Nikola and 10 year not so reunion

when i heard that the lead singer from milliencolin was doing a solo acoustic tour i thought for sure Adelaide would be skipped. but to my absolute joy he did a show at enigma on Saturday night and it was fantastic. i went solo and met a friendly fellow who i studying to be a nurse and he bought his mum and dad along which was cool!
and he played and played to the small but very committed crowd...i even got a set list after and got a to lauren from nikola! but it was hard to get in because everyone was spell bound afterwards...(i'm telling you it was wonderful everyone should have been there!)

and this guy was talking to him and asking if he liked wine...cause his friends (and he pointed to his friend) dad owns a winery in the barrossa henske wines...and the funny thing is that when dad was studying we used to go out to the barrossa and the owner of that very winery used to go to the same church...i reakon it was his son that played the saxaphone...he was pretty nice on the eye...but because i was so pre occupied with nikola i only realised this a couple moments later and when i went to freak him out and ask him if his parents did go to that church he was gone! oh well...it was a wonderful night...i parked on hindley street and my car was still there when i got back so i was pretty pleased!

stepping into the century we currently live in

all i can say is mum and dad got broad ban...

you little ripper!

NOFX....

there is nothing like going to a live show...and further there is nothing like going to a punk show. it had been a while since i had heard the fast drums, loud guitars and the music that i really do appreciate in a venue with lots of people.

that was my Monday night.
nathaenal and i went and met up with a bunch of his mates. i proceeded to loose them and spent alot of the night by myself. however did bump into Rowan a nice young man i have met on a number of occasions. we had an interesting conversation. i didn't pick him being into NOFX and he said he doesn't like to tell people that cause people tend to judge you by the music you listen too. i think i found myself doing that from time to time...and i do that when i have to listen to music i don't like! and it was an interesting point and such.

i found Than just before they started and i enjoyed it for the most part. up until they started bagging Christians and i wasn't down with that. i concluded they make good music but they take tooo many drugs and drink to much.

they did play bottles to the ground and i do enjoy that song!

i was also informed NIKOLA the lead singer from milliencolin is playing at enigma on sunday night! i'm getting myself along to that one too!

just when i thought i was growing out of my punk stage....

the curse of the sneeze

If i was living in the days when the plague was rampid i would have been locked up or shoved underground because my sneezing would have made people think that i had the plague.
perhaps i should be locked up under ground because then the pollen and everything else that makes me sneeze, my eyes itch and nose run wouldn't do those things to me....

telfast are making a lot of money out of me these days....
and it's not even spring!

nofx tonight...it's come up and i didn't even get into the counting sleeps for it cause of the busyness of everything...so i am looking forward to it. to the fast drums and the loud guitars!

let's sing it...HOT HOT HOT

i thank God for air conditioning and the fact our flat got ac earlier this year, cause it was a stinker on the weekend...not sure what the actual temp got to but saying it was rather warm was an understatement...today we had a cool change and now it's only 34!

so i've been a bit in need of up dating this but i don't have the net at home and whenever i go to mum and dad's i just want to hang out with them and chat...and stay in the cool ac...the "bunka" as it is affectionately known is detached from the house and can get hot as hell.

new things in my life
1. i have now seen tool twice in concert...thanks to the big day outs (gold coast and Adelaide)
2. i am addicted to gilmore girls...no thanks to brad and di!
3. i went and saw a night at the museum on saturday with my youngest sisters...it was ridiculous BUT i loved it! good old Ben stiller!
4. it's my birthday in less then a month
5. Chocolate bean is being phased out of my life...i have a full time job between school and church so it's a bit full on doing part time work too! which is sad cause the people i work with are ace and what can i say...I DO REALLY LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!

that's all i can think of!

but installments will be more frequent these days...I hope!

good day to you.

let's just get up to scratch

firstly a couple photos from the GOLD COAST big day out. These are of the killers. they played a fun set, sound was fairly good and the crowd got into it...called my dad from the set and i spoke to him the next day and he was so stoked to hear it that he was thinking about getting a ticket to the adelaide bdo...unfortunatelty it sold out...but he's keen for next year! ha my dad. what a champ!

2 months in the making

ok so it;s been a while...and this is just to say it's going to be a little longer...i am waiting for some photos of the big day out...ah which was amazing by the way...both the gold coast and adelaide...tool...WAIT...can't talk now BUT the wait will be over soon...i just need to get some net access at home or be less lazy and go on when i'm at the parentals!

soon i promise!

loz x

misc a laneous

hi all hi all!

man life has been busy and fun!

quick recap.

christmAS fantastic . ate a lovely lunch with mum dad and me sisters.

new years quiet...in millicent in the south east of south australia. got breath tested the second time ever! it was funny...got some really nice messages..a couple from people i have no idea who they were...lost my phone earlier in the year...er i mean LAST year! so got a phone call from a mate in Brisbane who was thinking he was calling his cousin and when i said i didn't have a cousin Ben he said...now that hurts!

OK so tomorrow i am going on a road trip with 7 young people from church up to QLD. i am very excited. i had my last shift at the choc bean for a few weeks and said bye to Erin who is moving back to QLD...anyway we are going up and stopping along the way and i am really excited about showing the champs some places i have come to be quite fond of.

OK so i am getting WAY tooo excited about the BigDayOut. i was listening to the killers before with my dad and he was impressed and he was considering coming to the Adelaide one! hehehehe ahh man and i get to see them twice and tool and muse ahhh man i am tooo excited i have got a lot ot be excited and look forward to!

OK so the best news last night NOFX are doing a show in Adelaide i am STOKED to say the least...anyone who wants to come...Feb 23rd...or something it's a Monday night anyway!

the photo is me on new years being a bit silly...with the pink mink...a wine i tasted in the barrosa with some cracker friends frombris brad and di and di's sister and as it turns out my year 6 prac teacher and her husband! first wine tasting experience ever! and i actually bought a few bottles...just when you thought you knew me!

so for now it's good bye and when i get back you'll hear of my tales

good night

34grams

on monday afternoon i took a big bite out of a 127 gram bit of chocolate and the bite weighed 34 grams. i made a hot chocolate in 1 minite 3 seconds, ate 14 heaps spoons of melted chocolate in 1 minute and bobbed for strawberries...

WHY....?

cause we had a choc off at the chocolate bean...i won the biting comp and came 4th over all! it was a fun day! and i got a good secret Santa present too. a voucher from Midwest trader store. sweet.

if i stopped fart arsing and got a digital camera i would have photos to share...but i am waiting on some from a lovely work mate! you'll see them in the new year!

which brings me to my next point...

may your Christmas be a happy and healthy one and your new year be one of exciting new adventures and fun! and please enjoy a nap on Christmas day or boxing day...or BOTH!

kudos

Jo Jo Schamadaboo

this is jek's very cute God daughter Johanna. There was a playgroup break up today for the playgroup at church. Jo was dressed in a little santa suit...and Father Christmas even came!
She's pretty precious!

photo documentation

Last night a group of us now dubbed the "Catherine Court Crew" drove to the barrosa to celebrate with Chelsea at her 21st Birthday party. The theme was happily ever after and i went as a pixie and jek was queen of the fairies. it was a really good party, catching up with old friends and meeting some new ones. we got home after 2am and during the night i was drinking some water and obviously didn't put the cap back on the bottle cause i awoke in a pool of liquid...because i was in a sleepy daze i thought it was something else...but no just water. Chelsea looked beautiful in a lovely pink gown and she was the belle of the ball! it was wonderful to be there and to celebrate. hope tuesday is a great day for you too Chels! xxx

Jek and I went to a Bogan's and Ballerina's Party last weekend. Thanks Sarah for inviting us and having your birthday so that we could enjoy dressing up like complete bogan's...literally! it was a great party and we enjoyed hanging out with a lot more bogans oh and ballerina's too! after that party we went to a break dancing comp to see a mate break dance...unfortunately we arrived late and missed him but still saw some very talented dancers!

all the mcnicol girls at the confirmation. Jek, Bek, Courty and Loz. 26th November 2006

well that's some photos...there are a few more but dial up is so FREAKIN slow and i am hungry for dinner. however quickly today there was an ordination in the Lutheran church. 5 or 6 guys were ordained as Lutheran ministers at Concordia Chapel. Niki my new house mate, her brother was ordained and so there was much exictement.

catching the ball with my shin

so...i wasn't entirely embarrassed when i played the staff v students game! however i did miss a ball that got thrown to me and then it connected with my shin...it really hurt and there was swelling. and now there is a reasonable bruise.

and i didn't even get out for a golden duck...i got one run! i was pretty stoked!

we had a carols night at school last night and it was pretty sweet. some of the grade 12's came back for it which was nice cause they have been done for a few weeks now. and i got the chance to hang with some of the students afterwards. there are some talented kids at their school and it's such a blessing to be working with them and to get to know them. Julian announced that it's a month to the QLD road trip which is pretty exciting. we are taking 8 young people up to QLD for two weeks this summer. it is going to be a fantastic time to get to know them, share in devotion and have a really fun time in the process. Eug and I have contacts up there and so we are pretty excited anyway to be going back and seeing some old mates! i think the most exciting part is that the YP are so excited about it

my back is heaps stiff

i bought contemplative youth ministry today...i heard about it earlier in the year so i bought it so mum can give it to me fr christmas i'm looking forward to reading it.

the last cd's i bought were darren hanlon fingernails and mountain tops, the killers latest and kashmir curse of being a girl...check them ALL out!

and finally i ran most of ward street today to catch a bus....the driver saw me started tooting the horn and waved me over...and said mate i would have stopped for you back at the last lights...i was happy he stopped for me, he was a friendly fellow! kudos to that bus driver!

the concordia ashes

well today is the day...i resurrect my cricket career...

it's been mmm what about 8 years since i have played cricket in a competition i played in grade 8 and 9 in high school and before that i had the best average of bowling for our year 5 kanga cricket team...i mean i have played since then but the stakes have been much lower...

today is the day of the annual staff v students cricket match and i am playing...11 batter and the mystery bowler we'll see how it goes...

schoolies and toolies

yo

so i'm so tired i think my eyes are going to drop out of my head...my shoulder blades are hurting cause i am slouching so much...because i don't have the energy to hold myself up...

it was schoolies on the weekend and i went and volunteered. was a merch bitch for the bands playing on the stage! it was wicked on saturday night! finally saw sundance kids play and got talking with lachie from move to stike and will possibly have some more merch bitch roles in the future! yip yah!

bek and courty got confirmed yesterday and we had a big party...but because i had 3 hours sleep sunday morning...and drove back from victor i passed out as the kids jumped on me after lunch!....when i locate one of the digital cameras that took photos on sunday i'll load a couple!

jek arrived safely and it's ace to have her here

yesterday was swell also because we had old and new friends come together and celebrate bek and courty. i had some great conversations and i think i only got asked if i had a boy friend 3 times!

ok so this doesn't flow but bah i'm tired...i might go say hi to some kids now!

hot stuff

so as i sit here typing this post i am sweating a bit as the weather gets warmer and the lack of a fan in the "bunka" (mum and dad's back room) doesn't really help!

i did the big move from unit 5 to unit 7 yesterday! i have lost my key card for the side of the building i want to get into...mmm not so good! it was cool to get everything done finally. there was a lot of cleaning to do but it looked spick and span after...spanks to dad! and to adrian, luke, niki, kara who have helped through out the week taking a box or two...kudos to you! i REALLY appriciated it!

schoolies starts this week and i am down there with a team of cool kids from Aldgate to give the schoolies donuts and pancakes it should be fun fun fun for the whole family...well the part of the family who are schoolies aged!

we have lots of visitors coming from perth and else where arriving during the week one being my rad arse ace sis jek CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

i've got nothing i am tired and will write something when i have more time!

kudos to all and to all a kudos!

sick and tired of being sick and tired

it's not my year. i think i have had a cough at least 3 times...in the last 3 and a bit months...it's just getting a little ridiculas. i'm over not being able to breath or go to sleep easily because of the cough...i found a ventilin i had been perscribed for a cough i got last year and i thought i'd self perscribe it this time...the thing is it's best before september of this year...i got the shakes after using it the other night.

mum said i should probably slow down i think she is right...

house is sorted went and spoke to some people today and i will be moving into flat 7 in the very near furture with nikki. they (at the sem) were very happy to hear that we had figured it out...

at mum and dad's tonight it's good i think mcleod's daughters is on...i think i might go watch it with bek and courty.

night...

something beautiful

if you want to check out some beautiful artwork go to...

http://www.takagimasakatsu.com/

some people are just so talented! i was sent this through a email group/list i'm a aprt of...i thought i'd share this with anyone else that happens to read my blog

good day to you

4 minutes around about...

i got to speak to one of my very good mates this morning, we haven't spoken since the 10th august...i know this date because it's the date she left to go over seas! i got a call this morning around 9am adelaide time from the dresdan dolls gig in london when they were playing the jeep song! it was very exciting! about half an hour later i got another call and clare and i got to talk for about 4 minutes. it was great. before clare left and i lived here in adelaide and she in brisbane we talked once a week so it has been a strain not being able to talk with her for so long. not that we really said anything too profound in that 4 minutes it was nice to hear her voice and know that she had had a wicked time seeing the dresdan dolls...check them out if you haven't heard of them they are a two peice from boston. amanda on keys and vox and brian on drums... they are stella.

hopefully in the next week we can talk on the land line for more then 4 minutes

The course of events

This morning I had a really bad dream. It was concerning the events that are to take place in January and February. The Big Day Out. These events may not be as devastating to you are they were to me but it was bad at the time.

it started with the Big Day Out (BDO). I can't say whether it was the Adelaide or Gold Coast BDO because there were kids from school in it and so was jek (and she's in QLD). So I went to the show and had to leave for some reason...I have no idea why.

but then I found myself with a group of kids from school sneaking into a house. It was dark and then it was light and dark then light, so I was getting confused with the time and not really knowing what the time was I lost track of time.

all of a sudden I realise that crap if I don't hurry up I am going to miss TOOL...ok so I have waited the best part of say 10 years to see this band...Don't ask me why it's taken me this long to see them...Other events that are too traumatic to think about ...Maybe less traumatic then this event but I've started this story now so I have to finish it...

ANYWAY...I had to start making my way back to the place where the show was. And well that's when things were getting ugly. I was with this group of people and I was trying to catch the bus and so I went back to the mystery house...and then back to the bus stop...i am not sure why...and then I finally got a bus I had left my bag at the house. So I had to get off the bus and go back for the bag...trouble is I couldn't remember what the house was like because it had gone dark again.

after panicing and I mean going a little nuts I found someone and used their phone...I knew the person and she let me use it. BUT to send the message I had to print it out from her phone..that was connected to a mystery printer someonewhere. I was hoping to delete the message from her phone because the message was for my sister and well I had used some colourful language and I didn't want this girls mum reading the message I had written...I was still Lauren the youth worker in this dream.

so as soon as I clicked send my sister was at the door...teleported or something and we were on our way through a shopping centre. She of course bumped into people she knew who all wanted to speak to her, with which she replied "LOZ WILL kill me if we don't keep going" so we were running and running by this time it was 10.30 at night...but it was still light...day light saving isn't that good...

I was startled out of the dream when my alarm went this morning...I don't know if I got to see tool or not...

sigh

5 years

it's 5 years since i finished high school. i got thinking about this because yesterday was the year 12's last day at Concordia. they had an assembly and they did a fantastic job, i laughed...A LOT!!! they had prepared skits of their time at concorida and there was a bit of fun and immitation of the teachers. Then last night we had a really nice dinner for them and had some speeches. there were a few teary eyed people and it was a lovely celebration. there was a lot of talk about change and that this is a time in the lives of the students who are leaving that they will experience a lot of change. i know this year has been a year of change and challenge for me...but i think i am stronger for it. but the last 4 years have been changing years too. i left home, moved from the town i was living in and went to uni and studied. made new friends, lost touch with others. it's interesting to look back and contemplate it.

mmm yes

on a less philosophical level...house mate situation might be sorting itself out! which is very exciting!