RODNEY'S BIRTHDAY!!

26th of September = Rodney's birthday!!
I wasn't awake to see him in the morning, but while he was at work I wrapped his present and made him a card and a chocolate cake. The chocolate cake wasn't that great because I ran out of sugar - oops - but he was super happy with his Star Wars vhs tapes and his birthday card. I was happy to see him happy like that. We started watching A New Hope, until he started dozing off. Can't be asleep for Star Wars! We'll probably watch the rest tomorrow or something.

Also I just don't think I should force myself to take photos and post them every day if they're only being taken for the sake of the post? I feel like they're just too pointless and I'd rather not do it. So I'm not going to. I took a photo of the Star Wars box set, but I just can't bring myself to upload it. It's so unnecessary.

Anyway, it has somehow reached 1:04am, and I need to get in bed. Adios day 11.

STILL SICK

It's exactly two months until the Gilmore Girls revival!! So exciting, I can't wait - I'm rooting for Team Jess. I was still sick for all of today, although I slept a lot better last night than the night before. Again, I just watched Gilmore Girls all day and ate junk food, there isn't any more to it.

Rodney had work both today and yesterday, so the poor lil' guy didn't really get a weekend, Ray and Darcy came over for a little bit this afternoon and a bird made a crater in our pear.

End of daaaay... 10?

SICK :(

I missed a post yesterday because by the end of the day I was soo sick! I just had no energy whatsoever. All I did yesterday was work at Judy's shop, alphabetise the travel bookshelf (which made my hands super grubby, by the way) and then come home. I didn't go to work today or yesterday, and I probably won't tomorrow because I don't think it's a good idea to go to work at a restaurant, being around lots of food and lots of people when I'm all germy and gross.

Today (after one of the worst sleeps I've ever had) I stayed in bed literally all day, watching Gilmore Girls. The highlight of my day was when Rodney brought home my fave ice cream - vegan, of course - and I devoured it all in one sitting. No regrets.

It's legit 'so good' hahah

I'll probably spend much of tomorrow the same way, but hopefully I'll manage to fit in a drive seeing as I didn't today or during the week - but we'll see how I feel.

End of days 8 & 9 :)

BEC'S BIRTHDAY DINNER

I got a haircut today! The hairdresser made it a lot shorter and thinner, but it'll grow back, and other than that I think I like it. I don't have any photos of it, other than this STUNNING number (lol), but hey ho.

After the haircut, I came home and made Rebecca a bracelet for her birthday dinner while watching Friends. Emma and I then met everyone at seven at the Sahara restaurant near Melbourne Central and, of course, Emma and I were the first there. It didn't really bother me, though. I like being early - it's much better than being late. Jackson and Manoj were the next to arrive and then Rebecca, Asmaa, Atiida and their friend that I never actually learnt the name of. That sounds terrible, but she didn't really talk much and neither did I... Okay, that's still a bad excuse.
After the dinner (which was uncomfortably expensive, by the way), we went to the rooftop bar that they had, hung out there for a bit, took some photos and then went to ABC.

The only problem with taking photos, is you don't get to be in any of them haha, it's like you weren't even there. Anyway, at ABC, Jackson met up with these guys he met last week and we ended up going to some club with a HUGE group of girls who were obsessed with the guys. I kind of wish I hadn't paid $10 to get in (Emma and I just went because we thought it would be free) but it was pretty funny trying to keep up with everyone in heels. We didn't stay there for long, and on my way home I had to pee SO BAD, but I made it. And now I'll probably watch Grey's Anatomy and then cry when I have to wake up for work tomorrow morning!

Goodnight xx  End of day 7! (7?)

LOMBARDS

I slept in for so long today, I ended up getting out of bed at about 12, but in my defence, I went to sleep really late last night. Pretty much all I did today was clean, call the hairdresser to make an appointment (and to check whether they use cruelty free products - which they do! YAY) and then go to Lombards with Rachael! Lombards is life I tell you.

At Lombards I got a bag of skulls (it actually came with six but I only put three in the photo), some 'police tape', a black light bulb - which I'm hoping is the sort of black light that makes white stuff glow, and won't just turn everything in my room blue. Either way, it'll be cool though. And a little hanging skeleton which I'll probably keep in my room all year long because it's so cute.

I had a conversation with Marly over Facebook. He's still in Poland and might stay a lot longer than expected if he gets a receptionist job at his hostel. I'm happy that he'll be able to do that and that he's clearly loving it, but I kind of miss him. But go be adventurous and have fun, travel for as long as you can. I wonder what he'll do when he comes back, whenever he does. Or maybe he'll become one of those social media nomads. That's the dream tbh. Although I don't think he's much of a social media person, neither am I.

Time for me to sleep :) Day 6 done!

BUNDT CAKES

Today was a struggle waking up, and I ended up being late to the doctor's oops (well, late to meeting Rodney there). I did make it though, to get my b12 injection. When I got home, I didn't have much to do so I decided to make a cake! I ended up making a few little bundt cakes, and I'm going to try to decorate them as pumpkins, although I'll have to leave that for tomorrow because I didn't have enough time before dinner, and it's a bit late now.
I just used a normal vanilla cake recipe for the cakes (vegan, of course), and for the icing I was just going to mix icing sugar, water and food colouring.

(Incase you're wondering what those weird blobs are on the left, they're the cake bits I sliced off the top to make the bottoms flat!)

FYI, I'm still SO obsessed with Salem, but I think I'll survive if I don't go... Maybe. I messaged Rachel and she hasn't 'seen' it yet so who knows what will happen. I don't know if I'm up to travelling so far by myself just yet - maybe if it were much more planned and organised, or if I knew someone there.
But anyway, whatever happens, it will be okay. I can still have a super awesome Halloween here, just like I've been planning all year. Which reminds me, I need a dress!

Speaking of dresses, I've been Insta-stalking this amazing photographer Linda Blacker. The costumes and makeup she uses in her photos are so amazing, they're all very artistic and fairy-tale-esque. I just wanted to write it down, so if I'm ever reading through these again, I'll be reminded of her cool work and I can go see what she's done since I last looked.

And with that, I declare the end of day 5 xx

FRENCH & BOWLING

I love being able to run. Every time I run that little bit further or faster or longer, I just get so proud of myself, because running is hard! Well, for me at least. At the moment, though, I can't do it. I got sore knees after jumping back into it too hard after not running for months. So while I wait for my knees to repair themselves - I'm sure they will soon, right? - I'm back to biking. Which I also love.
This morning I rode along the Capital City Trail which goes past my old high school, and I'm 90% certain I rode past two of my old teachers - awkward. They were both teachers I really liked (Rainer and Jamie) but I didn't particularly feel the need to bump into them with greasy hair and a red face.

I came home, jumped in the shower, did some french, took Kelly for a walk, did some more french, DIED at how beautiful Salem, MA is - particularly in Autumn (or 'fall'). I want to go there soo much, and essentially I could just book a flight and GO. But can I really? Part of me wants to be spontaneous and crazy and just do it, for real, but the other part of me is too concerned about judgemental people, and about how I wouldn't know anyone. But it's kind of my last chance to go during halloween, which is legit my DREAM. Plus, I won't be able to do it for another four years because of uni and exams...

After French class, I was walking to Melbourne Central when a boy, probably about my age, came up to me and asked if I was German. It wasn't really in a creepy or annoying way, it was just kind of funny. He said I looked German because of my blonde hair and blue eyes, although my eyes are really more grey/green. He tried to introduce himself but I was kind of in a hurry to meet Beth and I didn't want to give him the wrong idea or anything, so I just said I had to meet my friend, and he was totally cool about it. Ten or so minutes later, when I had made it to Melbourne Central and was on an escalator right near our meeting spot, I pulled my phone out of my pocket to check the time and another guy started talking to me. He asked if my lock screen was a picture of a cat, to which I said no, and showed him the picture of Kelly. He then proceeded to show me a picture of his kitten, ask me about uni, tell me about how he wanted to change courses because there wasn't much of a job market in the field he was currently studying, ask me to play touch football, ask me for my Facebook and ask my for my phone number until I said 'umm maybe not...' and managed to get away! He seemed nice but he wouldn't let me leave! I then greeted Beth, we got burgers at Grill'd (the vegan burger there was surprisingly nice! It had pineapple which I wasn't expecting, but it totally made it) and then played three games of bowling before getting really tired and going home.

I originally intended to take at least one photo of Beth at the bowling place, I even brought my DSLR, but I felt so awkward pulling it out. I definitely need to work on being more carefree with stuff like that - who cares if I'm taking a photo of my friend anyway?

That concludes day... 4? xx