A Whole Week Without Boredom!

Saturday August 10th - Saturday August 17th
My Mum, Sister and I went to visit my Nan who lives in Newcastle while my Dad was in Grafton doing a work related course. We got to go in a car provided by the company Dad works for, it was a Toyota Aurion, I'd definitely recommend that car to anyone by the way.
6 hours of each Saturday was spent on the road, I love being on the road. My sister and I were in the backseat listening to music, reading, watching Skins on my ipod and playing our DS's blah blah blah. Anyway, we got to Nan's house at about 4pm on the 10th the rest of that day was spent unpacking the car and settling in.
Sunday, I admit, was kind of boring Dad left to go to Grafton and Nan went to visit Papou (he's in a home because he has Dementia) That meant Mum, Ash and I were at Nan's house on our own, with no car, for most of the day. We just sat around eating M&Ms and reading magazines and doing find-a-words.
Monday Nan decided to have a day away from Papou to spend time with us, we went to Glendale to do some shopping...a lot of shopping, I think we wore Nan out. Nan says that my Mum was born to shop and she's never seen anyone else who can spend half an hour in a shop and come out empty handed. Nan also is mind boggled by how badly behaved my sister is whilst out shopping and how hard she is to please. While shopping at Glendale we found this Japanese shop where everything in store was $2.80 and I found some letter writing sets, something I'd been looking for for months, so I was super happy with that. I also got a bunch of other stuff but my second best purchases were a suitcase thing from the reject shop, which unbeknownst to the check-out chick had 2 smaller suitcases inside it. And some Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, which I'd never seen in real life before...They are divine! After shopping we all went to Darby's and ate an immense amount of pies and sausage rolls.
Tuesday Nan visited Papou again, but this time Mum dropped her off so we could use her car. Mum then took my sister and I to Nobby's beach...Yes we went to the beach (for the first time in like 6 years I might add) in Winter, Go home Australia, you are drunk. Anyway, the beach was absolutely beautiful of course. I've always said Newcastle has the most beautiful beaches in Australia. I'd take Nobby's over Bondi any day! So my sister and I took a LOT of photos. We walked around Nobby's beach for a few hours taking photos and running away from the waves until it was time to go pick Nan up. We then went op-shopping (My Nan's favourite passtime aside from garage sale-ing) it was a lot of fun, I got a bunch of old books and the Mary Poppins soundtrack on vinyl. We went to all the op-shops in Wallsend, which is a lot compared to the 2 op-shops in my town. Tuesday made me re-consider my plans to move to Melbourne, I've started thinking maybe I want to move back to Newcastle instead.
Wednesday Mum and Nan both went to visit Papou, thankfully my sister and I were given the choice to go with them or not. There's no way I would be able to handle seeing him how he is now, so Ash and I stayed at Nan's house while they were gone. We cleaned up the room we had to share while we were there, I tried to turn the TV on but it was just far too technical for me so we went out on the back verandah and I read my book while Ash did more find-a-words. That afternoon my favourite cousin, Korey came to visit for a while. He's almost 30 and has been smoking for a few years, Mum offered him a smoke while Nan was inside, he replied with "Nah, Nan doesn't know I smoke" When Nan came out my Mum proceeded to dob Korey in for smoking. It was quite funny.
Thursday Nan had another day off visiting Papou, we went shopping again. This time we went to Jesmond and Waratah, it was a pretty epic shopping expedition. My best purchases of this day were some awesome Bras (this is a big thing, it's pretty hard to find bras that I like in my size) and in this one shop I happened upon a bunch of cheap Australian post-cards to send to my penpals, and a calligraphy set :D Thursday afternoon my cousin Josh visited, bringing with him his fiance for us to meet. In my opinion she's, as my Nan would say "Not a full quid" and a bit of a bunny boiler haha...My first impression is that I don't like her much.
Friday actually followed a similar format to Tuesday, except on Friday Mum took us to Stockton beach. We walked along the break wall and saw two enormous coal ships being tugged in to the harbour, naturally I also took a bunch of photos. After watching the ships we went down to the beach itself and collected a crazy amount of shells and some driftwood, with the intention of taking them home to make wind chimes...unfortunately we ended up forgetting them when we left Nan's house on Saturday. After we had satisfactorily combed the beach it was time to pick Nan up. That afternoon Josh visited again, this time without his ditsy fiance. Josh's stepfater, my honorary Uncle also visited and then my Nan's "Bestest Friend" also popped in for a while. It was quite a chaotic and very loud and amusing afternoon. Korey and his Mum, who is my Mum's best friend were also supposed to visit, but they didn't.

So there, that's a summary of the best week I've had in years. I was very sad to leave Newcastle and very disappointed to get home to Tumut. The trip home was really good, but I could actually feel my good mood draining away as we got closer to home. On the upside though I arrived home to 6 letters from penpals so that made me very happy again for a couple of days :)

A moot point and a perfect metaphor

Now that the 30 Day Blog Challenge is over I've got no idea what to blog about, I had an idea of what I wanted my blog to be when I started it, I wanted it to be a "Me" blog. But now I'm not sure what direction to take it in.
Should I make it like a diary where I recount my days thoughts and feelings? I'm not sure about that because I've got a paper journal where I already forget to write every day, and I'm sure no-one would care to read about my depressingly dull life.
Should I make it all about my writing and poetry? I don't think so because I'd be lucky to post one piece a month, and now with my finally having access to the internet all the time and having nothing but spare time on my hands that's just not enough.
Should I make it a health/diet/fitness type blog? I'm not sure about this either because my methods are far from healthy and I don't want to trigger anyone if they accidentally stumble across my blog.
Should I make it a foodporn/Recipe blog? But that's so cliche at the moment and there's millions of those already, the standard is far too high. I'm apprehensive about making it a fat chic fashion blog for the same reason.
Should I take it in the arty farty crafty photography-ish direction? I've got my doubts about my ability to do this also because, well my abilities in this area are mediocre at best, so while I'm passionate about all these things I would lack the "WOW" factor.
haha this blog is currently the perfect reflection of my real life. So many directions it could be going in and yet it is totally and completely directionless. But on the upside it's easy to make my blog a mixture of all of the aforementioned things, going back to 'Plan A' and making it a "Me" blog...rendering this entry moot in the process. It's not so easy to do so in real life.

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 30!

What changed this month and what you hope will happen next month.

This past month nothing has really changed, it all started to look up but that only lasted a week. Now it's all back to normal.

• I started to lose weight, then I started binge eating...again.
• I started exercising every day, then I gave up...again.
• I reconnected with an old friend, we haven't spoken for over a week.
• I had a glimmer of hope for a few days, now it's gone.
• I started a course at TAFE that I thought would be really cool, it's not.
• I finished my old journal, I've got a new one now.
• I have a new computer.
• My itunes is OCD compliant now.

For the next month I hope that I can get back on track with losing weight, I hope I can do it by eating right and exercising, I hope I do get obsessed, at least then I'll be able to stick to it again. I hope that when I get back from Newcastle it will be with a new camera and to a pile of penpal letters. I hope I can sell my bass guitar. I hope I get a job and I hope that now that I've stuck with doing this blog challenge thing for 30 days I'll be able to stick with more things in life without giving up when it gets hard or I get bored.

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 29

A picture of yourself.

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This is me...well me trying to make me not look as ugly as I really am. This photo is my most recent 'selfie' and is currently my display pic or profile pic or whatever on Facebook, Tagged, Instagram and the tumblr account I've recently created for my photography. It will remain so until the next time I take a photo I almost like.

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 28

The month you were happiest this year why.

Umm...This one I guess, August, The 8th month. Because it's only 3 days old and there's been almost no negativity... yet. This year, last year and the year before have been exceptionally crappy. Some good things have happened, but as a whole, they've been crap. Lol, I'm such a pessimist.

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 27

Talk about your siblings.

I have one little sister, her name is Ashleigh and she's 15, but I call her 12 to annoy her. I do lots of things just to annoy her because I think she's really funny, especially when shes annoyed. She loves music, taught herself to play guitar and keyboard and tries to sing (she's not very good at that) She's totally crazy and cares WAY too much about people. She and I have a lot of fun together being crazy and silly and laughing our heads off, usually at nothing much. She also paints a lot but her art really doesn't have any meaning or anything, she mostly just blots bits of paint in different colours here and there. Occasionally she will put words on her paint splotches. She tries to dance too, but she's about as good at that as singing. Also she's a kind of bookworm, not as much as me and mum because she is way too addicted to the internet, but a little bit of reading is better than none. She was a late blooming kind of bookworm. Another funny thing about her is she thinks she's all smart and a spelling champ and grammar nazi but not too long ago she put up a facebook status about her 'swallon toe' not swollen, swallon. She also says she's a potterhead but told me Harry Potter was dumb and she hated it until she was a tween and she still hasn't read the last 10 chapters of the Deathly Hallows. That's about all I can think of to write about her for now, so there you have it, a brief history of Ashleigh.

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 26

Your religious beliefs.

To each their own, but honestly I'm not big on religion. Personally, I think it's all made up and only really stupid people actually believe in 'God' or 'Jesus' or whatever. I really could go on and on and on about how dumb I think religion and church and most of the people who are into that stuff are but I'm not going to.
My beliefs are: I believe in things that I can see, or see hard proof of and as far as a 'Higher Power' goes, the only one I believe in is nature.