Broken Clock.

So it's currently 6.51AM on a Saturday morning. It's quite normal that I'm up at this time of the day generally. It's about the time a get up on weekdays to get to uni on time. And I like being up about now to be totally organised for netball. So this is fine. The bit that is not so fine is this morning, and the past two weeks as well, I've woken at about 4AM and despite all my efforts to get back to sleep it's a total struggle and I haven't managed it at all! Why must my body clock do this to me?! It's a tad ridiculous and not that much to expect my body to do it's job and sleep until about 7 at least. What is wrong with me?! It's not like I have an early night on Fridays. Often it's at least 12 before my sisters and I stop babbling our catch up of the week and try to sleep. Yet it seems my body thinks it's a great idea to have less than 4 hours of sleep. Totally fine! No worries! I didn't want to sleep anyways...

So in short.... I think my body clock is broken. If you know a reliable repairman I would love a recommendation!

Southern Satisfied.

So it's been a hectic week! Recovery from a massive weekend wasn't too bad. I had no time to be recovering! But relief and satisfaction are on the agenda as the Southern Cross Packaging project deadline was yesterday for submission and I managed to get my entry complete and sent off. Was in the worst panic in the morning rushing around finishing everything off. But I did it! And I'm quite proud of my little entry. The biggest brief I've ever done. And it's complete. And now I'm left with a strange taste in my mouth as it's odd not to have it hanging over my head as it has been for so long... bizarre! It's like the end of semester all over again!

I also took a bit of a trip back to 2000 when I bought my very first CD album with some birthday money I had been given. The album was the Oops... I Did It Again, Deluxe Edition - Britney Spears. On my trip home on Friday the other week I was browsing through what to listen to and couldn't help clicking on Britney. I proceeded to listen to the album and it just brings back the innocence of being about eight years old again. This deluxe album had a few the video clips for a few of the songs on it as well, one of them being Lucky. I recall watching that clip a ridiculous amount and proceeding to make up dance routines and re-enacting it as if I were Britney in the clip. Singing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush dreaming of being a popstar. Happy days!

Hooray for it being the weekend almost again. I'm totally drained and keen to go home to my family!

Chow!

Sunday Summary 29/7/2012

So this week has been pretty stressful! Big deadline comes up this week.... and somehow I still have quite a bit to get done!

Night netball produced another neat win and my other netball we managed to pull a win over the line in a tight game.

And the weekend..... was crazy! It got a bit out of hand but over all it was a grand!

The week in thousands of words...

New dress! On sale for $35 at Forever New. I think I'm in love!

Craving strawberries and cream and milk bottles!

Fudge brownie made in the microwave!

Have a good week!

Poly Roly!

Got into some baking over the weekend and whipped up a Jam Roly Poly!

Sunday Summary 22/7/2012

This week I have been loving Loon Lake's Cherry Lips that they have been playing on triple j. Awesome song!

Taking a few trips down memory lane, getting all nostalgic and doing some things that I haven't experienced for a few years. Listening to some really old Britney Spears stuff. Making Jam Roly Poly which was something I used to help Mum make for sweets quite often. Also made some delicious pancakes with this recipe on taste.com. Was a lovely start to my Sunday. Netball was good as we notched up a win. The weather was even kind of nice for us!

I watched Princess Diaries with my youngest sister today. I still love this movie. This is the film that I will always remember Anne Hathaway in her role as the main character Mia. This was the first film she was ever in and in some ways this has always stuck with me and whenever I think of Anne Hathaway I have an instant association thought of The Princess Diaries and Julie Andrews. This also lead to the usual IMDb examination of what a lot of the cast have done since they were in The Princess Diaries.

The week in thousands of words...

Jam Roly Poly...

Pancakes! Om NOM NOM!

An article I read in the latest Issue of Frankie that actually had me tearing up on the train...

Wearing the old style netball skirts in my new netball team...

Good old The Princess Diaries...

Some yummy Vegetable soup...

Have a good week!

The Flave #013

The Romantics wasn't a bad film. It seemed older than just being made in 2010 but that's probably just me. Starring The ever so pleasing on the eye, Josh Duhamel along side Katie Holmes and Adam Brody is probably one of my favourite in the cast. The film was about a group of friends brought together for a wedding which is complicated as the maid of honour was quite seriously involved with the groom when he became engaged to the bride. As you can imagine it makes for an interesting weekend! 7/10.

The Art of Getting By stars Freddie Highmore as George, a young creative student who has pretty much gone the entire school year not doing any work and now has to get a years worth of homework complete to pass. Along with the stresses of school he befriends an interesting character, Sally played by Emma Roberts. It was alright. 5/10.

Finally watched the film The Help based on the book by Kathryn Stockett. I was not disappointed. Far from it. Starring Emma Stone as the leading lady, Skeeter Phelan, an aspiring journalist and author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s who secretly writes a book about the African-American maids' point of view on the white families they work for. Also starring Viola Davis as Aibileen, the main maid that helps Skeeter write her book. Another familiar face Octavia Spencer is Minny Jackson, another of the helpful maids. Along with the rest of the cast I think they were all fantastic and I was so pleased to be satisfied with the film. 9/10.

The Amazing Spiderman. Well. I thought it was amazing. Am pretty much in love with Andrew Garfield playing Peter Parker slash Spiderman. I think I'll be in love with whatever character he plays for some time if not forever more! And then Emma Stone (yes more Emma Stone, she really is the 'it' girl at the moment, isn't she?) was actually pretty awesome as the leading lady and love interest, Gwen Stacy. It was fantasticly awesome. This may be partly because I was in the ideal mood for this kind of film.... or just purely because of Andrew Garfield. Insert sigh here. So many people have said they hadn't seen the others so thought they would be lost going to see the "fourth" one. So many don't seem to realise it's like starting the story all over again. And I love that. I really enjoy how this film takes longer to get to when Peter actually becomes spiderman, more of a backstory. Those that are really into the Marvel comics don't seem that impressed by it but from my un-educated-on-Marvel point of view I give it a 9.7/10. I took some of my siblings and they loved it. Sister gave it a 9.5/10. Also was quite happy with the Garfield casting. Then my little brothers, the ten year old gave it "9/10 rubber chickens" and Spiderman fanatic that was just the most excited ever to go and see the film gave it "10/10 rubber chickens", or "ten million out of ten million" if he could. He loved the 3D. (The rubber chickens thing is from some television show they watch on ABC3, Good Game Spawn Point)

I also recently finished another book! I decided after seeing the trailer for the film The Great Gatsby based on the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald that I should pick up the book and read it. I added it to the list and ended up jumping it to the front of the queue. A story about Jay Gatsby an interesting character who has led an interesting life which has an interesting series of events that leads to a dramatic conclusion. I quite enjoyed it. For the most part it was a good read, I enjoyed the language and the way it was written though admittedly at moments I was a little bit lost. 8/10. Keen for the film!

Let's get physical!

So after a three week absence I finally got back to the boxing class that I usually attend. Was good to be back but the instructor as usual made it challenging for us and even made us do burpies. They're like my arch enemy! For those who may never of heard of a burpie it's like you start standing then you bend down, put your hands on the ground and jump your feet as far back behind you as you can and then jump them forward to where the started before jumping up and reaching high at the same time. Sound fun? I strongly have a dislike towards burpies!

Tonight I had my first game with a new netball team I've joined. It's a whole group of girls that I hadn't met before tonight so it shall be fun to get to know some new people! It's quite funny, we got these shirts and despite being a size small they are massive on all of us. The "T-shirt" sleeves reach all the way to our elbows and the shirt is long enough to be a dress nearly! This along with wearing an old style (I say old style because I'm so used to seeing the dresses I think of the classic netball skirt as quite old fashioned!) netball skirt made me feel like I was in under elevens again when I always had to pull my skirt down because I just didn't know how to wear it in the right place! But anyways, we won! So that was a bit exciting. And besides a bit of shooting I also played a bit of Wing A which was totally fun! I don't think I've played that since being in juniors!

Apart from all this being back at the gym for the week after my half hearted three weeks of holidays and not much exercise hasn't proved as much of a struggle as I thought it would.

And now it's Friday.
I love Fridays!