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2500 words + 5 polos = satisfaction

Some days at uni just leave you so charged about the world and about the future, that you walk round all day with a “I can do this” thought on your head. Today was one of those days; the thing is other than handing in my essay which for the first time I actually edited, so I should see an improvement in the language marks and handing out 376 slices of pizza in 20 mins with Andrea and Anika for the SRC, it was not a really thought provoking day; one class this morning on preparing for the final report and one this afternoon when I handed in my essay. Perhaps it was just the satisfaction of getting a semester essay handed in, in week 5 of classes or handing out pizzas and then chilling with Andrea and Brenton up in the SRC offices. Who really knows but it was a good day that was made even better by what Mum and I did when I got home.

Rivers is an ultra cool Aussie clothing company that is marketed more towards the people who live on the land, however in their women’s range they have a fantastic range of shirts in a paintbox full of colours. We had received the latest catalogue the other day in which they said they had cut the last lot of tops (6 styles, 14 colours) too large so they were marking them down. With each week till the stock is gone $1 been taken off the price. So after dinner tonight Mum and I headed down to the shops to check it out, well I got five polo necks for the grand price of $64.75 or $12.95 each, next week I am heading back to stock up on some boat necks 🙂 The pink and blue shirts are the same colour as my two fav Bazzill Scrapworks colours as well 🙂

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the ekka 2

I am having the utter most awful writing slump at the moment; I just can’t get the words right out of my fingers so I warn you in advance.

Whilst shooting Sideshow Alley on Wednesday night I was given a tip from a fellow ‘tog that the roof of the car park across the road could provide some awesome shots. I eagerly took note of his tip. However I thought I don’t think I would feel comfy up there late at night therefore I skipped going up there that night but decided to come back later in the week with a partner so tonight Mum and I headed in to the car park in time to get photos of the fireworks as well as general views.

It was like a block party up there (well not quite but close), there was four of us with tripods, numerous car fulls of families who had decided that $3-6 in parking fees was a much better price to watch the fireworks then at least $45 for entry fees to (2 adults, 2 kids).

Once I had gotten set up, we chatted and waited till imagine our surprise when the man and son a car over from us said is that you Ruth? Ruth Stephenson? (Mum’s maiden name). Turns out it was a bloke called Jeff/Geoff who went to high school with Mum and was best mates with my uncle. What an utter coincidence! He was there with his son who is roughly the same age as myself and is a design student at the arts college and was out taking photos of the night as well. So they chatted and we did our thing. How cool was that?

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Things I learnt – Enabling mirror lock-up and using the camera on bulb with a remote is a tricky operation to ensure that the shutter triggers when you want it to. Will have to practice more with that.

Things I have realised – I don’t take photos because I scrapbook. I scrapbook because I take photos. Hence I am undertaking a swing in my financial output to ahh support Canon more than I do Bazzill. No more scrapbook spending unless it is on more adhesives, albums or page protectors. I wonder how well I can stick to that thought because I really need some more alpha stamps lol.

Other than taking photos and developing my raw’s, I have not been up to much just the usual combo of uni and work. This weekend I am getting stuck into an essay I have due on Thursday on the question of “Is total war obsolete?”

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the ekka

ahhh, that wonderful ten days of August when the show comes to town 🙂 Spent the arvo/night in at the looking at all the aggie displays, sampling the foods, surveying the photograph competition, having a strawberry ice-cream and well doing what I do best taking photos 🙂 I didn’t buy any show bags nor go on any rides or buy anything other than the token strawberry ice-cream. I have heaps of photos to go through but I have posted one on the plog alreay – solo guy and ferris wheel

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simple day

Today, was a simple day, spending time with my mum going shopping with her, something I can’t remember the last time I had done. Buying a new sæng(doona) and then buying a new quilt cover set that my parents will give me for my birthday next month – Paisley by Esprit. It is so utterly gorgeous and I can’t wait till I get it on my birthday :):)
Finding a new magazine in the newsagent is always fun, even better when it is very similar in style to Real Simple but is a home-grown aussie publication called Notebook. The issue I picked up was the launch issue and I can see this magazine filling a niche in our domestic magazine price and it is over half the price and more pages than Real Simple as well. Bonus 🙂

Tonight Sweet Home Alabama was on the Telly, so I grabbed my sæng, all nice, new and fluffy and settled down for a good chick flick. That movie always makes me smile 🙂
Work tomorrow, I start in 6hrs so it is off to bed now 🙂

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now it is just me

I have sat down to try to write this many times in the past 24hours and each time nothing has really come out but I am sitting down now to try again.

Yesterday I said good-bye to the life I had enjoyed, loved and cherished for these last fifteen months. I will never be sorry for the times I have had with Sean and his family, the experiences and places I have gone. Netball, Slurpees and Cricket are three of the first things that come to mind about the new things Sean and his life showed me.

However, not all good things never end and I realised that whilst I will always love Sean, the love I felt for him now was very different from the love I had felt for the last fifteen months, I no longer saw him as the one I wanted to grow old beside. He was no longer the one for me.

I asked myself so many times, why had my feelings changed so quickly and for that I can offer no rhyme or reason so I did what I knew I had to do. I broke it off with a wonderful guy. I felt terrible doing it, for hurting him and for not been able to offer him a substantial reason other than that it no longer felt right for me.

And now it is just me, no more Sunday cricket adventures. Just me, trying to figure out what I need to do in my life and how to fill my time.

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silly flu.

Well, I have the Flu not the fake flu which people say they have when all they actually have is a cold, I have the whole shebang, hot and cold swings, aches in the joints, very sore eyes etc and that all comes and goes at the day progresses – fine when the sun is shining but just awful when the sun goes to bed.

Sleep is awful as I can’t stay in one position too long as my bones get sore, have to have the quilt over my face so no light gets in and then I am ripping my covers off and pulling them back on as I get hot and cold. Blah Blah, makes me feel awful at night.

I hadn’t really thought anything of it, just thought I was a bit crook, however this morning I got up to grab some pain killers to try to get my temp and headache down a bit when I collapsed and passed out in Mum’s arms when she was giving me a hug, apparently I just flopped like a rag doll and my eyes rolled back – quite scary she said.

She lay me down on the floor, wrapped me with my quilts and called the ambulance, they arrived shortly after and said it sounds and looks just like the flu but since my blood pressure was very, very low. My systolic pressure, laying down was 70 as in it was 70 over something even lower, they didn’t measure the diastolic as they get enough info about the patient from the systolic. By the time I got out to the stretcher and in the ambulance my systolic was up to 100 which was much more healthy.

Got to the hospital, yeah you have the flu, nothing we can do other than to test your haemoglobin to make sure it is fine (yep 140), check your blood pressure sitting and laying down (yep all fine and no change in them) and whilst we wait for the blood results may as well pump some saline into you to give you a bit of an energy boost.

All fine now except for the aching eyes that don’t go away and approaching night where the saga will start again. So much fun but at least I got to ride in an Ambulance 🙂