ya think?

This is a flyer advertising a tree planting day in my local area. I see it at work every shift and I can't help but marvel at pitching this concept to people. How about 'Life is only possible with trees'?

Missed moments. The new joy of having a camera phone....

Here is what I have seen lately and what is going on in my life:


To the train, to the city, full of optimism.




the spoils of party


CS French girls, oh I do love to practice language and they were fantastic!


Beautiful words


tehehe....a band apparently =)


Mosaic in the Block Arcade in Melbourne, one of my favorite places in the city due to its old architecture.


poodles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Sunsets. I must be honest and biased and say that I think these are some of the most beautiful sunsets I've seen in the world.


sound: *overwhelmingly loud chirping* birds communing in the evening


really? for everyone?

And Remeber folks, try not to cut off your digits...

The crime scene

So I tried to cut off the top of my finger.....you don't need that part anyway!

Someone asked me the other day what I did and when I told them 'I tried to cut it off' they looked analyzed me seriously as if trying to determine if I had suicidal tendencies as well. So I was cutting, badly, irresponsibly. I wasn't really paying attention, unfamiliar knife, unfamiliar kitchen, unfamiliar cutting board. Onion, onion, onion, finer...uhoh.

Today's New photos

Nature amazes us all.

CouchSurfers are doing my hair!

Thank you Oxford dictionary of names =)

Cara ♀ 20th-century coinage, from the Italian term of endearment cara 'beloved' or the Irish Gaelic vocabulary word cara 'friend'. MEANWHILE..... Kara ♀ Variant spelling of Cara. So we need not be confused on which spelling to use People =) Ah ha! If only I had known this before. I could have been pompous and annoying about my name to all those haughty Karas!

when stomache bugs attack!

I will never complain again about the common cold! Never I say! And I also won't elaborate about what an externally uneventful but internally eventful weekend I had! But onwards and upwards...

Now, I am lifeguarding for the next 3 days,

sorting photos as usual (one day there will be none left I tell you),

reading a great new book!,

showing a CSer/ConFester/friend the beach tomorrow,

retail on Saturday,

house sitting in Cheltenham starting Friday

(pet free, big house all to myself- 1 quiet cat doesn't count as a pet when you live in a Zoo!),

and Sunday I will start doing Still Photography for a short film

Patrick has returned from Yuko's wedding in Japan!

...and he had a wonderful time surrounded by food and hospitality.

CS Asian Dinner night at Andrew's.

Fun faces everyone!

Sewing projects

Look Ma! Look what I made from recycling garments....

From a skirt to a handbag. Im going to add red buttons to the tops of the bows.

I also converted a baggy shapeless shirt into... a nicer one. It's purple. It's fun.

Daily disorganized life

Nothing too exciting happening. Daily disorganized life. Cheeky kitten, cold weather, ducted heating, over thinking, exercising, habit changing, chocolate eating, reading, procrastinating.

Slept in this morning as I had a migraine last night. I worked today at the pool and went for a workout in the gym afterwards so I feel great and tired which is wonderful. Now I am preparing to go to a CS Girls night I have planned in St Kilda. My car is piled with bags of clothes from a clothing exchange party a friend of mine took me too last Sunday so it will be nice to empty my car.

Girls night photos soon =)

CS Girls' Night

The RESULT:

The IDEA:

Hey ladies!

I want to share skills and info with one another!

I'd like to paint nails (I have paint I never use!), learn more about make up (a bit clueless really), make some recipes (see below), learn how to braid hair, mud mask...ya know, anything like that. We can share what we know how to do and help each other.

I have a great book with all kinds of natural recipes called 'Naturally Beautiful- earth's secrets and recipes for skin, body and spirit'. Right now I have covered my hair in olive oil trying to coax it into recovery after confest conditions...it's interestingly fun!

PS. Patricipating men will have their nails (can be toes) painted =)

25/04/10

midsummer night

Midsummer night by John Atkinson Grimshaw

I am now a Certified Lifeguard!

Last Wednesday I went for an interview to lifeguard for the pool I swim at regularly, 5 mins from my house on foot! By Friday I had the job and compliments on my interviewee techniques! Hooray, if only everyone wanted to give me a job! Roll Up, Roll Up!

Over the weekend I did the Lifeguard course (yes, I got a job before having the qualifications which makes me feel pretty savvy). I attended the course which ran Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday in Maribyrnong (what a hike! other side of the city). Friday night was theory and I stayed the night in Moone Ponds with my Confest/CS friend Jarrod, great to see him again! Saturday was CPR, swim test, towing test after which I went to visit Jarrod and say farewell as he flew to Italy Saturday night. After that it was more farewells as my step-Dad Patrick is off to Japan for 2 weeks to attend the traditional Japanese wedding of his ex-exchange student Yuko who is a temple masters daughter. What an amazing insight into Japanese Culture! My travel feet are a little itchy with so many people flying about!

In the course on Sunday we practiced scenarios or 'initiatives' as they called them. We were then tested on initiatives and were also tested on removing someone from the water who is unconscious and removing someone who has a spinal injury (strapping them to a board whist immobilizing their neck). My favourite part of the course was learning how to turn someone over with the vice grip who is face down in the water with a suspected spinal injury! I was demonstrating it to anyone who I talked to about the course over the weekend. Sunday evening I met up with my friend Sally, signed her up to CS and went home exhausted! That may hours in the pool dries out your skin and makes your hair angry. We ate gourmet pizza and hid from the cold!

This Wednesday I will go for my Induction at the Centre! I will also sign up so I can use the gym and pool facilities for free! Fitness here I come which is great because just now I need a little motivation!

Rain

Emotional emails

Stuffy nose

Job Interview

Excessive dental visits

Cat, cats, cats and whiney dogs

Ducted heating

Doing everything and nothing

Chocolate for everyone

A petit voyage to Sydney...

Last weekend, Patrick's company needed someone to help drive to Sydney...and who more qualified and experienced then I...and had extra time? So Alex (Promotions Director) and I drove the ~11 hours to Sydney alternating driving.

The Land Rover, that we affectionately called Beast, that took us to Sydney...so loud, so wide.

Ahoy from atop the Holbrook submarine- 390km inland of course the place for a submarine.

The computer stall all set up and looking good. Keith the owner on the left, Alex on the right.

I took the train to North Sydney to my CS host' house. I told where the spare key was so I could get in but I arrived to find the house alive. There were 3 other surfers staying and oh what fun we had. There was Hanna (Germany), Alissa and Laure (France). We chatted and then Mark arrived with 2 friends and he made healthy leftovers for dinner. After that we listened to music, played cards, did yoga dancing with feather dusters...you know, all the normal stuff.

We played spoons, one of my favourites!

The skyscrapers of Sydney as seen from Mark's balcony! He had a great view!

The benefits of the balcony abound! Morning visitors eating sunflower seeds out of my hand!

I met up with my friend Sam who is doing Med in Sydney and we wandered the city. He took me to the rocks and the Observatory which had great views of the Harbor Bridge.

It was a lovely day! Still so warm in Sydney.

After the Rocks Sam and I walked back to the CBD to the Park and met up with Couch Surfers. It started off as a few and then more and more came until we had a picnic party! I left the party to get my suitcase and head to the airport, it was hard to leave my old and new friends!

the matrix lego! wonderful!

Food flags! Clever clever!

Playing with photography =)

The Comedy Festival ends...

I am proud of myself. This year I actually went to some shows! Comedy is under rated! I wrangled the program, searched out comedians at random and watched the gala, all to find out who to see and the list goes as follows:

-Josh Thomas (test audience)

-Peter Hellier (CS tickets)

-David O'Doherty- GREAT!

-Sarah Millican

-Hannah Gadsby

-Eddie Ifft- GREAT!

-Jeff Green

-Justin Hamilton (CS tickets)

Pixel Invasion...so fun!

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