Day 365

Oh wow. 365 days! This is the end. I still cant believe I have taken a photo every day. Every single day! Really? no, REALLY? When I had the idea to do the blog I thought it would be a fun, albeit logistically challenging, venture. Now I’m at the end I realise just how much more self aware it has made me. Every single day I had to look and think about my self and my body. When I sat down to write something I had to think about and analyse what was on my mind at that time. I think I am going to miss hanging out with myself everyday, but I definitely won’t miss Blogger and its glitchy bitchiness. either way its fairly safe to say that I have started something here, and this blog is definitely not the last of me. Anyway, goodbye for now, I’m going off to be 19 for awhile..

day 364

My family was all at home for dinner tonight. I love my family so so so so much. On a far more amusing note, I was given a cute cuddly pink syphillis teddy tonight. I guess you could say that someone gave me syphillis. But, in the interests for going into politics later on in life, I am categorically denying being given syphillis.

day 363

My last soccer practise was tonight. I rocked up just in time for the food, drink and conversation that happens afterwards. Im going to miss my lovely teammates, they are the spunkiest women I have ever met!

day 362

One of the downsides to having a birthday is that the birthday persons facebook gets temporarily inundated with birthday wishes all the way from family to cute people once met on a camp. it creates chaos in notification land! So I have removed my birthday from my profile (dont worry old people it was visible only to my friends in the first place). Hopefully that way my computer wont explode. this is all most definitely not to say that I dont like birthday wishes, I LOVE them! Just not 259 of them.

day 361

Lolly cake=worst decision ever. Why do I always think it is going to work? I end up with a sticky mess and a massive sugar headache. At our formal dinner social night we made a lolly cake. It turned out to be pudding because the marshmellows and other various sweets refused to set. Im a bit bummed because I was wearing a cute dress and intended on getting a photo but the night got away from me so I am stuck with a photo from previously in the day when I was rocking my sheep pyjamas.

day 360

Oh dear. The magic 8 ball say outlook not so good. The magic 8 ball takes the form of a guy called Graham. He is going to try and fix my foot by Sunday. It turns out that I have stretched and kinda torn one of the ligaments that goes over my ankle. Imagine a well chewed piece of gum. now imagine stretching it until it starts getting holes in it. Yeah, thats essentially what I have done to my poor ligament. For my entire life I have wanted crutches, now that I have them I realise why people laughed at me when I used to say that I wanted crutches. Pain. in. the. arse.

day 359

AHHHH!!! WE ARE IN THE GRAND FINAL! This will be my first grand final ever! todays match was ...whats the word? EPIC. I scored a wicked goal and there were two penalty kicks and Haylee and Tom came to watch and I injured myself and then Laura finished the game the most amazing goal in overtime! The grand final is going to be on my birthday, but do you know what that means? this blog will never know the result because it finishes a day earlier. eek! that means there is less than 1 week left of my blog!

day 358

I managed to escape moving house duties for this morning to go and have breakfast with my friends. It was great! Although I have noticed a terribly rude, annoying habit that I have. When food is sat in front of me whilst eating out I dont wait for everyone else, I just start eating. I put it down to being ridiculously hungry by the time food comes but it is a habit I should kick nonetheless.

day 357

Today is wear purple day to raise awareness of youth suicide in the GBLTIQ community (Try and say it 7 times fast.) Faith, Dave and I all donned our purple. Sadly, Dave ditched his hammer pants before we could get a photograph.

Day 356

Sabrina came to work with me today and we went on a thirty km bike ride. there was a mammoth puddle that was easily waist deep on the edges, I fell in. and by in I mean IN. Puddles are so much fun!
Tonight was the very last Whitfield pizza night. An era has ended and it makes me so sad.

day 355

Eff I love pulling peas. I worked for 11 hours today. all because I love pulling peas.

day 354

Dad taught me how to syphon petrol tonight. It didnt work but it was fun trying. In the end we disconnected the fuel outlet thingy and revved the petrol into the jerry can with a spare hose. After staining tables at work and then trying to syphon petrol I was veritably high by the time I got to bible study.

day 353

Its a hard life isnt it? sitting in the sun eating crostoli, freshly baked crepes, cookies and tim tams with your work mates. Its education support staff appreciation month, which is why we were having a lovely morning tea in the sun. For all my complaining, this is the best job in the world.

day 352

There was a boy in my church named Josh, He died 4 years ago in a car crash while we were in America. At church tonight was the first time that I have listened to someone speak about it. I cried for an hour solid.

day 351

Two weeks left exactly, two weeks into my blog is my most viewed post. I dont know if that a good thing or a bad thing... Everyone knows Jeff from the wiggles right? you know, WAKE UP JEFF! Apparently he has taken a photo a day since 1990. That is so cool. Maybe ill take a photo every day for the rest of my life, who knows? Definitely not always with me in it though, I am so sick of my body.

day 350

I found a blog about weddings. Its great, people write in to this woman about their wedding issues and she gives them great, wittyly worded, advice. Its times like these that I am glad that im single because it cuts out the awkward Im-obsessed-with-weddings-but-not-necessarily-weddings-with you-so-please-stop-feeling-so-pressured conversation. also, I know I just recently did a photo like this but it is fun to do so I will continue to do them. This was taken at the ropes course at my work.

day 349

I have thought about my upcoming birthday a lot this year. Probably more than any other birthday ever but today was the first day that I was genuinely, childishly excited for my birthday. I think its the smell of spring in the air that is making me so happy. Either way, For the first time possibly ever, I am excited about turning 19.

day 348

Guess what I did all day. I answered phones. This was my third day of being office lady and this week has been probably the best weather of the year. I have been inside ALL WEEK! Im going insane.

day 347

I am so angry! At my work at the moment I am researching and looking to buy a playground. I have rung people, enquired, got quotes and arranged meetings. So today a man turns up for a meeting with me. He introduced himself to me and Cav and then proceeded to address the entire consultation at Cav. He did not talk to me at all unless I asked a direct question. At the end Cav asked him if he had my email address and he said no dismissively and asked for CAVS email address! I swear if I hadnt stuck my hand out as he was leaving he wouldnt have shaken my hand either. I dont know if he treated me like this because I am 18 or because I am a woman but the charming combination of both seems to make people think that I am incompetent. If it is my age, at what age do I start being listened to? If it is the fact that I am a woman, do I just remain unheard for the rest of my life because I lack the right equipment for this phallocentric society?

day 346

Its 11pm and I am in a really contemplative mood so I have to be really careful not to say anything that will sound philosophical to me right now but seem super wanky tomorrow morning. This photo makes me think of a real-estate agent; I think it might be the subtle head tilted forward odd* grin or maybe its the fact that I am hugging the corner of our house.
*I couldnt for the life of me think of the adjective that I was looking to there**
** I read my sisters blog today and it opened up to me a world of footnotes.***
*** Thank goodness the year is almost over.

day 345

I went to the football tonight with Sabrina and Dave. It was Sabrina’s first ever introduction to football. It was a good match (because Richmond WON!) but there were only 37,000 so the MCG looked empty. It never ceases to amaze me how seriously I take such a comical game.

day 344

I love this town. I really don't want to move. I am stuck at home on my own attempting to pack. I hate being on my own. Today I realised that there is one thing that I don't mind doing on my own, in fact, I would prefer to do it on my own. I love taking photos. I could spend hours photographing and not notice that no-one is around me.

day 343

Huhn died. I had a momentary lapse in memory and left the chickens free for the feral cat. Poor Huhn was the only victim. and she was my favourite chicken! I was devestated but everyone at work just told me to eat a teaspoon of cement. Along with the first death however came the first sign of life. Our very first teeny tiny egg. In other more important news, Sabrina is in Australia and I got to see her!! Sabrina e' veramente la mia gemella.

day 342

A year 9 boy hugged me today. I was so shocked I just looked at him with my mouth quizzically open. he paused, realised just how inappropriate his previous actions were and then patted me on the arm whilst backing away and apologising profusely. There are boxes everywhere at my house and I havent done washing in awhile so I figured i'd just start wearing boxes around instead.

day 341

This is the scene of my worst recurring nightmare. There is a weird thumping noise coming from up the road and it will find and take everyone. I can try and run but there is no point because the steady beating will get closer and closer and inevitably find and kill me. I dont know where my family is but I am just trying to find a safe spot. I hide behind the tree but right before this thing arrives I realise that the hiding spot is nowhere near good enough and I am facing certain death. I abort the hiding position and realise that it was a colossally bad move. the beating sound is in my yard now and slowly searching for me. With difficulty I escape the yard and run down the road as fast as I can. I get to the primary school and a lovely indian family emerge from the creek in a car and offer to take me on a picnic to india. I agree and wake up. Small insight into the mind of Cecelia.

day 340

Today when I got home from work my clothes were completely unblemished. This is an incredibly unusual occurence and it happened because for most of the day I wore a giant old nighty over my clothes and it seemed to do a fantastic job at protecting them. Now, Im not saying for sure, but I think I may have just stumbled across some pure genius in the fashion department..

day 339

I cannot convey how colossally sick of winter I am. I get home from work, by which time it is getting dark so when I go to take my photo I am either loungeroom bound or I have to brave the cold, dark and usually wet outdoors to try and get a good photo. ugh. I hate winter.

day 338

Ok as fun as last night was, being awake until three thirty was not a good idea. We won soccer today and I scored, but scoring loses its sense of achievement somewhat when the final score is 9-1.

day 337

I have new friends. I love realising that I have new friends, its great! Its especially great when said new friends have cool outfits and bookshelves full of chocolate. I hung out with Haylee and Ben tonight. I had a wonderful evening and learnt lots of new things- a fun side effect of hanging out with doctors. I also took down eveything from my walls today, and now they look super sad and blank.

day 336

Who wants a boyfriend when you have a dodecahedron? I cant complete it so I have the novel experience of trying to learn the algorithims all by myself. Its difficult and incredibly rewarding.
Tonight Matt, Daryl, Elise and newcomers Hilly, Patto and Lozzie came down the pub and we had such a fantastic time. Steak was eaten, bums were admired and Pool afficianados were overpowered.

day 335

I have been researching interesting self portraits a lot on the internet and everyone seems to be telling me that a self portrait needs to reflect the person that you are. I really like this photo except I dont feel oppressed or ashamed or concealed. So I guess this is actually more of a portrait representing someone else, with me playing the role of the oppressed person.

day 334

Today I stumbled upon the ability to write to local members about issues that I believe they are not addressing, or things they are making mistakes about. The risk now is that it will become a sport and I will use my poor parlimentarians as practise for persuasive writing. Seriously, In year 12, the teachers should have just let me write on any topic that I was passionate about, as opposed to making me study Andrew Bolt's writing OBJECTIVELY. The closest I would come to objectively studying Andrew Bolt is studying the way he reacts when objects are thrown at him.

day 333

We got a new microscope from Aldi. Its great! I have never seen, in so much detail, the amount of disgusting crud that get caught on the hairs of a fly's butt. Also, just to clear up any confusion, despite the appearance of my chin, I am definitely not a witch. I checked. Everytime I yell  'Accio ____!' nothing happens.

day 332

My car is amazing! remember awhile back when I hit a Wombat? no? Awhile back I hit a wombat at 80km/h and my car was unscathed. It was a massive wombat as well! Tonight on the way home with Faith it was raining and a kangaroo jumped in front of us up ahead so I put the breaks on really heavily and the car stopped in its own sweet time (which is way slower than I was comfortable with.) I hit the kangaroo and it disappeared under the car until I came to a stop and then emerged out the front a lolloped away painfully to die. We got out to see if we could see it (though at this point neither of us was comfortable with killing it), we couldnt see it anyway so we checked the damage and there was nothing! therefore my car is amazing. Pretty sure my tyres are munted though.
(also check out my sweet new richmond soccer boots! :)

day 331

I went to the Monash Uni open day today. It was swell. As we were getting a tour of Mannix I kept walking past dirty, muddy soccer boots sitting neatly outside peoples rooms. It made me ridiculously excited. I am so pumped for university!

day 330

So this morning on the train I was sitting opposite Geoffery Rush. This coincided with a number of terrible happenings. Firstly, Emmeline was not notified of this and will remain forevermore bitter and feeling neglected. Secondly, BOTH my sisters had cameras out and were taking photos but Emmeline was unaware of Mr Rush and Jocelyn was 'too cool' to take his picture. Thirdly, I didnt get to have a conversation with him because I respect the whole actor-trying-to-catch-public-transport thing. Here is the thing about Geoffery Rush. He looks so average. Just an old guy reading a MX on train. I guess that is because he IS just an old guy reading the MX on the train.

day 329

The Chooks arrived!! My darling babies are here. There is only one problem, I am terrified of them! This is me holding Kip. I took comfort in knowing that she wasnt going to poo on me because she had just crapped all over, and I mean ALL OVER, Cherie. Who knew one bird could hold so much poo?

day 328

Uh oh! race against time to upload my photo before my battery dies. Justin Beiber in a room full of grade 6 girls would stay alive longer than my laptop does on battery. its very frustrating. oh golly, I just compared my laptop to Justin Beiber. sorry Mr laptop.

day 327

*I do not, nor have I ever, smoked*
Smoking is bad. Its ridiculously unhealthy and financially terrible. Here is the thing about smoking, and smokers in particular. They are not bad people. I think a lot of people often forget that people who smoke arent the devil incarnate. So this blog post is to say love the smoker, hate the smoke.

day 326

With inspiration from Cat Stevens, Dad and I had a wonderful afternoon! We went and kicked the soccer ball on the oval together and then had a race from one end to the other. Dad won, and i'll admit when he got to the end it did occur to me to mentally refresh myself on what to do if someone has a heart attack.

day 325

The cool thing about turning 24 is that there are more candles to put on the cake and lots of candles looks really pretty! This morning was just great! there was good pancakes, good conversation and good people. I seemed to have mellowed out since working more with kids because Wirra, a three year old, decided to pick up every single one of my rubiks cubes and mess them up. All I did was stand behind him and twitch. I didnt yell or snatch or drag him by the ear away from my precious babies. Big improvement!

day 324

Its Faithtastics birthday tomorrow! I am throwing her a breakfast party. Today I spent the morning getting owned in soccer and then the whole afternoon in the kitchen baking lots of lovely gluten and dairy free treats! I am so excited for tomorrow that I should go to bed now so tomorrow comes sooner.

day 323

Everyday i'm shuffling! what better to do on a saturday afternoon than shred up the loungeroom with some sick dance moves? For optimal viewing of this photo I suggest you play the song 'Party rock' in the background.

day 322

Ah debs. How archaic are they? The presentation of young marriagable virgins to society. Its a chance to wear a pretty white dress without having to marry anyone though, so debs are ok by me. this photo has Amber in it. Amber is a stunner. its a pity the photo doesnt have the full dress because I think its one of my favourites!

day 321

How Idyllic. What a great word, Idyllic. if you stare at it for too long then it looks super weird. Idyllic Idyllic Idyllic.
This is my treasured Vegie garden. It's come so far from when I first started working on it.

day 320

Power tools are possibly the greatest things ever! Today I let loose with a whipper snipper. I tell you what, drawing the line at not Whipper snippering the garden is incredibly difficult, Once I got started there was no stopping me! The other great power tool is a battery operated drill. Get me a drill and some screws and I will love you forever! haha did anyone elses mind just head to the gutter with surprising velocity?
now it did.

day 319

I did my first full rockclimbing briefing today. Im not sure how I managed to get out of it until third term but I finally bit the bullet and did one. Surprise surprise, I didnt die. Best part of the rockclimbing: A kid yelled "everyday im shuffling!" and then they all began to shuffle. Made my day!

day 318

So I am trying to think of something to say because once i've uploaded this mum's gonna give me a massage. I am having a total mind blank. There are more knots in my back than a dreadlock so now I am leaving.

day 317

This is my sisters deb dress. Isn't it gorgeous!? I love it. I think I am waaay too interested in wedding dresses. Last week I designed 4 wedding dresses.

day 316

I can knock a matchbox over with my nose with nothing but my feet touching the floor. Its no mean feat. Its a fun thing to watch people try and do.