Quod mens sibi proponere, caro efficere potest.

Oh hai LJ peeps!

There's not much happening in Karmaland other than working my butt off.

We now have to wear hideous orange shirts at work. Well actually only the supervisors do so that we are 'more visible to staff'. Whatever, I guess on the plus side I don't have to think about what to wear to work and I have an excuse to look like a derro during the week.
Funily enough, somebody suggested that I dye my hair to match the shirts and I've acidentally acheived that in the process of lightening my hair to dye it red!
It's very Leeloo: http://twitpic.com/8k8y8

It's a hard slog at the moment but I'm REALLY looking forward to August and having something to look forward to makes it easier. In August it is my birthday, I'm getting my tattoo, I have a week off work, we're going to Balingup for the medieval festival and staying with Dan's parents in Bunbury for that weekend and then at the end of the month we're staying at a B&B and going on a 'dinner train'. Woooooot!

OK. Time for Connoisseur ice cream!

I'm still trapped at home and bored out of my mind but getting better. My boss and I have a theory that alcohol will somehow cancel the dizziness caused by the Labyrinthitis. It's a flawed theory but nevertheless one I feel should be tested tomorrow at my sister-in-law's birthday party. :D

Speaking of Labyrinthitis, thanks to stupid_drawings I find myself reading Labyrinth fan fiction. I know very little about fan fic and have the (possibly incorrect) impression that it tends to involve characters having wrong sex but I'm up to chapter 7 and it hasn't happened yet...

What else is happening in Karmaland?

* Trying to work out what the hell to do for my birthday. I want to have some sort of party or small gathering but my place is not the best venue for it. A picnic would be cool but August doesn't have the best weather for that sort of thing.
* Bought Plague Dogs on DVD yesterday. I hadn't heard of it until a few days ago but it was written by the same author that wrote Watership Down (Richard Adams) and it's directed by the same director that did the Watership Down movie (Martin Rosen). It looks horribly depressing. Can't wait for it to arrive in the mail!
* I got new jeans yesterday. It's a rare thing for me to buy jeans. Still, if things go according to plan they'll be too big for me soon. I might post more about that later.
* I have stopped smoking. Don't get too excited and congratulatory yet, it's only ben a few weeks and I feel incredibly stupid for having even started smoking in the first place let alone keeping it up for as long as I have.

That's all for now!

OK OK, I'll make a post!

Just kidding, I really do need to update this more often. Especially as I'm considering making some of these entires into a book/paper journal since seeing this website: http://www.blurb.com/
I quite like the idea of having something physical to hold and look at, an actual journal that I can put in a bookshelf maybe... the website has the potential for some really lovely gifts too.

So, whats been going on?

I didn't really mention it but the home loan application went down the tube. I was all doom and gloom about it for a day and then we made other plans which should make it reasonably easy to try again in September. There was no point in letting it get me down. Besdides, I got a brand new comfy bed out of it.

I've done a few photoshoots in the last few months. I have some regrets in not pursuing the alt model stuff further when I first started out (and was younger and thinner!) but I'm happy to be doing shoots for the sake of it. I like coming up with concepts and doing the MUA. Hopefully I'll do a few more shoots soon.

Currently I'm suffering from Labyrinthitis, an inflammation of the inner ear structure called the labyrinth, which has been making me feel dizzy and nauseas and has caused me to walk into a few walls. Given that I'm not so good in any upright position and can't drive I've been trapped at home for the last 2 days. I've been amusing myself by coming up with other definitions for Labyrinthitis which include:
* infection that causes the sufferer to wear unreasonably tight pants with socks stuffed in the crotch
* disease that causes one to steal people's younger brothers. In a non-paedophile way of course.
* infection which causes one to grow an exceptionally large mullet but still look good with it.
* disease causing the sufferer to play with his balls?
Please feel free to add your own definitions for my amusement!

My birthday is 2 months away so I'm trying to think about what (if anything) I should do for it. Does anyone actually like fancy dress parties? Or perhaps I should keep it simple?

The day after my birthday I am getting a tattoo. I FINALLY found someone in Perth willing to do my wedding ring all the way around my finger! I'm so excited. Once that's done I can move on to the other tattoos I've got planned: some text on my right foot, large text and art down my side from breast to hip, a tattoo of the Black Rabbit of Inlé and possibly El-ahrairah and then, if I haven't gone broke, I'll get to work on enlarging my back-piece. Woot.

Ummm... what else? Oh! Buying tickets to Marilyn Manson on Thursday. General admission this time so I can get in on the mosh. Hehehehe.

Ok I'm all blogged out now.

Friends cull. Long overdue.

Not going to bother going into why. If you really want to know just ask. This is not meant to create any drama, just meant to tidy things up a bit in my online life.

Dan and I saw this at the museum today and had to take a photo. Then we had to upload it to Fail Blog...


moar funny pictures

A museum full of curators and what I would assume to be reasonably intelligent people and nobody noticed this? For shame Museum of WA!
Heh. Go rate the pic here on Fail Blog so we can get it on the main page.

I think your tattoos are unoriginal and look like shit.
I think your 'art' is mindless and boring.
I think your taste in clothing is tragic and your haircut is horrible.
I think the clothes you make are poorly designed and manufactured.
I think your music is formulaic and clearly demonstrates your complete lack of talent.
I think you think too much of yourself.
I think you can't be trusted.
I think you say you're proud to be a slut to hide the fact that have no self esteem and don't know where you fit in the world.
I think you're alone/bored/jobless because you're just too lazy to do anything about it.
I think you get the same amount of opportunities as everyone else, you just don't fucking take them.

I think you don't admire my honesty, you just wish you didn't care what people think so you could be brutal and say these things too.

For every person I think the above about there is a person that I think the opposite of. A person I admire or that inspires me or that I envy.



Don't poke the bear.

Attention friends who use Facebook!

If you like me and my modelling work PLEASE do me a favour and go and click on 'like' for this photo AND this photo.
It's for a competition on FB. There's no prizes or anything, just recognition of my work which I would really, truly appreciate. I'm sure the photographer and other people who were involved/helped would also love it.

Thanks!

(Oh and if you wanted to encourage your friends to do the same it wouldn't hurt. I'll come up with a way to reward you all...)

Woah. Lisa has already emailed us some of the shots from yesterday.

Please check them out, they're fantastic.

( Dark asylum... )

Having a truly atrocious morning due to some sort of allergic reaction making me horribly ill BUT happy to see more shots from the Kandy Kane shoot being uploaded to DA. See these shots and more in Carly's gallery: http://autoclavicle.deviantart.com/gallery/





Carly got on the other side of the camera yesterday along with me for a 'dark asylum' style shoot by Lisa with some help from Jason so there will be some more fantastic photos coming soon. :)

Um... anyone had their Hotmail accounts hacked or is there a virus circulating? I seem to have received what appear to be spam emails from people I know (Tim D and Cointreau Onnice).
Strange.

Haircut: $45
New shirt and jeans: $59.95
New shoes: $75
Being married to a guy that looks like this: Priceless

Happy birthday Xtine!!

Click on this Xtine, you want to. Probably no one else does. Or maybe you do.

I hardly post here any more.

Mostly I think it's because I have a lot I want to say but I can't really say it. I stick to vague and cryptic updates on FB and Twitter. It's better that way...
Stuck between a rock and a hard place in some ways but it certainly makes life more interesting.


Inconceivable! The dude from The Princss Bride is on Law & Order. They have the best guest appearances.

New bed today: http://twitpic.com/5wzx9
Looove my new shets and quilt cover too but right now I'm sitting here feeling myself slowly melt into the bed... so good.

Yesterday Dan made me breakfast in bed which was totally awesome. Then Xtine and I decided we would take 'get well' food over to Mal & Carly's so I had to scoot off to get ingredients for chicken soup and then make a nice big batch of soup.
Got to Mal & Carly's place and had a lovely diner of chicken soup, curry and rice and hot chocolate with marshmallows with them and Ben & Xtine and Jason & Shannan. Nom.

Only 3 more days of work and then I have Friday off. Which would have made an awesome 4 day weekend except that I am working the night shift on Saturday night. She works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey. She works hard for the money. So you better treat her right.

Bored shirtless. Hahahaha.

Also, black hair FTW.

Today I:

* wasn't able to go to Mike and Bec's wedding because I had to work
* worked for 5 hours
* drove to Osborne Park and bought a fantastic new queen size ensemble
* went to Spotlight and got an awesome quilt cover, a sheet set and pillowcases for our v-pillows
* went to Artful Ink on the way home and booked an appointment for the day after my birthday

I can't wait for the bed to be delivered on Monday. It will be like sleeping on a cloud compared to the shitty bed we have now.

Also, I have black hair now. It looks heaps better.

Congrats to Mike and Bec on successfully tying the knot.

Anyone know if it's possible for the general public to get hold of liquid nitrogen and how one might do so?

I haven't posted because I have nothing to say that's not about my home loan and the stress I'm going through.

Now I just want to say I love Xtine & Carly. They met me after work with flowers today. :D

I decided to cook chilli garlic prawns in a creamy sauce for dinner tonight. So I've been chopping chillies. Then I touched my lip. And nose.

Honestly, how silly. I used to be a commercial cook for crying out loud - I know better.

Owie.

As much as I think that Craig Russell is a total failure as an artist I rather wish that I could find old episodes of Room For Improvement online. Or even fact sheets for some of their projects.
Perhaps I should try Auction Squad and Backyard Blitz for my fix instead.
And no peeps, I'm not morphing into some sort of psycho renovating grown-up. I've always had a bit of a thing for silly shows like Room For Improvement. More for the ocasional disasters than the sucesses. It's for similar reasons that I like to watch the gymnastics when the Olympics are on. It's just that now I might have my own house to inflict my taste upon and I recall seeing some projects I liked whilst watching Room For Improvement late at night. :)