Someone's a Sillyhead

So I guess it's time for my confession regarding the stupid/embarrassing thing that happened two days ago. I did promise, didn't I?

Well, this semester we get to go on field placement for Social Work. The way they do it is all the placement options are entered into a database, we put in preferences, they run an algorithm and it tries to find the best match for everyone.

Ok so skip back to the bit where I said 'we put in preferences'. yep. Now fast-forward to Friday evening. I'm talking on the phone to mum at the same time as cutting material for that onesie, people are coming in and out, mum asks excitedly "so did you get to put in your preferences and stuff yet?"

and everything stops. It's 6:30pm. They were meant to be in by 5. And I had utterly and completely forgotten. Damn. I start berating myself over the phone (basically imagine a broken record of 'I'm such an idiot, I'm such an idiot'). Mum ends up saying "well maybe I should let you go" as I seem to have trouble moving on. I shunt off a grovelly apologetic email to the organising people. OH embarrassment.

I know I'll still get to go on placement. I know I didn't have that much chance of getting one of my preferences anyway as they're probably the ones everyone wants (although now I probably have less :P). The worst bit is the memory of a teacher's remark in class - "email us if you have any issues with it but don't imagine we'll have any sympathy for the idiot who just plain forgets."

hm.

ah well. It's good to be reminded now & then of how dumb I can be. I guess.

(A funny thing I heard later is that in the same moment I was flipping out about forgetting that, Mandie discovered her cake was leaking all over the oven and Skyby found out her violin teacher was leaving. happy times!)

DIY Onesie

Today I made a onesie. Well, I started it yesterday but sewed it today:

(sorry about the crappy photo)

It was lots of fun. I made it on Hanwen's new sewing machine - yay for her mum randomly giving her a sewing machine!!

It turned out fairly different to the picture I first had in mind, but I'm pretty happy with it. Particularly because I didn't end up needing to get any buttons (or make any buttonholes for said buttons) cos I went for the wraparound effect.

I didn't want to buy anything, so I'd looked around for a piece of clothing that

1) I didn't care about cutting up

2) was big enough to make into a one-piece suit.

And I found a pair of wraparound pants that I never wore because they were too long and flappy and annoying:

And I cut them up. Yay for recycling things!

And then what did I do with my new onesie?! I went to a onesie party in it of course!

Ok so it may be 1:25am but I haven't gone to bed yet so it's still the same day. right? yeah.

Today I did a really really really dumb and forgetful and embarrassing thing. But I can't tell you about that yet, cos I need a bit more distance. Sorry for the suspense :P.

Instead I'll tell you that today I slept in a bit, woke up all blocked and wheezy - ugh, tidied and washed up, started trying to make a onesie out of a pair of pants I never wear for a friend's party tomorrow, went & had yummy coffee at the Godfrizzle's place, read a book in a tree and was stumbled upon by a couple of random guys (so it's the first time in ages I've been up a tree with a book - and a thermos of tea, no kidding - and I get sprung!!) I'm sure they thought I was a fruit loop but they were very friendly and polite all the same. Maybe they didn't see the thermos. That would have confirmed it.

OH and then tonight (after the phonecall with my mother which made me realise the stupidly stupidly idiotic thing I had done - forgetting that thing, you know..well you don't.. but..) so yeah, tonight, I went to a loungeroom gig at my friend Aidan's place, and the lovely Redhanwen trio played and they were _gorgeous_ and then his friend James Fahy played and he was super! Cool voice and very entertaining. Such a great, cosy, intimate vibe there.

I had to leave early to pop in at another party which was a bit of a pity - but that was a good time of chatting & catching up with people so definitely worth it too.

And now here I am, onesie now half-made (I'll let you know how it turns out!) and I'm off to bed.

Crazy Quidditch Finals Night Extravaganza

Waitwaitwait is this the first quidditch post I've ever done?!? I was planning one ages ago, must have forgotten. I shall have to do a general informative one soon.

BUT FOR NOW, the finals.

We came into the finals night ranked 4th out of 5 teams. We had to win 3 games to get into the grand finals.

So we played the Dirigible Plums, and beat them pretty convincingly. Then after a bit of a break we played the Death Eaters - our previous nemeses - because, shock horror, they were beaten by the Fizzing Whizbees in the Qualifying semi!! It was a close one. As was our game against them - we were neck & neck but our super-seeker (on his debut night) managed to snatch the snitch & bring us a win.

Then we were up against the Fizzing Whizbees. This was another close and messy game. In fact, it's all getting a bit blurry in my memory, as they were all fairly close and messy. ha. Anyway, the snitch came out, our seeker got bludgered and had to go back to the goals, the other seeker kept going but was soon taken out by a beater from our team. They headed back to the goals, the snitch headed that way as well, the seeker doubled back and got him, and the whistle blew.

Most of us thought that was the end. Except for our beaters and a couple of the refs, who argued that the opposing team's seeker had never fully gone back to his goals before darting back after the snitch. So the snitch capture was canceled and the game continued, finishing with a snitch capture by our seeker!! So we won! Crazy unexpected.

But now we were in the grand finals. Up against the Whomping Willows. They had a couple of ace chasers who slammed in 5 goals before we could counter any. We got a couple, then they got another, then we got another, and so on (I got 3 - woot! good passing from Chris) until the score was something like 80-60 their way, us still with a chance of winning if we got the snitch. But we didn't. The Whomping Willows remained undefeated the entire tournament!!

Either way, it was well fought by everyone. A lot of controversy, a lot of crashes (I was sent flying several times - no pun intended ;), and lot of fun. All the things that make Quidditch AWESOME.

And after 4 games in the one night, I am sooooooooo ready for bed.

True Story.

So two days ago (I can't believe I forgot to tell this story yesterday!) I went for a walk.

I went up some hills and down some hills and found a stream and tried to keep my shoes dry and found some dead ends and no-right-turns and blah blah blah.

I was halfway home, when.....................................................

I found 20 bucks!

True story.

Toilet wall #2

This is a bit of a random post. It relates to a post from last year observing the history evident on the walls of the toilet in a house I used to live in, in S.A.

And it has had a makeover, as I discovered in my last visit. My historian urges kicked in - "I must record this!!" - so here it is:




Probably the coolest thing is actually the quotes on the bits of paper, so it's a bit of a pity they're too small to read.

Here are a couple of interesting ones:

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give" - Winston Churchill

"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution" - Anthony D'Angelo

30-day challenge

also, I've decided I'm going to post every day for a month. Just for the heck of it - and helped by the fact that I don't have much uni for the first 6 weeks of semester - yay!!

I don't have any particular idea of what I'll post, so it'll be just as much of a suprise to me as it will be to you!

wish me luck..