Finito!

Well I worked my last shift at Domino's tonight.

And I don't know what else to say. Was mostly like any other shift, except at the end I said goodbye, and the managers said goodbye/goodluck etc and I left. Dave (Hajdu) wasn't working which was sad, but he rung up and ordered a pizza, so I got to tell him I was leaving and he came and picked up his pizza so I talked to him then, too. He looked funny. hehe.

Now I have to wash my uniform and give it back. Never again do I have to wear it. yay.

That's all really.

Introducing...

Mat Kearney.

I really like his music.

And I like the way that you can take what meaning you want from a lot of the songs.

One of the songs I've listened to many times, but only this afternoon as I was walking home did I really hear the lyrics of the last verse. Maybe it was just 'cause I was thinking about how I was feeling about a situation as I was listening to the song, but the lyrics and my thoughts seemed to match up. Although that could be because I was taking the lyrics a certain way. But the beauty of music (and Mat Kearney) as I said before, is that you can take what meaning you want.

Anywho, the song was "Where We Gonna Go From Here".

Pretty song actually.

The lyrics of the last verse:

I've waited and I'll wait some more

Won't see me knocking on another door

But all this is crazy and amazing

There's only one half of us that I'm saving

So I'm praying just to let it go

Watch from a distance just to see you glow

Seven hundred places, seven hundred faces more

Good cd.

vegemite milkshake

found this site from a facebook group link.

http://greggles.tripod.com/index2.htm

i think i may have to try it someday....

blue.

well. it's not my favourite colour but it's given me a chance so i shall give it one.

ok that was a little random, although perhaps insightful...

but anyways, back to the reason i was writing this post. besides the fact that a silly myspace quiz, (whose entire purpose is to waste time), reminded me that i hadn't blogged in almost a week, (and that i needed to set a reminder in my phone) i thought i should blog to say that today i got a job at jamaica blue.

I saw on careerone last weekend that they were looking for someone, so i decided to hand in my resume today, before i went off to ashley's for a games/gilmore girls watching day. so i did. and then i went off to ashley's. just as i was about to stop the car outside of her house my phone started vibrating, but i missed it. the person left a message on my voicemail so i checked it, and it was the owner of jamaica blue. he said that he was at the store and if i could come back to talk to him that would be good. so i left ashley's and went back to the shops to see the man. and we talked. and he asked if i wanted to have a trial. i was a bit nervous and not sure whether i was ready (and wondered if i should go back to ashley's, seeing as i was only there for about 10 mins before i left, and i'd said i was coming over for the day) but i decided i should take the opportunity and do it. so i did.

I was the 'runner', which basically is listening for the bell (for coffee) or person saying 'order up' (for food) and taking the coffees and food to people's tables and taking their table numbers and clearing tables and washing dishes (in the dishwasher) and rolling up forks and knives in serviettes and other random stuff which requires being alert and listening at all times. which i'm finding can be a little difficult for me, seeing as i can drift off in my thoughts easily while i'm doing something (like the dishes).

but the owner guy said i did well for someone on their first day (who has no previous experience). and i think i got the hang of it. and apparently i was a big help, 'cause they were short-staffed seeing as another girl was meant to come in for a trial but didn't.

so i was there from about 11 til 3, and now i'm employed :)

now i just have to call domino's and quit... hopefully they haven't given me a shift for wednesday 'cause i'm working at j.b. all day. and i need to get friday off anyways 'cause of youth...

hm.

but yes. i have a job. and i can continue to save to go away. can't wait :)

slightly random

but... lateline is on the tv and philip ruddock is being interviewed. I saw him and had this thought. anyone else see the similarity??

(unfortunately, most of the photos of mr ruddock are campaign photos, and therefore are touched up and actually have him smiling - as oppose to his normal, dead-looking state - so trying to find one that matched up to squidward's expression and front on position was a bit difficult. the other pics of squidward have him more wide-eyed, and as we know, that's not phil.)

(Philip Ruddock Picture: Craig Abraham; Squidward is a registered tradmark of Nickelodeon)

so... want to know what the latest in my life is? the very latest? the up-to-date as-of-yesterday latest?



well. not necessarily that exciting (although maybe has the potential to be) but anywho, yesterday i went into tafe and withdrew from cert IV business admin, and am exiting out with the cert III.



what does that mean? it means i won't be doing tafe this semester, that's what! yup, that's right. so as of pretty much NOW, I'm looking for a job! preferably one i can do a few days a week, and i'd really like something in a cafe or clothes store or something, not quite sure what yet. but of course, that means being brave and actually applying for jobs. and being able to handle the rejection when they say no. hmm... that's the part i don't like. but then i guess no-one does, and i have to get over it! easier said than done.



so, you may be wondering why i decided to skip out on tafe this semester. well my friends, there are many reasons. one is that i'm looking to do a course at uni or something of the like, (next year) so cert IV in business admin wasn't really going to put me anywhere with the courses i'm thinking of doing. secondly, i'm going away later in the year for about a month, (who knows, maybe longer?) and i'd like to save up some more for that. anothe reason is that i'd like to have a bit of time off between studying and studying and getting a full-time job or whatever that i do next. and i'd like the experience with being more available to do stuff. although at this point i'd just like to go overseas so i don't have to worry about finding a job.

anywho, no time to chat, have stuff to do!

goodbyes...

oh why do they have to be annoyingly hard?

i'm working at dh technology this week doing office stuff from 9-4, til friday (started today). is quite fun. i put a couple hundred statements in envelopes today... and took messages on the phone for sales, when the main guy was on a call or not at his desk... and i learnt the reception phone system which is connected to the computer so there's a whole program for seeing who's calling and what everyone else in the office is doing (like on a call, have calls forwarded to reception etc). i learnt it 'cause someone the receptionist knows died recently so the funeral is probably this week and i may have to do reception for a bit on some day... that freaks me out a bit 'cause it's more than just taking calls but knowing stuff to do with the company and orders and stuff... hopefully if i end up doing it people will be nice and patient seeing as i really don't know stuff...
and then i was shown the warehouse system for printing labels for cartons and dispatching orders and stuffs. probably will do some of that tomorrow. took lots of notes cause there's 3 different courier systems and the programs for inputting stuff on them is different for all of them. the warehouse is cold though :(

but working all day is good for being distracted and even when i am doing something which allows my mind to wander i won't lose it 'cause i'm in an office with other people and i know i can hold on til i get home... and even then family is around so it's holding off until i get to bed and i may be too tired at that point to think so i'll just drift off to sleep...

well i feel much better today, thank goodness!
interesting weekend though... well, past few days. friday morning i woke up feeling not the best, but once i got out of the house and doing stuff i was fine. i did stuff all day at the hop, mostly fighting the overlocker and re-threading it about 10 times in three different places, just to overlock the last 10 pieces of fabric for the camp next week...and i did it! yay :) and then i sewed up some other things and me and jess went on an outing to buy a fax roll and some ink for the printer in the office, and some lunch, and to ask the newsagent for free old newspapers...

anywho, jess dropped me off at tuzza station at about 4.20 pm, and i caught the train to waitara and walked home. by the time i got home it was about 5pm (there wasn't a train til about 4.35) and as soon as i walked in the door i felt icky again. i went to lie down on my bed and i got a bit of a headache and i felt a bit hot so i rumaged around in the linen closet for the thermometer, and found it in the thing of spare paper and such on top of basket drawers full of useful stuff in the lounge area... so i took my temperature and found i was 37.8 degrees. i couldn't quite remember what temperature i fever was so i smsed mum who was on her way home to take me to work. then i looked for my uniform and realised that it wasn't there. so i smsed mum again, and she stopped off at granny and grandad's on the way home to pick it up for me. so i went off to work.

it was actually quite a good shift, considering i wasn't feeling so good, and walking in and out of the coolroom to get stuff was messing with me. but it was fun :) at about 8.30 when things were slowing down and the two makers for the night got off, dave (hajdu - jade's brother) was making, and he got me to sauce for a bit, and then he got me to make some pizzas :) we had fun. he concluded that i was his alter-ego, because i kept repeating what he was saying (or saying what he was thinking) with the pizzas we had to make and the toppings and weights we needed and stuff. so i worked until about 9.30, and when i was done dave asked me if i wanted a drink, and he bought me one :) tis pretty good, if you're working a friday or saturday shift you get 1.25L drinks for $2. so i got a coke zero.

so i got home and checked my temperature again and it was 38.1 degrees. i went to bed after a bit i think... didn't have a very good nights sleep... woke up feeling pretty crap... mum said she'd call work to tell them i couldn't go in for my shift that night... told her to wait a bit cause i might feel a bit better later on... her and dad went to look at some houses, came back, i still felt like crap so mum called up and said i couldn't work. i think i slept on and off til about 3.30pm. watched some tv after that... hmm... yesterday's a bit of a blur... was going to go out to a movie night but felt too crap. so i stayed in and watched more tv... that and sleeping were about the only things i felt i could do...

but i went to bed last night, and slept, and kept waking up in the middle of the night really hot and sweating... and today i woke up at about 8.30 to dad saying something really loudly outside my room. and i felt ok :) i got up and said hi to mum and dad, and went back to bed and slept on and off again til about 1.30 pm. and then i got up and showered. and i feel stacks better :) i think i shall venture to the shops at some point today... which will probably be soon, given it is already 3 pm.

so that has been my weekend of not-so-funness. but it is not over yet! still have church tonight in which to have fun and feel well :)