January: This year really has just eased itself in
February: Today has been awesome!
March: I split up with Will today....
April: From BBC website: City workers have been leaning out of windows to wave £10 notes at G20 protesters on the streets below
May: Last day of a hard month
June: My hair has never been past this length since the dawn of time
July: Highlights include: Jack and Ianto on a hot wired bike
August: It seems so much closer now that the calendar has been turned over from July
September: hello again everyone, the Travel Blog is updated again, finishing of the Xi'an adventures and bringing you up to date with Shanghai.
October: We went to visit the tunnels in Vietnam on Monday, the result I got to fire a M16 five times and managed to hit a still target once.
November:
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December: Hello folks one and all - friends, non friends and random finders of the journal and so forth!
I don't my first lines are very interesting. I must do something about that.
Guess who I saw on a red carpet today and got an autograph of?
btw drop a comment if you want an LOTR postcard I need to know how many I need to buy tomorrow at the Weta Cave
Okay so I knew that it was going to be a tough walk and it was a lot of uphill but I was doing it. Then the fog came in, I couldn't see ten metres in front of me, then the rain poured and finally on steep uphill with no shelter the wind tried to knock me off my feet and nearly succeeded. I had to turn back. Argh, I can't imagine what it would have been like trying to get a good day for filming there.
I leave here for Wellington tomorrow (and the Green Parrot Restaraunt!) and they say the walk may be doable. Insanity is telling me to try the walk one more time before I head.
currently reading:
on beauty - zadie smith
finished:
jane eyre - charlotte bronte
closer - patrick marber
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- Location:Australia, New South Wales
- 14:46 they shouldn't let waiters take smoke breaks while they're working cuz then they stink when they get back and i lose my appettite. #
Thought I’d do a public entry (gasp) even though it’s been months since my last and will be the last personal post in this journal until the end of 2010.
2009 was a great year in hindsight. I learned that while people are human and share similar experiences to our own, it doesn’t mean they are good for us. New friendships were made and proven to be valuable - and an old friend entered back into my life. As a result I realize how disoriented I was for years without other genuinely creative souls to connect with.
We also took in a stray dog we call Odyss. I chose the name because he was as spirited as Odysseus, and lost. Odyss was trying to find his way to somewhere, possibly home. He’s a whippet lab mix that was chained and starved before being turned loose. He was pretty beat up when he arrived and you could see muscle and bone under his thin coat. Odyss is like Velcro, always with us in all we do.
The most important thing about 2009 was managing to find love in my work again. After nearly ten years of struggling to find direction and love for painting again, something happened. I let go of everything, relinquished control and care for people I couldn’t grasp, severed ties with people who couldn’t find their own faults and decided to find my own. I admitted defeat in several areas of my life, and then slowly picked up the pieces. I feel unstoppable and completely in control. I am never complacent though. This works, believe it or not.
The most important event this year was my relocation back to the states. This year was fortunate in love where I met someone I can relate to and share the good times and changes with. I have a home, and a friend. Three days after the new year I will have been home and living with my partner one full year.
2009 was not without struggles, but it was all pointed in a positive direction.
Also, I want to thank people who view my work. I’ve received emails from a few people expressing their admiration for what I do. Even though I do not respond to the comments posted here (I honestly do not know what to say but thank you) your comments have been very encouraging. I’m always feeling glad if something I create makes an impression on others. Your views are always appreciated. Thank you very much for them.
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- Mood:happy
- Music:The Outernation Sound [Antonio Carlos & Jocafi] Simbarere
Remember back to the those heady days when Lord of the Rings was everything...
*SQUUUUUUUEEEEEES* I visited Hobbiton I've stood under the party tree and given a speech, I've been in Bag End and seen the beginnings of preparations for the Hobbit!
I go in search of Mordor and Ithilien in Tongariro National Park over the next two days. I am way too excited about seeing them.
- Mood:cheerful
- Music:The Crystal Method - Acetone
- 11:22 THE NEXT NEW EPISODE OF GOSSIP GIRL ISN'T UNTIL MARCH 8....HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME?!?!?!?!?! #
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I just love the exacting work, the detail, it's never enough. I'm looking even more forward to the detail of the hair and bowl of soup. It's the challenge that gives my work an edge to do, the tension I absolutely love. The harder the challenge, the more I want to rise to it.
- Music:Kraftwerk - Man Machine
I dug a hole in the sand so I could sit in hot water
and I probably need to empty my memory card on to my laptop already
- Music:Emerson Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man
- 08:21 does anyone want two tickets to a christmas carol at playhouse saturday? #
2009's inspiration
Chris Ryan
Version 1.0
KORPER
Red nailpolish
Growing hair
Lily Calderbank
Mara Davis
Cappucinos
1930's jazz songs
Sunshine
Tumblr
Vintage
Sanja Simic
Mark Rogers
Leanne Jones
Georgia Chippendale
El Jancovich
Coca-Cola
M'n'M's
Eating out
The Cinema
Rainy Days
Cold War Kids
Fuck Buttons
Bon Iver
Taking Back Sunday
Vodka
Staying in
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Kirra O'Malley
American Pyscho
Tim Starkey
- Location:Narooma
- Mood:
awake
- Music:Thievery Corporation - Omid (Hope)
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- 16:19 how happy am i that the maxwell show got cancelled?!?! omfg jumping for joy!!! #
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