Another very average day

Today I woke up once at 7:30am, as usual, because of my parents' kitchen clatter and their far from quiet mad rush to work, and then again at 9:30am to actually get up. This week I've been mixing three different cereals together in my breakfast bowl; weet bix, weet bix apricot bites, and special k, just to jazz up the dull routine of breakfast a little (although my parents were nice enough to leave me a hard boiled egg this morning). I'm just about to go for a walk on this sunny and windy day and put out the washing in the hope it dries in a couple of hours so I can wear my clothes tonight. (We're not allowed to use our drier- somthing along the lines of changing the pipes and opening the back door to use it so it doesn't combust.) Also my parents are under the impression that it's better to dry clothes in the sun to kill off germs with the sun's all-natural healing, penetrating rays.

Now it's getting really windy, I still haven't moved from the computer even though I set a time limit where I was meant to get up and walk half an hour ago and I don't think the conditions are quite right for walking anymore. I guess I can only blame myself, the icecream and the weather for my one kilo weight gain this week. Perhaps I'll just sit and watch some tv : )

More scribbles- but today is a gift

So I said on my last scribble post that I bought a waffle maker for a friend's birthday. Yesterday we went to her birthday high tea party, not a wild 18th costume house party where everyone dresses as Alice or the Madhatter, but a calm, civilised, sparkling wine controlled and might I say, a rather ritzy and pricey waterside-view restaurant, high tea. And it turns out that in her 18 years of existence, this was her first birthday party! Her first time with bags of presents, opening them on the spot, keeping a happy straight face even if it's a box of candles (thankfully there were none, but mine always seem to end up in the black out kit). Which makes me wonder- how much has she missed out on?

I personally remember each of my parties quite distinctly, from the huge scale kindy parties at McDonalds where everyone invites the whole class for an afternoon of duck duck goose, to the putt putt golf party phase, to the humble movie flick-pizza house parties, and then to my last birthday party, which was a disastrous 15th singstar house party. I valued each and every birthday until I was 15, and after that they've all been filled with facebook and texted happy birthdays including my 18th right before the HSC (I celebrated that one with a few others, namely a textbook and my new phone). But even then birthdays and celebrating them has always been a big deal to me considering I once organised my own party half a year in advance and showed all my plans including a garage makeover to my parents to convince them to let me hold a party. I also glare at friends who forget the date of my birthday or can't work out the password to my phone (come on whose password isn't their birthday these days??).

Anyway being one of those wonderful people who likes everything, she liked the waffle maker, the mug, the inevitable boxes of body wash, and even the bits of foam packaging the body wash!
And all in all the high tea was nice (although it better have been for how ridiculously much it cost)- there were little duck pies and chicken & avocado sandwiches, prawn finger breads and cakes and macarons and creme brulees. Not quite the traditional high tea, but nevertheless surprisingly filling and yummers : ) And of course any view of Sydney Harbour is spectacular!

So what last year for us would have been an average school day where we all sat around the canteen, outside the toilets sitting and chatting, it's nice to know that we're now at high tea in the city sitting and chatting whilst thousands of kids sit around canteens and toil through totally fun, interactive science classes at school- ahaha one day peeps, one day.

ALLYSWAY- my highlights of the week!

One of the things I think we so often forget (well I do anyway) is to be 'thankful for everything we have.'

Today one of my 'wonderbar' friends was telling me about how she started cooking for her family as much as she can to show how grateful she is for her fam and their support and that she's not just another gen Y computer bound house staying kid. (I take that back; she totally is and can recite every single song on Glee and the time in the episode and season that song appeared- it's sad I know).

Still, she reminded me to be thankful for eveything we have; so while I was whining through whatsapp about the blocked toilet, my miserly minimum wage pay and my friend who gets quadruple my pay in an hour I thought why not start the opposite of 'ALLYGATOR-my weekly bite of the world.' Why not look at the positives in the world?! So I thought I'll add a new thread 'ALLYSWAY-my highlights of the week!'

SO THE FIRST HIGHLIGHT: Today I passed 100 pageviews! So an absomulately ginormous THANK YOU to everyone who's been reading my blog; I hope you enjoy  it and I'll keep you posted!!

ALLYGATOR- My weekly bite at the world

This week our drains are blocked and our bathroom is currently flooded with gross toilet water : ( 

Also going down on my list are waiters who say that the food on the menu isn't spicy at all when it is! We were out eating Thai food and ended up drinking about ten bottles of water and drowning our pieces of meat in bowls of water before eating it. One of my friends worked out her golden ratio was one piece of lamb to two cups of water. Ok I admit I'm not the most spice tolerant person, but still!  

More scribbles of a very average person

Today I woke up, sat on my bed for a very long time, thought about the thousands of kiddos who probably just started their first class at school for the year and thought ahaha thank goodness, no more math for me, I'm finally free!

Clearly a very eventful day ahead. I'm currently thinking about going for a walk (well I've actually been thinking about it for two hours now).

It has however been quite strange walking straight past 'back to school' sales for the first time and not feeling the urge to buy a box full of 10 cent exercise books and folders and notebooks and pens. It's not too sad though considering icecream has also been on half price sales! Yummers! Although yet again I feel myself gaining weight and my favourite orange skinny jeans are slowly getting harder to squeeze into.

So this week I finally got my first job as a tutor, and whilst it's not in retail I'm glad I finally have something relatively productive to do this month. I spent my first day at work ushering kids into classrooms, watching them run around the playground (despite my valiant efforts to uphold the 'no running at all times' rule) and marking their work. I may have possibly infringed some tutor codes of conduct e.g. wearing a skirt instead of long pants, not chatting through marking sessions for more than a half a minute, not chatting on subjects other than marking material (although there was an article on modern family, so technically I was ok there!)...It's definitely not the funnest job but perks are: I can go shopping now! (Oh and of course the joy and satisfaction and appreciation of innocence and energy and ladidadida of being around and helping out cute little kids.) Only problem is when I go shopping now I compare a shirt with about an hours' worth of work and after a while I feel so guilty I don't feel like buying anything anymore. Yesterday I bought a shirt and maroon pants and that was almost two hours of part time work gone so I kerbed my need to splurge after that. We also bought a cool waffle maker for a friend's birthday present, which we very proudly found on sale!

Allygator- my weekly bite at the world

This week I'm still bothered by how tough it is to break into the retail industry with no connections. Currently: still unemployed. Resumes sent out: like a billion. Replies: - none-

I'm also slightly fed up with the amount of tennis on tv at prime time, especially when they start replaying afternoon matches at night. It was fun to watch last week but I'm glad it's almost over.

The scribbles of a very normal average person

Today I was hoping to finally get out of my house and do some exercise and go for a swim, but the weather's just too dark and ominous (well not really, it's just cloudy, but that makes for a better excuse). So I've been stuck in my house for a while now; it took me three days to sleep off jetlag and I've spent the rest of the week standing around, staring at walls, slowly clearing out clothes and notes in my room and the occassional walk up the street. It's been super hot, sizzling over 40 degree heat round here, the hottest day in 150 years, but now it's just raining or looking like it's about to. In the past scorching days all I've wanted to do is bask in the soothing air con, watch the tennis on tv and eat icecream; I've eaten a lot of icecream recently! We've stocked up on cookies and cream, cornettos, honey and macadamia icecream, yum yum, there goes that new year's resolution, and of course my excuse is the blaring heat. Semi legit in my mind.

I've also been out grocery shopping a lot, restocking after our holiday fridge clearance. Yesterday we bought a heap of bargain meat because of those wonderful Australia Day sales, some rye and raisin sourdough- our current family fad, and a couple of bags of late night reduced priced bread and finger buns-hurray.

As for a job, I'm still very unemployed, I haven't earnt a cent on shares, my room is still a complete mess,yes, the rest of the month is looking rather bleak in my new Harrods diary (which I bought hoping to inspire myself; clearly working). I have however started reading again. Amazing right? The last book I touched was probably a biology textbook, the last novel was Frankenstein for high school English, and the last leisure book was honestly probably Harry Potter. So I haven't moved on very far, I've been engrossed in the Hunger Games series, which is actually very addictive and much easier to read after watching the movie, although it does feel like a mix of Twilight and Harry Potter and maybe Gladiators all in one. To pass more time I've also started Ellen's 'Seriously...I'm not kidding' which is a nice, light read. I love her humour as always and can't wait till she comes to Australia! And to pass even more time (how much time do I have?!?) on this very long 'staycation' I've picked up playing piano again, which is a testiment to how bored I must be, considering that wondrous blanket of fluffy dust on our piano, and I can't bring myself to play anything other than calm, honest, melodic pieces that suit my slow, passing time mood or Bach's Well Tempered Clavier (I  just added that to sound more cultured.) 

And now that I've reached the end of the day and unachieved nothing exciting in particular I guess it's time to call it another stressless night and look forward to yet another exciting day with a midday sleep in! Woot! Hopefully I'll enjoy them while they last!

ALLYGATOR- my weekly bite at the world

Toilets in Europe which cost money.

So I went on a very calm schoolies to Europe and the one thing that bugged me was how much it cost to use public toilets. In some places it cost more to go to the toilet than buy a cappucino. Perhaps the cappucino was strategically cheap..On one of the days our toilet money, of three people combined, cost more than a yummy spag bowl +raspberry tart lunch! Thankfully they are pretty clean though.