got a letter in the mail today saying my application for new zealand citizenship has been approved, yay me! now i just have to do some citizenship ceremony (where i swear allegiance to the queen of england ._.) and then i'm all official and can get a NZ passport and stuffs. very happy, glad to have all that sorted, now they can never deport me!  ( Read more... )

just because ^_^

( that thing everyone is doing )

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ugh original pulled from youtube, new version posted (not that anyone is paying attention)

i don't care that this is @(#$^(@#% 8 months off, i need to see it NOW >.< (you want to see me fangirl? you put lewis carroll, tim burton, johnny depp, alan rickman, helena bonham carter, and danny elfman together. no contest. i don't even care if it turns out ( Read more... )

:/ the place that i've worked for the past 3 years, where i've had a good paying job, with a cool boss, and really flexible hours, very suddenly went into liquidation today, without any warning. i am not a happy camper. boss says that he may have trouble getting me this past week's pay, and there won't be work for me for at least a few weeks (and ( Read more... )

so today i finished an outfit for a fashion designer competition down here, and am sending it out tomorrow. i'm really happy with the way it turned out, and it's the first time i've gotten something done on time without horrible all nighters and waaay too much stress. i'm really proud of myself. it's the first thing i've done in quite a long time ( Read more... )

so i've decided to elaborate on on my last post about the concertina accordion coveting. i've recently had this giant fit of "HOLY CRAP, I'VE GOTTEN ALL STALE AND BORING, AND I HATE ALL MY CLOTHES, AND I'VE LOST MY CREATIVE MOJO AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE"...... my mom didn't help matters by responding with "yeah, actually, you've ( Read more... )

so, for a number of weeks now, i've been obsessing over the idea of learning how to play one of these...

this one is too pretty (although unfortunately not the style i want to learn, and painfully expensive)


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just a little while ago they confirmed that the crazy shooter guy down the road from me is dead. there was a whole bunch of shooting, and 2 explosions last night, so i guess he died sometime during all that. we haven't been given the all clear that we can leave yet (i'm absolutely dying to get out of the house, anywhere, even just the store or ( Read more... )

ok, so yesterday morning at ~9:30 some crazy guy a block away from us shot 3 cops and a civilian who tried to help, then holed himself up in his house, which led to 50+ police cordoning off the area and telling us to lock ourselves in our house and stay away from the windows... which lasted all day, with random bits of shooting every now and then ( Read more... )

ok, so really random and sudden (as in just booked today), but i'm going to be in cali the 2nd through the 21st. leave me a message here or on aim if you want to do something!