What I am....

Me thinks this is a subtle hint from Bec to blog a bit more.....

What I am reading:

Well.....in all honestly I should proberly be reading all books for Yits. But that hasn't happened, and I can't imagine that happening any time soon. Oh well.......

I am trying to find a copy of Alice in Wonderland, to read in preparation for my 21st party..its theme being, Alice in Wonderland. Figured it would make sense to read it.

I still have not finished 'Velvet Elvis', by Rob Bell. It is one of my aims these holidays, before finding and reading his next book 'Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality' . That and 'God's Politics', by Jim Wallis.

Also in the waiting list is:

Nick Cave: the complete lyrics 1978 - 2001

One Step Closer: Why U2 matters to those seeking God : Christian Scharen (I found this blog when I started this one...a couple of months later, found the book.)

What I am listening to:

Should really be changed to " What I am NOT listening to," for those who know me well know that i am rarely not listening to it :)

Last weekend I was very very excited to see one of my top 3 bands* Copeland preform at The Corner Hotel, along with Anberlin. It was the first time Copeland have toured in aust, and it was utterly amazing. I am now also liking Anberlin, having heard only one of their songs before seeing them live.

Right at this very moment however, I am listing to the profile song on my myspace, by The Middle East , who I saw a instore gig of a couple of months ago at Fist2Face.

*For those interested (haha) my top 3 bands are:

1. U2 : here and here

2. mewithoutYou : here and here

3. Copeland: here and as above

What I am watching:

I have not been watching a heck of a lot of tv at the moment. But I have made sure that I saw the mini doco The Choir of Hard Knocks. I loved it...words do it no justice.

Movie wise, the other day a couple of us saw Spiderman 3, which I think was the best so far.

Marie Antoinette (even if it did come out late last year) is one of my all time favourite things to watch, and has an amazing soundtrack too.

The Chaser's War on Everything is always on my ipod too for a laugh.

What I am loving:

Winter: hot water bottles, dooners and dvds, good vegie soup, chocolate bread and butter pudding with butterscotch sauce, scarves, jumpers, hoodies, beanies, gloves, ice, frost, thunderstorms, rain, puddles, gumboots, hot showers, thick socks...etc etc :)

Green tea

Kofi Beans : the best coffee shop around!

Music: what would the world be without it? A great gig is always a rad thing.

Threadless: freaking gold tees!

Bec and Geoff : what is there not to love :)

So...i don't really know who reads this thing, i am not going to pass on the meme....however, comment to tell me if you do it!

Twirl for me...twirl like a little girl

Last saturday was Mel's 19th birthday party, Which found a few of us yitsers on our merry way to Bimbo's in the city. An eventful night proceeded.....

Firstly Ali and I met up at eastland, where i proceeded to get a sweet as dress (from a shop that shall rename nameless hehehe) and some sushi.

Mj met us back at my house, and gave me a haircut (quite a bit shorter...still getting used to lol)

Matt and Moo rocked up later...adn off we went.

First of all, Ali needed to drop in at her friends housewarming party in Kew. Whitehorse rd has tram-tracks...all well and good. Untill Ali points out that there is something on the road. I thought it was a dead posum..

Well..it was dead..but it was a dog, which proceeded to make a huge pooping sound as i ran over it. Lots of shreaks resulted from the girls in the back of the car :s

We arrived at the housewarming, feeling slightly out of place....the majority of people were wearing underware on the outside. Met some rad peeps..and we were on our way again.

Found a park real quick, added bonus was that it was free :)

Lined up for about 15 minutes to get in, and then had a rad night :)

Bimbo;s is more famous for their pizza then anything else...and freaking swell pizza it is too. Margareta was fresh as...but the pesto and goats cheese was freakin rad as.

If anyone is interested...during the week, all pizzas are only 4 bucks!!!! Wooooo YEah! They also have sweet pizzas..the chocolate one is ment to be flipping amazing.

(Top photo L>R: Ali, Me, Matt, Moo and Mj)

sing (part 2)

woops
the second person you really need to listen to is Ali Smith..

Sing (cos its obvious)

I have been loving one particular aspect of yits, that has nothing really to do with what we are learning in class. I think it has to be one of the biggest aspects of the year..without it this year, to me, would almost be pointless.
Getting to know 34ish other people, who you will be spending a huge amount of time with, on a number of different levels (emotionaly etc) has been amazing.
I have said before in a previous post, and how quickly we have all come together. Rowan has said that even they (the faciliters) were suprised to see how quickly friendships have formed, and how they haven't been exculsive at all.
One of the sweet things that has come out of all this, is all the new music I have been introduced too. Sounds lame...but its far from it. In particular, we have soooo many talented musicians in the course. So I am going to do some bragging :p

You really should check out these two amazinly gifted peeps:

Josh

BBQ's wasps and paint

Yesterdy morning i woke to the sound of thunder booming around, shaking the whole house. I love the sounds that come with a big storm.

Along with the storm, we lost power to the house from just after 3pm and it came back on around 10.45. Candles provided an amazing atmosphere.

So it was decided that a bbq should be had, and so it did. Cheers to tim for the gas btw :p

While others did their thing, I did mine and ended up with another painting.