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its like you're a drug; [May 01, 2008 @ 6:02pm] [ mood | bouncy ] Ok I know I've been a horrible livejournal friend lately but I'm sure you all believe me when I keep insisting I will get back into it again eventually right? I'm nothing if not annoyingly consistent. But.... I just had to break my silence to fangirl over The Host. I thought it didn't come out until the 6th because that was the date on Amazon but I was in borders today and saw it there (they had a little display and everything) so I had to grab a copy. I also took the time to figure out that 5 other books were also missing, so people have been buying it! Yay :D It was unfortunate that I found it today of all days though when I already had 2 books in my tiny bag and I couldn't zip the dam thing up with all 3 in it. I started reading before my lecture when I got back to school (I had gone to see Made of Honor with my mum in my break, It was hilarious and Patrick is so cute :D) and I was completely hooked after the first chapter. I'm so shocked that I actually was able to drag myself away from the book to go to my lecture. I read all the way home on the bus (except at the beginning when I had to stand and with the way our bus drivers drive these days, both hands are required to grip frantically to the bars) and then I could have sworn we were still suburbs away from home when I just happened to look up and see that we were turning on to my street. If I had of decided to finish the page I was reading before looking up I probably would have missed my stop :P So in conclusion: Stephenie Meyer is awesome no matter which characters she is writing about and for anyone worried that their love of Twilight will not translate across to her new novel - fear not :P Oh and I hope you guys are all well and everything! Hopefully I'll catch up on some commenting this weekend! 13

smile :) [April 19, 2008 @ 11:02pm] [ mood | crazy ] So very very very bored tonight. Nothing to do but be a camera whore and snap a bunch of myspace-esque piccies of myself :P ( enjoy :D (dial uppers beware) ) Sorry I haven't commented all week. That was the last of the annoying assignments for now so hopefully I'll do better this week :) 3

twilight art! [April 19, 2008 @ 5:40pm] [ mood | creative ] This has been a crazy week. Assignments, annoying problems at work which have resulted in me quitting and more assignments :) And now I bring you Twilight art :D I'm not completely in love with any of these, but I haven't made anything for ages so I was happy just to get a couple decent walls out. Thoughts? :)

lets get graphical [April 13, 2008 @ 8:30pm] Heres my attempt at the handwriting meme: ( Marvel at my ugly handwriting! ) and this is me bragging about my shiny desktop! I love customizing my laptop, changing all the program icons and such. I love this wallpaper I found too. Its so pretty! Anyway. Thats all for now. I'm dying my hair right now and I have to go rinse it out :P I'm going slightly lighter this time. I've had a very dark brown for a while now so I've decided to go with 'Chesnut'. Its a light brown with a tinge of red in it. It will probably still turn out kind of dark though since I'm putting it on top of the dark brown, but hopefully it will look good :) Night all! 5

back again [April 12, 2008 @ 2:22pm] [ mood | drained ] Hey guys! I disappeared again. Shock. I'm sure we all saw that one coming though huh? But hey, I have some pretty good excuses this time. I'm going to go through the last 2 weeks and catch everyone up (yeah I've been missing for 4 weeks, but the first two were holidays and involved me watching tv and pigging out on chocolate, relaxing but boring). Anyway, the saga begins; Friday 28th March My day off, and the last day of holidays. I was planning on starting the assignments I had been ignoring all week but then my Buffy dvds arrived and I was distraction bound. I love my dvds! The box is so pretty and I love all the extras. Has anyone else watched the sit-down conversation with Joss and a bunch of writers and some of the cast? It was hilarious, I loved it! So I spent all day watching Buffy, Twilight arrived too but I didn't start reading it yet. Saturday 29th March Saturday I had to work so I took Twilight with me to read on my lunch break. When I got to work Evelyn took the book out of my bag and started reading it. I converted my first Twilight fan before I even started reading the book :) After that the rest of the day was spent with us taking turns reading and hiding from the security camera (Our boss spies on us to make sure we don't spend all day talking :P). When I got home all I wanted to do was keep reading Twilight but Marissa's brother was having a party so she dragged me over to hang out. I didn't drink much, just 4 bottles of smirnoff, but I completely blanked on the fact that I hadn't eaten a thing all day so it hit me really hard. 3 hours later I was throwing up on her front porch with her mum standing beside me asking if I was ok. They teased me mercilessly the next time I was over. Sunday 30th March I got to work on Sunday to find Evelyn on the computer reading Twilight, she downloaded the torrent file because she didn't want to have to wait for me :P So Sunday was spent racing each other back to the computer so we could read. Sunday night I pretty much finished the book. By this point I knew I was obsessed and since Eclipse isn't out here in stores yet I bought it on amazon. Monday 31st March I finished Twilight on the bus on the way to Uni Monday morning. Then I had an hour until my first class so I started reading it again :P When the class started the teacher had to go print something out, she said she would be 5 minutes but 10 minutes later she still hadn't shown up and then my evil twin took possession of my body and made me skip the class, head to the bus stop, and catch the bus to the closest mall so I could go buy New Moon (I swear I had nothing to do with it!). I spent the rest of the day reading :). Tuesday 1st April Had Tuesday off. Finished New Moon by lunch time, then by around 2 I realised I couldn't wait 2 weeks for Eclipse to arrive so I downloaded the pdf file and started reading that. Once again I did zero work on my impending assignments. Wednesday 2nd April Worked today. I was pretty much a zombie, I think I freaked Emma out a little, but oh well. After work I had classes from 4-8, somehow I ended up spending those 4 hours in the library at Uni reading Twilight (see, I'm obsessed :P) and then when I got home I read some more of Eclipse. Thursday 3rd April Actually went to my lecture today. Shock! It was boring though so I left early. Finished Eclipse when I got home. Friday 4th April Day off. Finished Twilight for the second time. I've decided it is my purpose in life to see how many times I can read these books before getting bored. My dad came home from work early today because he had a doctors appointment. He has been getting really exhausted lately after the tiniest bit of exercise. When he got there the Doc ran a couple tests and then told him to go straight to the hospital. Saturday 5th April Got to work today, was looking forward to talking to Evelyn about Twilight, but she finished at 1 and I started at 1 so I only saw her for a couple of minutes. She told me she wants Jacob and Bella to hook up though, I was like "Whaaaaaatttt???". Found out my Dad had actually had a heart attack. He had a blocked artery and was going to have surgery on Tuesday. I probably should have been freaking out or something but I wasn't worried, I knew he would be ok. Went out to dinner with my friends. It was ok, but I didn't really like the food I ordered that much. Sunday 6th April I was looking forward to arguing about Jacob with Evelyn today but when I got to work she told me that her boyfriend broke up with her last night so we spent the day complaining about men in general. Went to see my Dad after work. It was a little scary seeing him so weak. Started reading New Moon again. Monday 7th April Stayed home from Uni today to work on my assignments. My brother is on holidays now so we ordered a pizza and watched TV most of the day. Went to see Dad again. He seemed a little better. Was kinda scared about the surgery though. Tuesday 8th April Day off. Hung around at home again. Pretended to work on my assignments whenever mum came in to the room. Dad had his surgery today. There was a little drama afterwards when he started bleeding but he's doing alright. Wednesday 9th April Worked during the day. Pretty boring. I bought a new wallet that I love, its so shiny. Had an assignment due that night so I worked on that when I got home. Dad came home today, he was pretty much in bed the whole time I was there though. Thursday 10th April Had another assignment due this arvo and I had to work (busy, busy, busy) but I managed to get it done on time. Read a bunch more of new moon on the bus on the way home. It was Dad's birthday today. We didn't really have time to get him much but I bought him a DVD and the new Stephen King novel. Friday 11th April Had another assignment due today. By now I was exhausted so I was having some trouble with it, then I went to check the uni website and saw that my assignment had been extended until Monday. I was ecstatic! I started watching my buffy dvds and then fell asleep and pretty much slept the whole day. My brother dragged me down to the shop that night so that I would buy him some booze (I'm such a good big sister :P) and I bought myself some chocolate and marshmallows and spent the night watching buffy. Saturday 12th April And here we are, Saturday! My Dad's up and about, nagging me to clean up my room, so he's doing much better now :) I'm watching Buffy and sorting through my emails. Its been a couple weeks since I've replied to any of them. Hopefully I'll find some time to work on my site again soon. Haven't finished New Moon yet, but I want to finish it before Eclipse arrives so that I can read that again too. Then begins the countdown until Breaking Dawn. I hope you are all doing ok! I'm going to go back through my f-list a couple of days, but if anything major happened to you guys please fill me in :D 11

and now i'm broke; [March 12, 2008 @ 11:45am] I bought the American buffy dvds. The voting was evenly split and I really had no idea which one I liked better so I decided to go with the cheaper ones, that way I could buy Twilight as well :) Hopefully I'll actually have time to read it huh? I'm sure I'll finish it someday, it just might take me a while. Today is pretty boring. Class in the morning. Hang around for 6 hours until class in the afternoon. I'll go meet my Dad for lunch in an hour, so he will buy my food, we'll have something yummy :) eta. We ate at a sushi train! It was hilarious, dad had 3 plates of the same thing before he realised how much it costs. And I almost knocked over a plate trying to grab the one I wanted. We were on the corner and the dam train moved too fast. I'm still hungry, but it was an interesting experience :) Just watched the Stargate Atlantis finale! Don't worry, no spoilers, but OMG! Wow, that was such a cool episode. It really felt like an SG1 ep to me, which I loved :) Anyway, blueymcphluey and I are thinking about starting our own challenge community. And by thinking about I mean debating over every detail possible and changing our ideas and opinions constantly. But what we're thinking about right now is supplying some caps a stock and a hires photo and letting the entrants do whatever they want with them (icons, walls, textures, brushes) and you don't have to use all the images, just whichever ones you like. We will have a best for the large fanart, small fanart and other categories, and its all going to be centered around creativity. We will have a viewers choice as well, and then every 2 months (challenges are 2 weeks btw) the 4 overall winners from each challenge will go into the SuperAwesomeMega Challenge where the winner gets a paid account. Sound good? Anyone interested? Got some improvements/ideas? 7

one more for the shelf [March 11, 2008 @ 3:46pm] [ mood | ecstatic ] My Tru Calling dvds arrived this morning! How cool is that? It took them 6 days! See now thats why I don't bother paying for the express postage. :D Now I just have to figure out what I'm going to buy next. I'm thinking of selling all my Buffy dvds and buying myself the complete series boxset. Only thing I'm not sure of is which one to get. Theres the American one, UK one and the Australian one. Hmm... Anyone got an opinion? ETA/ I figured it wouldn't hurt to show you guys the options. Which one do you all like best? American: at $99USD UK: at $140USD Australian: no point in keeping this one up, its ugly! My Thoughts/ I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be getting the Australian ones, they're pretty ugly compared to the rest. Plus its a 39 disc set and the others are 40 discs so I guess they have more extras. The colors on the UK one are pretty cool and I love the size of it. How the separate seasons slide in like a normal boxset? That will fit perfectly on my shelf. I have this issue though with ugly ratings images on my dvds. When the Australian dvds started having them (as you can see in the image) like that is when I stopped buying them. The uk one isn't as bad, but its not pretty. ETA2/ I forgot to mention prices. They're not particularly expensive and I'm not too bothered about a $40 difference, but it is another tick in the American column. On another sidenote, there have been so many guest stars in Tru Calling that I had no idea about. Joe Flanigan, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Cobie Smulders, Bellick from Prison Break, and others that I've forgotten. Its so cool seeing them all :) 9

objectify me. [March 08, 2008 @ 7:02pm] [ mood | enthralled ] The Tag: 01. Compose a list of YOUR top ten sexiest famous men. 02. Collect one picture of each guy on your list. 03. Post them in your journal. 04. Tag five people to do the same. ( my favorite eye candy ) I don't like tagging, anyone who reads this can consider themselves tagged if they want. 6

my amazing discovery [March 07, 2008 @ 1:18pm] [ mood | happy ] Did you guys know about http://lj-directory.com? This website is a godsend. I love it. *bookmarks* 8

200mph [March 07, 2008 @ 11:03am] [ mood | creative ] Didn't get much sleep last night. I had a huge coffee at 10 in the morning and for some annoying reason the only thing coffee does to me is keep me up until 3 in the morning. So for the last couple of months I haven't been drinking much of it, but now that I'm back at uni I'm starting back up again. One thing it does do though is put my brain on overload. Lying on my bed last night I had so many thoughts running through my head. I actually planned out a 10,000 word short story which I really hope I get around to writing. I haven't written anything but essays for the last 4 years so I have no idea where the sudden compulsion to write came from, but I really want to finish this. Just some random thoughts on what it will be like, without actually telling you any of the plot: - 10 chapters long, with 1000 words to each. I might have to lower that if i start writing and can't think of anything though. It wont be longer, my timeframe is pretty creative outburst proof. I might have a short interlude 3/4 of the way through though. - I can't decide if I want a prolouge and epiloge yet. Chapter 10 could be cut in half and made in to the start and end, but I'm really not sure which I will like best. I think it really will just depend on whether or not it works with the story, but is there anyone who thinks its definitely a bad/good idea regardless? I'm eager to hear opinions on what you guys like to read. - I'm going to call it an original story because I will never mention names, but if you want to know who to picture when you read it, I'm definitely writing it with Buffy and Dean in mind :) Oh, and the Impala has already scheduled an appearance in chapter 7! It wont be named either, just described from Buffy's POV. - The web designer part of me has already fought its way back to the surface. I've planned out exactly how I am going to display stories on my website and how I'm going to code it. Hopefully it will be both functional and pretty. And it will be slightly customizable too, which it always good when done right IMO. - No idea how long this will take me. It might get finished in under a month, it might take me almost a year. I'm not going to be posting it chapter by chapter, but when I'm done with the first draft I will post it here first and ask for your most constructive of criticisms. - I haven't even decided on the name yet. I'm thinking either 'The last sunset of Summer' or 'The last day of Summer'. The first one is more relevant but either can work. Is the first one too hard to say? :P Thats really the only problem I have with it right now. Anyway. Fingers crossed that I actually get around to writing it some day. In other coffee-makes-me-crazy related news. I had the most random Supernatural dream last night that I wasn't even in, more just watching, like it was an episode. There was some weird prophecy about an uber powerful (and evil) witch awakening and so they had to join forces with all the evil demons to try to stop her. Dean and Sam were arguing about something, I can't remember what. And they were worried about the other Demons double crossing them because the demons had yogurt, which apparently made them more powerful? (Random, right? I don't even like yogurt!). And then the witch woke up and who was trying to fight her but Smallville's own Lois Lane. She was overconfident though, like always, and ended up dead. Which is when my mum woke me up. :) ( my thoughts on One Tree Hill 5x10 ) And because my new camera is shiny: ( random picspam from around the house ) Oh, and just incase this entry isn't long enough already I have 2 more random things to add; 1. I just bought the complete Tru Calling series boxset from Amazon.co.uk for only $25 USD :D 2. I got a letter the other day telling me I have Jury Duty! Nooooooo! But its ok, I'm a full-time uni student so I will be able to get out of it. But still! Aaaaahhh! 13

memo to all [March 05, 2008 @ 10:47am] [ mood | cheerful ] Sorry I haven't been updating much. I hate that the second I start back at uni all my inspiration and energy heads for the hills. But I'm going to try harder this year, my crazy endless to-do lists seem to be helping. Sorry I haven't commented on my f-list for a week. I will try to go back a couple of days, depending on how much you guys have been posting. Hopefully I haven't missed any major life changing events (?). Not much has been going on for me except work, uni and sleeping. I'm having serious trouble putting together outfits in the morning, I swear I have nothing to wear! When I have time I plan on overhauling my closet and getting rid of everything I now refuse to wear (which is like 70-80% of it) and then when I have lots of empty space - I'm going shopping! So thats something to look forward to, if I ever actually get around to it. My Aunt and Uncle came to dinner last night. They live in Adelaide but were up here with some English couple visiting family. It was nice to see them again, they're probably the only family members I don't mind seeing. Of course their 'perfect' relationship with their children drives me crazy. But yeah, I pretty much just spent the night eating food and watching stargate. There was a mini farscape documentary on in the adds that I haven't seen before so that was probably the highlight of my night. Right after Uncle Darrel almost throwing out his back trying to use the ab king pro. ;) In other news, I've decided to open a graphics community. So head on over and join!! mybluesky mybluesky mybluesky mybluesky I also have been using my six hour breaking constructively (..yeah right) and finally managed to do an icon post. I've had these babies sitting on my hard drive for months now so I was just itching to get rid of them. just a tease. ( follow the fake cut ) Anyway...I hope you guys are all well. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up with my comments some time today. Bubye :D 5

first day back [February 25, 2008 @ 11:55am] [ mood | curious ] Today is my first day back at uni (Nooooooo!!!!) and I've just had my first lecture (booorrring!). My next lecture isn't for 4 hours so I'm just gonna sit around watching Lost and Farscape. I might go and get some food if I get hungry enough that walking down and back up the massive hill you have to go over to get to subway with my laptop in my bag seems worth it. But I doubt I'll actually get to that stage. I have two apricot bars in my bag so that will have to sustain me until dinner. I had weetbix and banana for breakfast so I should be good for around 6 hours. :P The lecture this morning was for one of the core subjects 'Creative Industries: People and Practises' and the first lecture was pretty much just 'What is Creative Industries?', hence the boredom :P Hopefully next weeks lecture will be better. This afternoon I have Media Technology 1. It should be interesting. I keep getting emails from people who emailed me a couple of days ago and didn't get a reply. I wish you could strangle somebody over the internet because that is seriously what they make me feel like doing. Last week I worked everyday except monday and now today I'm back at Uni. I haven't even had time to read my emails, let alone reply to them. And another example of how completely out of the loop I am. Jensen Ackles is dating Danneel Harris? How did I not know this? I'm ok with it though, I always liked her on One Tree Hill. But still, its weird, and nooo Jensen! I doubt it will last though, I mean it is hollywood. Oh and this: Supernatural: Ratings hit a season high! is pretty awesome! People are finally catching on to the awesomeness that is Supernatural! 3

grrr... [February 23, 2008 @ 4:42pm] [ mood | cranky ] I've gotten it in my head some how that i must have a credit card. I've been researching everything there is to research and its driving me crazy because the ones that I want I can't get approved for and they say they wont approve you because "they're being responsible lenders". So the ones with low interest rates won't let me have a card because I will get myself in to debt, but the ones with the high interest rates are giving them out to everybody. How does this make even the tinyest bit of sense? If they were trying to save me from getting in to debt they would give me the low rate card instead of the high rate one. The least they could do is come right out and say 'We only give the good deals to people who are going to pay us lots of money' instead of this bullshit about trying to save us. So now I'm going to have to go with the stupid Student credit cards which are like 17%. :( Of course the logical choice would be to not go with a card at all - but I want one, and it doesn't hurt to have a good credit rating so.. On a side note, I saw Fools Gold today. No where near as good as Sahara, but I liked it. Parts of it were filmed at my Uni so it was weird seeing good ole' Brisbane when they're supposed to be in Florida, but it was still pretty cool. 1

light textures #01 [February 21, 2008 @ 1:58pm] [ mood | cheerful ] Experimenting with my new camera. I really like these. Hope people can find some use for them. download is offline right now. it will be back up sometime this weekend. Sorry the file sizes are so big. I didn't have the heart to resize them. If you're looking for the yellow textures they're all in the first file. The other 2 have the blue and pink ones. T H E R U L E S [+] Credit harbourlight or www.winter-rain.com [+] Comments make me smile [+] Do not hotlink [+] Feel free to friend me, no need to ask ...is the graphic too big? Say the word and I'll cut it f-list. 8

feels like the end [February 18, 2008 @ 5:33pm] Dad fried the mother board of our computer. Its driving me crazy. I want to get in to photoshop so badly! I started downloading the American Big Brother for some completely random reason. Its funny how they all seem so low budget compared to ours. We make a huge deal out of the whole thing with massive live audiences for the opening and stuff. Its crazy compared to this and the uk one. I do like the couples theme though, its interesting. After the first episode, my favorite couple is Natalie and Matt. I love them. Josh and Neil are cute, I hope they last a while. Allison reminds me of Bella from Supernatural so I like her too. Sharon and whatever her ex's name is are funny. I wonder if they will end up getting back together. Jen and Ryan remind me of Hayley and Andrew from our BB last year (with the whole secret couple thingy), so I'm a little skeptical about them, because Hayley and Andrew were awesome and I don't know if they'll be able to live up to it. So now you all know :P I'm a closet Big Brother addict. Anyone else watching it? 4

one for the road [February 15, 2008 @ 11:27am] [ mood | amused ] I need some kind of professional help. I couldn't stop myself :P New layout. Simple, but I like the colors, and I love that picture! harbourlight / harbourlight / harbourlight 2

say cheese! [February 14, 2008 @ 10:28pm] [ mood | creative ] I bought myself a digital camera today! Its so cute and pretty! Its not the one I originally wanted, but I actually like it more, so thats alright with me. I asked my photographer friend which camera I should go with and she told me to get a Kodak, but they didn't have any of the one I wanted left at the store, and the guy kept saying how much Kodak and Sony cameras suck and then he offered me the Nikon for the same price as the Kodak one, and, well, he was pretty hot so my friend and I were convinced :P Oh and I dropped the demo one, woops. He kept saying it was alright, but then he put it back in the cupboard and closed the door really quickly, so I think he was just trying to keep me away from the cameras. Which is probably a good idea. ( isn't it pretty? ) And thats all from me for now...oh! I made some walls today that I actually like. Thoughts? Opinions? I'm like, 99.9% sure that I've got my mojo back :P 8

sweet relief [February 13, 2008 @ 3:23pm] [ mood | ecstatic ] Weee! The strike is over!!!!!! :D :D :D Thank-god. Excuse me while I run around the house screaming my little heart out! 7

the hourly update [February 09, 2008 @ 2:09am] [ mood | energetic ] Ok, its 2am and I'm still not tired. If I didn't know any better I'd say I skulled a couple of cans of red bull this afternoon. Anyway, what have I been up to in the last hour you ask? Lets see.. I made toast. yummy I coded some more of my site :) I made a new livejournal layout. This one works really well on my phone, which is great. The last one had some issues... Plus I love the colors! harbourlight / harbourlight / harbourlight And thats about it. 15

the disco lights are spinning [February 09, 2008 @ 12:41am] [ mood | drunk ] What do I do when its 1 in the morning and I'm slightly tipsy? I code php of course :P I just figured out how to use $_GET to make it look like I have lots of different pages when really its just the one page. All by my self too, I'm very proud ;) And I'm loving this php stuff, you can do so much more with it. I don't know why it never occurred to me before that integrating programming code into my html could make things so much easier. I have to work tomorrow :( But not until 1 in the afternoon so it shouldn't be too bad, plus I didn't drink much so I shouldn't have a hangover or anything. I actually restrained myself for once, which is a complete shock. ;) Anyway...nothing much else interesting is going on. New supernatural just finished downloading but I can't watch it :( Oh well, thats something to look forward to in the morning right? Oh, and apparently the strike is 'as good as over'. I'm choosing not to get my hopes up until the deal is actually signed, but it seems like it could really be going ahead, which is great. I hope most of my favorite shows finish their seasons in the summer. But as long as they all come back next year I don't mind.

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