Nothing New and a Little About Me.

So, my life is unbelievably boring lately. The only things that are new in my life are my decision to stay living at home until after I finish my bachelor of business and the latest Sims 3 expansion pack. Speaking of which, I need to buy it.

So yes, my decision to remain living with my mother and sister until at least halfway through 2014 is almost purely financial, but it gives me the freedom to still take holidays, finally get my life together before I move out, and of course, have my washing and cooking done for me. 

Also, apparently all my technology is going to fail on me at once, my phone has stopped working properly, my macbook isn't holding charge very well and my iPod has been slowly dieing for a while now, so I'm going to have to save up and sort that out.

And now, for the second half of this blog, for something a little different, a quick list of 5 things that I love and 5 things that I don't love. Just for a little insight into me as a person.

Firstly, the list of 5 things I love:

1. Wearing bright colours! It makes me feel better when I'm in a bad mood and it brightens life up a little.
2. The Sims 3. No questions asked, this is the greatest game EA have ever released and I will always love The Sims franchise.
3. My pretty blue Lancer, even though it has it's fair share of dints, I love it to death. However, I don't have a license because I bought my car to learn to drive then never bothered. Public transport is better for the environment anyway.
4. Reading long books because if I really like a book I'd rather it was super long, that way I can read it for longer.
5. Cats! I know that sounds a bit crazy, but I grew up with two cats in my house and I got my own cat when my dad left and his cat died. I love that cats are easy to look after and they just lay around and don't do much.

And for the list of 5 things I don't love:

1. Spiders. I'm a true arachnophobia, the kind who has panic attacks over any spider with a leg span bigger than an Australian 20cent piece. Even little ones make sleeping a hard thing for me.
2. Wet hair is my biggest pet peeve, it drives me insane, I just don't like the feeling of it sitting on my neck and back.
3. The sound that thongs (of flip-flops for all non-Australians) make when people walk. I feel like they are walking in a puddle all the time and it makes me uncomfortable.
4. While I love the taste of coffee, I don't love that it makes your teeth yellow, and that I can't drink it without at least 3 sugars because it is so bitter.
5. All over the internet, especially facebook and twitter, are people who either can't or won't use proper English. It drives me insane to see every second post have either an obvious spelling error, or obvious grammatical errors. The worst is that people don't understand between then and than. You do one thing THEN another, you do one thing rather THAN another. Sort it out people, it's not that difficult.

 So, now you guys know me a little better, I'd like anyone who reads this the entire way through to post a comment telling me 5 things about yourself because I want to get to know you as well.

It's Been a While.

I've been in Queensland a full month now. I can't say I like it all that much more, but I certainly don't hate it as much as I did the first week. We had the internet and home phone cut off a month ago, and to be honest, it's given me time to do more productive things with my time than blog, check facebook, tweet something, check facebook again and then google something I didn't need to know.

I'm officially a university student, however I'm only completing a TPP so I am able to get into the degree I want to do. Speaking of which, I found out that a friend of mine is applying to do the same course on the same campus in Brisbane as I am applying to. This made me excited because the one thing that had been making me toss between studying that degree and in Brisbane as opposed to a different degree and in Melbourne, was the thought that I'd be entirely alone in Brisbane. And being my paranoid self, I wasn't sure I'd be able to take that risk. However, now knowing that someone I know might be there, I'm most certainly going to apply.

I've also made a few subtle changes. I've gone back to having blonde hair, which I am so much more comfortable with. I've also, for some reason unknown to myself, become a lot more feminine. I painted my nails just because, I got dressed in all black and white with jewelry for uni, and I've been wearing more makeup than usual. 


On account of knowing a few people here, I've also managed to have my first concert and night out drinking already. The RSL club had a U2 Tribute band come to play, and my aunt and uncle and a bunch of their friends decided to go, so I decided to tag along. I got all dressed up (in a dress and everything) and went out. My uncle decided to feed me drinks all night, and by 10.30 when the band was done I was pretty drunk. We then decided to walk halfway across the city centre to a tavern where I, who hates rum, decided to drink a rum and coke. My mum then dragged me home because my uncle was too drunk to speak, so we all called it a night. I also met the guy who invented the electric violin, and studied one of the degrees I want to. It was the best night I've had since I got here. Most nights however, I filled with my mother and sister pointlessly yelling at each other and driving me insane, my mother using some sort of condescending tone to ruin any thing, and a lot of tv.

I'm excited because two months from tomorrow, I am flying back to my not so lovely home town for my best friends 18th birthday. It means I'll get to catch up with the 3 people I still bother to keep contact with from back there, and it'll be a nice cold change from the Queensland climate. The only thing I'm not keen for, is the 3 hour layover in Sydney, which essentially means I'll be spending around 2 hours wandering through an airport alone. Being alone doesn't tend to bode well with me, and it makes me anxious to think about it. I'm sure it'll be worth it to see some of my favourite people though.

Right now though, I've just finished watching Old Dogs and I'm going to go to bed and probably watch youtube videos until I feel tired enough to sleep. This weekend is going to be a quite one, maybe a few visits here or there, but mostly quite. Then I have a free Monday, two classes on Tuesday, free Wednesday, one class on Thursday and free Friday. Somewhere in there I need to finally get my student ID done, and buy my study desk. Lucky I have plenty of free time though right?

Not even a week...

Having not even lived in Hervey Bay a full week yet, and having already learnt to hate this place is possibly a world record or something. Don't get me wrong, I haven't had much of a chance to explore or meet people or really do much in the past 5 days, but the amass of things that have gone against me wanting to live here are starting to take their toll on me.

The starting point is the heat. Being from a cold, mountainous region, I'm barely used to heat, much less humidity. So it's killing me to be sweaty all the time. I don't like to shower everyday because it's bad for your hair and skin to be over-washed, so it's driving me insane. The rain comes in fast and heavy with little warning, as does the wind and the tide, we're currently being warned of flash flooding, and I have no experience with rain this heavy. And certainly no experience with the ocean and it's king tides.

The second massive point is to do with me having nothing to do for the next 6 months because, due to the lack of available flights and such, I missed all the study enrollment days and therefore can't study, and the availability of jobs is kind of ridiculous here.

The third occurred last night, and was possibly one of the most scary and mentally damaging moments of my entire life, and believe me, my life has been no ray of sunshine, so it was a hard thing for me. Due to my dog being brought up in an area with very little danger to herself if she were to ingest something, she has never learnt to not eat strange animals. So last night, due my sister being an ignorant child and not feeding the dogs like my mother had asked her to do before dark, my dog found a cane toad, bit it and got poisoned. She began vomiting, before frothing at the mouth and having fits. Thank god my mother managed to stay calm enough to call my aunty who rushed over (almost without a shirt on) and brought her husband and they, due to being locals, knew what to do. 

Luckily, and somewhat surprisingly, my dog is now entirely fine, and was for some reason super happy to go to the vet to have a check up because nobody actually knew what was wrong with her last night, so we had to take her to a vet to be sure. There is still a slight possibility she is epileptic though.

So I would like to thank my family for forcing my to move 1500 kilometers from any of my friends, to a place where the weather, wildlife and future prospects neither suit me nor will they ever. I'd like to thank my sister for almost destroying any faith I had left in her being a decent human being and me ever being able to live here, and for generally making my life more difficult than it needs to be. And I'd genuinely like to thank my Aunt and uncle for attempting to make this easier on me, because spending most nights trying not to cry over everything I've left behind, and the lost opportunities, is one of the hardest things I've had to do. And the photo up the very top, is the lovely weather as seen from my front yard, sorry about the quality, it was taken with my webcam through the front window.

Welcome to Queensland!

As most of you know from my million posts about moving, I am now a resident of Queensland. Hervey Bay to be exact. I'm living in a lovely house in the lovely suburb of Point Vernon, which has ocean in all directions except inland. I've gotten used to the humidity and the heat rather quickly, which is surprising since I come from a place that has no humidity most of the time. I do have to essentially redo my entire waredrobe to suit the climate and style, but I will get there in time, because it has to match my personal style, which has actually changed, so I don't really own anything I want to wear anyway.

There are a few things I am not quite used to yet. Everything here is a lot cheaper than it was in a tiny town in rural New South Wales, food and clothing wise, rent wise, almost everything really. Everything is a 2 minute drive away, and if it's not here, it's either in Bundaberg or Gympie, and they are less than an hour away, and I'm used to traveling 2 hours for limited resources. There are a new array of bugs, including sand fly's. There are reptiles that come inside the house, including gecko's (photo). And worst of all, everyone else is in a different time zone to me, so it's a little hard when they text me and it's only 7am.

Other than that, I think I'll be able to handle living here. I believe I'll be doing a certificate 3 in business for the next 6 months, and hopefully getting a part time job with any place that handles any kind of events so I can get into the industry. And then who knows, I'd like to move to Brisbane and spend two years at SAE still, and then do my Bachelor of Business in Events Management specialising in music related events. But we'll see what happens. I'd also like to be living overseas by then, but currently I don't see that one happening.

As for right now, I'm going to hopefully eat something soon because I am super hungry, then I'm going to go watch Bernard Tomic play tennis, because I love tennis, and he is great to watch. He's so tall and lanky, it's kind of like he's barely moving to get the ball. 


As for the only piece of advice I have for anyone right now: don't make plans, because plans don't often work out in the way you imagine. So set a goal, and take the journey as it comes. That way you can't be disappointed when things go awry, and you can enjoy every step you take on the way to that goal. And learn to laugh, at everything. There is no other way to really handle anything, because if you can't laugh then you can't enjoy life. Take it as it comes, and laugh when it all goes wrong.