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That was so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Full report coming tomorrow complete with photos.

Well I'm about to leave! I'm going to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl to see Missy Higgins and Ben Lee. It's going to be awesome!!! We bought our tickets months ago, and the day is finally here!!! I'll tell you all about it tomorrow! WHOO!!!

Sometimes I get really disturbed by dreams. Even though I know they aren't real, I'm left with an emotional sentiment from them that gets to me. Last night I had a dream that I was on a boat from Tassie to Melbourne (with a lot of my Melbourne friends) and something happened (I can't remember specifically what), and the boat sunk. I almost died and it was terrifying, but I did survive. But two of my friends died. It was just horrible! I spent the second half of the dream crying. And 2 of my other friends just didn't seem to really care that 2 of our friends had died. It was so distubing and it really creeped me out.

That's a word right?

I had fun last night.

I've lost 4 kg in the last week and a half.

I have one episode of 'Angel' left to watch. WHOO!!!

I love daylight savings!

I'm going to go and play the piano now.

EDIT; Oh, and I forgot that I have another birthday party this afternoon (Saturday) that I forgot about. Great. TOO MUCH STUFF!!! And I got to bed at 3am...Zzzzz...

I think I'm going to have a rather busy weekend this weekend. I'm taking my friend Krissy out to buy a mobile this arvo, she's a bit phone illiterate you see, and needs someone with her so she doesn't make a stupid decision like last time. Then I'm going to Kelly's 23rd birthday party tonight. Tomorrow morning I'm going to the St Andrews markets with Beth, then catching up with Pete (my friend from Tassie who's over visiting for the weekend) in the afternoon. And at night I have Alex's 21st (even though his birthday was 6 months ago). Then on Sunday morning I'm singing a song with Rachel at church. Perhaps I have Sunday afternoon off. I sure hope so coz I have lots of study stuff to get done. Then I'm back at church Sunday night and I usually don't get home til about 11pm after catching up with everyone afterwards. It'll be fun though. Oh, and on Monday, I'm going to the Ben Lee/Missy Higgins concert!!! I can't wait!!! What are you guys doing this weekend?

Orby (Rob) has a blog now! WHOO!!!

Go the carrot not the stick, go the carrot not the stick.

I went to see Chicken today at his new work and we had yummy coffee/hot chocolate. Mmm... grande hot chocolate... It's a very nice shop in a nice area.

Look! It's chicken!

Mmm... Grande Hot Chocolate..

I wish I had a guy that would warn me when I was going to do something stupid before I did it. He could sing to me to warn me "MISTAKE!!!" And he'd be an opera singer. Just like JD has in Scrubs.

I love walking. I went for such a nice walk yesterday in our local park! Isn't it purdy?





Here is my puppy!

*breaks into song*

Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday Dear Troy!
Happy Birthday To You!

And I don't even have a photo of him to stick up! Troy, why did you have to do something as silly as move to Sydney? Hope you have a wonderful day!

I'd also like to share my high levels of excitement over losing 3kg in the last week! WHOO!!! It's amazing what a bit of walking and a lot of water will do for you!

And Nooni has done another wonderful photo of me! She's amazing!

My amazing, wonderful brother bought me a dvd last night for no apparent reason. One of my favourite movies of all time, which I have just finished watching too late at night, Love Actually. I don't know what draws me to it so much, probably the seemingly unobtainable goal of finding love. I want romance. I just wrote a song about unrequited love, and it's something I seem to experience too much. I want love. I want to find someone who will love me and make me feel really special. I have never found that, and I long for it. Sigh...

Naomi (Nooni) & I went out for lunch today, and Nooni being the wonderfully creative girl that she is, decided to do some condiment art. Here is her attempt at writing our names. Notice how my name is now Mogoo, and her's is now Nooni.



And here are some great photos of us from the day!

Nooni


Mogoo


The gig tonight went well. Ingi & I enjoyed ourselves anyway. I don't think it was our best performance, but we still had a good time. It was great getting to play our original songs! There was this Tongan family who sang, and damn were they amazing! There were 9 kids who sang, but they had 17 kids in the family! WHOA! Islanders can really sing!

I'm so tired. Must get some spleep. Love to you all!

Well TONIGHT is our next gig! Here are the details:

Friday 21st October
$5 Entry Fee
7 - 11pm
Rosanna Uniting Church Hall
21-23 Arden Cresent

We'll be on stage at about 8:15pm and we'll play 4 or 5 songs that we wrote! How exciting!

It'd be awesome to see some of you there! We really appreciate all you guys who support us!

Here are some of my current favourite songs:

Black the sun - Alex Lloyd
Twisted Logic - Coldplay
Pointless Nostalgia - Jamie Cullum
Gypsy Girl - Lior
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
Spinning - Zero 7
Brothers On A Hotel Bed - Death Cab For Cutie

Well, isn't it nice to know that people have been lying to me? I was going to leave this for a couple of weeks, and reveal that I knew later, but I can't be bothered. For the most part I think it's pretty damn funny. Very clever and well done. I was fooled completely. But on the other hand I feel a tad humilated knowing that people have been laughing at me behind my back.

Still confused?

EDIT: Just making it clear that I'm not mad at anyone. I get cranky when I'm sleepy, and I haven't had enough sleep. No harm done. It's all good.

I love Bridget Jones! The movie that is. I'm a huge fan of both movies (which I own), and am very much in love with Colin Firth. I want me a lovely man like him... *sigh* And sadly I think I over identify with Bridget Jones... but I don't think I'm quite as socially awkward. Well, I hope not anyway. I watched the second movie on Sunday night again. I also love 'love actually'. I tried to buy it yesterday as an ex rental, but they'd run out of copies. Anyone who'd like to buy it for me, please feel free.

Ingi came over today and we spent about 4 hours jamming. Homework isn't important right? Good, I didn't think so. Anyway, we wrote a song together! The first real song we've written together. We've written one other song, but it was more us each writing bits separately and then putting it together. This was us actually co-writing. It worked suprisingly well! We thought it'd be so hard, but we bounced off each other so well! We're going to perform it at our gig on Friday. I'd love for people to come! Here are the details. Please come and see us! Anyway, just wanted to share my excitement over music!

I was talking with 2 of my wonderful friends tonight and it got me thinking about direction. I mean directive behaviour, when people tell you how things are going to be. It makes me so angry when people think they have the right to run anyone else's life for them. I was in a position last year where that was done for me a lot of the time. The problem is that it was done with such good intentions. People just wanted to see me cared for, but I was not cared for, I was controlled. I lost my sense of independance, and with it some of my sense of identity. How can you enjoy life, when someone else is living it for you? I spent a lot of time feeling depressed because I lost myself. I felt squashed. I felt unimportant and irrelevant. I felt untrusted, like people thought I was incapable of making good decisions without their help. How arrogant! I was being squeezed into being the person that someone else thought I should be. Even if I wanted to make those same choices, I wanted to be the one making them. How can I take ownership of my life when I have no room to make my own decisions? It is such a disempowering experience to have choices made for you, or to be coerced into making the choices that another wants you to make. I want to be empowered to be all that I can be.

All I want to do at the moment is write music, but I'm not finding the time. I have a lot of study to do and other committments. Stupid responsibilities. I could quite happily be a full time muso. Sure I'd be poor, but you know, it'd be all good. I'm so inspired at the moment. And I'm really enjoying the Missy Higgins DVD I bought a couple of weeks ago. Lots of inspiration from her. And Ingi & I are going to see Missy, Ben Lee and others in concert in a couple of weeks! YAY!!! And we have a gig coming up next week! WHOO!!! We'll be doing all originals! Come see us! Music is such an all consuming thing for me. I go through various spurts, and right now is a rather intense one of only wanting to play and sing and forsake everything else. But I am trying to keep a healthy balance. Trying.

Honestly, there are some danm hilarious shows on the abc! I saw 'spicks and specks' for the first time tonight. I didn't know what the show was, but it was sooooooooo funny!!! I laughed so much!!! It's like a game show version of 'the glass house' which is one of my favourite shows. I watched that tonight too by the way too. I just love that show, always makes me laugh. It goes up and down a bit, but usually a cack! I also watched 'black books' tonight! Love it! British comedy is great! Please tell me any hilarious shows that I'm missing out on!

I love my puppy Maggie. She's taken to sleeping on my bed over the last couple of months or so. I swear she thinks it's her bed/room and I'm just allowed to sleep there too.

Cheeky Puppy!