i feel possessed when you come round.

it's technically the ninth of december right now. midnight. well, half-past midnight to be more accurate. so going by these specifications.. i'm seeing U2 tonight. you really don't have any appreciation for just how stoked i am right now, to have the privilege of seeing U2 live. ohhh my god, blog. i don't want to get all fangirly on you, but i thought i'd sooner die than get an opportunity like this. my parents raised me on U2, this is huge. so why am i sitting on the internet, in townsville, at midnight without packed suitcases?



bet that one wasn't hard to figure out. lol. so i'm basically procrastinating from packing my goddamn suitcase as long as i can before i start to get tired/the time lingers closer towards 7:30am (when we leave for the airport). ahhh! well, since i have absolutely nothing to talk about aside from the fact i'm super excited for a concert, i'll tell you about how my day at work was.




that about sums it up. so i rocked up to the shopping complex at 1pm - a nice late start, to find the temperature outside something like 35 degrees. ridiculous. walked inside expecting a nice cool rush of airconditioned freedom and received:

nothing. same temperature indoors. i feared the worst as i approached my workplace and queried them on the temperature and my fears were realised as i was told the airconditioning system had shut down in our store and the management was waiting for someone to come and look at it. of course i'm on registers, sweating my ass off whilst we lose most of our customer business due to the fact that the store is a fucking oven. to make matters worse, the eftpos system ran through like four separate errors throughout the day and it was at the stage where my register backup person and i were swapping customers over between us for cash/card sales respectively. it got busy at times, and i got really snappy.



the airconditioning was shut off until our regional manager came in to inspect stuff and was turned on again around 4pm. while it may seem like not a lot to put up with, crazy clarks brings out the angry sociopath in me and no airconditioning to make my useless presence there worthwhile just kills when you're dealing with shitty, unfriendly customers all day smelling like a greasy locker room. so i made my way through the day and eventually left.

that was my day at work today. interestingly enough, the big poles that separate the roller doors that i have to drag out to each individual spot were excellent today. they slotted in first time every time, and the third roller door next to the florist (which is broken and requires a ladder + careful fiddling with to pull completely down) descended right to the bottom on its first try. i actually patted it and told it what a good job it did. customers must have thought i was nuts.



guess i'd better start packing since i've managed to waste an hour here already. eep, i'm so excited for my show! i hope my pets are okay while i'm away.. my fish should be okay, budgies and finches should be fine, i'll leave an instruction leaflet for my grandfather to tend to the parrots, and i've prepared food for him to give leo so there shouldn't be any dramas. i hate to leave them though. well, i'd best be heading off to fill this infernal suitcase with items of clothing and toiletries and crap you take with you when you go on a plane somewhere. catch you later blog. :D

she's perfect as she can be; why should i even bother

it's the first of december! traditionally, that means our family puts up the christmas tree and spends the day together getting the house all decorated and stuff. well, i guess since my nan died and i turned eighteen, traditions don't mean anything around here.. i put the entire tree up myself before, lights and tinsel and all. i'm leaving the decorating to james, who will no doubt yell at me for doing it without him. and i woke up late today from having put the tree up at like, 2am. twelve hours' sleep, beautiful. but yeah. woke up, and the whole house is empty. a little confusing, but i thought.. alright then, and walked outside of my stifling hot room.

i switched the air-conditioners on and went to look at my parrots to see if they were alright. it's very hot outside today. i went to open the screen door to my backyard when i noticed two green eyes staring right into mine. leo! my cat had been let outside and someone had forgotten to bring him in again. so i let him in and gave the parrots a spray so they'd be a little cooler, and i'm yet to fix up their food and water. i need to clean my fish bowl today too, i can't keep putting that off.

so here i am, alone. no tinsel up, no family to talk to. alright then. mum talks of how christmas this year is going to be horrible and pointless without my grandmother. she's one of those people who just doesn't see any point to hoping for the best outcome. she just takes it at face value and says, it's going to be awful. why even bother. so, to combat her way of thinking which i usually always disagree with, i'm going to decorate the whole goddamn house by myself. but first i'm going to have coffee and pasta alfredo because i'm really hungry.

i really can't be bothered drawing anything right now, but i'll do you a special drawing when i'm finished my chores okay? love <3 p.s. i did end up kicking that bad mood. i always do! ^_^

omg so tired.

four. hours. sleep. it's a wonder i'm not dead, given how disgustingly tired i feel today. and it's entirely self-inflicted. i was up until 5am getting halo reach achievements since it has to go back to blockbuster on saturday and i'll be well into exam study by then.

so i'm currently attempting to get all of my animals fixed up in the way of food, water and cleanliness, so i might be able to make my coffee and begin to study for tomorrow's exam. 40% of a grade is quite a lot, so i'd best be studying up. man, this shit gets intensive when you've only had four hours.

FEED THE PARROTS



WATER THE PARROTS



FEED THE LEO



WATER THE LEO



AND THE FINCHES TOO



BUDGIES OMG HOW MANY BIRDS



THAT FISHBOWL NEEDS CLEANING



AND I SHOULD PROBABLY EAT TOO
BUT I'M TOO LAZY TO DRAW THAT SO DEAL WITH IT OKAY.

you guys? guess what? it's time for lunch!