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koalas

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:55 GMT

Until I looked at the Herald website this morning, I hadn't even thought about how the Victoria bushfires would effect the poor koalas - and for that matter, the wombats and kangaroos and all those animals that live the bush there. This totally sucks.

This was taken from the Herald website - here's a link to the story - Koala rescue highlights compassion in bushfire tragedy.

return of the mcweer (eat your heart out mark morrison)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:24:32 GMT

It's so freaking hot.
I have a a horrible fro today it is so hot.
I'm so over it. Thank god for workplace air conditioning is all I can say.

Hello everyone. I am back from a temporary hiatus for approx 1.5 years.
I hope all my LJ friends are well.

I am now going to include some photos and leave it at that. When I think of a witty/interesting thing to say, I'll do it. No sense in forcing these things.

I do want to say that whoever lit those fires in Victoria is a COMPLETE DICK. And I think it is great that we are lending Australia some firefighters. Jim Anderton said on Parliamentary TV earlier today that as a percentage the number of lives lost in the area the fire has effected is the same as in New York City on 9/11. It's a real freaking actrocity and I hope they are able to curtail it soon, and find that lunatic(s) who did it.

Contemplating a swim at Pt Chev - tide is out, but man it's too hot to be sitting around here. xx

Yuletide happy times :P We were very *tired*.

Rick James bitch.

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:10:58 GMT

One last thing tonight, before I forget again... check the name out on this bin we stumbled across in the Bronx zoo.

Uncanny huh? See you soon Rach! Can't wait!

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:58:36 GMT

The Vanilla Ice influenced stop-sign defacer strikes again.

Yo man let's get out of here 

Word to your mother

NYC and old friends

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:33:04 GMT

We're back. Yes, it's a little weird, but I am mainly happy to be home to see all my awesome friends and family.
One highlight was to see Luisa again for the first time in I think over a year! We had a great time. We did real "American" things, including Ice-skating in Central Park, a diner dinner at TGI Fridays, and a few beers at Hooters. It was a real experience.

( After a few manhattans and chocolate martinis! )

What's your favourite word?

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:59:13 GMT

My favourite is incandescent.

What's yours?

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:18:31 GMT

I am worried that my cat is sad. She keeps miaoing in a wierd way. I am pretty sure she is not sick. I can't help but wonder if she is acting sad on purpose, to make me feel bad for not being at home for the last three weeks? Can cats really manipulate like that - are they that conniving?

Anyone got any tips for me to get back into Bobby's good books? At the moment, the only thing that seems to make her happy is this old shipskin rug that she bites and kneads for like 30 minutes at a time - it's weird too. And cheese.

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:17:29 GMT

This is awesome and slighty disturbing at the same time...

Pia ( The Pug Dog )

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:30:31 GMT

the 3 million dollar question is....do I have the winning ticket?

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:06:44 GMT

It's been such a long time since I have updated my journal, that I am not even sure that there is any point. But hey, since when did purpose stop me.

I had such an awesome time tonight. The library pub quiz team went to quiz after a bit of deliberation, at whats-it-called...the playhouse, and man, did we lose big time. But it was fun all the same. I got masses of sour cream on my "cottage fries", which is always exciting. We had heaps of beers, I spent a mint on my credit card (the card which I swore I would not use till November when we go overseas) and had a all-round awesome time. It's definitely worth it. And even if we suck a quiz, and our spririts are low because of it, we know that the arcade visit afterwards will always cheer us up and make us feel like winners again.

Drummania is the the freakin' greatest game ever invented. Ever. I'd challenge anyone to a game, and then I would get Rachael to play them, and I can guarantee you that if there were a "drum-off" she would kick their arse. Hand's down. Perhaps not hands down, because hands are pretty important to the whole drumming thing, but she'd be able to beat you, without even looking. In fact, I bet you ( I hope you are with me Rach) that, with a bit of lunch-time practice, Rach could probably perfect 'eyes of kids', ironically, without using her eyes. Yes, I think that she could learn how to play 'eyes of kids' without looking. Seeing as drummania now lives less that 300 metres away from work she'd be able to get quite a bit of practice in.

If anyone thinks they can beat her, then let me know.

I bet $5 pro team Rachael.

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:18:52 GMT

It's been an age since I wrote in here last, but that's okay, because nothing of any interest has happened, and who wants to read about boring stuff.
A quick list of what I can remember as being slightly more significant than the monotony of my apres-student-hood.
1) I finished uni!
2) I moved out of home, again.
3) I turned 22
4) I got a full-time job at the library
5) I have finally made my first purchase on trade me... joy!
6) I am about to graduate
7) I bought a burnt orange silk top to wear to graduation, and Joel thinks it's hideous, but I think it's nice, but now I am worried it is hideous and I was brainwashed by the over-enthusiastic 40+ sales assistant at Sussan.

That's about it. My brother has a girl friend, who has a 8 year old child. That's pretty interesting too. I think I like her. It's early days yet. okay now I need an interesting picture to add in...

cute

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:55:42 GMT

I know- crazy: 2 posts in 1 day! But I just had to share with you something posted from my jazzy new iBook. It's the greatest thing I have ever purchased. It adds to my geek-status by like 70%. The other 30% comes from somewhere I have yet to discover. Yes, that means that until I purchased my iBook, I was 0% geek. Uh-huh.

I love my iBook. So I am going to write an ode to the iBook, entitled, 'My Lappie' (its name)

Hmmm

Let me consult how to write an ode, through the World Wide Web, accessed through my iBook.

Alright, ababcdcd, iambic pentametre. I can do this.

My ibook is my newest most prized possession.
It makes me smile and really really happy
But to be truthful, I must make a confession
I'm enamoured with my white & shiny Lappie!

I don't think I can do cdcd. Maybe tomorrow,

It's amazing what I can achieve with my iBook!

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:27:39 GMT

How would you describe this artwork?

hmmmmm... it's white?

It's meant to be Pop Art. Doesn't look so pop to me...

I mean, I really like modern art, but this I just don't get.

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:35:27 GMT

I have got to the stage of writing my assignment where no matter how carefully I read over what I have said, I can't for the life of me understand anything I have written, or whether or not it makes any sense (outside of me not being able to make any sense of it anyway)

So yes, I think I am done with it now. I got up too early.

Yay, I am going to see Nick Cave. I am so excited! I haven't been this excited about going to see someone in concert since 1998 ( I think ) when I was on my LIVE fix, and I went to their concert. And Ed waved at me. Ask Jemima, she saw.

Happy Birthday for yesterday Luisa! You finally caught up!

Auckland Central Library + chocolate = Easter Heaven.

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:27:18 GMT

I ate too many easter eggs and now I feel jittery and slightly manic.

Now I am eating chickpea salad. Yum.

Now I am thinking about beer.....

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:23:53 GMT

Yay broadband- "I'm loving it!", Yay mini pink ipod of joy. Yay Bobo & Bambi the tamagotchi family. YaY!

Haven't been writing in here much recently- in fact it's been a pretty piss-poor effort on my behalf (for want of a better phrase). Last time I went to update livejournal was having some sort of fit and it told me it was 'read only' time or something and deleted my post. Was sad. I wrote a really lengthy and detailed post, but it was probably all shite anyway, so maybe it's a blessing in disguise it was lost. Maybe, somewhere out there, the live journal moderators or whoever 'looks after' the site created a programme where-by all posts are screened instantly before they are posted, so any really crap ones are sacrificed. Perhaps mine was a victim. Oh well, if that's the case, I am glad.

(this is pretty crap too actually, and I wouldn't be suprised if, if my hypothesis is infact true, this ramble is too sucked into the crap pile of meaningless dribble. In that case though, it would be rather unfortunate as I would be the only one who knew of my hypothesis as the only documentation of this idea is right here in this post...how confusing.)

So uni is on again- week 4, and I have to write a research paper of 4000 words about something to do with what it means to be native, or to become a native of a country. I have no idea, nor very much interest in this. I have no idea where to begin. I am thinking along the lines of investigating into how different media tropes inform different cultures of their history and heritage, yet how these things are often constructions and exaggerations with no real value. Sound interesting? Yeah????????????????? pseud pseud pseud.

I am about to go and play netball. Hope to win- our team is pretty awesome, and as long as Joel is not there, I play alright. I suffer from acute preformance anxiety. Only in the realm of sport mind. :)

GO TEAM!
I'm a the sportiest cardy wearing librarian out.

Also, there's a livejournal community out there that has put 85% cocoa solids as one of there interests! So cool! I only just added that to my list today. Yah!

I am happy.

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 03:42:02 GMT

I just ate a mango & passionfruit "lite" Fresh 'n' Fruity yoghurt, and unfortunately it was perhaps the strangest (not pleasant) thing I have ever eaten. And now, I have 5 more to consume. Damn Foodtown 3.29 specials. So, yeah, I'd steer clear of them, anyone who's tempted. They taste really bizarre, but not like yoghurt- and they have a funny texture. Next time I'll stick to the regular "fatty" stuff. Like these ones...... yummmmmmy. This just proves that fatty food is yummiest. The banana caramel is totally awesome.

eat me...............

there's a mouse in my house

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:05:41 GMT

We won pub quiz last night. The prize wasn't a $1000 bar tab as I had been informed, but a measly $500,(which is more than enough free alcohol really.)Plus we recieved an addtional $200 in tab from a bonus round thing. So yeah, we have it till october to use it.
I also got a Tui duvet and pillow set. And a kilt.

And there was a mouse in my room last night. I could hear it knawing. It was really scarey. I couldn't find it as everytime i turned the light on it would scurry away. Little bugger.

I just hope it's not here tonight. I'm a little scared to go to bed. In case it's not a mouse, but a little lizard or something gross.

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:27:49 GMT

I just went to a pub quiz at Mad Dogs and Englishmen in St Lukes, which our team did not win (Team PUG was our name)and even though we didn't win i feel like i won for many other reasons, which i will list herein.
A) i forgot about how crappy i feel for a bit
B) instead of receiving the one bowl of chips we ordered, we got two ( after only paying for one)
C) the chips were awesome, and were cooked in vegetable oil and were hot and we got heaps of tomato sauce.
D) i knew the answer to the bonus question form the first clue given( but my team members didn't believe me, so it wasn't so awesome- the answer was Lance Cairns- which shows my vast and innate cricket knowledge)
E) i scored Michael Jackson's album Thriller off my friend Robert, which i am listening to now, and reminising about primary school times and am in awe of how much i remember the words to the songs.
Yep- this is why my night has been rather good considering.
And now as i am sobering up, i realise how crap i feel, and how i am probaly going to have to call in sick tomorrow.
poo

sore throat action

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:04:56 GMT

all my talk about never getting sick looks to have finally backfired- must be karma. For a number of reasons i'd imagine.
It was only a matter of time really.
Having a crap day to be honest.
and my room's a mess, which is making my head a mess.
Maybe I should go to the pub.

I'm off to...do something. Stop feeling sorry for myself i hope.

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:23:41 GMT

This morning I watched 4 of my friends, plus a random Swedish guy and a slightly more random Australian girl bungy jump off the harbour bridge.
It was awesome.
I'm kind of regretting that I didn't give it a shot, but not enought to get me to go back and do it.
I've had 4 cups of coffee and am a little shakey and can't concentrate on study for my exam tomorrow. I am looking forward to vegetarian gluten patty for dinner with Joel ( I CAN believe it's not meat with a name like that) it looks yum- hopefully it's nicer that last week's fake fish disaster.
Better go back to study- yay for Auckland City Library's art images database.

The post in which I hope to devise a plan to steal John Rowles's citrus...

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:54:59 GMT

I had 11 hours sleep last night.

I feel great- rejuvinated and ready to put into action an attempt to appropriate lemons from my neighbour's tree. I can't believe that I haven't thought to do it before.

I sat in my kitchenette area this morning and contemplated how I could go about it, and I came to the conclusion that I don't reckon it's going to be easy.

So far I think that I am going to have to climb out of one of the windows in our little dining room, crawl along the fence and jump down into his garden. This should be relatively easy, but I think it's going to get difficult from here on. The reasons being thus:

a) The tree is a good 25 metres on the other side of his garden.
b) The tree is quite large and the good fruits seem to be on the top.
c) I may have to take a ladder as the tree doesn't look very sturdy.
d) If I do take a ladder it's likely to be much harder to climb over the fence
e) If I do take a ladder it's sure to make a lot of noise and I don't want to get accused of a buglary attempt again.
f) There is a major open space in his garden between the fence (which divides our properties) and the tree itself.
g) Finally, and most importantly- I am not entirely convinced that it is a lemon tree- if I look at it too long the fruit sort of look like little grapefruit. I don't know if I begin to think this because my mind is trying to convince me out of the plan. I may need a second opinion on the fruits. I'm waiting for Jemima to get home- she's got the best eyesight out of us all.

So yeah i know it's a little hard for you all to visualise, but I hope to get a photo of it for you to see, and then maybe you could help me out.

If any one has any tips, they would be greatly appreciated.
I'll keep you all up to date with my plan.
Awesome.

choco-overload....yuk...

Thu, 06 May 2004 11:50:37 GMT

I ate more left over easter chocolate tonight and am now feeling ill. The worst thing about it is there's a whole other 200gm milk chocolate bunny that hasn't been touched sitting in the fridge all ready for me to consume. I think I may melt it down and use it in a cake or something. Yep- perhaps for Saturday group. Awesome.
I had a nice walk home tonight. It was clear and brisk and stuff- it was one of those really nice walks where you don't want to rush to get to where you're going, but take it slow- time to walk and ponder. It was also nice to get home and find that the house wasn't empty and Antz was home. I have realised how much I dont like being by myself for too long. Yep. And I was singing loud and someone ran past me- they must have heard. Is it some sort of rule that someone must run past when you're singing to yourself? I swear it has happened to me way to many times.

Tired- off to beddy.

I am the Queen of extreme procrastination

Mon, 03 May 2004 11:53:15 GMT

I don't think there's a more perfect time to update your journal than when you have a 2500 word essay to write before 4pm the hext day. I think I have been concentrating on it for to long because I keep writing the same thing over and over again. I am waiting for that 1am extreme clarity to click in, then i'll get it done by 2.30 and only have the footnotes to do in the morn. I doubt it though. I have already eaten my way through half a left over easter egg to stay awake but all that did was make my teeth sore and my belly ache. Argh, totally angry with myself. Yep, oh well...i'm just going to go and lie in my bed of failure. Yay for self-pity -totally yay.

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:20:12 GMT

Well, such a great story to tell. Tonight, Jemima and I went to went to a 21st birthday party out in the wops of a place starting with 'o' - some Westy land- Oratia (Glen just told me). It was fan-freakin'-tastic. Anyway, firsty, our friend Meredith, who picked us up from our cool as flat in Kingsland, somehow forgot(as she got out of her car)to take her keys out of her car, also she forgot to turn her engine off. Thus, we were left to wait, outside in the cold while her parents came from the shore (yep) bringing one of the 4 spare keys to her new car. ( look at the lack of faith they have in her) So they came and we got inot the car and ventured off into the westy night- it was great. Anyway, after we nearly died of hitting another car as we went around a round-about, we arrived in the 'o' place. unfortunately, there "was-ne" many peeps there, but we made up a group of about 30, 1/2 of which was post 50 years of age. Anyway i was forced to talk to my ex boyfriend's Mother for about 30 mins ( she's actually the only reason I went out with him for more than 2 months-she's awesome.) Anthony( the ex.) is really cool, but yeah, he's giving me driving lessons. Isn't that nice?? he's 6 foot 6, I like telling peeps that. So yeah, I sort of met his most recent girlie who he recently broke up with. Well not really, she's really nice. I hate it. Anyway, i don't cos it really doesn't that at all. Is this what live journal for? to be really embarrassed on and to blatantly be franK. yeah!! hey Rach, shitty!!! Nighty night!!