day off work today - lovely!
dinner is smelling awesome, but still at least an hour to go.... tummy is grumbling for attention but he's just gonna have to wait!!!
so it's 2 weeks until the last day of work before going to portugal... that's a nice countdown milestone...
so i started making my lists... one for chores to be done before leaving, and another for things to pack... i'll start working on the chores this weekend if the weather is good, i'd like to wash the windows....
so i got a great phone call from someone i used to work with in relation to my claim i sent through from working at alutech (the one i sent a couple weeks ago) - he said he went to the creditors meeting today and by the sounds of what was spoken about, my name came up a few times and he thinks i might get my money! that would be awesome if i got paid!!! it's money i can put straight on the credit card and almost pay it off again :-) fingers crossed!!!
the council came today and chopped down all the overgrown grass on the side of the road where the creek runs down - nice of them to do it in time for the fire season (not!)
so this week i'm looking forward to the dentist appointment on wednesday to sort out whether a splint will be in order for my sleep apnea... and then thursday catching up with a friend for dinner at the steakhouse YUMMM.....
then friday evening i think i'm going to catch up with a mate who's house sitting in melbourne for a couple of months...
then the weekend off yay!
i got all the washing pretty much sorted today, ironing done... just a few towels needing to dry for a bit longer...
i'm hoping jake comes to visit this week to help me check on the chookies and make sure tails doesn't have any mites on her with all the feathers she's shedding... and also help construct some form of flue brush to clean the flue pipe using the old gutter hedgehog things i have sitting in a pile doing nothing..... and then he can spot me on the ladder while i go up and shove the thing down the flue to get rid of any last traces of nests so i can use the wood heater efficiently :-)
i'd really love to use it more this season and spend some nights snuggled up to sleep in front of it to keep warm, that would be lovely! :-)
i better go have my daily pills to give my guts something to munch on before i send down slow cooked beef and onion gravy with potatoes thingo....
thought i had a lot more excitement to type about but i got a call from powercor wanting feedback about my streetlight fix request from a few weeks ago during the blackout when andrew was here.... so i think i forgot what it was about lol
Monday, 7 April 2014
Sunday, 6 April 2014
just a shorty.....
yay, early finish from work again... means extra time to myself at home to get some chores done
first load of washing is almost done and the weather is beautiful and sunny, few clouds here and there and a nice breeze, should help the washing dry mostly before the sun sets...
not sure what to do for dinner just yet.... got time yet...
have to change the water in the girl's bucket for some clean fresh stuff....
was a fair bit harder to get out of bed this morning, i just wanted to stay in snuggled up and keep snoozing....
i wonder if/and/when i might hear back about the train driver job... be nice to find something out before i head overseas lol just so i know one way or another as to what the current status/result is...
not much else at the moment... i think i'm going good today, that's a pleasant feeling :-)
started watching kath and kim dvds last night, always get a good giggle from those...
i wish murphy brown got released all on dvds and not just the first season... i'd love to see all of those...
first load of washing is almost done and the weather is beautiful and sunny, few clouds here and there and a nice breeze, should help the washing dry mostly before the sun sets...
not sure what to do for dinner just yet.... got time yet...
have to change the water in the girl's bucket for some clean fresh stuff....
was a fair bit harder to get out of bed this morning, i just wanted to stay in snuggled up and keep snoozing....
i wonder if/and/when i might hear back about the train driver job... be nice to find something out before i head overseas lol just so i know one way or another as to what the current status/result is...
not much else at the moment... i think i'm going good today, that's a pleasant feeling :-)
started watching kath and kim dvds last night, always get a good giggle from those...
i wish murphy brown got released all on dvds and not just the first season... i'd love to see all of those...
Saturday, 5 April 2014
early starts, end daylight savings, cleaning and spa baths.... oh my!
another great day at work today which is nice...
and finishing at 2.30pm makes it even nicer!
and even nicer still, with daylight savings ending tonight, i really finished at 1.30pm lol
but on a serious note, i am sad about the end of daylight savings... i thoroughly enjoy the extra hour of daylight... but it's part and parcel of the calendar and seasons... i'll get a couple more weeks of long days in portugal later this month, so that will be a nice teaser...
getting up at 5am wasn't nearly as difficult as i thought it might have been...
i think the old part of my brain kicked in from when i used to work 3x12 hour days a week where i used to get up at 3am... i actually miss those days.... but not, at the same time.... if that makes sense...
same as anything in life really, always pro's and con's...
looking at the countdown widget on my phone and it's down to 18 days until i head overseas... so it's getting a bit closer and i'm slowly starting to get a bit excited about it...
i'm thinking maybe this week i'll start to tackle a few things on my list of chores to complete before i go away... and knuckle down next weekend, thorough cleaning, wash the thick dust off all the windows, see if i remember to get some spray cleaner to give the oven a good washing since i haven't done it yet... i guess after almost 3 years it's probably due for it lol it's not as dirty as you'd might think for having not done it in this oven before...
i should wash/clean the rangehood and filters, hopefully without slicing a finger on the aluminium frame edges this time....
cracked another dinner plate this morning, i think i should start saving for a new decent set... these plates, as much as i have liked them (one of the rare things i liked from ikea), are about 10 years old now... so i guess all the use they've had over the years has started to wear them down a bit...
so i'm going to test myself and see if i can live off what foodages i have between now and going overseas, to try and continue minimal spending to pay off some bills in the interim.... tonight i've got a chicken schnitzel (just a small one) and will do some scrambled eggs and try a tin of chilli baked beans i have had sitting there for a while, and still have some tomatoes in the fridge from what i chopped up last night.... maybe another batch of chippies in the fryer.....
my left foot is hurting a bit - when i stretch the toes forward, the top part of the foot (instep bit) hurts a bit, like i've done a muscle in there or something..... might think about running a hot bath and soaking my body for a while one day soon when it's nice and cold outside :-)
mmm hot bath.... maybe i should use the spa function at some point too... paid for it so i might as well try to use it lol more than just the once lol
and finishing at 2.30pm makes it even nicer!
and even nicer still, with daylight savings ending tonight, i really finished at 1.30pm lol
but on a serious note, i am sad about the end of daylight savings... i thoroughly enjoy the extra hour of daylight... but it's part and parcel of the calendar and seasons... i'll get a couple more weeks of long days in portugal later this month, so that will be a nice teaser...
getting up at 5am wasn't nearly as difficult as i thought it might have been...
i think the old part of my brain kicked in from when i used to work 3x12 hour days a week where i used to get up at 3am... i actually miss those days.... but not, at the same time.... if that makes sense...
same as anything in life really, always pro's and con's...
looking at the countdown widget on my phone and it's down to 18 days until i head overseas... so it's getting a bit closer and i'm slowly starting to get a bit excited about it...
i'm thinking maybe this week i'll start to tackle a few things on my list of chores to complete before i go away... and knuckle down next weekend, thorough cleaning, wash the thick dust off all the windows, see if i remember to get some spray cleaner to give the oven a good washing since i haven't done it yet... i guess after almost 3 years it's probably due for it lol it's not as dirty as you'd might think for having not done it in this oven before...
i should wash/clean the rangehood and filters, hopefully without slicing a finger on the aluminium frame edges this time....
cracked another dinner plate this morning, i think i should start saving for a new decent set... these plates, as much as i have liked them (one of the rare things i liked from ikea), are about 10 years old now... so i guess all the use they've had over the years has started to wear them down a bit...
so i'm going to test myself and see if i can live off what foodages i have between now and going overseas, to try and continue minimal spending to pay off some bills in the interim.... tonight i've got a chicken schnitzel (just a small one) and will do some scrambled eggs and try a tin of chilli baked beans i have had sitting there for a while, and still have some tomatoes in the fridge from what i chopped up last night.... maybe another batch of chippies in the fryer.....
my left foot is hurting a bit - when i stretch the toes forward, the top part of the foot (instep bit) hurts a bit, like i've done a muscle in there or something..... might think about running a hot bath and soaking my body for a while one day soon when it's nice and cold outside :-)
mmm hot bath.... maybe i should use the spa function at some point too... paid for it so i might as well try to use it lol more than just the once lol
Friday, 4 April 2014
tapping the keys of the desktop computer after getting lots of stuff sorted :-)
let's try and do a blog at the keyboard of the desktop instead of the laptop on the couch... see if anything different comes up...
so i had THE BEST night sleep in a long time! slept through from midnight to 6.30am, and then back to bed to sleep through until 11am!
and i've been very productive today...
so now i'm looking to bake a banana cake.... yum...
i seem to do good productive things when i've slept most of the day away lol
actually now i think of it, there was a bit of a strange dream last night...
walking up what seemed like the back streets of oak flats (where the street is actually just a grassed road - there's a couple of grass lanes in oak flats and a couple of rocky 4wd type lanes around nob hill too), actually turned out to be a site parallel street to geelong road in west footscray, in which the grassed lanes were former road alignments that were not constructed....
i was walking up this side street to an old pub where an election was happening (for god know's what), and your vote actually was taken just by having a conversation with someone (who looked a bit like old druid getafix) at the counter at the front of the room...
after which i left the building and walked along side the service lane and found a couple of disused aluminium screen doors that i picked up and contemplated using them on my front door (since i don't have one), but one was too wide and the other too narrow so that was the end of that...
it wasn't quite as distressing as some other dreams i've had in recent times...
i think it's helped that i started sleeping on a different pillow, i think maybe my usual pillow has passed it use by time frame.....
poor tails seems to be malting even more now lol poor girl.... i hope she grows some new feathers soon! it's getting colder by the day (thankfully lol)
working this weekend and starting off at 7am now instead of 9am, which means i can't get train on saturdays but that's ok cause i get to finish at 2.30pm....
just be interesting to see how i go with the alarm on an hour earlier than normal....
oh that's right - the saddest day of the year is sunday - end of daylight savings.... at least it's balanced at 6 months now, not like 5 months many many years ago... and certainly not 7 months like in 2000 thanks to the sydney olympics lol (what a busy and interesting time that was for me!)
so i had THE BEST night sleep in a long time! slept through from midnight to 6.30am, and then back to bed to sleep through until 11am!
and i've been very productive today...
- got new packet of meds
- bought chook feed
- cancelled union membership
- got quotes on travel insurance
- paid a bit of electricity bill
- sorted some paperwork
- booked an appointment with a dentist in ballarat to discuss possibility of another splint to use in place of patches to tackle the apnea...
so now i'm looking to bake a banana cake.... yum...
i seem to do good productive things when i've slept most of the day away lol
actually now i think of it, there was a bit of a strange dream last night...
walking up what seemed like the back streets of oak flats (where the street is actually just a grassed road - there's a couple of grass lanes in oak flats and a couple of rocky 4wd type lanes around nob hill too), actually turned out to be a site parallel street to geelong road in west footscray, in which the grassed lanes were former road alignments that were not constructed....
i was walking up this side street to an old pub where an election was happening (for god know's what), and your vote actually was taken just by having a conversation with someone (who looked a bit like old druid getafix) at the counter at the front of the room...
after which i left the building and walked along side the service lane and found a couple of disused aluminium screen doors that i picked up and contemplated using them on my front door (since i don't have one), but one was too wide and the other too narrow so that was the end of that...
it wasn't quite as distressing as some other dreams i've had in recent times...
i think it's helped that i started sleeping on a different pillow, i think maybe my usual pillow has passed it use by time frame.....
poor tails seems to be malting even more now lol poor girl.... i hope she grows some new feathers soon! it's getting colder by the day (thankfully lol)
working this weekend and starting off at 7am now instead of 9am, which means i can't get train on saturdays but that's ok cause i get to finish at 2.30pm....
just be interesting to see how i go with the alarm on an hour earlier than normal....
oh that's right - the saddest day of the year is sunday - end of daylight savings.... at least it's balanced at 6 months now, not like 5 months many many years ago... and certainly not 7 months like in 2000 thanks to the sydney olympics lol (what a busy and interesting time that was for me!)
Thursday, 3 April 2014
food on the fried brain...
another relatively busy day at work again today...
as such my brain is a little bit fried!
mmm fried.... now i'm hungry...
tails is still losing bum feathers, poor girl... especially now it's getting cooler at night, she might extra cold... maybe i should give her a blanky to warm up hehehe
wasn't as tired driving home this afternoon, but having a fried brain meant that i was a bit of a zombie on the road... when i drove past the first ballan exit, i actually 'woke up' and had to look back to see if i had missed my turn.... and then i thought i had only reached the wallace exit.... and then i looked ahead and saw the servo, so realised i was almost home....
then vin called me to check up on something at work for a customer, and i was very glad of that cause it really woke my brain up to stay alert for the rest of the trip home, albeit 5 minutes worth...
good lord... just reading over the main subjects up to now: fried - chicken - servo - all signs are pointing to KFC at the servo for dinner LOL
nah i'm sure i took out some chicken snags from the freezer last night so i'll have those...
but i have an abundance of eggs again so i'll try to make something with those tonight, or maybe tomorrow i'll do some biscuits/cookies again, use some more of the slabs of butter i got a while ago for baking anything...
i have bananas in the freezer, so maybe banana cake is in order.....
i think i need to make dinner now, i'm very hungry and my guts are complaining at me...
as such my brain is a little bit fried!
mmm fried.... now i'm hungry...
tails is still losing bum feathers, poor girl... especially now it's getting cooler at night, she might extra cold... maybe i should give her a blanky to warm up hehehe
wasn't as tired driving home this afternoon, but having a fried brain meant that i was a bit of a zombie on the road... when i drove past the first ballan exit, i actually 'woke up' and had to look back to see if i had missed my turn.... and then i thought i had only reached the wallace exit.... and then i looked ahead and saw the servo, so realised i was almost home....
then vin called me to check up on something at work for a customer, and i was very glad of that cause it really woke my brain up to stay alert for the rest of the trip home, albeit 5 minutes worth...
good lord... just reading over the main subjects up to now: fried - chicken - servo - all signs are pointing to KFC at the servo for dinner LOL
nah i'm sure i took out some chicken snags from the freezer last night so i'll have those...
but i have an abundance of eggs again so i'll try to make something with those tonight, or maybe tomorrow i'll do some biscuits/cookies again, use some more of the slabs of butter i got a while ago for baking anything...
i have bananas in the freezer, so maybe banana cake is in order.....
i think i need to make dinner now, i'm very hungry and my guts are complaining at me...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
dating and banking.... they really are similar concepts in my life LOL (how sad lol)
busy, busy day today
love em that way, running around, doing multiple things, getting shit sorted out and organised - that's me to a tee, i'm in my element when i can sort things out and get things organised....
so i've been paid overnight but i haven't looked at my bank account... i try to avoid it as much as possible these days...
it sorta reminds me of my best mate who used to (dunno, maybe he still does today!) do the same thing... never wanted to see his bank balance, always asked me to check cause he really didn't want to be depressed by it lol
used to think he was being quite silly about it all... and ridiculous...
funny thing is, i completely understand it now... for me, it's one of those 'ignorance is bliss' moments...
i don't want to see what little i have, cause it's sad to see it that way... but also, it's one of those things, if i know what's there, it'll probably get spent a lot quicker than if i didn't know it was there to begin with.....
and then there's the whole dating thing... just made me wonder today about whether it's better to know what to expect, or what the rules are, or if it's best to be ignorant about it and just go along with it and see how things pan out.....
for me, personally, i don't think i could say i've ever been on a proper 'date' - but then, what is a 'proper date'? is there a guide on it? or is it up to the interpretations of those being involved in the date...
tell a lie actually, i think with my last partner, i had a couple of 'dates' - catch up for dinner, drinks at the pub etc....
i guess i quite enjoy that part of connecting with people, i.e. catching up for food or drinks.... well food mainly.... and more food....
that's probably where my stale mate is at the moment with socialising with people as well - trying to define what is a social catch up, what is a date, what is more than a date etc etc so it becomes easier just to shut off from all of it so i don't have to worry about any rules, or any other person's feelings etc... bit selfish really isn't it? but i need the practise cause i've always been thinking of others before myself for almost all my life.....
i suppose in that way, it's similar to my thoughts on my own bank account... blocking out the thoughts of what's in there so i don't have to worry about what it's lacking or what i should be buying...
wow, did you think i could pull a similarity between feelings on dates and bank accounts?
i really didn't think i could lol
love em that way, running around, doing multiple things, getting shit sorted out and organised - that's me to a tee, i'm in my element when i can sort things out and get things organised....
so i've been paid overnight but i haven't looked at my bank account... i try to avoid it as much as possible these days...
it sorta reminds me of my best mate who used to (dunno, maybe he still does today!) do the same thing... never wanted to see his bank balance, always asked me to check cause he really didn't want to be depressed by it lol
used to think he was being quite silly about it all... and ridiculous...
funny thing is, i completely understand it now... for me, it's one of those 'ignorance is bliss' moments...
i don't want to see what little i have, cause it's sad to see it that way... but also, it's one of those things, if i know what's there, it'll probably get spent a lot quicker than if i didn't know it was there to begin with.....
and then there's the whole dating thing... just made me wonder today about whether it's better to know what to expect, or what the rules are, or if it's best to be ignorant about it and just go along with it and see how things pan out.....
for me, personally, i don't think i could say i've ever been on a proper 'date' - but then, what is a 'proper date'? is there a guide on it? or is it up to the interpretations of those being involved in the date...
tell a lie actually, i think with my last partner, i had a couple of 'dates' - catch up for dinner, drinks at the pub etc....
i guess i quite enjoy that part of connecting with people, i.e. catching up for food or drinks.... well food mainly.... and more food....
that's probably where my stale mate is at the moment with socialising with people as well - trying to define what is a social catch up, what is a date, what is more than a date etc etc so it becomes easier just to shut off from all of it so i don't have to worry about any rules, or any other person's feelings etc... bit selfish really isn't it? but i need the practise cause i've always been thinking of others before myself for almost all my life.....
i suppose in that way, it's similar to my thoughts on my own bank account... blocking out the thoughts of what's in there so i don't have to worry about what it's lacking or what i should be buying...
wow, did you think i could pull a similarity between feelings on dates and bank accounts?
i really didn't think i could lol
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
things with 'ies' at the end of them....
wow all those tomatoes i've had inside ripening up look fantastic all chopped up ready for eating *licks lips*
sliced up some potatoes too so i can have some chippies with dinner.... which will also be some sort of deep fry arrangement, most likely of dim sims and spring rolls lol
another hot day today, not bad for the first day of april, about 31°...
speaking of which i better go turn the calendar up one month...
which means daylight savings will end on sunday morning, very sad news... although the chickens might appreciate it being more daylight when i'm due to head off for work so they can run their laps up and down the chook fence to indicate i must feed them before i leave home for the day lol
bloody kids, they always think of themselves first don't they?? hehehe
productive day at work sorting out countless piles of doors for top stock... nice to have them all organised and in one spot at last...
still nothing received from the train driver job... i still live in hope that i was good enough to continue with their testings... just was hoping i might be able to jump all their hurdles before i went overseas...
about 3 weeks to go now.... have started thinking up my lists to organise before i depart...
sliced up some potatoes too so i can have some chippies with dinner.... which will also be some sort of deep fry arrangement, most likely of dim sims and spring rolls lol
another hot day today, not bad for the first day of april, about 31°...
speaking of which i better go turn the calendar up one month...
which means daylight savings will end on sunday morning, very sad news... although the chickens might appreciate it being more daylight when i'm due to head off for work so they can run their laps up and down the chook fence to indicate i must feed them before i leave home for the day lol
bloody kids, they always think of themselves first don't they?? hehehe
productive day at work sorting out countless piles of doors for top stock... nice to have them all organised and in one spot at last...
still nothing received from the train driver job... i still live in hope that i was good enough to continue with their testings... just was hoping i might be able to jump all their hurdles before i went overseas...
about 3 weeks to go now.... have started thinking up my lists to organise before i depart...
- cut hair and trim beard 1 week prior to leaving
- clean house properly day before leaving
- list of things to pack
- list of medication scripts to fill to take along (anti-crazies, anti-refluxies, anti-mistermeanies, and maybe some fishie oilies)
- prepare to spray the living crappers out of the house for bugs and spiders to kill them all and protect the house for the winter ahead...
- figure out bills and what i might need to be prepared for... just telstracom i think...
- perhaps buy a bag each of chook feed (lay pellets and free range mix)
- and perhaps figure out which bag to actually take with me.... i think my decent sized bag might weigh 10kgs to start with LOL
all in good time.....
but the deep fryer is ready for chippies so i better go start on dinny din dins....
quack!
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