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Been busy lately, work work work, but 3 jobs will do that... Uni goes back soon, hopefully that'll give me a chance to catch up a bit :P

Your Social Dysfunction: Happy You're a happy person - you have a good amount of self-esteem, and are socially healthy. While this isn't a social dysfunction per se, you're definitely not normal. Consider yourself lucky: you walk that fine line between 'normal' and being outright narcissistic. You're rare - which is something else to be happy about.

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Word.

For the record, I don't do New Years Resolutions, why wait for a new year, if you want to have some resolve to do something, do it now! But this was amusing to say the least...

In the year 2006 I resolve to: Become an online stalker. Get your resolution here

Merry Christmas everyone :) I don't know how everyone did for presents, but I've done ok :) Got a set of Star Wars postage stamps and $100 from my parents (cept mum took the $100 for board and left a note :P). Grandparents gave me a mini Star Wars Trial Pursuit set (that is, it's a set of question cards like Trivial Pursuit with a dice with the 6 colours on the sides.) My sister gave me a Star Wars quilt and pillowcase set (noticing a theme here? :P) and my Uncle Malcolm gave me a piggy bank with $101 in it :) Then some little presents from friends too :) Andrea gave me and Stacey movie ticket vouchers, and Will and Angie gave us a nice bowl with chocolates in it, and Will also gave me a Star Wars comic book compendium thingee, where they put 6 or so comic books together that are from the same story, very cool, Rogue Squadron story, love it :) You didn't have to Will, I was just doing my job mate :) Katy sent me some scratch-its, no winners, but thankyou very much still hun :)

Still waiting for my present from Stacey, no idea what it is yet :) Anyways, better be off and see the family and get ready for lunch :)

I don't do this often, but here we go...

1. WHAT DID YOU DO IN 2005 THAT YOU'D NEVER DONE BEFORE? Saw the new Pope :)

2. DID YOU KEEP YOUR NEW YEARS' RESOLUTIONS, AND WILL YOU MAKE MORE FOR NEXT YEAR? I don't make New Years Resolutions, if you're going to do something, do it today...

3. DID ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU GIVE BIRTH? Not that I recall

4. DID ANYONE CLOSE TO YOU DIE? Fortunately no

5. WHAT COUNTRIES DID YOU VISIT? Turkey, Greece and Germany :)

6. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE IN 2006 THAT YOU LACKED IN 2005? More MONEY! :P

7. WHAT DATES FROM 2005 WILL REMAIN ETCHED UPON YOUR MEMORY AND WHY? 15/8/05, 1 year anniversiary with Stacey :) 3/8/05 - 23/8/05, Turkey, Greece and Germany, and all the cool people on the trip :)

8. WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR? Surviving?

9. WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST FAILURE? Not learning from mistakes?

10. DID YOU SUFFER ILLNESS OR INJURY? Nothing major, was diagnosed with my sleep apnoea, but that's an ongoing thing.

11. WHAT WAS THE BEST THING YOU BOUGHT? Mario Party 4? :P

12. WHOSE BEHAVIOUR MERITED CELEBRATION? Fr Damien from the trip I went on, despite drinking like a fish and smoking like a chimney, still remains a very holy man, very intelligent and philosophical. And so cool!

13. WHOSE BEHAVIOUR MADE YOU APPALLED AND DEPRESSED? Hrmm, noone really

14. WHERE DID MOST OF YOUR MONEY GO? Heh, if only I knew that answer :P

15. WHAT DID YOU GET REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT? Turkey Greece and Germany :P

16. WHAT SONG WILL ALWAYS REMIND YOU OF 2005? That stupid song from WYD that they always seemed to play when the Pope was around :P Jesus Christ, you are my light, you are my light, alleluia! Then repeat about 1 trillion times :P

17. COMPARED TO THIS TIME LAST YEAR ARE YOU:
a) Happier or sadder? happier
b) Thinner or fatter? In transition, but quite possibly thinner
c) Richer or poorer? As always, poor :P

18. WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU'D DONE MORE OF? Seeing friends and stuff
19. WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU'D DONE LESS OF? Wasting time

20. HOW WILL YOU BE SPENDING CHRISTMAS? Midnight mass, breakfast with my family, lunch with Stacey's family, dinner with friends getting horribly written off :P

22. HOW MANY ONE-NIGHT STANDS? Hah, none :P

23. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE TV PROGRAM? Hrmm, that was on TV this year? Probably House, or Stargate :)

24. DO YOU HATE ANYONE NOW THAT YOU DIDN'T HATE LAST YEAR? Nope :)

25. WHAT WAS THE BEST BOOK YOU READ? I predominantly read Star Wars books :)

26. WHAT WAS YOUR GREATEST MUSICAL DISCOVERY? Nothing stands out, I just hear songs on the radio and go, that's cool :P

27. WHAT DID YOU WANT AND GET? I tend to acquire most of the things I want :)

28. WHAT DID YOU WANT AND NOT GET? Not to have troubles with my car?

29. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE FILM OF THE YEAR? Ummm, Episode III was good, and I didn't get to see many others :P

30. WHAT DID YOU DO ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, AND HOW OLD WERE YOU? I turned 24, and I had dinner with friends :)

31. WHAT ONE THING WOULD HAVE MADE YOUR YEAR IMMEASURABLY MORE SATISFYING? Managing to save some money :(

32. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL FASHION CONCEPT IN 2005? Fashion? wha?

33. WHAT KEPT YOU SANE? Who said I was sane? :P

34. WHICH CELEBRITY/PUBLIC FIGURE DID YOU FANCY THE MOST? Hrmm, so many choices, Monica Belucci is HOOOOTTTTT! Catherine Bell too :P

35. WHAT POLITICAL ISSUE STIRRED YOU THE MOST? Just people in general not being able to be tolerant and trying to kill each other constantly

36. WHO WAS THE BEST NEW PERSON YOU MET? Luke Watts, champion bloke :)

37. TELL US A VALUABLE LIFE LESSON YOU LEARNED IN 2005: That would imply I managed to learn something :(

38. QUOTE A SONG LYRIC THAT SUMS UP YOUR YEAR: I can never remember enough of songs for this :P

Ah dear. Well, I have a rental car, it's a Magna. I was hoping for something smaller, as they're much cheaper on fuel, but at least it's a nice car. As far as RACQ is concerned, the damage to the car is repairable (that is, they are willing to pay the money it will cost for the repairs), just pending some interview I have to have on tuesday, where they're going to get more information, which apparently is standard proceedure, tho I don't recall having to do it last time my car got stolen. So I'm mildly suspicious that they in fact DONT do this every time, and they're checking I'm not trying to fraud them, especially since they just finished repairing the car barely a week ago. Maybe my.. contact... at RACQ can help me there :P

Other than that, relatively all good. The work I was working on at Laserforce is just about complete and shipping to Hungary on monday, but they still want me around, which is good, work work work. I can juggle that and laserskirmish for maximum $$$ (Plus some saving on the side by way of paying more tax than I should be, always good to get a surprise at tax time :)

Nearly Christmas, and all the shopping is done pretty much :) Now just to kick back and wait for the presents to start rolling in :P

Going to the cricket on Sunday, a friend from WYD has box seat tickets, lunch and drinks included! SWEEEET! And working tomorrow night with Michelle and Andrea, always fun, even if it is a party night :P Who needs sleep anyway? :P

*sigh*

Ok, background first, as some of you would know, and others wouldn't, I had a smallish accident in my car the other week, knocked into the back of someone, cosmetic damage only, but enough of it to matter, it was in getting fixed for about a week and a half, looks all pretty shiney on the front, now just need someone to run into the back of me so it can match. But anyway, car was fixed, all good, back to having a car (tho I did have a rental car for about a week of the time it was getting repaired). Ok, enough back story.

So last night was Stacey's work's Christmas party. Good night had by all. Bit of drinking, bit of half dodgy food, lots of dancing (by everyone where everyone = everyone - me, I don't dance, deal :P) Also was good that Stacey won the main raffle prize, washing basket with over $100 of booze, yay, that's christmas sorted. So we catch a cab home, being tired and completely unable to take a washing basket of booze clubbing anyway. Went to tell cabbie to pull up behind that parked car on the side of the road as we were driving along stacey's stree, but lo and behold - no fucking car. Some bastards stole my car.

Fuckers.

Did all the usual crap, rang the police, filed a report, rand RACQ notified them, and with nothing else to do, went to sleep. Fortunately (kind of) I was awoke at about 7:45am (ugh, after a 1:30am sleep time) to a call from the police, telling me they'd found my car.... About 400m away.

Fuckers again.

I could have swore just after we'd gotten home last night I heard my car driving nearby, it's kinda distinctive, you can always tell a Holden as it is, and my car has a 'sports' exhaust. No, not a rice burner pineapple tin type exhaust, seems my exhaust just has one less baffle chamber than a normal exhaust, thus making it cheaper, hence my choosing it, tho it does make the car sound infinitely more meaty. But back to the story, could have sworn I heard my car, but with no way to verify this, did nothing about it. So Stacey's theory is they might have JUST stolen the car before we got home, were still in the area, and were stupid enough to drive past the house again, and seeing all the lights on cos we were home, figured dumping the car would be prudent, given the police would likely have been called. So they found the car nearby, with all my possessions in it still (hooray for remembering to take face plate off head unit for once) including guitars, radio, DVDs and even my P90-looking laserskirmish gun, and proceeded to steal another car and be off.

So now it's been towed, finger-printed and awaiting assessing by RACQ (again). Hopefully they'll find no reason to knock back my claim, that'd be the last thing I need. If they fix it, it'll be $350 excess. Given I just paid $600 getting it fixed a week ago, that sucks something fierce. Budget will be ringing me tomorrow about a rental car again, and my prefered smash repairer will probably be rubbing his hands together again with the thought of more work. Guess I'll be on the Christmas card list for a few more years yet.

And to top it all off, had to miss the Laserforce staff dinner tonight too. Free food, free booze, where's the justice in that?

Fuckers.

You know, I really should post here more often :)

I can think of at least 3 people out there thinking "Damn straight!"

I promise I will :)

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Well, I'm in Bonn in Germany, and had a fantastic afternoon.. We checked into our accomodation (a uni type accomodation in the style of the UQ colleges, but MUCH more posh :) We had the afternoon to ourselves, so we decided to hop a bus into the main city. Then we went to the nearest pub, and had a german beer :) very nice :) Then, as we were hungry, ordered dinner, mmm, snitzel... Yes, I know it's spelt wrong, and I don't care :P Then wandered into the middle of Sunday night mass in the Cathedral of St Michael in Bonn, so we stayed. Despite the mass being in german, we were able to pick up what was going on and when :) Part of the cathedral is a crypt, containing the relics of St Helen and St Michael, for whom the cathedral was named after. The place was magnificent, and the people were really friendly when they realised we were there for world youth day. Just waiting for a bus now to head back and get some sleep, been up for 15 hours so far :)

Well, hello everyone again :) Currently in the Athens Acropol Hotel in, funnily enough, Athens, Greece :) I can use my laptop on the internet from the hotel, so it's AWESOME :D

Ok, so what have we been up to? Been through Turkey and the Greek Islands. In Turkey, saw parts of Istanbul, Gallipoli, and Kussadasi (sp?)... Then got on a CRUISE SHIP (we were all expecting a dodgy dinky sail boat) and visited Patmos, Crete and Santorini, all so beautiful :D Now we're in Athens, saw the ruins of Corinth today, and some other stuff tomorrow :p Then flying off to Germany for the actual World Youth Day stuff :) Well, I'm gonna head off again, almost time for dinner and stuff :) Feel free to reply to this, I should be able to get the messages :)

Hello all! I come to you from the Tusan Hotel ın Canakkale ın Turkey :) Havıng an awesome time, went to Gallipoli yesterday, and it was a moving experience to say the least. And it ıs only day 3! Thıs turkish keyboard ıs a little dıffıcult to comprehend, so if some of this comes out weird looking, İ apologise :)

Anyways, the bus leaves soon, just had time to bash out a little note, eıther talk to you when I post again, or when İ get home :)

... ok so not entirely true, I know when I'm supposed to be back again, but yeah :p In about 28 hours I'll be in Brisbane International Airport waiting to get on a plane to fly away to Turkey, Greece and Germany :) I'm sure some of you will miss me, and some not so much (since your only contact with me is through LJ, and 3 weeks without posting is the norm, not the exception for me :)

Starting to get excited now, I wasn't so much before, not sure why, you think 3 weeks overseas would be enough to make most people bounce all over the place, but I have been fairly subdued, to the point where people think I'm faking it. Well, I wasn't :p But it's beginning to creep up on me now :) It's gonna be awesome :D :D :D

Current Mood: bouncy

"If there is someone on your friends list you would love to have an epic, sweaty, damn near legendary, 12 hour fuckathon with, post this same exact sentence in your journal."

Ahem.

So yeah, been a busy time lately, much going on... The Antioch weekend went off without a hitch, ran on time (a rarity for weekends, I assure you) and was general well recieved by everyone. Yay. Also had a trivia night to raise some money to go Germany with. Also went very well, making around $1400 (which has to be split 3 ways, but you get that). Many thanks to Michelle in particular who helped with some donated prizes from lasers :)

But yeah, it's all good :)

1. I _____ Fatty.
2. Fatty is ____.
3. I think Fatty should _____.
4. Fatty needs _____.
5. I want to ____ Fatty.
6. Fatty can ____ my ____.
7. Someday Fatty will _____.
8. Fatty reminds me of _____.
9. Without Fatty _____.
10. Fatty can be _____.
11. Meeting Fatty is _____.
12. Worst thing about Fatty is _____.
13. Best thing about Fatty is _____.
14. I am _____ Fatty.


Fill in the gaps :) Fill it out about me and I'll do it for you :)

Well, as usual, it's been quite a while since I've updated :) So what's been going on? Hrmm, how long since I updated with something meaningful? *goes to check* Well, seems like something meaningful hasn't appeared since before my birthday :p So what's changed since then?

Well, world youth day stuff steams ahead. All paid up, got passport, etc. Need to get shots still, hrmm, better get on that one. Had a information day type thing a little while ago, heard a bit more about specifically what we're doing, where we're going etc :) Reeeeeeaaaaally looking forward to going away and seeing places like Anzac Cove and the Dom (the huge cathedral at Cologne :)) and stuff... I've been overseas before (to New Zealand, if that counts :P) but yeah, this will be cool :) Three countries in 3 weeks, it's gonna be awesome :D

The Antioch weekend fast approaches... Working through all the things that need to be done, going to buy the presents for team and the parent couples and all teh helpers that help out on the weekend. Almost finished writing my talk that I have to give with Nae, and we're going to work on the intro speech tomorrow :) Most of team have done a large chunk of their talk, if not finished, so that's good :) Theme dance chosen, dance worked out, posters for sharegroups and sleep groups started and most of the way finished, and the banner is being started too :) Again, all good :) Looking forward to that too :) only get to lead one weekend (well, usually :)) so this is it :) What I'll do after the weekend in terms of Antioch, I don't know.. I'm not going to just up and leave or anything, but yeah, have to go from being a leader of the group to... well, I don't know... What do I want to do? Probably just bum around and help out where needed and play music, etc... Cross that bridge when I come to it :) One thing I know I guess, I'll try and slow down a bit.... There seems to be an alarming number of people who seem to think I'm on the way to burning out... I don't know if it's that bad, but I guess I am trying to do quite a lot all at once... Maybe it'll all be fine when I start getting some good sleep again...

Speaking of sleep, definitely got severe OSA (obstructive sleep apnoea) which basically means when I sleep, my throat kinda closes over and I can't breathe, so then my body has a bit of a cough and I start breathing again... for a while... According to the sleep study I had done, I "wake up" 30 times an hour. I say "wake up" cos it's not like I sit up and go, damn, I'm awake. I wake up in terms of brain wave patterns... I don't get the good deep sleep that you're meant to get, hence being tired and worn out all the time. So I need to use a machine that basically pushes air into me and keeps my throat open and then I can breathe the whole time. Got a machine, nicked it from my grandfather who got one free from qld health (he doesn't use it cos nana thinks it's too loud, and he had it mainly for snoring) so just need to get a mask to use now, which is like $200 (lucky one of the cheaper ones suits me, they can go up to like $400). Need to do that too... Might finally sell that kidney I've been joking about all this time...

Hrmm, so what else... Ah well, if I think of it, I'll post again :)

A - Age you got your first REAL kiss: Depending on what you consider REAL, probably 13
B - Band listening to right now: Nirvana
C - Crush: Currently taken, so no crushes :)
D - Dad's name: Jeffrey Allan
E - Easiest person to talk to: Hrmm, lots of people, Bragg's good, as is Erin
F - Favorite bands at the moment: I tend not to have favourite (yeah, I'm boring I know :P)
G - Gummy worms or gummy bear?: BEARS!
H - Hobbies? surfing the net, reading, star wars, trying to play music, the occasional computer game
I - Instruments: Flute, Guitar
J- Junior High: Well, my high school was Iona
K - Kids: Eventually :) 2 or 3
L - Longest car ride ever: Cairns to Brisbane
M - Mom's name: Debra Dianne
N - Nicknames: Fatty, Mr Fatty, Fatman, Fats
O - One wish: More wishes :p
P - Phobias: Screwing up I guess, not really scared of anything else...
Q - Quote: "Space nut, knows everything there is to know about Apollo 11" "Does he know where it is?" (from The Dish, if you haven't seen it, SEE IT NOW!)
R - Reason to smile: friends
S - Song you sang last: Ermm, don't know, it might have been The Bold and The Beautiful by the Drugs, it's funny :)
T - Time you woke up: 7am, but went back to bed for an hour at 8
U - Unknown fact about me: Ermm, I'm pretty much an open book... I am a pretty religious person?
V - Vegetable you hate: Most of them :p
W - Worst habit[s]: Being a bit slack in my timetabling
X - X-rays you've had: Knee, ankle, teeth, wrist
Y -Yummy food: Mmmm, roast :D
Z - Zodiac sign: Aries

Hey guys, got a question/favour to ask... I'm looking for a song about a journey, needs to be upbeat, clean (no swearing, overly adult concepts, etc) Post a comment if you think you might have any songs that fit the bill! PLEASE!!! :)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/

A lot of the people who read my journal would know what this is about just by seeing the word "Serenity" If you are suddenly squeeling at the possibility (I'm looking at you michelle :P) I seriously suggest you check the link out :) If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you're missing out :)

P.S. Michelle, do you have any idea where my Firefly DVDs currently reside?