Kathy

My dear auntie Kathryn arrived yeterday for a holiday. Of course after not seeing her for 2 months (or 1 month, in my case) things weren't awkward at all! I love Kathryn and the 45 minutes the 4 of us spent in the car together were the best moments of my life!

This is an example of some of the epic conversations that were held.

"How are you?"
"Good, yeah, I'm good. You?"
"I'm good, too."
"That's good."
"Yeah. How's work?"
"Good, yeah, work's good. How're the kids?"
"The kids are good."

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

On the bright side, the awkward phase is over, and everything is all G now.

Apology

My sincerest apologies to those of you who failed to see the sarcasm in my "Girl Gamers" post. I thought it was rather obvious, but clearly not.

For the record, I have absolutely no problem with women playing games. Women are people too (OMG, Shocker, right?) and have every right to do whatever they want with their spare time. My faked sexism was merely a way to express my surprise at the abundance of female gamers in Australia. There were very few in New Zealand, and surprised me to see so many here in Australia.

I can't say it wasn't off-putting, but that was due to my own inexperience of the situation, not for any restrictions I have fabricated that women should abide by. In fact, knowing that there are women who enjoy video games is rather pleasing. It shows that one day, I might be able to find a women that I can spend my life with. Because like hell am I ever marrying someone who doesn't share my passion for sitting at home playing games rather than actually living life.

I really didn't mean to offend anyone. I have a number of girl friends who play games and I have no real problem with it. But it was, 100% a joke. Maybe it was a bad one, and I'm sorry for that.

Waking Up In Vegas

"Shut up and put your money where your mouth is.
That's what you get for waking up in Vegas.
Stand up and shake the glitter off your clothes now.
That's what you get for waking up in Vegas."

Can somebody please explain to me what this means? Katy Perry isn't exactly known to sing the most normal songs, but this is one I just don't get. At least we all know what I Kissed A Girl or Ur So Gay actually means. But srsly WTF does Waking Up In Vegas mean? Does she mean it literally? Is it figurative? I just don't get it :(

Did you know you can't get dirty here in Perth. Why? Cos they don't have dirt. I know that might sound weird (or not if you're worldy unlike mee) but they don't. Perthians don't grow their shit in soil. They grow it in sand. As cool as it is simply for the WTF factor, it's actually a pain because it means there is sand everywhere and I always get it in shoess. I guess that's what I get for waking up in Vegas.

It's so hot here! Like srsly up to 40 degrees some days. It's too hot to do anything! I just have to like sit in my room and chill because it's too hot to move or eat or think or sleep or anything. It's kind of like waking up in Vegas.

I had the new peeps orientation at my new school today. But instead of telling you about the school (cos how boring would that be?) Ima tell you about these amazing sluts that were there. They were the 2 most plastic people you could possibly imagine. One was blonde, and one was brunette, but they both looked like they had fake hair. They were sooooo much make-up that it was pertty much a mask. And my fave part was that they were trying to be all casual summery with singlets and these weird tight pants. But they had fancy sexy high heels on. They had the model walk and they did it in sync too. And to top it all off they were always giggling to each other and using their cellphones. I can't wait to meet these two ladies at school and be super fake BFFs with them :D One would think that they just woke up in Vegas.

The. Fucking. Internet.

So on Tuesday the modem FINALLY arrived so I could FINALLY get on the internet. All was dandy as I sat there MSNing dear friends such as Hambag and Nat. But it was sooooo slow! Like, painfully slow! Mum went in and complained, and they said that they'd fix it. But it's not fixed!!! Why does the internet always fuck around with me so much (I'm sure it fucks around with everyone else too, but I'm more important). I wanna watch the new episodes of Survivor, dammit!

Girl Gamers

So the second day I was here, we went on a mission at Innaloo Mall. There were an abundance of clothing and jewellery shops with other stuff sprinkled on top. Not any different from Westfield in Christchurch, or anywhere else for that matter. We had the pleasure of watching a group of 10-15 little girls wearing slutty femme-Santa outfits singing songs about Jesus in an attempt to get money. Poor girls, they were trying so hard but no one wanted to reward that kind of behaviour.

Anyway, after searching for an EB games to wet myself over, I came across another game shop, appropriately called Game. I walked into Game, and my whole world came crashing down. You would never believe who was in there...

Girls! Lots of them! There were two people working there, one male and one female. The male was just standing there gossiping with some other guy, and the girl was running around doing all the work. And all the customers were chicks! Needless to say I had a massive whatisthisidonteven moment. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, I saw an excited girl drag in her reluctant boyfriend. WTF? No, Perth! It's the other way around! Why don't you understand!? I couldn't handle it anymore, and although I was supposed to be waiting there for my mum, I decided to wait outside instead.

We eventually found EB, but I couldn't bring myself to see my beautiful EB Games infested with women, so I opted not to go in and look at watches for half an hour with my family. Fortunately, the watch store was playing Lady Gaga so it wasn't totally awful.

I'll leave with a friendly message to all people wielding vaginas. I don't mean to be sexist - actually, scratch that, I totally mean to be sexist. STAY AWAY FROM GAME STORES! THEY'RE NOT FOR YOU! GO BACK TO YOUR CLOTHES AND MAKE-UP SHOPS!

Okay kids, pick a letter!

When I first heard the names of places in Perth, I was sure that they must have been named by a bunch of little kids. The places seemed to just be a bunch of sounds put together to make a word. I was graced with fabulous places such as Karrinyup Mall and Innaloo Mall. Seriously Perthians, you couldn't think of anything better than that?

From Christchurch to Auckland to Perth

So after I said goodbye to Julia at the airport I went up into the waiting lounge. Our plane was delayed, and everyone started freaking out and going "WTF is going on!? What do we do!?" despite it clearly saying on the TV "Plane delayed, please wait in lounge." Because of that, we had to wait around for ages. I teared up a couple of times, prompting my grandparents to ask me, "What's wrong?" What do you think is wrong!? I'm leaving everyone and everything I know! That's what's wrong! More than once, did I think about just running away. But, that was totally inpractical and would cause too much panic.
Eventually, we got on the plane and arrived at Auckland and had to hurry (which is hard when you're carrying your grandparents) to get to the connecting flight to Perth. We flew business class so that was brill <3 I listened to Lady Gaga on the plane, and totally fell inlove with her. And then I started watching He's Just Not That Into You but didn't catch the end because we got there. It took 7 hours to get there, and we were over the ocean practically the whole time :( I was looking forward to seeing the Australian Outback beneath us.
We got out of the airport pretty quickly, meeting up with Mum and Jon. Whenever I told anyone I was going to Perth the only thing they could come up with was "Oh, it's hot there!" so I pretty much had it bashed into my head about how hot it is. But damn, it is hot in Perth! Although, it's not unbearable which is gooood.
There are a lot of insects, no power points, my internet is incredibly slow and I have nobody to talk to but other than that it's looking pretty good.