Lovely Complex

Have I told you anything about Lovely Complex - it's my favourite manga (even better then Kare First Love and Parfait Tic) I have watched the movie quite a number of times and now I am looking for the anime. Downloaded chapter 30 of the manga last night.

Meetings and Greetings

I met Teru this afternoon. He seems very nice, and can speak English well. We will have tea at the pub tonight so that will be nice - still a bit nervous though...

Tomorrow I am on a plane to Brisbane to see the Gwen Concert.

On Monday I am hoping to be able to join the potters and learn how to glaze.

So Yeah - pretty busy still - when will it stop?

Sick again

Was sick again today. I had to go in this morning because my senior home ec class was having their cooking exam, but I vomited during that lesson anyway. I took the rest of the day off.

Had some good news anyway - I was accepted in the 'all expenses paid' conference in the Gold Coast. Woo hoo, Gregg is also sending me on the teaching indigenous students course as well.

Organising myself for the gwen concert.

lolcat

lolcats make me happy - http://icanhascheezburger.com/page/60/ - is one of my favourite sites.

So I just did this test:

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/6348388576689378978/Which-Lolcat-Are-You-

My result was that I am the "can I has cheezburger cat!

back from the dead

Wow - have I been busy.
-got my ICT license in and passed
-nominated as an online facilitator for next year
-applied to a middle phase conference
-went away on holidays - need to get photos off the camera
-sang at the Queensland Music Festival Our photo on their website was from the night before. I will be getting the video of the performances and youtubing them
-froze to death - it's too cold out here.

I cat believe how hard it is raining atm. Who knew? So all of my clothes are wet or still dirty.

My ICT course has finished, now I have to wait to seee whether i passed it or no - was very stressed on Friday because things were not going right with it at all. Sorry mum.

Hav been writing my repord cards - so far I have written 3000 words and I am not finished yet.

That makes my total counted word count for this fortnight 9000 words, so I am guessinng 10 000 words in total.

My fingers and my brain is sore.

Yesterday for a break I took Charles to the squash courts for a run around.

Got it nailed

I love nail polish and nail art. I don't take photos of my nails very often though. The other night I won two nail polishes - but just as I was about to pay for them I realised that the ebay seller was selling heaps of good brand polish for about $2! 13 bottles later and I'm done.

I can only buy cheapo nail polish out here that peals off after a day and never dries (Can you belive that nail polish doesn't dry out here in what is usually a very hot dry place?) and whenever we are near a Price Attack or Big W I buy up on nail polish as well - but I always seem to buy the same colours like bronze. So I bought a variety of colours as well as some normal ones. I even got a glitter....

Glitter nail polish is the handiest nail polish to buy because if you make a mistake or you mark the polish just before it dries, just go over it in glitter because it will hide it. I have 3 different types of glitter polish but am always on the hunt for more.

I was looking into doing the nail technicial cert III - because I can do most of it (theory) via correspondence and then do a few weeks at the actual school for the practical. I could possibly do it next year because I will have long service due. It wouldn't be very helpful out here in Winton because two other people do nails, including a friend of mine, so I wouldn't want to start more competition - but I don't plan on living in Winton all my life.

Winnings

Had a pretty great time at the show last night, I went on the two rides (yes only two rides - but different from the last three years!) 6 times. My students get so excited - but I'm usually the only adult on them.

I played darts and the clowns. Won a penguin, a tucan, a fish, a teddybear and C won a woppie cushion. I ate a dagwood dog, and I will have another for lunch (once I get a bit of work down) and bought flairy foss, lots of lollies including honeycomb (which I will send to mum BEFORE it gets eaten) and got a new hat for school.

At the moment I am looking at Rnjetta's ribbon collection. C would have conniptions if he saw me looking at them.

It is too cold from my siamese fighting fish - one died last night. Sorry to leave you on that sad note.

Selling?

My great-grandmother's house, who I called Gran, is for sale again. She died 8 years ago, so seeing her house for sale brings tears to the eye. I wish I had the money...

This is the concert that we have been practising for in Choir. We are the opeoing act for the Queensland Music Festival.

Well just played squash, I managed to get some points. But why oh why was I put on line six? I really need to sort out my serve and hitting on the full. Plus I was really nervous, I'll try not to be next week.

Nailed it

I just finished my nails, a french tip with a pink flower rhinestones. Aw that's so preddy. I start playing squash tomorrow on the sixth line, not the seventh (bottom) line.

Tomorrow is one of my best days at school. Yeah for me! We will be moving into a new room at the end of the term because the high school staff room has been condemned. I am moving with them because atm I live by myself in the science lab. The Aboriginal co-ordinator will be moving into my old room, and the old staffroom will be turned into a storege space for all of us high school eacher to keep units and old tests etc.

Agh - I can't believe Alice just won Australian Next Top Model she's a fish faced, emotionless pit. The whole show she sat there looking like she swallowed a lemon! And the fact that their excuse to not select Steph was that she was too young - well, why did they allow 16 year olds to enter if that was going to be the case? Go Steph! Go out there and make more money then that whiny excuse ridden excuse of a model. However I know that Alice is 'the look' for Paris and runway so she will do well, but I feel so bad for Steph!

Squashed

I just played some squash, it's been a long time since I played much squash but I'm going to be playing this season's fixtures. Today was just to work out what grade I will be playing, they put me against Rusco and he said that we were evenly matched. I don't know what level he is on though but he likes to hit really fast so if I have to play him again I'm just going to keep the ball slow and just make him run. I think I will be on the bottom rung - my serve wasn't as good and I couldn't hit open face full shots - but everything else was okay - just have to practise those things again.

I got my first item back from Monika for the ICT course that I am doing - 2000 words later - but Monika didn't write an evaluation form because there was nothing she felt she could say to improve it. YEAH!

Another great this is that our school won two awards for our education in the early years and middle phase. Which is pretty fantastic, I'm obviously excited about the middle phase since that is where I have been working.

abc news item about it

Even more great news for school is that we have also won a grant to purchase 20 new computers!

Photos

Dad and I have been talking about Flickr lately, and that we had both reached the 200 photos mark, Dad's solution was to sign mum up for her own account, but today I went the whole hog and just paid for the pro package for a year. Heh, what money for but to spend?

Talking about money, no more spending for me. I actually have another doll on the way, so no more ebay or sale sections because I'm pretty much happy with what I have got. And what am I going to do with more? It's not like I play with them, I just like making clothes for them and photographing them. I want C to bring his work camera home because it takes better macro shots them mine does. Our camera is quite a few years old now, so I might by a new one with the tax return.

Was sick yesterday

Wasn't feeling crash hot today either, but Charles bought me back a lovely surprise from the post office:



They are just lovely, but is Lead's fringe meant to be like that?

what matters

It has been great to have three days off in a row. I finished a skirt for my stall today, looked over my school work as well. Finsihed the new outfit for the new doll. I have to figure out a better way to sew the cardi pattern, I will be altering it as well. I like the look of it, but it could be better.

C has been cooking today, he made pizza for lunch, and he also made mars bar slice. He has gone all domestic on me.

Postage

I sent my plates off today. But I got back the miniatures I ordered, she also gave me a free gift. I also won some Japanese bowls - I didn't think I would get them because I just bid and went to school, I didn't even think about it! But no blythe yet...

Going to make some clothes for her.

I do own a camera

Okay here is the new and improved (how can something be "new" and "improved" because if it is new then therefore it isn't old, which the word improved indicates because somthing cannot be impoved upon if there wasn't a previous/old one) Morris.



This is the completed outfit for my stall, I have another one cut out and ready to sew.



And I have just sold these for $70 on ebay.

Sew fantastic

I have been sewing like a demon this weekend, I have just finished a size 4 girl's outfit, it's sew cute...

Last night I hand sewed some of a jacket. I have already finished one jacket but it is a little too big for the dolls. I'll look at work tonight, but I have to sort some clothes, hang some clothes, wash some clothes today as well.

I figured out how we can have a shower without the pond forming. If we leave the plug in and then bucket the water to the sink, just like in water restrictions, to the sink we can have a dry room and no pongy damp towel smell.

So I ordered a Blythe, a Candy Carnival whom has bight blue hair - which was of course the deciding factor. I'm getting her from Robio, which is in Melbourne and she is already on her way to me. So happy! In the next few weeks I will get two new dolls, the Blythe which I will be calling Flairy Foss (due to my habbit of spoonerisms) and my Suigintou to finish off the Rozen Maiden dolls that I want to collect. Still thinking about the doll's house for the Rozen Maiden dolls. I'm pretty happy with my Pullip collection, there isn't really another one which I really want at the moment - just waiting for Lead to be released as I have already paid for him.

I worked out that I need about $800 to get Yder. So from now on the stall money is going towards him.

Okay, going to go and hang up some clothing and start another outfit.

Just got back from judging the CWA knitting and crochet competition for this year. I got a CWA spoon. I got my jstarr wigs on Thursday - very exciting. The wigs we pretty good, but didn't suit the dolls I actually bought them for, so a few dolls got an instant change of personality as I swapped wigs around. Photos to come.

Money

I was feeling a little fragile this morning after Caillee's b'day party. It was a great party, I:
- saw a lot of my old students
- got lots of hugs
- drank a far bit,,, too much
- got complements on my hair
- met some new people
- learnt a lot of gossip
- may have said I will play squash next season

The party got crashed by a bus load of backpakers who tried to drink the free beer. How rude is that?

Anyway, woke up at 6:30 and got ready for my stall. C so didn't want me to go, but I stuck it out and made a pretty decent amount. I didn't think there were many people at the markets, and I didn't think I had sold alot, but almost a hundreds worth. Yeah for me, dolly money!

Elsa (from pottery) was there and she bought the little girl's dress I had made, she said that I would make a killing if I made more children's clothes. And here I thought it wouldn't sell. So I will make up a few more outfits for next month.

I think of my craft stall as the selling off of my excess hobby end-products. Just think what my house would be like if I didn't sell it, I would have no room. I buy the stuff anyway, I make the stuff anyway, I might as well sell it and consider it all profit.