White Trash Beautiful, Trailer Park Queen
She slings hash at the diner from 11 to 5
She married a boy from school, thought he was oh so cool
But all he can do for money is drive
Out late haulin' freight on Interstate 5,
prayin' he'll see home before his baby arrive

White Trash Beautiful, there's something you should know
My heart belongs to you
And you coulda found a better guy
I'll love you till the day I die I swear to God it's true
I'm comin' home to you
I'm comin' home to you girl
He lights a cigarette, his eyes half open
He won't be home tonight, but she keeps hopin'
Drinkin himself to sleep is his only way of copein'
She waits for him every night, she leaves the front door open
It's 4 AM and doin 95, tryin to stay awake and make it home alive

White Trash Beautiful,
there's something you should know
My heart belongs to you
I know you coulda found a better guy
I'll love you till the day I die
I swear to God it's true
I'm comin' home to you
I'm comin' home to you girl

Her lips say painted red, nametag's crooked
Her heart's been gone awhile with
the truck driving man that took it
He keeps her photograph on his rearview mirror
She prays for him every night,
she hopes that he can hear her

White Trash Beautiful,
there's something you should know
My heart belongs to you girl
I know you coulda found you some better guy
I'll love you till the day I die
I swear to God it's true
I'm comin' home to you
I'm comin' home to you girl
I'm comin' home to you

-"White Trash Beautiful"(Everlast)

It's been an excruciating two weeks...The sleepless nights; the events that deluged me like a House of Cards swept by the wind; assignments that never seemed to end, the list goes on.

Still, I guess my engine finally burnt out so yesterday and today, I took a couple of hours out of my hectic schedule to have some quality time. Me being me, the first step to distressing is always shopping, which I did some of yesterday AND today...All in all, I bought some nice tops and some DVDs as well.

But best of all, was the time I took to spend with some friends. They were mostly impromptu decisions but they made me feel really much better. I bumped into Koa at uni yesterday and while I was out shopping at Melbourne Central last night, I decided to wait till Koa knocked off work and we had dinner at Ito. Later on, Waiying cajoled me to go to her place eventhough it was like 2 in the morning. She even came to pick me up and drove me back. I was at her place for only an hour or so but just sitting there in her apartment with Waiying, Gene, Chuan and Noel just helped me to forget for just that little while how stressed out and tired I was.

Today, Sami and Asish came to dinner and it was fun to just sit and chill for awhile. I'm ashamed to say that today's dinner was the first proper meal I had in two weeks. Even so, I didn't eat that much. That certainly would explain how I lost 5 kg in about 3 weeks or so. Still, it's not good....I'm so sleep-deprived and exhausted that I had to cut my hair off today. It was falling like mad and I had to do something before I went bald. It feels weird though cos' my hair's been its previous length since I was 18... But I digress.

Sami and Asish were really good company and I thought it was so sweet and funny that Sami kept thanking me for dinner. Asish just made me feel so embarrassed by his very vocal approval of my cooking. (it's not that great...) Despite numerous thanks, he still texted me when he went home. Sami's always had the ability to make me laugh. Maybe it's his funny accent or just what he says but I know when he says 'Hello Dawn' or 'Hi Dawnie' to me, it puts a smile on my face. And the hug he gave me goodbye made me feel a little better. Oh well...And before you guys speculate, I'm not moving from one coursemate to another. No funny business going on here...Sami is like an older brother to me. *Sticks tongue out*

All in all, I'm still stressed and exhausted but at least I'm trying to deal. I may be in a down cycle but it's plateau-d and should be heading uphil...soon (fingers crossed).

THANK YOU to the wonderful friends who have been there for me...Esp Yvie who has been my emotional support so much lately.