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| 05.24.04 (12:31 am) [edit] |
years! :) no, only a couple of weeks but it feels like years- typing here feels unusual...
I thought I'd update you from....the Auslan only weekend til today...
The Auslan Only Weekend was....awesome!!! I shared a room with Claire and Martha. I wasn't too sure about Claire- I'd met her a couple of times before and didn't get the best impression of her but I decided that I'd go into this with an open mind. I'm really glad that I did- Claire doesn't seem so bad once you get to know her- sure, she talks a lot but..still :)....
The whole weekend was a lot of fun, I felt that I made some connections with some of the students and even a couple of the team members. Excellent fun :P
Heaps of stuff happened and even though it's still fresh in my mind- don't really wanna write about it. I've told the whole story to a couple of people and that's enough for me :)
Came home really really tired though- sat on my bed to unpack and basically passed off- woke up the next morning with a pounding head- called a raincheck for TAFE.
Just bludged- went to North Rocks in the evening and watched rehersals....and pretended to b K3 for the night...cause she wasn't there...
Slept over Rach's- went to work on Tuesday- stayed on for the Management Council Meeting- can you say boring? :) But there was some interesting tidbits...
Wednesday- had TAFE and...*thinks* and... a job interview. The interview wasn't excellent but it wasn't shitty either. I cracked a LOT of jokes and I'm not sure how that went down :)
Thursday- had work as usual... and a meeting.. the meeting went A-OK...but i kinda felt that they weren't really LISTENING...they were listening, yeah but not LISTENING....if you get what i mean?
Friday...ummm just had tafe as usual...and went to Burwood RSL for the Deaflympics talk and the performance. I was at the door- getting peeps to pay :)
Was good to see some peeps...
I feel lke a nitwit cause I'm not saying much but...*shrugs*
Sat- worked and went to kara's...rach came over..we hired dvds...and went to my house and grabbed our dvd player and went over to Rach's and watched four movies...
1. S.W.A.T
2. Uptown Girls
3. ThoughtCrimes
4. Cheaper by the Dozen
Uhhh, went to bed around 2:30am...slept til around 11:30am...
vegged out- took kara home...
Not much else....
Today- had tafe...
Pretty boring....but Oh well- this week is good cause I don't have much planned...its pretty relaxing altho have heaps of assessments due... aaarrrgghhh
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| its thursday |
| 05.12.04 (3:36 pm) [edit] |
and i haven't updated since Sunday...
I don't really have much to tell you guys...
I've just been working and tafe-ing. Nothing too spectular. I go away for the weekend on Friday! YAY!
Bree is stratching at my leg now- begging to be allowed admission onto my lap but it's so hard typing with a wriggling dog in your lap.. She's givin' me puppydog eyes now...
Aaaah- going to hug her now....
Toodles...and I PROMISE- I'll update as soon as I have something interesting to say or..when I'm REALLY bored- aaah meh! :P
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| wkend :o) |
| 05.09.04 (2:58 am) [edit] |
I'll write about my weekend- don't have much else to write about..well, i can think of one thing but I'll only write about that if I feel up to it when that part of the weekend comes up.
Friday- I was supposed to go to TAFE but was *sick*! So went to the doctors- he diagnosed me with a viral infection and I called TAFE n told 'em that I wasn't coming in..but I still had to go to work so off to work I went at 2:30pm-ish....Worked for a coupla hours til 5 30 and then went to a meeting of a board thingy that I've recently joined...The meeting was a lot of fun, heaps of laughing..yep, it was good...
Went over to Rach's and chatted for a long bit :P Then crashed..
Saturday....We both went to Heritage School and worked. Heritage School, for those that don't know what it is. It's a program run by the Deaf Society for parents/friends/family of deaf kids to learn sign language. It's a free program. I think it's awesome. My role in the whole program is with the kids that they bring- someone's gotta look after them hey? We're just leaders, we lead activities and ummm, yeah..look after them. It's a lot of fun. One of the kids had a cochlear implant and noticed that Rach had one too so...pretty much identified with her and followed her everywhere, much to Rach's frustration. Ah, can't give too much away- confidentality stuff and all that... After that, we just uhhh, went to Parra Westfield for Rach's Mothers Day present. She got a hairdryer for her mum because apparently her hairdryer broke last year and ever snce, she's been using the heater to dry her hair. Weird!!! :o) We then just sat down at Starbucks and had a hot chocolate- we were there for at least two hours just talking about everything from hot chocolate to people...Everything- it was really good to sit down in a relaxed environment and just talk.. Not that we're always in a tense environment... :o)
Rach heard a "funny noise" and we just dismissed it til we saw people running. We watched them for abit then realised that everyone in the building were running...shops were shutting down..Someone said something about a bomb and we got out there as fast as we could. Her car was parked on the fourth floor and it took us half a hour to get out of the shopping centre. Everyone was panicking and everything.. Rach too and that, in turn got me even more stressed....So we both were panicking and saying "I don't wanna die!!!"
Well needless to say, we didn't die but anyway, back to the story!!
We FINALLY got to the exit and they were still making people pay for parking etc. Rach was like "fuck that- theres a bomb...just let the people goooo"....hahaha, about to turn off on the street but no-one would let us through...Rach started having a mad fit..banging on the wheel, screaming, hitting her head...you name it, she did it! :P...A man was watching- all amused like... He motioned that she could go before him if she desired. Rach: "Yes!, *looks* Not enough room though"... Man: *reverses* "better?"
Rach: *thumbs up* Man: "Calm down, don't get too stressed out etc etc"...Rach: *does mock meditation excercises*..
So, to that man out there..in the Red Lea truck/van- THANK YOU FOR LETTING US THROUGH!!
We got back to Rach's and claimed that we were safe! Hahahahahaha....
We basically just vegged out at her place, ate food and just..bleh! Watched Home and Away from last night.. This week is apparently reallyyyy good so I've got to make sure that I watch/tape it.
After a while- I msged Maz and asked if I could come over to pick up the cd with all the photos on it but she was out. Didn't get the msg in time and drove over there and discovered that her car wasn't there... Aaah!
Drove to Parra Westfield to see if it was still intact- it WAS!! But most doors to the car park were closed..we had to take a detour.
THANK YOU KIND SECURITY DUDE THAT CAN SIGN! :P... This security dude could sign and he gave us directions to another door...and we all introduced ourselves..
Went to Woolies and just walked up and down in aisles.. bought some stuff- I dropped her home and just came home....Soon after I got home- we had visitors...THE COPS! They said that someone on our property had called them (000 is our emergency number...911 etc :P)... From a mobile and we're like *shrugging* "dad's asleep, mum and hayley were watching the tv and I just got home, no-one els ehere".... Cops: "Ok, if eveyrthings ok- we'll go"..
BYE BYE NICE COPS! (and thanks for not thinking we were...baddies :P)
Got online and had an argument with Maz which is the thing that I didn't know if I'd talk about.. I'm still not sure if I will...we'll see...
Sunday- Today is Mothers Day and I got Mum two pendants and chains to go with it, she chose them herself though so no surprises there...
It wasn't the best day, I woke up at 1:30ish...SS was bein' a bitch as usual. I don't even wanna talk about it- lol.
I'm just gonna post this and just... augghhh!!!! Even though I woke up 7 hours ago- I'm tired again...
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| random jottings |
| 05.05.04 (8:10 pm) [edit] |
I wrote some stuff on paper yesterday before going to bed.
Yesterday, I woke up and in my dazed state- leapt out of bed and yanked open my drawer because for some reason, I thought a pig gave birth in there and I was worried about the lack of oxygen for the little piglets. Needless to say, I found nothing :P
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At tafe, we were talking about easy communication and interaction with the young people we work with at the schools....
Teacher: "You're easy Steve"..
Kat: "Yeah, in more ways than one, I'm sure..."
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And ooh, for those that want to know about the exam/presentation- The exam went well, I THINK!!!
The presentation also went good- I got 89%!!!!!! And I got calld outstanding! But afterwards, everyone gave feedback and some of the feedback they gave was so touching that I wanted to run up to them and give them a hug!!!
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I found out this morning that one of the people I went to school with died a couple of days ago. I was kicking myself at my reply. I just went 'Oh really?'... I wish I could have expressed a little sadness but i couldn't because I didn't feel it. All I did was go 'oh ok'...The funerals tomorrow and I'm not going. I wasn't the best of friends with her but still...
She died from cancer, I think..I'm not sure, she had leukemia all through high school.....
I really need to b more...I duno...
Ah, I'm at work now so better sign off now..
Seeya...
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| :o) super stressed.. |
| 05.04.04 (12:40 am) [edit] |
The whole family thing has been coated by sugary pretension. Harmony is present!
Like my title says- am totally stressed.
I worked all day today and I'm in charge of this specific thing. Its deadline is really soon and it's really difficult to get everything together, seeing that I only work one day a week there. But am going in after TAFE on Friday afternoon before my meeting. Augh! I still get paid for it though so that's kinda good, lol! :P
I also have a speech to do tomorrow, an exam to do tomorrow and an assignment is due tomorrow too. I haven't really started any of them/studying and I'm so scared of failing because I so don't need to fail. I just want all this to be over and done with.
My speech- I'm not too nervous about that because I know what I want to say- I've just got to write it out. I'm kinda worried about my group though because it's a group presentation about our project and the other two don't really do much. They try, of course...well, one does but you've got to give them some credit for trying at least but they just don't do stuff.
I just hope they've prepared their stuff for tomorrow. One of them has, I know. She msged me this morning clarifying a few things so I'm a little more settled about that.
Lauren said to take a breather, to go for a walk or get something to eat/drink and I was all like 'no! ill take my break when im sleeping'...But I'm kinda taking my break now, chatting to some people and blogging.
I was looking through my statistics and I see that I've got some regulars and that's so awesome. (It's awesome about the people other from the people I know in real life :P)..I also see that some specific people visit my blog at least twice a day and for that reason, I feel bad about not having something new for them to read. I should post more often!!!
I still have some reviews to do of peoples' blogs and I'll get around to that eventually. It's just not really on top of my list at the moment. I definetely need six seperate to-do lists because everythings just muddled...
Ah, I'm so sick of negativity. I really need to shoosh up bout the negativity but one's life is full of positivity, negativity and stuff like that...
I was thinking earlier that I'd love to chat to my fellow Tblog users on other devices such as instant messaging or email..If you want to talk- private message me or comment and we'll go from there.. :)...
Love you loyal readers...:)
Kat <3>
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| augghhh! |
| 05.02.04 (2:07 am) [edit] |
Sometimes I get soooo pissed off!!!
My parents can be really really thick at times. I just feel like slapping them on the head sometimes.
Take today for instance..
Dad: What's your problem?
Kat: People need to learn to leave me alone.
Dad: Why? What did I do?
Kat: Just go away and leave me alone.
Dad: Why?
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At the table...
Dad: *making it obvious that he was ignoring Kat*
Kat: *rolls her eyes*
Then somehow we got to talking..
Dad: I'm sick of you not doing anything.
Kat: I do stuff. *rattles off examples*
Dad: But you don't check your oil and water in ur car.
Kat: Wha? How did that come up?
Dad: You never do your own washing, you always leave it in the machine.
Kat: Ummm, what?! I drive Kylie around and she hangs my clothes on the line in return.
Dad: I do not accept that. You're bribing her.
Kat: Um, no. It's called a deal.
Dad: I still don't accept it.
Kat: It HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
Dad: You never do anything around the house.
Kat: I do so.
(I don't normally because Dad nags and nags and nags, but I've been good about it lately- I've cleaned the house etc)
Then a bit of discussion goes on...then he says hes leaving....I was like wha? But soon discovered that he was taking the dog for a walk...
But before he left, I brought up the issue of my sister, SS as previously mentioned which is totally out of control. Then he started to get REALLY pissed off...
I told them that they needed to apply discipline. Then they BOTH got pissed off. Cause SS's psychologist says not to. To leave her alone, not to trigger her temper. She has a naaaassstyyyyy temper.
I stated that they applied discipline with me and my other sister and we didn't exactly die from it.
But SS has a bit of power over them. When she was younger- she was bein' REALLY bad and Mum smacked her and she went to school and had this swimming thing, there was a mark and a teacher reported it to DOCS (Department of Community Services)... There was an investigation but was dropped because not enough evidence.
And ever since, if Mum tries to discipline her, SS says "I'll call the police or DOCS" and.. "I'll tell everyone"..So they're at a loss.. I personally think she deserves a good smack and I'd do it myself if I wouldn't get in trouble from my parents...
With SS, you cannot communicate with her. Her main form of communication is violence, so sometimes the only easy way to communicate with her to give her a good kick or a slap but you kinda get it back 10 times.
Mum and Dad are at a loss and now they're accusing me of trying to break up their marriage.
Drama's always present in this house.
What scares me, is... I can get so intense and so...violent at times. I really scare myself. I twisted SS's arm earlier just cause she took my thing from somewhere else and threw it back at me, I just can't tolerate that because I've always made it clear that my things are NOT to be touched....
I'm at the end of my tether.
SS is pretty much the only person I'm violent with so breathe easy folks! :)
Augghhhhh, there's so much to write but I just can't...for many reasons, some being respect for my family and some just..I don't know...hmmm...
Dad expects me to respect him but I don't do that. I only respect those that respect me. I believe in equality with him and me, he thinks he has the right to tell me what to do cause he's the Dad. I'm all like 'as if'..
I'm not trying to sound whingy or childish. The issue stems from much deeper things that I cannot even comprehend. I'm not gonna bother trying either.
Any ideas on how to deal with all this? :)
Deep breaths and count to 10? Nah, that doesn't work for me. I just get more pissed off.
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| yesterday... |
| 05.01.04 (7:29 pm) [edit] |
Yesterday was an average day, I suppose.
Went to a meeting in the morning, ran a little late though.
The meeting itself was pretty good, we played this game "Picasso"..
One group.. 3 people, lets call them A, B and C. A goes to the presenter, B and C wait patiently with butcher paper. A reads a slip of paper and comes back. Has to act out what the slip of paper said without using letters, signs or numbers. The first was "A fly was riding a bike". But two groups out of three thought it was a flying bike! :) And the other one thought it was a bird riding a bike, close enough I suppose. Then B had its turn as well as C. Heaps of laughing :)
We also talked about stuff for the AOW (Auslan Only Weekend). We're team members/presenters for it. (I'm a team member)...
Uhhh, went to Rach's and picked her up then saw Carol at work to give her some letters then...just bummed around Rach's til it was time to go..
We went to "Dislabelled".. It was excellent!! At the end, the dude behind us told us that we laughed pretty loudly!! :oops: :oops: :oops: Hahaha...
Rach and Maz seemed to get on alright so that was good. We went to Cold Rock for icecream, well..I had icecream- they had shakes. We sat at the river but not for long- it was FREEEEEZZZINNNGGGG!
Dropped Rach and Maz off...came home, not much else happened.... yeah..uhhh.. :)
Damn, I need more interesting topics :P
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| strange people... |
| 05.01.04 (7:20 pm) [edit] |
After getting out of the shower, I was in a towel and had one drying my hair, walked to my room to get changed. What I didn't know was that we had a visitor!
Visitor: Good morning Katrina!
Katrina: Hi, how are you?
V: *notices the towel and gets a little shitty and walks off and goes in the other room*
K: *thinking wtf?!*
Mum: Just go to your room and get changed.
K: Hmmm, k! *goes to room passing V on way- he shuts his eyes*
I then, get changed and apologise to V, being the polite Kat I am!! Told him didn't know he was here. He shook his head disapprovingly and said 'thats okay katrina'..
I was like 'uhhh yeah!'...
After he left, Mum told me he was very..uptight, no swearing, no hint of anything bad. Bleh!
It didn't bother me that he saw me in a towel- not like I was walking around naked! But he was goin' all..I don't know. Thought he was gonna start with the bible stuff with me...lol! No disrespect to those that have a strong belief in the bible..
Hahahaha...
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