Zolia Lily

Sucre - very true! and Tipdin, i would totally KILL for one of those phones! How cool!!!! if possible i would also like an old old car... maybe a Riley or a Morgan... (lol...) thing i find really weird, is when you see two friends together having coffee or just hanging out... and they're not talking, but are both on the phone to other people or are texting. It's kind of weird. Don't they want to be hanging out together? I'd be kind of offended if someone did that constantly while i was hanging out with them.... it's somehow both social, and anti social...

yaaaaay! Maria lovely- this is getting stranger and stranger though LOL. maybe we were separated at birth or something....

I like earth colours. pinks and reds make me uncomfortable (when i wear them), although, since i died my hair (Henna red) i actually feel ok in them. Green i love, but i feel most comfortable in blue or grey. i don't like pale colours. white, cream, pale yellow, tan... i feel all bleuk in them. I usually wear large amounts of deep / bright clashing colours. can't help myself. Or all grey and blue. Hmm... I read somewhere that Red is supposed to stimulate your appetite. Apparently that's why so many restaurants use it in their colour schemes. Yeah, call me a cynic.

I'm an emergnecies only sort of phone user. I'm the kind of person that has a cell phone (or, as we'd call it, a mobile phone (LOL!)) and never has it in the same room as them. I always get harrassed by friends and family for not answering the damn thing, but i never have it on me, and i always have it on silent. I'm better than i was though. In high school i'd turn it off and forget to turn it on again for days. Friends used to go insane about it! I was like- 'what's the big deal? i'll see you tomorrow at school anyway....' The only time i ever tried to text in class at uni i got caught. Soooo that was awkward.... havn't done it since. And i hate it when i'm on public transport or in the library and someone calls me. I get all short and just say 'yes' and 'no' a lot rather than conversing until the person hangs up. I hate the idea that people can listen into my conversations! Worst thing happened at Uni last semester though. In my favourite class (best subject, best lecturer... just FUN!) someone's phone rang. Not so unusual in itself. It happens. Normally, person with the phone rummages through their bag and turns the phone off... but THIS person, picked up the phone and answered! Lecturer's eyes nearly bugged out of his head, mouth fell open... and there was a collective "she did WHAT?" sort of gasp from the lecture theatre. Nearly caused a riot. Now i can look back and giggle... but at the time- Outrage! lol!!!

Dark- LOL if you remember, let me know!!! and HJ- wish i could do that. I think i'm a little paranoid. That's just gotta be it....

Dark- that's exactly what i'd like to happen! Lol, but my groups of friends seem to be very much made up of girls... and any guys who come tend to be boyfriends or some exs.... and clubbing etc also freaks me out. I think i'm much less of a social creature than i used to think i was. That's ok. I'm in noooo hurry at all. I think i'm too random and talk too much and most of them probably think i'm insane. Nevermind. I kinda like being insane.

HA i remembered something else i do when i write... If i re read an angry scene or an upset scene i've just written... sometimes i find myself making the faces or gestures to go with it. Angry faces or sad faces. Pointing fingers. The whole shebang. And even mouthing along. WOw. That must look really weird. Am i alone here? I mean, i figure i am.... but... you never know. .... right?

Instant celebrity! LOL and what a way to go!!! Legend! absolute legend!!!

Never had a partner, don't have a great job, don't really know what i want to do with my life or how the hell i'm ever going to be able to afford to live in this city (maybe i'll move to the country...)..... But i generally find i'm always happy. I don't know, i think it's important to live every moment, and get away from that all-too-human preoccupation with the past and the future. Living in the NOW and appreciating the little things is really important to happiness in my mind. Not stressing about anything you can't change, or anything that's not an immediate problem, not worrying about things that are in the past and can't be changed. I do think friends and family are important, love somewhere in your life, but i think self acceptance is more important. I think Bumblebee's right. It's hard to imagine other people loving you if you're not ok with yourself. Oh. And cupcakes.

random but true : Puff the magic dragon. Every. Single. Time. i hear it.

Totally illegal in Australia... but people still do it. Biggest offenders? Soccer mums in their SUVs who try to kill me on my way to work. my favourite way of getting back at them? slowing down as much as i can without seriously disrupting the traffic and then ignoring them when they flash / beep / harrass me. Of course, this only works if they're behind me. It's kind of fun. I get a massive adrenaline rush from it. Of course, someone is totally going to roadrage and kill me one day.... If they don't kill themslves first. you really kinda tapped into my pet hate here

I've been on... hm.... 2 dates? Should have been three but i was too thick to realise i was being set up with the guy. Lol. Hate dating. I don't want to have to dress up and try to impress someone or whatever. I'd much rather be myself and wear jeans and watch movies at home or something equally boring. Much more into the falling into something with a friend. Then again, never had a boyfriend etc either... Whole idea of dating just freaks me out. If i could just skip past the getting-to-know-you stage then i'd be fine!!

Humm, can't really say that i'm completely up with the Australian music scene... I'm currently rediscovering the 70s and 80s (or discovering for the first time, if you like, since i was born late 80s....) but i can tell you what's popular at the moment. I think. I mean, seriously... THINK..... Little Red just released their second album. It's a bit boring apart from one song called "rock it" "Plans" by Birds of Tokyo is massive here at the moment. Mumford and Sons still pretty popular, and if you like them you might like Whitley (one of my fave artists EVER! Not much of him on Youtube unfortunately... ) anyway. not sure what you'll think of those........

I have to be moved by my writing to like it. If it doesn't move me, i don't think it's doing it's job, so i'll probably either scrap it or go for a complete rehaul of it. That said, when i go back and re read it, it doesn't always have quite the same emotional impact on me as it did when i wrote it. It has to make my heart sink into my stomach or make me choke up when i write it, but it does depend on what i'm feeling when i re read it as to how bad it effects me.

LOL DragonMando i think i love you :D :D

artists. Except then i feel lame because they probably dress well and are amazingly visually talented etc etc. .... Writers! Because that's what i'm going to be :D otherwise (i decided this on NYE) - pyrotechnicians!!! (fireworks people)- how cool would that be!?!?

I got average Male! Lol!!! ( but i think i messed up the words one, so perhaps that should be 'slightly' male) But i'm a bit apprehensive about the whole idea of giving your brain a gender. I thought that was physical. and then the maths stuff- surely you can explain away men and women being better and different things in the way that we're raised? I mean, i know that's a bit Simone de Beauvoir (you know; "one is not born a woman, but created " ??) but i beleive in nurture over nature. then again... that doesn't really explain me.... either....

I'm Australian. My closest non-Australian relative (because seriously- unless you're an aboriginal Australian, you have to have come from somewhere) was my mum's grandfather, who was Irish. Before that, all Irish / English the generation before. We're not really sure, but it seems like most of our relatives were Irish, although have lived in various places in Australia, Wales and Ireland and also in Sheffeild- just to confuse the trail. My mum is big on family history... and we're still looking for more. (we haven't managed to get back to the 10th Century yet!!!) and i'm with you, Tipdin. My mum's mum is staying with us at the moment (she doesn't normally live close by). Hearing about her parents and grandparents and all she knows about our family history and even just the history of the area she grew up in is amazing. It makes me feel closer to my family (most of whom i hardly know) than i would have though possible.

OMG i loooove this too! I missed so much Glee this season I'm ready to give up night classes just so's i'll never miss another... then again, i could just buy the dvds when they're out... You should totally watch a couple of episodes and see if you like it... Kurt is by FAAAAAR and away the best :D

ps- i forgot to say how much i freaking ADORE Andrej Peijic *sigh*

I totally get where Tidpin is coming from with this... but for me, sometimes i find labels restrictive. I am a straight woman (well... so far), but I like feminine guys and tomboyish girls (lol, I know i said i was straight, but i can look, right?) (Hmm. maybe this is why i don't like labels...) For me, nothing is more beautiful than someone being themselves and expressing who they are however they want to. And i love the fact that people can choose to reject the norms they are raised with or the norms of broader society. I don't think it means they have to want to be the opposite sex, but i like the blurring of labels and lines. I don't think there should be any to begin with. Of course, i could be waaaay off track here. I'm not exactly speaking from experience (although the idea does hold some appeal for me...). Anyway, i guess i'll just keep holding out for the guy of my dreams... who just happens to be androgynous. If not, i'll settle for one who wants to wear my clothes (although i don't really own many skirts / dresses. I might be a disappointment...) That is, of course, if i don't surprise myself and fall in love with a woman first.....

Totally sucks. Not sure if it's entirely lame or whatever, but care packages rule! Box up a pack of his favourite biscuits or chocolates, a colourful scarf, a book or a dvd, tuck in a letter or a card... Even whack in a toothbrush or soap or whatever. If not, even send him a few little cards or sketches or something in the mail. Sometimes it's nice to get something someone has touched instead of over the internet. It won't cure him, but hopefully it'll let him know you're thinking of him and cheer him up a little. Hope it get's better xo

I'm actually not a huge fan of mine, but i was feeling unoriginal and uninspired. Zolia Lily was the name I wanted to use as my pen name.... when I was about thirteen... Lily actually should have been my real name- my mum wanted to call me that until dad's parents told her it wasn't a real name. They said it had to be 'Lilian' and she didn't like that. Wish she'd ignored them; I rather like Lily. That's why i've kind of adopted it as my own again. Zolia itself was a character in a story I started and never finished. She was tough and cool and confident. Sort of like I'd like to be......

Family breakfast followed by lunch with neighbours and family friends who, like us, don't have any relatives within the state. They all started arriving at like 12 and most didn't leave until about 8 pm. All the men ended up inside playing songs off their iPods (with Whiskey and red wine) and the women ended up on the back veranda under the Wisteria (with tea and coffee). The men all got pretty sloshed and one nearly tried to drive home when he couldn't even walk straight.... Then my dad got really aggro and rude to my mum's best friend.... It was kind of funny, looking back, but at the time... I just wanted a few minutes peace!!!