Jay Z

Shawn Corey Carter (Born 4-12-1970), better known by his stage name Jay Z is a highly successful and original hip hop artist and businessman. Jay Z has been reported to having a net worth of over $150 Million.

According to his mother, Gloria Carter, a young Jay Z would wake his siblings up in the middle of the night as he banged our drum patterns on the kitchen table. It is easy to see that Jay Z has been passionate about his music since he was a young boy; growing up in the notorious Brooklyn, New York.

With a long list of studio albums, Jay Z has learnt to mould his sense of being into his music and to express it to many of his appreciative audiances.

• Reasonable Doubt (1996)
• In My Lifetime, Vol 1 (1997)
• Vol 2, Hard Knock Life (1998)
• Vol 3, Hard Times of S. Carter (1999)
• The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000)
• The Blueprint (2001)
• The Blueprint 2 The Gift and The Curse (2002)
• The Black Album (2003)
• Kingdom Come (2006)
• American Gangster (2007)
• The Blueprint 3 (2009)

Some new words from the Macquarie Dictionary

Article taken from The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/national/some-new-words-from-the-macquarie-dictionary-20091027-hhwa.html

Bestie: 1. (noun) A best friend. 2. (phrase) To form a close relationship with.

Car crash TV: (noun) A television program that is simultaneously absorbing and repulsive for the viewer.

Ecocentrism: (noun) A philosophy based on the idea that the ecosphere is more central to life than any particular organism, and that human activity, whether it is community or individual activity, must base its morality on this recognition.

Eco house: (noun) A house designed to be environmentally friendly, as by being efficient in the use of energy and minimising any damaging impact on natural surroundings.

Ecolabel: (noun) A label for goods or services which gives standardised information with regard to claims for environmental friendliness, thus assisting consumers to make choices based on environmental consideration.

Helicopter parenting: (noun) A style of child rearing in which parents are excessively attentive to and involved in the lives of their children (from the notion that the parents are always hovering overhead).

Mouth grills: (noun) A cosmetic dental device worn over the teeth, usually made from a precious metal or ornamented as jewellery. Also mouth grillz.

Ninja loan: (noun) A loan made with no consideration of the ability of the borrower to repay (an acronym formed from No Income, No Job, No Assets).

Saviour sibling: (noun) A child selected in embryo for genetic characteristics which can be of benefit to an existing brother or sister with an illness, especially for potentially curative stem cells to be used in medical treatments.

Skinny jeans: (plural noun) Tight-fitting jeans, usually made of stretch denim, with a small leg opening.

Random Pic's I took over the weekend

24-10-09

Got home at 3am, had a wonderful night out with friends. Up at 8 to get my dog washed clean by the mobile dog washer, I had planned in my head to go back to bed after that for a few more hours sleep but it hasnt turned out that way.

Today going into the city for dance rehersals for pride '09. I am completely shitting myself about it I have never done choreography before so its a whole new thing and the fact that im going to be performing infront of a fairly large croud of, to say the least, fairly artistic talentled people, is giving me butterflies just thinking about it.

Working tonight which means more dance but its free styling so its alot less stressful!!

Shop Layout Ideas

Brainstorming Ideas:

Fridge with door open for an accessories cabinet, inside would have down lights so that it was lit up and little posts to hang necklaces, earrings.

Fridge door would be open and on the open/inside part of the fridge door have shelving and boxes attatched to put scarves and larger accessories in.

Or could use fridge door as a sunglasses stand.

Soap holders on inside of fridge for holding accessories.

Driving Home

I was driving home from the city today and was bored so decided to take a few photos...just because I can.

Valerian Forte

'An unusual feature of valerian is that the essential oil of valerian root is a cat attractant similar to catnip. The active compound in valerian for this is actinidine. Cat attractants might mimic the odor of cat urine which is caused by 3-mercapto-3-methylbutan-1-ol (MMB). Anecdotes state that valerian is also attractive to rats, so much so that it had been used to bait traps. Some versions of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin have him using valerian, as well as his pipes, to attract the rats'.

So by me taking this means that not only will I get a good nights sleep i'm hopefully going to be attractive to cats and rats.

H2O

Top Deck

IGA

Just need to have a little whinge about the IGA closest to my house.
Im not sure about anyone else who is an IGA customer, but I for one, thought that the whole thing with IGA's is that they are open 7 days a week and have longer trading hours than the bigger food chains (Woolworths, Coles etc).
But no.
Apparently the IGA closest to my house isn't too keen on the whole extended trading so it closes at 5.30 most days. What is that all about?
The closest IGA that is open till 8pm, is 4 suburbs away from where I live which is rather annoying, especially when i'm just wanting to grab a quick bite for dinner and on route I have to pass Mc Donalds, KFC, Chicken Treat, Hungry Jacks, Curry in a Hurry...and many more, which then means that I make the hasty decision just to grab some fast food because its a whole lot easier and closer; rather than having a healthy home cooked meal. This situation is now contributing to the fatty mass that is developing around my hips and buttocks.

mixtape

Here are a few songs from my younger days that I still enjoy turning up on the old stereo.

• Please - Pete Murray
• Bartender (Feat Akon) - T-Pain
• 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
• Love Stoned - Justin Timberlake
• Logan to Government Centre - Brand New
• Okay I Believe you, But my tommy gun doesn't - Brand New.
• Tatou - Brand New
• Signs - Snoop Dogg
• Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
• How I go - Yellowcard
• Wait - Ying Yang Twins
• Til Kingdom Come - Coldplay
• What goes around comes around - Justin Timberlake
• Spitfire - The Prodigy
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Small mentions...
Brand New are one of my favourite bands! They are quite hardcore emo and their lyrics are filled with depressive negative messages which isnt really my thing but this band is just fucking sexy. 'im sinking like a stone in the sea, im burning like a bridge for your body'. Yellowcard are a band that I kind of just stumbled across in my highschool years, they had already made themselves in the music industry and had been around for a while when I discovered them. I really enjoyed the music and thought it was sweet that the lead singer often did duo's with his girlfriend, their voices go so well together in the music. The prodigy was introduced to me by my dad and I have never looked back!

fern gully

The Last Rainforest - 1992
Great movie from my childhood.

14-10-09

So it has been one whole month since I turned 20 and im really feeling my age today.
Maybe something to do with the lack of sleep and my current lack of sanity.

beat that bird with a bat

So the question on everybodies mind.

To sleep, or not to sleep?

Currently listening to:
Drop it like its hot (Audiostalkers Bootleg rmx) - Snoop Dogg.

Still no signs that spring has fully opened its wings, winter is still casting a very dark shadow over our souls.

'I hate winter, if I could stab it I would; but I cant' - Phoebe Williamson

Im currently also observing a friend by the name of Joel and his new found obsession for a piece of wood he found on the street. He has managed to use it to assist him in ways I do not wish to disclose for public viewing over the internet.

Life is but a dream.....

Ain't no mothertrucking geisha

At the park we found a tunnel, gemma thought she could squeeze through the bars, but she realised it was too small. So we took it upon ourselves to get some spanners, a torch, a tennis ball, water, and lucas paw paw to investigate this tunnel leading into the darkness of time.
Long story short we are no match for 50 years of rusted together nuts and bolts.

We then decided to get in touch with nature, and took the bike off road into the beautiful australian bush. Hoping that it wasnt snake season, we trudged our way through till we found a nice tree. Or so we thought. The tree had chlamidia and because of that all of its bark was crumbling off which made it very messy for us to try and climb.

period of about 2 hours - not sure of events.

mohito.

went to another park with childrens swings, and found a lovely pair of baby pink crocs (perfect fit for gemma...SCORE!!!) and a book titled 'wimps'

In one word todays adventures can be described as - GEM-SAR

10-10-09

When is it finally going to be spring and stick to spring?
This morning I woke up to a bright and sunny day and dressed accordingly.
Went to work only to see that half way through my shift it was raining which then meant once I finished my shift I had to walk the 10 minute walk back to my car in the freezing cold. What is up with that honestly? Not fun in a skirt and singlet!

Insomnia

I can't eat, I can't sleep

I can't sleep, I can't dream

An aversion to light

Got a fear of the ocean

I feel cream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l97LrNkSAHE

Puzzling

So I have been a bit curious about puzzles recently, and have been trying to think of ways that I could manipulate puzzle pieces so that they can become something different and not just a piece of a puzzle.

I like the idea of making a photo frame out of puzzle pieces and having the side pieces align with another photo frame so that the puzzles pieces can connect together if wanted.

Also puzzle earrings.

A t-shirt with a puzzle piece on it and the word 'puzzled??' on the shirt.

Puzzle is actually one of those words that if you write it or say it too much it starts to look strange.

puzzle puzzle puzzle.

The Long Road Ahead

I have created this blog because I woke up this morning to a brand new day and decided to pursue something.
After many daydreaming brainstorms I have decided that I am going to go to tafe and study a business and retail certificate and then eventually open up my own boutique.
I will have clothing, accessories, music, art and books in my store.

Im going to use this blog to post my thoughts and inspirations so that I can refer back to it to remind me of the great ideas I may have on the long road ahead.
Also this should help to keep me motivated because that is one thing I sometimes lack.

Oh the uncertainty.