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.

More Sydney planning

I've been doing more planning for Sydney this morning. The backpacker's I'm staying at is so close to the city and to Darling Harbour [a 2 minute walk] so I won't have to take much public transport apart from a bus to the Uni. I have the routes figured out for that and where to catch the bus so it is all sorted. I've never been this organised for a trip before. When going to NZ and Vanuatu with Yorick, he did most of the planning. He suggested places to go and I would have agreed or disagreed but this trip is all me. I'm never this organised in my own life. At work I'm organised but not personally. I like it. I need to be more organised and I know that once I have my own house, whether it's renting in Sydney or even if/when I'm in the dorms I'll be more organised and neat. I want to be.

My long list of activities will cover 2 days. There are city area activities and Darling Harbour activities but I still haven't decided on what day to cover which area, especially since I have just found out that the back packers is only a 2 minute walk to Darling Harbour. I thought I'd have to make a special trip out there but it looks like I won't. It's not too far. On my walk with mum yesterday we mentioned walking boots and sales in stores at this time of year. When I go to town today I might check it out so I can take my new hiking/walking boots to Sydney with me. I'll be doing a lot of walking around the city and Darling Harbour and ugg boots probably won't cut it.

I found an online website that sells tickets for a combined Sydney Aquarium and Sydney Wildlife World pass for $48.95. I might leave booking that for when I'm there, just in case I don't get enough time to cover everything. Those two places would take at least an hour each and I already have many activities planned. I get there at lunch time on the Friday so I will have half a day for activities. Saturday is reserved for the Uni Open Day [plus there are some markets near that I might be able to go to] until 4pm and Sunday is wide open. I'll have to get up really early on Sunday to fit everything in. I'll have to take a book or two to read while I'm over there for evenings. I won't be staying up too late. I might fit in a movie or something to pass the evening time.

I love that I've been planning this so well. It's one of those things I say I'll do but won't really do it and for this trip it's the opposite. I'm so happy about it and proud of my efforts. There is so much to do it needed to be done. I'm still working on it and might even go as far as to plan the order of the activities I do relating to where they are on the map instead of walking back and forwards. I must get those boots.

Yorick rant and tattoo news

I'm pissed off that Yorick didn't invite me to his party the night after Maddy's party. I wouldn't have gone in a million years but it has offended me that he didn't ask, even just to be polite. That would have been nice. I know he didn't because we're not together anymore but he still should have invited me. It's the polite thing to do. Yorick rant over.

I'm going to see Eclipse tonight with Jessi and her friend Amy. I can't wait! It'll be awesome. I have to get more button supplies first and also want to go for a walk. I haven't been to the gym this week but will try to get to a class on Monday and Tuesday. It's just so far away, and when I am in town I don't feel like getting all sweaty. It has been nice going with walks with mum and dad [separately] and I might go by myself today and listen to some music. Dad and I did this different walk. We drove further up the road and walked up where the 4 wheel drivers drive and it had a nice view, a bit obscured but nice. It was a lot steeper, muddier and rockier than the regular walk but nice for a change. I'll have to do it again one day. I'll go for a walk for 45 minutes or something, shower, watch the end of Hung that I recorded, maybe the first of 7 episodes of Little Dorrit that was also recorded, then I can head to town for button supplies then to the Glenorchy movies for a bit before 6pm. I hope there's enough time.

In tattoo news, I printed out the samples I have and found the perfect size, length and width that I like. I have it in a font I found on the internet at Da Font but want to try out the other fonts in the same measurements so see which one is perfect. I want to give blood a few more times before I get this tattoo [which gives me even more time to get used to it] because once you get a new tattoo you have to wait a year before giving blood in case there was an infection. Also, I'm going to be in the UK for a while and they might not let me give blood once I've been somewhere for more than 6 weeks or something. I have a rare blood type too [AB+] so I want to give as much as I can before I possibly can't anymore. It's nice getting my tattoo prepared though. I also kind of want another one, a cool cartoon picture like Kurt Halsey or Tamaxxx, but not so gruesome as Tamaxxx. I like her style but it's a bit too cut-off=their-heads for me. I'll find something eventually but I don't know where to look. I should get on the road.