Getting used to it

So now I wake up early, work hard, and go home "early". There's got to be more to this job, but right now, it's a very very boring and bland job. Needless to say, everything is slow in the start, and if I want to see results, it'll be ages before it happens. Oh, I sleep earlier too. Ain't that sad... :P

oops

I was supposed to go get the car transferred into my name, but I woke up and drove there and managed to find a park after an hour. By which time it was already closed. So, till next week. However, I did get an insurance thingy set up, so I should be able to pay that off within the week. Ahhh... need to buy other stuff, but there's always more important things at hand. And it's cold in the morning, need to get that checked out as well. To many things to think off at once, but I'll get there eventually :P

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

It's a favourite of mine recently. I think I like the melody more than the words, but the words are still good. The MTV of it is like ink spot tests. Not bad. Anyways, it's my second day of work, and two things happened before work started. 1, I had ice on the front and rear windshields. Water diluted it, but it wasn't before work that it had defrosted. 2, some bird decided to relive itself on my car. GRRRR! So the first thing I did after coming home was to wash the big brown stains off my car. And thus it looks presentable again. I also bought comprehensive car insurance. That's just a little over $1000. But I don't plan to get into any accidents if I can help it. Then I will go get the rego transferred, and that'll probably cost $400. Then other bills here and there, and I got to pay everything. But the front up cost of this car was the good part. I think I'll get some mp3 reader/FM transmitter fitted to the car and then I can play mp3s... something to keep me awake every morning at 7am.

Work is work, it's not good, it's not bad, I can find many things to complain, but then I'm sure that there's people worse off with casual arrangements and all. But still, taking an hour to get to work and from work is kinda boring.

Tired. Will go sleep around 10:30, 11 at the latest. Why? Because I stand up at work almost 95% of the time. The 5% of the time is when I can rest on some pallet, because I've got sore legs and feet. It's a harder warehouse than my old one, that's for sure. So I stand probably 6.5 hours a day. That's quite a feat. :P

Am I impulsive or crazy?

Why, do you ask? Well, I am going to start my new job next wednesday, and well, I need to have a good car. And well... I looked on the 4 major car websites. www.drive.com.au www.carsguide.com.au www.carpoint.com.au and www.carsales.com.au and found a Toyota Camry 2001, under 100,000kms, and it was below $10000. I saw others , and put them down on my list, but when I went to the first place, I had a test drive, and I decided to buy it. Well, I went with my dad, and he tried to bargain it down to $9000, but no dice... but it was a still good bargain. So we bought it, and well, I have to pay it all on tueday. So I can drive the 'new' car on wednesday. And I'm excited and scared at the same time. It's totally different way of driving... And I didn't even go to the other car yards and check out the other cars on the list because they are more expensive, and to cut it down to the price I got this one, it'll be hard. Also it was quite funny because the dealer deals with 4WD. So to sell this particular model, they must be quite desperate... But, I still need to maintain it, thats for sure.

A close call

This is probably the first time in a long time that I didn't go to work. Except that it wasn't my idea. Basically, at 8:25am today, we had a couple of high school kids ring our doorbell. Wondering what did they want, since a lot of high school kids go by our place from the train station to the high school, they said that my mum was sitting on the footpath and bleeding. I just went "wtf" and then ran down the road, and my dad thanked the guys and came after me. The rain was stopped for a while, but the ground was a bit wet. She was looking for a pair of gloves in her handbag, but tripped over the uneven road, fell and scraped her knees (bleeding) and also managed to hit her head on the concrete. So, she was dazed, and was in shock. I tried to help her up but I was more shocked about her being shocked. She couldn't stand, so my dad held her up, and I ran back and drove the car. We then decided to go to the GP (general practitioner, the local doc). They weren't open till 9am, and well, the doc didn't come in till 9:30. Gave her a quick going over, and well, told her to go get an x-ray. So we went to Bankstown hospital's emergency department. It basically took around 3 hours to get a checkup and x-ray, and she's discharged. So yeah... got home after 1pm, and I had lunch, but was too stressed and so I called in work and said I can't go in. That was my day really. I took a 2 hour nap afterwards and woke up around 5. It's good that my mum is ok now, but the leg is still sore.

So, I met the friend from NZ on sunday. We had lunch at the fishmarkets, and then basically wandered around the city, and I got lost because... I don't walk around certain parts of the city... but she kinda got us back on George st and then I knew which way we were going. We then had coffee, then I walked her back to the place where she was staying with... no dinner. So it was a meeting, not a date. We didn't even take a pic together... that's kinda strange... and I don't know when she'll be back, because she doesn't know herself.

I went for an interview yesterday. It was at another Twese company, and took me 1 hour to get there. In heavy traffic, in pouring rain. The interview took about 1.5 hours, and well, I can give it a go if they decide to hire me. Permenant full time. Maybe advancement after a few years. I went back to work after going home in about 40 mins, and having lunch at home. But I am definately looking at cars because this car cannot handle longer than 1 hour's journey without overheating. So yeah... things need to be done, and done soon.

Change?

Last week was pretty hectic. There was Thursday, where we shipped out 2 containers worth of goods, on two different trucks. Then Friday, my supervisor had to attend a funeral, so he left at lunch. Then calls up about 2:30 and says that we have to ship out this order, which was left from the end of may because they couldn't go. Well... that order turned out to add an extra 8 pallets. I can say that I slept soundly that night. It was probably the coldest day also, since the start of winter. :P Strong wind and rain didn't help... was pretty much frozen. But wrapping the pallets did warm me up. My colleague, he was very skinny and didn't fare as well, he was more frozen because he didn't do much, apart from at his desk. So walking around and doing a bit of manual labour helps in this situation.

I have a friend coming from overseas for a quick holiday, but apart from a few SMS, there wasn't any organisation. Tomorrow will be the last day that we can meet up, but I haven't got any messages. Oh well, I guess she isn't that excited to meet me, so that's probably why. She complained about the weather as well, because she arrived on thurs night and had the bad weather on Friday.

This coming Monday, I'm going to a job interview. Now, I didn't ask for this interview, the last 2 interviews I didn't really ask for, but I went because I wanted to see what they were like. And this one is a bit far from home, so if I was offered a permenant position and have the right pay, I will go... this will mean 2 things. 1, giving my supervisor notice, even though I'm casual and I don't have to give notice. 2, preparation for the new job. The preparation is also two-fold, 1, I need to have a 'new' car, something which can handle the long distance without dying, as is the case with my current car, and 2, well, if I do have to live so far away, find a closer place to live. It's definately cheaper to pay the fuel than to live by myself, plus I am helping paying off the mortgage for my parents, so the car is definately the priority... I'm looking at Toyotas because they are cheaper to run/maintain, and it's gotta be newer than the year 2000, and less than 100,000 kms, but below $15,000. My budget is around $10,000, but I'm willing to go higher, but there's not many cars that fit the description. Most milage around that era (2000) is averaging 150,000 kms, because they drive like 30-40k kms a year... when the average should only be around 100,000 kms. So it's hard to find one... need to search very hard.

I've got a headache, and I might go sleep early tonight.