and, so

i made it to Canberra

and i love it - more than i thought i ever would

i sincerely apologise for not being more attentive to the blog scene, it has been a crazy/busy/wonderful time

again, credit to enny who gave me so much helpful information about Canberra and my new place of employment

the most delightful man in the world is away at the moment, and i miss him more than ever

to provide a brief run down

-i arrived in Canberra in mid January after an absolutely unbelievable and fabulous holiday and a very busy week returning to Perth to finish up work and have all of my worldly belongings condensed into boxes and delivered to the ACT
-once in Canberra i had two weeks in which to relax, however i managed to attract the worlds worst flu and ended up acquainting with the local doctors surgery much earlier than i had planned.
-i made it to my first day of work, albeit with a rather nasty cough and sounding somewhat like an out of work porn star
-the first 3 months of work were interesting, the person who was originally going to be my boss moved on in the organisation and the manager i ended up with was absolutely horrendous
-fortunately the incompetent bitch from hell resigned and i am now rather blessed with an absolutely fabulous manager
-in the mean time i have been offered a transfer to another section, i have to approach the new fabulous boss to see if she will transfer me, it is all rather complicated!
-i have seen some amazing things, met some fabulous people and all in all enjoyed every last minute of immersing myself in the national capital

tonight i looked back on previous posts

last year i deleted all of my original posts because i just wasn't that person anymore

now i look back on the posts i made late last year (after the delete) and i remember how excited and happy i was, that feeling is still with me and growing

it is amazing how things can turn around in such a short time - words just can't describe how happy i am right now

for anyone that has ever considered moving to Canberra, do it. you will not be disappointed.

i hope to make more of an effort with blogging now i am settled, truth be told i have never been that committed in the past

i can't believe how much has happened, i never believed it would happen

so many things, so little time

so, i'm pretty much living out of a suitcase now

the vast majority of my life is in around 20 boxes - packing is freaking hard work! but I am glad it is done.

Friday sees that start of my cross south eastern Australia holiday (Sydney-Adelaide-Melbourne-Canberra for those playing at home) and a few places in between which is super exciting, can't wait to spend time cruising around with the most delightful man (who is incredibly patient with my insane bitch moments) rather than thinking about work/packing/work/packing/work/packing all the time!

I have been doing some 'Christmas experimenting' if you will, over the last few years and have come to the conclusion that Christmas is much better spent away from the normal abode. 3 out of the last 4 Christmas periods I have spent away, one in Melbourne with my sister, and the other two in regional NSW with my parents. Last year the old people returned to WA so I stayed home. Without a doubt it is a much more pleasant experience, if you get the opportunity, to go somewhere different. I don’t know that I can explain it very well, but all I can say is try it. Hopefully you find it as enjoyable as I do. I think perhaps the main thing is that you relax more. This year I am going back to Melbourne for Christmas and I can’t wait! Just me, the sis, her husband and my boy - sitting back, some drinks, some fabulous food and no stress!

I have some special shout outs that I just can’t miss, in no particular order

Steph who has had one absolute fucker of a week – I hope your karma bank is overflowing

Enny who has been unbelievably generous and helpful with all things Canberra – seriously, can’t send out enough praise

(on a less serious note) Mrs Beeton who recommends I keep some powdered opium in my first aid supplies – oh to be alive in the 60’s (1860’s that is).

i am the homie

so, i have a MAJOR thing for sean paul.

i generally hate this type of music, but i just can't get enough sean paul!!

let me take you through some lyrics

we be burnin'
Just gimme the gees an we be clubbin yow.
Gal a make wi please and we be thuggin' now.
Little hennesy an we'll be bubblin yow.
Set we mind at ease we got to take it slow.

give it up to me
From you look inna me eye gal I see she you want me
When you gonna give it up to me
Because you body enticing you makin' me horny
When you gonna give it up to me
Well if a no today girl then a must be tomorrow
When you fulfill my fantasy
Because you know I give you lovin' straight like an arrow
When you gonna give it up to me

temperature
Well woman the way the time cold I wanna be keepin' you warm
I got the right temperature to shelter you from the storm
Oh lord, gal I got the right tactics to turn you on, and girl I...
Wanna be the Papa...You can be the Mom....oh oh!



seee, looking at these lyrics - why the fuck do i like it? but i just do, so deal!

SO AM MOVING TO CANBERRA!!!

yeah!

*yay*

the nice man rang me today and offered me the job *joy*

tis an APS6, which makes me most happy :)

all canberra people please bombard me with lots of helpful information :)

i'm not so good with the words right now, 'tis tooo exciting!

PUI

posting under the influence

i should be arrested or something for yesterdays post

i want to delete it, but perhaps it is best left there as a reminder

somewhat not sober right now

when will i will i grow uh-up
when will i see that i am just a bi-ithch
when will i wil i grow uh-up
when will i love him like he de-ser-ervs

the thing is i do, i love him more than words can explain, but i get tired and confused, and sometimes he doesn''t explain things to me how i want him to and i turn into a crazy bitch

teh drink does different things to me these days - i turn off now and i get cold (and may or may not eat blue cheese sandwiches)

don't be a legend! tell me when i can't answer your question

if i have been too vague - bros-famous!

sherbets

I like lemon sherberts (the little yellow hard boiled lollies with sweet sweet powdery sherbert inside).

I like my lemon sherberts to be kept in the fridge.

Fortunately, my dad also likes lemon sherberts and he keeps a tin in the fridge (a tin lovingly recovered from my grandparents estate, that they also kept their sherberts in).

Special shopping trips are planned to obtain the lemon sherberts, they aren't as easy to come by as they used to be. Quite often multiple packets are purchased at a time.

i just felt like sharing that, so yeah.

daylight saving

OMFGYAYITSABOUTTIME&(*&$(*#@&$( @#

WA has finally decided it is time for daylight saving!!!!!!

I'm finding it very difficult to come up with words that adequately describe my elation.

I will (or i damn well better have) left Perth before it's time to vote, and ultimately I'll stop caring whether or not Perth has daylight saving because I don't have any particular desire to live here again (at the moment anyway).

With any luck the people that voted to keep restricted trading hours will realise the error of their ways and in fact lobby for both extended trading hours and daylight savings. Tragically I know all too well that there are too many retarded people here.

Hmmf, is it just coincidence that the retarded fuckwit i work with voted no to extended trading hours last year?

There is a clear trend, peeople i strongly dislike tend to be on the 'keep WA just like it was back in the 1920's' team. It is quite upsetting that this team is around 60% of the WA population.

thank fuck i am leaving.

i dare you

to fire up some tunes that you listened to 3-6 years ago and you haven; listened to much since

i'm finding it to be the most overwhelming journey, mostly in a good way (and maybe a little bit cos my tank is full of cointreau)

tunes i've randomly put on

Alex LLoyd - My Way Home
The Smiths - There is a light and it never goes out (i am pretty sure this is still my fave song of all time)
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Massive Attack - Tear Drop
David Gray - Be Mine
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Train - Drops of Jupiter
Lo-tel - The teenager of the year
Crowded House - Distant Sun
JoyDrop - Beautiful Like me
David Gray - Babkyon
EBTG - Missing
Amber - Sexual
You Am I - Damage
Plummet - Damagedl
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Fragma - Toca's Miracle
Osasis - Morning Glory
Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow
K's Choice - Not an Addict
Paul Mac - THis is the Sound of Breaking Up
Motorace - Criminal Past
The Verve - Sonnet

Anyway, this list is by no means comprehensive or exhaustive

but i can;t urge you strongly enough, give it a try! re-visit the past through t00nZ!

it is a perculiar experience, for me anyway

habits

fcucking fuck i want/need a smoke right now

god forsaken habit.

discoveries

So, as I have some peace and quiet tonight and also had a mofo of a day I decided a drop of something tasty alcoholic was in order.

I looked through the stash in the hope of finding something with a screw top (cos I’m all restrained and didn’t want to consume a whole bottle in one night) and suitable for drinking un-refrigerated. Alas I found nothing! It was either corked, needing a fridge, or both. As I didn’t fancy a full blown red really the choices were very slim.

Anyway, overcoming difficulties I decided that the solution was to open one of the many bottles or rose I have obtained over the last 12 months. I actually managed to get a whole lot of rose from the cellar door for a ridiculously cheap price and while it is reasonable to drink ‘neat’ I primarily purchased it for drinking as sangria last summer (summer ran out before the rose did).

Alas I didn’t have the full suite of sangria ingredients available tonight so I opted for what I would like to be known from now on as my ‘lazy sangria’. I’ve never been this lame with putting sangria together before, but oh my, it was some seriously tasty business that I will be re-visiting in the near future (more than likely tomorrow)!

What ju need (for one glass)

3 ice cubes (stfu, the wine was warm, ice didn’t water it down that much – at least the god damn drink was cold)

2/3 large red wine glass of rose

Slurp of brandy

Larger slurp of cointreau

Tiny sprinkle of dark muscavado sugar

How ju make it

Put ice cubes in glass (really, get over the ‘can’t put ice in wine’ hang-ups)

Pour brandy slurp on ice cubes

Fill glass to somewhere near the top with rose

Pour cointreau in glass

Sprinkle muscavado over surface

What you end up with is a seriously tasty concoction that will get you pissed like there is no tomorrow.

Really, I can’t recommend this enough, give it a try!

Refer yesterday’s title

I was one of those people who vehemently opposed ebay. It just never made sense to me, and from the demonstrations I had been given by many an eager acquaintance I just couldn’t see how it would be fun. All that waiting around and wondering if the seller was reliable and being outbid – too much hassle! Additionally, when told how cheap things were the stinge within did some searching. Alas, none of the things I may have wanted to buy (namely books about food) really seemed to be cheap enough (once you add the postage costs) to warrant all the fuss with ebay.

Skip ahead 18 months or so and I decide to do a little bit of searching again. Turns out there are some much better deals around than I remember from my previous explorations. So I sign up and make some bids, and win some and it’s great – books that can’t even be purchased from amazon are cheap *and* available (note: cheap and available isn’t just for whores). The first lady I purchase from happens to live nearby and she offers that I pick the books up from her rather than pay postage! Fantastic! Two $40 books for $15 – ebay is great! Before I even get home she has left feedback about what a great purchaser I am. So the ebay thing is looking up – fortunately I am not the get addicted to ebay type – so all is looking good and a bid on some more books, they arrive, I cheer. It’s a loving relationship.

There is however one thing I don’t understand (and I can’t be bothered reading the whole ebay site for some half arsed explanation). Why is it when my duties as the seller are complete (ie, I have made full payment) that the seller doesn’t leave feedback. Why do they get to wait until I leave feedback for them? I think that’s intimidation! Surely when payment is received the seller should be writing ridiculously over the top gushing feedback comments, rather than waiting to see what I write about them first…

I can understand that perhaps it’s to deter wayward purchasers receiving good feedback and then writing untrue nasty things about the seller, but isn’t the point of feedback that it is supposed to indicate whether or not the seller or purchaser is reliable? It all seems to perhaps have turned into a situation where everyone is too scared to leave neutral or negative feedback, even f they should have, due to fear that they may in fact receive bad feedback, tarnishing their ebay record forever! This then seems to defeat the purpose of the whole feedback system (although I can definitely see it has a place).

Do share your ebay experiences and theories!

the bay

i want to write a really ranty post about ebay, but it's late and i had *the* most arse day.

i thought working from home would be great - it's not - it's full of annoying shit and people failing to follow instructions and makes me dread having to deal with it tomorrow.

i had an interview today, it went for 50 minutes - longest interview evah - it was on the phone, my ear sweated - lets hope that never happens again!

if you're reading, i hope you are as suitably revolted as i was

lets not make reference to the title being completely irrelevant to the post, i'm too lazy to think of another one

this posts needs some joy

fuck, can't think of anything joyous

actually, yes i can - the man mentioned in the first post is particularly patient and lovely when i present to him a whole lot of whining. he must love me!

i'm all class

So it was a typical Monday morning struggle out of bed, crawl to shower, create enough steam to separate eyelids, drink tea, get dressed drive in semi-conscious state to work.

Arrive at work, do normal Monday morning things (actually that’s a lie there was a whole heap of broken shit so I got the assistant to do normal Monday things while I flapped around trying to get other stuff sorted). At 11:30 I’m wandering out towards the lift when someone says to me ‘did you know your top was on inside out?’

Obviously I didn’t.

It does beg the question though, why did the other people I work with not notice????? I’m going to put that down to them being as fucking busy in the morning as I was.

How did I not notice?????
Fortunately the only real give-away was the tag at the back’

I need to be more observant

Alternatively I need a holiday

what's going on with the photo and the name?

i like a drink,

i used to like a drink a little bit too frequently. fortunately thanks to a chain of events largely out of my control (specifically parental type people returning to the abode after an extended absence) i have had to curb my habits - it is a good thing!

anyway, i was looking for a new photo and i thought a wine glass might look pretty. in my search for a wineglass i came across wine glass bay in tasmania. i want to go there. in fact, i want to go to all of tasmania. the man mentioned in previous post and i were considering taking a little driving holiday round tasmania at christmas time but alas it wasn't quite going to work. instead we are driving round half of eastern australia which should be great fun!

its amazing what can happen!

huzzah!

blogging again

i've cleaned out the old - it was refreshing to read back and also comforting to know i'm not that person anymore! (not that i was all bad)

so it has been an interesting year! i've worked a lot and had a whole lot of fun along the way.

pertinent points.
1)there is a man, he loves me, i love him - tis the most wonderful thing!
2)it's most amazing to know that the people around you are the people you want there. i no longer entertain any bullshit friend like relationships and i'd encourage everyone to spring clean this area of their existence - i got royally shafted earlier in the year and in some ways it was the best thing that could have happened!
3)there is a man, he loves me, i love him - tis the most wonderful thing!
4)i'm moving to Canberra - just got to secure a job (yay interview this week)and i'll be in public servant heaven. some people don't understand the appeal of Canberra but i just can't wait!