tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40063362012-01-28T01:15:31.738+11:00Life will never be perfect... When it is, something isn't right... then again... I could be wrong...Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.comBlogger11101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-57652743900400075292012-01-27T23:37:00.000+11:002012-01-28T01:15:31.764+11:00

Today was my first day back at work. I packed far too many books as usual in the hope that I'll get some time to prepare some work for next week. I arrived at school early enough to catch up with a few staff members while sitting on my desk. Mistake! Just when I was about to get up, there was a sudden crack and the table top moved. Ah shit.. I put my drink bottle on my side and it rolled by

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So I've been back at my beach home for a couple of days now and I've spent most of my time downloading new tv shows/episodes and cleaning/sorting out my house while watching the stuff I download. My sleep patterns have become a little bit screwed due to my obsessions with achieving all the Plants vs Zombies Achievements on my iPod and watching everything before I go back to work. Today I forced

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My intentions were that I head back to the coast today and be there by the evening. My day was supposed to be: Get facial, make macarons, pack the car and drive off. Unfortunately, by the time I got home from my facial with the ingredients for the macarons, it was 12noon. Then it took 4~ hours to make those damn sweets. I had to make two different batches - each batch took 2~ hours each (30

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It was my last full day in Sydney today (going back to the coast tomorrow) so I spent the day with my family. We went to Hillsong in the morning, then Castle Towers for some shopping (I bought another dress from City Chic), we went for Yum cha at Castle Hill RSL then to Parklea for some more shopping. Yum Cha was funny... The waiters were so busy that every time we tried to get their attention,

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I've been lying here in bed for the past three hours bored out of my mind. I thought that I was tired enough to sleep considering I haven't had the best sleep for the last 2 nights and I spent the majority of the day playing with a 5 year old. But unfortunately, I can't sleep. Maybe I have too many thoughts running through my head or I didn't have enough to eat today. Maybe its the realisation

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I woke up this morning pretty late and annoyed at the fact that I did not sleep peacefully. My back was hurting from sleeping at an odd angle and I kept waking up in the middle of the night. So much for that. Anyway, I went downstairs to find my lil' brother sitting at the kitchen bench top fiddling away with his phone as usual. I asked him why he didn't wake me up earlier, and he replied "

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Since just before Christmas last year, I've been having dreams and wandering thoughts about someone who I basically told to leave me alone. Two nights ago, I had the most intriguing dream. He was in it and when I woke up I couldn't get him out of my mind. I had too many questions, ideas and memories just flood back and I just had to hear from him. So, I wrote him a message. I just let my

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Last night my phone received a notification for a new system update so I pressed the download and install button before even taking a moment to think about it. Really wish I took a little more time to think before I do that sort of thing. My phone then spent the next half hour or so downloading the update. Then it buzzed on and off again several times. Turns out that it was updating both Android

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I got up late this morning... 9:30am.. That's 30 minutes later than I have been getting up these holidays. tsk tsk tsk. Anyway, I got dressed and wandered aimlessly throughout the house for a while until I found my lil brother doing his speed drills for Badminton. Since he was being active, I figured I better do something more productive than walking around the house. I put on my exercise shorts,

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Today was my niece's (Kathyrn) Christening. When we arrived at the church my her older sister, Maddy, waved happily from the pews so I went over to her side and greeted my relatives on the way over. My lil bro was one of God Parents so he stood out the front with the other sponsors while I sat with my cheeky niece and nephew. For most of the mass they sat in the pew with me while helping me take

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After watching Happy Feet 2 this morning, I decided to take my usual route to City Chic.. the only store I know of that provides pretty awesome clothes for larger girls. I discovered a pink/peach flowery dress that I could possibly wear, grabbed it off the shelf and tried it on. It looked pretty good in my opinion. The material is soft and silky while breezy and light. Perfect for a day out or a

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I know I already posted earlier this evening but I feel like rambling for a bit. I've been meaning to re-wipe my EeePC so I've been copying all the stuff I organised onto my new Ext HDD. SO glad I spent the time to organise it. Hopefully after the fresh install (which I plan to do over the next few days) will be so awesome, I wont have to re-do it again. Going to set it up so that I can also

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My brother asked me, 'Would you like to go for a walk?' I agreed to my little brothers surprise. After searching for my socks I realised that I haven't put on a pair of socks for 20 days.. the day I got home for the holidays. Feels so weird to put my sneakers back on after wearing slippers/thongs for so long. Anyway.. i'm currently halfway through a lap of the lake. I started this blog entry

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I had a really good night catching up with my mates. They came over to my place, went out for dinner at a little quaint Thai restaurant then came back for margaritas in the pool. Afterwards we rugged up on the couches and watched 'I Spit On Your Grave'. In the morning we had breakfast at Gloria Jeans, did a bit of grocery shopping then saw them off.Is it strange for a bunch of 25/26 yr olds to

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A year has gone by and it's time to look back on those most interesting events of the year. Summary of 2011 January - Passion for Programming re-ignited @ NCSS Summer Camp, Blue Vodkas and Star gazing with BFFs @ my beach house, Road trip to Mudgee February - started a (failed) swimming routine @ Beach/Public pool, Installed SSD in my netbook, 25th Birthday Weekend @ GoldCoast QLD, March -

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Three Christmas parties in 2.5 days... so exhausting! And two of those were at my house so I had to help with all the cooking and cleaning. sheesh! The first one was on Christmas Eve. The next door neighbours came by at around 9pm and stayed till 1am. We had heaps to eat and drank moscato and strawberry margaritas. Great stuff. The next one was a big one... the family christmas party. The party

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I've been to 2 different cafes in the past few days.. funnily enough, they're right NEXT to each other! The first one I went to was Raw Sugar for the New Scheme Teacher's Breakfast meeting. I had a chocolate milkshake and pancakes. The chocolate milkshake came in the metal cup that it got mixed in and awesomely thick. There were 3 pancakes with a few slices of banana and a scoop of vanilla

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After 2 pretty good batches, I ended up with 2 bad batches. This annoyed me... I had already gone though nearly 3 cartons of eggs and I was getting fed up with these macarons. Nonetheless, my annoyance resulted in 2 better batches and even the ganache worked out better. Here's the result: I'm much happier with how the green ones turned out. They're green macarons with a white chocolate ganache

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This past weekend, my best mate came up to visit me. We spent the weekend making macarons, star gazing at the beach and kicking back with a few comedies. The macarons were a new thing.. I felt like baking something and she's often intrigued by the things I make. So I whipped out my new Womens Weekly cookbooks and searched for something different. Macarons look good so we went out and bought the

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After going through two whole days of agony after wiping my entire hard drive, I mustered the courage to look up whether or not you could actually restore data from an SSD. After a short while, I found out that you can actually restore data... I came across a software package that would do what I wanted and even more. Only set back was that the free version only restores a limited amount of data

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So last night a friend from uni asked me to check if I had the subject outlines for one of our courses. I saved a few things on my backup hdd so I plugged it into my laptop. The second I did, it shutdown abruptly. That didn't worry me because it has been doing that for a while now whenever I plug it into my laptop. But this time was different... When I turned the laptop back on, a system32 file

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The TAS faculty had a Christmas dinner at FishFishFish tonight. I'd heard good things about this resturant so I was looking forward to it. For entree, I had the Salt and Pepper Squid. It came in a decent sized pile with a side of tartar sauce and a lemon. They were nice and crispy.. not as salty or peppery as the first salt n pepper squid I ever tasted but still pretty good. For mains I had

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Tonight I joined my neighbour/teacher friend's family dinner at The Aztec in Forster. It was her monthers birthday so they decided to invite me. The food was alright. I had the "Hidalgo - chicken enchalada, beef enchalada, beans and rice." The beef was like shredded corned beef and balanced nicely with the cheese. The chicken was alright.. pretty ordinary. The "beans" was more like mush.. and

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After 2 months of sewing my life away, I'd created Pokemon and Monster hoodies that filled about 8 COTD boxes plus 5 Space Invader throw pillows. I've stayed up late, snapped a few needles and turned down social events just for this one market day. It's finally over! My original intention was to get to bed early and get plenty of rest before today. Unfortunately, I ended up having dinner and a

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Last night I came up with a bunch of ideas pretty much after writing my last post. Retro gamer throw pillows! I started looking up sprite sheets for Pacman, Space Invaders and Tetris then started messing around with the Tetris shapes. While at school, I spent most of my free periods searching for more reference graphics and printable fabric. I thought maybe I could just print straight onto the

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I finally got a response from the market organisers on Friday and got the approval! Huzzah! Very lucky because I got the last spot available. I told my colleagues and one of them started giving me more project ideas... err... I'll just let the ideas sit in my brain for a while. So when I got home I got cracking on my hoodies and managed to finish the green monster hoodies I started the couple of

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I've started to develop a need for a night cap.. a daily night time dose of alcohol before I go to bed to help me sleep. If I don't drink, I can't sleep very well and wake up horribly tired. Not that my late nights are the cause of it as I have always slept late. I never used to need a drink before going to bed. I hope this doesn't become a regular habit.. could prove costly. Today I went to

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Haven't really Blogger lately.. guess my life just isn't all that exciting but if you're reading this, then you must be really bored. Haha.. anyway work is going how it usually is. I dislike most of my classes and I'm too lazy to make a difference. Yr11 like to bitch a lot and while I tried sitting with them today to try to encourage them, they still complain about the shitty computers (they hate

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My weekend was relatively boring. I didn't get up to much as usual and wasted half of it thinking about the sewing I should be doing. Nonetheless, I managed to finish all the monster jumper hoodies and started the Charmander hoodie tees. The set of small shirts all have the cream area on the chest and the hood with 2 teeth pinned in place. I wasn't confident of where they should be yet since I

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-83552600826921565192011-11-10T21:14:00.001+11:002011-11-10T21:14:40.754+11:00

My yr 12 class have finished their computing exams.. I can relax.. for now anyway. I still have to wait for the results.. oh man.. I hope they didn't bomb out. One of my yr 12s came to see me an hour before the exam to find out where the exam was and I soon discovered that he hadn't even studied. So I spent the next hour, including MY lunch, to cram what I could into his little brain. Hopefully

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So today and tomorrow I'm on the continuation of the Connect to Country conference. This time it's up in Port Macquarie and they offered over night accommodation and dinner for the attendees. Since I have no family commitments to attend to, I decided to take up the offer. The conference is taking place at the Rydges hotel so I looked up photos of the rooms prior to coming up here and was

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Friday night I finished making my 12th hoodie tee and realised I was out of a few materials, so I decided that I should head into town on Saturday morning. I grabbed a few things from Spotlight, dropped into EB Games to check on my pre orders and made a few more then popped into Big W for a few other supplies. In an effort to stay from a year 12 student from my class I ended up in the 12 items or

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The usual hell happened at school today. I was having a pretty good stress-free day until period 5 when my year 9s decided to be dickheads. I had a big argument with one of the usual contenders over wasting time copying movies on his laptop when he should've been following my demonstration. Since I had started the demo before he finished, he decided he wouldn't do his work. My demo is really

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Today was a really easy going day. With the teachers strike, I got to sleep in, do a bit of sewing and pick up my mail. I even got my LED christmas lights! I had one class when I got to school and with only 5 students we spent it watching Paranormal Activity. Not exactly the most apporpirate movie to watch due to its rating but nothing really terrible happens in the first 40 minutes so its pretty

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I had a sudden urge to go online shirt shopping this evening... I added a heap of hoodies to my Threadless cart and a bunch of tees to my Noisebot cart... I was already ready with my postage and credit card details when I was alerted to the explosive P&H. While reasonable, I didn't feel like spending that amount of money on clothes that I shouldn't even wear to work. So I emptied the carts,

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I know I shouldn't be posting about the shenanigans that happened today but I always do the wrong thing anyway so what's another misdemeanour going to do? First off I'll start by telling you about Wednesday night. A bunch of students and teachers worked together to set up an EXPO to advertise our school in a positive light by inviting parents of yr 5/6 kids from the local primary schools that

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Here I lie in bed with my laptop propped up against my quilt thinking about how lonely I actually feel right now. My friend is heading off on an overseas trip tomorrow with her mum and my brothers are heading off on a trip to Hawaii next month. All the teachers at school have their families that they can spend time with.. even pets! Everyone around me has family around them.. while I'm here..

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This week I've been a little ditzy. I've had a couple moments of freaking out and thinking that I've lost something really important. One of these moments occured on Wednesday morning. I'd gotten to school early to get some work prepped before roll call and when I went to look for my school keys in their usual place, they weren't there! Usually I put them in the inner pocket of my laptop bag but

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While *encouraging* my yr 11s to do their work, I overheard them talking about deep fried Mac and cheese. The idea is disturbingly gross and artery clogging but after some research for the recipe I found that it actually looks pretty tasty. I wont actually try it because I'm not much a fan of Mac and cheese but who knows... I might get bored one day and actually make it. While looking up the

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Turns out Yr 9 didn't steal my remote, however, they did HIDE it so they're still bastards. It was hidden up on the top of the cupboard of my room and since I'm relatively short, of course, I wasn't going to be able to see it. Bastards... Today I had my first Meadowbank. Luckily it wasn't a difficult class - yr 10 Clayworks. I was actually really impressed that they happily worked on their

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My day didn't start out so well. First my upstairs neighbour slams the front door at 6:30am, then my neighbour/teacher friend msgs at 6:40am to ask for a ride home after school, then my ipod touch alarm goes off, followed by my phone alarm and then another text message on my phone beeps its way into my ears. Doesn't help when I had a stomach ache the night before and couldn't sleep the night

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So my posts haven't been as regular as they started becoming recently. Life has been pretty fulfilling at the moment. Eh? What's that supposed to mean? Well I've been going to work everyday then coming home to sew hoodie tees until midnight when I crash for the night and my days repeat like that. Work has been alright and the stress that comes with the usual load of classes that has decreased has

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So before leaving Sydney I made my way to Kmart to grab as many shirts as I could get that would match the colours I needed for my market stall. I looked like a bit of a weirdo, buying hundreds of dollars of the same tshirts in different sizes. Its just a pity I couldn't get all the colours I needed. Nonetheless, my car was full of t-shirts along with a few food goodies I plan to sell at my stall

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The last few days have basically revolved around my car. First I had it's rear window re-tinted and then got it serviced. So the rear window now has a brand new tint and looks black compared to the purple tint of the rest of the car windows. The service was sooo much cheaper this time and I was lucky enough to just pay for the standard rate. Well today I had to have another ordeal with my car.

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-76012511078680760942011-10-05T21:04:00.000+11:002011-10-05T21:22:28.861+11:00

I had my facial this morning and zomg! I look like a girl again! huzzah! My face feels super smooth and there's not more of that unsightly facial hair. Really should get these treatments more often but I'm so lazy.. haha.. I'll just have to book ahead for weekend appointments so I can come to sydney to get them done. Why would I drive all the way to sydney? well I like the woman I currently go to

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For the next few days I've got a number of appointments lined up. This is good! First up is 10:30am tomorrow morning with a facial. I looked in the mirror this morning and got a bit scared. My face was starting to get into that manly look stage where my upper lip hairs are growing into a bit of a moustache and my nose hairs are so long that they're accumulating gunk when I'm not paying attention

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-80906582167138674962011-10-03T22:24:00.000+11:002011-10-04T15:33:05.300+11:00

The big camping trip weekend finally arrived! I'd woken up on Saturday morning feeling a little queasy and stiff from being sick and bedridden the past couple of days but I was roaring to go. I'd gotten up pretty early since my brother was messing about and making noise so I headed for the computer sucking a frozen Hydralite to check the weather and to buying fishing licences. The weather

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, Bobbin Head NSW 2074, Australia-33.6217551 151.245218-33.727535100000004 151.0872895 -33.5159751 151.4031465tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-79682335287398273702011-09-30T20:52:00.001+10:002011-09-30T20:52:26.368+10:00

I have been sleeping all day. Actually I'm not feeling too well. I think I got food poisoning from the fish I ate yesterday. Knew I shouldn't have finished it.. looked a bit gooey. I was in agony this morning and just falling sleep everywhere i was able to get comfortable. After packing up the camp gear, I went to bed and just sleep like a log. It's too bad I had to wake up at midday to get the

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-40180033789348246892011-09-28T22:25:00.001+10:002011-09-28T22:25:55.754+10:00

So what did I get up to today? Lets say... not alot.. but I did get a few things done. I spent my morning doing chores that my brother SHOULD be doing. These involved vacuuming up the dead leaves in the backyard, pulling weeds and cleaning the pool. Took me about 2 hours to do it and was so exhausted afterwards that I fell asleep on the couch only to be woken up an hour later by the pitter patter

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-991873881076153942011-09-27T22:05:00.000+10:002011-09-27T22:05:25.242+10:00

T'was an early morning for me, having to wake up at 6am to get ready to go pick my parents up from the airport. Considering that I lost 15 minutes in bed waiting for my brother to get out of the bathroom, I was 10 minutes late leaving the house. Nonetheless, the traffic wasn't too bad and I was able to get to the Airport without my dad's GPS (which happened to be flat and cable was no where to be

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-22071604670877465052011-09-26T23:56:00.001+10:002011-09-27T13:45:15.502+10:00

Haven't gotten up to much... I got home on saturday night and played Portal 2 on the PS3. I did invite Jen over but there was a change of plans which turned out alright since I ended up being pretty sleepy earlier than usual. Sunday morning my brother work me up for breakfast. He'd made pancakes and bacon for us.. funny thing was that there was enough batter in the pancake shaker bottle for two

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-51172831868107248682011-09-23T23:47:00.000+10:002011-09-27T13:45:56.685+10:00

School holidays have finally begun. Today we saw the Yr 12s off with their Awards and Portfolios in a 2 hour long assembly. It was a whole school assembly so I was impressed that the students who did come to school were reasonably behaved for it. The rest of the day was pretty much a breeze. I borrowed A Sharks Tale from the library to keep yr7 entertained and settled and my usual afternoon of

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Last night I worked on creating an awesome cake for my Yr 12 boys. I originally thought of making mini companion cube cupcakes and had bought all the ingredients PLUS brand new cupcake containers for them but decided it'd be too fiddly. So I made another detour to my local Foodworks and got ingredients for the Portal cake from Portal 1. I baked two round chocolate cakes, then iced the cake

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-69494329497634836512011-09-20T21:38:00.000+10:002011-09-20T21:38:22.127+10:00

I've been back at work for 2 days and I'm just exhausted. Doesn't help when I sleep incredibly late then wake up earlier than my alarm clock. My yr 12s complained that no one came to let them into the classroom last week, which was their reason for not completing their work. My HT said that no one actually turned up. Sigh.. whatever... Yr 9 went psycho in the afternoon and getting them to stay

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-9878710413842279662011-09-18T20:53:00.000+10:002011-09-20T21:19:55.466+10:00

Jen crashed at my house over night so we watched Terry Pratchett series for most of the night. Jen made me think about Jdramas all night which just made me want to watch them. Unfortunately, I couldn't since I didn't bring any home with me. Sigh... Jen had fallen asleep a little after midnight but the tea we had kicked in for me during the credits of The Colour of Magic Part 1 so played Portal 2

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-68574890360735874592011-09-17T16:53:00.000+10:002011-09-17T16:53:41.366+10:00

And thus, the three day Connecting to Country program ends on a sunny day spent at the Waterfront Function room. On the last day we learnt about LORE (Land, Origin, Respect, Elders) vs LAW (Legislation, Authority, Westminster) of Aboriginal culture, had a laugh at the comedic stylings of Andrew Saunders and played a game of "So you think you're flash" (based on the information we were given over

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-31150651981022446522011-09-15T23:40:00.000+10:002011-09-15T23:40:24.521+10:00

When I went to sign in at school today, I noticed an orange sheet of paper with the letters "R U OK?" written on them. I picked up the piece of paper in confusion and tilted my head. Eh? I answered the question in my head with "meh... I could be better", went into the staffroom and checked my desk for anything unusual or notes left from the casual who has been taking my class. Nothing new for me,

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-29123999623547082352011-09-13T22:44:00.000+10:002011-09-13T22:44:59.618+10:00

About stuff. Lots of stuff. There's lots of things in my head that I've been thinking about. For instance, setting up a market stall and selling Pokemon hoodies for kids and nerdy adults. There's a local Market that runs every first sunday of the month and thought maybe I could open one there. After doing some research I find out that I need to get Public Liability insurance for up to 10mil. eh

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This morning I woke up a wreak - I had a terrible night's sleep after having the heaviest sleep the night before. With only 5 hours of snooze time, I struggled with my body to stay in bed and my mind reminding me to get up. Eventually after 30 minutes of tossing around in the sheets, I got up and got ready for work. When I arrived at work, I found that the Textiles teacher had returned from her

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-89214790681975090382011-09-11T13:13:00.001+10:002011-09-11T13:13:31.860+10:00

Extreme dizziness... I've been a bit sick these past few days. I think its just hayfever so I've been on the zyrtec pills every 24 hours or so which make me drowsy after 4 hours of taken them. Since I screwed up my sleeping pattern from Friday afternoon (had a nap from 6-9pm then couldn't sleep till 5am saturday, then slept till 10am and was awake till 10pm) I decided to take a couple of sleeping

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-49666878583054396212011-09-07T22:10:00.000+10:002011-09-07T22:11:14.405+10:00

Today was a looong day... I started my school day decked out in my favourite top and funky black jacket, wearing my glasses of course. After getting the things on my desk sorted, I headed over to the library to tell my adopted aunt of the news I discovered yesterday. She complemented me on my outfit and noticed that I was in a happy mood. Just so happens that she's free Friday arvo so coffee is

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-85472880327420902662011-09-06T20:18:00.000+10:002011-09-06T20:18:24.663+10:00

**This entry is a little long.. and is sometimes boring.. but there's some definite highlights.. =P ** I ended up taking the day off work yesterday so that I could take my time getting back to my work home. Didn't really end up being a free morning since I still had to mark the yr 12 major works. Oh it was painful. Some of the kids hadn't even submitted the work that they'd been working on in

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-25834132386051002342011-09-03T20:31:00.001+10:002011-09-03T20:50:26.883+10:00

I went out with my friends today for a mini road trip to Leura for High Tea at Cafe Madeleine. It was an hour long trip which was originally estimated to be 30 minutes... yeeeh right.. We got there in the end. =P We got a table inside near the kitchen area. It was a cosy little cafe with a relaxed, family friendly atmosphere. The High Tea experience was only $25pp which is pretty cheap. It

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-91529422226874576502011-08-31T21:55:00.000+10:002011-08-31T21:55:54.403+10:00

I'm soooo tired... wish the week was over already. Though my exhaustion could be result of staying up late every night this week. Still.... ugh.. So why have I been up late? Well Sunday night I was trying to organise the content for the yr12's Software design option topic, then Monday night my mind was buzzing with brainstorming my plan to make a Yukata, then last night I was making my Yukata.

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-54448112899512378162011-08-28T19:58:00.000+10:002011-08-28T19:58:19.379+10:00

This weekend has been a mix of disappointing and achievement. Disappointing because it was raining and cloudy on saturday - I wanted to do a heap of laundry and wash my car before getting into my work. Sure, it was sunny today but I just wasn't in much of a mood. I also slept incredibly late last night so I've been a bit woozy today. Doesn't help that I just had half a cup of green vodka jelly.

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-65836354490634536982011-08-26T23:04:00.000+10:002011-08-26T23:04:46.998+10:00

It's Friday night and I'm all alone... all that's missing is that element of alcohol.. completely slipped my mind. Instead, I played a game on my computer then played Wii Sports Resort for a while. A few of my yr 12s came to class today. They walked in with their heads down, completely ashamed because they knew they all failed. One of the "top" kids pulled out an "early entry" to uni form due to

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-90659965388074544842011-08-25T18:44:00.000+10:002011-08-25T18:44:40.014+10:00

My computer chair keeps snapping randomly. Freaks the crap out of me. I think its time for me to get a new chair. I finished marking those Software exams last night. They all failed.. seriously failed. Even one of the usual guys who do pretty well, just bombed. I don't know what to do about it. I could scale all their marks for their reports but that isn't going to help them in the HSC. They're

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-268295292072237412011-08-23T18:45:00.000+10:002011-08-23T18:45:28.130+10:00

Another stupid day at work. Found out that the yr 11 student who didn't go to work placement has been given a $7000 scholarship from the army to stay in school and finish year 12. STUPID! This kid is a dickhead, ignores me and truants my classes. Ugh... My year 12s did their Software exam today. 3 of them answered only the multiple choice questions and my top student didn't get a pass mark.

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-75166971724707697852011-08-22T20:57:00.000+10:002011-08-22T20:57:29.525+10:00

While my friends were over, one of them discovered the retro music on my iPod. Music from the 90's and Naughties that made us jump around, laugh and cry were hidden in the depths of the J-pop tracks. To relive the memories I've hooked up my ipod to my car stereo... the change has been well accepted. Only problem is when the weird tracks come on and I struggle to skip to the next song without

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-63064599742037925562011-08-21T00:50:00.000+10:002011-08-21T00:50:25.633+10:00

Decided to venture home for a weekend with the girls. They're staying over my parents house for an old fashioned sleepover. It's such a teenage/childish thing to do, but hey.. What the hell are young adults supposed to do on the weekend other than clubbing? Clubbing just isn't for us so a sleepover is better than bumming around my lonely empty house watching crap on tv. A few interesting things

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-4430702546620162062011-08-15T21:03:00.000+10:002011-08-15T21:03:23.125+10:00

Done! I completed the City2Surf on Sunday, 14th August 2011, 26 years of age and incredibly overweight. I've just proved that anyone can do this marathon and not die. haha.. just kidding. I overheard some conversations on the train and heard that apparently 1 person a year is incredibly injured or carks it from entering the race. Hopefully no one died this year. It was a pretty tough race. I

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-61558503932268159112011-08-08T23:29:00.001+10:002011-08-09T21:32:35.609+10:00

Alright it's about time I finalised this list and published it for personal confirmation. Wait, what is this? It's my 30 before 30 list - a list of 30 things to complete and achieve before I turn 30. The idea was proposed to me by my best mate who decided to start her own 30before30 project a few months before me. It sounded like a pretty clever idea to get motivated and feel like you have

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-2590453881173009712011-08-07T10:24:00.000+10:002011-08-07T10:24:21.110+10:00

Made these Pokeball cookies last night. I ended up icing the black border only on these ones since I didn't want to use the entire tube of black writing icing on cookies only I would end up eating. So all the other cookies got just the red and white. The icing is as thick as the cookie is, which is just terrible for any diabetic or young child... or just me because I'm supposed to be avoiding

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-78092880897915798642011-07-31T17:59:00.000+10:002011-07-31T17:59:52.878+10:00

Two weeks of school have flown by - just the way I like it. Unfortunately, they've been some pretty shitty weeks and I really am sick of my day job. Things just don't make sense anymore. I know that part of the problem is that I don't prep any of my lessons and do everything last minute but I feel like I've wasted all my effort when I actually prepare lessons and they just never work out. The

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-41327420615295239722011-07-17T00:13:00.000+10:002011-07-17T00:13:26.351+10:00

Went to SMASH Con today at Darling Harbour. Wore my Snorlax hoodie since I wasn't really bothered to dress up as Ash Ketchum this time around. I didn't spend any money at the con and mostly looked for all the things I could do and get for free. heh.. FIVE highlights of the day: 1) Got my SMASH Programme signed by Nabeshin (Director of Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemy). Also got a photo with him.

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-58704002704983814992011-07-15T23:45:00.006+10:002011-07-16T00:36:23.501+10:00

This week I've been busy coding and cramming out Beth's website. I've learnt a few funky things and have made an effort to incorporate some HTML5 and CSS3 into her website. The only really annoying thing is that it's not overly compatible in Internet Explorer 8. The parts that I had the most trouble with were the extensions for Blogengine and the contact page. Ohhh the contact page. I spent HOURS

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-50241704887549087822011-07-13T12:12:00.000+10:002011-07-13T12:12:05.146+10:00

I ended up cancelling the Tutorial session I was going to hold with my Software class on Tuesday. Instead of calling them I tried contacting them via Facebook without adding them as friends. Don't know if they all got the message or not because none of them replied. Though it may be because you can't send me messages unless you're my "friend". Ahh well.. Hopefully none of them showed up and they

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-36229884077191390602011-07-08T00:26:00.000+10:002011-07-08T00:26:39.281+10:00

I love Pokemon. Well I actually really like the original tv series and Ash Ketchum was probably my first love. Haha jkz.. Anyway.. Tonight I finally finished grinding my Pokemon to the closest optimal level they could be to beat the finally boss in Pokemon Black and after my 3rd attempt, I finally defeated him! The credits rolled and the words 'THE END' appeared on the screen. I told my brother

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-9832139258762047212011-07-07T01:10:00.000+10:002011-07-07T01:10:36.317+10:00

So as most of my followers know, I head home to my stay with my family during the holiday breaks. This particular visit home has surely been an interesting and emotional rollercoaster ride of unwanted sorts. I came to find out that my mother and father have become fed up with my brothers and aren't really talking to them. My brother had apparently swore and said f-u to my dad while my little

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-67616474319846639742011-07-01T19:07:00.000+10:002011-07-01T19:07:44.963+10:00

It was the last day of term today so I figured 'Why not bring my 3DS and play Pokemon in class?'. So that's exactly what I did. Hahaha! I'm such an irresponsible teacher. Not only did I arrive to school 2 minutes after the bell went for roll call, but I played with my 3DS in EVERY class. Not like my students were going to do any work on the last day (let alone any other day of the week) so I

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-3934438566432308862011-06-29T20:52:00.000+10:002011-06-29T20:52:59.554+10:00

This weekend my friends gave me a nice surprise and BOTH appeared at my door. hah.. that sounds like I only have two friends. No, I don't only have two friends but they're the best friends I could ever have. Anyway, when they arrived they stocked my fridge with alcohol had a little rest then we discussed where and what were were going to do for the rest of the day. It was decided that we head up

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-72773477687934125372011-06-24T20:50:00.000+10:002011-06-24T20:50:56.586+10:00

Weekend plus a few extra days was spent in Sydney! Supanova was on the weekend so it was two days of cosplays, shopping and hanging out with my mates. I had a late night meet up with my bff's in the city when I arrived in Sydney on Friday night then Saturday and Sunday I was at the con. I bought Summer Wars on DVD and the complete Daria collection. Also picked up some Facebook "Like and Dislike"

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-81609711097340214242011-06-17T00:46:00.000+10:002011-06-17T00:46:57.009+10:00

It's been all over the news so there's no point hiding. Taree has actually been flooded! How amazing is that?! Unfortunately my school/ workplace is perfectly fine and all the roads I take to get to work didn't get flooded. Bit disappointed really because I possibly could've gotten a day off. Too bad though if I actually did get flooded in because it turns out that even if you do get flooded in,

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-74003200227180811392011-06-13T19:59:00.000+10:002011-06-13T19:59:22.023+10:00

The long weekend is soon coming to a close. I didn't do any school work. I didn't get to go on my mini road trip. But I managed to crochet a scarf, create a few additions to my Supanova cosplays and baked a cake that I was able to share. But the one thing that has made the biggest impact on my life was cut a thread to a person who has been part of my life for quite a while. It hurt me to do it

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-38418894086239228372011-05-29T11:55:00.000+10:002011-05-29T11:55:43.532+10:00

Mel, a new staff member at school, invited me out for drinks and dancing last night with her and her mates. We met up at Cassie's place first, which was where we'd be crashing for the night, and then headed over to Jo's where the pre-drinks started. It was around 9pm when we were ready to go and walked.. or should i say they staggered.. down the main street to the Royal. When we got there Cassie

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-13971298963162946542011-05-15T22:22:00.000+10:002011-05-15T22:22:36.866+10:00

Work is work and while it has sucked, it has also had its moments of awesome clarity and ease. But Life can't always be perfect so work still sucks. Anyway, I ventured home to Sydney this weekend for some culture and social interaction. On Saturday my brother joined me on an adventure to the city to catch the JPF Anime: Kingdom of Characters Exhibit. Luckily my brother knows his way around the

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-7619961506764119502011-04-30T22:18:00.001+10:002011-04-30T22:41:33.493+10:00

My dog, Angel, was put down today. My brother messaged me saying that they took her to the vet this morning for x-rays. The Dr said that her stomach had become bloated and full of liquid from her bladder which had leaked. I didn't get to even say good bye since I didn't end up going home this weekend like I had originally planned to. I remember when we first got her. My ninang's relative was

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-31566031937947128622011-04-29T21:09:00.000+10:002011-04-29T21:09:21.849+10:00

I'm back at work this week. Really really wanting to get out of teaching regardless of what people suggest - transfer to a different school, try the Catholic/private school system etc etc. I dont have the heart or confidence to stand in front of the classroom and try to teach a bunch of ignorant kids about IT. Anyway.. The latest episode of Fringe was awesome! Peter, Bell and Walter jumped into

Katrinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536799901092435663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006336.post-23601816601845607802011-04-20T16:29:00.000+10:002011-04-20T16:29:46.246+10:00

The weekend was a flurry of sugar, sugar and more sugar! Well not quite, I just made it that way. Saturday Jen picked me up and we went for a road trip to Berry where we ate Pies and hot chocolate. We wandered around the little shops to see what wonders we would find. I ended up buying cherry Twizzlers, a Charleston Chew and a box of Milk Duds. I've never had them before and even though I can buy

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The Domokun cookies I made. They were fun to make and a little frustrating to decorate but they taste so damn good! xD

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Anhedonia is the inability to gain pleasure from enjoyable experiences. - A word used by Marshal in How I Met Your Mother when Ted and Marshal are sword fighting over who gets to keep the apartment.

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As most of you have probably noticed, I haven't updated My Progress page for quite sometime now. Why? Isn't it obvious...? I got lazy after Christmas after reaching the 20kg~ mark and went downhill from there. I basically stopped exercising regularly and when I went back to work, well things slowly just got worse. I started eating junk food again. *facepalm* Then work was getting stressful and I

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Its finally school holidays! Huzzah! I didn't end up getting my exams completely marked so I've had to bring them home with me. Blegh.. Have also packed a heap of books and resources for my classes so I can plan out what I shall teach when Term 2 starts. Need to also start planning what my Programming Group will be doing. On the fun side of things, shall be catching up with my mates, hopefully go

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The Nintendo 3DS - a portable handheld gaming device that delivers 3D gaming without glasses. And I own one - woohoo! Actually skipped a day of work just to pick it up. heh... A couple of guys asked me to write a review so I wrote one an posted it on FB but felt I should also share it with everyone else too.... so here it is! Out of the box The 3DS comes with a charger cable and a charging

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I'm surrounded by computers again.. there's never an escape for me is there? The new Year 9 DER laptops are being commissioned out to the students tomorrow and I've beaten them to the punch by getting the one I was given last year replaced with the new one. It has a much sleeker design and the screen is ALOT bigger - they haven't wasted space like the previous models in terms of screen design.

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Animania Mini was in Sydney yesterday and it was my duty to head out there as Ash Ketchum to catch 'em all! heh.. My day started at 4am when I had to get up, get ready then drive out to pick up the crew for the 3.5 hour trip to Sydney. When the group had congregated, we left and arrived in Sydney safe and sound after being pummelled by heavy rain on the last 40minute leg of the trip. That was

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I've had an incredibly horrible week this week. The students were disgustingly rude and disrespectful, I was over whelmed with work and my sleeping habits were completely wreaked. Thursday last period with yr7 just tipped me over the edge of the cliff... One girl threatened to kill me when I closed the door before letting them into the classroom, another refused to put her iPod away and demanded

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With the Animania Mini coming close, I decided that I wanted to go. My Pokemon cosplay buddies will be there and said that the Mini was really good last year. Since I already had some material ready to go for an Ash Ketchum cosplay I decided to get cracking on it. Originally I wanted to wait till I lost some more weight but even if I lose the amount I want, it'll end up being years before I get

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The weekend that just passed was a massive whirlwind of fun, sun and loves of lovin'. With my friends that is.. heh.. It was a plan in the making and a huge intention that was made many years ago - to spend my birthday at the Gold Coast and go to Dreamworld with my mates. It finally came to fruition this year - this past weekend actually! Huzzah! I drove down to Newcastle to hop on a plane to the

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Just like the title says, the hard drive upgrades were a success! I replaced the HDD in my desktop first. Luckily enough the drive I emptied out happened to be the HDD on the top of the stack. For ease of reference for later, I put a sticky note flag labelled with the respective drive label. The upgrade for the netbook took a little longer than expected. Everything went fine while pulling the

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