Sarah Connor - Actress

These are pictures of my friend Sarah Connor (yes her real name). She is one of the most beautiful people I know.

WEEK 1 - 2009

Well I have reached the end of the first week of 2009 mostly unscathed...  I have a mystery bruise my knee, several scratches on my leg and a splinter in my foot that is refusing to budge, but on the whole I have survived. 

The new year was rung in lying on my sisters couch watching Xanadu.  As lame as that may sound I felt that having never seen it I should use the last 90 minutes of 

2008 and rectify the situation. Please don't stone me to death for admitting that i haven't seen it... or for now having seen it for that matter.

There was a reason that I had never sat through Xanadu before and that is because it is Spectacularly bad.  Sorry to those of you who love it but its only redeeming feature is the fact that is doesn't seem to realise that it is truly gaudy.  Though some of the special effects were pretty if not subtle.

The fallowing days were spent in my sisters garden fighting with rose bushes, hence the scratches, though i feel it is necessary to explain that I won as they are now just a big pile of thorny clippings...  Annie - 1, Roses - 0.

Hmmm other news...

It is remarkably hard to find leotards for little girls in any size smaller than a size 4... I think this may be a problem that we will have to get used to as my 

niece does not appear to be growing all that fast.  Ahh... she takes after me in that way!

I finished reading 'Nation' the other day.  I got it for Christmas.  I  liked it... it is kind of dark and brooding, but really interesting at the same time.  I had not read any other book by Terry Pratchett that was as easy to read.  

It is not as notably funny as the Disk World books (in my opinion) but it has its own sort of dark humor in the face of great adversity.  I really enjoyed it... though it smacks a lot of someone who is learning to come to grips with changes that they don't like, or have any control over.  My sister told me after i had started reading it that Pratchett has been diagnosed with some horrible and debilitating disease... this may account for the underlying trauma of the story.  

My 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog' DVD arrived today.  I finally got my parents to sit down and watch it.  I had tried when it was on the web but it was having major issues loading at the time.  I have yet to watch Commentary: The Musical!

Ohh... I can't believe i didn't mention this first. 

THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR WAS ANNOUNCED!!!  

Matt Smith (pictured here)... I am excited I loved his work in ' The Ruby in the Smoke' and 'The Shadow in the North' two Philip Pullman books that the BBC made into TV productions.  They also star Billie Piper of Doctor Who fame.  I saw them some time last year.  He is now in a show on ABC called 'Party Animals'.  I think he will do an Excellent job as the Doctor and I am glad that he will be the youngest person ever to play the Doctor... come on if you were a time lord would you want to come back as an old person??? It seems right that the doctor should get younger as he uses up his incarnations.

ANNIE'S THINGS TO PONDER...

Speeling Question:   Why does height have and 'e' in it when high doesn't???

Why does the blog put all the pictures at the top of the page when you want them in the middle?

How is it that i managed to walk around the pool without my glasses on yet I tripped on the stairs when i did have them on... hence my foot splinter!?

I know I sould write in this blog, but I am crap!

HI ALL MY DEDICATED FOLLOWERS,

I am as usual complete rubbish at this blogging thing, but I have made an effort this time. Unfortunatly ont on this blog. I have updated a short bit on what I have been up to in my other blog which can be found here:

http://aliandannie.blogspot.com/

That one is shared so if you with to post a comment that you don't want Ali to read then coment on this blog.

I hope you are all well and have a FAB Christmas, or whatever you choose to celebrate.

Annie xxx

Link

Hi all,

I have created a blog for Ali and my trip O.S. You can find it at:
http://aliandannie.blogspot.com/

The story of the dreaded illness that wont go away... and other things.

I have gotten lazy with this again. I think that is because I have discovered the addictive nature of Facebook. Anyway for all of you who are still loyal enough to still bother looking at my blog this tale is for you.

I unfortunatly got sick at the end of last semester and have had less than no luck in kicking it, infact this dreaded illness just keeps manifesting its self in new and more iritating ways. Currently I have symaltaniously got a blocked nose, a runny nose (yes you can have both at the same time) and blocked ears... OH AND lots of assignments.

Anyway that is enought complaining (after about two months of back to back viruses I think I have run out of steam to complain) what have I been up too:

- I worked on my first student play last term as the Assistant Stage Manager. (All I can say is there is a reason the last student production I worked on was when I was in Primary School.) I found it an INTERESTING experience, in all the possible conotations of the word.

- I received two Credditis, a Distinction and a High Distinction for my first semester subjects.

- Mum Bought me a Car for my birthday, an 1981 Honda Accord. (Don't think I have ditched my Vespa, anyone here at Uni can attest to how iritating I get on a nice day when I winge about not being able to ride my Vespa.) I MISS MY VESPA NOW!

- I am going to see 'Thirsty Merc' on Wednesday night.

- I am still sick.

Well that is just about all the high/low lights of my life at the moment. When I am feeling better I will update again.

An Epic Adventure is on its way

Well it is booked and paid for. Ned (aka. Alison) and I are going on an Epic Adventure over seas.

When? you may be asking yourselves.

We leave from Sydney on the 30th of November and fly direct to London. We will then be traveling around the UK until the 20th of January. Where exactly we will go is yet to be sorted, however we do know we will be in Edenbourgh for newyears. After our time in the UK we fly to Italy for six days, then to Helsinki for about 10 hours (we are oddly more excited about that at the moment) and then to Thiland for three hays in the way home. And we get back into Sydney on the 31st of January.

A new blog for Ned and Millie's ( Millie aka. Me) Epic Adventure will be set up in the near future so ou can all keep track of what is happening withour trip.

Uni Update.

Hello to all,

I have been slack again lately as I have been up to my dark sleep deprived eye sockets for the past few weeks.

So what has been happening...

You will be pleased to know and for some of you surprised to know, (I know I was) that i got a Distinction on my essay. YAY ME!!! I was convinced that I was going to fail as most of the class did (or only just passed). Yes I am fantastic I know, but it seems I also picked the right question as everyone in that subject who picked that question did well and anyone who chose the other questions didn't.

No surprise really that I also receved a distinction for my art book again though. YAY ME anyway (why not it's my blog)!

On another note, I have no more classes for this semester. I do have three assignments left to finish and then I am done.

As for why I am tired at the moment...
Well for part of my assesment I have to work on the third years drama production 'Orphius Decending' by Tenesse Williams. I am the Assistant Stage Manager (ASM) and I am also in charge of the props during the show. The show is long has two intervals and is about vile people. Oh and the Director is a complete wanker (lets hope he never reads my blog). There is two more weeks of it to go, though thanks to Kate's wedding which I am going home for on Saturday I get to miss two performances. That deseves a YAY KATE!
I have also been informed since we opened that I am expected to call the show on one performance. It would have been good if I had been told this before the show opened because I have not realy been paying atention to what has been going on. Bad me. Oh well maybe if I skip a few cues we can get the show to run under three hours. yes I said THREE HOURS.

Well that is about it for the moment. Except fot this picture of ricket powered penguins.