except for you and me, love, everyone's the same

Hello hello!

It's pretty irrelevant to announce my holiday in Australia since I'm going back home tomorrow, but, well, an update's an update I suppose.

I've been in Gold Coast for about...5 days now? Yeah. It's just my mum and I on this trip since my brothers couldn't make it and none of my friends were able to follow. It's been pretty cool so far; I went to Movie World and Sea World with the special VIP card deal thing. I wanted to go to Dreamworld as well but mum said it wasn't really worth it since it was part of another deal which didn't have any other attractions we liked. It'd be more worth it with more people, I suppose.

Mum started getting little aches and pains after a couple of rides on Lethal Weapon (in Movie World) so she stopped going on rides since she was worried about getting injured when there's no one to drive the car or take care of her properly. I went on the rest of the rides on my own, but I had loads of fun! My favourites were the Superman Escape and Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster in Movie World and the Jet Escape in Sea World. I also loved looking at the penguins and dolphins at Sea World! We also saw a polar bear; he was adorable! Such a lazy thing, haha!

I also saw sharks and--oh speaking of which, I have successfully bought a shark plush toy! I got him at Carrara Markets, if I'm not mistaken. He was 20 bucks so mum was a little skeptical but he was the only one left and I thought he looked rather dashing so, I bought him. Which was good, because when I went to Sea World a few days later the shark plushies they had just weren't as lovely as little Fassy, so I felt even happier about getting him when I did.

That didn't mean I didn't buy plushies at Sea World, but more on that later.

The only place in the resort we're in that has internet access is the rec room (which is connected to the children's room) so mum and I have been spending time in here daily. The wi-fi password is printed out in this little receipt printer in the children's room so being the lazy people we are, we usually just sit in the children's room. During which my mother has been the victim of various children's life stories while I scroll along on tumblr. It's really quite amusing, to be honest with you.

I've got to go soon since the guy is going to close the room up for the night. I'll probably make another post when I get home on Saturday--maybe with pictures too. No promises though.

Oh man I haven't read Erik/Charles fics in a week all I've been reading is this really depressing novel called Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (it's about a man in a love affair with another man I think you can understand why I bought this book) and even then I've stopped reading it because do I really need more depressing ships in my life

I'll probably finish reading it on the plane/in the car and silently cry my eyes out

So unless I unfortunately perish in a plane/car crash or suddenly become unbearably frustrated with my mother that I run off to Sea World and dunk my head into the shark tank, I'll see you all soon!

I'm not after fame and fortune, I'm after you

I was listening to a few Rise Against tracks that I don't listen to as often as the others and found From Heads Unworthy to be a little Erik-centric, as geeky and stupid as it sounds (I feel stupid saying it but I need to say this somewhere now don't I?) Anyway, it's been a long while since I've updated, huh?

Long story short, I got into a spot (or, well, a bit of a black hole but whatever) of trouble and mum's done her traditional banning of the computer, as well as threatening me to send me off to my father if I don't lose 5kg by the end of the month. But I'm obviously a horrible child who's far too used to these sorts of punishments and have found my way to sneak online, so here I am. No regrets, just love.

So anyway, things have been reasonably okay. Mum's not as angry with me anymore and I've managed to bargain to use my Windows comp to work on my convention stuff by promising to only use it for 2 hours at the most and doing 2 hours on the treadmill. I'm getting used to this new pattern, but it doesn't mean I like it. Mum still likes to make me feel like a shithead these days, and my brothers still feel a bit awkward around me. I'm confident I can lose 5kg by the end of the month but I'm worried that they'll make me lose a bigger amount by the end of the next with the same punishment because honestly, I'm sick and tired of this. I even found myself wondering why I even bothered begging to stay. But I digress.

On a much happier note, I've received a few packages since my last post! Finding stuff in the mail with your name on it is such a magical thing; I'm tempted to get a few tumblr friends' addresses to send stuff back to (sending stuff is fun too!).

The first package is from my lovely co-captain, Noni! ♥ It was a much bigger package than I had expected and idk I had the most ridiculous smug grin on my face when it was handed over to me which I find to be happening to me far too often lately because I seem to find it harder to differenciate which one of my grins are stupid or really stupid. Anyway.

yeah I know you people follow this blog for the books I buy I ain't givin you no address nosiree
So I opened it and

did I get the wrong package
oh wait what's this



I'm not going to lie; the package was so incredibly neat it was unbelievable.
So, putting the little koala plush with the small stack of plush toys next to my computer (the 'important' ones, like the Layton and Luke dolls and the mini giraffe plush Dawn bought me), I sliced the tape open with my emerald sword of justice
aka my totally heterosexual green sparkly scissors
ANYWAY

Good God this woman is spoiling me LOOK AT ALL THESE ADORABLE THINGS ksdhfs look at those precious erasers and envelope and the pencil dear god I haven't used one of these types since primary school *~*
Also I now use the notebook on the right for doodling in Japanese class *model student alert woop woop*
AND THEN underneath these wonderful things lie even more wonderful things! shut up my vocabulary is horrible I know



LOOK AT ALL DEM DOUJINS
ARE THEY BEAUTIFUL
OR ARE THEY BEAUTIFUL
can't make up your mind? well-



THERE YOU GO
Aaaa aaaaa aaaa Noni you are truly spoiling me nnngh
Suddenly my RyoMina doujin collection is that much bigger *u*

Thank you very very much for this lovely gift, my dear! This was such a treat I can't even comprehend--I've gotten a few things together to send to you but I've yet to figure out how to package everything. Hopefully whatever I've packed would be sufficient to pay back this super duper package you sent me ahh thanks again!! ♥

Today I received a smaller package in the mail! In this case, however, it wasn't a gift but a purchase I asked my brother to make for me. I really ought to get a Paypal account of my own one of these days...mum doesn't see the sense in it though, since both of my brothers already have an account. Anyway.

I'm not even going to bother trying to explain how big it is by comparing it to the tablet
also yeah censor lol I like posting pictures of the unopened product ok
on the topic of opening, here are the contents

My brother (the one who helped me get this in the first place) told me after he ordered it that Vestien (the artist who drew it) was...excited? because we were the first international order, so she said she'd throw in a drawing or something. I completely forgot about it when I opened it, so seeing that adorable Erik and Charles next to the handwritten message was such a pleasant surprise! It made me smile and giggle like a teenage schoolgirl--which I am, technically, but let's put that aside.

Onto the main reason as to why I had this package in the first place--

They are
SO
CUTE

I literally lost my shit when I first saw these babies up for sale on Tumblr, and I lost my shit again when they were all in my hands. I got a whole set plus extra Erik and Charles buttons. Extra because when I really like something I tend to get two of them so I can put them on different bags lol .

In this case, however, a pair of the Erik and Charles are put onto my pencilbox which I will take a picture of some other time because I can't be arsed to take a picture of it now and plug it in and wait for a fucking eternity for the photos to load in iPhoto while it slightly lags my entire comp. But yeah I'm quite satisfied with them there they are so fucking cute

The rest, I've put with the rest of my buttons (I used to leave certain buttons on certain bags but now I've removed them and put them on and rearrange them whenever I want to use the bags/buttons). Speaking of which, here's my collection-

I'm a huge sucker for buttons, if you haven't noticed.
Also you can very well see my 'if I like it I'll buy two of them' ultimatum working with my Layton buttons lol.

That's pretty much it for this entry. I'll put down a list so I'll remember to make a post of them some other day--

• Dawn's birthday
• 5th viewing of X-Men: First Class with Dawn and Kikkun
  
• Trip to Kinokuniya+Isetan exploring

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