| Another Wishlist |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|03:32 pm] |
I feel a little weird doing this, but I guess hey my birthday's coming up, and this way I can direct anyone wondering what to get me (family mainly) to this page.
So then, ( the wishlist )
So I hope that doesn't sound too full of myself, or like I'm asking for too much.
As for the fact I haven't updated in ages, my apologies. To my f-list I have been reading and hopefully will pass on some comments soon. |
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| Finished moving |
[May. 19th, 2009|11:00 pm] |
So three evenings after I started to move my study it's now done. Actually this evening barely counts (I had 4 things to find homes for), and it would have all been done by last night if I hadn't got sidetracked by Good News Week.
( What the room now looks like )
There is one little pile left.
( The pile of what I have to return to other people )
I've also managed to complete the washing up, cook dinner (leaving Alex with 3 new bits of washing up only), pack the dishwasher and set a load of washing on. Not bad for one evening - especially given that I left work 40 minutes late! Bedtime now though. |
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| I have moved... |
[May. 17th, 2009|06:24 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | My new room! | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  Sneezy (from dust allergies) | ] |
Well, no, not really.
Not house-wise anyway.
But the other day (well last Sunday) I was starting to tidy up my study (a weekly job that should be done more often) and decided that I wanted to move my study to a different part of the house. Given that we've got 2 bedrooms going spare (aside from the one that is our bedroom, and the one that Alex claimed as his study) this is not a hard thing - aside from moving furniture.
So today I unpacked my room and (with some help from Alex) moved to one of said spare rooms. All that remains of my previous study is two corkboards/noticeboards, and the second handset of our phone which will stay there for now.
( All that remains )
All the heavy (well some is more heavy than others) furniture is now in place as well as some more ornamental bits, and the start of my academic interests on the book shelf. The bigger boxes of my craft things are away in the wardrobe.
( What's been done )
But there's still a pile of little odds and ends that I have to sort out
( A not so little pile all things considered )
I think this has come about because I haven't done a proper study clean up since I got here nearly 2 years ago. When I was younger - especially just before christmas (and also sometimes mid year), I'd spend a week or so shuffling papers and ornaments (and the rest of the contents of my desk) back and forth between my bed and desk gradually putting somethings away whilst heavily culling the amount of stuff I had accumulated. This "move" is letting me do that all over again, and it feels good. Even if it does mean I want more bookshelves, and a little desk for my sewing machine to live on. |
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| Mothers' Day - this post gets a little depressing! |
[May. 10th, 2009|12:08 pm] |
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Hm, I do have a couple of people on my f-list and so to all of you I wish a very Happy Mothers' Day.
So far Alex has called his mother to wish her a happy day, and we've got plans to go to my parents place for lunch. If I remember I will try and call my grandmother too - although really that's dad's job not mine.
I'm wondering if people are giving presents to their mum... Probably because Romilly spent several hours with me on Friday night trying to think about what I should give my mum.
( The suggestions that were made: )
A photo thing ended up being the present chosen.
It involved the cutting up of some photos (but only one of those would I maybe not be able to replace).
And I bought one of those multiple picture picture-frame things, and put various photos of family members in.
( So her present looks like )
But still, to repeat myself again, to all the mothers out there Happy Mothers' Day
And to those of us who aren't mothers, well here's hoping that you have a lovely day anyway because you are also special to me *hugs all* |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 8th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
One of my grade mates just posted an update on Facebook that I'd pass on here...
BS** Is listening to hornsby girls play 'i have never' on the train, with nerdy pearlers like 'i have never been to school without going to the library'
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another great convo was as follows:
girl one: "I have never stayed up reading past midnight"
girl two: "really! OMG! I always stay up reading after midnight!"
girl one: "me too! just not on school nights!!!"
girl two: "oh yeah- not on school nights!!!"
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considering the other pearler was "I've never drunk alcohol", I think they would have been quite shocked!
To which another replied:
EA** I'm touched that our nerdy legacy continues to live on. Long live Greekimon and Piiiiiinnneapples!
And another replied:
SH** Wow. I swear that in our day backtracking on what you've just said to sound cooler involved trying to sound less nerdy, not more so... you've changed Hornsby.
I'm actually in disagreement with the last commenter, and more in line with the second commenter. As much as we made fun of it, I think I never tried to be more cool, I was (and still am) perfectly happy to continue to poke fun of the sheer amount of nerdish-ness I have been prone to exhibit.
To each their own I suppose. |
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| That's just even more evil.. |
[May. 5th, 2009|09:23 am] |
Finally we see a 409 bus, myself and the other 5 people waiting, only to have it drive straight past. Yes, I've already rung to complain. Not that it'll do much for now. Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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| I hate Sydney buses!! |
[May. 5th, 2009|09:10 am] |
I have been standing at this bus stop for 50 bloody minutes now. I missed my normal bus by 3 minutes, the next bus was due 28 minutes ago. Never came. And the bus that was supposed to be here 8 minutes ago is yet to show up too. Not impressed Sydney buses, not impressed. Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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| A simple life |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|08:31 am] |
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So I haven't updated in goodness only knows how long. Probably because my life is just that boring.
Work, church, bible study... And that's my life for the most part. No I'm not whinging. I just thought I'd explain why I pretty much never post.
Though I do try and read my flist every couple of days or more. Even now I can't think of anything witty to say. I've taken to being more crafty in my spare time. I knitted a baby blanket for my sister in law (and then gave it to her without taking a photo first) and have made myself a skirt with my new-old sewing machine , and I've tried to make a knitted bunny too (although my attempt does not currently look very bunny like). And this then is my life. Any suggestions of fun/out-and-about activities I should be doing instead? Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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| Aussie censorship... or not |
[Mar. 27th, 2009|06:39 am] |
As I have two friends, or at least a friend and a husband, who both have been known to voice to me views against the ways in which Australia (and other countries) censors things I thought I might post something that happened just as we were all heading over to bed last night.
Of course, it's not still up there... In the world of responding to hacking - if you can't reset the damage quickly at least put a 404 error up so that noone else can see your misery.
But still it's interesting, although as someone pointed out here the way the hackers did it, whilst some might see as humorous, hardly does make itself into a noble/educated argument against censorship.
Anyone got any other thoughts? |
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| On the bushfires |
[Feb. 10th, 2009|10:19 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | unhappy | ] |
I haven't said anything yet, only because I have absolutely no idea what to say. It makes me feel sick to even begin to contemplate what has happened. So, not much to say... I'm not trying to be heartless... I just can't stop myself from caring too much.
My prayers, and thoughts, to all those who are suffering now because of the fires. Be they directly affected, or otherwise. May safety soon be restored, may people find peace to accept what has happened, and the strength to go on.
Please don't ask me to say more. I just can't... |
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| Response to "Interview me" from Eneit |
[Feb. 1st, 2009|09:15 am] |
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5.When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
The questions were:
1) Dinner party for 10 of your all time favourite authors, movie stars etc, who are they, and what do you serve?
2) Have you ever heard a song and thought "yes, thats what I'd like to have played at my funeral"?
3) Your bedroom is on fire, assuming your partner is safe, what do you grab as you escape?
4) What is the one thing certain to make you smile, no matter how bad a day it's been?
5) Travel, time, space or straight out holiday destination. You have two weeks, where, when and why do you go?
And... Here are my answers to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) eneit's 5 ( questions: )
anyone else want to play? |
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| Alex's birthday |
[Dec. 15th, 2008|07:56 am] |
So Saturday was alex's birthday... And by Sunday I was so exhausted that none of the washing has been done so I'll be doing that tonight instead. Still I'm pretty proud of myself... Alex even complimented me on my organising skills (!!) saying he could understand why my second choice for a career had been in logistics. (High praise indeed for this Disorder-ed one.)
On Friday night we went to a pizza and pasta place in Hornsby. We were joined by family (both Rowenas - although thankfully they sat at opposite ends of the table) and friends from church or exchurch seeing as none if us still have st johns as our home church. We then moved on to max brenner in st ives for dessert.
Then there was a Saturday morning sleep in before presents and a call from alex's parents. I then ran off to send off international and interstate Christmas presents ... except [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<lj-user="firestrings">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] So Saturday was alex's birthday... And by Sunday I was so exhausted that none of the washing has been done so I'll be doing that tonight instead. Still I'm pretty proud of myself... Alex even complimented me on my organising skills (!!) saying he could understand why my second choice for a career had been in logistics. (High praise indeed for this Disorder-ed one.)
On Friday night we went to a pizza and pasta place in Hornsby. We were joined by family (both Rowenas - although thankfully they sat at opposite ends of the table) and friends from church or exchurch seeing as none if us still have st johns as our home church. We then moved on to max brenner in st ives for dessert.
Then there was a Saturday morning sleep in before presents and a call from alex's parents. I then ran off to send off international and interstate Christmas presents ... except <lj-user="firestrings"> (because I still don't know what to get you)... And picked up a few other people's presents (only 10 to go) and a little something else for alex. We then went to my parents for lunch, before coming home so that alex could do a conference call to India for work. And then there was dinner at ribs and rumps in Gordon with alex's workmates.
All in all a good weekend. Just really glad to be going to work now. |
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| Christmas Party Plotting |
[Nov. 29th, 2008|06:34 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  planning | ] |
| [ | music |
| | what's floating through my head | ] |
Right, Next weekend. December 7. I am having friends over for a christmas lunch... maybe extending to dinner... there will be certain friends used to coming over and talking all day, there will no doubt be others who probably aren't and or who will have other reasons for leaving sometime before then.
I have talked to eneit about possible menu items, which is probably the best idea I've had all week regarding this. Seeing as other than a date and a venue I have no further details in mind. The Black Forest cupcakes definitely are something I want on the menu!!
As well as this I've got to organise (or rather I have begun organising and now will have to complete organising) 2 dinner's for Alex's birthday on the 13th. Well one dinner will be the 12th. At least this should be made slightly easier by the fact that we are going out for both dinners...
I am vaguely considering a cake, but don't want to be too ambitious. It's just unfortunate that I've discovered a cake shop in Rouse Hill that makes wedding cakes and cakes that look like they belong to the women's weekly cake book. (You know... the WW cake book that nearly every child from Australia during the 1980s (and probably since) had at least a few birthday cakes made from.) That and my brain has been plotting for some baking for a while now.
But as well as all this I need to clean, not just tidy, our house. The problem is tidying I can do. Cleaning I tend to be exhausted by before I even start.
Still, things to do before next sunday:
- Prepare meal plan, as well as whatever actual parts of the meal, for sunday
- Get dusting done (upstairs and downstairs)
- Get all washing done
- Get all ironing done
- Tidy study (and then dust it)
- Clean kitchen
- Clean bathrooms and toliets... making sure I'm stocked up on those kinds of essentials too
- Finish making and start mailing Christmas cards (esp. international ones)
- Mail English cousins' christmas presents
- Buy more family presents
It could be fun... I've got training all day monday... then on tuesday I'm going to a place called Leeton - which is about an hours drive from Griffith. Going for just one day... plane leaves sydney at 7:50am... and I get back at 6:00pm. So, that's not going to be a lot of fun.
But I will go, shut up now. And just maybe I will get some of this list of things done. Wish me luck! |
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| Damnit!!! |
[Oct. 4th, 2008|10:04 am] |
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| | unhappy | ] |
My external hard disk is trying to die. Or maybe it is dead... Alex has just put it into the freezer for 20minutes in a final ditch attempt to bring it back.
So, then. That would be... all my MP3s (except those that are on my phone), all my video clips, and 2 full seasons of Japanese dramas and 2 half seasons of Japanese dramas... gone... Given that I had over 4 gigs of Japanese music, and over 3 gigs of non japanese music... plus that each drama episode is between 500-650Mb in size and there's approx. 12 episodes a season... it's a lot... and even if it were possible to redownload everything it'd take a long time to do so.
I'm not going to start screaming or anything like that... but I am slightly annoyed. Alex says he offered in the past to back up my external hard disk - it's not something I remember him offering...
It's one of those differences between Alex and I. To him, his documents and projects are completely important and music is a very poor secondary to that... I know he's offered to (and has) backed up my documents before, but he only once (a couple of years ago) backed up my music/videos. And there's been nothing since, because he didn't like using up the space (which was a lot less than we have now) to back up all my media files.
I mean I could be wrong. He might have offered. My memory isn't worth peanuts... but...
urgh!
I just hope this last attempt works!
One little other note. I don't know the full proceedure for determining if a person is clinically brain dead... but I do know one of them involves using ice water to try and deliberately trigger a response from the balance system. We do it in audiology... well more commonly it's warm and cool water, but occasionally the ENT asks for ice water.
I just find it interesting that in this last attempt we're using really cold temperatures to try and trigger a response of "life", even if it is just a machine. |
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| Life's little quirks |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|09:07 pm] |
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| | busy | ] |
Sometimes life just wants to make things interesting (not necessarily in a bad way) I think. Maybe it's just trying to rebalance some of the awful-ness that has been work since I've got back from the holiday...
Edit: 9:50PM Think this should go under a cut so you don't have to scroll through so much... does so
( The rest of this entry ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 26th, 2008|06:22 pm] |
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| | hot | ] |
Hello Everyone, if indeed there´s anyone left reading this.
I´ve been out of action lately, namely because I´m on holidays... out of the country holidays... without regular internet access...
Things might change as we are about to head over to england (we´ve been in portugal for the last week, and LA for not quite 2 days before that), but I can´t be sure.
If not I guess I´ll have a lot to read when I get back.
Anyway, I´m running out of time. So I´d better go.
PS For those who know who I mean, damn Miss Wilson for getting me so obsessed with ancient history that Alex and I went for a three hour drive to look for Celtic ruins. Admittedly they were very impressive when we found them... but three hours with a lot of wrong turns is a bloody long way to drive. |
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| Book meme |
[Jun. 28th, 2008|08:42 am] |
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
Does that make you an average person?
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
( The List )
Total (fully) read: 31 (I think) |
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| Catch up |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|07:19 pm] |
Blegh, haven't updated in so long, and given that I'm currently updating because I don't even have the energy to walk downstairs to get myself a drink this post may end up slightly odd. It may also contain some comments that may offend. Don't think they should, but just warning everyone cause I'm unlikely to be good at self monitoring tonight.
( In no particular order about my life lately: ) |
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