Okay...so, whatever happened to weekends where one could just laze around and do nothing? I feel like I haven't really stopped doing things for the past two weeks. And they have FLOWN by...all of a sudden it's July???

What happened to June???

Also, July seemed very far away not that long ago and now it is basically here. On Tuesday.

Crazy...it's been so, so busy but really, really fun (if not stressful...)!

I'm in this place where I'm not very descriptive at the moment. It's weird. So often I get this feeling like I'm part of something so much bigger than me and I still don't know what that thing is. I don't know where my path leads at the moment...it's a little like blindness, but it's exciting as well.

boys...

Ugh...I don't know why I live with boys...they smell.

The Final of House

Watched the final of House MD (for the season!) and cried.

I don't need to warn anyone about SPOILERS, do I?? (Not sure where it's showed and not showed...definitely hasn't showed here yet...)

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SPOILERS!!!!!

I never thought I'd cry at House. But the final (all two parts) was just insanely dramatic. I mean...look at the pictures:



What was even more incredible was that I just couldn't really imagine myself liking Amber. She'd always been such a b*tch to House - hence her name - but she really, really loved Wilson. The whole episode with the buying the new bed and putting up with the waterbed thing really built the whole thing up.

And the whole time you're wondering if she really did have an affair or one night with House when actually it was all his fault. GAHHH!!! I knew she was going to die - my flatmates are good like that...Smid told me that he almost cried when he watched it and Jem also said it was quite dramatic.

But the way she died and there being NOTHING the team could do to help her and Wilson being able to say goodbye...

Heart-wrenching.

And House and Cuddy....

She's holding his hand!!! And at the end where she's asleep on the chair next to him....you can't help thinking "Man she really cares for him!" And Wilson being in the room when House wakes up and the eye contact and then he leaves...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT SEASON????

The whole House/Wilson friendship is on the line. And what will happen between House/Cuddy? The angst, the angst. Although I can see where the new season's going and I applaud the writers - now that they're not striking - for keeping it original.

But the very end, when Wilson gets into bed and he finds the note from Amber? My heart almost stopped. Seriously. I think I started crying all over again.

I love TV.

Pictures courtesy of house_daily

Talk about media saturation...

Man, I would suck as a reporter! I just get the feeling sometimes like no one really cares.

Petrol prices rising.

Low hydro lake levels.

Power cuts over winter.

People dying due to aforementioned power cuts.

Rising food prices.

Missing teenagers.

The list goes on. But it's a little too much sometimes. I think that we, on the whole, have lost the ability to be shocked. TV brings images of devastation, starvation, suffering and violence right into our lounges. So much stuff leeches into our subconscious that we don't even think about it anymore.

Meanwhile we all complain about the stuff that affects us - the fact that we have to get up twice as early so we can catch a bus into work because petrol has risen in price by 12% in a week, that we have the scour the papers/pamphlets to find good deals on cheap food, not turning any lights on to save power - but there's nothing we can do about it.

I would really be interested to hear if someone actually knew of a viable way in which:
1) petrol prices can come down
2) food can be less expensive

It's all supply and demand, isn't it? There is HUGE demand for petrol, so naturally the prices skyrocket. Meanwhile Joe Bloggs on the street gets hacked off because everything is so expensive and you end up with a situation like the riots in Spain.

So, is the free market all it's cracked up to be?

Something to think about, isn't it?

Whoop!

It's so nice to be appreciated!!! I feel like I've been busting my ass for AGES at work. Been getting semi-frustrated with the state of things. Not the team, more the new member of the team...SO not right for the role.

I know, I know, I'm judgemental. Working on it!!!

But there are some things I find really hard to tolerate. Laziness is one of them, and people who have spent most of their life depending on mummy and daddy to bail them out and pay their way hence they have never had to work a day in their lives.

Now of course this is biased because I know people who have done that who I love dearly. In some ways it's a cultural thing too...I really hate culture sometimes, maybe because I struggle with it. I feel so clearly one way - and one culture - and yet I have another one foisted on me.

ANYWAY...I digress. There's no way we can untangle the complicated web of how I feel in one sitting! Especially not about culture...

But yes, pay reviews today. And feel VERY appreciated. VERY.

Now if only I could collapse and sleep forever :)

It's snowing!!!

The storm has hit!!!!

Is like a white christmas...without the christmas part.

Starry starry night?

We were supposed to be hit by a storm this weekend. You should have seen the sky driving home from work last night.

Pics from my faithful LG phone - hence the quality. It was like this golden orange colour. Admittedly I didn't get "it's best side", but still.

Even this isn't as intense as it could be. It was pretty awesome. It was really, really windy last night....but it all seems to have blown over today. Strangely enough it's not cold and the sun is out. Still windy though!

Heh...it just stands to reason that the one day I really need a decent camera I have none around. Although others would argue that the LG's camera is pretty significant all on it's own. I, of course, disagree!

Have been pretty meh-ish lately. Did Friday Forum last night at church. It was on going to university and keeping your faith. Egads! May I learn that it is always, always good to prepare before you answer a question at a place like that - i.e: one that is full of intelligent people. I am a knob. And possibly the only person there who would say "Well, we used to watch pornography in my lectures..." Boy, I tried to back track but I think the damage is done! No one intelligent will ever talk to me at church again.

I was about ready to die of embarrassment...seriously!!!

Think I shall hide under a rock now...

argh

Currently I'm feeling a little...

* drained
* pulled apart
* tired
* overwhelmed
* out of control

I wish I could...

* fix you
* curl up in bed
* sleep forever
* step up
* be a better person

I'm so sick of...

* work and dramas and sagas to do with
* the lack of time for anything in my life
* worrying about you
* being so tired
* noise

Loving long weekends take two

How good of the Queen to have a birthday this weekend! Just what I need after an EXTREMELY stressful week.

So far I have done a lot of grocery shopping at many different places - bargains!!! (Like 99c Brunch bars and 99c flour...) And two batches of baking and two loads of washing. Exciting, I know.

Oh, but what WAS exciting...

Super 14 Final last night!!!

Now, I'm not normally a huge rugby fan...but it was the final, and McCaw AND Carter were playing. And it was Robbie Dean's last night as coach...it was bloody good game. I don't think there was a MOMENT in there where you felt not-tense. And the results...


Favorite part of the coverage was when McCaw looked a little tearful at his interview at the end. Awww...

We ran out to the street so we could see the fireworks from the stadium - one of the pluses of watching at the boy's parents' house.

Am reading up on how to look after plants. We got given a rubber plant for our engagement and am looking at repotting it as the pot seems very small. We also have a yucca (we the flat) that looks as though it is slowly dying outside as the leaves are all yellow and it actually seems to be shrinking...It's not mine so to speak. But I do feel like we could look after it a little better. Especially since they are supposed to be easy plants to look after!!!

Am also re-reading Harry Potter, as is my yearly activity. Up to book three, so am really churning through them now! (The long weekend probably helps!) Book four is one of the big ones though so that should take me a wee while longer!