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Archive for March, 2005

getting to know me

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Helen
on March 21, 2005
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When I was in high school, these sorts of emails often appeared in my hotmail, you know those ones with lots of questions that more than often not you never completed them?
Well when I got this one, I decided to do it and complete it.

1.  What time did you get up this morning?
4:30am, well I did start work at 5am
2. Diamonds or pearls?
Pearls, not a big fan of the Diamond (reasons why)
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Million Dollar Baby, I was sobbing.
4. What is your favourite TV show?
The OC, probably the only TV that I make an effort to watch each week.
5. What did you have for breakfast?
Corn Flakes
6. What is your middle name?
Thura
7. What is your favourite cuisine?
Mexican, mmm
8. What foods do you dislike?
mmm anything that is really salty.
9. What kind of car do you drive?
Subaru Forester 2004 2.5X and Toyota Tarago 1991 (both Silver)
10. Favourite sandwich?
Turkey/Ham with Lettuce, Tomato, Cheese, Carrot on Wattleseed bread
11. What characteristic do you despise?
People who always try to move guilt on to you or anyone who lies/is rude.
12. Favourite item of clothing?
well I love my funky PJ shorts but my funky brown top is my fav for sure.
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation where would you go?
gosh, I want to go everywhere but for this let me say Morocco
14. What colour is your bathroom?
Yellow and fuchsia, soon to be white and fuchsia
15. Favourite brand(s) of clothing?
Urbane/Just Jeans
16. Where would you retire to?
Somewhere where I have lots of space.
17. Favourite time of the day?
The afternoon, the sun is descending in the sky, the lorikeets are screeching.
18. What was your most memorable birthday?
My 19th was a good one, had heaps of fun but most memorable would be my sweet 16th - the day of 911, mentioning of my birth date always causes comments.
19. Where were you born?
Australia
20. Favourite sport to watch?
mmm I quite like to watch AFL or Union but hockey(field) is always going to have a spot in my heart.
21. Who do you least expect to send this back to you?
not really relevant is it :)
mmm what happened to 22?
23. What fabric detergent do you use?
Drive
24. Pepsi or Coke?
neither, much prefer something like water or Club Lemon
25. Are you a morning person or night owl?
mmm both? I like to stay up late but I also like to wake up early. mmm
26 . What is your shoe size?
9.5/10
27. Do you have any pets?
nope, I do have a little brother though ;)
28. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with your family and friends?
Matthew was 18 yesterday but we all know that of course.
29. What did you want to be when you were little?
It changed every day, the common one was to be Prime Minister
30. What are you meant to be doing today?
Uni readings and scrapbooking work for the magazine
31. Favourite Flammable substance?
Metho
32. What is your favourite CD right now?
REM - In Time

today

Published
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Helen
on March 19, 2005
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Today, is the afternoon at the races.
Today, is The Royal Children’s Hospital and Woolworths Raceday at Doomben.Emmamagnumbox
Today, is the celebration of Emma’s 22nd, hence the trip to Doomben.
Today, I present to Emma a magnum of Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Pinot Noir Brut Cuvée. (in the box to the right that I made).
Today, I go to the races for the first time in my life.
Toady, Sean has two or three superleague Netball games at Beenleigh.
Today, I get to dress up during the day instead of at night.
Today, I have a clean room (mostly).
Today, I banked my latest magazine cheque.
Today, is the day before my little brother turns 18.
Today, I am having toast & tea for breakfast instead of Muesli.
Today, I am listening to my "not heard in a while" smart playlist in iTunes.
Today, I am thinking more about my plan to get the Canon 350D before Iceland in June.
Today, is Saturday, 19 March 2005.

cool quote site

Published
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Helen
on March 18, 2005
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ThinkExist Quotes
I found this cool quote site the other day, all the sites I had visited before, allowed you to browse by author or topic but never by key words. That is right, key words. It rocks so much. Instead of having to Google thousands of sites, I just pop onto ThinkExist pick my key word and away I go.

I can see myself using a lot more quotes in my creating now, that I have this site in my toolbox.

So, today I share with you this quote that I picked up from the raw category.

“I remain unchanged, defiantly unchanged. Let the raw material stay rough and raw.”

John W. Warner

Tomorrow I am off to the Brisbane Paper Arts show with some friends. :)

roughly half

Published
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Helen
on March 16, 2005
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I was speaking with my degree convener today, who is also my lecturer/tutor for my favourite subject this semester and he said roughly half of the 35 students who start off in first year graduate. Well that narrows down the people competing for jobs.

A sales assistant in Myers today told me that my degree sounds exactly like what Australia needs more of. Yay!

the future

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Helen
on March 15, 2005
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We had a Graduate Program Fair at Uni today, as Andrea, Lianna and myself wandered round the stalls, finding out what we could about our possible futures, I also tried to score as much free stuff as I could, unfortunately it was the fiance companies that the were giving away the best stuff and they don’t want to talk to us :( - they had slinkies, bags, water bottles etc :(  I got a lip balm from the Department of Defence though :)

In order to understand the job complexities we are facing, you must know our degree. The Degree that we are completing is a Bachelor of Arts in Asian and International Studies. The program only takes in 35 students for first year each year but of course as you
can imagine nowhere near that number actually graduates with that
degree so we are a pretty small group of students.

All trying to get the handful of jobs that will let us use our degree otherwise we join the thousands of plain, boring, regular BA students looking at regular jobs as admin, research etc for the rest of the corporate world.

We discovered or perhaps really realised that we were going to be to on a tough road ahead. Even though we all started uni together only Andrea will be graduating this year, since I changed courses and then came back and Lianna was having fun so we were focused on finding out as much as we could for Andrea. Our possible employers from the fair are as follows. Department of Defence, The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Defence Signals Directorate and of course the Australian Defence Forces.

The person we spoke to from the Defence Signals Directorate was quite interesting as he was unable to tell us anything about languages or areas that they study, except to say that he had learnt four languages through the DSD. Would have been better if we could have learnt more about possible jobs etc, application of our degree but that is all confidential material, you must understand, of course.

The other four places that were recommended to us by the people we spoke to were The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS),Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the United Nations Graduate Program. Supposedly the information for the UN Grad program is on their website but I am yet to find it. I did how ever find a job for a Upholsterer - 2 Posts, TC-5, New York at the UN. mmm.

It is a long road ahead, at least the mentor program that we can undertake next year will be good, as many people get jobs though their mentor.

Go Tracy!

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Helen
on March 14, 2005
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A dear friend of mine Tracy Robinson, is making me incredibly proud, she has started selling her digital scrapbooking kits at Scrapbook Elements. Go check them out!

Tracy was one of the people who inspired me so much when I first moved away from Creative Memories, and still today continues to inspire me with her impeccable design and type skills. You can see her work here and here. I am proud to call her my friend now.

I am so happy for Tracy to be embarking on this new venture of not only Digital Scrapbooking but the making of kits as well.

Go Tracy!

knock, knock

Published
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Helen
on March 13, 2005
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Hi! to anyone reading this, it would be cool if you take the time to post a message, just say hi :) It is cool to see who is reading as well as seeing links to yout blogs.

Have fun :)

happy, content

Published
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Helen
on March 13, 2005
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I visited Barb today before going to Sean’s. Happy is the one word I could use to describe her. Utterly and Magically Happy. I think of Barb and I think Happy. Happy with her weight loss, with her re-found passion for scrapbooking, with her delight with blogging.

Really it’s just like a scrapbook page, just print off the blogging, whack it on a page and add some paper and zip-de-do, a scrapbook page. (Part of a conversation we had today).

2005march12windowshoot_2 We were talking in the lounge and Barb exclaimed about the light in my eyes. Out came the camera and we spent the next good while, taking photos, of each other and the kids.  This is one of my favourites that Barb took of me. It is just me, unbrushed hair, fake tooth, red cheeks, just me. Big thanks to Barb for a great midday and a Happy Day.

Content, that is what I am, Sean and I saw Million Dollar Baby tonight, so utterly not what we expected it to be like, I was thinking something like Girlfight with Michelle Rodriguez but more drama. Wow what a movie, the turn of events in Las Vegas was something neither of us were expecting, I spent the rest of the movie with tears parachuting down my cheeks.

I shared a glace with Sean at one part during the movie and just had an utter wave of contentedness take over my body. I am so content with where I am and with Sean.

Happy and Content.

"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little."  Marguerite Gardiner