TiLT - 33

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.

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)

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

xx

Upcoming Gigs, Vol. 1

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

xx

TiLT - 31

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!)

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!

xx

Sick.

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