InBlogNito

Well, January has been and gone… thought I’d combine a few random events/observations into one post, none are so big they deserve an entire post of their own. I’m waiting for my Nutrimetics Mineral Masque to set before I rinse off with lukewarm water. It’s hot as hell here and I just walked up the hill home, so I’m actually looking forward to the lukewarm shower.

• Last week my roommates Dad came to stay. She found out recently that he is in fact gay. And both her parents knew this before they got married. However, they were the only two who happened to have this oh so minor piece of information. Of course there is nothing wrong with being gay. However, I happen to use the word ‘gay’ a LOT. Like all day every day. Anything that is totally and utterly stupid is ‘gay’. This does not mean I think all gay people are totally and utterly stupid, it only works in the reverse of that. My terrible overuse of the word to cover any and every situation (I think I need to make a February resolution: find a new word to replace ‘gay’ in my vocabulary) meant that I was petrified I would describe something totally and utterly stupid as ‘gay’ in front of roommates newly out of the closet gay father. I was sooooo close to making it through the weekend, till he took us out for dinner on Sunday night and the ‘g’ word just slipped right out. I attempted a quick coverup by saying ’so totally and utterly stupid’ - in order to clarify my use of the term. He paid for dinner, so I’m guessing he took no personal offense. Maybe neither him nor roommate even noticed…. I would ask her, but it’s a sensitive topic (as you would expect when she’s been lied to her whole life) so I usually wait for her to bring it up first.

• The new girl started at work on Monday, the one who is filling my old position. Back when they were taking applications and interviewing my manager told me there was a girl who submitted her photo and everyone on the selection panel knew who she was talking about when she said ’so how about the Nicola-lookalike?’. On and on it went, they all felt the need to tell me this girl looked just like me. Then they decided to interview her, and I got to spy on all the interviewees from my desk, so I picked her out (one obvious difference - she is a red head, I’m a blonde - the photo was B&W). Anyway, then they made a choice and suddenly they stopped talking about the girl who looked just like me, so I figured she was out and the other non-lookalike girl was in. Then H showed up on monday morning, and what to you know… she’s my lookalike! Apart from the red hair thing… and the whole she’s way skinnier than me thing…. and the whole she’s engaged-to-be-married thing (I never understood the need for that entire phrase… I know there are engagements that break off, or ones that last forever and the couple just never get around to getting married, but isn’t the purpose, most of the time, or at least at the time of the proposal, of getting engaged to get married? weird). However, not only does she look somewhat vaguely like me, she is actually just like me! Soooo many things we think exactly the same way. And neither of us are afraid to let people know what we think. We both cough and splutter pointedly when following smoker walking down the street. We both complain loudly to our friends and then make a point of walking fast past a slow walker. We both hate going to huge crowded events where there are way too many people. We will complain bitterly when stupid movie trainee’s are complete fucktards. You know what I mean, we’re the type of people who completely embarrass our friends when we go out with our loud, pointed complaining.

• I got to finish work early today. Yay!! We’re moving desks, and so we had to pack everything up and leave early so they can swap about 20 people to different desks. Also, I’m finally (two months later) getting paid my full salary. It wasn’t a huge deal, I wasn’t starving to death or anything, but that’s MY money they’re hanging onto and making interest off. It should be in my bank account earning me interest! So now I have been caught up on the extra $$, I’m going shopping this weekend. Number one on the shopping list? A vacuum cleaner. Exciting huh? No… you’re right, not exciting at all, but much better than other roommates dodgy Dyson vacuum cleaner that doesn’t suck AT ALL, while the extendable cord insists on unextending it self right back to the plug in the wall socket while you’re trying to suck at least 1% of the dirt out of the carpet.

• Today, when I was walking home early from work, there were a bunch of guys mooning the cars on the motorway from the overpass. There a huge sporting event in town tonight, one where nobody actually watches the games and just dresses up and gets pissed for the fun of it all, so they were all wearing not much and had a blow up doll with them… I couldn’t even desribe what little they were actually wearing, I was paying no attention. Then right as I walked past they were all ‘can you take a picture of all of us together?’ Sure… no problem. So I took a picture of 5 guys mooning the traffic at 3 in the afternoon. What a way to wrap up the week!

• This is my new BFF. I’ve been using a variety of dodgy DIY methods for trimming for quite some time, and finally saw one of these marked way down when I was out shopping one lunch time. I wish I’d just gone ahead and paid full price for one years ago! It’s soooo much easier, and produces a much neater result! Now if only there were someone else around to appreciate it….

• Speaking of which, I saw him while I was out shopping last weekend. He saw me first, which is unusual, because I always see people I know first and then have to tackle them to the ground to get them to see me back. He was all ’sorry I haven’t called I only just got back to work and then I got real sick but I’ll call this week’. He said it like that, one fast and unpunctuated sentence. I had to believe him on the illness front, he sounded terrible. And it’s now a whole week later and no phone call. He always has these elaborate excuses for not calling…. why do I keep bothering?! At least he didn’t lose my number yet…. well I’m assuming so, seeing as he stated the intention to call without having to ask for my number again.

• Finally, I saw Juno again last night. It was just as funny. What wasn’t funny was the guy next to us who was one of those laugh-out-loud people. You know, the ones that are sooo loud that the entire theatre misses the next line in the script? Little annoying…. what wasn’t annoying was the lack of fucktardness by the ticket seller. He was a real sweetie. Not only did he notice that I had my loyalty card out, but he also kept hold of it and swiped it through for roommates ticket. And he noticed we had the summer movie card thing that needed stamping and didn’t give us some BS about how we couldn’t both have a stamp. And he was all chatty and friendly without being one of those annoying OTT try-hard cashiers. And he was a Trainee! I’m still writing to complain, but I’ll be sure to mention his impeccable service too.