chemical party

I recently opened a shop on Etsy, and I'm making handmade headbands to sell to all you lucky girls!
Check it out! (click the image to go to my shop)

1. Corio house value goes DOWN not UP
2. we can save more money
3. get settled in full time jobs before we make anything permanent
4. get bigger loan with 2 incomes -- be able to pay it easier too
   
5. building house option sounds better to me: can choose where we live, how we want the plans, and for about the same price as another good house that we would most definitely have to make changes to
   
6. buy in a place we can afford and where value goes UP
   

I just realised I haven't posted here for about a month!
Heaps of things have happened, and its just about christmas, everything has gone so fast!

In September I moved back home and at the moment love it for seeing Reece just about every day. and that's it.
I got a design work experience job one day a week in Torquay for Brown Ink Design.
Also got another job being a 'researcher' for Buddy UK. It's been pretty intense! Last night I worked 11-3am, had 3 hrs sleep, then did it again from 6-10am. insane!! I'm getting faster, and we get paid every 2 weeks so hopefully by the end of the month I'll be loaded!!

Now I'm studying for exams, I have a Transnational Marketing exam on Friday at bloody Caufield Racecourse, its going to be fun to get to! And on Monday we have our presentations and handover for Multimedia Project II. We have to do a few documents and finish our video before then though!

For our anniversary Reece and I have booked some accommodation in Lorne for the week. So we will be in Lorne from Tuesday 2nd til Friday 5th December! I hope it's hot! It has a spa, so if it's raining we'll be sorted! Can't wait to get away from the normal life also. I'm pretty sure we get breakfast included in our deal. All I think about is food!
Reece's 21st was a few weeks ago now, Glenn & I decided to organise to get Reece a double bass, so we got about 25 people in on it, and he LOVES it! The party was a hit, everyone dressed up and the bonfire afterwards was great! Lots of dancing and just getting messy really.

Next up is Tom's 21st, and Kristen's the next night. It's going to be a big weekend! I just can't wait to get exams finished...
Then Reece has a 6-week residency at the Ha'Penny Bridge Hotel in Geelong with his band Mr Magoo.. keep every Saturday from the 6th of Dec free and come down and party with us!
over and out.

life of late has encountered many things
like new jobs, travel, and new rings

ok I can't rhyme anymore.
I got some new jobs, and I'm travelling to Melbourne a lot still, but I didn't get new rings. I'm going to get new necklaces but not new rings. =O
I've started skipping to get stronger and fitter, it's a killer but I got a red skipping rope so it's awesome.
Can't wait to get my $100 cheque from the Brain Sciences Institute so I can get a haircut.
Can't wait to start earning money.
Can't wait til the new Frankie comes out.
Can't wait til Leisa's and Reece's 21sts. They are gonna rock my socks off. =D
CAN'T WAIT TIL SUMMER!

and that's all I feel like writing.

List of movies I am interested in seeing because of them being talked about so much:

• Cool Hand Luke
• Buena Vista Social Club
• The classics like Breakfast at Tiffany's etc etc
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Casablanca
• The Departed
• Burn After Reading
• Pineapple Express
• Kung Fu Panda
  

I ordered my 2009 Moleskine today. I also bought a Moleskine pocket notebook because I want to follow this GTD hack for Moleskine Notebooks from Eston Bond. It looks like I could really use it day-to-day, seeing as how I love lists and all. Looking through the compact calendars from David Seah also, I made my own from October 1st 2008 - October 1st 2009. It made me realise that within a year my whole life is going to be undergoing some massive changes.

I'll have finished my Multimedia (Business Marketing) degree by the time the calendar ends.
I'll be looking for jobs.
Everything will be changing, everyone will be getting older, and most of my friends will also be finishing their uni courses and going into the big wide world. Of course when you move from High School to Uni, that is also called moving into the big wide world. I guess each world becomes big when you don't know what is in it.

Nikon

I decided today that what I really want to do, is be a photographer.
I spend most of my life taking pictures, and gained the nickname papparazzi in high school.
I won a photography award in grade 5. I did photography in year 10, and loved it.
I figured its something I don't think I would hate if I had to do it everyday, and I reckon I'd really enjoy it. so why not give it a go?
So basically the rest of this year will be saving for a SLR camera, and re-learning what I learnt in year 10 about SLR cameras and how they work, and what makes a great and interesting photo.

The past couple of weeks have been a bit crazy, there has been so much happening.
I moved back to Geelong, and trying to organise my stuff back home has been a bit of a disaster. I have way too much stuff, and most of it I want to keep for when I move out again, so it's a matter of finding a spot where it will fit.
I've been loving seeing Reece everyday, it's such a change from the depressing non-Reece weekdays of Melbourne.

The only problem with living in Geelong is I've become so accustomed to Melbourne, and what I didn't realise was that it wasn't just uni keeping me there. It was everyone and everything. The city, the shopping, the hustle bustle, the closeness of EVERYTHING, how it actually has everything, the quality of everything is so much higher (i.e. food), and most of all, my mates. I miss seeing them whenever I like. I miss our random Tuesday night adventures. I miss just dropping in on people and going on expeditions to wherever we want. I was talking to someone the other day who said I will probably be travelling a lot for the first 3 months I'm back. I reckon that's true. I'll see how I go!

I've also been noticing what people have been noticing in me. Like my Dad noticing that I 'keep weird hours'. When he said that it was 10:30pm on a Sunday night and I was having a toasted sandwich for dinner, when they had had theirs 3 hours before. I get up early to do stuff, and other days I sleep half the day. I go out late, then get up early. I go to bed early yet sleep all day. I have no schedule as such, and this is what I'd do in Melbourne. I'd go supermarket shopping at 1am. I'd randomly go to Chadstone just for an hour after uni. Tait was saying how I'm a Melbourne person now, and everyone is expecting me to be how I was; a Geelong person. They are expecting me to be the same as I was when I lived in Geelong before uni. I think that is completely true as well. I've changed a lot and people haven't noticed, because I've been far far away.

Insanely sick. like sicker than I can remember I've ever been with just a 'normal' head cold. (as the doctor says)
Like I couldn't even move the other day I was so weak. and I threw up. and I couldn't breathe because of so much shit in my throat. and my throat hurts so much because of all the coughing. and my stomach hurts like hell because of all the coughing. my nose runs like a tap, but then it stops just randomly. and the headaches started a few weeks ago and they won't stop. it's like being bashed over the head every second. and I think I have that stupid medical condition back and it's only been gone a month... the one I'm not going to tell you about....GEEZ!! I'm so over this cold and it's been nearly 6 days. I wish it would LEAVE!!!

Mum helped me go through my wardrobes today. I threw out about 2 garbage bags full of shit, and another garbage bag full of stuff to donate. Reece, Kieran & Dad moved my massive arse couch into the dining room, and now we are ready to move tomorrow. They went and got the horse float too. Horse float... haha.

so tomorrow is moving day... early start, which means I better go to bed.
GOODNIGHT!

In no particular order:

Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
Big Chief - Jon Cleary
One of These Days - Santana
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Long Ride Home - Patty Griffin
You're an Ocean - Fastball
Make Yourself - Incubus
Faint - Linkin Park
What You See is What You Get - Save Ferris
Low Rider - War
We Can Go Anywhere - Jesse McCartney
Love & Memories - O.A.R.
To The Light Again - Newton Faulkner
St. James Infirmary Blues - Tom Jones & Jools Holland
Why Don't You & I - Chad Kroeger & Santana
Where'd You Go? - Jamie Lidell
Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds Five
Come By Me - Harry Connick, Jr
Pardon Me - Incubus
Honey Bee (When It Was Making Weird Love Songs) - The Vasco Era

Oracle Tarot Cards (Large Card Decks)

My tarot says I'm scared of opportunities but these are good for me, and I need to take control and knuckle down,
I'm going to have a big fight with a close loved one soon,
I'm going to have a lush future and that self fulfillment is fast approaching
people think I'm lazy, but I'm going to work hard at something and good things will come of it
and that moving back to Geelong will be the start of my life as we know it--resisting change will hurt.

I'm moving back to Geelong.
With my parents... in my old room.
To focus more on uni. To see more of Reece.
To stop wasting money on rent when I only need to be here for 2 days.

Apparently I can come and go whenever I want just as long as I don't interrupt Dad's sleep patterns. And Pie can come too. and they are paying for basically everything.... insane.

So I have to work out what stuff to put in storage and what stuff I want in my room. Big decision!
I've already taken mid-semester break off work, so I'll move back then. That's in 3 weeks time... After that I'll quit work and just stay in Geelong.

I've been thinking about it for a while anyway. I mean I was seriously going to move in with Jess until that kind of fell through... here's my pro's and con's:

Anyway, pro's clearly won. Mainly because of being nearer to Reece and because most of my mates are down there. I seem to spend more time travelling to Geelong each week than anything else, so I may as well be there all the time and save all the heartache.

So there's my story of the week. I'm going to have a bath.

In the meantime enjoy some random randoms. I got bored.