the big L

so i'm driving along today and something occured to me... if i didn't know me i'd think i was a loser.

seriously! i had Bon Jovi's 'Bad Medicine' blaring from my car stereo and i'm singing along like its 1989. and that isn't a one off occurance, Bon Jovi is a regular feature in my car, home and work stereo. i love them (bon jovi) and true love lasts a life time (quote??)

i'm wearing a Robbie Williams tour shirt as i type this.

i love rob thomas

i own (and love) phil collins and billy joel cds/records/and even a dvd

i don't want to go out on a saturday night cos i'm too tired (and if i do go its to karaoke)

i don't want to date cute men

and i work in insurance...

omg i am a loser!

oh well

*singin* your love is like baaaaaad mediciiiiinee bad medicine is what i need woa oh oh shake it up just like....

the date that never was

i know i haven't kept you up to date about the date... i'm sorry... the coffee but here's a quick run down.

my last night at civic i asked out a customer. the next day he messaged me (a very sweet message i might add) and brought up coffee, and the fact that we should have some. i agreed and we left it at 'soon' and he said he looked forward to hearing from me. ie, i had to make the next move. so a week and a half later (shuddup i had started a new job) i messaged and brought up the coffee, we scheduled for the following week - tuesday to be exact.

meanwhile i'm shaking at the prospect of going on a date. cos anything remotely relationshipy and i freak. so A pointed out that i only have to commit to coffee, and nothing else. even thats a bit shakey, commit... ew.. but anyway it seemed to work and i'm all ready for coffee.

so tuesday roles round and i've got the flu but i've taken the day off to try get rid of it and hope i can still make coffee but it wasn't gonna happen. so i ring to cancel and it turns out he's work van got broken into anyway and he was stuck getting stuff sorted for the insurance company. so we reschedule for same time next week.

so tuesday roles round again and i'm panicking cos i could see i was going to get stuck at work and not make it home in time when i reach for my phone and there's a missed call and a voice message. now he's sick and claims i must have given it to him (damn germs that travel through phone lines), how bout same time next week.

can i just point out that it's now been over a month since we said 'hey how bout coffee'.

yanno what, if next week my car gets broken into - i'm gonna go with my three strikes your out rule and safely say its fate and someone doesn't want this "thing" (whatever it may be) to happen.

just some mindless natter

to begin... a little response to last posts comments

B - HI B!!! hope your having fun and your pics look great. the new job is super - thanks for asking. oh and A and I decided that since your wife doesn't want you spending money on her while your away... feel free (if not obligated) to shower us with gifts instead.

the other B - thanks for dropping by. hope you weren't TOO bored... actually that goes for anyone else who happens to be reading this.

Annie - oh please woman! Clueless.

and hey boyface... i know your out there *shakin finger* its ok i didn't end up going to the hockey either. although you did nearly let me represent sarah's friends to her new squeeze all on my own. not good!

and back to our regular programing (crap crap and more crap)

so i've become one of those annoyed faces on the train. cursing the fact i have to get up at 6:20am for the privilege of getting sandwiched on a train by a middle aged festy guy whos remarkably sweaty for 7:48am on a winters morning on my right. and a woman who thinks any spare square inch of the seat can be taken up with her oversized 'im so insecure i need to bring my entire make-up stash with me incase someone catches a glimpse of my natural skin colour' bag on my left. nah uh honey. then of course there's the guy behind me with music so loud the unsuspecting residents of houses we are speeding past are getting a wake up call. and the woman across the aisle is shrieking into her mobile phone about some date she had last night. lady, the whole train doesn't need to know your a tramp!

on the trip home i'm once again thinking how much i hate people on trains with phones. that stupid be be be beeeep beeeeeeeep be be be... be be be beeeep beeeeeep be be be message alert that people who think they are too important to risk missing a message have. only to pull it out and realise its optus asking you to pay your bill (MWHAHAHA @ the guy sitting next to me the other day). so i'm glaring at this woman on the phone to her mum wondering why she couldn't wait to have her conversation at home where it won't annoy me... when my phone rings. for the remaining 20 mins of my journey i happily sit there and chat to A ignoring all the people glaring at me. cos yanno, they're just jealous cos they have nothing to do!

oh how hard life is...

next time i start whingin about how hard things are and its all so unfair, just remind me how my day was today.

so i get up, have a huge breakfast of bacon, eggs, mushrooms (THE best mushrooms - cooked with herbs and butter and stuff *drool*), toast, freshly squeezed orange juice.

had a hot shower while dancing and singing to old bon jovi songs.

piled my hair under my hat and jumped into the convertible with mum, dad and D (mums friend) and drove to the markets at the rocks. (with a quick stop over at civic to handover my shirt of justice and truth to A). i didn't find the necklace i wanted but it was a beautiful day and took me back to Seattle where i walked through the Pike St markets by the water.

jumped back in the convertible and drove to the fish markets to buy a feast for lunch.

lunch consisted of the following. dads famous mussels cooked in a light tomato sauce (not really thick enough to be a sauce but soup sounds scary), followed by lobster brushed with garlic butter (tends to get dipped in garlic butter when i'm eating it), natural oysters and fresh cooked prawns with a squeeze of lemon and a side salad to finish it off on a light note. unfortunately we didn't think we'd be able to eat the snapper dad bought so thats tomorrow nights dinner - along with about another 2 kg of prawns... so whose coming round?

so lets re-cap shall we.
- bacon and eggs
- convertible
- beautiful sunny day with blue skies
- markets by the harbour
- view of the harbour while driving
- an array of gorgeous seafood
- a lazy sunday night

do i miss weekends at civic video?? hell no.

thank god its friday!!!

well not really. i was actually pretty bummed that it was friday cos i had a few claims to put through and i'm getting pretty good at it. but being a weekend worker, i've never been able to say 'thank god its friday' before.

so basically my job is processing initial claims (ready to be assessed), paying invoices etc, i'm in charge of death claims so after someone dies (if its fairly straight forward) i don't even give it to an assessor i just put it through and send the cheque (not as easy as it sounds). i do research for the assessors if they need a hand and thats about all i know of so far.

the perks of the job?? well i get to wear jeans to work if i want to. because i was hired in june instead of july (by 4 days) i get the $500 lifestyle bonus along with the rest of the zurich staff, that will be included in my pay next week which i'm basically getting for sitting at my desk doing very little for the past 5 days. i can surf the net, we get cake a lot, they give bonuses as well as raises every year, i GIVE people money instead of taking it which means i don't get yelled at.

basically i'm loving the job so far. lets see how next week goes...