Spring is Coming...

I cannot wait for Winter to be over. It has been quite cold this year!

As you can see by the date of my last post, and the date of this blog post, I have once again forgotten about this blog. I have been travelling near and a little far (okay, less than 500km away from my home) and taking heaps of photographs.

I have been down to Albany, a small sea-side town, south of Perth. It was beautiful, even though it rained for the whole weekend my partner and I went down there for. We have also travelled up to the Pinnacles, which are massive limestone rocks in the middle of nowhere. From one angle, I could see the ocean, the shrubbery and then the mini-desert the Pinnacles were in. It's fascinating how close they were to the ocean.

I will show some more photos below, like in my previous post.

 Part of the town of Albany.

 At the Pinnacles, this one looked like a person to me.

At Valley of the Giants, on the way home from Albany.

I am shocking!

I am terrible. I promise over and over to write on this blog, but as shown on the last blog post, I haven't posted for 7 months.

In this post I shall show you some more photos that I have taken. Most of the photos have little to none editing on them, not including the watermark.

 I went to the Mundaring Weir and captured this beauty. The sad thing about this photo is, the water level is very low and we will probably never see the water rise above the dam in our lifetime.

 This is my cat. I think she is a little poser!

 

This is my boyfriend's mum's dog. She is a gorgeous little beauty.

I am trying to delve into photography a little more and hopefully get better at it. I would like to make it into an extra cash job if I do get better.

Game Change

I need to make more of an effort to keep up with this blog.

I have decided to make each post's title displaying what the post will be about, instead of the date it was made and posted.

Game Change.

There are several things that are different than the last time I posted.

1. I have had a Birthday. (No longer a teen)

2. I am currently the Leading Educator for the school aged children at my child care centre.

3. I am changing the way I write the post's titles.

4. I am improving my health dramatically.

The last one is a big one for me. This week I have been really on top of my health and habits. I have been eating healthy every day with only a tiny portion of bad food. I have been exercising every day, going on half-an-hours walk with my boyfriend.  I really want to lose weight for myself and so I can look good as a bridesmaid at my older sister's wedding in 2017. I have over a year to be in the best shape I could possibly be! I think it is achievable as long as I keep up this healthy habit. Watch this blog for my weight loss updates.

I will promise to write more.

Rhi x

Twenty Third of August, Two Thousand and Fiftteen

I have been a little absent from this blog over the past two months. I have knuckled down, as some may say, on my diploma studies and handed in the last few units. Tomorrow one of my trainers will be out to visit me, hopefully for the last time! I am glad I have got this far and as much as I want to continue on with my work, I think I may take a break from this career. I am young and there are many different types of jobs I can work in, I don't want to settle into just one in my life.

I am trying to figure out what else I am good at. I love working with computers so I am thinking a desk job, but I don't really have experience. I would like to study graphic design, but believe I am not good enough or have creative ideas. We are expected to know what we want to do with ourselves when we grow up and make decisions on what we learn at school based on what our careers might be when we finished. How do we know what we really want to do at 15, 16 or 17? I have always wanted to work with kids, but I also like to read, I like to use computers and I enjoyed working at a clothing store as a casual. Do I always want to work in child care, or is there something else out there that I want to do, or I am good at but not know it? I am almost 20 and I don't know where I can see myself in 5 years.

For now I will stick to child care, as I have spent several years studying to become a qualified worker in the sector, but who knows what I might be doing in a year, 5 years or even 10 years. Maybe a job from home, maybe a job that takes me travelling all over the world. Live your life how you want to live it. Don't like it how it currently is? Change it, make it worth living the best you could possibly be.

All for now, Rhi

Twenty First of June, Two Thousand and Fifteen

In this post, I will be displaying some of my photography edits and graphics. I hope you enjoy my attempts, with knowing I am no expert in each field, in your mind.

This is my final edited photo of Dolphins, taken in Rockingham, Western Australia. I was very lucky to meet about 12 Dolphins that day! In this photo, you can see 8 of them.

 This collage shows you the edit I did to the photo. I made the photo look brighter as it was an overcast day.

This is my 2nd attempt at drawing on the computer, using a different application than my first attempt (here). I wasn't too pleased with my result. 

This is a 3rd go at a Harry Potter themed graphic. I like this one the most out of all 3 tries. I put a lot of work into this one compared to the other attempts.

I will add more to this blog as I learn more and more new tricks and tips. Thank you for viewing today's post.

Rhi x

Fourth of June, Two Thousand and Fifteen

Hello internet, hope you are having an alright night/day today.
Last night I did a thing. A sort of big thing. I finally went to the hairdressers and got my hair cut in half. The lady took a photo of my hair before she started cutting it, surprising me, it was down to my bottom! I had about 30cm cut off the length, as well as getting it layered. It feels much, much lighter than what it used to feel like! I am very happy with the outcome of the trip to the hairdressers.

When I came to work this morning, some of the girls thought I was a new carer/parent! Everyone thought it looked great, and I haven't stopped smiling about my hair. I am really glad I decided to get it cut finally.

On the weekend I brought a new book, even though I haven't finished the Diary of Anne Frank! I brought Grimm's Fairy-tales. I've always wanted to read their versions. Because the stories only last about 5 pages, I can read a story whenever I feel like it. I've decided to start another reading challenge, this time it will only go for 7 months (1st of June - 1st of December), then after a months break, I will do a full year challenge. Following this link is my previous go at a reading challenge: http://randomdust.blog.com/2012-reading-challenge/. This challenge will be scaled down for 7 months, but as usual, I wish to go above and beyond my target. With this challenge, each separate story in Grimm's Fairy-tales, will count as one, not the whole book.

Today is only a short blog post, I will hopefully do a bigger one next time.
Bye for now,
Rhi x

Fourteenth of May, Two Thousand and Fifteen

It has been a few weeks since I have last posted, I am trying not to fall behind like I did on my old blog.

I recently went and saw the new Avengers movie with my boyfriend. I have not seen the first Avengers movie or any of the single character movies beforehand, so there were some parts I had no clue what was going on. It was a really awesome movie, I have slowly begun to watch all the single character movies and the first Avengers movie because I found it so good. I am actually getting ready to watch Thor!

So far (in order of when I watched each movie), I have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger,  Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and now Thor.*

I have sort of fallen in love with the multi-universe and some of the characters are amazing (I like Black Widow and Captain America the most!) and I am so excited for Spider-man joining the multi-universe, crossing my fingers they will keep Andrew Garfield as Peter/Spider-man as he is amazing and gahhhhhhhhhhh, if they replace him I will scream.

It getting late in the evening so I am going to make this post a short one, let's hope I enjoy Thor as much as the other movies, I already enjoyed Chris Hemsworth as Kim Hyde on Home and Away, I am assuming I will enjoy Thor as well.

Bye for now, Rhi!

*After researching the Marvel universe and what is included in it, I've realised I have also seen 'Guardians of the Galaxy' but did not realise it was connected, this is technically the first movie I have seen from the Marvel Universe after discovering this fact and is so far the only movie in the Marvel universe that I do not like.