Busy Busy Busy...and Exhausted

So I've  been pretty go go go non-stop lately. Last weekend I worked my butt off at my grandparent's house. We were cleaning out the garage and house because it has been sold. Saturday it was me, Mum, Geoff, Colleen, Marg, Neil, Tracey and Jay. We did a great job of getting rid of stuff into a skip. We took a little trip to Maccas for lunch...which was an adventure. Ordering for everyone was kinda problematic, and the whole experience was weird.
That night I went to Kay and Nick's...once I got there, after being stuck in Springvale rd waiting to move through a police booze bus line. -They didn't even test me!
We hate fancy pizza and tried to watch some some Gilbert and Sullivan...but as usual we got distracted after a while. We looked at all Brett and Sarah's trip pics, it was cool to see how some things had changed since I went.


Last week was a general work week for me. Thursday night I had the place to my self cause everyone else went out. It was good though, cause I got to watch some tv outside of my room.
Friday night I went straight to Vanessa's again after work. This time I tried Springvale rd instead of Westall, but I think it took longer, so I'll stick to the regular way.

Saturday I tried to sleep in, but I only was able to sleep till 9 or something. I had the place to myself after I dropped Scott at his footy in Box Hill (after taking him to the ATM first). I did 3 loads of washing, clothes and sheets - that kept me busy. In between that I watched 2 Alias commentaries...which I had forgotten were good cast ones. I also watched an ep of Parenthood. All this before getting ready to go to Vicky's that night. The night did not start out well...I stopped to buy Petrol and got out of the car and realized I was on the wrong side...which is strange and stupid seeing as I only ever buy petrol for THAT car.
THEN I got on the freeway and it kept going and going and going...and it got a little scary once Eastlink came up...anyways I found the right exit and then it got worse once I was off the freeway...I took turns in the wrong places, thought I was going the wrong direction when I was wasn't....but had my map and I got there in the end.   I passed way too much country on my way...I'm a city girl...or at least an inner suburbs girl...I don't do paddocks! lol

Anyways..it was a fun night. We made yummy pizzas, and Vicky made nummy cupcakes. We watched Aladdin of all things....its hard for us all to agree on something, so if we find something...we take it!
After that, Kay, Brett, Ness and I  went around the corner (not quite literally) to Krispy Kreme. The lady let us have our donuts for free -which was awesome!!! After Vicky's thing finished I ended up going to Ness' to watch more Bones, since Vicky's thing finished kinda early.  I had to follow her, and had no idea where she was taking me....we passed a lot of country stuff. We watched 2 eps of Bones and then I went home.

Sunday I slept in till in till 11ish. Which was necessary! Later Mum and I went down to Bentleigh to the house again. Margaret met us down there and the 3 of us cleaned out the place. We packed up the car twice and took stuff to 2 separate op shops and then packed up stuff to take home and drop off at the salvos as well.
I was supposed to go out with Jacinta Sunday night but I was too tired and had a headache, and she was unwell herself!

I've been exhausted all week....hopefully I'll be able to sleep in on the weekend! That'll be great!

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Carlie

Funny isn't it?..

So I'm still going through old blog posts.....and found a funny little comment from a post in 2006.


(re: Cabaret) "I was a little weirded out at the fact that Joel Grey was in it...I had never seen him in anything that old. lol. To me his is Doc from Buffy or the nekkid dead man from Crossing Jordan."

-Its funny how few things I knew him from compared to now!!!! Joel Grey is not only the original Wizard of Oz from Wicked, but he was in Chicago, and Alias, Private Practice, and Grey's, and tons of other stuff.....its weird to only think of him as being from 1 thing! -And I'd also forgotten he was in Crossing Jordan.

They should so get Joel to do a tiny cameo on Glee......


Anyways that's enough tv talk.....but I just wanted to comment on how much my world has changed in 4 years!



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Carlie

Saving Trees???

Okay so I haven't posted here in.....months. But truthfully there hasn't been too much to post about.
'Cept that I saw Wicked and LOVED it. I'm totally hooked and hope they do a movie soon with the originals.

Today after Uni, I was bored and decided to clean out my closet. I'd already cleaned out some old clothes from my draws and they were all over my floor, so I thought I'd keep going. Its amazing some of the stuff you wind up holding onto! I have clothes in there that I haven't worn for at least 2 years and will definately never wear again! Which is REALLY stupid since my closet is the size of a shoebox.

After clearing out my closet, I decided to put away some of my summer shoes I had in boxes on the floor of my room back into the closet where they belonged in the first place. Under them I found a few cardboard boxes that I'd filled with my stuff when I'd completely packed up my room last November when I got my new bed....or didn't....

In these boxes I found 2 (yes TWO!) folders filled with pages and pages of printed out Buffy quotes! Insane! So I immediately when outside and threw them in the recycling. Then I found a whole bunch of old Alias articles and Buffy articles and other misc tv articles. Most I will throw out but there's a couple I might hold on to. I'll see how it goes.
Some of the pages are so old that they have things about people from Baywatch on them! There's also a lot of old WB series stuff and Party of Five stuff, and ER stuff too. And even an article with Marla Sokolof.

It's insane that I'd kept this stuff. But I guess back in my teen years...or late teens it all seemed really important that I keep it. -Even though I haven't wanted to re-read it!


Anyhoo....
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Carlie

Krispy Kremes AT LAST!!!!!!!

So Tuesday was the grand opening of the city store for Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Melbourne. I was so happy cause there was no way I was ever gonna get out to fountain gate to get some. Luckily my mum works right near the store, so on tuesday she brought home a big assorted box. Nikki and I were over the moon! We each had one during Project Runway, and then Nikki and I shared a chocolate one. In total I had about 4...1 original glaze, 1 iced glazed with sprinkles, 1 cinnamon, 1/2 a cinnomon and then the 1/2 devils food one(chocolate).
Mum says she doesn't have to buy any more ever now...but I'm sure that there will be more where that came from...at least at some point in time. Also since its in the city now, I might be able to get some for myself! :D

I've only got 1 day left of my holidays, so far I've been watching movies, gilmore girls (I'm half way through season 4 now), and working on my essay on theories of personality. I also have to get started on a draft for Olga's class about how the peasants in Russia weren't really revolutionaries, and then I have to hand that report in on the 13th of October, which is the same day my research report for Paul's class is due! I can't wait till thats all over! Ness might be coming over that night for Alias watchage. -I have no idea how I'm gonna narrow down my list of eps to watch!

Well not much else to tell....not at all looking forward to working at 7:45am on Saturday...but meh, it's only 3 hours and I need the money!

Oh yes! I am very very very mad at NBC for pushing back the premire date for Crossing Jordan!...well in fact now there is no date at all! October was a long enough wait as it was! ..and the crossover with Las Vegas is gonna be totally messed up now! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh well. ...


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Carlie

Devils and shiny clothes

Last night I went to Vanessa's for another movie night. Brett nicely came and picked me up and then dropped me home again...around 4am. lol.
Me, Ness and Brett decided on pizzas and then watched 13 going on 30...aka Suddenly 30. We wanted a Jen fix and Brett had never seen it. And since Ness is gonna dress up as Jenna for my party we thought it was appropriate. And after that Nick and Kay arrived and we spent ages deciding on a 2nd movie...since it's so hard to get all of us to agree to 1 movie. hehe. So we picked The Three Musketeers, which a few of us had never seen before. -But we were pretty bored by it really, and spent most of the time arguing over the likeability of Kiefer Sutherland aka Jack Bauer. And then of course Charlie Sheen and Chris O'Donnell.

After that we watched all the bloopers for Alias ...and me and Ness almost died of laughter. I think the others found it funny too. Jennifer is so adorably...nuts. ..in fact the whole cast appears to have been insane. lol.
And then Ness put on 'the routine' from Friends. I love that bit.


Today I slept till practically noon, and then we went to the video store and then went to the movies to see 'The Devil Wears Prada' with mum and Nikki. It was funny and pretty cool. I enjoyed it.

Tomorrow I will have to go in and check when I'm working next. And maybe we'll get to do some shopping (hopefully at Chadstone) done too.


Stay cool.

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Carlie

And Into Week No.2

So tomorrow is the offical start of my full week of classes. ...yay. not.
Last week I only had classes Thursday and Friday. I SO don't wanna get up tomorrow morning! lol.

Well I finished the painting last Tuesday. It took me a week..but I finally finished. I moved back in Thursday night.

Friday night I had Vanessa over and we watched Heathers - which we were expecting to be better..but meh. Then we watched the last 4 episodes of the High School years of 90210 and then we watched the finale and a filming of hte finale special. We also watched some bloopers for Will and Grace, Alias, Las Vegas and Angel.
We got pizza and ate WAY too many m&m's and skittles. I had a great time and she left about quarter to 4.

I slept till 12:20 or something and spent the day on the sims2. I had to work from 7-12pm, so that wasn't much fun. It was oddly busy for a saturday night. But at least I didn't have to work today.

Nikki and Mum got home early this morning. We all slept in, and in the afternoon Nikki and I watched Desperate Housewives from Monday (I downloaded the ep cause I had to work) and then we watched 4 episodes of Friends.
I have to work tomorrow arvo which sucks...but at least it's only for 3 hours. Then I get to come home and watch DH and GA. and I'll tape Law and Order: SVU. Stupid networks messing with all my shows.

Tonight I watched another ep of Crossing Jordan on foxtel. 'Out of Sight' it was good one. Not great..but good.

I was going through some old mags today and found SO many pics and bits relating to people from things. It was kinda fun.

I'm really quite tired. At least my bed is comfy now. - I fixted it when I put it back together so that now it doesn't rock and mess with my back. And the new sheets and doona cover rock too!
-It's still a little odd not having posters on the walls though! lol

Arivedeci

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Carlie

Hidey Ho All

Wow it's been a while since I've posted...

I'm currently in my second week of holidays from TAFE. ...and I'm ever so slowly getting through all the things I have to do. I'm halfway through season 3 of my Alias dvds. I'd forgotten just how much I loved season 3. -Not as much as 1 and 2..but still I loved so many of the eps...and had also forgotten what happened...although today I found myself quoting things before they had already been said. lol.

I've watched season 1 and 2 of the big box o Friends. I'm half waiting for Nikki to get back to watch the rest, since she loves it so much.
Her and mum left for Darwin on Tuesday morning. So it's just me, dad and Scott for two whole weeks...could get interesting.
Toffee seems to really miss Nikki. I do too! I keep wanting to tell her things..and then remember she's not here! -I can't wait till she gets back.

I'm finally gonna start painting my room tomorrow. I cleaned it all out today....about 7
years of crap stored up. I have boxes and bags of stuff stored in the dining room till my room is done.
I also totally freaked out the other night and almost couldn't sleep, because I had NO posters AT ALL on my walls....I haven't not had posters since I was about 8 or something. So yeah...It was very unsettling and freaky.
Tonight I'm gonna be sleeping in Nikki's room. -Her bed is comfy, so hopefully I will get a decent nights sleep...but then it always takes me forever to get used to knew sleeping locations..even though I don't mind new places...it's also gonna be weird sleeping in that room again...my old room. weird.

Well not much else to report. I watched the baseball this morning. and for once, one of my teams actually won the sport I was watching! - It never works for basketball.
I love baseball. -Always have!
Go The Red Sox!

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Carlie.

Trouble Times Like A THOUSAND!

Today was just a bad day. Actually it had it's moments....

Like I got to watch a new episode of Crossing Jordan! yay. That was ep 12. Weird. It feels like there have been more than that.

Before that I took Nikki up to the school to collect her books for the year. Scott went off to work and was out all day.
Dad came home at 1pm (about 10 minutes after I finished watching the great ep of CJ), and then he drove me to Prahran for my enrollment.

-He was a total pain, because he was there...off shopping and would just come in and pay the fees. He made me go through all this jazz, so that he could pay over the phone or something. He's a total flake and I am really mad at him for it. I asked and everything.
People should know that for me to ask for something, especially from my parents or other grown-ups (eg. teachers) is a really hard thing for me. And he just has to be a pathetic jerk. oh well. What am I gonna do. *sigh*

So then anyways...I stayed and chatted with Jacinta, Kelly and Judith while they paid, and then went and met dad. Who decided to stay around. Grrr.
We stopped at Ashburton on the way home to buy bread...and I waited in the car. I was totally bombarded with things relating to my tv shows. lol. From Duchamp clothing, to a Molly Sims ad on the window of the chemist, to some guy Tim from a realestate place. lol.
-It amused me.

When I got home I sat on the computer. Mum came home and I ended up getting into a huge fight with everyone because I was expressing my feelings about Dad and his deal!
Then mum got annoyed with me because I had not sent off for my health care card yet. Then because I was annoyed that my black pants are missing. So we went off to Target eventually to buy some new ones. It wasn't easy. lol. But we found a pair for now. I need a pair to wear to my interview at safeway tomorrow arvo. -Hopefully I will get a job and have some money to buy some new clothes! That'd be nice.

We got back and I watched tv. I went though some more old tapes. Then just before 8pm, I made my dinner. I hadn't eaten all day...well since the breffles I had around 11am. I was starving!!
Then I watched Will and Grace and then a repeat of NCIS. I think I had seen part of this ep before. Weird. lol.
Then I watched an ep of Sliders. And read another chapter of Tom Sawyer. Then I watched the blooper reels from Alias and then another ep of Sliders.
Tomorrow Scott isn't working. So he will be home all day. -No fun at all!
My interview is at 3:30pm, down at Camberwell. I will catch the tram down.

I am downloading a new ep of Las Vegas. Oh and channel 7 will start season 3 next Thursday night! I can't wait! hehe.


Toodles

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Carls