YO!
my housemates are in bed and i just got home and I have the most exciting news!!
I am inspired! i have this brilliant five year plan, five things to do in five years and I wanted to share it with you - my blog readerer. (also for the princess, as this blog was orginally named for.)
its written down above the crossword in the mx. tre cool.
"the next five years..
-travel
-dip ed?
-good works
-write
-degree for business.
i have a plan"
totes an awesome plan. let me explain. these arent in any particular order, but first i do want to travel and i want to travel everywhere(right after i get drunk with my pal raj again.) and everywhere wants me to travel there. they dont know it yet but they do!
dip ed - well i dont want to teach and i want to make that clear i would be a terrible teacher but someone i admire to pieces said something like "but you'd make a great drama teacher. plus you can use it for other things and its just handy" so go jenny. (that said, i have had a beer or so.)
good works is a play i want to direct.
write - WOW. I saw this amazingly inspirational play tonight called Red Morning Sky and wow. it was amazingly written and fantastically executed and all i can literally saw is wow. (i would however, choose to direct if given the choice between writing and directing..) i want to write something and everything. i want to write you, and everyone.
-degree for business which is a long term goal but when i eventually own my bookshop with maeva in the block of three shops (anj and raj own the ones to the other side im fairly sure!) this will help...
everything is going well, i nearly have a degree. seriously. a degree!! shite. that is, if i manage to get through these last exams and essay which is not looking good because i totally lack motivation in all things ever.
got the wholefoods end of semester party tomorrow, woot. because its the end of semester adn im graduating. just wanted to write that again!!!
oh and raj, yeah totes for the doco. we should discuss with crayons and a big sheet of paper - butchers style. thats the way i roll. wow, i was gonna go on with that but it just got weird. WEIRD.
i love everyone right now, im just wating for my euphoria of being inspired to disappear and then we'll see how realistic this all is.. (its written in the mx, obviously its set in stone but you know..)
they cut down our tree.. sad face. thats right. and they moved our magical garden taf! (which MAY be dying. who knows.)
interesting fact: i am interesting.
xo
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
K-Pep fails
Ok i'm making it official - i completely fail at blogging.
which makes me totally sad, sad enough to blog to say that I'm sorry if you are trying to follow the life of me and I've just been completely lame and not told you anything!
so to fill you in on the last million years would probably be not possible, or it would but wow, who has that much time because it does feel like a million years! (instead of a few weeks)
So much is going on, but its all exciting and all fabulous!
we gave anj her RECORD PLAYER - thats right. me and katie should get the 'best present ever' award. It took a lot of strength to give it to her and not keep it for myself..
i baked 240 cupcakes today in 2 hours... i will give you no context here because i believe that context can sometimes ruin things..
I got massively accidently a little bit drunk at the opening of ADFest. (ADFest went well. ye-ah.) or so i'm told.. I dont actually remember which is probably not good.. heres what I do know - I wake up at 6:30am in the morning with a towel beside me and a bucket and a bottle of water. i realise i am fully clothed from the previous night and as i wonder how it all happened that i came to be in this state i realised.. was i that drunk? what did i remember.. oh, thats not good.
I dont want to give you the details of what i remember, but i did hear hilarious stories of my antics - I met jem and apparently really liked him (or so he says, "you really liked me, dont worry), i fell on my friend alice and made her foot bleed, and lost all control of mobility.... good times...
so yeah, adfest happened - went well. i got a bottle of wine from it which i am yet to drink but oh dont worry i will drink it all! The aftereffects of Dogs breakfast are still with me - I was there every night for a long time and now its like, i can come home and do stuff.. I got home tonight at like 7, and nobody else was home and i got so lonely and bored. luckily top girls is starting up!
Wholefoods is going well, or at least - its going. I quite the cake cooking which was sad but a good move since these days I feel like i have more time for functions.. which is going swimmingly..
Top Girls is AmAZing. totally. i have a cast, i have a crew and now all that is left to do is for me to create .... I am thrilled and excited about this. I have really unproductive days because i am filled with the simple knowledge that I get to direct a play that i love. wow that was wanky.
news on housemates:
juliette is going home to graduate this weekend - how exciting!!!
katie is thoroughly enjoying her swing dancing with max and is not home yet at 12 30 at night!
other then that i have decided i want to make a documentarie with naomi, write a play, and do something with my hair because im getting bored of it. but since i am so indecisive i probably wont change it at all... there is probably chunks of info and goss that i have left out! If i remember any of it I will blog again, and hopefully i will keep up the blog thing again..
I intend to read through your posts very soon - VERY very soon - i hope you are all well and that you are having a blast!
love,
K-Pep
which makes me totally sad, sad enough to blog to say that I'm sorry if you are trying to follow the life of me and I've just been completely lame and not told you anything!
so to fill you in on the last million years would probably be not possible, or it would but wow, who has that much time because it does feel like a million years! (instead of a few weeks)
So much is going on, but its all exciting and all fabulous!
we gave anj her RECORD PLAYER - thats right. me and katie should get the 'best present ever' award. It took a lot of strength to give it to her and not keep it for myself..
i baked 240 cupcakes today in 2 hours... i will give you no context here because i believe that context can sometimes ruin things..
I got massively accidently a little bit drunk at the opening of ADFest. (ADFest went well. ye-ah.) or so i'm told.. I dont actually remember which is probably not good.. heres what I do know - I wake up at 6:30am in the morning with a towel beside me and a bucket and a bottle of water. i realise i am fully clothed from the previous night and as i wonder how it all happened that i came to be in this state i realised.. was i that drunk? what did i remember.. oh, thats not good.
I dont want to give you the details of what i remember, but i did hear hilarious stories of my antics - I met jem and apparently really liked him (or so he says, "you really liked me, dont worry), i fell on my friend alice and made her foot bleed, and lost all control of mobility.... good times...
so yeah, adfest happened - went well. i got a bottle of wine from it which i am yet to drink but oh dont worry i will drink it all! The aftereffects of Dogs breakfast are still with me - I was there every night for a long time and now its like, i can come home and do stuff.. I got home tonight at like 7, and nobody else was home and i got so lonely and bored. luckily top girls is starting up!
Wholefoods is going well, or at least - its going. I quite the cake cooking which was sad but a good move since these days I feel like i have more time for functions.. which is going swimmingly..
Top Girls is AmAZing. totally. i have a cast, i have a crew and now all that is left to do is for me to create .... I am thrilled and excited about this. I have really unproductive days because i am filled with the simple knowledge that I get to direct a play that i love. wow that was wanky.
news on housemates:
juliette is going home to graduate this weekend - how exciting!!!
katie is thoroughly enjoying her swing dancing with max and is not home yet at 12 30 at night!
other then that i have decided i want to make a documentarie with naomi, write a play, and do something with my hair because im getting bored of it. but since i am so indecisive i probably wont change it at all... there is probably chunks of info and goss that i have left out! If i remember any of it I will blog again, and hopefully i will keep up the blog thing again..
I intend to read through your posts very soon - VERY very soon - i hope you are all well and that you are having a blast!
love,
K-Pep
Monday, April 6, 2009
to continue on..
so!
now i can continue..
i need to tell all of you about the exciting church fete that i went to..
it was completely random and only because my friend naomi had walked past this sign on the way to uni for ages in front of the church saying "fete"...
she was like "do you want to come to a church fete like, right now?"
and i went "hm.. i have all these things i am meant to be doing but why not?"
and im so glad i went! i got this amazing new couch for like 20 bucks, and an armchair, and i got a coffee machine.. and the most amazing of the amazing thing that hasnt been given yet so i cant really talk about it here YET but i will totally tell all of you very soon!
and this was the beginning of what i like to call, the driving weekend..
so went to boxing as per normal on saturday and then i drove to echuca!
-laura's housewarming-
was in echuca, because this is her new living place of residence, as of a few months ago since she got a real job wrking as a journo in one of the papers up there..
so i take the three hour drive up there(by this point i had only just started driving again..) and am pretty tired when i get there but a few drinks later im totally fine and ready to party it up with the echuca locals.. other various high school friends had come up for the occasion, along with uni friends..
we ended up going out on the town in echuca, which was so much fun because all their drinks were incredibly cheap -10 dollars for two skittle bombs! (apparently its not clever to then exclaim "oh it really tastes like skittles!") which seemed impressive until the $4. absinth shots, which seemed impressive until the two for a dollar vodka shots...
needless to say, we were starting to make an impression and mel was starting to not be able to stand up so we swept away in all our glory - half carrying mel back..
the next morning i proceeded to get up early and drive all the way back to coburg...
-anjs 21st-
was in coburg, in the afternoon..
our wonderful funky friend anj turns 21 and it was the most lovely weather, and the most lovely tea party!
there was so much delicious food and much tea, which is always a good thing at a 21st and it seems important to mention that anj hasnt been given the massively awesome present that katie and i have for her yet.. it is happening tomorrow night.. so suspence for that! ye-ah!
then i had to drive to uni to direct my very first rehearsal! which was amazing fun but this is all a story that is deviating from this one..
so thus we enter the last few weeks of my life where the craziness intensified and spun me out of control.. i dunno how much i want to go into it here, but being massively overcommitted over a long period of time, i started to function less well and yearn sleep and started to not do things to the best of my ability.. i was getting more emotional, and not necessarily bitchy though i think there was some of that - but just unhappy and unmotivated to do the things that i normally like.. but more on this later because its like a big thing that comes at the end..
-lardner park-
so after a crazy long week i go to work at lardner park - a farmers market near my parents house where my aunty had set up a food stall with turkey produce.. i went down just the friday but it was SO much fun because i got to catch up with the rellies and also to be out of contact from like everyone for the entire day.. yay..
-blonde on the rocks-
i came back that night and katie, naomi, tina and i went to blonde on the rocks - the once a month all girls club at eurotrash! yay!
before this, naomi and tina were like, majourly late because for a long part of this day i wasnt sure if i was still going.. so katie and i go to this other bar beforehand and wow.. let me tell you about this amazing shot that i did..
it is called the blue dragon - or something.. the person next to me had the shot and it just looked so amazing.. the shot - and its sambucca mixed with something else-goes in the wine glass, he sets it alight and pours it into a different glass and then smothers it with the wine glass, you skull the drink and then breath in the fumes..
NOW. this looked amazing - so amazing.. i just had to ask the girl behind the bar "what was that" and she said "oh it really fucks you up, its a blue dragon"
so naturally i just had to try it - i only had a half shot but let me tell you now, it really fucks you up.. im talking WOW fire down your throat, a warm spine the whole deal.
it was amazing..
so then we went to blonde after that where we got $4. jelly shots which admittedly werent that good but was still cheap!
-foh and maeva's-
the next day i woke up thinking "omg i need to get someone to do foh today" so rushed into uni to do it myself and that was fun, being hungover just a bit!
then i went to maevas where i sipped some of cocktails but drank mostly mocktails as the driving ness was a factor!
after this i went to
-Rhys' 21st-
yay. another monumental 21st! didnt know many people, and couldnt stay long because i had to go to scum afterparty- but it was good to go to dingly and see rhysness amongst all the friends and family he has..
-SCum-
i probably talked about scum before, i think.. i cant remember! but i went to bumpout which was pretty straightforward and then to the afterparty where we played marry sex kill until the wee hours after i gave out the most random presents to the cast (kinder surprises.. woot..) - a big thankyou to them if they read this for the earrings and the beer.. its good stuff!
which then moved into bump in for adfest, which was really fun because i got to paint banners and al that - somehting i have previously missed out on but am now such a fan of!
but anyway.. this is getting long again and im feeling sick right now so im going to go sleep and hope i dont feel more sick tomorrow because i so dont have time!
enjoy the reading, i am slowly getting closer to having given you all of the stories of the past few weeks.. yay!
xo
now i can continue..
i need to tell all of you about the exciting church fete that i went to..
it was completely random and only because my friend naomi had walked past this sign on the way to uni for ages in front of the church saying "fete"...
she was like "do you want to come to a church fete like, right now?"
and i went "hm.. i have all these things i am meant to be doing but why not?"
and im so glad i went! i got this amazing new couch for like 20 bucks, and an armchair, and i got a coffee machine.. and the most amazing of the amazing thing that hasnt been given yet so i cant really talk about it here YET but i will totally tell all of you very soon!
and this was the beginning of what i like to call, the driving weekend..
so went to boxing as per normal on saturday and then i drove to echuca!
-laura's housewarming-
was in echuca, because this is her new living place of residence, as of a few months ago since she got a real job wrking as a journo in one of the papers up there..
so i take the three hour drive up there(by this point i had only just started driving again..) and am pretty tired when i get there but a few drinks later im totally fine and ready to party it up with the echuca locals.. other various high school friends had come up for the occasion, along with uni friends..
we ended up going out on the town in echuca, which was so much fun because all their drinks were incredibly cheap -10 dollars for two skittle bombs! (apparently its not clever to then exclaim "oh it really tastes like skittles!") which seemed impressive until the $4. absinth shots, which seemed impressive until the two for a dollar vodka shots...
needless to say, we were starting to make an impression and mel was starting to not be able to stand up so we swept away in all our glory - half carrying mel back..
the next morning i proceeded to get up early and drive all the way back to coburg...
-anjs 21st-
was in coburg, in the afternoon..
our wonderful funky friend anj turns 21 and it was the most lovely weather, and the most lovely tea party!
there was so much delicious food and much tea, which is always a good thing at a 21st and it seems important to mention that anj hasnt been given the massively awesome present that katie and i have for her yet.. it is happening tomorrow night.. so suspence for that! ye-ah!
then i had to drive to uni to direct my very first rehearsal! which was amazing fun but this is all a story that is deviating from this one..
so thus we enter the last few weeks of my life where the craziness intensified and spun me out of control.. i dunno how much i want to go into it here, but being massively overcommitted over a long period of time, i started to function less well and yearn sleep and started to not do things to the best of my ability.. i was getting more emotional, and not necessarily bitchy though i think there was some of that - but just unhappy and unmotivated to do the things that i normally like.. but more on this later because its like a big thing that comes at the end..
-lardner park-
so after a crazy long week i go to work at lardner park - a farmers market near my parents house where my aunty had set up a food stall with turkey produce.. i went down just the friday but it was SO much fun because i got to catch up with the rellies and also to be out of contact from like everyone for the entire day.. yay..
-blonde on the rocks-
i came back that night and katie, naomi, tina and i went to blonde on the rocks - the once a month all girls club at eurotrash! yay!
before this, naomi and tina were like, majourly late because for a long part of this day i wasnt sure if i was still going.. so katie and i go to this other bar beforehand and wow.. let me tell you about this amazing shot that i did..
it is called the blue dragon - or something.. the person next to me had the shot and it just looked so amazing.. the shot - and its sambucca mixed with something else-goes in the wine glass, he sets it alight and pours it into a different glass and then smothers it with the wine glass, you skull the drink and then breath in the fumes..
NOW. this looked amazing - so amazing.. i just had to ask the girl behind the bar "what was that" and she said "oh it really fucks you up, its a blue dragon"
so naturally i just had to try it - i only had a half shot but let me tell you now, it really fucks you up.. im talking WOW fire down your throat, a warm spine the whole deal.
it was amazing..
so then we went to blonde after that where we got $4. jelly shots which admittedly werent that good but was still cheap!
-foh and maeva's-
the next day i woke up thinking "omg i need to get someone to do foh today" so rushed into uni to do it myself and that was fun, being hungover just a bit!
then i went to maevas where i sipped some of cocktails but drank mostly mocktails as the driving ness was a factor!
after this i went to
-Rhys' 21st-
yay. another monumental 21st! didnt know many people, and couldnt stay long because i had to go to scum afterparty- but it was good to go to dingly and see rhysness amongst all the friends and family he has..
-SCum-
i probably talked about scum before, i think.. i cant remember! but i went to bumpout which was pretty straightforward and then to the afterparty where we played marry sex kill until the wee hours after i gave out the most random presents to the cast (kinder surprises.. woot..) - a big thankyou to them if they read this for the earrings and the beer.. its good stuff!
which then moved into bump in for adfest, which was really fun because i got to paint banners and al that - somehting i have previously missed out on but am now such a fan of!
but anyway.. this is getting long again and im feeling sick right now so im going to go sleep and hope i dont feel more sick tomorrow because i so dont have time!
enjoy the reading, i am slowly getting closer to having given you all of the stories of the past few weeks.. yay!
xo
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Dear all the lovely people that I miss so terribly much because you are either overseas, or as busy as i am -
wow, it has been a long time since i have typed into this box.
I have many things to update you on, as my life has pretty much been crazy since i last blogged and looks to slow down in oh.. 3 weeks.. its funny, because when something crazy happens im like "oh this would make a great blog entry.. but i've probably forgotten these things now.. sorry!"
the most important thing now is the indian philosophy expository exercise i am meant to be doing right now.. because it was due in wednesday.. but instead i thought, "i need new shoes" -hence why i now have painted nails, and new clothes but no new shoes. I got a bit distracted! but i feel much better after spending lots of money on things i cant afford.. retail therapy works my friend!
so lets start at the beginning again shall we.. hm.. the last time i blogged was the night after the car crash.. 900 dollars excess and a totaled car(apparently!) later, I am still standing! yay!
-SCUM-
recently i production managed a play entitled "SCUM: death destruction and dirty laundry.." or some such thing and you may already know this and indeed, if you are lovely like jeremy - you may have been to see it..
it went well, but unfortunately i was only able to see the actual play in performance once - the opening night -because on other nights i was so caught up in being busy that i missed out..
im happy with the way it ended up, although still i am a bit confused as to what i actually did throughout the entire process.. (heaps, but what? i cant pinpoint it..) the cast got me some james squire, and some dice earrings at the end of it which i thought was just SO lovely of them -since i love my squire and i do love earrings..
-FUNKYtown time-
started as a roaring success.. katie, anj and i went to sydney road and had coffee and went to this little organic grocery store thats owned by someone who used to go to monash... it was absolutely divine, and i remember clearly that we said we WOULD continue to do it every week, and make it somewhere exciting outside of uni because that way our lives could have dimensions outside of work and study....
so, having said that -
on week 2, katie had a very important meeting to attend.. so we moved it to the next week and had it before FFM at uni...
week 3- anj forgot and we tried to make a double session the next week but it didnt really work out..
week 4 I was at Lardner Park doing the family working thing -and so we moved it again to FFM where i dont remember much because i accidently was absolutely smashed(but more on that later..)
week 5(this week just gone) none of us were really expecting it to happen on the friday arvo because it hasnt really worked since week 1.. alas, we need to schedule a time next week..
so as you can see.. its going really well!
(or being optimistic, it soon will be.. aw..)
-SUSAN-
i went out for my friends birthday and it was absolutely marvellous.. there was noone else i knew there except for susan, and as susan informs me - i was possibly the only white person there. but this was not at all noticed by myself, as i bonded with her friends by getting susan quite drunk and giving her number to the barman who she thought was cute and who kept giving her free drinks..
nonetheless we thought susan knew this and i didnt realise she was too drunk to have taken it in until the next week when we were chatting on facebook and she says that this bartender had called her and asked on a date.. upon being informed by me of how he got her number, i realise my phone is ringing and shes yelling "you did what-i cant believe you did this-omg what did you do-tell me everything-how could you do this!"
of course, i dont think she minded much since he did call(and i think has since proven to be a no go.. sigh..) - and it was of course, hilarious.
-Dentistry and CQ-
the next night i was determined not to have a big night but this all goes out the window when i party the night away with sophea..
starting the night having a nice dinner, we follow this by going to a party with all her fellow dentistry students and demonstrators.. now, sophea and i have a pact - when we go out we have to complete a task. my task for this party is to convince everyone that i am a dentistry student and that my name(i think we were joking) is ling ling. which it is not. a few people really truly bought it as well, and to them i say "haha" and to that canadian boy that i may have confessed the entire thing to before i left "haha on them ey?"
we were just having a ball when we had to leave because we were meeting laura at CQ to have a blast dancing, so we told everyone we had a 21st on and myself sophea and ada went looking for a taxi...
so did these two guys from the party it turns out and when I, and i stress I, managed to get one they promptly jumped in and ran away.
bastards! there is no chivalry left in this world, let alone decency. (and for the rest of the night, "i cant believe that guy stole our taxi" was our favourite saying)
but on to CQ did we go, and I was under the impression from the way i was hearing people talk about this place that it would be really top class... but as it turns out, its just full of drunk boys just waiting to hit on you. (most sleazy)
karras task: to make out with a bartender.. which while was not successful, i did manage to get a free drink off some guy at the bar upon arrival, chat some other guy up and make out with some other guy.. i cant really remember, coz it was ages ago.. but i do remember feeling quite proud of all my free drinks and accomplishments..
lauras task: i cant remember! (though im sure she didnt do it..)
adas task: getting some guys accessory and wearing it for a few minutes..
sophs task: making out with a random(which is not sophs style.. the pash and dash)
needless to say i dont think any of them completed their tasks and although i didnt complete mine, i completed theirs..
i judge that night to be a success, although laura and i spent the night having lost soph and ada we all had a good time.. (well i did..)
-picnic-ing-
ah.. the next day presented a peaceful day of picnicing with those i love in clayton.. seriously!
arriving at maevas with lots of cheese, dip and salami I discover that she has already made lunch for me and thus we must eat both our lunches which results in us being absolutely full - but full of good things..
i quite enjoyed this lunch because it was so peaceful and we spent a good amount of time napping on her floor afterwards.. so after d and m'ing about life and its prospects with maeva, i decided it was time to set off for naomis. because what else would i do with my life but hang out with my friends? i decide i can walk from maevas to naomis so i make a map and set off to explore the streets of clayton...
which was very calming!
after getting to naomi's i once more gorge on cheese and other wonderful assortments of US candy from tina's friend called Kara in the US, I end up ending there for the night because going home was just too complicated .... (they live in clayton.. )
i slept on a couch which was very uncomfortable so in the morniing i wake up with a kink in my neck.. which means it tainted my whole next day because i spent the day with a kink in my neck.. sigh.. but worth it nonetheless!
things are crazy all week 2 with adfest and wholefoods but more on this later! (they are just massive topics best to be lumped at the end..)
the next weekend is the weekend of the cakes.. so many people ordering cakes from me but i dont for one second pretend that im not flattered and completely willing to make cakes for every single person i know.. im just saying, when i said "for sure, yes i will make you a cake for this time" that it would be on the same weekend..
-jeanettes housewarming-
was awesome. i made a fairy cake which looked like a butterfly and had a mixture of like 4 flavours and was rainbow coloured.. awesome and im sure jeanette still has my cake cook box which i for sure need back.. but the party was so chillaxed and wonderful, i talked away with people all night and made pizza at like 2 30 in the morning.. (i really felt like pizza..)
although i must comment that it is very hard to be a non smoker when you have people rolling ciggies and putting them in front of you... sigh... (i may have failed.. but i held out for so long!)
-emma peps bday-
emma pep is my sister and it was her bday that week, so after boxing emma and tys pick me up and off we go to drouin for family afternoon tea.. which exploded into the usually mother daughter argument about where im going with my life.. it was dramatic and stressful and so typical of family gatherings and it was really, an absolute blast.. (it was, with that exception)
-dannys going away-
was said. danny and steph are now overseas, and will miss the whole year of student theatre which makes all us directors for this year very sad... im sure this party was chilaxed as well, which is good because the week was so busy...
-amanda and jeremys going away-
also another sad occasion! amanda and jeremy are now as we speak having a blast in germany which is all very well for them btu what about those of us who miss them back here? (i miss you guys and so does everyone else but im reading your blog and its very good!)
i made a cake for this as well, a classic rasberry macadamia one.. (i think.. i cant remember..) but it was fabulous and wonderful and they loved it which is good..
-this was held in the tea rooms at the botanical gardens which was very nice.. yes, yes.
oh and i had a big argument with rhys over cheese and vegemite sandwichs.. which i will leave unexplained because it was hilarious and im just imagining y'all wondering how on earth we could fight over such a thing!
well you can and we did..
ok guys.. the blog has to end momentarily..
a. because it is getting way long..
and b. because im getting picked up for a night of fun (which im sure will become a blog post ) in like half an hour and i absolutely must get ready..
but be assured i have many more stories and much more to say! new housemates, quitting jobs, mouses - the works. its all happening!
so until later..
i miss you princess -from the k-pep
wow, it has been a long time since i have typed into this box.
I have many things to update you on, as my life has pretty much been crazy since i last blogged and looks to slow down in oh.. 3 weeks.. its funny, because when something crazy happens im like "oh this would make a great blog entry.. but i've probably forgotten these things now.. sorry!"
the most important thing now is the indian philosophy expository exercise i am meant to be doing right now.. because it was due in wednesday.. but instead i thought, "i need new shoes" -hence why i now have painted nails, and new clothes but no new shoes. I got a bit distracted! but i feel much better after spending lots of money on things i cant afford.. retail therapy works my friend!
so lets start at the beginning again shall we.. hm.. the last time i blogged was the night after the car crash.. 900 dollars excess and a totaled car(apparently!) later, I am still standing! yay!
-SCUM-
recently i production managed a play entitled "SCUM: death destruction and dirty laundry.." or some such thing and you may already know this and indeed, if you are lovely like jeremy - you may have been to see it..
it went well, but unfortunately i was only able to see the actual play in performance once - the opening night -because on other nights i was so caught up in being busy that i missed out..
im happy with the way it ended up, although still i am a bit confused as to what i actually did throughout the entire process.. (heaps, but what? i cant pinpoint it..) the cast got me some james squire, and some dice earrings at the end of it which i thought was just SO lovely of them -since i love my squire and i do love earrings..
-FUNKYtown time-
started as a roaring success.. katie, anj and i went to sydney road and had coffee and went to this little organic grocery store thats owned by someone who used to go to monash... it was absolutely divine, and i remember clearly that we said we WOULD continue to do it every week, and make it somewhere exciting outside of uni because that way our lives could have dimensions outside of work and study....
so, having said that -
on week 2, katie had a very important meeting to attend.. so we moved it to the next week and had it before FFM at uni...
week 3- anj forgot and we tried to make a double session the next week but it didnt really work out..
week 4 I was at Lardner Park doing the family working thing -and so we moved it again to FFM where i dont remember much because i accidently was absolutely smashed(but more on that later..)
week 5(this week just gone) none of us were really expecting it to happen on the friday arvo because it hasnt really worked since week 1.. alas, we need to schedule a time next week..
so as you can see.. its going really well!
(or being optimistic, it soon will be.. aw..)
-SUSAN-
i went out for my friends birthday and it was absolutely marvellous.. there was noone else i knew there except for susan, and as susan informs me - i was possibly the only white person there. but this was not at all noticed by myself, as i bonded with her friends by getting susan quite drunk and giving her number to the barman who she thought was cute and who kept giving her free drinks..
nonetheless we thought susan knew this and i didnt realise she was too drunk to have taken it in until the next week when we were chatting on facebook and she says that this bartender had called her and asked on a date.. upon being informed by me of how he got her number, i realise my phone is ringing and shes yelling "you did what-i cant believe you did this-omg what did you do-tell me everything-how could you do this!"
of course, i dont think she minded much since he did call(and i think has since proven to be a no go.. sigh..) - and it was of course, hilarious.
-Dentistry and CQ-
the next night i was determined not to have a big night but this all goes out the window when i party the night away with sophea..
starting the night having a nice dinner, we follow this by going to a party with all her fellow dentistry students and demonstrators.. now, sophea and i have a pact - when we go out we have to complete a task. my task for this party is to convince everyone that i am a dentistry student and that my name(i think we were joking) is ling ling. which it is not. a few people really truly bought it as well, and to them i say "haha" and to that canadian boy that i may have confessed the entire thing to before i left "haha on them ey?"
we were just having a ball when we had to leave because we were meeting laura at CQ to have a blast dancing, so we told everyone we had a 21st on and myself sophea and ada went looking for a taxi...
so did these two guys from the party it turns out and when I, and i stress I, managed to get one they promptly jumped in and ran away.
bastards! there is no chivalry left in this world, let alone decency. (and for the rest of the night, "i cant believe that guy stole our taxi" was our favourite saying)
but on to CQ did we go, and I was under the impression from the way i was hearing people talk about this place that it would be really top class... but as it turns out, its just full of drunk boys just waiting to hit on you. (most sleazy)
karras task: to make out with a bartender.. which while was not successful, i did manage to get a free drink off some guy at the bar upon arrival, chat some other guy up and make out with some other guy.. i cant really remember, coz it was ages ago.. but i do remember feeling quite proud of all my free drinks and accomplishments..
lauras task: i cant remember! (though im sure she didnt do it..)
adas task: getting some guys accessory and wearing it for a few minutes..
sophs task: making out with a random(which is not sophs style.. the pash and dash)
needless to say i dont think any of them completed their tasks and although i didnt complete mine, i completed theirs..
i judge that night to be a success, although laura and i spent the night having lost soph and ada we all had a good time.. (well i did..)
-picnic-ing-
ah.. the next day presented a peaceful day of picnicing with those i love in clayton.. seriously!
arriving at maevas with lots of cheese, dip and salami I discover that she has already made lunch for me and thus we must eat both our lunches which results in us being absolutely full - but full of good things..
i quite enjoyed this lunch because it was so peaceful and we spent a good amount of time napping on her floor afterwards.. so after d and m'ing about life and its prospects with maeva, i decided it was time to set off for naomis. because what else would i do with my life but hang out with my friends? i decide i can walk from maevas to naomis so i make a map and set off to explore the streets of clayton...
which was very calming!
after getting to naomi's i once more gorge on cheese and other wonderful assortments of US candy from tina's friend called Kara in the US, I end up ending there for the night because going home was just too complicated .... (they live in clayton.. )
i slept on a couch which was very uncomfortable so in the morniing i wake up with a kink in my neck.. which means it tainted my whole next day because i spent the day with a kink in my neck.. sigh.. but worth it nonetheless!
things are crazy all week 2 with adfest and wholefoods but more on this later! (they are just massive topics best to be lumped at the end..)
the next weekend is the weekend of the cakes.. so many people ordering cakes from me but i dont for one second pretend that im not flattered and completely willing to make cakes for every single person i know.. im just saying, when i said "for sure, yes i will make you a cake for this time" that it would be on the same weekend..
-jeanettes housewarming-
was awesome. i made a fairy cake which looked like a butterfly and had a mixture of like 4 flavours and was rainbow coloured.. awesome and im sure jeanette still has my cake cook box which i for sure need back.. but the party was so chillaxed and wonderful, i talked away with people all night and made pizza at like 2 30 in the morning.. (i really felt like pizza..)
although i must comment that it is very hard to be a non smoker when you have people rolling ciggies and putting them in front of you... sigh... (i may have failed.. but i held out for so long!)
-emma peps bday-
emma pep is my sister and it was her bday that week, so after boxing emma and tys pick me up and off we go to drouin for family afternoon tea.. which exploded into the usually mother daughter argument about where im going with my life.. it was dramatic and stressful and so typical of family gatherings and it was really, an absolute blast.. (it was, with that exception)
-dannys going away-
was said. danny and steph are now overseas, and will miss the whole year of student theatre which makes all us directors for this year very sad... im sure this party was chilaxed as well, which is good because the week was so busy...
-amanda and jeremys going away-
also another sad occasion! amanda and jeremy are now as we speak having a blast in germany which is all very well for them btu what about those of us who miss them back here? (i miss you guys and so does everyone else but im reading your blog and its very good!)
i made a cake for this as well, a classic rasberry macadamia one.. (i think.. i cant remember..) but it was fabulous and wonderful and they loved it which is good..
-this was held in the tea rooms at the botanical gardens which was very nice.. yes, yes.
oh and i had a big argument with rhys over cheese and vegemite sandwichs.. which i will leave unexplained because it was hilarious and im just imagining y'all wondering how on earth we could fight over such a thing!
well you can and we did..
ok guys.. the blog has to end momentarily..
a. because it is getting way long..
and b. because im getting picked up for a night of fun (which im sure will become a blog post ) in like half an hour and i absolutely must get ready..
but be assured i have many more stories and much more to say! new housemates, quitting jobs, mouses - the works. its all happening!
so until later..
i miss you princess -from the k-pep
Thursday, February 26, 2009
driving without P's
it seems i am behind in the blogging.. how does the time slip away?
life has been busy with work and work and more work, and then you know - having a life.
-bowling-
after cleaning the entire cafe at my work, i went bowling with bucky and the boys - as i call it. I lost, as usual and my reigning title of gutter-ball queen is still in place. (though i did surprise them with a few spares..)
i especially liked it when dom and i decided to try and lose with the same amount of points and then she started doing REALLY well and i lost on my lonesome.
-vagina monologues-
Saturday was busy with seeing the O-show preview, then seeing the vagina monologues - and bens going away(goodbye ben, you are gone away to overseas. i will miss you!)
When it was called the vagina monologues, i really didnt realise it would be so literal. it is literally, a series of monologues about vaginas, some confronting and some funny. the audience ratio of boys to girls was overwhelmingly on the girls side, funnily enough.
i also learnt this night, what a true joy it is to give flowers to your friends after their performances. the entire show, i had to sit there with these flowers - beautiful yes, but SO annoying and i was so glad to see her so i could get rid of them - only to learn that I could have given the flowers to front of house staff who would have taken them to her backstage.
but it was beautiful,
and the party afterwards was beautiful and yet again i was sober. ah, soberness.
i think, that drunk people are hilarious. i got wrestled by my friend who now apparently owns my right foot. thanks danny - who is threatening to gamble it away in poker.
-tropfest-
i had never been to tropfest before, it was so amazing and great. we bought a picnic there, and the short films were entertaining and i had good company all night.
-host scheme day and night-
what a crazy day host scheme day was, from so early in the morning through to the afternoon- and trying to fit in catering with that. by the end of the day, i was exhausted and nearly didnt want to go to host scheme night..
but i did end of going to host scheme night of course, because why not go to a free party?
well, slow lines and expensive beer is one reason. all i really felt like doing, was either drinking through the tiredness and partying all night OR going home and writing to the small hours of the morn. due to no money and work early in the morning, i decided to leave early to get a little bit of rest before the craziness of the rest of the week started.
-Oweek-
so this week has been oweek for all those first years at monash. i am, now, officially, a fourth year. seriously? the years, where did they go?
I have made about a thousand billion cookies for wholefoods this week, give or take a few. to the point, where i dont want to ever see cookies again. cookies are annoying, because they take more time then things like cakes and muffins. they require more patience and tender loving care. they are SO annoying.
and then everyone would eat them, so i would have to make more.
which yes, was the point. but its still stupid.
thursday i sat on the stall for student theatre, which was good because there were three of us and we got to get all the free stuff from places. this one guy from a club talked to me like i was a first year, and it was great. he gave me free alky, and i didnt have the heart to tell him i was a fourth year. i went to see the last o-show, which means i saw the first and the last! yay. it was definitely a crazy one with crazy antics - as is o-show tradition.
-project starfish-
backtracking to tuesday night during o-week, let me tell you the story of project starfish. a while ago, naomi and i told tina we would throw her a surprise birthday party- when she least expected. tina forgot about this. but we did not.
i called it project starfish, the code name to keep tina from finding out. however, only i ever used this name. i still think it suits though.
my job, was to get tina away from the house long enough for everyone to arrive. i thought that this was going to be massively hard, but it turned out to be extremely easy. arguments about mi goreng and my housemate getting locked out of the house was all that was needed to distract the now 21 year old tina, and i kept thinking she would be suspicious that we were takng so long to get back to her house...
but she was not..
it was classic. when everyone jumped up and yelled surprise - she was so shocked and took a few minutes to recover from this.
everyone decided to do a speech, but clearly naomi and my rant's were the best out of all. especially when we grabbed the quote book and read out the most hilarious things - which is apparently not so hilarious out of context. mostly it was 'you had to be there' comments.
the night ended when i monopolised the monopoly board. woooooooo. i have never won monopoly so sweetly...
-trivia night-
i was exhausted by the time trivia night came around yet still i was so prepared to trivia it out. it was a fundraiser for a film that my friend is trying to produce, thus i saw this as a good investment. plus, i wanted to go to a trivia night again. its been awhile.
i am absolutely seriously 100% terrible at trivia. but, i gathered a team of intellects. we managed to come second overall - which is not a bad effort i think.
what did we win?
a marilyn monroe clock,
and lots of cheap red wine.
now, if you are following the blogs then you know exactly what cheap red wine does to me.
so i will wait for someone else to drink it. (hurry up kids.)
-the licence-
so rehearsal camp comes up for the weekend but my next blog will tell you all about it..(this is getting too long.)
if this week is any indication of what life will be like during semester i am in for a hell of a year. a fun year, but crazy!!!
life has been busy with work and work and more work, and then you know - having a life.
-bowling-
after cleaning the entire cafe at my work, i went bowling with bucky and the boys - as i call it. I lost, as usual and my reigning title of gutter-ball queen is still in place. (though i did surprise them with a few spares..)
i especially liked it when dom and i decided to try and lose with the same amount of points and then she started doing REALLY well and i lost on my lonesome.
-vagina monologues-
Saturday was busy with seeing the O-show preview, then seeing the vagina monologues - and bens going away(goodbye ben, you are gone away to overseas. i will miss you!)
When it was called the vagina monologues, i really didnt realise it would be so literal. it is literally, a series of monologues about vaginas, some confronting and some funny. the audience ratio of boys to girls was overwhelmingly on the girls side, funnily enough.
i also learnt this night, what a true joy it is to give flowers to your friends after their performances. the entire show, i had to sit there with these flowers - beautiful yes, but SO annoying and i was so glad to see her so i could get rid of them - only to learn that I could have given the flowers to front of house staff who would have taken them to her backstage.
but it was beautiful,
and the party afterwards was beautiful and yet again i was sober. ah, soberness.
i think, that drunk people are hilarious. i got wrestled by my friend who now apparently owns my right foot. thanks danny - who is threatening to gamble it away in poker.
-tropfest-
i had never been to tropfest before, it was so amazing and great. we bought a picnic there, and the short films were entertaining and i had good company all night.
-host scheme day and night-
what a crazy day host scheme day was, from so early in the morning through to the afternoon- and trying to fit in catering with that. by the end of the day, i was exhausted and nearly didnt want to go to host scheme night..
but i did end of going to host scheme night of course, because why not go to a free party?
well, slow lines and expensive beer is one reason. all i really felt like doing, was either drinking through the tiredness and partying all night OR going home and writing to the small hours of the morn. due to no money and work early in the morning, i decided to leave early to get a little bit of rest before the craziness of the rest of the week started.
-Oweek-
so this week has been oweek for all those first years at monash. i am, now, officially, a fourth year. seriously? the years, where did they go?
I have made about a thousand billion cookies for wholefoods this week, give or take a few. to the point, where i dont want to ever see cookies again. cookies are annoying, because they take more time then things like cakes and muffins. they require more patience and tender loving care. they are SO annoying.
and then everyone would eat them, so i would have to make more.
which yes, was the point. but its still stupid.
thursday i sat on the stall for student theatre, which was good because there were three of us and we got to get all the free stuff from places. this one guy from a club talked to me like i was a first year, and it was great. he gave me free alky, and i didnt have the heart to tell him i was a fourth year. i went to see the last o-show, which means i saw the first and the last! yay. it was definitely a crazy one with crazy antics - as is o-show tradition.
-project starfish-
backtracking to tuesday night during o-week, let me tell you the story of project starfish. a while ago, naomi and i told tina we would throw her a surprise birthday party- when she least expected. tina forgot about this. but we did not.
i called it project starfish, the code name to keep tina from finding out. however, only i ever used this name. i still think it suits though.
my job, was to get tina away from the house long enough for everyone to arrive. i thought that this was going to be massively hard, but it turned out to be extremely easy. arguments about mi goreng and my housemate getting locked out of the house was all that was needed to distract the now 21 year old tina, and i kept thinking she would be suspicious that we were takng so long to get back to her house...
but she was not..
it was classic. when everyone jumped up and yelled surprise - she was so shocked and took a few minutes to recover from this.
everyone decided to do a speech, but clearly naomi and my rant's were the best out of all. especially when we grabbed the quote book and read out the most hilarious things - which is apparently not so hilarious out of context. mostly it was 'you had to be there' comments.
the night ended when i monopolised the monopoly board. woooooooo. i have never won monopoly so sweetly...
-trivia night-
i was exhausted by the time trivia night came around yet still i was so prepared to trivia it out. it was a fundraiser for a film that my friend is trying to produce, thus i saw this as a good investment. plus, i wanted to go to a trivia night again. its been awhile.
i am absolutely seriously 100% terrible at trivia. but, i gathered a team of intellects. we managed to come second overall - which is not a bad effort i think.
what did we win?
a marilyn monroe clock,
and lots of cheap red wine.
now, if you are following the blogs then you know exactly what cheap red wine does to me.
so i will wait for someone else to drink it. (hurry up kids.)
-the licence-
it was a few days ago when i discovered that my licence was on the verge of expiring. strange , thinks i, that i did not receive anything from vicroads being like "congratulations on your full licence!"
so i called them and apparently they did send me a letter.. which i did not receive so i was just required to go in and pay for my new licence and then i would be registered to drive again. (because at this point i may have been unlicenced and this may not have stopped myself and billy from taking spins..)
so yay, all i needed to do was go to vicroads right?
this proves to be complicated.
attempt one:
I may have drove. i assure you i felt very guilty and made many attempts to look like i had just gotten off the bus (things like, putting ipod on etc) only to find that vicroads shuts at 4 30, not 5. Time: 4:45.
attempt two:
i didnt drive. starting to feel more risky. the thought went like this, i will get a bus from uni and it will all be good because how can thing go wrong? well, i missed the first bus i was meant to get.
the second bus after that, and i thought - gee, im cutting things fine. i get off the bus a stop early because i am so anxious about making it on time. i run to vicroads.
Time: 4:31. closed.
i seriously wanted to cry because my exhausted O-week intensive, having made a thousand cookies body was just like - i want my car.
attempt 3:
i get two connecting buses from ym house in the middle of the day, find vicroads open - hand over my money, get my photo taken and woa-lah - new licence.
*karra does a dance because she is so happy about licence*
its an alright photo as well, which is a plus.. so i got to pick up my car from naomis and take the Pplates off and drive my love home.
is still alive. can i just say? still alive. maybe kiara might not look it, but the rest of the garden thrives on LIFE. thats it, im just proud.
-camp-so rehearsal camp comes up for the weekend but my next blog will tell you all about it..(this is getting too long.)
if this week is any indication of what life will be like during semester i am in for a hell of a year. a fun year, but crazy!!!
my cheers and good love go out to all.
and remember- its a weird situation when you get home and your car and toothbrush are at your friends house.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
more in the life of..
so here i am, telling you more about myself and my life. i feel strangely compelled to, as this is a blog..
I'm not sure where I left you in my life, but i have done plenty since. between 21st's, parties, work and life I'm starting to see the upside to being an insomniac because if I didnt sleep, i would miss less.
Maybe I'll start by expressing sympathies to anyone and everyone affected by black saturday. I have been extremely lucky, because my parents house is still standing and my Mum is ok. It got close, but they didnt get us.
Friday night I did a number of things, and also missed a party that I did want to go to, but unfortunately couldnt(unless they can create time lapses and i can attend lots of things at once)..
-Camp 6 at the Nott-
was interesting. I felt incredibly old. As a fourth year, I feel that the new jaffy's just keep getting younger. their inability to drink properly and their ability to make it seem childish has significantly improved. It seems hard to think that I was once them, although I have never been drunk at camp 6. (which im sure is a crime on some level..)
also, i knew almost no jaffy's - on account of being a fourth year and also a mega, meaning i didnt get kids on camp - which makes me sad on so many levels..
also, i was driving. so the thrill of being sober was while awesomely amazing, meant that I perhaps missed the buzz that everyone else had going on..
despite all this, it was good to catch up with new friends and old friends..
-The Beach 21st-
I will try to leave out names in this blog and refer to people by description. I rocked up at this party sober, and left sober. amazing, since I seemed to be having more fun then all the tired faces at 1am in the morning.
My usual attempts to create a dancefloor failed and I resorted to dancing with boys i did not know, until i decided that dancing on my own was better. It is a shame I did not get to drink the daiquiries there, they looked delicious but alas, the curse of being the driver is the inability to drink. not that I didnt seem more drunk then everyone else there.
Saturday, valentines day.
I decided I hated valentines day the day before this one, as I went to buy birthday presents at chaddy and saw all the commercialisation I thought - argh. Its not that I really want someone to share valentines day with, its just that - its such an excuse for people to get cute and couply.
but thats ok, we have decided K-pep is ok with dying alone(by choice) and being the 'crazy aunt' to everyones child. well, i am ok with this.
anyway, i ignored it by sleeping after boxing and then going to a 21st. -apologies to the many valentines parties and etc that I missed.
-The highschool 21st-
so this was a bit awkward. people i had not seen in years, coming all together to celebrate a loved one turning 21.
its really a short story.
I got absolutely smashed.
it was fantastic. champagne and orange juice went down well with me that night! Although i did stop when i felt my limit, because no, we are not ready for another dumplings night.
(oh also, thanks to bestie for being my valentines. aw.)
-the morning after-
felt a bit hungover. after having stayed at my besties house, i went out for lunch in berwick with her and her girls. which was very fabulous because of course, being hungover I felt like eating everything and eating nothing. ended up ordering what I in fact was not in the mood for, but enjoyed it anyway.
Then I went and watched the L-word at my friends house(3rd ep of season 6 and it was great!)..
-geebung and after events-
Being still slightly hungover, my friend comes over because we are going to geebung. it was an awesome night, starting with baileys imitation drinks and then continueing to a place that was a lot more crowded then i remember it ever being!
adam12 was the coverband that night and though i have always loved them and in the past been slightly stalker-ish because me and bestie used to go to far away places to see them play, they were really not as oomphy as i remember them.
I mean, they were good, they were a good cover band - but they just used to be so much better. Maybe it was the place, because i think it is too small and the sound system not great enough to do them justice or maybe they just lost their passion.... who knows, maybe i just got old. (but that is so hardly likely)
geebung shuts at 11 apparently, which is when our night got started. after being kicked out(all of us, not just me), we watched four guys do a massive nudie run and i say massive because boy were they running. I think we were slightly tipsy at this time because this was really the most amusing thing of the night thus far.
after having some pikers, we end up in a car driving towards chapel street singing/screaming the lyrics to such songs as 'i kissed a girl' and etc.. (i actually cant remember any of the others now, i just know that one was on..) which was highly amusing for all of us. after another piker gets out, there was just us three girls. (they know who they are.. laura and mel.. arh, but which laura and mel because these names are so common!! ahha!)
we decided that triplets was our aim, so bar crawl we did along chapel street. it was fantastic. places on a sunday night are just so not full of triplets! and everywhere we went was on the verge of closing so our crazy dancing was not appreciated to the full extent i think it should have been...
-the garden-
on monday, i got down with the soil. Taf, (who follows my blog and i follow hers.. aw.)
we made a magical garden in my wheelbarrow with butternut pumpkin, organo, thyme, basil, chocolate mint and strawberries.. (hopefully both these plants will take over the garden and i can have some sort of chocolate mint strawberrie concoction going on..)
we also introduced timmy-tom to the world. he is so wonderful. Timmy-tom the blue elephant watering can. I'm almost sure that taf and I had way too much fun making this garden for it to be a success.
The gardening guy at the gardening store inwardly laughed at my buying timmy-tom and I tried to explain what we were doing, causing more inward laughter. (but apparently he was cute and flirty so i will have to go buy some more plant accessories..)
so, we made some drainage holes and then put our soil in this wheelbarrow(half organic, half the cheapest stuff we could find..) and created a magic place for my cons from meredith to rest.
(note: it is now two days later and the garden is not dead. I am SO proud.)
-maeva's dinner-
ok so the next gig, after doing some work at uni and then dropping in at the arnott st house, was at maeva' house.
She has recently moved into a new house, with new housemates - and the game begins. She told me last week that I apparently know one of them, but that she wasnt telling me who it was. after her boyfriend worked it out he decided that we would now have our own secret and he told me who it was (hannah), and we didnt tell them that i knew..
so me being a fantastic actor, i put on a show(woot), and the famous scene at the nott went like, "hannah, maeva has this new housemate and she wont tell me who it is. do you know?"
im not sure if you bloggers are following but trust me, despite maeva insisting that she had suspicions of me knowing, they both thought i had no clue.
so when i walked into the house and hannah was jumping around and i said ' oh who didnt know you were going to be here' it caused riots.. hilarious. everybody should have been there.
*high five to people on excellentness*
then we all sat down to this wonderful four course meal prepared by maeva, and it was so yummy and i was so full.. SO full..
wow, i think this blog is getting long but theres only a few more things i would like to add..
-geelong roadtrip-
the day after we went to geelong fora function. (bunch of jaffy's in geelong got to meet.. via us.. )
which went fabulously, we had a 90% turnup.. (i think like, 3 of the 4 people allocated showed up.. but there was more people tagging so it was awesome)
I then demonstrated how to clean a bbq not with a scrapie thingyy(which would have been handy) but with all the random things on hand like napkins, coke, forks, etc. i explained to the jaffy's that this is am important skill
to things to learn here:
-never drinking coke again, cleans bbq's way too well..
-coke cleans quite well, but when dry leaves stickiness so always pour on water afterwards.
so much fun.
which brings me up to now, after watching the l-word last night again, i got woken up today by the gardner doing our gardens. right outside my window.
so i gave in, got up and wrote this.
princess, i hope you are well. still cannot figure out how to follow your blog. Blogger is against us.
my last insight at the end of the extra long last few days is
- people who are late are awesome.. (because i am late for uni right now, and therefore..)
K-PEP loves you.
I'm not sure where I left you in my life, but i have done plenty since. between 21st's, parties, work and life I'm starting to see the upside to being an insomniac because if I didnt sleep, i would miss less.
Maybe I'll start by expressing sympathies to anyone and everyone affected by black saturday. I have been extremely lucky, because my parents house is still standing and my Mum is ok. It got close, but they didnt get us.
Friday night I did a number of things, and also missed a party that I did want to go to, but unfortunately couldnt(unless they can create time lapses and i can attend lots of things at once)..
-Camp 6 at the Nott-
was interesting. I felt incredibly old. As a fourth year, I feel that the new jaffy's just keep getting younger. their inability to drink properly and their ability to make it seem childish has significantly improved. It seems hard to think that I was once them, although I have never been drunk at camp 6. (which im sure is a crime on some level..)
also, i knew almost no jaffy's - on account of being a fourth year and also a mega, meaning i didnt get kids on camp - which makes me sad on so many levels..
also, i was driving. so the thrill of being sober was while awesomely amazing, meant that I perhaps missed the buzz that everyone else had going on..
despite all this, it was good to catch up with new friends and old friends..
-The Beach 21st-
I will try to leave out names in this blog and refer to people by description. I rocked up at this party sober, and left sober. amazing, since I seemed to be having more fun then all the tired faces at 1am in the morning.
My usual attempts to create a dancefloor failed and I resorted to dancing with boys i did not know, until i decided that dancing on my own was better. It is a shame I did not get to drink the daiquiries there, they looked delicious but alas, the curse of being the driver is the inability to drink. not that I didnt seem more drunk then everyone else there.
Saturday, valentines day.
I decided I hated valentines day the day before this one, as I went to buy birthday presents at chaddy and saw all the commercialisation I thought - argh. Its not that I really want someone to share valentines day with, its just that - its such an excuse for people to get cute and couply.
but thats ok, we have decided K-pep is ok with dying alone(by choice) and being the 'crazy aunt' to everyones child. well, i am ok with this.
anyway, i ignored it by sleeping after boxing and then going to a 21st. -apologies to the many valentines parties and etc that I missed.
-The highschool 21st-
so this was a bit awkward. people i had not seen in years, coming all together to celebrate a loved one turning 21.
its really a short story.
I got absolutely smashed.
it was fantastic. champagne and orange juice went down well with me that night! Although i did stop when i felt my limit, because no, we are not ready for another dumplings night.
(oh also, thanks to bestie for being my valentines. aw.)
-the morning after-
felt a bit hungover. after having stayed at my besties house, i went out for lunch in berwick with her and her girls. which was very fabulous because of course, being hungover I felt like eating everything and eating nothing. ended up ordering what I in fact was not in the mood for, but enjoyed it anyway.
Then I went and watched the L-word at my friends house(3rd ep of season 6 and it was great!)..
-geebung and after events-
Being still slightly hungover, my friend comes over because we are going to geebung. it was an awesome night, starting with baileys imitation drinks and then continueing to a place that was a lot more crowded then i remember it ever being!
adam12 was the coverband that night and though i have always loved them and in the past been slightly stalker-ish because me and bestie used to go to far away places to see them play, they were really not as oomphy as i remember them.
I mean, they were good, they were a good cover band - but they just used to be so much better. Maybe it was the place, because i think it is too small and the sound system not great enough to do them justice or maybe they just lost their passion.... who knows, maybe i just got old. (but that is so hardly likely)
geebung shuts at 11 apparently, which is when our night got started. after being kicked out(all of us, not just me), we watched four guys do a massive nudie run and i say massive because boy were they running. I think we were slightly tipsy at this time because this was really the most amusing thing of the night thus far.
after having some pikers, we end up in a car driving towards chapel street singing/screaming the lyrics to such songs as 'i kissed a girl' and etc.. (i actually cant remember any of the others now, i just know that one was on..) which was highly amusing for all of us. after another piker gets out, there was just us three girls. (they know who they are.. laura and mel.. arh, but which laura and mel because these names are so common!! ahha!)
we decided that triplets was our aim, so bar crawl we did along chapel street. it was fantastic. places on a sunday night are just so not full of triplets! and everywhere we went was on the verge of closing so our crazy dancing was not appreciated to the full extent i think it should have been...
-the garden-
on monday, i got down with the soil. Taf, (who follows my blog and i follow hers.. aw.)
we made a magical garden in my wheelbarrow with butternut pumpkin, organo, thyme, basil, chocolate mint and strawberries.. (hopefully both these plants will take over the garden and i can have some sort of chocolate mint strawberrie concoction going on..)
we also introduced timmy-tom to the world. he is so wonderful. Timmy-tom the blue elephant watering can. I'm almost sure that taf and I had way too much fun making this garden for it to be a success.
The gardening guy at the gardening store inwardly laughed at my buying timmy-tom and I tried to explain what we were doing, causing more inward laughter. (but apparently he was cute and flirty so i will have to go buy some more plant accessories..)
so, we made some drainage holes and then put our soil in this wheelbarrow(half organic, half the cheapest stuff we could find..) and created a magic place for my cons from meredith to rest.
(note: it is now two days later and the garden is not dead. I am SO proud.)
-maeva's dinner-
ok so the next gig, after doing some work at uni and then dropping in at the arnott st house, was at maeva' house.
She has recently moved into a new house, with new housemates - and the game begins. She told me last week that I apparently know one of them, but that she wasnt telling me who it was. after her boyfriend worked it out he decided that we would now have our own secret and he told me who it was (hannah), and we didnt tell them that i knew..
so me being a fantastic actor, i put on a show(woot), and the famous scene at the nott went like, "hannah, maeva has this new housemate and she wont tell me who it is. do you know?"
im not sure if you bloggers are following but trust me, despite maeva insisting that she had suspicions of me knowing, they both thought i had no clue.
so when i walked into the house and hannah was jumping around and i said ' oh who didnt know you were going to be here' it caused riots.. hilarious. everybody should have been there.
*high five to people on excellentness*
then we all sat down to this wonderful four course meal prepared by maeva, and it was so yummy and i was so full.. SO full..
wow, i think this blog is getting long but theres only a few more things i would like to add..
-geelong roadtrip-
the day after we went to geelong fora function. (bunch of jaffy's in geelong got to meet.. via us.. )
which went fabulously, we had a 90% turnup.. (i think like, 3 of the 4 people allocated showed up.. but there was more people tagging so it was awesome)
I then demonstrated how to clean a bbq not with a scrapie thingyy(which would have been handy) but with all the random things on hand like napkins, coke, forks, etc. i explained to the jaffy's that this is am important skill
to things to learn here:
-never drinking coke again, cleans bbq's way too well..
-coke cleans quite well, but when dry leaves stickiness so always pour on water afterwards.
so much fun.
which brings me up to now, after watching the l-word last night again, i got woken up today by the gardner doing our gardens. right outside my window.
so i gave in, got up and wrote this.
princess, i hope you are well. still cannot figure out how to follow your blog. Blogger is against us.
my last insight at the end of the extra long last few days is
- people who are late are awesome.. (because i am late for uni right now, and therefore..)
K-PEP loves you.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
finding my blog
I think it is a real achievement that I have found this blog again, without the help of anybody.
well almost.
dumpling night ended up a tad messy, thus I forgot everything about this blog except for the fact that yes, i had made one. finding the blog again didnt turn out to be so hard. knowing my way around blogger will prove itself to be a challenge though!
I have made this blog because you, my friend, have gone overseas to have crazy wonderful adventures in crazy wonderful places. This blog will let you know whats going on in the life of us, back here in aus.
I have a list of people that I hold responsible for the events of dumpling night:
Adam and Jess - you bought me a dumpling book. which is great, except it prompted me to have a dumplings night.
Allira - buying me wine glasses.
Raj - buying me a workable bottle-opener. Previous to this, I had a small dodgy one which i think i lost anyway.
Raj - for bringing the first bottle of red wine
Raj - for coming with me, and encouraging me in the purchasing of more said bottles of red wine.
Katie, Kaami, Laura, Maeva, Keano, Emma, Adam and anyone else who came to the said event and made it a drunken night.
The events of dumpling night wont be mentioned in any full detail here, except to say that I may never eat dumplings again because the smell of them prompts a queasy feeling in the stomach. Also, cheap red wine is out. swigging that last bottle was potentially a bad idea. I dunno whether i mentioned that I quit smoking to you, but I have officially quit being the casual smoker - for various reasons including that sophea yelled at me.
moving on.
To update you on life since you left the country:
Bushfires reign, and devestate all. But i'm sure you have read about this in the news, with the body count being the worst ever and with more to come. I am incredibly lucky because both my parents house, my mum and winston are all ok. after evacuating the house and staying at my sisters house saturday night, mum is back home and resuming life. Phew.
I then went to camp, and grievanced it up. As camps usually go, it was awesome though I did forget in the fire panic to pack such things as jackets and costumes - things which really would have come in handy.
At camp I discovered :
DJ'ing is awesome and stressful.
Drunk people are hilarious.
I missed having my very own kids. By the end of camp, the Jaffys didnt really quite comprehend my awesomeness. its not their fault, they werent given the chance.
I slept through the wake-up, on the last day. I'm not quite sure how, as the fire alarm managed to get set off in one of the cabins by the chainsaw. (hahaha). this was disheartening as its probably the last wake-up I would have the chance to attend, but also thrilling because jaffy's loved me for not waking them up but this was a strange feeling from being hated after so many wake-ups.
I also discovered another cult in the making, although they call themselves the 'green room.' right after applauding them for being awesome, I let them in on the fact that they will never be as awesomely awesome as light blue.
In other news, I caught up for coffee with taf today, who gave me an awesome plant which will grow butternut pumpkins. This will be planted on monday when my wheelbarrow garden comes into fruition. you all thought it would never happen, but it will. The ironic part is - the good thing about having it in a wheelbarrow is so you can wheel it around whereever yeah? well, due to the wheel on the wheelbarrow being shite, broken and not on the wheelbarrow this does in fact cancel out this useful aspect of a wheelbarrow.
katie is working heaps still, everyone else is good so far as i know. I have plans for another cocktail party, with the theme of absolutely fabulous. (because, yes, i would like to get drunk and abuse everyone.) I dont know when, but despite being out of the country I will invite you.
The futon is looking well though, after putting lots of chemicals on it,(you know that stain remover that squirts out the two liquids that combine to fight stains? yeah. advertising at its best, my friend.) it now has only a small stain and chemical/water marks. But i put a nice pale green sheet over the futon and it looks brand new.
I have decided blogging is weird.
Until next time when I update you on the goings on in the world,
K-Pep
x
well almost.
dumpling night ended up a tad messy, thus I forgot everything about this blog except for the fact that yes, i had made one. finding the blog again didnt turn out to be so hard. knowing my way around blogger will prove itself to be a challenge though!
I have made this blog because you, my friend, have gone overseas to have crazy wonderful adventures in crazy wonderful places. This blog will let you know whats going on in the life of us, back here in aus.
I have a list of people that I hold responsible for the events of dumpling night:
Adam and Jess - you bought me a dumpling book. which is great, except it prompted me to have a dumplings night.
Allira - buying me wine glasses.
Raj - buying me a workable bottle-opener. Previous to this, I had a small dodgy one which i think i lost anyway.
Raj - for bringing the first bottle of red wine
Raj - for coming with me, and encouraging me in the purchasing of more said bottles of red wine.
Katie, Kaami, Laura, Maeva, Keano, Emma, Adam and anyone else who came to the said event and made it a drunken night.
The events of dumpling night wont be mentioned in any full detail here, except to say that I may never eat dumplings again because the smell of them prompts a queasy feeling in the stomach. Also, cheap red wine is out. swigging that last bottle was potentially a bad idea. I dunno whether i mentioned that I quit smoking to you, but I have officially quit being the casual smoker - for various reasons including that sophea yelled at me.
moving on.
To update you on life since you left the country:
Bushfires reign, and devestate all. But i'm sure you have read about this in the news, with the body count being the worst ever and with more to come. I am incredibly lucky because both my parents house, my mum and winston are all ok. after evacuating the house and staying at my sisters house saturday night, mum is back home and resuming life. Phew.
I then went to camp, and grievanced it up. As camps usually go, it was awesome though I did forget in the fire panic to pack such things as jackets and costumes - things which really would have come in handy.
At camp I discovered :
DJ'ing is awesome and stressful.
Drunk people are hilarious.
I missed having my very own kids. By the end of camp, the Jaffys didnt really quite comprehend my awesomeness. its not their fault, they werent given the chance.
I slept through the wake-up, on the last day. I'm not quite sure how, as the fire alarm managed to get set off in one of the cabins by the chainsaw. (hahaha). this was disheartening as its probably the last wake-up I would have the chance to attend, but also thrilling because jaffy's loved me for not waking them up but this was a strange feeling from being hated after so many wake-ups.
I also discovered another cult in the making, although they call themselves the 'green room.' right after applauding them for being awesome, I let them in on the fact that they will never be as awesomely awesome as light blue.
In other news, I caught up for coffee with taf today, who gave me an awesome plant which will grow butternut pumpkins. This will be planted on monday when my wheelbarrow garden comes into fruition. you all thought it would never happen, but it will. The ironic part is - the good thing about having it in a wheelbarrow is so you can wheel it around whereever yeah? well, due to the wheel on the wheelbarrow being shite, broken and not on the wheelbarrow this does in fact cancel out this useful aspect of a wheelbarrow.
katie is working heaps still, everyone else is good so far as i know. I have plans for another cocktail party, with the theme of absolutely fabulous. (because, yes, i would like to get drunk and abuse everyone.) I dont know when, but despite being out of the country I will invite you.
The futon is looking well though, after putting lots of chemicals on it,(you know that stain remover that squirts out the two liquids that combine to fight stains? yeah. advertising at its best, my friend.) it now has only a small stain and chemical/water marks. But i put a nice pale green sheet over the futon and it looks brand new.
I have decided blogging is weird.
Until next time when I update you on the goings on in the world,
K-Pep
x
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