... a tea lit night...

Christmas

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:41:59 GMT

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! *hugs*

It's only just past 9:30am but it's already shaping up to be the best Christmas I can remember for these past few years :D Not that the others haven't been nice... this one is just extra nice :)

Wishing you all so much love and happiness and dreams-come-true, because you are wonderful and you make my life brighter :)

LOVE! ♥

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:11:01 GMT

Either:

1. Miracles do happen

or

2. 2am is not a good time for rational thinking, and the next time i believe it is, i should just read this post, go to bed and think about the problem in the morning.

:)

Lost - spoilers up to Ep6

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:00:46 GMT

I just watched 4 episodes of Lost in a row...

OMFG. The last time I had a limited number of Lost DVDs, my last one was episode 20 (Boone DYING OMG) and now this time it's Shannon?!?! *shakes fist at the powers that be*

Incoherent (it's 3am) but I HATE Ana Lucia! Die mofo bitch!! >:| Words cannot express the hatred. Was all prepared to LIKE her cos I don't like hating people but goddamn she makes liking her impossible. Not even in early!Sawyer's way - he had charisma, dammit! - just cos she's an irritating know it all up herself irrational COW. So there. I'm soooo mature.

But SHANNON omfg DID ANA LUCIA KILL SHANNON?!?!

AND SAYWER OMG *steals him away from the Anabitch* :( Get him to Jack! Quick! So ~~they can make hot sweet love!~~ Jack can make him all better!!! D:

PS. I love Jin and Sun! I wish I were like Sun :(

I need to email my Lost supplier and beg for more episodes...

Also, PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME FOR FUTURE EPISODES I know you're all waaay ahead of me (what episode are you guys up to?) but please don't spoil me cos if you do I will cry and then go kick a puppy ok so I would never kick a puppy but that's not the point

Meme

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:42:45 GMT

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

In October I helped pseudonihilist see the light (8 points). In June I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). In February I set lady_twatterby's puppy on fire (-66 points). Last week I bought porn for undrockroll (-10 points). Last Tuesday I pushed skadi101 in the mud (-17 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-161 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!

Sincerely,
_tealight_

Spanking from whom? *weg*

Also... I would have thought buying porn for Darcy would earn me + points! Silly people :)

Christmas meme

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:08:09 GMT

It's Christmas in TEN DAYS OMGOMGOMG!!! *bounce*

1. Do you have a real or fake Christmas tree?
Fake, because I don't think Christmas trees appreciate the summer weather. But I do know of people who have real ones around here, so who knows? We haven't put up the Christmas tree in 7 or 8 years, though.

2. Do you put up Christmas lights on the exterior of your home?
Nope.

3. What's your favorite Christmas song/carol?
O Holy Night and Jingle Bell Rock!

4. What do you like better. turkey or ham?
Chicken :/

5. Do you open up any Christmas presents on Christmas Eve?
No... I usually open them as I'm given them (with friends and work, etc) or on Christmas day.

6. Have you ever been Christmas caroling?
No, but I've been to the local Carols by Candlelight...

7. What was your most memorable Christmas gift(s) that you received?
My family aren't big on presents... but Christmas presents when I was little were always fantastic, just for the novelty of them!

8. What's your favorite Christmas movie?
Love Actually, maybe? I don't know many Christmas movies

9. Have you ever built a real snowman?
I haven't seen real snow!

10. Have you ever peeked into a present and found out what it was before Christmas?
Haha, I used to love the temptation when I was a kid! Sometimes I peeked into one, usually I was good. We haven't had a tree for years so presents are hidden away until the actual day.

11. What is on the top of your Christmas tree?
Don't have a tree...

12. Do you own a Santa hat?
Nope, but I had to wear one when I worked as a checkout chick. Ick.

13. When was the last time you had your picture taken with Santa Claus?
When I was 7 or 8, I think

14. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet?
I haven't STARTED omg. I have nothing! I want to buy some movie tickets for the girl who always gives me a lift home, but other than that... nope. I'm thnking of not getting anyone anything this year, since no-one usually gets me anything (or if they do, it's only grudgingly and without much thought and only because I've nagged them incessantly for the past five weeks, which I haven't done this year). Ohh, but I've written and asked my little cousins what they'd like, and gotten their answers (tamagotchis) so I'll get that on the weekend.

15. Do you put candy canes on your Christmas tree?
Nope.

16. Who is hardest person to buy for?
This year, everyone :/ I have no money and I don't know what they want and I give up.

17. Who is the easiest person to buy for?
Friends, because I can just buy them something fun and they'll be happy. My family are so picky!

18. How old were you when you realized Santa was imaginary?
I remember coming home from kindergarden or first grade or something and saying to mum "Did you know you're supposed to pretend to be Santa?! START DOING IT!!!"

19. What does your morning of Christmas routine consist of?
Sleeping in till 9, 10, whatever. Getting up and waiting for the rest of the family to get up. Exchange presents, if there are any. Start eating. Continue eating till the sun sets at around 8:30pm.

20. Egg Nog?
Sounds yummy

21. What do you want for Christmas this year?
Hornlower. And Bush. :) It's ridiculous to think about all the things I want for Christmas, because I just sound greedy, and I could probably buy them myself but choose not to because I have to at least pretend to be trying to save money... and since I only get presents from my immediate family anyway, I'd feel bad that they wasted their money on my junk.

TEN DAYS OMG and Christmas party tomorrow!!

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:00:49 GMT

It's 12 days till Christmas! The house is undecorated, I literally have not bought a single present, I haven't sent out any cards and I've never been so unprepared for it in my life.

I AM looking forward to our work Christmas party, though - lunch at some fancy restaurant (well, I don't know how fancy it is, but I do know that for the price of one of their entrees, I could have a full meal at uni) and then the afternoon on a yacht (belonging to one of the people at work) and then drinks after, maybe. I bought a new outfit yesterday! *g* 3/4 jeans (my first pair! I am such a dag) and a black halterneck top with blue sparkly bits :) And a pale green embroidered halterneck top, too, because they were having a 'buy one, get one free' sale. I also found a pair of jeans that I love!! And I really need new jeans. But these were $100 and I just can't reconcile myself to spending $100 on a single piece of clothing that's not a dress. I'm cheap as well a dag ;)

Working 5 days this week, although Friday hardly counts because half of it will be the Christmas party. But I want to know - omg, how do people work full time?! I worked all day Thursday/Friday, and now Monday/Tuesday and it's ridiculous how much I just want a day off! lol. (I worked Saturday and Sunday at my other job, and got totally sunburnt on the backs of my arms an legs while I was painting a sign.)

Hmm. Still crushing Hornblower and Bush ♥ :) Got out the Fantastic Four DVD today just because Ioan was in it! :) He is much more adorable as Hornblower, but his smile! And the goofy geekiness... And the way he can't completely hide his Welsh accent...

Ohh... And I got another parcel notification in the mail today!! *bounce* It's an international insured item... I wonder who sent it and what it is? :D I love mail so much!! *g* I'm getting my brother to pick it up for me tomorrow because I'll be at work all day, but tomorrow evening is such a long way away when I know the parcel is only 500m down the road!

Things will calm down for at least a week starting next Friday, because my work closes for a week then :)

I love summer!

just sayin'

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:05:59 GMT

teehee :)

5

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:41:51 GMT

Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick 5 people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used. Tag 5 people on your list. (from disc_sophist)

1. Being awake at 5am when I don't have to be, and knowing that I can go back to sleep for as long as I want when I want to.

2. Good stories, be it a book, movie or fic.

3. Tea. There's nothing so comforting as hot, sweet tea...

4. Snail mail/email.

5. Going out to dinner.

You're tagged if you want to be :)

And now I believe I'm going to take advantage of #1.

Overwhelmed

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:50:45 GMT

Today has been an ordinary day; it was gorgeously sunny, I went to work, I came home...

... and waiting for me in the post was a package from Germany, with the two Hornblower DVDs that I was missing from my collection! They were sent by a girl on a forum that I've only been a member of for about a month; I barely know her, but she offered to send me copies of the two movies because I was sad that I did have them! I don't even know how to express my surprise and joy at such kind thoughtfulness, but wow. :) And THEY PLAY ON MY LAPTOP!!!! Because the cheap pirated ones I bought from eBay don't, and I'm quite upset about that because what am I going to do next year?! But, wow, I'm so touched :)

And then, I checked my hotmail account because I got a message saying "you have 2 new messages", and that was strange because I never ever use my hotmail anymore. And in my inbox was an Amazon gift voucher for US$60 and right now I'm just so overwhelmed I could cry. It's from a friend I used to chat with all the time, before we kind of lost touch, but recently I've been seeing him on MSN again (Anjali, remember Lefty/Jeff?). And that's just so incredibly lovely and generous of him and he really, really shouldn't have, but I'm so touched and overwhelmed and... lost for words.

There are such wonderful people in my life; so many small acts of kindness that mean so much to me; such great friends without whom the world would be a much darker and duller place; the best family I could hope for to love, and to love me; I love you all, so much, and I'm grateful for you every single day. I don't know why I'm so lucky to have you all, and I'm not entirely sure that I deserve you, but I'm so happy that I do, and I hope you all know and remember it always. *big huge hugs because I love you!*

I need your input, please!

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:14:19 GMT

I love that I have this dilemna. It means I'm on holidays and can do all of these things guilt-free!

What should I do?

1. Continue bumming around online, search for HH fic and journals, play yahoo games, maybe catch some of you on AIM

2. Go DRAW something! :) (I've been obsessed with Paul McGann/Lt Bush's eyes for weeks... but I don't have any hard copy pictures of him, and there's no way I can draw from memory and I don't think I'd be much good at drawing from a laptop screen, either)

3. Write a fic, omg! :) Something lovely and HH and WB and h/c...

4. Write some fangirl discussion on HH and WB

5. Finish reading "A Breath of Snow and Ashes"

6. Read more Hornblower

7. Watch more Hornblower

8. Watch Anne of Green Gables

9. Write well-deserved feedback to the authors of bits of HH fandom that I'm utterly in love with

10. Tidy my room *guilt*

Happiness and fandom

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 08:09:32 GMT

There are days that come pretty close to perfect, even if they're nothing spectacular within themselves. Today I went to Sydney with my brother; it was loads of fun and I spent too much money! I bought some cheap sunnies and a - I don't even know what it's called. It's like a cushion/soft toy only it's cylinder-shaped. I always roll up my pillow to hug when I sleep, so this is just perfect!(And it's pink and has Hello Kitty on it, and it says "Happy Happy" at the bottom. And I found Master and Commander (the book) for only $7, which is great because the RRP is $22 and I'd like to give it another try, thanks to CSF and Hornblower!

I'm such a fangirl :) Fandom (whatever fandom it is that I'm loving at the present) makes me so happy. It always has, since before I knew there was such a thing as fandom, and I rather think it always will. My broadband kicked in again today (I get 200mb of broadband speed a month, which pretty much goes in the first two days) so I downloaded black_hound's Hornblower/Bush music vid and it's perfect and wonderful and I love it to bits! :) :) :) Small, wonderful blessings... And there are so many gorgeous icons out there that I think I might just cave and buy myself a paid LJ account... which is SILLY, if I think about it, because who knows what the internet connection in China will be like?! But we'll see :)

I want to squee about Bush. (Erm. The HH character and most definitely NOT the American president. Speaking of whom, I saw a t-shirt today with a pic of Bush with horns and "Satan" printed underneath. It made me laugh. So did the biography of him titled "FRAUD!") So, yes. I want to squee about Lt William Bush (lately Cptn William Bush). I don't know why he's my lust object right now. Of course, Horatio (book!Horatio AND movie!Horatio!) is my primary LO, but I think Bush might be catching up, and then they will be equal. I love the books so much - I love their richness of detail and I LOVE the relationship between Hornblower and Bush. So many slashy subtext moments, but even if you completely ignore the slash and see it as pure love and friendship, it's just so right :) I don't think I've ever come across a better written relationship (in pure platonic terms) between two book characters, especially when they are both so reserved and remote and there is such a social gap between them. Everyone needs to go read the books and fall in love so you can join me in the squee!

Actually, another relationship I love (but this time, it's romantic) is that of Jamie and Claire Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. I'm partway through the latest book, and I'm enjoying it, but not in love with it (since I would have long finished it, if I was!). I really miss Claire's narration - she used to be the only narrator, and I loved her voice. Now she only gets half the narration time, if that - it's shared all amongst the other characters. And I quite dislike both Brianna (the haughty bitch) and Roger (the pathetic whinger) and wish they would just disappear off the face of the earth. Wait, there WAS a point to this. I love Claire and Jamie, and while I've often heard Jamie Fraser described as people's perfect man, I've never ever felt that about him. I've never lusted after Jamie, although I like him very much. If I knew him IRL, we'd be mates and never anything more. I'd be mates with Claire, too, because she's awesome! But Jamie as LO? Just can't see it :) He's just too big-brotherly. And I like my men just a little bit more broody and angsty! ;)

This is my favourite time of the day - late evening, on a brilliantly sunny day, when the light all around is soft and golden and mellow and the whole world is just perfect.

I'm so happy :) <3

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:36:01 GMT

Although my life is wonderful and happy and filled with things to be looked forward to, I'm going to be horrible and whine for a moment anyway.

Idunwannagotoworktomorrowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I didn't get off till 7pm tonight and I have to be back at 8am tomorrow! And most likely it will be another 7pm finish, if anyone else in the office is prepared to stay till 7pm on a Friday night. Someone has to leave with/after me because I don't have any keys.

Whine.

But, admittedly, it's a good job with fantastic people :) So even if I have to spend all day tomorrow doing bills (ugh) and typing masses and masses of dictation.... it's ok :) I just want to complain because it feels like I have no TIME. I thought since I have no classes now I would have loads to time to sleep in and lounge around at home, but the truth is I've only slept past 8am two days out of twelve I've been on holidays, and I think I've only been home the whole day for two days, as well.

It's nearly Christmas!! <3 I love Christmas :)

Here's to tomorrow

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:29:43 GMT

Things have been nearly non-stop (in a good way) since my last exam last Saturday. Do you know what? No more law classes for a YEAR! And, without realising it, I've finished the last classes I'll every have at my uni :( Next year will be spent on exchange, and when I come back, I will more than likely take college of law as an online subject so I can work full time through it. That's the plan, anyway. It's so strange to think that I will never be back at my campus, though! Four years of getting to know all the places and classrooms - of knowing where to always find a free computer and where the best coffee is. Four years of being within two minutes' walk of the centre of Sydney, and Chinatown, and the train station and everything! I'll miss the classes I took with my friends. I'll miss my friends even more, since by the time I get back, they will all have graduated already! I had no idea that I would miss my uni this much. At first it was just an ugly concrete building in the centre of the concrete jungle. It still is, but I'll miss the Market's Bar where we used to hang out, and I'll miss the law-students-only computer labs and even our library where you have to scan your ID card to get in! I will just miss being at uni with all of my friends around me.

Today we had an ICS meeting and we were given our plane tickets for next year! I don't know if I'm scared or excited or what. Actually, I do know - I'm nervous! :/ The butterflies took up residence a few hours ago and are still alive and kicking (well, fluttring, at any rate). What am I going to DO?! I only know 3 out of the 14 others going - and two of those, not very well! I met a few others today, and had lunch with one of them, and they all seem nice, I guess, but they all know each other! How on earth am I going to make friends with them? They seem much cooler and more fashionable and just - yeah. And I will miss my family so much, and my friends so much. I've never been away from home for a month, let alone a year! And I don't speak the language and I don't love the culture (I don't mean that I dislike it, just that I have no passion for it) and I don't know what to do!

But that's silly. I'll get there, and things will work out. How can I be scared of something new when I've spent all my life dreaming of new adventures? And whatever happens, it will be an experience. Whether it will be a good experience or bad experience I don't know, but it will be experience, at least. I really need my logic to win this argument! :) If my feelings win, I will totally freak out about going, but if my logic wins, then I'll know it will be ok, in the end...

Anyway, since last Saturday, I've been working and going out every day! On Saturday I went down to near the Blue Mountains for a friend's 21st. It was the first time I'd ever been, and I would love to go again! (Anjali, it's so beautiful there!! :) Much more beautiful than Sydney or my hometown. Although my hometown is pretty in its own way, especially over the water at sunrise and sunset. I think you will love it...) The area is just so quiet and beautiful and rich in colours and sounds. Her parents' propery was filled with apple and cherry trees, and it overlooked rolling hills with blue smudges of trees and swathes of rolling grass, and there was just such a joyful silence - no traffic or machinery or sounds of the city. It was almost a page out of the 19th century :)

Tomorrow, I'm going out with a friend from highschool and we're going to spend the day shopping and the night having a British movie marathon!! *g* BBC's Pride and Prejudice and then Horatio Hornblower - because she's uninitiated in the world of HH and she needs to be introduced! :) And it's been *ages* since I've seen P&P, so I'm looking forward to that... And then Wednesday, I'm going to visit my cousin and her new baby, and then it's work for the next five days, and then another two days to enjoy! :) And CHRISTMAS is coming up in less than a month!

Lastly, but not leastly... pseudonihilist? undrockroll? lily22? katewithak? :( Where are you all? ♥

joy :)

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:18:59 GMT

i bought 'a breath of snow and ashes' tonight <3 i love claire and jamie. the book is thicker than my textbooks and i'm happy! it only cost a fraction of the price, too. but i am so tired tonight that i probably won't start it till saturday when i'm on the train. this morning i made myself a mental note to have an early night tonight because i probably won't get a chance to get sleep in until tuesday now and look where i am.

zzz

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:33:13 GMT

i'm so sleepy. and i have no excuse cos it's not even like i have study to keep me up anymore. was at work by 8 repainting the bathrooms. was meant to be a quick industrial white job but under my command ended up including feature walls and marbled effects. it was a lot of fun! the bad thing? i spent about an hour painting around a urinal *GAG* and for the rest of the day i kept getting random whiffs of urinal! ewwwwwww. i'm sure it was just imaginary (i SCRUBBED my skin raw in the shower! more to get the paint off, but still.)

at the moment i smell like berocca, though. they are funny when they fizz! like bathbombs.

so sleepy omg. work tomorrow at 9. would rather sleep. think i have an awesome weekend coming up, in which case it will be my first awesome weekend in about a year! :P

also... 2 months 3 weeks!!!

Potman! Cards and a light!

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:32:36 GMT

How wonderful is the Hornblower fandom? I love the movies and adore the books. I'm having two lengthy and indepth character discussions with the same person in two different mediums and I now know the difference between the bowsprit, the foremast, the mainmast and the mizzenmast. I can tell you that well built ships could last for up to 50 years, while ones built in haste with poor materials might only last 5. England had figured out dry docks by the late 1400's - France only mastered them in the 19th century. Plus, the books are the most gorgeously written thing ever! I'm in love with Hornblower. And Lt Bush. The scenes of their friendship are some of my favourite pieces of writing ever - and CS Forester does it without becoming sentimental or soppy or sensationalist. There are so many passges in his writing where I have to put the book down and squee to myself because they're just so perfect! Neurotic, self-doubting, brilliant Hornblower; steady, faithful Bush. God, I love it so much!! :)

You know the strange thing? The more I get into the fandom - the more I read and watch of Hornblower and Bush - the more the idea of slash squicks me. Not all slash - there is still a boatload of wonderful slash out there! But I think I may have come across my first couple that I absolutely adore, that I cannot slash. I think there's more scope for canon slash between these two than in most other fandoms - the most telling scene being one where Hornblower thinks of Bush as being "better than a wife"! But it just doesn't feel right to slash them. They love each other so much, but it's not romantic love. If it was, I think it would detract both from their personalities and from their relationship. To simplify what they mean to each other into simple lust just doesn't do justice to them. It's the most wonderful example of pure friendship - even if Hornblower is a huge twat most of the time! ;)

Can you tell I'm utterly entranced by them? *l* Most people fall for Archie, but Archie to me as a nice side dish. It's Hornblower and Bush I want! But then, I've just been welcomed to the ranks of a HH book ho *g* I love the movies, but it's the books which are my favourite! Of course, the books without the movies wouldn't be nearly as much fun. I would never have gotten to like Mr Midshipman Hornblower as much as I do now without the movies. Can you believe they made 4 movies out of one fairly short book? 4 brilliantly written and beautifully acted movies :) And of course, Hornblower will always look like Ioan Gruffudd to me (but that's not hard, seeing as how Ioan Gruffudd could have been designed purely to play Horatio Hornblower!) and William Bush will always look like Paul McGann, who is singularly beautiful in period costume, even if the Bush of the books is described as "stocky" and Paul McGann is most definitely not! (He reminds me of Jack Davenport, actually, but that might be the similiarity of their characters. Speaking of which, I need to see PotC again, now I have some newfound naval knowledge! And other HH fans highly recommend the movie of Master and Commander, so I might swallow my thorough dislike of Russell Crowe and get it out, after all.)

Also, Ioan Gruffudd has a gorgeous voice and the loveliest accent! AND HE READS THE HORNBLOWER AUDIO BOOKS OMG!!! :) :) I'm just saving for the postage now, because an incredibly gracious and lovely HH fan is sending me a copy of all the ones she owns <3 Welshtones! GUH.

And god, I think nothing is more pleasurable than coming across a new, completely delectable new fandom - and then coming across the best piece(s!) of fanfic I could ever hope for, written as though it was to order! Lots and lots of love :)

HH makes me so happy! :)

Hm, what else? I love the holidays! I love being able to pick up a book or turn on the TV or log on to the net without feeling guilty. Today I was meant to work 11-3, because I've taken over someone's Monday shifts. I had plans for shopping with mum afterwards and then tae kwon do at 6:30. I ended up getting in at 10:30 and staying till 7! So much for shopping and tkd, but at least it means another few hours of pay, which I desperately need. Why is money such an issue all of a sudden?! And right before Christmas, too - I wanted to get something small for everyone, but the rate things are going now, it doesn't look likely :/ Is everyone going to do the Christmas holiday_wishes thing? Because I want to see what everyone's wish lists are :) Postage is the only thing that really gets me - if it weren't for ridiclously overpriced postage, sending little things out would be so much more viable!

(I mean for the wish list, just posting on LJs. I have no idea why people would want to post it in the community and reading the requests from strangers to strangers really irritates me, because they're so - ugh. Why on earth would they think that someone they've never even exchanged keystrokes with want to give them an ipod? Little things are all well and good, but requests like that are just plain greedy. And of course, this is just me being a cranky wench ;) Of course people can post what they like and hope for the best. I'll just sit here in my corner and mutter at them.

Also, while I'm whining about LJ, I'm beginning to think it's a very strange medium. I'm too addicted now to quit, and it's a great way of finding communities of people with similar interests. I guess it's the whole "friends" thing again. It's such a personal obligation, when you friend someone/unfriend someone. Sometimes I just want to friend a person for a few months, you know? But I can't, according to LJ netiquette, so I don't.)

There was a point to this, wasn't there? On second thoughts, I don't think there was :) Just me rambling. I can't believe it's 1:30am already. My sense of time is all screwed up. It feels like it's about 10pm at the latest - but I think finishing work late had something to do with that.

And now I'm off to reread some more Hornblower before bed!

Have I mentioned how much I love the holidays? :)

PS. It's Lt William Bush in my icon! <3 And it's Horatio Hornblower in the one I've mainly been using recently <3 I love my Indy boys!

PPS. I finally figured out that if I enlarge the font, I won't need to ruin my eyesight by squinting at tiny fonts at high resolutions! Yay! (My laptop is widescreen and only shows things properly if I set it to the highest resolution.)

PPPS. I am craving bacon and eggs and pineapple slices at two o'clock in the morning! Go me! :) (In my defence, I will not be eating bacon and eggs and pineapple at two am, and I most likely won't have them anytime soon, either, since I never do the shopping anymore!)

PPPPS. That is all. Carry on.

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:24:55 GMT

I want a peach right now - a ripe, sweet-scented one. Rasp of velvet fur and cool, sweet juice. Coloured like sunrise, tasting of spring.

The Friday Five

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:23:23 GMT

Watch out for lots of SPAM from me now!! *bounce*

1. What do you do for fun?
Clean my pin collection and always keep an eye out for new pins!

Erm. Yes. :) I... internet, because I'm a geek. I read, I draw, I hang out with my friends, I obsess over fandoms, I go shopping.... Pretty ordinary stuff, really.

2. Is there a person from your past you would like to talk to again, even if it would be a potentially painful conversation?
James :)

3. What is your favorite comfort food?
Chocolate cake, probably - luckily, we don't have it around very often!

4. What is your preferred form of self-expression? (Do you dance; or express yourself through music, conversation, etc.) I imagine stories (without ever, ever writing them) or I draw. I really need to get my scanner hooked up to my laptop!

5. You just received $5000; what do you spend it on?
Firstly I would just squee with ecstatic joy for about an hour! lol. I'd put $1000 towards my (woefully inadequate) savings, use $1000 to pay off some off my summer school subject, put $1000 towards Queensland with Anjali, spend $1000 on gifts for family and friends and spend the remaining $1000 on things I've wanted for ages but could never justify buying - like a new wardrobe, LOTS of new books and DVDs!!

Damn. Now I really want that $5000!

I'M FREE!!!

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:57:06 GMT

I FINISHED MY LAST EXAM YAY YAY YAY HOLIDAYS ARE THE GREATEST THING EVER!!!

I can finally get around to doing all the fun things I've been wanting to do for the past few months!! <333

The book I reserved at the library has finally come in, with perfect timing! War at sea in the age of sail 1650-1850. Hehe, I'm such a fangirl. Isn't it amazing what fandom can make us learn? <333

yawn

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:50:21 GMT

Papercuts. Evil. (And itchy and painful and... infected?)

Exams. ~~Eviler.~~ Evilest.

Here's a bowlful

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 04:25:38 GMT

Mango frozen yoghurt solves a lot of problems, but, unfortunately, not all of them.

food!thoughts

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:59:54 GMT

There are lots of things I've yet to figure out, and regular meal times is one of them. It seems like it should be a fairly simple premise, but since I've left high school (and subsequently have stopped having regular hours) I don't think I've ever had a day where, say, breakfast was at 8am, lunch was at 1pm and dinner was at 6pm. Or if I have, it was purely by accident and due to a weird timetable. Currently, I eat anywhere from 1-5 meals a day (which sounds really bad!). I usually only eat breakfast on Thursdays and Fridays, because they're the days I work at the office and I just make toast there lol. I find if I don't eat breakfast, I can go through until about 2:30pm before I start to get hungry, but if I eat at about 9am, I'll be starving by about 1pm. Today, no breakfast, lunch was at about 2pm, I had hot chocolate and biscuits around 4pm and dinner will be sometime around 9-ish. And there's a distressing lack of substantial food in the house. I just finished the camberbet cheese lol. I'm just thinking about this because I'm kind of hungry at the moment, but I don't know if it's time to be hungry, since I seem to be hungry at random hours of the day. And on some days of the week, I eat much more than I do on others. Fridays, for example - I eat breakfast and lunch at work, finish at around 5:30-6pm-ish, arrive at my waitressing job, eat dinner, finish work around 10pm-ish, go home, eat a second dinner. And on Wednesdays, my first meal of the day is generally around 3pm and then dinner is sometime around 11pm.

I am also procrastinatingggggg.

Daylight savings started on Sunday, but I didn't even notice that we were missing an hour, because I just assumed it got lost in my sleep-in :) Actually, I didn't even remember it was the start of daylight savings until I turned on the computer and thought "That can't be the time!" I love daylight savings :) I think it should be daylight savings all year round! It's so nice to have an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day... and it really feels like summer!

I drew some pictures in colour today! I don't think I've ever drawn a nice picture in colour, but even though these aren't really nice, they're nicer than what they used to be lol. One of these days I need to figure out how to connect my laptop to my scanner... it might just be as simple as plugging the USB cord in!

trick or treat

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:00:26 GMT

Today's Halloween and it's been mildly memorable because i) LJ has the pretty Halloween bar at the top and ii) I got my first trick or treaters EVER! It's not a holiday that's widely celebrated in Australia, so I was surprised when two boys (about 10 years old) knocked on the door about 7pm. They said "Trick or Treat!" but they weren't wearing costumes. I think they just decided that Halloween was a good way to scam candy from unsuspecting neighbours. I almost had nothing to give them, but I found some lollipops that I was saving for when I studied. And for some reason trick or treaters make me laugh :)

I've been horribly distracted of late, I'm sorry. Watch me go crazy with freedom after November 19 :)

Horatio Hornblower

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:29:18 GMT

I spent way too much time today looking up Horatio Hornblower stuff online *l*

The two coolest things I found were:

1. Chat with Horatio! LOL This is just too cool. It's so amusing and yet slightly disturbing to hold a lengthy conversation with a bot *blush*

Suggested questions are:

"Tell me about yourself"
"What's your cabin like?"
"Do you like deck showers?"
"Where is Captain Sawyer?"
"How's Archie?"
"Talk sexy to me"
"Kiss me"
"Is Archie there?"
"You're hot!"

2. The most awesomest thing ever! I want this so much! It's "Lieutenant Hornblower", my favourite of the series that I've read so far, read by Ioan Gruffudd. !!! I love his voice - it's so soft and GUH and hearing a 6 second clip of this made me scramble wildly all over the internet looking for a copy. Did I mention want this?!

Tomorrow I'm going to look for a copy of the next HH book - Hornblower and the Atropos, I think it is. It's funny because a few weeks ago, I picked up Master and Commander from the uni library so I would have something to read on the train that night. I read about 100 pages and couldn't get into it at all. I thought I'd never get into the whole sailing genre, but here I am, crushing madly over Horatio Hornblower! But that might be because I think Ioan Gruffudd is sex on legs while Russell Crowe barely qualifies as a member of the human race ;) I still don't understand 90% of the jargon in the books, but I like the character of HH (whereas Jack Aubrey irritated me) and I like CS Forester's writing well enough.

I also can't wait for the DVDs to arrive so I can watch the first six movies!! :D I've only seen "Loyalty" and "Duty" but I know about Archie anyway *l* Teach me to google things before I've read all the books/seen all the movies.

Mini picspam of my latest crush:

That grin! *swoon* :)

New fandoms are so much FUN! <3

(Also, I think Ioan Gruffudd should have been Mr Darcy to Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Bennett.! That would be the hottest couple ever...)

horatio, and etc

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:11:30 GMT

Last night at work I cut my right index finger on a bottle top or something. It's not a deep cut and it's only a centimetre long down the side of the top knuckle. Right now it's red and swollen and stiff so I can't bend my finger. Can you believe we don't have any dettol or antiseptic or probably even any bandaids in the house?

On the plus side, though, I got over $30 in tips this weekend - enough for my weekly train ticket with a bit left over. I'm ridiculously broke atm and thinking I'll never save enough to live off for next year. But I ordered the Horatio DVD series anyway, on impulse... lol. Yeah. Damn straight I've got my priorities in line :P Even little windfalls like tips aren't easing the guilt, because on the one hand I can think, I'd never have bought x if this money hadn't shown up, so it's an equal trade, really; on the other hand, I could have just saved the money. Or used it to pay off some of this month's phone bill, arghhh.

The 8th Hornblower movie was on TV tonight. He's adorable! And Lieutenant Hornblower was a wonderful read, much better than Hornblower Midshipman, which was an awful first book but I think it was just first chronologically, not first written. Having lots of fun with this fandom, anyway.

But Ioan Gruffudd! :) I had to google his name to find out how to pronounce it. Yo-an Griffith. I can't imagine anything further from phonetic spelling :P (Yes, yes, he's Welsh and I'm ignorant.) I also had to look up "redoubtable" at dictionary.com. It means: 1) Arousing fear or awe; formidable, 2)Worthy of respect or honour. I'm ashamed of all the words I don't know. I'm sorry that I stopped looking words up once I realised I could still grasp the meanings of most sentences without knowing some of the words. I should endeavour to remedy my ignorance more often... "Otiose", btw, means of no use, futile; or lazy and indolent. Yup. I looked that one up, too.