Bellez experiences technical difficulties

   Mostly, the laptop's fucked. This is a shame as I was going to write a lovely detailed blog post about Summer Gathering but I'm putting it off until I get my laptop fixed. And I'm  not sure when that will be. The screen's had it, and needs replacing, which could work out cheaper than getting a new laptop.  And I'm poor.

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So I've temporarily borrowed my dad's laptop (with no internet access, so its off to an internet cafe later) to type this and do the lovely pictures (see above) because I decided I need to blog more this year, and I'm not going to let a silly thing like no technology stop me. 

   So what have we got coming up in 2012 once technical difficuties are resolved?

Summer Gathering 2012- it was fabulous, and I have a lot to write about

Further bitchy poetry- huzzah!

A how-to guide- or how not-to, rather

Part two of my comprehensive list of fucked up shit on the internet- this time with a messed up porn theme (cheers Gareth McMullen for doing the  research for me, I wasn't looking forward to doing it myself.)

More contextless MS Paint pictures

A possible ongoing fiction series- no promises though

Products nobody needs

Terrible life lessons I've learnt from my childhood

Keep in mind these are all just ideas, and I'm open to suggestions from my readers. Also I've somehow managed to con Dom into doing some co-writing with me on here. And it should be interesting, to say the least.

Happy 2012!

"Productive" Things I've Done Lately

1. Not got into uni. Apparently I didn't quite get U.E because my music credits for composition were never recorded. Having done an extra year of high school, I really can NOT be bothered right now. Not sure what to do. Kinda relieved though. I didn't really want to in the first place...

2. Stalking my boyfriend on Facebook. Because dammit, he lives in Auckland and that is as much of a legit excuse to stalk him as ever. Sometimes when I get really, really bored, I'll even go onto his ex's profile and stalk all the pictures of him with her that he untagged himself from because at least I can pretend she's not in them. Yes, I'm aware this is pathetic. I'm in a long distance relationship. Gimme a break.

Here's a cute pic of us together, to prove I'm not entirely pathetic.

3. Made some garlic soup. It was delicious. Recipe here, I tend to leave out the bread (I hate bread in soup, the texture makes me feel ill) and add a dash of cream. Lovely.

4. Ate my mother's recent invention, whiskey tiramisu. And then washed it down with more whiskey, because she found you can buy little 50ml bottles of the stuff. Awesome!

Who's a cute little bottle of joy? YOU'RE A CUTE LITTLE BOTTLE OF JOY!

5. Contemplate blogging. I've got some cool ideas. This is not one of them. I'm just ranting.

6. More tiramisu and/or whiskey, because I'm pretty upset that I'm not going to uni and I'm unsure about what I want to do with my life now. Not that I was so keen on that plan anyway, but at least it was something productive to work towards. I need to keep myself occupied, or I find myself getting very lonely and depressed and next thing you know I've gone and emptied another jar of nutella and I'm whining about it on here. I'm glad Summer Gathering 2012 is coming up. Should keep me busy for a week.

7. Go on r/aww and look at cute things until I feel a little better.

8. Go on r/ginger and get an inflated sense of self esteem.

9. Realise I am on Reddit and thus being the opposite of productive.

10. Sigh.

11. Stare morosely out the window until I realise that holy wow, that poor pigeon outside has only one leg. Feel grateful I am not a pigeon. Feel a little better about my life. Watch pigeon fly away and taunting me with its powers of flight. On the other hand, if I had the power of flight I still wouldn't go anywhere. I'd still be lazy and depressed and not very motivated. I have the power of walk, but I'm not really using that either.

   Sorry, this is what happens when I am an unhappy chappy. Hope to resolve this soon. 

Ugly Dresses

   This isn't so much of a blog post as it is a chance for me to say that I just discovered my new favourite website (you know, other than Reddit) that will keep me more occupied than Wall Street.

http://uglydress.com/

AWWW YEAHH.

   It's like I have an inner fashionista gay man who just wants to bitch about what everyone's wearing. And this site is perfect for it.

   Well, if I don't update my blog often, you know where to find me.

Assorted Thoughts

   So tonight my internet's down, which means I can't mess around on Reddit and Facebook until three in the morning. I can't sleep, my little brother's stopped txting me back, and I've already watched The Lion King three times in a row, and played solitaire until it's almost all I can think about. So I decided instead to be productive and revisit and add to this old blog post that I started writing probably around July last year. Enjoy.

• Slightly amused by the writing on the desk on the study room I’m working on. There’s a lovely message written on it: “Just be yourself!” “But what if I’m a toaster?” That would be a terrible situation to be in.

• I hate sour cream and chives flavoured chips- unless they’re grain waves, their sour cream and chives is amazing. There is no point to sour cream and chives Pringles, however. It’s all the anticipation of a delicious Pringle with all the disappointment of sour cream and chives flavour.

• How much of the internet is porn? Actually? I've heard estimates that its over 75%. Holy wow, that is a lot of titties. Pornography is such a huge industry that it's entirely possible that someone I know is in it. I don't ever want to find out though.

• Oh my goodness my legs are hairy. Shaving legs is probably the most tedious thing in the world and I will refuse to do it if possible. Thank god for pale body hair, because at least that helps diguise the fact that I have a veritable Amazonian jungle growing upon my legs. I've been hiding them with tights and jeans lately, but they're looking pretty scummy at the moment. I'll have to shave them soon. Damn.

• I think I prefer being a blogger than being a vlogger. Before I started Probably not Sane I briefly contemplated vlogging instead, but between editing  and trying to find the time and also reliable technology (both of which I am really bad at) I decided blogging would be easier. Plus I am self concious and would spend forever trying to make myself look prettier for my vlog. You don't have to look pretty when you're blogging. Right now I'm wearing a shirt that does not fit correctly, no makeup, hair needs a wash, and as I've mentioned above, my legs are very hairy because I hate shaving them. Also I'm in my bedroom which is a complete mess. There is nothing sexy about this.

• I feel like I should post a recent picture of me looking attractive so I can prove that I'm not a total slob. Here ya go. This is me on New Year's.

Yeah, the room's still a mess in the picture but it's not my room so it's ok.

• Why the fuck did I start playing solitaire again? It's not even remotely entertaining. I mean, I could play Minesweeper instead.

• I'm not very good at Minesweeper. That's why I'm playing solitaire.

• Why on earth are the neighbours letting off fireworks? It is 2:42 in the morning. Looks like I won't be sleeping tonight. I can't even see the fireworks very well from my bedroom window either.

• It's been a while since I've done posts full of MS Paint pictures. I don't use it as often as I used to, and I haven't been on Paint Avant Garde since July or so. I really should create something .

2011 Overview

   First of all, I'm very sorry I haven't blogged in ages. I do remember I was meant to do a Christmas special for you all, about a traumatic childhood incident which involved a Christmas decoration which unintentionally resembled an attempted suicide, but then I had to cook for my family and I spent a majority of the time putting the "merry" into Merry Christmas, so it did not eventuate.

   I also wanted to do a thing at the end of every year to sum up the events of the previous year, but then I got distracted by a new year's eve party. Here's a picture of me looking pretty in a dress beforehand to make up for the delayed content.

Actually it's me and Hannah, because here at Probably not Sane we like to give the reader value for money. Except for the money bit. I'm a bit broke at the moment.

 
   Anyway, delayed or not, here's my overview for the events of 2011.

• We occupied and protested everything.

 
   This started with the revolutions throughout the middle east and is currently ongoing with the Occupy movement, which is protesting against corporate greed. Although it started as Occupy Wall Street, it has since spread globally, as far south as Occupy the Octogon in Dunedin. It has led to a cringeworthy amount of jokes using the phrases "occupy"- ("Hey babe, can you occupy the kitchen and make me a sandwich?") "1%" and "99%", but it has also changed people's attitudes and opinions around these issues. I don't think that this was just a 2011 fad that will lose popularity this year. The movement is strong, has a lot of support, and there are a lot of people willing to continue protesting. As an aside, here's a lovely picture of some cool people I met at Occupy Auckland. We temporarily acquired a rat from them.

• The bad guy is killed and a prince marries a commoner, temporarily turning the world into a Disney movie.

   Almost ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Osama Bin Laden was finally found and killed this year. Well, unless you listen to the conspiracy theorists, but that's something else together. In other news, the royal wedding was, if the hype was to be believed, the event of the year. Certainly the tabloids had a field day. I admit, I wasn't going to watch it live, but Jordan was staying at mine that night and asked if we could. We spent a majority of the evening checking out Pippa Middleton's very lovely backside, as did the rest of the world, apparently.

• Natural disasters

   There was the devasting Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami and, a little closer to home, Christchurch, already damaged  from the September 2010 quakes, was hit again in February, this time sadly taking lives. Aftershocks are ongoing, including a particularly bad one just before Christmas.

• In more positive news...

   We won the Rugby World Cup again, at last, which was something of a relief as Pharmac would probably not be able to fund enough antidepressants for the entire country had we lost the final to France. In contrast to this, the fact that we hosted the event put New Zealand into party mood, and people were even celebrating and happy in Dunedin, of all places.

This photo could  be biased journalism, however, as although he is happy, he clearly isn't even from Dunedin, but is in fact from Argentina.

• Bellez learnt that it is hard to sustain a quality blog and have an active social life.

   Which may explain some of my more mediocre and/or downright appalling (see: Christmas in October) posts this year. On the other hand I wrote some posts that I am extremely proud of, so there is also that.

• The Foo Fighters played an absolutely amazing show in Auckland this year.

   Actually, they played two shows, and if the second one, which I attended, in the rain nonetheless, was anything to go by, the first was pretty badass too. The crowd was huge- around 50 000 people, which Dom thought looked pretty cool from where we were sitting on a muddy slope. (Having paid for myself, Dom and William, I could sadly only afford the cheaper tickets. But it was so worth it that I didn't care.) The show was probably one of the best concerts I'm likely to ever go to, and the next day in town I bumped into the drummer, Taylor Hawkins, while crossing a street, which is the most fangirl moment I've ever had. Here's a photo Dom tried to take of the crowd and the stage, but by then it was so dark you can't see very much. 

• I finally got back in contact with my brother.

   After about two and a half years, I finally heard from my older brother William, and I spent a lot of time this year staying with him in Dunedin until he moved to Auckland in late September- though I made sure I spent plenty of time with him again when I went up in December. If I could pick a predominant memory of 2011, it would probably have to be bussing between Queenstown and Dunedin because it feels like I pretty much did that all year. I am so grateful to be back in contact with him and I think its cool that we can talk and get along well even after so long. My brother is the shiz.

   Anyway, that's how 2011 panned out for me, and again I apologise for the delay, but here's to happy blogging in 2012.

Probably not Sane would like to wish you a happy and prosperous New Year, despite the fact that the economy's fucked and so are we.