Don’t stray
Don’t ever go away
I should be much too smart for this
You know it gets the better
Of me sometimes
When you and I collide
I fall into an ocean of you
Pull me out in time
Don’t let me drown
Let me down
I say it’s all because of you
And here I go
Losing my control
I’m practising your name
So I can say it to your face it doesn’t seem right
To look you in the eye
And let all the things you mean to me
Come tumbling out my mouth indeed it’s time
Tell you why
I say its infinitely true

Say you’ll stay
Don’t come and go
Like you do
Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you

And there’s no cure
And no way to be sure
Why everything’s turned inside out
Instilling so much doubt
It makes me so tired
I feel so uninspired
My head is battling with my heart
My logic has been torn apart
And now
It all turns sour
Come sweeten
My every afternoon

Say you’ll stay
Don’t come and go
Like you do
Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
Say you’ll stay
Don’t come and go
Like you do
Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
It’s all because of you
It’s all because of you

So for reference, here are the posts about the bigger events that happened in 2009.

The New Place – moving back into our own space was excellent, after living for something like 9-10 months at my parents’ place. We’d lived together on our own before, so it wasn’t a particularly outstanding achievement or event in itself, but it was a regaining of our freedom and independence.

New Beginnings – moving to Terri.nu was a big change – I still use the name ‘Inspirata’ for my website design stuff, but I felt it was time to move to something bigger and better. Terri.nu was a domain name I’d wanted for a while – it’s me, of course, and my name isn’t changing any time soon! Again, not much to this event, but it was something I did that stood out this year.

The Wedding Post – and of course, the biggest thing that happened in 2009 was our wedding. What can I say but it’s the start of the next phase of our relationship, true commitment to each other. The happiest day of my life.

And that’s about it. I did get a job in 2009, as well, which I am grateful for. I didn’t listen to the radio at all, unless I was in the car with my parents. I watched far too much TV and spent too much time playing The Sims 2 & 3. I lost 8kg in 12 months without even trying.

We lost Layla in February, whom we miss dearly (RIP Mama-Puss), which was a real breaking point for me, since I loved her so much.

Thankfully, though, Layla was our only loss this year – I wish it could have gone without any losses, but I suppose when a person’s or animal’s time has come, there’s not much you can really do about it.

In general, 2009 wasn’t bad. But, bring on 2010!

I just remember having the best time with this song – it was sooo funny and I had no idea what it meant but I loved it anyway.

Michael and I went to see Kate Miller-Heidke at a local bar last night – it was AWESOME. She has a phenomenal voice; really something to see, especially since she’s, like, a TINY person. I got my CD signed, but I forgot to take my camera so I didn’t get any photos with her (and my phone doesn’t have flash – kind of a necessity in bars at night). Anyway, if you ever get the chance to see her live, go for it. She’s amazing.

And with that, I don’t really have any other news. I just cleaned up our study so it’s a lot tidier now, just a matter of waiting for Michael to come home from work and clean up his desk because I don’t know what’s what on that damn thing. So yeah.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately; I’ve become reobsessed with The Sims 2 and been playing that a lot – making family after family, families off families and thousands* of children. I told you, obsessed.

Anyway, leave a comment if you want, I’ll post again in a couple of days

_{* might be a slight exaggeration}

I’ve had a further growing concern for my Layla-puss, who’s become increasingly skinnier and skinnier. I make sure I sit with her while she eats, so I can see how much she has and ensure Hendrix doesn’t butt in to eat her food as well as her own, but she’s still not putting on the weight. I hope it’s just something to do with her still adjusting to her environment and not anything serious. Besides, when she last went to the vet, the vet said she was a happy, healthy cat. So *shrugs* iono.

I’ve had a bad food day today as well; I had a baked potato with corn and cream cheese sauce for lunch, and KFC for dinner. Not good – no wonder I’m not losing the pounds. I got down to 101.3kg on Friday, and then today I’m back up to 103kg, so I don’t know what’s going on there – hopefully it’s just fluid retention or something like that.

I had a kind-of productive night last night – managed to submit my second article to The Pagan Activist, and put up a new layout at the site for the Proud Pagan Podcasters. There was a bit of a tiff over there about a flash media player just ‘disappearing’, even though I didn’t touch the plugin that takes care of flash modules, so I don’t know, it’s all sorted out now and I guess that’s all that matters.

Things are coming along for the party – after yesterday’s effort (removing three trailer-loads of dirt and rubble from the backyard), today was a total chillax day, but I’m sure we’ll be getting straight back into it again tomorrow. There’s a little painting to do, the toilet to go in in the laundry, some electrical work (the plumber and electrician are coming tomorrow morning) and just general tidy-up and setup. By the way, most of this stuff was going to happen at some point anyway – we didn’t just call the electrician and plumber to put these things in just for the party! – but it was a good motivational tool to get stuff down around here.

So that’s about it – got to leave something to talk about tomorrow, I suppose! NaBloPoMo is working out for me so far!

Additionally, I put together a new layout, so I hope you like it. No, it’s not Valid CSS or XHTML, simply for the fact that if I put in a doctype, it ruins the header tabs hover thing I have going on – if you have a solution for that at all, so that I might be able to validate my site, PLEASE let me know!

But finally to the actual reason for this post – due to my time being so busy, I haven’t had a chance to blog about the Ozzy Osbourne concert we went to last Saturday.

I’ve loved Ozzy for years – he’s one of my favourite musos, and the chance came up to go and see him, since he was coming to Melbourne. The last time he was in Australia was in 1998, too fucking long ago. So when we heard he was coming, I went to look at ticket prices. It was $99 a ticket in the nosebleeds. So at the time I said no, because we didn’t have the money. But things changed in about late December/early January, when I got my credit card. I worked it out – 10 years since Ozzy was here last, Ozzy turns 60 this year – if it’s another 10 years before he might even come here, he’ll be 70 and probably too old to perform. This might be the last time he tours, at least globally.

So I thought about it – $200 ain’t that bad to see a guy who you’ve loved for ages and probably won’t get a chance to see ever again. So, I whipped out the credit card and bought tickets in the nosebleeds.

We headed out there on Saturday the 15th, got there at about 6pm (the show was due to start at 8), and bought a t-shirt each (since it’s now my new hobby to collect band t-shirts!). We waited… and waited… and waited… and finally they opened the doors to the arena. We made our way inside, found our seats and sat taking in the surroundings and atmosphere – it was pretty electric. Then the supporting band, Sevendust, came out – they were pretty awesome, did a great job of riling (sp?) up the crowd, but the magic happened after Sevendust and an intermission; there were some funny clips played on the big screens of Ozzy in movies and TV shows, like The Office, The Queen, Pirates of the Caribbean, that kind of thing. And then the curtain in front of the stage fell… and there was Ozzy. Oh Em Gee. I SCREAMED until my voice gave way. This guy is incredible! For a near-60 year old guy to get up on stage like that, and perform like he was 20 years old, holy shit he was awesome! And Zakk Wylde, his guitarist who is a celebrity in his own right, was so totally crazy!

So I’m stupid for not remembering the set list, but he played “Mama I’m Coming Home”, my favourite song, and “Crazy Train” (of course). And then, right at the end of the show, Zakk throws his guitar INTO THE CROWD! There’s this HUGE scramble for it, and finally one guy gets it and has to be escorted out by security so he doesn’t get nabbed or beaten up (I’m sure they would have had to get a taxi or something for him to get home!).

All in all, it was FUCKING INCREDIBLE! I can’t wait for my next arena concert!

Anyway, I’ve purchased my domain for my photoblog, and it has a name that, if I want to change it to something else it’ll still work. So make your way over to Cada Momento and take a peek.

However, I still need some help. As many of my regular visitors might know, I use the usernames ‘mztwizted’, ‘xomztwiztedox’ and ‘xo.mztwizted.ox’ all over the place. However, I think it’s time for a change. Number one, I am getting sick of spelling it out for my RL friends who want to add me to MSN or email me. Number two, I registered that username over 3 years ago, and I have matured a lot since then and would like something to reflect that. So, throw some ideas at me. If you need some idea of what I’m like, you can click ‘terri’ at the top of the page and it’ll take you to my ‘about me’ section, which might be able to help. I’m just totally stuck for a name. Most of my usernames come from other places anyway.

I’ll keep trying to think of one myself, but yeah throw those ideas my way!

For now, here’s a wicked awesome film clip of my favourite song at the moment: