For the time being in Adventures in paradise

I'm sure everyone else has done enough bitching about Od going down until the cows come home, so I'll just say I'm bitterly disappointed, in the way things were handled etc. But hey, a fresh start and all that jazz I guess.

I guess what I'll miss most is not being able to post pictures here. Had I a working laptop, it may be possible, but I'm still on my tablet since my laptop finally took it's final breath about two weeks ago. It's still lying motionless on the floor, as I can't bare to bury it yet. So much stuff, so much porn, trapped inside there forever...

I've been pretty good I guess. Prodding along nicely, living the life of a guy with far too much time on his hands. And by on my hands you should know what I mean. Oh wait, I don't have my porn anymore... Thankfully I can still watch that on my tablet, but even on a tablet I have to watch it 'on a mobile device' and it really limits what I'm able to search or filter. Luckily, I'm still able to do most things on this thing, although I've had to give up updating my personal music charts for the time being, as they aremimpossiblemto do without the convenient spreadsheets and other options available via a laptop compared to this thing.

I can't believe how fast the previous week went, to be honest. Maybe it's because now that I'm 30, the days seem to just fly right on by. I'll be putting my cereal bowl in the dishwasher, and next thing I know (Imrefuse to say 'nek minut') it's time to start cooking dinner. Although that's not completely untrue, since I am usually hauling my arse out of bed anywhere between midday and 2:30pm. Or maybe it went fast because I had a 5 day weekend due to the Australia Day public holiday. I was on the roster as working on it, so I actually showed up at work on Monday, only to have my manager and 2IC open the door and say I wasn't meant to turn up. He tried to tell me he told me not to come in, but he certainly never told me that! Anyway, it wasn't a big deal as I just went home again, but I was kinda looking forward to the public holiday rates :(

It wasn't a complete waste of time going in however, as I had gone to the gym beforehand. Speqking of, my membership has now expired again, and I'm having the exact same problem with whopping around for a new gym as I had last year AND I'm pretty sure the week before - Every website I look at just says utter bullshit like 'Each gym has different prices (despite being the same chain of gyms)' and they'll also have no prices listed so you have to provide details so they contact you back. Fuck. That. Shit. In this day and age, I am a consumer and if a company isnt going to provide a simple thing like what their prices are because they have a system where they need a membership consultant to ring me up and hassle me constantly for an inflated price, then I have ZERO interest. At least with Jetts, their prices are right there on the website. They don't hassle like every other gym seems to, and it looks exactly like deja vue where I'll get pissed off with every other gym chain because they refuse to get with the times, and end up rejoining the place where I already was. My workmate wants me to join Snap, and he was nice enough to enquire about how much a membership was for me when he went in there. $620 for a year. My jaw nearly hit the floor. Jetts is only $480. I was hoping for a change of gym scenery. I really was. It doesn't look like it'll happen.

In the meantime, Ive just been exercising at home on my pushup bars, which I'm always afraid are going to slip outnfrom underneath me as I have them on my wooden bedroom floor lol. Luckily they haven't yet, and my nose is still attached to my face :) I've also downloaded a generic app onto this tablet which works out my core section. I have to do it every day for 42 days, and I'm open-minded to it hopefully giving me some results. I completed day8 today, and my God it is not getting any easier as they days progress haha. I'd better get some damn results out of this, because man, I fucking feel it after Ive completed each set. The repetitions increase every couple of days. By the final days, I'll be somehow pushing out 24 repetitions of each exercise. Fuck me dead! At the moment it's 16 and THAT is a struggle. I'm happy with it though, and I hope it works for me. If not, it was a free app anyway.

I've done something to my left wrist. I'm not sure what I did, or when I did it, as I don't specifically remember injuring it, but it feels like an uncomfortable pulling feeling, but only on the outer side of my left wrist. Part of me thinks it could be from pushing in the sides of boxes with my hand at work to remove the sticky tape, so I've been very careful by using my knife more, even though it slows my work pace down a fair bit, but I've been feeling quite concerned about it, as it's been lingering around for about a week now. I'm hoping it fucks off soon.

My jury duty is this week, which I'm expecting will be about as thrilling as watching tumbleweed bounce across the Sahara... I checked the website on Friday after 5:30pm (so specific!) and it said my number wasn't needed on Monday, so I don't have to go in tomorrow morning, but I have to keep checking every day. This is going to get annoying and inconvenient fast for me. I've set alarms to remind me to do so, because it's totally something I'd forget about as I have very little interest in deciding the fate of some criminal or verdict of some money/child-hungry scorned ex-lover. Actually, I don't even know if jury's decide those sorts of cases. Guess I'll find out Tuesday, as I assume I'll have to go in then at 8:45am sharp (again, so specific!) And THAT'S gonna be a barrel of fun considering I finish work at 2am the next three Mondays, as my manager asked me to be the 2IC on those days whilst he's on holidays. I was a bit confused by the question actually, because when he asked me, I assumed that would involve working full-time hours, but then as he brought the contract for me to sign, it only had the Monday dates listed. Oh well, whatever. I'll most likely have jury duty during the day anyway, so working full time at night would probably drive me batshit insane. I don't know if Ill be accepted for jury duty anyway, since I have Mardi Gras booked in fourweeks time. Initially when I agreed to jury duty, it stated I'd be needed for 2 weeks, THEN I get my summons and it states an expected 10 weeks. Umm, what now!? 4 I can do, but 10? I don't think so princess! There is no way in HELL I am canceling my mardi gras trip that I have spent two months paying off, NOR am I spending my annual leave in some courtroom with boring people and criminals. No-sir-ee ma'am!

Today I spent the morning helping a friend move house. I was under the impression that he and the boyfrienx had broken up, but by how chummy they both were with each other, I'm unsure if it even happened or if they kissed and made up. I ran into them at the club last weekend and they seeme to be having a D&M or something, but I interrupted it (lol) to say hi, because I figured if I didn't then that I would lose them since the club was so packed. It was good to hang out with them both though, and it was a chance to do a good deed and actually see them, since that never happens these days and all :( We got everything moved and I think I was home by mid-afternoon.

I know I have a shitload more to say. I can't wait to get a new laptop and stress about money even more as I try to pay that off lol. My phone is also SO unbelievably outdated that it only works half the time as well. Oh well, when I budget like I do, I have to go without the higher end models of everyday technology, which sucks arse. Kind of worried most of my annual leave will go to paying off crap I want, but I'll still need to pay rent as I won't have money coming in for 5 weeks or so there. So every extra shift I get offered is like a blessing this month.

Then in around April or May, I'll be looking for a second job, in which I can then say goodbye to any form of a social life whatsoever. Fun times!

This still doesn't feel like home to me.

I'm also annoyed that there are typo's-galore in this entry. I don't really have a choice at the moment.