December 30th, 2009
Well, 2009 was pretty crazy.
In February, I saw Fall Out Boy, Hey Monday and The All American Rejects with a few of my friends. I also got beat up by a 12 year old and ended up with a concussion. It wasn’t awesome.
April was the month of AHBL Supernatural Convention! I went to Sydney and met Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins. Oh, and Danneel Harris. It was pretty amazing. I also went on holiday to Sydney – I grew up there, but hadn’t been back in years. Steph and I also discovered the fantasticness that is Pancakes on the Rocks. Seriously, if you’re ever in Sydney, go there. You’ll thank me.
In May, Steph, Sam and I hung out with MC Lars after seeing him play an instore! I also watched the pilot of Glee and fell in love.
September was the month I met the stars of Glee! Most gorgeous cast ever, seriously. I got stuff autographed, took a tonne of photos, and fell a little a lot in love. I also went to a filming of Rove, which was a good thing, because it ended up being the last season. Wait. Did I curse it?
November was full of me working as a Santa photographer, as well as December. I’m now actually immune to the sound of crying children… or just deaf. I’m not completely certain. I also got hit by customers, groped by small children, my personal space invaded, and learned how to not kill annoying people.
There’s a lot more, but it’s 2am here!
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November 28th, 2009
These cookies are amazing. My friends go gaga for them. They’re so tasty and easy to make!
Mmmm, cookies
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
170g unsalted butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup castor sugar (regular white sugar if you don’t have any caster. I think caster is less chunky?)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract (I always use more. Usually double)
2 eggs
2 cups chocolate chips (hah. Or more. I use Cadbury Chocolate Chips, they’re the yummiest)
1. Preheat oven to 165c (That’s 330f, for those of you who still use ye olde system)
2. Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. This is so there’s no lumps in it, which makes it easier
3. Mix the melted butter, brown sugar, and caster sugar together, until it’s blended. Then add the vanilla essence and eggs, and blend all that until it’s a creamy mix. Actually, it looks kinda gross. Add the flour/baking soda/salt mixture to this, and stir it all together until it looks like actual cookie dough (and tastes it!). Throw the choc chips into this, and stir them through, so you don’t get fail cookies with like, three choc chips.
4. Spoon this onto a lined baking tray. I get about six to a tray, but as you can see, I make ginormous cookies.
5. Cook for about 15 minutes, or until the edges are a nice brown colour. Let them cool before moving them, or they’ll break apart
6. Enjoy. These things are like crack!
5.
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November 13th, 2009
I know I’m going to get crap for this…
but does anyone else think that the charity, To Write Love on Her Arms is really rather sketchy?
Okay, I’ve researched their income previously. They made x amount, let’s call it $100,000 to make it even. Of that, only something like 25% was accounted for. The rest? Completely unaccounted for. Most charities release their financial statements. Don’t you find it a little odd that we don’t know where 75% of all money given to them goes? The 75% would be “administrative costs”, aka “paying the people that work there”.
Of that 25%, some of it goes to an extremely sketchy charity called Mercy Ministries. You might know them as the anti-gay, pro-life, pile of crap charity that believes that people can be made straight. At their homes, they don’t allow close contact between women because of the risk of lesbianism! Isn’t that nice, donating to a charity which encourages a belief that makes a lot of teens suicidal? MM also believes in the power of exorcism. Australians may remember them as the charity that made girls entering the program sign their Centrelink payments over to them, and gave the girls no therapy but prayer. Do you really want to support this charity? TWLOHA is effectively endorsing the belief that prayer cures depression, and that being gay is something one chooses.
They’re owned by Fireproof Ministries. Y’know, the same guys who gave you XXXChurch.com? You know, selling out Jesus for the moneys?
They’re also (financially) associated with Teen Mania Ministries, which has been described as racist, women hating and hateful in general. The dude who runs it, Ron Luce also runs the Battle Cry Campaign. The BCC’s purpose is to “…ensure that Christianity survives in America by redefining society”. Read their Wiki. Tell me that isn’t a stumble away from a cult. Yeah, once again, do you want your money to support this?
Sure, they offer hope. But, you know, that extra 75% would be way better spent on actually helping people, as opposed to selling fugly tshirts and supporting homophobia. I find it sick they’ve turned depression and addiction into a damn fashion statement. I find it sick they’re using their power to help support vile and disgusting beliefs like homophobia.
When they can prove to me that they do anything but sell shirts and donate to two or three decent charities and one giant pile of arse, I’ll believe that they’re a real charity.
(Also, Jamie gets very defensive whenever someone dares to speak out against TWLOHA. Personally, I find that rather sus)
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August 20th, 2009
Dear Twilight fans,
I get it. You’re dedicated. You really like the books. You own them all in hardcover and softcover, plus spare sets in languages you’ll never read. You own five different copies of the movie, because the cover was different. You’ll argue about Team Jacob vs Team Edward ’til you’re blue in the face.
However, you’ve gone too far. I was fine with the slap bracelets. With the “Team Edward” shirts. With the giant posters. With the really ugly overpriced plastic jewellery. Hell, I was even fine with the “sparkle like Edward” body glitter. But a Twilight-themed dildo?
No. Just… no. I mean, it sparkles. There’s going to be a mass amount of 14 year old girls losing their virginity to a disembodied sparkly cold vampire penis. If you can’t see the problem with that, I worry. Can’t you just imagine some girl getting hot and heavy with her boyfriend, taking his pants off, and freaking out because it isn’t sparkly? Guys, you’re fucked. Actually, you’re not, and that’s kind of the problem.
I mean, okay, on the plus side there’ll be less girls getting pregnant and naming the kid Edward Jasper Carlisle Emmett Hale-Cullen, but still! Do you think there were Hamlet themed dildos? No, and for good reason! It’s kinda creepy and skeezy and brain-explodey.
This thing has in fact completely broken my brain. When I first heard about it, my response was to go attempt to learn a second language so I could express the appropriate level of WHAT. My second was to tell everyone I’d ever met so that they could also suffer.
I mean, Twilight fans, was it not bad enough that one of you used an Edward doll as a sex toy, and then wanted to show one of the actors?
Please, stop the insanity. My brain is thisclose to exploding, and I doubt anyone wants to clean up my brain meat.
No love whatsoever,
Renee
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July 31st, 2009
You know what? I’m not into really long about pages, so instead… you get a page full of random facts. Just what you’ve always wanted.
- I was born on March 18, 1990. This makes me 19 and a Pisces.
- I’m of Australian and English ancestory. In other words, when white met bread. I had family on the first fleet, apparently. I find that cool.
- I’m fiercely pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-gender equality, and anti-racist. I consider myself a feminist.
- I collect Hello Kitty stuff. I lovingly refer to my dining room that’s never used for dining as “Hello Kitty Hell”.
- I am obsessed with Gloria Jeans Chocolate Chillers. I need at least one per week or I’m not responsible for my actions.
- I don’t want children, at all. I’m too selfish and would resent the hell out of a child.
- I’ve seen pretty much all of my absolute favourite musicians live. There’s only a few left – Butch Walker, AC/DC, Motorhead, Joan Jett, and Gym Class Heroes. Probably a few others, but ssh!
- Other than the above musicians, I also adore MC Lars, Fall Out Boy, Cobra Starship, and The Academy Is….
- I have a cat named Copie. She’s my baby, I adore her. She’s an excellent lapwarmer, too!
- I have my septum and left nostril pierced. I want my right nostril pierced, but I just know it’d end up uneven and I’d look funny.
- I was in a country music video when I was a wee sproggen. I’m not saying which one, because I was a weird looking kid.
- I’m a compulsive Facebook lurker. Isn’t that what it’s for, though?
- I call people by ridiculous names. Baby, lovely, gorgeous, doll, bananapants, muffinmix, dude, broseph, monkeypants, babycino…
- I love being Australian. I may joke about how much I hate it, but I don’t think I could live anywhere else. I love the culture here.
- I can’t stand people who choose to stay ignorant. In today’s society, it doesn’t take a lot of effort to read up on things, so why choose to stay ignorant? Why not educate yourself?
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