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Monday, July 11th, 2005
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1:25 pm - It's been a while...
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So Nick and I decided that moving back to SA was our best option at this stage. We're now living with his parents - not so bad, but annoying having people around all the time! He's working for his dad, and I (finally, after months and months) managed to get a job as well. I work in an office about 30 mins drive from home doing Admin work. It's not bad, and I get paid loads more than at PRD in QLD (stingy buggers they were).
Everything's been going pretty well since we've been back. I'm managing to save a bit of cash and I get to see friends and family in Adelaide every month or so.
Am missing the QLD weather and lifestyle though. Especially on days like today when it's 13 degrees C outisde!
Got my HECS statement in the mail the other day. Turns out I owe the government (or whoever) $15250.00 for going through Uni. How depressing. Meh.
I was trying to think of what else has happened lately, but there really hasn't been much going on!
You can check out: http://groups.msn.com/TanyasUpdates/ if you want to see some pics from when I was in QLD - there's a couple there of my skydive (most scariest thing ever - so never doing it again!), and some from when Nick and I went to "austraaaaaya zoo".
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| Thursday, November 25th, 2004
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12:42 pm - Confusion - advice needed.
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When you're living in a place that you like, but you have no friends and a job you're not sure you want to continue in - what do you do? Do you stay there because you love the place, or do you move on to somewhere where you've got friends/family?
And if you've never had any idea about what you wanted to do "when you grow up", what kind of job do you think about going for?
Somebody help me!!
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| Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
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12:07 pm - I don't know...
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I'm just up in the air about everything at the moment. QLD is great and I love it up here, but I miss my family and friends heaps and I think Nick is missing his too.
I think the first half of next year is going to be the big test - Nick's going back to Loxton to work at the winery from Jan-May so he'll be there, and I'll be here all by myself... I'd move back there if that's what he wanted to do, but he's going to see how it goes while he's working back there and see if he'd be able to handle living there again.
I'm just... I don't really know how to describe it... Just in a bit of a slump at the moment I guess. Not really the best time of year for it, but what can you do. Hopefully I'll manage to climb out of it by Xmas :)
current mood:  apathetic
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| Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
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4:47 pm - Ssssh... Don't tell...
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*whispers*
I actually miss uni.
*gasp*
I do though. I miss getting to hang out with my friends mainly, but doing what I'm doing now - same thing day after day after day - has made me realise how much I actually enjoyed (most of) my classes. Learning interesting things is great fun, and if I didn't have to work like a pleb to make money, I might just consider going back.
Okay, so one of the other things stopping me is the amount of money it'd end up costing...
But it'd still be fun :)
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| Monday, March 29th, 2004
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11:57 am
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Anyone who says their idea of a great job is one that involves getting paid good money to do nothing has no idea how boring doing nothing all day really is.
Would you take a boring job just because the money was quite good? I think I'd go nuts. Thank goodness this is only a temp assignment, because if I was doing this all day every day my brain would slowly turn into a big pile of mush and leak messily out of my ears until there was nothing left. Oh, I'm a switchboard operator BTW. High points of the day include: the phone actually ringing and giving me something to do for 30 seconds, and lunch. Low points include: the phone not ringing, leaving me nothing to do, and people yelling at me for causing their problems when I have no idea what they're on about in the first place.
Really, it'd be okay if I actually had other things to do as well as the phone thing, but I don't. *sigh* I would rather have too much to do than not enough. I would rather freak out and stress that I'm not going to have time to do anything rather than sitting and staring at a computer screen trying to pretend I'm working when I'm obviously not.
This leaves me in a dilemma as I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I'm moving interstate at the beginning of May and in order to find a place to live (after the first few weeks when I'm staying with an uncle) I have to find a job. Unfortunately for me I have no idea what kind of job I should look for. I know what I DON'T want to do - I don't want to work in a shop again, I don't want to work weekends, and I don't want to be a switchboard operator.
My skills: I'm good with people, articulate, a quick thinker, and I'm excellent under pressure. Trouble is, the only fields I've ever worked in are retail and admin. Anything else I think looks interesting needs minimum experience.
How are you supposed to get the experience needed if the job you want requires you to already have it? I had thought that working in a travel agency could be quite fun. My Arts degree doesn't give me the necessary experience to work in that industry (despite me having travelled quite a bit), and I don't really have time to study more at the moment. Add to that every travel-type job I've seen have "mimimum 2 years experience essential" and ... grrr... Why can't I just find a (fun) job where I don't have to have much (if any) experience and they train me? How else am I supposed to learn stuff to GET the required experience??
Catch-22 situations suck. Hmph.
On the upside Nick and I are 2 years on Weds which is great :)
And it's Easter next week which means a long weekend - woohoo!!
3 weeks after that is Nick's brother's wedding where I get to wear my spunky new dress and red shoes (omg, I'm so in love with my shoes!).
Then Nick and I are off to QLD to find our fortune!!
So apart from the whole job frustration thing life's looking up at the moment. As it should be :D
current mood:  good
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| Friday, February 20th, 2004
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10:33 pm
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Your soul is bound to the Yellow Rose: The
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As a Yellow Rose, you always look out for your
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| Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
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8:15 pm - Realisation...
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I have this book that I call my "stuff I want book". It's basically a scrapbook and when I buy magazines and see things I want I cut them out and stick them in it. Having looked at my stuff I want book a little more closely over the past few days I've come to a realisation.
I have a shoe problem.
Well, I think it would be fairer to say that if I had any money to spend I would have a shoe problem. As it is at the moment I'm simply stuck wishing.
Have to have these!
It could also be that the only fashions being shown in mags like Cosmo here in Australia at the moment are hideous 80s flashbacks (hello - did anyone really like 80s fashion?!) as well as fluro objects of extreme hideousness *shudder* So my book has lots of shoes and jewellery because they're the nicest parts of the outfits.
In other news it's my nanna and grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary on Feb 16th so the family is trekking across the country for a get-together. 50 years is pretty impressive. I mean, they were both born in the 1920s, and they married in 1954 (grandpa was 29, nanna was 26) so they've been together for... Um... Well I can't work out the percentage (coz I'm bad at maths and it's too hard!), but it's a damn long time! My mum and dad have their 25th anniversary this year as well (theirs is in Sept) so the family's doing quite well in the marriage area. I have to organise a family 'do' for mum and dad, and I thought that as my prezzie to them I'd send them on a photo shoot kind of like the ones I've done. I want it to be a location shoot (where they go somewhere like a garden and get the pics done) coz I think they're nicer than studio pics. I know mum likes the guy that took my photos so I might book them in with him a bit later in the year. The last nice pics they had taken together were at their wedding, so this'll be nice for them.
Other wedding news sees Nick's brother getting married in May (Nick's a groomsman), and one of my friends is getting engaged in August. It's all happening!! Nothing for me though - I'll wait a few years yet :)
current mood:  busy
current music: "With You" - Jessica Simpson.
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| Tuesday, August 19th, 2003
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3:28 pm
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After a few dopey days of jet lag I've recovered from the flight and am getting on with things. Work... It's okay. I did 18.5 hrs last week - WOOHOO!! On the downside something got stolen while I was working and I didn't notice until the next day, but it's happened while my manager has been working too, so at least I know it's not me that caused it :)
Uni is okay I guess. My last semester!! I'm so excited that I'm going to graduate at the end of the year!! I have 7 more essays to write and then NO MORE! Yaaaaaay :) :) :) And they all seem pretty easyish too which is eeeeeeexcellent.
Speaking of essays, should probably get back to the one that's due on Thurs.
Oh yay.
Hmm..
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| Sunday, August 3rd, 2003
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6:28 pm - Ohhh, the jetlag...
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England has been and gone. Well, I suppose it would make more sense to say that my TRIP to England has been and gone, England still being there in the same place it's always been and all. I'm so tired at the moment. My brother and I are in transit in Japan airport, and is there ANYTHING more boring than being in transit? Yay for computers!! Boo for finding out that uni started a week earlier than it said in the online timetable. Crossing fingers that Lareina signed me up for all the tutes.
I was actually trying to read stuff about the courses I'm doing this semester and the work I have to do for them all but it all kind of whizzed past my eyes into blurry meaninglessness.
Time zones play havoc with the body clock. We left England at 9pm on Sat. After flying for 10.5 hours we landed in Japan at 4.15PM on SUNDAY. We now have to wait until 9pm til we leave for Sydney - flying for 9.5 hrs and landing at 7.30pm. Have to hang around THERE for an hour and a half (better than the 4 hours we've got here!) before we finally fly to Adelaide.
You get the weirdest cravings when you're miles from home in an airport. My brother wants a meat pie with sauce (you can't get them ANYWHERE!! Not the Aussie style ones anyways with the gelatinous -sp?- insides). All I want is a SHOWER. And sleep. Ohhhh, sleep. Neeeed sleep. I snoozed for about 4 hours on the way here which was pretty good, but my brain has turned to mush and everything's moving like it's underwater. Oh wait, that could be me...
Trip itself was fantastic. Spent every penny I took with me by the last day I was there which I was proud of. Bought way too many new summer tops, but oh well. Got lots of fun (and dodgy) souvenirs for friends and family. Madame Tussauds waxworks place is fun as, and slightly disconcerting coz all the figurines look REALLY REAL. Hilarious "live" part where you walk thru the dungeons and actors dressed as serial killers jump out at you. Hilarity intensified by the three hysterical Japanese girls in front of me who grabbed my wrists and marched me bodily along in front of them so I'd get scared first. Some guy offered me a handful of his guts as they were falling out of his stomach. Tasteful. Hehe.
Paris was incredibile as usual. I love Paris. The hotel room sucked ass having no aircon and no fan either and it being a sweltering 30-something and muggy. I felt like the Wicked Witch - "I'm melting!! I'm melting!!". Climbed the Arc de Triumph (all 284 steps) - there's a better view from there than from the Eiffel Tower (which I went up later that day). Saw the Sacre Coeur (a funky old church), then went on a coach tour thru the "red light" district where we saw the Moulin Rouge. Went out to Versailles (King Louis the 14ths place) which was impressive, then went and had dinner in the same place I had it when I was there 9 years ago! Same guy serving and all :) Had a look around the Notre Dame (looks really nice all cleaned up), and heard some guy singing "Figaro" (he was really good).
Went to Norfolk for the last week and to a place called "Sunny Hunny" (aka: Hunstanton). It's a beach and was a really nice day so was fun. Looked around a sea life sanctuary at seals (so cute!), otters (o fluffy!), and stingrays that flapped around in the water like they were doing tricks (kinda creepy!).
All in all it was a really great trip. I'd love to go again, but this time I'd go with some friends coz while the family thing is all well and good, sometimes it's just nicer to have your friends around.
Can't wait to get back home and see everyone!!12 or so hours to go....
And counting!
current mood:  sleepy
current music: Japanese ppl talking over the loudspeaker...
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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2003
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11:58 am
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So I'm leaving for England on Wednesday. Yes, I'm looking forward to it but at the same time I'm kinda not. I don't know why. Everyone keeps telling me that I should be all excited about it and everything but I'm still waiting for the feeling to hit me. At the moment I'm just trying to avoid packing. I guess I'm a little worried about things changing while I'm gone and that when I come back maybe things won't be the same as they were. *sigh* At the same time I feel like a complete moron for thinking like that because yes, it's a great opportunity and yes, I'm sure I'll have a good time. I think I'll be okay once I get there, it's just the "getting there" part that I have to deal with. Also I have to leave Nick all by himself for 27 days and considering the longest we've been apart in the past year and a half is 3 days it's gonna be a killer.
For something completely random:
My Friends as Animals
I think that Liv would be (much as she's going to hate hearing it) a butterfly... Or maybe a colourful bird.
Kimberley would be a cockateil (coz she talks so much and so loudly).
Jenny I think would be... a cat.
I can't think of an animal for Lareina... Maybe a guinea pig? Coz she's quiet in some situations, noisy in others, she's really cute and smart and at the same time can stand up for herself and dig her teeth in if she wants to.
I have no idea what kind of animal I'd be... Suggestions anyone?
I got my hair done yesterday :) I love going to the hairdresser. I'm more blonde again now. I decided that I felt boring as a brunette, it just wasn't for me. I need to warn people about my personality before they get too close ;) Hehehehe.
Better start packing I suppose...
Woohoo?
current mood:  indifferent
current music: "Heaven" - Live
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| Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
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4:20 pm - Not long to go...
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Everything's happening at once!! Isn't it always the way? At least I can't complain of being bored :)
It was Kimberley's 21st party on Friday night. It was a dinner at this social club place. Not too bad. $12 was a ripoff for the measly "meal" they gave us for dinner, but the DJ was pretty good. Caught up with a few people from school who I haven't seen in years. One of the girls used to be my best friend, and I haven't seen her for nearly 3 years (long story). I spoke to her for a lot of the night and she hasn't really changed much. It's funny, I thought she'd be a lot different now from when I saw her last but she's not. There were little things that she'd talk about that annoyed me when we used to be friends (stuff about her parents controlling her etc) and from what she was saying things haven't changed there much either. It was really strange, because I felt as though I'd changed heaps since the end of high school but maybe I haven't really...
It was Liv's 21st on Friday, but she's not doing anything for a while. HAPPY BIRTHDAY though :) She's having a crisis with her boy at the moment which will hopefully resolve itself soon. It'll be FINE - you'll see *smooch*
I've got 2 major assignments coming up for uni seeing as it's the end of semester. One of them requires me to visit a strip joint (excursion anyone? Hehe), and the other just requires LOTS of work. I'm trying as hard as I can on the second one, but it seems like everything I'm doing is a little too childish or just plain crap. It's probably just me being negative about it... Hopefully... I'll have to ask around at Uni on Thursday and see what ppl think. The stripper one's due next Friday (or a little after, I think we get an extension), and the other one's due the Weds after that. Then I'm FREEEEEEE til August!! WoooooohOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I've got about $750 saved up for my England trip. I found out a few weeks ago that we get to go to Paris too!! I'm so excited!! My grandad's going to be joining us (urgh! no!! help!!!), but it shouldn't be too bad. I'm going to come back completely broke, and it's going to be GREAT!! Wheeee! I told my boss the other day and (to my relief) she was really excited for me :)
Speaking of my boss, she's had the worst run of luck. She's allergic to (what seems like) all yummy foods, PLUS her boyfriend of 4 years just dumped her (after he told her he'd been cheating on her with her 'friend'), PLUS she's got cervical cancer and has to have an operation to get pretty much all of her cervix removed! And yet she always seems so happy. Wow.
Better get back to work I suppose...
Til next time...
:)
current mood: busy
current music: "Why don't you & I" Chad Kroeger & Santana.
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| Monday, May 5th, 2003
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12:48 pm - Quick update before class
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Yikes, I didn't realise it had been so long since I last wrote in here!!
Not awfully much has been happening really... *thinks* Nope, not much at all. My England trip is getting closer and closer and I'm trying desperately to save up for it. $130 phone bills don't help though (I wasn't impressed to see that $60 of it was for calls that I made in DEC last year. Sheesh, you'd think they could have billed me for it THEN!), but I'm getting there. I'm telling my boss about the trip sometime next week I think... Hopefully it'll be okay.
My essays were horrible to write, and one of them caused me no end of paranoia due to the fact that I thought my teacher hated my guts and would do her best to fail me. Well wasn't I surprised when I got it back and not only had I passed, but I got 83% for it - nearly a high distinction!! The teacher's being really nice to me now, so I figure that she was probably mean to me before coz she thought I was stupid but now she knows better ;) My other essay I managed to score an 85% (high distinction) for, so all in all I'm pretty happy about the way uni's going at the moment. Got 2 more essays due at the end of next week... It just never ends!!
I can't believe I'm going to be graduating at the end of this year! It's a little scary - next year I'll be out in the big bad world working my little ass off. Trouble is, I'm not sure what job I should go for. I want something full time, but I want it to be something I like and that I can advance in. I don't want to be stuck in retail sales for the rest of my life. It has to have some kind of people contact (coz I'd go nuts if I couldn't talk to people!), and on-the-job training would be good too rather than having to know everything from the very beginning. Ooh, and something involving very little mathematical knowledge would be good... Any ideas what I should be looking into?
2 of my friends are turning 21 this month and I'm a little worried about the timing of their bday 'do's. Kimberley is 21 on May 25th, and Liv is 21 on the 23rd. My problem is that Kimberley is having her bday do on the 23rd... and I don't know what or when Liv is doing yet. If Liv has something on the 23rd, then I'd feel more obligated to go to that, seeing as it's her actual bday that day. Which leaves me in the "what do I say to Kimberley" dilemma. Argh!!! Help!!
Anyways, better toddle off and be all studious and stuff *sigh* :)
Not long to go til holidays!!!
Oh - Alicia - did you get the postcard?? :)
current mood: busy
current music: I have Daniel Bedingfield playing in my head.
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| Thursday, March 27th, 2003
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12:12 pm - I am...
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Happy about:
The weather - nice and sunny and warmish :)
Getting paid more than I thought I was going to - always nice.
My new jacket - suede, gotta get it waterproofed before winter.
Having a job I enjoy.
Excited about:
Having lots to do at the moment.
Nick's and my 1 year on Monday the 31st.
My England trip being only 13 weeks away.
Graduating at the end of the year.
Amused about:
My Ritual class on Monday where Liv and I got pulled up for (discreetly of course) writing notes to each other. I was transported back to year 7 for the rest of class, lol.
The fact that I'm walking around with underwear on that says "CORRUPTED" and nobody knows ;)
Not looking forward to:
Writing my 2 essays in the next fortnight.
The cold weather starting up again.
The batteries running out in my walkman.
current mood: happy
current music: "Whatever, dude" - Josie & the Pussycats soundtrack.
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| Tuesday, March 18th, 2003
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2:53 pm - Stuff. It happened.
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Well, I haven't thought of anything exciting or profound to say, but I'll update anyway :)
My thing on Sat turned out pretty well. Got my hair dyed again from horrible home-dye red/orange/crap to a dark brown (still with red tinges). Will probably end up going blonde again eventually (I feel the need to warn people of my personality, hehe) but brunette looks okay for the moment.
Oh it was SO good to get paid last week!!! I ended up being really boring and buying Jenny a CD for her bday, but I rang her and asked what she wanted and that's what she said. I'm having trouble coming to the realisation that I actually get paid AGAIN tomorrow!! It's been, oh, YEARS since I've been paid weekly *happy dance* I'm not going to know what to do with myself :)
Had a staff meeting at work on Friday night. Got told a few things that we need to keep an eye on and stuff, so if you walk into the store and I walk up and say hi - don't stress, I'm not going to annoy you or force you to buy stuff. We just have to say hi to EVERYONE who walks in.
Friday night the plan was for Liv, Lareina and I to go to a performance called "Convergance" at a bar called Minke in town. I tried getting in contact with Lareina all day, but to no avail. Finally I decided that it'd just end up being Liv and I. I was ALMOST at Liv's house when she (Liv) rang me, sobbing, asking if we were still going. I had visions of her bailing as well, but when I got to her house she was relatively under control (boy problems - can't they just go away and let her have a normal boyfriend???). Anyways, out we went. After a slight detour to get some cash to pay for entry we got to the bar and walked in. Went downstairs first. Weird sitar music playing and hardly anyone down there. Went upstairs. Trippy lava lamp light thing being projected onto the wall. Stayed in there for a while (even though we weren't supposed to. Rusty let us stay.) and saw some people doing this martial arts stuff which I later found out was called Capoeira (I still can't pronounce it properly!). We decided at about 11 that we'd taken enough notes (the reason for the excursion being homework) and we toddled off home.
Saturday was the hairdressing day (took 3 hours!), then Jenny's party. Once again Lareina was supposed to come and we didn't hear a word from her, and she didn't show up. Now Friday night I could have dealt with okay seeing as it was only a homework thing anyways, but Saturday night was Jenny's 21st party and I would have thought that if she hadn't been able to make it she could at least have TOLD someone so we weren't wondering where she was all night. It was good though - nice place, yummy food, interesting people ;)
Found out on Monday about Lareina's disappearance. It was because of a guy. She met him on Friday and ended up spending the weekend being naughty with him. Hey, it's fantastic that she found someone and had a good time (coz it's been SOOOOO long since anything like that's happened to her!), but I still think she could have taken 5 seconds to send an SMS saying "Can't make it tonite" or something.
C'est la vie I suppose.
The people I was house sitting for are back and gave me a $50 gift voucher for my efforts *most impressed* I'm debating what to spend it on - so many decisions!! I really want a leather jacket (seeing as I seem to have lost my fakey one), so I'm thinking of having a look around and seeing what I can find and maybe laybying one (coz I'm supposed to be saving up at the moment).
Speaking of saving up, I'm quite impressed with myself at the moment. I have about $320 in the bank, and that's only after a couple of weeks!! It's in a new account that I don't have a keycard for, so I can't actually spend it.
Got some scissors and electric clipper thingies and gave the dog a trim last night. Boy, was that an exercise!! He's a King Charles Spaniel and has really long hair on the back of his legs, his tummy, and his tail and every time he goes up to the top of our backyard he comes back covered in weeds and prickles and it takes FOREVER to get them out coz they get all tangled in the hair. So I sat in a chair and held the little wriggler while Nick proceeded to do the hairdressing on him. Took an hour and a bit (and I was wearing a black top - the dog's brown and white - I got hair everywhere), but we finally got it done. Hehehe, he looks so funny now - he's all pudgy!!
Hey Alicia - got your letter. Will write back ASAP!! I love snail mail *grins*
I think that's all the news I've got for now.
*thinks*
Yup, that's it.
:)
current mood: lazy
current music: Computer noises.
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| Tuesday, March 11th, 2003
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8:35 pm - Slacker
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Liv just told me that I was a slacker and that I should probably update my journal :P
*I'm working every day this week which is going to make for a sweeeeet payday next week.
*Speaking of payday, tomorrow is it and I get double coz we didn't get paid last week due to the Marion grrl not putting our timesheets thru (NOT happy!).
*It's Jenny's 21st party on Sat and I have NO idea what to get her. Suggestions???
*I'm house sitting at the moment, which would be okay if I wasn't staying at Nick's house all the time. Hafta go over to the house-sitting place and feed the aminals every night. Am looking forward to them getting back on Sat.
*Made a new friend - Emma - when her horse put it's foot thru the horse float they were transporting it home in on Sunday out the front of Nick's house. Pretty horses :) I get to go riding on them!!
*Have a thing on Sat that I hope will work out okay - will say more about it when I've found out. It's actually something really mundane, but still ;) I like sounding important and secretive.
*Had the flu last week and while I was all sick and at work my area manager kept picking on me and my sinuses were clogged which made my eyes water and look like I was crying. Wasn't impressed.
*Found out today that tosser of an area manager got fired - WHEEEEE!!!
That's about it for now I think...
Will post again when I can get to another computer and think of something profound to say.
*smoochies*
current mood: cheerful
current music: Some Stevie Wonder song stuck in my head from work.
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| Wednesday, February 19th, 2003
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11:38 am - Update...
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Valentine's Day this year ws decidedly better than last year. Or the year before. Or even the year before that. In fact, I'd have to say that this one topped all of them (not that it was difficult to top the others - seeing as they were never acknowledged, boyfriend or not). But yeah, I had a good time :) Got given a red rose and a gorgeous gold watch then was taken out to dinner at a nice place by the beach, walked along the beach for a while, watched the sun go down. Movie-style. Then we spent the weekend down the river just kicking back and lazing around. He giggled at me when I asked if a fish would bite my toes if I dangled them in the water (hey - I don't like not being able to see below the surface!).
(Note: no fish bit my toes when I finally dangled them)
Uni starts again next week. And it's mum's birthday on Saturday so I have to organise something for us to do, then I've got training for work on Sunday (at 10am! Nooooo!!), which I'm not really complaining about because we get paid for it (yaaaay!!). Then I have a test on what we learned in training (that's Monday), and I'll be working from 7am (*dies*) on either Tues or Weds stocking the store, and from then until the other store opens in early March I'll have a few shifts so I can start to learn what I'm doing :) Finally I'm going to have things to do!! People just don't understand how BORED you get when you: a)Have no money to spend on anything (petrol, magazines, movies, etc), and b)Have no friends to hang around/talk to coz they're all busy all the time. All holidays I've been told "Oh, you're so lucky to have such a long time off!". Trust me - I'd rather be busy and have things to do. A month off is fine, but there's only so many things to do here in Adelaide and I think I ran out in December ;) But yay for work starting up!!! I'm a happy bunny.
One of my friend's mum's may have cancer. That's 2 people I know that have had cancer scares in the past couple of months. Not good. Not good at all. She was supposed to get the results yesterday, but I haven't heard back yet so I'm hoping that it was all okay.
My uni friend Jenny gets back from 3 months in Scotland on Sunday :) Wonder if her accent's changed...
It'll be good to be able to see everyone again - even if it is in class (hey - I'm not known for concentrating anyway!). It seems like with work and family get-togethers happening for everyone that I haven't seen many of my friends at all over the break.
I still want to move to QLD. Probably by this time next year.
Gotta start saving.
Heh ;)
current mood:  thoughtful
current music: "The Way I Do" - radio.
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| Monday, January 27th, 2003
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7:21 pm - Previously written entry.
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I wrote this on Jan 18th, but couldn't post it coz Livejournal was acting up again. So I thought I'd post it now.
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One of my friends has been in hospital since Wednesday and I only just found out about it tonight. To cut a hugely long story right, she'd had abdominal pains, ended up demanding an x-ray from the gyno (who insisted that she was being a paranoid little bitch and he knew what he was talking about and she DIDN'T need an x-ray), which showed that one of her ovaries was enlarged. She went into hospital on Weds for a laproscopy (sp?) which I found out is basically just sticking a camera through the bellybutton to have a look around. They found 3 cysts and decided to operate, so she asked for gas to put her out. When she came around they told her that they'd had to remove the whole ovary. She watched the video of the op (ew!! But she's a nursing student, so I spose it was interesting for her), and they said that they'd found a whole bunch of teeny tumors on her ovary as well - like a bunch of teeny grapes. Once it was all tested it came back benign, but still!! They also found some icky brown goo which apparently appears when cancer is present, and they removed and tested that too but it was also benign. The scariest thing? She's only 20 years old.
On a brighter note I have an interview for a new restaurant opening up at a Glenelg hotel on Monday at 12.30, then one with Virgin Entertainment for a retail possie on Thursday (my bday!) at 3pm. I'm torn as to which one I actually want, and am actually trying to decide whether I'm crazy enough to do both if I get offered them both. I could work the retail one during the day, then the hotel one at night. I'd be rolling in the money, but it'd cut down on the time I'd get to spend with Nick and that would suck hard coz after 10 months we're still not tired of being around each other.
Have been to the beach quite a few times lately which has been fun. I'm thinking of going again tomorrow (it's gonna be 39 degrees C) - swimming could be quite nice I'm thinking.
It's weird to think that I'll be 21 in 5 days time. I don't feel any older. I still feel like... I don't know. I just feel normal. Like I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with life and don't mind a bit. Yay birthdays though!! I love birthdays - mine or other people's :) On mine I get stuff given to me, and on others I get to give stuff.
By the time I post this it could already be tomorrow.
Hope it's as good for you as it's shaping up to be for me :) :) :)
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| Friday, January 24th, 2003
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1:26 pm - Eeeeeexcellent...
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I'm officially a grown-up. :P Don't feel it though :)
My birthday yesterday was great. Didn't really do heaps, but I managed to score myself a job at the new Virgin Entertainment store opening up at the shopping centre near my house so I'm totally stoked about that!! The interview went for 2 hours, wow. Then we had 2 hours worth of induction after that so I didn't make it home until 8.30 at night, but I got a job, it sounds like great fun, so I'm a happy bunny - wheee!!
Got lots of great stuff for my birthday - jewellery, roller skates, a papasan chair, among other things. I did very well. Am v.impressed. :)
It's so hot here today. Even for me, and that's saying something! It's supposed to get up to 41 degrees C, so I'm thankful for air conditioning at the moment!! I'm being taken out to dinner tonight, which is sweet. Hopefully it cools down a little or sleeping is going to be sticky tonight. YAY summer though!!
I got my dates for my trip to England!! I'm leaving on July 7th, flying Japan Airlines and stopping overnight in Japan; and I come back on August 4th. Sounds like it's going to be a brilliant trip :)
It's all going according to plan...
:)
current mood: jubilant
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| Monday, January 13th, 2003
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6:15 pm - Busily job hunting...
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I'm getting roller skates for my birthday :) Heehee!! I've wanted a pair for ages and Nick said that he'll buy me some for my 21st.
Jobs to apply for:
*Part time receptionist x2
*Sales person at men's clothing store
*Filing clerk/relief receptionist
*Retail team member
*Waitress x5 (possibly 7)
Coz of the waitressing ones I'll apply for I have to go into the South Park tomorrow and ask if someone there (probs my former manager) will be a referee for me. I figure that seeing as none of the ads say how MUCH experience you have to have, I'll be fine (all of them just say 'experience'. 2 months counts... right? hehe). I also have to return Simon's book to him that I borrowed while I was working there.
Finally got my car serviced :) It's all good again. Kinda glad I don't have to worry about that anymore.
Uni's all sorted. I know where, when, and what classes I'm in so all that's left is to sit back and wait for it to start.
As of late last week I'm officially not a promo girl any more. I got my act together and sent in my resignation to the agency (I don't think they were surprised). I got a package in the mail with all my remaining comp cards and remittance slips and stuff, so it's officially all over. And apart from the lack of cash thing that's resulted from it I'm really glad I'm not doing it any more. It's one of those jobs that is fun for a while, then starts annoying you.
It's my 21st on the 23rd of this month. I'm going out to tea with the family and a few friends. I might have a casual thing at the beach or something with the other friends that aren't coming to tea. Yay birthday!! :) It's going to be fun.
Went and saw "The Two Towers" yesterday. Longish (3 hrs), and disturbing in parts (I can't stand the ringwraiths - they freak me!), but really good. Orlando Bloom is a cutie when he's in all his elf gear ;)
I'm getting dad to help me hang up my funky beaded curtain that Lareina gave me for Christmas tonight :) I got spookily motivated this afternoon when I got home and gave my room a once-over (okay, so I stuffed a lot of things into the wardrobe, but what you can't see doesn't matter, hehe), so now I wanna put up my curtain to finish it off.
Gotta go apply for lotsa jobs.
Fingers crossed for me!!
current mood: busy
current music: "I'm With You" - Avril Lavigne
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| Thursday, January 2nd, 2003
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4:53 pm - Randomness
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* mood: happy
* feeling: bored
* sight: yukky view of Adelaide
* sound: clicking computer keys
* taste: nothing
* appearance: in work clobber - black pants/top, white shirt, black shoes.
* hair: red. Tied back in ponytail
* makeup: none
* wish: that I could find a steady job and earn steady money.
* hope: I find a job soon.
* thought: should book my car in for a service
* annoyance: too much to do
* hate: being poor
* obsession: his body
* love: Nick.
Christmas was great. Got loads of goodies and had a great time :) New Year was good as well. Went clubbing and got to listen to some of my fave music. A little too packed inside the club, but it was New Year - what more to expect?
New Year's resolutions? None really. I never manage to keep them, so I've given up making them. I'd like to move to QLD by this time next year though, and have found full time work, and have graduated from Uni. I think they're all pretty achievable.
Some friends are doing great, others not so well. Me? I'm as happy as I've ever been :)
Having a great time!
current mood: content
current music: None (in the office)
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