I have so much to post about but don't have the time. I took today off work to move to the new flat. Despite the fact the new flat is literally next door and the fact Anthony and I have been hard at work for over 13 hours now...there's still so much to do. Oh god it's never ending. I can't even imagine what it would have been like if we'd been living in a house as opposed to a two-bedroom flat because today's been hard enough.

Pretty much everything has been moved over, but now we have to re-arrange the furniture (this was a furnished apartment, which means we have very little furniture of our own for the new one) and clean like motherfuckers. Our landlady expected us to hire a professional cleaner, but at $300 they can all go get fucked. However, after today I can suddenly see how justifiable that amount actually is (too bad I have NO money and so am stuck with the cleaning). AAHHHHH THE PAINNNNN!!!!

Thankfully we have another 12 month lease at the new place which means a year without having to do this again. I'd be quite happy to just live there for another three years if we're allowed. Fucking moving house with a big, pointy stick.

And now....to bed.

So our lease here is up in two weeks. Anthony and I have been putting off looking for a new place since this place is just too small and too expensive. Putting the house hunt off was a retarded idea but it's worked out well for us as our neighbors moved out last week. Turns out is is a MASSIVE three-bedroom flat with a proper floor plan and works out a tiny bit cheaper with a third person (only $10 less each but that's fine by me). And luckily my work mate Jeremy took up the offer to move in with us! Everything's coming up Milhouse!

In other exciting news, my weight loss has been going amazingly...despite the fact I've been hopeless with the diet and hardly been exercising at all. I'm back down to what I was at the peak of my weight loss somehow. I am so, so stoked. God I hope it's not just a short-lived fluke because I feel awesome. So many people have commented on it, I thought they were all just humouring me until I weighed myself at gym this evening. I don't know what I've done but I'm going to keep it up while also bumping up the exercise again. I'm only 2kg away from my goal weight!!!

NEW BATMAN FILM TOMORROW NIGHT! WHOOP WOO! Ba na na na na na na na na na na FISHING!

So slack at posting lately. Also my internet was SO SLOW for such a long time there....not sure why it's back to normal but I ain't complaining. I'll briefly cover the last two weekends in a mass-roundup so as not to bore anyone to death.

Last weekend:

• Friday I took mum to Picasso Up Late at the Gallery of Modern Art where Gentle Ben played. Literally one-third of my workmates went which made it interesting (in a fun way, as they were all the cool workmates). Afterwards a few of us went to a friends place for a few drinks and then danced like retards in the kitchen. It was great.
  
  
• Saturday was a pretty lazy day because I had a big night planned. Went to a work mates 30th birthday party, though I drove so couldn't drink (also was still a bit seedy from the night before). Then went back into the Valley and to Empire for the re-launch of Breaks n Enter. It was a really good night, I ended up spending the night with Jeremy and Michelle, we chatted and danced all night long. It was sad to see so many fights everywhere though (in the club and down on the street below us) - I finally understand the government's concern over alcohol-fueled violence, because we saw it everywhere, as well as the after math, with guys being taken away in ambulances with neck braces :/
  
  
• Sunday we had a Harry Potter meetup picnic which was nice, though there was only the four of us. Ate lots of yummy food and it was nice weather. It's a shame we can't get more people to come along though :(
  

This weekend just past:

• Friday night I went to a gig with a mate from work who got free tickets (yay, free!) for a band called Grafton Primary. They weren't bad though I kept getting shouted drinks and therefore got pretty drunk and so didn't stay out too long.
  
  
• Saturday I kept busy with various errands followed by an Arrested Development marathon. That night I went to see Gentle Ben with a few friends at Ric's but went home fairly early (and watched some more Arrested Development, of course). I think I must be getting old or something.
  
  
• Aaaand on Sunday I really did bugger all. Sleeping, watching TV and more lounging around. Such a hard life I lead!
  

( Some photos from last Saturday night )

Meanwhile I am watching Miss Universe right now and it is hilarious! So, so tacky.

My internet has been so slow for ages now. I'd ring Bigpond up to abuse them but it's possible that it's because we've gone over our download limit (which is abysmal anyway) or because we're about to be disconnected for non-payment. I AM GETTING ANGRIER BY THE MINUTE AS EVERYTHING TAKES 1500X LONGER THAN IT SHOULD TO LOAD!

So I'm not going to even attempt to post a weekend roundup as I have bunch of photos to upload which would surely take hours. So for now, have a photo from my "used to be cool" day at work yesterday where the girls in my pod dressed as early-90s TLC:



Please note: The captions were actually added by my manager (who was dressed as Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys, may I add).

We have a theme day at work on Monday, just for the hell of it apparently. The theme is "Used to be cool" so we have to dress as something or someone that used to be cool to us once upon a time. Naturally everyone's going as something from the early 90s. I've been desperate to dress up as Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes for ages now, so now I finally have an excuse!



Awwww yeah, dig that crazy, early 90s style! The best bit is, I got my whole outfit for just $15! I didn't even have to go into Supre, I just happened upon a $5 sale at Cotton On where all their fluoro crap is going cheap. Oh man, so awesome. Of course these bright sky-blue track pants make my arse look enormous but man are they perfect. If you want to get an idea of what I am going to wear, check out this video and look for the baggy t-shirts with enormous singlets over top and you'll see exactly what I'm going to wear. I'm far too excited about this!

In other work news, I incidentally got a pay rise today. I say incidentally because due to a bunch of tax changes I was unaware of, I now earn less than the threshold for HECS. In other words, they no longer take money out of my pay to go towards my Uni debt. I am very pleased with this, as it means I am finally getting paid the amount I expected to get since my pay rise a few months ago!

In unrelate dnews I saw Hancock tonight which I really enjoyed. I can see why people didn't like it so much, but I really, really liked it. I admit I am very easily pleased by films and also have a crazy obsession with Will Smith, but aside from that I enjoyed the whole film in general. I kept thinking about "Arrested Development" though, because of Jason Bateman (not that that's a bad thing).

This weekend was excitement plus! I decided to spend it at mum's as I'd been feeling really sick all week. Tummy aches, a sore back and other little hurts. The excitement started Friday night after work, as I was getting ready to go to mum's. I got a call from my workmate who was oncall as one of our clients had their (brand new) system die and they were without music. Since this venue was near where mum lives, and they begged me, I grabbed my personal Nightlife system and leapt into my car and headed off. Only to have a car crash 10 minutes later (right near work too, of all places). The worst part was, as I hit the car in front of me I'm at fault. No one was hurt at all, though the girl I hit almost had a panic attack. Her car is quite new and therefore half made of plastic so hardly any damage. My poor little steel tank copped some damage to the front but nothing too serious. My dad managed to fix most of it on the weekend. But still, totally uncool and while I constantly reminded my work mates of the lengths I go to for this company, I don't actually think it was really appreciated :( I COULD HAVE DIED! OR BEEN HURT! BAH! Needless to say I left the service call to the following morning.

Saturday mum and I went to West End for shopping and a general adventure into a part of the City we've never really been to properly. Oh god it was so good. Op-shops, cheap fashion and TRASH VIDEO! We spent ages in there, talking to Andrew, the guy who owns it and is a bit of a personality for his TV show "Schlock Treatment" in Brisbane. I bought some Ed Wood DVDs, death to Smoochy on VHS and mum bought some classic films as well. It was just so exciting, and I think he was shocked two attractive women were so into the world of schlock film.

After that we had cake and chai tea and then picked up my friend's puppy as I sort of volunteered to look after it. Poor mum is going to be the one looking after dear little Pixie as there's no way she could stay in my flat. But she's so damn cute, full of energy (and poop) so I think mum will forgive me eventually :D Spent Sunday fixing my car with dad, cleaning mum's and playing with the puppy. Such a great weekend despite the poor start I had!

Oh no, oh no, ohhhh nooooooo!

I haven't been as...obsessed with Die Ärzte these days as I usually am. Not because I don't love them more than anything in the world. But because it's actually really hard being a fan when you have NO ONE to be a fan with. So I listen to them on my mp3 player and secretly love them heaps and heaps but I don't get carried away by looking them up constantly or discussing them all the time. It's pretty sad but it's how it has to be in order for me to cope.

Wow that's really quite pathetic. OK, my point...

I was talking to a mate from work about "Miss Rap Supreme" (my current favourite TV show) and he made a joke about Germany not having a hip hop scene. I laughed and educated him on how wrong he was and sent him some links to Fettes Brot videos. And then I got onto the subject of Die Ärzte and showed him the clip for "Junge" and "Männer sind Schweine" and he commented on good tthe songs themselves were, let alone the clips. So I showed him a few more and he was really impressed.

And then those familiar surges of love and adoration came flooding back. I'm lending him some of their albums tomorrow and promised to show him my other ärzte merch. And now I can't stop thinking about them and feeling awful for neglecting them for so long!

So, I need help with getting the couple of CDs I was too slack to order sooner. Does anyone wnat to get them for me (I'll pay them back) since I can't be arsed trying to deal with amazon.de or wherever else. UGH DAMN THEM TO HELL!

I'm only updating because I just painted my nails with special nail hardener which takes forever to dry and everytime I got to bed before it completely dries, it ends up getting bumpy from the sheets. I like my nails nice and smooth, thank you Mr Sheets. Also I am totally boring.

This weekend was good. Being oncall this week was a total bludge, hardly any calls. I spent Friday night and all day Saturday with mum. She is looking at buying a house since she and dad are preparing the family house to be sold soon, so we went and had a look at that. It's really cute and for really cheap considering it's four bedrooms and has a pool. It is in Booval but it's a nice part and I think it's great value. I also think it'll be less maintenance and also convenient to shops and public transport, which will suit her much better than shitty old Karana Downs.

Saturday evening I drove home as I had plans to go to Monster Joe's later on. I got stuck on a massive tech call for nearly two hours but once that was sorted I went to Step Inn with the gang and had an awesome night. It was kind of weird (n a good way) but three people stopped me during the night to ask if I was the one behind the zombie walk. Buggers me how they knew, but hey, I sort of felt like a celebrity for less dorky reasons than "Hey aren't you that girl who's in that Harry Potter fan club?" (it's happened a few times, I'm afraid). I don't know how but I got seriously, terribly wasted and stayed out til after 5am, where I stumbled home with the house mate of a guy I work with and then passed out. I paid dearly for it on Sunday, with one of the worst migraine's I've had in ages (nearly spewing in a chemist in New farm? So not cool).

Today I am going to try and lose this 2kg I have gained. Well I've only really gained 1.6kg but it's still appalling after all that hard work I put in. My motivation is at an all-time low but I'm going to try my best not to eat too much rubbish and make it to gym at least three times a week for 90 mins each time. Oh ad I might take up fencing with a girl from work, since we both really enjoyed it on the bad camp last week. Plus I can finally swashbuckle for real!

I've just been reflecting on what I'm doing with my life, in comparison to what I want to really be doing with my life right now.

It looks like my bout of graphic design work has amounted to little/nothing. _snitchbitch and I were meant to be the graphic designers for Planet Nightclub but after some ridiculous drama there (not involving either one of us, it's mostly to do with the fact the owners really don't know how to run nightclubs, nor do they have any business sense at all) it looks like our work with them is over, though they've not bothered to actually tell us this which is really frustrating. It's a shame because I was really getting into it and despite the stress it sometimes caused me, I really enjoyed it. I'm thinking of taking a Graphic Design course at Tafe so I could possibly take it more seriously.

Tonight I met up with a girl who advertised in a local street press magazine for people interested in starting a "riot grrl" style band, females preferred of course. I'm quite optimistic, as this girl really seems to want to go down the same sort of path as I do in terms of style of music. Plus she straight-up said being a "good" singer is far from a pre-requisite since the riot grrl genre was never really defined by amazing singers. While I think my voice is OK, I have always been worried people expect a really good female lead vocalist for their band, since that seems to be the thing these days. I reckon I have the ideal voice for a riot grrl band so I'm really optimistic about forming a band with this girl. Man there's something so relieving to be finally getting into forming a rock band, after all these years of putting it off and feeling miserable about it.

As far as my day job goes...it's going pretty well actually. We had what we call "band Camp" on the weekend which is weekend away for work to do team-building activities and then have a massive piss up. I was dreading it, early rises and dumb activities and then a potentially humiliating experience of getting too drunk and rowdy with workmates. But as it turns out, it was really good and I actually enjoyed myself thoroughly (despite the early rises). I slept in on Saturday morning and very nearly missed the bus to the Sunshine Coast but from there on it was hanging out with my workmates and doing things like canoing, fencing and making giant catapults (a lot of fun). After dinner we went to the local pub, the definition of a local, bogan pub on the Coast. There was a massive bar tab and I drank all their Strongbow's. I danced far too much and am aching (and a tad bit embarrassed) as a result. But I really properly spoke to some workmates I rarely speak to at work, let alone outside of it, which was both nice and the whole point of the trip I guess.

Anyway, have a few photos from the night out and then a couple I found from when I went out after Dallas' rockstar party:

( You came to see a rock shoooooow... )

Anthony is ignoring me and I don't know why. It's frustrating, disconcerting and kind of upsetting :(