The stuff of Bec

Quick pic

2006-04-19T14:00:00.000+10:00

Here is a pic of bub 3 weeks ago...

Home on the Range

2006-03-31T20:40:00.000+11:00

Well, me and Nick are well and truly settled in our new home and are relishing our lives on the central coast. Well, except to commute! We went to dinner at the local club tonight and watched the sun go down over the lake...what bliss. There were absolutely no boats out on the water despite the perfect conditions and when we asked why there were no boats out there the guy we were speaking to said thats the way it always is. For some reason, people just don't take their boats out on Tuggerah Lake...how bizzarre!

Bub is coming along well. We had our 19 week ultrasound and everything is ok. It bugs me that the ultrasound lady knew what sex it is and we don't but that is the price we pay for not wanting to find out!

XXOO

Feeling Fat...

2006-02-23T21:39:00.000+11:00

Well, the good news is that me and nick have bought a house! Yay, very exciting and very scary considering it meant borrowing a LOT of money from the bank and being in debt forever. It is all very grown up of us. So hopefully we will be relocating to Gorokan on the central cost in the next couple of weeks. I can't wait. Our child is going to grow up to be a gromit. Excellent!

I am now starting to feel fat. If you were to look at me, you would not know i was pregnant, you would just think i was fat. It is a bit depressing actually cause i know i am not fat, other people know i am not fat, but everyone else in the world would just see a pot belly. Poor me! I am also getting heaps of pimples which i have never had before all over my face and my back. Bloody hormones. Plus all the other delightful things that are happening to me which i won't go into now cause i don't want to freak people out or gross them out!

I am still waiting for that 'pregnant glow' to kick in. Oh wait, thats the sweat i had all over me when i almost fainted in the line at Medicare this morning.

It's not actually that bad, I promise!!! :) Just gotta keep on smiling!

Babies and Homes

2006-01-30T08:59:00.000+11:00

Well, last week me and nick went for our first hospital appointment. It was actually quite boring. They took my blood pressure, height and weight and then asked me about my medical history for the next hour while poor nick sat there bored out of his brain! Then they took me aside and asked if i was in an abusive relationship and if i was scared to go home with Nick. All very bizarre but the midwife said she has to ask every single woman that comes in the same things.
So, everything is normal, i am not anaemic like i was when i was a youngster and i have an extremely high immunity to rubella which means i have probably been in contact with someone who has it, lucky i have immunity!

On the home front me and Nick have spent days upon days on the central coast searching for a home to buy. We have an offer in on a house in Gorokan but are being really stuffed around by the agent and it is all getting far too hard so i don't think we'll get that one. We are putting an offer in today for a house in Charmhaven. Its really nice, with slate floors and a big backyeard about 100m from Tuggerah Lake so we'll see how we go.

Everything is happening at once!

big news for the new year

2006-01-15T09:48:00.000+11:00

Well, it has been a while since i last blogged and with good reason. My life has been involved in big changes in the last couple of months! So here it is...I am pregnant. Yep, thats right, me and Nick are scarily about to embark on parent hood. Junior Stewart is due sometime around the 21st of August so in the meantime we are left with the job of finding a home and preparing for its imminent arrival.
I shall keep you updated on 'its' progress.

John Marsden Fun

2005-12-20T10:43:00.000+11:00

I grew up reading the 'Tommorrow When the War Began' series by John Marsden. The first one came out when i was in year 5 and a subsequent book came out for 7 years after that. I loved those books and the antics of Ellie and Co as they survived during a war in Australia. I was so excited to learn while browsing through Borders the other day that John Marsden has actually written more named The Ellie Chronicles. (Although i am slightly behind the eight ball as the first one has been out for a while, but how often do i scour the teenage fiction section?!?). So I am now ripping through the pages of this new book...

Update

2005-12-15T17:55:00.000+11:00

I haven't posted for a while not only due to lack of time but haven't really had anything interesting to write about. I have decided that despite this, i should put something down on paper (?) to keep the momentum of the blog moving along.

Unfortunately, due to work commitments I was unable to see the pantomime. I ran into Tracey and she said it went really well ( can anyone confirm or deny this?).

Christmas is approaching and i am about to venture into Hornsby on this Thursday night to go and see what i can buy with my measley amount of money. Presents aren't important to me this year. It sounds corny but i just want everyone together and happy. Plus i am working at pizza hut on christmas eve and boxing day boohoo!

I will write more when i think of something interesting to write about.

More about me...

2005-11-03T10:35:00.000+11:00

I have taken this survey from a friends blog...(www.butercupyellow.blogspot.com) as I thought it may be interesting to all those who enjoy learning about the wonder that is Bec. If you enjoy the survey I encourage you to post your own...
10 Favourites...
Favourite Color: Don't have one in particular. I HATE orange though...I am particularly over green and yellow at the moment but i think that will pass!
Favourite Food: I am a bandit for carbohydrates. I LOVE pasta and pizza and toast. I don't go into chocolates and stuff.
Favourite Song: Too many to choose from. I am not good at decisions. I love the secret song at the end of Alanis Morrissette 'Jagged Little Pill', 'Blister in the Sun' and am particularly taken with 'Gold Digger' by Kanya West at the moment despite not generally enjoying that type of music.
Favourite Movie: Harry Potters, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Where the Heart Is, and I watched Crash the other day and really loved it.
Favourite Sport: I enjoy playing any sport but don't really enjoy watching it unless its a big event, i am drinking and there are many people involved.
Favourite Season: Summer
Favourite Day Of the Week: Days merge into one when you work 7 days so it varies every week. Gerally the day i have to do the least!
Favourite Ice Cream Flavour: Vanilla
Favourite Time of Day: Bout 7pm on day light savings!

9 Currents...
Current Mood: Pretty good
Current Taste: Green Tea
Current Clothes: 3/4 jeans and a singlet top
Current Desktop Picture: None, but on my computer at nicks i have my cat, zoe.
Current Toenail Color: None, my toenails are too small to bother painting. I ain't much of a girly girl in that respect anyhow.
Current Time: 10:10am, Thursday morning
Current Surroundings: Study
Current Annoyance(s): I should be doing my assignment that i need to get in the post by the end of the day.My room is a mess.
Current Thought: This is great procrastination! Only got to do uni till Monday then its all over (for the year)

8 Firsts...
First Best Friends: Can't remember. Moved around a lot so lost contact.
First movie: I have NO IDEA!
First Screen Name: bec_cheesy
First Pet: When we lived at Pitt Town i had a pony called Cindy. Don't think it was my first pet but definetely the coolest.
First Piercing: Ears
First Crush: I remember having the hots for some year 4 boys in year 3. Dunno, I was always a bit boy crazy!
First Music You Remember Hearing: Dunno, maybe 'Rock a bye baby'?
First Car: 93 Ford Laser Station Wagon till i ran up the back of a 4WD. That was the ultimate shaggin wagon.

7 Lasts...
Last Cigarette: Proud to say it was 30th Oct 2004. Its been over a year since i kicked my chain smoking addiction! Ahhh, clean air.
Last Drink: Sun Night some Fifth Leg semillon, chardonay, savignon blanc. Nice.
Last Car Ride: Last night on the way home from work.
Last food you ate: Toast with vegemite
Last Movie Seen: Crash
Last Phone Call: Just got interrupted by nick saying he was coming round.
Last CD Played: Shannon Noll, Lift. Love the NOll

Have You Evers....
Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends: nope
Have You Ever Broken the Law: Of couse
Have You Ever Been Arrested: Nope.
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Yep.
Have You Ever Been on TV: Yeah, in the Sydney Childrens choir we were always on the tube and used to be on Home and Away heaps as an extra...i even had a line once.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: Yeah, my entire teenage years was spent kissing randoms. one night when i was 15 in manly i pashed 8 randoms. we had a competition. kind of gross looking back on it.

5 Things....
You're Wearing: tshitrt, pants, bra, undies and hair tie
Done Today: Drove home, made breakie, checked email, watched sunrise and went to coles.
You Can Hear Right Now: Radio, dog barking, air conditioner, keys tapping and bugs chirping.
You Can't Live Without: Nick, my dog, my cats, sleep and email.
You Do When You're Bored: sleep, read, surf internet, play with the dog, go for a walk
Places You've Been...Austraia, Germany, England, Queensland and Armidale

3 People You Can Tell Anything To...Nick, my pets and myself
2 Choices...1. Black or White: Black
2. Hot or Cold: Hot
1 Thing You Want to Do Before you die.Be completely comforatble with myself.

Wiz reflections

2005-10-25T12:51:00.000+10:00

Ah, well. It is all over. I feel compelled to sum up the experience.
When you are in a production and actually on stage there is this anticipation where you are excitedly counting down to performance night and regardless of whether the show is good. You get to go to rehearsals and spend time with friends for a couple of nights a week. You have fun no matter what and ultimately you have family and friends who tell you how fabulous you are.
When you are directing...this is completely different. Rehearsals are spent organising people, you are alienated from your peers because you are 'the boss' and even in break you don't really get a break cause there are people asking you questions etc.
So you begin the count down to when it will be over.
The performances come and you are stressed out because if it is shite then everyone will blame you. On the other hand, if the production is good then you stand back and watch all the actors getting the praise while you help clean up the hall. You finally start enjoying yourself on the final day cause you know that there is absolutely nothing you can do to change anything so you may as well sit back and enjoy the show and then bam, it is all over...
So does that explain my bottle of wine in 3 hours??? I really am a piss pot at heart but went so mental when i was in my mid teens that its all old news to me now!
So there you go. XXOO

Ahh, old age.

2005-10-23T01:46:00.000+10:00

It is rather early in the morning, after the friday night performances. I am slightly hungover and am looking forward to a full day of shows...I just felt the urge to comment on something interesting that happened last night...
A number of us went to the RSL after the show and they have a rather crappy duo that plays a whole heap of covers...anyway, I found myself complaining about the noise level. It was ridiculous. Far too loud to have a normal conversation. Then, another member my age joined us and also commented on the noise level.
Oh, how we mature once we hit 23.

What to say?

2005-10-19T20:24:00.000+10:00

Well, after a 2 month absence from my blog, (oops, almost typed bog..that is interesting) i visited it tonight to find it overrun by comments by many a young musical stars and starlet. Requests for more?...what can i say?
Tonight i am at home as Nick is working and i can't be arsed to go round and visit him when he finishes in bout 15 minutes...I should be doing an assignment on about whether Australias defence and foreign policy is a response to Great Britains decline in world power in the twentieth century but yet again, i can't be arsed and i will regret it tomorrow...
In response to Xzander, i am 23, my b'day was on the 2nd October. Always in the midst of show time and very sadly, i spent both my 18th and 21st b'days at a rehearsal, mind you, both VERY drunk. Ahhh, youth.
There is absolutely nothing on tv tonight, Blue Heelers went down the gurgler ever since Tom turned mean and i have watched far too many friends dvds lately so i decided to web surf.
Anyway, loyal readers, that is all for tonight and i will make more of an effort to actually make use of this blog to vent, rant, rave etc to the unsuspecting majority (or minority?)

Wasting Time

2005-07-31T12:03:00.000+10:00

It has been couple of weeks since my last post and life has evened out a bit in terms of my home life. What you can't change you can't change has become a bit of a motto with me recently. I am killing time until i go to work in an hour. Its my first shift by myself at the call centre so i am packing it a bit. But it will be all good. I have decided how inconvenient it is to work from 9pm-midnight. i have spent most of my day just waiting around to go to work!

I feel as though i have taken on too much. With my 3 jobs and full time uni and directing a show i feel a bit pressured at the moment. I know i can handle it all. I just have to breath and work on what needs doing at the present!

Anyone have any tips?

2005-07-14T16:12:00.000+10:00

I still feel really down against the world at the moment...i don't want to be living at home but i just have to think...save, save, save...it will all be worth it in the end. I jut have to look onwards and upwards.
I have the first rehearsal for The Wiz that i am directing on Monday night and I am frantically trying to get myself ready for that in time. I have done my schedule, cast the roles and now all i am waiting for is the scores to arrive so we actually have something to rehearse with. They should be arriving sometime today. Fingers crossed cause they got lost by the courier company last week!!
Farewell xxoo

2005-07-07T20:18:00.000+10:00

I have had a look at a good many other blogs over the past few days and it astounds me what kind of crap everyone is writing about. But yet I find my self doing exactly the same thing...going on about nothing, feeling a sense of excitement that my words are out on the never never for anyone to read...
Today I interviewed some girls for a position in my hairdressing salon. I am not a hairdresser though, god forbid! It astounds me how bitchy the girls can be about the *newbies* and how critical they are of each other in an industry which actually requires them to work as a team. The girls didn't want me to hire one girl because she thought she smirked at her!! How ridiculous. I settled on this one girl so we shall see how she works out...

Initial posting

2005-07-06T11:16:00.000+10:00

Not quite sure what to write here...I feel a bit self concious about my inaugral posting...
I am at Nicks place as I had to set this up there because my computer is far too slow!!!
I will post something when i have something more intereseting to say!!!