Went to the movies today and saw Hancock. Amusing movie, Charlize was extremely cute. Butttt, the best part was THE PREVIEW OF I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!! I about bit buttercups arm off in excitment. I'm so glad they are starting it the same day as in the US, and perhaps even with an advance screening ... messing with philes would not be the way to go, especially after we've waited so long for this bloody movie.

Gillian didn't look Scullyish at all though, she looked adorable and Gillyish.

Oh the excitment. However will I sleep for the next 3 weeks.

It was actually larcin that finally convinced me LJ was better than OD (opendiary). I had a hard time switching, but I'm glad I did, coz LJ is sooooo much better. I still have an OD for old times sake, for LJ is my saviour and although Kim and I are now sworn enemies for reasons neither of us probably remember, I do still thank her for bugging me to join LJ.

Tonight I made friends with our kitchen again. Twice in two weeks, Buttercup nearly had a heart attack. I made a lasagne type thing with eggplant, tomato and cheese. Yumm. And it was. It turned out ok, how odd. Now I want more stuff to cook! I'm trying to find some decent low fat/low cal biscuit or cake type of things, which tend to not exist so much.

I'm back on my healthy eating plan, which tends to be the time my cooking urges kick in. 8kg by October. All that will do is take me back to me pre-mood stabilisers weight, and then I have more to go off that to get to a decent weight. But I'll settle for 8 by the time I go to Vietnam.

I'm blaming facebook for a recent spate of odd school people related dreams. Last night I dreamed they were all throwing their babies at me, telling me I should get one. And then I left and started making out with Stephanie March in an alley.

This time next week I'll be in Byron Bay - and I'm so looking forward to it. Need holiday, desperately. Will pretend to be a good sister and see my siblings while I'm up there, but otherwise it will be lots of wandering, walking, resting, reading and eating.

Boringly enough I have nothing to say. There is nothing on TV at the moment, no fangirl squeeing as there are no cute girls parading across my screen on a regular basis. However, I'm rewatching The West Wing from the start and am enjoying Allison Janney, and Lisa Edelstein as a hooker is hot too.

Oh, for all you facebook people - if someone requests to be your 'friend', and you hate them and really don't want to pretend otherwise ... do they get a message back saying their friend request was denied, or do they just NOT get the confirmation and so they never get notified either way?

Bones = JTS?

y/n?

Discuss.

Today I started (and finished) Jodi Picoult's new book Change of Heart. It was ok, but not nearly as good as her last one, and not to mention had WAY too much religiously babble. Disappointing, but she still writes well and is easy to read.

Annnnnd I got back into my neopets account :D For some reason my birthday was set at a day after, but the year before, my actual birthday. I don't know why I did that, it seems a very pointless thing to do.

And in continuing with my productive weekend, I also got half an assignment done! I would have got more done if RMIT had not been down for the WHOLE weekend. Seriously. If you're going to teach and make everything available online, it helps if your system is actually accessible.

Yay for being able to waste bucketloads of time on neopets again!

This is wrong on so many levels.



Do Americas actually eat this stuff? Seriously?

Ange thinks i'm insane. And mean. But that's ok. I'm not mean, I just say dumb stuff on a regular basis. Buuuut I loves me some Angela. I would have loved to have stayed longer, but it was my own stupidity that meant assignment needed to be done today. Butttt I loves me some Angela and want to see me some Angela again soon :D

Vicki thought I was a nutcase, but that's ok. She seemed very normal, and I do appear like a nutcase to normal people, it's a well established fact.

Chocolate coated strawberries, yumm.

Next year we should plan it better and go for the day and hang on the grass and stuff and be silly and eat strawberries and watch the drag queens and puppy dogs go by. Yes, we should.

Anyway, I finally met greenovalfruit, YAY!

More neopets angst (and now i'm only trying to get in because I CAN'T!) ... I need my birthdate to login, and I must have just picked a random one when I signed up, coz my real one isn't working. Does anyone still have me (emthefrootloop) on their neofriends and can check my birthday? Orrrr can you try and add me/view my profile when logged in and see if it gives it?

In other news .... what is this bloody bloo bar that pops up on LJ every single freakin time I type something? I DON'T WANT IT!!

Breeeeeathing.

I got tickets for Kathy Griffin in Sydney for my girlfriend as a sort of valentines day present. We don't do valentines day, so it's more of a 'we want to go so I got us tickets and hey, look, it's valentines day so if anyone asks you can pretend to care about the stupid day' present. Yes. I just have this horrid feeling she's going to get them to surprise me. That would be funny. Sort of.

So, I have a tense diaphragm or something. Apparently this is why I can't breathe, and ventolin does not help. cute Dr Juliette suggested yoga. I laughed. Then she laughed. Neither of us knew why it was so funny, but it was. All of that means I have to learn to breathe. I found that amusing.

Last night we had the first spider in the house. I coped very well, surprisingly enough. I was half asleep on buttercups lap when she suddenly tensed. I woke up and asked what was wrong, and at the same time she said 'go upstairs - now!' I saw him on the wall. Big bugger, he was. But I calmly went upstairs and didn't come down till I was told it was safe.

I had been expecting it, it's a big old house full of cracks and stuff. I always check the corners and ceilings before I walk into a room, just in case.

Tired, so tired. Feel like I could sleep for a week and it still wouldn't be enough.

Weekend was good - saw some friends from the UK (the lovely ones that rescued me from France 5 years ago) and various other parts of their family from around the place. Someone thought it would be amusing to hand me a 5 week old baby at some stage - it was cute and it had the hiccups ... but it was so little and floppy.

Bloody hell, it's hot. I'm in gloria jeans drinking frozen strawberry thingys using their awesome free internet. It's meant to be 33 degrees today, and 38 tomorrrow. So not looking forward to that one. Seeing Bojana tomorrow night, probably going to the ice bar, which will be highly appropriate.

Hmm, laptop battrey dieing quickly, most annoying. Must find powerpoint. Very drunk man outside, creeeeeeepy.

My christmas was good - lots of wandering around the city, visited buttercups mum's grave (no pun intended from here on in, but it's unavoidable), I was dying to take photos in the cemetry, it was teh biggest one i'd ever seen ... but I did think it in bad taste to say 'hi, i know we are here visiting your mum, but can I take photos?' so I didn't. All very quiet in the city that day, it was nice.

Boxing day did a bit of shopping and visited some of buttercups (living) family. That was really amusing, 5/8's of her cousins were there, plus billions of their kids. Very amusing Italian evening.

Hmm, someone just came in and stole all the powerpoints, so now there is none for me. Oh well. Perhaps i'll come back later.

We got the train overnight to Melbourne and it was so much fun ... a little noisy and the movement was a bit much, so I didn't sleep all that well, but being in a little bed on a train was still amusing.

And I have a cold ... typical. And bright red sunburnt cheeks, neck and nose. Charming.

I'm so patient. In the last 2 days I've received two parcels in the mail ... both of which have large signs on them saying 'Do not open until christmas day'. People know me too well :/

If I had a christmas tree they would be under it ... but I don't. So they are sitting on top of my suitcase waiting to be packed. One is clothing, my aunt gave that away by saying if it didn't fit she's exchange it ... and the other feels like a book or something, but not. It's feel like the spirals on the side ... but the rest is solid, like it's a book inside a box or something. I HATE WAITING >:|

I have a headache. I'm blaming it on the stress of looking at christmas presents and not being able to open them lol
My girlfriend got a bucket of chocolate things from work though, so that is keeping me placated.

Oh wait, we do have a christmas tree. There is no room under it though. Probably because it's not much taller than a christmas card.

( My wonderful christmas tree )

I love how text books describe things in such a clinical way, especially non-academic things. I opened my Media & Communications text book today and it randomly fell open to a chapter about fans & fandoms. It's actually really funny because it's obviously written by someone who hasn't a clue about the real world, let alone fandoms. They talk about 'fan/fic' (which is apparently only published in 'zines') (and this is them using the quote marks, not me lol) & 'slash fiction' which depicts characters from the media narrative in a fans own subversive erotic fantasy.. It then goes on to say how 'cult-fans' go on to perform their fandom on user groups devoted to the series and it lost me there. How does one perform a fandom? lol

Ah, in a time where I should be writing an essay on semiotics (I can't find the one I wrote for another subject, annoyingly enough) I am reading amusing portions from my text book. Hey, at least I opened the text book, thats more than I usually do.

Haha TJ Thyne is on Huff as a neurotic guy who won't poop. Classic.

I'm going to see Tegan & Sara tonight!! Muchly excited. They rock. This will be different from last time I saw them, this one is at the Enmore theatre, and last was at the Gaelic club. So, bigger ... and sitting not standing. That will be odd! You can't sit to T&S.

Sometime between now and 5 minutes away I need to decide what to wear. At least it's not too hot, that makes it easier.

Last night I was watching their 'movie' which is basically the making of their latest album, and it's hilarious. They seem to really dislike each other and are often really bitchy to each other. They also record separately, which I knew but it's amusing to watch.

I've been a little manic lately, so this really isn't going to help. Luckily I'm on my RDO tomorrow so can chill and watch dvd's all day and try to remain calm. Plus I have my second round of chrismas cards to take to the post office.

I found a whole bunch of old 40c chrismas stamps, but as stamps are now 45c, I have to go to the post office and ask for 10 x 5c stamps ... they are going to love me. Luckily half my family work in the same company as me, so I cheated and sent a whole bunch of cards via internal mail lol

Sooo, Tegan & Sara, woohoo!

Oh dear. I haven't laughed so much in a long time.

( Spoilers for Bones 03x09 & SVU 09x09 )

Yes, well. Hilarious.

And now it's raining, so i'm spending all day on the lounge with enough eye-candy to keep me amused for days.

I'm happy with the results. I know a lot of people aren't, but if you are one of those people then you have probably been happy for the past 12 years, so shoosh up and give us all a chance to feel it for a change.

I mean that in the nicest possible way ;)

I don't care about gay marriage (if I wanted to get married and act like a strait person ... i'd be strait), I care about real things that affect people in negative ways, like AWA's and hospitals that kill people instead of helping them.

And now we have a cute little boy faced guy with a sense of humor (imagine that), and that can actually speak without going 'umm, ahh, well' every 2 words. He may be a bastard, but he is probably LESS of a bastard than Howard, and that's all I'm asking for.

Plus we have Julia, an awesome left wing socialist dyke with a gay boyfriend called Tim who I think will only be good for us.

Unfortunatly we didn't manage de-seat bloody Malcom Turnbull. I tried. He sent me one letter every day for the past 2 weeks ... EVEN HIS WIFE SENT ONE. SERIOUSLY. Now there's a guy that shouldn't be making decisions for us if he needs his wife's help.

He's not the answer to everything (and you will never get someone who is), but he's a step in the right direction. I know he will do stupid stuff, we all do and unfortunately what someone thinks is right, another person won't. But that's the joy of having free will.

But so cute ... 'Strong tea and iced vovo's before work'. Heh.

Now, I must go and put clothes on. As much as I like sitting here in a towel, I think clothes are better for when one must leave the house. Like I have to.

Wow, so I finally have a free day all to myself ... and I don't know what to do! Typical. I'm sure I'll find something to do, I always manage to waste a whole day doing ... stuff.

Had dinner with my sister last night, my 7 year old niece has only just realised that i'm her mums sister (she only just understood what step-sister meant, and decide to stick with sister, which is cute), and i'm now known as 'mums sister with the duck' (coz of my puddleduck tattoo), she's so cute. She climbs all over me now, and even asked me to pick her up. I thought kids stopped doing that at a certain age? I certainly don't remember being carried at 7 old! But I like it. I like being liked.

I want some decent Criminal Minds (JJ or Emily) icons, but there are none to be found. Most annoying.

Away out of civilisation this weekend. Relaxing to be had.