Samantha

So I’m kinda excited, kinda nervous, kinda unsure, like I always am whenever I go on holidays somewhere, even if it is Sydney.  I finally booked my accommodation today, but I found it so hard to find accommodation for tomorrow night that was under $300 for the night!  Damn hotels upping prices for the long weekend ahead.  So I made a compromise.  I’m staying in ‘Australia’s best backpackers’ tomorrow night, and then for the next 6 nights I’m staying in a wotif mystery hotel.  I had such good luck last time choosing a mystery hotel that I decided to do it again.  I can handle my first night in a backpackers.  It’s more of a backup than anything, and I just want somewhere to stash my shit, really.  Will be cool to check out the only 5-star backpackers in Australia though lol – it has a swimming pool on the roof apparently.

The hotel I ended up getting looks amazing.  I just hope it is.  I’ll be bringing my laptop down and most likely spending a bit of time on it, as I’m there for a week, and I’m not sure if my sleep patterns will reverse or not for that week, but I guess I’ll soon find out.  I mean I worked 9pm til 5am last night, went til gym til about 6am, got home and have been awake since, and it’s now 2:30pm, but I’m getting tired so will have to eventually crash out soon.

One of my housemates is going to by in Sydney the same time I am, which is kinda strange, but he’s only there for the weekend.  I got a whole week off!  So far I’m planning a few beach trips (I don’t care how damn cold it is lol), a haircut and colour, maybe a spray tan as I get the feeling a real one will be pretty difficult, and I’ve never had a spray tan before.  I wanna go to one of my OD favourites salons here in Brissy one day when I get back also, but I certainly don’t wanna turn into a spray tan whore – I want to at least attempt to look natural if I get one.  This is where having more chick friends would definitely come in handy.

I hope to meet a few of my friends down in Sydney, including my ex housemate and a favourite who will be there the same time I am!  You know who you are 🙂  I’m always really nervous meeting new people though.  I don’t know why, but I put on a brave face and act like everything’s all cool, but on the inside I’m crapping myself.  It’s stupid.  I think it’s why I rarely randomly hook-up – hooking up is fine, meeting a stranger is scary!

But looking forward to Sunday onwards in my comfy king-size bed in my 4 and a half star hotel, which mind you I scored for $99 a night on the wotif deal.  I hope it’s as nice as it’s pics look.  I’m not expecting anything amazing from my first night at the backpackers, but i couldn’t justify forking out like $400 just for one night when I can spend $30, stash my stuff, and probably head out for the night anyway.  I don’t even really mind if I spend a whole day down there catching up on sleep.  I applied for holidays for this trip, even though it doesn’t really feel like holidays, but I’ve decided I’m going to treat it like that.

I love how I’m getting notes expecting stories.  Who knows hey haha.  I doubt I’ll actively go out of my way to be naughty.  I’m there by myself and I’ll feel alone a fair bit I think.  If I just go to a bar and drink at a bar by myself maybe someone will feel sorry for me haha, – yeah right that only works when you’re 18.  Maybe my ex-housemate will be out down there, I do miss that kid lol.  I’m sure he’s been up to no good knowing him 🙂

I’ve found so much amazing new music lately, I can’t even fit it all into my chart.  I updated it anyway and posted it in advance because I’ll be away.  I found a forum where others post their charts as well which seems pretty cool, and had a few notes on my chart already.  Kinda nice to know there are actually some other quirky people out there in the world like myself.

Maybe I’ll see the new sex and the city movie when I’m down there, and then go out on the town and act like Samantha.

At least i should be able to update from down there this time, at least when i check into the hotel anyway.