Just call me Miss Green Thumb!
I went out and bought a window box yesterday, to fill with herbs. Just because I have no inside space and no garden doesn't mean I can't have fresh herbs on the landing outside my window under the stairs, goddammit! So now I have basil, coriander, chives, thyme and mint. Herbs make me happy. Growing things in general makes me happy. It'll be nice to have a small growing herbery of my own to inspire me to cook better food!
I make a rad tomato spaghetti sauce that basically just involves tomatoes, misc herbs, garlic and onion with a pinch of salt and pepper, and boy does it taste good! Healthy, with all whole ingredients and made by me, and I think Pete likes it a fair bit too (but puts more cheese on it than me! I like the real tomatoey taste). My mum is growing two tomato plants, so soon we will be rolling in fresh tomato!
I need to look for a new job. I always seem to be looking for a new job. Hopefully I can find a new job that I can keep for a long time. Hopefully it is a nice one, and will fit in with my uni schedule. Also, it needs to come along soon, because my car rego needs paying, my cat needs desexing, the rent always needs paying, and I need to pay a huge library fine by Wednesday so I can enrol on time (this fine is like $150...I think I had a book out for ages that someone had recalled and I didn't realise..yikes)...so the pressure is on. I need to scoop myself up, put myself back on my feet, and get involved in my life again. Recently things have been pretty shit, but it's time to piece it back together, become the person I want to be, instead of just idly wishing.
I'm trying to sell my stuff on ebay to raise cash...if you like manga/dvds/second hand clothing, just visit: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=280289158378 (good manga)
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=280289165029 (The Weatherwoman!)
and just view my other items, if you're interested. I need to minimise my stuff, my bookshelves overflow with books (but I'll probably get a new shelf instead of culling too many, they're my babies!), we have too many gaming consoles, too many musical instruments, too many dvds, cds, videos, tapes, records (but they're Pete's babies! we have some to sell, though), clothes (especially my shoe collection, eek), and need to minimise the clutter. We're both collectors of different things so sometimes we need to cull the crap we've accumulated...now is one of these times. Spring cleaning =)
I have made a pact with myself not to fuck with my hair until I am about to go back to uni...that way I can get an expensive, hella stylish haircut, and wow everyone at uni, and then just let it grow out (hopefully continuing to look awesome) so that I can ignore it for a while again. I'm trying to grow it, but it's looking pretty shitty sometimes along the way. I put a semi permanent black in my hair that has faded to a really nice black-brown colour. This will probably be completely gone by the time I get the Fancy Haircut, so it'll be all natural...to then be played with again! Hopefully I can convince myself to let it grow long, because I like my hair long, and I haven't had it that way in years, I'm just too impatient, and always cut it off. I want to grow it REALLY long so I can do long plaits and big messy buns and all sorts of nice things I haven't been able to do since I was a kid. Now I've gotten all nostalgic, I need to persuade myself not to cut it when I get Ideas.
I went to my cousin's engagement yesterday, which was ok, even though we're not close or anything. That whole family (husband and wife with three daughters) are too picture-perfect, and it's always really hard to be around them. The perfect Hills family, with three blonde, thin, tanned daughters who look exactly like their mother, and they all go out and play netball together, and get nice boyfriends and want to get married and blah blah. It's kind of nice, but it makes me very glad that I'm a bit corrupted and not so wholesome at the same time. I wonder which feeling I prefer more? Hmm.
I've rambled for long enough. Until next time, adieu!
Hannah