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a whole collection of random stuff

1. I have been looking at subjects for next year and by doing 5 subjects in first semester instead of the usual 4 and 4 in second semester I will grab myself a double major – . Which, hopefully will increase my job prospects. Yeah!

8. A couple of weeks ago on NSBR there was a thread on Jung-Myers-Briggs Personality types. I found the thread long after it died but I was still intrigued. I did the test and found out that I was . Whilst getting books from the library for my last essay I picked up by David Keirsey and did more reading than what I had already done on the web. Things started to make more sense, I was able to understand some of the ways I did things and why I always think why can’t other people see this or think this way. Percentage of INTJ in the population? 2% of men, 1% of women.

16. I got a , it is no Bentley but it does what it was designed to. Now I can dance along with to crazy songs from the 80’s.

5. Chick Flicks or dodgy teen flicks, I have quite a weakness for. Ever since seeing 10 Things I Hate About You (for which Matthew and I have seen oh at least 20 times), I have thought that Julia Stiles is pretty rocking, so whilst creating about today I watched The Prince and Me, also picked up a Kirsten Dunst fix watching Wimbledon and then of course Bring It On was on TV tonight, yep total sugary goodness, but hey being the Buffy fan I was seeing Eliza Dushku is always fun and really Jesse Bradford, do I need to say more?

22. Tomorrow morning; Mum, Pabbi, myself and maybe but probably not Matthew are heading to the farm for breakfast at 6:30am, only a 30minute drive at that time of the morning. My aunt Susan and have spent the last 17 days on a 60th Anniversary Commemorative Tour of Singapore and Thailand for POW’s. Grandad spent most of WWII as a POW of the Germans. Can’t wait to hear his stories of the sights they saw.

3. My fingernails are full 4mm long and I can’t believe they have lasted this long! Normally they get pretty trashed at work but for some reason they are fighting back against those cardboard boxes. I love the clicking sound they make 🙂

6. Chatting to friends via IM, since early high school when we were all crazy over ICQ and then migrated to MSN Messenger, which is joined now by Yahoo and Google Talk. I have spent hours some nights chatting away, it sure is cheaper and quieter than the phone, though family reactions when you crack up in front of the computer screen is funny. To the girls and guys from school and uni to the scrapping girls and family. IM rocks 🙂

and I think that is enough random thoughts for today.

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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.