The first time we went to the gold coast to play on the beach it was rainy. It was so lame. It was warm and sunny for 2 months straight and the one day we plan to go and do something outside, it rains! And of course it was clear after that! We went anyways but it was mostly sitting around and playing in the tide. It did not last very long. It was very pretty though.

Then we planned on going back last weekend. And it rained. Again. But not only did it rain, Mike and I were sick! I got sick that morning. It was awful! The rain went and it turned out to be a perfect beach day but we were both inside sick.

We tried again this week. We were both a bit under the weather still but I WANTED TO GO TO THE BEACH!!!! so we went. It was gorgeous out so the beach was super crowded but luckily we found a parking spot and a spot on the beach. After getting all sunscreened we sunbathed for a bit then played in the ocean. Afterwards, we dried in the sun and repeated. It was SO much fun! I absolutely love the gold coast! It was also nice. I am normally self-conscious of myself so it was awesome not caring how I looked in my swimsuit. I didn't look bad, just not perfect (NEVER going to have fabulous legs!) but it was too nice of a day to care. :D

Once the sun went down it got cold because it was a super breezy day. We were going to wait until sunset to leave but left maybe an hour before. We will try again on a left windy day. :) We got there in the mid-afternoon so missed the major crowds. Maybe next time we'll get there even later. :)

Overall, awesome day. :D

I hope I made them small enough it doesn't slow computers down. I couldn't get the LJ-Cut thing to work!

-Mike was a devil and I was a school girl. We made costumes out of things we already had so we didn't have to buy anything. :P it was fun though, looking in closets and assembling costumes from things we already had. Plaid skirt=WIN!

 
-Halloween pumpkins were really expensive here. The asking price for a small sugar pumpkins (the ones that are $1-$2 in the US) was $25! I wanted to see if other places had them cheaper but they didn't have pumpkins at all! So I went to look at the expensive pumpkin later in the week and found out they were all sold out! So instead I got a honey-dew melon and made that into a jack-o-lantern. He turned out pretty awesome. :D


-Mike and I made crepe paper ghosts and decorated his mail box with them! And around midnight, just after cleaning things up and settling in, it started to pour! When we went out the next day to clean up crepe paper, all the orange paper washed out and was white! And the yard was littered in ghosts that blew away.

-The ducks enjoyed eating the melon seeds. :D


-We made a very UNHalloween dinner of corned-beef and cabbage. Festive, but wrong kind of festive. :P

-When making caramel apples I forgot to get skewers. I wanted to do it authentically because Mike has never made them. So instead of just dipping apples in caramel, I used double pointed knitting needles. They worked perfectly. :D


-And we got a trick or treater!! Mike didn't think anyone would come since we are in a sort of rural area that isn't easy to walk along looking for places giving out candy--if the house isn't decorated people don't go knocking since Halloween isn't really celebrated here. But I insisted so we set up a table beside the rode (couldn't let people in past the gates, dogs would eat them!) and left a note saying Happy Halloween and to just take 1 candy (we didn't get a lot, they don't sell bags of candy! :( ), and decorated it with the jack-o-lantern and crepe paper. And someone came!! I was so excited! :D But I feel bad. I should have said they could have 2 or 3. Now I have extra. Dang! :P


-We watched Shaun of the Dead. Wow that movie is crazy-whacked. :O :P

I was really excited about it the weeks before. But SOOOO nervous the day we were going. I was signing the waver saying the horse place wasn't at fault if I die and suddenly I am thinking AHHH!!!! I DON'T WANT TO GO!!! But Mike already paid for our trip and I don't think they would give a refund for a breakdown. So they started matching us to horses. I completely shamelessly admitted I was nervous and freaking out so they gave me a gentle horse with auto-pilot. It didn't always work though. Mike's horse didn't like my horse (Fred!) so when we lines up mine didn't want to stand next to his and Fred wandered to the side a bit eating grass. I was worried BECAUSE I NEVER DROVE A HORSE BEFORE and since he is auto-pilot horse, didn't respond what I was trained to do. But once we started our walk, Fred got into line line a good horsey and we were off. I was a little annoyed I didn't bring my camera since there were awesome scenes and baby cows! But then our guide wanted us to learn to trot and trotting would have killed my camera. I have no idea how the people who brought cameras managed! I did NOT like trotting. But since I had an auto-pilot horse, if the guide trotted, I trotted. It helped that Mike's horse did NOT want to trot and he was ahead of me so if he slowed down, my horse slowed down.

There was a part of the trail where the guide veered from the course and Fred did not like it. Since he was an auto-pilot horse, he stuck to the path and did what he was trained to do, but didn't respond to my stopping him and turning. The guide had to come help me get Fred back in line. At least Fred was moving slow. I think he wanted grass to eat. He was so cute drinking from the creek, even though it did cause some horsey traffic jams.

The guide was a girl about 20 and spent the whole ride hitting on Mike. It was really cute. Especially since Mike was completely oblivious to it!

By the end I was so ready to stop. Of course we ended up trotting again! My back was so sore from it! And my legs are still sore, 4 days later! I still wasn't completely non-nervous in the end. If/when I go again, totally saying I am a pansy again! Oh and I refused to get off my horse before Mike could get his camera and take a picture of me on my horse. I didn't go through all that to have no photographic evidence! :P

But overall it was fun! When we finished they gave us tea and bread (they called it damper. wth?). I smothered it in jam and had way too much. I love bread. But I totally earned it. And horseys are so fuzzy. :)

Oh and I sang the My Little Pony theme song to my horsey. And the Kookaburra song. I thought he could use some music while he worked. :)

Right as I am stepping into the shower last night the power went off. After some major OMPZ!!! I tried to get dressed best I could in the dark and made Mike get out a bunch of candles. Spent a good amount of time lighting them and in other circumstances could have been romantic and fun. But I do NOT like power-outages and the dark so I was all spazzy. It came back on just as I was snuggling in bed to go to sleep. I had a bit of a freak out over not being connected to the interwebs and went online see what I missed in that 3 hours (nothing :P) and then slept. I did a power work out yesterday and so I was pretty spacey and toasted last night and it didn't go away until I woke up! Trying to motivate myself for a quick run but not sure. I AM walking to the bus but I don't think that really counts as a workout. I want to be able to feel confident in my swimsuit when I go tot eh Sunshine Coast at the beginning of November. I am ok with everything except my thighs which I hate. Probably going to lose from everywhere else first but hopefully I will lose an inch on the legs too. That is my goal anyways. We'll see how it goes. Worst case scenario, I wear shorts. :P And for about 5 days now I have having this nagging anxious feeling that I can't really explain but it feels like something is going to go wrong or something is bothering me. It isn't school or anything so I don't know what is going on. Very annoying. Happy note, I saw a baby cow yesterday. :D

Well, my US number, that I have had for over 5 years is gone. It is really annoying though. I tried cancelling it before coming here and they suggested I go on a 'sleeping' plan where I keep it active but not use it for $10 a month. I took it because I love my cell number and didn't want to lose it. However, there is a 6 month limit on it that they didn't tell me about. I found out checking my bills yesterday. I love the number but it isn't worth $59 a month to not use. I just wish I was told there was a limit on the time at the very beginning because then I wouldn't have even signed up. And when I cancelled it today they tried to put me back on! But then couldn't because I was already on it. Grrrr I am annoyed. At least my contract was up so I don't have a $200 fee. Just another $59 bill I have to deal with.

I'll just get a pay as you go phone when I go back to the US this christmas then figure things out after I am done with school.

Sunday went to the botanical gardens. Yesterday was the start of the week break! Yay! I didn't have week breaks in the US. Not during the middle of school term anyways. It is kinda weird. Not bad weird. I can totally get used to it. It is kind of like when teachers give us 'work days' for assignments in lieu of lectures. I sometimes make my own but we do get free days too. It is kind of lax considering it is graduate level!

But anyways, break! Yesterday I did house-work. Cleaning, changing sheets, dusting (wow it is bad! dust-storms+dry weather+heat), dishes, laundry. That reminds me, clothes are on the line! Today is hopefully shopping day, though I am not 100% sure what I want to buy. I need another pair of shorts. I am also thinking about getting the Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters book. Though it is hard to justify it since books are so expensive here. Tomorrow I am back into the city for the markets and touristy stuff. Going to Brisbane museum! The rest of the week is up in the air.

Friday I leave for the gold coast where I am going to ride a horse on Saturday! I am excited. I had a bad experience before but it will be awesome this time. Yay! :D

I forgot to write about the play and since one of the songs have been stuck in my head since Friday, I thought I would write a little bit. Forst off, the dancing and costumes were awesome. Dorky awesome, but still awesome. And the songs were good too, though someitmes I had no idea what was going on. Going into the play, people who had seen it before warned us that it sometimes didn't make much sense. So we knew it would be trippy now and again. And it was seriously trippy. Mike and I decided that Andew Lloyd Weber was having a bad trip when he came up with Cats, until we found out most of the content was taken from a book by T. S. Eliot, so then we decided he was the one with the trip but Weber wasn't completely untripped. Especially the floating UFO thing at the beginning. And the flashy lights.

It was a clever story idea though I wish more was in the story and less in the character introductions--that was the main part of the play. But I loved how the actors during intermission went out and interacted with people, welcoming strokes and hissed at people. I thought that was super cute.

It did get annoying when the people in front of us wouldn't sit down after intermission and were still standing when the play started up again. But that isn't all there fault. Someone else stole their seats and they were stuck with their seats since they weren't getting up. But still, it was uber annoying.

Overall, I thought it was fun and clever as long as you didn't disect it and think hard.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_%28musical%29 <--the "story"

I loved Rum Tum Tugger though Mr Mistoffelees has the catchiest song.

I am blaming Dani because everything I know about them I learned from her LJ posts. I don't know names, who dated whom, what they sing or anything. I did know they were younger than me because I said I was too old for the oldest (please be legal) one.

*dream sequence*
I am in the part by my house when these scary dogs start chasing me. At that moment a tour bus drives by and the driver tells me to get on to avoid the dogs. On the bus there is only a group of 3 boys and they introduce themselves as The Jonas Brothers. I thank them for saving me from the dogs that would HAVE KILLED ME HAD THEY NOT ARRIVED. They said they were lost and needed directions to the Seattle Center. Since they saved me FROM PAINFUL DEATH I offered to show them how to get there. The oldest is driving the bus. When we get to our destination there are so many fans we can't get threw, so I say I know a back way in and suddenly I have all this inside knowledge of the area. It isn't the real Seattle center anymore and I am showing them where to go in this fictitious place my mind created. Fans are swarming everywhere and I offer to hide the Jonas Brothers while the mod passes by. Once the crowds move on I go to get them but they left already. I can't find them and hunt all over the theatre looking for them. Eventually someone eho said they were their press agent finds me and tells me they are already performing but that for SAVING THEIR LIVES FROM THE FANS I have been given a front row seat. I find my seat and I end up sitting between Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. The oldest one tosses a flower at me and I yell back "I am too old for you."
*/dream sequence*

I feel kinda icky and weird. But also mildly amused.

Anyone want to analyse that? :P

Things I found today:

GINORMOUS SPIDER

dead larakeet
dead duck
tons of shed snake skin.
(think there is connection?)

OMP!!!!!
Things I need to do today:
FINISH FREAKING PAPER

I have like 2 hours to do it. Wish me luck?

Mike and I sang happy birthday to Star Wars and ate cupcakes. :D

Now keep in mind I have spent the past 12 years being the farthest I could get from being a Star Trek fan and my only real experiences with it are parts of the whale movie, the tribbles episode and the end of one movie where I almost cry because Data is so happy to find his cat. I am almost at 0 on the fan scale. Things I knew going into this movie: Kirk is a ladies man, Spock is awesome, live long and prosper and the vulcan deathy grippy thing. I knew a couple characters' names and that the ship is called the Enterprise. I pretty much know nothing.

And hiding the rest to hide potential spoilers.
I was devasted with the beginning but the alternative reality thing made me feel a little better since I knew there was anpother universe where Kirk's dad survives, Vulcan is okay and everything. I had no idea the backstory of any of the characters so intially I assumed this was just a prequel. It wasn't until Old Spock talked about time travel that it really dawned on me. I talked with Mike after the movie and he mentioned that it was all new, weird stuff in the movie. I did think it was odd Spock was the captain. I kinda figured that was weird and that something would happen that would replace him with Kirk. It all worked out--even old spock was surprised young spock was in charge. It was nice to see Spock's vulnerable side too. And I know Kirk was good looking--HE knew it and I found him arrogant at times. But I think that is pretty in character. I loved Spock and McCoy. Whoever they found to play them were geniuses. They were brilliant. And I wanted Spock to go back in the future and fix everything until it dawned on me. I wanted Spock to be with the girl (can't remember her name). I was so happy he was the one that got the girl in the end. I did a little mental happy dance. :)

Overall, I am still a Star Wars fan. But maybe I can watch a Star Trek movie now and again. Not sure about the series, but we'll see. I give the movie 4/5 stars. It was a good movie and I appreciated it as a sci-fi film, even if I have this 'thing' against Star Trek. It was a good film and I enjoyed it. YAY! :D

And, OMP, TRANFORMERS TRAILER!!!!! AHHH!!!!!

PS. I am not able to cut screen it. I is hazing speshulz. So, I covered it up best I could. Please don't hate me!

I watched Stargate instead of Star Wars though. :O

A long time ago my doctor told me that stress+refined carbohydrates were making me feel sick. Well I have been stressed lately and not feeling hot so I thought I would actually experiment and take her advice and see if taking out sugars and other processed carbs would make me feel better. Easter is a bad time for this. I'll try again in a few weeks. Right now, there is a giant chocolate egg calling my name. :D

AHHHHHH!!!!!

I will be excited tomorrow. Right now, crazy nervous.

[]Apply for loan
[]Get accepted for loan
[X]Borrow insane ammount of money from dad
[X] Accept my acceptance (heh... am I the only one finding humour in that? :P)
[X]Pay for semester
[X] Apply for Visa
[X]Buy plane ticket
[X]Start mailing stuff to Mike's House
[]Resign RSA spot--I have to, right? :(
[]Leave. :(

OMP. Now that the hard stuff is done I can start to get all paranoid and anxious.

And, believe it or not, I kinda don't want to resign as RSA. :(

PS. Sallie Mae sucks. SUCKS.

I spent all of today watching Star Gate. My internet has been sporadic at best today so instead of internetting all day I caught up on my stargates. I feel mildly guilty--I didn't do a heck of much else--but it was nice to catch up with my stargate friends. And the Jack/Sam pairing is kinda cute. There is a lot of sexual tension. I still wish she and Martouf worked out but being as he is DEAD that won't be happening soon. :P i don't like the girl Jonas Quinn ended up with and that was BEFORE we found out she was a g'ould.  He made a guest appearance in the last episode I watched. I don't like this new hair style. But at least g'ould girlfriend had striped orange and red pants. But things work out so the two of them can walk off into the sunset. I kinda wish she died. Why does JONAS get a love interest but they keep killing off Sam's?

I want to watch more but tomorrow is an early day that does long. So I am sleeping soon. *sigh*

I am so glad i don't work at the mall anymore. It was completely crazy and hardly November! The parking lot was packed. My mother and I had to part all the way towards the road and when we left someone still wanted our parking spot. We saw 2 car accidents and the mall was completely packed. I picked up what I needed then left because I didn't want to deal woth people and the crowds made window shopping no fun.

A store moved into where the bookstore used to be. It was so odd walking around in there remembering where different books were and how displays were done. I told the clerk about it and she didn't care at all. :P

But thankfully, Christmas shopping is almost done. :D

Plus side: I got my picture taken with Santa! :D

[]Apply for loan
[]Get accepted for loan
[] Accept my acceptance (heh... am I the only one finding humour in that? :P)
[]Pay for semester
[] Apply for Visa
[]Buy plane ticket
[]Start mailing stuff to Mike's House
[]Resign RSA spot--I have to, right? :(
[]Leave. :(


I still have 4 months. And I can't do the Visa until next month so no panicking yet but I need to do SOMETHING. But not today. Dad and I can't sit and compare loan options until tomorrow or saturday. No worries though. No worries. :)

OMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :|