you must be so proud!

i've been teasing my mum for years about being stupid. I've never really thought she was... you rarely believe what you are saying when you are teasing someone. yesterday... i realised i've actually been right all these years.

I was teasing mum again and i must have said "thats because you're stupid"... her reply floored me.

{mum} "i am not stupid, i mastered meter parking today"
{me} "what?? meter parking? you're talking about putting a coin in a machine? that's your accomplishment?!?!"
{mum} "well i read the instructions, i put my dollar in and i remembered to put the ticket in the window"
{me} "are you serious?"

and it gets better

{mum} "and today i remembered where i parked at coles... and i got my ticket validated"
{me} "this is your argument?... "

the scary thing is, a) she was completely serious and b) she is in charge of children. i'm guessing her kids at school actually teach her more than she teaches them. I should give HER a report card at the end of each semester:
getting yourself dressed each morning - B
remembering where you parked - A

health announcement

you have to stop and wonder what kinda people we share this planet with when the gym you frequent feels the need to post the following... in the LADIES change room.

"In the interest of health and comfort for all members and guests, management require that you refrain from spitting and hawking whilst in the showers and change rooms. Thank you."

um.. ew!

although on a positive note. there are a lot less bandaids and general crap floating around the pool these days. well done Fitness First! it seems you must be putting my exorbitant fees to good use.

i'm booooooored

i swear i have the attention span of a 2 yr old!

well maybe not that bad. but i've been in this job for nearly 7 months now and i'm bored out of my mind already. i've been looking up the american branches and trying to find out if there is anything going there that i can apply for. but i don't have enough experience yet so i just have to sit here and be bored.

orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

i could go and work part time at civic! so i did. well i will. i start on thursday.
the ground rules have yet to be finalised but so far it looks like i'll be a (part-time) civic chick again. now i just need to get my shirt of justice and truth back from A! *shakes fist*

entertain me!! someone? anyone? doooooo it!!
ugh.. i'm booooooreeeedddddddd

when i grow up....

oOOOooooOOOoo posting 2 days in a row are you proud of me??

i've been thinking a lot lately. i want to write a book!

how cool would it be?
i could base it loosely on some of the things i did while i was travelling. my friends could be characters. it would be so much fun to write.

but then again, i also want to become a champion figure skater and fly a plane.... hmmm, what to do what to do.

happy new year?

wow. i have just finished reading through my ENTIRE blog... literally.
I can't believe how i used to think missing 3 days blogging was sacrilege and now look at me... a month goes by and i don't even blink.

how bout we get back into the swing of things with a quick rant....

the girl i sit next to at work is the kinda person i hate... incompetent. we were hired to do the same job, only we ended up splitting some things. i do death claims and lump sum, she does income protection (IP) and ip payments. we were meant to cross train which she has been putting off but i ended up learning her job by default. how does that work you ask? BECAUSE SHE IS INCOMPETENT. I ended up having to help her out, even though i get more work in per day than she does.

she cannot organise her time, she spends most of it on the phone anyway, she has no sense of logic, she complains how busy she is but doesn't do any of it anyway, she asks the same questions over and over again. we have been there the same amount of time and i have to hold her hand.

today was a golden example. last week, she took 4 days off. that meant for 4 days i was doing 2 people's job. i was doing all the mail/database stuff in the morning,which we usually share, all on my own. i did her IP payments till 12 pm (which she usually does until 4pm... yet another example of how slow and incompetent she is). was doing her IP claim notifications and then the rest of the day doing my work... and then indexing all the days scanning for that day as well. i was thinking how if it stayed at that level of work load, we could get ridd of her altogether and they could just pay me double.

well i ended up taking friday off, which was the day she came back, and i expected her to hold down the fort like i did while she was away. NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. i came in today and half of friday's mail was still sitting there. she hadn't done ANY database work. she had physically put the payments through so people got there money but none of the other stuff that goes with it. she didn't index anything. and she was complaining that she had 2 notifications to send out.
I couldn't believe it. i did BOTH our jobs for 4 days. did EVERYTHING! and had it ALL done in a time frame exceeding our service standards. she couldn't even get half HER job done, forget about mine. i was astonished.

do i expect too much??