Just because

Ugh, I'm going to have the worst posture in the world from slouching over this laptop. But then, at work I had a little sign taped onto my monitor that said, "Sit up straight!!" and I ignored it every single day. I need to start doing core exercises again. I brought a skipping rope and a resistance band and my gym gear with me. And I'm on the top floor of this apartment building, I should start running up and down the eight flight of stairs. I'm pretty sure I'll have a heart attack and die if I do though. After a month of intense walking through Europe I have become so lazy with using the S-Bahn and U-Bahn. Plus side is I know my way around better than I know Sydney!

I'm pretty sure my roommates don't exist. I never see them. I saw Phillip, the animation filmmaker twice... the Australian chick is never here. Probably a good thing they're not here right now, I've got Taking Back Sunday playing full ball and I don't want these cool arty people to know I listen to emo. As soon as they come in I'm going to put on some eccentric jazz music and look all chilled out. Maybe I should go downstairs and buy a packet of cigarettes. Ew no.

So I've been looking up language schools for the past 2 hours and my eyes are shot. So, I am going to make a blog about all the cool clothes I want to buy here in Berlin but can't because I need to live! But oh gosh, they have the coolest clothes here. There are these two shoe stores just down the road from me that sell only vintage shoes. So many boots I want to buy, it isn't funny. Berlin is also the place to buy sneakers; cool tops and second hand dresses. Basically, you could wear anything together and no one would bat an eyelid. Kristi, you need to get back on a plane and see this. You would die... actually maybe it's best you stay put. I'll just send you pictures of things I buy. Mwhahaha! I'll buy you something and you can have it when I come home. Deal?

So on my shopping list are the following:


Coloured jeans, beginning with aqua, then red, then blue... not yellow.



Because they're totally rad.


I have a leather jacket, but a similar dress I found was €70. *chokes*


So my world can be colourful during winter.


Vintage boots to put my colourful legs into.


Not this ugly cardigan, but I want a knitted cardigan that has a Scottish terrier (just one and medium in size) patterned onto it. A girl at work had a blue and white scarf with a Scottish terrier on it and I was ready to run off into the sunset with it.


A military jacket, but not as ugly. I couldn't find one I liked but this is the general look.

Now that's not to mention the books I have on my list. Forget the list of books I vowed to read by the end of 2007. I got half-way through a bunch and never finished them. These were all literary classics and I had this idea that I wanted to read all these books so I could be all astute and widely read... then I realised I didn't actually like these books.

So yesterday was Sarah’s last night in Berlin and instead of hitting up some totally rad club and going crazy, we hit a late night bookstore. Nerds much? Sarah, when she’s not going to uni in foreign countries works at Borders and is the biggest book lover I know. So with her influence, I ended up with six books in my hand ready to purchase them all. I did show restraint and ended up walking away with only two; one a German language exercise book and the other a book called, Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill. It was shortlisted on the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction list, which is a prize only for women authors as it was decided that with other prizes women writers were often being overlooked. So once I finish Twenties Something by Sophie Kinsella I’m going to start that. Then I have P.S. I Love You which Sarah started to read and then bought her own copy because she got so into it, and whenever I'd look over at her while she was reading she always had a little smile on her face. You're too cute, Sarah.

Other books I had in my hands were (which I'll eventually buy... I'm going to spend so much on books, I know it):

About A Boy by Nick Hornby
Who’s That Girl by Alexandra Potter
Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
Boy A by Jonathan Trigell

Two of those are chick lit, which I love. As if anyone doesn't love to escape with a little bit of fluff. I also wanted to buy the book, Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction because I didn’t get it at uni, and I still don’t get it now. What does it mean!

So yeah that’s what I wish I could spend my money on. Yay!

Okay I’m tired.

Night night!