Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

Buying a DS Lite is one of the best decisions I have made this year. It may also have been one of the worst decision because:

• I am $188 poorer, not including the two games I bought.
• I
  am fairly sure my eyes are turning square because they have been
  SCREAMING at me for staring at two tiny screens for hour upon hour.
• My dreams last night were in the format of Animal Crossing: Wild World.
• I have not cracked a uni book yet.
• I can’t stop thinking about which game to buy next.

In
terms of the degree of happiness and dork related excitement I’ve
experienced in the last eighteen hours, I has been worth every cent. I
am kind if disappointed I am really this nerdy, but want can I do?

I was watching Oprah
just before, and they had a show all about finding bras and jeans which
fit properly. I’ve been inspired to go and be fitted properly for a
bra. The last time I was fitted was in Year Eleven when I needed a
strapless bra for a dance, so needless to say it’s been a fair few
years. They had one lady who had a fairly big chest, but they made her
look so good with a new bra. Most of mine ride up at the back and feel
really rather ordinary, I’m so excited to see what can be achieved by
clever engineering.

K, this was a really boring post, I apologize. I have Lozzy’s engagement party tonight though, that should be exciting!!

Well, I was very brave and resigned today. It was kind of scary but I
looked at it like ripping off a bandaid, it’s going to suck but if you
do it quickly it will be as painless as possible. I marched in and went
straight to my manager and told her. She was lovely about it, and told
me she understood why, and said she’ll miss me when I go.

I told
the few people I still know, and quite a few of them are …gutted, for
lack of a better word. One girl just kept saying "oh, I can’t believe
you’re actually leaving" and everyone else is in a mad panic to swap
emails. I have four more shifts, it feels like an eternity, it hasn’t
sunk in yet.

Drinks have been proposed, my manager wants to bake
me a cake and I’ve been promised I can do anything I like for my last
day. Everyone is being truly lovely, and I’m so pleased, I’m so glad I
will leave on a really good note.

I also got my first pay in say
six weeks today. It’s a lot more than I expected, which is probably a
mistake, and since I also have my tax return sitting in my account I
feel quite rich! I paid a good few hundred off my credit card ( aren’t
I sensible?) and have decided to buy myself a Nintendo DS as a reward
for doing all this new and exciting stuff. I’m going to laybuy it
though and pick it up after I have done all the uni work I have to do, I know I won’t get anything done if I get one this weekend.

Speaking
of uni, I have decided to take myself off online dating for the moment.
I have been contacted by twenty nine boys… and one girl. I can’t keep
up, and I have to get
cracking with uni, if I do start getting my act together I will fail
more subjects, time to knuckle down and stop assing around. I have a
50% assignment for the subject I haven’t even started yet due the day after I finish at my job, that’s fifteen days!

P.S
Did anyone else watch the Terri Irwin interview last night? I cried
like a sissy (and not just because it was Ray Martin doing the
interview). He used to walk down the spiral stairs first in case she
fell and would slip down them. That’s the loveliest thing ever! He
really sounded like a nice person. It’s so fantastic to see a couple
(or half of said couple) just be so overwhelmingly in love with their
partners.

Well, I think I’m about the only person ever to puss out of online dating. It probably sounds terribly conceited to say, but I honestly
can’t keep up with it all. There is just so many people replying to my
profile I forget who is who. I’m not trying to lead anyone on, so for
the moment I’m not going to talk to any new people. I would hate to
reply to someone and have them use their credit to email me when I have
so many others happening at the moment.

Yeah, I do sound awful,
but I think it’s nicer to not give anyone false impressions. I am still
quite partial to Funniest Home Video Guy (FHVG), but I really don’t
know if he’ll talk to me another time, but that’s ok, I’d rather just
give it time than have all these back up people if he doesn’t work out.

I feel like such a dork, I just didn’t expect it to be so intense.

I think I’m going to make a trip to Officeworks today. For most people it’s just another shop, but I really quite adore Officeworks, and much like a trip to Priceline,
I find it impossible to leave empty handed. My laptop is getting feral
and I need to get some compressed air to blow all the dust out, and I
need some folders for uni stuff. I can almost promise though I will
come out with other things, and very possibly nothing I set out to buy.
I can’t explain the attraction, I just love Officeworks.

P.S My I.T Ninja
and I will be discussing website things in the near future, so expect a
domain for my jewellery stuff soon (or not soon, depending on how
tricky it is). Watch this space!

Well, my tax cheque FINALLY cleared in my account, so I am a
hundredaire for the first time in many weeks, but this is my one
hundredth blog!!

Hooray for me and my blog! What a momentous occasion!

I guess it’s also a bit special because I can announce I have a new job! I went and saw the recruitment people today and basically if I could start tomorrow, they’d have work for me.

It’s an excellent job for a number of reasons:

• Related to my degree, so I get paid to get experience which will be so helpful to me.
• I earn around the same money I do at my current job, expect I get to wear free dress and play with kiddies.
• Next year I’ll be qualified (in their eyes) as a teacher so I get paid $26/hr (!!)
• If
  I can’t/don’t want to work, all I have to do is let them know and
  they’ll take me off the books until I’m ready to work again.
• They
  have so much work that it’s ok to refuse to work in a specific centre
  if you don’t like it/don’t want to, and it’s alright if you need time
  off because it won’t disadvantage you in being given jobs when you can
  work.

Of course there is none of the office job perks like
sick pay, annual leave, bonuses and all of that, but I feel it’s a
small price to pay for the benefits of this type of job.

I
seriously can’t believe the volume of work they have, the phone must
have rung about ten times and I was only there about thirty minutes,
and it was all centers looking for people to work for them.

So
now I have to go and resign the next day I work, which looks terrible
because I had yesterday off. Nevermind though, it’s all going to be
over soon. They can’t be surprised I’m leaving, everyone else is at the
moment and I’d be silly to turn down a job like this.

I continue
to get a crazy amount of replies from my profile, I actually got a
reply from the guy who I initially signed up because I was impressed
by. He’s not following up contact at the moment, which is a nice way of
saying thanks but no thanks. What are the odds, the ONLY guy to turn me
down so far and it’s him. Nevermind, I guess it wasn’t meant to be,
plenty more fish in the sea…

I don’t talk about work very much on my blog, I’m always a bit paranoid about being dooced.
This morning I drove to the bus stop (getting stuck in traffic), got on
the bus (which got stuck in traffic), then got two stops from work and
realised I just couldn’t do it today, and hopped off and did it all in
reverse (minus the traffic).

I felt a bit crap over the weekend,
so I had to go to the doctor to get a medical certificate anyways, and
it turns out I have a sore throat because of hay fever! Who knew you
could get a sore throat from hay fever! He told me to take Beconase
(well, he actually told be "Do what Becky does on T.V and get some
Beconase") and that stuff is pretty awesome. I don’t have a sore tickly
throat anymore, but it does feel like someone is tap dancing on my
sinuses, I’ll live.

I also contacted an Education recruitment
service. I emailed them not expecting to hear much but they called me
back right away and told me that’d have no trouble getting me employed.
Awesome! I meet with them tomorrow to talk about…stuff. I’ve never
had anything to do with recruitment places.

Well, I’ve just been
invited to chat on RSVP, so I better go be delightful. It’s not even
been twenty four hours and I’m in demand!

I went to a "job fair" today. It made me realise I don’t really want to
work for that company, and I’m pretty sure they don’t want to employ
me, so it works out kinda well. They had us in a big group, then after
each activity, they’d skim a few people off the groups to go do other
stuff. I got skimmed off in the second round, I thought it might have
been a good thing, but as we were dismissed one of the girls was
getting her referees phone numbers out of her mobile, the leader lady
said "Oh no! Don’t bother with them, you don’t need them….I mean, we
could call you if we need them…" that’s when I got the hint we might
have been culled. The stores don’t open until late November, and I’m
looking to work like, tomorrow, so I think I’ll keep looking. Live and
learn.

I went to Vinnies today and found another chicken glass.
I had one, but DelightfulDad accidentally smashed it. So I hunted
around and found a little one, and today I found the mummy chicken
glass. I keep my earrings in the baby one, so maybe I’ll put necklaces
in the mummy sized one. I really love them, they are such fine glass
and they’d have to be hand blown because they are all a little bit
different. I love glass stuff, it’s a stupid thing to love, but I think
glass is awesome, I’d love to be a glass blower or make glass beads one
day, that would be the coolest job ever.

There is no amount of
words to describe how much I don’t want to go to work tomorrow. I so
can’t be bothered, I am sick of going in the city so often and I’m
fairly certain the bus I take home from work doesn’t stop at it’s
normal place anymore. One more straw and this camel’s back is BROKEN!
Why can’t I just be paid to be awesome at staying at home?

I almost called and cancelled my hair appointment this morning, I was
feeling like a chicken and was scared that if my haircut turned out
really bad I’d be really disappointed . I kept it though, and I’m glad
I did. The new girl was really nice, she had short hair (yay) and was
wearing a tuxedo tshirt (double yay) so I decided she must be good
people. She said my hair reminded me of her own hair, in turns of
thickness and curliness (only at the back). So here’s then and now.
I’m not thrilled to be putting it all out there, I’m the least
photogenic person to ever have lived, and I dislike losing the
anonymity of my blog, but I figured lots of other blogger have shared
pics so I am obliged to, to keep it fair.

My hair looked way
awesome after I left the hairdresser, but I came home and had to wash
it (it’s just my thing, I have to wash new haircuts as soon as
possible) and it doesn’t look as good as it can in the pic. I don’t
have the right products to make it look awesome. I’m not sure how it’s
possible, I own about every hair product known to man, but I don’t have
to right type of holdy stuff.

I decided to bite the bullet and check out how much I have to do for the external subject I have not even THOUGHT about this
semester. I’m so glad I did it this week, I have a LOT to catch up on.
It serves me right for being lazy. Thank god I did not try and do it
all the week before the assignments due. It’s lucky I can’t afford to
go out these days, cause I’m going to be reading my butt off for the
next few weeks.

How much do I not want to go to my tute tonight? Oh about T H I S   M U C H !

I called AKA Togninis to make an appointment for a haircut next week,
and I was informed my usual guy has up and left. I’m so upset! He was
always able to understand my half arsed explanations about what I’m
after and always made me feel trendy, but not try hard.

AKA
Togninis is where the cool people of Brisbane get trendy haircuts,
which explains why I go there (not!), I’m scared the new person I have
won’t realise I’m not cool, and give me a trendy haircut and I’ll be
stuck looking like a try hard until it grows out. I might have to tell
her to un trendify the style a bit.

Farewell Woody, you were my favourite hairdresser ever! And that’s a super big deal in the world of DelightfulJen

Prac
is over! Well, it’s not but I’ve done everything I have to do, and my
final report is written so now I have two "play" days. I’m looking
forward to going back to uni (yes, I am a dork!) and I think despite
them being little punks, I will miss the kids. It’s such a good feeling
to come home and not have to do anything, I missed free time!

I
still haven’t heard from any employers yet, I think they are failing to
realise my awesomeness (or failing to get my emails). I guess they
might be waiting for the application to close, or maybe the positions
are filled, but it feels like it’s taking forever. Ideally I want to
hand in my resignation next week, but I’m sure I won’t be quite that
lucky. PLEEEEEASEE!! I really want a new job, please please!! I want a
uniform wearing job where I get to work with cool people, or even ok
people as long as it’s a cool uniform to make up for it.

What an awesome time to be looking for a job in retail….if you live
on the north side! Westfield Chermside is adding on a massive extension
so there are a million and one jobs for all sorts of awesome sale
positions. If petrol wasn’t so expensive I’d consider applying, but
with the way petrol is at the moment I’d be spending all the money I
earn on going to work.

I have a cattle call for one job next
Wednesday and I have applied on a couple of websites and I have started
to visit the big job sites daily to check on the latest offerings. I
actually feel rather confident about all this job hunting. It might
just be because I haven’t
been job hunting for ages and I forget how hard it is, or maybe I am
still a bit too positive about all the onwards and upwards stuff I am
doing, but I know customer
service, I can serve the pants off anyone so they’d be crazy not to
employ me. I’m an awesome employee – I am always early, I almost always
work when I get called in and I rarely take an (actual) sick day.
Hopefully employers will see things this way and give me a job.

There’s
two jobs I want fairly badly. One is the one I’m going to the cattle
call for, as will half of Brisbane I am sure, and the other is one I’m
not really trendy enough to get.

If you have any interview tips, or job hunting advice or anything employment related to share now is your time.

P.S
I was watching some children’s game show this afternoon and one of the
prizes for the winning team was a tutoring computer program. Aren’t the
kids who get to go on those shows usually the smarter ones of the
school? So wouldn’t that mean they are the least likely to need to
tutoring, especially if they are the winners? It just seemed a bit
pointless to me, give the kids something good like a Nintendo DS or a
PSP.

The past two days I have been such a Nanna, come 5pm I am ready to have
dinner and hop into bed for the evening. I think the stress of dealing
with a number of children who simply refuse to learn and will do
everything in their power to ignore every word I say is catching up one
me, thankfully there is only one more week left of prac.

I have
decided to dye my hair on the weekend. I had dyed black hair for years
and years, but around two years ago I got it stripped out and settled
on a medium brown color. I just don’t feel like "me" without having
dark hair, which is silly because naturally my hair is dark blonde. I
am going to go from medium, faded, yucky brown to dark, chocolate
brown. I think I’m getting too old to pull off dyed black hair these
days, dark brown is a bit more realistic.

The other morning I
was looking in the mirror and saw the bags under my eyes are creeping
down to my cheeks, I might take a picture on the weekend to share, they
are the biggest they’ve been in ages. I think I’m getting over tired
because I have such trouble actually falling asleep, but I normally get
about eight hours of sleep a night. Very peculiar.

I’m not sure what to do with my tax return(when the cheque arrives), I could:

• Put it all of my credit card.
• Put half on my student loan and the other half on my credit card.
• Pay for the Floristry course and put the rest on the CC.
• Spend it all on stuff I want.

Clearly the last option is what I most want to do, but what is the best choice? This place
is where I am thinking of doing the Floristry course through, when I
think more about sending a cheque for a few hundred dollars to them, it
just doesn’t seem…right. It just seems like a dodgy website for a
reputable company, and is it stupid to consider doing a course part
time when I have a summer semester, plus two full time, internal
semesters coming up next year?

Well, I am incapable of logic
thought at the moment, so blog world please tell me what I should do in
regard to the above dilemmas, any additional advice on unrelated
matters is also welcome.