exo day countdown...

well it's about 4 and a half days til exo day and switchfoot. yup. i'm excited. i made a shirt. and here it is.

and yes, i will be excited to see them, but maybe not as much as i would have been a few months ago.... i refer you back to this post, (the last paragraph).

http://inbordem.blogspot.com/2007/04/umtoday.html

footpath etiquette

I used to think that it was something that everyone gets taught when they are youngsters. But I have noticed over the past half a year or so, as I'm walking to hornsby for whatever reason, used to be tafe and now it's work, that I'm always ending up off the footpath! and it's stupid because half the time there's only maybe one person coming the other way. like today this lady was walking right in the middle of the footpath and I had to get off it so I wouldn't run into her!

My parents taught me to keep left on the footpath and if I'm walking with someone I should walk behind or infront of them if someone's coming the other way. Obviously not the popular school of thought that's taught these days.

And women with kids, who should be teaching them to give way or whatever, take up the whole footpath! and people walk along with their friends and chat away and pay no attention to me walking along in the opposite direction, and once again I get no path space!

I was reflecting on my off-the-path misfortunes on my way home the other day, and was trying to find a reason for this apparent lack of etiquette (thinking that it's lucky for the people going the other way that I don't get footpath rage) and was thinking that maybe it's a north shore thing. or the fact that I'm generally walking beside barker when it happens, and half the time it's probably barker parents. private school parent-snobs.

The problem is that there doesn't seem an obvious way to education these annoying people, (apart from an after-school class to teach those who are still impressionable, and a rehabilitation program for their push-off the path parents) and that seems a little extreme. just a tiny bit. Maybe instead of walking on the path I should run, and knock over anyone who stands (or walks) in my way. muahahaha. maybe if I'm just not so nice and don't move off the path when someone's coming the other direction. That'll make them move. Then they'll just think I'm a disaffected youth who's listening to music and being rude. But hey, half the footpath is my right! :P

celebrations...

Happy birthday Lou! 19! yay!

I told mum this morning it was your birthday and she said 'so she's 18?' and I was like no! 19! (der) and she completely didn't realise that you're older than me! (i think she must have forgotten 'cause she's been around for so many of your birthdays... would be odd if she never figured it out...)

and i can't wait til tomorrow night! yay. thinking about it got me through work today... that and vik's ipod plugged into the cd player and playing switchfoot the entire time we were closing :)

tomorrow looks like it will be a good day :)

and i had nachos for dinner. yum.

and youth tonight was good. and didn't require much of me so i wasn't worn out by that on top of working over 9 hrs today.

i think i need sleep. night night!

drug taking and other exciting stuff... :I

ok, so i've been meaning to blog for a while. but there's so many different things happening i don't know where to start, so i just keep putting it off!

and some stuff i don't think i could be bothered blogging about and other stuff i don't think i want to blog about 'cause then i'd be having to think about it and don't necessarily want others influencing my decisions... although some of you know stuff anyways and have been giving me your thoughts :P it's funny how some people are so decided on what they think you should do about stuff and others start giving pros and cons about things and others just ask you what you'd prefer to do.

i went to see the doctor this morning, following up on the ultrasound i had last week. i left with a sheet for the pathologist to have a glucose test thingy, a prescription for the pill (yasmin to be exact) a couple sheets of information on stuff and an intended future appointment to see a dietician.

so now i'm on the pill. or on yasmin. whichever you prefer :P no need to freak, i'm fine (we hope :P) ultrasound found that i have polycystic ovaries, which means (or doesn't really, but i do) have pcos. (polycystic ovary syndrome). which means i have a slightly increased chance of getting late-onset diabeties (hence the glucose test thingy, to see how well i process it or whatever) and it's the reason for my whacked cycle (hence the pill). and i could have trouble getting pregnant when i choose to, but not necessarily...

and mum dobbed me in about my lack of exercise... dang. although this will probably be the kick in the butt i need to actually do some. i always intend to but my love of sleep and warmth and internet and lack of time (and motivation) between all that and work and life means that not much gets done :( except for the walk uphill (two hills, to be exact) to hornsby that i did most days for tafe and now do to get to work (when i start at 10 and mum leaves too early for her work to take me).

so yes... as for my feelings/thoughts on the subject, i don't really know. i guess it's not really affecting me that much so i'm not really concerned. noone's telling me i'm going to die so i think 'whatever, let's get on with it' and i guess i'll just do what i have to do... gah. exercise.

so that's the latest in my life.

that and having to apply to uni at some point before i leave to go overseas. and having to decide what i want to apply to. and where. and i think i may go see mr sekula on thursday to talk to him about stuffs and try and scab a uac book off him. and to see mrs brown! haven't seen her in a while. really should tell her that i'm definitely going to france (seeing as last time i saw her it was just a maybe). actually that just reminded me that i never called up school about my hospo uniform to see whether they sold it. they better give me the money if they did... although my name and phone number was on it so if they did sell it and didn't call me they suck! but then, that's the tas staff for you. mrs vanderflag would've called me but she left. i bet you it was mrs glohe. (sp?) gah. will probably have to talk to her if i go see them. now i'm scared. i think i need moral support. louise! wish you were free on thursday... anyone else free and feel like a duck to the school?

anyways, i digress.
and i need to go to the loo.

ooo but i read the other day that switchfoot is probably putting out a new album next year. yay. and jon's putting out 4 ep's at some point. which makes me excited, 'cause i've heard some of his songs (from live recordings) and the one's i've listened to i really like.

and i've got a song that he wrote with another singer (molly jenson) stuck in my head. i think it's called 'dreamer'.

am i in love with the dreamer,
or am i just in love with the dream?

if you wanna hear the song you can go here --> http://www.esnips.com/doc/571829aa-6db2-4e54-b56f-f90be2cf4a97/Jon-and-Mollys-Song

molly's got a really pretty voice.

so yes. that's got me excited.

anywho, shall be off!

bang, bang

Went to Zone 3 tonight with youth. it was fun! go the red team, we won both games. even though the other two teams were ganging up on us for the second game. and i even managed to come 2nd overall in the first game. fun fun. kato, kate and I unsuccessfully tried to play the second game as us (youth leaders) against the rest (without them knowing) but managed to shoot eachother way too much :P

lots of fun. although the driving there wasn't so fun when we got left at red lights (twice) 'cause we were at the back of the four car convoy. so on the way home I overtook the middle two cars. fun fun.

annoyingly though, I have to go to work tomorrow at 9, 'til 6. if anyone feels like visiting me, go ahead!

took care of some business today. went to centrelink and fixed up stuff there, with having a job and all, although they managed to confuse me quite a bit and i have to do so much stupid unnecessary stuff and it's stupid! and then i went to hornsby and bought ree's b'day present. and then to mt colah to drop off my domino's uniform. and then to pablo's to talk to bindi 'cause she rung me yesterday and wednesday when i was at work and left messages for me to call her back. although she wasn't there so i got a takeaway coffee and messaged harves to see where he was and then went to his house to get him so we could go have coffee. but he had to do the dishes 'cause he didn't do them before so his mum was not happy jan. so after he was done all his stuff we went back to pablo's and had more coffee. and then i took him home via the vid store.
rather an eventful day full of stuffs that i had to do. and it felt like saturday. which is annoying 'cause i have to work tomorrow.

so i should sleep 'cause i have to get up in the morning.
night!

the weather today...

was so nice!!!!

i was walking home from work at about 6.30, and all i was wearing was a t-shirt i.e. no jumper or scarf or second jumper... and it was so pleasant :) no chill in the air at all. just lovely :)
my feet hurt though :(

vegemite... yum yum. especially off the spoon.

i had porridge for breakfast this morning. that was yummy too.

i really don't have much to say.

so i'll say goodbye.

hooroo!