAD AT ME AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW I'VE ANNOYED THEM.
I'm not a horrible person, really. I'm not.
I'm sorry.
- End of vent session.

And, one other thing which is neither positive nor negative but I wanna write about it anyway. I got called "mod" today with work.
Not punk or emo or scene or indie. Mod.
It all started coz I got my nose pierced on monday, right, and I went to work today and everyone there had never seen me with my new nose piercing, but no one even mentioned it, at all.
Dunno if people just noticed and weren't sure if it was new or just didn't notice but either way no one said anything.
Then, like 3 hours into my shift at work, one of the nurses stops me when I'm mopping and points to my nose and goes "Is that new?"
Me: "Yeah, I got it done monday." (Secretly thinking, "Omg someone actually noticed!")
Her: "Yeah, I saw it and wasn't sure if you'd always had it or not." Now, this co-worker is the one and only person who's been at work the entire time I've been there, as in, everyone else's come and gone and she and I are the only originals left, right, so she's known me for THREE YEARS. And yet, she sees me with a new nose piercing and thinks I've had it the entire time. Lollollol. I guess it just seems like something I would have? Or something that suits me? I don't know.
The person who noticed and said all this then made me stand still while she COUNTED how many peircings I have, was rather alarmed that I now have a grand total of 8, and then was like: "Well, you're very mod then arn't you, with all your peircings!"
I'm like: "Oh.. ok.. thankyou?"
So apparently now I'm labelled as "mod".

The end.
Read my other recent blog.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Awesomeawesomeawesome.


AWESOME.
EVERYTHING (WELL, ALMOST EVERYTHING...) IS AWESOME RIGHT NOW.

Gonna try and keep this blog short, but things are good right now and I always ramble regardless of how I'm feeling about the world so we'll see how this goes. Lol.

REASONS WHY THINGS ARE (MOSTLY) AWESOME:

- Got my nose pierced yesterday. Woo!
- FINISHED SEMESTER ONE OF UNI YESTERDAY. BEST FEELING EVERRRRR. I survived my first semester of uni! It was SO STRESSFUL.
- I got my marks back for some of my assignments, I did really well :D I GOT A DISTINCTION FOR VISUAL ART! YESSSS! I'm proud of myself.
- Things are generally just good as of yesterday and today.
- I'm on Uni hols!!! I don't have any classes until the 21st of July!
- I get to see alot of my favourite people at various places and social events this week :)
- I'M GOING UP THE COAST THIS WEEKEND! AND BUNDY NEXT WEEKEND! AND SYDNEY THE WEEK AFTER! YESSSS!
- Photo at the top of the blog is my new Cons. My first pair of REAL cons. I love them
- Did I mention I'm finished semester one of Uni ? :D
- I got LOADS of new cds like 2 weeks ago and I'm still getting through them all. New music is great. Trial Kennedy. Tegan and Sara. The Ting Tings. Death Cab for Cutie. Sparkadia and White Rabbits. LOVELOVELOVE.
- New episode of Gossip Girl on tv tonight! My mate's coming over, we're gonna watch it together. We have a tradition of her coming over tuesdays and us watching Gossip Girl together. Makes me feel girly lol.
- I'm not working much this week, which is bad for my bank account but good for my social life. Hehe.
- Today I dyed my friend's hair. Yess. She's cute. She sleptover last night aaaand I convinced her to watch my Molly Ringwald movies - we watched Sixteen Candles and then Pretty in Pink. Oh Molly Ringwald, you're so greaaat.
- After dropping that friend off, I went and got the train and caught up with a different friend. We ate pizza and gelati and brownines and apple turn overs. We hit up the Valley in search of decent food and then walked all the yay to New Farm in search of a gelati shop. I got mango gelati and the nice lady gave me a scoop of starwberry for free! There's a pciture of it to the left of this text. It was such good gelati. Haha. Then we walked back to the Valley, got various foods, looked in alllll the Asian suoermarekts II bought Hello Panda biscuts!) and then got the train to the city. THEN we ran into another mate of ours and the three of us looked at cds and stuff. Woooo. The two photos at the bottom blog are ones I took on my mobile phone (lol) whilst we were wandering through New Farm.

I'M FINALLY STARTING TO MORE POSITIVE ABOUT MY LIFE IN GENERAL.

Ok yeah.
So I'm excited about things.
Woooo!

I dunno what else to say.
Things are pretty good compared to the last few weeks which have been rather dismal.

Yesterday was just so good I could hardly contain myself. Like, wow.
I'm done with semester one of Uni. I can't believe I survived. And, even better, I'm on holidays now! HOLIDAYS!
Fingers crossed I pass everything!

I'm gonna leave this blog here I think.
Wooo.
Too excited. Too much to doo.

BYEEEEE.
<3



Thursday, June 5, 2008

Too much to do

They tell me that you're doing fine.
But I wish had the time,
to get through to you.
But all I can do is give you some space
to chase someone else to be the sun, sitting in your little sky.

Too much to do and there's not enough time, not enough time.

Walking past your place the other day, I wish that I could stay
for a little while or more. But there's places to go and people to see.
Time runs away so easily it never waits for me.

Too much to do and there's not enough time, not enough time.

I told her all of this too late she looked me up and down,
and turned to walk away.
With time we'll both know,
that it's best we both go.
Before the night becomes the day
and there's nothing more to say

Too much to do and there's not enough time, not enough time.

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Sparkadia "Too much to do"
Oh how I loooove that song.

ANOTHER EXCITING EDITION OF THE LOUCHASY CHRONICLES...

So yes, long time no blog, I know.
Sam, you can stop bugging me about writing a new blog now, coz here it is - my new blog, read it and enjoy it and stop bitching. Haha.

So, alot's happened since I last wrote a blog.
Same old same old really, just been uber busy with uni and work and concerts and social life stuffs.

Finally got to go to the Kisschasy concerts I've been waiting for! They were both wonderful. Best nights everrr.
I was in the second row, centre for the 18+ show and FRONT ROW, left side for the AA show. FANTASTIC.Aaaaaand during the AA show Karl (drummer of Kisschasy) threw one of his sticks into the audience. I caught one of end it, some other girl caught the other end.
I was both excited and annoyed coz I didn't wanna let go of that drum stick. Just before things were about to get nasty with pushing and showing and me considering yelling: "I GAURENTEE I LOVE KISSCHASY MORE THAN YOU!" at the girl who caught the other end of the stick, my mate Ree was like: "SNAP IT IN HALF!"
So we did. I then moshed for the rest of the show with half a drum stick in my hand. AND ZOMFG I GOT THE WHOLE BAND TO INDIVIDUALLY SIGN IT AFTER THE SHOW.
I WAS THE HAPPIEST GIRL ALIVE.I bought a cool new Kisschasy shirt tooooo <3And loads of my mates were at the AA show, which was rad. And James and I had fun at the 18+ show. And The Donnas and The Getaway Plan were rad support bands.
I love Kisschasy alot alot alot. I love photographying them too. I'm rather proud of my photos.


















Annnd then there was the Repeat Offender/Avalon Drive show the saturday after that, and then the Steven Childs/Nina May show last weekend. So great.
So, so, so great.
I had a wholeeeee herd of friends at the RO/NM gig. Fan-freaking-tastic :D
Took a few nice photos too. Ohhhhh how I love photography! :)


















Apart from that things are fairly dull.
Working lots at work.
I'm drowning in uni assignments. They're all due on the 10th and 16th of June. Ack. That's like 5 days away.
I'll be ok.
I hope.
I should be doing stuff right now but I really just felt like blogging and when I get an urge like that I just gotta run with it coz I don't get them all the time lolll.

EXCITING! I got 6 new cds on monday - Sparkadia's "Postcards", Tegan and Sara's "The Business of Art", White Rabbits' "Fort nightly", The Ting Tings' "We Started Nothing", Trial Kennedy's "New Manic Art" aaaaaand Death Cab for Cutie's "You can play these songs with chords" I bought 4 of them, my mate bought the other two.
I'm now broke. Basically. Haha.
Broke but happily drowning in loads of newwwwww music.
Cd shopping with my best mate is raddd. I loves her. She's my boonana queen.

I also got another piercing on monday - the cartlidge in my right ear, to match my left ear haha. I've now got 7 in total - 4 in my left ear, 3 in my right ear. Haha. Yep. Nose is next.

Totally random thought, but you know what I hate? I HATE HOW IT GETS DARK SO EARLY IN WINTER. Like, it's only just 5:30pm and it's pitch black outside. Argh.

AND SOMETHING REALLY AWESOME AND SUPER COOL - I'M ON UNI HOLIDAYS FROM NOW UNTIL THE 21ST OF JULY. Heck yess.
I've got plans for the holidays too - Going to the Sunshine Coast for 4 days, Bundaberg for 5 days and Sydney for 2 or 3 days.
I cannot wait to get of Brisbane. I'm so sick of everything right now.
So yes, very excited for the holidays and the fact that I actually have proper plans to get outta here for a bit.
I'm also gonna be working loads of extra hours at the vet. It'll be good. My boss got all excited when I said I could work extra hours coz we're extremely understaffed at the moment, like we usually have 9 nurses, and currently we have like.. 5, 3 of which arn't full time. So yes, my boss was excited when I offered to do extra hours over the uni hols. I need the money too, so everyone wins haha.

I think that's about it for now.
Alot on my mind.
Alot of assignments (I've got 8) to do.
Not much time for sleeping.
I make time for fun social stuffs and work though. Haha.

I've got my timetable for semester two of uni sorted out and I'm really happy with it. Mondays 3 - 5pm, wednesdays 10am - 6pm and fridays 9am - 3pm. Pretty rad.

I handed in some of my Communication Design stuff today. It's all on exhibition at Uni now. Looked pretty cool to see everyone's assignments up on the walls. Mine's the on the left in the top photo - that's my packaging for my product. The bottom photo is my advertising for my product. Woooooo.

















Yep.
I'll stop blogging nowwww.
Until next time, peace outtttt. Lol.
I wish more people read my silly blogs.

This blog is really long. Oops.
The formatting's gonna be retarded when I publish this. Argh. Stupid lame blogger formatting.

ALL PHOTOS IN THIS BLOG ARE COPYRIGHT TO ME. LOUISE WRIGHT. 2008. (c)

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Like a book elegantly bound, in a language you can't read

How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me
It's like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can't read - just yet
You gotta spend some time--love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find--love, I will possess your heart

There are days when outside your window, I see my reflection as I slowly pass
And I long for this mirrored perspective, when we'll be lovers, lovers at last
You gotta spend some time--love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find--love, I will possess your heart

I will possess your heart

You reject my advances and desperate pleas
I won't let you, let me down so easily, so easily

You gotta spend some time--love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find--love, I will possess your heart

I will possess your heart

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Death Cab for Cutie "I will Possess your heart"
I adore that song.
Alot.

Apart from listening to Death Cab, things lately have been same old, same old. Nothing too exciting or unusual.
I updated my DeviantArt page - www.esiuol-89.deviantart.com - with some art and a new journal entry, after having not been online on DA for monthssss. I felt so guilty being away from it for so long.

I'M IN A REALLY CREATIVE MOOD. I NEED TO DRAW OR PAINT SO BAD RIGHT NOW.
I will, as soon as I'm done with this blog.
I want to draw more wolves. And trees. And swirls.

I've been drawing alot of tattoo designs lately, swirls mostly, for myself. Just deciding where I want the tattoo to go.. inside of my left ankle most likely. We'll see. I'm too indecisive to make any concrete decisions about ANYTHING in life, even simple things like what to put on my toast at breakfast, let alone a decision about something that will be permanently engraved on my ankle.
Yes. Engraved. Lol.

In other news my fish Marley has been really really ill lately, to the point where I thought I'd come to home to find him dead. I thought I had on a few occasions, then he'd move and swim a bit. He's been sick from a combination of things - the colder weather, possible constipation from too much food and also from the fact that I change all his water every ten days. I've made him sick from loving him too much.
He's got swim bladder issues (the swim bladder is what keeps a fish upright in the water) and he hasn't eated in like.. a week. I got some antibiotics for him from work and he seems to be improving, he doesn't swim upside down or do death spirals head first into his gravel anymore, which is good.
I love my fish, ok. I bought him antibiotics coz I didn't want to just give up on him and flush him down the loo. I'm compassionate. Shut up.

Apart from my fish's issues, everything else is as normal. Well, as normal as my life gets anyway.
I'd like it to stay how it is, my life, just, managable, not exceptionally good, but it has its good bits. I'm learning to deal with all the shitty bits. They're not gonna go away anytime soon, so I'm learning to deal with it.

Random bits of information about my life at the moment are as follows:
Work is shit. I'm over it. But I don't want to quit coz I like the staff. Well, most of them. I worked for 9 hours today. Being happy and polite and overly cheerful and useful and helpful towards customers for 9 hours is insanely draining. We were fully booked all day. Sigh.

Uni is over for the semester in like.. 2 weeks. So that's good. Just gotta do like 10 assignments before then. Eeek. I havn't started any of them. Oops. I'm excited about my 2D media assignment though, OMGLINOBLOCKPRINTINGYAYYAYYAY. <3

KISSCHASY ARE COMING TO TOWN IN 5 DAYS. I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED. I'M GOING TO BOTH BRISBANE SHOWS AND I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR MONTHS AND NOW IT'S ALMOST HERE. HECK YES.

I washed my car yesterday, it was rather filthy coz it's always parked outside. Poor Nissy the Nissan. Lolll.

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR MONTHS BUT I'VE FINALLY GOT MY VERY OWN COPY OF "BLANKETS" BY CRAIGH THOMPSON. It came all the way from America. I read the book last year on recommendation from a friend at school and adored it, so I've finally got my own copy to love and have forever. I love Craig's illustraions. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
I also got a book version of the Turner to Monet art exhibition that's currently in the Canberra Art Gallery. AMAZING.

AND ZOMFG I bought myself a THREE DISC MOLLY RINGWALD EXTRAVAGANZA PACK WHICH CONSISTS OF THE BREAKFAST CLUB, PRETTY IN PINK AND SIXTEEN CANDLES. I love Molly Ringwald. I love those three movies. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Umm yeah. That's all for now.
Hope you enjoyed all the random photos in this blog. since I havn't written one in a while I had a bit of a stockpile of photos I wanted to put in. And the song lyrics too. This is why I need to blog more often, so I don't do these enormous blogs filled with loads of text and pictures and lyrics. Oh well.

Explanation of pictures in this blog...
- The Pretty in Pink picture is coz I bought the movie recently, dah.
- The sheep are from a random forward email my mum sent me coz she knows I like arty stuffs. They're made out of old phones and phone cords. Pretty rad I thought.
- The picture of the books and dvd is the stuff I've gotten recently. Pretty self explanatory.
- There's a photo of one of the corners of my room in there too. Just coz.
- The very first picture is of me and http://thelifeofmeree.blogspot.com/ enjoying our Midori. Yesss. I like it coz it's blurry.
- The one right below this is the view from http://thelifeofmeree.blogspot.com/'s deck in her old house. She lives in the city now, I'm so proud of her and happy for her <3

END OF BLOG.

BYEEEE <3

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Bland as white bread

I am bland. I really do feel quite bland.
My life today is bland.
Bland bland bland.
Work is bland.
Uni... is somewhat bland, but ok overall.
Ok well my life isn't really all that bland.
I lied.
It's actually been ok lately, and quite awesome in parts, but I feel bad for not blogging in ages and I can't really think of anything particularly interesting to write.. So I'll just ramble. HOW UNUSAL FOR ME!

So.. I've suddenly realised I've only got 3 weeks of semester one of uni left. Amazing.
I've got so much work to do as well, and, as always, I have very little inspiration or enthusiasm to do so.
Feels like I've only just started uni, but really, I've been at uni for 10 weeks and it's May.
Seems the older I get the quicker time goes by.
I can't decide if I like that idea or not.
Not really I guess.

Whatever.
Moving on before I start to over-analyse everything all over again.

You know what I love?
Spending time doing nothing but sitting around and talking with my mates.
You know what I love even more ?
Doing that in a park. On a picnic rug. With 4 of my most favourite people ever.
That's what I did all day monday.
It was the best pisnic I've ever been on, purely for the fact that it was with some of the raddest people I know and coz the weather was beautiful, we had loads of food and good times were had by all.
It was wonderful.
There was alot of eating and talking and photo taking and running and kicking the ball around and also alot of crash tackling and hugging and attacking in general.
Good times.
I did get kinda hurt though. My wrist/hand is killing me. I can hardly drive. This's what happens when you run around being silly. Lol.
The bone in my butt hurts too. From being crash tackled to the ground and landing on the same bone in my butt twice. Lolll.
Nevermind.

There's a few select people in my life who I could happily spend every hour of everyday with and never get sick of. I'm really greatful for them and I hope they know who they are. There's like.. ten or so of these people. I think.

And you know what else I love?
Music.
And buying new music.
I bought myself the new Presets, The Getaway Plan and also Cut Copy albums on sunday. Aaaah they're all so great. I want to listen to them all at once, all the time.
But I can't.

In other news: Work was quite the terrible experience today. It hasn't been too bad lately but today was shit. Under staffed, over worked and underpaid is what I feel about my job right now.
I got bitten by a bitchy little west highland terrier today. Right in the joint of my thumb. I can't really move my thumb much now. It hurts.
Stupid terrier.

I'm excited coz there's a few exciting things coming up in my life over the next few months - lots and lots of live gigs (including KISSCHASY, REPEAT OFFENDER, KIMYA DAWSON, PANIC AT THE DISCO AND ALSO AVALON DRIVE... JUST TO NAME A FEW), some 18th birthday parties, and, best of all - UNI HOLIDAYYYYYS!
I have no uni classes from the 2nd june through to the 21st of july. I'm excited and wanna go away somewhere or do something special but I don't know what.

I'm so over uni. It's harder than school because there's no real help or guidance from the tutors.
I just really really really hope I pass everything.
It's all I want, to pass, so I don't have to do any of mu subjects again.
That would suck so bad.
I'm considering changing my major from communication design to digital media, but I'm still not really sure.
I'm not sure of anything these days.

All the photos in this blog are from my picnic. It truly was a wonderful day.



I've had enough blogging for now I think.
I could ramble on for about another 1500 words, but I won't.
I'm gonna go to bed instead.

Bai!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.

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



"Bleed American" - Jimmy Eat World.


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

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

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

I want to move out.
Alot.

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

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

I'm. So. Over. Everything.

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

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

Bye.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Fail

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So yes.
Last night = fail.

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

Bad weekend is bad.
Fail night was fail.

The annoyance at my life continues.

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

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

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

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

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

So my life's not all bad.

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

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

YAY.

Until next time,
Bai!
<3

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

Also here's my SNAPOSHOT OF THE DAY:



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