Today I feel so unbelievably restless and unsettled. G is having problems with his net so we're hardly able to chat during the day. Somehow that makes me feel unsettled, as if I'm cut off with the outside world. I feel it helps us keep up to date with what's going on with each other during the day. Also it is useful for just ranting into because both G and I have stuff we NEED to just offload about, such as DUMB COLLEAGUES!
At this very moment, the receptionist is busy cleaning. Gawd knows why, she's just got a bee in her bonnet this morning and has got a little bowl of water, a scourer and some general purpose cleaner and has scrubbed the entire cupboard, her desk, her keyboard, the printer, dunno what else (I've been overhearing her cleaning so I can only identify the items by sound). I saw her cleaning the printer - cleaning it with a SCOURER! And SOAP! So that the surface is all matte with a soapy layer like you apply when cleaning a kitchen counter or something. That's gotta be good for it! Presumably she subjected her keyboard to the same treatment. You gotta wonder sometimes. I just... don't care... can't be bothered to tell her that it's not such a good idea. She doesn't listen anyway.
G and I watched Stardust last night. SUCH a good movie! Fun and lighthearted entertainment... I thoroughly enjoyed it! Tonight we're going to watch Little Miss Sunshine. When we went to the movieshop last night to take the movies out, their system had 'lost' our details. Apparently if you don't hire a movie once every 5 months, it deletes your info which seems a bit dumb considering that not everyone gets to or feels like watching a movie every single weekend or even month!
I've printed out a calendar for the next 3 months and pencilled in all the things we have to do. The next few weekends are going to be very busy! We're going to pop by at a ribbon shop and someone who hopefully will do my nails. We're also going to the mall nearby so I can take a closer look at some boots I've had my eye on. Calf-high leather boots. I'd really like a pair but I am seriously doubtful whether those would be even remotely reasonably priced. A similar pair in the US costs $200 which is +-R1500, but I doubt a good pair like that would cost anything less than R4000!!!! HAHA so yeah, it's more a shopping trip to see the real price so that I put that idea out of my mind!
Dude is so cute and such a sweetheart. I took him out of his cage last night and let him have a bit of playtime. Clipped his nails as well - while he was sitting on my finger I fiddled around with his nails and clipped a bit and at first he was a bit annoyed because it was as if I were biting his feet myself (budgie to budgie behaviour) but then he seemed to realise I was doing something not as a budgie and he sat quite still and seemed tense but kept calm. I gave him a neck scratch afterwards and must have accidentally caught one of his quills (baby feathers) under my nail and tugged it because he gave quite a squeak and jerked away - but still sat quietly and let me hug him and give him more head scratches.
I read up on the Aus immigration/quarantine website yesterday that they are now allowing pet birds in from NZ subject to strict quarantine and analysis. Hopefully in the next while (before we move) they will allow other countries to bring in their pets. I'm going to check back regularly... if we aren't able to take Dude I will be MOST upset because he's really like 1 of the 3 members (excluding the fish!) of our family.
3 people at the office have resigned. 2 are going the end of this month and the other the end of next month. I'm not surprised. Just this morning the typist told me what the boss had said of the messenger guy "if he doesn't go around this office every day checking that none of the lights have blown, he won't be working here for much longer!" Shit like that REALLY demoralises everyone because although they might not hear it to their faces, they can sure as hell SENSE that type of sentiment and attitude. Hell *I*'ve even had that type of thing said to me by that boss. I don't recall the details (thank heavens) but I do recall being threatened that unless I sorted it (some mess-up) out, my job would be at stake. Charming.
Anyway, enough for now - I have work to do (yay *rolls eyes* so interested in it right now)...
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