tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48030088281535310272024-03-14T12:22:31.994-05:00evanescent adolescenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-32884696727862973192015-01-01T01:04:00.001-06:002015-01-01T01:04:13.492-06:002014I ...<br /><br />quit my job<br />
completed Auslan II<br />
graduated with a bachelors degree (with honours)<br />
participated in a voice-off weekend<br />
enrolled in TAFE for 2015<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-21462187943747943952014-10-29T06:14:00.001-05:002014-10-29T06:14:46.194-05:00InternThis time last year I was technically still a teenager. Now I'm three days away from finishing my final internship for my bachelors degree. <div><br></div><div>Hard to believe I've been teaching full time for 6 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>R</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-71154870767285106592014-09-09T01:33:00.002-05:002014-09-09T01:35:08.550-05:00Tuesday. rhiannon, aka "hey coach!"as a kid i grew sick of hockey, after 8+ years of following the family around hockey parks and working in the park canteen for a few seasons. this year, after some time away, i got back into coaching and it blew me away how quickly i fell back in love.<br />
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they won 6-0, with a goal in the first ten seconds and in aftertime! exciting. never did i think i'd voluntarily watch another game of hockey. let's hope i have time next year to continue coaching.<br />
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RUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-64040995861721767552014-09-08T21:01:00.003-05:002014-09-08T21:01:45.963-05:00Tuesday. three positives over three dayslearning new skills on prac: like how to email your supervising teacher and throw up into a bucket simultaneously.<br />
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RUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-85176349388381622572014-07-29T20:10:00.004-05:002014-07-29T20:10:48.386-05:00Wednesday. three positives for three days.<b>1</b>. Tea, always tea, and never not tea.<br />
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<b>3</b>. Productivity. Two assignments due Friday, and one next week. Then almost all finished before final practicum.<br />
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RUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-55533096147524135132014-07-28T03:45:00.001-05:002014-07-28T03:45:42.074-05:00Monday. three positives for three days.<b>1</b>. Taking me-time out of a busy week: weekends are not for assignment writing!<div><br></div><div><b>2</b>. Good food and good company: catching up with family on a beautiful spring-like winters day. </div><div><br></div><div><b>3</b>. The Block started last night! Guess what I'll be doing at 7.30 week nights for the next ten weeks (apart from lesson planning). </div><div><br></div><div>R<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-53250878367542604632014-07-06T02:31:00.002-05:002014-07-06T02:32:13.019-05:00Sunday. love<h3 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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spent the day helping a friend move house which put our tetris skills to the test.<br />
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i forgot that once you pack a truck, you must then UNpack it. by then, my back was pretty much gone...<br />
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RUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-43111344280196220772014-06-30T07:23:00.000-05:002014-06-30T07:29:50.918-05:00Monday. you're the expertshouldn't the guy running the darn MRI know why I am burning? It isn't because I haven't had enough water today (at a 'guess'), it's because of your machine, and you should know why. ugh<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-85056457363274129822014-06-24T02:22:00.004-05:002014-06-24T02:22:36.291-05:00Tuesday. confessioni just ate an entire large bag of smiths chips to counteract my first gym binge in a fair few months.<br />
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RUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-54370212417212865832013-12-31T05:55:00.002-06:002013-12-31T05:55:10.696-06:002013: a year of firstsThis year i<br />
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moved out of home<br />
acquired a cat<br />
bought a spice rack and filled it half with sprinkles<br />
travelled by plan outside of australia<br />
visited my family's hometown in england<br />
visited loch ness<br />
climbed the eiffel tower<br />
rode a double decker bus<br />
visited louis vuitton in paris<br />
bought an exercise bike<br />
watched someone else eat snails<br />
found a tardis in scotland<br />
visited stonehenge a day before chris colfer<br />
saw the roman baths in bath<br />
venice canal ride with a singing guy in stripes<br />
bought explicitly shaped gummy bears<br />
saw grease the musical<br />
shopped at top shop<br />
rode a horse and cart in austria<br />
tried haggus<br />
ate pasta in rome<br />
bought merano glass in venice<br />
bought chips at the monte carlo casino in monaco<br />
took an australian sign language class<br />
watched friends play soccer with random kids in italy<br />
rode a carousel like 4 different times<br />
bought a clock from the black forest<br />
visited harrods<br />
rode the tube<br />
saw the queen in person<br />
tasted chocolate and toffee covered popcorn<br />
had a picture in front of the colosseum<br />
ate chinese food with my grandmother in hertfordshire<br />
ended up in a hospital in paris for 3 days<br />
rode down the nile<br />
stared out at mount vesuvius<br />
felt the pain of pebblestone beaches in sorrento and nice<br />
read a john green novel<br />
did the chicken dance in switzerland<br />
found assorted european coins laying around the house<br />
watched the 50th anniversary doctor who<br />
saw 3 musicals on the west end<br />
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There is a river that runs through Glasgow,<br />And he makes her and he breaks her and he takes her into parts.<br />And a current just like my blood flows,<br />Down from the hills, round aching bones to my restless heart.</div>
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And on one side all the lights glow,<br />And the folks know where the kids go when the music and the drinking starts.<br />And on the other side where no cars go,<br />Up to the hills, and round aching bones to my restless heart.</div>
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Well I would swim but the river is so wide and i’m,<br />Scared I won’t make it to the other side and well,<br />God knows I’ve failed but he knows that I’ve tried.<br />I long for something that’s safe and warm,<br />But all I have is all that is gone<br />I was as helpless and as hopeless as a Feather on the Clyde, oh no.</div>
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And the sun sets late in Glasgow,<br />The daylight and the city part.<br />And I think of you in Glasgow,<br />‘cause you’re all that’s safe, you’re all that’s warm, my restless heart.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-72239819798283098252013-09-20T00:53:00.001-05:002013-09-20T00:54:34.100-05:00friday. Pyramid TeasChecked my letterbox today to find a pack of complimentary pyramid teas to try from Lipton! I had forgotten I entered on Facebook to try some. The package was beautiful, so bright and colourful and made to open like an envelope!<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">This is my body</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">And I live in it</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">It's thirty-one and six months old</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">It's changed a lot since it was new</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">It's done stuff it wasn't built to do</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I often try to fill it up with wine</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">And the weirdest thing about it is</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I spend so much time hating it</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">But it never says a bad word about me</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">This is my body</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">And it's fine</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">It's where I spend a vast majority of my time</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">It's not perfect, but it's mine</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">It's not perfect</span></i><br />
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<i>My father is a poet,</i><br />
<i>he writes of things he's known.</i><br />
<i>My father is a town crier,</i><br />
<i>always loud and on the go.</i><br />
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<i>My father is a performer, </i><br />
<i>always drawing in a crowd.</i><br />
<i>My father is an optimist,</i><br />
<i>it takes a lot to get him down.</i><br />
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<i>My father is a character,</i><br />
<i>he knows how to make me smile.</i><br />
<i>My father is a funnyman,</i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-11830459234955508392013-09-10T03:02:00.001-05:002013-09-10T03:03:56.296-05:00tuesday. apple spinach sludge (smoothie)I'm not sure if fruit smoothies are MEANT to be foamy and sludgey but i just love it that way for some reason. Chewy chunks of apple and a strange thick but light consistency. I guess it reminds me that it's really freakin' healthy. For this one i used 3 small red apples, 2 cups of spinach leaves and half a cup of water (with a bit more added at the end if you so wish)<br />
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I tried blending the water and spinach first, and adding the apple after to push it all down, but it took a fair bit of shaking of the blender to get it all blitzed. The PULSE function proved very useful lol!<br />
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I made the following video from iPhone footage taken throughout the 6 week trip!<br />
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RUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-14146870816508626322013-08-19T21:01:00.001-05:002013-08-19T21:02:03.517-05:00tuesday. marathonJack couldn't believe I had never seen a Star Wars film before! So far we've seen the 'first' two. I'm waiting for Ewan Macgregor!<br />
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Star Wars by candlelight, how romantic. </div>
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Another kind of homemade soup! This time one of ma's recipes. 4 cups of chicken stock and chopped veggies as a one-pot meal! Add ingredients together in a pot and cook until harder veggies like turnips are soft. Super easy! We bought a 'soup pack' at Coles. Includes turnips celery potatoes and carrots. We also added assorted spices from our spice rack. </div>
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Strawberry and honey smoothie for breakfast (ice cream and skim milk based, not ice)</div>
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Nachos with homemade guacamole for lunch! I used a giant spherical avocado (not sure what type but nothing like I've seen before), diced cherry tomatoes and red onion, salt, and ground black peppercorns! Splash of spicy red tomato sauce and a drop of lime cordial (substitute for lemon or lime juice) and bam! Guacamole. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4803008828153531027.post-68386662096225125012013-08-10T19:29:00.001-05:002013-08-10T19:29:09.374-05:00sunday. smooth moveReceived a huge fruit and vege crate from @kimmieserendipity this week, and am currently plotting what deliciousness I can make with it! <div>Started my day today with a handful of strawberries and a banana smoothie. Ugh so good. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-NDwUIGrW7mxmBurTEYNRusgz8lc4eJJLN_tgIR5BtXoQiiERHm0lpwfdeKNfUaCVoHGRUs68iQv-AYjf92dmas-g0Q8801U6v1sZNW-OekFIBDWi3kztmjqq7orGeTjtjxVhRHT8WHz/s640/blogger-image-103244600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-NDwUIGrW7mxmBurTEYNRusgz8lc4eJJLN_tgIR5BtXoQiiERHm0lpwfdeKNfUaCVoHGRUs68iQv-AYjf92dmas-g0Q8801U6v1sZNW-OekFIBDWi3kztmjqq7orGeTjtjxVhRHT8WHz/s640/blogger-image-103244600.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBkDZEuBiEw4tC8cnIt4zud5AvX6V4a55hGHUGW9NDyKVe92C9DxSX-p43DVydcmN68rqXbehZzKyzB2IncJhM7OKGiVygMGZJTDEplgOgjUkn_OWYWtpqEcHIJRTBWJEWJUznPDTvA05n/s640/blogger-image-357990907.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBkDZEuBiEw4tC8cnIt4zud5AvX6V4a55hGHUGW9NDyKVe92C9DxSX-p43DVydcmN68rqXbehZzKyzB2IncJhM7OKGiVygMGZJTDEplgOgjUkn_OWYWtpqEcHIJRTBWJEWJUznPDTvA05n/s640/blogger-image-357990907.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Contemplating a carrot and vege soup for dinner one night soon. </div><div><br></div><div>R</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1