A Belated Happy New Year

Just had a quiet nye this time. I think it's one of my first NYEs without attending some sort of celebratory party, in a long time. But it was special in its own way. I fell asleep not long after midnight struck, and woke again at 3 or 4am. We then made potato gems, which I definitely ate too many of.




I redyed my hair after Christmas! This is how it should look, too bad the red pigment fades quickly.

My resolutions for 2013:

• cut down on fast food, I've been eating it at least once every second day, and it's definitely taking a toll on my overall well being, it's not even weight gain that's my main concern, the lack of nutrition is making me feel like crap
• kick some GAMSAT ass (I wish..)
• study this year like never before, this is my final and most important year in deciding in whether I can get into post graduate study
• try to not let insignificant things get me down (this one will be difficult)
• do some form of exercise regularly, even if it's just going for walks
• ...and so many more.

Since I didn't include this is my last post, for Christmas I received:

• a Gucci bracelet from Daniel (spoilt aren't I?)
• DKNY Sweet Delicious perfume from Michael
• money from my parents
• Urban Decay Naked palette from Sophie (she just got back from exchange in Canada)
• and Sylvia sent me a cute card (plus nail stickers) all the way from London, I miss her so much!

I have a huge back log of days I need to post about so bear with me.

Love Lisa.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Christmas Readers!

I had my final shift at work yesterday and of course I got stuck with the 9am - 6pm (i.e. open - close) shift. I'm not going to go into details on how terribly sick I felt yesterday morning, but it was bad, really bad and involving a near miss on public transport. But my day got better and time flew by, it barely felt like a 9 hour shift.

I'm somewhat sad that this job ends now. Before I began working there I already started regretting applying and accepting the offer for a job. The idea of having to work with not even a single person that I knew scared me half to death. And my first few shifts weren't the best, nor were the shifts I worked while having some sort of bacterial cold (that I was twice inflicted with in the space of 3 weeks). But all in all I'm glad I went out of my comfort zone. I am inherently shy, one on one with most people I can handle but put me in a group of people I don't know well and I probably won't even speak a word.

Honestly, I think that the past month and a half has really made me more confident in my socialising abilities. Makes me realise that I can actually function on my own. I know that probably sounds sad since I'm already 20 years of age. I always thought I would just grow out of my shyness/awkwardness, pretty stupid of me hey? Things don't change unless you're pro-active about going about making a change.



Love Lisa.

What I Get For Trying To Be Helpful

So on Tuesday I became incredibly ill but still worked a 9 hour shift, hence why I probably woke up Wednesday morning feeling like I couldn't even move. As I'm not stranger to falling ill (I was a somewhat sickly child), I knew that I would feel terrible for 2-3 days and then begin to recover.
So I knew I wouldn't be well enough for my Thursday shift, so I called in Wednesday, thinking that I was doing them a favour by giving them a whole day to find someone to replace my shift.
Instead I discover that the manager is probably annoyed that I cancelled, probably didn't even believe I was really truly ill. And I find that my shift today' has been taken over by someone else. And I'm 90% recovered, so I could have easily worked today, and hello Sunday pay rates...I wouldn't have missed this shift even if I was still feeling horrible. Boo.

I'll get over it..I suppose :(

Love Lisa.

Exams & New Job

Hello dear readers,

I'm sure most of you have forgotten my existence, but I do not blame you. It's almost been a month since I last posted.

I finished exams Monday and had my first shift Tuesday. Wednesday I had to pick up mum in the afternoon and went to Chadstone VIP shopping night with Daniel, then Thursday I had a dentist's appointment and caught up with Tracey, Jenny and Catherine, which was nice because I haven't seen any of them in much too long! Friday was mum's birthday, I spent the majority of the afternoon buying hayfever tablets and running around Camberwell looking for decent flowers, around 6pm we went to Costco and after that had dinner at West Lake restaurant in Chinatown, the food was okay. Then I had my second shift today and saw Daniel afterwards.

I can't remember the last time I actually left the house 6 days in a row, make it 7 since I have work tomorrow as well. And I'm physically not used to doing this much at all, I'm so drained right now. Clearly I've been leading a very lazy life, aside from studying until my brain melts. This has been my first proper job since I worked at Brumby's bakery (in 2009), all my other 'jobs' have just been a few days or a week long doing odd jobs and not actually having a contract with the company.

For all of you who work, study and manage to have a social life, I hope to one day have that kind of energy.

Exams went okay, I had only 3 in total, anatomy, microbes and physiology/pharmacology, within a period of 4 days, so that wasn't the best. Anatomy and physiology/pharmacology went alright, I'm quite unsure of how well I did on microbes though. All I know is, 3 weeks of pure studying somehow ended up being a curse rather than a blessing. I think I just hit a wall after the first week and it took me time to figure out a proper studying method. Oh well, I'm just glad it's over.

Oh yes, and as for where I'm working, the picture below pretty much sums it up.

 

So far it's been a pretty good , my first shift was very quiet, and today's shift was busy but bearable, I hope it's not too crazy tomorrow.

Love Lisa.

eBay & Logos

[If you don't want to read me rant about logos for a whole post, please move along]

I've used eBay for longer than I care to remember, I just checked my accoutn and it was set up in 2008, but that's when I started selling things, before that I used my brother's account (and his paypal account, with his consent of course) to purchase things. So I can truthfully say, I've always enjoyed online shopping.

I do have a love hate relationship with eBay, it's so convenient, yet such a horrible, money hungry company. I wish I could simply renounce eBay but still I've found far too many bargains to be jumping off the band wagon any time soon.

And of course eBay has become a household name, people across the world know of it and have used it at least once in their lives, even if just to browse. So I'm sure the logo is familiar to many:



But horror upon horrors, when I logged on a few days ago and it had changed to this:


No..no NOO. Might be strange that I care but..it really does just take the ebay out of ebay. Sure the colours and misalignment of letters in the original logo was pretty old school, but the new logo just makes it look like a wannabe Google logo, and a bad one at that. Even the colours have been muted since we of the 21st century seem to no longer use bright reds and bold blues.

Somehow I'm upset by eBay succumbing to the pressure to modernise their logo. Oh well, I suppose the next generation will know no different and this is yet another change that's reiterating that I really am getting older. Conversely, I like the new Microsoft logo, I think it works quite well.



Can't quite say the same for the newest Windows logo:


Less really is not always more. And I'm loving the first Windows logo, it reminds me of the font that the title a fantasy novel would be in (or Wikipedia, for that matter).

Love Lisa.

PS. No copyright infringement intended. If this can be counted as that? :/

Virgin Cocktails

I've always loved Lipton Ice Tea and I didn't doubt that I would like the new limited release flavours sent from Soup. Mojito took some time to get used to, initially the mint flavour was off putting but I grew to like it. Pina colada and daiquiri are both so good! And Lipton always manages to come up with enticing packaging.

Available in:

1.25L plastic bottles, perfect for sharing.



325mL smaller bottles glass bottles, which can be a bit unnecessarily heavy to carry around but there is something about glass bottles that I like better than plastic ones.



Which one do you like most? ;D

Love Lisa.

Spring!

Good evening!

Okay so I'm a bit behind, it has been Spring for over a month now. But today it was a maximum temperature of 31 degrees! That's not all too common for Spring but any bets from tomorrow onwards it will be terrible rainy weather. Which always follows an irregularly hot day.

So my mid semester break flew by,and I was back at uni this week. Unfortunately, my break was also soured by the fact that I had a test this Wednesday. So more than half my break was spent trying to study and I thought since I had a whole 2 weeks, I could be very thorough with my revision. I was mistaken, when it came to the weekend before the test I was as stressed as ever and in fact, I seemed to be more behind than I had ever been trying to study for a test. Funny how that happens.

I suppose it went okay in the end, but there were at least 4 multiple choice questions, that I actually had zero idea which of the 4 options was right or wrong. And usually through elimination I can get down to the 2 possible answers, and I have a 50/50 chance of getting it right (but more often than not I get it wrong in that situation..why oh why)

I don't think I've blogged about any of my anatomy pracs thus far. I had my first one more than a month ago. And it wasn't as bad as I expected. We didn't lok at full cadavers, just sections of the body. Which made it a lot easier for me to deal with. But still I really felt distressed when I could see the faces of any cadavers. For example when the head was still attached to the thorax. I'm just not a person who deals with the idea of death very well. But I do find anatomy pracs a great learning experience. Must easier to see how everything functions and fits together than in a 2D image.

My exam timetable was also released during my break and for the first time since I started uni, I didn't have an exam in the first week! Shock horror. You might think that's a good thing, I get a whole week extra to study right? But, on the contrary, I need the pressure of knowing my exam is imminent to push me to study to my full potential. So more likely than not, SWOT Vac will not be utilised as effectively as I want. I'm really trying to remember how I studied in Year 12, where was my motivation for getting up at 7am on days that I didn't have school and studying for a good 10-12 hours in a day.

Well this turned out to be a boring post, I apologise. I don't do much else besides study these days. Haven't been able to find the balance yet over 2 years. But I suppose I don't really mind too much. As long as I get to spend time with Daniel, see some friends during uni. See school friends during the holidays.

Also just as a side note. My nails for maybe the past 3 months have not been cooperating with me. It started when I was standing on my chair/desk to take a birds eye view photo, when I inadvertently slipped off my desk and broke two nails! Also suffered bruises to my shin and hand, which I did not discover until a day later. So ever since those two nails broke, when they were almost grown to a normal length, another one broke. And this cycle has repeated every few weeks :/ And I don't want to cut down my other ones fully so that they're all stubby since I practically haven't done that in 10 years.

Okay enough rambling. I think I have some photos off my dslr to upload :)

Love Lisa.