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just call me Fifi
omg omg the Freestylers are coming to Brisbane!!

hopes no-one drank the citronella lamp oil which I found near the other drink bottles, looking kinda empty!
Thankyou for all the birthday wishes, and thanks to those who made the effort to visit me on my birthday. Hope you had fun
got 100% in my business exam. Booyah! Now the really hard work begins…
has a red riding hood

is freaking out about the amount of work I have to do this week. Thank god for uni- it taught me to cram
who the hell has a party on their lawn at 8am on a Sunday? Answer: my bogan neighbors!
registered my new business name, saw a free movie, AND danced mid-week zouk. And that was just since 3pm!

The universe must really, really, really want me to keep latin dancing because I keep winning free dance lessons! At my dance school’s christmas party I won a term of Tango lessons, and this past Friday night I won another term of dancing- this time Zouk (love zouk!) from another dance school. I’m still not entirely sure how I won it, during a dance-off where there were other people were clearly better dancers than me, but yay anyway! The event was Zouk & The City nightclub, and this time they had a theme:  Jocks & Cheerleaders VS. Nerds! I didn’t have much notice to get a costume together, but I still managed to dig out my old Star Trek communicator badge from my old trekkie days (geeks rule!) My dance buddy Kat Lam won first prize, which included a free dinner package with the restaurant where the party was held. We had to dance zouk together at the end which was most interesting! Here are some photos, courtesy of Facebook…

Enjoy

Good friends

Pre dance-off

Maybe it was my mad air-guitar skills that won it?

I love zouk dancing!

Charlie's Angels!

Posing with Kat

Mucking about with friends & costume props

The 2 finalists zouk dancing with each other!

The Winners!! Yaaaay

DJ Mark Waden in cheerleader uniform!

Had so much fun dancing at Rio Carnaval. I wanna go again!
won ANOTHER term of free dance classes- The universe loves me!! Thanks universe And ZR Dance
work now- zouk later!
for my cosplay people- half price fabric sale at Lincraft!! Supanova’s coming up…
Needs a life-sized Darth Maul figure to scare away some Jehovah’s Witness’s!!
still catching up after a week off with the flu. Apologies if I haven’t gotten back to you yet, I’m working through a mountain of stuff…

Hey y’all! (I just felt like testing out a new greeting. Too Beverly Hillbilly-ish?)

Well, I’m not giving up on this dream of being an entrepreneur. It’s something I’ve been working towards for many years now (ever since I repackaged talcom powder into plastic bags and tried to sell them to my friends as ‘magicians dust’ when I was 7!) It’s scary and different and I feel like I don’t really know what I’m doing. They never taught us how to start a business at school, it wasn’t encouraged in my family, and everywhere I turn around people seem to be saying to me “too risky!” and trying to convince be to just get a job. Well bugger them!

Something I have recently learned about myself when it comes to undertaking exciting and scary new ventures: I need a bit of hand-holding and mentoring sometimes, so I don’t descend back into procrastination. And I found just the thing! (No, it’s not network-marketing-related- I just aint cut out for that line of work, and I got sick off all the bullshit that went with it).

Full-time uni has ended- I’m working on the very last subject of my degree in Creative Industries, and the time is now to implement all I have learned! ……..um……….yeah……….
NEIS to the rescue!

As soon as my full-time degree ended I went from crappy student allowance to crappy job-seeker’s allowance, which meant that I was eligible to apply for the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme where the government actually gives you money, and mentoring, to start a business! Not only do I get to do a Cert IV in Business Management (for freeeee), but I get hands-on assistance from people who know what they’re doing (or so I’m told) and mentoring for a year.

I find it interesting how the government gives incentives to business owners and not employees. Apparently it’s something about entrepreneurs saving the economy? For example, normally when you’re on a government allowance you’re only allowed to earn so much money from work on the side- and it’s a tiny miniscule amount- before it affects your government payments (which are crap by the way). The whole system is designed to keep people poor and discourage people from earning more money. On the other hand, now that I’m on the NEIS program, I am officially allowed to earn an unlimited amount of money from my business and still receive Newstart allowance (which you have to be on to get into NEIS). Not that that’s something to be too excited about, after all, the aim is to never have to deal with Centrelink (aka “Smellylink” or “Satanlink”) EVER AGAIN.

The course is going really well. I’m putting the finishing touches on my new business plan. And unlike other courses where you finish then you’re totally on your own, the ongoing mentoring is a real asset. In fact, in order to stay on the program I need to be actually earning money from my business, in increasing amounts each year, which with the help of my mentors, and my skills etc. is going to be a piece of cake!

is trying to decide on a trading name for her new enterprise. Most difficult!
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is very sick. Please bring chicken soup k thanks…

had another fun time in the park with good friends These Lam girls know how to throw a good shindig!
“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer…” -Thoreau
loves Australia but hates drunk bogans. Other news: Am about to test my BBQ to check it still works!

I’m listening to the most AMAZING interview with Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Bruce Lipton on how our perceptions alter our DNA.
is soo busy. New business project + making websites + studying + dancing + trying to clean & re-organise the house. I need an assistant!