It is cold. Oh so cold.
South Easterly winds blow directly from Antarctica to New Zealand and bring a cold that, although it's only 0 degrees out, will chill you to the bone.

On the bright side of this it means it's ski season. The mountains are much different in New Zealand, 500 meters of slope means a 5 minute gondola ride to the top with a 5-10 minute ski down. There are no trees to separate the runs, just rolling hills of white.

On the other side; my house is freezing. It seems New Zealand doesn't have/believe/want central heating. So I am meant to rely on the miniscule heat that pumps out of my poorly constructed fire each night. I am so cold.

I find it weird that while it was summer here and winter back home I didn't mind it so much, I could look at peoples status updates and laugh to myself about how nice it was here. Now I read about beer on patios, summer on the lake, the Seahawk going on its maiden 2009 voyage, and I begin to feel the tinge of jealousy. Summer walks, and enjoying beer in the summer of Victoria is something I will always enjoy.

I miss going to shows in the summer.

Other then that everything is going great here but I am becoming more and more exhilarated as I count down the time till my travels recommence. As of now I have 11 weeks left in New Zealand.

Then it's 5 weeks in Australia.
10 weeks in China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Then it's an indefinite amount of time in England.

I'd like to be home to see some of the Olympics, but at this point I just don't see that happening.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me, for you!

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year. No guarantees when, it will be a total surprise!
- You have no clue what it's going to be. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. Uh, but if you're my friend, you should kind of know this already.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost, and repost right away.

Three Names you go by:
1. Kirsten
2. Harris - this started after the 2 Kirsten's in ACP
3. Lady

Three Parts of Your Heritage:
1. German
2. Scottish
3. Canadian

Three Things That Scare You:
1. Earthquakes!
2. Volcanoes (thanks New Zealand for being a scary natural disaster zone!)
3. Spiders

Three of Your Everyday Essentials:
1. Music
2. my camera
3. laughing

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Sandles or "jandles" if you want to get into the NZ slang
2. Jeans
3. a watch

Three of Your Favorite Songs Right Now:
1. Sex is on Fire - Kings of Leon, ... just doesn't get old
2. that stupid "Disturbia" song, not cuz I like it but it reminds me of the british and good times
3. We used to Vacation - Cold War Kids

Three Things You Want in a Relationship (other than Real Love):
1. Laughter
2. Affection
3. Laughter

Two Truths and a Lie (in any order):
1. I miss home
2. I'm scared I won't be able to find a job in Queenstown
3. THERE ARE NO DILL PICKLES IN NEW ZEALAND!

Three PHYSICAL Things about the Opposite Sex that Appeal to You:
1. Tattoos
2. Scruff
3. Eyes

Three of Your Favorite Hobbies:
1. Photography
2. the Internet
3. Random Triva...

Three Things you want to do really badly right now:
1. Eat at Furgburger.... again.
2. Get a Job!
3. Make Shauna come to New Zealand

Three Places you want to go in your lifetime:
1. Thailand
2. Japan
3. Russia

Three Things You Want to Do Before You Die:
1. Learn to Surf
2. finish this survey
3. honestly I've crossed off about 2/3 of this list in the past month and 1/2! I need to start a new one

Three Things you are currently avoiding/dreading doing:
1. finding a house/flat
2. finding a job
3. checking my bank balance

Three Things you are looking forward to:
1. bed
2. one day the possibility of eating a dill pickle again
3. mmmm... dill pickles...

I've finally updated my website and my splash page no longer says "Falling Satellites.com coming soon" (uh yes.. soon as in 2 years later)

I don't know why it took me 2 years and moving out of the country to do it, but it did.
Anyways here is my new online portfolio...
Falling Satellites.com

feed back appreciated!

Let it die and get out of my mind
We don't see eye to eye
Or hear ear to ear

Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss
And see this for what it is
That we're not in love

The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start

It was hard to tell just how I felt
To not recognize myself
I started to fade away

And after all it won't take long to fall in love
Now I know what I don't want
I learned that with you

The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start



please feel free to come browse my new Wordpress, it is where I will be moving for my travel blog. I will most likely still be updating good 'ol Livejournal (as I've had it for 8 years!!) but travel goodness and things I don't want to be on private will be on Wordpress.

http://dekanerab.wordpress.com/

bookmark and love me.

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

I'm in a mood to watch Garden State... we all know what this means.

All of a sudden everything that has been piling up on me has gotten too big for me to hold up any longer.
Now I've dropped it all on my feet.

If I'd just dropped one or two things at once it probably wouldn't hurt so much, but I was carrying a lot, and now my feet hurt too much to walk by myself.

No one is around to help me pick up the pieces; I keep calling, but you're too busy, too pre-occupied, you have your own stuff going on. Hello?


Someone broke into my car and stole all my CD's.
Talk about tip of the iceberg.
I'm sick of being someone else's Placebo.

I ordered my new computer on Wednesday; 2.4ghz 4g of ram and a 7200s Hard drive
*refresh*
and Fedex tracking is such a blessing and a
*reresh*
curse.
My Computer seems to be hung up in...
*refresh*
...yes, still in Shanghai,
*refresh*
Shanghai,
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Shanghai,
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Shanghai,
*refresh*
Sigh.
*refresh*
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*refresh*
Shanghai.

and who said that Barenaked Ladies weren't rock stars?

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20080715%2fpage_arrest_080715

it's a hardknock life guys...

Stolen from ouiparapluie from the beta test of Singal Patterns

probably the truest personality quiz ever.

( Kirsten in 10 words )

other things that sum me up:


Also:

I was minding my own business, you know. Just looking at some prices of flights, and stumbled across this...
Look where Flight Centre can take you now!

click all countries/continents read though the list.

Keep reading... keep reading.
That's right... right at the bottom there.
Space?

Since when can I book my "next adventure to SPACE" though flight centre?!

If only I had $30,000.

Lately I've been smiling more, I've been laughing more, I've been joking more, I've been getting out more, I've met more people, and all-in-all I've been more myself then I have been for 2 1/2 years.

I'm not sure what stopped me from being me, but I can defiantly pin down a few road blocks I've come to in that time that have caused me to be stuck in this rut I did not even know I was in.

I'm sure if you've known me in the last 3 years, and if you have been around me lately you would agree in an instant that this recent change is palpable.

I don't know what started first; my fear of failure or my failure to create.
I did the one thing I vowed I'd never do and let others thoughts and opinions crush my own. Dejected and disheartened my dreams died; I slunk away from my talents. Defeated. If it's possible for creativity to be be suppressed and forgotten, then I'm guilty of that.

Out with my creativity went my originality, zest, humor and eventually my spirit.

I don't know what has changed or what is different from today to that last 27 months 3 weeks 4 days 8 hours 47 minutes and 13 seconds of my life, but it has, and I love it.

I have been doing design, making vectors again. The thrill and gratification of my first completed vector in 1.5 years made my heart race. The exhilaration is back. I am back.

In with my creativity come my originality, zest, humor and spirit. Rejuvenation.

I've been doing photography again. I bought a new lens months ago hoping to stir something inside me, but nothing came. Now I have this insatiable desire to capture anything and everything.











Genuinely I am happy with myself again. I have not one complaint about where I am or where things seem to be going. I catch myself smiling at the stupidest of things, then I think about it and realize that it's the stupidest of things that make you smile the most. This makes me smile. That makes me laugh.

Everything is coming up Kirsten.

I am lucky to be able to surround myself with some amazingly talented individuals who have stimulated my thoughts and rejuvenated me.


It seems I've been making all the right mistakes.