I went shopping with mum today: We both needed some necessities. It was good to see her willingly go out of the house - Prior to July, she’d be really reluctant to go out, even if it was for stuff that was of absolute necessity, other than the smokes and booze, of course. We spent three hours out and about, and she seemed quite happy to be dragged around the place. I was really quite impressed, to be honest. :) She’s doing a lot better, she’s a lot calmer and happier, and isn’t focussing on the little unimportant things.

It’s going to be a pretty busy week, to be honest. My cousin, Michala, is driving up for a visit tomorrow and is staying for a couple of days, and we’ve got lots of plans. We’ll be going out with a bunch of my friends from high school on Thursday evening. We’ve got some family friends coming over for a visit tomorrow evening, and some more on Saturday before we fly off, and then at 9pm on Saturday we leave for Dubai. So many things to do! Probably a good thing, time would just drag on otherwise.

I’ll leave you with some photos that I took around my garden yesterday.

This is a little bit of a good-bye to the internet, and my wonderful friends online, I suppose. As mentioned way too many times, I’m going on a pretty big vacation. Around three months, to be exact. I’ll be away from Sydney for two months as of November 22nd, and can’t guarantee very much internet connection.

I just want to let everyone know how much I’ll miss them. Particularly Rosey, who I’ve become very, very close to over the past few weeks. I’m going to miss her terribly and I can only hope that we’re still as close as we are now when I get back to Sydney.

To my lulzy bitches, Chrissy (and Mike), Elyse and Chenoa, Hugs a million to you guys. I hope you can survive without my lulz for a few months, but you’re all awesome so I know you’ll figure it out.

To my girls (… And Mike) over at SexMB, stay safe, and keep posting! I’m sorry I’ve not been around to post much as of lately, Uni’s been terrible and i’ve been far too busy organising leaving NZ.

To them, and the rest of my readers, I hope you have an AMAZING Christmas and New Years. I’ll try and blog every time I have internet access, including posting some photos to my flickr. It’s not good bye just yet, but just is just in case I can’t blog between now and next Saturday, take off time.

Love you all!

PS: Drop me a line sometime: SewwyChristine AT Gmail.com

Edit: I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT KATY Dude, I hardcore suck! I love Katy so much and am REALLY looking forward to meeting her in December. It’s going to be awesome!

I’ve found that I manage to make friends a lot easier online than off. I guess I just get quite shy and self conscious when physically faced with people. Talking to people online allows me to be myself whilst avoiding the social situation that somewhat freaks me out. I’ve made some wonderful friends online, some of them I know better than people I know in real life. I love them dearly and they are kind of like family to me. Distance doesn’t matter, neither does the fact we’re all sitting behind keyboards. The emotions people feel are still real.

So, I guess I’d just like to say to all my friends out there, online and off, thanks. I’ve really needed you all this year, 2008 has been the most ridiculous year imaginable. Friends really do make things a lot easier, and always know how to make you smile when you need it. If you ever feel like i’m being too clingy, please let me know. I don’t mean it intentionally, I just want to keep the friends I do have … If that makes sense.

I’m rambling now, so I’ll move on…

In exactly a week, It will be my last evening in New Zealand until February next year. It’s really hitting me that yet again, it’s going to be three months, minimum, until I see James again. We haven’t spent this long apart since before I moved, so it’s really starting to get to me. I want to go on this trip so badly but the thought of leaving him for so long is killing me a little a lot. It’s weird, these conflicting feelings make things really confusing. I’m so excited for this holiday, but I feel bad for being so excited when I remember that I’ll be away from James for months on end.. So confusing.

Still, I am looking forward to it. It’s exactly a month until I meet Katy whilst in London! Although, the more she keeps telling me about the weather, the more I want to skip London all together. I’ve never been anywhere that cold before, so it’s certainly going to be quite a shock for me. Especially because we’ll be going from Cairo to London … hah!

I’m getting pretty stressed out. Between now and next Friday, I have so much stuff to do, including sit two exams. As well as the exams (and the study I need to do for it) I need to clean the apartment top to toe, clean out the fridge, do several loads of washing, start packing, organise autopayments of my Vodafone bill, temporarily cancel the internet… There’s more, but I totally can’t think of them right now. Holidays shouldn’t be this stressful! I’ll need a holiday from the holiday! I do have something super to look forward to next Saturday, though! Rosey has sent me a surprise package full of what she claims to be stuff from Target, and has sent it to my address in Sydney. I have suspicions that it’s a bomb. Or a sex toy of some kind. Here’s hoping my parents don’t open it.

Sorry for not blogging anything decent for a while, I’ve been so caught up with my exams. My first two exams went really well, especially because I wasn’t expecting to do very well in either of them. We’ll see how the next two go, I’ve got plenty of time to study for them, provided I don’t freak out too much about the amount of crap I have to do first.

Will blog soon, I promise!

PS: I edited my Sarah page!

Supposedly, it’s time for a change.

This week’s Friday Failure is more of a serious failure. It has to do with Prop 8, a proposition to ban gay marriage in California. Arizona and Florida also had similar propositions, all of which passed.

They passed. In a time where America is supposedly advocating for change. Advocating for equality. And 3 separate propositions all aiming to ban marriage between homosexual marriage passed?! I cannot express how disappointed I am at people for being so closed minded.

To the citizens of California, Arizona and Florida who voted YES on Prop 8, you are this weeks Friday Failure. It’s a shame you can’t be more open minded.

Rosey: whats your middle name?
Sewwychristine: … Rosey
Sewwychristine: are you seriously asking me this question?
Rosey: Yes
Sewwychristine: … …
Sewwychristine: /seriously/
Rosey: LOL
Rosey: Christine
Rosey: haha
Sewwychristine: LOL
Rosey: I am blonde
Rosey: I was like … YES, SERIOUSLY
Rosey: then im like wait…

You, Rosey, are this week’s fail.
PS: Notice my screenname? ;)

Today’s Friday Failure was brought to you by my younger brother, Chris.

Chris says: okay so
Chris says: like
Chris says: never let me
Chris says: order a fucking
Chris says: pizza
Chris says: called hot and spicy ever again
Chris says: it had halapeno peppers! >:(

You, Chris, are this weeks Failure.
(For the record, it’s jalapeno ;))

I forsee that Rosey’s next born child shall be named…

SHANAYNAY LAQUISHA LAFONDA ROSEY.

The importance of species recognition: Failure to recognise one’s own species can lead to infertile hybrids.

UR DOIN IT RONG

James finally salvaged my hard drive from my old PC and I found a lot of photos which were outtakes from the photo shoot I did with my cousin for my Body of Work. The first two were taken with a waterproof disposable.

Go and enter her Competition! Fancy dishtowels sure beat tacky supermarket bought ones!