packing

I'm an avid fan of packing. Packing is great. I get to see all the stuff i'll have with me on my trip in front of me in one beautiful pile of greatness. I'm not completely sure if i've ever learned the appropriate amount to pack for a week long trip though, usually i just put the things i like to use ever day in a backpack and hope for the best, it seems to work out. I've never packed to go overseas before but i expect when that day finally comes (IRELAND IN MAY!!!) i may very well implode in a fit of packing excitement. Travelling around Australia does have it's advantages (Vegemite readily accessible). And if i didn't get a proper look at Australia, how could i properly compare it to other countries? (But mostly the Vegemite thing.)

If you've ever been to Australia for any amount of time you probably know that you never have any fucking idea what the weather is going to be like tomorrow. It snowed in Victoria this week- it's the middle of summer, dammit! Like, the other day i camped for a night about 10 minutes from where i live and i needed a scarf and at least a thousand layers of jumpers. Fortunately, even though i was expecting to be able to bask in lovely, warm lakes, i always pack way to much which means i'm prepared for everything! And by everything i mean sudden changes in weather. Not cool to say the least. Or VERY cool rather! Hahahahaha... ok.
Is this an appropriate amount to pack for a week long camping trip? Embarrassingly i packed 3 jumpers. But i made up for it by probably not having enough of anything else as it's all in the wash.

melbourne!

Right, so in a fit of holiday boredom my friend and i decided upon a week-long road trip to melbourne, drawing inspiration from some german friends we made camping the other day. Though they were planning on stopping at canberra- not a fun choice.

I wanted to go to brisbane, said friend wanted to go melbourne. But after some not very good compromising "we" decided upon melbourne. I plan on making her listen to all of my own music choices on the way in exchange for my gallantly, she has not yet been informed of this side of the deal. I went to melbourne last christmas with my family and to be honest it's more or less exactly the same as sydney but with less harbour bridge and more trams. I think there were slightly less crazies but what they lacked in mentally unsound citizens they made up for in large numbers of try-hard hipsters.

To be fair there may be the same amount in sydney now so i'm willing to give melbourne another chance...

My favorite things about melbourne would have to be the anticipation of arriving in melbourne and leaving melbourne (because that means more road tripping!). Also the kiwi fruit juice we found in woolworths. Or should i say safeway? For thats what it's called in Melbourne! Pretty crazy stuff, i tell you. Also, i was forbidden from leaving the motel due to the fact that a St Kilda vs. Collingwood football match had just taken place and i was nearly strangled with black and red scarf on my way to buy bread. melbourne is actually awesome, but it is like sydney.

all the fun of kiwi fruit in the convenience of a glass!

The quality of the pictures i keep adding to my posts is decreasing rapidly. I apologise. Good photos will be taken soon!

wow 2012

can't believe it's a new year already. it's so weird.. only one more year of school. i'll likely be unemployed and homeless by this time next year.

i don't know what i want to do. it seems like it finished way too fast, time goes faster than my mind can make itself up!

sydney uni? gap year? uni overseas? :S i've never used that face before but it seems to fit the situation.

anyway, had probably the best christmas and new years i can remember. went to peats ridge for new years and made friends from belgium! they do like to drink. got a few new years kisses, though admittedly that was not of my own volition, i was just dived on mid-dance.

ooh, met the guys from san cisco! and gotye was amazing, i think it was more the atmosphere than anything. hope everyone enjoys the rest of the christmas holidays!

no related photos, so very boring of me :(

rain

it's been raining for waaay too long now... it's the eighth day of summer and it's been raining for the last few months with only the (extremely) odd sunny day on occasion. worst summer and spring ever! i love the rain, but not when it's supposed to be picnicking and bike riding and camping season. not a cool way to start the christmas holidays. anyway, enough about the rain.. although i was really only going to complain for a little bit so i'm not sure what to say now. i'm reading the perks of being a wallflower, it's pretty good. perfect book weather, i'm not gonna lie

the front yard being wet. the usual. i thought at least with the rain my beautiful tomato and snow pea seedling would grow accordingly but this did not happen (my cat sat on them, the usual complaint)

harry potter exhibition

although i was sure that after the final movie came out i would kill myself, i'm glad i didn't because i would not have been able to visit this. it was amazing, i walked around with my mouth open like an idiot the whole time, much to everyone else's displeasure. but there was no other way to react, this exhibition was incredible, loved the gryffindor common room notice board.

we weren't allowed to take pictures inside but thankfully we managed to get a very bad picture of the knight but which was parked outside, and do an equally bad drawing of our time at the exhibition (again, to great displeasure.)

a very tardy post about something very brilliant

Many months after this actually happened, but i had an absolutely amazing time watching the last Deathly Hallows part 2! I saw a midnight screening in Sydney with some lovely people, and the met some other lovely people while waiting for it to begin. I cried nearly the whole way through, i cant believe i have no more Harry Potter to looks forward to for the first time since my first HP experience at the age of 5.

The Hallows arranged on a beard

hmm...

My wanting to save for my trip to Ireland is battling greatly with the fact that i hate my job. i don't like working for people! Even though i only work once or twice a week i'm severely depressed at the thought of having to go :( Maybe once i get some stuff up on etsy i'll be able to earn a little extra, perhaps enough to justify leaving my job?
Only one more year and i will be done with school as well, hopefully i do well enough on my HSC to get into the university i'm dreaming of.
The days are getting so much warmer and longer now that summers on the way! Soon enough i will be enjoying a lovely, sunny Christmas with family, big lunches and Christmas morning cartoons.