So I haven’t blogged for a while (again). I get so sidetracked from blogging because I’m doing so many other things at once. I need to make an effort to blog at least once a week, seriously, otherwise this is going to get really boring and no-one will come here any more haha! Not that many people do, I don’t think.

Anyway, I’m thinking about a new layout for Inspirata but my creativity has gone out the window for a while and won’t be returning soon. I’ve managed to get my fanlisting collective a new layout, see here, but that’s as far as my creativity has taken me. I’ve been approved for quite a few different fanlistings recently, and I’ve only got one more to get up (the N.E.R.D. fanlisting), so all the others are ready and raring to go (and you can see them all at that previous link).

Yesterday I received a nice parcel in the mail - my mum bought me Proactiv for my acne, so that’s awesome, can’t wait to start seeing results. I’ve really been breaking out a lot lately, I don’t know whether its due to diet or what but anyway, hopefully this will help.

I’ve also managed to stop biting my nails, and I’ve painted them so the temptation is no longer there. I’m pretty proud of myself - this is the first time I’ve stopped biting them in pretty much 16-17 years, since I’ve had teeth! Michael’s nails still look better than mine, but as long as the skin around the nail cleans itself up from all the tattering I’ve done to it over the years, then my fingers will be looking pretty in no time. Shame that I know that longer fingernails means I can’t type as well, but I’ll get over it and manage. I mean, I guess the only time I’ve had longer nails is when I’ve had fake ones on, and that’s like a sudden ‘BAM!’ new longer nails, and you have to get used to it pretty quickly, but with natural nails its just a matter of natural adaption over the time they grow. And here I am babbling on about fingernails, sheesh.

It’s only, like, a month till Christmas. I can’t believe it. I’m going to be so freakin’ exhausted over the Christmas break. For one, I don’t even get much of a break. At my work, we only get the main days off (Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day), and I only work three days a week. So I’ve organised with my boss to work the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Christmas, head down to Tassie on the Thursday morning, spend all day Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday(25th) and Tuesday(26th) there, then head back to Melbourne on Wednesday morning to work Thursday and Friday - PHEW! Then I get another day off the following week for New Year, which luckily falls on a Monday (one of my three working days per week). I have to organise to go full time at some point, so that I can take proper leave. Working part-time doesn’t get you many hours annual leave accrual.

Amelia’s baby (they’ve already named him Jonah) is due any minute now. She was due last Wednesday, so if she hasn’t had him by I think Thursday she’s going to have to be induced - he’s apparently a big baby so he can’t stay in there for too long! We’re all waiting for the phone call…

Anyway, I think I’ve babbled enough about stuff you guys aren’t even interested in! I gotta work out what I’m going to do with Break-Glass.Org - I think it will be a portfolio but I’m not sure yet.

So it’s today - Michael and I have been together 3 years already! Can you believe it - feels like just yesterday I was 15 and he was 18 - now I’m 18 and he’s 21 and we’ve been living together for almost a year now. Wowzers! And I still love him just as much, if not more, than the day I met him I love you babe!
Anyway, we’ve organised to go find somewhere nice for dinner at Southbank, then go to see ‘The Prestige’ in Gold Class at Village Cinemas at Crown Casino, then drink until we can’t drink no more! Really looking forward to it, although I have to go through the pain of work before I can enjoy it, but hopefully the working day will go reasonably quickly. We’re lucky that our anniversary even fell on a Friday!

I haven’t bought him anything yet but I was thinking that I might just take him to JB-HiFi and just say “Pick whatever you want, $100 or less” and he can go crazy. But I don’t know if that’s ‘lovey’ enough or what. So anyway, he can give me some idea of what he would like and I’ll see what I can do. All that I want from him is roses - they’re my favourite flower and I just get all gooey when he brings me roses home. I still have the roses he bought me for my birthday/Valentine’s Day hanging upside down on the wall. I dried them out and haven’t had any idea what to do with them since so I just left them there but they look nice.

Do you ever get that feeling that there’s something that you just can’t wait for but there’s actually nothing? I mean, I’m feeling all excited about tonight and stuff, but there’s a butterfly or two in my stomach that’s not fluttering about for tonight - it’s for something else - but there’s nothing else really coming up in the next couple of days that I should be excited about… weird. We are booked to go to Tassie for Christmas, but that’s a little while away yet and I never get real excited about going away until the day or two before, if not the actual day we leave. Maybe it’s the prospect of the weekend, I don’t know. Hmm.

Anyway, I must finish getting ready for work - can’t wait for tonight!

You’ve got to be kidding me… it’s already November - that means that it’s Christmas next month and my 3 year anniversary with Michael next WEEK! Holy hell.

Good news - I’ve managed to get a little bit of time off over Christmas so I can go to Tassie with Michael to see the family. It’ll be crazy - three new babies in the family and another to a close friend all by Christmas! My cousin Loretta had her little baby not long ago, then her sister (also my cousin) Melissa had her first baby, and our neighbour (who’s pretty much family anyway) had her third bub, AND Michael’s sister is expecting hers any day now! Wowzers - babies popping out all places. So plenty of nappy changing on Christmas Day!

Speaking of Christmas, Michael and I are going to buy each other phones. Motorola RAZRs. I want a pink one and he wants a blue one, how cute. I’ve wanted one for ages but last Christmas when we were phone shopping they were expensive, so I got a shitty Sony Ericsson. I like S.E.’s but this one has been playing up on me and it pisses me off. AANNDD since I got my new iPod Nano (as shown below), I wanted a phone to match my Nano, so that would be perfect.

As for our anniversary, we haven’t really budgeted for it so we’re just going for dinner and a movie in Director’s Suite at Hoyts, which will be good anyway. We were thinking about going to Ballarat for the weekend but it’s just too expensive at the moment. Plus we owe money to Michael’s parents and now with my mum booking flights over, Michael owes her $200 for his flights. He would have booked and paid for them himself but I wanted to get them together in case the flights were all gone by next week’s pay day.

Next Friday we’re going to go and see David Strassman at the Athenaeum. Should be awesome - I did have one of his DVDs but I lost it, don’t know where it went. I loved the DVD, so funny, and now we get to see him live! So great!