When I feel overwhelmed, I'm unable to think through one problem at a time. I've come to the conclusion that maybe that's just the way my brain works. It's screwed. If I have more than three problems I have to fix in a day I just get lost and confused. The last time I felt this way was in year twelve. There was this one day where I had so much ( Read more... )

As many of you know, my family is Brazillian. And as Brazillians, we do all our celebrating on Christmas Eve. We get together and have dinner, and then at midnight we open our presents. It was really fun this year. I have no idea what got into dad but his Scrooge-ness seems to have disappeared. He's probably the biggest Scrooge I know; even ( Read more... )

So dad came out of no-where and said we're all going to the Gold Coast for five days in December. Mum was grateful but immediately said she didn't want to go because we can't afford it. The tickets had already been paid for. Normally I'd be ecstatic but I'm already going camping for four days and I can't take any more time off work. If I went, ( Read more... )

It's a lovely day today. The sun is shining and the clouds are all fluffy and purdy. Y'know whenever I say or hear anyone say "It's a lovely day today" I'm always highly tempted to sing in reply ( Read more... )

The days leading up to Christmas have been alot better than I had anticipated a few weeks ago. Turns out mum was just being melodramatic when she said we probably wouldn't be doing Christmas this year. In fact I don't think I've anticipated Christmas this much since I was a kid. Our tree is drawing me in just like it used to when I was really ( Read more... )