7 posts tagged “melbourne”
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.
The past week I've worked a shitload!! my week consisted of:
Monday: study day
Tuesday: 9:00am Multimedia Technology exam, then work 5:45pm til 1:00am (7hrs 15mins)
Wednesday: work 5:00pm til 1:00am (8hrs) (sleep for 4 hrs then go back to work the next day)
Thursday: work 9:30am til 7:00pm (9hrs 30mins)
Friday: work 2:45pm til 10:00pm (7hrs 15mins)
Saturday: Reece comes up Friday night, so Saturday is a bum around day, catch up day
Sunday: Reece leaves when I go to work. Work 3:00pm til 11:15pm (8hrs 15mins)
So that's a total of 40.25 hours. No wonder I'm sick as a dog!!
I was going to get a haircut with Brooke this morning but our hairdresser canceled on us, so I went to the doctor instead, after a 3 hour nap. It was crazy because I never sleep during the day!
I went to the doctor and she gave me some drugs, because as I'm flying to Sydney on Friday, I really don't want to get an infected ear like I always do when I'm sick. So I've started taking those now, so hopefully I'm right for Friday.
Apart from doing nothing today, I've found this new site -- kind of like eBay, but with handmade and vintage goods. It's called Etsy. So I found my outfit for our Mexican party next weekend: so that's gonna rock. and it's even from Mexico! Yay!
On this site I found a few more things that I'm interested in, as well as finding my old favourite from Free People. Of course Free People don't ship to Australia so I'm left here being sad over this beautiful dress. I'm thinking I just take a good look at the pictures and try to make it myself with the help of a few people.
Anyway the other things I found that I like are:
- A little purse
- Dress -- from France
- a sexy red dress
- Bluebell earrings -- for Brooke, they would totally suit her.
And of course I've been staring at my Free People dress all day. If anyone would like to buy it for me and send it to me in Australia it would be much appreciated. I will pay you back via PayPal!!
So that is my internet surfing for the day. Oh! And I found the most amazing cake I have ever seen here:
So this coming week consists of:
Monday: 2:45pm Doctor's appointment. Ellie's 15th birthday.
Tuesday: work 9:30am til 6:00pm. Kellie's 18th birthday also, not going back to Geelong in order to get better for the weekend.
Wednesday: work 6:00pm til 12:30am. nothing planned during the day.
Thursday: Work 11:30am til 5:30pm, travel back to Geelong and get organized to fly to Sydney the next day. Leave Pie at parents place. Stay at Reece's.
Friday: Arrive AT LEAST half an hour to check in for the 6:30am flight to Sydney. Maybe go to Sydney Aquarium?
Saturday: Sydney - 3:00pm see recording of Good News Week.
Sunday: 7:30pm flight back to Melbourne - Avalon. Get Pie and go back to Melbourne for 9:30am class on Monday.
Pie has been going crazy lately too -- she's been getting very affectionate, and because of this I can't cut her nails because she won't sit still! Here's some photos of her craziness...
In other news, there are 25 days to go til the Apple 3G iPhone is released in Australia!! Can't wait for this beauty =D
I think that's all the news for now, I'm just hoping I get better before Friday's adventures begin!
Let me know if you want to buy me a dress =D
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
back to uni it is...
I've been back for a whole week and I am exhausted.
I have four days of classes a week,
one hour monday
three hours tuesday
day off wednesday
five hours thursday
three hours friday
and then I've been working as well.
last week I did
monday 12 til 4 sapore (4:30 - 5:30 lecture in between) and 5:30 til 10 spudbar
tuesday day off
wednesday 12 til 5 sapore and 5:30 til 10 spudbar
thursday 5:30 til 10 spudbar
friday 5 til 8 sapore
so that equals 12 hours work at cafe sapore and 13.5 hours work at spudbar
on friday Reece drove up and picked me and Tom up from the station/safeway, and drove us home. I then had to go to Sapore to work, so he stayed in Camberwell for a bit and then came in when I finished up. We both bought new shoes from the Converse shop at the DFO (they're awesome!) then went to Lord of the Fries for dinner. Then caught a train back to Camberwell and drove home. Stayed up for a bit then went to bed.
Woke up on Saturday and got ready, went to the Pixar exhibition at Federation Square. It was pretty awesome! We saw all the sketches and drawings and research and casts of figurines that have to be done to be able to make these amazing 3D films they make possible and realistic.
We walked around for a bit and looked at the shop upstairs with merchandise, then went to some burger place and I had a burger and we shared some chips. not the best burger I've ever tasted. =S
Then as we were walking out of Fed Square there was a street performer, on a UNICYCLE! I had to watch. He was pretty funny too. He juggled knives and yelled a lot.
Then we went and got a slurpee from 7-11, and caught a tram home. It was bloody freezing, Mum said it was raining in Geelong so the rain was coming. We got home and I packed my things and we drove home basically. Picked up Tom on the way and then had KFC, bummed around at Reece's and then got a taxi into town.
First stop was Chief's, where we found Matt, Hudgy and a few other people. Tom got me onto Frangelico and OJ, tastes like orange chocolate. awesome =D Watched the band we watched a few weeks previously, with the middle-age singer thinking she's still about 15. yuk. Pretty dodgy guitar playing, but oh well. We spent most of the time outside.
Then Jess & Beck (and Gerard) met us at Chiefs, and we headed to Bended. We sat ourselves down in a booth and Jess, Beck & me had a few rounds of Frangelico & OJ. Then Jess got us a round of fruit tingles, tooo purpley for me. =S Drank half anyway.
Next stop was KFC, yes again. Reece had a burger and I had his large chips. Leigh and Glenn met us there and we watched the drunken idiots and the massive amount of chicken bones on the floor. yuk.
Tom wanted a kebab so he went and got one of those while we waited at the taxi rank. Waited for about 20 minutes before we got a cab because the line was so long! Got back to Reece's, and Tom continued on to Lara. Got into bed and went to sleep straight away I was that exhausted.
Woke up this morning and got out of bed and ready to go to Jess's for a spa!! Went home to get my bathers and also petrol for Reece, then out there. Spa was awesome, nice and hot on a cold day! Then came home and cooked chicken risotto for dinner as well as Mum's soup and pies.
Sorted out my lecture notes and now I'm going to bed. I'm getting my couch tomorrow, and my computer fixed then training it up to Melbourne for my 4:30 lecture then back home. Back to another working week without Reece. Even longer this time...a fortnight... because I'll have to work the weekend at Spudbar.
Another bout of torture. See you when I'm alive and functioning properly again.
my pet hate: people who whistle at you for attention. I'm not a fucking dog, asking politely for my attention might be a nice way of doing it
and I love it when customers are happy! makes me happy when they ask me to marry them just because I made them an awesome kick ass spud =D haha. (just like some guy did today) (first time spud eater hehe)
and I'm home alone. and Reece is jamming with Evan & Jason. good on him for seeing them, he hasn't seen them in ages, just sucks being alone. not even Cindy is here to cry at me!!!! Liz said I should have a long hot bath and drink wine. mmmm don't have wine, have vodka. better? I don't know.
Maybe I should study for my exams. I didn't bring my books up here, but I can do revision of lectures?? hahah.
I have to work tomorrow from 10:30 - 4, then I'm catching the train home... speaking of...
Stupid V/Line and Connex, YOU SUCK!!!! I caught a 12:35pm train from Geelong Station today, and usually a Geelong - Melbourne trip takes about an hour. THIS ONE TOOK 1.5 HOURS!!! And for about the last 20 minutes, we were sitting, not moving anywhere, for 20 minutes, OUTSIDE Southern Cross Station. Way to wreck my day eh? Then I get to the Connex train to Camberwell, and the next one is in 20 minutes. Lucky I got to my bus on time! I would have cracked it even more if that happened. Why can't we have a train network like anywhere else in the world, where if the train is late by even one minute the world is going to end. man.
I ordered some more Threadless tees last week and the week before. The week before's order should have come by now, but it hasn't. But they do say global mail takes 1-3 weeks or something, but in my experience it usually takes a week from when they say the order has been posted. Oh well. I'm getting a hoodie though! a red one "Doodlebug", black tee "Star Light Star Bright", pink tee "Oh No", black tee "Ctrl+Z", dark blue tee "I Heart Threadless" and brown tee "Haikus Are Easy But...". Reece is getting "Robot Dance Contest"
My other Threadless tees include:
- Rock Out With Your Cock Out
- We Can Fix It
- The Downside of Genetic Engineering
- Byebi
- Lil' Soap
- Some Choices Are Just Out Of Reach
- Pessimistic or Optimistic
- 99 Luftballons
- Peace and Hate. Can You Tell The Difference?
- Breaking the Sound of Music
I wore 2 shirts to work today, my "Rock Out With Your Cock Out" shirt underneath my Spudbar shirt because it was so bloody freezing! One guy asked me if I was cold, and believe it or not, I wasn't at all! 2 ovens and 2 shirts is a good mix =D
Haha anyway, that's about all my ranting for this evening, I don't know what I'm going to do now, but I have nothing left to say for today. Goodnight!
I am knackered. I am soooo tired!
Monday.
wake up 7:30. Shower etc, then bus/train to uni for 9:30 class. Bus runs into bus shelter and shatters half the glass, shattering all over elderly woman in walker. Could have slept in another half hour. =S Have 3 classes,
Bum around with mates. Go home. Dinner @ Holly & Maz's, then off to Comedy til 12am. Tram home, get back at 1am.
Tuesday.
Wake up at 9, bus/train to Megan's uni. Go to her lecture with Jasmine, then to bookshop.
Meet Liam at North Court to see The Vasco Era at 1pm.
Go to my uni after to get books & uni diary. Home. Straight to work, work from 5pm - midnight. Come home.
Check emails etc, bed at 1am.
Wednesday.
Wake at 6:30 to leave by 7:30. Have last night's dinner for breakfast, then walk to station, train to uni.
Lab from 8:30 - 10:30am. Train back to Camberwell, look at clothes at Cotton On.
Get foccaccia from Gloria Jeans, then tram to the end of my street.
Come home, wash clothes, bum around.
Megan gets home, wash dishes, put clothes on the line, swap music.
i'm just gonna write dot points so that I can write the whole thing later, i'm too tired at the moment!
- work
- fruit loops
- clean up
- drunken friends
- sisterhood of the traveling pants
- fruit loops
- city walk
- books
- thongs
- Reece
- tram
- transport
- bean$
- George's
- transport
- tired
- home
- big sleep
- wake
- johnny
- work
- george
- tram
- citadels
- talk
- sleep
- wake
- work
- top up
- train city
- train geelong
- fat sweaty complaining idiot
- home
- burn dvds
- mango
- eggs
- tired
- sleep
Victorian Speedway Council
Prodemas
Samata Yoga (not actually done yet, this is the old one)
Nichols Electrics
Laksmi Healing Centre
Anyway, i'll fill you in on my weekend later on when i'm more awake. See if you can figure out a story by the words!
