Casey-Lee

I have been so slack with my blogging lately, I apologise. In fact, I’ve been pretty slack with my online activity in general. I suppose in some ways, that’s a good thing? I feel a bit slack because I haven’t updated my sites in forever, there are forums I used to be a regular at that I haven’t visited in months, and I think there are more than a few people annoyed at me for dropping off the face of the e-planet.

I’ve taken on a real job (GASP!) at a clothing store for some extra cashola. Pretty funny story, really. I was in there as a customer, purchasing clothes, and they offered me a job. At first I wasn’t going to take it, because my e-job keeps me busy enough as it is, but the 40% employee discount soon changed my mind ;D I’m saving for a trip to Europe next year so every little bit counts! I’ve been doing some other random offline contract work as well, again for Europe trip savings.

In two days time I’m (finally) moving out of home (for the third time). University finished 6 months ago and it’s taken me this long to find a place I like. I really didn’t want an apartment because 1. I have pets and 2. I have a large family who will be visiting all the time because we’re relatively tight-knit. I found a house in a nice area, 3 bedrooms, and a sun room. I can’t wait to move in, I’m in the midst of packing at the moment; though I think I’m making more mess than progress.

I’ve already arranged for the phone line to be connected tomorrow, so it’ll be working when I move in the next day. I’ll be getting broadband set up once I’ve moved in and it will most likely take a week or two, so I’ll be offline for a while. I’m sure unpacking will keep me plenty busy, and it’ll give me a chance to work on my sites a bit without e-distractions. Speaking of which, I updated my Dracula’s Riddle blawg today with 10 more levels >_>

So long, interwebz! See you in a few weeks!

Whenever I wander past a bag/purse store there’s some gravitational pull that forces me to go inside. I know it’s very female of me, but I just love bags. Despite only buying a new one last week, I was forced by my insatiable obsession to wander into another bag store today. I was having a look around and the woman in the store directed to me to a display of Guess bags.

Holy beep.

Over the past few months I’ve noticed more and more Guess bags around - but NEVER have I seen so much ugly in one place. Concentrated evil. Oh how the pleather shone and the glitter burned into my retinas. For the life of me, I cannot understand the appeal of these ghastly things.

Overkill much? I don’t know what exactly they’re trying to achieve. I assume they’re supposed to look “designer” and not like someone threw up a pile of ugly and put straps on it. With a $300 price tag on several of them in the store, I am honestly ashamed of the female gender for forking out that kind of money for a plastic bag. They’re the type of bag I’d expect to see draped over the arm of a middle-aged woman with bleached blonde hair, excessive tan and hot pink claw-like nails.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing of all was that the Guess bags in this store were CHAINED TO THE DISPLAY CASE. I’m talking chains with big-ass padlocks. What kind of deluded criminal would want to steal something that hideous? :[

Needless to say I didn’t leave the store with a Guess back in tow. However, I wasn’t empty handed and I’m quite happy with my plain, boring GENUINE leather caramel Colorado purse.

Saturday the 15th March marks the date of the third annual Dusty Days music festival - and I am SO there. The line-up includes acts such as Sneaky Sound System, The Potbelleez and most exciting (for me) SPIDERBAIT!

Spiderbait was one of my favourite bands back in my tweeny highschool years. I have never seen them live and I’m really looking forward to hearing some of their oldies (hopefully they’ll play some). Sneaky Sound System should be great, they completely rocked out when I saw them at Live Earth last year. The below song by The Potbelleez is my current song obsession, so hearing it live will be awesome.

Ahhhh I can’t wait. Just hearing that one song will make the whole weekend worthwhile as far as I’m concerned. Now to find some accommodation and organise cars/who’s driving over .. etc. Wagga (where it’s being held) is about a 2.5 hour drive away - and as I’m the one that works from home (which apparently translates into “you’ve got nothing better to do”), I’ve turned into organiser in chief.

Cannot wait. Dusty Days, here I come.

Three days ago I was shopping in my favourite craft store, Lincraft, and almost passed out smack bang in the middle of the paint brush isle. I’d been feeling light-headed and shaky all day but it was also a billion degrees and humid as hell so I thought it was dehydration.

The next day I woke up, got out of bed, and promptly fell on the floor. I felt like a semi had visited my room during the night and ran me over multiple times. My thighs felt hard as rocks; sore like I’d run a marathon the day before. Every few minutes my knees would decide they didn’t want to support me anymore and buckle. So for the entire day I was walking around like I had a poker jammed up my ass because I couldn’t bend my knees.

That night I had quite possibly the worst sleep of my life. Every time I rolled over in my sleep the muscle pain would wake me up . The next day (yesterday) was WORSE. The pain I felt in my legs spread over my body; even my elbow pits hurt! I’d also started getting cold-like symptoms, mainly a sore throat and swollen glands in my neck. I made a doctors appointment and had to actually get my mum to take me. I haven’t been taken to see a doctor by mother since I was a kid, but I could barely walk, let alone drive myself there.

After describing the course of events that brought me to see her, the first thing the doctor said to me was “so.. been kissing anyone icky lately?” Apparently glandular fever aka mono has been making the rounds the past few weeks, GREAT! She sent me off to get some blood tests to confirm whether it was glandular fever or something else just as icky. Now, I have a minor phobia when it comes to needles. This is thanks to a traumatic experience donating blood when I was 17 that left me with arm-length bruises along the inside of both of my arms; but that’s another story. So needless to say, I was just a TAD concerned with getting blood tests. It was ok though, and I should get some of the test results by this afternoon or tomorrow morning. At least the blood count results that determine whether I have mono or not. They’re checking for a few other things too, like influenza.

The thing I hate most about sickness (apart from the whole.. sick part) is that it’s so BORING. Being able to lay in bed all day seems really appealing until you’re actually doing it. I got my 17 year old brother to help me move some furniture around and now I have a pretty sweet set-up going so that I can lay in bed, use my PC, watch some TV, or play xbox 360. It’s just not very practical if I ever.. y’know.. want to open my desk drawers?

If there are any of you out there looking for an extended vacation from work, please feel free to visit my quarantined bedroom. I’m bored here by myself.