Family chats and no room

I just had a lovely chat to my family. Once again they were all at Margate having dinner sadly without me. I'd love to be there right now just for the evening. Once again I wish I could disaparate there and back [Harry Potter] but alas I cannot.

Today I was at the Mission moving all the boxes from the Archive room upstairs to what I believe will be our new room. It's much bigger and we're getting filing cabinets tomorrow so I'll head there between 10 an 11 to help out. After that I'll head to Uni and hand in my first assignment! I can't wait for that. One down, plenty more to go.

I went and saw a room this afternoon, very spur of the moment, but it had been taken just before I got there. It wasn't what I was looking for anyway but the woman drove me back to Kirsten's which was nice. The place had 9 rooms. Enough said. It was like one of those Girl Guide camps, very dormitory. Not my scene. Anyway, tomorrow after I get back from Uni I'll head to Lygon Street and check out the noticeboard I've heard about for room ads. Hopefully there will be a winner for me amongst them. Time will tell.

I'm consumed by house and money issues at the moment so I'm a bit boring. I can't wait to get settled and start unpacking and decorating. I hope I get something by next week. I really hope the one on Monday night is the one. Who knows. I'll apply for a few more places and see what happens. I do also need to go on a job hunt. Arrg.

I have just had a look at more houses. I might see if I can get appointments set up. I need my own room!!

Hangs with Holly and Monika and packing and moving!

I met up with Holly today and we had a cup of tea at Fullers book shop in the Afterword Cafe. It was really nice catching up. Adult. As it turns out she'll be flying to Melbourne on the same day and same flight I am for a job interview! So we'll meet there and catch the Sky Bus in and get some food. We talked about my plans for the first few days there and she helped me set a goal to get a house/place first then let everything else happen, like sorting out some volunteer positions and a job. I hope I can find somewhere great within the first week so I don't have to stay at the Backpacker's too long. Please!

After meeting Holly I went next door to visit my old friend Monika. We sat outside and had a cup of tea overlooking Mt Wellington. It's such a great view and you can see so much more from there than our place, which is 100m away maybe, because our block has so many trees. It's still a lovely place though and I do dearly love it. It's just nice seeing a different view. I am so excited about moving to Melbourne and getting on with my life. It all changes permanently on Thursday! Yay! I can't wait to get a place and be settled. That in between period scares me a bit but hopefully it won't last too long. I can't wait to start class! Eep.

Tonight we're down at the Longs for dinner. Daddy's just having a shower and we'll head off. Tomorrow at 11 Sarah and I are going to visit Nan and Pa, then we'll grab some lunch then come home and I'll do more packing. Maybe she can help me with that. Then it's dinner with James, George and Etta. I can't wait to see Etta's first tooth. What a milestone! Eeeep again. I can't wait to get my stuff sorted. I always leave this stuff until the last minute, like assignments, but I just have to get it done. I'm more productive then I believe. I just don't know what to do with all the other stuff I won't take with me. Clean/tidy it up? I don't know. I'll be back every so often and can sort stuff out then. I'll probably take more things with me. Who knows until I get there and settled. I've packed boxes of things I'll definitely want like towels/tea-towels, Uni books, kitchen stuff, clothes and DVDs/books, so they can be sent over once I'm settled but everything else? No idea. I'll just do what I can.

Right! Off to dinner now. Yum, I'm rather hungry.

Things to do before I move to Melbourne on Thursday

I have a lot to do before Thursday. Thursday doesn't count as a day I can do anything though because it's the day I leave Hobart! It's taken me a while but I'll get there. I need to call or visit my Grandparents and finish packing and organising boxes of stuff for my parents to send me. I have to take the dog for a walk tomorrow and Wednesday. I am seeing Holly at 3 tomorrow and hopefully Andi before that. Then it's to the Long's [the neighbours] for dinner. Wednesday I'm meeting sister at 1 in town for lunch and a wander, then it's home. That night is a pizza dinner with everyone but mum as she's away. Hopefully I can fit it all in. I'm most worried about the packing I think and the amount of time that takes up. It might be hard to fit anything else in. As long as Andi can work around my schedule! Time has suddenly run out. I also need to organise houses to view once I get to Melbourne. It might pay to schedule some earlier but then again it may not. I'd feel better doing it though. They might get snapped up before I even get there but they may not. We'll see. I think that's about it. I'll just have to get up earlier and focus on packing and utilise the time I have. It can be done!

Tonight I went and had Cool Thai with Emma and we hung at her place for a bit. I love our Cool Thai dates. They're awesome. Then I went to Jessi's and we chatted lots. It was really nice. Then I got home and had chats with dad. We're both quiet so it's nice when we have chats. They're uncommon but that makes them special. I usually talk to mum about everything and I know they know what the other knows. Hmm.

I can't wait to get settled in Melbourne. I don't like this in-between period but it has to happen unfortunately. I'll be quite busy though so that's comforting. I just hope I find a place soon/straight away so I don't have to spend more money in the back packers and so I can be settled before Uni officially starts on the 7th. Plenty of time, right? I hope so.

Stream of consciousness

I haven't been updating as I normally do since writing in Twitter. Because I've written what I'm thinking/obsessing about in some form, I forget to do it in this form. Sarah and I saw No Strings Attached at the movies on Wednesday night. We had popcorn and frozen cokes and I had a vanilla ice cream. We were so stuffed. I had already had a lovely dinner out on the deck with mum and dad. They had bbq meat and I had bbq'd salmon and we had a nice salad. It was a nice, warm day on Wednesday. On Monday we did the same, having lunch out on the deck. It's these things that I forget to write. It was nice hanging out with them. I have also been re-reading Twilight and I love it. I want someone to ask me a million questions about myself and for me to do the same with them. That's what I love about their relationship. Amongst other things of course. I wish I could be in their world, or at least replaying it all over in my mind the way I see it, and the way it was written down. The movie has its good parts, like showing me how they run really fast and those types of scenes, but the little things aren't in there and that's a shame. I like the movie and the book in my head better. Today and yesterday the day was overcast and colder. Last night we had a family dinner and Etta was as cute as ever. Wednesday night next week, minus mum, we'll have a pizza night for my second going away do. Mum goes to Kuala Lumpur this Saturday for a week so she won't be here to say bye to me but I'll see her this afternoon and tomorrow morning before she goes. I'm out with Sophie tonight, which I kind of feel guilty about regarding mum, but it's not as if we won't see each other again. We shall, only in Melbourne! I am really looking forward to getting on with things and starting my life. Enough of this limbo. I'm over it. I really hope Emma moves with me so we can get our own cute house and I can eat healthily and exercise regularly. Ooh I hope. There is so much volunteering to do and Uni to do. I'm excited to get started. I could go and take Katie for a walk but I can't really be bothered and mum hasn't specified for me to or not. I will tomorrow for sure and Sunday and Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday but dad will have to Thursday and Friday as he'll be here alone. Even though there is heaps of time before I have to leave to go to Medicare then to Sophie's for 5pm I feel pressured by the possibility of walking Katie. I should do mum that favour. Hmm. More episodes for now though.

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I love my niece Etta so much, she makes me want to have a baby now. James and George and Etta came over for dinner tonight with mum's friend Christine from Launceston and it was so lovely seeing a happy, awake, and alert Etta. She's getting more and more like that. She's 4 months old! How time has flown by. I can't wait to start a family.

Speaking about starting things, I started a Spring/Summer unit at the Centre for Arts, aka Art School or Fine Arts part of the Uni, and it's to do with MONA, a new private museum [to be the largest in Australia] started by David Walsh. We have 6 weeks of 1h lectures and 1h tutorials then in January we go to the MONA [Museum of Old and New Art] site out at Moorilla for 5 days from 930-330 and do some intensive learning. It'll be fantastic! I'm loving being back at Uni even though the studying hasn't quite started yet. I won't be hugely bored this Summer! I'm pleased about that. And it's extremely relevant to my future studies. There is a chance of employment through this course but it's to be someone who mediates between the art and the viewer. It's not curating or anywhere near it but it'll be great to see that side of things and it might be a necessary stepping stone to one day being a curator or assistant curator. I'm very, very excited about it.

I'm going to get another Threadless tee! And as I told Holly when I saw her last week, I keep thinking of things in terms of tattoo's so this is a possibility. I think this addition to my collection makes 17 as I bought two the other day. I'm not sure why the name doesn't have a capitol and from my position it doesn't say anything about the design [art should speak for itself though and it does. Rona and I discussed this today at the Maritime] but it's not about the title it's about the beautiful work itself. And I truly love it.

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As I mentioned above, I went to the Maritime today. I felt like I was really doing something important. I was helping with a quest to find any evidence [through Hobart Regatta silk winning lists] that a particular carved whale bone and the family involved is linked to Tasmania. It is the hopes of the people asking for it to be brought to the Maritime and put on display, otherwise it'll stay in the USA, where is currently resides. I'll be continuing on with that next week! I'm pleased.

I have to pay my car rego tomorrow. I'm sad. I don't want to part with any more of the money I've been saving. Luckily I get paid tomorrow and this week I'm doing 5 shifts so it won't seem like too much has gone. It does make me sad watching it going down. It is, fingers crossed, the last time I'll have to do it for a few years and I'll, also fingers crossed, get some of this "investment" back once I sell it before heading off to Sydney or Melbourne.

For now it's off the computer and to bed! Some Gilmore Girls before sleep is inevitable and hopefully I won't wake up too early with the sun in the morning so I can feel rested instead of tired. That would be nice.

Christmas presents

This year I'm starting early for Christmas presents. Last year I started too late and spent all my savings and by the New Year I was broke and sad. I'm not going to make that mistake again!

I have just found Georgie's Christmas and birthday presents on-line. The SARK posters were hard to track down in the beginning but today I just did a Google search and there they were. I'm getting 2 for George, and 2 for me. Her birthday is in early December so I'll give her one then and one for Christmas. She got me a SARK book for my birthday or for Christmas one year and they are fabulous. She has one poster but I think she, and I, need more. They are a great find and have wonderful messages. I'm going to get some more of her books too. I was thinking of getting G a book as well as the poster but it all depends on the price range. $50 is the limit this year for Christmas presents so I'll stick to that. I don't want to be poor.

I know what I'm getting my brother. I know what I'm getting my sister for her birthday but not for Christmas. Mum will want some books and I might get dad a vegetable garden book from the ABC shop. He usually puts up good lists for us to go off.

Anyway, I'm off to volunteer at the Maritime again. Then hopefully it's just straight home for a Margate dinner, unless I'm needed at work. Dom cut his hand badly last night so it depends on him. So yes, heading out the door now!

Yesterday

Last night I went to dinner at Margate with Sarah. I always enjoy having dinner at my childhood home and the food is always great. We had roast chicken with baked potato/pumpkin/carrot, broccoli and the others had corn on the cob. I like corn fine enough but I’m happy to pass on it. After that I continued the puzzle I started the week before. When Sarah briefly moved home she started this really annoying puzzle and it took us ages to finish but it got me in the mood for more puzzles. I have always been a fan.

Our internet isn’t working and it’s really annoying me. I love checking Facebook and playing my games. I shouldn’t play them as much as I do though as it is a waste of time. I enjoy them though. It’s just the same as playing games on other consoles! Arr.

I think about tattoo’s a fair bit and recently I’ve been thinking about a character from the manga +Anima. She’s a minor character but I love how she’s drawn. She has feathers for hair and lovely angel wings. I think she would be great. Then again, when I think of tattoo’s I think about how they are permanent and I’m not sure I’m okay with that.

Sarah and I are going to see Dear John at the movies on Sunday night. It’s not on for much longer here so we had to get in quick. I’ll try and get some cheaper tickets either from the Uni or from RACT. A few dollars makes a lot of difference to me still.

Even though I’m getting Centrelink, my money is mostly still accounted for. I have $170 to pay to mum with a little extra for all the groceries she got me but she said last night that it can wait until I’m back to normal.