Little Miss Morbid

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2009-06-10T07:07:46Z

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Spirit, poems, and other things (all written rather badly and disjointedly)

2009-05-22T08:38:09Z

Spirit of New Zealand is a beautiful, beautiful experience and everyone should go on it. May, may not, probably won't, post more about it later. But yeah, a beautiful ship, 51 AMAZING people, and smexy yellow wet weather gear. Life doesn't get much better. Except for when you climb to THE VERY TOP of a 30+ metre mast (v. terrifying, v. awesome). And then loling when my mate from sailing course in January (literally sqee-ed upon discovery that he was on my voyage) dropped his $600 camera from the top. R.I.P.
And ONE guy, playing Goodshirt's Sophie a few too many times, leading to the song being stuck in EVERYONES heads. Which pretty much means that whenever I hear it, it's all happy and yay Spirit, and aw I really miss it.

M for creative writing. FREAKING M. Words can't describe how disappointed I am in myself. Things this year that have had me fighting back tears at school - 2. And yes, I know, M's pretty good, but URGH. Not cool. Thanks a lot, expectations and false hopes.
But Ms Waldren wants me to enter the Liberate Your Words competition. Poetry. Poetry?! wtf. I'm pretty sure I swore off trying to write poems after 2006 (no, that doesn't include the emo poetry competitions Faye and I have. Those are for the funsies/lols). But Urgh. Creativity does not like me. It's forcing me to come up with ideas for poems WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO. Problem being that whenever this happens (it's not usually poetry - more songs, stories...) and I TRY to turn the idea into something it falls apart because I over think it, over work it, try to change too much. So Grace is not a happy camper at all, and is losing faith.

Lawl, just got it (well... about an hour ago...) from having dinner (I lie, it was dessert, really) at Strawberry Fare with Faye and Marzie. So much richness/sugar/fun times.

Michael comes over tomorrow. XD yayness!

Meme...

2009-04-28T05:53:50Z

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Dammit!

2009-01-19T10:29:49Z

Fairytales are so... shallow.

Lol

2009-01-17T05:59:35Z

Apparently we have one of those John Key squeaky toy things, which Charlie (one of our dogs) just brought inside. And to quote my mother: "Oh, you've got Mr Keys head there have you? Good, give him a chew."

It's the coming home that's the hardest part

2009-01-16T05:52:43Z

So, I was in Auckland for a week long sailing course which was uber fun! but coming home absolutely sucks especially when there are exam results waiting for you. But hey, and this is actually the most shocking thing in my LIFE, more shocking then turtling the boat (we were trying to do a capsize drill, turtling is when it turns 180) I got two excellences and a merit for my english essays.

...I miss my course.

It's at one in the morning after reading Eclipse for several hours...

2008-12-28T12:07:56Z

that Grace realises just how much she is screwed over exam results. I don't know ANY of what I wrote for my history exams, not even the basic idea, and I doubt that I knew any of it before the exam. And I'm so sure that I could have written my English exams MUCH better. I have this weird defect where I think of really good analysis but don't write it down well or just not at all. And this is probably totally irrational but uuuurgh. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaailiiiiiiiing.

On a lighter note, had fun times in P-town today seeing Twilight with Chris. And we have so much stuff left over from Christmas that if anyone's hungry ever any time just randomly appear and help yourself XD

Ukes not Nukes

2008-11-21T22:54:07Z

Today is World Hello day. You're supposed to say hello to at least ten people, so... Hello, everyone. : )

Ukulele = my new best instrument ever. Courtesy of the Wellington Internation Ukulele Orchestra who are not only stopping me from getting my stuff ready for choir, are also making me terribly, incredibly depressed, because when I finally have a free first thursday of the month morning they cancel their first thursday of the month morning gigs at the Deluxe cafe. Words can not explain how frustrating/depressing/upsetting this is. Because now a large amount of their gig will either be not in Wellington or at a bar or someplace where you have to be old : (

Urgh. My mum really wants me to do the Irish Essay competition. And I really want to do it. The problem is that I don't have a way with words. And to anyone who says "blahblahblahcreativewritingblahblah" that's not anything. Just because I can write something that fits with NCEA's idea of it doesn't mean anything. I mean, there's a reason why I don't update this thing much, or talk much sometimes. I may have something to say, just not the words to say it. But anyways, the Irish Essay. I've wanted to do it for ages, and now Mum knows about it, so she's going to make me. But I don't think I can because my piece won't be any good. And yes, I do realise how emo I sound.

Dear English,
Please kindly go die. For two months.

100 TRUTHS:
001. Name - Grace
002. Nickname - G-race, Gracie, the Orange one, Orange, Oi you... whatever really
003. Status - I has a boyfriend. ...still not sure if that's a good thing...
004. Zodiac sign - Libra
005. Male or female - Female
006. Elementary - Paremata School
007. High School - St. Mary's College
008. College - CPIT, hopefully. Braodcasting school, to be specific.
009. Smart - If I "applied myself" sure.
010. Hair color - Ginga!
011. Long or short - It's getting longer. Just sort of medium.
012. Loud or Quiet - Quiet, but getting louder.
013. Sweats or Jeans - Jeans.
014. Phone or Camera - Phone.
015. Health freak - Not terribly
016. Drink or Smoke? - Drink
017. Do you have a crush on someone? - Naw, I don't really like anyone right now.
018. Eating or Drinking - Drinking
019. Piercings - Ears
020. Tattoos - Nope

FIRSTS:
023. First piercing - My right ear. Quickly followed by my left.
024. First best friend - I dunno. Random primary school kid. I hung out with extended family a lot up till that point so if you count cousins...
025. First award - Probably for something like reading or whatever.
026. First crush - This kid that could run fast and read well : )
027. First pet - A dog, a cat, a bunny and two or three birds.
028. First big vacation - Well we've never been overseas, so Christchurch or something I guess...
030. First big birthday - not... really...?

CURRENTLY:
049. Eating - Nothing
050. Drinking - Nothing.
052. I'm about to - go get my stuff ready/study/attempt to play uke
053. Listening to - Inner City Pressure - FOTC
054. Plans for today - Study, Choir, and possibly go to Alistair's music and the Deluxe cafe

YOUR FUTURE:
058. Want kids? - Yep!
059. Want to get married? - Yeah, I guess.
060. Careers - TV/film production work. Cinematography would be amazing but a little intimidating. Or the Navy. That would be cool. Actually, screw all that stuff that might pay money, I'm going to join the WIUO. Someday, somehow.

WHICH IS BETTER WITH OPPOSITE SEX?
068. Lips or eyes? - Eyes.
070. Shorter or taller? - Taller.
072. Romantic or spontaneous? - Spontaneous. But not to the point where they're really weird *cough*Sam*coughcough*
073. Nice stomach or nice arms? - Arms.
074. Sensitive or loud - Loud
075. Hook-up or relationship - Relationship.
077. Troublemaker or hesitant - Um... lets go with troublemaker

HAVE YOU EVER:
080. Lost glasses/contacts - Don't need them but I probably would.
081. Ran away from home - Na. I'm the good child.
084. Broken someone's heart - lolololol nah.
085. Been arrested -Again, the good child.
087. Cried when someone died - Before, during and after : (

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
089. Yourself - Not really. Sometimes.
090. Miracles - Meh. If they happen it's cool.
091. Love at first sight - Nooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaay.
092. Heaven - Meh. Kind of.
093. Santa Claus - See, I know he's not real, but that doesn't stop me from getting excited about him every Christmas Eve.
094. Sex on the first date - That's a little wrong. No.
095. Kiss on the first date - Meh, I guess so.

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now - It would be kind of cool/awkward if I was with someone right now, but I dont' really want to be with them. I mean, I kind of do. So... yes...? ...does a whole orchestra count?
098. Are you really happy with where you are in life? - No! See - no more morning uke gigs.
099. Do you believe in God - Yeah. Sort of.
100. Tagging - Anyone who hasn't done it yet.

grace_face48 @ 2008-10-29T20:27:00

2008-10-29T07:38:09Z

I miss BTC :( And my Breakfast crew :( Even Simon William's skirts..

Whoops

2008-10-13T08:02:47Z

I really need to learn how to be mean. Or at least, not get stuck in awkward situations.
but lolz/aargh if my breakfast crew find out (because they really don't like him)

...I hate retrospect

Hell yeah

2008-09-19T09:10:46Z

So, there I was, yesterday having just got in from celebration of music (ba-dum doot doot doot doot dooooooot, anyone?) and I get chucked this envelope with Leading Cadet (my sah-weet rank) Grace Stewart on it. So, kind of thinking wtf because why would I be getting a cadety letter? Then, opening it, and I've won the essay writey thing to get free passage on Spirit of Adventure. And NCEA says that I sometimes can't write essays.

Less than twenty four hours=the ball

lol

2008-09-13T07:44:47Z

Sailing in fun enough when you're in waves that get to about two metres high.
It's funner when you get an amazing surf that goes for ages.
It's just the best when you capsize... THREE TIMES IN A ROW.

grace_face48 @ 2008-09-04T19:32:00

2008-09-04T07:56:54Z

Yay mocks! And by Yay mocks! I mean thank god they're over and we're almost finished getting our results (only got waves left, and after some unintentional pestering (I swear, I was just bored and argumentative, not being a dick about it) Mr Schuster said that he'd have them to us tomorrow). But yes, the results. Maths could have been better, but I did manage to pass theory for music which is shocking. And a M.A.N. for English! novel, poetry and film respectively. And M (when I first saw the mark I thought it was an N, but then I looked at the essay which just had ticks down the side which was rather confusing), A, A for history which is exciting.

Oh, and Caryl, if you're still alive this conversation took place in my form room on Tuesday.
Girl in my form class: Grace, are you on youtube?
Me (thinking of the Kinky Kitchenware video which thankfully I'm not seen in): Ummm... no...
Her: With some guy? And you're acting?
Me: No...
Her: And there's a phone and this filipino girl...?
Me: OH CRAP, THAT *melts*

People who know me are finding this video! Ngaaa. Oh well. It's for the greater Caryl cause.

On a less painful note, I got my ears repierced today. So now everything is ready for the semi-formal! ~~Despite being rejected by a certain ex Head GIrl who writes excellence exemplars.~~ XD

Oops

2008-08-31T09:34:09Z

You know what's fun? Waking up and realising that your level 3 RE assignment is due the next day and you haven't started it yet.
You know what's fun-ner? Watching most of the Two Towers and the extended edition of Return of the King instead.

Uurgh.

grace_face48 @ 2008-08-29T17:30:00

2008-08-29T05:43:00Z

Once upon a time my parents stopped finishing off their house. Twenty years later they knocked out the chimney stack, paid two teenage males and one me for carrying bricks around all day, and finished the jobs they'd never got around to so that there was a proper kitchen/dining. ie:WE HAVE PAINT AND LINO AND A NOT FALLING DOWN CEILING NOW! LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE! But we haven't told Hannie yet, so hush because it's going to be a surprise. Srsly, no speaky. But yes, this is why my parents are NEVER, EVER aloud to tell me to not procrastinate. THe sad thing is, that at the time when they were doing renovations twenty years ago they fixed the bathroom up all shiny and modern. Now it needs to be fixed again. When they've just finished. But oh well, I guess everyone needs a hobby.

You know what's sad? When I got home today the car door closed on my bag and punctured a hole in one of the cans of lift.

Yay, no more mocks. Urgh RE assignment. :)

Lol

2008-08-24T09:56:50Z

I'm going to fail all of my mocks. Except maybe physics, which is a bit weird.

One of about fifteen. From a box under my bed. Procrastination <3

grace_face48 @ 2008-08-20T18:37:00

2008-08-20T06:39:55Z

Five days before mocks Grace realises that she's completely forgotten how to write essays. Bugger. Perhaps she forgot this at the same time she forgot how to play piano. *grins and dies*

I just lost the game.

Argh.

2008-05-12T07:17:31Z

Does anyone have a way with words they want to lend me?

Yay.

2008-05-10T12:27:03Z

I can solve the 4x4 and the 2x2.

Zomg Juniors camp at New Years.

grace_face48 @ 2008-05-07T17:01:00

2008-05-07T05:02:39Z

I just lost the game.

Love thy GSMEAC

2008-04-26T01:28:51Z

I miss juniors like crazy.

I was on a different bus from everyone else (thanks a bunch, NZCF fuckups) so there were only Ohakea people to talk to, and Briar. So, no socialising for this ACDT, and no getting to see Faye before she went to seniors. But I did see Jordan, which was exciting. And kind of weird. Seeing as I only knew him for the centrals weekend.

All the stuff in my room seems too bright, and useless. Linton barracks are smexy. Seriously, why do I have all these books, and extra clothes? If I"m feeling literate, then I can just work on one of my lessons. Not to mention all the pillows and random bits of material. And having a whole room to myself seems a bit pointless. Where the hell's my syndicate, and where do we need to march? Whose drill can I correct through slight verbal abuse?

I'm going to end up calling one of my teachers sir or ma'am, I just know it. And try to force GSMEAC down peoples throats. And try to take charge.

And no, this isn't going to be fixed by going back to TS Taupo, because the cadets are shit. Hopefully the new double headed able cadet machine will be able to fix some. (Farrow takes them in muster, if they be dicks three times I take them to the corridor and tell them to pull their head in. Quite abusively.)

I need to stop getting so used to cadet things. It really stuffs up reality.

Help

2008-04-17T09:43:38Z

I need a subject to write a ten minute presentation on. By Saturday morning.

Pirates save the day everytime.

Hey Tutira, have our crap reputation

2008-03-31T04:12:25Z

Second place to Amokura. Four freaking points difference. Not funny.

I officially dislike outdoor ranges a lot. And Chris Toomath. He deliberately shooted at something that wasn't the target in a competition. Then tried to seduce with the male officer whose fiance was the photographer.

Seamanship award, w00t. First in drill. The Pirates who don't do anything kicked ass in the quiz night quiz. Yay Jordan, Eve, Faye, Chris, random other at the table who may or may not have contributed and I.

I miss drill and regatta. Which really makes no sense. But other unit people and cabin A3 were awesome.

The world is not funny when no matter how much you sleep you're still exhausted.

Tutuira cheated in that last sailing race, and don't let anyone tell you different.

RIP life outside of cadets and sometimes debating and Sheilah Winn (actually, who am I kidding, Sheilah Winn takes up no life at all).

Roll on stats results.

DON'T talk to us, we're drinking RUM

2008-03-10T09:01:45Z

The internal made me love stats. THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG. But the internal was really ~~enjoyable~~ acheivable.

grace_face48 @ 2008-02-20T22:17:00

2008-02-20T09:26:02Z

I love Hannah's currently anonymous pirated DVD source. What I don't love is the painful bruise on my arm that appeared out of nowhere a few days ago.

On another note I signed up for a video making-sciency thing today. It should be fun and appropriately time consuming. Tills and Johannah are on my team, so it's sort of the year-ten-intergrated-people-that-did at-least-a-little-bit-of-video-y-stuff crew reunion.

Look! Ball photos from ages ago. Insert "ew"'s where appropriate.