Things I Love Thursday

♥ Hearing T&S sing The Ocean!, my bangs are back!, ice-cream for dinner, ordering paneer at the Indian restaurant because that is what Sheldon Cooper would do, when customers sing along to my music playlist at work, calling the Corner at 9am, girl crush!, Wil in flip flops, when the glass repair man looks like Jemaine Clement, my Package project partner!, days off, playing scrabble until 11pm with my parents, listening to the Temper Trap alot, less than 3 weeks til M-dot!, hugs, sleeping in until 10am, almond croissants from the new French bakery next door (holey moley, they are incredible), boys that like Regina Spektor, planning my day around the Ellen show, searching Ebay for cassettes and lastly but not least.. letting-them-go!

Curious Tuesday 003

Curious Tuesday 003! This week bought to you by Wednesday, boys with lisps, the 80's and of course, Gala Darling.

1. Who is your #1 crush? Well, I thought about this all day and I was actually stumped because at the moment I have no real crush on anyone which is devastating I know because crushes are awesome and the best kind of distraction and I love having someone to think about. But if any, it's always Seth Cohen, but he's not real.

2. Have you ever tried online dating? How did it go? Any tips? Yes, erghhh. Chatted to a few boys.. some sounded ok, actually went on a cute date with one boy but then it all went shit soon after. Long story! Tips would be, talk to the person and ask lots of questions, get to know them a bit before you give them your phone number and don't be afraid to be fussy.

3. Are you sentimental? Do you keep the things other people give you? Absolutely! I do delete smses pretty hastily however. If a relationship/friendship goes bad I will either bury all evidence of photos, letters etc deep in a box so I never find it or depending how how bad it is, throw it all out because I just want the good memories.

4. As a child, what were your primary interests? I was a pretty sporty kid.. I did surf club, teeball, netball and loved running. I was a girl guide, then a cub scout and loved going camping (still do!) I was obsessed with fairies and was convinced they existed in my backyard. I think I had one Barbie but preferred to play Lego and Transformers more. I loved watching Inspector Gadget, Captain Planet, Video Hits, Rugrats. Every birthday party I went to for at least 3 years straight was a Spice Girls dress up party. I also loved playing building forts out of pillows and couches, making mixtapes off the radio and jumping on the trampoline. I remember my brother and I used to play Micheal Jackson's Dangerous alot, plus I had a crush on Johnny Farnham? Yikes!

5. What are your top 3 guilty pleasures?

Crappy TV. Eg: Masterchef Australia, The Hills.

Staying in my pajamas all day on my days off work. I once went 48 hours straight in them!

Coffee. I'm trying to give up 100% but sometimes work buys it for me so I say "YESSSSS"

Face-tox

As part of my 101 Project one of the tasks is.. no Facebook for 7 days (Facetox!). I have actually gone over 7 days without Facebook or internet before whilst travelling/hiking but this is different, this is the real world when things like complete and utter boredum get in the way. And curiosity. So, here is my week without the beast known as Facebook..

Day 1: Every morning before work I usually check my Facebook and emails, but today I did not! I tried to actually block the site in case I get desperate but couldn't figure it out so I just deleted it from my favorites. I felt stupidly liberated. At work I told a co-worker that I would send them a link for something but now that will have to wait a week until I do log back on.

Day 2: I'm fine!

Day 3/4/5: I had to help out Dad with his FB to explain how to post on peoples walls but apart from that, zilch FB. I forgot to unsubscribe from email notifications so I keep getting them but not opening them. I did however get a message from a boy crush from years ago but I haven't opened it yet. I am pretty sure it says "Hey, where in the world are you now? Blaa blaa blaa" or maybe it says "Hey, I know I blew my chance years ago and I'm sorry I didn't have the guts to tell you how much I liked you, I would love to catch up if you're in town etc" Suspense that will have to wait until Wednesday!

Day 6: On my days off or when I am killing time on the internet, Facebook has always been there. Not this week. I have actually found that I am pretty much spending the same amount of time on the internet as usual but I guess this way I am not stalking that stupid boy that semi-dumped me nor do I see what my old pals are upto. But I will eventually.. in 2 days (I have in the meantime come to the conclusion that the boy will be deleted from my friends list asap) One of my favourite new bloggers, The New Me wrote this epic post about how to ruin your morning thanks to FB. Soooooo true.

Day 7: I can technically go back onto FB in under an hour but I am going to go to go bed instead. I am still very curious to see what old boy crush has to say to me after a few months of no contact.. we'll see in the morning! I think it has been quite nice without FB.. I still got the email notifications but didn't read them but really, I only got like 3 in the past week, woo!

Day 8: Back on the 'book! The old boy crush said in his message to me.. "How are you? I'm good. How is work? Are you a fan of the band Midlake? Looks like they're playing a gig at Capitol this winter and I was wondering if you'd be interested in seeing them? I've heard they're great live." Blaa blaa blaa. Firstly no, I am not a fan of Midlake. I've heard of them but thats all. This boy is actually the one who introduced me to The Shins like 5 years ago and they then became one of my favourite bands so yeah, he has pretty good taste. Secondly, was that an invitation for a date? After how many years dude!? Gahhhhh! Thirdly, I am leaving the state in 3 weeks so slim to none chance of us becoming pals again. BA-BOWWW. So apart from that whole boy business, I still think Facebook is lame and I quite liked not having it in my daily life, but it's so addictive when it is around. & yes, that other dirtbag of a boy from the past few months has been "removed".

Sunny beds and verbal waste.

Assignment #50: Take a flash photo under your bed
If you squint really hard you can see my snowboard bag.. and that's about all.













Assignment #37: Write down a recent arguement.
Me: "ugh, everything in the pantry is full of weevels and going stale and why is everything in the fridge going off!?"
Mother: "well theres not much I can do about that.."
Me: "well maybe if you didn't buy so much food we don't eat so the food doesn't have time to go stale and if we just eat what is there and not waste so much food"
Mother: "I DON'T WASTE FOOD"
Me: "yes, you do!"

Assignment #27: Take a photo of the sun
Perth, Australia. Sunday 16th May 2010 at 10:55am

Things I Love Thursday

♥ Making super cute homemade greeting cards for friends and family, going for my first real run in 3 weeks (!), winter chill, pain au chocolat from next door at work, my bookcase all filled up, planning my south west trip, Juno on tv, starting the morning listening to Regina and eating English muffins with earl grey tea, raindrops on our tin roof, homemade lavendar spray, finally finding the world of running blogs, realising he was just not that into me, making my bed everyday, homemade vegetarian pizza, perskindol, cointreau and cloudy apple juice, Medicare refunds, pink wrapped packages via the UK from Ebay, plastering Yvon Chouinard quotes on the window at work, Melbourne in 4 weeks!

♥ This film clip by Ben Lee..

It's not a planet, it's our home!

This worries me somewhat

I dont know how more people haven´t got mental health problems
Thinking is one of the most stressful things I've ever come across
And not being able to articulate what I want to say drives me crazy
I think I should try and read more books and learn some new words
My sister used to read the dictionary, I'm going to start with that
I'd like to travel, I want to see India and the pyramids
A whale and that race with all the bicycles in France
I'm not sure about rivers, they scare me, but I love swimming, I'm good at it
And when I swim I think about numbers and count the laps

♥ Kate Nash: Don't you want to share the guilt?

A form of nostalgia

I love Miranda July. Everything she does is magic to me and she is very inspirational. I am doing some of the "assignments" from her website as part of my 101 Project and this is my first.. Give advice to yourself in the past. It's occured to me that I could give myself so much advice, seriously, I could just go on and on and on. I really just love advice in general, for example New Resolution has some gems, here are some nice jpgs too plus of course the almighty Sunscreen Song which I should listen to at least daily.

Advice to myself at age 18.

• Don't spend over $100 dollars on a haircut in Melbourne just because it was the last place open. Haircuts are not that important and it wasn't even a good hair cut, in fact, it looked pretty rediculous
  
• Keep in touch with A & I because they are great girls and just because you live on other sides of the country it is good to have people who share common interests with you
• Don't get jealous or sad because your best friend isn't as close to you as she used to be. You can still be friends with her and it isn't all or nothing. She is a great friend to have so hold onto her.
  
• Always remember how great it was to see Dashboard Confessional play for the first time and how you rang K.A for her favourite song and how she still remembers it fondly.
  
• Actually move into that cute house in Melbourne and don't buy a one way ticket home instead.
• Don't worry about dropping out of Tafe. You know it wasn't right for you and you will eventually realise what you want to study eventually.
  
• Keep listening to the radio otherwise you will just keep listening to the same old bands
  
• Don't dye your hair jet black. Don't dye your hair in general.
  
• Appreciate the times when you and your friends would hang out on weekends and go to all ages shows and have picnics and make mixtapes for each other because this won't happen much in the future because we will all be too busy working, seeing boyfriends, studying, getting pregnant, moving away etc.
  
• Call your Aunty & Uncle when you are in Melbourne because you know they live there and they would love to see you.
• Learn to drive a car! Don't let Mum or Dad be responsible for this actually happening, they are never going to get sensible cars to drive in so the only way to do this is to get your own car and don't even let them give you lessons, it will just make you loathe it more.

P.S I wrote this last night and couldn't stop thinking about it and it pretty much kept me up all night thinking. I think it's good to think about and remember the tough times you went through even though it still kinda hurts when you think about some parts. It also made me realise alot of the past 6 years just all blur together in one big confusing mess. I just have to figure out how to move past all this, and uhhh, get a life. Plus watching Suddenly 30 doesn't help the equation either.