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OKAY I’M POSTING. I keep meaning to but I’ve been crazy busy. And by that I mean, I bought the Avengers DVD on Wednesday, it’s Friday now and I HAVEN’T WATCHED IT. That’s some serious busy you guys. Obvz I managed to watch the special features and now tumblr is 1000% better because of all the bluray quality gifs. Keeps me sane when I can’t sleep.

Health update: I think I have delayed jetlag and my body is still catching up from all the insane that was our trip. I have the energy levels of a snail and I’ve forgotten how to form sentences. Herb’s also taking me off the hormones I’ve been taking for three years, and it’s going to take two months to wean myself off them. I have a feeling it’s going to be zero funsies.  I’m just so goddamn tired and I need to get my shit together for production week. Luckily, production week just so happens to be my favourite time of all the times except maybe Christmas, that wins. BUT PANTO YOU GUYS. It’s gonna be great because Emily and I are great and we have a badass fight and it’s the best.

So in other news, I’ve basically just been rehearsing and working and trying not to fuck up my costume and learn my lines and still managing to throw a few social outings in there when I’m not napping like my life depends on it.

Good things today: It’s Sally’s birthday and we’re going to watch The Avengers and it’s going to be so freaking great. I have a brand new jumbo bag of m&ms, I’m wearing my favourite earrings and I am NOT going to stress about how we’re overbooked today and have been for two weeks and it’s my last day before panto week and I have a huge list of end of the month admin stuff to get through. NOT STRESSED. Calm. Caaaalm.

This was a horrifically bad entry, sorry. It’s what the inside of my brain looks like right now. Here’s some Hiddles being a twat to improve your day.

GTT: Yeah Imma Talk Bout Food ‘gain

SO IT’S MY EXCELLENT MUM’S BDAY TODAY HAPPY BDAY KMAC.

I woke up late (herp). Good things:

-Finally got to start season 4 in the Great Parks Rewatch. I haven’t watched s04e01 since the week it aired 11 months ago you guuuuuuuuys it was like new. Except I’d watched it like 20 times that week so it was also very familiar and there were no “Oh I’d forgotten about this bit” bits, just OH YAY I LOVE THE BIT THAT’S COMING UP bits. That badge scene you guys. Best.

-Paralympics started! Keep your eye out for my boss cousin Madison DeRozario when the athletics starts.

-What To Expect When You’re Expecting finally leaked. I did Victory Arms such that I haven’t done since the Winter Soldier announcement at Comic Con. Equally exciting events there.

-Made risotto for my aforementioned excellent Mum. Bacon and mushroom with parsley and parmesan. Was. Delicious. 100 points to me. Plus there’s leftovers.

-Absolutely no terrifying celebrity rumours whose truth would ruin my life. Right? RIGHT.

Fun fact: I checked our STATS and Aly is way ahead of the rest of us in terms of number of posts here. She’s at 135, Lois and Emily are tied at 90 (actually Em might be at 91 now I can’t remember if I checked before or after she posted), and this is my 92nd. So way to whoop ass, Aly. Also this has been going for almost exactly 500 days so Aly’s the only one who’s posted on >20% of the days that have transpired since this blog started. OOP.

❤ Nicola

BOOBS.

I had to have my fancypants breast doctor appointment this morning. Here is a way to terrify someone: Schedule a “not necessary, but probably for the best” appointment with a specialist in a CANCER CENTRE. The doctor was pretty nice and was like “Yeah I’m sure thats just breast tissue but I’m not going to send you away without testing for everything, because I want to rule everything out anyway”. Which is probably for the best and if this had happened in May when I started worrying about my armpitlump I would be all for it, but considering I’ve already had two ultrasounds and a biopsy and three doctors appointments and now a specialist appointment I am kind of over the whole deal. She also said the two ultrasounds and biopsy I’ve already had are worthless because they’re not looking at the right thing, THANKS SCIENCE. So now I have to wait to get into Royal Perth (because its free and I cannot afford to go to the Mount and pay upwards of $400 for boob testing) and get a biopsy with a BIGGER NEEDLE and more ultrasounds and this had better not be anything serious or I will punch someone.

I am also progressing a bit in my Learning To Look Nice In Photos, except that Nicola’s instagram proves that wrong and also some of the photos from last night are terrible (but also so are some from the week before, and I think I have improved face-wise in the last week so idk, life).

So after my super optimistic post the other day I had a huge breakdown in the car about LYF (you would too if you saw how much graduation traffic I inadvertently got stuck in by not thinking to turn out of the library carpark bit and instead turning around in the gym carpark) but I am okay now because yesterday I:

– wore my polka dot dress

– put on red lipstick at 7am then had four ryvitas with nutella for breakfast

– took a thermos of tea to the bus stop

– listened to the Billy Joel Here’s The Thing podcast I had been saving for a special occasion

– went to Jaws for delicious sushilunch

– used one of my plethora of Myer vouchers on another Chubby Stick (RED, THO. ITS SO GOOD)

– did some ridiculous attempts at curling my hair. It was worse than last week when I just looked like a 50s housewife, guys. This shit was awful, but in a thankfully hilarious way.

Enjoy this photo.

 

Sheep

At some point I really, really hope I will learn to form my own opinions of things. Being so easily swayed from what I think is probably hands down my biggest fault.

I should be more like this guy.

 

~ Lois

GTT: CC Score

I work Wednesdays 8-12 now and it is perfectly acceptable. I don’t like getting up that early but it’s a short shift and it’s cool that by 12pm I have done something with my day. I brought French Earl Grey in my American Museum of Natural History thermos and that helped.

Listened to podcasts. A You Made It Weird episode with Paul F Tomkins, which was pretty cray because they talked about Steve Martin’s autobiography, which I actually talked about with Dad in the car when he took me to work this morning. Univeeeeerse.

Panto was good. Late start and loud room but I feel that we’ve actually come a long way since Monday, which was…necessary!

Emily and I conducted an illicit exchange of fundraising chocolate. My four white Freddos and four Boosts for her two peppermint Freddos, two Time Outs and four Caramellos. Having friends with opposite food preferences can be as convenient as having friends with identical food preferences. I think Emily and I have the perfect balance. We have extremely high Culinary Compatability.

❤ Nicola

GTT: Food n Stuff

I made mini quiches for breakfast/lunch and they were good I like puff pastry.

I finally downloaded a program that lets me watch area-restricted videos so I got to watch the pilot of The Mindy Project and it was pretty much a longer version of the promo we saw ages ago so I don’t have any new feelings. But you guys there are so many old SNL clips available to me now that I can watch them on the NBC site. Hnnnngh.

I like my commute to UWA because of all the podcast-listening involved.

There were sausages and steak in the fridge when we got home and it was delicious.

❤ Nicola

GTL*: NOT STRESSED

*Good Things Lately

So a while ago I said I would not get stressed this semester and its only week five but I seem to be doing pretty well. And at the same time, it’s week five which means I am almost HALF WAY THROUGH MY LAST SEMESTER, honours pending. I’m pretty on track with everything (she said, not having started any of the list of things to do today) and really, I know last semester I snapped halfway through and was like CREDITS FOR ALL but this semester I am honestly just like credits for all. I seem to be getting things, and I’m not too stressed about maintaining my average for honours because if I get accepted it will be before exams anyway, so I just need to pass.

I had a nice conversation with Nicola on Sunday about not being stressed after we were talking about her overachieving coworker, and she said something about how I am not as stressed even though I am doing a lot of things but I have cut back on things, idk I obviously don’t really remember the conversation but I was like YEAH I AM MUCH LESS STRESSED THAN I SHOULD BE DOING THIS MUCH WORK. Also, I have been staying up later and getting up earlier, and aside from those couple of weeks where I cried every day over boring things like the Qantas? ad where groups of people sang Land Down Under I am doing pretty well I think. Unfortunately I think the only thing that has changed since last semester is the fact that I am doing exercise now so I will probably have to keep that up, ugh.

Anyway lunch on Sunday was fun, I like seeing all of your dumb faces and enjoying some delicious food after an hour of getting tired doing fighting. I also need to plan some make-ahead meals for production week because GD IT I AM SO BROKE FROM SOCIALISING. I mean I also could have not dropped $50 on that Snow White teapot but really teapot > savings amirite. And I realised I still have $100 of birthday money left over so deffo going back for the other two. I feel like having spent some of my birthday/Christmas ColesMyer vouchers on groceries demands that I spend actual cash on something frivolous.

With a cast this attractive aren’t you super pumped for panto? (Have legit sold four people tickets based on this photo)

 

GTT: Frandz

OH YEAH WE’RE DOING THIS AGAIN.

Today I met up with a group of friends that I used to catch up with weekly and see almost all the time anyway because we all did Law/Arts together but now only one of us is still doing Law, and the other three of us see eachother all the time in Panto. Huh. Statistics show a high correlation between doing Panto and quitting Law school. It was fun. We filled out a survey for a psychology student and everything.

And those were the good things from today.

❤ Nicola

GTT: Feeling Good

I actually feel accomplished for the first time in ages today and I had to share that with you!

 

~ Lois

GTATM: Medicated

I am pretty stressed at the moment, with all of my stuff, but I am also pretty heavily medicated now, which sounds bad but is actually excellent because I feel much, much better. I will worry about the possible side effects down the line.

Uni is good. I feel like I am doing less than last semester but I think that’s only because I have way more work so I constantly feel behind. So it’s all good! My internship is also fun, even though last week I went in and my mentor didn’t show up so I spent all day in the city and drinking coffee and writing. MY LIFE RIGHT?

I went out with Nicola and it was amazing and fun even though I got to The Court early and asked her to meet me there and then she walked in the exact opposite direction so I had to go find her. A creepy man hit on me while I was at the bar and when I explained that he was a) barking up the wrong tree and b) in the wrong park altogether because he was in a gay bar to pick up chicks the sweet bartender joined me in laughing at him, so that was fun.

~ Lois