The Piano is such a moving piece of cinema. I had no idea that New Zealand produced such a great drama. The cast was superb. I went through such a huge array of emotions, which is very rare for me in films.

The movie is about a mute woman, Ada, who is forced into a marriage by her father and is required to move to New Zealand from Scotland with her daughter. She communicates through sign language and her daughter translates, aside from that she expresses herself through her piano.

I wont say much more for fear of ruining it for those of you haven’t seen it.

I hadn’t heard of Holly Hunter until this film, and I now plan to seek out more of her movies.

Sam Neil was amazing, I’ve seen him in several other movies playing essentially the same character. I had no idea he had such a range. He made me really despise his character in this movie, but also feel sorry for him. Normally I just like or dislike a character.

I felt the same way about Harvey Keitel, at first I felt a little disgust but then really warmed to his character. He loved Ada and it wasn’t just lust. He also had a really good body for an older gentleman!

If you haven’t seen this movie yet then I highly reccomend it. The soundtrack by Michael Nyman is also amazing,

If you’re in the mood for something more light hearted and 80′s oriented then I can direct you towards Girls Just Want To Have Fun with Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s typically 80′s and a little nu-wave. It’s colourful, full of spandex, high cut leotards and rockin’ 80′s dance moves. Even though it’s based on the song by Cyndi Lauper, she doesn’t appear. But Shannen Doherty makes a cameo.

If you see any of these two movies, enjoy!

Happy Holidays!

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Happy Halloween.

Actually, no. Halloween this year can suck my hairy balls.

One of the worst things is seeing your family cry. Especially when you are powerless to do anything to make it better. Being mediator between family members is also a difficult job. I’m in no space to take care of others let alone myself, but I’m surprised I managed to help. Well I like to think my comforting skills helped…

It’s really disconcerting seeing your mother cry. She’s my rock, constantly there for me. But today, I felt so alone and powerless. More than ever before. It’s like something dies inside of you. You realise your mother isn’t impervious to the evils of the world.

It’s funny, having told my mother and brother just now that everything will be okay and that things will get better. I have that told to me quite often and I never believe it. It’s hard to believe that, when your brain is telling you otherwise. I’m sure most people can relate to that.

I feel like I wasted my therapist session this week, and now when I really need someone to talk to, there’s no one there.

Forever a gnome.

Watched this today. I was surprised it was on TV actually. It was the first film I’ve seen Katharine Hepburn in, she’s not a half bad actress. As always Cary Grant was dashing. I also watched I ♥ Huckabees and was thoroughly confused by it. I’m not sure I understand Existentialism at all. I’m not very good on complicated ideas and concepts, they never stick in my brain. I think Angelica Huston would’ve been better than Lily Tomlin as Vivian along side Dustin Hoffman. I do like Jason Schwartzman though, with his oily hair and thick eyebrows. He’s wonderful in The Darjeeling Limited as well. I saw Reservoir Dogs the day before. Not Tarantino’s best in my opinion. But I do love Tim Roth. He’s damn fine. That reminds me I need to get Lie To Me soon. But renting TV series is so goddamn expensive these days… dilemma!

I’m extremely impatient when it comes to online shopping. When I buy something, I like to have it NOW! Not wait 4 weeks to have it mailed to me in a big brown box or bag that’s taped up to infinity, that is also incredibly hard to unwrap. Then you spend 20 minutes of precious time finding the scissors and/or box cutter to open the blasted thing. Then you spend another 10 minutes cutting the package up swearing at it like a sailor. Finally when you’ve thrown the packaging down and sworn some more at it, you have your prized possession from the depths of the interwebs. I am at the stage where I sit very near the window constantly checking the driveway for the postman(person). It’s quite sad really, but I couldn’t find the complete works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in any of the book shops I normally go to. For the heck of it, I threw in some book about Annie Leibovitz’s work process. They are due in mid November. I can’t wait this long! I’m part of the generation that wants things now and gets things now! Gimme my books Amazon!

This probably made no sense and I applaud you for getting this far, if you have. I have started going off my medication so that is my excuse for crazy-ass-bitchness and I am sticking to it.

Excuse me while I go have my fresh squeezed orange juice.

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This lady makes me want short hair again. I’d love to be able to pull off a Mia Farrow hair cut. Damn you! It’s taken me so long to grow my hair out and now I want to cut it? The woes of being a female. This always happens doesn’t it? The ‘wanting what you can’t have’ thing. That sucks.

At least my cold is getting a little better, no more sore throat! But now I have a more painful, more embarrassing malady. Woe is me etc etc

I need to update my pro flickr account soon. I don’t know if I should, I plan to make a website for my photography etc really soon anyway and having a flickr seems a tad redundant. Sometimes I think my stuff is no where near good enough to make my own website and convince people to buy prints. I’ve even been considering setting up a facebook page to go along with the said website. But then my self doubting has to take precedence doesn’t it. What if no one ‘likes’ it? Ah fuck you popularity and friends! I don’t need you! I just want a little validation, man! I want to know if my ‘photographs’ are actually good and that I could go somewhere with it.

There is rarely a day that goes by that I actually like my photographs/drawings/art/pretentious hipster creative outlet things. Having low self confidence doesn’t help that of course, but I guess that’s the curse of being ‘an artist’ or ‘a photographer’ or whatever. I mean there are so many really young and talented people out there who have so much of their work published in magazines and on websites etc. And most of the time they’re 16-17 but even then, the can be even younger. They’re still in school! Most of the time it’s just a hobby to them! They have other hopes and dreams and other career aspirations. I have nothing else going for me! Photography is all that I have. Don’t take that away from me you tiny bastards!

Hopefully I get through this course and have a diploma in photography or whatever it says. Then I’ll feel a bit better I think. “Those pro photographers think I’m okay! I must have -some- talent!’. That is what I will say to myself. I shall be a professional amateur in no time!

Ah fuck that, I’m gonna watch Total Wipeout and drink.

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I watched this movie this weekend. It’s wonderful, I enjoyed Harvey Krumpet, but this is even better. I can’t believe it took me so long to watch it! I also saw The Losers as well, it was rather good. I do enjoy a good action flick every now and then. I do like that there seems to be an influx of movies based off of comics/graphic novels.

Hooray for me, I have ANOTHER cold. I just got over the last one. The cold fairy seems to favour me somewhat. I wish it wouldn’t. I probably shouldn’t smoke so much with a sore throat. It seems odd to me, that I have a sore throat but I have no throat left to be sore. The Phantom Tonsils. Now that could make for an interesting story, then again maybe not.

I have been driven mad by my latest photography assignment. Every time I see numbers now, I keep thinking of shutter speeds and apertures and RGB numbers and Zone numbers. I may develop a nervous tick. Dear strangers, if you see me twitching, I am not that insane, just a little from the confusing subject that is photography. Don’t study it, you’ll go mad. Soon I’ll lop off my ears or nose or something.

Oh the pain of being a creative soul! Well not really, it’s just annoying sometimes. It’s handy having a father who knows his stuff about photography. And patents for genetic research. I wish he didn’t have to work so much, it’s not fair. His American colleagues see him more than I do. Damn you! He’s being forced to take a long and much needed holiday this Christmas and New Years. Hopefully I wont be dragged to Phillip Island again. Bad memories. Heres hoping for a different location this time.

Maybe I should stop rambling and tuck myself into bed. That sounds like a good idea.

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I’m dreading going into Centrelink to be interviewed about my ability to work. Which is zilch by the way. Why do I need to have an interview if I have a doctors certificated stating so? It’s not fair and I’m stressing about it. I’m full of stress and I really have nothing to stress about. I spend my days waking up in the late morning, getting some breakfast and spend the day on the internet and watching television or a movie I’ve seen many times before. Sure a lot of people might think, ‘Hey, that’s not so bad! I wish I could do that.’ Well actually you can, it’s fine to do that every once in a while, but when that’s your life it’s not so fun. I’m physically incapable of doing exciting fun activities. Chronic Fatigue and Depression do that to you.

I honestly don’t know why I go on tumblr so much. It’s full of angsty teenagers who think they’re depressed or want to be. Why would anyone want a mental illness? I wouldn’t wish what I’m going through on my worst enemy.

I know that people say, ‘There’s someone out there who has it worse than you. Count yourself lucky’ or something along those lines. But whenever someone says that to me, it just makes me feel worse. One of the really awful parts about depression is the constant guilt you feel. About nothing in particular, but it’s there and it weighs on your whole being and it doesn’t go away. I know I’ve got it pretty good. I’ve got a great supportive family and access to good mental health resources, but my case is ‘atypical’. That’s what they say in my report anyway. What that means is that I’m a little different to your average sufferer of depression. And what that means is that, well, they’re at a loss with what to do with me. I’m on my fourth medication in 2 years and nothings working, I’m still feeling just as awful as I was at the start of this whole thing.

The Cognitive Based Therapy doesn’t work for me either, not at this stage anyway. It just doesn’t work for the way I think, and I’ve been sad and pessimistic and depressed for as long as I can remember. It just took year 12 to send me over the edge. Before I thought I handled things pretty well, but I wasn’t. I wasn’t dealing with anything at all. I didn’t deal with my parents divorce or being bullied. I bottled it up and pushed it away and tried to forget about it.

One of my many therapists told me I should try and set up a support network of friends. I’d like to, but then again it’s not fair on them. I mean, I can’t deal with my problems and I don’t want to dump them on others. I feel awful every time I complain or tell a friend about what’s going on for me. And then theres the dreaded question, ‘How are you?’ I have an automatic response for that now, ‘Yeah, not too bad’ or ‘Yeah, I’m okay’ but really I’m never okay. I feel guilty for lying, but it’s just easier that way. I would kill to be ‘okay’.

Things are just hard. I feel close to tears a very large portion of the time. I’m struggling to hold onto that last thread of hope. Will I ever be okay? Will I ever be normal? Will I live past 20?

I don’t know, know one knows. And that’s fine, for now.

I’ll find the answer someday. Someday in the future.

“Godfrey loves me! He put me in the shower!”

I’ve been watching My Man Godfrey, it’s a terrific film. I like Carole Lombard, she makes a good scatty socialite. She’s exceedingly insecure, it’s funny but sad at times. I can relate to her in certain moments. I think this is fast becoming my favourite romantic comedy. I have 4 others on the disc from the Romance collection, I can’t wait to watch them all. Some of them sound a little sad though, like couples losing a child. Those kind of issues don’t really come up in modern films, well as far as I know.

I also found this wonderful website by accident today called Classic Cinema Online where you can watch lots and lots of old film’s from the late 20′s through to the 60′s, I believe.

I do love films and I wish I could watch more than I do. I’d like to rent a new movie each day. I should get my hot little hands on one of those ’1001 movies you should see before you die’ books.

I remember seeing on IMdb or some other such websites, that La Dolce Vita is the top movie. I’ve seen a bit of it but I fell asleep before I got through 20 minutes. I think it had something to do with watching it very late at night.

I should really start going to the cinema more often, there seem to be lots of good films now. I plan to go see Harry Potter, I guess that’s a start!

I’ve always thought being a book club might be fun, but what about a movie club? Have the members over, then watch the film and then discuss? I think that sounds like a good idea. I could do that with my collection of Bollywood films with fellow enthusiasts, I do enjoy Bollywood. It’s so painfully silly, but almost always enjoyable!

Oh speak of the devil, the family have decided to watch a movie. Avatar it is!

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Gracious, it’s been so long since I’ve posted here! I am completely caught up in tumblr. Lots has happened since I last posted, but then again it doesn’t seem like anything at all happened. Curious how that happens.

Well lets see… what has been going on?

♥ I turned 19.

♥ I went to Queensland and Papua New Guinea over christmas, which was fun.

♥ I was hospitalised twice this year for various reasons, which was not fun.

♥ I started studying photography at a specialised college for a few terms but it didn’t work out so well, and now I’m doing an online course of the same nature.

♥ I recently started drawing again which is wonderful, I hadn’t drawn since I dropped out of school last year.

Well I guess that is a lot, isn’t it?

Well I hope to post more here again, I don’t feel I can write as much on tumblr. It’s a super conceited and popularity driven community over there. It’s also rather judgemental when it comes to opinions. Unfortunately, it is so easy to get caught up in it.

I’ve been still religiously checking my google reader though! I guess that’s some kind of achievement…

This blog may turn into an awfully whinge-y teenage angst-y filled one, I hope it doesn’t but it depends on what’s on my mind at the time of writing a post. But then again, that’s what a lot of teenage authoured blogs are now-a-days though, ‘depressed’ or ‘anxious’ teens who are hispters in denial. Either that or they’re filled to the eyeballs of over priced fashion items that looks pretty.

And another thing, what’s with all this gay hate, huh? Humanity, I’m ashamed of you! Stop picking on people, especially young and insecure teens, for their sexuality! I think everyone just needs to a healthy dose of tea, a kitten and a comfortable chair. Then maybe the hate will stop. Love is beautiful, whatever label you put on it.

Anywho that’s enough for now. Hopefully I’ll keep on postin’ just for postin’s sake.

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I can’t believe it’s already December! Break out those tacky Christmas sweaters!

I leave Sweden on the 7th to go back to little old Adelaide. I’ll arrive on the 9th in the morning I think.

5 more days.

I don’t know what to do with myself! I’ve already made some Christmas cards and organised some present for the family over here. And I have some tacky souvenirs for my family back in Australia. I hope they like them!

When I get back I’ll be totally flat out going to appointments before I go off to the Gold Coast and Papua New Guinea with my Mum and Brother. I’m so looking forward to it! We’re going to go snorkeling and maybe even see live volcanoes! A photographers paradise!

I’m also looking into going to a photography school sometime soon. Not TAFE. I think it’ll look better on my resume if I’ve been educated at an art school. Also my Mum’s enrolled me into a senior first aid course, so then I can be all set to baby sit. I’ve already got several people lined up!

I’ve discovered the wonders of tumblr.com while I’ve been stuck inside when it’s been not so agreeable weather. I’m in love. I have saved and reblogged and found so many beautiful pictures. It’s just a dream!

I also discovered listography.com It’s a site where you just makes tonnes and tonnes of lists! It’s great! You can list your favourite bands, foods etc and also have a todo list and yes, for a control freak like me it’s just a whole heap of fun!

I’ve seen and experience amazing things on this trip back to my home country Sweden. I also managed to travel to Denmark and Germany which I wasn’t expecting. I’m going to miss being here so much, but hopefully if all goes well I’ll be back for Christmas next year!

So bummed I’m not here for actual Christmas eve and day. I’d love a white Christmas! But at least I’ve had my pseudo Christmas dinner and had a bit of snow fall and caught a snow flake. And that’s better than nothing.

I think I’ll go read some more Harry Potter now. I’m almost halfway through the Deathly Hallows!

See you on the other side!

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I probably should have posted much earlier, but I was too lazy relaxing on the west coast of Sweden.

The trip over was very exhausting, but I only managed to spend one pound and fifteen pence on a bottle of water at Heathrow. The security staff at all the security checks kept swiping my water bottles because they weren’t 100ml ones. I just want a drink! I’m no terrorist! It was boiling in Hong Kong and Heathrow which I wasn’t prepared for. I was lucky as the terminals weren’t as full as I expected, but I was flying at a rather odd time. I managed to sleep for most of the long haul flights which was lovely, the babies I were surrounded by didn’t bother me. They only wailed and screamed when we landed, I think their little baby ears were hurting. It was so nice to land in Arlanda airport. It was lovely and empty when I got there, and my Grandma and Great Aunt were waiting for me. They both looked so shocked to see me, I don’t think they recognised me. I wouldn’t either if I saw me then! I had very minimal hair last time they saw me and now I have a mop of it! Needless to say I’m in no hurry to hop on a flight back to Australia!

I got to soak up the last little bits of Summer just before it went away. Now it’s in the limbo of seasons, it’s trying to be cold and Autumn like, but then the sun comes out and warms everything up.

I’ve been shopping and had a blast! I haven’t bought all that much yet, but there’s lots of time to shop up a storm!

I haven’t been sightseeing all that much yet, as we’ve only been back in Stockholm for a week and a bit. I think we’re planning to go to Skansen sometime soon, I hope to go on a tour bus around Stockholm because it’s just such a huge city. I’ve heard Stockholm is called the ‘Venice of the North’ and I think that’s true, but it’s no where near as cramped! I had a chance to take a gazillion photos on the west coast, but flickr didn’t let me upload them all at once. I’m working on taking lots of photos here in Stockholm too, but at the moment I’ve only been around the local parts in our suburb of Östermalm which is lovely.

I’m yet to take a photo of Karlavägen, which is a beautiful street I get to walk down quite frequently, It’s lined by trees and the trees are starting to turn autumn-y colours and when there’s a breeze some of the leaves float down, it looks like a scene from a movie! Completely magical.

The old people around here dress fantastically! The men look dapper and women chic! They look like the belong on a movie set. That’s pretty much what it’s like here, you wake up and walk outside and it feels like you’ve stepped onto a movie or tv set. It’s something else.

I’m in the middle of reading Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind which is fantastic, I highly reccomend it. I saw the film first not knowing it was based on a novel, and I fell in love with it.

Well I think that’s all for the update, well that’s all I can remember.

Until next time,

Puss och kram

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Ahhh! I leave for Sweden on Monday! Ack!!

I still need to buy socks! I don’t have enough. They always, ALWAYS disappear on me. I think there is a universal sock stealing goblin. I really liked those socks too. Oh well… New socks ahoy! I wonder what colours I should get. I’m thinking blue or pink or purple. Nice bright colours will be lovely. I like the feeling of wearing outrageous socks but no one else knows because they can’t see them, it’s your own little secret.

I can’t wait to visit my hometown again. I so very much hope to travel around Sweden. I’ve only ever stayed around the south east near Stockholm or in the west near Gothenburg. I would love to explore the north of Sweden and I really would like to visit family in Norway… taking the train wouldn’t be too much of a hassle. I love the Swedish trains. Maybe I can go visit Princess Mary in Denmark when I go there! My dad used to go to her school, Sandy Bay Primary. At least that’s what he boasts ;) He’s actually met Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and spoke Swedish with her. I saw the palace last time I traveled to Sweden. It’s absolutely breathtaking! I swear the Swedes and Russians do French Rococo decor better than the French!

Lets hope I can use some svenska on the locals ha! I’ll murder the poor language. I hope I’ll be able to read the Swedish blogs I follow after my intensive Swedish learning over there… fat chance!

Hejdå, stor kram och puss!

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6.5 days and counting!

I still don’t have a suit case and I’m having nightmares about international travel. I’m terrified of customs and baggage check as I’m taking four months worth of medication (prescription & herbal) through but don’t worry I have documents. Still makes me nervous.. I swear I’m no drug dealer! The good news is that I have finished my packing list so I’m still relatively organised…

I’m officially no longer a student at my High School. Free! Now I don’t know what to put in the occupation part of form filling. Perhaps… Certifiably Insane? Aesthetic Adventurer? Professional Daydreamer?

I bought some carnations for my room 2 weeks ago and they’re still going strong! I did buy them just before they started to bloom plus my room is an ice box so that may have contributed to their still being nice looking.

My dad bought me three Moleskine journals last week and I got them this weekend when he came to visit. I have a two black plain ones and one red lined one. They are so beautiful! I’ve already spruced up the first page of my plain black one. I plan to scan it in and post it here or on flickr at some point.

I finished reading Persuasion by Jane Austen, I’m yet to decide which of my pretty new penguins to read next… I’m thinking something along the lines of… Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh?

Blergh, I need a nap.

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14.5 days.

That’s how many days it is until I leave for Sweden. I can’t wait to go. I’m going to be staying with my grandmother and her sister for four months. It’ll be wonderful! I think I’ll even be able to get a chance to go down to Copenhagen, Denmark!

It’ll be nice to escape for a while. School and me didn’t work out so well. Now I get a lovely ‘letter of separation’ (???) and I will officially be free of that ol’ ball and chain that is school. Now I get the lovely label of ‘High School Drop-out’ yay! I wont even get a certificate for successfully completing years 10 or 11. My Mum and Dad both said that when they were in school you recieved a certificate for completing those years. School sucks. If I plan to finish year 12, it’ll be via the internet and part-time.

I’m so blessed to be given the opportunity to go ‘soul searching’ in Sweden. I love my maternal grandmother, and that side of the family. Hopefully I can go see my home town again. Last time I was in Sweden it was Midsommar (midsummer) and it was absolutely beautiful! It’s so different from the Australian scenery. In my opinion it’s much more beautiful, but I guess that’s the European in me that’s coming out ;) Now I get to have my first taste in a long time, of a Swedish autumn and winter.

I’m surprised I still get hits on this blog… I barely post now! Well I hope I can post pictures of my trip on here… but I’ll probably forget…

See you in Stockholm!

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School.

Eurgh.

It prevents me from doing my creative outlets! Even when I do get a chance to do those things… it ends up being for school! Blah. All my drawings need to go into my Art portfolio because I haven’t done enough to satisfy the curriculum thus getting a C for Art -.-

At lease I can’t complain too much about English Studies, I chose to do my individual comparative text assignment on The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I loved the films but I expect the novels to be even better!

In Animation & Games I’ve been drooling over the new Macs they’ve installed. They’re a bit weird to use considering I’m normally a Windows PC kinda gal, but it’s a fun learning experience!

Despite drowning under a sea of school work, I’ve found time to watch the first season of Charmed and am halfway through the new series of Merlin… Time well spent if I do say so myself!

I think I’ll end up spending this weekend watching the second season of Charmed if I can find it at the video DVD store. I still say video store despite the fact they’ve been wiped off the shelves… I still love VHS. I grew up on them! I still get tempted to purchase videos in the thrift stores I find, but then I convince myself not to spend my money on probably damaged and bad quality videos.

Today I’ve taken a mental health day, just to stop and take a breath. This year has been go go go for me. Damn you year 12! I’m lucky compared to a lot of my class mates though, I don’t have THAT many demanding subjects and I’m managing alright, but that’s not to say I don’t still feel the immense pressure that the teachers choose to lay on us.

Even though I’ve been busy I’ve still been following and finding new fantastic blogs, I just wish I had the time to comment on all of them too.

Well I had better go and get a cup of hot coffee and then draw and read and do SOMETHING productive…

I hope I can find the time/energy to write again soon..

P.S I found out how to make mosaics of my flickr favourties! Much faster than making an image from scratch :)

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This year I started my goal of getting into shape. I had many obstacles such as many a broken fitness equipment and numerous maladies caused by my body’s constant battle with itself.

Despite all of these troubles I managed to get a great Cross Trainer to replace the previous 2 broken stepper machines. This was 5 or 6 weeks ago, now I’ve lost 4 kilos and I’m feeling so much better. I’m not going to lie it is hard and a lot of work, the motivation especially. For a week I was on heavy duty anti-biotics which liquefied my brain and made me feel like poopie, but I got back on the trainer as soon as I had the energy to and now I’m back to going on it for 30-40 mins a day. I’m eating better and I’m more aware of what I’m eating. Sure I get a few low days where I’m all huffy and puffy and moan about it not being worth it, and it’s not working bitch bitch moan moan etc etc etc. To get through those days I remember my inspiration. I get it everywhere, from friends, family even the internets! I think that is vital point. You really need inspiration and motivation. I’ve learnt to draw it from within now, which I think is a big thing. I used to make excuses for myself and I was stuck in a rut.

My battle with the pudge is still in it’s early days, but all the sweat and tears I’ve been through, they really are worth it.

/end rant.

In other news, I went op-shopping this weekend and boy did I get lots! I found ANOTHER thrift store in my dads area, still on the same strip, I went to 4 in all and they are all within walking distance BOOYAH! I wanted to take photos of my little collection. The new one I went to was and RSPCA thrift store, and it had a 50% off sale! It was just the perfect little thrift store. There was a tonne of cassettes, records, shoes, millions of belts, and shoes and lots of other things. I found this cute little t-shirt with square neck-line, it’s kind of weird but it reminds me of a sailor shirt. It’s cute, although I think I might pin a navy bow to it.

I was under my budget, I have $15 to spare! I think I’m going to start a super-mega-happy-hair-dyer fund. I need a new one that doesn’t fry my hair so much…

All in all my weekend was fantastic and restful!

How was yours?

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Ahh the weekend, how I love you!

I super hope I can muster up some creative energy this weekend… I have a lot of Art homework and Animation homework. I wouldn’t mind doing some now actually, but I don’t have much inspiration. I think thats a large part. That and motivation.

I think next weekend I’ll go op-shopping again, see if I can find some more obscure gems. Ooh I saw the Balmain spring 09 collection today. I think I’m in love. It’s soo pretty, I love the shoulders. Normally I don’t like accentuated shoulders/shoulder pads, but this time I think they’ve persuaded me with their shiny clothes! It reminds me of the outfit Anne Hathaway’s outfit she wears towards the end of The Devil Wears Prada, y’know the black suit combo thing? No? Okay! Well it’s pretty, trust me.

I saw Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist a few days ago, and I loved it! I really reccomend it. It’s similar to Juno in that it’s not super hollywood-ised which is rather refreshing considering there are so many of those around these days. It’s a typical boy meets girl kind of thing and they go on an adventure! Whee! But it’s done in a not so hollywood way. I wish there were more movies like that out now, I feel like watching more in that style. I still don’t mind the odd hollywood teen drama/romcom movie.

I really feel like reading, but that takes os much effort! It’s so much easier to vegetate infront of the TV than read a book. I have a huge stack of borrowed and recently bought ones. Blah! Oh well, I guess I’ll get around to it at SOME point…

Hope everyone has a  lovely weekend :)

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It’s been too long, I’ve been so busy with school and homework and such.

This weekend I went op-shopping and got some nice, but obscure things. A doll with matching hair and pants, 2 more historical/romance books, a necklace with 2 sparrows on it, a green patterned scarf and a really nice white slip/nightie. It’s really comfortable. I also got a disposable camera at the supermarket on friday, with the pretense of using it for art, but I kind of wanted it for the novelty… I still will incorporate it with my art project though.

I also went late night shopping on thursday last week, I needed under-garments so I went with the lovely Scottish Stacy. I found a great pair of boots for $35 that were $130!  I love closing down sales, I can’t wait to whip them out this autumn/winter.

Tomorrow I only have 2 lessons, which is great! Hopefully we receive our year 12 jumpers tomorrow, the silly school has been promising us them since last week. Eurgh! I want it, even though it’ll be too hot to wear it to school, I still want it now! Gosh I’m so impatient.

I’ve replaced coffee with tea now, and I’m surviving! I love coffee, but it’s not good for me when I have lots of milk with it (mild intolerance) so I decided to replace it with tea. I like having lemon iced tea when I get home, and a big mug of hot tea with honey for breakfast. It’s lovely, try it! Ooh I can’t wait till it gets really cold and I can make hot cups of tea at recess and lunch in the seniors kitchen, that’ll be scrummy!

I like being a senior, but at the same time I don’t. I’ve been aching my whole high school life to be a year 12. To have all the privelidges we get and being the seniors of the school, but now that I know I wont have the routine of school and being able to see my friends so easily, that scares me. I’m so used to it! I know I’ll adjust in time, but I’m still scared.

Let’s hope I can find the time/energy to blog again soon…

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Well here we are, already into the second month of the new year!

I’ve now completed my first week as a year 12, it’s going okay so far, not dying of stress just yet! The heat wave has made it harder, but knowing that it’ll let up soon is good! Let’s hope I’ll have time to blog more regularly now, fingers crossed!

All this heat has leeched my creative juices or something, or maybe just my energy. I have some ideas for photos and blog posts but I just haven’t been bothered to carry them out. Yes, lets just blame the heat…

I really want to change up my wardrobe in these coming months, I need to sort out all of the clothes I just don’t wear… I just really want to change the clothing style I wear or work on my personal style a bit, just develop it. I have a mental image of the style I want to wear, or the vague style I would like to wear, but I just don’t think I would be able to pull it off because I don’t exactly have a model’s physique who can wear whatever style they want. Oh well, I can worry about that after I’ve cleaned out my wardrobe and saved enough money to go on a shopping spreeeeeee!

Can I please have these shoes?

I’m reading a book called The God of Small Things, for english studies this year. So far I really like it, I just can’t believe the woman who wrote it had never written a novel before and she hasn’t written one since. It’s about the caste system in India in the 60′s and it flips back and forth between the 90′s and 60′s. It’s quite good so far, sometimes it’s a little hard to read as you can’t skim read or you’ll get completely and utterly discombobulated. Let’s hope I wont end up disliking it, as is the fate of most books you need to read for school.

I need to go put some food stuffs in my belly now, but lets hope I’m able to blog again soon.

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