Yay, something I can list! 
Okay, my web browsing habits are as follows... These are all in order from most visited.

I open these up in tabs when I first get on to the internet:
Gmail (Have 2 accounts there so check both regularly... almost always have a gmail tab open whenever I'm online.)
Facebook (Checking the status's of my friends, new photos, etc.)
Myspace (Same stuff as facebook, but I also spent lots of time on here looking up bands and listening to different musicians.)

Then once I've checked those, I move onto to my other haunts.. (In order):
Livejournal (checking for new comments on my entries, then checking my friends page and reading all the posts made while I was sleeping!)
News.com.au (Catching up on all the news, duh.)
Youthink.com (Don't post as much now, hardly ever really, but I regularly spend time lurking there. Been hanging around this place since 2003!)

I also spent a good amount of time on these sites:
Youtube (quite a lot of time spent here haha)
Deviantart (don't visit every day but when I do I can spend hours on there!)
Fanfiction (Same as deviantart, don't go everyday but when I do look, I look thoroughly. haha!)

So there you go. My main online haunts revealed!
 ...Bet you wish you could get your 5 minutes back! ;-)

I feel like death warmed up.
I hope you know that.
:P

I think the correct term is "a bad cold". The sore throat is gone (for now), but the cough, blocked ears, nose, and stuffy head persist!
Means I'll have to miss yoga tomorrow.
Maybe folk art. (Wednesday)
Heck, maybe Christmas! ;-) Hehe just kidding. I think this is the worst of it and should improve from here....
(I know. Way to be OVERLY DRAMATIC about a simple cold. ;-) )
It's because this is the first sickness of the year for me, lols. I have been the healthiest person ever this year!! I don't normally get sick very often, but even I was pretty proud of the whole not-even-a-cold-until-late-August thing I had going on!

Anyway, despite my little bout of illness, I still had a pretty good day.
Mostly because I had an excuse to lie around and not do schoolwork, but also because mum surprised us all when a delivery man turned up with the DVD of "My Family And Other Animals". Which is the best movie ever, and I had just been telling my loverly online friend Ms. Locky about it, and then mum walks in WITH it. In the flesh! Or...In the plastic!

anyway going to sleep

Edit: Okay just realised I stopped writing that mid thought. Figures. I'll continue for a bit, had to stop because I kind of downloaded a trojan (eeeeek) but I think my anti virus program caught it. really really hoping it did. I'm doing a scan now anyway. too tired to deal with viruses right now though... ha ha, viruses. I have both kinds! Fun for me then. :P

So, this dvd is the best ever, I just love it. Okay, I also love the devil wears prada, but I love this equally as much... But it's a totally different film to "the devil" or "the prada movie" as my mum calls it. I really suck at explaining movies, so here is a link to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_family_and_other_animals

and imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482552/

It's a comedy btw.

"Ah, Maggenpies! What you gonna do with them bastards?" Will probably talk more about it in another entry...

Anyway, I'm sick, got the dvd of My family and other animals today, love it, life is good, but I would rather not have a cold. The End!! :)

Um, yeah! I pull my hair out all the time, which is really bad cause it means I have to wear hats and stuff every day. But it's ok cause I have a nice selection of hats now. Haha! It still depresses me sometimes though.
That is the main one, but as I joke to my family, pretty much the only thing I DON'T do is bite my nails. Whoo!! Consequently I have gorgeous nails. Haha. They're super strong, too, and never break, even when they get quite long. It's awesome. I love it!

1) Are you a male or female?
Wrong Impression - Natalie Imbruglia, (oh dear)
Cold hard bitch - Jet (oh, thanks.)

2) Describe yourself?
Dirty Laundry - Bitter:sweet (excuse me?!)

3) How do you feel about yourself?
Head over feet - Alanis Morissette,

4) Describe your family.
 Right here, right now  - Fatboy Slim,
Back in Black - ACDC,
This ain't a scene, it's an arm's race - FOB (hahhaa)

5) What would your family say about you?
Yeah - Usher

6) Describe your current love interest? N/A but...
Keep em seperated - offspring (HAHHA)

7) What would your current love interest say about you? N/A, but..
Susie Q - Credence Clearwater revival
 After All - Delerium

8) Describe your current location:  
Right here in my heart - Delta Goodrem

9) Describe where you want to be:
waterloo - abba 

10) Describe what you want to be:
Michael - Franz Ferdinand,
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera,
Black fingernails, red wine - eskimoe joe

11) Describe your best friend:
Hate to say I told you so - The Hives,
Gay bar - Electric Six 

12) What would your best friend say about you?
Weatherman - Damien Rice (this has some truth!)
Beautiful Liar - Shakira and Beyonce
Alright - Jamiroquai

13) Your favorite color is:
 Hot tequila brown - Jamiroquai

14) You know that:
 You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

15) What is the weather like?
 Pressure - Paramore

16) If your life was a television show, what would it be called?
 All that she wants - Ace of base
 Are you happy now? - Michelle Branch

17) What is life to you?
Sunsets - Powderfinger

18) What is the best advice you have to give?
Soar - Christina Aguilera

19) What is the meaning of life?
 *James bond theme* (haahhaha)

20) What is life’s biggest problem?
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson,
 My humps - Black eyed peas (hahahahhahha)
Take me on the floor - The veronicas (Way to be subtle.)

21) What solves the mysteries of life?
Black devil car - Jamiroquai,
revolution - The Veronicas
Angels in the room - Delta Goodrem

22) What is your dream?
Please don't stop the music - Rhianna

23) What is your greatest fear?
Lose my breath - Destinys Child,

24) What is your worst attribute?
White and nerdy - Weird Al Yankovic (HAHHAHAHA!!!!),

25) What is your greatest strength?
Rollover DJ - Jet

26) Describe your love life:
Everywhere - Michelle Branch

27) How are you going to die?
 Middle of the hill - Josh pyke
 
28) If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
 A Loan Tonight - Dandy warhols (Again, Way to be subtle, ahhaha),

29) What do your friends think of you?
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm,

30) What is your funeral song going to be?
In Da Club - 50 cent (hahhaha),

31) What will you be remembered for?
Music - Madonna,
My immortal - Evanescence,
Mojo pin - Jeff Buckley  (yessss! mojo!)

32) What will end up being your greatest accomplishment?
Silence - Sarah Mclachlan & Delerium,

33) What will be engraved on your tombstone?
Untouched - The Veronicas,
Irresistable - The corrs,
Hips don't lie - Shakira

Just letting you know that I'll be away for a week, going on holidays to the usual place with the family. Taking all the pets (budgies and guinea pigs) too, so felt the budgie icon was appropriate, hehe.
I'm taking the Sims 2 with me for those rainy days, and will be sure to get lots of screen captures to post for when i get back. Haven't played sims for a few days but have been downloading hacks for it, two involving weather/seasons which I'm looking forward to testing out! :-)
Have a lovely week, everyone!

Okay so I've been playing sims 2, and decided to screenshot this new family I've made. It's not a legacy because I totally used the boolprop testingcheatsenabled true cheat & about oh, say, a million motherlode cheats to get lotsa mula, mwaha. Oh and I didn't make their (huge) house. I downloaded it. Totally cheating. ;-)

Sooo, basically it's just screencaps of my game with comments.

WARNING I: May contain things like visiting lesbian sims that just happen to like woohooing while everyone's watching. In the hot tub. At someone else's house. That they barely know. (I warned you.) However, that excitement will be in the next chapter, because I'm tired and going to go to bed. This current chapter/post is family friendly. :-P
WARNING II: Also may contain sexual innuendo and slight occasional language.
WARNING III: May also induce intense boredom. SO sorry about that. Damn lazy sims.
WARNING IV: Contains tons of pictures/screencaps, so may take a while to load, especially if you have a slow connection.
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I do.
It's all my own fault, of course.. I must have accidentally pulled on the wire, because for the last few weeks the left side has been suspiciously silent..
It was only a matter of time before the sticky taping method fell through..
And then the (very creative) flinging-of-the-wires-over-your-head technique worked for awhile..
Now I'm up to the "hold the wire up an an exact angle for the duration of use" method. It's quite exhausting.
I think I may have to go and get a new set sometime. Maybe.
(Other than that, my day was extremely uneventful. I just felt like making a journal for the fun of it. Ssh!)

How was your day?
Do you have troublesome headphones too?
Any headphones horror stories?
Strange encounters with people WEARING headphones?

(I totally just copied this from my journal on YT, hence the smilies. hehe.)

Frantic footsteps echoed out into the darkness.

“Flavio! Where are you?” A large shadowy figure demanded in a harsh whisper, flicking a torch on and shining it directly in the face of the man running towards him.

“I’m sorry Carlos,” he began breathlessly. “The alarm went off and then all the light vanished from the room, and I thought…”

“You always THINK, Flavio. You should NEVER think.”

Carlos continued, “Look, the police will be here any minute and we need to get out of here. Grab the bag with the jewels and go!” He ordered, running down the aisle to the back entrance of the store.

Flavio glanced down at the two heavy bags in front of him. He was certain Carlos put all the jewels in just one, heavy bag… Which one did he mean?

The familiar sound of police sirens wailed through the cold night air, threatening to wrap themselves around the scene.

There was no time for thought, he remembered, as he hauled the heavier bag of the two over his shoulder and escaped into the night.

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“Good morning, Carlos, Flavio. You’re here bright and early today!” said a well-dressed woman in a white suit, as she approached the two in their office.

“Hello Catherine. Yes, well I had an early night last night.” Carlos explained.

“No you didn’t.” Flavio said, forgetting himself, and thus begging to differ on the matter.

“Yes I did, Flavio.” Carlos reminded him, accompanied by a swift stomp on his forgetful friend’s foot.

“Ahem. Well, we have many files to go through today so you may as well get started. Oh, and there’ll be a staff meeting at 11am, so I expect to see you both there this time.” Catherine informed them in her usual business like manner, and left the room.

Flavio spotted a morning paper on the desk in front of him.

“Hey Carlos, we’re only on page 3 of the Sydney Morning Herald this time!” He exclaimed in delight.

“Sshh, keep it quiet! You want to get us arrested?” Carlos whispered, glancing around to see if anyone heard.

“No boss.” Flavio replied meekly.

“OK, give me the paper.”

“But I haven’t read the comics...”

“Take the comics out and give me the newspaper, Flavio!”

Flavio handed the newspaper over and Carlos opened it to the crime section.

“Thieves break into exclusive jewellery store in Sydney, but leave the goods behind”. Carlos raised an eyebrow and continued reading.

“Police were puzzled to find the jewellery cabinets empty, with the bag containing the jewels sitting against a wall at the back entrance of the store. Two men were spotted running away from the scene.”

“How stupid were those guys, hey Carlos?” Flavio laughed heartily.

“Yeah, very stupid Flavio. Give me that bag you smuggled last night. Now!”

“Hey, calm down, no need to get all upset. This one, boss?”

“That’s the one, mate.” Carlos spat, snatching the bag away in sheer disgust at his friend’s ignorance.

“See what you’ve done, Flavio? You have picked up the wrong bag. That’s what you’ve done. That article in the paper is about US, you idiot. I do not know why I even associate with you when you always end up doing something stupid like this. You are the worst criminal I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. I can guarantee to you now that there is absolutely nothing of ANY value to us in this little, worthless, brown hessian bag except…diamonds.”

Carlos had opened the bag to reveal a rather sparkling discovery. Diamond necklaces, diamond rings, diamond bracelets, all shimmering in the warm morning light. The office ceiling and walls were a beautiful sight, as a thousand rainbows parading as prisms of light danced around the room.

“Carlos, I also need you to go through the… Are those diamonds?!” Catherine shrieked, her knowledge accumulated from reading page 3 of the morning paper furthering her horror.

“No, no, they…aren’t.” Carlos lied, lowering his eyes in shame.

“I’m ringing the police. You stay where you are!”

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Arghhhhh why is that copy + pasting in a different font from the rest of it? Blarghh! So annoying.

I showed my teacher this much of it, and she said that she thinks I could end it there...

I think that she is concerned i'll write like, four more pages of this supposed-to-be-400-to-500-words-only short story and THEN hand it in. lols.

Hmm. What do you think? Should I leave it there or wrap it up somehow?

 

• With regards to the folk art situation I mentioned in a previous journal entry, the particular woman in question has not been to that particular class since, and has apparently been attending on another day instead! So that solved itself, which is nice!!

• I am also going to help out in the folk art section of a big craft fair in the city next week, so that will be fun!!

• Today we had a black out at about 6am, and we couldn't get out of the house for a few hours because the gates didn't work, and the key wasn't working either, haha!!  It turned on again later, but dad had to use the side gate to get to work and trudge up in his suit and tie through the muddy grass, haha. (It's been bucketing down with rain here for a few days now). Mum said he was all rushing around the house all cross cause he couldn't find a way to escape to work, hahaha. He even rang the electrician!! So silly! Hahhaa.
  

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Spam emails also make me laugh. (But really, what doesn't?!)

For example:

"Reply back if interested in my proposal

of a marital life abroad with me in Paris

in your actual life.

Those horrible, intense ones that leave you upset and anxious when you wake up.. One after the other.. Ugh.

The worst dream I've ever had, in my mind, was about a year ago
Now the worst dream I've ever had that I can remember, occurred about a year or two ago, and it was about my Nanna, who has been dead for 10 years now.
In it she had come back from the dead but was now in a wheelchair, and wanted me to take her to Coles (supermarket chain) because she wanted to buy some apples and see how "it had progressed". Hahah.
But then when we walked back from coles,  I was wheeling her down the drive way and suddenly for some reason i let go, or it slipped out of my hands, and my nan went hurtling down the steep drive way towards the garage door. She smashed into the door and on impact, she just vanished, disappeared...and this faint veil of smoke, or steam, like a spirit/ghost  wafted up from the empty (and mangled) wheelchair into the air,  and then the dream ended and I woke up. That was just the most upsetting dream ever.

However, 3 horrible dreams in 3 nights is pretty intense, even if they weren't as completely horrifying as the one I've just mentioned!! Although the guinea pig one came close, and was also the most surreal.

Horrible Dream #1:
Issue: Destruction of my home and most of our possessions.
Setting: The family home.
There are shrieks of fire engine's sirens and smoke is drifting through the air. I look out the window and see glowing orange flames engulfing the houses further down the street. My family all rush around putting the pets into their travelling cages and getting them into the car, and try to quickly decide which possessions mean the most to them. My sisters are screaming and crying, and mum and dad are in action mode, calm and just getting things done, getting birth certificates and things like that out and trying to calm my sisters down.
Eventually a firefighter comes to the door and tells us we have to get out of the house, and we do, but then we end up for some reason having to WATCH the house as it burns down. Argh.

Horrible Dream #2
Issue: Inflicting death on helpless creatures that I love.
Setting: Some weird combined laboratory/alien-like disco dance place/exotic restaurant with blue cartoony people with big 80's hair styles combined with blue and white checkered bell bottom pants. It was more than slightly disturbing, let me tell you.
Then basically I saw all these guinea pigs on this table, and was all "aww!", and my (recently deceased - in march) guinea pig Princess was there too, and I was all, yay! haha. So anyway, there was this cartoony blue dude (like an alien) that must have been crouched behind the table, and he stood up and said hi. Then he said "Hey, the chef wants to cook these, want to help me wring their necks?"
.....Um, NO!
Anyway he was like, "What's the problem?" and then, "Ok, you can save ONE."
And then I had the dilemma of do I save my old guinea pig who is going to inevitably pass on soon anyway, (Ugh!!) OR do I save one of the other guinea pigs? One of the baby guinea pigs? But what about the rest of them? Argh, it was SO HORRIBLE. SERIOUSLY. YOU MAY BE LAUGHING, BUT THIS WAS SERIOUS BUSINESS. And then anyway, I saved Princess, because, how could I not? and then he was about to kill them in front of me, and I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and then I woke up.

Horrible Dream #3
Issue: Total abandonment by loved ones.
Setting: Our holiday house, and then some desert similar to Strangetown in the sims (..Hmm!)

TO BE CONTINUED... will write about dream #3 another time, it's getting a little late. :-P

LAST WEDNESDAY
Ok so, last week at folk art I mentioned it  had been my birthday and I was 18..
Got all these "Are you going to learn to drive now? Why not??", "What are you going to do when you finish this course?" and the best one: "I know this 18 year old boy who's doing architecture at University - he'd be PERFECT for you!"
Argh.
Then had this person who was relatively new to this folk art class, Carol, asking me thousands of questions about my schooling etc. I ended up getting all flustered and telling her too much about it (more than I should tell an impertinent stranger) and it was pretty embarrassing. She was so nosy though, she kept pushing me to go on... anyway.
Mum told me what to say, just to say that I'm doing part time TAFE, if she asks what course, say Year 10. Then *change the subject*. Gah.

THIS WEDNESDAY (TODAY)
Today I went to folk art and in the car told Mrs C (who also goes to this folk art class and takes me there and back) all about last week, and she was very nice  and said not to worry, etc.
We arrived and I said hello to all the ladies and started unpacking my painting things, paint brush box, etc. I have my half finished painted piece on the table in front of me as I'm organising all my stuff.  This woman, Carol, starts talking to me.. I think, oh, here we go.. and look up.
Carol: "That's very nice!"
Me, surprised: "Oh! This? Thank you!" (gesturing to the piece I'm working on, thinking she's complimenting me on the painting)
Carol: "No, no, not *that*. The paint box."
(at this point conversations stop and heads slowly turn to us :-P)
Me: "Oh so you think that the brush box is nice, but my painting isn't? Har har har!"
Carol: Har har!
Then she doesn't apologise. None of this "Oh no, your painting is nice too!" or any of those things commonly referred to as "manners". No, no. None of that, *har har har*.

This was just one of three things she said to me that day, one ignorant and the other rude.
What a bitch.
I think I handled her well though.
And she is only rude to me. No one else. Oh no. Just me. The easy target. Nice.
I'm looking forward to next week. *rolls eyes*

A newly ordained priest is nervous about hearing confessions, so he asks an older priest to sit in on his sessions.

The new priest hears several confessions, then the old priest asks him to step out of the confessional for a few suggestions.

The old priest suggests, "Cross your arms over your chest and rub your chin with one hand."

The new priest tries this.

The old priest then suggests, "Try saying things like, 'I see, yes, go on, and I understand, how did you feel about that?"

The new priest says those things, trying them out.

The old priest concludes, "Now, don't you think that's a little better than slapping your knee and saying, 'No way! What happened next?!'"

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The new Priest at his first Mass was so afraid he could hardly speak. So before his second week, he asked his Monsignor how he could relax. The Monsignor told him it might help him to relax if he put martinis in the water pitcher and after a few sips he should relax. The next week the young Priest followed the instructions and really talked up a storm. After the sermon he asked his superior how he had done. The Monsignor replied "fine, but there are a few things you should keep in mind before you address the congregation again:

" Next time sip the martinis, don't gulp them by the glassful.

There are 10 commandments, not 12.

There are 12 Disciples, not 10. 

David slew Goliath, he did not kick the shit out of him.

Don't refer to Jesus our Savior as "J.C. and the boys."

Next Sunday there is a taffy pull at St. Peters, not a peter pulling contest at Taffy's.

Don't refer to the Cross as the "big T."

The Father, son and the Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the Spook.

And last, but not least, it's the Virgin Mary, not Mary with the cherry.

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I had a haircut today. Yay!
Don't feel like writing about stuff yet. Maybe laters!

There is the most beautiful rainbow just outside! It is really, truly stunning. The colours are so strong and vibrant, I'm just in awe. It's simply  breathtaking!

Anyway, photos I've found on flickr that I really like (because my life is boring and I have nothing to tell you that's new or interesting haha) I will make up for this with pretty pictures!!



Oh wait, I do have some stuff to say! First of all, it's my guinea pig's birthday today (Clementine) She's 2 years old! Yay!
Also, I just remembered the dream I had last night.  It was oddly amusing and kind of morbid.
Basically in the dream, I woke up one day and heard on the news that Amy Whinehouse (har har) had killed herself/over dosed on drugs or WHATEVER.
Anyway, I was pretty excited about this because I have tons of shares in her on celebdaq. So, in my dream, celebdaq policy was to take dead celebrities shares off the market after a certain number of hours had passed since the death (in reality I think it's as soon as they find out about the death). SO ANYWAY, I went on the computer and was all excited because the share price would be *really* high from the press coverage, and I could gain a HUGE profit from it. I was relieved to find that they hadn't removed the shares yet and I could sell them safely without losing any money. YAY! And then I think the dream ended.
So remember kids, it's really all about the MULA!!
Hahhahahhaa. How horrible is my dream self.
It's not even like I care about Amy Winehouse and her escapades with drugs and whatnot. I mean, I'm concerned about her hair, obviously. How could you not be? Who knows what kind of... creatures.. are living in that unwashed, vertical mess?! But otherwise, I don't care.
....SO WHY AM I DREAMING ABOUT HER?!
Anyway. It was really cold today. 17 degrees. Freezing I tell you! :-P For April, anyway. Some kind of April - coldness record. Haha!
Anyway, I say anyway too much. 
until next timeee.... (Oh and the rainbow is well and truly gone and it was there for 30 minutes in the end. Nice!)
 

And the piano teacher just rang mum... Oooh... I will explain the full piano teacher story next time I post! :-)

Haha. I'm weird like that. I look up one, and then I click links to others from that page, and then I'm all around the site and have like 50 tabs open in firefox.
And what's more, the info probably isn't all that factually correct! Still, something to do.
For example:
Exploding head syndrome is a condition that causes the sufferer to occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as if from within his or her own head, usually described as an explosion, roar or a ringing noise.

That would be so weird! Eek.

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Anyway. Not much is going on with meee. Just felt like making a journal haha.

I got a bunch of stuff, had fun, went to movies with dad and sister, AM NOW 18 YEARS OLD OMG, and yeah. It was cool. :-D
Will write more tomorrow.......MAYBE.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
(No I have not consumed alcohol. I am naturally insane!!!)

Okay, so I've been browsing youtube lately looking up songs etc, and found a great remix of Madonna's 'Hollywood' which I really liked (almost as much as the actual song :P). It's called the Jacques Lu Cont/Thin White Dukes mix. (I'm in a Madonna discovering phase at the moment - realising a whole bunch of songs I liked were actually by the one artist. Pretty cool.)
Well, one thing led to another and I ended up listening to other remixes and groovin' out to them (in spirit) and stuff.  It's amazing, because generally I don't care for remixes AT ALL.  Maybe I've turned over a new leaf or something! Haha. MAYBE IT'S A STAGE I'M GOING THROUGH.
*IS BOPPING AROUND AS WE SPEAK*

In other news I seem to have been on the computer for a total of almost - wait for it - 9 hours today. Hmmm. Not great I suppose. I'll read for an hour tomorrow to make up for it. HA!
Also have been watching Kath and Kim all day. I love holidays.
Oh, and we are officially getting rid of the piano teacher and getting another one.
It's my birthday soooooooon.