So ANYWAY......... My trip next year, right? I've booked flights! yay!!! Plus a bus trip as I'm budget and can't afford to fly between places.  April 20, Adelaide-Singapore-London. London sure is calling! I'll stay there for 2 weeks with Anna (she prefers to be called bomb, haha) before we go through the underground tunnel to Paris. We're staying there until June 2nd, before getting on a bus that stops at the places of our choice which include: Munich (Germany), St Johanns (Austria), Venice (Italy, Rome (Italy), Florence (Italy), Nice (France) and then why hello there Barcelona! (Spain, for the geographically challenged). After partying tres hard, we'll make our own way back through France towards Paris until we have to leave on July 20. Who's jealous? You are? awwwwww well why don't you come with us!! Or at least come for a bit! Sam is! He's coming to Paris during the winter holidays (might I add that it will be SUMMER at that time in Europe which is everyone's favourite season).

Sorry this is a short entry, I just had to get my excitement out! "excitment" is in bold, italic and underlined just to let you realise how excited I am.

Love always, Mich xxx

I think it's a bit unfair that we can't all post exactly what we'd like to post on our blogs for fear of being criticized. I mean, I probably wouldn't pay out one of my friends on my blog, because that's a bit nasty (use a fake name if necessary), but still, I think everyone has the right to write whatever they want on their blog - if you don't like it then don't read it! People can't tell someone off for having a whinge on their blog, it's their thoughts which they've decided to share with other people, however as I said before, don't read it if you don't want to!

Meanwhile, my life is pretty much the same as it was on August 2nd (my last blog entry) except that Louis is now watching documentaries about communist sex on sbs which I find slightly disturbing. Recently this has happened:

• my parent's have bought a house (an unbuilt house) just off of King William Rd, and we're going to move there in 6-8 months when it's built. Though I won't be there straight away because I'll be in Paris!
• Louis and I were staying at Moana, however a tap exploded and we haven't gotten a plumber so there's no water and we had to leave. Louis then overfed the fish and they all exploded and died :-(
• I can't wait for the summer holidays so we can all relax and go away and have fun!

So So-Lou's party was on Sat night...Lot's of fun! I was a french maid. I really need a digital camera so I can take photo's of things like that!! Maybe I'll ask for one for Christmas, I'll need one when I go overseas!!

So that's about all I can remember...

Love always, Mich xxx

Love is the topic that we are doing in two weeks time in my English Passions course at uni. I feel slightly dumb for thinking this, but part of me expected the whole course to be about love. I forgot that there are other passions such as hatred, jealousy, greed etc. Because when I think 'passion' I think of love, lust, desire and all those sorts of things. So did I get a shock when we had to read 'Oedipus the King' (a greek tragedy) about a man who ends up murdering his father, sleeping with his mother and eventually gauging his eyes out while his mother/wife hangs herself. Where was the love??? Well, I did manage to find a bit but none worth mentioning here. Perhaps in an essay later on.

More about love? One thing I forgot to mention on my list of 50 things I love to Ollie was that I love cemeteries. That might sounds slightly morbid, but it's not really. Cemeteries are such peaceful places during the day. Even at night, there is something about the way they are just so unexplainably eerie that attracts me. To stop me found sounding too creepy, I made brownies with white chocolate chips in them tonight. Yum.

So I had an idea. Or rather, So-lou had an idea to say nice things about all of her freinds which prompted my idea. Let's play 'guess-who-i-am-by-saying-nice-things'. It's ok if you don't know the rules (I only just made up the game ha). So here's how it goes: I will say nice descriptive things about people such as yourselves, and you guys have to guess who they are! This is a good idea for many reasons... a) I'm no longer bored, 2) it spreads the love and c) it's fun. So really it's a cross between what So-lou did and that game where you guess the song from the first line. yay!

Person 1#
excellent organiser of fun things, pretty, cute laugh, has dreadlocks, strong willed, always up for a good night with freinds (not in a dirty way!........that I know of haha), writes thought provoking blog entries.

Person 2#
dedicated friend to all those she cares about, told me she likes guy friends better than girl friends (gasp!) hehe, party girl, loves dresses and has a beautiful collection of them, long brown hair and cute little make-you-want-to-pinch-them pink cheeks.

Person 3#
best comforter ever, understanding, makes me feel special, massive smile, beautiful browny-green eyes, always has hot earrings, says funny things without realising how funny I'm going to find them.

Person 4#
another party girl, centre of attention (in a good way), shortish brown hair, always enthusiastic, lots of fun, another set of pretty eyes (so many people have nice eyes!), works at marion target, i like talking to her.

Person 5#
apparantly farts a lot on his girlfriend, parents love him, hot eyebrow bolt, will always do people favours, wine lover, hilda lover, easy to talk to.

Person 6#
extremely good at art, always has interesting things to say, hot black cat, likes dressing up, loves tim burton, big beautiful eyes, instantly likeable.

Person 7#
beautiful shiny dark hair, infectious laugh, loves dvd's of television shows, lovely voice to listen to (talking or singing), perfect eyebrows, always willing to share cheap champagne with me.

Person 8#
calls me Cream Puff or Silly, has a beautiful face, makes me laugh uncontrollably, does his best to make me happy (and succeeds), owns a peeing dog, has yummy breath, loves embarrassing me, is very cute!

Person 9#
is obsessed with cars which makes her incredibly sexy to boys (and girls!), is hilarious when drunk, loves to dance, openly freindly, tells people she appreciates them, fun to hang out with.

Person 10# 
nicest person in the world, never has a mean word to say about anyone, cheerful, loyal, brave, very open to discuss anything with, likes to call people poo's (hahahha).

EDIT!

Person 11#
hilarious, party boy, is scared of piper, hot, nice eye colour, loves the same things as me, stretches the truth (a lot!), lots of fun, spontanious, cute teeth, dresses well, encourages me to stand up for myself, likes playing pranks, is very politically incorrect.

There we go. That's only a small part of the awesome people in my life. I put mostly the people who actually read my blog so the list wouldn't go on forever. Now it's time to guess, and to also declare your love! People, things, animals, whatever. Tell them you love them. I love you Piper-Cat! (you too Louis. hehe.)

Love always, Michelle xxx

My return to uni is not by choice. Ok, well it's half by choice, but not entirely. You see I was bribed by a certain well-off man who shall remain nameless for privacy reasons (haha). Now he doesn't believe in gaining an education through other methods (such as tafe, on-the-job training etc). I would call him a snob, but I feel bad, so let's just say that his beliefs are a bit old fashioned. Anyway to boil it down to a short story, if I go back to uni this semester I will recieve $1 for every dollar I have saved this year towards my trip to Paris next year. Which will come in handy, since I don't think I would be able to save enough. When I didn't immidiately decide that this was enough to send me back to uni (I was under the delusion that I could save enough my self. I don't think I could - I'm a self confessed spendaholic) he upped the bribe to if I recieved better grades than just passes, I could have a car of my choice! Under 7 grand of course, but it will come in handy for my plans next year. Now to the part where i decided to go back to uni for my own reasons. I'm trying to bring my grades up enough so that I can transfer into Cultural Tourism. It is so unfair that they count your uni grades to transfer, when my TER would have been well high enough.

So yes, I will be back at Adelaide uni this semester, studying hard to please this man. I saw Kif on Tuesday who called me something along the lines of crazy (I assume she meant it in a good way haha) when I told her I'd been studying for the past 2 hours. This was my first day of uni. So far so good.

Last night while on msn, Ollie was bored and asked me to send him a list of 50 things I love. On the list were things such as:

kittens

poppies

friends

France

high-heeled shoes

dead grass

blue skies

autumn leaves

chocolates

Well yeah, there were 50 of them but I don't think you'd be interested in reading the whole list so I'll leave it there. Anyway, today I got an email from him and it was a collage of all the things I love. It was a heaps nice present, and it made my day. I'd put it up here, but my computer is so slow, it would take like an hour to do. Work tonight, which is kind of annoying but oh well. That's why I'll leave it here, I have to go get ready.

Have a good first week of uni/tafe/whatever you do!

Love always, Mich xxx

Isn't it funny how much more sensitive you get on your birthday? Like things that don't really matter suddenly seem HUGE and you're like "It's my birthday, how could they do this to me???" Ha, well it turns out that I'm not immune from birthday-brat syndrome and kicked up a bit of a fuss because my parents weren't taking me out to dinner (we normally do go out on our bdays). So I spend a large part of the night before my birthday sulking alone in my room. Oh well, I realised after that we don't always go out for bdays and I was being tres silly.

Anyway on my actual birthday, a group of us from unley went to GOOLWA for 2 nights! It was lots of fun, we had a huge house with a pool table! My birthday can be summed up with the following words: pina colada, naked lesbian bath, compost heap, evil faceless gingerbread man doll, centipede, bluff, beach, BERTHA and coconut kava. Here is an amusing photo my friend Ari took that she entitles

"The best view ever"

HAHHAHAHA what an amusing girl. This was taken on top of the bluff at Victor Harbour.

We came back to Adelaide on Wednesday, but the birthday celebrations were not over yet! Thursday night was my party upstairs at the Elephant, and it was F.U.N! (that needed fullstops to emphasise how fun it was). We drank, danced, played pool, scoffed greasy cheese sticks and lots more. Thank you all for coming!

There you go, a lovely photo which magically captured what certain people were thinking. I like to think of it as accurate. :-)

Love always, Mich xxx

P.S i got a tattoo!!!!!! It's a poppy!

I totally stole this from Wade.....oh well...do it guys!! Also I'd just like to inform you that I'm listeing to the BEST remix of Dr. Jones ever!!!

http://www.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=060525104859-659825"

Love always, Mich xxx

If you don't feel like listening to me have a whinge, then I'd advise you to stop reading now......

Everybody who doesn't want to read this gone yet?

ok?

Good.

Today I went to Fliners uni to try and find out how to enrol in Cultural Tourism (the course I want to change into, since I realised I actually hate my course). Apparently, they don't use your TER anymore if you've done a full year of tertiary study (which I have- International Studies at Adelaide uni). They now use your grade point average. The TER for Cultural Tourism was either 60 or 70, I can't remember, but either way I would have beaten it by 20 or 10 points. BUT you need an average of a pass to get into the subject, which I actually haven't got since I was having problems at the end of last year and failed two of my subjects. ARGH!!! So now I have to write a letter asking them to please consider my TER on the grounds of medical problems....and they still might not let me in. Sigh. Stupid SATAC.

So anyway, as I left the office and stomped out of Flinders, I started crying. Haha I am so lame. I'm not sure if it was actually because of my stupid lack of not getting a high enough grade point average, or because Ollie left last night to go live in Melbourne. I don't think he knows this blog exists so I can say whatever I like about him and he won't know. good. It sucks sucks sucks, and makes me feel so incredibly sad and lonely. On the plus side, no more waterbombs will be thrown at me! Though I suppose there were no more waterbombs since year 12...

Ollie and me on graduation day - yes I'm charming with chewed up capsicum on my tongue. And heehee, he looks so little!

I saw a black holden astra drive past today and thought 'Ollie!'. Obviously it wasn't him since he drove to Melb last night at 1 a.m. But yes, I'll miss the smell of your house (it always smells like curry and damp...I know that sounds feral but it's not), your spontenuity (however you spell it), your crudeness, laugh, persuasive powers and most of all your little backwards teeth smile! They are so cute! And who is going to listen to dance music with me now??? Sigh. At least you won't be able to hiss at Piper anymore....I think he might be happy you're gone...

One last rant - one wisdom tooth is coming through and it hurts! But there's a little point sticking through the gum which is fun to play with.

So that's all for now. I have to go get ready for Matilda's GATHERING (she doesn't want me to call it a party cause I think then it will make her feel guilty!)

Love always, Mich xxx

There is one song that reminds me of sunny year 11 days. Of endless blue sky that feels like it's mocking us since we should be out enjoying the sunshine, only we can't. I remember the grass around the edge of the soccor oval where we sat was drying out, just the way I like it. And it was just so hot the day we had to put our summer uniforms aside and wear our winter uniforms to the Heysen chapel. It feels so weird that most people who hear this song don't have the same memories dragged up as a few of us do. I say 'us' because it would be thoughtless and slightly selfish of me to think that I was the only one affected. Because I know I'm not. It's weird how even at such a horrible time, you can make good memories. For example, the day we found out, me and Gemma went to Ollie's house and sat on his trampoline and were probably looking sad so he decided to rip out a massive parsley bush by its roots to make us laugh. All I have to say to Gemma now is "remember the parsley bush?" and it will make her smile.

"I can't press rewind and turn it back and call it now"

It's so stupid that I still think about it so much. Not that I normally think about this that much, it's just that I had a dream about him last week and haven't been able to stop thinking about him since. And I've got this stupid song on repeat and there is one line that never fails to make me cry; you probably won't understand why unless you were actually listening to the song. "I just want to know that  you're okay..." Doesn't seem like a particularily sad line does it? But I just want to know that he's okay. And you know what hurts? That he didn't want to stay for me. And I know he didn't stay for anyone else either, but I find it so sad that he wouldn't stay for me. I'm not saying I was more important to him then anyone else, don't think that.

I wrote all the stuff above last night, but didn't publish it a) because Gemma came over and so I didn't have time to finish it, and b) because I feel stupid. I'm not normally this open with my feelings, but you know....everyone else puts how the feel on their blog, and I'm sick of just writing light hearted things! But anyway, I feel better than I did yesterday, maybe it was because I had a good time at Chris's party (despite the large amounts of drama). I think I just needed to see friends to put things into perspective.  So yeah, a good time was had by most people, I had a minor disagreement with Aaron over my pretty skirt (well Louis's mum said I looked pretty, so I think Aaron is WRONG!) Matilda turned matronely when something flew out of the fire and burnt my arm and she wanted to run it under cold water for 10 mins...I refused and I'm now paying the price with an ugly blister. Gemma and I went bogan for the night (ha for the night? who am I kidding?) and got 6 UDL's for $13.  Bargain mate! Hi to Hugh who reads my blog and APPRECIATED my Shaggy humour! Unlike the rest of you who didn't even comment!

Anyway that's my long update.

Love always, Mich xxx

Hello there guys, long time no PROPER blog entry... Quizes and stuff don't count...but still they are fairly entertaining and I always bother to read them on other people's blog

Not much is new....I'm pregnant with Rhys' (not my brother) baby. I thought it was going to be a boy, but the doctor tells me it's a girl. This is bad news because little girls are such brats! Oh well. I was going to name it Connor or Nathan but now I just don't know. Do you think Louis will mind fathering mine and Rhys' child? I hope he won't, because I know Rhys will leave me as soon as he finds out about the baby. Sigh.

In other news, Matilda told me that she has a lesbian crush on Hilary Duff. I was very hurt when she told me this, as it means that we are no longer an item. It all ended in a dramatic fight at Jes's birthday party on Saturday night. There was a lot of slapping and hair pulling. We were cheered on by Pat, Gemma, Daniel, Alex, Chris, Sharai etc. Alex wasn't interested until we fell into the mud pit though. So he only saw the end.  I was very upset about the whole fight and so I very drunkenly proposed to Louis on the way home. He said yes and then proceeded to bite me and LEFT A BRUISE. bastard.

Now I'm off to visit Gemma at the nursing home where she now lives due to the car accident she had a few days ago and injured her back. There was no room for her at the hospital and so that's why she's at the nursing home. It's not so bad; she's made lots of new friends with all the old people. Pat was also in the car, but he only injured his arms. He should be well enough to attend mine and Louis's wedding. I'm not sure when it is yet. I'm actually thinking about leaving him because Daniel Radcliff is coming to Adelaide in a few weeks and I don't want to be tied down when he gets here. But at least Pat and Gemma get to have rooms next door to each other. 21a and 21b and the Seaview Downs nursing home. You should all visit them.

So yes..not much is new.

Maybe the only new thing is that I'm in a VERY weird mood. Ask Louis, he'll tell you.

Love always, Mich xxx