67/365 – Sigh.

7:23 pm, March 8th, 2010 | No Comments »
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She gets fed up with the camera sometimes.

Musings on happiness.

9:27 pm, February 21st, 2010 | No Comments »
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I think I came across that quote maybe at the end of last year? Something like that. Anyway. I’ve always had a hard time understanding people who have a purpose in life. That know where they want to be and by when they’ll be there. Whether it be career wise or life wise, it just bothers me. Because I really don’t have the same drive. I kind of just go with the flow and see where that takes me. If it’s good, I hang around. If it’s not good, I move on.

I was good friends with a girl in high school that had that drive. She knew she was going to be a primary school teacher, and to get there it was important to her to excel at every subject she took. It probably didn’t help that she was a very competitive person. She pushed herself so hard to excel at everything and she spent so much time being stressed out. She was a total perfectionist, and didn’t like it when she sometimes didn’t meet the high targets she set herself. But, she got into the course she wanted at university, made the most of it, and is now a primary school teacher doing her ‘country service’ stint. And she loves it — like she always knew she would.

I did the bare minimum in high school, especially towards the final years. One remark on my report card was “Elizabeth …was willing to do what was required to pass a subject she did not enjoy”. I also completed a Cert III in Education (IT Support) in that time, but that was more to keep the school happy. When I left high school I immediately started full time work. In June 2006 I moved down to Sydney – something I saw as a temporary thing, because really, Melbourne is where I wanted to be. In July 2007 I started chatting with Jarod online, and now we’re engaged. And I’m totally happy.

There was some point to this. It was something like, sure, if you know what you want to do work hard and achieve it and be happy. But if you don’t know what you want to do you can still be happy and get to a place you didn’t even know you wanted to be. I never thought I’d be happy living with some boy I met over the internet and working part time at an ice cream factory. But that’s the way that life has taken me. And although my friend might not understand how I can be happy because I haven’t really achieved any “life goals”, I honestly feel that I am as happy as she is – even with all her accomplishments. And that life isn’t about what score you achieved when you graduated or what position you hold at work, it’s about happiness.

For the past two weeks it’s been very hard to find happiness in stuff. Sometimes it’s good to remind yourself that there’s no point doing something if you’re not happy doing it.

Some old photos.

11:47 pm, November 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, nothingness, photography by Liz

Me and a colleague sitting in the cockpit of the aircraft that delivered the Special Olympics flame. As you do.

I find it hard to believe that Train was ever that tiny or innocent looking, but here is proof.

That Jarod guy, looking all tired and cute.

Anzac Day show at the 2006 (?) Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Starring Daniel Kitson (Britian), David O’Doherty (Ireland) and Charlie Pickering (Aust.)

Taken at some ridiculous hour in the morning after a night of comedy in Melbourne.

Me, in 2006. On a balcony in Melbourne.

Some flowers. Taken in Hill End, I think.

A bar of soap shaped like a cow on a Brisbane windowsill.

During my first Comedy Festival, I collected the tickets of all the shows I saw in a vase in the apartment I was staying it. It was quite a collection. I think I’ve since thrown them all out, which is a shame.

During the LEGO days.

Daniel Moore sitting in a trolley in the middle of a street in Glebe. Of course.

More flowers.

Daniel Kitson and Demetri Martin hug.

Another mini Train.

The Blackboard.

Black and White

9:27 pm, November 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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The flowers were conveniently purchased just before a heatwave. Bye bye flowers :(

They were pretty while they lasted.

Also, Jarod and I made stuff! For people! But we can’t show you because they might read the blog. So you get this instead:

We had much fun making them, and will have even more fun giving them away I think. Train’s already sniffed everything out and decided they’re okay.

Sickness

9:31 am, June 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted in boythings, nothingness, roundups by Jarod

Yep. Still alive. Just really didn’t feel like posting in the last few weeks.
Some of it was the normal cyclical ebb and flow of blogging, but most of it was the double shot of a throat and middle ear infection. Fun stuff!!

I shall be getting back into the swing of posting now. Sorry for any inconvenience

Pretty cool namey thing.

5:48 pm, January 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in geekery, girlthings, internets, nothingness, roundups by Liz

Don’t get any ideas, but I stumbled across this namey thing.
You can type in a name and see the popularity in graph form over the years.

Just ignore the ‘baby’ part of the whole thing.

Popularity of names starting with ELIZABETH

Popularity of names starting with JAROD

Name Voyager

Merry Christmas and shit.

5:32 pm, December 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Train’s getting into the Christmas spirit:

Looking for last minute present ideas? Make a homeless kitty happy.

For Jarod…

4:37 pm, November 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Because I can’t just lean over and tell him like a normal person, now can I?

Apparently we’re at 100 posts

7:17 pm, October 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in boythings, geekery, internets, nothingness by Jarod

And I’m totally winning, 51-49 52-49 with this post. Go team me!!