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'Ghan the wonder llama
06 February 2013 @ 09:50 am
So I slept through my alarm, twice (I changed it to Toto's "Africa" because I thought it would be less jarring - turns out it is nowhere near jarring enough!), would have made it to work on time except I needed to buy fuel this morning (and it really couldn't wait - my car has run out of fuel before, and it is a heavy sonofabitch, so I wasn't going to risk it), and then on the way to work the radio tells me that the contraceptive pill I take - Diane-35 - has been recalled in France for causin too many deaths, so I check this site, and it's true,* although the drug hasn't been recalled or de-listed or whatever you call it in Australia. Oh, but that "Health professionals are reminded that, while Diane-35 has a contraceptive effect, it is not approved for that use in Australia." What? Since when? How? It say on the box hat's what it's for. Also I've been taking it for eight years, how has my doctor not told me about this before now? 

So presently I just want to give up and go immediately back to bed.
(Oh and I don't have my headphones or my phone charger so I am stuck in a silent, funless office and can't play my newly discovered Need for Speed: Most Wanted at lunchtime. Wah, wah, wah.)

* At least, it is true that it has been recalled for causing blood clots, whether or not these lead to death wasn't confirmed.
 
 
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'Ghan the wonder llama
01 February 2013 @ 04:03 pm

Look how many updates I've done this year! A whole... three! 

Things are happening, though, you guys. First of all, because it is the most exciting to me - After going borderline crazy and having hideous nightmares involving $100,000.00 perfect dresses, terrible bows, and ants on my bridesmaids, I have found a dress! It is... unique, and under budget! I was able to get a dress by a Perth designer (who ended up being the lady helping me with fittings - she didn't tell me until after I'd decided to buy the dress as she didn't want to influence me, which I thought was rather nice), and compared to many of the internationally designed off the rack dresses I tried in a similar price bracket, is made of really excellent materials - real silk, for one, which I thought would be prohibitively expensive.

Of course, I have no idea what I'm actually going to do with the dress when all is said and done, but that's a problem for the future. Probably I just have to worry about keeping Exo and Inca off've it.  And it won't be ready until July. I'm having it made-to-measure, which again, was not as expensive as at other stores, so I'm pretty chuffed. And any last minute alterations I need are included in that price, so yeah. Now to do every other thing. 

Oh, the store was Collezione Bridal Couture, in Perth. The dress isn't on their website, but there is a similar one. I'm not going to say which one that is, in case Gavin decides to read my livejournal for the first time in eight years, haha. 

S that' exciting.

And tomorrow is the Engagement Party! I'm still frantically trying to organise last-minute things, but I think it should all pan out pretty well. 

Wait, I can use all of my old Livejournal icons again? Excellent.

Work-wise, things are pretty good. I have an actual contract to read over and come back with how much I want to get paid annually, so that's a thing. Unforutnately I have no idea what other people with my experience are getting paid, and I'm not sure if it's politic to ask my uni friends. Seems a bit crass to just ask. I know what I'd like to get paid, but I don't know if it's reasonable or realistic. (The answer is "more than my brother" - who earns more than me moving boxes from one place to another. His hours are terrible and the work is physically hard, but still... I... I would like my five years and two degrees worth of university education to at least make me feel like I'm ahead in the world.) 

Unfortunately, all of this wedding and work stuff has been making me fall horribly behind on my side-project - trying my hand at Vlogging and blogging games-and-geek-culture-stuff at XXP. I have just been so exhausted and overworked lately I've just not been getting it done, which is really disappointing. I know it's something I could do really well if I just... prioritised it a bit higher. I should just try more! 

Anyway, tonight we're off to eat delicious, delicious Mexican and then I've got to try to finish our Save the Date card design, print them and... distribute them somehow at the Engagement party tomorrow. OH! The theme of the wedding is going to be Art Nouveau, because Gavin and I both love the hell out of that whole movement. Art Deco is also good, but Art Nouveau? I wish I could roll in it.

P.S I am trying SO HARD to rationalise an iPad. I just feel it would make everything easier. My laptop is getting kind of old. I really shouldn't though....

 
 
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'Ghan the wonder llama
03 January 2013 @ 04:15 pm
Wow, I've been doing this since 2004. Also wow: I've posted it on time (within the year it was about) once in that time. Hah. Also I forgot to do the meme in 2011, and then in 2012 I was hideously negligent at updating my journal at all. After re-reading my old entries (searching for all dem links!), I really wish I hadn't been so lazy. New years' resolution: at least weekly journal? Maybe? Come on, girl, you can do it. 

2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012(Oh wait that's this one!)Collapse )

I'd better actually finish off that drawing now. (I wrote most of this when I couldn't sleep last night, I'm not that much of a bad, seriously!)
 
 
'Ghan the wonder llama
08 November 2012 @ 11:29 am

Hello again, dear livejournal!
I'm so sorry for neglecting you so badly for so long, but it looks like I'll be in need of a blog to organise my thoughts again.
Becaauuuse

Gavin proposed! 

I'm quite glad he asked me to do my hair before we left now


We went on holiday to Exmouth and on our first full day there after a morning of snorkelling (when we saw literally every critter - I'll post some photos later), he took me up to the lighthouse (under the pretence of "whale watching"), got me to read a sign (I... I read all the signs on holidays and in general) and when I turned around he was down on bended knee, with a beautiful sparkling ring! 

He caught me completely by surprise, I didn't suspect a thing. (In hindsight, I probably should have noticed some things. Like him wearing his brand new awesome shirt when we were supposedly just going shopping in Exmouth... And the whole "You should dry your hair" "Why?" "You might... see people..." should have been suspicious) 

Sooo yeah. I am pretty happy. Totally clueless about weddings though, but I'm sure I'll pick it up as I go along. :) 
I'm starting to wish I'd been one of those girls who daydreamed about "the big day" all the time so I had an idea of where to start, but I'm sure we'll get there, and that's the main thing! 

Also, I was just reading my old LJ entries (because haha, you don't actually do work while you're at work, amirite?1) and wow, I have changed a lot since we first started going out. Reading those old entries isn't too painful, but I sure as hell wasn't as mature as I thought I was in all of my 17-year-old wisdom. 

1. I'm not a bad person, but my boss does owe me quite a lot of money at this point. Oh and my group certificate (the thing you do your tax return with, which was due in JUNE). Yes, I know I need to get a new job. I'm... working on it.

P.S Only 20 friends page entries? ERGH LIVEJOURNAL WHY DO YOU DO ALL THE BAD THINGS
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'Ghan the wonder llama
21 January 2012 @ 08:39 pm
Ok! So! I've been looking for a second cat since last year when I found that Maine Coon at the Cat Haven (but he was taken by someone else)... I don't remember if I posted it here! BUT ANYWAY.

I've been thinking about a second cat again more seriously for a long time , and decided on getting a Burmese because they are both smoochy, clingy cats, and beautiful!

I found one today, second breeder I visited. She's an 8 week old brown girl.

Unnamed Burmese Kitten :)
Unnamed Burmese Kitten :)

There were 3 other kittens left from her litter for me to choose from, all brown girls about the same size, so I went for this one because she was the friendliest with me. She also had the cleanest ears and eyes, and shiny fur, though they all looked excellent. One was really sleepy and didn't interact with me at all, the other was almost as friendly as this one but didn't have such a giant sports-car engine purr. Such a tiny thing, and her purr is already louder than Exo's!
I met her mum, and she was a total sweetheart, wouldn't get off Gavin's lap, and also purred and nuzzled like it was going out of fashion. Apparently her dad is just as sweet but we couldn't see him because he was studding or something apparently.

Charmaine, the breeder, said that she's already microchipped them, and she's sending the papers in to register them soon. I want to choose a name by Monday! (For her "official Show name") If she ends up not suiting these at all, I can always change her actual name.

This is my shortlist! It's only taken me like 6 hours to get it down this short, I'd appreciate votes for your favourite! Atm mine is Teak/ Tikki, but I love the others almost as much. (They are all trees/timbers, because she is brown :P)

Karri
Teak / Tikki
Sassafras / Sass / Sassy

YAY KITTY!
 
 
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'Ghan the wonder llama
05 January 2012 @ 11:43 pm
I brought a BUNCH of new Fish on Monday:

8 x Bosemani Rainbows (juvies)

4 x Blue Rams (Not German Blue Rams, just fantastic quality Blue Rams - German Blues are a particuarly good Man-Made Colour morph, mine are truer to Wild-Type)

4 x Corydoras julii

Yay!

Also I'm going under GA and the knife for the first time ever in 19 days, to get all four of my Wisdom teeth surgically extracted. I'm excited!
 
 
'Ghan the wonder llama
05 January 2012 @ 11:29 pm
I don't know. It's (possibly) a Gorillaz lyric.
So! Due to the shamozzle that has been the Livejournal comments thingy, I haven't felt like posting. There, at least. And then I remembered this place. A place with my proper username, no less. Bloodied_aura is all very well when you're 15 and full of Darke Mystique, of course, but when you're 24 and full of... sullen whimsy, well. Then you are in a right pickle, aren't you?
But I am reluctant to leave there. It has been such a very long time. So in all honesty, Dreamwidth, I like you, but I've had my livejournal for nearly ten years. Ten! I can write that number in an essay as actual digits and not look like a fool.

WE PRESS ON.

So, uni is done and dusted. All units passed, all work experience logged, thank you and goodnight. I've continued working with Ashley, my boss of the past year, an architect who works in South Perth (right near the Zoo!). I like it! Well. I like it as much as I expect one can ever really like working. Having to get up in the morning is ass. Yep. As you might have guessed, I am a night time person, and this excludes me from being much of a morning one.

But, in March I get to wear a square hat and doff it at the Vice Chancellor in exchange for a deliciously weighty piece of paper, and then throw it in the air while wearing wizard robes and partaking of the free champagne that the University will so generously provide for the evenings' festivities. And I have already begun the logbook path of True Architectdom. At the moment I'm a Graduate Architect and that title doesn't sit too well with me, so I'm going to try to get registered as soon as is possible (40,000 working hours is the minimum logbook time. D:).

What else? Gavin and I will have been going out for seven years (count 'em) on Monday. That's a thing. He's also flying off to Bali for a Buck's week on Monday morning, he is the Best Man and has all manner of surprisingly tasteful shenannigans planned. I hope they all have fun!

Er. I actually just want to go and play Skyrim so I guess I'm going to bail now, Dreamwidth/Livejournal. NO DOUBT I will get bored at work tomorrow and come back here, now that I feel like journalling again.

And I have that yearly meme to do, but it just wouldn't be right to not post that on my original Livejournal.

And to all of my Livejournal friends - I still read my friends list! Almost every night. :)
 
 
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'Ghan the wonder llama
27 November 2011 @ 11:41 pm
I just finished & handed in the last assignment of my Masters of Architecture.

Woow. Everything feels great.
 
 
'Ghan the wonder llama
03 November 2011 @ 02:08 am
I could've sworn I had used that subject line once before in the lead up to Folio, but I just looked through my EPIC archives and lo! She spaketh those words naught.

SO.
I just put a double-teaspoon of coffee in my Caféince (normal people would probably call it a Mocha) and obviously I cannot be held accountable for the resulting caffeine fall out.

SO, right. I feel a though I have managed to put my foot in it this time. I don't have nearly enough drawings finished. So, balls. Let's make a list, a horrifying, horrifying list that will probably make me die inside.

Oh fuck it. You know what, let's just have a race, you and me, Ghan. I'm going to draw some bulk drawings, and we'll see if I can make it out on the other side.

The most annoying thing about this is that my design was finished (First time everr!) WEEKS ago, and I sat on my hands doing nothing instead of working on this and making it truly baddical. (Badass + radical)

Sooooo... what am I doing here, you ask? Well a girl can't work constantly, you know.

Back to it, I guess? Yes. IT SHALL BE SO
 
 
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Current Music: Sinéad O'Connor Nothing Compares To You
 
 
'Ghan the wonder llama
25 October 2011 @ 11:35 pm
I'm pretty sure that's a line from a thing.

Helloo, much neglected and often missed (although you might not guess it from trying to follow my sporadic updates) journal!

I have come with news and things. Tales of adventure and so on. There is much to say, and as ever, I have chosen a time when I have no time to say it in to begin the telling.

So. It is a dark, windy night in October of 2011. Semester Two. My last semester at uni. If all goes to plan, and after seven years at my esteemed institution, I should bloody well hope it does. Last Friday, I handed in what is hopefully the last essay I will ever write for a while1. It was 7000 words long, 8500 when you include the footnotes (which for once were the anecdotal kind of footnotes, not only the boring reference kind), nearly ten thousand when you include the appendices of translated Ancient Egyptian terms that I compiled myself. Yes: my procrastination for this essay was to transliterate and translate hieroglyphs. BEST PROCRASTINATION EVER. Oh yes, the title: Conceptions of Time in Ancient Egypt. As you may have guessed, I had far too much fun writing it, and now that it is gone I miss it.

On the 4th of November, I will hand in my last ever Folio. It is going well, I think - I have been given the all-clear to stop designing and so have started on the final presentation. Unfortunately my ideas are pretty ambitious, so it may yet be another nightmare run. Hopefully my illustrious plans will result in something spectacular, rather than just roling around on the floor, bleeding and clutching the foot that I brazenly shot.

And Lo! Meghan has things to talk about outside of uni!
Gavin & I became Perth Wildcats Season Members, so we are going to every home game this season. It's so much fun. Also good: the Wildcats are the reigning premiers, and have won every game so far this season. Yeeah!

Yesterday, Jack became the best brother ever when he gave me my belated birthday present - a Kindle Keyboard 3G. He visited my house and gave it to me on Monday! A thoughtful and wonderful gift that caught me completely by surprise. I had been wanting a Kindle for ages but couldn't really afford/justify buying one, and now I don't have to! JOY!

All that said, I really must return to being boring and doing folio. Hope you are all well, LJ chums - I do still read, I just seldom comment (or update... but I predict that will change in the lead up to Folio, at least.)

1 Until I cave in to my thirst for knowledge and return to finish my Bachelor of Arts...

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