Sat, Jun. 27th, 2015 10:20 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
I hate when:

1. I announce a plan
2. I double check with all involved in the plan that they will be available for the plan
3. Those people say yes they will so totally be part of the plan
4. I book plane tickets and pay money to make the plan happen
5. One person involved in the plan decides maybe they won't be part of the plan they're not sure it depends if a new job comes up before then
6. The other decides no they will almost definitely not be involved in the plan because their boss is going away at the same time
7. The plan is my 30th fucking birthday and it's a trip up the east coast of NSW with my besties and NEITHER of them said a bloody thing BEFORE I booked the goddamn airfares.

THE END.

Wed, Apr. 22nd, 2015 09:09 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
I swear to all that is shiny, the next person to give me a sales call on my goddamn mobile is going to get an absolute earful. I've had three calls this week. TWO TODAY. I'm not letting the next one go anywhere until they give me the contact information for whoever sold them my personal, private and completely unlisted ANYWHERE mobile number. It's clearly happened in the last week or so. I deliberately don't have a landline so I avoid this shit.

Not. Happy. Jan.

Mon, Apr. 23rd, 2012 08:43 pm
annarti: (bring it bitches)
I don't get depression. Views of a cynical optimist follow. You have been warned )

For those too chicken-shit to open the cut, here, have a song that pretty much sums it up.

Fri, Dec. 23rd, 2011 11:57 pm
annarti: (Default)
I swear, one of my new year's resolutions will be to post more regularly so my entries aren't just filled with dot points. In the meantime, DOT POINT ENTRY!

o So I've been riding to work since the weather started fining up in October, and have only missed maybe three or four days since when it was raining and crap in the morning. Coupla weeks ago I had my first... well I'll call it a crash but really I was going no faster than walking speed and fell over. But yea. Riding between a line of parked cars and a line of cars waiting at the traffic lights, plenty of room, until a ute decides when I'm about a metre from his wing mirror to turn left. I ALMOST made it between the two cars but clipped my handlebar on the mirror and fell over. Bruise on one knee and a scab on the other, but my bike's handlebar kinda bent up at right angles. So I have a new bike now! It's black and green and has freaking SUSPENSION and it's pretty awesome. I love it a lot. Also the metro tickets I haven't been buying for public transport have just about paid for it anyway so yay!

o I WROTE TWO CHAPTERS. I haven't completed a chapter since NOVEMBER LAST YEAR. This is big news and requires CAPS.

o Smells like Teen Spirit is apparently only #2 on this Music Max party rock anthems countdown. Given that Max would like this song to top every countdown they do from love ballads to the big hair countdown*, I'd like to know what beats "here we are now; entertain us" in that. Stay tuned.

o Three weeks of annual leave started today! THIS IS AWESOME AND ALSO REQUIRES CAPS. I haven't had this much solid time off since school.

o Sweet Child of Mine. I disagree with this.

o So far in my Christmas haul of work and my amazing housemate Anna P: Shitloads of chocolate, biscuits and lollies, Swarovski crystal necklace and matching earrings (more on this later), and a bike helmet and riding gloves. Naughty girl bought me TWO presents. If I'd known I would've gotten a selection of cheeses to go with the cheese board. She's too good to me <3

o I got so pissed off with my other housemate on Tuesday night that I decided not to give her her present, so Anna P and I split the box of Haigh's choc chip shortbread biscuits between us last night. Basically, Mum invited them both up for my standard Tuesday dinner in the Hills last week. Sunday, housemate was finally able to say she wouldn't be free. Tuesday night, as Anna P and I were working out logistics via text, I got the message that the said Anna could come a bit later and pick up housemate on the way. 'Nah she told me she wasn't coming' I replied. 'Yes she is, I just talked to her,' says Anna P. 'Damn... woulda been nice if she'd told me.' I say back. Call Mum, who is able to get another piece of salmon out of the freezer cos she's awesome and just has spare pieces of salmon hanging around. As one does. I get up there, apologise profusely, etc and so on. Anna P and housemate arrive, housemate says nothing~ and does nothing~ and carries on the night as if she was expected there the whole time. This all pretty much confirmed my dislike of the girl, but the clincher? As Anna P was praising the salmon and the mango and avocado salsa and the frankly awesome potato wedges and the salmon and how awesome my Mum was... housemate said nothing. She LEFT without saying thank you. SO GLAD SHE'S MOVING OUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA. I have been TRYING all year to like her but omg. I don't care what you think about me, you can dislike me for whatever reason, but my mum? Who has made special concessions for you with SALMON? And you can't even be arsed to say thank you? No. Fuck you. You're not even getting politeness out of me anymore.

o Why is Kiwiland releasing a trailer for The Hobbit a YEAR before it comes out? That's just cruel and unusual punishment.

o 30 degrees on Sunday, oh yeah o/ But drizzling. YAY MUGGY =|

o I get more excited about giving my presents to people than getting them. Bring on Christmas Eve~ with the awesome lunch and the pressie giving~ and then Christmas DAY with the awesome lunch~ and the pressie giving~ and yeah I'm not going to hit my target of 80kg by the end of the year am I? YAY CHRISTMAS.

o The Swarovski crystal sparklies? Boss and Boss Lady have sold the franchise =0 Graphic Designer and Accountant are owners as of January 16, the day I get back from leave. FRIGGING BIG NEWS. Not much will change first up but EEE exciting stuff. Boss will be hanging around for a year, and Boss Lady will be in once a week to do finishing (stapling, collating, hole punching, that kind of thing) but still, BIG CHANGES AFOOT.

o I forgot to bring my tablet up to the Hills tonight. This sucks cos I was going to do my Secret Santa tonight. BALLS. I'll just have to make it particularly awesome over the course of the week. While I'm on LEEEEEAVE omg this is awesome.

o I swear this will be the last giant dot point entry, really.

o Lol LJ wank. I really don't care enough about subject lines to move, what is it, five journals? tpyo, HB, yrae, the Thrai (hah like that gets used anymore but whatever)... four journals. It does amuse me that the people who are getting the most worked up over it have already ditched LJ.

o I made a thing! Which I am clearly announcing at the wrong time but whatever. I'll point back at it in July.

o I bought a commission :D I love that everyone so far has seen Ackerley with fluffy red-brown hair. Hey I might even add them all to bloogum some day wouldn't that be a novel idea?

o Holy crap Dexter. I've been waiting six seasons for that. laksdghalksd want next season now kthxbai.

o THE END.



* If you've heard a better premise for a music countdown, I'd like to hear it.

Fri, Jul. 15th, 2011 05:49 pm
annarti: (three seconds and I pop a cap in y0 ass)
I am absolutely sick to death of my patience being taken for granted.

I've been brought up to respect appointments you make. If I make an appointment with someone, THAT is the important appointment. If something else comes up, I won't cancel that first appointment. If I say I'm going to be somewhere/do something, I bloody show up or cancel well beforehand. You're more important to me than that other thing. When the crap am I going to be more important to you?

I've been brought up to respect other people's property above my own. I use it, I take care of it, I wash it and I put it back where I found it. You wouldn't even know I'd used it except I asked beforehand. Over the last few months, my things have been used without any respect--scissors left on the floor, knife left wet or even dirty to go blunt, food being eaten and not replaced, containers broken and not replaced until I finally put a blanket ban on using my stuff over the weekend.

'I really have to go to this thing that I don't want to go to, but at least Anna/'narti will understand.'

'I don't have enough/any containers/scissors of my own, but at least Anna will understand if I use hers.'

Fuck it. I'm not being patient anymore. People just keep abusing it. If you cancel on me, I WILL get annoyed at you. Applies as much online as with Adelaideans. The next time I find any of my stuff not where I last left it, I'm moving it to my bedroom and nobody will have the privilege of using it.

I was supposed to be going to the only Friday night footy match of the season tonight. I postponed Mum and Dad coming to dinner tonight because of it. There being nobody to go with, I'm on my own. I don't know if I'm going or not.
annarti: (its a fuic or its nothing)
Okay, so I've held off since the last Test to properly develop my thoughts, but nope, not changing. Still makes me grit my teeth, narrow my eyes and start a fire in my stomach.

This was my Oval )

Tradition is a big thing in cricket, you must understand, and possibly even more so at Adelaide Oval than the rest of the country. Commentators, players, officials, ALL of them comment on how gorgeous the Adelaide Oval is. Everyone ranks it as the most picturesque cricket ground in the world, with only Newlands in South Africa, which I'll admit has a pretty stunning aspect with Table Mountain behind it, being mentioned in the same breath. I promise you it's not only home bias saying this, Adelaide Oval is beautiful. Les Burdett, the curator, is well-known enough in this city that he's been on a beer ad. We are so bloody proud of our oval. People rarely ever have nice things to say about Adelaide (because, let's face it, we have bugger-all and the eastern states hate us), but the Oval? That's one thing we have got. Where the rest of the country has faceless, generic stands around boring stadium grounds, Adelaide Oval has beauty and character.

However, this is my Oval )

And this WILL be my Oval )

This new development is shit. It's going to destroy everything I love about my Oval. The only reason commentators and players are going to talk about it now is to lament it. I could handle it if it was just the members stands that were changing. Just. But none of it is going to be left. The Bradman Stand's going, and it's only about 15 years old. Members stands already gone. All but the tiniest corner of the Hill, where the scoreboard is, will remain. You won't be able to see the Moreton Bay figs behind it, or the cathedral, or little kiddies playing cricket on the Family Hill section with mum and dad on a picnic blanket. I'm so glad I've taken my camera to pretty much every match for the last four years or so, because all that is as good as gone.

... Winamp as scarily fitting as ever.

this is a rant

Fri, Nov. 20th, 2009 11:00 pm
annarti: (three seconds and I pop a cap in y0 ass)
All you people who have multiple journal-like things: you're WEIRD.

Ditto for having multiple IM programs, though that's more understandable because some people just Don't Do a particular program. (On that note, I've ditched MSN, but since I talked to all of two people on it, one of whom is also on AIM and the other of whom I catch up with on a weekly-at-least basis in the flesh, I figure nobody's really going to give a stuff o/)

ALSO. Changing usernames is weird (unless you've had stalkers and you're trying to get away from them, that makes sense.)

And don't get me started on cryptic posts, especially the ones with no comments. If you don't want me to know about it, then flock it away from me, seriously. I don't LIKE cryptic posts. Unless you're dead-set certain that I know what the cryptic is about, or you plan on talking to me about it before I see it? DON'T post it where I can see it =/

I'm not getting a Twitter. I don't use Facebook (wtf why do people keep trying to contact me through it...). I don't use Dreamwidth. I don't use Inksome. LiveJournal and AIM, that's it. Don't expect me to keep up with every new online communication thing because I see it as a serious waste of time, especially when everyone I know is on LJ anyway. It's just stupid, you guys =/

Mon, May. 4th, 2009 04:26 pm
annarti: (*facePALM*)
Welp, plastic bags at the supermarket checkout are officially banned. Only in SA, of course, cos we get subjected to weird things like that. So now the whole state is asking, as we have been since the announcement a year ago, what the frig do we use to line our bins with now? How many plastic bags ACTUALLY just get thrown out, without being used as bin liners, as storage for dirty clothes or bathers on the way back from the beach, covering up food to keep it fresh in the fridge, stop bugs from eating it on the mantlepiece?

And apparently all the greenies are pressuring other states to take up the bag ban. NO, REST OF AUSTRALIA, DON'T DO IT. It's more stupid than the upcoming ban on incandescent light globes D: (which IS nationwide. Yeah.)

Again, I say, I didn't bloody vote for 'em. Well, Mr Rann? What do YOU line your kitchen bin with, hmm?

Tue, Sep. 9th, 2008 09:24 pm
annarti: (three seconds and I pop a cap in y0 ass)
Things that Irritate the 'Narti, #42:

Disappearing from the Internet with literally no explanation. Or a really crappy explanation that can only be called an excuse.

You see, when you disappear from the Internet? People are left behind. Spending too much time on the computer? Okay, I can respect that, go out and get a life if you feel that's what you need.

But don't you DARE bloody forget that there are FRIENDS, real PEOPLE with whom you have formed a bond over the last year, two years, DECADE even, who you are just ditching and leaving in the black nothing. If we live over the other side of the world, and our only connection to you is through LiveJournal, email, AIM/MSN or whatever, then what the hell are we supposed to think when you suddenly cut off all connection? Is the computer broken? Are you in a coma/dead? Do you hate me? Were the last 10 years of friendship really that contrived?

Leaving without a word, except maybe in three or four months' time to say, "Oh yeah, I was spending too much time on the computer," is the one of the rudest things you can possibly do. Why? What do I hear from that statement? "Oh yeah, I was spending too much time talking to you."

Well, thanks a bloody lot.

If you're pissing off of the Internet, at least have the guts to say why. Then at least I can save my worrying for someone worthwhile.

Wed, Sep. 3rd, 2008 07:18 pm
annarti: (three seconds and I pop a cap in y0 ass)
Things I need to get off my chest, because they've been irritating me for quite a while now.

Last Saturday, I think it was? I had my mini-party-going-out-thing with K8 and Anna P as a belated birthday thing. Girls' night out to have fun, talk goss and all that sort of stuff.

Except it wasn't, because K8 for some unexplained reason brought her boyfriend along. I don't know why! I don't give a shit why! It irritated the living CRAP out of me! It was supposed to be MY birthday dinner, with just MY friends.

Then about ten minutes in K8 asked why I hadn't invited Alex up as well. Just... UGH. I came so close to exploding on the spot. Dan was NOT invited, even less expected, because it was supposed to be a GIRLS' NIGHT OUT. If she'd at least asked if he was allowed to tag along, then I may well have said yes and I would have invited Alex. But no, just rocks up at the pub, boyfriend in tow. It was just rude ><

I love the girl, really, but sometimes it'd be really nice if she'd take other people's feelings into consideration. I've told her things that I thought would have been implicitly in confidence, namely failing subjects at uni a few years back, and she told her parents within the hour. I hadn't even told MINE yet.

I can't remember the last time we had a night with just the three of us. It's either been me and Anna P because K8's been doing something with Dan, or Dan ends up coming along with us. Good on her for having a boyfriend, but really, does he have to come everywhere? Including a friend's birthday of three people, to which he wasn't invited in the first place?

I foresee backlash for this, and I don't give a crap. It's been nagging me for too long not to say anything.

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