Being a Fresher is bad because you can pick them a mile away. They wear funny clothes and carry new-looking files. They try to subtly glance at a campus map because they're lost, but everyone sees. They stand in packs. They use cool uni jargon to sound like they fit in but it doesn't roll off the tongue very well. You recognize them from high school and mentally refer to them as the Year Elevens.
New units are fun. Contracts lecturers appear quirky so therefore somewhat interesting and adaptable to your lifestyle, despite being at nine in the morning. French requires too much concentration. Long breaks are dorky and lame. The freeway is your friend. New books are heavy. Meeting new people is nice but requires a lot of focus so you don't forget their names. Losing your pencil case is GAY.
The gym smells of old people. They have so much time that they are skinny because they can just live at the gym.
Hugh Jackman is my main man. I love him with all my heart.
I love IKEA as much as I love Hugh Jackman. I also love little perler beads too. They are my third love.
I seem to have a lot of loves.
Jewelry cleaner from Prouds is a mega bargain! Use it! Every day! Hooray! It makes your life sparkling fresh and brand new!
I dislike busses.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Breakfast Conundrums
If you think that you're going to be late for your bus if you eat breakfast at home, and decide instead to buy some when you get into work, do not make the following mistakes:
1. Walk all the way to Gloria Jeans and order a fabulous chocolate macadamia coffee latte something something, then leave
2. Decide to get a muffin from Culley's
3. Realize Culley's isn't open for half an hour, and remember you can't just be late to work because everyone thinks you're slack since you're the bosses niece and he lets you do anything you want
4. Decide you don't want to walk back to Gloria Jeans, so go instead to Dome
5. Buy a muffin from Dome, which is double the price of a Culley's one
6. walk off in a rush and spill your aforementioned chocolatemacadamialatteorangefrappaccino on your white skirt
7. Realize the muffin is about as old as your toenail polish and even more badly chipped
8. Be sadthat you are still hungry when you get to work.
The end.
Moral of the story: Dome has crap muffins, eat breakfast before you go to work, Fremantle is inconveniently laid out.
1. Walk all the way to Gloria Jeans and order a fabulous chocolate macadamia coffee latte something something, then leave
2. Decide to get a muffin from Culley's
3. Realize Culley's isn't open for half an hour, and remember you can't just be late to work because everyone thinks you're slack since you're the bosses niece and he lets you do anything you want
4. Decide you don't want to walk back to Gloria Jeans, so go instead to Dome
5. Buy a muffin from Dome, which is double the price of a Culley's one
6. walk off in a rush and spill your aforementioned chocolatemacadamialatteorangefrappaccino on your white skirt
7. Realize the muffin is about as old as your toenail polish and even more badly chipped
8. Be sadthat you are still hungry when you get to work.
The end.
Moral of the story: Dome has crap muffins, eat breakfast before you go to work, Fremantle is inconveniently laid out.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Psalms
Because I'm crap at life, I'm about five million chapters behind my MP3 girls in our Bible reading. But! As usual, God's pretty spot on with what he's doing. I was reading Psalm 26 today, and I was completely blown away by the courage and strength of character there was in the verse. Lately I'd been getting really frustrated at the gutlessness of Christianity - how we go to church, fill in our routine, smile a bit, be good, be nice, go to Maccas tick tick tick. Routine does not require courage. But the first verse of the chapter blew me away, because all it had was courage;
v1 Vindicate me O Lord, for I have led a blameless life I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Test me O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and mind; for your love is ever before me, and i walk continuously in your truth.
Test me O Lord? I barely have the courage to think those words. When I try to imagine God testing me just because, I get scared. To challenge him to do so? To invite testing? It is beyond my comprehension. I prefer to hide behind my moralizing and complaining, my belief that I am superior and my ideas are superior - what is an omnipresent God to that anyway. My character will never be strong enough to desire a testing that I have personally invited. To think of what Job went through without asking - to ask that into my life is impossible. Impossible because I know my faith and my ability to surrender my all to God is practically nonexistent, let alone being cool with whatever he threw my way simply because I know that above all, He is still God.
When I got onto Psalm 27 that idea really stood out - the fact that you can be fine with whatever, whatever tests and challenges come your way, because all your focus should be on is this (v.4) 'One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple'. And you don't achieve that by being happy with material things, or feeling like you have lots of friends - you achieve it by focussing everything on God, regardless of what else is happening.
And to leave you with my new all time favourite verse, which managed to pierce my heart; Ps 27:14 - 'Wait for the Lord; Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.'
Sorry this is so rambling - I just had so much to say I can't be bothered being coherent about it!
v1 Vindicate me O Lord, for I have led a blameless life I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Test me O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and mind; for your love is ever before me, and i walk continuously in your truth.
Test me O Lord? I barely have the courage to think those words. When I try to imagine God testing me just because, I get scared. To challenge him to do so? To invite testing? It is beyond my comprehension. I prefer to hide behind my moralizing and complaining, my belief that I am superior and my ideas are superior - what is an omnipresent God to that anyway. My character will never be strong enough to desire a testing that I have personally invited. To think of what Job went through without asking - to ask that into my life is impossible. Impossible because I know my faith and my ability to surrender my all to God is practically nonexistent, let alone being cool with whatever he threw my way simply because I know that above all, He is still God.
When I got onto Psalm 27 that idea really stood out - the fact that you can be fine with whatever, whatever tests and challenges come your way, because all your focus should be on is this (v.4) 'One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple'. And you don't achieve that by being happy with material things, or feeling like you have lots of friends - you achieve it by focussing everything on God, regardless of what else is happening.
And to leave you with my new all time favourite verse, which managed to pierce my heart; Ps 27:14 - 'Wait for the Lord; Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.'
Sorry this is so rambling - I just had so much to say I can't be bothered being coherent about it!
Monday, February 09, 2009
University is only two weeks away from FINALLY becoming a part of the normal routine again. Thank goodness!
Things that happen to Emily when she has no Uni:
* She becomes a fulltime office wench
* She wears high waisted black skirts and collects mail a lot
* she can never remember if she's supposed to answer the phone 'Wellard Group Emily Speaking' or 'Hello' and sometimes jumbles the two up together
* She thinks of lots of things she can do and instead re-reads a book
* She prints out all the photos she has on her computer and doesn't do anything with them
* She starts talking to herself, insisting that it's practicing French but really its to fill in the spaces
* She eats even more chocolate (if that's possible)
* She remembers strange things about uni such as...
- People look at you strange if you have any notebook other than Spirax and if you don't use a Macbook
- You go to the same cafe every day and the people still don't know what you order
- Tutors smell funny
- as soon as it hits quarter to, everyone is out of their chairs no matter what
- Catching the bus with those weird people who always stand in near the middle door and get hit but won't sit down cos they feel rude and also because they want to be first off the bus
- Catching the train, with people who have escaped from jail
- Rushing from uni to work/dance/French/other work/tutoring/social gathering (HA! I wish)
* She vacillates between tidy and messy
The end.
Things that happen to Emily when she has no Uni:
* She becomes a fulltime office wench
* She wears high waisted black skirts and collects mail a lot
* she can never remember if she's supposed to answer the phone 'Wellard Group Emily Speaking' or 'Hello' and sometimes jumbles the two up together
* She thinks of lots of things she can do and instead re-reads a book
* She prints out all the photos she has on her computer and doesn't do anything with them
* She starts talking to herself, insisting that it's practicing French but really its to fill in the spaces
* She eats even more chocolate (if that's possible)
* She remembers strange things about uni such as...
- People look at you strange if you have any notebook other than Spirax and if you don't use a Macbook
- You go to the same cafe every day and the people still don't know what you order
- Tutors smell funny
- as soon as it hits quarter to, everyone is out of their chairs no matter what
- Catching the bus with those weird people who always stand in near the middle door and get hit but won't sit down cos they feel rude and also because they want to be first off the bus
- Catching the train, with people who have escaped from jail
- Rushing from uni to work/dance/French/other work/tutoring/social gathering (HA! I wish)
* She vacillates between tidy and messy
The end.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
25 Random Facts
So I have been tagged in this Facebook thing that the ENTIRE FREAKING WORLD has done, and as I'm not one for putting 25 random facts about me on Facebook because ... hmm, I don't know, I just feel more comfortable putting it on my blog, as less people will read it.
Also, Facebook is gay. I'm only doing this cos I got kicked out of the family room.
1. My love and obsession with chocolate goes beyond all reason. I hoard the stuff in hidden spots throughout my room. I have easter eggs in my work desk. I don't rest unless I've had one chocolate-type food during the day. It is almost unhealthy. Well, its completely unhealthy, but the habit itself is almost unhealthy.
2. I have rekindled my love of making jewelry, and now have more bracelets than I could ever wear in my entire life. I was going to sell some, but I'm trying to justify the idea of paying to put them up for sale on the internet. What if they don't sell? Then I'm a billion cents out of pocket. Gay.
3. Photography fascinates me.
4. I have feet-o-phobia. I really really dislike feet. They are ugly. Toes are ugly.
5. I hate being lonely, yet often feel lonely.
6. I really want to paint, but it costs too much. Also I feel guilty taking up hobbies when uni consumes my life.
7. The gym is slowly becoming my second home, but unfortunately my chocolate addiction prevents any visible evidence of this.
8. Music snobs piss me off.
9. Whilst in Busselton I discovered a love of Chardonnay.
10. I am an office wench, and think of myself as superior to official office wenches because I KNOW that one day I will escape to bigger and better things. Okay, I'm a snob.
11. Dance and netball are two of my favourite things in the entire universe.
12. I love the idea of being organized and tidy, but can never bring it to actuality.
13. For some reason, I never close cupboard doors. Not my own wardrobe, not my cupboards, not the drawers to my clothes, or my desk drawers. This works to add an increased appearance of untidiness and disorganization to my room.
14. Jarrad's girlfriend, Ebony, has a little brother who has fallen in love with me. Can't blame him really.
15. I hope one day to be comfortable with my place in the world, and not get so annoyed with how much I fail all the time.
16. Clothes are my first love.
17. I write lists all the time, but never really follow through.
18. Heroes don't exist. People can't live up to hero status, so why bother having them in the first place?
19. One day I hope to write a book.
20. Colours are my best friend. Bright colours. Colours that make you happy.
21. The view from my bedroom window is my favourite view.
22. Travelling is one of my main ambitions.
23. I hope never to feel stuck in one place, but always be moving and being challenged.
24. The truth is often some that scares me, but I'm learning to say it more often.
25. I am sad because I finished all my caramel crowns and left my easter eggs behind, and now have no chocolate to eat today. Worst day ever!
:) Well that was fun. I might go make some more bracelets now and convince myself to bother putting them on ebay. Unless anyone wants some, although they're not the prettiest things I've ever seen.
Also, Facebook is gay. I'm only doing this cos I got kicked out of the family room.
1. My love and obsession with chocolate goes beyond all reason. I hoard the stuff in hidden spots throughout my room. I have easter eggs in my work desk. I don't rest unless I've had one chocolate-type food during the day. It is almost unhealthy. Well, its completely unhealthy, but the habit itself is almost unhealthy.
2. I have rekindled my love of making jewelry, and now have more bracelets than I could ever wear in my entire life. I was going to sell some, but I'm trying to justify the idea of paying to put them up for sale on the internet. What if they don't sell? Then I'm a billion cents out of pocket. Gay.
3. Photography fascinates me.
4. I have feet-o-phobia. I really really dislike feet. They are ugly. Toes are ugly.
5. I hate being lonely, yet often feel lonely.
6. I really want to paint, but it costs too much. Also I feel guilty taking up hobbies when uni consumes my life.
7. The gym is slowly becoming my second home, but unfortunately my chocolate addiction prevents any visible evidence of this.
8. Music snobs piss me off.
9. Whilst in Busselton I discovered a love of Chardonnay.
10. I am an office wench, and think of myself as superior to official office wenches because I KNOW that one day I will escape to bigger and better things. Okay, I'm a snob.
11. Dance and netball are two of my favourite things in the entire universe.
12. I love the idea of being organized and tidy, but can never bring it to actuality.
13. For some reason, I never close cupboard doors. Not my own wardrobe, not my cupboards, not the drawers to my clothes, or my desk drawers. This works to add an increased appearance of untidiness and disorganization to my room.
14. Jarrad's girlfriend, Ebony, has a little brother who has fallen in love with me. Can't blame him really.
15. I hope one day to be comfortable with my place in the world, and not get so annoyed with how much I fail all the time.
16. Clothes are my first love.
17. I write lists all the time, but never really follow through.
18. Heroes don't exist. People can't live up to hero status, so why bother having them in the first place?
19. One day I hope to write a book.
20. Colours are my best friend. Bright colours. Colours that make you happy.
21. The view from my bedroom window is my favourite view.
22. Travelling is one of my main ambitions.
23. I hope never to feel stuck in one place, but always be moving and being challenged.
24. The truth is often some that scares me, but I'm learning to say it more often.
25. I am sad because I finished all my caramel crowns and left my easter eggs behind, and now have no chocolate to eat today. Worst day ever!
:) Well that was fun. I might go make some more bracelets now and convince myself to bother putting them on ebay. Unless anyone wants some, although they're not the prettiest things I've ever seen.
Monday, February 02, 2009
February
February is my own personal New Year. I guess January always feels a little bit lost, especially when the things you focus on in your year, like uni and other things based around the school terms like dance, don't actually start till February. So Happy Fake New Year to you all =D
There are a lot of things I have observed over the past few days. Here are some of them:
* There is never a bad time for coffee
* Being a hermit is not necessarily a bad thing
* Cool people eat a lot of biscuits
* Sleeping in throws off your sleeping pattern
* Pathologists have really long waiting queues. I had to wait an hour for a two minute blood test. GAY
* Going out to dinner is one of my favourite things to do
* Making lists and not following through is one of my spiritual gifts
* I love the inspiration from other people's creativity, but I can't be bothered and can't be bothered funding a creative habit.
* Saving money feels good
* Making plans is fun
* So is buying presents
* MP3s are only effective if people are open and honest with each other
* Although i have a lot of pairs of shoes, I never have ones that match what I'm wearing
* I miss the friendos
* Catching up with people from old times is the best
* Not having to use conditioner is also the best
* Finding a book to reread is the ultimate best
* Soap operas are all the same: people are sad, people have profound things to say to each other all the time, often someone is sitting by themselves contemplating life and the world, and then someone comes and joins them and helps them through their tough time, everyone is cool, there are no more than eight people you are friends with, everyone does the wrong thing but always knows what the right thing is, and all issues of day-to-day life are dealt with in a checklist type fashion each episode. Oh, and they're all fantastic.
* Tivo is AWESOME. You find great shows that you would otherwise never know about and could never record because they're on at like, 2am
* Stationery makes me a happy person
* So does learning
* And being fabulous
The end!
There are a lot of things I have observed over the past few days. Here are some of them:
* There is never a bad time for coffee
* Being a hermit is not necessarily a bad thing
* Cool people eat a lot of biscuits
* Sleeping in throws off your sleeping pattern
* Pathologists have really long waiting queues. I had to wait an hour for a two minute blood test. GAY
* Going out to dinner is one of my favourite things to do
* Making lists and not following through is one of my spiritual gifts
* I love the inspiration from other people's creativity, but I can't be bothered and can't be bothered funding a creative habit.
* Saving money feels good
* Making plans is fun
* So is buying presents
* MP3s are only effective if people are open and honest with each other
* Although i have a lot of pairs of shoes, I never have ones that match what I'm wearing
* I miss the friendos
* Catching up with people from old times is the best
* Not having to use conditioner is also the best
* Finding a book to reread is the ultimate best
* Soap operas are all the same: people are sad, people have profound things to say to each other all the time, often someone is sitting by themselves contemplating life and the world, and then someone comes and joins them and helps them through their tough time, everyone is cool, there are no more than eight people you are friends with, everyone does the wrong thing but always knows what the right thing is, and all issues of day-to-day life are dealt with in a checklist type fashion each episode. Oh, and they're all fantastic.
* Tivo is AWESOME. You find great shows that you would otherwise never know about and could never record because they're on at like, 2am
* Stationery makes me a happy person
* So does learning
* And being fabulous
The end!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Cool People
My new theory is that Cool People are as much a subset of the human race, like white people and Asians. As I now share an office with a Cool Person and have spent a fair chunk of life observing them from afar, at church (you laugh now, but trust me) and school, I believe I am certified to give you a run down of the Cool People.
Cool People don't even have to say 'Hi I'm Cool.' They can just walk into a room and people KNOW. It is even more obvious than a mullet or wearing a stupid shirt. Cool just radiates from them.
Cool People speak Coolspeak. Every thing they say, no matter how nice or snobbish or stupid or smart or ridiculous it sounds, is cool. It is the most obvious discourse there is. You probably won't understand some of the things they say if you are a lesser mortal like myself. Coolspeak is beyond the best of us.
Cool People have a Cool Vibe. Similar to having cool radiate from them, one can almost sense a cool person coming four or five seconds before they see them. The Vibe is that strong. so strong it even needs capitalization.
Cool People will make you nervous and flustered for no reason other than you are in awe of being in company with a cool person. It is slowly starting to wear off me, but as I've had a break from Mr. Cool for today, tomorrow in the office will be major nervous-flustered time.
Cool People are just generally fabulous, and even if they're not fabulous, they make you think they're fabulous. Or you think 'they're not fabulous at all' but you pretend to think their fabulous otherwise you won't have any friends.
Cool People mean you can be mean behind their backs, but still secretly wish you were like them.
The end.
Cool People don't even have to say 'Hi I'm Cool.' They can just walk into a room and people KNOW. It is even more obvious than a mullet or wearing a stupid shirt. Cool just radiates from them.
Cool People speak Coolspeak. Every thing they say, no matter how nice or snobbish or stupid or smart or ridiculous it sounds, is cool. It is the most obvious discourse there is. You probably won't understand some of the things they say if you are a lesser mortal like myself. Coolspeak is beyond the best of us.
Cool People have a Cool Vibe. Similar to having cool radiate from them, one can almost sense a cool person coming four or five seconds before they see them. The Vibe is that strong. so strong it even needs capitalization.
Cool People will make you nervous and flustered for no reason other than you are in awe of being in company with a cool person. It is slowly starting to wear off me, but as I've had a break from Mr. Cool for today, tomorrow in the office will be major nervous-flustered time.
Cool People are just generally fabulous, and even if they're not fabulous, they make you think they're fabulous. Or you think 'they're not fabulous at all' but you pretend to think their fabulous otherwise you won't have any friends.
Cool People mean you can be mean behind their backs, but still secretly wish you were like them.
The end.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Being Generous
Oftentimes I find my mind comes up with things that befuddle even myself. Which is stupid because I control my mind and therefore should intimately understand it. One of these befuddling thoughts has been on my mind for some time. And it is Feeling Generous about things that actually don't count as generous.
My example for you is car parks.
When I worked a lot at Garden City and drove (because I rarely drive as I'm lazy and my parents love me and pay for a car therefore I don't have a car therefore I don't drive one often), on Saturdays I would (so rebelliously) park in the spots right near the Post Office so I had quick, easy and direct access straight out to the car with no dilly dallying, as the only shops there are for phones and I hate phones and how they always break.
Anyway, I realized something - every time I left at one thirty after my morning shift, and would walk out and see a bazillion cars circling the carpark a thousand times for four hours trying to find a spot on a Saturday afternoon (fools, who even shops then), I had this fabulous feeling like I was Doing Right by this person - sacrificing my parking spot for the betterment of their shopping afternoon for groceries and toilet paper. And maybe gourmet, overpriced yoghurt.
BUT I WASN'T! My mind was tricking me! I was not Being Generous at all. I was just leaving and that event happened to coincide with someone else coming. But it made me feel like a Better Person, and that is all that matters.
My example for you is car parks.
When I worked a lot at Garden City and drove (because I rarely drive as I'm lazy and my parents love me and pay for a car therefore I don't have a car therefore I don't drive one often), on Saturdays I would (so rebelliously) park in the spots right near the Post Office so I had quick, easy and direct access straight out to the car with no dilly dallying, as the only shops there are for phones and I hate phones and how they always break.
Anyway, I realized something - every time I left at one thirty after my morning shift, and would walk out and see a bazillion cars circling the carpark a thousand times for four hours trying to find a spot on a Saturday afternoon (fools, who even shops then), I had this fabulous feeling like I was Doing Right by this person - sacrificing my parking spot for the betterment of their shopping afternoon for groceries and toilet paper. And maybe gourmet, overpriced yoghurt.
BUT I WASN'T! My mind was tricking me! I was not Being Generous at all. I was just leaving and that event happened to coincide with someone else coming. But it made me feel like a Better Person, and that is all that matters.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
HAPPY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!
We had a surprise apryt for him tonight and it was the bestest everrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sooooo exciting!
He didn't even suspect anything and he looked so surprised!
I'm so happy he had a good night. And most of his fave friends were there.
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\ I love parties!!!!!!!!!! =D =D =D =D =D =D =D
We had a surprise apryt for him tonight and it was the bestest everrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sooooo exciting!
He didn't even suspect anything and he looked so surprised!
I'm so happy he had a good night. And most of his fave friends were there.
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\ I love parties!!!!!!!!!! =D =D =D =D =D =D =D
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Observations About Wellard:
* If you phone people about money, they automatically don't like you
* Having a trestle table as a desk counts you as a nobody. But a cool nobody
* Sharing an office with a cooley is very stressful but also very entertaining
* Sharing an office with a cooley who makes other people act like cooleys is very entertaining. And makes me wonder what I'd have to do to qualify for cooley status. Too much I think
* Stationery passes the time
* If you have a computer in front of you, it looks like you're working
* Quality free coffee is the best
* Food shopping in Fremantle is oftentimes hazardous
* My filing skills have been honed, almost to perfection
* Having your uncle as your head honcho boss can be lame
* Offices are stuffy places
* They also like to hang up blinds on windows that are inside and face a wall. It contributes to stuffiness
* It is nice getting paid to bludge around. Boring. But nice.
* Having a trestle table as a desk counts you as a nobody. But a cool nobody
* Sharing an office with a cooley is very stressful but also very entertaining
* Sharing an office with a cooley who makes other people act like cooleys is very entertaining. And makes me wonder what I'd have to do to qualify for cooley status. Too much I think
* Stationery passes the time
* If you have a computer in front of you, it looks like you're working
* Quality free coffee is the best
* Food shopping in Fremantle is oftentimes hazardous
* My filing skills have been honed, almost to perfection
* Having your uncle as your head honcho boss can be lame
* Offices are stuffy places
* They also like to hang up blinds on windows that are inside and face a wall. It contributes to stuffiness
* It is nice getting paid to bludge around. Boring. But nice.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Back again!
Well, I survived another family holiday away. I read three books, watched a lot of episodes of Dawson's Creek, the entire season of Summer Heights High, ate a lot of expensive food, bought my favourite white chocolate liqueur, and dominated a few family games of Smart Ass. Google it, it's really a game.
I've been preparing for the big party on Friday night - although since it's a surprise I can't tell you who it's for. I've been scanning photos, planning ideas, deciding what to wear, and so on and so forth. I love parties so so much.
I feel very organized for the year ahead - if all goes to plan, I'll be earning the money I'd decided on, have lots of free time to study and be merry, and generally improve life's ridiculous hectic pace. So hopefully this year will be a bit more relaxing. I am feeling quite melancholy as I'm giving up leading at Soul to Sole this year. Timewise it just kills me, but I was really growing to love the girls and challenging them with dance. And choreographing exciting dances. Ohw ell, if it's meant to be, God will shift my stupid Politics lecture. Fingers crossed!
I'm just rambling, as I have a lot to do and procrastinating isn't limited to study/work times. Strange hey.
I miss everyone for some reason. ILOVE YOU ALL COME BACK xx x x x x
I've been preparing for the big party on Friday night - although since it's a surprise I can't tell you who it's for. I've been scanning photos, planning ideas, deciding what to wear, and so on and so forth. I love parties so so much.
I feel very organized for the year ahead - if all goes to plan, I'll be earning the money I'd decided on, have lots of free time to study and be merry, and generally improve life's ridiculous hectic pace. So hopefully this year will be a bit more relaxing. I am feeling quite melancholy as I'm giving up leading at Soul to Sole this year. Timewise it just kills me, but I was really growing to love the girls and challenging them with dance. And choreographing exciting dances. Ohw ell, if it's meant to be, God will shift my stupid Politics lecture. Fingers crossed!
I'm just rambling, as I have a lot to do and procrastinating isn't limited to study/work times. Strange hey.
I miss everyone for some reason. ILOVE YOU ALL COME BACK xx x x x x
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Goodbye Friends!
Loved ones, I am off to Busselton (again - this time with the fam) until Sunday, and will miss your contact.
I have something exciting to share though - I bought a new notebook yesterday, because my 'know your rights' smiggle fabulous one is reaching a close. It is just lovely, and covered with coffee cups. The inside cover has my new favourite quote, that I think many of you will identify with:
'A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship' - Turkish Proverb.
Well, I have no issues with that! Love x x x
I have something exciting to share though - I bought a new notebook yesterday, because my 'know your rights' smiggle fabulous one is reaching a close. It is just lovely, and covered with coffee cups. The inside cover has my new favourite quote, that I think many of you will identify with:
'A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship' - Turkish Proverb.
Well, I have no issues with that! Love x x x
Client v Customer
As I am at work, I was pondering the difference between a client and a customer. I've had many jobs, but this is the first one I've referred to our outside sources as 'client's - I am much more accustomed to customers. But I am learning slowly. In any case, here are some of the differences I thought of:
A client sounds posh.
A customer sounds working-class.
A client is probably really rich or wears a tie a lot.
A customer is more likely to be a young/middle-aged, stay-at-home mum with a trolley full of shopping.
A client is corporate-y.
A customer is shopping centre-y.
A client has a receptionist or personal secretary, and gets their suits dry-cleaned.
A customer wears casual clothes and answers their own phone.
A client is only a client from nine till five.
A customer is always a customer.
A client probably has three of their own personal lawyers.
A customer probably has a friend of a friend who is a lawyer.
A client spends millions of dollars.
A customer spends $4.10 on a Maxi Moo and tries to barter the price.
A client walks around with a business card.
A customer doesn't.
A client gives you a handshake.
A customer calls at you from the counter.
A client makes you look after their parking.
A customer looks after their own parking.
A client is pretentious.
A customer is practical.
I do know some of these are inaccurate/stereotypical/really really superbly lame, but on the whole I think they capture the difference. I'm going to soon go and be a customer at Culleys.
A client sounds posh.
A customer sounds working-class.
A client is probably really rich or wears a tie a lot.
A customer is more likely to be a young/middle-aged, stay-at-home mum with a trolley full of shopping.
A client is corporate-y.
A customer is shopping centre-y.
A client has a receptionist or personal secretary, and gets their suits dry-cleaned.
A customer wears casual clothes and answers their own phone.
A client is only a client from nine till five.
A customer is always a customer.
A client probably has three of their own personal lawyers.
A customer probably has a friend of a friend who is a lawyer.
A client spends millions of dollars.
A customer spends $4.10 on a Maxi Moo and tries to barter the price.
A client walks around with a business card.
A customer doesn't.
A client gives you a handshake.
A customer calls at you from the counter.
A client makes you look after their parking.
A customer looks after their own parking.
A client is pretentious.
A customer is practical.
I do know some of these are inaccurate/stereotypical/really really superbly lame, but on the whole I think they capture the difference. I'm going to soon go and be a customer at Culleys.
EUPHEMISMS
I love love love euphemisms. I love all the different ways they manifest themselves. I love how you can euphemize everything. I love clever euphemisms. I like lame euphemisms. I even like cliche euphemisms.
I decided today that I am a euphemism for a lot of things. Some of them made me sad, and some of them made me happy. But the word euphemism is just so awesome that I got over it!
I decided today that I am a euphemism for a lot of things. Some of them made me sad, and some of them made me happy. But the word euphemism is just so awesome that I got over it!
Monday, January 12, 2009
On My Way
I really liked this PostSecret. It has a lot of hope in it. I often try to work out where I am in being 'on my way'. At the beginning of my way? The end? Somewhere in the middle?
I guess it doesn't really matter, as long as you're moving forward. it always makes me sad to see people who are stagnant in their lives and in their attitudes. You'd just have no hope or inspiration to keep trying and improving.
I'm excited for the future, as always. There are a few things that always weigh on my mind, but I'm trying to find inspiration and hope to keep moving on and growing and not getting caught in the pathetic and moving onto the exciting!
Anyway, enough about all that. I'm going to Busselton AGAIN on Tuesday so I have to write another packing list and make sure I get a million books to take away so I don't go absolutely INSANE.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
People Watching, Parties and Shoes
Tonight I went to an eighteenth of a person I barely know by association from about three years ago. It was strange receiving the Facebook invitation, but as it was the first weekend of my entire life where I seriously had absolutely nothing at all in the world to do, I thought, well why not? I had two good friends from high school going, I could wear my pretty white dress again, and if it was crap i could bail early.
As it was incredibly awkward, seeing as everyone except for the three of us knew it each other, I amused myself in people watching. The party was black and white themed, which brought out the inner skanky-whore in most girls, although what doesn't these days? In any case, I saw many repetitions of the same vibe of dress. I enjoyed watching the skanky dancing as the girls danced, quickly looked to see if any guys were watching, then kept moving (out of time, may I add!!! And also moving, not dancing.) But my personal favourite was the jumpsuit.
Now, while most girls know that you can go short, tight and low-cut, there are limits. If it's strapless and backless, Hollywood tape is your friend. Your very very very best friend. If you are going to wear a black jumpsuit, that is backless, odd-fitting, has a massive frill at the front, and is cut too far around to not help you from preventing showing your boobs to the whole world, your mum/best friend needs to have a serious chat to you. You will not look good. It is not possible. If you want to look good, put a paper bag on your head. Or don't dance, and expose even more of those parts that do not need exposing.
But I will throw this in for all those guys that seem to think that shoes do not make an outfit - you are fools. If someone wears a beautiful dress and a pair of thongs, they may as well cut the dress up with an axe and feed it to a dog, then use it as a doona. There is no point owning a nice dress if you aren't going to make it awesome by wearing awesome shoes. You can even wear a crap dress, and wear awesome shoes, and win at life. Shoes make or break whether or not you are the best person there. Trust me. I have the best shoes, and subsequently am always the best person at a party. =D I am joking, but I'm not joking about shoes being the most important accessory besides a flattering dress/outfit and decent makeup.
It's basically a gospel truth.
As it was incredibly awkward, seeing as everyone except for the three of us knew it each other, I amused myself in people watching. The party was black and white themed, which brought out the inner skanky-whore in most girls, although what doesn't these days? In any case, I saw many repetitions of the same vibe of dress. I enjoyed watching the skanky dancing as the girls danced, quickly looked to see if any guys were watching, then kept moving (out of time, may I add!!! And also moving, not dancing.) But my personal favourite was the jumpsuit.
Now, while most girls know that you can go short, tight and low-cut, there are limits. If it's strapless and backless, Hollywood tape is your friend. Your very very very best friend. If you are going to wear a black jumpsuit, that is backless, odd-fitting, has a massive frill at the front, and is cut too far around to not help you from preventing showing your boobs to the whole world, your mum/best friend needs to have a serious chat to you. You will not look good. It is not possible. If you want to look good, put a paper bag on your head. Or don't dance, and expose even more of those parts that do not need exposing.
But I will throw this in for all those guys that seem to think that shoes do not make an outfit - you are fools. If someone wears a beautiful dress and a pair of thongs, they may as well cut the dress up with an axe and feed it to a dog, then use it as a doona. There is no point owning a nice dress if you aren't going to make it awesome by wearing awesome shoes. You can even wear a crap dress, and wear awesome shoes, and win at life. Shoes make or break whether or not you are the best person there. Trust me. I have the best shoes, and subsequently am always the best person at a party. =D I am joking, but I'm not joking about shoes being the most important accessory besides a flattering dress/outfit and decent makeup.
It's basically a gospel truth.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
What has Emily been pondering lately?
As it is already over a week into 2009, I'm quite behind on the reflection/looking forward/goal-making requirements of this time of year. I can use the excuse I was away for a week and enjoyed the chill out time of no computers, no stress and no need to think beyond the next second, so I will. Instead, having lived a little in the new year, I'm going to convince myself I have better knowledge of what I'd like to get cracking on in the exciting but awkward-to-say 2009.
Having a week away gave me a bit of perspective. I'm very good at being busy, exhausted and overexcited/overworked/overplanned/over everything. Being away from home, with some of the faves, sleeping in, being forced to finish things I started, cooking a little, being responsible in a quiet sort of way, reminded me that I need to slow down. Focus on the things I'm good at, and are important to me. Try a few new things. Remind myself regularly that I don't have to do everything, otherwise I burn out, I'm sad, I'm grumpy and I make everything complicated. No one likes a grumpy Emily!
While we were away we watched Phantom of the Opera, and it was AMAZING. So I've decided I need to become more cultured in the area of musicals! I'm going to write a big list of as many as I can think of, and watch them all by the end of the year. It will happen.
As the world has been somewhat obsessed with the whole weight issue thing lately, it's been something that's been on my mind. I love food, and I intend to love it and eat it continuously. However, I really want to run the four k City to Surf this year. In order to do that, a bit of toning up and slimming down is required, due to crap knees and lack of running ability/fitness in most areas. Please keep in mind I don't judge you or your weight/lack thereof etc., and I am in no way becoming anorexic. I would simply like to enjoy the fitness I see in people like my brother, but without the obsessiveness and the big muscles. Somehow I don't think I could pull off the muscly look.
I know I sound hopelessly cliched, and very much like the white person stereotype in the ALL TIME GREATEST BOOK Stuff White People Like, but I want to travel a lot this year. I had fabulous plans to go away in the middle of the year, but had a think on issues like money, time, practicality and not wanting to burn myself out as uni is unfortunately still cranking on, and have changed times to the end of the year, overlapping with 2010. (That year is way easier to say, in my opinion). So I'm going to focus on saving money, being organized, being practical and being adventurous in the places of the world that need to be explored. And I'm not even limiting that to overseas - there are so many places in WA I've never really appreciated before.
My family continually jokes about my pathetic ability to be tidy. I have no desire to be neat. But, this year, I intend to actually keep my room tidy. Half of my stress was the result of a messy workspace, and messy approach to things. I want to become a neater, more organized and thus more focussed person this year.
I adore dance, as I think a lot of people know. And I now have an absolute obsession to learn the Michael Jackson Thriller dance. It is going to happen.
I have plenty of other little goals, and a few other goals that I won't write here. It's nice to have some perspective though! Life is just so exciting, I love how great each new day is.
Oh man, I'm one big cliche.
And just as a side note, I'd like to comment on the use of 'Facebook' as a verb, i.e. 'I was just facebooking God' or 'You facebooked me just as I called you!' I never did it until recently, when my friends encouraged this terrible habit. What say you, friends? Should we use 'facebook' as a verb? Is it better than 'raging' as my dad likes to say?
Having a week away gave me a bit of perspective. I'm very good at being busy, exhausted and overexcited/overworked/overplanned/over everything. Being away from home, with some of the faves, sleeping in, being forced to finish things I started, cooking a little, being responsible in a quiet sort of way, reminded me that I need to slow down. Focus on the things I'm good at, and are important to me. Try a few new things. Remind myself regularly that I don't have to do everything, otherwise I burn out, I'm sad, I'm grumpy and I make everything complicated. No one likes a grumpy Emily!
While we were away we watched Phantom of the Opera, and it was AMAZING. So I've decided I need to become more cultured in the area of musicals! I'm going to write a big list of as many as I can think of, and watch them all by the end of the year. It will happen.
As the world has been somewhat obsessed with the whole weight issue thing lately, it's been something that's been on my mind. I love food, and I intend to love it and eat it continuously. However, I really want to run the four k City to Surf this year. In order to do that, a bit of toning up and slimming down is required, due to crap knees and lack of running ability/fitness in most areas. Please keep in mind I don't judge you or your weight/lack thereof etc., and I am in no way becoming anorexic. I would simply like to enjoy the fitness I see in people like my brother, but without the obsessiveness and the big muscles. Somehow I don't think I could pull off the muscly look.
I know I sound hopelessly cliched, and very much like the white person stereotype in the ALL TIME GREATEST BOOK Stuff White People Like, but I want to travel a lot this year. I had fabulous plans to go away in the middle of the year, but had a think on issues like money, time, practicality and not wanting to burn myself out as uni is unfortunately still cranking on, and have changed times to the end of the year, overlapping with 2010. (That year is way easier to say, in my opinion). So I'm going to focus on saving money, being organized, being practical and being adventurous in the places of the world that need to be explored. And I'm not even limiting that to overseas - there are so many places in WA I've never really appreciated before.
My family continually jokes about my pathetic ability to be tidy. I have no desire to be neat. But, this year, I intend to actually keep my room tidy. Half of my stress was the result of a messy workspace, and messy approach to things. I want to become a neater, more organized and thus more focussed person this year.
I adore dance, as I think a lot of people know. And I now have an absolute obsession to learn the Michael Jackson Thriller dance. It is going to happen.
I have plenty of other little goals, and a few other goals that I won't write here. It's nice to have some perspective though! Life is just so exciting, I love how great each new day is.
Oh man, I'm one big cliche.
And just as a side note, I'd like to comment on the use of 'Facebook' as a verb, i.e. 'I was just facebooking God' or 'You facebooked me just as I called you!' I never did it until recently, when my friends encouraged this terrible habit. What say you, friends? Should we use 'facebook' as a verb? Is it better than 'raging' as my dad likes to say?
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
2009
I had a fABULOUS post planned rehashing the greatness of 2009, but it's late, and I'm tired and a bit full of champagne... So instead I wish you all a great New Year! I am off to Busselton in the morning for the Southbound music festival and general relaxation, so call me and tell me your stories =D
Love you all, Happy New Year and tell me your Resolutions! I only come up with mine after I've slept and it is therefore officially the first!
Love,
Emily x x x
Love you all, Happy New Year and tell me your Resolutions! I only come up with mine after I've slept and it is therefore officially the first!
Love,
Emily x x x
Monday, December 29, 2008
Bargains!
Whilst I am not a stinge, I love a great bargain. They make me feel accomplished and complete, like I have achieved something great by buying an item for substantially less than it's original price. I come home from a shopping spree full of bargains and sales and great things and it's a better feeling than getting an HD in your hardest exam unit. Seriously.
I am going to share my bargains over the past three days, so you can understand how fabulous the recession is for people with disposable income like me. Not that the recession is in any way fabulous, in fact quite the opposite. But it does mean a lot more 50% off signs around the place, that warm my heart and encourage me to wear thin the magnetic tape on my debit card.
Saturday Bargains.
Saturday was hectic. In every sense of the word. Garden City was so full you sort of flowed through the shopping centre. I bought:
* Beautiful high heels from Forever New, that were $80 down to $40.
* A black bather top from Cotton On Body that was $20 down to $10
* Boardies that were colourful and also $20 down to $10
* Bikini ties that were $10 down to $3.
Yaaaaaaaay!
Sunday Bargains.
Brace yourself my friends. I covered two shopping centres in three and a half hours. I was on my own so I wasn't also accommodating for the shopping and change room time of another person, which isn't a problem at all but also means that you cover more shops in less time and thus buy more. It's a complex mathematical equation. Here are my super exciting purchases:
* A dress from Roads = $42.50 down to $19.80
* Brown flats x 2 at $5 each
* Red Sandals for $10
* Denim skirt = $40 down to $10
* Pandora Charm for Laura = $50 down to $40
* Cotton On Tanks = $5 each
* Shorts for $12
* Hat for $11, down from $18 (who pays $18 for a hat from Kmart? What a joke)
* Scarf for $25 (ridiculous for a scarf I know, but it was perfect! Perfect!!!)
* Chocolate $7 down to $2
I can't even remember the rest, it was so overwhelming. But I've never felt so accomplished before in my whole life. It was fantastic =D
I am going to share my bargains over the past three days, so you can understand how fabulous the recession is for people with disposable income like me. Not that the recession is in any way fabulous, in fact quite the opposite. But it does mean a lot more 50% off signs around the place, that warm my heart and encourage me to wear thin the magnetic tape on my debit card.
Saturday Bargains.
Saturday was hectic. In every sense of the word. Garden City was so full you sort of flowed through the shopping centre. I bought:
* Beautiful high heels from Forever New, that were $80 down to $40.
* A black bather top from Cotton On Body that was $20 down to $10
* Boardies that were colourful and also $20 down to $10
* Bikini ties that were $10 down to $3.
Yaaaaaaaay!
Sunday Bargains.
Brace yourself my friends. I covered two shopping centres in three and a half hours. I was on my own so I wasn't also accommodating for the shopping and change room time of another person, which isn't a problem at all but also means that you cover more shops in less time and thus buy more. It's a complex mathematical equation. Here are my super exciting purchases:
* A dress from Roads = $42.50 down to $19.80
* Brown flats x 2 at $5 each
* Red Sandals for $10
* Denim skirt = $40 down to $10
* Pandora Charm for Laura = $50 down to $40
* Cotton On Tanks = $5 each
* Shorts for $12
* Hat for $11, down from $18 (who pays $18 for a hat from Kmart? What a joke)
* Scarf for $25 (ridiculous for a scarf I know, but it was perfect! Perfect!!!)
* Chocolate $7 down to $2
I can't even remember the rest, it was so overwhelming. But I've never felt so accomplished before in my whole life. It was fantastic =D
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