Ooooh, things are complicated in my little english life right now. I don't wanna think about it, or even blog about it. Maybe in a couple days when my brain doesn't feel like mush. But right now I just want to tune out.

So I make montages! It was weird doing it without Tallas.

I swear I don't always drink that much.

Since I've gotten here I have been trying really hard to decorate my room and make it feel a bit more like home. It's just my little way of fending off homesickness. Tom has been pimping the FUCK out of my room. Everytime we hang out he has something else for me to put up in my room.


I bought the Banksy print in Camden, and Tom brought me a book of photos that I cut out and taped up.
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I was going to update this further, but Daniel just knocked on my door and we're going to watch Bringing Up Baby.

Here are some things I have been obsessed with lately:


Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz and James Morrison. Two pretty boys with prettier voices. I listen to this every morning when I'm setting up the pub, and my co-worker Daniel said this song will always remind him of me because of that. It's so beautiful, I want to learn it on guitar.


This comedian is Michael Macintyre and I am in love. He is SO fucking funny, I was dying with laughter within the first five minutes, and usually I hate things right away. Tom and I smoked a joint on the way to his house and had to sneak in so we didn't wake up his mum. Then we decided to watch Michael Macintyre. Stoned Lisa + Amazing Comedian + Need to be Quiet = do not compute.


Apparently Alphabeat is a band I should be embarassed to like. It seems like everyone here likes them, but is ashamed to admit it, or if they do...it's a "guilty pleasure". I don't know enough about Alphabeat to be embarassed that this is the HAPPIEST song I have ever heard. I dare you to listen to this and not bop your head along, it's great. I have such a weakness for boy/girl harmonies.

The Streets are playing in Scotland in August and I want to go sooooooo bad. And I actually got the time off work, so I'm going! I can't wait!! I'm going to be standing and looking up at Mike Skinner on stage!! WAH! The only problem is that ticketmaster.co.uk will only ship the tickets to the billing address on your credit card, and they're not going to do me much good in my mailbox in Canada. Hopefully I can sort that out because it's going to be AWWWEEESOMEEEE.

SURVEY TIME! Admit it, everybody likes filling out surveys because everybody likes talking about themselves. If we didn't, why would we have livejournals?? Aha, touche.
Fill it out, I'm interested, I swear. It's get to know you day.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

If I ever met a genie, I've got my three wishes all planned out. I've had them ready for a while now, just in case. This is, of course, presuming that the standard genie rules apply: No bringing people back from the dead, No making people fall in love with you (*cough*paulrudd*cough*), No wishing for world peace because one of our world leaders would screw it up immediately.

Wish #1: I wish for inifinite musical ability. I want to be able to play every instrument perfectly, sing like Martin Sexton, and write like Morrisey and Marr.

Wish #2: The ability to speak every language in the world. I intend to make this one a reality anyways, but wishing would save me a lot of time and tuition.

and the one that I've known I would wish for since I was a little kid...

Wish #3: I want to be a mermaid. I want to live underwater.

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Of course I would have to have some sort of way to switch to mermaid and human so I could still visit my family and ride rollercoasters. But srsly....plz make me mermaid now. Kthnxbai.

BUT I'M A CREEEEEEEPP! One of my favorite things to do on vacation is creep on people. Sometimes I ask first, usually I don't and I just love it. I remember I had an Archie comic where Veronica kept saying that the world was a smorgasboard of people. After I had looked up what that word meant (shut up, I was, like, 6 years old!) I thought it was SO true!

Is it touristy to take photos of other people being touristy? Does that count?

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I got soooo wasted the other night, I drank wine until 5 in the morning and the next day my head really did feel like it was going to crack open.

Ok, I have two hours before I start work so I am finally, finally, finally going to update you all for REALZ on what's been going on in my life for the past 2 1/2 weeks. God, has it only been that long? It feels like I've been gone for ages! Uhhh, a whole carton of orange juice and doritos is not exactly the dinner of champions. Uy.

I figured the best way to do this would be to include little excerpts from my journaljournal. I know, how many do I need, right? Whatever, it's not like I could update my lj on the plane!


I had some really sad goodbyes. I cried when I went to my work to say goodbye to them. They were just like a second family to me, always there when I needed them with advice, or a hug or just to make me laugh. I miss them terribly.

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This girl keeps riding her horse past my window, and every time I hear the clip clop clip clop I grab my camera and run to get a shot, only to snap it right as they disappear around the corner. I WILL GET THAT PICTURE!

Hey everyone!!

I'm still alive, I'm so sorry I haven't posted more. I really wish I could but I just feel like while I'm in this awesome spending time on the 'net is a bit of a waste. Once I get to my job and things calm down a bit I promise I'll make a big gigantic update and let you know exactly what I've been up to.

I've seen such beautiful things. Today I went to a small museum in SomersetHouse and saw paintings by Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, and KAndinsky among others. I really like Kandinsky. I took a lot of photos so I'll have to update those as well. After the museum I came back to the hostel and Mat and I had a webcam date. It was so great to actually SEE him laughing instead of just hearing him laughing. I was squeeing like a spazzy little girl! Plus, it doesn't cost anything so you can't complain about that.

I'm kind of hungry and I'm craving bangers and mashed from my hotel, they're sooooooooooooooo damn good, but I've had them like three times already and I really should spice things up. It's so funny....I get to England and my food options are: Thai, Lebanese, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese or Italian. hahahhaa. Camden is very multicultural. I had some chinese food from the Camden markets.....big mistake!! I seriously thought I was going to die.

I'm meeting up with an internet friend tomorrow and I'm super excited. She sounds really sweet on the phone and we're going to go for ice cream. I leave here in Tuesday and I'm kind of sad, I've made some good friends and it'll be a shame to say goodbye. Tomorrow I'm having a fake goodbye party aka coming downstairs from my room to get drunk at the bar with the staff. At first I thought they all hated me, but they just hate all the backpackers. I've forced them to be friends with me, though! hahaha.

Yesterday I went to Bath, which was about an hour and a half on the train from here. My friend, Neill, used to live there so I forced him to take me and be my tour guide. First we saw the ancient roman baths from 2000 years ago. It's so crazy how the romans were so technologically advanced. Then we had tea and cakes in this really beautiful fancy shop. There was people playing the violin and cello and huge chandeliers and snooty waiters. It was fun to pretend to be all fancy and rich and talk about the Earl of Bath and talk like the queen. hahaha. We had a picnic in park and ate jam sandwhiches while I got a sunburn. We walked through the french market trying to find cheese and talking with french accents. I did end up buying some petit fromage but it was DISGUSTING. After that we walked through the botanical gardens and looked at purple trees and yellow flowers and gigantic, gigantic goldfish. Bath has a spa where you can go bathe (imagine!) so we went swimming and talked about which country is the best to raise children in. And then we took the train home while I forced Neill to listen to all my favorite songs. He's going to love Jets to Brazil by the time I leave, I promise!!!

Anyways, I'm thinking of going for some Thai, and it's soooooo nice out I can't justify being on the computer anymore.

Well, I'm here and I'm alive. I kind of waver back and forth between having an awesome time and wanting to go home and spoon my boyfriend. My new roommates are kind of bitchy which is disappointing, but whatevs. Nobody stays long except for me. I'm hungry allllll the time and getting food is SUCH a pain in the ass, I wish I could just flip a switch in my brain and not be hungry when it's inconvenient for me.

So far I've gone to the National Gallery and seen works by Van Gogh, Monet, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Eyck, Gainborough, Reubens, and so many many more. I'm going back for sure. I hung out in China town today and checked out Buckingham Palace. Woooop de freggen doo. It's a big building and there is a million prettier ones. But at least I can say I've seen it up close and personal. I'm running out of time on the internet so I better post the pics I have uploaded!!!

Nevermind. This computer is shit and it won't let me copy and paste. I would use my own laptop but the oppressive italian bitches in my room would wake up (AT SEVEN PM) and give me dirty looks for bothering them. I'm gonna smack a bitch.

Better throw my hand in
Wish me happy landin'

All I gotta do is jump.

I leave tomorrow. To be honest, I don't even know how I feel about it. I'm excited and now that I have a job I feel much more secure and confident, but at the same time I feel like I'm going to a funeral or something. Everytime I look at Mat I try to take a mental photo because I know that as of tomorrow I won't get to see his smile, or feel his arms around me or wake up beside him and it's a terrifying feeling. But I know that 5 months is not that much and our relationship is based on more than a physical connection. Oooohh, but I'm still going to miss the smoochies.


I started packing yesterday and it's so hard. You know that feeling when you're leaving the house and you know you've forgotten something but you can't fucking remember what it was?
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I leave for London a week from today.  I've been anticipating this for so long imagining how I would feel, and now that it's so close....I can't even wrap my head around it.  It doesn't feel real at all.  I've been procrastinating all my final preparations because once my shit is packed up and and I'm ready to go the only thing I have left to do is.....go.  And that's terrifying.  I mean, don't get me wrong I'm super excited, but at the same time how can I not be terrified.  I'm just worried that I don't have it in me.  I guess that's the whole point of my trip is to get "it" in me (no pervy jokes!) and turn myself into a brave little toasted.  But right now I feel like a wimpy little toaster who's scared to leave her boyfriend.


(I wish I could take credit for taking this, but I can't)

That is how I feel about us.  And the lights don't stretch all the way to England.

Wow, I am an idiot. Fo realz. How awesome that this was captured on film.


When we were cleaning up there one one last piece of glass we couldn't find, so I re-watched this video. If you look in the mirror while the glass falls, you see the piece fall under the fridge. There are logical reasons into making your life a reality show.

bad habit for drugs
she's a slut and she knows it

I am obsessed with Summer Heights High. It's an australian mockumentary tv show in the vein of The Office or Waiting For Guffman. It follows thee main characters: Jonah Takaluah, a break-dancing "fob" who is always on the verge of getting expelled; an arrogant private school girl named Ja'Mie King (not Jay-me. Ja-May) who has come to Summer Heights High on a student exchange; and my favorite, Mr. G the self-absorbed, immature drama teacher with unfulfilled show biz dreams. The catch is.....they are all played by Chris Lilley.


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Watch this show, I promise you won't regret it!

like some amusing piece of food
between your teeth
then I will know
it's completely over
Won't you say my name to me...

Last week we went out to celebrate Tallas' little sister, Tahnee, turning 18. I was so drunk and, from the evidence the next day, very embarassing. Well, at least I wasn't as embarassing as TahnTahn. She was to that point drunk people get to where they just keep stating the obvious for everyone in the room. Examples: "IT'S MAH BIRTHDAY!!!" "THIS IS MAH SISTAAAAA!" and my personal favorite "I'M WEARING YEEEELLLLOOOOWWW!!! WOOO!!! SHOTS!". Between Mat's little brother and Tall's little sister I have been partying with 18 year olds every weekend! It's kinda strange, but it makes me feel old and prudey. We've already ran around and screamed and done pornstar shots and we've realized that those things are all stupid. The bartender bought me a porn star and I was like "thanks...? for 7% alcohol and 93% syrup?" Hmm.


I did dance alone on the dancefloor at the end of the night and probably looked like a damn fool!
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I posted some pictures about my trip to Europe after I got back, but I was so exhausted and happy to be back with all my friends that I never got around to showing everyone some really fucking cool stuff!


For example, I went to the Vatican!!!!

As a non-religious person I was kind of nervous about gonig to the Vatican. I'm afraid I'l catch fire if I walk into a church. So going to one of the most valued places in the Christian world was mildly freaky.

I'm happy to report that I did not feel at all uncomfortable, out of place or bored. It is a must-see for everybody, not just those who love jesus. The art is incredible. Standing in the Sistine Chapel and looking up to see The Creation of Adam is indrescribable.

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Going there really opened my eyes to how seeing great pieces of artwork can be so powerful. I never thought I cared, but you can feel the history, the creativity and the passion pouring out of these pieces. It's unforgettable.

It is still here...but in different places!!

Dude, I finally got a new camera and I am so fucking excited about it. (I always write "abou tit" and then consider leaving it because it makes me giggle) It was waaaaaay, waaaaaaaaay more than I can afford but I don't even care. I love this little fucker and it's going to make my memories beautiful FOREVER! Now I'll only need to photoshop my pictures when I'm airbrushing out zits and double chins! Oh yeah.
<----mmm, don't you want to lick it

Annnnnyways. Tonight, I'm going to see the Hannah Montanna movie and I wanted to dress accordingly so I'm wearing a purple sparkly dress with a shiny belt, a sweater, a fake cameo necklace, black hoop earrings (Hannah always wears too many accesories) and black wedges that just make my feet look enormous! I mean, they're big already, putting big shoes on just makes it so much worse. Oh, and pink hair....that's pretty Disney channel of me. Pink streaks so it's still bad-ass for the kids, but not too shocking for the moms.


It makes everything beautiful. I didn't edit any of these in photoshop, and they're all so niiiiice. Mmmm, Mat might catch me humping my camera later.

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We made another video. Sometimes I worry that making montages of ourselves comes off as really narcissistic, but it's not that at all. I've just always wanted my life to be a movie montage set to cute music. Plus, I had completely forgotten about Oliver's inability to read trivial pursuit questions until we made this. Yes, we. Tallas makes all of them with me but refuses to admit it because she thinks it's embarassing, and she'd rather people only think I'm lame.
I'm mean.....they're not wrong.


The song is Silver Lining by Beulah.

I had a good weekend. I didn't have to work Friday, but I got paid for it which is always incredible. I love stat holidays. Tallas and I baked our very first pie and it turned out so tasty and delicious! I went on a pubcrawl with a bunch of high school kids who just turned 18 and got to release my inner immature-barloving-embarassing teenager. It was fun, his friends are all really nice kids.

Saturday Tall and I went out to buy some nail polish, and brought Bradey just for torture, but we ended up coming home with three tubs of pink hair dye. I've always wanted to have pink hair and I freggen love it! Then we took our new hair out to a Martin Sexton concert with Jeff and Mat. It was incredible, I shouted out a request and he played it, which always makes me feel so special...like he's playing it just for me.

Afterwards we went to Original Joe's and this really funy drunk man comes up to our table and, over his wife's apologies, says "can I talllyyoos somefing? I laaahve this wooman here sooo much." We talked with him for a while, and he was hilarious. He kepy calling Jeff Billy Idol and being like "Give us a rebel yell, billeh!". And then he bought us shots. So awesome. The waitress told us they had been there since 6:00 (it was around 1:30 am) and we decided one day we want to go to Original Joe's and stay there all day.

Today we got up nice and early...well, sort of, and went to the zoo. It's always really bittersweet going there, all the animals seem so depressed.

 

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