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World Where You Live - by Julie Keast

Although I am in a steady relationship with a guy who I absolutely adore, I sometimes miss the benefits of being a single girl while it's great to have someone who I can cuddle, kiss and spoon with, there is just something about being single which spells freedom to me.

I will now list why sometimes I feel it's better to be single:

Being able to chat to guys/ girls without worrying that your boyfriend or girlfriend is going to be jealous
Perving on that hot hunk/girl on the beach without the guilt
Being able to go out with friends with worrying that your boyfriend or girlfriend is going to ring you

That warm, fuzzy feeling you get when your crush actually smiles at you
You don't have to put up with pressure from his/ her friends to have sex with boyfriend or girlfriend (That is something I hate, it's another form of bullying in my opinion)
You don't have the constant worrying about whether he/she trusts you.
More time to spend with other friends and your family.

I am sure I could go and on about the relative benefits of being single and boy, sometimes I wish I could go back to my school days where I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend because it'd affect my school work (according to my parents) because somehow being a young teenager seemed a lot more fun then being an adult with a boyfriend.

Gimme some of that FREEDOM! LOL!

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July 20th 2007 @ 10:28

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Entertainment

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Has State of Origin lost it's magic?

I sat down to watch and listen to the third State of Origin rugby league match last night and I got to say that while it was a fantastic game, I haven't been captivated by the aura of Origin like I have been when the likes of Harragon, Daley and Ettinghausen took the field for NSW and Meninga (the now Queensland coach) Allan Langer and Gorden Tallis did the same for Queensland, being a massive Blues supporter, there was someone in the Queensland side I hated and wanted the NSW boys to belt but for the last couple of years I haven't felt that way, there was no one in that Queensland side that I really hated all that much, is there anyone else who felt the same way when they watched the game last night.

Also I think maybe some of the magic of State of Origin has disappeared, I used remember singing along, as an Origin coverage began, to Queen's "We will rock you" as footage of previous Origin matches were shown eg: Wally Lewis and Mark Geyer having a bit to say to each other one night and some of the big fights that occurred etc and looking forward to seeing another fight during the game (Admittedly that's what I always watch Origin for...the all in brawls) but in the last couple of years I haven't felt any sort of magic surrounding State of Origin.
Is there anyone else who has watched this year's series and felt the same way, I just want to know I am not the only one who felt a little indifferent toward either NSW or Queensland.

Anyway tata cyaz

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July 5th 2007 @ 00:51

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Sport

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Avril's new album probaby The Worst Damn Album I have listened to this year

I spent a lot of last night listening to albums that I have bought and haven't had the chance to listen to or haven't listened to in a while and I have to admit there was one album that really disappointed me in all of the albuma I listened to. I listened to Time On Earth by Crowded House, My December by Kelly Clarkson, The Best Damn Thing by Avril Lavigne, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence by Powderfinger and Won't Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5.

The new Crowded House album was what I expected it to be, quite dark and strangely beautiful. The track Even A Child is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head, it is extremely catchy. Neil Finn's voice continues to amaze me. I have no doubt that Time On Earth will debut at No 1 on the ARIA charts next week

Powderfinger's new album is a definite contender for Album of the Year at the ARIA Awards later this year. I can't name a memorable song from it because they are all memorable in some way, Dream Days goes a long way to ensuring Powderfinger are remembered as one of the best bands to ever come out of Australia.

Maroon 5's second album is definitely a little better then their first, the second album sprouts a brand new direction from Adam Levine and the band. Won't Be Soon Before Long sees the band take on an eighties electronic rock sound that is very different to the first album, Songs About Jane (which to be honest I thought was a little boring in some ways). It's probably not going to make it to any top 10 album of the year list but there are definitely songs that will stick in your head.

My December is Kelly Clarkson's third album and really could equal as a bit of a disappointment because it is really more of the same as Clarkson's second album Breakaway. The first single Never Again desperately tries to be the third album's Since You've Been Gone but unfortunately it hasn't quite worked. Ultimately I believe there are only one or two songs that really had my hair standing on end

Now out of all the albums I listened to last night, it was Avril Lavigne's latest album which really disappointed me. All the songs seemed to run together and it really seemed that instead of going forward, Avril is going somewhat backward, a lot of the songs are childish, I needed a panadol. The best song on the album would easily have to be the second single When You're Gone with Runaway a distant second. I knbw Avril wanted her third album to be fun but let me tell you, I did not have fun listening to this album at all.

So what albums have you listened so far this year that you have either enjoyed or thought was a bit of a rank disappointment and not what you were expecting it to be.
Tata cyaz

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July 1st 2007 @ 11:25

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Entertainment

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The Beatles

I am not going to go into one of those "when I was a child" rants but yesterday I found something that I didn't realize I still had, you see my parents bought me these two albums The Beatles Red Album and The Beatles 1962 -1966 and the Beatles Blue Album 1967 -1970 as a young girl of about eight or nine years old who knew the words to songs like "Eight Days A Week", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "Hello Goodbye" off by heart (thanks largely to a tape called "Beatles Hits for Kids"). I would walk around the streets of Broadbeach on the Gold Coast while on holiday singing "Eight days a week, I loooovveee you!" and annoy the hell out of my sister and parents because I wouldn't shut up (they managed to though with ice cream) and stop singing high pitched (my singing voice is high pitched and not that good).
Anyway I cleaned the dust off both CD sets and decided to write down my favourite Beatles tunes from these two albums, I thought I might share them with you (You might find there are a few classic songs missing from my list of favourites):

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June 27th 2007 @ 01:18

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Entertainment

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Hypocritical Australia Should Wake Up

The Australian producers of Big Brother Australia have been forced to apologise to the people of Mexico after authorities became angry about the use of the Mexican flag during an episode of 'Friday Night Live' where contestants were made to dress in giant Mexican sombreros and droopy moustaches played musical chairs and ate chilli con carne to win points in the June 19 'FNL' show which was labelled as 'Mexican night'
Later, they played a game in which one team protected the Mexican flag against slime-filled balloons thrown by a rival team which obviously upset the Mexican Department of Foreign Relations, who said the event was 'offensive'. "The Mexican national flag has a long and proud history and it stands as a powerful symbol that identifies and unites Mexican citizens wherever they live," it said. "Both the [Mexican] embassy and the Mexican community in Australia are dismayed to know the insensitive and inappropriate manner in which it was presented."

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June 23rd 2007 @ 01:41

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: News

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The Weekend Carnage Wrap Up

Well as you all know by now that there was major carnage around the NSW Coast especially around Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Hunter Valley and around the Central Coast during the June Long Weekend due to all the storm carnage.
I got to say that I was lucky, apart from my shoes, socks and the legs of my trousers getting wet in water that was covering the main road at Mayfield (an inner suburb of Newcastle) on Friday) I was extremely lucky, I didn't lose electricity, my house wasn't flooded or anything else like that because my house is located on the side of a hill so no floodwater can get in and compared to the stories I have heard from some of my friends and others in worse affected areas, one friend I spoke to, the bottom level of her two level house had water go through it while another friend had gone shopping at Jesmond, caught the bus, the bus couldn't go along it's original route because of flash flooding, got off the bus, hitched a ride with a couple in order to get home but couldn't so she spent the night at this couple's house...it has been quite an extraodinary weekend for so many reasons but i have to say compared with my friends and hearing other stories on the radio over the long weekend, my story is quite boring, Basically what happened to me is that I was at work and that my boss sent me home early from work but I had to walk through a car park of ankle deep water (which is nothing compared to swimming through neck deep water), I had to walk over and get something at Woolworths which is across the other side of the road meaning that I had to walk through another lot of ankle deep water just to get across the road.
Anyway I got home safely but as you can see my story is pretty tame

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June 11th 2007 @ 07:04

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: News

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Top 10 Favourite Songs and Albums of 2007 SO FAR

With it coming up to the middle of the year, I thought I'd go through my top 10 favourite albums/ songs so far this year:

My Top 10 Favourite Albums So far in 2007
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May 31st 2007 @ 00:50

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Entertainment

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Writers Panic Yesterday, Writers Cramp today

Hey everyone, I must apologise as I am suffering from a severe case of writers cramp after I spent last night finishing off another 128 page excerise book, however compared to yesterday when I had writers panic and I was wondering whether I would ever finish off the story I was writing, having writers cramp isn't too bad but I tell you what I am suffering for writing so much yesterday. I wrote about four and a half pages in two and a half hours, normally it only takes me an hour and a half to write four and a half pages of a small 128 page excerise book but last night it seemed to take me a long time to finish it, frustratingly enough so really I don't mind writers cramp it's better then having writers block for goodness sake...which I will probably have next week and see nothing but a big blank white wall in my mind.

So if this blog entry is short blame me for writing a little too much without a break of any sort. I suppose it doesn't matter as none of my rubbish will get published any day now will it? Not that I want it to

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May 22nd 2007 @ 01:02

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: Fun

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Common Sense Lacking

Everyone seems to want to come out of the woodwork and defend Paris Hilton's irresponsible behaviour which will now confine her to jail for 45 days starting on June 5, these people seem to have forgotten one simple thing: in life you take responsibility for your own actions and it seems to me that Paris and her sympathisers have forgotten this, you may remember that Hilton was caught drink driving late last year and had her licence suspended and she was put on probation meaning she wasn't allowed to drive for a certain period of time, well she jumped in her car and drove while she was still under probation and her licence suspended. Hilton says she didn't know that she wasn't allowed to drive, which is no excuse, if she didn't know she should have read the terms of her probation which police found in the glove box on the night she was caught.

Paris Hilton and her sympathisers lack a lot of common sense when they say that she doesn't deserve to go to jail because she didn't know that she was not allowed to drive, like I said before she could have taken the terms of her probation sheet out of her car glove box and read them before she decided to go for a drive which certainly would have been the responsible and common sense thing to do, instead she chose to violate the terms of the probation and now she will be in jail on June 5, all because she lacked common sense and didn't take responsibility for her actions.
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May 7th 2007 @ 23:59

Posted By: Julie Keast - Category: News

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Man cuts off private bit

A MAN cut off his own penis with a large knife in front of diners at a busy London restuarant.

Witness Stuart McMahon, who was eating at Zizzi in the Strand with his girlfriend on Sunday, told the Sun: "This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about.
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May 3rd 2007 @ 09:29

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