Reunion Party

So Saturday night was the annual Julius Events College Reunion Party. Hooray. The theme was ‘music’. No, this was not my idea. My idea was a baby farm animals theme, but no one seemed to like this. Our events class was responsible for organising the night. And although i was pretty bored throughout the night, i think it went quite well. I lured in three on my own guests (Lisa, Emily, Alison) with the offer of an open bar. Anyways, this post is pretty picture heavy as i took some photos of the college.

These are my two of my friends/bitches at college. We claimed the meeting room as our dressing room for the night.

And this is me and Steph. We worked the bar at the beginning of the night. I was (not so) secretly hoping that someone would come up and say to me ‘Do you come with the drink??’ in which i would reply, “Oh You!!” and flip my wrist. This never happened 😦

Here are two of my three guests, just chillin, yo.

Here are some photos of the decorations we put in place.

And for those of you who are interested in lights, we had some pretty awesome ones. Lots and lots and lots of moving lights.

Yeahhh.. And now back into the routine of another boring week.

ANOTHER STATISTC

I don’t want to be another statistic
Some stereotypical teen
I’m gonna make a difference
I’ll finish with my dream.
I won’t end up pregnant
On drugs or even dead
I won’t drop out of school
Because I’ll use my head.

I don’t want to be another statistic
To fit into some mold
Of what society thinks of kids today
Because its getting kind of old.
Not all of us are bad
In fact most of us are good
When will the world see us
And give us credit like they should?

-Amanda Parmenter

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Today my Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff came in the mail today. I got a used copy (which is in pretty mint condition) for $US4. I have another Chicken Soup book and i forgot how good they are. For those of you who don’t know, they are books which are made up of stories written by every day people (and in this case, teenagers). This one focuses on the tougher aspects of life including death, suicide, drugs and alcohol, growing up and family. Some of the stories really help put things into perspective for me.

These stories make me realise how blessed I am to have all that i do and that i should appreciate it every day. I’m going to try and remain positive, motivated and focused from now on.

College party this weekend. Will post how it goes.

As for now, i will stop procrastinating (briefly) from impending doom/assignments.
Peace xx

Queen of Procrastination

Rather than staying at home and doing my resubmits for college, i chose to hang out with Mitchell in Newtown today. So i met up with him around 10:30ish where we went to a park and i watched him eat weatbix with banana. Lisa then messaged me to tell me that she was working in Newtown today, so we proceeded to meet up with her at Crazy Horse where she was putting up posters. On the way, i saw an interesting piece of graff on a wall. “WHY ARE LESBIANS ANGRY?” and it really made me think. Why are they angry? I don’t think there are many injustices being done to them now. And i mean, Ellen Degeneres and Portia Di Rossi looked pretty happy at their wedding the other day. But i digress. Mitch decided to make a piece of his own art, by throwing his left over milk at the wall. Good times.

So we found Lisa and i stole several posters for my college party this Saturday. I love Lisa. She is lovely. Then we had to go to Mitchell’s bank which was in Leichhardt. I love Leichhardt so much. I love the Italian culture, i love the restaurants, i love the shops and i love the houses. Its such a nice area. Anyway after sorting out stuff at the bank we went for coffee at the Italian Forum. I had a soy cappuccino and it was pretty great because earlier i was getting a caffeine headache, which was no fun. We got this black guy who was standing out the front of a cafe to take a photo of us in front of the fountain. He looks cute, but i look semi-retarded.

On the way back to the bus stop, there was a random dog sitting in a flower bed barking at all passer bys. I called it the flower dog.

We then caught a bus back to St Peters where Mitch showed me this paint/graff shop. Some of the dudes in there were pretty sketchy and weird, but i really dug that they were heaps into this street art thing. It was pretty cool. Anyways, here are some photos of the awesome paint jobs i saw today around Newtown/St Peters.

And this last thing i saw in a shop window and just thought it was kind of funny.

All in all it was a pretty great day. Now i actually should do some work before my life explodes.
Signing out xx

La Vita Bella

Vita Bella (grammatically incorrect, but hey. I didn’t name the restaurant) or Beautiful Life, was the name of the restaurant that Emily, Ellen, Lisa, Alison and I attended this evening. Epping’s latest addition to Italian cuisine.  It wasn’t really the beautiful life at all. It was more the shitty-service-average-food-overpriced life. After waiting over an hour for our dinner and eating at 9, i ordered the Risotto al Fungi (Mushrooms) and it wasn’t THAT generous as serving as the lady suggested, nor was it incredibly amazing. It wasn’t bad either. Lets just say, if thats what the beautiful life is like, i’d hate to see what the ugly is. Hahaha, okay. I’m talking it down a whole lot. It wasn’t so bad. Wonderful company. I love my girls. It was good to catch up with them all.

I like rain, but mainly when i get to sleep in my bed. No sleep in this morning, no sleep in tomorrow. Oh well, i guess thats how it goes.

I’ve got lots and lots of work to catch up on this weekend, which is a bit of a downer. Tomorrow, maybe going out to ze city. Breakfast on Sunday with Mitchell. Nothing crazy this weekend, but still good things none the less.

Work early tomorrow, so signing out.
xx

Still August

I wish my current frustration at life could be put simply into words. But i’m not even entirely sure why i’m frustrated, which is probably half the problem.
Sometimes i just feel so incredibly alone which is ridiculous because i have so many people around me and also close friends. But sometimes i have problems and worries that not even my close friends would have any clue that i am experiencing, which is not their fault. But i just feel so isolated in my own misery. It just sucks sometimes.
I think a little trip away will help this. Escaping Shitney for a break next month.

I also have this theory that the warmer weather will bring upon a more positive attitude. Everyone is so bummed in winter and so unmotivated. 13 more days of Winter. Yep. Also Winter fashion this year was quite disappointing, so hopefully Spring 2008 won’t let me down.

Currently LIstening To:
By Your Side -HOUSE OF HEROES
I downloaded their album The End is Not the End (yes, they are a Christian band haha) to be pretty much appalled with their generic boring pop punk bullshit. Except for this one song. Its folk infused Death Cab sound is really beautiful. I don’t suggest you download the album, just this one song.

I Heard Love is Blind -AMY WINEHOUSE
Now originally i wasn’t a fan of the dirty trashbag junkie, but this song pretty much converted me. Its off her earlier album Frank and it is basically an attempt at her justifying cheating on her man. You listen to it not knowing whether to feel sorry for her and her deluded reasoning or whether to hate her for… well being the junkie slut that she is. But seriously, the song is pretty great and addictive.

Her Lucky Pretty Eyes -BANE
Fucking hell. Bane are just possibly the greatest ever. This song is honest, angry and lyrically amazing. It pretty much summed up how i was feeling about someone this time last week. In conclusion, Bane. Love.

Bleeding Love -LEONA LEWIS
Okay, so i admit this is a rather embarrassing song to admit to liking, but fuck. Seriously, i can’t stop singing it and listening to it. And after i watched that couple dance to it on So You Think You can Dance the other week, it made me love it more. Yeah, i’m gay. Whatever.

This is my main source of procrastination when i should be doing college work. Ahh well. Back to it then i suppose.
Laters xx

Hair

Tuesday afternoon was a traumatic experience. Alison and i thought it would be a great idea to dye my hair to a lighter brown. First we were going to bleach it, and then we picked a nice caramel dye to go over the top. Sounds cute, right?

Yeah, in theory it would have been cute. In reality, it was a total mess. The caramel dye didn’t stick to the bleach and my hair was bright orange. I looked like a (more) down syndrome version (if thats possible) of Hayley Williams. Anyways, i thought i would leave it a night, and then set back to work the next day. Mum drove me to coles and i picked a darker nice brown. In short, i dyed it and it turned out okay in the end. Here are the results.

This is me and Lilly. She is my new friend who follows me around regularly. Babe.

So after my awful dye experience, i went to Macquaz with Lisa where we met Alison. I went to priceline and picked up a few beauty things and Lisa bought some new boots. We also got Boost. We were feeling hungry, so we thought we would go to North Ryde maccas and get some nuggets. On the way home we were stuck in the worst traffic. But it was pretty warm outside and nice, so i didn’t mind too much.

Then we proceeded to Pedro’s where we ordered 2 garlic pizzas. Alison, Lisa and I devoured them over season 4 of Dawson’s Creek. It was a productive day. Now i have a presentation to do for college tomorrow. Farewell xx

Weekend

I somehow managed to set my alarm an hour earlier than i needed to. So i’m up at 8:30, and i figured i may as well stay up than sleep for that extra hour. Anyway, so brief re-cap.

Yesterday Alison, Ash and I went to towers to go shopping. I managed to spend a fair bit of money but i’m happy with my purchases. I bought new jeans, a top, a necklace, a wallet and a new shampoo and conditioner. All things that i desperately needed. Well mainly the wallet as my old one had fallen to bits. Its nice being able to go to towers now, without it being infiltrated with emo scum.

Alison and I then went to the video store and picked out some dvds for our movie night. As we were quite tired we didn’t want anything that you had to think too much about, so our selected was a range of awful teen horror movies. One was called POSERS and was about four ‘hard-core party girls’ who brutally bash some random bish to death in the toilet of some shitty club. And the other one was called STATE’S EVIDENCE and was about this group of teenagers who made a mass suicide pact and was filming it all on video. Only the crazy thing was that one of the boys went crazy and started shooting all these people and the main character, who’s initial idea it was to commit suicide, just has he was shot by the crazy guy, he decided that he in fact did not want to die. Yes, we did actually waste a good 3 and a half hours of our lives sitting through this crap, but hey. It was alriiiight.

Prior to selecting our movies, Alison and i went to Dominoes to pick up some foooood. We documented our adventure.

Me and Alison and that fat black guy from the Dominoes ads.

I think the girl at the counter had a crush on us 😉

Yeaaah. All in all i’m pretty happy with this weekend so far. Minus the whole having to work 10-6 today (worst shift). If i come out alive i’ll sure to be update again. Until then, cheerio xx

Return

Last night i probably spent the least amount of money i ever have at hot damn. $8 for entry and thats it. The great thing about it is i don’t even miss drinking anymore, at all. I think i am slowly regaining my disappearing mojo also. Thank god for that. The only downside is that in my sobriety, i have realised that i actually can’t dance. At all. Its kind of embarrassing. Lisa (from college) managed to drive home sort of drunk last night and it was then i realised that i actually do remember Italian. Her GPS language has been set to Italian and she doesn’t know how to change it, but i could actually understand all the directions! It was pretty great and proved that high school wasn’t a total waste of time for me.

Today, whilst texting someone, my bus drove right past me and i realised too late to flag it down.  So i then decided to get a bus to Parra, and then one to Epping. But after arriving at Parra, i thought i would check my bank balance and that by some miraculous chance there would be money in there. AND THERE WAS. My tax money came through, so i thought i would treat myself and look for a new wallet. So i went to Guess and was horribly disappointed with this season’s range. They are all just rubbish. There was one i sort of liked, but it just wasn’t the right colour. I ended up buying a new palette of eyeshadows and the new Carpathian cd. So far, i’m really getting into Isolation. Lyrically they have improved a fair bit, with this album having a more desolate and mature sort of vibe about it. Good purchase.

This weekend is going to be fairly quiet, just catching up with friends and working. I’m actually looking forward to not having a big one and just doing cute things with my old and new friends. We just got all our assessments for this semester and it is a little overwhelming, so i might try and get something done in regards to school work this weekend. Maybe.

Winter’s Wednesday

Today as cold and miserable as it was turned out to be quite pleasant. After finishing at college at 12:30, Lisa, Katrina and I went on a road trip to Rhodes to visit Ikea to buy furniture for Lisa’s new house. The food at Ikea is amazing. Everything is so so cheap and surprisingly quite good. Looking at all the Swedish designed furniture made me want to move out and decorate an empty room. But in reality, me moving out anytime soon isn’t going to happen. So i took photos of the things that i wanted.

This is the chandelier that i found. It was only $49!

Audrey poster i liked.

This was a massive poster of a city. It cost a bit over $200. Hey, a girl can dream.

We then traveled home. Lisa W then told me we were going to go on adventures. We drove to Liam’s house to pick up his uniform for football. We thought it would be an amazing idea to try it on. And this was the result.

All in all, it was a great day.

xx

20 PEOPLE, 20 THINGS

Who is who? Only i know.
This is in no particular order. But just my general comments in regards to 20 people in my life.
Have fun guessing.

1. You are a new friend to me as i only met you this year. We have become quite close and i’m really lucky to have you in my life. When i first saw you, i thought you were kind of lame. But i’m glad i took the time to get to know you as it has proven to be well worth it.
2. You used to say that i was one of your best friends, but i’m not entirely sure why. You seem to be nice although somewhat clingy and immature. You do dress well and can make me laugh endlessly, but your spelling is atrocious which kind of rules everything good out.
3. Mister, mister. One of my only true male friends. We’ve always had some special bond which has kept us close over the years we have known each other. I love how we can go months without seeing each other, but when i do get the chance everything is fun, comfortable and normal. I really believe you have such potential to do anything you want with your life even if you don’t believe it. You’re a pretty ace person.
4. We used to be somewhat close, but recently we have drifted apart as you have developed many relationships in other circles of friends. I still think you are a beautiful person both inside and out. I do wish we could make time to see each other more. You are so easy to talk to and not judgmental in the slightest, these are the two qualities which i love about you most.
5. At one point of time we used to be pretty good friends, but this has changed quite dramatically. We don’t ever hang out and do cute things like we used to. These days i only ever see you when i go out when we are in groups of people. I don’t know if i still trust you like i used to or whether you even like me still. You are fun to be around, but its just not the same.
6. You are a very treasured friend of mine. I can talk to you about everything and anything. We can be moral, deep, silly, idiotic, intellectual and emotional in our conversations. Sometimes i worry that you think i think less of you because of our differences, but that really isn’t it at all. I love you for who you are and who you are becoming. I love how you make time to see me, especially when its just us two.
7. You have actually changed a lot more than you think. You are much more confident than you used to be. I think your priorities have changed over the past year, maybe for the better.. maybe for the worse. I love how i can complain to you endlessly about everything going on in my life and you can do the same to me. I appreciate your presence in my life a lot more than i show.
8. We have had a bit of a dramatic relationship. We were really close, and then we weren’t. And now we are again. We both have a lot of similarities in our personalities which is probably why we get along so well. It upsets me that you don’t see the beautiful qualities that you possess, mainly because you let your insecurities get the better of you. Most of the time you come off as bubbly, but i think underneath it all you are sad and afraid. I wish i could make you happy.
9. Gosh i miss you so much. I didn’t think i would miss you as much as i thought i would, but you really did impact my life. I can’t wait for you to come back because you are a really good friend of mine. Seriously, come home.
10. We have a really similar sense of humour, which is why i like you so much. This year we have become much better friends and i’m really happy about this. I know you are going to be a big source of support for me over the next coming months and i hope i can do the same for you. Sometimes i think that there are a lot more thoughts that linger on your mind and you keep them to yourself, which is fine. I just want you to know that you can share anything with me, free of judgment.
11. I don’t even know where to start with you. I worry that sometimes i take you for granted and don’t treat you in a way that you deserve. But if i didn’t have you in my life i am certain that i would be a total mess.
12. A piece of my heart is now missing. I don’t know how i’m going to cope without you.
13. I really wish you and i were better friends. I only met you this year and from what i can see, you are a lovely person. You’re independent, sassy, gorgeous and silly. It upsets me that you are upset and not content with your life, because you have a lot going for you. It sucks that you’re leaving soon.
14. I really don’t understand what the fuck is up with you. Seriously. Is anything about you true at all? Your life must be really boring and uninteresting if you feel the need to make up so much shit to people who are supposed to be your good friends. Some reason you think we are friends even though i never have anything to say to you and i think you could possibly be a man.
15. I wish i didn’t think about you as much as i do. It hurts that you don’t see me the way i see you. I really wish we could have spent more time together. I hope that i get to see you again (and that you want to see me too).
16. I’ve changed so much since we first met, and i only realise this because i can see you haven’t changed at all. I don’t particularly want anything to do with you because you are simple minded and boring. I know you miss me, but i really don’t care. You’re not a good person (like you pretend to be) and you deserve all the shit that comes to you.
17. I think we have the potential to be really good friends, because i feel comfortable telling you stuff. However, this will never happen because you aren’t very honest with me or with yourself. I know you are obviously miserable with life, because you think it hasn’t treated you well. But honestly, you’ve got it pretty good.
18. Most of the time i think your heart is in the right place, but you do try a little too hard. We aren’t very good friends and most of the time i think you don’t like me, but only talk to me because you are close with my friends. I do find you to be interesting, even though you sometimes do silly things.
19. We are much better friends than you and i both like to realise or admit. You have let your guard down to me several times and i have done the same to you. We are both similar in that we can’t see our potential and think that we aren’t going anywhere in life. I like that you are proud of some of my achievements, but i want you to know that i am also proud of who you are growing up to become.
20. You’re a nice guy, but you honestly creep me out. You are always sweaty no matter the temperature. How you do this, i will never know.