Oh LoRDie

Sometimes people get stressed, that's a given...but after a while of observing certain people i know, i can clearly see they are making themselves more stressed then they have to be. It's like they panic because they're stressed and it all gets worse. I don't get stressed very often and recently there has been plenty around to make me stress out but i manage to keep it under wraps. I find it interesting that some people freak over the smallest and most insignificant things and some people just don't let it affect them. Fortunately for me, i am one of those people that it doesn't bother. Don't get me wrong, i have had my moments, but it usually takes a lot for me to get there and they don't last all that long, and the whole stress release thing??? It really works!!!
After my recent stress-out my good ol' mates were there to cheer me up. I also jammed a few angry chords out on my guitar, wrote some songs and sang. And when i got bored of making up my own stuff, i tunred on my favourite CD's and yelled along with the singers. Nothing beats stress more than that. So whatever it is you like, do it! And don't hold back because after it, you feel great.
Also you need to follow Monty Pythons lead and "always look on the bright side of life." Sitting there stewing about things isn't going to help, so after a stressful day at work, go out with some mates and have a laugh and be thankful at the fact your're alive!
In recent years so many more people are being diagnosed with depression. All types of it. I disagree with it. Yes, people do get depressed but seriously, GET THE HELL OVER IT!!! You're never the only ones and majority of the time i strongly belive that medication is not even necessary. Sometimes people have major life changing experiences or have a heart breaking loss and it does take a while to get back on track, but the help of drugs isn't necessary in 9/10 cases. People seem to be losing touch with their emotions and that is truly upsetting. Emotions, although very complicated, are there for a reason. If you feel like crying, cry. If you feel like laughing, laugh. If you feel like screaming, scream. If you feel angry then feel angry but don't let things get at you for too long.
I always remember, in the back of one of the diaries from school there was a list of things to do to keep you happy and appreciate the fact that you could do what you choose. It included such things as:

• Laugh as often as possible
• Sing
• Do something you are afraid of
• Dance
• Learn to play and istrument
• Barrack for a footy team
• Tell people how your feel
• Dance in the rain

There was plenty more great things and every single one of them made sense and i made sure i did everything on that list before schoool was out and once it was i made up my own little list of things to do. Keeps you happy. My next goal is to go on a road trip. (Lol, Wolf Creek didn't put me off that easily, infact i wouldn't mind seeing that place...anyway...)

So live your life to the fullest, you only get the one chance and i am not going to waste mine.

Have fun, sing and love,

Bye all,

Dani

xxx

MiLK aND HoNeY

When i went to the toilet this morning i washed my hands (Lol, you're probably thinking, "why is this so interesting?") and the soap has been changed and the current soap scent is sooooo nice! It's called Milk and Honey (hence my title) and i'm seriously sitting here and smelling my hands every now and then cos it smells so gorgeous *deep breath in* you have to smell it!!! Everyone go buy it from the shops Lol.
Also, THE EAGLES WON AGAIN, YEAH!!! Go guys, the grand final this year is yours.
I drove and '02 Rover 75 today. Maaaate!!! Say it with me now "Noice." Lol. But honestly this car was pure luxury. It was so beatuiful. I wish i could afford one =P Mind you, i think an '84 Range Rover is beautiful so i guess only people who know Rovers will understand how utterly "shizz-bang" a car like that is.
Well yes, this blog is rather uneventful. I dunno why exactly, it's not as if i haven't done anything...maybe my random doings just aren't random enough to be blogged about anymore Lol.
Oh actually one thing i can write about was my success with my guitar on Sunday. Haha, i actually managed to play like i wanted, thanks to the talents of a friend, i even helped hi with some stuff. Go team go! =P
Already this morning i have spilt sauce and oil on me. Why am i destined to always look like a grot? Hey the word grot is really unusual, i wonder where that came from?
Don't you think it's interesting how there's so many different languages in the world? It certainly is a mystery as to why, why don't we all speak the same way?
I also think it's truly amazing at how many things ones brain can store. EVERYTHING your brain has to learn. How to speak, how to walk, what to remember, how to play an instrument, how to spell, how to cook etc etc. I can't get over that, it's fantastic.
Well unfortunately i must away due to a very busy day at work. I will write soon!
Go the Eagles haha.
Bye all,
Dani
xxx

Yes or No

Hi everybody! (And incase you're wondering, yes, i do realise i just counded like Dr. Nick Lol.) I was bored and found the folloing on Dan's blog. He "yoinked" it from somebody and i yoinked it from him.

The Rules:
1. You can only answer YES or NO!
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages you and asks!

Taken a picture naked? : No
Made out with a member of the same sex? : No
Danced in front of your mirror? : No
Told a lie? : Yes
Gotten in a car with people you just met?: Yes
Been in a fist fight? : Yes
Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back? : Yes
Been arrested? : No
Slept in a bed with a member of the same sex? : Yes
Seen someone die? : No
Kissed a picture? : Yes
Slept in until 3? : Yes
Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? : Yes
Played dress up? : Yes
Fallen asleep at work? : No
Had sex at work? : No
Felt an earthquake? : No
Touched a snake? : Yes
Ran a red light? : Yes
Been in a car accident? : No
Pole danced? : No
Been lost? : Yes
Sang karaoke? : Hell yes!!!
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? : Yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? : No
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? : No
Kissed in the rain? : Yes
Sang in the shower? : YES!!!
Got your tongue stuck to a pole? : Lol, no
Sat on a roof top? : Yes
Played chicken? : Yes
Raised chickens? : Yes
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? : Yes
Been told you're hot by a complete stranger? : No
Broken a bone? : No
Mooned/flashed someone? : Yes
Forgotten someone's name? : Yes
Slept naked? : Yes
Blacked out from drinking? : Yes
Played a prank on someone? : Yes
Felt like killing someone? : Yes
Made a parent cry? : Yes
Cried over someone? : Yes
Had sex more than 5 times in one day? : Yes
Had/Have a dog? : Yes
Been in a band? : Yes
Drank 25 sodas in a day? : No
Shot a gun? : Yes

So yes...i thought that was rather interesting. Well that's all for today (Yes i know i'm boring =P)
Bye all,
Dani

Do you like cheese???

I was rather suprised to find that in the movie She's the Man Amanda Bynes (Playing Viola imitating Sebastian) says to her room-mate Duke that he has to have a normal conversation with Olivia before he askes her out. When Duke asks what he should say, 'Sebastian' says, "Talk about anything, ask her if she likes cheese?" Duke laughs and practices asking "Do you like cheese?" and Sebastian replies, "My favourite's Gouda."
Now this is interesting cos me and my mates are always mucking around and rattle of the phrase "I like cheese." rather regularly and it got me thinking, how many people actually like cheese?
My mate Daniel (even though he rattles off the phrase 'I like cheese' every now and then) only likes cheese if it's melted. Personally i can't tell the diffence between melted or unmelted cheese (besides the feel of course.) But i think the taste is exactly the same. So my conclusion in the matter? Dan's a freak and abnormal lol.
But really, cheese is such a nice food! I know that vegans etc don't eat cheese, and some people don't because of allergies but Daniel is neither of those types of people and he still doesn't eat it! How could he not!? Crazy!
It goes so well with other foods. Can you imagine a cheese and tomato toastie without the cheese? Or a toss-salad without the cheese? Or cheese and wine without the cheese? How no non-cheese-eating people cope?
So if you happen to read this post let me know if you do or don't like cheese, and if you don't I WANT REASONS!!! Lol.
Well, i'm off because i have lots to do but i will blog again soon.
Bye all,
Dani
xxx

I wonder which knob decided to differ the spelling of words that are commonly used in two major countries. For example Australia spells colour with a 'u' in it whilst Americans spell it 'color.' I mean, what's the point of that!? It's hard enough to learn a whole new language and symbols for that language, and then we've got to remember how to spell words between two countries even though they are both english speaking. Dude! Lol, just seems a lot of hassle for no real reason. What bought on this train of thought you might ask? I was speaking to an american friend of mine via MSN and he had a go at me for mispelling colour. I've always known our countries spell things differently but he didn't, which i found surprising, and he asked me why. I had absolutely no idea and then we wondered who the hell would change spellings of commonly used words from one country to another...anyway, does anybody know?

Another thing we spoke about was slang. He wasked me what i was up to and i old him that a friend had rang me up and said "Come round." He didn't understand what i meant. "It's anothe way of saying come over and visit." I explained. He thought that was pretty weird. Then he proceeded to ask me for Australian slang words/sayings so i told him a few that are as follows.

• I especially loved this one when they used it in The Dukes of Hazard "Let's chuck another shrimp on the barbie." However, even though a lot of people seem to think we say this rather regularly it's not that common.
• "Your lump 'a' lead" Means your head. My Pop uses this all the time.
• "Corka" means Great or Well Done
• "Conk/Conka" means nose, another of my Pops favourites (Let me just add that my family is pretty darn True Blue we say a lot of slang sayings that have probably been long forgotten by a lot of Aussies.)
• "Joe Blake" means cake or snake, for example, "Look out for Joe Blakes." or "Pass us another bit of Joe Blake."
• "Brekky" of course, means Breakfast.
• "Snag" is sausage.
• "Okka" means True Blue eg: "He's a real Okka mate!"
• "Tinnie" is a Beer.
• "I'll shout/My shout." Means i'll buy - commonly heard at the pub
• "Cobba" means mate.
• "Cuppa" is Coffee
• "You're as loud as a Gum tree full of Galah's" is not one that's heard very often anymore, but implies exactly that.
• "Tucker" is food.
• "Barbie" of course is short for BBQ
• "Bikkie" = biscuit
• "Bonza/Ripper" means Fantastic/Great
• "Clacker" means anus of course (Which reminds me of a quote from Rove, "Silly clacker bumhole!!!" Haha, go Pete and his random sayings.)
• "Billie" means cup of tea/kettle, "i'll put the billie on" "How about a billie."
• "Mad as a cut snake." means very angry.
• "Dag" means geek, silly, goof.

and there are millions millions more, if you wanna know more visit this webite http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

Or ask me haha, i know like all slang mannn!!! =p

Well because there is under 5 minutes of my day left and there's nothing for me to finish i'm getting ready to make a quick exit. (I'm at work if you haven't figured that out by now.) Yaaay!!! Guitar tonight.

Over and out,

Dani

Howdy-doodie again people. Dans comment left on my last post reminded me of a LOT of random stuff that happened at school...so naturally the next hour of my time will include me trying to write down some funny memories from school, being interrupted by the phones, people wanting job cards written, people dropping off their vehicles and quite possibly a skyshow performance from a bunch of synchronised flying pigs. Really i should wait for my break until i start yabbering on but i like doing things the hard way *grinns.* Besides, if i waited 'til break nothing would happen and i'd die of boredom...it's only because i want to disobey the rules and do something remotely entertaining that it gets busy. It's like everybody waits for me to start something and they're like "Okay! Go now! She thinks it's slow enough for her to do something, but we aren't gonna let her!" and then they laugh some evil, demonic cackle and i'm forced to detour on my plans.

Okay, okay, so the whole point of this blog (before i got side-tracked) was to share some of my memories from school. Looking back now i realised how random my bunch really was and how much fun we had. *Sigh* I wish i could wind back the clock and do it all again, but life keeps marching on like some little prick of an ant with a crumb from a doughnut...sorry, sid-tracked again. =P

So, memories from Mindaire Senior College, or memories that include random acts with people from M.S.C (which is the bestest school in the whoooooooooole world by the way!) include:

• Once i had an operation performed on my ear, i was under local anisthetic (i think that's spelt right) and when i sat up after it, promptly passed out and slid across the carpet of the waiting room floor. This meant, of course, that the whole right side of my face suffered a rather severe carpet burn and looked shocking when i rocked up at school the next day. Naturally, all the the nosy buggers asked what happened to me (lol, love ya guys!) and in the end i got so sick of telling the same story that one poor person got the retort of "Drew bashed me when he was drunk." Drew was standing right next to me at the time and his jaw dropped. I laughed and said i was only joking but the story seemed to become more popular than the true version of events. I guess it didn't help that i continued to encourage it but everyone knew Drew wouldn't really do that. I wouldn't let him! Lol.
• I can't actually remember which of us had the crunchie chocolate bar, but it was a king sized one. It was the first time i spoke to Daniel and the first words out of my mouth were "That's a dildo-sized crunchie." I expected him to think of me as a freak and never talk to me again. Instead he burst out laughing and exclaimed, "Oh my God! That's so true." Should i have been worried? Lol.
• I remember when we were giving an oral presentation in music and Shahid chose to review the Ballet. He pronounced the 't' everytime he said the word and Jai and i were more than happy to yell "ball-ay" everytime he pronounced it wrong. By about the fifth time we did this he turned to us and said, "Okay! I'm sorry! My english isn't good, okay!?" He was mucking around but the whole class laughed when Ms Buchanan took that moment to point out that Ballet is a French word, not English.
• I remember Sian and i plotting to scare the year 11's in the lift on their second day at the school. We hopped in the lift, all normal and some year 11's trooped in too. We didn't speak and acted normal. One of the year 11's pressed a button and the second the lift started to climb i let out a scream, sat on the floor, rocked bath and forth and said "It's moving! It's moving!" I made several of the year 11's jump in surprise, and Sian killed herself laughing. Because she started laughing i did too. Needless to say, when we reached upstairs the year 11's left rather quickly. I knew they tought we were freaks.
• When in drama, the group i was with had to perform a script in which a child poo's their pants. Being the resourceful people we were (or are?) we put nutella spread on some new, cheap knickers and threw them at the audience. We were greated with shrieks of "Eeeeeeew!" and laughter. Afterwards, we snuck out and left them hanging off the rail of the lobby stairs and laughed at the peoples faces as they noticed the knickers, or accidently touched them on the way down.
• Dan and i left a strawberry flavoured condom hanging on a bin, as if it hadn't been thrown in properly (unused of course!) and laughed as Mr Hill noticed it and prodded it out of sight with a piece of paper while pulling a rather disgusted looking face. Haha!
• Dan spat coke and ice-cream through his nose, all over Tegan down at Maccas one day becuase Drew exclaimed "It's my stroooong hand." (One of the quotes from one of the scary movies lol.) and Dan couldn't stop laughing.
• I remember spilling coke on drew twice by accident, and then ice-cream the day later. Haha.
• I remember the "merkin dance" that Tegan made up in music one double lesson when her me and Drew were bored out of our brains cos we were so far ahead of everyone else. We wrote instructions for the dance on the whiteboard and it stayed written there for aaaaaaaages. A lot of people learnt it!
• I remember sitting in science with Kimmi-boy and Dan one day and for some reason we were talking about monkeys. Mr. Lo said something about thrush and i yelled out, "What!? Thrush monkey?" The two of them laughed and it was something that the whole group adopted as their saying, i still say it haha.
• I remember Nat, Dean, Kiiiiiiim and i taking my honda for a wild spin one night. We reversed around a round-a-bout, went up curbs, drove along a footpath, spoke to randoms and went to the clarkson skate park where i pretended to beat up Kiiiiiiim (the homeless boy. Lol)
• One afternoon after school some of the drama students stayed back and we were practicing our sketch. We were upstairs and the first line of the sketch was "Hi." the second line was the other person saying "Hi." back. As we were practicing a cleaner was emptying the upsatirs bins. I turned to Erin and said "Hi." "Hi!" She replied, and at that time the cleaner turned and said "Hello." We waited until she walked around a corner and lost it. I think she heard us. I felt so bad, but it was funny.
• I remember the time Kim and i sat under the stairs for a whole period cos we didn't want to go to class.
• I remember Dan, Drew and i writing each other letters all the time. It included such things as Brocolli soldiers and potato counting injuries.

RANDOM INTERRUPTION!!! -----> My mums weird!

• I remember Drew and i wagging and doing the most random stuff...usually hanging around at the shops or sleepin on the grass at ocean reef marina.
• One day waiting in line for school photoes Kim complained he was hungry. He was holding a book mark in his hand so i said "Eat the book mark then." and he DID! He started chewing and said, "This doesn't taste very nice."

RANDOM INTERRUPTION #2!!! -----> My dad is weird too! it's hard to tell which of them is worse. Haha.

Anyway i do hate to cut a good blog-rambling short but i'm trying to think of something else to write about. There are plenty more memories from school, but i realise that a lot of them are only funny if you're there. =P

Oh my God, my parents are really quite insane. Lol! And a friend of mine has just started dancing around while wearing flannelette pyjama pants. I'm off to watch him make a fool of himself!

Bye all, i will write soon!

Dani xxx