Allysway-my weekly highlights

Having been working long hours, I've almost forgotten the luxury of sitting at a dining table eating dinner with the fam (or for our family at the kitchen bench cos our dining table is perenially filled with my parents' newspapers and catalogues and folders). So having eaten most of my meals at the train station between train changes or clambering bits of sandwich into my mouth whilst running to work, my highlight this week is coming home weary and unmotivated and seeing a homely clingwrapped plate of warm rice and beef and cauliflower on the kitchen bench. That really made my day!

Allygator- my weekly bite at the world

This week I have nothing to complain about, amazingly enough. I am temporarily content and am loving my doses of white choocolate and strawberry icecream.

I'm ridiculously exhausted from doing tediously long hours of primary school homework, where my eyes end up glazing over hundreds of additions and subtractions and close passages on monkeys. But I was totally comforted when one of my friends told me that she had to wake up at 5:30am for a 7am coffee shop start, working on award wage. So I guess doing 8 hours of primary school work isn't quite that bad, after all a job's a job.

Tues 5 February 2013

Today I went to work and did 8 hours of Yr 6 homework. Algebra, general ability, reading comprehension, problem solving.. it's like school all over again! And to be completely honest I think that's the most homework I've ever done in my life. Even for the hsc I didn't study that much! (Which probably explains why I'm where I am right now.) At least at school though, in math class, we could eat or plug into music and do a few questions before our inevitable social math session- at work we're under contract not to chat, not to eat, not to listen to music, so every time I reach for that tuna sandwich in my bag I think, no stop, I want to get paid! If only they made us work like that in school. I would've been such a genius : /

Monday Feb 4 2013

Today I went to the orthodontist for the last time! I'm not sure how that's an interesting subject at all, but the journey there was definitely far more exciting than the destination (not terribly cliche at all, I know.) So the trains were delayed massively all day but somehow in the afternoon I was lucky enough to get on every train with less than 5 minutes wait even though they weren't running on schedule! Going there I sprinted to catch a bus to get an earlier delayed train, rather than my usual half an hour uphill walk, because I wanted to be on time for my last appointment and to avoid the after school rush. So I managed to scramble on to the bus and catch the train thinking I'd only be about ten minutes late as there was meant to be a 40 minute delay, but somehow I must have gotten some super early train that got seriously delayed and I made it with 30 minutes to spare!

That's my story for the day. Oh, and then I bought myself a raisin bun : ) yum

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!!