Recipes

Recipe for a Friday Night:
* Sick friends :(
* Other plans are cancelled
* 1x glass of red wine
* 1x easy crafty project, which will take the rest of my life to finish
* 1x successful footy tip
= a surprisingly not-bad Friday night

Saturday:
* Exam stress looming ever nearer
* Crazy people
* Completing open book exam notes on Duty of Care, Breach and Causation/Remoteness
* Curling hair
* Seeing poor, sick Lauren :(
* Visiting a potential house
* Going to a party
* Pratique mon francais parce que c'est plus d'amusant que mes etudes de droit de torts
* Wearing a new dress

Sunday:
* Lots of cash-in-hand babysitting fun times
* Choreographing, because why not
* MP3
* Getting more stressed
* Future plans

Wow my life is depressingly boring right now! On the exciting side, I've been surfing e-bay and finding fabulous things I can't bring myself to afford :( Hahaha....

Pasta makes you warm inside

I just bought the most fabulous pair of boots. I really am getting addicted to buying things. What am I going to do when I don't have money any more???

This weather is simply fabulous for getting lots of work done. I'm looking forward to a productive night, fingers crossed. Does anyone have an opinion on the relationship between the media, candidate-oriented voting and voter attitudes? Call me if you do.

I've noticed my ears are getting colder very quickly. It is lame. How do you keep them warm?

Hush in Fremantle have the best coffee.

I have so many projects for the holidays!

FINALLY APPLIED FOR MY WORKING WITH CHILDRENS CHECK OMG IT IS SO FREAKING DIFFICULT

Bidding on ebay is fun!!

I love socks

And Arrested Development - I wish my name was Bob Loblaw. 'Why should you be punished for a crime someone saw you commit?'

Work is lame face. At least it's good for learning how to bottle your feelings and answer the phone with a smile.

Cleaning is SO LAME

I need a friend, who's free?

I have officially lost all faith in democracy.

I really really hope they have another daylight saving trial for the next decade until people vote it in.

How Emily Passes Her Time

I've rediscovered PhotoBooth the last few days. It is so much fun! Anyway, I have a one of my tutoring kids coming soon, so I don't have time-slash-can't be bothered doing any work in the next half an hour, so I thought I'd tell the non-existent internet world what's been a-happening, with some exciting photos.

1. Mobile Polling Fun Times


That was my sexy badge. I spent yesterday at three old folks' homes, collecting their votes for the referendum. It got me worried, some of the people who hold the power of democracy in their hands but can't even say what they're voting about! AH! However, some of the people were entertaining, some made me quite reflective and sad and others I just thought hardly deserved to vote. Oh well. One lady told me that bingo had been cancelled for the voting, but Knit and Chat was still on. Man, I wish I could go to knit and chat.

2. Prettyyy



To prove I'm really a grandma at heart, I have also been cross-stitching. It serves many good purposes. I have something to show for the time I'm not studying. It's easy. I feel productive. It's pretty. And... yeah. I can practice being a good grandma?

3. Writing Lists.

I got my exam timetable FINALLY. And it's actually great! Yay! So I feel much more relaxed about it all. I have the motivating stress not the paralytic stress.

4. Thinking about doing this...



My hair is now so long I can accidentally zip it into my high-waisted skirt. I'm still deciding what to do about that. I really love my long hair, but change isn't a bad thing. We'll see.

Anyway, I might go clean up a bit - soooo much to do tonight. I don't believe in Reflection papers. No siree!

retail therapy and libraries

I'm not shallow or anything *cough* but I do believe that the main way to turn a fairly dull day into a fabulous one is to buy something. There is no feeling like the feeling of having lots of pretty things stimulating the economy. After all, it is a time to take advantage of mega sales recession.

I had an incredibly productive day at the library which made me think maybe I should just move in there, I'd get so much work done. Then I went to Napoleon St, saw three fabulous school friends who I hadn't seen in FOREVER. Then, when heading home I saw a shop that I normally don't go in because cool people work there, but I decided I should have a look. And I found TWO beautiful beautiful skirts. I only bought one - the other is in my heart, but I can't bring myself to buy it because I know I'll only wear it once, and one wear for an $80 skirt just doesn't quite do it for me. But this other one is just perfect and I am officially in love with it. So now, I've had just about the most perfect day ever!

I have a really good feeling about life at the moment, which is a good change. It had been getting a bit dreary there for a while!

Anyway, another observation I made today is that there is nothing like coffee conversation. I think the caffeine might stimulate a better conversation than say, water. Also, there's a gym in Cottesloe Central which is just about the weirdest thing ever. I'd be too embarrassed to walk out, after I've been at the gym I'm as red as a tomato and a gazillion times as smelly.

I re-watched A Beautiful Mind last night and was reminded why I love that movie so much. My favourite line: 'You are my reason. You are all my reasons'. It is just so beautiful! Watch it if you haven't.

Well, I must do some more research (woooo online articles and 20-reference essays), eat dinner, then head to the Loft, a lovely place!
xoxo

I would like to say that the Book of Job is fabulous for putting your feelings of lameness and like you suck into perspective. I had a Godthing niggling in the back of my mind to read it last night and so I did; and wow did it clear up some of the ickiness I've been feeling of late.

Some things I've been up to:
* Procrastinating hopelessly. It's becoming a deadly cycle, but I'm determined to break. I only get one life!
* Planning life. I've had some inspiring ideas I'm quite excited about.
* Making this:

I started at Salty weekend. I think it's quite cute =D
* Going to the gym again! I finally got out of my gym funk today and I feel sooooo much better for it. Exercise is also a massive factor in making my mind focus and get over the things it thinks are bad.
* Saving! I'm proud of my discipline.
* Getting excited for this!

In case you can't see, it's tickets to the So You Think you Can Dance tour. It will be the greatest moment of my life.
* Meeting Chris Murphy. This photo was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. Unfortunately, he's barely a celebrity. More of a semi-familiar name. But he was fairly entertaining.

* Seeing Fired Up and The Boat That Rocked. These two movies were awesome in two totally different ways! One rule for seeing Fired Up: take Jordan Holt with you. Or myself. Or maybe go with the two of us, and Emma, bcause we'd be the only other people in the world to appreciate it properly. Seriously.

Emily says...

Emily says to remind her not to try to be nice and offer her time to people who don't care about it.
Emily also says to remind her to not waste two days in a row of perfectly good study time.
Emily furthermore says that ugg boots are the best, and sleepiness can be quite a cozy state of existence.

Also! See The Boat That Rocked if you haven't already. Sooo much fun.