the sky is not the limit and you are never going to guess what is.

so winter is finally done and dusted, finito, gone, goodbye. i'm currently sitting on our balcony in Spankbank sipping on a cider in the delightful 26 degrees (i'm very far from sober, i just thought i'd add). melbourneee, you're not too bad sometimes. just sometimes.

i had the day off from workies today, which was pretty damn good. i still would have gladly accepted a shift if i had been offered because of moniezzz, but i guess sitting on the balcony drinking cider definitely outweights being at work and saying on repeat "hello how are you going - do you need a hand with sizes?. seriously, so fucking over it. but i guess there is a very precise "end of the tunnel" in 3 months time when i'm completely done-zo with Shittner fo lyf. i will miss it, but just so ready to move on and do something different. a friend pointed out the last time that i saw her ; "oh my god, you're STILL at Wittner? you've been there for the whole time you've been in melbourne yeah". fuck offfff but yeah, i have and i am not (that much) ashamed. i like security and the fact i have had the same subway-esque job since being in melbourne. but wutevaaaa cuz i'm moving to london bitches and everyone will still be in Australia, finding something to complain about.

i seriously feel like London will be the start of something new and brilliant. this year has been, in a word, shit. my health has gone to shit and dan and i have gone through some silly stages in our relationship and i'm just soooo ready to be on the other side of the world with dan loving my lyf sik in  London. i don't know why i feel like London will fix everything, but i just know it will. somehow.

i can't even describe what i'm feeling. almost complete and utter boredom with melbourne and everything to do with melbourne. i feel like i'm in fucking adelaide again. same people. same scenery. same shit. i just need to get tha fuk out of here and have a year of being a nomad and doing what the fuck we want. and i get to do it all with My Daniel. next year is going to be so perfect. i just know it.

got back from Adelaide/NSW last week, which was the best fucking break from Melbourne. i really needed to get out of here for as long as possible and have time away from Shittner. it was so good seeing where Dan was from. a lot of shit went down, but we are okay now. adelaide was so much fun. i don't know why, but i feel like i am identifying more with Adelaide at the moment. i keep having really strong urges to be back there, and when i do go back, everything is fun again.

i've started eating again, which i guess is a good place to be. i started to scare myself and so did certain people in adelaide who don't see me on a day to day basis. it was getting to the point where i couldn't even find the energy in me to climb up the stairs at work.  shit was getting real. i'll get there. one day.

so that's pretty much about it. i'm sitting on the balcony waiting for Daniel to return from his fourth to last day at placement. i can't wait for him to be done. i hate seeing him this stressed.

orright, cider is going warm. fucking loveeeee this weather. not long until we are in the freezing cold so i am going to make the most of it.

okay BAI X

four and a half months until the big move to London. now that it's so close, i feel like i'm just waiting around. as each day ends, it's just another day closer to leaving. i'm starting to look forward to the Summer here though. it's going to be 24 and 25 over the weekend, which makes me incredibly happy. i think i am so ready for this cold weather to go away so that i can make the most of the sunshine while i can.

all i can thinking about is next Summer in Europe, travelling around with Dan to Spain, France.. living at the beach. no troubles. i'm actually going to love my lyf.

uni is finally done and dusted. i feel like i should be over the moon about it, but i guess i removed myself from Uni a long time ago. winter school was the shittest thing in the world, and i couldn't be happier that i never have to go back to that place ever again.

i'm getting my hair done today, and then meeting up with Wils for lunch, which will be lovely. 

that is all for now x

3 months without an update? shiiiit, this must be the longest i have ever gone without writing on here. that makes me sad.

a lot has changed since my previous post. we have been at SpankBank for pushing 3 months now, and i absolutely love it. i love the convenience of walking everywhere and being in the city in five minutes. i feel like i'm finally really experiencing Melbourne.

WInter School and Uni as a whole is all done and dusted, thank fuck. it was actually driving me insane. one subject in particular was so frustrating, and i dreaded going to the stupid classes. but it's all over now, and we are just crossing our fingers that we passed.

now everything feels weird because i no longer have homework or anything. it's all just Wittner until we move to London in January. i will have probably gone insane by then.

sooooooooooooo excited for London, i can't even express it in words. i'm craving somewhere new and different. and most importantly, i can't wait to do it all with Dan. i can't wait for an European Summer and to do things like go to Paris for the weekend or Spain or wherever. waaaah why can't it be now :(((

nothing else exciting to report. just happy to be over and done with Uni (you have no idea). life is back to being easy and simple again, which i am happy about. i'll just cruise straight through to the end of the year and then BOOM, europe will have arrived. yewwwww.

BAI X

 wow, last night was our last night at the kent. i don't think it has sunk in yet that i will never do this ever again. i know that i am incredibly unhappy living here, but i can't help but look around and remember all of the amazing memories that every part of this house has. i'm excited about Southbank, i think. i can't tell if i'm feeling anxious because our new place ISN'T the Kent, or if i don't actually feel at home there. i love our room, i'm just nervous about the place i guess. it's not the kent, and i hate it.

on a positive note, London is getting closer and closer. Dan and I are going to book tickets soon. i'm nervous as shit, but i know that i can't be in melbourne for much longer. i'm bored and need a huge change. i just hope i save up enough money in time :(( i'm sosoo excited. i don't think i have ever been so sure about anything in my life. i know that it's what i need to do.

Wittner is boring, but the people i work with are keeping me there. today is my first day off since Good Friday. 20 muther-fucking days straight. i did it. this must be some kind of new record for me.

bree isn't coming over until after 2, and i have so much to do before then. i have to do a lot of address changing, and i HAVE to organise Winter school, as much as i don't want to, it's looming.

alright. that is all.

 maaaan, i haven't updated since Kyoto. shiit. that was almost a month ago. it was crazy watching the news and seeing Japan in a huge mess only a few days after arriving home. it made me so sad that such a beautiful country had been destroyed by a stupid natural disaster. i keep being reminded by everyone that we are lucky to have come home when we did. true dat.

coming home after being overseas is always good. once we got to KL, i was so incredibly ready to come home. arriving back at the Kent was amazing, and seeing dan was the best thing ever. however; almost one month on, and i'm already dying to be back overseas. i fucking love travelling.

quite a few things have happened. George broke the news to us that we have to move soon-ish. at first it was quite the shock, but once it sunk in, i was actually quite excited about it. i think i'm way too attached to this house, when its well and truly time to move on. it's just finding a house that could be quite the task. because George didn't really put a time limit on it, we are being quite picky with where we choose. i want to live as close to the city as possible.

work is alright. soon i'll be full time at block, which i think will be better because i'm massively over travelling for an hour and a half to get to a store.

that is all i think :( dan and i are having our last road trip to Torquay. we always go and get pizza and sit on the beach. the weather is amazing today. i feel like it could be perhaps one of the last nice days :((

x

wowow. i haven't updated the whole time i've been in Kyoto, and we leave tomorrow. oops. this isn't going to be the most thrilling update because i'm tired and hung over as fuck. sorry, gma.

so i've pretty much loved the shit out of Kyoto. it is a more relaxed version of Tokyo and a more authentic Japanese experience. the weather has been absolutely beautiful. the hostel we have been staying in is epic, and the people are really fucking cool. veryyyy central to everything. central kyoto is a hop skip and a jump away from our door step.

we spent the first couple of days looking around Kyoto and checking out crappy tourist bullshit hot spots. i get soooooo sick of looking at temples and shrines. it's bad because obviously that's what we are here for, whatevzzz. we went to Hiroshima on Thursday, which was sad but amazing. the city is heaps different to what i thought it would look like. we had our own personal tour guide take us around. went to epicentre of the bomb explosion, which was heaps cray cray. had a few wines on the riverbank, which then continued on to a Spanish restaraunt. came back to Kyoto quite late, and had an early.

yesterday we did a few day trips to see some shrines and whatevz. didn't really pay much attention. last night we recruited a whole bunch of people from our hostel, and went to a karaoke joint. sosososo much fun, but i think we're all paying for it today. woke up heaps late, and went op shopping. the clothes here amaze me. i wish vintage was this cool in Australia. ate heaps. came back to the hostel. i just came back from walking around the markets.

i'm really sad to be leaving Japan tomorrow night, mostly because we have to go to shitty Malaysia for a few days. it has been the most incredible holiday everrrr. i know i'll come back here sometime soonsies with my Dan-yell. speaking of, fuck, i can't wait to see him. two weeks of not seeing him has actually killed me.

i'll probably spend most of my time on the internet in KL because i wont want to do anything else other than go to Top Shop.

Grandma, i'll call when i get home. loveeeeee x

i always get so lazy with updating when i'm travelling. after sending five different emails to five different people, i then open the livejournal window with full intention to update, but can never be fucked.

BUT seeing as i got up at 6.30 this morning, i thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do so. i'm so sick of being sick. i felt bad because i kept coughing, so i came downstairs to the computer area for a sneaky Facebook and LJ update. 'bout time.

we are leaving Tokyo today to go to Kyoto, which makes me very sad. i am currently looking outside and there isn't a cloud in the sky. why does that always happen the day you leave a place? i guess it'll just make me want to come back to Tokyo again, which i would have in a heart beat anyway. i've completely fallen in love with everything about Tokyo. the food. the people. the culture. it is fucking amazing.

we had a very productive day on Sunday. we woke up early and headed to the Harajuku area to see those girls who dress up cray cray just on Sunday's. apparently they got bullied in highschool, so the way they dress is a 'fuck you' type thing. didn't see many of them, so we had a wonder of the area which was megz cute anyway. headed to Ginza to look at Chanel, LV etc. went to a beautiful High Tea place for perhaps the best hot chocolate i've ever had in my life. went to the epic crossing in Shibuya and people watched from Starbucks. went and checked out the Imperial Palace, which was closed. sorry about lack of details. it's too early for dat shit. we then came home early after a super long day.

yesterday we went to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was massively epic, apart from the cold. i must say that i was expecting a bit more from the Tokyo Disneyland. having been to the Paris one, i naturally compared the two and Paris deinitely wins. the vibe was a bit different and it wasn't as colourful as Paris. we stayed for a whole day, and got home at around 6pm. had some dins, and then headed out for a glass of red at a very Melbourne-ish bar.

what i wrote was so rushed, but oh well. waaah i don't want to leave Tokyo. i absolutely love it. although i am feeling a bit homesick because i miss the shit out of Dan Hogan. if he was here, i don't think i'd ever want to leave.

going to Kyoto at 1pm, and i'll update at the hostel tonight. byeeeeee! x

i really can't be fucked updating, but i know i'll regret it if i don't.

Japan is incredible. i have never seen anything like it. for a city that has millions of people living here, it just works so well. they really have their shit sorted. trains are on time to the second and the underground is so organised and efficient.

yesterday we walked around the suburb that we are staying in, and found cute little markets down the road. the people here are so fucking nice. every time i have bought something, they say 'i give you a present' and then give you a choice of beautiful little gifts. they are such lovely and respectful people.

last night got a bit out of hand, to say the least. we started with a few vodkas in our room at the hostel, and then headed into the city to catch the pub crawl, but we were heaps late and missed it. wasn't too fussed, to be honest. we stayed at a pub and had a few drinks. went to numerous other bars because everyone kept offering us free shots, which we gladly accepted. got absolutely trasheddd. went to another bar and hung out with a Japanese family, who kept feeding us all drinks/shots. baaad idea. not too sure on the details, but at one point i looked around and thought everyone had left. so for some reason, i thought it'd be a good idea to go to the tube station to catch the train home. realised i didn't know how to get home. freaked out. went to a police station for directions. realised i didn't have my passport on me. started crying, and the poor police officers couldn't understand what i was saying because i was sobbing so much. not too sure what happened after that. but the next thing i remembered was being on the train, and somehow making it home. i have absolutely no idea how i remembered what stops to get off at. it's an absolute miracle i made it back. craziest/drunkest night ever. we all had a good laugh about it this morning. Kathy ended up passing out in an alley.

today was lovely. i'm loving the shit out of this cold weather. we went into the city and looked around for a bit. the food here is ridiculously good and cheap. the city is like one bit neon light. it's cray cray. i love people watching and just seeing how this amazing city works.

i am probably not even making sense, and i can't be bothered going over what i have written to see if it is coherant. soz.

i'll do a proper update tomozza xxxxxx

off to Japan at 2.30! yewww. so flippin' sick of this dumb heat already. our driver is here two hours early to take us to the airport. keen as, brew.

slept like a muther-trucking baby last night, but woke up at 5.45am. stupid 3 hour time difference. currently sittng in the hotel lobby, looking out at the monkies in the trees. i feel far away from home.

better go - dansie wants the intrabiz. i'll update from Japants. woop!!!!!!!!

i have to be quick, but i thought i'd fit in a sneaky update because internet is freeee and i'm loving my lyf a lot because of that.

arrived in KL this afternoon (or night if you want to get all technical on me and go by Melbourne time). the flight was a bit shit. there were no TV's, so the only entertainment we had was eating freddo frogs and pods. there was also the most entertaining kid sitting in front of Kack. we accidently fed him chocolate, and then he went heaps cray cray from a sugar over dose. his mum didn't look too pleased.

we came into the city on a dodgy bus that didn't have seat belts. got a taxi to our amazing apartment, and then pretty much ateee straight away at the cute cafe next to the pool downstairs.

massively looking forward to Japan tomorrow. i'm not a very big fan of KL, mostly because it smells weird.

i'll update in JAPANTS. yayayay. BAI.