6 posts tagged “life”

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.

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.

 

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.

1. Travel overseas
2. Go on a holiday just me & Reece --- happening, perth for our anniversary for maybe two weeks!!
   
3. See David Letterman live!
   
4. Make home-made soup
   
5. Buy a house - get married - have kids
6. Get a well-paid job doing fun things
7. Go supermarket shopping in my pyjamas
8. Finish uni and do some other studies successfully
9. Sell Beck's shoes on eBay
10. See Incubus live
11. Get a manual red Mini Cooper with a white roof

(I always think of these during the day, but now I'm writing it down I forget....=S)

Lately I have been so busy, that travelling to geelong and back is kind of a pain in the arse. Want to know why?
It's because i'm there for so little time. My last trip, was Friday night. I returned sunday morning to work. That's pathetic!! It not only means me packing everything up just after I pulled it out, but travelling on trains close together, and the MAIN point, not seeing Reece nearly enough as I should!! =(

The good part about all this travelling though is I have actually had time to read my book I've been trying to finish for the past...well, forever. I've been so busy lately, I don't really have a day off, and even if i do have some spare time, I'm usually too tired to do anything. So finishing this book has been a great milestone for me!! It was another epic by Jodi Picoult (I don't really think I can call her novels 'epics', but oh well, they are great and have an awesome climax at the end.) and it was called Nineteen Minutes. The opening paragraph basically summed up the whole book. You can do anything in nineteen minutes. You can fold washing for a family of 5. You can have a checkup at the dentist. You can basically have a meal. You can do all these things, and it was there to show us that nineteen minutes isn't really that much time. And in this book, nineteen minutes is all it takes to kill 10 people and injure many many others in a high school shooting, where the dead and injured were not the only victims, but the shooter as well. There was a great turn at the end but i won't give it away for all those Jodi Picoult readers who haven't finished it yet. But the ending made me think. One of the main characters in the story was best friends with the shooter when they were younger, and she always stuck up for the shooter because he was always picked on at school and kindergarten, in life really. In the end she stands by her friend, but she also lost her boyfriend and many of her friends in the 'plastics' group at the same time. I felt incredibly sad for her because she lost everyone, but proud of her at the same time because she stuck up for her friend who was copping shit from the same people she was friends. It made me think that I couldn't bear to lose Reece. I don't know how I would survive, and thinking about it I probably wouldn't. I would rather have died with him than to be the one left behind. Josie (the girlfriend and friend in the book) went to her boyfriends grave every day and spent the whole day there just talking to him/his grave. I would probably lock myself in my room and never come out as well. It would take me a while to get over it.

Now that was my story about life and death, onto my best friends in the whole wide world. Beck and Jess!! I have probably talked to Jess a helluva lot more this week, so I have more goss on her. She has a new boyfriend!! She has been house-sitting this place out at Wallington for the past couple of weeks, and getting quite drunk and sick in the process. She has been through a lot while she's been there, her great grandma has died, Jacob (her brother) has been in emergency for an infection, and she has gained a new boy! Reece and I drove out to Wallington in his new car (that's another story), and we met the lovely Leigh who lives in a mansion. The biggest house I have ever seen, that has a cellar, a beautiful pool and spa, and a friggen statue that is twice the size of any human being that doubles as a water feature in the front of his house. bloody hell. haha. Well, anyway, Leigh is awesome, and I'm really happy for Jess. He's really really nice and seems like he will fit perfectly in with...our kind of group? Anyway, Jess has been staying out there and her mum knows about them being a couple, but not her dad because he would crack it because they are basically living together! =O. His parents know and are very happy about it too, so a good match on their behalf =D yay for happiness!! ANyway on her staying out at this mansion, she has gotten drunk, and sick, in that order.  Got a phone call at about ... forgot the time of the first call, but pretty early in the morning, from a drunk Jess. Telling me that there was going to be a party in a week's time, and then telling me again, and again...and again... like talking to someone with alzheimers!! It was funny. She was slurring her words like crazy, and sounded very happy. Then talked to her again at like 5am, then again at about 8am. Such funny conversations =D So now, a week later, she is quite sick, on antibiotics, her brother has crashed into a supermarket window and basically broken it, and her great grandma has died after a long illness. So I hope she is feeling better soon and that everything goes back to its non-hurty-ness soon. Love ya Jess! (P.S. i've been looking at those roundy chairs, looks like we can get 2 for a hundred bucks at fantastic furniture. red? =D)

Now onto Beckles. She has been quite busy like me, because I haven't talked to her that much in the past couple of weeks. She has been running into the lovely Gerard (not so lovely in our books, the lip-raper?!) quite a bit and is not liking it very much, and she has also been teaching kids how to play piano quite a bit, is going for an audition playing a piano at a restaurant, and has been all over the place with uni, and planning to move out really soon. I hope she's keeping herself healthy, because we dont' need any more sickness!

It will be great this weekend, because Jess's Leigh is having a party at his mansion on friday night, and the terrible trio will be there or be square. Can't wait for the festivities. And, onto getting there...Reece bought a car!! He came up for the day Tuesday last week and stayed the night, leaving early Wednesday to go to work, and Wednesday night i get a message saying..."i bought a car!" I was at work, and wanted to scream. I was so excited!!! His very own car. His very own freedom. HOW ExCITING! So it's a silvery commodore, station wagon, came with a Tom Petty cd and handsfree kit including the phone. So this silvery station wagony commodore is now named Petty, the brother to dear Betty, driven by Beckles. I can't wait to get my own car!!!!!!

because.... I HATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT!!!! I had my worst experience with a taxi last week, I think it was either Wednesday night or Thursday night getting a taxi home from Spudbar. I called, watched about 25 taxis drive past me and look at me like I was an idiot for about half an hour, and then finally one pulled up when I ran in front of it, but lucky me it was another dumbass indian. This one stank like every Indian does, but he was even stupider than any other Indian I'd ever been in a taxi with. I said to him, "Its the next street on the right, just before those lights". So what did he do? He drove right past my street. Stopped to turn around because i yelled "YOU MISSED IT!!!" at him. So he turned back and went down my street. Now my street is very long, so after a while I said "And you can pull over just after these cars on the left. He drove straight past these cars, so I'm like "right here!!!!". So what did he do? HE TURNED FUCKING RIGHT, and parked on the opposite side of the street. Which in anyone's books, is illegally parked. I paid him and slammed the door, walked the 10 houses back to my house and kept on being angry. I also hate that buses run every 30 minutes when you need it every 10, and I hate that they are always late.

I've been working a crapload lately, I find myself waking up just because I'm so used to waking up to go to work every day, even though I don't work every day!! Last week I worked Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at Sapore, and this week I worked Monday, am working Friday night and Saturday. But in between, I'm working for Tim, one of the customers at Spudbar with him at RMIT for the next 2 wednesdays, and Spudbar my usual Wed & Thurs nights, plus sunday morning this week to fill in for Tori who can't do it this week. My week is a bit insane! This weekend is extremely busy though, because I'm going to Leigh's party in Geelong after work, training it back to work Sapore Saturday, working sunday Spudbar, then training it back again to see Nan & Pop and Reece, and then train back monday arvo sometime, that's if i'm not working. So my week looks like this:

Monday - worked Sapore 12 - 4:30, supermarket shopping when I got home.
Tuesday - uni 3:30 - 6:30, homework day!
Wednesday - work for Tim 10 - 4ish in the city @ RMIT, then back to Hawthorn for Spudbar 5:30 - 10:30
Thursday - uni from 8:30 - 2:30, Spudbar 5:30 - 10:30,  fit in some actionscript and 3d homework at some point
Friday - uni 11:30 - 2:30, Sapore 5:30 - 9, train back to Geelong then drive to Wallington, either stay @ Reece's or Wallington
Saturday - train to melbourne, work Sapore 11 - 5, go get key for Spudbar later on
Sunday - work Spudbar 10:30 - 4, train back to Geelong, see Nan & Pop, probably stay at Reece's
Monday - train back to melbourne early if working, later if not.

There!! That's my exhausting week. The good thing about this week though, is that I got paid 3 times! twice for the past 2 weeks at Sapore that I forgot to pick up, and once for the fortnight of work at Spudbar. I'll probably also get paid from Tim for one shift at RMIT =D lots of money for Sarah =D =D Speaking of all this money, that in turn makes my savings account very happy. Yay for a car for Sarah to avoid this public transport crisis VERY SOON!!! =D =D more smilies =D

And while I've been working at DFO quite a bit, I've been going early just to shop around a bit. Tim has been telling me that where we are working it's in a sunny place, so bring your sunnies. I've said to him that I don't have any anymore! Mine are scratched to buggery. So there comes the "Find Sarah Some Sunnies Search". The search finally ended on Friday night before work, where I finally found my dream pair at one of the shops at DFO, for only $20!! Reece said I looked really kool =D so yay for that! My search is over. The other thing I love about working at the DFO, is that we get 20% off stuff. Like I got my haircut the other day at one of the salons there, well the only GOOD one there that isn't Hairhouse Warehouse, and it was only $52 down from like 60 something because I worked there. It was awesome. And they are a salon that do everything at a good price, just like my old hairdresser in Geelong did. They wash your hair, give you a head massage and all the while you are in a massage chair, and they do an awesome job of cutting your hair, then they blowdry it! More than I can say for a lot of salons in Melbourne. They charge top dollar, then all they do is cut it and let it dry by itself, or, an extra $10 just to get it dried. BULLSHIT YOU i say. haha.

Speaking of working at the DFO, I had a few old friends come in on Monday. Hana & Claire McKenzie, Hana being the new superstar of R 'n' B trying to make it on the music scene as Hana-Jade. Well done to her I say!! Anyway, they were down from Brisbane because Hana had to go over some stuff and sign contracts with a producer or something. She said she has a gig in Melbourne in a couple of weeks so I'll have to grab a few friends and go check her out. Should be a fun time!! They both had doughnuts, and loved them. hehe. Claire was asking about my parents (even though she'd only seen them a few weeks ago), and I told her about Dad marshalling at one of Kieran's dirt bike racing track meets. He got cleaned up by one of the riders and has basically one side of him covered in a huge yellow, purple and black bruise. This, luckily was down his right side, and he is left handed so it hasn't taken him away from any work at all! They brought the ambulance out to the track because they thought he'd broken his arm/wrist, but he was just beat up very badly...poor dad. Claire thought this was hilarious and said it had made her week. I found it pretty funny that it made her week. What a week she must be having lol.

And I think that's about all my ranting for now, I'm kind of typed out at the moment, and I don't think I have any more news! When I do get some more news, you'll be the first to know!!
peace xox

So I'm sitting here bored.

Reece was meant to come over after his enrolment, but he got there at 1:45 and I think it started at 1 and they ran him all over the place so he's not here yet. It's 3:55. He went and got a chair from Officeworks which is pretty kool, the old one is completely falling apart. He needs a new one badly! He sounds like he likes it so that's great =D

I got my external hard drive today, it works a dream. i love it!

I got a new laptop last week, so I have been transferring all my stuff and installing all the programs I had.
I just found DVDShrink, and it didn't work properly on my old laptop because it had a dual-layer dvd burner, and so does this one, but I decided to try it out. I don't know the outcome yet...

My sleeping patterns lately have been all over the place. I seem to be going to bed/sleep at around 2:30/3AM, and waking up near midday. crazy...

I found a new blog site, it's called wordpress.com. It's basically the same as VOX, I'm trying to figure out the differences..

I've been working weekends lately, I worked Tuesday night, Saturday night and Sunday morning last week, and this week it is Thursday night, Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Reece goes back to school on Monday. It will be a bit weird for both of us, we have been so used to seeing each other every day, and when I go back to uni in a month it's going to be even worse. I hate going back to uni purely because of the withdrawals we get! But I am excited to go back, to check out my new classes and meet some new people as well as catch up with all my old mates. I wonder what it's going to be like travelling to uni every day too. I'm so used to waking up and walking out the door to find I'm already there.

I've decided I'm going to get fit, and save for a car this year. That is my goal. I don't know how the get fit part is going to work, it might just fall over like a piece of shit, but I hope the saving goes well. I haven't saved anything at all yet, when my pay goes in tomorrow that's when I start. Oh! And I want to go to the Camberwell Market on a Sunday morning. That would be awesome. To see that car park packed full of stalls, I hope it's a good one. I want to go at least once this year!

I really need to clean my room!! Also my room in Camberwell, I need to buy some new sheets because I only have one set. Need to flip my mattress as well. It might start to sink!

That's all for now, nothing really new in my life. I'm going to the movies and lunch tomorrow with Beck & Shelley, and then Thursday working. I don't know what's happening after that. I can't think that far ahead!!