Fatigued

For the record, before I start, I was supposed to post a blog entry a few days or so ago but it got quite busy around here.

OMG what a year so far! It's been nine weeks in and, honestly, it feels like the year just started. Now I know why past students said that their final years in high school went by so fast. 

Here's what has been happening, or has happened at school:

• Firstly, I've done most of my tests and assignments already, which is great and a whole heap of burden off my back. These past weeks have been tiring, physically and mentally. It was one test or assignment after another; BAM BAM BAM! 

• Secondly, I've been trying to look for a job so I can start earning money. Plus I really don't like staying in the house doing nothing, it annoys me (I annoy myself) and honestly, I hate the fact that I'm wasting time. So I've been looking and applying for random jobs at random places in hopes that I get a job sometime this year. Also, after Year 12, instead of going to schoolies like most people will be, I want to go overseas to either America or Europe. I'm not entirely sure though because I might go to America this year during the holidays. We'll see how we go aye?

• Thirdly, I am holding a grudge against every single Year 8 kid in my school, so practically the ones in the junior uniform that act stupid, thinking that they're cool, because last Friday, one of them came up and asked to borrow a calculator because she didn't have hers and she had a test. Being the nice, and obviously naive, person that I was, I lent her my calculator but she ran off before I got her name. I waited for her in the hallway where she borrowed my calculator after the period but she never came. That b*tch. 

Anyway, I've been trying to track her down this whole week, talking to teachers and some Year 8 kids I know and I've narrowed the search to one Year 8 Math class. I've talked to the teacher, and a few others, and they've said they'll ask their classes and other people if they've seen it.

Seriously, if I don't get it back before the holidays start, I will throw a fit and be the biggest douche to that entire year group. And I will never lend my calculator to anyone in another year group except mine, given that I know them well enough (For example, if I moved to another school, I wouldn't lend anything to anyone). 

Also, I've been walking around, trying to take pretty pictures and getting into photography because I want to be a photographer some time in the future, so expect photos soon, mostly nature photos though because it's easier to start with.

So that's been the highlight this last week and a half or so. I hope you guys didn't get bored from reading my little rant about my missing calculator ;)

And as usual, take care, be safe and take it easy!♥

Two Down, Six To Go

At one point or another, we go to school thinking, "Uggghh school, you suck so much!" Or something along the lines of. It's exactly the same for me, especially at this time of the term. 

So far I've talked about Biology and SOR1 (Studies of Religion 1 Unit). Tomorrow I have a 2 Unit Math test to do so I have to do a bit of homework and revision so that I can be confident when taking the test. Believe me, the last thing you want is to be panicking and trying to remember the formula for this and the formula for that because you did it at the start of the year. Been there, done that. I don't want to experience that again, thank you very much.

Later this week, Friday, I've got an English test and have just received my feedback from my teacher today. It's not that it's bad or anything, it's just that I have a lot of ideas and quotes that I've drafted to memorize. 

Here are some advice for studying and tests.

1. If you get a notification for your test, say 2 weeks, beforehand, don't start panicking straight away! Relax!
2. Revise bit by bit, section by section and not in huge chunks because the brain can't comprehend a whole chunk of information on top of what you are already learning in school.
3. Study in no longer than 20 - 40 minute sessions. It's not easy to concentrate for that long. If you haven't finished your work in that study session, have another one later! 
4. Set a few little goals for each study session, for example: First five questions in science booklet and spend 20 minutes on English essay. Doing this will let you do that little bit for each subject, not just one, and you will have the satisfaction of achieving your goals. In saying that, don't make your goals too easy!
5. Prioritise your goals. If you need to finish the Science questions tomorrow and the English essay is due the day after, do the Science questions first. 
6. Have breaks! After your first study session, have a glass of water, go outside or take a walk. This is so that you keep your mind away from work and relax.

Those are just some tips that may help you in your exam blocks or if you're just studying.

Like always, take care and be safe!

♥

Lazy Days

It's been a while. I should have a good reason for not posting for around a week or so (I don't even know), but I don't. And I'm not going to make one up either. Unless you count that I was too busy finishing 4 pics 1 word. That's right I've finished it and I'm just waiting for the new update so I can get back to it. School is also getting to me so I haven't had much time to do anything else.

Basically, I've had a bit of homework and although it's not a lot, the work given often takes quite a bit of time. For example, my Math homework is a sheet of questions, 14 questions only, but quite a few of these take half a page or more to solve and the others are just too complicated to even explain. 
There are also essays that need to be written and anyone who knows me would know that English is not my forte. I write decent essays but not to the point where I would be getting full marks in each and every single test. All the other subjects are alright. No major problems. 

I have an SOR1 test this Friday and I haven't even gotten my notes organised and ready to go! However there is plenty of time for that. I've got four days to do that so I should be fine, hopefully. Fingers crossed! 

Anyway I should probably go on to writing my essay because I'm actually in class write now (see what I did there? eh? eh?). I have an English test in two weeks and I'm only up to the skeleton of my essay so I better get crackin'.

Take care and don't take life too seriously!

♥

Again and again and again and again...

I just wanted to say that I finished my Bio report on Saturday in 5 hours and I'm so glad it's over and done with. Big smiles from me :)

So, as usual Monday morning, I get up cranky because it's Monday and it's the start of the week. But then again if the week started on Tuesday, then everyone would hate Tuesday, right?
Anyway, so I went to school, went to homeroom to do the roll call and get help with a new app I've been splaying non-stop called "4 pics 1 word".
If you don't know what it is, basically it's an app where it gives you 4 pictures that are somehow linked to one another with one word. I definitely recommend this because this game is just SO ADDICTIVE. Like you have no idea. I'm up to level 379, I kid you not. I am so not obsessed at all. 

Yeah I'm stuck on this one... It's so annoying when it takes me ages to figure out and when I show it to someone else, they figure it out straight away.

But enough of that. What I wanted to talk about is timetables. Just like any other high school, I received a timetable at the start of the year. However, unlike other schools, I got another one about a week later I got the first one. Apparently there were a few mistakes with rooms. A week later, I receive another one, this time in green paper. Pretty, right? So that's three timetables I've gotten since school started. Today during homeroom I get ANOTHER ONE. And this one in orange paper. That's four. 

These are my timetables, 6 weeks into school. I think they only wanted to change the colour of the timetable or something. I don't know. Any suggestions why???

The reason it bugs me is because there are NO changes in my timetable. Zero. Nada. Zilch. It just annoys me that they would waste so much paper printing timetables over and over again. That's a waste of paper, money and trees! Trees need love too.

Anyway guys, take care and be safe.

♥

It's packing on...

Okay, so the weather has been PMS-ing recently, from boiling hot to cold, windy and rain, rain, rain everywhere. It's been pretty crazy but, understandable considering that it's now March, the end of summer, and is now autumn (some of you refer to it as "fall"). 

Just a couple of shots on the way to school. Yep. I was walking in the rain without an umbrella because my laptop was too heavy to put in my bag so I had to carry it.

 So this weekend will be busy. After this post, I will be taking on the homework that has been building up for the past five weeks. 
In the first week or so, I had minimal to no homework, obviously, because it was just the start of school. Now, after looking at my school diary, there is a significant change from no notes and reminders to a whole page of it.

Week One - My laptop had to be taken t repairs like I said from one of my previous posts.

Week Two - Minimal homework and just some things I needed to buy for a couple of subjects.

Week Three - My laptop had to go to repairs again and homework is starting to build. 

Week Four - Yep that's a math equation right there because I wasn't bothered to  get a piece of paper. LAZY ME :)

Week Five - This week. This is mostly notes for my report from my Biology excursion, things I need to include because it's due this Thursday and I haven't started yet.

That's basically an overview of school so far. The homework load is pretty different, more, compared to previous years where the pages ended up having graffiti all over because it was empty.

Anyway, I better get cracking on my Biology report and also start taking notes in preparation to my Studies Of Religion I (SOR1) test coming up in about two weeks. You can say that I might be preparing too early but I seriously need to get on top of work so I don't fall behind like I did for not being at school for two days straight (volleyball and day off - sprained ankle from volleyball).

Okay I'm gonna go now. Take care and be safe.

♥

Bush walks, spiders and plants

While I was thinking of how to start this blog, I read through my past entries and noticed that I started a lot of them with, "First of all..." Well today I am not going to do that. So here we go. 

I apologize for not having photos actual photos of the venue. They made us leave all electronics in our bags and we had to leave them in a locked room.

Today, as part of my Biology preliminary course (Year 11), I had to go on a mandatory fieldwork trip to the Bicentennial Park Education Centre at Homebush Bay. Throughout the excursion, we had to fill in a booklet that required us to perform experiments and collect information from various tests which will then be a part of our final results at the end of term 3. 

During the bus ride, my friend Mike and I pulled our Nintendo DS' and played Elite Beat Agents, which is a seriously fun rhythm game where you tap the buttons in time with the song. We went up against each other over and over again until we got to the place; playing songs like Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram, ABC - Jackson 5 and Sk8r Boi - Avril Lavigne. 

We got out of the bus and walked to the site, which was where we ate our morning tea while they explained what was going to happen, and where we had to leave our bags. After that, we got split into our classes and went off to our separate routes. 

My class was led by a guide named Mel, who was lovely and very helpful when it came to filling out the booklet, to an area called "The Mangrove Classroom". Here, we had to collect data of abiotic features in the area, such as humidity, soil pH and water salinity. The activities didn't take long and half an hour later, we were off to our next destination. 

I'm going to bore you by writing ALL of our activities but this is a list of activities we had to do:

• Count mangrove seedlings and crab holes and draw conclusions from the data (trends that have occurred etc.);
• Design an experiment to figure out the "relationship between the height of pneumatophores (root system) and tidal inundation;
• Recognise and expand on the adaptations of the Grey Mangroves and a mangrove animal;
• Create food chains and discuss the outcomes if a producer or consumer were taken out of the food chain;
• Collect more abiotic features in another area (Saltmarsh Community).
• Fill in a table on relationship terms, allelopathy, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism);
• Draw a profile of the vegetation in a 100 metre area (this was where a big spider crawled up on my leg!);
• Identify impacts of human activity on the ecosystem.

Oh wow! That is A LOT. I apologize for boring you out from this but I just had to include it. If you got this far without awesome pictures (I know I wouldn't have) then thank you so much for reading!!

Be safe and take care :)

♥

Volleyball Gala Day

First of all, if you don't know what a Gala day is, basically it's just a day out of school where you go to a venue and play a certain sport for the whole day against other schools. 

So today I had to wake up extra early (6:30 am) to be at school by 7:10 am. Honestly I think I was still half asleep when I got to school because I kept on dazing in and out of conversations. Once the roll was marked and we got on the bus, you would think that I would've gone to sleep because I'm so tired. Well... I tried but my friends wanted to play card games during our 30-minute bus ride to Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush. 

We got there and got into our jerseys and won our first game. All of us still sleepy and tired so winning the first game was quite surprising. We lost the first set by 9 points, I think, but we came back, winning the next two sets as well as the game. The next game was slightly easier and we also won that game two sets straight, however there were minor injuries in the team. 
Two games later, we had three wins and a loss, on top of jarred fingers, scraped knees, swollen wrists and throbbing legs and a fight with one of the coaches who kept on calling 'time' (out) when he clearly wasn't allowed to stop the game as much as he did. 

On our last game, we versed a "professional team" as we called it. They had all the gears and more; jerseys, matching bike shorts, knee pads, hair in ponytails and strapped legs, ankles, wrists, fingers and any other body part that could be strapped. 

Out of all our games, the team and I agreed that the last game was our best game, even though we lost. Our teamwork in the last was much, much better compared to how we worked together in previous games.

I think that going up against a stronger, much better team allowed us to step our game up a bit more and work better as a team because we knew what was going to happen anyway. So we tried different plays and tactics and, surprisingly, most of them worked!

All in all, today was fun despite the injuries we endured, an issue I don't want to get into because I don't want to make this post longer and there are no pictures, which probably makes it worse. 

You guys take care and have a good time :)

♥

My Valentines Day Story

For the record, this is a real story even though it took place around four years ago.

I was with my best friend at the library after school, you know, just hanging out and not wanting to go home. We were just hanging out and then my boyfriend at the time, with his best friend, surprised us from behind. Thinking back, it was really cute. Moving on. It was Valentines Day, obviously, but I wasn't really expecting anything. 

Out of the blue, his best friend suggested pizza for afternoon tea and we all chipped in. When they came back, I didn't see a pizza. Instead, there was a red rose. I stared at it thinking, "Where the heck is my pizza?" I was upset because I was hungry at the time and wanted pizza. 

I realised I was just staring at the rose he was holding and he looked nervous. I felt bad for keeping him waiting so I took it and gave him a hugs and kisses. Our best friends were just laughing in the background but I didn't care. It was nice to be thought of once in a while. 

So yeah... That was my Valentines Day Story

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Finalmente Oh Dios Mios

First of all, I don't really speak Spanish, except for numbers and random phrases here and there. Anyway, I am just so happy because FINALLY FINALLY my laptop is back, system board and fans replaced and good to go!!! And thank God too because I had homework that can only be done on the computer so YIPEE!!!

I am so happy - BIG SMILES :D

♥

Valentines, Procrastination and Birthdays

Now first of all this won't be about my loneliness on Valentine's Day, which is tomorrow by the way. I haven't got a valentine but that's fine because I don't have to share my Ferrero Rochers. OH YEAH!!

It feels like FOREVER since I last posted. Mainly because my laptop went back to repairs because apparently they didn't fix the problem in the software. That's another week without a laptop and another week of doing homework through my brother's laptop or in the library. 

Speaking of which, it was my younger brother's birthday yesterday!!! Happy Birthday Bro!!! YAAAYY!!! He turned 14 and to be honest, he's still pretty much the same.

I tried, I really did, but unfortunately I didn't get the bottom bits
Shout out to The Cheesecake Factory - I LOVE YOUR CAKES!! 

A lot has been happening. School has been a pain, especially waking up at 7 a.m. and making my own lunch everyday. I've been put into a group of three, which included a girl that I didn't really know because we didn't hang out in the same circle, and one of my good friends. I tried to be friendly but this chick is so freaking snobby I wanted to just call her up on it; Or alternatively just punch her face. We had to do a group project and she did her part in her computer and told me that she would send it to me via my school email. I check my email. None from her. Douchebag. 

School has been pretty light homework-wise but the teachers are oh-so-slowly giving us more and more homework. Like today in Maths, we've only been doing the intro stuff to calculus for the past week and a half but today I have to do quite a few exercises, which is just over two pages. In Biology, I've got to read and summarize three and a half pages and put it all in a table. Now these aren't that bad but:

Procrastination and laziness just takes over, leaving you absolutely no time to do work. 

I'm sure a lot of you can relate because I know ALL of my friends procrastinate and get lazy. Even the smartest person in my year group gets lazy once in a while. It's completely normal. It's a way to get away and relax. However, as much as I sound like a teacher or parent, there should be a balance. One of my teachers said, "Earn your breaks." 
And so you should! If you've been working for an hour, give yourself a 20 minute break to eat, rest and just relax. You've earned it :)

Apart from these small bumps, school has been fun. the teachers are friendlier and more lenient towards us because we're seniors and it's been awesome hanging out with my friends again five days a week. 

Well I really have to do my homework so I don't fall behind, and seriously you DO NOT WANT TO FALL BEHIND because CATCHING UP SUCKS NUTS.

♥

Oh Happy Day

I wasn't planning to post today but when something awesome happened just when I thought my day was going to be so bad, I just had to write about it.

One day, I turned on my laptop and this came up...

A few days later, I tried turning it on but, apart from the lights appearing from the buttons, there was nothing...

This morning, I had a double period with a teacher who said that we had to have our laptops otherwise we would fall behind. I think you can see where I'm going with this but let me finish. When class started, she asked the usual questions, "Who can't log on to the internet?" and "Who's laptop isn't working?" All that jazz. You see, I had told her during the previous lesson that mine was in repairs. I had also shown her a note in my diary from the IT office. 

The next thing I know, I was being grilled at for sitting next to my friend who had a working computer. Not that I really cared. I told her that my laptop was in repairs but she still blew off at me. Nothing I could do about it, so what do you do when someone is talking nonsense? 

Stare at them, nod once in a while and let their rubbish go into one ear and out the other. That is one of THE MOST valuable lessons I have developed in high school. 

So I had to listen to drag on for almost two hours, and mind you these were the first two hours of the day. As you can see, I didn't have a good start. Fast-forward to the second half of lunch, at around 1:20 pm, and you see me going into the IT office asking if my laptop was ready. THANK GOODNESS IT WAS!!! OH MY WORD!!! The absolute joy I felt after having to do my research and homework through my phone and blogging with my brother's laptop for the past 5 days was difficult but definitely not impossible, because you know, nothing is impossible. 

When I opened my laptop, I saw my familiar desktop... 

It was working properly!!! YAAAAYYY!!! 

That's my happy story of the day.

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Off To The City!

I am currently still using my brother's teeny tiny laptop because mine hasn't made it out of repairs just yet so for now I'll work with what I've got.

Since I attend a catholic all-girls high school, we have an annual opening mass and this year it was held in St. Mary's Cathedral in the city to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the school. Once we got there, beautiful doesn't even begin to describe this church. I was in awe from the intricate designs on the building, and this was only on the outside.

Once we got inside, my jaw literally dropped. It was magnificent. Everything was just gorgeous. It's one of those places where you have to actually see it to be amazed and to be able to appreciate it because firstly, it's just incredible, and secondly, photography is not allowed. At least that's what the sign says. If you're really curious, Google it or go on Wikipedia.

Now you're probably getting bored with how much I'm talking about the church and, I don't blame you. I'm getting pretty bored myself but I SERIOUSLY HAVE TO talk about the next part. After the mass, the ENTIRE school had to go outside and take a school photo in front of the cathedral. This was probably the most frustrating part of the day. 

First, we had to wait inside the cathedral until we were taken out by year group and since I'm in year 11 , we got taken out second last. When we got out, there was this HUGE crowd; parents, teachers, photographers, one of them in a cherry picker, and students from year 7 to 10. We had to go in height order, which took a while but it didn't matter much at the end. We were placed in our positions and then it was the year 12's and finally the teachers. 

Now I don't know what else the photographers were doing but it took SO, SO, SO LONG to have the photographer to start taking pictures. In fact, it took so long that I think 7 year 7's (coincidence or what?) fainted or got heat stroke or something and had to sit out of the photos. I heard one vomited but I didn't see it. Oh well. 

FINALLY, FINALLY!! They finally take the photo, all the while making us say the same words over and over again; 'twisties' and 'holidays'.
It was kind of odd that strangers walking or jogging by were also taking pictures of us. They also took less than 30 seconds to take photos of us. I wish they were the ones that took the actual photos. 

So that's the highlight of my day, apart from the extended lunch we had where I was teaching my friend the 'Cup Song' from Pitch Perfect, which is my favourite movie right now. Love you Fat Amy.

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A Pinch and a Punch on the First Day of the Month. No Returns.

So I am currently using my younger brother's teeny tiny laptop because mine is broken. It won't turn on so I had to take it to repairs (ICT Office in school).

A pinch and a punch on the first day of the month. No returns.

When I went to school this morning, the sky looked gloomy. Like that weather where you know it's gonna rain some time soon but you hope you don't catch it.Unfortunately for me, school didn't finish quick enough and I had to walk home in heavy rain; Not to mention the thunder and lightning that was happening during last period and my walk home.

My mum opened the door when I buzzed, took the mail from my soaked hands  and hit me on my shoulder with it as I walked in. Thanks mum. Feeling the love there. In addition to the "I told you so!" remark about bringing an umbrella today. Psychic much?

Here is my not-so-awesome-photography-skills-because-I'm-a-beginner.

Dark, gloomy sky from my room but great sleeping conditions

The gutter from the balcony. As you can see, it's like a mini flood.

I thought this would emphasize how much rain was pouring down. I don't know. Maybe?

I think my favourite one out of the bunch.

Now I'm at home, you know TGIF and all that jazz, playing Dead Space 2 on the ps3. Seriously, if you get scared easily, then I don't recommend this for you. YOU WILL GET A HEART ATTACK. YOU WILL GO INTO CARDIAC ARREST.But then again, I am NOT a professional, just putting that out there, so consult with your doctor if you can play this game without any risks.

I don't play a lot of video games, unless you count phone apps (ahem... nope), but my brother wanted to get a game that was part of the 2 for $40 deal so I decided to go halfsies with him because I am a nice sister. 

It's fun, I really like the game. One thing I don't like is, because I suck, I have gotten myself killed almost a dozen times. And that's only for the first chapter and a half. Ahem, rage quit. 

The other thing that kinda bugs me but makes me laugh at the same time is that my mum finds it so hard to believe that I play video games.I don't understand this though because she has seen me play Tekken countless times  on the big screen, right in front of her face and she gets shocked when I play other games. I honestly don't get it.

Help, anyone?

♥

First Day Half Day

First day of school is here. Well technically, for me, it's already finished. Although only the Year 7, 11 and 12's were the only ones at school today. Tomorrow the rest of them will be there. Sucks to be them, going to school on a Friday.

I got my timetable today. I was fairly happy with it. I've got five study periods, two of which I get to leave school if I wanted. The other three are before or after classes so I can't leave. 

Homework. Well since the year coordinator and our year group spent the first period outlining the expectations, warnings and assignments of Year 11 and the second period to organise who is in which homeroom (roll call class) and getting lockers, I only had two periods. Hardly any homework but I STILL have to finish my holiday homework for Extension Maths. 

I'm telling you, the lockers in my school sucks because, unlike those single, silver lockers you see in American high schools - or maybe that's just in movies, I don't know - the lockers in my school are not tall. Instead the column is divided in three and it's basically a square. It's about as deep as the length of my school bag. What sucks even MORE is that when the teacher assigned the lockers, I got a bottom locker because my name is second last in the roll. 

A good thing about that though is that there is an empty locker beside mine. Me and my other friend, who is on the other side of the empty locker, are sharing it. Once we clean it up. 

What Happened Yesterday?

Different countries have different celebrations and holidays for different reasons. Yesterday, the 26th of January, we celebrated Australia Day. 

Here's a bit of background information.

Image in courtesy of freeaussiestock.com

On the 26th of January, 1788, the First Fleet, captained by Admiral Arthur Phillip, landed in Sydney Cove in New South Wales. The First Fleet was the given name of eleven ships that were sent from Britain to colonise Australia. 

At first, the holiday was only celebrated in New South Wales as other states had their own "founding celebrations" with different dates and names. After over a century, in 1935, each state agreed to celebrate this special occasion on the same date however New South Wales called it Anniversary Day. In 1946 every state finally called it Australia Day. The public holiday, although celebrated on the 26th, is moved to the closest Monday to the date to create a long weekend.

So that's that. What did I do yesterday? Well I didn't really do anything special the whole day; Relaxing, watch TV and all that. We went out on an impromptu dinner though at a place called Big John's. Honestly, their serving portions are MASSIVE!!! I didn't get to take a picture of the ribs that my parents ordered because I was in awe. Seriously though, it was as big as my arm, from my elbow to finger tips. 

I had veal and it was so big that I couldn't finish it. I always finish my food but that veal beat me. Partly because I didn't like the fact that it was so chewy and I had never had veal before. 

Oh well, now I know not to order veal in big portions again. If it was smaller I think I would've been able to finish it. Maybe.

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Curly Not So Curly

Bad news guys! My eyelash curler, Curly (Yes I named it. Don't judge), won't curl my lashes any more.  I think he's had enough of me. When I first bought him I didn't use him a lot because I hardly ever used mascara but for the past few months I've been been using mascara a lot.

R.I.P. Curly

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Oh So Tired

School is starting soon and I've got most of my things ready. One more trip to the shops and I'll be ready for school. However, there are people that haven't bought any textbooks yet, my little (but not so little because he's taller than me) brother. 

Most of my textbooks for this year (I have to pick up my Maths textbook from a friend).

Last year, my brother and I got an order form for textbooks for 2013 but my school had a second hand book fare. I got all of my textbooks for $5 to $25 each, as opposed to ordering and spending around $50 to $85. EACH. So I saved A LOT of money. My brother, on the other hand, decided to leave it 'til now.

So for the past couple of days, I've been busting my butt trying to find websites that sell second hand textbooks for my brother. Gosh it's so annoying because they're either not selling anywhere or it's been sold, *sad face*. PLUS! I've been trying to watch Dexter from season 1. I can't watch it in peace.  

My Second-hand textbooks for 2013 :)

Sucks to be me. Oh well! I think the easiest way to get a hold of the books is just by ordering it online at another website for cheaper. Hopefully it will arrive by the start of next week! 

There are a few lessons learnt from this situation:

• Get your check list and check websites like eBay and Gumtree if anyone is selling them.

• Buy textbooks before the sale time ends.

• Do all your textbook shopping well before school starts.

There you go. Lesson learnt! YAAAYY!!!

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Another Go.

So at the start of the year I set myself a few New Years Resolutions.

Already I have failed to follow these, which sucks because I planned to follow them for at least 2 months. So this is what I'm going to do. Instead of making drastic changes in my life at once, I will make little goals for myself everyday, whether it be to make my bed in the morning or take more time to get ready for school instead of rushing and arriving there flustered. 

These little goals will help clear and relax your mind as well as body because you don't have to constantly think about things. Having a list that restricts you from doing a number of things will eventually make you go crazy as you are continuously trying to remember things that you can and can't do.

Little goals are little goals. These should not take long otherwise they would be long-term goals, and that's not what we want. For example, when I'm at school and I see that my locker is messy, my goal would be to clean it up. It's simple really. Another could be that I make my bed every morning. I could set this as my morning goal.

When you achieve your goal, reward yourself! Don't get mad at yourself if you don't achieve that goal today! Just set it as tomorrow's goal. If you achieve every goal you set for yourself, you will be happier with yourself and your days will turn out better.

So give it a go and set yourself a little goal! You never know what you can achieve in a small amount of time!

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Feelin hot, hot, hot!

It was BOILING today!! 45 degrees Celsius!! And stupid me decided to go out and go buy random stuff. Big mistake. Being only 16 years old and on my L's and therefore cannot drive without a professional driver, I had to walk through heatwave after heatwave after heatwave. Smart one!

Check out my sexy bruise. I know it's hot ;)

By the time I got to the shopping centre, I was sweating from head to toe!! I felt so icky and I just wanted to take a shower. I felt my own sweat running down my back while I was walking. It was not cute at all.

You might be wondering why I went out on the hottest day of the year just to buy random stuff. Well, I got into trouble a while back and now I'm grounded for three months. Great start in 2013, right? Yeah, well anyway, I really don't like lazing around and doing nothing so I watched a DIY tutorial on how to make your own hair bows by Macbarbie07 a.k.a. Bethany. This girl is totally awesome and I love watching her videos every week. 

I decided to make my own just to kill time and this is how they look! I think they're pretty awesome, especially the Batman/Joker hair bow. Totally bad ass.

Yeah... Don't mind the ruler... 

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2 Weeks To Go...

Oh my god! Two weeks until school starts! Where have my holidays been? There are millions of things that I have to get straight in order to be school-ready and I haven't done any of them. How am I going to live! Aaaaahhhh!!

SLEEPING PATTERS
Need I say more? I don't think sleeping past midnight and waking up at 7:30am is something I could get used to on school days. Since the start of the holidays, I have been sleeping in the "wee hours of the morning." My mum has told me off many, many times for it but I can't help it. I'm a teenager who likes to sleep, just like every other teenager. I'll try to get my sleeping patterns to be school-friendly so that I don't arrive at school looking like the dead. 
I swear the school times are NOT designed for teenagers.

HOMEWORK
School hasn't even started and I already have homework! WHAT?! I know it sucks but since I'm doing Extension Maths for Year 11 and 12, I, along with the others who picked Extension Maths, have to complete a worksheet that consists of exercises on different topics. This is so that we don't waste time learning these topics and move on to more complex ones. 
I'm scared to think of what my workload is going to be like when school starts... Yikes!

INTERNET/COMPUTER
Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Okay I admit I haven't touch my Tumblr account in a long while. This is mainly because I know that once I start reblogging and posting things, I won't be able to stop. Gosh, I've been spending so much time on the internet that I can honestly say that I have spent more time on the computer than being outside. It's not something I'm proud of, but come on! You don't get a lot of relaxing time once school starts so I say take advantage! I mean #YOLO right?? Gosh...

I know there are more things about going back to school that annoy, scare and/or excite us, but these are the main things that do it for me.

Thanks for reading!
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