Pulling me socks up

Good evening to you there. Yes you. Your bored little bugger. :D Only 51 minutes until morning! weeeee! I know, I'm surprised too; two days in a row?! SAY WHAT? You're wondering about the title aren't you, I can see you, pondering away thinking "What's gotten into Mary this time?" or if you're Ellen then it'll probably go along the lines of "You're whack, why do I even bother to read this?"
I'd like to announce to the world that my homework ethic is finally back. It's taken around 4 or 5 weeks but it's finally here. This little brain of mine has finally realised that it's not holidays anymore and I need to "pull my socks up" if I want to even pass this year. I actually did my maths homework! (CUE THE GASPS OF THE AUDIENCE)

Oh, you guys remember the book I blogged about last time right "A Child Called It" by Dave Pelzer, well I got Ellen to read and I'm so glad she finished it today and liked it. Though she didn't cry and bawl and scream and howl at the end like I did, at least she liked it. Today I borrowed the two sequels "The Lost Boy" and "A Man Called Dave" and I'm going to take them to the six hour long bus ride to where we're staying for Frayne along with my "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" wooo!

Masterchef has ended and I forgot to watch Big Brother today and no youtube videos of the people I subscribe to on youtube have been posted so I actually don't have anything to rant about. Oh right, I'm going to have to perform a monologue about a psycho who strangles his date after scaring her and I did a practice bit of it today so my drama class could help me out and I found out all my Mary-isms which are Mary mannerisms. I didn't even know they were so obvious because our mannerisms just come so naturally. And so I walked around school today just looking at everyone's mannerisms which was kind of cool. There's the hair flicking, thumb twidding, lip biting, feet tapping, feet dangling, finger scratching and it was just really exciting to watch. God, maybe I'm getting too into this psycho character. I feel sort of stalkerish now...welp.

With that lovely note, I will leave you. SAYONARA BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!! :D


MAARY.

sorted. but not. but sorted.

HUJAMBO! I'm from Swahili! Did you forget?! Hahah, no I'm just kidding. Though I do love languages though as you may have noticed. Okay, time to get straight to it because a lot of things have happened these past two days that I have found necessary to blog about. :)

Okeydoke, yesterday I went to the Melbourne Uni Open Day which was really really fun and helpful and now I know what degree I want to take, what subjects I might enjoy and my way around Melbourne Uni. :) I was planning to go by myself so I wouldn't get distracted but I met the lovely Kimmo (yes, the glitter and wanderlust one) and Nina, our friend from school and we decided to explore the uni together. I was very grateful to be able to meet up with them though because I don't think I would've enjoyed my day as much if they hadn't been there. :) (Thanks guys)! We walked around heaps and the most exciting things included getting a free mocha (they were amazing), free coffee samples, getting a photo taken with a bear (as shown below), looking at the reptile van, taking our photo with the 'grape with the orange guitar' (don't ask) and attending a creative writing lecture in which I was thinking "Tash should really be here right now." So I think I'm going to do a Science and Arts double degree so I can keep my options open and have my studies catered towards my interests and my hobbies. :)wooo I'm so glad I finally worked that out because now all I have to do is get the marks which means I finally have motivation to do well in school now. yay! :)

After a very helpful day at Melbourne Uni, Kimmo, Nina and I randomly met our friend, Van, and it turned out they were going to the same party. So after the girls did all their getting ready girly stuff for this party I wasn't invited to (i hate you hillary, just kidding, HOPE YOU HAD A FANTASTIC BIRTHDAY PARTY HILLARY AND I HELPED PICK OUT YOUR PRESENT SO I HOPE YOU LIKE THAT TOO! :)) On my way home, I bumped in to a guy setting up the soup van and asked him how I could get involved and so he told me that I can help him prepare the food next Sunday! WEEEEEE WOOOO I'M SO EXCITED. I'M FINALLY GETTING A JOB!! But not really since it's volunteer work but I couldn't be happier to help out! :)

MASTERCHEF ALL STARS:
I'M SO ECSTATIC, OVERJOYED, HAPPY JUST PROUD THAT CALLUM WON BECAUSE HE DESERVED IT SO MUCH AND HE'S SUCH AN ADORABLE PERSON AND AMAZING CHEF AND HE'S SO HUMBLE AND GENEROUS AND KIND AND CONSIDERATE BECAUSE HE BASICALLY GAVE HALF THE PRIZE MONEY TO CHRIS' CHARITY AND OH MY GOD CONGRATULATIONS CALLUM HANN!!! YOU ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF AUSTRALIA'S YOUTH BECAUSE YOU HAVE SHOWN US THAT YOUNG PEOPLE CAN ACCOMPLISH BIG THINGS TOO! CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATS CONGRATULATIONSIIESSSS!!!!!!!! :D :D

That was yesterday so now on to today! :)I had a really fun, relaxing, nice day out today as well. A couple of my friends and I were going to go to the city and explore little shops that we'd seen before but never had the chance to go in today but sadly, half of them couldn't make it. :( Instead, Ellen and Tash and I went to Readings to use our book vouchers we had received from school last year. We spent probably around an hour or so in Readings and Tash eventually bought three Greek Mythology books (no one saw that coming), Ellen bought a book about making chocolate (again, surprise surprise) and I bought 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I finished the Sherlock TV series with Benedict Cumberbatch a while back and I loved it so I decided to give the books a try. :) I'm quite excited to read it actually. After our nerdy book-buying session, we went to Brunetti's and drank mochas like sophisticated ladies. (HAHAHHA, NO NOT REALLY) We then walked all the way home and stopped at the McDonald's in the hospital and looked at meerkats and ate stuff and chatted as Natasha was engrossed in her book. It actually does sound really awesome so far going off what she's told me about it. :D She'll probably blog about it later to(night/day). We then go to my house and we were going to watch "Nightmare Before Christmas" but Tash was still engrossed in her book, Ellen wanted to play piano and I was yelling at Michelle for the reason I will blog about a little bit later so we decided we'd watch it another time. :)

Today I had a mental breakdown. I'm actually not even exaggerating, I know I do that a lot but this time I'm not. Rightio, so here's how it all went. We got home and then I checked my twitter and realised ONE OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS IS GOING TO BE LEAVING TO ANOTHER SCHOOL AT THE END OF THE YEAR. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO NOOOODFJDJFHSDFNDKJFHBADSHFBDSJFBDS. I was basically swearing at the world and spammed her on every social network site she had access too and called her and yelled at her like some crazy person. But to be completely honest, I'm really really really happy for her because I remember when she didn't get into this school in year 8 when she tried out for it, she came to school crying her poor little eyes and she was devastated for about a week. And now she's finally done it! She got in! And as a friend, I have to be supportive and caring and considerate and I have to let her go because I love her to bits. OH god, I'm going to be a mess at the end of the year. An absolute sobbing, weeping, crying, howling mess. But Michelle, if you read this, I'M SERIOUSLY OVERJOYED THAT YOU'RE FINALLY GOING TO GO TO YOUR DREAM SCHOOL AND I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU AND THAT I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU! :) <3 :=":" p="p">
Okay, so now all that is done, I have to go and wash the dishes and I might blog later about whatever I can think about. :) Bye, you gorgeous examples of homosapiens!

MAARY.

WELCOME WELCOME!

WELCOME TO BLOGSPOT ELLEN! I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE JOINING US! YOU'RE OUR FOURTH BLOGGER ON THIS THING! THE MORE THE MERRIER! I LOVE YOU! AND DON'T WORRY, BLOGSPOT WILL GET EASIER AS YOU KEEP USING IT!  FOLLOW FOLLOW FOLLOW http://tensecondsofinsanity.blogspot.com.au/ AND I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVSSSIEEESS! :D :D :D ELLEN IS MY DAUGHTER SO IF YOU DO BAD THINGS TO HER I WILL NOT HESITATE TO KILL YOU. ANYWHO I'M SO HAPPY I'VE TYPED THIS ENTIRE THING IN CAPS AND I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY SICK OF THE SCREAMING VOICE IN YOUR HEAD NOW BUT OH WELL! HI ELLEN!

Love, your crazy-arse mother

MAARY.

Sveiki!

AHOY THERE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE! :D How are we all? I hope you're doing great because it's great to feel great! :D I'm in quite a happy mood since I've just finished part of the 40 hour famine but more about that later. I'd like to firstly apologise for not blogging for a while, every time I tried to blog something, my mind went completely and then I would proceed to watch Dan and Phil. ;D Even though I haven't blogged in a while, a lot of things have happened since then and I'll try to make up for lost time.

The music teacher made us these cute little frames
as a present! (Sorry I don't
know how to rotate the photo)!

Alritey, so the performance! The performance was actually a pre-open day for our school at the shopping centre and I must say it worked quite well. There were so many amazing talented people at our school that I didn't realise were so amazing! The choir sang beautifully with "The Sound of Music" and it was just so nice to see little old ladies enjoying it. :) The concert band was really cool too, they played a medley of 'Eye of the Tiger' and the Celtic Lullaby or something like that. My performance didn't go too well since I got massice stage fright and couldn't breathe properly during my performance but the support from friends and family made me realise that I really do go to a special school with so many special, beautiful, caring people. And then the performance didn't matter as much.

When we were walking around the shopping centre, a lady came up to us and said "You girls sand beautifully. Well done!" I almost started tearing up because that was such a sweet gesture and :') Also, on the same day, my friends and I helped a lost little girl return to her family. It was just the sweetest thing. Seriously, we felt like we were in some kind of reality tv show called "find my lost daughter" or something. Here's how it went down. Latasha and I were just siting on the bench eating lunch during our break and we saw a couple of kids just playing around. The little girl went with her mum somewhere but when the mum came back, her daughter had gone somewhere. The mum was frantically looking for her daughter, standing on tables and screaming her name and everything because she was only about 6 or 7 and anything could've happened to her. Latasha and I were extremely worried for this little girl but we had to go back to the stage as our break time was over. As we walked towards the escalator, we suddenly saw the little girl standing there and a security guard trying to help her. As I tried to comfort her and walked with her to where her mum was, Latasha, Natasha and a couple other friends ran to tell the mum that we found her daughter. When we got there, the little girl's mum was all "WHERE WERE YOU? I WAS SO WORRIED!" and they did the whole run up and hug thing and we were all standing there in awe of this beautiful moment. It was really a day to remember.

Subject Selection! I finally figured out what subjects I'll be studying for next year! YAYAAAYYY, FINALLY! I'll be studying Biology, Chemistry, Literature (if there's a class running due to the small number of people who want to do it, and if it doesn't run then I'll be doing Drama which isn't so bad), Methods 3&4, Vietnamese 3&4 (hopefully, need to see if I can pass this exam thing) and the compulsory English and Religion. I'm quite happy with that because I'll be doing Vietnamese out of school anyway only one day a week, so I won't have as many subjects as other people. :) I dropped Psychology for Literature because I haven't had the chance to do Literature since Methods 1&2 clashed with EVERYTHING and I know, somehow my gut feeling says I will love it. :D

More ballroom dancing! We had our second ballroom dancing class with our brother school on Thursday and every one was still just as nice and sweet. :) Some of them even remembered my name which was lovely! :) No one is taking it seriously though, we're all just mucking around and having fun which is all that matters because I really couldn't careless if we get marked on 'participation and effort' or not. I'm looking forward to the next class because it's nice properly dance and not just pull out the 'sprinkler move' and the 'Disco Stu move' any time someone mentions the word 'dance.' LOL

40 HOUR FAMINE! Woooooo, I should've done this more often, it's so fun! For the 40 Hour Famine, I decided to give up food, furniture and technology. I started giving up food at 12am Friday and was rewarded with a McDonalds lamb burger from my brother when I finished at 4pm today. I gave up technology at 3am Friday and was able to use technology about 2 hours ago! YAYYAYAYA I still have the furniture one to go though hence I'm sitting on my bedroom floor with lotsa blankets which is actually really comfortable and cosy and I might do this more often. :D I stopped using furniture at 9am Friday when I accidentally slipped up and sat in one of the chairs in homeroom and so I can use furniture again at 1am Sunday. So far, it has been a great experience, I didn't even feel all that hungry despite the fact I had to starve during doomsday. I've probably complained about doomsday enough on this blog so you probably know what I mean. It was fun sitting on the floor during classes and for some weird reason, it even helped me concentrate better as I had no one to distract me. Some of my friends were even nice enough to sit on the floor with me at tutor when we were playing cards. :') And major major props to Anna for sitting on the floor with me for every single class on Friday. If you're reading this, I love you mummy. I'm so proud of you too! And Kimmo, if you're reading this, keep going, do it for the kids! :D We believe in you even if your dad shoves chocolate cake in your face! :D

FRAYNEY FRAYNE FRAYNE! So, the Frayne Speech Festival is next Friday and our school's verse choir is no where near ready but we always pull through eventually. :) I'm very excited for it and I'll tell you more about it when I come back from it. I'm scared if I put anything up here, someone from another school might google Frayne Speech Festival and see all our school's ideas and even though they're not fantastic, we do still have pride for our ideas and it would suck so bad if anyone stole them. :( So, more about that soon! ;D

'Such a story cannot fail to move' Mail on Sunday

BOOKS! LOS LIBROS! SACH! I have to tell you about this book called "A Child Called It." I borrowed this book so I could finish it during the 40 Hour Famine but I basically finished it in one afternoon and bawled until my mother asked what was wrong and so I told her a summary of the book and watched her reactions switch from anger to sympathy to anger to sympathy to ANGER ANGER ANGER and sympathy. The book is part of Dave Pelzers autobiography and he recalls how he was abused by his mother as a young child and it is so disturbing and horrifying that anyone could do that. He was emotionally, psychologically physically abused by his mother and his father is too scared to do anything to stop it from happening. He gets abused so much as his mother says that he is the reason for all their family's problems until he is not even considered a person anymore, he was an 'it.' I won't spoil any more for you because you really need to read it to feel the despair and inspiration and the naivety of a young child. It it actually the third-worst case of child abuse ever in the state of California.There are two other books to Dave Pelzer's autobiography which I am going to borrow immediately from the library when school starts because I know these book will be ones I will remember for a very long time.

More books. This one I haven't finished yet but it's definitely a lot more happier than the one above. It's called 'The Book of (Even More) Awesome' and it just lists and explains the little things in life that make us happy like 'when your hiccups stop' or 'when you go out of your way to step on a crunchy looking leaf and feel the satisfaction of that crunch.' Little awesome things like that. The Ultimate Optimist's book. Which I like to think I am. :) I haven't finished it just yet because I only read it when I'm feeling a little down about the day and it immediately makes me grateful and chirpy again which is AWESOME! I only got the book for $5 too so it was a real bargain. :)

The cover ( I couldn't decide which was prettier)!

The inside

I thought I'd leave you with a baby photo of myself
with Harry Styles hair before it was cool. :D
Ever the trendsetter.

So that was basically everything I was going to talk about today! I hope I made up for a lot of lost time. I'll try my best to blog a little more often and with more pictures too, I'm sure you're getting sick of these lengthy uninteresting posts. So don't worry, I'll try to show you things with various mediums so woo! Anywho, I'm going to go and watch Skins now because it's a teensy bit inappropriate to watch when my parents are home! LOL

Bye! Stay warm, beautiful and AWESOME! :D

MAARY.

P.S: The title means Hello in Lithuanian! :) SUDIE!