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Well, I'm back in Palmy now, and was able to catch a couple hours in Bella's bed (after a hefty make-out session with my darlin). I did sleep on the bus down, but of course I kept being woken up... plus the driver was speeding a lot, I think to make up for the delays loading and unloading, and that made the ride bumpier. At least I had two seats all to myself, though.

Was so good to see him this morning. Would have been nice if he could have been picking me up to take me straight home, but, oh well. We can wait a little longer. He can call me anytime he likes now. :D

Going to be interesting working until closing again. People are going to be super pissed they can't get their last minute booze from the supermarket. I wonder how many drunks we'll get? I fair few I should imagine. That's gonna suck.

Working 'til closing again tomorrow night. Weird to think of the place closing, 'cause, really, we could be a 24/7 operation, but they'd probably struggle for people willing to work those public holiday times unless they offered more than time and a half and day in lieu. I still don't understand closing New Year's night, though. Mind you, I don't understand the day after New Year's being a public holiday. Ah well, who'm I to question when it's going to fatten my paycheck?

James Blunt stuck in my head.

Fin.

Augh! As if I don't have enough issues with hayfever, our darling cat Pearl had to have a sudden attack of cuddly cuteness of doom...and now I'm fucking covered in cat fur that insists on rising up to tickle my nose as if it weren't already being fucked with. Gah. I mean, I love that cat, she's an absolute darling, and it was probably just a thank-you for the fish I shared with her at dinner, but still. Not impressed.

Dinner, being Thursday night, was supposed to be cooked by me. But, well, Dad and I got held up at work--Jack and Caleb had gone up to Auckland to get more tree stands, and they got held up with a flat tire on their way back. So we were around 'til about 7 since Alice wouldn't really be able to handle any customers come to pick trees today. But she nicely shouted us the $$ to buy fish'n'chips for dinner, since otherwise it would have been very late before dinner got cooked. I did, in fact, cook a quiche, which I haven't done since I was, like, twelve... and we'll eat it for dinner tomorrow.

Last Tuesday I spent the night at Ange's. It was fun. We had dinner, and pigged out on junk food, and watched Stargate. 'Cause I'm le geek. And then yesterday she kindly shouted me and Jas'n frappacino whatsits at McCafe and we sat and talked. And we helped her spend more money on food. I went home for a while,a nd then came back in the evening to share dessert and watch some Star Trek Borg episodes and Shaun of the Dead. And then she kicked me and Jas'n out so she could go and have (loud) sex with Damian. *snerk*

I took the Seduction Quiz, but before I could post my results the computer died on me. Again. Fucker. Gah. So now I'm retaking it to get the proper result again. I was very amused with it.


I need to get laid.

Fin.

<td align="center" style="background: #000000; color: #FFFFFF;">Xanthia's Random Movie Quote:

'Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she had to walk into mine.'

- Rick, Casablanca

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com</td>

1. Set iPod/iTunes/your media player to random.
2. Hit play.
3. Write down the titles and artists of the first five songs that play.
4. Explain what these songs remind you of and why.
5. Tag at will.

( My songs )

Go tag yourself.

Spent the night at pandoras_evil_t. Had fun. Possibly worried Dad. But oh well. More later, perhaps.

Fin.

It's Sunday. Which is a hard concept to follow.
See, I got up at about ten or something, and spent the entire day yesterday lying on Rhianna's bed in my pajamas (she was in hers too) and we simply lay there and played the Sims. Okay, sure, got up (but not dressed) to go stop by Ali's for my book before she left, and ran out at one point to feed the animals, or made runs to the kitchen to feed ourselves... and did dishes... but mostly it was playing the Sims. Because we have Ronin Warrior skins.
The night before we'd watched Pirates of the Caribbean, but hadn't stayed up too late as Rhi didn't think she could make it through Interview with The Vampire. So, after we finished building our RW mansion we sat down to watch Interview. Then we watched Shanghai Knights, Ella Enchanted (OMG WESTLEY!), the Italian Job, and Shrek. Yes, we pulled an all-nighter.
It's now nearly nine, I'm still up, awake, and all that. Playing about on the comp and trying to persuade it that the wireless connection in this room is just FINE thankyouverymuch. In desperate need of a shower. Rhi is sleeping on the couch. Having a 'nap.' I have no intentions of going to bed until the sun hath set. We'll see how long that lasts. Until I get bored I suppose. No one is online. I don't have a bunch of emails, comments, and journal entries to wade through (if only because I'm ignoring the ones that aren't really that great/important/entertaining). Which isn't many.
Not hungry... not really thirsty.... I could take a shower... I don't know. I'll think of something. Maybe. :D
*giggles* Heard some tires squeal out on the road last night or the night before. I rushed out of the bathroom (I'd been washing my hands at that point) and asked Rhi if she heard it. "You were in the bathroom. And you came out." *snickers* We started quoting Dane all over again. First about hearing the squealing tires and hoping there'll be a smash shortly after... "I was in the kitchen, and I was washing a dish when I heard it. So I came out. Shoes? No, no, fuck shoes. *laugh obnoxiously* Listen to this guy... shoes..."
"OH YEAH!"
"Oh no. Naughty, naught Kool-Aid."
"Oh yeah?"
"No. No."
"Oh, yeah?"
"No."
If you know, you know. If you don't, I'm sorry.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
_xanthia goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Lady Kayura.
diea gives you 3 dark blue pineapple-flavoured gummies.
enders_lament tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!
ishimish tricks you! You get a piece of string.
macjinx tricks you! You get a broken balloon.
peaseblossom03 tricks you! You get a button.
shiseiji tricks you! You get a dead frog.
tasar_nualda gives you 12 brown raspberry-flavoured wafers.
thegreenchicken gives you 6 mauve raspberry-flavoured gummy fruits.
wytch_sansmerci gives you 2 dark blue watermelon-flavoured gumdrops.
yohoboho tricks you! You lose 4 pieces of candy!
_xanthia ends up with 17 pieces of candy, a piece of string, a broken balloon, a button, and a dead frog.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

You guys are mean. But I deserved the button.

Fin.

Naturally, with the movies my brother made me, he gave me a couple CDs. One is the "Take a Break" album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. *giggles* There's nothing like hearing a guy singing a punk version of Celine Dion's "Natural Woman." Among other things. Very funny.
Watched the first two Harry Potter movies at Brit's last night. We were going to watch some of the movies that arrived from my brother, BUT her computers wouldn't read them. So we watched Harry Potter and giggled a lot. The surround sound made things amusing, too. That kept us up 'til just after two. Then we ended up lying in our beds talking for another three hours before we dropped off to sleep.
She brought me home and I was tempted to go back to bed but I was too awake. Basically I'm just going to stay up until I'm too tired. Then sleep as long as I can. Hopefully it will work. :D
I made this icon today...



Fin.

So, haven't really been around since Wednesday. Thursday I wasn't online because Rhi and Ali were crashing at my place. I introduced them to the Red Green show, which they had never seen before. And then we woke up to it raining in the morning. Mum was staying home sick, too.
Meh, we packed, and were off by noon or one. The rain had pretty much abated by the time we reached our campsite, which we were very lucky to get. Set up the tents, and then we went off to get some food and stuff. I feel asleep after all the food and warmth in the car. Wouldn't have woken up were it not for the car stopping.
So we explored a little, played some games, and made hamburgers. Ali nearly got her eyebrows singed off when the gast burner wouldn't start and then suddenly had a burst of flame. But hey, we ate... stayed up late... had chich chatter...
Saturday was off to the faire. Wheee! It wasn't nearly as cloudy and even got pretty warm. I did go in search of a bodice, but could find none reasonably (for me) priced. Instead I settled for this gorgeous skirt. Rhi got a belt for her new rapier. I got a cool tin with a set of dragon cards in it, and a pretty card for mum from the same place she got her rapier.
Walking around the faire we saw some cool sights. Xena, for instance. Plus about three pet dragons and three dragons by their lonesome. Got snarled at by some wild cat creature thing, and saw a chick in a skin tight tiger suit. Ran into Charles, bless him, and promised to check out one of his group's shows.
I ended up buying more things, like a titanium navel ring for mum, (encouraged Rhi to buy a glass bottle in a leather holder to carry lemonade in) a little belt knife with an even smaller twin, a green glass mug with some celtic design for mum, and some fish'n'chips.
We got pretty tired and sat down by the stage Charles and his friends would be perfoming at. Watched one show before theirs came on. They were a bunch of gypsies ("There goes the neighborhood!") so we got some song and dance and fortune telling... It was pretty cool, but we were done after that.
Came back, Rhi and I took a walk while Ali read... got tired out and had a nap. Went and bought some firewood that they took a while to deliver--which meant we got extra for free. But then we had a hell of a time getting a fire started due to lack of paper and kindling, so we had to get some of that delivered, too. But then it was a lot of fun.
Toasted hotdogs, and I was the only one not to burn her fingers transferring cooked dog onto bun. :D And then we had marshmallows. Didn't really care to make s'mores. I just liked setting my marshmallow on fire so it was melted inside and crispy outside. Joygasmically good. Of course some of us had to lose a marshmallow or ten to the fire because they look cool when they expand and bubble and expand some more before turning to ash.
Were getting some water to douse the fire when the park ranger lady told it was "quiet hour" which certainly helped put a damper on the whole thing. Meh. We were tired enough it wasn't so bad. Lots of sleep later, and then it was all packing up time.
Came home and my parents weren't there. Didn't know where they were, when they were going to be back, nothing. Turns out they went to the beach and they came home close to six. I got handed to paper which was mum's subtle way of saying look in the classifieds right this instant young lady. There's nothing this week. Le sigh.
Damn I really want some chocolate.

Fin.

( Blah )

So. It's been a while since I wrote. Tuesday of last week was working with Rhianna and Alicia, splitting and stacking firewood. That earned me $75, which surprised me. I didn't expect to be paid $10 an hour. Anyway, I'm still recovering from that event.
On Wednesday I didn't do much until I had my eye appointment. It was very short, compared to what I'm used to. But they say my eyesight has improved somewhat, which is what they expect at about my age. Meh, eventually I'll look into laser eye surgery to get rid of wearing glasses completely. After that I introduced mum to TCBY's and so we feasted on some ice cream.
Dawn arrived later that evening, and then came all the being a good host stuff. It was cool to hang out with her, but she certainly has become more odd as the years have passed. Apparently I had a hand in corrupting her, but then it went in turns I never would have expected. *shrugs* Also learned that she's been diagnosed with having type two bipolar disorder. Last week just happened to be when she started her new mood modifying drugs; be damned if I remember the name. It wasn't Lithium.
On Thursday she and I watched a few movies. She'd never seen the Scorpion King, so we watched that. I got a strong desire to watch a movie with Gary Oldman in it, so we watched Air Force One, which she also hadn't seen. (I <3 Gary Oldman) And then, because everyone should watch this movie at least once, we watched Ocean's Eleven. Made fun of her, because she's really good at making messes, and she sure covered about a third of the floor space in my room with her stuff.
I taught her how to play Double Solitaire, as well as Idiot Solitaire. It was no surprise I won the first few times, but it wasn't long before the amount of cards I won by was only one or two. The more we played, the more she was able to win so we evened out I guess. I just had to teach her Idiot Solitaire for whenever she was bored out of her mind.
Friday we dressed up all goth, with the dark lipstick and dark eye shadow. She was wishing she'd brought her white face paint, but I've never, never been into the liquid paper white face thing with the dark eyes and lips. But then, I'm already pale enough. She let me wear her shiny Trinity style trench coat while she wore her other one, and we took a few photos. I really wished I was the owner of the coat I wore... it fit me very well.
I went online and finally dloaded the Xvid codec so we could watch Equilibrium. (I only had DivX and not all my movies work with it) I had to tell her to sit down and pay attention a few times as the slowness of the movie fought with her ADHD. It was the promise of great action at the end, and that she needed to pay attention to understand the story that kept her watching. Needless to say, she was very satisfied with the ending. And then I went for something a little lighter... Ice Age, for example. I swear that movie gets better every time I watch it.
On Saturday she packed up her things, and we went to the mall before taking her home. Of course her first stop was Suncoast to check out all the anime stuff. Next we hit up Hot Topic in its temporary location. I had a look around but was very reluctant to spend money, although I did help Dawn spend hers. She'd got a pair of gauged earrings for herself, and some Mario magnets for her bf. But she was 70 cents short of getting another stamp on her frequent buyer's card. Well, I happened to be rummaging through the button container to see what funny little messages I could. And one of them, I happened to really like. So I threw that in so she could get the extra stamp.
At Dawn's home I was very surprised when Jean showed up. I haven't seen Jean in forever so we spent the time I was there catching up before mum was finally ready to leave. Because traffic had been really bad on the bridge towards home, we delayed going there by stopping at mum's friend Sylvia's for dinner. I talked a lot with Sylvia and her daughter Sarah about Harry Potter, the books and movie.
When we came home I learned Rhianna had stopped by, so I called to find out why--she'd been by to give me the money I earned. Well, instead we made arrangements for me to come over yesterday to hang out and all that. So in between doing laundry, we watched a Japanese movie (with subtitles of course) called Shall we Dance? And then we watched the first four episodes of Ronin Warriors. At Rhi's invitation, I called home to ask if I could stay the night. Then we went into town to drop of Shall We Dance at the movie rentals, to get some donuts, and to pick up my birthday present. We were going to go to the mall for that, except that we got there at 6 and that's when the mall closes. Instead we went to B&N and I got to pick out any book I wanted, so I grabbed Temple of the Winds.
Rhi has this idea that I need to find a quiet place where other people are, read the passage where Drefan gets his spine ripped out by his brother, laugh out loud like I didn't in the school library, then turn and read said passage aloud to a person next to me. *giggles*
She and I were going to play on the computers in her room, except that the computer I would have used was acting up. So I got to play on the laptop for a while as she tried to fix it, or at least figure out what was wrong. I think. Anyway, got a little bit of online time on before we went downstairs to watch movies. Because I haven't seen it since I saw it in theatres close to 10 years ago, we had to watch Beauty and the Beast. And because I hadn't seen it in an even longer time, we also watched Thumbalina. By the time it was over it was sometime after two and we finally decided it was time to sleep.
And now I'm home. Been reading Pillars of Creation. It's really riveting. Whee. Oh yeah, and my button I got says, "You nonconformists are all alike." Love it.

Fin.

( Where's my horoscope? )

Yeah. It makes no sense. I guess it means I'm dead. Or going to die. But they might get in trouble for saying that. Bastards.
My goddess, virginhuntress made me some sexy vampire icons. They'll be up on my deadjournal soon. Yep, went back to the vampire theme there. Got sick of Alice. No more clever LoTR icons. (V^^^V) I wonder if this is just because of my renewed ferver in rereading the Vampire Chronicles. Oh how I love them.
So there's this necklace Ash gave me for Christmas a couple years ago; she got it from Hot Topic. I love it. It's goth, and a choker. But it was broken. I finally fixed it today. And wore it. Made me feel good. I also called her and so she will be coming over to sleep on Wednesday night.
I brought in my two boxes of fragiles and legos from the shed, finally. Sorted them out, and packed up about half of it, while I threw some of it away. I then arranged the rest of the stuff in my room. Now, my bookshelves have ornaments on each shelf... one of all my fairies, one of all my dragon/wizard related stuff, one with all my shells and such, and the bottom one with my grad stuff. Yeah, I know, like you want to visualize my freakin' bookshelves.
I wonder how many books I have? Still need to see Rhi and lend her "Dhampir."
I have a headache.

Fin.