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My bed, the bane of my life at times, is now here in my new city with me!!

 

It has been three looooong years since I slept on my beloved bed, two of those spent in single size hostel beds (never again!). It has has travelled all the way from Christchurch, on trucks and boats. And where am I sleeping tonight? Go on.. take a guess……. yup, you got it, CHRISTCHURCH! And not even my other old bed in chch, but the scummiest bed in the house, the one the dog usually sleeps on, ew! Damn visitors… My mum is having a part-ay for her 50th birthday, which is actually in a months time, but she decided not to share her birthday with christmas and new year, which is fair enough, and suits me fine cos I get an extra trip to chch out of it!

I think my Dad packaged the bed better than they did at the factory when I first bought it!

 

I was going to post a pic of Chippa, my new BFF, but my flatmates (to whom she is now ‘the traitor’) took her to Auckland for the weekend, cos I wasn’t gonna be home to look after her.  I took her for a walk up the hill last night, she was sooo fucking funny and adorable all at the same time! She kept picking on all the bushes, ripping big branches off them, at one point she wrestled a branch the size of her half way down the hill, even after she got a huge bit stuck in the roof of her mouth and I had to reach in and fish it out (ew!).

So it’s been a while…. gosh that last post was dramatic. The good news is that I have my beloved computer back, had to do a complete windows reinstall, which meant reinstalling ALLL my programs, but luckily the important stuff, all my songs and files and photos were saved. So now that it’s all over it’s actually quite nice having a clean slate as far as windows goes. Apart from that I really have nothing to write about, but if I didn’t write soon this blog would have been lost into oblivion. Having no internet for a week (apart from the 2 hours a day I stole my friends laptop!) wasn’t actually as hard as I thought!! Plus I still had one more exam to study for.

Anyway, here’s some new stuff:

• Have moved outta the hostel (yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!) and living in the suburbs, but still only 10 minutes from town.
• Have the most gorgeous puppy to keep me company with during the day, also fills in about 2 unemployed hours keep her entertained!
• Have no job. Have one weeks rent to cover before the dole kicks in. When the dole does kick in it will cover my rent. I will have $1 a week spare cash after that.
• Have signed up to one temping agency, calling two more today.
• Had a great interview last week for a permanent position, but will be next week before I find out if I get the job.
• Results so far from exams: B, B+, B+  - not bad considering the massive workload I had and the constant fatigue that required a 2 hour nap every afternoon.
• New flatmates are good so far. Only problem is my lack of conversation! I have NOTHING to talk about, and even if I could think of something, I’m just not used to talking, living with the german’s meant I very rarely conversed with my flatmates, because everything they said was in German.
• I’m a gamer geek. Never though I’d say those words, but I have been spending HOURS a day playing World of Warcraft. A game you have to PAY to play… I need a job to pay for it, but if I had a job I wouldn’t have time to play it… anyway, I’m on a 10 day trial for  US$1.25, after that we’ll see what happens.

Apart from that, my days are filled with nothing, nothing and more nothing. It’s nice to have a break, but the whole cash flow situation is going to be very stressful very soon… all donations gratefully received!!

So my computer is pretty much dead. Totally and utterly DEAD. My computer means more to me than my right arm. It is as much as part of me as my heart and soul. If I can’t at least recover the 40Gb of crap I’ve collected over the past 6 or 7 years I will seriously be heading towards suicidal thoughts. And that’s not something I like to joke about! I know it is fixable, cos I have been through this exact same problem before. But I’m still very very scared. I rang some computer shops (damn having no computer geek bf!) and they want to charge money, LOTS of money, and I have none right now. Speaking of money, the bank, who have been offering my overdrafts and credit cards all freaking year, turned around and said ‘no’ when I finally said ‘yes, I’d like an overdraft’. So freaking pissed at them right now, the lady who gave me the application said I was entitled to up to $2000!! I was like ‘no way!! $500 is fine thanks’. But they even turned me down on that. So maybe they haven’t turned me down completely yet, but they rang two days ago asking all sorts of questions, and saying dumb shit like ‘why don’t you use your mastercard?’ to which I replied ‘have you seen the balance of my mastercard?!’ to which he replied ‘yes’ and I said ‘well there you go, THAT’S why I can’t use my mastercard’.

Anyway, back to the computer, the good news is I have found someone who is going to fix it, just for fun, completely pro-bono. The bad news is he is on another island till Saturday. The good news is I have an exam on Saturday, so being without a computer is doing wonders for my study. However, I’m also still very scared!

Anyway, I will keep this short and sweet, cos I know there are others out there who have WAY bigger problems than whether or not their computer will turn on, but from my perspective, this is bad, very very bad. So for now I say goodbye, I’m not sure when I’ll be back, but hopefully sooner rather than later!

Two down, three to go

Can you guess which two? Any apply to you?! 

In an attempt to cancel out the previous boring post…..

   

We have Guy Fawkes on 5th November, that’s our big fireworks night, I took these from the top of my building, they were lit from barges in the Harbour.

 

This is what I’ve been busy doing instead of studying, while watching/listening to SATC. I made them for my grandparents (they’re cards). 

So I’ve had no visitors in the past two days. I think everyone gave up on me, it’s been a while. I was sick of complaining about my flatmates all the time, it’s bad enough having to live with them! I also decided to make the resolution not to bitch about the new ones, once I move in there. So who knows what I’ll post about… probably the puppy, and how totally and utterly cute she is every single day.

Anyways… gonna keep this short and sweet, here’s what’s happening at the mo:

1. I definately have a house to live in, talked to one of them yesterday, made arrangements to have stuff delivered etc.

2. I don’t have a job, but I had a preliminary test thing today for one thing, and I think it went reasonably well. I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t get through this stage for any of the jobs I applied for. I have another one on Thursday for another job.

3. Exam on saturday. Haven’t studied. Went to the library today, everyone there was talking. Shut the fuck up, it’s a library!! I wanted to scream that, out loud, but that would have made me look like some psychotic freak who can’t hold it together.

4. I sorted out all that credit card BS, got a refund on the charges I shouldn’t have been charged, and the mattress thing got sorted out, charges reversed, account closed etc. Now I just gotta start paying for the one I did actually purchase!

5. Stuff here is real average, lotsa people moving out. I’m over it now. Everyone is. I’m outta here on the 15th, we’re have brunch and coffee in the morning, then we are FREEEE!! The managers sent out these dumb invitations to all the RAs ‘inviting’ them to do duty on Friday night. Who WANTS to do duty on a friday night? The security guard has the night off, and any other one we get in just sleeps or chats up the students, or takes off for a pie when all the shit is going down, so we don’t bother now. But that’s really the managers problem, they should be picking up the slack, not ALL of us. Lucky for me I have an exam, the most legit excuse you can have. So I get out of it!

6. Talked to my parents for ages last night, which was nice, for once I had stuff to tell them, and didn’t just have to listen to them tell me the same thing they told me already. They’re on like a three week cycle thing, they’ll tell me their latest shit for 3 weeks in a row, so most of the conversation is fairly predictable. I can’t wait to get back to CHCH at the end of the month and properly catch up, hear about their trip, get my birthday present my brother sent back with them etc etc. Plus they’re having a big party, so I get to see lotsa people I haven’t seen in ages, in some cases a decade even!

This is the most boring post ever. I’ve been a bit reclusive (to steal the term from someone else ) of late, I’ve watched 4 seasons of sex and the city in the past week and a half, along with some new grey’s and gilmore girls. So really not much to tell!! I’m real complacent about everything, just waiting for it to all happen around me… I’m not sure how much effort I’m putting in for the job thing, I mostly just look online, apply online, and wait for emails. You can do all that from the comfort of your own home, in your pj’s, anytime of the day or night… I even sent one off while I was sitting here wrapped in a towel after a shower one day!!

I went out yesterday, caught up with a friend of mine on sunday, had brunch, that was cool, saw my cousin later on, we had a burger and a beer and played some pool. He’s leaving town soon, heading back to where he’s from (Auckland).

Far out… this is getting worse and worse! I give up. Next time I will try harder

Ciao! 

I have found somewhere to live! Which means I can leave this hostel ASAP, which unfortunately is 15th November at the earliest, so still two weeks away, but that’s cool. I’m gonna be living with another couple, but they speak english, so that’s a good start! They own the house, which can have it’s downsides, but there are lots of benefits too, no deposit, no bond, no fixed-term lease, no hideous upfront expenses. And they have the cutest puppy! I’ll admit, this was a HUGE selling point for me! I love dogs and really wanted to live in a house with animals. Unfortunately half the good sounding flats had cats, which I’m allergic to, and the other half were all summer places, there didn’t seem to be much in the way of decent long term flats. This was the first place I looked at, and I didn’t want to take it straight up without looking at other places, but there was nothing else even worth looking at! One that I did look at was totally wrong for me, another one where I stood up the guy cos he sounded so freaking dodgy, and all the rest had 5+ people in them, and I wanted 2 others max. So I went for this place, it’s also further away from town that I wanted, but it’s not too far, I can catch the train, which is expensive on a daily basis, but if you get a monthly unlimited pass it’s like $2 a day! So I think it will all work out…. cept for the bit where I have to pay the rent, haha! A job would be great… I’ve applied for like 15 at least though, just in the past two weeks, so hopefully interviews will start happening soonish too.