OH HAI. WELCOME TO DAY... uh... YESTERDAY :D

A Week in the Life of rotae, Volume III: Monday 23rd June, 2008

Volume I
Volume II

( MOAR )


4:31pm - PREEEEEETY :3 NOTE: I haven't edited this picture save for the size. That sky is truly that colour 0__o

( EVEN MOAR )

AND NOW... BED! :D I has to be up in like five hours, LOL XD

Peace,
Rotae

Week in the Life Game: For one week, you are to post photographs taken during the day.

Rules:
1. You must take between 6 and 8 new photographs per day.
2. Your WITL must be consecutive. No skipping days.
3. You must post your photographs at the end of that day, sometime after the last picture is taken.
4. Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and a title, with no other explanation.
5. You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other six days so that people will know wtf you're doing.
6. Your post must say "A Week in the Life of [your name/username], Volume [whatever day you're on]."

A Week in the Life of rotae, Volume I: Saturday 21st June, 2008


11am - My view of a morning :D

( MOAR )

ZOMGGGGG. Since it's now past midnight, I can say, "It's a week until I go to the USA!" :O If you'd like to keep up with mah travel log, go and WATCH rotaeusa, and if you want to MEET-UP and HAVEN'T joined yet, watch AND join the club :D AHHHHHHHHHHHH!! ZOMGGGGGG!! :D

AND. TOMORROW (today?) IS DOCTOR WHO DAY A;LDKFA;LSDJJ;ASDJ;LASDKJF;LASKJDF;LKJDF :D

Last night (the night before? LOL) Josh, Jo, Racheal and I went to the Doctor Who night over at Rosny ABC shop :D Josh dressed up as Nine (Christopher Eccleston), Jo as Ten (David Tennant) and they both really looked like the guys they were going as, LOL (Jo is THINNER than David Tennant, SRSLY. He was SWIMMING in his Ten jacket, LOLOL XDDDD), and Racheal and I looked awesome as Donna (Rach dyed her hair red :3) and Rose (bleh. I hate Rose. LOL. CURSE HER FOR BEING THE ONLY BLONDE!! XDDD I had to be all chavtastic and lame LOL XD).

ANYWAY. They FINALLY launched the Season 3 products and I bought a Martha figurine :D Coz she's AWESOME and the only Doctor one they had was him in the red spacesuit from "42" :( There were people there buying one of EVERYTHING though, spending like HUNDREDS on stuff 0.o Makes my $20 extravagance seem quite small, y/y? XDDD

Hmm. That's all to report, I think :D

OH. cambryn, arasan and buttfacemakani, are you guys right to chat on your Tuesday night on AIM? :D

Word map for June contains OMG!DRACOHBPMOVIE!SQUEE and LOLs XDDDDD I bet you're all so surprised, y/n?


Peace,
Rotae

So... would y'all be interested in me doing the "A Week in the Life Of" meme? Or are you enjoying the silence from my end? LOLOL XDDD

Next Tuesday I go to Sydney.

The following Sunday I go to California.

O________o

DUDE. LOLOL XDDDD

ANYWAY. I HAS ART :D

"Mum, Dad, this is Scorpius..."

This was part of a gift exchange over on smrw_ficafest. I was lucky enough to get my good friend, cambryn as my recipient :D She said that she loved them as kids, and liked some Ron/Scorpius tension XDDDD

I'm sorry that Ron isn't actually IN the picture, but I'm hoping that Scorpius' EXTREMELY nervous smile is enough to convey what's going on XDDDDD Rose is all, "OH HAI GUYS, THIS IS MY NEW BFF :D", and Scorpius is all, "^^; >.> *shuffles away under towering glare from her father*" XDDDDD And who said Malfoys weren't brave?! XD

Hope you like it!!

Hmm. What else... birthday went VERY well :D I don't have a lot of pictures unfortunately, but I think that everyone had a good time :D I got some wonderful presents, and some amazing cards <3 I had one from Mel that made me cry, one from Erika that made me "AWW!!" and one from Josh that made me do this:

( I LOLED )

LOL. Suffice to say that the card with the photoshopped image of Ben Barnes' head, with my Teddy's hair, put onto a muscley man who was half naked and pouring a drink, shall never come down from my mantelpiece EVER XDDDD (I'd be rambling to him lately that Prince Caspian's face was probably the closest, structurally, to my version of Teddy's that I'd seen to date. He has my Teddy's nose, and mouth, and almost his eyes too. Cut his hair a little though XD Gosh, you know Josh is so good sometimes. He listens to me ramble a lot more than most people let me XDDDDD AND. He actually listens and doesn't smile and nod *random love to Joshie* XDDDD)

ANYWAY. Back to the party. My Dad made a speech that made me wibble, and then I had to get up and make one and burst into tears, LOLOL XDDD My Mum had to come over to me and hug me as I finished, and we were both crying, LOL. I ARE SAPPY ROTAE XDDD

OH. I had an Appletini XDDDD WINNNNN :D SO CHA. AND. I got to spend a couple of days with Mel while she was down, so that was awesome :D

ALSO. We are getting the freaking most awesome weather (I can hear Josh, Erika and Tom going, "WHAT?!" at me atm because yesterday I almost froze my arse off and I complained about it A LOT XDDDD). BUT. It's totally awesome, because it rains during the night, and you wake up to clear blue skies!! WIN!!

I have HEAPS of pictures to post (mainly of weather), but I think I'll do that separately tomorrow -er- today XD

DUDE. 10 days and I'll be in the USA. O______o is anyone else feeling the HUGENESS of that statement?! I thought I'd NEVER go to the US!!

*HUGS* Hope you're all going well :D

EDIT: Oh. And you should all go and vote in this poll over at The Leaky Lounge, because there's HEAPS of awesome entries, and they deserve more votes :D

Peace,
Rotae

Oh crap. I just drew FIVE slash... >.> ^^; XDDDD

ARRRRRRRRRRRRT!!!

( Clicke for half naked slashy awesome! )

I felt so wrong drawing this, LOL. This is like the first non-canon thing I've ever drawn, and it's ACTUAL, REAL, people. LOL XD :D

Ah well. So. This is J and Ritchie (left and right) from my favourite band, FIVE. And COME ON. IT DOESN'T NEED AN EXPLANATION. IT'S JUST HOT. XDDDDD

I blame mybabyangel, barelyshocking and vivid_memory. And Angelz on the FIVE board. I was drawing this G rated slashy thing and it turned into this ^^; DAMN YOU EMMA. IT WAS AFTER WE SPOKE THAT I CAME UP WITH THIS. XDDD

Anyway, I did this basically from memory, so I think it turned out okay, considering :D

LOL @ my lame attempt at J's tattoo XDDDD Unfortunately Ritchie's weren't in a place that I drew :( On his left shoulder blade and his left ankle. :) And they're both a bit more muscley than that, but pfft, I can't draw XD

GO AND VOTE FOR FIVE AS ONE OF MTV'S TOP 50 ULTIMATE POPSTARS PLZKTHNX :D

( Click for ANTM spoilers )

AND. FINALLY TODAY. Two pictures from the Blue Mountains!! :D




Hope you're okay!! I'm heading home REALLY early tomorrow morning *sigh* BUT. CHASER ON SATURDAY NIGHT. PLUS. DINNER WITH 6kittykat6 beforehand yay!! AND. I get to download everything from like the past week XD *hugs*

Peace,
Rotae

UGH. I BLAME DAVID THEWLIS. No, seriously, I do. I blame him for my five hours of sleep last night. And it is actually ALL HIS FAULT. Damn him for writing a freaking un-put-downable book. Srsly. I read until 2am last night, tried to go to sleep, kept thinking about the book, and had to start reading again. LOLOL.

Atm I'm half asleep (or should that be half awake? Is one more optimistic than the other?). ANYWAY. I shall be in the blue mountains for the next... uhm... three or so days? If Quidditch goes up in that time, then I'm probably going to need a reserve to step in for me as beater... sorry. LOL. I doubt it will go up, but if the snitch is sighted in the next, what... 48 hours... then someone please step in. I'll make a post when I get back... I doubt it's gonna happen, but you never know :)

So. Yesterday. UGH. Day of Travel. I left home at 4:30pm, took a wrong turn, but ended up at my friend's place where I left my car, got a taxi, got taken the long way to the airport, so was charged $20 for a $10 fare, got on the plane, read, got off the plane, read, got moved to "an earlier flight" which left LATER than the original, read, finally got into Sydney at 10pm, came to my grandmother's, had dinner, read, tried to go to sleep, read, slept.

MY LIFE. IT R INTERESTEENG. LOL.

If you need to desperately get in contact with me for some reason, LOL, PM mybabyangel, and she'll txt me :D Not that she's agreed to it, LOLOL, but Emma is just awesome like that. And now is backed into a corner. MWAHAHAHAHAHA XD I SHALL GIVE YOU HUGS ON MONDAY, EMMA, AND ALL SHALL BE FORGIVEN. THIS IS MAH PLAN. IT R SMRT.

ATTENTION GRYFFINDOR. I SHALL HAVE YOUR EMMA. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! :D

427 and alliana07 sorry, I'm going to have to bow out of LIMS, as we're leaving in about an hour, and I'm not ready yet, LOL. Thanks for the opportunity :) *hugs*

ANZAC Day today. So eat those ANZAC biscuits!! And remember.

They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we Forget.

And finally, ZOMG VENTURE BROS. SEASON 3 *SPAZS OUT ZOMG* XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Peace,
Rotae

Ahhh, I had a MUCH better day today! The Universe saw that they dropped the ball yesterday, so they made up for it in spades today :D

FIRST. Mah package from the UK arrived which contained... MAH SONIC SCREWDRIVER AND PSYCHIC PAPER. OH YES. THAT'S RIGHT. The screwdriver lights up and makes noise too :3 And you can write messages on the paper that can only been seen with the screwdriver's light :D WINNNNN :D

SECOND. I got a phonecall from the Ellison Hawker Bookshop to say that...

MY AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF DAVID THEWLIS' BOOK, THE LATE HECTOR KIPLING, HAD COME IN!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMGGGG!!!!

This book, that is next to me now, was HELD BY DAVID THEWLIS' HANDS :O THOSE. HANDS. ZOMG ZOMG OZIJNGPOIWUbegs;ivubae;oi!!! *flails* EEeehehehehehe :D I wasn't expecting it until June!! YAYYYY!! :D Something to read in The Blue Mountains while I'm there :D

THIRD. When I got home, I had a message from buttfacemakani to get online and we had an awesome talk about many things... including Venture Bros., which resulted in this exchange:

rotae (4:52:02 PM): I see Brock as a young Mad-Eye Moody XD
rotae (4:52:41 PM): Or maybe Hunter? LOLOL XD
makani (4:52:41 PM): Noo Mad eye would be like Brock's mentor, minus the sex change later in life
makani (4:52:46 PM): LOL YES
rotae (4:52:57 PM): THAT'S WHY THEY COULDN'T FIND HIS BODY!!
makani (4:53:02 PM): LMFAO
makani (4:53:05 PM): LMFAOLMFAO
rotae (4:53:07 PM): ZOMG!!! CONSPIRACY ALERT!!
makani (4:53:15 PM): MOODY IS NOW A GIRL
rotae (4:53:20 PM): EXACTLY
makani (4:53:45 PM): omg i'm postin gthis
rotae (4:53:53 PM): Hahahahaha XD Tea will kill us XD
rotae (4:54:54 PM): Maybe he had a fake leg so that he could strap on a nice lady's one every now and then ;) XD
makani (4:55:08 PM): xDDDD
makani (4:55:16 PM): it'ss o smooth..
rotae (4:55:36 PM): And he likes to shave it
rotae (4:55:42 PM): And then rub lotion on it
rotae (4:55:48 PM): ... *shudders*
makani (4:56:00 PM): sldkjfslkdfjf xD
rotae (4:56:29 PM): And he has a wig that goes over his scraggly hair, that has ribbons in it :D
makani (4:56:53 PM): xD oh man
rotae (4:56:54 PM): And he's so preeeeeeeety :D

Heeehehehehe. AND THEN. I got invited to the Hufflepuff chat, where barelyshocking, talumin and I had THE BEST CONVERSATION EVER RECORDED EVER. Which resulted in this macro:


And this exchange:

( Clickie for SVA bashing on the witness stand :D )

And finally, we had this EPIC BREAKING CONVERSATION. Which, I'll admit, is quite long, but by the end of it, I COULDN'T BREATHE for laughing. So give it a go:

( CLICK FOR EPIC WIN )
LOL ^^; Soooo... what have we learnt today? Mad-Eye Moody had a sex change operation after he was thought to be dead... Gerard Butler should yell "THIS. IS. CANON" to Steve Van der Ark, who is apparently captain of the failboat, and sinks from my Draco wand as I cast Aquamenti at him from the witness stand... Delta Goodrem is made of candy... Emma Watson likes sugar-coated cheese... Jeremy is actually SVA, and instead of Jim and June from The Bill, we get in FIVE and Matthew Fox to save the day... >.> ... Reg from the Bill not only goes trainspotting, but also spunks on people's faces XDDDDD "Bathes Latvian Bog" rhymes with "Saves Chat Log"... I am Buffy, Ainsley is Willow, Jeremy is Xander, Matthew Fox is Tara, Ewan is Giles (GODDAMN IT), Tom is Angel (? by process of elimination apparently, LOL) and Ritchie is Spike so I can fade completely out of the conversation and think about having wall-sex with him... ^^; the word for hot shenanigans is "NEPALMSHAGIGANS", and SVA is eventually melted by canon napalm against a wall XDDDDDD

EXCELLENT.

Peace,
Rotae

Two things just first up :D

First, I JUST BOUGHT AN HD VIDEO CAMERA 0.o Srsly. I feel like I've sold my soul a little, LOL XD It was originally $2300, but I got it for $1679 :D And I pay it off over 12 months :D YES. I AM SO FILMING MY TRIP :D It's so preeeeeety <3 :D And SERIOUSLY good quality :D OH YES.

Second, I had two really weird things happen today with people around me. First of all, I was in Hardly Normal (Harvey Norman) waiting to talk to someone about the cameras, and this woman in front of me just TOTALLY let one RIP in the middle of the shop!! LMFAOOOOO XDDDDD It wasn't a silent and deadly one... it was a total full on, trouser tearing, FART. OMFG. XDDDDD People are so weird, haha XD

And the other thing was, I was down on the waterfront, getting some chips for dinner, and there were these strangely dressed people with bicycles and then, as I was sitting on the bench, waiting for my order, one of them got on his bike AND RODE OFF THE PIER INTO THE WATER!!! ZOMG!!!! NO FREAKING JOKE!! WTFFFF?! XDDD

ANYWAY. LOL. ^^; XDDDD

H_E superlatives have started to go up, and I'm nommed for...

( Clickie for nommies!! NOM NOM NOM :D )

I'm thinking about doing a pencil portrait of David Tennant... >.> SOMEONE STOP ME D:

AND FINALLY tonight... I'm going to be in Sydney over next weekend!! Well, in the Blue Mountains for three and a half of the four and a half days... LOL. BUT. I'm meeting up with mybabyangel on Monday afternoon if anyone wants to join us :D Atm I'm planning to drag take her to see Ewan and Huge Jackman's new film, Deception as it probably isn't going to be released in Tasmania :( LEMME KNOW :D

SO TIRRRRRRRRRRRRRED... *falls asleep* :D

OH. BTW. Wasn't Doctor Who brilliant this week?! I LOVE THE OOD. THEY'RE SO CUTE. I WANT ONE :D

Peace,
Rotae

Say hello to the new Governor-General of Australia:


THAT'S RIGHT, MUTHA FUGGERS. A WOMAN IS THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. OH FREAKING HELLS YES. THANK YOU KRUDD :D

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the appointment only hours after his plane landed in Canberra from his marathon world tour, declaring it "a very good thing for all Australians and Australian women".

"I think it's obvious that we needed to have a governor-general for Australia who captures the spirit of modern Australia," he said.

Source

Also, KD Lang called him AMAZING and FEARLESS. OH HELLS YES. You know you're doing something right when KD Lang says you're amazing XD

Meanwhile Mr Rudd has received glowing praise in the British press.

In an editorial bearing the headline "Aussie rules", respected newspaper The Independent said it was impressed by Mr Rudd, who left London this week after his first official visit to the UK.

"We were looking forward to Kevin Rudd's term as Australia's Prime Minister, and so far we have not been disappointed," the paper said.

"On the contrary, with his plain speaking, his firm principles as a politician and - a bit of a luxury, this - his fluent Mandarin, Mr Rudd has not only met our expectations, but inspired not a little envy as well."

It was not only Mr Rudd's language skills that earned him accolades.

The editorial also spoke highly of his strong stance on security for the Olympic torch relay in Australia later this month, his plea for China to open dialogue with Tibet and his address to Chinese students on human rights.

"The world needs more leaders like this; we hope he has started as he means to go on," The Independent said.

Source

ILUKRUDD <3 That's it. You're getting a proper couture icon when I get home. XD AND. You deserve your own tag in my journal :D

( Click for another drabble generation which is ZOMG SO FUNNY HAHAHAHA )

It is the egg, and Ritchie is the fish.
Arise, fluro fish, and kick the exotic credit card.

OMFG LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO XDDDDDDD That SO needs to be an icon. SOMEONE STOP ME XDDDD Also, the above is quite funny because Ritchie DID play Romeo in the school play, LOLOLOL XD

Peace,
Rotae

UGH. ALRIGHT ALREADY. I'm renting out Season One of Doctor Who, and am going to TRY and get through it all... >.> LOL. I don't really like Nine or Rose, so it's going to be interesting, haha. I suppose Captain Jack must be in this season though, right? Because Rose doesn't make him all special in Season 2, so it must be in 1. EEE JACK :D

LOL. That seems a bit random, doesn't it? haha. There was a poll over at hogwarts_elite over whether you prefer Martha or Rose and your House, and what Houses they, and Nine and Ten, should be in, and I said I didn't like Rose and I had to admit I'd only seen a couple of episodes of Season 1. So I guess I should rectify that *sigh* >.> LOL.

In more hogwarts_elite news... I HAS SHINY BANNERS!! :D

( WOOOO!! )
I still dunno how I managed to score Stan Shunpike, but thanks for Tonks again guys *huggles* <3 *smooches* :D Also, ladylucius is my uncle Lucius, ldymusyc is my cousin Draco, vaguelyclear is my dad Ted, and buttfacemakani is my mum Andromeda AND my aunt Bellatrix. LOL. We're an interesting family, we are. Oh, and liret is my husband *smooch*

Also, us Puffs have FINALLY got our act together and managed to do Superlatives, LOLOL XD The first half of the voting went up a couple of days ago, and I got nommed for the following:

( Clickie for nomms! )

So, in summation, I LUFFS MAH BADGERS <3 THANK YOU SO MUCH ZOMG :D *tackles*

And now to completely change the subject... KEVIN07 is currently in England, and has met with the Queen and with Gordon Brown (British PM) and has now said that a referendum for Australia to become a republic will be discussed over the next year!! ZOMG!!!!!!! WHAT IF WE BECOME A REPUBLIC YAYYYYYY!! :D

And finally tonight... WTF... I know I should never watch Today Tonight, because it always gets me angry at the appalling reporting that they actually call "journalism"... but as I was defrosting my freezer tonight (LOL), I had it on... and my gosh... they're not even TRYING to show two sides to stories now!! They had this thing on about the the Summer Heights High spoof song "Naughty Girl", which is from a musical number in the TV show, about a girl dying from overdosing from Ecstasy... and they had this woman on talking about how offended she was by the word "ecstasy" and how children shouldn't even know what the word means.

I mean... okay, two things, lady. First, TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN. SRSLY. Not informing them is only going to have them grow up ignorant. Second... ECSTASY DOESN'T ONLY MEAN THE DRUG. I MEAN. WTF. It meant something else BEFORE it was a drug. If you wanna be an idiot and not talk to your kids, the least you could do is tell them what the OTHER meaning of the word is... I MEAN WTF. GAH.

And then they didn't have anyone from the ABC or any person representing the other side of the story. Fucking hell... srsly... I mean, not that I'm 100% on the other side, but the least they could do is TRY to look like they're not being one-sided.

Apartment Update: Day 1 after clean up: Still clean. Also defrosted freezer. YAY! :D *is going well* People welcome to drop by for a cuppa :D

Peace,
Rotae

Just before I go to bed:

AUSTRALIANS!! Excluding Western Australians, Northern Territorians, and Queenslanders... do remember to put your clocks BACK one hour tonight!! YAY!! EXTRA SLEEP :D ALSO. The Fire Fighters of Australia recommend you change the batteries in your smoke alarm at the same time, so do that!! Keep safe! :D

Finally tonight, an e-mail that my mother forwarded to me:

If you could fit the entire population of the world into a village consisting of 100 people, maintaining the proportions of all the people living on Earth, that village would consist of:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans (North, Central and South)
8 Africans

There would be:
52 Women and 48 Men
30 Caucasians and 70 non-Caucasians
30 Christians and 70 non-Christians
89 Heterosexuals
11 Homosexuals

6 people would possess 59% of the wealth and they would all come from the USA.
80 would live in poverty
70 would be illiterate
50 would suffer from hunger and malnutrition
1 would be dying
1 would be being born
1 would own a computer
1 would have a University degree

If we looked at the world in this way, the need for acceptance and understanding would be obvious. But consider again the following:

If you woke up this morning in good health, you have more luck than one million people, who won't live through the week.

If you never experienced the horror or war, the solitude of prison, the pain of torture, were not close to death from starvation, then you are better off than 500 million people.

If you can go to your place of worship without fear that someone will assault or kill you, then you are luckier than 3 billion people.

If you have a full fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are wealthier than 75% of the world's population.

If you currently have money in the bank, in your wallet and a few coins in your purse, you are one of the 8 privileged few amongst the 100 people in the world.

If your parents are still alive, and still married, you're a rare individual.

If someone sent you this message, you're extremely lucky, because someone is thinking of you and because you don't comprise one of those 2 billion people who can't read.

And so...

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like nobody has ever hurt you.
Dance like nobody is watching.
Sing like nobody is listening.
Live as if this was paradise on Earth.

Send this message to your friends.

Bypass those who will treat this as childish, having their own egocentric view of the world.

If you don't send it, nothing will happen. If you do send it, someone might smile while they are reading it, and that will be a positive.

And apart from that... simply have a nice day. :)

--

I don't normally like these sort of e-mails very much, but this is one of the few that is well written and gets the message across. It makes me feel VERY privileged and thankful for what I have. Especially because I'm a rare individual whose parents are both still alive and together. I love my family so much <3 My parents are my heroes.

And a few things over the week have made me remember how much you guys mean to me. Seriously. Even if we never meet in real life, or even talk to each other... I am so happy to know you.

Wow. Talk about sappiness tonight! LOL. <3 :D Anyway. *smooches* :D

Peace,
Rotae

Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.
A Message from John Cleese

To: The citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas which she does not fancy).

Our new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.

A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.

1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.

2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters and the suffix -ize will be replaced by the suffix -ise.

Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up 'vocabulary').

3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.

There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell- checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God Save the Queen.

4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent.

Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. Holden Monaros are also approved.

8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.

Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) - roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French Fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager.

New Zealand, Australia and South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nations on earth and it can only be due to their beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.

American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it rugby. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby by (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full Kevlar body armour like a bunch of Nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.

14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

16. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season.

God Save the Queen.

Yours Truly,
John Cleese

ARRRRRRRRRRRRT!! *flings* *uses as a peace flag for not replying*

And that's how they stay up!

I dunno. This just popped into my head the other day... LOL. This is Arthur and Scorpius.

I think it'd be cool if Scorpius took Muggle Studies (a. for the interest of it. b. I don't think Draco would mind what with him seeing the other one get tortured to death in DH :| D: c. I think he thinks it'd impress Rose XD).

And he learnt how aeroplanes stay up :D

Then one day he told Arthur. Aww. He's currently showing how the air flow works on the wings :3 :D

I think it'd be a good plot device to get Arthur on Scorpius/Rose's side hahahaha XD

Just a side note: DIE, HANDS, DIE. XDDDDD I KEELED JOO MWAHAHAHAHA!!

And another side note: Arthur is increasingly starting to remind me of Rusty Venture from Venture Bros. 0.o Oh dear. 0.o

Btw, it was cold today. This is what I do when it's cold outside (/and you've got nobody to love.../ lol): come home, have a nap, have a long, hot shower, get dressed into clean hoodie jumper, PJ bottoms, ugg boots, sit in front of the heater, draw, eat chicken kiev and salad, watch Will & Grace. BEST. AFTERNOON/EVENING. EVER.

*dies* *bed* UGH.

Peace,
Rotae

Sooooooo, it's almost midnight, and I've just woken up. >.> LOL. I got stabbed with a needle full of cervical cancer vaccine after work, so I'm blaming that, but I was probably just that tired that I fell asleep at 7pm LOL XD

I was awoken by a sound, which I can only describe as either an extremely large woodpecker getting bored in the middle of the night and having a go at the people upstairs' door, number 10 deciding that they needed a new number DESPERATELY to replace the perfectly good one they already have on their door suddenly at 15 to midnight... OR someone REALLY desperate to get in that apartment above me, haha. I think the first one is most likely. Thoughts?

BUT. The main news is, that I just got the first of three cervical cancer vaccine jabs, and none of it will cost me a cent.

I freaking love our health care system XD

Mah arm is a little hurty. Nothing I'm actually complaining about, but send me some love anyway. LOLCAT ME WHILE I'M ASLEEP!! :D >.> That... doesn't sound good. BUT IZ OKAY. I HAZ VAKSEENE :D XDDDD


Peace,
Rotae

Hmmmm... I always fail at doing intros, LOLOL. Uhm... hokay. So. Here's da Rotae:



( Cut to save you flist my actual mug XD )
Damn, that is a sweet Rotae you might say... ROWNG! LMAO XDDDD Sorry. I'll stop now. Partly because I can't think of how the rest of it goes... >.>

Yes. So, I am a 20 year old female Australian. Mah birfday is the same as one Draco Malfoy (THAT'S RIGHT, BEACHES XD), which is the 5th of June. W00T GO GEMINI!! And apparently I'm pretty much ruled by Mercury in case anyone was interested LOLOL. BLAME THE MERCURY >.>

Uhm... I'm currently working full time as a place called Tero Photography as a Creative Manager (AW YEAH :D), and in December last year I graduated from University with a Bachelor of Time-Based Multimedia! No, I'm not kidding, it's a real degree XD I was the first (and only) girl to have done it! :D BOOYA!!

I am an only child (DON'T SAY "DUH" LIKE THAT. I'M NOT SELF ABSORBED >.> LOL XDDD), and I am lucky enough to have THE best parents in the world. Did you see the certificate they got for it? Totally. Last year they won best parents in the world by a vote of 1 to nill! SRSLY. It wasn't a tough contest REALLY.

Yes, I am in love with people I have never met. They are called Ewan, Ritchie and Tom.

( FANGIRL!SQUEE EXPLAINED... KINNA... )

So basically: OMGDORKFTW XD He's so awesome <3

Uhm... I am a very political person as well. *cough*OBAMA08*cough* LOLOL XD I am quite left wing liberal. Federally, I support The Greens, The Australian Democrats and The Australian Labor Party (the latter are who is currently in power after ousting the right-wing Liberal Party - no joke. False advertising, rite? LOL). In America I support Obama for a lot of reasons, that I will probably detail at some stage, LOL. So don't be surprised if I post political stuff fairly regularly.

Despite my abuse of the English language on occasion, spelling and grammar are VERY important to me. I'm a member of the Facebook group: "If You Can't Differentiate Between "Your" and "You're" You Deserve To Die" LMFAO XDDDD I'm also a supporter of the, "Apostrophe Protection Society" LOL :D Also, I like learning new words, so I either put a word I learnt, or one that relates to the post as a subject! YAY LEARNING!!

Oh, and this is how I sound :D

I AM going to Portus in Texas in July! I'm registering as soon as my friend Heather tells me what she's decided to go to LOL! My parents said that for my 21st birthday, they'd pay for my airfares to the USA!! :D So atm it looks like I'm going to be going to CA, TX and NY! :D HUZZAH!!!!! :D

Also, Harvey World Travel has an offer of $537 to New Zealand and back with unlimited mileage on a car for 7 days which I'm thinking of taking up soon, LOL :D

I play World of Warcraft as well. I'm usually on Dath' Remar as a server, so lemme know if you're on there! I WAS going to get Guild Wars as well but IT DOESN'T SUPPORT MAC!! >:( BOO HISS BOO. XD I LOVE MACINTOSH. *pets teh PowerBookG4* :D

SO CHA. That is IT for now! If you read all of that, you totally deserve a cookie XDDDD *bakes some*

Peace,
Rotae

Never, have I been so proud of my country, and my Prime Minister, as I am today.

Never, have I been so proud to be a part of the people who elected the government that represents us.

And never, have I been so hopeful for a good political future in this country.

I just wish Brendan Nelson had said, "I agree" and stfu.

Peace,
Rotae

Friday: drove (I just wrote Draco two times instead of drove, lol *headdesks*) for 2 hours with Josh to pick up my BFF Mel. Drove (I DID IT AGAIN, DAMNIT, DROVE, DROVE, DROVE NOT DRACO XD) back, and then went off to play Put Put Adventure Golf. About 2/3 of the way through the game, I got a phone call from the people who had taken my interview for the Graphic Design job. They said they'd been having a rethink, and here's me thinking, "Oh great, they don't want me for the editor's assistant they offered me", but instead they said,

"Do you want a full-time job?"

0.o BZUH?! LOL. So yeah, I set up an interview with them for Monday morning. Had dinner, went around to Kristen and David's place, came home bed, blah :D

Saturday: AUSTRALIA DAY!!! WOOOOO!!! Mel, Josh and I went to the Soundscape Festival which featured, amongst others, THE LIVING END. MY FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN BAND WOOO!!! Twas a good day, and we all managed NOT to get sunburnt, LOL, which is EVEN BETTER. They had people going around from the Cancer Council with huge pump packs of sunscreen which we all took advantage of :D We all went mad with the Australian flag temporary tattoos (Josh ended up with about six, I think, haha - and he's not even Australian!! LMAO XD)

Me and Mel :D

(Just incidentally, there's this guy who's calling for PM Kevin07 to ban the burning of the Australian flag because some Tasmanian Aborigines burnt one on Australia Day as a protest against the day itself. In case you don't know, Australia Day commemorates the day Captain Phillip claimed Australia for the Queen - basically the day they came and took over the country from the Aborigines.

And these guys were calling it "Invasion Day" when they burnt the flag... and you know what? I'm totally with them. They SHOULD have the right to burn a flag that acknowledges the Queen and not the Aboriginal people who lived here THOUSANDS of years before white man came along and took over.

I am totally happy for Aboriginal people to protest Australia Day in this way - because it's not against their COUNTRY... it's against the celebration of the invasion... which is kinna wrong. LOL. When we become a republic, we should do it on January 26th and just commemorate our independence from the UK. *nods* ANYWAY... back to it... lol.)

We met up with three of his friends, who were very nice... and we listened to music, drew, Mel drank beer, lol... HAD LAMB! YOU MUST HAVE LAMB ON AUSTRALIA DAY. SAM KEKOVICH COMMANDS IT. :| LOL. So yes, had a lamb wrap... then we moved down the other end of the stadium and watched Grinspoon and then finally...


THE LIVING END OMG. They played some of their new stuff too... *drools* No one else had heard it before. Twas AWESOMESAUCE. And the lead singer/guitarist said, "The new album's going to have balls. If nothing else, it's going to have BIG HAIRY BALLS." LMAO XD He also donned a sequinned white coybow hat and played some country twang at the end, which I think was for Heath Ledger.

It was about then that Mel and I both got sexually molested by a half naked, drunk man. I elbowed him hard in the chest when he persisted in his... ewww... pressing against me... EUGH... and one of Josh's friends (who was approximately nine foot eleven) pulled him off us when he saw what was happening, LOL.

Crashed. LOL.

Sunday: Spent half an hour trying to remove my Australian flag tattoos from my cheeks, which resulted in me looking very flushed for half the freaking day... LOL. Went around and had a BBQ at Kristen and David's, which was very good. I dropped Mel off at her cousin's for a few hours, then Josh brought a game called Cranium around to my place, and he, Haylee, Kristen, David, Mel, Tamara and I played until about 1am, haha.

Monday: Dropped Mel off at Kristen and David's place so she could go home and drove out to my interview. Basically, I think I already had the job, it was just a case of them telling me exactly what is involved and stuff. It turns out to be 80% data collection of American photographers (427, you reading this? LOL), 20% graphics and editing help stuff. Anyway, I'll give it a go and see how it pans out. I think I'm actually really going to like it! :D

So yes. That was my long weekend. How was yours? XD

Hmm. So I'm going to be working 9-5 five days a week 0.o Wow. I suppose this means that I mightn't be around as much as I normally am :(

Today Tonight just did a "report" on Generation Y (14-32 year olds I think), and what bad employees they are. Because we're "spoilt", basically. And they gave some "advice" not to employ the "really spoilt" ones. 0.o Okay, just... about to state the obvious here... WHAT MAKES THESE PEOPLE THINK THAT THE REALLY SPOILT ONES ARE EVEN LOOKING FOR WORK?!!?! THEY DON'T NEED TO WORK YOU IDIOTS!! THEY'RE "REALLY SPOILT"!!! GAH.

I HATE YOU TODAY TONIGHT. YOU SUCK. AND EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SUCKS. AND MY DAD THINKS YOU SUCK MORE. :| XD LOL.

HOUSE SOON YOU GUYS OMG OMG OMG!!! *dies* :D

ZOMG HOW CUTE IS THIS:

I SEEM TO BE STUCK IN GRYFFINDOR!CAPS D: *LOOKS AT CEDRIC POSTER* Phew... all better now :D

Look at the pretty icon I made for my Quidditch this term!! YAY!! H_E is back open for applications!! 6kittykat6, you so need to apply :D

Oh, and I changed the Tom Felton YouTube clip to MP4 format if you want to download it from my private host :D Here's the link. Please leave a comment if you download - I think you right click and Save Target As or something like that, lol :D For your viewing pleashah :D When I showed it to Josh in the Apple Store, he turned to me about half way through and said, "This is like porn for you, isn't it?" to which I had to agree XD. Coz, you know... it is :D

Cha. I think that is all. Art to come sometime soon *tackles* XDD

Peace,
Rotae

Y HALO THAR!! :D So, there was a friending meme over at hogwarts_elite so hello to all my new friends!! W00t!! :D I guess you're all wondering, "WHO IS THIS MADMAN I SEE BEFORE ME?!" Well, I suppose I should introduce myself a little for all you scared little Padawans in the hierarchy of my journal :D

My name, as you might have cunningly noticed, is Rotae! I am 20, and I'll be 21 on the same day this year that Draco turns 28 (5th June)!! Not that I EVER promote that Draco and I have the same birthday. >.> Ever. >.> LMAO XDDDDD I am Australian, and live in Tasmania; the heart shaped island state off Australia's South-East (the one that gets left off maps in movies).

I look a little something like this:

( CLICK IF YOU DARRRRRRRRRRRE )

I smell a little something like this:

( LOL. It's only perfume, dun worry XD )

And I draw a little something like this:



Don't you like how I just segued into NEW ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT?! :D LOL.

Since you lovely Claws won the House Cup over at hogwarts_elite this term, I thought I'd draw my favourite Ravenclaw couple; Scorpius and Rose. LOL.

Soooooo... yeah. Just a really quick piece this one. Playing around with stuff :D

Kissing is so hard to draw omg, LOL.

And I totally forgot to post this on my LJ after talking about it being a thing I was doing for Christmas, LOL. *HEADDESKS*


The BBC screened a Christmas special of Doctor Who and I thought I'd get this done for then.

Basically, I'd LOVE for Ritchie Neville to be the next Doctor in Doctor Who. :D He'd be BRILLIANT at it. And Catherine Tate said that this next season was likely to be David Tennant's last. So I thought I'd draw the eleventh Doctor; Ritchie Neville :D

So here's the Doctor, with Martha (my favourite companion, as played by Freema Agyeman). HEE. I bought the complete Dr Who Series 3 the other day. IT WAS $100!!! But so worth it. It's got over 1000 minutes of footage, lol. Plus, like, you know... it's Doctor Who... >.> WITHOUT BILLIE PIPER'S CHARACTER!! YAYYYYYYY!!! LOL.

Uhm... what else... as you can see from my title, I like learning new words. My favourite words are; Crockery, Podge and Plop :D

I am a proud member of the following groups on Facebook:

I bet i can find 1 million people who dont want smoking back in pubs ▪ I am very excited about the number of women ministers/parliamentary secs. ▪ Hellyer College ▪ When I Say I'll Be There In 5 Minutes, I Actually Mean An Hour ▪ Sydney Swans ▪ Apple Students ▪ House for President ▪ Hufflepuff ▪ For all those against the proposed Bell Bay Pulp Mill ▪ If You Can't Differentiate Between "Your" and "You're" You Deserve To Die ▪ I grew up in Australia in the 90s ▪ Black Books Appreciation ▪ The Chaser APEC Gatecrashing Appreciation Society ▪ It's a small world when you're talking about Tasmania ▪ Six Degrees Of Separation - The Experiment ▪ When I was your age, Pluto was a planet. ▪ People Who Always Have To Spell Their Names For Other People ▪ FUCK OFF JAPAN... LEAVE OUR WHALES ALONE!!!! ▪ Hogwarts Elite ▪ Equal rights for gays ▪ The Chaser's War on Everything Appreciation Society ▪ I went to a public school, and I still did better than the private schools.

AND. I think that's about it for now, LOL. I'm gonna go off to bed now and sleep. Tomorrow I have a 3 1/2 hour drive ahead of me *groans*

BUT. STAND BY FOR VERY EXCITING NEWS RE: PORTUS AND AMERICA THIS YEAR!!! OMG!!!

Hope you guys are well!! :D *tackles*

Peace,
Rotae

Okay, so first of all, I'm going to keep track of all of the movies I've seen this year. It's gonna be hella huge this list, zomg, lol. It's, what... the 3rd? And I've already seen two movies at the cinema and watched one on DVD :| SRSLY. ANYWAY, I shall be setting that up some time soon... w00t! :D

AND. OMG. I saw Aliens vs. Predator 2: Requiem last night and ACTUALLY LOVED IT :O I NO, RITE?! WTF?! IT. WAS. ACTUALLY. BRILLIANT. I would see this movie again in the cinema and probably buy it on DVD as well. :|||||||| I can't get over how it was actually good. LOL. Apart from the fact that it's kinda thrown the Alien movies out of the water in terms of we've now see Alien in THIS time... >.> LOL.

I'm so on Team Predator. I'm thinking of making a signature tag for it, haha. Because let's face it... Predator is just a badarse cleaner. Srsly. I can just imagine cleaners pretending to be him and getting caught by their bosses in fishnets and dreadlocks. XDDDDDDDDDDD I just love that basically, Predator is like, "OMGWTF... I HAVE TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOU GUYS EVERYWHERE... and for that... I KILL YOU!!" XDDDDDDDDDD

And now for something completely different... a man, with a stoat through his head. >.> OR... this: ZOMG HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT THE PRECIOUS :3


*DROOL* *DROOL* *DROOL* *collapses from dehydration* MACINTOSH. DRAWING TABLET. COMPUTER. ALL IN ONE. *dies*

So, yes. You know that meme that was going around with "How Privileged Are You?" thing? Yeah, I didn't do that because I already know I am. Because... I went to school and live in a democratic society that treats me as an equal. I think that compared to some of the places in the world, that's pretty fucking privileged, LOL.

Uhm... so... Christmas was good, I didn't get a lot of stuff, but seeing all the family is always more than worth it :D BUT. My parents did give me an OSKAR 400 Continuous Flow Food Processor ZOMG. FEEL THE AWESOME!!! :D I CAN MAKE PESTO!!! *shrieks* :D YAYYYYYYY!!!

We went down to Strahan on the West Coast and went on a boat cruise up the river and out through Hell's Gates. Which looked a little something like this:


DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE HERE ALREADY?!?!! XDDDDDDDD LOL.

New Years was excellent! I caught up with three of my bffs, hailz, psycoticaxemurd and 6kittykat6, and we went and saw The Golden Compass (IZ VERY NIZE :D) before heading down to "A Night on the Terrace" for the fireworks, which for the last 20 seconds went a little something like this:

So we had fireworks at 10pm for the kids, 12am for the adults and then again on the 1st at 10pm for the carnival. And they went for at least 10 minutes each. In my LITTLE town, LOL. Australia pwns fireworks, srsly. :D

I've been watching Australia vs. India in the cricket, and it's been very enjoyable. An actual good contest, which is nice (unlike when we play England *cough cough* LOL). It gives me no end of amusement to pronounce Kumble (supposed to be pronounced Coom-blay), Come-bool, hehehehehe :D Ahhhh... I'm so easily amused... speaking of which, I've been playing more World of Warcraft! I'm now level 32!! W00t!! :D Oh, and Kevin07 and HUGH JACKMAN were at the cricket together the other day *dies of awesome* :D XDDDD

And yes. I'm getting my car serviced and detailed next Monday/Tuesday and then I'll head back to my apartment. My poor plants they're probably all dead, LOL.

But I'll be here for my parents 35th Wedding Anniversary, so it's all good :D

Hope you guys are going good! *huggles*

Peace,
Rotae

The following I found The Weekend Australian in the Inquirer section. It's a section that my parents rarely read, and as I was going through the newspapers, I stumbled across the headline, "How to Draw Kevin Rudd". Now, as an artist, my interest was piqued, especially because I've been wanting to draw Kevin Rudd for some time now, and as I started reading the article, I began to laugh out loud. My parents asked me what was so funny, and I read the entire 2000 word article to them.

It was about five paragraphs in that we started to have tears streaming down our face in hysterical laughter. LOL XDDD

I just HAD to give all my fellow Aussies a Christmas present, and I could do no better than to show you the following article that had my parents and I literally pounding our fists on the table in hysterics, passing tissues around to wipe our eyes with, and laughing so hard our sides hurt.

To the non-Australians on my flist, you can enjoy this too! You probably won't know who 95% of the people I'm talking about are, so I've linked pictures of the people being spoken about so you can follow along :D

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you:

Say no to handsome pollies
by BILL LEAK

( I would have jumped at the chance to draw Ian Chappell. )



WASN'T THAT THE MOST BRILLIANT THING YOU'VE EVER READ, EVER?!?!! XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LOL

Well, I'm off to bed now. It's officially the 25th of December in 15 minutes here... however, my family and I don't celebrate Christmas until the 27th. If you're interested to know why, lemme know, and I'll tell you in my next post.

So! Merry Christmas to all of you for tomorrow!! I hope you have a wonderful day :D *huggles*

Peace,
Rotae

LOL. *scurries away*



Voice posts are fun, right? You get to hear funny accents if your friends are from far, far away. All we really want is to hear your voice, we don't care what you're saying. So here's a list of typical meme questions that would otherwise be boring, but when communicated aloud - well, it's entertaining. Answer these questions in your post,and encourage others with voice-posting abilities to do the same.

1) What's your name?
2) How old are you?
3) Where are you from? Are you living there right now?
4) Is it cold where you are?
5) What's the time?
6) What are you wearing?
7) What was the last thing you listened to?
8) What was the last thing you ate?
9) What was the last thing you watched on tv?
10) What's your favorite tv show? Why?
11) Quick! Find a book, or something with text on it! Flip to a random page and read some of it! GO!
12) What was the last movie you saw? How was it?
13) Do YOU think you have an accent? Talk about that.

Peace,
Rotae