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So, sunday. We played a word game - I forget the name. It was like taboo, but easier. I baggsed being on AJ's team. Woah big surprise, AJ Andrew and I won. Then some people went and fiddled with the keyboard while others played the castle building game. Scott won cos of all his lil farmer doods. We lit all the cupcakes on fire (well, their candles anyway. It might have smelt a bit elsewise.) and then ate cake. Jess turned a couple of balloons into instant breast implants. After that, a large part of the afternoon was devoted to boobs, nipples and sex changes. Yeah, we're SO mature.
Gosh, I hope someone got pictures of that ...
ANYWAY Parnie turned up a lot of hours late, even more than usual, and we played Totally Gross. This time I made everyone veto the spinning-around-til-you-fall-over card, simply for the sake of the floor (vomit and carpet make an uneasy mix). Aparna and I lost very badly, but at least we learned stuff - like the fact that Uranus is a planet. Wow :O
Then we watched Lano and Woodley. Ah, slapstick, how could we live without your brilliant crassness?
Parnie and Jess left before dinner, which was tacos, which we had mainly because they were the esiest things to have which didn't have egg... and AJ's cake didn't have egg in either ...DARN Aparna for not eating things we prepared with consideration of her *grumbles*.
We tried to play 1000 blank white cards, but we ran out of time so it was a very short game indeed. But it did involve 2 cards being eaten, so I think it was worth it. Then we went to Darkzone ... and accidentally left Andrew at my place. Hehe. Mum brought him along with my sister. We played one team game and one free-for-all. I prefered the team game better (mostly because I kicked ass :P ) It was fun running up and down all the masses of levels, lying in wait and then shooting people in the back. Except when they shot you in the back, like Andrew did. Sniper.
And then we went home.
Aw.

Yesterday I drove to Marie's place(yes, I did get lost), and Gity was there which made me very happy because I haven't seen her in months and months. We played Uno and watched My Family. It was awesome fun. And we ate cup-a-soup from bowls. That was also mildly amusing, in a foody kind of way. Then Gity and I went to Josh's (and yes, we got lost. Thank god for GPSs) to return the games he had left at my house on sunday. Gity wanted to go home rather than stay, but once I figured out that it was because she wanted to talk to "someone" I asked Josh to log her on to msn and then we were fine. We ate yummy biscuits and played scrabble. Josh whupped our arses, but he let me cheat so I had great fun.
And then
sigh
we had to go home.
Gity saw her brother walking home when we got near her house so she made me race so that she could get to the computer first. Hehe.

And now I'd better go to bed cos I have to get up freakishly early tomorrow.
G'night.

Yes, I have been lazy and haven't updated in aaaages. Well, here goes.

On Monday the 7th of April, we took Merry and Mystic to the vets - Merry to be desexed and Mystic to get her teeth cleaned. (They were originally booked in for March 10, but then someone suddenly realised that that was a public holiday.)
So we took them in on Monday, but at the end of the day they still hadn't been done. We took them home and took them back again the next day. They told us to pick them up at 6 pm, so we turned up then ... and their surgery had been done, but there weren't enough people to discharge the animals or some such rot. After an hour and a bit, we realised that I was going to be late for my lecture, so dad drove me there (luckily I was only 10 minutes late) and left mum behind. When he got back to her at 8:15, the dogs STILL hadn't been discharged. Grief ...
Anyway, we got them home in the end.
A few days later, and Merry was getting worse instead of better. By the time she started screaming whenever she moved, we were extremely concerned and mum took her back to the vets. They wanted to do x-rays and all sorts of stuff, but mum said "Could we just try a laxative first?"
A few hours and a large number of compacted shits later, Merry was feeling much better. Mum returned with the dog and the antibiotics and painkillers they had cleverly forgotten to give us when they handed back the dogs ...
Poor babies.
And then a couple of days after that they came down with kennel cough from being in cages for so long with all the sick dogs around. Luckilly they've had their vaccinations so they were only violently ill for a couple of days, instead of weeks.
I don't think much of vets. They can go hang. We took Merry's stitches out at home.

Aaaanywho. I also went to a two day seminar thing about T-touch for dogs, which is a bit like massage, and I had a methods sac which was crap and a psych sac which was fine.

On the 17th, I was going to go to a French trivia night with Marie, but then she realised she had to be home for the computer installation guys. I really didn't want to go to TAFE, so I went to AJ's place instead. I never did tell my parents about that change of plans. Oops :P

The Saturday after that, lots of peoples went out for lunch. It was supposedly Yum Cha, but we ordered form a menu. I think I ate more pork dumplings than everyone else combined. Despite sitting next to Jessica the entire time, I still don't like tea, which I guess means I never will. But the food was nice, and affordable too .. so we went and blew our leftover cash on gelati. Mmm, gelati. We ate it next to the library, where we met a slightly retarded but funny old guy with a nice dog. Andrew stole Jess's handbag and hid it up a tree. Several times. I love Jess-Andrew wars. Hehe.

Over April I had a few driving lessons at Frankston, with a driving instructor who was actually nice and didn't make me feel like I had all the driving ability of a week old turd. That was a nice change :)
On the 24th, I went for my hazard perception test. I kept on clicking too early. As I got further and further through it, I grew more and more certain that I had failed. When it got to the end, I turned to the lady and she said "You got 64%." Woops, I thought. Mum is going to hate me. "Which is great, and you passed." I did what now?!  So. 64% is a pass mark for that. You learn something new every day. So my driving test went ahead as planned, on the 2nd of May at Frankston. I drove around for an hour beforehand with my instructor, which was supposed to clam me down. I'm not sure it helped much. In my test, despite having my instructor with me and a very nice examiner, I clammed up and lost a few marks for giving way for too long at round abouts and driving too slowly. But I PASSED. OMG. And with better than 90% too :P
So the past few days, I've been driving myself places. I was warned that it was going to be very different, but the only difference I notice is that it's way quieter and calmer without my mother there.
But I do get lost a lot now.
Thank god for GPSs.

Now backtracking a bit ... I went to Thisiri's "birthday party" on the 26th. I turned up what I would consider late at 20 past 6, and there and there was a handful people from La Trobe there. I got to know them a little and wished I hadn't. They are so VAIN, self-obesessed, dumb ... gargh. Most, not all. When some more people turned up, they started drinking wine and champagne and turning up the music. I was just getting more and more akward. The saddest part was that so were most of the people there. As more people from Glen Waverley turned up, it ended up just being a huge room of people with IQs greater than 110 pretending that they had IQs less then 90 so that they could enjoy drinking, dancing and being really sociable with people who they didn't know. It wasn't working. I left as early as possible, just before 9, and there were still people turning up. Remind me never to go to anything like that again.

And on the 28th Marie, AJ and I went to see The Tempest at Monash. It was really well done. The guy who played Prospero was great, and they did magic tricks throughout the play. I want to learn how to do magic tricks now :P

Sam got a dog, a 9 month old rotweiler called Phoebe, so I'm helping him to train her every Tuesday now.

On the 4th was AJ's "surprise" party at my place. Jess and Josh turned up early with cupcakes, so we decided to stick the candles in them - but they wouldn't stay in their holders. So we melted wax into the holders first. That was so much fun that when other people turned up, I had to make them go outside to burn a musk sick. It didn't work very well, mainly because the match boxes were crap and the one lighter dad found was broken. I did discover that you can melt musk sticks in the microwave, however, and then they taste like lollipops. Kudos to Marie for bringing musk sticks :)
We moved to the bottom room, in theory to play a game, but in practice to spend a while popping balloons.

I shall continue this account later, but for now I must skedaddle.
Au revoir.

AJ, Marie, Andrew, Scott and I went to see Labyrinth at the Rooftop Cinema just over a week ago. They took the train, but I went by car via Heidelberg because I had oh-so-cleverly left my learner’s permit at my dog lecture the night before.

I found the right building, went up the stairs … lots of stairs. And then up some more stairs. And then up some more. There were some security guards and I wondered if I was meant to have a ticket first, so I asked whether this was the rooftop cinema and they said it was, and then ignored me. I hung around for about 10 minutes, got freaked out by being alone with all the people, and went all the way down to the bottom again to wait. After a while, no-one came, so I went allll the way back up again. I tried calling people, but my phone was totally out of credit. (I whacked myself severely over the head for that.) But eventually AJ called and I went down a level and found them, stopped behind the security guards. Apparently they had had their IDs checked twice and weren’t allowed up until they got tickets, which we got and went up.

I could’ve got in for free. Hehe …

It was a charming movie, in a mildly pathetic way. I liked the characters which were puppets (ie almost all of them). They were cute. Specially the fox, and his occasionally real dog-steed. “Come back right now Ambrotious! Now!!!” *dog keeps running* “Or I shall never feed you again!” *screeches to a halt and rushes back*.

But EWWWWWW David Bowie’s pants *burries head in sand*. They are the stuff of nightmares.

We caught the train back at 11-something and spectacularly failed to be mauled by hobos. I think we were the ones freaking out other people, with our incredibly loud and slightly insane banter, drug-rehab-looking wristbands and throwing of oat bars. Yay, I’m a juvenile delinquent!

On Saturday I went to Jess’s house and watched completely random stuff on TV until Andrew turned up, whereupon we watched him scaring the crap out of the dogs. When AJ came we switched to Blackadder, which was a slight improvement on an ancient Indiana Jones and scared-shitless dogs. When Marie and Caitlin finally arrived, we took the poor little puplets to the park to get parboiled by the disgustingly smug warm weather. We got back and lay around listening to soundtracks for a while, and made nachos. Just like the last time we went to Jess’s house, the sauce seemed impossible to open … but this time, we had a guy in the house. We gave it to him and he opened it. No more struggling for half an hour with bizarre jar opening devices for us. (Remind me to always invite at least one guy to a party if there’s going to be any jars or bottles involved.) When it got dark we went to the park and howled at the full moon, kicked the marvellously crappy lamppost (hopefully waking neighbours and fulfilling my teenage need to be socially unacceptable scum) and then hid 60 eater eggs. In hindsight, it probably would have been better to play while we could still see the blasted things. Especially as some people *coughCaitlincoughAJcough* randomly hurled them into the middle of nowhere. After a long time searching, our final haul was 52 eggs (although 2 of them later proved to be acorns). We lamented a while over the fact that animals would find the missing eggs, eat them, and die horribly because of us. To prove this point, a tiny baby possum poked its head out and started climbing the tree right in front of us. “Jessica! That poor thing is going to die because of you!” And then we all laughed, went home and ate lasagne and chocolate. We decided to play murder in the dark and eventually figured out rules which made it work, after which it was awesome. Particularly when Jess put on some atmospheric music … stalker music. Killing people is fun *evil grin*.

However, waiting in the dark for some unknown murderer to leap out and strike you down is scary. But also in an incredibly fun way. I learnt that Marie is crap at getting away with murder, and that AJ can be terrifyingly good at it. I managed to commit mass murder and get it pinned on one of the victims (possibly only because Andrew looks shifty, but that was still great.) My dad turned up after a while and we played 2 games with him before I had to go home.

Because in the morning I had a dog trial. In agility Merry got a pass (woohoo!) and 3^rd place. Go the little dogs! In her two jumping rounds, she ran beautifully and missed out on a pass by some negligible things. I was so proud :P And in pairs, Merry did well but her partner B’Ellanna completely fucked up. It was hilarious. That was a great day ^_^

On Monday I did stuff with my family, which was awesome because we’re hardly ever all together with nothing vital to do. We went out walking, but unfortunately it was still disgustingly hot. We went down to a river and were going to have lunch, but the dogs thought the leaves and floating scum looked solid and fell in … at the same time. Fools. HA! They looked very surprised and very bedraggled. We laughed at them for a while, then rescued them and took them up to an oval to run around and dry. Then we had lunch and went back home.

On Tuesday after work I got an unexpected call from Jess, asking me to come over to Andrew’s. My parents decided to let me out of going to grandma’s (again – we’ve been eating with her a LOT recently), so I went. I arrived at his house (stumped at first by the lack of a doorbell. People should have doorbells. It’s the LAW. Well, it should be anyway.) and somewhat bemusedly greeted Jess and Andrew. They were playing some random computer game which involved slitting people’s throats and stealing all their stuff. That was mildly fun. Then Jess went home to spend time with a family friend. Andrew and I did a sdskdfj,beirhva,szmjdz bfcz*&$%^$@ bug puzzle-thing (to the sound of Harry Potter arriving at Hogwarts). We won. Eventually. It was missing one piece. Yay. Then we had dinner, which was rather nice tacos, and played a game whose name I have forgotten but which had “gross” in the title. After a little while his brother and sister joined us. It was hilariously good fun, and I beat them all at spinning in circles really fast and not falling over. HaHA! Dad turned up before we had finished, so he had to go away again and come back a few hours later.

Which probably annoyed my parents, because they didn’t want to have to pick me up from Josh’s party yesterday, so AJ said I could sleep over at her place.

I drove to the Rollerama. It was PISSING down with rain – the flooding kind. We crept past an accident on the freeway – the emergency services weren’t there yet, so the motorcyclist was lying in the middle of the road with just a blanket over him. Mum gave me crap directions so I pulled into 2 wrong entrances before I got to the right one … and then there was no-one there for about 10 minutes, and then we had to wait another 10 before Josh and the others turned up.

But when they did it was fun. By the end of the hour and a half, I had almost learned to skate (so long as the music had a good beat to it). I fell over soundly on my bum once – but only once - Josh got a blister, Jess didn’t skate and Andrew won a kitkat in some daft game involving a stick. We all headed back to Josh’s place (me in Marie’s car, ignoring mum’s express instructions. Hehe …) and figured out how to play Imaginiff with 14 people … that game is like a tradition now. AJ won. It was good to catch up with people who I haven’t seen for a while, and to meet some new people. Everyone slowly trailed off, Marie and Cameron leaving last at about 11:40, but AJ and I hung around because we couldn’t be bothered moving. We hijacked his msn, which was briefly amusing, and listened to songs and fiddled around with mobile phones until it was eventually nearly 2am and we decided it was probably time to leave. I met the rats that AJ is babysitting. They are gorgeous.

I woke up at 9am, made toast, and watched A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie. I’m glad I’ve been to her house often enough to know where everything is, because otherwise I would have been bored until 11, when she finally woke up. Apparently she read for an hour after we got back. Sick people and 3am should not be mixed, in my opinion, but never mind. We couldn’t find the scrabble board. We played magic cards (which AJ won. Do I even need to say it?) Then I decided to go to Josh’s place again while AJ had a shower. We ate plums and persimmons with a fork (Who uses a fork to eat fruit? … erm.) and watched Neon Genesis. It has a lot of breasts in it. Josh’s sister informed me that that’s because all Asians are perverts. When AJ arrived we played scrabble using only 3 letter words, with no scoring and a mild amount of cheating. Cheating is fun. Then I went to the Glen with Josh and his sister. He told me that his parents think that I’m his girlfriend. Brilliant (lol).

I got home around 4:40pm. And I walked the dogs, had dinner, typed this and watched Life on Mars. Final episode next week. O.M.G.

Well, it would be if I didn’t know all the spoilers.

Damned spoilers -_-

My freaking internet is freaking broken at the moment. (I typed this in word and will post it when my internet stops being an ARSE.) (One of my current favourite words at the moment. Arse. It’s a good one.)

I’d better go find a book or some other form of old-fashioned entertainment, but not one so gripping that I read til 3am. Which I seem to do with disgusting regularity. 3am is not a good time to be awake.

OK, so it's Saturday night now. My internet is still an arse and I can't get onto msn, but at least I found some good books. Gripping enough to keep me reading until 12:30 but bland enough to then put down. I still don't have Locke Lamora. Tonight we're going to the neighbour's place for dinner and for Earth Hour. Yay to no electricity! So now I'm going to shut down the computer and turn it off at the wall.

Byeee

PS thanks to Jess for pointing out that this post had been doublepasted. Stupid cut and paste ...

Fixed now, I hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GEbkjgii6E

Merry's first dance. It was taken the same day as Mystic's, and Mystic was in the car - you can see that every time she woofs Merry looks around to find her. Oops :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUX1cTT_2hI

Mystic's first dance. Yahoo! She's my lil spunk :)

(I'm glad she's able to compensate for my less-than perfect handling :P )

I hate uploading things onto youtube. AAAA

I miss Meggs. The house still seems somehow empty without him.

Mum doesn't want to get another cat, because what would happen to him once me and Viv move out?

She said, maybe we can get a dog. For her, so she won't be alone when I move overseas and take my little munchkins with me.

That would be nice, I think.

I don't think I hear him purring when I walk down the hallway at night anymore.
I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
The dogs are finally eating well and not being depressed. But every time I reach into the cupboard to get their dinner, I find cans of cat food that are never going to be eaten ...

Ya, the last post was a tad too enthusiastic for its own good. So shoot me.

Anyway ... more updates.

A couple of weeks ago my great aunt Ingrid came to visit. She stayed with grandma for most of the week, but we had her on wednesday. She's been living in America for the past 50 years, but she still sounds charmingly Swedish. I can't believe I've never met her before. She's an animal trainer and always has been. And she's so nice and friendly and loves everything. Particularly my dogs. =D
We took her to the Wallaby Yards and showed her newborn wallabies - little tammars. So cute. Then we went to GWSC so I could get them to sign a thing saying I can do my exams there, and all the teachers talked to me and said "Come back if you need help anytime! Really! Or just visit! Anything!" Nice to be missed :P Then we went to Melbourne Uni, but the O-week bbq was already over (aw). We ate at the union building, then went to the zoo. I got a couple of good pics of a snow leopard. The Orangutans were SO COOL - one of them swung up the the viewing platform, saw us all watching, and covered itself in a box. From time to time it would peek out, see us still watching and try to hide better. Eventually it gave up, waked over reaaally close to the glass, staring into the eyes of a little boy, hypnotised with his nose pressed against the window. Then a little girl came and shoved him out of the way, and the orangutan got bored and went and got it's box, then lay down to watch the other orangutans - but it got too absorbed and leant too far over, and it lost it's box over the edge! He was like ... crud. I love the zoo : )
Then we went to see the wild bat colony. Bats are great. Like huge, flying rats (with big sharp pointy teeth : E3  < emoticon with teeth.).
On saturday we went to the zoo agin, so Viv could get more pics (she went to the zoo with school on friday). I drove there and the traffic was soooo shithouse. Of course dad and Viv insisted on sitting still for half an hour everywhere to get the perfect shot. I was a tad bored by the end of that. But oh well. They did get some good shots.

Last thursday I took my dogs to TAFE for show and tell. Everyone loved them =D

On saturday I Marie and I went to Jess's place to watch Torchwood (why can I never remember the name of that series? Argh)
And today I went to Josh's place. I got there before he did, and his dad had NO idea who I was or why I was there. That was kinda funny.
Josh helped me with maths and we ate way too much. He spent ages trying to convince me to eat fish. He lost. I am the champion of obsinance. Then we played scrabble and cheated (why would you play if not for the fun of cheating?). And one of his rabbits is seriously aggro. It is the monty python rabbit. Yay! ^_^

And apart from the normal paraphenalia of stuff I do (like fat pony walking, yoghurt-drop-feeding rats and getting my dogs to tell me whether they prefer Mama Mia to Sex Bomb), that is mostly all. Toodles!

PS heat is bad. I dislike heat muchly.

PPS driving is now 44 hours, 15 mins and counting. I have my first lesson on wednesday.

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Squee!!! :D

What's the biggest leap of faith you've ever had to take?

About 1.5 metres horizontally then 20 metres down.

It's getting to the point where I'm not sure whether I'll ever have the time to expand on my previous list of stuff that's happened since the exams. But now I have a little while - not long - so I'll make another dot-point summary of the stuff that's happened since I failed to expand on the last list. Only I can’t remember heaps of it. Damn. I’ll try and go through old emails to jog my memory … If I forget stuff or say something wrong, please correct me.

• I had my birthday party. We went to see The Golden Compass and had gelati. Some people came back to my place and played Uno and stuff. I got some awesome presents. Score : )
• I emptied my old piggybank and found $82 and 40 cents and 2 rupees and a button.
• I started helping at the Summer Film School. I got a lot of driving practice going to and from Melbourne Uni. I feel like I was cheating … I did almost nothing to help yet I got to do the entire course for free. The best bits where when I got to act like a brazen hussy on stage, and when they shot someone with a sub machine gun. In the lecture theatre. Hehe.
• And that took a whole month, except for the few days I was disgustingly ill. But I did get a diploma in filmmaking. So random …
• The Uni of Melbourne is up itself.
• I started studying Psychology and Maths Methods (why am I such an idiot … please shoot me now…) by distance education.
• I went to TAFE and sort of “accidentally” became a student. So now I’m doing Small Business Management. Yay … at least it’s useful.
• And I also started my Dog Obedience Instructor’s Course. That’s great. I love it.
• And in my “free time” (wasn’t this supposed to be a year off?!) I do my dog sports – agility, freestyle, hiking etc.
• In case you didn’t grasp that last little lament … I have basically no free time. So I tend to not do homework and go out with people instead. It’s great. Stuff that we did in the past while:
• On the 13^th of January (Since I went through emails to find dates I might as well put dates in, hey what?) some people went to Jess’s place to play games. Andrew put the counters in Marie’s shoes. It’s becoming a habit, that.
• On the 19^th we played Laserforce. Josh and I played pool afterwards – I suck. Hoorah!
• On the 22^nd we went to see Romeo and Juliet at the Botanic Gardens. It was slightly modernised in some points – like the truck – and it was really funny. People think tragedies shouldn’t be funny. I disagree. Some of the actors could have been better, but Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio were great and they’re the important ones, aren’t they :P
• On the 28^th was the Australia Day Duck Race, so Marie and Jess and Josh and I (and Josh’s friend) went to Birrarung Mar to watch. Some of the little duckies escaped, and the lifesavers “rescued” them. We didn’t manage to steal a duck. Disappointing.
• On the 3^rd of February we had a picnic at Jell’s Park. I took my dogs. The merry-making (ie football kicking and Bang playing) went on well into the afternoon.
• On the 7^th, Meggs passed away. I have already written about him, of course. : (
• But on the 8^th I went to My RSPCA interview anyway. I had my first day last Friday (22 feb)– I’m alternating between dog walking and working in the education barn.
• On the 12^th we went to see Sweeny Tod. It wasn’t as gruesome as we feared, because the blood looked like paint. They went through a LOT of paint. And all the songs are stuck in my head. Even the one about the cat pies.
  
• Went to Aparna’s place on the 13^th and watched “My Fair Lady”. I love that movie. It cracked me up. Mum left home with her phone turned off not knowing the house number. When I realised this I frantically SMS’d her and luckily she got it in time to interrupt us very conveniently at the end of an amusing card game.
• On the 15^th I went to Josh’s place and we played Imaginiff and stuff, and went to AJ’s house for lunch. After Marie and Andrew went home we watched Ever After, which was surprisingly enjoyable.
• On the 16^th I took Mystic to the Papillon club trial in the morning (she did some crazy stuff, but she had FUN!!! WHEE!!!), then raced off to my instructor’s course, went home and had lunch then raced Merry off to a trial in the afternoon. She fell off the A-frame in the first run, and refused it the next 2 runs. Her final run – at about 10pm – was Jumping, and she was just a few seconds overtime. Everything else was *perfect*. Love that dog.
• I went and crashed The Monash Law intro day. Which actually meant that I got stuck for hours in a horrendously boring lecture. But when we got out there was free food (and mud). And lots of friends were there, because most people I know are going to Monash … And they joined crazy clubs and Marie beat a knight with a big stick for ages, and we went and saw an incredibly suggestive play. Actually, it went through suggestive and out the other side. It contained condoms.

That took me way too long to write, even in a form more condensed than Campbell's pea soup. Ah dear. I should write more often and not get behind like this … but such is life.