//for a change of pace.../

//MJ-nessss/

Bored again, blog time. xD

Trying to think of what I've been up to...not much. Been going MJ crazy LOL. Found an MP3 disc with his Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory and Blood on the Dancefloor albums. Jeez, I never realised these albums had been out for that long LOL.

Who watched his memorial and cried?! *raises hand* I don't know why I got that upset LOL! I was fine until they sang Heal the World and when Paris spoke it got so bad that I was sobbing into my tissue lollll. Still have trouble listening to Man in the Mirror, Heal The World and Earth Song. *sigh*

Mum also found his Ghosts film from I think '96, it's great lol the dancing is awesome. :D As well as this "Dangerous: The Short Films" VCD. (MJ called his music videos short films) That one's cool, it has the videos of the songs released from Dangerous, the 'making of' for a few of them and some extra tidbits. :3 Shitty VCD quality though LOL.

I also downloaded a word file of Michael's 1988 autobiography, 'Moonwalker' ahah. It's a good read, nice to get some insight. c: Got some interesting stuff. Would have been cool if he had a more recent one, but It's understandable because he probably wouldn't want to write about the stuff that happened to him in his later years. :/

Aaand the last couple of nights I've been reading summaries of each day of Michael's 2004/2005 trial LOL. I thought it was interesting, especially seeing (reading?) MJ's defence attourneys poking holes in the prosecutions witnesses/testimonies etc. I'd say they were pretty much pwned.

Made me emo for a while though lol, poor MJ. :c He just seemed like such a genuinely sweet and caring person who was naive and had some people walk all over him and the media crap all over him. :[ Not to mention how devastated his children must be, losing their father at such a young age.

I hope they get to the bottom of his death (people are talking murder, now? Jesus) so all the media circus around him can let him rest already (and justice - if those drugs did kill him). I don't know what news is true and what is pure bullshit anymore. ><;;

On a lighter note lolll, getting closer to the next Harry Potter movie! I still think I only saw the previous one once haha, I was really mad at what was changed/absent in the movie. Ah well. Gotta remember to pre-order tickets!!! Yay.

We now have three DVD's from the 90's X-Men TV show! Wootage. :D Storm, Rogue and Gambit are love. I like Jean but she seems pretty useless at the moment LOL. It's all *aauugh!* and *trip-fall*'s. -___-;;

I don't know WTF I'm doing with the HTML here hahaha, I can't change the background/border colours! Hmph.

Yay, it's raining. c:

//RIP./

It must have been around 8am when Mum came into my room Friday morning, woke me up and said with disbelief "they're saying on the news that Michael Jackson is dead!" I was barely awake and just said "Oh my god!" and fell back asleep, LOL. I didn't think it was true, really. Along with the Jeff Goldblum death rumor that day, haha...

I read his Wikipedia page throughout today and I'm sad now, heh. (Lisa Marie's MySpace blog, baw :c) Along with this supposed "leak" of his autopsy report is... really sad. There's a lot of stuff I'd never known about.

Gosh I feel sorry for him - I don't believe that child molestation stuff (a mental health professional's assessment was he'd become a regressed 10-year-old and did not fit the profile of a pedophile - sounds more likely to me, as well of the fact he was acquitted of all charges) and I got really frustrated at how people could take advantage of someone because of their generosity and wealth. And it affected him so much he resorted to medication? :/

I know I wasn't the hugest fan and he was definitely an individual lol, but still. Depressing.

I've been listening to my favourite MJ songs for a couple of nights heheh, ahh nostalgia! His music was a lot of what was played by Mum and Dad when we were young (along with Tina Arena, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, Garth Brooks and ABBA to name a few) so his songs have a lot sentimental value. I remember playing around with Ness and Kim when we were little to his songs, good times. ^^ And of course watching his movie Moonwalker with them LOL.

RIP, MJ.

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Alsooo, seeing Transformers 2 tomorrow! I went with Danielle and Mum to see the first showing last Wednesday and it was AWESOME. Skids, Mudflap and Wheelie FTW. And so many more hehe. Of course it's not Oscar worthy, but I really enjoyed it. :3

Ohoh Terrie's out of hospital now! Yay. She had the operation on the tumor in her head and everything seems to be going well now - she doesn't even need any radiation treatment. Will be seeing her on Saturday with Sarah. :) Got her the first three Vampire Academy books as well, just to give her a little somethin' somethin' lol. Hope she likes 'em.

Hmmm I want to change the banner thingo but I don't know what the hell to do. D:

//Nostalgia./

If you know me well I'm pretty sure you'd know I'm pretty nostalgic. :P

Over the last few nights I've been reading my old blog on my MSN Space - friggen LOL. I have some really annoying typos in there. But I love reading them, really takes me back. :) Especially when I flipped through my old diaries from late '02 - '03, which I've just done! xDDD Wow.

When I look back to when I was in high school - comparing it to today, I always got wistful and wish I could go back to those days. But after reading the blog/diary entries I sort of got a figurative slap in the face from my past self LOL, god I whined about school a lot. Not the hangin' with friends part, just school itself ahah. Especially around the year 11/12 mark. I was constantly going on about how I hated school and I just wanted it to be over with alreaddyyy ahahah.

It gets me down though LOL remembering how much fun I had with friends - having a ball fangirling with Jodie over Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/Final Fantasy/Project Zero etc., hanging at the local horse stable with Krystal, zillions of sleepovers (w00t), Ouija Board shenanigans, Rundle Mall visits and the massively fun times I had in '05/'06 with Terrie, Sarah, Angelo, Kim and others (late night gaming and park visits FTW xDD). c:

I see barely any friends these days, heh.

Sigh.

Good times, I miss 'em. (:

It's had it's ups and downs, of course. There were a lot of dramas between friends - even some I had with my own friends, fallout's, bickering, etc. Some I'd completely forgotten about until I'd re-read them bahah. I got really emo too, eek. Don't remember what was going on with that. xD

I've even kept old diaries and random notes written/drawn with friends during school because I like to go back and have a laugh while looking at them. Not to mention MSN conversations. x3 I lovelove looking at old photographs with friends, too. ^___^

Maybe I spend a little too much time looking back, hmm? :/

Welp, I'm off to bed, anywho.

//'sup?/

Hmmm a little while since I blogged. Lol I'm bored, so away I go!

Sydney was awesome (forgot how much I hate flying OMG) - the convention was amazing. :D There were a few things that put a damper on the experience, like me looking hooorrrible in the photos with Jensen and Jared LOL augghh I emo'd so much when I saw 'em. Ah well. Also the fact that J2 were sitting, not standing, made it really awkward for me ahah. *note awkward hand on Jensen's shoulder*

Taken off my Facebook 'cos I'm lazy:


Gah, so ew. :/







Got a nice smile from both boys, Jared especially! He's very friendly and seems to make it a point to look and smile at the people he gave autographs too. Whereas with Jensen it was a shy quick-glance-smile kinda thing. :P

Everything seemed to be really disorganized and chaotic too, (apparently it was a lot better on Sunday - sigh) with things being delayed, and the late delivery of the photos and such, but everything else was great. It was understandable with this being one of The Hub's largest events :) Misha Collins is HILARIOUS (as are the boys ;P). Gawd. And my photos were okay, I guess. :P The whole weekend was recorded by The Hub and I'm awaiting the DVD in the mail! ^___^

We didn't end up going to Bondi Beach like we'd planned, because of the cruddy weather - rained nearly the whole time we were there. We got soaked at Taronga Zoo LOL that place is bloody huge! Have to say I enjoyed Melbourne Zoo a lot better. *nodnod* Still fun though! And the area with the seals/penguins looks amazing. They have like, three Snow Leopards! *love*

Worst part of the whole trip was - like Melbourne, the hotel room. We were *right* on a relatively busy intersection so there were a lot of people being idiots in cars, car horns constantly going off, pedestrian crossing sounds, people yelling/screaming/singing/breaking things/etc etc. Augh. But we were about a five minute walk from the Uni where the SuperOzCon was, so that made up for it somewhat, heheh.

Bring on another conventionnn! Although I don't have the money for it LOL. U_U;;

Got lots of photos up on my Facebook page. c:

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Um...what else...

Ah, The Sims 3! Love it. Although my computer hates it. I need to update my graphics driver thing but when Dad downloaded the update it wouldn't work ><;; damn computerssss. Danielle isn't having much problems, but mine is constantly crashing and it's killing me LOL.

Oh yeah, my damn monitor! I now can't see about two inches on the right side of the screen - happened when I was using Photoshop (same size as the layers window). Totally weird. I have the LCD attached so I'm using that for my monitor now. But anyways, It's a really fun game! Love the new 'Create A Sim'. Although there are some little things missing from The Sims 2 that I miss. My sim is a 'Hit Movie Composer' hehe yay. I love that you can put your own music in the game, too. *puts in movie soundtracks* x3

Danielle and I are watching Charmed - up to season five now! We bought two of the box sets because Blockbuster couldn't find one (season two) and the other was out for another week (season five) which was okay 'coz we got 'em for like $25. ^^ There's other shows I'd like to watch, like One Tree Hill, Ghost Whisperer, among others I can't think of at the moment!)

Also bought Nickelback and Kings of Leon's newest albums - loving them! KoL's 'Closer' is one of my favourite songs and I recently found out it's about a vampire falling in love with a human girl, written after one of the guys saw 30 Days of Night. :3 Haven't seen that one, but Mum enjoyed it. Plus the director from the movie is directing Eclipse! Ooooh lol.

Speaking of which - The ~New~ New Moon trailer = AWESOME. I love iittt. I need to get it in HD! Darn bandwidth limit...

Went driving todaaayy eek. thirty-something hours down and I'm still a shitty/nervous/etc driver aughhh. Mum wants me to drive her Lancer because she thinks the Accent "carries on like a bucket of shit!" lol. I just think the acceleration is kinda sucky (sounds like it's dying when I put my foot down LOL - needs to be tuned?) and the steering wheel is shakey. *shrug*

Louie is being as adorable as ever (although he's had weird episodes and taken chunks of peoples skin with him! Not fun). He now knows how to "shake" and we're kinda teaching him to put his wings up/let us touch his wings, which is for when we *eventually* get our Aviator Harness for him (*squee*). :D He says a bunch of things now, like "What's that?", "Whatcha doin'?" (sounds like "What ya doin'?" hee.), different types of giggles, "kiss kiss! *kissy noise*", "Ready?" (or "readyreadyreadyREADYREADY?" LOL) "Boo!", "Yaaay!" and a bunch of silly noises we make , haha. I'm sure there's stuff I missed.

We've been searching a lot of pet shops lately (as far as past the city) and *finally* found a place that sells pellets! (that aren't Passwell or whatever it is) Jeez. It's at the New Gepps X HQ (is that right?) pet shop called Pet Domain. It's pretty awesome, I'd looove to work somewhere like that. (: Louie's still figuring out what's what and Roxie is of course suspicious of the new food in her bowl and barely touches it. *shakes head* -____-;;

I really need to get out of this house with friends or *some*thing, I'm going a little stir crazy here LOL. *fails at life*

Yikes, another epic text wall. O___o If you read that all, you are awesome. xD

Bed time for meee.

//WOOT!/

It's my last night in Adelaide before Sydney, eeekk! Wow, time really flew since October.

There were a lot of plans changed, though. Sarah pretty much bailed on us, saying she couldn't afford it (after planning since *October last year*). I'm guessing she assumed she'd get the governments-stimulus-package-money-whatever, except she hasn't got it yet. :P And maybe just lost interest in it. I sure haven't!

Mum's taken her place now. Airports sure are a pain in the ass with not changing passenger names! We'll be staying another night because the only airfare left for Sunday was waaay too expensive. Also managed to get another night in the same hotel, in the same room, which is good.

We'll be flying out at 12pm, with a car picking us up at 9:45am. Sooo psyched now. Shotgunned the window seat! I also found out today that someone on the Supernatural (Channel Ten) forum is going to be on the same flight as us. ^^

With two days to burn (we leave on Monday at 4:25pm), we'll be going to Taronga Zoo on Sunday and a quick run to Bondi Beach on Monday. Yay! The weather doesn't look very nice though, which "a shower or two/possible showers" set for the whole weekend. |:

Also found out Hub made a rule for a maximum of one extra person (with just the one guest) per photograph, and only one person per 'Supernatural Sandwich' (photo with J&J). So that's kinda lucky Sarah didn't come - she'd be pissed if she couldn't get in a photo that she partly paid for! But it's sad that Mum can't be in the photo too. I said she could get the autographs and meet them but she said it was all for us anyway, heh.

The other day I found this site that has uploaded all of Season 4 online for a small size and I've been downloading as much as I can before the trip LOL. I have them all except one because it's been blocked and the site runner hasn't got it back up yet. At least I won't be spoiled when people ask spoiler-y questions now. :D

And OMG I got my hair cut. If you take a look at Phoebes (sp?) hair in Charmed (which we finally found at Blockbuster, YAY!) at about the end of season 1, I *wanted* it like that. But because I'm an idiot, I didn't bring a picture and...I don't like it. LOL. It's shorter than I pointed out and the layers are too short augh (she said she'd cut "long layers" hmm). And it the layering at the front especially (like my fringe) looks shoddy to me. Sigh. "It's just hair" like Mum says, I guess.

I'm nearly packed and ready! Just gotta put things like toiletries, hair dryer/straightener, hair brushes/products etc. in and I'm all set. Also got another memory stick (2GB this time!) thing for our camera because we're not bringing the laptop and there's no way I want to run out of space on the thing, lol.

Hope I can get a decent amount of sleep tonight, eee!

...This blog was not supposed to be that long LOL sorryyyy.

//*shrug*/

Thought I'd do some bloggin', but I haven't really done anything interesting to blog about, LOL. Sigh.

Did go out a couple of times, gaaassp. Mainly shopping though.

Went to the Glenelg with a bunch of friends which was awesome when I actually went into the water, lol. Went again (Semaphore though - not as good as Glenelg IMO) on Saturday with Mum, Dad and Danielle, too. It was cold when we first got there, but the sun came out for a little while so I managed a little bit of swimming. x3 The water was *freezing* though. I managed to get sunburned too, the one place I forgot sunscreen - my face! And I was wearing sunnies dammit! -_____-;;

Had a movie night on Friday! Can't remember the last time we had one of those - must be over a year! Angelo, Terrie and Sarah came over and we mainly just talked about random stuff and watched Taken (and whatever was on TV after that). It was cool, I hadn't seen Angelo in a looong time, and had hung out with Terrie only a couple of times at her new place and in hospital (got some serious stuff going on with some tumors :/) Hopefully can do it again sometime, it was fun. I was still getting over a cold so I kept leaving the room to blow my nose ahah, I didn't talk much...stupid froggy voice. Well not that I do anyways, LOL!

I got my L's renewed - again...lol. So sad. Driving is still scary! :| But the sooner I get my license, the sooner I can get a job (public transport = eek) and the sooner I can get moneeyyy haha. ^^;; $20 a week sucks, especially when it's all put away to save for the Sydney trip. I still want to go see Watchmen darn it, and that 17 Again looks good.

Speaking of Sydney, our 12:50pm flight from Syd back to Adelaide was cancelled and then moved to a 6:30am flight. *Not* cool. Since we can even check out that early...prompting a call from Dad which then changed to Mum who got her frustration across, haha. Seems the only other flight is 4:30pm. The hotel we're staying out has checkout at 10am, meaning we'd have to carry our luggage around all day, unless the hotel could hold it for us. Hope so, anyway. Under a month to go! And still waiting for Supernatural to come back on Channel Ten. >:[

Recently I've been hooked on the TV show Bondi Rescue, which follows the lifeguards patroling Bondi Beach in Sydney. I think it's pretty cool, lol. We have the first three seasons on DVD now, haha. Good stuff. It's not too far away from our Sydney hotel, so we could make a little trip down there - especially if we have the 4:30pm flight on Sunday. :3 Hopefully it's not too cold.

We've had Louie for nearly three months now! So he'd be about five months old now, not that we got a hatchdate (haha), that would have been cool. He's started to talk more and more these days, which is so adorable. He makes kissy noises and says "Good booyyy!", "Boo!" and he's starting to say "kiss kiss!" and "clap clap!" because we'd randomly clap when he did good stuff to excite him, haha. We got him some new toys too. ^____^ He's really shy around new people though (Daniel scared him LOL), so he just kinda sits there most of the time, all ".____." lol.


Hehe.

Videos!





He's getting there. :3

I've read all the available Vampire Academy books now, yayyy. They're awesome. More awesome than Twilight, even! I think so anywho. It just has much more going on than Twilight does. And muuuch less lovey dovey mushy stuff. xD But I still love Twilight and I'm trying to keep up with all the New Moon stuff, haha.

Yeaaahhhh that's it.

//Bloggaaage./

Haven't blogged in over a month, hmm.

Haven't been up to much (surprise, surprise!) really.

Went to the Zoo with Sarah and Danielle, that was fun. Sarah got to use her new (pink!) camera that she got for Christmas. It's quite different there now, stuff is being built and moved around/taken away to make way for the Panda's coming in October. Woot woot!



Had a look at the Adelaide Museum too, for the dinosaur exhibit they had going on. Cool stuff. I'd love to do stuff like that - be an archaeologist or paleontologist or something. Except I never did science/biology/etc in high school. xD Lol fail.

What else...oh! Danielle, Sarah and I finally bought our plane tickets for Sydney. It's starting to set it in now. :D Also, Misha Collins is joining us, too! (He plays the Angel, Castiel fyi.) Pretty awesome. Except neither Sarah or Danielle wants to split a $40 a get a photo with him, darn. Oh well, I'm happy with my pics with J & J. :D A little over two months to go!

Sarah also turned 20 in January. We went and had dinner with her and Mum and Dad at the Bombay Bicycle Club. They had a really yummy steak! It looked tiny, but I juuust managed to eat everything. xD Yum.



Came back from a mini holiday to Port Hughes this past weekend, too. Sarah was going with another friend, but there were some problems going on with her, so Sarah made out they would cancel and asked us to go instead, LOL! We left on Friday night, hung out on the beach on Sat and went out to dinner at the local pub and came home on Sunday.

The beach was bloody windy though (and we all managed to get really sunburned haha), so that kinda ruined it a bit. Couldn't put the shade tent up that we'd brought because it was so windy (though there was big one there already) and we kept getting whipped by the sand, haha ooww. Not to mention the beach was choppy, and me not liking waves kinda lowered the fun factor! LOL. :| Was still a really good time, though. I'd go again. :)

Too lazy to upload all photos, though I have an album uploaded with them on my Facebook. :P



I've finally started reading Vampire Academy! We have the three books that are currently released (another one is coming out later this year, I think) and I've nearly finished the first, really enjoying it. n____n

Louie is still the cutest thing ever. Had him around...a month and a half, I'd say. He's hilarious. He's starting to mumble words now! I'm a proud momma! *squishes him*

Although we had a close call almost two weeks ago. He jumped/flew (wing is still clipped) out of his cage to Missy's feet, which caused her to jump and she must have partially squished him because he made this weird screechy noise. :|

I screamed REALLY loudly lol, quickly picked him up and put him back in his cage. I was so scared because I'd heard stories about birds dieing from being stepped on. D: But I guess lucky for us it was Missy, she's light on her feet and she seemed to have jumped out of the way of him anyway. Brandy is like she has bricks on her feet, lol.

He's perfectly fine, just took a little bit to recover from the shock. I'm never keeping the cage door open like that again, that's for sure! Jeeez.

Mum's decided to leave North Side Express, where she's been working at for I think three years or more. David (Sarah's pop, the business owner) wanted to change Mum's hours from 10am - 2pm which didn't work for Mum.

She's made up her mind that she wants something knew. She went for a job interview yesterday, hope it works out! Sarah's sad that she's leaving. :(

Been playing around with our camera, trying to figure out the other settings (It's not an SLR, but "SLR-like" .__.), and I got some pictures of a pretty sunset on Sunday. :3





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Yeah...that's pretty much it. Gotta start driving again...dammit lol.

Also - RIP to all those taken by the VIC fires, and my warmest sympathies to all those affected. :( I have some friends and family (nan, pop, aunt, uncle etc.) in Victoria, but lucky the fires haven't touched where they live. At least I don't think so...Mum and Dad haven't contacted them. They've just been checking where the fires are hitting.

//Haaappy New Year./

Happy New Year, dudes! Hope everyone had fun welcoming 2009. I celebrated it my usual way - watching the Sydney NYE broadcast on TV with the family, lol. ...I had Doritos and dip! Yum. Then sent new years texts to people, sat around for a bit and went to bed. x3 Hooray.

Not even going to *think* about resolutions. *sigh* Oyyy. v____v;;

Hmm...what to look forward to next year...

Well, my license expires in March, LOL! So I'll either have to rush to try to get my P's, or just pay for that extension thing again.

SuperOzCon in April. :DDD Should be like, the best. day. *EVER*. Lol. So excited. Except I'm kind of panicking about saving up the money for the airfares lol, I've turned into a major scrooge! *hoards money* We can save another $200 before April, right..?

I could even get a job *le gasp*! That would make my money issues a lot easier. But my fear of public transport kind of ruins that, lol. Hence I need my P's, stat! :| I don't like driving... .____.;;

Umm...that's it. xDDD

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Louie has settled in so great, it's a shock! Had him five days now. I have to keep telling me he's not a Cockatiel, and that he has a different temperament (and personality) to Roxie. Barely anything seems to faze him. :P

He's so freaking adorable! Already he's started to learn to laugh - I heard a pretty clear "hah hah!" from him today - although Danielle said it sounded like he was imitating Kookaburras (which are at the aviary we bought Louie from - in a big aviary out the back)

He had a bath two days ago, and one again today - so damn cute. :3 He's so soft and cuddly.:3 Naw.

We also got a few perches and stuff to add to his cage to help him a bit, because he keeps climbing to the top of his cage and squawking - either because he hasn't figured out how to climb back down yet and is stuck, or he's frustrated that he's at the top of his cage and can't climb any higher, lol. He flaps his wings sometimes too...maybe he wants to fly? One of his wings is clipped though, so that's impossible!

Piiiccss:


*melts*



Louie's new and improved cage. c:


Snuggling up in Danielle's jumper, teheh.






Lollll.

Also, videos! :D

Louie "squak"ing with/at Roxie:


Laughing/clucking at his mirror toy (previously Roxies, LOL)


Me feeding him some carrot, nom!