In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been blessed with the job of taking over ‘Graphic Designer’ role for the Tasmanian Pagan Alliance, Inc. newsletter. The original GD, who had been in the role for 10 years, quit due to time and internet restraints, so I put my hand up straight away. I managed to pump out the latest newsletter, which was running late, in under 24 hours, so the State Coordinator and the Editor of the newsletter were really impressed with that – it makes me feel good to know I can contribute even more to this group I’m a part of.

Um so not much else to mention, other than mentioning the new endeavour that Catie and I have undertaken – check that out at Beauty-U. I’m meaning to post more there but the other things I’m doing (housework, Pagan Alliance stuff, etc.) have taken priority. I’ll try to post a couple of vids or blog posts this week.

Anyway, onto brighter topics. I went shopping yesterday, since I had two $50 gift cards for Kmart (well, one for $50, one for $43.95 since I spent some of it) and bought:

• Hot pink eyeliner
• White eyeliner
• Maybelline’s Define-A-Lash in Waterproof
• Blusher/Bronzer
• Four eyeshadows
• Eyeshadow palette

I also bought ‘Twilight’ – no, I haven’t read it already, so I’ve been desperately avoiding spoilers online. I’ve done pretty well so far, since I only know that it’s about a chick who meets this guy who’s a vampire. That’s all I know. I started reading it last night, and am up to Chapter 3 (they’re long chapters, aren’t they?!). I’m enjoying it so far, but it’s not ‘must-read’ to me just yet, or something I’d be recommending to people yet. Obviously, because I’m only up to Chapter 3.

Then today, I went out and bought a perfume (just a cheapy that states it’s comparable to Britney Spears’ Curious perfume), cat food, hair mousse, a lip gloss and some choccies and a card for Michael, since I didn’t give him anything for Valentine’s Day. I had Subway for lunch, which was good – nice to have something that tastes healthy.

As for my site, Inspirata hasn’t seen a lot of love really, so I did a little revamping around the place, adding some more subpages, separating stuff out a little more. Happy so far.

Aanndd I need to work on my other sites more. GeekWitch.org has not seen ANY love for a while, which is a shame because I love that site, and TasPagans, don’t even get me started there. I think I jumped into that project with too much hope that it would really take off. If we haven’t got a lot of traffic by the end of March, I reckon I’ll just redirect the URL to the Tas Pagan Alliance site. Make things easier.

Anyway, that’s enough for now.

I just waxed my eyebrows and completely forgot to take photos for a mini-tutorial on how I do them, so I did this with the magic of Photoshop and my “l33t grafix skillz”. but I’ve now simulated what I do without actually waxing I wish I’d removed my eye makeup from last night though – oh well.

I buy the small wax strips by Waxaway – I don’t have one with me right now but I’ll guess they’re about 7-8cm long by 2.5-3cm tall – perfect eyebrow size anyway.

I take one of the strips (I can do both my eyebrows with one strip) and hold it against my eyebrow (before I separate the two halves of the strip, obviously).

I then take a Sharpie and trace out the shape underneath my eyebrow. I generally never change the shape of my eyebrow, just tidy them up, so this is easy for me, but whatever shape you want them to be this should work.

Then I remove the strip from against my brow and carefully cut along the line I’ve drawn with the Sharpie. This leaves you with two separate pieces, and since they each separate into two pieces each, this is all you need.

I then pull the halves apart and place the side I drew on (if you use a Sharpie or other permanent marker, you’ll see the black line from the pen on the side you drew on) and place it carefully under my eyebrow, lining it up.

Pull the skin taut at the tail-end of your eyebrow and let ‘er rip (I wasn’t pulling the skin taut in the photo because a] I was holding the camera, and b] I wasn’t actually waxing my brow).

Rinse and repeat with the other side of the bottom piece you’ve cut out – this is symmetrical to the other side.

Then pull the halves apart on the top piece, place the half you drew on above your eyebrow, pull taut at tail-end of eyebrow and rip ‘er off.

Rinse and repeat with other side of the top piece you’ve cut out. Again, this is symmetrical.

You’re done! You can use tweezers between your brows to tidy up the uni-brow area, and that’s it.

Thank you for listening to my presentation.

1. I have naturally curly hair, and if I had to write a list of the top 5 things people ask me, that would be #1 or #2.

2. I haven’t had my hair in it’s natural colour since Grade 4 – I dye it all the time.

3. I have had grey hairs since I was 16, and they’re only getting worse.

4. I have a crazy obsession with chocolate. I just can’t get enough of the stuff.

5. I have two cats who I love, and can’t imagine having kids right now – the cats are a handful enough!

6. I have 10 piercings.

7. I have 4 tattoos.

8. I’ve started up my own web design business but I don’t have enough clients to give me an income enough to live off.

9. I therefore am unemployed and need a job.

10. I love the colour pink – I have a pink phone and a pink iPod. Purple is coming in at a close second.

11. I once sat down and linked 500 paperclips together. I still have them to prove it.

12. I desperately want my own house but can’t do anything about that until I’m employed.

13. I’ve lost 2.7kg in the last 3-4 weeks.

14. I’ve bitten my nails for as long as I can remember, and continue to do so despite efforts to stop.

15. I’ve been with Michael for 5 years <3

16. I hate sports and most forms of exercise – I was never a really active kid.

17. I’m Pagan, specifically Wiccan, and have identified as such for nearly 10 years now.

18. I love anything to do with the Occult, paranormal, etc. as well as new-agey stuff.

19. I’m one of those people who gets curious about everything and has to know what’s going on. I don’t know where this stems from, but it’s just how I’ve always been.

20. Re: #19 – don’t EVER tell me you have a secret or a surprise for me unless you’re intending on telling me soon after. I will bug the living daylights out of you to tell me what it is.

21. I see myself as quite funny – I’ll always try to crack a joke, and I have a very sarcastic sense of humour.

22. I have an unhealthy obsession with the Oprah show.

23. I have a Nintendo Wii, a Nintendo DS and a PS2. I love them.

24. I love coffee. Coffee is the shizzle.

25. I NEED A JOB!

I think it’s really cute

Oh, new layout now too – it is also pretty cute.

Anyway, I’m thinking about a new layout for Inspirata but my creativity has gone out the window for a while and won’t be returning soon. I’ve managed to get my fanlisting collective a new layout, see here, but that’s as far as my creativity has taken me. I’ve been approved for quite a few different fanlistings recently, and I’ve only got one more to get up (the N.E.R.D. fanlisting), so all the others are ready and raring to go (and you can see them all at that previous link).

Yesterday I received a nice parcel in the mail – my mum bought me Proactiv for my acne, so that’s awesome, can’t wait to start seeing results. I’ve really been breaking out a lot lately, I don’t know whether its due to diet or what but anyway, hopefully this will help.

I’ve also managed to stop biting my nails, and I’ve painted them so the temptation is no longer there. I’m pretty proud of myself – this is the first time I’ve stopped biting them in pretty much 16-17 years, since I’ve had teeth! Michael’s nails still look better than mine, but as long as the skin around the nail cleans itself up from all the tattering I’ve done to it over the years, then my fingers will be looking pretty in no time. Shame that I know that longer fingernails means I can’t type as well, but I’ll get over it and manage. I mean, I guess the only time I’ve had longer nails is when I’ve had fake ones on, and that’s like a sudden ‘BAM!’ new longer nails, and you have to get used to it pretty quickly, but with natural nails its just a matter of natural adaption over the time they grow. And here I am babbling on about fingernails, sheesh.

It’s only, like, a month till Christmas. I can’t believe it. I’m going to be so freakin’ exhausted over the Christmas break. For one, I don’t even get much of a break. At my work, we only get the main days off (Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day), and I only work three days a week. So I’ve organised with my boss to work the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Christmas, head down to Tassie on the Thursday morning, spend all day Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday(25th) and Tuesday(26th) there, then head back to Melbourne on Wednesday morning to work Thursday and Friday – PHEW! Then I get another day off the following week for New Year, which luckily falls on a Monday (one of my three working days per week). I have to organise to go full time at some point, so that I can take proper leave. Working part-time doesn’t get you many hours annual leave accrual.

Amelia’s baby (they’ve already named him Jonah) is due any minute now. She was due last Wednesday, so if she hasn’t had him by I think Thursday she’s going to have to be induced – he’s apparently a big baby so he can’t stay in there for too long! We’re all waiting for the phone call…

Anyway, I think I’ve babbled enough about stuff you guys aren’t even interested in! I gotta work out what I’m going to do with Break-Glass.Org – I think it will be a portfolio but I’m not sure yet.