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jannettella

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It's been 5 years since my last deviation (man that sounds like I'm in AA or something, it's been 5 years since my last drink...)
Many things have happened in that time. My lack of internet interaction could probably be directly related to the fact that my University degree is crazy. About 6 years ago, I started a degree called "Architecture". In one year's time I'll have finished my Masters.
One year into my degree I stopped socializing with everyone and only spoke to Architects. Horrible, I know. I now communicate in architecture-jargon laced with compliment sandwiches.
Those skills I learnt when I was in high school on how to create drawings on Photoshop and Illustrator became infinitely useful skills in later life - more so than Maths (the shock. High school lied to me).

I fell in love. Got engaged.

I've been a supervisor, a manager, a collector and a teacher in this time.

I love making soft toys now. There's something magic about making a plushie for a newborn with their name embroidered in it, and the appreciation the parents have when they know you've put time and effort into the present.

I still love, as I was younger, all those anime and mangas. Sailor Moon, Dragonball. That type of thing. Some things never die. I still take great joy in waving around my Crescent Moon wand (in secret, of course).

Oh, and please check out my sewing blog when you have time: www.patchesofcolour.com
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I have just spent the last 4 hours of my life folding clothes. And hanging clothes. For other people.
Next to me are trolley loads of other clothes that I need to hang. But I can't get to them - the people coming into my fitting rooms keep dumping unhung clothes on me, and I have to do them first.

[People, please, an extra minute of you hanging up the clothes saves me 3 hours]

Anyway, thats not the point. Finally its died down a bit. I've only got three trolley loads left, and oh, a couple walks in. They've got a pair of shorts.

"Can my girlfriend come in with me? I want her to see what this looks like"

Sure, I say. People do it all the time.
So they walk in.

I call the front desk. I am out of hangers. Need more hangers.
My super supervisor says "Sure, I'll send some over".

An old lady walks in. She has too many clothes. I tell her shes only allowed five, she can swap them over later. Ok, she says, and brings in the clothes.

I've forgotten about the couple in the other room. They've been in there for fifteen minutes. Surely it doesn't take 15 minutes to try on a pair of shorts?

Suddenly i hear a banging coming from their cubicle.

I wonder if they're alright.

I walk over and before I have a chance to knock, I hear moaning.

Guess they're alright.

OMG WTF DO I DO?!?!! THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE DOING THAT IN THERE.....

ok... righteo, I have composed myself and decided to ignore whatever is happening in there. *cough*

The old lady should almost be done with her clothes soon... where are my hangers?

The banging is continuing in the other fitting room...

Ooh, my supervisor has sent the cute little boy - must be a new kid - to give me hangers.

In that exact same second the old woman walks out.

Naked.

"I want to get the other clothes" she says

I am blind. Oh no, I must rescue the poor kid!!! OH NO.

Too late.

"Jannette, I've bought you your hang-AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

I've managed to blind the poor boy forever. He will have nightmares until his dying days.

Maybe I will too...

"Please just take the clothes" says I.

The couple (40 minutes later) have finished what they were doing. They handed me back the shorts.

I didn't want to touch them.

I politely wrote them off as damaged stock.

Be nice to the girl in fitting rooms. There's a 100% chance she may have gone insane.
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Ok, so its a bit early for chinese new year but I forgot to post a happy regular new year message. So this is a belated thing too~

Recently my cousin came over and gave me a facebook. As the honourable Jeremy Clarkson says "I don't do the MyFace thing"
I honestly use it to play tetris, and its also flooding my emails. Can someone explain to me what its all about? hahaha

I'm also drawing a bit! I've been doing a collab with :iconkibbleking:

I'm also having second thoughts about my course... i seriously don't know if I enjoy it enough to do it for the rest of my life *sigh*

Well best of luck everyone~
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Wow.

Wow again.

...

Yesterday was possibly one of the best days of my life. Thank you.
Long post. Beware. Btw. Yesterday was 37 degrees.

The day was planned previously, I was meant to go to :iconbarbieee: house to bake some cakes with :iconmisyo: and :iconneverlone:. However, they changed it the night before so that I would go meet BokChoi/Fat Choi/Awesome Choi (He's never actually told me his real first name....) at Flinders Street so we could get lunch first.

I missed my train.

Ha, I could see :iconmisyo: going "Jannette!~~~" from inside the train as I saw it glide past. Disaster.

Anyway, when I did go to the station BokChoi treated us to these real yummy waffles down one of the side alleys. Halfway through his first waffle, he picks up his phone and says "I'll be right back".

He never came back. (Poor him, that means he didnt get his second waffle!)

10 minutes later whilst Anna and I were wondering where he had gone, I get this weird SMS on my phone.
"Jann, you are on a mission today. Get the next clue from Anna and move to the next checkpoint"
I show Anna the message. She looks at me blankly and goes, "What clue?"
"..."
"Let's go check out balsa wood"
"Ok."
*messages BokChoi back* "Anna says what clue? We're going to look at balsa wood"
BokChoi reply: LOOK HARDER
So whilst I was looking for balsa Anna decided it would be fun to unearth this mystery clue and finally give it to me.

"Go to the Royal Botanical Gardens - You will find your next clue in an envelope pinned to a tree"

"...."
"Anna. Do you know how many trees there are in the Botanical [i]Gardens[/i]???!"
"..."

So we went to the gardens, where there was this guy I'd never seen before stalking us, and I found a pair of my friends acting suspicious behind a fat tree. I went around, to find Mond and Syndi trying to hide my clue, with Mond attempting to climb the tree to put my clue in there.

After I got the clue of Mond and Syndi (Go to the ABP Library and Find a Book with the Clue inside) I went to said library and found Michael and Jon there, and then spent a frustrating amount of time looking for various favourite architects of the clue hiders, and flipped through a ridiculous amount of books. I was then told to go to the Royal Exhibition Centre, where I would have to do two laps around the building before i would get my next clue from Annika and David.

At this point I was kinda dying. It was hot - very hot - and humid, and I was trekking around the city. At which point :iconbopbob: came to the rescue, he appeared out of no-where with sustainance.

I was then led to the Old Courts where my challenge was to draw the building (the clue was guarded by :iconneverlone: and :iconideation:), Anime-style, before I received my next clue, which led me to a funnily named cafe where I had to solve a Rubicks cube in 10 minutes (GAH) to receive my reward.

My reward, from :iconbarbieee: was a Wasabi sauce chocolate cake, which was so so rich! There, I was suprised by :iconkibbleking: and Bek! Woot!

My next clue (the reward for finishing the cake lol) led me to Federation square, where my friends got "Happy Birthday Jannette!" To appear across the message board there =D.

Afterwards, I was led to Camberwell Station, blindfolded, disoritentated, and spun until I reached this wall, where Mond reappeared and walked me into a staircase. Inside the building, they removed the blindfold and I was facing 19 chocolate cupcakes, each with candles in the middle, and a few dozen of my friends from all over the joint! It was awesome!

(O... I almost died at that point coz I had no energy left to blow out the candles. I tried... really really hard!)

That was it... but then... there was "present time". I thought I was done with suprises, but all my friends there had chipped in to buy me the new iPod touch, coz they had found out my old one was broken.

I couldn't believe their kindness... I almost died with shock!
And Anna made me this cute cute compartment box with tiny googly eyed men in it!

I would like to send my love to Potato, Special thanks to Barbie, Alan, Anna, Michael and John for making it the best birthday ever.

I love you all :glomp:
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I'm Nineteen!~

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Yay, okay so I had my birthday on cup day (last tuesday)! As per usual our family put two dollars or so on a horse - nothing major. This was the only year i didn't put anything on number 6 - which won hahaa -slightly bitter? nah...

My brother though, because we sent my dad to place the bets (I had to go to work and my brother... wasn't old enough to go inside hahaha) my dad was clueless and didnt know how to use the machine, and ended up betting on like the trifecta or something. As if you can imagine, the probability of winning the trifecta is very low. But, turns out, my brother got 2/3 (which means he got nothing) - you should've seen him roll around in agony on the floor.

But yes... I worked my ass off this year so I could save up for the stuff that I wanted: sewing machine, MP3 for my parents, etc. so by the time the birthday swung round, there was very limited things I wanted (cept for the fact my laptop was stolen at uni *grumble* but as if you get a laptop for your birthday)

So my family bought me.... a punnet of blueberries. (Blueberries are expensive! I swear... *grins*... o wait, coles had them on sale...)

woo.

hahaha! The peeps at uni bought me a birthday cake and sang happy birthday! That was slightly embarassing, but o, how i love them for it =D

On another note... my ipod Video doesnt play Video anymore *eyeball pop* I've reformatted a couple of times... but what it does is like turn all my videos... into audio 0_o
Apparently that's pretty difficult to do. But... I WANT MY MV's BACK *sobs*
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