pink of perfection

day four

my mum says that when i was 7 she enrolled me into an after school art class for a term. at the end of the term i had produced one piece of art work while all the other kids had at least ten. i can remember sitting in class, being completely obsessed with making my picture as perfect as the picture we were all copying. if it wasn't exactly right i couldn't finish (in fact i don't think i did!) these days whenever i do something creative i have to tell my self to make it imperfect... then at least it will be perfectly imperfect and i can eventually stop.

i helped out with my mums art class today and was amazed. these kids are champions. they did the best pictures and not a care in the world. give me some of your magic potion children! sprinkle some of your "i don't care if it's not perfect" fairy dust on my perfectionist head.

today was fun. i wish i could be seven again and in art class but i suppose ill just have to be happy living vicariously though my mums students!

my drawing aged 7

yellow is the colour of the sun

day four

there is this great site called the emotionary which has a whole bunch of new words to help explain the way one is feeling when there isn't a real word for that emotion. i've scrolled through this site a few times and often imagine my self whipping a word out in natural conversation...which of course never happens because i have enough trouble remembering real words let alone made up ones. nevertheless here is a word i found which was perfect for my day.

lonesanity

loneliness + insanity
the hopeless yearning for your pet's/inanimate objects in your house's ability to converse back with you.

isn't this the truth. i would love to sit down and have a conversation with a number of useless objects around my home. (i apologise to the objects i'm referring to... you are not useless and i should never have said that. please forgive me)

so...my do something new/fun thing today funnily enough wasn't to sit down and converse with the toaster (which would also be impossible as i don't own one and have to cook bread in the oven every morning because secretly i want a hello kitty toaster and won't toast till i find one!)

today i decided to write a children's book. i went to the bookshop to suss out the competition and found a brilliant book! if you own any children you should get them this book! it is called ... the day the crayons quit. by drew daywalt. genius! the crayons each write a letter to their owner (his name is duncan) about how they are feeling. i knew i felt bad for the crayons that didn't get used as much as the others for a reason!

and yes I did try to write my own book. it's very funny and I think it will be a gigantic success.

pride and prejudice vs 2013

day three

"Yes, we often walk to Meryton. It's a great opportunity to meet new people. In fact, when you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance." Elizabeth Bennet

thus... in the hopes of forming a new acquaintance i set off! i didn't quite walk all the way into town but i did walk for at least twenty minutes which i believed should have given me ample amount of time to "meet new people". i came across one girl who was wearing a rather ugly coat but i still thought we could be friends. she seemed reluctant to give me any eye contact though... not sure why... perhaps she was not in the mood to form a new acquaintance today.

isn't it funny that when one comes across an elderly person or people, one expects them to be sweet and kind and have and endless supply of candy or freshly baked goods in their pockets... if i were elizabeth or jane or mary or kitty... maybe not lydia... i believe they would have invited me in for a game of bridge and light tea refreshment. these old biddies more or less looked at me weirdly as if to say... i'm old! if you get in my way i will trample you with my walker and throw stale candy and baked goods onto your arm pits! 

don't be disheartened... i did struck acquaintance gold!... a young lad unloading a truck eagerly waved at me as i walked past... it made me feel uneasy and i didn't really want to wave back so i gave him an awkward smile and crossed the road... i have to admit i was a little scared he may stuff me into his van and drive off, plus we hadn't been formally introduced so i think it was all for the best. 

sadly i don't think you can make new acquaintances any more by walking into town. people are too scared they might get murdered or accidentally meet a crazy person (cos murderers aren't crazy!) in their efforts for friendship.

keep calm and kitty on

day two

what else is there to do on an icy cold day in adelaide but to take a page out of hello kitty's glistening book of sunshine and try something once... twice if i like it! 

i watched a three minute video on how to do a bow using your own hair. looked simple enough... the girl in the video used one hair tie, 4 bobby pins and all of her hair...!  one hour, one can of hairspray, two hair ties, two broken hair ties, 10 bobby pins and only one third of my hair later... success!!!!

(someone really needs to start a blog entitled... survival tips 101 - thick haired girls living in a thin hair world.)

I packed my bag with all the essentials... hello kitty stamp set suitcase, hello kitty comb, hello kitty tea towl holder and all the hello kitty magnets i could find!

i had a lovely day eating all of hello kitty's favourite foods at the shanghai tea house, met up with some friends in peter alexander and taught piano using only hello kitty's favourite music!

three things you may not know about hello kitty

1. hello kitty's favourite bedtime story is mysterious forest

2. hello kitty has a boyfriend named dear daniel

3. hello kitty is as tall as five apples and weighs as much as three apples.

"happiness comes in all colours of the rainbow" - hello kitty

posted by hello celia

can't beat the heat

day one

interestingly enough this day was like no other...

 - drug busts
 - car chases
 - ball breaking humour
 - car bombs
 - true camaraderie between two newly formed friends

sounds more like a movie than a day in the life of a small town gal but thats what you get when you try to throw a little spice into an ordinary girls life...

goodbye sailor

it has been one year, six months and fourteen days since my last feuds and friendships post and it's because of one of those words that i have returned to it today. this morning i said bon voyage to two of my best people and for the next month i am a few men down with a war on my hands.

a war . on .  abxist*

generally i am no good on my own and my usual go to move is to hide away and not experience anything until i have someone to experience it with again but four weeks is a long time and i don't believe hiding is going to cut it. so due to a number of silver linings in which the details shall remain pensilent* i have decided that instead of donning my usual camouflage i intend to find one exciting or fun or interesting or challenging thing to do each day and prove to myself that i am perfectly capable of blowing my own mind!

therefore i am going to make a promise to myself that today is the first day of 'mission mind blowing' and this is a binding contract enforcing that each day is going to be lived.


*check out the emotionary http://www.the-emotionary.com/ for all your words that don't exist when your feelings do.