almost a month away and now I'm back!

whew. over 3 weeks with no new posts. I just wanted to update y'all since i know not all of you have my tumblr link (just ask if you're interested).

so let's see:

• I have a job! my friend Leone got me a trial at her work (a chinese/vietnamese restaurant in feilding) and so I did that last Thursday and now I have a job for Thursdays and some weekends. It's pretty good, easy... you know. And I got paid, even though it was just a training thing and I didn't do much! I've never been a waitress before. It's fun :)
• There's another possible job on the horizon, at the Mobil in Feilding. They're looking for someone right now so I handed in an application yesterday. It's an after school/weekends thing. I really really hope I get it :3
• I don't have a flat yet, but we're still looking. Nadia pulled out so it's just me, Isaac and Breandan now.

that's it really! :))

so I decided to take down all the nanowrimo and nano related posts on this blog. I was getting tired of putting them up and stuff. I passed 17,500 words today, which I'm really happy about! I haven't seen anyone around here in ages (before keryn and rachel's recent posts, anyway). maybe it's time I abandon this blog for a while again.

hey hey!

hey guys! thought I ought to write another one of these, it's been so long since the last one. I am still at home (!!! :((( !!!) but the flatting thing is def moving forward! mum wants to buy us a house in feilding that she can rent to us, and we've found this really great place which we're checking out on sunday. if all goes well we'll get a loan and buy it, probably in the next couple weeks. I've applied for a job at Countdown and tomorrow I'm going in to hand out heaps more CVs around town, mostly at the supermarkets, the warehouse and places like mitre 10 and farmlands and stuff.

but for now I'm kinda just... drifting, at home. mum doesn't like it much but I don't really know what else to do. I don't have anything going right now except for this pub quiz every wednesday night, which me, keryn, james and jess m do. it's good fun, and 15-20 bucks each time. better than nothing! :)

right, well, gonna go finish watching my movie. I've been slowly getting through Das Boot... it's so so long... :D

xox

some other stuff I forgot :D

ahh yes, I would like to know who still reads this blog, lurker or not!! thanks :)
I'm also going to post a little 'to do list' for this year. not resolutions, just stuff I'd like to do at some point, but hopefully before december :D

• get a tattoo
• go to a music concert
• read more than 50 new books
• go to Taupo to see my Grandma
• go up to Auckland to see my bestie

so far I've read three new books this year - american gods by neil gaiman, the cat's table by michael ondaatje and a dance with dragons by george r r martin. right now i'm reading the girl with the dragon tattoo.
speaking of tattoos, I still want one! I've sort of decided on a rose, on my back. nothing too flashy, just a smallish red rose on the side, below my shoulder. I've been wanting a tattoo for a couple years now and I've finally got the right idea :)
my grandad died three days after I turned 18 last year, and my grandma, who is turning 91 this year, is still living in Taupo. she had a stroke the year before last and she's recovered some but she's probably not long for this world, and I want to go see her as soon as possible, before it's too late like it was with grandad.
I've also never been to a music concert before! it's sad. none of my friends reeally have the same music taste as me, apart from a couple similarities between me and keryn or me and jess. if sufjan stevens decides to visit again (please please please!) I'll go alone, I don't even care :D
that's it for now. the list will probably expand over time though :3
xox

some stuff

yep so things are pretty good right now! I had my laptop taken off me 2 weeks ago because everyone blamed me for the internet going over but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. For the last 10 days I've been getting up at 8am and minding the office until 12, then again from 4-6. I've earned some money doing that and cleaning the house which is great because now I have enough to pay for the zoo trip, which is in 4 days! I've also lost some weight because of all this and I just feel better overall, and apparently it's noticable :) I'm just... happy. After 10 months of being constantly apathetic and unhappy and maybe even a little depressed, it's such a nice change.

only just noticed this but...

i have over 300 posts now! this is the 304th! I've also had this blog since December 13th 2009, so over 2 years. And I've been posting fairly regularly since then. There's so much stuff on here it's kind of insane. And the fact that there are still people reading it just amazes me, so yeah, thank you :)

Also, a note on part 8: I specified in a previous part that Mathias is in the government's weaponry department, and is primarily in charge of finding and disarming stray bombs, like those guys who drive around africa & the middle east looking for land mines in the roads.

2012 and plans for the future~*

hello everyone! hope your christmas/new years celebrations were awesome. I had a pretty good last couple weeks of 2011, I have to say, and the fact that Christmas Day was much better than I had hoped makes up the most of that.

as you probably know, I'm planning to move out (again) later this month, to somewhere in Feilding. iz, breen, nadia and i have already planned most of it already, now all that remains is where to go and, for me and breen, which jobs to get. I've pretty much finished writing up my CV, now i just need to take it into some places in town.

i'm really really excited about this, but the problem is that i probably wont be able to raise enough money for the bond and first week's food by then, so i'm counting on mum once again.