since Friday.

Friday afternoon, my weekend was off to a pretty fantastic start! Along with my family and my lovely boyfriend Josh, I went to the opening of the Energy Art Exhibition at the Tanks Arts Center, where I had two of my photos on display.



I went there hoping to get into Creative Generations for Visual Art, but I ended up getting 3 awards; the Ergon Energy Encouragement Award, the Peninsula Arts Encouragement Award and.. The Curators Award! Only ONE person wins the Curators Award and that means that next year I get to hold my own exhibition at The Tanks, about whatever I want, and I get $300 to spend on materials and such. I prefer that award so so much more! My mother cried when they announced my name, and my dad was off eating the free food so he missed the whole thing. Typical of my family, right? Anyway, this photographer lad wanted a tonne of photos of me and my artwork, and then some photos with our political member for our area Steve Wettenhall, who was wearing a tux! Spiffy! Oh yeah, and Kayla re-dressed-up as the dinosaur from the photos :D





Afterwards we bought Chinese food to celebrate, and went home to watch Scrubs, so the night was just unbelievably amazing. I could not have been any better than it was, and I'm so thankful for every single person who has supported and encouraged me. I personally don't think my work is too good, but thankyou for all my friends who see potential in me, I love you more than anything.

On Saturday morning I took a Trip to Taterine! Trip to Taterine is this brilliant installation piece created by Liz Dunn and Kylie Burke, inspired by the mind of one of their mentally handicapped students Mitchell Cole, who dreamed up this entire alternate world called Taterine.





They decked out a whole room in the Cairns Regional Gallery with this massive cardboard cave and crazy hallucinogenic lights.



You could write on the walls with chalk, so I draw a sweetfaced unicorn.



Inside the cave they projected this continuous film of Mitchell dressed as characters out of Taterine, dancing and doing some groovy little moves.



After the artist's talks ended, I met up with my lovely friend Arruna, who wanted to film me wearing a Rubix Cube he had made, on my head, and stand around places in town. It was so hot to wear! but also very cool, I really can't wait to see the film when it's done!



Laura wanted to go out that night, so we went to The Medics gig at the Smithfield YMCA. After various thumb wars, crayon fights and group singings of the Power Rangers, Transformers and Pokemon theme songs, we left. Here's some photos that I can't be bothered explaining:



My weekend was g-reat.

I Love Our News

I really don't get around to posting on here much anymore.. I'll try harder :)

So I was watching the news with dear mother just then, while eating my stirfry, and it was talking about all the rains and flooding down in Townsville. Then there was a shot of a baby croc and the presenter was saying about how it got hit by a car, since the streets were flooded, and the representitive cop came on, doing a press conference about it, and he said "well we have reason to believe he was jaywalking, he should have known better" HAHAHAHAHAH! I mean come on, who doesn't love Aussie humour :D

I love it, it's great.

-start of ranty rant-

In worse news, school has begun again for the final year of my education, and I'm weary already. I really hate going to school everyday, and this horrible weather isn't doing much good. It rains, then it gets hot, then there's this hot steam everywhere! I can't believe people are still making the sea change to live up here- morons.

-end of ranty rant-

I went to see Ross Nobel at the Civic Theatre on Sunday night, and I actually got a stitch from laughing so hard! I don't think I went more than 10 seconds without laughing, and that's NO exaggeration! He's damn golden I tell ya' :)

I have also landed myself a temporary (curse) job at Rainflowers and Wedding Bells Florist for Valentine's Day! I'll just be cleaning and answering the phone, but I'll be surrounded by flowers and people buying flowers for people they love- it should be a really good uplift of my spirits.. plus, I get paid! money is nice, I want to take my friends and my boyfriend out to dinner with my first pay check, so I hope the pay is decent.

I created a Facebook page for myself, but I barely know how to work it and have a gloom feeling that it will end up laying dorment, unless prompted by other Facebookers.

I wish my friends had Blogspot as well.

I wish I had a cup of tea that never emptied.

Today I drew a picture of a unicorn for Marisa and she stapled it into her diary. She named it Sparkle, which was just so DARNED cliche of her, she deserves a bashing. But I could never do that, because she liked my drawing, and because she has those magic pens that change colour!

I also recieved a letter from my friend Zoe, who moved to Brisbane around a month ago. I love snail mail, and I especially love her writing paper- she always out does me. Though I didn't get to read the letter until I'd found it, as my brother pwnd it and hid it in my room somewhere, giving me hints to it's hiding place until I found it. I think that amused him for a good 2 minutes.

This post is really long, I'm sorry. I just like thinking about all the things that've happened to me since I was last on here..

I finally got around to seeing The Butterfly Effect- no one told me it was such a sad movie! I really loved it though, but I'm definantly going to steer clear of its sequel. People say it's so bad, that it ruins the first movie. I don't think that could be possible, but I definantly don't want to take any chances. Reccommend me a movie, I love watching new films :)

That's all I can really think of/be bothered writing right now xx.