Photographers out there, i need your help!

Something i've always wanted to do is a bit of amateur photgraphy as a hobby. I've never done any photography and basically know jack about cameras and technique. Sooooo if you know some stuff can you help me out? I am basically looking to pick up a camera which is good quality, not too expensive, and a good model for an amatuer to start with. Any suggestions?

She passed by my window and bent to pick her glove she'd dropped her eyes were all aglow from the bright and brittle snow have you time for my company?

Quote to love.

"Faith is not a dirty word. And hope is not for fools. I used to really make fun of optimists. But if all we have are negative world views, we’re in trouble."

Robert Downey Jr.

Flights booked!!!

Oh wow, my flights are booked, this is really happening! Things haven't felt so real until now. I'm sitting here looking at my itinerary and seriously can not believe i have made this happen all on my own! I leave New Zealand on the 9th December a Thursday at 7pm at night. I have to catch three different flights in the space of 24 hours. I leave my family from New Plymouth at 2.15pm that afternoon and fly into Auckland at 3pm. I then check in at the international terminal at 4pm and fly to Los Angeles at 7.15pm. I arrive in LA at 10.15am on the 9th December (weird!) and have to wait at the airport till 4pm when i catch my flight to Seattle. I finally arrive at my destination and new home for the next 12 months at 6.30pm (no doubt i will be exhausted!)
LESS THAN 4 MONTHS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!
One of my friends has also informed me that she will be coming over mid way through next year to live near San Francisco for a while. We are going to travel via train and bus from Seattle to New York together. What kind of places should we visit? I know really nothing about America so anyone that lives there or has visited i would appreciate your input. Where should we go and what should we see?
Much Love and Excitement!
Lady G xox

Lately...

Have been.
Drinking too much coffee.
Working too much.
Failing to update my blog (my apoligies my dedicated readers if any of you still exist!)
Stressing over the amount of forms i need to fill in order to get my trip underway.
Worrying about finances.
Still revelling in all the glory that was the movie Inception, my god!
Wanting to buy! No money to spend!
Loving the attention of a certain cute one.
Missing my family but anticipating the arrival of my first niece or nephew.
Eating too many delicious treats.
Wanting new music, badly i have been listening to way too much Lady Gaga lately.

I'm going to be a little more active with this blog business from now on, i promise!
Love Lady G xx

All things Seattle.

Ok so the Seattle countdown is totally on! Less than six months now guys. I am getting unbelievably excited and nervous but mostly excited. I was just browsing websites trying to find places to go to look for flats/rooms to rent. It is so different to our system in New Zealand and i find myself getting very confused! If anyone can offer any help, please do! I will love you forever.

Cough, cough.

I brought back a cold from Taranaki, i hope it isn't the lingering kind! I was home last week for my Grandmother's 80th birthday party. The 80th was fantastic, i probably had more vodkas then i should've because when i went to say my speech to my beloved grandma i burst into tears. Was very embarrassing, but i started talking about my grandad who passed away two years ago and got super emotional. I had to be the one to start the crying! After the dinner and party i headed to what the small town people called a 'night club'. It was hilarious. I lasted a whole 30 minutes there and had to leave to maintain my dignity. Call me curious i just had to check the place out. As soon as i got in there an old friend of mine jumped on me. It was weird we used to be the best of friends doing everything together but after being away from Stratford for more than four years i found we have changed dramatically. It was still good seeing her, just weird seeing how little she had changed when i feel like i could'nt even relate to the person i used to be. While we were at home we went up Mt Egmont. It was beautiful, fresh, clean, covered in snow and deliciously cold. I forget how beautiful Taranaki actually is, i think i appreciate it that little bit more just for having been away from it. I really do miss my family though. The trips always go so fast and i always feel that i never get to spend enough time with them. I wonder how i will cope when i am in Seattle for over a year. I also got to spend some time with some old highschool friends which was great. Our conversations were just as hilarious as they used to be, and we relived old memories of our school days, fond memories that made up my life in Taranaki. I managed to check out Eclipse with my little sister Abigail. I actually enjoyed it, and thought it was one of the better Twilight movies. The rest i found were so awkward and filmed oddly but this one seemed to flow a little better. I am really looking forward to checking out the movies Cemetery Junction and Inception. Heres a few pics of my week :)

                                   Me with my sisters Abigail and Hanna and her boyfriend Gareth.

                                      The beautiful Mt Egmont in Taranaki.

                                                          Me and Abigail again.

                                                         Close up.

                                                 Me Abigail and Rebecca at my Grandma's 80th.
Much Love for now!
Lady G xoxo

Reasons Why..

I miss the 90's.

Enough said.

The Youth are starting to change, the Youth.

I am now 23 years old, and i don't feel any different. When do we begin to grow old i wonder? I hope for me it isn't any time soon. I have so much i want to do and i haven't even begun living my life. I vow right now to never feel or act old. I don't care how fragile my body becomes in my mind i will be alive as ever. Working in the hospitality industry really makes me you grow a hatred? well maybe intolerance to the pathetic state of some of our older generation. Don't get me wrong this doesn't apply to all old people just the small group who moan and groan their way through the last years of their lives. How difficult it must be to be so negative all of the time. And i really hate how they seem to have this dislike for young people. They turn their noses up at you and treat you as if you are the dumbest thing in the universe. Seeing them slurp their english breakfast teas eating minature sized savouries and 'club' sandwiches with that grumpy look on their faces makes me wild. I vow never to be like this!
Anyway thats my rant for the day.
Don't take any offence to this, i still love my grandparents as much as the next person does!
xxo

Hello!

Whooooaaa, i must apoligise for being a very slack blogger. I really have not been motivated as of late and as a direct result my blogging has gone to zelch! I bet we all get this way, with the beginning of winter and mid year lull it isn't hard to see why. It is just starting to get colder here in Auckland, still not cold enough for my liking. I am one of those freakish people that enjoy cold weather and winter; in fact it is my favourite season! I am looking at my coats in my wardrobe longing to put them on. I wore one the other night to my friends leaving dinner but no surprises i was cooking by the time i got there. I can't wait for my second winter in December when i go to Seattle, i hope it snows. This would make me very happy.
It's my birthday on Friday, can't believe yet another year has gone by. This birthday will be the first that i haven't spent at home in Taranaki with my family. I'm trying hard to ween myself offa them before i head away(far, far away) for a whole 13 months. Soooooo i have to work on my actual birthday which is pretty lame. BUT i am having celebrations one day early (Thursday). It should be a good day...my sister is taking me out to breakfast first up at one of my favourite cafes, Kokako in Parnell. Kokako are a vegetarian cafe which do amazing, amazing food. It's crazy the amount of things you can do without meat. Then wil probably do a spot of shopping and meet my friend Bridget for lunch. Then i'm going to use a voucher that i have had for more than two years and get a Manicure. This is going to be awesome! I'm not one of those 'girly' girls so i don't normally get stuff like this, nevertheless i bet it will be sweet. Plus whenever i put nailpolish on i mange to get it all over the place, i am quite useless really. Anyway back to the birthday....then i am having a dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Kingsland with all of my friends. And after that heading to the Chemical Brothers album release party at a new bar on Commerce Street. My weekend is also quite filled up. On friday i have a friends EP release for his band 'Turning Tricks' at the Rising Sun. If any of you Auckland people are free then you should deff get along to this. Turning Tricks are an amazing band! I also would'nt mind heading to the usual hangout Cassette for the MUM Clubnight. On Saturday another of my friends band the 'Nomadic Snails' are playing a gig at Whammy Bar. Another great band for you Auckland people. :) Look at me pimping away!
For now i have to go check on my dinner.
I am cooking a delcious vegetarian dish tonight. It is a basil and pumpkin risotto rolled in sesame seeds. Sounds delicious! If it's mouth-watering i will post the recipe for you to try!

Stay Classy and thanks for dropping by.
Lady G xx