Thursday, June 26, 2008
I look at the world and I notice it's turning
Post number Ate Oh
Mayhem. Utter sheer mayhem. And then there's the goings on outside of my head!
This is my latest blog since last year, in ummm, May 2007 and I believe this to be my first post ever with pictures! So much has happened then. I bought a house with my partner and was residing with defacto-in-laws for a month. The new house has brought about a long awaited celebration of House Warming which we didn't really do in the last rental. Not much room. It was like House on Haunted Hill except it wasn't haunted; just really freakin cold. So glad to be out of that place. We now own the heater here. Well, a certain percentage due to the bank owning the other part of it. It's the biggest debt I've ever had and probably ever will. Unfortunately the cats don't pay rent - they don't even work to maintain their keep. But they give endless love :) and I would not want them catatutioning on the street late at night.
Holiday to Melbourne was sweet. It was a short trip but it was a good one. Stayed in a cute boutique hotel - Hotel Sophia. It had been an old pub I believe but they renovated it to be neat room style hotel. The space was enough and it really was only for storing our clothes and shopping and and other stuff like sleeping... So it was very very adequate. I didn't get to have Ramen but made sure that I ate some sushi.
Speaking of Sushi....visited the Aquarium because I love fish. It was the most beautiful and relaxing place to be and the creatures are so amazing when you can walk thru glass tunnels! Also I visited the zoo - yay! more animals! Got some good photos and tried to see everything but it was such a long walk around and needed to get back to the bus top in time to catch the right transfer back to the city. I can recommend going there even if it was a little ways out of the city because the butterfly enclosure was magical.
We also had tea out in a suburb with a friend who is local. Can't remember but I think we took a bus and it had lots of food places. Yummy pizza!! I also ate Thai in Chinatown and saw loads of poor little lobsters :( I shudder to think that people eat them when they are sat there waiting freshly in tanks to meet their doom! Respect to the animals you eat! Respect to the little lobster who gave it's nourishment! I didn't eat it but I figure you need to respect the animals and know where they came from before your plate because we no longer live in a world where it's a fair playing field of catch your own. I think if I ate red meat I would give up if I had to catch the cow myself... An awesome place that I went was Robot bar in a little alley way and it has a Japanese anime theme and sells sake. The drinks menu is fantastic.
http://www.robotsushi.com
Summer was Grand and mild for quite a while there until BAM - massive heat for the New Year. I thought my brain was going to fry. For a while there it did, and it was painful. Heat headaches are pretty bad but not half as bad as vomit migraines. Back to the heat. Spent a beautiful new years at a rural location and heralded 2008 under the stars. It was spacious land with rolling hills and a lovely view of the passing thunderstorm out yonder way away. And a chicken. Sangria and Water fights are a must for any New Years bash. I made it to the beach a couple of times however I got my tan from the 3 hot days over the New Years week -= unbelievable that I got my whole season tan in 3 days in Taswegia of all places.
Summer didn't last very long. Well, it did, but the glow of New Years happiness left pretty quickly after getting back. I had some fambily stuff to deal with and it took a lot out of me at the time. What goes around comes around and it's something that should have been resolved a long time ago but it's never the right time and you just go along about your business and time clocks up and nothing is ever fixed. And you're never the same person as you were before or will be. Funny. Humans are such amazing bio-machines. We burn fuel, excrete waste, can be set to task and purpose but it is so difficult to fix us on the inside. And you never know what's going on in there until you look.
The cooler months are now set upon us like a pitbull so Gardening is now my selected hobby. I don't do much of it tho. I think it's more rearranging and "putting" than actual gardening. Taking plants out, putting them in another place, failing to maintain their water levels, watching them die, overwatering, pulling out the dried yellowed remains, putting in new fresh seeds, finding nothing coming up, putting in new seedlings, watching them flower. My favourite is rearranging pot plants. Rearranging the plants inside them, transposing to bigger pots and also actually rearranging their locations in the garden. It's a fun way to make it look different. And I have to put the effort in now I can say it's my garden. I like it now that I have the Australian dream of a lawn. I enjoy watching my man go out on a weekend like all the other neighbours in our street to mow the grass.
What with the onset of the cooler months I have now had a blasted cold for too long. It started in April and went into May and then I had a sinus infection which was sooooo gross feeling and antibiotics I think takes all the goodness out of your tummy. I now have another which imposed on my holiday with my friend Boo. I hope to be over it very soon but it would probably take another while. I'm not so keen to take vitamin supplements as I believe the diet should adequately nourish any kind of requirements you need. I, on the other hand, do not adequately nourish myself for the requirements in the vitamins department and so should probably take supplements.
The highlights of my holiday with my good friend Boo was that we got to go to the Aquarium in Darling Harbour, saw loads of things for our short time at Supanova; Pop Culture convention and meeting some wonderful people. The Aquarium is one of my favourite stops in Sydney. I go every time I've been there so that makes it 4 times to Darling Harbour, 2 times to Manly. We did lots of walking and training and busing because we were not staying the city. Got to go to some good shops. It's fun to go shopping with girlfriends rather than boyfriends because I didn't feel so guilty going into super girly girl stores and then lumping boyf with shopping bags as I try to fumble with my purse.
Supanova was pretty fantastic, one of the main reasons to go to Sydney, and was very fun. I did cosplay on Saturday as Dangermouse however was feeling pretty poorly and the eyepatch, no peripheral vision and woosiness did make for a very very surreal personal experience. Saw the best cosplay teams ever! The Eva Unit 1 and Zeruel and also the Dr Who Drs and Cap'n Jack :) Got some cute things whilst in Sydney - shopping is the other reason I wanted to go to Sydney. Got a Ragnarok Poring, some cute nail gems so I could be all girly and pretty feeling, and a comic book Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl.
http://www.supanova.com.au/
I guess my favourite part was meeting so many people! Got loads of pictures of cosplayers and some of the event. Met Boo's rellies which were so nice and kind and sweet! And a gorgeous boxer puppy who woke me up by stomping all over me and then making up for it with kisses ^_^ I sadly didn't get a picture of us all to take home :( Also met the people who run Supanova and make the magic happen. They are a bunch of amazing and dedicated people who did a fabulous job of the event. Supanova is still evolving to be better and brighter each year so I'll be very keen to keep going to their other venues each year ^_^ Got to see some acquaintances that I met last time I was in Sydney. They so friendly and adorable! At the party or rather soiree I met some lovely people that also attended Supanova. They were fantastic hostesses and it was such a civilised do unlike the Tasmanian bashes I'm used to... only joking! It was the nicest party I've been to since Boo's party for Lex.
The scariest part of the trip was that I was sick for all weekend! Boo was unwell before we left and began improving over the weekend however I was struck on Thursday night with the terrible lurgy and eventually felt nauseous all Friday day and night at the opening night of the convention. It was a very VERY long train ride back to where we were staying and I was discreetly sick frequently along the way for 2 hours on an empty belly. An ambulance was called after I collapsed at the last station and they gave me some no-spew drug before wheeling me away to the hospital where it wasn't until another 5 hours til I exited all pepped up on saline. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to my wonderful friend who helped me and fed me tissues to catch the spew and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to my wonderful boyfriend who took a $120 silver service cab to hoon to my side. My ambulance experiences have all be horrifyingly memorable and serious and I don't ever want to have an episode where an ambulance is needed again. Funniest part of the evening was when I was asked by the doctor attending me whether I had been "bingeing".
The weirdest part of the trip was seeing a sign at the train station that said "kiss & ride". The signpost had a couple of icons representing a bus stop, taxi stop, train stop with corresponding arrows. One of the icons was "Kiss & Ride" with the exact text below and an arrow pointing toward the road. The most hilarious thing about it was being a tourist and the picture showing a stylised car and a person with one arm on the car and kinda leaning towards it. Now, one must imagine this was a Transport department official signage and that the icon didn't represent soliciting kisses for rides from the pavement to random cars that stop there... I am not one to imagine clean good old common sense explanation from a "Kiss & Ride" sign. I have now been informed by my co-traveller that it was a drop off point for drivers wanting to temporarily park to drop people off to the station - like you're needing to travel to the station, getting hubby to drop you off and you lean into the car and give them a smooch bye-bye and they drive away. There is a little confusion coming from within me with the practicality of the named sign and the imagery with it. Perhaps Drop-off point would be appropriate. Or 2 Mins parking like at airports. Thank goodness we stayed skeptical about the sign and didn't come to any conclusions about what it represented otherwise we may have been inappropriately getting lifts home...
Latest crazes on the cards is makeup and bargains. I'm again going thru a makeup phase but this time budget is tight. I've been making up a rule of "if it's $10 or under I can has it if I wants it". My latest fads are Mirenesse cosmetics and their free products and specials. They have free full size make up for only the cost of shipping - That's well plastic! And my other makeup fad is Asian skincare and makeup, Sana products, Shiseido japanese releases and Kose colour cosmetics. One shop that I found whilst away in Sydney was Aka Cosmetics in Market City which is all shiny and full of beautiful asian skincare products and makeup. I didn't have the brain or the stamina to investigate the shop properly whilst sick but found it on the interwebs and will find out if they do postal orders ^_^ My other neat bargain box find was a shop called Missha which is a Korean chain that have outlets here in Australia, mores specifically the QVB in Sydney. Shiny store with cute makeup and cute nailpolishes which I will have to order as they are bargains at about $1 each when on sale.
The items that I am currently using are the Innoxa skincare range as they are Cruelty Free products against animal testing and use mostly natural ingredients. The other items that I would like to get is Diva skincare which is fully natural Vegetarian skincare and makeup! WOW! All of their products contain good ingredients that do not contain animal products, no lanolin and no cruelty! So it's not putting animal products on your face and some poor lab animal didn't suffer because we want beautifying products. Yay for vegetarian products!
I've had lots of neato little ideas. Hahahah. Neato. Strange word. This year I hope to have a passport to go travelling overseas! The high seas and the high skies call unto me to explore, eat and mingle in foreign lands! Meanwhile half the year has passed my intentions are firmly glued to my butt which is firmly placed on a seat nowhere near my passport application form or a pen... Also this year I want to do an art page! Ambitious, colourful, cute, expressive, crazy, beautiful, melancholic would be the theme. Basically an online scrap book of illustration based artwork. Main inspirations have been online shops like my friend has on Etsy and also the other artists who make wonderful works and share them with the interwebizens. Spare room needs to be cleaned up a little more so that there is floor space to sort out more locations for putting in a new bookshelf. All of our lovely books are stored in our yucky garage instead of inside to fill my head with words. Also it'd be nice to get some more space for making sewing stuff. I've made many bebe blankets lately and there are still some more to come. My other ambition is to make some clothing out of the $100 worth of $2xmetre fabric that I have collected but not yet used.
Whew! SO much in this blog! As always there will be better days ahead and some more bloggings eventually :) Six months until the end of the year and I have a bit on my plate to get ahead on. Twill be enjoyable nonetheless.
Mayhem. Utter sheer mayhem. And then there's the goings on outside of my head!
This is my latest blog since last year, in ummm, May 2007 and I believe this to be my first post ever with pictures! So much has happened then. I bought a house with my partner and was residing with defacto-in-laws for a month. The new house has brought about a long awaited celebration of House Warming which we didn't really do in the last rental. Not much room. It was like House on Haunted Hill except it wasn't haunted; just really freakin cold. So glad to be out of that place. We now own the heater here. Well, a certain percentage due to the bank owning the other part of it. It's the biggest debt I've ever had and probably ever will. Unfortunately the cats don't pay rent - they don't even work to maintain their keep. But they give endless love :) and I would not want them catatutioning on the street late at night.
Holiday to Melbourne was sweet. It was a short trip but it was a good one. Stayed in a cute boutique hotel - Hotel Sophia. It had been an old pub I believe but they renovated it to be neat room style hotel. The space was enough and it really was only for storing our clothes and shopping and and other stuff like sleeping... So it was very very adequate. I didn't get to have Ramen but made sure that I ate some sushi.
Speaking of Sushi....visited the Aquarium because I love fish. It was the most beautiful and relaxing place to be and the creatures are so amazing when you can walk thru glass tunnels! Also I visited the zoo - yay! more animals! Got some good photos and tried to see everything but it was such a long walk around and needed to get back to the bus top in time to catch the right transfer back to the city. I can recommend going there even if it was a little ways out of the city because the butterfly enclosure was magical.
We also had tea out in a suburb with a friend who is local. Can't remember but I think we took a bus and it had lots of food places. Yummy pizza!! I also ate Thai in Chinatown and saw loads of poor little lobsters :( I shudder to think that people eat them when they are sat there waiting freshly in tanks to meet their doom! Respect to the animals you eat! Respect to the little lobster who gave it's nourishment! I didn't eat it but I figure you need to respect the animals and know where they came from before your plate because we no longer live in a world where it's a fair playing field of catch your own. I think if I ate red meat I would give up if I had to catch the cow myself... An awesome place that I went was Robot bar in a little alley way and it has a Japanese anime theme and sells sake. The drinks menu is fantastic.
http://www.robotsushi.com
Summer was Grand and mild for quite a while there until BAM - massive heat for the New Year. I thought my brain was going to fry. For a while there it did, and it was painful. Heat headaches are pretty bad but not half as bad as vomit migraines. Back to the heat. Spent a beautiful new years at a rural location and heralded 2008 under the stars. It was spacious land with rolling hills and a lovely view of the passing thunderstorm out yonder way away. And a chicken. Sangria and Water fights are a must for any New Years bash. I made it to the beach a couple of times however I got my tan from the 3 hot days over the New Years week -= unbelievable that I got my whole season tan in 3 days in Taswegia of all places.
Summer didn't last very long. Well, it did, but the glow of New Years happiness left pretty quickly after getting back. I had some fambily stuff to deal with and it took a lot out of me at the time. What goes around comes around and it's something that should have been resolved a long time ago but it's never the right time and you just go along about your business and time clocks up and nothing is ever fixed. And you're never the same person as you were before or will be. Funny. Humans are such amazing bio-machines. We burn fuel, excrete waste, can be set to task and purpose but it is so difficult to fix us on the inside. And you never know what's going on in there until you look.
The cooler months are now set upon us like a pitbull so Gardening is now my selected hobby. I don't do much of it tho. I think it's more rearranging and "putting" than actual gardening. Taking plants out, putting them in another place, failing to maintain their water levels, watching them die, overwatering, pulling out the dried yellowed remains, putting in new fresh seeds, finding nothing coming up, putting in new seedlings, watching them flower. My favourite is rearranging pot plants. Rearranging the plants inside them, transposing to bigger pots and also actually rearranging their locations in the garden. It's a fun way to make it look different. And I have to put the effort in now I can say it's my garden. I like it now that I have the Australian dream of a lawn. I enjoy watching my man go out on a weekend like all the other neighbours in our street to mow the grass.
What with the onset of the cooler months I have now had a blasted cold for too long. It started in April and went into May and then I had a sinus infection which was sooooo gross feeling and antibiotics I think takes all the goodness out of your tummy. I now have another which imposed on my holiday with my friend Boo. I hope to be over it very soon but it would probably take another while. I'm not so keen to take vitamin supplements as I believe the diet should adequately nourish any kind of requirements you need. I, on the other hand, do not adequately nourish myself for the requirements in the vitamins department and so should probably take supplements.
The highlights of my holiday with my good friend Boo was that we got to go to the Aquarium in Darling Harbour, saw loads of things for our short time at Supanova; Pop Culture convention and meeting some wonderful people. The Aquarium is one of my favourite stops in Sydney. I go every time I've been there so that makes it 4 times to Darling Harbour, 2 times to Manly. We did lots of walking and training and busing because we were not staying the city. Got to go to some good shops. It's fun to go shopping with girlfriends rather than boyfriends because I didn't feel so guilty going into super girly girl stores and then lumping boyf with shopping bags as I try to fumble with my purse.
Supanova was pretty fantastic, one of the main reasons to go to Sydney, and was very fun. I did cosplay on Saturday as Dangermouse however was feeling pretty poorly and the eyepatch, no peripheral vision and woosiness did make for a very very surreal personal experience. Saw the best cosplay teams ever! The Eva Unit 1 and Zeruel and also the Dr Who Drs and Cap'n Jack :) Got some cute things whilst in Sydney - shopping is the other reason I wanted to go to Sydney. Got a Ragnarok Poring, some cute nail gems so I could be all girly and pretty feeling, and a comic book Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl.http://www.supanova.com.au/
I guess my favourite part was meeting so many people! Got loads of pictures of cosplayers and some of the event. Met Boo's rellies which were so nice and kind and sweet! And a gorgeous boxer puppy who woke me up by stomping all over me and then making up for it with kisses ^_^ I sadly didn't get a picture of us all to take home :( Also met the people who run Supanova and make the magic happen. They are a bunch of amazing and dedicated people who did a fabulous job of the event. Supanova is still evolving to be better and brighter each year so I'll be very keen to keep going to their other venues each year ^_^ Got to see some acquaintances that I met last time I was in Sydney. They so friendly and adorable! At the party or rather soiree I met some lovely people that also attended Supanova. They were fantastic hostesses and it was such a civilised do unlike the Tasmanian bashes I'm used to... only joking! It was the nicest party I've been to since Boo's party for Lex.The scariest part of the trip was that I was sick for all weekend! Boo was unwell before we left and began improving over the weekend however I was struck on Thursday night with the terrible lurgy and eventually felt nauseous all Friday day and night at the opening night of the convention. It was a very VERY long train ride back to where we were staying and I was discreetly sick frequently along the way for 2 hours on an empty belly. An ambulance was called after I collapsed at the last station and they gave me some no-spew drug before wheeling me away to the hospital where it wasn't until another 5 hours til I exited all pepped up on saline. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to my wonderful friend who helped me and fed me tissues to catch the spew and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to my wonderful boyfriend who took a $120 silver service cab to hoon to my side. My ambulance experiences have all be horrifyingly memorable and serious and I don't ever want to have an episode where an ambulance is needed again. Funniest part of the evening was when I was asked by the doctor attending me whether I had been "bingeing".
The weirdest part of the trip was seeing a sign at the train station that said "kiss & ride". The signpost had a couple of icons representing a bus stop, taxi stop, train stop with corresponding arrows. One of the icons was "Kiss & Ride" with the exact text below and an arrow pointing toward the road. The most hilarious thing about it was being a tourist and the picture showing a stylised car and a person with one arm on the car and kinda leaning towards it. Now, one must imagine this was a Transport department official signage and that the icon didn't represent soliciting kisses for rides from the pavement to random cars that stop there... I am not one to imagine clean good old common sense explanation from a "Kiss & Ride" sign. I have now been informed by my co-traveller that it was a drop off point for drivers wanting to temporarily park to drop people off to the station - like you're needing to travel to the station, getting hubby to drop you off and you lean into the car and give them a smooch bye-bye and they drive away. There is a little confusion coming from within me with the practicality of the named sign and the imagery with it. Perhaps Drop-off point would be appropriate. Or 2 Mins parking like at airports. Thank goodness we stayed skeptical about the sign and didn't come to any conclusions about what it represented otherwise we may have been inappropriately getting lifts home...Latest crazes on the cards is makeup and bargains. I'm again going thru a makeup phase but this time budget is tight. I've been making up a rule of "if it's $10 or under I can has it if I wants it". My latest fads are Mirenesse cosmetics and their free products and specials. They have free full size make up for only the cost of shipping - That's well plastic! And my other makeup fad is Asian skincare and makeup, Sana products, Shiseido japanese releases and Kose colour cosmetics. One shop that I found whilst away in Sydney was Aka Cosmetics in Market City which is all shiny and full of beautiful asian skincare products and makeup. I didn't have the brain or the stamina to investigate the shop properly whilst sick but found it on the interwebs and will find out if they do postal orders ^_^ My other neat bargain box find was a shop called Missha which is a Korean chain that have outlets here in Australia, mores specifically the QVB in Sydney. Shiny store with cute makeup and cute nailpolishes which I will have to order as they are bargains at about $1 each when on sale.
The items that I am currently using are the Innoxa skincare range as they are Cruelty Free products against animal testing and use mostly natural ingredients. The other items that I would like to get is Diva skincare which is fully natural Vegetarian skincare and makeup! WOW! All of their products contain good ingredients that do not contain animal products, no lanolin and no cruelty! So it's not putting animal products on your face and some poor lab animal didn't suffer because we want beautifying products. Yay for vegetarian products!
I've had lots of neato little ideas. Hahahah. Neato. Strange word. This year I hope to have a passport to go travelling overseas! The high seas and the high skies call unto me to explore, eat and mingle in foreign lands! Meanwhile half the year has passed my intentions are firmly glued to my butt which is firmly placed on a seat nowhere near my passport application form or a pen... Also this year I want to do an art page! Ambitious, colourful, cute, expressive, crazy, beautiful, melancholic would be the theme. Basically an online scrap book of illustration based artwork. Main inspirations have been online shops like my friend has on Etsy and also the other artists who make wonderful works and share them with the interwebizens. Spare room needs to be cleaned up a little more so that there is floor space to sort out more locations for putting in a new bookshelf. All of our lovely books are stored in our yucky garage instead of inside to fill my head with words. Also it'd be nice to get some more space for making sewing stuff. I've made many bebe blankets lately and there are still some more to come. My other ambition is to make some clothing out of the $100 worth of $2xmetre fabric that I have collected but not yet used.
Whew! SO much in this blog! As always there will be better days ahead and some more bloggings eventually :) Six months until the end of the year and I have a bit on my plate to get ahead on. Twill be enjoyable nonetheless.
