come back

GUESS WHAT?! Y is coming back!?!! In September... ;) Its been very hush hush. He hasn't told me too much information about it all. This is what I know. A flight has been booked for 03 September, arriving here 04 September... And I don't know how long. But the good news is he is coming back!!

HURRAH!!

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giggle-full

Today would be a day of smoothies, sushi and gelati.. ;) AND BUBBLE TEA!!

Definitely a giggle-full day. It feels like spring today, sunny and a little bit warm, not stinking hot yet, just warm. A good day for giggles and fun and gelati.

Or a picnic with Y. It would be a good day to lie around under a tree.

I miss you

one of those days

You ever have one of those days where no matter how much work you do, you never seem to get anything done?

Today is one of those days. I swear, I'm stuck in reverse or something. Work just keeps flowing in and I feel like every time I finish something, another 3 things get dumped on my desk!

Its freakin' annoying. No matter how hard I work, I just can't clear anything... Its getting to the stage where I am actually waking up during the night at 3am because I remembered I have to do something else...

Its incredibly tempting to just leave everything and run away. So tempting...

Splendour in the MUD

Splendour in the grass?? No, sorry, I missed that one, went to Splendour in the MUD!! Yes, Splendour weekend last weekend. What an event! Can I just say mud, mud and more mud! It rained on Saturday night, and the "field" soon turned into a big slush pile with 10,000 pairs of feet stomping around. The newest fashion accessory? GUMBOOTS! Yes, everybody was wearing them..and I must say I was envious of them. We even tried to get some on Saturday morning, but you would not believe it, but every shop we went to had sold out...damn! It was the funniest thing to see though. Girls wearing very fashionable clothes, and then for shoes, big, dark green gumboots!! Have you seen the fashion gumboots? The leopard print ones? The polka dotted ones? The green checked ones? The skull and cross bone ones?? I always thought that it was a bit ridiculous to buy gumboots like that, because really, how often will you wear them? BUT, let me just point out, that for a mudfest like the weekend, I almost bought a pair!! ;)


The festival itself was pretty good. My highlights: Snow Patrol, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jose Gonzalez, Angus & Julia Stone...

Okay, I must admit though, that festivals and me just don't click sometimes. I have this uncanny ability to attract incredibly tall people. I'm quite short, which means when I go to festivals or watch bands, most of the time all I see is the back of the people infront of me, with little tiny glances of the people on stage if the people infront of me shift a little. But there are a few things that I cannot stand, that is the people that see me and stand RIGHT infront of me. They see me, they can probably tell that I am considerably shorter than them (although sometimes I think people are a little bit too wasted to notice) and they decide that standing infront of me is the best position. Which means, I get to see a back. Not the band, not glances of the band, but a back, the back of the guy standing infront of me... and yes, it is usually a guy, granted girls do it too.
If I am incredibly lucky and do find a spot that I can see whats happening on stage, I will undoubtedly attract somebody that is completely out of their mind. The people you see that have drunk/smoked a little too much... These are the people that come stumbling through the crowd waving their arms around, trying to talk to everyone. Then they stand there and dance around, using the people around them as support because their world is spinning so much. This means I get an assortment of body parts in my face, elbows, hands, shoulders, chests, backs etc. etc. yeah, great (SARCASM)
Me in a crowd equals a lot of things.. I have often found that I become a bit of a bar stool, or table for the people behind me. Which means I get a lot of elbows in my head, drinks on my head, or cigarettes way too close to my face.
But in all honesty, I give as good as I get.. haha.. yes I get a little bit evil in crowds.. For example: On the weekend, a very tall guy was behind me, and was standing right behind me, pushing his stomach into my back. All I could think about was elbowing him in the stomach! Haha, I almost did, but Brother G saved him by switching spots. Yes, I have been known to push back when people push me, digging elbows into people that are digging their elbows into me. Muwahahah! Evil little Liz... ;)
A perfect example: In the Wolfmother set, I had a spot that had a little bit of a gap between peoples heads. I couldn't see the stage, but I could see the lights (yes I am that short). Standing there quite happily when this GIANT comes and stands next to me. I am talking twice my size, and I am not exaggerating. Anyway, Giant looks at me, I glance at him from the corner of my eye, I'm sending him mind messages which are something like this: "Don't even think about it Gigantor". And 5 seconds later, you will never guess what happens, he takes a step infront of me. Yes, he stood DIRECTLY infront of me. DIRECTLY. I couldn't see a thing. No lights, not even a view over his shoulder of the lights. He was so freakin' huge he actually formed a little bit of a sound barrier between me and the stage. It got awfully quiet behind Gigantor...

The other quite annoying thing is having things spilt over me. Okay, so going to a festival you can be pretty certain you will have something spilt on you at some stage. I have had quite an assortment of liquids and other items...
Beer, water, spit, other alcoholic beverages, glow stick liquid, chewing gum (thrown right into my hair), and the new addition to the list from the weekend: Pineapple smoothie. Yes I am not kidding, pineapple smoothie. There I was, minding my own business watching Tex Perkins, sitting in a tent, when a very large pineapple smoothie was tipped right over the top of my head. A woman was trying to shuffle past the people sitting behind me and she somehow bumped her hand that happened to hold a large cup of pineapple smoothie with no lid, resulting in a drenching like you see on gameshows. Have you seen people sitting under a bucket of green slime or some other liquid, and had the bucket tipped right on their head? Yeah, that was what happened with the pineapple smoothie. Tipped right over my hair, all down my jacket, all over my jeans, all over my bag... everywhere. At first I thought it was vomit, which I am so glad it wasn't.. ew, never been vomited on, touch wood. Still, pineapple smoothie is pretty bad. And it happened quite early in the day on Saturday, which meant I had a pretty crappy day on Saturday. I must apologise to Brother G, I had a little bit of a breakdown after that.. wanted to go home. Sorry about that... But Sunday was a better day. No pineapple head for me!

All in all, Saturday would have been better with no pineapple, and Sunday made up for it. Much better day on Sunday... Much much much.
*yawn*
Now, its time to get some sleep!!
The damage:

good news Tuesday

*happy dance* I don't have to get my wisdom teeth taken out!! *happy dance*

HURRAH! Its very exciting news... I went to the dentist today, because my wisdom teeth have started moving, and one of them has starting coming through, and the dentist told me that I would need to get them taken out. :(

So, I booked in to talk to him about it, and get the referall and everything... But this morning, I spoke to him and we decided that I shouldn't get my teeth taken out just yet, because really, they are causing me no pain. Plus, I will only have a problem with one of them coming through, and luckily, the tooth that is coming through is the good one. Which means no scary wisdom teeth extraction for me!! (yet)

I just have to watch out for them, and if I feel any pain, go back to the dentist, and then probably have them extracted. But, for now, its all good!

Good news Tuesday indeed!

mountains

There is something that I have been thinking about lately, and in the past it has been one of those things that I have thought about, but then after thinking about decided to push to the back of my mind because its such a big thing to do... its a mountain.

But, last night, Y and I were talking about it, and I have lost all my fear.

That mountain is moving to Japan.

Y and I talked about things, and even though it will be difficult, I am not afraid anymore. Of course it will be really different to life here, but I think I am ready, or will be ready...

Surprised? Me too... I am very surprised at how I am feeling about this. In the past I had considered that I might make the move, but to be honest it was something in the distant future. Now, it has dawned on me it will be earlier than I thought... And instead of the panic I thought I would feel, I am actually really confident we can climb this mountain.

Y definitely has something to do with that... *hug*

winter splendour

Guess who got tickets to Splendour in the Grass?! ME!! And my brother G!!

Its in two weeks, and its one of the best music festivals in Australia at the moment. I've been once before, and these days the tickets get snatched up faster than cupcakes at a birthday party!! A limited number of tickets went on sale today, and very suprisingly, they were not sold out!!!!!

Looking forward to: Augie March, Wolfmother, Jose Gonzalez, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Claire Bowditch and the Feeding Set... plus lots more!!

Splendour in the Grass

summer dreams

lay your burdens down,
originally uploaded by Sam Lamb.

I've found myself longing the country life lately... To live the simple life. A simple life in the country, just me and my love. The smell of things baking wafting through a cosy house... Wearing summer dresses and cloud watching. A dog by my side while I sit on a verandah and watch the sun go down. To grow flowers, and have a vege patch...

Maybe its time for a change.

My boss asked me the other week, if I ever had urges to return to the country. Growing up in the country, I think you always will...

One day

*cheer*

happy birthday to me!! ;)

Finally

Well I've finally done it. I've created a blog!

I've been thinking about doing this for a long time now.. mainly because I write journals, lots of them...

Anyway, I thought I would share my small piece of the world. Still working on things...

Will keep you posted!