Day 165/172

Confession: I'm so behind in this blogging thing that i almost don't want to update it because it's too much hassle! Eeeee.

LIST MANIA!

STUFF I'VE FOUND CAN LIVE WITHOUT (NOW THAT I'M DESTITUTE)

- eating breakfast (that wasn't really a new one though)

- most fruit and vegies (bad, i know. tomatos & cheese are pretty much it)

- doing any washing (not related to finances at all, but still somewhat relevant)

- tram tickets (although i DID get a fine on Saturday morning. The only day I actually HAD money to buy a ticket. Coz i only had a ten dollar note so couldn't use the tram machine. damn it.)

- Oreos

- Juice

- Frankie (SO HARD though! It came out 4 days ago & i don't have it yet +cries+)

- a diary (SO ANNOYING! Double bookings all over the shop!)

- Chocolate (my chocolate intake has dropped by 99%.. terrifying, i know.)

STUFF TO THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE A HOUSE FULL OF PEOPLE

- "Have I spoken to every group in the last hour?"

- "Is everyone talking to someone else?"

- "Is there blood anywhere?"

- "Do we have enough toilet paper?"

- "Is it rude to show friends your housemates room?"

- "Are the people in the tree likely to fall out and hurt themselves/die?"

MISCELLANEOUS

- Guys wearing nail polish is never okay

- Burns hurt

- Trams and trains are just as bad as each other

- Finding a good hairdresser is really hard

- Hoyts suck

EVENTS/OCCASIONS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

- Getting my lisence back next month!!!! There's a countdown happening folks! I work it into conversation every day!

- Danielle's baby shower

- Andy's baptism

- Catching up with Kirsty & Anna & Sarah & Kanan

- Soundwave

EVENTS THAT HAVE OCCURED IN THE RECENT PAST (IE. THE LAST WEEK) THAT DESERVE A MENTION

- Our housewarming

- Grace's birthday shenanigans

ARBITRARY MUSINGS

Full time work is going to be scary. 9 hours days are looooong days! I don't think i'm going to have much of a life. People are kind of like, you'll have your weekends! But i'll have a routine.. a sleep pattern.. if i break it on the weekends, i'll be stuffed forever.

Being broke is a really weird feeling. I've always just borrowed five bucks off mum, or dipped into my savings.. i'm not used to having nothing at all AND having to feed myself and pay rent :s AND my phone bill! Damn. Forgot about that. I have so much to pay for in the next few weeks. I'm not too stressed though, which is a nice change. It's all just a bit of a change of perspective. I'm trusting that God's gonna provide, and so far he has been! He is so good to me! It's almost ridiculous.

I really have to watch my language at work. I swear like a sailor when i'm there, it's awful.

so i'm finally getting over my sickness, twelve days later. I'm still a little hoarse at times and a bit coughy, but otherwise feelin' goooooooooooooooood.

I keep thinking of honestly interesting stuff that I could write in here, but because I keep putting it off, i forget it. And you all get to read pages and pages of meaningless, self centered dribble. FUN!

I really want to see "He's Just Not That Into You" - i missed out on seeing it with a) my brother b) my housemates c) beach mission people d) jess & mel - FREAKING ANNOYING! I WANT TO SEE IT!

So You Think You Can Dance is on again. I haven't watched it as devotedly as last year. Mostly because church is on at the same time.. and they feed me.. so free food vs. dance! it's a big deal. I've been choosing food/conversation but i think i'll have to work on that. I miss Dance!! OH & the stupidest thing is that I go to watch the videos on their website, but they "cannot play the original track due to copyright issues." so they dub some random track over it.. SO LAME. No kudos!

On the subject of kudos, i went to Christchurch last week and again this week. It's nice there. I like it, i think. The first week I went I was really impressed with the teaching, which is strange because usually i sort of judge it by the music.. i know, bad. But i don't JUDGE judge them.. just.. yeah. I sort of see if I like the music. Because being a musician means that if i think i can do better, i spend my time thinking about that instead of focusing on worshipping.

But the point of the story is that i really learnt from the teaching more than anything else. which was different, but nice.

LMFF is nearly on again. I can't really afford to go to any of the shows but GOSH i'm dying to. I love Fashion Week.

Here are lots of music pictures that i like.

Day 164

Had a sweet as Valentine's Day, mostly because I forgot it was on.

I'm definitely viral.. which sucks. Stupid sickness.

I woke up with eyes redder than a vampire's and no voice.

So I did nothing all day, really.

Went to Bunnings at one point.

Stayed in that night, watched Lock Stock with the housies and ate fudge.

Best.

Day 163

FRIDAY

job trial

Freaking nervous - trial time eeee!

Relieved - i can still make good coffee, phew.

In love - industrial style/strength coffee machine, so good!

Determined - got the job, YESSS. Wage = not spectacular but i'll make it work!

Amazingly thankful - i was only unemployed for something like 6 weeks.. pretty lucky

Yyyyyyyyellow? Okay I have nothing for Y.

most recently played

shout outs to:

Charm (thanks for coming and taking me out!)

Darts (you're pretty rad)

Sarah (love your necklace!)

Ryan (over 40 night?! Haha)

Day 157/162

THIS WEEK I..

- Went to Hawthorn West Baptist and sat on a couch instead of a normal chair during their service = (Y)

- Volunteered at a bushfire relief donation point in Brunswick *

- Met up with Kat for coffee

- Got fooled by a couple of people I thought I could trust *

- Went to a job interview at a cafe in Carlton on Tuesday & made a trial time for Friday

- Got sick

- Lost my voice *

- Went & hung out with Mum & Ren

- Got a cute dress from Kmart for $17. Bargain! (Actually, Mum bought it. But it was still a bargain!)

- Thoroughly enjoyed cooking for myself

- Went grocery shopping with my dear housies (always an interesting experience)

- Stayed sick (lame)

THIS WEEK I LEARNT THAT..

- My housemates really are a terrific bunch of people.

- I never realised how far you can stretch one onion.

- I suck at remembering anything without a diary.

- Hawthorn really is ridiculously close to things.

- I honestly do hate to be alone for long periods of time.

- I'm a little too trusting at times.. a lot of the time.

- It's really easy to catch trams without a ticket.. +gasp+

- Living with neat people can be awesome and frustrating!

NOTES:

On the bushfires: i've heard so many stories of loss and hurt and devastation.. it's hit so close to home and i'm still sort of reeling from how intense this situation is. There were fires not even 2km from my Mum & Dad's! Working at the relief centre was so encouraging.. so many people just walking past, dropping in fifties, tens, twenties..! There was one girl who couldn't have been more than 17 years old - she was crying super hard & told me that her mum's best friend lost ones of her children, a girl, and the other one has third degree burns...... :(

On friendships and relationships: I'm trying really hard to give this part of my life over to God.. Trusting people is way too easy and it's too often that people are not what I think they are. I'm not going to stop seeing the best in people, i'm just going to stop trusting them with my.. anything! Haha.. I'm funny :|

Having a man-voice: I HATE being sick, but my throat is the worst place to be unwell.. i've had a croaky voice and a sore throat for a week now and its the WORST!!!! That's my whinge. The end.

Day 156

So my first day in the house was pretty fun.

Even though it was RIDICULOUSLY HOT.

Let's do numbered events and stuff.

1. There were fires everywhere, there was apparently one near Mum & Dad's - I called them to make sure they were okay but they had no idea what I was talking about so I assume the danger wasn't too great!

2. Phil & Kate were over.. & Neil.. we spent the best part of the day on the internet, on the Bureau of Meteorology site. They have this live temperature graph, and Phil was sitting there cheering it on. For some crazy reason he wanted it to get to 50 degrees!? The heat was made worse by the wind - gale force and HOT!

3. At about lunchtime someone mentioned pizza, so we went and got some.. +shrugs+ Because, you know.. hot pizza has always been my choice of food on 46 degree days. It was great pizza though.

4. Back to the online temperature thing though.. when the cool change came through, it was like.. WOW.. the graph line dropped ten degrees in something like, 15 minutes.

I have never been that excited about the weather before.

http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/melbtemp.html

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NUMBER OF TIMES I RANG MY MOMMY - 3

TEMP DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MY ROOM & DOWNSTAIRS - 15 degrees (approx)

5. In the PM it was time for Scripture Union Summer Celebration! WOOP!

There were about 3 cars of us going in from the house & it was so good to see a percentage of the team there :) we (as in, Tidal River SUFM) cleaned up the photo comp, taking first AND second prize!

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BOTTLES OF WATER CONSUMED IN THE HOUR & A HALF SERVICE - 2

NUMBER OF TIMES WE SANG THE CHORUS OF EACH SONG - 9827459842

6. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ESTO! Had the best fun meeting up with him in the city, a group of us went dancing. I met a couple of NZ girls who bought me a shot <3>

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COST OF A TAXI FROM SOUTH MELB TO MY NEW PLACE - $21.70

NUMBER OF TIMES LILLIS AND I NEARLY PUNCHED ON - 845792784561 (love you man)

Day 155

AM.

I am an emotional & physical wreck from this whole moving business.

So tired.

Painted this morning, finished the wall. I think it looks good. We had some issues with patchiness and bad masking tape not doing it's job, but for an amateur paint job i think it looks fiiiine.

ARVO. 

And i'm super teary today, weird?

I'm fine with living away from the 'rents.. obviously i'll miss them because they're awesome but I've worked through that.. but today I've been crying at everything. The very thought of moving everything. Conversations about whether I should come home again tonight or just stay. Looking at my empty room. Thinking about how my brother will be living in it. Cleaning out my stuff. 

So silly.

Changed plans when we heard Saturday was gonna be 44 degrees, and we're moving all my furniture to my new place tonight. Means I'll start living there as of today. Don't really know if i'm ready for this whole living out of home junk. but here it goes.

PM.

Moved everything. Isaac helped Dad get the heavy stuff off the trailer - thanks so much dude!!

Hannah & Lauren & Zac helped my set up my room which meant I was nice and surrounded by people and pulled together.. So basically didn't turn into a blubbering mess when my folks left. 

I think if i had been on my own my first night I might have been a total crybaby.

I'm looking forward to living here, but not as much as i'm looking forward to sleeping tonight.

Day 153/154

Get up.

Pack car full of stuff.

Drive to Hawthorn.

Paint.

Eat.

Come home.

Clean.

Sleep.

Repeat.

Day 152

I remember what I did last night :) I went and saw Gran Torino with Charmaine & Ryan.

It was good. Clint Eastwood was kind of scary in his racist old man intensity. 

I cried at the last scene but I think the ending was spoiled by Mr Eastwood singing a super cheesy song over the credits. His voice is so gravelly & low! 

Then Jamie Cullum took over and it was okay. 

Seriously though, the cheese factor was HUGE. Baaaad. Then we got snack wraps.. it was a fun night.

Today is the beginning of the moving process. Mum & I are heading down to the house to put the undercoat on and stuff. I should be living in Hawthorn by Saturday. 

Sweeeeeeet.

Scary?

Day 151

Monday's events have escaped me.

Sorry folks.

Day 150

Today was, I think, my last Sunday at HPBC.

Kind of sad.

Caught up with Nadia, a designer I used to model for, had a great time filling each other in on what we've been up to. She's so lovely!

Went Bollywood dancing with BM people, got home really late. It was awesome fun!!!!!!!! Bollywood rockssss.

Took some cool as pics on Grace's camera coz i forgot to put the battery back in mine. Oops.

Here are some more fun pictures.