His & His

I just made these towels for my friend DJ and his boyfriend Damian's housewarming on the weekend. Cheeky Cheeky.



I love giving presents. I'm not just saying that so you think I am all loving and caring or whatnot, I don't care what you think of me fuckers :p I just really love giving presents. I am a hamper fetishist. I can never just give a solitary present, there needs to be an assortment and it always needs a theme beit subject or colour. For example the colours of these towels nicely match a bottle of Lindauer Fraise...

...they will come in a matching box with a matching ribbon. I am even obsessed with making sure the card (and envelope) matches. I think I am an obsessive compulsive gift giver. It pisses James off but I think there are worse things to be obssesive compulsive about than doing nice things for people you care about.

I'm really excited about seeing old friends tomorrow. I'm missing everyone alot. Can't wait. I hope he likes the towels, homosexuals are a tough crowd to please unless you have an 11 inch penis, a pair of crotchless leather pants and a wallet full of cash, I don't make the rules, it's just the way it is.

Ragh.

Splendour Lineup...

Well it seems this man is about as close to Jesus as we are going to get at Splendour...

SATURDAY JULY 22ND...
Sonic Youth, Grinspoon, DJ Shadow, The Grates, Death Cab for Cutie, TV on the Radio, Augie March, The Avalanches (DJ set), Youth Group, Brittle Fex, Atmosphere and Paul Mac.
SUNDAY JULY 23RD...
Brian Wilson, Wolfmother, Scissor Sisters, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jose Gonzalez, Snow Patrol, You Am I, Decoder Ring, The Presets, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Zutons, Matisyahu and Clare Bowditch & Feeding Set.

I dunno if this lineup is good enough for me to pay $160 but I don't think I have choice. Scissor Sisters, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's and Death Cap for Cutie are major draw cards for me. As are The Grates even though I have seen them a billion times before.

We haven't done very wellwith our predictions though I'm sure alot of them are likely to come up in the second announcement. We'll see. Dallas Crane needs to be there. Butterfingers are at the Great Northern on Friday night so they will certainly be there. Hmmmmm.

Me Again.

For the third time today (sorry guys) but JimBob and I have been compiling a list of Splendour suspects. We have done a bit of reasearch ie. looking into who will be Australia around that time and what not and come up with a pretty decent list. I think we may have guessed more acts than spots there are to fill but we shall see. For everyone we get right you give us ten dollars, capiche? It will go towards buying our tickets :p Here are our suspects, I have put in brackets what we have based our guesses on, if there are no bracket then it just because 'we say so'.

• Coldplay (touring at the start of July)
• Eagles of Death Metal (no tour dates at that time, just realeased a new album (Death By Sexy) and I just really want to see them, they are funny)
• Youth Group (touring with Coldplay, sing that song on the OC)
• Dallas Crane (new album, have been doing really shit tours lately that don't come anywhere near Brisbane)
• Ben Lee (because he's Ben Lee, I don't make the rules folks)
• The Grates (new album out and they are farking awesome, were at splendour last year and BDO this year and are sure to make another appearance)
• Hilltop Hoods (compulsary Aussie Hip Hip representation)
• Butterfingers (because they're always there)
• John Butler Trio (as above)
• Sarah Blasko (as above)
• The Whitlams (new album and I think they would be awesome at splendour)
• Parkway Drive (wankers but from Byron so maybe, I don't know how anyone growing up in Byron Bay turns out straight edge)
• Tambalane (because I suggested Silverchair making a come back and James told me I was stupid, haha, he didn't really but I could tell he was thinking it)
• Bernard Fanning/Drag/Powderfinger
• Kate Miller-Hiedke
• Xavier Rudd
• The Vines
• Decoder Ring
• End of Fashion/After The Fall/Faker/Gyroscope/Eskimo Joe/Wolfmother (They're all the same aren't they? Hehe, I like them all but I am simple, I get confused.)

Other suggestions that failed to make the cut included John Farnham (for the last time), Jimmy Barnes and the Tin Lids, INXS, The Veronicas, Lee Harding, and Joel Turner and the Modern Day Poets (outside chance, haha - they were at BDO).

The Arctic Monkeys are touring around that time but those at Splendour Central said that they had tried to secure them but weren't successful in doing so. I do wonder if this is just a decoy though.

I also have a feeling that there is going to be a blast from the past, someone who was big in the 70's 80's or 90's. James says its the Hoodoo Guru's, I have no realistic guesses. Its not going to be Iggy because he was at BDO but that would be swell. I hope its AClightningboltDC but my secret bets are on Boney M, rofl, the doing the Bowlsy and RSL tour of Australia shortly so Byron Bay has a strong possibility of being en route. Maybe it will be Hunters and Collectors. I don't know.

If we are spot on with EODM and Dallas Crane I will probably be forking out the $160 (grudgingly). We'll see. feel free to post further suggestions in my comments. YEAH! Now all we have to do is wait for the Splendour F^&*ers to make their announcements. First should be this week. Second will be some time mid June I think.

Heeeeeeeeeeyar.

EDIT::Retraction on Coldplay and Youth Goup, they are in fact touring late June and JimBob got the dates all muddled. No idea on further international acts. Hmmmmm.

F*&^ing Kangaroos

I know I just posted but here is another one.

Splendour tickets this year are $160 this year. Last year they were $125, apparently the huge increase is due to the event itself being so much huger this year. I love Splendour and I love Byron Bay but Jesus Christ himself will have to be headlining for me to go!

I was really looking forward to Splendour but this is a lot of effin' money when you have none and when you are tryingto save. On top of the $160 we need to pay for camping, food, party favours and drinks. It is going to be a very expensive weekend. We were planning on calling the campground accross the road (where we stayed last year) and booking this week but I think I will hold off till the line-up is announced. Like I said before its needs to be pretty impressive for me spending this much money.

On the up-side they have introduced new ticketing methods to stop the scalping issues that had last year. You can read all about it at www.splendourinthegrass.com.

I am angry. But I just found this on the interweb and it made me laugh...

I wrote a post...

... but then I changed my mind so now you get nothing, NOTHING!!!

OK, here's something.

I had an awesome weekend. I am being healthy, we are spending heaps of time being outdoors and relaxing I feel great.

We suck at fishing though.

James's sister is about to have a baby and this is so exciting! If we ever decide to have kids ours will be ordered in from Cambodia.

I enjoy the conspiracy theory that Katie Holmes wasn't even really pregnant. I think I even believe it. I think she gradually stuffed more and more pillows up her shirt over a nine month period and is trying to pass an adopted baby off as their own in an effort to restore Tom Cruise's masculinity. We all know he shoots blanks.

We looked at cars on the weekend. I want to buy a (cheap) 4WD after tax time to take around Australia. James's want to buy all the ones we can't afford.

Today is Monday but that is ok because there is a public holiday tomorrow. I think I have Thursday off and then we have another long weekend. As a casual employee this sucks but I love it!

We cooked a whole Mangrove Jack (which we bought, did I mention we suck at fishing?) on the weber for James's parents and his Grandfather the other night. It was awesome. I was sent home with fish carcass and told to make stock. I feel this really challenges my culinary ability.

I miss my family. I worry about my dad because he is sick and misses me alot. I worry about my nan because she is old. I don't worry about my mum, she has the poker machines to take care of her.

I think I might get a hair cut at the Autralian Institute of Hair Dressing on Thursday. It is cheap but worrying letting students loose with scissors so close to my head. That's where the thinking happens.

When we get our car I am going to learn to drive. Driving scares me shitless. I am too panicy. I am only learning for when we go around Australia. I don't think I will even bother getting my real licence because as long as I have James in teh car with me at all times it is ok. He objects to this because it means he has to be sober. I plan to drive the long stretches of road with noone around. He can do all the city driving.

I yearn for new tattoos but we are poor. I am going to get half sleeves and a back piece. That's it, I promise.

Maybe.

Suicide Girls was dissappointing. I couldn't see anything because the Arena is a shit hole and some 10 foot tall arsehol named Zodiac was blocking the entire stage with his head full of shit locks. I lost my learners and went to look for it, when I came back James was hugging Nixon and Fanny. Nixon has bitten a guys nipple of before yet I think my boyfriend was freaking her out.

I am a salad ninja.

I have itchy feet.

Splendour tickets go on sale soon. This excites me. They should be releasing the line up this week.

It was James's birthday last week. I bought him a new esky and a carton of personalised beer. I thought it was awesome but I think he was disappointed. I wish I was rich so I could buy him guitars.

I have planted lots of herbs. So far only the rocket and the basil are growing. I am too impatient for this.

I have been having nightmares about a friend I feel like I have abandonned. I haven't been sleeping well.

Our cat doesn't love us anymore. He ran away for about two weeks a year ago and since he came back he has been a home cat. Sleeps with us, eats with us, watches tv with us. He ran away a couple of days ago and he came back on Saturday night, this was a relief but he has gone again. I hope its because he has a girlfriend and not becuase he doesn't love us. I wish he was a girl cat so he could have kittens.

I want a dog and I want to take it to the dog park.

I think tomorrow we plan to go fur a big walk through the wetlands around nudgee. I love being outside in the sun. I used to hate summer. I used to hate wearing clothes that involves seing flesh. I used to wear jumpers in thirty degree heat and forge notes to get out of PE. I used to like being pale and never wanted a tan. I wasn't goth but I was morbid. I used be very bitter, judgemental and nasty but I am so glad this has changed too. This all has gradually beeing changing over the past five years or so and I love it. Whilst I am struggling with certain areas of my life I am feeling a lot more free-spirited now and this is great.

I miss having close friendships though. I still have a couple of friends who I have know since high school. I would do anything in the world for them and visa versa but I hardly see them. We are all in relationships and that makes things hard, we all have jobs and responsibilities and that makes things hard, we all live on different sides of the city and that is hard, we have all become different people and that is hard too. I miss when things were simple and you would just go to someone's house and 'hang out' with nothing to do. I miss it yet I don't think its something I could do these days. Communication is also hard. I think DJ is having a housewarming on the weekend. I am really excited about this. We may not see each other often but when we get together we can get along like we always used to.

I hate my job but I don't think I can do anything else. I really need to be my own boss. Here I am close to that, but I don't get paid like a boss. I work alone so sometimes I get lonely but at least it gives me time to blog...

...but I should go and do some work now.

Bye

I am...

...having smell-attachment issues with my hair gel.

I have to go to work now.

Here is a photo because I haven't put one up in a while. I gave James a facial the other night, he's positively glowing, this is the head band I wear If I want to look like I am being healthy, even If I am not being healthy, for some reason it makes me feel healthy, weird...

We are planning...

n says:
hey, we should also get a busking license before we go around Australia
n says:
lol, do you just need one license to busk anywhere
Zort says:
lol i dunno
Zort says:
i'd say different states have different laws about it
n says:
we should get one just for if we ever get desperately low on money
Zort says:
what are we gonna do?
n says:
um, you can play guitar and i will do interpretive dance

Camp...

I am petrified. I am completely and utterly terrified that I am going to be a fifty year old woman who has done nothing we her life. I have alot of grand plans and amazing schemes that never eventuate.

I think I am talented and have 'potential'. I'm not saying that to toot my own horn or whatever, I'm just saying it, well, because i feel it is true. I can do alot of things and I can do them well. I'm very creative and I am very passionate. However, I have always had a trouble with motivation (as I guess many people do). It takes alot to get me motivated but when I do it and when I get to where I am going I feel great.

My problem now is being in a relationship with someone even less motivated than myself. Finding the will power and drive to pull myself forward has always been a full on task but now I find myself having to find the strength to carry two people towards a common goal and this is hard. Don't get me wrong, I love El Capitan Tato more than anything on this planet, he is beutiful and kind and loving and makes my heart smile huger than I ever realised it could bu f*&% he is lazy :p One one hand his easy-going, laid back nature is a really wonderful aspect of his personality, I have stuffed up alot in the two years we have been together and I know that the reason he has been able to forgive me and give me more chances than I deserve is because of this assuasive attitude. On the opposite hand I wish I had a huge cattle prod at times to get him fired up and excited. I fear that when I am that old lady sitting in her rickety old rocking chair on the varandah of her rental property I am going to resent James because we never did anything with our lives. I know this would be unfair because If I do become that person it will have been my fault, I am the master of my own destiny after all but when having to chose between living a life with the person you love and living a life of adventure and achiecement its a tough call.

I just want to see James excited, passionate, fired up, enthusiastic. I love to see him angry, I mean I hate the fact that he is angry about something, that upset me, but at the same time I just love to see some kind of charged up emotion in him. I guess this is the sagitarrian in me? I've never been one to analyse people by star sign. I'm always listening to everyone justify other people's actions by "typical cancerian" or "he's an aquarian, its what they do" or whatever but I've never paid that much attention. Though I can really feel the fiery centaur burning inside me at times, haha. I get so charged and so passionate about things at times. I just want to rush out and start planning and telling everyone. I like to be very proactive, it gives me a rush. James is seriously the opposite of this and it can feel like some times his relaxed, 'plenty of time' nature is holding me back. This is why so many of our grand plans end up on the back burner. I really miss that feeling of exhilleration you get when you're charging for a goal.

I used to think the fact that James and I were polar oppsites in this respect was a good thing and quite often it is. He is the yin to my yang or is it the yang to my yin? He can can calm me down when I am being over the top and going too far with my mad plans and I can get him moving when he is a 24 year old unemployed bum living at home with his mum :p Now I hope that we can get over this hurdle that our confliciting personalities are creating to forge ahead with my new epic agenda (and the point of this post, how did I get so off track?)...

I want to go bush :D Over the past year we have been toying with the idea of going fruitpicking around Australia (another grand plan). I really want to see this amazing country we live in. Everyone takes off to do the Europe thing, working in London pubs and what not. Don't get me wrong, that sounds like an awesome experience (and also another of our grand plans) but I don't think people realise what a beautiful country Australia is. Most of these people will die having seen all over Europe but having seen hardly any of Australia! "NOT ME" she says. I know the trend of grey nomads is becoming increasingly popular and good on them, better late then never but I want to do it while I am still young enough to have the hugest most massive adventure EVER!!!! I shall be a brunette nomad.

Our/My plan involves buying a 4WD (getting my license) and taking, oooooh, 6 months to a year to travel (camping) around Australia. I want to see everything, I want to go to festivals and events everywhere, I want to leanr heaps of stuff and I want to do heaps of things I never ever thought I would. I will sky dive and bungee jump and scuba dive and parasail and and and anything else I can find to do.

I want to party in every great pub and club in this country. I want to spew in every out back toilet. I want to scrub dishes in roadhouses to pay for petrol and grow dreadlocks and not shower for weeks. I want to meet amazing people and do spectacular things. I want to take a year to live an awesome life and experience everything so that if I were to die on the day of my return I would die happy because I have done SOMETHING!

I don't care if its a struggle, I don't care what I have to go through because for every downfall there is something thrilling to pick me up right aorund the corner. I don't want to wait till I'm rich and travel from Hilton to Hilton, fuck that off. I am going to live!!! YEAH!

Haha, see what I mean when I said I get fired up. I put a lot of personal stuff in this post. I hope James doesn't mind, I don't think its an overshare. Just something playing on my mind. And putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) puts my plans in hardcopy so it makes it more difficult to go pack to them.

The second part of my plan is to pull something more tangible out of it. Please don't tell me my dreams are too huge, I hate that, I always aim for astronomical things and I really have the confidence in myself and in James to feel that I/we can achieve them. I intend to write a book on my travels, about my travels. It will kind of be like a guide to Australia for people under the age of 60. Its going to have every nitty gritty detail of our adventure, tips, hints, reviews and suggestions that people of my generation will find interesting. It will be a travel journal/novel/almanac for people wanting to see Australia and have a good time. Its not just going to be random reviews of diffferent tourist spots and what not, its will be personal experiences, highs and lows, discoveries, challenges, everything. Its hard to explain but I know inside me exactly what it is going to be and that is the most important thing.

I also plan to take a video camera and shoot and edit a documentary along the way, very similar in idea to the book. This excites me, to put that Media Production major to some use.

I have big plans and I will succeed. Within two years from now I will be living this dream, I hope James will be with me. If I have to do it alone though I will as sad as it makes me. Its time for me to step up.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyar. I am a ninja. I am also not proof reading this post because its too freakin' long.

Love Nic

P.S. James just showed me his horoscope for today....

Go ahead and make those ambitious plans. Out of all the signs, you've got the know-how and gumption to make them a reality before too long. Your pit crew of friends and family will help you get there.

Freaky Deaky.

Zort says:
actually, i think i should be 'Capitan Tato' sounds all latin and cool, like Antonio Banderes!!!! hehehe
Zort says:
or maybe even capitan el tato

'N' is most definitely for ninja!

Yesterday I...

- Walked 6km (it only took me an hour and a half so up yours WhereIs)
- Swam 3 km (120 laps, heeeeeeeeeeyar)

Now I look like this...


Haha, not really (thank god) but I do fit into my top well enough to wear it now, sort of. I may not fit into it by Saturday night though because it is Friday and tomorrow is Saturday and exercise will be limited. I might go for a swim tomorrow morning and do some situps tonight but that's about it. If it does fit I still don't think I would be safe in the fact that it wont bust at the seams when I drink 2 glasses of champagne and bloat up. I don't think I want to wear it anymore anyway. I sewed black buttons and black ribbon tie up straps on my other top I bought and it looks heaps better so oh well.

I can't weight (wait, gettit!) for this to be over so I can start talking about something else. I need to keep my mind focussed on this right now so if I start telling you about the fungus I think is growin on my arm or how much I hate my job I will get distracted.

Binges and Tanties...

OK, so it turns out that people actually read this blog and that kind of scares me.

On Tuesday my hot-top-fitting programme came terribly undone. I blame the fact that I only worked half a day (and oh, that I have little to no will power). Normally I work eight and half hours straight with no chance for a break. This is great because it gives me no opportunity to gorge during the day. Tuesday started off well however I got to go home at 1:00, this is where it all fell apart. I was starvinggggg and the passionfruit butter in the fridge that we bought at the Northpine Country Markets on the weekend was eyeing me off. I felt defeated because I was so hungry and I didn't want to go swimming that afternoon after the heavy duty work out the day before and convinced myself there was no point anyway because I am a blob and there was no way that shirt was going to fit me by the weekend. So I ate. I even consoled myself by going and buying a new top (that fit).

I was feeling good about my cave :: I got to eat again and I had another top to wear, almost as hot as the first one. This was until we went to dinner with James's family at his sister and bro-in law's place. Turns out they read my previous post and made a comment on it. I had to explain how I was weak and the passionfruit butter did it to me and I suddenly felt guilty and dissapointed in myself. Mr Biggs pointed out I still had a couple of days and that I could still do it, hmmmmmm. I really don't know if the top is in my reach. I tried it on this morning though and it is feeling a bit looser and looking a bit hotter than it did the day before. Since Sunday I have lost about 2 or 3 kilos, since two weeks ago I have lost about 8. So anyhoo, I'm going back on the plan today, just for 3 more days. I don't know if the top will fit me but if it doesn't I still have my other top as back-up. At least this way I can say I tried I guess.

Once again I'm aware that this is not the (physically or psychologicaly) healthy way to 'diet' and I assure you its not a permanent thing - 3 more days! I am currently reading "The Lazy Girl's Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Fit" by A.J. Rochester, the chick that hosts The Biggest Loser. Very interesting and has me understanding how this weightloss thing is meant to work. Come Monday I'm right on track for that. According to my BMI I only have about 8 kilos to lose to be 'healthy', I don't know how accurate that is - I feel like I have so much more than that to lose.

The crap thing about being fat is that you have no idea how big you are or what you look like, I think its a perception thing. Every mirror you look in, every reflection in a shop window, every photograph makes you look completely different. One minute you can look like this...

and the next like this...

OK, maybe the second is an exhaggeration but you get the point. Your BMI can tell you one thing and you clothing size tells a different story (though I gess there is a difference between thin and healthy (?)). You can look great in the mirror at home but then someone shows you a photo and its all over red rover. Its really annoying, what you really need is some kind of holographic duplicate of yourself that can show you ecatly what you look like in every out fit you own and every shade of eye shadow. That would be ideal.

Today I have the day off so I am meeting Captain Tato in his lunch break. Then I am going to walk to Chermside, WhereIs tells me this will take 2 hours and 1 minute, I don't expect it should really take that long. I'm going to go to the shops and them I am going to go swimming. 50 laps today is the plan! YEAH, Wish me luck. I hope it doesn't rain.

This is all boring stuff. My apologies. I want to change the subject and talk bout something different that is on my mind at the moment but I already fear this post is too long so I might do that some other time.

Byeeeee Homies.

100 sit-ups!!!!!

That's right, you heard me. 100 hundred sit-ups! That is what I have done two nights in a row now! Please forgive my excessive use of exclamation marks but I'm excited! (Bless you Big Kev.)

All of you fitness nazis out there are probably laughing at me because to you 100 sit-ups is fark all but to me it is a big achievement. Especially to do them 2 nights in a row. Captain Tato and I also went swimming last night. I did 30 laps which is also a pretty big achievement considering my current fitness level (or lack thereof). Back in the day I used to easily do well over a km every session but then I fell in love and got lazy. I had no idea just how unfit I had gotten until I started trying to exercise again. So 30 laps to me is huuuge. We went swimming last week and did 20 laps, today I said we would push it up and do 25. James was a big sissy girl and bailed at 20 (and only 50 sit-ups) and I ended up doing 30 laps . We are going swimming again tonight. I might try and pump out 40, yey!

The reason for this sudden fitness kick (besides the fact that I''m sick of my belly needing its own zip code) is that I plan to fit into this top...


By this date...

When we go to see this show...

YEAH! I'm so excited! Its going to be a thrilling evening of titties, tequila and anything else debaucherous you can think of that starts with 't'.

So I just have to lose a few inches from around my hips to fit into said top. At the moment it fits me standing up but when I sit down there are issues. My current diet consists of chewing gum, coke zero and water all day with salad for dinner. Before you start lecturing me on how unhealthy that is 'STOP!' you don't need to, I have a boyfriend to do that. Some Sunday (after a night of hot top wearing) I shall launch straight into some kind of healthy eating regime but until then this is the only tried and true method of losing 5+ kg in a week. RAGH!

So its swimming again tonight (this is getting expensive) and I think I might push for 150 sit-ups when we get home :D Wish me luck. Shall post pictures of hot top fitting me next week! Yeah!

P.S. The spell check on here is the worst. As I mentioned in a previous post it does not recognise prawns or BBQ!! Today it doesn't recognize titties! This is what is wrong with the world people. exclamation mark. exclamation mark. exclamation mark.