Giraffy Business

recipes

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:23:19 GMT

Hey guys. I had an awsome time at camp. To all o the new people I met ... you rock. A for my kitchen sluts you are the bestest.I hope to see you all again soon. Some people asked for the dip recipes so here they are.

recipes:

French onion dip:
375ml sour cream
125ml creamed cheese
1 sechet french onion dip powder
some diced spring onion

Throw it all in a bowl and blend.

Spicy pumpkin:
1 and 1/2 cups pureed pumpkin
1 and 1/2 cups canned and drained chick peas
3 tablespoons tahini
1 teaspoon cayenne
1 teaspoon cummin
2 tablespoons oive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
salt and pepper to season.

Throw it all in a bowl and blend. maybe add the cayenne slowly as you blend and taste it to make sure it is not to hot for your taste. I put in the amount the recipe said and found it a tad to hot.

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:06:44 GMT

At least I have the pigeon.

help needed : (

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:39:22 GMT

Is there anyone out there who knows the windsor notation? If so would you be willing o help me with some work. I have a sentence I need to separate.PLEASE! : )

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:32:14 GMT

Repeat must not fall asleep in the middle of the library at uni, must not fall asleep in the middle of the library at uni. I am sooooo bored that it is causing me to be sleepy and this is not good. Just woke from an accidental nap in the middle of the library where I was lying face first on my lap top. Well at least my laptop was warm.

To be 17 and stupid.

Thu, 29 May 2008 13:49:33 GMT

I hate my work but at least today I got a laugh. Last week the stupid,bitch at work started discussing what she had been told was a fantastic thing, 'Colonic Irrigation'. I could not believe my ears, I felt the need to squash this concept by saying 'oh you mean an enema'. This did not go down well. She discussed what it was and said it is herbal to which I said 'it's a laxative'.

Today she came into work saying that she had done 'colonic irrigation' with her boyfriends mum. I said 'so... your boyfriends mother gave you an enema' she glared at me and once again said it was herbal ( no.....it was a laxitive) She then talked about the amazing weightloss she was experiencing from doing this. To which I said 'so you are taking a laxitive for weightloss...that is called an eating disorder'.

I just don't understand the stupidity. Why do people feel the need to give an enema a new name to make it sound nice and fashionable?

Matts B'day

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:37:45 GMT

There are some people who I don't have on facebook ect

It is Matts B'day on Wednesday.
We are doing Dinner/Drinks/ Snacks atb the Blue Train Cafe Mid Level Southgate Landing, Southbank from 7pm onwards feel free to stop by. To help me guestimate numbers please reply if you plan on coming

Work

Sun, 18 May 2008 13:14:52 GMT

I should be asleep but I am not.

I am not sure whether the sick feeling in my stomach is sadness, anger, stress the stomach bug I have had for the past week or a combination of all of the above. I feel shit. I feel like vomiting and crying at the same time and did I mention I hate my boss.

The idea of going to work inthe morning is like the fear impending doom. I don't want to bite my tongue anymore, I feel the need to be less than diplomatic but my mind is telling me don't fudge your future. I have worked at the school for almost 3 years without a reference when I leave this was worth zip.

I was already angry before the staff meeting but now that I have had to listen to utter crap at the meeting I feel more than anger. I was even more pissed off when I found that a workmate of mine had discussed some issue that I had with her to be told 'That I need to learn to respect her authority' and this is meant to be a formal grievance process?
My bosses justification for treating me like crap is that I am a casual. My mind is telling me that maybe I should use this to my advantage and quit 1 day before she is meant to go on leave thus leaving her with no 2IC. Hey if I'm a casual no notice is required right?

Work, study and no play.

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:57:40 GMT

There is nothing like starting back at work and uni to crash land you back into reality. F@#K a new year.

Whilst on holidays I got given a promotion. How in the hell does this happen? Apparently
the vice principal of the school told the school council that I was "ready and willing" to take over my bosses job in her absence. When did I say this?

The pro's of the is that I get a small ($2) extra pay an hour.
The con is that it's a hell of a lot more responsibility, mind you I lighten her work load anyway without extra pay.

I then found that somehow the vice principal now has my personal email address. My inbox has been clogged with emails from him. This is made even more infuriating by the fact that he discusses work that I did and gives other people the credit for it. GRAH!

As for uni. I am so bored that I have started hallucinating seeing my friends even if they don't go to my uni. Suddenly there seems to be no-one. Only bimbos and people I don't want to make friends with because... I don't know. So I have taken the smart option of hiding out in a computer lab for the next 2 hours until my next class starts.

Work!

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:44:50 GMT

Hey all.

I have been working full time the past one and a bit days on the school holiday program. Highlights have included:

1: Going to the farm. I was in charge of the new preps (4-5 year olds).
Favourite quote from the trip: "hey look *four year old points at a chook*, *SQeaking* It moved!" Obviously only used to roast chicken.

Our new Isreali boy (who doesn't speak a word of English) almost jumped off a moving tractor when he saw his first Kangaroo.

One of my four year olds almost escaped the nursery holding one of the chicks.

2. Spaghetti shortage. 20 extra children arrive for a day. Solution 2minute noodles with bolognase sauce.

3. Tie dying T-shirts with food dye as the wrong dye was delivered.

4. Head lice outbreak.

5. Girl tripping and smashing her eye on a metal door handle to the point it gushed blood.

6. New Zealand themed day making traditional bread, doing the Haka etc.

Having heaps of fun.

Alright!

Thu, 03 May 2007 12:49:23 GMT

Hey guys I was just writing a quick note to tell you all that I am all ok and that the operation on monday was a success. I am close to being back on my feet again. The stitches come out tomorrow and I am only feeling mildly uncomfortable. Thanks for all of your well wishes. Love always Nic

Explodes!

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:56:18 GMT

Bah! Head explodes as well as body. Why do you hate me so? I now have a cold grah! And I just electric shocked my toe turning on a faulty powerpoint with it.

Copy?

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:47:00 GMT

Feck! I need to copy stuff and have no copy credits and no money to buy some with. This means I can't copy things Grah!

World of grump!

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:20:28 GMT

Warning: If you are already in a bad mood don't read this, as the last thing you need is to hear my bitching.

1. Matt has a day off and I have uni. I therefore have had to waste a whole day of cuddles.

2. Woke up feeling crap (a cold, ovaries, and lack of sleep makes for an unhappy me!)but I had to go to uni as all of my assignments require me to attend my classes.

3. Went to get coffee and they lost my order.

4. Went to class and realised how far behind I am.

5. Went to sort out bank bungle. As a result of human error on the banks part I have lost half of my already small pay cheque. They put my money in the wrong one of my accounts (money is in my long term savings account), because of this my normal savings account was overdrawn and I got fined. They say since it took me so long to pick up on the error that they won't revoke the fine. This means that my pay is literally halved.

6. My mobile stopped working again and I needed to call Matt.

7. There are only 2 pay phones on campus one was out of order and the other had a person on it who said she would be at least another 45 minutes.

8. Finally got on the pay phone and I talked for 30 seconds before it ate my money and disconnected me.

9.Due to bank error this left me with only 45cents until Friday. 45cents was not enough to try to call Matt again.

10. My next lecture which is a 3 hour lecture got cancelled, thus leaving me with a 4 hour gap before my next class.

Murphy is not my friend!

Thanks to the student union I at least got lunch. This plus the 2 pigeons that joined me are today's silver lining.

Twitchy!

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:15:12 GMT

My eye is twitchy. That irritating twitchy that makes your eyelid twitch and the eyeball wibble. It feels weird and won't stop and I can't for the life of me figure out why. It reminds me of the time in year 9 when the class was so busy laughing at my eye twitching and wibbling that they ignored the teacher. I consequently got detention for having a twitchy eye.

I just cancelled lunch with cat as I needed to catch up witha lecturer as I missed my lecture due to PT issues. Grah to buses.

What is wrong with the world

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:02:41 GMT

Eeep I have lost my class, or has my class lost me? The class room on my timetable does not exist. Grah!

And in more news of grah Matts ex area manager at KFC is trying to destroy him. He sent a letter to the owner of Leraunts (spelled wrong) saying that Matt was fired months before he started his new job, that he was never a manager and that the people who gave him references never worked at KFC and were just his friends. *Is pissed off* This despite being completely untrue is discrediting and not good for him, his job or workplace relations.

2nd thing of grah is that our booking for our room tonight got stuffed up and they have booked us in for a room with 2 single beds on our anniversary (P.S. babe if you are reading this happy anniversary)and refuse to refund our money as we did not call to fix or cancell our booking within the 48 hour time frame before we come.

Two kids started a punch on in after care (my work) yesterday and we had to call teachers in to help us restrain them. Teachers not brawlers were injured, and preps were terrified and crying.*DISASTER*

Yesterday and this morning have been grah. I have this horrible feeling in my gut about Matt having to deal with shit and workmates bitching today. I just want to be there with him fixing it all and protecting him, but I am at uni and then working. And now I am just angry at the world and many people in it who lack compassion, and just don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:53:25 GMT

I am so bored that even my boredom is making me bored, So bored That I just fell asleep while typing this for 10mins.

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:18:39 GMT

A bank opened at my uni, I now have a new bank account so that I can actually put my cheques in the bank whilst at uni squeee!

Alive!

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:32:14 GMT

This is my second alive post as I accidentally deleted my first one before it got posted so here I go.

Alive I am! Am I alive? I alive am!

I am sooooo very bored I have a 4 hour gap. I f you are bored join me on my rant of boredom.

So the news:
I am back at uni, and can finally abuse the computer labs once more.
I am still working at the school but have a new and competent boss!
I am cutting my hair tomorrow Squee!
I am waxing my legs tomorrow un squee but eeeeeeeeeeee!

Sympathy.

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:22:50 GMT

So I was wrong. My lecturer wanted to check on me. He'd been harassing her too.

AS I had done the subject last year but withdrawn after handing in that assignment, I got credits towards it. This means I don't need to do the assignment. Not only that, but I have been advised to take a break and not attend the rest of the lectures or tutes. The meeting ended with a huge hug from my lecturer who had once been stalked by a psychotic man. I am so relieved I could cry.

Stalker?

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:16:32 GMT

So here is the deal, I am getting harassed by a guy I am meant to be doing an assignment with.
I made a complaint, and asked to be assigned a new partner, they declined. They then ignored the issue.

Yesterday he made a complaint about me not responmding to his constant calls and I am promptly rung by my lecturer and asked to visit her office.

Anyone else confused. I am consequently shitting myself (not literally). Why do I feel that I am the one who is about to cop all of the shit while he escapes with nothing and gets marks for all of my work?

safe

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:41:18 GMT

To whom it may concern,
Our dear friend clare hasarrived in China safely. Yay!

Mayhem!

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:58:56 GMT

Power went out on campus this morning. Computers, lights, lecture theatre equipment all gone. Classes all out. Luckily I saved my work 15 seconds before the outage. Now power has been restored. I am not sure whether this was a good thing as I had to work with Josh all arvo. Thankfully he left early which pissed me off, whilst calming me simultaneously. (pissed off as he left when we needed to work on things, happy and calm as he was gone). Now my assignment wont print. Stupid things! Oh wells off to class.

More shit

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:54:14 GMT

There is nothing like more shit to make you feel more anxty than you felt before. I have just spent 2 hours with Josh for our assignment, and achieved a great amount of nothing. I am about to spend another 2 hours with him, which will probably achieve nothing, apart from making me extremly narky. To make matter worse today I had a run in with my ex, and of all the place it was at uni. Whan did he start going to my uni? And why does his sudden appearance irk me? Then I was to busy to talk to him so just waved and to make thing worse now he probably thinks I snubbed him. Grrrrah!

HI!

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:25:42 GMT

Hi guys,
Just a quick word to say that I love you all. I am just busy trying to write essays and organise camp stuff. Just remember my thoughts are always with you. :) Love you all.

Paps I should

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:51:34 GMT

Sorry I havn't posted in a while. I've been burried in uni work. Thanks for the nudge dolce_cantabile.

I have spent the last 5 hours doing my assignment on Pap smears. I am sorry to say that I have actually managed to find a video about pap smears that didn't feature pap smear, but was worse than watching one or getting one.

It was meant to be a slap stick, culturally diverse video about getting pap smears and what they are. The problem being it danced around the issue, was full of crap, was nauseating and made me want to go on a homicidal rampage in the library.

If you are curious look up the title of a video titled "Does it hurt" at a uni near you.

It scared me that this piece of health based garbage was created less than 20 years ago. The people that created it clearly were cryogenically frozen in the early 80's and resurected in the 90's to make it.

For those who are interested I am creating a mock media package(by mock I mean it will not really be released to the public) aimed at younger female teens, about the importance of pap smears once sexually active. This is because many people under the age of 17 don't know enough about pap smears and may be under the impression that they are not needed until 18 even if sexually active. I found this out after a high school survey. It will include a press release, fact sheet, poster and possible news letter. If anyonwe thinks they have any good relevant info, or ideas please comment.