To whom may it concern,

Please grant permission for one, Maggiesnail (author of this blog), to be absent from her duties for the following two days/nights.  This is due to her copious hours of work in the lead up to Christmas, leading to hypnagogic exhaustion, rendering her incapable of properly blogging.  She will be back on the eve of Christmas.

Yours sincerely,
Maggiesnail

I love re-runs of Glee! It gives me a chance to fill in the episodes I’ve missed. Acafellas tonight! Woahhh-oah-oahhhhhhh.

I want to go watch movies soon- there are so many I want to watch: Where the Wild Things Are, Capitalism: A Love Story, An Education and I still need to go buy 500 Days of Summer on DVD to watch.  Clearly, I’m off the bandwagon (is that the right phrase?)

I finally figured out what to get Dad and Eric.  Still not sure about Mum- she has much too refined taste for me to shop for and  I haven’t had time to go shop properly either! Booooo! D: I’m planning to go when it get a bit quieter down at the store; I really need a good hour to scope out something Mum would like!

This song owns called Telephone by Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé is so much better than the song called Video Phone by Beyoncé feat. Lady Gaga:

I tried to find something entertaining slash inspiring to post on this blog, because it seriously is in need of some entertainment and inspiration.  I found no such thing on youtube.com, nor did I find anything on the infamous Faceboook.

I suppose what I can do this weekend is to do a little reflective piece for the year that was 2009.  There’s less than half a month to go and I can’t think of a better time tos it down and do such a thing,mainly because Weekend 51 will be Boxing Day and the weekend after will be the New Year already! (And I just realised I won’t be able to post Weekend 52, unless I stuffed up my couting, which I probably did. Boo) D:

The Year That Was: 2009 (in dot-points, because I miss them)

• I started tertiary education/university. I started uni in the Internaitonal Studies program.  It was a nice, easy fun year.  I aimed for a D WAM to apply for a transfer into law, which I recently was accepted into.  I’ve come to really like my uni- it wasn’t my first choice, but I’ve learn to love the UNSW enviroment and atmosphere.
• I have really learnt to open my mind up to other weird and wonderful things, thanks to university.
• I’ve discovered there are A LOT of different type of people, thanks to the above mentioned institution. There are people who are genuinely nice, up-front, assertive and there are also those who are extremely open-minded, share the same but different interests, intelligent, eloquent and have wonderful trivial knowledge.  On the flip side, there are some who are extremely superficial, fake, liars and not-cool in general.
• Mum is one of my best friends and I never want to lose what we currently have.
• I started gym membership late last year, which is now suspended.
• I’m still not quite sure about who I am.  I would not be able to fill out an “About Me” section satisfactorily.
• I decided I want to be a philanthropist/humanitaran ‘when I grow up’, not a lawyer.  I think my work with Oxfam and my local Liberal Branch has a lot to do with this and I really look forward to continuing my work with these organisations.
• I got into a relationship sometime half a year ago- best decision to date.  I’m so happy in this point in time thanks to just one person- I wouldn’t believe it myself if I wasn’t in this relationship.
• Money doesn’t grow on trees- I’ve taken money for granted my whole life until uni came, and petrol prices went up and the GFC.  I think too much of society is under the impression that ‘money makes the world go round’, and not ’sharing is caring’.
• I’m a Mac-convert, now a converter.
• Alcohol and clubbing are both over-rated (not being a skeptic or too-cool-for-school here!).  But I still want to go out and have a great night out with the girls!
• I still have yet to set foot on an aeroplane.  Boo