L's!

Wow. Today I finally got my L's.



Hehe :) My license photo is such a derpy one lol. The woman in charge of me kept telling me to push my fringe up higher so they could see my eyebrows. I saw DB coincidentally at Castle Hill RTA when I was there filling out my form. The test was pretty easy :) I finished pretty wuickly (about 5 minutes?) and I was trying to get the attention of my helper but I was scared that if I did too big movements she would suspect me of cheating and then I wouldn't be able to do the test for another 6 weeks lol.

It was pretty fun studying for the test, now I feel so much more informed about road rules! Like all the rules about high beams lights and freeways etc which I was pretty clueless about before haha.

After the test my mum took me to get my hair cut and I treated her to lunch :)

It looks pretty much the same...a bit shorter (maybe 5cm?) and the ends are straighter

I wore my bright geometric skirt today, which I find nice and cheering-up for gloomy rainy days like today



When my mum and I got home today we saw this huge pile of cardboard boxes outside of my house.

My first thought was that formspring question that went like "What would you do if there was an unmarked cardboard box outside you house?". Upon closer inspection they were actually the Starlight Foundation products that Starlight had sent my sister (who is a volunteer for Starlight day in our area) to sell lol.

Phew! Lol Chandos Street sounds like Nandos and Churros. That must be where Starlight is based.



Writing this post after finishing the peter pan collar necklace-accessory type thing I just made :) Project time: 1 hour?

I will have a DIY tutorial for the collar up very soon!

Edit: Okay my sister just came home and said that the collar I made looks like a bib. *cry* Haha so I took out the pearly button from above and replaced it with a bigger gold one in the hopes that it won't be mistaken for a bib...in my defence my mum is a WEDDING dress maker and wedding dresses are made from WHITE fabric and therefore all her scraps of fabric are white...so yeah...

If I end up wearing this in public...please don't call me a baby LOL. I mean my 8 year old nephew already calls me a baby...

 

Love: Michelle

Curly fries reprise and steak!

When my mum aske me where I wanted to go for an early birthday dinner the only thing I could think of was I want curly fries so I chose Hogs Breath cafe lol. It's pretty nice, I really like the steak and the FRIES ofc LOL :) Morrocan salt curly fries @towers has caused a huge obsession in me.

Well when we left the house yesterday night, it was not this horrid rainy weather we're getting right now. It was SUNNY and BOILING and I was originally going to wear this cool cut-out shoulder red dress but it was too hot for that cos the sleeves are long so I decided to wear my staple white blouse (I wore this like all of summer lol) and my geometric skirt :)

My blouse! Tried to take a photo of my outfit myself. Fail lol. had to ask my sis.

And le skirt. I borrowed my sister's white wooden-heeled sandals. Quite a laid-back look for a birthday, usually I love dressing up for occasions like this but I cbb haha at that time cos of dat heat and fried brain cells due to english essay-ing all day. My mum and sister looked more dressed up, in a red and purple dress respectively :)

There was a car in the wall as decoration across from where I was sitting. Above it was a TV that played old hits like ABBA and it also played 'Summer Nights' from Grease!! :D What a birthday treat lol.

I don't like either mushrooms or garlic, but my sis ordered the garlic mushroom steak for us to share lol (and even traded the curly fries for mash. And the vegetables for SALAD. I hate salad.)

I shared with my mum instead haha

Yay avocado! And mm those curly fries.

The reason my mum, sis and I always share is that all 3 of us don't eat that much so when we have 2 dishes between 3 we can finish them all nicely (even so, I was SOO full when I got home).

At my cousin RN's great insistence, we ordered a bowl of some cheese-and-bacon curly fries. They don't look that appetising above cos I put a weird dark filter on the photo LOL but it was really nice :)

I had a whole plateful of them.

The bowl of cheese-and-bacon curly fries came on a paper doily. I LOVE DOILIES. I used to collect them (but I have this weird theory where I forbid myself from going out to purposely buy a pack of them cos that's cheating and I can only collect ones that have been given to me). Anyway I began to realise the only time I received doilies was when someone gave me food and it somehow was on a doily like a cake etc and collecting those are a bit weird cos they're kinda gross from the food like cake bits on them, oil, etc HAHA so I stopped but the love for doilies remains a constant :)

When I grow up, everything I make will be put on a doily and they will adorn my room and fabric doilies for my couches and doilies for my plates which will have cat faces on them...ah bliss :) LOL you can probably guess why I love Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter...

My cousin, sis and I shared a mars bar sundae for dessert :) Yummy! The waitress was kind and observant enough to give us three spoons without us having to ask :)

That was about it for my night last night :)

Hoping this rainy weather does not continue for my birthday :(

Love: Michelle



School Photos

Today was raining again! :( We had our school photos today, and luckily they were indoors rather than out on the oval like the last two years. In total my school photos were $71 !!

That's cos I bought the Captains and Prefects photo, the Captains photo, the whole grade photo, the muck-up photo, and the $31 basic photo pack with the split grade photos and the individual ones. Phew! That's a lot!

I seriously wished they ahd a pack with just the individual photots, not the split grade one. It's cos since this is our last year of high school, I want to get the small individual ones to give to my friends :) I still have the school photo that VL gave to me in my wallet last year. So cute!!!

Also since it's our last year of high school and we're never buying school photos ever again, I figured I would splurge :D I LOVE looking back at school photos esp ones from primary. It's such fun!

Today was also Muck-up photo day! Although we were quite rushed (expected to change super quickly before and after the photo adn return immediately to class) and the weather was disappointing (I remember last year's muck up was SWELTERING) it was still great fun to dress up :D I saw so many amazing outfits people must have put a lot of time and effort into.

I love this photo and RH and me :) Repping that LAWNDALE HIGH YEAH

Btw in case you can't tell, we are cheerleaders from the show 'Daria'.



BT and CJ came as Daria and Jane Lane respectively. I love this photo of them (hehe I took it :D)

                                                                     Sah cool guys!

In this photo BT and I tried to get into character.

She's doing a good job at being cynical and anti-social and Daria-like and I was trying to curl my hair and look vacant lol



AM went as Totoro!! Awesome!

I also liked the Tetris people! Soo cool!



Anyway those are some of the photos I liked that I took today :) Next post will be a DIY on how I made the Daria cheerleader costumes for RH and me :D

Love: Michelle

P.S. Gave my dog one of the pig ears :D

Prefect Video and a Chance Encounter

Hello! Today was a rainy day but our filming went ahead-we even did a co-ordinated dance in the rain! Woo so proud of Prefects '12, we make a great team and today was great fun :) Still got all those songs stuck in my head. Can't wait to spend 2012 with you all!

As fellow blogger HappyApple said, there's a surprise waiting at school. Actually it's not a surprise any more cos DD put up a pic on facebook earlier this morning, if you haven't seen it yet here it is...

Yup the school's purple. I kept changing my mind throughout the day about my opinion about it (and cos we were at school from 9-4ish I had a lot of opportunity to see it and think about it). Currently, I think it's nice. This is subject to change and I may decide randomly again later that it looks horrible and clashes with the green (which it kinda does)

I'll leave you guys to formulate your own opinions about it when school resumes on Monday. I think we'll all grow to like it rather. It's kinda endearing.

Ooh we also saw the new Year 12 study room today!! It's nice (kinda looks like the exam centre but much smaller ofc) and has a freezer, fridge, microwave, the works :D When we all saw the freezer we were like OMG ICE-CREAM IN SUMMER!! Haha not like it's been that hot lately for copious amounts of iced goods but still.

Ooh we were also the first people eevr to use the microwave! We used it to reheat a double cheeseburger :D VB, who can drive, drove to Maccas and got us all lunch (20 double cheeseburgers, a couple happymeals etc) and we were all sick of cheeseburgers after. HH ate 3 of them. We had to try and force people to take them home.

After all that filming a couple of us went to towers, some (like BL and VS to buy their muck-up stuff, others like GZ to study) and I went cos I was meeting my mum there :) She bought me some clothes:

-some high-waisted blue shorts with a belt
-some khaki skinny pants with gold zippers (lol khaki will forever remind me of AM)

Anyway as I was walking in Castle Mall with my mum, I had a CHANCE ENCOUNTER:

Random Woman looks excited and starts waving at me (will call her RW)
RW: Hi!!
Me: *waves back to be polite* Hi?
RW: Do you remember me?
Me: Sorry I don't think I do
RW: One time last year it was raining and we were standing at the traffic lights about to cross the street to the bus station and you shielded me with your umbrella!
Me: OH!!!

I remembered everything after that :) We were both at the traffic lights outside Castle Mall about to walk to the Bus Shelter place and it was raining pretty hard and I had an umbrella and she didn't so I moved closer and shielded her from the rain and when we got to bus shelter whilst waiting for our bus we had a lovely conversation together :)

Fancy her remembering!! I mean that happened over 2 months ago! I didn't even recognise her~

Me and the woman then had a lovely conversation about the wet weather Sydney has been having, then we had to depart. Such a lovely coincidence though, if I ever see her again I will ask for her name. Just goes to show how, although you may deem actions you have done as hardly significant or easily forgotten, they may have a greater impact on others than you think :D

I was so smiley and happy after that encounter. I encourage you all to talk to strangers more! I find that public transport/public transport waiting places eg stops and staions are ideal to strike up conversations. Stop thinking about the hustle or bustle of your life, put that phone/ipod/earphones away and get conversating (probably a made-up word lol)! Who knows maybe one day you'll meet them again randomly, and hey if you guys even become close friends you have a killer how-we-met story :P

Love: Michelle

P.S. Also after talking to RW, I remembered that I left my umbrella at school. Hoping it's still there on Monday! ><

Happy Australia Day!

Happy Australia Day readers! Shame about the rainy weather (although outside looking more and more sunny now compared to the deluge yesterday and this morning) or else I would have walked my dog down to the park and maybe had a bbq :D

Yesterday I met up with VS, who has been in India for the past 5 WEEKS! Such a long holiday! So glad we could meeet and chat, I've missed her hehe :)

I thought I was running late (and we agreed to meet at 10) and I was at the bus stop at 9:50am and texted her to tell her I might be a little late-ish then LOL she called me and started rambling and I couldn't tell what she was saying and I finally was able to decepher that my text had woken her up and she'd slept through her alarm. Poor girl, I don't blame her she's still all tired from her holiday :)

I had a peek around the Camera Shop in Towers to see what they sold and walked around for a bit looking for hair pins :) Recently I've also been liking hair pins and clasps. My sister bought me some the other day when she went thrift shopping :D

Anyway VS and I decided to brunch at The Great Bagel and Coffee Company :) The bagels are great but I didn't try the coffee so I can't confirm that one haha

They give you really big knives to cut your bagels witha nd no forks. We also got curly fries with morrocan salt :) SO YUMMY reminds me of that time BT :D

The bagels were pretty small-ish but really filling and we could hardly finish the cakes I had brought with me for dessert. OH YEAH forgot to say 2 days ago one of family friend's came over for dinner and brought with him a whole box and really nice cakes :D

This one was my favourite:

Still haven't eaten this one yet, I brought it yesterday for someone at the library but since it was raining they couldn't make it ><

Okay I was telling KB about this on facebook but funny story- it was raining SO HARD

Okay photo does not do justice to deluge outside; our shoes were soaked and when cars esp TRUCKS drove past we got sprayed with water all over lol

So anyway me and VS decided to walk down to the library and we only had one umbrella (mine) then we got there and we were soaked and tried to dry off in the bathroom

Trying to dry our shoes....

Then we decided to sit on one of those couches and read a girflfriend mag whilst waiting for the rain to subside (it didn't) and there was this RealGirl story about being addicted to eating soap and I was like to VS "Hey remember in year 5 camp I ate some handwash?" [truestory] and she was like WHAT EWWWWW no wonder I thought you were weird in Year 5!!! Me: "You thought I was weird? :( " VS: YOU ATE HANDWASH who wouldn't?????

HAHA to clarify it's cos it smelled like fruit and also okay I was pretty weird LOL but hey it was one time! Haha now I sound like that girl from Mean Girls and someone will put a pic of me in the burn book and be like "Michelle ate handwash" and distribute photocopies of it in corridors and I'll pick it up and be like "Hey that was like one time!!!"

Lol if anyone gets what scene I'm talking about HI-5! It's the 'Made out with a hot dog' one btw haha

Anyway VS had to go and catch her bus and since she didn't have an umbrella I decided to walk her to the bus stop but before we left the library she was like Where's my wallet?? Then I realised Where's my umbrella???

So we tried looking in various places and even asked the guy at the front desk but he said he couldn't find them then I went back to the place we first looked and heypresto they were there HAHA so we walked off to towers. Only when we got to towers did we realise...WE FORGOT TO BORROW OUR BOOKS!! (I had reccommended VS some ItGirl books haha)

So we decided to trek BACK to the library (keep in mind it's still POURING OUT THERE throughout all this) and went to borrow our books. The self-borrow place then told VS she had an unpaid fine on her library card so we went BACK to the counter with the counter guy that definitely knew us by now HAHA and paid the fine, then borrowed the books.

THEN we walked back to towers and went to Coles to buy Peppermint Tea :D After that we walked to the bus stop, waited together for her bus THEN I walked back to the library. Phew! That's a lot of trips to and from haha and I got soakeddddd so I had to go back to the bathroom and use the hairdryer (it didn't work). The library too is FREEZING with the air-con on full blast and I was only wearing a strapless dressa nd a denim jacket so I was soo cold haha and I told my mum to bring stockings and new non-wet shoes when she came to pick me up.

Love: Michelle

P.S. Can't wait to film the Prefect Vid tomorrow!! Hoping it doesn't rain! SS, RC and VB are ah-mazing (they recorded the audio part yesterday) :D Also, I should get started on sewing me and RH's muck-up costumes ><