so it’s been a while since i’ve updated you on my life at home. things have been settling down.

In the past i felt lonely and listless a lot, now i seem to be filling my time more easily. there is a lot of television in my life, but I have been picking up the guitar and recording little bits on the iPhone on a more regular basis.

Christmas has broken my awesome no-spending period, i went about 3 weeks without shopping at all, and you don’t miss it. I believe catalogues are the bain of life, because they make you look at what you *could* be buying and how much money you could save doing it. So i never look at catalogues! But Christmas has the same effect, you have to go online looking for a cool present for a friend, instead finding three cool presents for yourself… then you go to Borders or JB Hi-fi to get the things people requested for Christmas and then you buy one extra thing for one person, so you have to find one extra thing for the other person, then you find out they already have that thing so you have to return it and find another thing.

So my savings are gone.

The dentist is the other bain of my existence at the moment. At first it was the money, now it’s just getting him to do a decent job for the rather large sums of money I pay him… grrr. I’m thinking of asking to see my x-ray and just grabbing it and running out the door. Go see a different dentist and fingers crossed! They’re worse than car mechanics!

Work is settling in, i no longer feel like i’ll be fired any second, i’m finally actually doing what I was paid to do – make a website! But my social life is still very quiet. what can I say? I’m shy. I don’t like going out with big crowds, I don’t like staying out till 2am every weekend, I don’t like drinking regularly. Fortunately I have atleast three work Christmas parties to make me feel like I have a social life anyway.

Can anyone recommend a good band to go see? I wish my damn job gave me access to myspace, so i could see when my favourites will be playing next :/

♪♫i’m alone, i’m aaa-lone, i’m alone.♪♫

So i’ve mostly made my life pretty comfortable and day to day stuff is kind of easier. i’ve even organised a housewarming tea party in a couple of weeks (which cost me a fortune in paper cups and things.. yikes!) Now when I get home from work, which I do pretty early, I kind of stare at the tv (off) thinking “i’m bored, what to I do now?” and i (reluctantly) turn the tv on and half watch it guiltily. make some dinner. check my email. i’m always feeling guilty that i’m not vacuuming the house, or writing new song lyrics, or calling a friend to go out. basically, now that I don’t have the excuse of living with family, I feel like i’m ALWAYS procrastinating. i’m told this is just the next phase of living by myself which is a relief, i want it over NOW!

However my sunday has been epic! I vacuumed, mopped, cleaned bathroom, did the dishes, did two loads of washing, got the groceries AND went out to see a gig! AND wrote song lyrics while at the gig!

I finally got to see Flying Scribble and Royalchord and Bachelorette all in one night! it made me sad I had to go on my own, I’m okay when the music is on, but between bands I just want to curl up and die. Sarah says I should feel like the “mysterious lady” . but really I feel like I am wearing the wrong clothes, unattractive and not drinking enough to look like a local. I did chat to the label owner i just thought he was a guy but he had sat next to me and he was interesting. and i chatted with the bar lady she was nice.

the nice thing about the night was that NOONE got out their phones, everyone was too cool to be texting and blah. except me, i felt peer pressured to go outside and check my twitter. and i did take just ONE photo (for you). to prove I was out-of-the-house. Actually the PA system wasn’t insulated properly so poor Royal Chord got the fright of their lives when one of their phones made that ‘clicking’ noise when phones change towers, and it went REALLY loud over the whole PA, it was doing it all night much more quietly from audience phones because people refused to turn them off. FYI i put mine in airplane mode for the photo… and accidentally started playing bachelorette (during her set) on my phone (which was muted dammit!) while I tried to figure out the name of the album I had and whether to buy her new album.

so it was an all girl, all electro pop night! i’m really glad I went. Bachelorette uses the same two casios I use. makes me happy. Her music is much warmer live than on cd, I find some of these types of bands’ recordings are very ‘perfect’, particularly the vocals, and they just don’t sound as endearing and ‘real’ as they do on stage… the opposite of Sarah Blasko who I saw the other week, I expected her to be all acoustic guitar, shy and sweet, like Missy Higgins or something. but she was a fucking marionette play-dancing in front of the microphone unable to banter with the audience at all. Meanwhile Bachelorette a lovely girl from NZ played the whole set herself from a laptop an acoustic guitar and three keyboards, with the sweetest voice and lots of jokes about the ‘bossy new zealand bitch’ that was telling people to turn off their phones.

Flying Scribble are a must-see two piece and they are releasing their ‘album’ as separate singles bit by bit, which is my idea but they beat me to it dammit. and their sound on recording is as effervescent on disc as it is live. which is the best compliment I can give.