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i went for my interview on friday night,
i was fair nervouse,
the lady asked my table "somebody give me a number between 1 and 3" and i said "four!"

how embarassing! my brain wasn't working at that moment in time.
but this morning i got a call and they told me i have the job!!!!! =]
she also said i did really well. so i'm glad.
now i need to do this 6 hour online induction. lol it sounds fun.
and on the 21st (which happens to be my mums birthday) i have an instore induction.

!!

a few of my favourite songs

i can’t imagine all the people that you know
And the places that you go
When the lights are turned down low
I don’t understand all the things you’ve seen
But I’m slipping in between
You and your big dreams
It’s always you
In my big dreams
.
And you tell me, that its over
wake up lying in a patch of four leaf clovers
And you’re restless
And I’m naked
You gotta get out, you can’t stand to see me shaking, no
would You let me go
I didn’t think so
.
And you don’t wanna be here in the future
So you say the presents just a pleasant interruption to the past
And you don’t wanna look much closer
Cuz you’re afraid to find out all this hope, you had sent into the sky by now had crashed
And it did
Because of me
And then you bring me home
Afraid to find out that you’re alone
And I’m sleeping in your living room
but We don’t have much room
To live
.
I had these dreams
In them I learned to play guitar
Maybe cross the country
Become a rock star
And there was hope in me that I could take you there
But damnit your so young
Well I don’t think I care
And if I hurt you
Then I’m sorry
Please don’t think that this was easy
And then you’d bring me home
Cuz we both know what it’s like to be alone
And I’m dreaming in your living room
but We don’t have much room
To live
.
And Konstantine is walking down the stairs
Doesn’t she look good
Standing in her underwear
And I was thinking
What I was thinking
We’ve been drinking and it doesn’t get me anywhere
.
My Konstantine came walking down the stairs
And all that I could do was touch her long blonde hair
And I’ve been thinking
It hurts me thinking that these nights when we were drinking no they never got us anywhere
no
.
This is because I can spell confusion with a K and I can like it
It's to dying in anothers arms
And why I had to try it
It’s to the Jimmy Eat World
And those nights in my car
When the first star you see may not be a star
I’m not your star
Isn’t that what you said
What you thought this song meant
.
And if this is what it takes just to lie with my mistakes
And live with what I did to you
And All the hell I put you through
I always catch the clock at 11:11
Now you wanna talk
It’s not hard to dream, you’ll always be my Konstantine
My konstantine
They'll never hurt you like I do
No they’ll never hurt you like I do
No, no, no no no no no no

.
This is to a girl who got into my head with all the pretty things she did
and hey you know You keep me up in bed,
This is to a girl who got into my head with all these fucked up things i did
Hey, maybe, baby you could keep me up in bed
.
My konstantine
You spin around me like you dream
We played out on this movie screen
And I said, did you know a missed you?
Did you know I miss you? (x 6)
I miss you
.
And then you bring me home
And we go to sleep, but this time not alone no no
And you’ll kiss me in your living room oh no
I know you miss me in your living room
Cuz these nights I think that maybe that I miss you in my living room
but we don’t have much room
I said does anybody need that room?
Cuz we all need a little more room
To live
My konstantine


that song has alot of meaning, and most of it is in code. i love it.


this is an awesome song too.

She calls me from the cold
Just when I was low, feeling short of stable
And all that she intends
And all she keeps inside, isn't on the label
She says she's ashamed
And she can take me for a while
And can I be a friend, we'll forget the past
But maybe I'm not able
And I break at the bend
We're here and now, but will we ever be again
'Cause I have found
All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade
Away again
She dreams a champagne dream
Strawberry surprise, pink linen and white paper
Lavender and cream
Fields of butterfliess, reality escapes her
She says that love is for fools that fall behind
And I'm somewhere in between
I never really know
A killer from a savior
'Til I break at the bend
We're here and now, but will we ever be again
'Cause I have found
All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade
Away again
It's too far away for me to hold
It's too far away....
Guess I'll let it go

my 15th birthday

i got a sewing machine!
i'm not sure if i have talked about my craft flare, it has skipped a generation in my family. my nan has taught me just about everything.
mum knows nothing, so it sucks when i need help and she looks at me blankly.

i also love op-shopping, so the other day i went to 3 to look for patterns and i got quite a few, and the best thing is that most of it is back in fashion!

i got some material from spotlight for really cheap. i started making a top and its going really well for the first thing i have sewn. i used to be a knitting nerd (still am i guess) i know just about eveything about it.
did i mentin i want to be a dressmaker and designer when i finish school? that is something i am really looking forward to. mum would like me to go to RMIT but i found 'melbourne school of fashion' on the net, and it looks very interesting and perfect for me. i'm hoping that if i pursue what i love, then opportunties will open up for me =]

this week

for the past 4 months my mum's friend has been trying to adopt. in the last 3 months she got a phone call saying they have a little boy named Abat who was 4 and ready for her to pick up from ethiopia. she got her flights ready and we held a sort of 'baby shower' but instead we raised money for the orphanage he was in.
in total they raised over $2000, which was an extreme amount of money!

last weekend they came home, after going on a big holiday in england, scottland, and then to ethiopia.
we visited Abat. he was so cute! he spoke ethiopian, so therefore couldn't understand us.
but he was very happy and fasinated by his little fire engine.
in the next 2 days we visited him again.
this time we braught him a present, texters, a colouring book and a jumper.
i drew pictures with him, he coppied my flower and the other pictures i drew.
then he said "ABCD" and it was so cute, and he was dancing, and talking in ethiopian to me!
he's my bestest friend =]


thats me and abat.



i'm away to band camp on sunday!
can't wait, kara is comming along too, due to her starting in the band, so all my friends will be there!
so i will be back on the sunday. yes, 5 days off of school.
next thursday i will be going to see the melbourne orchestra, which shall be awesome fun! we dont get home until after midnight so a sleep in on the following day.
thats 2 weeks with only 3 days of school, i'm excited!

my holiday

it has been a while since i have written a blog,
i did write one, but i didn't publish it.

well since the last blog i went on a holiday, have done heaps of assignments! and been busy with band.
this week i was talking to a few people and found out that next years senior band may be going to Mexico! i was so happy, because i will be in senior band next year and mum said i can go! lol even though it is $4,00-$5000.

my holiday was awesome, and yes i missed school heaps and my friends. but it was good to have a break and clear my mind.


this is a skit off one of my favourite shows on the ABC called 'the Catherine Tate show'

today i was allowed back on the computer!
so, hello to everyone =]

over the past 2 weeks i was banned and i realised how i can live without my Internet life.
and i found new things to do, and i communicated with my family a lot more than i used to.
i realised that my mood swings had lowered and i was a lot more happy and lively.

on Saturday night mum as reading a book so i decided to get my book out and read it with her. Although i had left my book at school =[ so mum suggested to read one she had, and they were all big thick ones, but i did choose one, called 'plan B' by Emily Barr.
although it is aimed at an older audience it was the first book in a long time that i had thoroughly enjoyed.
the Internet is a big thing in my life and many other teenagers lives in the 21st century, but being on it 24/7 is not acceptable and i have learned to live without it!

by the way, yes i used spell check for the first time, go me! =]

videos

haha hilariouse videos:

Hugging Policy.

Today we had a lecture at school about hugging - at first when i heard this my recation was 'how stupid! They cannot stop us from showing affection to our freinds' our yr nine co-ordinator explained that when we hug each other all the time it takes the meaning out of getting a hug when we are down and realy need it. Which i thaught was a fair reason.

our co-ordinator also mentioned how it was unacceptable to hug boys, because it ruins our reputations, and apparently boys love it when we hug them all the time because they get 'a feel'.
Yeah we all know what boys are like and how they act. But i know personally that boys don't feel girls when we hug them in a freindly way. I also think that our teacher said it in a way where it acctually made a difference to us, and we listened and understood.
Whereas some girls still thaught it was stupid and said stuff like 'but can we hug our freinds before we go on holidays?' and 'i think that when we get hugged by the boys it makes us feel special because we are only a few of the girls they hug.'
I thaught that was absolutally ridiculouse, most of them asked the same question and didn't even listen to what they were being told, plus they didn't get what the teachers were saying.

As much as i agree with my peers i also see where the teachers where coming from, weird huh?

What i have learnt recently

I have became more aware of things around me this year, about; freinds, family, school and life in general.
At school i chose a creative writing class instead of doing physical activities which i thaught would be interesting and a good option because i dislike excersizing.
So we all had an option of a form of writing to do this term, i was very quick in jumping to the option of blogging, as half of my life revolves around the computer and internet.
Therefor that is why i am writing on this website now.

i will start with me.
i am Arliah, i go to highschool and am in year 9.
i have quite a few friends.
i go for the richmond tigers, and currently my dad is getting very frustraited as they are loosing.
i love myspace and try to go on every night.
i play the tenor saxophone
and am currently in the school musical which is an awesome experience
i see the world and how it is changing, and it realy upsets me.
in the last few years once i have come to this school, i have been frustraited by the lack of things i have learnt, teachers dont realise what we need and how we learn. and that is a big thing for me considering i know how much time we waist and also how much money my parents pay for me to go to school.
i have a realy big family, consisting of 47 first cousins.
my mum and dad split up when i was 2 or 3 and my mum married Andrew, i call him my dad, he is realy special to me. It is realy good cos i have two dads, not just a step dad and a real dad....... i have 2.
Andrew is a policeman so he knows alot about the people around which is realy frustrating as he is always very cautious. and sometimes i'm not allowed to go places or see people cos he knows who will be there or thinks that person is a bad influence.
but he knows i'm smart and that i wont ever follow them and the choices they have/do made.

my step sister is 16 and my step mum has had alot of difficulty with her, she doesn't want to live at home, does drugs, smokes, and has a mental illness.
she told me not that long ago on her 16th birthday how she was living with one of her uncles and her mum called her that day, and she had a big fight with her, she then told me she didn't want to live. i personally think that these days teenagers take suicide and depression as a joke with 'emo's' and everything. they do not realise that depression is a mental illness and its nothing to joke about. Emos is short for emotional and started in the 70's, its a form of music that is displaying emotions, its even got a look and trend to go with it. but why do people see it as a bad thing being emo? or even to lable people? or even to bag emo people?

last year was the first time i had heard about global warming and how the world has changed.
and that is pretty sad as i am sure there are thousands who do not know about it now.
it only made a big difference to me when i went to echuka for a holiday this year and whilst driving there seeing all the dry land and dead grass and low rivers.

well anyway i will be updating this site often, goodnight