I AM STRESSED

Hi guys - no news, I have been SO busy with school it's not funny. Tomorrow is my BIRTHDAY so I am taking the day off and heading to my brothers place in wellington, Stella is coming down too. Hopefully it will relax me and prepare me for the next 3 weeks, then it is semester break for 2 weeks :D ALTHOUGH i have a huge assignment to be done in that time. Hmmmm.... Last Semester at Uni, time for some fails??

xx

McUpdate

Hey everyone!

Just a quick blurb today. I have had a nice few days off - Saturday to Wednesday at my parents house visiting my cousin Anna from Australia who was staying at my Granmas. My Grandmother then fainted, and spent 3 nights in hospital - drama drama drama - was quite scary because it happened when Anna and I were in town with her, so I called the ambulance and got everything sorted out. Anyway, then Thursday I spent all day in the lab, before Friday I had my whole family + Anna (who is family) over for lunch at my house. Then we went and got professional photographs taken of our beautiful selves... yeah...

Then i have just spent the weekend chilling out, watching movies, getting ready for school tomorrow. Tomorrow is the start of a VERY busy semester which i am quite worried about, but i am sure i will be alright! have tightly scheduled in my class hours and I don't seem to have much room for exercising - which doesn't fit too well with my new "lose weight" plan. Which isn't so new after all, I am just trying to make it work... Anyway, we shall see.

So a friend and I are having new challenges each week - the following is NO TAKEAWAYS. Hmmmmm.....

Exciting week though, new classes, and on Saturday is the girls day out in Auckland - me, mum, jenna, her mum, her god mother, all going to Auckland to shop and then go to Cinderella on Ice !! Exciting! Then only the following weekend is Sarah's 21st, and then one more week until i fly to Wellington for my 22nd Birthday! HOORAH. Let's hope I have zero assignments then. I doubt it.

Oh I also made one and a half scarves - crochet - great to be back in to it :-)

Ok, gotta go, it's almost 10pm - my new bedtime. Hahaha

Right...

Blog myself. About.

Nikki Whyte has graciously (and unknowingly) provided me with a way to blog today without actually being inventive at all. Greato, my creativeness is severely lacking today - perhaps I coughed it all out with the cold I've had for the last 9 days and counting!

The rules:

1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning

2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.

3. At the end of the post, the player tags 5 people and posts their name, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

What was I doing 10 years ago?

Although Nikki was starting High School, I was starting Form 1 - my last year at Lake Rotoma Primary School. There is no website for that school, because it is a tiny 3-classroom place in the middle of nowhere. I love it. 1998 was the year I won Dux (hurray!!), and I had my hair down to my bum. I was right in the middle of the chubby phase (although I seem to have grown back into that...) and it was my second year of being on the hockey team. Isabella Felber was my best friend at school, although that lessened when she started dating my brother ... Zoe Matthews was my other best friend, and I hear she caught up with my Wellington family a few weeks ago in fine alcoholic style. 1998 was also right in the middle of my 5 year love obsession with Pip Skudder. Poor boy.

Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:

Pasta with cheese sauce! and bacon in it! or chicken! hurray! pasta! ... chocolate primo, dairy milk chocolate, the raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake my flatmate Rach makes, the Mandarin cake my flatmate Jacki makes... I love my flat.

Five snacks I enjoy in the real world:

Unlike Nikki, I am phased with putting on weight, so I don't eat the above. However, I have a very low level of self-control, and therefore I do eat all of the above whenever it is offered to me. In the case of pasta, that is several times a week. five other snacks i like that are healthier are bagels, grapes, vanilla yoghurt, feijoas, raw broccoli and beans. Mmmmm...

Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1 - Pay off my Student Loan and study full time next year in Melbourne instead of part time, and pay off my brothers and his fiancees loans too. and maybe Nikki's. Nah, she's old enough to pay it herself.

2 - Move to France, get a canal boat, and just absorb the culture.

3 - Finance one of my many helpful ideas into a fully-fledged engineering project that will eventually help the world in some biodegradable/environmental/green way.

4 - Get laser eye surgery, contact lenses are a pain

5 - Pay some trainer to help me lose weight and buy a whole new wardrobe

Five jobs that I have had:

- Teaching children piano/keyboard at primary schools in the Waikato - yesterday was my last day! I had some really great kids, but not so keen to be a teacher...

- Dressing up as an animal (buzzy bee, fluffy bunny) in the middle of Rotorua City and asking people to donate to SAFE for animals.

- Being the Student Engineer for the BioMaterials Engineering Research Unit of Scion in Rotorua, which involved extruding, injection moulding, and testing - working big machines whilst wearing a white lab coat and safety glasses. Hoorah.

- Being the Business Development Unit Assistant at Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua. They had a killer hot chocolate machine.

- Being a Promo girl for Shell, the petrol station. This involved standing outside supermarkets wearing red and yellow t-shirts and handing out awesome voucher pockets. Yay!

Three of my habits:

Taking long showers, biting my nails, and being late. Everywhere.

Five places I have lived:

- Manurewa in South Auckland

- Lake Rotoma

- Kawaha Point in Rotorua

- Cambridge

- Ohakune

Five things to do today:

- tidy my room - this will take most of the day.

- do my washing

- print a whole lot of my CV so I can ask people to give me money for next year

- decide what's for dinner

- cook dinner. whatever it is.

Five people I want to get to know more about:

- my best friend Stella; she is a box of surprises

- my brothers fiancee Jute; we do not spend enough time together missy :D

- the hot guy that was in my exam the other day

- all the rich CEO's... I want to know how they have done it, so I can replicate it!

- anyone who has an interesting story to tell (and I bet Britney does)

The End! That was super fun. It wasted a lot of my time. Goodo.

I tag DebbieAwesome, Nappy, Jacki, and whoever else feels like it.

Good Day Kind Sir.