Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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12:10 pm - My horrid night...
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Last night was just one thing after another. The storm that came through was pretty vicious and I was scared that my skylight in the bathroom was going to shatter. Not only was there heavy rain, thunder and lightening, but we also had hail. Half of my house has a tin roof so you can imagine the noise! I took a photo of the rain pouring down across my door as the gutter leaks along that section.
I turned on the outdoor light to get the photo, and after I had finished I noticed the wtare was pouring through the flourescent light! I immediately turned off the light and thought "that's not good". Went back to check on it a bit later as it hadn't actually turned off and I noticed thatthere was a torrent of water running out of my light switch inside the house! When I say torrent I mean torrent! Immediately turned off the lounge room light too. It went out, but a few minutes later it came back on. Now I know electricity and water do not go well together and I am starting to get a bit freaked. Next thing, I could smell smoke, and as my windows were all shut it had to be from inside. Sure enough, the light switch was now sparking and smoking. I was really freaked now! Went next door to see if they had a CO2 extinguisher, but they didn't, so I rang the fire brigade. Of course I actually work for 000 so I had to call my work to get the fire brigade!
The fire brigade came out and ended up removing the fuse for my lights, but leaving me with powerpoints, That temporarily fixed the problem but now I need repairs done. I spent the night using the Telly and laptop as my light sources for the house. Then to top it all off, while I was sitting in the dark I glanced up at the wall and there was a huge huntsman spider there! I am severely arachnophobic and so that finished me off completely. Overall it was not a good night.
I was actually supposed to be at work last night but I couldn't leave in case the house decided to actually catch alight.
current mood:  exhausted
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
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10:33 pm - In total Squee Mode!
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I have been in total Squee mode for most of this week since discovering that (barring anything cropping up) Paul McGillion will be at Armageddon this year!!! I already had my Gold Ticket and so was going anyway when I found out. I have been bouncing around like a madwoman for the week and feeling quite giddy. What I am really looking forward to is getting another hug from him as he gives the best hugs ever! I still get giddy thinking about the last hug I had from him!
current mood:  giddy
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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3:45 am - Things you should not do when depressed...
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You really should not watch a documentary on Hiroshima (with interviews with survivors) when you are already feeling low. Especially with very visual recreations interspersed with actual footage.
current mood:  apathetic
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3:38 am - Pay it Forward...
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Taken from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) strivaria
Pay It Forward: I will send a small gift to the first 10 people who leave a comment here on my LJ.
I don’t yet know what that gift will be - it could be anything: cloth, metal, paper, wood, a crystal, jewellery, silk painting, a story anything goes - but you will receive it within 365 days.
The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your blog.
Go for it. It's fun and who knows what you might get :D
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I do lots of hobbies so you may get anything!! My main hobby is beading and wire work...
current mood: apathetic
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
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7:32 am - Depression and me...
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I finally admitted to myself last night that I have been suffering from depression for a while now. I have been writing off the various symptoms as "normal" but looking back now I can see that I have been falling for quite some time. I have always been fairly emotional when watching TV and movies etc, but lately I have found myself just busting into tears at the drop of a hat for no reason whatsoever. Last night I spent the entire walk from the train station to my house (1 hr) bawling my eyes out and couldn't stop. Usually after a good crying jag I would feel purged, but now I just feel numb. Things that should be getting an emotional reaction from me have no effect and things that should not affect me at all have me bawling like a baby. My grandparents are dying and my aunt is going in for a double bypass today and I feel nothing and yet finding out that the club taxi had stopped running 2 hours before had me bawling hard for 2 hrs. Even now I know that anything will set me off again.
I have not been eating much as I can't be bothered cooking anything. I can't bring myself to do anything. I have no motivation at all and I spend hours trying to sleep but keep waking up every couple of hours. I have always been a procastinator, but lately it is just so bad that I get nothing done at all. My house is a total mess and I can't bring myself to care.
What has helped trigger this depression is the severe financial stress I have been in for over 2 years now. Also the fact that my car has been off the road for 8 months and there is very poor public transport in my area. I have been trying to cope but slowly things have been overwhelming me until I have got to the point that I can't cope any more. The fact that there is no solution to my financial hardship in the foreseeable future means that I can see no ray of hope. I am crying again just writing this.
I am so sick of feeling this way but know that it will be a long time before anything will change. The only thing I can count as "good" is that I have never felt suicidal at all... even at my lowest.
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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4:33 pm - Music Meme...
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1. Put your iPod on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the meme as well as the person you got the meme from.
( Click here for results )
current mood:  sleepy
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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8:08 am - Another meme... It made me chuckle.
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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8:16 pm - Sugar avoidance and other stuff!
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Even 2 days after the dessert night, I am still avoiding sugar. I have a craving now for savoury foods! The night was good though. We had Chocolate cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake, eclairs, choc chip bread and butter pudding (which turned out yummy!), chocolates, wagon wheels, danish chocolate biscuits, choc dipped strawberries, choc poco sticks and some other assorted stuff. There was still heaps left by the end of the night.
I am in an internet cafe as it is sunday and the last bus from my home leaves at 5:42pm but I don't actually start work until 11:30pm!! Same thing will happen tomorrow as it is a public holiday and so buses run on Sunday timetables. I really, really miss my car, but I just don't have a spare $1000 to register it and $1044 to pay the fines (for driving unregistered) and get my licence unsuspended. A lotto win about now would be very useful!!
Oh well... I am now going to read some torchwood fanfic to help cheer me up!!
current mood:  depressed
current music: none
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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7:51 pm - Yummy cooking!
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On a day that is already quite warm, I am doing some baking! Tonight at work we are having a dessert night. I am baking Chocolate Chip Bread and Butter Pudding. Yummy! I just adore Bread and Butter pudding. I have never had a choc chip version before so i am curious to how it turns out.
current music: none
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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5:13 am - Near Disaster Averted...
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This morning I discovered just how loud the 2 smoke alarms in my house are! I work nights and even on my day off, I keep the same routine. For dinner (at about 4:30am) I was cooking some sausages in the griller when I suddenly had a craving for chips. I had 2 potatoes in the fridge and decided to slice them really thinly and fry them. They were sort of half-way between chips and crisps. I put the oil in the frypan, then sat right beside the stove to cut the potato. I had almost finished when suddenly I heard the dreaded "woof" sound and looked up to find the frypan on fire! This quite shocked me as it is an electric stove rather than gas and it has never done it to me before. I don't have a fire blanket or an extinguisher in the kitchen (which I know I should) and so I had to open the front door and chuck the pan out onto the concrete! I then had to open every window in the house (It is damn cold!) and keep fanning the smoke detectors so that they turned off. Now I am cold, but I did get my chips as I just put another pan on and started again!
I feel sorry for the family next door as we share the kitchen wall! There is no way they could have missed the alarms going off!
current mood:  stressed
current music: none... the sound of the telly...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
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11:51 pm - I am a Geek!!
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No surprise here!! I am a little surprised that my nerd scores were so low in comparison, but I have always considered myself a geek!
Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test... Outcast Genius65 % Nerd, 100% Geek, 52% Dork For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.
Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).
Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.
Congratulations!
*****
Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Professional Wrestling
Love & Sexuality
America/Politics
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at HelloQuizzy
current mood:  satisfied
current music: No music... Watching the Olympics!
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11:22 pm - Yay... still a Gryffindor
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Wow... This was a very in-depth questionnaire. Everything I have always done makes me Gryffindor. That is just so cool for me!
The sorting hat says that I belong in Gryffindor!  Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name." Students of Gryffindor are typically brave, daring, and chivalrous.
Famous members include Harry, Ron, Hermione, Albus Dumbledore (head of Hogwarts), and Minerva McGonagall (head of Gryffindor).
Take the most scientific Harry Potter
Quiz ever created.
Get Sorted Now!
current mood:  happy
current music: No music... Watching the Olympics!
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
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8:12 pm - Torchwood Fanfic: Consequences (Jack/Ianto) Death Story.
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Title: Consequences
Author: Mahlia Belonn
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating:
Status: Complete
Feedback: Please. I live for feedback...
Disclaimers: Don't belong to me worse luck. Not making any money...
just having some fun.
Notes: I was at work when this depressing Bunny bit. I made myself cry while writing this so if you do read it, have a box of tissues on hand. There is a mention of mpreg.
Summary: There are consequences to every decision made...
Warnings: DEATH STORY. This is not a happy story. Main character death.
Spoilers: Mention of 2:13 Exit Wounds. *****
current mood: depressed
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
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12:30 am - Film Meme
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From kyrdwyn
Film Meme!
Bold the ones you've seen
Put an asterisk after the movie title* if you really liked it
Cross it out if you saw a film and really disliked it
Underline the ones you own
current mood:  hungry
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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10:21 pm - Alzheimer Ribbon...
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In honor of Uncle Jimmy and Aunty Joan
Hopefully some more of my flist will get behind this. It is definitely a worthy cause.
current mood:  impressed
current music: When I First Came Here - Dwight Yoakam
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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8:42 pm - Another thing found on my flist...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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6:37 pm - I'm in a meme mood!!
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I used my LJ name the 1st time I tried this, but it was not cool. I thenused my real name and thought this one was cool!!
current mood: impressed
current music: None
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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3:56 am - Song Meme
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Meme stolen from geordie_star (can't get my links to work!)
current mood:  thoughtful
current music: American Girls - Rick Springfield
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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6:56 pm - Mash Game: Predict Your Future at eSPIN-the-Bottle
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
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6:49 am - ANZAC Day
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
LEST WE FORGET
Today is a day that I treasure. This is the day to remember all the brave young men and women who gave their lives so that I can live free. My grandparents met because of the war (WWII), so without it I wouldn't be here. I never fail to have a tear in my eye as I hear the above poem (For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon) and The Last Post. I don't like war at all, and want peace between all countries, but I am proud of our Veterans and current service men and women. They do a job that is unfortunately necessary and they cop a lot of flak because of it. Today is not a day to glorify war as some people have accused, but to remember all those that have made our country what it is today.
current mood:  thankful
current music: Missing Heroes - Adam Harvey
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tired
groggy
