Runners, until the race in run; dreaming of when the morning comes.

I am very shaken by a dream I had last night. Because I'm so afraid it won't come true.

Ty! ♥

Hello!

This is, officially, my 200th blog post, and I thought I would use that fat round number to welcome my blogger-buddy Keira's brand-new baby brother into the world!

Here he is:

Isn't he wonderful?! I can't wait to meet him. :)

"I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends."

I love the above quote. It's so me. Kind of missing you all at the moment. Kind of would like to read something written by you right now ... if you have time, feel like writing me a letter (email)? About something. Or nothing. Anything.

Love you. Posting photos from the Ghetty Villa and Santa Monica Pier when I get home.

Even the kids here say it....

Hello again!


Fiji has been a lot of fun. Went wandering today into “Nadi Town”. The country is very beautiful but a lot of the people between the towns are very poor. We walked from our hotel down a long road in the midday heat; there were shacks behind barbed wire among the palms on both side of the street. Some I wouldn’t have even thought had families living in them … but the long, full, colourful clotheslines say differently. The cars speed past a plain with smoke pouring right off the grass without a second glance. It’s strange the way people just burn weed when they feel like it here. The town of Nadi was hot and busy. School had just gotten off when we were reaching town. We crossed a bridge over a river with little Fijian kids weaving in and out between us on their way home. Some stared and some said ‘bula’ to us as we passed; we were the only white people on the street. A few little kids at a bus stop yelled out “Justin Bieber!” just as we were walking by, and unfortunately I don’t think it was coincidental…. Awkward!


We had a look in town and then caught a crowded bus back to our hotel. I loved it; the bus was jam-packed with school kids, mostly teenagers, and the music blared from the speakers above our heads as the bus rumbled along the road. The kids clapped and sang and yelled and laughed the whole trip; a little girl stared at Mum until we got off. So cute! It was good fun. I would’ve kept riding that bus if we could have. Justin said he didn’t like it very much, but I can’t see why! Having dinner at the hotel tonight, and have the full day here tomorrow. Heading to LAX tomorrow night. Photos when we get there. xx

Fiji!

Hello!

It’s day one here in Fiji … well, technically we arrived last night but if we’re counting it as five days this is day one. The flight here was fine; only three and a half hours so not much to report. I listened to my ipod and did the crossword in the back of the magazine that was among the flight safety pamphlets. The most exciting part was probably on descent (and I’m not talking about the moment when I yelled as my ear popped). Each seat had a little screen on the back of the seat in front of them, and the main channel had the flight map, and info on how fast the plane was going, how high up in the air we were, and how cold it was outside. As the plane went down from 39,000 feet to just 90, the temperature dropped from -48 degrees Celsius to 24 degrees! Yes that’s right, highs of 75F as we stepped into Fiji! You can imagine my excitement, considering it was about 7pm at night. Another ‘yes, that’s right’ moment – it was 7pm by the time we arrived. We travelled faster than time itself!!!! Haha.

Got to our hotel via shuttle bus, had a late dinner (nearly 9pm by then), and crashed into bed. Mum thought the island was on fire when she looked out our hotel window but Dad wasn’t phased by the orange light we could see in the distance ... it smelled like bushfire when we woke up this morning and I grabbed my camera to see if damage had been done overnight, but no…. Other than the smell there was no sign of any fire, and the view was just gorgeous. Here’s a picture for you lovely people.

 Beautiful, isn’t it? I’m actually writing this post in a Word document because I currently I don’t have any internet… it’s about 8:30 in the morning and we’re heading to breakfast so I shall pick up where I left off later.

Well, breakfast was awesome… bacon, eggs, hash browns, beans, sausages, pancakes, fruit, yoghurt, croissants, toast, juice, coffee… the list goes on. ‘Twas yummay.

Yeah, the background in my pic is boring cuz I was sitting in front of the hotel wall…. Haha. Went exploring briefly after eating.

We kicked back in our hotel room for a bit (did I mention it’s really hot?!?!? Love it!), and now we’re about to check outta here … heading back to the airport to find out about our next hotel. More soon! Unfortunately we weren’t able to get in contact with Kristy, so we won’t see her today but we’re hoping to find out what church she’ll be attending on Sunday so that we can join the service. Prayers for that working out are more than welcome.

So, after the first hotel adventure we caught a taxi to the Sovitel resort (think I spelled that right…), and as you can see Justin was very excited about our room. We have our own and Mum and Dad have theirs right next to us.

Ate food and chilled by the pool all afternoon, and now I’m sitting in the lobby posting this post! Going for dinner tonight at the resort restaurant called “Salt”, which is where we had the wedges and those veggies that had a funny name….

Ta ta for now loves. Missing you already.

And I have to go before they eat all the cookies.

So, I know I haven't blogged properly in a while, and I'm sorry... but that's because there's been nothing to write about! Or at least, no time to write. I'm hitting the airport tomorrow morning and flying off to Fiji. So, fun things to blog about will happen, and hopefully I'll have time to write!!

Will miss you all. Thank you for the lovely well-wishes. Photos will be up as soon as possible, cross my heart.

I love you, you idiot ♥

I love this photo so flippin much. It's hanging on my wall. Right next to this quote: "It's a curious thought, but it's only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." I think it's rather fitting, don't you?

six days.

the packing the luggage episode has begun. slow going, but I'm a listy type person so you know me... I've already listed everything I need, down to naming each shirt and singlet and pair of socks I want ;) ok, maybe not the socks but you get the idea!

new headphones!

and now that I'm leaving... what will happen when I'm gone?

I don't know what happened but whatever it was I wish it hadn't. Because things are not the same anymore ... I think we missed a chance.... 

And while you're there...

Because I really miss you.

they say I'm all about the wordplay

Hey there. Sorry I haven't blogged properly in so long. I've been quite sick for the past few days ... done pretty much nothing except plotting a murder and doing this crossword.

Yes, that is a genuine X-Files "I WANT TO BELIEVE" poster in the background. I won it off eBay.

Anyway. The crossword is one of those giant ones (would you believe) from the Daily Telegraph or something. One of the nice ladies from my church, JoJo, as she is known, heard I was too sick to go down and get the newspaper so she ripped that one out and gave it to my mum to bring back to me (Actually that's not true, it just makes a better story. What really happened was that I staggered down to the corner shop and bought THE WRONG newspaper, only discovering the fact that it was the wrong one when I got home. Then I was too sick and too poor to go back again. I'm not sure which story JoJo heard but I kind of hope mum told her the former. The latter is a little idiotic.).

Moving on, I've also been plotting the murder to my Steampunk novel. I don't really call it a mystery novel because the mystery part is only half of the main running plot. I was up til midnight last night planning out the finer details of my villainous plan to murder the King of Collinsmere during a dinner party for the late-night viewing of a Total Eclipse on the palace rooftop. I discovered whilst researching some things that there were no Total Eclipses visible from the United Kingdom from 1724 to 1925. Quite ridiculous and quite a problem for a my novel, so it seemed. Luckily I don't have to go with the real thing half the time as my novel is fantasy so making up an Eclipse is completely possible and believable for the reader. I could make up a whole other moon that circles the planet if I wanted.

So yeah. Big stuff. A giant crossword and an epic murder plan. I was ridiculously excited about both these things ... you might not be, but that's okay. I'm special :)

Today I finally got out of the house for the first time in three days and sat in a park or a reserve or something with Jessie. Wandered about a bit, ate sausages, made conversation with various other friends (Sorry - that doesn't mean I don't love you as much as Jessie, I just can't be bothered mentioning all you kiddies by name; writing this ever-growing-longer sentence in parenthesis is much simpler, or it would be if it saved any time, but by the time I get to the full stop I may as well have just listed you all. Oh there it is. I love you. The end.), used up a lot of tissues and shooed birds away from the salad. Yes, this is turning out to be a very pointless paragraph because by the time I've gotten to the tissues and the birds you've completely forgotten what I was talking about before there. Nevermind. My brain is still a little fuzzy from the cold, quite obviously. I'm just going to shut up and go on to the next topic of interest.

After the park/reserve/wildlife thingy me and the family ducked of to the Macquarie center and went shopping. It started out a little stressful with yelling and grumbling and crying (mostly all from me) but by the end of it we'd all had milkshakes and smoothies and marched into Rebel Sport together laughing at Justin's bagel. But that's another story. Right now I'd like to tell you about my beautiful bag, which I found at Colorado and like very much. It will be my carry-on for the plane. Here's a picture :)

 Hmm. I threw my teddy-bear in as a size reference, but I guess that doesn't really help much since some of you don't know how big my teddy-bear is. Oh well. It's a large shoulder bag, useful for carrying my notebooks, laptop, camera, etc. on the plane. I rather like it. Hey wait! I know how to fix the size reference thing. Two seconds, I'll take a picture of me and the teddy-bear and then you'll know how big the bag is.

Hey hey! His name's Clyde by the way. Of course, you're probably wondering why I didn't just take a picture of the bag and myself in the first place.... I don't know either. Bad planning I guess. This was more fun anyway.

Righty-o, I'm off - dinner is on and so is masterchef. I don't have time to skim back over this post but I trust it made no sense. Oh well! Love you all. :)
Wait wait, two more things!!!! Kristy messaged me from Fiji today and I was like, :D And... and... oh gosh I'd almost forgotten what the second thing was. Short term memory hello! Yeah the second thing is: 9 DAYS TIL I LEAVE!!! I'll misses you ... but I'm super excited. ta ta.

for you ♥

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."