I’m engaged and a lot of other stuff!
Current mood: ecstatic

As of 9:30ish pm tonight on the 6th of August (Picnic Day in the NT), I am officially engaged to Luke Timothy Gardiner, and we are no longer girlfriend and boyfriend but soon to be husband and wife :) I am the happiest girl in the world. He took me out to dinner at Oscars and gave me flowers and we drove up to the top of Anzac Hill and went out to the memorial overlooking Alice Springs, and he told me how much he loved me and some other sweet things and said he wanted to be with me forever and would love me always and got down on one knee and proposed to me with a beautiful ring, just always how I pictured it to be. He then brought out a  champagne bottle and some of my nice glasses that he brought along and we sat down looking down at all the lovely night time lights. Pity it was cold and we couldnt stay for very long. I couldnt imagine a more perfect setting or a more sweeter man and proposal, the silly thing was even a bit nervous I would say no, but I love him so much as if I would.

As for my other news, I had gotten a casual job at Katies a few months ago (shortly after my last post), which is a nice ladies fashion store, and then about over a month or so ago, I got offered the position of manager at Katies and I accepted, making this my first full time proper job and I'm enjoying it very much. Its nice working in a nice enviroment with mostly nice people and nice things. Its really cushy too, although being on my feet all day kinda sucks, coz I can't wear really nice shoes.

I also bought a new car, its 6 months old, and got it at the sweet price of $16500, which is good coz its a December model Ford Focus and its a deep red.

So everything is working together nicely, moving back with Luke seemed so scary at the time, but everything worked out nicely. Got a beautiful place, have a happy beautiful cat, got a nice job with nice pay, a new car and finally to top it off I'm engaged to the wonderful man I've been with for over 5 years and now have a wedding to plan...April sounds nice...

Was my birthday last month on the 8th, which was really nice, had a great day and got some nice things. But the best thing of all was that I was with my friends and my family and my loved ones.

Had a fondue party a few weeks ago, the chocolate worked really well..but need to work on the cheese, starting cooling down too quickly and set fast.

Went to a Body Shop party at my friend Moniques place that she was staying at and bought some nice stuff, hopefully it'll be here around the 20th August. And we had a little bbq at Ruth and Ewens place and watched a movie.

Anywho, even though I'm too excited and happy to go to bed, I better try seeing that I have work in the morning :(.

Currently reading : Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By J.K. Rowling Release date: 01 June, 2001

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Well well well...
Current mood: contemplative

Well I know its been a while since I've posted, partly coz I'm lazy but also partly coz I've been moving into a new place and trying to get the internet and phone to work and finally we sorta have it...Telstra hasnt connected our 3rd party internet yet, but my wireless usb adaptor dongle has found our next door neighbours internet..so as long as I dont download anything big we should be ok :P

Well since I last wrote, we moved into our new place and am loving it lots, Franky has gotten used to it at last and has stopped being heartbreakingly sad. Living with borrowed furniture isnt so bad, but I can't wait till we get our own new stuff.

I didnt get the pathology lab and STILL no word from the Desert Park, but I did get an offer from Katies, and so with reality kicking in with the fact that I'm unwanted in what I studied in or anything relating to it and also because its a job I could enjoy, I took it, and have been doing it for a week and a bit now. Its a very casual job, approx 30 hours a fortnight, have only done afternoon shifts during the work week, and I think I'm doing fairly well, learning speedily. I am enjoying the job, its pretty cushy, dealing with nice clothes and middle aged ladies with credit cards, and the girls I work with are fun. I hope we can be good friends when I get to know them a bit better. I would like a second job coz I have LOTS to save up for...But it has to be flexible with hours...Tania told me I'll probably get mostly afternoon shifts, definitely 1 whole Monday every fortnight, maybe some Saturdays and more hours on Thursdays and Fridays maybe. So after I'm trained up and all, I'll start looking for a second job. Its been really fun so far :)

I was really depressed and down in the dumps with all the trouble of trying to find a job and being turned down or not contacted and not wanted. I worked so hard to get where I am, and I can't demonstrate my abilities because of lack of experience or not enough papers from a university. I can be an empty mold, bendable shapable, teach me and I'll learn to do exactly what needs to be done, and I'll give it my all...but no one can see beyond my papers. But I'm coming to realise theres a lot more to life than being super successful in work, and I'm learning to appreciate it. Its just hard to knock out the mental image I always had of myself by the time I reached this part of my life...I wanted to be the super woman, juggling great job and family and fun and life successfully and not missing a beat. But maybe I'm not meant to be like that. I am who I am, and maybe I was pushing myself to be something that I wasnt. I thought I was all done with searching for my identity in high school, but I believe its a life long search now...which will make for an interesting journey.

As for what me and Luke are saving up for: a special event next year before June 2008 that will be updated more as we get closer, new furniture, my very expensive $2000 visa to stay in Australia (which be applied for around June next year), PS3 and games and misc. Like my little brother says "I hate money!" lol

Anywho, Lukes made a late lunch so I'm gonna go eat now.

Currently watching : Fraggle Rock - Complete First Season Release date: 06 September, 2005

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well..
Current mood: stressed

Well we get to start moving into our new place on Monday, we won't live there for a while though as we still want to live at home and save up some more, we won't turn on power and gas and all of that as thats extra expenses we wont be using for a while. Just using it I spose as an expensive storage facility for the moment. However I can't wait to live in it as its beautiful, we just had to get it even though it was hard to scrape up the money..but it'll be worth it.

Had two job interviews today, one at Katies and one at a pathology lab. I'd rather the pathology lab job, or the Desert Park one I applied for weeks ago and they're only just now getting a committee together to look at the resume and I just can't wait on them.

Had a look at wedding dresses and had some wedding ideas with mum today, its a lot of fun thinking about it. I dont want anything big or fancy, an outdoors one sounds nice.

Lukes in Adelaide at the moment doing the very last day of law school stuff, should be back tomorrow. He's really enjoying his new job as a lawyer and I know he's excellent at it.

I am absolutely dying to go out shopping coz theres so many nice things I want, but from now on, I'm gonna have to keep a strict budget if I'm planning to save up for furniture, and a wedding and an application for permanent residency and all of that.

Anywho, back to playing WoW..would play ff7 but my little brother is using the ps2.

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Apparently..my Celebrity Lookalikes..yea

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Stage 1 of moving complete
Current mood: relieved

Well...here I am on the eve of my first day of living in Alice Springs again. Spent the last 2 weeks packing and cleaning and being with my family in Adelaide and trying to say goodbye to everyone and not succeeding and being very tired, but finally, Luke and I left yesterday and arrived in Alice today.

Luke will start his new promising career as a lawyer tomorrow on the first day of his 6 week placement, being payed quite well and then getting a raise when the 6 weeks is over. And I am waiting to hear whether or not I'm getting chosen to be interviewed for this one job...and hoping they hurry soon, as I need to start scrimping and saving up to buy new furniture and to be able to pay the rent..when we find a place to move into that is. I hope I get this job though...it sounds like the kind of thing I always wanted..something different to what most people have, something interesting where I met new people and not stuck behind a desk all the time.

Its really nice to be back home with my family again, I feel safe and comforted and its just like I was younger..except better. But I'm looking forward to finding a nice place with Luke and starting our little "nest" again.

But, now its time to sleep and ignore the 40 boxes that await me and Luke when we finally unpack. My gaming life is gonna suffer till we find our own place :P

Currently playing : Final Fantasy XII Release date: 31 October, 2006

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Happy Valentines Day
Current mood: loved

Today was Luke's and I 5th year anniversary as well as Valentines Day, and I had a really nice day today. Luke had to be at uni in the morning, but came home at 1 pm and we exchanged gifts and flowers and spent the afternoon cuddling and watching tv and talking. Then we went out to dinner at Cos Restaurant on Leigh Street in the city and it was scrumptious. Then we just went driving along the coast and talked and came home and played FF12. All in all, a really nice day and a sweet night. We especially reminisced a lot about when I used to live in a room in the shared house and about all the happy times and memories we had there and he really opened up about how he used to feel and it was really sweet.

Anyways tomorrow (well really today after I go to bed :P) we really need to start getting serious packing. Luke and I are moving to Alice Springs mid March and the clock is a ticking away. I decided that I would try my luck in Alice Springs, and Luke has to do his law placement there, otherwise he doesnt get paid and we cant live together. And I dont want to be apart from him...so we're moving there together. We are gonna start looking for flats to rent, and trying to sell/give away the furniture we have..

But I absolutely detest packing of any sort, suitcases, boxes, lunches...I just have a severe aversion to it. But it must be done bleargh.

Anyways, onto video gaming news..FF12 is going well, all my characters are about level 24 now and I'm up to the ice boss in the Shrine of Miriam, beaten me twice but Luke reckons he knows how to beat it which is good. As for WoW, two more levels to 70 and then when I get my main geared up fairly ok, gonna get my 52 mage up to 70 just so our guild has a choice between my two toons when we start raiding. I got Luke NFL Street 03 for Valentines Day and he's gonna start playing that soon, I hope its as good or better than the last one, he was pretty excited when he saw it.

My family will soon be done in Adelaide first week of March, and when they leave is when we plan on going as well.

So those up in Alice, I'll be seeing you soon, and those down here in Adelaide, I'd love to catch up with you before I go.

Currently playing : Final Fantasy XII Release date: 31 October, 2006

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here or there
Current mood: depressed

Well I always knew that this time would come, the time to decide where I want to live. For around 5 years now, I've lived in Adelaide and developed a very comfortable and enjoyable lifestyle with friends and with Luke. But as the end of his degree draws nearer and the knowledge that he wants to live in Alice, I need to worry about myself now.

Now that I'm inbetween jobs now, with only a very casual job at a video store in Adelaide to "look forward" to, I have been applying like mad to everywhere..except in Alice. I simply cannot find anything here, which is what I'm afraid of. I'm waiting to hear replies back from the ones in Adelaide, but Luke needs to put in a form to uni about his placement in early February. If we can stay here, he only needs to be in Adelaide for 3 weeks (not at all the same time). I hate being under this kind of pressure, its gotten me a bit down. So I'm trying to ring some people and work things out and hopefully things will turn all right in the end.

I'm afraid of disrupting my current lifestyle because I'm just so comfortable in it, and I dont adapt to such big changes very easily or quickly. I know something  needs to be done, I just dont want to do it. Things change and so must I...If I do leave Adelaide, I'm gonna miss my friends and being a part of my godchildren's lives and the shopping and the city. It is my hope that I will be able to make frequent trips there if I move.

On happier news, Luke and I will be picking up our copies of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade tonight at midnight, which should be exciting, so many new things to do and see and explore and kill :D

Anyhow, I gotta keep trying to ring these ladies who are either really busy or not at their desk and talk to them.

Currently playing : World of Warcraft Release date: 23 November, 2004

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Happy New Year
Current mood: hopeful

Well, its a brand new year with brand new opportunities and discoveries. I hope everyone had a safe and happy and fun New Years. Luke and I went out with some of our friends to the casino and then to Melankas and had a lovely night. My poor feet were killing me though, in tall gold stilettos...why oh why do we put ourselves through things like heels :P I guess we're just stupid :D

Now.. for resolutions...I've never been good at keeping my resolutions, but lets see how long I can keep them for.

1. I will go to the gym a few times a week. For the first month of so, I will go every other day. After that, if I have time I will go every day, for 1-2 hours each session. I want to see how much weight I can lose by the end of this year. Exceptions are public holidays and near death experiences.

2. I will strive harder to stay in contact with people. No more being a hermit.

3. Following the hermit comment, I will go out at least once a week. No more being a homebody. I'm young only once and I should go out and enjoy life. So once a week I will go out dancing, or to karaoke or just out to a pub.

4. I will find a nice job that will give me experience.

5. Once I get a job, I  will put most of my paycheck that isnt going into bills away and save it.

6. No more being lazy..at anything :P

I think that about covers it...Hopefully my last resolution will make me keep all my resolutions..we can only wait :P

Anyways.. Alice Springs is beautiful... Big wide open skies, warm..scratch that..hot breeze, sunny and lovely. Sitting in my folks back yard in the shade is just so relaxing. Town itself is..sorta looking nicer. They're done a lot of work to Alice Plaza, I hope the new shops will be nice and something that Alice needs. Its trying to spruce up the town a bit..they need all the luck they can get :P

Anywho, I'm off to search the web for jobs, at the moment, theres NOTHING in Alice Springs for me, but there are a few positions in Adelaide that I might try sending my resume to.

Peace all. May this new year be good to you all.

Currently playing : Microsoft Age of Empires 3 Release date: 18 October, 2005

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Merry Christmas
Current mood: peaceful

I hope you all have a safe and happy holidays and may all of you be blessed and at peace with yourselves and with others.Please be careful out there during your celebrations, and consider others. May your wishes be granted, may your love be requited, may your happiness be shared and may your dreams come true. Remember that as nice as gifts and food and decorations are, also remember what Christmas means to you. Family and love and togetherness and a time of peace and about hope for the future of humanity.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...

Currently listening : Christmas with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby By Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby Release date: 31 October, 2006

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Almost Christmas..corny blog :D
Current mood: grateful

Well, I think I got all my Christmas shopping done at last. Went shopping with Luke and Daniel to get their family some presents and helped them pick some lovely things for their mum, and got some things for mine.

But my mum...sigh, she buys all the things she likes so by the time I come home for Christmas, I can't work out what to get her. Twice this last week I had to return something I bought for her because she already had it :P So hopefully (I double checked this time) she doesnt have what I got her.

Now I'm ready for Christmas and I wish it would just hurry up already. But I love Christmas despite my whinging. Its my favourite time of year because its the one time of year I am with my family and with Luke. Unfortunately, not with all my friends in Adelaide, but I spent some time with them before I left so thats ok. I love the bright lights and decorated trees and the good spirit and suprising kindesses that you see around. I also love Christmas coz of my little brother. He's 10 now and he says he still believes in Santa, which is sweet. He still is so innocent and beautiful when I wake him up on Christmas Day and he sees all the Santa presents and the filled stockings that he has tears in his eyes. I am dreading the day he stops believing. I like to believe in the spirit of Santa, so I tell the truth when I tell him that I also still believe in Santa.

Anyways away from the corniness now :P I'm gonna go wrap the presents I got today now.Thanks to Rose for posting this cute quiz:

Your Christmas is Most Like: Miracle on 34th Street

Sweet and caring, Christmas is about helping for you. While Santa may not exist, you try to share his spirit.

Currently listening : Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection By Frank Sinatra Release date: 26 October, 2004

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