Adventurers

I haven't posted in, like, f-o-r-e-v-e-r but this weekend we went to Fainter Falls, and checked out Clover Dam overflowing. It was a pretty fun weekend all 'round. Climbing over fences in the dark is tricky but worthwhile. Brooke is my favourite, look at that cutie. And can we take a minute to look at the face I'm pulling in that photo? What do I think I'm doin'? Certainly not attracting young males. Getcha' head in the game.

I've been everywhere, man.

Not literally though. I've been all over the place this week, 'metaphorically.' Although I have traveled a bit. I'm stuck in a tricky place.

I love my plant hanger, thanks mum & dad.

Let it snow

It snowed really low down last night, so we went over to the Bright Gap to check it out today. Even though I live 45 minutes away from the snow, this was the first time I'd seen it this winter. I'd nearly forgotten how cold it gets. 

We have fun.

Sophie came over. 

Reconnect

I adore overgrown gardens. Just a few snaps of the garden in Ashgrove. It was wild. 

#famf

So if you're interested, I've started hashtagging my instagram photos as #famf. I did a little search on it before and some other kids use #famf and I'm slightly concerned it has a hidden meaning. In fact I'll google it right now. Well. Turns out famf stands for 'fat ass mo'fo'. That's kind of funny. I like it. Check it out - you'll be able to tell if it's my post or not anyway.

Garden Stalking

I like the idea of guerrilla gardening. It just seems so fun and cute, and really, everyone wants to have more pretty flowers and plants, don't they? Can I get a hell yeah?  The weather today has been lovely. It's sunny and gorgeous but air is sorta chilly. I was a tad cheeky and crept over to my neighbor's garden today to take a few photos - they're away on holidays. It's such a pretty garden, and so big too. There's even a cute little fairy garden and they've recently built a walk in greenhouse, you could say I'm a little jealous. Although, my house has a beautiful garden - thanks mum - and I have plants all through my bedroom. I've yet to discover the trick for growing indoor plants, mine always seem to die or just stop growing. I've got a feeling it's because I only have one small window in my room. Or maybe I'm choosing the wrong sorts of plants? I'm not sure. If there's one thing you must know about me. it's that I love love love plants.

The sum of my day

Organised chaos

I spent over four hours watching the New Zealand X Factor today - in fact I'm still watching it. On the plus side, I did clean up my room this morning and I customized my chrome browser to make it pretty. Wow, it really has been a productive day.

You know what I've always looked forward to? Growing up and getting rid of all the drama that goes on between teenagers in high school. Today I realized that the drama doesn't stop. Even with fully grown adults. It goes on and on. With this realization came a new goal to focus on: trying to avoid drama. I'm not going to become a spineless doormat and let people walk all over me, but I'm not going to let myself get caught up in other people's nonsense either.

Stallin' Haulin'

Check out my loot.

I try to make friends everywhere

I'm a pretty shy person. I used to be a lot worse when I was younger, but I'm still pretty darn shy. Here's the strange part - I really like making new friends. Whenever I go out somewhere, I try to start a conversation with someone I like the look of. Well. I try. Some of the time I'll chicken out, especially if I'm with someone. I'm much more likely to go and talk to someone I don't know if I'm by myself. I don't know why that is, you think it'd be the other way round. Occasionally if I'm really bored and in need of friends I'll jump on Omegle and try talk to people. Haven't really had a lot of success stories with that.. generally there are only creeps on there. I did meet two girls on there who I'm really close with now though. I feel like making new friends is sort of like falling in love. Okay. It's nothing like it really, but I like the idea of meeting and getting to know this whole new person that you've never even heard of before. It's exciting.
Okay, here's the contradiction: I love being by myself. It's one of my favourite things to do, just chill at home by myself, or go out by myself. I like it when it's quiet. I like having time to think, without someone interrupting me but I love being around people because you don't have to think. Sometimes it's nice not to think about everything. Does that make me like an oxymoron? Introvert but extrovert? Hey hey speaking of introverts and extroverts, do any of my fellow Aussie readers remember Luke O'Dell's song 'Introvert Extrovert'? He sung it on the X factor in 2011 and dear god it was hilarious, but the worst part was that it was actually a pretty catchy little tune. Give it a listen here, cause it's too good to miss ;)

Flashback Friday: Malaysia 2012.

Kuching

Last year I went to  Malaysia with a school group. We were combined with another school, I made some pretty great friends. We went to Kuala Lumpar, Kuching and Sarawak. We stayed in some fancy motels, and a longhouse (not fancy) Pretty sure I have a journal talking about what we did everyday, but I can't find it to save my life. It was a pretty funny trip. Every morning we'd have a vote for who would get the 'kurang pandai' which loosely translates to 'less than clever' in English. If you won you had to wear this awfully ugly necklace. So if you saw someone doing something ridiculously silly you'd write it down and vote for them the next morning and the person with the most votes or who'd done the silliest thing would win. Of course, I 'won' it on the first day.  To be fair, it was a 9 hour flight to Kuching, in the middle of the night and I didn't sleep the whole time. The story goes; at the motel we were staying at, there were these cups and I was thirsty so I went to pour some water into the cup, however I hadn't noticed that the cup had a clear lid plastic cover thingy on it. And so, as you can imagine the water went e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. It was pretty messy. My best friend (who I was sharing a room with) and I laughed about it for ages, and then I decided to tell one of my other friends and 'demonstrate' how I'd done it. He thought it was hilarious, of course, but I made him promise not to dob me in for kurang pandai. However, the next morning I was awarded the kurang pandai for the day. We managed to break it within the first few hours of me wearing it. Typical. There were so many funny moments like that. Oh, highlight of the trip! Our bus broke down in the middle of no where, we had to sit on the floor of some other bus for about an hour, and when we finally got to civilization, our teachers informed us that, yes, we were still going to the pepper farm. We REALLY wanted to know how they grow and package pepper at that stage. Not. Then, nearly everyone got this awful stomach bug. I threw up on the plane. Yay. This one day in Kuching there was this creepy old guy who tried to talk to me and a few of my friends. He was all like 'I have a boat ;)' and I was like 'Oh cool!'(Forever a smartass) and we ran away. He followed us. I can safely say, none of us had ever been so pleased to see our teachers. We pretty much all thought we were going to get kidnapped and sold as sex slaves. Overall, it was the best experience, I wouldn't change it for the world. It might just be the definition of adventure. 

Best of the best.

 Monkeys are freakin' scary.
















Telescope

This is my pretty little home town.

It was a joke, guys. You know when you make a joke and everyone takes it personally? I'll admit, I've been known to say things that shouldn't be said but hey, it's usually all in good fun.
On a lighter note, today I made the most delicious cake, ugh. It's pretty damn yummy. My friend and I spent ages making it, and it took like 2 hours to cook. Really unhealthy though. I'm trying and trying to write something else but I can't think of anything so I guess I'll just do a little written intro thing.
My name is Mikaela, and this is my blog 'i'm fussy about my friends'. I live in Australia, and I'll turn 16 in October. Right now, it's winter holidays and I've been pretty bored for the first few days. All my friends have been busy or working, and you know me, I'm fussy anyway. To be honest I can't wait to finish school and move away from my home town. It's a beautiful place, and I love it. Nearly all my family is here.  But the whole entire world is out there, and let me tell you, my home town is tiny. It's so so small and I'm so excited to meet the people, in the outside world. I get excited just thinking about it but here, have 10 facts about me:
1. I love socks, especially knee highs.
2. I always wanted to have a diary, but I could never write it one regularly.
3. I'm fussy about my friends, yo!
4. I love my cat Samson so much, I have literally never felt that type of love for anyone or anything before.
5. I'm a Libran. Indecisive as anything, just like my mum.
6. I was born the day before my mum's birthday, so sometimes we have joint birthdays.
My family is literally the best in the whole world.
7. I listening to embarrassingly bad music, think along the lines of Aaron Carter and Nikki Webster. Sorry, AC.
8. I just hit 365 friends on Facebook, one for every day of the year?
9. I have two dogs & two cats. I love them all equally, but Samson is like my child.
10. My bedroom is covered with books and plants.
It's 11:40pm and raining. Ah, winter. You're the wettest.

Samson, you are my #1.

this is me, yo. welcome to my blog.