Birdathy report :D

Just a quick update on what I did and what I got for my birthday :)

Went to the beach for a picnic and kayaking. Except I didn't realise I could actually get seasick on a kayak. That wasn't so good. But other than that we had a great day. :)

Now, pressie: Mum managed to find a very nice cake plate with Happy Birthday written on it.. which means I can use it about once a year, twice if Pete's using it too. That's my mum for you. :) Not that I'm not happy with it, I just find it highly amusing. Pete's mother got me A LOT of stuff, I feel kinda bad. But there's this absolutely beautiful clock that she found. Yay! Clock for new house! :)

Petey got me the Myst collection! All 5 games in one box! I'm as happy as can be! I only played Myst before... Couldn't find Riven you see. Now that I have all 5 games I'm going to play them in series. :) Before that though I'd need to upgrade my computer first I guess...

Anyway, good start of the year for me I guess. :) I ever finish making my research plan for this year on the second day of me being 26 :P Heh.

Another Friggin' Year Older

On this last day of me being 25 my supervisor has to send me an email saying he wants a meeting first thing monday morning where I can summarise what I've done in 2006 and what I'm going to do in 2007. Heck as Einstein said, "If we know what we're doing, they wouldn't call it research would they?". So there. I don't know.

Remember when you were young and you just can't wait til your birthday? I still get that sort of feeling for things like Christmas, or moving out to the new place. Just not really for my birthday anymore. I think it's more so much that I mind my age, but more to do with the fact that I just got used to being 25. Look I barely just got used to the idea that I'm an adult and not a kid anymore, and now you want to tell me I've already spent half of my "20s" years? Not going to happen. It's a bit like Catcher in the Rye I guess. You just grow up without realising it and once it happens it's too late.

You would've think that there's some sort of hint that reminds me that I'm growing up, but somehow I managed to miss every single one of them I guess. It doesn't help of course that I chose to stay in university to do research, which means I'm STILL a student... yikes.

Ah well, hopefully I won't be a student anymore by the end of the year. Hopefully to whole owning my own home thing is going to help me to settle in the whole "grown up" thing too. I won't count on it though.

New Year Resolution, and Jon Stewart :)

Yes, I've finally got enough time to finish my Jon Stewart Sketch. I'm staying at Pete's place this week though (which is the only reason why I finished that sketch. I don't really have a flat drawing surface in my room... hehe) so I won't be scanning that one in until... err... next few days.

Been trying to finish my report this Christmas for my research. Bloody hard to do so when it's so nice and sunny outside. But I've determined to finish it before uni starts and start actually working on my research again. Wish me luck.

Lots of new ideas for painting, especially now that I know I'll be getting an art room in our new house. :) We also bought a vacuum cleaner the other day, not to mention a bed. :) Mum decided to get us a bed for our engagement/house warming. We got this really nice colonial style bed with matching bedside cabinet. It's going to be so cool. :)

Anyway, my New Year resolutions, in no particular order:

- Finish my thesis ASAP
- Repaint the "pink room" in our new house
- Save up money for various things like a new 'puter, a new mobile (my one is slowly dying), a Wii, and "that wedding thing"
- Speaking of which, need to pick a date for the wedding too...
- Don't worry I'll try my best to make sure I still have time for my sketch/painting. :)