Thank you, GMAIL!

I just spent oh I'd say about an hour and a half... typing up a blogpost ... THANK YOU GMAIL for 'discarding' a draft by SMITING IT OFF THE FACE OF THE FUCKING EARTH, instead of sticking it in the trashcan.

 

NICE ONE!!!!

Random thoughts - because I'm bored

Today, as expected, has been dull :P  DULL DULL DULL DULL NULL VOID bla :P

I've been filing again, hbbm has been on a rampage tossing out old stuff from his office.  A form of 'springclean'.  His office would be quite a museum if it were actually filed properly!

This evening I should probably clean the fishtank, as it's overdue again.  And clean Dude's cage.  And vacuum.  Chores day, I guess.  Didn't feel like any of it this weekend past, but now it's time.

After that, I think I'm going to rebel and STITCH A BIT MORE GOLDEN ICE!!  Dunno.  Depends how I feel.

Afternoon slump time...  Zzzzzzzzzzz....

Ok now that I have that out of the way...

My ID hasn't arrived back yet... and I'm awaiting 3 parcels.

I'm bored.  I don't have anything to blog now :P

 

YATTAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Oh wow, BOREDOM

More boredom.  Last week was an Ennui Extravaganza!!

Being receptionist, in a construction industry company, in the week before the builders' holidays are finished... DULL omg... I nearly went nuts.  But I survived.

Right now I feel so ... melancholy isn't quite the right word.  I'm feeling now.  Right now, listening to A Camp's self-titled album, being taken back to the plane as we were flown over Australia, down from Singapore, right down almost to the bottom of the continent, turning East and flying over Adelaide to land in Sydney.  The air was so clear, the land was so massive... this expanse, disappearing off into the distance.  The land was dry, uninhabited by much plantlife, but patchwork farms clearly evident.  I was listening to this album, looking down at the land, feeling this sensation of peaceful suspension... elevation and elation.

Today hbbm is back in office.  It's been another quiet day - I haven't had much to do at all.  I've been ogling my diary some more... thinking about my options.  I can work until end of this year, which gives me more time to prepare everything before the move, or work until end of Feb 2010.  It all depends entirely on the visa application.  Hopefully G's nominated occupation can make it a priority.  Maybe I've blogged this already... if so I will edit this post.  Today has just been exceptionally uninspiring work-wise.  I'd like to finish end of this year.

Reassessing, reconsidering, replanning

I am rethinking my plans.  G and I were reading the newspaper yesterday, and re-agreed that we should leave before the 2010 Soccer World Cup.  BEFORE, because we don't want to be caught up in the chaos that it will bring, nor want to get caught in the tide of people leaving once it's all finished.

Which means we'd leave in May or June 2010.  Hopefully, if all goes right, G's application will be prioritised because of his nominated occupation (it's a skill that they have a HUGE demand for... so they'd speed up the application process *hopefully*).

If May or June it is, then I doubt my resigning and finishing work end of Feb will give me enough time to prepare everything.  Cleaning, packing, fumigating/treating, giving stuff away, throwing stuff away, closing accounts, etc...

EEEEEEK now my mind is all fired up, and I can't research on the internet because *sulks* we aren't allowed to use the internet anymore...............

 

BLAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

 

EEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that would mean... I'd resign and finish work at THE END OF THIS YEAR!!!! yayyyyyyYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LocoBlobs!

They have arrived!!

ROFL

An email, sent to a national bus company (XYZ) by our receptionist:

 

Hi there

I would like to book a bus for 20th December 2008, please advise me whther there's any bus available and much does it cost.

Regards

 

The bus company's reply:

 

Dear Passenger

Due to the geographical area that XYZ operate answering your question may prove to be a bit difficult. XYZ require your Arrival and Departure point

Hope this is of assistance

BORED!!

I'm starting to think I will be blogging A LOT in the following year and 2 months.

I've worked out that I have a grand total of 269 days left at this company, minus the day already worked yesterday and today (can't count the day you're currently in).

I'm actually not really able to count down the precise days on a daily basis as I'm not certain yet when I will take my 8 leave days (I can't plot them on my calendar yet)  We earn 11 leave days a year, 1 per month for the months Jan to Nov.  December we close for 2 weeks, so we don't earn a day that month.  I am finishing here in Feb 2010, so I will have earned another 2 days during Jan+Feb 2010.  I've already plotted 5 of my 11 for 2009 (I'm taking the 'gap' day between a public holiday and a weekend, for eg), then I'm left with 6 for 2009, total for 2009 and 2010 being 8.  Bla blabla, bla bla... yadda yadda blah.  I have 269 days left!!!  I'm not keeping my leave days for a specific event, in fact I'm actually going to have to use them up before 26 February 2010!!!

Ok, so I'm bored, and I have 269 days left of this nonsense.

I'm extra bored because we've been told not to use the internet at work AT ALL except if we want to check our personal emails.  No Facebook.  I believe some people were sitting looking at pictures for hours... I really don't find FB that enthralling - I used to log on occasionally to check people's status messages and to change my own.  The only dumb thing is that although I didn't 'use up the internet' I don't want to even go anywhere apart from my mailbox because they have a website-tracking program on the server now.  HAHA apparently in Nov (that's me off the hook cos I was away for 3 weeks in Nov!), the co used not the usual 5gb but 20gb.

I'm the receptionist this week.  It is so damn boring.  I brought a book, which I will read shortly, but the past while I've been plotting stuff in my diary.

I've run out of inspiration now.... that's all for now.

Kickin' ass!

Ok... I've been going through my stuffs, like banking and medical aid and stuffs and stuffs, and It's Time. My medical aid monthly premiums are going up, and yet I'm getting 1/3 of what I got last year. WTF? So their ass is getting kicked.

I've already emailed my bank, because seriously, taking a month to change my SURNAME?? Hell no. If I'm late with anything, penalties to pay, m'dear! So I'm annoyed at them.

A local clothing shop has been being dumb too - we got a 'rewards card' from them sometime last year, and the card kept giving us grief because nobody at their shops ever told us that our address details on the card was 'wrong'. This in turn meant that we'd have to wait like morons while they each and every time had to call the manager to 'allow' the transaction. We were promised gift vouchers for the hassle (after I'd emailed them complaining about this stupidity), and haven't heard anything since. Honestly, a rewards card that is more NUISANCE than it is worth (although I must admit that's my opinion of ALL of these damn rewards cards - more plastic making a person's wallet bulge and swollen so it doesn't fit into their pocket/bag).

This year is going to be one cracker of a year. I have 226 working days to endure, after which I have just 40 more the following year and I am FREE!! I've counted them, blocked off the public holidays and the leave days I'm going to be taking, and I've decided to resign in Jan 2010 so my last day will be 26 February 2010. That, of course, depends entirely on whether I have the patience and tolerance and ability to keep emotionally detached and uninvolved (ie don't let the shit get to me too much) for that long. It's best if I end work in Feb 2010, because that way a) I'm still earning money b) it's only 40 days ffs c) I won't miss out on any Xmas bonus by resigning so my last day is end of work 2009 because I have a sneaky suspicion that the bosses would 'hold it against me' that I'm resigning and not actually pay *me* a bonus. I've heard stories and I'm not playing that.

So anyway, G's work will likely wrap up someway through early 2010... my finishing that time gives us time to pack stuff etc... oh and also, if I stop work end of Feb 2010 I have a solid 6 years' work experience to my name (yay CV!)

There's so much to do this year (same procedure as EVERY year, James!). G has most on his plate, and the most I can do is support him, and keep things calm at home (though that is very difficult cos it's SO DAMN EXCITING!!). I certainly have more than enough cross stitches to do.

Ok so on G's to-do list:

English test
Skills test
Get all paperwork like birth certificates, marriage certificates, copies of everything etc
Apply for visa

Then, once he's applied for the visa, we have to get a health-check and a police clearance certificate each.

I have to still:

apply for new drivers' license
apply for new passport...
both of which depend on my receiving my new ID soon.

Things I have to do this year:

scan photos and make CDs for each family (need to get RAM first else I'm seriously going to lose my mind)
scrapbook our wedding+honeymoon
stitch my ass off
DRIVE MORE so I get PRACTICE
sort through stuff and get rid of junk
fetch stuff from mom's place, sort through and get rid of junk

Things we have to do:

Sort stuff and get rid of junk
Start researching stuff like company to give our stuff gamma-irradiation/other treatment
Company to move our stuff
OMG so much... lemme think
Decide on stuff to sell/give away, stuff to keep, stuff to throw away
Hectic. It's hard to think of all these things
Also, our financial stuffs have to be concluded (like my pension/life insurance/whatever).

Ok I'm not going to RACK MY BRAIN now thinking of EVERYthing, I have other things to do as work starts tomorrow *cries*.

226 days left of this shite! 266 total EVAR!!!!!!!(eleventy).

Right now, however, I want to get on with emailing my medical aid. *rolls up sleeves*

More to be blogged later........ XD

In the meantime, here's a picture to keep you occupied for a while (I have to say it cracks me the hell up every time I see it...!!).

Sorry, I changed my mind. Can't put it up else I'd laugh too much.