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Moi.
Basics.
Name: Andrea J
D.O.B: 04.02.91
Age: 22 years old
Nationality: Australian
Heritage: Chilean
A Life Worth Living.
Musac.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
4:07 PM
Hola señor!
I decided to blog while I waste some time before I have to go to the bus stop. This is my first shift in agessssss. I can't remember the last one. I'm a teeny tiny bit worried that I'll be in over my head because they're leaving me alone again. They're reassuring me that I just need to stand around and supervise but they said that the last time and I ended up having to do stuff that I didn't know how to do and no one was around. Luckily I managed to guess my way through it.
Either way, I'm not too fussed. I'm coming in early just incase andddddd best of all. IM GETTING A PORK ROLL. lol. I get really annoyed a lot because there is never anything to eat around here and I'm sick of buying food but I haven't had a pork roll since the last time I headed into uni probably.
ANYHWO!
I can't get this out of my head:
I don't even like her voice but it's really catchy. That, and Map of Tasmania except I don't like how tec-ey it sounds online.
So yesterday was pretty kool. I hung out with Joel at the park no one ever wants to go to with me. Finally! and then we got Kurt and eventually ended up where we were supposed to. Parramatta Park! The Raggamuffin festival was on yesterday and me and Joel really wanted to go but both of us weren't willing to pay $100+ for it. SO we decided we would hang around outside the show and listen from there haha.
Except it got even better, there was a small group of people sitting outside the gates when we got there, listening for free like what we intended to do. So we sat down and were chilling out when one of the security guards came up to me Joel and Kurt and asked us if we wanted to come in XD!!!!!
WE GOT IN FOR FREE. He was so nice! However, I'm still trying to figure out why he let us in and not the others and why he chose us when those people had been there for longer.
It was awesome, so because we came so late we only got to see the headlining act, Mary J Blige. Man has she got a voice on her and the drummer was pretty intense, he was really kool. The smell of weed was soooo strong rofl
Awesome things only ever happen to me when I'm around Kurt and Joel. I don't know why it works out that way but it always does. They're the best ♥
I had an awesome time and then got to see Tim when he got off work so it was a nice end to my day =]
I'm at stefs place with aly and mitch. We're watching how to train a dragon right now but I'm feeling a little restless so I feuded to blog. I watched this at the movies and I loved it but I'm not bothered at the moment. Although it does make me excited to one day buy a big screen 3D tv ^.^ we're watching it from her projector. Bigger isn't always better. It's Kool and everything but it does sacrifice quality.
We came over for a swim and ended up having pizza and gelato too so XD
They're trying to convince me of the pros of having a bday party next thur but im just not sure. The amount of effort involved isn't worth the final product usually ={
I get too caught up hosting and can't enjoy myself and despite their offers to help I know I'll still feel the same way.
Anyway yesterday!
It was so hot and I had the usual dilemma of what do I wear ={ it's so depressing. I guess most people don't get it but it's a pretty big deal to me. I hate all my clothes and I can never find anything that fits and that I like. I feel like crap going out coz apart from knowing I look shit I have to deal with always being around people who are really pretty and well dressed and I feel so inferior compared to them. It's a total mind fuck and the reason I hate shopping so much. Even for shoes. They may fit but they ALL give me blisters. Even sneakers and thongs ={ heels hurt after a few mins and if they don't I get blisters and end up with blood in my shoes. All my trainers have blood stains in them it's gross.
={
Anyway once I accepted I'm going to look crap and be in pain no matter what, I finally left the house. Tim and I waited for uly and then had to pick up Katie. In the city we met up with waren, Jamie and kianie.
Tim climbed a building.
And did his usual looking cute thing:
Eventually we got to the opera house:
It was pretty Kool. Very disorganised but I liked it that way.
Highlight: Neil Gaimans reading and poem for Amanda. I cried so much <3
So I noticed an influx in blogging lately. I think it's just because I'm capped and need something to do while megavideo loads. Being capped sucks =.=
Tims upgrading to some optus plan that has 500GB, I didn't realise optus did more than 60ish
I should look into it. My plan is lame. I usually run out with 2 weeks left b4 it changes over again.
I didn't do much today, we almost went to mixed martial arts again but then tim decided on bouldering. We ended up vegging out infront of the tv lol. I realised when I got home, tim is probably the only person I can do that with and not be totally bored or feel like I have to entertain the person or make conversation =} we don't have the same taste in shows or movies at all but free to air tv is a happy medium.
So a few random things I wanted to mention:
- Staples. I get really pissed off when people don't staple things properly, I'll usually take it out and do it again. It NEEDS to be in the top left corner diagonally across it. So close to the edges it almost misses the paper. For convenience, I then like to go through each page and bend it along the staple line so that when you get to the last page ur papers aren't in this awkward pile that make the other pages flip back onto each other. This is the most practical way of stapling and should always be done this way. I couldn't stand it in school when teachers would messily staple booklets together so that when you flipped the page a bunch of writing would get cut off. Sloppy work madams. Sloppy work!!
I'm really not as OCD as I sound.
- coughing: I will always tell of children who cough without covering their mouths, I'm especially harsh because I don't have the balls to tell of random adults who do it.
Choking: The best way to clear your throat when you are choking (on nothing big, like on your own spit or water, or does that only happen to me?) is to raise both arms straight up in the air above your head and breath in deeply (preferably through your nose and out through your mouth). I know it looks stupid but it seriously works. No one believes me when I tell them so they continue to cough like an idiot. Your loss fools.
-Smell. Most people know I can't really smell. I almost always have a blocked nose, unless my heart is racing. I'm allergic to pollen and dust mites (cockroaches, animal hair and a few other small things too), this is everywhere, always. So I can't escape it, yes I've been to doctors, there is nothing they can do for me. Even when it's unblocked my sense of smell is screwy. I can't always smell and usually I can only pick up bad scents ={. It's not all bad, sure I've almost burn down the house more times than I can count but at least I don't gag while I'm at work (nursing).
-Slow dancing to no music: I've seen this a lot in movies and tv shows. Usually they will play a song for the audience to hear but we're meant to know that the couple is being uber romantic and swaying to the rhythm of their hearts =.=. It's fucking stupid. Maybe it's just because I find it incredibly hard to dance cheek-to-cheek with a parter (hehe I haven't heard that expression in so long). I have a hard time adapting to the other persons rhythm because most of the time I end up with partners who cant seem to follow the beat of the music! It's so frustrating!! If I have a good lead, with a great sense of rhythm all is fine. Now take away the music and I'm screwed. Maybe it's also because I find it hard to dance with partners who are my height or shorter. I've never been able to pull it off and dancing so close always messes with me. Unless I'm dating the person or they're a good dancer, it usually feels too intimate and creeps me out.
I spent this morning looking up Amanda Palmer related things since I'm going to go see her perform at the Opera House tomorrow night. All I initially knew about her was that she was (is?) part of The Dresden Dolls and that she is married to Neil Gaiman. None of that really helps because I know like 2 of The Dresdon Dolls songs and that's irrelevant since this is her solo music and who she's married to is neither here nor there and even if it was I don't know who Neil Gaiman is other than that he has written a bunch of stuff that Tim and his friends all like.
So now that I've looked her up on wiki, watched one video clip on youtube and watched the ep of Spicks and Specs that she is on, I can say: I like the idea of her, she sounds really awesome in theory but I don't particularly like her music, and she seemed pretty muted on Spicks and Specs. Not that my research was that extensive so my opinion is hardly set in stone. Oh and I've had 'yes Virginia' by The Dresden Dolls for awhile now and I never liked it, I tried listening to it but I just found it off putting. Who knows, a few people told me that even if I don't like her music she puts on pretty kool shows so that should be nice.
So why am I going to a concert for someone I've never listened to before? Because Tim asked me and wanted an answer within seconds because he was on the phone, I said no, yet he still said yes to Uly. lol. Oh well, it's some sort of triple date with Jamie & Kianie, Uly & Katie and me & Tim. I also heard Warren and Tilbrook are going to be around so it should be fun. Plus I haven't been to The Opera House to watch anything for ages and I've never been with Tim, or on a triple date =S oh and Tim payed for me so lol, not my money =P
Ehehe couple names! hmmm
Jamie + Kianie: could be...Kiamie or....Jianie! I think I like Kiamie better. Actually that just sounds like I can't say Kianie's name properly. What about Kamie? That sounds cute and french.
Uly(sses) + Katie: ha that one's harder. All I can think of is Kuly but pronounced Kooly. That sounds stupid. Kassie? Ner you can't really tell the names are combined. Ahhh....?
Andrea/Audrey + Tim(othy): TAUDREY!!!! (Tawdry: gaudy; showy and cheap. low or mean) lol but that's not very well distributed. Timrey...that's stupid. Andothy...lame. I'll stick with Taudrey.
hehe
On another note, watching Spicks and Specks always makes me feel so dumb. I can never answer anything. My musical knowledge is so limited, I bet Joel would be ace on the show.
I also spent time this morning looking for beaches to take Scuzzy (the puppy!) and found a few out wollongong way. I would love to take him! but the owner would come and we don't talk and it would just be awkward. =[
Hmm my birthday is in 10 days. I turn 20 but I don't know what to do. I was going to have a party because it's on a Friday night but it feels like too short notice now and Tim said something about Chinese New Year being on the 4th so his family is doing stuff or watever. Normally I would love doing stuff with his family but that sounds really lame for my birthday. So i don't know. I guess I won't do anything =s I want to but I don't know what (beach is lame, and so is bowling/movies/dinner/laser tag/go karting/ice skating/imax/archery/clubbing/picnic) and I don't want to spend the only money I have left hosting a party when I need it for the trip to Foster and for clubbing/hanging with the girls. The trip to Nelson's Bay with the girls fell through but we want to still hang out those days and do stuff so I'm going to need money *sigh*
The only thing I would really want is to go to a good house party (haven't gone to one where I had an awesome time in ages), hosting is fun and everything but it feels stupid putting in so much effort for other people to have fun if it's MY birthday.
Beh.
I got called in to work this weekend XD finally! It's only 6 hours all up =[ but at least it's something, that should be enough to cover the trip to Forster ^.^
Speaking of, I should finish organising that. It's still really unclear who is going, there are a lot of people who haven't payed yet or gotten back to us since having said yes, despite having sent out a few emails asking what's going on since then. =.=
Except...I don't want to be a control freak. It's just, things go smoother when there is a plan. I want..okay well actually, I already have a menu set out for the entire trip. I just want to clear it with everyone. I know I sound kind of crazy but it helps us save money and time if we decide now what we want to eat so that we can buy all the groceries here. So I think we definitely need to meet with everyone because people just don't reply to emails and msges =.= I need to clear the food with everyone in case someone is allergic or just refuses to eat something. It's just better this way, otherwise we'll be there and end up wasting more money on petrol if we have to go to the shops every day to buy what we're going to cook.
lol...it gets worse, I reallllly want to assign roles to people so that everyone does their fair share of cooking and cleaning but i won't because I know everyone's just going to hate me haha. It's just that there are ALWAYS lazy people who do shit all and a select few end up doing everything which just isn't fair. It's meant to be a trip that everyone can enjoy and there's no reason why a few people should end up being everyone's chefs and maids. I hate people who don't pull their own weight.
I'm also getting a list ready of things to do. If it were up to me all we would do is drink, eat and go to the beach but I know a few people who want to do all that bullshit touristy stuff like go dolphin watching or fishing and all that active crap.
I hope it turns out okay =S
ergh I should be doing uni stuff...but I'll watch big bang theory instead ^.^
Hey all! I'm capped and waiting for megavideo to load ={
Soooo today!
I had a very broken nights sleep last night, again. I was on the couch standing guard for my package to arrive! I ordered Tim a present for being so good to me lately, I felt like I owed him. I missed the delivery last week and rescheduled it for today. I was stressing out because it was taking forever and I had promised Tim he would get his gift today. Finally it arrived so I went over to his place and gave it to him ^.^
It's a USB hub in the shape of the tardis from Doctor Who. It's one of his fav shows and he was in need of a USB hub so it was perfect. Practical and enjoyable. Lol it makes the whooshing noise and everything XD
We watched some more Firefly. It's not terrible but I'm annoyed that even though I haven't finished the season yet, I know that there are so many questions left unanswered once it finishes.
Then we went and got Peter, Tim had nandos and then we watched The Green Hornet. Surprisingly, I didn't hate it. Some parts were unnecessarily long but at least it had some funny moments. Later me and Peter got snack packs and I finally met his brother.
Oh and here are some more pics from JB with Kurt:
=}
When I got home yesterday I went to the freezer and found this:
Ice cream for dogs, seriously wtf =.=
Anywho today was nice =}
I can't wait to sleep <3 hopefully uninterrupted for the first time in about 5 days.
I'm capped until the end of the month so I'm going to try uploading pics from my phone instead =}
So last Thursday I went to Cruise Bar for "Salsa on the Rocks". I hate the name for that, I've always been grossed out by salsa (dip) and the idea of having to drink it with ice cubes disgusts me. Salsa on the Rocks is a weekly Latin night that happens at The Rocks across from the opera house. The bar itself is really nice, it's very open but still feels safe because there are no other clubs there and the boardwalk gets closed off after awhile.
Plus it has tables on the outside so you can actually sit and chat and HEAR what people are saying. Very rare indeed.
Thursday attracts an "older" crowd since it's a salsa night, 30-50 year olds seemed to be the main age group but I expected that. You don't find many 18 year olds who are into dancing salsa lol.
Excellent view.
And a nice interior. The panel lighting didn't pick up very well in the pics but it added a nice touch to the whole place.
Alyssa drove me and Michelle and we met up with Jairo, Peter, Matt, Lilly, Renee, Sebastian and Joel. It was fun, we weren't there for long and we spent more time dancing on the boardwalk outside of the actual club because it was raining. Dancing in the rain = better.
Stupid camera messed up everyones eyes:
It was nice and I'm so glad Aly and Joel came even though they've never danced to salsa b4. They picked it up quickly, there's not much to the basic step.
Funfun.
Music wise: This place was mostly salsa like the name suggests but they threw in a couple of bachatas and like two reggeaton songs.
Verdict: Better than The Establishment on Tuesday nights purely for the atmosphere. Although the music is slightly better at The Establishment and there is a bit more variety. A bitch to get home from via public transport. They should really get some night rider buses down to circular quay.
We're in the car right now driving back to sydney ^.^ good weekend ♥ thanks Kurt!!
I didn't take that many pics on my phone but here:
It's Freddie haha Ryan caught him =}
Bonfire at the beach with Ethan Ryan Kurt and David =} it was the 2nd night me and Kurt got to see the full moon rise over the ocean. It was so perfect, especially the first night. The moon had a deep orange tinge to it and was making all the clouds around it glow this magnificent golden colour. Plus there was a lightning storm lighting up everything. So awesome, then it did eventually start raining but we were too lazy to leave so we stayed there.
I straddled a tree!
I also freaked out because of the king tide. The waves sound so much angrier at night, the ocean at night freaks me out heaps if I think about it too much lol ive had several tsunami dreams, they scare the crap out of me. So many conspiracy theories that night. HOT FUZZ
Mongoose
We also went to Murrays beach which was gorgeous as usual. The sand looks and feels so much better here =} pics later.
They taught me how to play 31.
"ears are like Xmas trees on the side of ur face"
Sitting in a bus stop in the darkness, drenched with rain.
Fish n chips!
Nelsons beach today:
Reading on the beach and attempting to even out my tan =.=
Pedophiles kidnapping kids all over the place.
Oh and the drive down here through kangaroo valley was so beautiful, very twisted but worth it.
David yelling at the "chiks" and "bitchez"
I like that JB feels so familiar to me, I don't know how many times I've come here already but it feels homey. Except I would never live here, ever. Where the hell do u get kebabs at 3am when ur smashed!? Where do u go to see lads or hipsters!? Where do u go clubbing?Where do u go eat once you've tried all 10 restaurants =.= Where do u go to check out hot asians =P
I wouldn't give up city life ever.
Baby do u root?
I had a good time =}
Highlight: bonfire while watching pumpkin moon rise over the ocean ♥
Mainly while I'm at home I've been obsessively watching 90210, at first it was just because I ran out of shows and then to avoid doing my assessment but by then I had already watched 3/4 of the first season and was finally hooked. I'm up to season 2 now but it's slowed down a lot. Btw yes I am somewhat ashamed to admit that I like the show haha Gossip Girl will always be better.
Other things I've done:
Opening Night of the Sydney Festival: I went with Joel, we almost didn't go but it was so worth it, it was the most fun I've had in a couple of months. It was amazing, I had the most spectacular moment of true euphoria that lasted a good 15 mins and the buildup and wind down was so steady and perfect too ♥
I peaked when Joel gave me a coconut husk that the POLYNESIAN dancers had cut up on stage and were giving out to the crowd as their performance was ending. Then the dj across from the stage started playing to DANCEHALL music!! and everyone was just going nuts dancing on the street and the dj lights they set up outdoors were flashing and there were rastas around us and then the music turned to friggen Polynesian/reggae DUBSTEP. My mind exploded. I was eating coconut, dancing away to the music that I love the most right now, right after watching fucking Polynesian dancers perform, something else I've been mega obsessed with lately. Dancing with Joel and being so in the moment that we ended up having a group of like 4 random photographers with their huge chunky cameras taking photos of just us while we danced.
I wonder where those photos are now, I wish I could see them.
It was such an amazing experience, we were so lucky we decided to stay where we did, we could have chosen from 4 other stages around the city and just happened to find the most perfect one. It was just such a perfect night, even after the dancing on the street with a couple hundred people ♥
Highlight of the year so far ^.^
Mind. Blown.
lovelove
Dancing: Dance class started up again and Matty joined XD we've been learning the basics for Colombian salsa ^.^
Pho: I was really craving Pho while Tim was gone so he took me on Friday night after he kindly drove me to drop off the assessment I had spent all night doing. He's so lovely.
Hangs: Mikel and Joel decided to drive up to Queensland for a road trip...in the middle of the floods. They never made it thankfully but when they returned we got together with Matt and Kurt and spent the night catching up =]Joel is so interesting, there's always so many things racing through his mind. It's awesome, never a dull moment.
Wedding Shower: I went to one and I realised how much I despise wedding showers, hens/bucks nights, engagement parties and even wedding receptions. WHYYYYY so much fuss argh. I still don't know where I stand with getting married. I don't see the point because I expect the same thing to be happening b4 and after the wedding, the relationship would already be at its strongest. So i think my equivalent of marriage is admitting that I want to spend the rest of my life with that person, grow old together, buy a house together, maybe even possibly one day have a child with that person. I think owning up to wanting all of that would be enough, for me at least because I can't even bring myself to say "we're going to be friends forever", not even when I was a kid and if I ever said it I felt this horrible uneasiness because I don't believe in forever (until death). Nothing is constant, I've never felt stable or grounded with anything in my life. If one day someone comes along that makes me question that, then maybe I'll be ready.
Holy Basil: I went to this Thai/Laotian restaurant in Canley Heights with some people from dancing + tim and alyssa. It was nice.
Stef's non-surprise: I attempted to organise a surprise bday thing for stef and failed miserably but at least we wen't to the beach and hogs breath and then slept over at my place =]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEF!
^.^
Martial Arts: Today I went with Tim and tried out the martial arts class at PYT. It was kinda fun, sweaty and slightly confronting but it was free and there were only 4 of us so me and tim got a lot attention from the instructor which is always good. I wouldn't mind going again but it got kind of annoying hearing all the back-story and physics for every stupid move. I really don't care, I guess other people do but there's no reason for me to know, it's not like I'm EVER going to be able to take someone on. I just want to sweat and stretch. Plus he kept trying to make it into an inspirational Karate Kid monologue about the evils of violence and learning to protect onself and honour =.= On the plus side I learnt some new methods of stretching that felt reallllly good. ^.^
Then we watched Firefly. It wasn't bad, I would watch the rest of the season as long as Tim's with me =] It's some wierd outer space cowboy/pirate sci-fi show that only ever had one season b4 it got axed. Then they made the movie: Serenity.
watevs really but Tim likes it so why not.
Anywho I've been pretty consistently sleep deprived since new years so I should wrap this up.
I'm happy =] Tim came back today from Coffs Harbour ♥
He's been gone since new years almost and look what he got me XD
A butterfly necklace! That just happened to macth what I'm wearing today hehe
NOM!! These are my favouriteeeee and I can never find them =[
Good earphones! That won't actually fall out of my ears lol
and yes my hair is back to it's natural state, the way it should always be, with red fudge through it ♥
Not to be all wierd and creepy but Tim smells awesome XD or maybe not smells...because my sense of smell is questionable. But when i breath him in he's always so warm...so that's what he "smells" like to me, warm ^.^
bah i keep getting distracted. This is exactly why I don't sign into msn =.=
anyway I haven't blogged much because I have been busy vegging out and being a hermit while tim was gone. Although I still need to talk about the sydney festival and how awesomely amazing it was.
For another day, now I need to sort out monday and keep putting off that massive assignment that's due friday =]
Lots of people don't believe me when I say that going to the hairdresser takes me 3+ hours but it's true. I've been sitting in this chair since 1:30pm and I still have at least another 40mins before I'm done.
*sigh* watevs. I'm hungry! And sleepy ={
Bah and all I have to do here is blog my life away and read the shitty tabloid magazines that I only ever pick up in the salon.
Nothing like an "article" on how much the "bikini bods" weigh to make yourself feel great. =.=
You know what annoys me the most about hairdresser, actually I don't know because there's a few things that bug me. Probably the main thing is their need to talk and fill the silence with useless questioning. Leave me alone! Especially since every time I actually answer with a real response I can just feel the wave of boredom hit you. There is no need to fake a conversation, I don't care about what you have to say because I am not your friend and you obviously don't give a shit either. Just do my hair, I don't care if your work place would like you to chat with the clients. You're not achieving anything when I can sense the disdain oozing from you. =.=
What's worse is when they're blow drying my hair and then suddenly decide to spark the pointless conversations. I can't fucking HEAR YOU. Then you get annoyed because I keep asking yourself to repeat yourself *sigh*
The trainers at the Curves gym are the same. When I'm huffing and puffing and attempting to work out I don't have the patience or mental capacity to have a polite chin wag with a stranger. Me constantly having to stop what I'm doing so i can hear you and clear my head just so that you can ask me how my weekend was is counter productive.
The last thing that annoys me about hairdressers is that they always assume I understand all their hairdressing terms. I don't know what half a head of foils is =S I don't know what the hell toner is or the proper names for different dyes. I also don't appreciate your attitude when I tell you I don't know what that is =.=
You know what! I'm sick of everyone around me these days being all 'ohhh look at me, I'm so mysterious and deep' I can psychoanalyse people. WHO GIVES A FUCK. Everyone does it, it's how we figure out peoples motives and intentions, it's part of having instincts. EVERYONE does...you're not special!
Those who don't are probably just lazy and don't give it a name and don't waste excessive amounts of their time pondering on the meaningful NOTHINGNESS that you're wasting your time on.
GET OVER YOURSELF.
You know what else pisses me off, when people don't put the new roll of toilet paper in the holder. IT'S NOT HARD! It takes a few seconds to figure it out if you've never seen that particular holder before. Fucks sake, have some courtesy. It always happens, when people come over, in public toilets, at uni, at work. All you have to do is pull and slide it in!
So maybe I posted a bit too many photos for the new years post? lol Also =[ ! Half the pics on my blog seem to be corrupted as of today...hopefully they come back.
Yesterday was pretty fun, my friends and I were supposed to go to Wattamola beach. It's amazing there:
That pic is actually of the lagoon, it's the most perfect beach. It's in the Royal National Park so it's a bit of a drive but it is so worth it. You have to walk down through the bush for about 10mins before you get to the beach. It gets really packed around this time of year which is why we usually try and go during school and we can usually catch the beach completely deserted. I hate city/suburban beaches, they feel so unnatural. Having a road and shopping centers right next to the ocean feels so foreign to me.
Anyway, despite it being 42 degrees new years day, Monday was not that hot =[ It was cloudy and gloomy with a bit of drizzle so we decided to do a picnic instead. After meeting at my place and picking up a few people we headed out towards Homebush for Bicentennial Park. I had never been there before, it was okay. I think I still would have preferred Chipping Norton Lakes (despite their outcries of it being bogan) since it's closer and feels bigger. We were sitting right next to a big building so it gave me that feeling of just sitting on grass near some offices rather than being in a park.
It was fun, we sorta just went to eat and most of them played a quick game of cricket. Then we went to Ikea for meatballs =S I hadn't been since I was a kid but everyone seems to get so excited of Ikea these days so I was intrigued to see what was so great about a furniture store. Apparently nothing I found out, it was just a really big, bland furniture store with an American high school type cafeteria. It was sort of lame, furniture stores drain me pretty quickly so I left before the rest and found some xmas deco and bought it XD If I had more money I would go hunting over the next week for discounted xmas deco but I have $17 left in my account =[
I should figure out how I'm going to pay for Nelson's Bay and Forster in February since I don't think I'm going to be getting any shifts any time soon...even if I do that's only $100 *sigh*
Anywho Nghi convinced us to go to Cooks Hill after that and we went despite none of us being hungry and me and Michelle agreeing that the food is crap. Everyone justifies it's crapness by saying it is cheap but that makes NO sense when you can get much better steak for cheaper in the city. It turned out me and Michelle were hungrier than we thought and split lamb chops and spag bol. Pretty long day but it was nice.
Tim's in ...Coff's harbour or somewhere until next Wednesday so I'm going to have a lot of spare time to do that stupid essay...maybe I should start...HA!
Sydney Festival starts this Sat if anyone wants to come to the opening night =] I think me and Joel were going to go ^.^
Also, I have a newly found appreciation for Dessert wine ♥
So one day I was hanging out with Kurt and we realised that there are some pretty wacky sayings in the spanish language.
Each Spanish speaking country has their own sayings, metaphors and similies but these are a few that I have collected over the last year or so.
Every time I hear my mum or grandma say a new one I text Kurt XD It has become somewhat of a little tradition for me now =]
Saying: La negrita astuta vende fruta.
Direct Translation: The (Astute, cunning, sly, crafty, fraudulent) cute/little black girl sells fruit.
Meaning: This saying is said as a sort of warning that you are/someone else is a cocktease
Saying: No calientes el agua (si no vas a tomar té)
Direct Translation: Don't heat the water if you're not going to drink tea
Meaning: This is also a sort of warning to someone who is being a cocktease. Kind of like, don't flirt and lead someone on if you have no intention of hooking up with them. It is also a play on words because in Spanish (Chilean at least) the word calentar (to heat) is also used informally as a way to say 'make horny'. So 'estoy caliente' = I'm hot BUT it means I'm horny. If you wanted to say I'm hot (because of the weather) you would say 'tengo calor'
Tongue Twister: Tres tristes tigres trigo trillaron tranquilos tragaron
Translation: Three sad tigers, wheat they threshed (To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating), calmly they swallowed.
Tongue Twister:Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira pobre pintor portugués pinta paisajes por poca plata para pasar por París
Translation: Pedro Pablo Pérez Pereira poor Portugese painter paints landscapes for little money to pass through Paris.
Saying:Buscarle la quinta pata al gato
Direct Translation:To look for the 5th leg of the cat
Meaning: Looking for problems when there clearly aren't any in that situation, so you're over thinking it and overcomplicating yourself.
Saying: Para ser bella hay que ver estrellas
Direct Translation: To be beautiful you have to see stars
Meaning: I'm guessing this is a fairly old saying because my grandad said it to me once, I kind of fell in love with this little rhyme/mantra. It means that no pain is too great to endure in order to look your best, this particularly refers to women having to wear painful shoes (stilettos) because it makes their legs look hot, wearing tight clothing to show off curves, waxing, plucking, dying hair, and I suppose nowadays you could extend that into getting cosmetic surgery. Just to clarify, my grandad wasn't a dick, I remember the saying coming up because we were watching a show with really attractive women and I was in awe of them and he explained that constructed superficial beauty comes at a price =) Oh and if you don't get the imagery, it's based on seeing "stars" when you hit your head/get dizzy, like if you've ever seen the cartoon representation of stars around the head when they get hit.
*To be continued
To Do.
Here's a list of some of the things I would like to do or accomplish or places I want to visit in my lifetime =]
* I have already been there, done that or started to read that but would like to do it again or complete the task
-- The task is completed and I don't feel the need to do a repeat