The new me

So this is my new hair do. It's very short at the back and I love the cute longer bits on the sides. I really like this hair cut. I don't have to do much to it. My showering/hair-styling routine has changed a little but not so much to make it an inconvenience. Actually, it feels better! I feel like I don't have to do much to it and I don't. It's light and always looks nice. I don't have a useless pony tail that always looked funny. I'm glad I cut my hair.

I turn 24 in a week. I can't believe how fast it crept up! I realised a few weeks ago that my birthday was coming up but now it's almost here and it just seems so quick. I'm excited though. My next birthday year and 2011 will be great. I will finally be rid of the years spent with Yorick and I can start afresh. I'm a bit scared of being 24 though. Getting older is scary but I also enjoy it. I think for my birthday we'll have a family dinner at home and have home-made pizza's. I might go for a nice walk or to a cute cafe and treat myself. I always like to do something like that, something just for me, something special on my birthday. Mum's having friends over that day so I'll stick around for that then go off for a bit and come home for dinner. Mud cake! I'm hoping for some gift vouchers to The Picture Gallery, a lovely store in Hobart that sells beautiful framed pictures. I always walk past it and wish for many of them. I think my sister will get me one and I'll be getting some new ugg boots from mum and dad. I'll go track them down early next week and let mum know where to get them from.

I've been looking into Melbourne and Deakin University for museum studies courses. They have the Graduate Certificate and Diploma's there but only have the Masters in Cultural Heritage, which wouldn't be so bad. I'm applying at the moment. It'll be an alright substitute for Sydney. I might even be able to share a house with Holly and Ruben. Carly and Amy are there and I would love to see them more but it's not my own adventure. It's not my fresh start. It won't be about me being independent and only relying on myself to get things done. That's part of the reason for Sydney. Plus they have a better Uni and better course. Time will tell.

A lovely sales assistant in Ruby's Room loved my new hair cut when I went in there last Wednesday and she said I should accessorise with earrings! I really want to get these heart earrings up and running. I think they will be great. I can always put them back to being necklaces and wear 3 at once. Haha. Maybe not. I love that I've finally gotten them though. I went in and got one, then went back half an hour later for the second two. There were four there but one had gone so I was lucky to get the second two. I'm glad I did. I also got a little birthday present for Emma, which I will give her tomorrow night. I need Onba. Cosmopolitans and Emma and Cool Thai make it all better.

I've bought the Union Jack bed spread for next year. I also have some armwarmers and legwarmers on the way. I love pay day.

Wednesday Wishes

Today an old wish has come true. For years now I have seen people around Hobart with these lovely carved wooden heart necklaces painted red and yesterday Holly said she found some for sale. Today I went and bought 3 with the hope of making 2 into earrings. I have already purchased earring parts but now I just need a connector. I am so happy!

Home again home again

So, I have returned to Margate as of last night. I really enjoyed my time away but I'm glad I'm back with all my things and not living out of a suit case. I didn't really as I had all my things strewn about on their 6 The State Cinema chairs. At any rate it's nice to be home.

I went for an hour long walk today with Katie. I called her Jez at one stage. I thought a lot about next year, about being 24 [almost!], and the fact that after next year I don't want to live at home anymore. This will be the last time I'll be living at home. It's not that I don't like it, but I'm too old to be living here and want to start afresh in a new place. I did a little looking at rental properties on www.rent.com.au and there were a few for Glebe, Newtown and other surrounding areas. $250 a week might be a bit much so hopefully there is something just as nice a little further away from the city and the Uni. I'll possibly be able to still walk to Uni or easily enough catch a bus. I want to be in the middle of a suburb though. Not on the main road as some of the results from the website produced. I'll find somewhere great somehow...

I'm going to get some new black arm warmers and some black legwarmers off eBay tomorrow. I want to wear the leg warmers with my new "pumps," the colourful shoes I got in Sydney on the second trip. They're black with hot pink and green on them but need the leg warmers to make my legs look better when wearing them with stockings. I'm glad I'll finally be able to wear them more in the next few weeks. I must also get the Union Jack bed spread in the next few weeks, as long as it's still available.

Christmas is creeping up. Last year I made the mistake of getting all my presents for others too late and was broke until late January. It sucked! I had to borrow money, which I always hate, and it took me so long to recover from it. I'll try and spread my present-buying over the next few months until Christmas actually arrives. I have no idea what to get anyone but I'll just have a wander around the shops and see what I can find.

I really like my hair short, and everyone at work also thinks it suits me. Two people have said it makes my eyes stand out, which is nice, and it's such low maintanence, apart from the initial washing and styling. I'm so glad I did it, and so glad that I went to Imola. They are the best. It's funny that my hairdresser, Jess, was in my sister's grade in high school and lived near by us. Blast from the past! I still need to take a picture and I will ... eventually ...

A few Sundays ago, 2 I think, I went over to Holly's for the afternoon and we took a trip to the market in the Masonic Temple on Sandy Bay Road and I saw there some of the carved red heart necklaces that I have always wanted. Today, Holly messaged me saying she has found some to buy. I had asked the lady who's stall they were at where to buy them and she said the guy wasn't making them much anymore and that it would be best to seek him out and ask for one but if they're in a shop this is much better and easier. I'll head into town tomorrow and go grab a few. One for a necklace, one for a bracelet, and maybe even 2 to make into earrings! They are $15 each so I shouldn't go overboard. I'm so happy though.

This afternoon I'm meeting Sophie at Blackman's Bay beach near my work and we'll go for a stroll then get some dinner somewhere, probably at work. Then I start work at 6pm. I'm not sure if we'll go there for a meal but we may as well as it's so close. We could go to Kingston and get something. We'll decide when we meet. I wonder how she is. I shall soon find out.

If I get called in for Wednesday evening I'll have worked every day there this week! Madness! I'm definitely looking forward to the money. I want to put most of it away and yet still have enough in my pocket/bank to let me buy a few things, like the necklaces and other bits and pieces. I'll be hanging with Emma on Thursday night so I'll need a bit of money for that. I'll try to put away $200 if I can. It depends on how much I earned! I can't wait to see that bank balance though.

I should go and get ready for tonight though. I haven't even showered and I have to leave soon. Yikes! Time has slipped away.