I'm having a wonderful day!

the new Tokio Hotel TShirts have arrived in the country :D And they want some fans to model them and do a photoshoot. I want to do eeeet!!

Also, OMG this has made me almost pee with excitement... t.A.T.u are PERFORMING A CONCERT IN NEW ZEALAND! September 30th!! I can't wait! I'm just a mess of fangirly jizz and goo.

Aaaaand my work signed me up for a singing competition tomorrow, where a TV station comes around, and if we/I win, we get a $5000 staff party. NO PRESSURE! But everyone has talked me into it, saying if I don't do it, we have no chance of winning!

I'm off to San Fransisco on Monday!!! That is all <3

Those 6 days between christmas and new years are the most epically confusing days ever. No one knows what's happening. You just consume a lot of turkey sandwiches. And no one really has any fucking clue what's going on.

Does the post come today?
What day is it?
Should I start my diet?
Are the shops open?
HAVE THE SALES STARTED?
Can I park here today?
What day is it?



Also, I don't want to feel Christmasy, but my friend made me this and I love it XD
damn all of you making me feel all full of the holiday spirit! hahaha

2 weeks until I'm off to San Fransisco!! I can't wait! I'm gonna see Wicked (for the second time. guilty as charged) in the first week, then I'm seeing Lady Gaga on the 14th, and driving down to LA on the 15th.
In LA I'm doing doing DisneyLand, Universal Studios, and SHOPPING! I tried to get tickets for Lady Gaga in LA too, but they're sold out, so I may miss out there. I want to pop by Cherrytree and just be all "I CAME TO AMERICA JUST FOR GAGA" but I think that lacks taste.
Aaaaaanywho. I'm also going to do a few stops in LA which are going to be a pare of my My Chemical Romance pilgrimage. I'm definately hitting up the Paramour Mansion, where they recorded The Black Parade, and scooting past Reprise Records to see where they're recording this album. Aaaah all so exciting.

2 WEEKS TIL I'M OUT OF THE COUNTRY!

Ooooh and I'm going to Sydney in Feb to see My Chemical Romance too! I may see Wicked again... But by that stage, I would have seen it twice O_O not that that is stopping me with Lady Gaga. I already saw her in NZ as PCD supporting act, and now I'm seeing her in San Fran, and then in NZ in March. Aaaaah Gaga, you're amazing.

I genuinely can not beleive the generosity of the Tokio Hotel fandom right now, with the beginning of th_wishlist. I never thought I would see the day that the whole fandom came together and helped out, and were genuinely good willed and generous. It feels so good!

I, for one, am aiming to fulfill 20 wishes! And I have decided, that no more than 5 of those 20 will be Christmas card ones. It's my challenge :)
Most Americans who I am going to be sending presents to will have to wait until I arrive in the US (it costs alot to ship from NZ you see... I'll post stuff from San Fransisco...) but I have sent 3 out today, so 3 down, 17 to go!!! :D

In all seriousness, if anyone has any Tokio Hotel merchandise lying around, double ups, or items they just do not need, please send them my way. I promise to give every Tokio Hotel item I get to other New Zealand fans. It's super hard to get any Tokio Hotel stuff here, and I want to help my girls out, because they are all such great kids.

Damn you all, I didn't want to get into the Christmas spirit this year. Now it looks like I'll have to put up my tree and everything hahahaha <3

Hokay. I'm starting this new thing, it's kind of a meme, but not really. For the next 23 days I will be posting a question. Each of these questions is meant to give incredible insight into a persons nature. And I need it for Uni, so if you have the time to pop down a few lines of answer for me over the next few days, that would be mint.

Some of the questions are a wee bit... well, not offensive, but a bit politically incorrect. But they're legit pop culture questions, I SWEAR.

Day 1, question 1.

1- Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do 5 simple tricks- he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into a joker card, and two others in similar vein. These are his only tricks, and he can't learn anymore; he can only do these 5. HOWEVER, it turns out he is doing these 5 magic tricks with real magic. It's not just an illusion; he can actually conjure the bunny out of nowhere and he can move the coin through space. He's legitimately magical, but extremely limited in scope and influence.
Would this person be more impressive than Albert Einstein?

I'm going to LA and San Fran in December!! I'm seeing Lady Gaga, December 21st. I'M SO EXCITED! Then in January, me and the family are going to VEGAS! Wheee!


also, if I lose 30kgs (about 60 pounds) in 18 months, I'm getting $10,000 O_O
brb GOING FOR A RUN.

My job is so fucking unbelievable. I’ll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career oppertunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m not sure she even showers, much less shaves her “womanly” parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I’m sure after work. He probably hasn’t been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he’s only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960’s, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it’s trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.

Just found out my grandad is going to die within the next 2 days. This man taught me everything I know; he taught me how to swim, and was always my hero. He has alzheimers, and hasn't been able to talk, or remember any of us for about 6 months. So it's like losing him twice.

Worst is, I haven't seen him in about 4 months, because I've been too busy. And mostly because I'm scared to see him now. He's got bone cancer now too, and so many other problems. I don't want to see him like this. I want to remember him as the strong man I love so much. But I feel so guilty, because I didn't see him enough when I had the chance. I want to see him and say a final goodbye, but I'm too scared.

So, Charlette, I'm reinstating you as an admin on THNZ because I can't do this right now. I'm so sorry to all my THNZ staff for being absent in the next week.

I made duck gyoza with a cherry hoisin sauce for dinner! I thought I would share my recipe with my flist, because they were GORGEOUS. I made up the recipes and spent the whole afternoon cooking up a storm and trying different flavours and working out the best way to make them. Nom nom.

Gyoza:
2 duck breasts (you can supplement with 400 grams of cooked peking duck, shredded)
4 spring onions, sliced in half inch lengths
2 Tablespoons of Hoisin Sauce
Dumpling pastry

Cherry Hoisin Sauce
150 grams of morello cherries (any cherries in syrup will do. I used cherries marinated in Pinot Noir from a jar)
Quarter of a cup of soy sauce
Quarter of a cup of Hoisin sauce
2 Table Spoons of honey
2 Teaspoons of crushed chilli
1 and a half cups water

For the gyoza, roast the duckbreast at 165 degrees (celsius) in an oven bag for one hour. After one hour, remove the breasts from the oven bag, and put them back in the oven for 45 minutes (to dry them out). If you want to use pre cooked peking duck, just skip this stage XD
You can add about a quarter of the duck fat in the oven bag to the cherry hoisin sauce if you want.
Pull apart the duck breasts into small chunks (include the skin and fat, it provides alot of flavour) and add the sliced spring onions, and the hoisin sauce and stir.
Put a small amount of the filling in each dumpling wrapper, and squeeeeeeeeze closed so they're half circle shaped.
Shallow fry the dumplings in a frying pan until golden brown. You just want to cook the pastry. Nom.

The sauce is basically, add all the ingredients to a pot, and simmer. Make sure there aren't any pips in the cherries! Once it has thickened a bit, you can whizz up the cherries so that it's a smooth consistancy, or just pass it through a sive.

They're DELISH.

Holy hell

I don't know if anyone on my flist is into Space Cowboy, but I am. Madly. And the song off his album called "Devastated" was leaked by Chantelle today, and it's AMAZING.

AND MARTIN SINGS ON IT
AND HE HAS THE MOST AMAZING VOICE EVER
AND I TAKE BACK EVERY NASTY QUIP I HAVE EVER MADE ABOUT HIM

he is now like my celeb crush other than Romeo.