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Yesterday was so much fun! The wonderful Anna & Rob are getting married in 1 week and 6 days (11th Feb), and yesterday was Anna's hen's day/night. This is the beautiful bride at the first winery we went to. We drove around in 3 different cars to 3 different wineries in the Yarra Valley. It is just a stunning place! We had so much fun and drank some really good wine (and some not so good wine).




This is Anna & myself at the first winery tasting a lovely red (I forget what kind). There were 10 of us there for the day. We went to 2 wineries, then out to lunch at the Yarra Glen pub, then off to another winery before heading back to Anna's place.


This is Anna and Kelly, who is her bridesmaid. Kelly is getting married in December. How exciting! So many weddings! Now if only I could find a man...




This is the big group of us. This was taken at the first winery. From left to right is: Anna's mum, Kelly, Emma, Vera (Anna's brother's wife), Kathryn, Alison, Sveta (Anna's cousin), Me, Anna, Rhonda (Anna's almost mother in law).




Mmmm... wine...









Then it was back to Anna's place where we had fish & chips for dinner. Then we played some silly bridal games like making wedding dresses out of toilet paper and fun things like that! Then Kathryn & I went out and hired a Playstation 2 and borrowed the game 'singstar' off a friend of ours. Oh so fun!!! For those of you unfamiliar with the game, it's basically a karaoke game! Yay for karaoke!!!



And more karaoke as the night went on... so much karaoke... but you can never have too much karaoke!!!



We had such a fabulous time! It was so great to have a girls day out and get to spend some really fun time together. A big big big thanks to Kelly for doing such an amazing job of organising the day!

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It has recently come to my attention that we missed revhead's birthday!!! It was on Sunday Jan 21st! HAPPY BIRTHDAY REVHEAD!!! Here is your song!





Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Revhead/Martin/Hey You/Crazy Man!
Happy birthday to you!

Hope you had a really wonderful birthday!

I had a great few days. I went to Anna & Rob's yesterday, where Anna & I watched all 5 hours of the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. Oh how I love it! Red wine, sushi and Colin Firth. Mmm... Colin Firth... Then we went to the pub to have some dinner, then off to play some tennis before settling in to watch a few hours of the Aussie Open. Oh how I love Roger! I stayed at their place last night, and today we went to Torquay and met up with Alison. Was such a great day! I bought a pair of $85 shoes for $15! Whoo! Go me and my bargain shopping! They are very nice rip curl skatie shoes.


Here is Anna & Rob enjoying Subway! Mmm... sub...










Anna & I looking gorgeous as always! Oh yeah! Check out those tongues!








The beach we went to in Jan Juc. You can see small Anna and Alison in the middle there, with a lovely blurry bird flying past.







Here are us girls at the beach! From Left to right we are Anna, Alison, Me




Rob & my charming self at the fish & chip shop in Geelong.








Then we went to the belgian beer garden once we got back to Melbourne, and Emma met us there. This is Anna, Emma and Rob. Much fun was had! Mmmm... European beer...

Roger Federer is AWESOME!!!


I'm going to the beach in Torquay today. WHOO!!!

Last night after work (about 8:30pm) it was still soooo hot! We'd been working for ages and we were quite exhausted. So once everyone had gone, Jodie and I went swimming in the outdoor pools in our uniforms. Ahhh...

Here are some great blogs to check out! Andrew with his missional diatribe! And Gary with his, something...something good. Check them out anyway, and get posting!!! They also now appear in my blog links down the side.

Been working lots lately. That's good, because work = money. Great equation. But work also = hotness and tiredness. Not such a great equation. I'm a lifeguard for those of you who don't know. Working at a pool (indoor and outdoor) in summer is so humid and crazy hot, and you have to watch everyone swim and you're not allowed in the water. Ug.

I'm wondering about a nickname change. I generally sign everything Meags. But that makes people think my name is spellt Meagan, instead of Megan. So perhaps I could go by Megs. What do you think? Am I a Megs? The options are:

Meags (pronounced like the word Me)
Megs (like Eggs, with an M on the front)

Cast your votes!

Oh how I love Missy Higgins cover of that Tim Finn song... One of my current favourite songs!

Really enjoying my holidays. Going to the tennis (Australian Open for you international bloggers) on Wednesday with Krissy (girl from work). I love the tennis! Hope to be seeing Federer! He's my favourite player! Krissy's favourite player is Rainer Schuettler from Germany, who unfortunately got knocked out today, so we won't be seeing him.

Performed a song at church yesterday that I wrote. Was so awesome! I intended to play it on my own, but when I was rehearsing, the guys in the band joined in and it sounded amazing! So I got them to play with me when I performed it. I had Glenn on acoustic guitar, John on congos and Chrystal singing harmonies. It felt like a real song! It was such an amazing feeling!!!



Bought a new bag today. It's so exciting! I got all girly about it. Isn't it pretty? It's silk! I don't usually get excited over handbags, but I really love this one!



Going to see Mal Webb tomorrow night. Very excited! And going to see an acousitc duo in Eltham on Wednesday night. It's a week for music! Although I think every week for me is a week for music. Yay for music!

I just cried while re-watching 'Lost', and my family laughed at me. I cry at everything. :(

I just found out that the Whitlams are playing in the city tonight for free!!! I can't go!!! I already organised for people to come over tonight. My parents went away this weekend, so I'm having people over, it's too late to cancel. I want to see the Whitlams... I love them!!! Annoying city!!! :(

Oh how I love going to see live music. It's one of my very favourite things to do. Went out with Chrystal last night and saw an awesome duo in Eltham @ 'walks'. Get along on a Wednesday when you get the chance. I'm going to the Arcadia in South Yarra tonight to see Tim & Dan (ex Taxiride guys). Should be awesome!

New Years Resolutions:

Get fit & lose weight

Get regular gigs

Learn some classical piano

Start playing the violin again

Play a sport regularly (I'm starting up Volleyball)

Get marks (at college) I am satisfied with

I know I had one more, can't remember it though

Alison, Sarah & I went swimming in the Yarra river over in Warrendyte yesterday. Was so much fun! Here are some photos!


Me in the car on the way there!












Sarah (Left) & Ali (Right)












Me looking kinda nbutz











Action shot of Ali & I being stupid in the water!

I'm so disappoitned in my song writing as of late. I've been listening to so much awesome music and I just can't seem to write anything as good as what I'm hearing. It's rather disheartening. What kind of music do you guys like? Tell me your current favourite song, or few songs, and tell my why if you know why you like it so much. This might help in my research of how to write music.

Guru got 'Lost' season 1 on DVD for Christmas, I'm in the process of watching it all over again. I hope to get it finished before season 2 starts in a month and a half. Such a brilliant show! I think it's even better the second time. I'm picking up on all the little bits I missed along with way the first time. If you haven't been watching this show, you've been missing out! GET LOST!




And I can't believe how indescribably hot Matthew Fox still is!

As I promised Emma, here is a report and some photos from new years. Although they are dodgy ones I took with my phone, other digital ones are yet to come!

Amy & I went down to Sorrento on the 30th to hang out with Alison and Kathryn. Kathryn has a holiday house down there. We had an awesome time at the beach and walking lots and lots. Then on the 31st we drove across to Philip Island where we joined some others for a great new years. There were 13 of us there at Grant's holiday house, awesome time was had by all! Lots of going to the beach, drinking a bit, playing cards, and just general merriment. It was a great way to see in the new year. Yay for 2006!

This one was taken in the car on the way to Sorrento, as you can see, we had Marty Moose with us! We just couldn't leave him home!








This one is Amy & Kathryn in the back of Anna's car on new years day.





This is a dodgy photo of Emma and Anesti just after midnight. As you can see, my phone takes terrible photos without proper lighting! See hte orange glow stick Anesti has behind his ear? Some girl from next door handed out heaps of glow sticks to us all. How fun!






Here is Amy & Marty having lots of new years fun!









Oh, and Revhead finally got a blog! WHOO!!!

My friend Amy is over from Tassie at the moment, and we spent the day in the city today. First we had lunch in the botanical gardens and had a wander around a bit. Got some fun photos! Oh, and we took Marty with us! He's my moose!






This is me in a big giant tree!










This is Marty having fun at the botanical gardens.











Amy and Marty in front of the lake





Us having fun at the botanical gardens. We had such a yummy lunch! We got this pesto, sun dried tomato and capsicum pull apart thingy. Oh yeah....





Then we went to the Melbourne Aquarium. Here are some cool looking silver fishes.










Look! It's Nemo!







Freaky Giant squid!!! It's the world's largest frozen squid. They found it frozen in ice appartently. It's 7 metres long. So creepy...








I couldn't not have a turtle! They're my favourite animals!











Awesome looking stingray that swam over us in the fishbowl room!










Can we be fish too?










Marty needed a beer after a long hard day!















And so did we...

Hope you guys had a great and safe new year! Happy 2006! May it be full of dreams realised.

I watched this movie while I was away in SA, and I just bought it today and watched it again just then. Such an amazing movie. You should totally go and see it if you haven't already. Amazing acting, great story, very powerful. It's the film adaption of the book by Nicholas Sparks. It's mostly a love story, so it's a bit of a chick flick, but my uncle, dad and brother enjoyed it too, so it can't be too girly. Great flick! 2 thumbs up!

Just some quick photos from my trip to South Australia. I'll give you a full report soon! This one is my Dad and my Aunty Sharon (Mum's sister)




This is Aunty Lynne (Mum's other sister) and I











This is Mum and I











This is (clockwise from back left) my Aunty Trisha (Mum's brother's wife), Mum, Luke, Nanna (Mum's Mum)

All the best for tomorrow guys. Love you to all! Have a wodnerful Christmas!!! I'm having a great time up here in Whyalla, South Australia hanging out with all my extended family. I'll be back in Melbourne Tuesday night. Weather is gorgeous here, people are great, not much to do though... but it's all good. Enjoying myself immensly.

I'm in SA right now, it seems like I'll have a little bit of net access. No photos as of yet, don't have a usb connection here, but have taken plenty of photos already! Having an awesome time. It's my Nanna's 70th birthday today, so we're doing lots of family stuff. The weather is amazing up here! Yay for Whyalla weather!

I'm going away tomorrow for a week, so Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a safe Christmas and a truly wonderful time. I hope you spend it with people you love, and generally get into the Christmas Spirit. May we all be impacted by the true meaning of Christmas.

I took a silly photo of myself in some Christmas getup!

I'm so excited! I took 5 subjects this semester, and I have 4 of my results back. Just so you know, the marking system goes as follows:
HD - High Distinction
D - Distinction
C - Credit
P - Pass
F - Fail

I got 2 HD's and 2 D's, and I'm pretty sure I'm getting a HD for the one I don't know about yet. WHOO!!! I'm so happy!

Yesterday was a good day! It was very Christmassy! Because we're going to South Australia for Christmas this year to spend it with mum's side of the family, we had our Christmas lunch with dad's side of the family. It was great fun. Lots of amazing yummy food (Yay for mum!), great company, oh and exciting presents of course! I got my mic, lead and stand from mum and dad (I'll get the other part of my present from them on Christmas day), perfume ('moonflower' from the body shop) from Luke, money from Uncle Barry & Aunty Karen, money and tops from Nanna. Lots of fun!

Then last night my church had their annual carols in the park. Although, due to weather (it didn't rain in the end anyway), we had it indoors. Rain in summer? Doh! Oh well, still was an awesome night. Our band just rocked. We had Chrystal and Diane on vocals, Hugh on bass, Danny & Dan on trumpet, Dad on trombone, Aaron on Tuba, Sky on flute, Andreas on drums, Graeme on percussion, and myself on Piano and vocals. I got lots of positive feedback from everyone, so yay! It was great fun, I like singing carols. O Holy Night is my favourite one, AND I managed to hit that super crazy high note at the end. Oh yeah! Good times!

Here is some of the tinsel I wore in my hair last night. There was like 3 metres of it. So much tinsel... It was a tad itchy, but still fun! It's holly tinsel! Isn't it awesome?!



I love Christmas.

I finally got me a microphone I can call my own! I went shopping yesterday morning with Rob (out to Mount Waverly!) and got a microphone, a stand and a lead. WHOO!!! All up we got everythign super cheap because we went to the place where Rob gets all his PA stuff for the Proclaimers. Ah, the life of a sound techie. All this stuff is part of my Christmas present from my parents. Aren't they wonderful? Oh yes they are! Answer your own question why don't you Megan. Why don't mind if I do!


Here is a picture of my wonderful new mic, still in the box. I have taken it out to have a look at it, but I'm not allowed to use it for another week. Doh! Oh well, here she is!

I had a super cool dream last night that I was on another planet. There were a whole bunch of us, can't remember why. But we were trying to suss out the place without letting the locals know we were there. They were humans too though. Then the overcast sky cleared to show the most beautiful night sky. We could see so many planets, including earth (which was huge), and billions of stars. It was one of the most visually stunning dreams I have ever had. I adore space and astronomy.



Then for no apparent reason we were in a supermarket on this planet doing some shopping for Danny because he was going to cook for Chrystal. Then it because a musical and we were all singing about what and how he should cook. This all totally seemed normal and everyone was joining in.

There was also this weird bit where I was on a big toy train and we all had to find something to do, like some sort of weird real life action sequence or something. No idea what that was about.

Ingi & I also got a gig supporting Mal Webb. It was so cool! It was @ 303 on High st, Northcote. Oh, and I wrote an awesome song, that sounded a little like 'overkill' by Colin Hay. Great song! I even remember how it kinda went, so I'm going to try to recreate it. How exciting!

Also in my dream, Guru bought 'Napolean Dynamite', and I was really annoyed at him, coz I wanted to buy it.

I quite often have very vivid dreams that I can remember ever detail of.

This just makes me sad and angry. Biz puts it articulately, see her blog for the story on Tookie. May God use his life to create lasting change.

EDIT: I decided to put Biz's blogs here:



Have you heard about Stan 'Tookie' Williams? I rarely take interest in American 'execution of ex-gang leaders' affairs, but this one blew me away when I heard about it first on Hack on Triple J. It's insane that anyone could execute that man, reformed, redeemed and saving lives. Execution on 13th Dec, fate lies in the hands of one Arnold Schwarzenegger (who the hell would have used that sentence three years ago?!).

I encourage you to read about this guy here so he'll at least leave some sort of legacy.

Oh, and you can send a christmas card to Tony Blair.



Arnold Schwarzenegger is a dick. He decided that Tookie still deserved to die and as of 1 minute past midnight Dec 13th - bummy American time - he was put to death. There goes a symbol of hope for hundreds of African Americans wanting to get out of the gang game, a proflific anti-violence activist, and any chance white America has of showing they care about disaffected youth and the right of every human being of redemption and forgiveness. Sorry if I sound preachy, but this case deserves a high-horse stance. Long Live Tookie.

The last little while has been suprisingly busy! I expected to have a leisurely weekend, but oh no! I handed in my very last assignment for the year on Friday. WHOO!!! Ironically it was on anxiety... It is such an amazing feeling having everything finished for the year! I got some of my results back too. I did 5 subjects, and I have a HD (High Distinction) and a D (Distinction) so far. For those of you who don't know our tertiary marking system, they are the 2 highest marks you can get! WHOO!!! The D is for History which I thought I went the worst in! So I'm assuming that'll be the worst mark I get. YAY!

On the weekend (Saturday) I went to the St Andrews markets with Chrystal to buy beads and jewelry stuff. And we had felafel balls. Mmmm... felafel! We got so much stuff for $30! Best place ever to buy jewelry stuff! Then we quickly had lunch and went to see Alex in his end of year performance (he's a drama student/actor). It was on the 2002 bali bombings and generally anything in the media to do with Bali. It was really fantastic! Very thought provoking. From there we went to the Belgium Beer Garden. Oh yeah... such amazing Belgium beer! Then off to quickly have dinner and rush off to the jewelry making night Chrystal and I had organised. We had about 15 girls turn up and we made all sorts of things. We made earings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings. I even taught some people how to make macrame jewelry. All in all an awesome night of connection, productivity and fun!

Then on Sunday I had a rehersal at 8:15am (for church that morning), I played piano and sang for that. Then I went to Danny & Chrystal's for lunch. There were 8 of us there I think, lots of and lots of fun! Chrystal is a fantastic cook and the company was second to none! Then off to a carols rehersal which I'm also playing piano and singing in. Then rushed off to Prahran to do a gig (which was really awesome), then rushed back to my church. The gig was for the Christmas street festival thing of the church of one of my lecturere's, Glen. Great people, we had a good time there! Busy busy day. Then just hung out with peopel afterwards until 2am. Long long day... long long weekend... but good times!

Yesterday I worked again. Lifeguarding is easy, but hot and boring. It's just so humid! But it's nice to be back there, I have great workmates and it money! WHOO!!! Then last night I went to Jenny's place to see her new house. She just moved out to Carlton. And we walked to Lygon st and got gelati. Mmmm... gelati.

Well I'm going to meet Nomes for Breakfast now, then we'll do some Christmas shopping. Hmmm... long blog today...

Life is good...





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I had a dream last night that I was on a camp with my college, and they were putting on a production of 'the sound of music'. And I wanted to be Maria, so they let me. I was singing a lot in my dream, and I actually sounded really good. Oh it was a good dream!

*bursts into song*

The hills are alive, with the sound of music!

I started work at 5:30am today! So wrong... Had to get up at 4:30am. Stupid open shift...

I took a fun photo last night of our Christmas tree. It had a slow shutter speed so it looks mad. It's a real tree, not that you can tell in this photo, all you can see are swirly lights really! I like it!

Before you forget, GIG TOMORROW (Sunday)!!! COME ALONG!!!

Well it feels like it's been a super long day! But a good day! This morning I woke up early (well 8:15am is early for a Saturday!) and went to the St Andrew's markets with Chrystal. We had an awesome time! Didn't buy much, but we're going back next week, so I'll get lots of stuff then. Then I spent the afternoon hanging out with Chrystal at my place doing music stuff and just having an awesome chat. She's a great chicky to hang out with!

Then I went and saw Wil Anderson do his show at Bar Open. Was a pretty good show. They were free tickets, so hey, I'm not complaining! I went there with Jenny, Alison and Sarah. I had a rather girly day really! He was pretty funny, but sometimes he just crossed the line and just went a bit too far. All in all it was a good show though.

Then tonight I went to my friend Natalie's house warming party. I study with her. I didn't think i was going to know anyone at the party, but I bumped into a girl I used to know called Jodie. Also Neale from church was there. How odd! We had fun, talked to some psycho hyper girls who kept us entertained! We did a kris kringle thing and I got a fun mobile phone charm thingy that is also a screen cleaner. Haha! It's a big pink flower on a bungy chord thing. We had to wear something Christmassy. I wore tinsel in my hair.

Now I'm very tired and need some spleep.

I feel like I've had such a crappy day. I've been so stressed this week. I'm exhausted.



Photo by Guru

Well I thought the stress of having to finish things at the last second was over. I realised only late last night that I have double booked myself for tonight. It is our college Christmas break up which I so desperately want to go to because all the American exchange students leave on Monday and I'll probably never see them again. This is the last chance I really have to see them. But I only found out late last night that I'm booked in to do a 10 minute puppet play for a play group Christmas break up! I totally did not realise that was tonight! CRAP!!!

Now I have to go do the puppet play thing which starts at 6:30pm, then rush off to the kingsley thing (which starts at 6pm), then maybe off to Friday Night Boardom after that. We'll see.

I had to write a script this morning. I'm actually pretty happy with it. It's all about Christmas carols. It's kinda fun. But sigh... I always do things at the last second. I totally need to work on my time management...

SOMEONE!!! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!! My brain is just totally fried. I haven't slept much all week because I've had so much work to do. I wrote 2 assignments this morning (about 4000 words), and I read 250 pages last night. Too much... I can now say that I understand everything there is to know about capitalism. Well, maybe not everything, but a lot! I can't think anymore. Can I have a nap? No? No time? DAMNIT!