New surname tattoo fonts

I might be stumbling across a new font for my surname tattoo. After discovering the happiness quote one and how great that looked, I wasn't happy with the one I had chosen for my surname. Now I have more options. I love how the 'A Little Pot' font [all from www.dafont.com by the way] looks kind of childish. This one is my favourite so far and might be the overall winner! Eeek! I want to show Holly first and see what she thinks. She can always see things I can't and gives me great advice.

A Little Pot

Dali

Hand of Sean

Kingthings Wrote

Making the Cut

I'm looking forward to starting Jillian Michaels program. Before that I'm going to have to sort out all the recipes and adjust the 30 day meal plan that's in the book as I don't like a lot of food normal people do. Nuts and red meat are two examples of this. It'll be a nice distraction from all the boredom. I'm also going to do daily blog updates about it and take a before and after pictures, as is suggested in the book, and document it completely. I'm excited about it.

Bored yet again

Once again I'm bored. Summer School hasn't really started, assignment and reading wise, so I don't have much to do there except wait for Monday to roll around to go to classes again. Monday will be great. Tuesday I have the Maritime again, as per usual, and I'll probably be checking artefact boxes and making sure all the items in the boxes are in the system. I love museum involvement.

If I had my ideal guy, I wouldn't be so bored. We would do things together often. That's what I miss. I miss having a best friend to hang out with always. That's why I'm so bored. I don't see my friends enough because they're all busy and I don't have enough other things to occupy my mind with. I could start work for Fronting MONA. I should type up my notes and put them into sections, like things to do with the assignments. That would be a good place to start.

It's raining. I need to shower then get ready for work, maybe have a snack despite snacking all day, then watch more Gilmore Girls before heading to Big W then to work. Got to get my act together.

Posters I want to get

Some kind of --

Koi Fish and Water Lily -- $18.45 size small

http://www.zazzle.com.au/koi_fish_and_water_lily_print-228410963717873592

Great Wave off Kanagawa -- $27.70 size small

http://www.zazzle.com.au/great_wave_off_kanagawa_poster-228691481832170073

Chat Noir -- $19

http://www.bluedogposters.com.au/shopexd.asp?id=3838

UAC / USYD update

I contacted the University of Sydney [USYD] today via their Facebook page as that's where the original update about offer notifications came from and I got some answers about offers. Apparently UAC [Universities Admission Centre] sends out email notifications and there have been reports of emails being found in junk mail folders. I haven't received anything as yet but the person writing back to my said in so many words to keep checking because due to the high number of applicants, it can take up to a week to notify all the successful ones. Who knew. I started the conversation because I had tried to call the help line but apparently it's having some technical difficulties, which might be fixed by now. I guess I have to keep checking my email and see what happens over the next week/few days. Sigh.

5 things to do by the time I turn 25 -- A post inspired by Katie Kukulka

5 things to do before I turn 25.

1. Get on my career path.

I am so glad I have finally figured out what I want to do, and that is to be a museum curator. It makes sense as throughout high school I really loved watching shows on mummies and tombs and ancient civilisations. In SOSE I loved the history but I never really though about doing anything related to that at Uni. Sometimes I wish I had figured it out earlier [to tell the truth I didn't figure it out, I went to a career counselor at Uni and he suggested it when I mentioned I was interested in anthropology and archaeology], done a more relevant degree, but I am where I am and it's too late to start heading in this direction. It's going to be a fascinating journey. I have already started volunteering at the Maritime Museum, have been accepted to Deakin, am waiting to hear back from Sydney, and once I know where I'm heading I'll volunteer more and stick my head into the text books. The Spring/Summer school unit I'm doing at the Art School is super relevant and will give me even more experience. Once I have a diploma in museum studies I'll be able to apply for jobs, work in the field, then do my masters part time. I want to travel the world and work in museums, do some archaeology volunteering perhaps, and work in a field I love. I hate waiting to find out whether or not I'll be accepted to Sydney as I can't make plans as to where I'll move to but knowing what I want to do is great and I'm already on the path. I just want to start the diploma and truly be on the path.

2. Get into shape.

After years of wishing I was thin and confident enough to wear jeans with no skirt over the top or bathers with no board shorts, now is the time to kick myself into shape. I am going to religiously follow Jillian Michaels' Making the Cut next year when I'm in my own home and can have no distractions like other foods and can use the whole kitchen worry-free unlike at my parents' house. I want to be able to focus solely on this quest and make it last longer than the 30 days so I can keep my newly rocking body. When I'm in my new home, I want to rent a treadmill and use it everyday. I want to take with my my exercise DVDs and not just look at them while feeling guilty. I want to feel confident in my own skin and realise I have the best body I'll ever have. I want to be in the best shape of my life and stay that way.

3. Get organised.

This is something I have always craved but never quite mastered. It can come and go in waves when inspiration hits but I want it to stick. At work I'm organised but at home I'm lazy, I'm messy, I feel guilty and do nothing about it. I want to keep my clothes and whole house tidy and organised. I want to keep to a cooking and grocery shopping menu/list. I want to have an exercise regime and, one again, stick to it. I want to be super organisational girl, like a superhero. I want to stop the laziness, have my to-do lists going, and get things done. I want to be busy with Uni and volunteering and work that I will have to keep on top of things. I don't want to slip with this. It's important to me and I will succeed!

4. Have my own home [rented but mine].

I can't wait till I move out of my parents' [still shocked I'm here at age 24 but it happens] and have my own home, to set it up just how I like over time and get into the best habits of my young life. I want to come home and be so proud of myself, how adult I will have become, so independent, and of that fact that I'll be living my own life. I can't wait to get handed a set of keys and realise that I did this. It will be a great day.

5. Find my one true love.

Around the age of 25, I hope I will have found my one true love but it's things like this that you can't plan. I just hope it doesn't take years to find him because I don't want to be too young before we start having a family. I want to be in love. I want to share my life with someone and have them share theirs with me. I want to be on the same level with him and be in a partnership, not a one-sided battle for involvement. I want to feel secure and blessed that I have found the perfect match for me. I want to plan holidays and the future with him and feel fulfilled. I can't wait for love.

So they are the major things I want to achieve before or around the age of 25. Thank you Katie for for inspiring this post and getting me thinking about what I want to achieve. I need to kick myself into gear!

Trip to Melbourne

Things to do while I'm in Melbourne from the 15th to 17th of December --

+ Get a bus to Deakin and check out the campus. Possibly enroll;

+ Visit the Chinese Museum of Melbourne;

+ Visit the Melbourne Museum;
+ Hang out with Amy and Carly.

+ Stay at the back packers' Jessi and I stayed at when we went over for the anime convention;

+ Go to the movies or the aquarium if I'm bored.

It won't be so bad. Expectations will be lower at Deakin. Something to keep in mind...

Off for dinner.

A minor set back

Mum and I had a chat about options for if I don't get accepted to Sydney --

1. Stay in Hobart and do the diploma via distance education at Deakin, volunteer in both museums here, then have qualifications to either work in Melbourne or Sydney and undertake the masters part time.

2. Move to Melbourne and do the diploma, volunteer in some of the many museums over there, then apply for jobs in Sydney and undertake the masters part time once the diploma is done.

Tomorrow I'll call the help line and try and get more information, like when I'd find out if I weren't getting an offer from Sydney, or if I can get special consideration because I don't even live in the state and I want to make plans, those sorts of questions. Melbourne wouldn't be so bad. It's a means to an end as mum said. I'll be able to get work out of it, even though I would much prefer the Sydney course, but the main goal is getting work in this field and not wasting another year. I'll take what I can get.

Sad face

I'm quite disappointed. I didn't get any more news about getting into Sydney and when I, amongst others, wrote on the Facebook message I blogged about yesterday, they wrote back --

Apologies for the confusion. Today is the announcement of first round offers for applicants who have applied to undertake postgraduate study within the Arts of Health Sciences faculties. Second round offers will be made in mid-January and third/final round offers will be made in early February. We hope this clears things up.

It clears things up but it doesn't make me any happier. I'm sad. I let some tears go and I'm a bit deflated. I was hoping to be able to start making plans, even though in the back of my mind I always knew I wouldn't get first round offers. They probably don't want me at all. I messaged mum and she said we'll talk about options when she gets home. All I can do is wait really, but I want to make plans, I want to know whether or not I should enroll for Deakin because if I don't then I might miss out on that opportunity. Should I apply for other Uni's? I'm hating this!