Fri, Jul. 12th, 2019 10:43 pm
annarti: (hooray!)
It's happening again :O None of the links work yet except those that link out--tpyo, Fig Jam and [Snapshot Henchman]--but the splash functions! Hooray!

Saw Toy Story 4 on Tuesday with new frand! I think I have a new favourite Toy Story, maybe. Best line: 'I think Daddy needs to say some Words now so we'll just go over here, okay, Sweetie?' I want to start using that phrase in my daily life. 'I need to say some Words now.'

Pixar fangirl 4 lyfe.

Which all leads me to: NEW FRAND!

Her name's Alice and she has the most adorable and photogenic three-year-old you ever did see, called Laszlo. I met her on Tinder and we at the very least clicked as friends, if not anything romantic because 'narti does not do childs. Met for coffee/hot chocolate back in... March, I think? YES because we went to the AFLW Grand Final. Anyway yes, we've been to do fun things pretty much weekly since then. Gone to the zoo, went to a Cabaret Festival show called The Swell Mob which I didn't do very well at because it was a sort of... interactive performancey thing? Idk. Like all the characters were LARPing, so I feel Sallie and Ku would've done awesomely at it but I just didn't know what sorts of questions to ask and who to talk to and what was going on. It was fun but I know I didn't get as much out of it as I could have.

Alice plays AFL herself so I've gone to see one of her matches en route to Victor Harbor where we got ice cream and played minigolf, gone to a community screening of Wall-E which was... an experience XD It was in this little country hall, the kids all had a costume competition where they dressed up as robots and gave a fashion parade during the interval--yes, there was an interval--and it was all rather odd. She's from the UK originally, moved to Perth as a teenager and hence picked up on Fremantle as an AFL team, so we've been watching the odd Freo match up at my place.

She's a love, as is Laszlo. Srsly perfect small child, which really does just confirm to me that I don't want one myself. He went bowling the day we went to see Toy Story 4 and got to choose a prize from a cabinet at the end, and picked the sparkly tiara, which he was trying on while watching the movie. He sits and pays attention to the entire movie while watching and gets totally invested when characters are sad, while other kids twice his age are climbing over the seats. He carefully pats the cat, I've seen him throw one hissy-fit (because I wanted donuts and bought donuts, and he didn't want donuts so he didn't get donuts. You bet I was thinking of the 'why my kid is crying' tumblr) and the rest of the time he's got the biggest grin and is always excited to see me. At the end of Toy Story 4 as he's hugging his Woody toy I asked who his favourite character was, to which he answered, 'Mummy!'

But everything still gets planned around the small child, which is ttly fine in a friendship but I couldn't deal in a relationship. Having to either plan around his bedtime, which activities are going to be fun for a 3-year-old, how much time he can deal with, or alternatively when Alice's mum's free to take him. Basically, child must always be entertained, and everything winds up being about the small child. I need way too much me-time to be able to deal with that day in, day out, no matter how perfect the kid is. So yes. Happy for a friend to have a small child, not for a significant other.

MEANWHILE. This is the most piss-weak winter I can remember. It's July and we've had, like, four days over 20. WINTER. We're at least still getting reasonably steady rain and I haven't needed to water the garden, but the rest of the country isn't doing so well. The drought in the eastern states scares me.

But my back's healed! So there's that. And bloogum's finally getting a makeover. Maybe I'll have that done by the end of the year. HHHHHHHHHAH.

Media Consumed

Mon, Jul. 1st, 2019 07:49 pm
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Let's catch up on some shit! Here is media consumed this year. There will be spoilers but I'll warn of them.

Luficer )

Game of Thrones )

Avengers: Endgame )

That pretty much covers it. I mean there's been other stuff but they're the big ones. X-Men: Dark Phoenix was pretty great, also felt like a nicely rounded end to the storyverse so they can theoretically do-over. Like, properly, with a timeline that makes sense and everything.

Mostly Lucifer. omg I want more of that show.

THE END.

EDIT Arin just called Dan a wanker and I've never been so sure in my life that wanker is nnnnnnnnot an American word. First 'good onya' and 'stoked' now 'wanker,' truly Ross is rubbing off on them X)

Fri, Dec. 28th, 2018 06:53 pm
annarti: (Green Shyguy)
[community profile] figjam and [community profile] yrae are done, yaaaaay. Though I may down the track make Fig Jam more landscape and image friendly. Not now, though. That's as far as I can be arsed going with any of them for now. I'll slowly but surely go through adding memories to both of them, too. I use them all the time.

Because of the whole Sydney trip less than two months ago, Alex hasn't come to Adelaide for Christmas/New Year this time, so we decided we'll go see movies on the same day and then Skype afterwards and it'll be like we saw them together. Today we saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. IT WAS AWESOME. I feel like I was just watching the animation for half of it. It was incredible. It really did look like a moving comic book. The way everything flashed around and moved, the dynamic slow-mo 'frames' that just... omg it was awesome. When stuff was out of focus in the background, it wasn't blurred, but it was just colour-shifted a bit, so you got the RGB or CMYK out of register and it was so cool. SO COOL.

The characters and the comedy were so much fun. The story was great. I just loved it. I could go see that again for sure.

...I never mentioned Christmas. Whoops. I'm very in-the-moment when I do tpyo entries. Anyway. Christmas was just a perfect day. Very warm, but up at Mum and Dad's in the Hills so it was pleasant enough. We started with punch, bubbly and the best nibbles you ever did see on the back veranda, hung around there for a while until Laura came up after nursing, and then the most perfectly Christmassy moment I've ever experienced. My cousin lives up in Darwin and flew down that morning to Adelaide. My aunt and uncle knew nothing about this. When she turned up, aunt was instantly in tears and uncle was just :O for a solid five minutes, until Mum asked if he was all right... then he burst into tears, too. I've NEVER seen him so emotional. It was just beautiful and so squee. Even by the end of the day I don't think he was over it, socute.

Lunch was all the usual suspects but not as you know them (for Christmas lunch, anyway). The prawns and ham and crackling and cranberry were in the nibbles; the turkey was in the entrée as a salad with jellyfish (omg it was so good); the salmon was for mains (as a full side of salmon with leek and mushrooms wrapped in pastry); the gin and tonic was the sorbet; and the pudding and cherries were in a cheesecake semifreddo for dessert. I'd say Mum's best Christmas lunch for sure. It was all so perfect and delicious, omg.

Also, Mum got me a mandolin for Christmas XD I happy.

Tue, May. 1st, 2018 09:00 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
My annual leave week is over, and I feel sooooo good for having taken it. I've never before taken a week of leave just for the same of having a week off--it's always been to go somewhere, or because an event was happening, or it was Christmas/New Year. So much happens that by the end of it, you feel like you need a holiday from your holiday.

This week, though, was just glorious. There were a few things in particular that made me bite the bullet and just book leave, and really it was all of them coming together in one that did it: Anzac Day public holiday was on Wednesday, and there's no more useless public holiday than one on a frigging Wednesday. So I asked to have at least the first two days off and possibly the last two, knowing that enough of a chunk of our clients would be doing the same thing so my absence wouldn't be too heavily felt at work. Boss was going to text on Tuesday if I was needed Thursday, but, as predicted, that didn't happen. Also, the weather was glorious? Monday was 29 and I was wearing floaty summer dresses for the first half of the week. It's April. I am not spending that sort of weather in an office if I can help it. Finally, writing. I just suddenly switched on around the end of March, as I've mentioned, and once again I didn't want to waste any of that.

So I cruised coffee shops and cafés, down to Brighton and Glenelg beaches, Willunga and McLaren Vale, up to Fred's at Aldgate and Red Cacao in Stirling. I took n00b* with me, had poached eggs and avocado and coffee and all the little brownies and slices of cheesecake, and I wrote four chapters in a week. I've also discovered a bit of a method, which I hope is what's making this all work and isn't just something that's coming from the motivation, but I've been writing in the spoiler book about the chapter before I write it. It forces me to nut out the problems before I get to that point in the writing, so when I take n00b to the café the next day I won't need to spend the first hour wondering what the hell's going on.

Sunday last week, as I mentioned, I went to the Colours of Impressionism exhibition at the art gallery with Mum, Dad, Colin and Laura, and it was truly magnificent. If I ever find myself in Paris again I'm so very going to Musée D'Orsay. Impressionism is probably my favourite movement, and to see so many of these hella famous artists and pieces all in one place was amazing. They're all so soothing and colourful (once colour came up, anyway--that was the point of the exhibition, to show how colour evolved) and vibrant. Seeing the brush strokes right up close, where you really could see all the tiny strips of colour in every stroke because they mixed the paint on the canvas rather than on the pallet, was fabulous. When I got to Monet's Bridge over Pond (is that even what it's called? He did like a dozen from that spot) I was the only one there at that moment, so I just plonked myself right in front of it and just stared at it. Here are some Instas of various paintings. Some of them were so bright and vibrant it was practically neon. UGH. ART. I LOVE IT.

Wednesday, Anzac Day, my aunt and uncle invited us all down to their beach house at Middleton. They've recently sold it, so this was a last goodbye to the place before it officially changes hands in a few weeks. Just sausages on the barbie, just a nice chill day =3 We didn't go down to the actual beach, tho, just watched the waves crashing from the balcony.

Thursday~ I went to see Avengers: Infinity War, which sure was the first half of a two-parter, and then had a massage 8D Went back to Iron Man that night just to see how far everything had come and... yeah. WOW that movie feels small now. The grand finale was really just two guys in robot suits? Really? Oh and I marathoned the latest season of Game of Thrones because it's only seven episodes and doesn't take long. Also I'm going to be making a GoT-inspired feast this Sunday, so that'll be fun X9

Saturday night was another footy, easily won but jesum CHRISTMAS, boys, stop injuring yourselves! Sunday, finished that last chapter, and now here we are.

It honestly feels like I took two weeks off. I slept in, I chilled at coffee shops, I wrote a shitload. I got a massage, went to see a movie, wrote a shitload more. PERFECT WEEK. I'm going to have to do this more often.



* My new laptop, named so on the network because it needed something and I couldn't be bothered being creative. It's likely to stick because it's a Lenovo. Le novo. The new. You see where I'm going here.

Fri, Feb. 23rd, 2018 06:05 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
Facebook: Good afternoon, Anna! Clouds are clearing today in Adelaide. Enjoy the sunshine!
It's 34 degrees, you irresponsible dickwits.

In other news, I had my first lady-date on Tuesday! I've turned off the 'looking for men' option on Tinder and also downloaded Bumble to do the same, and by golly, gee whizz, does that narrow the options. There are literally six people to cycle through of an evening, across the two of them together. I've significantly lowered my bar to the point where even people without any text in their profiles are being swiped right.

Anyway. So I finally got a match! Chatted with her a while over text, discovering we're in much the same boat of having had boyfriends but never a girlfriend, so we met up on Tuesday after work :D First to Cocolat for a nice cold smoothie where we talked for a good hour and a half, then to The Apothecary for a cocktail and impromptu platter of antipasti that ended up constituting dinner because the smoothie had been pretty filling, and finally once the sun went down to the Parade of Lights on North Terrace, where they've illuminated a whole bunch of historic buildings (museum, art gallery, uni buildings, that sort of thing) with basically painted light animations. It's part of the Fringe Festival, which started last Friday. This was the highlight. They have a bunch of smoke machines around the lawn in front of the museum, and fire big flat sheets of lasers through the smoke above your head, so you lie back on the lawn and just watch this play of light in the smoke. It's seriously awesome. So surreal, like being on an alien planet, or maybe under the sea, sometimes like the Northern Lights depending on how the smoke was behaving at the time.

The date itself was no more than a friend date at this stage, just chatting about family, work, the Fringe, wine/food/cooking, small talk that lasted until about 11pm. She was suuuuper nervous at the start so I didn't want to make any moves or scare her away XD She's also tiny. I have a good foot on her XD She's a PhD student, previously worked for the CSIRO, super into sciencey physics, kinda shy but opened up a lot as the evening went on. Easy conversationalist, almost as much of a foodie as I am, and just a fun, casual, relaxed time. Already so much less pressure than any first date with a dude. See where this takes me X3

Unrelated, last weekend I finally presented Katie Hawtin with her first proof of her website. This is something I instigated a good, oh, two+ years ago now. I designed her business cards at work and we print them every couple of years, and the last time she ordered them she mentioned in passing that she hated her website and didn't want it on her business card because it's so outdated and ugly. In an effort to add some real clients to my digital media design portfolio, I offered to design a new site, bells and whistles and all, for $100 just so it felt more like a business transaction. TWO YEARS LATER and she has a proof! She's phenomenally enthusiastic, absolutely loves where it's going, so I'll get started on actually creating it in March with the aim to finish it by mid-April.

I'm also in the middle of updating my own portfolio, which is slightly broken and very out-dated. I have no idea where the slightly broken came from, since I haven't updated it since I made it, but the navigation icon up in the top corner now scrolls instead of sitting there nice and fixed, the gallery images on the print page are off-centre by about 70 pixels, and there's a 5-ish pixel gap at the beginning of each client. Also the header on the blog is now an error message. NO idea where all this came from, but that's this weekend's task. Just what I want to spend my weekend doing, bug fixing of my portfolio. Yay.

And I saw Black Panther on the weekend. It was pretty gosh darn awesome. The warrior ladies had the most badarse character design, omg. Also the villain was probably the best Marvel villain in a while. His motivations were just bang on. Loved this movie!

Mon, Apr. 11th, 2016 09:36 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
Y'know what social media in general needs? LJ included? An 'I have read this' button. For stuff you don't necessarily have anything to add to or need to comment on, but just so a) the people who post it don't feel like they're shouting into a void and can also know they can launch right into discussion with the person who's read it rather than explaining and have them go 'oh yeah I read that post, moving on' and b) so the people reading with irritatingly busy lives don't feel quite so much pressure to comment and don't feel like such a dick when they don't. Because hey. I READ it I just have to go to bed in half an hour and I still have about an hour's worth of other shit to do. The 'I have read this' button. That's a thing that should exist everywhere.

Gran's 97th birthday was yesterday! We did a high tea for her up at Mum and Dad's and it was delightful. Also saw tiny babby Leo, my cousin's one-year-old, who just had his birthday the day before. 97-year-old outlasted the one-year-old by about 15 minutes. Go Gran!

Unrelated because tpyo gets like that when it's been a while, last Tuesday I went to see Kung Fu Panda 3 after work and it was beautiful. What a good movie. I got tears at the beauty of it, the this is what 3D animation is MADE for beauty of it. All the stylistic scenes and the spirit realm, swirling colours and papercut shapes, it was just so beautiful and uplifting. The whole thing was so happy and smiley. Even the perilous bits were beautiful and I loved it. Tomorrow I'll see Zootopia, and maybe I'll have enough points saved up to see Kung Fu Panda again in 3D because I think it'll warrant it.

Um. THE CROWS. I am loving my boys all over again. Not that this is any surprise to anyone who's known me five minutes, but omfg Eddie Betts you superstar. And Tex bombing it from frigging 60m like he's just passing it off to someone who'll then kick the goal but fuckit he's Tex he can kick it that far.

I have plans to develop my own calligraphic alphabet. I've got lowercase 'a' and associated letters (d and g, most of q but I'm not totally set on it) sorted. I'm also going to another day-course, this one being for brush lettering--with an actual brush rather than a brush pen that I've already been doing--so I can tie everything together! Then I might see about doing something on the side with it and my brush pen lettering! Pencils have always been my jam, and everyone does frigging watercolour, so I'll see if I can tie that in somehow.

Tomorrow I will call people about clearing the back area and installing the new tank. There. I've said it now it'll happen.

Wed, Jun. 17th, 2015 08:18 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
What we do in the Shadows is on FoxtelGo right now so I've FINALLY been able to see it. It was awesome 8D Just the sort of deadpan humour I love. And I love a good mockumentary.

Sat, Jun. 13th, 2015 06:16 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
Today was a day of adulting and then not adulting and then adulting a bit more. Did the washing, final quote on the curtains organised, saw Mad Max spoilers? Maybe? Nothing more than I'm sure you've seen online anyway ) went shopping, spent much money on meat but probably don't have to do so again for two months so that's good, took down the washing.

Now, writing. Then dinner and more writing.

I love this song.

Sun, Apr. 5th, 2015 06:27 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
Homg I love the Crows <3 I missed most of the game cos Alex and I went to see Focus (wouldn't recommend it) but got home for the last quarter and, more importantly this time around, the team song.

When footy teams win, the Thing they Do when they go down to the rooms is have the cameras follow them, then they all get in a ring and sing the team song. Typically it goes like this:



BUT TODAY they made their ring down on the ground, at the edge of the field, so that there were two or three fans as part of the ring AND the whole of the crowd behind them singing it too. OMG I AM SO SQUEE. I hope this is a thing they do every win ♥ It was frigging adorable. I love these boys. They are SO much for the supporters, I swear. We are so totally the 19th man and they're so, so good at not only remembering that, but emphasising it at every opportunity.

I LOVE THE CROWS.

Now have yesterday's Oakbank picnic races in pictures )

Tadaaaaa

Sat, Jun. 9th, 2012 12:03 am
annarti: (why does it have to be like that?)
A Very Long Engagement will never stop being amazing and beautiful and alskjdghas I want to formally learn French again.

Fri, Jan. 27th, 2012 07:32 pm
annarti: (oi oi oi!)
Happy Straya Day for yesterday! We all know I love my country, we'll leave it at that :D

SIMILAR NOTE: New Working Dog movie eeeeeee <3 Guys who did two of my favourite movies ever btw, The Castle and The Dish. I AM SQUEE and I'm so totally seeing this in the cinema.

ALSO. Next time we have a public holiday on a not-Friday-or-Monday I'm so taking the intervening day off. Today started off feeling like Monday and finished so totally feeling like Friday. IT FELT LIKE A WEEK IN ONE DAY. When the hell is ANZAC Day this year? Wednesday. Hrm. I'll just book the whole week off.

Fri, Dec. 30th, 2011 11:15 am
annarti: (oi oi oi!)
Friday 34
Saturday 37
Sunday 39
Monday 39
Tuesday 36
Wednesday 28
Thursday 26

BRING IT BITCHES. Maybe it won't be as shit as last summer after all. That'd be nice. BEACH TONIGHT WOOOOOOO. I was going to wash the car today but it's a bit warm for that, water would evaporate soon after squirting it with a hose. Wait until... Wednesday it looks like.

I like Coldplay's new song more than I like P!nk's. I have a thing against key changes outside the 90s. It's 2011, key changes aren't cool anymore, and god that song is shit. Still, I'll live in happy ignorance and assume she didn't write it, only sang it for the movie so it won't be on any albums I spend money on.

I finally watched Priscilla a coupla weeks ago, since this is pretty much the most famous image in Australian cinema and I still hadn't seen it in context. I know, 17 years too late, but shush at least I got there and now my education in Australian cinema is complete. I must burn this for Sallie, since it's basically To Wong Foo only Australian. And the original! And a serious chunk was filmed in my state so I recognised places :D

Anyway. I have a list for today so let's get cracking on it! And skip the car washing bit of it.

Sun, Nov. 14th, 2010 02:46 am
annarti: (whee~ pretty colours)
A Very Long Engagement is possibly my new favourite French movie. How has it taken me six years to get onto this thing?

Sat, Sep. 4th, 2010 04:36 pm
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That must've been one of the wettest Show days ever, definitely the wettest I've been XD; But it was fun! Looked at the kitties, tried to look at the sheeps but they were being judged and were mostly roped off, diary tent~ which is always yummy, and spent most of the time in the TasteSA tent. It's basically full of various South Australian produce, olive oil, metwurst, fresh bread, dipping sauces, all that sort of deli-esque stuff. Sooo tasty X9

During the hour or so that it wasn't pissing with rain, we did the rides. Well, one ride three times. Techno Jump, which basically bounces you up and down going around in a circle. One of the few that doesn't go upside down OR make you sick. Much fun :D

Later on, the wind started picking up, too, so we bought our showbags and left around 6ish, since the fireworks were clearly not going to be on.

Instead~ we went to see Tomorrow, When the War Began which was just brilliant. And I now cut this so Cassie can spare herself the agony <3 Read more... )

Suffice to say, if you have a chance to see this movie on the big screen? DO IT. DOOOO IIIIT.

LASTLY. Today~ I got my scanner and printer, woo~! Except the printer only came with one cable, the power supply. Waiting for a more tech savvy male to appear to find out if we have a spare... whatever it needs, or if I have to buy one. But yay, shiny new black things :DD

edit~ Success~ of sorts. We have a cable, it's just not a spare one. Need to buy one from Dick Smiths on Monday, but they're cheap as so that's okay. YAY PRINTER.

Sat, Jul. 31st, 2010 10:18 am
annarti: (oi oi oi!)
OMG~ oh my god oh my god oh my god~

If ever I have been waiting for a book-to-film adaptation, it's that one. I HOPE IT'S AWESOME. IT LOOKS IT. OMFG.
annarti: (oi oi oi!)
Part two, featuring Aussie movies :D For some reason, most Aussie movies seem to fall into one of two categories: comedies or... whatever the category is that features drugs, rape, suicide and other happy fun sunshine topics. Depressing movies. Those movies bore the shit out of me because they just scream "WE ARE SENDING YOU A MESSAGE PAY ATTENTION TO IT" and I just can't be stuffed. So here, have some classic Aussie comedies, and a couple others that don't fit either category :D

movies! )

Sat, Jan. 2nd, 2010 12:56 am
annarti: (=D)
Lookie, I have a [livejournal.com profile] oliveiris :D My journal for doing the photo 365 thing, a photo a day for a full year. I figure it'll be easier to keep it all organised if I have it separate from tpyo, so there you go, feel free to friend =3

Today, we went with Jess again to see The Princess and the Frog, which was fabulously classic Disney, complete with catchy songs and princess-with-cute-native-animals moments X3 It makes me hope it does really well just so Disney can stick with it, because it's really what they do best. Leave the 3D to the animation houses who've grown up with it *nods*

It does have me wanting to watch Aladdin again now. And The Lion King. Mmm, childhood *^^*

Mon, Aug. 25th, 2008 12:42 pm
annarti: (a good day to be a 'narti)
o Tropic Thunder was fun in all its corny goodness.

o In a related note, kissing is weird >>

o Adelaide looks gorgeous today <3 Sea was SO bright blue driving down the hill to uni this morning. Spring is coming~

o My tablet is completely disoriented on this stupid uni computer. Computer thinks it's an Intuos and now it's trying to orient itself like a mouse =/ And the scroll is broken. Arg.

o I love my iPod.

o My watch battery ran flat at 3:12 this morning =( And there's nowhere at uni that I can replace it =(

o Stuff.

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