06/04/2007 @ 8:12pm - Minor Updates, The Mars Volta and Stuff

Category: Website, Personal, Other
It's been awhile, I guess. Haven't had much inclination to potter with this place as of late.

I updated a few minor things in the 'Me' section, including adding some pics to the Basics.

Mostly last month and this month I've been obsessing over The Mars Volta, a.k.a The Best Band In The World Ever And You Better Believe It Or I'll Cut You If You Don't.

happy

Ahem. Yes, so, between obsessing over them (and perving at the singer/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala) I haven't been doing much. I've become unmotivated, which is because of said obsessing. It happens, you see.

Going away on Sunday until the 22nd. Lucky me yes Will be enjoying my time away, probably will procrastinate and miss the Internet far too much.

Oh and by the way, the concert I went to last month was good. Not mind-blowingly awesome, but definitely worth it.

So, that's it for now tongue

P.S, updated my Radio Blog!

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22/03/2007 @ 12:36pm - Mini-update

Category: Personal
Not much happening right now. Haven't done anything to the site. Boring, boring!

Tomorrow I'm going away to Auckland for the weekend because I have a concert to go to on Saturday. It's the Rock Star Supernova one. Hopefully it'll be good!
I have to say though, I would trade all my limbs to have been able to see The Mars Volta in Auckland on the 11th of this month. God, that would have made my year! Or made all the years until I could see them next.

Oh well, shit happens. I'll see them next time yes

I just completed my 40 Hour Famine (I had to do it later than I originally planned, due to going away last weekend unexpectedly). It was pretty easy, really. I craved certain foods because I couldn't have any food, but the hunger wasn't bad at all.

Tis all for now!

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06/03/2007 @ 3:49pm - Looking For 40 Hour Famine Sponsors!

Category: Personal
I'm doing the World Vision 40 Hour Famine this year and I need sponsors. I would appreciate it so much if you are able to sponsor me, but if you can't then it's okay. I understand that not everyone has the spare money to do so (or a credit card)!
If you're interested in sponsoring me then keep reading to find out about the 40 Hour Famine, where your money goes and how you can sponsor me.

I'm going to be doing my famine on the official weekend, which is March 16-18. My famine is the No Food one (I can only eat a couple of Barley Sugars at meal and snack times and drink juice and water), but other people are choosing to give up something else, like technology or housing.

My Goal
I'm hoping to raise at least $200, so everyone I ask would need to donate about $10 for me to reach that goal. Obviously you can donate more or less if you like (more would be awesome but I promise I wont hate you if it's less, hehe).

Where Does The Money Go?
World Vision are committed to sending as much as possible directly to the children in need. 75% of the funds will go straight to the World Vision projects in developing countries to give assistance to children and their families. The other 25% is used to cover fundraising costs.

What Your Money Can Do
$8 provides a 'miracle tree' (vitamin rich plant) for a community garden for orphans in Malawi.
$11 provides cups and bowls for five children in feeding programmes in Malawi.
$15 provides hand tools for a household to plant crops and feed themselves in Vanuatu.
$20 provides a child in Afghanistan with school supplies for a year.
$32 pays for a stove in a home in Honduras to enable a family to cook their food safely.
$40 covers the cost of immunising a child in Afghanistan for a year.
$43 pays for the fertiliser needed to grow crops in an eco-garden in Niger.
$75 provides clothes for 20 children in Malawi.
$150 releases a child from bonded labour in India.
$180 provides a teachers salary for a month in a home-based school in Afghanistan.
$321 pays for the construction of a classroom for students in Niger.
$400 provides the bricks needed to build a new home, protected from the chinche beetle, for a family in Honduras.

How You Can Sponsor Me
To sponsor me online go to my Online Famine Book here: http://secure.famine.org.nz/purple_ivy
You can pay by Visa, MasterCard or Amex and people in countries other than New Zealand can sponsor me easier this way.

All currency is in New Zealand Dollars (NZD). Here is a quick currency converter to help you if you need it http://www.forexcenter.net/currency.aspx

Thanks for reading this whole post and I hope you decide to sponsor me and help out some kids in need (and make me feel good for raising money :P)!

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27/02/2007 @ 5:31pm - Oscars, Juicy Star, Images, Moi

Category: Website, Personal, Other
Mood: hungy!
Music: St Germain - Vanessa Paradis

Meep, I'm so sleepy right now! sleep
I stayed up until almost 2am to watch the Academy Awards. It was quite good this year, I thought, because often I find it boring, unfunny and it feels like it goes on and on and on. I'm really pleased they stepped it up and made it feel fresh and contemporary instead of this old, boring, blah, crap thing.

I'm happy with who won, though I would have liked to see Leonardo DiCaprio take home best actor. (Wasn't he just so bloody gorgeous, too?? exclaim )
I didn't see Dreamgirls and don't plan to, so I can't comment on Jennifer Husdon. What an amazing story she has though, coming out of no-where to win Best Supporting Actress!

Anyway, in other news, haven't finished moving images over to Photobucket yet, but got all the icons done. I just have Walk Of Fame and Ziegfeld ones to go.
Added some new pixels to Juicy Star.

Have been doing maths all day. It's not that bad but it's tiring! lol

I'm so hungry right now, seriously, shocked Need food. We're having nachos, I think.

Ugly Betty is on tonight. I love that show, it's friggin awesome!

I was gonna say something else, but I forgot. Typical yes

I have alot of reading to do. Went to library yesterday and got a tone of books out. Good luck to me...

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23/02/2007 @ 11:38am - Home, Disk Space

Category: Website, Personal
Hihi, I'm back from my holiday. Had a great time and miss all my family like crazy already.

I'm running out of disk space for my site, so at the moment I'm weeding out everything I don't need, so basically anything uploaded that I'm not using but nothing will change about the site and it's contents. What you see if what it will remain!
I'm also going to host all the graphics elsewhere as this will free up space considerably. Hopefully it'll be enough to last until I renew my hosting in June and can upgrade to a larger plan. Fortuntely my host is awesome and wont cost me my arm and possibly a leg tongue

That's all for now kiss

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29/01/2007 @ 10:23am - Ciao & New Pixel Site

Category: Website, Personal
Last week I got an itch to make a cute site to house my adoptable pixels, scribbles and CGs.

So I know bring you Juicy Star!


Yay!

Apart from that, tomorrow I am going away and I wont be back until around February 21st or something.

Toodles!

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25/01/2007 @ 11:45pm - Updates and Other Suff

Category: Website, Personal
I've finally got round to updating the layout page, so if you're wanting more info on the current layout as well as past ones, go here.

You'll also notice that I've added a bunch of banners to my splash (index) page. These are things I support and I hope that people might take a look at those sites and such. I don't know if it ever works, but at least I'm broadcasting what I support and that's all I really care about.

I don't talk much about veganism or animal rights here. I should, really. It's so important to me it's a shame I don't write about it more, especially since this is public.

I'm getting more interested in environmental issues as well, especially now that a meat-based diet and agriculture is found to heavily contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.
If you'd be interested in learning more about this then I suggest the following two articles as a starting point:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060413.diet.shtml
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/vegetarian-is-the-new-pri_b_39014.html

I'm also going to post an article here, about studies that have shown Global Warming will happen faster and be far more devastating that we thought, which you can read if you go to "Read More" at the bottom of this post.

I think that's all for now.

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22/01/2007 @ 2:21pm - Cutenews

Category: Website, Personal
I decided to switch the blog over to Cutenews. It'll be more efficient for archives and such.

All the old blog entries can be located by going to 'Old Blog Archives' under the Archived menu on the sidebar. I was originally going to enter them into the Cutenews database but decided against it as it'd take too long, plus Cutenews seems to dislike backdating posts. As you can see below, the entry says it was posted on 3/01/2007 at 6:35am. I actually posted it on the 2nd at 11:35am...

Anyway, I've also added a Current thing to the sidebar. Feeling, reading, eating, etc. I think they're fun :)

Umm, I think that's it in terms of big things. I've updated some pages, taken some away, etc.

I want to make more things for people to download. I'm in the mood to scribble, so maybe I'll start some of those.

I'm going away on the 30th of this month and wont be back until February 21st or something. My Dad is turning 50 and he's having a big party up in Auckland. Mum and I spending more time there also because my eldest sister is taking my nephew (who'll be 1 on Feb 2nd) to Iran to meet his other grandparents and the rest of his Dad's family. I'm glad they're going to see everyone, but at the same time I'm half terrified my sister will prefer Iran to here (I know she loves it so much already) and wont come home. It makes me tear up just thinking about being so far away from them, even if it turns out be only a couple of months or something. I get along really well with her and of course I adore Romeo more than I can express, soooo, having them not around will be tough, especially if they do decide to stay there for alot longer. crying
At least my other sister and nephew and my brother aren't going overseas. I'm so possessive of my family - I want them to always be here or wherever it is I am! lol

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03/01/2007 @ 6:35am - Happy New Year

Category: Website, Personal
MOOD: Happy
MUSIC: Plush - Stone Temple Pilots

Yes indeedy, it's 2007. So first of all, Happy New Year to anyone reading this. I hope you had a very enjoyable and safe time. Mine was uneventful and actually rather quiet, which was fine with me for the most part.

I would like to take the time to thank everyone who's visited PrettyBloomers over the last two and half years. I can't believe it's been that long!
2007 is going to be a busy one for me. I will be studying towards my NCEA levels, which, because I missed out on alot of high school when I was supposed to be in school, is going take a few years to complete. I will get it done, even if it takes that long. After that I plan on studying veterinary science to become a clinical vet, probably specialising in mixed practice and wild animals. Anyway, all these ambitions and plans mean that I wont have a whole of time to spend on PrettyBloomers during 2007 and beyond. I do plan on keeping it open and renewing my domain name and hosting for this year, but as for many updates, don't count on it!
I have not deicided if I will change anything around here. Make it small or something. That will come later, perhaps.
I am a bit saddned to know that this site will be practically dead, but I'd rather it still be around anyway, because I've worked so hard and had so much fun with it that I can't bring myself to close it completely.

This year I am also planning on spending less time on the Internet in genral. It can be so addictive that I often find it difficult to get things done when the temptation to be online is so strong. It wont be easy at first, but I'll wean myself off it slowly.

Apart from studying, I have some other goals I'll be working towards this year.



Those are a few cheers

So, dear reader, I hope your 2007 brings everything you hope it does and more, and that you have the strength and courage to overcome any obstacles thrown your way.
Take care, be happy, be safe, have fun!

I'll be around, but I wont be so much. If you need to get hold of me for some reason, don't hesitate to drop me an email: purple3ivy[AT]gmail[DOT]com

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