This Means War

It rained again today, so instead of stay in we decided to go to the cinema. This was such a chick flick and I loved it. Just what I needed. A good watch!

nothing to say

I've had a clear absence of blogging lately and this I am blaming on the rain! The weather has been super bad this last week and as a result I've done nothing interesting to blog about. All I have done is visit the Lagoon once this week and the rest of time I've either been eating, sleeping, watching movies and I've had a few productive days which I have sorted out my tax and bank situation and what not.

Last night I did manage to loose half the contents of my purse, which is super annoying! I'm not sure how I did really but I have a feeling that they might of dropped down the drain, so now I have no American bank card, no virgin credit card, no Arizona I.D. and no English drivers license. Super annoying, I've spent the day calling banks and trying to retrace my steps. The most annoying thing of all is that usually I only have one bank card in my purse and just my drivers license. Typical!

4th time lucky?

I'm now on job number 4 and I think this might actually be my final job in Cairns. I'm really happy with this one. Its exactly what I was looking for, I work with an awesome group of people, the pays great (I'll be bringing over $800 a week home), I get plenty of hours and to top it off I get a meal a day too and my managers are all really nice. I'm a happy girl!

If your ever in Cairns, pop by and see me at the Water bar and grill. :)

its a small world

So I've started another job but thats another story and I'll blog about it when I'm there longer than 2 weeks. Anyways I went out on Thursday and it was a typical Lizzy drunken night, lots of shenanigans and not a lot of memories... It turns out I met a girl I was going to be working with at the new place, great way to make a first impression... wasted!!! Got into work, some random chick was like 'Hi Lizzy' and I thought to myself  'Oh dear Lord, where do i recognize you from??' ...it slowly all came back to me. I was so embarrassed, what's worse is my friend Jemma had witnessed the whole event and forgot to mention it.

Back to my point, the weirdest thing of al is that this girl (Belinda) literally lives down the road from me, she's from Bridlington. So random. She's like the nicest person in the world too. I'm pretty chuffed to have a home girl on the team. What a small world. To throw another weird one in there too. My new manager went to the same High school as Errol in South Africa. What a coincidence.

happy pancake day

Happy pancake day! Or shrove Tuesday to the rest! It turns out that I'm shit at making pancakes... which was kind of a surprise since I'm actually a pretty good cook. I failed miserably, my first few attempts ended up on the floor... in the end I ate an American style pancake. So it wasn't a real true style English pancake day sadly. Good fun all the same though.

Pancake Mix 

Errol's mad flipping skills

Mmmm Maple syrup 

Me looking like a simpleton and failing miserably at flipping my pancake

Fail number 1

Fail number 2

3rd attempt - Result!

the bravest girl i know

Katie Drury: The Bravest girl I know.

I was thinking about it the other day and I've realized I've never done anything brave ever. I know you could count doing daft things on a snowboard or things for adrenaline as being brave, but thats not really brave in the true sense of the word. My Mum was talking about it the other day and she was totally right, Katie is super brave. She's done so many things, like she went to India all alone to work in a hospital, she travels all around the world alone most of the time too. Katie's latest brave act was moving all the way to Spain by herself to work in a Hospital without being really able to string a sentence together in Spanish... pretty ballsy if you ask me.

I wonder to myself will I ever do anything brave or has my time past? I know I've moved to different places and travelled around but I've always done it with someone by my side. I have to ask my self the question, would I have done all the thing I've done if I had to do it alone? I'd like to say I would have, but really I'm not sure.

A day at the Zoo

Daft

Some rare big bird

Parrot Love 

Koala Love

Koala Chilling Hard

Its the Lizard from the rescue rangers down under 

Feeding a roo

Loving the baby kangaroo

Hiding Crocodile

a kookaburra 

Pelican

my official cuddly koala photo

Too many options

Its true what they say everything always comes at once. Last week I applied for quiet a few jobs, expecting most of them not to get back to me. I was wrong. I had an interview at few days ago and was offered the job yesterday in this fancy restaurant in Carins called the Water bar that are offering full time hours (35) and pay $19.39 an hour, the only down fall is that they don't pay more for Saturdays or Sundays sadly... one plus is that I'd be working with my friend Gemma and they also feed you meal a day.

Then today I had an interview at this balinese place called bay leaf, which are offering full time hours too but there full time hours are 40 hours a week, which is better for me. They also pay $21 a hour normal time and pay over $25 for Saturdays and Sundays... so this would work out to be substantially more than the Water Bar and probably more reliable. Although it would mean I have to do some breakfast shifts a few times a week starting at 6am. Also the manager is actually the owner, I know how stressed they can get. Although he does seem pretty nice and genuinely interested in my interests too. I reckon I'll get this job, the interview went really well and he seemed to really like me.

On Monday I also have an interview at this car rental being a rental agent. I'm not sure about the pay with this job I'll have to find out on monday, but if I get this job it means it would be day time hours and I could probably still work at Dundees, which is what I would prefer as I do really like it there. In addition I  have an interview lined up at the end of next week for this marketing company doing sales, they told me they on average make between $200-$300 a day, but I really don't know much about this... these sales jobs can be a lot of hard work without much reward, so obviously I'll have to find out more in the interview.

Either way, I don't really know what the hell to do? Do I go for the best money where I think I'll enjoy it? Do I go for where I know I'll like it or do I just stick to what I know and hope I find a day time job eventually? Decisions decisions! Hmmm. If only I had all these options when I first arrived in Cairns.

Dive Trip - Feb 14th

I didn't think diving would really be my think as I tend to panic a lot and get pretty claustrophobic, but I had such an amazing time! It was so much fun and I was super proud of myself for not panic at all. For those of you who know me well, know that when I'm nervous I go super quiet... yes that was me before we started. Very quiet and thoughtful indeed. lol. The reef was amazing too, I was so impressed, although I'm coming to learn its not really the reef thats super colorful its more the fish... the pictures can be a little deceiving... I can see how the reef is slowly getting destroyed too. Which is a shame. I was swimming with a huge sea turtle for so long when I was snorkeling, it was a shame though because typically I didn't have my camera at the best moment as Errol had it when he went for his second dive. Watching a sea turtle do its thing was such a brilliant experience. I only did 1 dive whereas Errol did too. I didn't have any problems the whole time, until we got to the last and final meter where they wanted us to stand on the sand, and my left ear just wouldn't equalize. So frustrating, its so painful if it doesn't equalizer... but every time I rose back up a meter it was fine. Not a big deal, I just didn't want to risk doing the second dive that went deeper than the first one. Besides if I'd gone on the second dive I wouldn't have been able to swim the turtle. So I'm Happy. Such a fantastic day!

Me diving... look as gormless as ever

Errol soaking up the sun

Picture Perfect day

Errol looking not much cooler than me

Me beneath the waves - wish my camera took better quality pictures though!

Me soaking up the sun on the bow of the boat

One of the only good pictures of the reef we took, although it still doesn't do it justice!

Preparing to dive - my quiet time

Me still looking like a drip

We found nemo - again not a great picture

You can see I'm highly impressed with lunch

SHARK!!! It looks small but it was bigger than me!

Chillin!

This me just about to take the plunge!

I have the best mum EVER

Look what I received in the post this morning!! Totally made my day! Thanks Mum your the best, Love you so much xxx

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

To everyone that I know and Love... Happy Valentines Day! I hope you spent your day surrounded by love and affection and did something special or awesome! I had an awesome day...

Will blog more about that tomorrow!

Love to all xxxx

Barron Gorge

Cairns Cable Park 

View from Kuranda 

Rainforest walk to Barron Gorge

Barron Gorge water falls

Cheesy grin

Barron falls in the back ground

A real life wild stick-insect, I used have one of these as a kid 

A wild brush turkey we saw in the rainforest

A curly fern close up

frustrated!!!

I'm generally just frustrated with life right now. Its bad because I loose my temper pretty often and get pissed off a lot. Mostly I'm frustrated with my financial  situation. I hate living from one pay cheque to the next, it drives me mad. I'm probably in the worst financial situation I've ever been in, in my entire life. Although on the flip side I have just payed off my £3000 student over draft. So at least that is pretty much sorted bar a couple of hundred pounds. The thing is, is that I'm not really getting enough hours at work so can't afford to do that much on my time off and that means I have plenty of time to think about how bored I am.

This problem could be solved pretty easily, I could get a job on a farm or even sell an organ. Neither of these things I fancy doing to be honest. I realize that at some point I probably will have to work on a farm as I wont have saved enough to travel or get to New Zealand, but right now I'm not prepared to give up life as I know it. From all accounts you don't have much of a life when your farming, just a healthy bank balance. Right now I think I'd be happier with a little bit of a life and a miserable bank balance.

Not really sure what the point of this blog post is, just me having a jolly old rant... this is nothing compared to the rant my poor old mother received in an email the other day! I guess 'suck it up buttercup' would be a perfect phrase for this moment. I need to stop moaning and get on with it. Or do more to find a second job. That just reminded me of something, a guy once told me he had almost 7 jobs before he found the right one... but he eventually did land on his feet. Its all just trial and error... still going through the trial stage right now for me. Maybe on the next work schedule I may have a few extra hours. We shall see.

One more thing. I want my best friend!!! Miss here so much. Katie, wish I could just teleport you here!

Katie and I in lake Powell, such an awesome time!

broken record

Of late I've realised that I'm literally like a broken record. I find myself talking and telling tales of America and Park City all the time. I just can't help myself! Every time I do, Meg's like "here we go again... yawn", its just so difficult when I was there for so long and I had such an amazing time. So I'm sorry to everyone I bore with my 'America chat'. I'm going to stop been the like the girl from American pie. This one time at band camp... cringe!

messy messy night

Megan's birthday night was just plain madness. I'm not sure how it happened to be honest, but it did. I only had just over 1 bottle of wine and one drink when I was out. Looking back at the photos the next morning was like the end scene of the hangover. Luckily for me I was taken home after the first bar. I'd write a lot more about Megan's birthday but I simply don't remember any of it to record it. I hate being this drunk and its fair to say I'm a terrible drunk... this is why I don't drink very often.

Meg and I after we fell off the stool and the clothes rail collapsed on us

Everyone dressing up in Megan's clothes. haha

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!!