daniellejoy

Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up:

1. the biggest card I ever got, from Bene.
2. lovely big books I keep meaning to read.
3. A GluStik.
4. Old photos, crowded by last year's trophies, which I haven't bothered to stow away even though it's been like, three months. Really should stop being lazy.
5. Too many new body shop products to admit to without sounding like a money waster.

How do you style your hair?: My hair styles itself. I really don't get a say.

What are you wearing now?: pyjama shorts, little sister's stolen cream top.

Who was the last person you said 'I Love You' to?: Dad, maybe?

Do you nap a lot?: Rarely. I sometimes mean to, to be sensible, but I get distracted.

Who was the last person you hugged?: my uncle

What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?: people. people I love.

What was the last thing you ate today?: mm, a pancake.

What was the last text message you received?: "'blah! where'd you go?'

What websites do you always visit when you go online?: hotmail. myspace. tumblr.

What was the last thing you bought?: two tops and a pair of shorts. In my HEAD, I bought that stunning floor-length midnight silk $95 dress I really shouldn't have tried on and fallen in love with.

What are you listening to right now?: 'birds' by kate nash. Go listen, it's the sweetest song.

What's the last song that got stuck in your head?: Hmm.. can't remember.. probably 'too far gone'.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?: mind reading

What is your favorite weather, and why?: rain. But only when I'm home, surrounded by blankets and perhaps a favourite person, have a hot mug in my hand and a great way to waste away the night.

If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?: Guitar.

How are you?: happy with a melancholy twinge.

What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?: you make me happy.

If I could spend tomorrow anyway?: reliving the best moments from my last three months, squashed into one day. So it's like, awesome tumbling into amazing tumbling into brilliant and back all over again.


A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question, and indicate that question by colouring it green.

B) Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

Tagging:
paulini 
dagoochy 
jesus__and__me 
benebess 
other_sister 
Ok, only six. I cannot think of more.

I have been hit by blog fever.
I sat up last night reading random strangers' blogs about nothing in particular, simply because even though people bitch about blogs and how self-absorbed and useless they are all the time, I find peeking into other people's thought patterns interesting and end up being a silent reader for months. I keep finding blogs written by interesting people all about fashion, though - 'this is what I wore today. Ooh, doesn't this dress from FW09 from *insert designer name* remind you of that other dress from Dolce's FW 08 collection? How fascinating that someone would design something so similar!' when all I really want is an average person ranting on about the tiny ordinaries in their everyday life.
I really, really wish I had more space in my weeks, somehow up until about the last week of January is now all filled up and I STILL haven't caught up with so many people I'm dying to. Bleh, cannot be bothered continuing typing, interest lost but I'll post anyway.

I do not understand Maths, and the B+ average I've held onto with my claws all year long has only come through complaining in Olivia's, Braden's or whoever's closest ear to explain until I get it each and every new topic. I have an exam for quadratic equations tomorrow - I tried studying, I really did. I'm even still sitting on the ground surrounded by textbooks and calculator, but on my way back to my room with brain food I saw a rainbow and it made me think of livejournal and then I fixed my profile and here I am now blogging instead of equating. (Equating? Whatever it is, I suddenly CANNOT DO IT.)
Anyway, the rainbow. It was amazing. When I looked at it through one of my bedroom windows I could see the beginning and the end points, an entire rainbow framed exactly for me.
OK, was about to go off on a tangent but I HAVE to get this maths done before moving on to SOSE essay prep. Enjoy your freedom, LJers.
(If you hadn't realised, this entry was really just to look good on my new unscrewed layout)

I AM SO ANNOYED.
Grrr.
So, I just got all comfy on my parent's bed, ready to watch the next episode of Heroes.
And then what comes on?
SOME CRAPPY OTHER SHOW.
And then it says, 'next, Heroes, 10.30'.

What are they trying to do? Deprive us of more sleep? There is no way I'm staying up until 11.30 on a school night, especially when I have an English essay exam first thing tomorrow morning.

Channel seven - always doing this. First from 8.30 to 9.30, not too bad. But 10.30 - who are they kidding.
(And yes, I know this is pathetic. But I'm pissed and grumpy and tired and want to rant! Grrr!)
 

You had better all be grateful. If it were not for my beating conscience (?) telling me to man up and post on LJ, I would be snuggly in bed right now, dreaming, or very close to. So, ok, I am still in bed, but I am half-sitting-up, that is not conducive to relaxing yet. :P
Actually, the real reason I want to be done writing here quickly is this:

Mum arrived home this afternoon with not only the new Frankie for me, but the new Yen, which I haven't bothered buying for two or three months (oh, damn. I bought last month's. Ok, BEFORE that) but the cover was so scrummy and inviting I wanted both. And she bought them for me! Ah, sweet mothers and their magazine addictions. She grabs them as soon as I close the last page. I do the same to her with certain sections of the newspaper, and have been known to nab the Review just before she wants it, so that evens things up a little.
I am.. good. There is a lot going on in my head, a lot more now than there was an hour ago. The new stuff is bugging me and I wish I hadn't bothered, as bad as a friend as that would have made me. The old stuff was fun buzz, this stuff is not. Anyway, it's not really my problem, it just dragged me into a crappy issue that feels like a reminisce of year eight days where it was all blah-blah-bitch-blah. I think I'm going to try and ignore it though, there is no real need for me to get involved. Oh, and by the way, that photo up there is crap. I felt like taking photos of my new goodies, in the footsteps of paulini , and my camera batteries died after this lot and don't ask where the charger is, so you get what you're given, kiddies.
School was fun today. We had this practise for a big recognition event/assembly thing in periods 6 and 7, but finished with fifteen minutes of school to go, and suddenly the auditorium was completely empty of kids and our principal had just walked out, giving me and Hannah and Garth and Braden a massive hall to ourselves, and it was nice. I lay on the ground, all tangled up with various people's legs above me, and we talked for a while - definitely beat double Maths on a Monday afternoon. I am starting to dread the end of the year - I literally JUST got used to things the way they are now, and liking them, and having the right mix of people and times and moods and classes and now, five weeks before that's all gone, six weeks before people start moving away, across states, to new schools. I will miss this year. Every year, something happens that means the next will be completely different, but I generally end up enjoying the year anyway, so there isn't much I can do to stop it happening or even worry about how totally different next year is going to be. Just got to take it as it comes, and make the most out of every day. When I think like that, it happens. When I get pessimistic and stressed, crap happens. Simple theory to get my head around, should have taken it to heart MUCH earlier.
And now, I'm going to crawl up in my big comfy clean snuggly bed, with Frankie and Yen to keep me company, pen and paper at the ready to jot down names, quotes, ideas, links. Perfect end of the day. (I do have a lot more going on in my head, not all of it fit for full livejournal disclosure though, so another waify entry is what you get instead, sorry.)

Ergh. Ice-cream-logged.
The house was miraculously dark and silent by 9 pm, I discovered when I opened my door to find everyone in bed and not a light on anywhere. So, do I tuck up in bed like a good little girl and take advantage of my free early night? No, of course not. Instead, I retrieved my book from where I'd tossed it downstairs (I have a habit of carrying the book I'm currently reading everywhere I go in the house, moving it with me from room to room, which means I'm constantly losing it, same with my phone), turn a lamp on in the lounge and raid the freezer for doughy cookies and cream gourmet ice cream goodness, sitting cross-legged on the couch with silence, a thundering, lightning-lit sky outside, a book and ice cream. That's probably the longest, worst sentence I've written in a long time. Excuse me.
I've optimistically set my alarm a full 20 minutes early than usual - 5.40 AM. Something about summer makes me wish I was energetic, constantly, and ran around like a hyper little munchkin from early in the morning until the sun has most definitely set. I find my most creative thinking times is either now, or, say, 4, 5 am. Like, right now, if I had no school tomorrow (or was one of those kids who thinks screw this, I'm staying up anyway), I'd be off making noise, with music up loud and things littering the house as I wafted around. From that point of view, I'm so looking forward to my own place. I can kind of imagine my dream first home, the place I'd move into in just over two years (holy crap!) for university or whatever I'm doing. It would be messy, but it would be mine. Until then, I'll enjoy my disposable income and put some headphones on.
I had good intentions for homework tonight. I exercised, and as a result got a nice release of whatever it is we get after running. I always feel better after I bother - happier, more healthily tired instead of stress-tired, and just generally better. Time always gets away from me, though, and another day disappears without bothering. I forced myself to tonight, and was so glad I did (especially after that ice cream session I just had. Argh, can feel it already). It's quite amazing that our bodies literally thank us after trying - endorphins are released and race around, making us pumped and invigorated. Really should listen to logic and stop being so irregular about it.

I'm sitting/lying on my couch, with a princess blanket on and my laptop sitting on top. The house is empty, and outside is dark and grey and perfect weather for snuggling. My parents are away for the weekend, on an executive retreat for the weekend. Dad's such a cutie, he sent me a message before explaining there wasn't much coverage at the mountain lodge they were at and how to contact the,, the second half of the message didn't come through so I replied 'Didn't get the whole thing, but get the general gist - rah, rah, we love you to bits, do whatever you want, raid our bedroom if you run out of money. Don't try and argue with me, you have no coverage. Love you!' Oh, I amuse myself sometimes. Which is good, because I don't amuse anyone else very often.
I worked last night. Made a nice flat white, to make up for the crappy cappucinos I served. Met a cute puppy.
dagoochy inspired me to post, since hers was amazingly detailed and wrong and thoroughly respectable in terms of an INL post. Mine never are, so far. I keep having lots to say and then not bothering to say it. Mmm, music is so good, make sure you all get yourselves some of that, and I mean something OTHER than Rooney or opera, mrpieface . Melody Gardot is currently putting me even more off getting out of my cosy makeshift bed of happiness and cleaning the bathrooms, like I was meant to do five hours ago. Seven more weeks of school to go before eight weeks of holidays. I made the most of the last break, and ended up with two weeks of non-stop non-stoppingness. It was a lot of fun. I caught up with friends I rarely see and had spur-of-the-moment 'engagements' pop up, and just completely forgot about school for a bit. Usually on holidays I hide myself away from the world, relishing not having to fix any ugliness by actually getting ready properly. I'm currently craving my church, I feel so good when I'm there. I'm so blessed to have a church I've grown up in, where I have oodles of surrogate parents who've known me since before I can remember. Leaving Goodlife behind will probably be one of the things I will miss the most when I globe-traipse, whenever I do end up doing it.
Ok. Links you all need to look at:
postsecret.com - currently not the best bunch of postcards, but they update it every Sunday, so keep checking back.
frankie.com.au/forum - these girls are inspiring, whenever I feel like reading someone else's conversations but not necessarily inputting myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNW8q-Ucz18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz_Yg8nIdVk
And, also, all of you get a Flickr, please.

I really have nothing in particular to talk about, but I turned off my laptop last night and got into bed before remembering promising to various people I'd post soon, so that's why I'm doing it now. My windows are open and it's finally sounding like spring. I'd never noticed before that winter has a different noise - it's like everything dies, the cicadas freeze up, the insects stop nattering on. Nights are getting loud again now. It's nice. I love being able to sleep in as little as I like now as well, not having to rug up with layers of jumpers, instead pulling on a big old shirt and climbing straight in without having to get myself warm.
School started back again for the term yesterday, and so far it's thoroughly uninspiring. I was talking to Mum this afternoon again about the homeschooling notion for next year I have. In my head, it's perfect. I'm not left at home by myself working through boring textbooks. I'm busy, work, church, friends, schoolwork, but so much more free than I would be doing it at school. I'm always busy now, but take five days of school out of the equation with much more flexible hours and I don't know how I'd go. There are so many things about school I would miss, but so many more I can't wait to escape from. I'm crap as at making decisions, so I'll just drive myself mad going back and forth and never coming to anything for months now.
On the PLUS side of things to look forward to: Weekend! Church and work, which always make me happy. I morph into church-Danielle at work, friendly, cheerful, smiling, happy. School, I don't know what happens. Less chirpy, I guess. Wish there was a way to make nice-me permanent, but I've tried many times and it rarely works.
I have so much floating around in my head right now, so much to be grateful for and excited for and things to look forward to in the months to come. Most of them would take a lot of time to put into words, and others I don't even trust livejournal with, so this crappy, skimpy post is going to have to do tonight, and the rest I'll snuggle into bed with the soft lamp light on and crack open my beautiful journal for. Oh, Elizabeth - I'm close to the end of my current one, which I made myself finish before starting the amazing one you bought me. I'll be sad to finish the one I have now, I love it so much, but you picked the absolute perfect one for me to rant on in next. Thank you so much, once again.
Ahh.. more to say. Not going to.

FINALLY.
Just spent forever setting all my old entries on Private, as Georgia suggested I do to use this old journal now. Easier said than done, when you need to be a Plus account to use the mass editing tool. Nice welcome back, Livejournal. Missed you too.
Spring's here. We celebrated warmer weather, clear skies and no school for two weeks today by lying on Mooloolaba beach and braving the icy water. Crowded beaches make me laugh, it's like church. People get their own little spot, and there's unspoken rules about how close someone's towel can be to another group. Which makes it quite difficult on days where there's people everywhere to slot in somewhere, there's all these gaps that aren't politely big enough to squeeze into. Church is the same - we'll sit in rows with like a seat or a small space between us and the next lot of people, even if we're on friendly terms with them, and even though it's CHURCH, for goodness' sakes. I came home to a big, empty, sunny house all to myself, so lay on the back deck with stolen couch cushions before moving to the spa. Lovely first day of holidays. Am currently floating on sleepiness, from too much sun and going to sleep at 2 am last night and 1 am Friday (thanks very much, A and B). I really have to grow up soon and learn to be normal on late nights.

So, Livejournal is pretty depressing.
No longer is there the endless entries from a few years ago, when everyone would blather on and on and read each other's rambles and write long rambling comments and be all la-la-livejournal happy. Now, it's lucky to find even ONE real friend entry. It's like sorting through spam on your friends page: community, community, icons, icons, LOTR icon community (I don't even ENJOY these films anymore. or have any idea of the storyline. or the characters. I think one may be named Legolas but that's a loose guess), SPAM SPAM SPAM. Where are the entries with nothing really important but just a step-by-step run through of the day? Where are the philosophical, all over the place thought processes? (Yes, I mean you, Elizabeth). Livejournal used to be great. Now, it's useless. I know I'm being hypocritical but now that no-one else is writing down anything and everything I haven't been blogging because now Entries need to have Points. And Capitals.
Anyway, that was my version of nostalgia.
And hmm. There's lots going on with me, but not much Going On. (Capitals again, gah). I've been crazy busy lately, work, school, family stuff. Mum's leaving for Afghanistan tomorrow (via Dubai and London and home via Boston for three days). I am sort of freaking. I know I shouldn't be, and I know that really I do trust that everything's going to be fine and it's a brilliant adventure for her. But far out, even the thought of sixteen days without Mum around just to be there and hug us and cook and ask about our days and have a good old whinge with is scary. I am more missing her already than scared, but I know I won't feel totally safe for her until she's back in good old Ilkley.

So so tired all of a sudden! I don't have much to update on so... this is it.
Hope that everyone's week goes well, and I'm praying.

Ok.
So I've been looking around friend's pages and friend's pages friend's pages, and noticed that almost every other girl I know (or am even remotely connected to) is around 20 something.
And being twelve, it's a bit scary :D.
Feel free to 'dump' me if you are one of those people. I will not be offended.
Goodnight all. Have a fun Tuesday (groan)

End of Monday. Good riddance!
Means I only have 4 school days until Friday. Oh sweet music to my ears....
But seriously school is sooo boring.
When I just wanna get out and change the world. I get to learn about convicts and chines immigrants... helpful!

Hunh! Getting lonely over here guys! Where are all my gorgeous princesses running off to? Did I say go yet?

So who has Skype? I got it on the Mac. Now I'm mad because my MSN isn't working and it's so hard not to be able to go on *sob* That's weird, my deodorant can is shaking on my desk...
Oh yeah that's the keyboard's fault.
Will someone shut my dog up? It's, like, barking at a leaf. Stupid mongrel. Yay finally figured out how to put photos on my ipod nano, so now all my photos from last year's camp are on there. promise that as soon as my two rolls of film from this year's camp get developed I'll scan some in and post them up.
Will someone shut ME up? What the heck am I going on about?
Stupid computer has too many itune songs on it! I've got like 100 free megs on one disk, and that's it... oh good just found one with 3 gig, better burn a few dvd's and get some crap off the computer.
Grrr! Can't seem to shut up!
I should probably delete this comment and put you all out of your misery. But then again, I've got a poetry draft due tomorrow, which makes me miserable, so you can be miserable too... hehehe...
Fine bye.

Talk about tiring! My days were so packed, I'm glad it was over. Worst part about coming home is stupid school assignments due in two days that I haven't even started, big whoop to me. Instead of R & R I get to work booooo Mrs Wilson for being so mean. It's alright though, we get our revenge, our last english lesson with her consisted of the boys hiding in the cupboard until she heard them laughing, and then challenging each other to roll down the aisle and touch her until she notices. Fun fun fun.
So camp was fun. It actually doesn't feel like we did much even though I did Etries, Prusiking, Abseiling, Archery, Giant's Playground, High Ropes and Indoor Climbing. It was pretty challenging to be around 200 other people five days straight (especially when they start a fart sing-a-long at twelve thirty at night) but it was good to come together as a group and work together. It was more challenging you individually though, not as a team, which I really missed the team aspect of it. Oh well.
Really really tired. Don't think I will do much tomorrow apart from finish my book and maybe watch Love Actually, got it out of the video shop today and it looks likew it has some really great actors in it. Hugh Grant what more could you want?
This update's taking me forever to write, cause everyone won't shut up on MSN and it's hard keeping up!
I missed you all on camp and prayed for you all. Love ya lots, cya tomorrow or something.
Love
Danielle
Ps. I shoulda done an LJ cut for this but I was too lazy to press the button.

The fish died yesterday morning. After a quick recap we realised it was due to us girls accidently putting him in water out of the fridge ice-maker when we first got home with him. Amazing it lasted that long.
After Ashleigh finished crying and I stopped examing the covered-in-white-stuff corpse through the magnifying glass, we went to the pet shop and dissed the fancy one (that had just died on us anyway) in place for one that doesn't die.
So I give you, 'The Goldfish for $3.50'. Much better than thirteen bucks.
But I'm happy cause while we were out Dad got me two new pairs of shoes :D
So Embers really gave his life up for a good cause. I like my new thongs.

Four jobs I've had:

1. Envelope Stuffing
2. Babysitting siblings
3. No more, I'm
4. Underage

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Braveheart
2. The Notebook
3. Pirates of the Carribean
4. 10 Things I Hate About You


Four places I've lived:

1. I've only ever lived in
2. two other houses apart from
3. the one I live in now
4. my whole life and they're all on Sunshine Coast

Four TV shows I love:

1. Every Body Loves Raymond
2. Gilmore Girls
3. The Simpsons
4. Whatever's the latest cool Ten show - The O.C. occasionally


Four highly regarded and recommended TV shows that I've never watched a single minute of:

1. House
2. Home and Away (ok so I've probably seen at least five episodes, my friends are all hooked)
3. Desperate Housewives (what a load of utter crap)
4. Lost (only watched one episode ever)

Four places I've vacationed:

1. Fraser Island
2. Canberra
3. Solomon Islands
4. Noosa (how pathetic, only an hour's drive away)


Four of my favourite dishes:

1. Chicken
2. Burritos
3. Lamb Wraps
4. Lasagne


Four sites I visit daily:
www.livejournal.com
www.google.com.au
www.hotmail.com
www.optusnet.com.au



Four places I would rather be right now:
In Brisbane with The S's
Solomon Islands
New York
Paris

Four people I'm tagging next:

Everyone's already been tagged!

Guess what. I'm turning the computer of at 8.38. And no it's not blackmail. What's wrong with me??
Good night all...

This week has just flown by! I'm grateful too, didn't think I would manage. It's my little sister Taylor's seventh birthday, so there's three or four people over and all the kiddies are running around upstairs... while I escape to the peace of the office and sit in the air-conditioning to mull and waste a heck of a lot of time. Score! Once sentence took up three lines! I need to talk and my idiot of a best friend is not ringing me back... what the heck I'm gonna ring her.
But the point of this update is to say: SUCKERS!! Sorry couldn't help it. The thing is I have 9 days without any boring maths lessons, or any type of lesson at all! I'm going away on Year Eight camp from monday to friday, and not only did I score a fun week but at late night shopping last night Mum let me go wild and I managed to buy (with her money) new black skinny-leg jeans, but only skinny at the bottom, which I love because I can either roll them up (they're really long) or I can just leave them and get a really cool effect with them just wrinkled, so yeah black jeans, gorgeous new faded denim three-quarter lengths, this gorgeous jacket/woollen zipper-do-up thingy (you know them... what's the word?) Oh yeah! It's a brown and white wool cardigan and I LUV it. So jeans, denims,jacket what else... Oh yeah this gorgeous tank top singlet thingy with like chains on the top across the neckline, SO COOL, and there was one last thing... Oh yeah a tshirt! So I managed to score two shirts a jacket some jeans and some shorts. Heaps happy!
Oh my gosh i sound so vain! Look at how much I wrote about my shopping trip! Sorry. Oh well.
And then Mum gave in to pressure and bought taylor a budgie that I swear looks like tweetie and let ashleigh spend 40 bucks on a siamese flying fish. Our household pet thing just went up 300 %. We're now the proud owners of Molly the budgie, who nips me very hard when I try to show her how nice back scratches are (stupid bird), then there's Embers the red siamese fish thingy who looks half-dead all the time, who is probably the smartest and most worthy of comment thing in the whole household, and Isaac the dog who holds the crown for longest employed as to bear the Hopping name in the pet world. He needs a bath, smelly dog.
Anyway shut up Danielle.
Meant to say: Won't be on next week due to camp. Love yas. Cyas. Laters.
One last thing... add hm_sisterhood as a community! It's getting a good collection.