i got my licence

i got my licence i got my licence yay

Enter

well i got my Queen's scout presented and did my interview for RMit which went well. and i got an impressive enter of 81.6.

Progress

well he there all i am felling really well. I went away with Liam to Queenscliff from Tuesday to Friday and we had lots of fun despite the rain and hail.On Saturday was my school fair which liam also made it too and we ate Pippa's delicious homemade ice cream. Today i am heading of to my schoolies at walkerville for the night and coming back for an out patients appointment on tuesday. so i will give you the official progress report then.

Surgery

Hi all i had my gall bladder removed on saturday morning. that is all that is at the moment the only news i am a bit sore and tired but i am also back home which is a good sign.

i finished school

My Queen scout presentation at government house

Me, the governer and my dad
my two proud venturer leaders, dad and Helen
l-r: Adam, Arran and I all friends catching up
Adam Kessler and I

My party

this is the cake mum made it is fruitcake in dark and white chocolate

well this is me and my darling liam

this my darling friend kristine and I

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These photo's were all taken at my 18th birthday party. don't i look pretty?

i bought my dress on bridge road and i was so excited about wearing it and so glad to be able to catch up with so many of my friends at once

ok my birthday

I got a laptop which i am currently typing this post on. a white gold ring with a sapphire and diamonds. i got the comemrative edition of cookery the australian way and a gorgeous little statue from my brother

Happy birthday to me

I am 18 today and aren't i glad i live. I am 18 years old and full of possibility.

MARB

wally a.k.a Avanda MANstone
My Baby boy Liam as Dionysus God of Wine and Altered States
Liam and I.

I went as Nike the Winged Victory Messenger

Theme:

Evening of Elegance

Crew's Theme:

Gods and Goddesses

I Did it

1.These are all my achievement badges.

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2.Please admire my mum's beautiful handstitching.

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I have submitted my Queen Scout and it is with my Group leader getting signed i just hope that nothing goes wrong fingers crossed.

Update

An update from my last post Picasso has now been coming to school with me occasionally. I am so close to finished my queen scout is unbeliveable. I stayed at liam's house last night for the first time and managed to leave my pillow there. Liam layton and i dropped into dairy bell on our way home and bought a tub of ice cream each. Liam bought a whole tub of nuts about chocolate ice cream as i haven't had it for so long it is sooooooo good. oh and i have now seen cruel intentions which was really good.

Pablo R.I.P

Unfortunately Pablo one of my baby rats has died in his sleep last night.

Awesome Week

Before
After
Well hello all. I had an awesome week this week on tuesday we had a performer come to our school her name was Mihirangi. She performed traditional maori songs using her own interpretation, contempary methods i.e beat boxing and a loop pedal to lay a backing track to create different levels to her music. On top of all these incrediable ideas she had a beautiful voice with anamazingly clear vocal range.
Other highlights to the week were that i got two diamonds on my queen scout and am 3/4's finished. Hopefully i can present the completed qs next month. I also got my top braces off this week after 2 and a half years so that was exciting. We lost soccer again this week but only by 16 plus our team is so much better than we were our playing standard was pretty high even though we hadn't played for a couple of weeks.

NEWS FLASH

Nugget does not have opposable thumbs. This prevents him from doing many things such as sucking lolly pops, finishing the deck and stealing cookie dough. Yes there is a massive flaw in my plan of blaming him for the diapperance of cookie dough or relying on him for help in build the deck. Well nugget is the prodigy child and his lack of opposable thumbs prevent him from getting into all that much mischief barring the odd hole in the garden. Yes you have i hope guessed it nugget is a dog and as men always like to point out he may not have opposable thumbs but he can lick himself.

Alie and Dharman's swing party

Tine and Imogen
Gus, Tine, BARNEY and me
a bit of swing dancing to go with the theme
Harriet, Imogen Amie and Mez
Amie and Kristine

Imogen and Amie

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Well as youi can see every one looked wonderful and we all had a good time.

Mudbash

well an interesting and fun weekend. I did unfortunately miss the car that rolled and the 2 that caught on fire.

EXAMS!!!!!!!!

Well i have a biology exam today a chemistry exam tomorrow and the gat on Wednesday. So Wish me Luck.

My evening at Stomp

Well we started the evening by going to a 5 star gourmet cusine restaurant called Three, One, Two. Where we all had a very delicious and unique meal each. We then went to her majesty's thearter to see Stomp. Stomp was absoloutely mind blowing. After Stomp My Family and Nick, as we bought him a ticket for his birthday, went to koko black on Lygon street for a very late dessert. Which was alos incrediably delicious but hey it had chocolate so how could it not have been.

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Oh the other thing since unit3 chem finished is the year 12 ensemble drama performances which were both incrediably good unique and well thought out interesting concepts very well enacted.

Well long time no blog

ok since i finished unit 3 chem i have also finished unit 3 biology, I have been working my hardest to revise chem and biol as i have an exam on each. My biol exam is 9 o'clock monday and chem is 11:45 tuesday and i then have the GAT on wednesday at 10 o'clock. life hasn't been all boredom and study since then though i have also been to see the Da vinci code. I have been to see stomp which was incredible, but i will do a seperate blog for that. Nick has now turned 24 and Antomn and olie are both 18 now.

Cool Stuff

Well today in mainlesson we finished unit three chemistry. Trish, our chem teacher, asked what we would like to do in the next chem period. I, as usual, suggested something completely of the tack in this case that we should eat cake. So next chem period we did infact eat cake.

Anniversary

Well nick and I have now been going out for three months.

Sad news

Well bubbles finally passed away last night and this morning she was given a lovely funeral.

Well I promised hoadley photos so here they are

Well this is Zac
On the left is Tim who kindly took me to and from Hoadley
My 8 legged spider the only 8 legged spider to that point of the weekend.
going clockwise this is my group: Catherine, Catherine, me, Karen, and Felicity
This is me and the dude who tattoed me
This is chris otherwise known as my chair.
This is JollyOlie
matt displaying his brilliant map reading skills or not.
This is my cousinKristy who is two weeks older than me.
This is one of the rovers who came up with the cutest stunt where they got to spend the weekend in dressing gowns.

Soccer

We lost by 20 something but we did score a goal and i did some impressive saves

Cool news

Well in order to celebrate the end of exams at the end of this year I and 2 of my friends are going to go and see Lano & Woodley's goodbye tour. I am very excited. I am also hoping to celebrate the end of mid year exams by going to mudbash. Oh yes an update on my questions about the Australian identity. I presented my speech which was a touch longer than allowed but still good I got an A so it can't have been too disastrous.

Richard Carlton

Oh my God!

Richard Carlton died it is so bizzare. The news crossed to the trapped beaconsfield miners. There were tones of impending sad news. It was then announced that the great and veteran reporter Richard Carlton had died of a heart attack. I was really quite shocked i have to say and i would like to say may he rest in peace and i hope you all remember most importantly of all that he died doing something he loved.

Soccer

Well we lost soccer and we lost significantly 23 to none. I did do some good goally work between the times that the other team scored.

My Speech

Well my speech went well i managed to get my audience to laugh a couple of times. My teacher thought it was quiet good and i do not as yet know my mark.

The Umbilical Brothers

Well this is my ticket to the Umbilical Brothers. It was a very good day yesterday We had cake. Nick made us lunchand we went to max brenner and had a babka, chocolate fondue and scott had a chocolate chip cookie. Mum and Scott had a java and orange hot chocolate , I had a white chocolate and strawberry ganache and Dad had a flat white which we convinced him to put chocolate in. We then walked around and had a look at the city. The Umbilical Brothers where very very entertaining.

Weird outbreak

well at school at the moment there has been a measles outbreak so half the school is missing and you can't buy lunch because jim our chef has benn undercatering so year 12's don't get lunch.

Mums Birthday

Well it is mum's birthday on saturday so we are going to go see the umbilicl brothers which is very very cool. i was also wondering if people could comment on their opinions on the identity of australia as a people and as a nation.

Soccer

Well the girls and i played our first game of mixed soccer and we were playing our whole team of girls against a whole team of boys wh beat my bros team week before last. Officially we won. That is the story and i am sticking to it. My mum and i then went and got ice cream. Now we are watching the umbilical brothers.

Prayer for Patience

Lord give me Patience

And give it to me now

My Wallet

OK so the second wallet for the year htat i have lost turned up again all intact. I lost it in fed Square and a lady in clayton found it and handed it in 2 weeks later. all the cards money and jewllery were still there. so i have my $50 back meaning i have only lost $70 this year. I have my gardian angel neklace back. and i have a learners permit and a concession card again. so yeah that was a relief to hear after my long weekend. the police station only rang our house 4 times. three times over the weekend leaving messages and once on monday when thay spoke to me so there was almost noway i could not have known it had been found.

Amie got lucky or so i hear

Hoadley Hide and within my family it is higgly ho

Well I did it i have survived hoadley. Plus i passed intiative to boot. Well it rained thursday and and friday night. plus on thursday i realised that i had forgotten my hike boots so here i a big THANK YOU TO SUE who lent me her clean white runners to trudge throught the mud with. I would like to point out that they were still still vaguely white at the end. OH now to my team well they were all girls so that led to me being apprehensive cos me girls and hiking are not a good combo i am apparently top efficient or something. Anyway it went quite well there was only one time when i really cracked it and that was just as i was going into stunt 8 with some of the VL's from my district so i had a bit of chance to off load to callum and then it was all goood you would not believe our sense of relief at finishing the course. In other aspects of the camps i made some goood friends at the VOC's., such as chris who became my chair and company for the evenings along with oli and greg and the like. so good times all round. on the final VOC i met some other Vents such as matt who is actually from blackburn which is vaguely near me. though chris is from bonnie doon which is near where i go on hols when i can. Yes Bonnie Doon does exist. so anyway i will put some photos up when i get them in a week or so i hope till my next post sweet dreaming.

P.S. please comment if you read this even if you just sign your name.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all.

This one is especially for all the Dachsund lovers in my extended family.

Good Friday

Enjoy your hot cross buns on good Friday everybody.

Quick update.

Last weekend mum and I went shopping on Bridge rd. As a result of this expedition i now have plenty of warm clothes for the winter now I just need some long sleeved resonably plain tops. This week i have been working hard to get ahead in school so i don't feel stressed about going away this weekend. So yes as afore mentioned i am going away this weekend i am going to my first ever hoadley. Oh and a special message to my poor baby wally to get well soon.

school

Well i am currently stuck at school as i normmally am on a friday as i have to hang around from 1pm till 3:15pm when my last class begins. Today it is made worse by the fact that i have a massive head cold and have been sneezing all day added to that is the fact i am quite tired.

Oh and can someone please leave a comment so i feel loved.

Saturday Afternoon

Nick and I got into the city at around 4:30 yesterday. We then Walked up to QV Square where we had drinks at Max Brenners. I had an awesome White Chocolate and Strawberry Float and Nick had a Dark Hot Chocolate. WE then walked back to collins street and along there looking for somewhere to eat. After having gone into every mini mall looking for the Haighs chocolate shop we eventually found it. We then concentrated on finding somewhere to eat. We decided to eat at Brunetti's as the savoury crepes sounded good and they were. I then went and got changed and stupidly lost my wallet which I only relised later on when I was on a tram and so we had to go back and look for it, unfortunately it wasn't there. We then walked up to the Regent Theatre where we were going to see the Lion King. The whole show was incrediable from the perfomances to the pupperteering and the sets. Everything was just so clever in the way that it worked. So it was really a very lovely night.

awwwww they are so cute!!!

Tis is our dog and my cat doing what they like to do best smooching.

An Update

If you click on the photo to enlarge it you can see all the crazy things we weren't allowed to take in. They even took the cutlery off my grandparents and inspeted my grandpa's chair yet they didn't even check my cousins or my bag.

This is Prince Edward presenting the medals.

This is my Uncle Damian Grundy at work as the Mountain bike coach.

The signs my brother brought home from the mountain biking.

Ok it took me a while to get around to updating you but I went to the commonwealth games and saw the mountain biking it was a really good day and i had lots of fun spending time with my family andwatching the races. In the mens Chris Jongewaard led for the first six and a half of eight laps but finished 4th the other 2 Australians finished in 6th and 7th they were Sid Taberlay and Joshua Flemming. It was alot of fun to go and see the race.

The perfect study buddy

I have discovered the perfect companion for studying
drum roll please
it is my rat. he is perfect company. actually i am just too lazy put him away when i want to get up for a trivial reason :)
Good Day Everybody

My Saturday

Well I am completely in love Yesterday i went to the Hockey and the met Nick in the city. We went and lunch at the vege bar despite his apprehension at the idea of a place with no meat. :) aAfter lunch we went across the road to trampoline and we bought Gelati for dessert.
We then walked along Swanston street to Melbourne Central where we looked about and went and saw The Pink Panther. It was actually really funny and entertaining after that was finished we walked around some more. We then caught the train to Spencer street stn and watched the sunset from the Rialto. We then went and had a look at the fish on the Yarra. We then went back to Cheltenham on the train. When we got there we went to nicks work where i got to meet his friends and try one of the pizzas he has been raving about. Believe it or not he was right too his bosses pizzas are absolutely awesome. Oh and despite the way this may sound I am not in love with him because of what he does but because of the brilliant person he is.

Photos

Tine and the hot Pat as she puts it

Cecily, Lucy, Pat and Leon

Imogen and Amie


The coolest dog as a random interlude

Tine and Leon