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I think, if I ever get married, I will never ever ever let myself, or my significant other, start a home business.

My week has been so stressful. Dillan had a school camp, so he was away for half of it, meaning I was home, meaning I worked for Dad’s home business a lot. Monday; worked. Tuesday; worked. Wednesday; few odd jobs. To come home straight from school, right into work, its difficult. Stressful. Bad few days. Luckily Dillan came home on Thursday, so I got to see him. Kept me out of the house & not working. Friday was surprising and I didn’t have to work, but that doesn’t mean I remember what happened that day.

Saturday was unique. It started the day really hot, which is not really expected mid-October. Still, Dillan & I went to see Resident Evil: Afterlife in 3D (reviewed here !)… yeah 3D glasses are not attractive on anyone, lmao. But the film was alright, and afterwards we walked out and, well, not really to my surprise because I looked up the weather, but it had rained. Sure as hell was surprising for Dillan, though, haha. Relaxed the rest of the day, was nice, despite the rain.

But naturally, miserable Sunday. Shocking weather, apparently – I naturally had to work for 12 hours that day, so I didn’t really go outside (see why I’m so stressed ? You’d think working for your father would be easy, but hell no). And then Monday, I thought I was done so I got to see Dillan, but no came home and worked till 11pm. I don’t get why my parents wouldn’t let me hang out with people till that time on a school night, but its ok for me to work until that time. Just a little tad of nonsense right there.

But anyway, today’s been the first day without work or me knowing I have work to do. Today has actually been really productive; sorted out my Year 12/Senior Year school Jersey name (JB HI-FI – its a technology store here, and ‘JB’ are my initials. No, not Justin Bieber.), finally bought the school skirt (I’ve been wearing trousers for something like 4 years. Yeah, don’t ask), caught up on all my course work (not that there was much to do; just a geography response) and read all my magazines. Am I not a beast or what ?!

Anyway, I’m not much in the mood for rambling about nothing. My birthday is coming up in a month and once again I’m torn as to whether or not I should do anything about it. Last year I spent my birthday on the internet, and I don’t want to do that this year. I would do something with Dillan, but he’ll have work. So I’m torn. But its ages away so I can stress more later.

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Today has actually been shockingly bad. But more on that later.

We’re back at school. Yeah, not too fun. Biggest stress, actually. See, in Australia its Term 4, aka the last 10 weeks before our summer holidays. Usually this is when we have final exams, or finish up the grade. Nope, this year things change for me, and I’m starting the HSC course (making me year 12). Which means that last ‘grade’ (year 11) was only 3 terms long (which suits, because the Preliminary HSC course is only meant to be that duration). Which also happens to mean that this time next year, I’ll be doing my final high-school exams (uni-entry ones). Mental stuff. Typically, you’d expect to come back to a really full on first week with heaps of homework, etc etc, but no, not really. I think they’re slowly dipping us in, which is really good because after coming back from holiday, intense school is the last thing I want. Its also really good because I dropped Modern History (meaning I do 5 subjects this year, which is the minimum), which means I get free periods to do work, and some in the afternoons so I get to leave early. Its a lot to adjust to (I finish school at 12:30 on Tuesdays, with only one class that day).

Even though school isn’t as full on as I anticipated, this week has still been incredibly stressful. Exam marks back (did reasonably well in everything, sans maths which I did ok in, but we all know that “ok” isn’t enough), having to re-organise all my school belongings for a new year, teachers telling us about the course for the next year… its intimidating.

Anyway, besides all that, weekend. Most interesting part of each week, right? Saturday had the most stressful lead up (Dillan wanted to see me before he went on camp for half the week, his family wanted him over, had to fight to be able to do both… stressful !), but it was nice. Got up stupid early, went into the city, had breakfast, saw Let Me In (I’ll review it when I get time, aka when its not late & I don’t have school in the morning review here !), which I rather liked & found interesting to compare it to Let The Right One In, there were lots of similarities and lots of differences, lots of parts included from the book that weren’t in each film, etc etc. Still rather Let The Right One In though. But yeah, other than that we hung around, I bought magazines, maintained our usual habits. We went home early so he could see his family, won’t be seeing him for half a week, so. I mean, its not bad cos I have gone much longer without seeing him, s’just knowing that othertimes, he was always 30minutes away, but god knows where he’s going to be.

But yeah, that night we had a family dinner, which was pleasant. And then today I had to go to a church service for a christening… I’m going to leave my personal views on religion out of this in case I offend anyone, but that wasn’t the most enjoyable experience. And then today I got to work for 8 hours, which is actually more stressful than anything. I’m still not finished the job, and its 10:18 right now, and I only “finished” 10 minutes ago. Working for your father’s home business sucks a lot.

Sorry this entry is so bland and picture-less or whatever. As you can imagine, stress = words. Late o’clock = lazy. I’m sorry. I’ll do you a favour & end here? Excellent.

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I am currently in the midst of getting organised for school tomorrow. This is so depressing.

This last week of holidays has been pretty eventful, if I say so myself. Tuesday I went over to Dillan’s, we watched The Book Of Eli (which I loved – apocalypse’s will ALWAYS be a spot for me – hence my obsession with Chernobyl) and From Paris With Love (entertaining, LOVE JRM, lame ending), then chilled in the mall for a bit where we managed to see a lot of people from Dillan’s school (then again you always see someone up at the mall, regardless of how ‘uncool’ it is to be spotted there [this is the 'lame' mall, but its a block away from mine so we're always there]).

Wednesday was shocking. Met up with Emma, Maddie, Stacey and Stella, decided we’d be going to the beach but it was terrible weather so we were kind of inclined not to go, but went to the area anyway. Get there, it starts raining. Typical, huh? So we went to McDonalds for a bit, and once we were done went out again. Sky had cleared up, perfect weather. So we get to the beach, set up camp. I’d been feeling pretty shitty all day due to my female anatomy, but all of a sudden I became really dehydrated & sun-stroke-y & basically wanted to die. Decided to try get a drink, nearly faint on the way there. So had to get my Dad to pick me up, but long story short, no beaches for me for a while. And honestly, I’m perfectly fine with that.

Thursday was spent doing some form of ‘Best-of-Harry-Potter-thon’ with Dillan (didn’t feel like doing much, so just chilling at his with some good films was nice). Its still really bizarre how into Potter Dillan has been these past few weeks, but its pretttty sweet lmao. Friday was a really awesome day. Met up with Yasmin, Maddie and Stacey, went to the city. Met with AJ (Hugh was meant to come but ditched). Went back to the suburbs, found a pretty sweet coffee shop which we sat in for what seemed like ages. Then decided to sit in a park for a while, before going a few suburbs away for dinner. Chilled in a park that night, really sweet. It was a really relaxed way to spend the afternoon/night, with some of the greatest people. Shame Dillan had work, though. Got to see him Saturday, though, haha.

Spent Saturday in the city, bought Iron Man 2 & a few DVD’s for the family, as well as a few text books for school, and Graphic Design for Fashion (left) which I’ve read parts of but adore on instinct. I absolutely love graphic design texts, they’re always full of incredible inspiration, and this is essentially my two loves in one (design + fashion. Hopefully my future). But yeah, after all that Dillan came back to mine for dinner, which was nice. The mini-rivalry between him and my brother entertains me to no end (Dillan plays xbox, Jeremy plays PS3. Gamers and their rivalries… I tell you).

Sunday has been spent getting ready for school, & working (designing packaging, so actually mildly enjoyable work, as much as work sucks). I keep hearing everyone being all morbid over the fact that tomorrow we start the last year of high school, but really I don’t feel it. Its not that big of a deal, there is STILL a year to go. I don’t know, everything seems “serious” now, though for the past 2 years things have been rather “serious” and I have been rather numb to that (not in a bad way, I’ve gotten reasonably good marks). I guess now, before everything starts, people will freak out, but it’ll calm down. But I will work hard this year and I will make an effort (not to say I haven’t been doing so already), I will just do so in a calm and collected manner.

Anyway, got to get going. Wish me luck for school, I’m going to die – most likely from a bizarre sleeping pattern than anything.

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