A reflection of 2010...

Every year on the 31st I make a list of all the memorable things that happened and this year is no exception...

So here goes... In no particular order...

Suicide bombing in Pakistan, killing 95 people, injuring over 100. (What a morbid way to start this list, I know)

7.0 earthquake in Haiti, death toll is estimated at over 230,000

Miep Gies passed away.

Solar eclipse

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler

Tandja Mamadou is overthrown as President of Niger

Teddy Pendergrass passed away.

8.8 earthquake in Chile, triggering a tsunami

6.9 earthquake in China (are you noticing a pattern here?)

Eyjafjallasomethingjokull erupts and totally fucks up air travel in Europe

JD Salinger passed away.

Alicia Keys gets married to Swizz Beats.

Orlando Bloom gets married to Miranda Kerr, who is due to give birth any moment now.

Megan Fox married Brian Austin Green, devastating men everywhere (For the next few years anyway. Yeah I said it.)

Alexander McQueen passed away.

Deepwater Horizon oil platform erupts in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in one of the most devastating oil spills in history.

Gary Coleman passed away.

Nicole Ritchie gets married.

Eddie Vedder gets married to Jill on Jay's birthday.

Anna Paquin gets married to Stephen Moyer. Brian - "I don't know what True Blood is." Stewie "Rich gay people do."

Lindsay Lohan spirals out of control and learns that orange is not a good colour on her.

Dennis Hopper passed away.

Standard & Poor's downgrade of Greece's sovereign credit rating makes the Euro almost worthless.

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Picasso sells for $106 million.

Eddie Fisher passed away.

Despicable Me. IT'S SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE!

PPCA ruling takes away all of our gym music, resulting in a near breakdown from Wynter from having to do Extraordinary Ways in Balance for almost three months straight. (Since has been overturned so hopefully we should be able to use all our old music again)

Protests in Bangkok end with a huge miliatary crackdown, killing over 90 and injuring over 2000.

Tony Curtis passed away.

Spain wins the FIFA World Cup. "Are you Australia? Here's a red card." - Best facebook group at the time.

Belgium takes over Presidency of the EU from Spain.

Dino De Laurentiis passed away.

Wikileaks!

 Floods in Pakistan, killing over 1600.

WHO declares H1N1 over. (If you've seen the Family Guy episode about it, FOX News is responsible.)

Leslie Nielson passed away.

Eclipse. "He moves, you move. Like magnets."

Sex and the City 2. Extremely disappointing.

Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian hook up. Vomit.

Shania Twain gets divorced.

The Expendables. LOL

Jesse James cheats on Sandra Bullock with a myriad of woman, namely Michelle McGee (Chelsea Handler: LOOK AT MY FOREHEAD YOU DUMB BITCH!)

Celine Dion has twins (That's only interesting because I feel like she's got to be at least 70 by now)

Paranormal Activity. To quote Family Guy as always, "Nothing's happening, nothing's happening. The movie's over. Alot of people look pissed."

Mark Wahlberg and Paul Pierce get married. (Not to each other, or me for that matter. FML)

GET HIM TO THE GREEK! That's the beauty of the Geoffrey, it goes away, and then it comes back! RAH!

The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.

33 miners in Chile are brought back to the surface after being trapped under for 69 days. One wishes he was still under after he realised that his wife and his lover had discovered each other.

Earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Indonesia kills over 400. (Ok definitely noticing a pattern here..)

G20 summit in Korea, first non G8 Nation.

Marilyn Manson splits with Evan Rachel Whore.

Ryan Phillipe splits with Abbie Cornish, proving to us all again that he is a dumbass who has issues.

David Arquette and Courtney Cox split up. Sad face.

Charlize Theron is back on the market after splitting from Stuart Townsend.

Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva. Yeah, look what's happened to William Wallace now. Fucking anti Semitic sugar tit.

Scarlett Johannson is back on the market.

Shutter Island!

Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford finally get married.

Kate Winslet splits from Sam Mendes.

Borat marries Isla Fisher. Mazel Tov!

Inception! (Which I really wish I hadn't seen because I always kick myself out of dreams now)

Jordan marries Alex Reid. (Yeah I can already see the expiry date on that.)

North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea responds...

Devil. M. Night Shamylan I am sorry for badmouthing you for the last three years. That being said, The Happening was the worst thing you have inflicted on me.

SAW 7. I love you Jigsaw.

First lunar eclipse since 1638.

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So after about 2 hours of writing this, a la Carrie Bradshaw, I have to wonder... What did I actually learn this year? What did I achieve this year? What happened to me this  year?

To be quite honest, this year was not a good year. But that being said, it's all about perspective, and I'm happy that things turned out the way that they did, because the bigger the pain, the bigger the personal growth. I'm so happy with the 10gigs of photos I have from my iPhone because they all bring me back to a memory that I will never forget. I'm thankful for all the new people that I have met this year!

I want to say thank you to all of you for being in my life, especially Nat ( full of sound advice at all hours ), Josh (your fucktard diaries, sarcasm and mean girls quoting got me through so many banghead moments), Viv, Eng, Christine, (like stars, I don't always have to see you, but I know that you're there), Boris (for being... Boris?), Jeffrey (for being the best friend), Russ (for being Russ and reminding me who I am), Hung (for reminding me always to be my best and to aim higher), Nate (for always being there for me and keeping me grounded), Wynter (for always listening and keeping me smiling) and most of all Jay (for being Jay, giving the best advice, even though I never listen).

Thank you all for keeping my head up this year, for being yourselves and for being the most awesome people in my life that I am truly grateful for.

So peace and love to you all, all of y'all, wherever you are, and I will leave you with my two favourite quotes.

The people you keep around you let you know who you are.

Life's simple, you make choices and don't look back.

So enjoy tonight, and start 2011 with a bang!

Unless you're a terrorist.

Giggedy.

s2 chaoness xx 

I try to run but I don’t wanna ever leave

On the first page of our story
the future seemed so bright
then this thing turned out so evil
I don’t know why I’m still surprised
even angels have their wicked schemes
and you take that to new extremes
but you’ll always be my hero
even though you’ve lost your mind

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
but that’s all right because I like the way it hurts
just gonna stand there and hear me cry
but that’s all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
Ohhh, I love the way you lie

Now there’s gravel in our voices
glass is shattered from the fight
in this tug of war, you’ll always win
even when I’m right
‘cause you feed me fables from your hand
with violent words and empty threats
and it’s sick that all these battles
are what keeps me satisfied

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
but that’s all right because I like the way it hurts
just gonna stand there and hear me cry
but that’s all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
Ohhh, I love the way you lie

So maybe I’m a masochist
I try to run but I don’t wanna ever leave
til the walls are goin’ up
in smoke with all our memories

This morning, you wake, a sunray hits your face
smeared makeup as we lay in the wake of destruction
hush baby, speak softly, tell me I’ll be sorry
that you pushed me into the coffee table last night
so I can push you off me
try and touch me so I can scream at you not to touch me
run out the room and I’ll follow you like a lost puppy
baby, without you, I’m nothing, I’m so lost, hug me
then tell me how ugly I am, but that you’ll always love me
then after that, shove me, in the aftermath of the
destructive path that we’re on, two psychopaths but we
know that no matter how many knives we put in each other’s backs
that we’ll have each other’s backs, ’cause we’re that lucky
together, we move mountains, let’s not make mountains out of molehills,
you hit me twice, yeah, but who’s countin’?
I may have hit you three times, I’m startin’ to lose count
but together, we’ll live forever, we found the youth fountain
our love is crazy, we’re nuts, but I refused counsellin’
this house is too huge, if you move out I’ll burn all two thousand
square feet of it to the ground, ain’t shit you can do about it
with you I’m in my f-ckin’ mind, without you, I’m out it

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
but that’s all right because I like the way it hurts
just gonna stand there and hear me cry
but that’s all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
Ohhh, I love the way you lie

FUCKING EPIC POWERFUL SONG.

A very frustrating weekend...

Started the weekend ok I guess... Haven't been feeling myself lately, mostly due to not eating well and the sudden drop in temperature, makes me cranky and irritable and really fucks up my sleep cycles.

A very important person once said to me that it was ok to be hated, because it meant that I had stood up for something that I believed in. Well I stood up for myself to a horrid person this weekend, and I fucking rolled over for peace and quiet's sake. Some people will never learn to change unfortunately and continue to accept that their socially retarded behaviour is normal, but whatever. FUCKING WHATEVER.

What comes around goes around.

Have been at A*'s cousins' house for some computer nerd geek fest, which resulted in me dying on the couch watching several Disney movies. I wasn't aware that Bambi got shot? I thought it was just his mother, but anyway.

Came home just now, scrubbed myself clean, and then I asked A* to do the washing. He'd tipped over the tub that I was soaking my bathrobe in Napisan in, so I took off my jumper to wash as well, seeing as it was covered in cat hair from his cousins' house.

After Underbelly, I discovered that A* hadn't turned the washing machine on; he'd put the clothes and the detergent in, but hadn't turned it on. So after a quick lesson in how to do laundry 101, I was responding to all the emails that I'd neglected and then realised that my phone was missing, only to remember that it was still in my jumper, which was taking a swim in the washing machine. FML. Not a good weekend at all. Thankfully I had just backed it up two days ago, so hopefully I won't lose everything like last time.

So now I'm thinking.... I'm allowed to recontract as of July 3, and the iPhone 4 comes out in July, date TBA still. If I put in my insurance claim now, by the time it gets here, touch wood it doesn't get *lost* (basically last time the Optus shop lost my phone and the insurance company wouldn't give me the time of day until they received my phone from the shop, and they passed the buck for about 6 weeks before I rang up the Ombudsman and complained, and then some fuckhead from Optus Customer care said that they would give me a free 3GS instead of fixing my old 3G, and after another 2 weeks my old 3G was returned to me, so wtf) like last time and I have to call the bloody Ombudsman again, I'll be able to recontract and get a new phone anyway. But if I do put through my insurance claim it's $250 excess (highway robbery considering it used to be $100) and I'll be able to sell it on eBay and make a tidy profit of about $300. Hmm. Luke says that I can go to Apple and swap it over for a new one for $100. Will see what Optus and Apple have to say about it tomorrow. Right now if I press the button, suds come out and it makes a squishy noise. Boo.

s2 chaoness xx

Miaow. Purr. Hiss.

It's sooooo cold! Apparently it dropped to about 8 degrees this morning, when I woke up there was fog outside and the window was covered in condensation! No likey the cold at all. Hate it. Currently snuggled in my hobo jumper and ugg boots sipping on some T2 Turkish Apple. Mmm, sugar water.

So what's been happening recently... birthday... I'm now another year older....

A* bought me a new laptop, which I insisted on having before my actual birthday :) and then flowers and a facial. Love love!

Dragged Wynter and Sue out to Costco so she could eat a kilo of chips and whatnot. I love Costco but it's full of crazy fat people.

Sex and the City 2! Silly me misread the online booking thing and got tickets in the front row. A* ended up having to sit like this:

I didn't really enjoy the movie, the characters had turned into grotesque caricatures and the Abu Dhabi stuff was just downright obnoxious and offensive.

That being said, I LOVED Carrie's coffee table. Want!

Also loved Liza Minelli!

On Sunday A* and I went to get a bigger bin because he was sick of having to take out my little one all the time so we got this big ass bin from Big W.

I thought he looked hilarious as a bin monster/storm trooper, and he took it seriously, walking around QV with a bin lid on his head.

Doesn't he look strange?

And another thing!

This kitten is adorable because it's small and fluffy and cute (duh it's a fucking kitten and also because it has a Hitler moustache) but the truth is, it comes from a mill where animals are bred to be sold to pet shops for a stupid price of money. Example.... A* and I walked past the pet shop in Melbourne Central where he went absolutely crazy over a chihuahua (I personally don't like small yappy dogs, I'm more of a big fuck off dog kinda person) and begged to hold it.

Petshop owner: It's a purebred chihuahua.

A*: *goes more crazy*

Me: How much?

Petshop owner: $1300.

A* is ready to hand over his wallet.

Me: Can I see its papers?

Petshop owner: It doesn't come with papers.

Me: A*, put the dog back.

Petshop owner: It's a purebred chihuahua, for the great price of $1300!

Me: Is it from an ANKC breeder?

Petshop owner: Huh?

What a fuckhead!

Exactly.

STOP BUYING FROM PET SHOPS!

You might as well wear the puppy as a taxidermied hat!

I'm also looking for an African Grey breeder in Victoria, if anyone knows of one, help me!

s2 chaoness xx

Dot point entries to cover... I dunno... almost 5 months?

February

Wynter's birthday at the Sofitel. Lots of Twilight and squealing. Also I wasn't aware she ate steak for breakfast. Kudos to Karen for bringing me the last piece of strawberry tart the next day at work.

A* starts using a five kilo dumbell at home.

March

Moymoy starts hogging clothes.

Went to the zoo with A*, stood in line to see the baby elephant, but it took FOREVER so we gave up and went to the city.

Crazy hailstorm which dented Nat's car!

Utinni!

Utinni makes a friend.

Had to do 10 days in a row at work. Not happy about working a 15 hour shift, which I'm quite sure was illegal. So so so happy at my new job which is fantastic and I absolutely LOVE it and I get paid double what I got paid at FF. 

Jason is home. Jason was a frog that A* found in his pool and that I took home. The next morning he was gone. He is missing in the house.

Went to hospital at 5 am in the morning for a UTI (sorry if that's TMI) but it was pretty fucked. Do not hold your pee in for long periods of time, it fucks your kidneys.

A* gave me a snail and a Tiffany ring for our anniversary. Neither are still with me. My skin reacts to sterling silver, so the ring went back to the store, and the snail got flushed down the toilet. His name was Henry.

TJ, A* and I went to get a colonic. Such a bonding experience.

"For $70 the least she could do was be hot." 

April

Someone stole A*'s custom made SIGG water bottle from the gym. Not happy. I bought it for him for our anniversary and he left it on the floor while he was training a client and ten minutes later it was gone. If anyone sees this particular bottle at the gym, it belongs to A*!!!!

Manoli opens up his cafe. It's on Glenhuntly Road, it is absolutely adorable!

Moymoy learns to steal food from A*'s plates.

Hung goes on his US trip. Starts tagging me as cat pictures. So jealous that he was in Boston. Celtics baby!

A* and I have an awesome anniversary dinner at Izakaya Chuji. First time he had japanese BBQ. Happy face

Jason is found; actually found his carcass to be exact. So gross. Kinda funny though.

Gave up at FF. Good riddance.

Went to Sydney with A* for Filex. Bought home four Puffmots.

 Loved DintaiFung and Pancakes on the Rocks.

 I thought Taronga zoo was fantastic! And if you thought Hermes in Melbourne was rude, Sydney was a morgue.

But the store is way bigger with so much stuff!

A*'s car gets banged up while we were in Sydney. Someone dinted the front of his car and now his headlight is sticky taped on.

Wynter finally gets her hair done.

Bookcase got even bigger.

Some fatty gets a silver board at Melbourne Central. Lowers the bar for all. We should all specialise in calf raises.

I start my new job. Fantastic role with great career progression and it is double my FF salary. Woop!

May

A* buys Scrabble on my iPhone. Addiction.

Costco membership. Wow. I now have a year's worth of toilet paper, paper towels, toothpaste and aluminium foil.

And a litre of peri peri. Genius.

Mousemot lost an eye!

Russell Peters! Skinny jeans! Lol

A* duct tapes me to a chair for ignoring him.

A* buys me a lovely Toshiba laptop as an early birthday present. LOVE it. Thank you baby!

I had a joint birthday with a toy giraffe. Thanks to Sue and Wynter who got me the coolest cake ever. I can now say I've eaten a cake with my face on it.

My little lovebird Pebbles died on Sunday. Poor thing was lying on the bottom of the cage yesterday morning. Coco is very sad.

RIP Pebbles.

So that pretty much brings you up to date. Hi Trang.

s2 chaoness xx