Things I Love Thursday

♥ Living in the state of Victoria with my sister, wardrobe planning involving early 00's bands tshirts!, late night FB chatting to boys in a non-skanky way, walnut tart from that fancy French bakery, staying up really late, the first half of Up!, Uniball pens, Australian merlot, Allens retro party lolly mix, dumpster diving, national parks, days off, last shifts, external hard drives, public holiday pay rates, veggie burgers, Glee, floral cardigans from Tokyo, silence, beer, screaming, Daniel Sanders, when plans fall into place, packing it all up, midnight apologies, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions on cassette, flying over the great Australian bight, edamame, the petties, Pixelgirl Presents = oh my goodness so many pretty desktop wallpapers, sleeping with a beanie on.

Curious Tuesday 005

This weeks Curious Tuesday bought to you by sitting inside with the heater on a Thursday, coffee with soy milk and of course, Gala!

1. Would you ever get cosmetic surgery? If not, why not? If yes, what would you want done? No wayyyyyyyy, not ever. I believe you are you are and to get cosmetic surgery is all very fake and I despise most un-natural things especially beauty related. I believe everyone is so much more beautiful naturally without excessive amounts of make up and and especially without surgery.

2. What is “your drink”? Chai tea ♥

3. What are your five fashion essentials? Cardigans, Chuck Taylors, old fashioned sunnies, my charm necklace and some bizarre patterned item (not always bizarre, more likely to be floral but a pattern none the less)

4. Do you have any tattoos? What are they? If not, do you want some? What would you like to get? I do! I have a heart on my collar bone a la Kurt Halsey that I got on my 20th birthday. I don't want another one though and some days I don't even want this one. I got it with my old best friend who also got a Kurt Halsey one too, but the reason I got the heart is below..

5. What is something most people don’t know about you? I had open heart surgery when I was 16. I was meant to have key hole surgery for the murmur in my heart but that failed so I had to go into an emergency operation. I hate reading or watching anything to do with heart surgery, it really freaks me out. I still have a huge scar and I don't like talking about it so I am gonna stop!

Never keep me down

And I'm a little bit lost without you
And I'm a bloody big mess inside
And I'm a little bit lost without you
This aint a love song this is goodbye
I've been lost, I've been losing
I've been tired, I'm all hurt and confusion
I've been mad, I'm the kind of man that I'm not
I'm going down, I'll be coming back fighting
I may be scared and a little bit frightened
But I'll be back, I'll be coming back to life
I'll be coming back to life ♥

Scouting for Girls: This Ain't a Love Song

I fell in love with this band when I was living in England a few years ago and then last week I heard the familiar sound of Roy Strides voice singing on the radio for the first time ever in Australia. This song has been on repeat for a few hours now and the video is so cute because it is all about airports and goodbyes and I have an affinity with airports plus this time tomorrow I will be boarding my plane! I think I am almost ready to leave.. still have a last minute doctors appointment, need to send some parcels, maybe meet up for coffee, try to hunt down my camera that I lost on Sunday night, take my uniform to work and uhhhh.. pack. Still.

Leaving home without you

This time we'll try to change those things we learnt and grown to hate
about nine to five, five to nine
simple times and the same old life and then
this time we'll re-arrange and we'll rip down all those picture frames of my life
this time we'll leave this town
Georgia Fair: Picture Frames



Yes, I know this songs reeks of summer (and flavoured milk tv advertisements..) but this week, I really like it.
Man, I post alot of videos on here hey.

I am currently procrastinating getting ready for my last work shift ever and wishing there was more bread in the house and trying to remember things from last night, ohhhhh dear. Plus I have so much effing packing to do still before Tuesday, everything was in little piles.. now there is just one big pile. I had a pretty nice weekend, I didn't work at all! On Saturday Dad and I went hiking and got very lost but it was hilarious. It made me miss New Zealand so much.. hiking in Perth is so flat and bushy, gimme some fiords anyday please. We also went to the tip! I love the tip! Haha, I'm serious, this one is like a lower class op shop and most of the stuff is free. It was the only place in Perth were I could find cassettes! On Saturday my polaroid camera died, I think it's little world trip just bashed it around too much and there are still 2 shots in it and the battery still works but the film just won't eject. I will miss you Vaughan! On Sunday I had a tiny going away party and when I say tiny I mean tiny but don't get me started. Perth never ceases to break my heart! Hrmph! Then I went and saw my favourite band in the whole entire universe, Gyroscope! They played heaps of old songs and it was nice to see them with my old friends and pretend it was 2003. I should have taken a photo of my outfit, I thought it was adorable. However I did mix navy with black and florals with polka dots but whatever fashion police, I break all the rules! Ok, now I have to go to work.. on a public holiday and hungover. MLIA.

P.S Note to self: delete that effing boys number from your phone otherwise you will text him at 1am on a Sunday night when you are drunk. He is a douche who doesn't like you enough because you live too far away. Well, that distance is going to get even bigger in a few days innit!

101 Project: May update

Inspired by the Day Zero Project!
Start : 11th March 2010 Finish : 7th December 2012

Italic = in process of completing Bold = completed
Full list here

2. Monthly 101 blog update (3/33)

13. Go 7 days without Facebook
DONE

14. Take one photo of myself a month (3/33)
Yeah, I know I don't post the photos of myself but doesn't mean they haven't been taken. Maybe I will post them all at once so you can be like "omgwtfbqq, who is that?"

18. Do not smoke
MAY MEGA FAIL

24. Paint nails once a month (2/33)
NOPE. At my work I quite often have to use really sharp hunting style knives and one day late last month I managed to maim my poor little pointer finger rendering it well, quite hacked up. It has finally recovered now though.

29. Have a monthly face mask (3/33)
I hate doing face masks when my family is home because I don't want to leave the bathroom at risk of freaking them out. I know, it's stupid. Whatevs. I did my almighty Japanese mask only once this month.

61. Give up coffee
Haha, not really! I have consumed at least one coffee a day for the past 2 weeks. I started off with tea but then we ran out so lately, it's only coffee that I want. Plus buying hot tea from a cafe is such a rip.

67. Watch 10 foreign films (1/10)
I watched My Life as a Dog (Swedish) I think this was my first ever film I have seen in Swedish. It isn't my usual kind of movie that I usually like but in the end I did like it.

76. Go to the theatre.
I saw Don Quixote at the ballet! It was fun to dress up and to drink champagne and sit in the pews and try to understand the story line. I think there were too many male characters in this one for me to understand who was the main man but still lovely to watch.

81. Make 5 people mixcds (2/5)
Yes, I made my penpals in Dubai & Utah lovely mixes.

82. Find 10 new bands to love (2/10)
To really love a band you need to love more than just one of their songs right? Well, I really like all of the Temper Traps songs so they are whom I have fallen for this month. And then theres lots of other bands that I just thrash one of their songs so they don't count (yet)

92. Do 20 assignments from Learning To Love You More (4/20)
Here and here.

93. Watch all the movies mentioned in Perks of Being a Wallflower (1/11)
My Life as a Dog.

95. Listen to all the songs mentioned in Perks of Being a Wallflower
DONE

96. Read at least one novel a month (3/33)
I read Mike Gayle's Brand New Friend. I also read He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo and finished it in 2 days! Initially I didn't like reading what they were saying but in the end it made me realise that this douche of a boy I was seeing is not worth my time and is infact an absolute ****. I loved the movie but didn't think I would like the book but I really did and I highlighted soooooo many pages from it too. "Don't waste the pretty" ♥ I also finally read How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer which wasn't the book I thought it was to begin with but I still really enjoyed the shorts stories.

101. Write a letter to myself to read at the end of the 1000 days
Done! I found this cool site called Future Me and basically you write a letter/email and then in sends it to you.. one day, any day you like! Can you imagine getting a email in the year 2060? YIKES.

Do the shuffle!

It's Friday night and I just tried to watch Up! but I got bored half way through so now I am drinking some red wine and attempting to recommence my packing for Melbourne whilst planning co-ordinating outfits for Sunday. Awesome.

This idea was stolen from the wonderful Em from Lick My Cupcakes.
The rules:
1. Put your ipod on shuffle.
2. Write down the FIRST song that comes on to each question. DO NOT switch songs if you don’t like it. Tough luck. That’s the fun of the game.
3. To avoid cheating, avoid looking at the questions and listen to the songs FIRST.

And my answers…
1. How am I feeling today?
Said Girl: Summer sickness. Well yes, I guess so. Tears were involved in todays activities although it is winter here now and sadness is a form of sickness.

2. How do my friends see me?
7 Day Weekend: Party monster. Hahaha yes sure why not, "I'm the party armageddon, I'm the birthday boom! I'll smash all your antiques and eat all your food, I came here party, I don't mean to be rude" I effing love this song. I wish every party played this song.

3. What is my best friend’s theme song?
Arcade Fire: My body is a cage. What does that all mean? The band is Canadian and I met my bf in Canada.. that is how it is all linked yes? Sure, why not.

4. What is the story of my life?
Coldplay: The scientist. I am not a scientist but I do really like this song and when I have crushes on boys they are 8 times out of 10 a scientist or studying science! Fact.

5. What is the best thing about me?
Modest Mouse: Mice eat cheese, LOLOL. I think I may even like cheese more than mice. I dont like this song very much. This makes no sense.

6. What is today going to be like?
Joni Mitchell: Come in the from cold. Well Joni, it is cold out and it is nice for the most part to be inside as I have wines and cheesies! Today at work it was cold even inside so I wore 2 fleeces!

7. What is in store for this week?
Shout Out Louds: Shut your eyes. But I want to open them this week because I am seeing my favourite band and providing the lead singer is wearing shirt I will want to have my eyes wide open.

8. How is my life going?
The Ramones: Gimme Gimme shock. Most of the time I am shocked at what my life is!

9. What song will they play at my funeral?
Coconut Records: Microphone. Well this isn't totally impossible.

10. How does the world see me?
The Hold Steady: Stuck between stations. OH SHUT UPPPPPPP QUARTER LIFE CRISIS YEAH I KNOW.

11. How can I make myself happy?
Van Morrison: Wonderful remark. Ha, maybe like, you are remarkable . com? Does make me happy.

12. What should I do with my life?
Alanis Morrisette: You Outta know. Omgwtfbqq! I don't knowwwww.

13. How will I be remembered?
Justin Timberlake: Nothin' else. I do not like the answer to this one, booo. And JT is 95% lame and I only have him on my mp3 player because I love that part of Love Stoned right at the end where there are all them pretty piano sounds.

14. What is my signature dancing song?
John Williamson: Drover Boy. Yes, I dance like a old rugged weather worn farm hand from the Aussie outback? Kind of.

15. What is my current theme song?
Wilco: Shake it off. This whole album reminds me of hiking in Nova Scotia and I recently re-listened to this album at work and almost fell asleep. Booo. I don't understand some peoples massive admiration for this band.

Things I Love Thursday

♥ Talking to my sister on msn and feeling much better even though my parents made me cry alot earlier, when my room smells like a Lush store, seeing a kookaburra outside my window in the morning, men in suits carrying trays of cupcakes, driving to the airport, the hot delivery boy at work growing a bit of a beard with hints of ginger, seeing an old lady on the train wearing a Gryffindor scarf, the Dockers number 2 on the ladder!, sending parcels to Dubai & Utah, hot showers, last chance muffins, listening to bluegrass, new Peter Alexander catalogue, floral headbands, the snooze button, Gyroscope on the cover of Drum Media, LESS THAN 1 WEEK TIL MELBOURNE, vanilla essence in my coffee, meeting people that already work at my dream job, Allens marshmallows, my dream employer callling me!, street press day, highly anticipating my next pay day, using alternative words for the F word eg: fudge cruncher, effer, FUTCH etc, still swearing, packing, taking things off my wall.