tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67987502011-10-12T03:47:07.715+10:30thinking in shades of greyThis is just a blog for thoughts - some of them lyrical, poems and prose that come of out my head, or others that speak to me.
Just a random outlet.
An area of free association.
Feel free to comment.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-89634834149513436012011-07-13T02:52:00.002+09:302011-07-13T02:56:24.030+09:30This blog has been archived.Please feel free to peruse past posts from the sidebar.Thanks to all those who kept checking in and watched my journey over the last 7 years.Much love and light to you all.Peace-The Pirate Girl.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-82643928302363292692011-06-05T18:41:00.002+09:302011-06-05T18:49:24.576+09:30I'm just a Puddle of Glumthis is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.com'...Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things:- trees and grass and sun and moon and stars... Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones.Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world.Well, it strikes me a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-78508260267040460742011-05-21T19:36:00.002+09:302011-05-21T20:11:58.613+09:30this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comWell, it's Saturday: the day foretold as the coming of The Raptor.Those Christians with media releases have been telling everyone they can that the Raptor is coming to kill all the sinners and save those who believe.They were unclear as to why or how the great Raptor was doing this. They neglected to detail what weaponry he was a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-58776819504476568172011-05-09T15:36:00.000+09:302011-05-09T15:39:09.801+09:30this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.com"it's going to rain, my knees are telling me...""what?""my knees... they know the weather... why do you think they talk about 'El KneeKnow' (El Nino) systems?"/boombooma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-41420059494735897492011-05-09T00:27:00.001+09:302011-05-09T00:29:19.523+09:30Love Song For No One - John MayerStaying home alone on a FridayFlat on the floor looking backOn old loveOr lack thereofAfter all the crushes are fadedAnd all my wishful thinking was wrongI'm jadedI hate itI'm tired of being aloneSo hurry up and get hereSo tired of being aloneSo hurry up and get hereGet hereSearching all my days just to find youI'm not sure who I'm looking forI'll know itWhen I a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-23646729828535618542011-04-05T00:05:00.003+09:302011-04-06T03:06:19.466+09:30so grown upthis is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comI feel like I've reached some form of adulthood :I'm voluntarily eating my healthy home-cooked meal at the dining table......I mean sure, I'm eating straight from the cooking pot it was prepared in, and I've my latop in front of me while I chat online, but hey, it's a start right? :Pa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-77444901267438216762011-04-03T21:42:00.004+09:302011-04-06T03:17:15.607+09:30why couldn't my dad have been this rad???this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comDad makes a custom made Geek's growth chart consisting of various sci-fi characters on geekologie.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-5228825470428919892011-04-03T18:12:00.001+09:302011-04-03T18:14:15.141+09:30Dulcius ex Asperis 'beyond the difficulty lies the sweetness'a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-44397196476210503632011-03-20T17:58:00.000+10:302011-04-03T22:01:17.466+09:30Pixel Piratethis is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comfor those of you who enjoy a good 8-, 16-, or 32-bit background, here's part of one for you to use free of charge! I'll whip up some more soon to expand the tile and make it a little less repetitive. Enjoy!a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-1856688464685540742011-03-14T20:25:00.001+10:302011-04-06T03:14:21.298+09:30"I love you.I mean, you know, not in like a 'hey let's have an underpants party' or whatever grownups do when they're in love, but I mean...I mean, I love you as one loves another person whom one simply cannot do without."-Stewiea blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-29102062963940938532011-03-13T17:12:00.002+10:302011-03-13T17:15:23.973+10:30thoughts on other motel gueststhis is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comYou know you're loud when even I contact reception and ask them to tell you to shut up.And yeah, I can hear you bitching about being told off. Deal with it.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-15969164143266017782011-03-09T22:29:00.003+10:302011-03-09T22:35:15.188+10:30Just Sayin'this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comPretty sure I'm rather rad. And so is the little Ferris wheel I'm on that I call my existence at the moment.That's right. Life is one long night in the Rad Fairgrounds, where the air smells of popcorn and the fairyfloss won't rot your teeth or make you fat no matter how much you eat, and the sideshow attendants don't a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-25017073945651949262011-03-02T19:52:00.001+10:302011-03-02T19:52:29.736+10:30working trail 02this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comfollow my trail on the mapView PirateGirlVix's Working Trail 02 in a larger mapa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-1530842661406670672011-02-14T19:16:00.000+10:302011-02-14T19:17:22.881+10:30Stupidity only a mother could love this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comThis is at the viewing appointment for a photography shoot that took place the day before. Please note: The child was whiney and uncooperative, the mother simple and interfering.Another note: Due to my awesomeness, I actually managed to get some really pretty shots while still making the kid a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-35106376213832811162011-02-06T23:57:00.002+10:302011-02-07T00:16:54.702+10:30wtf is going on?this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comSo, Australia has been hit with a chain of natural disasters within the last couple of weeks (floods, cyclones, bushfires - my working roadtrip route has to be checked daily to ensure my safety), and within the last 10days four people that I either know or are important to people near me have passed away - none ofa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-65916561737660177192011-02-06T22:47:00.002+10:302011-02-06T22:58:27.533+10:30Ah Television!this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comNCIS-Los Angeles: *talking about the elusive suspect* "this guy is about as invisible as anyone I've ever seen!"...wait, what?McDonald's ad: "Or try our (Heart Foundation) Tick-Approved Chicken something or other burger..."What I heard: "Or try our chicken-proof chicken..."Good, cos we don't want chicken eating a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-72697755570191611472011-01-31T16:13:00.002+10:302011-01-31T16:15:47.721+10:30working trail 01this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comfollow my trail on the mapView PirateGirlVix's Working Trail 01 in a larger mapa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-3169648191742333632011-01-27T19:49:00.003+10:302011-03-02T19:50:50.465+10:30motel spa win!this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.complayed with many many paper aeroplanes yesterday, for the first time in many many years. I'd forgotten not only how to construct them, but how fun they were once we remembered. XDa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-89777503555368647112011-01-20T18:05:00.004+10:302011-01-20T18:42:28.751+10:30*tip hat* from Cowra... get it?!? a cowtip!-_- ....oh, shut up.this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comSo here I am in Cowra, NSW, about to begin a new photography role. wish me luck.The 13-or-so hour drive has left me pretty brainless at the moment.By the time you get to the 10th hour you start to believe there has been nothing else in your life but you and the a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-13917355543089339432011-01-11T20:50:00.001+10:302011-01-11T21:22:57.381+10:30this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.comAllie, my new hero, explains why she will never be an adult on Hyperbole and a Halfhttp://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.comHer illustrations always make me lose it./raise glassa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-68944599868593227292010-12-24T00:39:00.005+10:302011-04-04T02:06:17.708+09:30Thus the year draws to a close, and my promise of being a slightly more active blogger this year seems to be slightly unfulfilled, and for this I blame Facebook and Google Buzz.Between the two of them one can find exactly what I'm thinking or feeling about any current situation or issue, and in some cases actually be provided with an accurate pinpoint of my location during my worktravels.This a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-82942630939594943372010-12-21T16:09:00.002+10:302010-12-21T16:50:14.151+10:30Tom Baker is the greatest Doctor of all time!Close-close-closely followed by David Tennant.They are both rediculously beautiful, and beautifully rediculous./fangirlIf you're stuck on what to get me for Christmas, a copy of 'Who on Earth is Tom Baker? - An Autobiography' would be lovely.Thankyou in advance.Love from me.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-69067803696676278092010-12-07T20:19:00.000+10:302010-12-07T20:19:12.175+10:30The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody)a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-84898690012147566162010-10-10T10:10:00.002+10:302010-10-10T10:18:51.730+10:30Happy Ten:Ten, Ten/Ten/Ten everyone!this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-54822729870806358622010-10-10T07:29:00.002+10:302010-10-10T07:38:00.998+10:30Adelaide Zombie Walk 2010my small encounter this yearLocation: at the North Tce pedestrian crossing lights....Majority of bystanders: Wtf? why is there a messy guy COVERED in blood with a necktie on his head crossing the street? Omg. Look away he must be a crazy. Avoid eye contact.Small percentage of bystanders: Hey, um, that guy is dressed like Shaun of The Dead... but... why?? I don't get ita blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-81096266336314356272010-10-05T08:59:00.005+10:302010-10-11T12:21:23.787+10:30things that have gone through my head recently that need sharing:oh my god. I just cooked something. from scratch. and I actually thought 'ooh I'll use that red wine'. and it didn't come out too bad.... you know what this means? that the adult-ness is finally creeping in upon me... i feel so dirty, I must shower and draw stars in the steam and then go find some mud to play in/track back in a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-72880995027014063972010-09-29T12:17:00.001+09:302010-10-11T12:20:17.777+10:30pretty sure i've been put in the Too Hard basketthis is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-46091403413633167102010-09-19T08:26:00.002+09:302010-09-19T08:31:54.044+09:30This really tests our relationship you know.You can't treat me this way, you can't just decide last minute you're not coming home cos you'd rather stay out all night with your friends. You can't just not call me all the time you're out while i try to sleep wondering what you're doing and if you're all right. You can't just come in thru the door in the morning like nothing happened, not even a a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-43640571021103690302010-09-16T17:53:00.001+09:302010-09-16T17:53:52.972+09:30a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-64975318820742522872010-09-06T07:48:00.002+09:302010-09-06T07:53:44.191+09:30Another Song Postnow this one I really really do relate to :P(Hope It) Gives You Hell - All American Rejectsdownload the mp3 and see the video hereI wake up every eveningWith a big smile on my faceAnd it never feels out of placeAnd you're still probably workingAt a 9-to-5 paceI wonder how bad that tastesWhen you see my faceHope it gives you hellHope it gives you hellWhen you walk my wayHope it a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-23293851131491493232010-09-04T08:18:00.002+09:302010-09-04T08:21:00.226+09:30since a recent post is absent - in its stead I give you a track from The Divine Comedy's Absent Friends albumI don't hugely relate to the story personally... but my word, how the music stirs me.*sigh*/orchestra pop love.this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-18564353692707442052010-08-20T22:07:00.002+09:302010-08-21T00:44:21.158+09:30i'm sitting in my car in the city after work. I'm waiting for Dave to finish so i can give him a lift home.All around me are people my age or even younger, oblivious that this parked car has eyes and ears, milling in all directions clouded with alcohol.Anyone who doesn't understand my reasons not to become intoxicated must not see what I see every week.I see in these people waste and no self a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-45972013391678145532010-08-20T17:52:00.000+09:302010-08-20T17:53:56.642+09:30thoughts about my last customer:"I dont care how tough you think you look with your leather jacket and handlebar moustache, dripping with gold chains and rings, but when you wave those hand signals at me, and those gold toughguy bracelets jangle round your wrists, you still make me think of a fairy."this is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-78064161776243868972010-06-21T05:42:00.000+09:302010-06-21T05:43:11.757+09:30hahahahahow very truethis is a post for the blog www.thinkinginshadesofgrey.blogspot.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-30013445741338098302010-06-18T16:31:00.002+09:302010-06-18T17:55:11.813+09:30Good morning all!I thought it time to check in since I've been back for some weeks and haven't exactly updated properly.The awesome theme of 2010 is continuing unabated and despite some minor hiccups ($430 water bill??? WTF??? yeah, damn RIGHT you misread the meter!) everything has been tolerable, mendable or recoverable.At the present moment I'm still dealing cards as my main source of income, a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-40391455087681403082010-06-02T16:59:00.001+09:302010-06-02T16:59:57.549+09:30relieved sighaaaaaaah, much better.it's good to be home.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-66433043531620307642010-05-16T00:38:00.003+09:302011-04-04T01:54:07.830+09:30week... Eight?So this is my last week with this company. For many reasons really.Yes i dont click with some folks, but also it can be exhausting: working 5 - 6 days a week and travelling on the 7th. In a few hours i have to get up and drive the set to nsw. Stuff like that.If i were still with photo corp, i'd just be driving myself and the set and would be adhering to my own schedule, as long as ia blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-66400387379957731622010-04-14T17:45:00.002+09:302010-04-14T18:05:40.947+09:30week fiveSo workplace politics are present everywhere. Unfortunately, despite the fact that i've no permanent physical workplace to speak of, i am unable to avoid it here.I just dislike being roped in to disagreements in which I wish no part.I'd rather sit on the fence than hang myself on one side or the other.Sigh I dunno. Sometimes i wish i could just work and come home and thats the end of it.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-5854826395306280722010-03-30T19:18:00.003+10:302010-03-30T19:54:37.559+10:30i am lord of the flame!Well, self-proclaimed after yet another triumph lighting a fireplace no one else can manage to operate.Week three.I am presently at The Getaway At Rosebud, in (unsurprisingly) Rosebud, Victoria.I arrived here late sunday night from my week in Knox, and now we're sitting around waiting to hear back from our manager to find out the fate of our set.I was sent here with anothera blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-85009000671966179702010-03-21T07:54:00.003+10:302010-03-21T10:25:58.087+10:30a review of (amongst other things) week one working with the new companyLocation: port macquarieDeparture Day - Ok so i probably should have padded my schedule more. And going straight out of a nightshift weekend (admittedly i felt unwell and didnt attend my saturday shift, but my sleep pattern was out nonetheless).I still had banking to do to finish off my brief employment as Area Manager for a a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-58612716742356202032010-03-11T06:17:00.004+10:302010-03-11T06:29:59.783+10:30Does anyone else think it's odd that the pro-life political party Abort SA's electoral candidate Trevor Grace thinks that people tearing down his campaign's controversial pre-election posters shows a disregard for democracy and freedom?He said this on the news when they covered the vandalism caught on camera and asked for his comments (Nine News 10/03/2010).So basically... he thinks that people a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-34332833303044517812010-03-08T19:30:00.000+10:302010-03-11T06:44:56.167+10:30so as if the gods heard me having a small frustrated headshake moment, i was contacted this week by a very interested manager of another mobile portrait studio company.She seems nice and easy to discuss things with and was very interested in getting me started with them.My previous experience with photo corp meant that i'm apparently a sought after commodity.Well, guess it saves them training me a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-49231845105394066462010-03-04T19:33:00.000+10:302010-03-04T19:35:18.468+10:30remember to sponsor me in this year's World's Greatest Shave... The countdown has begun!a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-41827916234128278582010-03-04T19:00:00.004+10:302010-03-04T19:19:33.579+10:30After working lastnight I have reached the conclusion that career gamblers are only such because they lack the people and technical skills to do anything else.I've also been reminded why I don't work regular weeknights... cos of the regulars.P.s telling me you've been playing blackjack for twenty years, when you're obviously not a millionaire, isn't going to make me regard you as a gambling mogula blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-79876020175122687492010-02-21T18:43:00.002+10:302010-02-21T18:44:56.182+10:30World's Greatest Shave 2010ok, not chickening out and colouring this year.This time you're gonna see some fuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzRaise funds for Leukaemia Research and sponsor my clippersClick Here To Sponsor Me Nowa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-82019953259646228032010-01-26T14:44:00.001+10:302010-01-26T14:46:48.313+10:30it's been proven, there's no way we can talk without eventually ending up talking about 'us'.and i'm sick of that.we don't need to work thru issues, we're over. 'we' have no issues anymore.you do and i do, but we don't.let it go, i'm walking away.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-51587868018852742352010-01-12T21:06:00.001+10:302010-01-12T21:10:19.812+10:30all because I told him it's gonna be 45degrees that day...[smoothie] - Now rockin' the SAPOL seal of approval. says (5:18 AM): fuck me sideways.Vicki says (5:20 AM): do i have to? I have a headache. [smoothie] - Now rockin' the SAPOL seal of approval. says (5:21 AM): you had a headache last night... *rolls eyes*Vicki says (5:23 AM): well maybe if we weren't always fucking sideways, i wouldn't a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-10191735387296058972009-12-29T22:57:00.002+10:302009-12-29T23:04:40.480+10:30Today I sat in the Botanic Gardens, looking up at the morning sun streaming on and thru the canopy of the trees around me.The nymphs in the trees kept dropping seeds from the branches, but I couldn't catch them.The world is so beautiful, and I feel like I've been out of it for a while. Like I've been in orbit for months, unable to go against my momentum.May 2010 find me peaceful and with time to a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-29569400804033929092009-12-23T20:40:00.001+10:302009-12-23T20:41:17.221+10:30merry christmas to all and to all a good night.I promise 2010 will be a more active blog year.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-87298709376402034712009-12-04T00:53:00.000+10:302009-12-04T00:54:15.764+10:30I'm watching Enchanted for the first time.... my angel statue is in the awesome 'how does she know that you love her?' song!!!!! omfg is it normal to get such an andrenalin rush in circumstances such as these? jumping up and shouting 'I HAVE SAT RIGHT THERE WHERE THEY ARE!'a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-74927513820510003692009-11-28T05:33:00.001+10:302009-11-28T05:35:44.011+10:30dreamy sighFireflies by Owl Cityhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUwYou would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep.'Cause they fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere. You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare.I'd like to make myself believe that planet Earth turns slowly. It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-68065750526511412892009-11-18T22:33:00.000+10:302009-11-18T22:33:02.134+10:30tomorrow night I have a date.and I think that's pretty fucking rad.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-23109620661469014452009-11-18T21:46:00.002+10:302009-11-18T21:53:07.740+10:30Today I was driving along and found a 24 yr old (looked more like 19) crying, disoriented and bloodied girl wandering down the road. She said she didn't know how she got like this, she couldn't remember. She'd been drinking, the red wine was stained all over her. She was a dark purple and blood red mess of a person.I pulled over, sat her down, called 000, patched her up best i could with my old a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-62633348843930903762009-09-01T13:51:00.001+09:302009-09-01T13:52:17.891+09:30i think i just swallowed a train.why did that make my heart beat so fast?anyone would think i was expecting to be slapped.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-49261639290438287212009-08-17T18:20:00.000+09:302009-08-17T18:22:08.413+09:30holy crap!i have a blog!will have to re-update this sucker soon!sorry all my fans and followers... all 3 of you... for not checkin in the last several monthsa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-76436530650421728222009-06-01T13:49:00.001+09:302009-09-01T15:28:27.237+09:30Insert Disc, Close Door.[pre viewing notices]It's funny isn't it?You hear all those stories of housemate horror and you never think it'll happen to you.Thankfully my own experience lasted little more than 24hours, but some don't have it so lucky.I'm grateful to have come through the ordeal with no more than a story to tell.[menu screen]And what a story it is.[play feature]The woman had put a a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-78756310915050544102009-03-25T16:21:00.003+10:302009-03-25T16:25:28.376+10:30hell yeah!and rightly soa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-23290142824469150902009-03-25T15:32:00.002+10:302009-03-25T15:34:14.279+10:30"It's like being murdered when you're dead!"-appalled 'princess' on my table whilst watching a human dissection DVD in Anatomy class.they're always more fun to watch than the actual dissection.squirm you insipid wench, squirm.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-47814966936801647852009-03-24T19:22:00.002+10:302009-03-24T19:59:57.779+10:30Vicki thinks in Status Update form ala Facebook.Heya all.So, time to check in?Vey well then.A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift revised by me.Well, I've been slack mcslack-pants re: TAFE homework but otherwise it has been great for giving me something to do with my life other than just going to work day in day out.I've bought a house. Pretty little 3bedroom not far from my folks' place anyway. So onea blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-16821204799703033142009-02-07T12:05:00.002+10:302009-02-07T12:48:25.027+10:30For the past five weeks, we've been hosting a Korean exchange student Sung Hee.Now, you're familiar with my rant regarding our last one, Suel Lee, when Lauren and I took her to the Almond Blossom Festival and she didn't give a shit about anything or do anything.Well this kid was a scam artist.There was some plan or other about how the group of students weren't leaving together so they had to worka blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-13413169879539016082009-01-21T18:15:00.003+10:302009-01-21T18:52:55.560+10:30Hello and welcome to 2009!!!Last year, more than anything else, was my year for reading books.Seriously, between commuting to work on dayshifts and my 15min breaks throughout shifts, I've been devouring book after book. Favourites I've wanted to read again, and new books from my Must Read List.This year I have a plan of action (which in itself is unusual for me). As I've alluded to in a previous a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-2154692574864072052009-01-16T09:13:00.002+10:302009-01-16T09:18:04.813+10:30plans so farStep one - start tafeStep two - find different work or at least cut down on cas work for study's (and sanity's) sakestep three - save moneystep four - hit the disney international college program againstep five - to be confirmeda blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-76027559779774200142009-01-05T08:38:00.000+10:302009-01-05T08:39:15.967+10:30The Amount 09 - Promo 4/5 from The Amount on Vimeo.The Amount 09 - Promo 5/5 from The Amount on Vimeo.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-34276161393948496092008-12-31T13:05:00.002+10:302008-12-31T13:12:28.267+10:30Open bracket. Disease. Close bracket.I've always thought that the word 'parenthesis' sounded like some kind of chronic illness.What's wrong with the guy in room #2?Oh, he was brought in last week. No one wanted to touch him. He has parenthesis. It's very contagious you know.Dermatitis, cholera, lymphoma, parenthesis.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-61619859642143216392008-12-14T12:48:00.004+10:302010-08-08T16:14:57.911+09:30I had 2 shoots scheduled yesterday. In the morning, it was a rehearsal shoot.It all went smoothly. They only take about an hour and a half and other than some tweens giggling at me behind their hands at the fact that I was sweating (Running around in a decked out shed trying to capture you being young and cute in 40 degree heat isn't exactly a swim in the lake, kid. That and you're wearing a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-40979085553136748772008-12-02T23:02:00.005+10:302010-06-02T21:38:57.802+09:30so 5 of us are in the TV room of the hostel.we're enjoying a film. one of the international travellers had brought a dvd in and we encouraged them to put it on, since the reception was already closed and Psycho (which had already been screened that night) was just starting back up - Lauren and I figured we'd just have to watch it again in full.After putting in the new disk, I didn't want to a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-4653301511873509212008-11-30T14:14:00.001+10:302008-11-30T14:18:51.675+10:30hello from AlburyDriving over to Sydney.This LAN net cafe smells of boy sweat.And all you can hear is WOW conversation across desks.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-2721164666484039592008-11-12T10:52:00.000+10:302008-11-12T10:53:04.494+10:30A message via Ebay MessagesSo I'm lower class and I won't last long on ebay? Lower class or not, at least I can still spell the word 'clearly'. Perhaps spellchecking and proofreading should be prioritized over meaningless and empty revenge messages?If I apparently don't understand the concept of an auction, then you apparently don't understand the concept of moving, and the time consuming processa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-8555557850197594292008-10-22T15:17:00.003+10:302010-09-06T05:45:30.960+09:30okay, only because I grow tired of explaining...yes - lauren has gotten her own place in the cityyes - I'm back with my folks at the momentno - that doesn't mean we've broken upno - it's not weird living at home againWhen lauren got the place near glenelg, she wouldn't have been able to afford it on her own. So I helped pay rent. but I figured it I was going to pay rent, I may as well live there.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-77414105719251868652008-10-13T12:02:00.003+10:302010-09-06T05:40:06.657+09:30today you can call me Queen Proscrastination.Lauren's first day of training at work - and the same morning she gets approved for a new flat in the city.Wicked.I've only done half of what I need to do today, plus I don't really want to go to rehearsal later on.Bleh.Ted has just told me that if I get bored of the things I need to do today I'm to write him a shopping list.I'm not sure who it'd be a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-66715978570481468352008-10-04T19:55:00.002+09:302008-10-04T20:03:39.692+09:30written whilst finishing guitar practice at the beachSong for Julie.This is a song for JulieThis is a song for JulieThis is a song for JulieThis is a song for JulieJulie is my neighbourShe lives up the stair.She likes to send me little notesAnd make our life unfair.She's friendly to your faceBut huffy to your back.Passive. Aggressive. Paranoid.And always on attackThis is a song for JulieThis is aa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-7575238563042104312008-10-04T19:18:00.003+09:302010-09-06T05:39:23.277+09:30a letter from upstairsHi there,The last time I brought your singing and guitar playing to your attention*, you responded with a written apology & a statement** that it wouldn't happen again.Everyone in this building wants a quiet & peaceful environment to live in & respects each other with regard to same.I ask that you contribute in the same way & be mindful that the building is not made of a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-26508788010166120552008-10-04T15:28:00.001+09:302008-10-04T15:30:40.750+09:30whatthehell?when i was seven, I was happy to entertain myself making mud piesa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-68869596703877573292008-09-24T02:30:00.002+09:302008-09-24T02:53:21.444+09:30Sometimes, hearing a customer jest about meeting you later in the carpark one to many times after you've just taken a substantial amount of their gambling money makes you a little jittery about your safety.Nothing radical, you understand. I don't take the security escort to my car every night/morning. But just enough to plant the tiniest seed of thought in the very back of your mind.After slowly a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-35900336861027405502008-09-16T14:59:00.002+09:302008-09-16T15:03:38.210+09:30chai tea is fucking rad!okay, so i'm a freak who has it with milk and sugar - but that's how i first had it and now I'm hooked.so here I am drinking Chai, watching indiana jones, and surfing Not Always Right.days off rule.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-42026762207639747372008-09-13T10:19:00.003+09:302010-09-06T05:38:01.049+09:30Last night, i was supposed to go to work.Instead I had an anxiety attack.Lauren called scheduling for me, and took me to the doctor.The doc said that the past/current health issues I've been concerned (aka worrying myself stupid) about are fine and referred me back to my specialist for treatment - which he says, is easily done and nothin heavy's happening.I could have cried with relief.Sometimes a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-29864567985069715302008-09-11T21:17:00.002+09:302008-09-11T21:23:27.449+09:30my tummy and my head hurtYesterday I went to the Royal Adelaide Show for the first time in a few years. The last time i went, they'd only just started revamping the place. It was nice. Grassed areas were put in, and the roads and paths were nice and new.But now it's so sterile.It's all one big chunk of painted concrete and metal.Sideshow Alley is now the Ten Carnival.And whats with joining all a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-65429854025575040282008-08-22T00:09:00.003+09:302008-08-22T00:14:09.237+09:30Dear mumMelbourne is great. Having lots of fun.P.S Please send money for bail.Dear mum,Saw Wicked. Twice. It was awesome.P.S People kept thinking we were ushers.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-44761923722056450372008-08-22T00:04:00.002+09:302008-08-22T00:08:51.340+09:30Oh you've got to be jokingMarilyn Manson as Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror remake.read Richard O'Brien's view on the matter here.Save the lips!http://stoptheremake.coma blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-67829485184874675512008-07-31T00:16:00.002+09:302008-07-31T00:22:25.473+09:30The Willunga Almond Blossom Festival (in part, in brief)We went to the Festival on Saturday. It was the only day during the Almond Blossom Fest that I had off work, so off we went. I had emailed Mum earlier during the week asking if their current Korean exchange student would like to come.She emailed back that she said she'd love to.Love to? I think not.You know how most of the students, when we a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-1686140634026779372008-07-16T00:17:00.002+09:302008-07-16T01:13:30.429+09:30Advanced... a loose term for it.Okay, since I've never made any further mention of my apparent 'other job' (as foretold in a post here), I thought I'd log in and share with you all just what happened and why I told them to go snap themselves.Well, some background first:I applied for a job doing school photography with Advanced Life Photography (yeah I don't care about using their business name a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-56131827801541545822008-05-28T12:05:00.002+09:302008-05-28T12:19:46.176+09:30Yay, a sale a vistaprint!... yep... looks good... ooh lots of free things... yep... some prices slashed... but wait,... what happened with the last item???Was $270.49 now $437.49*whistle*quite a bargain.Hope no one needs a presentation folder.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-53669345799544966122008-05-28T06:08:00.004+09:302010-09-06T05:31:51.718+09:30yesterday was a strange and yucky day.I went to bed feeling sick the day before, so even though it was my night off, I slept most of the day and gave myself a little sleep-in. I usually get up around 6pm, Lauren woke me around 9. I felt a little better and my head had cleared a bit.Most of the night went okay, we watched movies and did stuff online and I did my usual mix of ebay/yuwie/msn. I madea blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-10024855681777809492008-05-27T05:52:00.001+09:302008-05-27T05:54:18.220+09:30VOTE FOR JORDAN!Jordan is in the finals to be featured as the january boy-next-door in the blaze calendar!atm he's neck and neck with another guy so lets show some support and get him in front!vote now!I'm thinking of entering... hmm we'll see.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-51063971737094254492008-05-24T03:06:00.001+09:302008-05-24T03:35:02.886+09:30drinking clear apple juice under a clear night skya blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-42503501292749652532008-05-20T05:50:00.002+09:302008-05-20T05:58:21.778+09:30sometimes my crappy hearing makes me laughthe following takes place with both Lauren and I back to back, each on her computer or laptop.Me: aha! that's amazing!Lauren: what's amazing?Me: I persuaded my stubborn computer to recognise my iPod finally!Lauren: that's cool.Me: hell yeah! and Basil showed me how to do it!Lauren: awesomeMe: She is! She's a god! Basil is a god!Lauren: a god called Medusaa blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-16690862768793195282008-05-19T04:34:00.035+09:302008-09-23T00:03:41.712+09:30International Photograph-Your-Day Day!Being a nightshifter, my day photographed here spans from 12:30am Sunday morning to 3am Monday morning.12:34am: visit my locker on a break to check my phone.3:03am: Dave gives me the finger in Pitstop.3:09am: ham cheese and tomato toasted sammiches!!3:09am/3:15am/3:26am: Dave gives me the finger in Pitstop (several images left out - you get the picture).3:a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-54934110732608210042008-05-18T05:12:00.002+09:302008-05-18T05:23:03.944+09:30International Photograph-Your-Day Day!Today is International Photograph-Your-Day Day and I'm intending on doing just that. Though so far I've snapped mainly photos of what I've eaten, and of Dave giving me the finger at (and leaving work) this morning, I'm hoping to get the ball rolling a little nicer before I go to bed (a little after dawn - maybe 8am-ish), and when I get up again for work a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-25381092891095734522008-05-16T07:19:00.001+09:302008-05-16T07:22:06.312+09:30And this is why we love Sunny.vicki the pirate girl: i am bored. Dance for me. vicki the pirate girl: you're only as strong as the tables you dance on. Ms. Jay: *dances* vicki the pirate girl: clap clap clap vicki the pirate girl: thankyou court jester Ms. Jay: I'm NOT FINISHED! Ms. Jay: *dances more*a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-27829542095877391442008-05-16T07:15:00.000+09:302008-05-16T07:16:52.519+09:30One more rant and then i'll STFU.Myspace Versus Yuwie Pt1By Bulletbutterpublished Jan 15, 2008Myspace has been in the social network game for the past several years. When they started out the site did not have a lot of features. You didn't easily find Myspace layout web sites, there were no videos or music.Today, Myspace has over 1million users. That is a huge number! The amount Myspace layout a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-4561470686072951012008-05-11T01:27:00.002+09:302008-05-11T01:32:12.037+09:30not nowI wont look you in the eyeCos I dont want you to seeAll the reasons whyA lot of folks dont understand me.Dont want you to knowAll the things I'd never show - anyoneAnyone.Not nowMaybe another time but not now.Dont have alot of time now - for anyone.Anyone.I'll always turn awayCos I know I wont wanna hearAll the sweet things that you'd sayCos I know I'm not worth your tears.Dont want to a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-29771215937094888502008-05-06T23:20:00.002+09:302008-05-06T23:25:46.252+09:30havent done one of these for a whilebut then, i haven't even been there in a while.The books listed below are "the top 106 books most often marked as 'unread' by LibraryThing’s users."Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish, asterix the ones you actually own but haven’t read.Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellAnna KareninaCrimea blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-55147913123566754502008-05-04T02:58:00.001+09:302008-05-04T03:00:14.073+09:30Don't get mad, get even.Possibly one of the best ideas ever.Sick of junk mail?Try this.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-79027666210469332172008-04-23T20:18:00.000+09:302008-04-30T20:20:53.032+09:30Boycott the Pancake Kitchen, AdelaideSo, the Original Pancake Kitchen in Gilbert Place was already slipping in my favourites column. But this Tuesday saw it cemented in the blacklisted column of doom, never to scramble its way out.A conveniently 24/7 foodery with quaint wall features from various eras, the Kitchen has potential. Boasting all you can eat Tuesdays, a webcam link so your friends (a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-64291974844836018312008-04-08T19:07:00.003+09:302008-09-23T00:04:31.188+09:30Internet-meatsHello from the State Library of SA. No Chat, no Email, no SMS, no Games etc etc; the internet computers here are strictly for boring uses only and really, I'm surprised it's even letting me do this - the last resort of spending the surf of the internetage sea - blogging.Oh well, it's a good excuse for a catch up.It won't let me view the blog, but I can compose.Right now Lauren is ona blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-33204059497995065932008-03-11T17:46:00.001+10:302008-03-11T17:48:20.154+10:30I love Mika because he likes balloons and he's pretty.Happy Ending - MikaFoundations - Kate Nasha blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-86338204283541237402008-02-28T18:31:00.002+10:302008-02-28T18:42:13.490+10:30Kate Nash is addictive.She was at the Big Day Out and I've recently gotten hold of some of her music.So I'm listening to her alot.Oh and Mika, cos he's pretty.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-12262115473147184402008-02-13T13:50:00.002+10:302008-02-14T17:54:40.757+10:30"we are sorry"a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-30853449301737297062008-02-11T23:37:00.000+10:302008-02-12T00:08:20.058+10:30Geckos, Cats and Manatees... well one of each.I am watching Invader Zim.Is good.Is funny.Is... over??? WHAT? Put more episodes on immediately!Anyway, I was thinking today, like many other days recently, that I should really write a post soon, since I have been slowly leaning away from the wide world of the internet. This is mostly due to lack of accessible nettage and lack of accessible a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6798750.post-10515431231818193922007-12-14T15:34:00.000+10:302007-12-14T15:36:35.063+10:30I miss the US. Christmas time always does it.a blogger girlnoreply@blogger.com