Building my first home

So this is the duplex that I am building. It's slowly coming along, and I hear the roof is now on so I need to get an updated photo this afternoon.

Just thought I'd show yas what I've been up to.... :)

We had a break away from life

Work has been stressing me out for the past 2 months and it's been taking a major toll on my life. I notice that my patience goes, my tollerance, my smile. You are so drained from stress and people harassing you, that you forget who you are and how you react to situations.

I took my boyfriend away for the weekend and we went and stayed in a little dodgy cabin at a caravan park in a small tiny beach town down south, and oh my fucking god did I need that!

The atmosphere there was so laid back and cruisy, there was hardly any traffic so when we'd miss a turn or see something we wanted to go back and have a look at, we'd just do a u-turn in the middle of the road and not even have to look for other cars.

We tried to catch the big fish while we were there but all we could catch were tiny bait fish and a massive stingray that took Jimmy about half an hour to pull into shore. We were hoping it was going to be a big jewfish, but we knew it'd probably would of been a stingray. Still the fight to get him in was huge!

It was nice just spending some alone time with him too. I think we were both getting stressed out from our big work loads that we hadn't taken the time to spend some real "quality" time together. We'd always be together on the weekends, but there was always other people with us, and this time it was nice to just be by ourselves.

It's friday again and I'm just waiting for him to get off work so that I can see him. I know he is having a hard time right now and I just really want to be able to help him and let him know that I am here whenever he needs me. I'm going to give him an awesome massage to help him unwind. Hurry up 5pm!

Paris and life

Harold kindly sent me an email which reminded me about my duties of writing here. I have been forgetting about this place a little more every day. The world of Facebook and MySpace just ruins the tradition that us old pioneers once had. I wonder what the point is in making a website anymore? what is the point in making layouts, and changing them every month or year? Everything is taken over by these templated webpages. And look, I have become so jaded in my creativity that I decided to just give up and use blogger... what am I doing! My years studying webdesign/development has gone down the drain. All I know now is what I knew before that - retail. How to make a customer feel valued. And although I do feel that is an important part of who I am and what I guess I am discovering that I do possibly enjoy my job. I enjoy making people happy, and I get to do that on a daily basis, but I also get stressed out on a daily basis, and yelled at by fucked up retarded angry people.

So, what was the point of me even studying webdesign in the first place? I can come up with 5 good reasons, and they are my 5 friends that I made during those years. I miss not being able to hang out with them. Drinking beer on the patio until midnight. Laughing around the fire in the backyard. The constant skipping classes to goto the pub and then our teacher meeting us there. And any excuse we could think of to have a party.

We had such high hopes of making it all together. Starting our freelance business and continuing those parties for years to come. But some of us got jobs, and the rest of us needed money. Reality sets in.


I have about 1000 photos from my trip. My friends have all the funny ones of me, so I'm going to get their copies soon and sift through them all. I've just put up a couple of my favourite funny ones from Paris. I'll have to try and do some more posts with my funny photos from Rome, Ireland and London.

My thoughts on Paris was that is was really pretty, everyone was nice except one guy that rolled his eyes at me! grr. There was a lot of history there and very surreal surroundings, but other than that is was a down right dirty place and smelt like utter piss and shit. So to you, France, please clean up your cities!

I'm glad to be home. I'm glad I went. And Jimmy still loves me, so all is good in the world of Samantha right now. I've just gotten home from a weekend away camping with Jimmy and some mates. Had a really nice time and I'm learning to be a good backseat motorbike rider. One day I'll work up the courage to let Jimmy teach me how to ride his bike. I plan on eventually being able to ride by myself so I can go on these cross country rides they do when normally I'd be stuck at camp twiddling my thumbs :)

England is getting closer

The time is getting closer and closer. I probably don't even realise exactly how close it is until we are jetsetting our ways across the globe. I'm getting more excited about the close I am going to wear while I am there. I'm excited to wear coats and scalves. Where I live the most exciting you can get is wearing a dress. It's not really the style capital of Australia, so you'd look like an idiot walking down the street all done up in nice layers of clothing. So thats my main drive of excitement to look forward to.

It's going to be great to get away from work again. It's been nice, lately I'll goto work for 2 months and then take some holidays, go back for another 2 months and then take some more... it's how working life should be! I still do not know what position I will be in when I come back. I'm really hoping just to reduce my hours and I feel the toll it is putting on my life and I dont even have a house and kids yet!

I'm really hoping that just maybe my boyfriend might actually really miss me while I am gone. We joke that he wont, and that he will be able to get away from me for awhile. It's so hard trying to teach him things. I've been trying to help him get his finances back in order. Trying to get him to pay his bills and save some sort of money. I feel like a nagging whore most of the time.

I'm getting really fucking sick of our time together being made up mostly of him drinking all night, and then spending the whole day sleeping off that drinking. I'm feeling right back at the bottom of his list and it's making me sad. I don't know what to do about it. Should I shrug it off as him being just a younger guy and still thinks hanging at the pub every day is how a man should spend his time? Or should I tell him to get fucked and call me when he wants to put me before the drinking? argh. Either way I'm going to be the bad person no matter what, even though I'm trying to help him out and help us out.

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I've got to go get my travel insurance organised today and pick up my ticket... it will start to become real once I've got that in my hand!


Oh and P.S. I've been thinking about it, and if I die can you please tell my Mum my website. I'd like them to have a little part of me if I'm gone.

I'm taking the plunge, and I'm scared... I've decided to agree with my friends and join them for a trip to England and Europe.

I'm scared for a number of reasons. The cost, can I afford to spend this money on a holiday when it should be going towards my savings to pay for my house? The plane, it's not Qantas, so will it crash? The countries and the people, will I get put in jail for drug trafficking when I am innocent? My boyfriend, will we survive the time apart?

It's not a long holiday at all. But I am a little bit worried about where his head is at sometimes. I found out some news on the weekend that made me a little bit sad. I think he gets depressed sometimes, maybe even feels like he is not good enough, or for some other reason he might not be happy with himself to the point where he would want to push me away.

He told me that he was thinking about breaking up with me six months ago, and I thought back to roughly that length and I could pick the time. There was some tension there and he was acting weird, but we got through it. I think he pissed me off a few times and I can see now why he was doing it. He was trying to push me away. He was trying to make me be the one to break it off, but I guess he didn't figure that I was in it for the long haul and that I wasn't going to give up on him that easily.

I never expected myself to be in this position. I never thought I could have someone that I cared about so much. Someone I knew I could be happy with for the rest of my life. Someone I would sacrifice everything for. But I am.

I didn't enter into this relationship with that as my goal. In fact I just took each day as a blessing and hoped there would be more. But now I just assume there will be more. Maybe I am letting myself get too comfortable and I am not keeping my guard up. Sometimes I think we need to keep it up to stay focused on certain things, like people. Maybe I need to keep my eye on him, and us. Rather than just think that everything will always be ok, maybe I need to make sure that everything will be ok. Someone has to look after us, and as the female, it seems to be our role to do these days.

What ever happened to the days when it was a mans job to look after the woman? he would court her, spoil her and provide for her. Evolution is happening, now I feel as though the roles are reversing, and this is not just for my relationship, I see it in others.

My dream is for us just to be happy, together. All I want is to be together. Money, location, possessions, all of it doesn't mater unless I am by his side.

I entered this relationship with no strings attached. I entered it expecting it not to last. And I entered it expecting not to be loved.

Well, I've attached those strings, I am expecting it to last and I know I am loved.

So if God has wished for my heart to ever be broken and never repaired. If God has hoped for my life to be over. And if God was out to punish me, then ending our partnership would be the ultimate killer to my happiness and my life.

Race day finally arrived!

Our local race day was held back a couple of months due to the EI going around. I didn't have as much fun as I usually do, it was actually kind of an odd day, but still one of the best days of the year for me!

It started off raining but then fined up. I got to see some of my mates that I hadn't seen for awhile and I got to spend a couple of hours with one of my best buddies. Naturally we were missing the usual crew that we have when the races are on. But because it was on a Saturday instead of a Thursday, not many people could make it. Plus the friend I usually hang around is currently living in England.

I didn't get many photos at all, but here is one of my cousin and I drinking on the front line.

I had my work Xmas party afterwards and that was also fun. We got back to town late though and I missed the curfew to get into the club by about 5 minutes! I rang my boyfriend who was inside the club, and we were talking to each other on the phone and looking at each other through the big glass entry doors. He finished his drink and then came out to meet me and we decided to go home.

Had a pretty good weekend all round. Cruisey, but fun and I got to spend some good times with him and my friends.

We've been doing a bit of fishing lately and since I've uploaded a photo, I figured I'd upload a couple. (I finally got a new monitor after a couple of months without one) This one is a picture of my boyfriend holding the Flathead fish that I caught one night on the beach. I didn't even know it was on the line. After we got it off the hook, we chucked it at the pelican that was hanging around and he ate it. Was a nice night :)

My car was battered and bruised

The reason I haven't been around? my monitor decided it was time to die.

Mother nature must be pissed off with my corner of the world. We've had gale force winds, rain and the other week we had the worst hail storm in the town's history. We were declared a natural disaster.

My poor little car was out in the storm and she was battered. In a couple of hours I am getting her assessed. So we will see if she is a write off, or if she can be fixed. Part of me wants it to be a write off as I don't want a bogged up new car. The other half doesnt want to see her go because she's been good to me.

I'd take photos, but without my computer in operation, it's too much fiddling to get the pictures on the web. I'm such a lazy person. I hate typing on laptops. I was thinking I should get one because they are so much more space saving, but after just typing this post on my Dad's laptop, I think I will pass on that idea...


Other than my car getting totalled, the other stuff in my life that is pretty big is that I bought a block of land. We are going to build a duplex on it. I'm pretty excited about that whole building my first home situation. Let shope that all works out for me.

I've got a couple of weeks off for holidays starting monday, I can't wait just to be away from work and all the crap thing goes along with it. Peace and quiet is what I need. Plus some party time! I'm always too tired to stay up late these days, so I'm hoping I can at least have a bit of fun while I'm off work.

Almost 25.... scary!