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This will take a while to load, if you want to see all the pics check out my Facebook photo album, but these are the ... most succinct!
My favourite snap I think. This is how we got all the work to and from places, as we moved locations every 2 to 3 days. A local police ute would take it, and sometimes us on top, with everything piled in the back, including an oxygen tank. And it's not like anybody obeys any road laws in Iquitos! Super fun ride. They'd even put the siren on and honk the super loud horn to admonish taxis that were always cutting in front of us.
( Peru in 28 days )
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| Demonia Creeper Boots for sale |
[04 Feb 2010|12:16pm] |
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( Details and more photos )
I bought them for $280, selling for $200. I'd rather sell them to someone in Perth so I don't have to ship the fuckers, but I really want to sell them, so talk to me anyway if you're out of Perth. I'm happy to deliver for cash, or after a bank transfer has gone through. I don't have a paypal or paymate account.
posted on: perth_alt_life, perthgoths, alt_trade, personal lj.
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[02 Feb 2010|06:27pm] |
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I just posted this on my iam page, so iamers, beware a double up.
( my trip to Peru: the epic saga )
I shall do a small photo post here later tonight, once I choose and upload a few pics to my own webspace. Check out my facebook for a heap tho.
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[27 Dec 2009|06:11pm] |
So on the subject of new year's resolutions. or at least, thoughts and ideas and possible goals for how next year might go if it goes how I sort of plan it...
I'm considering going ( drug and alcohol free )
Thoughts?
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[18 Dec 2009|11:47am] |
fuck you iinet! stealing 4 hours of my off peak time. now I only get 6 hours of off peak each day? how the smeg am I supposed to download entire tv series and discographies now, without getting shaped?
bastards.
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| help a n00b out |
[07 Dec 2009|01:01pm] |
So I am realising, in looking at my fishing tackle box, that I have a RIDICULOUS amount of piercing jewellery, that I will never ever wear again. Either because I don't have that piercing anymore, or I've stretched past that size, or I've just picked something nicer.
I like and need monies. It's a waste having all this stuff. And I can clean it and autoclave it so it's totally safe to resell.
But where should I sell it online? I totally do not understand ebay or paypal. I have bank and credit card accounts, but... clueless.
Can anyone know me how to set them ups? I offer um... hugs? Shiny piece of jewellery of your choice that I don't want?
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[05 Dec 2009|07:00pm] |
i heart my new lip rings
i heart my new headband
i heart my new mini skirt
i heart incubus
i heart beach weather
i heart finished tattoo pieces
i heart having the time to see friends
i heart cider
i heart thomas kalnoky, despite his betrayals
i heart my baby!
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[01 Dec 2009|12:03pm] |
Australia Dept of Travel and Foreign Affairs website advises me:
"We strongly advise you not to travel to the areas of Peru bordering Colombia because of the risk of kidnapping by narcotics traffickers. We also advise you not to travel to areas bordering Ecuador, other than official border crossings, due to the presence of unexploded ordnance and landmines."
"On 26 July and 4 August 2009, armed gangs attacked a cruise ship containing several tourists, including Australians, while travelling along the Amazon River between Iquitos and Nauta."
"Peru is located in an active seismic region. In August 2007, an earthquake off the coast of Chincha, 161km south of Lima, killed more than 500 people."
I'll be staying in Iquitos. That's the city right next to the Colombian border. We'll be travelling to and from work in a boat on the Amazon.
AWESOME! I'm gonna get kidnapped by guerillas and turned into a drug mule. Boobs full of coke. Sweet.
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| Not panicked. |
[26 Nov 2009|05:11pm] |
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Ooops. (how many blog entries star that way?) I should not have counted my... chickens before they hatched? Job before I had it? Seems the cat haven is only looking to hire full time permanent staff. Which is understandable. I will not become homeless, however, my holiday pay from work really only covers rent and bills and fuel, I was going to use casual workies for throwing at credit card and savings for trip. Same thing really.
There's all those pesky expenses like hostel accomodation, taxi trips around airports, small plane flights, souvenir (?!) shopping, oh and those 3 million vaccinations I still need. Ok, 2 more rabies and 1 hepatitis plus a course of Doxycycline, cos malaria is so last decade. At least I have clothes and shoes covered, and parents are going to get me a big backpack for xmas.
So. Who wants their car washed? Or garden cleaned? Presents wrapped? I have a lot of experience wrapping presents from my days of being a smiling helpful girl guide. That's right, I used to wear a sash. And a saggy hat. And a skort.
Oh and who knows of anything fun to do in Buenos Aires? I have a like, 26 hour stopover.
Thinking of the cute puppies. Alllll the cute puppies. And maybe even monkeys.
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I quit my job! Screw you, management that doesn't care to take care of it's staff. You're not worth it. I will miss (nearly) everyone tho :( I don't think I'll ever work with such an awesome group of kids. I have like 200 hours of special and holiday leave owing, so I'm fine.
I played with giant sea turtles! They buried me, pushed me down sand dunes, slapped me with their half a metre long flippers, and hissed. They were gorgeous, enormous, dinosaurs, and I hope that all their eggs hatch safely.
I'm *hopefully* going to Melbs to do some modelling work! And see Jess and Steph! Woooooot. Girls. Yay!
So starting Monday I shall be a partial lady of leisure. Going to try to pick up some casual shifts at a shelter, and get finally totally sorted out for Peru trip. And clean the house. And get some gardn shiz happening. And move my bike and get a lesson or two in. And go out dancing. And save the world.
The end. What's up with you kids?
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[08 Nov 2009|04:26pm] |
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dear life. i miss you. where did you go? sometime amongst the 70 hour weeks i've been pulling, you've faded away. i don't know who my friends are dating or where they live anymore. my money's syphoned into invisible sections of adobe documents, and my plane tickets haven't arrived. my phonebook is incorrect and my profile picture needs updating. clothes are out of season. someone turned the page when i wasn't looking and i think they skipped a whole chapter of observations.
at least my clothes are dry.
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| i hate money |
[26 Oct 2009|04:21pm] |
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waaaaaaaaaaaaah. everything i need costs money. for peru i need immunisations, hiking boots, to post some medical supplies, accomodation money while i'm not at the clinic, 2 plane tickets still, and spending money. for here i need a new motorbike battery, a few things fixing on my car, a couch, a fridge with a freezer, a new wireless router and possibly modem. oh and don't forget the 4 grand credit card debt that came from peru plane tickets and fixing the motorbike. and the 700 ish i still owe to my friend for it. and the 1400 i still owe my parents for the car i keep trying to crash.
raaaaaaaaaaaaaah. and everything i want costs money. i want my tongue resplit, 3 new piercings, some summer clothes (most of mine are covered in red dirt), some pot plants so my house is less hideous out the front, and some kitchen things like more muffin trays and a blender.
can't also forget that as soon as i return from peru i will need to (hopefully) enrol in uni and pay fees and buy books, and (definitely) pay for 3 x suzi q tattoo appts. hope i don't have any important classes on friday cos i'm going to have to skip 3 out of 6 of them for the first 6 weeks and i am SO NOT giving up appts i booked 13 months in advance.
grrr. i really want those people to call me back about that lovely cash cash cash work. i could blow away a lot of these things with that.
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| bdo first announcement |
[29 Sep 2009|12:32pm] |
muse
powderfinger
lily allen
eskimo joe
groove armada
grinspoon
the mars volta
dizzee rascal
karnivool
peaches
the temper trap
kasabian
midnight juggernauts
rise against
magic dirt
mastodon
lisa mitchell
bluejuice
calvin harris
kisschasy
the decemberist
tame impala
girltalk
woot! guess i'll be going for big day out number 11! most excited to see rise against who i missed this year due to cowardice, and girltalk who i missed due to poverty. groove armada should go off. also would like to catch lisa mitchell. and of course have to have to see magic dirt, for dean. mars volta and powderfinger for old times sake would be nice. i wonder if muse is their headliner tho, or if they'll get a bigger rock act.
still need to buy a soundwave ticket, but yay :) next year should have some solid rockin times.
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It's been so long since I did a quiz/survey. Remember those ones with the lil pictures, you could make up your own quiz too? Man I used to do so many of those.
So here's a text survey I ganked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cupcakesncandy ( ... )
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[31 Aug 2009|04:02pm] |
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edit: entry now revised with much smaller and loading friendlier turtle image. tho less cute "i'm busy digging here bitch!" feel to this one.
Driving home today I came up with multiple effbook and twooter updateys. I realised I wanted to post them all. Then I remembered this historic piece of technology called... a livejournal!!! So here I am.
I have only just (bad janey) realised that my favourite lollies aren't vegan. This makes me very sad. So I am eating my last bag of roc candy. Stupid beeswax. I think the sugar free kind are beeswax free, but it has a warning about eating too many causing a laxative effect... and I can never eat only a few roc candies. So. Adieu! My dentist will thank me I'm sure.
Booked and paid for 1/3 of my Peru trip. Slightly terrified. Lucky I got that credit card recently eh?! Hopefully don't max it out within the first month of usage. Got travel insurance, which is good. Some lil stop overs in Sydney where I will harass people to come and entertain me, or possibly go out for dinner? And I have an almost 24 hour stop over in Buenos Aires on the way back. I arrive at like 3am and leave 2am the next day, so I'm tossing up two options: find a hotel at the airport I can check into, attempt to sleep, and then get back on another plane, or dump bags into a locker and take a daytrip into Buenos Aires. I also have extra days on either side of my actual volunteer work, where I can do what I want. If I manage to win lotto or magically save some more money, I'm thinking of looking up some internet kids and asking them to show me the sights. Got two beautiful friends in Venezuela I'd love to see, so if I can get some wonderful flight to them, maybe I can have some party times! I'll be there for New Years, so that will be exciting.
I'll be doing volunteer vet nursing work for 2 weeks with Amazon CARES. This is the kind of work that makes my heart leap, and I realise that it is the cause I am the most passionate about. I have to pursue it!
I've gone on lots of trips on my own before, but this will be the biggest! Everybody hope that the druglords from Colombia don't kidnap me. I'm insured for it at least. But seriously, I'll be living in a jungle hut not very far from the border. Must make self look as poor and/or gangsta as possible.
Also going up north again, near Broome, to do some big flatback turtle volunteer work with Conservation Volunteers Australia. Romy (nurse friend from work, super awesome) and I will be staying in a RESORT, complete with cocktail bar and pool overflowing into the ocean or something pretty like that. And at nights we'll be patrolling the beach counting nests and eggs and doing dna sampling of the turtles. Wheee!!!
Am happily retiring to hermitage for pretty much ever. I have 3 gigs left to go to this year; nofx, dempsey, lowfi, and no great urge to go to any others (small dnb dubstep etc things excepted), for the rest of the year. Unless No Doubt should decide to tour. I will probably get my soundwave ticket sometime soon. I am cutting down on the wkender chemical intake, and my body is happy for it. Looking at small houses/villas/flats to rent next year for imminent studenthood. Gulp.
Wanting to start growing tomatoes and capsicum in the backyard in large pots of volcanic rock.
Going to pick up newly fixed motorbike sometime soon, with the help of Mr Madd. With all the broken bits replaced, that pesky loud noise gone, and some shiny new tyres and brake pads, she should be happy with me. Helmet should be getting here soon and then I can book some lessons and be hooning around in no time. Her name was Lucille, but I'm thinking of changing it to Sofia.
Sooo.... what do you thinks?
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[03 Aug 2009|01:43pm] |
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Life is a bit crazy lately, which is nothing new... but I've been wishing I could say some things about it. I've been tossing up getting a new lj and not telling anyone I know, so I can just rant and rave and not offend anyone... but I do like getting comments and advice and interaction. So I guess I'll just try to be nice, and when I need to rant I'll be nice and vague and you can all just guess who I'm complaining about :)
New house is going pretty well, ironing out some random problems and faults and what the fuck is that smell, things. Haven't lived with this many people in a long time, but it's really only 2 of us that are ever home, and the house is so huge we only see each other occasionally. It's great to be so close to the boy's place, and to have enough space to spread my shit out a bit. Me being the anal female that I am, and being the one that actually uses the laundry kitchen front yard back yard... I do a lot. But that doesn't bother me too much, so long as people don't use my shit and then leave it lying around dirty.
Am slowly becoming more of a grown on her own person. I couldn't move back in with my parents even if I wanted to, because someone else lives in my rooms now. I can sleep there sometimes, but there is no room for my shit, and I definitely couldn't live there. Not having that safety net is weird! I'm buying a motorbike, and it will be registered in my name, which my car isn't even yet. Spooky. I applied for a credit card. I applied for uni. I sorted the internet for this house and it's all in my name. I'm attempting to do my tax online. I'm getting a new GP, near my actual house as opposed to the same lady who sewed my leg up when I was 7 and works near my parents. Except that she doesn't anymore, we found out that she has cancer and had to retire :( That is really sad, because she's a freaking awesome lady.
I am looking after another lil lost animal... strays hit by cars with munted legs seem to be my theme. Her name is Ewok, because when she came in at 4am nearly 3 weeks ago she was all wrapped up in a mattress protector by the lovely guy who found her, and her fur was all over the place and she looked just like an ewok. She has since had all her matts and prickles cut out, her face trimmed so she is a lil more like a chewbacca.. but she's still my lil ewok, miss moppet, 3 legged fur baby. Her pelvis is broken, she should have surgery but I don't have 6 grand for a stray dog, so she's with me on cage rest and pain relief and will hopefully heal up ok. She's hooning around happily on 3 legs and we will soon rexray her one leg and her pelvis to check how it's all going. She's so sweet, mostly very quiet except when I leave the room and she whinges a bit. She's much better behaved than Bart, altho not as good at following me everywhere, she is very timid.
Finally uploaded a lot, but not quite all, of my photos from my trip in may. Hit up my fbook for thems.
Well I suppose I should put on clothes and go do a few things before nightshift. Blaaaahhh. Boring.
If anyone can suggest a career that is interesting challenging but not stressful... that would be RAD.
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| URGENT: Cute kitty needs a home |
[25 Apr 2009|04:24pm] |
Theresa is looking for a new home.
She is an approximately 6 month old small tabby and torti kitten. She came into our vet clinic as an injured stray found on the road, probably hit by a car, in a small cardboard box. Her tongue was stuck to her bottom teeth where she had probably bitten it on being hit by the car. Her left leg was unable to support weight and she was weak, though still very affectionate. With pain relief and lots of rest and good food, her tongue and leg are now fully recovered.
Now speyed, vaccinated (needs a booster in a month, already paid for), flea + worm treated, microchipped, she is ready for re-homing. She comes with a bag of kitten biscuits, some wet kitten food, a litter tray and litter, some toys, another 5 months of Revolution, and a collar. She is very affectionate and loves to be picked up and cuddled, to sit in the sunshine in the window, or to play with her mouse toy. She is talkative and would best be suited to an indoor life (she has zero road sense and wants to hunt birds). We are not sure how she gets along with other animals yet as she has not met any others close up.
If you think you'd like to adopt Theresa, please contact me on (oh four oh nine, four five nine, six four one). I go away for a month this sunday may 3rd, so even if someone could just look after her for a month, that would be great. Since there is a time limit I am not worrying about getting back the $ I have spent on her so far - so there is no adoption fee.
Photos can be found on my facebook album for her here or I can sms you some more.
Please feel free to pass on my number and details about this to anyone you know. She will alas be going to the Cat Haven if I can't find someone to take her before I leave. The Cat Haven is great, but they are full, so she won't have much of a chance.
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[25 Feb 2009|03:21am] |
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so it's 3.22am at work and these overnight shifts seem to be the only time i take to read lj. but i'm not going to get myself into a knot about it, i just have rearranged priorities, and blogging is not the way i find out what my friends are up to anymore. i have noticed a similar shift with a lot of people. and i'm ok with it.
but i shall do an update anyway, because i haven't in ages and since i like sporadically reading about what my non irl friends are doing it's only fair to let them know about my activities too.
( work, love, family, friends, other.. )
so mostly all things cruising along nicely. am getting towards accomplishing some of my 'goals' for this year which were - get private health insurance (done), get credit card account (in process of), pay off car and laptop (slowly happening), sort out overseas work (ok really need to start on that!).
so tell me of your happenings.
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| Will you love Bartleby? |
[18 Feb 2009|12:13am] |
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This is Bart.
He is an approx 6 month old Kelpie X, now castrated, vaccinated and microchipped.
He was a stray dog hit by a car a month ago, who I adopted and looked after until all his wounds healed (you can see the scars forming in this picture, and the hair starting to grow back). He is now looking for a permanent home, as alas I don't have the space or time for such an active dog.
( More pictures and information )
If you or anyone you know would be interested in making Bart part of your family for the rest of his life, please contact me. janey at iinet.net.au . His details are also up on my facebook, and on the petrescue.com.au site, thanks to SAFE perth.
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| credit cards |
[08 Jan 2009|12:38pm] |
i'm a bad bad person who doesn't check her livejournal very often. i check my facebook and email a little more regularly. but you are best to get me on my mobile phone if you really want to invite me to a party, tell me you're knocked up, or ask for help with something.
but since all you people who are reading this still check lj, i shall ask for your help.
I am looking at getting a credit card soon. ( because )
So! Especially aussies, please tell me what your experiences have been with credit cards.
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