I LOVE....

I love...

• our new, first foster baby. A cute little girl who we've nicknamed Simba :). Cutest. Smile. Ever.


• the 'Annie' soundtrack. I found the movie on television the other night. I had completely forgotten about it from my childhood :). I've been crazy about the songs ever since.


• the fact that I'm going to a drama camp in Broken Hill tommorow (photos, I promise)


• the fact that I AM ON HOLIDAYS FOR AN EXTRA WEEK.


• Harry Potter.


• The Hunger Game series.


• the room that I spent a few hours cleaning today which is now dust and rubbish free. Very good. Very impressive.


• Tessie when she's flea-free and smell-free after a good bath and haircut.

That is all.

We love you, Ms. Hannigan.

As of late...

I haven't been writing very much lately, so, to keep you up-to-date, I will say (in a bulleted list of course) what I have been doing in the last couple of weeks.

• For Chrissie I recieved the most-awesome present of a drumset! It is really fantastic, and, so far, I have not heard a single complaint from my most patient parents.
• Not long after that, I did my first shift at the Bakery. It's pretty good, but as I said a couple of posts ago...all the pies look the same! Most confusing!
• I have also, in a very recent set of events, gotten ANOTHER job! Just one day a week, at a canteen. I haven't started yet, buuuut, I hope it goes wellll!
• I visited Bourke just a week ago for a week and it was great! Jetskiing, swimming & chillin with friends!
• I had my first driving lesson! Sort of...My friend Cherry let me drive her family's dune buggy. It was pretty mad. She had nerves of steel to put up with my panicking though.
• Atm- (at the moment, for all or any of the oldies who read this blog and do not understand teenages 'acronyms'....I think that's right???) I am at home with only my dad. Lucky Mum and Jenna have made a getaway before school starts, and the others have all found something else to do =).
• Oh yes, school again. Grade 9 this year. I'm making my way up. Slowly but surely.

S'all for today.

But I'll be back.

I have been very lousy at blogging lately. Personally I blame Facebook. Most of the time though I can't think of anything to say, but after a month or so of not writing...I should have something.

Well, a couple of weeks ago, my parents, Emily, and I left for the Sunshine Coast. We visited my grandparents and then my other grandfather. From there, we left for Diamond Beach, Seashells Resort, where we stayed for a week.

It was a really nice spot. The beach was really close (although whenever we walked on it we found dead crows/blackbirds all scattered up on the beach...weird...) and we used that to our advantage by walking on it and also flying kites on it. I would like to note here that I was the Master at kite flying, undisputedly...

Apart from the beach, there was a boiling, hot, bubbling spa! We spent heaps of time in it, probably really annoyed all the other holiday-ers because we kept bagging all the times..good fun...

And now we're back home. Back to school. And chores (which I should be doing now). And also Youth. Last night was a 70's night. I came home with three pet rocks. They are very cute. I named them Rachel, Franky...and the other is yet to be named...Barnabas?

But, taht's really all I have to write at the moment...so....ta-ta :)

I went to the Sunshine Coast and took...well...what I took doesn't matter, it's what I brought back (an excessively filled bag and a massive phobia)

After a week of total relaxation and complete laziness (well, not completely, Mum made us take SOME schoolwork), we are back from holidays. So, now for a blogpost, a few photos included...

To begin, we got there (meaning the Sunshine coast, my grandparent's house) a little after seven, I think. We'd just gotten the news that my brother was engaged (YES!) and my eyes were still a little red from crying, no, sobbing. (Yes, I cried, I can't believe it either. If that's what I'm like for the engagement, imagine the wedding!)

But anyway, we had dinner with the relatives and it was good and I was tired and I flopped into bed and stayed there for the next...many hours...

But it was a nice, relaxing week...We did a LOT of shopping and I got a LOT of new clothes,(Thank you Op-Shop that had fill-a-bag for $5!) which is why I found my bag very, very full for the trip back.

And I got this red, ValleyGirl dress which I like a lot because everyone says it looks good.

And that, that there behind me....That is a bathroom..........................................................

And I think that it was maybe the second or third day when I summed up all my courage and decided to go on the canoe/surfski. Now listen up people, I am only going to say this once, it took a LOT of courage to go on that surfski. A LOT! (Note the capital L people.)

The reason for all that courage is because I kept going for long walks around the canal and seeing THESE!

These ugly flapping things that freak me out SO much! I'm just innocently walking around the canal and then I see one of these....Near the shore...staring at me...Out of it's beady eyes....And it's little lung holes (that sit directly beside their eyes) flap in and out, in and out.

You wanna mess with me, girl? Eh? Eh?

And I say in a small voice, "No."

Yeah, well, watch it or I'll get you....With my flapping lung holes!

And this is no small threat...Because those lung holes are SCARY!

That is why, when I went on this-

-I was shaking all over and not daring to look down at the water, not ONCE!
Honestly, my legs, arms, and feet were shaking...And if I looked at the water I felt sick.

I think I have rayphobia...or maybe it's stingphobia...some kind of phobia anyway...

But apart from that, and the creepy, tattooed, pierced guy that sat behind me at the doctor's, (Who was not so creepy when I heard him singing "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift, lol) I had a good holiday!

Quick Summing Up

It's been a while since I last wrote, like I've mentioned previously, I have some busy times ahead.
I was actually camping last week out at Bourke with some friends. I had a pretty good time and would love to share photos, but by a very annoying twist of fate all my photos were deleted.
So I'll just remember three things...

• We climbed Mount Gundabooka on the first day. It was terrible! But only because it was such a hard climb. I felt like I was crawling up a vertical wall.
• On the last day I had a few good centimetres of mud/clay on the bottom of my shoe because of a night's good rain.
• I visited Gidgee Lake, my old home. It was so sad. All those memories. But the lake, it was BEAUTIFUL!

That doesn't really sum it all up but I have to go....So, that'll have to do.... :D

Tommorow I Am...

...Going to Bourke!

Photos when I return...!

Dubbo Show

Saturday was Day 2 of the Dubbo Show.

I went with friends at about 5:00, entirely innocent of all bad experiences that come about at shows. I had obviously forgotten last year's show.

Anyhow, upon arriving, it was fun to look at all the rides, lighted up, calling to me, urging me to come, pay, ride, and throw up.

I first went on the rollar coaster. Not exactly a thrill ride, but scary enough to make my insides twist and turn. I didn't know that a picture would be taken on this course of horror and I felt a surge of indignity when I saw a terrible picture of myself flashing on a screen. My eyes were large and my head was back in a way that gave me at least two chins. One of the people I was with commented casually that I looked quite like my sister, whose name I will refrain from saying or I would otherwise be describing them as eye-bulging, double-chinned freaks.



Continuing on, another ride I went on was the Cha-Cha. It should have been called The Extreme Game of Corners as everyone riding with someone more than themselves found themselves being pushed onto the person next to them in an almost awkward way.



I also went on the Dodgem Cars. If I remember correctly, a humorous accident occurred at last year's show in which I, in a crazy, out-there mood, knocked over one of the helpers onto his backside while he had only been trying to help me steer myself out of a traffic jam. He fell into one of the spare cars and stared after me with a bewildered expression that I remember with guilt to this day.

I would not let any such thing happen again. This time I only grinned evilly, gritted my teeth, and knocked into any car that held small children. These, of course, could not take any course of revenge so it was all right. I was quite safe. No such promises for them.

I admit I didn't eat anything that could actually be called 'dinner' that night. I did help eat two, expensive bags of fairy floss though, a few very salty chips, and a few sips of the bubbling Creaming Soda.

I was scared of throwing up.

And I was very careful and choosy about what ride I went on. Some were very menacing such as the No Limits, the Mega Drop, and The Zipper (which looked a lot more dangerous that last year's Zipper.)

..............................
The two other rides that I went on was something of which I do not recall the name (although I do recall the sickening feeling in my stomach right before it started), and the other was the Music Trip.

Not a thriller like No Limits, but still scream-worthy.

I didn't get back till 11:00. Worn out, my head spinning, no doubt looking like I had an immense fairy floss hangover.

And I didn't knock anybody over...(!)

Going to the Coast

Last Thursday evening, the 22nd, I went outside and...

Mum was like, 'Dude, we're, like, going to the Sunshine Coast, like, tomorrow.'

And I was like, 'Dude, you're, like, crazy.'

And she was like, 'No I'm not. Go pack. We get up at, like, five.'

And I was like, 'Are you, like, serious? Dude!'

Or something like that anyway. It probably, when I think about it, wasn't that 'likeish', or 'dudish', but same result...

In the next few hours I had to pack a weeks amount of clothes, fill up (or let my darling Kaity fill up...) my BRAND NEW, BLACK, IPOD NANO, 8 MG, COMPLETE WITH HARD, CLEAR COVER CASE!!!, write my week's book review, and rush around finding some books, my purse, my drink bottle, my headphones to go with my BRAND NEW, BLACK, IPOD NANO, 8 MG, COMPLETE WITH HARD, CLEAR COVER CASE!!!, and a few other things that I was likely to forget but remembered.

We started early that morning and got there quite late.

A few things we did in the week are:

• Go to my Uncle's 40th birthday party (And see some people that I had not seen in a VERY long time).
• Watch Lord of the Rings 1, again. (Frodo has amazing blue eyes...!!)
• Went to the beach (Where I got dumped continuously, AND met a Russian Snow-boarder (called Oondrey?) ...which was...to say in least...very interesting...).
• On the subject of Oondrey?, he told us that the two things he had found out about Australians was...every second word is a swear word, and all we want to do is Barbeque...(I didn't know whether to be offended or laugh. I chose the latter, but it left me wondering if this is how all Russians think of us...).
• Went to my cousin's house (Where we went on Youtube, as well as a variety of other things, and found something called Petunia's Makeover...very strange...).
• Went Op shopping (And found a deal of 'Fill a bag for $5!...Good, eh?).

So, I am:

Tired, Content, Sunburnt, and Hungry...so I am going to have breakfast...

1st Week of Holidays

Monday:

Hm mm, let's see...what did I do on Monday. I think Monday was the day that I recovered completely from Easter Camp, wrote a blog about it, read some Lord of the Rings , and merely used my holiday as it were meant to be.

Tuesday:

Tuesday was the day that I was allowed to watch the movie, Lord of the Rings , as Mum and Dad made a deal with me that was when you read the book you can watch the movie. So I watched part of it on Tuesday. The rest I finished on Wednesday and cried my little heart out because it was so beautiful and sad and I couldn't stand it. At the end of it all though, I felt like a wuss because I hardly ever cry in movies except Bridge to Terabithia, Star Wars 3, Robin Hood Series...So yeah...felt REALLY ridiculous ...

Wednesday:

Finished the movie and avidly started reading book 2, The Two Towers. Finished half of it by that night. That, I think, is very impressive.

Thursday:

Finished book 2 and watched the movie. So very, very good. Angela came over and she, Emily, and I teased our hair. That includes brushing all of our hair backwards and spraying it hard with hairspray. I slept in it that night and it was NOT, I repeat NOT, a pretty sight the next morning. I washed it and then it was rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat with the Conditioner.
I also went for a bike ride that evening. My bike's chain came off say...well...a fair way away from home. So I walked it home. Very annoying that. I'm sure I looked ridiculous.

Friday:

We went on a Op Shopping Spree which can be the coolest, yet weirdest, spree there is. After all, it is pretty fun to look at automatic cheese graters. Mum bought for me the third book of Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King , for me as well as a black skivvy which I plan to wear to Church today.
Even though I hadn't finished the third book I was absolutely DYING to watch the third movie. So I pleaded, no begged, my mother to let me watch it saying that I would finish the book before I left for Bourke on Tuesday and if I didn't I gave her license and complete permission to ban me from the computer for the rest of my life.
Unable to resist the chance of banning me off the computer for the rest of my life, no complaints included, she agreed.
It was very good. I cried again, especially when Frodo's finger was bitten off.

Saturday:

Finished the book, much to my mother's disappointment, and watched Hannah Montana on TV. Saturday is cleaning day so I rushed through my jobs and claimed, like an Olympian claiming a gold cup, my prize. A chocolate drumstick.

So, that was the first week of holidays. I absolutely love Lord of the Rings, and, between you and me, Frodo has the most awesome eyes. I really, really like them.


I have been asking Mum for two little goldfish but until I get them, those little cute fiction fish on the sidebar will do. Feel Free to Feed. Also I've changed the name of my blog, for no particular reason other than I felt like it. But the web address is still the same.

Next week, Bourke.

Easter Camp, 2010

So, here are some photos from Easter Camp 2010.

This was before the camp's 'mud fight' on Saturday afternoon.

Note please how white my board shorts were and how very clean we look. My friend Cherry and I were walking up to where we ate, went to the bathroom, and played sports.

People were still relatively clean at this point.

Me and Hannah.

And so it began.

Mud football.

Tug O' War in the mud. We had two of these. We won once, and lost once.

Cleaning out our ears and eyes of mud.

More Tug O' War.

Group shot.

Another group shot. Can you pick me out?

Who could this disgusting-looking creature be?

Washing off in the freezing cold river. It worked surprisingly well.

So yeah, it was pretty good. I really liked the mud fights, the singing, the talks, the games, the food, ect.

Last night after I finished writing the previous blog entry, I went into the shower and picked out numerous pieces of grass and hay out of my hair, removed mud and dust from everywhere, and tried to pick splinters out of my feet.

This morning I unpacked my bag.

It really...really did not smell very good.

I guess you don't notice it so much when everyone smells that way.

I don't have anything much planned for this week of the Easter Holidays. Next week Emily and I are going to Bourke again. And then...it's back to the daily grind...not coffee.

Back!

I just got back from Easter Camp 2010.

I am disgusting, grubby, dirty, tired, zonked out, and I don't smell too hot either. I am going to have along, hot shower.

I'll post photos soon.

Letter

Dear People Who May Happen to Glance Upon my Blog Every Now and Again,

Hi, how are you? I'm okay.

I'm sorry that I am lazy. I've not posted much lately. Life seems to be, "school", "school", "school", and "lets go away for the weekend."

Ex.

• 2 weekends ago we went camping.
• Last weekend was a birthday party/ camp out.
• This weekend coming is my cousin's wedding up in Brisbane.
• Next weekend is my Youth's 'Easter Camp.'
• The weekend after that is 2ND week of Easter holidays, Emily and I are going to Bourke.

So, yes. That's my excuse for being lazy and not writing more.

What have I been doing lately?

• I am bravely trying to read Lord of the Rings, with the temptation that I can watch the movie at the end.
• Emily and I entered into the Dubbo Eisteddfod that will happen in June, I think. I entered into-

1. Piano Duet with Emily
2. Bible Reading, Jeremiah 34, 1-7. (A few hard-to-pronounce names there: Lachish? Azekah? Zedekiah? Any idea on pronunciation?)
3. Prose Reading, 13-15 years, Approx 175 words from “The Outsiders” by S E Hinton, “Tomorrow when the War Began” by John Marsden, or “All the Rivers Run By” by Nancy Cato.
4. Sight Reading, Preparation Time, 1 Minute.
5. Duologues- Own Choice, Excerpt from any play, Time limit: 3. (With Emily)

So that'll keep me busy too.

• There was a little bit of Op shopping last week. I got a really nice dress for $4.50. ;D
• I'm watching The Merchant of Venice with Mum and Emily.
• I'm continuously getting a little weirded out by my family. Right now they're singing 'Smelly Cat' in the kitchen. Look it up on youtube when you're done this and you'll see why I'm concerned.

Now, I had better get ready for school. I'll see you when I see you,

Yours truly,

Bourke

Going to Bourke for three days was absolutely awesome. I hadn't been there since Easter last year so I was missing it heaps.


What I loved about going there most (apart from seeing my friends) was probably the Jet skiing. It was incredibly, awesomely, fantastical! I'd never been before so it was really cool. I was thrown off about five times though and I have bruises to prove it. Nevertheless, I'd do it again in a millisecond.


And, of course, the Splashe! Mmm, the cola! The caffeine! Probably my favourite drink ever. It's 'brewed' in Bourke so I took advantage of that fact when I went into town.


While I was there I also got to spend time with friends and see my brother and his new puppy, Barney who is adorable. But, yeah, it was a great time...

Happy Australia Day!!

Happy Australia Day!

Don't they look awesome? They had more than 100 honks just on their walking to the main street. 20 minutes! Mostly from guys...:)

Sunshine Coast Report

Last night at 3:00 AM we got back from our holidays at the Sunshine Coast. Our Grandparent's house is right next to a canal, so I found myself walking a fair deal. I was looking for stingrays mostly.

I really wanted to get a good picture of one, but whenever I had a camera with me they mysteriously disappeared. I saw about eight of them altogether though. As well as stingrays there were fish. Dead ones. Ones that never made it into the water as the tide went in. I nearly stepped on them because I was so focused on finding stingrays.

Every year since we were little, Canal Santa has come visiting. Throwing sweets onto the shore for the canal children. Thank you Canal Santa!

Canal Santa wasn't wearing a beard, but Jenna and Mum made up for it at Christmas time.

Kylie sent us a box of little presents, including a chocolate spoon for hot chocolates. Isn't it cool?

Anyhow, it was a very relaxing time, even Tesse got into the mood.

Half of the reason we went up there was for my cousin's wedding. This is just a couple of pictures of when we were all ready.

This has been a very random blog. No particular subject really. I just wanted to show off some of the pictures I had taken on my new camera. Pancakes are ready, so I have to go.