Greetings and Salutations.

After reading Esther's latest (and quite long, and impressive) blog entries, I decided to write my own long and impressive entry (lets hope I can). 

I will start at the end of my last entry, which was about a month before I moved in with Anth, so about 2 months ago now.

High School Musical was, for me, a complete personal disaster. I ended up hating the important people involved and feeling like there was nobody I could go to in order to discuss what was going on. There was a lot of bitchery going on in the background and I didnt acheive what I set out to originally. However, we played to more than 8,000 people, and the show was a huge success. I just feel that my personal contribution would have been better if it wasnt for personality clashes with key people that were involved.

The negativity also got me wondering if working in that industry is really what i want to do for a living later on. But I think that no matter what industry I work in, there will be one or two negative people who are going to be impossible to get along with. I guess you just have to grin and bear it, and move on. However, I did decide to take a break for the second half of this year, and not co-ordinate costumes for the Junior show (music man). But I will help out. And next year I will feel fresh and maybe even branch out and do costumes for a different company. I'm waiting to see what shows everybody is doing.

On a more positive note, I did move in with Anthony. We have a cute little house close to town that fits all our junk and is within our budget. We were a bit worried that we wouldn't find a place in time, but lucky my Dad pulled a couple of strings with the real estate owner (one of his mates) and we got the place no worries. We're now settled in and despite a couple of issues with light globes, and only having dial up internet for 4 days or so till they reconnected the DSL, its all been a pretty smooth transition. We're having a housewarming soon, it should be good (AND ESTHER SHOULD COME ALONG)

Work has been very slow lately, its a quiet time of year because Ballarat is too cold for tourists in winter, so business hasnt been as good as usual. But, it should pick up again soon, and I will pick up more hours when people go away to Thailand, or Queensland, or go on maternity leave, or join their charity rally, or have surgery. So, my hours should double again at that time. I'll just have to hope for the best in the meantime.

I think study wise, I really need to pick up the pace and get my ass into gear. I need to be more focused and organised, make sure I do the work before hand instead of leaving all three 2,500 word essays until 2 days before they're due. I have my end of term assignments looming, and they will be HUGE. So studying is something I need to focus more on over the next couple of weeks.

(and now im running out of things to write about)

Oh yes, Creatively, I've decided I'm going to take up oil painting, I started practicing on canvas with acrylic paints but what i created I wasnt happy with, so I had a look around, and oil paints seem to be what I want to be working with (besides, all the best artists use oils) its just such a lovely medium, and now I have my own room for sewing, drawing, painting and anything i might wish to do, there's no excuse not to (except when im supposed to be studying). I'm also going to enter a couple of design competitions in the next few months. One is a formalwear comp through Spotlight, and the other a creative fabric competition run every year by my favourite shop in the whole wide world, KYO. (japanese) Its in Ocean Grove and chockablock full of awesome japanese, chinese, and morrocan things. They sell these fabric packs of kimono fabric sourced from Kyoto, and the competition is aimed at showing people what can be done with the fabric. The first prize is a $1000 gift voucher to be spent at KYO, and with $1000 to spend, i would be able to go well and truly nuts. So i have to make something really spectacular so I can win and go nuts there. That would rule. My Nanna knows the lady that won the prize last year, and she had a marvellous time buying things there. So whatever I create (im still thinking of ideas) will have to be really, really amazing.

It'd be sweet to win the Spotlight one too, but its a much more widespread competition, so I am being a bit more realistic about that one. But I will enter anyway, no harm in that. I think I'd like to have a model rather than make another dress for myself though. Im a bit bored with making things for myself. DOES ANYONE WANT A BEAUTIFUL AMAZING DRESS OF MY DESIGN?? (No I havent completed a design yet, im too busy writing essays and blogs) **NOTE: Dress may not be practical for actually wearing. Its going to be amazing, but not necessarily useful. I'm an aspiring costume designer, remember. END NOTE**

 

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.

Yes, I bought and read the book on the day it came out. Unfortunately, I read it too quickly to actually absorb much, and as soon as I finished I lent it to my Mum and Dad to read. But I will go back and read it again in the next few days, slowly, so that I can take it all in.

The reason I read it so quickly was so that I was ahead of everyone at work (I had to work in the afternoon, very inconvenient) wouldnt spoil it for me. Believe me, they did try.

 

And now I have run out of things to say. How disappointing. At least I have a few paragraphs. I must get back into blogging regularly, its quite therapeutic. I need an audience though, I think. I dont seem to have much of one these days. Leave a comment if you're reading so I dont feel like Im just talking to empty space.