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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.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
9:08 PM
Hmm almost 2 months since I last posted. Two months since my brain broke, it's all back together again ^.^ yay...but right now, I just feel odd. For ages I've been trying to balance my life out, I don't have a lot of alone time because there just isn't enough time with all the things and people I want to fit into my life, plus I'm leaving soon and my newgraduate year is almost to an end. I only have 14 shifts left in ICU..fuck, that sounds a lot scarier than saying 3 weeks.
Just to recap, I finished uni jan of 2012, I took until August just to chill. I didn't have enough money to travel and I didn't have any plans in particular other than I knew I would begin working full time come august so try to enjoy myself. I did alright, worked casual at the hospital as an assistant nurse in the mental health unit and a few shifts here and there at the theater company (that jobs pretty much dead now). Then I started my first rotation, my first real job, my first attempt at being a grown up. It wasn't too bad, it took me awhile to get my body to adjust to being full time and trying to see friends, but I learnt a lot there and I really enjoyed the people I worked with. I spent most of 2012 still wrapped up in Tim despite being broken up, we stayed friends and he was my main source of conflict and drama all year...hoorah =.= We don't talk anymore, it's wierd but it's helped me finally move on.
In January of this year, 2013, I met a boy. My life has revolved around him ever since. I don't like this about myself, my relationships overwhelm me. The thing is, I've never been with anyone like him before, I love him. I've never fought so hard with anyone and yet at the same time, no one has ever made me feel so much love and warmth and happiness. It's not easy being together but the good times make it worth it. Hopefully we make it out okay with my whole trip thing. I leave Aus for 4 months in September, with all the work and crap I need to do before I leave, and the mini arguments it's caused I'm not all uber excited for this trip. It's what I've been working towards for the last year, and it's almost time and now that a few more things are booked I'm getting more pumped but there's still so much left to do and so little time. I like that I'm going, I'm happy that I've got this opportunity but it's also scary in a way. I don't know what I'm coming back to. I wont have a job anymore and people will have moved on a bit. The next goal is to buy a car and then after that start saving for my own place I guess but ...fuck me. The idea that life will be a series of goals I'm trying to attain sounds tiring and ultimately unfulfilling.
Ehh but what do I want from life? Generally my answer has always been just to be happy, whatever that may entail. I guess at the moment what makes me happy is knowing that I have the freedom and ability to spend time with the people I love before it's all too late. I see a lot of people die at work, particularly in this last month, I've had plenty of people beg me to end their lives and at the end of the day, all I can really get from that experience is that life ends miserably, I need to live as much as I can while my body still allows me because we all end up the same. Life's too short right?
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