christmas.

In a way I'm spending this Christmas alone. 

I don't have that special someone to spend it with, I'm not even spending it with my parents.

I'm not sad about it, but it could be nice.

Truthfully I'm not alone at Christmas though. 

I get to spend it with two of my most excellent friends.

One who has been there for me, since our fights in the playground. The other who I've known for less than a year. 

I also get to spend it with both of my sisters, my fantastic brother in law and my four gorgeous nieces. 

I think I expect a lot from this holiday, but I know that as long as I've got all of them I wont be disappointed. After all, I think regardless of religious reasons for the holiday, christmas is really just a time to make sure that you're spending it with people you love.

regrets?

I've definitely done a lot of things in life that I'm not proud of.

There are things I wish I could forget.

But these are things that none the less have happened, and things that I've done. 

I don't know if it's better or worse that I've just come to accept them as part of me, rather than regret them forever. 

Perhaps if we could learn to accept ourselves a little more, we could also become less judgmental of others.

A cold spring night

A great night.

Drinking red wine from the bottle.

Screaming as the flying red embers threaten to burn the backyard down.

$5 entry.

Watching breakdancing dance offs that just feel unreal.

Breaking it down in the corner.

An unknown funk concert that blows you away.

Catching taxi rides with strangers called Alice.

Yellow cupcakes with pink sugar.

Pretty sweet all round.

Check out the Transatlantics. Wont be playing until 2009, but they are awesome!

http://www.myspace.com/transatlantics

Goodbye Alec!!

online shopping.

I love shopping online.

The spending of money is similar to normal shopping for me:

My money seems to magically decrease and I never have anything to show for it.

But then, a package turns up at your door... It's like getting a present. 

You forget that you spent the money on it a few weeks earlier, and you just get the fun of having a parcel at your doorstep.

Thank you John Green.

mini houses!!!!!!!!!

So I really love these.

Letterboxes, that are made to look like the houses they belong to.

I saw another one today. 

MINI HOUSES!!!!

I really want to own a house someday that has a letter box that is a mini version of the house.

I guess I kind of have that now...

House = ugly brick thing with numbers

Letterbox = ugly brick thing with numbers

Just not at cool....

bring on the mini houses.

important stuff.

So today I've decided I'm going to start putting some money away so I can start doing some good things. 

I'd really like to start sponsoring a child, and put my money towards something a little more important than buying bottles of diet coke...

On that note, perhaps all money from recycled bottles and cans can go towards donating to world vision or something? It's an idea, I'll have to chat to Kirby about this... Whatever the case next year I'm going to be a better world citizen.

Kirby's Summer Reading List

During the summer holidays I am setting a task for Kirby. I want her to read a selection of books I have compiled in what I call 'Kirby's Summer Reading List'. These are the books:

My mum owns almost the entire Discworld series, and as a sort of rebellion against my mum I refused to ever read them (this was when I was about 10, I've changed my mind and I'm planning on reading them soon)...For the same reason I didn't plan on reading Good Omens because I was sure if my mum thought it was cool, then it wouldn't be cool enough for me. I was wrong. It's an interesting idea, and really funny and well written. Here's to liking what our parents like! hoo ha!

Another book on behalf of my parents. Although I never was against Ben Elton... I think the first book of his I read may have been High Society, and after that I tried to track down every single book he has ever written. I love This Other Eden for two reasons. 

1. It made me start worrying about the environment a lot more than I did before.

2. It is just a really interesting concept. 

I just find that Ben Elton is great and creating a whole new world in his books, and I read almost all of his books in about 1 day because I just can't put them down.

Another book that I was reluctant to read at first. Only because I always get confused between Markus Zusak and Tim Winton, and after 'That Eye The Sky' I resolved never to read another book by Tim Winton. This book is just amazing. It is so beautifully written, and once again just a fascinating concept. From now on I will definitely remember that I am a complete Markus Zusak fangirl. 

I had to read this book for Gothic English, and it was one of the only books on the reading list that I completely enjoyed. I put this book in there because the dark side of me always enjoys a little murder and the supernatural, and I just think it's an interesting book because of both its factual and fictional aspects. 

I am waiting for An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns to arrive in the mail. I thought I would enjoy Looking For Alaska, but I had no idea how much I would. This book made me feel things I hadn't felt in a while. I felt like I was back at school, not at uni pretending to be all grown up, and I just felt this book in every possible way.

I had a hard time starting this book. The language is fairly archaic, and the sentences are so long and drawn out. It took a trip to Belle Ille, in France, to get me to read this book. I started reading during my holidays, but after the trip to Belle Ille I finished almost all of it that night. I started appreciating the beauty in the words and in the story. It became one of my favourite books ever. 

I came across this book in Big W, and I was just drawn in by the cover. It's hard to explain exactly why I love this book so much, but it really just tapped in to so many of my emotions that I couldn't help but love it. I fell in love with the character of Michael, and wanted him to be real and alive so badly. Once I'd finished I couldn't get this book out of my head.

I have chosen all of these books because although they are all quite different they all had the same affect on me. They made me feel things and they affected the way I look at things. They all affected me a lot more than just being another book that I've read and they're ones that completely immersed me in them, so that I didn't feel like I was reading a story, but that I was in a story.

I hope you enjoy them Kirby and I hope they do similar things to you.

I had a such a fantastic time last night, and everyone was just so awesome. I can't believe how fantastic my friends are. Kirby, Helen, Andrew, Sarah, Jojo etc. got me a subscription to t-post which is so amazingly exciting! I can't wait for the first t-shirt to arrive. Kirby also made me a tardis cake, which was impossible to eat because the icing turned your hands blue, but was the coolest cake ever. Wes and Cam got me a photo mosaic of a picture of myself. It's really cool, people spent the night trying to find themselves in the smaller pictures (it is made out of all of my facebook friends' profile pictures)

Basically the night was excellent. Only two days until my actual birthday, and I'll be 19!

memories.

I just came across an old journal of mine from when I was in France in year 10.
It was pretty funny. And filled with some interesting things, such as:

Ideas for a book I wanted to write.
such as the line:
"Do you think they consider jumping"
"Why?"
"Because I do."
Blatantly copied and inspired by Mrs. Dalloway, which I read while going to Belle Ille.

A list of the names I want for my children:
Girls: Alice, Amelie, Carrie, Chanel, Elle, Lena, Scarlett
Boys: Nathanial, Felix, Jacob, Alec, Beck, Callum, Daniel, Ethan, Jason, Caleb, Louis, Francisco, Patrick, Tomas
Funnily enough I didn't have Jack. Which is the name I'm adamant my first born son is going to be called.

Tallies from the games of phase 10 we played on Goose Island.

Ratings for movies I had watched. Most of which I watched on inflight movies going to and from France:
Beyond Boarders **
Kill Bill: Vol 1 ****
Lost in Translation *** 1/2
Sylvia **
Mona Lisa Smile ****1/2
Mystic River *1/2
Brother Bear ****1/2
Donnie Darko *****
Gothika *****
Psycho ****
Romeo and Juliet ***1/2
The Others ***1/2
The Closet ***
Ring 2 ***


I think some of the movies that got the best ratings, either got them because of how scared they made me... or how much they made me cry.

I love rediscovering things from the past.

movie magic.

I filmed the majority of my movie for StoryTech this afternoon.

By this afternoon I mean tonight, because it took about 5 hours.

But it is pretty much all done now. I just have to get some sound and make a few more intros etc.

I'll post a link once I'm done.

I feel like everything (uni/life etc.) is all just coming together right now.

I feel pretty happy with stuff.

thats always a good way to be.

hard rubbish.

I have been in love with hard rubbish since I first fell in love with photography.

Hard rubbish was the first things I photographed for the sake of photography.

The other night we took to the streets in the mighty blue beast, and furnished a car port with fantastical objects that others saw as trash.

Things like that completely make my night.

Tomorrow me and Sarah will start a commando style 9 routine, and we shall completely rock out my halloween party. 

love affair.

I've fallen in love with Peter Carey.

I was already sort of in love with him, but I bought his book "collected stories" and now I'm just even more in love.

Plus. I feel all intellectual reading. 

I also want to buy John Green's book, "Paper Towns". Just because I keep hearing about it, and it sounds interesting. I'll have to keep my eye out for it. 

dinosaur bones.

I really want to go to the museum to see the dinosaur egg exhibit when it comes to Adelaide. I was telling Roxy the other day how I wanted to go anyway, because I think the last time I went to the museum I was about 8... But something about dinosaur eggs and babies just seems really cool.

I also walked past this guy the other day. He reminded me of the little drawings that you do on other people's notebooks, or the pictures Hannah would draw me in practice exams on her notes paper. Last year in one of my media lectures me and Nick drew an entire story about dinosaurs breaking out of an enclosure and killing people. I would keep drawing things to stop the dinosaurs, and he would keep drawing ways for the dinosaurs to outsmart my road blocks.

I wish I could drawn slimy blobs as good as this guy though...

Bisous!

to make a house a home.

A little while ago I realise that I'm not going to be living in my unit for much longer.

Once I'm gone, I wont really have anything left of it.

I've already lived in five different places my whole life, a few more if you count short term. 

When I went back to Vietnam in 2006 I found out that one of my old apartment buildings had been bulldozed. 

I just think it's a little sad that at one point these places were mine, but now I have nothing left of them at all. 

American Apparel.

American Apparel are coming to Adelaide.

ZOMG. ha.

I slightly excited, because although I've never bought anything from American Apparel. I'm a complete groupie. 

I've also completely got into Phoenix - United. Especially "If I Ever Feel Better"

I'm also immersing myself in the Smiths. 

Possibly instead of focussing on music I should be looking at studying for exams and my final assignments for Broadcast and Story-tech. Unlikely.

Bisous