Holy cow this is the fifth year in a row that I have done this quiz on my DA journal. It's tradition now!


<sub>1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Got a real person grown up job, with a salary and everything. Also, most likely fingers crossed that I pass everything finished my degree.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Well yes, yes I have. I vowed not to shop at Jayjays for an entire year, due to the fact that 98% of my wardrobe was from there. So I haven't, I fell strangely good about that!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A few of my friends from back in high school did or are about to. Talk about jealous.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not that I can think of, so that must be a good sign.

5. What countries did you visit?
STILL still still haven't left Australia.

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Yay last year I said a job that wasn't a McJob, and I succeeded! Whoo!
Now.... what do I want... oh I know! Savings. You know, that thing that happens when you don't spend every cent you earn? Wow.

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
My birthday, my grad show. Just because they were important to me and I got to share them with my lovely family and friends!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finishing Uni alive. Getting a nicer job.

9. What was your biggest failure?
I suppose I could have tried a little harder at uni... I think I may have coasted through like every other school year ever.

.10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Discovered what hayfever is

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Sims 3, haha
My photo prints for my Portfolio and Exhibition.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My coffee girls
Trissy for putting up with me being mean to him all year, and putting up with the fact that I can't hack it when he is mean to me in return

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
People change, and sometimes it's hard to like the person they've changed into. I've lost a friend or two this year.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent, bills, clothes. Yep, grown up.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Gigs, going out with the coffee girls, my Grad show!

16. What songs/albums will always remind you of 2008?
Lets consult with my LastFM stats for this one.
The Twilight Soundtrack. Got some goodies on there. Particularly "Full Moon" by The Black Ghosts
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (album)
Your Darkest Hour - Evergrey (song)


17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? I'd say fatter, but apparently the same weight
iii. richer or poorer? richer, but it sure doesn't feel like it.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
cleaning, lol. saving money

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Whinging... I said that last year though, and I'm still a world class whinger.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
Well it hasn't happened yet...but this is my projection.
Christmas Eve - I actually have to work until 12:30pm, but then Murf and I will be heading straight to Bathurst after that. It'll be Madi's sweet sixteenth birthday too, so bigger party than usual, at our friends place as per the tradition.
Christmas Day - Church, home for a quiet (hopefully) relaxed day with my family, presents and lollies, and Bing Maybe a board game or two

21. How will you be spending New Years?
Planning on partying it up, but unsure whether that party will be at our place or The Home (our local establishment, our home away from home)

22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
yes... fell even more in love with Murf, fell in love with our kitteh Turtle, and celebrity crush Taylor Lautner haha.

23. How many one night stands?
none

24. What were your favourite TV programmes?
Dexter, Glee, Border Security, Iron Chef Japan

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Yes, some people just don't get that they are douchebags. sheesh

26. What was the best book you read?
The Poison Study Trilogy by Maria Snyder

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Birds of Tokyo, Tesseract

28. What did you want and get?
Better job, Threadless tees , a Degree

29. What did you want and not get?
I'm not sure...uh... a lottery win?

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Oh wow New Moon. Team Jacob team Jacob team Jacob.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was awesome too

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Party at my folks place, big to do with relatives and everything because it was my 21st. Got a new sewing machine, and an autographed autobiography by Alan Alda ZOMG.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
as previously mentioned, a lotto win haha
Last years answer was "Better, more secure, higher paying job... preferably at the library" and I totally achieved that this year, gotta feel good about that.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
the cute designs of Invisible Industries Zazzle store

34. What kept you sane?
Books, chocolate, coffee with the girls every Tuesday! Access to the Canon 1Ds MkIII, thank god for full frame cameras!

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
2007's Answer: the whole Edward Cullen vs. Jacob Black fight kept my imagination busy (if you don't know these people, shame on you...read "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer! )
2008's Answer: This year, same thing, what with the final book and the movie. So that includes the guy who played Jacob, but not the one who played Edward, he's just plain old Cedric Diggory to me.
This years Answer: Taylor Lautner!!! *eardrum shatteringly high pitched squeal* I think I've given Murf a complex about how excited I get over Taylor Lautner, poor thing

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Meh, I've given up. I get depressed every time I hear about USA's political ramblings in the news in the place of my own damn country. It sucks. It's hard to follow when the media is doing stories on Barrack Obama's kids dog rather than the far more relevant climate change policy issues IN AUSTRALIA. Ugh.

37. Who did you miss?
Madi and Luke... wish my family didn't have to live so far away.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
um..... I don't know.... Turtle?

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
obtaining a higher qualification greatly increases use of latent elitism

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
montage>>>

In the full moons light I listen to the stream
And in between the silence hear you calling me
But I don't know where I am and I don't trust who I've been
And If I come home how will I ever leave

How can I be sure I'm here?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left, I simply am not here

Have I found you, Flightless bird,
jealous, weeping or lost you, american mouth

I would hold you when you're sleeping
I would guide you when you're drifting
I'd be the light you seek in your darkest hour</sub>

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My university days are officially over (for this degree anyway)! I've finally finished my BA Photography. That totally makes me a pro now.

The exhibition showcasing three of my final images was last night, so here a some snaps of me and my images. (more on Facebook if you know me)



Now what am I going to do with myself? Probably just continue working until I get so bored and crazy that I actually want to go back and do my Masters of Art Practice. Eep. Until then though, theres Peggle! and Sims 3! and all my old N64 games to re-play! Wheeee!

I am finally in my very last semester of my Photography degree (you can tell how serious that is by my capitalisation of ' Photography ', ) That's assuming I don't have some psychotic meltdown and fail. It hurts my brain to think about that possibility.

This of course means I have yet another 20 fantasmagorical images to give birth to and fork out hundreds (literally. hundreds. ) of dollars that I just do not have in printing. It hurts my brain to think about that too.

So if I disappear, I've gone crazy. Or if I seem to be here more, I'm procrastinating.

I've come to the conclusion that my cat Turtle likes Harry Potter. If I leave the room for even just a few minutes inevitably when I return iTunes is mysteriously playing Harry Potter audio books. I have a sneaking suspicion that as soon as I leave Turtle takes the opportunity to jump around on my keyboard, thus turning on iTunes. It just always happens to be Harry Potter that shuffle picks out.

I recently have realised that the inclusion of food dye in my cooking to make it look awesome does not constitute awesome tasting food. Devastated.

Right right, stopping procrastinating.....now.

Semester = over.
Portfolio = created, printed, post-conceptualised and handed in.
Exam = pretending to study for.
Holiday Plans = split between working and sims 3.
Sims 3 saving fund = non existant.

Image above is my melted brains leaking out of my mouth from too much uni work. I think it's payed off though. I haven't failed, nor have my lecturers found flaws in my photographs major enough to yell at me and send me crying from the room. I'll take that as a win.

Now! Spare time! Time to earn enough money to keep me afloat through another semester. Enough money to buy me Sims 3, giggedy. Time to live vicariously through a computer game!