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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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4:15 pm - october 07
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2:21 pm - black & white housewarming from.. april/march?
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| Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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10:09 am - i am back! but all the exciting moments in the past 10 weeks have already been forgotten
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eh eh? eh??
Have run out of clear contacts so am now onto my 'emergency' stash of coloured ones. (I received 3 free pairs of them with my order.) Am currently wearing the blue ones and freaking myself out every time i see myself in the mirror. My boyfriend is equally scared by my sudden transition. Interestingly, walking around the city, people strike up random short conversation with me more now that my irises have morphed. How is that explained?!?!
I finally have internet at home. I'd been putting it off for the past 3 months on the assumption that i'd be moving back to the city and would get a big plan and a modem router i have no idea thing. I could stand it no longer the other day, and having had a few days off work, bought myself a wireless usb modem and a $29 no-contract internet thing.
So far so good.
Am experiencing major cash flow issues at the moment. 2 weeks ago I finally got around to doing 5 weeks worth of invoices for the company I am working for. However, people have been sick or overseas and i am impatiently still waiting on the money to come through (any day now. tick tock tick tock).
A $660 refund of my bond is also pending clearance
Then, last week, my (new) computer died, which contained another 2 weeks worth of work-hour-info and I have only just fixed it so now I will work on that invoice and hopefully be paid for it in two weeks time.
Travel plans have been moved to march 09 now which sort of sucks but eh. Bought a new macbookpro because my macbook wasn't handling the strain of actual work very well. As such, laser eye surgery has also been postponed a little while longer. Whilst I am not as financially padded as before, things are still rather sweet. Work until last Friday has been hectic. I seem to be the only garment drawing doo-dah person the company knows so I had two designers fighting over the use of me and then the stupidest deadlines ever put onto my workload, lots of puppy dog looks and sappy finally a meeting which involved people saying "pleeeasseee we dont think there's any other way to do it besides.. working a weekend". Was very unimpressed and made sure my least favourite designer got someone else designated to do her crappy designs in the future.
ps I hate nearly all my clothes but am too poor to buy new ones. Considered doing a clothing swap, but none of my clothes are worth very much at all.
pps i have been cooking a lot recently. I made roast pork complete with crackling. Fish cakes with real fish. tom yum soup, minestrone soup and i cant remember much else but it all tasted very good.
ppps this is the boringest post ever
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| Friday, April 4th, 2008
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10:45 pm
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wheeeee work is hectic. I was about to quit yesterday after being fed up with retarded network connection errors and the lack of black toner in all 3 printers and stuff but then someone started crying so I felt bad as I had less pressure on me than her. and blablablablablabla reminded me of my old job and how I would never do that much overtime ever again.
Anyhow
It seems I am hardly ever home and so I am moving out again. to the west for about... 2 months, for a very cheap rental price. I am going to miss my flatmate and her bf. He made me scrambled eggs with spinach today. He looks after the garden and fixes our sliding door with plastic kid sized wrenches. He's a great cook.
I found a great frying pan the other day. It is domed. Hopefully at the new place I'll have a gas stove as the bottom of the pan is a bit domed, like a wok. We decided to call it the swok. I cant recall what the 's' signifies anymore but it was a brilliant idea at the time.
I'm going to take up the 3 month position and hopefully go overseas for at least a month afterwards, full povo style.
After that, it's back into the sweet sweet city with 2 good friends. A bit of work. a bit of bridal dress sewing (for the sister), a bit of laser eye surgery. hopefully a wedding, and then off across the seas again ?
I hope I dont miss my boyfriend too much. Him living so far away already sucks balls. I miss not seeing him during the week. 5 days. big woop.
Nostalgia seems to be the mental leaning today. I dont sleep in it often enough (two or three times a week?) but it is a good room.
I'm selling my bed to a friend for a heavily discounted price. I'll miss it too.
I'll miss the brick walls covered in white paint as much as I still miss the red walls of my old digs.
I'll miss my flatmate. We were meant to go to a exhibition tonight but there was a 20 fat crowd to get in so we ate dinner instead. She treated me to a cornetto and we went back to the gallery but the line was still massive so we walked home. I think I will go back tomorrow when my friend is working. I saw some of it pre-set-up on thursday and it was quite impressive.
listening to my itunes on shuffle all today has been fantastic.
I was meant to visit my bf tonight but I didnt
Tomorrow morning I might go to yoga and I might just go to my favourite cafe instead.
Then I will go to Manly beach with friends, then catch a ferry back home and go out to some birthday house parties.
On sunday I might go to the imax to see giant 3d dolphins and whales. I will trawl the supermarket aisles and make enough dinner for 6 people.
Sleepily, I will trundle to work on Monday and ask everyone how their weekend was spent.
It is nearly as interesting as knowing what people had for breakfast. but it more socially acceptable a question to wonder. It also means you can imagine yourself in their lives and thus 'live' several weekends
enough small talk from myself.
If everyone could give me a blow by blow account of their projected weekend (be realistic) I would really read ir. seriously.
i am not sure why my hand looks a bit strained
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| Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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12:51 am - ice-cream parties at his house
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beats popcorn I guess.
I have a predicament of being faced with a further 3 month contract as production assistant at the company I am currently with. Whilst I will be dearly overpaid for the role I am to serve, I am being 'underpaid' to what I'd ask for if i decided to get a full time job in the production field. I could ask for more but I feel a bit bad and think they would be idiots to hire such an expensive person. It's more than I earnt at my previous company but I don't want to work full time.
As we talk, I am doing the finishing touches to design-based contract work (same company, different label and designer) and, due to spoiled travel plans, feel mildly lazy and slimy for using up my savings (I have forgotton to invoice the company for the past 4+ weeks of work so in a few weeks time I may feel more obliged to provide the company with my bank details.)
One good thing about staying at this company = easy I'm pretty much already in, plus then I can go around and spend all my money on their still-very-expensive-even-at-wholesale-price clothes and sneakers and eyewear. However, the 3 month contract is for full time hours, and it'll be a weekly wage and unpaid overtime is involved so that's a turd burger. Also, as mentioned before, the amount I proposed (and was accepted for) was a stupid amount over their budget and it makes me quite uneasy.
anyhow
Since it seems I can't get away from full time work, I might as well apply for a design cross with production job that may pay me the same or better than what I've been offered. From this vague information, what would you do?
On the plus side, I have been told by the designer that I can get some of the clothes I'm helping make for sure (ie free or cost price or whatever) and that's going to be awesome because just thinking of all the work required per garment and cost of materials makes me squirm in my seat.
I had a good easter weekend though my back has been REALLY sore and lumpy. Went to the beach on monday and carried about 800g of sand back to Scotts place in my bikini top and bottoms. Said 800grams of sand is all over his bathroom. I tried to play my Xaphoon the other day and was terribly dizzy after a few renditions of 'when the saints' and 'silent night'. Pathetic!
Also, I made ricotta gnocci the other day and it tasted AWESOME
no more retarded half asleep rambling. I am off to bed. got work tomorrow. bleurgh. I wish I was properly unemployed :(
current music: Black Dirt - Bumbeez
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