It’s Christmas Eve, I’m blaring the 80’s tunes, preparing many dirty martinis and getting ready to cook my ass off.

So because the festivities may carry me away and not return me for a couple of days due to being sucked into the blackhole of Christmas house hopping I wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone! Some of you I have known for a long time, some for just a little while, some I haven’t got a friggen clue who you are but I wanted to say you all rock and I hope you all have the best Christmas ever, or close to it

I went to bed last night at 9:30pm.. What the hell? I felt really sickly so went to lie down and just never got up again. End result was waking up at 6am feeling refreshed, watched some horrid Saturday morning television, ate breakfast and went back to bed. Oh yeah, my sleep pattern is going to be all messed up again. I usually stagger off to bed between 12 and 1, so 9:30 is positively ridiculous.

I have got to get myself away from TVSN (home shopping network on Austar) They’re having this huge ass sale and I keep having to buy things that are marked down to stupid prices. WAS $79, now $19.90, I HAVE to have that now. Ok not everything. I mean, I’m really quite a controlled buyer. I love spending money but don’t particularly want to go through the actual process of spending money. Does that go hand in hand with the art of poor decision making and procrastination? I dunno, but I DO know that I come up with a thousand reasons why I should have it while skillfully firing the little opposition thoughts away. It’s $19, Can’t even buy Chinese for $19, can barely buy a CD. Just buy it you idiot before someone else buys it and you’re left crying because now they’re sold out.

And so I do, and so I have. I think way too much.

I’ve been doing most of my Christmas shopping online this year. Yes I have discovered that the Internet CAN be even more counterproductive than it already is. Technology is society’s new blankie.

I seem to have dismissed the thought of long postage times and days for payments to clear and what not and ordered everything a little too late. Half of the pressies won’t arrive now until January, oops? Next year I will be armed and ready when that calendar ticks over to December 1st and each year after that it will probably get even earlier until I end up buying all my Christmas presents online in February :???

I’m having a complete bitch fit over Ebay at the moment too. I’m an established buyer and seller, I send people emails, communicate, use the Ebay system to notify people of what is going on, pay immediately, ship quickly.. so why for the love of god can’t everybody else?? If I pay straight away, what is the deal with not letting me know anything? Did you receive payment? Have you sent my items? Wtf is going on? Do you care? I don’t think you do care. I think you believe that Ebay is the Internets lay-buy system and you can post my stuff whenever you feel like it.

So I payed last week..POST MY STUFF…sheesh.

Ok ok. So I’ll calm down a itty bit. It’s not a delivery problem I’m having this time around, it’s a waiting for people to pay me problem. I am on my 10th day of waiting for some guy to pay for something he won. I send people emails after auction, then three days later, and so on and they don’t decide to let me know what’s going on until the third email of which contains the epic story of how their cat ate the computer and the email is now inside the cat and they had to go into surgery for the trauma… Whatever, just pay me for the stuff you bought. If you buy things in a shop, you have to pay immediately. It’s the same system, easy eh?

Alright, moving on. I’m really happy with gift ideas this year, usually I can’t think of anything and just get something they “might” like. This year I hit the jackpot and found things that people are going to kiss me many times over for. Yay for the process of thinking! The only thing is, now its dragging on. I’ve done my Christmas shopping, I’ve put up the tree, I’ve decorated my house tastefully (yeah I’m talking to you house down the end of my street that looks like a city of Christmas lights threw up all over your front lawn) and now what? Come on Christmas, hurry up!

See, I’m back

So it’s been a couple of months since I posted about my new camera. I love it by the way but am not going to do a full review after all because there are plenty of sites out there like dpreview that will do that for me, and much better than me. I could be happier with the noise levels but I was well aware of this issue with such a small sensor size before I even bought the camera. It was something I was willing to fore-go for its brilliant other features such as zoom range and super high quality movie recording with stereo sound. I don’t have high expectations of using 400 ISO regularly any time soon.

I’m enrolled in a Diploma of professional photography course and expect to graduate around August next year. Not only will I be taught every aspect of both film and digital photography but I’m guided through the setting up of a freelance business n such. I am absolutely loving it so far and have a growing crush on the film camera all over again. I love digital but having an SLR film camera in my hands again feels crazy. There’s so much more control over your art. I’m working on a still life and portrait shoot focusing on enhancing a particular mood in the image. I’m stalling on this one because I’m still not sure. I want everything to be perfect and I think that’s a fault of mine. I need to also learn to be less stingy with the film. Processing fees are the hell.

I’ve also returned to my fitness endeavors and am back in the gym at least 5 days of the week. I was starting to feel really shitty, lazy, tired and I don’t want to be that person. I want to have mountains of energy.

I don’t want to create a scroll fest here with my life story so I won’t spill all at once. I just want to move on and let whatever happens fall into place. Christmas is just around the corner, after that, who knows. I’ll fill you in on the details as they come to hand. Right now, I need to get back to The Witcher. Which I can’t stop playing. It really is that good. Maybe it’s got something to do with Geralt and those leather pants, or just Geralt. He gets easier on the eye by the second.

Yeah I have a thing for the bad boys. Hence my great love of Boba Fett, Sephiroth, Kadaj, Dante and the likes.. so now you can add this fine lad to the list! ;)

Ello, My WP install was in for much needed upgrades, which are now thankfully all done with not too much pain inflicted. A few plugins decided to misbehave but whatever.

Ok so things are changing. Not only me, my life, my world but this here method of which I describe this world. I mean it had it coming, I was in need of a break big time. I’ve been blogging for what.. 7 years? Holy crap. Seriously, I started blogging around 2000 but had another website before I bought this domain. I SO needed that break, everything was getting stale.

Alrighty so I have updates n stuff. Random juicy details of some important and some rather unimportant things. Good god I wish Miss priss next door would turn her damn Timbaland CD down a tad. I’ve had nothing but Justin Timberlake and friends blaring in my ears for the last 2 hours. Shutting windows opposite her window really loudly did nothing as she is obviously deaf. When does school start again? Why can’t it start now? Heh.. sooo

I have to go pick up my darlingest one from work but will be right back. I mean it now, none of this ..be right back and then I come back 6 months later stuff. Nope. Just picking the James up.

Wow, I have a lot to update :s