Today at work there was a farewell of sorts. The boss and previous owner of the company is somewhat retiring… well retiring from her full time position of running the place to a different part time position (haven’t really worked this one out). After work we had cake and wine (sparkling and ‘flat’ – as the new boss called it), recently I’ve been indulging in a drink every so often and wow how it hits me. Today I opted for ‘flat’ white and sipped it will eating cake. When I stood up to leave it had already gone to my head and I had to down some water to help me through my walk home.
I was so amazed at how differently my body reacts to alcohol now to 3 or so years ago. I really didn’t like it and it makes me feel glad that I’ve pretty much stopped drinking.

While at work yesterday I had to co-man the front counter for the day and although I really wished I didn’t have too (I like hiding at the back where I’m meant to be) it was really interesting to see how the customers react to the staff.
I mainly served the customers once they had decided (I really don’t have enough product knowledge to be able to suggest items to them) to pay and they told me the strangest things. Like how they were sorry for giving me that $50 note but they needed their change for paying for parking tomorrow and how it’s just so terrible that you have to pay for parking. Or how they were ever so concerned about their child’s progress in a subject but overall they were doing really well. They all emphasize that.
It kind of makes me feel like I missed something during school because my parents didn’t take an interest like that. Granted, at the time I didn’t much care 😛

Also yesterday I heard all these sirens going off and figured they were just passing by. But no, the hotel/bar/bottle shop across the road had been lit on fire… luckily it’s vacant and gutted. Apparently, 2 guys had a fight in the shopping centre across the road and 1 of them said he was going to kill the other… so the other went into the Inn and started a fire… yes, weird.
According to one news story:

ACT Fire Brigade District Officer Danny Brighenti said flames were coming out the front and back of the building by the time firefighters arrived

Which is totally untrue… there was only smoke billowing out and it was very uneventful. OK, slightly uneventful… everyone at work was having a stickybeak through the windows. Meanwhile, one customer, on her way out asked “Oh, is something on fire?” hmmm.

I’ve decided that I’d like to start every post with the word ‘Of’… so now I am 🙂 It kind of makes me think how every episode of Friends starts with “the one with” too make the names easier to remember… but I never remember them. And does it really matter?

So, I had my 3 month review the other day… I’m a little disappointed, I thought I was going better than they think I am. Although it gives me the drive to try harder (not that I wasn’t… gosh, this job exhausts me! In a good way though) I am also kind of second guessing every decision I make. Trying to work out what it is that lets them down you know?
On the plus side, I have had the opportunity to do more of what I want and decide what other things I’d like too do. So hopefully I get to learn something new in the coming weeks! *fingers crossed*

On a high note of the last few days. I bought Veronica Mars Season 2 YAY! And it was CHEAP! Now I’ve bought season 1 and 2 for less than $50 combined! AND they’ve finally released season 3 here YAY! All 3 seasons have sold out when released and yet… it’s cancelled. So sad.

Tonight I just finished reading Size 12 is not fat by Meg Cabot… so silly! Yet so fun. Heather Wells is such fun and I can’t wait to read the next. Anyone read it? Maybe suggest something similar to me? Please? 🙂

Anyway, I’m off to catch up on all those blogs I have missed so dearly… be ready for comments my friends! 🙂

Gah, it’s been a week, can you believe it? It’s been a horror week really… we’ve had 37+ degrees (celcius) every day and well I haven’t had the slightest inclination to post or be in the vicinity of the computer for that matter. Luckily we had a drastic change today and it’s more that bearable, it’s lovely in fact!

There was so much in the week that was last. On the first day I was out on my nightly (except last week… I think I did it once!) walk minding my own business when I turn a corner and there is a cute little dog! It comes running for me and I think “aww, cute!” until it bit me that is!! Luckily it was only small and didn’t break the skin but I was still kinda annoyed… the owner didn’t even apologise *shakes fist*

Other things happened, obviously, but my brain kind of just blanked! I did, however, finally buy my Batman book today. Batman: Murder at Wayne Manor for much less than retail YAY! The cover is cool enough in itself but I’m excited too read it.

One thing I must ask my readers is this… at random times I’m unable to log into my WordPress. FF gives me an error that says it stopped trying to load WP because it was getting stuck in a loop. The only way to fix this is logout of WP (yes, it still logs me in although I can’t view anything), rename all of my plugins and try again. This then allows me to login and I can change the plugin names back and they work as if I never changed anything at all.
Any ideas on what would cause it or what I could do to fix it?