iCiNG TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE!

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.

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

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!

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

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!!!

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!

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) -