And home tomorrow.
This trip has been all the feels. I love my best friends so much and katee, you were very missed.
I am ready to go home to the husband and the pumpkin though. I just wish these amazing women lived a whole lot closer so I didn’t have to feel so sad about leaving.
Did you hear, did you hear that thunder. You better run. You better take cover.
(I can’t believe I didn’t have to google those lyrics)
Or it might be an article from The Onion. It’s getting harder to tell all the time.
Perth, Western Australia is THE MOST AMAZING CAPITAL CITY in Australia (disclaimer: have not been to Canberra or Adelaide). I actually want to come live here. I thought I just wanted out of Australia but Perth is beautiful and amazing and everyone is laid-back and sweet and helpful. And the shops are just too cute and fun and ALL THE GEEK SHOPS.
Seriously.
When I get home there shall commence a campaign to convince my husband that he’s always wanted to work in Southern Western Australia.
I’m only half-joking.
I know I promised lots of updates once we got to my friend’s house and I haven’t really delivered and I love how many of you care about what’s going on and where I am and how much fun I’m having.
Some of you know a bit about what’s going on because you follow the friend I’m staying with for this part of the trip, but most of you don’t, and it’s really none of anyone’s business, which is part of the reason I haven’t been talking. I don’t know what to say to her so I don’t know what I’m going to say to all of you.
Suffice it to say, it’s a really bad time to be visiting. That said, the other friend who flew in and I are having the best time we can, and trying to be the least inconvenient we possibly can be in this second half of our trip.
But I really do love all of you and I’ve been really crap at keeping up with tumblr too, because a lot is going on, obviously. But tumblr meet-ups, even at the worst of times, are still amazing.
In perth with Lara and having a blast! We are, however missing Sarah ferociously, but we will see her on Sunday.
Internet is not free so less postting but I promise more when we hit Albany :)
Highlights include: Trying to catch a bus to Supnova and being forced to wander the mean streets of Nedland whilst considering selling our bodies to escape… In between admiring the amazing houses.
And
Seeing random gas outlets in the opening ceremony and deciding the ‘freaking nazis’ were going to genocide awesome.
And
‘forget storybrook, maine, once upon a time happened in perth!’
We love perth so much its beautiful and amazing and everyone is super nice!
Perth is amazing. The city is so beautiful and surprisingly clean. And at night the buildings light up with changing multicoloured lights. I love the mix of old and new buildings - and the way that at times the old frontage stands while the new is built in behind it.
And being here with Lara is amazing. She is so awesome and I cannot get over it. There is zero awkwardness.
Last night we shared a bottle of wine and ate frozen weightwatchers meals on the enclosed balcony in our pajamas. AMAZING.
Edit: this hotel bed is the best one I have ever had and the flight here was one of rthe best flying experiences I have ever had. I even gort a free flight change so I could leave hours earlier!
And Sarah will be here at lunch time! And Supanova is tonight!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
returntoyourfirstlove replied to your post: astrid—farnsworth replied to your post: LARA this…
I love katee. She’s one of my favourites because i love her. Lets start a “fly katee to Australia” fund!! :)
This is a thing now.
astrid—farnsworth replied to your post: LARA
this time tomorrow katee will be sobbing in a corner.
KATEE! I love you :-(. I WISH YOU WERE COMING.
Sarah is right, we should video chat you.
And then I’m going to save to fly you to Australia.
This time tomorrow we will be together for the first time ever!!!
So I’ve just realised I’ve got dreams that won’t die and my excuses are that it’s too big to happen and I’m too small to make it happen and that just doesn’t seem good enough.
I’m not average. I’m not small. So why am I acting like that?
I need to chase my dreams and be brave enough to chase them.
I can do this.
Would be if Katee were coming too.
I LOVE YOU KATEE-MONSTER.
Seriously though - tumblr meet up at Perth Supanova!
Yes, I know it is Tuesday and my plane leaves on Thursday.
But I like being organised okay?
Mal just punched Jayne…
Except…
Castle just punched Slaughter.
My arms were in the air way too long after the initial squee to be okay.
Didn’t even pack everything.
7.3kg.
There’s a 7kg weight limit on carry-on luggage.
Effing shoes (cosplay requires specific footwear. I am normally the girl who packs one pair of shoes and is okay with that).
Oh well, it’s only an extra $20 to get checked luggage.
I guess the final weight of my luggage will be… 7.8kg.
Before Supanova. I refuse to speculate on the weight after for shame reasons.
I am beautiful.
It is true. A real world true fact. I am beautiful.
And I will say it in my head until it is true there too.
And I will not worry about having alienated friends through my awkwardness, awkwardness they denied seeing and are now offended by. Because that’s life and not everyone understands. And that’s okay. Because I’m amazing and interesting and funny and I am worth the crap I put people through most of the time. I am a true friend, loyal and generous. I might say things badly sometimes, but I’m not vindictive, spiteful, or cruel. My brain will always be wired differently. If people can’t accept that, can’t accept me, are they really the people I want to be around? Are they really worth my stress? Or my heart? No. So I’m going to stop letting them be.
I’m not perfect. And I’m pretty messed up. But I’m worth the effort. Or, at least, I’m pretty sure I am.
SO NERVOUS.
But today I will pretend I am brave and confident and unafraid.
Because I am sick of the look that my husband gives me when I cry because I can’t hear the nice things he says over the bad things on repeat in my head. I hate the look he gets when he feels so defeated because he feels like there is nothing he can do to fix it. And I hate myself more when I see it because he loves me so much and I’m doing this to him.
I had an awful day.
Well, it was fine. Until about 2:30 when my grandma who I love and whose opinion matters to me made me cry.
I am now even more full of self loathing than I was yesterday.
I’ve just left my phone in my car because I can’t handle anything that would come from it.
Now I’m watching Mean Girls because we couldn’t decide what else to watch.
