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Just wanted to note down a few of the things I’d like to do with my newfound time:

• A jigsaw puzzle. I noticed my mum had a few last time I was there, one still in it’s plastic (for ease of travelling!) so I must remember to sneak one into my bag when I down there next weekend.
• Make cocktails. This mail order catalogue has mojito and margarita mixes to make your own cocktails, and we have a nice sunny deck on which to enjoy them at the new place (we’re heading into summer here).
• Blog more! And also look into setting up a decent blog space, with a design more suited to my personality.
• Spend more time at the library (starting with paying my fines). Now is a good time to try out a few new authors, suggestions welcome.
• Go to the fruit and vege market every sunday. One of my flatmates and I have similar tastes in food, and we’re both good cooks, so we will cook together most of the time probably, she will definitely encourage the weekly market visits.
• Go swimming. At least once a week. I love swimming, I went twice this time last year and wondered why the heck I’d waited so long to try it out again. Now another year has passed by…
• Explore more of the bush walks in the central part of the city. Our house is particularly well placed for this, plenty of good walks nearby.
• Have a really festive christmas! By this I mean not just rush off a couple of christmas cards and show up at mum’s on christmas eve. I want a christmas tree of my own, a real one! I really want to get into the spirit of it, like when I was little, I’ll be taking a leaf out of your book, because I love the way in which you celebrate every holiday.
• Do more arty/crafty things again, again my flatmate is into similar things. I think our first project is making wedding invites for her cousin. I feel some homemade christmas decorations coming on too, I’ve got a whole tree to decorate!
• Organise all my files on the computer. I have a brand new HUGE HDD, and have practically ignored it’s existence thus far, time to organise and rearrange and get everything in the one place. When I was looking for my last essay I found 3 copies that only had 2500 words, I was sure I’d written 3600! Sure enough, I had, I found it eventually.

I think that’s enough to get started… I really want to savour all this extra time and learn to relax, instead of wasting it watching crap tv or eating myself into an even more unhealthy state than currently. If I have an assignment to write, I can procrastinate like no other. However all those procrastination activities bore me to tears if it’s not a ‘naughty’ thing to be doing. If there’s no pressure to do anything else, I just get bored.

So I have been a little tied up writing a 5000 word paper for my Honours class, as well as having a cold, looking for a house, ringing telecomms and power companies and whiteware rental places etc etc etc. Oh, and also avoiding the bf I currently live with . Anyway, everything is falling into place, and there are going to be some changes happening in my life, after months of stress and uncertainty. There has also been a lot of crap lately that I would have written about if I only had the time. Hopefully now that I have some more free time (no more study till July next year!!) I will post more often, and about more positive things seeing as the stress is going to *poof* disappear. I was going to join in NaBloPoMo late, but then I realised that once I move, no internet :/ We’re investigating the options, but whatever they are, it will be at least a week, if not two, till the phone and cable broadband are up and running. Tomorrow is moving day, so I will post some pics of the new house as soon as I can! In the mean time…. check out the cool new phone I bought for the new house:

 

So pretty!!! And $5 went to Breast Cancer Awareness. 

So I must be the last blog reader in the world to sign up to Bloglines right?! I had this random bookmarking system where I opened up all tabs under whichever day of the week it was lol. But as people’s blogging groove comes and goes, I either look like a stalker checking back every day, or have to catch up on a whole week of posts! But no more of that, now I can just check in with my feeds

So recently at work I’ve taken on some "higher duties", which has essentially meant taking on a second workload, with the downside being I don’t do either job to full capacity! I have been waiting for 2 new people to be hired so I can pass the work on and get back to my own work. However, after they advertised one of the positions for the THIRD time, I decided to apply. By this time I’d figured out what in the heck was going on after being thrown in the deep end and decided it would be a good career move (not to mention extra $$). Anyway, I’ve interviewed for it, and they have rung a referee, tested my occupational preference (one of those fancy/annoying HR 101 question quizes!) and told me I interviewed really well. They have told me essentially that I have got it, I’m just waiting for the official offer (and official $ figure!)

In the mean time however I also got called up to interview for a graduate program at another organisation, and I have to let them know by this Friday if I will come in for 3 hours next Friday for testing/interview etc. The problem is, do I go along with the second one knowing the other position is mine, all but officially? What if the job I already interviewed for didn’t work out? It’s highly unlikely, but I don’t want all my eggs in the one basket. There is no contest between the two positions if I were to get them both, I would get WAY more $$ if I stayed where I am than if I went across to the graduate program, which would be a pay cut as it stands already. Part of me wants to go through the process just to see if I could get the job, then I would turn it down! But I don’t want to waste their time, plus I would need half a day off work to go. And it’s on casual friday, so people at work would notice if I showed up in the more formal of my work outfits!

 
What do you think? Is it wrong to go through all that with practically no intention of taking of the job? Worst case scenario though is that the first new job doesn’t work out and I would want to leave that workplace anyways, so this could be a good back up plan!