2000
Age 12. In Grade 6, my final year of primary school. I remember I had a major crush on a guy in my class. Getting ready to head off to high school. Killing Heidi were (and still are) my favourite band. Started really getting involved with computers and webdesign.

2001
Age 13. My first year of high school. Felt awkward and out-of-place. Met some beautiful people, and some mean ones too. Discovered my real love for webdesign and got stuck into it. Had many high school crushes. Met my best friend (at the time), Sarah. Started wearing makeup. Achieved high grades and was awarded an Outstanding Academic Achievement award.

2002
Age 14. Barely remember it, but this is the year I started dance classes at school and fell in love with it. Discovered more friends and made my first male best friend. Got my site hosted for the very first time. Started learning how to use FTP. Achieved high grades and was awarded an Outstanding Academic Achievement award.

2003
Age 15. Fell madly in love with a guy I met online, only to be dumped and told he’d been cheating on me. In the interim, fell for another guy online (Michael) and met him in November. Lost the ‘V-Plates’. High school musical production, great fun and awesome experience. Achieved high grades and was awarded an Outstanding Academic Achievement award, along with three subject awards for Social Science, Dance and Media Studies. Passed Learner’s Permit test and started driving lessons with my mum and dad.

2004
Age 16. Final year of high school. Many trips back and forth to Melbourne to see Michael. Entered the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge with my dance class, and came fourth out of about 20 schools. Grades dropped a bit, enough to miss out on the OAA award for the fourth time. Didn’t care; was in love.

2005
Age 17. First year of college (Year 11). Had a ball this year – great classes, more relaxed learning atmosphere. Studied English, Maths, Psychology & Sociology, Environmental Science and Religion & Philosophy. Hated Enviro Science, and quit. Went to Vanuatu in September for Michael’s sister’s wedding. LOVED IT. Decided to move to Melbourne at the end of the year to be with Michael.

2006
Age 18. Living with Michael and his mum & stepdad. Enjoyed it, but a lot of tension at times. Studied Year 12 via distance education but gave up. Started looking for work. Got my first proper job with a government initiative for apprentices. Loved it. Bought Inspirata.org. First nephew arrived, Jonah. Got engaged on New Year’s Eve.

2007
Age 19. Continued working. Moved into our own apartment in April. Enjoyed the freedom but it was expensive. Got our first pet, Layla. Got my first and second tattoos.

2008
Age 20. Got another kitty to keep Layla company, and called him Hendrix. Went to my first arena concert to see Ozzy Osbourne. Came out of the broom closet. By June, decided we’d had enough of paying an exorbatant amount of rent and decided to move back to Tasmania. Got my third (and kind of fourth) tattoos. Packed up and left in August. Moved in with Mum & Dad to get us on our feet. Michael got a job at a printer cartridge store. I continued looking for work.

2009
Age 21. Huge party for my 21st, with friends coming down from Melbourne. Layla passed away. Cried. A lot. Moved into a rental. Bought Terri.nu Had two job interviews in May, and accepted one position as Legal Secretary. Started living a little, since we now had two incomes. Decided to get married with 5 months to plan. Married in November.

2010
Age 22. Managed to hold down my job for 12 months +. Lost a close family member to suicide. Moved out of the rental and bought our own house. Became DIY-lover. Resced Delilah. Continuing to work. Michael’s best mate got married. And … ?

You know when time sometimes seems to fly by in some aspects, but the same amount of time seems to have been going for a long time? That’s kind of how I feel right now.

In other news, it’s like a month till my birthday. Woohoo!!! I’ve already asked my Mum if they can buy me a 1TB external harddrive, because I am running out of room on my computer, fast, and I don’t have any additional SATA slots left. Actually, I think I have one… but I’ll just get the external HDD. I can share it with Michael, then.

Also, I thought of my Dad’s 60th birthday present already – and his birthday is September. I received an email fwd from him – some ‘things you’ve done in your life’, and one of the questions was ‘Got a tattoo?’. His answer was ‘No, but there is one I have considered’. I asked him what it was, and he said ‘The Eureka Flag‘. So, I think I’m gonna organise for him to get his first tattoo on his birthday. I won’t tell him at all until the day – I mean, why not when he’s 60?! He’s semi-retired, so doesn’t need to worry about it for his job or anything, and it’ll only be small. I thought it was a neat idea and Mum agreed! So we’ll see what happens, but I reckon it’d be an awesome present.

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, I’ve been busy. I’ve finally got somewhat of a job – I’m doing a website for a local jewellers. Essentially I’ll be running their online side of things – they’ll have an online store and such, and I’m in charge of all that, so it’ll be an ongoing task. I’ll be paid monthly, and the owner of the business said there’s also the possibility of my earning a commission off sales from the website, which is AWESOME. It looks like things are finally starting to look up
Also, we’re looking at getting our own place – we looked at an apartment for rent yesterday, but it was far too small and there weren’t enough powerpoints for us geeky types. Hell, there wasn’t even space for a washing machine, and nowhere to put bathroom products, so we said no. We’re going to look at another place, which is a lot more money (an extra $55 a week) than the one we looked at, but it will hopefully be a lot better. We’ve worked it out and we could survive on Michael’s income alone, but with mine it should be a breeze.

We also got Guitar Hero World Tour! It’s so much fun – I love the drums, finally something I’m good at! We bought it with money that Michael made selling football cards on eBay. Which brings me to my next point – I’m thinking of starting up my jewellery making again – just little beaded things – and selling them on eBay, to bring in a little extra cash. Goodness knows we need as much as we can get right now. So I’m just looking into that now.

School has been highly unmotivating, and I’ve barely touched my work lately. If anyone knows anything about development methodologies, please get in touch with me because I can’t get my freakin’ head around it! (It’s website development, by the way).

Anyway, that’s enough for a quick update. I’ve been flat out otherwise – with this jeweller’s website, mostly, and since my mum’s been working afternoon shifts it’s meant I’ve had to cook for the family, which has been less than inspiring!

The rest of the day has been cleaning up the yard for someone’s 21st birthday party next Saturday (I’m not sure who, do you?) and just generally getting things tidy. I haven’t helped much simply because … I can’t. I’ll help Mum paint the new laundry wall when she gets home. Speaking of the party, things are coming together – I have my auntie making my cake, my dad’s cousin doing the DJing, and friends coming from Melbourne, which will be great. The one thing I’m most looking forward to is seeing my sister and her boyfriend – I love them both so much and have missed them heaps, since the last time I saw them was November.

I need to get an outfit situated!!! I might have to go shopping on the Friday before (since that’s Pay Day) and get Michael to buy me a nice top or something. I have nice jeans, but I want a pretty top to go with them. I was thinking a dress, but I don’t normally wear dresses so I thought it best to just wear what I would normally wear. Michael has also, after many problems and emailing back and forth with the seller, bought me a phone off eBay. We originally bought and paid for a pink LG KF600, but the seller was out of stock (don’t ask why they had an option up to buy it if they didn’t have it in stock – I have no idea), but I settled on a pink LG KS360 (more photos, the last two are the colour I’m getting), which is very different, but just as nice. And since I usually text rather than call anyway, it’s probably more ideal for me. But I really needed a new phone since I’m starting up this busniess – my Motorola Razr V3 just doesn’t cut it any more.

Anyway, I think that’s enough rambling from me today, otherwise I’ll have nothing to write tomorrow!

That definition has stuck with me, and whilst I know it’s not right – it’s probably just my mum’s definition, from being a police officer – I can’t help but think of that every time I see or hear the word. And right now, I’m feeling quite antisocial (by my definition, not my mum’s!).

I’ve not wanted to go out anywhere, I’ve not wanted to see anyone, I’ve not wanted to talk to anyone. I don’t know if this is just me at ‘that time of the month’, where I’m a moody bitch anyway, or if this is becoming who I am, since this is pretty much what I did all the time in Melbourne (sat by myself at home). Maybe it’s my being Aquarius, and wanting my independence and solitude. iono.

Anyway, while I was writing that out I remembered another time when I was just getting into Paganism and Witchcraft (age 11 or 12). I had been talking about it to my friend in class, and another guy in my class heard me and said “You’re not a witch; what do witches do?” (or something along those lines). I said for him to visit witchvox.com (a relatively new site back then!) and have a look. So he obviously did, because I was staying with my best friend for a weekend and we went up to this guy’s house, where his parents must have mentioned something to my bestie’s mum about Witchvox. We were driving home and my bestie’s mum said something like, “Did you tell H to go to a website about witches? Because witches are bad and they cut their wrists.”
And this was coming from a psychiatrist, who should know better, especially regarding cultures and subcultures. I swear, here in Tassie, people live a sheltered lifestyle.

Layla’s continuing to do well – I think she’s cleared her system and she’s eating well again, which is fabulous because I was so worried about her. She’s quite content now. As is Hendrix, who’s just loving cuddling up to anyone warm he can get to (oh, and blowflies are his new favourite play toy *eye roll*).

We’ve been cleaning out the old laundry to start lining it and putting tiles down – from what I’m picturing, it’s going to look amazing when we’re done, but it’s just a matter of getting it done. The old lady who lived in this house prior obviously never cleaned because the base of the laundry basin’s cupboard is almost completely rusted through, and there’s a whole lot of cobwebs and weird growth. Completely disgusting, so luckily Mum is getting a new basin for in there, and there’ll be a toilet in there as well (handy for my big 21st birthday in February!).

Speaking of my 21st, I’ve invited over 100 people! I’ll probably have maybe 70-80 of them actually come – most of them family – since a lot of my friends are in Melbourne and therefore would have to fly down, an expense they probably can’t afford. But I’ve definitely told them that I won’t be upset if they can’t make it, because I understand what it’s like to want to do something but not be able to afford it – happens to me all the time. But I’m looking forward to it either way – I plan to drink (a lot) and have heaps of fun.

Michael and I are going out for dinner tonight – no special occasion, just thought it was about time that we went back to one of our fave restaurants, this little Mexican place in town. I love their food and right now, while I’m on this weight-loss plan, I’m craving something a little fattier than usual! We’re also looking at booking tickets to go and see Ross Noble next week, hopefully it’s in the budget because he’s HILARIOUS and I just love his comedy.

Anyway, I think that’s about enough dribble for your ears today!

We headed to Melbourne by boat on Friday night, which was boring but fine – we just slept for the majority of the trip. Arrived in Melbourne at about 7am, and got a taxi into the CBD to Michael’s mum and stepdad’s place. Everyone was awake and greeted us, all good. Waited around until about 9:30am when we went out for breakfast to celebrate our nephew’s birthday, which was nice, and had cupcakes for brunch. We then went and saw Santa Claus at David Jones, because the weather was too miserable to go to the Zoo, but the nephew enjoyed himself anyway.
We then headed back home, where Michael and I split to do our own things for the afternoon: he was going to go for a few drinks and a catch-up with his mates, and I went out shopping with my sister, which was pretty fun, and bought a couple of things (nothing over the top, just some pyjamas and earrings). At about 6pm, we went back home, and went out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant for the nephew’s birthday.

So really, day 1 was fine – nothing went wrong, no arguments, nothing like that. All good.

Day 2 was a different story.

We woke up kind of early, about 6am, because the nephew woke up and therefore proceeded to wake everyone up (hey, he’s only 2 hehe) and we played with him and stuff until 10am, when the shops opened. Michael and I went with his parents to DFO (big shopping centre with all factory outlet stores) and shopped around for a bit; I bought myself a new handbag because my older one was too deep and I kept losing stuff in there!
We split ways at about 10:30, when Michael and I went downtown to do some more shopping around – we went to EB Games, and a surfshop or two because Michael wanted new thongs (that’s flipflops, for you Americans – not g-strings!!). We then went up around JB Hi-Fi and a couple of phone stores, etc. Essentially everything was fine until 12:30, when we were supposed to be meeting up with a friend for lunch. We agreed on 12:30 the day before. We waited. And waited. And waited. It was 1:20 before we said “Fuck it” and just left. I messaged another friend to ask her what she was doing, and she said she’d be close by in about half an hour, so we went and met up with her for a half hour, and she gave me a gorgeous stuffed toy cow, which I’ve named Polenta
My friend gave us a lift back to Mike’s parent’s place, where the shit hit the fucking fan. There was a huge argument over something between Michael’s mum and sister, so we ended up leaving half an hour earlier than planned to go to the airport because it was just a crazy, stupid situation and just wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. So that we did.
Got to the airport far too early, checked in, and waited around. Boarded almost half an hour after the original boarding time (so we really boarded at the time our flight was meant to take off), and then got home about 20 minutes too late. Got home, then shit hit the fan there too because apparently Mike didn’t say hi to my mum and she was feeling unappreciated, blah blah blah. Too much to go into right now and it just pisses me off to think about.
Anyway, it was … eventful, and I’m mostly disappointed about my friend not showing up when she said she would. Them’s the breaks, I guess.
I’m looking forward to this afternoon – Mike’s buying me WoW: Wrath of the Lich King, and so I look forward to playing that tonight.

Take care!

So I’m sitting here, waiting for my mouse to charge, since I’ve been on my computer pretty much all day. I unfortunately have to go to the doctor tomorrow, but it is to find out my blood test results, so I’m hoping something comes out of it, at least.  Like I said before, I kind of hope they find something wrong (that’s treatable/curable, of course) just so I actually get some answers.  But anyway, I shall let you all know how it goes.

New photo up in the corner there – I can’t believe it’s been 3 months to the day that I’ve had my hair cut.  I really need to go get it redone, because I’m getting back into the habit of tying it back again (which is why I wanted to cut it in the first place, so I can wear it out more).  Plus it looked way cuter in August, when it was freshly cut lol!

I’m trying to get more into my instant messengers again, since I’ve kind of dropped off the face of the planet in that aspect.  I don’t know – does anyone use instant messengers as much as they used to?  I guess they do; my brother is on there all the time, but I’ve noticed a whole lot of people I used to talk to all the time either are on but don’t talk to me, or they’re not on at all.  I guess we’re all growing up and moving on with our lives.

Umm what else… I’ve applied for 3 jobs in the last two days, one of them being a legal secretary job, of which the ideal applicant description fits me to a tee, so I hope I can at least get an interview out of them.  It totally sucks when you apply to so many places and they don’t even give you the opportunity of an interview.  I think if you’re applying for a job, your application letter and resume are tidy, and you have at least some of the qualities that an employer is looking for, then you should be given an interview.  Everyone deserves a chance, sheesh.  Even if you’ve already made up your mind about someone, what if it falls through with them?  No backup.

Now I’m rambling…

Off to Melbourne this weekend for Jonah’s 2nd birthday – holy crap, I can’t believe he’s two already!  We’re having lunch at the Zoo, then I’ll be meeting up with my sister for some Christmas shopping while Michael goes out with his mates for the afternoon.  We will then recongregate at the house for dinner.  On Sunday, we’re going out for lunch with more friends, before heading home that night.  Holy hell, it’s gonna be one whirlwind weekend (I’m going to be exhausted!).  But should be fun, nonetheless.  A lot of tension between the family, particularly me and the in-laws, has eased off since the move.  I like it

Ok so I’ll finish up here before I continue babbling – see you after the weekend!

So back onto the mundane stuff – as is suggested by the title of this entry, not much has been happening in terms of my personal life. I still haven’t got a job, but I’m continuing to look.  I have another potential website job in the works, which is great because it means a little extra cash-in-hand.  Additionally, I’m working on getting another episode out for GeekWitch.org, so that I don’t have to worry about that for November. I’ve been having one or two spam issues at Inspirata Listings, but nothing I can’t handle, and my fanlistings have been growing by the dozen, so be sure to check them out.

In terms of the internet filter that I mentioned in my last entry, I haven’t really heard much more.  I wrote to Minister Stephen Conroy, and to our local Member of Parliament, and although I’m not really expecting a reply, I’m expecting some sort of response (whether it be directly to me or a public thing).  I will fight for this until it’s over, and hopefully it will end in a favourable manner.

Michael’s dad came over this weekend for a few days, to see Michael and to do a tour of some of Tassie, since he’s never been here before.  It was a lot of fun: we ate lots of good food and drank good wine – good stuff.

We’ll be heading to Melbourne in two weeks to see my nephew for his 2nd birthday – it will only be for a weekend but it’s better than nothing, and then hopefully I should be hearing back from some of the jobs I’ve applied for, if I haven’t by then anyway.  I am really starting to get antsy because the job I thought I’d be getting fell through, so I’m kind of pissed about that, but back up on my feet and moving on.

Anyway, I think that’s enough rambling.  Just something to keep you updated until my next entry.  I want to try to blog more (I know I say that all the time), but when I’m essentially sitting on my ass every day, there’s not really a whole lot to tell.  Maybe you guys can give me some ideas?

Later