"If he were telling the truth he wouldn't have told us"

Ahh yes, lovely line from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Please forgive me in advance if this post has random quotes from the movie..To which I am currently watching....

"Pride of the Kings navy you are"

So it has been about, oh, two weeks since my last post? [checking...] Yeah about two weeks!

"I don't see your ship"...."I'm in the market as it were"

So the big news in my last update was that I was offered a job at Marshalls Home Goods. Its a super store combining Marshalls and Home Goods. I work in the womens department right now with Dushanka and Alex. It's kinda crazy hectic but in a good way. I worked Wednesday 7 and Saturday 10 last week, and this week I was scheduled for Sunday 11, Tuesday 13, and Saturday 17. Tomorrow is payday so hopefully i'll be able to go in after Geology and check my schedule for next week along with picking up my pay cheque. I haven't sorted out direct deposit yet.

"Your not a unick are you?"

Oh in other news, last week we sold the Nissan!!!! $600 for it. The guy knew about the problems with the over heating and engine issues now. So I no have no car. I get to drive dads car during the weekends if im working. Dad and I may go out this weekend to look at used cars. I know we need to sort out the loan and the payments etc. I hope I can handle all this!!

"You can keep doing that forever the dog is never going to move"

Orientation at work was good. Long but good. I meet Lindy and we text each other, she seems cool. Afterwards I went straight to RJ's place and stayed there until 2am. It was fun cos I hadn't seen this kid since before the semester started. Last Saturday (10th) after work, as soon as I got home in fact, I called RJ and was like "Hey....So come get me!" This was like 4:30. He picked me up an hour later and it was sooo much fun! I had put my bikini in my bag as a 'just in case'! Turns out I did jump into his pool. His mum was surprised and happy to see me! We were sitting outside for, I dunno, maybe an hour before I went and stood in his pool, RJ and his mum were like.."Just dive in!".."No, I don't wanna get my clothes wet!" So I said to RJ "i'll go in of you go in", he said deal. Had him shake on it, and said "ok, i'll go get changed" Came back out in my bikini and he was still standing there. He thought i was joking, but I wasn't so he went in and got his boardies on. The water was kinda chilly but got warmer as you moved around. His parents were shocked he actually got in!! Go me! Hahaha. After I had got my clothes back on, his mum, me and RJ sat outside until 9pm. I was killing bugs but a bug zapper that looked like a badminton racket. I killed soooo many of the big bugs that were around. You pushed these two buttons and these lights came out, get the bug on it and it fries the crap out of them. You can make them pop and crackle, they also emit a burning smell. Katy came over at about midnight to hang out, it was cool she got to meet one of my friends for a change! Those two got along famously!

"I am disinclined to act-request your request....means no"

Hmm what else.. I passed my book review speech! I got 65/66! Go mee!! Also I passed my tribute speech! I got a 94 on my math test from Monday. I think its safe to say I am doing pretty well in school! This semester is almost already over. It's gone by so fast. Signed up for Summer classes already.

"This is either madness or brilliant.....Its remarkable how often those traits coincide"

Next week i'm turning twenty! Crazyy. It doesn't even seem like a year has past since I turned nineteen! I have class on Wednesday which means its the 7:30 class! Bleh. Fun stuff. Meh, I don't mind so much haha. I hope i'm not working either Saturday or Sunday. Katy has plans for me and I wanna party sooo bad! She won't tell me what she has planned or who it'll be with. I think I have some idea who we may be with but I am not positive.

"Curse yah for breathing yah slack-jawed idiot!"

Mum and dad sent their birthday boxes to me which arrived Tuesday. Dad's had a few tops which are super cute and the rest of the box is full of NZ delicacies! Like pineapple lumps, cookie time cookies, crunchie bars, rose's chocolates, whitakers peanut slab, jar of marmite, tim tams, toffeepops, oddfellows, and some more items!

Mum's box had some clothes I wanted plus a present! Which I have already opened..tehehe. It's this MASSIVELY huge white pleather handbag. It's gorgeous but huge. haha.

I think thats about all. I honestly can't think of anything else to tell yah!

"Annamaria, [slap]"..

"I suppose you didn't deserve that one either?"..

"No, that one i deserved"..

"You stole my boat"..

"Actually [slap] Borrowed, borrowed without permission but with every intention of bringing it back to you"..

"But you didn't"..

Haha i could go on for hours! I could almost quote this entire movie. I am such a dork!

So no more movie quotes!

Time to tell you about my Easter weekend and why it was the best Easter everrrr :)

Saturday night I had Aunt Charlene's easter dinner. Phyllis and I went down together b'cos dad had taken the boys to Castle N' Coaters. I had a lot of fun there as well! Grandma got me a birthday cake that was seriously delish! I told Phyllis I was gonna be her DD, she had like 8 beers that night! Dad had had a few beers too so he had obviously decided I would be driving the van home with my brothers and Phyllis. The drive was ok, dropped Phyllis off at the Whiskey River bar. :P Katy came and got me soon after I got home. We were planned on having a movie night cos Kylee hadn't gotten back in touch about hanging out. Took some beer out of the fridge and Katy and I made our way to her place. Her dad gave us half a bottle of red wine. Made two bowls of popcorn and popped in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, we decided we would take a shot of wine every time we saw a owl. Made it 20min into the movie before we weren't paying attention, so we just decided to drink it. After her dad left, Katy and I opened up another bottle of wine and at around midnight her friend Mike came over (from the party out in Surprise that night) and hung out with us. Katy and I opened up a third bottle and we were fucked!! Completely trashed on wine. Mike left at like 2am. Sunday morning we were supposed to go to church but we overslept, so we just ended up going to lunch at her aunts house. They told Katy to invite me haha. That food was seriously AMAZING! Defo went into a food coma, again. Found out that DJ is of German and Ukrainian decent. Hot combo, haha. After lunch Katy and I headed back to her place with her dad and his GF where we decided we wanted to go and play in a park. We have such an affinity with parks. We tossed around a football and decided that we were gonna have a picnic in a park with Ilya and DJ and have some games.

Until next time dear readers :)

New Semester in a Wet and Windy Week

It's been awhile since i've blogged and i do feel like i have let myself down. I said i was going to write one about 5 times before this week, now i've finally decided to sit down and write one!

In honor of the rain I decided to watch Poseidon :) I thought it seemed fitting.

I had to walk in the rain today, luckily I didn't get wet going to Math but on the way home the puddles in the street turned into a mini river. Needless to say my foot and bottom of my jeans got satcherated. Also I should mention I had an umbrella :) I was also able to wear my black trench coat.

This week classes started back up. I was super nervous Tuesday because i only had Math and i am super bad at it. Turns out we are starting at, like, kindergarten level maths - today we learnt about adding and subtracting. I'm being honest! Supposedly its going to get harder, and I hope so because I have it 4 days a week. I'm sitting at the middle table in the back with 2 guys, Eric and Sam. Eric is probably early 30s and Sam is my age. Yesterday this girl Lauren was sitting with us but she wasn't here today. I like Sam cos when he asked whereIi was from all he said was "All Blacks!!!" I was like "dude you rock!!" :) We should get along just fine.

Wednesday I had my 7:30am class which was Psych, I think i'm really going to enjoy that class. I didn't mind the early start and I picked a table with a fairly cute guy called Andy and Kimberley who said she's taking this class to hopefully get to know her teenage son better. Theres this other guy, Zack, who seems cute atm. :) Ha ha.

I also had my Public Speaking class on Wednesday at 10:30, I was surprised when I saw Doug waiting to go in as well. He was in my English 102 class this past semester! Unfortunately we were put in groups and he's not in mine, oh well. Theres actually a few cute guys in that class! I know one is called Skylar :) Unique name which is why i remember it.

Tomorrow I have Geology from 9am to 2:45pm... Long day for me. Hopefully we will get out early because the lecture ends at 11:45 and the lab doesn't start until 12pm but as it's the 1st day I doubt we will be doing anything else except going over the syllabus.

So, in my last blog i mentioned I was going to the doctors on Tuesday 12 to get my bloods drawn etc.. The bloods weren't as bad as I thought it would be, though when the results came back I found I have a slightly higher cholesterol than I should. Other than that everything is fine with me.

Since my last blog I had a movie night with RJ, we watched Invictus and Halloween 2. Admittedly I hid for pretty much all the scary parts but other than that Halloween 2 was okay. I didn't watch much of Invictus, I just couldn't get into it until the end where South Africa played NZ - then I was yelling at the TV. :) I should have picked Up In The Air with George Clooney but we can watch that next time. Oh, dad also insisted on meeting RJ before we left. It was awkward for me, he said it wasn't bad. No idea what dad thinks of him though, lol, doesn't actually matter. We're only friends. I love his mum and dad though, they are so much fun to chill with.

Nothing has changed on the job front either. I've lost count on how many places i've actually applied to though on Tuesday i filled out an online application for a part-time housekeeping job at The Marriott hotel which I would absolutely love to get! Talking to my (step) dad on Monday made me realize that I do want to work in the Travel & Tourism industry.

On Saturday 16 I had lunch with my dad, I knew what he wanted to talk about so I was able to have some answers already formed. He asked what I wanted to do in 1year and in 5years, where i saw myself career wise, job, University, etc.. Found out that I will be able to buy the car off dad for $500 when I get a job, will have to take out a loan but paying that back will give me credit and credit is everything here - good credit that is.

Dad and I went to, what I now like to call our place, The Codfather.. I had bangers and mash.. HEAVEN! I have not had that since mum last cooked it for me. I miss her cooking.

I also got to talk to my mummy!! She actually rang me. I was in shock that she did. It was good talking to her though, I miss her.

I went and saw Leap Year on Monday with Kelsey, Mel and 2 more friends of hers. Mel got me in for free because she works at that Harkins theatre. The movie was sooo freaking cute!! I posted this on Facebook after I got back home:

"Ah Leap Year was sooo cute!! Defo worth seeing it :) Plus that guy is wow. Hot! His accent... Mum, I think you should be worried if i go to Ireland :P"

And I stand by that.

On Monday I was also able to finish all 7 Harry Potter books :) I was sufficiently proud of myself. Ohh and i also bought The Half Blood Prince on Saturday.. I was driving past Walmart on my way home and I was like "I'm just gonna pop into Walmart" and I saw it and had to have it! Dad would have bought it but I had to get the special features whereas dad would just buy the movie.

Hayden's been making me jealous by sending me pictures of the snow he's getting. Dork. Told him to make me a snow angel today and pxt it to me, so far nothing. I also asked if he could build me a snowman.. Yep he didn't, though to be fair I think he was up the mountains skiing when i asked cos he said "It wasn't the right snow." I will continue asking though.

I think thats everything?

No doubt i will have missed certain things, but they were obviously not important enough to be included in todays blog.

New Year, New You

Welcome to my first blog posting for the new year!! Are you as excited as I am? And no I don't mean about this blogpost, I mean that we have started a brand new year?

Have you made any new years resolutions?

I have. Wanna hear them? Ha ha well if you insist :)

- Try and A's in all my classes

- Get a job

- Become better at emailing my mum

- Eat healthier (Isn't this like the standard one?)

- Find a boyfriend :) Hehehe

Well, thats mine - feel like sharing one of yours?

So, how was everyones New Years eve? Mine was a fantastically fun night :)

Although before i get to the party part I should mention that I hung out with Kelsey during the afternoon. We went over to Desert Ridge to get job applications :) I manged to get 7 while also buying a cute cardigan from Wet Seal which i wore all night.

Katy picked me up a little before 7 and we headed over to Target to get cups for beer pong (BP) and then to McDonald's for some food. When we got to Bryan's house, he lives in Glendale with

his parents, he wasn't there! Bryan went with Jesse to Walmart to get tables to play BP on. Silly buggers, but glad they went so we could play.

Overall the night was fun! The boys bought too much beer so we had to have a second party on Friday night. I didn't get trashed :) Only had a double shot of Malibu and around 3-4 beers. I even got the spare room for the duration of my

stay there!! And lemme tell you the room was amazing, his mum has incredible decorating skills...Even better than my mum.

That was pretty much my Thursday/Friday/Saturday and how I spent it. Loads of fun spending it with Katy and Bryan and meeting their friends.

Sunday I headed over to Desert Ridge around 4pm to keep dad happy and collect more job applications. I got to drive. By myself. For the first time. Ever. Was a lot of fun and very relaxing :)

Had a nice relaxing Monday while on Tuesday I had to go to the doctors to register myself. Happy to tell everyone that I now have a doctor. First one since I moved away from Hastings in 2003, I never got sick enough for one which I am not complaining about. Next Tuesday I have to go back to get my bloodwork done and some other stuff I won't mention.

Honest, I'm not worried.

Today I did nothing again except watch the marathon of Mercy on Oxygen. New. Favourite. Show! It's got James Tupper the vet from Men In Trees :) Very yummy! Anyway me and Jess went and saw 'Did you hear about the Morgan's' and it was alright, I love Hugh Grant to he made the movie for me!

I've been re-reading Harry Potter again, already onto the Goblet of Fire.

I texted Hayden today. Big mistake. I wanted to make sure he was alright because he posted on facebook that he was going to the hospital. He broke his collarbone and proceeded to send me a pxt of it even after I said I didn't want to see it.

After I found that he was ok, we texted for a bit before he text me these two messages "I'm good (besides missing a certain cute girl with a sexy accent)" I knew he was meaning me but I made a joke of it before he replied with this "Haha no she is from New Zealand, she is gorgeous and so fun to be around! And a great kisser too! ;)" Thanks Hayden. I really wanted to know this! NOT. I did respond though. *Sigh*.

Here is the link to my New Year's photos:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=135468&id=639217209&l=4f5c4d50ee

and the youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdiN831Fxk

I think I have covered everything? Time to get back to my movie, texting RJ, and deciding what I want to eat for dinner :)

Double Standards

That's what Phyllis told me this morning. Why is it men and women have different standards? Now I'm meaning this in the sense that with dad's, they have different set standards like it's OK for a guy to stay at another guys house but for a girl the dad wants to meet the guy and his parents.

This is what Phyllis told me this morning, the whole conversation came about because I said that next time I hang out with him I'll just crash in their guest room. He lives at home too. I mean seriously? I had to hold my tongue about staying over at Dustin's and Justin's places, not sure how she would have taken that news LOL. Ah, frustration. I mean seriously. He has to meet RJ and his parents? I mean really? I'm 19-freaking-years-old!

Last night I went over to RJ's house to watch movies and to see his Xmas tree in person ha ha. I have to admit that his tree looks pretty amazing!! He picked me up just after 4 and we didn't start watching the 1st movie until almost 7. We were in the kitchen talking to him mum and dad, they are pretty cool people and RJ told me that they both really liked me :) I brought over Pineapple Express and i also picked The Hangover which he had. The Hangover was super funny!! Though I remember RJ saying that because i picked the movies tonight he gets to pick the movies next time, and I have a feeling I may not like his choice. Thinking it may be a scary movie. I didn't get home until almost 3am LOL, was just having to much fun talking and making his answer his phone whenever it rang. His friends were drunk I'm guessing and kept calling him, they didn't know he had someone over (i.e. me) and I made sure to be quiet. It was very entertaining, for me anyway. I also found out he is very ticklish, I mean very! So we were kind of having a tickle war.

I spent the morning and mid-afternoon with Kelsey and her friend Micaela helping Kelsey clean for her Kurmomas party. It's like cosplay or whatever. They dress up like comic book people or something ha ha. It was interesting to say the least.

Sunday I went and saw It's Complicated with Phyllis and Susan and LOL it was hilarious!! Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin were too good together although the scenes where Alec Baldwin is shirtless is ewwwww. But overall the movie was very funny and i recommend seeing it.

Also i did see Avatar on Wednesday last week and OhMyFreakingGosh it was amazing!! I loved it! It was epic! It is a must see :) Let me know if you have seen it already along with It's Complicated, I'd love to know what your thoughts are.

Yesterday I received an email telling me that I was one of the lucky 20 winners to win a book. It was run by the same website where I also won 'Shiver' by Maggie Stiefvater which was an amazing book btw. The book is called 'Malice' and it's by Chris Wooding, I can't say that I am excited to start reading it just because the cover art is a bit odd. I only entered because it was an easy competition and Twilight related :)

I realized today that I have to text Katy about New Years ha ha. I have no idea what the plan is, or if I'm still involved in it. I have a back up plan though, I could spend it with Kelsey which will still be fun but without the drinking. Dad told me yesterday that I have to start looking for and applying for jobs, problem is I've never had to look for a job and no idea how to even begin to start looking. He didn't offer to help me either, he knows I've never worked. I would have loved to have had a job in NZ but I was illegal so yeah... Anyway I'm sure I will figure all this out - fingers crossed.

New Year, New Decade

Christmas is just a few days away which means that this decade is about to end.

Crazy right?

A decade has almost finished. To be honest it's not something that i had ever thought about in the past but thinking about it right now... Wow... A lot of memories and new experiences like starting Intermediate and High School, moving 3 times and then moving to a different country.

What do you want to see the next decade bring?

Right now i am laying on bed watching Guarding Tess and listening to the rain and thunder thats happening outside. Jealous of the fact that RJ (Richard) is sitting on a couch outside at his house, i would be doing the same but i am slowly getting better. I got sick again, just after break started. I have all the luck don't I? Ha-ha.

Yesterday i was asked if i was looking forward to Christmas, and i told him honestly that "no i wasn't." Hayden was surprised but i wasn't going to lie and say "heck yeah i am!" It just doesn't mean the same as it did while i was still living with mum. I still love the atmosphere that is created by Christmas. I love being out at night and be amazed with all the Christmas lights, i love seeing Christmas trees, just everything about the holiday. I guess i'm kind of contradicting myself right now, but it's difficult to explain my feelings.

Also RJ kind of got into a disagreement about who was the master decorator of Christmas trees, so i had him take a pic of his and post it on Facebook while i hunted through my many photos on CDs for pics of Christmas trees i've decorated in the past. Have to say that his didn't look so bad! it was missing tinsel which i think is an important part of decorations! I will never have a Christmas tree without tinsel. Anyway i was also babysitting my brothers with Amanda last night and she thought me and Rj were both dorks but that my tree looked better.

RJ's tree.

It's pretty good

but...

I think mine is better, thats my daddy

Sunday night i got to meet Katy's family on her dad's side. I was her 'date' for the night, and i enjoyed it. Her family is so nice and welcoming, they even got my presents! I got some Christmas inspired scissors which is funny because i actually was thinking of buying some :-) I also was given some chocolate, gloves, and a super cute necklace.

Here's the link to my photo album on Facebook :-)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2966608&id=639217209

Tomorrow i think i am going to see Avatar with Kelsey and her friends. I would rather go with dad and Nick because i know they will go to an Imax but i really wanna see it! Funny thing is i don't know anything about it! :-)

Christmas eve my plan is to go to Katy's church for their candlelight night before going to Scott and Susan's Christmas eve party. Hopefully i make it to that because i enjoyed it last year. Katy also told me that i'm celebrating New Years with her and going to her best friend Morgan's party. It's even better because if i remember Jess, Nabeal, and Dustin inviting me to do something somewhere. Ha-ha shows how much i actually cared about it when i don't remember what it was!

Have a great Christmas! Xx