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Woah, it's been over a year since I posted in here :S

ANYWAY Eurovision was on over the weekend! This is an event that I look forward to and have been watching for about 8 years now without fail. If you've never seen it, you should definitely get onto that Euro-train. For an example of what Eurovision is all about, try this video out for size:


I'll give you a minute to recover from the awesomeness of what you just watched.

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We good?
Okay ^^ So, here's a bit of a rundown of semi final 1 (like...3 days late!) with the others to follow in a separate posting.

1. Austria- Shine
Her hair is freakin' cool and suits her so well. I like the little "ohoh" in the background and the song
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Tibbers had a difficult morning at the vet yesterday. It was her first appointment with us and she was a little freaked out at actually being out of our back yard to begin with! She had to get 2 shots, a big pill and a nasal spray for various doggy-diseases. She took them well (more interested in the treats she was given to distract her from the actual injection...anyone would think we didn't feed her enough given the speed at which she scoffed them!). We also booked her in for de-sexing in a few months time as per the arrangement for adopting her! She loved the vet himself and kept trying to lick him while he was writing notes on her file. He said it was a good thing that she was so friendly towards people as when she goes in for her de-sexing operation she'd get to see lots of people and it'd make the day a lot more enjoyable for her.

There was a little bit of an issue with another dog
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i forgot what day we're up to >> Maybe I should just change the title to "part 1" and so on!

Tibbers is doing well. She's discovered that she can cool herself down by walking on the side of her water bowl and tipping it over, then rolling in it. Good for her, but it means I have to refill her water all the time >> She gets her final round of shots in about 4 days and then we'll be able to take her outside! Wah-hey! Need to ask the vet about all her worming medication as well (we haven't given her anything and are a little confused about what is written on her vaccination record). Still, she seems healthy enough. She's figured out the art of digging holes in our backyard. I haven't yet decided whether or not to fill her attempted escape route into the neighbours yard or just to let her continue in vain. She finds flies absolutely fascinating and will sit dead still and stare at them until
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I can't believe it's almost been a week since we picked little Tibbers up! There was a very large thunderstorm last night; the weather report has been predicting it for the last 4 days and it FINALLY hit >> I woke up at 3am to the sound of thunder booming outside. My first thought was along the lines of "eep!!", but the second was for Tibbers. We weren't really sure how she'd react to a thunderstorm...would she be petrified and run away scared? Would she just take it all in her stride? I hopped out of bed and darted outside (a little scared myself, I might add) and the dog jumped up to greet me. The sky was a dirty yellow-brown colour and you could clearly see the storm clouds approaching. I picked up Tibbers' pillow, dragged it into the laundry, propped the door open a little (in case she had to go out to do her business at some point) and sat down, leaning against the washing machine,
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Little Tibbers has come a long way since her first whingy day at home! Now she hardly ever cries and whines unless you're standing near to door and she can see you ignoring her! Doesn't even howl at night any more. She's started pulling bits of the garden apart in her boredom (ie. whenever we're not playing with her). Yesterday I heard her bark a couple of times (she's not a very barky dog, so it was a little strange). I crept out to the glass door and peered around the curtains to spy the furry little maniac seemingly being chased by invisible puppies around the shed. Chuckling, I snuck back to my desk. An hour or so later I wandered outside to give her some attention and it was apparent that she'd found a stick somewhere and had torn it to shreds all over the backyard. We're still picking pieces out of the pillow that she sleeps in! What's a little more worrying is that she keeps knock
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Tibbers is doing much better today! She's not howling, whining or scratching at the door nearly as much and she's stopped jumping up on people so much. In fact, most of today she's been sleeping! I was a little worried at first, but she is technically a baby still, so it's not abnormal for puppies to sleep a ton! Just so long as she wakes up to play every now and then. Tibbers didn't howl as much last night either. It only took her a few minutes to become tuckered out and fall asleep outside our bedroom door.

There was a bit of an issue with a tick on her ear this morning. Will found it when giving her a scratch so we got some tweezers out and tried to hold her still to pull it out. Every time we gripped her head she'd squirm, cry and try her hardest to get out of it. We were worried that Tibbers would end up choking herself while we got it off her! Paul, our roommate, eventually grabbed
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Yesterday we picked up our new puppy from the airport. We'd been looking for a while around all of the pet shops in our area but all of the dogs were $600 to $1200 and not the breed that we wanted =/ So we looked online and found a website that listed puppies from an organisation called SAFE (Save Animals From Euthanasia). We found a little puppy we liked the look of, called the lady currently caring for her and she' turned out to be pretty much exactly what we wanted. When we arrived at the airport, the staff brought her out in a little transport cage. As soon as he saw her, Will (my long term boyfriend) said "Hello puppy" and her tail just started whacking against the sides of the crate. That was a good sign! The one thing we were most concerned about, in terms of getting a dog off the internet without meeting it first, was her personality and whether or not she'd be happy and playful
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I'm quite excited at the moment! Flying out to Los Angeles tomorrow for my first visit to the United States. It all started a few months ago when I decided that after 3 years of studying hard that I wanted to go overseas on a holiday before starting work full time. So I dragged The Boy down to a travel agent and 2 days later we'd booked the flights. It was that fast! And now the time to jet off to another country has finally arrived; not that it's the first (and hopefully not the last) time that I get to fly overseas. I've been all over with my parents and even on student exchange in Japan for a month when I was in high school. However, it is the first time I'll be heading to the United States and Canada. I'm mostly worried about the tipping thing...as much useful advice that I get, I don't think it'll really sink in until I'm over there doing it! I just hope I don't mess up and accident
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So, second blog post! Who would've thought I'd write another one? (certainly not me, I can tell you!) Anyway, I was just looking through some old pictures of mine and came across a little gem in my collection. I know that there's this whole stigma about gamer girls and whatnot and how we're all either actually guys or the equivalent of a horses' backside. I like to think I'm not the latter..or the former, come to think of it! I don't want to get into the whole "girls can play games too, GRRR" kind of rant, because it's been done hundreds of times before and frankly, I could be spending that time actually PLAYING games than whinging about playing them!

Erm...well I'm kind of losing track of where this blog post is actually going, or where it was even supposed to go in the first place, but isn't a blog just supposed to be random musing and happenings? Obviously not at a precise second in ti
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So Comic-Con 2011 has just been running and I've been watching a whole bunch of youtube videos of some of the discussions, games and various sights to see. It makes me think...oh boy ,oh boy, do I wish I was there. I know it might sound a little lame but one of my dreams is to one day go to a big comic convention and nerd it out with my fellow geeks. There just aren't opportunities available in my city to actually attend a big convention the likes of which are hosted in the USA. I think the last "big" thing was the guy that played Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter came and signed autographs and that sort of thing just isn't up my alley! I want to talk to the people that live and breathe the industry that I hold close to my heart. The ones that I genuinely care about and have an active interest in. I love to learn and I think that I could get so much out of the experience of a large convention
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