So, today marks nineteen years of which I have graced the earth with my presence. ;) Yes, today is my ninetenth birthday, and I have to say, it’s certainly a weird feeling knowing that I only have one more year of teenagerdom. At the same time, it’s a relief. I’m getting on with my life, and with each year brings new accomplishments and new challenges. In the last year i’ve proved myself in so many ways. Not proved myself to others - I’ve proved myself to myself. I’m proud of who I am today, which is something I couldn’t have said this time a few years ago. I’ve come a long way in the past year and had many experiences which a lot of people my age have never even have a chance to experience for themselves.

I had an essentially quiet, but nice day. James and I went to see I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry this afternoon, and then we went out to dinner with his family. It was a really lovely day all up. It was kind of an odd feeling, having my first birthday away from home. It’s hard to explain, but it feels odd all the same.

The best part of tonight was definetely watching the total lunar eclipse which occured tonight. It was an absolutely beautiful sight, and an awesome birthday present. Thanks, Mr. Universe!

Mid-semester break started on Monday, thank God! I’m just lapping up the time I have off, because Uni was kicking my butt. I have a lot of catch up to do, so that’s what I’ll be doing all next week. For the moment, I just need some time to relax and wind down.

I’m quite tired, so I think I might go and crawl off to bed. :)

Edit: If you’ve read any good books lately, let me know! I’m after some new books to help me complete my 50 book challenge. :)

So the past week or so has sucked a fair bit. James has been quite sick with mysterious pains all over his abdomen and the like. He got so frightened at one stage, thinking it was advanced cancer. As much as I wanted to hit him and tell him to snap out of it, I didn’t - I played “Supportive Sewwy” and told him he’d be alright. He’s been to the doctor and had a whole heap of tests done, but so far no knews on what the problem could have been. Considering he spent Saturday night drinking with buddies, I don’t think there’s anything TOO wrong with him, but all the same, he has another doctors appointment on Wednesday this week.

About a week ago now, we both decided we’d go and see Chuck and Larry at the cinema, only to get there and find the place packed to the rim. Because we were waiting in line for tickets for 20 minutes, we missed the start of the movie, so we decided to see Die Hard 4.0 instead. It was surprisingly good. I enjoyed it simply because of all the computer geek stuff they threw in. Heh. The discussion in the car on the way home was so nerdy. “omfg that’s so impossible as if the united states would put all that technical information on the ONE server are they stupid!?” Yeah, we’re such nerds. :D

Work was such a pain in the ass last night. :( I started at about 5pm and there was already an issue with one of the computers - the cable connecting the monitor had been broken, so all we could see was yellow. Yay. Then the SECOND computer that we rely on for our deliveries stuffed up, and I spent about an hour battling with it (as our resident computer nerd..) only to give up and call the computer geek who set up the system. It turns out it was as simple as the computer not being able to connect to our server because someone had turned the firewall to “block all” - Grr.

Things got better until our oven shut down. Yeah. It died. *sighs* We had to give about $300 back on refunds and had a 40 minute wait time on pizzas. Lots of unhappy customers. A guy who ordered a $70 delivery was called by the guy I work with and the customer was just SO rude when H told him that the delivery would be delayed and we’d be giving it to him for free. He swore at H for about five minutes and cancelled the order. Poor H was close to tears :(

Customers suck.

The exciting news is that i’ll be 19 years old as of next Tuesday! :D The second most exciting thing is that a Lunar eclipse happens on my Birthday, and this time Auckland will be able to see it! *does a jig* - Hopefully the weather is fine because I’ll spend the night out in one of James’s fields, staring at the red moon. Wheee :D

*still has an hour and a half to kill at uni* eh.. off to read my book.

So, I just realised that I have a test on Thursday for my Astronomy course. Yeah, I should probably do some studying … Eep!

More exciting news: I saw the Simpsons Movie tonight. I really enjoyed it. Lots of laughs and sniggers all the way through. I really liked how all the characters were seen at at least one point. As we were leaving, something weird went on with the car. For some reason, the auto-unlocker wasn’t working, which meant we couldn’t get into the car without the alarm going absolutely spaztastic. We tried to see if we could at least start the car after the alarm finished going off, but no avail. Apparently the car has an immobilizer without us realising! :o After standing out in the cold for 20 minutes, having screaming matches over the phone, the car finally decided to let us unlock it and drive away. WTF? We’re not even sure what happened! At least we didn’t have to call AA - we would’ve been out there all night. Pft.

So, I took a mental health day today and bludged instead of going to Uni. I missed my first class by sleeping in, and I figured, “well, I’ve already miss one, why not the other two?” As it is, I can get the lecture slides on our UoA site, and all the information is in the text books anyway. So long as I spend the time to catch up and do my readings, I should be okay.

If you’re interested in some eyecandy, I uploaded some new photos at my Flickr earlier. I stupidly uploaded the really small version of all the photos (I have no idea why my Macbook saves two copies in separate folders, one huge and the other not, but it does, and pisses me off) but you get the general idea. I might re-upload them at some point, but I’ll probably damage the little upload limit that I have with flickr. Oh well.

I have. Every damned day. I try to ignore it, but sometimes it just overwhelms me, like today. Apart from James, I don’t really have anyone to talk to here in New Zealand, and it kills me on some days. Don’t get me wrong, I love it here, but some days, I wish I had someone to talk to other than myself and my boyfriend. MSN isn’t quite the same.

Loneliness aside, i’m finally better after being confined to my bed for about a week. I still have a pretty persistant cough, which is slowly getting better, but frustrates the hell out of me walking to and from uni. I end up having what feels like an Asthma attack, simply because my body’s been so fucked over by the flu. Walking up a hill and not being able to breathe properly at the same time isn’t fun.

I’m slowly catching up with my uni work too. I covered three of the eightish lectures that I missed the other week, and i’ll be continuing with my work a little later tonight. Exhausting stuff! The other day I was so tired that I went to bed at 7.30pm and didn’t wake for 12 hours. It was ridiculous that I was still overly exhausted.

I might go out and buy a new computer this week. My PC was destroyed when the room all my belongings were being stored in back in Sydney leaked. It worked for a little while, before the graphics card conked out. I figured it’d be better and easier to buy a whole new computer, considering i’d need to replace more parts to make the computer better and functioning anyway. It’ll probably cost me around $1300, but I don’t know. The computer system that I wanted to get doesn’t seem to be available anymore, so I may have to call the company and see if they can custom build me one. Who knows, I’ll probably have to think about it some more now.