They're sharing a drink they call loneliness

Oh, dude!!!!!
NOT HOMELESS ANYMORE!!!
I have the extreme pleasure of being able to fork out $300 a fortnight to have a roof over my head and the odd possibility of clean running water and electricity.
Doesn't get much better than that...

Naomi Watts has given birth to a baby boy named Alexander


13 YEARS AFTER CONCEPTION!!!

Dude.
When is Naomi Watts gonna pop??

I am frantically trying to re-read HP & THBP before DH comes out. Well not frantically. Tis only Thursday and the book comes out Saturday. Not that I read all day, it's just that I am a fast reader at the worst of times and even quicker when I have already read the book (numerous times). I just want it all fresh in my mind before I start lining up a stupid o'clock to get the 7th book. I know, I know. Tis terribly sad. But I don't care. I am a proud HP fan and I don't care who knows it. Wow. That was freeing. Lol *suddenly has a vision of thousands of adult HP fans "coming out of the closet." Or should that be 'broom closet.'*
Gaw. I amaze with my rapier wit.
Speaking of HP. I went and saw OotP the first night it opened. I gotta say, not the best one. I know some people loved it but so much was missing that I really wanted to see. Where was the Quibbler (aside from Luna reading it in the coach)? Where was Mrs Black? Where was St Mungos? Where was Kreacher going to the Malfoys? Why was Cho the dobber and not Marietta? That totally blew. Not cause I like Cho, but where was the SNEAK and the galleons and the Pensieve scene and how much was I looking forward to young James and Sirius and Remus and how little was that scene? Where was Unbridge's hand as she searched for Sirius' head in the fire. And that annoyed me. I mean, I didn't necessarily agree with how they did that in the fourth movie (his head being made of ash etc.) but c'mon! Show some continuity! I know they can't include everything but there were other things that I think they could've taken out. Like the xmas scene. Did not get it at all. Twas just a seguey to the Black family tree, which I'm sure could've been slotted in somewhere else. Speaking of the tree, not even a mention of the Malfoys being related to Sirius??!! Couldn't even see it on the tree (and believe me, I was looking. Perhaps not hard enough, but I totally couldn't see it.). I would've prefered St Mungos. And before you all start hating on me, I do realise they already had the set and was probably cheaper etc but really. I mean really. It's Harry Potter. Yes, terribly strapped for cash, aren't they? And was it just me, or did it seem like they had a whole bunch of extra characters, only to give them 7 minutes screen time each. Which I know, Oscars can be one in that time (Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love: less that 8 minutes). My hat does however go off to Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood. I do admit, I was a little iffy about it, but I doff my hat. Job well done. Which I can't say for many others. Imelda Staunton was and is a wonderful actress but I absolutely loathe and despise her in the books but in the movie, I disliked her. She was a nasty cow, but I was not compelled to jump into the screen and throttle her as I am in the books. Perhaps one more detention scene for Harry would've done it. 
I know I wouldn't have done a better job, so don't even try playing that card. And I know all I've done is bitch, but I did like the movie, solely because it is a HP movie. The special effects were incredible and the battle between He Who Must Not Be Named and Dumbledore left me awestruck. (WAIT- WHERE WAS THE FOUNTAIN COMING TO LIFE?!?!?! I was SO looking forward to that!) 
Sigh. I long for Steve Kloves return.
End scene.

Damn. Mum and Dad have chosen to go for bond rather than a deposit on the house. It works out better in the end but it means I have to wait longer for my laptop.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I should get? Keeping in mind I know jack about computers

Kidnapped from dees417

1. One book that changed your life: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. One book that you’ve read more than once: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. One book you’d want on a desert island: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling. Still the best one.
4. One book that made you laugh: Down Under by Bill Bryson
5. One book that made you cry: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
6. One book that you wish you had written: Harry Potter series
7. One book that you wish had never been written: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. I know it's a play byt after having done it every year for 5 years, you get over it.
8. One book you’re currently reading: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Re-reading before number 7 comes out.
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read: Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
10. Now tag five people: whomever likes books + memes can have at it :)

Uni starts soon. Well, maybe.
I'm having major issues trying to find somewhere to live. Shut up all you people with rooves over your head.
Okay, so I'm not homeless but it's starting to look that way. We finally sold the house and there should be exchange of everything end of August. Which means I have til then to find somewhere. Otherwise, I may be moving to Perth. Which totally blows cause I don't want to move. If I do have to move, I'm gonna do my degree online, cause that way when I do eventually get back to Canberra, I can graduate with the people I started with.
And I was so keen to leave as soon as I got here.
Woah. Total deja vu.
ACU Online has crashed again.
Bah! It is cold and miserable and neither of us wants to go to the shop. We have no food.
Diddums, huh?
I spoke to Elyce on Sunday for the first time in like 9 years. Twas awesome. Spoke about so much, yet so little.
Lots of people I went to school with have had children/are having children. Some I wasn't surprised, some I was. *coughkristencough*
Speaking of which.
CONGRATULATIONS TO KASSIE WHO HAD A BABY GIRL NAMED SKYE!!!!!!
She wan't due til August but she had high blood pressure and the baby stopped growing at 33 weeks, so Kas had to have an emergency c. Well, it sounds like it was an emergency c at any rate.
But the poor baby has to stay in hosptial for another 3 weeks. Poor Kas must be going out of her mind. Stacey and I are thinking of taking Kas to get her hair done/get a massage for xmas. But at the moment, we'll just get stuff for the baby so Kas has lots of things at home for her!

Such a Gemini. I update like mad for a little while, then I get bored with it and don't update for ages. Shall we take bets on how long I'll be here? No I should make an effort. After all, got a blast from the past thanks to LJ. 
Anywho, what better way to update than to totally steal from Dim? Yeah, I think so too...


1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
"Hart, who studied at the ANU, has been one of Australia's mist highly regarded poets since the mid-70s" (okay, so it was the newspaper, but had words and a page 18)

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you reach?
C.D stand

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Entourage

4. Without looking, guess what time it is:
9:46a.m

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
9:33a.m

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
The T.V- that stupid Philadelphia ad

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Yesterday-taking out the rubbish

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
couchsurfing website

9. What are you wearing?
a dressing gown and ugg boots. hey, it's cold!

10. Did you dream last night?
Probably, but nothing comes to mind

11. When did you last laugh?
Today- we just got a video of my nephew on his swing set

12. What are on the walls in the room you are in?
paintings, a notice board and a 'dirty deeds' poster my mum won which is signed by the cast

13. Seen anything weird lately?
me, updating

14. What do you think of this quiz?
its a meme, like all other memes it is useless (i'll just second that)

15. What is the last film you saw?
cinema: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, T.V: Puberty Blues

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
a house for everyone in my family

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know.
uhhh... i have red hair

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
i'd remove this fascination we have with thinness

19. Do you like to dance?
Yes. Do i do it well? Not bloody likely

20. George Bush:
Don't have an opinion either way. He's amusing at times

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Penelope

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Patrick Sean. Yeah, haven't been planning that one for years

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yes

24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates
Coordinator: Crucifixion?
Prisoner: Yes.
Coordinator: Good. Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each.

I am bored and have stolen this from ezzamai My name is... Jo-Hanna Rose Werts 1. YOUR PORN STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name) Jessie Harracks 2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your Mum's side, your favourite candy) Sheila Lindt 3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name,first two or three letters of your middle name) J Ros 4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Silver Snake 5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Rose Canberra 6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 2 letters of mom's maiden name and first 3 letters of the town you grew up in.) Werjoreddar 7. Terrorist Name: (first name spelt backwards, your mom's maiden name spelt backwards) Oj Deir 8. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, favorite drink) The Silver Baileys

Ha! You can download erotica from ITunes.

Mum flies out tonight. She's going to Melbourne to meet up with Dad.
See, Dad is living in Perth for a year with work, so whenever he is on this side of the country (I just wrote town) Mum meets up with him. Which gives me the house to myself for the weekend. Which means I could throw some from of shindig but I would have to clean the place first and actually prepare for it and fuck that, too much work.
Tis so nice to have these past few days off work. And the weekend.
But next week I'm working every friggin afternoon. But only two mornings. Oh well, money is good and I am a loser with no life. I'm saving to go and study in Ireland. Either for a year or a semester, I haven't quite decided. It'll be in 3rd year though, which is good cause it gives me another year to bring myself up to a credit average. Every semester I SWEAR I'll do all the reading and keep up to date. Every semester that goes down the drain.
I'm hungry. I've just had breakfast. Maybe I'm thirsy. Apparently we mistake thirst for hunger something like 72% of the time. I think that's bullshit. I know when I'm hungry.
Bah.
I'm trying to find Sex Bomb by Tom Jones on ITunes. Has like the most obscure songs by him, but not that. I have it stuck in my head and I must have it and listen to it before it will leave. It's on at water aerobics ALL the time.
Everyone has lives but me. Ellen is in Sydney and Alex and Jess have gone down the coast somewhere. Not together though. And Sarah is working all the friggin' time and everyone else lives on the southside and I can't be arsed going over there. Screw that.
I'm happy to be a loser at home though. Someone has to be.
I <3 my icons. All of them.
I am totally addicted to Girls of the Playboy Mansion on foxtel. It just amuses the hell out of me. One girl is around my age and is dating Hugh Hefner, who is 80.
80 dude.
Woah.

I haven't updated in a few days. My life has just been a cycle of work and gym. I didn't go yesterday, but I'm pretty sure I got enough of a workout at work! I work at an after-school care and there are two disabled children there. I was looking after one and he can walk a little, if someone is holding him up. He can move his legs in the general motion of walking. So I had to hold him up for quite a while, probably 30 min at any one time. He's 11 and although he's small, he still weighs something! He's so gorgeous-I love him but he can get a little heavy after awhile.
But I'm going to the gym tonight. Aquaerobics! Yayness! I love aquaerobics. Tis the best.
I've joined weight watchers points program. I figured I probably should cause I was starting to not eat again and that is the last thing I want. I refuse to go down that path again. And I'm trying really hard to use at least 2/3 of my points, cause I know I could just as easily use 3 points for the day.
I wanna know how I went in my exams.
No wait, no I don't.
Actually, I have no idea what I want.
I have to work this afternoon. Isn't long (3 hours, 15 minutes) and I finish at 6 but I just don't feel like it. Oh well, only 3 shifts left this week-tday, Wed morning and afternoon and that's it for the week. Yay! Two days off!
Mum is going to Melbourne on Friday. Won't be too bad. I'll just go to the gym for a couple of hours over the weekend.
I can't believe I have one year of a degree behind me. Weird.

If you've already filled this out, do so again cause it's stuffed up so I'm doing it again

A total rip off of likeiamhome but oh well!
If you would like a Christmas card sent to you from the seventh layer of hell (Canberrra, Australia) fill out the poll pleasyness and all (no one can see your answers)


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Well. Just did my Lingustics for Literacy exam.
Holy fucking shit.
That was the most ridiculous exam I have EVER done. And I've done some shockers.
So far no one I've spoken to has answered the last question. Including myself.
What a load of crap. The first question was why was the unit so great for students planning on being teachers. And was worth 15 marks. I thought it was shit. I didn't learn anything. Waste of bloody time. The lecturer was shit. She was totally unable to stand at the front of the class and speak. I'm not kidding. I think she hyperventilated before each lecture. And we weren't mean to her or anything. She just sucked. I don't think anyone really learnt anything from her.
But I only need two marks to pass the unit. And I'm pretty sure I got that. Even if I didn't answer the last question.
Oog. Argh.
Oh well, just one more to go.

i just fixed my headphones! I have no life...

Damn.
Mum signed the papers wrong so they have to send them back before we can get a loan...
grr...

I am so tired. I got up at around 6:30 this morning to do some studying before exam. Which was totally pointless cause I was really tired. So I drove Mum to work (we're still waiting for the loan to come through so she can buy another car >< ) As I get into her workplace (which is on the other side from where uni is for those of you playing at home) I discover I don't have my purse. Which has my I.D in it, which I need in order to take my exam.
So I begrudgingly drive back home, more than slightly pissed off with myself. It's cool though cause I got to uni with plenty of time to spare.
Time enough to discover we are allowed an A4 page of notes. Oh joy.
Thankfully Jess let me photocopy hers- it was just crap about theories/ists etc. I didn't really use it, but it was good to know it was there.
So we go into the room and the exam is so friggin' easy! There were 7 questions and we had to answer 6. I used a full page for each and took 1 hour 20 min. I cracked my knuckles and counted the cracks on the roof.
You can't say I don't know how to have a good time...
Thankfully the examiner person let me out early, so I went and handed in my maths assignment *huzzah!* No more maths! *dances a jig of indescribable joy.* I also picked up some other assignments and I got a credit for both. Oh joyness.
And double huzzah! No exam tomorrow!
But I am working 7:30-8:30 and 2:45-6:00. It isn't long, I just suck at early starts. Says she as she types at 9:46 p.m.
Hmmm...
But I only have 2 more exams and I've finished for the year. As trivial as it is, I am *really* looking forward to it.
We also went to the gym this afternoon. I did an hour. Twas good. I like. Except we didn't have a spa and sauna so I believe I shall be sore tomorrow. I have aquaerobics tomorrow, which I am looking forward to. I live no life. I also ate 1,072 calories today which is big cause normally I eat 500 or nothing, so I'm determined to eat healthily. I know starving works in the short term but in the long run, if you eat a damn calorie your body tries to keep it on, and it ends up the total opposite of what you are trying to achieve *coughcough a certain someone...yes you*
I can't type properly. My fingers are all out of whack cause I'm so tired.
Bugger this, I'm going to bed...

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In April I put money in keladryie's expired parking meter (14 points). Last Monday I gave ezzamai a Dutch Oven (-10 points). Last Saturday I gave prec1ous_g0llum a wet willie, then I took it back (-5 points). In January I didn't flush (-1 points). In May I ruled Asscrackistan as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-702 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking! Sincerely, aftanoon_delite

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Well. I finished my psychology for the year. Just did the exam.
It wasn't as painful as I thought it was gonna be. I just have Lingustics for Literacy and God, Faith and the Search for Meaning. Well, I do go to a Catholic University.
But let me tell you, no one can drink like the catholics! Especially when they are Irish.
And huzzah, I have today off from work so I don't have to do ANYTHING!
Except I am going to the gym this afternoon for an hour, which I am looking forward to. This past week, I've really only had time to go for 30 min but I'm gonna make an effort to go for an hour.
Woah, that was sufficiently boring...
Shall write more later when I can't smell stir-fry.
Mmm...stirfry.
Stop.
Go away.
LEAVE. ME. ALONE.

Apparently you can update your LJ over your phone now.
Because people aren't addicted to mobiles (cells) and LJ enough...
Meagz has friended me back. Meagz rocks. *waves to Meaganan*
I start work at 2:45 today and huzzah! I have the car so I don't need to wait around for totally reeky taxi dudes.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I just don't like catching taxis. See the bus gets there too early and the next one gets me there too late so that just blows.
But tis okay cause I have the car. And on Saturday Mum is buying a car so I get to have her old one and that makes me happy. I just have to pay for petrol. It's not the best car but it gets me from a=======>b and that is all I want.
I really need to wash my hair.
I went to aquaerobics last night. It was really good and cause I went to the spa and sauna and I do not ache. No siree bob.
I am going to the gym again tonight. And I am having a warm chicken salad for dinner.
Speaking of which
OMFG!!
I just had the BEST lunch EVER. And I made it all by myself.
Chilli con carne, with rice and vegetables (and mince of course)
It was so good. I shall make you some
*sends it through computer*
Should take 7-10 days delivery.
I have to go and shower. Oh goody.