a badly punctuated stream of consciousness

buona pasqua

it's a beautiful day, yeah yeah,
tell me that it's changing the way i'm feeling
it's beginning today
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well i have just so much to say, as usual! i dont think i ever feel like i say all that i want to in my blogs, even though i know they are like a million pages long. anyway, firstly i will start with today, and then go back to the beginning of the holidays and fill you in on my happenings.
well while all of you in australia are enjoying your last 2 days of the easter break, i have been back at school for 3 days now. ugh. still cant get over school on saturday. ugh ugh ugh. but tomorrow is sunday and i get to sleep in again. god i cant wait. i looove sleep. hehe. well today the sun is shining, the grass is green, and sky is blue, the birds are singing, and there are actaully leaves on trees! it is amazing just how muhc of a difference it makes! everytime i see a tree with allt he pretty little new leaves on it i think, wow that is soooo beautiful. absence makes the heart grow fonder, and i really missed leaves. and i have even seen some flowers in gardns! it is finally spring i think. and it feels especially fresh today cos the weather over the last 10 days has been horrible. always cloudy and threatening rain and for a few days it did actually rain, and to top it all off, it was cold again! :( today wasnt actaulyl very warm unless you were in the sun, and i think they have turned the heaters off in the classrooms so i am back to wearing 4 layers again, but i can handle it. i am used to it now. and school was quite good today, especially since i have been invited to dinner at a girl from the 5th class's house tomorrow night! yay! it is nice to finally get invited to do something with them. and beacuase of that, and the sun shinign and the end of the week, i am feel excellent today. not that i have really felt too bad in a while. so it's all good

well dad, i was reminded of you very much last night and that probably actually was a low point, but it was nice too. i was watching this 90's special on MTV and the song 'keep on moving' by Soul II Soul came on and i was instantly transported home. it reminded me of cleaning up on saturday mornings. i dunno why, but heaps of you music makes me think of that. i heard a simply red song, the one about 'i love coming home to you' or whatever, a few weeks ago, and again i thought of cleaning up the loungeroom on a sat monring. and i alwasy remember that for a long time paul simon's 'you can call me al' made me think of that too, until i listened to it so much that it just became another song with no particular memories. and steely dan's 'aja' album too. man i love that cd. anyway, the point was that i was thinking of you dad. moving on......

ok i want to do some birthday wishes. Happy birthday Ainsley!!! and Happy 18th Courtney!!!! wow, it seems everybody is turning 18. cant believe i am missing all your parties! it sucks. only 2 months til mine tho. not that any of you will be able to be with me, since i will still be here. oh well. we can celebrate when i get home

here is an interesting fact: ever since i have been here i have had this strange, but very strong, craving to go camping. i have no idea why, but i really really want to go camping. especially today cos the weather is great! so who wants to come camping at blackdown when i get home?

hey, does anybody realise that it is a year exactly today since the ralph concert?god. this time last year, my wonderful badn family, we were sitting in a rehearsal. damn i miss that. and since we are on the topic of bands, i will jump back to the where i left you with my last blog....
the concert i went to on wendnesday night was fantastic! i had such a good time! i enjoyed the music heaps and heaps, altho is was strange to be in the audience and not on stage. and i got to meet up with my freinds from the conservatorio, who i can dfeinatly say are my freinds now, i think. so the point is that the concert was excellent, and it just made me miss band and want to play. good luck with eisteddfod guys, i guess that is coming up soon. stick it to the man :)
the next day was my first day of holidays, and i had already planned to devote it to a very important errand: ringing sage and domenic. so i dragged myself out of bed before midday and happliy walked into town, where i found a phone box and dailed sage. unfortunately i got the message bank. so i tried domenic, but alas, twas engaged. so i thoguht, i know, i will ring rebekah power. unfortunately she wasnt home and neither was jane, but meggie, it was great to talk to you for the 4 minutes or whatever it was. i had a phone card that was supposed to allow me to call for an hour or something. it didnt last nearly that long. i thougth maybe it was cos i had already rung sage and dom, so i went to buy another card. came back and treid dom again, and it was great to talk to you too.....except that the card ran out again after about 5 mins. but it was so good to hear your voice! so i walked home a little sad, but not really unhappy cos i was still buzzing from the concert the night before. i got home and 'mamma' told me that dad had called. so i called home with my ekit card thing, only to be met with surprise because nobody had called. it turned out to be sage. so i called him back! and sagie, i think that was the best phone conversation we have ever had!
the next 24 hours were boring and i didnt do anything. lauren and alicia and grace i recieved your letters! grace, i replied to yours by hand, but alicia and lauren, i wrote you really really long letters on the computer, and then thre was no ink in the printer, so i left them there. and now for some reason microsoft word has broken down and so i am praying i havent lost them cos lauren, i spent like 2 hours writing yours (it was very very long) and alicia, your was only half finished and already 4 typed pages, so i intented to email them to you as attatchments, but may be all in vain now since the computer is having a spack attack.

anyway, sunday was easter, and you know how i spent the day? well most of it i slept awawy! literally, i woke up about 12pm, had lunch, watched george of the jungle in italian, cos it was on tv, which was hilarious cos i havent seen it in ages and ages. then i was tired, so i went to read and was lying on my bed. that was about 3 pm. then the next thing i knew it was 7.30! i fell asleep! i guess i needed the sleep, but unfortunately it meant that when i treid to sleep that night i found it very difficult and i am sure i was up until about 2pm tossing and turning. not that it really mattered cos then monday was a hliday so i slept in again. hooray! and that was the day i wrote to grace and alicia. in the afternoon i went to the piazza and omg there were so many people there! but we got icecream so i wasnt complaining, even tho we had to wait in line, which never happens. tuesday i spent with maddie and maria and we wandered around the piazza for a while and then watched zoolander in the afternoon. hahahahahahahahaha. hiliarious movie.
wednesday unfortunately i had to get up early so no sleeping in. i went to ele's house and ele and andrea and i did our english assignment. twas really fun actually. and she had a cat. i miss cats. mum and dad and naomi, give ginger a big hug for me. i miss her lots. i am so sick of the dogs barking all the time, especailyl at meals. but ele's cat was psycho and owuldnt let you pat it for very long before scratching the hell out of you. then on wednesday night i went to daniela's hosue and we watched 'the terminal' with tom hanks. it was really really good. school thursday was ok since i guess i hadnt seen anybody in a hwile, but it was realyl hard to get out of bed early after so many days of sleeping in. and int he afternoon i met up with daniela and nicola at the conservoatorio and we got gelati before nicola went home and i went back to daniela's for a while and then met maddie and maria again for a while. and basta. that is the end.

alicia, i cant believe you didnt have pizza in the italian restaurant. when you come visit me, we are SO going to have a real pizza and then gelati. ughighghg (homer simpson type drool, which is dificult to spell)

to aunty linda, aunty alvia and aunty heather, thanks for your emails/comments. i am sorry i havent had a chance to reply to any of them yet, but i am thinking of you guys too!

well i got nothing else to say and shoudl realyl get off teh interent
love you all heaps and heaps
still thinking of you
hope you all had a good easter and stuff.
ellen

posted by Ellen of Taranganba @ 5:02 AM