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"To dearest Jac: Merry X-mas. With love, Jac."

Went out x-mas shopping today and had trouble finding anything for anyone - that is, besides myself. ;^) I didn't manage to find anything quite right for any of my friends nor family, and my trip ended up having little impact on my "prezzies-still-owing" list. In terms of "things-i-would-love-to-get-for-myself", however, my shopping expedition was rather satisfying - picking up a moleskin watercolour journal, a "fix-yo-car-good/how-to-keep-your-car-in-pimpin'-shape" book, and "A Slice of Organic Life" book I'd been eyeing off for a while. That, and some cute enamel necklace charm things (a watermelon moon, and two cherries..) which were kinda for my mum, but she doesn't really do jewellery, so then they were for friends but then they were TOO CUTE (and I kinda caved..) :^3


So - been a bit selfish this x-mas, ironically, considering the 'giving' nature of said festive occasion - but being gloriously happy with my latest treasures has made me feel a little less guilty about it, and more inclined to try harder to find nice things for others.



Mmm - in other news, I went to the optometrist today (the real reason why I braved the Christmas chaos and went to the stores), regarding the unhappy state of my eyes as of late. I'm going to try some 1/2 month contacts (vs. monthly change contacts I use at the moment), which means the contacts will be less likely to dehydrate my eyes so bad. So it'll all be magic and rainbows on Thursday, when the trial set comes in. :^)



Guess what comes out tomorrow and either makes or breaks my future (or at least my little heart)? Yep. Super-fun-happy-most-excellent HSC raw marks... and then - our UAIs. I really don't know what to expect. I didn't have the best of years this past year - my marks were relatively poor, and I don't think I did particularly awesome in the HSC exams. To be honest, as much as I would love a mark above 80, I don't think I deserve it. Realistically, I'm probably looking at getting 80 or less - which really, doesn't have that great of an impact on my future, considering I don't know what I want to do and it probably won't require such high marks... but still, I wish, for pride's sake, that I'd done a little bit better. Funny, how I had no sense of pride in my results while I was doing it, but when it's all said and done and written on the page - when I've been tried and measured, and found wanting (and not so much for ability, but for effort), I have to admit - it hurts. A lot. Wish I'd known a little earlier, eh.


Ninja training log: Yesterday:
Push ups - 15. 10. 10.
Sit ups - 23. 20.
Burpees - 12. 14.
Assorted stretches
1hr run - on & off (30min good running) on road, and trail home.

Today:
Trained with boys at track. Did:
- boxing routine, interspersed with shuttle-runs;
- 100m, 30sec recovery, 100m, 1min rec x 4 @ 80%;
- 10, 20, 30, 40, 50m runs, walk back & 20sec rec @ 100%;
- happy warm down time, & festive om-noms from coach (he spoils us.) :^)
- also, masses of handstands.


Jac, over and out.