goldenone's journals

it is getting soooo wintery.  all the hills are invisible because of the mist and the sky is grey grey grey.

i need a job that means i get to travel with the summer the whole time.  what job would that be i wonder...

Here are some photos of my beautiful cat Orlando who died a couple of years ago.  He was the best cat EVER.

This is the day we brought him home from the Animal Welfare place, with Coffee (the black one)




Awwwww with Coffe and Harley (the tabby)


The happiest little schmao in the world


Orlando and Coffee went everywhere together




This is Coffee.  When he got hit by a car, Orlando had to be put on Valium, he was so upset =(


Landy was pretty much convinced he was human and therefore should sleep with his head on the pillow, too.


Could he be any happier


"If I sit on you, you can't escape"


Streeeeeetttccccchhhhhh


He just wasn't all sleek and dignified like other cats



FAT


This is my favourite photo of us together - it was right before he died.  He LOVED strawberries and would get really worked up if you were eating them and didn't offer him any.  We were having breakfast together.

I miss my schmao =(

oh my god. oh my god. i MUST have this. i want it starting just above my buttcrack, then angled onto the right side of my back, ending about halfway up.

why doesn't anyone want to tell me about their proposal/wedding story? waaahhh

i'm in this sentimental mood and no one wil indulge me =(

go to the relationships forum and tell me your romantic story IMMEDIATELY

seriously is there anything better than tea? i don't think so.

all i need is a muffin with peanut paste -sorry, peanut BUTTER - on one side and vegemite on the other

mmmmmmmm

1. Spell your first name backwards:
eurp.  lovely

2. Story behind your myspace display name?
uh... it's my name

3. What month were you born in?
february, during a heatwave

4. Where do you live?
south australia

DESCRIBE YOUR:

6. Toothbrush:
pink

7. Jewellery worn daily:
signet ring, earrings

8. Pillow cover right now?
ummmm blue striped?

9. Underwear:
lacy, wooooo

10. Best Friend:
hot

12. Favorite t- shirt:
don't have one =(

13. Cologne/Perfume:
paris hilton - don't judge me, i just like it okay

14. CD in stereo:
mp3 with like 70 songs on it

15. Piercings:
ears only

WHAT ARE YOU:

16. Wearing now:
work clothes plus polar fleece cos it's freeeeezing in here

17. Wishing for:
home time

18. Wanting:
something sweet to eat

20. Something you are deathly afraid of?
having my feet tickled. it makes me cry

21. Do you like candles:
i like scented ones. otherwise what's the point?

22. Do you like the taste of blood:
uh no

23. Do you believe in love:
i don't really understand it

25. Do you believe in God?
no

26. What's something you wish you could understand better?
maths

FASHION STUFF:

31. Where is your favorite place to shop?
anywhere with skatewear

32. What is your favorite thing to wear?
see above! trackies, hoodies, trainers - that's me

33. What is a must have accessory?
watch

34. How much is the most you've ever spent on a single clothing item?
hmmmm not much more than $200. i'm a tightass

35. Who is the least fashionable person/people you know?
ryan's pretty daggy

36. Do you match your belt with your hair color?
no!

37. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
about 20. most of them are thongs or sneakers

38. What is the worst trend you see today?
emo hair

RANDOMNESS:

39. Do you do drugs?
uhhh sometimes...

40. What kind of soap do you use?
whatever's cheap and smells good and liquid, not bar soap

41.What are you listening to right now?
cars going brrrrrrrm down the road

42. Who was the last person that called you?
uhhh someone for work i think

43. Where do you want to get married?
if i had to get married, in a garden in thongs or barefeet

44. How many buddies are online right now?
no idea

45. What are essentials in your life?
cheese, carbs, warmth, my glasses, books to read

46. Do you send out holiday cards each year?
no i'm slack

47. Hair right now?
pain in my ass. i'm going to get some products tonight!

49. When was the last time you got a sunburn?
when i went back to the solarium for the first time in ages, i got a bit burnt on my chest despite the sunscreen

51. Things that drive you crazy?
lateness, people who interrupt every time you say something, the sound of my acrylic nails on the keyboard

52. Do you think you are a good driver?
yes, i don't get angry

53. Who did you last text message?
ryan's brother to say happy birthday

54. Where are you right now?
at work... yawn...

okay your turn thanks!

today i have yummy beef stroganoff for my lunch. i love the days when i have something tasty in the fridge, and then i can't wait for lunchtime!

my stroganoff is the easiest recipe in the world but i love it. it doesn't have mushrooms in it cos they're gross. it's just beef, onions, sour cream and tomato paste. mmm hmmmm.

well... the end i guess...

apparently lower back tattoos are called "whore marks" according to a girl i work with.

she told me that after i'd described the lower back tattoo i want. i'm like "THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING TO ME". she is really stupid though, like REALLY stupid - stupid enough that i actually can't hold it against her.

i'm going to get my nails refilled on thursday night. i'm definitely going with gold tips because i love to be trashy wherever possible and shock my family.

speaking of which, i want to get a tattoo on one of my fingers. is that really foolish? i want to get a heart on my rude finger on my left hand. either that, or something on my ring finger. i really like the idea now but i can see how i would come to regret it... i'll have to think this one over carefully.

it's that funny time of year when it takes a second to remember whether the weather is cooling down or warming up. sadly for us it's cooling down. it must be time to go for a drive through the hills and look at all the pretty leaves changing colour.  it's all misty and damp and you can smell woodsmoke from everyone's chimneys, then you pull up to some old pub and have hot chocolate next to the fire - makes cold weather enjoyable! i love autumn except for knowing it's going to get colder and rainier.

i am so over not having a digital camera. all my journal entries are boring cos there's no photos =(
can anyone recommend a good camera for under $300.  preferably one that comes in a range of cute colours...

... there's nothing better than sitting in front of the computer with a big bowl of pasta and re-reading my favourite gg's journals. it always cheers me up to shovel spaghetti and cheese in my mouth and read about someone's life on fast forward.  everything scoots past so fast, one entry it's all excitement about a trip away and then the very next entry is photos of the trip.  you can read a whol year's worth of events in an hour or two.  i don't know why that comforts me.

at the moment i just can't face work and i keep coming home early, begging sick, so i can hang out on my own and read, eat, do housework and stuff.  luckily it's a long weekend this weekend so i can have the break i obviously need.

oh my god, the course i'm doing has been stressing me out so badly, like one of the assignments gives me a panic attack every time i think about it, and i just am too terrified to get started on it or do anything because i don't even know where to start. it's due at the end of this month and i've just shoved it to the back of my desk and can'ty even look at it. i was talking to one of my friends who did the course a couple of years ago and apparently that subject isn't actually required to get licenced.  you need to to get your diploma, but i don't care about that. i can get licenced and start practising without doing half the subjects you need for the diploma.  needless to say i'm dropping out of the panic attacks subject.

i'm so annoyed with itunes. years ago i got all my cds and diligently ripped them onto the computer as wma files. then i got an ipod so i had to transfer them all into itunes (incidentally in that process i lost all the file names so i have to rename like 1,000 songs, which obviously sucked badly). just recently i got a car with an mp3 player. it turns out that 75% of my music in itunes is in aac format instead of mp3 so i had to convert them all. that was ANNOYING but it only took an evening. then i discovered that all the music i had bought off itunes wouldn't convert to mp3. these are songs i've PAID for and i can't change the format. now i'll have to burn them to a cd and then rip them back onto the computer, making sure i rip them into mp3 format. i bet the quality will be just top notch after that little exercise. NOT.

stupid itunes and ipod and temperamental apple products.  grrrr

tonight i'm going to get my hair cut and bleached as white as possible. i'm going back to the solarium to get a bit of a tan because number 1, my skin is getting really bad again and the solarium clears up the rashes etc and number 2, if i have white blonde hair and no tan i will be just too washed out - especially with my big black glasses!

okay well that's enough ramble-town for today. my friend kelly is coming to pick me up soon so i should ge pretty myself up for her

xxx

My sister lives on a farm outside a town called Tintinara, way out in the country about 2 hours from Adelaide.

They had the SA Tractor Pull Championships at Tintinara this weekend.  I have never been to a tractor pull in my life and even now I'm not really sure what the aim was (other than making a lot of noise and carcinogenic smoke...) but here are some photos:

This tractor had two rotary engines so I obviously had to take a photo of that for my rotary enthusiast friends

Please take note of the giraffe-shaped bouncy castle to keep the little tackers entertained while Mum and Dad swig beer and watch the pull.

This tractor was called the Terminator and you can see why - once everyone has breathed in that toxic smoke we're all going to die of cancer.

After seeing the smoke made by the Terminator I wanted to get a can of spray paint and graffiti "ENVIRONMENTAL RAPIST" down the side.  Either that, or enter next year with a tractor called the Environmental Rapist.

Other names I enjoyed were the Riverina Screamer, Bonky's Banga, the Murray Muncha, Hellrazor... you get the idea.  There was a tractor which had three engines, and there was one with six wheels (four at the back, two at the front), but my phone had gone flat so I didn't get any photos of them :(

Apparently one of the tractors had a 28L engine.  My Charade has a 1.3L engine.

It was an awesomely bogan day out and alongside truck-racing it's my new favourite motorsport.  Especially cos I still cant' figure out what they were trying to do.  It's not like those tractors are going out into the paddocks to pull a harvester tomorrow.