Sunshine & Lollypops

Today is one of those days where it is impossible to be unhappy - I am in such a good mood I think I might burst.
And you know what? It's an amazing feeling and since I've been through the darkness of depression I can fully appreciate this mood.

It used to be a rare mood - so it is precious and should be treasured.

It's a sunny day outside with one of those occassional cool breezes that just makes it entirely perfect.
I am wearing comfortable clothes for a change - not the usual black pants and stiff shirt which make me feel suffocated - instead I have a loose skirt on and a comfy top and I'm feeling like I'm able to be myself.
Half of my Manager's (I have four managers directly above me) are sick today so I feel like a lot of the pressure is off me to try and cater to everyone at my end of the office - and instead I can focus on my own work and take my time with it.
I'm going to sit outside at lunchtime and read my book, blind all the passersby with my white legs, and congratulate myself on not requiring chocolate as a mood-booster.

2 1/2 days till payday
2 weeks till a public holiday
8 1/2 weeks till Christmas

List 2

Well that's good - out of the top 100 WORST films of all time I've only seen 9 of them!

From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Troll 2 (1990)
Going Overboard (1989)
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
Santa with Muscles (1996)
Backyard Dogs (2000)
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
Zoom (2006)
Phat Girlz (2006)
Material Girls (2006)
Chairman of the Board (1998)
House of the Dead (2003)
Glitter (2001)
Love in Paris (1997)
Son of the Mask (2005)
In the Mix (2005)
Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Kazaam (1996)
You Got Served (2004)
Simon Sez (1999)
The Honeymooners (2005)
Cool as Ice (1991)
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
Alone in the Dark (2005)
.com for Murder (2002)
Yûgiô: Gekijô-ban (2004)
1 Baby Geniuses (1999)
Little Man (2006/I)
Ed (1996)
2 Gigli (2003)
It's Pat (1994)
3 The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985)
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
Bolero (1984)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
The Smokers (2000)
Marci X (2003)
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
King Cobra (1999)
Hercules in New York (1970)
Anus Magillicutty (2003)
Toter hing im Netz, Ein (1960)
The Bat People (1974)
Hobgoblins (1988)
4 Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Doogal (2006)
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994)
The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
BloodRayne (2005)
I Accuse My Parents (1944)
5 Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Howling III (1987)
The Hellcats (1967)
Captain America (1991)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Dis - en historie om kjærlighet (1995)
Supercross (2005)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
6 Mannequin: On the Move (1991)
The Foreigner (2003)
Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
Laserblast (1978)
Rollerball (2002)
Daniel - Der Zauberer (2004)
Rhinestone (1984)
Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
7 Date Movie (2006)
Zaat (1975)
Out for a Kill (2003)
8 Werewolf (1996)
9 Mac and Me (1988)
Monster A Go-Go (1965)
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
Ringmaster (1998)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Mr. Nanny (1993)

Lists

It's yet another slow morning at work - so please find below the top 250 films (as voted by IMDB users) and I have seen a grand total of 112/250.
Not too bad. Nearly halfway there!

1 The Godfather (1972)
2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4 Casablanca (1942)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) (the Good, the Bad & the Ugly)
5 Schindler's List (1993)
Shichinin no samurai (1954) (the Seven Samurai)
6 Pulp Fiction (1994)
7 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8 Star Wars (1977)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9 Rear Window (1954)
10 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
11 12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
13 The Usual Suspects (1995)
Cidade de Deus (2002) (City of God)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
15 Citizen Kane (1941)
16 Psycho (1960)
17 Goodfellas (1990)
C'era una volta il West (1968) (Once Upon A Time in the West)
18 North by Northwest (1959)
19 Memento (2000)
20 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
21 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
22 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) (Amelie)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
23 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
24 Fight Club (1999)
25 American Beauty (1999)
26 The Matrix (1999)
27 Vertigo (1958)
Taxi Driver (1976)
28 Apocalypse Now (1979)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Paths of Glory (1957)
29 Se7en (1995)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Untergang, Der (2004) (Downfall)
30 Léon (1994) (The Professional)
Chinatown (1974)
American History X (1998)
The Third Man (1949)
31 The Pianist (2002)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (Spirited Away)
32 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Departed (2006)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Boot, Das (1981)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
M (1931)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
33 L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
34 Alien (1979)
35 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Metropolis (1927)
Rashômon (1950)
36 Double Indemnity (1944)
37 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
38 The Shining (1980)
39 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Sin City (2005)
40 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Modern Times (1936)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Raging Bull (1980)
41 Aliens (1986)
Rebecca (1940)
42 Some Like It Hot (1959)
43 The Great Escape (1963)
All About Eve (1950)
44 Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Touch of Evil (1958)
45 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) (The Seventh Seal)
46 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
47 Amadeus (1984)
48 Vita è bella, La (1997)
49 The Sting (1973)
50 Jaws (1975)
51 Batman Begins (2005)
52 Strangers on a Train (1951)
On the Waterfront (1954)
53 Forrest Gump (1994)
54 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
55 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
56 The Incredibles (2004)
57 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
58 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
59 Braveheart (1995)
60 The Apartment (1960)
61 Blade Runner (1982)
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
62 High Noon (1952)
Notorious (1946)
City Lights (1931)
Donnie Darko (2001)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Ran (1985)
63 Fargo (1996)
Crash (2004/I)
The Great Dictator (1940)
64 Finding Nemo (2003)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
65 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
66 The Sixth Sense (1999)
67 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
68 Annie Hall (1977)
Unforgiven (1992)
Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
Oldboy (2003)
69 Ben-Hur (1959)
70 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Wo hu cang long (2000)
Yojimbo (1961)
71 Back to the Future (1985)
The Killing (1956)
72 V for Vendetta (2005)
73 The Princess Bride (1987)
74 Life of Brian (1979)
75 The Green Mile (1999)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
76 It Happened One Night (1934)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The Graduate (1967)
77 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
78 Platoon (1986)
Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965) (A Few Dollar's More)
Ladri di biciclette (1948) (The Bicycle Thief)
Brief Encounter (1945)
79 The African Queen (1951)
80 Gladiator (2000)
Diaboliques, Les (1955)
Amores perros (2000)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
81 Toy Story 2 (1999)
82 Smultronstället (1957) (Wild Strawberries)
Gandhi (1982)
Lola rennt (1998)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The General (1927)
Duck Soup (1933)
8½ (1963)
The Conversation (1974)
83 Harvey (1950)
Stand by Me (1986)
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
84 Die Hard (1988)
Patton (1970)
Glory (1989)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Belle et la bête, La (1946) (Beauty and the Beast)
Ying xiong (2002)
85 Spartacus (1960)
86 Gone with the Wind (1939)
Cinderella Man (2005)
87 Finding Neverland (2004)
88 The Philadelphia Story (1940)
89 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
The Gold Rush (1925)
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
90 Toy Story (1995)
91 Groundhog Day (1993)
92 Trainspotting (1996)
Idi i smotri (1985)
Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Out of the Past (1947)
93 Magnolia (1999)
Mystic River (2003)
Before Sunset (2004)
94 Walk the Line (2005)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
95 Shrek (2001)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
96 The Exorcist (1973)
97 Big Fish (2003)
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
98 King Kong (1933)
The Hustler (1961)
99 The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
100 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
Kumonosu jô (1957)
101 Ed Wood (1994)
Heat (1995)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Sleuth (1972)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Hotaru no haka (1988)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
102 The Terminator (1984)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
103 Snatch. (2000)
Hable con ella (2002)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
104 Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Straight Story (1999)
Manhattan (1979)
Umberto D. (1952)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)
Sling Blade (1996)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Thing (1982)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
105 Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
106 Roman Holiday (1953)
107 Rosemary's Baby (1968)
108 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Haine, La (1995)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Ikiru (1952)
Scarface (1983)
No Man's Land (2001)
Central do Brasil (1998)
109 The Searchers (1956)
Brazil (1985)
110 Doctor Zhivago (1965)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
111 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Festen (1998)
Harold and Maude (1971)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Ángel exterminador, El (1962)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
112 Planet of the Apes (1968)

Aussie vs Kiwi - or both?

Well it's that time of the year again where I consider becoming an Australian Citizen.
Because I arrived in this country 23 days before some legislative thingy came into effect I can fill out a form, go to an interview, take a vow to do my best as a little Aussie - and then can call myself an Australian.
All for the small price of $120.

So, I'm doing it. I'm becoming an Australian. The form is filled in and I'm just waiting for my Criminal Record to be sent from NZ - yes make as many jokes about that as you please but I'm expecting a blank piece of paper to return from the Ministry of Justice.

I still remain a dual citizen, which means I can have passports for both countries and jump between the two with no trouble whatsoever. But when it comes down to the crunch - I will always consider myself a Kiwi. A New Zealander.
I will barrack for the All Blacks, I will still refer to my jandals as "jandals" (I dont own any jandals but my intentions are pure), I will go to the "dairy" to get a newspaper on Sunday mornings and will roll my eyes at any Sheep jokes thrown my way.

Unless of course NZ becomes some highly evil society taken over by Sam's evil clone sheep - in which case I might consider myself an Aussie.

But well...I've lived in both countries for a big chunk of my life - NZ 18 years and Oz 9 years that I guess I'm a mix of both worlds now.

Just call me the Strawberry Kiwi-Aussie

Pacman

My new top score on Pacman is 61,000 points.

I thought that was blogworthy.

Yes. It's been a quiet afternoon.

Friday

And what a beautiful Friday it is!

It started off pretty miserably though - I discovered that my juice bottle leaks. Because it chose to leak all over my bed, my clean new sheets and brand new mattress underlay while I was tying up my boots.

I thought I fixed the problem - but fixing the problem caused me to miss the train by about 20 seconds. Then after that big defeat, I found that I hadnt solved the problem and that my juice bottle had leaked all through my bag.

My jacket was used as a towel (I just used the hood part) and I mopped it all up. I had a fairly uneventful train ride - except for when I got it into my head that I had to get off at the Melbourne Central train station.
A stop earlier than I needed to.
So that added another 5 minutes onto my journey into work.

That's okay though - no one noticed me sneaking in late, with my juice stained jacket. I turned on my computer and worked pretty solidly throughout the day.

Then I got to go outside - into the sunshine and warmth of a spring day. I also got to go outside and attend my last counselling session.
My last!

I've gotten to the point where everytime I go to counselling, I'm struggling to think of things to bring up to discuss. I'm just feeling so happy and light (apart from when juice bottles leak) that I feel like a new person...I feel free?

Does that make any sense whatsoever or am I just babbling?

Double Jinx

Can I just say that I am beginning to think I'm psychic.

Now...if you all have read the previous post you all would have read my sentence mentioning delayed planes and missing buses right? Well guess what happened on Friday morning? My plane was delayed by 45 minutes and seeing as the gap between my plane landing and my connecting bus leaving was 50 minutes, you can say that I was more than a little stressed when I finally landed at Brisbane airport.

I had to traverse the Domestic Terminal in 5 minutes or less and considering Virgin Blue is right at the backend of the damn place I pretty much started running as soon as I hit the tarmac.

I arrived outside at the bus stop at 1.23pm to find no bus there - and as it was scheduled to depart at 1.20pm I was more than a little panicky.
Thank goodness the bus was ALSO running late and it turned up 10 minutes later - so I didnt have to ring up Greyhound and have to pay for another fare.

In the last 4 days I have now spent a total of 6 hours on a plane, 6 hours on a bus, 6hours in an airport (Melbourne or Brisbane), 48 hours listening to irritating Husband talk, and quite a few happy hours cuddling the baby.

Once I can figure out how to put up photos, I'll be sure to stick one up of me holding Cooper.