Tonight I witnessed something amazing. Tonight I was who I am and want to be. Tonight, I felt more alive than I have in such a long time.
Tonight I feel everything that I've missed for such a long time, and I've been scowling at the absence until now. I felt loose, alive, excited, sad, happy, extraordinary, love, disappointment, heartbreak, all in the time lapse of one single night...
I went to the Ed Sheeran concert at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. We got there at about four thirty or so and had to wait in a queue that was as long as anything (well, it wasn't that long but pretty long). We waited until about six when the gates finally opened, annoyed at the fact that some people were "first priority" because they had been waiting since dawn. I guess while that is fair, I questioned why they couldn't have just let us all in at six instead of giving "priorities". I bought a tour tee and a wristband, taking fifty dollars out of my wallet never to be seen again. The tee was forty five and the wristband was five...expensive, right? Anyway. We walked into the arena and waited at our gates. I went to the bathroom since I'd had a Berry Crush Boost Juice and was urgently needing a toilet, and when I came out I blended in with the line. The girls behind me obviously knew I'd pushed in but we ended up making friends with them. While I was pushing in the line, my friend was out getting Frozen Cokes. The only reason I pushed in was because for the first time ever I was going in the Mosh pit, and I didn't want to be right at the back or anything. I was anxious going in, scared to get pushed or shoved or elbowed in my head. We got wristbands, allowing us to go in and out in exchange for the actual ticket itself. I was kind of disappointed since I wanted to keep it almost as a memory I guess. It wasn't everyday I would experience my first Mosh Pit for Ed Sheeran. Anyway, going in was great, and it turns out we got right to the front. We were ordered to sit down and so we did, until the first opening act, Conrad Sewell, came on with his pianist and sang a few songs until round eight or so. Then, Jamie Lawson was on til about eight thirty, and at eight fifty - the Ginger Jesus was in our beautiful presence. He opened with 'I'm A Mess' and ended with 'Sing' and he kept mentioning the Cricket, which I could care less about. The whole concert was truly amazing, magical, I'm proud in saying there was only two songs I didn't know the words to. Apparently I'm one to bust people's eardrums and pierce their ears, but then again if I'm going to pay ninety dollars for a concert ticket I want to be able to scream and shout. (and let it all out)
it was truly amazing and I will never forget it.
Indiana
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Sunday, 8 March 2015
10 Best TV Shows You Should Have At Least Watched An Episode Of
Perhaps the first thing you'll learn about me is that I am unfortunately addicted to binge watching some series of a television show in my spare time. Spare time for me is actually very unlikely for me to have, especially with new assignments and assessments coming in. For me, I've seen loads of Pilots and Season Finales and Series Finales, but here are ten of the top television shows you should have at least seen one episode of.
1. Pretty Little Liars.
Does gender even matter anymore? Despite Popular Opinion claiming PLL is supposedly strictly for women/teenage girls entertainment viewing, it is actually one of the most juicy, cliff-hanging shows that tons of people are hooked on. If I ever hear again that "Pretty Little Liars is just for girls," I will not only shoot myself but the person that said that. Then I'd probably resurrect them (with the magical powers I so do have) and kill them again for putting my ears through that agony. If you've seen something like CSI and want something a little less realistic but in the crime-genre, I'd recommend it to you. At times yes, it can get frustrating, however in the end you've just gotta love it.
2. Friends
Even though it's been twenty years since the launch of Friends and nearly eleven years since it ended, if you haven't seen at least one episode you're bound to be grouped into a bunch of people I would rather sit on than associate with. Does it even matter where you begin? Even though I was not watching Friends when it was airing since I was little (Hint #2, I guess) I still grew up someday to be watching all ten seasons wanting more. In the end you realise that even the spin-off, Joey, should've gone more than two seasons because you want to hold on to the era.
3. How To Get Away With Murder
This show was not one bit at all what I expected or had in mind for it to be like. Originally I had thought it was going to be something like a bunch of kids who take a criminal law class just to find out how to kill people and get away with it for their own advantage. I began watching the show online as I couldn't stand anymore commercial breaks leaving me frustrated in the middle of my eye-widening-gasping-out-of-shock moments just to show me some stupid infomercial about a vacuum cleaner I'd seen at least nine hundred and thirty times the last commercial break. (I ordered it too, by the way, and it did NOT do the commercial justice!)
4. Gossip Girl
I started Gossip Girl thinking it were about young adults that had rivalry among each other and that it were nothing like I had found it. I did not have any knowledge to it being about teenagers living on the Upper East Side of New York City to spend their teen years drinking and doing drugs, going to fancy parties and competing with who slept with who, as well as having every secret about themselves posted on a blog by an anonymous user called "Gossip Girl". During the beginning I had thought about ditching it as I'd gotten annoyed with some of the characters (Leighton Meester in particular during the first three or four episodes) however I'd realised I had nothing else to watch, so I stuck in it and got hooked. I definitely recommend it, seeing as I am still watching it.
5. Web Therapy
Unfortunately Lisa Kudrow did not have much of an effect on me during Season Four of this show. I dropped it and stopped watching particularly because my head had felt like it were inflated and then popped like a balloon. I did enjoy some of the series I had watched, but the voice Kudrow uses to portray "Fiona Wallace" had driven me right out of entertainment and into a psych ward. I did like it but I saw repetition in some of the episodes plots and felt a little frustrated at times with the whole series being on a computer screen. Smart Modality, Smart idea, smart plot lines, smart characters, everything was incredibly clever and I am incredibly impressed with knowing that the series does not uses scripts and all actors are supposed to improvise each episode. I guess Web Therapy was just not for me, however others might like it.
6. The Carrie Diaries
A Prequel to the very famous Sex and the City series starring the even more famous Sarah Jessica Parker. This series only ran for two seasons and I could not be more upset. I have no idea why they cancelled this show because I fell in love with it. The Carrie Diaries focuses on Carrie Bradshaw's life towards the end of high school for her experiencing new things in the world and exploring the magical Manhattan, which we all know already is her belonging. AnnaSophia Robb, that curly blonde that plays the young Carrie, couldn't have done a better job. It was actually tearing for me to hear that the show would be no longer, I mean I had formed such a connection to the characters. It takes place in I think the 80's, showing all of the old fashion, music, hairstyles, people. I think it was just what the 21st Century needed.
7. Orange Is The New Black
Well, I could say that I miss the show since it's been on a hiatus for quite a while. I do hope though that they didn't cancel it or anything. It's only been two seasons and I'm positive the ratings are good. I saw the actress that plays the main character, Piper, in the Nicholas Sparks movie 'The Lucky One' and she did an alright job. I was happy to say that she did a perfect job in OITNB and that I did enjoy it. It's a very full on show. If you can't handle one episode do not watch one season. I can say I was surprised when I saw some things going on in a church other than praying between inmates...right, I forgot, it's taking place in a Women's Correctional Facility, a jail, and it surprised me when I learnt that OITNB is actually a true story based off of Piper Kerman's experience there.
8. Nashville
When I began this show it was originally because I was reading up on how Taylor Swift became famous, and how she got discovered in a place called 'The Bluebird Cafe' which is a small cafe in Nashville. The show takes place, can you guess? In Nashville, of course, duh, but it goes through the lives of fictional country music stars, mostly focusing on 'Rayna James', a fading country music queen who is trying to keep her light in the business. It really does give you an eye-opener to music and how hard a musician's life can be, but it also kinda makes you want to pull out a guitar and write a hit. I love Nashville, and if you love celebrity drama you might just like it too.
9. American Horror Story
Should I just say that even though I had never seen anything more life shattering and disturbing in my entire life, I still continued to watch all of the seasons? Because I did, and I don't even regret it. Each Season of AHS is different, it has a different theme, different characters, the whole lot, and it's all in a plot to make you have a brown stain in your underwear by the time you get up. Season One, Murder House, followed the lives of a married couple experiencing difficulties in their relationship with a depressed teen daughter in a psychopathic house that wants to kill people. Season Two, Asylum, focuses on the lives of people in a Mental Institution over fifty years ago (I personally hated this one). Season Three, Coven, (Personally loved this one) undergoes the lives of witches with odd powers living in a house where they all unite. Season Four, Freak Show, (Personally hated this one too, can you see a pattern?) and soon to be Season Five, just announced called 'Hotel'. Dear God help me.
10. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Now this is a story all about how...wait, what? If the theme song can't make you want to sing-a-long then I don't know what will. My love of Will Smith got thicker than blood after I watched the Fresh Prince all that time ago. It's not a show like AHS or PLL or something, but rather one of those shows that makes you smile and watch at 3am with Sara Lee chocolate ice cream on a Saturday night. Like Friends, my heart nearly shattered after facing the truth that it ended after those seasons (because I can't remember how many there were, but spare me the pity, usually my memory isn't so bad when it's not 1:58am). I think I'll always have that love for The Fresh Prince. Always will. In West Philadelphia, Born and Raised...
If you have not seen at least one episode of each of those shows I might just vomit on you out of pity (???). Now believe it or not, the list could go on. It's actually quite hard to believe that I spent nearly half an hour (I think i'm lying, it might've been an hour) on this list. As it's 2:00am on the dot i think this would be a good cue for you to not read any more words and move onto a different page or post or something.
Goodnight.
Indiana.
1. Pretty Little Liars.
Does gender even matter anymore? Despite Popular Opinion claiming PLL is supposedly strictly for women/teenage girls entertainment viewing, it is actually one of the most juicy, cliff-hanging shows that tons of people are hooked on. If I ever hear again that "Pretty Little Liars is just for girls," I will not only shoot myself but the person that said that. Then I'd probably resurrect them (with the magical powers I so do have) and kill them again for putting my ears through that agony. If you've seen something like CSI and want something a little less realistic but in the crime-genre, I'd recommend it to you. At times yes, it can get frustrating, however in the end you've just gotta love it.
2. Friends
Even though it's been twenty years since the launch of Friends and nearly eleven years since it ended, if you haven't seen at least one episode you're bound to be grouped into a bunch of people I would rather sit on than associate with. Does it even matter where you begin? Even though I was not watching Friends when it was airing since I was little (Hint #2, I guess) I still grew up someday to be watching all ten seasons wanting more. In the end you realise that even the spin-off, Joey, should've gone more than two seasons because you want to hold on to the era.
3. How To Get Away With Murder
This show was not one bit at all what I expected or had in mind for it to be like. Originally I had thought it was going to be something like a bunch of kids who take a criminal law class just to find out how to kill people and get away with it for their own advantage. I began watching the show online as I couldn't stand anymore commercial breaks leaving me frustrated in the middle of my eye-widening-gasping-out-of-shock moments just to show me some stupid infomercial about a vacuum cleaner I'd seen at least nine hundred and thirty times the last commercial break. (I ordered it too, by the way, and it did NOT do the commercial justice!)
4. Gossip Girl
I started Gossip Girl thinking it were about young adults that had rivalry among each other and that it were nothing like I had found it. I did not have any knowledge to it being about teenagers living on the Upper East Side of New York City to spend their teen years drinking and doing drugs, going to fancy parties and competing with who slept with who, as well as having every secret about themselves posted on a blog by an anonymous user called "Gossip Girl". During the beginning I had thought about ditching it as I'd gotten annoyed with some of the characters (Leighton Meester in particular during the first three or four episodes) however I'd realised I had nothing else to watch, so I stuck in it and got hooked. I definitely recommend it, seeing as I am still watching it.
5. Web Therapy
Unfortunately Lisa Kudrow did not have much of an effect on me during Season Four of this show. I dropped it and stopped watching particularly because my head had felt like it were inflated and then popped like a balloon. I did enjoy some of the series I had watched, but the voice Kudrow uses to portray "Fiona Wallace" had driven me right out of entertainment and into a psych ward. I did like it but I saw repetition in some of the episodes plots and felt a little frustrated at times with the whole series being on a computer screen. Smart Modality, Smart idea, smart plot lines, smart characters, everything was incredibly clever and I am incredibly impressed with knowing that the series does not uses scripts and all actors are supposed to improvise each episode. I guess Web Therapy was just not for me, however others might like it.
6. The Carrie Diaries
A Prequel to the very famous Sex and the City series starring the even more famous Sarah Jessica Parker. This series only ran for two seasons and I could not be more upset. I have no idea why they cancelled this show because I fell in love with it. The Carrie Diaries focuses on Carrie Bradshaw's life towards the end of high school for her experiencing new things in the world and exploring the magical Manhattan, which we all know already is her belonging. AnnaSophia Robb, that curly blonde that plays the young Carrie, couldn't have done a better job. It was actually tearing for me to hear that the show would be no longer, I mean I had formed such a connection to the characters. It takes place in I think the 80's, showing all of the old fashion, music, hairstyles, people. I think it was just what the 21st Century needed.
7. Orange Is The New Black
Well, I could say that I miss the show since it's been on a hiatus for quite a while. I do hope though that they didn't cancel it or anything. It's only been two seasons and I'm positive the ratings are good. I saw the actress that plays the main character, Piper, in the Nicholas Sparks movie 'The Lucky One' and she did an alright job. I was happy to say that she did a perfect job in OITNB and that I did enjoy it. It's a very full on show. If you can't handle one episode do not watch one season. I can say I was surprised when I saw some things going on in a church other than praying between inmates...right, I forgot, it's taking place in a Women's Correctional Facility, a jail, and it surprised me when I learnt that OITNB is actually a true story based off of Piper Kerman's experience there.
8. Nashville
When I began this show it was originally because I was reading up on how Taylor Swift became famous, and how she got discovered in a place called 'The Bluebird Cafe' which is a small cafe in Nashville. The show takes place, can you guess? In Nashville, of course, duh, but it goes through the lives of fictional country music stars, mostly focusing on 'Rayna James', a fading country music queen who is trying to keep her light in the business. It really does give you an eye-opener to music and how hard a musician's life can be, but it also kinda makes you want to pull out a guitar and write a hit. I love Nashville, and if you love celebrity drama you might just like it too.
9. American Horror Story
Should I just say that even though I had never seen anything more life shattering and disturbing in my entire life, I still continued to watch all of the seasons? Because I did, and I don't even regret it. Each Season of AHS is different, it has a different theme, different characters, the whole lot, and it's all in a plot to make you have a brown stain in your underwear by the time you get up. Season One, Murder House, followed the lives of a married couple experiencing difficulties in their relationship with a depressed teen daughter in a psychopathic house that wants to kill people. Season Two, Asylum, focuses on the lives of people in a Mental Institution over fifty years ago (I personally hated this one). Season Three, Coven, (Personally loved this one) undergoes the lives of witches with odd powers living in a house where they all unite. Season Four, Freak Show, (Personally hated this one too, can you see a pattern?) and soon to be Season Five, just announced called 'Hotel'. Dear God help me.
10. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Now this is a story all about how...wait, what? If the theme song can't make you want to sing-a-long then I don't know what will. My love of Will Smith got thicker than blood after I watched the Fresh Prince all that time ago. It's not a show like AHS or PLL or something, but rather one of those shows that makes you smile and watch at 3am with Sara Lee chocolate ice cream on a Saturday night. Like Friends, my heart nearly shattered after facing the truth that it ended after those seasons (because I can't remember how many there were, but spare me the pity, usually my memory isn't so bad when it's not 1:58am). I think I'll always have that love for The Fresh Prince. Always will. In West Philadelphia, Born and Raised...
If you have not seen at least one episode of each of those shows I might just vomit on you out of pity (???). Now believe it or not, the list could go on. It's actually quite hard to believe that I spent nearly half an hour (I think i'm lying, it might've been an hour) on this list. As it's 2:00am on the dot i think this would be a good cue for you to not read any more words and move onto a different page or post or something.
Goodnight.
Indiana.
Injury Prevention and Control (Cheat)
For a PE project I had to do, we had to pick one of the Nine National Health Priority Areas at random. I got Injury Prevention and Control. I'll spare you the details of the assignment, and instead I will share with you my research to spare you the trouble. Do not ask me what or how or why I am doing this if at any point curiosity becomes the best of you. Picture this as informational hand-me-downs. I don't need it anymore since I remember it, so you can have it.
The Nine National Health Priority Areas
1. Asthma
2. Cancer Control
3. Cardiovascular Health
4. Diabetes Mellitus
5. Injury Prevention and Control
6. Mental Health
7. Arthritis & Musculoskeletal Conditions
8. Dementia
9. Obesity
Injury unfortunately is a natural part of living on Earth. Everyday, anything we participate in can contribute to injuries occurring. Any activity is eligible to injuries occurring and as frustrating as it can get, we are never aware of unintentional injuries occurring when they do. Doing anything from walking, running, cleaning, cooking, gardening, drawing, writing, playing sport, driving, swimming, basically anything you could possibly do puts you at a risk of getting injured. In every life activity you participate in, there is a 50% chance you can be injured. The only injuries that can be controlled or avoided are injuries that we need to be aware of due to the aftermath of our actions. To do this, we must simply take acknowledgement into everything we do, evaluating the outcome of it. For example, knowing your shoelace is undone but continuing to ignore it and walk with it undone is injury that could have been prevented and controlled. Had you tied up your shoelace and then resumed walking, you would not have as much of a chance of getting injured as you would have walking without your shoelace undone.
Treatment for common injuries: (Please be advised that I am in no way medically trained or professional at practicing medicine, however this information was gathered from various websites.)
Minor Cuts: Rinse the cut under cool water to remove any traces of dirt or bacteria that may have entered the wound. Hold the area under running water until the water turns clear. To stop the bleeding, gently apply firm direct pressure to the area using a clean cloth and continue holding the pressure. If the cut spurts blood, seek medical help immediately.
Typical pain relieving methods for minor cuts are not necessary however using painkillers such as Panadol can help to ease the pain.
First Degree Burns: Run cold water over the burn for at least ten minutes, but do not cover the area with a bandage as this can irritate the skin. If irritation occurs or the skin begins to feel heated, run the area under cold water or soothe it using an ice pack wrapped in a tea towel or cloth.
Broken Arm: A broken arm can be treated using a plaster cast, which usually will stay in place for four to six weeks or longer depending on what medical professionals advise. The plaster cast will help to hold the broken ends together so they can heal. Painkillers can be used to ease the pain of a broken arm.
The rest of my information is on my other laptop, and unfortunately given the time being 12:59 in my Area, I simply am too tired to get it out and start it up and all. Hopefully for anybody doing some sort of Injury Prevention and Control assignment or whatever my no longer needed data can assist you in whatever way possible. For people coming here to use this information as direct medical advice, please note that this is second hand information and I am not in anyway a medically trained professional or practice medicine. I would advise you not to self medicate yourself if in anyway I have implied to do so or take something that has not been recommended to you by a doctor or pharmacist.
If you cannot be bothered doing your bibliography if you happen to need one, lucky for you I did it for you. Since I do not want to share myself as an author, I've done it without one.
Injury Prevention and Control, March 9, 2015, Viewed on _____(insert date viewed), Retrieved from http://indianawho.blogspot.com/2015/03/injury-prevention-and-control.html
Good Luck.
Indiana.
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