For the seditious few…

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Nov 292005
 

I put up some photos of the storm that I got caught in! I know, I know, it’s old news now. But I was going through my emails at work and found one that had all these photos from the storm, and just thought I’d put them up as proof that it wasn’t me exaggerating that it was a really bad storm to be caught out in for an hour and a half!

Anyway, here is my pre-packaged blog entry, also from an email at work. Please copy and paste if you want – pass it on.

1. What is your full name now? Haha, thought you could get it out of me that easily did you? I’m far too paranoid to be so easily fooled :P
2. What color pants are you wearing? they are brown & blue pinstriped type things. It sounds strange, but they are cool.
3. What are you listening to right now?  the dentist drill sound sample from the maccas ad. Though now the ad is over. Lauren is watching tv out in the living room, on the only tv to actually get a signal. It doesn’t matter, there’s nothing worth watching anyway.
4. Do you wish on stars? Only shooting ones ;)
5. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be? Black, or clear.
6. How is the weather right now? It was raining, but I think the storm may have passed. Now it’s just a bit cool.
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone: Noelle, about her bringing boxes over to store at our place while she’s overseas. Also about HP & the Grates, and everyone staying over on Friday night.
8. How old are you today? 22
9. Favourite drink? Chai from Zarraffas
10. Favourite sport? Quidditch :P haha.
11. Siblings?  2 sisters – 1 older, 1 younger, and me with no choice but to play my role as middle child.
12. Favourite food? uhhhm… not sure. Maybe a toasted sandwich with avocado & vegemite.
13. What was the last movie you saw? Brothers Grimm. It could have been better.
14. Favourite day of the year? Christmas Day of course!
15. What was your favourite toy as a child? Probably our voltron cats that turned into a giant robot monster thing. Or Sylvanian families :)
16. Summer or winter? winter
17. Hugs or kisses? both
18. Chocolate or vanillla? chocolate
19. Living arrangements? I live in a beautiful house with mum & sisters. There is so much room here, and everything is so light and open and nice.
20. When was the last time you cried? Not sure. I think it might have been on the weekend, because I was so sick from Friday night.
21. What is under your bed? All my secrets ;) . No,just kidding, they’re in the closet. Actually, there is nothing under my bed except carpet. My real bed is in mum’s room because it’s a big bed, and she has the biggest room. So i’ve got her smaller bed,which is an ensemble so there is no room for anything under there.
22. WHat did you do last night? Watched Speaking in Tongues (YAY!!!!!) and then tried to go to sleep.
23. Favourite smell? Night jasmine, rain
24. Favourite TV Show? Speaking in tongues. Actually, pretty much anything with John Safran in it. Also, House, Deadwood, Firefly, Micallef, Simpsons, Futurama
25. Happy in life? Life is beautiful
26. What are you afraid of?  Lightning (eek!), Also looking back at a house i have just left & locked up & seeing a face in one of the windows (agh!)
27. Plain, buttered, or salted popcorn? none usually, but the Cineplex popcorn is okay if you have to have some.
28. Favourite car? Old Celica! or Mustang!
29. Favourite flower? Frangipanni
30. Number of keys on your keyring? 2. One from the old house (oops!) and one for the new.
31. How many years at your current job? one as full time i think, one and a half or more if you count temping
32. Favourite day of the week? Friday!!!!
33. What did you do on your last birthday? Went to the zoo :D yay.
34. How many cities have you lived in? only 2 if you’re just counting cities.

That was a dumb note to end it on… Lauren is crying out for the internet though so I think i should leave it there.

 Posted by casbot at 8:39 pm

Everyone’s disguised just a little bit

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Nov 212005
 

Things that are good:

1. The bus trip to work, really early when the day has only just woken up and the air’s stil clear and cool and you can just be anonymous and the trip could go on forever that way and never reach anywhere and it would be okay.

2. Calls in the afternoon when I’m just about to step on the bus home, saying “where are you? what are you doing right now? Do you want to catch up?” Why yes, I’d love to catch up!

3. Nice emails from lenders at work

4. Going to the movies on a Sunday afternoon, doesn’t matter what you see, it’s just nice.

5. Something turning out far better than you expected

6. Getting flowers

7. Giving flowers

8. Cataloguing items for our overseas trip :)

Things that are strange:

1. Kiss kiss bang bang

2. The entire nation’s fascination with Australian Idol

3. The amount of scratches & cuts I have on my arms and legs. I haven’t been doing anything or gone anywhere that would explain them :-/

4. The amount of dust that accumulates without you noticing or realising until one day you look up close and there’s dust everywhere! After a week!

5. Mum’s inability to call and get our cable installed

6. Everyones’ inability to contribute to the cost of this crappy dial-up internet

7. The way that possums on the roof sound exactly like human footsteps (and can be a bit scary late at night)

8. Ra-ra skirts

Odd things I remember:

1. Mark taking me for a drive years and years ago, and stopping at the bevans’ house and convincing them that I was a french exchange student

2. The idea that if I didn’t make myself breathe, or force myself to remember to, I would stop breathing and die

3. Going swimming off the pier in our fatigues after selling poppies for remembrance day. They were so heavy.

4. Never doing assignments, then writing an essay the night before it was due and getting full marks

5. Noelle cutting her foot open on a fish at the beach

6. My year 10 art assignment (artwork) being stolen from outside the artroom (why????!!!!)

7. The tiny roses on the statue of Mary outside the Church at Maclean

8. The bars on the downstairs windows of a house we walked past on the way to and from the pool for school swimming (sport). We were convinced it was a prison, and that the owners captured people and kept them down there.First it was their butler & maids, then it was just random people walking past in the street. Really, now that I look back on it, I think they were security bars.

Nighto! this is the end!

 Posted by casbot at 10:05 pm

I’ll believe in anything

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Nov 202005
 

What am I doing up so early again? Truth be told I haven’t actually gone to sleep yet. The day has unfolded this way and who am I to interfere with the special plan God has for me? Life’s pretty smooth right now, which I’m infinitely happy about. I suppose it’s also to do with attitude… If life is crap, it’s usually me causing problems for myself unwittingly, just by not thinking things through. So whatever right?

Anyways, I went shopping today with Lauren, Noz & Nathan, and it was good. We went to Stones Corner, I got a really beautiful white skirt (it’s really summery, which wasn’t the plan because it was supposed to be an overseas shopping trip :-/, but how could I not? – don’t answer that!), and a pair of trousers for overseas which are really cute, plus a couple of scarves. There really wasn’t a lot there come to think of it. Most of the colours were the stuff my nightmares are made of: pale pink, avocado, beige… eugh. I mean, I do own green clothes, but not pale green. And I do own some work skirts with pink in them, but it’s not like that’s the main theme or anything. It’s just really not me. I prefer strong colours. (That’s great – I just figured something out about my taste in clothes… how vague am I???!!!)

So after stones corner, Noz and i caught the bus back to the city and some guy started talking to us (we seem to have some pretty strange encounters when it’s just us two out & about) and talked to us like he had known us forever. Then he said to me “You look really familiar” (I am being completely honest when I say I had never seen this guy in my life) and then I said “well, I don’t know why, I never catch this bus… and I’m never at Stones Corner” and then he thought about it for a while and said “I’ve got it! You’re a porn star!” like wtf??? So I said “Yeah.. I have no morals whatsoever”. and he looked shocked and said “I was only joking!” And I said “Yeah, me too…” I really don’t know what this means. what is porn-starish about me? Nothing. I guess that’s why he said it was a joke. I’m not obsessing about it or anything, it’s just strange is all.

Noz & I had lunch in the city at Broaders, then met up with her boyfriend a little later on. Then I went home, fully expecting just to be home alone (mum was supposed to be driving to yamba) and mulling over my options (call someone? who? what could we do? etc), so I played Norrath for a while and then mum comes walking through the door, surprisingly enough. She invited a few of her friends over (read: 3) and I spent the rest of the evening out on the verandah with them, drinking wine and talking. Tash said she would lend me her suitcase and backpack for overseas (because I am so slack and haven’t bought one yet).

Then Andrew & mum started talking about some time when a box of heads were brought into the radiology department for medical research on something or other, not entirely sure what, and that put me completely off dinner which I had only picked at anyway,so a complete waste. It is still creeping me out just thinking about it. SFX is an entirely different matter to the real thing. Maybe I’m not so desensitized from the graphic violence in movies & on TV after all.

It was a pretty good night in spite of that last icky part, and I think that now I’ve deconstructed my day I should actually get some sleep… Anything could happen tomorrow!

 Posted by casbot at 2:54 am

And he rode upon a white horse, and that horses name was Mr. Ed.

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Nov 192005
 

One good thing about the current state of the world is that no one can really accuse you of being paranoid, because the majority of the time your suspicions will be proven without you even having to lift a finger. Take, for example, last week’s terrorist threats on Brisbane Public Transport. I liked my paranoia being justified. That may sound bad, but the only reason I say that is because it was later revealed to be a hoax by a disturbed individual. I mean, what was he thinking? You can’t blow up a bus with melted paddle-pops! It was funny seeing all the buses just stopped in the middle of the road. Funny, but scary driving past them when the threat was still real and the truth hadn’t yet been revealed. One bus was stopped just over the crest of a hill, with a huge line of cars building up behind him, and another bus was  stopped right next a field where some kids were playing! Forgive me, but I think that defeats the purpose of trying to minimalise the threat. Why don’t you just go park next to an orphanage you big heartless weirdos!

What the heck am I doing awake at 5:30 in the morning? I was out last night and today we’ve got to do holiday shopping… My brain is just not processing thoughts very well at the moment. Hopefully that won’t have a negative effect on today, but I can’t see how it wouldn’t. My computer won’t shut up. Shut up computer! I wish I could put some music on, but then I might wake those who are still asleep. I don’t want to impede on their common sense with my own awakeness. Or awakedness. Or whichever is correct.

Anyway, nothing much to say. Shopping today with Noz & Lauren, then nothing I guess. Might do something on Sunday, not sure what though, or I might just continue unpacking. I love going through the un- or mis- labelled boxes, because you never know what you’ll find. So yeah, maybe I’ll do that.

Next week will be ultra-busy. Not really much doing in the first half of the week, but then from Thursday onward, it’s crazy. Thursday is our volunteer day for the Leukemia Foundation, also it’s my one year anniversary at work and I won’t even be at work that day! Then Friday is the work Christmas party, and I’m sure something is happening during the day as well. On Saturday, I’ve got Maria’s 30th at around lunch time, and Noz’s 21st party in the afternoon until veeeerrrry late. Well, it doesn’t sound like too much when I write it all down, but then none of the details are there – like the fact that the work Christmas party is cowboy-themed, and Noz’s party is pirate themed, and I don’t have a costume for either. I’m not going to get a costume for the work christmas party, just in case we want to go out afterward (”No, i’m not from way out west where the rain don’t fall” I would hate explaining to drunk people why I am dressed like someone from the wild west) but that still leaves Noz’s party, for which I really should be adequately prepared seeing as I’ve known about it forever, but in the early stages it was just a ghost of an idea really, nothing more.

Anyway, i’m going to go have breakfast so I don’t throw up.

 Posted by casbot at 6:10 pm
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