Hmmm....I'm finally updating nearer to the time rather than waiting for a week or two to update. Hmmm....

This past weekend has been awesome. I can't decide whether to post the pictures in this post or all the pictures in the one post. I'll decide as I go on.

Friday night- a few of us girls hung out at Jodi and Tien's although Tien wasn't there..nor were Hayley, Aisha, Ash or Jemi. We went to the supermarket and I was acting kinda loony- running around etc. Amanda and I found masks on the ground and put 'em on. Have uploaded a picture :)

Got home around 1am or so, went to sleep around 2:30am..slept fitfully for a couple hours then fell asleep and got up around 8..only had 4 hours sleep.. augh, then I had to go to work..well, voluntary work...I was a Team Member for this Auslan Only Hippy Feast which was a lot of fun. I'd done it before twice with other students but it was fun on Saturday too :)

Picked Kara up afterwards- went to my joint and I got ready and etc. Went to Jodi and Tien's to pick them up for Nicole's party but they weren't ready...argh! Amanda hadn't arrived so that was okay....but then we all were ready and waiting for Felix to rock up, he took forever. We didn't leave til like after 7!! I arrived there at 5:40..so was a bit of a wait :)

We arrived and I had this sudden realisation- I felt so...OLD! There were so many people I 'knew' when I was younger. Some of them were a little older than me but I felt that they were younger, does that make sense? I felt like patting them on the head and going 'omg, you've grown up' :) Hahaha... We chilled for a while...and then decided that we would go back to Tien and Jodi's and drink there. (Couldn't drink at Nicole's cause I was driving)... We left around 11:30....15 people came back with us...well, including me..We left Jodi and Tien's earlier that evening with... 10...fie extra people may not sound like much but if you knew the size of their house, hahahaha...

On driving back- I had a little...errm, accident and crashed into the side of the road..I won't go in detail....but needless to say, it was a little scary but everyone was alive and the car was fine....

On arrival- we all started drinking and mucking around. Played Truth and Dare- which was a lame idea thought up by Luke. We all went along with it and all the dares had kissing...lol...was pretty funny but I got sick of it soon enough and started kissing people of my own accord...although that wasn't til after.. I won't mention names of whom I kissed but...was more than one... (Ames, one of the things I wanted to talk to you about! :))

Went for brekkie at Macca's. Lukey drove us there.. (us being Ash, Rhi, Aisha and me)...Got back and left around 7 30ish..I'm not exactly sure.. :) Kara and I fell asleep on arrival at my house...We awoke around 12pm so we could go see "Mean Girls" at the movies...

The movie was a little unrealistic at times but in general, an amusing movie. :)

*sighs* That was a very quick summary of my weekend..It'll do nicely :)

Photos post comin' next :)

K

Last weekend...

Argh, I'm making a habit of updating weekends before last after the last weekend. Does that make sense?

The weekend of the conference and Amanda's 20th Surprise Party. Aah, fun weekend, that was..but the most recent one was certainly fun too.

Saturday- young peoples came and chilled with us...They did their own thing with minimal supervision.. then we all went bowling...not much to say really....after that Maz and I left and I went back to mine to get ready for Amanda's party- Maz came shortly after I got home and we went food shopping for Michi who couldn't cause she was spending the weekend with Amanda.... We rocked up and ended up having to wait for two hours for Amanda to get there- so much for rushing!!!!!

It was fun- chilling out. Amanda was sooo surprised that she cried! :)

Sunday ended up being youth-free so we watched Serendipity and then listened to some of the conference and chatted to the people there- was good... :)

Not much to say about that weekend or..I've just forgotten cause it's been like..eight days, hahaha... I'll update soon about the most recent weekend. I need a toilet break and to upload pics onto tblog of Canberra, Amanda's and the most recent weekend.. Not too many though- don't wanna bug ya's :) I'll choose a few "choice" ones :P

Toodles...

K

Here’s the promised Canberra entry. It's super super long so don't start unless you have more than 10 mins to read...:)

We had a really awesome weekend. Why, you ask?

Well, it all started when Rach and I met after work on Friday and set off on a journey in my old car. (It lasted….seriously!!!!)

For the first hour- the traffic was a nightmare!!!! But when we actually started driving, it was pretty cool although at regular intervals, I kept saying to Rach “I’ll pull over, you can drive next” but we ended up going the whole way with me in the driver’s seat. It was the furthest I’ve ever driven. YAY me!!!

On the way, it was really weird cause heaps of cars/trucks were high-beaming me and Rach. We had no idea what we did to them but we reached three possible conclusions. It’s very possible that they did that cause I was a P-Plater (they’re generally hated), we had the light on in the car and I was kinda driving in a scary way! I was talking to Rach and the car would move to the next lane by accident and I’d have to move it back in my own lane but that happened less times than the high-beaming so, maybe it could’ve been a combination. I don’t know.

Rach and I had some really weird conversations on the way down. We talked about stupid things like the whats, whys, wheres, hows, whos and whens of toilet going. We talked about public toilets, how it’s a great relief when you’ve been holding for a while then you get to go and…it’s one of the world’s greatest feelings.

Anyhow, we arrived in ACT (Aust. Capital Territory) at 8:27pm! I was pretty triumphant about that because Rach claimed that we wouldn’t arrive there before 8:30pm! But after I pointed out that- Rach would come up with this flimsy excuse- “But I thought we’d finish work at 5 instead of 4!!!”. BAHAHAHA!

We were busting to go to the toilet and had been for ages and the toilet conversations we had in the car sooo didn’t help. We went in frantic search of our lodgings, getting a little lost due to closed roads. A laughing fit or two were brought on by silly comments.  (i.e- While driving through North Canberra, at a total loss as to where we were…I thought aloud “We must still be in North America”..I have no idea why I said that!!!!

When we arrived, we finally got out of the car after four hours sitting in the car. When the first breeze got to us, we yelped at the freezing weather. We almost ran to reception and were encountered with this chick that totally had no idea. She looked at us blankly and just nodded blankly the whole time. Grrrr, that was annoying but we did get to check in. When she told us where the bathroom was, we made a beeline for it without a second thought for our poor bags freezing in the car..Truth was given to the theory that going to the bathroom is one of the greatest feelings in the world especially after you’ve been holding for a long period of time.

We braved the weather again to bring our bags in. We weren’t the quietest girls when we entered the room. We discovered another chickie in there sleeping..(yes, at 9pm!!!!) She awoke to find us giggling on the ground at nothing in particular.

We showered and dressed, and then rushed to the bus stop in the hideous weather. (Yes, I realize I keep commenting on the weather but seriously- it was horrible) The bus driver was terribly rude to us, we didn’t get a good first impression of canberrans, I’m telling ya. We got to talking to this chick on the bus who told us about going deaf one morning when she woke up. She expressed her grief about not being able to hear her grandson and how she was ‘coping’ with being ‘deaf’. She works as a kitchen-hand, with the strong belief that jobs aren’t available for deaf people. She was nice though.

We arrived in the city after about 15 mins on the bus. We met up with Justin and Stuart and then we went to the Casino. Justin told us to take note of the bigness of the sign. (Truly, it wasn’t that big but…meh!) On entering the casino- we noted that it was just the one room and it wasn’t a very big room. Why does a small casino or ‘gaming room’ have such a misleading sign? Not for me to answer!!

It was here when/where Justin and Stuart totally wasted their money. They mightn’t have ‘put much’ on but still, a waste of money!!! Haha!!! After we left, we walked for a bit and headed to this…. Bar/pub, whatever it was. I forget the name of it and Justin did too. MEH!! I msged him asking but he couldn’t remember. We sat around chatting and one of the things we talked about was how much each of us had changed. In Stu’s opinion, Rach only has changed a little, Justin- not at all and me- I’m apparently more nicer!! YAY! (We used to be a group of friends years ago..but all that changed) It was like a little reunion. It was nice catching up with them. It was amazing how we misunderstood/understood each other.

We headed to this place called Shooters. We chatted a bit there. Rach and I were perving and watching other people make idiots out of themselves. Justin and Stu ended up leaving but Rach and I wanted to stay and have fun. That’s why we went down to Canberra- to have fun?? (Don’t worry, we did.. a LOT!), the bar closed at 2:30am. Rach and I were…..shocked to say the least! In Sydney, they close way later… we finished our drinks and got some pizza outside and got a taxi back to our lodgings. We noticed a bar open and we headed straight there.. It was called “Holy Grail”…God, that was a cool place… We had this strange guy who we called ‘the peace guy’…He was talking to me, forgetting I was deaf after every single time I told him. He tried to talk in my ear and I’d be like ‘I’m deaf’…Then he’d go like ‘ohhh yeah, that’s right’ then would try again…and when we left, he said “PEACE’ giving us the 2 finger sign. Was really weird. While walking to our table, I bumped into this dude…and he was all ‘sorry, sorry’ and was trying to kiss me…EEEK! (he was very expressive with his feelings…seemed gay too..but was cool…when he left- he kissed rach and I goodbye!) We basically stayed there til bout 4:15am talking to a few people and basically laughing.

There was this one dude who was sporting a full-on erection…. He was dancing with two chicks that seemed to enjoy rubbing up on him. It was really funny…. We also saw a 3-way lovebite thing going on… Saw a lot of weird things that morning. We stumbled back to our accommodation around 4:30am and went to sleep!!!

Saturday- after a mere couple hours of sleep- we woke up to have breakfast. It was FREE! After eating few pieces of toast- Rach and I headed right back to bed and slept til past noon.. We woke up again and showered and then headed to the city…

We wandered around, having no destination in mind. We looked into shops and just chilled out….we ended up in a café..a pretty funky one with cute dudes…(workers)..but it was pretty much empty..only 3 other café-goers… The city was DEADDDDDDD!!!! Almost no people.. Will add a pic on here..when I do the whole picture adding thing….

We got back at whatever time, I don’t really remember those little details anymore. I wrote Friday a lot closer to the time than I wrote this… (today’s Thursday the 26^th)..The Saturday was on the 14^th of August. 12 whole days ago..Argh! But I still have to update for my devoted readers…Smooches for yous…

We had pizza for dinner…yes, again. Choices were limited! We also got some booze on the way home from the city…and we started drinking right away….(as soon as we got back to the room) I had 8 glasses of wine and 2 bacardi breezers by 7 30pm…Rach had a few too…We were already tipsy by the time we left the accommodation.. We decided to go to this place called Durham Arms and go on to the other places when we were done…but errm, we kinda ended up staying there a while…We had a few cocktails…we proceeded to get very very very drunk….hahahaha, it was hilarious…we were on friendly terms with a lot of people there by the time we stumbled out… I wanted to go back to the accommodation but Rach wanted to go to this other place…I was halfway there when I realized I was alone…..From that moment- I have no memory until the next morning except from the fact I took my jumperishy-top…(a top but kinda like a jumper?) off before falling asleep…. (I HAD A SINGLET ON UNDERNEATH!)

I’m gonna make my Sunday summary a lot shorter than all the other days cause people are waiting for me to blog…Rach and I took a long route home- the scenic route…We left Canberra just before 10 and we went through the southern highlands… we got back to Rach’s around 6 30pm at night…

There weren’t any big incidents… we stopped at a Scottish shop..with shortbread and crest of arms…for Scottish families and so on….in bowral..or something…

Ohhhh, one thing did happen..I was driving home in the middle lane…I caught sight of petrol! Something my car desired… and it was cheap!!!... I told rach bout it and she goes ‘why not’ so I braked really really fast and swerved…kinda forgetting the fact that there was another lane before I could get in the petrol station..my tyres were smoking!…I didn’t swerve early enough to get in..so I was kinda in both lanes…cars were coming (it was a highway) and I reversed- (cars had to wait for me, lol)… and get in the petrol station…Everyone parked there was gawking at me and when I went to pay for petrol- the attendant asked me ‘what was that all bout’…I responded with ‘I wanted petrol”… and he was all like ‘impressive driving!!!!’…hahaha� � Rach didn’t see the funny side of it til later…but it was hilarious…dangerous but funny J

I don’t think I explained it right… Peoples that see me face to face- get me to explain it to next time I see ya…

That’s all from me for now..

I’ll update soon about the conference and amanda’s party….not today tho, I have work to do..

Luv yas..

K

Augh, sorry I've been SO slack in posting.

I've written half of the Canberra trip..jst need to finish it off... I'm doing bit by bit so you'll have to be patient just a while longer..

I'm at work, nursing a sore knee...(no Rach, it's not the right knee this time..it's the left)..One of the kids pushed another kid and when I tried to call him on it- he ran away..I thought I'd do a shortcut kinda thing and jumped over the mat but tripped and landed on the ground...poor Kat!

I'm not blogging jst cause of a sore knee- I'm on my break and I thought I'd update a little..

Weekend was pretty good but I don't wanna talk bout it til I update with the Canberra trip... :) LOL

Luv yas,

K

This is from..not the most recent weekend but the weekend before the most recent one.. I’m still writing the update for the most recent weekend. Patience is a virtue :o)

Rach: On Saturday the seventh of August, after attending International Sign Skills at Parramatta. Kara, Kat and me wanted to practice our newfound skills however we didn’t want to sit in McDonalds or at someone’s place, we wanted to be somewhere where there were PEOPLE! So we went to Blacktown Workers Club where we recounted our stories and we helped each other with advice on how to better some parts. When I tried to recount my story, Kat kept getting distracted by familiar people walking past and kept going on in an over dramatizing fashion, “ I know that person… what’s her/his name… uhuhuh…. Ooh I know it starts with uhh…. Uhh…” … then like 10mins later she’d say out of the blue “Oh its Natalie”… And I’d be at total loss… “Who’s Natalie?”… “Oh jst the girl that walked past before… yeah that’s her name, I just remembered yeah… Natalie!” … Me: *rolls eyes* Come on! I’m tryin to tell a story here! D-oh, HELP ME… I don’t care about people walking past… “I don’t care about people I don’t know about”… Well, unless they’re good looking and sitting over there in complete oblivion to the fact that we were full on perving at him.

Kat: Hmm, yes.. He was quite delicious. I’d noticed him before when he rushed past us and bumped into me near the main foyer. But when we were about to sit in the Frank Dunn Lounge- I caught sight of him and we decided to sit at a table in full-view of him. For a while- we looked at him and his friends.

There was an annoying guy seated behind us called Steve that was full-on staring in a goofy sideways way. It wasn’t the most great feeling. I was getting annoyed then he passed me a note that said “Hi, my name is Steve. I can’t speak sign language but I would like to learn. Can I sit with you?” I sent back a note that said “We’re kind of in the middle of something, sorry”. He still kept on staring and when he went to the bar to get a drink- some people stole his table so he walked around and around our table area staring, it was getting really really irriating.

But anyhow, the cute dude? We decided that we’d get a message to him somehow so I wrote a note that said “Thank You.  –Kat, Rach and Kara” and got one of his friends buying a drink to come over (they’d moved tables at that stage- to another area near the pokies). We asked him if he could take him the note. Later- I noticed him with Ben (that’s the cute guy’s name) pointing and gesturing at us. Ben went over to the Keno area and seemed to try to look busy then he came over and said “write thank you”. We were all like “why?” and he was like “just write it”. I said “if this is about the note- I wrote it” Rach and I both wrote “thank you” on paper. It turned out that he thought that the friend was playing a joke on him, hahaha. We conversed a little then he sat at another table then he asked us if we wanted to play lawn bowls. The first reaction was “Lawn bowls is for OLD people!!” But then we were up for it.

Kara wanted to go home just before they asked us but she agreed to come along and stay for a little longer. Ben, two of his friends Alan and Ric and the three of us went upstairs and played lawn bowls. Didn’t last long cause we got to talking and kinda forgot about it.

It was cool talkin’ to them.

Learning international sign was very cool too!! :o)

YAY! I finally had me some Butterfinger!

My boss went to the US and brought back some american goods for the kids to try. I'd tried butterfinger before and loved it- aaah, had some yesterday!!

Today, I tried Grape Jam and Apple Jam! Tastes like normal jam methinks but that could be assisted by the whole biscuit thing..

We're yet to cook the packet of peanut butter cookies she brought back.. *can't wait*

I arrived work just under a hour ago and already am on my break. There's almost nothing for me to do because all the kids are occupied with some sort of activity with a staff member...

Amy's missing. (one of the centres' birds) Milo went missing too but I found him yesterday... Poor Amy- had to endure a night out in the wild/cold... I wonder if she's still alive....

I said a few things that I shouldn't have to a person that I shouldn't have said them to. Even though I feel that the air is cleared- it's just one of the last things that I said that weren't really nice. I'd apologise for them if I didn't mean it but I do.

Is it possible to not want to feel comfortable with someone but at the same time, want to? I don't know. It's just that there's this person. This person is very special to me (as a friend!! don't be going getting ideas) but I don't want this person to be? Do you get what I mean? Arrrghhhh!!!

My head is muddled at the moment, probably due to the large amount of alcohol I consumed last night. I think I may have a hangover.

It was during when I was intoxicated that I said horrible things- I wonder if alcohol does free your tongue- well, in this case..fingers/hands or is it just a lie for us to feel okay about being honest and using being intoxicated as an excuse?

I don't know, do you?

I'm at work and I start in 2 mins so will head off....