5 posts tagged “fortune telling”
Today I had my interview for my internship. It was quite stressful since I didn't know what was going on for half the time. Basically we're going to see how I go with the language skills I have now, but if they're not good enough I'll do some more intensive language classes in the mornings and work in the afternoons.
I sometimes wonder if I was insane to choose to do this. However stressful any internship would have been, this is only about 500 times worse - I hate not being able to communicate., to have people talk about me when I'm sitting right there and be unable to explain what I'm thinking or feeling. I want so much to be able to talk! and of course to be able to listen as well. For someone as talkative as me it is one of the most frustrating experiences I've ever had.
Okay! now the good news. On Sunday night we went out for dinner in trastevere. I love the area, it's so pretty down by the Tiber, but it's got to be one of the most frustrating places to get home from. Every time we try to do it something goes wrong. This time we got the metro, but we accidentally missed our stop and had to walk about 5 kms in the dark before we could get the night bus home.
It was a lovely restaurant though, with beautiful fairy lights strung up outside, and the most delicious tiramisu. It was called Trattoria Da Lucia.
Before dinner, we saw an older woman offering fortunes in one of the squares and so I got one! Basically she had two budgies - Antonio and Roberto. You held one and talked to it, and then it hopped onto a little perch and picked out a slip of paper with your fortune on it. Mine said:
You're a highly respected lady by those who surround you. You hold a secret that only you know. you're very honest, and you like to live your life to the fullest. You'll receive a large sum of money from a distant relative. you'll live 97 years.
Bring on the distant relative I say!!
You know when you go out on friday night, which makes the whole weekend seem like a billion times longer?
well Jasmine had her farewell on friday, I met her after work for drinks at the hotel where she works. Then we met the girls at Crystal Bar, Martin place, and had pizza, cheese and a really nice L'Abruzzo red. Afterward we went to Martin Place bar for more cocktails and dancing to Mickey J. I can't believe the king of pop is really gone. If anyone ever asks me what I was doing the nightMichael Jackson died, I can tell them I was dancing to 'Blame it on the Boogie' in a bar in Martin Place. We got home around midnight, and then...
Saturday
Anna and I did a massive clean of the house - vaccuum, mopping, laundry, everything - so that my parents will come home to a really nice tidy house on wednesday. We went out for coffee at Centennial Park cafe, which has such a nice view, it's really been designed to make the best of the landscape.
Sunday
Anna and I had breakfast at Spicer Street Cafe in Woollahra, which was quite nice, I preferred her egg and bacon roll with cheddar and mayonaise to my organic porridge with strawberries, brown sugar and rhubarb, since mine was a bit too cold.
Afterward, I read the paper and had a nap, and then I met Celia for dinner.
We had thai, and OMG they have fortune cookies now! mine said:
a thrilling time is in your immediate future
woohoo! I hope they mean good thrilling, not bad thrilling!
This morning I was sitting on my laptop and a lady beetle landed on my hand and clambered all over me. Then, this evening, just a minute ago, the same thing happened, except that the patterns were different, so clearly it was not the same beetle.
I just wiki'ed folk law surrounding ladybugs, and here is what it said:
"In parts of Northern Europe, tradition says that one's wish granted if a ladybird lands on oneself (this tradition lives on in North America, where children capture a ladybird, make a wish, and then "blow it away" back home to make the wish come true). In Italy, it is said by some that if a ladybird flies into one's bedroom, it is considered good luck. In central Europe, a ladybird crawling across a girl's hand is thought to mean she will get married within the year."
So hopefully, TWO lady bugs will bring me luck, and/or at least a stable relationship, if not a more lasting commitment, lol!
What else? I paid for my insurance this afternoon - so I am officially almost $900 poorer than I was this morning.
Oh yeah. Weird moment this morning - I had the radio on, and Kings of Leon were playing, so I changed the station. I'm really hating KOL at the moment since they remind me of W. But the station I changed over to was playing Sarah McLaughlin, which reminds me of my OTHER ex from the same suburb (#3). And I couldn't help but feel like everything was conspiring to remind me of that area, and those people.
I think that's it from me for now! I have more trashy romance dvds to watch! (Tonight's selection? The importance of being Ernest with Colin Firth and Rupert Everett!)
ciao voxies!
is that either my life is really boring and I don't want to record it. Or something great happens and I don't want to do it an injustice by writing about it by posting in a hurry. But at the same time it's like, but I don't want to forget that memory!
- I'll graduate and get a job from whatever area I'm studying quite quickly after graduation
- I will have to make a choice between two men - one is intellectual, on the same wavelength as me, the other loves me a lot but needs more understanding from both parties for the relationship to work
- I will get the money I'm concerned about and it will be used for something useful, not frivolous or silly.
- I should and will go overseas - if ex # 5 really loves me he will understand and try again when I return
- I'll be married by 2012, pregnant by 2013 (last time she said not much before 2014)
- I should keep a purple stone in my room or on my person for luck
- 8 is my lucky number, there won't be problems in my life I can't solve if I'm patient
- In my future career, she saw me holding conferences and travelling a lot for work (but this could be teaching children, tour guiding, any number of things).
- I will have two children, one of which will definitely be a boy
- I will only get married once
- she will go on a trip fairly soon, and when she comes back...
- she'll meet a slightly older man who has a powerful/responsible job
- she'll be married by 2010
- she should wear gold things as they bring her luck
Today was pretty oddball all round.
For a start, I had to go to another work training day (paid). We're in the process of earning Certificate IV in frontline management, and this was our second training day (the last one was the day before ex #5 and I broke up you will recall! two weeks already!) So I got up early to go to work and I was playing with Willum. He was preening my clothes like he does, but he didn't realise that he was getting closer and closer to my skin, so I'm leaning over him on my hands and knees and kissing his back while he's preening the edge of my singlet top, and he accidentally caught my skin! I know he didn't mean to, but it's just so funny - I have what looks like a love bite on one of my boobs now from where he nipped me! (except that there is a cut from his sharp little fangs, haha!)
Then, I went into work, and embarrased myself on the bus when my earphones came out of my phone mp3 player right in the middle of an Abba song. Like way to get caught listening to shameful music!
The training was pretty ok, we talked about team development and individual development. It kind of annoys me that for this session we had to do two 1 page reports, and for next session (one month from now) we have ANOTHER 3 reports. They're to demonstrate that we understand the content of the units, but why not just get us to complete them in class? no one would know anyway.. my boss said we can do them at work though, and I think I'll do mine this week since in a month from now I won't remember everything we were speaking about.
Anyway! LUNCH! (paid for by work, which is really nice!) and I have a cappuccino. Then I remembered that my boss does coffee cup readings so she did a reading of mine. She picked up on some really interesting things so i can't wait to see what pans out! here is what she said so I have a reference for later:
- I should check the tires on my car - especially air pressure. Not likely to have an accident but could be inconvenienced by being stuck somewhere with crap tyres
- she saw a heart in the cup, but also a shield which represents protecting yourself or not being 100% open as you've been hurt (which is obviously completely natural in my case)
- she saw me going out with friends and having a good time, not being a hermit, or going crazy and over the top
- she saw the rabbit and laughed about him, she said he can tell that my energy has changed recently so if he's been acting really well lately it's because he knows I'm not myself and he wants to spoil me. The way she described it was that he has felt very loved by us so now he wants to show us that he will love me back.
- She saw me getting a lot of enjoyment and pleasure out of listening to music perhaps a guitar or a flute, something like that
- also that I should do things by myself if no one is available to them with me, to prove to myself that I can have fun doing things alone, but also because it's important for my spiritual growth (for want of a better phrase)
- she asked if I was considering moving out and said she saw some kind of distance from the home - maybe travel
- that I was weighing up a decision and comparing possible outcomes
- that I have been or will be soon looking at a necklace or something for around the neck, maybe a scarf, that costs a lot that I will go back and look at again and again (I couldn't think of anything that I've been eyeing off!)
- she saw me going somewhere hot
- basically, she could see in the cup that I am very focussed on my study and very stressed but that it's crucial that when I can I do things for myself and my own wellbeing. That travel/alone time or whatever is vital for me to move on in my life (I took it as changing my possible life direction?)
THEN she read the saucer which was really interesting!
- she saw the letter C which stands for commitment. She said she could see I wasn't afraid of commitment or of love (the letter L was also present) and then she explained that previously, the commitment and love were together, that the cup and saucer fitted (referring to the breakup) and that when I have had that alone time, when I've spent some time just doing things for ME, then the love and commitment that I'm looking for will all fall into place.
I love that kind of thing. Even if it isn't true in the sense that it's semi psychic or what have you, it's still good advice in my opinion and pretty much what I was planning on doing. I want to book a weekend away for just myself after semester is over, and I want to maybe go to the snow or somewhere, I'll be pampered, do nothing.. spend a lot of money. That was the basic plan. I'm happy being single, I'm not seeking out a relationship right now, although if one came along I wouldn't turn it down - I'm open to it, but I really do want to spend some time re evaluating who I am as a person now that I'm not 'Aaron's Girlfriend' which I guess sounds foolish but there you are.
Dinner with just Celia tonight as Janna is on her way to VIENNA (Lucky woman!) and Jasmine wasn't feeling well. Time to go to sleep now since my week is HEKTIK BRO!
quick run down even though this is the longest post ever:
monday-tuesday: assigment due on wednesday, days off work since I'm doing 2.5 full days this week instead of 5 half days.
wednesday: full day of work 8:30-5:30, hand the assignment in
thursday: half day, meeting Alerson for coffee in the morning (will bitch about men, eurovision etc!)
friday: full day
Weekend: start take home exam for HIST109 I imagine! arg!
And that is it from me. Much love, I am going to bed before I fall asleep right here. Have a good week yourselves!