day 203

Come on guys, check the date! APRIL FOOLS! Am I the type of girl to quit something halfway through?
I cant comprehend stopping this venture prematurely, even writing yesterdays comment make me feel sick in the stomach. I almost cried. But its all ok, I will continue photoing right up until I turn 19.

day 202

I dont really know how to write this. This is my last photo for the day. Its been fun, but taking and uploading a photo every day has gotton quite stressful and difficult to do because the hours in my job vary. soon I will be going on a lot of hiking trips and such and i find that keeping track of whether I have a photo can detract from me having a good time and getting the most out of what i am doing. so instead of 365 days we only have 202. But it was lots of fun and im glad that some people have been following it. sorry i couldnt see it through :'(

day 201

Im learning guitar. Im not very good at it, mostly because strumming is a concept that completely eludes me.  currently i can play, old time rock and roll, truly madly deeply, and I know the chords for big bad bushranger and wonderwall.

day 200

day 200. I cant tell if this year is going slowly, or taking no time at all. Pretty sweet picture though. I wish the trampline area wasnt in dappled shade because we could get some awesome photos.

day 199

Occasionally I have to remind myself that I am 18 and so therefore allowed to do mildly reckless things and get away with it. for example, staying at a friends house until 3.30 in the morning and then having three and a half hours sleep before work. At the time chilling with friends/sister is a lot of fun. and then three hours later your alarm goes off and you realise just much more fun it needed to be to justify responding to the hellish noise that is eminating from the other side of the room.

day 198

I had lunch with Thomas today. By have lunch i mean wait at the pub while he forgets to tell me that he decided to have lunch at home and will come down later. Tom has dutifully taken on the role of my older brother. Throughout my life he has..
rolled me in a barrel down a hill into a dam, blown ink into my ear, forced me to eat a spoonful of straight food dye and beaten me (by cheating i strongly suspect) so many times in monopoly that I cant count. What would life be like without an older brother?

day 197

do you know why this is the best weekend of the year? FOOTY SEASON'S STARTED. everyone seems to think that Richmond have gotton off to a bad start again but there is definitely hope! mark my words, in the next couple of seasons Richmond will become a very competitive side.

day 196

I just made a discovery that will literally change my life. no exaggeration. For the past few years, and especially last year, I have been getting headaches and dizzy spells and i feel carsick even when im not in the car. I was always super light headed. Anyway, this especially always happened when i was doing school work and i thought it may have been due to looking down and up a lot. Last year i also made the discovery that coffee seemed to help me concentrate, so because it was year 12 and i really needed to concentrate, i started drinking coffee every morning and before SACs and exams. Today, after going out for coffee with mum, I realised that it is in fact the coffee that is making me feel so fricken ill all the time. after realising this, i have two main thoughts:
1, I want to repeat year 12 without coffee and see if it makes a difference to my score.
2, I can never drink coffee again.
Both these things make me sad because I love coffee and I will never know if it would have made a difference to my score. (as you can see I am still a tiny bit hung up about my score.)

day 195

UUGGGGHHHHHH!! I had the Worst sleep last night. I was in teeny tiny tent and it was pouring with rain and my toes were cold and my hips hurt sooo much and in the tiny snippets of sleep i did get i had horrible nightmares. last night was good though. We sat around a woodheater in a toasty little hut and had a great time. Group 3 clearly was the best group of year 10 camp.

day 194

Me and the work troopy. If I ever get a car I think it should be a troopy because it goes FOREVER and is incredibly hard to speed in.

day 193

Never have I ever had such an enthusiastic welcome to camp. When I turned up to lead Rosie was so excited to see me she hyperventilated for about ten minutes. I honestly thought she might pass out. But it was quite nice to be appreciated.
The photo is of my wall at work.

day 192

I thought having a heart moniter would be mildy exciting. turns out its just a massive pain in the arse. I am about to rip it off and chop it into little pieces because I feel like im getting strangled.

day 191

Its cool. I didnt need those heels for my job and the rest of the season of anything. Ill just borrow some skin from someone elses foot. We won 6-0.

day 190

today highlights the importance of taking emergency photos. I thought I had the photo covered because I was going to take it when Jordy and Joss went to work. then work got slammed and really needed me so I went down and worked until 11.15pm then beat Beau in two games of pool and then i remembered my photo and realised i had left it way too damn close to midnight so I safely sped home and took a photo at 11.59pm.

day 189

This is my life. actually, this photo is lying about how lonely I am. There is about six staff members behind the bar who I was hanging out with and then I found some kids to entertain for 2 hours. I think their mum was pretty grateful- she bought me a pint of lemon lime and bitters.
how do I get rid of red-eye?

day 188

I got the second half of my root canal done today! the dentist kinda yelled at me for not coming back sooner. Well excuse me for not jumping at the opportunity to return for another hour to have my mouth wedged open while a dentist sadistically continues to drill into my tooth even after I politely raise my left hand to indicate pain AND start squeaking like an asphyxiating rat.
Happy St Pats day!

day 187

I picked least two whole punnets of raspberries from the garden today! yum yum yum yum yum! People at work are going to love me tonight.

day 186

I attempted to look up my blog on the internet and it is nowhere! I was a bit heartbroken. I think what i wanted most from this blog was to have strangers come upon it and start reading it. Kind of like in the movie 'Julie and Julia'. alas, I dont think it has happened. So today i am going to put up a whole bunch of tags in a feeble attempt to gain the attention of the wider internet community.

day 185

Father disapproves of my imaginary boyfriend. Maybe ill start dating Roger Harrington, my 'imaginary' boyfriend from year 7, at least dad liked him. On another note: My awesome pink shirt says "if you cant get to Paris, try Benalla." That is why its awesome.

day 184

This photo is much cooler than it looks. The camera was wedged in place between my knees and I used my chin to press the shutter release. It must have been a comical sight.

day 183

Wooaahh we’re halfway thereee!! Actually, we are a smidge over halfway there because 365 isn’t divisible by two. Funniest thing happened at the pub tonight; Jocelyn and Ruth attempted to spear tackle a guy for reaching his hand out to my butt as I was taking a shot at pool. Poor guy won't try that again..

This is the ever fabled Faith. I think this is the first photo of her on my blog.

day 182

We went to gold class cinema to see the Kings speech tonight. Everyone said it was an amazing movie so of course I tried to resist the hype and went into it with a cynical approach.

It was an amazing movie. I laughed and cried a lot and at the end I felt hugely uplifted. It was the kind of movie that is the reason people make movies. So yes, I have jumped on the kings speech bandwagon.

day 181

Ahahaha! I think its funny, even if no-one else does..

day 180

This is the most amazing dress ever! Its is multicoloured and covered in sequins! Sadly, I cant wear it out for the following two reasons:
1, It obnoxiously screams "Look at me!"
2, It threatens a wardrobe malfuncion at every turn.
Also, I'd like to apologise if your opinion of me was lowered by me referring to the herald sun as 'scum.'
I was in a ranty mood yesterday.

day 179

Happy International Womens day! Our work recieves both the Age and the Herald scum. The age is full of articles pertaining to gender equality around australia and the world. The Sun, on the other hand, has one column on page 9 about how "men dont get it." On page 7 though there is a lovely story about a 'hero' husband saving his bride from a burning car on their wedding day. The opinion section shows an even starker disparity in priorities.
there are 9 articles/letters dedicated to gender equality in the Age opinion section, plus a full page focus article. In the herald sun opinion section there is two decent sized articles hating on the St Kilda school girl and another telling us that the "(dangerously obese) actually need to hate their bodies.."
Yes I am quite aware that I have a bias towards the age  ..but seriously? try a little harder Herald scum.

day 178

I have to upload this quickly. My computer refuses to be co-operative after 10pm. I think its its way of telling me to go to bed. Damn computer knows me too well!

day 177

Its been awhile since I lightheartedly screwed with a photo on Picture manager. Its quite theraputic. huh, I just noticed i look kinda pregnant. just a bit more rounded and it would look more realistic...

day 176

Mum and Annelise are cooking up an absolute storm in the kitchen! My house is the most fantastic food full place ever. So far we have had a fruit platter, a small bowl of pesto pasta and now we are moving on to a cheese platter. I am going to be so full by the end of the night.

day 175

This dress was a hand me down. I kinda like it except i just HATE that colour brown. I feel like it is the sort of thing we all will cringe at wearing in twenty years. I was wearing the dress at home alone while i was cooking (fact: if you feel cute whilst cooking then the food tastes better), then Matt, Adam and Faith showed up and we went down the pub for JZs birthday. they wouldnt let me change, which was fine until the temperature dropped to about 8 degrees.

day 174

Faith is yelling at me. Actually it's just me yelling at me, but in Faiths body. We are scarily similar. For example, today on the way home we were discussing ..something.. and Faith tentatively told me a thought process she sometimes has and I have the EXACT SAME thought process. We are both quite relieved that someone else thinks the same as us..

day 173

I love my job, mostly because this photo is of my workplace. also because there is a 12 year old boy that has a crush on me. That never used to happen in high school and its kinda cute.

day 172

Happy birthday Elisey-poo. I have a nice circular thing going on here. on my birthday there is a picture of me and Elise and on her birthday there is a picture of me and her again. She got her nose pierced, im so proud of her. we had a fantastic conversation over coffee about wrinkling noses and staring cross-eyed at sparkly things.