Pixietulips Musings

Shopping tomorrow (and Christmas)

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:44:15 GMT

I have two $50 gift cards so I am going shopping tomorrow to get bras as most of the ones I've got are totally warped and awful and uncomfortable so I need to get some new ones. I hate bra shopping so I always wait until I'm desperate for new bras before I go but I've also been hanging out for the sales. I found a bra brand that fits me well though so I'll just get some more of them. I need one or 2 pale coloured bras and possibly a sports bra (for when I possibly eventually join the gym).

Speaking of possibly eventuallys - the other day I ordered a bag off ebay for when I possibly eventually get into uni. I already got an early bird offer but then decided I wanted to change so if I get it again I'll have a bag. I already have a bag from the last time I got into uni 2 years ago but I like this one better because it has a rabbit on it. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/New-Bunny-rabbit-Blue-Ribbon-Canvas-2-Ways-ToteBag_W0QQitemZ270507136903QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_CSA_WH_Handbags?hash=item3efb7b5787 I think it is very nice.

I'm also going to get some more foundation so if I possibly eventually get into uni I will look nicer. I can save about $8 and get it from Ebay from the US or I can get it from Myers in the city. I think it might go funny in the mail so I'll just get it from the shop. It's good because I'm crap at make-up and it's actually a tinted moisturiser but you can you it as a foundation and it's also got suncream in it so it's all good. It's bad because it costs $40.

Liked Christmas at my sisters house (well Christmas Eve) because we watched the kids open their presents and they were so excited. My neice would've been happy with just one present - the Night Garden soft playset. She opened that second and just played with that while we opened her other presents for her. We bought waaaaay too much, but it seemed like not much when we were thinking about it. My neice and nephew weren't too fussed with the presents I got them but my sisters dog appreciated his present! I think my older sister liked her presents and my mum liked hers (though she already new what she was going to get). I didn't get any surprises and actually wrapped my own presents the night before.

Went to my sisters dads house on Christmas day and it was very sad when we left because my neice really cried for me and called my name and made me feel really bad. My nephew doesn't do that anymore but it was terrible when he did it too. Makes you feel awful. My nephew now always tells me to sleep over ('Nowah sleep my house?') and if he doesn't want me to leave says 'Nowah not go home'. On the flip side he also says 'Nowah not come my house' and 'Go way'.

Had big fight with my youngest sister. She really upset me. I'm sick of her always putting my down - especially in front of other people. She needs to grow up and stop thinking she's the shit - she's just a shit.

Bathroom and other jobs

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:21:35 GMT

Cleaning bathroom sweatier and longer job than first anticipated. Still going. Broke something. Hope mum isn't angry. Of course bathroom has tiled walls so have to wash blimmin walls as well. Not good idea to wash wall whilst new CD player is underneath. Close call. Nearly done.

Next: wrap remainding presents, wash dishes, write down bus route/times for tomorrow, check bank, write chistmas card, look at room and perhaps shift some piles of stuff slightly to the left. Not necessarily in that order.

More presents!

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:02:44 GMT

Basically I am really bad at buying things for my sisters kids for when they get older, but if it's on sale I'm like 'they'd like that - for next Christmas'. And not just for next Christmas - Christmases in like 3 or 4 years time too!

Today on clearance I got my nephew this super dooper mega blocks extreme sports set - the last one priced at $70.00 from $109. I actually saw it last week but had no money and they still had 1 left this week so I was excited to get it. The problem is I want him to have it now because I know he will like it :)

For my niece (aged 1 and half) I have bought her a number of books for when she is older (some for when she's about 3, some for when she's about 5!) and also my mum and I have been buying any Mrs. Goodbee's doll house stuff we see we managed to score a lot of it on clearance and have most of the set. That'll be for when she's about 4 too. We also have a Cabbage Patch kid, a bike helmet (that was me), an ELC fairy playground thing and some other bits and bobs. Hopefully she doesn't decide she's a tomboy or we'll be screwed!

I've only got 2 more presents to wrap then I'm done. Unless I see something else. I need to buy some dog treats for my dogs and for my sisters dogs and I'll see if there's any nice collar/lead sets - I wish we could just buy new the ones they've got now - they're Wallace and Gromit 'Curse of the Wererabbit' ones and they're really nice but the ones they've got are getting pretty tatty.

It's 7 o'clock at night and I still haven't done the hosuework I'm meant to be doing. Oh well mum doesn't get back from work 'til like 11.30, I've still got time, but I better haul ass otherwise I probably won't do it.

Harry Potter Horror

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:28:51 GMT

So I was going to watch HP:HBP today but didn't actually end up doing that - I just watched the ads that led up to the movie.

They are making another 'Free Willy' movie. Just how many times can Willy be freed exactly? To add to that horror it stars Bindi Irwin, who actually looks a lot nicer when not in her trademark mini Steve Irwin khaki short and top combo with crimped piggy tails.

Next is DO NOT BUY THE NEW HP MOVIE. They are releasing them all in special edition sets with extended and like 5 hours of extras so don't waste an money buying the ordinary version ones because these ones will undoubtedly be better. They seem like the LOTR extended editions, but, unlike the LOTR extended editions, they have released them years after the first movie meaning that most fans already have DVD's 1-5 so will now have to pay more to get these new ones and be left with 5 spares.

Have watched most of the special features on the DVD I got. The guy who does the interview with JK Rowling seems like a dick and has an annoying voice. I was also annoyed by the behind the scenes type of thing because of the set-upedness (the fakeness) of Neville and Dean introducing the segments (can't be bothered with their real names right now). In the actual segments Luna did quite horribly I thought as she was meant to be sort of interviewing the costume designer and she just sort of sat there like a lump while the costume lady tried to engage her. They gave Neville and Dean scripts, they should've given her one too, or at least asked her if she had thought about what she was going to ask before they filmed it. I found Emma Watsons part irritating too because, again, she didn't really interview the lady - mainly she talked about herself. She was going on about how it was embarrasing that she had to have a fake tooth fitted when she lost one in the first movie - what's embarrassing about that? I did find it funny that one of the people they pointed out in the photos was the guy that got done for growing marijuana (personal use my arse).

Best News header: Trained-up ninja monkeys 'turn on master'

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:41:23 GMT

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/984812/trained-up-ninja-monkeys-turn-on-trainer

In less exciting news have loads of Christmas presents to wrap and really can't be arsed. Wish my dogs had thumbs so they could help with wrapping.

Fallen by Lauren Kate (book - spoilers)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:15:07 GMT

The premise of this book seemed so good. I saw it advertised with my bookclub and their description was as follows (taken from www.doubleday.com.au)

'Appealing to Twilight fans, Fallen is the addictive debut in a new paranormal romance series that revolves around the forbidden love between an 17-year-old mortal and a tormented fallen angel.
Like a moth to a flame, Luce is drawn to Daniel, a handsome student at her boarding school, despite his frosty almost frightening demeanour. Little does she know, their love is doomed and she is destined to die before her next birthday …
Daniel is equally drawn to Luce, but is determined to keep his distance. As a fallen angel, he has learnt the hard way that he's not entitled to lasting happiness – for centuries, he has been cursed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years – and then watch her die.'

I thought that sounded pretty cool (except for the bit where it says it would appeal to Twilight fans!). So I bought it and read it and wasted another $19.50 on a book that turned out to be crap.

In the book they're in a reform school and there are 'reds' (cameras) everywhere. A lot of the kids seem to be there by police order and they've got to be kept a close eye on them yet the staff don't notice when batteries are removed from cameras (because I suppose having them run off of electricity would make it too difficult for the author to conveniently turn them off) or for them to be covered or knocked in different directions. Also the kids have seperate rooms but they aren't in seperate areas so a girls room can be next to a boys room so it is acceptable for boys to go in girls rooms and vice versa (at a boarding school for teenagers). Also the rooms seem to be expandable as the girls room is described and doesn't seem that big yet another student holds a party in his room and there is room for something like 10 or more students and karaoke. Again despite all the 'strict' security measures the kids are always sneaking away from class. Some of this can be explained away by the fact there are angels at the school so maybe they are in some way influencing the activities of the faculty so they are not paying attention to the cameras or something, or that the author thinks her readers will just skip through all these stupid slip ups and just take it that all of that is possible (if you are going to believe the angel storyline you'll gloss over the dodgy writings, right?)

My Birthday and some other stuff

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:47:34 GMT

My 3 year old nephew rang me for my Birthday. It was so cute. He had a full on coversation with me. He's never done that before on the phone:

Him: It your birtday?
Me: Yes
Him: You have cake?
Me: I don't know, maybe.
Him: My eat it? Nom nom nom.
Me: Yes, you can.

Then he said more about my Birthday, told me it was his Birthday (it's not, but it has been recently), told me one of his toy cars has broken but 'Daddy buy new one' and told me about his dad's friend and that he had a sore (to which I replied that I had a sore too - which I do and it is very sore). They're coming over today. We might put up the Christmas tree. Haven't yet decided if that would be a good idea with kids here.

Check out how icky the True Blood jewellery line is. http://www.lovepeaceandhope.com/catalog/CatalogView.aspx?page=1&catx=x521x It's really expensive but it looks cheap and nasty.

Finished reading some books.
'Perfume: Story of a Murderer': I thought this was pretty good. I've seen the movie and I think the movie was a pretty accurate depiction of the book, but I think the movie did better at capturing the dads distress over his daughter, the book didn't have the same sort of urgency.

'Jatta': DID NOT LIKE. Do not reccomend anyone to read this book. Complete and utter drivel. It's a YA book written by an Australian about a 14 year old girl who is a werewolf and it just goes on and on and is very poorly written.

'Romulus my Father': This one was o.k. Sometimes I think the author got a bit stuck on explaining certain points but I think maybe that's because it was important to him to try and get across to the reader the way his father thought about things (I mean he got stuck as in he kept explaining it, not he got stuck as in he didn't know how to continue - just in case you missed that).

'Jumping the Cracks' by Victoria Blake: Another crap book. Part of a series which hopefully makes more sense if you've read the other books. Doesn't even give you a proper conclusion (so what happens to the dog, did the guy really kill the girl, does the other guy get done for stealing, does the grandfather pull through etc... etc...) If nothing is tied up at the end then what's the point?

Finding things you didn't know you'd lost...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:36:07 GMT

Whilst trying to find a punch bowl (which I did not find - or I did find, but I think it's not the punch bowl because I have memories of a punch bowl in a box which my mind could just have made up and said punch bowl in box doesn't actually exist and one of the bowls I did find is indeed the punch bowl)

Anyway - I found the buzz game for PS2 that I totally forgot I bought. How cool is that. It's like getting something for free or a present because I had no idea I had it now I do.

Horrendous Mills & Boon Titles

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:12:19 GMT

I got an e-mail from Mills & Boon telling me of their new December titles out now including these four inspired choices:
Revealed: A Prince and a Pregnancy
One Cowboy, One Christmas
Snowbound Bride-to-be
The Texas Tycoon's Christmas Baby

Note: The title does not have to tell you what the book is about. That's what the little bit on the back of the book is for.

Camel Culling

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:49:53 GMT

Here is the article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/978820/aussie-camel-cull-plan-offends-brits and I remember a while ago on TV that stuff about camels was on US news as well, critiscising the decision to kill the camels.

Camels are not a native animal to Australia. They are a feral pest. We have many feral pests - camels, buffalo, deer, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, cats, foxes, horses, rabbits (etc) plus a variety of non-mammal species. They cause damage to the Australian ecosystem and make it more difficult for native species to survive.

Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. The camels will die anyway because there's not enough water - surely it's kinder to shoot them before they die of thirst and there's no way than be moved to some sort of camel sanctuary or anything like that. Without human intervention they would die - their numbers have grown to large to be sustainable, with human intervention they'll die quicker. If it's a non native animal that is causing problems I do think it is o.k to shoot it. If a native animal population has grown so large that it is impacting negatively on it's environment I think it's o.k to shoot it or use other methods to control numbers (e.g. kangaroos).

I do love animals but I don't let that blind me to think that it is possible to save them all, nor that all of them need saving. It was horribly sad when no one could think of a way to save the baby whale and they had to detonate it, but it was nicer to do that than to let it die of starvation whilst trying to suckle off ships. You have to be realistic.

I am with cold

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:26:55 GMT

That is all.

Singstar

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:13:36 GMT

Whoever invented the playback function on singstar should be shot.

Ugh argument with sister and stuff about my nephew

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:39:21 GMT

So I just sort of had a argument with my oldest sister (the one whom I don't get along with at all). We were talking about the babysitting I do I said some of the bad things the older kid had done to me wasn't acceptable behaviour and then she sort of goes of on one saying oh come on it's just kids you should've sene you and you sister when you were kids and your behaviour and probably me and your other sister when we kids and I stopped her and said we need to stop talking now because she was startingm to say about when my sister and I were younger and saying we were more madly behaved than she and my other sister were (and really how would she know, you can't remember just how naughty you are when you're a kid). Then she was like, no, come on, it's just the way you said it, you put on this little voice 'It's not very acceptable' and I said 'no, that's what his mum has said and I didn't put a voice on, I think we should stop talking' so then she was like fine bye.

It's just that she always goes on about things which other people are concerned about as if they don't matter and in a very hypocritical way. She is always going on about my behaviour and how I shouldn't act that way and I should've been told off more as a kid but then about every other kid it's 'they're just a kid'. Wasn't I just a kid too? She can never agree with me that something that I'm having trouble with is bad - it's how I'm dealing with it that's bad. It really pisses me off. She's far from perfect.

On a lighter tone my nephew wanted to ring me up today so my sister called me and put him on the phone and he said something to me and I said 'wow' and then he said something else to which I also said 'wow, really?' and then asked him to put his mum back on the phone because I had no idea what he was saying. I thought it was something about baby mouse's eating but he said 'Baby Monty eating' which it turns out is a baby willy wagtail that is in their backyard that has just come out of the nest which they have named Monty. Apparently it is very cute and fluffy and my nephew likes it a lot.

Yesterday I showed him my mouse babies. I asked him if he wanted to come look and he said no and then I said come on, remember I told you the other day how my mouse Hetty and babies? and then he said oh yeah (which was really cute because I don't think I've heard him say that phrase before). He liked the mouse babies and wanted to 'touch it' and asked 'what doing?'. He still more often calls mice 'skreek skreeks' than anything else. It's his birthday on Thursday. He claims to be 4 (he's really only 3 - he been claiming to be 4 for some time now - I don't know why, I think it's because 4 year old kids seem really big and can do more things?

Oh and thinking of mouse babies - last night at god knows what time my mum shouted at me to wake me up because she thought she heard cats in the back yard and she wanted to know if the mice would be safe. I was fairly confident they would be o.k and also I didn't want to get out of bed and find a brick to put on the cage and chase cats away (not with the brick, the brick so they wouldn't be able to somehow get the lid off the cage!) so I said yes. I was a bit WTF but it is also nice that mum was thinking of my pets late into the night!

In which roast pumpkin turns out well

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:06:14 GMT

Today I got a Bambi Thomas Sabo charm for Christmas from my mum. I can't have it now as it's not Christmas but I looked at it and it is pretty damn awesome (which it better be for the price!). I wanted Thumper but they didn't have any of him left. They did have this awesome crow pendant which was $547 which I don't think I will be getting, now matter how cool it is.

This morning I went to swimming lessons with my sister and her kids (as I do every Monday). I take my 1 and a half year old neice in before her lesson starts while my nephew is still having his lesson and then I look after him (in the pool) whilst my neice's lesson is going on (so no one gets bored). For the past few weeks these little girls keep coming and talking to me about my neice and showing her what they can do in the water (though they're really showing me). This one girl I recognise from last week and I think the week before. They ask me if my neice can do a certain thing and I say, "No, not yet. She will be able to when she's bigger" and then they say how they can do it because they're a 'big girl'. There's other people with babies but they always seem drawn to me - maybe because of my neice is older so she can stand up in the water or maybe because I'm younger so they feel more like they can talk to me (even though they think I'm her mum). Kids are funny things. That reminds me of what a commedian on the telly last night was saying how maybe it's better to have kids earlier in life because you're reflexes are faster - you see those teenage mums and they can be having a smoke and drinking a bacardi and smacking the kid on the back of the head all at the same time - they're like ninjas!

I cooked some really nice roast pumpkin. It's really yum. Unfortunately the last time I cooked roast vegetables not only was it for the parents of the kids I babysit for, but they didn't cook properly and were rock hard. I ate them anyway but the mum microwaved theirs (it's not that she wouldn't have microwaved it for me, it's that I ate before them and didn't know what to do to rectify the situation and wasn't too fussed anyway!). I think I didn't put enough oil in the pan. I've been there a few times since and quite often I've had to cook fish and chips 'because it's easy'. I wonder if this related to the roast vegetable incident.

Am reading 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'. Not very far in yet but it seems pretty alright. My mum stayed up 'til like 1.30am reading the first Sookie Stackhouse book. If she likes the series maybe she'll buy the rest so I don't have to ;)

Writer's Block: Book worms unite!

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:48:56 GMT

What are the three best books you have ever read and what are the three worst? What made them so good or bad?

Submitted By crazylove16

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It's hard to pick just three and there are loads of books I've read an fogotten about. This made me think about books that used to be my favourites and now aren't. I used to love the 'Tomorrow' series by John Marsden (which descended into some pretty weird territory in 'The Ellie Chronicles'). I would read those books over and over again. Same with 'Power of One' and 'Tandia' by Bryce Courtenay and 'The Adrian Mole Diaries' by Sue Townsend, the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin COlfer (not so much the last two he released) and the Darren Shan Saga (thought that descended into total crap by the last books too).

At the moment the books I still really really like (not that I wouldn't read the books above again) are the Harry Potter Series because it is just awesome, His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman and maybe Watership Down by Richard Adams? I tend to more often read kids/ya books because they're easy and fun but other books I really like are books like Ripleys Beleive it or Not and books of serial killers and aliens and that sort of thing.

Worst books. There's a lot of bad books out there. I don't know which of those I've read is the most crap.

Inkheart, Stardust, True Blood, Planet of the Apes, Birthdays

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:20:26 GMT

Finished reading the Inkheart Trilogy. Quite enjoyed it. Got out the movie from the video shop (should we know be calling it the DVD shop?) but the movie was quite bad. You know how it goes, they leave out stuff from the book and add in their own stuff and it doesn't quite gel. I feel quite a few changes were unnecessary. I also did not get the accents. Brendan Fraiser seemed to have an American accent and his daughter had an English accent and most of the story is set in Northern Italy where the bookwriter lives and he didn't have an Italian accent. The others didn't come from Italy but did come from Europe (possible Germany as the author Cornelia Funke lives there) and the aunt in the story living in Italy (Helen Mirren) had an English accent too. Makes no sense. The kid, Farid, who came out of the Arabian Nights had an appropriate accent.

Also got out Stardust which I watched a little while ago whichn was o.k. I've not read the book and watching the movie doesn't incline me to do so as it didn't seem that great a story, but of course the story could be brilliant and it's just the movie that is a flop.

Also got out True Blood - only a three day hire but I managed to watch all of ity except for the last episode! I've read the book, I thought the TV series was a pretty o.k adaption. The stuff they added fitted with the universe. My mum really enjoyed it. We were both shocked at the beggining because Vinnie from Home and Away is doing a pretty graphic sex scene and it seemed really indecent because he was in Home and Away (a terrible Aussie soap full of stalkers and foster kids). I liked Anna Panquin as Sookie Stackhouse.

I read 'Planet of the Apes' and actually quite enjoyed it. As usual I thought I wouldn't because it's an older sci-fi novel but it held my attention. I didn't like at the end how when he escapes the apes and returns to earth with Nova and his son how the Apes are ruling Earth because we can assume that they'll be killed and that's really sad with all the stuff they've been through and I felt really sorry for Nova while she was pregnant being all alone and also how the guy slapped her! Keeping it in context I suppose I can understand why he slapped her but he was also having sex with her and getting comfort from her and she would've been scared so I thought he was really nasty at that point but by the end I felt sorry for him again.

I've really got to get my arse into gear about getting out and wrapping Christmas presents. I didn't realise it was so close and it's my nephew's birthday then my brother-in-laws birthday and then my birthday. There was a time when I would've known exactly how many days it was until my birthday and would have done a countdown on the calender but now I don't care and I find birthdays quite depressing. I'm turning 21.

Some old guy bites a teenager at Twilight movie 'New Moon'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:08:45 GMT

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/975834/man-bites-girl-17-at-twilight-premiere

The guy's thought to be around 45 so he's not that old but to the 17 year old girl who he assaulted that's pretty damn old. The girls friend made a comment about how Edward could "bite her anytime" which this guy took as an ivitation to start making sexual comments to the girls and then to actually bite one of them. Old guy, please note, you bit the girl who didn't say anything about wanting to get bit, you are not a sexually charged vampire of female fantasy nor are you a young good looking actor, hence why the girl did not say 'that old guy sitting behind us can bite me anytime'. If she said, that would've been different - but you didn't even bite that girl.

Next is an article in which they've incorrectly labbeled the photo of a woman (murder victim) as a man. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/975707/police-investigate-world-of-warcraft-murder the caption reads "World of Warcraft gamer Erika Eriksson was found murdered in his apartment.". It's really shitty when they do things like this. I've even seen it where they've mixed up the lasdt names of victims and suspects and so on. Yes in the age of the internet everyone wants to type up their articles quickly to be the first one with the story but it's really unfair to the people you're reporting about to make mistakes like this.

Dan Radcliffe to be on the Simpsons...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:17:58 GMT

And he's mocking Twilight. What could be better?

'" Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will bring a little of his magic to Evergreen Terrace by lending his voice to an upcoming episode of The Simpsons .

And to make the guest appearance even more juicy, Radcliffe's character will spoof Harry Potter 's box office archrival Twilight .

According to Entertainment Weekly , The Simpsons ' executive producer Al Jean confirmed that Radcliffe will star in the 2010 Halloween episode, 'Treehouse of Horror XXI'. The 20-year-old actor will play "Edmund", a young vampire who romances Lisa Simpson.

But Homer and Edmund's father — who happens to be Dracula — aren't fans of the budding relationship, and work together to break up the couple.'

Exerpt (if I can call it that - I copied most of it!) from http://au.tv.yahoo.com/news/article/-/article/6497857/harry-potter-enchants-the-simpsons/

How NOT to mop your floor...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:47:51 GMT

My sister rang me and told me she'll pay me $50 to clean her house for her. I said 'You have a vacumn don't you?' and she replied in the affirmative and told me she'd been and got all house cleaning stuff because she had opened the cupboard of where the cleaning stuff is kept in her house and there was nothing in it. She wanted to mop the floor and there was no mop. She was very confused because her boyfriend said he had mopped the floor 'a few weeks ago' and the absence of a mop was very confusing and she wondered how the hell he had mopped the floor:

Step 1: Wet floor with water.
Step 2: Sort of scrub floor with a broom.
Step 3: Sort of wipe floor with a towel.

He did not understand why this was not acceptable, nor why the floor might need mopping again (even though somebody smashed like 3 bottles of beer on their floor).

It will be okay to clean her house 'cos she's a mucky sod anyway so I just have to make it look cleaner without actually doing a lot. Though it will still suck because apparently I will be washing her dishes. We might need to figure out a more appropriate fee depending on how disgusting her house is. I expect I will need to buy a book of post-it notes and post them appropriately with feel good messages such as 'Rinse your fucking plates you fucking dirty moles' and 'Go to the Doctor if your underwear is this crusty' and 'I am not touching this' and possibly eevn 'Last time I used your toothbrush to scrub your toilet and I forget to tell you. Oops'. Much fun will be had by all.

I'm tired and I don't like work

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:01 GMT

Okay so it's babysitting and lots of people fob it off as not being proper work but I think that's a load of bull and I think I may want a 'proper' job so I don't have to do babysitting! A lot of it is my anxiety cos I get nervous about when I'nm going to be called (you know 'cos it's a random thing) and what am I going to do with the kids while I'm there and are they going to be okay and all that kind of thing. The kids are really quite whiney and hyperactive. Today I had to change a poo nappy and I am not good with that but I did it. It helps if you don't breathe. The older kid kicked me in the ankle because I said he couldn't have chips.

Last week I went on Holiday to Kalbarri (about 7 hours drive away). It was alright though the beach and I do not mix well. My thighs chafe (is that how you spell it?) when I swim and I got weird rashes from the sand and came out in spots on my shoulders and chest. I caught a crab (not to eat, just to show my nephew) and a baby catfish - my mum and sister told me there was a tadpole in the water and I said it couldn't be because it was salt water but it did look like one but then I caught it and it was a baby fish all black with a long tail and it had whiskery things on the front so I think it was a catfish. We also found crazy crabs, sea snails, jellyfish (huge lumpy ones and bluebottles), fish that jumped out of the water and yellow sea slugs that squirted dark purple ink when I picked it up.

In the event you go to Kalbarri do go to Rainbow Jungle (it's a parrot sanctuary place) and the seahorse breeding place but don't go to the Oceanarium. We went because they claimed to have a touch pool which we thought me nephew would enjoy but the touch pool turned out to be a little bit of water with a smallish fish in it, a very small fish and crayfish. None of which you can really touch. It was crap. They did have big yucky eels in tanks but it's not worth paying the money to see the fish they've got especially when AQWA is quite near to us (that's this big aquarium place that's really quite good).

I did not like to leave my dogs at the kennels. My Charli did not want to be left at the kennels. It was very upsetting. My younger sister looked after my mouse and it's a bit sick. I think it has an inner ear infection. I bought a new one for it to be friend with which I named Hetty. She is quite a nice mouse.

I just read 'The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl' which I think was actually quite crap,'Bind, Torture, Kill' about the BTK serial killer in Wichita which was an o.k book and I've read the first book Inkheart (is that the first one?) and am about halfway through the second one (Inkspell?). They are pretty good books. I'd like to get the movie out.

Pretty Cool Book Site

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:20:52 GMT

Just found this site that I'm thinking of signing up to: http://www.goodreads.com/ I think it has a good premise and I'm one of those people who wants to list the books they've read but always forgets to and I'm always seeing new books I'd like to read but am always losing the bits of paper I've written them down on so this seems like it's the site for me!

(Dora the Explorer song) We did it yay!

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:02:27 GMT

Today I did my first paid babysitting job. It was with people I didn't know whom I mentioned a few posts ago - that they wanted a sitter but by the time I replied they'd already found one but were still interested in me because I lived close.

So the lady calls today saying can I come round a.s.a.p until about 2.30 and I say o.k. I ended up staying from about 11 to about 2 and I got $45. I did alright coping.

So yeah that was my adventure for today!

Craft, impending holiday, book review.

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:05:55 GMT

I've finally worked up the courage to do something with the clay I bought ages ago (I don't want to waste it or just open it without really knowing what I want to do because it's air dray and dries quickly so it's not stuff you can mess about with for a long time) but now I need to buy more stuff. I need some cookie cutters (though I've just realised I have some from a plasticine kit - I'll have to dig those out to see what I have) and I need some pastels to colour the clay (it's white). I thought you had to do it with paints (which I have ) but it's less messy to do with pastels. I might also want to buy some moulds and a cutter oh and glue. I need to make a list.

Going on holidays soon (in a couple of weeks soon, not tomorrow soon). Not 100% keen but then I never am, really. With my mum, my sister and her partner and her 2 kids. About 7 and a half hours drive. Everyone is taking turns at being in the kids car. There's not much to do where we're going (if you don't like the beach) and the beach and I are not friends. I do not like getting sand in my crack or the sting of salty water. Dogs are going in kennels, mouse is going... somewhere. A lady from mums work said she'd look after it but I might ask my younger sister if she will (we're not leaving the dogs alone with her because she might go out all the time and they'll need to be let out for a wee). I think one of my dogs has a bit of an ear infection - I'll have to buy some ear canker stuff. It's not bothering him but it's all waxy.

Read a book called 'Poltergeist' by Kat Richardson. Was alright. I always say that things were alright without describing how 'alright' I thought something was. It was a bit boring with some stuff the author crapped on about. All the talk of the ferret was quite unnecessary and there was some stuff that she went right into that didn't make much sense. I thought the book was a bit creepy, though I doubt it would freak out anyone else. Poltergiests are just scary to me and especially the idea that we can make the phenomenon happen (it's not that we can make it happen but that we could unconciously make it happen and think it was a poltergeist and be scared the crap out of). I don't like thinking about ghosts. They scare me. In this book was the seemingly ever present black friend who has a family that knows about supernatural themes (usually this is someone from New Orleans but this character was from Jamaica and verrrry poor, limited attempts were made at writing in a Jamaican accent) and more very poor, limited attempts were made at writing an Irish accent and the Irish character had green eyes and was a witch. So there was a few paranormal story stereotypes. The girl was tall, didn't have enough 'meat' on her, didn't want to have children and had not very good relationships with men. A description I find quite common. It's described as being good for fans of Charlaine Harris (though I thought it was quite a different style to her books).

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:51:49 GMT

Finished the book 'Midnight Never Come'. It was pretty alright. Not the most engaging thing I've ever read but good enough to keep my interest all the way through. I think the comparison I read that compared this to Philip Pullman was due to the way the fairy court and human court were linked together like in HDM the world's are all linked together with the 'dust' and they all had the different versions of the same creation story.

Did a good amount of gardening the other day and then our land lord isn't even coming 'til the 30th now! Oh well means I can do some more before he comes. We have an electric lawn mower which means to mow your lawn you have to attach a multitude of extension leads and my mum is always going on about being careful not to run over the cord and then guess who ran over one of the cords?

I've bought my older sisters Xmas present and I have a good idea of what I'm going to get mum. I'm not going to buy for my younger sister and not my older sister either (we've had another falling out and as far as I'm concerned she can get stuffed). Of course I've also bought 50 million presents for my neice and nephew. I just need to get my nephew as Transformers Height chart (I was going to get him a Thomas one from Avon but he'll like Transformers better and they're the same price so it's a win-win situation.)

Have to decide what I want for my Birthday 'cos I'm 21. I want a lot of stuff (which is the norm for me). I really like some Betsey Johnson jewllery so I might get that and there's also some juicy couture cupcake earrings I like. Mums already got me a swatch watch with rabbits on it and a book of Mythology which she bought from bookclub ages ago and which is now on sale - damn you bookclub.

Now I need to go and do houseworky things and ring my psychologist to confirm my appointment. I keep getting up really late (today I got up at like 11.00) I really need to stop doing that. Also I need to get my hair cut because the ends are all icky and split endy and so forth.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:37:17 GMT

I'm messing about on net rather than washing the frankly HUUUGE pile of dishes.

I rang my psychologist today but the phone rang out and there was no message bank so I e-mailed her instead. Go me.

Got a message back about the job. It's already been taking but apparently I live really close and that's a big pro so she says she's going to call me at some stage and then maybe I'll be able to get some work.

Did teeny weeny itty bitty bit of gardening.

My younger sister brought me a present today (but not the money she owes me!). It's a book called 'Squeaking Beauty' and it's a pop-up book of Sleeping Beuty but with mice and it's rhyming. It's quite cute, if not a little silly e.g..
'He was dashing and healthy, increadibly wealthy -
his title: Prince Charmouse the First.
And as she lay snoring, he gazed on, adoring,
then kissed her and lifted the curse.'

I forgot to say I got my book from www.betterworldbooks.com and I do reccomend them though they did put a sticker on the front of the book which was a bit annoying but I was able to remove it. It shipped pretty fast too.

I finsished and returned 'Wee Free Men' and 'Wintersmith', I didn't think 'Wintersmith' was as good as the others. I liked the storyline of Tiffany visiting the different witches and the boffo but I didn't so much find the parts with the 'Wintersmith' very interesting. Mostly I just like the parts where the Nac Mac Feegles say 'Waily, Waily, Waily'!