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I think I’m turning… Vegetarian. :-/

/ Lisa / 2 Comments

Nobody tell Man Piece!

This is all his fault.

Now I’m not saying I am swearing off meat. There is no way I can ever give up those BBQ Bacon Double Cheeseburgers from BK. They are so delicious and very good after a night of some chilled, fizzy beverages…

It is more that I can’t stand the smell of meat cooking now.

Mum cooked sausages last night and they smelled so rank I actually wanted to vomit.

I’m quite happy to still eat meat if I was to get take-aways or go out for a meal. But I just don’t think there is a way that I could really cook meat anymore. Unless maybe it is really high quality meat, or it doesn’t let off a bad “meat smell”. (You totally know what I’m talking about.)

Plus, with Man Piece been vegetarian already, when I’m cooking for us, it’s a waste of time and money to cook two different meals.

So is there a name for someone who still eats meat, but won’t eat it if they can smell it cooking?

I am so weird.

Twitter is so much more.

/ Lisa

I hate it when people say, “It’s only twitter, get over it.”


For some people, twitter is so much more than a social networking site, or a stream of random people’s comments, or breaking news from that day.


For some, it is a way to communicate with friends, to discover new things you love and to meet new people.


Twitter is so much more.


For me, I have found so many new and awesome friends through twitter. Up and down the country and overseas. People that I wouldn’t have necessarily met in my normal day-to-day life, have become some of my closest friends, or just the people I go to for opinions.


I even met by boyfriend through twitter (Actually Formspring, but I’m going to maintain Twitter.)


Yes, there are a few creepy people I have encountered along the way, but mostly the people are nice and care about the people they talk to on a regular basis.


What I don’t like about twitter, is the drama.


There can be so much of it, when it really is unnecessary. Twitter can be very high school, a lot of the time.


Yes, it would be nice if everyone could get along and live as one big happy twitter family, but the reality is that people do unfollow you. It’s just one of those things that goes with twitter. Not everyone can like everyone’s thoughts/tweets, but it does get to you when someone unfollows you, who you considered a ‘friend’.


Some people may ask how you could ever consider anyone on twitter a friend, when the majority of the time you haven’t even met them.


Well sure, most of the people I consider my friends from twitter are people I have met in real life, some I haven’t yet had the pleasure of, but I’m sure it is only a matter of time. Or, those that I do talk to pretty much every day on twitter and have even gone so far as adding them to Facebook or IM.


When people who say ‘get over it’, well, it sometimes isn’t that easy. Because you might actually consider that person a friend, who you talk to fairly regularly.


But then one day, they no longer follow you. Now what could you possibly have done wrong? Because, yes, that thought does fun through your mind and I’m sure there are plenty people out there reading this and thinking, ‘but it’s only twitter’.


You obviously don’t know how awesome or how many friendships you can make by just having an account.


And yes, as I said, not everyone gets along with everyone, but when one of your twitter friends decides to unfollow you, sometimes it’s like losing a real life friend too. Which is not so easy to get over.

Photography, sickness, and some form of work makes me not so poor.

/ Lisa / 2 Comments

Today has been a fairly relaxed day, just sitting on the computer doing odd bits and pieces (mostly twitter).

Although I have been trying to do a bit of photography today. The hard part is that the weather doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with me.

Today I needed blue sky, I got an overcast day.

Then I needed some contrast – highlights and shadows. I got uniform light.

Hopefully tomorrow will give me something to work with. I’d hate to try and figure out this assignment indoors with artificial light. It just doesn’t look right.

I did manage to do the first part by finding a photo from my random explorations in to the outside world, when trying to get to know my camera, that fitted exactly what I needed. The first part was mostly just photoshop stuff. But tomorrow I really need some good light! Fingers crossed.

I had a couple days worth of work this week. Just a bit of data entry type stuff. But it at least fills a little hole on my CV and adds some more skills, I guess.

Also money! Yay!

Bitch gets paid.

I’m also sick. It’s horrible. I feel I haven’t been sick in ages and now I can’t breathe properly and my nose is blocked and I just really feel like death warmed up. Horrible. So I’m chugging back the lemsip drinks.

Blerg.

Not much else to write about. This is a pretty blah post. My life is unexciting, unless you want to see the massive oozing blister on the side of my big toe.

It’s June!? Yikes. An update.

/ Lisa

I haven’t been feeling that great over the last few days, you can probably tell.

And, to a certain extent, I’m still not. I’m not really sure what causes it, it just happens.

Right now, my mood probably has a lot to do with the lack of job prospects. It’s hard to stay positive when one after the other, you get job rejection upon job rejection. Whether you have had the interview or whether you have applied for one that you really wanted and you got nowhere with it.

I’ve kind of been in that phase for a wee while now, but things are starting to look up again.

I had a job interview last week, alas I did not get it. But this week I have some casual work, which will give me a bit of much needed money. And next week I have a job interview/testing for a job that I think will really suit me.

It’s amazing how little things can turn your mood right around. However, if I don’t get the job next week, I may be back to feeling a bit shit again.

But, after a month of having no money coming in whatsoever, I’m finally making headway with WINZ. I have an appointment next Wednesday to get it sorted and I’m hoping for back pay! Going into overdraft because you’re not earning anything is pretty lame. I haven’t exactly been spending anything either.

So I keep applying for jobs and hopefully something will stick. It has too.

When I was at AUT we had a career advisor come in to talk to us. She said it takes around nine months to find a job. If I go from when I was let go at my previous position, I’m now at six months. I’ve had five interviews. I’m starting to think that is a pretty good track record and I’m actually on track for getting a job. It just takes one.

Unfortunately I have made no more headway in my photography course. Yikes! And I need to finish it by the 29th. So I best get on that and do some tonight/every night and over the weekends. I’m not going to fail it and waste money. I will get it done. I will.

I kind of just realised that is is the first of June. Where they hell did that come from!?

Do you know how hard it is to come up with titles? Yeah. This hard.

/ Lisa

It’s one of those days where I just feel blah.

I can’t decide what to do, because I have so many things that need doing and I don’t want to do any of them.

I couldn’t decide what to wear and I’ve already changed my pants once. I’m likely to do it a third time. And change my top because it’s getting cold.

An indecisive day it is. I just want to lie on the bed and sleep. Forgetting that this day ever existed.

It’s not often that I have these days. They’re few and far between. Sometimes it is better for me just to do nothing and wait for the mood to pass or the day to be over.

But I have so many things that need doing.

I have jobs to apply for. I have photography work that needs to be done because the deadline for my course is looming. I have blog posts to write and a potential article to research.

Yet all I want to do is climb into bed and read. Do nothing else. Forget the world exists.

But even if I was to do that, I would not be able to relax. There’s the small problem that I have no money whatsoever coming in and I still need to figure out a way to live. I’m sick of sponging of my parents. Even if they are not supporting me, I’ve just changed to sponging of Man Piece. I hate my situation right now.

Hate it to the point that I want to crawl into bed and forget the world exists.

Or maybe it’s just Sunday.