Yrae Chronicles

For a change, I don't have a million things to catch up on. Is this what it's like to be organised? omg.

Fitness continues, running and walking around the Parklands, and I've finally come around to the bits I'm familiar with along the Torrens, which is the river that runs through Adelaide. Well, 'runs,' it's just sitting there at the moment, there being no rain to make the river flow, but still, felt a whole lot more lush and green than any of the northern parklands did. I'm less than a month now from the date I'll be attempting my 5km in 35 minutes, and feeling pretty sweet about it. Assuming I hit that (and even if i don't, tbh, tho I'll be surprised at this stage if I don't) I'll set a new goal of 5km in half an hour probably by the end of winter, then finally jetty-to-jetty in an hour.

OH I didn't go into the rewards bit! Every 5 kilos I'm rewarding myself with a new set of clothing items. First goal is undies, next will be socks, then bras, then pjs, then the one after that'll be my final goal so that'll be the whole wardrobe. Not all at once, but anyway. Baby steps. I hit the first goal a couple of weeks ago, so new undies! In the last couple of years I've really started making a conscious effort to try and buy Australian made, or at least Australian owned, and definitely natural fibres. I've had this page bookmarked since last year, so I've now bought one pair from everyone there. I'll give 'em all a couple of months of wear, then whichever's holding up the best I'll get a full set of. Currently think I'm most keen on Merino Country (made from wool, very comfy, comes in green) and Wonderpants (extremely comfy, also green) so we'll see how they go. It's been so long since I got new undies, this is the best.

March is coming up to when the writing comps I've been entering start drawing the winners. So far one's contacted me to say I didn't win, but eh. Honestly not expecting to place in any of them, but it's fun to be part of. I'm finally getting to write a story about my pigment hunter, who I've had ideas about for ages, so having a good time with that one in particular. Hoping to finish it tomorrow, then I can go back and edit for submission.

ALSO CRICKET. NOBODY CARES. BUT. South Australia is in the Sheffield Shield final! The last time we won it was 29 years ago! Today was day two and we're doing very well, planning to go down on Saturday, which'll potentially be the last day, and cheer on the boys. omg that would be so amazing.

Ah no, I missed a week! Balls. Oh well. Maybe things'll start quietening down and I'll have more time to update and less to update about. HAH.

So I have glasses now! These are them, along with my new jumpsuit and lippy I bought over summer hollies. I love it all. Forever amazed by how much of a difference a hot red lippy does. Loev.

I've had the most minor, pathetic excuse for a cold the last few days, but it mostly hit last night. Nothing much in the way of sneezing, coughing or snotting, but I got the whole stupidly tired and heavy, not wanting to do anything part. Went to bed early and woke up feeling a million times better, so. That's the end of that. I also donated blood on Monday after work, so whether that had anything to do with it idk, but I've never had anything happen after a blood donation before. Hopefully I wasn't contagious when I donated =x

Australia Day was last Friday, which usually means a big barbecue at Mum and Dad's, but this year was forecast to be 42 degrees so they cancelled it. We still ended up doing a little thing, just the five of us plus my aunt and uncle to watch the cricket with, and in the end it barely got to 33, so. It would've been perfect, sadly. BUT it did mean I got to meet Snags! Colin and Laura's new little dachschund. Such a little sweetie~ with his huge floppy ears and big eyes. And his little legs, powering along making SO much effort and getting nowhere fast <3 He's adorable.

Much awesome food has been eaten, and much is yet to come. I've been back to New Nordic with Linda and Hanh, followed by insane dessert up the road at 50sixone, and then through this week Mum's invited me up twice for amazing seafood salads, one with seared sushi-grade tuna and one with prawns and salmon.

Tomorrow I'm going to the first AFL Women's match for the season with Mum, so, go Crows! Then on Sunday is Japanese fusion high tea with Linda at Ginza Miyako. I'm so glad all my friends are foodies. I've also very easily convinced her and Hanh to come with me to Fred's up at Aldgate, so that'll likely happen next weekend, I'd guess. So many awesome, disgustingly hipster cafés and restaurants now. I love Adelaide!

It's rained the last three weekends in a row and I'm running out of socks, so I finally bit the bullet and did the washing today in the vain hope that SOME day this week, it'll get enough sun to dry out. It's been rained on at least twice today. Yay winter.

I bought my dress for Quay! It is ( this one ) from Veronika Maine but it's not on their website anymore, so can't properly link it. I didn't get the statement necklace because my favourite shop isn't open on Sundays, apparently. News to me. So I'll go in after work on Friday and get something then. Something like this maybe. Oh or this or that. I just love this shop. I can browse it for ages *.*

SUCKED IN, AMERICA. I'm going to buy shit online, oh yeah >D

I really don't update much these days. Hrm. Must rectify that.

Last weekend was the official start of summer, as marked by 28 degrees (on Monday, but still) and, more poignantly, fish and chips from Normanville with Anna P on the beach. Course, it's currently drizzling and about 12 degrees as it's been for the past three days, but that's spring for you. It never actually DOES spring. Mostly, it's winter, then you get about three days of spring some time around mid-November, then BOOM it's 35 and summer.

But yeah, the beach was lovely~ <3 Supposed to be fining up this week, so we'll see how next weekend goes.

Tonight I have a little black dress masquerade party, so that'll be awesome :D I bought a mask last week (it has peacock feathers on it and it's green, would you expect any less?) and a little black dress yesterday. Personal opinion, it's too short to be a dress, so I'm wearing a skirt, too. There will be cam whoring.

Annnnd stuff. Yeah I don't have much goss lately.

OH. I've been reading this, which was in my massive box of books from the Shanrie <3 It's beautiful~ and I love it a lot.

And that's all I've got. I'm going to draw now :D

So, we have a new PM. Don't really care, didn't vote for Krudd and sure as hell not voting for her, either :D With any luck, she'll be the shortest-serving PM in Australian history.

In other, more exciting news, Colin's birthday was yesterday, so I took him out to lunch. Huuuuuge bowl of Vietnamese soup, very noice X9 Followed by duck Windy Point style for dinner, homg. So delicious. I love my Mum <3

Also~ I bought a terrabyte external hard drive, so I can put all my movies and tv shows on that now. This'll be my project for the evening, then over the weekend I might see about getting Windows 7 on this computer. I've got it on the laptop, and it's on the computers at work, so I may as well. Also gives me the excuse to get Adobe CS5 8D Mmm, tasty.

This comes because I got my first pay check this week :DDDDDD SO EXCITING. Going clothes shopping this weekend cos my winter wardrobe is seriously depleted. All but one pair of jeans have holes in them, as do various tops, undies and socks. And I only have two pairs of pjs left. So yes, mmm money.

And now for something completely different, an actual update =0

On Tuesday~ I did some sending of emails to various printing companies around Adelaide in search of a job. One got back to me yesterday to set up an interview for next Tuesday :D Just to clarify, these places don't only do printing, but designing and desktop publishing type stuff, too, so yay! Cross fingers for something to happen there~

After playing some of my new and shiny Pokémon Platinum on the DS, I was inspired to get out my little old Crystal version on GBC, only to find that the entire game has wiped itself. This would ordinarily be pretty annoying but oh well, get to play through it again, get over it etc. But no. That was the game that had my Mew on it. MY MEW D: I'm never going to get another one of them! I queued up in the Myer Centre, a 15-year-old girl in a line of under-ten-year-old-boys, to get that bloody Mew, and now it's GONE~ forever. I know, nobody owns a GBC anymore for me to play them with, but STILL. MEW. Not a happy 'Narti, no.

Dad's buggered his back =( In a can't get out of bed kind of way. This is doubly suckage because it's his birthday tomorrow, and he and Mum were going out to a sexy restaurant tonight for dinner. Course, the bonus of having three doctors, a nurse and a physio in the family is that he's had plenty of the right kind of advice to get himself fixed. Still. No sexy restaurant =( Not that Colin or I were ever going, but still sad.

I just tore a hole in my jeans. Goddamnit. I LIKE these jeans >< And I've only had 'em a year. I NEED INCOME.

For all the new people who've arrived on my flist over the last month or less, I feel I should pimp h_bee and yrae, my arts and writings journals respectively. HB is completely open, yrae comm is MOSTLY open except for Silent Harmony, you'll have to join the community to read that, but I don't bite =3

And on that note, I'm going to write. Possibly. See if drawing distracts me again. It's been doing that lately X3

There, Malaysia photos all resized, numbered and uploaded. Two batches of KL and one of Singapore to babble about, then all... three pictures or however many I took of the Gold Coast trip, and I'm CAUGHT UP on holiday snaps. Just in time for Sydney, as planned X3

Money not yet gone through to Visa, so the online bit of Christmas shopping will have to wait til tomorrow, but the legwork bit of it is DONE~ :DD It's all sitting in a pile in the corner of my room waiting to be wrapped. Also got my jeans, boardies and work pants sitting there. The jeans~ now have a pattern on them based on Riesling's there, done in shiny fabric paint, and since it's going to be low 20s again tomorrow, I'll wear them to take piccies of =3 I really should do a camera cleanout, now I think of it. Finish off holiday snaps first, then I'll do that. Hoi~ >>

I want iced coffee, but we're all out of flavouring =/ Tomorrow this must be rectified.

CRICKET THIS WEEKEND EEEEEE!