//'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.

//Home Sweet Home!/

Yaaay, home! Well I've been home since Tuesday, but I haven't gotten around to posting a blog, lol.

The Melbourne trip was awesome, though! Funny that of the four days that we were gone, two of them were just days of driving. O___o Like, eight hours of driving. It's fun though, it just gets a bit boring when it's just hours and hours of road and nothing else. We did see a lot of kites and hawks and things, though.

Our motel thing was...eh LOL. Guess we get what we paid for. We were right on a busy intersection (second floor of the motel) and the windows were really crappy, so we hear *every* car that drove by, including the damn crosswalk beeper thing! I'd be almost asleep at 12am, and then woken up at 6:30am by Mum LOL. It was alright, though.

Some piccies:


We drove through a rainbow! :D




View from the motel.


My beeed, with Danielle's on the right side of the room (shotgunned the double! xD).


Table lol. Mum's bed on the right.


Our widdle kitchen! (Mum's bed on the left there)


Bathroooom. Our water was erm...tank heated, is it called? So we have to have 5/10 minute showers and then wait half an hour for the water to heat... .___.;;


The Twilight convention was SO! FUN! Holy crap. Awesomeness. It was cool gushing to people (Yes, I spoke to a few (maybe five? LOL) people!) about our excitement and what it was like meeting the actors. :3 One thing sucked. I FORGOT THE CAMERA! Gah. I could have asked Mum to get it and we would've picked it up, but I didn't. Ah well. :/

The audience's screams weren't too bad, they only came in short bursts haha. We made it about 10 minutes before 9am (we got a little late trying to find the right gate to go into and Mum was freaking out about the traffic/roads - it's crazy!) and let in at maybe...9:15am. The only real hiccup I noticed was that started about 45 or more minutes late, so everything was waaay behind. Other than that, it was amazing!

Edi, Taylor and Nikki were so great. Edi is hilaaarious! Taylor was just so cool, and Nikki is so gorgeous! And they're all so down to Earth. Loved all their Q&A's. It makes me even more excited about the SuperOzCon! <3 href="http://twilightorigina.free-forums.org/">Twilight Originals.net.

Photos! Keeping mind that I have no idea how to scan photos, and touch them up, etc. -____-;;


Photo taken with my mobile before anything started - we were in fourth row! A huge relief (a surprise actually) because we got our tickets probably...two weeks after the announcement. I realized I could have taken some photos with my mobile...hmm.


Lol eugh, slouchage. Someone on the Twilight Australia forum was saying that Taylor told them he doesn't do big smiles in all his photos because he gets a sore jaw. :P


:3 I love Nikki's dress! It had pretty frilly green layers at the bottom aswell, so cool.


Lol. Go team! The redheaded girl was the one who recognised me. Red hair = love!


On Monday we went to Melbourne Zoo! That was really great. It's *humongous* and I'd taken so many photos that near the end of our trip, I had to delete some to make room for more! That never happens at Adelaide Zoo...lol.

Favourite part had to be the Gorilla's, Orangutans and Siamangs! Adorable. Among many, many others. We got there about 10:15 am (walked there, it wasn't that far away) and got back around...4-ish? Well we were there a long time. I was still recovering from it three days later, LOL! Oh! And I got a toy Gorilla...heheh. Danielle got an Orangutan!


Lolll.

I uploaded a ton of photos, but there's no use uploading them all here, there's way too many! There all in my Photobucket.

//Twilight, yeaahhh/

Alrighty! So Danielle, Mum, Dad, Sarah and I went to the Twilight Pre-Screening at the Tea Tree Plaza Hoyts Cinema (*breathes*) on Wednesday night! :D

We thought we'd go there a little early so we could eat and maybe do a little window shopping. I think we finished our food a little around 5:30pm (keeping in mind the movie would start at 7pm), and we'd seen a mob of about five girls with home-made Twilight shirts on, walking up the stairs to the cinema.

We were thinking we'd just go up there and get our tickets and have a quick walk around the shops, but...there was already a que of about...30 or so people in line! With one and a half hours until the movie! Jesus. So we got a place in line instead. Sarah hadn't come with us, she'd just passed her test that day (congrats!!!) and said she'd meet us there. By about 6:30pm I think they stopped letting people join the que, it was so damn packed! Sarah still hadn't arrived by then so I was freaking out, lol. We did get in there at around 6:50pm (people started moving, and screaming and pushing -me included, I'm losing my spot to *nobody!!*- ensued) and we saved a spot for Sarah.

She told us that the line went *out* of Hoyts and down the stairs to the food court! Seems like they ended up using two cinemas instead of one. Unless that was the original plan.

Our audience was actually pretty awesome! I was a bit worried about those teeny bopper, squealy type that I'd been reading about on the IMDb forums, but apart from the screams when the movie started and when Edward, Jacob and Carlisle appeared on screen, that was pretty much it. Also some of the direct quotes from the book, and Steph Meyer's appearance got some people squealing.

But I really enjoyed the movie! Of course there's some things I would have like removed (did we really need all that stuff with the nomads..?) and some things added/changed (Jacob telling Bella the vampire story, more info on the Cullens/vampires and the dang blood typing scene!). Apart from that, I really liked it. :D Definitely going to go see it again on the 11th! I like the crowed atmosphere (if they aren't being stupid and talking over the movie) and being able to hear everyone's reaction.

They were also handing out free Twilight posters! Pretty cool. I think they're about...is it, A3? size.

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Off to Melbourne tomorrow! I'm really nervous haha, especially after the venue change. Melb Uni? I'm doomed! I hope they have signage, who knows where we'll end up otherwise...LOL. The building's pretty close to the main road we'll be entering, so it shouldn't be too bad...then again I could always get lost *inside* the building. O_____O;;

Still not sure if we'll be catching a taxi or driving to the Uni. It's pretty close, almost straight down one road from our apartment - Royal Parade I think it is. Mum says "Not sure, we'll see." :P I don't know if out apartment has internet, either...not that it'll kill me to stay away from it for a couple of days haha. It *does* say "wireless broadband" on the website for it. Egads, broadband?! 8D

Just down to the last thing like packing shampoos, deodorant, toothbrush etc. And that's it - we hit the road! :P 7am wake up too. .___.;;

*wanders off to find anything else to pack*

//Venue Change./

Okay, so, I just got an email from Carissa (runs The Hub Productions) saying that the venue for the Twilight Convention has been changed from the Spring Street Theatre, to the Copland Theatre in Building 148 of Melbourne University. O___o

Lucky about two months ago we changed the hotel from just down the road from Spring Street to near the zoo, because now we're pretty close to the new venue, lol! The other hotel/motel/whatever didn't have any parking. Silly, I know.

It sucks for Mum now, because the old venue was right near a lot of malls and shops and whatnot. Mum was going to take a book and wonder around the shops all day while she waited for us, then catch one of the many trams to the spring street theatre again. So...she'll be catching a taxi now? xD u____u;; There were also cafes and stuff around...guess we'll be bringing snacks instead. Ah well.

Aaand I'll probably get lost! Dammit lol.

Also, the Rainbow Lorikeets have started coming back now! They eat the little nut thingies on our tree outside. I got a couple of good photos. But they're nowhere near as cool as the ones that I got last year. These are the old ones:




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And these are the ones I took today:











I think it's the closest I've ever gotten to them/it before! (the other one flew away pretty early) This guy was just in a tricky spot, and it was around 6pm so it was nearing sunset. :/ Next time though, next time!

I've been getting up a lot earlier than normal (7:30am wtf) to prepare myself (lolz) for this Melbourne trip, and having to get up early. :P I hope they come back earlier in the morning. :3

//Summertiiime./

Hey, look. My 50th blog. Lolz.

Hmm I haven't posted a blog in ages! Well... a month, right?

Updateage:

* Twilight is out in the US now! It's doing really well - much better than those stupid haters. Over, is it, $109 mil in two weeks? Yeeuh. It'll be released in Australia and Europe next Thursday, so it'll get more. :D Not bad for a $37 mil budget! Plus, New Moons in production and hopefully starts filming around March '09! :3

* Went to the Zoo about...two/three weeks ago. God, some people can be idiots. 'Nuff said. And Mum does *not* have enough patience, especially when it comes to waiting for me to look at/take pictures of the animals! Gosh. Spent half my time catching up to everybody. xD

* Also went to Waterfull Gully. Hadn't been there since we were little. It was nice, but the falls were kind of...dry. Haha. Didn't have much rainfall during winter. :c Damn drought. But we got awesome Koala pics!

* I have a cold! Haven't had one in a looong time. Probably two years... yeah? I don't know. Sucks, lol.

* Christmas is nigh! Sort of. I wish I had a job, dammit. Then I could have got people presents, with my own money. Also, a lot of games (among other things - like shoes, makeup, clothes...) that I have my eyes on. This low confidence thing is really sucky, lol. .___.;;

* Less than four days until our Melbourne trip! Where does the time go? Mum got suitcases out the other day. We're off food shopping tomorrow - per usual, but only for three days, and whatever it is Dad needs for meals (steak, steak and...oh, steak plz!) lol.

There's been changes with the guest for the Con, too. Kellan, replaced by Edi, and Ashley, replaced with Nikki. That made me sad. :'c Some of my favourite cast members couldn't come. But oh well. Taylor is the third guest too. c:

* Twilight screening tomorrow! Man, I'm excited. But nervous about how it'll be. My Twilight forum buds really enjoyed it, so...yeah! Mum, Dad and Sarah are coming too. Hopefully the crowd will stay squee-free during the movie! ^^;;

It's summer already! Jeez. This changing-my-layout-per-every-season is getting annoying. Maybe I'll change it just for summer and leave it at that? I don't knowww lol.

I'll be putting up some pic dumps too, for the Zoo and Waterfall Gully. x3

//Accommodation - Check!/

The Hub announced the venue for the SuperOzCon the other day! There's also a website with more information. It's a little bit out of the city, in the eastern suburbs. So it's lucky we didn't go ahead and get accommodation early, lol.

Mum found a place really close by, and booked a room for us! It's called The Randwick Lodge. It's about a ten minute walk from the Uni, with a mall close by as well. Pretty awesome! It has some nice pictures on it's website.

So accommodation is a check now. And we won't be paying for it until we get to Sydney. Now we just need the plane flights...though I only have $140, definitely *not* enough for flights to and from Sydney!

I (finally) did the online application at Coles and Kmart! Hopefully something comes out of that. c:

Oh man, listening to a song from Final Fantasy VIII (Waltz for the Moon lolz) is making me nostalgic! Might have to go play it, yet again...

It was Terrie's 20th birthday on Tuesday! Danielle, Sarah and I went to Elizabeth and met up with Terrie, and we saw Max Payne. It was alright. I didn't really get it, lol. And then we just walked around the shops a bit, had some food and chatted, and Sarah bought some clothes. It was good to hang out again. Almost like old times. Almost. :P

TwilightAustralia.net has been down the last couple of days! Meaning I haven't been able to check if The Hub (an employee posts on their forum with updates and whatnot) is any closer to announcing/getting an answer from the third guest! *twitches* Augh. Although, The Hub has been away in New Zealand the last couple of days, for another convention. Dammit, I hope it's Rob, and he says yes! That would be epic. xD

Mum got a card for a driving instructor and she said she's going to book some lessons for me. Eek! Nervousss. I think I've said it before, but when I go driving with Mum, it's just...driving. Like, I'm not following anything that the learner-book-thingy says, that the instructors check and whatnot. Hopefully I haven't picked up any bad habits or anything. >___<;;

//Check! Phew./

Okay, got the receipt for the Supernatural con! Three day tickets, one photo with Jared, one photo with Jensen and an autograph with each, check. Next things to do are:

*Wait for The Hub to announce the venue of the con so we can:
*Find and book accommodation close by
*Book flights

And then we're set, I think. I'm just worried about exactly we're supposed to *pay* for it. I mean...I can't afford plane tickets right now because I only have $140, and I know return flights to Sydney are over $200. Plus the accommodation could be about $200 a night as well. $___$!! Yeesh.

Also found out that the photos with the boys are now sold out! We have ours though, of course. Holy crap, the tickets haven't even been on sale for a week! I'm really relieved that we went ahead and got the tickets instead of "just getting the Twilight one over with first" like Mum suggested. Phew, lol!

I'm so nervous about traveling, I haven't been this far away from home without my parents, LOL! Airports just seem so damn confusing...even though I've been through them more times then I can count on two hands. -____-;;

I still haven't gotten around the submitting that resume to Coles lolll, procrastinating - that's (one of) my middle name! x3

Went out for some parking practice with Mum yesterday, too. Haha, my parking = fail! Gah. It's only the second time I've tried, so I'm of course not going to be great. ;P

Fable II out tomorrow! Danielle's just been telling me about some drama's about stores releasing the games early. We've been keeping ourselves occupied by watching season 1 of The O.C. lol. <3

//Nice!/

I love free stuff lol, so when Mum home from a lunch with Lucy (a friend she met from work) yesterday with a bag of makeup that had apparently fallen off a truck, I was pretty happy! LOL. There was a lot of stuff! Lucy kept some for herself, and then gave us some to share amongst ourselves and give some to Sarah as well.

We got some nice Cover Girl foundation that seems to fit my skin colour, (it's pale and pink-ish, so I have trouble finding the right one with out going through one million different types!) that's pretty awesome! It's in both the powder and liquid one, so that's cooolll. And some mascara, eye liner and Mum has some creams and stuff. :P

Ohh OMG, Danielle and I were on Mum & Dad's computer (I used to share it with them when we didn't have the laptop) and we were looking through our old files. Apart from some really old saved MSN convo's, we found these reaallly old pictures from '05 where we were being silly, LOL. Take a look! (click for bigger version)



Lolz. I can't keep a straight face! And the one where I cracked up, hahaha...*sigh* My gosh, we have to make an up dated one! xD

Still waiting on my receipt for the 'SuperOzCon'...(I prefer calling that then 'All Hell Breaks Loose' lol) but it's only been one day haha. And I read somewhere that The Hub was supposed to announce the location of the con...but nothing yet.

And *still* no mention of this mystery third guest coming to the Twilight Con! *bites nails anxiously* Hopefully we'll find out soon.

Yesss, Supernatural's on tonight again! :D

//:D!!!/

Just sent off the order form for three tickets to the Australia Supernatural Convention! YAYOMG.

So, after I read about the convention, I ran around in a tizzy because the con was only in Sydney (woaahhh rhyme-age). *Then* I sent a spazztastic email to Sarah telling her about the convention. I didn't expect to hear much about it from her (although she's a new Supernatural fan) because of how much it would cost...but then next thing I know, I get an email from her saying she'd go with us!

And after sending a reply, and an SMS to ask if she was 100% *sure* she wanted to go (didn't want to get my hopes up lol), she said she's 110% sure. x) And she rang to iron out some of the other details.

Seems like we'll be flying there on the Friday night (god I wouldn't be able to make a Saturday morning one), going to the con on the Saturday, and either flying back Saturday night, or Sunday morning. It'll probably be Saturday night because I wouldn't want to pay another night of accommodation LOL! *scrooge*

Sarah is coming over tomorrow to talk about it some more. :D The Hub will also be announcing what the venue will be, so then we could find some cheap-ish accommodation not too far away.

It'll be expensive...around $200-and-something for the flights, around $200 a night for accommodation...not to mention stuff like taxis, food, etc. Thank goodness it's next year, so I can save up! And hopefully have a job by then, that'd make it a lot easier to pay for.

After transferring the money from mine and Danielle's bank account (for the Supernatural con -photos and autographs included- and Twilight tickets) to Mum's, we have $150 (each) left over. LOL. T____T

Now I'm just waiting to get the receipt, which will probably come early next week...hopefully there will be tickets left, because the site announced that they'd run out of the Platinum tickets! They were $1400! Gosh! But other than that...

WE'RE GOING! :D

*end spazzing*

Daniel came over today! Hadn't seen him in...forever, lol. We played a couple games of Halo (I won all except one, which Daniel did xD), Mario Kart (far out I stink at that game), Super Smash Brothers Brawl (that game too -__-) and he gave us some Pokémanz, yay. I think they're copied ones...lol. He gave us a Mew, Celebi and Deoxy's. Woot!

Oh yeah, Krystal stopped by just as Daniel was leaving. Haven't seen her in a looong time. She's moved to Mount Barker, I think. We finally have her number now, lol. So that makes it easier to keep in contact with her.

And...yeah that's it. ;P

Fable II on Wednesday! :3

//Oh. My. God./

(I had to make it small but lol you get the idea)



...

OH MY GOD!!!

*breathes*

Jared and Jensen coming to Australia! But...they're only coming to Sydney. Wtf. So I don't think we'll be going...*sniff* But I want to go *so* badly! Auughh not fair.

You know, I'd refund my Twilight con tickets in a heartbeat if it meant going to the Supernatural one! Gah!

I heard Mum mumble that if I got a job she'd take us. LOL. *heads off to get job* Well, still, I'd have to get my P's first. I'll have to talk about it with Mum & Dad later. I thought it'd be expensive to go to Melbourne, but...Sydney? Yikes! $150 ($70 for twilight con) for a day ticket! Holy crap! Not to mention stuff like photos and autographs are up $10 each.

Speaking of Melbourne, we've got the whole hotel/motel thingy sorted out. It's this place called Darling Towers or something like that...yeah. 'self serving apartments' too. We discovered that while looking at other motels, they were all booked around the time we wanted to go! So we were panicking. But Mum rang up this place she found on the internet, and phew, we're all booked and ready to go now.

Also, the apartment thingy is right in the city! Like, we could walk over to the convention in probably about 20 minutes, which is awesome. Mum was worrying a bit because of the whole tram thing and the different road rules, but this will definately help.

And *still* no news on this third guest! I hope it's Rob. :D We're all waiting on you Rob, if it is you! xD

So, yay! I'm excited. Except the news of the supernatural con has kinda put a damper on it for me, lol.

//New Twilight Trailer/

In all it's HD glory!

Twilight Trailer


Love me some HD. <3><;; Must! Save! Bandwidth! *twitches*

//Change of plans./

So Jodie isn't coming to the convention. That's okay (though Danielle and I had a "D:?!" moment LOL), I just wished I'd bought the tickets a week earlier instead. Oh well. Hopefully it doesn't affect our seating too much. So Danielle and I are going on our own now. I got the confirmation email (I sent the form off on Sat I think) on...Tuesday I think.

Dammit I'm going to be so nervous meeting Ashley, Kellan and whoever the mystery third guest is. Having a friend is my safety net to meeting people! xDD I'll be all one word answers and trying to rush it so I can get it over with without embarrassing myself...LOL! Should be fine, though. Kellan and Ashley seem like really nice and upbeat people. I wouldn't mind a hug from Kellan either hahaha, apparently he gives good bear hugs! And if it was Robert that was going...lord help me. I'd be too nervous to speak. :|

And this way Danielle and I will just go halvies on a photo together with each actor, and get the photos signed together. And the rest of the money can go to Supernatural & Twilight merchandise! Gosh, I'm excited.

Not sure if Sarah's coming or not, yet. I'm getting impatient because I don't know how far ahead we need to book for the motel. Dx Because if she is coming, we'd be booking a motel one hour outside Melbourne, to fit four people. If she *isn't* coming, we'd book for the one inside the city. Though it'd be more expensive...plus I think they have a wheely bed thing for more people, so I don't know lol. We'll see, She's not sure if she can afford it, let alone get two days off work.

Better news though! Yesterday we *finally* got the Supernatural books (Season 1 & 2 companions, and 'The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons and Ghouls')! Yaayyyy. Jeez, those took friggen for *ever*. And I think it's even the first delivery, which was sent in July! I thought that one was lost, and Amazon has another one coming...LOL. They said we can have it for free though. xP I've read the first companion, and it's pretty good. Lots of little tidbits and behind-the-scenes details, which I of course love! x)

Gotta have a photo of 'em, naturally. ;P


LOLZ @ my Gryffindor bookmark! Woot.

Mum, Dad, Danielle and I also went for about a five hour drive on Sunday. I think we passed Semaphore, Moana, and this other place...can't remember the name. xD I suck at knowing where we are/went. But Danielle took some nice pictures (I didn't hog the camera, wowza!). I forgot how much I love to go on drives/travel! Lots of pretty and interesting landscapes and stuff to see - makes me more excited for the Melbourne trip. :D

Piccies ahoy!




Corella's! c:




BaAAaa.




Lol, Myponga.











Heroes was on tonight, too. Danielle and I *just* bought Heroes 2 and watched it in time the other day, lol. 11 episodes in the whole season, gawd. Dang writes strike. And the new episodes...woah. So much going on, I'm pretty confused right now LOL.

Hmm, what else. Not much. Been playing Fable which we bought recently. Danielle heard about Fable II coming out Oct 23, and wanted to play the first one. I like it, reminds me of Guild Wars. I miss that game. :c

Ohoh and the last Twilight trailer is out tomorrow (or later, technically)! A lot of new movie stills/posters out too, which rocks.

Nearly 2am, time for bed!

//Woaaah!/

Prepare for a text wall! *flexes fingers*

I'm Downloading the third episode of Supernatural now! =D Time travel, yay! It really looks awesome. I can't wait two weeks to see it here! Dx But I'll *try* not to download any more, I just have so much fun reading the Superatural IMDb board and I like to be up to date with episodes so I'm not spoiled. Ahh well.

But on to other things! I was on the Twilight Australia site the other day, and found out about an *Australian* (Melbourne and Sydney only, naturally. Melbourne would be the one we'd go to) Twilight convention happening in December!! Holy crap, I was so excited, I ran to Danielle's room (mind you, this was 1am haha) and was giggling like a fool, lol.

When we spoke to Mum and Dad about it in the morning, Mum was on a tirade saying how she couldn't get a day off during that time of the year. Dad said he didn't have a problem, he'd just take Monday off. But now Mum's taking us. I feel bad because it seemed that Dad wanted to go, but now he has to stay home with the dogs. We'll only be in Melbourne for three days though.

But yay, we're going!!

Danielle and I thought it'd be cool to bring a friend, and we thought about Sarah, but I really didn't think she'd be interested. Then we thought of Jodie, so I raced to write up and SMS and comment on her blog to ask, and wait ever so impatiently for her to reply. xD I want tickets ASAP!

At the moment Kellan (Emmett) and Ashley (Alice) are set to be going, and there's another undecided guest coming. I haasss to be Rob, please be Rob, lol.

It's expensive - $70 for a day pass, and as high as $750 for a platinum pass! Though that includes front seats, cocktail party and a breakfast with the guests among other things. The way we worked it out, if the three of us go and get autographs/photos it'll come to $220 - each.

And I read that they have merchandise stuff from other movies/tv shows - they even used Supernatural as an example! YAY. I'm hoping to get a big Supernatural poster, to replace my Anothony one. Sorry, Anth! And a Twilight one too. Sorry (captain!) Jack Sparrow, lolll.

*Next* was to figure out the fun stuff! [/sarcasm]

Danielle was looking at motel stuff today, and Mum came and helped afterward. A lot of the stuff around the city (one was almost on the same road as the con) are around $350 a night, which we knew was too pricey for us.

Now we've got our eyes on a motel about an hour outside of Melbourne for $165 a night, and fits six people. Better than the $13 backpackers place Danielle pointed out, lolll. The motel is just around the corner from one of our old houses! Not that I remember it, we were just babies then.

Right now it sounds like we'll be leaving Friday arvo, Saturday we'll be doing stuff around Melbourne, Sunday is the Con and we'll leave on Monday.

I got an email from Sarah today saying that she's going to try to come with us. First I was like "What?! With Jodie? Talk about most awkward trip, ever! Gosh, is Jodie going to want to come now?! *panics*" Haha. Just...what. I didn't even really know she knew about it, so it shocked me that all of a sudden she's coming with us...

I don't know if Mum asked or not, but when she came home she was saying how she thought Jodie wasn't coming (dunno why she thought that, we haven't got a straight yes or a no yet) and that she wanted some company when she did other stuff while we were at the con, which I understand. I just think the drive will be awkward, but we'll see.

I don't mind them both coming, squishy in the car though, and the luggage...that's the though part.

It'd also make the travel (petrol will probably cost $300 all up) and accommodation a heck of a lot cheaper, 5 people paying and all. Plus Sarah always seems to keep things light and bubbly. c:

I'm hoping both of themcome, actually. Mum's being nice enough to drive us there, she might as well have some company while she has to wait around for us.

Ohoh, I completely forgot about the independant film Jensen filmed back in '07, called 'Ten Inch Hero'. I was on YouTube and I came across the trailer and a clip from the movie. Look at him! a Mohawk, muliple piercings and tattoos...wow lol. But it seems like a really sweet and feel good movie. Have a lookie!




"It says here it can handle any amount of...oh my god!" LOL. Awkwaardd!

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//Drrriving./

Are you watching Supernatural? Lol. Ah, I love 'em, they rock. <3



I completely forgot about this song (it's Swedish btw), it's so damn catchy! *bobs along to music*

Oooh oh! One week today until Supernatural! And I started watching 90210 for a little while because I read on the IMDb that someone had seen a Supernatural ad. I saw it! Just old season 3 footage though.

Might see if I can get Danielle to play Halo with me, I'm board dammit.

Bai bai! ;P

//Lazy Days/

Yeahhh lazy days. I need to get back out there and try to get a job, dammit!

Or maybe I should just continue working on my P's. I haven't gone driving with Mum in over...two months I think! *fail* I'll try to go again on Monday. It's just that I'm such a nervous wreck when I drive because I'm not even close to feeling 100% confident in what I'm doing. :/ Lol. I'll have to flick through that handbook again to make me feel better. xD

Oh, I watch The Land Before Time. I cried like a little wussie. LOL! I hadn't seen the movie in years and years, but once that damn music started I was a goner! xD How embarrassing for me if I hadn't watched it alone, huh? Haha. ^^;; I'm trying to download the soundtrack but I'm having no luck. :c

Second Supernatural episode down! I enjoyed it. And it has the shows longest episode title ever! 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester' wow. I don't mind though. It's from the title of a (I think) young adults book called 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret' haven't heard of it, though. Next episode looks really good too, can't wait!

Aaand it's just over a week until I can watch it on TV! Yayz.

Season 3 of Heroes has started in the US. I think it'll be fasttracked to channel seven soon. We have season 1, which Danielle and I just started watching again. I don't even remember what happened at the end of season 2! I don't even know when it's coming out here...hmm.

Damn it was hot yesterday! I don't want it to be hoottt. I like it when it's cold! ...ish. The airconditioner sucks when it's hot, I hate it. :c

So Terrie asked Sarah about us meeting up for a little bit to catch up, and suggested Louisiana Tavern. I guess we could go...just...last time I went, I didn't like to food. Lol. She hasn't messaged us or anything, so we'll see.

//OHH YEAH/

I was just on the Channel Ten Supernatural forums and found this little gem:

"You heard it here first people.

Supernatural is returning to Ten on October 6 at 8:30pm with a 2 hour premiere.

For those wondering "what about 90210"? It's being moved to Friday at 8:30pm in the same week.

So there you go, good news.

Benjoman"

SWEET. So we get the first two episodes, which leaves us only one week behind the US. And the week after the 2 hour premiere, it's on at 9:30pm That's pretty awesome! Much better than 10:30pm.

So excited. Except I don't know any other fans except Danielle, Sarah (just emailed her xD) and Mum (I'll tell her when I see her tomorrow!)...so now I'm telling my blog! LOL.

Thank god for that, now I don't have to download the crappy quality YouTube episodes. Although I'll probably still download this weeks episode because I can't wait nearly two weeks to see it on TV! Well, eleven days. xP

Mum found a DVD with the first three The Land Before Time movies on it today, so I'm off to watch the first one before bed! Ciao!

//*sigh*/

This will probably end up being an epic-ly long blog, lol.

So Danielle and I went to our job interview at Blockbuster. We spoke to Kerri (who I think is the manager) who's really bubbly and cool, and she gave us (separately of course) some sheets of paper with some questions. Some were about money ("if *so and so* had *so many dollars* and bought *so many things* how much change would there be?") which I totally blanked out for since I was so nervous (calculator, plzkthx!) and took me ages to do, LOL.

Then we went and sat in the office with Kerri and answered some questions. Turns out there were two jobs available now, and one would have more hours than the other. (oh and she's a fan of Supernatural! *awesomeness*)

I know I did better than the maccas interview, at least. It helped that I sort of knew the people there, since I've seen them at Blockbuster a lot, lol. And they're so happy and nice there, whereas the person who interviewed me at McDonald's wasn't really and it made me even more nervous lol. I can't help iitt!

We were told we'd be meeting with two other ladies working there if we got a call back for another interview as well.

Which we did! That was cool. So on Monday we went back and met with the two other ladies (Can't remember their names for god sakes -__-;;) and they told me not to worry about being nervous since they're nice and don't really know what they're doing LOL. So I think I did okay there...I think. I was asked if I'd mind doing stuff like cleaning and restocking (why would I?) and stuff like that. They said we'd get a call later in the week to know what was going on.

I think it was...Thursday? We both got a call saying we didn't get the job. :c *sigh* I so wanted the job. It's so close to home (about a 15 min walk) and the people are so damn nice! I emo'd out for a bit after that, lol.

I'm guessing it didn't help that I'm not exactly EXPLODING WITH ENERGY, CONFIDENCE AND ENTHUSIASM!!1! and that I hadn't had a job before. How the bloody hell and I supposed to get a job then, huh?! U___U Boo hoo.

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I lent our Supernatural season 1 box set to Sarah this week, yayz! She came over on Saturday and we played some more Halo (I won a few games, wow! Since when do I beat Sarah at Halo? o.0) and I lent her season 2 since she'd finished the first. Woot.

Oh, did I mention our season 3 box set was delivered? That had to be the quickest ever! It only took a little over a week (got it last week). =D I've watched it all now. Sooo either I'll lend season 3 to Sarah, or we'll have some kind of marathon. xD YAY.

The delivery before this one still hasn't been delivered yet! What the hell. Mum emailed Amazon and they refunded our postage and handling and asked us to wait until October 1st, when something-or-other expires. It's just books for goodness sakesss. :/

Ohohoh aaand Season 4 started on Thursday! Danielle found a YouTube version since we would never be able to download the HDTV versions with our measly 4GB bandwidth. :'c Still nearly 100MB though *winces*. I was EPIC though. Hoooly crap I love it (but what about Kristy!Ruby, hmm? :/ *reserves judgment...for now*). And it got its best ratings since season 1, or something! Yayyy.

When Sarah came over on Saturday she watched it with us, and I think she enjoyed it! Mum refuses to watch it because of how small the video is, which sucks because I want to talk to her about iiitt. *pout* I'll keep trying though. ;P

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Changed the layout! Now it's all Spring...y. :3 Took me ages to make that banner because I had no idea what the hell I was doing, LOL. But I think it turned out alright.

Added some stamp thingies from DeviantART too, and removed the other pictures. I think it looks better like that. c: Supernatural plug-age remains, though! ;D

Turning 20 in two days! WTF. I'm still 17-going-18 to me. And I've done nothing particularly earth shattering since then eight. *sigh* Am I still the same? I think so, anyway.

Yeah...that's it, I think. Oh, Mum dyed my hair today. :P It's something like Country Colours I think...it's called "Highlands Chestnut" lol. Practically just a reddish brown.

Oh yeah, gotta finish things off with some doggy pics! Everybody was hanging out in the backyard enjoying the awesome weather (and Mum bought some tomato plant thingies), and of course got the camera out and I snapped some shots of Missy and Brandy! c: <3

















...told you it'd be a long post! xD Not that anybody reads thiiis haha.

Ciaooo.