cadbury survival instincts.

waltz into the moonlight.

i've been delaying the inevitable for about an hour and a half. i don't want to go to work today, at all. completely unmotivated. at least it's only a 5 hour shift and not a full day. but still. i just want to go and pack my shit and hop on that plane to U2. i'm leaving early tomorrow morning, ahhh! i'll take my phone with me so i can update while i'm away. i'll be back on tuesday of next week. how exciting! no pictures until then, i'm afraid. not that you probably care, because they don't really add much anyway. but yeah.

last night my younger brother graduated from primary school. he's thirteen next month, and officially my height now. i'm afraid. the graduation ceremony was painful to say the least. it started at 5:30pm with a dinner in aqua restaurant (the lower level of jupiters casino/the old sheridan hotel) between three or four other families.. they raised the price of the bar from $30 to $45. i'd only finished work half an hour before arriving, so i had to run home, shower, jump into whatever clothing i could find and run into the car. since i looked like utter shit i decided it was more economical to just not eat dinner at all because i figured my mother would've argued with me about not looking decent and forced me to pay for my own food and i really can't afford $45 for sub par seafood and starch overload. they don't even have chocolate icecream there anymore. so i sat on facebook under the table just to get in mum's grills a little more, and we left for the ballroom.

fifteen gazillion rows of chairs inside, and a really crappy looking stage backed by chickenwire. yeah, chickenwire. the walls looked like someone had ripped out the roofing insulation and shoved it along the sides of the building to look semi-artsy. u so art deco, j00piterz. anyway, the predictable "we're so proud of everyone" speech from the widdle school captains, collectively around half an hour of really bad solo singing and ~orchestra, a slideshow of "highlights" (which consisted of kids jumping into pools, kids climbing out of mudslides and kids running a cross country track.. thutch great memorieth), and certificate distribution. WOO. that went on for three hours. after that, everyone bolted for the doors and we didn't escape from the place until like ten minutes after it finished. it was almost like a concert merchandise rush, it was mental! by this stage my stomach was trying to make its presence known, and we raced home. 85c pack of pasta and a dish of mashed potato later, and i was feeling fine. you really don't need to spend that much money on food. then i jumped on here, and pretty much fell straight asleep after a panadeine to relieve the migraine that tends to loom whenever i'm forced to sit politely and quietly for any lengthly period of time.

work wasn't even worth recounting, though it was a pretty wickedly fast shift! i spent most of it doing paperwork, which was awesome. i'd love an office job. well, i have to clean my infernal shitstorm living space now, and get ready for five hours of voluntary slavery. see you around, blog.

do do dobeedo *piano solo*

it's 2:25 in the morning, on a tuesday. updates! my monday shift i ended up not being able to work due to illness and lack of transport, so i gave work a ring and it turns out it was only a three hour shift anyway. the good news is, i scored a seven hour shift today from 11-6! more money for me. the bad news is i'm still awake, and not tired so chances are it's a good thing i now have milk and coffee because i'm sure as hell gonna need it in a few hours.

monday night (last night, a few hours ago) was the replacement christmas party (because the last one was cancelled due to "rain", lol). we had it at pizza hut this time, it seems somebody decided to use the noggin and plan something indoors and not confined to weather restrictions. anyway, it was a decent night! we had the usual secret santa shebang, although i didn't get a gift, but i managed to swipe a box of unclaimed ferreros ;) like i need more lard on me. my secret santa recipient didn't show up either, making me sadface. :c



ooh, i hit 10k gamerscore just before. how lame? but not to worry, it was a string of 25G achievements in a row, and i was on 9875 so it's not like i spent four hours just earning ten million 5G achievements. i found like, seven skulls and got a cumuluative achievement for doing that, then a couple ODST achievements which are total balls. i'm lazy, tired, and you wouldn't believe the migraine i've had spanning the course of the last four or five days. it's ridiculous. i've been bringing up stomach acid too (because you needed to know that). i'll even illustrate it for you, you guys.



see the green stuff? anyway, i've not been feeling particularly flash. i think i ate too much tonight. well, i didn't eat a heap, but it felt like it. pizza always makes me feel disgusting and sick a few hours afterwards. i knowingly induce this pain for its temporary greasy deliciousness. i never have pizza, it's a rare treat. you'd never guess it, would you.

so, now that i've got a considerable amount of money saved up, it's time to work towards common saving goals. xbox games are exempt from these goals. i've got $500 stockpiled for that cause alone, for the boxing day sales. it's gonna be riotous, so at least i'm prepared this year. last year i walked out of harvey norman with assassin's creed II, four guitar hero games and a $4 copy of oblivion. hopefully i'll have a few more titles after christmas! oh, crap. remind me to tell work i'm unavailable for a week in december. U2 concert is so close. i'm so goddamn excited, it's starting to become something quite difficult to suppress.

oh god, i'm a fat slob and people took photos of me tonight. hopefully nobody will be unkind enough to tag me in them on facebook (which is inevitably where they will end up). thank god i have a curtain of hair. a very long curtain of hair, actually, i didn't realise just how filthily long it's grown since i last straightened it out lol. it's halfway down my back. considering i was going to chop it once it surpassed shoulder length some time ago, that's some pretty slack upkeep there yvette. tsk.



well it's now half-past two in the morning, so i'd better think about scooting off to sleep. my parents aren't going to be able to take me to work on-time, so i'm hoping to get up early so i can walk without being in a hurry, and sweating all my makeup off. this weather is so foul, i hate it. hurry up december storms. that's all from me until next time, hopefully work won't be half as busy as it was on sunday. love<3